As I continued to explore the relationship between Pride and Envy, I found that my attention was too scattered to really find an idea I could follow wholeheartedly. Thus, I decided to focus on Envy, as I thought that it had the potential to let me go much more in debt into my research and exploration of ideas.
The more I began to brainstorm, the more I realised that Envy stemmed from a feeling of insecurity; so, in reality, Envy blooms where Pride has been taken away.
I’ve decided to keep this idea at the forefront of my mind as I start to refine my ideas so that I can relate this to the overall design of my potential character. Envy is hard to show on the outside, as it seems like a very private feeling, but I want to make sure that I find a way to really emphasise the character’s nature, even from an outside perspective.
Some of my initial ideas include:
- using a mask
- using disfigurement
- small stature, low on the ground
- idea of ‘luring victims’, inspired by research on Kitsune
- fox-like features, inspired both by research on Kitsune, and knowledge of Kuma Lisa, a fox character in Bulgarian Folklore usually presented as a trickster