As I began to explore the different characters I could create using the research I have done, I decided to try and explore as many of the more intriguing silhouette ideas as I could to try and broaden my design ideas.
One of the first ideas I had was directly related and taken from my research on Kitsunes, and the idea of (usually) a woman luring her human prey to steal their knowledge, power, etc. I thought this would be a good base for me to also begin to brainstorm on ways I could feature the idea of a mask to symbolise the two-faced and untruthful nature of Envy.
As I have mentioned before, to me, Envy blooms where Pride has been taken away; so, I decided to try and explore the idea of beauty being taken away, and then hidden by a mask, possibly closely followed by a thirst for revenge (driven by envy) . This resulted in the creation of the two women in the top and bottom corners.
I also wanted to explore the possibility of more animalistic features and structure, all the while keeping close to the idea of Envy driving the character to hurt those who have something they do not anymore. I quickly thought of various motives, including lost eyesight, which stood out the most and drove me to create the more humanoid fox characters in the above picture.
The rest were experiments to try and see if I could have the reverse of the humanoid characters: a fox-like body wearing a mask. I did not like how these turned out, so I decided against developing them further.