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Erika's New Perfume, Page 26

Added 2025-07-24 08:09:55 +0000 UTC

Heh. Marie is back and ready for her revenge! .... Fortunately at her new size, her tiny widdew fists can't do any damage to her poor baby sister. The little bops just bounce off her harmlessly. Pretty much every Erika character had their design tweaked in some way, some of them being more extreme than others. Each one is a lot of fun to show off, and the really cool part about Marie and Sarah is that we get to unveil new designs for them twice! With Marie's toddler design we wanted to make her look more naturally bratty, like someone who you can tell gets into trouble just by looking at her. The messy, too-short-to-pull-them-off pigtails somehow do a lot to show that she's a stinker, as does the visible tooth. We wanted her to look like she's definitely bite you if she got the chance. One touch I really liked in particular is that all of the sharp edges in Mare's hair were softened into curves. You can really see the difference in the first panel, as her hair is now rounded rather than pointed, and it's a kinda weird, minor thing that I think just helps to sell the "demoted" element. Like even on a visual level she's been defanged. Sarah's hair you'll notice is curved too right now, as was Erika's in a flashback panel to when she was in kindergarten. When you're harmless that's just how things are, extra soft.