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Cocotte’s Orientation, Part Two

It’s been over a year since I did part one of this series. I really didn’t think it’d take this long for me to get around to the second part, but here we are. Cocotte’s not really a rookie in the Studio anymore, but this series takes place back when she was. ^_^ At any rate, I hope to get to part three sometime before another full year passes, but we’ll see. Things tend to come up and get in the way, and I always have a full plate these days.

Cocotte and Zangya Character Ask 1

So, like Zangya mentioned, I kinda see the “Studio” version of her as someone trying to start over after an abusive/tragic past. We don’t know much about what her life with Bojack was like, but given how it ended we can assume it wasn’t great. Studio Zangya is someone who takes a lot of pleasure from her new life of freedom and fun, and I definitely read her as someone who enjoys being on top/in control (as we’ve seen in her relationship with Gohan). Cocotte, on the other hand, doesn’t have those regrets and doubts from her old life. Since she comes from a sort of pseudo-military group, it makes sense to me she’d be used to and comfortable with surrendering control to a commanding officer. So here we are. ^_^

Also, here’s the Q&A video I did last month, if anyone’s interested:

Cocotte Character Ask 3

I thought I’d have a little bit of fun trying figure out the character dynamic between Cocotte and Zangya with this one. One of the things these two have in common that made me want to pair them together in the first place is that they both have minimal characterization in their limited appearances. This means the “Studio” versions have a lot of their personality inferred or just made up, making them a bit closer to being OC’s than, say, Goku or the like. I liked the idea here that Cocotte answers with something pretty superficial and meaningless.
The original idea for the art here was going to be a bit simpler, basically just this pose but zoomed in more so you just see Zangya’s legs (not unlike the Gohan/Ashido Mini Commission from a ways back). I’ve been wanting to do the next pic in the series based on these two for a while, though, and I think that pent-up desire came out a bit and I ended up doing more-or-less a full pic of both characters. This made the Ask take up more of my daily schedule than I’d originally wanted, but I think the end result is better off for it. Hopefully sometime soon I’ll be able to do the actual next pic in their series.

Cocotte’s Orientation, Part One

So the idea for this pic came to me a bit ago. Originally it was going to be a Studio Tour entry, but I started wanting to do a bit more with the idea and didn’t want the next several Studio Tour entries to all be dedicated to it. I didn’t quite have enough to do a full comic, though (and I’m already doing more of them than I’d like), so I decided it’d be best to do this as a series of pictures. I don’t know just yet how many entries there’ll be, we’ll be seeing more of these two later when I get around to Part Two.
I’m not sure what got me started thinking about it, but something felt right about pairing Zangya and Cocotte up. Maybe it’s just that they’re two colorful, elven-eared alien girls who play largely bit roles in their limited appearances, but I felt like they’d end up kindred spirits. True, if they met in the world of Dragon Ball they would’ve certainly been enemies (Zangya being a pirate/mercenary/criminal or whatever and Cocotte being a soldier of justice), but here in the studio that dynamic just doesn’t exist so they can meet on more neutral terms. Anyway, hope y’all will look forward to the next installment of this series!