I couldn’t resist doing Aseri’s wardrobe so soon, I wanted to explore her culture so badly!!

Unlike Garsend and Elliel, who both have a primary color and accent theme color combo (red primary and green accent for Gar, and black primary and blue accent for Ellie), Seri’s palette is a little harder to work with. It’s tough trying to work in green, yellow, magenta, and gold together all the time. Sometimes I’d try to take one color out of her mix, but it usually felt off-balance or didn’t feel like her. In the end, I think I associate Seri the most with the green and yellow, with magenta as an accent.

1) Default Outfit and Layering: Seri’s default outfit is a mix between Thai Buddhist monks and the traditional costuming of Khon dancers. Khon dance is one of the main visual inspirations for her culture, since they’re named after Garuda, a mythological figure found in some Khon performances

Her dressed down outfit is where the designs of male Khon dancers really comes to the forefront. I took some liberties with it, but I knew I needed to include the three rectangular flaps hanging from the waist, since they're so unique and interesting

Seri’s default outfit. The yellow half-jacket is very obviously inspired by real-world monks, but I didn’t want her design to rest easy on the “exotic asian” theme. I added the purple sleeve to help her look more protected as well as fantastical, and give her design more areas to have some armored plating

The eastern realm in Ocean of Cycles primarily has avian creatures, so Aseri’s cloak and mask are inspired by birds. The golden mask takes cues from a mix of Khon dance costumes as well as ancient Inca masks (a reference to her religion, which is shared with the Inca-inspired Fae). Her cloak is inspired by Japanese Mino capes, but styled and painted like feathers

2) Cultural Garb: This was admittedly the section I was more excited and anxious for, since I haven’t done nearly enough development for the Garuda’s culture. All of these outfits are heavily inspired by traditional Thai clothing, with some twists to make them feel more “high fantasy.” This is also where I tried to push Seri’s yellow color theme just a little more

Inspired by traditional Thai marriage attire for men, this outfit was supposed to be an alternate casual but dressier outfit for Seri… when she actually wears a damn shirt. I tried to make the striped sleeves give off a tiger-like quality despite not using black, because I associate Seri with tigers! The yellow base of the shirt was influenced by a character named Gato from the fighting game, Garou: Mark of the Wolves .

. This one is very obviously inspired by the outfits of Muay Thai fighters. I wanted to see Seri in something a little more modern in spirit, but still decorated enough to pass for a fantasy get-up. I struggled with the color palette especially in this one, but the balancing act was worth it!

Another outfit heavily inspired by Khon dancers, I actually liken this one to a ceremonial costume of some kind. Khon dance in the real world often plays out mythological and religious stories, so it made sense to me to give her something inspired by that for religious clothing

And yet another one inspired by traditional Thai dancers. This one was meant to be something very official. I’m not sure when Aseri would ever wear something like this and it’s weird to see her in shoes, but she’s so dreamy lmao.

3) Traveling Clothes: as a traveling acrobat, Aseri ends up in a lot of foreign areas, but mainly ones that border the eastern realm. I tried to dress her in the clothes of countries who are welcoming of outside entertainers.