🚧 [SIM] Mizu Erskine (F/F) -- I said if I ever decided to share a sim I made I'd make a post for them.
🕒 I first posted this on 12/24/2024.
I'm in CAS checking some EP17 overrides before continuing and I don't know what possessed me to put on Blue Eye Samurai for "background noise".
This is as far as I've gotten in-between EP17's CAS Overrides and the kitchen.
☆ // ⋆ APPEARANCE:
From the Fandom WIki - https://../wiki/Mizu#Appearance
Mizu is a tall, slender woman with an athletic build, blue eyes, an oval shaped face with a pointed chin and long black hair which she ties up in a bun.
Her regular attire, a male disguise consists of orange tinted spectacles with round frames, to mask her blue eyes, dark grey arm warmers, a dark blue haori tied with a lighter blue obi, baggy black trousers, with darker black stockings and sandals, a white scarf tied around her neck to disguise her lack of Adam's apple (which she later exchanges for Taigen's orange scarf) and a plain brown kasa (large hat) with a dark blue cape, when traveling outside in cold conditions.
Mizu nearly always carries a blue-tinted katana made of meteorite ore, with a wave pattern along the edge, which she wields in battle. She stops carrying it after Episode 6 when it is broken, melting it down to re-forge a new sword when she is ready. During her married life with Mikio, she wore a dark blue women's kimono with socks and sandals.
REFERENCE FROM S01E02:
The hairstyle that most closely matches her animated appearance is the Rey hairstyle from Batuu, I just don't really want to use anything from Batuu.
WiP VERSION 3: Wider ears and the eyes are further apart.
WiP VERSION 4: Same as "3" with a slightly longer face - but not as long as the previous "4".
In the series, Mizu is mocked and derided for their mixed appearance - I know what that's like, I'm mixed-Asian too - but they don't look that Caucasian to me, apart from the color of their eyes. They certainly look less "traditionally feminine" than my work-in-progress.
In some scenes and from certain angles, Mizu's hair looks like a very dark brown. I suppose it doesn't matter because there is no brown hair color dark enough to match.
WiP VERSION 4 WITH FEMININE HAIR:
WiP VERSION 4 WITH MASCULINE HAIR:
☆ // ⋆ THE HEART SŪTRA:
I'm giving myself work.
In season one, episode seven, Mizu transcribes various sutras all over their body in an attempt to purify themselves while trying to reforge their broken sword. Only the Heart SÅ«tra is mentioned by name.
If I were to try to recreate this as custom content, I wouldn't be so lazy as to just duplicate the Heart SÅ«tra all over their body, which means I need to find The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and the Diamond SÅ«tra, and possibly a few others from the Perfection of Wisdom, which I know absolutely nothing about! -- https://www.worldhistory.org/Perfection_of_Wisdom/
Would've been nice if the Wiki mentioned which other sutras Mizu used.
Don't expect this anytime soon.
I did a quick search and found this Heart SÅ«tra CC by Taiyang - https://../posts/100424324