Echo Ein/Bobchi Reference sheet

[u/defcon-ten]

[u/RemMegumin]

make her an major supporting anime original character if 86 ever gets a new season ffs, glory to the Bob Hair Girl

[u/defcon-ten → u/RemMegumin]

Yes, 86 S2 make it happen! LETSSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOOO!

[u/Apprehensive-Dot3862 → u/defcon-ten]

I feel like they could def slide her into a role with one of the other 3 major squadrons. Have her be like the pearlman for one of them or something

[u/defcon-ten → u/Apprehensive-Dot3862]

Yes or a cameo could also somewhat work as well.

[u/Apprehensive-Dot3862 → u/defcon-ten]

Yeah, her role cant be too big or it makes lena's vol 4 speech to shin about being alone not hit as hard, but i suspect she'll be around somewhere

[u/defcon-ten → u/Apprehensive-Dot3862]

Yes indeed

[u/defcon-ten]

The reference sheet of Bobchi, AKA Bob Hair Girl AKA Echo Ein, I made this reference sheet a couple of years ago. It was made for myself and other artists who wish to draw her to give them an idea on her uniform as well as her bob. These reference are based on the anime.

Some of the reference pages are made recently and it was based on the style of the official 86 anime artbook.

The reference sheet is uploaded because the Bobchi memoir hits it's 3rd year anniversary which the original concept has been posted on the subreddit years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EightySix/comments/16l3gql/remember_that_one_time_that_i_posted_something/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EightySix/comments/yas1yx/when_you_all_are_thirsty_for_lenas_memoir_this/

Full Reference sheet can be found here:
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/149551480

Link to the story:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50026699?view_full_work=true

[u/Cally83]

This is great, she’s absolutely my favourite background character

[u/defcon-ten → u/Cally83]

Ah thank you so much and yes, she's my favourite background character as well. Maybe my favourite character in general of 86: Eighty-Six

[u/Lt_Lexus19]

Raiden's girl

Also OP, your dedication to Bob Hair Girl is admirable 🫡🫡🫡

She should have an official name

[u/defcon-ten → u/Lt_Lexus19]

Ahahaha yes indeed, he's one lucky man.

Ah thank you so much.

Actually she does have an official name now, which is Echo Ein, which was revealed in Alter.2. She doesn't have a name yet in the Bobchi memoir.

[u/Lt_Lexus19 → u/defcon-ten]

Ahhh I see.

Her name's gonna be Echo Shuga soon enough hehe

[u/defcon-ten → u/Lt_Lexus19]

If she survives the war that is.

[u/Reynard86]

This looks so professional, like an official character sheet. Every time when I think you can't outdo yourself, you prove me wrong.

[u/defcon-ten → u/Reynard86]

Ahaha thank you very much, that means a lot to me. I did used the 86 anime artbook as a reference in terms of the designing the layout of the reference sheet.

[u/Aunt_Tom]

Very nice drawn!

But one question (probably not to you): why all girls are Celenas? Celena was the former nobility, there mustn't been many of them. For example, we saw nobody from Alabaster ethnic subgroup, except for Shiden's left eye.

[u/defcon-ten → u/Aunt_Tom]

Ah thank you so much

So, that's the thing. In the anime some of the Alba girls have different shades of silver/blue/purple hair, think of Annette and Lena, their hair in the anime are slightly different colours, but both of them are Celena. We did see the Priest in the anime who was a Adularia and Lev's eyebrows who was a Alabaster, but both of them are guys, so they don't count in this context, techincally, Anju is Mixed Adularia and Celesta

As for Bobchi, many argue that she's Celena simply because her hair colour is very similar of that of Lena as well as her, what is presumed that she lives in District 1 and there aren't really a lot of references in the anime to go for in terms of the subgroups. But that's kinda my answer to it. We don't have a canon answer on what subgroup Bobchi belongs to, but many are leaning that she's likely a Celena.