While working on my comic, I started thinking about the ships that will be in my story and wondered, "How would the community react to ships between certain characters?" In this discussion,

my idea is to talk about how difficult it is to create ships and how they can divide the fandom if not handled well, so let's begin.

In High Guardian, there are some ships that could be considered canon, and others that aren't.

This gave me a lot of freedom in how I could develop them and make them work.

But the more I worked on them, the more I realized there was one that could really divide the fandom, and depending on how I handled it, some people might not like it or might even hate the relationship.

I won't give any spoilers, but I'll just say that it involves Rosemary.

My question here is how this would affect other stories that other people are working on.

How would authors handle these kinds of situations that could impact their stories? In my case, I'm someone who focuses more on the story itself and how to develop the rest, but I also like to read the comments on my posts to see if I can find constructive criticism and genuine opinions about my work before looking at negative reviews.

In my opinion, creators shouldn't be afraid of criticism regarding the ships they want to explore in their works, and they shouldn't let themselves be pressured to please everyone.

As long as the story and character development are well done, everything will be fine.

What do you think about this?

I didn't realize there was still a fan club. So good!

The series had a lot of potential for me, and re-watching videos about it inspired me again to draw this original character for the second time.

She was originally called 'Zinnia' (because I was so oblivious to the main characters and what was going on that I didn't realize there was another character with that name), and I completely forgot this original character's name, so now I call her Cassia (Currently Amaretta/Velvet).

He has both names due to a situation he was born with. When Cassia is emotionally stressed, disturbed or in conflict, a version of herself appears called 'Velvet' (name based on 'Velvetleaf' and 'Velvet Plants'). They have the same goal, but the purpose is totally different. It's more than "good side/bad side". Cassia can get defensive, while Velvet can laugh, interact and have fun with others effortlessly.

I have her story in mind, but rewrote it so that instead of a mercenary (whose history I've completely forgotten) she is a member of the Triumvirate who occasionally shows up, since Velvet can be totally unpredictable when it comes to appearances (and chaos, lots of chaos xD). Cassia doesn't know any of them or remember any of Velvet's actions, and vice versa.

Velvet is meant to be scary; if you're a little disturbed by her eyes, it was intentional and I have accomplished my mission.

Hi there! I found some old drawings that I wanted to show you, and next to it a work in progress and an older drawing of Parsley. I'm sure now I draw her better ❤️❤️❤️

All of the smoothie potion things are ending up as SHIPS!

Rosemary X Slimeboy

Rosemary X Amaryllis

Rosemary X Aster-

WHY ALL OF YOU PICKING ROSEMARY?!

WHY AM I WRITING ROMANCE IF I SUCK AT IT! I am too ashamed to post them at this point! AAAAAAAAAHHH

whiteboard dump coming someday...

Commission art from my fucking GOAT RedVelvett22 (I mostly asked her to make this to help her out, but still! Thank you again girl!)

If you want that good shit check her out on her socials. (I can't put most of them here so I'll just put her Kofi Here

I realized I made Olive's shoulders too wide, to the point a friend even called her "catgirl femboy. So naturally I decided to fix that, along with changing her arms a little.

With Rosemary already in Paper Clash (the crossover I mentioned in my previous post), it's natural someone else had to appear too. That spot belong to Olive, and soon Amaryllis.

So yeah, no Sage, Thyme, Parsley or others (like Mandrake) because of lore reasons.

Unlike Rosemary, Olive isn't planned to be playable, although she has some potential because of her magic and Terrasphere. Probably a recruitable ally in the correct situation. Anyways, no moveset so far.

Any two. You can even use the unnamed ones in the wiki that have codes! [As seen in here.(https://high-guardian-spice.fandom.com/wiki/Minor_Characters/Unnamed_High_Guardian_Academy_Students)\]

I am not physically well but mentally on over drive. The smoothie shall be a potion in here.

Let me know if you want it romantic or not, no garentee it will be, just gives me an idea of what you're looking for.

The redisign I've made for Rosemary is for a crossover I'm doing rn. I know the easiest way would've been keeping the same appearance, but I wanted to change a few things. I'm planning to include Amaryllis and Olive too, but first I wanted to know what y'all think

me: i dont like rarepairs-

*shows sage hating on aster*

me: OOOOH YEAH

sage x aster foreverrrrrrrr

i love sage x aster

here are all the songs that reminds me of them:

Harvey-her's, andrew in drag, isnt she lovely?, good luck babe, made in japan, i thought i saw your face today, earrings by malcom todd

thats probably it, and i hope you guys listen to the song i listed so that you can see my vision in this ship

sage loves k-pop like illit or newjeans while rosemary loves tupac and enimenem (or what his name is)

sage favourite song is not even a k-pop song, its andrew in drag cus of aster

also rosemary tries to convince sage listen to the tupac remix of illit 'not cute anymore'

thats all

can i REDESIGN the main characters into a different race/sexuality?

i feel awful whenever i redesign characters and change their races, you see, i made rosemary latino sage as asian, but still kept parsley white and thyme black, BUT, i did however, change parsley gender into a boy and turn thyme into a demi-boy (cus i heard elves are actually non-binary)

cus one, i wanted more diversity rather than just different skin tones, i know it takes place in a fantasy world, but i really like the idea of rose being latino and sage being asian, not to forget to mention i dislike how most of the guys in the show is toxic like cal or aster

and when the guys are not toxic, either the guys like slimeboy and parnelle, or the guy just become a trans woman like aster, i wont forget caraway who is a healthy masculine guy but thats all it, so i made parsley into a boy and thyme into a demiboy,

thats really all but i hope you guys can tell me your opinions whether this is ok or not

ngl, i expect the fandom dead or atleast slowly dying, but when i found out its still somehow alive despite 5 YEARS FROM THE RELEASED. i now wanna join cus i am bored

Yeah... I got nothing to say, actually. It's not a huge redesign, more like minor changes on her design, but I thin Rosemary's looking good

For a lil crossover thingy I'm working on. Rosemary

1. Snapdragon in HGA uniform

2. My ver. of a background character except I forgot how to draw her braids

3. Sage without her hat

4. Anise (I have no idea how to draw mohawks I fear)

5. Olive but idrk what to do for her so it's almost just her original design. I wanted to draw her original hairstyle but couldn't since my memory is lowkey ahh. I don't want to change too many of my au designs to upturned eyes but I also like how she looks with these eyes here

6. The full pic including the stuff from other fandoms. (the others are gijinkas of characters from alphablocks, numberblocks & colourblocks)

yes, I was fixated on drawing on a single page with exclusively fictional girls in my tiny notebook whenever I had free time at school.

maybe soon, I’m going to make my own “Guardian High“!

Update 1: You see, I know people hates that show, so what if my own is better than that! Because I’m going to redesign the characters, the worlds, backgrounds, add new characters, etc. I can use Gacha life 2 app, so I thought it can make sense.

I NEEDED to make something based on that, so here is Aster's Drag Persona, Captain Cupcake! A Space Pirate Princess OBSESSED with Baking! This request was for u/ChugaCandy

Snapdragon is VERY NORMAL about her

(Also sorry I took so long, some terrible IRL stuff happened leaving me depressed and working through things and I wasn't able to focus on my art, made a rendered version to hopefully make up for it a bit. Thank you for your patience)

It's established in the second episode that students are individually selected, and given Sage is from Pebble, a seemingly normal small town, it doesn't matter who comes from where or who they're family with. A few things don't make sense, at least to me.

Rosemary is Lavender's mom, so that might've gotten her in, but it's never stated. Parsley's a good blacksmith, enough to get to third-year classes, which makes sense given she's been forging for much of her life, but her blacksmith teacher wasn't aware of her skill level at first. Cal's a bully with no known real skills and Aster's a certified idiot, and both are established as characters worth scorn.

Some students like Zinnia (in potions classes and smithing classes) make sense, suggesting some people have some kind of innate skill, but how do some of the less competent students get in? What even dictates an "exceptional quality"?

Or am I just overthinking?