[ORIGINAL COMMENTARY] I wanted to distinguish Simon from Leon more, so I decided to make him have more straight lines. A simple but different design.

His personality hasn’t changed too much from old Cat Comixz; he’s still greedy and demanding of things being his way. He still has the creepy neck tentacle. Leon was right about his suspicions of Simon being a time traveler.

I’ve also changed up his outfit a bit too, in that I’m going to make it more colorful, but we’ll see that when I do the color tests.

Simon being flirty with Leon is not canon, but dang if it didn’t make for a cute image.

[NEW COMMENTARY] Apart from Melody, Simon’s probably one of the most unchanged characters that’s made their way over from the predecessor comic of Future’s Fate. I struggled a bit with when to release the concept art on him. We get part of his characterization in C3, but many more /details/ in C4. However, C4 is going to introduce the last major character, so it also doesn’t feel quite right to make that his “spotlight” moment.

While we’ve had glimpses of Simon in the prior two intermissions, C3 shows us a more “action-oriented” side of him that was fun to play with. I think it provides an interesting contrast to the character people got to know in Cat Comixz, and it’s exciting to finally be answering some of the mysteries tied to his character since that series…