Hello!

Awhile ago I drew the best boi Teedus. As luck have it, I actually finished upgrading everything but Get Pumped because... why would you? xD so yeah, Tidus mates reunite! (shamelessly asking for friends).

Anyhow - so recently there have been a lot of posts about OP finishers, including but not limited to Ang OTKO Malboro, or waifu 2B one-shot Aigaion (both of which I haven't done lol). This makes me reminisced about the time when Firion used to be my best finisher (actually he still is, I just don't bring a finisher anymore). I remember grinding support and power crysts to awaken these Fin Briar 2 and Legend Killer 2.

So I was wondering - what could I do to make Firion great again? And I came to the answer that there is pretty much nothing that could be done at this point :( He has fallen quite behind as a finisher. Despite great killers' passive, his stat and kit just can't make up for it :(

So yeah.... a quick brush sketch for my favorite fallen finisher :( You will be missed!

https://janeiro12.deviantart.com/art/Firion-of-the-Wild-Rose-Rebellion-738891662

P.s: why is Firion wearing a mask/veil? Don't you know how to draw his lips? Well... you're goddamned right :( I don't...... I messed up and can't decide if he should :( or :) or :O at his own finisher situation. So I just went the lazy way.
Also - weird rose placement because I also messed something up and just didn't know what to do lol. So I covered it up with hmm... something. A few years back, a friend of mine taught me how to "cheat" in drawing roses. She was a very good teacher but I wasn't a very good student lol. So there's that weird-ass black-shape....flower.... yeaaaahhhh......

P.s 2: if you are wondering, here is the reference here. I never played DFFOO but it looks really good :D. I just recently finished Legend of the Galactic Heroes and consider myself slightly influenced by its art style too (a really awesome series if you haven't seen it... kinda like Star Wars, but better).

P.s 3 (lol): btw, I don't know if this was purely coincident but Yoshitaka Amano also worked as the illustrator for a novel called Arslan Senki (which came out in the 1980s, now with anime adaption). And there is this character Gieve who looks distinctively just like Firion :O. Was Gieve the inspiration for Amano's work on Firion or vice versa? Also, Arslan himself looks so much like the Warrior of Light. Just thought it was pretty cool!

Sorry for the wall of text lol. Hope you enjoy the really-good finisher fanart!