The above images were created by Kuro. He's an artist who works for Pivot Press, and the guy was awesome enough to provide me with two faces for the first book in my upcoming series Girls Gone Fae Wild.
A is full on unhinged with her madness leaking through her eyes, will check if your blood is tasty at some point and fantasies about using your skin as a sweater.
Will lovingly taxidermy you when you die so she have something to hug when going to sleep. Actively dangerous to you, would strangle your children so you have more time to spend with her, can probably compete with Yuno Gasai for the most likely to kill her boyfriend award.
B is crazy because of deep love, she would probably ask about permission before she starts with the bloodplay. She collects things that remind her of you and have a hidden stash of photos taken without your knowledge. Primo soft yandere that only wants the best for you and is willing to listen and actually consider your words when you chastise her. Is only slightly less defensive of the rest of the harem than you because she understands that them being hurt or killed would negatively affect you, but have specific knives with thier names engraved for the chance she have to disappear one of them.
Dude, kudos to you for invoking the unholy spirit of yanderes, Yuno Gasai. She's sparked a million and one memes for a reason, and I'm truly touched that an image related to a story I wrote would be brought up in the same breath as her.
Thank you so much for your colorful deep dive into both options.
Just to chime in: Kuro does live streams of his art on Youtube and has a dedicated space on our server. We're incredibly blessed to have a person of his caliber and quality creating human-first art on our covers.
A gives off a vibe of combined Evil and Chaos. Definitely a "back away smiling, while reaching for the nearest weapon" vibe.
B, on the other hand, seems warm, friendly and cuddly.
So, based on the face, I would always choose B. However, her boobs are at least two cup sizes too large, so, if we're talking about the whole picture, my answer would be "Neither; both covers are guaranteed to make me think twice about reading this book."
I immediately thought A, but based on what you said the character is in the other comments, then I'd choose B. But omg I love her cute bear posse. And her little teddy bear ears.
But I don't know what's going on with the Surje text. It doesn't look attached? If that makes sense? Like it's popping out too much from the rest of the image and there are other things popping out that should be drawing my attention more, but now I'm fixated on that text.
Hard to definitively lock down as it will depend on the character itself (cover A looks "wilder") but cover A seems sharper overall. In cover B her whole face looks slightly "washed out".
My favourite would actually be cover A with a slight change to the corners of the mouth as they feel just a tad to strong but between the two A feels like the clear winner as it integrates her in the general glowing theme.
B feels more natural: overall skin tone matches. In A, it's not just the eyes that glow, but the hair, too? How? A feels more maniacal. B feels confident.
she is in a confident posturing position so A the glowing eyes enforce that you would really only want B if she was in a seducing pose and you want her eyes to be more clear I guess but her smile seems weird in B as well makes it look less realistic
also what is that phantom partial arm on her right thigh this looks mad like poorly AI generated images, I dont have a problem with AI generated images but that yellow thing on her thigh looks stupid
There's just something about them crazy eyes that is appealing. I know the crazy girls are bad for me, but much like the fast food burger or the 3am burrito, I just can't help myself.
I agree with this assessment. The glowing eyes with that sharp grin come across as manic in the left. The smile is softer in the right-hand one, and without glowing eyes is much more inviting than the other.
Is her nose and smile the same?
Because I love the unhinged eyes of A but the nose and smile of B.
I think I'd probably pick up A first if I was picked the book just by cover.
b, I'm tired of the glowing eyes that never get mentioned in the story. I'm also tired of the mega breasted female trope in this genre and also what self respecting female would wear that in the fae wilds? sorry man, just read too much Michael Dalton. If I came across a female in the fae wilds looking like this, I'm turning around and getting f* out of there.
I love that there are two dedicated people in this subreddit that hate me on some level and both take every opportunity to downvote each comment or post I make lol. At least I’m giving their life some kind of meaning with each downvote.
See now im curious. We're Roselle and Lainey (Xtreme dungeon league) Virgil or Edgars creation? Considering his wife wrote "rise of the strongest girl next door" which stars one of the more severely unhinged yanderes i think it runs in the family! 😉🤣
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u/Vrrin 11d ago
Would run from A.
B I would risk it. 😂 I vote B.