Randomness

This is a sketch I did when I was first starting the story.  As a matter of fact, the top half of this sheet of paper was my preliminary plot. ^^;  The stuff on the left are some of Mara's sharp pointy things, with a hand to scale.  The thing in the middle is the Leaf and Blossom...like, weird throwing knives on a string.  (One of the Seals in X, forgot his name, uses a weapon like this.)  On the right are some concepts for Vincent's claw.  I never really liked the "official" look of it, it's too clunky.  I envision it more like the skeletal structure of a hand, with those same nasty talons.  (If you can't tell [which would be unsurprising; gawd I suck], I was playing with how the talons would be attached; my idea was that they would swivel on a pin through the last "finger" bone, making them slightly retractable.)

The little writing on the bottom is a line from Platinum: "Turn  away for now, beautiful, alone... who desires  to settle down?"  It's a bit of a misquote though. ;)