y day. The main purpose of this post is to show off this picture, Beauty and Beast by sketchy of DeviantART. Unfortunately, the original (uncolored) version has been removed from DeviantART, probably because the artist never finished it. It took me a long time to color this, and I never would have even attempted it without my new best friend, paint.net.
The girl in the center is Kid, from the game Chrono Cross, the woman to the right in the white dress is... let's call her Kid's mother, Schcala Zeal, the glasses belonged to Kid's guardian, Lucca, who died in the fire that you can (sort of) see behind Kid. The pouch-thing is the Astral Amulet (sans logo, even I'm not that dedicated, it wasn't drawn there, so I didn't color it.) The red/orange fire wolf/fox/beast is a highly stylized version of Lavos, or the Timedevourer, the malignant alien prescence within the earth that was supposed to cause an end to life on the planet. Lavos was tricky to color- in Chrono Cross the Time Devourer (which is NOT the same thing as Lavos but is close enough for my purposes) was the color of fire, with a blackened belly such as you would see when you pull a charred log from the flames and part of it are still glowing cherry-red.
