Almost all of the Shadow Dragon portraits traced into GBAFE style

The man, the myth, the legend himself.
The character with the deepest, more complex characterization and with the best dialogues in the game.

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It’s him. Will you remember his name?
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Felt a bit lazy so this one is a trace instead of doing it from scratch. I’m thinking of doing Xane next, and he will definitely be drawn from scratch.

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These are all great! I think it would be cool if you also made Vendor lady and Arena man in the “small shop portrait” format.

Just for reference, this is how the shop portraits usually look.
Vendor Arena

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Oh, yeah I could probably do that. But I’m not sure how to insert them with febuilder, so it’s going to be hard to test and take some time. I’ll do that instead of Xane next, cause it seems more interesting.

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Shop portraits are in with the regular portraits in Builder, and inserted the same way. Just write them over the vanilla shop portraits.

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I’ve been looking for portraits of the jobber manakete bosses for ages, thanks so much. Shoutouts to my guy Xemcel for being named Xemcel, I’d have turned evil too man.

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Yooo, managed to do the shop portraits. Do tell me if there any issues with them, I tested them and they seemed fine, but who knows right?

_ShopArena_attempt1
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Also it turns out I didn’t draw the amulet on the forehead of this Vendor, whoops.
Vendor_attempt1

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These look great! Though, I noticed that you used the lighter outline color from FE6 and 7. Still, these look amazing! Will love to use them

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Yooo, I could swear across all games the shop portraits look the same, I imagine they just reused those shop portraits, which makes sense. For these portraits I used colors exclusively from fe8 shop portraits, so at the very least fe8 shops have fe6 colors, not sure about fe7. And yeah, glad you like them, feel free to use them or edit them to your liking of course.

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She has a name. It’s Aimee…and also Larabel. The regional translators were a bit confused about it. They randomly called her Aimee in the Tellius translations (despite a character called Amy already existing in Radiant Dawn) when her Japanese name was always Larabel. Then, the PAL version of Shadow Dragon ran with that, keeping the name Aimee, only for the NSTC Shadow Dragon translation to suddenly decide being authentic is cool (or didn’t realize the character already had a localized name) and called her Larabel.

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Yeah. Like a lot of assets, if it ain’t broke, they don’t fix them. The 4 shop portraits have been the same since FE6 (Probably why they have no blink frames too). A couple people have made updated ones that use FE8 colors.

Are you going to do the same for the armory guy? I’d appreciate it.

I was repalleting the Vendor portrait to FE8 colors, and fortunately I noticed a small error. The frames don’t match with the background. So when used in-game, it will appear to flash different colors.
Also, a bottle/sac in the background gets cut off.

I gave it all a quick fix.
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mario alt when?

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Eibel portrait when?

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He’s a Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery’s character, tho