Si Arknights Fanart

Si, from Arknights: Endfield. She's the thirteenth proxy of Sui, the sibling who stands for the leap month, and she works out of the Hongshan Academy of Sciences. Her whole thing is ink and scrolls: paper that ignores physics, and ink spirits that come out shaped like butterflies. The leap month is the month that only exists when the calendar can't keep up. A slot that isn't really supposed to be there. Hypergryph handed that role to the sibling who acts the youngest of the thirteen, and I've been chewing on that ever since. She's older than most of the setting and still talks like a kid who just found something cool on the ground. She isn't playable yet and I'm not being patient about it, so I'm drawing my way through the wait: this is one of a set of 20. Her official palette isn't locked in my head yet, so the colors here are my read on her, not gospel. Thick paint, heavy shadow, gold thread on the robe, looking back over her shoulder. This is how I'd want her actual splash art to land.