A mysterious freeze took Cake out of the Elysian Realm and into the Modern Era where things don't seem right.
With odd feelings that he doesn't belong, the suffering of the Golden Era's best soldiers weighing on his back, and some things that could...
Originally I planned for a final book called Twilight Sunset, which took place in APHO and only 5 months before Kiana made her return to Earth...but as of right now, I really don't know what to do with the story. I'd ask for ideas but I don't want to trouble anyone reading this further, so for right now...actually...no. Twilight Sunset WILL come out, just not right now or in a week!
So now that all of that's out of the way...Enjoy 4 pieces of Concept art!
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Originally Golden Sunrise was supposed to start out with Cake waking up alone on the Moon with only a couple traces of his memories of who he was or the simulation. And the plot of the story would revolve around him BARELY interacting with any of Honkai's main characters, instead exploring it's world and discovering exactly what happened to the Flame Chasers for them all to mysteriously DIE without him. Since it didn't make sense for him to wake up in a Cryo Pod on the moon, I changed it to where he was woken up by Kevin to be used as a weapon...and then Golden Sunrise was changed entirely.
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After having his "Omniverse Realization" moment, this was what he would have looked like while being the Herrscher of Continuance. I know...it looks weird. BUT it has some really cool design choices! Like how the Honkai Energy is now leaking all around the armor, the energy shield generated by Excalibur became a ranged arm shield that could fire out energy blasts while also acting as a gauntlet (Sadly one of the lines he had needed to be removed...Supreme Cannon is Omnimon's thing, not his.), TRUE Excalibur was essentially just an upgraded Excalibur that was based on the concept in Terraria about you being able to upgrade Excalibur to True Excalibur and gaining sword beams as a result, and...a little edit to it. The "Only one use" thing...nah it's not one use, he just doesn't have enough Honkai Energy to use it again. It didn't attract anything once so ever.
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This was the original design of how Cake would have looked in..."Crimson Sunset"...weird name but ok past me. Anyway in the old plot line of this story, he was supposed to be a homeless warrior who's travled the world while saving people! And his body was supposed to be degrading throughout the 6 planned chapters, passing away at the end of Chapter 6 and officially ending off his character while he continued to be the one who saved everyone. I think he also adopted the surname of "Kaslana" but I'm not too sure. But the THOR Stigmata was a planned evolution of Loki, evolving along with the Gem of Outcome and completely changing to more of how Thor acted in Infinity War. Impressive that the Metal Arm concept still stuck!
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Finally, here's the cannon design of Cake Redgrave for Twilight Sunset, now being 926 and one of the world's lines of defence. His power here is enough to DECIMATE a Honkai Swarm of up to 1,000,000 before giving in due to exhaustion, and...yeah I'm not gonna lie, his design is just a mixed bag of "What If's?" just like his reason for existing! With a robotic arm(YES!) Kiana's hoodie, the helmet, gloves, boots, and cloak of the Armor of Revolution, alongside the Baseball Bat he was gifted with and a callback to his departed lover, this boy is somehow the most POWERFUL Herrscher on Earth currently!...which isn't saying much since Valkry's and Knights are now on par with Herrscher's due to the energy drainage BUT HE'S STILL STRONG! And one last thing to note is how he's protected both a weakened Mei and Bronya without a place to stay, acting as a silent body guard and only speaking when in a HUGE throwdown or when it's only him and someone he's known for a long time.
Well that's about it from me for now, I'd like to thank you all again for reading my stories...and I'll catch ya on the B-Side!
