[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Aside from the gaia memory straps/bandoleer/vest/thing, there's really not much to Eternal that I'd call "Good."
The white body is bland, with no other designs meshed in, the flames are tacked on and ugly, and while having a cape is nice, it doesn't fit in with his...aesthetic? I don't really know.

I guess the absolute nothing that is his color scheme is what prevents me from liking him.

White can work if it's properly accented. Gold is a great accent for white. Lots of colours are good accents for white. But Eternal's design makes no sense. It has no focus or purpose. Is he supposed to look sophistacted and clean with that white? Practical and military-esque with the Maximum Drive slots looking like pouches? Exciting and stylish with the flames? Or dark and evil with his black, billowing cape? He's really a list of don'ts for character design. He's cluttered with conflicting aethetics and poor colourscheme. (white and black in even doses accented by metallic blue and yellow eyes?)

If Eternal ditched the Maximum Drive slots, turned the cape white (with some internal colour like gold or blue) swapped the flame cuffs for regular coloured ones and dialed back the crest... he'd still look meh, but he'd be salvagable. Especially if they ditched his stupid Sonic eyes and went for regular eyes, maybe smaller and angled slightly.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Oh, if we could take into account character and not just design, then yeah.
He was a character that seriously did not need a movie just to explain his back story.
They could've done that with a pamphlet handed out during A-to-Z/Gaia Memory of Fate or something :I

It... really stings that Eternal got a whole movie and not Skull.

I mean, Skull is sleek and suave and Eternal is... a loser.