what if it was FINAL FANTASY RISING?

Hy guys! after posting this piece before heading out to a new years-party, i didn´t really have time to post a description, but now, "a year later" it shall be done xD

well, ever since seeing the mgr:revengeance trailer, i´ve been thinking: "what if konami didn´t give the developing rights to platinum, but square enix instead? what could´ve become of the game?" XD tbh, i´d have loved to play rising with lightning herself in the role of a cyber ninja/demigod-like protagonist, slaying evil guys, as if they were made out off supersoft, squishy jelly XDD <3<3

i still love the concept of revengeance, but having an awesome, strong heroine in raiden´s place could´ve been a cool experience as well, i guess D

i worked about 2,5hrs on this piece from scratch! i previously did a picture like this, but i scrapped it a while ago, as i felt like i could do better now - still the pose is extremely stiff looking >__< maybe bc i messed up the armor a little xDD


(otherwise, seeing raiden in a final fantasy combat-setting could´ve also been seriously awesome q___q)

lightning is owned by square enix, the raiden cyber ninja-design belongs to konami!
this is merely my take on it