Main Character Design Concept

𝙈𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩

— 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙬𝙚’𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩. 𝙇𝙚𝙩’𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜.

𝙉𝙤𝙢𝙪𝙧𝙖:

The design that had been drawn within the development team beforehand was a simple, tight-fitting outfit, but for the reasons I mentioned earlier, I changed the design significantly.

Actually, before I heard the details from the planning team, I had assumed the protagonist was male and had been drawing with that in mind. When I later learned the character was female, I redrew the design  but I liked the male design I had created at first, so I decided to use it as the protagonist (Noct) of 𝗙𝗙 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗫𝗜𝗜𝗜.

By the way, Lightning’s real name was originally planned to be “Averia,” not “Éclair.”

When we hold voice actor auditions, we change the character names so the actors don’t know what project it is for, and “Éclair” was just the temporary name used at that time. When I asked about the meaning, it turned out to have the same meaning as “Lightning”: thunderbolt.