CC002 - Buena (Aoi)

"Today's Password.. Let me think... It's Dildo! Don't Forget it"

Okay, I'm not 100% keen on this but.. after sitting on it for a bit, decided I might as well release it.. It's.. gonna be a interesting story here (kinda).

Buena (Japanese name 'Aoi' (アオイ)) was a character first introduced in the Pokémon 'special' game 'Pokémon Crystal', which was an upgrade from the second Series games 'Pokémon Gold & Silver'. It added a whole bunch of upgrades from the main games, most of which carried on to the... games with no interest for me.

Buena hosted the Radio game show 'Buena's Password Show' which.. well, Turn into the radio at night time (before midnight) while in Johto and she'll tell you a password which you have to remember. Go to visit her in the Goldrod Radio Tower, and she'll go on the air with you and if you pick which of the three words she says is the correct password, you will get a point which can be used to exchange various items, being a nice cheap way to get them (and in fact, you can really make alot of money if you take an item like a Nugget and then sell it).

No concert art of her Exists. She never appeared in any official comic or anything else. In Crystal, she only appears as a in-game sprite, which is in fact shared with the 'Skier' trainer class, which there are only two, both appearing in the Mahogany Gym in Mahogang Town.

In the first round of Remake games (yes, there are remakes of the remakes), they kinda downed her role from having her own show, to having a segment on another show and completely changed her sprite, to now be based on a trainer class that didn't even exist in the original game series.

Soo.. I really wanted to draw a picture of a character which pretty much had NO design or even description (note, there is a character from something else who has no design BUT does have a description which I want to do). Most of her design was taken from the trainer battle sprite for the Skier class, mixed with the head shot from Pokémon Stadium 2 (which was the English version of the third Pokémon Stadium games for the N64 'Pokémon Stadium: Gold and Silver') but also mixed some details from the sprite as well and using some of Ken Sugimori's art for DJ Mary for the headphones. Colours were taken from the GBC palette for Crystal.

As with other RPG games, she spends all of her, even when NOT active on her radio show, at the station by her mic.. and she seams like this is the kinda thing she might enjoy in when she isn't broadcasting.