I'm dying she is just too perfect omg

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This is literally copyright infringement and you can suffer serious repercussions from selling a copyrighted character and design from an established video game. There’s a difference between being inspired and completely ripping a character and creating something nearly identical.

Hey I understand the concern, however Platinum Games doesn't mind the selling of merch. Given this isn't 100% 2B, and they're fine with merch being sold, I feel confident in the fact they're not worried about this. Especially since they'd likely be more concerned with people making merch of their actual in game characters than a furry cosplaying them.

Selling a character design does NOT qualify as merchandise in any way/shape/form as your buyer is literally purchasing the rights to the design itself as intellectual property for them to use. While they wouldn’t be concerned with the design being cosplayed they’d have every reason and right to fight against someone claiming ownership of the design, especially if the new owner ever tried to publish any form of media featuring this design. This is pretty much 95% 2B since her base design is completely intact with just a few additions being made.

Realize what you are marketing here is not the art alone but the character design. This isn’t just some brand of fan-art you’re selling and as an adoptable maker you should understand that your clients are buying the designs to use and not just your drawings. Your merch argument doesn’t hold up here.

Besides any legal repercussions it’s downright distasteful to steal designs like this and I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who buys a character like this (that already exists) and falsely develops them as their own. You wouldn’t copy another artists design and try to sell it as it’s literally design theft and this is no different just because the character is created by a company that allows fan-art and merch.

Hello ma'am, it seems you're concerned with the possibility of a design being copied. You see, while I understand the confusion you are in fact getting concerned over the outfit rather than the character design itself. If you look to the image above, the unclothed picture of the character is merely white with purple designs, which can be found many places and on many characters. The outfit is certainly in reference to the game listed, however the character will almost certainly wear other outfits and this would merely fall under an OC doing cosplay. If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you!!

The markings are literally the YoRHa insignia and the flight units. Still in reference to the game.

Hey I don't think it's cool to straight up take 90% of a character's features and design elements and then selling it as an implied different IP, which adds no value to the original IP (unlike fanart, which still respects the original IP)
It's different saying "sure, you can draw fanart of my chara and respect the character as its own and sell prints of it" from "sure you can take my character design and slap it into a furry and sell it, np"
I think that we should hold respect for our fellow artists, regardless of it being illegal or not.

This is different from fanart because you are taking a whole character with some minor changes and selling it as something different :<
I hope you don't take this comment as a personal attack, however. We all make mistakes and are only human, what's important is being able to recognize them and move on ;v;

0v0 To the people worried, I did send message to Platinum Game to see if they even mind. Worse comes to worse they simply ask for it to be edited further or a cease and desist. I feel the need for multiple people to get involved is unnecessary and request it stick between Deletethestars and Sadbloom and implore people who would defend the design or rule against it to leave it to them.

Please excuse the mobile edit. I'm sick in bed and don't have the energy to make my way back to my computer. This was honestly just meant to be a fun cosplay design that, due to expressed interest on picarto, I figured I'd sell. I've done themed designs before, such as Okami, Mememe, Warcraft, and a handful of others. I didn't expect it to ruffle so many feathers, and I apologise for not exercising better judgement.

I like to remain as transparent as possible with what I do online, so I have no intention of hiding comments unless they become downright unpleasant. The hidden comments from above were part of a bid chain.