Armored Core 6's talented fan artists keep reimagining its faceless characters as hot dating sim options, distracting me from mecha ultraviolence

pcgamer.com:

This was inevitable. FromSoftware's fanbase is flooded with talented people—something about the studio's habit of making textured, detailed worlds and iconic characters has set fire to artist's imaginations time and time again. Even the lore videos have professionally-rendered animatics now.

So you'd think that a game with a relatively focused aesthetic—killer robots and post-apocalyptic cityscapes—would draw those artists away from rendering NPCs and towards depicting its environments and shiny mechs. Turns out, giving your handler a husky voice and hiding his face completely has made people go feral with a tablet pen.

Walter :) #ARMOREDCORE #ARMOREDCOREVI pic.twitter.com/b8ou2Y30dQAugust 26, 2023

«Handler» Walter#ARMOREDCORE #ARMOREDCOREVI #ArmoredCore6 #アーマードコア pic.twitter.com/ioqlnH9TE6September 4, 2023

I really didn't need this. Handler Walter needs to be able to give me a mission briefing without me picturing these smokeshows—but I am cursed, like these fan artists, with good taste. Aside from the cursed decals you'd expect, Armored Core 6's community has been utterly saturated with awesome fanart of the game's NPCs, as well as interpretations of the player pilot 621/Raven.

621 & Ayre.#ARMOREDCORE #ARMOREDCOREVI #ArmoredCore6 #アーマードコア pic.twitter.com/ZwHypSwEumAugust 31, 2023

redguns #ARMOREDCOREVI #ARMOREDCORE pic.twitter.com/IQ4t5U5KfYSeptember 3, 2023

Some doodles of how I imagined some characters#ARMOREDCORE #ARMOREDCOREVI pic.twitter.com/trRcfoHBRpSeptember 2, 2023

Not even ALLMIND (who as far as I know is just the in-universe equivalent of Siri for virtual wargames) is safe from an unquenchable thirst to turn these faceless characters into people you could conceivably date.

ALLMIND #ARMOREDCOREVI