Gintama Characters As Flowers, part 12

[rainsometimes]

Gintama Flower Suite, part 12: Tsukuyo and iris

There is one type of iris, Iris pseudacora, which is well-known in Sweden under the name "svärdslilja". That literally means 'sword lily'. Having heard that name since I was a kid,
it's given all irises an association with combat and badass fighting in my mind. (It's probably the most well-known type of iris in Sweden.)
At first I wanted to give Tsukuyo that very flower.... but the problem is that it's yellow, and that doesn't suit her too well.
So instead I chose Iris sanguinea, whose colour I think suits her better and which is native to Japan as well.

This is an example of when I didn't care about the official symbolism for the flower, just my own associations.

Comments

[sickandgloomy]

i found this via the latest things page and i don't know the fandom so i can't comment on that but this is such lovely fanart! i especially love the blue-purple gradient on the obi and how realistic the irises are 💜

[rainsometimes]

Thank you so much for these kind comments! I'm very bad at drawing anything digitally so pencils/inks/watercolour with some digital touch-ups is all I can manage :D.

Tsukuyo is a prominent Gintama character who doesn't turn up until episode 140 or thereabouts but quickly makes her mark. A woman from the pleasure district Yoshiwara who's been trained by a ninja to lead a troop of guardian women keeping peace in the secluded district, with conflicted loyalties who ultimately follows her conscience and puts her life on the line. She's a great character with a lot of complexities. Though her first arc is unusually serious, later on in the series she gets many funny moments as well, since Gintama is primarily a comedy.