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This is an original drawing by me commemorating the [rather belated] 2nd-year anniversary of C-chan's Preconcept Chibi series. It features C-chan's proposed design for FreeDOS-tan, as well as his original design for ROMDOS-tan, both of whom only previously appeared as brief cameos in one of his collaborative pieces. C-chan originally intended to draw the pair soon after he drew DRDOS-tan and QDOS-tan and even created a napkin sketch for the concept -- however, he discontinued the series before the image materialized. In finishing this for him, I feel i gave that series a proper closure. ^^

An attempt was made to mirror his earlier style -- however, my own obsession with detail probably ended up bleeding through more often than not. And although it was quite painful to do so, I opted NOT to use the background image as the light source, given that I want to have the option of consolidating ALL the chibi DOS-tans on the table. The background image, by the way, was inspired by a favorite planetary wallpaper of mine -- and although the majority of the content is composed of standard vector paths, the sun had to employ blurring effects to achieve the desired level of photorealism.

As for the characters themselves:

ROMDOS-tan is a small,spunky embedded OS-tan with the ability to control any electronic or mechanical device within a given distance. Though the second shortest and certainly one of the youngest DOS-tans, she is the most physically-capable fighter among all her sisters and is sufficiently courageous and aggressive enough to take on more powerful opponents. Much to the chagrin of her sisters, this means she often picks fights with stronger embedded OS-tans, such as TRON-tan, eCOS-tan, QNX-tan and more than a handful of Linuxen. But despite her gift for machine operation, she's actually very clueless when they break down, and relies on QDOS-tan and PTSDOS-tan to save her from whatever bind she's in when this happens. ^__^'

FreeDOS-tan is the only truly Free and Open Source DOS-tan among her sisters. Gentle, mild-mannered and sweeter than most of the world's nectars combined, she's often mistaken for a shy, mousy and weak individual that's simply begging for calamities to befall her. But behind her charming and tender exterior lies a genius wielder of Open Sourcery.. Few if any have seen her wield it, although all who know her suspect she does so in her cooking, given she can take any ingredient (no matter how stale or spoiled) and turn it into an imperial banquet. Too often they see her emerging from an explosive firefight, unscathed, beaming a gentle smile, and continuing a conversation as if nothing had happened. And almost everyone, other than her sisters or the vintage-tans she interacts with regularly, find this very very terrifying. `v'

Description
This is an original drawing by me commemorating the [rather belated] 2nd-year anniversary of C-chan's Preconcept Chibi series. It features C-chan's proposed design for FreeDOS-tan, as well as his original design for ROMDOS-tan, both of whom only previously appeared as brief cameos in one of his collaborative pieces. C-chan originally intended to draw the pair soon after he drew DRDOS-tan and QDOS-tan and even created a napkin sketch for the concept -- however, he discontinued the series before the image materialized. In finishing this for him, I feel i gave that series a proper closure. ^^

An attempt was made to mirror his earlier style -- however, my own obsession with detail probably ended up bleeding through more often than not. And although it was quite painful to do so, I opted NOT to use the background image as the light source, given that I want to have the option of consolidating ALL the chibi DOS-tans on the table. The background image, by the way, was inspired by a favorite planetary wallpaper of mine -- and although the majority of the content is composed of standard vector paths, the sun had to employ blurring effects to achieve the desired level of photorealism.

As for the characters themselves:

ROMDOS-tan is a small,spunky embedded OS-tan with the ability to control any electronic or mechanical device within a given distance. Though the second shortest and certainly one of the youngest DOS-tans, she is the most physically-capable fighter among all her sisters and is sufficiently courageous and aggressive enough to take on more powerful opponents. Much to the chagrin of her sisters, this means she often picks fights with stronger embedded OS-tans, such as TRON-tan, eCOS-tan, QNX-tan and more than a handful of Linuxen. But despite her gift for machine operation, she's actually very clueless when they break down, and relies on QDOS-tan and PTSDOS-tan to save her from whatever bind she's in when this happens. ^__^'

FreeDOS-tan is the only truly Free and Open Source DOS-tan among her sisters. Gentle, mild-mannered and sweeter than most of the world's nectars combined, she's often mistaken for a shy, mousy and weak individual that's simply begging for calamities to befall her. But behind her charming and tender exterior lies a genius wielder of Open Sourcery.. Few if any have seen her wield it, although all who know her suspect she does so in her cooking, given she can take any ingredient (no matter how stale or spoiled) and turn it into an imperial banquet. Too often they see her emerging from an explosive firefight, unscathed, beaming a gentle smile, and continuing a conversation as if nothing had happened. And almost everyone, other than her sisters or the vintage-tans she interacts with regularly, find this very very terrifying. `v'