Everlasting Flowers

### Description

Flowers are delicate and ephemeral, thus she only puts her faith in the tough and tangible—those are dreams and romance that never fade.

## Obtaining

### Cost

2888Echoes
12888Fragments

**Everlasting Flowers** is a Reoccurring Time-Limited S-tier Costume for the Mechanic, Tracy Reznik. It was introduced into the Illusion Hall with the Accessory Fairy Ring in the Everlasting Flowers Package between February 14th to March 3rd 2021.

## Availability

As it is not a true Limited Costume (which are denoted by the "limited" tag found in the top right of certain card icons), it can return to the Illusion Hall shop multiple times. It frequently returns with its specialty Accessory Fairy Ring.

* It was originally available for purchase from February 14th to March 3rd as part of the 2021 Valentine's Day Event.
* It returned as the 4th place winner of the 2022 Costume Voting Contest for purchase from March 31st to April 28th.
* It was available for purchase from February 9th to March 9th 2023 as part of the Night is When the Heart is True (2023) Event.

## Appearance

### **Physical**

Tracy has neck-length golden platinum blonde hair and gold flower-shaped gear eyes highlighted by glimmering pink and white freckles with powdered fuchsia blush. Around her arms, legs, hands and bare feet, her pale skin fades to pink with scattered silver and white sparkles.

### **Outfit**

Tracy is dressed like a faerie with a machine-flower theme: her bodice composes of silver leaves, some adorned with glitter and pearls, held together with an intricate silver clasp and a golden gear. A golden flower emerges from her right shoulder, and beneath the leaves a blooming metallic pinkish-purple flower unfurls as a skirt, the petals covered in silvery dew. From her back sprout a pair of dual iridescent gossamer faerie wings, their base consisting of three golden gears and their veins supported by gold, a diamond, and three pearls. A gear-and-flower flower crown sits on her hair, the flowers' carpels replaced by lightbulbs and springs, some of their petals replaced by gears. Two pink and pastel orange flowers fastened by silver twine spiral around her left wrist and right ankle.

### **Item**

Her Controller is shaped like a heart. It has various flowers around it; two of them are gold flowers, but one is a large pink rose with gold petals.

### **Special Effects**

Small pink particles and pink roses are around her body.

## Concept and Design Notes

### Costume Background

People use flowers to symbolize love,

Use flowers as a metaphor for romance and joy.

Yet the delicate and beautiful state of most flowers are fleeting;

Only a few flowers are able to preserve their fragrance for long.

And so many began to sing ballads of praise to the flowers' beauty

Reflecting on how fragile life truly is, how beauty is temporary, and sighing over how love should be cherished...

"But for what?"

She too had once been saddened by the wilting of flowers,

But as of today, she only believes in romance she had crafted herself.

Those firm, shining petals are as she is;

They do not rely on nutrients from the outer world

And instead are resilient, defending themselves from all detriments and hazards.

### Concept and Planning

Flowers symbolize romance and love. For this Valentine's time-limited costume, our theme was "flowers".

Mechanic - Everlasting Flowers was inspired by the impression of pixies (or imps, flower spirits) from children's storybooks. Pixies are hyper, naughty, quick-witted and have pretty, constantly flapping wings. In the myths, they are a form of the supernatural, residing closely with nature. Pixies seem to have stemmed from folklore, depicted neither as good nor bad, but most are beautiful and have magical powers.

In children's tales, they rest on plant stems or on the backs of birds, dance in circles while holding hands during the night and leave a mushroom ring; they play in flower bushes and sometimes play pranks, tying the hair of sleeping people into pigtails, giving travelers wrong directions... They work together to suppress invaders, and will even use their magic to extract revenge.

### Optimizations and Designs

This time, we tried to convey the feeling of "a young girl wearing a fairy costume made of metal that she had crafted into place herself" through the costume, so the earliest designs were leaning towards the theme of "flowers" more. But since its fashion stood out too much, and not much metal was visible, the outfit did not fit with the theme.

Afterwards, three more adjustments were drafted. The first and second's materials fit with the theme, but their colors are too muted to fit as a Valentine's day costume. Simultaneously, the costumes' details were too rough, and lack the image of a young girl, and so they weren't used. Also, the third design had too many separate embellishments on her outfit, and also lacked the theme of a fairy.

### Final Design

The costume followed a pink color scheme and it seems it follows both the Valentine's Day and young girly theme. It composes of traditional flower fairy garments: clothes made of a flower's calyx, a skirt crafted of petals, her goggles replaced for a flower crown made of metal, and a pair of little wings can be seen on her back.

This costume is originally made out of metal bits and pieces, and at the same time there are also elements of jewellery, such as ingrained gemstones, as an attempt to emphasize the young, girlish theme. At last, we also added bright little lightbulbs and creaky little springs and gears to show the cuteness of a young girl.

Flowers and delicate and ephemeral, thus she only puts her faith in the tough and tangible—those are dreams and romance that never fade.

## Trivia

* She appears in the T-card collaboration trailer.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Official Art
* Additional Appearances

### Appearance Decoration Menu

Everlasting Flowers In-Game Model Front View.Everlasting Flowers In-Game Model Back View.Everlasting Flowers Entrance Animation.Everlasting Flowers Idle Animation.Everlasting Flowers Press Animation.
### In-Game

Everlasting Flowers changes to the Controller.

### Concept Art & Icons

Everlasting Flowers and Fairy Ring English Concept ArtEverlasting Flowers Chinese Concept Art (Lofter)Poster process by artist Lin ChangDesign Infographic (Lofter)Design Process [1/3]Design Process [2/3]Design Process [3/3]Everlasting Flowers Card Sprite
### Promotional Art

"Even if it's a mechanical device
Not suitable for calling it an artificial flower.
As if alive
Because it is in full bloom adorably." - Everlasting Flowers and Fairy Ring Poster by Lin Chang (Twitter)"Imperishable flowers and undying romance" - Everlasting Flowers and Fairy Ring In-Game PosterInitial reveal of Everlasting Flowers and Fairy Ring2021 Earth Day Artwork (Twitter)2021 Summer Vacation Artwork (Lofter)September 2021 Birthdays (Twitter)2021 Wagashi Day (和菓子の日) Gif (Twitter)Short comic welcome Ada and Emil to the Manor (Lofter)2022 Birthday Art (Twitter)Summer Fireflies Artwork 2023 (Facebook)September 2023 English Calendar (Twitter)
### Merchandise

Sweet Paradise Fifth Collaboration ~ Manor Confession Season 1st Artwork (Twitter)Sweet Paradise Fifth Collaboration ~ Manor Confession Season 2nd Artwork (Twitter)Sweet Paradise Fifth Collaboration ~ Manor Confession Season 3nd Artwork (Twitter)Identity V x T-Card Collaboration (link)PRIROLL Valentine's Day Cake Series (Twitter)

[Portrait] Letter of Flowers[Portrait Frame] Eternal Flower

## References

1. ↑ Everlasting Flowers Design Notes - Weibo
2. ↑ T-Card Collaboration Trailer - Twitter