Ecosphere

### Description

A great performer never misses any trending topics — special effects, space exploration, fashionable heroines... Fear inspired one of her best performances. Unfortunately, her beautiful face was abruptly blocked out by a miniature "ecosphere."

## Other Details

### Series

* Call of the Abyss VI
* Season 24 Essence 2

## Obtaining

### Cost

N/A

**Ecosphere** is a Reoccurring Time-Limited A-Tier Costume for the Entomologist, Melly Plinius. It was introduced as part of the Call of the Abyss VI Abyss Treasure (Season 24 Essence 2).

## 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 in the Call of the Abyss VI Abyss Treasure, along with the other costumes, several times.

* It was originally available from December 29th, 2022 to February 2nd, 2023 during the Call of the Abyss VI Qualification (Season 24 Essence 2).
* It returned from April 27th to May 17th, 2023 during Call of the Abyss VI Finals (Season 26).
* It returned on January 1st, 2024 to January 24th, 2024 during the Call of the Abyss VII Event (Season 30).

## Appearance

### **Physical**

Melly's face is now visible, but her eyes are still covered by her hair. Her hairstyle now reminds more of a nest of black uncombed tentacles with single red flower which embrace her hair with maroon vines. Her skin tone remains unchanged with dark peach lipstick on her lips.

### **Outfit**

Melly dons a silver, deep v neckline, short dress with black sides upon which rest red leather jacket finished with maroon fur. The shoulders of the jacket are stuffed with pointed pillows and whole piece is embraced by black leather straps. There is a black belt on the dress with a green emblem, and test tubes from which black vines grow entwining her chest. On the legs we notice black self-supporting stockings and long leather boots. The most remarkable feature of the outfit is her helmet. Movie like glass astronaut headpiece with silver base, creates illusion of ecosphere hence the name of the costume.

### **Insect Net**

Her net turns into a silver movie spotlight whose lamp arrangement gives the appearance of a creature's face. Black tentacles entwine the rear lamp.

### **Special Effects**

Her flower in hair glows flame like. While summoning insects blue glowing butterflies surround her.

## Concept / Design Notes

### Official Website

**Exploration team, who witnessed the deep space looking back**

Faced with the sudden upheaval, the expedition team tried their best to open the door to leave, and what appeared in front of them was a magnificent and shocking interstellar spectacle—a huge deep-space eye staring at everything, responding to their search, and bringing Here comes the call of the night.

　　The entomologist wears a silver leather skirt, black leather boots, and a conspicuous red leather jacket, which makes the "Entomologist-Ecosphere" full of mysterious and technological sense; the spotlight in her hand seems to have life, and she observes the performance scene with light; the transparent The glass ball covered the entire head, and the long hair, black gauze, and red flower decoration covered the upper half of her face, making it impossible to see her expression clearly; there was some liquid in the reagent bottle at the waist, and several vines came out of it. Crawl out and wrap her around slowly.

### Social Media

In this filming, the entomologist plays the female protagonist, a confident, proud and delicate biologist. The strange plant model in the prop helmet forces her to use exaggerated performance to act. And at the moment when facing the starry sky, the mixed expressions of fear, confusion and despair become her most vivid performance.

### Art Design Ideas

COA-The Entomologist-Ecosphere, the theme is a biologist pursuing a refined life, playing a biologist in an expedition team in the movie. However, she who is pursuing a perfect image cannot bear the dark and cold shooting location, wearing a delicate coat outside of her costume The first trial sketch was a bit too trendy and sci-fi due to the choice of cuts and materials, which is quite different from the special effects photos we expected.

The second picture has a much stronger sense of the times, and we are relatively satisfied with it. However, the large area of dark color in the picture 2 makes the overall tone a bit dull. We decided to make adjustments based on the combination of 1 and 2, and make the character's personality more obvious:

The third modification is quite close to the desired feeling, but the coat is too soft and doesn't resemble an expensive coat. The plant elements on the body are too scattered and not enough to be- integrated. The interior of the helmet is also too "natural" and needs to be adjusted. Finally, after the modification, we get th finished draft

### **Model Details Description**

1. The plant disk mutated by Cthulhu was attached to the helmet of the biologist, revealing a magical and strange breath. But even if it is dangerous, she still has to coexist with beauty.
2. She was wearing a tight-fitting work space suit inside and a leather coat with a dark red collar outside, shiny and delicate, showing the delicacy of a biologist.
3. She was wearing a lab coat with the brand logo "Grow Strong Crops" on it. Around the waist were some cultivation vessels and test tubes containing Cthulhu.
4. The artificial light's insect trap net has a futuristic feel due to its metallic nature, providing light to plants in space. The net is covered. with a glossy reflective cloth and Cthulhu tentacles are attached to it, wrapping it around.

### **Showroom Interface Design**

5.In the movie, the biologist was intently studying the mutated plants in the petri dish. Behind the scenes, a tentacle reached out and snagged the biologist's mask, pulling her down to the petri dish to show her the result of her "research". After a struggle, the biologist was about to touch the mask when the tentacle quickly withdrew.

The biologist was introducing the plants in the culture dish in front of the camera when suddenly a tentacle reached in and started shaking the dish, revealing an advertisement on top. Without seeing the tentacle, the biologist was startled by the plants swirling around inside the dish.

### The Exhibition of the Home

When the mysterious plant models under the props helmets failed to cover up the exquisite appearance of the Ecosphere", she walked slowly with a lazy attitude, and exuded a "superstar" temperament different from others in her gestures.

### Story background

The actors woke up from their midday break, recalling the information from the crew: a mysterious "investor who had never appeared before had gathered a group of actors, directors, screenwriters and other crew members to shoot a space exploration movie. In the shooting location, the scene of the universe stars, the props full of imagination, the bizarre model monsters... All these amazed the actors. However, as the movie was shot, strange things kept happening in the crew: the investor replaced the director, the script plot was changed, the shooting equipment was out of control... Some people even found that besides the strange audience, some props with a living nature were also watching the crew's actions. Everyone endured the increasingly absurd performance until the real "key shot" surfaced.

The core elements of this "Call of the Abyss" story are "Cosmic Horror", "Movie Special Effects", "Live Broadcast". The "Cosmic Horror" is the most core feature of Lovecraft's works, and the novel "The Whisper in Darkness is one of the classic works interpreting this feature: alien races traveling in space, outliers lurking in the crowd, Yuggoth integrated into the plot with the discovery of Pluto... These contents blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, making the original work full of different vivid charms in that generation.

We are inspired by sci-fi special effects movies from the 60s and 70s to express the theme of this space exploration:cheap costumes, handmade sets, and peculiar props... In paying tribute to the pioneering spirit and imagination of sci-fi works at that time, we also hope to demonstrate that the "rough" filming in the story is not unusual. In the theme promotion video, we referenced classic clips from films such as The Truman Show, gradually leading from the messy and clumsy performance to the real horror of space, and using a one-shot technique to enhance the sense of immersion. The low-brow mockery and laughter of the "audience suggest the monster's appetite for fear and pain, and also lay the groundwork for the wild winds of "The Binary Star". In addition to the distinctive costume designs, we also designed logos for each character with commercial advertisements from major companies to further enhance the element of movie entertainment.

## Trivia

* Ecosphere appears on the back of Fan Visit's jacket.
* Ecosphere wears accessories and a second slot item (Duos only) on her right hip rather than on her back.
* A slightly early design of Ecosphere was in the files before the game got updated to have COA 6 officially available.
	+ It takes the dress from the 3rd early design image but everything else is in a finalized state.

## Gallery

* In-Game
* Official Art
* Additional Appearances

### Appearance Decoration

Ecosphere In-Game Model Front ViewEcosphere In-Game Model Back ViewEcosphere In-Game Model Left ViewEcosphere In-Game Model Right ViewEcosphere Entrance Animation.Ecosphere Idle Animation.Ecosphere Press Animation.
### In-Game

Ecosphere currently putting her Insect Net on her right hip in Duo Hunters

### Concept Art & Icons

"Listen to the whispers from the dark night together...​​​​" - Ecosphere Chinese Concept Art (Weibo)"Are you ready to explore the space with the expedition team!" - Ecosphere Global Concept Art (Twitter)Call of the Abyss VI Poster Concept Art by 叉立方Call of the Abyss VI Poster Concept Art by 叉立方Ecosphere Card SpriteEcosphere Full SpriteConcept Art for the COA VI Character Display Video by Liu Yaocen (ArtStation)Concept Art for the COA VI Character Display Video by Liu Yaocen (ArtStation)
### Promotional Art

COA VI Poster by 叉立方 (Twitter)All COA VI A & S-Tier Costumes (Twitter)COA VI A- & B-Tier Essence Costumes full reveal (Weibo)COA VI Registration Announcement (Twitter)Official Chibi of Ecosphere (WeChat)Official Chibi of Ecosphere with background (Weibo)Call of the Abyss VI - The Whisper in the Snow Stage (Weibo)4th Identity V Art Museum Fan Creation Contest PC ver4th Identity V Art Museum Fan Creation Contest phone verHello detective, how are you?
The Call of the Abyss VI Regional Qualifier Semifinals have ended~
Fierce struggle for the finals!
Unexpected tactics and developments!
They were very cool
The clan that won the regional championship after a fierce struggle
It's MS Clan!
Thank you all for your hard work~(Twitter)Call of the Abyss VI Global Finals (Weibo)Dear Detectives,
The COAVI Global Finals begin TOMORROW! (Twitter)COA VI Global Finals (Weibo)COAⅥ Global Finals Tournament (Twitter)

Survivor Abyss Matching Icon with Ecosphere[Graffiti] EcosphereOn the back of Fan Visit's jacket.
## Other Languages

 🇺🇸 | English

## References

1. ↑ First Global Q&A
2. ↑ http://id5.163.com/news/official/20221219/26476\_1058198.html
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/GameIdentityV/status/1622481234260803586
4. ↑ https://weibo.com/6140485374/MnMtXB9jH