That wasn't always the plan. GameArts' original ideas for Lunar II: Eternal Blue called for the main cast from Lunar: The Silver Star to return, older and perhaps as supporting characters. That's what some early concept illustrations from Softbank's Lunar I and II artbook show, anyway. I've never seen these online anywhere, so I decided to scan them and finally get some use out of the book. I bought it in Japan during the height of my RPG obsession, after giving up on finding the Xenogears art collection.
![You wash that makeup off RIGHT THIS MINUTE YOUNG LADY AND DON'T GIVE ME THAT LOOK.](http://kidfenris.com/lunarmullet.png)
Alex, the hero, was a kid with a harp and a fur hat in the first game. For the second, he became a lumberjack and grew one hell of a mullet, while his passive love interest, Luna, started wearing makeup.
![Remember how Mia was in love with the obnoxious, traitorous magician kid FOR NO REASON because she's the perfect Japanese woman?](http://kidfenris.com/lunarmia.png)
Mia looks a lot like she did in the first game. Oh well.
![Remember how the fat kid in Vanguard Bandits was all REINA SAID SHE'D LET ME DIVE INTO HER MUFFINS IF I DO A GOOD JOB FIGHTING THE IMPERIALS and that's why Working Designs is the best company ever and fuck you if you hate them.](http://kidfenris.com/lunarram.png)
Alex's fat, worthless friend Ramus, who stayed in the party for about five minutes in the first Lunar, got a monocle and cigar for Lunar II. From the look of it, Jessica didn't change much at all.
![DAMMIT WHY ARE THERE ELVES IN THIS oh wait she's a beast-person so that's okay](http://kidfenris.com/lunarscene.png)
The book also has illustrations of Nash and Kyle, but they looked exactly like they did in the first game. You can see Kyle drunk and passed out in this storyboard shot. I don't know if it's a planned scene from Lunar II or an unused movie sequence from The Silver Star.
![Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 stole this, but no one noticed because no one played it.](http://kidfenris.com/lunarbump.png)
Finally, I scanned this. It could be a discarded idea for a mini-game, but that's...unlikely.
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