For this character design (by Katarzyna Odrobińska, https://www.artstation.com/katodrobinska) we wanted to play with tropes. She was meant to be, as another person put it: "very cute but at the same time very I will cut you".
We needed to build a contrast between how she looks and what she does, or at least what she's willing to do. Hence the dagger and the teddy doubling as bumper.
We ended up with more detail than we planned, but it worked nice, so we'll keep it.
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