SDL: What's in a Name?

Original characters; only one of whom is mine! Miss Kurori, the poor little dork, belongs to me, but the SDL itself is the brainchild of Mr. *RoninsUltramix. The Chatei Tea House remains the property of Miss *BlackLillian, and the lovely Clarice and her handsome yojimbo Kuraima are the sole intellectual property of *Unknown-person. It's their world, folks, I just doodle in it. Rather badly. XD Don't steal.

Cast: Miss Kurori, Clarice, and Kuraima.

(Kurori, you dope - anybody who actually speaks Japanese is going to kill us even harder now.)

But the idea here is that your average Edo-era peasant who doesn't speak any English might have considerable trouble with Miss Clarice's name, when confronted with it for the first time.

(She gets close there, for a minute, but I admit that I had her fail because I totally wanted an excuse to phonetically spell "caribou".)

("Total eclipse of the heart" is just panic. XD)

She's really sorry, though! ;^; Uwaah! Please don't stab!

I'd been meaning to make some fanart for a long time -- there's STILL some Climber art I haven't finished! Waugh! -- and Kuraima and Clarice were just too cute to resist. x3 I love them.

(Also, *Unknown-person made a totally awesome Spectator Entry a while back and was awesome and kind enough to put Miss Kurori in it! And if that doesn't entitle him to crazy amounts of bad art from me, I don't know what does.)

(I can't imagine you'd show up on my page without having seen any of *Unknown-person's work before, but if you haven't -- by all means! I am coercing you! I have linked to him three times now; there is no excuse!)

Materials: Pencil, Sharpie, Paint for flats and shading, OC for blush and background! (Yes, the Chatei appears to just be an amalgamation of random brown squares -- what are you going to do about it?)