Heya!
I'm a bit late with this update, as we hit all stretch goals pretty much immediately. :D Thank you so much again!
So, while this campaign is mostly about the soda girls, they do still belong in my wider series of beverage girls which so far has mostly consisted about teas. I thought it'd be fun to include them here in the campaign, but they need some introduction because there's a little bit more behind some of them! I'll just go through them one by one, in reverse chronological order of their creation :D 

This post contains no "important" info but is just for those who are interested in the artwork of the tea series or want some help with deciding.

Gyokuro is my latest tea girl, and a bit of an outlier of the series - but very intentionally so. The tea she is named after is a very high quality and expensive one, and the reason for that is that the plants get shaded from the sun 3 weeks before harvest, which produces a finer, sweeter aroma compared to most other Japanese green teas. This is why she's carrying a parasol! 

Next four are teas infused with floral aromas :D

Jasmine tea is one of China's favourite floral teas. A fun variant of this is the flowering tea balls, which often also include Jasmine but also other flowers such as Chrysanthemum. They're little balls of green tea that are sewn together, and when hot water is poured on them, it opens up to expose the flowers. Hence she has all the little flowers inside of her. Her garment is a Chinese hanfu.

Butterfly Pea Tea is the tea with the MOST striking color ever - bright blue - made solely from butterfly pea flowers, also called Aparajita in Sanskrit. Due to the long history of its consumption in ayurveda I went with an Indian-style interpretation of it (and because I love sarees), although it is also consumed in many other countries in SEA. 

Lotus tea is made by stuffing green tea inside of lotus flowers. The tea itself does not contain any petals but absorbs the flower's scent during the process, resulting in a pleasant flowery aroma! (And the process ivery pretty) 

Everyone loves cherry blossoms, but nobody seems to love them as much as the Japanese do. The pure cherry blossom tea (Sakurayu) consists of cherry blossoms that are pickled in salt and vinegar - a very unique taste that might be odd at first. The resulting brew is a pinkish golden colors, with the soft pink flower floating on top.

Tieguanyin is a Chinese Oolong tea that is named after a Buddhist icon Guanyin (or Kwan Yin), a goddess adapted from Hindu religion into buddhism and many other religions. Here I chose to depict her in a pose very similar to many statues of said goddess!  Oolongs are half-fermented, and depending on how much they are fermented their tastes can change quite a bit on the spectrum between nutty and floral.

Baihao Yinzhen is a white tea and the name means "white hair silver needle" because the tea leaves have a little fur-like texture. I did not take the name too literally, and settled for an overall golden color instead of white, closer to the color of the actual tea than what the name suggests. Still I put some hair needles in her bun!
It's a minimally processed tea, and consists only of leaf buds instead of fully grown and opened leaves.

Darjeeling (Black Tea)

Darjeeling is one of India's most famous teas, and the logo shows a woman with earrings and necklaces so I knew I had to depict her as a character! The tea itself is a deep orange/brown color, sometimes going in a purple-ish direction. It is less bitter than most other black tea, more mild and almost flowery which I think are great traits to depict in a feminine character!

My very first tea girl, of a very famous tea: Japanese sencha! Her coloring is informed not just by the color of green tea which is green to golden, but also common colors in the packaging design, which often feature pink tones too. Sencha is a very broad category of teas, ranging from mundane everyday teas to high end special ones such as Shincha. 

Okay that's enough yapping for today! Let me know if this was interesting :D I will prepare new goals to unlock this weekend, and here's your reminder again that you can suggest goals in the Discussion in the community tab of this campaign! <3

Cheers
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