The ashes all over Rei's body are various decal textures for explosions in Star Wars: Republic Commando. This is my first time attempting an effect like this, but I think it turned out alright.
The smoke emanating from Rei's truncated uniform, while faint, are brushes by Falln-Stock on DeviantArt, as well as the generic smoke brush that comes with Gimp.
The image I used is fanart of Sailor Mars from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, by mochi kuu usagi on Pixiv (first and second images).
All
persons depicted are fictitious, not owned by me (Bishoujo Senshi
Sailor Moon and all characters depicted or mentioned are owned by Naoko
Takeuchi), and above the age of 18. I make no money through this image.
TRANSCRIPT:
"Fire..."
the recently awakened Sailor Mars called out, readying an attack in the
form of a tiny fireball, at the tips of her index fingers. It quickly
grew in size, luminance, and heat."Soul!" Despite all this being very new and strange to her, she found she knew instinctively the optimal time to release it. It shot from her fingers and spiraled towards the grotesque youma and instantly vaporized it in an expanding pillar of fire.
...And it kept expanding, much to her horror. Mars yelped as the fire engulfed her briefly before dissipating.
While the experience was terrifying, she found she felt no pain and was unharmed... but the same could not be said of her newly acquired and very peculiar sailor uniform. The entire outfit from her midriff down had burned away, saved for her shoes.
Mars' face grew as red as her uniform as she realized just how exposed she was right then. She barely had a chance to make even a sound before the eerie portal that brought her, Usagi, and her apparently-talking cat to this strange realm collapsed, sending them and the captured buses back where they had vanished, just outside Hikawa Shrine.
As her transformation disappeared, Usagi and her cat ran up to the teary-eyed Ami and hugged her.
"Usagi-chan, I was so worried! I take it all is well now, then?"
"Yup!" Usagi replied. "And we have a new Sailor Guardian now: Rei-chan!" Usagi turned around and gestured in Rei's direction... only to find her beet red, half-naked, and struggling to cover herself with the scraps still hanging off her body.
"R-R-Rei... -chan?" Usagi stammered. "Where, uh... where did your uniform go?"
Rei responded with a terse "Shut up!" and undid her transformation. Fortunately, her haori and hakama rematerialized exactly as they were before.
"Gee, for a girl so hot, figuratively and literally, she sure can be cold."
Ami chuckled in the way she did when she didn't know how to respond.
Rei approached the cat. "Excuse me, um... Luna, was it?"
"Yes. Good work back there, Rei-chan!"
"Ah, th-thank you. But, um... regarding my, um..." She lowered her voice to a whisper out of embarrassment. "Wardrobe malfunction..."
"Ah, right, that. I apologize for neglecting to tell you earlier, but there wasn't time. I'm afraid that, when you attacked the youma, you were a bit too close, so your uniform got... singed."
"Singed?! The entire lower half of it was disintegrated!"
"Semantics. Anyway, in the future, do what you can to put some distance between you and your target, so that doesn't happen. You may be impervious to your attacks, but your clothes aren't."
"It would've helped if I'd known that earlier... but I can't really blame you, given the all the danger at the time. The, uh... my uniform will appear in its entirety the next time I use this weird pen, right?"
"It... should." Luna chuckled awkwardly. "I'm afraid I don't know for certain. I'm still getting used to all this too, to some degree."
"Oh, lovely...." Rei sighed. She mumbled to herself, "Maybe I can find a talking bird or mouse or something that's a tailor...."
"Um... Rei-chan?" Usagi said. "I-if it makes you feel any better, Rei-chan... you have a very beautiful body."
"I said shut up!" Rei snapped, turning away to conceal her blushing face.
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