#hfr zanzo

[lordsireno]

HELLO ZANZO ENJOYERS! He's a special dork :)) love him

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[erigold13261]

Hi Fi Rush Turnarounds: Part 1

Here are the turnarounds for the main characters! Had to split Kale's mech version up so he wasn't absolutely tiny. Also had to get in game shots of Mimosa during her fight because the game didn't have her normal form as a model.

Robots to come soon!

[deadly-glamourtail]

All Vandelay boss graffiti in Hi-Fi RUSH

[thesmallmeggles]

*Psst*

Hi-Fi Rush Concept Art and Models on Art Station

[rav-rabies-art-blog]

Done with the teen Zanzo Headcanon pic. I was going to stick teen Kale in there too but I still need to think about him a little. He also went through a goth phase. I also want to do everyone else too.

[rav-rabies]

Tried drawing this cute little guy on my phone. Probably not going to do it too often (my wrist hurts a bit) but I like how it looks.

[shadespeaks]

So something I’ve been thinking about with Hi-Fi Rush is that clearly there’s disabled characters and none of it is ever made into a Big Deal.

Yeah, Chai got a prosthetic arm. It’s wicked cool

Yeah, Peppermint lost a leg. There’s some potential lore there

Yeah, almost everyone else has Vandelay parts but we never even learn why or if they’re just meant as enhancements. For example, does Zanzo have the neural implants just to get his ideas out of his head faster or because he needs that accommodation? It’s never addressed because it doesn’t really matter

The game never makes disability or accommodation feel weird, out of place, or negative. It just…is

HOWEVER, Chai is blamed for being “defective.” Throughout the game he is reduced to being known as “the defect” that needs to be wiped out (or experimented on/with in Zanzo’s case).

None of this is Chai’s fault. It’s Kale who threw the music player into the Armstrong machine and yet Chai is blamed for it. At one point Rekka even says that HE ruined her perfect no defect record as if his existence was the mistake and it’s his fault.

Anyway, as a disabled person, I think this was a wonderful way to bring in ableism and what being disabled can look like in the world into the story while keeping the upbeat, fun vibe of the game.

I think every disabled person has felt blamed for simply existing (either people think you aren’t doing enough to “fix” yourself or you must have done something wrong to cause your disability or you’re even just making it up/being lazy/etc). It was so nice to see that reflected in the game while still seeing all of these disabled characters kick absolute ass in fights and also just exist in the world.

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[lordsireno]

A self-obsessed, green-haired, goatee'd man? I'm happy to have a second one in my life! The robot limbs and jojo posing is an added bonus!

[magmalaz]

I just created a Hi-Fi Rush AU!(along with a friend who has enabled my hyperfixation) :D Presenting...

The Swapped!AU (or the HiFiSwapped!AU, for tagging purposes)

This Au changes the main team, loosely like this:

Chai is Chai, he is eternal 

Peppermint gets replaced by Kale

808 gets replaced by a new character, 373 the doggo bot

Macaron gets replaced by Zanzo 

Korsica gets replaced by Rekka 

and Roquefort is there

On top of that, Peppermint replaces Kale as the CEO (And Macaron replaces Zanzo, but yeah)

I also replaced Roquefort with a brainwashed Roxanne as the Head of Finance because i really wanted to keep it down with the ocs.

Ok! Now i show you my designs and explain more (cut here because this is a long post)

First of:

AU!Peppermint

I based most of her redesign on her costumes.

In this AU, she felt ignored by her family due to Kale being the favored child and, after a few years of planning, took over Vandelay Technologies.

She usurped the company from Roxanne simularly to Kale, using a program/AU!Spectra to control Roxanne to step down and become the Head of Finance instead.

She is a hands on type of person, so she is more prominent than Kale was canonically.

AU!Kale

His and Peppermints ages are closer together in this Au.

Kale is pretty simular to his canon self. He was used to other people doing most of the work for him and is very bossy at the start. He left home because he felt like he wasn't his own person(and because he thought his mother was too overbearing).

He was, like Peppermint, very skeptical of Chai in the beginning, but he was glad to not have to do all the dirty work anymore.

He can overcharge doors and vents, but he can't break the shields of the enemies. Due to this, they don't get introduced until the R&D tracks. Oh and Zanzo takes this over once he gets around.

This counts as an oc i think. 373 (Now known as Subw00fr!) My baby boy!

He was named after a synthesizer

373 is Kales version of 808! He is based on a golden retriever. Nothing more to say here this is the best one

AU!Roquefort

This version of him starts as a human, suffering from a chronic illness. He was a family friend of the Vandelays and stuck around with Kale as a father figure.

As the story progresses, he will eventually look like his canon version. This lets him do the same things Korsica canonically does.

AU!Rekka

Rekka starts as the Head of Production like in canon. She is a lot less overbearing and more reasonable (She is still the strict Boss we love tho-) and she is very skeptical of Peppermint, as in this AU she was the Head of Production under Roxanne as well.

After the canon fight, instead of exploding she joins the gang instead (due to Roquefort convincing her. Neither Kale nor Chai would manage that at this point)

Due to her strength, she can break Z-Shielding, which gets introduced earlier in this AU. And she replaces Korsica in the Hideout.

AU!Zanzo

Zanzo was the Head of R&D under Roxanne instead of Macaron. His money spending habits were not canon-level bad in this AU because otherwise this would not work-

He was subsequently thrown out as Peppermint took over and from then on hid in R&D. Alone.

In this AU he was also the one that build Kales robot body after an accident. This is so I can write drama because they now know eachother.

Zanzo replaces Macaron in the Hideout and can overload regular shielding(with his swords like the anime character he is) . He also constantly tests new stuff on Chai, under the guise of 'Training'.

Sooo

I will be writing a fanfiction on this AU and i will link it here once i get it going!

Hope you enjoyed my chaos!

[erigold13261]

Hi Fi Rush Special Moments

Decided to compile all the special action scenes. Or at least what I THINK is all of them. I have a feeling I missed some.

I'm surprised not every boss has a special kill hit. I noticed Mimosa's at first and went back and was surprised that I couldn't find one for Roquefort, Korsica, and Zanzo. Though technically Zanzo does have those kinda special scenes where I think it's a Jo-Jo reference (which I was going to add here but decided against).

Also sorry for the kinda bad quality for Kale's finisher pictures. They happen so fast I had to record my gameplay and then try to slow down the video and take screenshots of the moments (Chai's moment was the hardest because there's only a split second where his chat box isn't on screen at the time).

[lumpy-veev]

(IN A WORLD, WHERE THE VANDELAY DEPARTMENT HEADS DON’T HATE EACH OTHER AND ARE KIND OF JUST A WEIRD DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY)

Zanzo is extroverted! None introversion with left neurospiciness (he is not neurotypical I’m just not sure How). 

So the other department heads have gotten very used to having Zanzo just. Enter their office. And then put himself in the corner while he does his work and they do their’s. Sometimes there’s chatting! Sometimes it’s just quiet working hours. Zanzo claims that he just works better when there’s another person to bounce his genius off of!

Also. I think it’d be really cool if Zanzo could hook up his neural interface with the other department heads and have mental chats with them. Maybe he can connect to multiple people at a time? Not to many though, it gives him a headache. 

(Zanzo and Mimosa watch someone walk by, and then he shoots her a Look before tapping on her shoulder with a neural connector. Mimosa clips it into a port in her spinal implant, and then they just spend the next twenty minutes shit talking the HELL outta that person’s outfit.)

[thesmallmeggles]

POV: 🍍You🍍 forgot your smartphone at work and upon its return, you discover the intern left a surprise before returning it

//Image Description: A screenshot from Hi-Fi Rush depicting Chai taking a selfie with a Zanzo plushie sitting on a bench//

Bonus Friends vibing outside Production

//Image Description: Screenshot of Peppermint, 808, and Chai sitting on a bench next to a pair of pigeons//

And This Lovely Creation

//Image Description: Screenshot of the monitor in one of the AR rooms. Zanzo's monitor is defaced with eye and mustache stickers//

[rav-rabies-art-blog]

I am not doing well at the moment.