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dude im happy to see you too but youre dropping everyones mail

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strange little fellow that lives on my desk

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crashkeys dressup 😌

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if you’re ok with sharing,what brush do you use to draw? :3

oh, hi! I draw in clip studio paint, most of my art is using the grovey rough line pencil. it should show up if you search it on assets! I'm not sure if there's a way to import CSP brushes into any other programs or not though

some of the simpler lineless drawings i've done recently like this madoka one are with Gasa Gaya Line Pen (ガサ伽サ線画ペン) turned up to a huge size to block in the colours instead. I like textures :3

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background study with pokemon :)

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Dude Study

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shadowheart sketchy

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omg i love ur mirakane siren au ... would it be fine if i made a fic abt the au ?? i love the idea of it so much /vpos

PLEASE DO omg. send me the link if you post it!!

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jumps :D

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heyyy hey hey hey hey!!! sorry hai. anyway ^_^ i have some questions abt ur mirakane siren au!!! whyd u choose to make akane a half vampire? also i like the idea of mira making herself look human as she kinda alr does that in canon (her pretending to be neurotypical which could or could not be a metaphor). do u have any more ideas for this au? srry for the random ask i just love this ship and im glad other ppl r making art for it

sure! it'll get longwinded so i'll tuck it under the cut

so i had the idea floating a while ago about a specifically just vampire, more urban fantasy au that shifted into this broader monster period setting one instead. i feel like that original idea might have actually come off a similar post by someone else or maybe a zecret santa prompt but it was so long ago i dont remember so if anyone does lmk... but most of the extent of my thoughts on that were converting sois into a vampire hunter secret society and that it was funny to have them tracking aoi thinking surely this suspicious edgy dude was a vampire. and it turning out they are right he's kidnapping people but he's actually entirely human and doing it to keep his vampire sister alive - i literally dont remember how much of that was my own idea sorry 😿

for me half the appeal of pondering any dramatically different entire setting changed AU like these is seeing what completely different circumstances can be made to still keep the core of the characters intact. and then some of the other half is how it would change them

i think vampire akane works very well as a comparison to her circumstances in 999. undead creature existing in a burdened state between life and death, burns up in the sun, forced to harm others to sustain her own existence... vampire depictions vary wildly but it's fairly common to depict them with some level of psychic or mind control powers too

the vampire idea changed form into a broader monster au when i got to talking about it with a friend and expanding on the ideas a lot the idea with her being a "half vampire" is further mirroring her schrodingers cat state with her having undergone a partial incomplete transformation somehow. so while she's very psychically powerful she's physically frail and sickly trying to sustain being stuck in the middle and can't access her full potential. and probably she can only resolve this and complete the transformation by going on a long revenge quest to complete a succession ritual drinking the blood of Evil Rich Vampire Lord Hongou who originally turned her. (and she should need junpei to achieve that for some reason but uh didn't manage to figure out a reason Some Guy could be essential to that) no matter what though she doesn't have the option to reverse the process and go back to being human. she can only go on by embracing becoming what she feared.

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the quick ref sketches for their designs and slight elaboration on the Lore

Mirakane siren AU Who up contemplating Akane Kurashiki's indelible destructive pull back to the source of her trauma and consistent inability to escape her compulsive fixation on recreating it 🌊🎉 Who up making elaborate fish yuri about it (me alone) 🐟

dimmer alt version

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drawing this with my mouse felt like playing pokemon art academy on the ds

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if anyone more familiar with bluesky has an idea what the fuck i should tag this there i'd appreciate it 🥲

Mirakane siren AU Who up contemplating Akane Kurashiki's indelible destructive pull back to the source of her trauma and consistent inability to escape her compulsive fixation on recreating it 🌊🎉 Who up making elaborate fish yuri about it (me alone) 🐟

dimmer alt version

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Mirakane siren AU Who up contemplating Akane Kurashiki's indelible destructive pull back to the source of her trauma and consistent inability to escape her compulsive fixation on recreating it 🌊🎉 Who up making elaborate fish yuri about it (me alone) 🐟

dimmer alt version

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cutey boy 🎀

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i have a bluesky now if anyone prefers that site! 🦋