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She’s cute

She’s fashionable

She’s silly

She’s my princess

She’s my baby girl

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I am reviving from the dead because HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW YUU?????

GIRL ENJOYERS WE WON! WE WON SO HARD AGAIN! Her name us Oujou Yuuna, and this time she's femme! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I'm so happy omfg! At this point we'll probably get a new girl Yuu for Idia and I'm so EXCITED. 😭🙏

Btw I waited for 12:00 AM and bought the new Scarabia manga immediately lmfao. It'll take a few days to arrive but I can't wait!

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SHES A GIRRLLLL

SCARABIA YUU IS A GIRLLL!!!!!!!!!!

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A wonderful commission of Emery and Grim that was done by my friend @cryptidowl!!

They got their relationship down pretty well with one image, as well as so many details that make my heart soar ❤️

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It's already February 24th in Japan!!!💗✨

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AWESOME, AMAZING, GORGEOUS, COOL, DEAR, BELOVED...

AZUL ASHENGROTTO!!!💜

I love him with all my heart and I want to keep painting him in the future!!!💗💖 BE HAPPY, AZUL!💟💟💟

Some process...

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Okay! I had an idea for how to drop some of the background lore I made up instead of keeping it in a box, so here's the timeline for Twilight's Emissary going forward:

Prologue (Welcome to Wonderland)

Book 1 (Paint the Roses)

Book 2 (Be Prepared)

Twisted Halloween (Both Terror is Trending and Endless Halloween, this is where we're currently at with This is Halloween. Currently doing my best to get out the next chapter.)

Camp Vargas (only the first one, no name for it so far)

Starsending (When You Wish Upon a Star)

Book 3 (Poor Unfortunate Souls)

Phantom Bride (Here Comes the Bride, this will also be getting a massive rewrite compared to the original)

Book 4 (Second Rate)

Book 5 (With a Smile and a Song)

Beanfest (Fun and Fancy Free)

Book 6 (The Gospel Truth)

Fairy Gala, What If? (To the Fairies, They Draw Near)

White Rabbit Fest (In a World of Our Own)

Book 7 (Once Upon a Dream)

If any other events get shoved in there, it's going to be between books 6 and 7 but right now, that's where we stand.

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In honor of baby Azul finally being real

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One thing I wish was understood a bit better about Twisted Wonderland.

Everyone in this game has trauma or personal struggles and it's NOT a competition of who has it worse. Honestly, sometimes I wish everyone's traumas were discussed more in depth in the game like we get with each person who Overblots, but we don't have time for it. With the Overblot boys, their trauma is shoved directly into the spotlight and we hear exactly how their situations make them feel. But the rest of the cast, ALL of them, have personal struggles and/or trauma. This is just a small list of some of the issues each non Overblot student has.

Ace masks the fear he feels in a lot of situations, and he's got an inferiority complex on some level. Notice how he bullied the player and Grim in our first interaction? That is a sign of someone who is looking to feel better by pushing someone else down because they don't feel good about themselves.

Deuce grew up with a single mother who had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, which causes him to worry about her, and he was a delinquent in middle school, which made his mom, the one person he worries over, cry. He lives with those regrets, but he's still got those old habits and he agonizes over the fact he's not academically where he'd like to be and his behavior regresses when in heated situations.

Trey has severe trauma at being screamed at for FIVE HOURS over giving Riddle ONE slice of tart, so much that his vitals are severely affected at the thought of Mrs. Rosehearts and he's heavily conflict avoidant.

Cater has had to move all the time and as a defense mechanism, refuses to be honest or get close to people because he doesn't want to get attached only to be ripped away from them.

Ruggie lives in EXTREME poverty when not at school. He struggles to make ends meet and he has to work so hard in a system that is DESIGNED to keep him in poverty, because many beastmen still prefer segregation in the Sunset Savannah.

Jack has one of the healthier mindsets, but he still struggles with being open and honest about his feelings, which makes it hard to have friends, and he struggled with watching Leona, someone he's idolized, fall short of what he believed of Leona.

Jade and Floyd are implied to have grown up in some form of crime family and both seem to have handled the fact their lives could be in constant danger differently. Both like things being interesting, but Jade seems to prefer seclusion and control, while Floyd enjoys scaring people off and having as much fun as he can before he goes.

Kalim is someone who has had multiple assassination attempts on his life, even from his own family. He masks behind a smile, but he's afraid to trust people, and when he DOES TRY to talk about it, it gets brushed off because he has money. Also, he has to deal with the fact Jamil has been undermining his ability to progress by not treating him as if he's capable at all.

Epel has been teased and bullied on how he looked to the point where he started instigating fights to ensure he wouldn't be teased. He also has to fall in line with what Vil wants because he made the error of picking a fight with Vil and getting his butt HANDED to him. To further add, Vil is NOT NICE about it when Epel resists, with one example being Vil grabbing him by the ear and pulling hard as a form of punishment.

Rook has deal with the fact that for being someone who is super perceptive and can notice details, he didn't realize Vil's feelings around Neige, likely because he was blinded by his own admiration for both of them and that's a bitter pill to swallow.

Ortho has to deal with being basically created as a replacement for dead Ortho Shroud, trying to figure out if he's just really a robot made by Idia with really good AI or more than that, and dealing with the fact he loves his brother so much, but his brother doesn't take care of himself and it's disheartening to watch Idia's self-destruction.

Lilia has so much war trauma, losing his loved ones, having been exiled, and so much other crap. Even so, he forced himself to put the war and his trauma about it in the past, where it belonged for the sake of his two sons who both lost so much to war, which is something Baur/Baul could NOT do which was to Sebek's detriment.

Silver has had to live with the idea that his adoptive father would likely outlive him, then is faced with the fact that his father is basically abandoning everything about their life in Briar Valley before he learns that his biological parents were the enemies of the person he serves and cares about, Malleus, and the only father he's ever known.

Sebek has grown up with internalized racism/speciesism against humans thanks to his upbringing and he basically rejects half of his heritage with how he treats his father. He does not even realize how hurtful his comments are until he's faced with those remarks being directed at him by a younger version of his grandfather.

And this isn't everything each student has to face. This is just broad strokes. Yana Toboso wrote a story about flawed people who all have gone through really hard and difficult things because that's the point. As Toboso said in a 2023 interview:

“Happy endings in Disney works come from righteous actions and love, but I believe that the villains are characters who do not get saved during the story. That is why, through this game, I want to portray the message that even if you get beat up all the way to a bad ending, you can grow from it and live your life without feeling discouraged.

Acting lame, obstinate, without hesitation, being open and honest—it’s not as bad as it sounds. 

I would like to paint a positive picture of living honestly with yourself and not worrying about others.

In today’s society there are so many people who live in fear of failure and are always walking on eggshells, but nobody’s flawless. It is exhausting to try to live your life so that no one will hate you.”

Everyone, even people you don't know or do not like, have gone through things that shaped who they are. Sometimes, how we've adapted to handle the bad things that happen will force us to hit rock bottom. But you don't have to die when you hit rock bottom.

You can have terrible things happen to you and have maladaptive strategies to handle your experiences, but you aren't stuck that way forever. You can learn how to change your habits, learn to be okay with yourself, and work at being better than you were the day before.

Human growth is not linear. It's a bunch of taking steps forward and backsliding and learning and making mistakes over and over again and accepting failure, not as a testament to your character, but as part of the process of growth... and that's something all the students have to learn, not just the Overblot boys. Because all of them, every single one, are handling their own personal issues, even if it isn't shoved right in our faces.

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He's really good at compliments!!!!

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malleus, save him

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Happy Valentine's Day (I'm Late)

Warning: Shroud history headcanon. The worm story is made up by me. 9 pages long.

(Been struggling with writing this one!! But I figured it out. There are probably a lot of grammar error lol)

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"Flowers for Yuu" - Full Comic

WOW! This has been a true labor of love lmao. Thank you so much to everyone who read and enjoyed <3

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PART 2 of PuppyAce Comic

<- PART 1

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If I pull Crowley's card, I'll give Grace her own SSR.

Update: I now owe Grace an SSR.

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

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Valentine's makes ADeuce scramble to figure out what to do. Emery, meanwhile, is completely calm about it and doesn't see it as much of a big deal as the boys do. She does make something for her friends and her boys.

She had a hard time getting away with it because Valentine's Day overlapped a little with VDC and bringing all that sugar into Ramshackle was difficult to do with Vil, but she managed to do it.

Each of them is personalized depending on the person she's giving it to. For example, Ace and Deuce get special chocolates from her in the shape of hearts and spades. Emery struggled with them so much that they came out messy and not as perfect as she wanted. She was embarrassed as she gave out the chocoloate and cookies she made.

They eat them either way. It's not the look that matters, but the taste, says ace and gets elbowed in the ribs for it the thought that counts. All the housewardens, the first years (yes, even Sebek... and Ortho, because he isn't a student yet) and Lilia and Jamil. They're all platonic and it's meant to show her appreciation for their friendship and to be kind.

Astor has those little valentine's cards the elementary schoolers get to hand out to their classmates. Except he has a shit ton of them and is passing them out to all the NRC students and staff so they have a Valentine no matter what. Those he's closer to get little personal messages written inside. For example, Azul's card is telling him that he's really smart while Riddle's tells him that he's a good leader.

Emery does get quite a few from accidental admirers on Valentine's Day, as well as a couple from her friends all under the guise of being platonic, but whether they are or not is up in the air. I've also been amusing myself with the thought of ADeuce, the other first years -- or even members of the VDC squad since that would overlap with the holiday -- stepping in when there's that one very aggressive and persistent suitor.

Ace: "Just because she's nice to you doesn't mean that she actually likes you. So knock it the fuck off."

In the end, the most of the VDC crew, Astor and the Ramshackle duo manage to figure out who sent each card that Emery gets because a lot of them aren't signed. A majority of them were from friends and meant to be platonic. Others needed some bros on stand-by just in case as Emery has to let some of their classmates down as easy as she can manage.

Which leads to this conversation at the end of the day.

Emery: "Well, that puts a name on almost all of these." Jamil: "Almost?" Emery: "Mm-hm. This one." (She holds up one last Valentine's card that has been clearly made by hand.) "I still never figured out who sent this one. Rook: "If you wish, I could hunt down the admirer--" Emery: "I've had enough of that for today, thank you." sigh "I'm going to bed. Don't touch my card." (A beat.) Vil: "You already know who sent it, don't you?" Rook: "Oui." Vil: "You're not going to tell her, are you?" Rook: chuckle "Now where's the fun in that?"

Rook just likes to watch from the sidelines and cackle to himself as he watches Emery be oblivious as shit to the whole situation.

No matter who sent it, Emery does cherish it. It's the first, sincere and non-platonic valentine that she's received that wasn't a joke, made her uncomfortable or hurt her in any way.

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