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Since the kids are going to a new school, will we be seeing any new staff that work at Bright Star? Will we see the principal who owns the school?

Its funny I get this ask now, because as I was storyboarding out the comic in my head I was like "...OH YEAH, I DON'T HAVE ANY STAFF BESIDES LIKE TWO TEACHERS" But I decided I'm gunna tweak Mr. Atsumu's design and he is going to be largely the combat teacher~ While Miho is more or less their homeroom teacher/babysitter since she remains in the dorms as a guardian, and Paloma will teach support/fitness. I need to draw scrawny little Atsumu again, I feel like it'd be a hilarious scene to have the kids be introduced to their combat instructor, and see this skinny little gaunt man and be like "Okay but where's the rest of him?"

He's also Kei's uncle~ Instead of the others being older than them, I think I may just have them be in a separate class all together, as their program is supposed to be kind of the first of its kind more or less. So Mugi, Yua and Kei will be able to interact more with the main cast~

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Hope you have a swift recovery

Thank-you!! I actually found out I've had this concussion for like, two weeks already before I made that first post, so I am most of the way there now! I'm hoping to be able to try and draw again soon!~ Thanks for wishing me well!

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feel better soon!

Thank-you!! I already feel a lot better! I can feel my whole face again! :D

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Sorry, probably won't be posting much besides text answers for the next few days, I got a concussion and its making drawing a little difficult, not dead again, just trying to give my eyes a break~

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I don't think anyone has asked this before but what are the kid's favorite season?

Shimi is the only one with a currently canon favorite season, it's early spring~ Cherry blossom season is his favorite because everything is pink, even his special move is based off of a huge gust of cherry blossoms~

Yun-Yeong's favorite is late autumn, specifically the Chuseok (kind of like Korean thanksgiving but not quite) It's the one time she gets to see both of her parents.

Izumi's is Christmas, his birthday is on the 22nd of December, and has fond memories of celebrating it before his powers developed. Being used by criminals for them after really killed any enjoyment of the holidays, but the gang kind of brings it back for him.

Jin's is Lunar New Year~ His dad is a big celebrity back home on the mainland, and so even if he can't make it home for Lunar New Year, him, Bunta and Diss always celebrate together, and have video calls with various family members if they can't make the flight home and are on standby.

Winston's ughhh Christmas I think, sorry I have been trying to finish this post for like 3 days but I have a concussion and it's just not happening ^^;

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THIS IS THE COOLEST AAAAH

They look so good!! I am honored you wanted to be apart of it ;__; your artstyle is so nice too! One of these days I will doodle them if its okay!!

This made my whole day and I also appreciate you putting up with me and my brats for so long ;__; thankyou!

I was bored so I doodled Masato in @nijicx 's oc superhero universe

because I have been a fan of it for years!!

It's so cool seeing her art grow,and the story develop .. anyhow byeeee

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Since Deon and Iori were originally Shiketsu students, will they be in bright star now or a entirely different school?

I had considered it initially, but I was thinking of making them perhaps from another satellite city that also has a fledgling program for art users. I still would like to keep them separate from the main cast as they are pretty balanced in terms of personality, but Deon and Iori's stories do intersect with the main plot that my kids are on, so I've always had them be late-game entrances. Right now though I've yet to find the peeeerfect spot to fit in. But I have a vague idea of where they need to go and when, i really need some kind of app that will allow me to put all of the events on like, a timeline so I can move nodes around and plan it out visually. 😅

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Will we ever get to see what Mobia originally looked like before they started stealing people's bodies? Is that something you ever thought of drawing before?

I actually don't think so! I gave Risa art of her real body, but because she still inhabits it, it made sense for her to have a design of what she looks like beneath her projection.

But part of Mobia's story is that she can't even really remember what she looks like any more, and she looses more and more of the memories of her own body the more she jumps into others~

So I felt like it would be more impactful if the viewer never got to see what she originally looked like either, but we do get to see all the bodies she's inhabited, same with Garrote, especially since he often has nightmares or intrusive muscle memories from the body parts he's taken. Part of their story is remembering them, but Mobia's isn't.

I hope that made sense 😫

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Also a little villain Izumi because I've never really drawn a villain suit for him. Poor little bean.

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Working on updating all of their character sheets, but it will be a slooow process...tweaking a lot of things, especially about the hero suits, rip my free time from now until I'm 80

Finally added Winston's undersuit to his ref, there are metal conductors as well as pinchers that can send a current through his mucles and body to trigger his art, as well as two injection sites where he can flood his body with painkillers and temporarily halt his ART so he doesn't accidentally hurl a paramedic working on him into deep space lol

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So uh, Miss Diss since your legacy hails from Korea, what are your thoughts on K-pop, and have you ever thought of becoming one.

"Even if I did, do you really think I'm passing the headshot submission with this face?"

Diss also doesn't like listening to management about anything she writes, which is why she's always been a soloist. She doesn't take direction...well. That goes for all things, including her A.R.T. management. For that reason she doesn't have the best opinions about the hyper controlling industry, but doesn't really have all that much to say about the music.

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thankyou to everyone who has left me little welcome back messages in tags and in comments 👉👈🥺

I'm happy to be back!! Hearing people remember me made me even more motivated!

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I'm a sucker for villain arc Shimi, what can I say? Also I forgot to draw Shimi's 'Hanagasumi', a move he creates by mixing his poison in a canister with thin pieces of paper, which get released like a grenade and creates what looks like a storm of cherry blossoms, but when the little thin tissue-paper petals land on you, it eats through any natural fibers and burns clear through skin.

I was thinking of making it something that his body can just produce, but decided to keep the canister method. Cankerblossom has always loved cherry blossoms, so the idea of him putting the cannisters together in that way is kinda cuter than having it just be something his body can make.

I also decided to keep it manufactured because after his late-stage art mutation, the toxin thats normally only dangerous if you come into contact with his bodily fluids, (tears, spit, sweat ect) is transferrable through his skin. Meaning when Winston punches him, like he has here, his skin just begins to peel off.

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Since Shimi produces toxins from glands in his mouth, could someone synthesis a cure to his poison?

You COULD, but the thing about ARTS is, they aren't always the exact same forever. As the person changes, their powers can adapt, since all of them are technically mutations, it doesn't mean that it will always be the exact same.

Shimi has a late-game art mutation that makes it so that more of the toxin that's only supposed to be in his bodily fluids/ the glands in his mouth, are transferrable through his skin. Making any physical contact with him cause peoples skin to peel and burn.

So it's very possible to make antidote, or a blocker for him, but not many labs are going to pour all of that effort/research in for one single man. The cost would be astronomical, it would be potentially easier to find someone who has a mutation that is naturally resistant to it, and create something that will mitigate the effects, rather than neutralizing it entirely.

Ryoka has dna from several species of lizards and she is naturally resistant to most venoms/poisons, including Shimi's, so the best thing to do would be to get a sample from Ryoka, and backwards engineer something from there~

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I read the Miss Diss and Diesel Damsel episode plot summary, but do you have any other mock stories to share with your loyal servants?

BOY DO I

We have the internship arcs where both Izumi AND Eite both have secret villains as teachers. Adohira is working with Hebio and Garrote in order to basically get rid of all the heroes with combative abilities to fit with his 'no violence' approach to keeping order.

Eite almost getting his body stolen by his teacher Mobia in order for her to get into the school and have access to some of the most destructive arts on the planet. Then the resulting arc where he feels like an idiot for never knowing what was going on at all.

There's Arturo's little break with reality after his fight with Scab. He has a personality that cannot accept nuance, and cannot understand Scab at all, and he's never encountered someone he didn't at least marginally understand. He lets his anger boil over and attacks Scab, even though Scab isn't willing to fight anymore. Arturo has to more or less re-asses his understanding of everything he's done until this point and isolates from the rest of the group, resulting in Izumi moving into his spot on Winston's little cell instead of it being Winston, Monomiya and him.

THEN we have a fun arc where the kids find themselves in one of the satellite towns where those with arts gather that have been chased out of their own territories and end up living in ramshackle floating or submerged towns underwater in order to live peacefully and away from restrictions of mutants/art havers. The kids quickly find out that their presence is NOT appreciated like it is back home. The towns own protectors make that VERY clear to them. (Winston and the others are basically seen as dogs of the government, and the other art users are surprised they willingly allowed a governing body tell them what they can and can't do with their powers/bodies.) The kids quickly realize that the mission they were sent there to do was basically to be a show of force and pivot to helping the satellite town defend themselves.

Then we have the whole arc where Risa is tasked with turning into Nana to get close to Shimi which I did a little animatic for (but watch it at like +1.35 speed or something because my pacing is SO SLOW, it makes it so painful to watch lol

Then the arc where the kids learn that VIT has been allowing some of their past captures to help them on top secret missions and they all blow a fuse. Especially when they encounter Scab and Hangnail just out and about one night, and they demand Lin and the other VIT agents to explain. To which they more or less reply with "Did you really think it was only Izumi we were letting out on little field trips? Tell me you kids aren't still this self-absorbed?"

Then we have the arc where Winston is undergoing training to control his adrenalin response, since it sometimes overcomes his ability to feel pain, which means that his powers will sometimes fade if his fear becomes too great, it nearly caused him to get his chest caved in by Garrote during their first fight, and has to learn to try and keep himself from being too off guard. Garrote traumatizing the lot of them meaning that he feels fear the moment he feels pain, since he knows he'll have to fight again, and working through that with Miho and with Izumi, who's power is to induce fear.

I still got 3000 more, but ill shut up for now

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Sorry I was going through looking for something and came across this and forgot I did it, and so I need to share. I love how their relationship is like that of a dad and his rotten daughter, meanwhile they are the same age.

Arturo has had enough.

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This wasn't one of the prompts from today, but I just felt like drawing Garrote with his hair out of the metal casing it's in and out of it's braid~

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