#&&. OOC. ( A mun who isn't as graceful as her muse )

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Hmmm. I don't know what to think. Finished season 2 and feel... hmm. No words I can formulate at the moment. All I can really say is that...only having two seasons was a bad call. Especially wrapping up literally everything up in the second season with only **looks at smudged writing on my hand** 9 episodes.

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25 and 26!

Ask the mun!

25. Your character

(ooc: Which one? Okay, but no, not snarky answer time.

All of my muses are favorites of mine in the series for various reasons. So forgive me for the long ramble.

Chloe and Jay were natural choices because they're my favorites to play as in Legendia and just my favorite characters of their party in general. Jay especially grew on me even more than he already had in past playthroughs when I did my most recent run.

While Jade is actually my favorite character in Abyss, I have a lot of love for just about every character in the cast regardless of protag or antag status. Except Mohs. He's like the one exception. So it's natural I gravitate toward that game in particular. To go into depth about every single one of them would take all day. Ion and Mieu are both adorable and the latter needs all the hugs. Tear is so strong of heart and, fun fact, the inspiration for how I do a part of my hairstyle. Asch deserves the world, and Sync... garbage child. I grew very attached to him when I first played the game in high school and never looked back.

Repede and Rita are two of my favorites to play as in Vesperia, and I just love Rita as a character in general. Repede's just cool because how often do you see an animal being playable in a Tales game? Maybe someday I'll bring Flynn onto the blog but today is not the day.

Hubert's my favorite to play as and favorite in general in Graces. And honestly... I relate to him a lot in some ways. Baby boy deserves the world.

Jude is also easily my favorite to play as and favorite character in general in Xillia. I just love the growth he goes through! And even though Ludger isn't my go to playable character in Xillia 2, I love him a lot as a character. I went in to Xillia 2 kind of thinking it would be a similar situation to DotNW where I did not like the new characters apart from Tenebrae and Richter. But Ludger and Elle very quickly won me over. So I gotta give the boyo some love too.

Edna and Eizen pretty much are a package deal even if the games say otherwise. They're both my favorites from Zestiria and Berseria, but Alisha grew on me a lot when I replayed Zestiria recently. She deserves the world, and therefore I shall give it to her. Magilou I didn't originally plan on writing, but after I did a test post as her I just was like 'Okay, yeah, I have to keep writing her.' So I did.

And Aegis is my favorite by default of Crestoria because honestly, he's probably one of the most interesting to me of the Sin Squad with Orwin and Vicious right behind him. So even though he doesn't get a ton of interaction on this blog, I still love him.

And Rinwell and Kisara not only are both from the newest mainline game, but you know. Both favorites of mine from their respective game. Rinwell is my main, and I basically knew from the word go in the demo that she'd be my favorite of the playable cast. Kisara I honestly grew to love more as I wrote some Arise fanfics, and so it just felt natural to eventually add her too.

Then there's the oddballs in Walter and Ivar. NPCs who both deserve the world. I know a lot of people don't like Ivar, but I think he's really interesting and he does go through a bit of growth between Xillia and Xillia 2. And Walter is just fascinating to me. I wish there was more of him in Legendia than what we get, and it crushes my soul to know that he could have been playable but then just... wasn't due to 'complications in implementing it.' So I just give him and Ivar all the love here on this blog that I can.)

26. Another active muse

(ooc: Okay, so I wouldn't say he's active since he's on my lowest priority blog, but I do write Shadow from the Sonic series. And I love him to death. Maybe not the character he's turned into due to the way the games have been writing him in recent years, but early 2000s Shadow is fantastic as a character. I'll spare the long ramble I could go on here but I especially love how he is in SA2. He's best boy.)

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 I may...move Rakan back to my multi??? I’ve...honestly felt like he would flourish more there ( and I know I have some people in other fandoms that is still interested in interacting in the birb man!! ). Would ya’ll still be interested in that? I have honestly.... been thinking about this for a while now since he had become much tamer, activity wise, in my head.

Also being on this dash makes me sad, I miss the people that left or aren’t active anymore. Which is TOTALLY okay if they aren’t here anymore, I know the league RPC went through a lot within the last year!! and I think that too impacted my energy to write in this fandom specifically too. I just never admitted it to myself until now.

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Who is she...she has to be a vastaya...I hope we see her again... spoilers from arcane under the cut.

She has such similar traits to our beloved birbs, though she definitely seems more cat-like. But the e a r s. The digitgrade legs...

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This is totally a late night posting, but muah muah, have a apology drawing for being near-absent here 👉👈

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so @rebelquilled is having a fabulous times with the sims birb mod

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Appears out of the blue and taps Mic

Rakan deserves a verse in the KDA world and I'll never be over the fact that they haven't bestowed such a high honor for him yet. Come on rITO A SINGING AND BATTLE DANCING BIRB IS RIGHT THERE

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Me writing the brief history of Ionia on Rakan's new page be like 'Long ago, I.onia lived together in peace and harmony. Then EVERYTHING CHANGED WHEN N.OXUS ATTACKED."

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In this house, we respect giant blue bangs that have their own gravity.

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Some of the things that stood out the most. Under a read-more due to spoilers.

Loved the Ekko and Powder AU arc. It was nice to see a Zaun where everything looked so clean and happy. The parallel's of Vi's and Powder's mother in Powder herself was so fun to watch, and to see Ekko finally experience what he wanted all along?? Him having to leave that time was crushing, but it had to be done. Also Milo and Claggor alive!! Mylo and Powder having a decent siblingship now??? Also the pink streak to honor VI was very sweet.

I'm glad we got to see what happened to Jayce and figure out what the hell happened to him. Dude saw the end of the world and had to survive off it for a time, no wonder he was in bad shape. It was cool to see the pattern almost complete, until Jayce was able to stop it alongside Viktor. Very nice callback to the whole 'message within the pattern'. they finally broke it.

Orianna!! ORIANNA !!

Finally figuring out what's going on with Mel too. She looks gorgeous with her new abilities and details.

Jinx's entrance when she and the firelights came to help. She always makes a spectacle, that's for sure. Loved her shark-esque hood and the purple streaks.

I think my biggest problem is that... and it's more of a taste thing I guess. I don't love time travel plots at all. It was fun to see the AU's of what might be. I LOVE au's.

Ekko's powers are SO cool too, and I knew something was going to go down with time due to him. So I was expecting it. How he uses it is honestly really cool. Loved watching him learn from his first mistake and then going back at it again like a 3-4 second save point.

But going back in time over and over and over like Viktor was doing. I just. Don't vibe with that stuff and that's okay. It gets too complicated. I hate it in my other favorite shows, and Arcane is no different.

I still do think the writing is rushed too. It needed more time to develop on topics to make them hit in a more satisfying way later down the line.

Arcane was still good. I still enjoyed it a lot. But I was also left dissatisfied with how it wrapped up and that's okay. Nothing is perfect. I just wished it had more time to simmer on things.

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Me: I don't really like going into something new with lots of lore that had been around for years, I usually can't keep track and get overwhelmed.

Rakan throwing my ass into the lore:

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Got some shiny, new icons for the boi 💛

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Not me wanting to quietly reboot this blog on another blog, but me quietly reminding myself that there is no reason to do that since I already did a soft re-boot on this blog earlier this year. I think the most drastic change , whenever I get around to it, will be moving all of Rakan’s info off carrd and onto gsites or something. Because I let my year sub on carrd run out since I don’t want to use that website anymore. So things might be noticeably broken on it, I think.

Mainly, I’m making this post to let you know my brain is trying to be sneaky but I am calling it out so it can’t be sneaky anymore LMAO. I also don’t want to go through the process of making a new blog, that’s already a pain in the ass to do now. But star guardian Rakan has been awake after finishing up a show’s season finale yesterday, so I take that as a good sign haha.

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**rises from the grave 🪦* Ah yes. Love getting feels for my corrupted birb boy after catching up on the finale of a completely different and unrelated show.

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.....You don't want to know, and those are all group folders with more layers hidden underneath 😂

But no, I kid. With my method, I work in sections because it's easier for me. So Like. The body itself, the pants, the tail, the wing cape, the hair, the feathery shoulder things, the gloves, and the gem?? I drew them all in separate line-art layers. I usually TRY to merge a few into one when I am done, but I admit, there are some I keep unattached for easier editing. But It stresses me out to do one single line-art layer, and my perfectionist butt will go back and edit things as I go, thus I found this is easier for my flow. It keeps my frustration levels down when I can easily erase something and it won't take away from what I'm already happy with.

And then with colors, each gets their own layer ( and I found that I like to color in grayscale after I line-art because it helps me see things better when I draw the next line-art section on top of it. I lower the opacity ofc.) Again. Easier editing when I start to add in the actual colors. They'll all probably be merged into one when I begin to shade though.

It'll all be cleaned up by the end, I promise LMAO.

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Bursts out of the grave

I can’t believe G.ragas got a K.DA skin before R.akan I JUST