#( AAAANYWAYS. hope y'all are doing better. )

[mielmoto]

happy new year! I fell off a ladder 🤡

[colorfuldreamsmkg]

Do You Still Remember the Price of the Banana? | Inazuma | Trial 1.1 | RE: Ozzy, Crimson, Erika

Inazuma has been thoroughly tuned out. She isn’t privy to long-winded reasoning, or at least not so much of it so quickly. She’d rather have taken some time to figure out what she knew and what it might imply about her fellow captives, but alas, the shortage of time seems to be inescapable. It’s always escaping her, an immutable clock that whispers her name…

“So! That leaves us with Hitome, Sonny, Inazuma, and Erika,” from one friend…

“The rest of you in my little list—Inazuma, Hitome, Suzie,” from another,

“Suzie, Sonny, Inazuma, and Erika also don’t have credible alibis,” from yet another.

Wait, what? Hang on. Inazuma straightens her posture and snaps back into reality. She twiddles her fingers at Swan’s comment. It’s not like she’s even talked or given an alibi… how do you discredit her already? Shoot. She’s really behind. She has to say something! But she feels stuck, and people are saying things about her, like…

How brave she is? Pelly? Well… that helps to hear, but more importantly, if Pelly wants it, then Inazuma will fight back however she can! She hears Crimson say her name one more time, and decides now is the moment she’ll cut in.

“Sorry, sorry! I’ve kinda been quiet, I’m not that used to being put in situations like this, after all! Erika, Swan, Ozzy, you’re right, I should proooobably state my alibi, yeah? Better late than never… so, if y'all wanna follow along, here’s a super detailed alibi, to make up for my super undetailed silence!”

She clears her throat.

“Numero uno! I was in the kitchen at seven, making myself a sandwich! Those things are pretty easy to make, so I left pretty quickly after that, when I saw Hitome coming back in! Dunno what she was up to, but I’m sure she’s got an explanation!”

At least, she hopes so. That spotlight sure seems bright and scary.

“Anyway, I went to the Stomp a Storm!! cabinet and chowed down on my sandwich by its side! I saw… let’s see… Cecilie vibing, Sonny doing some sudoku, and Erika doing an inventory check on the lockers! I guess she was checking for matches, ‘cause she left with some to go cook in the kitchen!”

Inazuma can only imagine what amazing things Erika cooked up! Oh, wait. Oh… right. Anyway!

“After that, Takuma spawned in like a protagonist, and Cecilie beelined towards him like those two were teammates in an RPG! They were in the mood for cookies, probably, and left to go get some! That left me with Sonny, and we had a banger conversation ‘till she had to hop into SEKAI.”

“Then I played Stomp a Storm!! for like, an hour. Crimmy came in during a full combo, I said hi, he said something that I think was pretty status quo for the vibe he likes giving off. Now, I’m not gonna say that what happened next had anything to do with Crimmy… but after he came in… the Spooky Moment started.”

“The song I was playing was one I’ve tested enough to know the whole thing, and I’m preeeetty sure it doesn’t include a locker opening and closing sound effect. I saw Crimmy leave from the corner of my eye before I finished my set, and then someone else entered, and whoever it was didn’t say ‘hi’ back to me! I hopped off to check who it was as soon as I wrapped up my session… but whoever it was, they were gone! I didn’t even hear the door open, so I’m gonna guess at 8:12 PM— the time this all happened— someone hopped into SEKAI in the bunker.”

“I played some more Stomp a Storm!! ‘till it was nine, then I went to bed in my SEKAI’s communal bedroom. Didn’t see anyone there! Guess I was just super duper early. No one was there when the announcement played, either.”

Inazuma plants both hands on the corners of her podium. If she was someone else, she’d say, ‘How’s THAT for an alibi?’ But she’s not that kind of person, so she fills it with a weird prolonged silence instead.

“Aaaanyway, before I hand the floor over to y’all, I’ve got some QnA to breeze through! One, I’m more of a small clothes than a medium clothes gal. And two…”

The mascot raises her arms, letting her sleeves fall slack. Her arms look spotless.

“And three, I’m with Pelly! I don’t think Hitome’s the kinda gal who would do stuff like this, so whenever you’re ready to talk, let’s hear you out and get that spotlight off ya! I know you can do it!”

She leans away from her podium, back to her idle, smiling self. She may not be the best detective, but she’s always been a good assistant. She just hopes she’s been good enough this time.

[lonelyshinebackup]

Apprentice Adrian (gift)

As promised, here's a gift for _pinecone.doodles for participating on my 100 followers on Insta contest. Better late than never xD

This is their apprentice for the Arcana, Adrian. This was supposed to be a doodle initially, buuut I decided to do a chest-up sketch instead... and colour it digitally... and add one of the Arcana backgrounds so it looks more intersting... you know, just trying to make up for the wait (like it's been, what? Two months? Gosh I'm so sorry, but you know, health getting in the way and whatnot, I sadly don't control that).

Aaaanyway! This is the last piece for the contest I had left to do, so that means I will now go back to my own apprentices for a while xD My posting frequency will be very much a surprise, since how I feel greatly varies from one day to another (please let me have a diagnosis and guidelines on how to manage the condition soon), and I feel like not only my joints are fucked u but also my ability to focus (... even more than the usual, I mean, which was hard to achieve on the first place, lol), so yeah. Just please be patient with me while I figure stuff out.

Hope to see y'all around 💕