#Sholar AU Asks

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Ask the Sholar System and AoN cast!

[Temporarily closed while I’m doing some lore and story reworking. Will reopen once I have something coherent to respond to asks with.]

Yep! It's basically as it sounds. You can ask the characters directly themselves or ask me about various AoN related things! Though there's not a lot to work off of for now, I'll be keeping this open as the story progresses, so people can send in asks at any point.

I'll be opening my blog's ask box exclusively for this purpose, so if I get any unrelated asks, I'll be ignoring them. Aside from that, if anyone is reading this and doesn't have or want to make a Tumblr account but is curious about something, you can ask it in AoN's comments section directly, and I'll post the answer up here! (Just keep in mind that I'll likely screenshot it to include with the post for context. Also, some sort of indicator that you intend to mean your comment or segment of a comment for this would be appreciated! I may not realize that you wish for it to be answered in this fashion otherwise... ^^;)

I suppose you could leave a comment on this post as well to the same ends as using the ask feature? I'm not sure which feature is easier to keep track of on Tumblr though, as I haven't really used either before now. ^^;

As for how answers will work; if you're asking in-character, I'll likely write or draw an in-character response, though on occasion I may have to answer it out of character. If you ask OOC, then I'll probably answer OOC, but if I get an idea for how to have a character respond to it, then I might include such a thing as well. Any responses given will also include content up to the latest point in currently posted timeline unless otherwise specified by the ask, so for characters that means that'll be the extent of their knowledge and experiences to draw upon, and for me that means I'll only talk about stuff relevant to anything that's happened up until that point.

Beyond that, there are a few things to keep in mind about this!

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Like AoN itself, I'll be doing it for as long as I have inspiration and answers for it, and the timing might be fast or slow depending on what I'm currently doing, what parts of my brain are currently accessible, etc. If I ever see that I'm not going to be getting back to AoN/Sholar things for a while, I'll do my best to make a note about it so people know.

Please keep in mind that these are not drawing requests! If I happen to draw a response for one I will, but it will be of my own volition if I do. ^^;

You're free to ask to or about basically anyone you see show up in the fic. :3 (Using a character's traits instead of name as an address for, or target in, your query is viable too!)

As well, if you want to try your hand at impersonating characters from the story itself to ask other characters (or me I guess) things, then by all means.

Queries about technical things, like general AU lore or even technical writing choices, I’m 100% down for answering. Though I’ll answer that kind of stuff in comments too; this format is mostly just if I need additional medias or space to explain something. <_<;

No sexual content please! I don't intend to cover such subjects in this story, therefore I have no such answers to give in regards to its characters. Gorier stuff (like mentions of physical injury related to the story) and heavy psychological topics, on the other hand? Keep it respectful and you can totally send it.

For the sake of actually being able to answer in-character questions, there's a certain degree of canon I'm going to be ignoring here. For example... Asking kid-Sholar things would classify as 'contact with a non-lab person' if I were to treat it purely as a canon-typical response, which would pretty much derail any queries with reactions to that fact. So stuff like that will be ignored in favor of giving an applicable response to the given query. Overall however, I'll try to limit that only to necessary interferences.

Regarding the relation of these to the AU’s continuity, I'm going to be considering anything I answer here as second-degree canon... I think was the term? Basically I mean that it’s possibly canon until the fic itself confirms or denies it, as I might tweak things for the fic after answering asks if I later realize that something else would make more sense, or else I outright state on the response that it's not a canon thing. Also that most of the responses might not actually happen in the canon timeline of events, but may reflect thoughts or feelings that the characters would canonically possess at the time of being asked about.

And that’s it! I’m not really expecting this to be a super-popular thing or anything, but it’s here if anyone wishes to use it. uvu

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Kagumi in Omashu

I... I started scribbling this during a DnD session when I needed a distraction from all of my friends dying. 

It is a scene from an AU of the AU where Izumi moves to Omashu in need of a change of scenery. There she runs into her former betrothed who she thought was dead for years. He senses she is troubled in more ways than one-- not just because she has seen him for the first time in so long.

He tells her, “Any proper man would tell you to return home to your husband and your children and stay where a lady should be, but you are not just a Lady. You are also a princess, a sholar, an inventor, and a warrior. You're a human being. And human beings are already so different from each other-- so why bother aspiring to conform to the illusion that is normalcy? Pursue that which you need-- and don't lie to yourself about what that means.” 

He breaks down her beliefs... asking questions that make her begin to reconsider everything... her purpose, her morals, her entire being... 

I know that people (and OCs, apparently) can change over time for the better (or worst), but that does not stop me from wanting to hate this OC! 

Anyways, Happy Monday! 

Kage Yamakatsu’s look is inspired by an older Lotor and a Zolf Kimblee from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. 

This was an experimental paint style using only black on various opacities. I guess it turned out to be a practice oof values(?) and shading (although I started shading without knowing where the light source was, haha).

It is also my first time trying to draw a kimono and a yukata. Hope you like it!