#Spookami

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Spookami 27 - Crossover! I've been wanting to do something like this for AGES, and here it is, my entry for day 27 of @genderenvyforwaka's 2023 Spookami- Crossover! And of course it had to be Trigun ;)

Not sure if this is TECHNICALLY a crossover, and I did have something more elaborate planned for today but I didn't get to finish it, so here's my other thing; Trigun but Okami style!

[okikurumi]

Spookami Day 4 & 5: Demonic & Stars

A quick two for one prompt!

[bamboorocket]

Spookami 2023 [Prompt 14 - Eyes]

I'm not gonna be the one to say it out loud, but... there's something... off about the captain in Sei-An, right?

Drifting a little bit into headcanon territory here, but you're really gonna tell me you had a whole race of folks living on the moon and expect me not to think they'd have some uncanny shit going on? Clearly you don't know me very well.

(Shading with night-time lighting is turning out to be a lot of fun y'all)

[daily-okami]

Quick message regarding Spookami

Sup guys. This is Mod Loup(aka @genderenvyforwaka) here to say that I'll definitely be reblogging Spookami art on here. Anyways have fun and happy October!

-Mod Loup

[beyond-skies]

Spookami Day 8 (give or take a few weeks whoops): Past

Shunned by the people of the village, do you think it ever got lonely?

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I am absolutely teeming with ideas for Spookami Day 27

I'm sure nobody would mind if I started working on it a bit early....

[saruofthemarsh]

I pulled some old art to make spooky Okami icons or something. Free to use and edit.

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Spookami 22 - Spider(s)

So I saw the prompt on @genderenvyforwaka's prompt list and my immediate thought was the Spider Queen, so here she is! Okay, so I borrowed the idea from @bamboorocket to get this baby done a few days in advance because 1) this was a heccin nightmare to both draw and colour, and 2) I'm a chronic procrastinator 😂

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Spookami 18 - Curse

Bam! Another entry for @genderenvyforwaka's Spookami! So the prompt for this one was 'Curse' and I kinda had the idea to recreate a panel from my Okami manga but as a fake anime screenshot, which was really fun!

[okikurumi]

Spookami Day 2: Ghost

In which Kutone never shines.

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Spookami 14 - Eyes Shoutout to fellow 'moon people are shiny' truther @bamboorocket for this one because we both have the same headcanon that Waka has reflective eyes (tapetum lucidum), and so of freakin' course I had to make that the basis for today's prompt, which was Eyes! Shiny!

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Spookami 12 - Fear

I know I’m late to the party (again), but here’s my entry for day 12 of @genderenvyforwaka’s 2023 Spookami! The prompt was Fear, and of course my first thought was Waka’s own fear of Mei dying or being killed because of him, and so I raise you some weapons-grade Angst™️

I almost cried drawing this btw

Tagging - @genderenvyforwaka again for good measure, also my fellow angst enjoyer @bamboorocket

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Spookami 31 - A Light In The Darkness

Okay it's a tad late, but my final entry for @genderenvyforwaka's 2023 Spookami! I had such fun this year, and I am so thankful to have been a part of it! Big thank you to Loup for the prompts and the inspo!

Like, light vanquishing darkness is one of my favourite motifs ever, and Ammy returning to her full power after receiving the prayers of the people of Nippon is one of the best scenes ever so this prompt was MADE FOR ME, like WOW

Like one of my other things, I made a fake anime screenshot because WE NEED AN OKAMI ANIME OKAY I WANT AN OKAMI ANIME SO BAD

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Nightmare

Okami - Waka/Mei

Angst...just...angst; may or may not be a companion piece to my 'Fear' piece from this year's Spookami (ya know, this thing)

Also shoutout to my partner-in-cringe and fellow angst enjoyer @bamboorocket because we do be enjoying that angst

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Straight through her... The unclean claws of those foul, wretched beasts...they just...tore straight through her...

How could he have let this happen...how could he have stood by, anchored to where he stood as if with chains, chains weighted with his sins...how could he have just...watched...watched as Mei was slashed to pieces by those twisted creatures, her fragile body left eviscerated, blood pouring from the horrific gashes carved across her delicate flesh...she was so delicate...so helpless...she didn't even stand a chance against those beasts...and he couldn't, no, didn't even come to her aid... Waka's heart came to a standstill as his innards wrenched with the horror of the sight, only freed from his paralysis as he dashed forward to catch her as her bleeding, broken body slowly collapsed to the ground, the air and time itself around him thickening to a murky viscosity as this very nightmare played out in slow, hazy motion. He fell to his knees, distraught as she fell limply into his hands... Blood...there was...so much...blood...it was everywhere, pouring from every open inch of her body...flesh ripped open, the taint of decay left from their unclean talons already eating into her wounds...

"Wa...ka...I'm...I'm sor-..." Mei weakly whispered as she raised a bloodied hand to Waka's cheek, sounding almost as if she were attempting to apologise...apologise for what? For his sins? For the blood on his hands? For dying at the hands of one of the very demons that he had allowed into this world? For being doomed by the lingering aftershock of his own doings?

"No...no, Mei...ma cherie...this was..." Waka tried to remain strong for his love, tried to comfort her as he cradled her tenderly as she lay dying in his arms, holding the tiny hand that weakly graced his cheek, feeling as the life, the spirit, slowly, achingly, slipped from her body...

Her chest fell as a single final breath escaped her lungs, the arm that had held the last of her strength went lifeless, the light disappeared from her eyes like the dying flame of a burnt out candle...she was...

"Mei...ma...cherie? Non...non non non non non...no...Mei...no..." Waka loosened his hand as Mei's bloodied arm fell limply to the ground, her dead, lifeless body resting in his arms as his heart begun to crack, shattering into a million pieces as the cruel reality was laid before him, hitting him like a brutal sledgehammer.

Mei...she was dead...she really was dead...and yet... "No...no, Mei...stay with me...Mei...no...s'il-te-plait reste avec moi..." his voice begun to wobble as his heart broke in his chest, the sheer agony that permeated every fibre of his being reverting him to his mother tongue in his devastation. "S'il-te-plait reste avec moi..." he whispered with vain, futile desperation as the heartbreak that rose from his core collected in his eyes as tears begun to streak down his face, mixing with the blood, Mei's blood, that had been smeared on his cheek. Waka shuddered with horror as he looked down...he saw Mei's blood smeared all over him, spread across his kimono, across his sleeves...on his hands...her blood, her innocent blood, was on his hands. Now...now he couldn't even speak...all he could do was kneel in heartbroken horror as his love lay dead in his arms, her blood shed by reason of his own foolishness...

"Mei...ma cherie...de-...desole..." he tearfully whispered as he lowered his face to hers, the tears dripping from his eyes and onto her bloodied face as he wept, cupping her cheek in his hand while her residual warmth still lingered in her now lifeless flesh.

As he wept and mourned, he could only reel as the phantoms that swam in his mind crawled from their hiding places in the depths of his soul to remind him of the reason as Mei joined the ranks of the many, many souls doomed to their cold, stony graves by his hand, the blood that stained his footsteps wherever he dared to tread...

His mother, his people...

The Celestials, Amaterasu, Himiko...

All of them...dead...all of their blood staining his hands...and now Mei had joined them.

He swore he would protect her, even if he had to give his life, and yet she still paid the price that should have been his to pay…maybe…this was inevitable. He was a prophet, his eyes could see through the very veil of time and glimpse events yet to come, maybe he had foreseen it and denied his vision for fear of losing the girl he so dearly loved.

Maybe…maybe he really did carry a curse upon his shoulders, that everyone and everything he loved was destined to die…

As he raised his eyes to the heavens in his anguish, the voices of those same phantoms whispered darkness to his soul, moaning and crying to him... "It wasn't the demons...you brought them here...you brought them to her. It was you, Waka...YOU KILLED HER." "YOU...KILLED...HER..."

"Waka...Waka...Waka..." an ethereal voice called out amidst the swirling torment of his nightmare, like a sword of light slicing through winding tendrils of dark, and as his eyes shot open, as if like a flash of lightning burning away the storm clouds swirling in the skies of his consciousness, the hellscape of his nightmare had all but disappeared; he was back in their bedroom, and there she was.

"Waka...you were having a nightmare again, weren't you...?"

There she was...sweet, beautiful, darling Mei...her perfect skin free from any sort of mutilation, her eyes, those beautifully dark eyes, as dark as wells of ink yet bright with life and the light of the lamp by the futon, open and earnest...there were few times he was so happy to see her beautiful face than after such horrific nightmares.

His gaze softened, melting like frost with the warm touch of spring, upon seeing her face, his eyes relaxing as his ragged breaths steadied with her touch as she brushed her delicate fingers over his cheek, right where her hand had been in the nightmare he had just awoken from. That dainty hand, free from blood or cuts or any sort of demonic taint…the relief he felt cast a haze of warmth over the dimly lit room as he tenderly turned to her, gently resting a hand to her own cheek in a bittersweet, perhaps superficial reassurance.

"Oh..." Waka replied with an outwardly pleasant sigh of utter relief as he formed a smile on his face, leaning in to plant a kiss on her cheek, as per the norm, "you shouldn't worry yourself, ma cherie...just lay yourself back down, get some more sleep…” Phantom fingers hooked their way around his heartstrings upon seeing the worried look in her eyes as they lay back down, the poignant melody played ringing through his head as she curled herself up on his chest...

He looked to her, so...so small and...fragile in his scarred arms as he held her… He looked to the ceiling, and asked himself...how? How would he tell her? Would he even tell her? The girl who took the weeping cracks in his broken heart and sealed them with gold, the girl who finally silenced the tormented screams of a thousand doomed souls wailing and weeping in his head... How would he tell her that the nightmares she helped soothe were macabre portraits painted by the bloodied brush of his sins, the guilt that had left poisoned hooks in his soul for over two centuries...the horrifying portraits of her bloody demise?

[okikurumi]

Spookami Day 12: Fear

Okay arguably this would fit better for Crossover day, but I have something else planned for that if I have time!

[bamboorocket]

So uh... remember that Lancer crossover I was working on for Spookami? And how I put this tag on the original post?

Well that's actually happening for real now, because our GM is not only running a oneshot separate from our main campaign this weekend, but also very encouraging of letting us pull expy nonsense. Joke's on him if he think I'm not committing to the bit, though, so have the portrait I drew for the "Pilot" section of my character sheet.

Most refer to Waka in this AU by his callsign "Onmyōji". Those that don't usually just call him a pain in the ass.