#ask me about my headcanons and details you may be curious from this fanart or any other... please <3 /nf

[frankensteinposm0]

“And I don’t want the world to see me, 'cause I don't think that they'd understand” ♡

17yo Style in my AU will always be something very important to me.

[worfs-glorious-hair]

The Masterpost™️

Greetings dear wanderer in the depths of the internet, I am glad that you are here! ❤️

I am N., 28 years old and use no pronouns, they/ theirs and occasionally she like the moon and (space) ships. Gender is a pressed coin from the museum shop with a dino on it for me.

I am writing fanfictions, I draw (digitally and traditionally) and I make memes and aesthetic posts like character + text posts/ poetry. I usually cross-post my fics to AO3 and my art to 🦋 blsky.

Fandom list I do things for is in alphabetical order under the cut. :) If you enjoy what I do you can request things, I would love to hear from you! <3

Personal posts are tagged with #worf-rambles and answered asks with #worf-asks.

Here are some emojis I use for classification/ warnings.

When I don’t add a warning it’s SFW/ Suitable for a General Audience!

📝 – Fanfiction (💭 Short Headcanons, Incorrect Quotes…)

🍋 – Contains Smut (RIP Lime/ Lemon)/ (Potentially) NSFW

⚠️🍋 – Straight up porn, nothing else to see here (PWP/ PWF…) NSFW

🥀 – Angst

🥀🪴 – Angst with a happy/ hopeful end

❤️‍🩹 – Hurt/Comfort

🎨 – Fanart

⚠️ – (Possibly) NSFW (Steamy, but no explicit porn, (partial) nudity is possible)

📸 – Screenshots (always SFW)

🖼️ – Memes (generally SFW in visuals, mentions of adult themes possible)

🌄 – Aesthetics, Character(s) + text posts… (generally SFW)

💾 – Gifs (always SFW)

Fandoms

🎮 Baldur‘s Gate 3 🏰

Some infos about my wizard kissing Tavs:

This Tav is actually called „Tav“ in game and I have three of them. They all share a face, voice and a hairstyle/ makeup (besides the name obviously). I count them with Roman numerals (in order of their creation) so please don’t be surprised if you see a tag like “Gale x Tav (i)” . You can find a detailed answered ask list about their journeys here, if you are curious :)

Tav (i) – Druid, Human, They/Them; got the sneaky!God and a broken heart :( lives in Reithwin with Halsin now :) I‘ll mark stories about or with the sneaky god!Gale with a 💔 Moodboard

Tav (ii) – Druid, Human, They/Them; living their best life in Waterdeep with their loving, devoted husband of a wizard :) Moodboard

Tav (iii) – Paladin (Oath of Devotion)/ Druid, Human, They/Them; still journeying with a worm in their brain and madly in love with the purple wizard they found in a stone :)

Gale

📝 🥀🪴💔 To change yesterday’s future (Gale x Tav; unnamed, they/them) OS finished

The ghost of Tav, desperate, broken hearted and alone, waiting forever by the docks, where Gale had left them behind to become a god, unable to move on, gets offered a chance to get him back in another life if they are willing to sacrifice everything they have this life

📝 Us against the world (Gale x Tav/ Reader, ft. Tav/ Reader & Shadowheart, Tav/Reader & Astarion; unnamed, First Person POV; teen up) AO3 here OS finished

What goes through Tav‘s mind as they stand at the shore of the morphic brine pool, facing what they fear the most – loosing those they love the most in this world. And they contemplate their shared love and journey that brought them to this point that could be the end of everything. Or their greatest victory. A character study of Selunite!Shadowheart, Spawn!Astarion and Romanced!Gale

📝 Astarion’s wedding speech (Gale x Druid!Tav; unnamed, no pronouns) OS finished

What Astarion had to say at Tav‘s and Gale‘s wedding… Or what he had seen on their journey when their wizard and their group‘s leader had fell in love, quite foolishly if he may add.

📝🥀💔 Druid!Tav and God!Gale post finale ft. Tav x Halsin – A detailed head canon collection Part 1/2 finished

A story of desperation, a pain that seems endless and of love, lost and found again. Stories of sacrifice and healing a broken heart

📝🥀💔❤️‍🩹 What if Tav met what was left of Gale in the god of ambition? (Druid!Tav and God!Gale post finale Part 2/2) finished

📝❤️‍🩹 Gale x Reader Blurbs (I wrote them before I played the game and they are not timeline compliant) SFW

📝❤️‍🩹 A kiss in the dark (Gale x Paladin!Tav/ Reader) OS finished

Some act 1 (post weave scene and orb confession) angst in the Underdark, mutual pining and a desperate forbidden kiss, some musings about life and death and Gale’s orb and love for Tav.

📝 The Earring (Gale x Reader, Second Person POV, no name, no pronouns) OS finished

We all want Mystra’s earring gone, don’t we? And we want Gale to see how loved he is. How much we adore and desire him… So what if we get him a new earring when we reach the city?

📝🥀🪴 Gale and the impossible choice (Gale x Reader/ Tav, Third Person (Gale) POV, they/them for Tav, no description in body or gender) OS finished

What goes through Gale‘s mind when the party gets closer and closer to the heart of the Absolute and he doesn’t want to use the orb but thinks that he has no other choice? (AKA the bomb score is down and Gale is angsty because he doesn’t know (yet) what we know :D)

📝 Gale x Druid!Tav Headcanon collection

My headcanons about Gale’s and Druid!Tav’s relationship and quirks throughout the game and then later during their shared life in Waterdeep.

🎨⚠️ To celebrate our victory the mortal way (Gale x Plus Size!Tav; pencil drawing; (partial) covered nudity)

🎨⚠️ Magic Touch or “Of course they couldn’t keep it at one kiss for New Year” (Gale x Plus Size!Tav; pencil drawing; (partial covered) nudity)

🖼️ Gale memes I made instead of sleeping

🖼️ Gale memes I made instead of working

🖼️ Even more Gale memes I made instead of working

🖼️ Divorcing the god of ambition meme set

🖼️ I hope it’s Gale (Christmas themed meme)

🖼️ Try not to talk about him challenge – level impossible

📸 The prettiest wizard in all of the realms being pretty (Some Screenshots from my games)

📸 Gale in pansexual light

📽️💔❤️‍🩹 Gale returns to Tav as a human, leaving the crown in the river after all – Cameo by Tim Downie that I got for myself after I got the sneaky!God ending to mend my broken heart

📽️ A recording of Gale looking straight at you/ the camera (fourth wall break in game! 😱)

💭 “I could quickly kiss Gale before we go :)” Some ‚incorrect‘ quotes or why it took my Tav and their party an eternity to even go to Ketheric :)

🌄 „I accept. I‘ll marry you, Gale Dekarios” Gale x Tav (ii) screencaps + poetry

🌄 Gale(mance) + text posts (Galemance themed memes)

🌄 🥀💔 The case of a sneaky god and a broken heart text posts + lyrics (Gale x Tav (i); ft. Tav x Halsin and Tav x Karlach)

🌄 “Teach me a kinder way to say my own name” Gale x Tav Gale screenshots + Poetry

🌅 “Tell me, do you believe in love on first sight?” Gale x Tav (ii) them in screenshots + text posts

💾 Kissing the wizard in front of the Annals of Karsus (and the statue of Mystra) to establish dominance Gale x Tav (ii) gif set

General BG3

🖼️ Some general BG3 memes

🌄 Tav (i) and (ii) moodboards

🎮 Detroit: Become Human ⭕️

Connor

📝 Puzzle Pieces (Connor x Reader) [Soulmate AU] 5/7 chapters online seems abandoned but I still want to finish it someday so God will

📺 Doctor Who/ Torchwood 🌠

Thirteenth Doctor

📝 ⚠️🍋 Bouquet (Thirteen x AFAB!Reader) [✨Sex Spores✨] OS finished

General Doctor Who

💾 Home – The long way around Parallels between The Day of the Doctor and The Giggle

💾 Ninejack walked so Timerogue could run

📚 Middleearth (🏔️ Hobbit, 🌋 LOTR, 🌌 Silmarillion) 🧙🏻‍♂️

🏔️ Kíli

📝(🍋 in future chapters) Children of the kindly west — A tale of two dwarven hearts (Kíli x Fem, Implied Plus Size!Reader) work in progress

It’s a love story until it becomes a tragedy. Is set before the events of the book movies in the blue mountains and follows what happens to Kíli and his love he never thought he would find and who he has to leave behind when it is time to reclaim their lost home in the lonely mountain. Reader is also a dwarf and lives in the blue mountains.

📺 Star Trek 🪐

(Characters I am currently working on include: Captain Kirk, Spock, The Lower Decks crew (Boimler), Data (!!!!))

~TBA

🎞️ Star Wars 💥

Rexsoka (Captain Rex x Ahsoka Tano)

📝 The red string of fate [Soulmate AU; kinda] Part 1/? looks abandoned but I will get to it eventually

Rex and Ahsoka are connected by fate, by force herself and were always destined to meet. But it takes a galaxy that starts to unravel by the seams for them to finally find the thread that keeps them together

🎨 The Red String Of Fate digital re-draw/ re-vamp of an older piece

🎨⚠️ Sugar and Spicy (2024’s Valentine’s Special for @rexsoka-monthly ; pencil drawing + digital drawing; covered nudity)

🎮📺 The Witcher (Netflix/ Witcher 3) 🐺

(Focus on x (Plus Size!)Reader stories with Geralt 😌)

~TBA

Last update: February 15th 2025

[lonertale]

Lonertale FAQ

In Lonertale, a lot of things are fairly different from Undertale canon. This post is to fulfill your curious minds that may litter your head with question about some of the biggest lore points or other things.

LORE

Monster Soul Biology Pt. 1 (Age & Gender)

Monster Soul Biology Pt. 2 (Traits & Buffs)

Dusting Process & Amalgamations

World Maps

Castle Map

CONTENT QNA

Q: "Am I allowed to draw your characters?" A: Of course! I'm more than honored to see what your creativity has to offer. I'd prefer you @ me- or use relevant tags- so I can see your lovely arts, ideas, and headcanons!

Q: "Can I have my characters interact with your characters?" A: I don't see a problem with that. However, I will clarify that any association between my characters and characters outside of Lonertale will be deemed NON-CANON to Lonertale's story. Rather, they are made just for pure fun!

Q: "May I use your characters in my story?" A: If this story remains on a multiversal level (ex. Underverse, Sagaverse, etc.), sure. As long as my characters maintain Lonertale-canon behavior to a degree, things should be dandy.

Q: "Can I roleplay and/or write fanfiction using your characters?" A: I don't know, I don't see a problem with it lmao. Just don't be weird about it.

Q: "May I dub/translate your comics?" A: Of course!

Q: "May I ship your character(s) with X character?" A: I prefer you abide to canon ships in Lonertale, but I understand that fictional ships are inevitable on the Internet. I certainly do not approve of ships that involve disturbing themes, such as incest, pedophilia, etc. I don't want that weird shit anywhere near me or my content.

Q: "Am I allowed to make NSFW art of your characters?" A: I'd prefer you didn't. I reserve this permission to mutuals only. Sorry.

Q: "Is gore allowed in fanart?" A: Yep. Go wild, but not too hard lol.

Q: "May I make merch based off of your characters?" A: ASK ME. I would prefer to negotiate with you about my portion of profits. If you sell merchandise with my art on it without my permission, that is considered art theft and I DO NOT tolerate that.

** THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED FREQUENTLY **

If you'd like to support the creator, please head to their masterpost for more details.

[bonon-bobani]

2, 5/6 (you choose! Or answer both, if you'd like :D), 11, 16, 23 for the fandom ask game

Thank you and may this message find you healthy and happy! :D

OK I'll fold this my speak takes really long ehehe

2. A headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like

Everything around Lurien ig. At first I didn't know how to interpret him, but every time I saw his fanart it inspired me very much, and it collected my thoughts.

5&6. Something you see in fics&arts a lot and love

PK with several arms!!!! Although I rarely draw it myself, I really love it<3

And, in fics, I like it when people give actual name to characters like WL or PK or vessels or...ok everyone, since I've never seen things like this in fanfics written in Japanese. It's cute...

11. If you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making?

I always love my works(it's all something I really wanted to see), but especially I'm proud when I drew long comics like these.

16. A tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

I think it isn't TINY, but I want more people talking about Path of Pain...not only platforming...It's my incentive to dove into this fandom. It explains the centrum of this game's story, it explained why the seal failed in the first place, And pair of Seal of Binding, one for PoP, one for Blackegg...

OK. Maybe it is me thinking about it too much ・ヮ・...

23. the fandom you're curious about because of a mutual

ULTRAKILL, Lies of P, The Binding of Isaac. Oops all steam game

(Actually I played both HK and RW because of mutuals from Bug Fables)

I had so fun thinking these, thank you so much! I'm super happy and healthy now :DD

[demonslayedher]

What are your favourite canon/non canon ships in kny? If you ever cared about

Hang on, Anon. This is probably gonna go in an expected direction. If you've noticed, I've recently reblogged some of my thoughts on canon pairings (or popular pairings), and if I've created content, that's generally a sign that I enjoy it. But you got me there, I’m really not that much of a shipper in the first place. I’m usually very enthralled by epic bromance (all my OTPs are BroTPs), and I go wild for all sorts of platonic closeness and tension and fluff, but I’m just ‘meh’ about romance elements. However, there are three reasons I why I do enjoy the canon ships in KnY: 1. I’m obsessed with KnY 2. Romance wasn’t a big element in canon, which may be why I’m left with appetite for it 3. I love these characters and I want them to be happy and I am very curious about them, which means wanting to know anything Gotouge gives us about their love lives too Since I have a preference for sticking close to canon I have a preference for canon ship content, but I generally enjoy a lot of cute fanart for pairings even if I don’t interpret them as romantic.

Back to canon and wanting to know everything about it, though, there’s little details that of course get very curious. And from those ponderings about canon details, it's made me ask some questions about off-screen pairings, or potential post-canon pairings. There is one pairing in particular I've never seen content for, which I'm going to go into more detail about for most of this post, but due to the age of the characters and some people not being comfortable with that, it's behind the cut (that said, illicit content has been very, very purposely avoided, and I've gone to lengths in my headcanons to make them have to be aged up before anything happens). So like, canon ponderings:

We know Sanemi and Giyuu left descendants, but with whom? How did that go down, with the knowledge that they probably wouldn’t be around long? Various swordsmen and Kakushi have expressed in passing that they want a partner or liked someone, but how common is it for them to have a partner? If so, do they tend to be inside or outside the Corp? In the light novels Haganezuka had a match-making meeting with a woman who had no appreciation for sword smithery, who in the world thought it would be a good idea to let a women like that even know of the existence of the Nichirin sword making practice?

There’s a passing detail in Fanbook 1 that stated Urokodaki is single, but he has a woman who he likes. However, things don’t really progress between them. Who is this mystery woman? A widower whom he’s only had casual exchanges with down in the nearby village? A woman who has known him since his demon slaying days, but who has always remained a tease? Has Tanjiro met her, or would he recognize her scent? Do they only have rendezvous when Urokodaki is alone without students? Tell me more, Gotouge, tell me more!! Then again, sometimes Gotouge tells us more than we bargained for, like in Fanbook 2 when it’s stated that girls of the Ubuyashiki clan must marry out and change their last name before the age of 13, or no matter how careful they are, they’ll meet an early death due to sudden illness or accident. I have more analysis of this under the cut which I have striven to keep at a wide audience's comfort level, but again, it is below the cut so that people who aren't comfortable with this part of canon can choose not to read on. Buuuut, this is my starting point for wondering where other characters wind up, and with whom.

So with this uncomfortable "marry out by 13" thing, I hope this is like some forms of historical child marriages which were only formalities between families for a long time while the children continued to grow up, like a betrothal that already has paperwork done, as the kicker here is the last name change. At least, I find enough flexibility in the wording of this detail that I think it's okay to interpret it generously. In the KnY universe, there is a lot resting on being an Ubuyashiki (and marriage is as powerful as genes, apparently), and everyone born into or married into their clan has their own role to play almost as soon as they can walk and talk for the sake of the mission to take down Muzan. Tragedy, both widespread and personal, is just part of the Ubuyashiki existence. If Kagaya’s distressingly young marriage is anything to go by, they did not consider innocence something they could afford.

Still, they are keen to do anything that may offset their curse and/or protect their children (Amane’s daily purification rituals no matter the weather (Fanbook 2), raising the frail boys as girls until they take up an adult man’s role (even at the age of 4, like Kagaya (Fanbook 2), etc.). I’m inclined to think that they chose the marriageable age based on incidents of daughters' deaths in family history and decided it wasn’t worth risking it. Even if they still stayed in the family home for a while with a different name, they were essentially raised as small adults, so they probably still left the home younger than would had been normal in any given time period. Since nobles/warrior clans adopting each other daughters’ out and raising them before marrying them off to other clans or to people within their own clan (this makes Sengoku era relationship maps between samurai clans such a mess), I’ll bet that simply getting adopted out happened a lot too, but their fates might be totally out of the Ubuyashiki’s clan hands that way. At least in an arranged marriage, it’s an agreement between families.

Once we get to Taisho, they’ve gotten pretty established in how they protect their girls from the Ubuyashiki curse, and as Fanbook 2 tells us, Kiriya doesn’t believe the curse is lifted until he reaches his 30’s, which is a very emotional realization for him (he had felt certain he'd die in his 20's). That means, a few years after canon, he probably looked at his remaining sisters one day and said, “you guys gotta get out. Where do you want to go?”

So. For Kanata, the more mild-mannered of the two, the one who is scared of bugs but didn’t bat an eye at Genya being rough with her, I wondered if there might be distant relatives on their mother’s side (clans can be big, I’m not very concerned about inbreeding here) who wish to take her in and have her married to a son near her age. She would be a Himorogi, and would take up the Himorogi clan’s shrine-tending mission. From the Ubuyashiki clan perspective, this is like thanking the Himorogi clan for their centuries of assistance and brides who married into harsh Ubuyashiki fates.

This leaves a little more freedom for Kuina, the more fiery one who slapped sense back into Kiriya when he needed it. She proposes an idea, someone who has always been on her periphery, but she’s probably only had limited interaction with. Enough to develop a crush on someone, but not enough to say you’re more than an acquaintance. Kiriya thinks it’s an outstanding idea, especially since this is also a clan who the Ubuyashiki clan has long been indebted to.

Apologies for my terrible handwriting. The idea was just to do a few doodles to explain the set-up, but doodling led to more ideas and next thing you know I awoke from a doodle stupor like, “did I draw all this?” And when I’m in this doodle-mode, anatomy is all made up and bone-structure does matter. Style consistency is an illusion. There are no plans, only draw.

So anyway. As honored as Shinjuro is by the idea of an Ubuyashiki-Rengoku union, Senjuro is a Taisho-minded, fresh young adult (based on my best guess on his age in canon (based on him being a 1st year Kimetsu Academy student), as age 12, while Kuina is 8). Senjuro wants nothing to do with this old-fashioned, superstitious, hand-waving way of marrying off a young girl who doesn’t know any better. And, dang it, he’s a young man with needs, and he’ll in no way expect a young girl to fulfill them! He wouldn’t even want to!

Shinjuro, who probably would have preferred to have been born in the Warring States heyday of swordsmanship, isn’t that privy to his son’s fancy modern-minded arguments and generally dismisses them. Even if Senjuro does have a point about Kuina being very young, Shinjuro thinks Senjuro is just playing around with his girlfriend (Mitsuri’s youngest sister, in case my handwriting isn’t very clear), and tells him that he shouldn’t put off getting married anyway, like Kyojuro did—

--and, whoops, Shinjuro stops himself and fumbles around a bit. Got himself a little too emotional and didn’t mean to take it out on Senjuro, who he simply fears losing too young too. It’s too late for Shinjuro to hide he’s thinking this, though, so Senjuro relents a bit, but still concludes the argument that day that even if Senjuro did accept this marriage proposal, Shinjuro would actually have to wait even longer for grandchildren than if he were just to let Senjuro do what he likes.

But then, if we stick with what canon has told us is the rule (but hasn’t actually followed through on its own threat), it’s around this time that Giyuu or Sanemi may drop dead.

This is a shock to everyone, even if they did know to see it coming. Senjuro is hit with the weight of a girl’s life on the line, so this is what prompts him to accept the marriage. On conditions, though! It’s only a paper marriage until she’s of age, besides, he’s already made plans to leave home and reside elsewhere for the university studies he’s starting soon (and since he’s really only doing this as a favor, there’s a part of him that sees it as a temporary arrangement). Still, this means he needs to set his affairs in order.

In case my handwriting is unclear, the kicker here is that yeah, Senjuro is the one under pressure to carry on the Rengoku family name in the first place because he’s the only one left. He finds his bitterness about this directed at Kyojuro, but Kyojuro doesn’t deserve that, and Senjuro starts to resent Kuina for making him think uncharitably toward his brother (however reasonable of a grief response this is, even years later). He stresses that the marriage is only a formality for now, and never goes out of his way to communicate with her. If anything, he dodges correspondence and finds excuses to stay busy at university, and his only infrequent meetings with her are at gatherings Shinjuro dragged him to, or where there were going to be a lot of Corp retirees whom Senjuro wanted to see anyway (and knew he’d spent most of his socializing with). Tanjiro becomes aware of the marriage through his other correspondences and congratulates him, but Senjuro only acknowledges his warm wishes as much as politeness dictates.

And at some point, Kuina has moved in to the Rengoku family home.

It’s been a while, but she’s still not of legal age when this happens, and she’s cursed to still look much, much younger than her actual age (making it harder for Senjuro to recognize that she has aged at all, in all this time). It drives Senjuro a little crazy how both his father and Kuina and Kiriya see nothing wrong with this. He reacts by trying to shut himself away (they have their own private bedrooms), and his resentment toward Kuina grows with how she acts so much like she belongs there as a doting wife.

So anyway, more time passes, and with the situation being less avoidable with her residing in his home (though he still has his own small place by his university, where this whole mess is a secret), Senjuro gets more fretful about it—especially once Kuina is of age. Shinjuro and Kuina feel like they already spared his feelings by delaying the evitable, and he’s just delaying more due to his hesitant nature. From Senjuro’s perspective, he’s trying to be kind and do her right, but he’s generally very avoided of her, like her whole existence is a burden.

Yeah, I don’t know what’s happening with my art style by this point. I don’t even know why I’ve drawn so much. Making set-up for a romantic pairing feels weird. Onward we go anyway. Senjuro can no longer outright ignore her, he’s got to confront that he’s stuck! But has he confronted the actual person whom he charitably rescued? Only as much as one confronts a thorn in their side.

Kuina and Shinjuro get along well because they do have shared experience, which Senjuro never attained. He felt the weight of the Corp mission simply by accident of the family he was born into, but he was never directly involved, even if that was what he had spent his whole childhood striving for. This almost gives Kuina and Shinjuro a dynamic of seeing Senjuro as the child in this relationship, he’s the one whose innocence in the face of violence has never been lost.

Still, Kuina tries to be sympathetic. She knows how much Senjuro looked up to Kyojuro, and how much Kyojuro cared about him, and how much it hurt everyone to lose Kyojuro. She misses him too. So when she, as a member of the Rengoku household, goes to tend the Rengoku family grave on the anniversary of her late elder brother-in-law’s death, she does so in full sincerity. But Senjuro has been distancing himself so much and reading all her intentions as cheeky and pushy and getting her way, and he doesn’t take kindly to her pushing in on his grief.

You didn’t think I’d get through this without Kuina slapping him, right? I try to stick close to canon and that is her primary canonical character trait.

Anyway, it’s not the slap, but the look into Kuina’s feelings that shakes Senjuro, since he’s never deeply considered her feelings. He had dismissed her as a child who didn’t understand anything so long ago that he ignored what he knew all along, that the Ubuyashiki children grew up under immense pressure and were directly involved in the fight to take down Kibutsuji Muzan himself. All this time, he hadn’t been considering who she is, and her true feelings whatsoever, for she always kept a cap on her emotions so well.

And for the first time, Senjuro realizes she’s kind of incredible, and that he’s been a jerk who hasn’t bothered at all to recognize that. And that is the start of them actually working toward a true relationship.

She accepts his apology, and they wind up having a long talk about Kyojuro, mostly Senjuro talking, but he very honestly appreciates hearing about what his brother was like at Pillar meetings and the impact he had on the whole Corp. Little by little (not the same day, just in daily life), they wind up talking more about their other family members, and Senjuro has to do a lot more listening. They get into the deepest discussions when talking about their mothers, whom Senjuro only knows through what he’s been told, and whom Kuina was very influenced by. They find a lot of similarities between their mothers, at least based on what they know of them.

And, while getting to know each other, Senjuro feels humbled by how he never actually did anything but pray for the Corp, whereas it was normal for Kuina to see children off to their deaths. Even with vastly different experiences, they find they can relate to each other on the pressures of having grown up in clans with such histories. Senjuro, who has been doing very well as a scholar, is humbled by the sharp mental prowess Kuina possesses, but she assures him that her education was deep but very narrow, he’s been right all along, she really doesn’t know much else about the world. And, while being peeved by his behavior, she had been dismissing his perspective.

And for all this time it takes for them to get to know each other, Shinjuro is on the sidelines, trying not to spoil the good progress by revealing that he’s been eavesdropping and praying and asking for Ruka and Kyojuro’s and Oyakata-sama’s blessing that it continues to (finally) go well, as he did feel some guilt for forcing Senjuro into this when things were especially sour.

So anyway. It takes a very long time, but eventually they become a couple in full and have genuine affection for each other. Their children have the most intense stares, and the daughters have black hair, which throws everyone off. They live long happy lives, Gotouge style (if you’ve survived Muzan and haven’t gotten a mark, anyway). The end. EDIT: I suppose I couldn't get this far without attempting to draw what children with an Ubuyashiki-Rengoku gene pool would look like.

[rdr2dd]

Goals, Moving Forward, Etc.

Because I’ve gotten a few comments/questions asking about the other projects I’ve mentioned, and also for the purpose of giving myself some clear goals to work toward, I want to nail down the direction(s) that this project is probably headed. Excuse the gratuitous detail, but as is likely becoming clear from my posts, that’s how I work best :p

Project 1: Arthur’s Hidden Family

Goal 1: Finding Eliza -

Accomplished, largely, so hurrah for that. There was a lot of background work to get to this point, even beyond the details I gave in the most recent post about it, so I am beyond glad to have finally gotten it done. This step has already laid a lot of the groundwork for future steps. And also, I’m just happy to finally have a face for her.

Goal 2: Conjuring up Isaac - No progress thus far, but I’ve done some planning on how I want to handle this. No files exist for Isaac, at least not that I’ve been able to find thus far, so any models/textures for him would be entirely non-canon/custom work. There’s no element of bringing hidden assets to light here, like there was with Eliza; having a workable model for Isaac would be purely for my own heart’s sake, and for the sake of being able to do fanart renders involving him. This probably involves:

Using Jack (4 yrs old) as a base model, as I’m not talented or experienced enough to sculpt these models from scratch. Facial features would need to be altered to find a resemblance to both Arthur and Eliza.

Digging through the files to see if there are even other young children in the game to draw assets from - Arthur Londonderry’s son comes to mind, but I’m not sure if he’s the right age range, and I’m honestly drawing a blank beyond that. If anyone remembers seeing any kids in the game, please drop me a note as to where you saw them. 

Possibly resizing/altering adult NPC assets such as hairstyles in order to give Isaac a fitting and unique appearance. This sounds like a headache, but may be reasonable enough to do. We shall see.

Lots of custom texture work, largely for his face, which will be especially hard/dicey if there aren’t other children’s models to borrow textures from. 

Goal 3: Finding the Time - Less technical and more research-oriented, I need to nail down a timeline that I’m personally happy with with regards to when in Arthur’s life the events with Eliza and Isaac occurred. Once this is done, it’ll make it easier to decide what to do with Arthur in any renders I may want to do with the three of them. Which ties into...

Project 2: The Old Guard (Expanded)

This was the project I originally had in mind when I started scrounging around for these files. I have an unreasonably huge soft spot in my heart for the ‘curious couple and their unruly son’, but also, just the young gang in general. Hosea back when he’d steal anything not nailed down? Dutch, young and idealistic and years before his downfall? Arthur, young and broody but not yet hardened? Little John, still feral and a menace? Badass, gorgeous young Grimshaw? Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes, please. Not to mention Bessie and Annabelle, who must have mattered so much to these characters, but who we hear and see so little about. I want to be able to do fanart renders with them, but that’s going to take a hell of a lot of work.

Goal 1: Nail Down the Timeline - I’ve started working on this, but there’s a lot I still need to do in terms of skimming audio files and digging deep in the lore. I want to get a general idea of when it seems folks joined the gang, that way I can get an idea of which models I even need to work with. Heavy focus on figuring out: 

When Tilly joined the gang, as I lean toward her being around quite early, but would like to review the audio. I know there are some numbers dropped in a few missions, with regards to when she joined the Foreman Brothers and when she left them to join the Van der Linde Gang, and I want to get this as accurate as possible. 

When Hosea went off with Bessie, and when she passed. We have some context clues, I just need to nail down the math and then feel out the dramatic timing for the rest.

What the deal was with Annabelle. Maybe I just have a passion for the ladies name-dropped once in the game, but good god do I love Annabelle despite knowing absolutely nothing about her. She should be a non-character, but this is a passion project, so there’s no way I’ll be ignoring her.

What to do about Sean. He couldn’t have joined until after 1889, but depending on what year I want to deal with for renders, I may need to account for him. That wouldn’t be a hardship, as he’s one of my faves.

Goal 2: Knock Out the “Easy” Models - By which I mean Hosea, Dutch, Arthur, and Susan. This will involve some custom sculpting work, but not a whole lot, as their base models for 1899 shouldn’t actually require that much alteration. I imagine I’ll be ironing out a bunch of wrinkles, smoothing out a bunch of normal maps, and then using the clone brush and a sampling of generic NPC face textures in order to create younger-looking face textures for this lot. “Easy” is definitely a relative term here, but I’m counting my blessings in that there are, at the very least, reference images for what this lot looked like in the early days. I still have no idea if I’ll be able to accomplish this, or how hard it will be if I can.

Goal 3: John - An intermediate difficulty step, for John alone. We have no reference images of young, 12/13 year old John, but we do have Jack’s 12 yr old model, and that will serve as a decent base to work from, hopefully. I’ll have to make sure to alter his features to be more in line with John’s, and will have to work heavily with his skin/face textures from there. Clothes will be another hurdle, especially as (referenced above), we see like, next to no children in the game for me to borrow NPC clothing parts from. I’ll need to work with what we get from Jack and otherwise resize and rework adult NPC clothing.

Goal 4: Bessie (and Others) - Stepping up the workload again, though in different ways. Bessie will be a task to work out, seeing as we have a single, not particularly great reference image of her facing straight ahead. It’s not much to work with, but it’s something to work toward matching. No two ways around it, she’ll be mostly custom work and mash-ups of generic NPC materials, but it’ll be a labor of love. Also sliding Tilly and (potentially) young Sean in here, as depending on their age there will be a lot of work to do on them, possibly including custom model work, and we don’t have references for what they looked like when they were younger. I’ll make do.

Goal 5: Annabelle - The holy grail in terms of custom work, or the ultimate slog uphill, we shall see. We have no reference images of her. No traces of her exist in the files. We hardly have any clue about how she died, let alone how she lived. And yet, I love her, or at least the potential of her. Hopefully all of my work on the ‘known’ quantities of this project will give me some hope of turning out a unique and fitting model for her, but who knows.

Project 3: Audio Directory

Goal ??? - On pause for the foreseeable future, mostly as I’ll need to do some networking before I’m totally comfortable putting this out there, and also because holy hell have I set up a bunch of other work for myself. The Dream(TM) was to find a way to set up a directory for folks to more easily find audio files on their own. There’s no way to host all of the assorted cool audio from RDR2 online, but it would theoretically be possible to set up a sort of file directory online, a list of file names and descriptions, to help folks browse their audio files on their own without having to reinvent (or in this case, rediscover) the wheel personally. I’m of the opinion that pulling apart the game files should be an all-hands-on-deck sort of situation, but there are a lot of folks who have already put in this work individually, and I don’t want to step on any toes. I also don’t want to be responsible for anyone mucking around with their game files and having trouble down the road, so I’d need to sort out a clear explanation of what precautions to take, etc. It’s a lot to consider, so I’m obviously open to input. 

Wrap-Up

If you’re still reading, congrats(?) and also, thank you. This is all a bunch of planning for some real pie-in-the-sky shit, but I felt that way about finding Eliza in the files about two months ago, so I have hope. If you’ve got thoughts on any step, please, hit me! I want to hear what folks want to see, though I can’t make any promises on what I’ll deliver. Got thoughts on the timeline or headcanons for the less-referenced characters? I’d love to hear. I would also love to hear from anyone with experience on projects like this; goodness knows I’m a self-taught novice. 

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First I want to thank you for writing these super detailed KLK posts! Whenever I'm sad or just bored I turn to your blog and I always find something new to read and to light up my mood! I have a (really pointless) question: What do you think are the hobbies of the pratagonists? We don't really see them in Slice of Life situations, so what for example did Ryuko do all day before the events of the series when she didn't have to fight all the time? (Sorry for my bad english!)

I’m super flattered and touched to hear that my work has such a positive influence on you! Thank you!

Your question isn’t “really pointless” at all. In creating characters, I think it’s actually pretty crucial to consider what they’d enjoy doing in their free time. Of course no one is defined by their hobbies, but someone’s passions and interests do speak a lot about what kind of person they are.

You’re right that Kill la Kill doesn’t especially delve into the protagonist’s day-to-day lives, but we do get some pieces here and there. 

Ryuko

In regards to Ryuko, one reason that I love the first ending sequence so much is because it’s a great look at what things were like for her before she finds herself in a fantasy-action-comedy anime, lol.

Ryuko’s loneliness is easily the most striking part of the ED—I mean, it’s just about palpable—but you also get a sense of what kind of girl she is, too. And she’s curious! She walks around town, grabs some coffee, shops a bit, sees what’s up. Ryuko may not have any friends, but that doesn’t stop her from getting out and about. She comes off as the type who both wants to see the world and is fascinated by it. I bet she’d go on hikes or just wander around for fun.

So, maybe kinda related, while I don’t especially see Ryuko as studious (she falls asleep in class and when she’s supposed to be cramming in the first Drama CD, lol), I can imagine that she’d enjoy reading for pleasure. You know—opening her mind up and learning some stuff! Animators Kengo Saito and Sushio have even drawn fanart of Ryuko doing just that:

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Plus, one of the stickers on Ryuko’s guitar case is of her favorite mascot character, Kuri-chan, from a 4-panel manga series of the same name. Considering that Ryuko only has one other sticker on her guitar case (which just notes her year in high school), I think it’s pretty evident that she’s got some passion for stories.

And speaking of Ryuko’s guitar case, one of my favorite headcanons is that Ryuko plays guitar and sings! She had to get that case from somewhere, and her voice actress, Ami Koshimizu, is an accomplished singer. Given how devoted Ryuko is to her quest to find out who killed her dad, she’s clearly got a lotta strong emotions, and I could really imagine Ryuko expressing those emotions through music.

She’d just… probably keep it to herself and be too shy to let anyone hear her. But hopefully that’d change after the events of Kill la Kill!

Senketsu

And okay, I know I’m probably one of the only people in the entire world thinking about what the hobbies of a sailor uniform are, but hey. 

Even more than Ryuko, I really see Senketsu as a total bookworm. Plus, he’s definitely about a million times more studious than she is (even if he falls asleep in class too, lol). I mean, the kid did all that cramming for Ryuko in the first Drama CD without even being asked to! He’s obviously super into reading and learning.

Considering how much Senketsu talks about romance in his episode preview narrations, I also totally headcanon him as a hopeless romantic. I bet he begs Ryuko to read tons of shoujo manga with him and cries at all the sappy parts. bermuda_irmk over on Twitter drew some amazing fanart of this, and I completely accept it as Canon.

Satsuki

Now, I 1000% see Satsuki as the studious type. When it’s canon that she has the highest grades in Honnouji Academy, I can completely see her as the kind of girl who spends practically all of her free time with her nose in a book, just trying to understand and learn everything she can.

Before and during the events of the series, I’d also imagine that Satsuki devotes an incredible amount of time to learning combat. She’d probably read on the subject and train with sword masters to the point of total exhaustion. While I’m sure that Satsuki has a boatload of natural talents and skills, given how alarmingly prepared she is for everything, I figure she’d still go completely overboard in her training and studies. While it’s a sad comparison, I could see her as being a bit like Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender: immensely talented but still hard working and utterly determined to not let even a single hair be out of place.

The light novel reveals that Satsuki used to be a happy and bubbly girl before her father literally put the entire world on her shoulders and abandoned her, so as a child, I’d imagine that Satsuki would partake in more… light-hearted hobbies. Maybe she’d beg her dad to read fairytales to her or make her own clothes for her dolls. In fact, Shiro is playing with a string doll he made himself when he meets Satsuki, and when Soroi introduced Shiro to Satsuki in the first place so that she could have someone to play with, I don’t think it’s too outlandish to consider that they played with dolls together as kids. At least a little bit!

Plus, when Soichiro/Isshin clearly has some sewing and crafting skills—he made Senketsu and the Scissor Blades, after all—I could imagine these father-daughter projects where Satsuki and her dad would make things together. Maybe Soichiro would even nerd out about science with her! And unlike Ryuko, who’s not exactly the most studious and doesn’t really seem to have an interest in science, I could definitely see Satsuki being inspired by it.

After the events of the series, I’d like to think that Satsuki would finally be able to relax and return to doing what she loved as a child, such as reading stories just for fun and pleasure. Like with Ryuko, Sushio has also drawn fanart of Satsuki seemingly doing just that:

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Mako

Mako strikes me as a super artistic kind of girl. In “Mako’s Story,” there are many illustrations where she’s building or creating—be it drawing with chalk, arranging colored leaves, or sculpting snowmen and snow forts. I get the sense that she’d like to spend her free time doodling in sketchbooks or shaping clay.

Given her final “Hallelujah!” in episode 24, Mako also clearly has a passion for fashion. If she had the resources, I could totally see her designing clothes, and I bet she’s quite thrifty and uses what she does have to come up with some fun outfits and styles. Sushio’s definitely drawn fanart of as much! I mean, just look at Mako’s Nonon makeover:

Nonon: What is this.

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Like Ryuko, I could also easily picture Mako as a singer. I mean, she does actually sing a few times in the show! Plus, if nothing else, given her “Hallelujahs!,” she certainly loves to perform. Her voice actress, Aya Suzaki, is also quite an accomplished singer, too!

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It’s also worth it to note that Mako was once in the Tennis Club, so there’s clearly some interest in sports as well. I think she’d like to be active and running around, so things like tennis, track, or basketball might be up her alley.

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Others

This post has become quite a monster, so maybe I ought to write about my headcanons for other characters’ hobbies elsewhere, but I will say that for characters like the Elite Four and Shiro, we already get a good sense of what they like to do in their free time based off of the clubs they’re in charge of and what we learn about them in the light novel. Uzu is super dedicated to kendo and konnyaku (because his parents run a konnyaku shop), Gama is interested in metalworking like his uncle, Houka is super into IT (and apparently is amazing at the stock market, lol), Nonon loves classical music and insists that it sounds best on record players, and Shiro is passionate about sewing and Life Fiber research.

While I kinda wrote a book here, I hope it’s still at least kind of interesting! I’m also curious about what others think on the subject, too! After all, a lot of the appeal of Sushio’s post-series fanart for me is that we get some insight into what these characters’ lives would be like after the battle.

And, well. I can’t get enough of it! It’s so sweet.

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Valentine’s Day is Coming~

Here are the Student Council’s thoughts~ Ichiya also made a guide in understanding the Student Council a bit more personally.

Guide to Earning the Affections of the Ikemen Academy Student Council Members

By: Ichiya-senpai

Warning: Accuracy Pending

Li

This senpai consists of brick, salt, and more salt. This organization master alphabetizes everything on sight. He would even alphabetize my name if he could. Ichiya… Achiiy… That sounds like a sneeze. Beneath the stone cold exterior, lies a really warm and comforting soul. Just like a heater. He does a little bit of everything.

guide: Just in case you did not take the hint, Li kaichou is a total TSUNDERE. Approach the tsundere carefully to learn his likes and dislikes. If you pay high attention to detail and have great organizational skills, this would help in earning the vice kaichou’s respect. Optional: give him fanarts of Touru-kaichou and you can see him angryblush.

An excerpt from Li himself: “Do not bother Li while he is working. Do not touch Li or his belongings without his consent. Do not pester Li with innuendos or otherwise crass comments. Do not offer Li sweets or confessions of love; he finds them tedious and a nuisance to deal with. Be cautious, yet steely around him. If you are a decent human being with decent morals, Li will proceed to baby you like a protective father.”

PSA:  Calling Li “Daddy” will result in a punch in the face. Or a scary smile. Depends on how many witnesses are around.

Bobby

…apparently his name is not Poppy. I’ve been calling him that for the longest time.

Bobby is the youngest and cutest in the group. Fear not. This smol child is filled with not only adorableness, but also the skills to satisfy your writing and headcanon needs.

guide: Feeding sweets will not increase nor decrease the already infinite cuteness of our Bobby. However, he loves hugs and being helpful to our rock salt Li-kaichou. His 1000 watt smile is guaranteed to lift your mood up. Shower him with love and compliments and never EVER compare him to Yuu senpai. He will cry.

Mika

This senpai seems cool and like the bad boy type at first glance. But in truth, he is a different type entirely…he is “adorkable”. Once you fall into the meme-filled banter, you will realize that there is more to this man that meets the eye.

guide: Buy him milk, make memes for him, and understand that really stupid joke he made once. He, being an idiot who isn’t too good with differentiating between platonic and romantic love, will love you soon after. The hardest part is to try to get him to date you since he believes he can date everyone. Even if you’re special to him because he is overly affectionate. Have fun punching him when you give up.

Optional: Want to be a member of Mika’s harem? To register, please contact the nearest host club. If Li-kaichou is the one that answers your call, pretend to be the pizza delivery guy.

Harem benefits: Mika notices you, free milk (milo optional), did I mention that Mika notices you ?

Ichiya

Ah, me. This senpai is always found running around between two or more things to do. In his free time, he likes narrating stories and making tragic children storybooks for fun. And sometimes poking Li-kaichou. ;3c

guide: Lure him away from reality by asking him “what-if”s and fantasy fictional stuff. Once lured, you can see his eyes practically sparkle with excitement. Patience is needed to have a deeper and more engaging conversation with him.  If he needs to be brought back to reality, contact the nearest Li-kaichou to knock some sense into him.

Artie

This senpai is super lovable, and a bit sarcastic at times. Akin to blueberry pie, not too sweet and not too tangy, this senpai is just right. He may be even busier than me, though. Artie may be small, but he has himself quite busy with projects.

guide:  This senpai likes cute things. And quiet time to people watch. You wil effortlessly love this senpai. Heck. We effortlessly love this senpai as well. He is like a rare fish in a giant sea of less-rare fish. When you finally have him on the hook or show up at a Student Council meeting, you just want to squeal with excitement.

Yurei

This mysterious senpai is found in the shadows. He is not lurking or anything, he was just there from the very beginning. Yurei has not got a creepy aura around him like the common mysterious types. Imagine a black box in the corner of the room. People suspect there will be curious things inside, scary treasure and dark marvels…but alas, it is really just a plain black box.

guide:  This senpai enjoys company. Although he rarely speaks and only chips in every so often. Do it enough, and you’ll be registered in his mind as an okay person to talk with. Try to converse about his favorite shows and anime. His response is always curt, but nonetheless you will feel secure around him. You will know he considers you a friend when he makes you lucky charms.

MC

Imagine a life of a regular main character. Cool, calm, and suddenly, a plot happens! You’re whisked into a world of trouble and messes, just like the unlucky MC-kun. All he wants is a calm non-problematic life. Why is that not happening?!

guide:  To gain this senpai’s affection, comfort him with compliments and tea. Tell him that his hard work cut out for him. He deals with a lot of weird shenanigans every day. Fanarts of MC are also encouraged. He needs to stand out more than just being the token ahoge character.