hi!! first of all, i just wanted to say i love your art <3 i was in the twst fandom for a while and i'm currently into toku, so it's a nice surprise to see you like both! this is kinda dumb but, out of curiosity, how have you been making your ride kamens predictions? i.e. what hints are you referring to to make your guesses? i saw some jp artists making their guesses as well so i feel like i'm missing something
p.s. i also want a meteor/fourze-inspired character but that's probably not happening lol
thank you! :> glad to see there are more of us with excellent taste out there (characters being idiots = the best).
I think we're all just working off of the silhouettes? there's the ones that are in the PV, and then the full-body ones from this tweet (plus a couple of as-yet-unreleased character logos on the bottom); if there's been any other info released, I haven't seen it. so...mostly it's just speculation and wild guesses!
based on the ones we've gotten so far, it's going to be literally impossible to tell who anyone is before they're revealed, but it's still pretty fun to guess! I'm still holding out a tender hope that maybe Fourze or Meteor is hidden in there...somewhere...😔
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Book of the Week: Born to Be Rebellious
Author: Sang Wo (桑沃)
Genre: world-hopping, danmei
Rating: T
My Synopsis: If you’re hungering for a book where the main character is so OP that he becomes god (as a little treat), then this may be the book for you! Meet Ge Xiu, the amnesiac main character who is immune to pesky mortal inconveniences like “hopelessness,” “powerlessness,” and “suffering,” and his multi-named love interest, the man who’ll be damned before he lets Ge Xiu experience any of those things, anyways! Join them while they world hop through different torture universes such as garbage planet, abo-verse, and the movie industry as Ge Xiu makes it his life goal to frustrate as many evil scientists to death as he can!
My Actual Review: I loved this book to bits, every arc, even the ones that I would have otherwise avoided in other books. I think its greatest strength is that the author calls forth extremely popular genres and tropes (cat-boy universe? ABO UNIVERSE???) only to simply blow through them without deigning to play the setting straight. Ge Xiu, as a character, has no respect for others or care of their expectations of him, and the way the story is written plays into that so well. I also found the reveal at the end about who the LI is and why he appears in every world to fit in perfectly with everything else, but damn did that man hurt me to get there 😭 One small thing is that this author obviously had a thing for Europeans and European settings that I, personally, was not a fan of, but that’s neither here nor there. This is a relatively light read, though it covers topics such as human experimentation and child abuse and, though the story is vague about Ge Xiu’s age, he is in fact an adult (or as adult as any person who has had their aging scientifically sped up could be, I guess), so no underage stuff.
Translation: complete
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More Sea Serpent Hobie thoughts!
(been thinking about this au all day, it's completely consumed my mind!)
I was kinda toying with the idea of Hobie being able to take a human form. (In this version most people wouldn't know that sea serpents exist so he uses it as a way to interact with humans without revealing his true nature to them)
He visits a small local fishing village from time to time to hang out with the locals- mostly at the pub, but he also likes hanging around at the harbour
Cause he just gets lonely sometimes and humans make fun company- he finds tales about daring trips to sea entertaining, but he also loves to hear stories about places from far within the mainland as he's always stayed close to the ocean.
Nobody in the village knows what he really is- they all just think he's this odd but kind loner who visits from time to time.
He's well renowned by the people in the village, both for being a nice and helpful guy and because of his unique skills*
He never pays for anything in cash but instead in old trinkets and treasures he finds while out at sea - this resulted in a few arguments at first, but now people have come to accept it, some even look forward to seeing what he'll pull out as payment whenever he visits
if he doesn't have any treasure to pay with he'll offer to pay in favours- specifically favours that involve diving.
*If you need a diving job done he's your guy
He can stay underwater forever and go far deeper than any of the locals.
So if you need to retrieve something from, let's say a sunken ship, he's your guy!
He insists on going on missions alone- it's just easier to get it done if he can dive unseen in his serpent form.
The only people he doesn't get along with are authority figures and whalers!
There aren't any whalers residing in the village but sometimes a whaling boat will come by to restock. Every time they do Hobie terrorizes the crew as much as he can get away with. While also being very vocal about his opinion of them in general. He's gotten in fights with them more than once.
It's also not unusual for the whalers to find their ship vandalised if they stay overnight.
When he's in his human form he lives on a small island near the village, but far enough away that he can't be seen changing from serpent to human form and vice versa
He has a small hut where he keeps some fishing equipment (mostly for show in case a human comes by and wonders how he's able to feed himself on this tiny island) as well as a small garden where he grows different greens.
He'll trade his food for stuff with the villages, he mostly trades for clothes, sewing equipment or beer at the pub
Sometimes he'll disappear at sea for weeks at a time- if any of the villagers question him about it he'll just say he was out fishing- despite him only owning a small rowboat with a small engine, that doesn't work half the time. - He uses it to get to and from the island in human form as to not alert the villagers to his true form.
At some point he befriends Gwen**, who's a newcommer, when a local overhears her lamenting the loss of her mother's trinket at sea, and they suggest she asks Hobie for help- since the guy has a way of finding things lost at sea
Gwen doesn't really believe he can actually find it but seeks him out nonetheless cause it can't hurt to ask
Hobie accepts the job. In exchange he wants Gwen to tell him about the places she's been to before she moved to the village.
(** you can kinda replace Gwen with any character you want. I'm kinda considering making a small fic for this au where the reader takes Gwen's place, but I don't have the time nor energy to write it any time soon. Also I've never written a fic from the first person point of view so I'm not sure how it would turn out lol.)
Lemme know what you guys think! 💙Any input is welcome- it can be world building stuff, story stuff, ideas for hobie's serpent form or something else!
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Godwyn Has a Fish Tail Instead of Legs...
..so he is a mermaid. (Or merman, in this case, but still.)
Where I'm going with this is... reverse Little Mermaid. 🧜🏼♀️
Godwyn sings an edited Part of Your World while on a cliffside next to the ocean, lamenting how he can't swim. (No one in the Lands Between can. Everyone fells to water.)
He then gets his beautiful tail.
He doesn't know how to use it properly yet and is struggling and all that before he finally gets in the water and can actually swim.
Then he sings the short reprise of Part of Your World while in the ocean. (Which would also give us that iconic rock scene/pose with the waves behind Godwyn when he hits that final note.)
He's swimming with the fishies and having a blast under the water when he finds... the sea witch.
..and is instantly smitten.
He spends his time trying to gain her favor and win her over, bringing her little gifts that are from land.
It works.
She simply adores him and the little treasures he brings her from land, she loving all the shiny trinkets and jewelry he has given her and finds it a sweet gesture. (After all, fish love shiny things and come, come, come to the brightest thing that glitters!)
They get to know eachother more and she brings him to her lair in the deep sea which is just an underwater cave with tons of glowing sea plants to light up the place.
She then reveals that she's not actually a witch at all and was just called that because people think she's evil, the people of the ocean seeing the deep, dark sea where she resides dangerous and overall evil.
Meanwhile, our "Erik" of the story is actually someone from land who is trying to stop Godwyn from going between land and water.
And perhaps even tries to kill him along the way.
And is actually more of a true witch than the sea witch is.
You guessed it.
It's Ranni.
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