#for context arisa can read minds sort of

[chisatowo]

Just remembered the sci fantasy au exists sci fantasy Marina my beloved

[purpletyrant]

some suzune costume remixes ive had on the backburner for a WHILE.... i started the sketch ages ago and only recently found the motivation to finish them.

i remember really, really liking the suzune costumes when i first read the manga in high school. when people criticized them, i felt sort of resentful about it. but now that im older, can you tell ive switched sides? :P besides, i also redesigned kokoro... why not keep going after GAN?

as always, design notes below!

for each of the girls i wanted to go for a theme that didnt deviate far from their original concept. i had difficulty, though, coming up with a new central idea for arisa. for all of GANs faults, you can definitely *tell* which girls he designed because of certain quirks he gravitates towards. every girl in harukas team definitely feel like they all belong in the same group. he also noted in the past that arisas design was his favorite... and to that i say... okay!

so for arisa i settled on an edgy red riding hood. think of those grimdark fairytale retellings that people love to rehash all the time... red riding hood reimagined as an ax-wielding werewolf hunter or something. i thought it would tie in nicely with both her color scheme and her backstory as a meek and bullied girl who becomes the aggressor when her magic grants her a newfound strength. as i worked on her, i noticed similarities to mami. with the corset, white sleeves, etc. i guess this arisa is sort of an anti-mami... unreliable at times, quick tempered, childish, and rash. i played around with her colors a LOT and am still not 100% satisfied, but pink and red are always a dubious combination anyway. maybe in this riding hood context, suzune is the big bad wolf?

chisatos theme has always alluded me. for a while i thought she was meant to be a flight attendant or an officer jenny-style police officer. gan has stated that he based her off of disciplinary and swimming themes. hm! well, it took some digging to find out that her hat is a garrison cap... i actually tried to draw her tiny triangular cap, but it was so hard to get right! so i just drew her a more realistic one. while keeping the sleek silhouette of her upper half, i gave her 40s-style pants and replaced her pistols with dual rivet guns because she sort of gives me rosie the riveter vibes... and no, the irony of that statement is not lost on me! i love how the bell of her pants changes her silhouette, how it draws the eyes upward to the details of her jacket and cap. i can imagine her walking confidently in this new garb. its a more dignified costume to die in. ;)

finally suzune. i loved black rock shooter around the time i read suzune, so i really liked the design similarities. however, it looks constricting in practice, and i had another idea in mind. how cool would it be to model her off of her surrogate mother, tsubaki? tsubaki has such a weird color palette imo, she hardly looks like she belongs in the franchise... but her outfit is still solid and easily to remix. so for suzune, i sucked all the color out of tsubakis outfit, removed the frills, and tweaked the skirt and shoes to give it personal flair. i kept thinking about how spooky it would be to see this suzune in an alley after hearing rumors of “the ripper” ... doesnt she look like a classic ghost? theres a solemn, haunted feel to this more serious outfit... and since suzune possesses tsubakis fire magic, it feels like a fitting tribute.

in case you were wondering, no, i will probably not find time to do matsuri or haruka. :P but i really like matsuri anyway, she was always my favorite, so i doubt id have much to gripe about.

[yukipri]

Compilation doodles + Name explanations for the OC kids in the YOI Future!verse ABO AU

^ Literally the above, because I thought WAY too hard about these for legit months (the twins were conceived in my mind back in DECEMBER and Arisa in January >.>;;) and I want to rant about my reasoning for all of them. :P

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IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS AU: It’s Yuuri-centric polyamory in an ABO setting, Yuuri’s married to four mates (Victor, Yurio, Phichit, Minami) and the above are their kids.

BASICS of this AU

INTRO to how ABO works in this AU

OTHER POSTS (comics + illustrations) in the Future!Verse ABO section of my YOI Masterpost.

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DISCLAIMER: I don’t know any Russian or Thai and my info comes from not-so-trustworthy Google-sensei though I did my best to triple check from multiple sources including non-English ^ ^; I am however native and fluent in both Japanese and English and also consulted a Japanese linguist regarding my kanji choices ^ ^; If I made any mistakes please be gentle, and also understanding that this is a low-stress self-indulgent near-crack AU >.>;;;

Onwards! vvv

The twins: So one of the base premises of YOI as a series is “HEY check out this name ‘Yuri’ that works in both Russian and Japanese! Let’s have two characters from these nationalities share this name.” So it only makes sense to me that any Russian-Japanese kids they have also follow this multi-lingual pattern. I also really wanted the twins to match as much as possible because their characters are very much inseparable, sides of the same coin type kids.

Turns out finding names that work in both languages other than Yuri is pretty hard, especially when your knowledge of Russian is 0. The ones I came up with I was like AHAHAH NAH WHAT JOKE ANIME VILLAIN NAMES ARE THOSE but in the end I couldn’t find better and after calling them that for months, it’s kinda stuck >.>;

So that’s how I ended up with two names that are both nicknames in Russian, both have pretty unfortunate/evil phonetic first impressions in Japanese, and both are feminine and elegant in their Japanese kanji.

Yasha (夜紗/Яша) - I absolutely wanted this for Victor and Yuuri’s son, because apparently it’s the nickname form of “Yakov” which I mean COME ON. Unfortunately, the English approximation of the Japanese phonetic is “demon,” oopsies, not sure you want to name your kid that in rl, but it sounds cool so you may recognize it from various anime ^ ^;;; Luckily Japanese kanji can switch out meanings, so we have “night” and the second character is an uncommon feminine ending that can mean something like “silk,” but is generally just feminine and pretty.

Shura (珠羅/Шура) - Is apparently a nickname for “Aleksandr” and other variations in Russian. Unfortunately, the most obvious meaning for the sound is “carnage,” most frequently used in shuraba or “scene of carnage” in Japanese (in addition to being taken literally, this can also refer to love trouble situation, such as catching your lover cheating etc). Also sounds cool, also pretty common in anime/song titles but nooooot so great rl name LOL With the swapped out kanji, the first character is “pearl,” and the second, while different from Yasha’s, can also mean “silk” and is also a very feminine and elegant character.

Wow u two like the Free!! kids as boys with girly names

I feel like Yurio would be super excited at the prospect of naming his kids like badass anime characters “Demon” and “Carnage” and Victor would be too tickled by the bilingual options and Yuuri would just sorta cave and be like FINE OKAY but don’t turn to me when the other Japanese kids look at them weird...

ALSO, I’m aware that both are in nickname form and not the full Russian names identified above, but as the nicknames are the only ones that work in Japanese those are their official names ^ ^ Given the international nature of their family, I figure it’s fine.

Arisa (愛利咲/อริสา) - This is a common enough relatively modern name in Japanese, and I found it in enough Thai sources to think it works as a Thai name too, but I’m not entirely sure if it’s a native Thai name or a loan name from a different language and also couldn’t find a Thai meaning to it ^ ^;; But given how I’ve heard Thai nicknaming works, I was like okay it’s fine if it’s leaning towards Japanese right?? Anyway, it’s a name I genuinely love outside of bilingual potential so I was biased towards it the moment I found out it could work ^ ^;

ANYWAY, the meaning of her name based on the characters I chose (many combinations possible for this name) means “blooming love,” which I feel is super fitting for this family. ^ ^ ALSO, the middle “ri” character is not particularly cute or feminine compared to the alternatives, but is rather masculine and the choice is intentional. In Japanese, many parents (including my own), will choose to write their kids’ names using characters from their own or their family members’ names. The “ri” in Arisa is the “ri” in both Yuuri and his sister Mari’s names. This character is also actually the first one in Yuuri’s dad’s name, Toshiya (利也), yep it’s read super differently but it’s there, which absolutely makes it a family legacy thing.

Yuuji (勇次) - The most straightforward of all their names, but also given with some thought. ^ ^;; It’s an obvious combination of Yuuri (勇利) and Kenjirou (健次郎)’s names, and is a pretty normal Japanese name. I also could have gone with “Yuujirou,” but it’s a bit long, the “rou” is really masculine, and it’s also the exact sort of name that would be butchered mercilessly in international contexts (though Yuuji is also a pretty masculine name).

The first character, Yuuri’s “Yuu,” means bravery, and the second character from Minami “ji” is “next,” and is commonly given to the second son. But I feel in this context, “next bravery” also seems like a really good name to give someone who you have high hopes for continuing his parents’ legacy in the next generation.

*All of their hyphenated surnames were chosen based on their parents’ fore-knowledge that they’d be growing up in primarily international contexts. Hyphenated surnames really aren’t a thing in Japan at least and Katsuki-Minami is bizarre af but I figured anything goes if it’s all international and given how unconventional their family already is, they’re going to prioritize keeping the pattern than giving a traditional name. Katsuki is first in all of the kids surnames so the kids’ll be together alphabetically. As of the “current” time in this AU, all of the parents have retained their original surnames.