#guhhh i have stuff to do

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Foul Legacy peeking over your shoulder and watching you work for hours, never once faltering. he knows how you toil- he's seen it firsthand, most days of the week- and he knows that there's really no changing it. so when you're home, he keeps you company, curling up beside your desk in a pile of soft blankets and cushions you arranged specifically for him. sometimes Legacy naps, snoozing and snoring peacefully. other times he reads one of your books, claws delicately turning each page with care and precision. his preferred position, though, is to have his head on your lap, leaning against your legs as your hand runs through his thick, soft hair. your Abyssal monster purrs and rumbles in satisfaction, pressing his head into your hands and tilting and turning so you can scritch just the right spots, his wings fluttering in bliss. it grounds you, too. helps loosen the tense muscles in your head and shoulders, fingers buried in his copper locks, the ones you take so much care in washing and brushing just to hear him happily trill.

when Legacy thinks you've been working too hard for far too long, he sits up and nudges your back with his head, urging you out of the chair. if you don't comply, he simply shrugs and scoops you into his arms, marching away and settling you on the couch. breaks are important too- even the mightiest Harbinger, the most powerful Archon- they all take breaks from time to time, seeking a moment of respite from their duties. it's the same for you, Legacy chittering as he brings you water and some fruit, curling up around your body and bumping against your hands. he doesn't let you go until you eat, nodding approvingly and nuzzling against you with quiet chirps, and if you're in any sort of pain, well! work will just have to wait, because he's snuggling down against you and using all of his weight to make sure you can't get up.

you deserve a good night's sleep- besides, he missed you all the other days when you were out, and Legacy wants cuddles.

[skrunksthatwunk]

last minute pre-grandparent-visit room deep cleaning has revealed that within the drawer i tend to assume just has old, off generic birthday cards and theater/concert programs there are also many, many going away cards and letters and things from the last couple of times i moved away. i guess i always thought of it as such a lonely thing, and i talk a lot about how i don't think i made Real friends until recently, and not to get choked up on main or anything but i think maybe i was completely fucking wrong

[marmorenshud]

I have to go visit my family this august. screams.

[tiredsmashbros]

GUHHH-

Question: How was TSB doing during WOTFI? Was the goober sad because no Tari??

:3

finally an excuse to make tsb wotfi 24 design gAH

i behold thee: THE FREAK HUMAN SQUIRREL !!!!!!

bro was sobbing in his cage bc folks wont stop throwing popcorn and mr puzzle plushes at him smh

i can also imagine in this tsb being more insure and quiet but bro still falls in love with the evil witch bluejay no matter what sigh

now im going to pass out, will upload more tomorrow guh i am sorry for not feeding u sillies, i forget and i show more silly stuff to friends or on the discord server gUH .... i have so much to post get ready

[neflil]

Aah here is the text post...

The usual couple doodles ::D

And future projects / catching up vv

*taps mic* Yaelokre gabbro makes a return. Also new song is out! Go listen to it if you haven't jshfjjs

Just gabbooo :3c

Okay so, gather up everyone. Schools started, I suddenly have to study and memorize two latin texts within a few days, history, and ancient Greek philosophy analyses and translations. Not fun, kinda! I don't have as much time as I did during summer and I can't finish a full drawing within a day. *But* ideas are as vivid as ever. And honestly I really want to do some of the stuff I'm imagining. Some are already in the works !!! These are mostly gabbro/time buddies related. Sorry fans of other characters but I spent the entire summer only drawing slate </3

Sooo... What to expect from me? Well:

• I'm writing a short fic! Which is close to being done- Without saying much- a replay of certain memories before the eventual death/creation of everything.

• I am currently doing an OC piece with two owlks ::D this should probably be next post if I finish it soon!

• More short animatics. Cus I have... So many songs... That I want to draw with the time buddies. Short ranging from a couple of seconds, to maybe a minute, so don't expect much. All I'll say is- guhhh y'all better enjoy flower face because all of these are with her songs lmfao..

> There are two songs atleast that I want to make almost full animatics, but that's probably not going to happen, so instead I'll take sections from them.

> Two lyrics from the same song I made last time buddies animatic. Cus I had a vision and I must fulfil it. If this continues, at this rate I'll animate the entire song every time I get struck with a vision, part by part lmfao.

> A possible gabbro centric animatic with the chorus of a song.

• And well, more school doodles/drawings ofc.. but those are kinda random. Please, if you have any suggestions drop them in my ask box!

• A certain fic might get an animatic. I won't elaborate on this. Patience.

• Lastly Mica and Slate piece, bc apparently I've never drawn them and that should be a crime. Some fluff to break up all this incoming angst.

These have a priority list ofc, but the way I work is pretty much spontaneous. So whatever I'm up for will take priority. It'll take time but I hope to have finished all of these within the next couple of months. We'll see how things go... I also have to balance other things and art in-between so blehhh. It's a mess.

Reminder if anyone wants to browse through my art easier without having to go through my entire account- the tag #noofposting is here for that reason. o7

Also also, since I now have these two animatics and more to come- to not get lost in my acc, I'll also tag them with #noofanimatics to be able to filter through my stuff easier.

[sa1808fi]

Guhhh thoughts on Emmet himself saying in tlm2 that the reason he struggled with "getting tougher" was because he heavily struggles to cope with change.... and subsequently subcontiously misses the simplicity of living in Bricksburg despite having learned what it really was (totalitarian dystopia with the careful disguise of a utopia)....

You ever think about how much more tragic Rex becomes with that revelation...

I think that despite how aggressively Rex sticks to his new personality and lifestyle, there's always going to be something in him that misses what life was like before. That ignorance to the world around him and how people treated him was what kept him going, following the instructions.

Once Emmet learns about the existence of master builders, he has to deal with the fact that the ignorance he's lived in his whole life kept him blind to a lot of things. The system he obeyed and believed was actually repressing a lot of people, whole other worlds existed, and there was some kind of other realm that only he could see.

That's a lot of shit to throw at a guy in one day.

And yet Emmet manages to roll with all of the insane stuff happening to him pretty quickly. He comes up with a replacement for a broken wheel, saves them all from drowning with his double decker couch, comes up with a good plan to infiltrate Octan (That ended up being closer to winning than any other plan), and he even manages to talk down Business to stopping his evil plan!

Emmet is finally happy because he managed to find his sense of self between all that chaos. He's a master builder, The Special, and he has friends now!

Then Apocalypseburg comes along. Those instructions that his whole life revolved around don’t exist anymore (at least not as intensely), Lucy and everyone else got sucked into the tough-gritty mentality that everyone else took on.

Emmet never cared to change like that himself. Surfer Dave wanted to be Chainsaw Dave instead? Ok cool, Emmet's still gonna treat him the same as always.

Emmet is perfectly content with doing whatever he wants now, and he no longer feels the need to go along with everyone else because he has friends that care about him now. And something about the aggressiveness of the apocalypseburgian lifestyle isn't that appealing to him.

Now, everyone treats him as an outcast for not fitting in compared to the previous complaints of him being 'too normal'. Emmet ignores these comments because he's fine with his life. He still listen's to 'Everything Is Awesome', greets people on the street, and lives in his own little world, ignorant to the world around him.

Then his friends get kidnapped, he meets Rex, and he has to face his worldview being shattered again.

He finally starts acting tough because Emmet now believes if he doesn't, then he can't save anyone.

And then it turns out the guy he spent the whole time trusting is this future version of himself that got abandoned by everyone he was currently trying to save.

That HURTS man.

And that's not even going on how Rex is feeling. The man has to come face to face with a younger more naive version of himself that hasn't faced the horrors he had.

Rex has to deal with this version of himself that still talks about Apocalypseburg fondly, and thinks back to his friends without any hatred.

How Rex feels about his past homes will change depending on the timeline.

During the 5 years in Undar, Rex slowly came to the 'realization' that none of his friends actually wanted to come and find him. He's left there to just look back at all of his good memories as a way to pass the time.

However, once the knowledge of his 'uselessness' sinks in, those rose-tinted glasses are ripped away from him. All of the mistreatment he suffered in Bricksburg and Apocalypseburg is going to slap him in the face.

Right out of Undar and until the events of the second movie, he doesn't look back at Bricksburg, or even Apocalypseburg with bittersweetness. It's just rage. He does his best to just keep it out of his mind because he's trying to focus on his plans, but when it does engulf his thoughts?

All he can remember is the betrayal, the constant side comments, the attempts to make him change himself. All of that just fans the firey rage that's settled into his heart.

The second movie is the first time in years that he's had to actually face his past as Emmet. Until then it was just occasional outbursts at the thought of either place or people.

So here's Emmet, the him that hasn't been scarred by the unfairness of the world. The him that still lives in that blissful ignorance. The him that believes people care.

Rex changed himself until he was practically unrecognizable (Even to himself), because he was running under the logic that if he didn't, then he really was useless.

He took up an adventurous lifestyle, pulling off dangerous stunts to further distance himself from the safe way he used to live. The fucker decided to go to the past to get velociraptors because he thought it would be cool.

Still, some tiny part of him longs for the days when he lived in naivety, when the knowledge of how the world actually works didn't weigh down on him, when he didn't have to grapple with the fact that people didn't like him.

But alas, He's seen too much at this point.

‘ignorance is bliss’ and all that jazz.

[nerves-nebula]

Hi! I adore your work with the tm(n)t and saw you mentioned wanting to do some stuff about Leo being a menace to her brothers!

I understand you’re very busy with art school, so this is a statement of corroborated interest rather than a request, but I would also love to see the conversation Leo and Donnie have about the COCSA that was mentioned once or twice- the conversation Mikey and Raph had about ‘tail doctor’ has stuck with me! It was so comforting that Raph immediately believed Mikey and apologized, but the dynamic between Leo and Donnie is very different.

I realize it’s been mentioned a few times that Donnie Really Does Not Want to Talk About It but I think a hard conversation like that when he’s older would be SO intriguing. Especially in your comic style, since you have such a strong grasp on composition and striking dialogue!

Regardless, I am still very invested in all your art like Loose Stitches and I’m rooting for you! As a fellow artist I understand that sometimes inspiration strikes and art comes quickly, and other times it’s like pulling teeth to get your idea out and onto the canvas.

I SUPER APPRECIATE THAT YOU, LIKE. THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE COMICS GUHHH. GASJDFMGKADSG. JUST BEING REMINDED THAT PPL REMEMBER THAT SHIT IS SO.... AAAAAAAAA. I WISH I COULD BE MAKING TMNT COMICS SO BAD JUST FOR THE SAKE OF PPL LIKE YOU

but ALAS I have BURDENED myself with 2 illustration courses so i kinda. really fucked that one up didn't I!! OH WELL. if i can i will try to get a comic out <<33 thank you for telling me all this guhagushgsadgjk it really REALLY does help

[jahdenexists]

Guhhh what’s an intro post-

Idk how to do an intro post so just take this wawawawwa

⭐️🌟⭐️

I go by jahden online, I am a he/him and I audhd (if you didn’t already see it in my thingy)

I am a MINOR. I still needs to get my education and with that being said, here’s all my ME NO LIKE DNI:

DNI if you are/support

- uhm Anti-LGBTQ+ and/or Homophobia (we like queers around here)

- Racism!! ..I do not fw this..

- Ablism.. i have no words for you

- MAP. Literally just say you’re a pedo UHM… GET OUT!!

Things I FW HEAVY

- Regretavator, Pressure, general epic Roblox games

- Analog horror

- Indie animation

- Indie anything’s tbh

- MINECRAFT

- HIII DIALTOWN FANS (crickets bc no one knows what dialtown is)

I’m low key kind of basic you guys should give me suggestions of stuff to watch and/or play

More specifics of me

I still like drawing stuffs a lot, but if you haven’t noticed I have a consistently changing art style and that’s kind of my thing I guess??

I can adapt to any art style but prefer the inconsistency of different art styles. Also I really won’t be drawing too much regretavator anymore unless I really want to. I mostly did draw it a lot earlier this year (I think??) because I had free time. But especially school started back up again and now I’m busy getting educated! But I will continue posting my OWN exploding colors art every now and then.

(Might be edited later cuz wawawawa)

[zenaidamacrouras1]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love! <3

Oh my gosh 5 is a lot! This is so sweet and I can't wait to pass it on. I like all my fics that I have posted or I would never finish editing them, but I do have favorites.

1. I mean my favorite overall is my fic Backhoe which I think is both technically speaking more ambitious than most of my stuff and also very personally dear to me for all kinds of reasons. I have a few chapters that I think landed flat, and if I had infinite time to tinker, things I would improve. But a couple of the chapters are, in my opinion, the absolute best shit I have ever written. In some ways the areas I don't like are a compliment because I think that fic is worth some serious investment and thinking critically about themes and whatnot because I just adore it.

2. I actually really like my fic The Charming Man because it's so different than my other stuff, I am not saying I nailed all the tropes but I really enjoyed playing with the spy world. I have always loved the concept of a character falling in love with a spy as a regular person and getting caught up in their spy world and then holding their own as a civilian. It is such a delightful trope. Having small Steve being the hero mainly by using utterly mundane competency like being good at spreadsheets and really quick to hit the elevator button and generally knowing where in a cubicle office layout you could find a bandaid is a dynamic I adore. It was a huge challenge, but in the good way, for me to try and do my own version.

3. I like my short fic "Take Me Anywhere" in part because Bucky is a ballet dancer, and guhhh speaking of things I like. But I feel like that fic accomplishes a lot in relatively few words which is honestly hard for me. Everything I write ends up super long which is not a compliment. It's a real art that I admire, possibly because I am bad at it, to write something short that carries weight and depth and an arc, and so many fic writers are fucking incredible at it. More isn't always more as we all know.

4. History of American Capitalism started off as something so self indulgent when I was in an absolutely profoundly bad place mental healthwise. I was so sure that everyone else would think it was the dumbest thing anyone on the planet ever shoved into the world. I was initially sooo embarrassed to share it. But in fact it's my most popular fic, which is kinda funny. It ended up completely by accident being halfway a memoir of my college experience, with many things very different but funny things like the layout of their apartment was based on the layout of one of my college apartments, stuff like that. Also the dead mom and having panic attacks at the idea of falling in love because it makes you vulnerable. Also having the fear that every one you love will die but then you end up self sabotaging in your attempt and severely harming people you love in your twisted brains attempts to protect yourself.

I also enjoy exploring the concept of celebrity which I do in a few fics but it's an interesting concept given my interest (brainrot) for these famous people who, to be clear I don't want to actually know and date, honest, but what could it look like to have a "normal person" be in a relationship with a famous person and have it be equal?

Haha it's also very cheerful and light hearted despite that description.

5. Probably Monoclonius because dinosaurs! 🦖🦕 And I was recently in DC for work and it is a bit of a love letter to the city. I don't know if the chapter where Bucky and Sarah ride on the metro together on their little adventure is actually a perfect chapter, but it is perfect to me. And I will always be proud of how everyone describes that fic as wholesome and innocent and tender and sappy and yet it is like wall to wall sex scenes at points. Me and my wholesome, earnest smut.

[himebushou]

Okay, I think this is happening -- I've been drawn in and I'm now rewatching The Prince of Tennis.

Thoughts on Episodes 2 through to 6 below.

Ep 2 - Samurai Junior

Inoue appears! This guy is so important for the audience as he explains so much tennis teminology to us (at Shiba's expense, whoops) but the fact that he works for a (presumably) well-known tennis magazine yet spends so much time covering the middle school scene is... odd. Like, he's there for the entirety of Seigaku's ranking tournament? What about the other Kanto schools?

HE TALKS ABOUT NANJIROU and says how Nanjirou 'might have even won the Grand Slam'. To my memory, Nanjiroh was one match away from becoming World No. 1 (is that possible without winning a slam?) but suddenly quit because, y'know. The boy.

Ryoma does this lil glower after the first time he meets Momo and it's so funny, lol

Ryoma's contrary nature is RIDICULOUS. Arai demands that the freshmen introduce themselves, which the Ichinen Trio do, but Ryoma? Just stands there. Like, CHILD. He asked for your name! these are not state secrets!

So of course, we have the whole thing with Arai trying to con the freshmen and Ryoma gets pretty mad about Arai trying to fleece the freshmen -- he gets pretty heroic (?) about the whole thing and, with it, very bratty: "If I hit the can 100x, do I get 100,000 yen?"

Then Momo is there and it really seems like he just wants to beat Ryoma up!

Rather adorably, Horio umpires the Ryoma v. Momo match. When Ryoma's about to serve, the Triple Counter OST starts playing (I really don't remember any of the titles from the OST -- except Yuugure -- but I'm sure everyone knows what I mean). It's very cool.

Tomo-chan sees Ryoma serve ONCE and calls him Ryoma-sama -- MY GIRL.

And then we get our first Nanjiroh appearance! And it turns out that he even has an umpire's chair at the temple, so? Who is umpiring his games against Ryoma? Nanako? RINKO??

Ryoma also tells the Ichinen Trio that he learnt to play tennis at a temple. Um. Ryoma is a big liar because he has only lived in front of said temple for about 5 minutes. What a DORK. In the best way!

(The temple is absolutely gorgeous by the way.)

Ep. 3 - The Seigaku Regulars Make Their Debut!

Man -- so we see Sakuno and Tomo-chan in one of the classrooms overlooking the courts and they comment on how cool the team is -- and then the camera pans up to Tezuka who's on the floor above, watching silently and I just enjoyed that so much. Like, at this stage, Tezuka is a bit of a mystery, so it's so fun!

Then Horio brags about how strong Momo is and Ryoma spends an eternity tying his shoelaces. Many moons ago (we're talking about 15 years ago, at least), I read this blog post about how much screentime is dedicated to Ryoma TYING HIS LACES and, honestly, I've never been able to get that post out of my head. Truly incredible stuff.

Guhhh I hate the obsession with heirarchy at Seigaku... Hyoutei and Rikkaidai are a heck of a lot more flexible, whoops.

Oishi! Beloved Oishi! Until he gets to the courts, the freshmen are just running around doing Tasks -- then Oishi arrives and tells them to practice playing because he wants them to get a good feel for the way things run at Seigaku. And it's so heart-warming! Oishi recognises that these kids are there because they want to have fun and he does these little things throughout the early eps to build camaraderie -- like when the freshmen are cheering for Seigaku in episode 8 or 9, Oishi teases, "Freshmen, we can't hear you!" and it's just... wow. Oishi's not there to pull rank: he's there to encourage the team. Tezuka honestly could not have had a better VC.

(I'm honestly just loving this so much... everyone's regarding Ryoma as this potential problem and sussing him out and being in this privileged position of knowing how much this team will grow to love him -- and how much he'll grow to love them -- is really special. It's really incredible to see this journey again.)

Arai behaves like a dork, gets scolded by Tezuka and told to run laps, questions this, and is then told to run more laps. Ryoma just dutifully runs his laps without any argument (the slight contradictions in his personality are so funny -- like he will sometimes rail against authority and, at other times, just accept it without question).

Come to think of it... Ryoma and Gon Freeccs get pretty similar treatment, I think, in that we don't get a look-in at their literal thoughts? Compare that to how often we're in Killua's head, for example, or Inui's or Oishi's or whoever's and... it's a very interesting way of storytelling.

Eps 4 & 5 - The One Named Viper & Snake Shot

AND SO, THE RANKING TOURNAMENT IS UNDERWAY.

Man, there are so many girls watching the ranking tournament? The tennis club is so popular lol

WE SEE RINKO FOR THE FIRST TIME. Of course, her face isn't shown, but!! She's there!

Ryoma's match against Kaidoh is a lot of fun. Momo's on standby to provide commentary to the Ichinen Trio (and they correctly determine that he's so knowledgeable about Kaidoh's playstyle on account of having lost to Kaidoh, which is hilarious). Ryoma impresses everyone by pulling off his own version of the Snake Shot -- the Buggy Whip Shot! -- and phew, good stuff. There's a lot of technical tennis talk.

(I hate how Kaidoh hurts himself at the end of the match. Both Kaidoh and Sanada need to be seen by school counsellors or something.)

I love seeing Ryoma get squashed by the Ichinen Trio -- he looks slightly bewildered, haha.

Ep 6 - That Man, Echizen Nanjirou

OOFT, probably my favourite episode so far! Nanjirou has become my second favourite in The Prince of Tennis (no prizes for guessing my favourite) and this episode is wonderful.

Inoue barges over to the Echizen house and ends up playing a game with Nanjirou -- the stipulation is that Nanjirou will only answer Inoue's questions if Inoue manages to get a point past him. Despite this, Nanjirou ends up telling Inoue a lot: he explains that he quit his pro career because playing with the 'impudent' Ryoma is a heck of a lot more fun than playing his pros and geez, Nanjirou loves his son SO MUCH. Nanjirou also explains that Ryoma's tennis style is currently identical to his and, to go further, there are some things Ryoma has to achieve. We get to see some of Nanjirou's skill.

The only question Nanjirou doesn't answer is when Inoue suggests that Ryoma's being trained to go pro. Nanjirou's pretty dismissive of this idea (AND WE KNOW WHY! YAHOO!).

Ryoma has a conversation with Sakuno and says that he doesn't know when he started playing tennis -- it's been part of his life for as long as he can remember and he couldn't quite even if he wanted to because there's something he has to do. So, once again, this episode sets up one of the major themes/conflicts of The Prince of Tennis.

(It turns out that the temple is behind the Echizen's house! Nanako -- the sweetheart -- explains that the monk is currently on a retreat and that Nanjirou just made a court without permission. This is one interaction I desperately want more information on.)

So... yeah. I'm genuinely having a whale of a time.

[skyward-floored]

Guhhh ao3 is down and I was DOING stuff on there

Grumble grumble... guess I’ll have to write stuff instead

[straightyuri]

I wanna maybe give jasper another redesign mostly in clothes... I wanna mayb try n make them more. Uh. Retro futurism I think is the word I'm looking for? Inspired. They already are very vaguely n mostly on accident you can maybe see it. Or not. Thing is stuff I specifically have in mind is very shiny n I cannot for life pf me figure out how how make something look shiny. Guhhh I guess. Grits teeth. I'll have to do studies.

[tiredsmashbros]

hai hai hallo!!! :3

I'm a huge fan of your SMG4 stuff, and I love TSB!!! that man is so goofy and evil(tm)!! I get so excited when I see TarixTSB and now the LORE of TSB!!! It seems so well thought out, and I'd love to learn why he became such a menace!!

Anyways, I have been totally imagining a meeting where TSB somehow drops into Hexsy's world (my SMG4 oc *grins*) and did this doodle of her intimidating him with her height!!

Aand I feel like I wanna share it with you!

*drops and runs off giggling like a maniac*

(Also sorry for the messy doodle :3)

when i found out hexsy was going to get tsb sooner than i thought-

OKAY SRSLY MY INBOX IS SO BROKEN AND I FOUND THIS OMG I LOVE UR OC BRO THE RING LIGHT LEACH CONCEPT IS STILL LIVE IN MY HEAD YUIGHJEFDSJHKM

AND AAAAA IM SO GLAD U LIKE MY STUFF MAN SRSLY QWQ IT WARMS MY HEART WHENEVER I GET COMMENTS LIKE THAT, MAKES ME SO MOTIVATED AND IM GLAD FOLKS LIKE TSARI AS MUCH AS I DO {tari my beloved....🌸💕☀️🌈✨😩☁️} AND EVEN THE LORE GUHHH MY BIGGEST FLEX IS MAKIN COMPLICATED STORYLINES BUT GUH IM SO GLAD U LIKE IT LORE IS COOKIN UP TRUST TRUSTTT JUST GETTIN OTHER STUFF DONE FIRST BEFORE I LAUNCH ANOTHER LORE COMIC UIGHJDSXHJK

ong i love the idea of tsb going into other smg4 oc's world/universes and folks imagining what bro gonna be reacting arriving YOUIGHJDSXUYGHJ AND I SRSLY APPRECIATE YOU SHARING IT THESE GIFTS MAKE ME HAPPY THANK YOU QWQ 💛💛💛💛💛💛

[gainprincess]

"I...I...Guhhh...Fine."

Does Cynthia have to deal with this stuff? Lyra's been Johto's clap-heavy champion for 2 years now, and she's only gotten Whitney to pay for her own food twice, and Clair did it once when it was Lyra's birthday.

Maybe she should do some cross-region communication and learn some tips.

[fatratbabyy]

What's your design process?

Also yo, what up

Apologies for how late this response is lmao! Nothing much, been a busy last few months and I still have 3 or so busy months left to go 😭😭😭 but still good, ive got some fun stuff planned to do in the hopefully near future. Anyway!!! My design process,, oo boy- Guhhh

So most of my designs are redesigns, and because of that usually I have a base to work with.

I start with the main ideas, vibe, concept, theme, etc, and then go into trying to sketch it out, usually attaching to and amplifying a certain theme/idea. Like for the past few days, I've been redesigning people's OCs (its been quite fun) and with everyone's characters being so unique from each other I'd attach to something different each time. Some characters had a lot of keywords and vibes, others I had to kinda make up stuff of what I could read.

This OC (owned by @/lunefuforu ) had lots of details and energy I could go off of. An ice elemental musician, crystal ice and bits of white hair so I was like. Ok, this character's a musician and seems a bit showy how bout i give him a ice crown, and ice ears. Also, fluffy coat cuz cold. Icey. Also almost yeti-like kind of fur in some places jus to drive the ice element theme home. Lune had an incredible way of balancing the ice theme out so its not all just blues and blacks, and that was adding a warm/floral elemnt and i think thats genius, so I utilized it again for the coat and flower thats in the same spot.

Having a singular theme but many ideas is lots of fun to work with.

(First image by Lune, second is my redesign)

Sometimes you've really gotta crank the gears for a design. This one (owned by @/sk1llz-heeler /@Sk1llzHeeler w/ twitter) was a bit of a challenge cuz I didn't have much to go off of other than...simp. So! I took that as Derogatory /j and made the redesign a bit slimy/sofisticjated UMU

(First image by Sk1llzHeeler, second by me)

So ig my design 'process' would be finding a design element and amplifying it! Idk how specific you wanted me to be but ye quq

[observeroflaplace]

D5 - Barbarous

“Look at her. That gaudy fur coat! Armour in broad daylight, and not even polished.”

“As though a Dravanian would ever live up to a Knight’s standards-“

“Not so loud! …Besides, she’s one of those Owruh, right? Surely she isn’t someone who did that?”

“I just want my peace. We were promised that much if we tolerated these backwards-thinking heretics-“

A short and muscular Xaela wandered the streets of Ishgard. The cold did her hardly any favours - thus in addition to black lacquered plates of armour accented with golden snurble wool, she wore a longer coat from yet more wool of her beloved fluffy charges.

Still, she shivered. At the very least, the prying eyes and scoffing voices meant little to her.

Sneer all you want, you uncultured buffoons, she thought, proudly.

She chuckles to herself, largely ignorant of the content of the jeering, until she spies an exhausted-looking soul carrying a backpack as large as she herself was.

The newcomer was a Moon Keeper with similarly bronze skin to herself, but stark white hair. She looked to be some kind of merchant, having just departed from airship to peddle her wares. And as one might expect of someone so burdened, she looked like she might collapse at any tick.

…until, of course, she indeed begins to.

Gansetseg rushes to the Keeper’s side, helping gently set down the Miqo’te’s considerable belongings, before the latter finds herself crushed underneath them. Before she can question how the Miqo’te got as far as getting off the gangplank of the airship with too much to carry, the reason becomes quickly apparent, by a loud growling sound from the Miqo’te’s stomach.

“Guhhh…. Need… Tummyfill…”

The strange dialect simply spurs the judgemental onlookers further.

“Oh great, the Goblin-child.”

“When will she learn she isn’t one of them?”

“If she’s such a great merchant, then she should get herself to the Crozier or the Firmament already.”

How uncivilised, Gansetseg thought. They live in such affluent homes yet lack the grain or meat to feed a collapsed stranger? Or perhaps, since they lack the knowledge to move with the seasons, they’re barbarians who cannot even lift themselves beyond their own arses.

Gansetseg thusly takes it upon herself to aid this girl by bringing her to an inn. But first…

“Mfffh?!”

The Miqo’te girl seems to come to life immediately as the Xaela stuffs some manner of spiced meatball in her mouth. Once she realises what happened, she chews slowly and swallows, gratefully.

“Uhh? Whatnow? Strange scalelander saved Oghii! Huge longtrade for lifetime!”

Gansetseg shakes her head.

“It is only the cultured thing to do to feed a starving trader in passage. However, while you regain your strength, I shall aid you in getting to an inn.”

The miqo’te seems initially hesitant, clutching her backpack like her life depends on it. As a travelling merchant, this likely isn’t too far from the truth.

Seeing the girl’s reaction, Gansetseg offers a compromise.

“I still struggle with coin, but perhaps I can offer you a trade? My people - well, my old people - are very adept at bartering. Perhaps this coat will suit you, in exchange for something heavy? You will find few things from this exquisite material.”

The Miqo’te’s eyes light up, as she produces some manner of collapsible cannon from her backpack.

The onlookers look away, shaking their heads.

The Miqo’te, very aware of the judgemental Elezen and Hyur around her and this kind stranger, frowns and her eyes lose their excited lustre.

Gansetseg, however, answers the girl’s enthusiasm in kind.

“I’ll take it! Now then, to the I-forget-the-name Night!”