#gwin xcx

[xenoblade-chronicles-brackets]

[lao-huangs-bitch]

I found this account and I've been going apeshit this whole time

[wiffhuff]

Nerdy Gwin Evans :000

So I’m rn away so this post won’t be as detailed as my usual XCX Highschool AU posts. I got the colouring done on a flight, but quality will sag a little because of the program switching and lower resolution.

I made Gwin’s hair a bit more messier to make him look more…endearing?? Like messy but in a good way ig. I added an anime ahoge to add on the effect.

The glasses were added so he looks like a nerd LOL. I didn’t expect it to look good on him, but it’s a nice touch ^^

His overall outfit is pretty basic for the uniform, as I’d imagine he doesn’t go too crazy with bending the rules

Notes:

- Second year student, 16 years old

-Taking it from an unused voice line, he’s in fandom rot (dunno which fandoms he would be in) and likes doing role-playing type stuff. He keeps this private from his school life, separating his “online persona” and “real life persona” between different friends

-Leon is probably the only friend who knows both personas, as he hangs with Gwin on Discord after school to play games and sometimes meet up with him in-person when he’s off from university

-Gwin’s family lives in a rural area and are farmers, but Gwin is staying at a relative’s place to go to school (based on that XCX affinity thing that called him a farm boy)

-I’d like to think he met the Akulov siblings separately, and didn’t make the connection they were related until he saw them together by chance

-Gets teased a lot ngl 😭😭😭

-He’s probably a nerd in a subject at school, but I haven’t figured out which one.

-He such a goody-two shoes, but prob has hidden a few slip ups with Mathias in the past

Translation:

Left: Irina is surrounded with hearts with the caption “Love-o-vision” while Gwin is dying inside. Mathias appears to tease Gwin by saying “Wow you are down bad” in which Gwin replies “Woah woah, shush”. Gwin is on his gaming PC chatting to Leon saying “Oh hey Leon. Jump on VC [Voice chat]”.

Right: Side view of Gwin’s face with the caption “His glasses are for reading [Implies he does not need to wear his glasses all the time]”. A full showcase of “Gwin’s fit” with labels such as “tie”, “long sleeved shirt”, and “dress shoes”. A picture of Gwin’s bag is shown, with his various fandom pins.

[peachlover94]

Xenoscouts DA Collab

Hey there, all you Nintendo fan artists! My friends over on DeviantArt, Twitter and Tumblr are hosting a Xenoblade Chronicles collab in which the theme is camping and scout troops. Call it Xenoscouts if you will.

Information and Rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lZ3IFQACLswvW2TSlroQvc7p-j4wMc26kZfNCz8Yj7s/edit

List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d1A2PFiMF-TrdPdS4GXxG5W3CCfwUint5ll99aV028A/edit

After some discussion and support from various allies, my friend NinGemTitan decided to come out of retirement and host this smaller-scale collaboration. In this project, artists will draw Xenoblade Chronicles characters as scouts (like real life childhood) camping peacefully but wearing creatively designed individual uniforms. Camping is one idea that may not have been used often, so this could be fresh fun. Note that only protagonists are allowed, for the sake of peace.

The background should depict a forest (during an ambiguous season) with a cabin/tents and a campfire. One artist can volunteer and make it 8000 x 4000. Maybe a Titan or two would be fitting.

Rules (subject to change):

Please ask me for a character first, and then you can add yourself to the list, unless you want me to type your name on the list for you.

Entries must be colored and full-body (unless a camping object is in front of them).

No overly invasive watermarks. Small signatures and such will suffice.

If you wish to send me the non-watermarked versions privately (through a DM), that is perfectly fine.

Each entry in the list must be separate, for arrangement freedom.

Be creative in making your scout uniform designs, as I want you to put in full effort and have fun with your entries.

Please describe what camping activity each character would do. Examples include roasting marshmallows or fish, chopping wood, etc.

Entries must be 500 x 500 at a minimum.

Tracing, bases, and AI are completely forbidden. Art must be done 100% by you.

I will regularly check on you to make sure you're on task. Each entry has a due date of one month. To get an extension, please provide a real-world explanation AND show me a WIP, no exceptions.

Ask for only one character at a time; once finished, then ask for another one. I want to give other artists an equal chance to join and reduce the chances of overdue characters. This means no reservations, but you can ask to replace your character with a new one if available. No change-backs, though.

PNGs with transparent BGs are recommended. This saves time for the assembly.

Shadows and shading must go bottom right, for consistency.

No NSFW or raunchy content.

If applicable, artists from Twitter will be added to the list.

Reasonable character suggestions are welcome!

List of entries (Protagonists only):

XC1:

Shulk - Adithya1012 - DONE

Reyn

Fiora - Mary-Bella (Due 12/6)

Sharla - Adithya1012 - DONE

Riki

Dunban

Melia - GoddessPrincessLulu - DONE

Future Connected:

Kino

Nene

XC2 (Only including story blades):

Rex

Pyra - LovelyPrincessN64 (Due 11/29)

Mythra - GoddessPrincessLulu - DONE

Pneuma

Nia - lonewolf-45 - DONE

Dromarch - VixDojoFox - DONE

Tora and Poppi

Morag - SweetGluttonyArt - DONE

Brighid

Zeke - DarkWolfKnight00 - DONE

Pandoria - VixDojoFox - DONE

XC3:

Noah

Lanz

Eunie - lonewolf-45 - DONE

Taion

Sena - VixDojoFox - DONE

Mio - VixDojoFox - DONE

Riku

Manana

XCX:

The avatar/Cross

Elma

Lin

Tatsu

Doug

Gwin

Irina

Lao

Let's gather 'round the campfire and sing our campfire song,

Our C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G song.

And if you don't think that we can sing it faster, then you're wrong

But it'll help if you just sing along!

[prkert-underscore]

some highlights stuff from the whiteboard last night! thank you all for joining! it was really fun! those who havent been available to, i was planning sometime in the near future, so there's always next time! ^^

[miran-native]

I spent way too much time on this

Alternatively: No BLADE has stopped saying f*ck since they landed on Mira

[singleahoge]

A request my friend did for me of my OC avatar, Saori, and Gwin. (Plus a bonus little Lin and my other avatar Cross)

[pish-posh-mish-mosh]

i was searching for more artwork to post but 90% of my xenoblade work is just cross, so i offer you some headshot sketches

yes i know a lot of these old drawings say “hailstorm” on them, that was my old signature

[xenobladeimagines]

Think any characters at all have any secret tattoos?

Gonna go with xcx for this one

Elma: She has one on her hip, it’s very smal and looks a little like a barcode. It’s a relic from early mim manufacturing. 

Lin: Nope. 

Irina: She has some on her thighs, it’s a wreath of flowers. 

Gwin: He has a paw print on his left shin. It’s the print of his first cat. 

Doug: He has the names of fallen comrades on his ribs. 

Lao: He has one with Chenshi’s name and her date of birth. 

L: He has a massive one on his back, representing a telethia. The wings are on his arms. 

Bonus Frye: He’s got one on his ass. It’s the interceptor logo.

[ask-lao-huang]

look on the bright side lao that nurses outfit will gain a lot of attention from the guys

Bright side? BRIGHT SIDE?!

[metalempire]

gwin in xcx can use ultraslash 

jin in xc2 can use ultraslash 

both names end with “in”

deepest lore

[rorahkeepgoing]

Think i’ve barely mentioned how the sisters accomplish their spy job, so here i’ll try to show it, exposing a little of the main connection between the whole thing i’ve been shitposting around and the mysteries behind XCX (hope you can catch the winks).

Backstory 

Special sis (p1)

Special sis (p2)

THE ELITE SPIES

*click music while you read*...[for ambient(?)]

*or here if there’s nothing to do (?)*.

They main propuse of the Shostakova’s sisters was to become spies, they born for it. All their life was specially dedicated to be the best. 

Their education was based on a current program called “the prodigy child” but taken even further in a 24/7 program. The study time for each subject was strictly controlled by the scientist, even with induction during sleep to keep the stimulation in the neuronal cells to linking more while activate them. It covered all types of a level university subjects from an early age following a detailed study of the reception and assimilation of info that could hold a child.

The food was also rigorously controlled according to their age, weight and the activities that were to exercise for the efficiency in the nutrients ingestion.

They learned everything in 7 basic languages.  Eventually became polyglot, understanding almost any idiom with the general basis around languages estructures. 

The main purpose of their educational development was to use it as a further tool in the work of spying, since they had to investigate, analyze, deduce, interact, move and even defend themselves or murder if circumstances became risk.

For the interaction part, they incidentally became actresses, generated by a method of facial, tonal and corporal mimesis. In a room full of mirrors and cameras, the girls faced endless social trials recognizing emotions, moods, people with high self-esteem and low. At the time that they advanced with their corporal extension to the answer to the society also they became experts of human reading, identifying all the perceptible factors they projected to the most susceptible candidates that could provide a better and more optimal collaborations.  A very useful tool to approach people and use them.

They also learned from these ancient methods based on the traditional ninjas. Women with these kind of training were called Kunoichi and their main method who distinguishing them from men was the use of seduction and the handling of poisons and substances with which they used to achieve their mission. In all, they were also highly efficient hush assassins.

Following these means, the girls resorted to paralyzers, poisons, drugs, even micro bacteria to control high-risk situations to get a job as clean as possible. They often were the responsible to make all their substances, the suppliers were often the managers who controlled the RKR although they could also take advantage of the chemicals they had at hand.

They needed to be painstaking when was about to kill. It as to be the minimum as possible, and in any case they had to resort to it was due to the circumstances they were found in. Their care into not leaving evidence was very meticulous, or nonetheless to ravel the evidence under the environment where were found, often making it appear the responsible were others. Killing had to be very clean, one silence shot, avoid bloodbaths as posible, fast and effective.

They were specially careful with their appearance, using from simple wigs or hair extensions, dyes, makeup, pupils to more sophisticated devices capable to generate the illusion of modifying facial features. Their special biological nature made them suitable for the use of substances that were just being tested for the modification of skin tone, hair and eyes. Something like a mimeosome,  But in an orthodox way to an organic being. That’s why they were a blank canvas: no freckles,no beauty points, no tattoos, no scars or any singular feature that describes them. These features can be added and removed easy with makeup, so that is what they used to use. Indeed, they had lot of scars only visibles in a low level frequency of light.

The purpose was obviously, to not be detected, not to allow traces for they to gave some type of whereabouts of them, their origin or the people in charge, none possibility for blackmailing and such. Practically their task were to be ghosts, with no trace of existence. Hence the use of a myriad of identities created or taken.

It is worth mentioning the technology and the ways of spy were mainly through the systems hacking and sometimes the penetration (convince to the personnel of the interior to collaborate), reason why to have people trained to act the old school with the ability to perform the previous two were doubly effective.

They were never rewarded with money for their work by the RKR part, who, despite the fact that they obtained great profits, were only concerned with providing them with necessary supplements such as clothing, places to stay, necessary articles and equipment for some missions, necessary makeup among other things for their identity transformation, false documentation, transport, weaponry, etc.

The food ran on their own, so Rox always used to master their skills and get the food for free, used to say for live the money wasn't necessary, just be smart and confidence. Generally, she had no interest in money more than the use of it and its purposes. Despite this, Roxanne had numerous bank accounts around the world with distant names where she accumulated large sums of money that she hacked from other bank accounts, many of them, so it was not a matter of being poor either. Much of the money was given to the RKR to continue with the investment (and that they didn't ask but were quite good with the extra wealth). What was left was used to generate alliances, in the end, the world was moving through money.

Since the beginning of the encroachment with Elma's arrival to Earth, Natasha and Roxanne's parents were involved in the matter getting information from the vessels called mimeosomes up to 2 years after the birth of the second test (Nat). From there it was not much of a problem for Matahari to get some of the remaining information about the purpose of Elma's intentions, unfortunately she died with the secret at being considered as a traitor to the RKR.

Roxanne had a real early participation to detect the nexus that was working for such a program, however just after the execution of their parents she was entrusted to be totally in command of her younger sister (time she took to forge valuable contacts around the world) to lead a more concentrated education that will help them to be more productive and discard less useful subjects such as art, dance, music, etc.

Rox did not consider any kind of matter as useless, yet she didn't have the time to pay so much attention on them. If through the time in any of their missions it was necessary to rely on such knowledge they would have to inquire into them.

This was the case when Natasha had her own separate missions to derive information from Sakuraba Industries through the girls she could contact, interested passionately for trending things like fashion, music and boys. Always researching the target was important to establish a successful contact with the "link-ppl" so she took the identity of a model and some backup dancer from some kind of artist to become their friend.

Obtaining and generating their own mimeosomes had been easy for the RKR, but the process of the consciousness suspension was one of the last things they managed to do because of the setbacks caused by Roxanne, who had been commissioned to explain the origin of the purpose behind the salvation of the human race and steal the configuration codes for the consciousness preservation. Task she did and did not report, once again, causing another execution for betrayal.

Natasha was the one who ended up getting the materials, codes and, failing that, helping to recreate their own Lifehold-system since the world had only managed to manufacture three in total to sustain the life of the whole planet.

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Throughout the spying process they also exposed all kinds of sub projects that were in an illegal way. Infinity of tests with artificial intelligence, or on trained soldiers, simple passers-by without any important skill, or bodies that remained in coma to carry out a way to over-exploit a mechanical body with more resistance to a certain type of exhaustion.

(and there’s more... with skells and the arcs, connections with some members like Lin’s parents, Irina and Lion, Gwin, Maurice, Vandham, HB, Doug, Hope, Nagi, Bozé, Lao, Yelv (when Natasha is In the art) and some NPCs like Justin along some criminals.... and don’t forget the winks around others corsses... im afraid i can show all that tho... is too much... and going to return to the comic thing SOON ENOUGH)

[lao-huangs-bitch]

Am I on time for the meme-

[wiffhuff]

“Hiya, Boss!” - Mia

I’m right now procrastinating XCX HS AU Gwin beacuse for some reason his hair is so weird to draw. Doodled a XCX HS AU Mia instead lol. I’ll go in depth for Mia’s lore when I actually get to her.

[honestlyvan]

Xenoblade X for the shipping thing?

hooo boy okay so I’m gonna stretch the definition of OTP to include “dynamics I find fun or interesting to potentially explore even if I don’t actively ship it”, because I don’t…. really… have that many ships for XCX? A lot of my intercharacter ideas are just lots of consenting adult doing whatever they want and, through the transitive property of perspective, I tend to view the rest of it through Silva’s perspective and he doesn’t care so subsequently I don’t really either. You have been warned, I have boring XCX opinions.

lowkey otp: TBQH anyone in the NLA Bachelor Squad fooling around with anyone else in the NLA Bachelor Squad, with the exception of Irina, who is is a decent person and deserves better than this lot of attractive potatos. The only dynamic there I’ve given more than a passing thought to is Frye/HB, and everything else is more for the I-call-middle/at-least-let-me-watch factor.

highkey notp: I thought about this for a good thirty minutes outside of the Literally Illegal ones, there just... isn’t any that would get this response from me.

[softly] don’t notp: Irina/Gwin. It’s just soooo obvious to me that she doesn’t have any attraction to him and his obsessiveness comes across as a poor coping method more than genuine romantic interest. It could be interesting to explore in the look-at-the-trainwreck a-study-in-why-this-shit-never-works kinda sense, but that’s about it.

highkey a fan but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice: I actually kind of enjoy one-sided Mia/Doug in that “precocious crush that Doug just utterly fails to pick up on” kind of way.I don’t really want it to go anywhere, and I would probably die from second-hand embarrasment if it did, I just really enjoy Mia acting like a thirsty-ass hormonal teenager.

highkey otp and anyone on my tumblr knows it: Nagi/Vandham, old queers, nobody is surprised :D

[tisorridalamor]

The NLA Philharmonic

An old hobby of mine is wondering what kind of instruments my favorite characters would play, so I figured I would go ahead and list my silly headcanons for the Xenoblade Chronicle X cast!

Elma: She would probably be the concertmaster, though I could see her soloing on piano as well. She is, of course, the star of the show, just like how she’s technically XCX’s main character.

Lin: Lin would be an adorable trombonist. Just imagine it. It's just a really cute idea honestly.

Tatsu: T R I A N G L E

Lao: He needs a low, brooding instrument. Lao plays cello very emotionally and hogs all the solos.

Doug: Bass trombone. I can see him playing it alongside Lin, just like how he helps her with her skell work (I love the relationship between these two).

Irina: Since she kinda follows in Elma’s footsteps I can imagine her as a serious violinist as well.

Gwin: Good ol Gwin is probably a viola. Bless him.

L: Oboe suits him, though this might just be because all the oboe players I know are walking memes.

Nagi: Honestly I think he could be the conductor, but I could also see him as French horn? I'm honestly having a hard time here. Maybe he'd play a traditional Japanese instrument???

Phog: Flute! Soft and light, just like him.

Frye: He would ROCK the tuba. I can definitely see him anywhere in the brass section though.

Mia: Mia is the ENTIRE percussion section with Tatsu god help us

Murderess: 100% plays violin to piss off Irina. They always battling over chairs.

Hope: She’s a flute like Phog, but doubles as the piccoloist.

Celica: Harp! mysterious and beautiful, just like her.

Alexa: Trumpet! Definitely trumpet. Loud and proud. You go girl.

Yelv: Saxophone; a part of the orchestra but pretty much doing his own thing (he’s a jazz band nerd!).

H.B.: 100% a showoff clarinet player. It’s perfect for him. Feel free to fight me on this.

Bozé: Bozé is on bassoon or some obscure Japanese instrument I don’t know please send help

My Cross, Rook: I imagine her on upright/string bass. An essential part and often the foundation, but not something that’s often in the spotlight, which is fine with her!

If you’ve got any instrumental headcanons for the main cast or for your own Cross, feel free to add them <3