#i have doodles of some of these characters actually but its in my puter and im on mobile and ummm maybe ill add them later

[yuukei-yikes]

Not sure if you’ve answered anything like this before BUT was wondering if u had any hcs surrounding any of the unnamed parents/family members of some of the characters?

there’s so many of them that i wish we had more info on and it drives me crazy so hearing ppls interpretations of those characters is soooo fun

this one is also an old ask but also pretty on theme bc ive been posting abt the kisaragi parents!! im skipping the kisaragis because i answered that in the past few days lol

under da cut cuz ofc it got long also be prepared i compare like all of them to other cartoon characters

kano's mom - i think she's an interesting character. she's so, so minor, and yet she is so perfectly complicated. she's the one dead counterpart to a snake that is in fact... kind of awful?

she was definitely a very troubled woman. she used to hit kano and scream and yell over the smallest stuff, like him forgetting to buy something or breaking a cup. and then she'd cry and apologize about it. all canon btw. kano says he could only ever make his mom scream or cry. i dont tend to get personal with my hcs, but my dad's an addict so... idk, ive always sort of imagined kano's mom as someone who struggles with substances. the way he describes her always reminded me a bit of my own dad as a kid so maybe that's also why i sound a little bit apologetic when i speak abt her. kano still loved her, and in the end she throws herself in the way in an attempt to save him. i think she definitely loved him too... as kano grows up and experiences another family with the tateyamas, or maybe even hears kido talk of their own bio mom, he'd definitely know his mom was probably not a good mom. but he'd still be so defensive of her, i doubt he'd ever mention her at all to avoid hearing her be judged. if they found a way to get people back from the daze, these two would have suuuuch a complicated relationship like for real...

kano says she really saved up to buy jewelry, and that her work uniform was "prim and proper". there's a book i really like that's from the pov of a little girl and she describes the neighbors she doesn't have a name for. there's one neighbor the little girl calls The Drunk who's a lady that's always screaming and crying in the stairs and another neighbor who's called The Woman In The Black Skirt, who's a lady that's always walking around in heels to go to work. at one point in the book it's revealed to the reader that the woman in the black skirt is actually also the drunk, and the little girl protagonist mentions that when she gets back from work in a pretend phonecall to avoid speaking to neighbors, she can hear the sound of all her bottles clinking in her bag. idk. i think it's something like this. because kano's wish WAS to stop neighbors from asking him questions or saying things about his mother, like it's evident to everyone she hits him, but i think it'd also be evident to everyone she's a mess. kano was an extremely responsible kid, he'd do groceries and clean his room... i think he'd always help his mom to bed when she was passed out drunk or something. also to be clear i dont wanna romanticize this shit addiction is a horribly difficult thing sooo i dont wanna be like she's eeveel or oh she's a misunderstood girlboss.... i think she is as complicated as parents come!

hibiya's parents - i think the dad is a really mean piece of shit and the mom's the martyr housewife who's always crying and looks miserable. the dad's like the typical bully dad u gotta be a strong man... like i know its for comedic effect but that shit of leaving hibiya outside with the wolves swejdnwjfi he totally just did that type of shit. so hibiya's parents are like. idk think helga's parents in hey arnold. the mom's just kind of there and the dad's a bully. but i think hibiya totally loves his mom and when he's an adult he'd encourage her to leave his dad and bring her to kashiwa with him

hiyori's (and ayaka's) parents - they're rich people top 3 most wealthy families in the area (canon)... and ayaka literally ran away from home. ermmm yeah they're THAT people. think the northwests in gravity falls. yes ill keep bringing up cartoons. i think hiyori becomes so unmanageable when she comes back to the village she's sent back to kashiwa to go to highschool bc she asked for it, and she goes to live with ayano which is its own whole thing but yeah hiyori never cuts ties with her parents like ayaka did and is still aided financially by them even as an adult. she refuses to take over their business like they'd expect but hiyori is so girlboss by then she's like kisaragi momo's community manager and shit like that so they're like erm... well respectable enough that's fine. they're probably OLD parents you know they're TIRED. one rogue daughter is one thing but Two... fine do whatever u want. also these are ayano's grandparents so obviously she'd really want a relationship with them. sadly they don't particularly care about her, which shows ayano how cold they are towards ayaka

takane's grandma - you know damn well I've got hcs for her. she's mentioned to fuss over takane's illness but it's also mentioned her grandpa worried even more, so i personally hc the grandma was a little more laid back with it. the grandpa would coddle takane a lot more and the grandma is like oh my GOD she looks totally fine she can do the damn dishes. she's also mentioned to complain that all she does is play those damn games...

my hcs come more into play when i consider canon. it's canon that saeru gets a lot of moneys to Get Away With Murder. it makes sure there's absolutely nothing abt takane's disappearance, haruka's death and ayano's suicide so it doesn't get covered on the news. SO it buys the silence of sooo many authorities. i think cops and doctors and stuff. i think takane's grandma is gaslighted to hell and back like omg ur grandkid probably ran away or something.... and she'd probably end up feeling helpless but never giving up hope takane's alive. likeee she lost her husband and her kid abandoned THEIR kid and now that kid apparently ran away??? SHE'S SO LONELY. but i dont think she ever ever buys the idea takane ran away and she learns to use a computer and joins random fb groups that talk about unsolved cases and conspiracies. she like even starts believing in aliens LMAOOO takane left a perfectly normal stern nanny and comes back to a tinfoil hat crazy lady

sorry I'll mention the cartoon amphibia (something else im also obsessed with) but in season 3 when anne comes back to earth after being missing for 5 months, she finds out her mom had dedicated an entire room as like a shrine to her counting down the days she's been missing and shit LMAO its funny here's a link if u wanna see... but i bring it up bc i think takane's grandma would be similar. but instead there's like a whole red thread conspiracy wall kinda thing HEHE

haruka's dad- we were soooo spoiled with haruka's dad bc we know a lot abt him. following right after takane's grandma let me SAY i think she'd annoy the hell out of him with all her ideas like oh my god ur kids missing... MY kids missing... what if they were taken by ALIENS... and he's like *slams door on her face* so them hating each other is also funny bc of harutaka situations. speaking of harutaka i think they live on their own for a little bit but since takane's grandma is probably old and she's living in a family house by herself, they end up moving there with her. haruka's dad probably HAAAATES it he's like ohmy god he's living with THAT FREAK?? WHATEVER. sorry im still talking abt takane's grandma in the haruka's dad segment

but we know a lot abt haruka's dad. it's another crazy scientist turned mean when wife dies of illness. story as old as time. he's one of those characters ppl tend to make cartoonishly evil and with good reason but i dont like portraying him as like totally evil. just emotionally constipated old guy situation. when haruka turns out to be alive i think he'd Try to have a relationship with him and be a part of his life but since they were never close it's like soooo painfully awkward to be in the same room as them trying to have a conversation. haruka's dad like pats him on the shoulder as a sign of affection and haruka's like *looks around* also i think he'd keep calling haruka a hippie for his gray long hair and the fact he's an artist LMAOOOO also hes mentioned to be "an old colleague" of kenjirou. meaning i hc they met in college and totally had a gay thing together

not doing kido's bio mom/step mom/bio dad because i think we have a lot of info as is.

[ikoarts]

October 2023 Art

for some reason i wrote a novel under the cut, for those of u actually reading, thank u for being so patient x

vvv dates + info under the cut vvv

1 - 03/10/2023 : another of my faves of last year, was trying to get better at drawing trainz, so just Edward and Toby hanging out, displaying the duality of old men x

2 - 04/10/2023 : got a new puter! one of the first things i set to doing after getting set up was to draw a Ru, of course, it was also just me trying to get used to the new MS paint..... it feels very odd

3, 4, 5 - 06/10/2023 : part 1 of redrawing random pics i have of Edward on my phone with my human version of him, this was really fun tbh, and the third here is one of my fave drawings of the year probs.. like sir.. those look heavy... what big uhh.. Glasses.. you have

6, 7, 8 - 07/10/2023 : part 2! i think i just like drawing his face... dare i say this train is cunty or will that get me exiled

9 - 08/10/2023 : something stupid i thought of and couldn't get out of my head for days so had to draw it..... little johnny from oingo boingo's only a lad, doing what he does best, fantasising about radios he wants oh so bad and running people down with a boyish craving for blood.. based on that 1 meme of the guy driving and thinking of a thing then making that insane face

10 - 09/10/2023 : based on that 1 silly vargskelethor song (that could not be less specific), had Shed 17 on the brain and was reminded of the milk song where the skeleton comes out.. thomarse dank 2 much milk and died..

11, 12 - 10/10/2023 : chooshada again :333 first a little doodle on my phone bc i was wondering about her livery, i do think she'd have originally been NER apple green but then painted NWR colours, butttt with a twist... coz i can do whatever i like... the twist is just that she's painted dark blue rather than a sky blue, coz its more her colour x

ALSO MS paint shada, wanted to draw her more uh, idk, detailed ig, idk i love this one, it also served as more train practice

13 - 13/10/2023 : previous one, but with COLOUR!! not much 2 say other than that shes very cute

14 - 18/10/2023 : saw a tweet abt old photos of engine crews posing with their crashed locos and how the NWR crews would do that, made me think of how, if Toni was (choo)shada's driver, she'd do that.. probably x .. very like her to slay in the midst of a terrible accident

15 - 22/10/2023 : predictably, i have some playlists for the ttte engines, one for Diesel which is notable here, so uhh, i have the scrapped song from the lorax "biggering" in there, bc i see it as like a Duck vs Diesel song, ik im surpassing several layers of cringe here but hear me out ok... i drew this at 2am coz i couldn't stop thinking of Duck lecturing Diesel

16, 17, 18 - 25/10/2023 : speaking of playlists, think i was listening to my Robin one here, and felt like drawing him, i have "the land of make believe" in there, which ive always found to be an oddly haunting song, so this is semi based on that, though that wouldn't be apparent if i hadn't just told u x .. this looks like vent art but tis not i was just having fun

also tiny chooshada, i was in the middle of writing something which i have literally Just remembered now and i was writing a scene where Ru is stuck between some characters who shes not looking forward to working with bc they're about to bicker the whole fuckin time and one of them thinks shes a dick, so i drew her being sad that shes forced to work with morons..... and speak of the devil, 3rd drawing is here with 2 of the aforementioned morons :D i think D+D take a liking to her, they're just a little obnoxious (love them for that)

19 - 27/10/2023 : a quick(ish) digital thing of Chooshada again that i did on the side of another project, more engine drawing practice he he, she'll be out of proportion and lacking detail but really it was just to not be too hard on myself about that, it did help i think to understand how to draw her more, plus just look at her lil face... also she has a number here, doesn't mean much other than 8 being her lucky number, other than 11, like those are just her numbers, suppose i could have it be 1188 to ref her bday, idfk x

[rt-lots]

Joining in on the Ian and Rammy ask train… 🌂✏️ (and 🍎 specifically for Ian!)

TW for a fair bit of suicide talk!!!

umbrella - i assume this doesnt need an answer for both of them, bcuz they belong 2 the same story. i imagine ian and rammys story being a vidya game, and i guess itd b a psychological horror? which feels like, pretentious to say but the main scaries of the story are how much ians life sucks and he wants 2 die. so... i think itd count. thats all overarching stuff tho... most of ian n rammys time spent together is lightheared, i think. theyre two dudes hanging out and one of them is slowly coming to terms with the fact his suicidal thoughts won. whatever genre that is

pencil - WAHHH it depends a lot of the time... ian and rammy have definitely made a big resurgence in my brain recently (past month) bc im 18 and can post bout em, but also just cuz i love them sooo much and want to chew on them constantly. id say i write abt/draw them pretty frequently tho!! i doodle them on my school work and in notebooks a lot and they have some of the bigger galleries on my toyhouse lawl. i dont write much directly for their universe, but ive typed... many paragraphs to my friends just braindumping the shit i think about them. so, yeah, less often than id like, but theyre up there in my priorities of ocs :3

apple (for ian) - GRAHHHHHHHHHHH u dont know what demons uve unleashed w this. i already twed this post for suicide but im gonna move this part under the cut bc mentioning ians dad specifically ties a lot into the suicide aspect of the story

OKAY SO. ians family consists of his mom, sister, and him. his dad was in the picture when he was a little kid, like early elementary age, but ditched after some time. his relationship with both parents was relatively normal, they definitely couldve done a better job raising him, but they were never intentionally hurtful nor did they scar him at all. (well, correction, his MOM didnt scar him at all)

after ians dad left, though, his side of the family still kept in touch... they gave very flimsy reasonings for his fathers absence, why he couldnt make it to holidays, why he wasnt saying all these things directly, etc. it kept things strained and tense as the family knew things were being kept from them but never got to know why. the last interaction ian ever had w his dads side of the family was on his 18th birthday, where his uncle gifted him a silver handgun with his name carved into the handle. it was a hollow attempt to connect with ian, a display of violent masculinity that ian would later use to try and take his own life.

i dont have it fully figured out what this *means* for ians character, but its something i go insane about. ians only memories of his dad are him doing stereotypical masculine dad things w him, like fishing. maybe he didnt interact w ian ass if he was his child, but if he was his son, and that improper socialization is part of the reason he hates himself- why the gun is what kills him. but... i dunno really. ians social anxiety, addiction, and general collapsing in on himself are cuz of a life time of mental illness that went unchecked until he successfully isolated himself to the point no one *could* care, not just cuz daddy give him gun.

okay! that is NOT what u asked at all but now u know it. hehehe. of course ian and rammys story is a big wip forever so excuse me for any side tangents and/or general plot points w loose ends

but! as for his actual relationships w family (ill include sister since his relationship w mom isnt rlly fleshed out yet):

he and his mom havent spoken in 6 years, nor have he and his sister. he slowly faded out of their lives when he moved away, partly out of a subconscious desire to isolate and partly due to just not having the social confidence or energy to maintain regular communication w his family. his mom is the first person he talks to when he escapes his Puter, and she's his rock in his remaining months of recovery. shes very underdeveloped as a character atm, but what is certain is she tries her hardest to understand her sons struggles and support him, offering to pay for therapy for him. ian loves his mommy lalala

ian and his sister are... dddifferent. ian also had an average relationship w his sister, but shes a lot more upfront with him when it comes to talking about how his 6 year absence effected her than their mom. their mom, while wanting her children to seek help for their respective struggles, doesnt really want to actively talk about those things with them. shes terrified of saying the wrong thing, and it doesnt help that she doesnt even have a clue what *to* say. ians sister, though, isnt afraid to tell him "hey man we fucking missed you. your absence hurt a lot because i didnt have any friends either, and i wish we couldve had eachother. jackass" post main-story they are friendly and hang out. during his time w rammy, ian does talk about his thoughts on his sister before he left, that being that shes a "crazy bitch"... family <3