#i like that toxic space yuri too much haha

[kryzekatan]

C’mon Wolfwren gays!! Lets go!!!

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[cosmignon]

you may have talked about this before but i'm very curious how olivia got into the mix, both in fiction and in meta :0

also do you have any animals you associate with the squad? like not necessarily fursonas but if the shoe fits 🤔

also also, do their colors have significance to their personalities/names/etc? as someone who also has a set of color coded ocs i always love to see how folks decide what colors to put with each character :3

Olivia is a fascinating facet of the Stardust Scouts story because in zer earliest iterations ze was NOT such a major character like ze is now!!

Ze used to be this minor character in a scrapped arc about the Scouts going to Mars in order to confront an opposing, alien group of martian magical girls and get them to join their side in protecting the galaxy instead of trying to fight them on their home turf. This arc doesn't exist anymore, I think the opposing alien force is further away from Earth than that & are sending basically drone/scout enemies to Earth to try to conquer/destory it.

These were the original martians' designs! They have music associated with each of them because the main 4 Stardust Scouts were originally designed based on a "randomize your playlist and design a character based on the first 3 songs" prompt, so I figured the rival magic girl team should be inspired in the same way.

The conceit of the martian arc was that our MCs the Earth scouts would've used their magic to blend in with the martians w/disguises. Inversely, once the martians were on their side they would come visit Earth and wear their own disguises as well.

Can you guess which of these martians eventually became Olivia as we know zer? I will give you a hint

It's the one who's the obvious TAK from INVADER ZIM EXPY! YAAAY <3

Zer original role was the skeptic martian cleric/priest of the martian scouts, who was the most distrusting of the earth scouts having any good intentions, and I believe might've also had a toxic yuri thing going on with either the pink or blue martian.

All the other martians here never got developed much because Olivia, as the Tak Expy, meant ze had a lot of my favorite character design tropes going on and I wanted to specifically explore those more and ze became the obvious favorite haha. After that Zer role just kept increasing over time.

I think the most major development though was definitely when I decided ze could keep the toxic yuri energy originally planned for zer, but with One Of the Main Scouts instead... Tabitha and Olivia have HISTORY BABEY!!!!

(Fun Fact: My files say this was drawn Oct 2019, soooo... 1 month after the Steven Universe Movie came out. Spinel got her fingerprints all over this damn character, for real, she's one of my voice claims for zer)

This was the point where I decided Olivia was not an alien anymore, but a human who had been abducted BY aliens back when ze was a teenager and best friends with Tabitha. The both of them were private school goody two shoes with parents who put way too many expectations on them to get perfect grades. They would start breaking the rules a little bit by going out at night in the car Olivia got as a gift for good grades + passing zer drivers exam (important to note, Olivia used to go by she/her bc ze picked up new, alien genders while out in space)

The two sneaking out once in a while turned into most nights which culminated in the both of them being out in the woods when one of the Inciting Incident meteors with the Scouts' special magic maguffin rocks crashed nearby. Olivia was bolder than Tabitha at the time so ze investigated and got both magical girl powers and abducted by the enemy aliens who had been chasing the meteor at the same time. Tabitha was left absolutely shaken up and in the middle of a missing persons case where she couldn't tell anyone the truth of the matter bc it sounded absolutely batshit nuts.

This is information I give freely bc I don't really think it's worth hiding, but I know in the actual telling of The Story, The Stardust Scouts, this would all be information that was slowly handed out during the actual plot where Olivia initially serves as a disguised, alien general of the grunt forces being sent out to Earth. Ze's like, a hammy villain of the week that likes fucking with the Scouts because it's funny and ze Doesn't Respect Them.

Olivia doesn't recognize Tabitha at first bc he's changed so much over the years, transed her gender, stopped caring about things like school and grades. Tabitha also doesn't recognize Olivia bc ze is dressed in a full body suit, also transed zer gender, and Tabitha never thought he'd even see zer again. Spicy drama!!

Look at those dramatic fuckers... having feelings about rivalry and lost friendship and abandonment issues!! I should redraw the fake anime screenshot/do more of those sometime, those are always fun.

Also! This is an old design, but Olivia's main power when an antagonist is that ze can copy the powers of the other scouts and counter their attacks, meaning in the moments when the gang can fight zer one on one ze has the upper hand and can get away every time. I imagine then, that Olivia's main color scheme is very steely and grey when NOT using this copy cat ability, and ze doesn't have a sense of identiy beyond what ze can do for the aliens ze considers zer superiors.

Also! Also. Zer a jester/joker, since ze doesn't "fit" into the group's dynamic of being based on playing card suits.

EVENTUALLY, eventually, through a lot of monster of the week encounters, plot progression, and secrets revealed, Olivia's original identity would be uncovered and the team would convince zer to defect from zer alien captors, making zer a top level wanted deserter in the eyes of the big bad alien group (which I could talk abt another time).

Then Olivia gains a color of zer own, orange! Because the gang was always (in fiction) meant to be a team of 5, like the 5 points of a star! And colors of the rainbow/light spectrum, red orange green blue purple (yellow acts as a unifying accent color!).

To answer your question about the color meanings, I mostly assigned them originally based on vibes without too much through about specific symbolism. Plus I just like having characters all get one specific color, makes giving them outfits more enjoyable and fun for me. Like, you can see up above that Olivia (being Tak and all) originally had purple as zer main color. It took me a while to change that after I decided Savannah got purple instead, bc I was attached to how it looked. But orange felt like a good logical landing place. It's vibrant and fun and a little off the beaten path, again based on vibes.

Olivia starts off the story living among humans ""in disguise"" while plotting evil bad bitch things, and then after defecting ze just starts crashing at everyone's places while learning to really return to humanity in zer own way and hopefully make amends with the scouts for maybe sort of taking delight in fucking with them. Lol. Zer demeanor stays irreverent and annoying and punk throughout, even after zer turn to good/becoming the 5th ranger of the group, which makes zer a really fun character to think about and write.

[meru90]

I'm sorry you're getting so much hate and bitter anons in your ask box! I don't understand why people get so butt hurt over the fact that it. is. all. fictional. You enjoy it—keep doing you. It's their problem. Like you said, if they have an issue, dude, don't complain just hit that unfollow button if you're unsupportive? I think your fan art was adorable and I can't wait to see more! I'm glad you're not seeing anything as hate and looking past it ʕ ･ω･ ʔ

im almost 13 years in fandoms on the internet and i’m pretty good at avoiding and also a bit used to all the drama hate and ship wars ; v;; i heard from friends about this issue and that ppl can be pretty sensitive about it guess it was my time to get involved in this drama

this sure as hell escalated a bit lol but thank you also for all the support ,love and nice messages within this turmoilim going to post the rest of the msgs under the read more peace out =v=

Anonym schrieb an meru90:god im so sad you heave to deal with this bullshit about otayuri being problematic. You’re handling it pretty well, I respect that you just expressed your point of view and don’t indulge those poor anons. I hope they will soon give up on ‘educating’ you. Have a nice day and keep up your amazing artwork!!

Anonym schrieb an meru90:You are lovely hon. I’m proud of you for handling this so politely. I hope this whole shipping nonsense doesn’t get you down, you are such a sweet heart! Also just a thought that may help keep the peace (or may not,) why can’t we just /headcannon/ that they are 20 and 23 instead of 15 and 18? then the relationship is as nontoxic as we imagine it x0

Anonym schrieb an meru90:Hello! I can’t help but notice that a lot of people are coming act you because of a fictional ship. Are you okay?? Don’t let it get to you. Hope you’re doing okay! ^^

Anonym schrieb an meru90:im the end, yeah its just a ship… and while it makes ppl uncomfortable (me being one of those ppl, but i can control myself :^)) i think ppl should just like, unfollow u and be done with it? like whats the point in attacking u its not like ur appropriating adult/minor relationships (i hope lol). ppl should just chill and back off and as long as u arent drawing them in any explicit poses/spaces u should just do u. people can just unfollow or enjoy the art while pretending its not slash, ya kno?

jequila schrieb an meru90:I saw all the comments about otabek/yuri as I scrolled through my dashboard and was like “Whooooa boy! Did Meru post some kind of filthy R18+ fanart of them??!” but like… there’s some cute pics and nothing dirty. Or did I miss it somehow? If that’s seriously it, people need to calm down. Why would you unfollow a good artist over this?? I’m glad you’re taking it calmly and not backing down! Ship whatever you wanna ship, draw whatever you wanna draw. Most of us don’t care!

haha apparently standing next to each other implies a toxic relationship idk idk thanks for the nice words

mygaysinspace schrieb an meru90:OtaYuri is the best bromance I’ve ever shipped and I’m glad you love it too, and haters gonna hate *shrug face* stay strong honey ❤

right!!??! they are so supportive of eachother 

Anonym schrieb an meru90:These tolls need to get off the computer/phone and actually do something with their life. Stop being stupid ya’ll

Anonym schrieb an meru90:I love you no matter what you ship *throws flowers and candy at you* Go enjoy whatever you like!

THANK YOU FOR BEING A CUTIEPOOF ILY!!!!

Anonym schrieb an meru90:if we put yurio and otabek into high school, yurio would be a sophomore and otabek could be a senior, if not, a freshman in college. it may sound wacky, but in the end, a difference between a HS senior and a college freshman is a couple of months. this might be a bad comparison, but im saying it anyway; if one of the anons watches haikyuu, do they not ship yachi and kiyoko? tsukki and kuroo/bokuto (I don’t ship it but some do)?

Anonym schrieb an meru90:why are people making such a big deal out of it, theyre not the ones drawing the art. its your choice what you want to spend your talent and time doing, nobody elses? they can draw their own things if they’re so worried about it smh? theyre fictional

if ppl got much time with nothing to do they can give you butthurt about everything 

Anonym schrieb an meru90:I completely support you with drawing whatever you want. You can draw whatever the fuck you want or ship whatever. People who say it’s pedophilia are ignorant. If you’re that upset over it how about you try stoping REAL pedophiles who kidnap kids and do things to them. How is drawing a character with someone else that’s older a crime?

Anonym schrieb an meru90:i’m so sorry you had to get yourself involved in this kind of bullshit, such ignorant and vicious people have nothing to do in their lives. i advise you to turn off anon for a while as these things can seriously turn out to be dangerous. best of luck

i’ll just ingnore the next ones ^^

Anonym schrieb an meru90:It’s not that you’re “not allowed” to ship a teenager and an adult you do you it’s more like it’s morally wrong i guess lol

Anonym schrieb an meru90:r.i.p meru … people are overthinking these ships.. hope it doesnt get to you too much !

indeed rip me but no im good  i swear if i had had free time rn i would have straight up ignored all or

mamamyshka fragte:Oh Mann, da machste was mit! Ich kannte deinen Blog vorher nicht, aber ne gute Freundin hat mich auf den kleinen “Shitstorm” hingewiesen, den einige intolerante Menschen gerade über dich ergießen. Schon allein dafür gibt’s jetzt nen Follow von mir. However, I LOVE OTAYURI and whoever follows me on my main or my yoi blog YURIS-ON-ICE and has a problem with that fact, feel free to fuck off. Tschuldigung, musste mal gesagt werden …

na wenigstens etwas gutes hatte dieses unnötige drama :,D danke für den follow

jonryas schrieb an meru90:oh mein Gott, diese diskussion ist so lächerlich… alle diese kinder, die behaupten OtaYuri wäre problematisch sind idioten. du solltest die einfach ignorieren and zeichnen, was du willst >.

tbh im way too old for this xD aber jeder hat das recht seine meinung zu äußern und wenn es einem nicht passt *da ist die tür und bye :)))*