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[mad-hatter-rici]

Shizuka the Water Spirit of the Murasaki Bathhouse

Yes, I am not dead! I finally managed to draw something after ages. Gotta say sorry:i had to take care of my health. I had a surgery in November and been recovering from it since. Also, my job and new baby nephew kept me pretty busy. Soooo let’s get to this new squishy! Created her for @lumilasi Bathhouse crew. Bio of her and links to the Bathhouse crew down below.

The mentioned characters like Kouka, Kuromoya, Kiryo & Yago are hers. Here are theirs Bios for you to read ;)

https://www.tumblr.com/lumilasi/702448204349898752/jeebus-crispy-my-computer-has-been-lagging-bad-for?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/lumilasi/703443322958708736/this-started-out-as-a-potential-li-for-kuromoya?source=share

BIO

Ages: Unknown. She’s considered in her early twenties among her kind, but has existed far longer in human years.

Love interests: none currently (aka i gotta ask my pal lol)

Friends: Kouka Kuromoya Murasaki  & Kiryo Toushi, Jurou Hasegawa/Araknos & his family, Gouken Shura & Shika, Yago

Personality summary:

Shizuka is a curious and friendly young woman. Still learning about the world outside her waters, she can easily be tricked and is somewhat of an airhead at times. She works hard and tries her best to make the guests feel comfortable. She is often seen trying to remind Yago to behave in front of their guests

Being type:

Shizuka is a water spirit. She was born a long time ago but remainded asleep for the majority of her existence, up until the Soul eater trio’s arrival. As a water spirit, she can control the surrounding water. She can also change the temperature, color and scent of the water at will. If she is sad, the water tends to rise. She can also feel if someone falls into her waters and is in danger of drowning. Outside her own waters, her powers only consist of her water bending. She also has to take some of the water with her if she wants to travel.

Role:

To learn more about the people and world outside her waters, she started to work as a staff member of the Murasaki Bathhouse. She is often tasked with serving tea and sweets, as well as to change the water color or scent for special guests or occasions.

Fun facts:

As typical for her kind as a lot of spirit beings, physical appearance ages slower than humans.

She loves sweets and in her spare time she is often trying to make some herself. Sometimes her attempts fail though

She is very good at sculpting figurines out of sugar, though.

The water drop obi brooch was a gift from Kiryo, and she treasures it a lot.

When she learns something new, she tends to tell everyone about it.

She refers to Kouka as mistress, and Kiryo & Kuromoya as master

Yago is referred to as young master.

She loves koifish and goldfish.

Her favorite food is Unadon (It consists of a donburi type large bowl filled with steamed white rice, and topped with fillets of eel (unagi) grilled in a style known as kabayaki, similar to teriyaki. The fillets are glazed with a sweetened soy-based sauce, called tare and caramelized, preferably over charcoal fire.)

Her favorite dessert is strawberry daifuku

She thinks Yago smells like strawberries and likes the scent a lot.

My Fun facts:

Her hair as in the end of it has a wave like design.

She has sea foam green hair

I gave her sea foam green hair because many hot springs have like this beautiful green water.

I gave her big eyes to make her look more curious and young.

Her name means relaxing ocean

Edit: i changed her buns to look less like some random balls on her head to a more natural looking one :)

[lumilasi]

Had a sudden urge to draw this enby diva and give him/them some modern looks outside his more traditional work uniform. The vest one is kinda boring tbh, but they need to have a bit "tamer" outfits for some occasions I suppose lol. Also included the two more flamboyant looks separately without the speech bubbles.

Also came to the conclusion that him (and his mum) keeping the dad's surname makes no sense given the story, BUT "Toushi" makes more sense as their name due to the meaning given with how its written (Stealthy glance), so he's no longer Kiryo Toushi, but Toushi Murasaki lol

[lumilasi]

UPDATE: I STILL didn't like his design, so I gave it one last try, and I think I'm finally, FINALLY happy with it. I still meant to draw a small extra part for the flat color ref to show how his red shirt looks beneath, but tbh I was too done with this to bother lol. Maybe I'll do it later

Bio below:

Name: Cecil Fortis

Nicknames: Ciel (Claude) Songbird (Kuromoya)

Age: (at the time of "death") 18-19, neither he or Claude remembers exactly when this happened. His soul did "age" alongside his brother though, so he's considered to be the same age as Claude is now, 27.

Height: 176 cm (human) 185 (Vigour Spirit)

Formerly a human with telepath abilities, now a Vigour Spirit

Role: Claude's twin brother-turned familiar spirit.

Family: Twin brother Claude, honorary little siblings Milo & Silas

Vigour spirits are essentially the “eyes and ears” of the most basic, core essence of all magic in this world/life itself as an abstract entity, and they represent different aspects of it; Mind (dreams, balance, misconceptions), Heart (Emotions, wishes), Will (Determination, action), Instinct (Survival, intuition) and Thought (logic, rationality, learning). Cecil, due to his unique birth circumstance, falls mainly under the Heart category as a 'fulfilled wish' of sorts. Due to originally being human however, he does have some Will aspects too. (mainly meaning he's capable of fighting)

Love Interest: A Soul Eater named Kuromoya Murasaki

Friends: Caelan Delune, Toshiko Kamakiri, Raitei, Gouken Shura, Kouka Murasaki, Kiryo Toushi, a chimera called Yago & his big sister Shika.

Powers:

Like all Vigour spirits, Cecil can tap into the very basic core of all magic (Life essence essentially), which can enable him to ‘purify’ magic that are not part of it, namely referring to death-related powers, such as occultism and Soul Eater powers. This means he can cancel/erase these from a wielder for a short period of time. Since he is a former human however, Cecil can only erase these powers temporarily, only up to fifteen minutes at a time.

He’s capable of wielding/mimicking any type of magic useful to his category as a Heart type Vigour, such as boosting other people's strength, some minor healing, or warding off hallucinations or possessions.

Due to his origin as a human, he is still capable of forming blades and fight, (not typical for Heart Spirits whose role tends to be more supportive/healing than direct combat) as well as use some of his old Telepath abilities, namely telekinesis. He is far more durable now than he was as human too.

He can track down magic users which is a common ability for all Vigour Spirits, though since he was originally human, Cecil tends to only be able to track those he knows. He can communicate with other Vigour Spirits through their hivemind, though.

He can fly, of course.

WEAKNESSES:

As he is a former human, Cecil's abilities as a Vigour spirit are more limited than with natural born one, and he is notably weaker than they are.

Since he is still connected to his brother's soul, if Claude gets badly injured it weakens him greatly as well, and if Claude dies, so does he. (this does not work vise versa though; Cecil can lose his physical manifestation, but that just means he disappears back inside Claude's soul and reforms himself overtime)

He has some trauma from the ritual, and does not like dark rooms or caves as a result, given that is where the ritual was done in. He also can have a panic attack if he hears chanting, making some celebratory events bit of a hazard to visit as his powers can go a bit haywire when he panics, or he can just knock shit over as he tries to fly away to escape the scene....

He can't turn into a full human form like natural-born Vigours, meaning his skin will always stay blue even if he can hide his wings.

PERSONALITY:

Cecil is very kind and a curious person, who loves to read and study anything new. Since he hasn't had his own body for years, he tends to get distracted easily by things he hears, smells and sees. He's also eager to go to places and do stuff in general, given as a human his poor health forced him to stay indoors for the most part.

Despite this initial impression, Cecil is not naive by any means, and has a very good instinct with people, able to tell if someone is a threat or lying within seconds, without needing any of his magic. This is also how he was instantly comfortable with Kuromoya despite his darker side, because Cecil could tell he was only a threat to those who harm his bath-house family.

FUN FACTS:

Cecil tries to be considerate over his brother's concern over him, even if he feels it is a bit overblown now, as he's arguably in better shape than he was as a human.

Cecil was very sickly as a human, but had stronger Telepath powers than Claude, hence their father wanted to combine their souls to create a more powerful psychic.

Cecil has mixed feelings about their father, whereas Claude full blown hates him due to what happened. Mixed mainly because Cecil felt like his father genuinely thought doing this would grant him a better life, able to go outside more.

Cecil gets along with Claude's LI Caelan very well, and noted they are somewhat similar in nature, which likely attracted Claude to him in the first place as he felt slightly familiar.

His favorite tea is the color changing butterfly pea tea.

Cecil met Kuromoya when his brother's found family first turned him into a Vigour Spirit, as they'd requested help from the Murasaki siblings and were staying in their bathhouse. Since Cecil has always been drawn to more mysterious, slightly intimidating figures, this is what naturally happened here too.

Kuromoya just figured he's very pretty, and fun to talk with

Cecil can sing quite well and often is seen humming a song or a tune he knows. Sometimes he and Kuromoya sing together.

His Vigour Spirit form is influenced by his soul butterfly shape, which is why it has black-and-white pattern with tiger-like stripes. Typically Vigour spirits have blue/white/yellow clothing.

Cecil was very close with Silas, and they often read together, with him helping Silas with homework. They quickly go back to this habit of studying together once he gets his new body.

Cecil can summon his old clothes if he wants to, though tends to only summon the cardigan now to replace his fluffy-collared cloak, as he feels the tunic is too restraining.

BG STORY:

Cecil was born with a weak physical body and health, but with quite strong telepath powers that he struggled to use to its full potential due to his fragile stature. He didn't really mind, enjoying staying indoors reading books, sometimes joined by the Viceroy family child, Silas.

However, since his brother Claude was born with their family’s crest moth as his soul shape, he was considered a child prodigy of their clan, their father wanted them to perform an old ritual that was a kind of by now a forbidden tradition for the family; to merge the two souls of the skull-moth twins (meaning twins where one twin has the family moth as their soul shape) to create an even stronger telepath. Their father believed this would grant Cecil a better life than his current existence, as well as unleash the full potential of his power.

Claude was adamantly against this idea, as it’d mean he’d physically lose his brother. They were forced to perform it anyway, but due to Claude’s resistance, the ritual went wrong and caused his powers to lash out, destroying the entire town and killing most in it by accident. Cecil's soul meanwhile was sealed within his, his consciousness warped into sort of an unstable moth-human monster that kept tormenting him, throwing Claude off-balance every now and then as his powers lashed out.

Then, after a particularly bad episode, his brother's new "boss" Araknos/Jurou Hasegawa figures out a way to reform Cecil's consciousness back into its original state, and in order to save Claude's life - the fit had severely disrupted his soul and caused his power to start harming his body - the group manages to separate his soul from Claude for the most part, creating him a new body from magic essence itself, thus turning him into a Vigour Spirit.

Cecil only remembers glimpses of his time stuck inside a monstrous form within his brother's soul, though he did remember enough to recognize most people Claude was close with by now, such as his BF Caelan, Jurou himself, and Claude's friends Toshiko & Raitei.

[lumilasi]

So I managed to lineart these finally (it seems my laptop lagginess was due to an update I needed to do) and....I couldn't stop but notice...

....She's giving her brother a disapproving look, clearly. I guess this'll be their dynamic now lololol

(Side note; their names are Kiryo Toushi (the shorty) and siblings Kouka & Kuroha Murasaki)

When you're so bored listening a webinar that you end up doodling a character that would lowkey fit into a series you haven't even read (yet), only knowing things about it through fandom osmosis bc your friend is into it lol

guess the inspiration source is clear here