#murder fabrication

[murderfabrication]

I have commissioned an other entry in the (not legally binding) @badlydrawnronpa series!

This one may seem like a (cruel and) deep cut, but it makes a lot of sense if you're all caught up with Murder Fabrication. Most importantly - can you believe I forgot to mention Neo and Jan had their own dialogue colours, and @badlydrawnronpa randomly picked almost exactly the right ones based on vibes?

Not to worry - this isn't canon, [so I can do whatever I want].

[Image description: A screenshot of Jan's small doodle in the third panel, with a very simplistic smiling face. End ID]

[arollingriver]

Hi again! Here is Ciel's finished portrait, as well as a certain soldier's and... what's that...? A character who has yet to be revealed?! ＼（〇_ｏ）／

I'm about halfway done with these icons... So far so good. That shadow-character looks really fun, so it's a shame someone (it's me, I'm someone) hasn't introduced them yet.

[jkpfr]

OC-tober Day 5 & 6: Relationships & Symbol

To compensate for being late for Day 5, I'll talk about something that mixes up both days. On top of that, to prove that my choice of character for Day 1 was a reasonable one, I will once again talk about something that pertains to Jan.

I'll ask you to first take a look at this old sketch for a sprite edit. This was for my personal project inspired by Mozart l'Opéra Rock, and it uses his old sprite, which features slight mistakes in his palette, but it still comes together fairly nicely in my opinion.

I'd really like to re-use this jacket/colour on him eventually. Still, what I want you to take notice of is the pin on his lapel.

This is not a definite design, just a concept - what it says is "JA DA", and my concept for it would be that the letters be written so fancily that the viewer might not realise they're letters at first.

This is an idea I have for a symbol representing Jan's friend group, which consists of Jan, Adele, Damien and Ashley.

This is part of Murder Fabrication's canon, by the way. Jan is a student in a prestigious music school, in which he studies multiple instruments and genres, but specialises in the piano and classical music. When he joined said school, he was pleasantly surprised to run into his best friend Damien. (If you'd like to know why he didn't know Damien was joining the same school he was ahead of time, I'll have to ask that you wait until a certain arc of Murder Fabrication has been published. Wink, wink.)

Jan befriended their classmate Adele, who happens to be a violinist and share his speciality in classical music. Damien, a bassist, also befriended another one of their classmates named Ashley, a drummer. The four of them quickly became close friends, and together they form the worst band you've ever heard of, consisting of a pianist, a violinist, a bassist and a drummer.

Though they may actually act as a band sometimes, they're mostly friends who happen to each main a different instrument. Still, as fellow musicians in a prestigious establishment, they decided to come up with a symbol or logo they might use to represent them as a group; more so to have a neat representation of their bond than to make themselves look professional in any way. Noticing how the first letters of their names fit together, they decided on a "fancy looking" logo that would use them.

Though this is all worldbuilding/side quests if anything, I have a soft spot for Jan's friend group. Damien, Ashley and Adele are each someone Jan cares about deeply in a different way, and they each love Jan in their own personal way. Neither of them is any less important - either being the person he trusts the most, or the person he wants to spend the most time with, or the epitome of what he thinks is cool, though maybe they don't realise the extent of it, Jan admires each one of them.

His relationship with each of them are perfect examples to use to explore how Jan feels about his loved ones and, generally, those around him, and how they feel about him.

[smolldust]

Murder Drones Finale Spoilers

They compromised with the bow

[snz4]

Tesscyn doodle to start my week of hell!!

[bonyatmaid]

Doll look traumatized

[steamclouds]

the famous Entreri glower™

[world-of-theories]

Ya know I had a crack theory a while back that

Pomni was Tessa

Mainly because of the fact that cyn said this to Tessa

And since we all know what happened there

I thought, hey wouldn’t it be funny if Tessa was stuck in some digital space as a sort of way for cyn to keep her promise?

But that would be crazy right

RIGHT?

[the-gif-factory]

Various Cyn things pls :3

Murder Drones: Cyn (Solver Tessa)

[astronautrobot]

Why are these guys so fun to draw?💛

[biscu1ts]

Made this a few days ago after attempting to draw her but here we go as a gift

It would be nice to get a few tags atleast/nf/silly

[murderfabrication]

...Please?

This is your yearly ad! Danganronpa Murder Fabrication has been a passion project of mine since roughly 2018. I have been slowly but surely working my way through it since. As I mature and practice more and more, I am prouder of every chapter I publish.

(Chapter 1 is pretty iconic, but... take it from me, Chapter 2 is when I started to git gud.)

You can read it in full (for free... duh) on this forum, which is very plainly where I publish it. Murder Fabrication is currently on Chapter 4, and certainly not lacking in content for you to read.

And were you to catch up to where I am - first of all, please do! Any hype you send my way will only encourage me more to keep writing. Even then, you'll still have a lot of bonus content - by the time you're there, you can refer to MF's very own Wiki to find all the bonus episodes, independent bonus shorts and even a dark yet entertaining Despair AU!

What's the story about, you ask? Well, it's your typical fangan.

In our world where Danganronpa is fiction, in our world in which the last installment in the series, Danganronpa V3, was a warning against what the Danganronpa fandom could potentially become, the first ever real life Killing Game starts to take place, to everyone's surprise...

Indeed, it's been so long, everyone's pretty much forgotten Danganronpa ever existed.

[arollingriver]

You can save all three of them, but you have to sacrifice your life in exchange. Will you do it?

First batch of a new project to draw icons for each Fabricated Despair design! (Excluding side characters - this includes Mrs. and Mr. Lynn - for now.) These three characters were described in text form, so hopefully, you already had an idea what they looked like. If by any chance anyone reading this has also read Fabricated Despair and has a favourite design, please let me know and I may prioritise it!

[jkpfr]

OC-tober Day 1: Fave OC

As I announced on my main blog here, I will be participating in beweird's OC-tober prompt list across blogs. This is the blog that I'll use to either write something for an OC, or talk about the writing of an OC. For Day 1, I will be doing the latter.

Fave OC? That's like asking me who's my favourite child. (It's whoever's closest at the time of asking.)

I don't really have a single favourite OC, and my brainrot can sometimes move from OC to OC, cast to cast. Still, if you know me, you'll know I'm a hypocrite if I don't choose Jan.

Oftentimes, when I think about my "main biases", the list will be something like Jan, Akiro, Keith, Benjamin, Hermès, Artémis. But God knows I've had periods of having intense Rin brainrot. I'll even brainrot on an OC who's supposed to be a side character from time to time (looking at you, Ashley). Still, Jan and Akiro are my most specialest of boys, and I'll have to go for Jan because at least his creation wasn't an act of God.

(...You'll have to ask me more details about that if you wish to understand. I guess it makes Akiro sort of like Jesus. Somewhat.)

Jan is one of my most well-known OCs because he is currently a character in my very long Danganronpa-style story, @murderfabrication. Among this cast, he is one of the few characters I'd created long before I planned to have a fangan, for an independent story. He's fighting with Noah for the award of oldest (creation wise) on a technicality.

Here is the boy as he appears in Murder Fabrication (which is a passion project I recommend you read), although this is by far not my favourite iteration of his design-wise. Because of the cruelty ingrained in this story, Murder Fabrication Jan is stuck in his boring school uniform and doesn't get to show off either his dazzling sense of style, or an important item that he is now left to wear in secret. I really wish to stop using the Danganronpa sprite artstyle at some point, because despite being accurate, it makes him look weird, like I can't get across how his hair would feel, how handsome and special and pretty-boy-ish he's supposed to be.

I created Jan when I was 15. Once their outline exists, I tend to view my characters over time as though I'm learning to know them, rather than coming up with them. Because of that, it seriously feels to me as though Jan and I grew together. He is in fact the character that makes me feel the most like I "learned to know him": there are many aspects of his personality and story I knew were right from the start, but I didn't know why or the details of how - I might even have been awkward at writing them because of that; and it's as I gained more knowledge about the world, myself, people in general, and as I spent more time thinking about Jan, that those things eventually started to make sense.

Although I have at times used Jan in Alternate Universes where I changed aspects of who he was on purpose, I don't think there's anything I've ever retconned about his "default" personality and story. There are obviously things I'd write differently by virtue of no longer being 15 years old, things I might opt out of saying because they're better off implied, things I'll emphasise more, etc.; but rather than rewriting his story to make it better now that I'm a better writer, with Jan, it really appears that I'm getting to know him - most likely as I become a better writer.

"Something I knew I wanted him to do, but I didn't know why"? Now I know what it means. "A part of his backstory I knew was included, but I didn't know when"? Now I do. It didn't really require any effort. He lives in my head constantly. Akiro is very much the same, though it comes across slightly differently, because of the act-of-God thing.

I'm most satisfied with his writing in Murder Fabrication. Being seen from the third person benefits Jan greatly. I'm satisfied with the way I've presented him as the shockingly nice and charming young man that he is, while using his actions, his surroundings, and his rare missteps as tools to hint at what else there is to say about him. Jan is an interesting character to write in my opinion, because he's the stereotype of the perfect, perfectly handsome man, but from knowing him by heart, I know what it is that makes him so realistic. And it's that aspect that makes him so near and dear to me.

Here's an example I think is a good instance of Neo, Murder Fabrication's protagonist, noticing what makes Jan succeed at being perfect: in a certain chapter of the story, Neo enters the dining room while Jan is in the kitchen, in the middle of preparing hot cocoa for someone else and himself. When he comes out of the kitchen, Jan gives Neo a cup of tea, apologising for not having enough time to prepare a third hot cocoa for him. Neo is touched, and the tea tastes "ridiculously good".

He quickly notes that the tea is sweetened, just like he likes to drink it. After listening to Jan's chat with the other person, he notes to himself that the tea isn't perfect because Jan, a talented pianist, is somehow also a master of making tea. What made the tea so good was the good timing, the attention paid to his tastes - both liking tea in the first place, and the amount of sugar he puts in it -, the care he put into making it, and that his way of offering made him desire it.

(...Though what does the effort I put into writing Jan accurately to who he really is mean to anyone if I don't eventually make the ever-popular ship Akijan canon? No one shall know, as I continue to insist... not canon. ✍(◔◡◔) )

[rainbow-trout-art]

UZI

[snz4]

My top MD ships +

Cyn doodle :3