#prakranns

[buswilligan]

(Sorry guys, I’m reposting this bc I’m so utterly baffled by the way tumblr decided to format the original post and i couldn’t get it out of my head)

You’re right, I don’t think I’ve ever really posted much on Maira other than those drawings! I’m so glad you’re interested, I think I mainly don’t talk much about my mcs bc I don’t feel like people in the fandom really care lol. But if u know me u know I’m always looking for an excuse to talk about my ocs SO….

Maira Burke is my Cybird MC, I use her for ikesen and ikevamp!

Personality wise, Maira’s very kind, intuitive and unafraid to speak her mind like the mc in game; she’s definitely a bit more rough around the edges than game mc, though that’s mostly just because she was never very social before the events of the games, she always kept to herself. She has a very dry sense of humor and definitely ends up being the straight-man type when it comes to everyone else’s shenanigans. I’ve mentioned it before, but she’s 6′3 and has a resting ‘don’t even look at me or i’ll stomp you to death with my hooves’ face, so people have always left her alone. SO now she genuinely doesn’t know what to do or how to react once she’s suddenly surrounded by people who aren’t intimidated or deterred by it.

Here’s her pinterest board bc everyone knows I have no self restraint when it comes to pinterest~

Backstory under the cut since this is getting long lol

Anyway! Maira’s backstory is the same for both games up to a point. She’s from America and was raised by her grandmother who was a seamstress for a living. She was always super close to her nana and the two shared a lot of their hobbies and liked to travel the world together as she was growing up (nana inherited a decent amount of money when her husband died).

While Maira was in college, her nana fell severely ill so she took a break from school to take care of her. Ultimately, her grandmother succumbed to her illness and it threw Maira into a deep depression. Despite Maira lowkey being a prep appearance-wise, she really didn’t have like… friends other than her nana. She’d always been very focused on her studies and came off as pretty standoffish despite being a genuinely nice person, mainly because she doesn’t like attention, but people usually misinterpreted that as her being intimidating and steered clear. SO, after her nana’s death she tried to return to school but couldn’t focus or find motivation and ended up dropping out altogether. Staying in her grandmother’s home started getting really difficult for her, so she ended up selling it, and this is where her story diverges depending on the game.

For ikesen, she decides to move to Japan and devote her energy to fashion. She’d learned how to make clothes from her grandma growing up and really enjoyed it, but she hadn’t originally wanted to make a career out of it. In ikesen, she decides to pick it up again since it’s something that she has a good grasp on and it’s a way for her to be close to her nana’s memory.

For ikevamp, she takes her inheritance and starts a travel blog. Eventually the blog starts getting enough attention that she starts making an income from it, luckily before she ran out of inheritance money lol.

For both, it’s really easy for her to decide to stay in the past bc, even if she hadn’t found love there, she doesn’t really have anything to return to. She doesn’t have any friends or family in her original time, and the people that she meets in the past have become like family to her. I think that even w/o falling in love she would have quickly decided not to return anyway. listen…… i love the found family trope…

So that’s Maira!!! I hope this is at least vaguely coherent, it’s 1 am right now but I wanted to get this typed up since it’s been a while since u sent this ask. I really wanted to draw smth for it and I kept either not liking the drawings or losing them bc of my computer restarting on me rip.. Feel free to ask me more abt her if u ever have questions, I’m always ready to gush abt my ocs!!!!

[buswilligan]

I love your art so much and I'm dying from exams do you have any doodles of Mitsuhide lying around somewhere by chance?