#shiko one piece

[joy-girl]

One Piece 1096 // Rocks Pirates

[motookanao]

❦kakasi flax flue

2023 3/30-4/9

Concept

It expresses the desire to celebrate the beauty of a large body by blending it with the environment instead of hiding it behind clothing. It expresses the desire to celebrate the beauty of a large body by blending it with the environment instead of hiding it behind clothing. The idea is to become one with the space and have the space itself become a part of the person.

Explanation of the exhibition

About the room

Both videos were created based on home movies. Some of the fabrics were used from the contents of the artist's atelier and home, such as his home furnishings for making clothes, test pieces, interior decorations, and his treasured kimono underwear and obi. The exhibition's video is a combination of the artist's self and other shots. Here he is seen stomping his four legs, spraying his rice field with a chemical to keep out jumbo snails, applying a mud mask, and dressing up as a wild boar. The view from the artist's perspective is of him circling in search of his mountain. The motifs of amulets, which are said to ward off evil, and the action of plowing the land are added to the landscape. The artist's skin is permeated, making them one with his own body, and they blend with the space in the light of the image. It is like taking in poison and making the poison your own. Come to think of it, my dream was to grow bigger and explode. This growing bigger is not just about eating and digesting food, but it is also about cultivating, like plowing a field, cleaning the grass you find, and eating it. It is a way of simultaneously fulfilling the environment and the growth of the body. Wrestlers are engaged in eating and cultivating the land. The shiko is said to be an action to cultivate the land and to dispel evil spirits in the earth. I, too, do the ceremonial shiko. When one is fat, one can wear a large piece of cloth and have a presence in the space as if it were an interior.

About the lampshades

Lampshades produced by the artist are arranged. The work was created with the aim of creating corrective undergarments for the space. The artist, who no longer feels the need to wear underwear with wires to express her body positivity, uses underwear with wires because they expand her body and help her to make the most of her features. The bust line is the line between the bust and the base of the body, where sweat glands are abundant, and when a fat person jumps, the flesh of the entire body sways away from the body, which is painful. They also sweat lukewarmly. When jumping, the breasts are particularly painful, as if they are going to tear off. Therefore, the wires support the peculiar place of nodules and extensions while making oneself stand out in space with the action of jumping.

[leap-loves]

Tighnari and Cyno, ❗️🌷🦇 :D

F/O Ask Game!!

❗️- Quick! Without thinking, tell me your favorite thing about your s/o!

T: I think my favorite thing about Shiko is her confidence. Everything she does, she does with certainty. Whether it's on the battle field or playing with kids, or helping the injured. She is always sure of herself.

C: My favorite thing about her? Her ability to find the balance in things. Managing to be firm, but not harsh. Fluid, but strong. Supportive, but unafraid to call us out if we need it.

T: An additional thing I think we can agree on, her strength in general.

🌷 - Are you a sweet talker? How do you speak to your s/o when trying to be flirty/romantic?

T: This one's idea of being 'flirty' is his terrible jokes.

C: Shiko thinks they're funny.

T: I suppose someone has to... But no, none of us are particularly sweet talkers? We may say things that are sweet, but it isn't with the intention of buttering up to each other.

C: What we say, we mean. Otherwise, we'd be toast.

T: ....

T: Anyways, when we're intending to be romantic, it's just... us being genuine. Letting ourselves relax some. Admitting how much we missed each other, since we all tend to be rather busy, so we don't get to spend as much time together as we wish we could.

🦇 - Are you easily spooked? How does your s/o help you (or) how do you help your s/o in scary situations?

C: Tighnari tends to get easily spooked by loud, sudden noises

T: I don't think that's what they mean. But by nature of our jobs, we aren't very easily spooked? We have more than our fair share of anxiety, sure, but we're all pretty good at assessing what needs to be worried about.

C: However, as far as scary situations are concerned, we do what we can to help each other whenever nightmares become an issue.

T: Yes, usually by reassuring whoever had the nightmare that things are okay, everyone is in one piece, and offering distractions if necessary. It's a bit harder when someone gets hurt, or if it's an old pain... But we do what we can to support each other.

[feline17ff]

Shiko Doi!

Shiko = stone

Doi = Mountain; earth

Sakura = cherry blossom tree

She befriended multiple rivals during her idol career.

I like this :)

hoping legal adulthood would grant her more autonomy in her career.

I doubt that.

Her excessive need for control is overcompensation for the lack of it she had as an idol.

Oh!

She’s ashamed of her death, because she threw her life away by not taking the care to look both ways before crossing the street;

Baby girl no :(

She’s also more generally ashamed of having been so burdened by consequences of the career she chose and strove to be successful in.

I get that

as in an X-ray, showing the damage the truck’s collision did to her skeleton

Yesssss 🤩

Her limbs split apart along the complete breaks, the pieces floating near each other (by default) with pink light shining out of their severed ends.

Oh gosh, that's freaky cool!

I liked how you highlighted her switch from earth flowers to earth rocks -- both are called earth powers in fiction but both are so different, and I've never seen them together in the same magic system. It's either/or -- earth either means flowers and plants like W.I.T.C.H. or rocks like A:tLA

The emphasis on cracks at first did make me think of Humphrey Dumpty at first XD But that was put to rest almost immediately

I can just imagine her freaky cool Phantom Pain Form, her transformation scene will make heavy use of inverted colors because X-ray (I'm hesitant to add pictures here because permission stuff, but this one seems to be part of an optical illusion so maybe fair game:

Just google inverted colors and you'll get what I mean :))

With the dark and inverted color X-ray theme, and her limbs separating, and her horror-stricken face -- she'll have one awesome transformation sequence!

Phantom Knight Afterlife Club: Part Two

Part One

Characters

Name

Akane Gushiken, aka Phantom Blood.

Age

Nineteen.

Appearance

Akane has a tall, muscular build with no excess fat and a gaunt face. Her tanned skin bears a multitude of scars, some of which are hidden, but that apart from the stab wound that caused her death she doesn’t mind being seen. Her thick black hair is back-length, unwashed and matted, in a scruffy ponytail to keep it out of her face. She has light brown eyes with blood red scelera. Her weariness makes her look older than she is.

She wears a black leather jacket with silver studs on the lapels, a red heart symbol over her heart with an anatomically accurate pattern of major blood vessel lines branching out from it across the jacket; a dark crimson top; a thick, study bright red belt with a silver buckle; asymmetrically ripped black trousers with red hearts on each hip and knee; and black leather boots with more silver studs on the toes. Her living magical girl costume was similar, but had orange instead of red. Eight steel pint canisters with vertical glass windows are securely attached to her belt, four on each side, containing a metaphysical facsimile of her lost blood. The belt also has a loop for her knife. Her shackles are around her wrists with short broken chains from over the inside, where she would be able to feel her pulse if she still had one (symbolic of her active, pugnacious, hands-on nature).

Power and Weakness

She can manipulate human blood and any other liquid containing so much as a drop of it (though more blood content means greater ease and finesse). She can freeze it into any shape and make it a vapour. Losing all her blood would make her cease to exist.

Weapon

A machete with a black hilt.

Backstory

Akane was born into a low-income family in an impoverished inner city district with low education and high crime rates. Her parents were loving and did their best, but her mother was a career thief to provide for her family and went to prison when Akane was seven, pushing her father Hikaru to work so much to keep them alive that he could hardly spend time with his daughter. Feeling invisible and unheard even if she was loved in theory, she spent lots of time playing on the streets and looked to children her age and older for belonging. Make lasting friendships was easier said than done. She ended up entangled in the area’s gang politics and her bonds with her peers were strained by their frequent separation for months at a time to go to court, correctional facilities or hospital. She’s been carrying a knife to defend herself since she was ten. Sometimes people she’d called friends actively abandoned and betrayed her, sometimes they lost touch, but either way friends soon felt like more trouble and heartache than they were worth. She also almost consistently struggled at her poorly funded and run school, except one year where she had a considerate and nurturing teacher she made real progress under. Then that teacher had to move and Akane dismissed her progress as a fluke. She dropped out when she was fifteen to have more time to take care of Hikaru, who had fallen chronically ill, and make money for them.

It was at this low point that a fire spirit, Farei, offered her the chance to be a magical girl warrior with fire powers. She jumped to take it. Magic seemed the perfect escape from her miserable civilian life. It gave her a sense of purpose and slaughtering demons was a highly cathartic outlet for her previously aimless anger and disaffection. For the first time in her life, she felt like she was good at something. Like she was good enough to make a difference. A magical girl duo in a neighbouring territory were impressed by her skill and invited her to join them several times. She rudely declined, believing she could handle anything herself and unable to trust them.

Two years ago, Hikaru passed away. His illness had worsened, and he hadn’t been able to get a diagnosis until it had progressed to be untreatable. They’d grown a lot closer since she was little and he was the only person in her life she cared about, Farei more of a colleague. She was absolutely devasted. She got more and more reckless and self-destructive, chain-smoking, drinking more and picking fights she knew she couldn’t win, and these patterns of behaviour persisted up to her death, after she’d begun to come to terms with losing her dad.

Her insistence on going solo backfired when following her takedown of almost fifty demons consecutively one night, the last demon standing stabbed her in the back. Too exhausted and in shock to call an ambulance, she bled to death alone. This was coincidentally and the same night the Tenebrous Emperor was killed.

Personality

Akane is pretty disillusioned with humanity, caring little for the good of the many and quick to assume the worst in people. In physical combat and social interaction, she believes the best defence is a good offence - and she’s used to needing to perpetually defend herself. She’s easily irritated and belligerent. Anger is the emotion she’s most comfortable expressing. She possesses a sharp tongue, habit of being verbally aggressive and grim, sarcastic, irreverent sense of humour. She relishes the thrill of a good fight, to the point of drawing battles out and provoking strong opponents on purpose when she’s desperately bored or or desiring distraction. Or feeling she deserves to be punished, as she did in the initial throes of her grief. Even if she’s in a good mood and getting along with someone, she likes to playfully tease them. A sign that she’s extraordinarily upset is her not having the energy or engagement to mock or insult anyone, and responding to things that aggravate her with resignation or overt hurt, not snapping.

The other side to this relentless passion and drive is a valiant heroic spirit. Her courage and resilience is unshakable and she will never back down from a challenge, even knowing she’ll lose, if she believes it’s right. Once she sets her mind on something, she will not let it go. And by the same token, she won’t give up on her friends either. She may not have had it as a primary motivation until her teammates roped her into it, but she finds she does earnestly enjoy helping others. It’s so much more satisfying to have a significant positive impact on the world than a significant destructive one. That was a forgotten aspect of the rush of her early days of service. It’s just she believes hurting is what she’s best at and will probably end up doing anyway by her nature, so it’s less wasted effort not to try to do anything else. Harming the already downtrodden or mistreated really infuriates her, most of all children being hurt, manipulated or exploited the way the adults running her old gang exploited her.

She actually loves being a ghost and prefers it to being alive. She can still fight demons, the only thing she lived for; she has cool new powers; she doesn’t need to worry about survival besides the blood thing (it does annoy her that she can die of the exact same thing she already died of); and no human can hurt her ever again. Dying a war hero was honestly the best future she had hoped for in the last two years of her life. It beat going to prison. What does she have to mourn? Lost opportunities for a better life? What happiness and good relationships she did have? She was mourning those already. Being a magical girl was all she had and now it’s all she is. Telling herself she had nothing left to lose anyway and enjoying the perks of her new existence is how she deflects from processing her grief for a) her cruel death young, alone and unloved, b) the true injustice of the hand she was dealt in life and c) her parents, especially her dad. Her personal desire is to find Hikaru’s ghost, or if he isn’t a ghost, figure out how to get to this higher plane he’s on. She struggles the most out of the four to turn visible and tangible, because of her refusal to let herself feel emotional connection to the living world.

Akane is fiercely independent and afraid of vulnerability. She’s deeply averse to self-reflection because of her self-hatred and instead externalizes her turmoil through lashing out. She deliberately pretends to be stereotypically stupid and simplistic muscle to so she can trick enemies into underestimating her, but more negatively to consciously stay or try to stay in ignorance of difficult, distressing insights and not have to unpack her feelings. Besides, school always made her feel stupid; she probably is, right? The truth is she’s sharper and more cunning that even she gives herself credit for and often wins using pragmatic tactics. If she would realize her mental strengths and apply herself to improving them, she could achieve much more. She lacks the social skills to be a good manipulator, however.

Over time she comes to care profoundly for her teammates and defend them loyally. People beyond her family showing her kindness like she’s worthy of it is a novelty, but even if she can’t comprehend what value they see in her they’re the best friends she’s ever had and she tries to show that she appreciates it in her own indirect manner. She develops particular protectiveness and affection toward Tomoko and Miu because the obvious pain and injustice in their lives before their deaths resonates with her. She used to disrespect Miu, but her new goal is teaching her to challenge people and express anger. Meanwhile, she thinks Shiko is a spoiled snob and has a rivalry with her. Shiko likes clever plans and leads most of the time; Akane usually thinks brute force would get the job done more easily and sometimes takes the lead in combat since she has the most experience killing demons.

Phantom Pain Form

Spilt Blood. She gets glowing, solid red eyes. Her canisters open and her blood engulfs her in a roiling orb, then freezes into a shell and cracks apart. She emerges with tracks of blood streaming down her cheeks like tears. Her hair bursts out of its ponytail and grows to reach her ankles with crimson streaks. Her clothes’ red and black are inverted with her heart symbols broken in two, the rips her old costume had when she died manifesting in them. The studs are now spikes. Her chains extend and join together, but are pretty loose and she can deftly wield the giant, two-handed sword her machete becomes.

She has Akane’s anger issues and love of violence taken to the extreme and all her inhibitions removed, manically revelling in brutality and willing to hurt anyone, even her friends, who gets between her and instant gratification. She’s essentially feral. She isn’t evil, but amoral and savage, consumed by primal instincts just as Akane has been in survival mode for most of her life. Not thinking critically and engaging her higher thought processes in favour of following her surface emotions is Akane’s main unhealthy coping mechanism, so her Phantom Pain form takes that and runs with it.

***

Name

Shiko Doi.

Age

Seventeen.

Appearance

Shiko is a fair-skinned girl with a curvaceous figure and long legs, fit beneath her plumpness because her level dancing of is strenuous exercise and she’s been doing regularly it for years. Her wavy, glossy dark brown hair hangs loose to her shoulders, neatly brushed and coiffed with pink streaks (that interestingly have returned from her old magical form despite her dying as a civilian). She has brown eyes with white sclera. She wears soft, feminine pink lipstick and eyeshadow and her fingernails are painted the same shade.

She wears an elegant white and pink minidress with crack patterns on the white sections; high white heeled boots with crack patterns; and a flashy gold necklace, earrings and twin bracelets with rhombus-shaped rose quartz gemstones. She has shackles around her upper thighs with chains hanging down to her knees (symbolic of her dynamic, strong and proud nature, always standing tall and striding forward).

Power and Weakness

Geokinesis, based on the mineral component of bones. She can also more intuitively control bone itself. She will die if her spinal cord is disconnected.

Weapon

A poleaxe with an indestructible ghost-bone head that she can reshape and add to at will, e.g. giving it an additional curved spike at the back for grappling, two blades or a flat bludgeoning side. It has a rose quartz rhombus on each side of the bladed end of the handle. When not in battle, she enjoys casually experimenting with new decorative designs once she gets over her squeamishness about it being bone.

Backstory

The sole child of a wealthy family, Shiko grew up pampered. She was popular at school too. She always loved music and became an incredible singer, as well as a talented dancer and actor. She became a magical girl three years ago at fifteen, gifted the power to cleanse locations, objects and people’s souls of runaway dark magic’s spiritual corruption that was rampant in her town’s area, and heal any damage it wrought. She found it easiest to channel through song, when she was totally in tune with her positive emotions.

In a matter of weeks an idol company scout latched onto her. Seeing singing on a larger scale and going on tour as a means of widening her magic application to do more good, she accepted the job and took the stage name Sakura. She had a flower theme with pink as her primary colour (drawing parallels to the Greek goddess Persephone with her theme changing to the inorganic earth when she is suddenly ripped away from life to become a being of the afterlife, and in tandem her trading a cute childlike look for a more mature, regal one). While Sakura was an admired, beloved rising star, over time the stresses of idol life got to Shiko. Her manager was strict and dictatorial. Between training, performing and cultivating and maintaining her image she was so busy she eventually could hardly fit in the magical girl duties not sublimated into her performances. She had little to no quality time with her family and friends. Keeping up with the pressures of sudden fame slowly switched to being her top priority.

She died a week before Akane by accidentally running in front of a fast truck without checking the road for oncoming traffic at night. This was panic, not plain foolishness; she was in a hurry to get to the privacy of her home because she was being stalked by paparazzi. The collision gave her many injuries, but a broken spine was what killed her. Forming the team was her idea.

Personality

Shiko is a professional in everything, realist and generally levelheaded. She likes discipline and structure, one reason she always thrived in school and could hone her artistic talents so well. She doesn’t like to dwell on negatives and wallow in feeling bad, but does account for present and potential problems in order to fix them. She has a strategic, analytical type of intelligence, willing to sacrifice and take the long path to satisfaction, and trying to use every available advantage. Her fighting style is calculated, deliberate and a balance of graceful and forceful. Because of her more grounded nature, she finds making herself visible and tangible intuitive and has fun blending in with the living, grateful that her eyes look normal if the green blood vessels go unnoticed. She deeply resents dying when she had her whole life ahead of her and knows she could have had such great success in adulthood.

She’s very socially skilled: confident, charismatic, a reassuring listener and persuasive speaker. She can intuitively recognize people’s individual strengths, flaws and insecurities and put them to good use, making her as highly effective a leader as she is uplifting and dependable a friend. She’s also prepared to challenge and call out her friends when they’re behaving irrationally. Being respected is more important to her than being liked. She still makes an effort to be liked, of course, but not trusting her, listening to her or valuing her skills will offend her much more seriously. To her ranking them the other way around would be frivolous and petty. For example, if she had to choose between the greater good and a friend’s feelings, she would sacrifice the friend’s feelings, telling herself the friend would understand why she was right and thus no longer be upset when they talked it out. That requires her to be very adept at the art of talking things out. She befriended multiple rivals during her idol career.

Although her motivation is genuinely wanting to help people, it is partly rooted in a subconscious sense of superiority - she doesn’t need help, she’s the one who helps others! Shiko has a lot to be justly proud of but goes too far into vanity. She can be attention-seeking and demanding. The trend of her serving as the voice of reason means she’s quite self-righteous and haughty, and so is awkward, shaken, defensive or downright in denial if it’s pointed out that she’s being irrational or in the wrong, and she can’t receive criticism and correction with nearly the amount of grace with which she expects others to accept hers. As a living magical girl and idol, she was constantly playing to a crafted persona and that mindset is initially her default. She’s inexperienced dropping her perfect walls and allowing people to understand and connect with her true self, and vice versa. The result is her sometimes lacking empathy. Without it her kindness becomes condescension and her inspirational confidence sheer arrogance.

She’s afraid of vulnerability in that she wants to seem like she always has the situation, or at least herself, under control and wants to be treated like an adult when she just isn’t yet, and infallible when she can’t be. She likes to remind her teammates that she was only a couple of months away from her eighteenth birthday. She was looking forward to it, hoping legal adulthood would grant her more autonomy in her career. Her excessive need for control is overcompensation for the lack of it she had as an idol. She’s ashamed of her death, because she threw her life away by not taking the care to look both ways before crossing the street; and because to explain why she wasn’t careful would mean admitting that she didn’t enjoy and control every aspect of her idol life. She’s also more generally ashamed of having been so burdened by consequences of the career she chose and strove to be successful in.

The liberty from life’s concerns and her new friends’ influence are encouraging her to live in the moment and let her guard down more. Shiko is increasingly comfortable acting like a normal teenager. For all her and Akane’s differences, she does begrudgingly recognize her insights as valuable and wishes she would use her brain more, and bows to her and the others’ greater knowledge of demons. She encourages Miu to be more confident and tries to accommodate for her voice and ideals in her plans, and be a reliable rock for her to lean on. She has a sisterly bond with Tomoko. She’s actually mildly flustered by the depth of Tomoko’s admiration for her, wanting to live up to it and having never been this personally close to a fan before.

Phantom Pain Form

Shattered Bone. Her eyes glow solid white. In her transformation sequence we see her as in an X-ray, showing the damage the truck’s collision did to her skeleton. Her poleaxe gets new spikes and the blade fractures and becomes serrated due to the smooth edge breaking off in shards. Her chains extend into the earth to restrain her legs. Her limbs split apart along the complete breaks, the pieces floating near each other (by default) with pink light shining out of their severed ends. Small bone fragments and rocks float loose in midair around her. She can use them as projectiles. Her outfit turns whiter with the pink relegated to the inside of the wider, longer and more numerous cracks. Her hair turns fully pink and styled in low, thin, waist-length pigtails, each mostly contained in a white tube with a rounded puff of hair at the end. Her default expression is of shock, terror and horror, the exact one she wore in the second between realizing the truck was about to hit her and being hit. She mostly manipulates her poleaxe telekinetically like a fifth limb.

Shiko tries so hard to keep her composure; Shattered Bone is what happens when that composure is obliterated. She runs on pure emotion. The upside is, she can recognize her friends and is very protective of her friends. The downside is, she’s volatile and unpredictable, normally in a blind, frenzied state of rage and anguish that she takes out on her enemies or at worst whoever else available in hopes of some measure of catharsis. Shattered Bone has none of Shiko’s technique in how she uses her power and is messy and imprecise.

***

Name

Miu, aka Phantom Breath. She doesn’t have a family name.

Age

Sixteen.

Appearance

Miu is a slender, lean, average height girl with dark skin. She has thick, kinked black hair tied by yellow bows in high, intricately braided pigtails that imitate wings at the side of her head, the rest in wavy cornrows. Her warm brown eyes have sunshine yellow sclera.

She wears a canary yellow knee-length A-line dress with fluffy matching feather trim on the short puffy sleeves and skirt, a black belt and bows on the skirt. She also has forest green tights and black patent leather Mary Janes with gold buckles. She wears a shackle around her neck with the chain section hanging from the front (symbolic of how her voice and spirit were stifled long before she died, and reflecting her strangulation).

Power and Weakness

Aerokinesis, including the ability to sense the chemical composition of air she touches. Unlike other ghosts, she needs to breathe, though the content of the air is irrelevant - she just needs to have some kind of gas to inhale or she’ll suffocate.

Weapon

A fine, light indestructible golden net of shimmering metal wire that can shrink or expand as much as she wills it to.

Backstory

A little over three years ago, when the Demon Empire first recognized the original magical girl team as a serious threat, the Emperor decided to fight fire with fire and had a healthy human girl kidnapped without a trace. Surely it would throw these pesky vigilantes off to have to face an enemy so similar to them. Her biological family eventually presumed her dead. Her memories were erased and for the next year she knew nothing but her new guardian’s indoctrination (he told her he’d saved her life because he saw potential in her) and abuse until she was deemed ready to fight on the frontlines. She had no magic of her own, but was trained in espionage, combat and the use of magical tools. As a dark magical girl, her canary motif was linked to the idea of a canary in a coal mine via specializing in weaponizing gases - knockout, poisonous and enchanted varieties, the latter having a range of effects, from filling people with irrational rage to standard mind control to affecting the environment with mystical corruption (she wore a grey titanium gas mask over her mouth and nose, stiff and pointed like a beak). She also wielded feathers throwing blades. The yellow and black in her dress were inverted and the green was more prominent and murkier, conveying toxicity. For stealth and intimidation, and to avoid saying anything wrong, she tended not to talk. She didn’t talk much at ‘home’ either, her ‘father’ making it clear her input and opinion wasn’t wanted and didn’t matter.

The first people to take interest in her personality and treat her like a sapient being were the heroes she was pitted against. They realized she wasn’t happy or loved, so they reached out to her in friendship. Though obviously she didn’t instantly trust them, but when they repeatedly proved their cared more about her than the Emperor and vice versa, it led to her questioning her indoctrination, the justness of the war and whether she could have an identity outside of a soldier in it. Her investigation found plenty of evidence she was on the wrong side, but directly disobeying her abuser seemed impossible. A year ago the team leader was captured. Miu was her only chance of salvation. In this critical moment she chose what was right rather than what was safe. The new friends escaped together and Miu officially joined the heroes.

Despite all her growth like learning to trust people and understanding that the abuse she experienced wasn’t her fault, she never forgave herself for her crimes or fully internalized that she was innately worthy of love. But she pretended she was further along her recovery than she was for her friends’ benefit. This barrier strained her side of those friendships to a degree and she would secretly wonder how secure her place on the team truly was. After all, they’d been a perfectly balanced well-oiled machine before and she worried she’d disrupted that. This doubt was never resolved.

The climax of her redemption arc came when she confronted the Emperor alone in a heroic sacrifice to protect her friends. She rejected his manipulation and denounced him to his face, and damaged his armour, which would later enable the rest of the team to defeat him; but he fatally strangled her. They swore to avenge her and validate her sacrifice. After watching over them for the month until they killed the Emperor, beating herself up for not living to help them, she made new friends and saw she was unhealthily torturing herself. She agreed to join their team and travel to make the most of her afterlife.

Personality

Miu is selfless and empathetic to a fault. She’s caring, patient, polite, respectful and intensely loyal, recalling how invaluable her living friends’ persistence in supporting her was. On the surface, you could believe her to be everything you’d want in a friend. That’s what she aims to be: exactly what she was missing. She’ll always put your wants and needs ahead of her own… always. Her sincere kindness is conflated with a pathological fear of conflict and compulsive people pleasing. She has the habits of swallowing or downplaying her opinions to avoid clashing with anyone and evaluating every question, even casual ones, to figure out the desired and ‘right’ answer. It’s taken her a while to internalize that every disagreement or fight won’t rip the group’s friendships to shreds. She’s still uncomfortable and anxious during arguments. She does her best to keep the peace in the group, but may ignore or be complicit in relationship problems to avoid addressing them, preferring to change the subject if a solution or compromise can’t be efficiently found. Being so agreeable and passive is her main social survival mechanism.

The severe trauma of the Emperor’s parenting style has fundamentally shaped her character. She has low self-esteem, does not think that she deserves unconditional love and struggles to grasp that concept itself, and is excessively humble and self-deprecating. She apologizes reflexively and inordinately, used to being declared to be in the wrong anytime without warning. Feeling completely safe is very difficult for her and managed the easiest with her friends all around her, in a secure shelter with good visibility - but depending on how close to okay she is internally at that time, may still be impossible. She’s hypervigilant, timid and jumpy at. She needs to believe so ardently in her higher ideals and causes because her belief in herself is so frail. She used to be terrified of how her friends would react to her dark past. Even now that she’s told them a vaguer, abridged version of her life and they didn’t love her any less afterward, she can never quite shake the concern that they might leave her. Because really, how worthwhile could she be? Stuttering and losing her speech are telltale signs that she’s afraid, upset and specifically triggered. On the worst days she’ll barely say a word.

Her driving motivation is to atone for her crimes and put enough good into the world to outweigh them. Having clawed her way to morality out of hell, her code of ethics the one thing besides her love of her friends she’s unwilling to compromise on. She tries to see the best in everyone and believes firmly in redemption; she’ll even attempt to reason with the more humanlike demons, and with every ghost and human antagonist they meet. She isn’t naive. She knows all too well about irredeemable evil. But she knows you can’t change unless you know that it’s possible and have the opportunity first. Her discomfort with violence, still associating it with her abuser, means she seeks diplomatic solutions and has a merciful, indirect fighting style focused on restraining the foe, tiring them out and other nonlethal methods. Her net comes in handy for this. She’s also very generous with second chances and will put her personal grudges aside to uphold her ideal of forgiveness to a surrendered or reformed enemy. These pacifistic policies are impractical sometimes, yes, but they’re Miu’s way of keeping herself inside the lines of her redefined identity and preventing backsliding.

Miu isn’t traditionally intelligent and in her memory hasn’t had much of a formal education, but she’s good at working with what she has. She’s highly resourceful and adaptable, and more perceptive than you might presume. Hypervigilant, remember? While she doesn’t have a good head for plans, a far better follower than leader, she possesses strong lateral thinking skills and can solve problems and win battles creatively and unpredictably. It helps to offset the practical cost of her strict moral code. After all, demon society was rigid and oppressive and she escaped it by broadening her mind to think outside its boxes. Let’s put it this way: she’s talented enough in this way to admit that she has some talent.

She may not trust herself much, but she does trust her friends. She and Akane had the rockiest relationship at first - Akane dismissed her as a wimp and Miu was on edge around her and disgusted by her combativeness. Since learning the basics of her past and getting to know her better, Akane has connected with her over their shared experience of being in survival mode in dangerous, precarious, traumatic situations for years on end and greatly respects the inner strength it took to betray the Emperor. Shiko in contrast is almost unfailingly nice to her, but doesn’t understand what she’s gone through at all and can inadvertently be insensitive to her C-PTSD. Miu is avoiding this issue and is the first to bow to Shiko’s assertions of authority. She has the clearest view of Tomoko’s own low self-worth and relates to it. Her sensitivity and caution ground Tomoko and in return the younger girl teaches her most prominently how to have fun and live in the moment.

Phantom Pain Form

Last Breath. A miniature tornado whips up around her and when it clears, she’s wearing her old villainous outfit, the tip of the gas mask broken off. Her eyes glow solid yellow. Bruises are visible on her neck where they extend above and below her shackle. The chain extends to join a new loop on her bodice positioned at the bottom of her trachea. Large black bird wings that are lung-shaped when folded grow from a curved green ridge imitating a trachea going down her spine and have visible green bones in imitation of air passages. Her hair lengthens, gains yellow streaks and the braids of her pigtails, though not the pigtails themselves, come loose to better flow and lash in her wind. They’re always being blown around, even if there isn’t any wind that anyone else can feel at the moment. Her net turns black.

Representing Miu’s fear that she’ll never overcome her dark past, she makes people very appreciative of her peaceful nature in her right mind. In fact Miu’s behaviour as an agent of evil was dispassionate and efficient, but her anxiety and trauma has exaggerated her own evil in her self-perception. The result? Last Breath is nothing short of sadistic. She will pull enough air out of your lungs to make you experience nearly dying before she puts it back, repeatedly, for fun. She likes using her net to strangle her enemies and restrain them in painful positions. She can be bargained with and directed, but only if your proposal or plan still involves someone suffering, preferably at her hands. That she maintains Miu’s sweet, pleasant mannerisms and attitude adds to her creepiness.

***

Name

Tomoko Fujisaka, aka Phantom Nerve.

Age

Twelve.

Appearance

Tomoko is thin with youthfully round cheeks, and small by the standards of her age. She has pale skin, a shock of white hair in a pixie cut constantly spiky with static in an exaggeration of her messy living hairstyle, and pink eyes with light blue scelera.

Her clothing is a form-fitting purple speed skating outfit with light blue interconnected neuron motifs on the trunk, and darker blue knee pads and rollerblade boots with three pink wheels each. She wears a pink safety helmet, which resembles a brain with light blue hemisphere outlines, wrinkle and fissure lines, her chain on the back connecting the ‘hemispheres’ (symbolic of her intellect and obsession with knowledge). It can be taken off, but if she tries to leave it behind it’ll teleport back onto her person. She also wears dark purple glasses with bright blue lightning bolts arcing along their arms.

Power and Weakness

Electrokinesis. She can generate electricity (coloured faintly bluish white) through her body and rollerblades, the wheels of which crackle and spark when spinning, letting her skate on a stream of her own lightning. Later she discovers the ability to change her body itself into a bolt of lightning briefly. Even when she isn’t literal lightning, she can move about as fast. However, she is vulnerable to strong magnetic fields like electricity, the more so the more she uses her power. Unlike the others, magnetism won’t kill her unless it’s extremely intense, but before reaching that level it can disrupt and temporarily deactivate her electrokinesis.

Weapon

Her weapon is a purple handheld catapult that fires ball lightning.

Backstory

Tomoko was born to a loving middle-class family in a big city. She was bookworm and excelled in school, said to be a pleasure to have in class, and an athlete, especially loving roller skating and then rollerblading. Her sister Rai, six years older, was her hero and they were very close.

Rai and her four friends were one of the earliest magical girl teams to spring up. Her parents remained oblivious, but Tomoko soon found out and begged them to let her help and accompany them. After impressing them with her courageous assistance defeating a powerful demon - mostly through diverting his attention - her wish was granted. Her competence got her promoted from a part-time member to a permanent one in a few months. Life was amazing.

The problems began a year into this merry status quo. Being albino, her vision was naturally poor, so her parents thought little of it when she needed stronger glasses. But then her motor skills started to regress and she grew uncharacteristically forgetful and confused, forcing her to reluctantly, bitterly resign from skating and being a magical girl. She and her family realized something was badly wrong. Tomoko was diagnosed with childhood dementia, the symptoms of a rare neurodegenerative disease she’d had the horrible luck to inherit. Her health rapidly deteriorated. She began to have seizures and they just got more frequent. She forgot how to write, read, speak and walk in an agonizing decline, until five months prior to the Emperor’s passing she died abruptly during a seizure.

Her death rent the Fujisaka family apart. Her parents’ relationship has grown dysfunctional; her sister fell into depression and quit being a magical girl, breaking the item she transformed with to seal it; and without their leader or ray of sunshine, the team disbanded, their morale crushed. In their absence the city has become a burgeoning dark magic hotspot. Tomoko doesn’t know any of this. She darted out of her old neighbourhood immediately to explore Japan and isn’t ready to see her living loved ones again.

Personality

Tomoko never does anything by half. She’s overflowing with energy and intense, bubbly cheer, slow to lose hope but quick to grow restless if unstimulated. She can find fun, or at least engagement, in almost any situation. Her hyperactivity, impulsivity and impatience have only increased since getting super speed; she’s using her powers more often than not, and activates them for the sake of it by far the most of the team. Being so optimistic, she typically expects the best of endeavours. She also has solid confidence in herself. But that makes her cocky, foolhardy and stubborn, hesitant to admit to her miscalculations, as often as nobly bold.

She is very precocious and intelligent in terms of vertical thinking. She has an insatiable appetite for knowledge and understanding, apparent through her habit of questioning everything and knowing stories and concepts notably above her age level (let alone the one she was in when she stopped attending school; and a knack for breaking complex things down to their most important parts. If Shiko devises a clever plan, Miu does something creative or Akane employs a cunning tactic in a fight, Tomoko will rapidly recognize what they’re going for and be able to explain it well. She’s talkative and surprisingly sophisticated in speech, having a reader’s accent (mispronouncing words she’s read but not heard). Her memory is sharp and specific. She consistently learns from her mistakes in the sense that she won’t make the same practical one - e.g. taking on an enemy too powerful for her or attempting a mission with elements that aren’t her strong suit solo - twice. However, her naivety impedes her reckoning much with the underlying flaws that lead to her those decisions.

Tomoko wants to be capable and useful more than anything. This stems from the combination of wanting to make the people she loves proud of her (even more than in life, thanks to believing she let down her parents, sister and old team), and loathing and fearing the feeling of lacking skills and knowledge that she should have, especially compared to the precedents she sets. That’s all she felt when she was slowly dying. Feeling it again triggers her traumatic memories of that period. (She hates hospitals.) Her worst fear is is being a failure, useless and worthless and helpless. This obsessive craving for competence is the root of a lot of her behaviour, like her tendencies to overachieve, leap into danger, bite off more than she can chew and go against her protective teammates’ wishes to try prove herself.

Her insecurities are part of why she values knowledge so much: it’s simultaneously ammunition to prove her worth and a distraction. Information can be understood objectively, clarified, organized and articulated in ways emotions can’t. The fear beneath her bravado also explains why she’s, if she can help it, always either thinking about something external, doing something, or finding something to do or think about. As long as she never slows down, she never has to process her trauma. That and it feels so incredibly, addictively wonderful to have not only normal levels of ability, but actual superpowers after the level of motor skills she was reduced to. Yes, they and superhero antics are more distractions.

She is determined to be if not necessarily a great hero, at least her teammates’ equal - and the more they bond, the deeper the worry that one day she’ll let them down irreparably burrows. Shiko is the most similar to Rai and soon takes the place of a second big sister in her heart. Seemingly incongruously, her authoritative presence either has the best results in making Tomoko stay out of trouble because Tomoko can’t stand to disappoint her, or incites the most rebellion and shows of independence from her. This is due to Tomoko’s subconscious guilt that she’s dishonouring and replacing her sister by loving someone else the same way. It urges her to throw in fits of conflict and distance between them to try to prevent them getting that close. Where Shiko and Miu’s measured approaches balance her out, Akane is similarly action-oriented and reckless, if more pragmatic and brutal, and they get up to a lot of chaos together.

Phantom Pain Form

Raw Nerve. Her whole eyes glow blue and so do the nerves nearest to her skin. Lightning surges through her from her heart outward, disintegrating her glasses, helmet except the chain, and clothes and replacing them with the grey T-shirt, blue shorts and purple socks she was wearing when she passed away in her hospital bed. The chain extends and stiffens slightly to be a whole loop encircling her head. Her hair spikes grow into long locks branching in all directions that resemble the dendrites of a neuron and link to the inside of a cerebral cortex-shaped construct of crackling electricity surrounding and above Tomoko’s head, her body representing its brainstem. The wheels from her destroyed boots float horizontally around her waist and channel and direct lightning bolts.

In stark contrast to Tomoko, Raw Nerve is joyless, quiet, blunt and coldly, ruthlessly logical and she usually hovers in place or moves so fast she practically appears to teleport. She attacks purely remotely with lighting strikes and blasts (no longer needing her catapult) rather than also incorporating hit-and-run tactics like Tomoko. She’s so emotionally overwhelmed inside that she externally shuts down. Part of the personality shift is also wanting to be mature, since Raw Nerve is the embodiment of her unhealthy response to her fear of being weak and useless. When she does express emotion, she quickly gets distraught and risks zapping everything and everyone in the vicinity, friends included.

[skyllion-uwu]

Finally made one of those Carrd things here: https://skyllion.carrd.co/

PFP is my own quick editing

Title is my current vocal stim

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[twsted-princess]

"You................are not.....................of this...............plane." (picrew linked here)

Bio

Name: Shiko Izanami (いざなみ しこ)

Voice Actor: Mamiko Noto

Nicknames: Shi-Shi (Samuel), Ghostie-chan (Cater), Anko/Anglerfish (Floyd), Dame des Ténèbres (Rook), Creepy Lady (mob students)

Age: ? (appears to be 18)

Birthday: April 9th

Species: Human?

Gender: Demi-girl (She/They)

Sexuality: Demi

Height: 5'4

Family: Unseen Mothers

Homeland: Isle of Lamentation, one of the further islands known as Onigashima

Professional Status

Twisted from: Sadako Yamamura (Ring franchise)

Class: 3-E, Student no. 19

Dorm: Terrovania (@crestbaby)

Occupation: Student

Best Subject: Ancient Curses

Club: Origami Club

Dominant Hand: Left

Favorite Food: Tamago Kake Gohan, Chirashizushi

Least Favorite Food: Hamburgers

Likes: Red spider lilies, Samuel and Maxwell, Horror RPG's, Cloudless nights.

Dislikes: Being recorded, Being caught in a photograph, Cater, Samuel getting mad at her, not being able to eat many japanese foods.

Hobby: Making origami pieces, making friends of the various ghosts in the school.

Talents: Unintentionally scaring everyone/j Actually is good friends with Idia

Unique Magic: Name Unknown

She can phase through any flat surface regardless of size though it must be flat and preferably boxed shape. Often time she'll use it to make travel easier and she can bring other people through if she choices.

Personality: Shiko is...........odd. She's quiet, stoic, and feels really much like a fish out of water compared to her classmates. Born on an island comprising of yokai and half human half ghosts she's now entering a world of other people who see her as a little....creepy. She doesn't seem to notice that she almost gives Trein a heart attack every time she crawls out of the chalkboard when getting to class, or when people has a hard time understanding her archaic way of speech. Though it never seems to bother her at all. Once you get to know her aside from the cryptic things she says/does she's quite nice. Treating everyone with great respect and is kind to her fellow dorm mates. As long as you don't stick a camera in her face she'll be a good friend and classmate.

[ask-rwby-multishipper]

New Arrivals - Part 1

a TorD AU Vytal Festival Arc skit

Glynda, at the front of the lecture hall: As I’m sure all of you are aware, the Vytal Festival Tournament is coming up soon—

Ruby, whispering: Yesssss...

Glynda: —and since Vale is hosting this year, many students from the other academies will soon arrive at Beacon. While here, they will attend classes and stay in the dorms. I implore all of you to make them feel welcome here.

Ruby, raising her hand: Ma’am?

Glynda: Professor.

Ruby: Sorry, professor. If these new students are going to be taking classes with us, won’t that give them the chance to watch us fight and learn our strengths and weaknesses? Doesn’t that play to Beacon’s disadvantage in the tournament?

Glynda: Perhaps. But you will also get to observe them, so it would offset. Students from the various academies attending the host academy in the lead up to the festival is a longstanding tradition. This is everyone’s chance to give students from all over Remnant a reason to think highly of Beacon. And that, to me, is just as important as impressing viewers and spectators at the tournament itself. Once you graduate from Beacon and become Hunters, many of the students from the other academies could very well become colleagues in your profession. Inspire them to respect you and your peers.

Yang, whispering to her team: So what I’m getting from this is that we could get the newbies to join our game—

Glynda, in pointed response: And to do so, do not conduct yourself in an unbecoming manner, no matter how emphatically someone dares you.

Yang, whispering: “Unbecoming” is subjective, could mean anything.

Weiss, whispering back: Yang, we are not going to involve students from other academies in this, not when the Vytal Festival is so close. You heard Professor Goodwitch, these visitors could be our allies in the future.

Yang: And we’ll share so many laughs remembering everything that happened playing truth or dare, right?

Weiss: No?!

Glynda: Anyway, these visiting students will be arriving over the course of the next week. Be kind and courteous, or else I and Professor Ozpin will be having a word with you.

Reese, bursting into the lecture hall: FOUND IT!

Everyone: *turns and looks up at Reese and her team*

Arslan, murmuring behind Reese: You didn’t need to announce our arrival so loudly...

Bolin: Especially considering how late we are...

Glynda, calling up to them: Team ABRN, I am delighted you’ve arrived in my class, despite not being scheduled to begin attending until tomorrow.

Nadir, whispering loudly: I told you it said tomorrow, I told you!

Reese, muttering: Well, we believe you now.

Glynda: Please introduce yourselves to my class.

Reese: Uhh... *glances toward Arslan*

Arslan, sighing and stepping in front of the rest of her team: My name is Arslan Altan. I am the leader of Team ARBN, and these are my teammates, Bolin Hori, Reese Chloris, and Nadir Shiko. We are very excited to be visiting Beacon and competing in the tournament.

Yang, whispering mischievously to her team: New targets acquired.

Weiss: No.

Glynda: Thank you, Miss Altan. I’m sure my students are excited for your team to join us in class. For now, class dismissed. Feel free to mingle. If you need anything from me, you can find my office.

Nadir, to his team: Can we, tho?

Reese: Don’t look at me, this place is a maze!

Yang, sliding up to them: Whatsuuuup, ARBN! I’m Yang, and may I be the first to welcome you to Beacon!

Blake: Technically, Goodwitch was the first to welcome them.

Yang, gritting her teeth and gesturing towards Blake: This is my teammate Blake, and they—

Blake: I’m very, very happy to meet you four. *wink*

Yang, whispering: You’re stealing my thunder.

Weiss, sliding in front of Yang: We are Team RWBY, by the way. I’m Weiss, you’ve met Yang and Blake, and our team leader is Ru—

Ruby, darting up to Reese: Oh my gosh, your outfit is so cute!

Reese, grinning: Thank you! *fanning herself* Finally some recognition for my fashion sense. Your name was...?

Ruby: Ruby Rose! And your hair, how do you get it to stand up like that??

Reese, throwing her hair back gracefully with a chuckle: Gravity Dust infused conditioner. I can hook you up if you want.

Blake, muttering: I’d let her hook me up anytime.

Weiss: *elbows them in the ribs*

Blake: Ow!...I deserved that.

Ruby, stars in her eyes: Would you?!

Reese: Sure!

Ruby: OMG WE JUST BECAME FRIENDS!

Reese: We did?

Ruby: We did!

Reese: Oh shit, I guess you’re right!

Yang, looking at Arslan: Anyway, where are you guys staying? Maybe we could hang out? We happen to have this thing...

Arslan: What kind of thing?

Weiss, stepping in: There is no thing! We are normal.

Nadir: I want to hear about this thing.

Yang: It’s a girls and enbies only thing, sorry.

Nadir: *pouts*

Blake: I’m open to all genders, though, don’t worry.

Weiss: *attempts to elbow them again*

Blake: *shadow clones out of the way*

Yang: The boys have a thing, too! I think...

Arslan: What is this thing?

Bolin: I almost don’t want to know at this point.

Nadir: I feel excluded, who do we speak to about the boys’ thing?

Bolin: I’m not signing up for a thing that I don’t even know anything about.

Yang: It’s just a game of truth or dare! It’s an ongoing game, we’ve been at it for months. It’s like a Kingdoms of Remnant group!

Ruby: Which I also have. Are any of you trans, by the way?

Bolin: *raises his hand*

Ruby, putting her hands together: Ahh, good...we shall initiate you posthaste.

Bolin: Guys, I’m scared.

Yang, extending a hand to Arslan and Reese: So what do you cuties say, wanna play? It would be a great way to get to know others!

Weiss: I just hope you two know you’re being peer pressured.

Yang: I’m not asking them to join a Dust trafficking ring, I’m inviting them to game night.

Reese: Sure, I’m in.

Arslan: *sigh* I’ll come, too. If only to keep an eye on Reese to make sure she doesn’t break anything.

Reese: I don’t break things that often, don’t worry.

Yang: Great! You can come by our dorm tonight!

Arslan: I will tell you now, we will not be able to find your dorm, wherever it is.

Yang: The library then! That’s easy to find.

Reese: Is it tho?

Blake: If you need an escort, my services are available.

Weiss: *considers elbowing them again, but realizes it’s futile*

Arslan: We’ll probably take you up on that. Thanks for inviting us.

Yang: Thanks for joining! We’ll see you two tonight!

Ruby, coming up to Bolin: Take this. *hands him a letter*

Bolin: Uhh...

Ruby: Open it where none can see, it is for your eyes only.

Bolin: Uhhhh...

Ruby: Also, do you have any food allergies I should know about before I order pizza for the next meeting? Also, how much experience do you have with RPGs?

Nadir: C’mon, I want a cool club to join!

Weiss, handing him a piece of paper: Here’s the Scroll number of my friend Jaune. Ask him about the boy’s truth or dare game.

Nadir: Oh, nice! Thanks!

Arslan: Well, thanks for the welcome. See you all around.

Team RWBY, waving as they walk away: Bye!

Yang: Weiss, why do you just have pieces of paper with Jaune’s number ready-made?

Weiss: I hand them to guys who flirt with me too much and ask for my number. They call Jaune instead, he talks them down for me.

Yang: Hm. That’s smart.

Weiss: I know.

Blake: If any of you dare one of them to kiss me, I will give you 5 Lien.

Ruby: Make it 10 and the dare will require tongue.

Blake: Deal.

Yang: Make it 20 and I’ll require a concurrent butt grab.

Blake: Double deal.

Ruby and Yang, high-fiving: Stonks!

Weiss: I hate it here.

Arslan and Reese are ready to rock and roll this game of Truth or Dare!

[amer-ainu]

OTOINEPPU, Hokkaido--“Fukuro” (Owl), a 6-meter-high totem pole created by the renowned late contemporary Ainu sculptor Bikky Sunazawa, was toppled by winds here in late April and left to decay where it fell.

And that's exactly how the artist would have liked it, as he dictated that his work be left to the mercy of nature.

The prolific sculptor, painter and graphic artist born with the first name of Hisao gained world renown for his woodcarvings in the style of the Ainu indigenous people of Hokkaido and the Russian Far East, to which he added his own modern twists.

Among his major works was a design for the Ainu flag. Two years before his death from bone marrow cancer in 1989 at age 57, the artist was awarded the rare honor of having a small planet named after him by two amateur astronomers from Hokkaido.

Fukuro, erected as part of a trio totem poles Sunazawa titled “Shiko no Tori” (Birds of Thought) created in 1981, was knocked over on the evening of April 21.

The names of people who assisted Sunazawa in its creation are carved into the back of its outstretched wings. They have also been left where they fell after detaching from the Sakhalin spruce sculpture.

Only an area up to a height of 1.7 meters or so from the totem pole’s base escaped damage.

The two other Shiko no Tori totem poles that made up the trio and stood in front of the office of Hokkaido University’s Nakagawa Experimental Forest in Otoineppu village had already taken a beating prior to the strong winds.

“Ezoshika” (Indigenous Hokkaido shika deer), which was initially about 11 meters tall and stood in the middle of the three, collapsed in 2004.

Part of the face of “Kitsutsuki” (Woodpecker) toppled in 2011, and its wings dropped off in 2015. The remaining poles of both artworks remain intact and still stand in their original spots minus their appendages.

Sunazawa, who was born in 1931 and raised in Hokkaido’s Asahikawa city, earned the nickname “Bikky,” which means “frog” in Ainu language, as a child.

He moved to the shore of Lake Akanko when he was 22 and started creating woodcarvings at a souvenir shop. He then began visiting Kamakura, the ancient capital in Kanagawa Prefecture, during winter and interacted with other artists, including the novelist Tatsuhiko Shibusawa.

Sunazawa’s work started gaining traction in art circles after his woodcarvings were displayed in exhibitions, including one held by the Modern Art Association.

In 1978 at age 47, he relocated his base from Sapporo to Otoineppu and opened his own atelier at a closed elementary school there, where he formed a deep friendship with researchers at Hokkaido University in the village through sake drinking sessions.

The camaraderie led Sunazawa to create the Shiko no Tori totem poles in front of the office.

The wood for the totem poles was cut from the Nakagawa Experimental Forest, managed by the university, where Sunazawa personally selected the trees for his works.

Makoto Kawakami, 82, who ran a lumber business in the village and was a close friend, recalled the time they made a mountain trek in the forest and one monarch birch tree caught Sunazawa’s eye.

“This wood isn’t strong against rain and wind,” Kawakami told him. But Sunazawa insisted on that particular tree to create Ezoshika, the centerpiece of the three Shiko no Tori totem poles.

CALL OF NATURE

The Shiko no Tori totem poles were not the first works Sunazawa created with the condition that they be allowed to naturally decay outdoors. In 1986, his four huge wooden sculptures called “Yottsu no Kaze” (Four Winds) were erected on the premises of Sapporo Art Museum in Sapporo.

“Nature uses the chisels called wind and snow on the work standing here,” Sunazawa said in a message read out when the four sculptures were put up.

His wishes were realized as three of the four wooden sculptures later fell over. The remaining sculpture is the last piece of Sunazawa’s work exhibited outdoors that remains almost intact since the collapse of the Fukuro totem pole, according to the museum and Sunazawa’s widow, Ryoko.

Sunazawa created the Yottsu no Kaze sculptures in 1986 at his Otoineppu atelier, where he carved other famous works, including “Kami no Shita” (Tongue of God), made of Japanese oak said to weigh 7 tons, “TOH” (Tower), a vertical tower-like sculpture, “Juka” (Wooden Flower), a lump of tangled willow tree branches, and numerous other works made of wood.

The Fukuro totem pole, including its scattered, shattered pieces, will be left untouched for the time being, said the office of Hokkaido University’s Nakagawa Experimental Forest.

At some point, the office said it will consider returning what is left of the totem pole to the forest, where it was logged, because there are records that show the exact location.

“Collapse, decay and return to the soil are also part of Sunazawa’s artwork,” Kawakami said. “His creation lasts forever.”

[duckwithachainsaw]

My Curse of Strahd Party (and the absolute nightmare that was drawing them)

Holy shit!! This was a huge pain!!

We’re gunna go down the line of complications because wOW- NOTHIN’ WENT AS PLANNED!!

Hoshiko - I had two pieces of reference, one of them being fairly old and possibly out of date, but I couldn’t get ahold of the player to confirm (their schedule is wACK). One piece was black and white and only from the neck up, the other was a full body, full color piece. Shiko got the best initial sketch, though. I was really proud of theirs.

Ethryn - I struggled with everything related to Ethryn omg. I had a lot of good references, but I couldn’t get her shape, color, or ears right no matter what. I’m not happy with her and I’m going to draw her again before I start my next project with these characters. But seriously, her player is a fantastic human being and i appreciate her more than she knows.

Kelani - hOO BOY- so, Kelani’s player has been my best friend for more than eight years, so I sat on the phone with her for a couple hours discussing him, but the big problem was that she had no colored sketches of him. She made two amazing pencil sketches, but no color, so yeah- it’s hard to color a character with nothing set. Also his hair is a goddamn nightmare. It’s short on the sides but tall and curly and kinda messy on top. So hard to do justice to. 

Star - I learned two things while drawing Star. Number one - my style is not suited for this particular character. Star’s player is an artist, but his style is way more compact than mine. I like drawing legs. They’re neat, but in the original art, Star’s legs are MUCH shorter, so his shorts look less weird. Number two - I didn’t go through an animal phase when I was into drawing as a kid, and now I don’t tend to draw animal characters, so I’m not super happy with this one. The Tarot card will be better, I hope.

Orion - Y’know how I just said I think legs are neat? Yeah. Orion is hard as hell to draw because halflings are smol. Orion was also a challenge because his pallet is so limited. It’s black and white all over with a gold locket. Oh! And he’s supposed to be wearing a cloak, but fuck trying to draw that. Savin’ that bullshit for the Tarot card. Also, Orion’s player is the only non-artist in the gang, so I had no references to draw from, but he did a very good job coaching me through this little project. I also don’t draw guys nearly enough. im so gay it comes off in my art too-

Hardest to draw - Star, Ethryn(‘s ears)

Hardest to color - Kelani

Most fun to work on - Hoshiko

Easiest to work on - Orion

[cheshiresense]

Ok so, I was reading and super enjoying your hunger!verse Tsuna thingy and I was forced afterword to go seek out more arcobaleno fic (FORCED. Pshhh). Annnnyway I did and now I'm desperately curious if we'll be seeing more of it? Maybe the first time Fon sees Tsuna eat? Will we ever find out how hard Lal Mirch smacks the Sawada Idiot? Where is Skull in all this? So curious! Anyway! Love your fic! Even when you're dragging me kicking and screaming into new fandoms:D

I’m not getting any Skull-writing-motivation atm, and Iemitsu is always a headache to write, even when he’s getting rightfully smacked. So I’ll just do a very short blurb of Fon&Tsuna interactions.

OMFG TUMBLR WHY DID YOU GET RID OF HORIZONTAL LINES-

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The first time Fon witnesses it, he’s torn between a morbid sort of fascination and a revolted sense of trepidation.

“You don’t have to be here,” Tsuna tells him, not for the first time, as Viper goes to check them in and Reborn leaves to make sure there’s no one with so much as an unpaid parking ticket to their name within five miles of the hotel they’ll be staying in.

It still surprises Fon, a little, even after two months in their company, which is actually one month more than they’ve ever willingly spent with each other. But even back before they realized the kind of woman Luce really was, not even Reborn was as protective of her as he is of Tsuna. Or maybe it’s just a different kind of protective. Where there was always a respectful distance between themselves and Luce, no matter how kindly she treated them, there’s none of that between Reborn - and Viper - and Tsuna.

That’s not to say they don’t respect him of course– in a rare moment of quiet honesty when Tsuna had fallen ill - again - with a mild fever, Viper had confessed to Fon that their new Sky was a kind of strong that still utterly baffled them as much as it was worthy of their admiration as well. And Reborn hadn’t slept a wink until Tsuna got better.

But Tsuna lets them close in a way Luce never could’ve, guards their health and wellbeing in a way Luce never had, and in return, it’s easy to see how Reborn and Viper consider him beloved and friend and Sky and boss, in exactly that order too.

Devotion. That was what they lacked when it came to Luce. That was what Luce could never quite earn from them, even before they learned the terrible truth, even from Reborn. She had gathered them and charmed them and earned their trust, but she had never been able to inspire the steadfast instinctual dedication that both Reborn and Viper show Tsuna these days, so in tune with the boy that even the way they move somehow seems in tune with each other, like… well, exactly like elements woven in with their sky.

And maybe that’s why Fon assures, also not for the first time, “I understand, Tsunayoshi-kun, but so long as you do not object, I would like to stay.”

He’s self-aware enough to know where this is going, that it’s only a matter of time for him too– one of these days, he’ll have enough courage to offer his own Flames as well, it’s on the tip of his tongue already, and even the echo of remembered agony and instinctual fear isn’t going to stop him.

And considering it’s only been a little over two months since he first met Tsunayoshi, well, even Luce hadn’t tamed them all as quickly.

(Fon worries about that sometimes. It’s not natural, is it? To care about someone so fiercely, so fast. But it actually helps that Tsunayoshi’s fought him just about every step of the way; he’s a Sky who so obviously cares, and so even if it makes Fon a little uneasy, he’s also equally determined to return that care. He can’t be a Storm to a Sky - doesn’t deserve to be a Storm to a Sky, especially this Sky - if the bond between them doesn’t go both ways.)

It’s… not as terrible as Fon thought it would be, once they’re shut away in the top-floor suite and Tsuna’s lips are dyed with yellow and indigo. He looks healthier in this moment than Fon has ever seen him, cheeks less hollow, bones less brittle, skin flushed with a healthier colour. Fon pays close attention to the entire process despite some part of him screaming at him to back out of the room, and so he also notices the way neither Reborn nor Viper show any signs of hesitation or pain when they draw out their own Flames and feed them to Tsuna.

“You should eat a bit more,” Viper huffs, shoving more indigo fire at their Sky when he tries to protest. “If you insist on going days without a proper meal, at least eat your fill when we do this.”

Reborn just stares Tsuna down until the boy sighs and accepts more of the handfuls of Flames the hitman is holding out.

Later, when it’s Fon’s turn to walk Tsuna to school (they’ve worked out a schedule, just to give each of them a bit of time alone with their Sky, although it took almost two months before Reborn and Viper - with Tsuna insisting - grudgingly agreed to add Fon to the rotation), he remarks, “It does not seem to hurt them, or otherwise affect them negatively.”

Tsuna doesn’t bother playing dumb. Everything about him droops for a moment instead. “…Maybe not. I mean it definitely did at first, and I don’t know if it’s just because they’ve gotten used to it, they said it wasn’t that and I don’t think they were lying to make me feel better but…”

He shakes his head and glances away, and for a moment, it doesn’t seem like he’ll continue his train of thought. But Fon waits patiently and is rewarded a few minutes later by a near-inaudible, “I just don’t like it. They’re literally sustaining me with their souls. And all I do is… take that from them. But what do I give them?”

Ah. So that’s the crux of the problem.

Well, Fon supposes it’s not so much of a surprise, for this boy. It’s a good thing then, that Fon knows the answer already.

“You give them a home,” He says, steadily, honestly, and something in his chest floods with a warmth that tethers him to the Sky beside him. Judging by the way Tsuna’s eyes widen and his hand jumps to his chest, Fon’s not the only one who can feel the creation of their bond.

“You give us a home,” He continues. “A place to belong, something to hold us together when we would otherwise be adrift in the world. Perhaps that does not sound especially important to you, but for us who have lived for decades with no one to care about and no one who might care about us, a Sky like you is… everything.”

Tsuna does not reply for a long moment. They’re entering through the school gates when he finally speaks again, and even then, it’s a succinct answer, less question and more dawning realization. “You guys were alone. And lonely.”

Fon smiles wryly and thinks of how even with every alarm bell ringing in his head, he still hopped on the first flight to Japan after hearing about a Sky who might actually be a proper Sky. Thinks too of how Reborn approached first even though he’d arguably been burned worst, and Viper who had long decided that trust was for fools and yet had still so desperately wanted someone to be worthy of their trust.

“We were,” Fon admits in a way he knows Reborn and Viper - even to Tsuna - would be hard-pressed to do. “And sometimes, being alone is the worst thing anyone can experience.”

Tsuna nods a little as he changes his shoes. “Yeah. Yeah it is.”

-0-

After that, Tsuna is still firm about only eating their Flames once every few days, but he eases up on the protests, and when Fon offers his own Flames up the next time, Tsuna grimaces but also nods slowly without arguing. Reborn and Viper both give Fon suspicious side-eyes but since this works in their favour too, neither of them bring it up.

On his part, Fon feels the same instinctual fear swell up inside him, but he looks at Tsuna, his Sky, and his resolve is infinitely stronger. The core of his Storm Flames flare bright and fierce, and when Fon gathers a piece of it and breaks it off from the rest, there is only a brief spark of pain, like a hard pinch, and then he’s breathing easy again, and his hands burn with the wild pulse of his life-fire.

When Tsuna accepts it with reverent hands, and the red twines with Reborn’s yellow and Viper’s indigo as their Sky eats, something in Fon sits back, satisfied, and the newly forged Guardian bond inside him strengthens.

-0-

The very next morning, Fon wakes to a crash and Reborn very uncharacteristically shouting, “What the fuck-”

Fon’s barging into Tsuna’s room with a Viper who hasn’t even remembered to grab their cloak on his heels before it actually registers, and even then, it’s only because - for the first time since he was still a student at his first master’s dojo - he literally trips over his own feet.

He sits up and stares. Viper’s deathly silent behind him, and even Reborn’s fallen quiet from where he’s half-leaning against the nightstand. His hammock is ripped down the middle and hangs limply from the ceiling. Tsuna stares at all three of them from his bed, wide-eyed and stunned.

Fon looks at Reborn, whose ass is on the floor but whose head levels with the bedside table. He twists to look at Viper, who’s forgotten to float and is standing and... now seems to be about Tsuna’s height.

And then he looks down at himself, at hands that are no longer the tiny ones of his toddler self, at longer limbs that feel clumsily awkward and a heavier body that takes up more space than he’s used to. He’s nowhere near the size of his adult self, but he’s definitely now almost three times the size he was when he went to bed last night.

Reborn had the right of it.

What the fuck.

[sunshineandfangs]

Author Interview

Tagged by @itsnotacrimetoloveyou

Name: Fei

Fandoms: Mainly Klaroline but I have dabbled very, very minimally in NBC Hannibal and Naruto. It’s be a few years since the Hannibal one-shot and I think almost ten years since my sad attempt at Naruto lol

Where you post: I cross-post most things so here on tumblr as @sunshineandfangs, FFN as Shiko-Rae, and AO3 as Avana. (Yes, my naming consistency is clearly horrible)

Most popular oneshot: Ummmm...Sealbhachadh? Maybe. Probably because it’s 95% plotless smut that’s somehow also kinda fluffy lol.

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Technically I am still failing at writing a true multi-chapter. But Zhè Shì Guàiwù has gotten a decent amount of interest!

favorite story you wrote: Entanglement! I am very proud of the amount of writing I got done for it and that I actually finished a long(ish) thing!

how you choose your titles: This will sound kinda cliche and stupid, but I go with “what feels right.” Sometimes they’re poems or songs lyrics. Sometimes they’re allusions/references to other fiction works. For Klaroline Bingo I had a theme of using different languages.

do you outline: Nope. If I do I get bogged down in the planning and won’t actually get the writing done. I have a vague list of points I want to hit in my head and end up going with where the story takes me. Often those ideas evolve and change as I go along.

coming soon/not yet started: Ah ha ha ha funny story. I am trying to get two pieces out for Klaroline AU week, one for mythological creatures and one for Canon-ish. I also am still sitting on some sequel requests for Klaroline Bingo pieces (sorry!) and one prompt

do you accept prompts: No, I can’t I’m already behind!

upcoming story you are most excited to write: My Canon-ish fix-it fic that involves some time travel shenanigans. 

So I might accidentally repeat tag people already tagged but: @supremeuppityone @eliliyah @lynyrdwrites @cupcakemolotov

[words-writ-in-starlight]

I REALIZE THAT I SHOULD PROBABLY SEND THIS TO THE OTHER BLOG BUT: do you have anything (fancasts / particularly accurate but unrelated pieces of art / anything visual at all) for any of the worldwalker characters but specifically brenneth (including people that never show up, like torei)? GOD i'm sorry for the all caps and the all-consuming enthusiasm but you caught me at a lull in watching leverage and i CAN'T DEAL with the wedding thing (as i said in the tags: my internal thought process: !!!)

I have...some things, yes.

So for straight up appearance, I like this woman’s (Naomi Janumala) facial structure and coloring for Brenneth, but I picture Brenneth as broader in the shoulders and hips and sort of more...solid, across the board?  She’s a warrior and a blacksmith, and she works hard to maintain the physique she’s accustomed to on Earth.  She doesn’t manage it 100%, but even if she went on a really aggressive diet, she couldn’t achieve the waifish model look.  Here’s a picture that SCREAMS Brenneth in armor to me (she also showed up in this graphic from @lathori​), and three pieces of art that also very much give me strong Brenneth vibes.

Sorry to rant, but I WILL have my buff warrior heroine look like one!  I am the author and therefore I am god and therefore I say that Brenneth is broad shouldered and solid-muscled and sienna-skinned and black-eyed!  She is built like a brick house and everyone in Alleirat who sees her falls instantly and hopelessly in love!

For Crispin, I like this guy, who is apparently an Italian actor named Stefan Masciolini, and I don’t know a single other blessed thing about him.  Crispin is, conversely, a little narrower than this guy, muscled like a runner or a swimmer rather than Brenneth’s bulkier physique.  The picture on that link has longer hair, so it’s more White Wolf than Crispin, but a cursory google has also turned up this picture, which is also very accurate although Crispin likes to keep his face clean-shaven.  Also, here is a beautifully photoshopped picture featuring Crispin’s favorite idle activity, which is playing cat’s cradle with lightning, and a picture of what I imagine Crispin’s old rapier looked like.

Also, you didn’t ask, but here are two pictures and a gifset that are very Torei, who was from a far northern oak forest and ice pale in both hair and skin, as well as extremely tall (like 7′2″) and quite thin.  

And as long as I’m at it, Krei takes after her father, both taller (like 7′6″) and bulkier than her mother, and looks very much like Brenneth, with hair a few shades lighter and cooler tones to her skin.  Shiko is the lower end of average height, skinny more from malnourishment and stress than anything else at the moment, with broad cheekbones and straight black hair down to just past her shoulders.  Unfortunately I haven’t found as much that I like for the two of them yet, mostly because for some reason the Internet is not providing me with the very specific picture of “trans Japanese woman with dirt on her hands in a long skirt staring straight into the camera like she can see you” which is the ONLY THING I CAN EVER PICTURE of Shiko.  Shiko exists in my brain as someone staring into your soul with grave dirt on her hands and every time I find a picture that I might like for her, my brain goes “mmmm doesn’t look enough like she’s played rock paper scissors with Death and is therefore unimpressed with You Personally by comparison” and I have to go find something else.

[inazumashiko-archived]

MUSE: Shiko Inazuma

1) WHAT DOES YOUR MUSE SMELL LIKE? 

Peach, jasmine, vanilla, those are usually her predominant perfume and shampoo scents. In Modern Verse, her favorite perfume is Dolce & Gabbana, Dolce Garden.

2) HOW OFTEN DOES YOUR MUSE BATHE/SHOWER? 

Every day, especially in Avatar verses, where she trains daily, although she washes her hair less frequently, not to ruin it. 

3) DOES YOUR MUSE HAVE ANY TATTOOS OR PIERCINGS? 

So far, only a little blue flame on the inside of her right ankle, just in Modern Verse. Her ears are pierced, but just the usual lobe one.

4) DO THEY HAVE ANY BODY MOVEMENT QUIRKS (E.G. TAPPING HEEL, SHAKING KNEE) 

She bites her lower lip when she’s worried, or feeling shy. Tucks hair behind her ear a lot, and toys with her clothes, wrinkling and smoothing the fabric.

5) WHAT DO THEY SLEEP IN? 

In Avatar verses, a light nightgown, usually reaching to mid thigh. In Modern, she has an array of PJs, all with some colorful, and oftentimes childish cute print, although she sometimes just uses a large shirt and her underwear.

6) WHAT’S THEIR FAVOURITE PIECE OF CLOTHING? 

A cherry goldenrod dress she used to wear when she was little, and her brother took her out for ice cream. It’s kept carefully in a sheath at the back of her wardrobe, and she plans to put it to her baby girl if she ever has one.

7) WHAT DO THEY DO WHEN THEY WAKE UP? 

Unless something needs her attention early on, she’ll get dressed to train. It usually happens in a half-asleep state, where her bending’s call is stronger than her want to sleep in, and she usually allows a maid to braid her hair, because that gives her five more minutes of keeping her eyes closed.

Modern verse will usually find her burrowing further into the bed well into the third alarm on her mobile. She’ll then walk around her room in a zombie-like state, trying to avoid stepping on her cats, as she goes about her morning routine; bathroom, clothes, makeup, and the amazing cup of coffee that Joanne makes her, bless you Joanne.

8) HOW DO THEY SLEEP? POSITION? 

With ten thousand pillows, some make it all the way to the morning, some end up on he floor. She usually cuddles into them, curled on one side and the other.

9) WHAT DO THEIR HANDS FEEL LIKE? 

I’d imagine soft, delicate. She keeps her nails manicured, and her hands moisturized because of the calluses that the fire create. 

tagged by: @amaarok - Thank you!! ♡❤♡

tagging: @youngestgeneral, @bitofthisandthat (Asami), @argentcus

[staryarn]

Do you watch anime? If so, what are your faves?

The only one I've watched within the last year was houseki no kuni (which I also read the manga,, it's on hiatus so rip)

But soul eater , madoka, and season one of one punch man (those I've watched fully. Though I've seen some full reviews on others such as sailor moon and revolutionary girl utena)

My memory is also shit so I don't remember

[plcyersandpieces]

RWBY Character Image Song List 2019

Heyo folks!  It’s the hiatus, so you know what that means--MUSIC TIME!

After a volume ends, I try go through an extensive list of characters in RWBY and pick out various musical themes from my collection for each character as a sort of “image song.”  These are primarily instrumental pieces, and my collection consists of largely anime and videogame soundtracks that I’ve picked up over the years.  The characters are those who were named and appeared in the show, with a couple of unnamed exceptions like Pilot Boi and the Shopkeep, or had a recurrent role in the overarching story like Summer.

Of course, these choices are subjective.  Some may not agree with my choices for certain characters.  However, my selections were based on what’s presented in canon, not any kind of headcanon.  I take into account the character’s history and personality, as well as their personal growth.  If they only appear in one episode, I try to take into account the context of their appearance as well as the small amount of personality presented.

So, without further ado--here’s the list!  Characters are ordered in the volume in which they were introduced.  Links to the songs are provided, and checked to be up-to-date.  They are primarily YouTube links with the occasional Soundcloud or KHInsider link where I was unable to find anything on YouTube or the song wasn’t complete.

Volume 1

Team RWBY

Ruby Rose: Hopes and Dreams/SAVE the World/Last Goodbye - Undertale

Weiss Schnee: Primavera - Ludovico Einaudi

Blake Belladonna: The Wandering Isle - World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Yang Xiao Long: To the End of the Wilderness ver. Detonator - Wild ARMs 4/Music the Best: Rocking Heart

Team JNPR

Jaune Arc: Revived Power ~Battle With the Colossus~ - Shadow of the Colossus

Nora Valkyrie: Another Winter - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game

Pyrrha Nikos: Aloy’s Theme - Horizon Zero Dawn

Lie Ren: Yasuo, the Unforgiven - League of Legends

Team CRDL

Cardin Winchester: Those Without the Will to Live - Chrono Trigger

Russel Thrush: Village of the Barbarois - Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

Dove Bronzewing: Neko-ou - Neko no Ongaeshi

Sky Lark: Under Her Control - Final Fantasy VIII

Beacon Staff

Professor Ozpin: Treize Khushrenada: The Person who Makes History - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Glynda Goodwitch: The Silent Light - Chrono Trigger, arr. Rebecca E. Tripp

Professor Peter Port: Flying Boatmen/Serbia March - Porco Rosso

Doctor Bartholomew Oobleck: The Hunt: Going Green - Twister

Friends & Family

Summer Rose: Undertale - Undertale

Penny Polendina: Osanpo Desu - Azumanga Daioh

Sun Wukong: Zidane’s Theme - Final Fantasy IX

Villains

Adam Taurus: Black as Sin, Red as Blood - Wild ARMs 3

Hei “Junior” Xiong: DJ Sona - Kinetic - League of Legends

Melanie and Miltiades “Miltia” Malachite: Winter Fashion - Richard Neale

Roman Torchwick: Inkwell Isle Three - Cuphead

Cinder Fall: Evelynn, Agony’s Embrace - League of Legends

Others

Shopkeep-chan: Sore wa Himitsu Desu - Slayers Next Sound Bible II

Cyril Ian: Live Report - Undertale

Lisa Lavender: Death Report - Undertale

Volume 2

Team CFVY

Coco Adel: Chambermaid Swing - Parov Stelar

Fox Alistair: Silence ~Battle With the Colossus~ - Shadow of the Colossus

Velvet Scarlatina: There’s Only One Family Named Schrodinger - Wild ARMs 3

Yatsuhashi Daichi: Demon Lord Ninetails - Okami

Atlas Staff

General James Ironwood: Demacia Rising - League of Legends

Friends & Family

Neptune Vasilias: Super Galaxy Rumble - League of Legends

Zwei: Dogsong - Undertale

Villains

Emerald Sustrai: Medicine Eater - Tenkuu no Escaflowne

Mercury Black: Violator - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Neopolitan: Lutece - Bioshock Infinite

Raven Branwen: Wars of the Last Wolves - Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen

The White Fang

Tukson: Galka - Final Fantasy XI

The Lieutenant: Materia - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Perry: Battle and Pleasure - Wild ARMs: AlterCode F

Deery: Wingly Forest - Legend of Dragoon

Grimm Eclipse (post-V2)

Dr. Merlot: Mad Poet - Wild ARMs: AlterCode F

Volume 3

Team ABRN

Arslan Altan: Path of the Huojin - World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Bolin Hori: Northern Country Kamui - Okami

Reese Chloris: Skate or Live - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game

Nadir Shiko: Johnny of the Robo Gang - Chrono Trigger, arr. hashel05

Team BRNZ

Brawnz Ni: Under the Progress - Parasite Eve

Roy Stallion: Maki Ya - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game

Nolan Porfirio: Boss Battle 2 - Legend of Dragoon

May Zedong: Pretty Pounding - Michael Clark

Team SSSN

Scarlet David: Pride of the Seas - World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

Sage Ayana: Tides of War - World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor

Team NDGO

Nebula Violette: Look to the Skies - Angela Little and Lee Groves

Dew Gayl: Oklahoma - Downdraft - Twister

Gwen Darcy: The Cello Song (Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude) - J.S. Bach, arr. Steven Sharp Nelson

Octavia Ember: Taliyah, the Stoneweaver - League of Legends

Atlas Contestents

Ciel Soliel: Thunder Plains - Final Fantasy X (HD Remaster)

Flynt Coal: Tank! - Cowboy Bebop

Neon Katt: Bit Rush: Arcade Ahri - League of Legends

Friends & Family

Qrow Branwen: Curse of the Worgen - World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Winter Schnee: Freya’s Theme - Final Fantasy IX

Taiyang Xiao Long: Totems of the Grizzlemaw - World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

Amber: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Techno - Vanessa Mae

Villains

Salem: Ley Lines - World of Warcraft: Legion

Volume 4

Mistral

Oscar Pine: Farm Boy - Final Fantasy VII (HD Remaster)

Li Ren: Eight Dog Warriors’ Theme - Okami

An Ren: Prologue - Okami

Atlas

Jacques Schnee: Shinra, Inc. - Final Fantasy VII

Whitley Schnee: Machiavellian Bach - Portal 2

Klein Seben: A Mole Man - Tenkuu no Escaflowne

Henry Marigold: The Grand Duchy of Jeuno - Final Fantasy XI

Pilot Boi: Sky Dance - Pyre

Menagerie

Ghira Belladonna: Valley of the Four Winds - World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Kali Belladonna: Queen Fury - Legend of Dragoon

Corsac and Fennec Albain: Shadow of Doubt - Tenkuu no Escaflowne

Ilia Amitola: Neeko, the Curious Chameleon - League of Legends

Villains

Arthur Watts: Karazhan Opera House - World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Tyrian Callows: Darkmoon Faire Carousel - World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

Hazel Rainart: Spirit Guard Udyr - League of Legends

Volume 5

Friends & Family

Mata: Stone Hill - Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Saber Rodentia: Night Howlers - Pyre

The White Fang

Sienna Khan: The Proving - Horizon Zero Dawn

Yuma: Revival of Alseides - Tenkuu no Escaflowne: The Movie

Trifa: Elise, the Spider Queen - League of Legends

Villains

The Branwen Tribe: Talon Sheath - Pyre

Vernal: Drawn to Strife - Horizon Zero Dawn

Professor Leonardo Lionheart: Sadness-colored Sandglass - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Volume 6

The Legends Lost to Time

God of Light: Okami White Light - Okami

God of Darkness: Emperor of Eternal Darkness - Okami

Jinn: Meridian, Shining - Horizon Zero Dawn

Ozma: Stormwind - World of Warcraft

Young Salem: Elizabeth - Bioshock Infinite

Friends & Family

Maria Calavera: Vamo’alla Flamenco - Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy

Saphron Cotta-Arc: Adlehyde Castle Town - Wild ARMs: AlterCode F

Terra Cotta-Arc: Totally Busy - Wild ARMs 4/Music the Best - Feeling Wind

Adrian Cotta-Arc: Minako’s Ambition - Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon Sailor Stars

Red-headed Woman: Canticle of Sacrifice - World of Warcraft: Legion

Other

Dee & Dudley: Shingakki 3 - Azumanga Daioh

Villains

Lil’ Miss Malachite: Tarren Mill - World of Warcraft: Taverns of Azeroth

Tock: Thrash Pack - Pyre

Caroline Cordovin: Ancient Civilization Exhibition - Wild ARMs: AlterCode F

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The instruments which I kept hearing watching Taiga Dramas, Samurai Films and Documentaries but had no idea what they were until now.

Shakuhachi

A bamboo flute which used to be played by monks (called komuso) of the fuke school of Zen Buddhism in Edo era (1603-1868). It was used as a form of meditation and there were religious unique solo pieces. 

It was later played by others than monks after the Meiji Restoration in 1871 after the fuke school died out. Kinko Kurosawa (1701-1771) collected religious pieces played by monks and improved the shakuhachi music. After fuke school was discontinued, the main scene of shakuhachi became sankyoku gassou (ensemble with shamisen and sou). It became Kinko school. Tozan Nakao (1876-1956) developed shakuhachi music by creating new piece and music notation affected by western music. It became Tozan school. It's used for sankyoku gassou (ensemble with shamisen and sou) and solo performance. 

I love it as it has that spiritual and calming effect that when you listen it you feel yourself slowing down for quick breather from the fast paced of life. Every time I listen to this, I felt myself at ease, imagining myself in one of those Japanese Garden or somewhere on the mountains facing the lake or sea.

Horagai

Horagai is a shell-conch flute of Japan. The origin is not clear but it's said that priest brought back to Japan from tang dynasty of China. It's often used by shugenja, practitioner of the Japanese religion of the shugendo for chanting and sending signals. Or, it's played as communication tool in middle ages. 

I saw this from those historical films where the Samurai would blow this as a signal to the different part of the army, whether to move out or alert them from an incoming enemy. So every time I hear this, the first thing that comes to mind is those Samurai bracing themselves for whatever that is coming for them.

Shamisen

A three-stringed lute. Although it's a string instrument, sometimes it's played like percussion by hitting the skin with a plectrum. 

The origin of the shamisen is sanxian of China. It is said that sanxian was introduced from China to Okinawa and it became sanshin. Sanshin was introduced from Okinawa into Sakai of Osaka In Eiroku era (1558-1570) and it became shamisen. Shamisen is developed by Biwa Hoshi (Lute Priests) to change the size, skin, shape of bachi, and sawari part. 

There are many types of shamisen used in various scenes. It's used for kabuki theater, ningyo joruri puppet show, geisha music, and folk song. Shamisen is often played with a vocal accompaniment. Singing method differs depending on the genre of music and the best shamisen to the vocal accompaniment is selected. So, some makes light sound and others make strong sound. 

The instrument which I noticed is often played every time a tension arises or a conflict erupted between Samurais in the films and dramas when they are fighting or dueling each other. 

Sou (Koto)

Koto is a general term of the Japanese string instruments and nowadays it means sou, a Japanese zither. It is said that it was introduced into Japan from tang dynasty of China. It was 13 strings type of zither. It was played in gagaku (Japanese Court music).

Kengyo Yatsuhashi (1614-1685) started modern sou music and it's called zokusou. It became zokusou played today. Kengyo Ikuta (1656-1715) affiliated jiuta of shamisen music and it became Ikuta school. Later, Kengyo Yamada (1757-1817) play the uta joururi music popular in Edo (old Tokyo) and started Yamada school. Gakuso, a type of sou is used for gagaku (Japanese court music) and zokuso is used for sankyoku gassou (ensemble with shamisen and shakuhachi). 

The type of instrument which I often see being used in Courts for ceremonies.

Taiko 

A word "taiko" is a general term for drums that have a skin stretched over the body in Japanese (except for tsuzumi). It is said that it's been used in Japan for a long time from ancient times. It is used for festivals, kagura, and other performing arts. 

Probably my favorite instrument of all, it has that rousing effect that makes you wake up from your slumber and motivate you. I can understand why these were used as war drums during that Samurai period to motivate the soldiers.

Tsuzumi

It was originally introduced as one of the instruments for gagaku (Japanese court music and dance). From drums called ikko, niko, sanko, shiko, it is said that niko was played by miko (shrine maiden) in Heian period. It is said that it was introduced into noh play through kusemai dance and became otsuzumi after it was used by shirabyoshi (female dancers). It is used for noh play, kabuki theater, folk performing arts. 

Often heard in dramas as intermission before the commercials starts playing or when the show is resumed from the commercials. Or when something suspenseful is about to happen or a tension is brewing.

Kagura Suzu

A a Japanese hand bell used for kagura dance performed by local people and miko (shrine maiden). In miko kagura (kagura dance performed by shrine maiden), miko holds it on her right hand and shake bells over her head.