#sigdi

[borderline-purrsonality]

Do you have any idea how much this scene haunts me now

Could you imagine hearing this for the first time? You have no clue what anyone here is talking about. You have no clue what’s happening, or even who that woman is. To you, you’re hearing the voice of a stranger.

But she’s not a stranger. You don’t know it yet, but you will know her. And you’ll fall in love with her. And you don’t know you’re there, right next to her as she’s speaking. You don’t even know she refused to kill your daughter, a patient zero of the virus that almost wiped out humanity, the one you were all trying to stop, because she meant so much to the two of you, even if you didn’t know why at that moment. Hell, you don’t even know you have a daughter. But she’s standing right next to you right now, listening to the voice of a complete stranger.

And as you listen to the stranger’s voice, you don’t know she had died in your arms.

[babykatafan]

[ariespetal]

they make me SICK

[peachducy]

i didn't want to lose you... like that time... like that blue bird...

[leniviypelmen]

smth smth the worlds on fire but we have each other smth smth

YAY i finished this before new year!!! happy christmas and happy Sigma kidnapping!!

[feralkittypng]

they kepe me up at night. they rot my brain. sigma and diana have permanitely rewired how i think and i will never recover this is terminal i cannot stand them

[dyplopias-art]

this meme has lived in my head rent-free ever since I played ZTD last year

[reksigh]

Ooohhh,,, consider your recent Diana concept + the way you draw sigma with the eyepatch,,, they would be so powerful together

i need to think about it more but yes

[newtrpinspo]

[juricha-art]

My entry for this year's Secret Santa!

Hope you like it (and my new technique)!

Merry belated Christmas and a Happy Now Year! Wishing you all the best! ✨✨✨

To: @handsometimr

From: @juricha-art

Hello, @handsometimr ! 'Tis I, Juricha, your Zecret Santa this year and I bring to you some gifts and Christmas cheer!

Prompt 1: Anything Akane/Junpei, bonus if they adopted a baby Quark post ZTD and uncle Aoi shows up.

This one was the hardest to draw because I wanted it to as cute and cozy as possible, but couldn't for the life of me think of a proper way to do so. Christmas Eve. The tree and decorations are all put up, Junpei is finishing up the preparations, and Akane is trying to put the kids — their twins, Rei and Nova, and adopted little Quark —  to sleep. But they are all too excited, because they know that Santa is coming tonight. So the only thing to do is to snuggle together in a big armchair and tell them some magical stories. After they fall asleep, Junpei finds this idyllic scene and decides to not disturb them, covers them up with a blanket and kisses them all goodnight, his heart sewling with love and joy. And who is that at the door?..

Prompt 2: The first Christmas Sigma/Diana spent together in Rhizome-9. My heart will shatter even more if Sigma's first Christmas without Diana is touched upon. But for Christmas cheer there's always Sigma/Diana's first Christmas together post ZTD, with Phi! I picked the more cheerful version this time, so I hope it's okay! I did my best to touch upon the opther timelines a bit, though! 

Phi visits Sigma and Diana on Christmas and finds out that they are now engaged! They spend a nice evening together. But if one looks closely, one can see the sinister reflections of many a horrible end — and sometimes with some happiness found — they might have met sometime, somewhere. Thank goodness they could find a happy ending to their story! Prompt 3: Anything with Maria, any depiction is cool w me! We need more of Carlos' sister. I drew a festive portrait of Maria, because we never see her in-game. I kinda got inspired by Maria Robotnik, with all the terminal illness and somebody trying to save the poor girls and screaming "Maria!" stuff.  

And I now kind of headcanon her to be a fellow Sonic Adventure 1 & 2 enjoyer, watchnig Carlos play for her. After she was cured, she went to Kurashikis' wedding together with her brother and made friends with Akane and the others. She got so inspired that she roped Carlos into studying Japanese. Akane and Junpei are proud of her. I think the pearls and the purple-pink colors suit her.

All three artworks were done with a new technique I picked up recently — buying alcohol ink and splattering it across the page, hoping it would not go somewhere I do not want it to go. Then coloring the pictrues with the alcohol markers proper, then adding a bit of ink, acrylic markers and pencil (I really like the Cretacolor pencil that I used for outilining Maria, I think it goes well with the lighter colors and not as overbearing as the darker liners) and editing them a bit after scanning. This year was a rather busy one for me, and I didn't draw much (plus was sick through most of December), so I feel like I'm out of shape. I do hope that you — and everyone else — like the end results! Also, I cannot believe that I've been participating in ZEcret Santa for five consecutive years!, since 2019! Thank you for having me on board for so many years!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to @handsometimr , the ZEcret Santa crew and the entire Zero Escape fandom! May the next year be healthy and productive for everyone! Love and cheers, Juricha.

[glittergoats]

why do they say bluebird is dead?

[oots-out-of-context]

[tiffany-smith]

'Kay so I'm FINALLY reading the Hunger Games and I'm only seeing a continuation of the sacrifice-for-no-reason theme I saw in OOTS.

In OOTS, Sigdi Thundershield sacrificed the coin that could have resurrected her husband, or restored her arm, for the resurrection of five strangers who would otherwise have gone to Hel. Twenty years later, her son Durkon, a cleric, found out and couldn't comprehend that level of kindness. He spent his whole life trying to wrap his head around it.

Twenty years after that, Durkon died rather than let a vampire kill another Evil-aligned individual. That was Belkar Bitterleaf, a murderous halfling on the very teetering cusp of perhaps maybe having an ounce of sympathy for another living being. Durkon's sacrifice sent him careening down the edge, quite unwillingly, of character development. He put himself in quite some danger to kill the unholy vampire that Durkon's death spawned.

The hope, as the story goes on, is that Belkar will at some point pass the radical kindness along to the next shocked recipient.

Now, in the Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark throws some bread to Katniss. And she cannot understand why.

I put my clothes to dry at the fire, crawled into bed, and fell into a dreamless sleep. It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would surely have resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.

I know from the movies that Katniss ends up telling people to help Peeta live if she dies. That if the choice is between herself and him, it should be he who lives.

Idk I just think it's neat.

[peachducy]

NASA knows how the pheromones

cascade!

down the walls

you can't help the way you feel

[kayzero]

if i ever inspire you to make art but you’re afraid of “stealing” from me:

(obviously don’t like. download my shit off ao3 and post it under your own name. but if you wanna make a death game story with my narrative style i wanna read it.)

[mirror-imaged]

my friends when I tell them I can't fully get my zero escape thoughts out there until we play not one but two whole entire games because my thoughts on the whole series will spoil at least 40 hours of content so my brain is like literally full of thoughts I can't tell anybody on the whole earth abt.