#thank you for the asks iri!!

[thequeenofthewinter]

Hello! Do you have any screenshots of your lovely Rook? :)

Hello, my lovely crow friend. <3

I do have some screenshots lying around of Iris!

Here is the girl just kind of doing her thing as she awkwardly bops around the Lighthouse. (Probably looking for Assan or Manfred to take them on a walk...or start a rebellion.)

[sealdeer]

screaming crying throwing up sobbing @ the art fight attack you did of my gal Prarie thank you for your service your art is such a treasure

i was gonna post that, so i'll go ahead and put it here!!! :] of course, she's such a fun character!! it was fun coming up with outfit ideas for her

[salamispots]

hi hi! :0 awwha thank you and yeah course! I'm pretty sure it's from Max Ulichney's brushes for procreate haha (I don't remember which set though unfortunately):

good luck with setting up your sketchbook and no probs/thank you! ^^

@mpreg-jesuschrist awh thANK

@ anon not at all haha thank you for the lovely message :'>

[bluejay-flies]

Is the kitty blueberry flavored or blue raspberry flavored?

[mizivii2sh]

could you draw the sea goddess Elektra, consort of Thaumas?

yes. yes i can

i also thank you anon because i never draw women and this got me out of my drawing comfort zone

i had actually never heard of her before this so i did some research and was very surprised to learn that she was iris's mother and the harpies as well

as most of you know i'm not the best at designing but i tried to take aspects from what i learned about her

and i just love crazy hair

[dracrownian]

Rei and Takagi. since you wanted it. for the ship meme

thank you <3 (ship ask game here)

(I'm laughing and I haven't even started answering yet.)

Rei x Takagi

Why don’t you ship it?

This is probably going to come as a huge shock, but I have literally never thought about this pairing until like ten minutes ago. There is no world in which I think Rei and Takagi would or could end up together. So I don't ship it.

But it would be funny, though. Even if it means breaking up the one singular good het pairing in the series. Sorry, Satou, your man's been snapped up by the local waiter/undercover cop.

What would have made you like it?

I think I'd need Takagi to be a little less... uh. Takagi. He's way too nice, it would never work out. And Rei would scare him death. They wouldn't last. Maybe they'd just have a brief, hot fling or something.

Knowing me, I could have a whole au cooked up for them in a few days with the right motivation.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

I think if they could work on any fundamental level, then Takagi would make a great househusband for him.... eventually. He's kind of a work in progress.

They are certainly not the worst Rei pairing to ever exist.

[the-smaller-medium09]

Who wins in a fight, you or Manfred von karma

"...Uh. I don't think I'd ever start a fight like this, but I'll try to answer."

"Now, I don't know that much about him, however I have a... general idea of who he was."

"If by 'fight' you mean a fist fight: I've always been physically strong. I'm a hard hitter and I know how to properly defend myself if it comes to that."

"And Von Karma, he was, well... old... when he died. He may have been incredibly intimidating when he was alive as I've heard, but..."

[barschter000]

barok looks like he's allergic to peanuts

woke: projecting your period cramps onto a character

Bespoke: projecting your allergies onto a character

[ask-7-11]

One of your men just called me a toucan, which one was it?

*hands him a buzzer, pen, and piece of paper*

You have 10 seconds to respond

HUH?

I don’t know…??

Um.

You said men.

Narrows it down, somewhat.

Was it Iris? Or even Pixel, really.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

crispin. look at @beanthebugboi ideas for their prom because. ough. /vpos

which one

HOLY SHIT I AM ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED WITH BOTH OF THESE AND I WISH I COULD STEAL THIS IDEA. i may be called plain for my answer but i do honestly prefer the second as it is. very charming. {:

[yloiseconeillants]

11. Is there any existing character from other media that your character resembles? Was the resemblance intentional or was it a coincidence? -- for whomstever has the most interesting/fun (to you) answers

I could really spend a lot of time answering this since like, most of my characters are like, more or less, explicitly cobbled together from different media sources, often intentionally but occasionally one completely throws me off when I recognize it and I realized this morning that like, down to manipulating the school records, Iris is just stoner Ferris Bueller (+6 points to Whimsy).

[thequeenofthewinter]

🖊 Iris pweeeeeeease 🥺

My dearest Kayla ❤️

I headcanon that the MW has a choir they pull out on special occasion for ceremonies. The spirits are drawn to certain pieces and can even be called to depending on the notes used and how they’re arranged. Iris sings in that choir.

[the-red-thread-that-strangles]

Giving you Akai / DetCo for the fandom ask game. 5, 7, 10, 11 (akam). As many of those as you feel like answering. <3

Hehe, hi, thank you @dracrownian for the ask <3 Usually I get asks about Rei but I guess today is the day to flex my love for Akai 🚬❤️‍🔥

Long answers below the cut, you know the drill, I can't be concise.

5. Out of all your fanworks that include Akai, which is your favourite?

This is a very easy question for once! I'm going to go with one that is specifically about Akai, and it's Triple Kill. I'm very proud of how that one came out, especially the visit of Akemi's grave with Shiho. I think I managed to strike a good balance between introspection and character development. Also, it is a gentle 'fuck you' to the notion that Akai is a lone wolf. People care about him...

I don't know what the fuck I was on, but dear god do I wish I could step back into that mindset. Akai is difficult to write most of the time, because he doesn't talk much, but it just worked, that once.

It's the ghost I chase in warm summer nights.

7. Is there a piece of clothing you think Akai is particularly fond of/that you imagine them wearing a lot or like to draw them in?

The easy, obvious answer of course is his beanie. It's hard to imagine him without it, it's even downright weird to see him without it. But that's the cheap answer too, so I'll give you a bit more.

Akai is, unfortunately, the quintessential cool guy. He's the ideal of how I would dress if I was somewhat more confident in my appearance. Therefore, if I were to draw him, I'd love to draw him in all his badass glory (mostly in all black and in his cool leather jackets and that one raincoat he ran around in as Rye). Thankfully, I don't draw much, so I don't have to figure out how to make several different shades of black clothing look interesting <3

And then, of course, when it comes to clothing there's the elephant in the room: that fucking sweater. You know the one. The cream turtleneck. The fact Akai possesses such an article of clothing has bamboozled me into writing 45k words and counting, and I still haven't arrived at a good answer for why the hell he has one in canon. Not that it doesn't suit him, I think he looks lovely in it, but one just really has to wonder, what with the rest of his wardrobe being. Mostly black.

It's just one of the many curiosities that make me interested in Akai, and that makes me want to explore what is going on in his pretty head. I can only hope he has that sweater for good reason, and that he is fond of it. In my heart, this is true.

10. What is your favourite piece of fanart for Akai?

Akai grew on me slowly and gently, and as such, I don't really have that much art of him in my head that really left an impression. However, I will take this as an opportunity to put my lovely friend @fizzyjacuzzi on blast <3

We've got Akai death day, cute ShuuRei, funny Okiamu, ShuuRei so soft it makes me want to cry, the one where I continue to ignore word of god and believe they have their happy ending, and scotchrye sniping.

As a double-whammy, here's Jac's comic of Murder is a State of Mind, which is a delightful fic by the lovely @floofiestboy. (Ha, floof, I bet you thought you could get off easy if I'm putting Jac on blast, but not today <3)

And also, because I want everybody else to go insane too, Jac's take on the tea party that haunts me to this day (only good people die young. and we aren't. I'm going to commit unspeakable atrocities in Jac's name). And then whenever I talk about Jac's art I also have to bring up the fucking whiskey shot glass. It's really more of a whiskey trio or Rei thing, but Rye is in there and I swear to got every time I see this art I go a little bit insane.

Further delightful art is @kuschelkissen's Reitatouille, as well as Rye with the least intimidating sunglasses ever. What a cutie <3

11. What's your favourite piece of fanart for AkAm?

I'm a little unsure whether fanart refers to art or writing. If the latter counts as well, I would like to just lock in all of floof's fics.

If it's art-art, aside from the AkAm pieces from Jac that I already highlighted in the previous section, I really really love 2y's AkAm, in particular this log. I loved it so much I made a pixiv account without speaking a single word of Japanese. Oops.

There's also this doujin about the time after Akai faked his death with Rei going off the deep end in his investigation that holds me in a vice grip. When I went to Japan, I was lucky enough to run into a physical copy in a second hand store in Akihabara, and I swear to you, I almost cried XD

Suffice it to say...I am unfortunately down bad for them. And that includes Akai Shuuichi as well <3

[egginfroggin]

hi! i’d be interested in hearing more about the dying of the light AU if you don’t mind sharing any thoughts or details!

Hi! I don't mind, just lemme scrape my brain real quick (so many thoughts).

Honestly, the Dying of the Light AU has been giving me some issues as far as the ending goes, but other than that, I have a few ideas.

This got. so long. so, again, there's a break put in place further down.

We're dragging Kyurem into this, first of all

after Emmet "snaps," you could call it, and completely loses control of his powers, Reshiram amplifies it to the point of halting the ongoing autumn, replacing it with summer-like heat and causing a massive drought that starts to spread out from its epicenter around Nimbasa/Route 4

Once Reshiram's involvement is confirmed, it's decided that the other dragons will be brought into this

Ingo, chosen by Ideals, will pursue Zekrom, and hopefully that will help tip the scales in his favor, helping him root out the deceit Reshiram speaks of and reinstating Truth without Unova crumbling

Iris and Drayden both go after Kyurem, and do eventually find it; however, Kyurem will only help them if they give it something in return

They both wind up being roped into a bond with it, agreeing to give it their time and attention, which it seeks after a long time hidden away from people and its own siblings

The intent is to essentially use Kyurem's ice and cold to combat Reshiram's heat -- winter is summoned against summer, and the result is a sort of flaky half-season, somewhat like spring and autumn at the same time, though the cold is more extreme around Kyurem's location and the heat is more extreme around Reshiram's location

Content warnings for burns, claustrophobia, and possession under the cut! And thank you very much again for the ask, Anon! I hope you have a very good day! ^^

Reshiram is definitely doing some possessing by the way

In Reshiram's defense, Emmet can't be trusted to not run off and mess up its plans, so. yeah

Also, speaking with mortals is far easier when one has the approximate appearance of a mortal so there's that too

Zekrom doesn't so much as possess Ingo as it does reside within him/follow him around. It will speak through him at times, and certainly bolster him, but it rarely if ever just up and snatches his body to go do something

Kyurem does not care about possessing people it just wants a friend and thinks its siblings are being overly dramatic

I somewhat implied it in And Learn, too Late, but the twins actually have a few dislikes/phobias related to their respective Dragons! Ingo dislikes having his Ideals and intentions restricted, and has a mild case of claustrophobia; this is mean to reflect Zekrom's weakness to ground, as being enclosed makes Ingo feel restricted and like he's being put under pressure (i.e., a coffin or being entombed) Emmet's aversions are more prominent due to the strength of Reshiram's gift/influence on him; detecting deceit and lies makes him feel physically ill, and he has a severe aversion to deep water and pouring rain

Drayden and Iris don't really have any issues after they connect with Kyurem, as their dynamic with the Dragon differs from the twins' and their respective Dragons; it's more of a mutual agreement that they're bound to, rather than a direct piece of power being imbued as a gift and a connection

Going off of this logic and that of the above point, I suppose that that would mean that after Ingo finds Zekrom and his own gift is strengthened, he would have worse claustrophobia

Similar to the accident that happened in Iced Tracks, Emmet accidentally hurt Ingo when they were little; only, in this case, it involved fire, and Ingo's clothes caught, leading to pretty severe burns on his arm, side, and part of his jaw; they healed well, but the trauma of the situation combined with him passing out made him forget :< Emmet had no such "luck," he just dead-up remembers ("Dragons, Truth irrefutable, Truth before him, he knew how skin melted," from The Sun in Flight)

Emmet is not immune to his own powers, though the worst damage is done when it manifests physically, such as when he forms flames or embers

Much of the damage that he's unintentionally inflicted on himself comes from accidentally setting his cuffs on fire, burning his wrists and arms, or from conducted heat searing his palms when he's holding something

He doesn't wear gloves anymore

He doesn't leave fingerprints anymore, either

(He's not made to contain so much power, he's kindling for a pyre he has no choice but to light, and only the power of Reshiram itself can keep him safe from its own curse of a gift)

On a lighter note, someone asked in a comment on The Sun in Flight if Emmet wore gloves or not, and if his powers affected his clothes since he can burn things so easily

For the sake of his decency -- and my sanity -- I'm basically handwaving the matter of his powers not just burning off all his clothes as magical interference; if his cuffs caught, maybe it could spread if he let it, but that would also hurt, so he doesn't

This being said, though, Reshiram basically fireproofs his body when its possessing him

And with that being said, I couldn't resist this entirely silly mental image: Reshiram: ugh, mortal's clothes are so restricting, why do you even bother with such a nuisance -- Emmet: IF YOU BURN MY CLOTHES OFF AND MAKE ME RUN AROUND UNOVA NAKED I WILL PERSONALLY STRANGLE YOU YOU STUPID BALL OF FEATHERS

So Emmet gets to keep his clothes (thank goodness)

Thank you, Anon! ^^

[happy-mountain-goats]

[Iris smp] my love, what happened to your eyes?

A number of responses flit through your head when they ask the question, ranging from ‘It’s nothing dear, don’t trouble yourself,’ to ‘Oh you're one to talk!’

You choose neither of those, not really wanting to deflect but certainly not looking for conflict. You simply ask instead,

“Which time?”

When you first find your way into the world your eyes are brown. They take in the sights of the land as you cross it on foot and in your boat. They see the staircase in flickering blue flames as you descend to the depths of the earth and then further still, far below. They’re still brown as you fall, as the wind does nothing to catch you, filling your ears with whispers.

When you wake up in bed, your eyes are a purple so deep they could blend in with the Void below the ground. They stay purple as you flee to the edge of the world, they stay dark as you dig and dig and dig. You forget that your eyes used to be the same color as the dirt you spend day and night shoveling away, soon only ever knowing the deep color now set in your irises.

That color follows you from world to world, never shifting. Until, suddenly, one changes. Purple transforms to sickly cyan to match the parasite clinging to your arm. You feel the pit in your stomach twist as it glows in time with the sculk that's twisted its way through your skin, branching all the way up your neck. A single tendril has curled its way up to press against your left eyelid. You wonder when it'll finally slip under and take another piece of you for itself.

You try to forget it, ignore it, find something else to set your worries onto, which of course leads you again to the bottom of the world. The sounds of pistons and levers and TNT fill your ears as you both dig and dig and dig. Void clears away the debris as you try to pick bits of bedrock out of your nails, when you both fall silent. Wind rushes up through the hole in the bottom of the world.

You both jump, even though there's still more to clear away. You've waited so long to fall like this again that you just can't stand another moment without it. You keep your eyes open as the ground rushes away from you far above, as wind rushes up to claim you again. But there's still more to break, so you have to be satisfied with just once for now.

You can't stay away for long. You fall again and again, your death count creeping higher and higher until it's at a number you know you can't come back from. And still, you fall.

You don't know when the change happened this time. Maybe it was gradual, maybe it was sudden, but your right eye has changed to something you don't recognize. The iris seems a brighter purple now, but that might just be how it looks against the deep black sclera. It's shocking when you first catch a glimpse of your reflection in the glass you're placing, but you're slowly getting used to the sight.

Your eyes will surely change again before you leave this world behind like the other's, so you take it in stride. You're nearly curious what will happen to them next.

[pechebeche]

i gotta start with MIU of course !!!!!!!

i assign miu

CHOROMON

Miu doesn't even know it herself, but she's a fantastic caretaker and dreams of being a mother with a child who she can raise; in the same vein, she loves to tinker and build machines of increasing power. In that way, a machine-type Digimon that she raises from an egg is perfect for her! The rookie form of her partner would eventually be X-Antibody Hagurumon, but Choromon is the form she finds most memorable.