#this is mostly based off of my gijinka

[bonzeez]

NOT REALLY WHAT I USUALLY POST BUT I WANTED TO SHARE THIS

BOT COSPLAY!!

[itz-pandora]

Human designs of Void, Andromeda, and Polarity that I made for fun!

All three belong to @emthimofnight

[botanphal]

THE VIVIBELLA BIBLE IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

ENJOY

PREFACE

so you’re probably wondering. What is this weird sapphic tirade of 3K words? Well, this “note bible” was originally something I was going to keep for myself but figured others may want to see it too. This document is similar to a character bible, hence the name, except it’s more of a deep dive into two particular characters, strung out like notes. Please keep in mind that this document does not go into every idea I’ve had about these two but is more or less the basic ideas for the sake of consistency. This goes over canon and non-canon information which are separated so you know what’s true vs my own interpretations, though depending on which version of this post you’re reading, you may notice that there’s only canon information—which is more or less to let you have your own ideas from their purely canon-selves without the inspiration of my own non-canon ideas—the cut version of this document is also considerably smaller (1.7K). If you’re not on the canon cut version, then obviously the previous statement can be ignored. Regardless, I hope you have fun reading!

BOTANPHAL/PALIN’S VIVIBELLA BIBLE

LINKS

Just some links to their actual profiles for ease of access, as well as quotes and their theme music

Goombella:

https://www.mariowiki.com/Goombella

https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Goombella_quotes

https://youtu.be/1EmkKFaT7V4?si=erWshNwVBU5sfbo_

Vivian:

https://www.mariowiki.com/Vivian

https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Paper_Mario:_The_Thousand-Year_Door_quotes_by_character_(S–Z)

https://youtu.be/6WubRL1mPlQ?si=cY_tWs5TwyKZsr39

ESTABLISHING THE IDIOTS

let’s get down the gist of these sillies!

Goombella:

A junior at the university of Goom majoring in Archeology and seems to also consider herself a historian

- sassy, genuinely seems like she’d bite people’s fingers off sometimes

- nerd (but would backfire if you called her that given the note above)

- confident (of course, there are moments where she loses this but most of the time she seems rather self-actualized about things)

- kind, but does tend to poke fun at others (I can’t believe she called Koops cringe)

- curious

- knowledgeable (though she does make her mistakes regarding things like being fooled by Doopliss)

- excitable (after reading her dialogue over and over she uses a LOT of exclamation points. Girl calm down)

- kind of a hot head at times and jealous type, especially with how Ms. Mowz goes after Mario (Goombella definitely had a crush on him as well) and snaps back a lot though this could just be related to her mentioned sass

- this isn’t so much a character trait but she says “totally” a lot as well as “oh my gosh” which this one may be a catchphrase

Non-canon interpretations:

- has ADHD, needs meds or she loses her mind and becomes scrambled (top of the line “gifted” kid)

- possibly has a fear of heights given her comments at Hooktail’s castle making her nervous

- most Goombas seem to have two prominent fangs so I assume she’s missing one

- half Australian and half Maltese (has slightly an Australian accent but mostly sounds American)

- intersex, given Goombas are based off of mushrooms (and also chestnuts but I digress) and mushrooms are intersex, took estrogen to appear more feminine and identifies as a woman (this still applies to her gijinka, just that her species of demi-human is also all intersex)

- futch (femme/butch, will wear either or-or dress equal)

- has a lot of (unsuccessful) relationship experience which adds to her anxiety about her feelings for Vivian, specifically having dated three other people

- Full name is (Goom)Bellami Alessia Bones (Goom is a family title and not actually required to say, though she prefers to be called Bella than Bellami)

- 21 years old (while she has no confirmed age her being in her early 20s makes the most sense given she’s a Junior at university)

- has an earthy/dirt yet flowery scent

- has a cut on her right eyebrow

- loves savory flavors but occasionally enjoys spicy and sweet (Goombas have a main diet of meat so she tends to eat a lot of that)

- executive dysfunction sometimes causes her to not clean herself, but if someone complains then she will (she tends to carry around a perfume bottle)

- pansexual (possibly a coping lesbian)

- (gijinka) is missing the majority of her right forearm though she has a prosthetic for it (was born like that) and is missing almost all of her left arm aside for the shoulder (incidental)

- swears fairly often

Vivian:

Youngest of the three shadow sirens/sisters with the ability to use fire magic

- shy/somewhat reserved (opens up more later on, still shy but less reserved)

- cutesy (how the fuck did she speak with a heart symbol in one of her quotes)

- graceful

- polite

- sweet/kind (there should be no mistake to how far Vivian’s forgiveness goes considering she’s willing to forgive her own family that abused her for years—Vivian disowning them is not something Vivian herself would do)

- empathetic/sympathetic (I think about her random glitz pit dialogue a lot and how she worries if her and Mario did a bit too much on the enemies. But also she sometimes says “NO MERCY” she’s so silly)

- curious (moreso about most things being new to her due to being sheltered by her sisters for so long)

- submissive, though gains some confidence later on (this is just my own take but I feel like it’d take her longer than it does in-game to be more confident given the severity and length of abuse she experienced)

- struggles with an inferiority complex (this is actually a canon thing and made mention of) at the hands of her sisters abuse

- says “gee whiz” a lot, might be a catchphrase

- tends to stutter when nervous (possibly easy to fluster, especially considering she likely has not received a lot of compliments in her life)

Non-canon interpretations:

- possibly has athazagoraphobia (the fear of being forgotten) or just has general struggles with the concept

- given her trauma (mental/emotional abuse, unsure if there’s ever been physical though in one of the translations of the game Beldam apparently starved her, neglect from Marilyn), she probably would struggle with depression, anxiety and PTSD

- dysphoric, obviously feels better about herself the further into her transitioning (something about Vivian makes me feel like she’d struggle with dysphoria—it’s already a lesser discussed topic among fictional transwomen and given Vivian’s upbringing I think it’d make sense that she particularly has this and would make mention of it)

- she’s autistic and I can’t exactly explain why but someday I will (this very well could be projection uhhh. Anyway she probably doesn’t even know she has it or what it is, has had struggles to learn magic as the ways her sisters were trying to teach her weren’t working for her)

- demisexual-biromantic (I feel like it just makes sense for her to be this way given how she warms up to Mario and the same would apply to Goombella)

- has a beautiful singing voice partially learned from vocal training herself, however she is also called a shadow siren

- a piece of the Shadow Queen, her future

- has no exact ethnicity hc aside for being black as a gijinka, she’s something else entirely and can speak all languages (including sign language and braille) but mainly speaks English and Latin (if she were to be an actual human she’d be Eritrean and Sammarinese)

- femme (specifically loves to wear flowy things like dresses and skirts, the most “masculine” thing she’d wear is a suit)

- Has no full name, simply known as Vivian (if her and Goombella were to marry then she’d be Vivian Bones :flushed:)

- 20 years old

- has a smoldering lavender scent

- (gijinka) actually lost one of her legs while learning to veil, simply conjured up a convincing new one that she can freely remove

- can swear, refuses to do so (she’s too nice and polite the silly thing)

- is a pure-magical being so she requires frequent mana consumption to live, fire flowers are her favorite thing to use for this

- unaffected by fire and heat, can touch it without pain, body temperature is always high, only sweats when she’s sick, it’s very unusual for her to feel cold

- loves sweet, spicy and hot flavored things

- very clean, loves to shower or bathe (sometimes very atmospheric about it with hot water and candles)

- I like to think that she becomes a bookworm and wants to learn more about magic, but also reads up on psychology after the things she’s been put through

- shadow’s eyes are extremely sensitive to light, their hats have magical properties that keep them safe and shadow over them, without it she can only open her eyes in complete pitch-darkness, otherwise she keeps them closed (their gloves also work as buffers for their magic to make spells less intense, they’re sorta limiters in a way, Vivian especially has to wear them due to having fire powers and well… fire is commonly seen as destruction more than life)

- left handed, can use right okay

- knows how to cauterize wounds using her magic

- during new moons her appearance changes to more resemble the Shadow Queen, gaining more shades of purple and little stars speckling all over her, as well as having her eyes always shown

HOW THE FUCK DID WE GET HERE?

vivibella stems from Goombella’s tattle dialogue during the first battle with the three shadow sirens as shown:

note that this dialogue varies from the original GameCube version of the game compared to the Switch remake above:

unfortunate how the dialogue was nerfed compared to the original, making her seem jealous rather than having some kind of sapphic awakening but now I think of it as she’s deflecting what she’s feeling

DYNAMICS

- has a sort of opposites attract kinda thing going on, Goombella being the more open and expressive one while Vivian is the shy and reserved one

- enemies to friends to lovers

- love triangle (for the fact they both had a crush on Mario at one point but Goombella never seemed to be bothered by Vivian’s feelings for him unlike how she’s felt about the other women pining after him, she probably respects Vivian’s feelings for him given what he meant to her)

- the studier (Goombella) and one to be studied (Vivian) idk if there’s an actual name for this dynamic but I went into this concept a bit in this tweet:

- yapper x listener (I don’t think I have to explain who is who)

THAT ITALIAN GUY

Before we get into the meat of vivibella, it must be understood what Mario meant to these two. As it goes in TTYD, Mario for some reason is just a MAGNET for ladies and Goombella and Vivian are no exception to this, most of the female characters seem to express having a crush on him but let’s take a look at them individually:

Goombella particularly seems to fall under having a crush on him but she’s rather dismissive of it/acts like she doesn’t in a teasing way. She expresses jealousy whenever other female characters pursue him (think of Flurrie and Ms. Mowz, even speculates on Lady Bow post-game) but doesn’t with Vivian, likely due to the fact that Vivian doesn’t express her feelings for him around anyone (aside for the finale) considering during Chapter 4 it’s only her and Mario together when she kisses him—we don’t exactly know how Goombella would feel about Vivian’s feelings for Mario, but I think she’d probably be the most respectful to her given the things she’s been through and how Mario helped her open up and improve. During her letter to Mario at the end of the game, she talks about a “secret” which I imagine has to do with her crush on him, but she doesn’t follow through with it likely due to Mario’s pursuit of Peach

Vivian and Mario have a much deeper relationship compared to all the female characters that fall for him. Vivian definitely has a crush on him but also seems to actually be in love with him given the events that transpire; Mario helping her through her trauma and accepting her without question and also being a lending hand to someone in need despite his own troubles at the time of having lost his name, body and trusted companions. Even after realizing who he is and leaving given that he was her enemy at a certain point, she comes back upon realizing what he showed her and valued that over everything else as being the first person to EVER be kind to her. She turned her back on her family for him. During the final battle Vivian attempts to confess to him as well as during the end of the game when he’s leaving, but hesitates again due to the fact that she knows that he’d choose Peach and even thinks that the two would make a great couple. I’m sure it would be hard for Vivian to move on from him, he’s probably the first person she’s ever loved in such a way and again, he’s the first person to show her real kindness

THINKING TOO HARD

Goombella is obviously the one to crush first given her tattle dialogue, she may be kinda sassy about her feelings for her when teased by others but when she’s actually around Vivian she’s more reserved and anxious due to her shy and gentle nature, in some ways I feel like she may fear possibly scaring Vivian away by being too forward and is also afraid of the possible rejection as she’s aware of Vivian’s feelings for Mario despite him eventually not being in the picture (and of course possibly being unaware to the fact that Vivian is bi). Goombella’s probably very likely a girlfail and a fumbler when it comes to flirting but god if she isn’t confident about it and Vivian finds it endearing. I think it makes the most sense for her to confess later on as I’m sure she probably reaches some form of boiling point and just drops all her words out after being unable to hide it anymore (Vivian doesn’t like to assume things about others typically so that’s why I don’t see her confessing first instead)

Goombella falls first but I feel like Vivian would fall harder as the two of them grow closer, Vivian already experienced rejection from Mario so in some ways she probably wasn’t expecting to find successful love anytime soon nor in a more similar way to how Mario was with her. Of course, Goombella isn’t exactly like him at all but the kindness and patience is still there, albeit with some attitude which Vivian doesn’t mind. I think it would take a bit for Vivian to catch onto Goombella and her own feelings given her experience with Mario. This being her second experience with love, she’s definitely very inexperienced regarding all of it which is why she holds back. With my hc of Goombella having been through her own form of transition, a lot of comfort is to be found there for Vivian as they’re somewhat similar due to that. I don’t think Vivian really knows how to flirt but she’d give lots of compliments and do gestures, she’s also a girlfail but in a graceful way and tries not to show it, she’s kinda a secret dork (and I mean. With the fact she stutters when nervous. There isn't anyway this girl isn't also a girlfail of her own like come on now)

Regarding my own lore, I like to think that these two live together in Goombella’s Uni dorm after the events of TTYD. Vivian switches on Fridays to live with her sisters then back with Goombella the following Friday so on and so forth to help rebuild a healthy connection with them while with Goombella she explores herself given she’s been stuck with her sisters for so long. Their situation isn’t helped by the fact that they have to share a bed due to the limitations of Goombella’s Uni dorm size, though it is fancier as it’s more like an apartment with separate rooms, (basically consists of two small bedrooms, the other bedroom being her roommate’s, a living space and kitchen combo as well as a bathroom) still small though

Goombella tends to go to Flurrie for advice regarding her feelings for Vivian, while Vivian goes to Lady Bow after forming a friendship sometime after TTYD’s events. I also like to think that Flurrie and Lady Bow end up coming together to scheme about the two of them (neither are aware of this until they start dating)

Their relationship builds off of living together and Vivian learning about herself, Goombella there to guide her as someone who already knows her own life and the steps she took to get to where she’s at—the two spend a lot of time together obviously and Goombella strives to try and get something out of the two of them than just a friendship given her own growing feelings, even if it takes being more patient

Even on the weeks when Vivian’s living with her sisters Goombella tends to visit her and hang out, sometimes sleeping over as well. Vivian along the way starts to realize how Goombella’s care for her is much deeper than she originally thinks it is—in some ways Vivian already feels inspired by someone like her who is so confident and self assured, she could use someone like her to give her a nudge in the right direction

They probably even go out on adventures together which further strengthens their bond, which of course may stir up trouble and that leaves room for needing to rely on each other or help each other in such times of need (who doesn’t love some hurt and comfort mmmm)

CLOSING STATEMENT

Anyway, that’s really all I have though I have a feeling that even AFTER publishing this I’ll be still tweaking this until the day I die. I love these two very much if that uh….. Isn’t obvious at all. uh huh. I hope you gained some kind of enjoyment and understanding out of all this gay nonsense from these strange little sapphic creatures that have been rotting my brain for months :3

the canon version of this post will come out soon! This just took so long to do I’m going to explode rn

[fraternum-momentum]

Hey! I love your art!!! Tho, I was wondering if you could tag your ocs names cause I’m new but I’m really interested in your ocs and want to learn more about them :)

It’s okay if you can’t tho! Hope you have a great day

YOOO HELLO welcome to the blog :D i hope you enjoy your stay here and thank you !! i finally finally gave some of them names so I can make tags, that's mainly why it took so long to answer this 😭

Azalea, Melanie, :o), MC, Gabriel, Nigel, Kian, Theo.

(the actual tags are also in the tags of this post)

Here's some contextual and random facts about them lolol:

Azalea and Melanie are characters of a webcomic I'm making ! It's just a little passion project that I'm slowly working on. (emphasis on slowly)

Theo is just a nickname. His actual name is Theodore. MC's name is still TBD.

They're also gonna be in a comic thing :D but more episodic and slice of life-y instead of an overarching plot.

Kian makes pipe bombs in his basement.

Kian is based on a rock I got on a random beach. I took a picture of it and put a bunch of stickers and gave it a personality a few years ago bc I thought it would be cute 💀 I have other rocks that still needs to be gijinka-fied LMAO (my fave is this one beach glass named Kelsey)

I was debating on naming the jester clown guy JJ but i decided against it, it's cute but ehh idk.. I might change my mind on it if I can't think of anything.

Kian and friends + the jester guy + that one teeth guy that I didn't include here (whoops) are mostly just one-offs and don't really have an ongoing story. I made them mostly cause I wanted to design a cool looking character. Maybe I'll do smthn with the rock friends but I don't really have any ideas :P

Nigel and Gabriel are part of this western cowboy universe thing I'm doing on the side. A lot of wonderful people have made ocs for it :DD !!!

make of that what you will 👼

Gabriel has a twin sister named Mica, who also helps around their church.

Nigel is just an amalgamation of the kinks i like (that will not b disclosed !!!!!). Cause I thought 'hey, why don't I make a blorbo that has all my kinks that would b awesome ahaha' and look at me now.

Also BTW i know Nigel is technically a cop but he's more of a classic cowboy than an actual police officer. I added that random fact just for the cowboy³ joke. ACAB.

[sylviegirly]

suppper curious, how did you come up with the characters like yadyra and nameless? since compared to sylvie, it really is such different concept on both. i find them all super cool those, love your ocss a lot, you really put a lot of love into them <3

ooh!! thank u for the question nonnie. truthfully both were originally born out of two flight rising dragons i have from years ago, aka these two losers

they both had different ideas with their conceptions: yadyra was originally a fallen angel forced to live in this world (stripped of his wings and divinity), and nameless ... honestly his original concept is a bit more murky to me since unlike yadyra i never wrote a giant biography piece for him. i do remember his original gijinka design i got had floating eyeballs + a blindfold, and so he had some kinda 'future seer' vibe where the eyes whispered things to him. these were mostly based off spur of the moment ideas or inspirations based off how the dragons were dressed

but in time and with shared development with my friend in her worlds, they kinda took on their own different roles and shapes that are super far away from their original concepts

yadyra being some fourth wall breaking god started out as a joke, but in time he genuinely just became the equivalent of some cryptid who balances life and can see through the fourth wall LOOL. they've both been dual developed by me and my bestie and kinda tied into a general verse we have that spans across all universes and times, and nameless in due time got roped into being the king of all demons (also helping the cycle of life even if he swears out yadyra and his counterpart sister that's death LOOL)

sylvie was primarily developed through roleplaying on tumblr, so a distinctly different flavouring vs a more closed development between my friend and i

[desktopmermaid]

so i'm curious, the characters of 777 are inspired by/more or less gijinkas of splatoon characters (salmon run mostly), but i imagine 777 doesn't really have anything to do with splatoon aside from character inspiration? sorry if you've talked about this before, i'm kinda new here ^^;; regardless my god these characters rule im so glad im a lesbian (and also big shout out to brella we love bi women forever and ever <3<3)

also funny enough like a year ago when i was suuuuper into splatoon, namely salmon run, i made my own salmonid ocs all of which are lesbians, so your characters make me doubly happy! it's like a "yay i'm not alone" feeling, hehe

Omg thanks for your curiosity! :D Yeah, at first I made straight up gijinkas of the salmonoids, and then I was like, what if I made a au with them as human and also they were cool assassins. And then it stopped being a au and they became their own story completely. :p

Even though I stopped making full gijinkas I still use the salmonids as design inspos, cos the process of creating a Oc based off things that aren’t human is really fun for me. (Like ooh, what features from (object, fish, train) can I incorporate into a human design, it’s just rly fun) Like .52 is just based off the .52 gun cos i thought it’d be fun.

BUT ALSO YAAYY FELLOW LESBIAN SALMONID OC MAKER.. 🤝that makes me happy to hear 🫡

[almightyhamslice]

GRYLL COMPILATION!!!!

I didn't forget abt them I just wasn't totally sure where to place them since they're meant to be encountered AFTER the story concludes. They're not even the last drawing in my Star Stacker series though! Very close to the end though... just two more drawings left!

Gryll is an alien witch who travels through the cosmos looking for people to stack stars with! They always conjure up the blocks themself, so their 'playmates' don't have the excuse of not having a game board or blocks... and if others don't know the rules of the game, Gryll explains it to them in agonizing detail! Gryll strikes me as being rather long-lived, but also incredibly carefree and not concerned about their own mortality & just living in pursuit of fun! They might be the same species of alien as (or perhaps an offshoot of) Marx's species? The two might've even played a game together once upon a time. Gryll can be irritating when it comes to asking others to play their games, but they do care about fairness-- they NEVER cheat because it removes the fun for them! They already know they're the best player, but they want to prove themself in an honorable way.

Other than their fixation on star stacking, Gryll is also very fond of onions! Their three onion companions are named Sugar, Salt, and Pepper; Sugar has no leaves, Salt has short leaves, and Pepper has long leaves. I think for Gryll, cultivating onions is less like farming plants and more like caring for animals? Like chickens, maybe? Though the onions themselves are smarter than that, so maybe it's more like taking care of parrots or crows? Point is they're really common on Gryll's homeworld and they like to have a few of them following them through space at all times. So they don't get lonely! Though, Gryll does also like the flavor of edible onions.

Overexplanation of my gijinka design under the cut!

Design wise I did kinda base Gryll's appearance off Marx (mostly cuz they both have huge shiny eyes and are from outer space! Though notably, Gryll has invisible/detached arms that are covered by arm warmers, and no external ears (maybe I will remove Marx's ears as well?). I knew I wanted to emphasize that they have detached arms, but very clearly visible legs! Though I also wanted them to have more stripes in their design, so I decided they should go to their arm warmers. Similarly, I thought they could use more red, so I added a little red shawl. My gijinka design has bare legs since I think they're a very striking feature of Gryll's in-game design-- Gryll has actual legs rather than connected shoes or floating shoes, which not a lot of Kirby characters have! Their top is cut on the sides; it's more androgynous that way I think, and it's also a nod to how Gryll was accidentally depicted with actual arms in one of their in-game panels. I interpreted the lines on their face as whiskers/patchy facial hair, again because it feels more androgynous to me! And I think it makes them look cute. I suppose it could just be blush or paint but I like whiskers!! Basically, I totally overthought Gryll's design lol! I think it's because this is their only appearance so I don't rlly have room to redesign them! Unless I feel like it later lol.

anyways heres my funny drafts of Gryll! They used to have striped sleeves but I wasnt satisfied w that rlly.

They remind me of a Rayman character or perhaps Rayman himself? (has only played Rayman 1 and failed miserably at it)

[ladylyra]

Do you have any recommendations on how to get more expressive and lively color pallettes? Also, I absolutely LOVE your art! I just saw two of your posts of zacharie and I love them both so much!

thank you so much!!! :") i've been actually been trying to get better with my palettes so i'm happy that they stand out!! i really don't think i'm a good resource for advice (self taught & mostly go off vibes) but i'll try

definitely look into color theory. i don't know if it's actually designed for what art i do but this was a good resource for me. you said you liked the zacharie pics so i'll use it as an example!!

i use different shades within each color but the general idea is that i'm using two complimentary pairings in one piece--red/green and then blue/orange. it makes the entire piece pop. purple/yellow is definitely one of my favorite palettes to do but i have a soft spot for red/green because it's always interesting trying to make really sure it doesn't start giving christmas vibes LMAO. it can get really fun playing around with different shades. color changes the tone of the piece so definitely consider what youre trying to convey when you pick the colors you want to use.

2. i think a level of restriction breeds innovation. you have to do more with what you have. for this piece i reused base colors as 'shading colors' a lot. the poliwag's base blue was also used as a shading color, for example. i think it ties the piece together if colors are repurposed in multiple spots. generally, i personally don't like having too many colors in one design or drawing. if i can reuse a color, i want to. for shading, for convenience, sometimes ill use multiply and overlay layers which increases the color count, but i've been trying to branch out from them more :). overlay can be very useful (as well as some of CSPs other modes) in coming up with very vibrant palettes that you can use as a jumping off point.

3. kinda going off my above point, but this is more about character palettes than palettes for a drawing. if you look at a lot of my oc designs i have a low amount of colors ill use in one character, as well. i do a lot of gijinkas which in a way can pick palettes 'for me' but im also talking about my oc designs outside of that (1) (2) (3) (4) if i have too many colors i almost feel like i start to lose focus. i use complimentary colors a lot. this is honestly a little of a personal preference in how i approach designs (i also don't like designs with too many tiny details so...lol) so i don't know how 'legitimate' it is as advice? but i thought i'd offer it

3. i was so afraid of using bright colors when i was younger because i didn't want things to clash, so a huge part of this is just getting more confidence in the process. i mess around with colors during my sketching process, and treat palette picking as a part of sketching. the zacharie drawing went through like 2 different constantly tweaked palettes. you have to be willing to just throw whatever down at the risk of it looking bad, erase it, and do it again. don't get too attached to anything. don't aim for perfectionism on the first go. i also have this same mentality for just sketching in general. playing it safe can destroy the expressiveness of the piece and the integrity of your vision. you wanna try out some obnoxious neon blue? ok, put it down and build around it. art is meant to express something!! be more confident in what you want to make. if it looks 'bad' nobody has to see it. just keep messing around until you like it, or throw it out completely and go again.

[lightofunova]

What inspires you to design the legendary gijinkas? Like music, aesthetics, etc.

I was talking a little about this but alot of it is vibes LOL Veeery much my personal feel about them through my experience playing the games.

Ryuki feels so strong and powerful yet graceful, just like Johto is as a region, so I was inspired to make him fit in with that aesthetic more!

Unova, despite being based off America has always had a very medieval sort of lore to it that really inspired me when designing Reshi, but also the pokemon is just so soft and fluffy that I had to emulate that somehow haha.

I dont design all the legendaries of course though, half of them are owned by my bff so I can only really speak for the ones I design though haha. In the end they don’t really come together until we brainstorm ideas for them to flesh out their personalities! Like how Yveltal is a laidback racer who enjoys the limelight but is secretly the god of death XD Or the tension between Reshi and Zekrom. These things really dont take form until I chat with my bff about em and we come up with the ideas together!

Finally!! Most of the characters I design do have playlists that I make to listen to while I draw or design stuff for them. Mostly its made after I’ve had themmfor awhile though, cus by then I know what they’re characterization is haha. Thanks for the ask!!!

[donuts4evry1]

After reading through Dungeon meshi and reading + watching content about Kui’s character design, I realized something (as I’m sure many other artists did):

My own character designs, while interesting enough, didn’t really properly reflect the character. And in my case, they didn’t really properly reflect animals I was basing them off of.

For body types, the only thing that separated my characters was height. Legs and arms stayed the same, stomach and cleavage were relatively flat. My style is mostly simple, but if I truly want to do the jellies justice and give them good gijinkas, I need to do more. (I could also work on my facial features, but I still haven’t grown out of the button nose yet. Haha. For the record, though, I do have somewhat varied eye shapes and styles thanks to Mairuma-kun. Yay!)

If you see me retroactively redesigning characters to reflect this… oops. I’m realizing it might’ve been a bit of a mistake for me to post about all my characters so early in development (especially when I had no Idea what I was doing), but I guess it’s not a bad thing to document the design process.

[furyohin4urr20]

I've been here for a spell, so I feel as though I should formally make an intro post.

Hello, you beautiful boys, girls, neithers, boths, and in-betweens! My name is Fu Ryohin and welcome to my blog!

☆ About Me! ☆

☆ Ryo, 18, Aquarius

☆ She/They, Bisexual Nonbinary Demigirl

☆ OC Artist, I make art mostly based on my own OCs, which are sometimes fandom based! I also do fanart when I feel like it. I might migrate to a secondary page for that, stay tuned just in case!

☆ Currently in a relationship with @generalsandwitchdragon 💜 please follow their clowncore page @clownery-atits-finest

☆I reblog a lot of junk and never tag anything, this is an unorganized nightmare, sorry.

☆ Basic DNI ☆

Please stay away:

◇ Homophobia/Transphobia/Aphobia/Exclusionists (TERFS FUCK OFF)

◇ Racists/Bigots/Xenophobes/Zionists

◇ Proshippers (I will not have this filth here)

◇ Gatekeepers/Elitists

☆Tag Guide☆

◇#fu ryohin: Any post I've made myself.

◇#fr asks: Answered asks.

◇#fr reblogs: Posts that aren't mine but I added to.

◇#(x)core: Posts that remind me of my silly ocs, any fandom characters are tagged otherwise.

☆ My pokemon art side blog is @ryoz-poke-center !! please check it out if you wanna see some of my pokemon gijinka stuff :)

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Yoooo Marilou has a sword? :O

Also I saw something about waterproof hair and fabrics in that gijinka universe, which is really interesting! Are there any other little details like that, about the funky traits pokemon can have and how they affect the world?

(my inital response got too long and crashed my computer lol TAKE TWO)

SHE DOES! She's an oshawott so her sword is her scallchop :3 it looks and behaves mostly just like a normal non gijinka one does. is attached to her belly button and considered a part of her body. the suction to her belly button is strong enough that it can be attached through a thin layer of fabric: but ussually marilou will still have her clothes either modified to have a hole or have a special belt to attach it too. Her scallchop extends to a full length sword when she chooses! no one else including another oshawott can make it extend to sword mode.

the sword itself is based off of pirate swords and samurotts' sword thingie

THERES SO MUCH FUN FUNKY STUFF so much i'm working on some drawings of eevees evolved into every eeveelution as an excuse to infodump lol

heres some fun psmd gijinka au world building/lore facts!

-if marilou were to put on a normal collared shirt, the collar would transform into an upturned frilly one: bassically a pokemon 'pokemonness' (being very connected to not just nature but like the nature of the world) connects with the physical natural material in the clothes and can modify it slightly. never by a whole lot. but enough that theres a canon explanation

so yeah the universe has a species dress code basically

-species names function a bit like last names. most (but not everyone!) does have a 'real' name, and in smaller communities generally everyone will know and address others as such (with the exception of like, an elder figure, like a kid won't call the kind charizard across the street by her name she's 'ms charizard' ), but generally speaking it's rude to ask for someones name, or adress someone by such if they havn't told you you can. whats wacky is sometimes if someones adopted by another species they'll adopt an aspect of one of their adoptive parental figures names as a middle name. Marilou and Comet both do this! Marilou's full name is 'Marilouise Brazil Oshawott' Brazil as in the tree nut (Nuzleaf's name) and is 'Comet Costa' Bulbasaur' Costa like Carracosta

- humans (while considered exitnct technically can still exist in the psmd-gijinka verse) can't have 'unnatural' hair colors! within anime reason of course like a black haired humans hair can be actually a shade of blue but like, a human can't naturally have a bright colorful hair color: they can have any color eyes though!

-pokemon still come from eggs in the psmdgijinka-verse. And they still can only reproduce with pokemon from the same egg group and the species of the kid will ussually be that of the 'mother' theres a chance it can be the other parent's. though maybe some species may give live birth like how there are some reptiles etc in our world that do that, but i'm not sure yet. yeah I'm that one nerd that will go on about how theoretically how pikachu can be both a mammal and lay eggs

-most fairy types have particularly like idk the word cause usually 'fair' means pale but what I really mean is that when drawing a fairy type I'll make sure they're skin tone is more saturated than I'd usually choose has more noticeable blush and is closer to the red/pink then orange/yellow hue

-so the shades of color a pokemon can be varies a lot! however the shiny color of a pokemon does effect this. like take vaporeon for example, It's more common for a vaporeon's shades of blue to be teal then indigo sense indigo is closer to purple (vaporeons shiny color)

-while more rare type exclusionist/discrimination/not comparable to any real life bigotry so idk what to call it does exist: like they make grass type dominated towns where fire types aren't allowed and dark and ghost types are often stereotyped as mischievous and up to no good. like yeah sometimes they are but not to the extent that people act

[puddingjump]

Hey Look! https://www.tumblr.com/magoloranlaunch/716615128101076992/old-djss-gijinka-art-and-zine-work-2021?source=share

I just find it amazing and hilarious how the human drawings of Supernova remind so much of Asterian! XD Especially with the pv & cover you just made not too long ago.

omg yes i ADORE this human djss!! it's one of my favorites! <3 the human djss i made for the pv is actually based off an old humanization doodle i did a couple years ago! (link) oh man this is old and wonky lookin

i just incorporated a few extra bits to add asterian to it, mostly the colors! i do love how both that humanization and asterian resemble each other though! :)

[velcrow101]

All things considered i think i'm done with Cringetober for the time being.

PROMPT REVIEW:

HETEROCHROMIA: I've. I've done heterochromias before. this isn't that much of a challenge.

SELF INSERT: I am still very scared of putting an unadulterated version of myself into any sort of fiction, fan or non. so I intentionally skipped this one.

UNECESSICARILY COMPLEX FIT: Still not entirely sure of the Complexity on this one but i'm still satisfied :3

ANGEL X DEMON: Mark my words that these two will get better art in the future.

MS PAINT: Still mad that windows 11's paint program got so screwed up that i had to move entirely to paint.net

NEKO: Considering I'm a Furry, this is far from a challenge.

PINTEREST ART BASE: I had an idea for this. But then I couldn't find a good base to use. I instead appropriated Day 15 to complete on this day.

TUMBLR SEXYMAN: Still not a Onceling. But Onceler felt like the obvious choice this day.

CROSSOVER SHIP/RAREPAIR: I'm still dipping my toes into the fandom scene, so in my frantic scrambling, I shipped the first think that came to mind.

FURSONA: Again, Not yet confident in having a fursona yet. Unless you count December.

YANDERE: Felt like a bit of a departure from what I felt my usual style is or should be. But I still completed it!

NICHE INTEREST: ??? ??? ???

CREEPYPASTA: I think I was too busy making the thing for Della Delightful to figure out which classic creepypasta to draw.

CANDYGORE: This was said Della Delightful thing. I accidentally took the prompt a little too literally to properly repost on the main acc, but i think there's still a noticable amount of lore that can be gathered here.

SONG LYRICS: I Knew Pocketing those Penelope Scott Lyrics was a good idea!

FAKE ANIME SCREENSHOT: I would waste way too much time on this prompt in the service of making it "perfect".

OLD ART REDRAW: Good luck finding any of my old drawings 'cause none of it was posted online and/or are most likely mostly gone for good. I physically could not complete this prompt to my satisfaction.

DOLLS/PUPPETS/ETC: I Tried to base Chloe's Clothing off of the 2012 Holiday Barbie's Dress. But then I just kinda. didn't.

HANAHAKI DISEASE: I Couldn't figure out the scenario let alone pull it off with how sucky i was feeling at that time.

100% SATURATION: Funny Oversaturated Colours :3

MAID DRESS / SAILOR UNIFORM: I was planning on fusing them both. But unfortunately the mood forced me to get a "once every other day" schedule and this unfortunately fell out of the proper parity.

MEME(S): It was just one meme. But I was happy to draw Soho Again.

MLP: Again, Parity Problems.

GIJINKA: It was Divine Inspiration, the choice to Gijinka Dusty. And then i think it ran out before I could manage to figure out what she'd wear for a top so I just sorta made her wear a bikini top and shorts i'm sorry-

ALL EDGE NO POINT: I am Diametrically opposed to edge. So I was going to skip this either way.

BABYGIRL POSE: Couldn't manage to figure out which character to draw before the day came and went. I Asked a couple friends which babygirl i should draw and neither of them were any help.

ALT FASHION: This and onwards I'm skipping. I am sorry.

HOT VILLAIN: I was honestly waiting for divine inspiration to strike to let me determine who to draw, because I never considered any of the villains I know of to be attractive to me. Yes, even the Onceler. Man's basically CEO Incarnate.

VIDEO GAME: by god this prompt is vague. it'd be tough finding a videogame that's both cringe and not entirely problematic.

HALLOWEEN: Probably gonna do this for Della anyways ngl i can't pass up this chance

15/31 seems like a nice run.

Shoutouts to:

close friends @hamstersquid and @kitwiings (for reblogging and liking a lot of the prompts) @iridescentwhite (for reminding me to do it) @crying-over-cassettes @icryink (for the original 2023 cringetober which i used for 2024 because i missed out the last time)

Thank you for all the support!

WELCOME TO CRINGETOBER!

I wanted to post the prompt list a month in advance so people have time to work on it :)

There are no hard rules; it's just a fun art exercise to draw things that are considered "cringe" by popular culture. Don't stress if you miss a day!!

Even if you don't participate, it would mean the world to me if you just shared the prompt list because it took me a while to make it lol.

I hope you have fun with it!!!

[toonabby]

Old Kisekae art collection (Gijinka edition, the last batch)

Continuing from the previous post, here are all the last of my gijinka OCs I created through the software.

Some may be NSFW, though.

Edit: Added link to the previous gijinka collection and replaced "image" with "post".

OC Browser-tans + Inori Aizawa (Internet Explorer-tan) from Microsoft Taiwan

Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera were more of OCs for Inori Aizawa's universe, and had that series been a thing, their names would be Alex for Safari (as a reference to the system's codename), Krom for Chrome, Hitsune for Firefox (a portmanteau of the Japanese spellings of "fire" (hi) and "fox" (kitsune)), and Opu for Opera.

OC Company-tans based on Japanese animation studios doing in attire or cosplaying as Japanese media characters

From left to right: Shaft (maid), KyoAni (maid), J.C. Staff (cat lingerie), Studio DEEN (Len Kagamine), A-1 Pictures (Hatsune Miku), Studio Trigger (Rin Kagamine), Toei Animation (Shimakaze), TMS Entertainment (Yoko Littner), and Sunrise (playboy bunny)

A close-up of Shaft flipping the bird

My final renditions of the Channel-tans featuring Warner Bros.-tan (whose name was originally designated as Becky instead of Barbara, with the former name now being reassigned to the character representing Warner Animation Group)

This one is my least favorite, as I put more emphasis on the "Neptunia"-adjacent side of the gijinka designs that they end up coming off as anime-ified versions of how the original Channel-tans are depicted (I do like a bit of WB's old design though, mostly because I modeled her after Pekora Usada - yes, I had a tendency to model my OCs after Hololive's VTubers).

An older version that has Nikki without her collar and Becky with Nikki's collar.

The concept of what I've been choosing for these characters: Carrie encouraging Nikki to be more confident, while Diana is about to club Becky for saying (or in this case, illustrating) bunnies are better than mouses.

The final batch of old Company-tan OCs based on film companies and streaming services.

As illustrated in the image: Becky (now Barbara)/WB pissing off Diane/Disney with Universal trying to quell the two of them and 20th Century Fox begging the former not to cause trouble; Paramount looking for ideas to improve her company, while her fiance CBS wonders if she is daydreaming again; Amazon (Prime) intimidating Netflix with a knife; and Sony Pictures calling someone (presumably SIE) on the phone.

And that concludes all of my Kisekae collection.

[vegetablejester]

I need to like schedule out what I'm working on. I tend to use fic writing as a way to practise proper writing for novels I plan on publishing and those are still in planning/draft phases.

Rn is chp 22 of WoH which is at 10k words so far and I'd say maybe 70% done???? Help.

After that I want to continue work on one of my FFXIV fics Solis. I was rewriting some of the chapters it had 3 chapters before I decided to rework it. Chp 2 is halfway done so I wanna get that and 3 done. But then after that I need to do chp 4 as then I'll feel like the story has gone fucking nowhere. Luckily that one is mostly just abt Akademia Anyder.

Another FFXIV fic I need to rewrite is Forever at Your Side. The entire first chp rewrite of that one has been planned out already I just never have the energy for it.

On the side I also started a 5 chp fic based on Kirby's adventure with my Gijinka setting. Idk why. It's kind of nearly done in the first chp but the entire thing felt off so aaa on my knees begging my friends for feedback.

I also need to continue that Hollow Knight fic series I started, I have in mind what I want to write for the next bits but I just need motivation for it.

There's the Virgo fic too. Ngl I have to be deeply depressed to write that one so maybe there'll be a chapter soon with how I've been feeling lately lmao.

I think once the stuff planned for Solis is done or maybe when I'm getting bored of doing it I'll do the next chapter for Guided by Starlight. That one has had a fairly healthy upload schedule ngl. WoH i have to try and do a chp per month or more or I will never get it done.

Two back burners are Ashes to Ashes and a FE Fates rewrite. Ashes to Ashes is just fucking complicated and a dark story so it needs time to COOK. And Fates is just gonna be a lot of effort but I had inspo for writing abt two of my ocs and just kinda did it and now I'm like "Well fuck I gotta continue this in some way."

I have three novel's I'm working on as well in the planning stages, they're all fantasy at least. Ugh I should really work on one of them properly next year at least a first draft or smth or I'll be 40 by the time I actually publish smth.

Don't be me, I'm on the highway to hells burn out.