#this is prob the most complex background I've posted lol

[lesbokyoko]

I envy your demise

I hope it's all you dreamed it would be

[jkgnggj]

Love talking Abt tori's background I've done it a million times and will do it a million more it's just so interesting and there's so much unknowns grr

It def looks like tori's parents neglect him I doubt they even actually "raised" him since they're so hands off and absent in his life and hardly mentioned by him ever. The only time he mentions his old man is to boast Abt his "connections" like with the occult club thing where they were gonna stay at like an abandoned or empty temple or sum. Or when Tori boasts about his background saying he was born in a temple / comes from a temple family etc but I think he only says that to give himself more credibility bc of the whole everyone thinking he's crazy bc he says he can see ghosts shit.

Also from what we do know of his parents, we've only heard Abt his dad not his mom so I like to hc she's outta the picture (either deceased or just not there yk) tho I used to just hc he was an orphan dropped off there and taken in by the monks / head monk or something. Anyways, his dad is mentioned by the monks having said to be strict with Tori or "take care" of him and that's pretty much it, super vague. For all we know it isn't endearing or sweet it's controlling especially bc if the monk's idea of taking care of him is being strict and stuff then maybe Tori had a really strict and rigid daily routine and life growing up in the temple. I mean if his punishment is always gonna be fasting for a certain amount of days then I imagine he'd probs behave most of the time which is why he's well mannered or takes a traditional approach to some things (I think someone once questioned how odd it was he called kusuo saiki-san, like who taught him manners). Also his other temple the one he was probably raised in doesn't look like it had pretty memories considering the fact when he was threatened to be sent back there again he caved and did as he was told or whatever. Or maybe he didn't like the thought of being separated from his master and the cute girls at pk who hate his fucking guys who knows ☠️

And lastly Abt the "he's not a bad person" yes ur totally right I completely agree !! He isn't a bad person. He's got some bad habits and says and does some inappropriate shit but he's not that much of a scumbag as he's made out to be. He's actually a pretty sweet guy even tho he pretends not to be. Tho he only shows the better innocent parts of him he hides to ghosts and saiki. Like that one time he helped an "evil" ghost with the occult club. His lil mom speech was so cute I loved it so much lol! Mom friend toritsuka?! He also has this hatred for humans and like men specifically (maybe he has a dad complex? Or a monk complex? Since he's probably mostly and only been around men his entire life esp if his mom wasn't in the picture). So maybe that men hating attitude has something to do with past trauma who knows there could be so much to unpack. And as for me, I like to believe his hypersexualness / "porn addiction" is like some sort of coping mechanism or something similar. I said this in another post like a long time ago but I think it has to do with his sense of longing to *feel* what love is, to love and be loved. The closest thing he has to work on is lust or pleasure bc those are attributed to physical feelings that are closely related to love but not quite the same thing but it's as close as he'll ever get. I mean he's got mommy and daddy issues he was probably never hugged or held in his entire fucking life, it's no wonder he'd be craving physical affection and love and that twists itself into perversion. Also I imagine he's so obsessed with physical touch and being intimate because of the whole can't touch ghosts thing. Maybe the touching that was his coping mechanism for his powers became the reason he became so disliked, bc ppl started thinking ew gross pervert and it just stuck and in order to cope with that he just had to go with it and keep seeking stimulation.

thinking about toritsuka and his family bc i have so many things to say about it. we know that he has father but he seems to be more concerned about his temple things rather than his son. and it seems like he needs toritsuka just as another person to work in the temple or smth else. also uhh

this panel makes me think a lot especially that "your father told us to be strict with you". and we know nothing about his mother and i hc that she's dead but idk idk.

so toritsuka was born and raised in the temple and it looks like he had a very strict upbringing and to my mind this made him what he is now. like all his interest in porn and other seems more as a some kind of protest or an effort to feel the freedom he has never had before. i suppose that in reality he may be not that interested in this, it's just something that was forbidden and now he has access to it.

he doesn't know how to normally behave in society, apparently he wasn't taught this. in my view he's not a bad person, he just had this... unusual childhood and that's why he formed all his stupid habits and interests. ofc that doesn't justify some of his actions but still i love him sm and i don't see him as a bad person at all

[itswilliamleonard]

I will get down on my hands and knees and beg you for a tutorial on how you draw. Your lines, cross hatching, it looks so simple but so GREAT you make me want to chew on the walls.

well: i taught myself how to draw over a ridiculous 13 years of trial and error and "messing around".... any appearance of Knowledge or Foundations or Anatomy has basically been hardcoded into myself via the silliest and most literal kind of "style evolution" possible O__O i prob shouldn't go into detail on how i draw specific things/people bc i'd only embarrass myself! but i CAN get into the Technical side... >:D

as probably most ppl know or can guess, i draw everything traditionally with fineliners! more specifically i use a Four Pen System that i devised for maximum consistency/legibility...

0.1mm - shading, detail, tiny stuff!

0.3mm - most things, like characters and lettering!

0.7mm - BOLD lettering, speech bubble outlines, thicker lineart!

1.2mm - panel outlines, VERY BOLD lettering!

(optional: a brush pen for filling black bits in :P anything like that can be done in post though.)

i also use a non-photo blue pencil for all my sketching! VERY useful when scanning finished stuff >:)

as for the linework itself... my hands jitter a lot when i try drawing slow focused lines, so i usually just draw everything as quickly Yet precisely as possible :P it takes a weird kind of care to get right, but drawing on paper also helps - the friction keeps me steady lol! i find my hand just kinda darts and skips across, leaving a lot of messy dots behind, but i still like that look ^u^

hatching is definitely the most fun part... >:P my kinda style was inspired a lot by abby howard, and a bit of mizugiri (and above all, by never thinking to use proper screentones)! the usual straight-ahead hatching is obvs just muscle memory, and praying i don't mess up lol - but once you have that down, then just look around for more creative uses! i love doing curvy crosshatching around complex shapes, and coming up with wacky background shading... i've also tried out a depth-of-field effect, 'drawing' background objects by hatching and layering blurry shading on top >u> (also, i don't usually go for Full 90-degree crosshatching... just slowly raising the angle as i add more layers of shading feels a lot more subtle and natural!)

just never stop messing around!!! that's all i've ever done!! that's how you can keep stumbling upon cool new techniques that you can then suck up and add to your comicking arsenal ^u^