➥ ⠀ hello !! im ebi and i like to draw. sometimes i go by ezzokko or zko on games or other sites, but just ebi is fine 🤍🤍 i use ibispaint and medibang on my phone for art ^^
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➥ ⠀ if ur looking at my custom site theme ... i really like mitski, weezer, mcr, green day, billy cobb, postmodern jukebox, and some classical music, so you might see them a lot when i rotate different songs out of the playlist
➥ ⠀ if im posting stuff but dont respond to u its probably queue or im shy sorry 🧍♂️🧍♂️ also i rb a lot so if you just want to look at my art please go to ebichanrkgk my art blog
➥ ⠀ my main fandoms are honkai star rail, genshin impact, neon genesis evangelion, bloodborne, & monster hunter with a few others, so please feel free to look through those tags on my blog as well. and 'birds' and 'flowers' because i rb those a lot 𐔌՞. .՞𐦯
➥ ⠀ my yumeships are sunday and boothill 🩷🩷 their tags are 'calendar' and 'junehill' respectively. if ur nonsharing pls feel free to block those tags or block 'june hsr' if you still want to look at the rest of my art, no hard feelings and i respect nonsharers a lot !! thank u for reading
im sleepy rn so my brain is short circuiting but my sister is the one who suggested the joke of boothill 'having a type' and then they reacted just like their elation path oc (kiyomori) right after at their own idea LMAO
ilyt and i love drawing raven /p !! i want to draw even more of everyones ocs ... ( T∀T)
HELP PLEASE DONT EXPLODE ??? i was afraid itd be too random hahdhxhw i keep jumpscaring people by drawing their ocs out of nowhere my bad 😭😭 but im glad u like it 🩷🩷 !!
just realized i barely talk about june in depth even though i draw her a lot (´ノω;`) i wonder if most people even realize shes my sona ?
anyways, heres another unfinished doodle because i saw a picture i liked. not sure where else to mention this but shes a halovian because i used to sing soprano in church choir every sunday mass
Thank u Ebi for this idea !! I actually thought it’d be fun to talk about, most importantly because, well…Raven wasn’t originally based off of any bird at all, not until u so kindly gave me the idea of a sociable lapwing, which I will hopefully briefly get into as well !!
Raven’s halovian design came from when I first started posting, saw so many pretty halovian oc’s and thought it’d be cool to turn Raven from just the farmer girl she used to be way back before I started posting, into a halovian with a farmer backstory as a way to integrate her more into honkai lore for fun. Her influence originally came from other’s oc’s inspiring me, alongside the idea of ‘freedom’, so while I will touch upon her bird relations, I am going to end up talking a lot about freedom and more deeper (?) lore stuff here than silly bird things..as u actually gave me a window to talk abt some stuff I keep forgetting about, SORRY EBI Σ(゚口゚;)//
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A little addition to how I ended up formulating Raven's story is through the idea of how so many rural lands are now being taken over by that of building new factories, housing, buildings galore and slowly getting rid of the greenery and the thriving animals. It's something I witnessed firsthand with a pretty patch of grassland where a bunch of cows thrived and I often got a chance to see bunnies running around too that I lived right outside of, just to find out it was sold to build more houses in an already very building-cluttered area. While I mainly was inspired by the Terminator at first for her planet's destruction, I ended up being able to link more personal but also real life occurrences into her story, which leads to this idea of freedom that she both lost and gained at the same time.
One thing I think about often with birds is their ability to fly, how they have the ability to soar the skies to many different lands, having the ability to essentially explore whenever they'd like to go. Back in Raven's childhood when she still had her back wings, her fleeting love for running around fields and getting lost in tall grass lands I feel mimics that freedom, to go wherever she could possibly manage. A bird without wings loses a majority of its freedom, loses its ability to migrate and seek different places, to thrive properly. Raven did lose her back wings, she lost her own freedom, and through the loss of her planets charm lost the ability to run around to her hearts content across vast fields with no end. It created a limitation that couldn't be resolved.
In addition, she also gained freedom through her loss, she still had the wings upon her head, still has some part of her body that connoted that autonomy she had as a kid, now having the ability to soar the cosmos from planet to planet. The only difference now is that it's not true freedom, it's controlled by desire of seeking out answers to the reasons behind what had happened to her planet, what made her lose her original freedom. Also, one of her wings got injured, and she keeps a bandage over it as a way to protect a now weak spot, a weakness in her autonomy that's now partially in the hands of the control, a stain on the free will she still has left—despite her still having wings, they aren't that of freedom to the same extent as her childhood.
Onto the Sociable Lapwing, I haven't done much research on them at all LOL, but I can cater in Raven to the idea of the large migration lifestyle that these birds thrive with, it creates a link between how often Raven migrates from place to place on her journey rather than having a specific place to stay and call home. Their lifestyles link to that of a wilder much vaster freedom through their immense journey's on travelling to different countries, which links back to Raven's own travels of planets.
In addition, the idea of Lapwing's being critically endangered blends in with Raven as a person with all the things she has been through. Losing parts of herself in the process of simply trying to survive, there's only one of her and that one of her had slowly broken down into pieces overtime to leave an endangered shell of her former self in a way. Plus their endangerment heavily links to loss of their habitat, just like Raven has lost her 'habitat', aka her home.
A more cute link between Raven and Sociable Lapwing's is how I've realised they tend to migrate in large flocks and love company. Raven almost contrasts but also links to that at the same time; she's much more introverted in comparison, but adores company to the fullest. Quality time is a very dear thing she holds close, so she loves to have someone by her side, her only set back is her fear of loss and how she fears getting attached to someone again after what she had lost, but she also manages to steadily overcome it through relations such as that with Boothill and the other rangers, forming her own 'flock', despite the rangers typically working solo.
I am by no means a bird expert, and while I would've loved to delve into some more silly things I don't actually think i have much silly stuff that link to her and birds..sociable lapwings specifically, unless I actually researched them a little more. So I hope u just enjoy a fat lore yap LOL I got myself out of my slump just to write this (ᵕ ´ᗜ`)