Pen That Cuts The Heavens

A place to dump all of my Samurai of Hyuga fanart. I literally have so much this IF has been my hyperfixation for the past 11 years god damn it. Main blog is @peace210ve

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Yo

My main blog is @peace210ve and I've been obsessed with SoH since like 2015(?!) and I swear to GOD I've been drawing art of this game nonstop since then. I'm so tired of just staring at my drawings soooo imma just dump them here. It's like my tumblr sketchbook or something.

Some stuff you should know before scrolling:

I've been reading and drawing SoH since I was 14yrs old. I'm currently a grad student. I may post horrible art from my youth so be prepared for that. It's a lot.

Samurai of Hyuga is an interactive fiction series authored by Devon Connell. It has 5 book entries so far. I’ll link the author’s Patreon down below in case you want to check him out and support him. I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT THE ARTWORK I POST!!

ART MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR BOOK 6!! I have early chapter release access on Patreon, so I can’t promise anything here will be spoiler-free. I’m ngl I’m not gonna tag any spoiler art, but I won’t expose the fact that it’s from the unreleased book. Any piece of art here could potentially be spoiler-y. Sorry bout that.

I ran a SoH tumblr blog back in the day. If any of you guys were a part of that initial SoH era, hey. How y’all doing? If you wanna check out more SoH art and content by people vastly more superior than I am, check out that blog. It’s inactive, but has a ton of goodies. @samuraiofhyuga

As you can imagine, 8+ years of SoH content builds up. I have a shit ton of strange, convoluted AUs. If you’re interested in any of them lemme know, even I confuse myself with them all lol.

That’s all I can think of for now. Thank you so much for stopping by! Go check out this awesome series if you haven’t already! (Oh, and if you join the Patreon Discord let them know I sent you pls:3 ❤️)

Link to Devon Connell’s Patreon

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Link to Samurai of Hyuga games (and author’s personal blog)

Samurai of Hyuga | Multiple Choice Studios

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Old Masa piece from 2021!!:D

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Just wanted to share some old 2021 art of my ronin but genderbent.

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Some old Masashi doodles

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Doodle and thoughts in the tags!!

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Some book 6 reaction doodles I drew

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Some Haku doodles because he was SO cute in the book 6 early release omggggg

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Some old Tosh doodles from the vault

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Wanna know a fun fact?

Do y’all recognize this chapter art piece from Book 4? Yeah, character on the far right, that’s MY ronin!! @bd-tunnelsnake is the most amazing person in the universe and was commissioned to create all the artwork(minus the cover art) for book 4, and because they were so amazing spectacular inspiring kindest most INCREDIBLE SoH friend in the universe, they drew in my sweet baby girl!!

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Say hi to Masa’s parents!!

Headcanons below the cut

Short king/tall goddess wife vibes. I like to imagine that dad is this short stout man, and mom’s family is tall and slender.

Because of Masa’s romantic nature I like to imagine that these two had a lovely marriage (at least, in the beginning). Like, they fell in love, were very sweet and sappy in their youth. Perhaps in their older age they started to become more distant, Dad started focusing more on the Hashimoto legacy (ie molding his children to take over parts of Hyuga’s politics, militia, and commerce. See my Hashimoto rant post for more details) and started viewing his wife more of a nuisance.

Mama is just as romantic as Masa, a lover of the arts and literature.

I’ve got a few more headcanons, maybe I’ll talk about it some more when I draw these two again.

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SoH Memes pt 17

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SoH memes pt 16

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Heeheeha, SoH Ghibli edits

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SoH Memes pt 15

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“Jun ran off, and my consciousness was about to as well. But before it did I heard the patter of tiny footsteps. Then I felt the softness of delicate hands. But the last sense was that of taste.

Water too salty to be rain.”

HO HO HO GUYS I think about the ending of B2 Ch1 FAR TOO MUCH for my liking. Imagine how traumatic this whole experience was for Masa, seeing their ronin getting gutted like a fish. Soooo much potential for angst. This would have been the perfect villain origin story for a Dark!Masa AU. Sooo much missed potential. God I wish I could write lol.

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SoH Rambles: Hashimoto

I think about SoH a lot, so take this tiny little micro analysis of Masa’s family, the Hashimoto’s!

I've always pictured Masa having a large immediate family, but idk if Devon confirmed that he only had one elder brother and sister (at least, guy Masa). Like, it's not completely totally clear to me lol. But for the sake of this headcanon, we’re just gonna roll with Masa being the youngest of three.

I like to imagine that Masa has a decently large extended family, but that all live dispersed across Hyuga. Because they keep mentioning the class and power of the Hashimoto family, I'm going to assume they're old money, got that generational wealth, know what I'm sayin? If Amaterasu is getting hitched (arranged marriage, I might add) to the fucking EMPEROR, then we know that their family branch is likely the most important and influential one, meaning Masa’s dad is the first-born and inheritor of the Hashimoto business and wealth, as well as the head of the family, if multiple branches of the family tree exist. Image is very important, as well as reputation. The eldest son, Tsukuyomi (which is actually rly funny bc in Japanese lore, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu were the sun and moon gods, as well as their bro Susanoo, who -say it w me, kids- was the STORM/SEA GOD, aka LIGHTNING/HUNDER aka MASA’s PREFERRED ELEMENT OF CHOICE??? HELLO??? There better be a call back to this otherwise I'm gonna flip.) Anyway, Tsukuyomi would have lots of pressure and responsibilities as the heir to the Hashimoto family and business, Amaterasu serves as an alliance marker by marrying into another powerful house, blah blah. That leaves Masa as an outlier, with no real purpose but to marry into a good family to make more house alliances, but with their position as a shugenja a military career seems most beneficial. Sort of confirmed in Book 6 Ch 1, “Masashi’s path as a shugenja is ideal- and that brings...legitimacy to the Hashimoto. His father, while technically a Samurai, is among the most shrewd and powerful businessmen in Hyuga...”

The implication here is that despite being a lord, Hashimoto-san has no real military power (otherwise he'd be a high-ranking member of the Shogunate instead of being a samurai). Being a samurai implies that he belongs to a noble home, tying in the generational wealth thing. If he were just a merchant who made his own fortune then he wouldn’t be a samurai, bc he needs to either be born into a noble home, marry into one, or be adopted into one. Sure he could have married into a noble home, middle-class-turned-elite/upper-class type of thing, but it doesn't truly hold much weight with everything else we've been fed about this family. The Hashimoto name seems to hold much more power and influence in Hyuga than I imagine would be appropriate if Hashimoto were “new money”.

Hashimoto-san is a businessman, likely also the academic/scholarly type, and isn’t a particularly powerful samurai house. But stick your wizard *prodigy* child into the military? BOOM military power. That’s maybe part of the reason why they invest so much money into the academy (besides just investing bc their child attends classes duh), to make up for their shortcomings. And with Masa in the military, Hashimoto now has a finger in each sector of the country.

Tsuku-Business (implied to own/monopolize a “sector of the market”)

Amaterasu- Politics/Govt (goddamn EMPRESS??)

Masa- Military (and to a certain extent even religion/spirituality, if we consider the fact that shugenja is essentially harnessing spirits and shit)

My point with all of this?

Nothing. Nada. Idk what I'm even trying to say. This all started as me wanting to make fun little head canons and it turned into me realizing that the Hashimoto family is slowly integrating themselves into every aspect of Hyuga. Wouldn’t it be fun if they ended up being antagonists? I’d love that. Anyway thanks for coming to my tedtalk, I’m illiterate sue me.