He/Him pronouns, they/them is fine but not totally preferred
Iâm aromantic, bi, and trans
Despite me being aro I am pretty big on ships and writing about relationships. Iâm more keen on loyalty, devotion, attraction mixed with guilt and frustration, etc. because feelings are weird!
Things I like right now: gachiakuta, witch hat atelier, yakuza and judgment (fuck the studio though), bayonetta, ace attorney, more that I canât think of rn
This is mainly an art and oc account for when I want to talk abt my ocs and canât on instagram.
I do have adhd so the brainworms run on a divorced-parent custody situation, kinda rotates every couple weeks
I will make all of my favorite characters queer and transgender, you cannot stop me on that
I love writing and I have tons of unfinished stories that I think of often. I love mythology, folklore, and culture so I incorporate that into my original writing as well.
You can talk to me if you want, canât guarantee Iâll answer but Iâll try!
Sometimes I worry that Iâm âfakingâ being trans, then I have dreams about getting top surgery, bottom surgery, going on T, and having a beard and being disappointed when I wake up. Also unpleasant dreams about wearing dresses, being perceived as female by a crowd, and having long hair. Oh that and I get like a physical reaction to being she herâd which is pretty transgender of me tbh.
I need testosterone in my veins dude, asap đđ
Visual snow syndrome is not talked about at all in media or in general so I had no idea most people donât see static all the time or starbursts at night. I was even more surprised when I was researching vision requirements for police officers for a story Iâm writing that seeing starbursts is like an actual detriment.
I also hate when itâs too bright, but not to the point where itâs physically painful. Sometimes, with brick wall patterns specifically, it makes it seem like the lines where the mortar binds the bricks together are moving and it makes me uncomfortable. My vision is quite good but itâs the principle that no one else sees all this static. These colorful shapes forming around moving objects and on stark, flat colored surfaces from the static. Itâs just a persistent reminder that I am not normal, but not so much of an outcast that I can realistically complain about it. Even as I write this, I see static on my phone in the black negative space on my screen.
Thatâs why I give it to some of my characters. Kurosawa, for instance, has it along with a light sensitivity, which is why he wears his shades all the time. I think his static would be colorful as well, and his vision is slightly impaired. He can barely see shit in the dark, but Sweeney uses her magic to light the way for him.
Iâm desperate to see this kind of stuff explored more. It wouldâve helped so many people explain what they were feeling so much earlier.
Oh also the tinnitus is a funny thing bc I donât remember if that came with the visual snow or if itâs because I liked to raise the volume while wearing headphones as a kid. Probably some combo of both idk
Visual snow syndrome is not talked about at all in media or in general so I had no idea most people donât see static all the time or starbursts at night. I was even more surprised when I was researching vision requirements for police officers for a story Iâm writing that seeing starbursts is like an actual detriment.
I also hate when itâs too bright, but not to the point where itâs physically painful. Sometimes, with brick wall patterns specifically, it makes it seem like the lines where the mortar binds the bricks together are moving and it makes me uncomfortable. My vision is quite good but itâs the principle that no one else sees all this static. These colorful shapes forming around moving objects and on stark, flat colored surfaces from the static. Itâs just a persistent reminder that I am not normal, but not so much of an outcast that I can realistically complain about it. Even as I write this, I see static on my phone in the black negative space on my screen.
Thatâs why I give it to some of my characters. Kurosawa, for instance, has it along with a light sensitivity, which is why he wears his shades all the time. I think his static would be colorful as well, and his vision is slightly impaired. He can barely see shit in the dark, but Sweeney uses her magic to light the way for him.
Iâm desperate to see this kind of stuff explored more. It wouldâve helped so many people explain what they were feeling so much earlier.
No new non-OC art so fuck it more fem yakuza headcanons: (spoilers theyâre all queer ladies)
Kiryu- awesome butch. Her hair is largely the same style, she dresses the same, and sheâs just as toned. She prefers going to hostess clubs but may stop by a host club now and again. I think if she was gay or some flavor of sapphic, the sub story with her and Rina would be so much more interesting. Like I know Rina likes fems canonically, but that queer woman solidarity would totally give way to more interesting conversations and dynamics. Like that one part where Rina was bad-mouthing her date for swearing and being butch would hit different if she was talking to another butch lesbian bc (as a non-lesbian) butch-phobia is real and fucking sucks!!
Saejima- the buzz cut stays. Still low-key passes as a guy, and when she goes out, women flock to her and pretend sheâs their boyfriend to lose a creepy guy. She knows the drill and is happy to help. The few times she dresses fem she gets weird comments like âyou look so much better like thisâ âwhy donât you dress up moreâ âmen would like you so much betterâ and she decides to toss the outfit as soon as she gets home.
Akiyama- I feel like sheâd be a hostess at her own club when one of her girls is unavailable and they need to meet a quota. More on the androgynous side, sheâd wear just about anything if it got her the info she wanted.
Date- single mom who works two jobs /ref. A haggard lady trying desperately to understand what the youths like to connect to her son. Bugs Kiryu for ideas because sheâs got Haruka (who would be a boy in this au) but Kiryu has to remind her that Harukaâs like 9, while her son is a high schooler. All kids are the same to her, so she picks up those mini race cars as gifts and is surprised when her son looks at them like he doesnât know what to do with them. I feel like sheâd be slightly too proud to reach out to other parents for advice until that scene in kiwami 1 where they reconcile.
Okay so yâall really liked my fem Majima headcanon that her fit would be the exact same so I decided to draw my vision. (ft. a heavily referenced bat bc theyâre somehow really weird to draw for me)
Any version of Majima has some gender fuckery imo. She definitely stole the toupee from some poor host she ran into. I donât think I captured the campiness of a drag king Goromi, but itâs a start.
The neon pink dress stays in every universe, but I always thought she would look good in a big stupid feathery boa
Iâve been working on drawing sprites and messing around w rpg maker for this story and. I donât think Iâve spent this much time on my computer for actual school. Fiachraâs a necromancer and they use lanterns to cast their magic and commune with the dead, the brighter and broader the light source, the better.
Oh yeah, heâs an amputee too. His prosthetic runs on these fragile magic stones and they are usually recharged beneath the moon. He takes it off in the evening, assuming heâs not too tired to remember. I donât draw him nearly enough and should probably change that.
I fully believe that if you gender swapped Majima, nothing would change about his clothing. No bra, no sarashi, nothing. Like, sheâd accidentally flash you during a fight, jumping all around, and she would refuse to do anything about it.
Yeah I didnât have the time to watch phm until my birthday lol. Good movie though!
Have some OC lore too bc I like talking about them.
Oc lore dump below, mention of animal death (very briefly, non-violent)
And Fiachra rounds out the main 3 of the cast w Sweeney and Kurosawa. I should really draw him more. Oh yeah and their story is called Re-Dead Detective.
I think more people should draw Yagami w his wrinkles. Also pls ignore my terrible handwriting, I thought using text would look too weird.
Snaggleteeth/Yaebas in Japan are often seen as cute, so I like to hc more macho male Japanese characters as having them bc I like that kind of juxtaposition between ultra masculinity with a feminine charm.
Shipping as character analysis and character exploration is something I wanna see more of in fandom. Like itâs totally cool if you just wanna see your blorbos kiss, but this is a good exercise to engage in, especially if youâre interested in writing.
Also Iâve noticed a lotta loveless/romance-averse aros feeling alienated in fandom spaces and Iâm of the firm belief that a space without aromantic and ace voices is like being in an all-white room with no furniture or sunlight actually.
My first toxic yuri-esque thing omg. I donât think theyâre canon, I have another girl in mind for Sweeney, but weâll see el oh el
Blood warning for the version below + lore
God this took way too long lmao.
Linh Chung, Sweeneyâs classmate from high school, and a very dead young lady, passing away shortly after the two were reunited. She wasnât holding up well, Rosalind gave her her number, but when she needed her mostâŚyou can guess how that played out. Not for lack of trying, mind, but neither of them took it too well.
Back in school, Linh was discouraged from calling them friends with Rosalind being a social outcast, but Rossy secretly clung to her affection till her knuckles turned white. Now, investigating her death, she tries to pretend they were always complete strangers to avoid getting emotions involved with the case, even denying knowing her before they met the week before her murder.
Rossy occasionally sees traces of Linh throughout the story, as she was the first of the mass murders of non-magical and sympathetic magical civilians (I.e. magical people who think that there is a systemic inequality that needs a drastic change.) how long until these specters of a girl Sweeney failed to save become too real for comfort?
Linh Chung at her time of death was 25, same as Rossy was (sheâs 29 now)
She/Her
Human, Cryomancer (ice magic!)
Vietnamese-American, Californian accent
5â4
Cis woman, pansexual
Her dadâs a cop and knows how to clean a crime scene. Just something to remember for no reason in particular. Wonder where he went.
Iâd love to replay the judgment games again but at the same time I hate the stealth mini game in 2 more than most things in life. Which is a surprising feat, considering how spiteful of a person I can be.
I think the ship between these two is really funny, and I absolutely love Higashi so it works out
Messing around w Clip Studio Paint. First time using a drawing tablet.
Shigure Kurosawa, Sweeneyâs partner and one of her closest friends. My arospec allo guy who I care for deeply. Heâs laidback and good with people, leading him to get along with almost anyone he meets. While he doesnât possess any magical abilities of his own, he makes up for it with his tenacity and quick thinking. Sweeney loves the guy, but she canât help but kinda hate him for how easily he navigates social cues, something that she struggles with.
Whatâs a friendship without a little bit of resentment?
Aroallo guy talks about aromantic headcanons and how he engages with romance in fiction (becomes writing advice and emotional about queer rep towards the end)
This is kinda aimless tbh but Iâm just shouting into the void. Happy pride month đłď¸âđđłď¸ââ§ď¸ This is gonna talk about sexuality, amatonormativity, dysphoria, and all that stuff, so if youâre not comfortable w that, feel free to scroll past, itâs no trouble at all.
I love aroallo headcanons but I can always tell when the user is not aroallo bc the very rare hc that lists a character that is aro and not ace will usually be the pervy or fuckboy character. And there are people like that irl, but when you dumb down an identity to just a vague idea of what you think an entire community of people is like, they can tell and it really reveals the way you think about their community, even if you think itâs not that deep.
And when a character is conventionally attractive and aro, ace, or both, all of a sudden allo fans are likeâŚscholars on the ace/arospectrum, saying aros can date and aces can have sex. Iâm not saying this isnât true, it totally is, but they mean it in a strictly amatonormative perspective where an aromantic person in a romantic relationship experiences the same exact things an alloromantic person would, when this is justâŚnot true.
But when an aromantic person is in a relationship or a sex-positive ace exists in real life, suddenly theyâre faking or confused. It gets to the point where it feels like people see the ace and aro spectrum being represented in media is somehow counterintuitive to fandom culture.
I like romance and shipping, but usually not when itâs the main focus of the story. I like build-up and tension and picking up on subtle cues of attraction, because talking to other people about symbolism, cultural iconography/symbols in non-western media, and implied feelings is very fun imo. Frankly, I donât trust most of my preferred media to do my ships justice if they ever became canon. That kind of dynamic is a majority of the characters I myself have.
I think a big problem most romance shows have is that they make character dynamics, not characters, and there is 100% a difference. Iâm not saying itâs bad to have cliches in your story, so long as these cliches arenât your entire story. Switch it up! Add some spice! Itâs fun to write complexity and itâs fun to experience it as an audience member as well. Like Iâd love to see masculine women maintain their masculinity in m/f relationships because masculinity is always seen as a phase in women and something to be judged for, or itâs always indicative of her being sapphic of some kind, which places humans into arbitrary boxes based on expression.
Iâd love to see trans men portrayed as sexy in the way cis men are, because youâll usually get âcute,â âsoft,â or something and rarely âhotâ or âsexyâ the way people view cis men. I want to see trans people viewed as attractive for themselves and not this weird fetishizing language I see in fics with trans characters. I want trans people to have complicated relationships with sexual dynamics, bc a lot of authors, as a trans guy, have this odd expectation for trans people to be totally cool with using the lower parts they were born with. I wanna shout out the touch me nots, the trans people who thought they were/are asexual due to dysphoria, trans characters with actual bodily changes from going on hrt (when I see a transmasc character with bottom growth or bottom surgery an angel gains its wings). I want to see trans women in media in general, as actual human beings and not fucking caricatures or background characters for brownie points. I want trans men, trans women, and non-binary characters as actual characters that push the story along, where weâre not defined by trauma. Where weâre allowed to be a little boring and not constantly abused by the narrative, especially with transfem and trans women characters.
The world needs happy and hopeful queer people and stories.
