New intro post hi hello!! I mainly post my non-FFXIV art on here, in the off season right now but I did some work for Fixing RWBY recently!
Typical meet the artist stuff, I'm a bi ace artist from the USA and have been drawing since 2018-ish!! I use Clip Studio and then either Movie Studio Platinum 14.0 or Capcut for editing my animatics.
I also have a side blog (@justalilmiqo) where I post purely FFXIV related things! Lore for my characters, misc screenshots where I'm messing around with my raid buddies, you name it they're there 🦀 nice to meet you!
It has been forever since i've used Tumblr but I know a lot of my favorite artists and friends are here so I decided to reactivate for the new year!
Starting strong this is the new official hiroaki design! If you don't know this PancakeKING (Hiroakis voice actor) and I are roommates that live together! We worked super hard after the...incident to completely rework hiroaki into a better character than he was in the first place. This is known as PROJECT:Vitiate! PROJECT:Vitiate is going to be the new series with hiroaki and some other familiar faces written by yours truly and hiroakis VA PancakeKING! I hope you all will join us on this journey and love him as much as we do! 🔥
We did change his name along with some other characters for not only our comfort but to separate him even further from Von.
Happy new year everyone! This piece was originally drawn at the end of November and for the anniversary of tetro pink, in which [student one] released on December 1st, 2024. I never got to post this when I was supposed to because right as I finished all the horrible stuff started coming out and getting worse and worse, so I held back.
I did want to post this as a spent a lot of time and effort on it and I didn’t want it to just never be posted. But it’s kinda ironic just as I was finishing this piece up everything went to shit. And with how I drew this in a funeral style it feels like these characters are being put to rest. So yeah, think of it that way.
The new and improved YANAGI SHIGEKI and HAYASHI MAI who are now my ocs so I completely revamped their design from MY fangan MAKIRONPA by yours truly MAKI
HAYASHIGEKI ON TOP HAYASHIGEKIIII PN TOP HAYASHIGEKI ON TOP ON TOP ON TOPPP
Next in the lineup are HIROSE SHINGO and ISODA MION my OTHER NEWEST OCS oh my GOODNESS!!!
So lapis finally decided to show the art from the gacha card collab on og tetrocord a few months ago (see recently reblogged post) and here was my Ojima piece for it
So I guess I can share the one funny story that came out of this whole situation, the collab was originally a v*n appreciation collab (before people knew how bad she was) and I joined the collab PURELY OUT OF SPITE
Like yeah you probably know at that time I’ve already had a ton of bad experiences with v*n so me joining the collab was my convoluted way of getting revenge on her by showing that if I could participate in something directly aimed at her and make a piece that took me like 10 hours to draw I could piss her off by being involved in the collab from all the times she’s treated me like shit.
So like this collab was never posted until now but I always get this catharsis thinking about this incident with my very dedicated attempt to get back at v*n for being awful and having fun while doing it. And knowing that she uses AI makes this even more ironic.
So yeah enjoy my human made art made solely for pissing off v*n I hope you enjoy it :)
Hi um i dont usually make posts like this but i think it’s important. in light of all the recent tetro controversy i wanted to say you should absolutely support the voice actors!!! with tetro being cancelled a lot of their hard work is essentially going to waste and many of them cant do anything about it due to being under nda which unfortunately isnt fair at all. these voice actors have put so much effort into their performances and tetro truly would not be the same without them!! im gonna link a document made by @/pakutheta on twitter which links several different va’s kofis and social media platforms—PLEASE go support all od these people whether that be financially (which you absolutely are not obligated to do if you aren’t in a position to give money) or just by supporting other projects theyve voiced for! remember that tetro is not the end-all-be-all of fanganronpa projects and there are many more talented developers, writers, artists, and vas out there! Thank you 🥹🤞
*This document was made as a thank-you to the VAs - do not harass any member of Tetro staff or use this document to spread false information
Took a small Tetro break because I had the chance to work on some episodes of Fixing RWBY! I've been following RWBY since middle school so it was super fun to contribute to a fan project like this :D especially for such a tense episode today!
tetro chiikawa blue rough sketches + flats i did really really quick before the heat death of tetrocord. i WILL be making the "sketch pages" for them Eventually
its ok guys i walked back to the Rapture site and retrieved her. shes here now. can we all reblog this version instead so that she doesnt get left behind :(
I originally had a less general title, but I realised that, in itself, it was kind of a spoiler for anyone reading this who somehow hasn't watched / finished the series, so I'll put the real title, and the analysis post in question, under the cut
Tetro PINK's Survivor Lineup is "Unsatisfying"... and that's the point
After Chapter 3, I had a list of five survivor predictions fully locked in - Hayashi, Wada, Hiroaki, Hasegawa, Watari (with confidence that Ojima would kill Yanagi in Chapter 5). This prediction list covered most bases of one character from each significant dynamic surviving, and the gender balance was reasonable, though the amount of red characters was slightly skewed. Safe to say, that list did not pan out, confident as I was in it.
Wada and Hiroaki survived because no shit the two characters constantly receiving more focus than everyone else would make it out, Yanagi won the coin toss between himself and his partner character, but Ojima and Tamba somehow rounded out the list. Hiroaki's partner character, and a side character who absolutely no-one would've predicted as the only female survivor of five.
And then, a month after the series' conclusion, we find out that Wada died off-screen, and also that she was most likely a trans girl who never figured that out before she died. Leaving a surviving cast of four characters with pretty heavy narrative connections despite multiple entire trios being killed off.
I'm not going to say that this is a flawless surviving cast, I think that last point about the strong connections between the four survivors is a little weird, and I would've liked some Studentside exploration of Wada Masami (though I also see the vision for doing nothing with it and that being the point, both to normalise it and to heighten the tragedy of Wada never getting close to realising it), but I'd like to dedicate this post to analysing and defending the writing decision of this surviving cast on the whole, I believe it's far more narratively resonant than it gets credit for.
"Tetro" is Latin for "bleak", so I've heard. Google Translate says slightly differently, but I'm going to distrust it, because "bleak" is the perfect descriptor for what Tetro as a whole is getting at, with the effect it has on its cast, surviving or otherwise. "Hope" and "despair" are applicable, especially the latter in the cases of the Blackeneds, but not pushed to the forefront, because there's really not a lot of nuance in them, especially after the first two DR games. Tetro depicts much more complicated emotional struggles following the repeated brutal deaths of the students, where a lot of the cast will desperately try to keep the memory of the dead with them and carry on with their lives, but ultimately fail and regress due to being impulsive teenagers with no true pillar of support. They hope to improve, and they despair over their losses, but neither force overwhelms or negates the other, and a running theme throughout the series is push-and-pull dynamics, especially with recovery.
Wada and Hiroaki are the central characters for this reason. In terms of their habits, Wada prominently has an eating disorder, and Hiroaki prominently has a drug addiction, both of which are established very quickly in the series, and both characters repeatedly make attempts to work on these problems, with support and guidance from their partner characters and whoever else eventually understands the problem, only for both of them to repeatedly fall back and worsen their issues once their emotions run too high. In terms of their grief, both of them lose someone very significant in the first chapter, which brings about opposing yet near-equally strong feelings, and Hiroaki continues to lose Chiba and Tsuno right as he's starting to get close with them, while Wada loses Tsuno, Watari, and Hama in quick succession as soon as they get comfortable with having them as loved ones in lieu of actual family. Wada sets the trend of imagining they can talk to their ghosts and venting about their problems that way, which eventually devolves into complete self-neglect, and which Hiroaki (among others) takes for himself, despite his discomfort. He has an easier time because he still has people constantly looking out for him, Ojima attached at the hip and Yanagi quick to swoop in if even Ojima can't get through to him. Wada has all the same people in their corner, but they're in a much more fragile state due to their weaker bodily conditions and heavier reliance on those they lost.
Wada dies after the game, but not because they didn't try. They tried to recover from the hole Isono left in their heart, they tried to let new people get close to them, they tried to heal from their eating disorder, but it just wasn't enough. Okazaki's and Hasegawa's cruelty directly targeted Wada despite them being such a non-threat, and though they were able to bring down Hasegawa in the end, it was days too late to begin on their own recovery. The rest of the survivors were too busy with their own breakdowns to save Wada from theirs, the most dangerous of all. That's not to say they didn't try either, all of them considered Wada their friend, but there's nothing they could do for someone so thoroughly beaten and battered.
In pretty much every sense, Wada was the main character of PINK. They had the most solo scenes by far, the most sprites by far, and the final closing argument. To kill them off-screen a month after the series' end reads as narratively unsatisfying on a surface level, because they were a character who spent so long on the recovery road, with so many other characters, dead and alive, helping them along, only for them to crash and burn seemingly at random. But it was the realistic thing to happen, Monomoko's unrealism only goes so far as facilitating the game, the outcomes are all natural, and Wada was doomed by Okazaki's and Hasegawa's decision to take away their lifelines. Nothing less.
The killing game breaks people. Pushes them to inhuman limits, forces them into positions and mental states they'd never consider themselves capable of, let alone willing, all for the sake of a few scientists' curiosity. Wada dying was the only reasonable outcome of placing them in the killing game, that blood was predestined to be on the scientists' hands, regardless of any meta context saving them. The news of Wada's death tragically dropped on the other survivors out of nowhere, just like it did for us.
As for those other survivors? Hiroaki and Ojima both surviving is strange on a surface-level, especially with Yanagi and Tamba surviving alongside them, two other characters heavily connected with the dynamic, but there's a factor to all four of those which I'd like for anyone reading this far to consider - how the survivors themselves feel about the lineup.
Ojima and Hiroaki didn't much care about surviving. Ojima saw it as a 50/50 shot by the time Chapter 4 rolled around, regretful that he was robbed of a real childhood and expecting to never recover, and Hiroaki spent the entire series in a cycle of crash-outs and reality checks which left him thoroughly unsatisfied with his entire way of life. They were the only significant pairing to make absolutely zero plans for what they'd do once they got out together, because they weren't nearly as willed towards the outcome.
Yanagi similarly had his entire life philosophy beaten out of him by the game. He strove to be ever-pleasant and capable of protection, but was exposed for his emotional fragility, found someone he could be truly comfortable with, then survived in her place when he would've switched their positions in a heartbeat. Considering Hayashi's more successful protection attempts, maybe that switch would be a moral decision. I doubt he considers himself worthy.
And Tamba completely bought into Hasegawa's philosophy. She was the best example of it, wasn't she? There was no good reason for her survival, she failed to get into the vent or make any coherent arguments in a trial, she sparked constant arguments with random classmates that nearly got her killed in Hiroaki's case, and she hid behind her dorm room door or Hayashi whenever she got into trouble. She was a selfish coward who had little to no narrative justification for surviving, let alone over every other girl, and she absolutely hates herself for it in the end. She and Wada agree that they'd be better off dying in Kamimura's place.
Ojima and Yanagi returned to loving families they can never properly communicate with again. Hiroaki and Tamba returned to incredibly volatile lives, even less equipped to handle them than before. And Wada returned to absolutely nothing. That's the tragedy in PINK's survivor lineup, that they were a haphazard group with no great hope for the future.
