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Shovel Knight: Showdown portrait of @failmeep's Yukawarei, plus alternate palettes

bonus alt that got replaced by the sanae one

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Annikrest sprite in the style of Shovel Knight: Showdown's character portraits, plus some alternate palettes

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Yuyo dialogue portrait

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Yuyo — The Confectioner

The daughter of Madam Meeber, Yuyo inherited her mother's boundless optimism and whimsy. She can magically summon food (especially sweets) that brings happiness to whoever eats it. Though, in actuality, it brings whatever emotion Yuyo was feeling at the time. With concentration, she can even use this ability to share her thoughts. Whenever she leaves the Fairy Glade, Yuyo strives to bring joy to others via the food she summons.

Yuyo was once rather naive, especially to negative emotions due to the nature of her ability. After failing to cheer up a close friend who was going through a hard time, and mistakenly believing this meant her friend no longer liked her, Yuyo resolved to become more emotionally perceptive. Her outwards personality didn't change much, though.

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wizma redesign

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happy valentine's day! for the past two years i happened to draw bullet knight holding wizma, but they both pick each other up plenty so i figured it was wizma's turn

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Hanari with @failmeep's Usagi. They're "good friends".

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Hanari — The Gardener

Hanari served as an ideal liquid samurai during the Enchantress' reign. She never cared to imagine more than her kind's life of forced loyalty, and with her dao and jian she efficiently carried out the will impressed upon her. After her queen's defeat, she escaped from the collapsing Tower of Fate alongside her fellow liquid samurai Usagi (@failmeep's OC), losing her left arm in the process.

Now without direction, Hanari stayed with Usagi and started a garden in tandem with Usagi's apothecary. By using some of her own liquid she can boost the health and motility of her plants, and gains a telepathic link to them. She gave up her swords (passing on her dao to Usagi) and unnecesary violence altogether, but now deals with newfound feelings of defenselessness in a world she believes will hold a grudge against her kind.

Hanari mostly keeps to herself, content to live a humble life tending to the garden. She is cautious of others and surprisingly stubborn, making her conflict de-escalation skills bad. She desires peace with solids and has no desire to hurt anyone, though she feels no guilt nor a need to apologise for the things she did under the Enchantress.

my headcanon is that the enchantress is sorta like a brood parasite for liquid samurai, hijacking their mental link to make them obey her rather than being their creator. hanari is loosely based on youmu konpaku, though they don't have much in common

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sketch of an updated design for bullet knight

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new dialogue icons for annikrest

there's a trend in the shovel knight OC discords of giving unique borders to main villains

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about time i actually drew reimari, two years after making shovel knight OCs based on them stages + desktop wallpaper under the cut

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Reimari art I did! The most basic Touhou ship ever yet it's also the best one <3 /silly /j

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fuck it, reimari bowl

i'm not so good at painting things but ceramics cafe is still fun

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new miko samurai key arts and TT-style sprites

i really should get in the habit of putting stuff on backgrounds even if it's just solid colour cause this probably doesn't show up too good

also her real name is izu nobu but shovel knight characters don't tend to have those so i figured it wasn't important to mention before

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Sahara — The Mirage Walker

The valley's desert is an extreme and unforgiving place, but to a sand construct like Sahara, there is no climate more comfortable. Created years ago by a mysterious woman and abandoned in her enchanted study when she disappeared shortly afterwards, Sahara spends most of her time alone, reading the books her creator left behind or making sand sculptures.

It's not uncommon for things to drop dead in the desert, resulting in Sahara being insensitive to death in general and keeping a collection of the bones she finds. Unbeknownst to her, this has spawned a rumour of "The Mirage Walker", an omen of death who appears in the distance to those doomed to die in the desert.

In spite of this, Sahara herself isn't a killer and is actually quite trustworthy, albeit blunt and sorely lacking in social experience; she tends to take people at face value, and speaks literally. So far she has just existed, living without ambition or worldliness, but perhaps that could change if one were to show her how much she's missing out on.

Sahara uses psammokinesis to traverse the desert breezily, and defend herself on the rare occasion it's necessary. While she habitually creates the same body for herself out of sand, the "real" Sahara is an amulet core buried within.

aaaaand that's me finally caught up, at least to the OCs i've figured out enough to make one of these posts for. fun fact, i first sketched some concepts for sahara on one of the hottest days of the year back in early july, fittingly enough

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Annikrest / "Sanguine Knight" — The Dead Mistress

Mare Knight isn't the only nightstalking monster to watch out for, but some have much more volition to be cruel with. An urban legend in the valley warns of a shapeshifting vampire with a faux cordial demeanour, behind which lies a remorseless maniac consuming far in excess of the blood she needs to survive.

Annikrest has lived for centuries, and assumed many identities to keep herself entertained. Some took on a whole new form for decades at a time, while others donned only a paper-thin disguise in order to stoke paranoia. In the recent past, she created the helmet and title of "Sanguine Knight", poking fun at the "new fad" of knights in the valley. However, she was soundly defeated by Miko Samurai, seemingly bringing her immortal life to an end.

Following her mysterious re-emergence, Annikrest has become Bullet Knight's most dangerous and sadistic foe, able to summon and manipulate centuries' worth of blood to push her to her absolute limits. She refuses to believe Miko Samurai is dead, and longs to face her again so that she can get revenge... and definitely nothing else. To this end, she means to draw the samurai out by using her daughter; if anyone else should get in her way, it's their funeral.