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Imma try come back here starting with my meet the artist :DDDD
Hifumi Togo 🌸🌸
Persona 5 =D I only have 3 P5 art, and I think that’s a crime….,, another thing to add to my to do list 🫠🫠 Anyways, here’s the first one, Hifumi Togo 💜💜💜 I chose her on the first gameplay (and I’ll probs do it again when I play royal, honestly 😳😳 I love this girl 😭😭) She’s such a dork playing shogi, she really made me laugh! I guess I have a soft spot for the “eccentric” people from Kosei. Plus her entire arc was pretty interesting. It seems she was supposed to be a Phantom Thief in the first concepts 🥹🥹 I would really like to see that 😩
🎶Beneath the Mask (rain version)
Gathering my thoughts after Genshin's Fontaine Archon Quests
HEY THERE ARE SPOILERS HEREEEE
Partly why I disappeared from Tumblr and Twitter, running away from spoilers 💀💀💀 ig this post is mostly for me, to organize my thoughts I havE MANY OF THEM
But one nice thing I did was finish only one quest (not chapter or questline) per day before going to bed, all lights out. It was so comfy, I'm sure this'll be part of why playing them is being so memorable for me 😭😭😭 and the prison songs are such bangers, they made everything even better!!!!
But anyways, most important things first, arlECCHINO. SHE IS SO CORDIAL??? I mean not cordiaaal friendly, but like, super polite?? And calm and collected and all?? I honestly thought she was gonna be a bit insane, or at least that there would be something giving away some type of ulterior motive but..,, I got nothing?? She seems genuinely interested in saving Fontaine and cares for the kids, even if it's probs for self-interests first and foremost, maybe. She totally is very manipulative tho. Other thing I find funny about her is how she destroys anyone with her unforgiving words, while being calm and pretending she's kinda not doing it on purpose. Love that, you go queen 🥳🥳🥳🥳
The thing is, when I saw the guy in the first quest turning into water after saying something he shouldn't, I was "ARLCECCHINO WILL BE LIKE THAT FOR SURE", manipulating everyone, and if any slip-ups happen, she can just unalive them. That Lyney and Lynette could not give anything away or she would just poof them. But I don't know anymore, if it IS like that, she fooled me completely. But I mean, she could do whatever she wanted with me, I wouldn't mind 🥴🥴🥴🥴
So, I still think there could be something more at play. Maybe the gnosis is another key? But surely the nation ENDING seems like a more pressing matter, oh yes. Even then, everyone is sus. And I mean everyone.
By the way, Neuvillete, you think what "sentence" is too severe, huh 🤨🤨🤨??? who, whom what, why??? The first thing that popped into my mind was Celestia. If not the archon, they're the ones who can do things like that. BUT it doesn't seems like Fontaine is progressing so much for them to care? Especially with the alienated citizens and a kinda not thaaaAAT useful archon y'k..,, Though their tech do look like the most advanced from all the nations, even if that alone, at least for me, doesn't scream "reason to kill you all!! heavenly principles on you!!!" HoweVER turning everyone into water and ruining the nation do remember a bit Khaenrians(?) turning into monsters and losing their nation. Food for thought!!! Wish Neuve said a bit more. However it truly wouldn't be wise to go out there screaming "hey, the gods-gods wanna wipe us all out, no pressure tho 😉", so yeah.
AND Furina. What's with that poor child 😭😭😭? From the first moment she came in the screen I was like "man this girl has no idea what she's doing, does she...". In the court, her commentaries were just 💀💀💀 One that comes into mind is she thinking that finding a clue on Lyney's bag was concrete proof of his crime. My dear, that's the easiest thing to manipulate in the whole world, planting fake evidence. Don't go there thinking you revolutionized the universe !!!!!! And almost all her remarks where kinda like that. That you would deadpan and go "seriously, you really believe that's super clever?". Now that I know (do I??? I think I do at least??) it was on purpose I'm letting her slip. But the thing about her having a curse is pretty interesting. I think her eyes are pretty sus (even if a lot of charas have weird eyes and no explanation, like hu tao, arlecchino and keqing). Does she have a weird side, hm 🤔 but again, they showed no sign of this until now, so ???
About the ending... I still don't know if I think that's a dream or not. Is defs what traveler saw while dreaming but, remember in the beginning,,,,, Childe awakening "it"..,,, hearing voices..,, hydro powers..,,, his dream in the abyss seeing a whale while falling into the sea....,, Guess he's really Mr. Worldwide huh. Maybe he's more linked to Fontaine (or at least some fontaine being?) than we thought? I think the whale ended up saving him. But hey, breathing underwater??? Getting kinda busted, my man.
Hope the quests keep escalating until something mind-blowing happens. I can feel it 😤😤😤
Zhongli 🔶🔶
5/11/21 - Genshin challenge 10|16 Zhongli =D I changed this art’s face completely 🫣🫣 (the previous version is there at the end!) It’s one of the drawings that aged the worst in that 2021 batch 🥴🥴 But I like it better now after some fixes! He was my first limited 5 star 🥳🥳 And the WAY his trailer SLAPS seriously it’s my favorite one of them all to this day, when I was more active in Genshin I watched it ALL THE TIME. The song (for sure in my top 3 of chara songs), storytelling with Iron Tongue Tian (“we last left off with ancient Liyue, beset by an ocean demon, and a mountain drAGON”, rent free in my mind), the I WILL HAVE ORDER with the beat drop and everything being petrified 🫶🫶🫶🫶 It reminds me of the hard times of the pandemics and how Genshin pulled me through it 🥺🥺
Herb Cookie 🌱🌱 HOO HOO
Honestly, I still don’t like Herb’s face here 😭😭😭 I tried to fix it (it was worse…,) but to no avail 🫣🫣 Anyways ! He’s still a precious beam nonetheless . I think this was my first time trying to draw a “”real””” background! As you can tell by the Gaussian blur, it didn’t went exactly super well, but still!!! Now he’s cute and happy playing with his plants, as he should, so everything’s fine 😌🙏
As above, so below
Hu Tao 👻👻
26/11/21 - Genshin challenge 16|16 (I messed the order up, there are still 2 drawings from that challenge to post 🥴🥴 the other ones that are missing were lost when my old tablet died 🥲🥲) Huuu!! I didn’t change anything on this drawing, but I regret it 🥴 I should’ve improved the contrast on her hair and the clothes, as she’s blending with the background. I could’ve played a bit with the lineart and border colors before posting, but 🫣🫣, I’ll just try to do better on my next Hu Tao drawing 🫶🫶 Whenever that will be…. I think the way she released was the weirdest among all the characters. She didn’t appear on the live stream, wasn’t mentioned at all anywhere (only leaks 😳😳). And then, some time after the release of the new update (it was Lantern Rite!) she just poofed into existence, as a third banner (one of them was KEQING!!! Nobody expected that). And! Third as 3 short back to back banners, and not like the double banners we have sometimes. Everyone just kinda agreed it was probably because talking about death is taboo in Chinese New Year. But we didn’t get any official explanation about that, and I still think that’s kinda crazy to this day.
Phoenix Queen from Club Penguin 🎍
Unexpected Club Penguin reference 😳😳 This game was my entire childhood, I loved it with my entire being 🫶🫶🫶 This design is from the Phoenix Queen from Secrets of the Bamboo Forest, my favorite theater play right beside Ruby and the Ruby 🙏🙏🙏 Not that I remember what the plot was tho unfortunately 🥴 I always used those clothes in the game, I think they’re stunning to this day! I’ll probably draw more club penguin inspired art, it’s really nostalgic 🥲🥲 And it’s fun imagining their human version 🥰
Chongyun ❄❄
18/11/21 - Genshin challenge 13|16 I really liked this ones’ composition, so I tried to fix a bit his old face 🥴🥴 You can check the original drawing at the end 👉! But it’s not like it changed thAt much…,,,, I love how Genshin has some references to Old Chinese talismans and exorcisms. I find Chinese culture and beliefs super interesting, and I totally intend to study about it when I have some more time for it...... Fun fact! In Japanese, he says “Kyu Kyu Nyo Ritsu Ryo” (any Onmyoji players out there?), which is the Japanese reading of an ancient Chinese phrase that was written at the end of documents (in China). It means “With most haste, in Accordance with the Law”. It was later used on Taoism and Onmyoudou too. For example, in the end of an incantation, to imbue commands!
Caramel Arrow 🏹🏹
A more simple one 🥴🥴 I wasn’t going to post this but well!!! The main goal is recording my progress so I need to post the ones I don’t like as much too 🫣 I swear I’ll still do a nicer drawing for you, Caramel Arrow 😭😭😭
One and Oni Itto 👹👹💥
18/11/21 - Genshin challenge 12|16 Look it’s my Lock Screen 🤪🤪😜 I was so happy when I finished this one ! It was the first drawing I genuinely liked in quite a long time 😥😥 I think Itto is one of the best crafted characters in genshin. He has an amazing personality (I could hear his voicelines for weeks nonstop), one of the most unique character designs (in Genshin), and my favorite english voice actor ( that I met with Persona 5’s Ryuji, another fave of mine), Max Mittelman. Plus, he’s voiced in Japanese by the guy who sang some of my favorite old anisongs too (Innocent Sorrow from D. Gray Man and Resonance from Soul Eater), T. M. Revolution! Never thought the guy voice acted too, but mAN he slays there too !!! I can’t even imagine how much Hoyo spends with those castings…….,,,, I only pre-farmed for 2 characters in all of my Genshin story: Venti, and then Itto. Good times 😔😔😔
Xinyan 🎸💀🤘
11/11/21 - Genshin challenge (1 per day, at the time) 07|16 My girl Xinyan 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶 She’s one of my faves too (okay I have too many favorites 😭😭) I like this art up to this day, surprisingly!!! Just some touch ups on the coloring ‘cause of the poor contrast in some places, but that’s it! I keep thinking how peculiar it is to have a rocker girl on what seems old China, but you go queen, that’s the coolest part! I loved her from the beginning, her way to see life and follow her dreams, how she endured everyone thinking she’s “weird” or at wrong simply for being herself. I’m still happy she finally got some spotlight on recent (well, not tHAT recent, anyways !) events, it’s been long overdue 😭😭😭
Sea Fairy! 🌊🌊🌊
I love her! She’s one of my fav cookies. One day I’ll draw her with moonlight, I just need more time 😫😫 I actually fiddled a bit with this drawing, you can check the old version in the end! At the time I liked it quite a bit, but as the time passed I started being more and more unable to stare at it without getting shivers down my spine, poor sea fairy 🤕🤕 Nonetheless!!! I still like the pose and the vibe (ig 😭?) a lot so I decided to at least try to fix a bit the face and see what happens, and I think now it’s not as painful to look at!! I’m happy to know there was some type of progress somewhat this last year.
me fixing her face lmao 💀💀💀
I read TSaTS, and loved every second of it
I disappeared from social media to do that, and seeing things now, apparently people are hating on the book??? I honestly have no idea why, and honestly, it makes me sad. I wrote those notes as I read it, and never felt the book was weak or messy, and I'll stand on that boat, 100%. I LOVE this book with my entire existence now, and what people are thinking about it won't affect that, I truly hope.
And I've been binge reading all of Riordanverse in the last month, so everything is fresh on my mind.
Anyways, I'll just leave the notes I did here while I read it. Of course, SPOILERS! I read it without getting even one spoiler, and that made the experience unique and much more enjoyable than others I had in the past.
• I LOVED the silly star war discussion in the beginning, even not quite understanding it xD It was so cute and genuine, maybe with some probably thinking it’s cringy!
• WILL TALKING ABOUT HIS PAST 🫶🫶🫶🫶 I really wanted to see more of him and his story, so they just there, chilling and talking about things, forgetting, even if for only a few seconds, how their situation is so cruel… It made me really happy! Hope they’ll be back soon to just relax and be cute… (haha...)
• I hope the tiny snippets about the water Nymph will have its own scene!!! I was dying to know how their love story start, so it needs its own full chapter!!! (now finishing it, that didn't happen, but the scenes got longer!!! So, victory!!!)
• Now the first POV switch (ch 10) …. Sus. Is pretty weird that the what they see does not seem reliable, and right after it each one of them shares a vision were they’re suffering, but the other one is being kinda “selfish”, and not like themselves. I totally think what they’re “living” is not true, but I don’t know when they stopped seeing things right, or what happened to them. Where? Weird. I do know Will wouldn’t just give up, “I can’t be here”, or Nico going “Coward!”. The POVs don’t match, and I’m CONFUSED.
• Of course it’s a demon! And I do think it hilarious how they’re discussing gender norms while the demon is trying to strangle Nico…,,, normal day, I guess? And Will immediately saying sorry to them like, LMAO
• Man, playing Hades and seeing Nyx like this on the Riordanverse is PAINFUL. She’s so gorgeous (STUNNING), calm and mother-like there. And she always has this kinda insane-y vibe here.
• Ah, “‘I’ll always be here”. There it is, they’re getting separated.
• AGAIN? “if Nyx wants your darkness so bad, you can just leave some of it with her! That wouldn’t be so bad.’”. IDK man, I’m thinking this will be more true than they think, I just feel it 😭😭 And more literal than that, too. (here I was thinking about Nico leaving his powers there. I was pretty wrong on that xD)
• I think that addressing Will’s irk towards the underworld is pretty important. I really like how both of them are on different, but pretty understandable sides. After everything we know about the UW, it’s hard to be open and accepting to it. Nico is super related to it, and he knows his father’s palace, so he has a completely different view of it. Will is all about life and light, so it should be even less appealing to him. Man, he NEEDS sun to live, it's literally part of his being. It’s easy to understand his side. But there are good people and beings living there too. It’s almost another universe. It’s Nico home, past, family and history. It probably hurts a lot to see his boyfriend being so contrary to it, basically negating a part of him, and kinda making his thoughts of Will “ignoring the “””bad and scary””” “ parts of him to be able to accept Nico hold place. It’s sad, hope this will get a good development and closure. Too bad I’m pretty sure it won’t be soon….
• Okay! The farm commentary! That made me sad. I think here Nico was a tiny bit too much. I felt the “People farm here?” from Will was genuine confusion. I would picture on my mind automatically growing crops underground. Hey, I killed (and it still saddens me) succulents by keeping them inside my no-that-sunlit bedroom. How would people grow things successfully on the underworld? That totally very much probably is not included in common sense! Will most certainly was not trying to stab Nico or the UW life, just would like some explanations.
•The Mythomagic story in Nico’s past 😭😭😭 The feels, I swear. It was pretty relatable, poor boy. And that was on the last century, too, and I can't imagine how hard it would be to deal with being queer at that age.
•But hey, is Will talking about Hermes’ card there? Does he play Mythomagic?? Do they together?? That would be cute as hell, I hope they do.
•The canoe scenes make me so happy! I loved SO MUCH how they put them in between some painful scenes. It made it easier to breathe and take on the hard parts. One of the things I wanted the most was the backstory of their relationship, and being given ALL the details like that was definitely not what I expected. They’ve been amazing, super super cute.
• And hey, Paolo is queer?? He’s one of my fave background characters, and I really liked that 🫶🫶 Nice rep for us Brazilians, I really appreciate that, lol Really missed seeing more of him! Seeing a mention on this book was unexpected, but nice! Hope he’s getting better at communicating with everyone, hahah
• I LOVE MENOETES! The way this book is showing the nice parts of the underworld too, on contrary of house of hades that was pure hOrOR and pAIN. It was not what I was expecting, and I totally appreciate it, it’s cute. And wait does he grow the nectar and ambrosia? That’s genuinely impressive. He's a pretty cool guy.
• BUT HEY, GERYON? Sorry friend, I’m judgin here. Do hope you’re right saying he’s a changed man……,,,
• Now Persephone’s Garden…. One more time, they’re showing the nice parts of the underworld, and that’s super interesting.
• And the Persephone’s scene? I LOVED it, I think it was so necessary. My image of her was kinda bad ngl, remembering about her older appearances. She seemed a little crazy. But at that scene, the way she spoke with fondness and clarity… It was exactly what Will needed to hear, and it makes me happy to see that she’s much more accepting of Nico. Good times.
• But Anphistemis? That was one hard scene. They getting separated and all, but the worst part was the chaos when they reunited, and how the poor guy was used. I totally see why Will did that, hell, I’d do the same or worse, when it comes to surviving. I just hope that that was not the last time we see Amphitemis.
• COCOA PUFFS!! I love them too!! I kinda thought they were cute since they first appeared, and that made me feel weird. Good to see that they really are nice and petable!!
• The last fight made me so anxious. I'm just happy it's over. I really wanted for Nyx to chill and find some other purpose at the end, but I don't think that would be believable. Kinda sad. And I always liked those children of hern on their other book appearances too!!! Especially Nemesis.
• Bob, oh Bob. He's precious. I truly like this crew SO MUCH. Him, Small Bob, Nico, Will and and the Puffs. They just finally relaxing, free. Oh, that was so rewarding. Good for them!
• I CRIED with Nico's dream. All of his family... That was so warm. Nico deserved that, I really loved it. And good to know Amphis was not forgotten!!
• Nico hugging Chiron!!!! Mr D. being actually super nice!!!! Aw really, I loved this entire ending too. Everyone happy, talking, healing. Endings make me worried, sometimes my judgment of the work changes completely if the ending is bad. This one? No. It was a super nice wrapping.
• PIPEEERRRR!!!! Nico and Piper friends ? I'm super behind that, I love them a lot. I missed Piper! And her talk was so genuine. Full of worries that are pretty relatable too. Very sweet, wish the best to her too. I thought it was me expecting too much to see Piper, but I'm glad to be proved wrong.
• I'm sad Bob already left... I hope it'll still be possible for them to meet sometimes, Bob deserves the best in this new chapter of his life!! While writing this I noticed I didn't mention anything about the trogs. I guess my main impressions about them happened already on Apollo Trials, hahah. But I like them a lot too!!! I was very happy to see they're happy building their little world and society, and making even tastier dishes. Hiss-Majesty is amazing too, and I loved their closure working at the farm xD
• Plus Nico and Will at the ending. Very heart warming moment. Their relationship is super healthy, and I do NOT believe in anyone who says the contrary. Both of them clearly saw where they failed, communicated about that, and deeply, honestly, said that they would seek to do their best. Isn't this the most important thing of it all? They're super happy together, love each others' presence, and looking at their future together fills them with hope. Man, they just left TARTARUS. And now they're stronger, filled with joy about what is to come.
And that's it. Been reading through some other people's thoughts, and well. Sometimes I even wonder if we read the same book. Like people saying the writing is the worst thing they ever read. I literally spent the last 3 days finishing the 3 last ToA books and this one. My friends, it was NOT that different. In particular, comparing to HoO, of course, because of the third person narration.
The only thing different for me was the direct approach about feelings, and about being queer too (probably thanks to Mark Oshiro), and I definitely enjoyed those. Probably because of seeing myself in them too.
I think people are being way too judgemental of Will. You can for sure say he was too impulsive when he was so determined and stubborn about going to a place that would be literally poison to him. But people complaining he was already drained before getting to Tartatus, as going though everything he did was easy? That place was his antithesis. I was actually shocked he didn't crumble at the first step into the Underworld. But he went through it, with Nico always on his mind. I don't know, I can't understand the hate. And of course they would not be bubbly and fun, they were going though HELL. Did anyone really expected them to be on their best there?
And I think both of them are very misunderstood characters. I was in the fandom for like, almost no time, thus, idk much about the fanon interpretation of them. But after everything I read about Nico and Will on the books, nothing felt out of place here, no. And it reminded a lot of ToA too.
All in all, awesome book, was even more awesome than what I was expecting, and I was totally not disappointed. I will hold this book dear, close to my heart, and I wish people were more accepting of it. There's even an anti tag for it? I made the mistake of scrolling through it (I'm the type of person that gets sentimental when people attack something I love), and yes, people definitely have different experiences while going through works.
Yoimiya 🎆🎇🎆
10/11/21 - Genshin challenge 06/44 YOIII 💜💜 My favorite genshin girl!! I love every event and quest she’s on 🥰🥰 She’s just so happy and positive about everything, it’s a delight to see 🫶🫶. I’m 100% redrawing her sometime this year as I don’t think this art made her justice (anatomy and perspective 💀💀💀 they keep me awake at night I swear), but I like the fireworks and colors 🎇🎇 Her character design is one of my favorites in the game no doubt. There are a just a lot of cool things about her!! She speaks in Osaka/Kansai dialect (I think the easiest part to notice is the way she says “n’ya” and “yaa”!), it’s so pretty and upbeat! I could hear her talk all day. Plus everything about her screams Summer Festival (Natsu Matsuri)! The sarashi (wrapped white cloth), commonly used with festival Happi, geta (wood sandals), the goldfish (there’s a game where you scoop them!), fireworks (some people go to the festivals mainly to see them! There were even annual battles between 2 famous fireworks crafters, Tamaya clan and Kagiya, very very long ago), the Temari on her hair may reference YoYo Tsuri (a bouncing water ball, another common game/toy) or wind chimes, and her bag resembles a goldfish bag too! Those are the references I remember rn🎐🎐. One day I’ll make a tumblr post dissecting her entire design, and me writing this here is to make me remember that 😌😌 (probably?)
Razor 🐺🐺
07/11/21 - Genshin challenge 05/44 I just noticed someone slipped a little heart near the top of the tree on the right 😆😆 Can you see it? I hand my tablet to a bunch of people, so it’s actually not very surprising for this to happen lmao I LOVE drawing different poses, but I HATE in equal intensity the amount of anxiety it gives me 🥲🥲 I swear I be needing those anatomy classes 🫣🫣 But this iS actually something I’m working on improving this year. I’m using the book “Anatomy for Sculptors” from Uldis Zarins and Sandis Kondrats for my (not so many) studies, and I recommend it a lot!!! It has so much depth and content. And talking about Razor! He was my most wanted character when I’ve started the game! I love the kid raised by wolves trope 😩 His design is super cool, and he has a STAND. To this day, the only one who has (man, even ITTO WITH THAT BIGASS ONI, a fIVE star, doesn’t have it) an epic summon animation, congrats to my boy 🙏🙏
Cherry Blossom 🌸🌸!
This one is completely different from my usual style theme-wise xD As I’m for sure not a pink person…..,,, Cherry was a cookie my lil’ cousin asked for me to draw, so there she is! Something on her face bothers me (anatomy problems? 😩😩😩), I can’t point out what it is exactly, tho (there are a bunch of mistakes on her dress too, let’s ignore that……. and the parasol 😶😶). But she’s very cute!!! She seems happy, and that makes me happy 💜💜