Hi I’m Memphis! You can call me that or any of the other unhinged nicknames my friends do (Mem, Moomph, Bemphis, Mambo, etc) also I'm memphis624 on discord if you are so inclined.
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Adult, 6/24 ♋️, she/her is fine, currently going for med school but my heart is with writing.
Art account is @memphart, will exclusively put drawings with actual effort on there
(If you are here from my Ao3, this is the right place! I’ll probably be posting fanfic content under specific tags.)
(If you are not here from my Ao3,
https://archiveofourown.org/users/Memphis624
come check it out, I write lots of DRA stuff)
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Oh but pls don’t interact if you’re sexist, racist, homophobic, etc (is that a given?)
Expect this blog to frequently change theme with whatever song I’m currently obsessed with hehe.
i wanna update and respond to comments but my brother is hogging my computer which is the only way i can update while preserving formatting and we’re on a cruise about to lose wifi. I WILL LOCK IN THE SECOND HE GETS OFF I SWEAR
at last, sans babysits…i never see sans and flowey as friends (and they weren’t, at first), but there’s a lot of potential there. almost no one else is as aware of multiple timelines and how they can mess you up
back at it again with a crossover nobody but me ever asked for!
I've had absolutely killer art block... thought going back to my roots and drawing some dragons might help so I pulled out an idea I've wanted to do for a long time.
bonus epilogue doodles and notes below
Fun fact, Wings Of Fire is a dormant special interest of mine, and the one I had actively for a few years before DRA stabbed me in the back and left me for dead.
Art has felt like squeezing water from a stone lately, and that feeling persisted for most of this piece... It subsided at the very end and I started liking it and enjoying myself more so hopefully a little bit of strong arming was the solution this time and I've unstuck myself lol
Though I haven't talked much about it publically, I've been helping my friend Ink with relocalizing/retranslating Danganronpa Another 1 for a long while as part of a project we've started calling a DRA1 Remaster.
I've been away for a bit, but this is an art piece I've been working on for a very long time and which I drew for the title screen. It's pretty much a redraw of the original title screen made by Linuj. (see below for a full alt and the other title screens this game has had prior) I drew the new character art and made the new bg/other assets from scratch, with the exception of the logo, which was designed by weez/houndsofdenial)
Since things are getting closer and closer to completion, and there's been a bit more shown off/shared lately, it seemed like the right time to talk about it here. I might explain more about the project in a later post if people are interested, but if you haven't heard about it, the goal is to create a more complete and accurate English translation for the original release than is currently available. There are some other additions/goals as well (such as QoL changes, fixes, and so on) as well. When done, the game will be fully playable in English from ftes to fluff dialogue to CGs to trial minigames like Hangman's Gambit.
The project is still in progress right now, but if you're interested, check out Ink's Youtube channel. Though nothing playable has been publicly released yet, Ink has already started creating a playlist of everyone's retranslated FTEs over there. Who knows, you could find out something new about your favorite character thanks to errors/mistranslations being corrected.
I'll go into a little more detail about the piece + show the alts below the cut.
Danganronpa Another 1 has actually had multiple title screens up to this point.
The one most English-speaking fans are probably most familiar with is this one made by Zephrium. (Zeph was single-handedly responsible for the build most english-speaking fans got into the series with ofc)
It uses the HD sprites, and presumably all the other assets were edited or made by Zeph. It has a brighter tone and features Hope's Peak Academy in the background.
However, the game's original features art drawn by linuj specifically for the title screen. If you've never seen footage of/played the Korean release, you might not know about it.
It actually has a similar vibe to the one used in DR1/DR: Trigger Happy Havoc. That title screen uses black for the logo and has more of a blue hue, so it's a bit reversed which I find neat.
A long while back, when I was still daydreaming about doing translations myself somehow, I looked through a lot of the original images and sprites used in the Korean release and this title screen really stuck with me... After I connected with Ink and started helping out, I definitely still wanted to see an English version this title screen used in the remaster. After volunteering to work on the title screen and credits images, I felt a bit stumped by the title screen for a long time...
I guess when it's something you know will be the first impression people get when they open the game, it feels important to get it right.
I knew that going in, and to be frank, that's part of why I wanted to do the title haha. It felt and still does feel like a big contribution and it's still a little surreal knowing art I drew is gonna end up on the title screen of a game, especially DRA1...?
I think that feeling is part of why, when I was sitting in front of my computer, redoing and editing to make an English version of that original title screen, that something kinda clicked in my brain... What if I drew new art?
I don't think I would have had the confidence to try and take this on if I hadn't done that Yuki omake edit somewhat recently. (which. tbh in retrospect compared to this is a lot worse LOL and less accurate) (consider it a stepping stone haha) But it was definitely still a beast to take on for me because of how high my standards were for it and the fact that I was trying to replicate Linuj's art style, which I've not really done before.
But in the end, (and after sitting with it for a long time to make sure I didn't have any weird things or errors I hadn't noticed before finalizing lol) I ended up really proud of it...
I think I captured the style fairly well, and my confidence might have been boosted a bit at somehow managing to draw and finish this. (I couldn't resist making their hair 'fluffier' in a way that's closer to my own style though haha)
Anyways, I wanted to share my thoughts on this so I can look back on them later. If you've read all this, thanks! I know things have been a bit quieter than usual, I've been a bit overtaken with other things.
I shouldn’t have been excited!!!!!!!! somebody sedate me!!!! I’m gonna throw up!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m never gonna be able to hurtmaxx like Memphis624, a fic hasn’t made me feel this ill before. Bro I finished reading with a knot in my stomach I dead ass couldn’t eat HOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS
I want Kinjomae fluff now to cope. I’m glad that wasn’t canon chat I would’ve been so fucking mad
The way if I was yuki I’d genuinely walk up to Haru and tell him to take me out. Bro if i saw the love of my like khs im READY TO GO 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 yuki my poor goober you sweet sweet soul.. you deserve better.. i wish you manifest ch5 style.. poor guy…
I was like “why’s there a trial, Tsurugi khs” and then was like “wait why didn’t they eat” and my jaw dropped when I remember the big Rugi died for NOTHINGGGG NOTHING!!!!!!!!! SOMEONE SEDATE ME MONOKUMA ISTG
I feel like I got hit by a fucking car before it drove over me, reversed over me again, covered me in oil, lit me on fire, drove over me AGAIN and then REVERSED just to SPIT IN MY FUCKING FACEEEE
Monokuma you fuckass build a bear reject DIEEE DIE DIE IN A PLANE CRASH DAMN YOUU!!! TAKE YOUR MEDS!!!!! OD ON RHEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
