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Aomine: The idea is that he dyed his hair a brighter blue in the good Teiko days but as he gradually grew apathetic towards basketball he never bothered to keep dying it. So the bright blue color kept fading to reveal its bleached parts. There’s a metaphor for depression in this bitch somewhere. You can’t see it here but the idea is to make him the dragon to Kagami’s tiger. Cause mythic rivals and such. He gets a dragon tattoo on his leg and Kagami has a tiger on his back. The character sheets (one day lol) will help.

Momoi: Gets glasses cause they’re cute. Plus smart glasses wearing anime girl trope. Momoi is critically underused in the series and underrated in this fandom. She literally has a supercomputer for a brain and instead of taking over the world, she’s wrecking everyone’s bball kits and she’s so powerful for that. She should’ve been a bigger obstacle in the anime.

Akashi: After both of his sides merge or after the Winter Cup — one of em, he gets central heterochromia. I never liked how he lost all of the yellow. It was too iconic.

Kagami: Undercut cause we steal Itadori’s whole flow. Shaved sides for extra tiger stripes. And a scar to show where Akashi sliced him during their very dramatic scissor confrontation (moved it from his cheek though). He used to have a mullet to match Himuro but cut it off after their fall out. I love little design changes that follow as a character changes. I’d love to make a comic exploring Taiga and Himuro’s relationship. I’d make it full of heart ache and would dub it “Stripes.”

Anywho! I hope this helps satiate you all for now. I tried to plan this in a way where no matter who’s your fav team, you got a little something. I’m gonna be busy for a WHILE, so we’ll see when I’m able to get back into it.

Also, I wanna post stuff for my other fandoms so yuppers!

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[dearakashi]

OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD WHY DIDN'T YOU TAG ME.

the idea of central heterochromia after the merge is INCREDIBLE. your mind>>>> oh god, i'm still not over the redesigns of rakuzan and then i was his with this.

the fur of his coat? it fits him perfectly. his tongue being out and the thick eyebrows remind me of hanamiya, i like how your version of sei really has prince-like features and mannerisms.

"delightful as always, momoi-san." is something he never explicitly say nor do i think he would but at the same time, it's HORRIBLY fitting. you did an amazing job with these redesigns.

you literally ATE with this. have you ever thought of doing small comic stripes of the gom and their daily adventures + memes or whatever? that would be so much fun to see...

@japeneselunchtimerush HAVE YOU SEEN THIS. LOOK AT YOUR GIRL WITH GLASSES. AND LOOK AT OUR SEI central heterochromia...i'm not okay. even though the heterochromia is technically only visible to us and not exactly in their universe, i still think it makes sense. oh my god.

op, excellent job as expected. NEVER stop posting knb. you're feeding the nation.

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I love comic making and would love to make some KNB comics! Have some in my head as we speak. That said, as you can see, it’s been an awhile since I watched the series and my characterization’s probably gonna be off. You up for me sending you concepts and approving their characterization for me? Any other willing volunteers can help too!

I can’t promise I’m any good at responding in a timely manner but I wanna make as much cool content for everyone as long as I can. 🩵❤️💛💚💙💜🩷

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Someone missed team pictures… 🐉💙

Per request I redesigned Tōō Academy next. I am trying my best to fulfill all my KNB promises, I am just mentally ill, I swear. I keep all of you in my heart.

Tōō is a fun team to draw and write for. Their theme is individualism so I didn’t want to coordinate their designs to any particular theme although myths/legends were right there. The Tōō players hate their GOM and it’s fun to imagine their team dynamic after the Winter Cup. As he starts to attend practice again, I imagine Aomine tries to disregard their feelings at first. “Why is everyone so sensitive. I’m here, suck it up.” But Momoi points out that even if Aomine was struggling, he still hurt them and never apologized. He still hurt her. Hearing that he hurt Momoi sobers him up big time and he makes it up to all of them eventually.

Momoi is one of the best characters in KNB. Not only is she a genius, she has Koroko levels kindness and patience ts damn near biblical. The fact that she was so worried for Aomine, she followed him to Tōō is so sweet and sad. I love them together. Do NOT separate. All of Tōō adore her and she’s their best friend. Momoi hypes up Sakurai who tries to give her cooking lessons. Imayoshi respects her as the most important person on the team. Rivera is grateful to her for reaching out and offering him her friendship when he was new to Japan (a loneliness she felt before Aomine found her). And Wakamatsu believes her to be the toughest person he knows for sticking by Aomine for so long despite his assholery.

Speaking of Aomine. I love him. I made him a prematurely graying dragon with freckles because tiger vs dragon is so much cooler than tiger vs panther. I’m sorry but it’s true. Ahem, peep the vision:

Isn’t it so cool! (Kagami vs Aomine if it isn’t obvious and yes Kuroko gave Taiga a sweat band. They are the cutie pie besties.)

Uhhh final thoughts. Imayoshi is also an interesting character to write for. Man’s got a handprint permanently embedded into his skull in light of all the crap he has to reign in. Sakurai’s daily panic attack. Wakamatsu’s complex towards Aomine. Rivera’s daily but hidden panic attack. Luckily, Imayoshi is very good at using manipulation to keep things calm. That said, I like to imagine after a particularly smooth day he finds himself enjoying all their quirks and it hits him that he doesn’t think of it as “putting up with them for his college app” anymore. He adores them. Fuck. After he graduates, I imagine he hesitates to reach out to check up on them. The family he and Hanamiya come from taught them to what to expect from other people. But they all reach out and miss him and I think he feels real for once. I gave him curtain bangs and the anime trope where they close their eyes constantly to allude to his facade.

Ok bye. Love you.

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You guys ever think about book 3 and how it makes so much sense for it to have been Grace to learn empathy for the train denizens and undo all of the falsehoods she built up? I was thinking about it when I saw art depicting a Grace and Simon role swap with Grace going off the deep end and Simon moving towards redemption and thought, “but it HAS to be Grace.”

And this is a fleeting, thought. It’s an AU, it doesn’t have to be anything but fun, but I think Grace’s personality and upbringing and unique trauma helps explain why she changed and Simon didn’t — hopefully adding to the creator’s narrative choice in a way that expands our understanding of the story. Because I don’t think the two are interchangeable.

Grace is a manipulative person and this instinct stems from her want to control her relationships and how people react to her.

Growing up her parents were wealthy, busy people who gave her everything but their love. This is exacerbated by how she was passed off to a series of nannies (Julie, Molly, Jacob, Susan) who were fired before she could form any meaningful connection to them so much so she can’t remember any of their faces.

This resulted in her acting out as a way to gain attention from her parents, ultimately learning that in order to get the things she wants from the relationships in her life — love, friendship, inclusion, vengeance — she has to control how it happens. Cause and effect. I’ll do this, and you’ll react like that.

Grace using her mother’s makeup to get her acknowledgement.

Grace driving a wedge between the girls in her ballet class to get revenge after they decide to get ice cream without her. But also to soften the blow of rejection. Because her manipulation isn’t just a tool, but a defense mechanism.

Regardless, when she’s introduced in season 2, she’s a well-oiled machine. She’s observant, quick to notice Jesse freak out at his reflection and learn more to weaponize why. She’s tactful, able to recognize Jesse’s loyalty to Lake and know it means she’ll have to adjust her technique. Start with “She seems nice but she’s a little bit different from us” followed by “Sounds like she has a lot of problems that you got pulled into.”

Point is, Grace’s manipulation derivative of her upbringing requires her to understand her target. It makes it make sense that she grows empathy towards Hazel and Tuba and denizens because she always positions herself to learn what makes people tick. It’s to navigate relationship webs to exploit but it comes with the side effect of HAVING to understand. Lake and Jesse’s bond. Hazel and Tuba’s. The ballet girls with each other. And her own.

In contrast, Simon, isn’t able to learn empathy as easily because he doesn’t care to interact with Hazel and Tuba unless strictly necessary. He doesn’t care about learning about other people or engaging with them unless it relates to himself nor is he able to understand how’d they’d feel unless it’s in line with his expectations. It’s why he readily admits to Hazel that he killed Tuba, not able to comprehend why she’d be upset. He only views others as an accessory to him and his own personal narrative, overinflating his own importance in their lives. “Everyone lies to me.” “I was your friend first.” The cat scolds him for this when Simon rants about Grace not acting the way she should, telling him that Grace isn’t one of his miniatures. Kinda fitting he’s a fantasy author. He conflates the fantasies in his head with real life. Also fitting he tries to consolidate both with his comically evil aura farming outfit (I love it). Him believing in Grace and the Apex’s lies wasn’t his problem, his self destructive need to be right is.

TLDR: Grace go good because she engages with other people and their perspectives — baseline for empathy. Simon stay bad because he isn’t able to view others or reality as something separate to himself. Same stressors for change, different people.

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Infinity Train New Apex Au

Infinity train AU that no one asked for but I thought it’d be so so fun to throw Lake into the Apex with Jesse. They can draw a themself a number, pass it off as being “turned off” by One or something, and go from there. Kinda impractical — esp with the flec to also consider — but it’d be filled with tension and anxiety and PEAK.

Imagine Lake scribbling a number change during raids. Imagine Lake worrying about telling Jesse the truth and the grief Jesse feels about confirming what he always knew deep down: denizens are alive and have thoughts, feelings, and dreams. Imagine Lake feeling conflicted because a lot of the Apex kids are nice, just misguided and turned into something near unforgivable. Imagine Jesse struggling to forgive himself. PEAK ANGST. Imagine them trying to hide Alan Dracula from the Apex kids because AD refuses to leave them. PEAK COMEDY.

I gave Lake back their Mohawk because it looks SICK and I love it. I gave Grace an anti-theft tag crown because it’s COOL and she deserves it.

I aged up Lucy and Alex from book 3 ep 1 to be the other keystones because Lucy was an obvious pick and Alex was the only other kid I remembered cause the fitting lightbulb thing. I toyed around with Apex Tulip because she’s awesome and the best choice for head of tech but that creates too many complications with Lake.

Lastly it’d just be fun to have Lake interact with Simon more. They’d play along to avoid suspicion but Simon’s words would probably get to them. Things is, before Simon gets suspicious and investigates, he probably thinks of Lake as one of his best new recruits. Lake hates this and hates him. Imagine Lake interacting with Grace. Imagine Grace figuring Lake out and asking Lake to wheel a null in front of the ENTIRE APEX, AAAAAAA. Jesse and Lake would just have to book it at that point. There’s just so many interesting scenarios to imagine. Fun fun fun.

Also brief description of each zone and their purpose. Forgot to put that in the art.

War: Raids, taking over cars, any battles against denizens

Rescue/Recon: Rescuing apex members from cars due to instability, retreat, raids gone wrong, etc. Also rescuing any new passengers/new recruits.

Husbandry: Food & stable stuff. Lucy is probably extra bitter at Jesse for not having to wheel a null because she did and she is shown to really like them in canon.

Tech: Train manipulation & gadgets.

“Diplomacy”: Recruiting passengers, sorting intrapersonal conflicts within the Apex, “negotiating” ie extorting denizens, & whatever the hell Grace wants it to mean

Anyway. Gotta face reality so no more art. May I gain the strength and time management to write a fic about this one day.

[miscellaneoustofu]

Infinity train art dump. I really love this series so much and I wish I watched it when the fandom was more alive. Guess my favorite book though!!! Answer’s in the tags. Trying to restrain myself from making an infinity train blog as we speak.

Book 1: Tulip is super cute and undeniably incredible. It is only because of her One-One regained control of the train and low-key improved as a conductor. Even before Amelia, there was no intro video and I can only imagine how many passengers died because of this. I think traveling with Tulip and witnessing her puzzle it out helped it click to One-One that passengers may need some help understanding. More than that, TULIP IS 13 AND WAS PROGRAMMING THE TRAIN. Oh she’s so cool. Conductor Tulip AU when? Can someone hear me? AO3. Multichapter. Angsty as all heck. She deserves it.

Book 2: Devastatingly sweet. Lake, Jesse, and Alan Dracula’s unconditional love for each other — in line with deer symbolism — means everything to me. The way Jesse managed to get back onto the train because losing Lake would wreck the trajectory of his life. The way he boarded the death train knowing damn well how the train worked and that he may not ever find Lake or be able to see Nate or his parents ever again. The way Lake didn’t question for a second that Jesse didn’t mean to leave them and was willing to steal a number and be dumped who knows where on earth to find their way back to Jesse (and free themself). Oh imma be sick. You can’t fake love like this. They knew each other for like a month. I’m foaming at the mouth. Best friends or lovers DO NOT SEPERATE. I just know they go on gym dates oml my JessLake heart.

Book 3: The book of highest caliber and for good reason. Hazel and Tuba are adorable. And Grace and Simon are a chilling, toxic friendship almost relationship kinda situationship. Has anyone seen the storyboard where they had a middle school esque kiss? What if I collapse rn my heart can’t take it! All I can only hope is they all heal. Well, who’s left able to. That said. Imma let out a couple warning shots to keep rent low. Anyone who says how Simon ended up is Grace’s fault is missing the entire point of the season. I love Simon as a character and do wish he lived so he could start his own redemption like Grace did but to remove his agency is to remove a lot of what makes him a great character and deny why he needs help in the first place. “Grace brainwashed him.” Check my ass if I’m wrong but Grace genuinely believed what she was saying about the conductor/numbers and her and Simon came up with wheeling TOGETHER. Not to mention, if I may insert some interpretation, who between them has more reason to come up with killing denizens? Wet, abandoned kitten, SIMON. GRILYPOPS OPEN YOUR EYES. Simon probably mentioned his deep hate of the cat and Grace, jumped on that, wanting to help him feel control/appease him because he’s important to her. Grace is just as at fault regardless of how they dreamed it up though.

Book 4: Loved it. Controversial take but I did. Ryan and Min-Gi’s struggles are deeply relatable and I hope Chicken Choice Judy won 50 Grammies in universe. I only wish they tackled more of Ryan’s self-esteem issues because I don’t think the writers and Min really understood how crap Ryan had it by the end of the story. Bro was broke, struggling to get gigs, went through multiple failed relationships, and was lowkey homeless. Min would end up miserable but Ryan was genuinely self-destructive. Min-Gi is underrated though. It’s so so difficult to choose happiness over financial stability with the world being the way it is — esp through means like art or music. Also kinda crazy how Rymin has to wait like 20 years before they can get married legally wtf. Also have y’all seen that rumor that Ryan was lying/exaggerating about having the gig in New York. I’m trying to find the source but if that’s true that’s so MESSY and I love it.

Book 5: AMELIA AND HAZEL MY BELOVEDS. WE GOT ROBBED. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Sorry for my poor coloring. I did give up. Much like life. Please talk to me about infinity train. I am open to changing my mind. I love you all. Okie dokie.

[johannesviii]

Childhood memories, tainted forever

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

[liaestrellitas]

Rymin? 2026? ❤️💙

[miscellaneoustofu]

Hell yeah

Side note your art is adorable and the squiggles on their cheeks makes me really happy 💖

[rusted-fairy-wings]

No because the implications of the train coming to Jesse for a SECOND time over him losing Lake are insane. I’m still not over it years later

Like he was in so much pain over losing them that the train LITERALLY TOOK HIM BACK FOR ROUND 2

Not only that, but it’s even deeper than that in terms of showing how much Jesse loves Lake. Because not only did the train return to him, Jesse made the active choice to board again. This time he knew exactly what that train was and the danger and the kinds of things that happen there. And he still actively chose to get back on because the danger doesn’t matter. What matters is getting back to Lake. That alone says so much about both Jesse as a person and the importance of his relationship with Lake.

It’s just insane to me how much the time Jesse is away from Lake in the book 2 finale conveys exactly how much Lake means to him and vice versa. (Like we literally see all Lake’s actions, cannot be overstated how much they care). It’s actually insane how much these 2 love each other. Dare I even say soulmates.

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SERIOUSLY like Jesse was willing to risk not seeing his family and friends EVER AGAIN just for the mere CHANCE to get Lake back. The odds were so so slim — he could’ve been dumped anywhere on any car on an INFINITE TRAIN (kinda the point) — but he still said even if there’s 0.000000000001% I can get Lake back, I will. He was willing to give up everything to search potentially forever. What.

AND LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT LAKE’S DEVOTION. They were willing to steal a number to escape the train, be dumped anywhere on the entire goddamn earth, and still wanted to find their way back to Jesse.

They love each other so much they are actually insane.

[miscellaneoustofu]

Finished binging infinity train a couple of days ago and like. Have we tried begging? Have we tried begging HARDER?

Genuinely some of the best television I’ve ever consumed and I’m prepared to get pathetic over it.

[miscellaneoustofu]

Made this soon after watching season two (I loved it). Been a RadioStatic/RadioSilence shipper since day episode 2 of season 1. I think I have a knack for sensing complicated relationships I’ll obsess over… 📺📻

[miscellaneoustofu]

Hiya there! Just a heads up to those who followed this account because of my Blue Lock content.

Had too many Blue Lock related ambitions to justify posting it all on what’s supposed to be my multi-fandom blog so I made a new one.

It’s @tofusforbluelock if you wanna go follow it.

I’m gonna post all the Blue Lock related art I make there from now on and didn’t want anyone to be confused.

Thank you for all the kind words and maybe see ya around!

- Your lonely little tofu block 💖

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Ain't no way they had one of my new fav characters hitting the SAME EMOTE on what's supposed to be his "a new bombshell has entered the villa" ahh cover

Hopefully the chain is giving noose because I wanted to keep it low-key and mildly faithful to the og without it being a whole ass rope.

Oh, and the last pic is the first rendition I made at 5:00am fueled by adrenaline and knowing damn well I had a big responsibility tomorrow. I wanted to incorporate stakes for the religious theme and blood is always fun. Also the colors I wanted cause I wanted to believe in melanin 🥀🥀🥀

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Woahhhhh how’d that get there?

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Two Itoshi love triangles???? It’s hard being the secondary it girls of Blue Lock…

Anyhow, I really like how two of the players most involved with Sae both have religious themes. Like Shidou with demons and Bunny’s last name meaning church plus his cross-shaped scar.

Wonder if that means anything at all…

Bonus ft live Rin reaction:

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Oh and here’s mob fanart I made a year ago when I was losing it.

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“Get your dog, bitch” 😱

“It don’t bite” 😌🐕‍🦺

“YES IT DO” 😭

Congratulations to Rinsagi for winning the “best Isagi ship” poll on Twitter. It was hella polarizing and so, so fun. 🧩👻

[miscellaneoustofu]

Bad and evil German teenagers who are mean to their only friend/situation-ship get sentenced to learning 10,000 magic tricks to make up for it.

Oh, and Kaiser must travel back in time and re-create all of Harry Potter so it isn’t written by like the worst person ever. I just know Ness made Harry Potter his whole personality for at least 3 years straight. Is this even a debate? We just know.

Anyhow, it’s crazy how a couple of good analysis on Twitter and YouTube can change my mind so completely about two characters.

Less than a month ago I was completely indifferent. Despite how I always thought Kaiser’s design was stellar and felt sad for Ness, I was never invested enough to make art for them. Like they’re pretty boys, that’s mega cool, but they’re not my Bachira.

Now I adore the heck outta them.

I think it’ll take time, and it’s for the best that bllk is fiction, but I think they can become good for each other.

Kaiser needs someone like Ness who’s still able to dream. Considering how abuse has made concepts like wanting love and freedom feel like chasing the impossible. And Ness deserves someone who can make his dreams real after years of getting put down by people who were supposed to love him.

Idk I like them. Isagi dismantling their entire world was the best thing that could’ve happened.

Sometimes things gotta break before you can start fixing them?