another piece i did for the @uchibigbang !!! this one is for @argentsunshine's aini timeloop fic :0 please give it a read!! it was a ton of fun illustrating this fic it's soo sooo good...
The final work of @uchibigbang Uchikoshi Big Bang 2026! I can't thank everyone who supported me through this project enough 🙏🙏 make sure you check out @professional-d 's amazing art for this fic too!!
IM BACK!!! and it's with this year's @uchibigbang art <3 i was an artist this time around and i had an absolute blast working with @nirvanai for their aini pathologic au fic!!! go give it a read and check out the other artwork by @vikab !!!!
It all ends with a city set ablaze. The sick and the dying congregate on streets of ash, the plague grants equality in death alone. None can save it anymore; no inquisitor or military could defeat an enemy which cares not for human rule and routine. And the healer calls out, give me one more chance. The director watches with pity or compassion, humouring the poor soul yet again.
I can do this. I will do this. I can save them. Just let me try one more time!
The clock turns back in a dead city, and the play begins again.
NEW FIC TIME! Tumblr isn't letting me use the normal link thing so hopefully the old fashioned embed works but!! I wrote a Pathologic AU for this year's Uchikoshi Big Bang, our protagonists are in for a fun island vacation yet again :)
Massive thanks to @vikab and @krowmanticism for their artworks as well!! There's two pieces in the fic already, and more to come in future chapters :3 A huge thanks to the mods as well for another fun year! @uchibigbang
Please take a look, and thank you for reading!! This is a concept I've been passionate about for a While so I'm excited to have the chance to write it
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
it's a timeloop AU covering the last day of the past half of Nirvana Initiative, with each chapter from a different character's perspective. this is ryuki's, so CWs for suicide and various ryuki-typical things
thank you to the ubb mods for organising the event and to my team @oobi-oobi and @krowmanticism :] i will try and post a new chapter each week (4 in total) but i dont know if i will manage this
Due to it's length, I'm not crossposting it on tumblr, so check out the ao3 link!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rated: T
AI: The Somnium Files - No Sleep for Kaname Date
Hina Tsukiyono / Sakura Asahi, Hina & Pewter & Sakura
Words: 7.5k
Warnings: Angst, Grief, Medical Setting, Suicide
In another world, Hina's grief manifests in a plan far different than creating an AI. How better to help Sakura than to get inside her head? Literally.
Also, check out the wonderful art done by @thateyeballguy !!
For this year's @uchibigbang , I was pleased to work as an artist on EverAfter17 ~The Depths of Infinity~ by Al1284 with the help of my good friend Victor (breathing-lad on Bluesky). he did unmasked Tsugumi, Sara, Sora, Youaki, Takeshi, and kid!Kaburaki. I did the rest! go read the fic, I'm very excited about it, and then come back to this post for a detailed breakdown of our character designs where you can find out why I ended up with around 200 images in the folder I have for this project.
"Hey River why are Takeshi, Tsugumi, and Youharu all weirdly proportioned?"
Good question! The biggest development over the course of this piece was actually the size of the canvas I draw on. I tend to draw fairly small when left to my own devices. IIRC the canvases for Takeshi and Tsugumi are both 1500px tall, and the canvas used for the lineup is 2636px tall. Which is quite a difference! Youharu's canvas was 2000px tall, and then when I drew Hokuto I made extra certain to draw him the same height as Sara, so I used Victor's drawing of her to base that off of.
(The second biggest development is that I changed my lineart brush to be more similar to his. It isn't exactly the same, because we use different programs and all, but I actually really like this brush, and have used it for pieces outside of this project, like this one from February.)
The first design we finished was Sora's! Victor and I had pretty different initial concepts to base our works on -- I based my first concept from depictions of the Japanese goddess Amaterasu (to contrast with Sora canonically wearing a form of qipao which is a Chinese dress, because the rest of the cast is more Western), whereas he did his based on angels. We ended up combining our ideas a bit for the final design. I still find the patterns on her dress quite difficult to draw LOL
The next one we finished was Coco. Victor came up with a pretty solid head concept with the third eye tiara, but he had trouble putting it all together. I took inspiration from old medieval princess depictions, and Little Red Riding Hood (specifically Into the Woods lol). That last one turned out to be just the trick for him to finalize, playing around with colors a bit before the final design was made. The bells in my original concept were meant to be a Never7 reference, as well as a reference to the bells Coco wears on her original outfit, which might also be a Never7 reference?
Tsugumi was mostly my work, and she was complicated af, in no small part due to having three designs (though with just minor alterations). The "basket mask" is inspired by medieval beekeepers, which ended up being an interesting enough idea that Al adopted it into the story with further symbolism! The hamster mask was probably the most difficult part. Originally I based it on Japanese theater masks, but as the concept evolved we ended up with it as a skull. That one took some references to draw. And I have a gazillion screenshots in my folder of just playing with the design of the mask and the color scheme before settling on what we have now. Victor's original concept isn't shown here, but is pretty similar, though more based on the Masked Woman from AINI.
Next up is Takeshi, who was pretty simple. We just kinda mashed up Victor's initial concept with mine and that fusion was the final design. He didn't fight me.
Sara was probably the character who went through the most drastic shift over the course of designing. Our goal was to balance wizard/ninja aesthetics, which...is easier said than done! I put her just full out in a karate gi at first, whereas Victor went for a big robe. The thing I'm proudest of is the research I did for her weapon, which is a wizard staff-ified tomoegata. Originally Hokuto and her were both meant to have keepsakes from Takeshi and Tsugumi, but that got cut over time :( I imagine Sara's just wearing the pendant under her clothes. There's an easter egg hidden in her clothes, btw -- Victor's idea, not mine, but I think it's funny.
Youharu was primarily me capturing the spirit of the Giant Witch Hat. She looks kinda like she went through a big shift, but that's because she flipped color schemes LOL both of us went for pink at first, but we ended up making Youharu blue and Youaki pink. Originally in my head she was carrying around a large grimoire that she'd pass to You'aki', but that didn't make the final cut.
Speaking of Youaki...we had trouble settling on something that seemed fighter-ish. Our first attempts were more informal. I joked that mine looked like a poet, or maybe just like, someone that you could bump into on the street today. But we worked it out, eventually! My idea for something passed between them is a ring, which is why I've colored them differently -- one of her rings is You'haru's, the other is her own. Both are enchanted, and act as her weapons.
Hokuto we fought a little over, mostly about sleeves vs the bandages. What helped the final design was a little push of inspiration via Moichiro Sanada (from Kumitantei). I am personally not a fan but I know like four people that playtested it and ended up being Discord friends with the director somehow, so I ended up seeing enough about it to get the gears turning. Something Al wanted specifically was the face scar, and we discussed placement for a bit, ending up with the eyebrow as the final thought.
Kaburaki was finalized pretty much at the last minute. The top half is Victor's idea, I improvised the bottom half for this post. Basically the idea we had in mind for him is that he started off dressed relatively plainly, but picked up equipment in the dungeon at the behest of the other party members.
The last design is...well, to avoid spoiling the fic, is "Kuranari Takeshi". The fun breakthrough I had with the color scheme was making him essentially "inverse Takeshi". We ended up making the color palette of Theseus since they were a little too saturated, but I'm still happy about my stroke of genius :) One of the things I wanted to avoid when I was making the original concepts for my version, is that since this guy is not Ryogo (which you may have noticed) I wanted to make him different from Takeshi and Ryogo's imitation of Takeshi from canon. Hence the longer hair.
I also designed a LeMU themed coat of arms??? This is the design on Kaburaki and "Takeshi"'s shield.
Victor's also working on some minor tweaks to these designs, so if you're interested, be sure to follow him on Bluesky! It was once again really awesome to work with him, I felt pushed as an artist by this project. I think he has plans to make a thread similar to this post. I don't know if it'll be as long, this post is like 1000 words -- and there's quite a bit of concepts that I left out, too, like all the different times I went back to my physical sketchbook to draw things (which you see with "Takeshi", a bit), or the attempts Al and I did on the logo seen in the cover image. A lot of work went into this -- it truly is a labor of love, especially in a fandom this small, so thank you to Al for sparking this idea, Victor for helping me to bring it to life, and everyone who cheered for us in our team channel. I couldn't have done it without you.
Now, I'm going to sleep. I stayed up two hours past when I normally go to bed to finish drafting this post. 💤
Chapters: 2/9
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Relationships: Carlos & Kurashiki Akane & Tenmyouji Junpei, Carlos & Tenmyouji Junpei, Carlos & Kurashiki Akane, Carlos & Kurashiki Aoi, Carlos/Kurashiki Akane/Tenmyouji Junpei if you squint
Characters: Carlos (Zero Escape), Tenmyouji Junpei, Kurashiki Akane | June, Kurashiki Aoi | Santa
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst, Human Experimentation, Dehumanization, Aftermath of Torture, Implied/Referenced Torture, carlos/akane/junpei can be read as both ot3 or qpr, however. they are there., The tags may look bad but it’s the aftermath of most of these, Morphogenetic Fields (Zero Escape), Zero Escape Series (Video Games) Spoilers, Canon Universe
Summary:
The simplest whole number ratio of atoms present in a compound.
Carlos stumbles upon two people while working as a rural firefighter. They’re hurt, scared, and say they’ve been trapped and experimented on for nine years. Deciding to help them is just the easy part. Learning more about who Akane and Junpei really are is a bit more difficult.
My fic for the @uchibigbang! Featuring lovely art from @winter-iris13. Updates will come every 2-3 days, so stay tuned for more!
My piece for the Uchikoshi Big Bang collab @uchibigbang!! Based on the fic by @ashkazora !!
The fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/85438166/chapters/225686246
Thrilled to show my pice for this year's @uchibigbang. It was a pleasure working with @/VelvetPhi (AO3), you should check her fic :>
Nana and Chloe venturing into the unknown
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66870193
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I also did some designs for the story :>
very excited to show off my finished piece for this year’s @uchibigbang!!!
after the events of zero time dilemma, sean (and co.) set off to find answers on a certain religious fanatic.
@paradoxicalgeek did an awesome job bridging uchikoshi’s biggest franchises together in this ztd x aini fic, please check it out of you have the chance -> here
additionally, @oobi-oobi has also made a piece for this fic and can be found -> here
make sure to give both creatives some love!
(and additionally, he never made the chance for a proper debut, we do have a design for sean in somnium! he can be found under the cut :-3)
OUR SEANBALL!!! even though he’s universes apart from delta, that old man still manages to make himself known…
Archive Of Our Own link | SquidgeWorld Archive link
[Written for the Uchikoshi Big Bang 2026]
After helping Mira escape from prison to use the Transporter, Sean uses the quantum computer to travel to a different universe in hopes of finding information about the religious fanatic to save the history they’re currently in. However, a mistake causes him to end up in an unexpected location: the ABIS headquarters in Tokyo.
Now surrounded by strangers in a place he is unfamiliar with, he has to find as much information as he can on the suspect in this timeline, as well as find a way back to his original history to make sure they can find the religious fanatic on time.
Wordcount: 4116 words (first three chapters)
Content Warnings: Spoilers for both the Zero Escape series and the AI: The Somnium Files series. The fic will also include references to past canon events involving topics like murder, child abuse, and human experimentation, and there will also be a few mildly sexual jokes in the vein of what you'd expect from the AITSF series, but nothing too graphic.
It’s finally time to release the first half of the ZTD x AINI crossover fic I wrote for this year’s edition of the @uchibigbang! The fic will also include art by @sealtons and @oobi-oobi, so make sure to send their art some love too. You can find Oobi's art for chapter one here, and Keaton's art for chapter 2 (+some AI-ball/Somnium Sean references) here! :)
So excited to finally reveal my piece for the @uchibigbang 2026! (please click for better quality lol!)
Hina has to solve a colorful and mysterious somnium after she decides to save Sakura her own way... read the full fic by @voids-colourful-creations /ColorfulVoid on ao3!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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tangentwithtanner
romaincrisis
jacobvanloon
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