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Hello hello! My name is Jen (they/them), and I draw things.
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Shop
If you'd like to buy some prints or merch from me, please consider checking out my shop! Iāve just recently added some new prints, keychains, and Olruggio and Qifrey standees!
Prints and posters of One Piece, Genshin Impact, and Kirby
Projects
Here are some of the things Iāve been working on!
One Piece
Spade Pirate Sabo AU | Masterpost
Luffy Week 2024
Sabo Week 2025
Cookie Run Kingdom
Lost Shepherd AU (Truthless Recluse Time Travel AU)
Genshin Impact
Homuncular Nature (Albedo FMA crossover) | AO3
Ten Thousand Maple Leaves (Kazuha KNY crossover) | AO3
Albedo Klee Ageswap AU
Misc
Kirby Gijinka
Original Characters
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Updated my shop today with new prints, the Olruggio and Qifrey standees, and the keychains! And I finally got around to compiling all my ASL birthday week illustrations into a single book! Please check it out!
Of note, I just ordered the prints a few days ago and they wonāt be arriving for another week or 2, so if you order them, please be patient on the shipping! And unfortunately I didnāt get to order N with the new batch of prints so N will also come a bit later than the rest of them heh
Older Witch Hat children designs!!!! theyre in their late 20's-early 30's! see if you can catch all the little details~~
@otaku553 and @fluffyartbl0g did these with me!!! We used a custom Wheel of Names wheel to assign who got who which was super dooper fun heehee
We did Tetia, Tartah, and Custas first a week ago, took like 3 hours on magma. and today we did Coco, Agott, and Richeh, which we all are a lot more confident with.
I redid some aspects of the first batch just for the hell of it~~
And heres some further design commentary from us!! Hope you enjoy :)
theres a lot.
Wheryās designs:
Custas- i wanted to make him masculine like a peacock is masculine. I really like his gorgeous hat that the brimmed caps gave him and i carried the feathers(? (Leaves?)) to the shoulders too! I wanted to make the hat somewhat ambiguous if itās brimmed or not. I have it flaking off, or adding on, but either way heās free to choose which he wants. Because at the point of the story weāre at right now, im not entirely sure what kind of morality heās going to double down on, so weāll see. Also his three poofs are supposed to resemble Dagdaās :)
Now we dont know what cures the silver wood treeās infection. But in my mind, perhaps the heart of the treeās roots grow in the area that is the most fucked up, so if you take off that area, you take out the parasite. Thus the decision was made by Custas to get them amputated. The flesh was deteriorating and rotting from not getting nutrients or activity due to the injury/wood, and it needed to get amputated anyway. You can see his hair is grown out a bit from when it was pure white, so heās been a while without it at this point.
The prosthetic legs were inspired by his wheel chair he was given and were made by Tartah, who in this au is somewhat of a carpenter. They both are more or less outlaws, due to the unfortunate fact that tartah has a sigil branded into him (illegal) and custas was(is) a brimmed cap(illegal). Even though Custas has an ambiguous cap, he does not consider himself a brimmed cap. They both don't contribute to any larger cause. They just roam around, dodging knights moralis, learning medicine, playing music, and hanging with their friends (keep that on the down low though, if anyone asks, they were never there.).
Richeh- In this AU, she is a farmer. She has found herself being a picky eater and wants to create food that she likes, so she genetically and magically modifies her crops to create the perfect food for her. Those in her community who have tasted her food really enjoyed it enough for her to eventually open a farm stand, which she very much enjoys! This aspect was inspired by her enjoyment of working for Nolnoaās stand in the fair arc.
I love the idea that Richeh and Euini live in a pretty isolated cabin, where she creates her concoctions for fertilizer, food, or seed specifying. I imagine she asks him to get ingredients off of shelves during her procedures, and he nudges them off the shelf with his nose and catches it gently in his large dog mouth and brings it to her dutifully.
She has buttons on the arm holes of her dress/poncho that Coco sewed for her. It makes it so that if sheās in public, she can still cover her arms if she needs to cast spells. She just needs to take off her belt and bring her arms in the holes hehe.
I also gave her a tan because i think it would be funny if she tan-mogged the living hell out of her brother. Who is. SHEET white, i know it.
I made her hair more curled, like her ribbons curl, and i of COURSE added one of her ribbons to the top of her hat and her hair tie, but other than that i didnt want to make her very flashy. Keeping it simple, especially when all of her friends have a lot of ornamentation and bells and whistles and everything, is important too when creating character designs. It makes her stand out!!
Euini- I donāt know how theyre going to take his character progression, but i donāt think theyāre going to be able to turn him back into a human. Those carved sigils into skin are permanent, unfortunately. So, i just think his character arc will be learning to make peace with both sides of him, even if he may just prefer to be a big fluffy doggey most of the time :]
I gave him a tassel earring to resemble his new professor, Elaira, and Richehās ribbon on his leg as well because itās CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somewhat of a side note: Richeh really lucked out. I mean. it is Terrible. What happened to Euini. Absolutely terrible. But i could not be happier for Richeh, she was born to have a werewolf boyfriend. I know shes living the dream i know it. LIKE I KNOW IT!!!!!
Jenās designs:
Tartah: he uses tattoos of things like plants and stars and feathers to hide the magic branded into his wrist, made using a tattoo pen he invented. Itās got repetition magic to move a thin needle up and down and inject pigment into a surface, and works well on any flexible item. His hatās still fashioned similarly to Nolnoaās but it doesnāt stand straight on his head because he doesnāt consider himself an upstanding member of witch society (or a part of it at all, really, seeing as itās on sight for the knights moralis with him). He has one pouch over his shoulder for medicines and herbs and one pouch at his waist for magic stationer tools on the go. He has a lot of triangles as a callback to Nolnoaās design, because even if heās on the run he still visited his grandpa occasionally just so his grandpa knew he was doing fine
whery's commentary: I imagine he grows up to be a carpenter/widdler as well as a medical student! I think it would work very well for what he has already, learning how to carve, living in a house with a silver wood in it, etc etc~ I imagine while theyre on the run tartah makes he and custas makeshift huts
he chops down some trees to drape some fabric over and create a place for them to stay
At least until they get busted again
I imagine Tartah is such a sturdy man. Him growing up to have big steady hands makes me emotional to think about.
Agott: she based the design of her cap on both of her teachersā, with green tassels to represent youth and learning and springtime (and coco). Sheās taken up a similar role to Olruggio as someone who sells her magic inventions to rich patrons but otherwise uses her magic to help people for free and cheer them up. Her specialty is light magic of different animal forms, and after she gets confident in her casting, is able to devote more time to showmanship and using magic as a performing art. I like to think she does consultations with other witches sometimes to help them brainstorm ideas for exhibiting their inventions for things like silver eve, but her best ideas will always go to coco. Visually her outfit is similar to Olruggio since connections go a long way in marketing but also her cloak clasp ties in part of cocoās hat and her cloak shape and tassels are based on the jacket she wore on the night that she and coco snuck out to draw at night before silver eve. Her hat is also based on the dress she wears when sheās not in her student robes
whery commentary: i imagine her mother is super jealous of her living her dreams outside of the library hah hah ya snooze ya lose, sucker
Loopey's Designs:
Tetia - For da overall atmosphere I ofc KNEWWW I had to do sumthin pink and fluffy!!! thats her whole GAME!!! The double witch hat is from her canon wish to have em in the future, and I thought itd be cute to put lil fluffy fluffs on the ends of them X3!!! I think I drew the bracelet based on something I saw the king wearing? A subtle nod to her relations with the prince ouo. The dress was based on an illustration Shirahama sensei drew of her with a cute fit X3 The illustration in question also dressed her up in some cute flowers so I thought it'd be cute to put a lil flower bracelet n flower crown on her :3 The leg warmers I did cuz wherys sona has em and I thot it wud be fitting OuO. I kinda did this unintentionally but isn't it cool how her split cape parallels her witch hats hehe. And I added the sheepo... BECAUSE I COULD!!! WAHAHHAA!!!!!!!!!!
Whery's commentary: i like to imagine Tetia grows up to become a Comfort Engineer! She specializes in making beds, couches, chairs, anything that someone would want to seek comfort in. and of course her specialty Cloud Room.
She would provide beds to Custas and Tartah that can collapse back to a glyph on a sheet of wood or something, for ample portability and comfort as they go from place to place.
Coco - originally whery was like oohoeoho what if we like made everyone a diff weather/season theme, and since tartah alrdy looks spring-like I went into my coco design loosely thinking of summer! In the end we didn't rlly stick to the seasonal plan, but I think coco and agott has a cute day/night feel to them X3 Coco spraying the water on the two of them is also a call back to when Coco initially accidentally sprayed Agott near the start of the animanga XD She has a lot more control now tho!!!
I wanted to include some of inspo in this design from Coco's mom. Her mom wears this cute headwear, and I didn't think I cud rlly put it on Coco's head without the hat getting in the way, so I put it ontop of her hat instead! I think it looks vry cute :> The star on her hat and brooch is the same design as the one on her brush pen :D I WAS JUST GONNA COMMENT ON HOW COCO AND AGOTT ARE TWINNING IN THE LIL DIAMOND DECOR I PUT ON HER HAT AND THE ONE CONJOINING AGOTTS CLOAK, OMG BUT IM LOOKING AT JENS DESCRIPTION AND IT TURNS OUT THEY INTENTIONALLY TWINNED WITH MY DESIGN KYAHHH SOO CUTEEE!!!! anyways, that diamond decor and her dress are directly inspired from Shirahama sensei dressing up Coco in bonus illustrations XD The lil V thing under the cardigan and cloak is a nod to her brimhat design, and the cardigan is literally the one her mom wears. Straight up!
I was 2 lazy to come up with my own shoes so i just stole jens design for agotts shoes.... mayb in this future Coco makes both of them matching sets of the flying shoe thingos X3!!! Whery told me that apparently Shirahama sensei said that Coco's hair is light green and will darken when she grows up to allude to imagery of a sapling developing into a more lush plant ouo. So I did exactly that for her hair >:3c Alsoo everyone say thaaankss Jen for doing the water and gay ass rainboww up theree, ehehe arent the waterfish so cute š„¹
whery's commentary: i think that Coco would of course become a professor to some apprentices~~ it is uncertain whether by the end of the story everyone, regardless of if theyre born into it or not, can learn magic, but i think it would be cute if she trained some non-magic-born children to become witches :)))
THANK YOU FOR READING if you got this far you're INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but absolutely appreciated :3
and you also get a treat:
Agott and Coco are married, they have wedding rings on their fingers in the art
so are Richeh and Euini but more in like a common law marriage way.
and Tartah and Custas are figuring things out but they were set back a lot during those years of custas having the silverwood parasite in him. they will kiss. let it be known far and wide.
Updated my shop today with new prints, the Olruggio and Qifrey standees, and the keychains! And I finally got around to compiling all my ASL birthday week illustrations into a single book! Please check it out!
Of note, I just ordered the prints a few days ago and they wonāt be arriving for another week or 2, so if you order them, please be patient on the shipping! And unfortunately I didnāt get to order N with the new batch of prints so N will also come a bit later than the rest of them heh
Ohhhhhh now I see the REAL reason why you wanted to put N in MHA: to make him A Teacher š I am very much looking forward to Legal Adult Who Has Interacted With One (1) Child In His Life Becoming The New Cool Mysterious Brooding TA(TM)
THANKS LMAO and thank you for reading!!
I think itās hilarious that the one (1) child he has interacted with has also been the one heās been projecting his main beef and ideological struggle onto. Like Hil(da/bert) is like 14. Heās a whole ass 20 year old beefing with a 14 year old over how he wants to change the world.
I just think heād be absolutely hilarious if he ever got ahold of a twitter account lmao. Absolute menace
In all honesty it made the most sense to me to put him as a teacher on account of him being quirkless and Old. He canāt really be a student or a hero, especially not in a context where heās popped up out of nowhere and has no forms of legal identification. I think teaching is also really unique of a skill set to have in that being good at something and understanding it intimately and innately doesnāt really make you good at explaining it. Hopefully the fic gets far enough to explore that a bit.
Assistant teacher N could be very sweet, but I feel like he might get overwhelmed with some of the students. Is it really a good idea to put him in a room full of curious teenagers? Lovely chapter btw, I was surprised you updated so quickly! Im assuming some of them are already pre written?
Tumblr hates me because I tried to respond to this and it deleted my response. Anyways Iāve typed it out again
Yes!! N is absolutely going to be overwhelmed by the students. One of the things I enjoy writing is putting my favorites in Situations, with Situations usually being social interactions against their will. N is absolutely going to stumble through social interactions and get odd looks for it and thatās the whole point! Making characters uncomfortable is, I feel like, the first step to getting them to grow outside of their comfort zone.
And thank you for reading! But no, like an insane person I actually just wrote all of chapter 2 in the past 3 days since posting chapter 1.
Chapter 1 was also written in about 3 days I thinkā¦? Canāt remember heh
When I write things I generally try not to expect much of myself or look back on it, so most of my writing is posted as soon as I finish my first draft, with minimal editing and no beta reader. Iāve pretty much never had a beta reader aside from friends who Iāve shown things to early, but even most of the time, my friends arenāt in half the fandoms I write for.
Thatās also why I have such a chaotic upload schedule! Sometimes I donāt write for months on end, and then I suddenly write a ton and post it and then go hibernate again for a bit.
Somehow made it through writing chapter 2 of the N in MHA fic! Finally got to the main part that I wanted to write before ending chapter 1 and it only took *checks notes* 16,000 words in total
In your tags you mentioned thinking a lot about N. So, what sorts of thoughts are you thinking? Or, what are your favorite thing(s) about him/why do you like him so much?
(Just curious)
This got quite long (of course) so I put it in a readmore!
I feel like thereās so much to examine about him that itās hard to organize well, but if I were to pick out the main things that really interest me, itās his autonomy, morality, and humanity (or lack thereof, in all three). In all of these, I feel like N is quite complex and nuanced, and falls into a very gray area thatās just fascinating!
When N is a child living in a forest, he has basically complete freedom, because he doesnāt even experience the arbitrary limitations of societal expectations. He can do whatever he wants, because thereās nobody responsible for him, and every Pokemon he meets is his equal. This paradigm shifts to the complete opposite the moment Ghetsis picks him up, because the introduction of a Fatherā the rigid social role of familyā means that N has to fulfill obligations to someone other than himself, and will suffer social consequences if he doesnāt.
When we examine his actions as an adult, itās important to note that decisions are predicated on information and context. When N was growing up, he was always presented with Pokemon who had been abused by their trainers, who wouldnāt even speak to him. He got to see the worst parts of the world, and nothing else, and because of that he ended up incorrectly extrapolating from the little unfortunate realities he experienced and projecting that onto the rest of the world.Ā
Though N makes the final decision on whether or not to do something asked of him (find the legendary dragon, defeat the champion, become the king of team plasma and the leader of the region), the peopleĀ who have presented him with only the information that would prime him to make a decision are really the ones who have control over his actions. But does that really excuse him entirely from being willing to do them? Does ignorance absolve him of accountability for his actions, even if this ignorance was manufactured by people who sought to use them?
When you also consider the pedestal that Team Plasma put him on, and how it was put into his mind since childhood that he was special, chosen, meant to be the savior and the king because he was the only person with the innate ability to do so, it becomes self-fulfilling in that failure is not an option. If you spend an entire life with a fixed identity built on the backs of othersā perceptions of yourself, then failing to meet those expectations is a soul-crushing experience that feels like it robs you of your identity.Ā
Of course, he genuinely cares about the Pokemon, but I wonder where in his mind the line blurs between empathy and duty. The pitfall of building your identity on othersā expectations and desires is that in the end, that too is a perception, and is liable to human error.Ā
I wonder if N took it upon himself to free Pokemon even if they didnāt ask it of him because somewhere that he wouldnāt acknowledge, he thought that based on his limited information of the world, he knew better than them and would be able to give them a world they could not envision for themselves, but would want if presented as a possibility to them. The tragedy is that this applies to himself as wellā he was never given the full picture, and those who sought to use him did not give him the education to know all the possibilities and choose for himself what would be best, believing that they probably knew what was best for him as well. Nās position would be enviable to any of the people who follow him: he would be in the position of ultimate power over the region if heād followed Ghetsisās plans for him.
This man is just wrapped in so many layers of irony and I feel like thereās so much more that can be unpacked about the contradictions in his worldview that are a product of his incredibly messed up upbringing. I feel like above all itās incredibly tragic that heās spent almost his whole life in service to others, whether that be willingly to Pokemon or unknowingly to Ghetsis and Team Plasma. I feel like heās never gotten a chance to have his own identity outside of thatā his own passions or interestsā but we do see some of that peek through in the way he sees the world with formulas and uses math and science everywhere!
Delving a bit more into headcanon territory, I feel like part of controlling Nās knowledge must have also included curating his education on different topics to steer away from things like history, social studies, and literature, since these would be most likely to give N the resources to poke holes in Team Plasmaās fabricated reality. I like to think that Nās focus on math is because math is something āpure,ā and thus something he can study as much as he wants.Ā
That concludes my current thoughts on N because this is getting way too long but man. I can be so normal about him
Hi, I read your new chapter and saw that you encouraged sending in asks but I can't think of anything to ask right now so instead, I'm going to scream (affectionately)
Remember the post of N doodles from a couple of days ago where I mentioned in the tags a fic idea where N is just a normal guy in MHA because thereās no Pokemon for him to talk to.
Unfortunately I did write it and chapter 1 is now up
