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i'm redthunderstorm. this is my mo4 art sideblog. i’d prefer if you’re 16+ to follow for its contents.

adukin & zakuro have been imprinted onto my soul. it’s pleasantly maddening!!! i hope you enjoy.

⚠️ this blog heavily contains NON-CANON content, and untagged spoilers for main story / post game.

🚷 body horror, blood/gore, & mild suggestiveness are afoot

some of my art is featured in zakuro tycoon, a short game by sigkinhater.

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2025 stuff i don't mind sharing now...eep

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stream of consciousness

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thank you for being such an amazing artists, whenever you post it’s the highlight of my week. I think about your art constantly and the way you depict aduzaku as something more than a relationship, I’m not sure how to describe it but it’s something special

with hugs and silly songs,

A Zakuro fictive

i can’t find the words to express how much this means to me. thank you. it strikes me in awe that it holds a special place in your heart. for my art to have as much meaning to someone else as it does to me. what do i do! I live to create. I appreciate you.

I’m ecstatic to hear it comes across that way. you don’t even know. i’ve been meaning to direct my mo4 art to be a more long-winded character analysis between all the numas, because that’s what i really care about. i’ve been hesitant for a long time.

since you mentioned those two, i feel obligated to ramble about what they mean to me. how i specifically view their relationship.. or try too! if you wish to read!

the entire concept of their relationship fascinates me to the core, it was never about being in love. its more about a mutual visceral urge to be seen, heard, and understood by one another. & by the world too.

Zakuro doesn’t care about reciprocation. If Adukin ever sacrificed herself, time, or efforts for someone like her, she’d fall apart. What she cares about is bringing out the repressed self that’s killing her inside! to ultimately see those parts of Adukin coexist once again. to see her thrive. to keep her alive. but what happens if Adukin seeks to reciprocate the same understanding towards Zakuro? Chaos ensues. it’s something like that.

In my art, i try to convey what is currently unraveling about them. you are discovering these new found feelings with them. this is the best and most fun way to explore any kind of relationship i’d think. It never gets old. and I always end up finding something new between them the more i draw their complex feelings. which in turn makes me even CRAZIER! haha!

Those Two… they’ve become so specific to me when paired together, i’d be here all day trying to explain myself. I hold them so close to my heart,. what makes them so appealing to me is their ambiguity, what it means to them to be dedicated to one another. their vulnerability is something only they get to understand… I think about them constantly.

maybe im stretching out too much to make sense of them! maybe I’ve gone somewhere no one else has gone before! i don’t really mind it though.

i try not to be too wordy but fail everytime. mention the very thing i love and i will lose sight of everything else! ahh! your message encourages me to keep sharing.💗 don’t stop loving the way you do it’s important to keep that part of you very close.

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i feel yr love / its 2 much 2 bear

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hi another zakuro rambling post except this time it’s to try to find meaning in her actions and person. i tend to take things more dramatically than they actually are for my own enrichment. read if you’d like!

maybe it’s just me, i think the reason why it may feel a little silly to take zakuro seriously and put her on the same thoughtful pedestal as her friends is because she outwardly doesn’t take herself seriously. giving this impression that she couldn’t possibly be anything more than what she gives us. so in-turn, we may feel second hand embarrassment. but i see through her ways… her goal to push us away before we see her inner self. it’s been eating me away for awhile now. this possibility that she is ‘two-dimensional’ on purpose.

to clarify i don’t actually see zakuro as ‘two dimensional’. you can tell she is dedicated to protect and fight like all her friends, for her friends! and for her own reasons too. we’re all selfish here... she can be fairly complex though maybe not as much as the one’s we see more on screen. I only presented it like this, because she's someone who i think sticks out from the other main characters. giving off a more “side character” at a first glance, at least with how she communicates. i won’t deny most of them suffer this... for zakuro she seems so one note on the surface. i imagine it'll be hard for a player who haven't thought much about her to grow attached to her. unless you’re already captivated by her obnoxious persona. then maybe it won’t be. …it started like that for me. I clawed around her room for answers. here i am to share you my delusions.

just like everyone else in this series, she cannot communicate how much she cares! she is one of the characters i think is the worst at expressing it. her vocabulary, exchanges in conversation, even her facial expressions are lacking. you’d expect more! she goes from one extreme to the other, or even purposely ignoring responsibility to go along with whatever she wants. she acts like she’s not completely there but she isn’t unaware either. how do you explain who zakuro is? she’s excited to be alive! her spontaneous nature, jester-like personality, and everything unanswered about her is why i adore her.

that doesn’t remove her from feeling, or even intentions (good or bad). if she didn’t care about her friends and home, she wouldn’t put any effort in sticking around. only thing is now, she’s out of reach. no one can hear her in a way that matters.

but…. she’s not truly out of reach. She doesn’t HAVE to be this way. right? i only imagine, because of her seemingly purposeful stagnation through her expression & actions, it leaves no room for vulnerability. it’s just another sign to me: she doesn’t let herself be in reach. being held in such genuine hands doesn’t sit right with her, could she even bear the thought? she’d squirm away despite how she feels inside.

much to say the same for everyone.

i have made up an explanation to this, but i fear it’s nothing more than that. a lot of this is made up! stacking on-top of what little crumbs i could find. You honestly have to mold her into what you think she is! exciting!

now you’ve got to be wondering: why did she make herself this way on purpose?! I cannot give you a canon-accurate answer to this. most of what i referenced for inspiration are from games that have been retconned so… I do not want my answers to be interpreted like they're true. I’ll ask a question for your question.

have you wondered WHY her ultimate skill name is “it’s me zakuro!”? easy, it’s like an exclaimed title. but it could also be, bear with me now i know how silly this sounds, a possibility she’s reminding you of who she is? her voice is so loud, it has defintely become unavoidable! of course everyone knows who she is. you can’t forget now that she makes it so known. but maybe we could consider, and this is just a ‘what-if’: there was a point in time where her friends found her more easy to ignore. food for thought!

lots of reasons can be why she is the way she is, i have my reasons. what would you want it to be? look at her more closely…. & go find your zakuro! there’s one out there perfectly crafted for you.

thanks for letting me bounce this around with y'all for fun. I am only desperate for the vision to be out there. take a bite if you'd like.

below is an attempt at describing my idea of her, if you wish to read. it’s not everything, but condensed enough.

i’m fascinated with this amalgamated idea of zakuro desperately trying to recover her 'self' from her clones, her mistakes, her friends, the changing WORLD! stitching hazy memories she can no longer trace the origin of & through mimicking her friend’s actions together, all to aimlessly take back whatever has been lost. i doubt she even remembers what she’s trying to hide or reveal anymore. what was shame to her? what was love to her? it’s all unraveling. she changed so much but never changed. her feelings differed throughout time unseen, wondering who was the true zakuro? hidden from us. what was an attempt to be less burdensome, she found herself becoming more of a nuisance than ever. so much that she eventually takes a turn to embrace it. her affectionate trouble, she becomes a thing that’s unavoidable yet untouchable. removed herself from being ever taken seriously that, deep down, she dare wishes to be taken seriously?! not that she’ll ever admit it. she already accepted it can’t be done, but i know it’s by far the truth. her self fulfilling prophecy. she’s fully aware.

the effects she gives off to her friends... being unattainable seems to ironically draw them in. hesitant curiosity attracts them. they could say they feel a subtle change in her that they can’t quite understand. small enough to make them feel crazy. it’s probably been there since forever! who cares. it’s more noticeable now that she’s overtaking their daily lives. what is it to care about a girl you can’t even remember clearly? she’s not a good person. they’re not either. unease is felt when it’s too quiet without her around. but aren’t they already too late? why care now if they didn’t care to understand before?! you know that's a lie. they have to tear their skin off first before they rediscover that soft gooey part of themselves they just love to hide. i could go on and on about it forever.

deep in my heart, there's always a work-around even for the less thought out ones. i really do treat them like my little soap opera but it’s fun. can’t it be both unserious, and melodramatic? it already is to me!

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