Petition to have Dragon go full Die Hard and come out of God Valley with all the kids
And their mums - come on, Oda! Stop fridging the mothers. They can all band together and make it out of there.
I just want Tritoma and the Kuja Pirates to rock up and help this beleaguered eyebrowless ex-marine and his new found family (and that's how she falls for him because I think she's totally Luffy's mum -no Oda, not another mother for you to fridge!)
there'sĀ something deeply fascinating to me about the idea of spending almost forty years believing whole-heartedly that you have a great life and are fighting for the right side, and it's yourĀ recklessĀ pirate brother on the filthy surface who got theĀ shitty lot in life. only for someone to look youĀ dead in the eye and see who you are and apologize for not saving you from becoming it.
you didn't think you needed to be saved. but you did. and you weren't. and i'm so sorry that you weren't.
hope the extremely long hiatus makes sense now lol I've had the gif sketched out for like a year now but ive just been putting it off and putting it off. And even when I got to The Week Of The Chapter, i became so unmotivated by the idea of completing it that my one piece drawing hyperfixation like fizzled out of existence and i moved to OC art.
Then one night I was complaining about it to some friends, like "can you believe i took 2 years of college in a 3D and Animation major to become an animator??? i cant even get through a 26 frame animation of a project that i love!" and then that night i cranked out the entire rest of the line art and some of the coloring, like 15 frames wtf was i on. i think i simply needed to complain about it to get it done.
anyway, im so glad to finally have this out, im so excited for you guys to see it. :))))))
TW: panic attack, hyperventilating, car crash, hallucinations, ptsd
you know a chapter is gonna be good when theres 5 warnings at the beginning advising you against reading it.
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So happy to finally have this post out, this scene is literally one of the first things i story boarded when i started to write this comic. Very proud of myself that I've gotten this far.
I even made a brush for this chapter lol if anyone wants the Panic Attack Brushset Here it is (never made a brushset before so lmk if something goes wrong with it if anyone actually downloads it)
Day one of Self Indulgent month for me! I love these three, i love haikyuu, i love killer whales!
(The Naval Academy is this auās version of marines)
For those who dont know, in Haikyuu (and prob in real life too but in my experience its not as important as they make it in the anime) The "Ace" of the team is the person who primarily scores points via spiking. Theyre the Hard Hitter, basically.
Design talkš
Originally, i was gonna make their school mascot just "The Pirates" but i couldnt figure out a clever pun with the school name so i scrapped it in favor of an animal mascot. I figured I would have a wider range of puns that way.
I landed on Orcas as the mascot because I think they really embody a pirate way of life. Theyre strong, hang out in groups of a mix of found family and their actual family, hate the rich, and theyre fun loving! And also im a bit biased because theyre my favorite animal, but hey, i said its self indulgent month, didnt I?
Their school name is a play on the word for Killer Whale (Shachi ć·ć£ć) and the word for 'knowledge' (Chishiki ē„č), i just smashed the two words together. I'm very proud of myself for coming up with that given i dont speak japanese at all.
Anyway, with their designs, I was taking inspiration from orcas to match the design themes of haikyuu. Ace's hair is bleached on the underside to look like the underside of an orca's body, I made ace and sabo's eyes look more whale-like, the clip in sabo's hair is meant to resemble to spots behind orca's eyes, and I tried to make luffy's hair look more like it's round and spiking down more than i usually do.
Ace is wearing a ''way of the ace" shirt in the first picture, Luffy is wearing a shirt that just says "VOLLEY BALL" because i think it would be funny if he wore a bunch of those Zero-context-poorly-translated-random-english-words shirts that theres a bunch of in Asia. Sabo dyes his hair like delinquents do, but it doesnt much look delinquent~y because of how soft it looks. He means to do it to make him look like a delinquent though. Sabo still has his scars in this au, but he uses his hair, arm braces, and leg braces to cover them up. LUFFY AND ACE HAVE FUNKY SOCKS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN TELL THEM (or me) THEY CANT. Sabo wears athletic socks though because he's a debbie downer. He defends himself saying āItās practicalā and Ace and luffy call him āpractically a Debbie Downer.ā
Luffy is very good at receiving from growing up with Sabo and Ace practicing setting and spiking with eachother and assigning Luffy as Ball Boy. So he got the libero position from that cuz sabo and ace put in a good word for him. Nepotism.
I didn't feel like coming up with designs for them, but Zoro and Bepo are also on their team (theyre in the fifth image sitting on the right of the line of students). Koala and nami are student managers, Robin is the teacher manager, and Franky is the coach. all other straw hats/luffy friends, rev army comrades, and whitebeard brethren are in the stands. Im trying to keep the ages consistent with how they are in canon.
I didnt do a very in depth research, but i couldnt find what Japanese schools have as mascot costumes. and given no one wears any costumes in haikyuu for their team, i can kind of assume they dont use them over there. But unfortunately for them, I'm American. And part of the backbone of our schooling system, is Vaguely Unsettling Mascot Costumes. My sister says my design for it looks like its from Club Penguin, and i find that delightful. [moment of silence for my billions of fallen Puffles, taken from me in The Shutdown] Anyway.
I thought I was clever coming up with the equivalent of the Marines in this au being a Naval Academy. And their mascot being Seals, famously the animal that gets the absolute Worst Of It from orcas. Get shit onnnnn
I believe thats about it, thanks for coming to my ted talk :)
Self indulgent month means I get to draw silly auās but it also means I get to illustrate the insatiable longing and eternal yearning for something that can never be trapped within my soul šš
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