ended up making vash's confetti bag, too. it was fun to lug it around the convention center!
didn't have a sewing kit & was running out of time to fetch one, so i ended up crafting this pocket entirely with hot glue. the toploader was double-sided
finally, here are some photos of me with the bag and toploader from the trigun photoshoot. i didn't attend it for long, but i did have fun for the few poses i struck!
in the first image, i'm looking hurried because i'd nearly missed my cue to run up with meryls and vashes! oops
can't find it, but i also rambled to my friends abt the plant root biopunky boots also being a way to grow 'roots' to stabilize before firing off a powerful shot
^(assuming stargaze vash will also be able to control & fire those black hole bullets his maximum counterpart does)
plus the whole idea behind the inside of the coat being blue and the outside being red... with the coattails i think when they're bent upward they make vash resemble a dependent plant, with the 'petals' blooming outward for when dependent plants go red.
"barely drew at all this entire year. but now, in the middle of december, im feeling confident about getting back into it again; it does feel like my skill has returned, or that at least trying isnt akin to pulling teeth
"...still know that i'm way way overdue on icon commissions and i'm incredibly sorry about that. if it all goes well i'll get back to you soon"
TOMBI's appearance is a bit deceiving: its "teeth" are actually soft flaps of skin, and he is in fact completely toothless. A headbutt from its thick skull would likely cause more damage than its gummy bite, but TOMBI is extremely averse to fighting to the point where it does not know any damaging moves.
While naturally quite a shy and timid creature, TOMBI is absurdly loyal and will rarely ever disobey commands, even if his own health is demanded to the point of self-KO. Additionally, he boasts a high amount of HP, which he utilizes for his supportive moves. Vash loves this little guy, and would welcome anyone asking for a copy of him. He's not explaining whatever's up with the glowing markings on it, though.
Moveset:
Lo(o)se Tail
Tantrum
Defender
Grand Restore
Drain Orb
Lo(o)se Tail — Technically, either a passive ability or a commanded move. TOMBI's tail is dense and detachable. Attacks directed toward the tail do not affect TOMBI's base HP, but it can only suffer a finite amount of damage before it is rendered unusable.
TOMBI can also be commanded to detach the tail (ie: TOMBI is caught by the tail, or an opposing Spiramonster has latched onto it), but this comes at a price: its heavy tail is used as a counterbalance to its massive skull, therefore if detached, TOMBI will be highly prone to toppling over. (And crying. A lot. See 'Tantrum'). TOMBI's tail will only regenerate when it is swapped out for another Spiramonster, since it has performance anxiety.
Tantrum — TOMBI takes a pratfall, wailing loudly and making a big deal out of it. This pathetic display draws opponent Spiramonster attention, putting them in a state of confusion and aggression. Affected Spiramonsters' attacks will be directed solely toward TOMBI until the enraged Spiramonsters are switched out for another.
Defender — A sharp rush of agility and speed overtakes TOMBI, set to defend another Spiramonster. It will throw itself into the way of harm to protect its target. The buff lasts until TOMBI's tail is severed or detached, or if TOMBI is commanded to use Tantrum. When TOMBI's tail is detached, it no longer has access to this move.
Grand Restore — A healing move. The amount of health restored is equivalent to the amount of health TOMBI sacrifices of itself. If ordered, TOMBI will KO himself to heal the target. This move cures confusion and enraged statuses for both the user and the target. TOMBI must make physical contact with his head onto the target for this move to work. TOMBI's underbelly markings will glow while using this move.
Drain Orb — When pushed to its utmost limits, TOMBI may use this last-resort move. A dark core of gravity appears in its mouth, sucking in nearby allies and foes alike to its epicenter.
Before anyone can get close enough to get absorbed, however, TOMBI will become overwhelmed with fear and snap its jaws shut, swallowing the attack before it can cause any damage. It will have hiccups for the rest of the battle. This is the only move TOMBI will not willingly perform on command.
hi. i'm alive! but i'm also fucking lazy, so instead of reposting this onto here as an original i'm just gonna reblog this from my own roleplay account lmfao. yes this is me, i did this <3
turns out my KZ art was looking great bc it didnt use too many colors... now, the quality isn't actually 1:1 in this case but i think that's a fine trade so that these don't get stolen lol
re: post that says i play a part in "carrying the fandom"
not going to name names, not going to mention (tumblr function) anyone, but i want to nip this notion in the bud.
prefacing this with the disclaimer that this is strongly worded, that this is going to sound mean and harsh, but i'm fine with coming off that way, if i get to assert my boundaries.
i'm incredibly averse to "fandom". i want nothing to do with fandom involvement. i am not here to make friends. all i need to enjoy media is to talk about it with the handful of friends i've shared it to, and i either already have that, or i make it happen. when it comes to needing to use art to appreciate a given work, i express this creative energy in many different ways. visual art is one outlet for that self-expression.
all i'm doing on cohost/tumblr/twitter/etc. is using relevant tags for art i make, deciding what i can/want to share to the public. tumblr's archiving and tagging system, while still lacking in features over the past decade, is notorious for how useful it is to visual artists.
do not put me on a pedestal, and do not treat my work like its public domain use. you'd be wrong to do either.
i'm not superior or inferior to you; don't act like it. there is a reason my art accounts all use a selfie of me as my avatar. we do not know each other and i'm perfectly fine with that. stay on your side of the screen.
given 8/9 posts i've made on this account so far are katana zero posts, and that i was mentioned as one of a few artists "carrying the fandom" on here by a fandom member, i also want to speak my mind about how i perceive this specific fandom. it's weird. a lot frustrates me about it. i've seen a lot of things that make my stomach turn.
some heavy issues are treated in flippant manner, despite the source game portraying them with appropriate gravity. for whatever reason, it's typical for the fandom to lighten fifteen's skin, despite it being exactly the same as zero's skintone. there is a bizarrely prevalent attitude that the incoming DLC is an owed debt to the fandom, enough for people to make accounts like one dedicated to a daily count of how long it's been since full release without the DLC. come on, people.
it's as if the DLC exists in some strange intangible vacuum where the budget, size, and humanity of the dev team are somehow not a factor. as though the DLC exists separate from the ongoing pandemic, and a literal real war affecting the team.
to see so many "fans" act incredibly entitled, so loudly and constantly, and doing this everywhere and anywhere it's fucking possible to leave a comment or post, even on unrelated work, well…
yeah, hopefully by now it's clear why i would want to distance myself from any fandom involvement. i hate fandom. it's never a healthy culture; katana zero's fandom is no special outlier to that.
i'm not a superhero savior to this fandom that is supposedly "dying", "near-dead", etc. im not "carrying" shit, i'm just using your tags. "this fandom is nearly dead" then die! i'm not a part of this!
go read interviews from the dev team and learn about game development—hell, go and try to draw or animate or compose or code something for a game, and then just try to get back to me about how "unreasonable" the wait is for the DLC.
pretending this exists in a vacuum: if the "first act" of the story took 6 years of development, and the DLC is currently taking 3 years so far, and the DLC's size is of half the main game... is the rate of game development truly anything close to unreasonable?
...i'll say that, to me, there's a difference between fans of a work of media and the "fandom" for it, even if the former group is not entirely separate from the latter.
from half a month of being on tumblr i've grown over 50 followers, which is incredible, especially for a single-digit amount of art shared so far. i read tags. i check my mentions. there's been some lovely compliments through tags on reblogs, which i appreciate, and i further appreciate that my work is being enjoyed and shared through reblogs and likes. thank you.
p much the bulk of you treat me kindly; honestly, i'm still trying to wrap my head around all the positive attention and encouragement. thank you for taking care and effort to tell me what you have. energy and time have finite limits; i'm happy when people decide to spend that on making me feel appreciated.
but i'm also a rather direct person, and don't like being wishy-washy about my limits and boundaries.
so, to conclude: i get uncomfortable when people try to nominate me as notable for any involvement in "fandom", and further, when strangers talk as though i'm trying to breathe life into any fandom perceived as "dead" or "dying". that's not my problem. i'm not trying to solve it, either.
i'm not looking for recognition as a popular figure in a fandom. what i create and why i create it is independent of any fandom existing. i don't want anything to do with fandom involvement. leave me out of it.
this specific iteration of fifgreen, while unquestionably based off of this original concept art by kenju, was drawn for the sake of the isola-associated RP account i have for fifteen over @/serpentsbreath, in which fifgreen is an alternate-universe version of fifteen.
so if you're thinking fifgreen looks older and happier than fifteen, you'd be right.
in a nutshell, fifgreen is a plain human being who's a full decade older than fifteen. they exist in the same space.
fifgreen was born and raised in the RP group's setting, and tends to have the upper hand in conversations with his new mecca counterpart, on account of having been them for much longer. he's much more kind and human than fifteen, and his temper has mellowed out considerably at his age, but he also tends to express dark notions in a rather flippant manner.
he's hiding a lot from himself. 🫢
i've written quite a bit on serpentsbreath of fifgreen, although the content of such may be difficult to understand without the context of the group, its members, its setting, and the event in which he was created for.
but if you're interested in that, here are links to some of the drabble-only interactions between fifteen and his "normal" counterpart: one — two — three — four. content warnings are in tags at the bottom of the page, apologies for the inconvenience but there's not much helping that.
prguitarman
areudirty
snowghoul
romaincrisis
andulkaphoto
tangentwithtanner
vaporwave
discoholicmusic