For fun, I decided to make a bunch of Gijinkas for box weapons. I focused on the Vongola Guardian’s weapons here but I did design the Varia’s and some of the Millefiore(mostly the fake wreaths for obvious reasons) too as well as some extras. I’ll put a link to them in this post when I eventually get to them! But these were so fun to do!
Vongola || Varia || Millefiore || Misc.
Below the cut is an explanation of my process when designing them.
So first off as you may notice with all of them, I didn’t really want to have actual animal parts to them. It tends to feel like cheating at least to me, and I wanted the challenge of figuring out alternate ways of having ears and tails. Additionally of the few gijinkas I had seen of box animals they did seem like they were just. The user but slightly different. I obviously didn’t want to go down that route. I mostly wanted to keep their colours shared with the box weapon though in some I had to add in some just for balance. Now let’s get into the specifics!
Natsu
Natsu our nervous little guy, I immediately had ideas for. I had to do a hoodie to get that sort of mane, and so he had something to hide if when he gets nervous. I felt Tsuna’s box weapon would probably dress more casually than others even if Natsu is in fact a lion. The hardest part I had with him was the colours, as he’s very brightly coloured so figuring out how to balance that without it being too obnoxious was a challenge. Funny enough the Blue is actually from his helmet, it was actually the black I needed to add for a filler colour.
Uri
Uri was a fun one, she felt like she should have more of an edgy design, mostly probably because of his more aggressive personality... and probably because of Gokudera tbh. I thought the best way to incorporate the cat ears was probably the bandana. The chain tail however is my favourite part of this design. It was very hard for me to decide what his colours should be for the exact same reason as Natsu. She has way too many bright colours and in the end I had to break my rule again and add blue for him.
Jiro
This one, now Jiro and Kojiro I kind of wanted to be twins in face and have opposite hair to each other. Jiro I had decided would be the more playful of the two, probably due to. Y’know dog and being the younger Yamamoto’s in the first place. Jiro was actually very easy to design, for the probably obvious reason of the dog was already wearing things. So it was easy to figure out where the colours should go. Though, I do like the bow I made for his curly tail either way.
Kojiro
As stated above I wanted Kojiro to be the more serious of the twins(though still just as kind). Mainly because he was the TYL Yamamoto’s first, who was shown to be more serious though still goofy at times. Kojiro being well a swallow meant I needed to figure out how to incorporate his wings and signature split tail into the design, ending up as a bit of a fancier boy than expected with a cape and a tailed suit. Of course I had to make those weird ear things headphones, it just felt right. By the way, getting the colours for this bird was incredibly hard, it’s never not covered in rain flame so I had to eyeball it.
Roll
Roll was fun, mostly because thanks to them being a hedgehog that means I get to put a lot of spikes. They genuinely hurt my hand by the end, but anything for this baby I guess. The purples from the belt are actually from their more armored form as I wanted to pull something more reminiscent there without incorporating weird padding into the design. Overall I may have a slight bias on this one due to personal tastes of wanting that jacket.
Mukurowl
Now, you probably have questions. Questions such as ‘Why is Mukurowl, the one that you could have definitely just made Mukuro, not Mukuro?” Well there is two answers. One is, I did not want to. The second is that the box weapon is literally a rain box weapon that was somehow possessed by Mukuro to become a mist box weapon and later upgraded to be a full mist box. I really wish I knew how that worked but that’s not something we can answer here. Of course, I felt with him being possessed he would probably hide the eye a bit more than Mukuro does now which is why the long swipe of hair over his face, and just a little bit of a touch of Mukuro hints otherwise with the long ponytail that the TYL has. Otherwise I just went with the vibes that he would be a fancy man with sleeves that are wings and a suit that drapes nicely into a tail. I was worried there was too much white as I was colouring but I think it looks good now.
Gyuudon
Oh Gyuudon was a hard one, for many reasons. 1. He’s a bull, just a straight up Bull with armour. 2. He is an almost completely black bull, this did not leave a lot of colour options. So there was a bit of a struggle, Eventually I decided I wanted him to look like he was ready for combat, but not exactly an aggressive force despite that. Large and intimidating of course but someone who’s more defensive. So there was some armour and a bullet proof vest like elements incorporated for that. I didn’t wanna go fully armoured because at a certain point he may look more like a storm trooper or a knight which while neat felt overkill in comparison to the rest. Also a friend offered that maybe he should have a nose ring and honestly I can’t say no to a neat piercing.
Gyaruu
Now Gyaruu in comparison, oh did I immediately have ideas for her. It helped she already had some things to add to the design but otherwise there was a lot of freedom. Of course I needed to have a more sporty design due to the boxing gloves that came with and not just because of Ryohei. The tied jacket becoming her tail and the bandages on her head being her ears were fun little things for me to figure out what I could use without treading over what the other designs already had.
What would Mari and her guardians animal boxes be? I bet Marinettes is a hamster
That’s actually a funny story, I have been having trouble coming up with their Box animals. The only ones I can guarantee are for Kagami and Chloe. But, I will at least put what I came up with.
Marinette: While a hamster is cool, I think something like a honey badger would fit a bit better.
Chloe: A Storm-Cloud Queen Bee. Can propagate smaller drones nearly endlessly.
Kagami: Lynx
Allegra: Maybe something like a songbird?
Allen: I was thinking something like a pangolin.
Claude: Not quite sure. But I want him to have twin box animals, named Harley and Quinn ( like Harlequin)
For the One Piece x KHR crossover, maybe the box animals are Kotatsu (lynx, Ace/Hide's), Sunny and Merry (goat and lion, Yoshi/Luffy's), dragon (Sabo/Iesada), (Laboon (whale, Brook), tiger (Zoro), crane (Robin), cat (Nami), swan (Sanji), Arabian Oryx (Vivi) etc.
Oh! These are really close, actually! Although I was thinking of giving Robin a sea turtle, and Vivi gets a flock of ducks. As for Merry, she was going to be Usopp’s box animal. Franky’s is going to be a Seahorse, and of course Jimbei gets a whale shark.
Hello! May I have a scenario with Tsuna's and/or Xanxus' s/o teasing them and their box animals by busting out singing The Circle of Life with their theater friends when they walk by? And maybe their friends turn it back on them when they see them holding hands or something with their boyfriend backstage by singing Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
lmao, of course you can
Tsuna:
Tsuna gets flustered when this happens - even though it happens every single time
after the initial red flush fades away though, he’ll grin about it and enjoy it - he definitely likes listening to your voice
the moment your friends start singing tho his cheeks are bright red again and he’s not at all sure what to do - definitely won’t be looking at you though because that’s just gonna make him spontaneously combust
he’ll probably end up tripping over himself trying to get out of there - and he’ll definitely trip over Natsu who’s eager to stay in the room, quite happy with the attention
Xanxus:
Xanxus scowls and then scowls deeper when Fran starts using his illusions to go along with the song
chances are he won’t give you too long after telling you to shut up before he’ll shoot above your head or something to emphasize his point - you’d be a lot more intimidated if this wasn’t his solution for every time you irritate him
seeing as he has no sense of shame, Bel and Fran singing Can You Feel the Love isn’t going to throw him anymore than The Circle of Life did - though he will be grinning at your own noticeable embarrassment (payback’s a bitch after all)
Bester’s the one who’ll be able to pick up on something in the room and get irritated with the noise and suitably terrify Bel to make him stop
Just like the previous I decided to make some more Gijinkas, mostly of Box weapons that didn’t quite fit into the Vongola gear boxes but weren’t Millefiore or Varia, but basically the side characters who are allies. Also known as the misc boxes. I did edit some of the insect box weapons look to look a little more correctly shaped to their real life counterparts.
Vongola || Varia || Millefiore || Misc.
Below the cut is an explanation of my process when designing them.
Alphin
It was actually pretty straight forward in how I wanted to get him done. the gloves work like fins and the scarf was for the tail, fairly easy to see, i made sure to make his shirt white for the under belly of the dolphin. Also just like Kojiro I had the pain of colour picking when it was covered in rain flame... pain. But I think he turned out well.
Zamza
This one is a little more complex, but the hardest thing with this design was actually the fact that Zamza has 3 colours that are incredibly similar to each other. In the end I needed to add white in order to make the design work better. The whole hair is actually the centipede itself with the goggles being it’s eyes the bangs being the pincers and feelers and the tail being the second pair of feelers. However I also made the zipper on the coat more pronounced to make it more like little legs as well. The rest of the design was to more or less tie into an aesthetic that would fit the coat and goggles i think in the end she ended up looking good!
Scuderia
This was a very fun one, except for oh you know, the drawing of the horse. The horse took so long I’m not gonna lie. ‘oh I should make the wings lineless flame! with feathers! that’ll looks so good’ it took four hours alone. Why did I do that. Any way, of course I needed to give Scuderia long flowing hair, and fur at the end of his coat for the tail. The finger less gloves of course are hooves to match with the cowboy boots. the extra bands and stuff are more to be reminiscent of reigns and such. and of course a cute lil wing decal on the back of his jacket.
Storm Scorpion
Genuinely a shame Bianchi’s Box weapon doesn’t have a name. I get why since it’s a bunch of little ones. But was it not having a name going to stop me? no, because Bel’s for some reason is just mink I am not letting it stop me. Of course the helmet is to be the scorpion head with big eyes, and the hair the long tail of the scorpion. There’s only two sets pink legs for decal because all together with the actual limbs it counts as 8. I also clawed two of the gloves in order to make them more reminiscent of claws. Plus the armor and padding that comes with the motorcycle gear gives a more exoskeleton feel. You may be confused by the mouth scar that splits her mouth but it’s to evoke the mouth part of the scorpion which is split into two pieces. Funny enough the name Storm Scorpion does sound like a racer name now that I think of it-
