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i drew the sbg characters if they were in my comics magic system heres a long post talking about their abilities

i somehow did doodles of all of them in one day lol. THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY LONG POST BE CAREFUL ABOUT CLICKING READ MORE THIS IS JUST ME YAPPING ABOUT MY COMIC AND ABOUT SBG

ok so the magic system of my comic is basically this: your eye color aligns with a “concept”, and each concept turns into a very unique super power for each individual. it can be anything, as long as it fits the concept. literal or metaphorical. i designed this power system to be very vague so you can be super creative

ill explain each concept as i go down, but i basically switched the sbg cast with my cast, so all of them are called “duo ranked” and have heterochronmia, and their concepts have mixed together to create a new, entirely unique power that fits both concepts in its own creative way.

i also kept one color for every character except for aiden. i kept his red eye, because if i didnt i would be doing FOUR BROWN RANKS and i want to show off this system so ill only do 3 lmao

heres how it went:

starting off with ashlyn, her ability came pretty easy. i kept her green eye(the concept of growth) and gave her a white eye(the concept of enhancement(typically of ones own values or senses)), and they mixed together to give her control over sound, more specifically its volume and frequencies

its very useful for her, she avoids being overwhelmed way easier now and can switch off whatever is bugging her if it gets too loud. coincidentally, eavesdropping is INCREDIBLY easy, since she can just turn up a specific conversation she wants to listen in on. and she can manipulate frequencies so she makes tyler voicecrack all the time because its really funny. very simple power and its perfect for ash. her drawing turned out okay, i kinda rushed them all just to have them done dont expect high quality

I had a VERY fun time coming up with aidens power. he has his red eye(the concept of creation(self explanatory)) and i gave him a purple eye (the concept of perception, like illusions and such) and the two mixed together to allow him to turn duplicate illusions into reality (if he has enough strength to do so). he can create illusions that are specifically duplicates of objects, and they are only temporary for the time being until he actually ‘creates’ it, then of course it just permanently exists. he is limited to only a single duplicate, and one at a time. actually creating something is very draining

the only human duplicate he can make that will function correctly is himself, and he cannot make it more than a temporary illusion. he can make decoy human illusions, but he cannot make them real.

i had a lot of fun trying to draw his stupid hair it was good practice, im very happy with his drawing

next is tyler!! i put “pursuance” in the drawing because i never know how to describe it but tracking or pursual(is that a word??) is a better word i guess?? its in the works

I kept his brown eye(the concept of pursuit(being able to track things basically)) and gave him an orange eye (the concept of healing) and i gave him a pretty literal power of being able to track how far along the healing process an individual is. in turn, this also gives him the ability to sense when someone around him is hurt.

also, since he can track the healing journey, physically touching him will speed it up ever so slightly. if you have a stomach ache just go hug tyler and eventually you’ll feel better

now for possibly my favorite ability, TAYLOR :D! (featuring me forgetting the word pursuit exists and just putting ‘persual’ which may not be a WORD google LIED TO ME HELP DONT LOOK AT IT

ANYWAY just like tyler i kept her brown eye, and then i gave her a pink eye (the concept of connection), which gave me the idea of her being like tylers opposite. i wanted their powers to reflect each other, so where tyler can track physical injuries and how they heal, taylor can ‘connect’ with others and sense their mood and how it has recently been. almost like a graph!! sometimes she accidentally does it and gets overwhelmed trying to keep track of other peoples moods when she isnt prepared to handle it.

and just like tyler, physical touch from taylor will make you happy and calm (hugging taylor does that anyway) so she is like that scene in big hero six where they all lay on baymax because hes very warm and i love her

I HAVE NEVER DRAWN HAIR LIKE BEN PLEASE DONT ASK I DID MY BEST ON THESE LIYTLE DODLES

anyway

for the last time i kept bens brown eye because why does everyone have brown eyes, and then i also gave him white because i got a really really funny idea ok.

ben can track movement of people around him specifically, and he can enhance his own power. if he enhances it enough for one person, he can predict what their course of movement is about to be. its very immediate, so when hes trying to process it the action could very much already be happening. its very useful actually!!!

ITS TIME FOR MY FAVORITE ABILITY RAJGEJR FINALLY NO MORE BROWN ABILITIES

I kept logans blue eye (the concept of movement) and i gave him yellow (the concept of light) because yk yk hes a dlorist photosynthesis WHATEVER

he can basically control the movement of anything in bright light. the control on it he has depends on how bright the light is, so he finds it useful to keep a flashlight on him

THATS ALL, I HAD A LOT OF FUN FOJNG THIS I STARTED AT 10 AM AND FINISHED AT ABOUT 1:30 PM LMAO MY WRJSTS HURT A LITTLE :] If you like the magic system, i post all about the actual protagonists in #comicsafterhours if you want to see more idkffkjmdnfm,,,,,, anyway

if you actually read all that tysm?? love you lots?? ill probably draw my ocs in the sbg situation soon

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hey you reading this

you should send some love to this new webtoon by @arcaneafterhours

King of Color

After a fateful incident, Jeremiah finds himself thrust into a new life. After the sudden appearance of a second superpower in addition to h

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i drew sbg in my comic’s world (again)

normal and fancy filters version - post explaining each of their powers in my world here

going to draw my characters in the sbg dimension next (if i dont give in to the urge of drawing an sbg oc first)

this was mostly self indulgent concept art

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sbg art study

I adore and really admire the sbg artstyle, so i did a mini ‘study’ of sorts on it. drawings in the middle are ones i did after doing all the doodles , i actually think i learned quite a bit from this, but i still have ways to go. overall pretty happy with this ( fuck you hands i hate drawing you )

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its 2 am

dont let sunny see hes sleeping rn

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chloe, amber, and blair

my sport girls

this was just a lazy sketch i didnt even add details to blairs basketball and ambers soccer ball 😭

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“i can always hear you sing, i wanna hear you speak to me”

ft. my oc chloe :]! she has the ability to grow plants, and she also has the ability of connection to birds. in specific im thinking of a quetzal, because the red and green reflects her pink and green, and one of my favorite characters to ever exist is related to quetzals so

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some danganronpa v3 characters if they lived in the world of @arcaneafterhours's magic system

because ho boy i love their magic system and ho boy i love danganronpa

got inspired by Arcane making the school bus graveyard (webtoon) cast in their magic system. if any of this is out of character for how your magic system works im so sorry bbg pls forgivnn mneee

warning: minor spoilers for v3, particularly Rantaro's talent being mentioned. he's the last of 5 here though so!! you can skip looking at his if you wanna avoid that.

so quick basic tl;dr for how the magic system works, pls see Arcane's account for the actual funzies. someone's eye color determines what powers they have! each color is called a "concept" and can result in powers under that concept

because of that, and so that i can give them powers that i think suit them, some of these characters will have different eye colors.

lastly. i cannot draw. so enjoy having their sprites instead

Kokichi Ouma

Concepts of Perception & Light

(purple & yellow. taken from his beta design having purple and yellow eyes / common headcanon drawing him with heterochromia)

Perception: Kokichi can manipulate how he is perceived by others, but only in a physical sense. He can make someone perceive that he has blue hair instead of purple, or he could make someone perceive that he looks hideous, but he could not outright make them think they fear him. The more drastic the difference from his actual appearance, the less time he can maintain the image.

Light: Kokichi can manipulate electricity to some extent. He cannot create electricity from himself, but he can control it around him. the further it is from him, the harder it is to control. everything about within a typical room size of his location is easy.

EDIT FOR KOKICHI: Arcane clarified in a reblog: "my only tidbit is that with kokichi’s he would likely only be able to control electricity if it were physically emitting light like a lightbulb and stuff he cant pull electricity out of like the walls (cuz technically hes controlling the light the electricity makes not the electricity itself)"

He often uses his powers for pranks, such as not bothering finding a scary mask to scare someone with and just making them perceive him as a grotesque monster. Or hiding in a room and making lights flicker or explode. One time he made an electric car stop in the middle of the road, just to see if he could. Luckily the rest of the road was clear.

Using the concept of perception expends more energy because of how often he uses it to such drastic degrees for pranks, but it's gotten a lot easier after years of practice. The biggest thing that built endurance and strength was using this concept simply to make everyone think he had two yellow eyes. He spent an entire year in middle school having somehow convinced everyone he only had the concept of light.

Shuichi Saihara

Concepts of Movement and Pursuance

(blue & brown. given to him simply because of what power i want him to have. his eyes are yellow and not brown right? either way i. don't care. this power is swell.)

Power: Shuichi can track "movements" of people that have already happened. Essentially, he has an x-ray vision for footprints, fingerprints, bloodsplatter, etc. He can only directly recognize/identify these “movements” if they are from someone he knows well; otherwise he can just tell that something is there.

So he can look at a mug with a stranger's fingerprints and say "oh there are fingerprints on that mug." but if he looked at Kaede's mug he would sense that they were her fingerprints because he knows her pretty well

Shuichi, of course, uses his power in his detective work. Though he's unable to look at a set of fingerprints left on a weapon and immediately connect them to an individual, he is able to locate them simply by looking at whatever object they're on, eliminating the need to dust things thoroughly and speeding up the process.

Once movements have been located, he can identify matching ones. For instance, if at a crimescene he could see that someone walked through the house and left through the back door, he can later recognize the same footsteps in another seemingly unrelated crime scene, allowing him to connect the cases.

it really doesn't have anything to do with how they look per say, it's just that he can see them there and gets a gut feeling about it? like he looks at it and it just immediately connects in his mind. I have been picturing everything showing up like a glowing blue when he uses his power

It also comes in very handy when dealing with his mischievous friends. When he's asking who broke something, the culprit (coughs. Kokichi) knows there's not much use in denying it because Shuichi recognizes their fingerprints already.

One time Kokichi duped him by making him perceive that he had an entirely different set of fingerprints. Shuichi had a crisis over a broken mug for 2 hours before Kokichi finally gave in.

i hope i explained this as well as i wanted to? im not sure if the wording is clear but oh well

Kaede Akamatsu

Concept of Connection to the Living

(pink. i cannot tell if her eyes are pink or purple sometimes. they're pink. her eyes are pink. pink makes more sense they're pink for this)

Connection: Kaede can sense other people's emotions. She experiences it sort of like synesthesia, in that when sensing someone's emotion, she can hear a certain melody in her mind that correlates to how they feel.

There are times that Kaede doesn't hear a melody she recognizes. Sometimes when she does recognize a song, the emotion causing it isn't necessarily the emotion intended for the piece, but rather some other association or even sentimental value.

One of her favorite places to take a nap is near Himiko, who almost always sounds like a lullaby.

One time she watched Kirumi rushing around working and could hear nothing but Flight of the Bumblebee for 30 minutes. She figured it was because of how often Kirumi is called a “busy bee”

If someone played Wap or CPR on a piano, well that's what Miu sounds like sometimes

Gonta also has sounded like Flight of the Bumblebee before! it was when he couldn't find some of his bug friends, he was so frantic. Kaede gave him a big hug to comfort him.

Kokichi often avoids her around the others when he's feeling sad, because he can't stand the knowing looks she gives him. But sometimes she finds him alone and just sits there with him, quietly listening to his melancholy piano. It slowly brightens the longer she sits with him; she knows that it makes him feel better to know she gets what he's feeling. He doesn't like being alone.

The only time Kaede ever hears Clair de Lune is late at night, with Shuichi at her side. Every now and then they find each other beneath the stars. They exchange no words, barely glances. They just sit together, thinking about their time in the killing game. She always knows when he's thinking about it; she can hear Clair de Lune long before she can see him. Many a night has she been roused from her bed, following the sound of the piano oozing off of her best friend.

(i don't really ship shuichi and kaede myself but if you wanna see this as romantic ofc ofc idc)

Himiko Yumeno

Concept of Creation

(red. her eyes are like reddish brown so im going with red)

Creation: Himiko can create objects, within reason. Depending on how close she's creating the object and how small it is, it could range from being easy to really straining.

Himiko uses her power in her magic tricks. “I will pull a rabbit out of my hat!” [shows empty hat] [creates stuffed rabbit in hat] “tada!”

She also likes making snacks for herself and Tenko when they're hanging out. “Hey Himiko do you have any candy” “check your pocket” “[pulls candy out of pocket] Himikooooo 🥺🥺🥺”

Every now and then Kokichi can talk her into helping him with more tame pranks. Like the time she created a whoopee cushion under Miu as she was sitting down.

idk her power isn't really that complicated, the concept of creation is a very simple power as arcane herself will say but it works well for a mage doing magic yk? “is this your card [creates a copy of the card so it's right]”

she probably has a room full of random junk that is extra copies of things. at some point she'll have an entire new deck of cards gradually made from creating a copy of one card at a time just to make a trick work.

Rantaro Amami

Concepts of Growth and Pursuance

(green & brown. his normal eyes but with sectoral heterochromia, his right eye will have brown in the bottom half)

Power: Rantaro can track the growth rate of any living thing. It creates sort of like a timer in his mind? For instance he can look at a plant and know that it will be exactly two days three hours fourty seven minutes and twenty one seconds until it blooms. This also works for things like injuries: he can know how long it'll be until it heals, or if it will heal at all (as in, will lead to death.)

If he expends extra energy he can speed up this growth process to cause something to grow/heal faster.

His power came in handy having so many sisters; any little scratch or booboo was quickly mended by a magic kis it better by big brother Rantaro. It was also useful when adventuring; if he was hurt, he knew how severe the wound was and by extension how much attention it needed just by looking at it.

If he decides to stop adventuring, he'd go into healthcare. He cares about others a lot and it makes him happy to help people, plus it's handy having a power that lets him give people a near-exact estimate for how long the healing process may take. Sure, he could only help in physical injuries, but thats better than nothing. If not healthcare, maybe a florist. Imagine Rantaro having a flower shop. swoons.

also yes he can grow avocados /j

anyway that's all

thank you for reading this far i suppose. Arcane i know you're gonna read this cus i told you i was doing it so um hi. hope you liked it. im sorry if i horrifically defaced your powers or smth. ily <333