This is my brother’s DCA AU, Honk I’m on a StarRail!
My brother isn’t into DCA or fan fiction in general, but I talk to him about the DCA a lot. I told him about the unique-ness of this fandom, that there seems to be an AU for everything. He listed off a bunch of things he thought would be odd or specific and I was able to name a bunch of stories based off of the prompts he came up with. Then, he hit me with:
“Is there a Thomas the Tank engine AU?”
I thought about it for a while, and I hadn’t seen one.
So he made this image in like 2 minutes:
We joked about it some and I told him he needed to give his AU a name. We went back and forth a bit because the DCA AU names always seemed so official to me, so it was important that he got his AU name right. He threw out "Honk I’m on a StarRail" and I lost it. I think I laughed for a solid 2 minutes. He argued that it was stupid but I thought it was perfect!
I thought the idea had ended there but once I went to bed he started working on official image for his AU. He sent this 3 hours later:
The rest of this post is the process and general things that happened while he was working on this image.
He used font that resembles the Honkai StarRail font, then edited it to be closer to the official thing:
For reference this is the logo:
He made his own Eclipse OC!
Then he started on Sun and Moon. He made a simple train model to get the proportions and angle right:
The whole time he is sending me updates and I'm filling him in on lore and what he should add.
Credit for image I sent him: https://www.tumblr.com/piowasthere/760517135721168896/wtf-is-suns-eye-color
He even came up with the Y/N's nickname when I was having a bad day.
We of course had to add moons hat
We almost forgot about the ribbons, but we got there in the end. They were hard to place because...train.
Overall, 10/10 experience! I'm glad I get to show other people his hard work.
If anyone wants to ask questions I'll open my ask box. He is also willing to talk about the process, but that all will still go through this account, so ask away!
