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THE STAR [XVII]

i finally got around to making celest's special attack cut in!!!!!!! im really happy with it!!! even if the arm gave me a LOT OF TROUBLE!!!

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(repost; had to block out some spoilers :} )

ive had this lying around for a bit and kinda. forgot to post it. celest ref! one im happy with this time!!!

black and white ver. below!

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isat ocs doodle dump

i have way too many doodles i havent posted so here yall go

made some act-by-act refs for celest. can't post all of them here bc Spoilers... but here's act I and II

tlc duo. my beloved. the besties ever.

ornithomancy bullshit. celest is weirdly good at gambling. himawari is a bi disaster. they are both nonbinary and idiots.

celest routinely has a horrible time. sorry sweetheart its time for your bi-weekly dose of angst

designed moonslayer cats for the explicit purpose of drawing this (himi and celest)

perhaps the STUPIDEST doodle ive done yet

yotsuba&! inspired haruka meme i made

he doesn't get angst often, but when he does it's worth it. sorry ori. it's celest's birthday, so she gets to be happy.

there's a lot more lying around, but a lot of them are spoilers ;w; so have fun with these

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ISAT OCS: character sprites and (quick) introductions!

Meet the party! And our antagonist!

Celest | The Card-Reader (Celestine) (belongs to me, Paper Type, she/they)

A silent card-reader who has an unusual fascination with stars. Her predictions are unnervingly accurate, even if they don’t always happen as expected.

A walking Greek tragedy, shameless Islander insert oc, and the most emotionally dysregulated being in the Universe next to Siffrin or Himawari, but is VASTLY worse hiding it. She's honestly one of my most fleshed out characters, and if I'm being honest I've vastly enjoyed writing her interactions with the party. If you were given a nickel for every time she had a mental breakdown and/or cried during the course of the plot you’d be able to retire even in the United States economy because she may say absolutely nothing but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t burst into tears like someone watching Bambi’s mom die on repeat. She makes up for it by probably being the Universe’s second favorite mistake of nature next to the Siffrins and having Universe-powered deus ex machina moments, including:

Predicting people’s deaths!

Finding a series of long lost gods, which definitely has no consequences at all! (lie)

Solving Zelda dungeons using the power of playing cards!

Unlocking forbidden knowledge! With no consequences at all! (even bigger lie)

Avoiding asking for help because of a misguided sense of independence and a self-imposed obligation to base the worth of her life off of carrying out the Universe’s will and helping people to make up for the crime of predicting people’s deaths!

Resurrecting the dead!

Predicting people’s deaths and resurrecting them!

Gambling!

She uses tarot cards as a conduit for her craft– all her craft skills are named after specific major arcana cards, and each party mamber has a designated card.

Himawari | The Ghost (belongs to @dasnercaret, Rock Scissors Type, he/they

Mysterious and tall, with a eagle-like lacquer mask and unusually traditional wear. They're really a nice person underneath their ominous exterior, and have plenty of interesting stories— even if they occasionally contradict.

Default party leader, Meta Knight gijinka (as coined by @smokin-salmon), and the local Dark Souls boss who can and will beat you into the ground at a moment’s notice. But don’t worry, he’s got a heart of gold– no, don’t look at the body count. Has a tragic backstory befitting of his edginess that boils down to having his dad instilling in him a martyr complex so strong that we’ve lost track of the amount of times he’s probably been in near death experiences because he feels a personal responsibility to protect the party. He proceeded to spend the next nine years disassociating so hard that even Siffrin would be impressed, before being forcefully adopted by a 12 year old who decided that they’re friends now and are having soft tacos later. He dies, but don't worry, he gets better, just. Not fast. A solid 50% of this story's angst is sourced directly from this idiot's siffrin-level repressed mental issues. His plotline essentially drives this entire story to the point that he is literally the final boss. no, i will not elaborate on that.

Ori (Orion) | The Wallflower (belongs to @scramblecat, Paper Type, he/him)

A traveler from Vaugarde, able to bring his origami creations to life. His kind and welcoming personality makes him easily likable… but for whatever reason, he has a tendancy to be forgotten.

The consequences of fusing Isabeau and Odile into a person who is the most functional and average human being on earth, except for the fact that he’s got the transgenderism, runs with a gang of trauma-bonded idiots, and accidentally turned himself into SCP 055 Lite by choosing the name of a constellation for his name before the Island got Nuked™. Now everyone who meets him turns into you when you can never remember the name of that coworker you’ve been sitting next to for two years straight and talk to every day. His power is being annoying to any enemy in his vicinity by giving everyone papercuts and buffing the party with the power of paper crafts until they turn into the fantasy RPG equivalent of the Russians in the 2020 Olympics. If it wasn’t for him being the most emotionally stable member of the party the other three would have probably succumbed to the disaster that is a plot with no levity or character development and serves only as the fuel for an AO3 author’s hurt/no comfort addiction.

Haruka | The Child (belongs to @aquakirb, Rock Type, she/her)

A cheery runaway kid studying to become a healer. She does her best to help out the party in any way she can, however small.

Literally the purest thing to grace the Universe. A ray of sunshine that knows no bounds. If you even consider making her sad, you will have half of Ka Bue on your heels ready to kill you, including Himawari, who will probably get to you first. She’s the party’s Bonnie, but do NOT get it twisted that she's a Bonnie clone; she doesn’t have a clue how to cook and doesn’t have nearly as much repressed anger. Actually kind of the opposite. She's strangely mature for her age despite being relatively cheerful and coming off as more childish from an external POV. Her mom is a mysterious but well-known healer who's been training her since she was six and has essentially turned her into a pint-sized emergency response team. She has the brand of ADHD that pulls out random information about their interests at the most random times and with zero context. Also she technically killed a god, but that’s not even worth going on her resume.

Aega | The Eternal Rest (belongs to @dasnercaret, Scissors/Rock Type, she/it/they)

A broken and corrupted Expression, existence wiped away alongside The Universe and it's guides. She wish is to restore that which has been lost, to be remembered... no matter the cost. Her Craft spreads across the land, warping reality as it attempts to restore her power through the dreams of those who fall under her spell.

This bitch. THIS BITCH. I have never simultaneously hated and loved a character in my LIFE. To pair down an extremely complex and lore-heavy explanation, Aega is what happens when you make a god that has extreme power and then make all of reality forget she exists. She's the Expression of the Moon, and essentially presided over the night in its entirety, including the massive amount of constellations that make up an entire religious sect of the Universe Religion; it takes every white girls obsession with their horoscope and the absolutely astounding level of syncretic dissemination that buddhism had on the world, stuffs it in a blender, and makes a smoothie that tastes like existential loneliness, mommy issues, and almost a decades worth of stored up power that she can and will use to do whatever the fuck she wants. And what she wants is for people to stop ignoring her! she doesn't care if that involves the dismantling of reality or the destruction of entire human race, because when you're a god, your sense of object permanence is so skewed that you may as well be an Elden Ring character. Her entire motive is pretty much a mimic of the King, except instead of freezing people in time she puts them to sleep and freezes them! But it's less freezing and more turning them into a cocoon because the Lady Ethereal butterfly dream symbolism energy is OFF THE CHARTS. Her color is that electric blue that everyone wanted to dye their hair in the 2010s and also her namesake. Bet you can't guess what animal it is. (It's a butterfly.) (The Aega Morpho.)

next up! a dump of oc content, misc. notes about the party, and more!

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ISAT OCS: concept art dump and notes

Part 0 | Introductions | Concept Art Dump | Ornithomancy | Memes

i present to you: the archive of isat oc doodles, pieces, and various other visual media that i have amassed over the course of 6 months!

messy celest ref! fun note: she knows how to do traditional weaving techniques. her belt in my mind is a tablet weave, but i couldn't exactly get the texture right on scale. also don't look at the hands! i got tired!

haruka concept and the final design! she went though a couple of iterations, but this the one we settled on. you can see the clothes she's wearing under in her sprite comp as well.

Aega concepts! she is a Giant Woman; she stands at her 7'8''. her body is actually a porcelain ball jointed doll, made before the island nuke to use as a vessel for her within her shrine. her weapon was originally inspired by the bloodborne trick weapons, and could turn from the naginata to a scythe, but that ended up being scrapped because the design was kinda janky. also, she is heavily inspired by the twin sisters from Kubo and the two strings.

fuyumi concept art! she's haruka's mom– she doesn't show up until postcanon, but she's genuinely one of my favorite characters and her energy is delightful. she's a rock type but specializes as a rather formidable healer.

other expressions concept art! there are actually 4 in total; aquila (the eagle), monoceros (the qilin), ophiuchus (the turtle and snake), and draco (who is. obviously. a dragon. but i haven't designed him yet). they're heavily inspired by the four holy beasts from a piece of chinese classical literature. typically, the white tiger takes the place of the qilin, but some versions swap the two. these are essentially the divine beasts from breath of the wild, and they each have their own questline, associated party member, and dungeon accordingly. Himawari is connected to Aquila (DEEPLY and extremely lore relevant fact); Haruka to Ophiuchus (inspired by Asclepius, the greek god of medicine); Celest to Monoceros (the qilin is often compared to a unicorn in the west, though they're pretty distinct); and Ori with Draco (even though he's not pictured here, he's a traditional east asian dragon design and carries a massive pearl).

original fauna i made for worldbuilding and drawing practice.

the eagle is an Okibi Eagle, whose design is a pretty solid mix between a harpy eagle, the golden eagle, white-tailed eagle, and secretary bird. lore-wise, they were used as falconry birds by a few clans, but disappeared after the Island got nuked. Himawari's design is heavily inspired by them (well, vice-versa, but you get the picture).

the butterflies are actually an enemy; they're called Moonflies, and they're part of the stuff that happens once Aega's influence spreads. Their wing scales shed constantly, and when they're breathed in, they cause a potent anesthetic and hallucinogenic effect similar to what Aega's sleep does. They swarm together and, mechanic-wise, perform a similar service to what the Kings Tears do during his fight. Their coloration changes depending on the lunar phase they emerged during. Their design was a mix of the Aega morpho, japanese luna moth, lyretailed phoenix swallowtail, emerald swallowtail, and blue peacock swallowtail.

gem trees! they're a ka buan adaptation of favor trees; in the lore we've stated that the favor tree concept itself was an Islander tradition that has been so morphed into common life that most places where the Islanders had some impact has some variation of them. the design and function are extremely similar to shinto traditions of marking sacred trees inhabiting kami with shimenawa, as well as shinboku, trees where tags asking for blessings are left for a shrine's kami to fulfill. instead of tags, carved gemstones are used and hung from the branches of trees. some are natural, old-growth trees like camphor trees, but sometimes there are trees constructed with wire to act as a more stable and malleable version.

(himawari and aega belong to @dasnercaret; orion belongs to @scramblecat; haruka and fuyumi belong to @aquakirb)

Part 0 | Introductions | Concept Art Dump | Ornithomancy | Memes

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would you guys believe me if i said that this was mostly color picked from the minecraft firefly grass

(himawari belongs to @dasnercaret ; orion belongs to @scramblecat ; haruka belongs to @aquakirb)

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ISAT OCS: memes

as with literally any writing project ever, we have accumulated a sizable amount of shitposts. (ft. discord bullshit)

(himawari belongs to @dasnercaret; orion belongs to @scramblecat; haruka belongs to @aquakirb)

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ISAT OCS: the secret third thing (ornithomancy)

ornithomancy is the ship name we gave to the Secret Third Thing that is Himawari and Celest's relationship. The sheer magnitude of doodles of them being unbearably adorable warrants its own post, to be honest.

honestly, not even they know what's up between them? they're both acespec– Celest specifically is some flavor of demiromantic and is uncomfortable with the concept of calling their relationship romantic, and himi is demisexual– and both complete idiots when it comes to any form of emotional intelligence. kind of like the base ISAT group, the bonds aren’t labelled explicitly in the conventional familial manner, but the sentiment of it is the same. when stuff that's traditionally romantic things do pop up between them the context is more about the need for intimacy and a way to deepen emotional connection rather than a romantic display. they actually do get bonded in postcanon, but like. five years after because– AFFECTIONATELY– they're SO BLINDING SLOW. i think about the specifics of their relationship a normal amount.

tldr: himawari and celest is that "couple" who everyone thinks is dating because they do more intimate stuff. really they're just two idiots in a qpr(?) and have been touch starved for years.

various ornithomancy doodles!

YOUR HONOR I FUCKING LOVE THEM.

(himawari belongs to @dasnercaret; orion belongs to @scramblecat; haruka and fuyumi belong to @aquakirb)

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