【FGO】 Beautiful Carnivore, the All-Ridiculing 💚🐈⬛
Beautiful Carnivore, the All-Ridiculing
一切嘲弄 美しき肉食獣
Original + Version with Gradient Maps
Quick Douman scribble 💚 Them!!! My evil NB GNC jester icon~ God eater clown! I love them so much!!! He is beauty, he is grace 💖✨
Douman coloured doodle WIP I did back in January 2023.
It's old, so I'd want to redraw it to make it consistent with my usual style, but I figured I'd post it for now since Idk when I'll get the chance to redraw it.
FGO popped off when they created an emotionally nuanced complex complicated jester who deeply loves the human they're obsessed with 💖✨ They are simply PEAK
Douman and LimGuda are EVERYTHING to me I've dedicated my soul to them since December 2020!!! 💚🧡🐈⬛🍊
"Beautiful Carnivore, the All-Ridiculing" is such a badass title for them oh my goddd I'm obsessed
I take lots of breaks from FGO but I'm always here to see my faves 👁️ Like awakening the slumbering beast...
Hasendow (Showichi Furumi), Douman's character artist is really good at harmonizing colours and working with green and yellow tones
I tend to use cooler tones and saturate pink/red hues in my arts (though it depends on the art for me). It also has nice contrast against their reds and greens! 💖
I already loved the colours of the OG that I chose but the others are so cool to see. It's fun to see the way low opacity gradient maps shift the colours in subtle ways WHOAAA
It's super messy but it's honestly one of my fave doodles in terms of colours 💗 I'm a big fan of the colours too hehe ✨
I used to airbrush the skin colour over the hair (which is a popular stylistic choice), but I don't do it anymore cuz I think my saturated art style looks better with higher contrast.
I think that Douman doodle has some of the best colour work I've done
It's a rough draft WIP so it's pretty messy, but I love the way the colours harmonize on this one 🤭 💗 I should do colour drafts more often…
I think it's cool to use the same green in their earrings and eyeliner, in their hair as well hehe
When I do these rough colour drafts, it's like if I took a bucket of paint and splashed it on the wall. Helps me get a sense of colours!
I love picking colours, and I think it'd be interesting to take this kind of painting style further whenever I get the chance to refine it more 💞
I definitely want to lean into this messy painting style. I wanna get stronger at the painterly style!
Because of Douman and Kuroha (KagePro), I've always wanted to draw mild horror pieces 🥰💞 It'd be super fun to draw Douman and LimGuda arts with mild artistic horror vibes in the future.
My cute kitty is so versatile. They can be cute silly and be peak horror all at once!
I need to get stronger at drawing them. Douman's design is the most detailed and complicated out of my faves, but I wanna draw LOTS of LimGuda... AHHH...
Check under the cut for the other versions (versions with gradient maps)
Other Versions
I think for some of these, I'd have to fix them manually cuz gradient maps and colour adjustment filters can throw the contrast out of wack so I'd paint over stuff later
Here's the rest of the batch of colour tests I did!
I did 18 in total but I only posted 10
Rambles
I've been obsessed with Ashiya Douman, the evil clown cat since December 2020. Didn't even take me a week to be obsessed. It took 5 days. Sen's Limbo December Descent 🙌
LimGuda is my comfort HC NBLNB ship 💚🧡 They've been one of my top fave ships since December 2020. The spice of a gay evil clown demon who hates humanity, with a karmic relationship of love/hate with the human they're in love with, is unparalleled.
I can’t get over how much I adore Douman. They’re simply the best. This chaos clown is a forever fave of mine~ I love how in-depth and nuanced this hot evil jester onmyouji is. The emotional nuance and complexity of this chara…
“WANTS TO WATCH THEM FALL TO HELL BUT UNWITTINGLY FALLS IN LOVE WITH THEM.” I’M DEVASTATED ABOUT THEM
The amount of detail that went into Douman's character and design is insane to me… Hasendow AKA Showichi Furumi (Douman's character artist/illustrator) has such a huge brain 🤯
My LimGuda collection is my pride and joy 🤭
My Douman/LimGuda merch pile pentagram from November 2022 LMAO. This isn't even all of it
(I tried to mimic the pentagram as much as possible. I scribbled out where I was standing on the bed)
When Douman first released on FGO NA in November 2022, I made a Douman pentagram filled with my Douman and LimGuda merch and fan-merch.
I did this back in 2022, so I have even MORE now to add to the Douman collection, so there's no way all of it is gonna fit on my bed
Douman merch summoning circle catalyst! We did summon an evil demon into my Chaldea~ Welcome home! You are now reunited with your BELOVED 🫶💚🧡
The clean up's gonna be hell with how detailed Douman's design is, but I love working with their colours! I wanna draw LimGuda in matching green and red Áo tấc so bad!!! Matching couple clothes~ 💘💞
Douman loves them with curses… LIKE A CAT TIPPING OVER VASES CUZ THEY WANT TO BE PAID ATTENTION TO. The whole “Limbo gets defeated/is overwhelmed by the power of feelies and their S/O’s Candid Sincerity" trope I love to see in their ship works that I wanna draw eventually btw… I wanna draw them lots!!!
Cinna said “Douman just reminds me of that ‘cat reacts to separation anxiety by trying to maul their owner’ thing I saw one time” LMAO
Ashiya Douman vs. Dioscuri Anthology Comic by AU
Source: (X)
(Context for my non-FGO mutuals following me)
Read the full 30+ pages above if you wanna check it out~
Reminds me of when I was rereading the Ashiya Douman vs. Dioscuri Anthology comic by AU (@/delete_au), that has huge amounts of LimGuda (Douman/Ritsuka) crumbs. DRIVES ME CRAZY...
AU (@/delete_au) is a popular Fate/Grand Order (FGO or Fate/GO) fan artist that's been commissioned to draw official works for Fate (including official merch)
AU’s art style is so intricately detailed and gorgeous. The perspectives, inking, and shading are so gorgeous. Huge art goals for me.
The Ashiya Douman vs. Dioscuri anthology comic has such beautiful art by AU (@/delete_au)
The way he sulks like a cat that wants to be paid attention to when Ritsuka hardly reacts when they sees the maimed shikigami 😭 Please give your kitty lots of attention!
Like once again Douman wants Ritsuka to pay attention to him and searches for reactions from them, but also, the way he refers to himself as their "loyal retainer"
Like a bird preening.
AU has a massive brain since the scenes, visuals, story and dialogue of this Anthology Comic were decided by them. It's also such a huge characterization surplus for Douman and such visual eye candy
Douman invited Ritsuka to fall into hell with them in-game in his My Room lines, and now they're the one inviting him, saying that they will drag him and take him along with them.
Douman tells them that the two of them are "bound by unbreakable/inseparable fate."
And the part where he sarcastically laughs at their speech by comparing it to Buddha's Great Vows, but also acknowledges their determination and tenacity... Aghhhh...
He makes this grandiose, deadly romantic speech back, telling them that they are "bound together by an unbreakable fate" (inseparable fate/karma)
JAW DROP??? THIS IS GAY AS HELL 🏳️🌈 LIMGUDA IS REAL!!! 💚🧡
I'm so glad for the fan-translation by u/kanramori
The EN fan-translation is SO good. I love the usage of Saṃvega at the end.
I got stuck on some parts reading the JP version cuz of Douman's vocabulary... I got to clear things up reading the VN fan-TL, and it was interesting to see how it was translated in Viet, but yeah the EN fan-TL cleared up so many things for me.
They drew the Ashiya Douman vs. Dioscuri chapter in one of the FGO anthologies. LIMGUDA ALSO INTERACT IN IT, AND THERE'S TONS OF LIMGUDA FOOD HEHEHEHE... Their art is so gorgeous. They're one of my favourite FGO artists, their works are stunning.
THE WHOLE THING IS SO DELICIOUS SO I'LL JUST SHOW A COUPLE PAGES FROM THE END, BUT OH MY GOD???
I LOVE THEMMMMMMMMMMM LOVE IS REALLLLLLL
LimGuda so good... NB evil clown demon and the human they're deadly obsessed with...
Douman is gigantic. Ritsuka's 200 cm tall (~6"7) bf that loves them!!!
AU'S DOUMAN COMIC FROM THE FGO ANTHOLOGY COMIC WITH DOUMAN AND RITSUKA IS MAKING ME SCREAM WTF /pos /endearing
LimGuda inspired SO much of my writing, including my writing for other ships from other interests I'm into.
"Black/white colour schemed meow meow mf with a bloodthirsty personality and violent tendencies, and/or deadly love/obsession, is paired with a warm empathetic s/o with a brighter disposition"
This Sen-core ship trope is present in all of my ships LMAO
Ashiya Douman vs. Dioscuri by AU (Viet Fan-TL)
The VN fan-TL is pretty much VERY similar since it's based on the same JP text as the source material, but I'll highlight some neat tidbits I noticed
Source: (X)
道満：これぞ弘誓のごとき大言壮語！
道満：そうでしょうとも！
Douman: Such boastful words, just like Buddha’s great vows!
JP uses 弘誓 (Guzei, “Buddha’s great vows”)
The VN fan-TL uses Tứ Hoằng Thệ Nguyện ("The Four Encompassing Vows") of Buddhism, the fourfold bodhisattva vow. Only difference is that it refers to it directly
道満：そう！あなたとこの道満を結ぶは断ち切れぬ「因果」にございます
Douman: Yes, that's right! You and this Douman are connected by an unbreakable “fate”
JP uses 因果 (inga, "cause and effect; karma; fate")
VN fan-TL uses "Unbreakable karma (cause and effect)"
Nhân quả = Karmic cause and effect in Buddhism
I love the wording of him describing the way he's bound to them as “Unbreakable fate”
It's so sexy and fits so well with Douman’s character, saying they have a connection of inseparable fate/karma.
道満：厭穢欣浄（えんえごんじょう）
Douman: En’e’gon’jyou. (“I abhor this tainted world, and seek rebirth in the Pure Land.”)
JP version has it as 厭穢欣浄 (En’e’gon’jyou, “I abhor this tainted world, and seek rebirth in the Pure Land.”)
The VN fan-TL translated it as: Yếm ly uế độ, hân cầu Tịnh Độ = "I detest and want to leave the defilement of the Samsara, and seek rebirth in the Pure Land"
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厭離穢土 (Onriedo/Enriedo, “Abhorrence of [living in] this impure world”)
The antithesis of Onriedo is 欣求浄土 (Gongujyoudo, “Seeking rebirth in the Pure Land”)
These are Yojijukugo (four character compounds), and concepts of Pure Land Buddhism that became popularized in the Heian era.
The full term is 「おんりえど・ごんぐじょうど」 (Onriedo/Enriedo - Gongujyoudo). The two combined, make a pair.
The phrase is usually shortened to 厭穢欣浄 (En’e’gon’jyou/En’ne’gon’jyou)
In Buddhism, it means, “I am disgusted with this world (I want to leave the world of filth/suffering and stain), and seek the Pure Land [of Buddha]”
...
Both the EN fan-TL and VN fan-TL are super interesting to read! It's been churning in my thoughts all day...
OH MY GOD LIMGUDA NATION EATING GOOD TODAY??? 💚🧡🐈⬛🍊
LIMGUDA REAL!!! 💘💞 MATCHING OTP SCREAMS 😭🥹🫶
I ALWAYS HC'ED THEY'D UNCONSCIOUSLY MIMIC EACH OTHER'S QUIRKS/HABITS, LINES, AND EXPRESSIONS
GOD I FIND IT SO FUNNY HOW THEY BOTH HAVE A SCENE WITH FOU AASAAHSDASS
Screenshots I took!
FGO released animated short videos for FGO's 9th anniversary
LIMGUDA??? FOR ME???
I seriously find it so funny how both Ritsuka and Douman have scenes where Fou flips over the table (in Ritsuka's case) and jumps on someone (Douman) and wrecks the game board HELPPP
LIMGUDA NATION EATING GOOD TODAY
OH MY GODDD
LIMGUDA'S :O EXPRESSIONS ARE SENDING ME
I ALWAYS HC'ED THEY IMITATE EACH OTHERS' EXPRESSIONS UNCONSCIOUSLY
Like I imagine that their quirks, verbal tics (Douman's NNN), etc., would rub off on each other...
I always headcanoned that they'd unconsciously mimick each others' lines, expressions, etc.
LimGuda is the ship most fed by canon content out of all my main ships
Like it's literally so fucking insane how much we get 😭
The pros of having a ship with a gay evil clown demon who's deadly romantic and obsessed with the protag
I feel so normal about this I'm gonna have good dreams tonight thinking about them
Like omfg I didn't expect to get fed by the anni content like this???
Ritsu going on a hunt to find Fou is so cute as well...
This chibi style is so cute!!!
I am on the LimGuda brainrot all day everyday!
Put the rest under the cut!
Douman's Heroic Spirit Tour outfit for FGO's 6th Anniversary is my favourite Douman alt outfit 💚
All the details Furumi put into his accessories are SO good!!! I LOVE THEIR STYLISH CLOTHES SM... THE PONYTAIL... WAHHH 🥰💞
I wanted to compile my collection of LimGuda doodles mostly from 2021 ~ 2022. They’re rough WIPs, but I wanted to post the ones I still like. I’ll put them under the cut, along with some rambles I have on LimGuda wearing Việt phục, traditional Vietnamese clothes! I’ve been meaning to redraw these sometime in the future.
LimGuda my comfort headcanon NBLNB couple!!! 🥺 💚 🧡 God I love them so much it's unreal.
Việt phục talk
I’m planning for Douman and Ritsuka to wear matching Việt phục (“Vietnamese traditional clothing”). The specific type of Việt phục they’re wearing is called áo tấc (“10 cm dress”). It’s also called áo tế (“Ritual/Ceremonial dress”). Tấc is a unit of measurement. In modern times, 1 tấc = 10 cm, and it’s the width of the hem of the dress or bound seam.
Áo tấc is the historical predecessor to Vietnam's national dress, áo dài (“Long dress”). Áo tấc is also called Áo ngũ thân tay thụng (“Five-panel robe with loose sleeves”). It’s a type of Áo ngũ thân (“Five-panel robe”) with large loose sleeves. Áo tấc was worn by all classes for various occasions.
I have an art idea of Douman and Ritsuka wearing green and red áo tấc... Red is a colour worn by Vietnamese brides. I usually see Vietnamese brides wear red, pink, or gold, etc., or bright colours at their weddings. Red, blue, green, and pink are common Vietnamese wedding colours! So that’s why I want LimGuda to wear green and green áo tấc.
That reminds me, I've had the idea of LimGuda wearing áo tấc in my head for the longest time and I haven't refined the rest yet because I haven't been able to decide whether I want Douman’s hair in braids or ponytail LOL. These are my ideas for them:
Douman
Green áo tấc with black trousers, hair based off his 1st Ascension design, but styled into braids or a low ponytail. I think I’ll end up going with the braids! I’m also thinking of another version with him wearing black and red áo tấc with black trousers, based off his 3rd Ascension design.
I think for Douman, I'd use the same muted emerald green he wears. Áo tấc are usually simpler in style compared to outfits like áo nhật bình (“Square collared dress”).
Ritsuka
Red áo tấc with white trousers, maybe a red khăn đóng (turban headpiece), white and red beaded necklaces, and elaborate gold hairpins. As for their hairstyle... maybe I can have their tied back in a bun with some loose strands (the common Vietnamese bride look). Or their hair could just be let down loose.
LimGuda in in Việt phục… wearing my culture’s traditional clothes??? I AM ON THE FLOOR. The Nguyễn dynasty's áo tấc and áo nhật bình make great wedding attire. Red is such a classic colour for traditional wear and weddings to, and Ritsuka would look so kissable in red áo nhật bình~ My wifey wife wife...
I wanna draw them in áo nhật bình eventually, but the patterns on nhật bình are more colourful and detailed, so I'm saving that for another time.
Extra rambles
Douman has such a good design. Their design is amazing, but it’s so detailed and complex, so I wanted to draw LimGuda in áo tấc so I can have simpler designs to refer back to whenever I want to draw them quickly.
I still have to redraw the áo tấc Ritsuka though, it's an old doodle from 2021, and I improved a lot since then, so it’s outdated compared to my current art style. Somewhere around ~2022, I started using a weighted inky brush instead, and I think it suits my art style more! I love using weighted inky brushes! I've been using it as my sketching/lining brush ever since.
I read an article before that talked about how combinations of green and red in Viet weddings were considered a symbol of courtship and marriage... and romantic with erotic symbolism... Oh my god... LimGuda...
I read a post by @/lotusinjadewell that in Southern Vietnam, Viet brides would wear 2 áo ngũ thân on top of each other, with the outer layer being green, and the inner layer being red. That reminds me of Douman colours...
LimGuda wearing green and red Việt phục (Combusts) I wanted to choose those colours because green and red are also notable wedding colours! Anyways I'd have many more things to say about them, but it'd be an essay, so I just wanted to let people know about my immense love for them!!!
I wanna draw them more, since they’re one of my top favourite ships ever and incredibly important to me, but Douman’s design is the most detailed and complex out of my faves. Still, I'd like to become powerful at drawing them someday. Plus, I wanna give myself simpler outfits to fall back on whenever I don't want to draw their canon outfits (especially Douman's which has too many details)
They give me constant brainrot I think about them every single day. I’ve been down bad for them since December 2020. LIMGUDA
