#playback fic

[dropfinmechanica]

wow im going to be so productive today ! i say, and then promptly black out for three hours and draw my new favorite guy ever.

hello aldritch youve done unspeakable things to me, asshole. mwah ilysm

anyways ........... go my first official playback fanart. ive had this one planned for a while now but the composition and everything about it except for the pause symbol in the background changed.

(also a grey version. for fun.)

@aldritch-ao3

[harumarubaru]

drawn for artfight and then cleaned JUST A BIT so I could post it andhand it to u. go my ugly fucked up little scarab

fanart for @aldritch-ao3 i love 24 karat gold jianbubu

[aldritch-ao3]

arc 3 / third-year uniform upgrades !

[carlfernsby]

Fanart for the fanfiction Playback by @aldritch-ao3

Their design for Jian is simply too wonderful not to draw.

Check out the fic!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59315122/chapters/151276660

[feeplemurphy]

I just realized that Jian is unironically the Chinese sorcerer that Sukuna feared, @aldritch-ao3 was this intentional?

[aldritch-ao3]

you all are doing evil things to me psychologically in my ao3 comments. ive spent all day working on fake dating sim screenshots. shoutout to inkwriter ao3

don't repost / use without permission / etc y'all know the rules

[aldritch-ao3]

art refs + lore extras from intermission ii - spoilers abound ! for those who wanted a better look at the curse, or the location .

[ the curse - full res view advised ]

design-wise, jian has a lot of elements at play. he's occupying the same sort of mostly-humanoid area as the disaster curses, but notably less human than even those four in appearance, more akin to an animal dressing up as a human. he's very tall and lanky, build more like an arboreal monkey than a man, with very long limbs and an even longer tail. subconsciously, the change in size/proportion and loss of an extra limb for balance is hard to adjust to - that's why he's an awkward fighter in a human body. his tendency to slouch is because he's often too big to stand upright in normally sized buildings! with the memory loss, he's having to readjust to a different body plan all over again.

[ the internal domain - full res advised ]

the hand sign isn't based off of a real one like the canon signs are - i wanted something circular, but not like gojo's, so a two-handed sign was a must. i just messed with my hands until something felt right. in regards to the domain itself, i think the photobashing concept and impossible geometry came a bit from pmmm - though it could have just been me being too lazy to draw interiors. who's to say.

[aldritch-ao3]

first of a few little visual references i wanna do for my fic playback ! SI-ya, the man the myth the disgruntled wet cat. his default work outfit from chapter 5 on, plus his original clothes. he alternates between the two depending on circumstance.