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commission for the lovely @river-muse of her DMC OC!
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commission for the lovely @river-muse of her DMC OC!
Thank you very much!!
Please please PLEASE for the ask game I am intrigued by "Ikoma Left Behind"
As you probably guessed from the WIP title, it's a Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress fanfiction, and “Ikoma Left Behind” is sooo self-indulgent. I recently finished the first draft after kicking around the idea with some false starts, and renamed it “A Phoenix From the Ashes.”
I started with the idea, “what if Ikoma hadn't gotten onto the Koutetsujou and managed to survive in Aragane Station, Robinson Crusoe-ing it up and stubbornly clearing the whole thing out of kabane?” Ikoma does just that—he doesn't have Mumei to tell him what a kabaneri is so he finds out everything the hard way. Especially his newfound need for blood. He teams up with a very old kotif oc of mine, Tomoyo, who is an average human and here becomes a blood supplier for Ikoma. (That’s the self-indulgent part—it's the first fic I wrote that both prominently includes an oc and directly contradicts canon. Every other oc I've made for fandoms has been able to conceivably fit into canon without disrupting it. But I had the urge to develop Tomoyo after five years, finish off this story, and ignore all my preconceptions about contradictory oc inserts, so I got this out of it!)
It's primarily an exploration of some kabaneri abilities and Ikoma's feelings about it—in canon, he wouldn't have gotten back onboard the Koutetsujou if Mumei and Takumi hadn't grabbed him. He fully believed himself to be turning into a kabane and had finally lost hope. my fanfiction picks up there, and details Ikoma's struggle to come to terms with himself without any support except Tomoyo (who, being human, can't share his experience), and he can't stop fighting even when he believes himself lost.
Since I stepped out of my comfort zone to write this, I actually found a beta reader (something I've never done before either) and it's currently with them. I expect to post it soon after I get their feedback!
river-muse replied to your post “i (wrongly) thought the new chapter of the knk manga was the final one...”
G OD that's brutal as heck!! Poor Sahari didn't deserve a death that was THAT bad.
Yeah, you know, I’m pleased you said that, because I know I’m much more fond of Sahari than the vast majority of the fandom, lol. It’s not just that it felt horrible to see it happen like this, but I also have issues with Ikoma’s characterisation in that scene, like how am I going to reconcile that brutality with how vehemently he previously objected when Biba killed Enoku?
How long do you think it will be before the new previews will be available on bandcamp?
Hmm, If it hasn’t already happened, we may not have scheduled today’s previews to upload on our Bandcamp. Sorry about that–you should still be able to listen to the new reveals for free on spotifyedit: lol jk, just threw ‘em on bandcamp. We threw an extra one on there as an apology for the wait! Enjoy The 13th Struggle
HAPP BORTH
THANK! O3O
Who was your favorite Frozen Wilds character? I have a really big soft spot for Varga!
you know, god it’s hard but i actually have to say aratak. even tho he was a complete ass in the beginning. he grew on me.
river-muse replied to your post “I don’t know whether anyone else is following the Kabaneri manga, but...”
I keep referring to manga Kurusu in my head as "Hot Topic Kurusu."
Yeah, you know, once his hair changed after the first chapter... I can see it.
He looks fine when he’s facing front but from the side or 3/4 profile is just strange looking? In the latest chapter he actually looks a bit better (though... that might be because he’s full face in most of the panels he features in) so I hope I can enjoy his imminent fight against the wazatori anyway!
river-muse replied to your post “I just want to sleep, but I got stitches in my left shoulder and ear....”
Yeowch. Stitches and a shitty human? Uugghhh
Not being able to sleep just makes my mind wonder to other things that are bothering me. I hope my rant wasn’t too annoying. I was just venting to see if it would help relieve some stress.