#shadyvaati

[louderthanthedj]

I don’t think I have the guts to post it on twitter or fandom-tag it here but hehehehe @shadyvaati drew me and Eiji

[vigilantsycamore]

ＤＥＶＯＴＩＯＮ | Viren/Aaravos

[paracosmicstudios]

Hey! I drew the fantastic @shadyvaati‘s lovely Tinnara!

I love her and drawing her brought out my happy <3

[torveela]

shadyvaati replied to your post “do i need to have played the other kingdom hearts games in order to...”

The answer is yes! But there are prob vids u can watch that can catch u up on the lore so far~ (i havent even played all the games i just had my bf explain it to me lol)

ohhhh gotcha, ill have to dig around yt

[torveela]

shadyvaati replied to your post “soooo i bought a buzzfeed unsolved hat”

thank god someone else knows the unsolved boys theyre great

omg dani im OBSESSED i have to know, are you more shane or ryan?? on the ghost spectrum 

[torveela]

shadyvaati replied to your post “i really want to play d&d =/”

my friends and i started playing dnd together over skype a few months ago and it works p well if u have the people! idk whats in ur area but im sure if wanna do actual tabletop u can find ads or recs online O:

I only have one friend that wants to haha, I wouldn’t mind skype tho! That’d probably be tons easier. I’ll talk to her about it and see if she knows anyone else :) Thanks <3

[patchworkcrows]

Reading Fleets’ new fanfic got me all nostalgic for the past and reminded me about all the old art of Tovia done over the years. This isn’t ALL of it (I distinctly remember someone who was reading the fic made me fanart) but a HUGE ass chunk of it. 

I thought it’d be p cool to look at “the evolution of Tovia”. He started off as just an OC in this shitty Zelda fanfic and wound up taking a life of his own. Originally this like walking stereotype, he’d yell shit about how he “wasn’t gay” and just generally was supposed to be this sort of dumb goody-two-shoes? Weird.

Over the years, Tovia’s grown IMMENSELY - not just in looks but in his story, his character, and even his fucking NAME. I mean, Christ, originally it was just Tovia but now I have a full fuckin’ name for the boy (and if anyone actually follows me on here and REMEMBERS TS, you might remember that for a one year anniversary - oddly enough on what would become the anniversary of Skyward Sword’s release and my future roommate’s birthday??? - I hosted a big RP for fans of the story to join Tovia in this side-story adventure where he went to a parallel universe where Vaati never got reincarnated, meeting the Tovia he woulda been who was named Adam. Weird how that name stuck.)

But FUCK look at all this old ass shit from back then!!!! Tovia was my BOY! I mean, fuck, he STILL my boy. On the left with my pics, the MOST RECENT one there is the traditional drawn one from Goretober. Not a normal look for Tovs but (shrug) he’s a good practice character.

Towards the middle, we’ve got Fleets’ drawing from YEARS ago (and fuck my dude, check out her shit now it’s INSANE how much she’s improved over the years, I’m absolutely blown away by her art). Fleets has been a sweetie throughout the years and I remember when she first posted this pic I legit teared up. Fucking Senpai noticed me and it was the first time I got to see a good drawing of Tovia (I CANNOT draw, guys, I have such a hard time). It was like solidifying everything I knew about Tovia - that this dude wasn’t leaving. And god damn, dudes, Tovia skinny as fUCK in all these old pics. Skinny and straight and p white. 

Movin’ to Kay’s pics although I’m sure she’ll want me dead for sharing them. The Christmas pic fucking KILLS me. It was a gift one Christmas from her and I remember setting it as my background every Christmas. It was my absolute fave gift I got for SUCH a long time and I cherished it so much. There’s an updated version floating around somewhere on one of my old comps or in an email account, digital, but I don’t have the strength to search for it now. Kay’s been a huge help in my writing endeavors and honestly without Kay, I don’t think I’d be able to develop HALF the shit I’ve developed over the years. Each new project we take on gains its own new life and I’m amazed we’ve managed to just... take all these characters from one shitty little fic and breath such life into them. We’ve come up with some wild stories that I continue to say, to this day, that I will fuckin’ push to get them on air one day. Kay’s an amazing writer and her art has ALSO completely done a 360. When Kay sets her mind to it, she fucking achieves some crazy shit and I’m proud we’ve been friends for like 7-8 fucking years. Insane shit.

LASTLY, my gorgeous and insanely talented GF, Shady. Shady’s a sweetheart and when I first met her, I was so fucking nervous to share with her this underdeveloped boy. Tovia’s been this huge part of my life ever since I came up with him and it was... so weird to just share something so personal with someone I’d been looking up to the past few years (if you didn’t know, Shady makes SUPER good AMVs that inspired me to put more work and effort into mine and also helped steer me further towards film, though I don’t think she realizes that fact, lmao). But she loved him like her own little baby and over the years, has helped me take Tovia further and just... oddly enough, make him happy. My boy has a fuckin’ boyfriend who he grows old with and marries, someone he adopts children with, and I’m so so happy about it. Her art is fantastic and she’s really run with my claim “hey Tovia’s fuckin chubby” and just- ugh, I’m dead. What a wonderful girl (who also is doing commissions and you can find more of her art on her tumblr shameless-plug while I’m here).

I just... could go on for like YEARS about Tovia and how amazed I am, looking at all these photos, knowing that this boy’s been beside me since November 20th, 2009 (7 fucking years, guys - 7 years). It’s just insane. So like, iono. If you think you like a character you came up with but they’re just not ready yet and you feel bad or inadequate for it, like... keep goin’? Try new shit. Their story’s not ready yet and that’s okay cause like one day you’re gonna find it and god damn it’s gonna be awesome.