AAGUHHGHUHG i participated in a fanzine for the first time and i get to post what i made for it now!!!!!
the fandesign fanzine post is here, and you can view the website here! and you SHOULD because there's so much great art in there. it's so cool being able to see what other people picture in their heads when they hear designless voices wouuh
below the cut is a version without the halftone filter, a version with no filters, and a #crisp version with just the lineart because i like how i shaded it, as well as rambling about their lore!! lol
yuma was created back when humans were still around as an idol android. when the plague wiped everyone out, leaving only animals and machines, yuma felt he had no more reason to perform and settled in a small village with other androids. yuma is the caretaker of lin lai and yun quan, but he doesn't watch them too closely and lets them do whatever they want lmfao. his eyes, nails, and streaks of his hair (not visible here) can change color, and he has a liquid blushing system (which also means cuts make him "bleed").
d-lin was produced recently in a haywire autonomous factory attempting to replicate humanity. whereas humans themselves tended to prioritize the outward appearance of their machines, the computer running the factory prioritized d-lin's ability to learn, replicate emotions, and he's got every organ a human would (though he doesn't need them to function. he's got a heartbeat and breathes!), but he sits deeper in the uncanny valley than yuma does. the factory experimented with lots of different old-world blueprints, including dreamtonics androids.
because there's no better place for kids to play than an abandoned factory, yun quan and lin lai were out exploring it one day and saw a creepy figure wandering the halls. they ran back to the village to tell yuma about a ghost, yuma returned to the factory with them, and that's how he met d-lin!
d-lin eventually got yuma to pick up singing again. they do shows here and there, but most of it is just for each other and themselves
they can't love each other. yuma's programmed to enjoy interacting with humans, and d-lin is the closest to human he's been around since the death of humanity. the first person d-lin ever met was yuma, so he imprinted. d-lin insists on calling it love and fantasizes about the lives they might lead together in another life. yuma doesn't think love is an accurate term. they're both happy spending time with each other, though, regardless of what they call it. basically they're buddies 🧡💚
also you should play nier automata and nier replicant 🫵 i overhauled my whole vsynth headworld to be post-humanity because those games rewired my brain. i did use angelic text in the side text and it's nothing really special/interesting but it's maybe a fun side thing 👉👈 be sure to drink your ovaltine...
also d-lin's design is partly a reference to cb2, who is very cute
