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ok one last thing before this blog dies again for real, because i know this will bother me if i don't address it:

me from two years ago is fucking stupid, the answer was SO OBVIOUS and the fact that i did not realize this is frankly disgraceful

anyways it's Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, this is literally the most merridith song to ever exist

and yes i am going to tag @inertblue because. i need her to see that i finally have an actual answer for her (that i should have had initially but. i am dumb sometimes :] )

For the song prompt: Merridith!

i have been. listening to music and thinking about this for HOURS

and i just can't find anything. like i have a vague idea of what it would be in my mind but i can't find anything that actually fits im so sorry chjvbcjv-

#ok back to the retirement home i go #i had to right this wrong though cjhvcbvk #[put a bow on it] merridith beleza #Youtube

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"Well," he took a seat as well, handing Himegami her bento and removing the lid with a flourish, "today we have lightly seared ahi tuna with greens and rice, and fresh sakura mochi for dessert." He produces a small thermos and 2 tea cups as well. "And, of course, fresh green tea as well."

As usual, everything is prepared perfectly. He even managed to make the tuna pieces look like little octopus sausages, somehow. Even the way he pours his tea is picturesque.

Hidemi is awaiting Himegami's arrival at their usual spot, beautifully prepared bentos in hand.

...And Shino is there too, but sitting behind a nearby tree because she's her.

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it wouldn’t be long before he could smell her signature perfume of flowers waft around, Himegami would make a few last minute adjustments to her hair before as well before finally speaking

“Ohhh-! Hidemi-kun!! Mwuah~” she excitedly ran over to give him a kiss on the cheek “gasp..what could these be?”

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#...i forgor my tags #will do that later lol

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Hijacking this post to talk about my own members of the Kitsuen family (well, the grandkids at least)-

Susume is a straight laced, no nonsense girl who kind of... Isn't really on board with the whole kudagitsune familiar thing. She's Daishirou's younger sister, but doesn't really share his love of folklore (she still gets dragged along on his expeditions though). Her main priorities are getting into a good college, and getting a good job at a successful company. She feels very trapped currently, wanting nothing more than to move to a bigger city and have her own independence, but she also feels like she can't express these desires without making her family upset or disappointed, and that just leads her to be more frustrated. Her fox, Sōta, lives in a test tube, though he usually takes on a human form so he can go to school and such alongside her. She kind of finds him irritating, but he supports her with all he has.

Tomomi is an absolute cryptid of a guy who just. Showed up one day as a kid and was taken in as an adopted kid. By who exactly? Good question.

...No one is really sure what school he goes to either. He's in clubs at both.

He prefers to be silent, only speaking when necessary, and comes off as kinda terrifying, but he's a nice guy, really. He especially enjoys spending time with the younger kids. He has a cardboard poster tube that... MIGHT have a fox in it, but. Is it even a kudagitsune?? Jury's still out on that one.

Katsumi is an incredibly skilled and perceptive swordswoman, with a less than stellar academic record. She's Kanna's older sister, and often tries to help her sister learn how to stick up for herself (it's... not very successful). Academically, she tries, she REALLY does, but... stuff like 'algebra' doesn't really click with her the way swordplay does. If she could, she would go back in time so that being a samurai was a valid career choice. However she can't and is thus stuck being grateful that she does indeed come from a rich family, and can afford to just roleplay as a samurai for a living. Her fox, Ikasuki, lives in a katana scabbard, though she usually can be found in her human form trying her best to help Katsumi get passing grades. They both got held back and are being forced to repeat their 3rd year of highschool; Katsumi for failing and Ikasuki for getting caught helping Katsumi cheat. Despite this, Ikasuki still does all she can to help Katsumi, and the two are good friends. ...Even if Ikasuki often has to play the straight-man to Katsumi's nonsense.

Chiaki is a slightly timid yet determined office worker who is just trying to make it in life on her own (financially, at least). She's Enari's older sister, and loves her (as well as their step brother Takatsu) a whole lot. She lives in a small apartment closer to her workplace during the week, but always comes back home for weekends and holidays. She often has a hard time expressing her desires due to her timid nature, but her foxes, Emi and Fuku, are more than happy to do it for her (often to her dismay). It works out fine, usually. Both of the foxes live in fountain pens, but usually stay in their human forms because they find it more fun. They both work with Chiaki, and often like to mess with people (though Emi does this more often than Fuku), and no one can really consistently tell them apart except Himegami and, most of the time, Chiaki.

Hibiki is a cool-guy-delinquent wannabe who more often than not just comes off as kinda pathetic. He idolizes his older sister Tamae, and wants to be like her more than anything. ...However he is just kinda lame. The extreme nervousness he's developed as a result of Recent Events (aka trans-ing his gender between the last school year and this one) haven't really helped with this either, making him come off more as a jumpy dork than anything else. His fox lives in a kaleidoscope toy, and, though a bit of a sarcastic bitch at times, is trying to help him get his confidence up.

Moe is a very excitable teenage girl who hates nothing more than being called short (she is very short). She's Fujio and Asagi's little sister, and she looks up to both of them a whole lot. Despite their family already having a whole fox-deity thing going on, she is kinda obsessed with Inari Ōkami, and collects various kitsune-themed trinkets and plushies (mainly ones with a white and red color scheme). This is in no small part due to her fox, who claims to be a reincarnated kitsune who served the Kami. He isn't lying, his ass got isekai'd, and he lives in an omamori (what is a omamori but a closed silk tube. it counts, trust me it's not the stupidest one i've done).

...and technically i have another guy but. he's in the early concept phases so uh. him later (or maybe never, by the time i design him this blog might be dead again lol)

anyways yeah that's it cjhvcjv sorry for the long ass post but i love talking about my funny little guys :]

The Kitsuens are a long line of people who have been brought fortune by kudagitsune familiars. The majority of the comically large family lives in a huge house in order to remain close to the family guardian, the massive smoky fox that lives in the chimney.

Grandchildren:

Daishirou is a folklorist who is very enthusiastic in his studies. Since his family lives alongside a type of yokai, he is eager to explore, scour old records and find out what else out there is really true, and how they compare to the legends. His fox lives in the bamboo tube that is traditional to keep a kudagitsune in, because every group needs a control.

Fujio is in a position where he doesn’t really need to work, but has a job as a bartender anyway, because it’s something to do and a way to see interesting things happen. He likes to consider himself a cool beauty, but he’s actually pretty easy to irritate and make lose that cool. Especially if you’re Tamae. His fox lives in a water bottle.

Tamae believes that there’s no point in having money if you aren’t using it to have a good time, so she does. She spends most of her time drinking, smoking, partying, and tussling with her friends/whatever other rabble rousers may show up. All of that said, she’s fairly friendly (if intense) by default, and doesn’t aim to cause trouble, it just kind of happens when she and her equally rowdy friends go overboard. Her fox lives in her metal pipe.

Asagi is an artist who works with a lot of mediums, and mixes them together to results that a lot of people don’t “get”, which frustrates her. She comes across as pretentious sometimes, but has a lot of respect for anyone with a passion for their craft. She’s siblings with Fujio, and her fox lives in a paint tube, though sometimes switches tubes to change color.

Ganji is, as you could probably guess, a massive otaku. He’s a happy, friendly guy who fuckin loves anime, and he loves to express this through cosplay. He’s *really good at cosplay.* Like, he often becomes unrecognizable, and he makes a lot of his costumes and props himself. (Though sometimes Asagi helps with the props, he is one of the cousins she gets along with best). His fox lives in a mascara tube.

Kanna is in the unfortunate position of having a particularly disagreeable fox with a drive to prove herself better than others, and of course, she can’t feel superior without a perfect human partner, so she pushes Kanna to be better than others as well- Or at least act the part of a rich ice princess. Kanna is a massive pushover, and goes along with what the fox wants because it’s easier… But she’s also just. Really bad at being mean and condescending, so it isn’t terribly effective. The fox lives in a flute.

Roi has the disease called Being a Teenager, and is taking all the wrong lessons from being related to Tamae. He’s got a lot of aggression about pretty much nothing and likes to feel tough. Unfortunately for him, and probably fortunately for everyone else, he’s not very strong and kind of a coward. His fox lives in a Pringles can.

Kinuka is Ganji’s sister, and just as big an anime fan. In fact, it inspired her to try to become an idol, and lucky for her, she lives in a setting where we don’t have to address the horrors of the industry, so she acts as the Dog idol in a Momotaro-themed idol group. She isn’t often recognized outside of it. She and Ganji get along really well. Her fox lives in a chapstick tube.

Takatsu is not a blood relative, and has no fox. His mom married Enari’s mom a couple years back. Enari and her mom have been presences in his life since he was a child, and he loves them both a lot… But he’s really just some guy who is now embroiled in the weirder parts of this family of wealthy, magic eccentrics, and it’s a little much for him sometimes. Still, he wants to try and get along with them the best he can.

Enari probably makes the first impression of a rich braggart who’ll probably turn out to be a total brat, but really, her bragging is less out of pride in her family’s money and more out of love for the members of the family… It can still get annoying sometimes, though. Her fox is an unusually large, doughy, barely sapient thing that lives in a tube sock, and she loves him So Much. She will not tolerate anyone being mean to him.

Seimei… Is a strange case. Daishiro just showed up with a baby one day, and it turned out that his hopeless romantic humanfucker fox took human form and got with a rando who helped her out of a jam, then felt like she had to run away when it came to light that she wasn’t human. Seimei is her kid.

Seimei is a quiet, enigmatic, concerningly powerful child who is only getting more so while hanging around Daishiro and sometimes following him on his expeditions. She seems to be able to speak to animals, know where things are that she shouldn’t, see things most people can’t, and often brings creatures into the house. Though I guess that last one is more of a general little kid thing.

#...now to tag all of them. sigh. #alright here we go. #[rigid satin] susume kitsuen #[supporting role] sōta kitsuen #[starfall paper planes] tomomi kitsuen #[modern samurai] katsumi kitsuen #[swift thinker] ikasuki kitsuen #[shaky leaves] chiaki kitsuen #[devil on your shoulder] emi kitsuen #[angel on your shoulder] fuku kitsuen #and now two new ones #[glass breaker] hibiki kitsuen #[fox fanatic] moe kitsuen #OK done lol #if i forgot anyone uh. no i didnt. shut up.

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Another human joins the expidition

#JHVXJCVX wonderful pika thank you lmao #sōta was put in timeout for encouraging daishirou's bs (affectionate) too much cjnvck #susume voice: my brother in kemuri-sama we have gps on our phones #[rigid satin] susume kitsuen #[supporting role] sōta kitsuen

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Happy birthday Sakura

birthday gorl :]

#[let's ghost!] sakura yurei

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Hidemi let out a laugh, taking her hand and planting a quick kiss on it, winking at her. "Why, it's a lunch befitting of a princess, of course~" He smiled, before gesturing to the soft grass that lay behind him. "Come now, let us sit together and enjoy each other's company like always~ Ladies first, of course."

Shino rolled her eyes from her 'hiding' spot. He always was about the bravado, huh. Annoying...

...It could be worse though. At least he was leaving her to eat (the annoyingly good bento he made her) in peace.

...For now, at least.

Hidemi is awaiting Himegami's arrival at their usual spot, beautifully prepared bentos in hand.

...And Shino is there too, but sitting behind a nearby tree because she's her.

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it wouldn’t be long before he could smell her signature perfume of flowers waft around, Himegami would make a few last minute adjustments to her hair before as well before finally speaking

“Ohhh-! Hidemi-kun!! Mwuah~” she excitedly ran over to give him a kiss on the cheek “gasp..what could these be?”

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#[white petals] hidemi tayasu #[cold stare] shino tayasu #shino may have had character development but. she's still shino lol

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ok finally

here's chuck

#[shining red] charles 'chuck' gardner #he is so. just so. #peaked in highschool lookin ass

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more character refs (some of which i definitely forgot about prior to now oops)

in order:

pic 1: Katsumi, Ikasuki, Hanae, Emi, Chiaki, and Fuku Kitsuen. some of them are human, some of them are kudagitsune.

pic 2: these guys are already labeled so i'll just specify that Susume, Sōta, and Tomomi are also from the Kitsuen family, but Kibara Migite is not. she's got her own shit going on lmao.

also not pictured is Sōta's human form, which he's in most the time as he also goes to school but i. just haven't gotten around to designing it yet (i keep accidentally making him look too similar to Hidemi oops-)

pic 3: these guys are also already labeled. they work for the funny organization :]

and then since the rest aren't compilation images i'll just list them separately:

Shūten and Iris Uso

as usual, oops i make a lot of characters lmao-

#chuck was supposed to be here too but #oops didn't finish coloring. will do so when i get home #now for the FUN part. coming up with tags for ALL THESE PEOPLE- #do i have to? no. realistically this blog is gonna go back to being dead within a week #however. it feels wrong not to so i will anyways lol #[modern samurai] katsumi kitsuen #[swift thinker] ikasuki kitsuen #[gentle cottonwood] hanae kitsuen #[devil on your shoulder] emi kitsuen #[shaky leaves] chiaki kitsuen #[angel on your shoulder] fuku kitsuen #[rigid satin] susume kitsuen #[supporting role] sōta kitsuen #[starfall paper planes] tomomi kitsuen #[wilted rose] kibara migite #[monochrome maniac] suihō shiratori #[melon maniac] otoa ōmu #[drunken devil] shūten #[nervous spiderwort] iris uso #OK FINALLY DONE jesus #might tweak some of these colors still (mainly otoa) bc i couldn't check to see if they looked good on my monitor [edit: i did change her] #here. take them.

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it sure would be a shame if i had a post i was gonna make hours ago but couldn't finish coloring one of the drawings and now im stuck in heavy traffic so i won't be able to finish it for another few hours

fuck it ill just post it now and post the other drawing separately later

#trying to color while at work took longer than expected lol #oh well. atleast i got most of it done lol

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It’s Tennoji lol

"T-

Tennoji??? You mean my tutor???

...He IS kinda cute. AND definitely has protag-vibes....

...I could make it work, I think."

#[shaded sunshine] taiyomi mikibi

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what powers does iris have?

"I... don't have any powers.

...Shit, atleast I didn't have any before all of this. Now... I'm pretty sure I still don't...? But also would I know if I did...?"

#[nervous spiderwort] iris uso #is that the right tag. ill check after i post this- #but tldr uh yeah she WAS a normal person #but the experimentation she was subjected to was to try and figure out if you could make someone gain powers #which. she may or may not have now. who knooooows- #anyways ill probably make a post about her and chuck tmmrw lol #i still need to color chuck... lemme do that rn actually

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Holy shit. I'm surprised Merridith didn't burn the whole building down after all that.

"Why bother doing that? I know some of the people in there are either innocent test subjects like Ishihara-kun, or simply clueless as to what's really going on. Those people HARDLY deserve to die in a fire.

No, I'd rather dismantle the whole operation in my own way. After all, I hold all the bargaining chips now. And they know that.

It'd be a shame if someone went to the media with a bunch of receipts about the atrocities happening in that hellhole. A real, cryin' shame."

#[put a bow on it] merridith beleza

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sakura

ghost tier list

"all of them are s tier! i couldn't pick favorites, they're all great in their own ways!!!

...except the really bad ones, they go in f tier."

#[let's ghost!] sakura yurei #aka uhhh im not gonna make a list lol #s+ will be her close friends and family whenever they die tho #bias :pensive:

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Hey Sakura, how does it feel that one of your first friends is also a god now?

"on one hand, it's nice to know that, even after big sis, and Shino-chan, and everyone else dies, I won't be alone. But on the other hand...

...the fact that Eiji-chan has been cursed with this too... It's hard to find any joy in that."

#[let's ghost!] sakura yurei #it's not a happy thing knowing you'll outlive all of your loved ones #and this whole 'oh im a god apparently' thing has definitely dragged sakura's more serious side out a bit more

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gotta love how i said i'd still be doing stuff here today and have yet to actually do anything lmao

anyways, askbox is empty. send some stuff and ill get to it in a bit

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ok so, obviously, this whole thing has been an april fools thing

however

we are having fun so we're extending it (atleast) another day

look forward to more :]

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“Awwww I love you too Shino :3” -Himegami

"...Mm." She looks away, definitely a bit embarrassed she was overheard but...

She couldn't lie. She did kinda enjoy Himegami's doting. More than Hidemi's, at least.

...She would never admit it, though.

#[cold stare] shino tayasu #:] #i like shino lol