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WAIT!!! i had an ask in this inbox this whole time and i didn't see it until now! sorry!!!!! (idk why notifs on this blog are broken. i only ended up seeing it because i got an ask on my main blog -> desktop shows asks from all blogs -> discovery

i'll answer it tomorrow probably...!! (i hope i'm not too swamped with errands)

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my yearly attempt to draw shinano (failed). see you guys next year

#a #the tulpa gag is back

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may 29th..... you're kidding, it changed to may 29th after the popup shop ended...

the original date was april 4th so i was expecting it to ship this month, so i ordered stuff so i can ship it all at once, now it's may 29th... that's clear beyond my birthday (25 days in fact), you're kidding!!!!! since i planned around it i already have stuff ready to consolidate in storage. i think it has only two weeks of free storage left so... so...!!!

this is gonna cost me an extra 50 bucks cmonnnn 😭

tbh, i think they should have shipped to the people who bought online first, i don't think it's fair, but i'm only annoyed cuz i tried to plan ahead. my mistake. seeing the popup shop made me think it'd ship on time.... agh i feel crazy!!!

well... ill be waiting 😭😭😭

#random bitching sorry i had to get it out of my system

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ok ive excised the need to draw funny faces from my system

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wrath

#a #deeply troubled individual #drew this in under 15 minutes kind of baffled #thats why its insanely wonky

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it was 5 am when i replied to that ask (actually i was about to sleep but i was checking tumblr and decided to get back up and look at things)... but i didn't include this anyway cuz i didn't think of it. this isn't really concrete at all, but generally, my view on the fragments:

hatsutori, ryuu, miwa <-these three are archetypal fragments with no abnormalities, hatsutori and ryuu are allegedly very similar in a lot of ways. nothing weird about miwa to speak of

azuma <-this one is fucking abnormal. how old are you? everyone else is over 60 probably under 90 (giving a big range here). but if he's shirou-chan then... well it's weird because he'd be theodore's peer, not junior.

igarashi<-maybe normal...? there's really not much info? i have no reason to believe there is anything particularly strange here

misumi<-probably normal as a baseline, but how do you even split a fragment? it implies you can get to it in the first place? who told him how?? how do you figure this out.

izu<-as far as i'm concerned, i don't think he was ever originally a fragment, just being strung along and kept alive by misumi in increasingly insane ways

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oh yeah, nonnie, idk if you're gonna see this but the best ref you can probably get of dita is probably his battle sprite. i forgot to mention it.

#unfortunately you'll have to intuit some details or take notes from fanart #everyone is guessing at an alarming rate

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no matter what the harada brown hair dark red eyes combo is so!!!!! good!!!! its so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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OK this is utterly random but I was digging for references to draw Dita and something about him looks. Off? I don't have the databook so my only references here are the CoM profile image and the in-game sprite in Interlude but then I realized that his eye color is significantly darker than Fragments we're currently aware of?? Even Eigha's are more Fragment red than Dita's. I think I'm losing my mind. Surely he wouldn't wear different contact lenses?

I don't really have a goal here I just don't have anyone else to bother with my brainrot and you're chill so presumably up for someone else's brainrot. Cool if not tho

i got pretty curious, so i decided to see for myself. just to note, theodore has pure #FF0000 red eyes so i didn't include him, none of the others have anything like that. the databook makes sure to make a distinction when talking about hatsutori's eyes too (i.e. saying they're not pure red, that they're dark red. i assume the same applies to the rest too).

if you're curious, there is not really much on ditasword in the databook, there's a paragraph about it on shinano's entry that teases CoM's premise and the nature of the show, what it is, mentions miwa and gives a little information about him etc. i feel like the only thing that isn't mentioned in the interlude or other material is that eigha as a character appears in season 2 and 4 (so he isn't in season 1 or 3). there's a drawing in the databook that can be seen in thumbnail form in miwa's room. i think it's the poster with taka on it. it's a little hard to see tho. the poster with shiyo on it is based on the art on the CoM website with ryuu replaced with eigha. as far as i know there's no HD version of the half with eigha on it.

here is what i ended up with:

it's something like this. (sorry the pic isn't aligned neatly)

i compared in-game sprites. any inconsistency in other pictures, i think i personally rule out as just that, inconsistencies.

looking purely by value, ryuu's eyes are the darkest among the fragments, miwa in second, then izu, hatsutori, misumi. i included hair color too for some reason. i was most surprised that misumi has the lightest eyes. izu is weird because his eyes are more RED than anyone else. overall, there doesn't seem to be any pattern or correlation for why they're all different. my guess is that it's just a design thing. we say "pink" hair, but it's noted to be shades of magenta. so by the logic of design choice, it makes sense that miwa, who is a 60+ year old man who pretends to be 40 years younger and plays an anime boy for a living, has the pinkest hair (since it's cute). ryuu having a sort of muddy, ashy purple. hatsutori having probably the least blemished magenta since he's got an otherworldly cult leader sort of mood going on, etc.

my personal outlook on color variation for a while has been that not unlike a gemstone, there are different degrees of purity and such, and if you consider theodore the "purest", then the other fragments appearance suddenly start to make sense. something like this:

tho, idk if this has any basis in reality. it's just a funny thing i thought of... (yknow since fragments, rocks... etc)

as for eigha... his eyes are darker than ryuu's. i feel like that's consistent with someone wearing contacts over normal dark eyes. i do think this is a factor, because the contacts in miwa's bathroom are noted to be black, not brown. i think red would definitely look weird under brown contacts, since yknow that kind of thing does peek out a bit. someone would have clocked the deception pretty fast if they compared dita in the show and miwa out and about. of course it's a lot of show don't tell. you just find miwa's disguise in his bathroom. it's obvious the implication is "dita's look is what miwa actually looks like" but the vigilant might still consider other avenues. i'm lazy so i just go with the most obvious and probably intended implication. this is just an aside, but i honestly would have snapped, the fragments have lightly colored eyelashes and eyebrows, so on work days miwa would have to tint them to look darker going to the studio or whatever else, wipe it all off and get in dita costume, then put it back on to go back home, then go home and wipe it off again...

we don't know what either person who plays eigha looks like, but since it's the inverse situation... i guess it makes sense. (if shiyo really is actually a real harada, it'd be auburn dark red under there?!?!!?!! <-instant otaku death) he does have a sprite where his eyes are glowing, but since it's a 2.5D show i don't rule out special effects, post processing, etc.

since the game collaboration is based on the movie, i'm fully assuming it's shiyo, but there's really nothing saying it can't be taka...?? i have no idea!!! i think it's definitely shiyo though!!!

overall, i didn't observe anything abnormal about miwa compared to the other fragments, but i also have no idea why izu's eye color is so drastically different from misumi's. i expected them to be the same since it's misumi's fragment after all.

#anonymous #ask #im not sure what this does for you but i had a good think about it #thanks for the interesting ask youre always welcome to come to me for anything else <3

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genuinely i have no idea how some people find this blog sometimes honestly LOL

#not negative just capital p Pondering #ive been asked about it for no i do not hide it 👍 #but i am not particularly loud so im so curious LOL

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tried to challenge myself not to use a ref. dita look is actually not that bad without a ref, i almost forgot the feather but i added it in last second. but also i always forget the feather. the civilian look 👎👎👎👎👎 it will never stick maybe if we get a second picture from a different angle i could rationalize it a little and understand what the hell is going on with that look but for now it might be hopeless

#i think dita's design is easy to parse because there are a lot of available refs relatively speaking #even if he looks different in every picture

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drawing nothing in particular

bonus:

i don't know anything about chiikawa so idk if my interpretation of this meme is even correct but i needed to excise this from my system somehow. im not going to read chiikawa for this. people have explained the context to me but i still don't get it. still pretty funny though

#a #this was an excuse to recalibrate some brushes #the one under the cut is older #like last week or so

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kadou is a man who is pushing 50 but is actually 12 years old

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kadou's initial pitch was like this

#oh yeah i fixed some details that were bugging me

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to me its like this

#a #as if this blog could not get worse

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a fanbox update would be good too!!! actually i have a bot set up in a friend server that has several twitters posting into a channel (for news updates and the like, usually media properties and games) and i set the thing to @ me whenever the stf twitter tweets and well... this can sum up the experience so far

even while keeping myself busy with horse girls and fgo lately i can't stop thinking about it!!! any update is fine...

#my heart drops every time its just an update on those dangling charms #im just exaggerating for the most part but its funny to whine a little

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honestly have no idea what could come next given i wasn't expecting one to include rui at all but if i had to bet, and i AM a bit of a gambler, the next one should be kadou, i'd like to see it

kadou speaking to azuma would be a huge jackpot ...

ill do anything even if azuma is just mentioned...