#ssr designer

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Mercury: Sweet Doll

Designer's Reflection: Sweet Doll

Obtained: Pinnacle Battles 3

Rarity: SSR

Attribute: Pink/Sweet

Awakened Suit: Heart Stealer

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Telosma

Chapter 2 - Night Bloom

Chapter 3 - When a Flower Withers

Chapter 4 - Dance of Withering

Story - summarized

You meet a telosma flower, and it wants to tell you about its short life.

It grew on a tree in Mercury's Moonlight Garden, and it watched a lot of dinner parties that the CEO would hold. The flower didn't understand people's politics, but the events were still pretty to watch. One night, a girl showed up late to the dinner party. She was Lilith.

Mercury took an instant liking to her and spent the rest of the party with her. Not only that, but Lilith was a candidate for the queen of Ninir, and he wanted to help her get elected. The telosma flower had no clue why, but it liked Lilith and hoped she would be queen.

But one day, Lilith asked Mercury if he loved her. He said he was just helping her for his own reasons. Lilith declared that she would win the election without him. He found that amusing, since she needed him, and no one else had ever successfully bargained with him.

Still, Lilith walked out, and Mercury needed a new candidate to support. He chose a noble-born girl named Ciciti, who was beautiful but selfish, entitled, and nasty. She wanted to get rid of all the flowers in the garden and replace them with lilies. The telosma flower hated that, as all flowers were beautiful and lovely, not just the boring lilies.

Everything seemed to be going Ciciti's way: she was gaining popularity in the polls, and she was the star of Mercury's dinner parties every night.

About a week later, right at Ciciti's proudest moment, Mercury finally arrived to the dinner party... with Lilith! The two had made some sort of arrangement, and he was back to supporting her as queen. They danced together, all the while admitting to just using each other as political tools.

The telosma flower couldn't help but find the moment sweet and romantic. It threw itself off the tree and scattered its petals, making this moment extra special.

Connections

-There are other "object" narrators in Reflections: Yexiao's drawing comes to life and shares a memory in Spring Forest.

-On the first night of the dinner party, Lilith talks with a poet and is charmed by him. During the Puppet Encounter hell event, the doll Lilibet relives all of Lilith's journey through the other toys, and she talks with a poet toy - and subsequently steals his pen to steal his talent.

-Lilith has another Reflection, Telosma's Kiss, that relates her to the humbly beautiful flower. She begins her life as Lilith and tricks her way into the Glay family.

-In Pinnacle Battles 3, Nikki and friends find an illusion of Mercury dancing with a doll dressed exactly like Lilith. When he detects the "intruders," he sends thorny roses after them instead of telosmas.

-At the end of Voice of Desire, Lilith noticed Mercury and how he was the only one not charmed by her beauty. She made a point after winning the crown that she would do whatever it took to make him love her.

-In his Reflection for Daybreak Overture, Mercury (as a child) meets a nobleman in the countryside who gifted him a beautiful rose garden after his death. Now, Mercury owns two gardens: the Pigeon Rose Garden, and the Ninir Moonlight Garden

Fun Facts

-A telosma is native to the Indo-China region. It grows on trees, and it's a small flower that can range in color from a sunny yellow to a pure white.

-While this Reflection, and the whole game, is fantasy, Mercury is still 124 years old, and Lilith is 16 years old. The age gap is disturbingly huge... and it's worse when you remember the two were acting cutesy at the dinner party in the last chapter.

-Lilith worked alongside Nightbane to become queen, so she truly didn't need Mercury. And since he mentioned that no one had ever gotten him to negotiate before, and we see the two of them at the party, it's possible that Lilith found a way to get him to negotiate after Ciciti started taking over the garden.

#mercury #shining nikki #designer's reflection #sweet doll #pink attribute #sweet #ssr designer #pinnacle battles #ninir #ninir kingdom #party #flower #telosma #queen #garden #moonlight garden #doll #puppet #politics #lilith #dangerous #dance

[arcadebroke]

#tech_air #masterace #toyotavan #van life #86toyotavan #ssr #高旧車 #老旧車 #mini van #micro van #design #style #jdm #automotive

[spinjitsuburst]

Tiz me in ur walls again, I wish to know about the man in the Cabnet.

Very much enjoying Snake features! idk if you’ve answered this before or if it would be spoilers, but when and how the heck was he bit by a fangpire? I think Lloyd releases serpentine later than him being trapped in prime empire?

But mostly I wanna know Jay’s elbows.

EEEE YES i love talking about the cabinet man huehue

so first up, jay being part serpentine has nothing to do with the actual serpentine themselves, funny enough! jay just loved snakes and since prime empire is a game where you can give yourself whatever cosmetics you want, jay gave himself a bunch of snake-like features. he also has some custom moves that give him more snake-like abilities, unagami coded them in for him before their, err..... falling out.

the tail has always been pretty bulky and jay can choose whether or not it's showing, but since that isn't how things work outside the game, it ends up kind of... growing into his actual body once he's outside the game. it ends up being MUCH smaller in the real world which jay's grateful for - he goes through quite the self-conscious arc from feeling different than others

as for the clothes:

#i loveeeeeee my ssr jay design #jay #jay walker #cabinet man au #cmau art #ask #spinjitsu screams #spinjitsu doodles

[moonfish--art]

The little vampire familiar finally got an SSR design and I am all over it, Aster just looks very hot now 😌👌

#nu carnival #nu carnival aster #nu carnival fanart #art #fanart #digital art #digital illustration #drawing #illustration #anime art #anime #artwork #i love this man so much #imma suck for hot vampires #pun intended #aster and morvay finally got SSR designs

[transparentimascg]

#nanami asari #idolmaster cinderella girls #starlight stage #transparent #ssr #the design for this ssr outfit is so genuis #i love it

[hydrachea]

My Giant Japanese Mecha Can't Be This Gap Moe

#fgo #fgo spoilers #fate grand order #minamoto no tametomo #sir?? SIR??? SIR?????? #of course he's designed by mori's artist but DID THEY HAVE TO GIVE HIM TWO DIFFERENT SPARKLE EXPRESSIONS #I'VE ONLY SEEN THAT ON ERESH #MOEMOEMOEMOE #sick mecha design voiced by kairi's va AND he's an ungabunga buster archer you know he's got my quartz in two years #yes i know the first banner has a limited ssr arts looping rider but i am part of the seeing red pressing red faction #100% np up if you hold off from using his np for five turns? i can only get so hard #someone PLEASE let me see how hard he hits against lawful sabers if you wait those five turns and slap oberon and whoever else with him #god i can't wait to translate his lines #*gently holds*

[retrace-104]

madness madness madness madness the candles behind her seem to be an actual piece with a recolor :)) small chance the same can be said about the pearl decorations on her eyes since they seem to have two color variants. but it could very well be part of the new makeup feature (so you’d have to pay). the light set is the base color and blue is recolor.

#shining nikki #Ophelia My Beloved . #I’m cackling soooo hard at this being the first ssr event post anni4 cuz I was so convinced She was gonna be a designer during that. #now here she is.

[megidoreyn]

Jonathan SMT4. 

Had to doodle the angel boy real quick! He’s one of my favorites. 🙏💛

(also: hey there, SMT fandom! It’s my first post on here 👋)

twitter

#shin megami tensei #SMT #smt iv #smtiv #smt4 #megaten #if your guess was that this looks like an idol game SSR card you'd be right because that was absolutely intentional LOL #also I completely ignored Mikado Castle's original design because it's just so (makes vague hand motion) not pretty tbh LOL #your suspension of disbelief is greatly appreciated LOL #I usually don't go hard on BGs like this so this was a warm up/study of idol game SSR cards more than anything!

[tiangouaway]

nerd rambles about disappointing video game being disappointing

aka some of my thoughts on onmyoji's new characters of the golden cruise event

honestly, i'm really liking this event so far! i've only read the first three chapters, but it's still a lot of fun!! seimei's on a solo mission, completeing challenges on a mysterious (and beautiful) boat to hopefully learn more about kuzunoha! yay!! not to mention stuff like the new material collection system in the battle portion and komatsu's new skin :3 it's all so much fun!

but that being said, some aspects of this event are kinda lackluster... mainly the golden tentacles' crew members

i assume that the devs were scrambling to rearrange everything after they scrapped tamatori (rip queen <3), which could explain why the remaining characters feel pretty... underwhelming. they all have their merits, but they aren't really pulling their own weight to fill the tamatori shaped hole in the story.

i'll start off with the one i have the least complaints about, shiro-uneri. the first ever surgeon in onmyoji, cool!! i'll have to reread his backstory since i forgot some things, but being turned into a spirit by taki after failing to save his crew is so :(((( but that could explain my main complaint with him (and the other characters) - his design is beautiful, but he doesn't feel like a part of the crew. he doesn't even look like a land yokai, more like a near budget version of sp orochi. L

next is tagitsuhime. she's adorable, but once again i feel like she doesn't look like a crew member. but she at least looks like a sea yokai, esp with her splatoon-esque hair. and i love her personality, but onmyoji is using the "small stand-offish >:P girl" archetype a bit too much. it's the same personality as kingyo and kotodama, but with their edges sanded off (as seen with how she treats taki). i love her and the two others i mentioned, but this type of character is getting a little stale...

but speaking of stale!! taki isn't just stale, he's moldy with a giant bacteria infection. i'm so sick of every new male ssr being some combination of a beloved figure with white hair and no personality beyond calm and stoic and BORING. taki is all that with an iguana named "hizz". absolute L. his design is ass and clearly just taking insp from that old blue french guy from genshin impact so the influx of genshin fans will be happy and try to summon him. BUT!!!!!! despite all that, there are still some things i like about him. the fact that he calls tagitsuhime "sharkie" is adorable, and he actually showed some personality, being overjoyed when seimei figured out his wordplay with the first challenge. i wish they did more with that - making taki more visibly happy or even theatrical, treating this adventure with both seriousness and fun. we are in DESPERATE need of a silly SSR but the devs are too busy making another cheap boring husbando to care

#tamatori was probably gonna be “silly” but her sex appeal might've gotten in the way #the devs care more about design than personality after all #i swear the last silly SSR was like. mishige #ueueueue (neither she or shokurei will come home to me they hate me so much) #ANYWAYS #waba talk #onmyoji

[cherryblossomssmash]

A3: JULY CELEBRANTS 🧁🎉

#a3! act! addict! actors! #a3! mankai company #yuki rurikawa #kumon hyodo #happy birthday #design #art #yuki ssr #kumon ssr #july babies #mobile game #story #birthday 2022

[museaway]

It's taking all of my self control not to immediately swap my icon to Aster from Nu: Carnival. If you're caught up on the Solaria event, you understand.

#aster nu: carnival #MY OTP GOT A GLOW UP #when can i change my icon please #I want to wait so I don't spoil people #you have to see it with your eyes #ty nu:c designers #ssr when!!! hahaha!!! #no really #nu: carnival #aster

[shiningdesignersreflections]

Luming: Lanterns of Fish

Designer's Reflection: Lanterns of Fish

Obtained: Blessed Blossoms top-up

Rarity: SSR

Attribute: Green/Fresh

Awakened Suit: Lanterns of Spring

Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection

Chapter 1 - Fish in Yue

Chapter 2 - Fish Lantern Wish

Chapter 3 - Glittering Night

Chapter 4 - Awaiting Bloom

Story - summarized

Luming is on a mission to fulfill a wish in Yue Prefecture City. One small problem: the wish belongs to a goldfish, and he has no idea where to start.

He gets a fish lantern to store the Wish Lantern in while he searches. The marketplace is filled with hot, sweet cakes and passionate storytellers, and he runs into you, the player. The two of you decide to fulfill the wish together.

The Wish Lantern guides him to the nearby pond where the fish used to live. Luming finds out that someone had gathered fish from the pond earlier this morning to sell at the market.

Finally, they find the right vendor... but someone just bought the last goldfish. Luming hurries to catch up with the family. The little girl with the goldfish sees the bright lantern that Luming has. She offers her fish for the lantern.

He gladly accepts. As the family walks away, the lantern inside dissolves into stardust. The wish is almost complete. You and Luming return to the pond and release the goldfish into the water. It reunites with its old friend, a piece of alga floating on the surface.

The both of you return to the festival, determined to enjoy the snacks and the entertainment. One such play you pass is Qin Yi's play about sacrificing a goldfish to be accepted by others. He spots you two in the crowd, and he swears he saw a goldfish.

Connections

-We met Luming during the first Chinese New Year event, Wishes on the Cloud. It was the first time he was able to leave the Lake of Wishes, and we learn more about his birth, existence, and job in his Reflection for Cloud Benediction.

-Goldfish are usually a good omen, but in Qin Yi's memories for Mind Maze 3, he ended up killing his beloved pet fish in order to convince the Qin family to take him in as their "long-lost son."

-The story of the goldfish reuniting with the pond alga parallels the story of Lingwu the Tiger and Yuntan the Flower: two friends promise to meet each other again later, and encounter obstacles along the way.

Fun Facts

-"Yue" means moon, and it's pronounced "yuAY" (all one syllable).

-Alga is the singular of "algae," and it encompasses all aquatic, photosynthetic organisms, from plankton to kelp. Algae are neither plants nor animals, but instead protists.

#luming #shining nikki #lanterns of fish #ssr designer #fresh #green attribute #top up #new year #chinese new year #cny #yue #alga #algae #friend #fish #goldfish #wish #qin yi #promise #designer's reflection #blessed blossoms

[idiaa-shroxd]

YOUR WRITING IS SO PRETTY I COULD EAT IT. YOU CHARACTERIZE THE CHARACTERS SO WELL TOO!!!

thank you so much!! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ happy you think my writing is very pretty!! and also makes me happy you think my characterization was correct.

when writing for characters always take a bit of extra time to ensure they sound good? thinking about having an actual conversation with them for a minute and what they’d do! ♧ personally a big fan of viginettes since that reveals a lot of a character more than mainstory.

Σ('◉⌓◉’) mini (huge) rant within the tags of the way of my process to understand a character!!

#i’ve been trying to work on characterization with trey for example because in the main story he is relatively nice #but within his viginettes he’s a bit more than that like a slightly smug teaser than boy next door. #the characters tend to have complexity rather than one dimension traits people tend to stick by #which isn’t a bad thing but to start writing it could help kick you off but majority of the time your characters do have many emotions to #aspirations- such as vil being mean BUT that coming with subtle charm of care- he does not derive pleasure from purposefully degrading other #he firmly believes he can see the beauty in everyone if they try and he attempts to get others to apply themselves so they can be pretty #he does not go around like ew you’re ugly go away unless you have a negative attitude like leona who purposefully does not put any effort #but sometimes his pursuit for beauty can go out of hand like with epel or neige but his dorm ssr perfectly illustrates he knows what he does #he does not always explain himself with having epel do heavy lifting which only helps epel improve but he would not tell him this directly #there are other characters i can rant about the way i write. such as sebek being a malleus fanboy #but that was not a central part of his personality to warrant every fic just mentioning malleus each sentence #the best way to learn how to write for him would be looking at his viginette or his event story without tsunotarou!! he is quite a wonderful #-ly designed character but gets overlooked due to his ‘louder’ part of his personality. but he genuinely has captivated me as a character #the best examples for eng players would be during harveston- when he was extremely passionate about what he did with a soft side for his #plush!! he’s a big softie. he’s just very confused because his grandfather openly hates humans. he acknowledges marja and complimented her #he’s not hating humans for no reason but because it was taught to him. he’s trying his best to be what he is but you can tell he is not too #prideful that he would refuse to acknowledge marja just for being a human. in fact in his viginette he HELPS humans with their lumber #though that is technically due to him being confident he can do so compared to a human thanks to being a guard for Malleus but he is quite #happy to be complimented!!-. he is a character with more depth: ceremony viginette next #he tells yuu to just let him handle things since he’s stronger which shows he’s also blunt and says things without thinking about others at #times. but people are MISSING out on fics with sebek yuu and tea bonding over tsunotarou because he has no hostility to those who like #tsunotarou. he is happy to teach!! his other viginette think pe??: lilia tricks him into eating steak with yogurt iirc and he does honestly #it’s disgusting but he trusts lilia and 100% believe the old fae. THE POTENTIAL. authors need to use that?? just lilia messing with him or #how he can sometimes be so gullible you can get him to trust you mixed together with how attached he was to squirrel plush #he’s actually such a cute character. #there’s also Kalim who KNOWS there are bad people. he is not innocent as he knows there are bad people that want him gone #his least favorite food is curry because Jamil got sick for a week after taste testing his food. #Kalim just chooses. he wants to believe the kindness of the world not due to purity but due to the fact he does not want to live in constant #fear. which in itself already makes him more than one dimension. he may seem carefree but there’s room to play with when describing him??… #questions of styx.

[mindrell]

Blade + seeing darling happy

#Nu carnival #Blade #my stuff #made these with my phone sorry if theyre crusty lol #I wasnt big fan of Blade first but I got the SSR blade during the summer event and now this... #i guess i'll just accept my fate #the design is cute <3 #maid #the words are cute too 🥲 <3

[gachaparadise]

Finally!!! After the disaster that was last year I have him! Odysseus you can avoid me no longer 🥰

Plus he brought with him not one, but two general pool servants I've really wanted! Good rolls all around 💞

#post: pull #fg0 #Seig was the 4 star i had on my LONG lost first account #I've been longing for him to surprise me sometime for... LITERALLY years at this point and at last he's back <3<3 #lets not talk about that it freaks me out to think about it... had to reopen fgo just to make sure everything was still in order #Arjuna!! very happy to have him now! #I was planning on using our next ssr ticket to get him because i've been so charmed by him these last couple months #i followed an arjuna blog recently (you may be familiar with them) and they've really opened my eyes to his charm points #so i'm delighted. i think it's very funny both him and Karna surprised me off banner lmao. #I kinda wish I had more to say about the man of the hour now that I said all that stuff about the other two but... i mean... #I mostly wanted him cause his design fucks... sorry for being shallow #once i get to know him better i'll have more to say!

[neige-leblanche]

THATS SO POETIC ILYSM IM SO HAPPY YOURE HAPPY

#txt #lu plays twst #it did the sr-ssr sparkle and i was like :O and then it did the ssr coffin design and i was like :O!! and then it did the pomefiore light co #lor and i was like :O!!!!!!!!!!!!! #uuuuuuuuu <3 #ive been putting him through the wringer in uhh. multiple fanfic projects lately so its a relief to see him actually smiling lmaoooooo #im so excited for the harveston event you have no idea #idk how i plan on saving for it bc i fully intend to keep spending summoning mats on anniversary stuff but on god. speaking to the future: #epel please come home