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smooth talker

#gundam #mobile suit zeta gundam #reccoa londe #emma sheen #art tag #(gritting my teeth posting this because i haven't drawn shipping art this serious in years but i will accept it) #i had fun experimenting with art style and colors on these #my review of zeta so far is that it's pretty good even if the pacing feels a little breakneck fast

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180 degrees in the wrong lane

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #gundam 0079 #mirai yashima #sayla mass #whatever their pairing name is i'm there #art tag #i drew the lineart for this back in december with that other picture but didn't spruce it up until now #so busy...

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reanimation

#delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #marcille donato #falin touden #delicious in dungeon spoilers #dungeon meshi spoilers #art tag #shoutout to this scene and the like 5 after it that changed my life when i was a sophomore in high school #i can't believe it's been so long...

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My friend who isn’t on tumblr really digs your style! I share your Gundam art with them!

Aw thank you! I really appreciate that

#tell your friend thank you as well :) #asks

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a cosmic glow

#mobile suit gundam #gundam #gundam 0079 #lalah sune #amuro ray #art tag #i finished watching the compilation movies for the original gundam in october and the tv show in november #and i really really liked it so expect more art of it on the horizon #or not because my idea backlog is huge

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a bushel of hassels

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scvi #hassel pokemon #applin #scvi spoilers #art tag #i feel like i made the past stuff a little too emotionally edgy on that other picture so here's everyone having fun #featuring the surrendering sunflora era hassel i couldn't fit on there

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"A lot happened since then, and...now he's the art teacher and Elite Four member before you!"

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #scvi #hassel pokemon #scvi spoilers #...i guess #the rare sentence case caption on here because it made the quote look better #art tag

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soon there'll be nothing at all

#the silver case #tsc #kill the past #ktp #sumio kodai #and the like 5 other characters i don't feel like tagging #art tag #happy 24th anniversary to this game's original release tomorrow #and the remaster's 7th anniversary today :) #caption is from concrete angel by hannah diamond

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bravo figaro (happy birthday sabin and edgar)

#final fantasy #ff #ffvi #sabin rene figaro #edgar roni figaro #art tag

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i really loved the art on the left here, but i could never find any nice clear images of it. turns out it was from a trigun 25th anniversary exhibition clearfile which i happened to find while browsing merch, so i got it and scanned it. (full size images: front, back)

#trigun #trigun maximum #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #milly thompson #meryl stryfe #trigun spoilers #trimax spoilers #from my internet osmosis and also slowly reading the manga i assume the right picture here is spoilers lol #i got this in february and scanned it around april? but i wanted to actually read the manga a bit before doing anything else #technically the original art is from a magazine cover during maximum's run but that's definitely more rare and also more covered up #also happy new canonical birthday to vash and knives (as of stampede land) #not really an art post but i'd rather upload it here than twitter...

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underneath it all

#card shark #card shark game #card shark spoilers #art tag #idk if there's even fans of this on here but i'd figured i'd post it anyways #(thinks about the 'although i'm more than a mother to you line' and feels so sad i have to lie down)

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can’t you see you’re my other half

#tales of vesperia #tov #yuri lowell #flynn scifo #fluri #art tag #caption is a line of ring a bell because of course #this is supposed to be around after the flynn fight in act 3 #also just like my other vesperia pictures the weapons here are what i had equipped in game lol

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happy very, very late fifth anniversary to DGS2

#finished this project after a year of on and off work so i figured i'd put it here too #spoiler warning for both dgs/tgaa games #art tag

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episode 16.5: desert planet angel

#trigun #trigun 98 #vash the stampede #art tag #i submitted a much earlier version of this to my school's literary/arts magazine and it got accepted #i originally drew this around december and i've been tinkering with it ever since

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semi-organized thoughts on angel arm activation, plant biology, and vash in general

transcript + extras under the cut

ANGEL ARM ACTIVATION

(Based on the event colloquially known as the “Fifth Moon Incident”)

1.

Catalyst is uncovered, exposing it to light

Chain reaction begins which starts energy conducting through the chamber and into the arm

2. Primary Stage

Catalyst chamber (gun) begins to be enveloped into hand

Gun and hand/arm can still vaguely be made out

3. Secondary Stage

Gun is fully enveloped and can no longer be seen

Shape of the Angel Arm starts to form

4. Tertiary Stage

The Angel Arm is fully formed

Neither the arm nor the gun’s shape can be seen

The activation process cannot be stopped after this point

5.

The Angel Arm splits fully in four places and elongates, revealing the new core

Senses (sight, hearing, etc) are enhanced to a painful degree

6.

A field of light and force is emitted that can be seen/felt from far away

Mild destruction of the surrounding area starts

7.

The Angel Arm fires, with an involuntary wave of regeneration energy as recoil

Reopening of old wounds and extreme hair growth can occur

8.

The arm fuses back together and returns to its original state with some scarring

9.

An unconsciousness state lasting anywhere from 1 week to 6 months begins

Levels of Activation

0%  →

10% (Episode 24)   → (Episode 25)

50%  → Lost July (*Elizabeth vision), Fifth Moon Incident

100% (Episode 26)  →

What happened here?

Having two opposing Angel Arms meant that most of the after-effects canceled each other out.

Plant Biology and Bulb Structure

Taking Inspiration from...

Cyanobacteria (Cylindrospermum):

First organisms to produce oxygen on Earth, like the Plants were a major source of oxygen on the Planet after the crash

Often extremophiles, which includes desert environments

Used in agriculture for nitrogen fixation (basically free fertilizer), possibly how geo-Plants function

Hydras (Hydra vulgaris):

Extraordinary regeneration ability

Functionally immortal in stable environments

→ With the help of a Plant bulb, Knives was able to recover the portion of his body that was destroyed in Lost July.

A Selection of Plant Facts...

Can perform photosynthesis using pigments similar to carotenoids, phycobilin, and phycoerythrin

Found mostly in cells on the surface of their bodies

Have very slow metabolisms unless under stress conditions or unique circumstances

Rapidly mutate to adapt in unstable environments

Outdoors Model (Inepril)

Support and interface structure to core

Intake and outflow tubing

Maintenance platform

Control room typically in here

Plant

Liquid-filled core, semi-permeable to sunlight

Indoors Model (Flying Ship)

Miscellaneous (???)

Vash and Plant Comparison

← Similar hairline →

← Similar physique →

← Longer than average legs →

→ Knives's body type is closer to an Industrial Plant after spending an extended period of time in a bulb.

Wandering Plant (Vash the Stampede)

Industrial Plant (Soleil, Plant 2 of the Flying Ship)

Clothing Discussion

Exhausted and heavily injured, Vash was discovered wandering the desert by the Flying Ship crew.

The most severe of the injuries were on the left side of his chest, so the clothes made for him while recovering were designed to be put on with one arm (his right). This was coincidentally beneficial in the future.

The coat is fastened with rows of snaps, and the tails of the coat can be torn off in case of emergencies. (Generally, not all at once though.)

This outfit allows for more freedom of movement, which complements his level of flexibility. It also helps with escaping from the many, many dangerous situations he gets into.

The majority of Vash's outfit under his coat functions as compression gear to help with recovery and mitigation of the pain of all the injuries he's gotten over time.

For example, the design of his top allows for different levels of compression and support on either side of his chest.

Even with all this gear, some pain does occasionally slip through, particularly in the arms, back, and knees.

Extras

Starting with the fun ones, which are mostly bits of information I wasn’t quite sure on putting into the lore or not.

Fun facts with Vash and Meryl or its alternate title: “What I was doing instead of studying for my Molecular Biology final” (may not be 100% scientifically accurate)

Saw an article talking about an art exhibit of a chandelier made up of glass filled with algae to purify the air (though the purification was primarily converting excess carbon dioxide to oxygen and not anything else)

Trying to imagine Vash’s daily getting dressed routine

Okay, now for the serious part. I feel a bit strange classifying this as an extra because that has a lighthearted connotation, but it wasn’t really something I could represent through drawing. Discussion of heavy mental health stuff ahead...

Much later on in this speculation project, I began to consider the possibility of Vash having some sort of obsessive-compulsive tendencies. This whole train of thought started when I saw someone’s art of Vash with cleaning -related compulsions (self harm warning as per OP’s tags), or at least that’s how I interpreted the comic when I first saw it. As someone who experiences something mildly similar to this on rare occasion (though the thought process behind it is much different), it really stuck in my mind personally.

To take what that person said in a slightly different direction, I think Vash could have some washing/cleaning-related compulsions in regards to his “everyone he touches dies” assertion. It is unfortunately kind of true because of his long life and tendency to be in dangerous situations, but I can imagine it getting folded into an obsessive-compulsive cycle over time. He touches someone or someone touches him, that thought enters his mind, he goes to wash himself in response or obsess over the thought if not able to, and then so much of the time that person will get hurt, reinforcing the cycle.  

Having the Angel Arms get activated outside of his control probably induced a lot of anxiety and obsession over harm into Vash as well, especially when he was forced to go against his no-killing thing because of Legato.

And that’s the end. If you made it all the way here, thanks for reading!

#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun spoilers #trigun 98 spoilers #art tag #the microbiology guy is logging on intensely today #i haven't done creative writing like this in a while and it gets a bit personal so i'm a bit shy

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crash and burn girl

#final fantasy #ff #ffvi #ff6 #terra branford #art tag #happy 29th anniversary to FFVI :) #i didn't know it was yesterday so this is a nice coincidence lol #caption is from crash and burn girl by robyn which admittedly has nothing to do with terra or the game it just sounded cool

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vashposting

#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun spoilers #? #author's note: they're not in chronological order on here but these were being made from september-decemberish as i watched the show #i say the ? there because the amoeba one and psychic attacks ones #were made before they actually revealed anything conclusive of vash's lore LOL #also i personally think vash's gender and sexuality are ?????? after living for so long but that's a story for another time #bisexual is close enough to my thoughts on that