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their greed sickens me
bs doesnt actually care about this stupid sheep he just wants to beef with gc and piss her offš
Idkš„š„š„ self love???
Ohh btw the spice design on the right isn't made by meeee, it's by QiRbosan on twitter!!!
Yep that's allT_T bye byeeeee~
Do you have more beast redemption AU crumbs? I love the concept so much, I want something, thank you ššš
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I do have a headcanon where after The Beasts corrupted, their Soul Jams altered them to represent their beastly titles more literally. Shadow Milk Cookie gained an insatiable need to lie pretty much every time he opened his mouth. There was a period while he was sealed that he went completely nonverbal just to avoid being forced to cook up some bullshit to spit out. Of course The Beasts managed to coax him out of this state, but sometimes he still went quiet. Wanting a break from being so deceitful.
Mystic Flour Cookie got her emotions taken away from her. She couldnāt feel anything, and absolutely nothing could make her react to a single thing. It was like her emotions had just been straight up deleted. And any time she came even remotely close to feeling something, her Soul Jam reacted immediately. Smothering the emotion until it dissipated. Whether it be pain, joy, anger, fear, anything.
Burning Spice Cookie gained an urge for destruction. The more he satisfies it, the weaker it is. The less he satisfies it, the stronger it gets. So he didnāt have a great time in The Silver Tree. His need for destruction would almost completely take him over, heād start clawing, biting, and throwing himself against any solid surface he could find. Damaging his own body in a desperate attempt to make the urge stop. Often resulting in Silent Salt and Shadow Milk outright restraining him so he doesnāt kill himself.
Silent Salt Cookie, on the other hand, had his vocal cords literally melted down. Nothing else, just his vocals. Rendering him permanently mute. It took him a long ass time to figure out how to communicate again now that he canāt talk. Though he didnāt speak up much before, now he couldnāt talk even if he wanted to. Eventually he came up with a system of silent gestures and pointing, basically an archaic version of sign language, but with his entire body instead of just the hands. Only the other Beasts understand what he says.
And finally, Eternal Sugar Cookie got put in a near perpetual state of exhaustion. Feeling way too tired to do much of anything. She spent her days lazily playing her harp to charm cookies into either washing and feeding her, or going away and leaving her in peace. She slept like eighteen hours a day, and only spent an hour or two on her feet. Max.
Basically, their Soul Jams tortured them
recently picked up a cool Heart Gold romhack called Touhoumon Heart Gold, and my Junko puppet proceeds to sweep the steel type gym
i kinda just imagine this like
i also gave Junko a Soothe Bell because friendship :)
I guess hes not heartless after all
(Added a blank variant too in case anyone wants to add their own things ^_^)
I see many people struggle with creating Touhou OCs so I figured I would try and analyze ZUNās character designs and briefly explain what makes them stand out. If you have any other observations or corrections perhaps, donāt be afraid to message me.
What most people remember about Touhou designs are the elaborate or strange hats. That however often gets mistaken for the thing thatās most striking about each character, which is their silhouette. Notice how two of the characters below donāt have any headdress at all, yet their design is easy to recognize.
Knowingly or unknowingly, ZUN understands, that fun character designs have strong silhouettes. He even utilizes shape language to convey character through looks.
Circles - Charisma, safety, friendliness, charm, cuteness and innocence
Rectangles - Conformity, uniformity, balance, stability and reliablility
Triangles - Unpredictability, danger, malice, cunningness, and dynamism
These shapes help comunicate very key character features in Nazrinās Eikiās and Seijaās looks. I chose them for these examples because they mostly consist of one shape.
For more complex designs, using two or three shapes is recommended, though only one shape being used doesnāt mean a character is less complex, it simply highlights their main characteristics that much better. Nue here for example is overwhelmingly triangles with a few small circles to convey her largely mysterious but otherwise laid back and fun loving personality.
I noticed that most Touhou characters actually have triangles in their design, Iām assuming solely because most of them are super-powered youkai.
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When it comes to colors, ZUN is known to use very saturated colors, however thatās only a fraction of what makes Touhou designs special.
The most commonly used color palettes in art in general are
Complementary palettes - Using two colors on the opposite side of the color wheel
Analogous palettes - Using 3 or more colors that stand close to each other, creating sort of a gradient-like palette
Triadic Palette - Using three colors that are evenly spaced on the color palette
He mostly uses either complementary or analogous color palettes, and even when he uses the latter he likes to put in one extra color that complements one thatās already there.
Triadic palettes are the rarest out of the three in art, and in Touhou as well. The only examples I could say are Nue, and Okina Satono and Mai if we consider them a single entity (which fun fact in actual myth they are).
Triadic palettes generally have a chaotic, whimsical feel to them so itās fitting that itās these characters that got them.
Aside from color theory, ZUN doesnāt only choose colors because they look nice. In many characterās cases they have symbolic value as well.
Eikiās palette might seem overwhelming at first with how much colors there are. Itās usually advized to use around 3 colors on one character and yet her design contradicts that by making it twice as many. This however has a reason as these colors correspond to the six colors of Buddhism. They can mean many things depending on the context, but in her case it probably references the six realms of existence.
Shou, despite being a tiger youkai has a hair color that hardly resembles a tigerās fur that even in sunlight is distincly orange. The reason for that is that she isnāt based on actual tigers, but the idea of a tiger conveyed by people who have never seen one in their life.
Kanako is mostly red and white, both these colors being very important in Shinto; red is the color of vitality, prosperity and keeping kegare and tsumi away, while white is the sacred color of kami. Her hair is purple, which is associated with nobility in Japan.
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In ZUNās designs, even if colors and silhouettes are important, I think what make or break them are the details. Even if those two are in place, the description of a girl with one red horn, long blonde hair, white t-shirt, blue skirt and a geta holding a red sakazuki can only get you so far.
I drew Yuugi in an intentionally crude fashion with a mouse in less than 3 minutes to illustrate that Touhou designs look distinct and recognizable no matter the art style specifically because of the easy to parce and distinct details they have.
Again the details are not only aesthetic in nature, but symbolic as well.
Thereās a feng huang (also known as Chinese phoenix) on Junkoās tabard because these birds symbolize empresses or generally female rulers or feminine power.
Aunn has a heart symbol on her shirt not only because of the western connotations of the heart shape being cute and symbolizing affection, but because itās the same shape as an inome. Inome, also known as boar eyes are built into shrines, and even weapons because this symbol is thought to carry with it the fierceness of a boar and thus would keep malicious entities away. This duality in the nature of the heart shape encapsulates Aunnās identity as a komainu perfectly.
They of course donāt have to be lore inspired all the time. Satori and Koishi have little to do with actual satori youkai despite that part of their identity being important in their characters. They were mostly inspired by the painting The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo.
More interesting details are how their designs have the opposite color palette or that both of them have one eye closed even if itās a fact thatās only pointed out in Koishiās case.
Thematic quirks like that just make designs interesting and memorable.
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What I noticed is that ZUN prefers to put a twist on his characters, even if they would stand out without said twist. They are pretty much never just some guy or āan average [youkai/kami etc]ā.
Even though lore is not always mentioned, the knowledge that Keine for example is a hakutaku, just makes her that much richer as a character. I feel that ZUNās characters too only are half original and in all honestly I see nothing wrong with that. Itās a common anxiety to have that your character is not original enough, but while he prefers to make his characters quirky, donāt feel pressured to make everyone 100% original.
Touhou games were heavily inspired by Kiki Kaikai, along with Reimu who originally was barely different from that gameās protagonist. Later of course as he made more games and developed her further, Touhou started getting its own identity, but my point is that wearing your inspiration on your sleeve is nothing to be ashamed of.
Bottom line is, just have fun! Donāt stress much about it, be open and receptive of the unconventional and things will fall into place by themselves!
I accidentally spent too much effort on this shitpost so now I'm forcing y'all to witness this masterpiece
(This is based on a joke from the official sky discord server btw)
I have seen these two terms being confused, so I made this little explanation
It's funny how we can find both of these things in the Aviary
This is my favorite genre of Touhou gifs. Does anybody know where these are from?
So Samuel Roukin is absolutely the charmingest sweetheart?! Love him so much.
Things he said at his q&a's over the weekend that BLOW ME AWAY:
- he and Neil Ellice (Soap) took waaaay longer than expected filming all of the dad jokes from "Alone" in MW2, cause they were both laughing/crying sooooo hard
-they found out about Soap's death and then had to film it an hour and a half later, and he said it was insane becuase they were so upset in real life over losing the character AND over the tjought of not getting to work with Neil anymore, and it was just, very emotional
- He told a dad joke in Ghost's voice, and it was amazing! I filmed it, but I'm not sure about posting it here, cause I'm not trying to get doxxed. Maybe someone will have uploaded it to youtube?
-Someone asked him (in vague terms) about the Ghost and Soap shipping, and he said that it's flattering that people love these characters so much that they feel driven to create, and to, yes, please, make more. He loves the idea of us creating, no matter what it is, and wants us to do more of it!
- He and Barry Sloan (Capt Price) wouldn't break character in between takes. The example he gave us was this exchange, IN CHARACTER:
Price: What do you think, Simon? You gonna get a snack?
Ghost: I dunno, Captain.
Price: I'm getting a snack, I'm a bit hungry.
Ghost: You're always hungry, Captain.
And just. Ahhhhhhh!.
I might add to this laterrr, as more thinga come to me!
*recruit recording Ghost from a distance*
Recruit: What's he doing here? I thought he was supposed to be on leave
Recruit, loudly: Hey, LT! What are you doing here?!
Ghost: I'M HERE FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Ghost, suddenly sprinting at them: DO YOU NEED A MOTHERFUCKING HUG!?
Recruit: *shrieks before dropping the camera*
I feel super let down by the season of radiance so far.. I expected wayyyy more customization then what we got in the capes and pants. So much so that I'm not excited by the future hat/face cosmetics becoming customizable at all.. Does anyone feel the same? <:/
(Beneath the keep reading I've put some close ups of the text and the before's and after's of each item. Just in case my tiny text was hard to readš )
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Samuel is doing a live signing
link here and yall
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Ghosty with a cape <3