Just Realized I Was Doing My Sketch With My Rendering Brush And Not The Correct Brush! Yay

Just realized I was doing my sketch with my rendering brush and not the correct brush! Yay…

But guess who’s tugging onto Souichi sleeve!

Anyway don’t mention how that little fist is too square-y I will get to shape that properly in a minute. BUT CHECK IT OUT! I still have some anatomy fixes (especially with the other character because the angle is *crazy* sigh)

Here’s the second(?) part of the comic that I decided to draw. I haven’t even done the first one yet because that requires a background and I’d rather have the bases of the characters first…

I need more Junji Ito content guys. Especially about Souichi Tsujii and ESPECIALLY of Souichi and Chizumi being friends

ever since wishmaker came out i have this specific idea where adrien keeps on going out as chat noir and joining random classes to figure out a hobby he likes to do because he can't go out as adrien due to his dad. so marinette just sees "chat noir spotted at local pottery night" on her phone and has to go down there as ladybug and tell him hes gonna attract akumas if he keeps doing this. he defends it by saying hes making people happy hes coming so actually hes preventing akumas and "i'm going to learn how to rollerskate next week if you want to come!" marinette gets gray hairs.

Made a sketch of fantasy!Souichi

His clothes are gonna be a PAIN in the ass to draw

I have so many ideas it’s pure insanity

Expanding on my previous post

This AU is a fantasy world. Basically where monsters exist and you gotta fight them off for loot and that stuff.

You start off as a playable character which is Souichi. In one timeline, you start out as his child self where he's a low level mage. You later work your way up to becoming a sorcerer by taking quests from his grandmother, casting beginner curses, etc. Timeline skips and you get a cutscene where his grandmother mysteriously disappears. He doesn't know how or why, but he demands to know why. Souichi then begins to work his way up the magic ladder. You control him as he fights demonic monsters, takes on more tougher quests, etc. Although he is stronger than before, he isn't fine with just himself (which he doesn't like) so these are the defeated characters that become unlocked as members of your team!

Some gore ahead

Chizumi's character:

She's a little demon that Souichi stumbles upon in a forest. He was there to perform some practice but got found by Chizumi, and boy was she hungry.

She's not a high level boss. Mostly considering that she's the first soon-to-be playable character added to your team.

Skills:

Maul

She's more hands on compared to Souichi. She can lunge at the enemy and maul them to death which gives her XP to which her other skills get unlocked.

Teleportation

This makes her boss fight to be a pain in the ass. Not because she's strong, but because she keeps teleporting which makes it take longer than necessary to defeat her. She can only teleport small distances in battles. Nothing crazy like the next town over.

Strength

I need like- something else other than Maul as her defense, so why not have her grip strength to be crazy enough that she's able to snap bones?

Cutscene:

Chizumi is sitting in the living room of an abandoned house she and Souichi broke into to look for loot. A low level demon was spawned, but she easily lunged at it with the right timing, and distraction from Souichi. She sits on the floor, she snaps the arms, and eats the flesh.

Souichi walks in, coming from the basement where he found a bag of gold coins.

"Gross.." He says, as Chizumi aggressively makes a mess.

End

The two travel together, occasionally fight and banter, get along, and stuff as they set trail. They both enter a town and decide to take on a bounty. This 'Pretty Boy' seems to be driving the town folk mad. The reward for him is quite high. Cha-ching! He's located at an empty Intersection which many tourists and wannabe-heros gravitate towards.

Skills:

Hallucination

He can make any species hallucinate into despair. They go absolutely mad. Insane to the point they'll gouge their eyes out. -But! He needs some more XP in the battle to do that. His early XP hallucinations make the player see several of him which 'Pretty Boy' blends into, making it harder to strike him.

Possesion

This is coming from his paranormal abilities. For a couple seconds, he can possess a teammate, or you into getting closer to him, which allows him to attack close up. It makes a character do like a zombie walk to him, showing that they aren't controlling their own body.

Fog

A more melee style of attacking yet it also reaches far range. Up close, especially when using 'Hallucination', 'Pretty Boy' can shift the fog that he emits into sword like blades. He does a short wind up motion (warning the player) and can swing his forearm in a motion as to where the fog hits. If it's longer distance, the winding up is slightly longer, and the fog can keep travelling until it hits someone or an object/wall.

Cutscene:

Rain falls heavy, wetting the pages of Souichi's spell book. It's not looking good so far. They are barely reaching halfway on 'Pretty Boy's' health and he's already being rendered useless.

While Chizumi uses her teleport to get closer to maul at him, Souichi stands there, still. Can he feel despair without 'Pretty Boy' using a direct hallucination on him..?

Chizumi gets more injured. Her arm is heavily wounded, and bleeding heavy. That makes it harder for her to lunge. Refusing to be weak, Souichi stretches out his arms, and spread his fingers. The sound of the harsh rain helps him concentrate.

Grandmother used to love the rain.

A purple light starts to flicker at the center of his palms. Squinting his eyes, he aims for the chest of the poltergeist. 'Pretty Boy's' heart begins to glow purple.

Souichi lets go of the breath he was holding which triggered a curse to strike at the heart of the poltergeist. The wind shrieks as his health goes down heavily.

Chizumi flinches, but gains her feral composure quickly. She dashes at 'Pretty Boy', jaw stretching open, ready for a bite.

End

To make possible confusion clear, 'Pretty Boy' takes form of being semi humanlike in the aspect that he has a body. He can just phase in and out, and fog appears around him. If his guard isn't up, then he starts to fade in opaque, showing that he's back to having a penetrable body.

After defeating him, 'Pretty Boy' tags along with them since the town folk had finally managed to put up some talismans to ward him off. The gold coins Chizumi and Souichi were rewarded helped them stay at an Inn for the time being.

Tomie's character:

She's definitely a godlike character. I don't want to have her be such an OP character when playing as her, so she definitely gets a bit nerfed.

Skills:

Cloning

Her clones are one of her skills obviously. She could summon them to fight alongside battles, but when placing one hit, they disappear. Multiple could be summoned at once.

Regeneration

This is like a huge part of her. She can regenerate limbs, but not just the normal amount for a woman, but multiple arms, heads, etc. She becomes this monster form which installs Fear into your characters, making them more vulnerable to ambushes of her clones.

Fear

Her terrifying appearance and aura make the team heighten their fear, causing their vision to be only black a couple feet ahead of them, and making it difficult to see Tomie. Their blocked vision helps her clones take them by surprise and slash at them.

Cutscene:

Souichi can hear his own breathing in his head. He's scared out of his mind as if he were a little child again. He hates that. It's so dark that he can't even see the main body of- what's this damned monsters name?!

He hears the faintest step before he feels the skin on his shoulder blade open. He hisses, clenching his teeth. Whipping his head and body around, he sees nothing.

A pained cry comes from his far left.

Chizumi.

She stumbles into Souichi's view, limping, and gripping her shoulder which has been dislocated.

Running to her aid, he casts a small forcefield around them as he gives her a potion that mends her flesh back together, and snaps her arm back in place.

'Pretty Boy' was across from them, hidden by the Fear around them. He casts a Fog to make the clones stagger.

Sensing a gloomy presence, he slides to the right, narrowly avoiding an attack from a left over clone that snuck up behind him.

Forming the fog he emits into sword blades, 'Pretty Boy' forces them to pierce the body of the replica.

As he runs forward, Tomie comes into view. Her back is turned on him, but the extra heads on her nine foot body spot him and shrill.

Black goopy liquid spreads on the ground, forming more clones.

Chizumi runs up, better than her previous state, and begins to make her way towards Tomie, the main body. Souichi runs opposite to her side. He readies up a curse that will temporarily blind the monster, making her eyes bleed in the process. He shoots out the purple light, successfully causing damage. It buys time for Chizumi to snap the extra arms, and bite at the extra faces.

Tomie's health is low now. They spent too long fighting her that she's one heavy blow away.

'Pretty Boy' casts Hallucination, making the main body scratch at her skin with her claws, furthering her health down bit by bit until she causes her own demise.

Tomie bleeds out into the ground, but it's not log until she is regenerated. It's a disgusting sight to behold. Her bones snap in place, flesh sows itself together, nails grow from her fingertips too fast, and her eyes roll as they get placed correctly.

It's somewhat like Souichi's 'healing' potion.

'Pretty Boy' throws up behind a tree while Chizumi salivates at the blood.

Finally, Souichi's turn for his skill showcase.

Summary: He's a human yet a strong sorcerer. He's practiced since he can remember which gave him an upper hand on starting out early.

Skills:

Heart's Curse

With the palm of his hand, Souichi can link the enemy's heart to his spell. The curse contains of sharp ritual daggers, stabbing into the heart.

'Healing' Potion

From a recipe book his grandmother gifted him. It's a grueling spell in a form of a liquid. Drinking it at a wounded state will heal you, but with a cost. Your injured bones? Snapped back in place. A gash in your leg? Your flesh slowly mends together. In the short aftermath, your body will feel lightweight and sore.

Forcefield

A bubble made of purple glasslike gloss spreads around him. It lasts quite a bit. He can extend it to a degree, place it close, or far.

Thanks for coming to my hyperfixation tedtalk.

Junji Ito brain rot where Tomie, Pretty Boy, Chizumi, and Souichi all play Minecraft together. They have a server and built their houses, villages, etc.

Souichi being a try hard, staying up until 4 a.m, trying to learn red stone but ends up forgetting everything when he wakes up.

Chizumi who loves to collect loot from mobs. She definitely has a farming area.

Tomie is the best builder out of all of them. She built herself a castle and everything has little details everywhere.

Pretty Boy organizes their minigames. Those lucky/unlucky block game, obbys, bedwars, etc.

What if they had like a channel or something?

Scratch that. Tomie, a popular twitch streamer, randomly does a live that isn’t scheduled (which is out of the norm on her channel) and tons of people pop in and see Souichi being chased by creepers, Chizumi trying to the kill said mobs, and PB, in the distance, pointing an arrow at Tomie herself.

I need to draw a comic of this. BAD. Popularmmos is my childhood and that channel gave me huge inspo. Most likely will try an animatic with some clips from that channel.

Bonus:

Kouichi, Sayuri, and Souichi made a YouTube channel when they were like really young. They uploaded them going into the forest, pranking their parents, and Souichi chasing them with the Michael Myers theme song in the background, armed with kiddy scissors.

They eventually forget about the channel. They had all forgotten the password along with the email attached to it so now it’s just in the past.

Until years later and one night where Souichi is bored with a ruined sleep schedule, stays up at 3 a.m randomly, and tries to guess the emails and passwords to their childhood YouTube channel.

He gets it right after trial and error, and nearly jolts up. He texts Sayuri:

“U awake?”

And she responds:

“Yeah whats up”

He sends her a picture of the unlocked channel and can hear her loud ass gasp from his room.

They spam Kouichi’s notifications until he wakes up. Being mostly asleep, he can barely read, but after rubbing his eyes a few times he reads the words on the screenshot Souichi sent.

“No way”

It’s 11 a.m and their parents can’t understand why their kids are randomly getting along so well and recording themselves baking a cake with nothing to celebrate.

The little channel those three made blew up a bit over the years that went inactive. Some comments under their early videos were:

“Where are they now??”

“They were my childhood”

Turns out when the three of them were given unlimited wifi access, other kids had the same thing.

Anyway this is just an AU that I shall beta name: “if Souichi had a somewhat normal life”

Why? Because he deserves to experience the little things either friends and family. No matter how annoying that stinker is.