A WIP Of My Newest Project. I'm Not A Jjba Fan, But I AM A DC Douglas Fan, And Learning That Gunther

A WIP of my newest project. I'm not a jjba fan, but I AM a DC Douglas fan, and learning that Gunther was going to voice this "Kira Cuine" fella was enough to pique my interest and consequently make me care about anime for the first time in a decade??

(I'm totally not invested just to giggle as daddy DC talks about boners again)

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i'm always terrified of art until I ink it. Then it looks good, until the horror of color rolls around. Why is art so scary???

"Rotting, decaying, we're fated to fall deep into

The clutches of the earth

Dying since our birth, withering into dirt

To Him, you have no worth..."

So, I was planning on finishing this shortly after the Adrift banner was announced, but then I came down with E coli (so much for lettuce being "healthy"...). BUT! I DID finish it, and considering the dozens of WIPs I have lying around, that's saying something.

Before the "story" was revealed to be some Azura bullshit meant to (badly) justify Big Tits McGee's presence on the banner, I assumed it was going to be Anankos/Loki keeping Corrin in a happy dream!Valla to keep them sedated and thus, unable to kill him. Mikoto and Camilla would be there because Corrin sees both of them as a mother figure, and the dream state can't decide which one is right. TT reward would've been possessed Gunther, who also fits the parent mould and whom Anankos is puppeting to coax the Corns into not waking up.

Nerr has LOTS of experience with these too-good-to-be-true dream states and is suspicious af. I will also take every opportunity to draw Gunther as naked and scarred as possible.

"You no longer believe that your faith can set you free~"

"Then, will you bring deliverance to me?"

Why the hell is Geralt my dad in 3 Houses?

HE'S THE ONE I WANT TO BONE! Seriously, out of every character I saw in that trailer, he was only one of two that got my interest. I'm already wary of this game (the head-on cutscenes with Byleth makes me think they've removed customization, and I wouldn't be surprised if this avatar was like Mark- a glorified NPC), why you gotta take away the one thing that makes me smile in modern FE?

If I hadn't spent a year and a half perfecting my ojisans, I'd have deleted this trash after the first CYL. But it's not for us- it's for the weebs who'd gladly spend thousands on a sixth png file of their animu waifu.

they really done went and put another camilla alt in the game, huh?

my hand is hovering over that delete button, lemme tell ya

Erikia, Celica and Corrin don't count because their imperfections aren't treated as such by their own universe. When you: give the last stone that can protect the world to the demon that wants to destroy said world despite people telling you it's a trap/ Give your soul to an Obviously Evil cult despite EVERYONE telling you that it's a trap/ ruin fucking EVERYTHING because you have no loyalty- but the characters of your game just lightly pat you on the head and tell you it's okay and fix all your mistakes and you don't have to suffer a single consequence of your actions, then congrats- you've entered Mary Sue territory.

"But Eirika felt bad for helping Formotiis the destroy the final stone!/ Corrin felt BAD for helping conquer Hoshido (but not for the murder spree they went on in Nohr)!" So? They're SUPPOSED to feel bad for that! They don't get credit for doing what they're supposed to! Them feeling bad doesn't affect anything! They're immediately forgiven and face no consequences for their actions. Ephraim beats Formotiis (because Erikia is a bad unit and I hate using her and the only reason to do her route is to get Seth early), whatever family Corrin didn't drive to suicide forgives them and forgets anything ever happened, and Celica... ohohoho Celica. After she sells her soul to the blue-skinned cult leader who pinky promised that was going to fix everything and gets turned into a witch, she doesn't even have the courtesy to STAY DEAD. Her mistakes get swept under the rug so hard, it brings her back to life.

So yeah. These characters ARE dumbasses. This isn't what I wanted. I want a character who faces actual consequences for their mistakes, even if it's something as small as being left with a disfiguring scar from a battle they flubbed. You know who I want as a main character? The likes of Gangrel and Emmeryn. People who suffer for their mistakes.

Too many FE fans: We want really imperfect main characters that show weakness and flaws!

Intelligent Systems: Okay, sure. *Eirika, Micaiah, Corrin and Celica exist*

Those fans: These characters are f*cking dumbasses.This isn’t what we wanted.

IS: 

"(S)he's a killer queen

Gunpowder, gelatine

Dynamite with a laser beam

Guarenteed to blow your mind"

Oh. My. Fucking. God. This was much more labor intensive than I originally assumed it would be, for several reasons- my watercolors are VERY translucent and have to be built up over many layers. I have to mix any ahade of purble darker than a pale violet and I'm not good at that. And I had a migraine that wouldn't go away for about 4 days. THAT is the main reason I can't deal with a background- it would never get done. I was terrified of fucking it up with the ink, but I kept repeating the immortal words of Bob Ross- "there are no mistakes, only happy accidents".

Regardless, please accept my humble offering of best husbando as the crazy hand man. Making Gharnef into Killer Queen was hard because I couldn't figure out how to balance their traits, but I think this was a good compromise.