This time... I won't lose him...
Disclaimer: This is all fanmade for my AU, Project J-23. (Just screenshot redraws, not a real game.)
Also cw: Multiple death scenarios
The transgender flag picked from Alice Yabusame, Reko Yabusame, Midori, Shin Tsukimi, Kanna Kizuchi, Gin Ibushi and Ryoko Hirose!
Not a request, these are all of the characters I headcanon as a trans man or a trans woman
Fem keiji and kurumadaš„
[DAY 41]
heres the og traditional sketch version. i wasnt happy with it, so i traced over it digitally.
MISHIMAA....... or even a keimishi... perhaps.... would be awesome.
You.... You get me. I Love them. I need to draw Mishima more often. I feel like he looks like a different person every time I draw him lol
And the Mishima you ordered under the cut (he's like the toy you get with a happy meal)
confession 33: i am obsessed with sara chidouin...sara chidouin is such a cutie pie. i love whenever her sprites are shown. i want her tattooed onto my eyeballs. sara chidouin sara chidouin sara chidouin sara chidouin sara chidouin sara chidouin
quickie june drawing for trans visibility day !! :)
watching Scott Pilgrim vs. The World right now who does Matthew Patel think he is??? Alice Yabusame?? š
I would NEVER be mad about you rambling about Keiji dog motif, lay it on me
Okay so.
First I should mention the obvious Joe dog motifs. The dog keychain in his design, him directly saying heās like a dog in the end of 2-2 emotion route. Heās loyal to Sara and continues to follow her even after his death.
But Joe dog motifs and his parallels to Keiji could be its own post⦠and Keiji Shinogi is also extremely dog coded. The explicit references to it like āMr Policemanās not a dogā or a joke Sara makes about giving him treats in one of their token negotiations⦠and this can mean two things. Itās his standing behind Sara as an ally and taking her side. He often waits for her word to do things, and spends the game propping her up as a leader. In the scene where they see Hayasakas victim video, as shitty as him doing so is, him asking Sara if he can put his life in her hands is a way of expressing his support is uncoditional. But we also know that heās not exactly perfectly loyal like Joe is. Lest we forget the entire second main game. He has lied, and kept things from her, and he even left her for dead with the sacrifice.
But a dog can also represent something else⦠a police dog. After all, Keiji is former police. He was trained to shoot first ask questions later, something that resulted in the death of his idol, and grew up his whole life being preparing himself to be put in this system thatās full of corruption. And as much as he distances himself from that now, he very much still contains the traits of a cop.
While Joe represents the more sort of normal playful dog idea of manās best friend, Keiji represents a guard dog. Heās there behind Sara as her most powerful ally, her closest confidant and the one who made her the leader, and also as the policeman, whoās willing to lie or look the other way out of convenience.