(2015) Self Portrait: Firebender

Ikesen OCs Continued: Chiyome

“I will train you, if you possess the resolve. I expect you to devote everything you have to succeed.”

Introductions

Chiyome is a popular figure in Japanese lore as the creator of the kunoichi. She actually makes a brief appearance in Ikesen canonically in Shingen’s route, during his POV when MC first arrives in Echigo. Historically, she was married to Shingen’s nephew, and Shingen took her in after his nephew died.

For Ikesen, since Shingen isn’t old enough to have a nephew married to a 20-something-year-old woman without it being UH YIKES, this Chiyome was married to a cousin of Shingen’s. She’s still widowed though, and joined Shingen’s house afterwards. Now that she’s a single lady, and given that she loves other ladies, Chiyome is an available love interest for MC(s). :3c

Though Shingen sheltered Chiyome to honor a promise to his cousin, it turned out to be a stroke of luck for him as well – Chiyome possesses impeccable court manners, perceptiveness, allure, and an underlying iron will. Even then, she had extensive relationships and good will among women of varying stations. As Chiyome warmed to Shingen personally and began to trust him as a good-hearted and effective leader, she made more use of her talents to assist him. And, realizing her invaluable assets, Shingen gave her a monumental task: to create a network of entirely female informants who could hide in plain sight and gather information in ways his Mitsumono could not. Chiyome dedicated herself to this work, in part to help Shingen, but more passionately to help the women of a war-ravaged period take more control of their fates. Thus the kunoichi were formed, and they spread rapidly throughout Japan.

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Recent doodles~

@scrambledmeggys's incubus Sans and Red (Vanilla and Peithos) who uh, don't see eye to eye djsjxjjwnxn

Red offering one of his rings as a token of affection: "I got a skele-ton of these things, so it'd really help me out if you could take one off my hands."

And a masc-presenting Snyk! (Short for Snykolas)

OK TAKE 2. NOW WITH MORE CRACK. Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide keep getting into scuffles, so Nobunaga orders them to wear a "get along shirt". How much would Mitsuhide troll Hideyoshi while they are stuck together? What would he do??

Mitsuhide: Well this certainly is snug. >:3c

Hideyoshi: Don’t. Talk to me. Let’s just sit here quietly until the penalty time is up.

Mitsuhide: Now now, I believe the imperative on this shirt is to “get along,” not “ignore each other.” You wouldn’t defy one of our lord’s commands, would you?

Hideyoshi: You know I wouldn’t! >:(

Mitsuhide: Then it’s settled. We shall have to endeavor to get along. I believe this is your area of expertise, so you should have no problems leading.

Hideyoshi: Erm… 

Mitsuhide: My, I feel quite charmed already.

Hideyoshi: Shut up! I mean – wait. Just give me a moment to think. It’s not as if this is happening naturally.

Mitsuhide: And here I thought your boundless charisma simply sprang forth as a matter of course. You mean to tell me that it requires effort to enchant everyone who crosses your path? Why have you never expended your energy on me?

Hideyoshi: …I haven’t?

Mitsuhide: I should think not, considering how unfailing you are with the rest of the people around you…

Hideyoshi: Oh. I, uh… Mitsuhide…

Mitsuhide: (draws in a shuddering breath) No, I shouldn’t be asking such questions of you. After all, we are trying to ‘get along.’ Please, you must turn the topic of conversation to something more pleasant and comfortable for you.

Hideyoshi: Now hold on. Mitsuhide, if what you say is true, then I owe you an apology–

Mitsuhide: (snrk) Yes, go on.

Hideyoshi: Wait–

Mitsuhide: I’m waiting. I’m certain this is going to be adorable.

Hideyoshi: MITSUHIDE!

I don't draw these beans nearly enough 🥺

A robot and his holograms [Character design lineup :>]

(Transcendtale Spectr [Sans] and AI [Papyrus] belong to @popatochisssp )

I've never been a big fankids person but @popatochisssp's Slate is such a family man that it won me over 🥺💖 So meet Gigi, Curlz, and Jokerman (who adamantly goes by Jo)

Also Vivaldi and Blackadder, who are the fankids of Vypre and @scrambledmeggys's Boss 🥰

Commissioned @lilli-chae for a theme for Snyk and I am absolutely in love with it 😭💖💖💖 It’s so pretty and uplifting and just makes me really happy to listen to.

Chae is a delight of a person and I very much recommend checking out their comms if you’re interested in custom music or covers/remixes of your favorite songs!

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There she is!!! My girl! 😭 She looks so pretty and the textures are so nice and I just waaaugh thank you so much Kuro, this is so sweet!!!!!

An att- I mean gift for @nyktoon 💜💜💜

Personal design of UF!Papyrus, codex name “Aureus.” :D

About him and the Underfell setting:

All monsters are required to begin military training as children. Every so often there are trials -- essentially deadly puzzles and obstacle courses -- and tournaments to weed out the weak and elevate the strong. These are subdivided by region and age; all adults of a region compete together, but younger monsters have multiple age brackets. After progressing far enough in the tournament, the fights stop being to-the-death and become about wealth, power, and status. In the adult competitions, the monsters who perform best are recruited to the Royal Guard.

Aureus oversees Snowdin Town as its chief commander (which, as all political positions are also military ones, makes him basically the mayor). He is very personally involved in both youth training and upkeep of the adult militia, and does his best to ensure his trainees and soldiers are capable of surviving. He wants to keep as many of them alive as possible.

Along with combat training, he designs his own puzzle trials that aim to simulate the official ones but do not actually kill the participants, so they can practice to perform better when their lives are on the line. Most of Snowdin Town deeply respects him, but he has trouble with closer interpersonal connections both because of his status and his larger than life personality.

He pushes people hard, and can be overbearing and controlling because he takes his responsibilities very seriously and tends to think people should just listen to him. He has a lot of people's lives on his shoulders... and the gravity of that makes him very assertive and sometimes uncompromising. But it really is all about trying to keep the people under his care safe. Although he looks intimidating, his usual demeanor is friendly and energetic, if somewhat forceful. He's just as genuinely encouraging as he can be demanding.

Aureus doesn't believe anyone is expendable. Everyone has something to offer if they're given the chance to learn and develop. The most heartbreaking thing for him is that not everyone is going to get that chance -- children who might otherwise be late bloomers aren't going to make it through their first trials; that’s part of why he pushes so hard. Even for the most skilled, however, simple mistakes can happen. Inevitably some people won’t make it through. Aureus can't save everyone... but he really does his damndest.

Because of how bleak things generally are, Aureus regularly organizes town festivals to try to keep up morale. Ruber (UF!Sans) helps him with this and is often the one to “break the ice” and get their neighbors into a festive mood, but Aureus himself is quite social and lighthearted at these events.

Snowdin is still considered pretty backwater and therefore low-status, but Aureus's personal friendship with Undyne helps him with requisitioning enough to keep the townsfolk mostly safe and fed, supplemented with Ruber's backchannel gains. Conditions are much worse for the "lesser class" monsters in the more densely populated regions of Hotland and New Home, where the class divide is a lot starker. Waterfall is decently propserous, as Undyne has a fondness for her home region, but even there, people are mindful of their status.

Snowdin's always been a little less rigid because it's so far away from the real centers of power that "anybody who's anybody" doesn't want to be there. There HAVE been bitter, abusive people in charge there before, but under Aureus's command and oversight, the town's culture is much more harmonious and focused on everyone working together to survive. And he is quick to remind people that “even someone from a backwater town can become a great war hero if they try hard enough!!!!”

Every once in a while, I decide I need to go back to Sans's sprite and re-decide how I want to draw him, particularly his head shape and eye socket shape. And then I usually go of the rails seeing how I'd tweak things for his variants, which definitely happened this time.

Red and Blue here are kind of just what I use as a default placeholder look for Reds and Blues in general -- they're not the canon designs or from any particular interpretation of their AUs, and that's true of Dust here, too. The Horrors are from two separate Horror AU ideas I'm kicking around, but they're very Halloween Town Horrors: they look kinda scary, but they're not malicious. And then Killer and Error here are pretty much straight lifted from their canon, visually.

The bottom set of four are from @popatochisssp and you can easily read more about them using her Undertale Skeleton's Master Post. Slate and Jasper are from Wave 1, and Ash and Brick are from Wave 2. I really like them, and I think you probably would like them too, if you don't aready :3c But if you're not into Sanses, or these types of Sanses, there are a bunch of Papyri and Swap / Swapfell Sanses you might enjoy! (Edit: fixed so all the colors have the appropriate hex code colors as assigned in their reference post.)