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【KagePro】 KuroEne Kiss 🖤💙🐍🐇

【KagePro】 KuroEne/SaeEne 🖤💛💙

【カゲプロ】 黒コノエネ/クロエネ/冴えエネ

My shadow wants to swallow up this dream of yours.

Intro

Happy 6/9! Happy HaruTaka/KonoEne/KuroEne Day!!! 🖤 💛 💙 🥳 🎉

I've loved 9/6 and all related ships for over 10 years now 🥰💞

KuroEne was baby Sen's 1st ship that I was OBSESSED with as a 12 year old, and after 10 years, the KuroEne obsession is here to stay. 🤸

Snake x Bunny 🐍🐇

Ene's twintails look like bunny ears 💙

I came back to KagePro in April and got obsessed with Kuroha and KuroEne again, exactly as I predicted. Turns out I'm not immune when my meow meow mf gets handsy with my wife.

B*tches when Snake of Clearing Eyes. I'm b*tches! /lh ✌️

I first got into KagePro when I was 12 when I watched the Outer Science MV. Sidu's MV aesthetics and Kuroha's design drew me in immediately. Great design and song~ 🎵

I'm obsessed with Meow meow mf charas. Black and white colour scheme and design aesthetics. Causes problems on purpose. Sen-core bastard cat. Smug chaotic edgy evil asshole character. Violent, unhinged, bloodthirsty and murderous. Arrogant with a huge ego that distances them from humanity (or social interactions). 🐈‍⬛

All of my top fave masc charas are like this. There's literally no one with more obvious and predictable tastes than me LMAO 😭

Kuroha/Saeru, the embodiment of "Knowledge/Wisdom" as a dark evil cunning and malicious entity in KagePro, and the main source of conflict and tension in the plot, is so interesting to me. 🐍🖤

The truly evil monster who wears the face of a past love.

The inhuman evil monster/beast who doesn't understand love, who is the last remnant of Ene's loved one... 😌

With Ene, I'm very enamoured with her chara and design. She is the most personal to me... 💙

The way the way she acts so cheery and self-centered in the hopes of Shintaro to open up more, how she wants to be someone else's friend to subside their loneliness, the same kind of loneliness she'd always felt back then… It also feels like over-compensation for her past regrets, wahh, Ene… ;_; 💘

KuroEne has such a unique context as a ship cuz it uses HaruTaka and KonoEne (my other fave KagePro ships), as a basis. 💛💙

Ene has a "special" relationship with the person that Saeru uses as his vessel.

KuroEne is like the equivalent of the evil sleep paralysis demon (in this case, evil sadistic parasitic snake) possessing your past love (Haruka), or the person that you're conflicted about, but still have a certain kind of tenderness for (Konoha)

Sadistic parasitic evil snake bf and computer virus gf~

Ene already gets flustered around Konoha who is airheaded. So with Saeru, the teasing would just be merciless, cuz Ene is easy to rile up.

ENE BELOVED… 💙🐰🐇

KuroEne is SUCH an interesting ship to think about and analyze due to their characters' context and the potential of the complicated, complex, and messy relationship that they would have.

They give me immense brainrot. I'm SO fascinated by their relationship. I've been obsessed with them for 10 years ‼️❣️

Ever since I came back to KagePro last year, they took over my brain.

They got me out of art block, so ty to them!!! 💞✌️

I'll talk about the setting of my KuroEne AU below. I'll put the rest of my rambles and art WIPs under the cut! 💫✨

I copy pasted these rambles from my side blog and previous post, since it's pretty long.

It feels fitting to include it again, cuz it's basically the big summary of my KuroEne AU. 👍

Alternate Versions 🎨

Version 1

Original Colours

Version 2

Brightness/Contrast on Saeru and Ene

Increased Saturation (35%) on Saeru's eyes (brighter gold)

Increased Saturation (30%) on Ene's eyes (more saturated blue)

Posterization (60%) on Saeru

Posterization (75%) on Ene

Version 3

Gradient Map on Color (30%) on Ene (to shift the Hue to a cooler blue)

Increased Saturation (20%) on Ene's eyes (more saturated blue)

Tone Curve (80%) on Saeru

Version 4

Gradient Map on Color (15%) on Saeru (to shift the colours to purple)

Version 5

Gradient Map on Color (15%) on Saeru (to shift the colours to red)

Gradient Map on Hard Mix (10%)

Version 6

Alt Version with Multiply Layer

Muted Purple on Multiply (40%)

Version 7

(Alt version with more muted colours on Ene)

Decreased Saturation on Ene's colours

Art Process 🎨

Red and Blue Contrast ❤️💙

I've been having fun playing around with colours, seeing which layers to turn off and such.

I've been playing around with Gradient Maps and Hue shifts and slightly different colours.

The purple/red toned Kuroha one is also really nice cuz it has nice visual contrast against all the cool colours (blues) in Ene's design

Red vs. blue contrast <3

Plus, it fits Kuroha to be tinted with red...

Considering the red tinted shots in the Outer Science MV where he smears the Mekakushi Dan members' blood over his face. ❤️

Love the chosen shots in this MV.

Outer Science is my top fave KagePro MV due to its stunning visuals and visual storytelling. 🐍

Additional Memory and Losstime Memory are also in my top faves.

The white, black and red shots here look so good. And the expressions as well~ I love Sidu's brilliant visual aesthetic sense.

Art Rambles 🎨

Rough sketch WIPs. I love their expressions here sm~ I started playing around with Gradient Maps cuz I love picking colours.

My works tend to lean towards using more saturated colours with high contrast.

So I ended up going with a more vibrant and saturated colour palette.

This shows my process for picking colours. I ended up picking the ones at the very top of the post, since those are my faves ✌️

I like having Ene's eyes as ice blue. 💙

I really like the blue hue shift on Ene, red hue shift on Kuroha, and generally more saturated colours and higher contrast. ❤️💙

The more red + purple toned Kuroha has really nice visual contrast against Ene's cool colours (blues) in her design tbh~

I started off with a more muted palette (different from what I'm used to), but ended up going with more saturated colours cuz I think it fit the mood of the piece more.

Though I think it'd still be fun to do both a Muted Colours and Saturated Colours version! 🙏

These doodles aren't refined, and just me roughly filling in the base colours on my sketches to get an idea of colours.

Since Idk when I'll get to refine these drawings and clean up the sketch and lines 😴💤

The finalized versions up top use a peach colour for Saeru's skin so the Correction Layers shift his skin to be brighter than Ene's

I think it fits for Saeru to have paler skin than Ene.

Brushes

I can talk more about my art process this time ☺️

My main sketching/lining brush is CSP's Oil Paint Flat brush

I use it for sketching/lining and filling in rough base colours, because I love using weighted inky brushes. So any similar brushes will work! 👍

CSP's official default sub tool brushes (Ver 1.10.9) were removed or updated in later versions of CSP, so I reinstalled it. It's available for free.

I used to use a thin soft brush when I was younger, but I think my art looks more interesting with textured brushes and thicker lines 😌

It's my fave brush, but it can't blend. So when I come back to rendering pieces again in the future, I'd use another brush for that.

I've played around with a lot of brushes but I'm the most comfortable using this one since I'm used to it.

Colours

It looks so glowy and really makes the colours pop! ✨

I have a tendency to shift hues in my arts for the colours used for lighting and shadows, to keep things looking visually interesting 💞

That's why I roughly splotched red on Kuroha's hair, and pinks and muted blues on Ene's hair and sweater to get an idea of what kinds of colours I wanted to use for them 🖤❤️💙

Coloured Lines

I always draw sketches/lines on Vector Layers, so I can easily move, scale, and rotate lines, adjust the thickness if needed, etc.

It makes it easier for me to redraw my sketches, since Vector Layers don't lose quality when scaled.

I duplicate the lineart and use a CSP Auto Action called Better Line Color that you can find on the CSP Assets Store.

It colours the lines according to the colours underneath, and makes a subtle glow on the lineart.

It does some steps like Gaussian Blur, other adjustments, then sets the Layer Mode to Colour Burn, Linear Burn, or Multiply.

The duplicated lineart, when set to a Layer Mode like Colour Burn (or Linear Burn), creates a nice subtle glowy effect that I've been using on my coloured doodles.

On my arts, I usually have it set to Colour Burn 👍

Having coloured lines makes such a huge difference with my art. I think it has a really nice effect on my art ✨💫

People have made similar tools, so there are also free ones on the CSP Assets Store.

Gradient Maps and Colour Corrections

Using Hard Mix helped me get the nice red colours on Saeru's hair on my own doodle ❤️

This is pretty much what I do, except I choose pretty saturated colours.

Correction Layers and Layer Modes are my best friend ✌️

My art process when it comes to picking colours goes like:

I may make a colour edit that I pick colours from

If not, then I eyeball the colours and adjust them as I go

I put a Posterization Layer and choose whatever looks the best

I put Gradient Map Layers on Low Opacity (10 - 20%)

I may play around with Layer Modes (Color, Hard Mix, etc.) on Gradient Maps

I use Correction Layers (ex. Hue/Saturation/Luminosity, Color Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Tone Curve)

I adjust the colours as needed

There are tons of free Gradient Maps on the CSP Assets store, so I use them to harmonize my colour palettes 🙏

I think that using Gradient Maps on Low Opacity and/or with Layer Modes can have really interesting results.

I usually put my Gradient Maps at about 10 - 20% and set the Layer Mode to Color.

So you can mute or saturate your colour palettes with them

Though sometimes just putting a Gradient Map on with Low Opacity looks better, so I play around with different Layer Modes

I put Hard Mix on low opacity cuz it can over saturate a drawing imo.

Posterization can also oversaturate the colours, so I adjust the Opacity if needed.

And I try to make sure that my colours aren't too over saturated.

KuroEne AU 🖤💛💙

Ok I also have something to add (once again I'm snatching these rambles from my side blog's rambles cuz I've yapped way too much about these two ‼️)

It's pretty unfortunate that my yapping and ramble posts outspeeds me creating art so I'm just waiting for the chance to draw so many of my KuroEne writing and art ideas so I can post them on main combined with drawings 🤸

Canon verse KuroEne is not “romance,” at least definitely not in the traditional sense. But there IS desire and passion, and a sense of yearning/longing, a need for warmth and fulfillment. It’s filled with desperation and tension and conflict, which makes it really interesting…

When I think about their relationship in this kind of canon-verse AU setting, it's infused with feelings of love, obsession, desire, passion, yearning, and attachment. 💗💘

It's so fun to think about Kuroha's selfish twisted nature and dark urges, combined with Ene's bold tenacity and confidence. Since he's someone that's generally observant and good at reading people and their desires, it makes him pair well with Ene who has trouble facing more honest feelings and being open about the things she wants.

I think a lot of things are playing into their relationship dynamic. Like the circumstances of HaruTaka and KonoEne's context, Kuroha's omniscience and knowledge, desire, and a craving/yearning for warmth, touch, and affection and companionship on Ene's end, and the pull she feels for him because of the vessel he uses, and his intimate knowledge of her.

For 6/9, it's time to blast the anthem of my fave ship, Yuukei Yesterday~ The song dedicated to Takane's feelings and HaruTaka~ Tatatara!! 💗

Considering the theme of my art, though, I put a lyric from the song, "Shadow gate to love" 🎵🎧

I also wanna say that I'm seriously obsessed with my NB genderfluid Kuroha HC 🐍🖤💞

Kuroha can change his body into whatever he wants by using Konoha's Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes. In the Novel Route, he knows how to use Awakening Eyes to rebuild the body molecule by molecule and make him immune to other Eye Abilities.

Kuroha/Saeru's "Love" ❤️

I think it's interesting that canon verse KuroEne is a ship that's so tinged with angst and tragedy. But I also love that aspect about them. 😌💗💘

I think that in the context of a Kuroha ship AU, Kuroha believes that he and his S/O have a connection of karmic fate with each other, in the way that they'll continue to meet across all the different time loops, for all of eternity.

Kuroha’s love would inevitably be very dark and twisted, because he is that way at his core. At the end of a Route, he kills his S/O, and/or their friends, in order to meet with them forever. Ensuring the next coming of a new cycle is a priority to him.

The intimate knowledge that Kuroha/Saeru would have of his partner’s desires, wants, past, insecurities, relationships, etc., due to all the time loop resets, is so interesting to think about. 💗

And, he gets to be with the other party forever by doing this. It’s a win win for him! He doesn’t want to give that up. Cuz in some fucked up way, in his fucked up form of love and obsession, he creates the concept of “eternity” with his S/O, by killing them, and/or, their friends, constantly, endlessly.

As a means to an end

Kuroha is someone that wants to draw out "truth" to add to his "knowledge" (massive knowledge bank) and explore endless possibilities.

And Ene is someone who has trouble being honest, especially with her wants/desires, and Saeru was created for the purpose of granting wishes. So he finds it fun to tease her and rile her up, and fulfill her desires for warmth and pleasure, etc.

Ene asks Kuroha if he's learning how to pretend to be human throughout all the time loop resets. Kuroha says there’s no “pretending” about it. And it's true. He's been here since even before the beginning of the world. He asks her if you can really call it pretending at that point.

The end of Outer Science's MV shows Saeru in Azami's hair even before the creation of the world. He's existed before humans were born. He knows the nature of humans better than anyone else after observing them for a long time. He has so much knowledge, that the sheer extent of it is just unfathomable to the average person.

Each time the Route resets, he gets to “perfect” his knowledge, and in the context of intimacy, he gets to know his partner and their intimate desires even better and better, each time.

He constantly refines and adds to his “knowledge” every new Route. He likes learning new things about the other party. Kuroha likes how Ene, with her confrontational, brazen personality, and predictable unpredictability, always manages to find a way to catch him off guard and surprise him.

Kuroha/Saeru possessing Konoha's body means he has his face. His body. His voice. Ene can't shake off the feeling of how uncanny his resemblance is to them, physically, and gets reminded of Haruka and Konoha around him.

(Now I'll copy paste my rambles from my old posts that summarizes my KuroEne AU. Here. I added some new stuff at the end)

KuroEne AU: Set-up 🖤💙

Ok, I'm just gonna ramble about the setting of my KuroEne AU.

I also included a summary for context just in case my non-KagePro mutuals want to tune in to read these rambles.

I just wrote this quickly before I go to sleep. I have more to say but I think this is a good starter. 😴💤

In official KagePro media, the present day plot starts after 2 years, on the fateful day of August 15th (Kagerou/Heat Haze) Day.

The Kagerou Daze, the never ending world, swallows up people who die on August 15th, and gives those with especially strong desires, who are compatible with an Eye Ability, a substitute life so that they can return to the real world.

In most Routes, Saeru ends up orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths.

One thing you'll learn about KagePro is that this guy (Saeru) is responsible for almost everything bad that happens ✌️

Because killing them so that they'd come out with an Eye Ability, is a part of his plan to get the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze and into the real world.

Haruka's death leads to the creation of Konoha, and Takane's death causes her to lose her human body and become a cyber girl named Ene

There are multiple different ways that a KuroEne AU could go, depending on the Route.

KuroEne AU Routes are so fun to write, because any time I get a new idea, I can just put into a different Route (timeline) to explore all the "What if" scenarios that don't fit into a single Route. 🤭

Kuroha/Saeru's Plan and KonoEne

Normally, the rest of the Mekakushi Dan members meet each other in the present day plot after 2 years, the fateful day of August 15th, the day Kuroha/Saeru plans to kill everyone.

Kuroha/Saeru's plan is to gather all the snakes with a new Medusa in the real world (bringing the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze to the real world), and killing all Eye Ability users.

Then, he forces Mary, "the next Master," to rewind the world using the power of the Queen Snake, Combining Eyes.

In official media, Kuroha/Saeru usually possesses Konoha's body at the end of a Route on August 15th, the day he plans to proceed with the "Tragedy" and kill everyone.

I imagine that in my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body MUCH earlier. Like, anywhere within the timespan after Takane and Haruka's deaths (1 - 2 years)

Because of this, Konoha and Ene usually end up meeting and befriending each other earlier. Ene recognizes Konoha as Haruka's game avatar from back then, and mistakes him for Haruka. Konoha asks if she has the wrong person, and Ene gets heartbroken at Konoha's seeming amnesia and inability to remember her.

Ene imposes a sense of distance around Konoha due to her conflicting feelings (he resembles the person she loved but isn't him).

In my AU, KonoEne establish a relationship dynamic of some kind (which varies depending on the Route), which either progresses to an acquaintance-ship, friendship, or intimate relationship.

Kuroha introduces himself to Ene for their first meeting in a Route

And then, at some point, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body. At this point, when he introduces himself and makes himself known to Ene for the first time, he can choose what information he wants to reveal, and how much.

For example, Kuroha can choose if he wants to introduce himself as Black Konoha, and/or "Saeru," or whether to reveal it for later.

(And he also chooses whether he wants to reveal his true identity as the Snake of Clearing Eyes.)

Ene later nicknames him "Kuroha" and "Saeru" to shorten the name.

He knows that the 1st one would be more familiar to Ene. To introduce himself with the 2nd one would make Ene more distrusting/suspicious of him.

Note: I feel like as long as it's a Route where Saeru and Ene play the game alone (and Ene doesn't meet the rest of the MekaDan until August 15th), then Saeru can tell Ene his true name once they've gotten closer.

I feel like Saeru would also tell her about the Eye Abilities (while keeping most of his past, such as the identity of his Master, vague)

I always HC that Ene mainly calls him "Saeru" after that.

He most likely doesn't reveal his true intentions (to kill the Mekakushi Dan) so soon, because he knows that if he does, Ene is (obviously) not gonna want to "play the game" (of being intimate with him) anymore, cuz it means that he is literally putting her and her friends' lives in danger.

Though, across multiple Routes, he probably does play around and experiment with the timing of when he reveals certain information, and how much.

I think in most Routes, Ene is suspicious of him at first, and asks about his intentions and what he's really after, and Kuroha/Saeru just tells her that it's too early to say yet, and that she will find out soon.

(Though, Kuroha could probably quell her suspicions with enough convincing, due to the massive amount of knowledge he carries)

KuroEne AU: Context ✍️

In my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru, who has messed around with human technology and innovation, has been able to develop a humanoid android/robot body with human flesh that Ene can transfer into.

This concept was originally inspired by Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.exe), specifically, the NetNavis (humans' companion AIs in this universe) from MMBN/EXE.

NetNavis can transfer into CopyBots (android bodies) for limited amounts of time, to move around in the real world. These CopyBots take the appearance of the NetNavi that transfer into it.

In my KuroEne AU, I imagine it's battery powered, but with every Route, he gets better and faster at making it. Like he improves the battery life over time, so it goes from lasting an hour to lasting a whole day, etc.

Quoting these old rambles:

Note: In the first few Routes, Kuroha synthesizes the materials he needs in his lab, in order to create Ene's outer body. At this point, Ene's body is made by artificial human flesh.

I imagined that Ene's outer body looks fully humanoid on the exterior. The interior most likely has complex systems and wiring.

Then, he first comes up with the idea of using Awakening Eyes to make Ene's body. He delights in his own brilliant idea and wonders why he didn't think of it sooner? This way, he won't need such a meticulous process. So in all Routes after this, he uses this method to create Ene's body.

Kuroha/Saeru is so fucked up but that makes him interesting so I say let him be. He's so fun to write for 👍I'm fascinated by how sick in the head he is in about his love (twisted obsession). I love Saeru's mad scientist vibes in the KuroEne AU… 🖤💙

Awakening Eyes allows the owner of the body to make it into their "ideal body" and make it whatever they want. So he can do this, replicate it, and keep regenerating himself. And knowing this mf, he'd shed off his own skin from his body too to use as part of Ene's android body.

Feila and I came up with the idea that Kuroha could just use Konoha's Eye Ability Awakening Eyes to temporarily turn into Ene, then make it so that his body can shed off self healing skin (and any parts he needs). It makes making her android body infinitely easier cuz then he'd have all the parts needed to make her body.

Kuroha: You were made from me, and the unison of our parts, therefore we are one ❤️

According to the Novel Route, Kuroha/Saeru has knowledge from everything from the start of civilization...

In the Novel Route, Shintaro compares Saeru to "a living encyclopedia with a full grasp of everything from the start of civilization up to modern science."

That LN bit confirms that Kuroha/Saeru carries knowledge of the history of mankind and its technologies over (probably) millions or thousands of years.

Especially when scientists have made developments regarding wrapping living human-like skin onto a robot that can heal when cut.

If he carries knowledge from the start of civilization, so much knowledge that it's unfathomable to the average person, then yeah, I definitely think he could get it done (especially for the sake of my AU).

KuroEne's Intimacy 🐍🐇

Kuroha proposes that he has a solution for Ene not being able to move around in the real world, and introduces the little invention that he made, for her to test out, which Ene eventually agrees to, out of curiosity.

Ene feels a sense of gratefulness to him for allowing her to move around in the real world since it gets lonely in the cyber world, not being able to feel or touch anyone on the outside…

Kuroha gets to know and bonds with Ene, anywhere within this 1 - 2 year timespan, and at some point, Kuroha and Ene get intimate with each other.

Ene gives into the sense of longing/yearning that she feels for Kuroha/Saeru, a yearning for warmth and touch after being stuck alone in the cyber world for so long (in spite of everything - if she knows about his true identity at this point), which is in part caused by his vessel (being Konoha, who's in Haruka's body).

Kuroha knows how to react to her and what to say to her and how to act around her due to his knowledge, and so, seduces his S/O and tempts her with carnal pleasures, and they indulge in "the game/dance" of being intimate with each other.

Because Kuroha/Saeru keeps memories of previous Routes, he remembers memories of being with the Enes of previous Routes, and thus, knows how to react to her when talking/chatting with her normally, knows how to appease Ene's behaviours and whims, goes along with what she wants, knows how to get the responses he wants when he wants something from his partner (so he knows how to seduce them), and knows how to satisfy his partner in the context of intimacy.

Because of the knowledge he carries, he knows the context, past, Eye Abilities, vulnerabilities, etc., of every Mekakushi Dan member, and that includes Ene. So he'd definitely know about Haruka and Takane, and Konoha and Ene's context and relationship together.

The person who's her greatest enemy (whether she knows it at this point or not), very literally knows everything about her.

And not only that, the greatest enemy of the Mekakushi Dan, knows her better than she knows herself.

Kuroha/Saeru's Nature ❤️

Not only does he weaponize Konoha's body by using Konoha's body as a murder weapon to kill everyone at the end of a Route, he weaponizes words, too. Kuroha/Saeru uses "knowledge" as an advantage over his partner, and weaponizes knowledge. Actually staggering advantage. Because he knows almost everything.

Kuroha ships are like the only time I have ships where one party in the ship has THIS much of an advantage over their partner.

Therefore, as I said before, Kuroha/Saeru ultimately has a power imbalance with his partner (any Mekakushi Dan member that he could be paired with).

He has an overwhelming advantage over his partner due to his role (set-up as an antagonist constantly killing the cast) and capabilities. It is ultimately in his favour.

That fact in itself, that the power imbalance exists, isn't inherently a bad thing, it just means that you NEED to tread carefully with portraying Kuroha's ships. I always make sure to depict my ships with as much care as possible, and as healthy as possible.

Ene is one of the characters who is a really good match with him. Because making Ene more assertive and dominant in the KuroEne ship, and making them take turns in leading intimacy, with having Kuroha letting Ene take control through their bedroom intimacy at times, helps alleviate this power imbalance slightly.

Kuroha is literally so fucked up dude cuz even his twisted form of affection that he holds for his S/O (the Mekakushi Dan member who he's paired with), is still in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

Due to his twisted nature, he embodies Koi (恋), "Selfish love," "loving someone for their own sake."

Even when he caters to his partner's pleasures, it still ultimately caters to his pleasures the most. That makes him interesting, though. Someone so inherently dark and twisted and sinister, with selfish desires like that… 🥰💖✨

Misc Rambles ✍️

Colour Edit: Me

So I imagine, in most KuroEne AU routes, he reveals his true intentions either approaching the fated day of August 15th, or right on the day of August 15th.

There's absolutely a sense of betrayal that Ene would feel following the reveal of his true intentions - he built up a relationship with her, on purpose, just to drop the worst possible scenario imaginable.

Like let's be real. The reveal of "I've been killing you and your friends throughout multiple Routes (timelines)" just sounds like a nightmarish scenario, especially if you've been fucking this guy, like come on. 😭

And something that would make Ene get especially pissed at him, is if he decides to reveal that he was responsible for orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths in the first place.

(In official media, Ene sees Konoha for the first time, on August 15th, 2 years after Haruka and Takane's deaths)

Though, there are probably KuroEne AU routes where Konoha and Ene don't get the chance to meet each other - Routes where Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body before the two can actually meet, so when Ene sees who she thinks is "Konoha" for the first time, it's actually Kuroha/Saeru. With this kind of setting, he could even pretend to be Konoha, if he wanted.

And then on August 15th, he proceeds with killing the Mekakushi Dan with sadistic glee (and even his S/O - though if he's feeling nice, then he can spare them, since he doesn't need to kill everyone), and forces Mary to rewind the world.

Thankfully, due to the nature of Ene's body and predicament, she won't feel physical pain even if he kills her. And then, a new Route (timeline) begins.

Shadow gate to love

Song: (X)

Lyrics: (X)

The song, "Shadow gate to love," sung by the sub-unit, Guilty Kiss, in Love Live! Sunshine!! is sooo Sen ship-core.

It basically works for every Light/Darkness, Angel/Devil, and Narrative Opposites ship of mine. ✌️

My favourite version of Shadow gate to love is this fan-edit that pitches down the song to match the original voice actors’ voices, compared to their characters’ voices (which are higher in pitch)

Oh baby shadow gay~ 🌈

In KagePro, though, the mention of "Strong scented eyes" takes on another meaning cuz of the emphasis on EYES, particularly the Eye Abilities.

I also love the emphasis on the Light/Darkness aspect and seduction in the lyrics.

KuroEne: Kuroha seduces Ene by tempting her with carnal pleasures, and keeps the secrets of his plan to commit the Tragedy (killing the Mekakushi Dan on August 15th, Kagerou Day) hidden from her. He tells her "beautiful lies" in order to keep up his facade.

He decides to act tamer prior to the fated date of August 15th, catering to her desires and befriending and bonding her and spending time with her and actually getting to know her.

They'd do soft and fluffy stuff like go to the amusement park together, play video games together, and eventually, get intimate with each other.

Due to his inherently dark and twisted nature, Kuroha/Saeru prioritizes his own desires and desire for immortality, and constantly keeps causing the Tragedy by killing the Mekakushi Dan, Mary's friends, forcing the time loop resets.

He also believes that doing this allows him to be with his partner forever, because he can continue to come and meet them forever and ever.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋) 💗

Azami's genuine pure form of love for her family, willingly sacrificing herself for her family.

Vs.

(In the context of a Kuroha ship AU)

Kuroha/Saeru holding a twisted form of affection and obsession for his S/O and wanting to continue the time loop Tragedy in order to be with his S/O forever in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

He looks up to his Masters and serves them, but won't put anyone else above himself and his wants and needs.

In the end, he's doing this all for Azami, because he believes that this is what she truly wanted and needed, but ends up being the one causing her the most suffering.

"Selfless" vs. "Selfish" love.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋)

Azami -> "Loving someone for the sake of someone else"

Kuroha -> "Loving someone for one's own sake"

Kuroha's twisted selfish love and how he ultimately loves someone for his own sake, to experience the "high" of being in love...

"Love is Karma."

This fits so well with Kuroha/Saeru's character and KuroEne. Good god.

I can't put any more images due to Tumblr's image limit so you can read about the two loves (Ai vs. Koi) here

Source: (X)

Misc Rambles

If you wanna put it crudely or in funny terms, then Kuroha/Saeru ships are like the most elaborate ships with the time loop tragedy causing serial killer, in the history of anything ever. But actually really interesting and fascinating.

"I'm gonna kill you" boogaloo (and nothing else) is not very compelling for ships (and even in general) lol

In canon-verse, Kuroha/Saeru lacks humanity and forms of care for others (when compared to my other faves).

That's why I wanted to explore the ideas of Kuroha/Saeru messing around in the Routes and actually getting to know the Mekakushi Dan members before he kills them all.

[stepswordsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne Kiss 🖤💙🐍🐇

【KagePro】 KuroEne/SaeEne 🖤💛💙

【カゲプロ】 黒コノエネ/クロエネ/冴えエネ

My shadow wants to swallow up this dream of yours.

Intro

Happy 6/9! Happy HaruTaka/KonoEne/KuroEne Day!!! 🖤 💛 💙 🥳 🎉

I've loved 9/6 and all related ships for over 10 years now 🥰💞

KuroEne was baby Sen's 1st ship that I was OBSESSED with as a 12 year old, and after 10 years, the KuroEne obsession is here to stay. 🤸

Snake x Bunny 🐍🐇

Ene's twintails look like bunny ears 💙

I came back to KagePro in April and got obsessed with Kuroha and KuroEne again, exactly as I predicted. Turns out I'm not immune when my meow meow mf gets handsy with my wife.

B*tches when Snake of Clearing Eyes. I'm b*tches! /lh ✌️

I first got into KagePro when I was 12 when I watched the Outer Science MV. Sidu's MV aesthetics and Kuroha's design drew me in immediately. Great design and song~ 🎵

I'm obsessed with Meow meow mf charas. Black and white colour scheme and design aesthetics. Causes problems on purpose. Sen-core bastard cat. Smug chaotic edgy evil asshole character. Violent, unhinged, bloodthirsty and murderous. Arrogant with a huge ego that distances them from humanity (or social interactions). 🐈‍⬛

All of my top fave masc charas are like this. There's literally no one with more obvious and predictable tastes than me LMAO 😭

Kuroha/Saeru, the embodiment of "Knowledge/Wisdom" as a dark evil cunning and malicious entity in KagePro, and the main source of conflict and tension in the plot, is so interesting to me. 🐍🖤

The truly evil monster who wears the face of a past love.

The inhuman evil monster/beast who doesn't understand love, who is the last remnant of Ene's loved one... 😌

With Ene, I'm very enamoured with her chara and design. She is the most personal to me... 💙

The way the way she acts so cheery and self-centered in the hopes of Shintaro to open up more, how she wants to be someone else's friend to subside their loneliness, the same kind of loneliness she'd always felt back then… It also feels like over-compensation for her past regrets, wahh, Ene… ;_; 💘

KuroEne has such a unique context as a ship cuz it uses HaruTaka and KonoEne (my other fave KagePro ships), as a basis. 💛💙

Ene has a "special" relationship with the person that Saeru uses as his vessel.

KuroEne is like the equivalent of the evil sleep paralysis demon (in this case, evil sadistic parasitic snake) possessing your past love (Haruka), or the person that you're conflicted about, but still have a certain kind of tenderness for (Konoha)

Sadistic parasitic evil snake bf and computer virus gf~

Ene already gets flustered around Konoha who is airheaded. So with Saeru, the teasing would just be merciless, cuz Ene is easy to rile up.

ENE BELOVED… 💙🐰🐇

KuroEne is SUCH an interesting ship to think about and analyze due to their characters' context and the potential of the complicated, complex, and messy relationship that they would have.

They give me immense brainrot. I'm SO fascinated by their relationship. I've been obsessed with them for 10 years ‼️❣️

Ever since I came back to KagePro last year, they took over my brain.

They got me out of art block, so ty to them!!! 💞✌️

I'll talk about the setting of my KuroEne AU below. I'll put the rest of my rambles and art WIPs under the cut! 💫✨

I copy pasted these rambles from my side blog and previous post, since it's pretty long.

It feels fitting to include it again, cuz it's basically the big summary of my KuroEne AU. 👍

Alternate Versions 🎨

Version 1

Original Colours

Version 2

Brightness/Contrast on Saeru and Ene

Increased Saturation (35%) on Saeru's eyes (brighter gold)

Increased Saturation (30%) on Ene's eyes (more saturated blue)

Posterization (60%) on Saeru

Posterization (75%) on Ene

Version 3

Gradient Map on Color (30%) on Ene (to shift the Hue to a cooler blue)

Increased Saturation (20%) on Ene's eyes (more saturated blue)

Tone Curve (80%) on Saeru

Version 4

Gradient Map on Color (15%) on Saeru (to shift the colours to purple)

Version 5

Gradient Map on Color (15%) on Saeru (to shift the colours to red)

Gradient Map on Hard Mix (10%)

Version 6

Alt Version with Multiply Layer

Muted Purple on Multiply (40%)

Version 7

(Alt version with more muted colours on Ene)

Decreased Saturation on Ene's colours

Art Process 🎨

Red and Blue Contrast ❤️💙

I've been having fun playing around with colours, seeing which layers to turn off and such.

I've been playing around with Gradient Maps and Hue shifts and slightly different colours.

The purple/red toned Kuroha one is also really nice cuz it has nice visual contrast against all the cool colours (blues) in Ene's design

Red vs. blue contrast <3

Plus, it fits Kuroha to be tinted with red...

Considering the red tinted shots in the Outer Science MV where he smears the Mekakushi Dan members' blood over his face. ❤️

Love the chosen shots in this MV.

Outer Science is my top fave KagePro MV due to its stunning visuals and visual storytelling. 🐍

Additional Memory and Losstime Memory are also in my top faves.

The white, black and red shots here look so good. And the expressions as well~ I love Sidu's brilliant visual aesthetic sense.

Art Rambles 🎨

Rough sketch WIPs. I love their expressions here sm~ I started playing around with Gradient Maps cuz I love picking colours.

My works tend to lean towards using more saturated colours with high contrast.

So I ended up going with a more vibrant and saturated colour palette.

This shows my process for picking colours. I ended up picking the ones at the very top of the post, since those are my faves ✌️

I like having Ene's eyes as ice blue. 💙

I really like the blue hue shift on Ene, red hue shift on Kuroha, and generally more saturated colours and higher contrast. ❤️💙

The more red + purple toned Kuroha has really nice visual contrast against Ene's cool colours (blues) in her design tbh~

I started off with a more muted palette (different from what I'm used to), but ended up going with more saturated colours cuz I think it fit the mood of the piece more.

Though I think it'd still be fun to do both a Muted Colours and Saturated Colours version! 🙏

These doodles aren't refined, and just me roughly filling in the base colours on my sketches to get an idea of colours.

Since Idk when I'll get to refine these drawings and clean up the sketch and lines 😴💤

The finalized versions up top use a peach colour for Saeru's skin so the Correction Layers shift his skin to be brighter than Ene's

I think it fits for Saeru to have paler skin than Ene.

Brushes

I can talk more about my art process this time ☺️

My main sketching/lining brush is CSP's Oil Paint Flat brush

I use it for sketching/lining and filling in rough base colours, because I love using weighted inky brushes. So any similar brushes will work! 👍

CSP's official default sub tool brushes (Ver 1.10.9) were removed or updated in later versions of CSP, so I reinstalled it. It's available for free.

I used to use a thin soft brush when I was younger, but I think my art looks more interesting with textured brushes and thicker lines 😌

It's my fave brush, but it can't blend. So when I come back to rendering pieces again in the future, I'd use another brush for that.

I've played around with a lot of brushes but I'm the most comfortable using this one since I'm used to it.

Colours

It looks so glowy and really makes the colours pop! ✨

I have a tendency to shift hues in my arts for the colours used for lighting and shadows, to keep things looking visually interesting 💞

That's why I roughly splotched red on Kuroha's hair, and pinks and muted blues on Ene's hair and sweater to get an idea of what kinds of colours I wanted to use for them 🖤❤️💙

Coloured Lines

I always draw sketches/lines on Vector Layers, so I can easily move, scale, and rotate lines, adjust the thickness if needed, etc.

It makes it easier for me to redraw my sketches, since Vector Layers don't lose quality when scaled.

I duplicate the lineart and use a CSP Auto Action called Better Line Color that you can find on the CSP Assets Store.

It colours the lines according to the colours underneath, and makes a subtle glow on the lineart.

It does some steps like Gaussian Blur, other adjustments, then sets the Layer Mode to Colour Burn, Linear Burn, or Multiply.

The duplicated lineart, when set to a Layer Mode like Colour Burn (or Linear Burn), creates a nice subtle glowy effect that I've been using on my coloured doodles.

On my arts, I usually have it set to Colour Burn 👍

Having coloured lines makes such a huge difference with my art. I think it has a really nice effect on my art ✨💫

People have made similar tools, so there are also free ones on the CSP Assets Store.

Gradient Maps and Colour Corrections

Using Hard Mix helped me get the nice red colours on Saeru's hair on my own doodle ❤️

This is pretty much what I do, except I choose pretty saturated colours.

Correction Layers and Layer Modes are my best friend ✌️

My art process when it comes to picking colours goes like:

I may make a colour edit that I pick colours from

If not, then I eyeball the colours and adjust them as I go

I put a Posterization Layer and choose whatever looks the best

I put Gradient Map Layers on Low Opacity (10 - 20%)

I may play around with Layer Modes (Color, Hard Mix, etc.) on Gradient Maps

I use Correction Layers (ex. Hue/Saturation/Luminosity, Color Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Tone Curve)

I adjust the colours as needed

There are tons of free Gradient Maps on the CSP Assets store, so I use them to harmonize my colour palettes 🙏

I think that using Gradient Maps on Low Opacity and/or with Layer Modes can have really interesting results.

I usually put my Gradient Maps at about 10 - 20% and set the Layer Mode to Color.

So you can mute or saturate your colour palettes with them

Though sometimes just putting a Gradient Map on with Low Opacity looks better, so I play around with different Layer Modes

I put Hard Mix on low opacity cuz it can over saturate a drawing imo.

Posterization can also oversaturate the colours, so I adjust the Opacity if needed.

And I try to make sure that my colours aren't too over saturated.

KuroEne AU 🖤💛💙

Ok I also have something to add (once again I'm snatching these rambles from my side blog's rambles cuz I've yapped way too much about these two ‼️)

It's pretty unfortunate that my yapping and ramble posts outspeeds me creating art so I'm just waiting for the chance to draw so many of my KuroEne writing and art ideas so I can post them on main combined with drawings 🤸

Canon verse KuroEne is not “romance,” at least definitely not in the traditional sense. But there IS desire and passion, and a sense of yearning/longing, a need for warmth and fulfillment. It’s filled with desperation and tension and conflict, which makes it really interesting…

When I think about their relationship in this kind of canon-verse AU setting, it's infused with feelings of love, obsession, desire, passion, yearning, and attachment. 💗💘

It's so fun to think about Kuroha's selfish twisted nature and dark urges, combined with Ene's bold tenacity and confidence. Since he's someone that's generally observant and good at reading people and their desires, it makes him pair well with Ene who has trouble facing more honest feelings and being open about the things she wants.

I think a lot of things are playing into their relationship dynamic. Like the circumstances of HaruTaka and KonoEne's context, Kuroha's omniscience and knowledge, desire, and a craving/yearning for warmth, touch, and affection and companionship on Ene's end, and the pull she feels for him because of the vessel he uses, and his intimate knowledge of her.

For 6/9, it's time to blast the anthem of my fave ship, Yuukei Yesterday~ The song dedicated to Takane's feelings and HaruTaka~ Tatatara!! 💗

Considering the theme of my art, though, I put a lyric from the song, "Shadow gate to love" 🎵🎧

I also wanna say that I'm seriously obsessed with my NB genderfluid Kuroha HC 🐍🖤💞

Kuroha can change his body into whatever he wants by using Konoha's Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes. In the Novel Route, he knows how to use Awakening Eyes to rebuild the body molecule by molecule and make him immune to other Eye Abilities.

Kuroha/Saeru's "Love" ❤️

I think it's interesting that canon verse KuroEne is a ship that's so tinged with angst and tragedy. But I also love that aspect about them. 😌💗💘

I think that in the context of a Kuroha ship AU, Kuroha believes that he and his S/O have a connection of karmic fate with each other, in the way that they'll continue to meet across all the different time loops, for all of eternity.

Kuroha’s love would inevitably be very dark and twisted, because he is that way at his core. At the end of a Route, he kills his S/O, and/or their friends, in order to meet with them forever. Ensuring the next coming of a new cycle is a priority to him.

The intimate knowledge that Kuroha/Saeru would have of his partner’s desires, wants, past, insecurities, relationships, etc., due to all the time loop resets, is so interesting to think about. 💗

And, he gets to be with the other party forever by doing this. It’s a win win for him! He doesn’t want to give that up. Cuz in some fucked up way, in his fucked up form of love and obsession, he creates the concept of “eternity” with his S/O, by killing them, and/or, their friends, constantly, endlessly.

As a means to an end

Kuroha is someone that wants to draw out "truth" to add to his "knowledge" (massive knowledge bank) and explore endless possibilities.

And Ene is someone who has trouble being honest, especially with her wants/desires, and Saeru was created for the purpose of granting wishes. So he finds it fun to tease her and rile her up, and fulfill her desires for warmth and pleasure, etc.

Ene asks Kuroha if he's learning how to pretend to be human throughout all the time loop resets. Kuroha says there’s no “pretending” about it. And it's true. He's been here since even before the beginning of the world. He asks her if you can really call it pretending at that point.

The end of Outer Science's MV shows Saeru in Azami's hair even before the creation of the world. He's existed before humans were born. He knows the nature of humans better than anyone else after observing them for a long time. He has so much knowledge, that the sheer extent of it is just unfathomable to the average person.

Each time the Route resets, he gets to “perfect” his knowledge, and in the context of intimacy, he gets to know his partner and their intimate desires even better and better, each time.

He constantly refines and adds to his “knowledge” every new Route. He likes learning new things about the other party. Kuroha likes how Ene, with her confrontational, brazen personality, and predictable unpredictability, always manages to find a way to catch him off guard and surprise him.

Kuroha/Saeru possessing Konoha's body means he has his face. His body. His voice. Ene can't shake off the feeling of how uncanny his resemblance is to them, physically, and gets reminded of Haruka and Konoha around him.

(Now I'll copy paste my rambles from my old posts that summarizes my KuroEne AU. Here. I added some new stuff at the end)

KuroEne AU: Set-up 🖤💙

Ok, I'm just gonna ramble about the setting of my KuroEne AU.

I also included a summary for context just in case my non-KagePro mutuals want to tune in to read these rambles.

I just wrote this quickly before I go to sleep. I have more to say but I think this is a good starter. 😴💤

In official KagePro media, the present day plot starts after 2 years, on the fateful day of August 15th (Kagerou/Heat Haze) Day.

The Kagerou Daze, the never ending world, swallows up people who die on August 15th, and gives those with especially strong desires, who are compatible with an Eye Ability, a substitute life so that they can return to the real world.

In most Routes, Saeru ends up orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths.

One thing you'll learn about KagePro is that this guy (Saeru) is responsible for almost everything bad that happens ✌️

Because killing them so that they'd come out with an Eye Ability, is a part of his plan to get the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze and into the real world.

Haruka's death leads to the creation of Konoha, and Takane's death causes her to lose her human body and become a cyber girl named Ene

There are multiple different ways that a KuroEne AU could go, depending on the Route.

KuroEne AU Routes are so fun to write, because any time I get a new idea, I can just put into a different Route (timeline) to explore all the "What if" scenarios that don't fit into a single Route. 🤭

Kuroha/Saeru's Plan and KonoEne

Normally, the rest of the Mekakushi Dan members meet each other in the present day plot after 2 years, the fateful day of August 15th, the day Kuroha/Saeru plans to kill everyone.

Kuroha/Saeru's plan is to gather all the snakes with a new Medusa in the real world (bringing the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze to the real world), and killing all Eye Ability users.

Then, he forces Mary, "the next Master," to rewind the world using the power of the Queen Snake, Combining Eyes.

In official media, Kuroha/Saeru usually possesses Konoha's body at the end of a Route on August 15th, the day he plans to proceed with the "Tragedy" and kill everyone.

I imagine that in my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body MUCH earlier. Like, anywhere within the timespan after Takane and Haruka's deaths (1 - 2 years)

Because of this, Konoha and Ene usually end up meeting and befriending each other earlier. Ene recognizes Konoha as Haruka's game avatar from back then, and mistakes him for Haruka. Konoha asks if she has the wrong person, and Ene gets heartbroken at Konoha's seeming amnesia and inability to remember her.

Ene imposes a sense of distance around Konoha due to her conflicting feelings (he resembles the person she loved but isn't him).

In my AU, KonoEne establish a relationship dynamic of some kind (which varies depending on the Route), which either progresses to an acquaintance-ship, friendship, or intimate relationship.

Kuroha introduces himself to Ene for their first meeting in a Route

And then, at some point, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body. At this point, when he introduces himself and makes himself known to Ene for the first time, he can choose what information he wants to reveal, and how much.

For example, Kuroha can choose if he wants to introduce himself as Black Konoha, and/or "Saeru," or whether to reveal it for later.

(And he also chooses whether he wants to reveal his true identity as the Snake of Clearing Eyes.)

Ene later nicknames him "Kuroha" and "Saeru" to shorten the name.

He knows that the 1st one would be more familiar to Ene. To introduce himself with the 2nd one would make Ene more distrusting/suspicious of him.

Note: I feel like as long as it's a Route where Saeru and Ene play the game alone (and Ene doesn't meet the rest of the MekaDan until August 15th), then Saeru can tell Ene his true name once they've gotten closer.

I feel like Saeru would also tell her about the Eye Abilities (while keeping most of his past, such as the identity of his Master, vague)

I always HC that Ene mainly calls him "Saeru" after that.

He most likely doesn't reveal his true intentions (to kill the Mekakushi Dan) so soon, because he knows that if he does, Ene is (obviously) not gonna want to "play the game" (of being intimate with him) anymore, cuz it means that he is literally putting her and her friends' lives in danger.

Though, across multiple Routes, he probably does play around and experiment with the timing of when he reveals certain information, and how much.

I think in most Routes, Ene is suspicious of him at first, and asks about his intentions and what he's really after, and Kuroha/Saeru just tells her that it's too early to say yet, and that she will find out soon.

(Though, Kuroha could probably quell her suspicions with enough convincing, due to the massive amount of knowledge he carries)

KuroEne AU: Context ✍️

In my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru, who has messed around with human technology and innovation, has been able to develop a humanoid android/robot body with human flesh that Ene can transfer into.

This concept was originally inspired by Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.exe), specifically, the NetNavis (humans' companion AIs in this universe) from MMBN/EXE.

NetNavis can transfer into CopyBots (android bodies) for limited amounts of time, to move around in the real world. These CopyBots take the appearance of the NetNavi that transfer into it.

In my KuroEne AU, I imagine it's battery powered, but with every Route, he gets better and faster at making it. Like he improves the battery life over time, so it goes from lasting an hour to lasting a whole day, etc.

Quoting these old rambles:

Note: In the first few Routes, Kuroha synthesizes the materials he needs in his lab, in order to create Ene's outer body. At this point, Ene's body is made by artificial human flesh.

I imagined that Ene's outer body looks fully humanoid on the exterior. The interior most likely has complex systems and wiring.

Then, he first comes up with the idea of using Awakening Eyes to make Ene's body. He delights in his own brilliant idea and wonders why he didn't think of it sooner? This way, he won't need such a meticulous process. So in all Routes after this, he uses this method to create Ene's body.

Kuroha/Saeru is so fucked up but that makes him interesting so I say let him be. He's so fun to write for 👍I'm fascinated by how sick in the head he is in about his love (twisted obsession). I love Saeru's mad scientist vibes in the KuroEne AU… 🖤💙

Awakening Eyes allows the owner of the body to make it into their "ideal body" and make it whatever they want. So he can do this, replicate it, and keep regenerating himself. And knowing this mf, he'd shed off his own skin from his body too to use as part of Ene's android body.

Feila and I came up with the idea that Kuroha could just use Konoha's Eye Ability Awakening Eyes to temporarily turn into Ene, then make it so that his body can shed off self healing skin (and any parts he needs). It makes making her android body infinitely easier cuz then he'd have all the parts needed to make her body.

Kuroha: You were made from me, and the unison of our parts, therefore we are one ❤️

According to the Novel Route, Kuroha/Saeru has knowledge from everything from the start of civilization...

In the Novel Route, Shintaro compares Saeru to "a living encyclopedia with a full grasp of everything from the start of civilization up to modern science."

That LN bit confirms that Kuroha/Saeru carries knowledge of the history of mankind and its technologies over (probably) millions or thousands of years.

Especially when scientists have made developments regarding wrapping living human-like skin onto a robot that can heal when cut.

If he carries knowledge from the start of civilization, so much knowledge that it's unfathomable to the average person, then yeah, I definitely think he could get it done (especially for the sake of my AU).

KuroEne's Intimacy 🐍🐇

Kuroha proposes that he has a solution for Ene not being able to move around in the real world, and introduces the little invention that he made, for her to test out, which Ene eventually agrees to, out of curiosity.

Ene feels a sense of gratefulness to him for allowing her to move around in the real world since it gets lonely in the cyber world, not being able to feel or touch anyone on the outside…

Kuroha gets to know and bonds with Ene, anywhere within this 1 - 2 year timespan, and at some point, Kuroha and Ene get intimate with each other.

Ene gives into the sense of longing/yearning that she feels for Kuroha/Saeru, a yearning for warmth and touch after being stuck alone in the cyber world for so long (in spite of everything - if she knows about his true identity at this point), which is in part caused by his vessel (being Konoha, who's in Haruka's body).

Kuroha knows how to react to her and what to say to her and how to act around her due to his knowledge, and so, seduces his S/O and tempts her with carnal pleasures, and they indulge in "the game/dance" of being intimate with each other.

Because Kuroha/Saeru keeps memories of previous Routes, he remembers memories of being with the Enes of previous Routes, and thus, knows how to react to her when talking/chatting with her normally, knows how to appease Ene's behaviours and whims, goes along with what she wants, knows how to get the responses he wants when he wants something from his partner (so he knows how to seduce them), and knows how to satisfy his partner in the context of intimacy.

Because of the knowledge he carries, he knows the context, past, Eye Abilities, vulnerabilities, etc., of every Mekakushi Dan member, and that includes Ene. So he'd definitely know about Haruka and Takane, and Konoha and Ene's context and relationship together.

The person who's her greatest enemy (whether she knows it at this point or not), very literally knows everything about her.

And not only that, the greatest enemy of the Mekakushi Dan, knows her better than she knows herself.

Kuroha/Saeru's Nature ❤️

Not only does he weaponize Konoha's body by using Konoha's body as a murder weapon to kill everyone at the end of a Route, he weaponizes words, too. Kuroha/Saeru uses "knowledge" as an advantage over his partner, and weaponizes knowledge. Actually staggering advantage. Because he knows almost everything.

Kuroha ships are like the only time I have ships where one party in the ship has THIS much of an advantage over their partner.

Therefore, as I said before, Kuroha/Saeru ultimately has a power imbalance with his partner (any Mekakushi Dan member that he could be paired with).

He has an overwhelming advantage over his partner due to his role (set-up as an antagonist constantly killing the cast) and capabilities. It is ultimately in his favour.

That fact in itself, that the power imbalance exists, isn't inherently a bad thing, it just means that you NEED to tread carefully with portraying Kuroha's ships. I always make sure to depict my ships with as much care as possible, and as healthy as possible.

Ene is one of the characters who is a really good match with him. Because making Ene more assertive and dominant in the KuroEne ship, and making them take turns in leading intimacy, with having Kuroha letting Ene take control through their bedroom intimacy at times, helps alleviate this power imbalance slightly.

Kuroha is literally so fucked up dude cuz even his twisted form of affection that he holds for his S/O (the Mekakushi Dan member who he's paired with), is still in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

Due to his twisted nature, he embodies Koi (恋), "Selfish love," "loving someone for their own sake."

Even when he caters to his partner's pleasures, it still ultimately caters to his pleasures the most. That makes him interesting, though. Someone so inherently dark and twisted and sinister, with selfish desires like that… 🥰💖✨

Misc Rambles ✍️

Colour Edit: Me

So I imagine, in most KuroEne AU routes, he reveals his true intentions either approaching the fated day of August 15th, or right on the day of August 15th.

There's absolutely a sense of betrayal that Ene would feel following the reveal of his true intentions - he built up a relationship with her, on purpose, just to drop the worst possible scenario imaginable.

Like let's be real. The reveal of "I've been killing you and your friends throughout multiple Routes (timelines)" just sounds like a nightmarish scenario, especially if you've been fucking this guy, like come on. 😭

And something that would make Ene get especially pissed at him, is if he decides to reveal that he was responsible for orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths in the first place.

(In official media, Ene sees Konoha for the first time, on August 15th, 2 years after Haruka and Takane's deaths)

Though, there are probably KuroEne AU routes where Konoha and Ene don't get the chance to meet each other - Routes where Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body before the two can actually meet, so when Ene sees who she thinks is "Konoha" for the first time, it's actually Kuroha/Saeru. With this kind of setting, he could even pretend to be Konoha, if he wanted.

And then on August 15th, he proceeds with killing the Mekakushi Dan with sadistic glee (and even his S/O - though if he's feeling nice, then he can spare them, since he doesn't need to kill everyone), and forces Mary to rewind the world.

Thankfully, due to the nature of Ene's body and predicament, she won't feel physical pain even if he kills her. And then, a new Route (timeline) begins.

Shadow gate to love

Song: (X)

Lyrics: (X)

The song, "Shadow gate to love," sung by the sub-unit, Guilty Kiss, in Love Live! Sunshine!! is sooo Sen ship-core.

It basically works for every Light/Darkness, Angel/Devil, and Narrative Opposites ship of mine. ✌️

My favourite version of Shadow gate to love is this fan-edit that pitches down the song to match the original voice actors’ voices, compared to their characters’ voices (which are higher in pitch)

Oh baby shadow gay~ 🌈

In KagePro, though, the mention of "Strong scented eyes" takes on another meaning cuz of the emphasis on EYES, particularly the Eye Abilities.

I also love the emphasis on the Light/Darkness aspect and seduction in the lyrics.

KuroEne: Kuroha seduces Ene by tempting her with carnal pleasures, and keeps the secrets of his plan to commit the Tragedy (killing the Mekakushi Dan on August 15th, Kagerou Day) hidden from her. He tells her "beautiful lies" in order to keep up his facade.

He decides to act tamer prior to the fated date of August 15th, catering to her desires and befriending and bonding her and spending time with her and actually getting to know her.

They'd do soft and fluffy stuff like go to the amusement park together, play video games together, and eventually, get intimate with each other.

Due to his inherently dark and twisted nature, Kuroha/Saeru prioritizes his own desires and desire for immortality, and constantly keeps causing the Tragedy by killing the Mekakushi Dan, Mary's friends, forcing the time loop resets.

He also believes that doing this allows him to be with his partner forever, because he can continue to come and meet them forever and ever.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋) 💗

Azami's genuine pure form of love for her family, willingly sacrificing herself for her family.

Vs.

(In the context of a Kuroha ship AU)

Kuroha/Saeru holding a twisted form of affection and obsession for his S/O and wanting to continue the time loop Tragedy in order to be with his S/O forever in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

He looks up to his Masters and serves them, but won't put anyone else above himself and his wants and needs.

In the end, he's doing this all for Azami, because he believes that this is what she truly wanted and needed, but ends up being the one causing her the most suffering.

"Selfless" vs. "Selfish" love.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋)

Azami -> "Loving someone for the sake of someone else"

Kuroha -> "Loving someone for one's own sake"

Kuroha's twisted selfish love and how he ultimately loves someone for his own sake, to experience the "high" of being in love...

"Love is Karma."

This fits so well with Kuroha/Saeru's character and KuroEne. Good god.

I can't put any more images due to Tumblr's image limit so you can read about the two loves (Ai vs. Koi) here

Source: (X)

Misc Rambles

If you wanna put it crudely or in funny terms, then Kuroha/Saeru ships are like the most elaborate ships with the time loop tragedy causing serial killer, in the history of anything ever. But actually really interesting and fascinating.

"I'm gonna kill you" boogaloo (and nothing else) is not very compelling for ships (and even in general) lol

In canon-verse, Kuroha/Saeru lacks humanity and forms of care for others (when compared to my other faves).

That's why I wanted to explore the ideas of Kuroha/Saeru messing around in the Routes and actually getting to know the Mekakushi Dan members before he kills them all.

[stepswordsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne Speedpaints 🖤💙🐍🐇

KuroEne Kiss (Post Version)

【KagePro】 KuroEne/SaeEne 🖤💛💙

【カゲプロ】 黒コノエネ/クロエネ/冴えエネ

My shadow wants to swallow up this dream of yours.

Original Post

I hadn't posted the version with the painted auras (the one I originally had) cuz it's not a huge enough change to warrant a post on its own to me.

Once I refine this more in the future, I'd post a new version. But I figured I could post the speedpaints here 👍

Kuroha Speedpaint 🖤💛🐍

Recorded me doing the rough base colours for this one 😌 I had a lot of fun choosing the colours for this one! 💗🫶

Original Time: 45 minutes (Sped up by 16x)

BGM: Outer Science Rearrange Cover (ft. Kagamine Len) 🎵

Kuroha and Ene Speedpaint 🖤💙🐍🐇

I did a bit of edits on Kuroha's colours, then filled in the base colours for Ene~

Working with cool colours is super fun 🙌

Original Time: 45 minutes (Sped up by 16x)

BGM: Outer Science (ft. IA & ONE) 🎵

Rambles

This KuroEne kiss art is honestly one of my fave arts I've ever done 🖤💙🐍🐇🥺

This was the version of the doodle I posted online. I corrected the colours after I stopped recording.

Their expressions are sooo good here and I love the colours so much! I'm so proud because it has some of the best colour work I've ever done irt colour coordination.

I've been busy so I haven't gotten the chance to clean it up and refine it, so for now I just posted the doodle WIP.

I recorded me doing the rough colour drafts on my KuroEne doodle! 🥰

I originally recorded these around late July and posted these on my side blog back when I was still on priv, but I figured these are better to post on my art blog instead.

These aren't refined, and just me roughly filling in the base colours on my sketches to get an idea of colours

Since Idk when I'll get to refine these drawings and clean up the sketch and lines

Tumblr's finnicky with posting videos ngl, so I posted YT links this time. I put them as Unlisted. Feel free to check them out if you're interested in my drawing process ^^

I described my art process in the video description, but I can also put them down below in the post too.

At first, I chose a much more muted colour palette for Kuroha than I usually would. I wanted to try out Sidu's muted colours, since I usually pick saturated colours. But then at the end, I ended up picking a more vibrant colour palette for Ene.

And once I turned both Kuroha and Ene's layers back on, I noticed Saeru had muted colours while Ene had vibrant ones, so I was like "Ok, I need to coordinate the colours after this."

So I just recorded until I filled in the base colours.

When I record my screen with OBS, I put it on Window Capture so it doesn't record "Layer > New Correction Layer > Hue/Saturation and Gradient Map" menu screens.

So after I was done recording, I coordinated the colours and shifted both to saturated colours. I adjusted the colours with gradient maps and shifted the colours manually. I think I work much better with saturated colours anyways.

I shifted Saeru's tones to purple~ish reds because I love the visual contrast it creates against Ene's blues.

I shifted Ene's tones to a different hue of blue to match Saeru's colours better.

I also made Saeru have paler skin compared to Ene, cuz it makes sense with him being a snake/non-human ^^

The more red + purple toned Kuroha has really nice visual contrast against Ene's cool colours (blues) in her design~

At first I wanted to do both a Muted + Saturated colours version, but I think I just work better with saturated colours tbh. It was a fun experiment though.

I adore Sidu's aesthetic sense and colours and rendering. She has amazing values. Iirc she starts by painting in grayscale first, which explains why her values are so good.

KuroEne Doodles

Different versions I played around with!

This shows how I got to the current colours. I play around a lot with Correction Layers (Hue and Saturation, Brightness and Contrast, and Gradient Maps) until I get the ones that look the best to me ^^

OG

(+) Hue shift on Ene

(+) Red hue shift on Kuroha

(+) Hue shift on Ene

(+) Red/pink hue shift and increased saturation on Kuroha's skin

(+) Increased brightness and saturation on OG

(+) Hue shift on Ene

(+) Increased Brightness and red hue shift on Kuroha

(+) More red hue shift on Kuroha

(+) More red hue shift on Kuroha

(+) Multiply Layer on both

(+) Hue shift on Ene

(+) More red hue shift on Kuroha

(+) Hue shift on Ene

First one's the OG.

I first started with choosing a more muted colour palette than I usually would. I wanted to do quick rough colour drafts to get an idea for colours...

I'm not sure when I'll finally get to refine this (clean up the sketch), but it's one of my fave drawings I've done, so I wanted to add quick colours on it.

Picked a muted colour palette for Kuroha and a more vibrant colour palette for Ene, and then coordinated the colours after.

Art Process Rambles

I put the video description rambles under the cut (describing my art process)

Inspiration

Kagerou Daze VII -from the darkness- Kuroha/Saeru Illustration by Sidu

Ene SPDG (Super Pretty Dennou Girl) Illustration by Sidu

Outer Science MV by Sidu

I honestly love the idea of Saeru taking more red tones. Gives him more visual contrast against Ene's blues.

Because it just reminds me of the red tinted shots in the Outer Science MV where he smears the MekaDan members' blood onto his face... It fits him so well. I love these shots sm

Kuroha Speedpaint

Decided to fill in the rough base colours for this! I love doing rough colour drafts~ Helps me get a good idea of colours.

I put Outer Science as the BGM. Fitting for the Outer Science Person~

I also love the tuning and adlibs and robotic voice effects on the Len fan-cover of Outer Science so much~ The tuning is superior to the Original to me. So it's my personal favourite version of Outer Science and my favourite fan-cover.

Watching this fan-cover is what got me into KagePro. It was my first time watching the Outer Science MV.

The tuning and mixing in this fan-made rearrange cover is insanely good. It's stronger than the original. The chorus has so much oomph and power to it in this, and I love the added adlibs and robotic effects on certain lines.

I prefer the instrumentals (guitar riffs, drums, and bass) of the OG though. The fan-cover version's instrumentals sounds more like an arcade, which is also fun.

0:00

I start with colour picking from the colour edit I did as a guide for colours.

The original refs, the Kagerou Daze VII -from the darkness- Kuroha/Saeru illust and Ene SPDG illust are by Sidu.

Sidu has a great sense of values and picks very muted colours, so I did a colour edit for fun to shift colours closer to the saturated cooler tones I would choose.

Doing colour edits for fun first helps me harmonize colours better compared to if I just made a colour swatch. It helps me see how the colours work together.

The faster way to fill in the base colours would be to create a new layer and temporarily close all the lines, then select the outside of the lines, invert the selection, and then use the bucket tool. I'd do this for more refined drawings that are in the lineart stage

I manually fill in the colours when doing rough base colours though. Manually filling in the base colours is relaxing ngl

Since they're rough colour drafts, I'm not shading/blocking in shadows, I just wanna get an idea of how the colours look together

1:05 - 1:10

When I do Gradient Maps and Layer Mode effects, I either clip them to the Colours, or put them in a folder and set them to Through so they can show on the layers underneath it.

I realized I couldn't eye drop the exact colours on the colour edit ref with the Folder set to Through Layer Mode (60% opacity), so I duplicated it, then merged the layers

I also adjusted the settings of my Eyedrop tool later so that it can grab the colour from the image itself, rather than just the colour on the Layer it's on. Cuz if you're not on the exact Layer, then it won't grab any colour.

1:12

I was considering whether I wanted to airbrush the tips of the fingers with a dark gradient cuz I love the darkened gradient limbs design trope. Douman has it canonically, and my friend Raisu added it on Idate's design (which is why I always draw him with it).

Decided to go without it here tho cuz I feel like it takes away from the colours

1:42

Doing colour edits and adjustments with Posterization and Hue/Saturation effects can throw the contrast out of wack, so I adjust the colours myself on my own drawings.

I usually shift the hues of shadows and highlights (in comparison to the base colours) to keep the colours interesting. I try to use different hues for them so the colours can pop more. I was trying to come up with a good colour for the darker black inner clothes

2:17 - 2:25

After roughly colouring the black spirals around him, I use Posterization on CSP.

Window Capture on OBS only records the main window for CSP, but I went to Layer > New Correction Layer > Posterization which creates a Posterization layer. I adjust the colours with this, which increases the contrast and darkens the colours slightly.

I'll probably fix the colours of the dark sleeves manually later.

2:26

I draw my lines on vector layers so I can easily adjust and edit (move and scale down/up) my lines without losing quality.

I duplicate the lineart, so I can use a CSP Auto Action that colours the lines. I used to manually colour my lines, but this one's quick and you can get really pretty line colours with it, cuz it colours the lineart according to the colours underneath.

It doesn't show the windows that performs the Auto Action through the recording, but I downloaded an Auto Action available on the CSP Assets Store that's called "Better Line Color" that follows a series of steps (it can be mimicked manually on other programs) and adjusts the colour of the lines according to the colours underneath it.

I think when I refine the drawing more, I wouldn't have the dark spirals apart of the lineart, and would just paint it instead.

I was playing around with whether I wanted the coloured lineart to be on "Multiply" or "Colour Burn" Layer mode. Depending on the drawing, either has really nice effects.

On my other drawings, like the coloured IdaTatsu and Selena doodles I had, I preferred the coloured lines on Colour Burn Layer mode cuz it adds a subtle saturated glow to the lines. Here, it adds a slightly blue edge to the lineart.

I went with Multiply for now (just cuz this keeps the colours of the black spirals intact better, but I'll consider which one looks better after)

After the recording was done, though, I just switched back to the painted black spirals I originally drew.

Ene Speedpaint

0:00 - 0:32

I clean up the colours on Kuroha a bit. I also add back the gray transition colour on the hair (between the highlights and base colour)

I brighten the eyes a bit and make it slightly more saturated

0:32

I start filling in the base colours for Ene, picking from a more vibrant colour palette (edit of Sidu's art)

0:45

I realized that her digital structures are shorter on the side closer to her mouth, so I adjusted the lines a bit

0:48

I start filling in the rest of the base colours. At the time, I wasn't whether I want to have Ene's eyes as ice blue or saturate them more…

1:44

I wanted to saturate the skin more so it'd have more contrast, but decided to keep that for later.

1:58

Added a muted gray transition colour on the hair

2:00

Started splotching colours on the sweater and skirt to get an idea of colours.

2:25

Upped the Brightness and Contrast on the skin. Played around with Posterization on the Colours.

Since Kuroha's lines were black, I decided to do the Better Line Color on Kuroha's lines again. This time I used the Bucket tool to colour the lines with a dark blue colour, clipped them, duplicated the lines and then did the Better Line Color Auto Action again.

I also did the same for Ene's lines. I set it on Multiply cuz I liked the soft look the coloured lines

2:42 - 2:51

Before I added the colours, I just had Kuroha's lines above Ene's lines folder, and then had a white layer in the middle.

I was still wondering how I'd show Ene's hand on his sleeve, but Kuroha's colours still being over hers… I was considering just putting the folder of his colours on top of hers, but HMM…

For now though, I just duplicated the lines and colours for a PNG version, then cut from that, for showing on my socials

End: Once I turned back on Kuroha's colours, I realized that I chose a really muted palette for him and a really vibrant one for Ene, so after I finished recording, I played around with the Gradient Maps and saturated the colours and eyes more.

I'll definitely coordinate their colour palettes more later. I'll do a muted version and saturated version.

[stepswordsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne/SaeEne 🖤💛💙

【KagePro】 KuroEne/SaeEne 🖤💛💙

【カゲプロ】 黒コノエネ/クロエネ/冴えエネ

My shadow wants to swallow up this dream of yours.

Intro Rambles

Happy 9/6! Happy HaruTaka/KonoEne/KuroEne Day!!! 🖤 💛 💙 🥳 🎉

I've loved 9/6 and all related ships for over 10 years now 🥰💞

KuroEne was baby Sen's 1st ship that I was OBSESSED with as a 12 year old, and after 10 years, the KuroEne obsession is here to stay.

Snake x Bunny 🐍🐇

Ene's twintails look like bunny ears 💙

I came back to KagePro in April and got obsessed with Kuroha and KuroEne again, exactly as I predicted. Turns out I'm not immune when my meow meow mf gets handsy with my wife.

B*tches when Snake of Clearing Eyes. I'm b*tches! /lh

I first got into KagePro when I was 12 when I watched the Outer Science MV. Sidu's MV aesthetics and Kuroha's design drew me in immediately. Great design and song~

I'm obsessed with Meow meow mf charas. Black and white colour scheme and design aesthetics. Causes problems on purpose. Sen-core bastard cat. Smug chaotic edgy evil asshole character. Violent, unhinged, bloodthirsty and murderous. Arrogant with a huge ego that distances them from humanity (or social interactions).

All of my top fave masc charas are like this. There's literally no one with more obvious and predictable tastes than me LMAO 😭

Kuroha/Saeru, the embodiment of "Knowledge/Wisdom" as a dark evil cunning and malicious entity in KagePro, and the main source of conflict and tension in the plot, is so interesting to me.

The truly evil monster who wears the face of a past love.

With Ene, I'm very enamoured with her chara and design. The way the way she acts so cheery and self-centered in the hopes of Shintaro to open up more, how she wants to be someone else's friend to subside their loneliness, the same kind of loneliness she'd always felt back then… It also feels like over-compensation for her past regrets, wahh, Ene… ;_;

Rough sketch WIPs. I love their expressions here sm~ I started playing around with Gradient Maps cuz I love picking colours. My works tend to lean more saturated with high contrast, so I ended up going with a more saturated palette.

This shows my process for picking colours. The final one I ended up picking is the 1st one. It has a blue hue shift on Ene, red hue shift on Kuroha, and generally more saturated colours and higher contrast. The last one shows the colours I started with.

The more red + purple toned Kuroha has really nice visual contrast against Ene's cool colours (blues) in her design tbh~

I started off with a more muted palette (different from what I'm used to), but ended up going with more saturated colours cuz I think it fit the mood of the piece more. Though I think it'd still be fun to do both a Muted Colours and Saturated Colours version!

These doodles aren't refined, and just me roughly filling in the base colours on my sketches to get an idea of colours. Since Idk when I'll get to refine these drawings and clean up the sketch and lines

Shadow gate to love by Guilty Kiss is sooo Sen ship-core. It basically works for every Light/Darkness, Angel/Devil, and Narrative Opposites ship of mine. Oh baby shadow gay~ 🌈

KuroEne has such a unique context as a ship cuz it uses HaruTaka and KonoEne (my no. 2 KagePro ships), as a basis. Ene has a "special" relationship with the person that Saeru uses as his vessel.

KuroEne is like the equivalent of the evil sleep paralysis demon (in this case, evil sadistic parasitic snake) possessing your past love (Haruka), or the person that you're conflicted about, but still have a certain kind of tenderness for (Konoha)

Sadistic parasitic evil snake bf and computer virus gf~

Ene already gets flustered around Konoha who is airheaded. So with Saeru, the teasing would just be merciless, cuz Ene is easy to rile up. ENE BELOVED…

KuroEne is SUCH an interesting ship to think about and analyze due to their characters' context and the potential of the complicated, complex, and messy relationship that they would have.

They give me immense brainrot.

I'll talk about the setting of my KuroEne AU. I'll put the rest of my rambles and art WIPs under the cut! I copy pasted these rambles from my side blog and previous post, since it's pretty long.

It feels fitting to include it again, cuz it's basically the big summary of my KuroEne AU.

Art Rambles

Version 8: Lineart (Multiply + Colour Burn) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (50% Opacity)

Version 7: Lineart (Multiply + Colour Burn) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (20% Opacity)

Version 6: Lineart (Multiply) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (50% Opacity)

Version 5: Lineart (Multiply) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (20% Opacity)

Version 4: Lineart (Multiply + Colour Burn) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (20% Opacity)

Version 3: Lineart (Multiply) + Increased saturation on Ene's Eyes (20% Opacity)

Version 2: Coloured Lineart

(Sketch is coloured a dark blue)

Version 1: Lineart (Multiply + Colour Burn)

(Sketch is coloured black)

KuroEne Kiss 😚 🖤 💙

Progress WIP shots of the Lineart set on Multiply vs. Multiply + Colour Burn (Combined)

These are still super sketchy lines for me since it's the 1st sketch pass (that looked good right away ^^)

I drew Kuroha with black nails (since I have a tendency to add painted nails and/or eyeliner on my fave) but Kuroha having black nails just felt so natural I forgot it was even a HC

I'm planning to do more sketch passes to clean up the sketch later on

Also I'm gonna say. Their headphones are lowkey annoying to draw 😭

Kuroha's are at least easier to draw due to the shape, but Ene's has this rectangular part on it that I honestly dislike drawing. I'll fix the sketch up eventually.

Also I adjusted the white colour on Ene's sweater compared to last time, so it's a bright tinted blue~ish white instead of pure white

Usually I don't repost stuff unless I redraw stuff (or make new edits and significant changes), but I figured I could talk about my art process this time.

I initially had Ene's eyes as ice blue for visual contrast against her hair.

With the lines being set on Multiply, the lines are slightly translucent

With the lines being set on Multiply + Colour Burn (combined), the lines gain a subtle glow on the edges.

In response to the lines being lighter, I upped the saturation of Ene's eyes.

I think having it at 20% Opacity looks best cuz it still harmonizes with the colours well

And I think I lightened the value of Kuroha's inner clothes a bit compared to last time. I'll play around with the values later.

I have a tendency to shift hues in my arts for the colours used for lighting and shadows, to keep things looking visually interesting.

That's why I roughly splotched red on Kuroha's hair, and pinks on Ene's hair and sweater to get an idea of colours

I've been playing around with a Auto Action called Better Line Color that you can find on the CSP Assets Store that colours the lines according to the colours underneath, and makes a subtle glow on the lineart.

It does some steps like Gaussian Blur, other adjustments, then sets the Layer Mode to Colour Burn, Linear Burn, or Multiply.

The duplicated lineart, when set to Colour Burn, creates a nice subtle glowy effect that I've been using on my coloured doodles.

Having coloured lines makes such a huge difference with my art. I think it has a really nice effect on my art 🥰

When I first tried it with the KuroEne doodle though, I was so confused cuz all white colours would show OVER the lineart. I found it strange cuz it didn't happen on my other drawings.

So then, for the KuroEne doodle, I just set the lines to Multiply Layer Mode instead. I think both versions look nice ^^

Colour Burn darkens shadows, deepens colours but preserves whites, so the whites show over the coloured lineart. The solution is to change the pure white to a tinted colour white instead. I'll fix that and make edits and combine both versions later.

So far, the dark spirals around Kuroha are on the same layers as the sketch, so it has the glowy lineart effect on it. Though I'll eventually make the dark spirals apart of the colours instead, like in Version 2

The version with the saturated purple glow still looks nice. This time I combined both Multiply and Colour Burn lineart versions.

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I've been having fun playing around with colours, seeing which layers to turn off and such.

I've been playing around with Gradient Maps and Hue shifts and slightly different colours.

The purple/red toned Kuroha one is also really nice cuz it has nice visual contrast against all the cool colours (blues) in Ene's design

Red vs. blue contrast <3

Plus, it fits Kuroha to be tinted with red...

Considering the red tinted shots in the Outer Science MV where he smears the Mekakushi Dan members' blood over his face.

Love the chosen shots in this MV. Outer Science is my top fave KagePro MV due to its stunning visuals and visual storytelling. Additional Memory and Losstime Memory are also in my top faves.

The white, black and red shots here look so good. And the expressions as well~ I love Sidu's brilliant visual aesthetic sense.

KuroEne Rambles

Ok I also have something to add (once again I'm snatching these rambles from my side blog's rambles cuz I've yapped way too much about these two)

It's pretty unfortunate that my yapping and ramble posts outspeeds me creating art so I'm just waiting for the chance to draw so many of my KuroEne writing and art ideas so I can post them on main combined with drawings

Canon verse KuroEne is not “romance,” at least definitely not in the traditional sense. But there IS desire and passion, and a sense of yearning/longing, a need for warmth and fulfillment. It’s filled with desperation and tension and conflict, which makes it really interesting…

When I think about their relationship in this kind of canon-verse AU setting, it's infused with feelings of love, obsession, desire, passion, yearning, and attachment.

It's so fun to think about Kuroha's selfish twisted nature and dark urges, combined with Ene's bold tenacity and confidence. Since he's someone that's generally observant and good at reading people and their desires, it makes him pair well with Ene who has trouble facing more honest feelings and being open about the things she wants.

I think a lot of things are playing into their relationship dynamic. Like the circumstances of HaruTaka and KonoEne's context, Kuroha's omniscience and knowledge, desire, and a craving/yearning for warmth, touch, and affection and companionship on Ene's end, and the pull she feels for him because of the vessel he uses, and his intimate knowledge of her.

For 9/6 day, it's time to blast the anthem of my fave ship, Yuukei Yesterday~ The song dedicated to Takane's feelings and HaruTaka~ Tatatara!! 💗

Considering the theme of my art, though, I put a lyric from Shadow gate to love.

I also wanna say that I'm seriously obsessed with my genderfluid Kuroha HC 💞

Kuroha can change his body into whatever he wants by using Konoha's Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes. In Novel Route, he knows how to use Awakening Eyes to rebuild the body molecule by molecule and make him immune to other Eye Abilities.

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I think it's interesting that canon verse KuroEne is a ship that's so tinged with angst and tragedy. But I also love that aspect about them.

I think that in the context of a Kuroha ship AU, Kuroha believes that he and his S/O have a connection of karmic fate with each other, in the way that they'll continue to meet across all the different time loops, for all of eternity.

Kuroha’s love would inevitably be very dark and twisted, because he is that way at his core. At the end of a Route, he kills his S/O, and/or their friends, in order to meet with them forever. Ensuring the next coming of a new cycle is a priority to him.

The intimate knowledge that Kuroha/Saeru would have of his partner’s desires, wants, past, insecurities, relationships, etc., due to all the time loop resets, is so interesting to think about.

And, he gets to be with the other party forever by doing this. It’s a win win for him! He doesn’t want to give that up. Cuz in some fucked up way, in his fucked up form of love and obsession, he creates the concept of “eternity” with his S/O, by killing them, and/or, their friends, constantly, endlessly.

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Kuroha is someone that wants to draw out "truth" to add to his "knowledge" (massive knowledge bank) and explore endless possibilities.

And Ene is someone who has trouble being honest, especially with her wants/desires, and Saeru was created for the purpose of granting wishes. So he finds it fun to tease her and rile her up, and fulfill her desires for warmth and pleasure, etc.

Ene asks Kuroha if he's learning how to pretend to be human throughout all the time loop resets. Kuroha says there’s no “pretending” about it. And it's true. He's been here since even before the beginning of the world. He asks her if you can really call it pretending at that point.

The end of Outer Science's MV shows Saeru in Azami's hair even before the creation of the world. He's existed before humans were born. He knows the nature of humans better than anyone else after observing them for a long time. He has so much knowledge, that the sheer extent of it is just unfathomable to the average person.

Each time the Route resets, he gets to “perfect” his knowledge, and in the context of intimacy, he gets to know his partner and their intimate desires even better and better, each time.

He constantly refines and adds to his “knowledge” every new Route. He likes learning new things about the other party. Kuroha likes how Ene, with her confrontational, brazen personality, and predictable unpredictability, always manages to find a way to catch him off guard and surprise him.

Kuroha/Saeru possessing Konoha's body means he has his face. His body. His voice. Ene can't shake off the feeling of how uncanny his resemblance is to them, physically, and gets reminded of Haruka and Konoha around him.

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Now I'll copy paste my rambles from my old posts that summarizes my KuroEne AU. Here. I added some new stuff at the end

KuroEne AU: Set-up

Source: KagePro LN: 7 - from the darkness - Colour Illustration Source: Sidu's Mekakushi Dan Members Colour Illustrations

Ok, I'm just gonna ramble about the setting of my KuroEne AU.

I also included a summary for context just in case my non-KagePro mutuals want to tune in to read these rambles.

I just wrote this quickly before I go to sleep. I have more to say but I think this is a good starter.

In official KagePro media, the present day plot starts after 2 years, on the fateful day of August 15th (Kagerou/Heat Haze) Day.

The Kagerou Daze, the never ending world, swallows up people who die on August 15th, and gives those with especially strong desires, who are compatible with an Eye Ability, a substitute life so that they can return to the real world.

In most Routes, Saeru ends up orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths. One thing you'll learn about KagePro is that this guy (Kuroha) is responsible for almost everything bad that happens

Because killing them so that they'd come out with an Eye Ability, is a part of his plan to get the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze and into the real world.

Haruka's death leads to the creation of Konoha, and Takane's death causes her to lose her human body and become a cyber girl named Ene

There are multiple different ways that a KuroEne AU could go, depending on the Route. KuroEne AU Routes are so fun to write, because any time I get a new idea, I can just put into a different Route (timeline) to explore all the "What if" scenarios that don't fit into a single Route.

Kuroha's Plan and KonoEne

Source: @/x0401x

Mekakushi Dan Clear Files: (X)

Normally, the rest of the Mekakushi Dan members meet each other in the present day plot after 2 years, the fateful day of August 15th, the day Kuroha/Saeru plans to kill everyone.

Kuroha/Saeru's plan is to gather all the snakes with a new Medusa in the real world (bringing the rest of Azami's snakes out of the Kagerou Daze to the real world), and killing all Eye Ability users.

Then, he forces Marry, "the next Master," to rewind the world using the power of the Queen Snake, Combining Eyes.

In official media, Kuroha/Saeru usually possesses Konoha's body at the end of a Route on August 15th, the day he plans to proceed with the "Tragedy" and kill everyone.

I imagine that in my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body MUCH earlier. Like, anywhere within the timespan after Takane and Haruka's deaths (1 - 2 years)

Because of this, Konoha and Ene usually end up meeting and befriending each other earlier. Ene recognizes Konoha as Haruka's game avatar from back then, and mistakes him for Haruka. Konoha asks if she has the wrong person, and Ene gets heartbroken at Konoha's seeming amnesia and inability to remember her.

Ene imposes a sense of distance around Konoha due to her conflicting feelings (he resembles the person she loved but isn't him).

In my AU, KonoEne establish a relationship dynamic of some kind (which varies depending on the Route), which either progresses to an acquaintance-ship, friendship, or intimate relationship.

Kuroha introduces himself to Ene for their first meeting in a Route

Source: Sidu's 2016 Calendar Hanafuda Set

And then, at some point, Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body. At this point, when he introduces himself and makes himself known to Ene for the first time, he can choose what information he wants to reveal, and how much.

For example, Kuroha can choose if he wants to introduce himself as Black Konoha, and/or "Saeru," or whether to reveal it for later. (And he also chooses whether he wants to reveal his true identity as the Snake of Clearing Eyes.)

Ene later nicknames him "Kuroha" and "Saeru" to shorten the name.

He knows that the 1st one would be more familiar to Ene. To introduce himself with the 2nd one would make Ene more distrusting/suspicious of him.

He most likely doesn't reveal his true intentions (to kill the Mekakushi Dan) so soon, because he knows that if he does, Ene is (obviously) not gonna want to "play the game" (of being intimate with him) anymore, cuz it means that he is literally putting her and her friends' lives in danger.

Though, across multiple Routes, he probably does play around and experiment with the timing of when he reveals certain information, and how much.

I think in most Routes, Ene is suspicious of him at first, and asks about his intentions and what he's really after, and Kuroha/Saeru just tells her that it's too early to say yet, and that she will find out soon.

(Though, Kuroha could probably quell her suspicions with enough convincing, due to the massive amount of knowledge he carries)

KuroEne AU: Context

Source: Mega Man Battle Network 6 (Rockman.exe 6)

In my KuroEne AU, Kuroha/Saeru, who has messed around with human technology and innovation, has been able to develop a humanoid android/robot body with human flesh that Ene can transfer into.

This concept is inspired by Mega Man Battle Network (Rockman.exe), specifically, the NetNavis (humans' companion AIs in this universe) from MMBN/EXE.

NetNavis can transfer into CopyBots (android bodies) for limited amounts of time, to move around in the real world. These CopyBots take the appearance of the NetNavi that transfer into it.

In my KuroEne AU, I imagine it's battery powered, but with every Route, he gets better and faster at making it. Like he improves the battery life over time, so it goes from lasting an hour to lasting a whole day, etc.

According to the KagePro LNs, Kuroha/Saeru has knowledge from everything from the start of civilization...

Shintaro in the KagePro LNs compares Saeru to "a living encyclopedia with a full grasp of everything from the start of civilization up to modern science."

That LN bit confirms that Kuroha/Saeru carries knowledge of the history of mankind and its technologies over (probably) millions or thousands of years.

Especially when scientists have made developments regarding wrapping living human-like skin onto a robot that can heal when cut.

If he carries knowledge from the start of civilization, so much knowledge that it's unfathomable to the average person, then yeah I definitely think he could get it done (especially for the sake of my AU).

KuroEne's Intimacy

Source: (X)

Scan: @/ayara-resara

Kuroha proposes that he has a solution for Ene not being able to move around in the real world, and introduces the little invention that he made, for her to test out, which Ene eventually agrees to, out of curiosity.

Ene feels a sense of gratefulness to him for allowing her to move around in the real world since it gets lonely in the cyber world, not being able to feel or touch anyone on the outside…

Kuroha gets to know and bonds with Ene, anywhere within this 1 - 2 year timespan, and at some point, Kuroha and Ene get intimate with each other.

Ene gives into the sense of longing/yearning that she feels for Kuroha/Saeru, a yearning for warmth and touch after being stuck alone in the cyber world for so long (in spite of everything - if she knows about his true identity at this point), which is in part caused by his vessel (being Konoha, who's in Haruka's body).

Kuroha knows how to react to her and what to say to her and how to act around her due to his knowledge, and so, seduces his S/O and tempts her with carnal pleasures, and they indulge in "the game/dance" of being intimate with each other.

Because Kuroha/Saeru keeps memories of previous Routes, he remembers memories of being with the Enes of previous Routes, and thus, knows how to react to her when talking/chatting with her normally, knows how to appease Ene's behaviours and whims, goes along with what she wants, knows how to get the responses he wants when he wants something from his partner (so he knows how to seduce them), and knows how to satisfy his partner in the context of intimacy.

Because of the knowledge he carries, he knows the context, past, Eye Abilities, vulnerabilities, etc., of every Mekakushi Dan member, and that includes Ene. So he'd definitely know about Haruka and Takane, and Konoha and Ene's context and relationship together.

The person who's her greatest enemy (whether she knows it at this point or not), very literally knows everything about her.

And not only that, the greatest enemy of the Mekakushi Dan, knows her better than she knows herself.

Kuroha's Nature

Source: COSPA - Tsumamare Series (Keychains and Rubber Strap Charms)

Not only does he weaponize Konoha's body by using Konoha's body as a murder weapon to kill everyone at the end of a Route, he weaponizes words, too. Kuroha/Saeru uses "knowledge" as an advantage over his partner, and weaponizes knowledge. Actually staggering advantage. Because he knows almost everything.

Kuroha ships are like the only time I have ships where one party in the ship has THIS much of an advantage over their partner.

Therefore, as I said before, Kuroha/Saeru ultimately has a power imbalance with his partner (any Mekakushi Dan member that he could be paired with).

He has an overwhelming advantage over his partner due to his role (set-up as an antagonist constantly killing the cast) and capabilities. It is ultimately in his favour.

That fact in itself, that the power imbalance exists, isn't inherently a bad thing, it just means that you NEED to tread carefully with portraying Kuroha's ships. I always make sure to depict my ships with as much care as possible, and as healthy as possible.

Ene is one of the characters who is a really good match with him. Because making Ene more assertive and dominant in the KuroEne ship, and making them take turns in leading intimacy, with having Kuroha letting Ene take control through their bedroom intimacy at times, helps alleviate this power imbalance slightly.

Kuroha is literally so fucked up dude cuz even his twisted form of affection that he holds for his S/O (the Mekakushi Dan member who he's paired with), is still in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

Due to his twisted nature, he embodies Koi (恋), "Selfish love," "loving someone for their own sake."

Even when he caters to his partner's pleasures, it still ultimately caters to his pleasures the most. That makes him interesting, though. Someone so inherently dark and twisted and sinister, with selfish desires like that… 🥰💖✨

Misc Rambles

So I imagine, in most KuroEne AU routes, he reveals his true intentions either approaching the fated day of August 15th, or right on the day of August 15th.

There's absolutely a sense of betrayal that Ene would feel following the reveal of his true intentions - he built up a relationship with her, on purpose, just to drop the worst possible scenario imaginable.

Like let's be real. The reveal of "I've been killing you and your friends throughout multiple Routes (timelines)" just sounds like a nightmarish scenario, especially if you've been fucking this guy, like come on. 😭

And something that would make Ene get especially pissed at him, is if he decides to reveal that he was responsible for orchestrating Haruka and Takane's deaths in the first place.

(In official media, Ene sees Konoha for the first time, on August 15th, 2 years after Haruka and Takane's deaths)

Though, there are probably KuroEne AU routes where Konoha and Ene don't get the chance to meet each other - Routes where Kuroha/Saeru possesses Konoha's body before the two can actually meet, so when Ene sees who she thinks is "Konoha" for the first time, it's actually Kuroha/Saeru. With this kind of setting, he could even pretend to be Konoha, if he wanted.

And then on August 15th, he proceeds with killing the Mekakushi Dan with sadistic glee (and even his S/O - though if he's feeling nice, then he can spare them, since he doesn't need to kill everyone), and forces Marry to rewind the world.

Thankfully, due to the nature of Ene's body and predicament, she won't feel physical pain when he kills her. And then, a new Route (timeline) begins.

Previous KuroEne Posts

In my new post (this one), I wrote more about the set-up of my KuroEne AU, and then copy pasted my old rambles. I copy pasted the summary of my KuroEne AU cuz it felt relevant since I'm posting the same art.

My old post has some more rambles regarding some general ideas of my KuroEne AU (since I didn't feel the need to copy paste the same stuff here too)

Shadow gate to love

Lyrics:

Song: (X)

These lyrics work so well for ships like LimGuda, XanLena, IdaTatsu, and KuroEne.

The song sung by the sub-unit, Guilty Kiss, in Love Live! Sunshine!! My favourite version of Shadow gate to love is this fan-edit that pitches down the song to match the original voice actors’ voices, compared to their characters’ voices (which are higher in pitch)

Shadow gate to love is sooo Sen ship-core. It basically works for every Light/Darkness, Angel/Devil, and Narrative Opposites ship of mine.

It’s my song to fall back on if I can’t think of any other songs for my ships. I think it fits these 4 the best, though.

Oh baby shadow gay~ 🌈

The lyrics are in the link above.

The lyrics of the song works for all of my meow meow mfs in general.

In KagePro, though, the mention of "Strong scented eyes" takes on another meaning cuz of the emphasis on EYES, particularly the Eye Abilities.

I also love the emphasis on the Light/Darkness aspect and seduction in the lyrics.

KuroEne: Kuroha seduces Ene by tempting her with carnal pleasures, and keeps the secrets of his plan to commit the Tragedy (killing the Mekakushi Dan on August 15th, Kagerou Day) hidden from her. He tells her "beautiful lies" in order to keep up his facade.

He decides to act tamer prior to the fated date of August 15th, catering to her desires and befriending and bonding her and spending time with her and actually getting to know her. They'd do soft and fluffy stuff like go to the amusement park together, play video games together, and eventually, get intimate with each other.

Due to his inherently dark and twisted nature, Kuroha/Saeru prioritizes his own desires and desire for immortality, and constantly keeps causing the Tragedy by killing the Mekakushi Dan, Marry's friends, forcing the time loop resets. He also believes that doing this allows him to be with his partner forever, because he can continue to come and meet them forever and ever.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋)

Azami's genuine pure form of love for her family, willingly sacrificing herself for her family and mankind.

Vs.

(In the context of a Kuroha ship AU)

Kuroha/Saeru holding a twisted form of affection and obsession for his S/O and wanting to continue the time loop Tragedy in order to be with his S/O forever in a twisted, selfish, self-serving way.

He looks up to his Masters and serves them, but won't put anyone else above himself and his wants and needs.

In the end, he's doing this all for Azami, because he believes that this is what she truly wanted and needed, but ends up being the one causing her the most suffering.

"Selfless" vs. "Selfish" love.

Ai (愛) vs. Koi (恋)

Azami -> "Loving someone for the sake of someone else"

Kuroha -> "Loving someone for one's own sake"

Kuroha's twisted selfish love and how he ultimately loves someone for his own sake, to experience the "high" of being in love...

Reminded of that one chapter title from FGO: Tunguska Sanctuary event (Koyanskaya's main story chapter)

"Love is Karma, and Karma is..."

This fits so well with Kuroha/Saeru's character and KuroEne. Good god.

I can't put any more images due to Tumblr's image limit so you can read about the two loves (Ai vs. Koi) here

Source: (X)

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If you wanna put it crudely or in funny terms, then Kuroha ships are like the most elaborate ships with the time loop tragedy causing serial killer, in the history of anything ever. But actually really interesting and fascinating.

"I'm gonna kill you" boogaloo (and nothing else) is not very compelling for ships (and even in general) lol

In canon-verse, Kuroha/Saeru lacks humanity and forms of care for others (when compared to my other faves).

That's why I wanted to explore the ideas of Kuroha messing around in the Routes and actually getting to know the Mekakushi Dan members before he kills them all.

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【Magi】 Judar Edits 🖤❤️🐈‍⬛☀️🌙❄️

Magi Anime: Season 2, Episode 1

Judar: The Black Magi 🖤❤️🐈‍⬛☀️🌙❄️

Judar colour edits I made 💖✨

First one is the OG!

I had fun playing around with the colours. Teehee 🥰💗

You can read more of my rambles under the cut.

Magi Manga: Ch. 112

Magi: Ch. 112

Based on this panel.

Misc Colour Edits (2024)

Original: 1

Colour Edits: 2/3/4

OG and colour edits I did back in 2024 :3

Misc Colour Edits (2025)

Colour Edits: 5 ~ 15

I remember I did the initial batch of Judar colour edits back in 2024 🖤 ❤️

I added some new colour edits now.

Manually edited the colours a bit with the 3rd one with the magic wand + bucket tool so it's a bit pixellated.

Gets the idea across though ^^

Might put these in its own post...

With my recent colour edits up top, I think my sense of picking colours has gotten stronger.

1st one for this set is the OG.

I love 3/4 out of the 2024 batch, and 5/6/8/11/12 out of the 2025 batch.

The 3rd and 4th one (2024), and the ones from the 2025 batch feel like the kind of colours I'd pick nowadays.

Rambles

Ok I actually don't have a long ramble thread like most of my posts do, cuz I made these edits on a whim.

The way I choose colours is just "Random bullshit go" /jk

Ok I'm kidding.

I mainly go off aesthetics/vibes and my preferences. 🙏

I like to shift colours to cooler tones for the overall colour palettes I choose, and then saturate red and pink tones.

I try to create visual contrast by shifting hues for shadows and highlights.

I use CSP's Adjustment Layers a lot (ie. Hue/Saturation, Brightness/Contrast, Colour Balance, Tone Curve, Gradient Maps)

I like doing colour edits for fun... They help serve as colour guides for me for when I pick colours for my own arts. 🥰🤭

I do them so I can see how the colours work together on the character's design, so I can edit/adjust the colours as needed to harmonize the colours.

It's more helpful to me than making a colour swatch.

Rambles

Rambles with my friend Feila 💗

Me: I think I'm getting better at doing colour edits… I love using gradient maps ✌️

I'm curious which ones you like?

It's cuz I'm considering doing a Judar doodle (eventually, not right now) with colour vibes based on my edits 🤔

Since I make colour edits to help me pick colours for future arts and improve my sense of picking colours. And also I just do these colour edits for fun 😌

I made the 6th one a while back. I recently made 2 ~ 5 now 💕

F: I really like 3rd or 5th :D

Me: Oooo ty! I like those ones too ^^ 2nd/3rd are pretty similar except for the hue change.

2nd is more blue, 3rd is more purple. I made the last image first out of my colours edits.

I like the glowy effect I chose later. The purple hue on the 3rd and 5th one are nice hehe

Ok the 4th one is too similar to the 2nd one now that I put them all together like this

My personal faves irt my aesthetics would probably be like:

2nd/3rd > 4th/5th > 6th

(I used slashes to tie them since the colours are pretty similar, but just use different hues)

F: I only play around with colours when I'm editing stuff :v

It helps me with colour theory so it's worth it

Me: I used to do colour swatches but then found doing colour edits more helpful. Cuz then I get to directly see on the colours work on the chara's design and how the colour palette works together

So then I can edit/adjust the colours as needed to harmonize the colours better 👍

F: Oohh. I don't do it that way, I mesh the original palette, played around with the lighting and then I trust the process

Me: Oooh I see! Yeah I remember I used to colour pick right off the original palette (official arts) and then shift the colours for my own arts.

Nowadays I pick based on my colour edits and colours/vibes and gradient maps to shift the colours 🥰🙏

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【KagePro】 Kuroha/Saeru and KuroEne WIPs 🖤💛🐍

(CW: Suggestive)

Warning for Barbie doll esque nudity

Summary

Kuroha/Saeru wearing traditional Viet clothes (WIP)

Ene: Like a snake possessive over its gold 🐍🍎💛💙 (WIP)

Femme Kuroha/Saeru

Maid Kuroha/Saeru

Rambles

My skrunkly 🖤💛🐍

I love how the eyes are drawn 😌

I originally drew this in October and just got lazy to add clothes HAHA

Anyways I was thinking of changing the pose for the 1st Saeru doodle slightly… I'm gonna redraw it eventually.

I'll also redraw the MR2 version too since I wanna update the hair to make it consistent with how I draw it now.

The chibi Ene looks really cute... I've been experimenting with a semi-SD/chibi style recently! I love my wife... 💙

Posting my doodle log here.

Rambles under the cut ^^

KuroEne LGBT+ HCs 🖤💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

I love my NB genderfluid Kuroha/Saeru HC 💗

Talked about it more here where I included my rambles with Feila.

I'll just copy paste the relevant parts.

I personally HC Kuroha/Saeru as NB genderfluid. I'm obsessed with this HC honestly

I love giving the bi beam and trans/NB beam to my faves since I'm bi NB ^^

Saeru can use Awakening Eyes to change his body into whatever he wants. That’s Genderfluid swag right there

His genderfluid swag is coming in clutch for me!!! 🏳️‍🌈

Saeru, an ancient being who existed even before human civilization existed, and while possessing Konoha, can use Konoha's Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes, to rebuild the body molecule by molecule in KagePro's Novel Route, and can change his body and appearance into whatever he wants.

I love my NB genderfluid Kuroha/Saeru HC 💗

Talked about it more here where I included my rambles with Feila.

I'll just copy paste the relevant parts.

I personally HC Kuroha/Saeru as NB genderfluid. I'm obsessed with this HC honestly

I love giving the bi beam and trans/NB beam to my faves since I'm bi NB ^^

Saeru can use Awakening Eyes to change his body into whatever he wants. That’s Genderfluid swag right there

His genderfluid swag is coming in clutch for me!!! 🏳️‍🌈

Saeru, an ancient being who existed even before human civilization existed, and while possessing Konoha, can use Konoha's Eye Ability, Awakening Eyes, to rebuild the body molecule by molecule in KagePro's Novel Route, and can change his body and appearance into whatever he wants.

KuroEne wearing Việt Phục 🖤💙🐍🐇

I talked about my ideas about KuroEne wearing Viet clothes here

I have more ideas about this ofc but I'll put it in a separate post.

I wanna draw KuroEne in matching couple clothes (Vietnamese traditional clothes) 🖤💙

Imagine KuroEne in Vietnam wearing Việt Phục (Vietnamese traditional clothes) 🥺💞💗💖

I'd imagine that Saeru would wear black Áo giao lĩnh (Cross collared dress) and Ene would wear blue Áo Tấc (Ceremonial dress)

My skrunklies going on a vacation in my home country would be peak comfort for me~

I'd love to see them wear Việt Phục while in Vietnam's historical sights and gorgeous landscapes!

I want Ene to wear a gorgeous fairy style blue Áo Tấc with translucent sleeves and a white translucent shawl! My wife would look absolutely gorgeous WAHHH 😭💙🤍💞💘💓

Kuroha/Saeru would fit really well with the last one (painting)

I love the black and white, and gold embroiderings.

The black one is SO Saeru-core RAHHH

Saeru's MR2 Form Redesign 🖤❤️🐍

I originally sketched my first few sketches in October.

Haven't drawn his clothes yet but I plan to make him wear Viet clothes…

I'm planning for this doodle to be "Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes"

Something something I feel like doing a Kuroha/Saeru MR2 (Manga Route 2) redesign with more influence from traditional clothes (including Viet traditional clothes).

WIP for now since I've been busy atm.

I haven't drawn clothes on him yet.

I think I will resketch Saeru's pose in the 1st one eventually. I originally drew it in October. I'm planning for this doodle to be Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes.

Cuz I fuck with everything on this design EXCEPT for the canon design's crop top. I love the black snake scales on his face, the cute little tufts of hair and black horns, the braid in the back that looks like a scorpion's tail like Judar's, red sclera and red gradient limbs, and the white sash with bloodstains on it.

Since Azami is Saeru's creator, I'll be incorporating more of Azami's traditional clothes inspired outfit onto his design~ Since the slit in Azami's outfit also reminds me of some Viet traditional clothes like Áo dài ("Long dress")

Pretty indecisive how I want to draw his hair, but I settled on the 1st one since it looked the best to me.

It has better weight to them and I like the roundness + spikes combined. The pose is tentative for now too

I'm planning to draw both the normal form and MR2 (Manga Route 2) form with this outfit.

I haven't decided how I want to draw the MR2 version hair yet

Picked my faves of my hair attempts.

I'm gonna redraw Saeru's MR2 (Manga Route 2) version's hair at some point.

I love both of Saeru's forms, but I still need to get good at drawing it.

I feel like I'm MUCH better at drawing the usual Black Konoha form

I love Saeru with black painted nails HC~ It just feels so natural 😌

I think in MR2 Saeru's design, the horns are blunt to match the shape of Black Konoha's usual headphones.

I think MR2 Saeru with black pointy horns looks cute! I like how it evokes a devil's image.

Fits him since villains are usually designed with pointy shapes and sharp shape language since it evokes a feeling of danger.

Though it'd be fun to play around with the shapes of his horns!

Misc Rambles

I originally sketched this in October.

Haven't drawn his clothes yet but I plan to make him wear Viet clothes…

I'm planning for this doodle to be "Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes"

Something something I feel like doing a Kuroha/Saeru MR2 (Manga Route 2) redesign with more influence from traditional clothes (including Viet traditional clothes).

Though I might just turn this doodle into my MR2 redesign and keep both Black Konoha doodles I drew (Usual and MR2)

WIP for now since I've been busy atm.

I haven't drawn clothes on him yet.

I think I will resketch Saeru's pose in the 1st one eventually. I originally drew it in October. I'm planning for this doodle to be Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes.

Cuz I fuck with everything on this design EXCEPT for the canon design's crop top. I love the black snake scales on his face, the cute little tufts of hair and black horns, the braid in the back that looks like a scorpion's tail like Judar's, red sclera and red gradient limbs, and the white sash with bloodstains on it.

Since Azami is Saeru's creator, I'll be incorporating more of Azami's traditional clothes inspired outfit onto his design~ Since the slit in Azami's outfit also reminds me of some Viet traditional clothes like Áo dài ("Long dress")

Pretty indecisive how I want to draw his hair, but I settled on the 1st one since it looked the best to me.

It has better weight to them and I like the roundness + spikes combined. The pose is tentative for now too

I'm planning to draw both the normal form and MR2 (Manga Route 2) form with this outfit.

I haven't decided how I want to draw the MR2 version hair yet

Picked my faves of my hair attempts and put them above.

I'm gonna redraw Saeru's MR2 (Manga Route 2) version's hair at some point.

I love both of Saeru's forms, but I still need to get good at drawing it.

I feel like I'm MUCH better at drawing the usual Black Konoha form

I love Saeru with black painted nails HC~ It just feels so natural 😌

I think in MR2 Saeru's design, the horns are blunt to match the shape of Black Konoha's usual headphones.

I think MR2 Saeru with black pointy horns looks cute! I like how it evokes a devil's image.

Fits him since villains are usually designed with pointy shapes and sharp shape language since it evokes a feeling of danger.

Though it'd be fun to play around with the shapes of his horns!

(EDIT: I finally drew the MR2 form in a way I'm satisfied with. I'll draw some more doodles of his MR2 form and update this eventually...)

Femme Saeru 🖤💛🐍

KagePro: Femme Kuroha/Saeru (2025) 🖤💛🐍

I drew my buff NB genderfluid Saeru HC!

I like thinking of femme Saeru having rather messy hair and a long ponytail in the back that's wavy like a snake shape…

I didn't want her hair to look too round so I kept the usual bangs, but made her hair messy.

I tried re-imagining my buff NB genderfluid Kuroha/Saeru HC!

It's my HC design of femme Saeru

I drew the femme Saeru doodle much quicker so it's not as refined but it gets the rough idea down

Since Kuroha/Saeru can use Awakening Eyes to change his body to whatever he pleases, and is able to rebuild its body completely, I imagine Saeru switches between genders and has a fluid sense of self. Though he has a certain affinity to being masc-aligned. Mainly presents as masc.

Most femme Saeru fan designs I see have her as more cutesy femme with a skirt, but I wanted her to have a more ikemen look and still look really menacing and dangerous.

My friend Feila said they think it fits genderfluid femme Saeru to be more androgynous and still wear the usual clothes with the pants and boots

...

I drew femme Kuroha/Saeru!

I like femme Saeru being more androgynous so she still wears the clothes of the usual Black Konoha form

I need femme Saeru to be toned/muscular RHAHDHSHGHSHGS 💕

Drew the holes in her shirt and added a bit…

Femme Saeru having a long ponytail in the back is fun. I like thinking of it being wavy like a snake shape…

I didn't want her hair to look too round so I kept the usual bangs but made her hair messy.

KuroEne 🖤💙🐍🐇

KagePro: KuroEne 🖤💙🐍🐇 Like a snake possessive over its gold. 🐍🐇🍎💛

Been thinking of a potential KuroEne art piece with Ene with artistic nudity/Barbie doll esque nudity where it's Ene right after she gained her cyber body with snake scale marks/texture imprints on her body (on her thighs and wrists, etc.) and in the background shot is a side profile shot of Kuroha/Saeru holding and biting into a golden apple

I was inspired by the concept of using an “X-ray to see fingerprints” 🩻

And the bite marks too... Hehehehe.

Golden Apples = Represent Immortality 🍎💛

I think it’s interesting cuz this kind of piece would also convey Kuroha/Saeru’s obsessiveness and possessiveness. Both over what he doesn’t want to let go at all costs (pseudo immortality), and his S/O. Like a snake possessive over its gold (immortality)

Misc Rambles

So my idea was KuroEne with Ene with artistic/barbie doll esque nudity after she first gained her cyber body and snake mark texture imprints inspired off the X-ray arts by Sidu.

And I wanted to a cut-in shot of draw Kuroha/Saeru biting into a golden apple which symbolizes immortality 🍎💛

I think it’s interesting cuz this kind of piece would also convey Kuroha/Saeru’s obsessiveness and possessiveness as a character in my AU. Both over what he doesn’t want to let go at all costs (pseudo immortality), and his S/O.

I also like to think of it as Kuroha/Saeru leaving his marks on his S/O throughout the time loops with how he keeps memories of past Routes (timelines)

Like a snake possessive over its gold (immortality) 🐍🍎💛

I haven't drawn Kuroha yet, so I just drew Ene for now in a more chibi esque style. Might play around with the brushes...

I've been experimenting with my semi-SD/chibi style.

I just drew Ene for now in a more chibi esque style. Might play around with the brushes...

I just used a snake scale textured brush for now to get a rough idea. I'll experiment more later.

The idea of a snake curled around her (metaphorically) is inchresting

Inspired by these arts by Sidu.

Inspired by the shots of Takane turning into Ene, the LN 5 -the deceiving- of the MekaDan members with X-ray shots that shows how each member died and came into contact with the Kagerou Daze and gained their Eye Ability, and the Kuroha/Saeru Joker card art by Sidu

Inspiration

Maid Kuroha and Ene

Caption: In the midst of doing as you please.

I had an art idea of maid Kuroha in a black and white maid outfit with black thigh highs getting touchy with Ene, either having a hand on her hip or trailing a finger into her thigh highs, with a smug ass expression.

Ene has a tsundere pout (//>3<//) while she holds onto the rope connected to the leashed collar around his neckband/neckwarmer, and Ene clearly has bite marks and hickies over her neck and thighs

I actually drew the above doodle with NSFW intent, but since it's just suggestive on its own since it's still a WIP, I think it can be posted.

My art concept in my head is different than the doodle posted above, but it's just to give a rough idea

Like for this specific art idea, I imagined him sitting on a TV similar to the Outer Science MV.

Snake and its Gold 🐍🍎💛

Rambles with Feila.

KuroEne art ideas I wanted to draw 🐍🐇

Started a sketch for a suggestive but erotic type art 🙏

I imagine the split shots of Saeru biting onto the golden apple in my art ideas would be like this

Inspired by the way Sidu's arts have the cut ins like the KagePro Visual Fanbooks

Me: I think it's also tasty to think about too like the venom/poison of a snake...

Takane assumably died in the Comic and Novel Routes via getting poisoned by Saeru and that's how she came into contact with the Kagerou Daze and got Opening Eyes and her pseudo immortal body.

Saeru inadvertently managed to succeed at gaining the pseudo immortality he wanted (even if not for himself), with the creation of her body.

F: I'm sorry Idk what to respond with, this is too good

(Insert that "Hold up!!! His writing is this fire???" meme)

Me: No worries~ Ty though~

F: The idea of "injecting your poison into your lover" is FNJIUKBEFWEFWB (if done correctly)

Me: Yeah. I'd love to imagine Kuroha/Saeru dropping Kenjirou's body sooner and doing it himself

(Since he drops Kenjirou's body much earlier in my KuroEne AU to be able to meet Ene as Black Konoha)

Like when Takane collapses from her chronic illness, he just gets out a poison injected needle or something.

F: What's up with your ships and dangerous Metaphors

(Cannibalization, Vampirism, Poison/Venom, Possessiveness)

Me: I love ships that are intense and dangerous and full of conflict and tension. And I love competitiveness in my ships too. Deadly but passionate.

I also love HC-ing a lot of my faves as bi/pan and trans/NB-spec like me, because it gives me comfort...

Me: Main Sen-core ship tropes

Light & Darkness, Yin & Yang, Sun/Moon/Eclipse, Protagonist x Antagonist (or Protagonist-cast chara x Antagonist-cast chara), Morally Gray (Morally Bankrupt) x Morally Agreeable, Evil/Morally Gray Meow Meow Mf (who is often sadistic/bloodthirsty) x Soft Empathetic Innocent Sunshine with a brighter disposition 🐈‍⬛☀️🫶

F: Yeah that was the sentence I'm looking for

"Deathly but passionate" and "conflicted but full of love"

F: PROTAG/ANTAG, MORAL/IMMORAL RAGH 🔥

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【KagePro】 KuroEne Chibi Commission by Akiko 🖤💙🐍🐇

KuroEne (Kuroha/Ene) Skeb Chibi Commission by Akiko (@/Akiko_141)

Akiko's Instagram: (X)

Akiko's VGen: (X)

Intro

I commissioned Akiko to draw my beloved KuroEne 💙🖤🐍🐇

Akiko's Skeb/Omakase/Surprise Me style commissions are so good!

I'm SO happy to see KuroEne in Akiko's style 💗💞💘

They look SOOO cute! 🥺🫶

Akiko captured Saeru's smug grin and Ene's energetic smile so perfectly!

I LOVE how Akiko drew their expressions... Their expressions look so good!!!

Kuroha and Ene look so cute in Akiko's style! 🖤💙

I love the colours, and their poses and expressions 🥺💗✨🫶

Akiko's art style is so incredible. I love her stylization and the way she draws eyes 💖

I love the use of thick black lineart for Saeru and Ene… The colours really pop! 💗✨

Their poses and expressions are SO perfect 🥰✨ Akiko captured their vibes perfectly!

I'm so happy with how the commission came out~ 🙏

I also love how Akiko gave Saeru eyebags and paler skin compared to Ene. It fits him so well, design-wise ^^

I requested for Ene's digital facial structures to be shorter on the side closer to her mouth, and for Saeru to have snake eye pupils, details which Akiko kept in mind ^^

Thank you to Akiko for always being so understanding with minor design detail fixes, like with Saeru's headphones and inner black shirt 🙏

Commissioning her is always a pleasure! The final product and art quality are top notch! They look like official stickers… 😊💗

Akiko's art style is so clean! They're SO cute in Akiko's style! 🖤💙

I also love how Akiko made Ene's twintails look so swishy, like droopy bunny ears… 🐰

They look SO cute ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ (˶◜🖤💙🌟

Akiko always delivers 🙏

VGen Review

My Skeb chibi commission of Kuroha and Ene turned out absolutely amazing!! 🖤💙 They look so cute! 🥺💘💞

Akiko's art style is wonderful! Super cute unique chibi style and really pretty vibrant colours! 💗

I LOVE the chosen colours and how Akiko drew their poses and expressions! Akiko has a wonderful stylization and colour sense~ The colours are so aesthetically pleasing!

This is my 2nd commission from Akiko, and I was pleasantly surprised by the fast delivery!

I'm always so amazed by the high art quality! It's always such a pleasure to commission you!

Thank you so much for the wonderful commission! I will definitely be back to commission again in the future! 🥰💖✨

My Message

Kuroha and Ene look SO cute in your style! 🖤💙🐍🐇

I love how you drew Kuroha's smug grin and Ene's energetic smile! They look so lively in your style! Absolutely adorable~

I love how you drew their poses and expressions, and the vibrant colours you chose! 🥺💗✨🫶

I love the visual contrast with the yellow and blue border colours ☺️

Your art style is so incredible! I love your stylization and the way you draw eyes~ You captured their vibes perfectly!

I'm so happy with how the commission came out~ They look so perfect! 🥰💖

I love how you drew Kuroha's snake eye pupils and eyebags and included a small snake. They're such neat additions that fit him so well design wise!

I also love the flow of Ene's hair~ Her twintails look so cute and swishy, like droopy bunny ears 🐰🐇💗🫶

Thank you for always being so understanding with minor design detail fixes! 🙏

I was pleasantly surprised at how fast the artwork was completed.

Commissioning you is always a pleasure! The final product and art quality are top notch! 😊💗

Have a nice day~

Misc Rambles

OH MY GODDDDDDDD

I'M GONNA SCREAM THEY LOOK SO CUTEEEEE 😭🥺💘💗💞

AKIKO'S STYLE IS SO AMAZING 😭🥺💗🫶✨

Akiko's stylization is so perfect 💗💘

I love Akiko's colours! Their expressions and poses are so perfect! She captured their vibes so well!

They look so lively in Akiko's style!

Absolutely adorable~~ 🥺🫶

I love the vibrant colours she chose!

Akiko's style is so clean. The comm art she made for me honestly looks like official stickers/charms

I love how Akiko gave Saeru eyebags and paler skin. Great additions honestly... They fit his design so well.

Commission Form

These were the refs I sent!

1/3/4/5: Colour Edits by me

Prior to sending the commission request, I sent a message asking if they were OK to draw to make sure that their designs weren't too complicated

Since I wanna make sure the charas I commission are still in the artist's comfort zone to draw, design-wise ^^

AKIKO'S COLOUR SENSE IS SO GOOD I'M SCREAMINGGGGG

THE WHOLE ART LOOKS SO GOOD RAHHHH AKIKO'S STYLIZATION IS TOP NOTCH

OH MY GOD HER STYLIZATION IS SERIOUSLY SO PERFECT

THEY LOOK SO PERFECT!!!

It's also cool seeing she put the art in her Skeb chibi comm samples… 🥰

I wanna squish them… My skrunklies 💞💘

They're so smol I could fit them in my pocket

OMG I love the airbrush on the ends of Ene's hair…

Akiko is always such a pleasure to commission!

She also incorporated my request to give Saeru snake eye pupils 🥺

Her colour sense is literally so good… Her art looks so striking!

They honestly look like official stickers…

She has top notch art quality and really good range with the characters she can draw

Also Ene's twintails look so swishy in this… They really do look like bunny ears

I was pleasantly surprised at how fast the artwork was completed!

I sent the comm request form in April ^^ My queue slot was started a few days ago, so it took only a few days

I love the vibrant colours Akiko chose! They really pop! 💖✨

I love how my chibi commission came out! 🖤 💙

Akiko's art style and stylization are so amazing. She captured their vibes perfectly~

I love how she drew their expressions and the vibrant colours she chose ☺️ 💗 ✨

Akiko is really understanding with detail fixes. I asked for a few minor edits to add Kuroha's black inner shirt and the gray squares/black band for his headphones, and the line connecting his facial circles.

I also asked to colour the outer rim of his headphones as black so it'd have more contrast against his hair

I love the contrast with their hair highlights!!

The yellow and blue silhouettes look so good…

The yellow and blue border colours really makes them look like charms 🙏🥺

Feila pointed out that the way Ene's twintails are drawn makes her look like a puppy /pos

I agree! She looks so cute!

Love how Ene's twintails makes her look like she has droopy floppy bunny ears... 🥺🥰💙🐇🐰🫶💘

Akiko's style is perfect! 💗

I'm so happy with how the comm turned out 🥺🫶

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【KagePro】 KuroEne Ticket Commission by Mire 🖤💙🐍🐇

Kuroha (Saeru) and Ene Ticket Commission by Mire (@/miremiremire)

Mire's Instagram: (X)

Mire's VGen: (X)

Intro

Dance of Love in the Midst of Chaos (*)

"The world can never tear us apart, we will always meet again." (*)

"I'll let you taste the biting fangs of love, and the intoxicating poison of pleasure…"

"I'll take you even further… I'll push you to the brink, and let you fall with me into the abyss. Ene..."

"Now... Shall we dance again?"

I commissioned KuroEne wearing formal wear in a Gothic ballroom with a Snake and Bunny theme, while they're surrounded by their flowers: Black Higanbana (Cluster Amaryllis) and Blue Star Milkweeds (Tweedia) 🖤💙🐍🐇💐

I asked for Kuroha to be drawn in his Design Poll outfit, and for Ene to be drawn in her Seek at Mekakucity outfit 🥰

I asked for a Snake wrapping around a bunny with hearts, sparkles, and roses, and provided the ticket info, including the seat numbers and quotes.

Thank you to Feila for helping me discuss and come up with ideas 💗 Feila came up with the title (live concert name) and quote used in the commission, which I marked with an asterisk (*)

"Dance of Love in the Midst of Chaos" = Live Concert Name

"The world will never end, we will always meet again" = Quote

I'm glad you were able to share your thoughts with me!

I also thought of using quotes from my KuroEne AU for the commission, but they wouldn't fit, given the space, so I just decided to include them here.

Ene's Mekakushi Dan number code is 6, and Kuroha is known as XX/XXX since he's not apart of the Mekakushi Dan.

So I thought it'd be a neat reference to include in the Ticket info~ The seat/row/gate numbers are a genius combination.

I chose Black Higanbana and Blue Star Milkweeds as KuroEne's flowers based on their Hanakotoba meanings. The colours and flower symbolisms suit them very well. So I asked for them to be included in the comm.

Kuroha: Higanbana - The Flower of Death, Death and the Cycle of Rebirth

Ene: Blue Star Milkweeds - Happy love, hearts that believe in each other

Mire drew both a long and short hair version of Ene's hair! I love both versions, but I love how flowy her hair looks in the 1st one. I feel like it fits very well with the composition.

Mire included Kuroha's yellow circles on the Oshi mark of the snake wrapping around the bunny. Oh my god... I love the inclusion of the thorned roses as well... 🌹

The snakes wrapped around Saeru and the bunnies around Ene... Cute... 🥺

There's SO much detail and effort put into this...

Thoughts

I'm SUPER happy with how my commission turned out! 💗✨ Everything is so breathtakingly beautiful! Mire's art style, colours, rendering, and attention to detail are so amazing! I was awed by how detailed the background is~

My commission is SO stunning! I'm still in awe by the commission! KuroEne look SO pretty in Mire's style! 🥺😭💗💘💞

Mire perfectly captured the couple's themes and expressions 🥺💖 I love how the small chibis on the ticket came out too~

Mire first sent me a message a few days ago to check in with me asking if any revisions need to be made.

Mire was very accomodating with minor colour and detail fixes, such as with Kuroha and Ene's headphones, Kuroha's yellow circles, Ene's digital facial structures, and the snake on Kuroha (which I asked to change from a white snake to a black snake with red eyes)

The changes fit them a lot more so I'm very grateful!

Great communication and very quick with updates. I'll definitely be back to commission Mire again in the future! ✨

Mire seriously outdid my expectations tenfold...

How detailed the gothic ballroom is, the flowers (black higanbana and blue star milkweeds), the snake and rabbit around them, the ticket design with the little chibis, and icon of a snake curling around a bunny…

The ticket design is CRAZY good, along with the colours and rendering OMFG

I wasn't expecting the little chibis… They're such a nice touch

I was so surprised too because the turn around time was way faster than I expected... I sent the comm form around Oct 19

Feila pointed out that event tickets are usually printed on thermal paper, so I'd love to print out my commissions for personal use.

Misc Rambles

OH MY GOD MY HEART JUMPED WHEN I FIRST SAW THE ART

THE DETAIL IS CRAZYYYYY... THE CHIBIS ARE SO CUTE~ THE COLOURS AND RENDERING ARE SO GOOD AND THE FLOWERS AND BGS ARE SO WELL DRAWN!!! I'M OVER THE MOON!!!

I'M GETTING EMOTIONAL 🥹😭💗💘💞🫶✨

THEY LOOK SO GORGEOUS I'M ON THE FLOOR

HELLO I NEED TICKETS PLEASE

KUROENE INVITE ME TO YOUR WEDDING!!! 💥💥💥

ENE MY WIFE!!! MY PRINCESS!!! MY ANGEL!!! 💙💗💘💞✨

I LOVE HOW FLOWY HER HAIR LOOKS

MIRE MADE THEM LOOK SO GOOD THEY'RE SO PRETTY

THEIR EXPRESSIONS AND THE COLOURS AND RENDERING TOO!!!

THE ART IS SUCH VISUAL EYE CANDY...

ENE LOOKS LIKE SUCH A PRINCESS HERE... MY BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS

MY WIFE AND HER CRAZY ASS SNAKE BF

I'M OVER THE MOON ABOUT THIS 😭💗💞💘🫶

I LOVE YOU KUROENE 🖤💙

My Message

This was the message I left for Mire!

KuroEne look SO pretty in your style! 🖤💙🐍🐇 You perfectly captured their themes! I'm so happy with how my commission turned out! 💗💞💘 Everything is so breathtakingly beautiful 💓

The chibis and Snake/Bunny Oshi marks on the ticket are SO cute! The hearts, sparkles, and thorned roses fit them so well! 🌹💖✨

Your art style, colours, rendering, and attention to detail are amazing! I'm in awe by how gorgeous the commission is 🥹💘💞

The colour scheme (black, gold, blue and white colours) harmonize so well in the artwork! I love how you drew their expressions~ The way you draw eyes in your art style is so pretty! 🥰

The background elements, such as the flowers (black higanbana and blue star milkweeds), and golden frames and black gothic ballroom, are so well drawn! 💐

The ticket design is amazing and has such good graphic design. The arts and chosen fonts go so well together! It's honestly one of the most creative commission formats I've seen.

I love both versions of Ene's hair you drew 💙 Thank you for the wonderful commission, and for being understanding with minor detail and colour changes as well! 🙏

I will definitely be back to commission you again in the future! 💗✨

Commission Rambles

Kuroha and Ene's Design Poll outfits by Sayuki

Ene's Seek at Mekakucity outfit by Satou Mahiro

I love Kuroha/Saeru's changshan inspired outfit by Sayuki 🖤💛

Ene's Seek at Mekakucity outfit is so pretty, I just knew I had to commission her in it 💙

You can read more under the cut if you're curious on the ideas that Feila and I came up with! We were coming up with ideas of what should be included in the commission.

We spent 3 days coming up with ideas and discussing the specifics (Themes, Background Elements, Ticket Info, etc.) before I sent the commission form.

Commission Rambles

This was the commission form I sent

Definitely the most detailed form I've ever written

I usually just describe the design details and poses and expressions, and then hand a Google Drive link of visual references. I included a folder of KuroEne's refs, and some photos of the flowers and gothic ballroom as inspiration

I just like to be detailed with my commission forms cuz I find it helps the artist

For the last SS, we drafted ideas for potential flowers, then narrowed it down to the two we chose. So we didn't include it in the final form

Feila mentioned that higanbana are also poisonous flowers... Fitting for a snake 🐍

Higanbana is PERFECT in symbolism for Kuroha/Saeru, especially since Awakening Eyes manifests as black snakes and aura spirals.

The Kagerou Daze VII -from the darkness- illust by Sidu draws him with black aura spirals that coincidentally look just like the spindles of higanbana.

Blue Star Milkweeds and Red Higanbana

Black higanbana doesn't exist IRL, so it's just wilted red higanbana.

I haven't posted it yet, but I'm in the middle of writing a post on KuroEne and Flower Symbolisms (based on my own picks). I mentioned this more in depth there

I considered putting Snake of Clearing Eyes or Saeru, but I feel like KuroEne looks the best as a ship name so I went with that.

The comm form basically describes our ideas. I could talk about our ideas a lot more in detail eventually (but in a different post)

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【KagePro】 KuroEne Coffin YCH Commission by Mire 🖤💙🐍🐇

Kuroha (Saeru) and Ene Coffin YCH Commission by Mire (@/miremiremire)

Mire's Instagram: (X)

Mire's VGen: (X)

Intro

Inside the Coffin ⚰️✨

If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you.

I commissioned KuroEne wearing formal wear with a Snake and Bunny theme, surrounded by Red Higanbana (Cluster Amaryllis), the flower that Saeru is associated with 🖤💙🐍🐇💐

I asked for Kuroha to be drawn in his Design Poll outfit, and for Ene to be drawn in her Seek at Mekakucity outfit 🥰

I chose their formal outfits because I feel like they fit very well with the Royal theme and Coffin aesthetic.

I asked for Higanbana to be scattered around the coffin, and to have a snake wrapping around an Ene-themed bunny plushie (with her digital facial structures) and a blue ribbon 💝🎀

Once again, thank you to Feila for helping me discuss and come up with ideas 💗 I'm glad you were able to share your thoughts with me!

This comm has 1 main flower type, so at first I considered Forget me nots, the flower I associate with Ene, but I decided to go with Higanbana.

I chose Higanbana as Kuroha's flower based on its Hanakotoba meaning, since it fits him aesthetically (colours wise) and symbolism wise. It's also the flower that he's associated with in the Kagerou Daze -from the darkness- art by Sidu.

Kuroha: Higanbana (Cluster Amaryllis) - The Flower of Death, Death and the Cycle of Rebirth

Ene: Wasurenagusa (Forget me nots) - True Love, Memories, Don't Forget Me

Thoughts

After the gorgeous KuroEne Ticket Comm that Mire did for me, I was very excited to commission them again.

This time too, I first got the message when I woke up in the morning, so I was pleasantly surprised... My forever beloved childhood OTP~ BREATHTAKINGLY GORGEOUS 🥹💗💞💘

My commission came out absolutely stunning! 🥰💞 I'm so happy with how it turned out! KuroEne look so beautiful in Mire's style 🖤💙

Mire perfectly captured their theme-ing and motifs. The art style, colours, rendering, and graphic design are all so pretty… I'm amazed by the attention to detail. Everything is so gorgeous 😭💗

I love the geometric rendering style Mire has that makes their hair look so fluffy. The colours harmonize so well together, omg. Mire always delivers 😭💞

Mire puts SO much effort into the colouring, rendering, details, and graphic design. The design of the frame is so good 🤯💥I'm utterly blown away... Everything is so gorgeous 😭 💗

Their art style is really pretty... They're so attentive to details and included all the requests I asked for: Kuroha's smug expression, the red Higanbana (Cluster Amaryllis), and the snake wrapping around an Ene-themed bunny plushie.

They were super nice and accommodating with minor changes as well, such as with Kuroha's headphones.

The vertical and horizontal versions are both so good! I would love to print this out for personal use and hang it on my wall as prints 💗

I was wondering if VGen had any way to tip artists, and it does, with the Boost feature.

So I boosted the commissions on VGen for both the Ticket and Coffin YCH comms to show my appreciation for the gorgeous artworks Mire made me. So I sent roughly a 25% and 35% tip :)

Misc Rambles

OH MY GOD THEY'RE SO PRETTY PLEASE ASDFFGHJKL 😭💗💞💘 I'M GONNA SCREAM

I really wanna gush about this art, because Mire captured KuroEne's theme-ing and motifs perfectly 🥺🙏 They drew their design details and outfits so well, and the colours and rendering are so amazing…

They have such great attention to detail, like with the snake wrapping around an Ene themed bunny plushie... The bunny plush is SOOO cute. I love the design of the border frames used for this YCH comm too. The quality is seriously outstanding…

I requested KuroEne with Mire's Inside the Coffin YCH comm after my previous KuroEne Ticket Surprise Me (Omakase) comm, since I really wanted to see KuroEne in Mire's adorable chibi style.

Ene's feet scatter into pixels in canon, so I like how Mire made Ene wear boots with cross-laced XXX shaped straps since it makes things easier to draw with the YCH base.

Ene with her XXX straps on her dress and boots, and Mr. XXX peering over the coffin ❌😌 Not visible, but he has little X's on the back of his Design Poll outfit.

I asked for a bunny plushie with Ene's digital facial structures on it with a snake wrapping around it to represent KuroEne thematically, since I thought it'd fit them very well.

Kuroha/Saeru is associated with Higanbana (Red Cluster Amaryllis), the Flower of Death, by Sidu.

The dark evil cunning and malicious entity who is the cause and center of death, is the one lovingly (menacingly) peering at Ene lying in a coffin while putting his hands on the sides, as a kind of ominous foreshadowing for what comes at the end of a Route…

If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you.

I've always thought of this quote in terms of confronting your own death and mortality. He's not ready to come to terms with it, either, hence feeding the cycle (with all the time loop resets)

The higanbana is so pretty and detailed… They're so good at drawing flowers. The scale textures on the snake look hand drawn too.

My Message

This was the message I left for Mire!

Thank you so much again for the wonderful commission! KuroEne look so adorable in your chibi style! You drew their design details, expressions, and outfits very well.

You have such amazing attention to detail. The colours and rendering are amazing~ I love the colours you chose!

Your art style is gorgeous, and you have such pretty colours and rendering... The way you drew their expressions, outfits, and the flowers are so pretty and detailed!

Your commission formats have such amazing graphic design and compositions! The art quality is seriously outstanding... 💖💗

Thank you for including the details I asked for (ie. Kuroha's expression, and the snake curling around a bunny plushie). You drew them perfectly 🖤💙

Commission Rambles

I sent these as refs. Feila and I discussed ideas on what poses, expressions, flowers, and items would fit best based on their symbolisms and in terms of visual contrast.

He owns this :} expression with the insane smug smirk and eyebrows

If I wanted them as marketable animal plushies, I'd pick these. The snake and bunny plushie are SOOOOO cute.

The bunny plushie with the headband is just so cute, I'm obsessed with it 😭💗 It's just SO Ene-core 💙🐇

I love their Design poll outfits and Ene's Seek at Mekakucity outfit sm… They look so elegant. Takane/Ene, my princess 💙

閃光の舞姫 (Senkou no Maihime) has also been translated as "Dancing Princess of the Spotlight" in older fan-TLs 😌💗

...

I initially had the idea of a snake wrapping around a bunny plushie or a golden apple (that Saeru is associated with in the Joker art by Sidu because it symbolizes immortality)

Added with how Fujimori (most likely) depicts Saeru in the chibi MekaDan Playing Cards as a Shinigami (死神, lit. "Kami of Death") or a Grim Reaper, with the scythe (which are closely associated with shinigami and grim reapers), and a Jester/Clown aesthetic with the Jester hat, to play up to the Joker card motif 🃏♦️

Feila said the depiction of him as a Shinigami or Grim Reaper feels fitting for him since he brings death to other people.

And that the Jester/Clown look is to represent the eternal looping of the Tragedy (August 15th incident) is a grand show/play that's been rehearsed many times

Snake wrapping around a bunny -> Saeru trapping Ene

Snake wrapping around a golden apple -> Saeru is the embodiment of knowledge

Went with the 1st cuz it represents his S/O falling for his trap (seductions). Since snakes trap their prey by wrapping themselves around their prey.

I liked the idea of Saeru having a smug smile while holding onto the coffin's edges, and Ene having an annoyed pout :< like in a "Damn it, stop killing us" kinda way

Higanbana

Forget Me Nots and Cluster Amaryllis

Wanted to ramble about how Saeru is associated with Higanbana.

I thought that picking Forget Me Nots (Wasurenagusa) could have interesting and yummy angst fuel, like how Ene won't remember their past memories together in previous Routes since he's the only one that remembers (aside from Ayaki), and how she wouldn't want him to ever forget the crimes he did and his past karma.

Even if he's the only one that remembers and has zero remorse about his deeds (lol), his karma still follows him like a shadow :)

Even if he's the only one that remembers and has zero regrets about his deeds, his karma still follows him like a shadow :)

Using Higanbana, the Flower of Death, Saeru's flower, would represent him always being with her while also being her cause of death. Its symbolism is perfect for Saeru, which is why I chose it.

Black Higanbana doesn't exist IRL (similar to Blue Higanbana too), but they tend to be used in creative works. Red higanbana sometimes turns black when they wilt.

However, there is "Black-flower Higanbana" (Kurobana higanbana) that's a variant of Higanbana. It's a deeper red colour and has a darker black gradient on the reds.

When I first saw the LN 7 art of Kuroha, I HC'ed that it was Higanbana because of how similar the shape (how it looked like the spindles of Higanbana), so I associated it to him as one of his flowers due to its Hanakotoba meanings (flower symbolism) as the Flower of Death.

Also cuz the MekaDan are associated with various symbolisms (ie. Shintaro and Ayano with paper cranes, Ayano with Chrysanthemums (Kiku) in Sidu's Hanafuda Calendar Art (2016) and in Additional Memory)

So I expected that Sidu making Saeru's Awakening Eyes manifest as black snakes or a black aura that resembles Higanbana, to be very intentional on her part.

I'm very happy to see my HC was confirmed cuz Sidu writes Higanbana (彼岸花) next to him on the rough sketch version 😌❤️

Higanbana fits his character perfectly with how he's at the center of death. It's the Flower of Death/Hell and grows in hell (the side of the dead), Higan (彼岸, lit. "The other side"), the far side of the Sanzu River.

They're usually grown around cemeteries and grave sites. They're usually red, the colour of blood, somewhat toxic, and are often associated with an unlucky/bad omen symbolism, which fits him.

Though Higanbana also has good omens too, like symbolizing that happy things will come, since it is also called the "Heavenly Flower"

I'm in the process of writing a more detailed post on KuroEne and Flower Symbolisms, based on my own picks, but I haven't finished writing it yet since I want to talk about all the flowers I chose for them in depth.

I put the ideas that Feila and I came up with for the comm under the cut.

So the YCH form has a couple different poses and expressions and flower suggestions listed.

When Feila and I discussed ideas, we figured that Ene fits more as the one in the coffin. I was wondering whether to have him holding onto the coffin or resting his elbows on the coffin while his hands press against his face. One is reminiscing, the other is mocking.

But then I went with the 1st cuz his Design Poll outfit has larger sleeves and I wouldn't want it cover too much of his design, since his arms would be raised in that pose.

Total coincidence and the shoes definitely a stylistic choice, but it fits since she's occupying an android body in the context of my KuroEne AU, so she would have shoes.

Commission Rambles

I sent this commission form!

I also included a quick sketch as a visual ref guide when I sent the form :) Figured it'd make Saeru's expression easier to draw

The comm has mainly 1 core item inside the coffin, so the details of the bunny plushie are simplified (which is perfectly fine with me 👍)

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【KagePro】 Outer Science x ENVY BABY 🖤❤️🃏🐍

Happy 11th Anniversary to Outer Science! 🖤 💛 ❤️ 🎉🥳🎊

I actually had this prepared for Outer Science's 11th Anniversary on August 31st, but I just didn't post it here.

Outer Science will be my favourite KagePro song and MV forever. It was my gateway into KagePro as a 12 y/o, and it's also the song of my fave KagePro chara 🥰💞

I'll fill in the rough colours whenever I get the time. When I do, I'll post these on my art main blog (@/stepswordsen) and copy the rambles from this post over to main.

In celebration of Outer Science's Anniversary, I'll be posting rambles on the Outer Science MV (which will be split into parts cuz it's really long), these doodles, and the Outer Science illust I'm working on.

The first doodle I drew before is a crossover with Kanaria's ENVY BABY

I updated the eyes and eyelashes on this Kuroha x ENVY BABY crossover by making it consistent with my current art style. I also redrew the sleeves slightly.

I think I'll just post my old doodles since it'll be quicker to splotch rough colours on this doodle for now.

Once I do, I'll redraw stuff like the balloons and card and placement of the hearts and stuff.

I'll be cleaning up the 1st doodle and fill in the rough colours for it soon. I'm planning to take my time with my doodles. I'm planning to combine motifs from both Outer Science and ENVY BABY.

The truth is that I had 4 composition ideas but I think I'll only get the time to draw one of them. It'd be fun to try drawing the others in the future (whenever I get the time further down along the road).

I was gonna post the WIP of the Outer Science gen-fanart doodle I'm working on, but it'd spoil the surprise of my composition, so I'll post it whenever it's ready ^^

It'll be super fun to surprise people with my composition. It has mild artistic horror 😌 The sketch is only half-way done so far, so I'll take my time with it.

I also included the doodle of Manga Route 2 Kuroha/Saeru that I really like ^^

Playing around with screentones is fun!

Old doodles are under the cut!

Kuroha Doodle

When I first came back to KagePro in late April, I drew this doodle inspired by Kagerou Daze VII -from the darkness-

I imagined yellow cords and ropes tied around him, similar to Azami in the Outer Science MV

This was my first recent KagePro doodle in a long time.

KagePro LN 7 has my fave LN cover. I love it soooo much 💞

Sidu has a brilliant aesthetic sense. The way Kuroha and Azami are drawn in this... Omg...

I still like some parts, but I'd probably redraw it to make it consistent with my current art style

Like I'd probably redraw it with a new pose. The expression is nice tho!

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【KHR OC】 Selena Commission by Ham (@/exoticham_) 💜🪷🌙⭐🎀

KHR OC: Nguyễn Selena (Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên) 💜🪷🌙⭐🎀

Selena Bust-up Commission by Ham (@/exoticham_)

Selena 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙

Selena is my Viet NB KHR OC. A soft and gentle person with a modest personality. Calm and aloof, but will open up more around people she's comfortable with. Gets rambly when talking about her interest in plants and fashion.

Likes fashion, historical fashion, and collecting traditional clothes, cute and pretty clothes (ex. girly fashion, lolita, etc.), and learning about plants (ex. plants, flowers, poisons, poisonous plants) and collecting them. Has her own personal garden. 🪷💐🌱

Selena's name means "Moon" 🌙

Selena's Viet name, Liên, means "lotus flower" in Sino Viet 🪷

Selena's main leitmotifs: Black cat, lotus, moon, clouds 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙☁️

Her main flame attribute is Cloud ☁️💜

Her secondary flame attribute is Rain 💧💙

As an assassin, she specializes in poison, and has plants that respond to her emotions to assist her in fights.

I mainly ship her with Xanxus, the leader of the Varia ❤️💜

I have a lot more to say since I'm very passionate about her, but I will put Selena's info sheet in its own dedicated post.

Intro

I commissioned Ham to draw a bust-up commission of my beloved wife Selena 💜🪷🐈‍⬛🌙

SELENA MY BELOVED WIFE MY ANGEL!!! 💗 💞 💘 🫶 ✨

THE COLOURING AND RENDERING IS SO GOOD AND I LOVE THE FLOW OF HER HAIR AND THE COMPOSITION

SHE LOOKS SO PRETTY WAHHH 🛐 🙏 I'VE BEEN STARING AT THIS FOR SO LONG

HER HAIR LOOKS SO FLUFFY…

I wanna run my hands through her hair 🥺 🫶

Since Selena's name means moon, the star and moon decors are such a nice touch too 🌙🌠

Ham sent me the final piece! The artwork came out so amazing! 💗

I imagine that Selena's eyes aregolden yellow with a orange hue for shading. Amber.

So I asked for a minor change to make Selena's eyes golden yellow with orange (amber colour) and more glowy looking, which she took into account.

OMG... I love how Ham did her eyes! The glowy effect is so pretty and it really captures the feeling of her eyes looking like amber ☺️ 💗 ✨ I love the small changes she made to the rendering too 💖

I would love to commission her again in the future ✨

It was fun to see all the progress shots too! Ham was really nice and frequent with updates. A pleasure to work with!

Quoting my friend Snow, "Her hair… I can pretend I’m Xanxus for a minute omggg 🙏🙏"

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

The rest of my rambles screaming about my wife are under the cut!

Rambles

SELENA MY GORGEOUS WIFE OH MY GODDDDDDDDD 😭🥹💗💘🫶🙏🛐

THE COLOURS AND RENDERING ARE SO PRETTY AND I LOVE THE LIGHTING WAHHHH

I LOVE HOW FLUFFY HAM DREW HER HAIR AND THE HAIR FLOW

HOLY FUCK SELENA 😭 🥹 💘 🛐

THE COLOURING IS SO GORGEOUS I'M GONNA SCREAM 🤯 😭 💞 💗 🫶 ✨

THE RENDERING IS SO PRETTY OH MY GOD??? WAHHHHHHHHH

SHE LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL MY SHINING STARS MY ANGEL!!!

HELLOOOOOOO SELENA THIS IS SO PRETTY GOD

I LOVE THE COMPOSITION AND FLOW OF THE HAIR WAHHHH AND THE MOON MOTIFS

AUGHHHH SELENA LOOKS SO PRETTY 💞💘🥺🙏

OH MY GODDD HAM'S SELENA 💜🌙💫😭🥺

I’M SCREAMING

THE WAY HER EYES ARE DRAWN IS SO PRETTY... I LOVE HOW FLUFFY HER HAIR LOOKS 💞💘💗🫶

THE COLOURS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL WAHH!!! MY GORGEOUS WIFE!!! 🤸 MY SHINING STARS MY ANGEL!!!

ADKSLKDSKLSDKLDKLS

HELLO HER GLOWY EYES LOOK SO PRETTY ‼️ SELENA MY BELOVED 💜💗💘

God Ham's art style is SO stunning

I love the inclusion of star and moon decor wayyy... The curls of her hair are making a crescent moon shape on her right side...

Ham’s art is SOOO pretty and dynamic…

Her art style is SO pretty! I love the way she did the flow of Selena's hair and the composition 💗✨🫶

I LOVE the way her face and eyes are drawn 💖

The lighting is gorgeous and I love how fluffy she drew her hair and the flow of the composition and the moon and star decor... 🥺💞

I love how Ham chose a pastel purple BG to represent Selena's theme colour.

Her hair looks so luscious and fluffy looking I wanna run my hands through it...

Mesmerized by Selena and how pretty my wife looks OMGGGG

Ham's art style is so dynamic with her way of drawing faces, and the rendering is top tier too

Inspiration

I imagine Selena has golden yellow eyes shaded with orange.

And I tend to imagine Selena with a glowy eyes aesthetic similar to the Trưng Sisters AKA Hai Bà Trưng (FGO), who are also Viet charas.

Since I was inspired by Take's art (one of the main Pokemon designers), I used the same skin tone as Trưng Trắc.

I wanted to give Selena glowy eyes since I was inspired by the Trưng Sisters in FGO.

I asked Ham to give Selena more glowy golden yellow with orange (amber colour), and she totally delivered!

FGO: Trưng Sisters, also known as Hai Bà Trưng (lit. "Two Ladies [named] Trưng")

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【KHR OC】 Selena Commission by Ham (@/exoticham_) 💜🪷🌙⭐🎀

KHR OC: Nguyễn Selena (Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên) 💜🪷🌙⭐🎀

Selena Bust-up Commission by Ham (@/exoticham_)

Selena 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙

Selena is my Viet NB KHR OC. A soft and gentle person with a modest personality. Calm and aloof, but will open up more around people she's comfortable with. Gets rambly when talking about her interest in plants and fashion.

Likes fashion, historical fashion, and collecting traditional clothes, cute and pretty clothes (ex. girly fashion, lolita, etc.), and learning about plants (ex. plants, flowers, poisons, poisonous plants) and collecting them. Has her own personal garden. 🪷💐🌱

Selena's name means "Moon" 🌙

Selena's Viet name, Liên, means "lotus flower" in Sino Viet 🪷

Selena's main leitmotifs: Black cat, lotus, moon, clouds 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙☁️

Her main flame attribute is Cloud ☁️💜

Her secondary flame attribute is Rain 💧💙

As an assassin, she specializes in poison, and has plants that respond to her emotions to assist her in fights.

I mainly ship her with Xanxus, the leader of the Varia ❤️💜

I have a lot more to say since I'm very passionate about her, but I will put Selena's info sheet in its own dedicated post.

Intro

I commissioned Ham to draw a bust-up commission of my beloved wife Selena 💜🪷🐈‍⬛🌙

SELENA MY BELOVED WIFE MY ANGEL!!! 💗 💞 💘 🫶 ✨

THE COLOURING AND RENDERING IS SO GOOD AND I LOVE THE FLOW OF HER HAIR AND THE COMPOSITION

SHE LOOKS SO PRETTY WAHHH 🛐 🙏 I'VE BEEN STARING AT THIS FOR SO LONG

HER HAIR LOOKS SO FLUFFY…

I wanna run my hands through her hair 🥺 🫶

Since Selena's name means moon, the star and moon decors are such a nice touch too 🌙🌠

Ham sent me the final piece! The artwork came out so amazing! 💗

I imagine that Selena's eyes aregolden yellow with a orange hue for shading. Amber.

So I asked for a minor change to make Selena's eyes golden yellow with orange (amber colour) and more glowy looking, which she took into account.

OMG... I love how Ham did her eyes! The glowy effect is so pretty and it really captures the feeling of her eyes looking like amber ☺️ 💗 ✨ I love the small changes she made to the rendering too 💖

I would love to commission her again in the future ✨

It was fun to see all the progress shots too! Ham was really nice and frequent with updates. A pleasure to work with!

Quoting my friend Snow, "Her hair… I can pretend I’m Xanxus for a minute omggg 🙏🙏"

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD

The rest of my rambles screaming about my wife are under the cut!

Rambles

SELENA MY GORGEOUS WIFE OH MY GODDDDDDDDD 😭🥹💗💘🫶🙏🛐

THE COLOURS AND RENDERING ARE SO PRETTY AND I LOVE THE LIGHTING WAHHHH

I LOVE HOW FLUFFY HAM DREW HER HAIR AND THE HAIR FLOW

HOLY FUCK SELENA 😭 🥹 💘 🛐

THE COLOURING IS SO GORGEOUS I'M GONNA SCREAM 🤯 😭 💞 💗 🫶 ✨

THE RENDERING IS SO PRETTY OH MY GOD??? WAHHHHHHHHH

SHE LOOKS SO BEAUTIFUL MY SHINING STARS MY ANGEL!!!

HELLOOOOOOO SELENA THIS IS SO PRETTY GOD

I LOVE THE COMPOSITION AND FLOW OF THE HAIR WAHHHH AND THE MOON MOTIFS

AUGHHHH SELENA LOOKS SO PRETTY 💞💘🥺🙏

OH MY GODDD HAM'S SELENA 💜🌙💫😭🥺

I’M SCREAMING

THE WAY HER EYES ARE DRAWN IS SO PRETTY... I LOVE HOW FLUFFY HER HAIR LOOKS 💞💘💗🫶

THE COLOURS ARE SO BEAUTIFUL WAHH!!! MY GORGEOUS WIFE!!! 🤸 MY SHINING STARS MY ANGEL!!!

ADKSLKDSKLSDKLDKLS

HELLO HER GLOWY EYES LOOK SO PRETTY ‼️ SELENA MY BELOVED 💜💗💘

God Ham's art style is SO stunning

I love the inclusion of star and moon decor wayyy... The curls of her hair are making a crescent moon shape on her right side...

Ham’s art is SOOO pretty and dynamic…

Her art style is SO pretty! I love the way she did the flow of Selena's hair and the composition 💗✨🫶

I LOVE the way her face and eyes are drawn 💖

The lighting is gorgeous and I love how fluffy she drew her hair and the flow of the composition and the moon and star decor... 🥺💞

I love how Ham chose a pastel purple BG to represent Selena's theme colour.

Her hair looks so luscious and fluffy looking I wanna run my hands through it...

Mesmerized by Selena and how pretty my wife looks OMGGGG

Ham's art style is so dynamic with her way of drawing faces, and the rendering is top tier too

Inspiration

I imagine Selena has golden yellow eyes shaded with orange.

And I tend to imagine Selena with a glowy eyes aesthetic similar to the Trưng Sisters AKA Hai Bà Trưng (FGO), who are also Viet charas.

Since I was inspired by Take's art (one of the main Pokemon designers), I used the same skin tone as Trưng Trắc.

I wanted to give Selena glowy eyes since I was inspired by the Trưng Sisters in FGO.

I asked Ham to give Selena more glowy golden yellow with orange (amber colour), and she totally delivered!

FGO: Trưng Sisters, also known as Hai Bà Trưng (lit. "Two Ladies [named] Trưng")

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【KHR OC】 Nguyễn Selena 💜🪷🐈‍⬛🌙

KHR OC: Nguyễn Selena (Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên) 💜🪷🐈‍⬛🌙

2024 vs. 2025

Version 1 (2024)

Version 2 (2024)

Version 3 (2024)

Version 4 (2024)

Version 5 (2025)

Version 6 (2025)

Version 7 (2025)

Version 8 (2025)

Version 9 (2025)

Version 9 (Alt 1)

Version 9 (Alt 2)

Selena 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙

Selena is my Viet NB KHR OC. A soft and gentle person with a modest personality. Calm and aloof, but will open up more around people she's comfortable with. Gets rambly when talking about her interest in plants and fashion.

Likes fashion, historical fashion, and collecting traditional clothes, cute and pretty clothes (ex. girly fashion, lolita, etc.), and learning about plants (ex. plants, flowers, poisons, poisonous plants) and collecting them. Has her own personal garden. 🪷💐🌱

Selena's name means "Moon" 🌙

Selena's Viet name, Liên, means "lotus flower" in Sino Viet 🪷

Selena's main leitmotifs: Black cat, lotus, moon, clouds 💜🐈‍⬛🪷🌙☁️

Her main flame attribute is Cloud ☁️💜

Her secondary flame attribute is Rain 💧💙

As an assassin, she specializes in poison, and has plants that respond to her emotions to assist her in fights.

I mainly ship her with Xanxus, the leader of the Varia ❤️💜

I have a lot more to say since I'm very passionate about her, but I will put Selena's info sheet in its own dedicated post.

Misc Rambles

Doodle compilation post. Gonna disable reblogs on these. Just putting these WIPs here for now as an update

Started resketching Selena's hair a bit. I'm pretty picky about my art, especially since I want to capture my beloved wife's beauty.

I want Selena's concept art to have a clearer silhouette and good shapes. I'll eventually redraw the rest of it, but I started with the hair for now.

I want Selena to have those wavy strands on the side. Looks very cute!

I had the lines as Version 1 and Version 3 at first. I was worried the 2 curls near her two front long strands would be hard to replicate, so I think these recent doodles are closer to what I wanted. I'll sketch a bunch, and pick the one I like most!

Also cuz I always imagined Selena to have a back of random hair strands in the back so I wanted to make space for that. I want her hair to be perfectly fluffy looking…

I like Version 9 the best! The curls on the side are just easier to replicate with Version 9 (OG) and Version 9 (Alt 1) imo

I had Version 1 and Version 3 for Selena's hair originally back in 2024.

In March 2025, I recently redrew a couple sketches to make the shapes clearer. And then I played around with the Version 9 alt versions now.

I like Version 9 the most ^^ 👍

My faves are the 9th, 7th, and 6th ones, in that order.

I'm gonna colour in the base colours on the new one soon so I can update her art.

I still need to redraw the rest to make it consistent with my current style.

I love how her eyes are drawn, so they don't need to be redrawn imo. I wanna refine the clothes at some point…

I don't think Version 8 suits her, at least imo. Her hair shape and curls are softened too much in it.

I tentatively drew a different ribbon for now.

Though I think it'd be fun if I gave her a bigger bow for shape language reasons 🥰💞

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【KHR AU】 XanLena Chibi Commission by Akiko ❤️💜🔥🪷

XanLena (Xanxus/Selena) Chibi Skeb Commission by Akiko (@/Akiko_141)

Akiko's Carrd: (X)

Akiko's VGen: (X)

Intro

I commissioned Akiko to draw my beloved XanLena 💜❤️🔥🪷

This one's a Skeb/Omakase/Surprise Me Style Commission ^^

My beloved cat wife and her hubby!!! 🐈‍⬛🦁💞

They are so cute together...... 🥰💗

I was really excited to see XanLena in Akiko's style! Akiko really delivered~ 🥺

I included the original version that Akiko initially drew as the 2nd image. Akiko's VGen Portfolio showcase has the version with the OG colours when the files were first submitted on VGen.

Since Selena is my KHR OC and my wife, XanLena is my go-to ship to commission (also because they have refs that are readily available, which makes things easier for the artists I commission)

I would love to commission Akiko for my other ships in the future 🙏

Rambles

THEIR EXPRESSIONS ARE SO CUTE OH MY GOD???

I LOVE HOW THEIR DETAILS WERE DRAWN WAHHHH

AKIKO'S STYLE IS SO CUTE OMGGG

THE STYLE IS SO SKRUNKLY WAHHHH

I LOVE THE COLOURS THEY CHOSE…

THE STYLIZATION IS SO CUTE OMGGG

SELENAAAAA 😭🥺💗💞💘

The colour palette is so good! I love the lighter colour palette that's used here

These chibis are SOOO cute!! I'm so happy with them 💞🙏

Really glad Akiko is very accommodating with minor colour and design/detail fixes!

I love the warm colour palette that Akiko used!

The art style is so skrunkly and looks so good! I love their chibi style and stylization…

Their hair looks so fluffy!!!

VGen Review

I'm very happy with how my chibis came out! They look SOOO cute in Akiko's style! ❤️💜

Akiko perfectly captured the characters' personalities and vibes! I love how their expressions and poses were drawn~ The colours harmonize very well together too!

Thank you so much for the amazing commission~ I'd love to commission you again in the future! 💖✨

Akiko is very patient and sweet! I'm grateful Akiko was willing to make minor changes even after the final files were sent ☺️

I asked Akiko to update Selena's bow and ribbon and the black seam on her blouse, the white diamond pattern on Selena's stockings, saturate Selena's eyes, and darken Xanxus and Selena's skin tones a bit. Looks amazing! 🥰 🫶

My Message

This was the message I left for Akiko!

Xanxus and Selena look SO cute in your style! ❤️💜

The cutest chibis ever~! 💞 Your chibi style and stylization are amazing! I'm so happy! You captured their vibes perfectly 🥺💗✨

I love how you drew their poses and expressions! I love how you made their hair look so fluffy and the warm colour palette you used. You have a great sense of colour! The colours harmonize so well.

I was very pleasantly surprised by the quick delivery for my commission.

Thank you for being very kind and patient and receptive to feedback too! I really appreciate you being so understanding with minor design and colour/detail fixes (like when I asked to darken their skin tones a bit, and to add Selena's ribbon onto her bow and the black seam and buttons onto her blouse)

Thank you so much! 🥰💖🫶

I'll definitely be back to commission you again in the future! 🙏

Commission Form

This was the commission form I sent! I also sent a Google Drive folder of their refs as usual

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【Magi】 JuAli Kiss ❤️🖤💛

【マギ】 ジュダアリ/ジュアリ 🖤❤️💛

【Magi】 JuAli 🐈‍⬛🐕☀️🌙

JuAli kiss doodle WIP 😚

2025 vs. 2024

I'll tag but disable reblogs for now cuz I still haven't refined it enough to my standards yet. When I do, I'll copy paste this all over

Alibaba with tanned skin has such great contrast against his hair and earrings. Arab Alibaba HC 💞

Proceeding with my HC versions/redesigns. Let's go!!!

Considering that the 1001 Nights chara he's loosely based on is native to Iraq, and that Balbadd seems to be inspired by Baghdad, I’ll make him wear Iraqi traditional clothes.

You can scroll down to the trivia section: Here

I’ll experiment with different clothings and colours… I'll do some sketch drafts at some point ^^

I'll think about what kind of traditional clothes I want Alibaba to wear in my HC redesign :)

And I just realized that Alibaba only has the two top red earrings (the ones with Cassim’s rukh) on his left ear so it wouldn’t show on the side of the right ear. Well, I’ll fix that later too.

Cuz I flipped the drawing when I redrew it in the 2025 version

Judar's Hanfu HC

In my HCs, Judar wears a type of hanfu called Ruqun (襦裙). Ru (襦) is the cross-collared top of a hanfu, and the wrap-around skirt is called Qun (裙). The coat jacket is called Da Xiu Shan (大袖衫)

I think it fits him to wear hanfu with black, white, red, and yellow colours, since it's his main colour scheme.

Judar wears hanfu (Chinese traditional clothing) in my HC designs of him and wears red eyeliner. And I gave him earrings and black painted nails ☺️💞💖

Cuz I’m obsessed with adding earrings, eyeliner, and painted nails onto my HC redesigns of charas.

I like him wearing a red top so that it has more visual contrast against his hair ^^

Ofc, I can always pick other styles of hanfu that'd match the colour distribution he has in his OG design too.

Since my HC redesign puts more red on his design cuz I wanted more of his theme colours (black and red) on him.

I imagine he'd also wear different styles of hanfu too.

I picked out some Judar themed hanfu that'd fit him 🖤❤️💛

Source: (2) & (3)

The 2nd one's little vest is really cute...

And I imagined he'd wear something similar to the last one, but in black and red instead.

I chose the ruqun and daxiushan as his main outfit cuz I don't want to draw a super complex/detailed hanfu all the time. But he can have other hanfu on the side ☺️

The last one is Miaojiang style fashion designed by hanfu stores. This outfit but in black and red, would be perfect for him.

I think the hanfu I chose for him are perfect ^^

Judar's Earrings HC

My ideas for Judar's earrings.

Earring ideas for Judar: Snowflake and icicle drop earrings, Gold and red jewel earrings, Ice Dragon earrings, Black Sun and Moon shaped earrings ❄️🧊🐉☀️

Source (last image): (X)

I imagined something along the lines of these.

Judar wears earrings in my HCs and has a bunch of them (ie. snowflake shaped ones, ice shard/crystal ones, etc.)

I just drew tentative rain drop earrings for now, but I think he’d mainly wear snowflake and icicle drop themed ones. I was inspired by these ^^

The first couple I searched are good for his Ice theme...

The last one has really good hanfu earrings to use as inspo for his earrings. Gold and red earrings...

God some of these fit him so well... I will keep them in mind as potential earrings for him. I'd imagine him wearing gold earrings with red jewels and little silver/white ice droplets...

That's why I was thinking it'd be pretty cute if Alibaba gave Judar earrings as a gift... Like if the same ones he wears in my HCs, are ones Alibaba gave him.

And then I imagine Alibaba can wear gold and orange Sun and Flame shaped earrings.

I have pretty clear HCs for the kinds of earrings Judar would wear. I still need to decide on the exact shapes and colours for the kind of earrings that Alibaba would wear in my HCs...

Imo he'd still keep the two top red ones on his left ear (the ones with Cassim's rukh), but would swap out the bottom right ones so that he can match with Judar.

I need them to wear matching couple earrings...

Imagine them wearing Sun/Moon and Ice/Fire themed earrings… Snowflake/Ice and Fire shaped earrings… ☀️🌙🔥❄️

Rest of my rambles are under the cut!

Misc Rambles

Ok now looking back at my doodles, I did NOT think this through with their hair tbh 😭

Cuz I obviously don't want one chara's hair to cover the other's eye

No matter which one I go with, it’s gonna cover sm of the other unless I rotate stuff around and redraw some parts of their poses…

When I draw ship arts, I tend to draw one character first, then proceed to draw the other character.

I draw each chara separately first, so then I get surprised once I turn both charas' layers back on LMAO

Shame that parts of their hair are gonna be covered.

I love how Judar’s hair came out 💖

I’m super happy that I could finally draw them in a way that's consistent with my current style. I love the way faces and lines are drawn in my current style now.

I’ll refine things more at some point. It’s still tentative, like I was planning to adjust the hands, poses, hair, eyes, and clothes. I’m very satisfied with the way Judar’s face and eyes are drawn… 🥰

I like the general hair shape but I’ll clean up and refine the shapes of the hair, like the hair spikes. Also gonna lasso tool the shapes of his hair braids.

I just realized it when I turned the layers back on like OMG 😭 I might redraw Judar’s bangs, Idk. Though Ig the other option is to tilt Alibaba’s head back more so the pose has more of a curve

Will probably play around with drawing Alibaba's hair and eyes... Might incorporate aspects from the old sketch of his hair and expression. I’ll definitely redraw some parts later. Like the clothes.

Anyways, there are noticeable improvements in my sketching style compared to 2024, so I'm happy with that ^^ Has better line weights and just looks better and more fluid now

The difference is that back in 2024, I ref'ed the Magi anime for their hair, and this time I ref'ed the Magi manga because I love the shapes Ohtaka uses, so I wanted to practice them 💗

The Magi anime uses softer shapes for Judar’s hair, while Ohtaka uses spiky shapes for Judar’s hair.

Magi: Ch. 110 & 239

I love the shapes Ohtaka uses for his hair...

I love drawing it all galaxy shaped.

Ohtaka draws the shapes of his hair like a galaxy/tornado shape~ I love how Ohtaka stylizes Judar's braids sm. Makes it easier to draw and has clear shapes too. Easily readable/recognizable

Ohtaka (Magi mangaka) and Amano (KHR mangaka) are my art goals irt detailing and inking cuz I love their art styles sm. Their inking is so strong...

Ohtaka’s inking is SO strong and her way of drawing characters is so expressive. She’s great at drawing expressions.

At some point I need to save front and side views of Alibaba's hair and earrings so I actually have better refs to use while I draw.

I have access to the Magi manga's JP raws and EN scans, but I'm just much more familiar with the chapters where Judar appears, so I have a much better folder collection of refs for him.

[stepswordsen]

Sen's Scans 💜✨

Terms of Service (TOS)

Do NOT repost my scans without permission by me.

Usage of my scans for personal use (PFP, banners) are OK without asking for my permission.

Credit my username (@/stepswordsen) if you use my scans for edits, etc.

Fate/Grand Order (FGO) 💚🧡🐈‍⬛🍊

five limbos fee (C95 Artbook) by Pako

Karna Cover Illustration

Ashiya Douman (Limbo) Dakimakura (Body Pillow) Illustration by Pako 💚🐈‍⬛

Kagerou Project (KagePro) 🖤💛💙🐍🐇

Sidu's Artbook #1: .dsd Sidu Illustration Works (2011 - 2015)

(To be added. Haven't scanned yet.)

Sidu's Artbook #2: .dsd/V Sidu MV Material Works 2011 - 2018 (WHITE ver.)

Outer Science - Kuroha/Saeru

Yuukei Yesterday - Enomoto Takane & Kokonose Haruka (& Chibi Takane & Konoha)

Children Record & daze & days - Ene & Mekakushi Dan & Azami

Summertime Record - Kokonose Haruka

Part 1

Part 2

Kagerou Daze Official Visual Fanbook

Ene Cover Illustration

Ene Clear File

Kagerou Daze -in a day's- (Complete Limited Production Edition) (Blu-Ray)

Ene Key Art Postcard Illustration (Music & Movie Design)

Original Materials Booklet

(To be added. Haven't scanned yet. I've only taken pictures so far)

Kagerou Daze VII -from the darkness- Kuroha/Saeru & Azami Postcard Illustration

(To be added. Haven't scanned yet.)

KagePro Merch Clear Files and Postcards

(To be added. Haven't scanned yet.)

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (KHR) ❤️🔥

Akira Amano Exhibition (2024) - The Characters: KHR & elDLIVE & Ron Kamonohashi Exhibition Key Art Illustration

(To be added. Haven't scanned yet.)

"New Amano in Kyoto" Exhibition (2017): KHR and elDLIVE Postcard Illustrations (Vongola, Varia, Kokuyo Gang, elDLIVE cast, Tsuna & Chuuta)

Vongola Famiglia (Vongola Family): Sawada Tsunayoshi, Gokudera Hayato, Yamamoto Takeshi, Sasagawa Ryouhei, Lambo, Hibari Kyouya, Rokudo Mukuro, Reborn

Varia: Xanxus, Squalo, Belphegor, Lussuria, Levi-a-than, Mammon, and Gola Mosca

Kokuyo Gang: Rokudo Mukuro, Joushima Ken, Kakimoto Chikusa, Chrome Dokuro, Fran, M.M

Xanxus Birthday Postcard Illustration (2016) by Akira Amano

KHR: Vol. 8 Reprint (2018): Xanxus Cover Postcard Illustration by Akira Amano

KHR Anime Merch: Hibari Kyouya & Hibird & Roll Birthday Postcard by GraffArt

KHR Anime Merch: TYL Xanxus & Bester Birthday Postcard by GraffArt

KHR Anime Merch: Chibi Xanxus Mini Postcard Sticky Notes

KHR Anime Merch: KHR x Sanrio Collab - TYL Xanxus & Pochacco & TYL Squalo & Kirimi-chan (Sanrio Collab) Postcard Illustration

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Magi) 🖤❤️💛🐈‍⬛☀️

Magi Manga: Nininbaori Tournament Bonus Paper Omake by Shinobu Ohtaka

JuAli Chibi Stickers by Shinobu Ohtaka

(To be added. I haven't scanned them yet.)

Requiem of the Rose King (ROTRK) ❤️🌹

Edward of Lancaster Illustration by Aya Kanno

ROTRK: Bonus Papers by Aya Kanno

EdRich (Adult Edward & Richard) Bonus Paper by Aya Kanno

Akatsuki no Yona (AkaYona)

Coup Crew Calendar Illustration (Suwon, Judo, Keishuk, Geuntae) by Kusanagi Mizuho

Shaman King (SK) ❤️💜

Shaman King Anime (2021) Merch: Hao & Ren Postcard

Notes

Work in progress list of my scans.

Disabling reblogs for now cuz my scans are not finalized to post yet.

Will remake this as a masterpost once I've made separate posts for each of these.

I'll post these separately by fandom too. I just wanna show some of the things I've scanned here

I've scanned most of the ones I've listed here, but I still need to scan the others. I just haven't posted them on my socials yet.

For the ones with sets, I'm just gonna post a few pics for each as a preview. Just gonna put LQ images for now. Tumblr has a 30 image limit so I'll eventually replace them with links to posts (once I slowly post them overtime)

My scans are mainly focused on my fave characters. Scanned from my own personal collection. Hobbyist amateur scans, so please excuse the dust 🙏

I scanned Pako's FGO artbook with Pako's Douman dakimakura (body pillow) illust and the entire artbook.

Ene my beloved... 💙

Basically, a list of various artbook and postcard illusts I've scanned.

I'll eventually update this post with links.

Iirc most of Magi's illusts are scanned and/or available online, but I'd like to scan the merch I have too ^^

I have JuAli chibi stickers, recently got the paper version of an omake with JuAli (cuz it wasn't in the volume edition unfortunately), and my Magi shikishi boards (compilation of Ohtaka's manga panels as shikishis)

[stepswordsen]

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About

Hi, I'm Sen 💜✨ Bi Ace NB 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Viet diaspora (Việt Kiều). I go by They/Them and She/They (alternating) pronouns. Hobbyist digital fan artist. Adult.

Socials

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Main art blog: @stepswordsen

18+ side and rambles blog: @stepswowdsen

I'm mainly active on Discord, Instagram, and Tumblr. I post all art WIPs and life updates on Insta stories. I post more art WIPs and rambles here on Tumblr.

Mutuals are allowed to ask for my Discord! 👍

Other

Languages: English, Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt), Japanese (日本語勉強中)

I'm currently learning Japanese and brushing up on my Viet!

Fun fact: My main faves are meow meow mfs 🐈‍⬛ Villains enjoyer! My fave charas are usually morally gray/evil charas, villains, and antagonists.

My username comes from Hoa sen (“lotus flower”) in Vietnamese. Hoa (“flower”) +‎ sen (“lotus”) 🪷

Main Interests

Fate/Grand Order (FGO)

Katekyo Hitman Reborn (KHR)

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (Magi)

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea (WATGBS AU)

Kagerou Project (KagePro)

I like many things, but I mainly draw for these!

Main Ships

LimGuda (Douman (Limbo) x Ritsuka (Guda)) 💚🧡🐈‍⬛🍊

XanLena (Xanxus x Selena) ❤️💜🔥🪷

JuAli (Judar x Alibaba) 🖤❤️💛🐈‍⬛☀️🌙

IdaTatsu (Idate x Tatsumiya) 🖤🤍❤️💙🐬🐟

KuroEne (Kuroha x Ene) 🖤💙🐍🐇

My art and writing ideas are mainly centered around my fave characters and ships. I like to create ship AUs for my faves because I'm very passionate about them!

Fave Charas

Fave Masc Charas 🐈‍⬛✨

Fave Femme Charas 💗✨

Fave FGO Wives 💗✨

Side Blog

My 18+ side blog is @stepswowdsen

Mainly ramble posts, doodle WIPs, writing idea WIPs (dialogue scripts), and occasionally tagged NSFW (NSFT), are posted on my side blog.

18+ followers only on my side blog.

I usually cross post rambles from my side blog to my main blog once I get the chance to draw out my writing ideas, so I can pair my rambles with my art!

Art Tags

Main Art Tags

#my art #stepswordsen art

OC Related

#stepswordsen oc #oc #original character

Misc Tags

#nsft #suggestive #cw: horror

I'll try my best to tag anything, such as suggestive arts and artistic horror pieces.

NSFT art pieces will be posted here with a Content Label and tagged.

Terms of Service (TOS)

✅ Using my fanarts for profile pictures and banner is totally OK with me! Please credit me if you can, with my username @stepswordsen

⭕ Please refrain from using any OC artworks without my permission. Ask me first.

❌ Do not use any of my artworks or writing ideas for AI training, crypto, NFTs, etc.

❌ Do not trace, edit, repost, or resell my artworks for any reason without my permission.

❌ Nothing made by Sen (@stepswordsen) may be used in any blockchain-related technology, to include NFTs, cryptocurrency, AI generated websites, or future inventions in the space.

Art Info

Program: Clip Studio Paint (CSP)

Brushes: Oil Paint Flat brush (Ver 1.10.9 Default Sub Tools)

My main sketching/lining brush is CSP's Oil Paint Flat brush.

You can find it here: CSP's Pens & Brushes Ver.1.10.9

CSP's official default sub tool brushes. These brushes were either removed or updated in later versions of CSP, so I reinstalled it. It's available for free.

I love using inky textured brushes 👍 So any similar brushes will work!