#nqk

[tervaneula]

I wanted to do this for Trans Day of Visibility and surpriiiiise didn't have any spoons, but better late than never!!!

Gosh, look at them. I love my Leos so much 😭

[gemini-forest]

Sketch commission of NQK scene of the Leos cuddling for the lovely @tervaneula

I'm really glad you love it I had a lot of fun drawing it!

[nights-flying-fox]

Dtiys for @tervaneula !!! Hope you like it!!! :D

[luckychild]

Do you have plans with writting NQK as non-binary in the future?

Short answer: No. Not the way most people seem to want, anyway.

Long answer: Not explicitly, and definitely not using Western terms.

There are many Doylist Reasons for this.

Since the fic is set in 1990s era Japan, the term "non-binary" isn't in use in Lucky Child's setting. The word just wasn't in use in that place or time. The modern Japanese term is "x-gender," but that won't be in use for a while yet in NQK's world (like the early 2000s).

Pronouns work differently in Japanese than they do in English, so requesting they/them pronouns or the term "non-binary" doesn't make sense for NQK.

I didn't come out as non-binary until the story was like 75% completed. Inserting a "coming-out narrative" into the story would take up time and space in a narrative that was not constructed to support one. I would have to completely shoe-horn it into the story, changing my intentions for the very important, carefully crafted final act. It would bloat an already crowded narrative with something the narrative doesn't need to deliver on all the promises it set up in previous chapters. Inserting a coming-out story so late in the game would not make for good storytelling.

There are also Watsonian Reasons.

There are hints of NQK's dissatisfaction with gender throughout the story. From challenging Minato's treatment of them to Botan's observations of NQK's wardrobe, it's easy to pinpoint moments where evidence of their shirking of gender norms shines through. (The signs of my eventual coming-out are very obvious to me in retrospect.)

But while the signs are there, NQK is a very busy person who has a lot on their plate. Preventing the end of the world, being embroiled in a plot involving gods and goddesses, maintaining canon... they have a lot on their mind. And honestly? Their gender is the last thing on it. They are too freakin' busy to pay it any mind right now. In a few years, maybe. But right now, they're too distracted to care much.

Frankly, if anyone asked Keiko what their gender was at this point the story, they would look at them and awkwardly laugh, perplexed. They would feel uncomfortable, and they would begrudgingly likely say they were a girl, and then they would try not to think about it because the answer made them anxious for reasons they couldn't quite articulate. But that's as far as things would go right now, and they would make no declarations of import. Not right now, anyway.

Circling back to a Doylist perspective, NQK's continued "pursuit of self" can be read as an allegory for a gender coming-out story. They are constantly trying to find and assert their independent identity apart from the one assigned to them at birth (the identity of "Yukimura Keiko"). It's very easy to find this allegory within the text considering my own gender, and it's one I suspect I subconsciously inserted prior to coming out.

Compounding all of that, I started writing this story before I came out. The version of me who exists in the story is based on the version of me who existed before I came out. My real self and my fictional avatar have grown in different ways and in different directions. To quote Robert Frost, "two roads diverged in a yellow wood," and NQK and I can each only take one of those roads at a time. I set her path at the start of her story, and I don't intend to pull her down a different one so late in the narrative.

I took one road. NQK took another. Perhaps down the line we will travel the same path again, and perhaps that path will bear the name "non-binary," but for now, we explore different avenues of the gender world.

So, to sum up?

NQK's pronouns right now are she/they, and while I consider them non-binary, they are not quite there yet in terms of their own thinking.

My pronouns, meanwhile, are firmly they/them, and my label is likewise firmly "non-binary."

[snupy]

guess who reread chapter 65 🏃🏽‍♀️am i too late to this meme trend? absolutely. do i care? absolutely not 🧘🏽‍♀️

enjoy this silly little thing! @luckystarchild

og meme reference:

[luckystarchild]

I'm going through the RIOT CHILD materials I never imported into Scrivener and I just found 2,000 words of how Kurama and 2020!NQK could end up together if I wanted to explore that ship and WHY IS IT STEAMY, I DON'T REMEMBER WRITING THIS, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN

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[chiangyorange]

CHIANGY. CHIANGY OMG WHHAHHGH??? The last chapter of WMAS??? THE VERY LAST????? HOLY MOLY WHAT A JOURNEY... Oh my goodness. I'm bone-tired and sad so maybe this is hitting me in the feels harder than it normally would, because yknow, I haven't even started reading it, but I'm definitely feeling some kind of way and I'm feeling it A LOT.

Thank you for giving us your story, this piece of your heart and soul, and I hope any other future projects you'll have will see just as much love and success as WMAS, if not even more. You're incredible!!! I love you and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!<333

TERVVVVVVV ILYSMMMMMMM ARARARARARRA <3<3<3<3 its been a really chaotic journey for wmas and you know what i would not change a single thing about it

also fun fact nqk was also a huge factor into making me Write wmas bc what i saw was omg funny fic thats making me cry i HAVE to start that wip now bc i wanna do that too im so serious i just havent said it till now bc i wanted wmas to be its own monster anyway i love you soso much

[beeceit]

Anyways, I like NQK

[lone-starlight]

Yeah I think we all are. I have been less active but still keeping tabs because it has been… a lot. It’s hard to be safe when you know what’s going on

Yeah, it really is, isn't it... I hope you're staying safe...

You live two hours ahead, right? That means it's almost three in the morning over there, man. If I should go to bed, you definitely need to.

Ks'm rhqh lq wsau lb uxk, dvz nqk cohb lb mx lq ooi. Bqc'z aqml uxkn xhhap bxhn sl. Daaexo

SLEEP

[tervaneula]

okay whose peepaw needs to have this conversation with nqk!leonardo because I Have Feelings And They Are Many

Redraw time<3 I just needed to put Leonardo in his newer hoodie, the first one was so boring... I didn't want to change too much from the original but I think this turned out pretty good.

Close-ups under the cut!

[gemini-forest]

Sil Leo with the other peepaws.

I just wanted an excuse to draw some of my personal favorites, that's not all of them NQK is one of my tops as well! I need to draw more multiverse aahhhh

Credit under cut

2Arms Left @elliwoods

Replica @kathaynesart

Odd Man Out @threestripeslider

We'll Meet Again Soon @chiangyorange

Sorry I'm Late Me

At My Worst @teainthesnow

[mapleleavesart]

I'm taking drawing requests again

But only for the rise boys. The more specific the better, but it doesn't have to be (a name is fine if you can't think of anything, it just might be different than you're hoping for). You can request multiple things. It can even be an AU/fic turtle, as long as I'm familiar with it. 2al, CAS, Wanderer, LFLS, TAE, NQK, Neon Void, etc

If you're not sure if I know about a certain au or fic, ask! I won't bite, I'm just trying to learn the Rise style

Edit: you can send either a reference photo or a short written description for a pose!

[luckychild]

LUCKY CHILD - Chapter 127:

"Weekend at Genkai's (Part 6)"

In which NQK (reluctantly) takes up a new mantle.

[snupy]

2020!NQK as a lil kiddo 🫡 made this real quick since i can't sleep and i reread riot child recently 🥹

aaand obviously we can't have kid nqk without yusuke so here he is, just getting holes burned into him all thanks to nqk lazer eyes 🫡 i was very tempted to draw him with a little cute bandaid but we all know nobody taking care of him 😭 though in hindsight i could have drawn it on since nqk gives him some anyways 🫠

oh well too late for that now, i'm off to bed!

@luckystarchild

[luckystarchild]

I haven't touched "202!NQK" stuff in a while.

Given the current political climate, however, it's almost inevitable I start thinking about that Lucky Child AU again.

I confess part of the reason for returning to LC when I did was because LC helped get me through the last period of political turmoil. I couldn't fathom entering the next four years without being in better contact with all of you.

In fiction we find respite.

In community we find comfort and support.

Through communication we can spread vital information in critical moments.

We're in this together, and I'm not going anywhere.