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I'm opening a variety of commissions and doing an opening sale! Vgen page | Ko-fi page Please take care of yourself first and foremost ❤

Kofi comms, in the spirit of Kofi, are smaller to help with Luna's catfood, while Vgen comms are bigger to help with me living as an arting starvist in general

I do take commissions for more than just Tales lol

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Elnath 💜 sticky note

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Happy 2nd anniversary to Tales of the Rays: Recollection!

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Secret Santa Prompts

Being an artist that likes getting general prompts but proceeds to turn around and not have any prompts for other artists other than "I just want to see them, I love them" makes me a problem child doesn't it. Lmao. I'll do my best and also leave some reference material here!

Tales of the Rays: Recollection:

Don't know what Reco is at all or sort of do and want to get to know my requested characters better? You can take a look at my character introduction posts to get a general feel for them. I did privately EN summarize the entire story chapter by chapter in detail on my Discord, Kocis Squad! But, uh, linking it would probably out my assignee to me via joining huh? ...W-well here's the opening animation and a playlist of the raw chapters if you want to take a look. The main story chapters in particular are fully voiced at least.

Character thoughts:

Elnath:

She's cute! She's badass! She's perfe-- *ahem* Um. Let's see. Naturally she's adorable, but she also just. Carries a claymore over her shoulder with zero effort and leads a military squadron. Please note that Elnath is also an adult even though she doesn't look like it. Like the rest of my requested Reco characters, you can find a write up of her in my linked character introductions tag above.

Making a read more cut for the rest for the safety of everyone's dash.

Haze:

Above is her fall outfit, and it's gorgeous, but I welcome any design! Haze really grew on me, and before I knew it I was part of the Haze fanclub. She is sincere and dotes on everyone as if they were her own child.

Kodama:

Petty crime greml-- Kodama is a fascinating character, and you can really just sit and chew on him analyze his character. He's exceedingly clever and utilizes street smarts, including for petty get backs at anyone who bullies him, but he's very kind hearted and will throw himself under the bus to help others. You really never know what this boy is up to at any given time.

Lugh:

Feral cat. Does bite. Stubborn, loyal. Pretty design. Maybe a little unhinged. Under certain plot circumstances she did soften, and was found crying. She's been alone for a very long time... Her pupils are indeed white, but it's really hard to see with this internal image resolution. I do own the art book, so if anyone wants her actual settei sheet with the 3D turn around and eye detail, I can provide it to a secret santa mod to send to you perhaps?

Tales of the Rays:

...Let's just cut to the chase on this one. Here's the writeup I did on Kocis. I love him with all my heart.

Tales of Luminaria:

Honestly as my 3rd request, this is most relevant if you were actually specifically matched to me because of this so! If that's the case I'll assume you know Lumi pretty well! Because we have to love and remember Lumi or no one else will--

I'm calm.

Anyway, even if you weren't matched to me because of this you're of course welcome to enjoy drawing these characters! Mostly I actually just don't know what to say haha So in that case, lemme grab some references.

Here's a story playlist in English dub. There is also a JP dub on youtube, but it's organized a little backwards. The neat thing about Lumi is each episode focuses on a character, so if you want to get to know my request characters, you can get a good idea by focusing on their specific episodes! Which are clearly labelled. They do show up in other character's episodes naturally, but that's the quickest way to check them out.

The exceptions to this are Grace Menil and Frederick Logerot, who are actually supporting/background characters haha I just love them. Grace only shows up in this specific episode starting at this timestamp if you'd like reference of her. She is very cool and I'm sad we didn't see more of her. Meanwhile Frederick is Maxime's butler and he's just a bro. You'll find him in various episodes with Maxime, but here's one timestamp of him.

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There are only a couple days left to sign up for Tales of Secret Santa! I'm participating with art, and the more the merrier if anyone is interested!

🎄Secret Santa 2024🎄

Ho ho ho... What's this? Spooky season is over? Then it's time to take out the Christmas decorations! The Tales of Secret Santa fanwork exchange is coming to town 🎅

Sign-ups start now and will be open for 20 days.

See below for more details ⬇️

To sign up, please fill out the sign-up form here.

You will need to enter the Fandom(s), Character(s) and/or Relationship(s) you want to request and offer. Please provide a short description of your likes (or more detailed prompts) for each request.

You will be matched based on the fandoms you requested and offered, as well as the type of fanwork you chose (fic and/or art).

Barring any unexpected development, assignments should be sent out by Nov 25.

You will have about a month to complete it, with a first deadline on Dec 26, and possible extensions until Dec 31.

The works will be revealed all together on January 1🎁

Notes:

- If you need to drop out for any reason, or we don't hear from you by the deadline, you will be defaulted and a pinch hitter will be assigned in your place.

If you are interested in becoming a pinch hitter, please fill out this form.

- If the characters/ships you want to request are not available in the tags yet, you can nominate them in the tagset. There might be delays to nomination approval, so don't hesitate to send us an ask to remind us to check the tagset.

- If you request art as well as fic, don't forget to write in a few art prompts.

- Try to be specific with "Do-Not-Wants" so your gifter knows exactly what to avoid.

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Sharing some of the Rays art from my wip blog! A few sketches that didn't make it into this post can be found over there!

Major Recollection spoiler art under the cut! The comic at the end is only a few of the pages. The entire thing can be found on the wip blog.

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Sorey and Joltik Vgen sketch commission for PaperEel! I didn't know Joltik were so tiny haha

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Thanks to everyone's help with commissions and the half off sets, I'm under review for verification! Thank you so much! Just a heads up that my price sheet is going to be adjusted after my experience from taking these first ever commissions, so I've taken the original down while I work on a revised sheet. Sorry for the changes, but this is a very new process for me 🙏

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Colored sketch commissions for V, requested as gifts for their friends! @soft-serve-soymilk and @windor-truffle

Dism Dandelion (OC) with a dandelion crown and a sunflower. Dandelions represent hope, resilience, and emotional healing. They're related to sunflowers! 🌻

Asbel (Graces) titled in my heart: "Nyamoru" 🐾🐈

Thank you so much for commissioning me!

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Min's Eleanor sketch commission! Supporting Peers IN Achieving Cohesive Harmony! Thank you so much for commissioning me!

There's a cross-language joke going on here lol In Berseria's JP version, there's a skit about Eleanor disliking spinach. The word for spinach has the same pronunciation as a common business acronym/method for communicating in work environments* which she starts lecturing the others on at the end. In the English version, they stayed true to the spinach reference and made an acronym out of it. (SPINACH)

The joke here is that Tales of the Rays Theatre has Lowell P constantly bring up the same JP acronym for work communication. So I drew Eleanor P talking about SPINACH 😌

*HouRenSou - 報連相 - report (報告), communicate (連絡), consult (相談)

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Uuuuh I had a drop shadow mishap I didn't notice in the finalization so I updated the art of Woden in the last post. Whoops!

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Woden and his prized bear carving commission for Yew!

And my very first commission! I went a little overboard because it's a Rays character haha But it made me really happy! Thank you!

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A Lugh sticker because I want one 😌Behold her

And a dark BG

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Someone help them

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エルナト

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Dana's Recollection

Hello!

Our Tales of the Rays translation group now has a Tumblr! Due to our thorough proofreading process with each other, our translations won't always be fast, so hopefully this helps for anyone that might want to keep up with updates!

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Correction to Elnath's Age

We now have a Rays timeline dev draft! (It's at least partly from an earlier stage of development though, so we do have to consider that when we reference it lol Please keep in mind the devs shared it for fun. It's not a final draft, rather seemingly a combination of a few of their internal mid development drafts they put together for us, but it is very interesting and if we're careful about cross referencing with actual story content it can be very useful for getting an idea of some things!) Which means we now have a much better idea of how old Elnath is! So I will be correcting her age in the introduction post I made for her, which is under the spoiler cut in there. Her true age is below the cut here as well.

(beware major spoilers for Recollection. This has even more spoilers than her introduction post as I go into timeline details)

Lugh was at least 3,240 years old as of the rainbow night. And then she is flung forward 159 years via the Chronos pillar. She then sleeps for 45 years. And then she wakes up as the adult formed Elnath and is around for 5 years until Reco story begins.

Elnath is 3,290+ years old. Naturally we don't know how long she lived pre-TNN

(Cross referencing this info with the info story did specify checks out. In fact Reco itself seems even more solid than the other parts of the timeline. Perhaps because it was developed more recently and planned to wrap up within a year?)