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'Cause I don't know how to feel but someday, I might

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There's just something about these beta designs of Dashi and good Chase before their outfits got tweaks and refined into what they are in the show

Chase's change was pretty minor but Dashi was initially wearing sandals

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But, master!

...Yes, master.

I see. And where exactly is Spicer and the Shen Gong Wu?

...I trusted him.

There are times when the weight of Master Fung's judgement makes everything else disappear to Omi.

He's just left physically feeling lost in darkness.

These moments where Omi's just left feeling isolated and alone and worthless. Despite how he's usually able to pick himself up and light his own way with his own pride and self-love, at times like this, he just sinks down and shrinks in. He either just gives in or the scene shifts at times like these, it's not really a state he's easily lifted out of.

Perhaps I am not worthy to be a Xiaolin monk.

I wouldn't be so sure.

The fact that Omi was sinking into a similar feeling of depression and isolation after everything that happened in the season 2 finale and feels scared and ashamed to face Master Fung afterwards shows that the feeling of this weight has been internalized.

Despite the fact that Omi still has complicated feelings about this whole thing, he is genuinely surprised and appreciative that Chase pulled him out of that darkness for a bit at the end with those words of encouragement that Omi was still worthy of being a monk.

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My second drawing, "Starfire's Kiss" for a Pompous Pep Fanfic I'm reading where Danny is basically Jack Frost. This is for chapter 3, where Danny kisses Vlad to learn the English language.

Here is the link if you want to read their story too!

I had fun trying out a fur texture brush for Vlad's coat.

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My third drawing, "Gift Rose" for a Pompous Pep Jack Frost AU I'm reading! This is for chapter 4, where Danny helps Kwan by creating a rose with his power to replace the one he lost. Which he was grateful for because it was a gift for his mother.

It took me a long time to finish this drawing but it was fun! I did a glass box just so the ice rose could be seen better. I drew Danny so cute in this picture 😭💕

I really tried hard to make the rose look like ice and shine like dimond like in the story.

Here is the link to the story if you want to read it too!

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I can't stop Drawing them I don't know whats wrong with me lol

Also Here is my comparison sheet for him, it's not not hard to differentiate between them when you seed them like this, but my friends said it was hard to parse out in game

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ok this will probably be the last i draw oh gohan black (savage) and zamasu for a lil bit y'all i'm sorry v.v

also i know this reads just like the f*cking "fantastic" scene from the Fantastic 4 reboot but it's cool just vibe with me for a sec

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My last post wasn’t showing up in search so lets try this again

Finally went and updated my designs for Kikami and Koji

Kikami’s Part One kanji is yu (優), signifying excellence and superiority as well as kindness and tenderness; I felt that it would make a wonderful symbol for the duel between his ego and caring heart.

Koji’s up-done hair and high collars are meant to signify the guilt on her shoulders/sense of responsibility and fear of losing control. After she wears the Papa mask (Prika’s fire-demon mask) to rescue Kika, in the process accepting and moving on from the trauma of accidently starting the house fire that killed her family, her long hair is burnt short and her clothes are left tattered. Kika is in a similar state by that point (the end of Part One/start of Part Two), and Korin makes them their Part Two clothes.

After the garlic war and during their respective training arcs, they each learn opposing lessons: to let go of internal control (Koji with Korin; after the arc she no longer has her high collars) and to gain control over the self (Kikami with Kami; after the arc, Kikami wears the high collared cape). Kikami inherits his Part Three cape and gi from the previous Kami after expelling Piccolo.

I’ll probably be coming back and redoing Koji’s Part Three and Kika’s Part Two design when I have the free time

Bonus inner layered clothes and details on Koji’s comb

Keep reading

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Random HC #11

The Nameless Namekian's name was "Tatsu".

The name means "gift" in Namekian. ("Tatsu" is part of the Japanese word for snail: "Katatsumuri", the same word where Katas' name takes origin from.)

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By the way, while we're talking about Gohan, Piccolo, and that moment, I want to take a moment to focus in on what he says here. Because it's fascinating to really stop and think about.

In his dying moments, Piccolo says this to Gohan.

"You were the only one who ever really talked to me."

Piccolo's existence is so complicated at this point that there's some ambiguity here. The first person ever to really talk to him. That's a bold statement. What does he mean by that?

What does Piccolo mean when he says "ever"? Let's stop to really think about that.

The first interpretation is that he's referring to this incarnation of himself. Going back to the day he was "born" anew.

I love how he was born wearing clothes apparently. Maybe he popped out of that egg and immediately used his signature Clothes Beam, an obscure technique but a valuable one.

For real, Piccolo's ability to create matter from ki is probably the most underutilized ability in Dragon Ball. This is, like, the one and only time we ever see it. It is never explained. Even Cell wound up having to create his arena from existing resources nearby.

But I digress.

Piccolo was reborn to finish the work he'd started: Kill Son Goku and take over the world. The 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai was his opportunity to do just that.

So. When Piccolo says "ever", he's talking about this, right? He talks to attendees at the tournament but their interactions are strictly hostile. He's here to kill Goku; He's not interested in socializing.

This is the closest thing to a friendly chat that this incarnation of Piccolo ever had prior to Gohan's training. So it's easy to hear him say "You were the only one who ever really talked to me," and go, "Yeah, that checks out." Though that's not really their fault.

But. Hang on. Piccolo's sense of self goes back further than that.

"Majunior" is always referred to and always refers to himself as though he and Piccolo-Daimao were one and the same. He is not Piccolo's son. He's a copy, splintered off from the Daimao and given a new body.

Kami explains it like this.

Effectively, Daimao split himself in two. One piece of him created the egg and sent it across the horizon for the other piece to escape inside, and that piece hatched into "Majunior".

It's a popular fanon to treat Piccolo Jr. like he's a totally newborn baby saddled with the Sins of the Father, but this is never how the source material treats him. Piccolo is Piccolo is Piccolo; the two are one and the same. Except one's a Mazoku and the other is not.

A revelation that comes at the cost of Goku and Raditz's lives.

So when he says "You were the only one who ever really talked to me," he's probably not talking about this incarnation. He's probably reaching all the way back to the birth of Piccolo as an entity.

When the Nameless Namekian ascended to the throne of God, he had to purge himself of the evil that had accumulated in his soul. That evil took form and shape, and it became Piccolo.

Given the description of Piccolo having "escaped", it sounds like they tried to imprison him moments after he first came into being. Makes sense; He's literally evil incarnate. A half-person Mazoku formed of pure evil, incapable of moral agency. Why would you want to let that loose?

But they failed. Piccolo got free and descended from Heaven into the human realm to wreak untold havoc upon humanity.

So. Y'know. Nobody's out there having civil chats with that.

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But. Hang on. Piccolo's sense of self goes back even further than that, doesn't it? After all. As much as "Majunior" is a fragment of Piccolo-Daimao, Piccolo-Daimao too is a fragment of the Nameless Namekian, and he retains that knowledge, memory, and experience as well.

When Piccolo and God begin to speak candidly with one another in the ring, they don't speak Japanese. Instead, they're speaking their own language. A language not of this Earth. With courtesy translation for the audience.

They are speaking the Namekian language. A language from a race neither Piccolo nor God even knows exists. This is confirmed by Bulma and Popo, when they discover the Nameless Namekian's spacecraft.

This was the first language Piccolo ever knew, in the very first incarnation of himself.

This isn't God's history he's sharing. It's theirs, his and Piccolo's together.

Because Piccolo is pure evil. But he isn't. Like. The concept of evil. He is Nameless's evil. The corruption, the bitterness and resentment and fear and anger and uncertainty and despair that's cultivated in his heart over a lifetime of loneliness and isolation.

A Ryuzoku Namekian, child of Katatsu, sent to Earth to escape a climate catastrophe that destroyed their planet and killed their entire race, but two. An orphaned child landing in a deserted wasteland with nothing but an empty promise from a parent who would never make the trip.

We don't know what happened between then and his ascension to Godhood. All we know is that these days were spent alone. And a worm of evil grew in his heart.

This, it should be noted, is not standard procedure for becoming God. When Dende took the throne, he did not have to do anything to purify himself.

That's basically the entire vetting procedure for Dende's ascension.

The way God describes the process, creating Piccolo was something unique to his experience, because his predecessor had noticed a growing darkness unworthy of God inside of him.

I legitimately wonder if God spit Piccolo out as an egg, the way he later spit out the egg of his copy.

In the Namekian language, the word "Piccolo" means "Another world".

It's a word that Nameless knew intimately. Not just because it's from the first spoken language he ever knew. But because that voice command opened and closed his home.

Every day of his lonely life, waiting for a parent that would never come, this is how he came and went. Piccolo as he goes out and Piccolo again once he steps outside. Piccolo on his return and Piccolo once he's safe inside the only home he knows. Piccolo, Piccolo. Piccolo, Piccolo. This word defined his childhood.

This word was the only parent he had.

When he fractured, breaking off the darkness in his soul and externalizing it into a new body, that body took Piccolo as his name.

This has been his existence, since before he could remember. The life of a Namekian whose name has been lost to time. The man who became the man who became Piccolo. God, in his temple in heaven, has Popo by his side to offer companionship and assistance. But for the life he lived before that and for the part of him that fractured off, not once in this long and winding 300-year journey has he ever had a friend.

So when you really stop and take a look at where not just the original Piccolo but the original came from, at the foundation of where Piccolo truly began, those words take on a bit of a different meaning, don't they?

When Piccolo says, "You were the only one who ever really talked to me," that cuts a little deeper when you stop to really think about it.

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People not understanding this properly

Katatz had a son. That son escaped to Earth long ago That son forgot his name and even how he got to Earth and is referred to as the Nameless Namekian

The Nameless Namekian grew up and eventually, he was training to become the guardian of earth, but had evil in his heart. He purged that evil, splitting into two beings, one of pure good, one of pure evil. The pure good side went on to become the guardian of earth, taking the title as his name. Kami.

The evil half declared himself Demon King and took on the name Piccolo

Goku turned him into a donut many years later, and as his final act in the moment before death, Piccolo fired off an egg. That egg contained a perfect copy of himself, his reincarnation...

Piccolo Jr (Later just referred to as Piccolo)

Piccolo would then go on to have a bunch of character development, naturally becoming one of the good guys and ultimately becoming one with Kami again. In that moment, Piccolo and Kami ceased to be, and the Nameless Namekian was reborn, but he chose to continue using the name Piccolo.

So, from the point Piccolo and Kami fuse and onward, the entity known as Piccolo is actually the Nameless Namekian, THEREFORE, the father he's referring to, Katatz, is NOT Demon King Piccolo's real name, but actually Demon King Piccolo's (And Kami's) father.

Also Katatz was mentioned by name by Guru in the Frieza saga, but it was translated as "Katattsu", so shut up, dork this isn't even new lore

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Is animation industry really that limit on Malaysia? Do we have indie animation on Malaysia?

This one took me awhile to answer as I'm not sure how to put words in this.

We do have some of the best cartoons as shown such:

And a lot more like Ejen Ali, Puteri, Mustang Mama and so on, so forth Heck, even Mechamato Movie was aired in Japan!

But WHY does Malaysia does not have more animated series IN Malaysia? Well I think it all boils down to the fact that it is not advertise nor exposed enough. Whenever I told someone I worked as an Animator the first thing that comes to their mind was "Oh macam Upin Ipin? Katun2 lukis"

Not to mention Japan culture such as Anime convention and such are still considered weird to some of the public eye.

While we do have our own locally made cartoon, the majority of Malaysian animation do outsource work from various countries like France, Canada and America!

It is such a SMALL circle that it's just the same animators knowing each other but worked in different studios.

But I sincerely hoped the public will give more attention to Malaysian animation.

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Rewatched Labyrinth earlier today and of course had to sketch out some pompep of it

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10 years later and sometimes old habits die hard.....

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does good!Chase ever haunt you with what could have beens

last one is pose ref from @albanenechi ;)

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Gowasu joven como 50,000 años más joven (?) 

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i refuse to give trunks blue hair whenever i draw him