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moonlit-doodles · 4 days ago

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if you've been drawing for several hours and the piece doesn't turn into anything, you didn't waste that time. you still drew. art is art, not a product

#telling myself this constantly actually #reblog #not my art

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moonlit-doodles · 19 days ago

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#a comment like this would make me cry tbh #reblog #not my art

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moonlit-doodles · 19 days ago

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if i ever felt silly and drew for a p5 death note au of the sort where characters are deposited in preexisting roles, everyone is wrong.

the only thing akes.hu has in common with la.wlig.ht is the palettes and the energy of their relationship. the roles they play in the death note narrative and the roles joker and akechi would most easily transfer into are like. neither of them suit either L or light to me

an outfit swap is funny but the narrative is different if you try to swap them

if i were to cast p5 characters into preexisting character roles in death note it would be more like this

MARUKI as light (starting off idealistic, "i can make the world a better place if i just do xyz", Light genuinely had what he believed to be the best interests of society as his motive at first before it twisted into saving his own skin for the sake of the god complex granted to him by the death note. maruki is very similar especially upon merging azathoth with mementos. let's also remember that while light is the protagonist of death note, he is also the villain.)

akechi as mello or similar (an independent and less predictable figure, though i was unhappy with mello's narrative arc in a few ways—i would twist this and change that cog around significantly as to play a more significant role if i wrote/drew this. more of a deuteragonist role relative to joker a la Royal)

joker as BOTH L/near (think of it as either maruki sees joker as a true friend and hesitates to arrange the means to kill him outright, or in accomplice au fashion joker fakes his death and akechi reluctantly teams with him. this au would be one where "L" never truly dies)

yoshizawa as misa (need i say more? misa's role as both a victim of light's as well as his tool with the most utility, weaponizing her admiration and trust in him in order to advance his plans, etc etc)

i feel their roles in the respective narratives more closely match like this than if you tried to do a 1:1 to make it a two sides same coin kind of narrative when that isn't quite how L and light match up

but this is just me half-assed rambling because im trying to avoid work so feel free to disregard i just have a lot of thoughts about trying to slot characters into incompatible roles or swap characters and try to keep the exact same narrative—

—when no matter how well the pieces appear to match, the narrative is no longer intact, and if you fail to take into account what elements of the story would change as a result, it's not really a roleswap as much as... recostuming/recasting so a different voice will read the same script

#im thinking about this again #this is also my complaint about black mask roleswaps #talking to myself #not my art #disregard #p5r spoilers #death note spoilers

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moonlit-doodles · 22 days ago

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