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Doodle page this time!

(For the bottom right one, I know it's unrelated to this stream, but i was watching the Project: Eden's Garden VOD and in hindsight this joke was really funny)

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Nothing particularly polished for art but I felt compelled to draw The Pop Team Epic Meme, especially since I've literally been Waiting(TM) to hear the voicing on this one Ever Since The Higurashi Streams Started. One of the moments ever.

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Art you make in your sketchbook vs art you do on the back of a scrap receipt (real) (not clickbait)

[context; the one on the left is Rika in a trenchcoat with a fake mustache pretending to be Keiichi's dad.]

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I'm experimenting with animation for the first time so here's a gif of Mion giving a thumbs up!

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Have an edit of Rena as the princess from Slay The Princess

"Whatever horrors you may find in these dark spaces, have heart and see them through. There are no premature endings. There are no wrong decisions. There are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings."

"Please do not deplore yourself. Even if the world does not forgive you, I will forgive you. Please do not deplore yourself. Even if you do not forgive the world, I will forgive you. So please tell me. What will it take for you, to forgive me?"

"This is a love story." // "Perhaps... I really did......... love you."

+ "Without love, it cannot be seen."

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My buddy Rena who's cool and normal and has never done anything wrong

Momentary real talk; I was feeling really down on Tuesday and Wednesday because of current circumstances that I think I don't need to elaborate on, but what sort of snapped me out of despair mode was, genuinely, thinking about Higurashi. I can't say much because it's definitely spoiler territory, but I was thinking a lot about Episode 3 and Episode 7, so if you've read Higurashi before, you know what I mean.

I'm thankful to Higurashi, and I'm thankful to Nezumi for the video "Why You Should Watch/Read: Higurashi - When They Cry"; I only ever watched arc 1 of the anime when I was in middle school/high school, and I don't know if I ever would have returned to read the whole vn if it weren't for that video.

Without Higurashi, I don't know if I would have found a way to be as stable as I am right now.

Admittedly what I'm about to say is a Umineko quote rather than a Higurashi quote, but regardless; "Don't wait for a miracle. Be one."

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Gamer Girls of 1983

(I tried drawing them based more closely on the original artwork this time)

Anyway, happy first Higurashi Story Time stream; to affectionately quote a typo from the first time I read episode 1, I'm sure "nothing bad is going to happens" in this story.

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spoiler warning for Last note of the Golden Witch

1: Me, happy that I get to experience Last note of the Golden Witch for the first time through the nezumiva streams, since I hadn't gotten around to seeking it out for myself yet

2: My darling beloved dearest who I liveblogged Umineko to when I first read it so they sort of know everything that happens but didn't read it themselves, however, likes reading wiki pages: "No way, Asumu had a witchsona"

1: "Huh, must be a manga thing, cause I don't remember that."

2: sends me a Dot Jpeg

1: Me, who had seen the character before but had escaped knowledge of the character's name before now: "THAT'S ASUMU????"

2: "Nooooo she's not Asumu shhhhhh, I must've read that wrong,"

1: "Once something is learned it cannot be unlearned..."

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Okay, first here I want to introduce a new Witch OC of mine; Zero, the Witch of Chaos

[Witch Description: When most witches discuss fragments, though there are infinitely many, they are mainly focused on fragments that follow the same rules as each other. Zero, the Witch of Chaos, exists outside of those rules and structures. They can see fragments of infinitely many different rules, and of each ruleset, infinitely many scenarios. Zero fights by creating noise and confusion around the truth by using the tool they call the Magenta Truth- statements that have the level of red truth in at least one fragment. Though the Magenta Truth is easily possible to disprove if it does not apply to the fragment taking place, it is more akin to creating a haystack to cover a needle. Some witches dislike Zero, viewing their inclusion of fragments with contradictory rules as disrespectful to the rules of an individual fragment; however, from Zero's perspective, every fragment is true to itself, and thus all hold equal value to each other.]

And now after rambling about all that, I'd also like to talk about the design process too. Their name is obviously the number, 0, and I chose it because 0 is both a real number and an imaginary number.

Their design also incorporates a lot of magenta because the color magenta technically doesn't exist either- there is no wavelength of light for magenta.

Then, with the magenta, I also employed a bit of the magenta-cyan-yellow color wheel, where the left half of the shirt on their design is a darker cyan and the right half of their shirt is a lighter yellow. Even if it might be on theme, I didn't want to use pure cyan and pure yellow because it would have felt too noisy to me.

Of course, speaking about noise in the design, there's a lot of asymmetry. Mismatched hair and mismatched attire and mismatched earrings

To be honest, the idea for the theme originated in joke continuation of the theme from the last time I did art for the stream, that being the Sonic crossover stuff, so the thought process was like Chaos emeralds, Chaos control -> witch of Chaos, but despite that I'm actually really happy with how this oc turned out? I feel like they can stand on their own, even outside of the joke.

However, I am hopelessly and endlessly committed to the bit, so-

Last time I did art and related memes, one of the included things was this,

and now that some time has passed I can say that I have done this Further Research and I'd like to report my findings;

Kanon is not Shadow, but Somebody Else Is. Consider the following traits.

Of course, one of the very defining things for Shadow's character is that he lost Maria and Gerald, who are family to his eyes, and this tragedy changed him

When he's brought back, all he can think about is getting revenge for the family he lost

His mission is the only thing that matters to him at this point

Eventually comes to realize this isn't what Maria wanted for him at all and spends the last act of the game helping to avert the disaster he set up

And with all this laid out, obviously the real Shadow The Hedgehog parallel is Ange Ushiromiya, and though this also started as a joke I've thought about this way too much now. If Ange and Shadow aren't the same characters then um what's this?

Checkmate. So I also drew Ange in the pose from the beginning of SA2 where Sonic sees Shadow for the first time.

"It all starts with this... a Book containing the Single Truth!"

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Main art here, elaborations and memes/shitposts under the cut

So, here I am, rereading Umineko and on the final chapter (NezumiVA's streams are very good, highly recommend), almost at the end, and then BAM. Sonic fixation. Which means obviously the solution is mixing the two. Luckily, Stream OC lore came in handy for that.

To give him a Umineko style character profile text, *ahem*

[ Sonic The Hedgehog: Though originally created as furniture, this creature possesses a soul, and with it a powerful sense of will. He may be summoned easily enough, but he is impossible to control. Once summoned, he will simply do as he pleases. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, however- as long as he's on your side. He'll gladly become your ally if you're faced against a witch who harbors ill will towards innocents. In terms of skills, his sheer speed is unmatched by any of the 72 great demons. ]

My Umineko Golden Truth(TM) is that if Sonic was on Rokkenjima, he would have an epic Super Sonic battle with Beatrice, and then have a heart to heart with Sayo, similar to the ends of the Storybook games (Hence the inspiration for the art being the ending of Sonic and the Black Knight). Sonic seems like the kind of character who could be geared to avert the tragedy without ignoring Sayo's heart.

Anyway. Here's a bunch of memes I also thought of in between coming up with the concept and managing to get the energy to make the art.

I have another related art idea too, but I couldn't draw it because yesterday I was busy being... distracted [flashback to spending all day in SA2's chao garden] Guess I'll have to save it for the bonus Umineko stream!

Anyway, last thing before signing off, I'm leaving a spell to ward against comments about this being cringe.