#&&. OOC. ( A mun who isn't as graceful as her muse )

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Appears out of the blue and taps Mic

Rakan deserves a verse in the KDA world and I'll never be over the fact that they haven't bestowed such a high honor for him yet. Come on rITO A SINGING AND BATTLE DANCING BIRB IS RIGHT THERE

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25 and 26!

Ask the mun!

25. Your character

(ooc: Which one? Okay, but no, not snarky answer time.

All of my muses are favorites of mine in the series for various reasons. So forgive me for the long ramble.

Chloe and Jay were natural choices because they're my favorites to play as in Legendia and just my favorite characters of their party in general. Jay especially grew on me even more than he already had in past playthroughs when I did my most recent run.

While Jade is actually my favorite character in Abyss, I have a lot of love for just about every character in the cast regardless of protag or antag status. Except Mohs. He's like the one exception. So it's natural I gravitate toward that game in particular. To go into depth about every single one of them would take all day. Ion and Mieu are both adorable and the latter needs all the hugs. Tear is so strong of heart and, fun fact, the inspiration for how I do a part of my hairstyle. Asch deserves the world, and Sync... garbage child. I grew very attached to him when I first played the game in high school and never looked back.

Repede and Rita are two of my favorites to play as in Vesperia, and I just love Rita as a character in general. Repede's just cool because how often do you see an animal being playable in a Tales game? Maybe someday I'll bring Flynn onto the blog but today is not the day.

Hubert's my favorite to play as and favorite in general in Graces. And honestly... I relate to him a lot in some ways. Baby boy deserves the world.

Jude is also easily my favorite to play as and favorite character in general in Xillia. I just love the growth he goes through! And even though Ludger isn't my go to playable character in Xillia 2, I love him a lot as a character. I went in to Xillia 2 kind of thinking it would be a similar situation to DotNW where I did not like the new characters apart from Tenebrae and Richter. But Ludger and Elle very quickly won me over. So I gotta give the boyo some love too.

Edna and Eizen pretty much are a package deal even if the games say otherwise. They're both my favorites from Zestiria and Berseria, but Alisha grew on me a lot when I replayed Zestiria recently. She deserves the world, and therefore I shall give it to her. Magilou I didn't originally plan on writing, but after I did a test post as her I just was like 'Okay, yeah, I have to keep writing her.' So I did.

And Aegis is my favorite by default of Crestoria because honestly, he's probably one of the most interesting to me of the Sin Squad with Orwin and Vicious right behind him. So even though he doesn't get a ton of interaction on this blog, I still love him.

And Rinwell and Kisara not only are both from the newest mainline game, but you know. Both favorites of mine from their respective game. Rinwell is my main, and I basically knew from the word go in the demo that she'd be my favorite of the playable cast. Kisara I honestly grew to love more as I wrote some Arise fanfics, and so it just felt natural to eventually add her too.

Then there's the oddballs in Walter and Ivar. NPCs who both deserve the world. I know a lot of people don't like Ivar, but I think he's really interesting and he does go through a bit of growth between Xillia and Xillia 2. And Walter is just fascinating to me. I wish there was more of him in Legendia than what we get, and it crushes my soul to know that he could have been playable but then just... wasn't due to 'complications in implementing it.' So I just give him and Ivar all the love here on this blog that I can.)

26. Another active muse

(ooc: Okay, so I wouldn't say he's active since he's on my lowest priority blog, but I do write Shadow from the Sonic series. And I love him to death. Maybe not the character he's turned into due to the way the games have been writing him in recent years, but early 2000s Shadow is fantastic as a character. I'll spare the long ramble I could go on here but I especially love how he is in SA2. He's best boy.)

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 I may...move Rakan back to my multi??? I’ve...honestly felt like he would flourish more there ( and I know I have some people in other fandoms that is still interested in interacting in the birb man!! ). Would ya’ll still be interested in that? I have honestly.... been thinking about this for a while now since he had become much tamer, activity wise, in my head.

Also being on this dash makes me sad, I miss the people that left or aren’t active anymore. Which is TOTALLY okay if they aren’t here anymore, I know the league RPC went through a lot within the last year!! and I think that too impacted my energy to write in this fandom specifically too. I just never admitted it to myself until now.

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Got some shiny, new icons for the boi 💛

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.....You don't want to know, and those are all group folders with more layers hidden underneath 😂

But no, I kid. With my method, I work in sections because it's easier for me. So Like. The body itself, the pants, the tail, the wing cape, the hair, the feathery shoulder things, the gloves, and the gem?? I drew them all in separate line-art layers. I usually TRY to merge a few into one when I am done, but I admit, there are some I keep unattached for easier editing. But It stresses me out to do one single line-art layer, and my perfectionist butt will go back and edit things as I go, thus I found this is easier for my flow. It keeps my frustration levels down when I can easily erase something and it won't take away from what I'm already happy with.

And then with colors, each gets their own layer ( and I found that I like to color in grayscale after I line-art because it helps me see things better when I draw the next line-art section on top of it. I lower the opacity ofc.) Again. Easier editing when I start to add in the actual colors. They'll all probably be merged into one when I begin to shade though.

It'll all be cleaned up by the end, I promise LMAO.

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Hi there, if you are reading this, that means you were not yeeted into the void by Rakan. Give yourself a round of applause 👏

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Like this for this wild party birb to invade your ask box with memes or what have you. I may be re-starting this blog, but I will be glad throw Rakan at any askbox haha.

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Meanwhile, like Kylie stated, Rakan's dragonmancer Presige skin looks like he should belong in a boy band.

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One thing I wanna re-work after I am done setting my blog up again is Rakan's fully corrupted/evil verse. I don't want to make him one dimensional like r..ito did ( my baby got the dirty side of the boot with character development during that event) , and I'm here to set things straight. //8

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All of us simultaneously rising out of the starry grave when Star Guardian is mentioned -

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Seriously. I'm so glad Rakan got a skin this year. Like... at all. I am highly aware the birbs get crumbs as far as lore and skins. But in my personal opinion, it is an absolute tragedy and a attack on his character that he doesn't have a canon KDA verse 😂. For someone who lives and breathes dancing and has it centered around his ENTIRE character, Rito has been pretty quiet in their corner about it. Like wouldn't it be cool to see what battle dancing could actually LOOK LIKE??? Like HELLO SIRS AND MA'AM'S AND NON-BINARY FRIENDS?? I also believe that Rakan and Xayah should have spirit blossom skins since their kind practically dances the line of the spirital world and the real world. ...I would die happy if we got these two skins alone for the birbs. 😂

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If it's one thing that Rakan deserves, it's a canon verse in the KDA-World. 😑

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"Rakan wished to fight by his beloved Xayah's side, vowing to be her worthy equal after she gained the fenghuang's blessing. This vow took him inward, to a landscape of his nightmares, to confront his fears given form. Unflinching in battles of the mind and body, guarding the purity of his heart and love, Rakan earned the grace of the Devotion Dragon."

Excuse ME HOW DID I MISS OUT ON THIS?? HELLO?

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** distant running and then BARGES THROUGH THE DOOR* RAKAN GOT A DRAGONMANCER SKIN WHEN?

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Not me resisting the urge to fully change my theme to star guardian theme...

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Oh my god, I got the linework done for Rakan FINALLY.