#kokoro aichi

[magnhild]

very lazy sketches of characters i love dearly from webcomics that currently have me in a chokehold

(expect me to draw more fanart for sleepless domain at some point because it has me in the biggest chokehold of all)

[blueringart]

The Sleepydiscord's doing a game jam! A bunch of artists all contributed to the banner for it, which was great fun. I got to draw Kokoro! And also a couple background details, for the fun of it. (COMMISSIONS)

tumblr is Weird about links sometimes (often?) so I'll add a link to the game jam itself in a reblog so you can check that out if you think it sounds cool (and also so you can see the cool banner which we all worked so hard on! please go admire it!!)

[fellfirst-fellharder-fight]

PRELIMS PART 1

The 2 lowest ships from this poll and the other parts will be eliminated

[madamlava-art]

Back mostly in January/February last year I was working on animating a short section from the end of chapter 8 of webcomic Sleepless Domain, though I never finished

[pinkhairswagtourney]

Pink Hair Swag Tourney, Round Three, Part Two

[mxescargot]

everyone shut up and look at these alternate hairstyles for the sleepless domain characters

art credit to cubewatermelon/mary cagle! (who i dont wanna tag in this ;-;)

[lilac-galaxy]

movie night

[lightshiningforth]

There's something exquisitely beautiful and painful about the relationships among the main characters in Sleepless Domain.

Undine. Undine has this wonderful group of friends that she grew up with, but she's also sort of stuck in this role as the soft one, the sweet one, the nice one, the supportive one. Throughout the series, she learns that she's so much more powerful and capable than she ever imagined, and she finds all of these beautiful new friendships, one of which turns into a romantic relationship. Kokoro, Zoe, Harley, Bud, Vedika... these people see her and admire her in a way that Tessa, Sylvia, Sally, and Gwen never could, because they had been friends forever and were caught in a pattern of the same old roles. There was a Tessa-Sally-Sylvia power struggle with Gwen and Undine in the background. And it's absolutely heartbreaking that Undine only gets to grow beyond that because three of her best friends die.

Kokoro. HP is so elevated and idolized that very few people see her for who she is, to the point that she goes by her magical girl name rather than her given name with most people. Cassidy, for one, puts her on a pedestal and attacks Undine while trying to defend the idea of Heartful Punch that she made up in her head. And Kokoro is rightfully furious with her for hurting Undine, the only person who meets Heartful Punch and isn't starstruck, not for a moment. Even Bud, Harley, and Vedika were fans before they were friends. Zoe is completely intimidated by her. Meanwhile, Undine sees Kokoro as she is, as a friendly dork. A friendly dork who struggles to let people in because she's so afraid of losing them. A friendly dork whose mom and aunt lost their powers for her. A friendly dork whose mom and grandparents ultimately died for her. Of course she and Undine understand each other.

Tessa. Oh, Tessa. She wants so badly to be in control, to be the center. She struggles when her friends become magical girls before her. She struggles when they try to pull away from her as a leader. When they die, she still can't pull the focus away from herself - she blames herself for their deaths and shoves Undine away, self-isolating to the point of self-destruction. She wants Undine to find a new team so that she can be safe, but how can it not hurt for Undine to find that team in another high-powered, pink, popular magical girl? Of course Goops is alluring. Goops wants her. Goops needs her. Isn't it wonderful to be needed again? Isn't it great to be back in control after everything you've ever known has shattered?

[snowballsmb]

“I’ll save them, Anemone. I’ll save you all.”

Been writing a Sleepless Domain fanfic recently, and I wrapped up what might be my favorite Sleepless Domain fanart that I've made so far yesterday! Came up with a new Kokoro design for the AU in my fanfic, and I'm super happy with how she turned out!

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[rogueofrageedits]

[ID: five transparent cutouts of Undine and Kokoro from Sleepless Domain. End ID]

and heres some transparents! credit appreciated but unnecessary

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💞💞💞

[blueringart]

Sleepydiscord’s DTIYS game came around again and I did another full-page redraw for it, as ya do! The original is CH3P30. (COMMISSIONS)

[fellfirst-fellharder-fight]

Round 1: Fight 9

Kokoro Aichi | Heartful Punch/Undine Wells | Alchemical Water (Sleepless Domain) vs Napat "Pat" Jindapat/Parakul "Pran" Siridechawat (Bad Buddy)

Propaganda under the cut!

Kokoro Aichi | Heartful Punch/Undine Wells | Alchemical Water:

So my Girl Kokoro has a lot of pride, she hates being seen as weak bc of her daddy and mommy issues and because of that hates it when people call her by her real name and tends to prefer to just go by HP in honor of her magical girl title, but within like TWO days of knowing Undine and hearing her call her HP she was just like '...you can call me Kokoro' and then Undine does just that all of HP's friends go absolutely bananas quoting it as 'the forbidden name' and then react even more dramatically when Kokoro just sort of rolls with it. Girl's had it bad since this waterbender pretty girl first tidal waved into her life Meanwhile Undine, whom as a magical girl struggles to kill monsters on her own since her powers are more 'support class' as it is, she's not super strong on her own, kills a HUGE monster in basically one shot when Kokoro is threatened to nearly get swallowed by it, turning her water into essentially a jet cutter. she often has dreams about Kokoro, though only realized she had feelings for her during that noted save, she's ALWAYS worried that just by being around her she's putting a target on her back (bc she's the main character so the bad guys are gunning for her) she seems really chill most of the time bc she's just a really reserved girl but like this girl can and will commit murder to keep her pink gf safe and like- they're canonically super gay end of chapter 15 they kiss for the first time it's great

Napat "Pat" Jindapat/Parakul "Pran" Siridechawat:

Prans been in love with Pat since they were kids, Pat didn't realise that he loved Pran until they met again in Uni and then fights more to keep their relationship because Pran is scared to get sent away again

Childhood enemies to lovers (except Pran was in love with Pat since at least highschool. Probably a lot longer), seperated and then met again at uni. Pat comes to a crashing realisation in like 2 days that he is in LOVE with Pran, confesses to him that same day, and never looks back. Though Pran is hesitant (external pressures keeping them apart like family rivalry, university shenanigans, and already being a secret friendship), Pat pursues him into danger and remains steadfast in his love until Pran is comfortable. He is consistently showing up and proving to Pran that while Pran has been in love for years, Pat's emotions are no less deep, and will always lose to keep Pran happy.

look Pran was out here having his gay angsty awakening as a teenager realizing that he was in love the boy he was supposed to hate because of the rivalry between their family and starts repressing shit meanwhile Pat is living the himbo life and still unaware that his bestie is a lesbian and in love with his sister. it's not until they get to college where Pran is so resigned to his feelings that he doesn't expect anything to happen and then Pat attempts to confess his feelings to his lesbian bestie to which she responds "are you sure about that?" and he suddenly has an epiphany that he's in love with Pran and goes full on "if i don't have this man on me in five minutes i stg"

[yourfaveisfriendshaped]

Heartful Punch/Kokoro Aichi from Sleepless Domain is friend shaped!

Heartful Punch is friend-shaped!

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Pink Hair Swag Tourney, Round Four