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[9reydau]

[uimanhosa]

[againstcrayon]

Every time I see a post that's like "haha I wish we could ride other monsters besides seikret" or like "they should add skins to make your seikret other monsters" I start clawing at the walls of my enclosure SOTRIES YOU WANT TO PLAY MONSTER HUNTER STORIES ITS RIGHT THERE. PLEASE. FOR THE LOW LOW PRICE OF $29.99 USD YOU TOO CAN LIVE YOUR MONSTER RIDING DREAMS. PIRATE IT FOR ALL I CARE JUST PLEAAASSEEEE PLAY IT ITS SO WORTH AND I WONT FEEL CRAZY LOOKING AT FANART ANYMORE

[cryingbluez]

My design for Ratha, updated ref/design.

I wanted to incorporate that edgy form Ratha has (wings of ruin form??). With the lore basis of that the razewing/ruin wings power was killing Ratha, I wanted to show it semi taking over his body somewhat. E.g. the grey taking over the red, and all the pink/purple on him. The bright pink/purple 'flames' on his wings have a fire effect and flare off of him as he flies, if he flies fast he looks like a pink+blue comet. All the pink gaps within his scales is where the power has moved his scales, the power barely being contained within his body.

Though the power has stopped taking him over now, the changes still remain. I'd like to think the first ref I made for Ratha was what he looked like before it started to take him over.

Old ref/design under cut, as well as speedpaint and link to the wip post of this design where I show a moodboard for design inspos.

(THE OLD REF)

(Speedpaint)

Link to the wip post

And link to the og ref post if anyone is interested lol

[afrognamedsparrow]

My mhs2 nargacuga, blacksoot!! She's the absolute mvp with that stealth honestly

[kizzorelli]

The numbers as funny reaction images

Because I love them sm (and the Floof ¿Quieres? Needed the rest of her family) tag your fav

[ammoknightsofficial]

Translating the Dev's Headcanon Spread for Kyle's Family

Alright, so, I've gotten my hands on the Monster Hunter Stories 2 Art Book! That means it's time to translate This Image, piece by piece! The text on this is quite small, and the halftones can interfere with legibility at times, but I managed, for the most part. I'll be including notes for each section, particularly anything that may seem like an odd or interesting choice, for Maximum Transparency!

Everything's Under the Cut!! Have fun!

母：優しく穏やかな女性 // The Mother of The Family. A Loving, Gentle, and Quiet Woman.

I've chosen to write this in full sentences, rather than the original format, since that feels easier to communicate. You may notice that "Gentle" is both Green and Blue, and that's because 優しく and 穏やかな both communicate a kind of Gentleness, with 優しく being more like "Tender" and 穏やかな being more like "Calm".

カイルがまだ幼い頃に��にかかりこの世を去ってしまう // She Fell Ill when Kyle was Very Young. She never Recovered, and Passed Away when he was still just a Child.

Before I Get Into Translation Notes - I Have Some Thoughts.

I'm going to be fully transparent - this part is one of the main reasons I got the book. I had my suspicions that she was terminally ill and died when he was young, but I didn't want to make any absolute statements until I could properly translate this passage. I had basically no doubts about it, though - this particular scene here is absolutely striking, and communicates what's going on extremely well even if you can't read it. Kyle's too young to understand what's going on. He thinks a flower will make her feel better. Meanwhile, you have the second youngest brother that's just barely old enough to know, and in that horrible point where he understands what's happening, but doesn't know what to do or how to handle it. Then there's the middle child, with enough emotional intelligence to know that comforting the second youngest and not dissuading Kyle's - the youngest of them all - attempts to help is the absolute best course of action here, to keep everyone strong while their mother (tries, and fails to) fight(s) her Terminal Illness. It's really amazing character work, all in one simple image.

This explains a lot about Kyle's actions during the course of the story. It's kind of difficult for a lot of people to understand why he reacts the way he does to his father getting injured, but with the context that he watched his mom die of a Terminal Illness when he was practically just a baby, and was powerless to do anything about it... It really makes sense, doesn't it? On a personal level, I mean. It also puts this post-game line into some new perspective...

"I'm not putting on a brave face" is such particular wording, and such a particular reassurance to give. He's had to before, and the way he's saying this almost implies - to me, at least - that maybe the player character is intended to, perhaps, know about that bit of history. That's all Speculation, though - I just find it an incredibly interesting string of implications.

As for Translation Notes...

The main thing that may seem out of place is the fact that "She never Recovered" is in both Red and Green. That's actually nothing special, it's just the fact that her illness and her death are being linked together in this passage. She died because of her illness - not because she got, I don't know, eaten by a dragon or something later, in some odd unrelated event. She was Terminally Ill, emphasis on Terminal.

カイル家族イメージ　―　作中には出てこない設定イマージです // Headcanons about Kyle's Family - These are Characters + Character-Establishing Headcanons that Do Not Appear in the Story.

Apologies for putting the Document Title all the way down here. I wanted to talk about Kyle's mom first, lol. I've already explained my reasoning for translating イメージ as Headcanon. I don't think anything else is all that noteworthy.

A Chart Depicting the Developers' Ideas for What the (Living Members of the) Family Looks Like. In Birth Order, we have...

長男：真面目・優等生　―　23年

First-Born: Serious + An Honor Student - 23 Y.O.

次男：自信家・明るい　―　21年

Second-Born: Self-Confident + Cheerful - 21 Y.O.

三男：優しい・賢い　―　18年

Third-Born: Kind + Wise - 18 Y.O.

四男：勝気・負けず嫌い　―　16年

Fourth-Born: Determined + Hates Losing - 16 Y.O.

Me, personally, I think the birth order sounds right, but I'm not a huge fan of how young everyone is. The Fourth-Born looks 19-21 to me, the Third-Born looks in their mid-20s, so on and so forth. But that's partially just the fact that I, myself, am currently in my 20s, and generally really prefer writing + drawing adults. Straight up, I clocked Kyle as being at least 18 when I was doing my playthrough of the game, but this image seems to imply he's about 15. Extremely weird thought to me. I will personally continue writing him as an adult, and his siblings as generally way older than the Devs are estimating. That has no bearing on this piece of Dubious-Canon, however, just something I wanted to mention as a bit of an oddity to me.

Also, the second Kanji in the Birth Orders actually specifies that they're all sons (男), but I'm using the Gender Neutral forms of the Birth Order terms just because I find that more comfortable and less clunky, personally. No other reason.

And, no, I don't really know what that bit of handwriting next to the Third-Born's head is. I also currently cannot fully decipher what this passage (originally below the Headcanon Spread) means, though that's likely just a Skill Issue.

If I figure it out, I'll likely Reblog this Post with an Update, but for now, I think I've covered what I can.

Thanks for Reading!! Hopefully you found this interesting, and maybe you found it useful!! The print on this spread was really, really small, and at times quite frustrating to decipher - hell, I just straight up gave up on the above passage - so any comments or compliments in the notes will be appreciated!!

[tigibopper]

Let's try this again- When the den is golden-

[agentsketchy]

Well, starting off this year strong with a new sketchbook!

I had a lot of fun drawing my girl Leonie for the first time properly and this just makes me excited to draw her more with the rest of her monsties!

I’m also hoping to post the last few pages in my previous sketchbook over this week so keep an eye out for that😉

[drakomachina]

stay close, to me

[9reydau]

what's wrong babe you've hardly touched your naviburger

[uimanhosa]

[bunny-hare]

I made a gif

[cryingbluez]

2 versions of both armed version and version without arms, one with purple outlines to help with distinguishing whats what and one without the purple lines

New monster hunter oc (specifically in the mhstories/stories2 canon). I just wanted to make a Tigrex that was inspired by a xenomorph.

(No rider as of writing this, don’t know if I will ever give her a rider tbh lol)

I called the species “Hollow-Abyss Tigrex”, it was a placeholder name, but I just never came up with anything lol, Hollow for caves where the species are found (hollow earth/deep caves), abyss for the deep dark (and also in ref to space, e.g. how its based on xenomorph’s), and Tigrex is self-explanatory. 

More under the cut (e.g. info on her, and her species) (when talking about the species I will use HATigrex)

About the species: 

HATigrex live deep within large cave systems, where no human or wyverian have ever stepped, so HATigrex’s are an undiscovered species.

They live in small groups within cave systems, but isn’t a pack animal, just content to live amongst each other. Often they tend to group together within the same gender, though a female may join an all male pack as a protector from other groups.

The female of the species are bigger than the males, and more aggressive than the males too. They will often bully the males of their species for food. But the females also don’t mind protecting males they’ve bonded with/group with. Females are on the largest sizes Tigrex’s can get where as males are on the smallest sizes Tigrex can get. 

The males have more bioluminescent than the females. The glowing parts on them is to try to attract prey, the more glowing parts on them the more prey they attract, leading to them being desirable due to bringing food closer. 

Males are often more docile, and when in groups will often play/rough house together, often seen as goofy. Whereas females in groups will often be seen lazing about together/grooming each other. 

Their cave systems are rich within bug life/giant bug life, and other similar critters which HATigrex hunt for food.

HATigrex don’t mind hunting bigger things e.g. any other monsters that happen to get into their cave systems.

They use the echos of their footsteps as a sort of echo location, and are very precise when charging due to being able to tell what their prey are going to do just by the echos that come back to them. 

They’re normally at the top of the food chain in the caves, but are normally outclassed by creatures such as Gaismagorm or Oltura (before it ‘hatched’/the worm forms). Though groups of HATigrex’s will work together to drive off Gaismagorm, they couldn’t defend themselves much from Oltura. 

If humans/wyverians were to meet HATigrex most would of them would try to attack the humans/wyverians just seeing them as food. If they’re full on food they’re almost docile and don’t mind the humans/wyverians coming up to them. Though the female HATigrex can be slightly more unpredictable, and may snap occasionally.

(will edit this part when I think of more info. If anyone wants to give me ideas on more info to add or to add their own ideas lmk ^^ either in the comments/dms/or asks)

About Majaw:

Majaw unlike most of the females of her species is more closely personality wise to the males. Her mother was in a group of males and died protecting them. Leading to Majaw being raised by the males of the group, which she ended picking up on their more docile/playful nature. She still does have some aggression within her but is often on the docile side. 

She was separated from her group due to a cave-in, leading her into a cave system that was more close to the surface/outside world, other monsters within the cave system pushing her even further to the surface. She's often hiding due to being in an unfamiliar environment, and often tries to stick to what caves she can get into. She’s within the Alcala region, when not in the caves she's hiding out within the Etulle Lofty Trees location, hiding in the denser parts of the forest. 

She’s scared of humans/wyverians to some extent, after she was able to hear a fight between a human/wyverian and monster and was able to detect the human's scent and knew the human and wyverian won. She’s a little less afraid of riders, due to having scents of monsters on them and monsters seem friendly towards them. If she smells a rider with food on them, she will go up to try to beg for food, struggling slightly to find food within this new environment. 

Majaw is a fairly friendly monster, just very shy due to not knowing what's going to attack her or not in this new environment. If a monster was to come up to her with no aggression, she would just assume it's another one of her kind coming to hang out, as she's only really known her own kind to be fairly tame to one another. She will often follow that monster around till they chase her off.

Majaw has managed to befriend a Nargacuga, and she’s often seen trailing behind the Nargacuga, or laying with them, often with her face buried within the Nargacuga’s fluff on its neck. (Haven’t made this Nargacuga yet, when I get an idea for the design I will. And I will edit this with more about the friendship.)

(will add more when I think of more to write, so expect this to be edited at some point lol)

[nunppong]

I started drawing MHS again recently