Stuff for rus!AU tgck cuz I promised someone- (mewa sorry I took so long)
They're so cute I'd eat them both tbh
The whole lore is below the cut (loads of text yay)
Setting: a small Russian town in the middle of the early 2000s haunted by remnants of the criminal 1990s
Himiko: is from quite a wealthy family who could afford to send the girl to learn rhythmic gymnastics (which was so easy to pay for considering the equipment and all). Her upbringing was all about constant demands - better, stronger, training, diets.
Still, no matter how hard she tried, it was never enough. The only thing that Himiko got from the sport were underdeveloped body (she hasn't gained much height and remained as thin as a stick) and quite some damage to her joints that still bothers her.
Naturally, her escape from the abusive environment was a less than perfect company and some teenage rebellion. She shaved half her hair, got piercings, began smoking - all that just to get as far from the "perfect girl" image as possible. Somehow, a group of weathered criminals became more of a family to her than the people left at her old home.
These days, Himiko stayed where she could (not that she could peruse the kindness of her old friends too much), hoping to scrape by busking and selling not-so-legal stuff to schoolers. At least it was like that until she met HER.....
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Ochako: is from a poor yet extremely supportive household. While her parents are slaving at work, she takes care of both the house and her disabled grandmom. Dreams of working as a police and studies hard to enroll into the police academy.
She is ruthlessly bullied at school - not that Ochako, with her ton of responsibilities, ever had time to make friends. More than that, the "teacher's pet" is never the favorite student of the class. The fact that sealed her fate was simple - Ochako is... chubby, just like any other woman in her family. It was never an issue before socializing came into view, so being harassed came across as a total shock.
Not that Ochako couldn't fight back - she's always so busy and focused on things that are actually important that the surroundings barely register to her as it is. Besides, her easygoing nature and kindness just let the things pass by, even if she honestly wouldn't mind getting rid of a few pounds...
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Ochako has chosen the dark alleyways on her way back home again. It's easier, if not safer, than listening to the nasty boys calling after her as she passes.
"Fat cow" this, "fat cow" that... What's bad in cows, anyway? Cows are cute and didn't deserve to have an actual insult named after them..... Not that her classmates need a huge reason to harass anyone. Ochako just was unlucky enough to have the wrong genes.
Himiko has been observing the dark alleyway ahead for a while now. She's hoping to prey on someone weak to steal some cash for a dinner, but this far it was of no success.
The girl has been changing places for her "hunt" often enough, but this neighborhood has seen better times for sure. Still, it's early to lower her guard, and Himiko tightens her grip on the butterfly knife in her pocket as she hears someone approaching. To her surprise, it's just a schoolgirl.
Himiko checks the potential prey with a trained eye - clothes old, but certainly taken care of and worn neatly. Such a type holds little interest - parents probably don't even give her pocket money.
It is, for sure, a "good girl" - the type she can easily recognize, as she had been one herself. Now, though, this kind of girls only makes Himiko grimace with open disdain. This is the last thing she can do before the girl turns around.
Their eyes meet - cat-like gold against warm browns, and Himiko can't look away. The petite stranger is so... cute.
I found out that @giltine13 is hosting a cool drawing challenge this October and thought: "oh wow, I can make it about Himiko yay!"
Reaptober Day 1 – Eyes
I'm not sure if I'll be able to draw for every of the prompts, but fun is fun I suppose Σ(゜゜)
So... drawing men, eh?
Dabaldie rules the world
Hair is just a concept don't let it confuse you
😮😮😮 THANK YOU QUEEN ILY 🥰🥺
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'M SO HAPPY RN how you always compliment my art so thoughtfully I swear I'm a damn happy woman 😭😭😭😭💕💕💕💕
(fics are def better than any shitty triggering movie sheeesh I hope ur fine...)
Yippee I can post the art I made for the incredible mermaid Himiko design from @miowess (thanks for it again!!), it was soooo fun to draw I loved it sm 🥺🥺🥺
As it turns out, Love Bullet cupids can have heart-shaped scars over their fatal injury, so here's another cupid Himiko.
Tragically, cupids can't fall in love, but Himiko won't let that stop her from smothering Ochako with the love of other people in her absence. So many other people. An unreasonable number of other people. Ochako doesn't seem to return their affection but honestly? That's just classic harem protagonist behaviour.
Not like Ochako is grieving or anything...
I've been ask gamed. List five of your favorite or top songs, then send this ask to the tenth person in your nnotifications. (copy-pasted) (i usually dont do this but im curious rn)
Hehehe
Hehehehehhe
I have too many fav songs, so I'll do a list specifically for songs in russian too
1. АИГЕЛ - Снег
2. ВЛАЖНОСТЬ - Мороз
3. Убей меня, Эйс – Мой милый убийца
4. Щенки – Никаких таблеток
5. SG17.06 - Почему...
And the ones in English:
1. Grabbitz - Die For You (from that Valorant game)
2. Get Scared – Don't You Dare Forget The Sun
3. Mindless Self Indulgence – Revenge
4. bôa – Twilight
5. Steady Holiday - Tangerine
I don't stick to one genre and I also have a bunch of faves I forgot about but it looks somewhat like this
@lily-claw Told you I love the spider lily lady
I studied her
A lil bit
So here's the sketches
Now a bit of explainations on the text there. I just tried to imagine like she's kinda flower inspired, so why I don't give her kinda petal-like lashes??? (Gives me a bit of Furina vibes)
And you mentioned that she can reincarnate and stuff and I suddenly remember Noragami (the system is kinda similar but as I got it yours works without memory loss??) baby Jusa is just too adorable 🤧🤧🤧
And yeah I had a hard time figuring out how her hair works, but here we are I beat it into shape 😈😈😈
And your lore and the tons of reference pics you offered helped. so. much
Or she'd be happy to cough her lungs out if you're up to some angst- ;)
(hanahaki au society is definitely romanticizing suffering so yeah blood is very about love and her object of affection wouldn't be so against her way of loving you're definitely right here)
Just listen to me I'm not crazy-
Hanahaki AU Himiko would be ecstatic to have hanahaki
It's practically the embodiment of how she sees love – blood and flowers are so. fucking. cute.
Just imagine her over a dirty sink in an abandoned house which league currently occupies, lead here by a persistent itch in her throat, doubling over in a violent coughing fit. But then she opens her eyes – before her a single pink camellia in precious splatters of red, sharply contrasting the the pristine white of the tiles.
She lifts her head to look at her muddy reflection in the cracked mirror. She smiles. No, it's the crazed, manic, awed grin.
Himiko Toga, no doubt, is happy.
I beautiful collab thingy with gorgeous @miowess
🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
This was giving me thoughts, and I remembered some special thing about handwriting culture in Japan, so I'll share
Source: “CUTE STUDIES”. KAWAII (“CUTENESS”) – A NEW RESEARCH FIELD by OANA-MARIA BÎRLEA from Babeș-Bolyai University
The text is about development of kawaii culture in 1970s (and I think this suits Himiko so much...)
Kawaii promotes the appreciation of small, stylized objects and of childish or atypical looking characters considered vulnerable for various reasons (size, looks, attitude, etc.).
This culture spread rapidly among students (especially female students), who started to express their feelings through a nonconformist writing style, considered more modern and closer to the Western world: maru ji (rounded letters), koneko ji (“kitten writing”), manga ji (“comic writing”), burikko ji (“imitation of children’s writing”).
The "soft rebellion" of young people implied “sabotaging” the traditional way of writing by adding small, cute symbols to induce positive feelings and combat alienation.
So basically, Himiko's writing in Japanese could look like this (an example of maru ji handwriting style):
(As I understand, the rough translation is – "This is very cute!", the picture is from Wikipedia)
Okay, but I think Himiko has very beautiful handwriting. She would write in cursive very cute and Ochako doesn't have a ugly handwriting but she doesn't write in cursive. I think she would write as legibly as possible
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