Just A Girl Invested In Too Many Fandoms

Riche <333

I love her, but I don't know if my drawing did her justice T_T

I drew this for Mochijun's 20th anniversary! It was tons of fun to draw so many of her amazing character designs and to show some appreciation where I can!!

16 hours over the span of 3 days…it is done.

a huge banner artwork for the #ThankYouMOCHIJUN hashtag on twitter! i wanted to add more characters but there wasn’t enough time. perhaps in the future!

some characters got some minor refreshes to their design and i’m really happy with them :)

any interaction and feedback is extremely appreciated! 🤍

this is genuinely the best and most useful description of discrimination i've ever seen and its wild that its in the bisexual doomed polycule manga

Since we'll hopefully be getting out of the VnC hiatus soon, and this new arc seems to finally be turning the spotlight back to Noé and calling out some of his more troubling traits for the first time, I've been thinking a lot about him recently.

I've talked before on this blog about Noé's inability to recognize or process bad things when they happen to him alone. He bounces back from and idealizes almost any experience as soon as it's over, even when he absolutely shouldn't. It's one of my favorite traits of his, and it's been lampshaded a couple of times in-manga. Louis calls out how weird his attitude toward his kidnapping is during the mémoire 9 flashback, and the "be a little bothered" from Vanitas and co in mémoire 57 has the same effect.

We also recently got a whole extended sequence of Vanitas and Domi complaining about how Noé also never anticipates harm before it might come to him. He waltzes into dangerous situations like it's nothing, almost as if he thinks he's unkillable. Combined with the above, this is just more of his strange brand of optimistic denial. Everything is fine in Noéland! It can't possibly not be fine! He always trusts and thinks the best of people and situations by default, never wanting to expect they may do wrong, and so long as a given event doesn't involve harm to external innocents and/or Noé's loved ones that he can't rationalize away, he compartmentalizes and denies harm once it's done. Thus he carries on in blissful ignorance, his past suffering having no effect on the blithe trust with which he treats the world.

But in addition to all that, Noé is also very notably divorced from the consequences of his own actions. It's not that he's *incapable* of considering his own effect on people, and he certainly tries to be kind and decent, but much of the time, it just doesn't seem to occur to him that people will have reactions to the things he does. He does as he sees fit, and when his deeds impact the people around him, especially if they produce a reaction that could upset him, it bounces off his mind in the same way that potential traumas do.

Mémoire 13—→Mémoire 63

Dante's in with the house of de Sade.

Someone stole their glasses and now they’re confused 

I tried to go crazy with the colors for the ✨atmosphere✨ but still ended up in my usual purple-pink palette… at least I managed to add some orange and blue colors but idk

It was still fun to draw so 

let it be I guess?? 

VNC Girls Aesthetics

[Image Description: A panel from The Case Study of Vanitas. The Chasseur Ogier waves and says "Your clothes say you're dham information brokers. Is that correct?" End Description.]

Y'know I always thought that Dante and co's little matching suits were really cute, but now that we know it's a dictated uniform rather than a choice the trio made to match each other, it's honestly a little unsettling.

I know lots of jobs have uniforms, but given the power dynamics involved, something about it is just. hm.

This is one of those moments where it's obvious Riche and Johann grew up together. Just look at her face. We just need an unhinged Dante face to complete the set.

Riche is such a gift. The most just like me fr of all anime/manga girls. She infodumps about the Paris catacombs. She immediately gets along with anyone that likes her favorite book. She theorizes about what Marquis Machina looks like. What more could you possibly want?