linashirou - The herald of the yatagarasu
The herald of the yatagarasu

Hi! I'm Lina. 37, She/her. Goth lolita, collector and Chef. Hal Emmerich's waifu. Trying to learn photography 📷Sony ILCE-5000 📸Sony DSC-H400 Amateur writer. Here you can find: Things about my MGS, Dragon's Dogma, self-insert/self-ship and OCs.

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Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots

roots: Is your OC's look inspired by any specific style of clothing or fashion trend? What are the roots and/or inspiration for their look?

face: Describe your OC's face. What's their smile like? Are their orbs cerulean? What would someone notice first when looking at them?

alternate: What would your OC's alternate universe look be? If they're a fantasy character, what's their modern look? If they're sci-fi, what's their fantasy look? What AU would you want to see your OC in, and how would they dress themself? Bonus: Prompt an AU! (Besides DD of course lol)

Some requests from the oc ask game!

I have to thank you for each time you ask me about Lina. It makes me so happy, so from the bottom of my heart, thanks.

Second, as a MGS follower, I will talk about MGS Lina.

Roots: Well. Lina is a Kuro-Gothic Lolita. This is part of the "self insert" side of Lina, because I'm a Lolita since 2008. So her lolita wardrobe is almost entirely black (kuro) and sometimes she uses blue. As I talk sometimes before, her "signature" sweater and jeans is her working clothes in "H.E. Works", inspired in a mixure of Hal's sweater in MGS4 and Jeans as Hal in MGS1. She has the "otamashii" patch in her right leg (another kind of link to Hal's image) and a "Yatagarasu" crow holding a Snake.

Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots

This is something that I made for Lina for my Yakuza fics but it's part of her personality, a symbolism that she carries in all her versions: The yatagarasu is seen, in Japanese mythology as the divine intervention over the human fate. Also as a god that protects you on your travels (because it guided the first emperor). And it is holding the Snake because she was the one capable to tame and calm Majima (Snake in MGS/DD fic)

And her Hairstyle is a huge reference to old anime/80's vibe.

Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots

Face: Ok, I will be super honest here. Besides the inspiration I already mentioned, I have to say that Lina's appearance is also a self insert thing, but I will like to share this: I had a mistake with the last dye and my hair becomes a little darker. Now I look just like Walter's version of Lina, just a little bit older and fatter xD (Just how I canon her after TEC, Hal and her, being older and fatter)

Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots

alternate: Because DD, I was thinking a lot about a real, medieval setting for Lina. I imagine her as a cook/baker from the medieval world. I like to imagine her dressing something like this

Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots
Roots: Is Your OC's Look Inspired By Any Specific Style Of Clothing Or Fashion Trend? What Are The Roots

(The two drawings are from DD artwork, and they're quite accurate to the medieval period)

Sorry about the loooong answer but I always feel like your questions are interesting and I try to dig in.

(Lina's tattoo was made by @mimi-akeblog)

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Last Line Challenge

Last Line Challenge

So happy about this one because @arisenreborn and @bearlytolerant tagged me! Thanks!!! ♥♥♥

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

This is so hard to choose because I'm working in 3 fics and I made a drawing just a day ago. So... I will put a the sketch capture from the last drawing. I wrote as a description/line for this drawing:

"Give me a place full of books, a soft infusion and allow me to be with her. I will not need anything else"

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11 months ago
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11 months ago
WIP Wednesday!

WIP Wednesday!

(A little late but still!) This time @fangbangerghoul tagged me and I have to tell you that I'm working on a second ending for the Dragon's Dogma fic. The problem is that I lost a big part, because at some point Microsoftword.exe didn't save it. So I got a little depressed about it (I realized this yesterday), so I will share the beginning of it.

WIP Wednesday!

Don't believe people who say: "There's nothing new under the sun".

That's not true.

The most unexpected things can happen.

And that's quite a lot when you consider that I'm just a pawn.

As you probably already know (or suspect), the age of a pawn is difficult to determine. I don't know exactly how many human years, how many Springs I've seen go by, but I can say that I've worked with more Arisen than I can really remember or count.

Still, my memory can only recall two of them: the one who gave me life, and the one who made me feel emotions. Their will, and determination were astonishing. The one that gave me life, my own Arisen appeared to be a decent, reasonable person with an unbreakable will, but he gifted me the most bitter feeling: Disappointment.

Some might say: He was the one who made me a being with feelings, and maybe that's the truth, but, in my opinion, she had something special.

Something strange and inexplicable.

"I like to think that we are like moths drawn to the light; this warm, powerful aura that the Arisen have…"

Today, Hal's words carry a different weight, they're like an echo in my mind, haunting me.

Many Awakenings have come and gone… Different Arisen… Different motivations and wills.

But somehow… I feel guilty

Regardless how much experience I once bragged about…

I never expected anything like this.

We had been together for a long time, I'd say months.

Lina was the one chosen by the Dragon in this dimension as the Arisen, the one who would finish him and free the world from the disaster dressed in Crimson. Hal was always by her side. A skinny, eye-glassed, book-loving pawn, brilliant and creative. At first I despised his lack of courage and his shyness.

Now, in retrospect… I can't ignore his true qualities.

His mental agility and his almost unnatural effort to understand life and people; Sensitive, always looking out for her happiness and that of those with whom he lived, including me and Meryl.

How stupid I was.

Surely, as he mentioned on more than few occasions, my "muscular brain" made me indifferent to what some people call the "intelligence of the heart".

If only I had noticed this earlier… I might have noticed that there was something strange going on from the very beginning…

It's no news that Arisens could bring joy to people.

And envy too.

For some strange reason, the negativity becomes endearingly attractive to minds in despair and uncertainty of the approaching end (perhaps this is something triggered by the Dragon's presence).

That day, a stranger approached the Arisen and begged for help. He pulled out a weird piece of paper that claimed to be a letter from a well-known person.

They were barely readable, asking for help to get home, from Bloodwater Beach to Grand Soren.

A long and complicated journey.

To be honest, I have to make yourself clear that it's not uncommon to receive requests for escort, especially on the road, but…

What the hell was that person doing out there in the first place?

Bloodwater Beach is one of Gransys' most remote and inhospitable places…

Why should we help that person?

These questions weren't asked back then.

And maybe that's why I'm here now...

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11 months ago

Re blogging this, because the last one actually gets some love ♥ thanks!

linashirou - The herald of the yatagarasu

Dear god, forgive me, but they love so much each other...


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