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Not an ask, but I just wanted to say you’re doing an excellent job with your art and everything! I’ve been seeing you and your art around Tumblr for a few months now, and I’m absolutely in love with your style and how much you’ve improved~ ☺️✨
Thank you so much! I’m happy to hear that you love my art! I’m always seeking to improve my art and to know that others can also see my improvement warms my heart ✨
Hi Sig 👋🏼, uh, any tips on drawing yoshi ? I would like to start drawing him eventually, and you're the expert ✨️
Well besides practicing and using as much official artwork, models, sprites, and sometimes even fanart as references to help you get a better understanding on how to draw Yoshi, there are two tips I can give.
One tip is relating to Yoshi's body shape. I remember someone at one point had drew a croissant and a banana as a way to differeinte the body proportions between modern yoshi and classic yoshi lol
As someone who likes to explore and do random experiments on the Yoshi designs, I would often use any kinds of shapes or objects to give a Yoshi an unique body shape from their standard classic and modern designs. For examples, here are the other foods I've sketched out to make some non-standard looking Yoshis as seen below
The other tip I have is relating to Yoshi's head. His face is round and full of circles if that makes sense. I think after sketching out a circle for the head first, it's best to add another circle (the nose) to overlap it since Yoshi's nose pretty much covers his whole face lol After that, you add two small ovals there for eyes and then add yet another (although a bit smaller) circle for the cheek.
Now this is where you draw over the sketch to make the character look a bit more recognizable. I think what's great about this particular sketch is that it can work for both Modern Yoshi and Classic Yoshi's heads, albeit with a few changes. Pretty neat!
I dunno if there are other tips that I have about drawing Yoshi, but I hope these two tips help! ;D
Wurf wof. Mrrp meow,, (/pos) haiiii..! srry we haven't sent asks
Hope u guys r doing okayy.. 🐊 is sending wings hugs to who ever wants them. (^ˎ_ˎ^)
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Haiiii!! Nice to meet you! Meow meow meow pats you, no need to be sorry abt not sending asks! Hope you’re doing good!
Excellent news bestie
Finished the sketch for dreamcatcher :]! Just thought id let u know lol
Can't wait to show you!
TY SO MUCH!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE!
I was shadowbanned for almost two years so I'm just as in the dark as you are
People are actually leaving death threats. Yikes
Sorry for not replying sooner, but can you give me context for what you're saying?
Hello, well, since you are a Nosferatu watcher, what is your opinion on Knock?
Silly gremlin man (positive)!!! He’s got all the energy in the world and more I swear, bro straight up climbs a whole building and darts around the streets with an angry mob following him like it’s nothing lol. When the movie first introduces him the text wall comes up explaining how he’s Hutter’s boss and everything, I was immediately like “ohhh what’s this tense music for?” and then he appears on screen with the symbol paper and it’s like “OHHHH, ok I see he’s the vampire’s thrall/familiar character” lol XD
Strange question, but would you alright with responding to this with your separated username? Im dyslexic and have a very hard understanding what it says ^^"
Sure no problem!!! :D I’m kinda dyslexic too so I understand, I’m gonna put it in bold too cause that helps me sometimes if that’s alright d(^^ ).
Chibi Short Death
oh yeah since you're a huge Simon fan,
what are your thoughts on Super Castlevania IV?
Ooooooo I love CV4 so much, I’ve replayed it a lot : D. I’ve gotten pretty close to being able to beat the whole game in one sitting really fast lol. I think the only big gripe I have with it is that Dracula doesn’t get to have a second form/curse of man battle which is kinda sad. He just kinda gets Dracula part two but with a spookier face and not the cool demon dragon thing. But I guess Simon’s theme playing kinda makes up for it in a way so uhhhhh yeah. The music is absolutely banger in this game ong, I want the vinyl of this soundtrack so bad (TwT ). The art is so pretty toooooo, the pixel art is great agdjshwg. I love how much this game likes the color green.
I see it as a reimagining of the first game and lump them both together with X68000/Chronicles as the same part of the story if that makes sense? And not the English manuals or anything cause I know that CV4 was marketed as a sequel when it’s actually not in Japan 💀💀💀. Especially since later games take elements from it (SotN with Slogra and Gaibon and stuff) so it seems to be accepted I guess.
i absolutely love your tags on my post about the mysterious woman, it's nice seeing someone who's as passionate about her as me ❤️
Hehehe, thank u, I’m pacing around all happy about it rn (>.< ). I love Simon’s Quest and how genuinely odd everything that happens in it is.
And the Mysterious Woman doesn’t get talked about very much and y’all are missing out!!! She’s so so so fun to speculate about!
I ran into I think it might have been an old conversation on like Gamefaqs or some other comment section somewhere and there were a surprisingly large amount of people in the conversation who said that when the game came out they assumed that she was meant to be Selena, and that’s just aaaaaa so so interesting to me. And it wasn’t just American fans either, there was someone from Japan who assumed the same. It’s so awesome getting to see the perspectives of people who were there when the game was new and this theory has me going nuts sometimes lol. On one hand it makes sense for the ghost woman in the Belmont family graveyard to be someone from the family, but on the other hand is she really “mysterious” anymore if it’s someone Simon would know?
And why did the Mysterious Woman not mention the Tooth of Vlad and only the other five pieces that she knew would partially summon Dracula instead of the intended burning, burying, and breaking of the curse? Especially if she’s meant to be Selena/Simon’s wife or if you interpret her as Sara? Simon’s Quest really went for the twist of having the call to action character and the one to get Simon out of whatever rut he was in for 6 years in the first place be the first person to lie to him. Which is just so!!!! Aaaa!!!!!!!!!!! This also raises the question: is the Mysterious Woman actually a force of good? Or did she just know that Simon was desperate enough to believe what she was saying to him? I’ve seen some people theorize that she was some kind of Dracula cultist or even a possible form of Death because of this.
Or was she completely right that summoning and killing Dracula is the only way to break the curse? After all a lot of other games in the series that revolve around curses end in Dracula being brought back and defeated. But this is also a strange option as usually when Dracula is resurrected it’s by cultists or Death or whoever else and it’s not a good thing and is just for the purpose of having the evil dark lord do evil things. So that would make this game one of the few scenarios in which Dracula’s resurrection is justified which is so weird I just— thinking about Simon’s Quest to hard is gonna kill me one day lol X,,,,,D.
She also says that one line of “within your own heart, you might be able to defeat the evil if you wager your own life” and thinking about that along with the ominous vagueness of the endings all having different eulogies so similar that you could genuinely make an argument for any of them being the canon ending and the fact that almost all of Simon’s symbolism is related to self sacrifice and martyrdom is uh… interesting. Also a lot of people forget that the area around Castlevania is also cursed, not just Simon. The swamps are messed up, the towns get less saturated in color more empty the closer you get to the castle, and there’s monsters everywhere, this wasn’t entirely a selfish endeavor to save himself.
Anyway, the Japanese manual also talks about the Mysterious Woman in specific ways, appearing and disappearing with the mist. And maybe this is a way to keep her as mysterious as possible, but it’s an interesting choice of words. They could’ve said she walked away into the mist, but they specifically said “disappear”, which is an awfully ghostly thing to do. And it’s also weird cause we kinda do see another character suddenly appear out of thin air in a graveyard in who I like to call the Garlic Guy. The Garlic Guy is also massively under appreciated like what the heck is up with that whole interaction 💀💀💀. Go to the graveyard, only at night, and some hooded figure will suddenly begin to exist in front of you if you lay garlic on the ground and then give you a bag. And then like most things it’s completely unexplained and you just have to keep moving on. I’m thoroughly convinced Simon is just as confused as we are lol. And in a way she is also treated the same way as any other NPC: she does something unexplainable and is never mentioned or important again. The way the game is written I swear it’s designed to make you feel anxious and rushed, ya know like a guy who is actively dying would feel.
And the fact that none of this is ever explained is just so ominous. It adds to the tension of the game and themes of not being able to trust anyone. Nobody trusts Simon, Simon can’t determine who’s trustworthy, there’s NPCs that you don’t even get to know who or what they are, sometimes even the hint books aren’t particularly helpful, things happen and you just have to keep going as to not waste any time.
Hopefully any of this makes sense lol I ain’t reading all that again to check cause I gotta go have lunch cause I forgor about it whoops. Anyway I am very normal about Simon’s Quest and every character in it, please everyone play this game it’s good I promise— (;w; )
Edit: oh my god I did not realize how long this ended up oopsie—
This might sound silly, but I think it's really cute/funny that Simon still gets hit on and called attractive by folks in the Town of Alba, even with the curse plaguing him.
I agree tbh lol. I’ve seen a couple translations of it that say the women are a little more uh what’s the word.. blunt in the original Japanese, fun fact! Think like the difference between someone saying “you’re cute” and “I want you” lmao. I love imagining Simon, cursed and dying, getting hit on and being all awkward about it cause he’s not used to compliments in the first place and also he knows he looks like a corpse right now 💀💀💀. It’d make for a silly cutscene or something X,,,D.
did you know Dissonance also has the Simon wraith.
Yes! And if I remember correctly they are found in the Wailing Way and the Shrine of the Apostates (also known as Heretic’s Grave) both in castle B, which is near where the Smiling Statue (which looks a lot like Carmilla) can be found. :3
Also, the Energy Circle being found here, over a particular seemingly important marble coffin no less, is interesting considering it’s the whip upgrade that lets Juste spin the whip like Simon can in CV4 (albeit in way more neat of a circle lol).
Also on the topic of items, there’s a lot of interesting furniture descriptions too.
The Hero Statue and the Tall Clock seem pretty obvious. Simon would’ve been the most recent hero of the time and really the first of his family to get very much respect for it. The clock just directly mentions Juste’s ‘granddad’ so like yeah.
The Smiling Statue just straight up looks like Carmilla’s mask and is probably a Jojo reference since Carmilla is one lmao anyway but I’m not sure why she’s called a Goddess here, pretty interesting. These other two just had some weird descriptions of a presence in general.
The only thing I can’t figure out is who the Sage Statue is even supposed to be. The other two seem to have a pattern, so I’d expect like a Skull Statue or something to be Death/Dracula (as he was a skeleton ghost in Simon’s Quest) or something, but no it’s just some old guy. Maybe he’s looking so smug because he knows he’s out of place and messing with us lol. And the names of the statues also have some kind of relation to who they are (Carmilla smiles, Simon is regarded as a legendary hero) but the word ‘Sage’ just kinda doesn’t relate to any character I can think of other than like idk one of the random old guy towns people, but why would he get a statue? It’s odd, hopefully I’ll figure it out eventually tho.
Harmony of Dissonance has a lot of really interesting details in it, especially Simon’s Quest references, that make sense considering it takes place right after it and revolves around the plot of Maxim trying to recreate the glory of that last Dracula battle from it while not knowing the context behind why Simon did that, so they’re pretty intertwined in that way, it’s really cool :D!!!
I should probably make more general long analysis posts about these kinds of things sometime if I can actually gather everything into one place, cause this kind of random detail gathering stuff is really fun hehe >:3c. This also kinda just ended up a rant that left the topic and went to others so whoopsie (XwX)
Honestly my ideal Castlevania cartoon would be something akin to Samurai Jack
Maybe with a TV-14 rating at most
I’ve never seen Samurai Jack, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about it :0. The art’s really cool too. And yeah, Castlevania games have mostly been about T rating, maybe M on some (I’ll have to check what CoD and LoI are considered cause I forget), definitely E for a lot of them tho. TV-14 is a pretty good general rating for the series tbh.
Some games’ stories could be done well in more mature ratings, but only really for horror/violence reasons and maybe the inclusion of some of the less clothed enemies. I know a lot of people disagree with this, but I think a Simon based show could be really cool (TwT ). I’ve seen a lot of people say that Simon doesn’t have enough content, characters, whatever, and I get it, but I think he has enough. There’s the plot of the fated hero born into this duty who looks up to his ancestors and doubts his own abilities managing to survive the horrors and defeat the ultimate evil, only to end up cursed in the process and have a terrible downfall both physically and in the eyes of the public and possibly could have a bittersweet, ironic ending of only being seen as a hero after sacrificing himself; that’s a lot on its own and not even all of it for one sentence length’s sake. But there’s also blank spots in his story and vague parts that could be further explored and explained like that years long gap in between CV1 and Simon’s Quest or what actually is going on with the ending implications. Idk I just think it could be really cool, especially if they make it more horror focused and darker as it goes on, if that makes sense.
for the um. the headcanons. simon and alucard…..
simon first :)
sexuality headcanon: he's probably bi but i think he leans more towards women
gender headcanon: not sure yet but he's definitely some guy
a ship i have with said character: him and the mysterious woman cuz one of her alternate name is literally beautiful maiden he's got a little crush methinks
a BROTP i have with said character: no one sadly i feel like he's a total loner compared to the other belmonts
a NOTP i have with said character: nothing really 👍
a random headcanon: despite his tough guy attitude i think he loves cute things and has a pet cat :) also he's autistic and semi verbal
general opinion over said character: love him dearly and he's one of my fave belmonts i am simonbro for the rest of my life
alucard now
sexuality headcanon: he is GAY
gender headcanon: he's probably nonbinary but he has to kill his dad and doesn't have time for that rn
a ship i have with said character: RICHTERCARD FOR LIFE RICHTERCARD SWEEP they literally invented love
a BROTP i have with said character: literally so many but i love his relationships with the sorrow crew especially soma and yoko
a NOTP i have with said character: him and trevor sorry i do not fuck with trevorcard at all. also him and maria that's a 17 year old girl
a random headcanon: since he's immortal he's extremely behind on stuff so he's very much a how do you do fellow kids type of guy
general opinion over said character: he's my very first pathetic blonde man i was obsessed with and he got me through 2020 so i will forever be grateful to him i love you alucard 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hello chibishortdeath! I hope you don’t mind me sending an anime recommendation. This anime sorta reminds me of Simon’s Quest and so I thought you might enjoy it (and it makes me fantasize of what an animated Simon’s Quest might be like). It’s Dororo (2019) and the whole series is available on YouTube. It’s basically got a protagonist suffering from a curse that has to travel to defeat monsters and “gather” body parts. But unlike Simon’s Quest, the protagonist is followed by a kid, so that might not be to your liking. But I just can’t recommend it enough! It does get really violent and gory though, so here’s a warning.
Oooo, I looked it up and it sounds really cool!!! :O I’ll have to check it out, I think some of my family members might like seeing it too tbh. As much of a legend in manga as Osamu Tezuka is, I’m surprisingly not very familiar with most of his work. I saw a couple episodes of Astro Boy and one of the movie adaptations when I was younger, but that’s about it. So it’ll be cool to actually get into something of his!!! Thanks for the recommendation, I really appreciate it :3!!!!!!!!
Hi! I saw your recent reply, and I wanted to encourage you about your point on making comics about Simon's story: yes yes yes please consider doing it, if you find the time and inspiration! I would love to see what you come up with. All the best!
Aaa thank u so much for the encouragement, I appreciate it (*´꒳`*). It’s cool hearing someone likes the idea! I wanna start planning and writing some rough scripts and outlines for it soon, but it’s been hard balancing everything lately ughhhh. It’s one of my favorite parts of the series tho and I have soooooo many ideas for it aaaaaaa (>.< ;).
Silly little doodle of him 4 u :3
Your art inspires me so much. Thank you for sharing your incredible work!
Thank you!!!! These kinds of messages really do motivate me to keep doing stuff, I appreciate this a lot (*´꒳`*)♡
A rare kinda smiling Simon for u :3 (he’s not used to it, so he’s a little embarrassed)
Oh a tag?!? Wow! Much thanks, @batcastlesociety X3!!!
Favorite color: hard to pick just one, neon green, pastel pink, red, and black
Last song: Blue Monday by New Order
Currently Reading: I just got and finished reading the first book of Berserk recently, so I guess that counts (^^ ;). Also Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood but I can’t find the last book anywhere for the life of me augh. For not manga stuff tho I’ve been meaning to actually read Dracula for months and just haven’t gotten around to doing it (TwT).
Currently Watching: Surprisingly, not much besides like video essays lately. Not any series or tv show or anything at the moment. I rewatched Jaws a couple days ago tho 👍
Coffee or Tea: Tea!!! I have been stupid addicted to those Liquid Death canned teas, especially the peach and the palmer ones :3. Also just a nice cup of warm tea is nice, I have a tea cup that has a little heart shaped handle I use for it X3.
Hobby I’d Like to Try: I want to actually learn how to sew my the sewing machine in my house (not mine) is so loud and difficult (;w; ). I’d really prefer just hand sewing things tbh. Regardless actually doing it requires tearing out and rearranging a ton of stuff in the house and it’s a whole process so I usually just put it off alas.
AU You’ve Been Plotting: Oooooo, so I have a silly idea that’s kinda taking elements from an old famitsu choose your own adventure novel, but it’s a Castlevania story set in the 50s during the production of a movie based on the legends of Dracula and the Belmonts. The main characters so far are the lead actor cast to play Simon who’s name is Peter Dante, the lead actress cast to play Simon’s wife who’s named Lucy (I don’t have her last name figured out yet), the actor cast to play Dracula who’s name I also haven’t decided on yet 💀, and the very corrupted ghost of Simon himself the production crew unknowingly brought in on an old statue they put on set. There’s a lot more details and stuff beyond that, but man if I could make comics consistently I’d be writing it ugh (TwT)
Idk who’s already been tagged or who’s alright with being tagged, but @trafalgarlawtism, @umbrabelmontvania, @lune-redd, and @lazzincats. Again, like others have said absolutely no pressure at all! If you don’t want to, don’t worry your head about it ok 💚\(>_<\)!
Tagged by @the-crow-binary - thank you! Favourite color: Very dark navy blue.
Last song: Hell Above - Pierce the Veil
Currently reading: Re-reading my own fanfic again and again to inform consistency and proper pacing for the later chapters I’m still writing… @_@ it’s madness at this point lol. Aside from that, I recently read a few issues of Conan the Barbarian. Less for the content itself, but larger for anatomy reference for Simon.
Currently watching: I’ve been watching people play and review Castlevania romhacks, specifically for Castlevania 1 and 2. I’ve also spent the last few days watching video essays and cut content videos about the Classicvanias.
Currently craving: There is this pastry I really like from a local plant-based bakery. It’s a monstrosity of a croissant because it’s also a chocolate chip cookie. It’s absurdly sweet, soft, and delicious.
Coffee or tea: Coffee all the way. An iced americano with a little oat milk is my go-to. :)
A hobby I’d like to try: I want to get back into going to the gym consistently, or try rollerblading again. I stopped swimming weekly as well. I need to get back to it. Apart from that, I've always wanted to learn an instrument.
An AU you’ve been plotting: I keep thinking of these really silly modern ficlet scenarios for Simon lol. Thank you so much for tagging me, Crow! (And I’m so appreciative that you and others in the fandom wrote that you're currently reading TRFSB, thank you all so very much! It really made my day to see that. Q_Q)
I tag: @maria-renard-kin, @wingedknightrose, @chexburger, @batcastlesociety, and @innocentdevilmaster ! No pressure. :) Though of course anyone who sees this is welcome to answer, even if not directly mentioned! I’m looking forward to reading all of your answers if you choose to fill it out. :)
I do not care if we aren't moots I'm still going to like every single post you create because I can <3
DAWW THANK YOU <333
I appreciate it so so much :'D