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MUCHAS GRACIAS @sakurarozen POR QUE OBRA DE ARTE MUY HERMOSA <333 She made this amazing digital piece for Nascent with the idea of Pandora after Damian leaves for star city!! ITS GORGEOUS AND SO WARM AND THIS IS LIKE THE PERFECT ALBUM COVER SHOULD I CANNOT BREATH

Thank you so, so much for taking the time out to make this and sharing it with ur fellow Nascent geeks!! I KNOW YALL WAITING UPDATE IN THE WORKS :’)

THANK YOU SO MUCH AH

Vanitas Appreciation Week - Day 1 - Favourite Scene.

UNPOPULAR OPINION BUT - I like the extremely brief appearance of Vanitas in Dream Drop Distance. Why? Because I wasn’t expecting him to show up at all in the game.  AND EVEN THOUGH he had one tiny line of dialogue, I believe it heavily hints towards Vantias’ return in KH3 which gets me excited. 

I’M SORRY IM LATE. And post-post-post-haste is completely responsible for inspiring the painting style I went with in this. It needs work I know~ I’ll get there. ONTO THE NEXT PROMPT.

The chess pieces they use are silver on white and gold on black.

I thought that silver on white represents something that shines in the light, and gold on black represents something that shines in the dark.

I thought the same might be true of Xehaqus, so I drew this picture.

What they inherited was the same light, though in a different form, and I hope it was right for them to illuminate the world from both light and darkness.

ppl wanted vanitas on his own

NieR Automata Devola & Popola at City Ruins Illustration by Himiko (SINOALICE Mangaka)

I usually don’t do this kinda stuff, but let’s talk about that last steven universe episode because I need to vent. Steven has PTSD. When a person experiences trauma, the supporting relationships this person has will be one of the most determinating factors when it comes to developing PTSD. Until Future, Steven had a really great support net, but then everyone started drifting away. Steven lost his support net, and his trauma started manifesting as c-PTSD. The gems had been really absent this season, and chapter after chapter we saw how he felt. How Connie went from a supporting relationship to a trigger. And in these last two, we saw two irreversible turns. First, he has stopped trusting Greg with his issues. Greg was a loving father but didn’t give Steven discipline, structure. And steven is missing this so much right now. After the van crash, Greg, instead of apologizing (validating Steven’s feelings) just… said he was proud of him. After he crashed a van. And this makes him feel like he can’t rely on him anymore. Because whatever he does, Greg won’t give him any kind of structure. He’s just like mom. Then, in the next chapter, the gems instead of being patient, demand an answer from him, telling him how “somebody could’ve been hurt”… when steven was on the floor, hurting. Again, steven doesn’t feel like he can trust them, so he runs to the only place he feels he can be with someone where he can be himself. Jasper. But Jasper isn’t the kind of gem who likes talking about feelings. She likes fighting, so she tells him to unleash all his feelings in the form of violence. Now, this can be a good strategy when it’s controlled, but she wants the opposite. She wants steven to use all his strength. So he does. He stops restraining himself, stops caring about hurting, and enjoys fighting. And when he does, he shatters her. Now, this is the breaking point. The guilt steven must’ve felt must’ve been unbearable. He enjoyed fighting, he enjoyed letting out his anger, and he shattered her. Something he despised his mom for. And now he is just like her. And when miraculously Jasper survives, he hopes her to be mad, to scream at him. He’s apologizing over and over again because he’s drowning in guilt. But it is THEN when jasper bows at him. Claiming him as a superior. They are no longer equals, steven can no longer rely on her because they are at a different level. He’s at a different level than everyone else when what he needs most is someone to be at his same level. His last support net on earth just shattered. So now he’s going the only people who can be on the same level as him. The diamonds. He’s desperately searching for someone who can be his support net, give him structure, purpose, but… Something tells me he’s not gonna find it.