Merch Giveaway?! 🤯✨💜 Indeed!

overheard someone say that lesbians don’t have male icons the way gay men have female icons…. baby you have not logged onto tumblr dot com. the lesbians are dedicating blogs to men who look like the default mii

“do you think Luffy knows about ‘nothing happened’”: still painful but not as new, well known and discussed by now

“do you think mihawk and perona know what happened to Zoro after he fought King bc mihawk made him a vivre card”: FRESH, IMAGINATIVE, GOING TO HAUNT ME FOR MONTHS

@where-does-the-heart-lie this is what your Sabo + G5 art did to me are you proud

@andaniellight remember how I said I had a some sketches of awakened!Perona yeah this is related

Tell us some facts about Amon pls 🙏

Don't judge my English today I had to fight the demons of my PhD and my brain has just given up at some point oTL

✦ Some facts about Amon!

Has a terrible sense of direction. He gets lost in his own palace a lot and it's like a running joke among his staff.

He got his white strands of hair because Xal wanted to try dying his hair white but was embarrassed to do it alone. They both settled on doing just streaks for starters and...it has been that way for a long time! :^)

Obviously hits his head on doors a lot

How would each love interest react to walking in on the MC naked or taking a shower?

I wanted to thank you all for your asks, they cheer me up a lot and keep my mind out of things. I want to apologize because surely my latter responses are more poorly written than usual when it comes to my English oopsies, but I hope y'all have fun anyway!

✦The LIs reacting to walking in on the MC naked!

✦ Amon: "Need help with that?" *friendly wink wink* (he's just teasing. Unless......)

✦ Raeya: Closes the door immediately, "Oh, sorry. I'm really sorry." She's very apologetic later and never walks up again to the MC unannounced. It turns out to be quite funny.

✦ Gael: Goes pale. Stares. He then realizes he's staring. Hits his head on the doorframe while trying to leave quickly. "My apologies! I didn't mean—ouch!—sorry, I almost knocked that over—Excuse me!"

✦ Envy: "AURHJCH?! CIRCLES, PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" Slams the door closed, absolutely horrified and blushing terribly. "This idiot, thinking this is their house! YOU COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING!"

✦ Ara: Starts talking about whatever she wanted with the MC; it takes her a while to realize they're naked and even longer to get the hint that she has invaded their privacy. "Oops! My bad! Yep, leaving!"

✦ Xal:

Says nothing. Leaves. He will never forget, will worry about the MC seeing him as a weirdo and will act very awkwardly later until the MC reassures him it's okay and they know it was an accident.

✦ Father Pride: "Dear circles! I'm very sorry, I didn't know you were indisposed! So unthoughtful of me. It won't happen again, I assure you—ah, yes, I should be leaving...Excuse me."

✦ Lázaro: Says whatever they meant to say to the MC. Leaves. Doesn't think too much about it, really.

✦ Cécile: Looks at the MC from head to toe, emotionless. "We are leaving in five. Don't think I won't drag your naked ass out of here if I come back and you aren't ready."

zoro is a weapon for his crew but in the world of one piece, swords have free will. they choose their wielders, challenge them, test them, act against their wishes, and if they find their owner unworthy they curse or kill them. characterizing zoro as someone who'd reject his own personhood to be a sword for his crew is wild cause he clearly sees swords as people 😭 he held a burial and apologized to yubashiri!

if luffy suddenly became evil with no way back and asked zoro to do something horrific, zoro is the first person who'd cut him down to protect the more vulnerable members of the crew. yes luffy knows this and it's exactly what he expects of his swordsman. luffy holds him to that standard because it's the standard that zoro demands to be held to. they're soooo normal and sane about each other

Qin: I’m not saying I would make a better King, that’s unsaid… Hades: It’s not unsaid when you say it. Qin: No, I’m saying I’m not saying it, so, in fact, it is unsaid.

What do the characters do to deal with stress?

✦ What do the characters do to deal with stress?

✦ Amon: Takes a loooooong bath in the private baths of the palace. Smokes his most expensive tobacco and gets a massage—all at the same time.

✦ Raeya: Prepares tea. Like really preparing tea from start to finish. She picks the leaves, prepares them, boils the water, creates her own tea mix... and after all the process, she drinks it. In silence.

✦ Gael: Plays the piano or the harp, without a music sheet or an idea. He just plays, lets his emotions flow freely, and it helps him clear his mind.

✦ Envy: He walks to the beach to watch the stars or sits on a bench in the gardens and just watches the birds.

✦ Ara: She does some farming! She goes to have a talk with the many animals living with her, pets them, cleans their homes—whatever that puts her mind back on the present.

✦ Xal: Stress is his way of life so it's pretty difficult for him not to be stressed. On a lucky day he'll be able to focus completely on a project and spend hours and hours working on it, enough to make him forget about whatever he was stressing about for a while at least.

✦ Father Pride: He usually doesn't have time to stop being stressed to begin with, but he likes to sit down and read something. Maybe light some scented candle.

✦ Lázaro: They clean! Clean the windows, or behind the fridge, or the bathroom. Clean as in cleaning profusely and in depth.

✦ Cécile: Rarely stressed. Bad sign if he's stressed. He smokes a cigarette. And if that doesn't work he folds paper (kind of like origami) to regain his focus.

✦ AMON AND ARA'S REWORKS - FEEDBACK GATHERING

Did you think the party was over? NO!

Here we are with a new badge of freshly backed sprites—this time introducing reworked Ara and reworked Amon!

This round, to better listen to feedback, we've decided to go one platform at a time, starting with Discord because it offers faster responses both from our supporters and from us, and then Kickstarter as of yesterday. So let's see what you Tumblr folks have to say!

✦ AMON

(Remember you can open the images on a new tab to zoom in!)

So, let's list the changes!

✦ PRE-FEEDBACK:

Defined patterns and accessories  

Broader shoulders

More body fat

Made his face thicker

Better patch placement  

More relaxed pose

Improved his tattoos (eventually you'll get to see it)

✦ POST DISCORD FEEDBACK:

Gave him his sharp cheekbones back

Made his head a little bigger (was to small)

Made his neck thinner

Gave him his Adam apple back

✦ ARA

✦ PRE-FEEDBACK:

More defined clothing + more detail in some areas  

Defined silhouette (especially her hair) I wanted it to have more rounded shapes, not that spiky  

More relaxed / natural pose

✦ POST DISCORD FEEDBACK:

Corrected how her skirt flows in relation to gravity and her own body

Legs and knees fixed to properly reflect her body shape

Saturation on the upper part of her hair lowered

Upper part of her hair modified to better reflect the fluffiness of the first sprite

Hand pose modified to adjust to her hip

Gave her her moles / beauty marks back

Corrected the stretch marks on her legs to appear more natural

And I think that's it! As always, any kind of feedback is welcome, via any of our socials. You can even contact us privately at info@ravenstar.games! 💜

Before I forget—have some wonderful Holidays, and talk to you soon! 💜