a formidable foe appears

ASCENDANT

Is there anything more profoundly human than to cry?

Orphaned from a young age, you do what you must to survive. But what happens when something sinister disrupts the mundanity of your everyday life?

You begin as a child born to a native mother and a colonist father. Although you are shaped by both cultures, neither has always been eager to claim you.

Amidst war and an ongoing colonisation, you must find your place within the Kingdom of Yawa, or die trying.

Ascendant is an Epic-Fantasy inspired by the ancient Kingdom of Majapahit. This interactive fiction also draws inspiration from ancient manuscripts (such as Pararaton and Negarakertagama,) colonisation and local Southeast Asian folklore, but is otherwise entirely fictional in nature, and therefore, does not contain 100% historical accuracy.

Features:

- play out your backstory

- play as female, male, or nonbinary

- decide the fate of those around you

- face the consequences of your own actions

- play as one of the mythological races based on Southeast Asian folklore

- romance your companions

- or have short (and long) flings

- delve into the magical Kingdom of Yawa and discover its secrets

- uncover your family's secrets

TW: Heavy, mature themes and discussions, such as body horror, war crimes, sexual themes and discussions, cults, religious trauma, colonisation impact, banning of native languages, child abuse, and other potentially triggering materials

DEMO | Playlist

Note: As the local indonesian law bans NSFW content, I will adhere to it by making future sex scenes non explicit (i.e. not mentioning any body parts and focusing more on the intimacy rather than the sex itself,) as otherwise, I'd have to do 12 years in prison. 😭🫶

Children remain among the hardest hit. According to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the war has erased years of educational progress. “Almost two and a half years of attacks on Gaza’s schooling have left an entire generation at risk,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said. About 60 per cent of school-aged children have no access to in-person learning, and more than 90 per cent of schools have been damaged or destroyed.

Mr. Elder also stressed the urgent need to reopen the Rafah border crossing, calling it a “lifeline” for medical evacuations, family reunification and essential services. He said families across Gaza remain “desperate” for the crossing to reopen, warning that prolonged closures are compounding humanitarian suffering.

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My friend Wesal (@shahdgazza) has six children, most of whom are underage. Their education has been severely disrupted. Her youngest son Shawqi loves to learn and he was finally able to go back to school recently.

Please keep supporting this family, so they may continue their education and we can keep Shawqi's sister Farah, who has kidney problems and autism, happy and healthy.

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Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far. If you're not able to donate, at least consider sharing. Thank you.

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“All of the crew has a flag on part of their uniform that indicated their origins, but they asked me what the Australian flag would look like in 50 years’ time. “My response was there would be no way that a Union Jack would still be on that flag. That is because I was certain it would be a republic by that time. “Second, it seemed to me that Australians would have sufficient generosity and common sense to replace that Union Jack with an acknowledgement of Indigenous settlement (Always was, always will be) for at least 60,000 years. “Both of these issues led me to be wearing a flag that looks the way it is - and it pleases me that I insisted on that."

it helps me pay for:

- bottom surgery

- laser hair removal

- college

it also gives me more time to devote to:

- my writing

- Transfem Voices Project

- development of my game, Enter the Wyrm, which is playable now for free in open alpha!

thank you 🫶

Takumi: My thinking on main characters goes like this: the main character is the player, so the character shouldn’t have too strong of a flavor to them. That’s why I didn’t go out of my way to make Phoenix Wright anyone special, or give him any special features — all of his lines are pretty much just what I would say in those situations. And for Maya, I just naturally wrote a character who I thought would be fun to have by your side as a partner character. The two of them live in my head and whenever I would sit down to write the games, it was like I would hear the two of them bantering with each other inside my head. All of this is why it was so hard to write a completely new main character — the most natural parts of me had already all been used up by the Phoenix Wright character. So I tried to take everything about Phoenix and turned them upside-down. With this great turnabout, I came up with Apollo: a character who is aggressive, passionate, and youthful.

Janet: And what about Trucy?

Takumi: Trucy was also the “opposite” of Maya in a sense, though her love of magic comes from my college self, I suppose. I worked hard to get good at stage magic in my university’s magic club.

Janet: You certainly are no slouch at it, that’s for sure. I had the good fortune of seeing you do a new rope trick the other day. That was really something to make the knot completely disappear into thin air like that! And you seem to be into music too, what with your guitar playing. Is that where Klavier got his rocker personality from?

spooky guy in good spirits 👻 no scar yet so, pre-drezen

Thanks for waitingggg! 🥺

The Weeding & Raking Brush Pack is all done: nine brushes for borders & backgrounds & fancy art nouveau frames to give them a little leafy zazzle. I'm getting caught up on missed months (2) so expect another update soon.

⚠️Note that this set is for Clip Studio only!