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Yaho, I’m emica! Longtime fandom enjoyer, currently in my 30s. I am bisexual and genderfluid; my pronouns are she/her.

I’m originally from the USA, but I’ve been living in Japan since 2009.

I’m fluent in English and Japanese. Since 2022 I’ve also been taking classes in Ancient Greek!

I’ve been active intermittently on this Tumblr account since 2014, originally for the Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan fandom. My fav is Erwin and my main ship is Eruri/Rivaeru.

Since 2022 I’ve gotten into Greek mythology, specifically Patrochilles and any & all Achilles- and/or Patroclus-related myths & retellings. I find them all to be fascinating (I’m particularly fond of the Iliad and The Song Of Achilles, among others) but currently it’s the Hades video game version of the characters that have captured my attention & imagination the most, so you’ll see them here (and other characters from Hades & Hades II) a lot. I also have a big fondness for Zagreus and PZA (Patzagchilles) as well as Zagchilles & Patzag.

I’ve done translation, event blogging, & merch activities for fandom; nowadays I’m mainly into writing, and also occasionally doujinshi/zine activities. My AO3 pseud, as well as my doujinshi circle name is ninnananna.

Other places you can find me:

Linktree

Bluesky

Pixiv

Website formerly known as the bird app

If you like me & what I do and would like to leave a tip, here is my Ko-fi ♡

Currently, my Asks are open!

This Tumblr blog as well as my other social media accounts are FUB free, though I’m always delighted to talk to people & make new friends ♡

I often reblog, create, & discuss suggestive/explicit sexual content across all platforms, so I kindly ask that 18+ adults only follow/interact.

Group/Anthology Zines & Doujinshi I’ve contributed to:

Vow (AOT Eruri, 2016)

DIRTY (AOT Bottom Erwin Anthology, as a member of ETFC, 2022)

Strip Down (AOT Bottom Erwin Anthology, as a member of ETFC, 2023)

Beach Episode (Hades, 2023)

Rewrite the Stars (AOT Mobuhan, 2024)

Doujinshi I’ve produced as ninnananna:

The Upper Hand/ライト・ハンド・マン (AOT Rivaeru, 2022)

Closest To My Heart/だれよりも心を許している男 (Hades PZA, 2025)

Here is a complete list of my posted fics as well as my WIPs & their statuses:

I’ll skip the preamble… HERE THEY ARE!!!

I started them during spring break, meaning it took me exactly 3 months to get them done (as long as you don’t count the additional 8 months of me watching videos, reading books, gathering materials & inspiration, practicing skills, etc…!) I think it was all worth it because I’m really pleased and proud of myself for how they turned out <3

For both dolls I wanted them to have long, voluminous, luscious curly hair, living up to the “long-haired Greeks” epithet of the Iliad, which is why I had to make so many hair pieces for them (9 all together!) Their backs mirror one another, and their eyes are also matching (the only design differences besides color being the eyebrows and Achilles having upturned upper eyelashes while Patroclus’ are downturned.)

I inserted doll skeletons into both bodies for posing purposes (they can sit and lift their arms and necks) as well as magnets into both hands… it’s a bit hard to tell in the above pic (they just have SO MUCH HAIR) but if they stand together as they do in Elysium, with Patroclus on the left and Achilles on the right (heh) they’ll be able to hold hands while simultaneously holding onto weapons in their opposite hands.

Achilles

Achilles’ Hades design gives him blue eyes, but I gave him a more TSOA-inspired scheme with the greens and bronzy browns and coppery orange. The gold flowers in his irises are meant to be yarrow (aka achillea millefolium, the medicinal plant named after him.) Perhaps my favorite feature of his Hadesgame design is the curly side-part and fillet… sooo 1980s aerobicscore (get that man in some leg warmers and a lycra leotard STAT!) and the hair bulging where his fillet is wrapped around it is THE key moe point to me, so I was extremely conscious about incorporating it into my design. The ringlet on the right is also meant to be his shorn lock of hair from Pat’s funeral. The most difficult part with him was finding the right combo of colors… I think the buttery yellow color I eventually picked for the hair washes out the olivey skin tone a bit, but perhaps as a shade it’s fitting for him, lol.

Patroclus

Patroclus’ brown and black colors are accented with hot pink and ice blue, colors I think all go really well together, as well as the latter two incorporating the color scheme of Elysium. His irises are forget-me-nots, evoking the Lethe and Achilles of the Iliad vowing to never forget him even in death. The biggest challenge with Patroclus was getting the beard right… I love the angular, square-shaped design of it in Hades but I wasn’t really sure how to translate it into 3D doll form. I’m pleased with the simple route I took however (especially since even the simple route was kind of a headache getting it into the right position while also fitting in the rest of his facial features) but I like how the cheek darts blended in with the whisker embroidery… a happy accident, haha.

So, asterisk: even though the dolls themselves are complete, they’re obviously still a bit naked, yeah? Which means I’m not putting down the sewing supplies just yet! I have an additional collection of materials gathered for their clothes and accessories. The fillet/laurel crown they’re wearing in the photos aren’t actually finished yet either (they’re still being held up with pins lol.) So, the saga continues for now, and of course I’ll update as I go!

When I last updated, I said I had maybe a week’s worth of work left to get the dolls done, and then… I went radio silent for a month and a half, LOL. Famous last words as it turned out, so here’s what I’ve been up to since then.

Because of IRL obligations, I actually wasn’t able to work on my dolls at all much for most of May… though I did design and assemble a whole new, original set of dolls during that time, and they proved themselves to be even more additional practice!

(Little moon kids… I made 5 of these in less than three weeks lol)

Thanks to them, I definitely avoided a few issues that might have slowed me down during the Patrochilles doll assembly, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

I also said in the last update that I was going to embroider the rest of the hair pieces with the sewing machine and… guys I gave it an afternoon, but controlling the direction of the stitching across some frankly complicated and detailed embroidery lines proved to be my weakness u_u I heard the thread I was using was kind of hard to work with on the machine so maybe I would’ve had better results with a different brand but either way it was constant snags and bumps, and even when I sort of had the technique down it still looked like shit. Idk maybe I was a little too eager to throw in the towel, but I kinda didn’t want to waste a ton of material practicing this particular skill when I realized I could just do it all by hand and it would probably come out looking much better after all.

So that’s what I did, haha. It took an extra 3-4 weeks to finish them all (in which “all” meant SEVEN (7) separate pieces!!!!) but sinking more time into the project was a sacrifice I was willing, nay, eager to make. I really didn’t mind because at this point in the process I had realized how much I LOVE doing embroidery! The repetitive motions are so soothing and I like that I can do it while watching tv or listening to music or a podcast. Spending my free time this way had become really precious to me so tbh I was grateful for the excuse to prolong the experience. And plus, now I get to flex that my dolls are 100% hand-stitched, hehe. But anyway yeah, getting those hair pieces completed one by one would’ve made for dull progress reports, which hopefully further explains the lack of updates haha.

Embroidering hair wasn’t the only thing I accomplished, at least. Once I had enough of them done, I was able to move on to the most exciting part: assembling the dolls!

(pov: it’s 1994 and the boy sitting across from you in class has one of those rattail hairstyles)

(pov: it’s 1994 and your classmate’s dad and his roommate who come to pick him up are still rocking their mullets from 1987)