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sora - 18 - xe/they ⚢ - artist+cosplayer!; fandom art and occasionally my weird experiments

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thank you for the ask, anon!

kaz's comment about his mom's miso soup being too salty in peace walker has always stood out to me--i remember hearing stories about my great-grandma's miso soup also being salty, and she was also working class and lived around the same time as kazumama. she also used dried anchovies instead of dashi in miso soup, (which was apparently a downtown tokyo thing but i think kazumama used to live there too) so i guess i hc kazumama to do the same!

(also while researching for this i found out that yokosuka has its own specific kind of curry! i always thought it being a food option in peace walker was kind of random but now it makes sense)

also, i don't know if it was conveyed clearly, but i tried to base her face on Hashiguchi Goyo's woodcut "Woman Combing her Hair" ↓

oh! and the drawing of kazumama brushing kaz's hair was partially inspired by this scene in totoro:

“I have this dream sometimes that you come for me.

You call me by my name and then you light a cigar and you tell me: ‘It’s time. I’ve come back to make everything right.’

When it’s all over I realize that I’m in bed with a ghost, and you’ve come to take me with you to hell.

In the morning, the squad - what’s left of the MSF - comes to find me. My body is entwined with your skeleton.”

Snake, do you remember when we first met? In the thick of the Colombian jungle’s heat, grenade in hand—