#mastermiithenerd

I’ve been going back and forth on this for a while now. Honestly, for all his sociopathic tendencies, a lot of it comes from other disorders that are clearly more prevalent regarding his issues. You could more accurately say that those tendencies came from his father.

Jingle bells

Joseph smells

Kak with sandals W H Y

mastermiithenerd

replied to your photoset

“It’s been awhile since E3, but meet the rest of the -tans!”

did you style-us 3d after travis touchdown?

Vaguely.  The pose on that particular piece you commented on was absolutely based off Travis Touchdown of No More Heroes, because I thought it would make a neat parallel given the “extending” stylus the original 3DS had, which made me think of Travis’ extending lightsaber-sword.  Another part of the design actually came from a character doodle @bugdoodles did in the old Takamin doodle chat (I believe, all I can remember is that it had striking short teal hair, but I never managed to save it).

At the time (2013) I knew I wanted to do a DS-tan sometime in the future and represent its “Clamshell” with a full bancho-like coat.  Extrapolating from that, I decided this should carry this over to the 3DS’s design as well, but I didn’t want to make the exact same visual design for her (Like the original Windows OS-tans, I wanted to make each -Tan visually unique so they wouldn’t get mistaken for each other).  I settled on shortening the long coat to a jacket with matching pants, and tried to keep the “clamshell” feeling by making the shirt inside the jacket visually striking (settling on a Red/Blue color scheme well associated with old 3D visual technology).  Interestingly, DS-tan wouldn’t be finally designed properly until I was commissioned by @thirteenfunbreaker to design all of the Nintendo Handheld-tans a year later (2014).

From there, when I did the actual first picture of her (in the post you replied to), I was settling on the aforementioned pose to show off the extending Stylus, and I mused about the idea of 3DS being called the “King of Handhelds” much like how Travis is referred to as the “Crownless King” of Assassins, given how 3DS started out relatively low in popularity, but had managed to (at that point) become a runaway success.  This helped solidify the “attitude” or personality of the console-tan I decided I wanted her to have.

Finally i got a moment to do this.