Just some small design notes and silly comics! I love them ;_;

Thank you for your support!! 💖 I’m glad to hear it. I honestly thought that this level was just an Iori thing so I’m reassured to hear that it’s this one in particular LOL

AHAHAHAA HAR D TO KEEP UP to the standard of my predecessors u know /goes to a corner n draws circles forever/ R U DOIN ur final tutorial? omg pls lemme know what its about so i don't clash ahaha

Have you seen your art, I love your lines and colors!~ and I don’t know how to handle messages like this i’veneverknown… thank you! <3

general opinions: i don't even know where to begin w/this lmao i guess i have to admit i relate to io a lot?  i played desu 2 at a time where i was still really trying to sort out where i wanted to go with myself, and so her overwhelming fear of alienating others with her own opinions and feelings hit way too close to home as i was coming out of a period of my life where i experienced those fears as well.  io could've so easily been exactly what she was in ds2a--a passive trophy girl who has moments where she seems like she could be cool, but her agency is ultimately denied her in favor of male characters taking the reins--but she really isn't.  one of the biggest things the anime missed abt hibiki's relationship as protagonist to io (and to daichi b/c her narrative is in a lot of ways parallel to his) is that he isn't there to protect her, nor does he want to. io's fate system is all about her realizing that hibiki has always seen her as an equal b/c she's a wonderful, talented person whose thoughts matter to those around her.  she has so much agency in the story, from things like chasing after the food thieves without even stopping to see if anyone would back her up, to putting daichi's safety before the fact that she just watched her mother die, to helping hibiki on equal ground with a lot of the mandatory plot points like figuring out how the demon summoning app works.  imo io's narrative really steals the show in its culmination on friday, b/c even though hibiki comforting her is necessary for her to survive the ritual, the real crux of that is her opening up to someone on an unprecedented level (all her previous friendships are heavily implied to have been very superficial given her fear of offending others with how she really feels) and then making a choice for herself b/c she knows that despite all she's lost, there are people who genuinely support her and everything she is.  idk it's just really special that io herself is really special, the only one who can channel lugh's essence--and it's not lugh using her body, it's her using lugh's power b/c she's the only one who can contain it.  seeing her channel lugh again without yamato's circles or any preparation/fear for her life in non-daichi routes is also amazing--everything she does post-lugh is such a satisfying character growth, and straight-up i absolutely bawled at her r5 event b/c it took a fairly cliche scenario and made it so powerful both for io as a character and for me as the person interacting with the media.  tbh i just don't get how she isn't popular outside of gross-ass porn b/c you just don't get female secondary leads/implied love interests like her very often??  she has genuine agency and even legit chemistry w/hibiki that feels very sweet and genuine given what they've been through together, esp since she's not a fuckin prize for her and he legitimately respects her.  nitta io acknowledgement squad 2k14 talk shit get hit but actually please talk more abt io.

but ahhhh i'm so glad we did start talking b/c our whole lil twitter group was the Best part of desu 2 fandom ;3;

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