Happy Holidays everyone!!!! Iโm so excited to finally show yโall the finished animation! ๐๐โ๏ธ
I hope everyone has an absolutely wonderful holiday season!
I love Seapartist Varianโs design. Maybe itโs the giant trench coat.
Hot take:
Saporian!Varian has some excellent character design
Now, I donโt *like* his outfit, but it works so well in representing where he was at in those moments. Heโs trying so hard to be a villain, to repress all the guilt heโs drowning in, and to parallel that his outfit is justโฆ itโs not him, it looks like someone trying a little too hard with the villain costume. Like someone let him wander a bit too long in hot topic.
Even the barcode goatee I fear makes sense even though I refuse to ever draw it ๐ญ/SILLY
Find it funny how over half of my top five characters have little fangs (Kokichi's fangs are harder to notice than the others but they're there)
Sometimes I think about how Kaito and Kokichi had the shared unique experience of being two people who knew they only had a limited time to live (Kokichi and the poison/Kaito with his illness.)
I think as he lived through his last hours, Kokichi probably would've felt some sort of respect towards Kaito for being able to live passionately despite knowing he wasn't going to live life as long as everyone else. Vice versa, really. I think Kaito also would've felt some respect towards Kokichi for wanting to make the most of what little time he had left, even if that was designing and carrying out his own demise.
Only they both knew what it was like to live life knowing the end was close, and they both embraced that instead of fearing it. I think that might be why Kaito was so willing to work with Kokichi even though he hated him. Kokichi, although briefly, knew he was racing against time, and still fought for something he cared about (ending the killing game.)
I also love that they both got to go out their own ways after being doomed to die. (Kokichi and the hydraulic press and Kaito passing because of his illness and not Monokuma's punishment. Their deaths felt like a middle finger to Monokuma personally, and I love that for them.) They were denied the right to live long lives, but they made damn sure they went out with a bang.
(I also think about how easily Kokichi could've saved himself but instead gave Kaito the antidote. Maybe that was another reason why Kaito decided to help him carry out his plan. Kokichi knew Kaito was dying, but still decided he should be the one who got to live. I don't think Kokichi saw Kaito's illness as a weakness. After all, his reasoning to give Kaito the antidote was so he could blackmail Kaito using Maki. Kaito's illness wasn't something Kokichi ever saw as a hindrance or factor (from what I can remember.) Kokichi just saw Kaito as someone capable of carrying out his plan.)
Saprion Varian's only purpose is for me to make silly drawings of him. Also Moparian
How can I be sad if I can make fun drawings of my little guy?
"Good Job,Buddy"
Drawing backgrounds, for me, is like drawing mandalas. Jut shut-off the brain and zone out.