(pretty rushed) art for @strawbes’ fic out of the ordinary + the kamome gakuen discord’s artist-writer collab~
updated ♡ still unfinished bc i’m extra...
because me and my petty self want to claim this headcanon :’)
mei and mitsuba haven’t been shown interacting aside a short time in picture perfect arc and it’s such a waste because their parallels are so absolutely interesting and i’m in love with the idea of sibling relationship shijimitsu
like
so
but
once, mitsuba tried to find a place to stay within the seven mysteries and kinda got rejected by most of them. however, the one he wasn’t shown interacting with was with shijima, and they get along together well enough, looking at their interactions in picture perfect...
not to mention these parallels;
they’re both 'fakes'. the second unoriginal versions of people who used to be alive, people who used to be there and talk to others and make an impact on the world.
their original selves were both artists. they drew what was important, immortalizing it in their photos and paintings and sketches and film. original mitsuba’s ghost took a picture of kou before getting turned into no. 3 by tsukasa. original mei drew her ideal self, in a tower, and created her second self. both these things were important to them.
their second selves were created because their original selves had a wish. to live on, and to have & stay with friends...
and slowly, their second selves started to grow indifferent to their original selves’ forms of expression. shijima seems to only draw for functionality instead of for her own enjoyment or curiosity or expression, but her art has so much more meaning now that they create more than just an impression of life—they make life. and mitsuba doesn’t even know anything anymore, amnesia go brrrr (ty @ocelotlesbian for pointing this out)
i have so much to say about how shijima’s art is being used more as a tool for convenience instead of how the original mei used it—even natsuhiko & tsukasa are trying to annoy her for stuff—and not to mention the things they could do with this ability if someone thought about it enough (she, tsuchigomori, yako & the clock keepers are so completely broken i can’t even—these are the mysteries, of course, but i’m so glad they’re passively watching everything unfold because if they took matters into their own hands it’d be absolute chaos look at the clock keepers arc)
and i henceforth i headcanon
these two siblings doing art together afterschool in an art room. do we normally see mitsuba in hanako’s bathroom after school? no... and he’s scared of tsukasa. absolutely traumatised. ignore the afterschool episodes, i want mitsuba to turn on his heel and walk straight to the art room, skipping the fourth step.
after he has his melancholy talks and tear-filled arguments with kou he goes over and whines to shijima and they watch a movie on a projector and eat ice cream from a minifridge.
bonus points if mei uses her sketchbook to draw tissues for them. they literally have infinite ice cream and tissues
after the aquarium trip, i don’t think he could return to kou’s house (teru) & he also loses more energy the further away he is from the school SO i’d like to say he walks over, finds shijima & just cries to her the entire time about how kou is being difficult
shijima (unbothered queen) hands him her sketchbook w a drawing of a tissue box inside and 'mhm's every few minutes
it’s such a nice dynamic i love them so much
WHAT IF THEY RELEARNED THEIR PAST SELVES’ HOBBIES TOGETHER
like mitsuba learning how to hold a camera w his hand
shijima teaches him how to sketch, they go on small trips around the school at night to look at items in the moonlight
mitsuba absolutely destroys any supernaturals in their way (i need shijima to force him to eat occasionally and he will have to listen)
no but shijima is perfectly able to handle them herself
cue shijima pulling a sword from her sketchbook and bashing supernaturals into a pulp
but what if their past versions met in some sort of afterlife and mei teaches him to sketch & mitsuba shows mei his favorite photos and anglings and they watch birds & draw them and take photos and think about their lives and-
bonus: YAKO.
yako’s stairs are said to lead up to the art room 👀
so what if...
(i’ll finish this later lmao)
i need this to be canon. sibling mei & mitsuba. pls.
thank you for reading ♡ drink some water~
i cannot stop. have a character sheet
we loveeeeeee ocs with diamond eyes!! i’ve seen so many. pls share !!
i’d love to find fellow diamonds <3 my digital art isn’t as good as my traditional so as soon as i get my hands on my phone-
im back again with my nonstop posting (and nonstop tears)
in order from left to right, up to down:
HANANENE HOLDING HANDS !!!!!
mirai ml <333 🫶🫶🫶
tsuchiyako making peace signs ~~~ skdfhksjdhfjksdk
MY QUEENSSSSSSSSSSS 🥺🥺🥺🥺 SHIJIMA LOOKS SO CONTENT I LOVE HER ♡♡♡♡ MEI LOOKS SO HAPPY AND FUN AND I LOVE HER SO MUCH ♡♡♡♡
anyways. i should shut up.
(aidairo ily)
hi cinna!! thanks for remembering me and ty for the nice comment! still working real hard over here, say hi whenever! <3
omfg i discovered asks!!! im so dumb but it’s so nice to see you again :3
i’m looking forward to that mitsuba animatic~ and best of luck to your hands + health (pls don’t overwork urself i still remember your gauntlet)
have fun !!
it's a picture perfect day for a (grainy, low quality, bad lighting) OC DEBUT!!!!
(and of course she's half designed to be a self-insert~ my inner cringe is showing)
say hiiiii !!
let's get to the info under the cut <3
warning: cinna backstory!
perfect day for this post, because she is the paintbrush from picture perfect arc~
i chose the paintbrush for reasons!! not just because i love it...
since she's supposed to be half self-insert, almost everything is referenced from my irl appearance but exaggerated for the artstyle!
even her legs/ankles, which are all wonky because of amane, are referenced slightly, but not as much ofc :')
i get random ankle injuries (rolling, breaking, etc) wayyyy too often... to the point where you can see that my posture's all wonky, so this is a perfect fit 😔
anyways! tsym for reading my short indulgent post <3 have a nice day!
omfg there’s a jshk fic on the spreadsheet jshk fans goooooooo since i don’t have time
Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?
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im so stupid.
let’s just pretend i didn’t completely forget how to use quotation marks in bold, and do that type of format instead 😭
sorry to all of the people who wasted time voting :’)
tysm for your helppp
without a room, i am mush. but for now i have an air-conditioned room so i am mush in a room but later when i leave i’ll just be mush
anyways. welcome back to cinna’s reaction fic shenanigans. please tell me which yall’d prefer...
... in the polls section below! + obligatory reaction fic shoutout :’)
We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.
im banking on my tablet’s 8% battery to sketch this-
the breakdown of this is the first, upper cape w all the cool designs + whatever tf the big flowy added-for-drama cape looks like attached to him + gakuran + other stuff and that’s it :3
don’t forget hakujoudai, seal & hat! and voila... hanako-kun~
chat what is this 😭😭
bc i wanna assume its the red ribbon shown in the ref but also???
「hi, i'm cinna! she/they|writer, artist, daydreamer」〜 cloud dweller . . . i hide in shijima's tower『ily shijima & hanako ☆ i write fics on ao3 . . .』
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