Are vine compilations cool anymore? who cares!

Legally required Dys meme.

So I still haven't done every romance route in iwatec, but there are certain ones that I find more compelling on a story level. Namely Dys, Marz, Sym, and Vace (toxic version. Hey I didn't say happy stories, just compelling). Rex, Nem, and Tammy I love so dearly and fully that I fully see them as my Sol's family. (And don't get it twisted, I still love Tang, Nomi, and Cal. Don't wanna leave them out just because they aren't in the former two categories.)

That said, there's just something about Sym's romance. It feels Correct. Natural. It breaks my heart when I can't pursue him for a route I want, in a way the others don't. I thought maybe it was just because I'm an alien fucker, but there's more to it than that. It's in the way his scenes differ from everyone else's.

On the surface gaining affection with Sym is the same. Go to the location he's in, get the points. But it feels so much more organic to find him outside the colony, as if honestly stumbling into Sym rather than hounding the area just for his company. And the fact that he doesn't take any gifts, it feels removed from the usual video game formula. Yet he still falls in love with you, no matter who this version of You is. I suppose you can technically woo anyone without pursuing a certain life path, but it feels like you should (if only to get extra scenes with them at the location they frequent). But if given the time to, Sym loves you no matter the path and no matter your hobbies. He simply loves YOU.

Which pairs so well with him being the only person who accepts your knowledge and dreams of other lives. You can tell Dys, but even then he still feels at the very edge of all those implications (and I don't see my Sol telling him more than the basics, wary to bare themselves when in so many worlds he's broken their heart). Sym knows you, Sym loves you, Sym is the one character who really feels like he understands the full scope of You and he is in awe. Every version. Every you.

Even when finding happiness with someone else, anyone else, it always feels like keeping a large part of yourself hidden and locked away.

But Sym can truly know Sol, the good and the bad and the complete transcendence of time.

yep

Since I’m in a good mood, I’ll post a drawing <3

Not genshin though, sorry

It's been three seasons of heavy food rationing, getting more and more strict as the year drags on and the fields continue to struggle. You've been wasting away, you all have. What will you do? What can you do?

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Sol: Can I do your makeup??

Dys: Just don't stab my eyes

It's HIM! Last night in my sleep depravity I thought about drawing the iwatex characters with makeup (or different makeup than what they already wear haha) and Dys was next up on my portraits anyway so here's this! I probably could've gone more creative with it but I like the simplicity

The fall of the Stratos…

“ You fought for this lot. “

no matter what they do, it always fails. no matter how many times or cycles, they can never save them. can never save him.

kom can’t be saved.

why do you keep trying?

A new year a new chance

As the dance around the sun starts again and the stars continue to frolic in the field we call space, from our small planet we can still look up and see the same vast expanse. As a new year arrives everything changes yet everything is the same.

How ever and who ever you celebrate with, I wish you a happy new year

Class photo! Its the exocolonist kids in their mid teens with their new friends from Helio

whats the point of being a teenage exocolonist without PROM!

bonus: all these fucking shoes i drew. look at them

champions ✊

romancing tang

This is fine.

These two had my brain in a chokehold for like 3 months last year and this is how I decided to cope. take it. hold it in your hands if you dare

(for I Was A Teenage Exocolonist) –– and around and around and around again.