quick vishnal drawing, missing a lot of details but i’m too lazy to fix it. rune factory characters outfits are too detailed.

Rune factory 4 yuri bc i miss my girls

✨ rune factory gals ✨

everyone guess what favorite farming game series i've recently started replaying again :)

Actually, while we're on the subject of Dolce's marriage event, I've been very slowly watching the other RF4 marriage events on YT (because I cannot and will probably never marry any of the other bachelors and I don't feel like playing as Lest lol) and finding out that Arthur, Dolce, and Leon's events are all connected was a pretty big smack in the face.

At the start of Dolce's marriage event, Kiel explains to Lest that there was a superstition associated with Leon Karnak: Those who write their names on the right foot of the tower will end up having a happy family. This stems from a legend about a couple who had promised to get married; despite not being destined to be together, they put their names side by side to remember their promise. Sound familiar?

For those of you who have married Leon or at least watched his marriage event online, you already know that Leon carved his name at Leon Karnak alongside that of his childhood friend, Maria, who he had promised to marry. Now I don't know if they were the first to carve their names into Leon Karnak's base (it's been a long time since I watched his marriage event in full), but if they were, then their actions spawned a tradition that ultimately lasted for centuries.

Unfortunately, the legend associated with their act is a tad inaccurate, since it claims that despite their star-crossed romance, the couple ultimately became a happy family. The reality is that Leon and Maria never married; for starters, Leon hadn't even been serious about their promise, since he viewed Maria like a sister and only agreed to marry her in order to get her to stop crying. Then Leon made the ultimate sacrifice and became the first Guardian, forever separating him and Maria. All of Leon's personal issues in the present day stem from the guilt for not taking that promise seriously, since unlike him, Maria had firmly vowed to keep her end of the bargain (Leon marrying her in exchange for her not crying) and he's convinced that she spent the rest of her life in silent misery because of him.

Of course, no one knew that the legend is inaccurate, and in the centuries after Leon became a Guardian, countless couples and families carved their names into the base of Leon Karnak in the hope that the charm associated with the tower would ensure their family's happiness. Among the names carved there in the name of the superstition were that of Dolce's family, which included her, her parents, and Pico.

At the time Dolce's family carved their names into the tower base, Pico was... apprehensive. Dolce and her parents considered her a part of their family, but Pico did not simply because of her nature of a ghost. So what did they do? They "tricked" her into carving her name next to Dolce's, under the guise that they were simply comparing heights. Pico knew exactly what they were doing, but she did it anyway and in doing so, she finally accepted herself as a part of their family.

Unfortunately, much like Leon, the story of Dolce's family does not end happily either. Some years later, Dolce chose to become the second Guardian; as a result, she ultimately outlived her parents and Pico spent the next several centuries waiting for the day the Earthmates finally found a suitable replacement for the Guardians. After she was freed by Lest/Frey, Jones and Nancy took Dolce and Pico in. Jones and Nancy want Dolce to feel like a part of their family, but Dolce is reluctant to accept them as her new parents. Not a single trace of her parents remains in the present day, even the names her family carved at Leon Karnak; she is afraid that if she accepts Jones and Nancy as her new parents, she'll forget her real parents and then they'll truly be gone forever. At the end of her marriage event, a desperate Pico nearly severs her connection with Dolce in a vain attempt to find their family's names and prove that Dolce's parents still exist in some form, terrifying both Dolce and Lest. This tradition is seeming like less of a charm and more of curse if you ask me.

But oh, it's gets better, and this time the unhappiness doesn't even stem from someone becoming a Guardian.

At one point or another, the location of the superstition switched from Leon Karnak to a cave closer to Selphia, most likely because so many names had been carved into the base of the tower. Not only that, but the superstition continued to increase in popularity; commoners and nobility alike from across Norad were visiting the cave in order to take advantage of the charm, and it became so well-known that even the royal family eventually took notice.

As a child, Arthur visited on Selphia while on vacation with his family, which consisted of himself, his father AKA the King of Norad, and his mother, who served as one of the king's mistresses. His mother was interested in the superstition associated with the cave, and she and Arthur carved their names into the wall of the cave to, of course, ensure their family's happiness. The problem was that Arthur's mother had... issues. Issues that involved her not being able to adjust to life in the palace back at the capital and she desperately wanted escape that life, which unfortunately required her to leave Arthur behind. To that end, she convinced everyone that she hated him so that she'd be quietly dismissed from the castle. Unfortunately, Arthur believed in her lies as much as everyone else did and, in turn, came to hate her. Eventually, she disappeared entirely and Arthur never saw her again.

A part of him, however, wanted to believe his mother did love him and some years later, Arthur returned to the cave to confirm his mother's feelings, as well as assist in a tourism enterprise. The day he went in, a cave-in occurred and he was so desperate to find his and his mother's names, he stayed in as long as he could and didn't get out in time; he and many other people were buried alive. It was only through Jones and Nancy's efforts that his life was saved. After this tragic event, the cave was abandoned and the centuries-long tradition of carving names in Selphia finally came to an end. By the time RF4's events roll around, the charm seems destined to remain a mere memory and even that too might eventually fade.

...Until you get married, that is.

During the Sweet Nothings town event, Porcoline comes up with a new version of the superstition that requires couples to carve their names into the hull of the airship. Although he intended to do it with Frey/Lest, the protagonist runs off to grab their spouse and does it with them instead. The overall narrative of the event is the same regardless of who it is that Frey/Lest has married; however, that is perhaps is what makes it most meaningful. No matter who the player chooses to marry, Frey/Lest ultimately continues a centuries-long tradition that very narrowly avoided dying out. And this time? We know the family is destined for happiness. This is especially touching in the cases of Arthur, Dolce, and Leon, since the families they originally carved their names with ultimately fell apart. By carving their names with Frey/Lest, they are fully moving on from the people in their past towards a bright future with the one they love most. It's a beautiful part of their individual epilogues.

This is the part where I pray this gets noticed as much as the WIP I posted before ^-^’

(Even though this is technically also a WIP version but close enough haha)

Hello and happy holidays @mermaidsbiann ! Sorry for the delay- but I was your secret santa for @runefactorysecretsanta this year❣️🎄 I loved drawing Dolce for you and I hope you like her just as much :•]

My @runefactorysecretsanta gift for phenphijam on twitter!!!

They like a bunch of the same characters I do so it was super fun to draw!!!!

And it's time for the KNIT-POCALYPSE

been playing rf4

Chasing after the Sechs soldiers with my favorite bachelor & bachelorette is even more fun than I thought XD

Dolce‼️‼️‼️

somethin aint right here

hello hello!! i'd like to request a drawing of dolce because shes the character ever and i love her! i adore your art style, its just so cozy and warm, so i wanted to use this drawing as a wallpaper on my pc bc i just want to look at it all the time! its completely fine if not, but i figured i'd ask, thank you :)

hi hi thank you so much for the kind words, a dolce for you!!! <333 and you’re absolutely free to use my art as wallpapers, thank you for asking :>!! <33

From 2022 and 2014 respectively

Maybe I have improved just a little bit haha