Digimon Survive Week 2024 – Day 6: Dark/Loss

so I can pretend I actually participated in Survive Week (anyway, it can apply to day 5 too if you stretch it enough?)

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a lesson on good karma digimon survive week 2024 day 4: supporting characters

Digimon Survive Week late day 7: Post-game/Future

No longer alone uwu They bff and keep talking to each other with honorifics for at least a year, fight me.

Was miraculously able to finish another piece for @surviveweek, just hoped I could have done more orz but I loved to have the chance to keep drawing for the game that keeps destroying me in all possible ways~

digimon survive week day 5: villains

you miss your mama kid?

digimon survive week - day 1: a new world

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it’s been ages since I’ve done a mostly lineless piece :] to this day, I still do not know how to draw takuma’s hair.

digimon survive week - day two, cooperation

spent the entire day thinking about what to draw, settled for talking about some of the ways i like to think of our protags and their partners helping each other.

aoi and labramon are quickly rising to be among my fave digimon&human duo. i like how they complement each other. for a personal headcanon, i think they both tend to focus on the details before the big picture, but since they focus on different details (thanks to labramon being. a dog.), it works.

i am also in full support of labramon as an emotional support animal, if not a full-on service dog. how did the kids survive all that without anything major, i don't know - specially aoi. girl you got into so many situations.

i also really like how the game shows the digipartners doing stuff other than fighting. this means that i cheered every time labramon smelled something. she's a dog. i love her.

y'all know i love shuuji and lopmon. didn't draw them today but i adore their dynamic, specially during truthful. i like to think of lopmon's presence, once his bond with shuuji is stronger, to be somewhat... naturally relaxing. so when shuuji's upset or panicking (or both! boy. you need help), lopmon just. climbs him and wraps his ears around his face or something.

ryo and kunemon. i don't have to say anything else. they're my other favorite duo.

i AM saying something though. semiverbal ryo is canon to me and part of the reason why he and kunemon can understand each other. if he's too upset to make any sound kunemon "talks" for him.

If two strangers (sirens) (wolves in sheep's clothing) whispered in your ear (with honeyed words) (with devouring certainty) of a way out, a path to ease the pain of guilt (filling your head with false obligations) (all it would cost is your life)… would you listen? Would you be swayed?

Would you see them (what they truly are) before it’s too late?

My piece for Survive Week, Day 2: Cooperation (Image description in the Alt text).

Did I really take one of the more lighthearted-sounding prompts and turn it into something sinister? Why yes, yes I did. I love the psychological horror of the library. These lines of dialogue are so creepy and fascinating (to me) that I wanted to reinterpret them in the worst way possible. Thank goodness for Agumon being there in the real version!

This is the first part of a short series I’m calling “Bad End Takumas,” focusing on a few times in Survive’s narrative where Takuma almost makes a poor choice or meets an unfortunate end, but doesn’t (at least, canonically). I find the what-if-he-did alternate reality of those moments really interesting to think about, even though I can't bring myself to play the game’s actual Bad Ending! The next one in this series won’t be ready for Survive Week, but I do plan on finishing it eventually >:)

Here’s an alternate, desaturated version I liked just as much, as well as textless versions of each.

Hello, everyone! Thank you to everyone who filled out the survey for the event. I have compiled all the results as to what our prompts this year will be!

Since it seems the proposed dates worked for a majority of possible participants, Survive Week will indeed take place from January 28th to February 3rd!

The prompts will be as follows:

January 28th: A New World

January 29th: Cooperation

January 30th: Other Digi - Er, Kemonogami

January 31st: Supporting Characters

February 1st: Villains

February 2nd: Dark & Loss*

February 3rd: Post-Game/Future

*These are two separate prompts that were vague enough, I figured they could work for the same day!

Since the "Post-Game/Future" prompt was so overwhelmingly popular, I went with the individual prompts rather than the characters-as-prompts idea. If there is enough interest for another event in 2025 (oh gosh, the future...), then we can surely revisit that idea! For now, I hope these prompts allow the creative juice to flow!!

Please feel free to message this blog through asks or DMs if you have questions, and we look forward to the event in two months!

Keep on surviving, everyone!

As above, so below

For @surviveweek day 5: Villain!

[Image id 1: Digital ink and watercolor painting of Shibuya Aoi from Digimon Survive. She's standing with her palms facing up and her arms open, like her pontificating Plutomon pose. She's drawn seen from below, and she's looking down with a calm, eerie smile. Behind her, there's Plutomon's torso, with the red core positioned right before her head. Plutomon's tail circles her legs, and on the bottom corners, there's the dog hip pads. The background is yellow with diagonals that point to the red core.

Image id 2: Digital ink and watercolor painting of Shinonome Kaito from Digimon Survive. He's drawn seen from above, looking up with an enraged grimace. He's standing with his fist up, in a boxing pose. Behind his head, there's Volotobautamon's huge head, with its mouth right behind Kaito's, looking as if it's about to devour him. There's the shoulder skulls from Volotobautamon's design right beside its face, as well as the swords with skull handles positioned over the bottom diagonals visual lines. The background is a rich, wine-like red with folds, like Volotobautamon's cape.]

Digimon Survive Week

Day 5: Villain

(this is a screenshot im sorry 😭 i didnt realise I saved the file as a pdf insead of a png)

So for today, I planned on doing a brief Arukenimon write up but I didnt know how appropriate it would be to gush about the way she manipulated and gaslit these kids (i dont use that term lightly, but I might have to write about it some day when Im brave enough). She stressed me out so much lol.

So I drew this fun little thing instead.

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Spoilers for part 3 under the cut

Rated T for Shuuji (?!) And Minoru's inappropriate commentary

I was gonna draw this too but I wanted to focus on finishing tomorrow's fic

Digimon Survive Week 2024 – Day 7: Post-Game/Future

Aged up Shuuji design by @kbondoxxxxav. I've always wanted to draw her designs! I initially wanted to draw all 8 of them, but trying to get the bike right exhausted my drawing energy lol

EDIT: tagging @surviveweek

anyway, a personal headcanon about future!Shuuji under the cut.

I like to think that Shuuji, during his university years, switched to anthropology from his initial major that his family pressured him to take (perhaps medicine?)–not only that it fits him following Professor's steps (who researches and teaches folklore as an anthropology course), it'd also make a nice throwback to Kido Shuu in Digimon Adventure 02.

to the next stage of our adventure! digimon survive week 2024 day 7: post-game / future personal thoughts under the cut - less about the artwork and more about shuuji and lopmon themselves. a long rambling containing major spoilers and heavy topics. will cause whiplash. proceed with caution.

other than the fact this may be boring and long-winded, cw and tw: there will be mentions of self-harm and suicide. if these topics make you uncomfortable, please step back. if you're sure, then alright. i'm aware this is a weird place to ramble about shuuji and lopmon considering the notorious highlight of their story would match the themes of day 5 (villains) and day 6 (dark & loss) better. unfortunately (ironically?) i never planned to feature them for those days, so... pretty sure i'm not the only one feeling this, but when i discovered that a good part of the fandom seems to loathe shuuji with utmost passion, even after they claimed to have completed the game, i was confused. the way his death happened and (understanding) the cause made me uncomfortable for a while, but never drove me to the point of hate... once i recovered from the initial shock, what i felt towards him was more pity, then respect (on truthful route). i feel shuuji should have been one of the most appreciated characters in survive. yet it was the opposite that happened. (between you and me though, knowing there was this discourse with the fact digimon survive is a visual novel, i'm not that surprised it turned out this way...) from my point of view, lopmon evolving into wendimon then killing shuuji symbolizes suicide, the act of taking one's own life. it was the climax of shuuji's mental breakdown, leading him to basically self-destruct, causing damage to everyone around him and ultimately himself. lopmon evolved, just like he hoped. but failed to do it like other kemonogami partners (maintaining control of themselves and fending off enemies). the next and final outcome was death, through his own partner actually eating him alive too. it reminds me how when someone thought they have prepared well for something important yet it failed spectacularly, the devastation and frustration would eat them in the same way from inside. and they probably would for one second think, "i'm better off dead". the more i pondered about it, the more it hit home, so of course, the last thing i could do is hate him, when his struggles sound similar to my own - having to rely on consistent achievements to prove your value, to feel you are worth living and not a waste of resources. the part where shuuji went all abusive on lopmon felt like the equivalent of pushing yourself to the extreme to reach your goal, to the point of neglecting your own needs. it's like a student so absorbed in their study, sacrificing food and sleep, until their body eventually snaps and shuts down for good (...this in fact happened to one of the students at my previous workplace. she was in her last year of high school. life was just about to truly start for her when her classmate informed us of her sudden death). even in truthful route where shuuji and lopmon survive that point, things aren't immediately nice and easy for him. you can see that he still has self-doubts, and what i think is impostor's syndrome. he could be making a great contribution to the team and still put himself down for having done "nothing". i have found it interesting that artists and writers tend to be especially fond of shuuji. so perhaps it's not just the matter of one's upbringing - whether you were raised in a harsh, competitive environment and/or with family with (unreasonably) high standards so you can relate more easily to him - but also whether one can see just what every struggle shuuji and lopmon went through symbolizes shuuji's mental state. out of all survive characters, i think shuuji and lopmon pulled off this thing called "surviving" the hardest, no joke. which is why i almost always gravitate to drawing them happy because that's what they deserve :') after all this, what i also would like to say is, it's okay if a character makes you uncomfortable. it's okay if you hate a character. but never, ever bring down the character to people who like them or even consider them their favorite or comfort character. if you must, do it in your own space and only with like-minded people.

Digimon Survive Week day 1: A new world

Late as usual, sorry OTL For my first thing for @surviveweek instead of going for my usual angst, wanted to try something cute for once~

They trying to live in the modern era~

What Miyuki was after ⮥

digimon survive week day 6: dark/loss

digimon survive week: day 3 - partners

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I think I can spare everyone from my Shuuji craziness considering there are so many lovely and wonderful posts about him and his character :] don’t think I could do him justice like that but I like him a normal amount. Bunny time

digimon survive week - day... er, three? four? other kemonogami/supporting characters

turns out: i overestimated my ability to keep up with events in stressful situations. oh well! took it easy and joined two days in one, because i love the gomamon in this game and. yeah.

i do like how the digimon have these small, somewhat peaceful communities in such a chaotic world. the gomamon, the small group miu stumbles into, etc.

but i did mostly want to draw the gomamon sleeping like a pile of kittens.