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intro post!

hi there! i'm accirax, an artist and analyst for series like drdt, project: eden's garden, disventure camp, and a bunch of other stuff. also, i'm a storyboard artist on reality resort and fangan co-author over at @av-multifangan! my specialties include drawing characters in silly situations, diving way too deep into why stories are written in the ways that they are, and using lots of emoticons. i hope you enjoy :D

commissions!

#intro post#commission info#also just a heads up that while i generally like answering asks i am at times very slow at it. potentially months slow even 😅
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Danganronpa Despair Time - Major Arcana Motif Theory

CW: Discussion of hanging & Spoilers

The AltDRDT cast is designed around the chinese zodiac but I've been wondering recently whether or not there could be some motif basis for the despair time cast.

I tried applying astrology to them but it really didn't fit & I couldn't figure out how to stretch that cast into 17+ characters.

Then I started assigning major tarot arcana to them & I'm now actually quite sure there's some thread here. I have comprehensive thoughts on all of these however in brief the explanations for each of these placements are as follows:

  1. Fool - Teruko: Fool's Table, 'Fool for trusting anyone at all' - Teruko's luck is a self fulfilling prophecy which she foolishly continues to perpetuate.
  2. Magician - XF-Ture Tech: Creates 'magic', created MonoTV - potentially responsible for the killing game and was responsible for Min's talent. Appeared and disappeared from Min's life.
  3. High Priestess - Hu: Elegant, graceful, beautiful, soothing, harmonious. A 'servant of the people.'
  4. Empress - Mai: Nameless 'ghost' haunting or ruling Teruko's life & story. 'God.' ['worshipped' by the class.]
  5. Emperor - Kyo: Faceless 'ghost' haunting or ruling Teruko's life & story.
  6. Hierophant - Rose: Lacroix = The Cross & Rose made a 'deal with the devil (Duke). Notably, her memory could also be considered 'psychic.'
  7. Lovers - Whit: He's a matchmaker who is 'fated' to never find a lover who's current closest friend is a (also lonely & socially awkward) man he met in a killing game.
  8. Chariot - Ace: Horses. He is the vessel through which his family thrives. Horses are also often associated with death as a result of the four horseman & Ace's fear of death is what prompted him to kill.
  9. Strength - Levi: He is fixated on protecting his classmates with his 'strength.' Has also used his 'strength' to perform multiple murders.
  10. Hermit - Nico: Nico consistently isolated from others and doesn't understand social conventions. They spent most of chapter 1 not speaking to anyone.
  11. Wheel of Fortune - Eden: Eden was born on new year's & is a clockmaker. Circles & cycles are significant motifs to her character. She is also the most 'fortunate' of the cast, so much so that both Levi & Arei have envied her ability to be kind, and in Arei's case explicitly her good fortune.
  12. Justice - J: J spent most of trial 2 being presented as a moral center for the group who holds people accountable for their actions & calls them on their hypocrisy. J has very strong moral principles, especially and particularly around murder & notably she sought out 'justice' or vengeance on Arturo by revealing his secret.
  13. Hanged Man - Arei: Her life was broadly misfortunate prior to this & she has previously received death threats which encouraged her to hang herself. She was of course also hung with the same rope used to mock her misfortune.
  14. Death - Veronika: Fear of death isn't something Veronika has - instead, she fears boredom. She instills the fear of death into Ace & savors the 'interesting' deaths of her classmates.
  15. Temperance - Charles: Charles was potentially born as a replacement to Ellie. Ellie was (probably) a drunk & an addict who brought shame onto his family name. Charles' very existence is the 'temperance' of the family - he is the 'solution' to his brother's 'impurity.'
  16. Devil - Duke: The Spurlings (probably) both bring misfortune and death onto others however Duke specifically made a deal with Rose at her time of misfortune.
  17. Tower - Arturo: Arturo's old broken household was the 'tower' which he escaped from. Felicity was the princess who he failed to save.
  18. Star - David: Self explanatory
  19. Moon - Min: Sleepy MV, staying up late to study, being the first 'blackened' [night] which eclipses the 'sun' [Xander] & makes the 'stars come out' [David], the MV backdrop being a moon, the sunset during her bonus video. Also, wolves howl at the moon. Also, Teruko's surname name means 'dawn child' - if Min is the sun setting and the night [killing game] starting, Teruko is the sun rising again - she is dawn.
  20. Sun - Xander: The death which began the killing game & brought everyone else into 'the night', David's 'hope' & 'ideal' which he 'revolves around', the reason the killing game began to start with
  21. Judgement - MonoTV: Host or judge of the killing game.
  22. World - Audience: Self explanatory. We are the outside world.

I hope this was insightful, engaging or helpful ! Please be well and take care. : )

Cheers. 🎉

#these connections are really neat! i know very little about tarot (most of my info is from MeMe investigations lol)#but i trust that what you've put down here is correct#should the zodiac theory for the other game turn out to be true (thus “confirming” that dev uses themes like these to comprise casts)#i'd say that this is honestly a very likely to be true theory#also i the idea of kyo and mai being emperor and empress is just really cool#danganronpa despair time#drdt#drdt spoilers#fanganronpa
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DRDTtober Day...... uhhhhhh......

Given that we are (*checks calendar*) now half a year out from when DRDTtober 2024 was meant to begin, I think it's finally time to admit... yeah, I don't think I'm ever going to go back and make art for those prompts 😔✌️

I did, however, draw this back in September, in accordance with my original plans for the event! For those curious, below the cut is a (hopefully) brief explanation of what these designs were intended to be for, and why the comics ultimately never came to fruition.

#danganronpa despair time#drdt#fanganronpa#teruko tawaki#xander matthews#charles cuevas#ace markey#arei nageishi#rose lacroix#hu jing#eden tobisa#levi fontana#arturo giles#min jeung#david chiem#veronika grebenshchikova#j rosales#whit young#nico hakobyan#mai akasaki#a rare appearance of traditional art from me in the year of our lord 2025#the full comic would've been digital i just missed traditional and had better brain flow working on these designs in traditional :]#quite possibly bc i sorta ripped this style from some old OCs of mine which were typically drawn traditional?? ooh extra lore#my art#fanart
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Like two years ago me and @accirax had a riveting conversation where we came up with a pitch for a sitcom about what would happen if Selene decided she was no longer interested in that shepherd she gave eternal life to by making him sleep forever. I was in a Greek mythology mood so I’m finally doing something with that concept.

Also before any classicists get on me: I know in some versions of the myth Endymion is totally down with sleeping forever, and is aware that Selene loves him, however I’m choosing to ignore that for comedy (though I might play with it later)

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#the cricket was my idea >:) you guys don't understand how much that myth cracked me up as a kid#i need to draw these guys at some point as like a warmup or something#anyways sam even in these sketches/thumbnails your composition and depiction of fabric is excellent as always :D#ocs#greek mythology
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Group Nap

I've made it my personal mission to give these guys the happy peaceful life they deserve Look at them and tell me they don't all deserve a happy ending

This is the biggest piece I've ever drawn in terms of the amount of characters and it took forever but it was so fun and so, SO worth it

#they're so cozyyyyyy :D project: sleepden's garden#the purple color palette does a great job of communicating that it's nighttime#also cassidy's hand on mark's face is hilarious lol#project: eden's garden#p:eg#damon maitsu#cassidy amber#desmond hall#diana venicia#eloise taulner#eva tsunaka#grace madison#ingrid grimwall#jean delamer#jett dawson#kai monteago#mark berskii#toshiko kayura#ulysses wilhelm#wenona#wolfgang akire#fanganronpa
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AND THE CHARMS ARE (mostly) DONE! i'll be selling these sometime next month! PFP versions below the cut!

#these are sooooo cute! i've seen the charms and they look awesome :D#i really love how hard you went on the chibi proportions; the giant eyes add so much style and flair#the slightly blue shifted(?) palette is really nice as well#project: eden's garden#p:eg#damon maitsu#eva tsunaka#diana venicia#cassidy amber#jett dawson#desmond hall#grace madison#kai monteago#mark berskii#toshiko kayura#wenona#ulysses wilhelm#eloise taulner#wolfgang akire#jean delamer#ingrid grimwall#fanganronpa
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