Character Asks

Erwin Smith Character Ask 2

In Attack on Titan, Erwin’s very driven, but the thing that drives him is a lack of understanding about the world he lives in. Spoiler alert, but the tragedy of his character is that he dies like right before they get a lot of the answers he was looking for. In the Studio, of course, that burden would be lifted. Studio Erwin has access not only to information about his world, but worlds he never could’ve even imagined. I imagine he’s somewhat like Nanami, in that he’s able to unwind a bit more in the Studio, even if he remains a somewhat serious person. I won’t get into why I chose this method for him to unwind, other than I think Armin owes him one.

Also, for anyone interested, here is the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:

Francine Smith Character Ask 2

A pretty simple Ask here, but one I thought would be fun and make use of some characters I don’t draw all that often. Francine’s kink for being spanked had its own whole episode dedicated to it, as I recall, so it makes sense to me she’d explore it more in a setting like the Near Hentai Studio. Its been a minute since I’ve done a split/paneled Ask like this, but I wanted to show her making this expression similar to what she does in the episode while also showing the inverse angle. For her partner I briefly considered pairing her with Lois again, but decided instead to pair her with a different blonde adult animated series mom with the surname Smith. Maybe it’s just from doing Halloween stuff with her recently, but I think Beth was a fun inclusion.

Gray Fullbuster Character Ask 1

A while ago Natsu rather confidently declared he would top Gray, so here’s a fun response from Gray. Now, I don’t know much of anything about these two, what little I saw of Fairy Tail did not have Gray in it, but I’ve seen enough anime to kinda get the gist. I’m basically assuming these two have a similar dynamic to the hundreds of other characters like them I’ve seen before, and I’m just rolling with that when using them.

Garnet Character Ask 2

So mild spoiler for Steven Universe, but Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, two gems who fell in love and eventually get married later in the series. So with that in mind, this is an Ask about couples dating, double dates, etc. I’ll talk at a later date about a different route I considered for this one, but I ended up pairing her with Winry and Ed. With Garnet’s vibe I had this idea of her kinda toying with them both while she gave her answer, which I hope will help illustrate not only her own habits in the Studio, but her partners’ as well.

Naruto Uzumaki Character Ask 2

For the longest time I always thought I’d eventually get around to drawing Haku, and it’d probably be with Naruto. Haku ended up making his Studio debut a different way, but I still thought a reunion would be nice to see. It’s been a long time since I saw any Naruto, let alone this arc, so I could be remembering it differently, but I feel like Naruto probably would’ve liked things to end differently than they did.

Ylva Character Ask 2

I had an idea for how to handle this Ask last month, but I really didn’t think Ylva’s first appearance after her First Shoot should be with anyone other than Thorfinn. So I did that Ask as part of last month’s batch, but I really wanted to do this one during this month’s while I was still keen for the idea. I’m no expert on Vinland Saga, but to my knowledge these characters never meet in the series (especially not these versions of them). That’s part of the fun of the Studio, though. Of course I had to have Canute getting pegged again, it seems like the best course for both his and Ylva’s style to me.

Chi-Chi Character Ask 9

I didn’t realize this until working on this Ask, but this is actually Chi-Chi’s first Ask since the Patreon days. She’s appeared in other people’s Asks since then, but hasn’t had a question directed just at her answered in some time.

The exact ages might be a little off, if they’re even officially confirmed, but I believe the version of Chi-Chi she defaults to in the Studio is older than we ever see Gine get to be. I think that makes sense, at least, and I thought it might affect their dynamic in the Studio. I’ve alluded to Chi-Chi being more interested in her family getting to know Goku’s parents than Goku is, and I thought it’d be cute if this little quirk of their ages lead to her viewing her mother-in-law in a unique way.

Loona Character Ask 1

Loona doesn’t show up often, since I don’t really know much about her, but I had an idea I thought would be fun and might possibly open things up for some later projects if there’s interest.
Some of you may remember a while back an Ask where Raven alluded to introducing Mikasa to goth fashion. Mikasa of course sports a goth look in an alternate universe thing attached to the movie, but that design was also her younger look from the first three seasons and I’ve been using the season four design more lately. So this is sort of an original look, basically just taking some cues from that AU and applying it to her adult look. I don’t plan for this to be her default look in the Studio going forward or anything, though she might start sporting black nail polish a bit more casually in the future.
Due to how my schedule played out, Mikasa actually ended up debuting a little bit earlier at the Halloween party this year, but originally this was the first appearance for Subscribers.