I’ve gotten a few Asks trying to get a reaction from Ed about his height, but usually I didn’t have much idea about how to play them. I thought it’d be funny if he found out during shooting why he was there.
So this page put me in kinda a weird position, and I’m already regretting allowing the premise for this comic to go through the nomination process. I don’t want to linger on one form for too long, but of the four scripts there were basically only two options I could work with and neither were ideal. I ended up settling on a bit of a stop-gap solution, since the other option felt like a weird departure from what I understand the purpose of this comic to be. Next page Envy will be taking a new form, and I can only hope things will improve from there.
So I’ll explain this for anyone not following my Tomodachi Life posts on Twitter. In Tomodachi Life, the Miis on your island can move in together, and you name the house they live in and such. One of my houses was named “J.O. House” because of how often jerking off came up amongst those characters. Due to how the houses work in the game, the actual roster has changed a bit over the time I’ve been playing. These three, however, are who I’d consider the core members of the house, so for simplicity’s sake that’s who I had represent them for this Ask. I’m also just labeling this as a Yuji Ask for simplicity’s sake.
So I went a little overboard with this one, primarily because I had a few too many ideas for how I wanted to handle it. In the end it allowed for more conversation, though, and hopefully people won’t mind seeing this many characters on a big ol’ couch.
I picked this one in part because of Himeno’s recent tournament win. Clearly people want to see more of her, and I’m fond of her so I’m happy to oblige. Launch and Tien is a couple I’ve seen compared a bit to Himeno and Aki, partly due to Tien being a bit more stoic and Launch being unpredictable, mirroring Aki and Himeno’s dynamic a little bit. They’re also both ships that don’t get to become official in the source material. In Himeno’s victory pic I established a friendship between her and Hawkeye, so it made sense to me to bring them into movie night here and deepen that connection a bit. I also recently did a Film Appreciation Club Card for Eren, where I talked about Mikasa and Armin also being in that club, so it kinda felt like a fitting call to have them involved to. I tried to keep the action a bit varied and fun, hopefully there’s something for everyone here.
So I recently shared a pin-up of Yor for her second-place prize in a recent popularity polling tournament on my Discord. The first place in that tournament was Himeno, and this is her prize.
The first place in these tournaments always gets to work with a character of their choosing, provided it’s someone they haven’t appeared with before. This is meant to be an in-character choice, and I balanced a few options I thought Himeno might go with. In the end, she decided to go with Roy Mustang.
Mustang’s known as quite the heartthrob, and I think he fits well into Himeno’s tastes. I also liked using this to set up a bit of a relationship between Himeno and Hawkeye. I’m not sure what exactly it is, but I find the idea of those two being friends really appealing. So here’s Himeno’s first place prize!
This One-Shot was pretty intense to work on, fitting in the most shown characters the script would allow. I tried to vary things up with three different approaches to a yaoi threesome, and I hope y’all will enjoy the results.
So in Twelve Forever, Butt Witch basically has two forms. One is her basic shape here, and then she has a full-powered monstrous form. Most of her shapeshifting in the show seems to kind of be like sliding a video game slider between these two extremes, like sometimes she’ll grow an extra set of arms or get longer and crawl on all fours or grow a tail. In the Studio I extended that into growing a cock, just ’cause it fits this porny setting, but she doesn’t appear to me like a full-blown shapeshifter like some other characters. I picked two such characters to help her demonstrate here, and it was fun trying to draw them each in a way where they still read like themselves despite all taking the same basic form.
Also, for anyone interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
This one is a bit of a sequel to our ninth Scenario, with Ed now bringing his brother along to the Studio’s lab. I thought some synchronized testing could be fun, so I set the Elrics up side-by-side.
In the last page, Envy turned into Yuji in an attempt to dominate the Elrics. Here, we see that plan didn’t really work out for him. There were a few scripts with this theme to them, and I tried to combine elements from a few of them for what I hope will be a fun page.
This Dare falls more into the “challenge” category. Winry seems to be handling them well enough, though.