starry-nocturne

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professional hoodie thief pt 1/???

#leo; art #i know it's just a colour test but i'm pretty proud of the result so far! #i can and i will play with every hue of blue/black for her hair #posting so i force myself to actually colour the entire thing this time... please give me some motivation 🙏

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✦➤ main info

Name: Ryo Kurokawa

Kanji: 黒川 竜 

Meaning: 黒川 (black river) 竜 (dragon)

Age: 18

Birthday: August 12th

Zodiac: Leo

MBTI: INTJ

Blood Type: O

Race: Human/Vibora

Ethnicity: Japanese

Height: 170 cm

✦➤ about

Occupation: 2nd Year Student at Ryoutei. Composer

Hobbies: Stargazing, swordsmanship, piano, sports

Favourite food: Ichigo daifuku (strawberry mochi)

Voice claims:

Haruka Tomatsu

chelly (EGOIST)

✦➤ background

As the one and only heiress to the Kurokawa family, an old lineage of shrine maidens, Ryo wasn't expected to be anything other than perfect: the perfect heiress whose perfect skills would soon serve to hide how much of an embarrassment her mere existence had brought onto the family.

Born to a single mother and with birth circumstances far from normal, there was always something unusual about her. After some time it was found out to be an illness: she simply had a weak heart. That was the entire reasoning behind her sometimes strange acting, the fainting and being sick. A weakness she could never get rid off and which would surely end her life way sooner than it should.

Her quiet yet somehow fulfilling life in the countryside only lasted for a few years. Things started to go wrong as she grew up: people getting sick, their shrine catching fire. Her grandfather dying. She wasn't ill, she was cursed.

Just as the Kurokawa family's one and only hope to regain their household's old status vanished and they started targeting Ryo as the root of all evil, her mother took the difficult decision to flee from their home, to leave everything behind and move with a father she didn't know a thing about but who could surely help them... or so she expected.

Ryo's father wasn't a kind man. He wasn't even a human and that suddenly brought a bizarre closure to everything she had been feeling for the past years: she wasn't cursed, she simply wasn't human. Not really a human and not really a vampire, but some sort of sick in-between.

After her mother was killed by her father time after that, everything spiralled down. Vampires were monsters and she didn't want to become one of them, no matter what. She seeked revenge against her father and was determined to do anything to get it.

With no family left to look after her, she found unexpected support in a boy slightly older than she was, who introduced himself as her brother. Her step brother on her father's side, even though the line started blurring soon after that, a vampire who also seeked revenge against the same man that had hurt her.

Time after that, a barely teenager Ryo decided to move back to Japan and start living on her own while trying to plot revenge against her father. Things worked out, somehow, as she tried to regain a human life that was forcefully taken away from her while dealing with grief and the aftermath of her non-human nature.

Years later, almost when she had grown used to being a "human" again, a certain incident forced her to move into a certain mansion where six vampires lived, pushing her back to the same situation she had lived as a kid: to keep herself alive, at all means. And to fight all the demons she had been trying to avoid for so long.

Credits: Base template here // Sprites, chibi and art: me

#bump part 1/??? because i've put wayyy too many hours into this

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✦➤ main info

Name: Ryo Kurokawa

Kanji: 黒川 竜 

Meaning: 黒川 (black river) 竜 (dragon)

Age: 18

Birthday: August 12th

Zodiac: Leo

MBTI: INTJ

Blood Type: O

Race: Human/Vibora

Ethnicity: Japanese

Height: 170 cm

✦➤ about

Occupation: 2nd Year Student at Ryoutei. Composer

Hobbies: Stargazing, swordsmanship, piano, sports

Favourite food: Ichigo daifuku (strawberry mochi)

Voice claims:

Haruka Tomatsu

chelly (EGOIST)

✦➤ background

As the one and only heiress to the Kurokawa family, an old lineage of shrine maidens, Ryo wasn't expected to be anything other than perfect: the perfect heiress whose perfect skills would soon serve to hide how much of an embarrassment her mere existence had brought onto the family.

Born to a single mother and with birth circumstances far from normal, there was always something unusual about her. After some time it was found out to be an illness: she simply had a weak heart. That was the entire reasoning behind her sometimes strange acting, the fainting and being sick. A weakness she could never get rid off and which would surely end her life way sooner than it should.

Her quiet yet somehow fulfilling life in the countryside only lasted for a few years. Things started to go wrong as she grew up: people getting sick, their shrine catching fire. Her grandfather dying. She wasn't ill, she was cursed.

Just as the Kurokawa family's one and only hope to regain their household's old status vanished and they started targeting Ryo as the root of all evil, her mother took the difficult decision to flee from their home, to leave everything behind and move with a father she didn't know a thing about but who could surely help them... or so she expected.

Ryo's father wasn't a kind man. He wasn't even a human and that suddenly brought a bizarre closure to everything she had been feeling for the past years: she wasn't cursed, she simply wasn't human. Not really a human and not really a vampire, but some sort of sick in-between.

After her mother was killed by her father time after that, everything spiralled down. Vampires were monsters and she didn't want to become one of them, no matter what. She seeked revenge against her father and was determined to do anything to get it.

With no family left to look after her, she found unexpected support in a boy slightly older than she was, who introduced himself as her brother. Her step brother on her father's side, even though the line started blurring soon after that, a vampire who also seeked revenge against the same man that had hurt her.

Time after that, a barely teenager Ryo decided to move back to Japan and start living on her own while trying to plot revenge against her father. Things worked out, somehow, as she tried to regain a human life that was forcefully taken away from her while dealing with grief and the aftermath of her non-human nature.

Years later, almost when she had grown used to being a "human" again, a certain incident forced her to move into a certain mansion where six vampires lived, pushing her back to the same situation she had lived as a kid: to keep herself alive, at all means. And to fight all the demons she had been trying to avoid for so long.

Credits: Base template here // Sprites, chibi and art: me

#diabolik lovers oc #leo; bio #hello hi yes this is THE post! #the sprites have taken me so insanely long likes and reblogs are extra appreciated!! #i also managed to make a short? introduction to her character but i promise there's even more to come #i am now officially ready to use my brand new sprites <3

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Happy Valentine’s Day pt. 2 ❤️‍🔥

Question to the ones that have been around since the begging or at least for some years now!: how many times have you SEEN Arino kiss? Not imagining as part of the process of reading my works, but actually SAW them? The answer is simple: never. There is not a single one :(. Why? Idk! It seems I always forgot? But is never too late! As such! Here's commission for V-day 2/2:

GOSH 🔥👄🔥. I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS! LIKE SERIOUSLY! THE CONTEXT FOR THIS (I won't spoil lol) is like skdblsdjo. I simply LOVE that after SO LONG THEY FINALLY KISSED FOR REAL!! GOSH! GORGEOUS commission by @vixen-ocs as always you surpassed my expectations and is delightful working with you!!

🚫 As always: the reposting, editing/tracing and the claiming of this picture as yours is strictly forbidden 🚫

Extra: How I've been since I received my commissions 🔥👄🔥 lol:

#NOOOO THEY'RE TOO CUTE MY HEART #i personally think they should kiss more often #nnnn they look so in loveeee TT <333

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she's so tiny i'm going to chew her whole

ps: posting the new sprites today/tomorrow stay tuned 🙏

#misc; txt #at long last using my own art as an icon aaaa #i need to make a matching mizu for obv reasons #i finally managed to fix a few things that were bothering me in the ref sheet so it's technically ready to post

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«𝔏𝔢𝔱'𝔰 𝔰𝔢𝔢 𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔣𝔞𝔯 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔤𝔬𝔢𝔰, 𝓫𝓪𝓫𝓮. . .»

«𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔞 𝔣𝔢𝔴 𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔩𝔢 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓼, 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔶𝔬𝔲. . .?» ❤️‍🔥

Happy 3rd Anniversary to this blog 🎉 And happy Valentine's day to all sinners ❤️‍🔥 Do-S-lett lovingly hunts you ❤️ Have a closer look to how her ropes work 🤭

#I'M???? WOW #the lightning here is so good. the faint golden shine around scar in the second pic i'm shaking #also the face. the face. her eyes. her EYES?! #i'd let her do anything to me. a simp before anything else <33 #also happy anniversary here's to many more years filled with scarlett <3

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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! 💕🌸💕

Tw: Slight NSFW under cut 👀

I swear I'm alive—— sjsjsjsjsjsj I'm focused on other personal goals and projects but I'm still lurking here everyday! Hope this blog never will be thrown into the box of oblivion 🫶🏻💕

Also! If you want to lurk the explicit Nsfw version, you can check it out here! Os as @/Tenshilina on X (Twitter).

See you later, xoxo! ❄️

#OOOOOOOOOOOO #see every time i tell myself your art can't get anymore pro I'M PROVEN WRONG #the anatomy is insane omg that pose is everythinggg #the expression <33

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omfg rejet totally DELIVERED this time i'm lowkey on my knees....

#misc; txt #sorry having a moment right now #ayato looks so mature???? #he's still a silly dork but wow i LOVE how he looks #it makes so much sense that the guy who loves basketball and is super active has abs #i haven't drawn ayato in ages but hear me out...... maybe. maybe #also kou omg omg omg #did my oshis got both great pictures i'm going to cry

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it took me a few tries to get tumblr to actually insert the song but it should work now? just in case: alternative yt link

★ [ Music tag ]

★ natsu no yuki // snow in summer

she is winter and he is summer; they're snow and sun. it's a song about gradually opening up, about the warmth of summer slowly melting the snow and giving her a newfound hope that is trying so, so hard to rescue her from her own fate (her own impending doom, even) to finally allow her to find sense in "living"... only to lost everything.

Will I see you again someday, somewhere? Seasons go around in reverse Fluttering snow rises into the sky (If I could turn back time) Could I reach you, just a little? I want to see you, but I can't Let me sing to you a summer song

Bloomed endlessly The flower that never withers, the flower of oath Ah, the world without you Proof to live on

I wonder if I can be the snow falling in summer

because he is everything to her and she has been everything to him but weren't meant to be together. and yet they grew so much next to each other. she looks back fondly into their memories because she promised to keep moving forward... but keeps dreaming of something that can't be, because he is no longer by her side </3

see what i did. see what this song does too me and why i went insane analyzing the lyrics? i've been using the sun/snow methaphor for years now because ryo is winter, harsh and cold and not a season everyone can like. and yet ayato is so, so bright he's summer: he's the sun, grabbing everyone's attention and bringing light even to the darkness corners. and light is attracted to darkness and the other way around— red and blue; day and night; sun and moon.

#leo; asks #leo; writing #see this song was written with them in mind and i can't unsee #plus death is a recurring motif in ryo's character because she fears dying so so much but. what if it's the other way around #what if she is the one who is forced to grief and live alone >:)

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i've been staring at my wannabe DL styled ref sheet for half an hour, debating on whether i should post it now or wait.....

i've put way too many hours into the sprites and the chibi and everything and it'd be nice if i could post it at a good time where people can actually see it but i also want to just post it already aaaaa

#misc; txt #i mean yes of course everything i work on i do it for myself but #this has been so long in the making i kinda want a big reveal #actually proud of the outcome for once #and very excited to see if it gets a good reception? yeah ;;

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character development: ryo is now pocket sized

#diabolik lovers oc #leo; art #i need to clean it and line it but! #i still like the old sprites a lot #so i had to do a little chibi for. for science #(working on a proper dl esque ref sheet. we'll see how that goes) #i can't wait to post the new sprites nnnn i'm so proud

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accidentally deleted one of the hair render layers while finishing some stuff so i'm calling these sprites done. don't wanna render anything ever again </3

#misc; txt #working on getting a handful of expressions done for testing purposes..... #she's cute. looks cute. i really can't do it any better and it's 2am #but i'm not going to bed until i get this officially done #a long night awaits </3

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✦➤ music tag

drop a 🎵 in my askbox for a song i associate with my oc

#feel free to rb this!! i love listening to new music!! #i said song but instrumental music is very welcome too pls #<- means i'm going to shove some instrumentals no matter what #i'm just a bit insane on analyzing music and lyrics and wanted an excuse <3 #my playlist is super long..... but never long enough

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i think giving up on making things canon compliant and realizing fun > accuracy was the last push i needed to write the stuff i wanted to write

sorry rejet if you wanted me to stick to canon then you would be needing an actual canon i can stick to <3

#misc; txt #it's a lot more enjoyable like this lol #i don't want to sound conceited but i'm attached enough to my own worldbuilding not to want to change a thing #like stuff with the other clans and witches and all those topics we didn't get a hint on #or maybe we did get more than i know but i can't read 10+ routes in just how many games again #so sorry not sorry but you're getting my mismatched fantasy writer setting

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every day i wake up and have to read the absolute worst takes on the characters from this series and i wonder how some people manage to live irl with this kind of reading comprehension skills...

i mean given hdb's ratio they clearly can't mention word by word "the characters are having sex" but it is so clearly intented.... i also always considered that the way some stuff is mentioned in game is some sort of metaphor for how the characters' remember what happened to them. the trauma is there. they grew up into the people they are now due to trauma (and obv a lot more things, but you get the point)

i really don't want to write a dissertation on cordelia (lies. i do) because besides the canon stuff that is so clearly ingrained in my brain everything past that would be my own theories but. being a victim does NOT excuse you from abusing your children in any way. and don't come with the "times were different" excuse because there are lines that are never crossed no matter the time....

sorry reading a cordelia defense in 2024 made me a bit :))) did i make sense. i don't think i did

#misc; txt #sometimes i feel like we all played a different game #like i thought some conclusions were. obvious #like the canon material clearly intends you to get to that conclusion #i used to be very very insane about the triplets so when i see their traumas being downplayed i just #please go back and read. the tls are out there #blocking the rbs just in case

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finally sat down to try and write everything i had in mind for ryo to see if can post a definitive version and tbh? i'm not surprised she's so traumatized. no, now i definitely get WHY she's so traumatized and acts the way she does

#misc; txt #like yeah of course i knew it already #but when you think of everything in some sort of timeline #as opposed to events being separated #some things just click into place #her life is this weird cycle of calm - absolute madness every few years #and she's back at her madness era now with ayato #she needs a break doesn't she TT

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okay fine she looks REALLY blue <- considering painting everything from scratch again

#misc; txt #i am going a bit insane because i can only work when i'm hyperfocusing #and as soon as i see stuff the next day i go uuuuu this is not it #maybe i'll play with the saturation a bit and see if i can fix it #i'm still getting used to the colours in this pc ;;;; #and my perfectionist ass can't tolerate things not looking perfect from the first attempt #at least she's not green this time......