#head in my hands tlk defined so much of my childhood i keep putting pieces of it into my work

[princekirijo]

✨and 🍀 for riku?? i'm curious hehe

HELL YAH BOY TIME!!!

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

OK so I think I've mentioned this before but Riku actually started out as a Link variant would you believe. I created him about 5? years ago now back when I was kinda coming out of my Zelda phase and into my Persona phase! I saw some really cool artwork someone did where they gave various smash bros fighters personas, I saw the Link one and was like that is cool as hell what if I combined the two.

Then as I started to basically become consumed by Persona and Riku!Link began to evolve as a character I decided to semi scratch him and turn him into the Riku I know and love today :] His original name was Rinku (the Japanese name for Link) but after doing some research I randomly came across Riku and saw it meant Land and Handsome. At the time Riku was an Earth Persona user (it was an element in P2 but now he's the other P2 element: Water/Aqua) and he's a handsome lad so the name really fit.

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

Well I guess I kinda answered that in the part above haha. I know I was actually supposed to do an OC chart for him where I would like show the characters that inspired him but I never got round to it, so I'll just list them here! The main ones (aside from yukamitsu but that should be kinda obvious cause well... they're his parents 💀) are Simba, Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet (the movie), Flynn Rider, Sylvain and Claude from Fire Emblem, and of course Link! Won't lie I guess I could be counted in that category too because I did put a good amount of myself into him.

Also I have been told he is like other characters too (unintentional on my part) and they would include: Karma from Assassination Classroom, Childe from GI (unfortunate fr but they do have similarities I won't lie 😭😭) and more recently Allister from Dragon Age Origins. Do what you will with that information.

#asks #misty-wisp #riku kirijo #DUDE THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!! #always happy to talk about my boy #we are not gonna talk about how riku has the most embarrassing kin list FRRRRR #unironically him and simba have such similar character arcs #head in my hands tlk defined so much of my childhood i keep putting pieces of it into my work #i feel like there's other inspirations too im just forgetting them you know #but yeah tbh i dont remember much of the original crossover au other than the fact that riku would have been living with makoto #which is hilarious now #but yeah thanks again for the ask :] #i hate the ch!lde allegations but my man isn't really escaping them #especially black mask riku 😭