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OC Week Day 2: ReiKenn

From the prompt: “Who is your OC paired with romantically? Tell us what made your OC fall for them! Or maybe what annoying habits their partner has that they could definitely live without!”

Reika and Kennyo have a slowburn romance – Kennyo is still in the midst of grieving heavily for his friends, families, and followers, and Reika has learned over the years that deep heartbreak is not the healthiest soil to plant a romantic relationship. Besides, she needs to get home so her own friends and family don’t mourn her disappearance for any longer than she can help. 1582 is just not the right time.

But Kennyo is the first truly safe person she meets in the Sengoku and her liberator from Azuchi. So while sticking with him seems like the best bet for survival, her curious and humanitarian nature also can’t help but want to untangle the crossed threads of Kennyo’s current beliefs and sense of self. 

It’s hard not to fall in love with a man so gentle, brave, and generous. At the same time, it’s painful to fall in love with a man hellbent on destroying himself.

And she’s not the pure woman that he first believes her to be, either. Reika would kill to save a life and believe it’s the right thing to do.

The two must learn to navigate their clashing convictions and question what they truly desire, while the machinations of war escalate and the clock ticks down to the wormhole’s return.

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Unfortunately, I only have a one-off fic of them so far |D;;; But you can read the story [ “A Half-Finished Bridge” ] here on tumblr or on AO3.

I also have had the honor of working with a lot of wonderful artists for commissions and requests, so you can see a lot more of these two being goobers on my #Kennyo x Reika tag X3

The top images are originally from a comic I did here~

When you’re trying to write a fic and the characters just

Happy Valentine’s Day, Reika~ [for the last 10 minutes of it, hahahaha]

When your egg-head boyfriend is being a stinky bastard man

He calls it "getting head" just to make her even more mad

(Kohl / Descendtale!Sans belongs to @popatochisssp)

ArtFight -- Snake Sans (by UlyaFox), meet Snake!Sans (by Pinkapop)!

When you try to cut your own hair and end up looking like Azula from the ATLA finale and also you're married to the devil (hyperbole) who laughs when you ask him for help

At least your brother-in-law is a gentleman 😔

(Skeletons belong to @popatochisssp )

Every once in a while, I decide I need to go back to Sans's sprite and re-decide how I want to draw him, particularly his head shape and eye socket shape. And then I usually go of the rails seeing how I'd tweak things for his variants, which definitely happened this time.

Red and Blue here are kind of just what I use as a default placeholder look for Reds and Blues in general -- they're not the canon designs or from any particular interpretation of their AUs, and that's true of Dust here, too. The Horrors are from two separate Horror AU ideas I'm kicking around, but they're very Halloween Town Horrors: they look kinda scary, but they're not malicious. And then Killer and Error here are pretty much straight lifted from their canon, visually.

The bottom set of four are from @popatochisssp and you can easily read more about them using her Undertale Skeleton's Master Post. Slate and Jasper are from Wave 1, and Ash and Brick are from Wave 2. I really like them, and I think you probably would like them too, if you don't aready :3c But if you're not into Sanses, or these types of Sanses, there are a bunch of Papyri and Swap / Swapfell Sanses you might enjoy! (Edit: fixed so all the colors have the appropriate hex code colors as assigned in their reference post.)

Concepts I would like to explore from Killer's original story:

The Metanarrative of the Player's choices and desires (i.e., our choices and desires, independent of “Chara”) shaping the universe that Killer inhabits, most directly on Killer himself, especially as the choices and desire of the Player are so core to the narrative of Undertale itself

Killer turning against Nightmare and working to try and “fix everything” while carrying the weight of the lives he’s taken, symbolized in him keeping the name “Killer”

Killer/Sans resisting the Player’s reprogramming, defeating Chara, and never joining Nightmare in the first place (which I imagine he’d do largely through the support of his brother & friends)

The clash of Sans's core character flaw/struggle being his resignation & nihilism, vs. the artificial Determination he gains, and how that could inform and shape the way I write Killer’s personality

Y’know. Just friend things.

[This version of Red & his sprite are from @bonelyheartsclub. He calls her ‘shrink’ because she’s a counselor but he spells it with a y because her name has a y. The man’s got jokes.]

Solmare???

Brumy (Descendtale Snyk) in the lotus palette / Nyrvana and Spectr (Transcendtale Snyk and Sans) in the Forget-Me-Not palette for Art Fight's #SproutFight2025.