So Akechi was honestly a surprise muse??? I initially thought he was a pretty cool guy when I first played, but my main p5 muse was always Futaba for a long time. I started to entertain the idea of picking up Akechi, Ann, and Shiho as side muses but didn't do much with them
Come about a year later my best friend fell in love with akiren and we'd make stupid jokes that she's Ren and I was Akechi and w.e. Right? Well it was actually through those stupid jokes that actually made me like him more than before and I actually finally voice tested him
I didn't expect to have so much fun with him and now here we are years later and he's become a rp main somehow. Honestly idk how but I'd pick up Akechi before Futaba (as much as I love her too) first these days
And what drew me to him was the fact that hes a very interesting character with obvious flaws, but I love how he's a bit more complicated and I can really think more deeply about how he acts and why he's the way he is. I really enjoy how much I can explore with his character, all while still acknowledging that he's not a good person deep down and has
Alphinaud on the other hand was 100% destined to become a muse from the moment I started playing 14. It was like the game was saying "OH DO WE HAVE A MUSE FOR YOU".
The more i played the more the game kept reminding me that he's someone I'd play. I'm 100% bias and Alphinaud is best boy to me. Honestly, if I didn't love Alphi as much as I do, Aymeric would bes best boy rofl.
What drew me to Alphinaud was the fact that hes only 16-17, but he's done so many amazing feats that sometimes I forget he's a smol bean yet. But the game also shows his flaws well and does a good job to balance his moments of brilliance with his moments where he's still naive.
He means the best and tries his best, but some of his decisions have had some major consequences (Crystal Braves). While he does rightfully mope about it for a while, they don't linger too long on it either
Mikasa was also one of those muses that I knew right away that I would pick up. I really loved her personality and her past really made sense why she is the way that she is. She's so damn loyal. The feeling that you have nothing left in your life and then here comes somebody to save you from what you thought was the end made a huge impact on me.
So of course Eren became her whole world and reason to exist. Without him and his constant support over the years, she would have died long ago. He gave her the support she needed to move on with her life, even if it wasn't quite as he had intended. Feeling like there's nothing left and hopeless, you'll cling onto what little light there is left.
She's always viewed the world like it's all a piece of shit and life was cruel, but for that one person she could rise up and really put her everything to try to see his dream realized.
I just really love that she seems cold and distant to a lot of people but it really just falls under "I can't be too attached when so many people die every day". It's hard to have to mourn every death so distancing herself seemed like a better alternative
Instead, she'll focus on making damn sure that Eren and Armin survive no matter what. It's easier to protect a few people over the many lives around them.
I really loved Pyrrha's character from the moment that you meet her, but funny enough I didn't pick her up until later. I actually started off with Ruby at first (and way too many side muses from RWBY) and played her for a while. The next one I played in a game (same as Ruby) was Cinder when season 2 was going on.
I ended up watching sometime at the beginning of season 2 being released. I want to say maybe the 2nd ep out at the time?? I remember my friend Cody telling me about how it's really good and I should watch it sometime. I always thought I would eventually but didn't have the time for a full anime at the time.
And the he showed me the trailers and all I thought was "Wtf this is so cool????". After realizing that the episodes were only a few mins long, I decided to give it a try and I'm glad I did
But then after playing Ruby and Cinder for a bit (which was interesting to be like "you'll know when it's time" and not actually know what she was planning), I started entertaining the idea of playing more people
I really love how caring and considerate she is for her friends, but also deals with the stigma of being well known. She's one of the better fighters in the class (at the time of course) but was very humble about her abilities. Her desire to just want to make lasting relationships was something that I really appreciated and that drew me to her
So she ended up becoming more and more interesting to me over the other characters and as much as I like them, she slowly became my goto as a main muse for RWBY.
So we come to season 3 and I was so excited to see more about Cinder and Pyrrha and honestly, season 3 wrecked my heart (like many others). My bias was really starting to show and then the ending of season 3 really just.... Utterly destroyed me. I actually had to pause the episode when it came out to have a long cry break rofl
And then I was really conflicted like... I really like Cinder but I'm also really angry because it was her fault for Pyrrha and then the pressure she felt the entire time to be someone who could maybe save everyone was so hard.
Also in a unrelated note, Jessica Nigri is a huge sweetheart and she mentioned at a panel at a con she went to that she felt really bad about Pyrrha but also playing Cinder so rofl
And now what draws me to her is... My same bullshit with characters with traumatic pasts. In Pyrrha's sake, it's more like playing out her anxiety that she tries to keep to herself and trying to remain strong when she's terrified deep down is what I really enjoy. I just want Pyrrha to be happy and she deserves the best. But I also really like playing
So Mirai has been an OC project for at least a year and a half prior to making her. I one day sat there and thought "I love magical girls but... Why do I not have an OC one yet?"
The first task I had was to figure out a good PB for her. I needed to figure out one that would work for a magical girl, but also fit my vision which took me a while. I figured I could base everything around the pb after that and figure out just what kind of magical girl I wanted and the setting later.
I did find one possible candidate (actually 2 bust settled with one) but I wasn't really 100% sold on the idea yet and it sort of just... Sat there for a long time before picking up the project again.
It wasn't until I came across Love, Chuunibyo and Other Delusions! that it came to me. I was randomly looking for something to watch and found a new anime I didn't know much about on Netflix. I immediately fell in love with it and especially the animation and characters. It was then that I decided that this might be the source where I could find the pb I
Was looking for. So I played around with ideas up until season 2. And then I saw Satone Shichimiya. The moment I saw her character, I immediately knew I found the PB I was searching for and hit about 95% of the criteria that I was searching for in a pb. So I was immediately drawn to her and PB aside being super cute, I fell in love with the character itself
Satone is honestly hands down my favorite in the anime and I'm so happy to have found her for Mirai. So now I had the PB I was happy with and a good source to make icons for. Now I had to think about what kind of setting I wanted, past, and powers. Admittedly I didn't really know where to start. All I knew was that I really wanted a darker setting.
I do like nice stories of course but wanted something more challenging. Madoka was a good inspiration honestly, but I also didn't want to borrow more from it than just "it's cute but dark" and the specialization for abilities.
So I talked about ideas on plurk and a friend popped in and said that "oh a magical girl OC!! Nice! I have a magical boy OC but haven't done much with him yet"
So I was asking what he was like and if it would give me ideas and boy howdy did it. The setting (I won't go into it here since it's lengthy) reminded me a lot of a few different canons and I immediately found it something fun and interesting.
It gave me vibes for the Nightmares (Cadavers for her) from canons like God Eater's Aragami, Attack on Titan's Titans, and RWBY's Grimm. The setting also gave me vibes of Tales of Xillia's Elympios as far as borrowing the magic from another world as an energy source.
I asked if it was okay to use the setting and was given permission to do so. So now I had a setting down, but I had an idea of maybe instead of taking place in this exact setting, she could be from one of the world's used to syphon for energy instead. If there were alternative universes, then it should be plausible and that really gave me a lot of ideas
It allowed me to be a little bit more creative with what the world would be like. I tried to keep it similar enough to fit into the setting, but slightly more customizable since it's not bound to be exactly the same. Kind of like an alternative timeline.
And then I played with the idea of if people where born Mahou instead of made into them, what powers and strength they'd have. But if they were going to be much stronger than those in the other world, they had to have drawbacks as well. Which... played well into my "I want a darker setting" plan.
And so her past and world setting came about and was fine tuned over time. Eventually I found myself thinking "but how would she do in a game setting?" and I eventually caved and apped to Deer.
I loved having her there because it allowed me to explore more of her past and character and develop her further all while making meaning for connections. It also helped me really just fine tune details that hadn't been 100% thought out.
I was always worried that maybe she wouldn't be as interesting since she was an OC or that maybe I made her too Mary Sue like. I tried to do my best to make her relatable but with the appropriate negative aspects. So I'm just glad people like her
I did ship EreMika at first and I still sort of do??? But not like I used to. Especially not now with how Eren has turned out and the shit that's happened
But when I started to entertain the idea of "What if Mikasa actually paid attention to Jean's awkward advances?" it started as... "This could be a cute ship actually" and became "I will ship JeanKasa before I ship EreMika"
I guess I kind of have the same feels for armikasa as I have for the trio as a whole. I love their relationship and it doesn't really matter to me how or if they define it
yesss and armin would just be super sweet and thoughtful, always very aware of her feelings and just quietly looking out for her or doing things to make her happy, maybe without her even knowing
like I always think he'd just be great at the little things, at knowing how they feel and what they care about and what they need, maybe before they even know
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I really loved Pyrrha's character from the moment that you meet her, but funny enough I didn't pick her up until later. I actually started off with Ruby at first (and way too many side muses from RWBY) and played her for a while. The next one I played in a game (same as Ruby) was Cinder when season 2 was going on.
So Mirai has been an OC project for at least a year and a half prior to making her. I one day sat there and thought "I love magical girls but... Why do I not have an OC one yet?"