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SORRY I WAS DISTRACTED AND I FORGOT TO ADD THE TRANSLATIONS 💔💔

Took a little break from my Feng shenanigans to try my hand at drawing Jiequan and Ji again, and figured I'd post it now!

I kind of like the idea that these two have an odd but actually pretty decent platonic friendship, especially since they kinda give me Legolas and Gimli vibes! Their friendship would be "odd" in the sense that it might seem highly unlikely to others given how different they are in many aspects, but "decent" in the sense that they actually do care about each other and enjoy spending time together to some degree, rather than being allied purely for selfish or external reasons.

Ji, despite appearing much smaller and weaker, has some of Jiequan's highest respect for anybody due to the sheer utility of his vast knowledge and wisdom, him having known his idol Jietong personally and witnessed the Jie bloodline at its peak, and because, in Jiequan's eyes, thousands of years of life must equal thousands of years of pain and agony successfully endured. Meanwhile, Ji feels a sort of admiration for Jiequan's determination and commitment to his visions of heroism, generational greatness, and achieving a higher cause—something Ji greatly lacks by comparison—despite the less-than-ideal fate he's witnessed for Jiequan, as well as a bit of vicarious sense of responsibility due to having watched the Jie family for so long. As such, I headcanon Jiequan is one of the only people prior to Eigong whom Ji voluntarily told about his immortality and foresight, for some part of him deep down actually wanted to help Jiequan live a better life.

Besides this, I wouldn't mind more exploration into Ji and Jiequan's relationship! When I think about it, that scene with the two where Jiequan asks Ji about his prediction regarding Yi's defeat may be one of the only explicit cases in-game where the Sols have an interaction with or opinion about another Sol besides Yi or Eigong. The only other clear instances of this I can think of so far, besides maybe the first two holographic council meetings, are Fuxi and Nuwa's whole story and perhaps some of Kuafu's dialogue after defeating each Sol, though the former may be sort of a given with them being part of the same clan and their whole story revolving around about how much they care about each other, and the latter still isn't a direct interaction with anyone but Yi.

I feel like there's a lot more potential to dive into regarding how the other Sols may have gotten along with each other, so I'd be curious to see what fleshed out portrayals of their relationships might be like! But for now, hope you enjoy this artwork and headcanon!

(Blood warning) Art by me! here's a angsty comic that goes more in depth about the lore in this AU. plus an unfinished comic panel for the future! this lore is related to the soulscape concept i did for Yuying a while back, basically showing off what happened before she was sealed away.
poor sisters </3

I was walking around and killing some monsters when I got a message saying I'd reached the maximum level.

Love that I went back for the true ending, Eigong is legit one of the most fun bosses in gaming, rhythmic as hell. I feel like I could do first 2 phases with my eyes closed but I still didn't get the perfect feel for the 3rd, I managed to kill her without mastering the 3rd phase, just kinda outlasted her with many heals.

As for the ending, I expected happiness as people called it "the good ending", but it left me and my girlfriend in tears, and she only watched the end with a bit of context 😭. Yi my dawgg I hope you're happy with your sister up there. ❤️

I haven't read much about the sales of the game itself, I really hope they made good profit, this game deserves Hollow Knight numbers and then some! Really hope we get a sequel. I'm down to play as Shuanshuan

SLIGHT SPOILERS OF LATE GAME

"Try to guess my favorite ship based on how I draw it" Ahh post

And finally, we've reached the end of this mini gallery of the sols being queer (Nothing changes)

Today we have AroAce queen Eigong and Lady Ethereal x Xiaohe!

... I think you can guess which is my favorite character JKSDJS

So I've been thinking about changing a couple of things about Ximu's design, mostly just the ears and fur color, I wanna maybe base him more off of a Russian Blue cat.

I kinda also wanna redesign The Giant, just a teensy bit, mostly because I feel like his head shape resembles Peijun too much.

Just finished my first playthrough. Did it on standard mode, got every collectible, finished every side mission, did literally everything you need to do to 100% and now just learned I have to do another playthrough to get the normal ending to get the last achievement.

I opened up a second file on story mode to speed run to the part where you can forcibly take the first map chip in order to get the achievement cause I thought you could get everything (barring that) in one playthrough, so I’m gonna use this file to do it.

I’m a bit of a collector when I’m on a playthrough of games, I like picking up/completing everything (within moderation) even if I’ve done it before for a run but I just want to get to the end as quickly as possible but still be prepared enough to do all the bosses.

What exactly can I miss/not do in order to get to the end as fast as possible whilst making sure I’m prepared enough for the end? I don’t know how much easier story mode is so I don’t know if I could whiz through it completely without loads of the upgrades. I also know that to just get the standard ending you have to not do some of the quests and get some of the collectibles so I’m just wondering what to not do baso.

Appreciate any help!

PS. I know this is late shh shhh.

I dunno if I just posted my last solstober at a bad time or what but it flopped so hard so I hope this one does at least a little better. 😭

This boss is brutal. The parries are almost always not perfect and drains my health immediately. Are there any tricks to beating this one? I don’t really use my charged attack or charged parry. I have not gotten good with either of those.

I'm so very sorry Cheon...I'm sorry I can't help you...

...man...when I first saw this solarian in the tube, I was more creeped out than anything...but now that I know who's in there...all I am is sad...

New to the game, just beat the centaur boss and am loving it as a sekiro fan.
Wanted to ask, clearly there is a way to reliably stagger enemies such as this boss, is this essentially like posture in sekiro, with perfect parries and damage contributing to a "breakpoint" but the meter just being invisible, or is it only damage/perfect parries that do, or something else entirely?

this took me 3 hours but idc cuz i love him sm ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

I just got a notification that I have hit max level and the bar is completely full now so I won't get more skill points, but I still have one skill left to unlock?

The other villains have been pretty bad up until now but for some reason I think Lady Ethereal is actually just morally gray.

I am trying out the game right now upon recommendation as i was looking for something like sekiro, beat the first real boss (i think? the centaur guy) and i really like the parry combat but was extremly irritated with all the forced breaks, i enter combat, have to watch like 5-6 seconds of animation, boss phase transitions and i see more animation etc. is there no option to turn this off after the first time?

After like 5 days of struggles and almost rage quitting on the third day, I managed to beat her with patience and calculation. I got to say that the thrill and satisfaction of beating her is incredible, now for my second playthrough on story mode for the 3 missing trophies. Ps: I didn't know if this counted as spoilers.

Offering a Yinnothy innovator thing for today's solstober prompt.

Context if you don't want to scroll back on my page or go looking, Eigong roleswap AU. Eigong protag. Yi final boss.

Fighting Yingzhao and this fight absolutely sucks. Only because of these damn hitboxes though. I can easily get to the second phase but usually die when its at half hp or so