day 3 (promises)
I always felt bad that they never got to make a house for Nex. ;m;
day 8 (protection)
day 10 (rebirth)
If I were you, I'd script a better future.
day 14 (mechanical)
I absolutely loved
Elendraug's fanfiction for this prompt, so I tried illustrating it in a short comic format.
day 15 (hope)
This was also partly based on some of Elendraug's writing about what Jr. and Gaignun went through after they were rescued from Miltia. If the scenery looks familiar, it's because I referenced it from Shion's mom's hospital room in XSIII. (Beds in Xenosaga's vision of the future are weird and kind of uncomfortable-looking? The only "normal" beds I can remember seeing offhand are the ones in the Foundation that are supposed to look like 20th-century Earth furniture.)
day 19 (reunion)
You're never/always in the dark.
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This one might have actually taken the longest (except for day 25/26 which somehow took even longer?) despite looking really sketchy because I did a million different versions of it (here's one with
more noisy crap and XSIII spoilers) and wasn't really happy with any of them, which I guess is at least meta-thematically appropriate for how Ziggy is feeling in this scene. Sometimes you have no choice but to say "I failed yet again" and move on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
day 20 (favorite character)
I ran out of time to draw something new for this one, so I just linked all my
old junk.
Bonus Sellers, who is unironically one of my favorite antagonists.
Extra bonus: this started as a
multi-panel comic based on
an entirely different meme but I felt like the setup was too convoluted for a throwaway joke.
day 25/26 (friendship/loss)
This is the one I made the
Clip Studio brush for. (Helmer and Juli is my other brotp besides Jr. and Ziggy. I like the idea that they've been supporting each other since they met at the Institute, not just as political allies but as friends and family members, too.)
I did a few
other things but they're not strictly fanart and I can only upload 10 files at a time, oops. (I might actually make a separate post/thread at some point to address my recent obsession with trying to recreate Xenosaga locations in Starbound. We'll see what my attention span has to say about that.)