Pic.

[ladybug_archive]

Color version of chapter 5's pic.

It has also finally been posted to Side7, along with the other pics done so far. I just have the epilogue left and the first set of pics will be complete!

Side7 link: http://www.side7.com/cgi-bin/S7SDB/Display.pl?act=gallery&aid=3749

Chapter 7 of The Diamond Rose Glass is finally done! W00t! And a oneshot of Seph and Zack cuteness almost is done. **needs a title and will probably look it over again later in case there's anything else to add.**

EDIT: And now I'm getting more odd ideas for the proposed zombie fic, based more or less on RPs. Including a Gunju from another dimension popping up who's furious at his Azazel and taking it out on every Azazel. He even fights the main Gunju and defeats him, then poses as the real one to get close to Azazel in order to hurt him. I'm still not sure what his beef is, but his Azazel is working with Koseki and has a beef against Dalton, which is part of the reason why Alter Gunju is mad.

Yeah, what a confusing RP world. LOL.

I also need to draw Koseki. X3 I swear his basic appearance was originally based on The Reader from Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat. XD;;; (Yeah, real guilty pleasure show there. I should have remembered it on the cartoon quiz.)

Koseki is a main villain in the RP with Lisa right now. X3 He just got banged up falling down a tunnel that he was trying to pull Seph and Cloud into, and now he's talking to Hojo, who found him mostly blind and bleeding in the grass. I'm thinking Koseki will end up blind in one eye. What happened was that he was clinging to Seph's leg when he was trying to pull him and Cloud into the tunnel, and Seph kicked him desperately when he was pulling. Seph accidentally shattered Koseki's glasses and they cut him. OW. There's a possibility that Koseki will be scarred from the glass shards, too. I haven't quite decided on that yet.

Comments

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Ooh... this is so good colorized! X3 Yes, the fire looks amazing un-inked. X3 It looks very... vast, which I'm sure is the intent... And Kala-Ansa looks wonderfully crazed.

Chapter 7 was great! And yay friendship/surrogate family cuteness oneshot! X3 **Will be looking forward to that**

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It really does look vast. X3

**hugs oneshot.** It is very squeeable.

... And now I just edited the entry twice, to add a bunch more stuff. XD; LOL. I hate when I forget what I want to say until the entry's already up.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Well... that's an interesting mix-up with the Rakesh bros... XD

And yikes at Koseki trying to drag Seph and Cloud into the tunnel! Sounds like a good "full circle" effect there...

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yep. LOL. Poor Azazel does get attacked by the Alter Gunju, and the house is a mess. XD; He and Dalton had suspected that they had the wrong one, so Dalton had left to look while Azazel tried to keep Alter Gunju entertained and not suspicious. He failed on both counts.

**nodnod.** Koseki has the bad luck of his plans backfiring on him a lot. But it makes for wonderful irony.

[twitchytwitch.livejournal.com]

The flames look a tad overly-simplified and unrealistic. With the realistic, though stylized, style of the characters, they should follow suit and look more realistic! They should sway more and break apart, rather than taking the same basic shape.

Besides the boring fire, everything else is pretty awesome!

Interesting composition and lovely colors. ^^

The character in the back's head looks a tad too small for his body, though~ which is huuuuge! That could be intentional.

The character in the foreground is much more nicely drawn. More proportionate and all. I really like the clothing too, it's very well-drawn~ and hair. ^^

The biggest downpoint is the fire, really.

In short, very VERY good job!

(Are you an artist? How did I never know about this? ;_; )

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

I really struggle with fire. If you think this is bad, you should see what all my other attempts look like. This is a big step up from those. XD; Maybe someday I'll get it right.

I dunno, I actually think Kala-Ansa looks more disproportionate than Sephiroth. Her legs are driving me batty. Sephiroth isn't really there, either; she's thinking about him as she looks over the feather. He's supposed to be bigger because he's a background figure, looming in her mind. I think I mentioned something about that in the picture's description.

I'm glad you like Kala-Ansa's clothes and hair, though. Clothes are among the most frustrating things to draw.

[twitchytwitch.livejournal.com]

Aha, perhaps I should try making you a fire-drawing tutorial? ^^;

I know he's not actually there, I just meant his head was too small, inproportionate to the rest of his body, imagined or not. ^^ I could tell.

I didn't see her legs as being that off, honestly. ♥ Too hard on yourself!

♥ ♥ ♥

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's nice of you. ^^ If it's not any trouble, that would be a useful thing to have. It might help other people, too.

[twitchytwitch.livejournal.com]

Certainly~ I could give it a try soon~ but I don't have much time on the computer lately. x3

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**nodnod.** Well, whenever you can is fine. ^^

(For the record, I originally had tried showing some of the flames leaping up and away from the main body, but it just wasn't coming out right. XD; So I scrapped that idea.)

[twitchytwitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks~ ^^

(Ah, that would have made it look better, even if they didn't come out exactly right. x3)

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love how the coloring came out! ^^ The fire looks great, and I love that blue. ^^ Seph's hair is amazing! It looks so smooth. **pets.** And I totally love his expression! I probably said that for the line art, but I still love it. ^^

I think Kala-Ansa looks fine. ^^ I don't think her face really looks that dark at all! As for the blouse.... Well, maybe it's just skin color? XD; Oh, maybe you could use white-out if you wanted to fix it?

Yay for the next chapter! ^^ **will need to read it later.** And I'm looking forward to the oneshot, too! ^^

Wow.... Gunju causes problems for everyone, even Azazel and Dalton! Nobody is immune. XD ....So does he defeat Zombie Gunju or Ghost Gunju? XD

And oh wow, Koseki's back? Or is he from another dimension? Glad that Seph and Cloud were able to escape him, but why was he pulling them into a tunnel? XD I kinda feel sorry for Koseki, though.... That's gotta hurt. XD;

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love how the fire colored. X3 I wish I'd been able to get the effect of some of it leaping up to work, but I'm pretty proud of how it came out, considering I had been drawing pieces of fire that looked like mountain peaks. LOL.

Kala-Ansa has blue skin? LOL I guess I could try using White-Out over the blue of the blouse, but then it would probably stand out oddly. XD;

I was thinking that maybe Alter Gunju reanimates Gunju's body. LOL. And poor Gunju has to defeat them both! While trying to keep Alter Gunju from killing Azazel. XD;

It's the main Koseki. ^^ In the RP, he didn't die. He had poisoned Cloud and put them through hoops like he did with Seph in Good Luck and Goodbye, only Cloud's poison included amnesia, too. o.o So then when that plan was foiled, Koseki revealed that the house was going to blow up. While they were trying to escape, Koseki tried to shove Seph through a trapdoor in the wall that led to a seemingly bottomless pit. Cloud tried to grab him, and Koseki tried to pull them both through, and Seph was going to let go of Cloud because he didn't want Cloud to fall and be killed. ;__; When Koseki was cut by his glasses, he fell, and Seph was able to pull himself up with Cloud's help.

And yeah, seriously! Ow. XD; I'd hesitated having that happen to him, but I went through with it in the end deciding he could either regain all of his sight or at least part of it.

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, these definitely look a lot better than that!

Blue skin? I'm confused now..... Oh, did you mean that her suit was supposed to be white? Wow, I thought you meant that she had a white blouse under the suit. So I thought you'd colored that with the skin color, instead of white. Looks like my definitions of a blouse need work. XD;; I never did pay attention to those sorts of things. XD;

LOL. It's Yami Gunju! ....Zombified Yami Gunju. XD

Oh wow. That's intense! Glad everything turned out alright, though. ^^

**nods.** That works! I'll bet he'd be rather bitter over it, though.

....Oh wait, since Koseki met Hojo after he fell, does that mean that Hojo's been living in a bottomless pit all this time? LOL. ....Havta say, that's an oddly appropirate place for him. XD

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. She wasn't wearing her suit jacket, that's the thing. She just had on the blouse and the skirt. And I forgot she wasn't wearing the suit jacket and I colored the blouse blue. -.-;

Yami Gunju! **snerk.**

Yeah, Koseki will be really angry about it. One more thing to (unfairly) hate Seph for. XD;

He crawled out of the exit of the "bottomless" pit, which was at the bottom of the hill where the house is. XD And Hojo found him on the grass.

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. **nods.** Well, I can see how you made that mistake, since I did the same thing! ....Even though the blouse was blue. XD;

Man, Hojo being back totally spells bad news for Seph and everyone! Ooh, and if he's gonna work together with Koseki.... **shudders.** I hate to see what might happen!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

XD

**nodnod.** Definitely a dangerous alliance! I'm thinking Hojo will operate on Koseki and give him at least some of his sight back.

[amanechan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the colored version. ^^ I do agree with twitchytwitch that the fire is a little unrealistic. Maybe if you made the colors a little more random and...I dunno, natural?

Aaaaand here I go again falling behind on your fic updates because I mean to read them and then forget. *headdesk*

LOL, so let me get this straight: Gunju #2 hates Azazel #2 and by extension all Azazels, so Gunju2 fights Gunju1 and then pretends to be Gunju1 so he can hurt Azazel1, and Azazel2 is working with Koseki and he hates...one of the Daltons? XD *brain explodes*

That was a fun arc. >3 Amnesiac!Cloud was fun to play. And I'm finding Hojo is a very therapeutic character when you're having a bad day, lol.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**nods.** It'll probably be a long time before my fires are really realistic. XD

XD

LOL. Yep, that's about it. Azazel 2 hates Dalton 2, and somebody hurts Dalton 1 and tries to frame Azazel 2 for it, but Dalton 2 thinks someone was trying to frame him for it so it would look like he was trying to get back at Azazel 2 and make him look guilty.... XD; Meanwhile, Sephiroth has been getting crazy emails from some girl claiming she's engaged to him and the emails are traced to the house where Dalton has been left laying drugged on the floor. And on the laptop Seph just finds a bunch of cackling Kefkas, a la Joker style. Kefka has become one of Seph's enemies in this cracked-up crossover. LOL.

XD Somehow creepy villains really are good to play on bad days. I wonder why that is.

[amanechan.livejournal.com]

LOL, wow. A bunch of laughing Kefkas on the computer? Sounds like something Pegasus would do. XD

Hmm...maybe because you can translate your frustration into their creepiness?

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

XD Though I forgot to mention, Azazel 2 hates Dalton 1 as well. And he's involved in smuggling stuff to and from Fragmented Triangle 1 because of that. I do know the reason why Azazel 2 hates both Daltons: he blames them both for their respective Gunju's deaths. I was kind of thinking of Gunju 2, on the other hand, blaming Azazel 2 for his death, which means that the circumstances must have been different than for Gunju 1. **still needs to sort out what could have happened to cause such a vast misunderstanding.**

Yep, LOL. I'm still trying to figure out whether this Kefka is the one from FF6 or if he's one that's always lived on Earth.XD

**nodnod.** Probably!