Dumping A Bunch Of Toga Sketches Here Cuz I Can

This was giving me thoughts, and I remembered some special thing about handwriting culture in Japan, so I'll share

Source: “CUTE STUDIES”. KAWAII (“CUTENESS”) – A NEW RESEARCH FIELD by OANA-MARIA BÎRLEA from Babeș-Bolyai University

The text is about development of kawaii culture in 1970s (and I think this suits Himiko so much...)

Kawaii promotes the appreciation of small, stylized objects and of childish or atypical looking characters considered vulnerable for various reasons (size, looks, attitude, etc.).

This culture spread rapidly among students (especially female students), who started to express their feelings through a nonconformist writing style, considered more modern and closer to the Western world: maru ji (rounded letters), koneko ji (“kitten writing”), manga ji (“comic writing”), burikko ji (“imitation of children’s writing”).

The "soft rebellion" of young people implied “sabotaging” the traditional way of writing by adding small, cute symbols to induce positive feelings and combat alienation.

So basically, Himiko's writing in Japanese could look like this (an example of maru ji handwriting style):

(As I understand, the rough translation is – "This is very cute!", the picture is from Wikipedia)

Okay, but I think Himiko has very beautiful handwriting. She would write in cursive very cute and Ochako doesn't have a ugly handwriting but she doesn't write in cursive. I think she would write as legibly as possible

Now I gotta go back to drawing Himiko again cuz there's half of the togachako week passed and not a single art piece from me ☠️

I wanted to draw a dog, I did. I was screaming smth like HOW UR FACE WORKS all the time.

(my ocs pet actually. we both call it Hellhound and it is)

Literally this (I know toga would be more suitable for Vi's role as she comes from a criminal environment too but THE EYEPATCH)) lmaooooo

I don't know if I can ask for too much but please someone draw togachako like the caitvi from arcane please

they're SO THEM, I can perfectly imagine togachako as caitvi

Just listen to me I'm not crazy-

Hanahaki AU Himiko would be ecstatic to have hanahaki

It's practically the embodiment of how she sees love – blood and flowers are so. fucking. cute.

Just imagine her over a dirty sink in an abandoned house which league currently occupies, lead here by a persistent itch in her throat, doubling over in a violent coughing fit. But then she opens her eyes – before her a single pink camellia in precious splatters of red, sharply contrasting the the pristine white of the tiles.

She lifts her head to look at her muddy reflection in the cracked mirror. She smiles. No, it's the crazed, manic, awed grin.

Himiko Toga, no doubt, is happy.

I promised and I did it

I call this ✨strawberry Ochako✨

Not perfect, but I tried to make it practical (I just wanted to give Ocha some cool pants)

(my rambling about the og design which started it all)

Special thanks to @lily-claw, your input was major here haha (maybe that's why I've stolen the "KILL WITH MY KNEES" idea y'know XD)

And these are with the massage points if any of you are curious

I NEARLY FELL OFF MY BED WHEN I SAW THIS

SO PRETTYYYYYYYYY 🛐🛐🛐🛐🌸

TOGACHAKO on the background YO YOU COOKED

🤓🤓🤓 acshually if you look at how tail covers her booba you can see that the tip is shaped like heart and it covers exactly where her heart is this is some cool ass symbolism ☝☝☝✨

And I adore the way her hair is a bit more tamed here too :3

I love the momojirou censorship too-

FINALLY FINISHED-

MARAMA OC ART-

@marronje hihihihhihihhi

well... happy new year

Thinking about Himiko again....

tw!!!: mentions of self-harm

I've seen many artists drawing Toga with sh scars, and, while understanding where it came from, I still couldn't come to terms with the idea itself.

But now... What if these scars aren't only a manifestation of how Himiko couldn't accept her body and let out her pent-up emotions through pain, but also served a practical purpose?

Middle school Himiko grappling with her desire for blood. Drinking her own to avoid hurting others, which, while being a poor substitute, is her only solace?

Himiko, locked up in the bathroom of her so-perfect-so-plastic home, a box cutter at her feet, licking her bleeding wounds while tears are streaming down her cheeks and her trembling lips are curled up into a wobbly smile.

It's so painful, but it's the closest to feeling alive she has.

And Himiko can't bring herself to feel shame.

P. S. It goes perfectly with Himiko wearing her yellow cardigan (?), actually, the sleeves being so long that she has sweater paws. Like, not that Himiko would be ashamed of her scars, she would just hate that people would look at her with pity, so it'd be easier to cover them up.

With the League though... Not that they would pay that any mind. They literally have a walking scar that is Dabi and not like anyone pays attention, so yup, Himiko would become a bit more relaxed about her scars eventually. Maybe they'll even have that scar talk. That'd be cute.

I'M TELLING ALL THE TIME

tgck community shares one braincell sometimes

very often

I love it

431 evokes thought 🤓

People: arguing if the izch handhold was romantic or platonic in 431

Me: fools

@lily-claw do you remember our joke now