A Little Vice (Trans Magical Girl fic)

[twilight]

I binged this fic yesterday and I really love it. Today while I was at school I did some doodles of some of the characters: link. Looking forward to following the story as it continues.

 

[Elpis]

I paid my dues.

 

[Renu]

Not entirely caught up yet, but this story is great and at a few points hit me right in the shell (seriously, the "I'm not trans unfortunately. I wish I was trans but I'm a boy" was so on point it hurt). So anyway I doodled Invidia after her haircut (and count Fruitula because we stan count Fruitula in this house).

Does she have two pair of ears btw? It haunted me while I was drawing her upside down...

 

[Renu]

Previously, in "A little vice"



EDIT:
And mr. Noir's recruitment pitch.



Drew this only because the word "sinmaxxing" is a horror I had to share.

 

[Snowe]

hi i just binged this all of a few days ago and i know this thread has 81 pages so its not lsike i can really add much to the "gushing about the story" end in text

the characters were so great that i really wanted to draw them
i took some guesses about fashion because a few of the characters are probably intentionally underdescribed but if i missed any blurbs feel free to let me know

might or might not do more in a future, i do everything on a whim

(slightly anachronistic because chiro didnt have the new haircut yet in ch12 when this was idealised to happen but shhhhhhhhhh)

 

[Snowe]

update the brainrot went further than anticipated
i made this entirely on a whim, just cuz i wanted to practice comic making and i was especially interested in portraying c's mental state here. she's really unstable and i tried to portray a little bit of that through the colors and layout but this is my first time making a comic so some of the stuff i tried might not have worked

regardless i dont care if its good because its just fanart
i do really want to congratulate shadell on writing something so intensely engaging to me, the characters are great and i love them
idk if im gonna do more but if i do itll be on more whims

Spoiler: Art & Stuff Inside

 

[Renu]

Have a Temperance. Went full on the idea that the characters' colours are pride flag based.

 

[Galestorm Winds]

I've been inspired, and decided to try making a bit of art of my own--specifically, a plushie Invidia Bat/Chiro.

Not sure if I'm done yet, but you're making a great story so far and I felt the need to make something for it.

 

[Renu]

Rereading a bit. Currently at the Beaker Breaker fight...

 

[Shadell]

So, our big conclusion is entering its third draft, though it'll still be a week or so before you see it. In the meantime, have a shiny new cover commissioned from the ever amazing @Renu. I am wildly stoked about this art and I'm really happy to be able to show it to everyone. Avaritia's expression, the light in eir eyes and the way the seed looks all came out so extremely amazing here that I am incredibly hyped for the project.




Okay, but why a cover?

Well, vanity mostly.

But also, after finishing the epilogue, I do want to write a few vignettes, but I'm happy to announce that I'm also going to be cleaning up the work some, editing a few things here and there and tidying some stuff off to make the really final definitive version of the text everything I can make it and throwing an epub/pdf up on itch.io and Amazon for a few bucks. It's not going to be a different thing or anything. There's not likely to be any dramatic content shifts. Just, since I don't intend on starting a Patreon or using kofi or the like, if you'd like to support my writing and/or maybe have a cleaned up version of the story as a pdf or epub, that'll be the way to do it.

I don't think, unless there's a lot more interest than I expect, that it'll make sense to do anything like a print on demand release. But, you never know what the future might hold.

In the meantime, I hope this fantastic cover image helps tide people over the last bits of this delay around our big finale.