Taika Magica
LightNews LightNews
taikamagica.bsky.social
Taika Magica
@taikamagica.bsky.social
50 followers 51 following 220 posts
☆ Artist, Writer, Singer ☆
I enjoy video, board and card games, music of all sorts (mostly), and sometimes movies. It all depends on the day.
Also, I love my OCs.

Bluesky posts? (shrug) Eh. Doing what I want.

PFP by Inkily (No Bluesky Account)
Posts Replies Media Videos
taikamagica.bsky.social
(I REALISE I HAVE NOT POSTED MY MOST RECENT DRAWING SO HERE)

☆ Rusakiu Rosette ☆
"The Rose Witch"

Someone who played an important role in history, even if that role involved a wrath-fueled massacre. Is still alive to this day, in a sense.

◇ #oc #ocart #art #traditionalart ◇
May 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
Forgot to post this when I was done. This is me doing my best to use ACNH in order to look like one of my original characters, Nihobi Abrun. She's awesome, and I love her. I think I did the best I could, especially with the pro design.

Then again, I love most of my characters. :)
May 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
taikamagica.bsky.social
So, my painting classes worked out well. Here is Meilin 'Melinoe' in a more formal outfit. Took 5 painting sessions to get this done, and this was done with acrylic paint (I think) and these marker things for certain aspects of this.

She's beautiful. :)
March 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
(It's gonna be prior art for quite a bit. Drawing something new of my characters is gonna take a while.)

☆ Astrilla 'Angel' ☆

An angel created shortly after a near world-ending event, she was created without a purpose with the intentions for her to discover it on her own.

◇ #oc #art #ocart ◇
Astrilla is basically bone white pale skin, golden bracelets around her wrists with dark bandages around her right arm. There is technically something you could call an anklet around her ankle, but it's a bit too thick to be a normal one, plus it's gold at the top and bottom with black in the middle of the rings. Anyway, her clothes are mainly black and white with a black sleeveless vest, a collared white shirt with a few buttons, a... bandage belt as my best way of describing it, a black shirt just above the knee, plus golden light wings behind her. Oh, and I forgot to describe her face. It is black hair in a short bob with eyes that are a black sclera with a golden light eye. Well, at least when one of them isn't glowing pure white for the soul-seeing ability or if she's pissed. And her stand out feature is her golden eye rings around her head, with one of her eyes usually covered by a ring. Right now, Astrilla is too young to get anything too fancy like extra limbs or other weird stuff.
January 30, 2025 at 3:38 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
I know I am very late to this, but in my defence, I don't check Bluesky as often as I should.

Anyway, you're getting my newest drawing because I'm still proud of it.

This is Meilin 'Melinoe', known as the Wanderer of Light. You can read the writing for more info, but questions are allowed.
January 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
☆ Meilin 'Melinoe' ☆
"Wanderer of Light"

A living, walking piece of history who is responsible for many acts of heroism and tales inspired by her acts.

Was afflicted with the Poisoned condition (different from regular poison) for a time until cured. Long story. :)

◇ #art #oc #ocart ◇
How does one describe her? Very poorly, as I am about to do. She's got a unique hat with a loooong brim and a curved point at the point and two dangling bits I added for fun. Purple hair, yellow eyes even if they're covered by her black knight visor, purple marking that comes from the eyes (that I did not do correctly but can't fix it now), dark purple into white end cape, lot of white grey armour and yellow sun / light... motif? Symbol? That is seen a lot on the armour, plus a bit of red in the middle for them. Except for the thing holding the cape together, that is a necklace technically repurposed as a cape brooch. Cross black belts, a... yellow and purple into white cloth thing coming from under the breastplate, two swords in their scabbards with one at each side, purple claws on her hands and feet as a leftover from the Poisoned thing that are unnatural and unfortunately made her lose a finger and toe because of the mutation, just a lot going on with her.
January 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
(Since it's the New Year, I'll post the drawing I finished last year right around this time.)

☆ Melama Undarnke ☆

Born a Half-Ghost, she's inherited a lot of her mother's abilities, including seeing ghosts and conjuring darkness.

This is her when she's older, by the way.

◇ #art #oc ◇
Melama Undarnke, or more her future young adult self, is a woman of dark skin and darker tendencies. Her hair is dyed a gradient purple with a natural white streak plus her natural black hair underneath all that, styled in a bit of a sideswept bob with an extra little bit of hair on the right (left?) side. She wears a black fancy bow on the other side, which is technically accidentally inspired by the Japanese knot bows? Anyway, she also has purple eyes, but being Half-Ghost means she can also make her eyes blank. I should demonstrate this one day, honestly. As for her outfit, she has a long purple... coat? Dress? It has a split in the middle after the waist point, where there's a black bow with a slight dark pink tinge. Above the waist, there are buttons. Below it, there is a black gradient at the bottom of the dress, with little white bits. Unsure how to describe it, but that part specifically is meant to mimick her wings. Yes, she has weird darkness wings as well. Underneath the dress is a black-ish skirt, just to cover up a bit. She has dark pink ballet shoes on her feet and fishnet sleeves for her arms with a dark pink ribbon for the ends of the fishnets. --- I know I wasn't supposed to go back to lengthy ALT text descriptions, but I'd feel weird if I didn't do them. It's like giving a bit of extra attention before sending it off into the world.
January 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
☆ Ruvem ☆
"Insectoid Biologist"

(Borderline scientist, but eh.)

Formerly human until an experiment went wrong and forced her to live elsewhere in secret: in magi society. She is now known in said society for her monster research, specifically in creating the Monster Catalogue.

◇ #art #oc ◇
A drawing of my character, Ruvem. She's got a custom lab coat and blue sleeveless sweater dress alongside two pairs of arms. Insect eyes, too! Just a lot of insect stuff in general.
December 6, 2024 at 4:20 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
☆ Niorett 'Xoi' Zhanter ☆
"Ghost-hunter"

A top-tier exorcist and combatant, Xoi has dealt with ghosts all of her life and has learnt how to take care of them most efficiently.

(It's been a while since I posted art, so here! Take a drawing that was done two years ago!)

◇ #art #oc ◇
A drawing of my character, Xoi Zhanter. I am experimenting with less verbose ALT text, so I am leaving it here.
November 25, 2024 at 3:51 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
(Rough Sketch, not Final)
☆ Queen Of Frost ☆
FOUND: Icicle Palace, in Illurra

Challenges all adventurers who enter her chamber at Labyrinth's end, with all who lose the fight ending up back at the entrance with no memory of the encounter itself.

◇ #sketch #oc (technically) ◇
A very rough phone sketch of the Icicle Palace 'Labyrinth Boss', Queen Of Frost. Quadrupedal, fur on body, and feathers for wings. Owl head with antlers. Talons for feet? Will work on specifics if I ever get around to making this official.
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
FUCK IT
DOING THIS

I will also use this as an opportunity to mention any associations I have with the song to a particular character / scenario to me, even if I haven't 'revealed' them yet.

Associations do not always make sense, as not all lyrics fit. It's more so about what I imagine hearing it.
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
☆ Harvest Halborne, Monster of Farming ☆

Serves as a protector for the town of Kalmic while also maintaining the farm their caretaker left for them. Has a special gem that allows Harvest to switch between their true, monstrous form and their human disguise for various purposes.

◇ #art #oc ◇
Harvest's true form has a body structure similar to a raptor, but that and the claws are where the similarities end. Head is a weird shape that I have no clue how to describe. They have a black coat, strange yellow eyes, and green vines wrapped around their arms. Additionally, white horns, spikes, and teeth. There is also a white gem near the neck area, which changes colour when Harvest is in their other form. There is also a weird... thing going on with the tail, but it's not big enough to do much. At least right now, it isn't. Do not have energy to describe more. Bonus lore for those who are paying attention: the gem was something that was not made by the local witch Palma, but by someone else entirely. Palma just so happened to have heard about it from a letter she had received from her sister, Hargni, who lives in magi society. And yes, Kalmic is actually a human town. Harvest has to keep their secret and Palma's during the first year they have to take over the farm from the prior owner; Harvest's caretaker, Swanson Halbornen, because he died from old age. And yes, Harvest is essentially adopted by this point, but Swanson always considered Harvest to be his family far more than his actual family who left as soon as they could. Harvest's human disguise form, which is technically a result of a special spell from the gem that is a combination of transformation and illusion to the point the body does feel real. Yet the illusion will start to drop if Harvest subconsciously (or consciously) lets their monstrous features show. This drawing shows a Harvest that is indeed doing it slightly, as their true eyes are shown and their pointy teeth are visible. The vines are always part of the body, though. The spells accounts for the body, not-so-much for extra vines things. This form has white hair and dark skin, with the gem near the neck black now. A green, wrap top (kimono-ish??) with a black trim and white ribbon around the waist, plus dark brown pants and a literal black, long-sleeved coat with the bottom being at the feet area. Speaking of that, there are strangely styled boots for the feet that bear a resemblance to Harvest's clawed feet in their true appearance. (They wanted one thing to at least feel as if they were not completely divorcing themselves from who they are.) Also, green ribbon around right boot. Left boot? On one of the boots, mainly for fun. My past self debated my colours on this one, but current me is perfectly happy with the result now. :)
November 11, 2024 at 4:23 PM
taikamagica.bsky.social
So after discovering that images cannot be sent through DMs (yet), I will leave this here.

You are looking for a box like this.
November 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM
taikamagica.bsky.social
☆ Zel, Lich Of Fyhr ☆

Essentially rules the underbelly of magi society, allowing all sorts of things to happen in the place he is (mostly) condemned to stay. Cultivates a deep jealousy towards the heroic type, enough that he enjoys dragging them down and making them monsters instead.

◇ #art #oc ◇
Zel enjoys the clothing of a 'vampire' aesthetic despite the fact that he is no vampire in the slightest. Buuuut, he did help with creating the vampire curse in the first place, which is the reason he has been condemned to Fyhr. Anyway, he has blue skin with stitches to allow for his bones to rip past without ruining his skin too much (even if it can regenerate regardless). White face paint around his eyes, which are empty and only show a small light with a red dot that acts as his iris & pupil. His hair is dyed green, with a lighter green for the top half and a darker green for the back and bottom part. He has a stitched mouth as well. Now, for clothing. Red fancy vest with a white puffy long-sleeved shirt that does include small neck ruffles that peek out from the vest. Black buttons keep the vest together. Darker red pants with... white rolled up at the shoe? I have no idea how to describe that. The shoes are a dark green oxford (?) shoe, which are meant to compliment his hair. Black cuffs at the wrist for the hands, red gloves with small white diamonds on the knuckles. And then to finish the look, a black cape with a red trim! Wow, that was a lot. I probably did skip around a bit, but oh well.
November 4, 2024 at 5:15 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
In truth, I have a hard time picking favourites to the point I don't bother with it at all. But I do want to answer with at least a favourite, so... I'm gonna pick Castti Florenz from Octopath II!

Her story is one that definitely surprised me. She intrigues me a lot, and I love her gameplay.
November 2, 2024 at 2:51 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
So on and so forth.

Though sometimes, an idea just jumps out at you. And by 'jumps out', I mean this meme specifically.
October 31, 2024 at 8:30 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
NOW
FOR THE ACTUAL THING I WANTED TO POST

Say hello to Yvette Undarnke!
She has gone through a few redesigns as well. I actually originally drew her with two pigtails, then when I did a redesign of her she got six because I felt like it. And it seems like she's sticking with six.

◇ #art ◇
Here is someone who is essentially a ghost with darkness helping to give her a shape of sorts. That shape includes six big pigtails with a white line in the middle of each one and blank eyes. As in, literally nothing aside from the shape of an eye. She doesn't have too much going on aside from a small pattern thing near her neck and a light crystal embedded *into* her neck (to the point it's attached to her soul and impossible to remove, long story) and a... mini dress / cape thing below the waistline that compliments her ghost tail. Simple, but beautiful. And since I have space, I'll just leave a little fun fact here. She is a Darkness-Covered Soul (which gets shortened to Darken), which is essentially a very special type of ghost. Not in a good way, as the matter of creation involved in one is usually unethical and done without consent. But she's fine now. :) Even if she used to be a villain and eventually chilled out for multiple reasons.
October 29, 2024 at 3:52 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
I should probably just properly post the actual drawing of Vinata because I might as well, but I wanted to post a different drawing today. So I'll do both! On different posts.

Anyway, here's Vinata. Her design has changed a lot from what it used to be, but now she is beautiful. :)

◇ #art ◇
To summarise Vinata in a sentence, here is an armless furry person with a half mask and vampire fangs plus a long hair braid just chilling on a stump because she likes being in nature. But to be slightly more in-depth with her appearance, she's got a claw scar over her visible eye (reasons at to why currently undetermined yet but probably related to the reason she ran away from her original home / village) and black half mask that she does need to wear because of a certain reason. Her outfit does have a fur cape, mainly for aesthetic reasons, because she still wants to look cool in spite of the fact she is armless. Her pants do have rips in them, which is mostly accidental. But at least the red thing holding her pants up (or is also part of the pants? I have no idea.) is intact! She wears no shoes and lets her feet and claws show, as they are her weapons in combat. Oh, and she has a tail. Her fur is a lighter brown as opposed to her hair, which is a darker brown. Fur cape is red edging on reddish brown. The wrap top is technically also sort of reddish brown? Eh. Pants are dark brown. Ish. I am terrible at describing colours. Oh, and there's little... bandages? Or something else at the end of the pants that looks like a red bandage. I have no idea. Apologies if this isn't really that descriptive, but I tried.
October 29, 2024 at 3:40 AM
taikamagica.bsky.social
Do you still want characters to sketch? If so, I'm willing to provide one of mine. But if you don't want to, that's ok!

As for my choice, I think Vinata would look lovely in your style. If you are willing and want to do so!
October 27, 2024 at 12:33 PM
taikamagica.bsky.social
Fuck it. Sharing art time.

Will start with my most recent drawing, the Necroking. He serves as Labyrinth Boss for Necropolis, which *is* inspired by EOV's third Stratum. Sue me, I love my Etrian Odyssey.

Probably the most talkative of the Bosses, considering the rest can't speak English.

◇ #art ◇
The slightly cracked horned skull head has a black hood with curved spikes, plus a flesh mask on the bottom half of the skull. Black eyes with white light pupils for eyes. There is a hole in the mask that does resemble a mouth of sorts, but it's not actually his mouth. :) The top half of the body is bone armour. Curved spiky armour? Eh. Arms and hands are skeletal, one of them hidden behind the Necroking's back as the other rests on his red and black skeleton sword. Bottom half is like a flesh dress, with it starting at black and eventually becoming red partway through. There are also dark red veins things for the flesh parts, by the way? Also, there are holes in the dress that reveal only darkness underneath.
October 27, 2024 at 6:02 AM