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kiapurity.bsky.social
Sequel to the horse picture yesterday, Tsubaki realizes too late how close Shion has been sitting behind her.

Afterwards, she calmly unsummoned the horse, dropping Shion before walking off to scream exactly five minutes later.

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Tsubaki suddenly realizing how close he’s been sitting behind her!
January 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
I'm calling this done. #kiaart #kiaoc #shionishida #yoroishindensamuraitroopers
Near complete art of Tsubaki and Shion on a horse.
January 10, 2026 at 5:04 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
took me longer than I'd have liked... but I'm happy that it's done!

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Sakura (pink) and Tsubaki (raspberry), finished piece with posing with the silk scrolls unfurling in the background and cherry blossom petals scattered all around
January 3, 2026 at 6:29 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
In one of the old fics, Kia is standing on top of her dresser with a book pointed at the spider and she's just screaming hysterically.

Now:
Sakura would have exited the room.

Tsubaki would probably have tried to burn the room with SOENZAN!

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December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Sakura behaves *differently* in front of the Troopers vs her family where she can afford to be a little more Kia-like.

Tsubaki has no such restrictions!

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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Looking through my old fics, Kia is a great deal hyper compared to Sakura in Reprise of the Armored Legend.

And I'm definitely cursing Tsubaki with the same "I do not like spiders" issue only that she gets the extreme Kia reaction vs Sakura being like "mmmgh I'll calmly go over there"

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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
This picture explains everything *and* nothing.

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Two people in an embrace. This might be the most unsubtle art I've ever done.
December 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
I think the last time I worked on this armor was 2009.

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Mist/Brunhild with the one lightning streak in her hair, running forth. Was an attempt at perspectives by drawing on a tablet. Rather unsuccessful. Kia in the valkyrie armor (no lightning streaks in hair) Unfinished coloring of the valkyrie armor
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
There's another character that needs a bit of tweak with design. She hasn't appeared yet but there's been hints regarding her.

The valkyrie/tennin.

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Watercolor sketch of a valkyrie's side profile showing a partial helmet, five silver feathers and a cherry blossom emblem from where the feathers are coming out of.
December 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
So many times I tried to redo the armor ... even with a gundam version that somehow looked more like a magical girl (what)

I swear I'm going to finally do a proper armor design of the Cherry Blossom

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Another redesign... note that the sub-armor looks different because that was redesigned as well. Cherry Blossom gundam looking MORE like magical girl gundam god why
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
I think I kept redesigning the armor because I was never happy with it (it originally looked like a pink knock off of Korin armor -_-)

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I don't know, Kia is in the armor but her lighting streaks were MISSING from this picture no this woman still doesn't exist, she's just standing behind Kia
December 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
The main villain was some guy named Shogun. In the original attempt, he was related to Arago (I don't even know?) but this time around, he's a tech billionaire that everyone hates.

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Concept art of Shogun, with somewhat garishly colored armor that leans towards traditional samurai armor design-wise.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Looking through my old artwork folders, I remembered these characters from the fic I never finished which is currently the basis for Reprise of the Armored Legend:

Red Riddle: an assassin (now a computer tech)
Robotto: A robot with two different bodies (now software assistant)

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Red Riddle concept-- an assassin wearing red. I wonder if I was unconsciously inspired by Marvel's Elektra...? Concept art of Robotto, a robot who could hop between two different bodies. She used the adult body most of the time but if she wanted to sneak around, she would switch to the child body and no one would be the wiser.
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
This version should be more readable with ink added

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Added ink since the pink mechanical pen got washed out by the lighting
November 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Tsubaki might have consumed too much Basara anime ...

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Tsubaki with a horse concept with SIX exhaust pipes!!
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
I just realized I didn't come up with Tsubaki's attack name.

Gekkou no ame? (Moonlight rain)

I had several ones for Sakura but I should condense them to one. A completely new name to start with...

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November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
A somewhat abstract art of Tsubaki with flowers

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White silhouette of Tsubaki against a large camellia flower with darker colored petals flying around
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Shion Ishida (the new bearer of Senkou armor) as Rapunzel with Tsubaki who looks really annoyed with his hair in front of her face.

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Shion in a tower with his long lavender hair (braided) falling out in front of Tsubaki’s face, slightly mocking her.
October 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Finished. I hope the influences came through ... x_x #kiaart #kiaoc
colored piece with Tsubaki holding some sort of light in her hands, white feathers are flying around. Her armor is slightly different, having changed from a Samurai Troopers style armor to something akin to the Message armors with a valkyrie touch
October 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Wip of Tsubaki’s valkyrie armor (with message/valkyrie elysium influences)

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Rough sketching in blue with some inks started but still need to draw out the other details like the helmet and adjusting the arms
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Thanks @jellybeepin.bsky.social for the inspiration 😆

Tsubaki taking her aggression out on a charm of Shion to Shion’s dismay.

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Tsubaki holding a charm in her hand then furiously shakes it in front of Shion, expressing her frustration with the pretty boy.
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
kiapurity.bsky.social
once again I freaking forgot to tag with #kiaart #kiaoc

thanks ipad for being such a pain to write on
September 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
an OC who has been mentioned in both FFXIV and YST but this is the YST versions: Kiyoshi and Kimiko Takino, Sakura's relatives. I drew these pictures sometime in 2009 for a YST-like rp group.

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Kiyoshi always dressing formally in either western or eastern clothing. He's the same age as Sakura. Kiyoshi tends to dress formally, has his hair partially pulled back with a sun shaped clasp. Kimiko at different ages in various decades. Teenager (either high school or middle school?) in 1972, 1990 with longer hair, 2010 with shorter hair
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Seiji might be regretting training chibi Tsubaki...

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Pencil sketch of a very happy Tsubaki proclaiming that she can do Rai Ko Zan. The practice dummy has been reduced to a crisp. Seiji is speechless.
August 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
kiapurity.bsky.social
Truthfully, I hadn’t planned on doing Sakura’s streaks like that but they looked too cool and I was having a hard time wanting to change that 😅 #kiaoc #kiaart

Sub-armors only for now. I need to fully design Tsubaki’s armor and Sakura’s armor needs a redesign
Sakura in pink/white sub-armor with slightly bleached/blonde lightning streaks in hair. Tsubaki in her raspberry and white sub-armor. Her kumihimo cord has changed colors to match.
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM