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Maru Bio

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Maru is the youngest of Dokura Ibeshi's two children. Unlike his older sister, Maru wasn't assigned a future job at an early age and as such lacks the specialized experience and training Rani had at his age.  He has been mostly left to his own devices, and is still in school trying to figure out what he wants to do when his schooling ends. He has a more distant relationship with his famous mother, who spends most of her time trying to keep Rani under control.  As a result he often feels more ignored and instead looks to his sister for advice and comfort as he tries to find his place in the world.

Bajin Oni Concept

 There is more to the setting than just the Zhu Empire. A major part of the early stories will also be the Baji Isles, a japan based setting within the larger world.  I couldn't do Japanese inspired fantasy without Oni so they were something I spent some time making.  I'll save the details for when they get a race post along other Bajin races, but here are the ideas behind them.

The base idea came from sort of the modern view of them, large orge like creatures who love to drink normally have red skin and horns.  Kept that for both male and females, but took the anime route and made sure they look humanish in the face. I went with the more humanized ideas of them and gave them distinct cultures and societies with customs beyond base urges. I based their cultures loosely on the old pop culture view of Native Americans, with a little mongol thrown in.  Making them quasi nomadic tribes with their own specific customs based on the area they are found in.  Known to be aggressive towards outsiders but can be reasoned with and have established trade relationships with certain settlements. They are the most physically dominant race in Baji in my setting and you will often see them in physical roles in any appearance in my games normally solo against groups of humans.

Qi-Koto

Qi-koto, one of the primary forms of ranged weaponry within Zhu. Fires magic projectiles or pure weaponized chi in older models. 

Palace Tour Demo

A Short Palace tour demo for the VN. Just a very short but cute thing for people to go through, showing the relationship between a couple characters.

Download it here  and tell me what you think

Maru Concept

I don't normally do the concepts for minor characters because there isn't much to say, but I'll say a little for those curious.  The idea for Maru was my desire to add more younger characters and to explore different family dynamics. I decided Rani needed a sibling and what cuter than a brother who was more reserved and shy while she was aggressive and bold. I decided to have him be shorter and smaller muscle wise than her, though he will eventually grow taller than she is.  But he will stay smaller in terms of muscles and weaker, as she is the strength of the family and someone who he is meant to look up to.

Update

Just an update on things. Slow going currently due to various issues on both end and the side of some artists, but still plan to have a new playable demo soon, though possibly on a different character then was planned.

Also will be some more info on characters within the next week or so. and I'm working on a comic project here is a very rough sketch as evidence.