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delphinidyne
@delphinidyne.bsky.social
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bird guy who also does fanart. 27. he/him.
current wips for: metaphor, smtv, mgs3 (maybe?)
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Day 4 - proximity
A digital drawing of Will and Strohl kissing while Will holds up a book in front of their faces. The glow of their archetype lines illuminates them, and Strohl's eye is slightly open, looking at Will with large pupils.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Strowill week art thread (to be updated as i finish wips i posted for earlier days)

Day 7 - [free day] - at peace
A digital drawing of Strohl and Will sitting on a picnic blanket in front of a basket. They both have joyful expressions and relaxed postures. Pink azaleas embellish the corner of the drawing, and between them it appears as though a single petal fell onto the blanket
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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This isn't quite how I remember Metaphor
A digital drawing a Gallica as a regular, non-fairy person wearing armor and holding a sword and shield. Her expression looks annoyed and exasperated, and surrounding her are the rest of the party as fairies. Will is sitting on her shoulder in a reversal of their usual positions, Strohl is examining her sword, Neuras and Heismay and struggling to carry a relic, Eupha is attempting to braid some of Gallica's hair while Junah watches, and Hulkenberg is holding up a caterpillar that Basilio is swinging his axe towards
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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another anniversary where I don't have finished art ready
A rough colored sketch of Gallica as a regular person wearing armor and making a slight grimace, with Will as a fairy sitting on her shoulder
October 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Finally finished this after four months [metaphor spoilers]
#MetaphorReFantazio #strowill
A digital painting depicting two pictures on a wall of Strohl and Will in light colored formal attire wearing flowers. In the top picture, Will is placing a royal flower on Strohl’s left horn while he touches the back of his hand and smiles softly. Will has a garland of forget-me-nots, yarrow, and hibisbus. In the bottom picture, Strohl is pulling Will into a hug around his shoulders and cupping his face to kiss his cheek. A sunflower is visible over his left ear, while Strohl has yarrow and an orange poppy in his visible horn.
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Redraw of folio 90v of the Voynich manuscript based on my best guess of the plant, a Himalayan poppy. Other proposals are arugula, fleabane, or hogweed.

Artists often take a lot of liberties with plant anatomy. The choices in this page remind me a lot of those I see in designs of fictional plants
A reimagined drawing of folio 90v of the Voynich MS, which originally depicted blue cross-shaped flowers with triangular compound leaves and a root mass resembling a cat. This version has round, soft blue petals which wilt into cross shapes with four sepals peeking between the petals. Compound leaves near the ground have seven triangular leaflets each, while leaves on the flowering stems are simple and collared. The roots in this version look more natural and do not resemble a cat. The cypher text behind the plant is copied faithfully.
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Gifts for @raingalaxy56.bsky.social of their strowill monster au!
A digital painting of Will as a vampire with bat-like features, including silver scale-like fur, long, sharp ears, and forearm wings. He's sitting with one leg in front of him, holding his sword to his side with one wing spread open. A drawing of Strohl sitting on a forest floor petting a bat-like creature resembling the previous drawing of Will. Strohl is bandaged around his shoulder, and fresh blood is soaking through in the shape of a large creature's bite. His jacket is loosely draped over his bare shoulders, suggesting he just finished dressing the wound. His expression is stressed and worried, though he's slightly smiling at the creature.
September 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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one final fairy
a flat lineless drawing of louis with fairy wings almost identical to gallica's, with the same flower embellishment
September 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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aaaaand last two for the party
a flat lineless drawing of hulkenberg with magenta fairy wings in a gradient to orange. Her wings have a shield-shaped embellishment in their structure. a flat lineless drawing of basilio with soft blue, turquoise, and purple fairy wings. His wings have an embellishment resembling a double-sided axe in their structure.
September 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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finally continuing this (and waiting to be able to post them in batches)
a flat lineless drawing of will with blue fairy wings that blend into turquoise highlights and pink tips. His wings have a heart-shaped embellishment in their structure resembling the symbol on the utopia novel. a flat lineless drawing of strohl with orange and yellow fairy wings with salmon colored tips. His wings have a heart-shaped embellishment in their structure resembling the his osprey claw necklace. He's balancing a small honeysuckle flower on his fingertip.
September 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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daily life of an unemployed scientist
A digital drawing of a pair of hands taking notes at a desk with a computer. On the monitor, half of the screen shows a mostly-blurred scientific job description. On the other, a report including the words "EPA guidance" which link to another webpage. The cursor is hovering over the link and previewing the page, which shows a 404 error. An electronic-looking textbox pointing out of frame contains a transcript snippet of episode 539 of In Defense of Plants, discussing mass extinction, with those words enlarged for emphasis
August 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Cymothales mirabilis/treehole antlion wing (referenced from photos by Frank Deschandol)

perhaps studying real insect wings will help me finish my fairies
A digital drawing of a close-up of an insect wing, reflecting in irridescent purples, greens, and magentas. An opaque blue shape cuts through the center and breaks up the general segmentation pattern
August 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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did some practice basilios of varying quality to finish drawing him as a fairy but this one is the best
a rough portrait of basilio smriking gently, surrounded by sketches with other angles and expressions which have been cropped out
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Here's what I ended up using! The pillar I based off of the ones in Casa Cavassa, and the wall below from the background of the mural in the stairway de Lunyes mural, which as far as I could find doesn't depict a real extant structure. If anyone knows otherwise though please tell me i'd like to know
a section of a my recently posted art emphasizing a pillar in the background, which has a small portion of its capital visible. It has a simple, thin ridge at the bottom and a carved band wrapping diagonally around it. a photograph of a pillar in Casa Cavassa, which has a similar appearance. It's carved in smooth stone and has a simple but elegantly carved capital which flares outward to transition to the arch above, and is designed to look like it's adorned with a ribbon and branches. The outside wall in the background of my most recent art, showing a statue of an ishkia woman and a columned railing a section of the the stairway de Luynes mural, showing a similar wall in the background, partially obscured by a tree and some pillars. The statue in place of the ishkia woman in the previous image is instead a cloaked woman.
August 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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An inherited dream

#metaphor
A digital painting of Junah looking out from a balcony of the mage academy, wearing blue robes resembling her epilogue attire and a doctoral graduation gown. Her expression is strained, like she's holding back tears. In the space below the balcony, pine trees are green and bright, suggesting winter has passed, and a statue on a wall of the academy below depicts an ishkia woman.
August 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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in honor of yaoi day I'm reposting the version of this I edited after remembering fundamentals again
#strowill
A digital painting of Will and Strohl leaning on the rails of the front deck of the gauntlet runner in front of a mountain landscape. The composition is based off of J.C. Leyendecker's "Couple in a Boat" (1922).
August 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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A frameshift mutation alters the reading frame of a sequence,
resulting in a completely different translation from the original.
The earlier in the sequence the deletion or insertion occurs, the more altered the result will be.
#smtv
A digital illustration of the protagonist of SMTV. Three afterimages of separated colors are behind him in different positions, appearing as though he was interrupted while reading by a gust of wind that blew away some of the pages. In the first frame, separated into reds, he is reading while walkng, not paying attention to his surroundings, and his face is obscured similarly to unnamed NPCs in the game In the second, he appears to have stopped, and some of his features are more clear. The overlap between the first two afterimages is a bright yellow and intersects one of his eyes, rendered in full clarity. In the final image, where he's looking away from the Man'yoshu volume at its escaped pages, his eyes are gold and he's in full color, only framed by a blue afterimage just behind him. Surrounding him are a series of offset plain picture frames, each appearing as though its colors have been altered from the last. He is standing in between two of these frames, and the escaped pages have moved fully in front of them.
August 1, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Already too late 😔
The above listings for SMTIV and SMTIVA, sold out
July 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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birds are back
a drawing of an osprey in flight, folding its wings to land, holding a flax flower in its beak
July 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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i saw someone put a jack frost hood on their will plush, which is already great, but the blank stare was really the best part
a simple drawing of Will wearing a Jack Frost hood, staring blankly
July 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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more junahberg 🧡❤️
Junah and Hulkenberg sitting in an embrace from a high angle, with their cheeks squished together. Junah's face is turned outward and she's smiling and winking as though posing, and her hair is trailing out on the floor behind her like a starburst. Hulkenberg is looking away from her bashfully.
July 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Haworthia crab
a digital drawing of a crab with a body shaped like a Haworthia cooperi (window plant) succulent
July 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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strowill dessert date (and style test trying cleaner lines again)
A digital drawing of Strohl and Will at a patio table outside an urban building with desserts. Strohl has a blueberry cake slice and Will has a mango mousse tart
July 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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saint swap junah
#metaphorrefantazio
two simple concept renders of alternative designs for Junah, in which she's wearing a gown in the style of sanctist imagery with dark fabric and geometric gold decorative patterns. Her hair is shorter, similar to Rella's, and she's wearing the same style of headpiece and necklace in silver. The decorations on the side of her headpiece are shaped like butterfly wings. She generally has a much more serious expression than is typical of her in canon, and her eyes are half-lidded at rest, giving her a stern appearance.
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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and to find this little guy from 2017? i love him
a transparent drawing of a ball python curled to partially hide its head, holding an anemone blue poppy in a curve of its body
June 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM