Nu Carnival - Blog Posts

Olivine being my current most favorite character but instead of being a normal fan I just keep drawing him nakey bc I'm somehow obsessed with the idea of using uncomfortable bareness to be metaphoric of the vulnerabilities of his character pre-Eiden or whatever

I cropped this one a lil bit as I felt I should but it's not like there's anything under there

the original and another one is under the cut

final and then the initial idea "sketch"

Olivine's character theme is my favorite thing and I didn't realize it until I saw 🙏🥺

I thought it'd be lame to string him up crucified style but I still wanted to reference it a little, so he's got heart shaped holes in his hands

oh uh, I play Nu Carnival now, I'm just neurodivergently fascinated by the body arts and animation honest lololol

These are not new sketches either, but I still like it. Maybe someday I'll draw them again. I still really like Michelle's design.

It's a pretty old sketch, but I'll post it anyway. This is a design (relevant to this day) Michelle. I don't really have many drawings with her, she just exists to ship her with Blade (because I just adore this guy)

I've been so long out of here, so..it seems like it's a perfect time to came back with some sketches. A new event has been released in NuCarnival, so I decided to make a winter outfit for my OC Michelle. considering that I made it in a hurry, it turned out very well!

Quincy/Yakumo is my favorite pairing, plus their week is on right now ♡

Oh, baby...I like them so much ♡

Сюжет для фанфіку, де Данте як розсудливий поважаючий себе чоловік за всіма канонами Солярії робить Ейдену пропозицію, а той відповідає, що члени клану для нього всі рівні, на що Данте каже "зате ти в мене один"

...і викрадає його

Це повинна бути КОМЕДІЯ З ВЕЛИКОЇ ЛІТЕРИ

ПИЗДЕЦБ ХОЧЕТЬСЯ НАПИСАТИ ЯК У ВСЬОГО КЛАНУ РВЕ ДАХ ЕЙДЕНА ШУКАЮТЬ ПО ВСЬОМУ КОНТИНЕНТУ ПЕРЕРИЛИ ВСІ МЕРТВІ ЗОНИ АСТЕР ЛЕДВЕ ВМОВИВ ЕДМОНДА НЕ ПОСИЛАТИ ЗАГІН РИЦАРІВ БО ІНАКШЕ В КЛЯЙНІ ПОЧНЕТЬСЯ ПАНІКА ЧЕРЕЗ ЗНИКНЕННЯ ВЕРХОВНОГО ЧАКЛУНА

ВСІ СПЛЯТЬ В БЕРУШАХ БО КОЖНУ НІЧ ГАРУ ВИЄ НА ЛУНУ У ВІДЧАЇ А ПОТІМ КАРУ КРИЄ МАТОМ СВОГО НАЙЖАХЛИВІШОГО РАБА ЯК ТАК МОЖНА КИДАТИ СВОГО ХАЗЯЇНА НАПРИЗВОЛЯЩЕ (ВІН ВКРАВ ПОСТІЛЬ З ЛІЖКА ЕЙДЕНА І ЗАСИПАЄ ТІЛЬКИ З НЕЮ ПІД НОСОМ)

МАЄТОК ЛЕДВЕ ПЕРЕЖИВ НАПАД СКАЖЕНОЇ ГІГАНТСЬКОЇ АНАКОНДИ КОЛИ ЯКУМО ПІДСЛУХАВ ДОПОВІДЬ ЕДМОНДА ПЕРЕД АСТЕРОМ (В СЕНСІ ПАН ЕЙДЕН ЗНИК, А НЕ ДОПОМАГАЄ ПЛЕМЕНАМ НА ДЕРЕВ'ЯНІЙ ТЕРИТОРІЇ?!?!?!)

Квінсі проспав його зникнення

КУЯ ДІЗНАВСЯ ПРО ЗНИКНЕННЯ І СКАЗАВ А ХУЛЄ Я ПОВИНЕН ЩОСЬ РОБИТИ ЛОЛ МЕНІ ПОДОБАЄТЬСЯ ЯК ВОНО ПАЛАЄ ЯК ЛЮДИ СУЄТЯТСЯ ПІСЛЯ ЧОГО ПОВЕРНУВСЯ ДО СВОЄЇ ХИЖІ ЩОБ ТУПИТИ В СТІНУ НАМАГАЮЧИСЬ ОБРОБИТИ ТРАВМУ ЧЕРЕЗ ТЕ ЩО ЙОГО ПОКИНУЛА НАЙДОРОЖЧА ЛЮДИНА ВЖЕ ВДРУГЕ

НА ЛИСТИ З ЗАПИТАННЯМИ ДАНТЕ ВІДПОВІДАЄ ЩИРОЮ СТУРБОВАНІСТЮ ЗНИКНЕННЯМ ЇХНЬОГО ПАНА І ОБІЦЯЄ "ПЕРЕРИТИ КОЖНУ ПІЩИНКУ НА ВОГНЯНІЙ ТЕРИТОРІЇ" ДУЖЕ ВПРАВНО ІМІТУЮЧИ БУРНУ ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ З ПОШУКІВ

Ейден: я не сказав "так"

Данте: звісно, так якого кольору весільний костюм ти хочеш?

Ейден: я не можу вийти заміж лише за тебе!

Данте: це твоє останнє слово?

Ейден: так, і ти розумієш, що це неправильно!

Данте: тоді з завтрашнього дня офіційно вводжу багатомужжя

Ейден: що–

ДАНТЕ МАЄ НАГЛІСТЬ ЗАПРОСИТИ ВЕСЬ КЛАН НА ЇХНЄ ВЕСІЛЛЯ

ТОЧНО ПІДГАДАВШИ ЧАС ЩОБ НАВІТЬ НАЙШВИДША КАРЕТА ЛЕДВЕ ВСТИГЛА ДО НАЗНАЧЕНОЇ ДАТИ ЩОБ ВОНИ НЕ ВСТИГЛИ ЯКОСЬ ЗАВАДИТИ ЦЕРЕМОНІЇ

ВСЕ ЙШЛО ДОБРЕ ПОКИ ЕЙДЕНА НЕ ВИКРАДАЮТЬ ПРЯМО ПЕРЕД ВИХОДОМ ДО ВОГНЯНОГО ВІВТАРЯ

ВАРТА У ВІДКЛЮЧЦІ НІЯКИХ СЛІДІВ НЕМАЄ ВЕРХОВНИЙ ЧАКЛУН ЗНОВУ ЗНИК

Ейден, який прокинувся прикутий до ліжка Куї в нашийнику: ЧОМУ ЦЕ ЗНОВУ ВІДБУВАЄТЬСЯ

І ТАК ПО КОЛУ ПОКИ В КЛАНІ НЕ ПЕРЕСТАНУТЬ ОДНЕ ОДНОМУ ДОВІРЯТИ І ПОЧНУТЬ ШУКАТИ ІМПОСТОРА

ПОТІМ ВОНИ ОБОВ'ЯЗКОВО ДОМОВЛЯТЬСЯ АДЖЕ ДАНТЕ ВЖЕ ВВІВ БАГАТОМУЖЖЯ ТА Й ВЗАГАЛІ ✨В ЕЙДЕНА БАГАТО ПАЛЬЦІВ НА РУКАХ✨

I think that there's something wrong here

(via "caraval femal joker face and circus" Apron for Sale by RAZ1995)

*anime boob noise* O~livine!

Some Yakumond bc I was playing with a new set of brushes.

✩₊˚ HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2024 ✩₊˚

with me and toasty cosplaying aster and morvay from nu carnival! (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)

*screams*

well! the years start coming and they don't stop coming (palette)

messy nuca time travel thoughts

i’ve been thinking about what a nu carnival time travel fix-it might look like (the thoughts happened mostly before chapter 16, i should preface so no huey stuff (although would any huey stuff really be a fix-it if it would eliminate the existence of eiden??)). anyways. the thing with nu carnival is there aren’t an abundance of ‘key points’ or like Singular Terrible Events. things tend to happen in a slow collapse that are hard to circumvent.

for example, you can’t really ‘fix-it’ quincy because his big problem is that everyone he has ever loved (plus, in his eyes, will ever love in the future) will die before him. and the cause of that problem, him becoming a clan member to defend his tribe, is difficult to get around. even now, we can tell that he stands by that decision, to some extent, because unlike other older clan members, he hasn’t chosen to die. (i think maybe i’d read it as a sort of what-if path rather than a fix-it? a bittersweet thing where he died surrounded by family that loved him, lauded for his feats of strength and protection.)

(in going through the process of rethinking what might be a ‘fix-it’ option for everyone, i’m realizing it might just be eiden giving any given clan member a friend while they struggled through their lives. because really, the biggest absence most of them have is a friend that could stand by their side. anyways, that’s not what i initially thought of— so i’m tucking that away for another time.)

ok. so. right. thinking about a Big Event that caused a Lot of Cascading Stuff that could be changed via time travel (i love time travel). who would be sent back? what would the event be?

well… (<- guy who has a very strong bias), there’s the riot that killed dante’s parents…

the thing is, the initial issue is still there: the riot was caused by numerous decisions from dante’s parents that they really stood by! like dante, they had very strong convictions that would be difficult to sway, even with the interference of a time traveller.

if dante was sent back in time into his puny kid body before the riot happened, he probably couldn’t convince his parents to fight off bandits or not waste money on his happiness. like, they might fortify the palace or make contingency plans for their safety, but they wouldn’t stop being Really Committed Pacifists in the Bandit-Death Desert.

so like… what would dante do? he’d be in a very similar situation to his original kid self where no one would listen to him and he had no power.

well, he’d try to get back to his original solaria.

though there are numerous things he’d probably like to change, his ultimate commitment is to his Solaria. it’s what he built, what he knows, and what he wants to protect. there’s no telling what changing the past would bring and there’s the very real chance that this is all just… magical shenanigans.

it’s kind of obvious that no one in solaria can or will help him. his parents love him, which is a problem, because that means they won’t let him leave the palace (an age-old problem). and dante is still Super Sick.

but, hey, he stopped being ill after he went through the trials of the elemental spirit of fire so… that’s one piece of the puzzle

and! he has a rough idea of the people who could potentially help him: the other clan members. the level of sorcery that this time travel nonsense would take is probably beyond the average magic user, so clan members are his best bet. plus, there’s a chance he wasn’t the only one impacted by whatever is going on.

(this is also my ploy to make it a group adventure…)

so, like, dante sneaks out with a horse and, with a whole lot of difficulty, manages to get to and pass the trials of the elemental spirit of fire. (i imagine it’s easier because he knows where he’s going. it’s potentially harder because there’s no riot to distract the bandits around town. cest la vie. the trials are probably as difficult as before but!! i imagine the content would change because time travelling dante doesn’t have the same concerns baby dante had.)

dante running off leaves solaria in a panic (despite the note that dante thoughtfully left behind) and dante in better health with his trial markings.

so where does dante go from there? aster, maybe, since he knows that aster is connected to the grand sorcerer, even if eiden isn’t around…

i didn’t actually come up with a plan for how dante got back to the present or what sent him back.

in my initial planning, i thought it would be very funny for dante to go to quincy. quincy’s a good option because he’s strong (dante kind of needs that) and he’s reliable (unlike many of the other clan members).

the idea of pre-eiden quincy (incredibly tired + depressed) having to deal with an pompous, demanding baby foreign prince is a fun image, esp. because its so baffling to quincy.

looking at the map of klein… dante probably picks up blade and garu (and maybe even gramps!) while he passes through the dead zone? he’s probably pretty blatant about picking up clan members. it would be difficult to override huey’s ‘orders’ to blade, but maybe blade could be convinced to come on the basis that it was ‘for the grand sorcerer’? and gramps would probably not leave this rambunctious child on a horse to travel alone.

man… and baby karu would still be fully hidden in garu… (also i wonder how gramps feels about potential future knowledge that garu’s ‘master’ actually does come to be?)

so blade + garu (+ gramps(?)) and then quincy.

kuya probably comes along uninvited because its not his circus, not his monkeys, but he is an intrigued audience member.

from there maybe they put together some puzzle pieces about needing all the clan members?

going in map order, that’s like: yakumo (baby snake!) -> aster, morvay, edmond (baby edmond!) -> olivine (baby…) -> rei (rei!)

tbh, they probably bullshit to get baby yakumo along, if his grandma and grandpa even let him go with the strange group of people. gramps probably does a lot to help smooth things over.

a big bid in their favor is that they know about yakumo’s gem and tell him about it? let him know that he’s not so alone in the world…

aster and morvay are probably the MVPs in letting the group progress in their research. dante leverages his knowledge about aster and the grand sorcerer Super Hard. plus, aster and morvay wouldn’t let any remotely trustworthy lead about their master fall through.

i think aster would maybe help them get into the sorcerer’s trials? for the library or w/e…

and that’s how they meet baby olivine

laying out the ages:

dante: ~8-10 years old

garu: ~15-16 years old or ~5-7 years old(?) (he doesn’t get a younger looking sprite in his flashback since they just use n-r rarity sprites for those. and he doesn’t act much younger? so i’m leaning towards him being pretty similar to how we see him in canon) (of course, i might be fudging the timeline a lot to even have him be around at all instead of in kolt’s clutches. ah well…)

yakumo: ~9-11 years old (he has a kid form iirc? and that’s the form his grandparents picked him up in)

edmond: ~11-13 years old

olivine: ~12-15 years old

and then this is fun because of Conflict!! dante doesn’t really know much about the past of the others to have any real insight on them during these time travel shenanigans. BUT! he does know about olivine cutting himself which makes things Interesting

honestly, i think it would be super cute if olivine acted as their guide during the group’s visit because he has a gemstone? and he also turns out to be pretty helpful because he’s pretty deep into technical and theoretical magic.

and then they whisk olivine away for their group adventure because 1) he’s a clan member and 2) they need his brain. (dante’s pretty informed on essence and elemental spirits but i wouldn’t say magic is his forte)

and then, finally, around the water territory, they meet up with rei, who comes to them because what are garu and gramps even doing there??? and then we get some semi-rare olivine and rei discussion as they discuss The Situation…

it’s just so fun to see how different these half-formed versions of everyone are before the present…

- quincy’s so much sadder (but hey! he still has topper… who is not named topper yet)

- blade is still quirky but much harder to communicate with (unless it’s with other members of the old guard who are kind of used to him)

- yakumo’s a nervous baby (but maybe has his anxiety less in-grained in him? less convinced that all these people like him would reject him thoroughly? esp since they came to see him)

- edmond is still prickly but more transparently because he’s been hurt before? i feel like he makes pretty fast friends with the other kids (he shores up yakumo’s shyness (little knight behavior), he responds well to dante’s taciturn but earnest nature, and well… garu is garu (puppy friendship power!)).

- kuya is probably pretty mean but less mean than i would expect, esp w/ the promise of curiosities and the novelty of (ahem) getting the band back together.

- rei is similarly intrigued by the gathering of clan members and is even more intrigued by dante’s issue and the possibility of time travel… (he probably has some things he’d like to time travel about but the canon i’ve read for him so far is vague enough that i couldn’t pin it down). (im also maybe fudging his timeline bc idk if he’d even be in klein with father 10-13 years ago…)

stay soft by mitski is an enei song

duke’s eyes and mouth are gone in [Puzzle Revealed]…

dante kiss data

how were kisses counted? kisses are counted by animation (when the lips meet and part). text is also counted (ie, the text says someone kissed the another). this is specifically because in icy equilibrium room 5, eiden kisses dante but the camera pans away because they didnt make an animation for eiden leaning up. (which is fair enough. this (probably) contributes to why dante is always kissing eiden.)

this also means entire conversations can occur during one ‘kiss’; a kiss operates on the same rules of a blowjob in nu carnival. even if an individual has their mouth full of cock or tongue, they're still pretty articulate.

it's funny that after dante got his first kiss, he immediately went for one million smooches. (this is partially bc icy r5 is pretty focused on kissing but still.) the reason i ended up noting all this down is because i was rewatching his H-rooms and noticed there was a lot more kissing than I remembered. (i usually press-and-hold through the H-rooms so i tend to miss stuff in them;;)

it should be said that i don't really know how if this is a lot of kissing relative to the clan? im not super aware of the kiss rates in other clan member's rooms. so if anyone else has kiss rate knowledge, hit me up... i want to compare our tongue tango data and also catch up on other clan member intimacy stories.

other fun reoccurring bits (h-rooms tend to focus on one kink/situation so whatever repeats is extra noteworthy. (i might have missed some)):

dante playing with eiden’s nipples (blazing coliseum r5, icy r2, infernal r2, circus r5)

biting (blazing colesium r5, eternal hanabi r5)

dante’s cock growing bigger/harder mid-sex (sometimes multiple times) (multi-phase boss type of penis) (eternal hanabi r2, eternal hanabi r5, sunburst r2, cowboy r2)

dante telling eiden not to give him orders or not to move (Story H-Room, SR H-room, OG SSR r5, eternal hanabi r2, eternal hanabi r5, icy equilibrium r2, icy equilibrium r5, sunburst r5, cowboy r2)

other dante takeaways

he fucks pretty hard lmao… eiden’s shoulders/hips/back tend to take the brunt of his thrusts. dante also has a tendency to thrust as much of himself into eiden at once (as opposed to easing into it)

given the chance and the right mood, he seems to enjoy marathon sex (eternal hanabi r2, cowboy r5, circus r5)

he’s quite sensitive to being touched (<— touchstarved), overtly sexual or not (SSR r2, eternal hanabi r1+2, icy r5, cowboy r1)

other notes (that are also about mostly dante)

for the some of the rooms w/o kissing, some of them i attribute to positioning. blowjob dante (beach r2) was unlikely to get a kissing animation with eiden for a number of reasons. same with circus spanking eiden (circus r2). still!! there was kissing even outside of h-rooms which surprised me. icy r4 wasn't surprising since that's The EnEi Kiss (ie, Dante's first kiss). but scorching sun surprised me and so did cowboy dante! i kinda thought they'd limit all the kissing to being animated. i appreciate the text kisses. an arc that i wasn't sure how to quantify is dante's control arc? we kind of see it in the number of times dante tells eiden not to order him or not to move. it's very common for dante to also try to order eiden around or express general frustration with eiden doing confusing, sexy things that wrest his body's control from him. he's most comfortable when he's controlling the movement and positioning (like eternal hanabi r5 or icy equilibrium r2). this is probably part of why he doesn't get his cock out in a lot of rooms. (this is most notable to me because they always mention that his cock is hard in the rooms. it's just that... it stays packed away for a rainy day.) he seems into overwhelming eiden (which probably started in eternal hanabi r2 where he got all flustered about eiden moaning after dante tried to 'push him to his limits'). we get to seem him get most flustered when eiden is 'in control' (like in OG SSR r2 or maid r2). this is why eiden has to basically ask him for control when he rides him in beach r5 (u may have seen it mentioned around). its a switch up in their dynamic! the fact that dante lets eiden control the pace (for a little) shows his trust in him. another motif that i didn't quantify is how their sex is usually framed! frequently, it's framed as an exchange of some kind: reward, punishment/retribution, competition, trade, etc. they're usually having sex for a reason (rather than having sex for fun). this makes sense because dante doesn't really believe in fooling around or having fun for the fun of it. there are a few exceptions to this of course such as beach r5 and scorching sun r2. he's really warmed up to eiden so he's probably more amenable to casual sex than him or eiden realize. dante has hardcore fallen for eiden. and eiden has also really warmed up to dante! but, as to be expected with how tsundere dante is, there are a few missed signals. for example, eiden tends to assume dante doesn't want to play when dante is ready to have fun (kleinmas r3, cowboy r4) or eiden missing when dante's supermoon sized crush on him is showing (the threelegged race in the beach event + the small story after). after the circus event, i'm very excited to see their relationship develop. they're at a funny stage where they try to one-up and fluster the other. sex IS something you win

assorted doodles

many buttons sketch

he's on a date 🙄🙄

contemplating danoli arranged marriage once more… (the seeds planted by @wet-poodle-nudes of course.)

so, thinking about a timeline where dante’s parents never died and he was just sort of… kept. very bird in a cage. he never underwent the trials of the elemental spirits of fire because his parents feared the strain would kill him.

with his parents’ continued rule, solaria teeters on falling into ruin. it stays afloat mostly through luck. the local public sentiment towards the sun lord (dante’s father) and his consort (dante’s mother) is pretty negative due to their lack of action against those who attack solaria. meanwhile, the other territories view them as frivolous, ditzy nobles; they’re both too nice, too kind for their own good. its quite fanciful that desert rulers would purchase ice sculptures and other luxuries.

dante, in the midst of all this, resents his parents and his position immensely, but he’s self-aware enough to know that he doesn’t exactly have the health to rule and he’s lived an incredibly coddled life. he’s privileged, but he can’t do anything.

as solaria’s position becomes more and more precarious, it becomes evident to dante’s parents that the best move, for solaria and dante, is to marry dante off. it would bring in a strong alliance, wealth, and, if they can send dante off, perhaps they can protect him from the local strife.

enter: olivine.

there were probably a lot of possible suitors dante’s parents looked at for him. but, olivine’s healing ability puts him head and shoulders above the rest. after all, if their son’s survival is paramount, then they want someone who could properly look after his health.

after some intense discussion, the marriage is arranged. there’s a wedding in solaria. and then a wedding in the water territory.

for the wedding in the solaria, dante and olivine meet one day before their wedding to be.

going to solaria a bit of an adventure for olivine; its nice for him to be able to see the world outside of the water and light territory, even if it’s for an event that’s tying him to a stranger. he hopes that maybe the marriage means he can visit again.

meanwhile, dante is so furious about the whole ordeal that he stonewalls olivine’s attempted visits for several days. his parents reassure olivine with soft words and laughter; they invite him to hospitality in dante’s stead. it’s clear to him that dante’s parents are incredibly kind people who love their son dearly. they are very much unlike his own parents whose love is shown through unyielding and weighty responsibility.

on the final day, dante agrees to see olivine. as he arrives to dante’s bedroom (a scandalously intimate place to visit but it seems that dante’s health will allow nothing else), he sees dante’s mother bowed close to dante, cupping his cheek. they exchange whispers, cajoling and reluctant in turns. dante’s mother introduces them while dante remains mute to olivine. his mother says that he wanted to meet with him alone and wishes them both luck as she leaves.

two caged birds left to talk… dante is terse with olivine. in their conversation, it becomes very quickly evident that neither of them particularly desire their marriage. olivine has a gentle, sad smile when dante asks, angrily, ‘don’t you want more?’. dante’s prospects are rather dire, but surely, olivine, a beloved priest, could protest a marriage he didn’t want.

going into more of a broader overview of what the potential dynamics would be: dante goes to live with olivine in the water territory.

olivine is pretty chill with letting dante do what he likes and also helping him do what he wants. its a kind of freedom dante has never known and he uses it to his full ability. though the marriage wasn’t his choice, he’s determined to take control afterwards. he’s also very much an only child and kind of a brat.

in their adventures together, i feel like dante gets very frustrated with how passive olivine is. he sees how olivine’s temple goers ogle and fawn over him. once he’s sure olivine’s kindness isn’t some ploy, he starts to bully olivine into having preferences.

i like to think, at some point, laying in bed together at night like children at a sleepover, they discuss their wishes. they both have many, many wishes they’ve kept close to their heart, for one reason or another. and like… though some of them may be difficult, once their wishes are spoken aloud, they help each other realize how achievable those dreams are.

dante’s straightforward thinking cuts through much of the winding anxiety that strangles olivine’s wishes. he can see all the strength, all the power olivine possesses. he knows olivine is capable. meanwhile, olivine’s experience with helping others overcome their own struggles opens up possibilities that dante didn’t consider because he thought if his wishes did happen, he’d have to muster the strength to complete them on his own.

together, they find that they arent quite as trapped as they thought they were

curious about how people think dante and kuya’s eyes are constructed. their eyes are where their gems are located, but ??? is it all gem or is it only the iris? what’s the deal with the eye whites?

also, thoughts on whether their gem eyes can dilate/contract or not?

@sea-arsonist some very rough elaboration on how 'baby need smoko' happened:

like and share to help them carry their load 😔 🫴

breathe deeply, sun lord