No True Pair

Title: "It's All About Balance"
Artist: redbird
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Matsumoto Rangiku & Shihouin Yoruichi
Rating: G
Prompt/Challenge: Yoruichi and Matsumoto play a game or sport together

I actually did manage to color this one! With my tablet no less. I'm very excited.

( One would expect beach volleyball or something with these two, so of course I took the opposite route )

Title: "Comin' to Rock Your World"
Artist: redbird
Fandom: Persona 3 / Revolutionary Girl Utena
Characters: Kirijo Mitsuru & Tenjou Utena
Rating: PG
Prompt/Challenge: Mitsuru/Utena: riding out the storm

Of all the ones I didn't have time to color, this is the one that saddens me most. D:

( Hot teenage badasses with swords, how could I resist? )

Title: "Better Than Ice Cream"
Artist: redbird
Fandom: Bleach
Characters: Matsumoto Rangiku, Arisawa Tatsuki and Inoue Orihime
Rating: G
Prompt/Challenge: Tatsuki and Matsumoto have something to celebrate

( I still want to color this )

Title: "Play With Me"
Artist: redbird
Fandom: Akagi & Baccano!
Characters: Ichikawa & Luck Gandor
Rating: G
Prompt/Challenge: Ichikawa/Luck: don't make me come over there

I meant to color this, but ran out of time. Ah well.

( It's generally not a good idea to let your blind mahjong-playing boyfriend get too bored )

Title: "Pariahs"
Artist: redbird / Miss Arel
Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena / Kaiji
Pairing/characters: Himemiya Anthy / Itou Kaiji
Rating: PG
Prompt/challenge: Anthy/Kaiji, weaponkink.
Warnings: None, really. If you're familiar with 'Utena', you can probably guess where this is going.
Notes: Man, I must have redrawn Kaiji 4 or 5 times. Still not happy with how he came out.


( That poor, poor katana. )

Bet you it's all beat up and scratched and chipped. Poor boy.
Inks are here.

Title: "Relevé"
Artist: redbird / Miss Arel
Fandom: Princess Tutu / Persona 3
Pairing/characters: Ahiru / Kirijo Mitsuru
Rating: G
Prompt/challenge: Mitsuru and Ahiru: "The memory cannot keep me warm / but it never leaves me cold"
Notes: Title is a ballet term meaning 'lifted'. I suck at naming my pieces. But then, if I were good with words, I'd probably be writing fic, not drawing.

Also, Mitsuru ended up kinda looking like Cornelia from Code Geass, but I can't really say that I mind.

( Waltz of the Duck? )

Title: "Please, Relax."
Artist: redbird / Miss Arel
Fandom: Revolutionary Girl Utena / Princess Tutu
Pairing/characters: Himemiya Anthy / Ahiru
Rating: G
Prompt/challenge: Ahiru and Anthy: "Go on, make yourself comfortable"
Notes: Anthy's outfit was strongly inspired by the one she wears in this picture; the rest is because, hey, it's Goldcrown Town and I Drosselmeyer can do what he wants.

( Was the Rose Bride always an Indian Nagi? )

Yes, I think she must have been.

Inked version is here.

Title: "No Frills"
Artist: redbird / Miss Arel
Fandom: Baccano! / Revolutionary Girl Utena
Pairing/characters: Luck Gandor / Tenjou Utena
Rating: PG
Prompt/challenge: "The beginning of Utena and Luck's passionate love affair"

Hey, look, I got it colored after all! (It went much more quickly than I expected it to.)


One wonders what would cause someone so devoted to gallantry to work for the mafia, ( but I suspect the answer is 'life' )