Nep Heart

Here's Nitori.
 

Showcasing Nitori in action.

Here, have a wholesome short story featuring clock.

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Concentrations of lighting decorated and scattered across the dim skies, peeking from over the clouds to greet the rolling hills with a pleasant shine. Mist enveloped half the scenery loaded with checkerboard patterns fashioned with random patches of turf, a forest lying farther across the other side of a shallow creek. This world was completely fashioned with analogous clockwork from clock arm grass and trees, pocket watch clouds and stars and even grandfather clock mountains over the horizon.

 

Tucked between the river and forest knelt a small clock girl hunkering before small shrubbery, palms clasping at it. The her chilly eyes glued at what appeared to be some sort of... mechanic insect? A shiny brass beetle of seemingly mechanic nature like what one would find while tinkering the innards of a classic pocket watch was struggling to gain a foothold on the vegetation as its wings were out of order. The clock girl persisted to guide the helpless critter with only her hands, plucking at its spindly legs to further ground its posture.

 

"There... you're free again..."

 

A calm, cold pitch worded with a face equally devoid of obvious feelings, yet her heart felt warm. One could argue that this seemed trivial next to otherwise high-rising work as a "Clock Keeper, " one with a reputation that commanded respect, yet also garnered disdain. Why bother? Well, she had a personal conviction that when she means she's out for the well-being of others, not even an otherwise "measly bug" was out of the question. It's not too common to be privileged with Bansigan's softer side after all.

 

DRIIIIINNN!!!

 

The alarm clock sitting on the girl's helmet went off with a screeching ring, an alert set her bursting off deeper into the forest where a shrill cry magnetized her attention.

 

"....."

 

She weighed her sights upon a small clock girl, one even smaller than Bansigan herself, with the same unfeeling coldness she had prior. Her thoughts drifted off staring down at the helpless child let out more waterworks complementing her frightened wails. The clockwork guardian stretched out a palm menacingly at the pained child, bringing chills down the latter's spine almost as if reaching to strangle her. Then, that hand cast over the victim's wounded forearm to bring it anew. The child ceased from sadness, smiling at Bansigan. The Clock Keeper beamed down a warm pleasure in return and took the child's hand.

 

"Please follow my lead..."

 

 As a friend described it, "An intricate, yet still concise way to describe a concept that occurs in a lot of fantasy and sci-fi."

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Mystic Diagram: A powerful inscription consisting of integrated symbols which represent a desired intention, a complex magical device used to accomplish high level functions based on the combined meaning behind the illustration. The basic principle behind these kind of devices is that each individual symbol has to convey a purpose and be put together in such a way that their sum expresses an even greater purpose, enabling the mystic diagram to actualize results. The most common application is inscribing mystic diagrams on surfaces to imbue them with new capabilities or improve already existing ones.

One of the many cases of a mystic diagram would be the sigil, symbolism expressing the will of one's interpretation of the world. So, if a sigil were to proclaim protection over a target area, then the sigil will have power to banish and negate hostile forces from that chosen place. More specifically, remove target threats described by its interconnected symbols.

 

YES

 Haven't posted here in weeks, here's another cosmic piece of technology in the setting. I may attempt another short story next involving Bansigan.

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The Loom: A metaphysical tapestry owned and extensively used by the Fates, it is device used to interlace the very fabric of space and time themselves. The Loom is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the entire Multiverse, designing and manipulating threads that define all foundational concepts of each and every single one of the uncountably infinite dimensional layers at once. It is said those who have access to the Loom hold absolute power to do essentially whatever they please over the Multiverse as they become more real than its entirety.

Hiya there, good to see you finally here. Welcome aboard.

Nitori combos, one a practical BnB and the other an impractical all-out ToD.

 All of Nitori's voices are now in place, here are some sample combos to enjoy them.

Always solutions to a problem.

 Now to actually show what Nitori's Unique Ability is. Also, added her voices in the meantime since I found what I can settle with.

 Based on Rice's version, hers is also the Sortie. However, there are major key differences in my version. 

 It doesn't cease when Nitori is hit, although she can't shoot from it while in a hitstate otherwise.

 It shoots a water bullet upon pressing the UA input, albeit you can only perform one shot every 90 frames, and Nitori can do this while in control, in the middle of a doing normal attack or in the middle of doing a special attack. This adds an extra layer to Nitori's effective space denial pressure, defense and combos.

 Special victory whenever Nitori KO's with her level 3.

With Nitori's level 3 done, all supers are now complete.

 Been a little late on this, but mass updating can be a pretty tedious task otherwise.

All Generation 1 characters:

- Fixed air dash inputs when crossing up.
- Corrected a few more aesthetics.

Homura Akemi:

- Added a special intro that is compatible with Charlotte.

 Her last level 1 super is complete, this is the only one that is ground and air okay among the three. I just need to finish her level 3 and all her moves should be complete besides her Unique Ability.

 Based on Dragon Bubble from Nitori's fighting game appearances, this traps her opponent in a bubble up close or detonates later on into the move.

 It's been a while since I've done a brand new MUGEN project and this'll be my first one for the year. Fun fact; Nitori was actually the second character I had plans to make for MUGEN, but the pre-existing sprites at the time were extremely lacking in quality and I just skipped ahead to do Akyuu instead. Thankfully, RicePigeon's commission ultimately came through and gave us this wonderful sprite set that he's generous enough to share... well, except the in-game icon, I took it upon myself to draw it from hand.

 I'll add her voice later, but if anyone has recommendations, I'd love to hear it.

 All normals, most specials and and one super finished so far alongside all her basic stuff.

Been getting back into Sparks after almost a decade of not listening to them. Their music is as wacky and charming as their creative genius.

GYRAX did a sketch for Siya, my zashiki-warashi OC. Gotta love how she retains her deadpan look.

 Had some fun dressing up Aya. Which look do you like best of the three?

 Totally not inspired by The Elder Scrolls.

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Memetic Engine: A highly intricate metafictional structure which reflects the collective ideology of the society that constructed it. Magical devices of immense scale and power, a memetic engine spreads influence across Creation itself and said to manipulate the cosmic foundation of narratives by filtering archetypal ideas themselves. A memetic engine works on "memes," elements from cultural or behavioral systems that are spread through communication, which therefore infect other systems to create a sort of interconnected web of thought sharing the same ideas; thus, the memetic engine is able to reinforce cosmic balance or distortions on an unprecedented level.

 

 A prominent exemplification of a memetic engine is the Yamato-Damashii. The people of Yamatai hold great value in the concept of "purity" that founded and built their society to become one of the most powerful civilizations in Existence, which in turn empowers their symbolic machine with their beliefs... the engine itself is made solely from their understanding of and strive towards cosmic truths. The very rules and customs that have established their society become fundamental laws of Creation as a whole. Without the Yamato-Damashii, it is said that Creation could slowly collapse into nothingness as it gets overrun by taint.

 

 Usually, once a memetic engine is built and activated, it becomes integrated as an intrinsic necessity to the Totality of Creation itself. In any case, such devices are among the pinnacle of magical technology that only exceptionally powerful magicians can hope to safely interact with.