person Neeko has to smile all the time or he will basically go Super Saiyan and strain the hell out of himself. Which is why his gem is dimmer than his sword color. However, he is also genuinely optimistic and has fun doing battle. He's also a jokester and styles on his opponents, when he gets the chance. Neeko is a kid after all

If you mean Blip, Blip has a hard time trusting anyone. Only reason he trusts Neeko is because Neeko accidently saved his life and he's basically the only family he has. Blip is also living life on a theoretical 1 HP, so he's pretty weak to anything


    I made this in my spare time btw

    blip looks even angrier from this angle

    That's just a deadpan stare just for reference. His eyes dilate a lot more when he shows emotion now.

    i dont know squat 'bout animating/drawing and whatnot, so im not gonna give any good critique- but i will say i think i liked the old neeko face design better.
    also i think the new blip looks cooler but honestly he doesn't look just 1hp anymore.

      INTERNECION Aight that's a lot but uhhh yeah. Mine appears to be more of a slow burn style, where it's full of people wondering about themselves and if they should keep living because it's morally right or not,
      Yours is "Should I keep living, because life is pain". Interesting.

          -wyi
          Well Neeko doesn't know about his past life before his amnesia (before he emerged from his crystal chrysalis) fully just yet. He has to find, basically, power sources of the elements, called Nexus Cierite in order to gain his memories back by stabbing his sword into it. The reason why that works is because Neeko's sword is connected to his power therefore connected to his soul.
          Everytime Neeko finds these incredibly hard to find Nexus Cierites he gains a major fraction his memories back. All of them aren't in order and usually deal with a specific topic. Such as this one close person who abused him, his only friend having his back when things get tough, his time as a guardian, him being surrounded by monsters having to fight his way out. These also relate to the Nexus Cierite element that he gets those memories from.
          How he takes that is entirely up to him though. Whether he hurts someone else in the process or he is relieved that the memory isn't as bad as the rest. He then has to contemplate whether or not getting these memories is worth it or not. I won't spoil too much, but trust me, it will be.

          Blip on the other hand is a much different story.

          Anyway Kiki will never let them die. So yeah they can give up on their quest, but they keep going because what else are they gonna do? Read a book? Even at the part where they get chased down by almost every organization of Cier ever because of the sky beacon Neeko made when he emerged from the crystal in the very beginning

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              person His name is Ghost for a reason and he isn't even my character, so I don't know everything about him. There's now way you are shaking in your boots bro. hah.

                INTERNECION I try to give my characters a more standard fear. Your character regains what they lose and has no chance of death, and are literally friends with a god. Mine are small even in their own story, a minor speck in an ocean of death and dust. I try to balance a feeling of there being no such thing as a true, final victory. there is no major goal, other than one that is standard for all:
                Survive, and do what you think is right. I then make these conflict often. Sometimes they choose do what's right and survive, some times they die, and sometimes they do neither. Rogue, who has no memory, barely knows why, and has no way or hope of regaining hers, and yet she still can't stop wondering who she is. She doesn't get small glimpses or flashbacks. I try my best to make it so that there are small victories, nice moments to keep the plot upbeat, but the characters may rest. To avoid a power creep, I make sure that everyone is weak-ish in one way or another.
                Yours may be better for an epic saga where they save the world, and honestly, those are good.
                Mine is just an entertaining ordeal. No glory or anything like that, and my characters could be literally anyone. (except rogue because she's literally an escaped experiment but then again we don't actually know who so yeah).

                  INTERNECION but your story seems as good as mine if not slightly better.
                  Not for lack of power creep or anything, but your characters are far harder to just come up with.
                  I have to base all my characters off of something, and although that keeps them far more grounded, it also makes it harder to make them pop out. As I tend to stay to a semi-realistic-or-at-least-not-people-in-spandex-costumes writing style, It makes it harder to make them pop out, as I need to answer where they get everything they have.
                  If I were to try writing a single magic artifact, I would feel the need to write a whole entire "Science" system to it, making it no longer magic by grounding it with laws, not rules. If someone were to get like, a super powerup thing, I would screw it up by adding in something like the laws of physics somehow. I'm bad at making my own base lore, you know? I can't really write a new race or species of people without giving an explanation, and a god or fairy creating them just makes more issues. but you somehow manage to make all that hide behind the seams.

                      -wyi Well one thing I did in order to not have to explain everything is by setting most of my story in a place where magic and superhuman abilities are common. Which is also one that was already established by the people of the Hyun's Dojo Community. And then I focus on just my duelist's story while everyone else does their own thing. Your story is being set in a place where we don't know to much about, which can be quite difficult and I respect that you're going for something like that.
                      I made Neeko and Blip more than a decade ago when I was just learning to draw. Kiki is my friend's, well..., Kiki's, character that I wanted to be in the story because they were perfect for the role. I didn't base them on anything at the time, until I started adding stuff in. I make sure to hide in everything and slowly reveal what exactly is going on, but in a way that I don't reveal too much for it to make sense. Putting the audience into the main characters shoes. Even though I made Neeko kinda dumb, he still has to figure things out on his own with Blip with Kiki on the sidelines figuring things out as Neeko does.

                      Alright now to the lore part. Coming up with and introducing a new race of people or animal can be a bit difficult. Neeko being from seemingly long gone race, while Blip is a mythical dragon with powers a normal dragon wouldn't have like healing fire and hypnotism. A good way to show what they can do is also making it so their abilities come in gradually and not all in your face. Same thing goes with lore. I don't like to exposition dump all that much anymore. I'll use it for a gag, sure, but not for a story were someone doesn't know where they are, especially who they are. That's overwhelming for both the audience and the main character. But yeah.
                      also I have this:
                      The first three people Neeko and Blip will have to battle. Player X, Adelie Glace, and Leif and Wither (Someone with split personalities). The person on the far right is not either of those names, but Neeko's abuser from the past, named Leira.

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                          -wyi sometimes you don't need to explain something in depth. For example lets say that there's this sceptor that can throw lightning. You could say that it's either inexplicable, some kind of magic, hard to comprehend, or it converts energy into bolts of lightning. Unless that thing has to be explained by some super smart expert scientist doctor kind of guy then there's is no need. I avoid explanation by saying that those people used to be there, now they are not, here's this one kid who survived, use him as an example of what these people could've been able to do while you piece things together using said kid's findings of his past life. or here's a mythical dragon whose still a baby. Watch how he grows so you can see the abilities, habits, intelligence, and evolution. If a god were to have created them just say a god who has been here since the beginning of time, or who got his powers from somewhere, created these people or animals to produce life and watch it prosper or he got bored. Unless you have to explain it in an extremely thorough fashion then there's no need to explain in the first place. Just like how Gandalf could've used the birds to fly them to Mordor. Even the creator didn't want to explain that. Have fun with it. Fix the plotholes when you find them but don't overthink it.

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