Fun For Everyone.

Greetings again! We're back this week with not only another Erika post, but the return of one of my favorite fictional characters AND an artist we haven't seen in quite awhile on this blog. That's right, for those of you who have read the earlier entries in the blog, this artist might look familiar. It's StormFedeR! I went over him before in the previous entry, but needless to say the main draw of commissioning him is that it's VERY difficult to get a slot. Actually at the time of writing this post, May 21st 2023, he opened commissions just yesterday, and I missed my chance. Oh well...

But even though I failed recently, I didn't fail many years ago when I got this picture as we can see. I managed to luckily snag a spot, and I already knew what I wanted. As evident by some of the previous posts, I was on quite a Blazblue high at the time. This was due to the fact that it was early 2015, and the newest version of the game Central Fiction, was coming out in about a year. That, coupled with the fact that I had recently awoken to my love for loli vampires and Rachel Alucard in particular. So we'll probably be seeing a lot more of her in this time period of commissions!

So with that being said, StormFedeR immediately got to work on my idea. It wasn't anything special, but rather I just wanted an idea that Rachel comes to invade my room and hypnotizes me into some hot yuri action. Actually, the basic premise of this idea came from Keeper of Pots who helped me brainstorm the setting, as all I had was just an Erika x Rachel picture. And fun fact about that, Keeper ended up making a Rachel bedroom invasion comic with me in it later down the line, but more on that whenever we get to it on the blog.

I'd like to say the commission progress went smoothly, but actually it's time I address the title of this piece as well as the alts... the completed product I got from StormFedeR actually was the third picture in this post. The one where Rachel has giant breasts! To be frank, I'm not only not really a big fan of huge honkers, but I also like to keep characters on model so I wasn't too satisfied with the end result. I asked if it were possible to reduce Rachel's bust size, but I wasn't sure if Storm would do it as he doesn't usually do post commission reworks. Luckily, he was alright with it! However, the second version was still a tad too big. So he shrunk them down to as far as he said he could, and we ended up with Rachel bust size alts to please everyone! Small, medium and large.

I opted to keep the small version as the definitive version, but if you look for this picture on Storm's gallery, he opted to go for the bigger boobed version to be the definitive piece. So it really is a "pick your own option" scenario. As a side note, the original final piece also had my hair colored wrong, but I chose to not have that alt uploaded here. Overall though despite the hiccups, I'm still very satisfied with how this commission turned out!

Art by: StormFedeR

Commissioned by: Erika

The Wrath of YandEr-ikaa.

Here we are, we are now in the post 100th picture world! Just because I hit my initial goal, doesn't mean I was going to stop getting hypnosis pictures of myself. That being said, I didn't have an immediate goal anymore. It's not as if I was thinking "Alright! Time to get two hundred pictures now!" Rather, I was just going to keep going until... I didn't want to anymore I suppose? And hey, I'm still here getting pictures of myself even now.

Goals aside though, I did slow down somewhat on actively commissioning stuff myself though. That holds true even to today. And following that train of thought, we have a gift from Zorro once again! This time, it's featuring Yanderika! To be honest, I don't actually have any lore as to what Yanderika is... Is she an alternate character? Or just me hypnotized into being a Yandere? The world will never know. In this specific example though, Zorro actually wrote out a mini story featuring how this iteration of Yanderika became a thing. It even gives us the name of the protagonist in this picture, Sean. You can read it in the description of the picture on Deviant Art here.

 

The reason why I worded the previous paragraph the way that I did, is because while this seems like a one off gag, Yanderika does actually appear on multiple occasions in the future. As for how she came to be though? Well, I do like mixing my name with words if I can get it to fit, and one day "Yanderika" just came up when I was talking about Yanderes. Yandere are an archetype of anime character that I personally REALLY love as well, and I do admit that sometimes I can be a little possessive... so hey, I'd say it fits.

 

Zorro apparently liked the pun enough to make a picture out of it, and this picture spawned at least two other instances of her/me, so it's funny how that works out. As to whether or not Zorro made this picture because he legitimately thought the pun was funny enough to make a picture, or the fact that I did tend to display some possessive personality traits way back when... well, I suppose we'll never know the answer to that either!

 

I should probably have put this at the top, but just in case you don't know what a Yandere is, it's an archetype of character that is crazy obsessive with someone. So obsessed that they show signs of stalking, paranoia, or even intent to hurt others around them just so they can keep their beloved to themselves. The term itself is Japanese and see in some anime/manga characters, but the crazy stalker type is not limited to just Japanese media. Hope this helps~

 

Art by: Zorro-Zero