Reapped: 22 Nov 2008
Dropped: 14 Feb 2011
Comment: 1,104 this time around

THINGS IO IS DOING ON VACATION:
Visiting her parents and her little sister, son, and friends.
Shopping around for tuxedos for Nakatsu so he doesn't marry Pell while wearing his soccer jersey D:<
Go shopping and to an amusement park with Ebi.
Calling her husband, wherever he is overseas, and having a discussion about their marriage and how it has basically been a marriage in name only for several years now, and thus coming back to camp as Umeda Io, instead of Nanba Io.*

THINGS IO IS DOING WHEN SHE GETS BACK FROM VACATION:
Wedding planning with Pell!
Informing Nakatsu that she bought him a tux and that he is going to wear it or he won't live to see his wedding day.
Sorting out her ~feelings~
Interrupting many a makeout session between Umeda and Axel when she bursts into her brother's office to discuss her lovelife.
Probably confessing to Ebi by Valentines Day, because deep down, Io really is a big romantic.



so guess this means i'm not dropping her after all, HanaKimi cast ♥



* i love having no canon on her husband or their relationship :|

NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS BUT ME BECAUSE I AM OCCASIONALLY RIDICULOUS ABOUT HEADCANON LIKE THIS but I just realised that Ken's headcanon birthday is the same day as Io's headcanon birthday, which is two days before Chie's CANON birthday, and I love playing out birthday stuff, so... Three characters with birthdays that close together + my schedule and play availability = lol no


SO SINCE IO IS TECHNICALLY THE NEWER OF THE TWO CHARACTERS IN CONFLICT HERE I feel more comfortable being like "....uh okay no i lied :) her birthday is a month later :)" SO HER BIRTHDAY HAS CHANGED FROM JULY 28th TO AUGUST 20th.



AGAIN, NO ONE CARES BUT ME. I JUST FELT I SHOULD NOTE THIS FOR... SOME REASON.

SO. Io was my first character, and way back when, I didn't know anything about making decent icons. SO A GOOD NUMBER OF HER ICONS ARE JUST PLAIN CROPS AND RESIZES, except the ones Pell cleaned up for me ♥ And HanaKimi scanlations aren't exactly the cleanest scans ever.

But Akiha gave me clean raw downloads, which just about made my week. SO I AM TRYING OUT NEW ICON STYLES but am as indecisive as hell, so I need input.

Poll #1306042 ICON STYLE OPINION POLL
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 27

Which do you like best?

ETA: DAMMIT, I FORGOT ONE.
Thoughts on that one in comments, if any? (ignore the poor quality of the icon itself. :\ i resized it in photobucket XD)

Also if anyone is good at redrawing icons, I have a handful that need redraws to get rid of face-obscuring speech bubbles and such that are far beyond my skill level. I'd offer paid time for a character or something in exchange for the help, depending on how many icons get redrawn and how hard they are and all that ♥ LEMME KNOW, WE'LL TALK