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Em | he/they | writer, artist and game dev Currently making the IF Burning Academia and the much shorter otome Spring Boy 🌸 Also currently planning out #TransOtomeJam 🏳️‍⚧️

A character sprite of Lucia from the game Heart.Marrow.Blood.
A digital painting that shows the character Rook. From left to right, it shows him as 10, 16, and 20 years old.
A game screenshot with a pixelated background of a hospital room. It has three text boxes that read, from top to bottom, "..." "You're back in the hospital again." "The body you're in isn't the body you were promised."
A digital painting of someone's pokemon OC from art fight. It's a ribombee teddiursa set against a blue sky and a field of grass and flowers.
A digital painting of a flapper's woman standing on stage. She is set to the right, holding a golden microphone. The background is golden and there's a red curtain in the background to the left.
A digital painting of a young man. Half his face is his skull, and in the eye socket of the skull is a glowing yellow light. He holds a hand out and there's a purple-gray mist radiating out. He's set against a dark background that also has mist surrounding him.
A digital painting of a half body shot of a young woman with pale skin and shoulder length dark hair. She's posed with a game controller in her hand and is set against an orange checkered background. Next to her is a symbol for the character "Levi" from Obey Me!
Digital painting of a headshot of a girl with brown hair, dust pink hair, and a star on her cheek. She has brown skin and pink eyes. She's set against a lilac background.
A graphic for "The Power of Pride" bundle. It shows a cyclops to the left wearing a rainbow dress and holding a rainbow umbrella with a cat next to her. The text to the right reads "The Power of Pride Itch.io bundle, June 1 2026-July 6 2026, $60+ wallpaper bonus back, $10 PWYC" under the text is the cover image for my game. At the bottom it reads "Just 1 of 396 projects made by queer creators!"
A digital doodle down in paint tool sai. It shows the character Rook from the interactive fiction "Burning Academia." He has brown hair and pale skin and is set off to the side in a portrait shot. His head is turned and he's looking at the camera with a smirk. A pink outline frames him against a black background. On his cheek is a bandage that is the trans flag.
A neon digital painting of a mermaid with a TV head laying on a surgical table, with their head being installed.
A mermay piece featuring a young woman sitting on a rock out in the ocean. She has brown skin and brown hair and is wearing a rose pink bathing suit. Her arm is out and her hand is being held by a merman in the ocean, as he kisses her wrist. There are green hills in the distance against the shoreline, as well as a lighthouse. The scene is set during twilight.
An intro card to "HeartSync Productions." It has a portrait of me to the left with my pronouns (he/they) and my name "Emerson." Below the portrait is a black text box with text that reads "11 finished games, 1 short story collect+1 novela, Most Popular Game: "Burning Academia 70k+ plays, Personal Favorite: Heart.Marrow.Blood." To the right it shows the cover of my current projects "Spring Boy" and "Burning Academia." Below it, shows a box that reads "Genres" and below it reads "Visual Novels/Interactive Fiction. Otome/Fantasy/Horror." Everything is set against a green background overlaid with TV static.
A birthday Polaroid. The picture is a digital painting of a woman sitting in a flower field looking up towards the camera with streams of light high lighting her. She has fair skin, medium blonde hair, and is wearing a light pink crop top with a skirt. On the Polaroid it reads "HAPPY BIRTHDAY RHEA" with the date "03/18/XX" in the bottom right corner
Screenshot from the free VN "Disruptive Compassion." It shows an individual sitting on the floor in the dark. The top part of their face is cut off and they have a small smile. A window is to the left of them, showing the night time sky. At the bottom is a textbox which reads "I'd rather die then trade fairytales."
Game art from the unreleased wip "Silver Tongued Youth." It shows a person with long dark hair with a panicked expression turning around to face the camera. A fire rages around them.
A digital painting featuring a young man sitting on steps. Flower bushes frame him, and there's a field of flowers behind him. He has messy, wavy brown hair, light brown skin, and is wearing a pastel orange sweater with blue jeans. He's smiling sheepishly at the camera and is holding a white tulip.
A digital painting of a young man laying down in a dark blue room. A streak of orange light zips across the ground and over his face, likely from a window curtain, barely cracked open.
A digital art piece of a woman with a sword through her heart. She's laying in bed and the colors have been inverted. She is colored in with pink and it has a TV static effect.
A 3×3 collage which features 8 different close ups of digital art pieces with a picture of my face in the middle censored with a 😌 emoji.
The game cover for "Heart.Marrow.Blood." It shows a woman reaching down to hold up a young man. They're set against a deep red background with glitch effects and yellow alert signs. The title is placed in the top left corner.
A digital painting of the character Meissa from the visual novel "Made Marion." It shows a person with long purple hair, purple clothes, and pale skin. They're set against a green background that is blurry and appears to be like leaves. Green light washes over them.
A WIP character sprite for the visual novel Heart.Marrow.Blood. It shows the character Lucia. She has short, brown hair and light skin. She wears a dark grey shirt with an eye design and sky blue pants, as well as a beanie on her head. There is a glitched circle hovering over her shoulder.
A game screen shot from Aliferous that shows a CG of a boy with pink hair and wings on his back facing away from the camera. It has a dark cloud-like textbox on the right. It reads: "What unfurled in front of me was I sight I only dreamed of. Wings of majestic white, spinning out under summer rays. I stood, unmoored, in the endless afternoon. A boy with a glass smile passed me by. He didn't see me, so caught up in his current discussion."
Game cover for a light-fantasy dress-up otome game 'Aliferous; those with wings." It shows a boy face away with pink hair and wings on his back. The title is on the bottom right.
A storygraph graphic showing the books I read in October. It showcases "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates (5 stars), "The Paths we Lay" by Audryn Hadley (4 stars), and "Side Notes from the Archivist" by Anastacia-Renee (3.75 stars).
A digital art piece which shows a young man laying on the ground, washed out in blue shadows. A strip of golden light crosses his face and onto the ground.
A portrait of Beck from the interactive fiction "Burning Academia." It shows him facing to the left, arm reaching out off screen. A light is striking his chest where his heart is. He's set against purple shadows with a pink beam of light cutting from the top left to the bottom right. There are lyrics from the song "I can hear your laughter on the wind" by The Lulls in Traffic in text boxes on the right.
Fanart of Hinako from Silent Hill F. It shows a 3/4 body portrait of her as she wields a steel pipe set against a black background with redish haze surrounding her
Digital art of The Announcer. They have a TV head, raised up and TV static is rising up from the screen. They have a mermaid tail and cords are coming out of their back and head. They are set against a red and blue textured background. To the right is a screen with a glitch effect that has a coded message written in it.
A Storygraph graphic for my September reads. It features the books and their ratings: The Library At Mount Char (3 stars), Kill Creatures (2.5 stars), and The Longing of Lone Wolves (2.5 stars)
A WIP digital art piece of Hinako from Silent Hill F. It shows a close up of her upper body, set against a misty white/red background.
Game screenshot from Memory Ghosts. Shows a purple splattered textbox that reads "...It's you." It shows the scene of a young man and woman reaching for the same muffin on a food shelf.
A journal page with song lyrics transcribed by using the fake alphabet I made up.
Markings for the months of the year as well as various key concepts in the world.
The markings for sounds.
An example of the alphabet from "A-Z" as well as punctuation.
Screenshot from the game "Heart.Marrow.Blood." It has a fake alphabet to the top left corner. It also shows a character sprite of a TV head with static spilling out of its screen and wires streaming out of its back.
A digital art piece that showcases a woman with short hair hanging down from the air and holding up a man. They are set against a glitched background of a giant heart, with yellow warning signals scattered around them.
The cover image for Heart.Marrow.Blood. It shows a slanted bar on the side with glitch effects and. To the right is a woman with short brown hair holding up the body of a man with black hair. They are both set against a red glitched background with yellow warning signs around them.
A surreal background of a city street. It has a camera overlay with glitch effects.
A photo of a journal page of writing using a made up alphabet.
Screenshot of an in progress game. Shows a TV head with static spilling out its screen face, with wires attached to the back. It's set against a collaged background a cityscape. On the top right it reads "ON AIR." At the bottom is a textbox that has the name "Announcer" and reads "Where do people go when their city falls?"
A digital painting of the tarot card "The Hermit." It has a golden yellow border. In the center is the character Zoe. They have dark skin and short coily hair. They are holding a lantern emitting a bright golden ray. Next to them are two small fairy sprites. The background is black with golden orbs scattered throughout.
A Storygraph wrap-up graphic for August reads. It shows the rating of 8 books which are as follows: Bloodborne Vol 2: The Healing Thirst - 3 stars The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan - 5 stars Deep End by Ali Hazelwood - 4 stars Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones - 3.5 stars Beyond The Fairie Gate by Marie Mistry - 3 stars Across an Endless Sea by Marie Mistry - 2.5 stars The Price we Pay by Auryn Hadley - 4 stars Adrift in Currente Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire - 3 stars
Text reads: The Realities of the World The First Reality: You are changing by the will of something beyond you. This is the only reality you have. The setting, the situation, the time period, may all come to be altered, just like you. To live in this world, is to always be changing. What has caused the change and how you will change is a matter you need to investigate, before there is nothing left of who you used to be. The Second Reality: Humans are not the only things which walk the earth. Perhaps the horrors have always walked beside you, without you having ever been able to see them. Perhaps you find yourself slipping into other realms, where the horrors reside. Whatever the horrors are, they are here, and they hunger for you. The Third Reality: The Butterfly Effect is true. Each action you take will have consequences not just for you, but for the people around you. The group you find yourself in, trying to investigate these changes, are subjected to whatever fate your choices lead them to, as their choices will do the same to you. The Fourth Reality: Your chances of surviving this are grim. The odds are against you at every turn, and the more you try to live the more you must give in to the change happening around you. There is a chance that even if you live, your soul will die. Your sanity will vanish. You will be an empty shell of what once was. You will fail again and again, until your last dying breath or until the change overtakes you. The Final Reality: If everything in the world can change, so can fate. For as you are now, you still retain your will, and that is enough to come out of this alive. If you do not wish to fall, then struggle until the end. And remember, there is always a light burning, amongst the horrors of the world around you.
A Storygraph graphic for my July reads. Books are: When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy (4.5 stars) Bluff by Danez Smith (4 stars) Trickster's Choice by Tamora Piece (3 stars) The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hopkin (4 stars)
Game cover for 'Disruptive Compassion ' It shows the title in the upper left corner. To the right is a person sitting in the dark with a small smile on their face. The top part of their face is cut off.
A digital painting of a character with white hair. They wear a black bunny hate and a purple sweater and they're holding a bunny plus bien. They're sitting down on a pink ledge against a purple wall. There's a conversation bubble next to them that has a bunny symbol in it.
A digital drawing of an I-dog playing a DJ. They're set against a simple background of glowing blue and pink lights.
A scene which shoes a rabbit boy in a field. He has dark brown hair, with the rest of his fur being white. He wears basic travelers clothes. He holds a walking stick, and he stands under a tree were leaves cascade down around him.
A headshot painting of a woman with dark brown skin and short navy blue hair. She has glowing eyes, as well as a third eye in the center of her forehead glowing gold. She has elf ears and a golden crown. Her hands are raised to her ears. She's sit against a dark blue background.