This is it. My last fanart in this sub: Fina saying goodbye.

Why am I leaving?

Well... ironically, the Unit Design Contest caused it all: an old friend of mine saw some of my designs and used them to convince his employer to hire me as a character designer for one of his projects (I signed a NDA, so I can't really say what it is. Sorry about that!). I'm starting next Monday.

Truth to be told, making a career out of art has never been on of my goals, but since the oppotunity arised, I decided to take it. Which means my free time will be drastically reduced.

After a long thought, I decided the gachas games had to go. I simple won't have the time to play them anymore (Fire Emblem Heroes was the first to go). FFBE was the game I played the longest - almost four years if you take JP into consideration - so it kind of hurts to leave. Not because of the game itself, but because of the internet friends I made here!

I'm not the kind of person to keep talking endlessly, so let's cut it to...

Special Thanks

I actually didn't interact much around here, but I gotta say thanks to these guys!

• My fellow artists, u/Lady_Hero, u/Inkcross, u/Neostalk. You guys don't know how much I learned by just seeing your art! Hopefully our journeys as artists will let us meet along the way. Actually, I can meet Inkcross on dA, so whatever! :p

• u/TomAto314, I'm #TeamFina 'til the end! :D Sorry, but I won't be able to read your PPD anymore. Keep the humor going!

• So many of you frequently commented on my art: u/Siana-chan, u/DreamblitzX, u/SomeRandomDeadGuy, u/Skittlessour... I wish I could name all of you, really! Hope all of you can keep appreciating my art, even if it's not FFBE related!

• u/Rozaliin and u/Sinzar_ which helped me complete lots of trials - in both JP and GL.

• The mod team: you guys rock! Keeping this sub so clean must be tiresome!

I wish I could thank each of you personally, really!

Some inner thoughts

To be honest, I'm not sure I was truly enjoying the last few months. Trials were mostly 90% preparation, 10% mechanical execution using a guide. Grind was a matter of pressing the Repeat button mindlessly... this may have affected the decision to leave. But if there's something that truly annoyed me was the UI: do I need to press the next button 5 times after battle?

Note: the only cacha game I have now is Dragalia Lost (mostly because it doesn't consume my life as FFBE does). Please, don't look at me like that!

I'm not sure if I can call it a regret but here we go: I do believe I lost the unit design contest (I wasn't awake when the voting ended, but I was behind when I saw the score 8h later). Leaving an unit as legacy would have been nice, but since it's probably not going to happen, that last art will have to make do! :p

Some fun stats

• The character I drew the most: Fina (8 times if I counted right)
• I'm leaving 20k lapis, 40 UoC and 1 STMR moogle behind. :o
• Most pulled rainbow unit: Sakura (8 times)
• My favourite series in this sub: PPD, Lady hero's comics and Should you pull. In no particular order.

Final remarks

What should I flair this post as? Fanart? :o

You can still find me on these social medias:

• Twitter: @RyoSuzukiArt
• deviantArt: Ryo-Suzuki
• and of course, reddit too!

You know what? Uninstalling the game was actually easy. Unsubscribing this sub was not.

u/rsuzuki has left the chat

Edit: what's up with the downvote spree I'm seeing?