Hi~!

Here I am again. I plan to slow down with merging for a while — I want to come back to it a bit later, after doing some research on how it actually works and experimenting more with small tweaks to better understand the process. And this merge is a great place to put a comma (or a bookmark), as it's quite different from everything I've done before.

In its nature, it's pretty much the same — just a simple roughly 50-50 merge of two models, without any LoRAs and with CLIP layers left unmerged. But the result turned out to be surprisingly good. It's half @EarthboundAI's Icarus and half of my Black_Bloom. Yet, somehow, it became almost like Icarus — clean, detailed, and beautiful — but with a subtle touch from my merge that makes the results a bit more colorful (and, surprisingly, I think a bit crisper too. Don't ask me how; I have no idea XD).

I didn't experience any issues during generation — everything went smoothly. As always, here's a quick rundown of my settings:

First Pass (Base Generation):

• CFG Scale: 5.

• Sampler/Scheduler: I use res_3m and beta57, but standard euler with normal or beta should also work fine if you prefer simplicity.

Upscaling (I use Latent Iterative):

• CFG Scale: 4.

• Sampler/Scheduler: dpmpp_2m with beta worked well for me. I haven't tested other combinations.

The outputs look pretty clean to my eye. They're finely detailed, with sharp lines... and yes, broken fingers are still there — can't escape that. Maybe 2026 will finally teach us how to avoid them, lol. But honestly, I get decent hands pretty often, so I can't complain. The model is still quite colorful and pleasantly wild. I tested it with my old, well-known prompts and sometimes got very different results, which I absolutely loved.

Please, have fun with this little creation.
And, as always, have a good day :3