<p>Atem is a dark, edgy, atmospheric checkpoint series, built around deliberate roughness. Heavy contrast, domineering characters, a drive to make your prompts edgier. The goal is output that resists being sanded into a generic anime look.</p><h2 id="what-this-model-is-good-at"> <span style="color:rgb(18, 184, 134)">What this model is good at</span></h2><p>- Gothic, horror-adjacent, and atmospheric compositions</p><p>- Strong lighting contrast, deep shadows, selective glow</p><p>- Characters with presence: dark elegance, quiet menace, mysticism</p><p>- Cool color grading (teal, cyan, violet) with selective warm accents (blood red, amber)</p><h2 id="what-this-model-isn't-good-at"><span style="color:rgb(250, 82, 82)">What this model isn't good at</span></h2><p>- Not built around explicit content. It can produce it, but I didn't tune it for that.</p><p>- Not a clean, soft anime look. If you want polish and brightness, this isn't the tool.</p><h2 id="recommended-settings"><span style="color:rgb(250, 176, 5)">Recommended settings</span></h2><p>- Sampler: Euler Negative Dy, Restart, DPM++ 2M Karras. (Don't use Hiresfix for Euler Negative, unless you know what you are doing.)</p><p>- CFG: 4-6 (higher CFG introduces "Splash Art Styles" occasionally, where the image is framed by white)</p><p>- Steps: 30 for Euler Negative Dy. Feel free to use other steps for Restart and DPM++ 2M Karras</p><p>- Resolution: Standard SDXL resolutions. Prefers 832x1216, 1024x1024, or 1216x832 for native performance.</p><h2 id="prompt-guidance"><span style="color:rgb(250, 176, 5)"> Prompt guidance</span></h2><p>-Atem works best with minimal negative prompts. A long negative neutralizes exactly the qualities this merge is built for. Trust the base and prompt sparingly against it. The recommended negative prompt: </p><p>worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3)</p><p>-For atmosphere: lean into scene description (lighting, mood, environment) rather than quality tokens. Atem responds strongly to environmental cues.</p><p>-For characters: describe specific aesthetic details (material, texture, expression) rather than generic quality words. "Black silk, torn at the edges" outperforms "high quality clothing."</p><h2 id="merge-composition"> Merge composition</h2><p>Built on Illustrious XL 2.0 base, merged with 2.5D style models. Added dark fantasy LoRA, then re-merged with a few anime models to stabilise excessive artifacts.</p><p>The point is to introduce structural noise that standard Illustrious merges sand away, while keeping the products stable.</p><h2 id="license-and-use"> License and use</h2><p>Feel free to use outputs commercially. Merging into your own work is welcome credits are appreciated but not required. </p><p>No training data restrictions beyond what the base license carries.</p><p>If you build something interesting with this, I'd love to see it. Tag me on Twitter (@TridIsntAName) or drop a link in my dms!</p>

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