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Read Right to Left - CW: HEALED SCARS

I think it's heavily implied that Kris self-harms, and I wondered what scars could turn into in the dark world. Got a little carried away with the colors on this one but i really like how it turned out :3

EDIT: yall please don't go into detail about your self-harm habits in the comments or reblogs It's fine to talk about relating to kris here but just remember i can read everything yall write ^_^

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Some silly crossover I had fun with.

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Bro

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Every cinematic parallel in @snapscube’s Deltarune stream!

Some of these may be reaches, but when you’re scouring 8 hours of footage trying to find similarities it’s easy to start grasping at straws😭😭

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I love him...

I have so many feelings about Mithrun, I have so many feelings about Kui's treatment of him as a character. And while, yes, I have said a good amount about how he's written I am also very much affected by the ways he's presented visually. It's important, considering both that manga is a visual medium and that Mithrun put so much on his appearance and conformity to the high standards of his family and culture.

It's also significant because he's missing an eye (He also has severely maimed ears, but I don't think readers generally have the same visceral reaction to this. It sets him apart from other elves, but we can't exactly relate to that.) and is visually represented in ways that run counter to our artistic expectations of that kind of character. For an example of how we're conditioned to expect such characters to appear in art, Kui herself provides a character in the in-universe Daltian Clan novels:

Marcille, who is very much influenced by art like this, carries the mysterious and stoic expectation into her succubus fantasy:

It's important to note at this point that Daltian Clan is a transparent parody of drama and shoujo manga stylings, and that these characters appear this way as a direct parody of other art, of which Kui (having recommended work by Hagio Moto, who is internationally famous for such work) is obviously aware.

Characteristically and visually, Mithrun is presented as counter to these representations. What could be read as stoicism is actually an absence of conscious motivation, which has the side effect of totally shattering any impression that he's at all mysterious. He literally doesn't care what people think of him, so he's very free with his thoughts and with information.

And he's drawn like this when he does that.

Mithrun is, consistently, portrayed in a way that is loving and invites us to think of him as cute, and always in ways that don't obfuscate the way his experiences have changed his appearance and abledness. His missing eye isn't disguised with a patch that makes him look like he could just be wearing a costume, it's replaced with a prosthetic one that was introduced so long after he was initially injured that his weakened eyelid doesn't often fully open over it. The evidence of what's happened to him is almost always apparent, and it's never more apparent than in the culmination of his character arc in chapter 94, where the prosthetic is gone (Thanks, Marcy) and in its place there's this unsparing void.

And it's the cutest and most loveable he ever looks. It's the happiest we ever see him. He's beyond bedraggled and presented with such compassion, so lovingly. It just makes my heart feel good. Wah.

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every time i try to make a cohesive mithrun + disability post i just end up rambling because ??? he's so good??? a disabled character who doesn't magically become abled at the end of the story?? a disabled character whom people respect (and Pattadol explicitly says she does in the Handbook) and look up to?? a disabled character in a role of power where yes his disability DOES stop him and yes he DOES need accommodations in order to fulfill that role?? a passively suicidal disabled character with self harm scars?? a disabled character who requires caregiving and isn't infantilized for it by the rest of the cast??

he's so GOOD. i love him your honour

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Source: Yotsuba&! | よつばと!

by Kiyohiko Azuma

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doodle of a real webfishing interaction. ampharos u r in my heart forever

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For the uninitiated, here's a snippet of what I do when inspired

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Hmmm

why does nokotan have so much chalk in these specific colours

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The hardest part of Elden Ring by far is resisting my desire to roll right into Radahn's big strong arms so Miquella can give me a kiss and say nice things about me. Heart Stolen indeed.

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Obsessed with how frantic she sounds

I love her so much what is wrong with her???

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It's very sad that they had to cook Izutsumi in the season finale but that omelet looked pretty good so maybe it was worth it

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She loves soup