#E Soul

[ra1nrei]

I'm so sad for old e-soul. he was framed for a crime he didn't commit and was killed by the kid he saved and he never even cared about rankings. he built a legacy, only for capitalism and the public's craving for spectacle to take it and his life (literally)—away..

I don’t hate yang cheng, but throughout the entire time, I couldn’t help but feel that it was unsettling how he was stealing another man’s life. It’s disturbing that neither he nor his team seemed bothered by it. the mindset surrounding the trust system is just so broken.

[ariowl-arts]

An assortment of long-haired yang chengs for the soul 💙⚡️

Collaborated with @silencedfalcon for this!! I did the lineart and they did the rendering 🎨

BONUS:

An alt version of motorcyclist yang cheng piece (ft. his the jacket from the official art) ‼️

[nayapima]

I can't stop thinking about the fact that the whole time Uncle Rock was plotting and investing a lot of money for his E-Soul scheme, he didn't even pay Yang Cheng once when he was working as an actor for him. Capitalism at its finest.

[nightyrainbow]

#to be hero x#tbhx#e soul#yang cheng#<-him too I guess but this is still mostly about the og#both him and Yang Cheng had their fuck ups along the way and things they could've done better but it's hard for me to care#MG screwed them both so badly I'm sure things still would've gone terribly even if they were perfect#The amusement park stuff is the only advertising E-Soul’s team did that I think was actually good#some context for maybe some of my wilder claims I guess:#we know Rock was already high up in MG while he was grooming Yang Cheng cuz he was the one making the final calls for the E-Soul performers#I'm pretty convinced Rock has always been MG's CEO but just wasn't public about it so he could get his hands in other companies#and screw them over. I dont have proof for that though#yang cheng had not made his name public so MG putting it on the news is infact doxing#yang cheng just accepting the copyright strike would screw him over because of the “accept it and we'll stop accusing you of a crime” thing#it'd make the public think he needed to get the accusation to go away quietly (making him look guilty)#we know Treeman had already been established at this point because Firm Man's statue is outside the building during Yang Cheng’s “trial”#I wanna be so clear that the side eye emojis are directed at management and management alone#fuck Rock- all my homies hate Rock (OP's tags)

The thing that gets to me with Old Man E-Soul is just how badly Mighty Glory screwed him over every step of the way.

Like, first you've got their shit show of a marketing strategy: They take this dude who's entire image comes from accessibility and heroism- he's the man who's on the ground working and anyone could be him so long as they're brave and do the right thing- and lock him away from crime fighting and make all his products completely unaffordable for most people. Then they stick him in press tours and advertising exclusively despite him being bad at public speaking and having no interest in doing it in the first place.

So then a new guy comes along and fills all the niches E-Soul used to while also being a young, pretty boy and takes some of that audience, and what do they do? A) Adjust their own marketing strategy in order to actually play to E-Soul’s strengths or B) try and work with the new guy? Nah, they go for C) dox the new guy, try and frame him for crimes that their own fucking boss was responsible for (covering up for him), hit him with a copyright strike (even though it goes against the spirit of "anyone can be E-Soul") against E-Soul’s wishes, and put the new guy in position where if he budges on any of their demands, it will look like he's admitting to the crime and the dude who actually did it will get away. And then when they lose the legal case- cuz of course they would, the new guy actually had recites- they just end up making E-Soul look like a jackass.

And then the final nail in the coffin is how they handled Shang Chao's murder. Child of a former manager of their own company/ current manager of a rival company, and known friend of the new guy gets shot and what do they say/do? Absolutely fucking nothing. No public announcement, no investigation, doesn't even try and de-escalate the conflict with the new guy after he accuses E-Soul of murder. Also, pretty weird of blonde manager to insist that showing up to the death fight was absolutely mandatory for clearing E-Soul’s name 🤨🤨🤨. You'd think a guy as publicly known as E-Soul would have an alibi 🤨🤨🤨

But ya, tldr- Rock can eat shit and die, idk if the manager was directly in leagues with Rock or not but fuck him either way, and I think OG E-Soul would've been better off and happier if he did community service work when he wasn't fighting crime. Free my man- he was a real ass hero, not an idol.

[tobehamx]

I love og e soul sm I'm gonna squeeze him and put him in the jar

[44shishi]

i miss them <//3

[aintaresz]

✎ : 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐗 𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬

[kymeraka]

what I mean when I say tbhx lives in my mind rent free

[esoul]

we’ll probably get to know more about og e soul since we’re going back in time and the stories of the members of his agency and heroes who were around when the zero incident occured are gonna be shared when we reach that time period

[conswayo]

im sure they will get along in the future

[scarareg]

What if you are a guy with heart of gold who dreams of being a hero, and you are currently an actor pretending to be one

And your love interest did not notice your act, at least not right away

But he did

[flowerfren]

I just wanted to yap and have no where else to do this but like I’ve been really fixated on to be hero x and I love the parallel with the arcs of Lin Ling and Yang Cheng as Lin Ling had fought against the tide and had found himself despite the toxic environment he was in and in the end had never truly lost sight of himself while Yang Cheng had lost complete sight of himself because of his grief and had simply turned into a pawn to be manipulated ultimately breaking the promise he had made with Xia Qing and allowing his grief and anger to simply make him become someone who isn’t truly HIM

[caydeus]

Going to try being ambitious and draw the Top 10 as their episodes end! I'm a bit behind but I'm slowly catching up with E-Soul's now!

[isriune]

yang cheng my little meow meow

[kavorou]

shangxiacheng commission for @silencedfalcon 🌼

transcript ;

Shang Chao: Don't worry about it. Trust me. You'll be a really great hero.

Xia Qing: You have this.

Yang Cheng: My armor?

Shang Chao: Your boobs

Xia Qing: Your heart

if anyones interested in commissioning more tbhx happy alternative ending fanarts read info here (on a pc because you dont wanna know what it looks like on mobile LOL)

[tuziehr]

Ok after Yang Cheng’s arc and seeing the episode 8 preview, I’m getting the sense that the reason Lin Ling’s arc came first even though I’ve heard that chronologically he’s the last is because he embodies what every one of these heroes want/wanted to be: a nobody doing good things for the sake of helping others.

A commoner, you might say.

And by placing him first, making him — someone who ultimately went against Ms. J (our representative for hero society and how it molds heroes through *ding ding ding* capitalism induced manipulation) and came out the other side still himself doing what he wanted to do as a commoner — the first character we the audience interact with, we now get to see how all the other heroes didn’t get to do that.

We’ve seen how the system can be fought against, and now we get to see how it wins.