#and the red thread of fate!

[moonrvsh]

forbidden fruit

[kirawrart]

BkDk Inktober Day 12 (2023) - "Red String of Fate" Kacchan. Kacchan, please. This is why we can't have nice things 😔 (I think this one might be my favorite so far 😂)

[aemelin]

us! united by our ribbon stalk!

[poucz]

"The "Red Thread of Fate" is an East Asian myth that says an invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. This thread can stretch or tangle but never break, symbolizing the inevitable connection".

*Strongly referenced by the photography of Luigi Boatto.

[chibassy]

Within a blink, our line of fate is cut.

[oya-oya-okay]

How would Shuu fit into the red thread AU? Would it be after the opening ceremony Azul and/ or Riddle suddenly realize there's an extra thread there now?

HERE 🐙🌹In fact, there shouldn't be Shuu in this AU, yes, BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE...🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

Riddle and Azul are first-year students here, meaning Shuu will appear (as MC) in a year!! AND Riddle and Azul are already dating! (this will be another ceremony lmao🤭🤭🤭)

Shuu doesn't see the threads, bc it's another magical world✨ And she wasn't born here, BUT maybe she'll see them when she falls in love!!💗🌹🐙💗

[anjelia3]

"You still my girl?"

[kelogsloops]

'The Surrender' releases as a print tomorrow, Thursday Nov 23rd, 12PM (PT) on my store!

This piece was from my solo exhibition a few years back titled, ’Sanctuary’. The theme of the show was centred around states of mental rest and respite. This piece was about envisioning the waves of thoughts that run through your mind: sometimes gentle, but sometimes crashing swells that leave you with no room to breathe or gasp for air. But in knowing that the waves are cyclical and eventually ease, she finds herself surrendering to the motions and trusting that it will be okay. 

NOTE: This gold-foil edition of this print will only be available for 72-hours & will not be available again thereafter.

#brbchasingdreams

[jabberwockprince]

no one:

a fuckass in-game email: hey btw remember to use your decatone! haha these bunnies will jump into the water gladly

me, in a frenzy: into the water? of the suitcase? which was confirmed to be storm water and thus representing chaos as of 2.8 from the flood? oh the unilogs are made out of the golden thread of fate that vertin spins herself, similar to how her mother also spins fate through her own wheel? a similar wheel that vertin also owns? hence why shes able to summon people from different eras regardless of what current time period the main story is in? because its like sending a life line into the chaos of time and space and taking someone out from a specific point in time? forever altering their fate and stealing their time like the unilogs in-game description says? thus explaining a long running headache abt how characters like dikke from the middle ages can exist currently? and these threads could easily be also made from the same water as the storm because clear drops and crystal drops are solidified storm water that didnt make it to the cloud before the storm ended, just at different elevations? and thats why you use clear drops (more valuable, because they were so close to reaching the storm) to buy garments which some represent different times and selves of your friends? and clear drops are then turned into unilogs for the summoning of more mfs?

edit: pls go read the proper analysis post for this in my writing blog let's be unhinged about r99 lore... together!!

[asarigg]

Inside the Character's Mind: Part 6

CHILDHOOD. SLY AND KOUJAKU. THE AVOIDANT BEHAVIOR: part 3

As if all that wasn’t already enough, at the end of the Re:connect, this happens. Aoba thinks to himself that this is not what Koujaku wanted, as much as Sly wants to think that it is, that he’s in the right. As if what he has done has helped the Koujaku inside, the one who’s like him, the true Koujaku, to come out. As if they could be free inside that cell.

Koujaku reacts to Aoba’s thoughts. Sly thinks for a moment that it’s his imagination, but when Aoba repeats his thoughts, Koujaku says his name. Koujaku, who despite not having articulated a single word all this time, weeks, months, says his name as soon as Aoba “speaks”, that’s what I’m talking about when I mention their spiritual connection, that’s how strong it is. It happening after such a different sex scene, where neither of them can say no, nor show any kind of rejection, is just a reminder that they are both locked away, suffering, and that they will stay there watching this happen day after day until the day they die, not being able to see, or touch, or call each other’s names, or say “I love you” or anything they once wanted to say. They can only just watch each other wither away.

These thoughts of “This isn’t what Koujaku wanted” are very interesting because just like Sly thought, Koujaku really wanted Aoba to accept and love him. But the last thing he wants is having Aoba reciprocate him just because that’s what Koujaku wants. He’d rather be rejected, and even die in the extreme case of the situation hurting Aoba, than having him living something he doesn’t really want, that he doesn’t feel in his heart. Giving himself to Koujaku letting him do whatever he wants without thinking twice, without thinking about his own wishes. A life that doesn’t respect Aoba’s wishes is a nightmare for him. Just like he says in the confession scene “All I can remember is that I didn’t want to touch you like that”.

I mentioned that they don’t treat the tattoo as something that changed Koujaku, but as someone else inside his mind. When Sly appears before him, Koujaku immediately knows that he’s not Aoba, but has a hard time believing it, because physically he’s the same but white. He doesn’t know what’s going on, he can’t process it, but he knows. And the thoughts that tell him that the man in front of him is not Aoba are in red, like someone else’s, with some lowercase and some uppercase, growing more intense as the madness and anger of his tattoo reflects through. Doesn’t it remind you of how Sly’s thoughts appeared in the middle of the screen when Aoba was in charge?

Sometimes I wonder what Sly’s real intention was here. In theory he wants to break Koujaku and bring out the beast because that’s the part of Koujaku that he sees himself reflected in, that destructive entity, his darkest, true side, his pure animal instinct. Exactly what Sly is.

But he still tells the sane Koujaku that he loves him and wants to convince him that he’s Aoba. If that had worked then what would he do next? Because he truly believes that’s what he wanted to hear, and when the narration returns to his point of view he tells us that his love for Koujaku is true. Obviously locked in a cell it would be difficult for anyone to believe him, and Sly wouldn’t get him out of there anyway when he wants to keep Koujaku for himself. But then why does he keep trying to convince him, over and over again, even when Koujaku still doesn’t recognize him as Aoba any time he wakes up? Would he have been satisfied with a sane Koujaku, with those restrictions he hates, just because he accepted his words? It’s only when he sees that Koujaku won’t buy it, no matter what he tells him, that he changes his strategy.

And it’s in this scene that we see Koujaku in control for the last time, and again the last thing he says before losing his mind is Aoba’s name. This ending makes us see how Koujaku once again enters a cycle of abuse. He has gone from being his father’s slave, to Ryuuhou’s, and now Sly’s, and he will probably never get out of that cell alive. He no longer has prayer beads protecting him, only chains imprisoning him.

Sly is aware of what he has done, and he believes that since he has destroyed Koujaku’s consciousness/spirit, it’s only fair that he is the one to destroy his body, not only fair but it even seems like an attractive idea, to die at his hands (Sly try not to be Ryuuhou challenge). I really like this dialogue where Sly tells Koujaku that he can tear off his flesh if he wants, on the condition that he stays. Staying with him, a reflection of his desire to feel loved, accepted, after so many years of abandonment. After hearing Koujaku speak back to Aoba, it must feel like a punch to the stomach to think for a moment that he’s wrong with what he’s chosen for the two of them, to think that Koujaku doesn’t really love him.

Having him locked in a cage somehow is perfect to prevent the slightest chance of Koujaku walking away, as well as keeping him in this state, unable to speak, unable to think, unable to reject him. It’s because of these things that I usually think that at least at the beginning the relationship with Koujaku in a good ending would be quite turbulent. He would like to flirt with Koujaku, sure, but when he realizes that he really feels love for him, he feels vulnerable, weak, and needs to protect himself because the people who were supposed to always be with him, guide and protect him, left him. And Koujaku somehow “abandoned” him once too. So before being exposed to that, he would rather push Koujaku away. Regardless, Sly would always come back to him, because as much as he wants to walk away he can’t, he needs Koujaku to stay by his side. It doesn’t matter if it’s love or hate, Sly will take it because it’s intense, real and raw.

Fun fact: Sly and Beast Koujaku both have golden eyes, when they “transform”. Everyone has those three sides of their conscience but Aoba’s just have a distinct personality and identity each, which I think might lead to thinking that beast Koujaku might have a personality of his own. I think he’s somewhere in between, he’s obviously not like them, but he’s definitely his own entity. Like some kind of natural force, like rain, wind, the energy of the cosmos, possessing him, something more abstract than a spirit or god, which we usually see as human or animal-like appearance wise.

The first thing that strikes us when we see Aoba is that his design radically changes. When Sly takes control of his body it’s not like he suffers any physical changes, besides the shine of his eyes, however here he turns completely white. The only time we see something like that happen is when we see the true forms of Sei and Aoba, but those black marks don’t appear. This is what makes me wonder if the white color has something to do with those forms, as if it were some kind of symbolism of Sly “breaking free” and being himself, without restrictions, without Reason, but they don’t add the black marks to not spoil it, or because it looks like shit with the design, or because it simply has nothing to do with that.

The white color is the color of death, mourning, the color with which the deceased are dressed. A sterile color, without impurities, highly related to the spiritual world. Many white flowers are commonly used in funerals, usually Buddhist, such as the white chrysanthemum, used for its meaning of truth and sincerity. Aoba wears a white kimono and also gives one to Koujaku. These traditional elements could be there just to remember Koujaku but nothing in this document could ever be simple of course.

The hair of a dead person is considered to turn white after a certain period of time, meaning that the hair is no longer a source of impurities, it can't be possessed by an evil spirit, and can be transported beyond the border that marks the separation between the sacred realm of the dead and the ordinary world of the living.

His skin, his characteristic blue hair, his eyes and his clothes turn completely white because at this point Aoba is no longer there. Not in a literal sense, of course, but in a figurative sense, Aoba is dead. And this is basically the same thing that happens with Koujaku. They are both reborn, destroyed, spiritually dying so that something else can be created, the ID, the instinct of destruction, the two beasts freed from the bodies that held them prisoners.

His clothes in general resemble those of a Miko, with a more “fantastical” and sexualized appearance. This post talks about it as well. Again it’s a reference to the spiritual realm, their religious side and how Aoba/Sly is an object of devotion, of how Aoba is somewhat a channeler for Koujaku. Just like there are rituals that call the gods to our world, like I’ve said in the section about hair, which serves as a connection with gods, Aoba is the only thing that connects Koujaku with this world, the only reason why he’s still alive.

[acupunkature]

[kanmom51]

JK's documentary dropping today.

And I do find the new poster quite interesting.

When you know you know!

[oya-oya-okay]

Happy AzuRido/RidoAzu day!!!🐙🌹

<< The Red Thread Of Fate❤️ >> AU

First year and first meeting (16 years old):

(since childhood their attitude towards their soulmate has changed a lot)

[szynkaaa]

✦ The Devil ✦

Major Arcana ✦ 00. The Fool ✦ 01. The Magician ✦ 02. The High Priestess ✦ 03. The Empress ✦ 04. The Emperor ✦ 08. Strength ✦ 11. Justice ✦ 12. The Hanged Man ✦ 13. Death ✦ 15. The Devil ✦ 17. The Star ✦ 20. Judgement ✦ 21. The World

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

I could play a symphony

Strumming the thread

That connects our souls

[qo-promise-me]

A beautiful piece of art made by the incredible @ins0mnia-dreams

Along with one of my favorite tropes of all time, the red thread of fate. Because I fully believe that despite their initial hardships their bond grew stronger overtime and their care and love for each other, glows like the light side of Force itself.

Thank you so much!