#iam's rambling

[iam-57311]

no because baronjitsu is so versatile as a ship like. they hate each other. they love each other. they would sooner throw each other into oncoming traffic than admit their feelings. they call each other tolerable at best but no one understands them like they do. they argue day and night like it's nobody's business. they don't register 'love' as what they feel but something like that is there. they're never overly romantic but find subtle ways to show they care at least. they can be married, divorced, a back and forth between the two, queerplatonic, "it's complicated", co-parents through and through. they tolerate each other for their slowly growing family but just as much begin to invite the other into their own lives. they have the same amount of tension 20 years down the line as they do on day 1. they were both kind of shitty parental figures who are working to improve. they share a chair, they share a bed, and they don't have to call 'no homo' because they just. exist. their lives are as complicated with each other in them as it is without. they are both the biological fathers of the turtles and the dads who eventually stepped up. they're both emotionally constipated and queer coded old men who have an influx of their own issues. have I mentioned the obvious sexual tension. everyone notices this years before they do. DO YOU SEE MY VISION-

[the-other-soup]

it be thundering and im curled up on the couch in blankets and plushies and watching cartoons while drawing with a tea. this is the life.

[proship-confessional]

Proshitter? hell yeah I am I have chronic IBS anyway one of the docs on my care team has a BillDip tattoo and is a popular fic writer apparently ???

ask what focs thwyve writtwn and . why the fuck am i in uwu language sorry. i wanna know if ive read their shit and if i have i will draw something that ud better give to her. also let me see the tattoo. for anyone worried that i am demanding this of a random person this is my boyfriens. now do as as i ask.

[bibibbon]

Sukuna is a good villain analysis

Coming from someone who hates villains that are evil because they were born that way and with no other explanation. To be honest, out of all the villains in jjk I always found sukuna to be somewhat boring , he is well written but I just couldn't really see what people saw in him. I still think that kenjaku is way more interesting than him but I will say that due to the recent arc and chapters that my opinion of sukuna has significantly changed.

Sukuna is the abstract embodiment of nihilism (in a way). His character for the longest time has always been about destruction and chaos. Sukuna's first introduction consists of him saying that he is going to destroy absolutely everything and there is a heavy focus on him destroying the woman and children. He simply views then as little maggots that he can easily destroy with ease. We later learn the connection (I guess) he has to his mother which he doesn't regard her disrespectfully and his devoured twin whom he is shown to remember the presence of. Every time we meet him before shibuya his power is further emphasised and he is further demonised and built to be the big bad.

It is later in shibuya, during his fight with jogo that we get more to sukuna. In this fight sukuna brings out his CT of flames and jogo is surprised however, before sukuna kills jogo they share an interesting conversation. Sukuna recognises jogo's ideology and desires to be human and sukuna relates to it. He understands jogo's desires of taking humans place and ruling the world yet he views that view as foolish. This is where we learn that sukuna believes that being alone and having the power to destroy everything you care about is what makes one powerful. This can explain sukunas love for destruction and simple chaos. However, sukuna is incapable of understanding why he is talking to jogo, why does he even care for him in a way and instead of trying to understand he does exactly what he said to jogo that he should do and destroys/ fully burns jogo after calling him "strong". At this point both of these curses have experienced what it's like to be 'human' with emotions flowing through them that aren't negative but while one (jogo) questions it and tires to explore it the other (sukuna) rejects it and burns it all away.

There's also sukuna's relationship with his relatives especially itadori his nephew. Sukuna and itadori share completely different ideologies while sukuna believes in him being the strongest and destroying everything he cares for to stay that way yuji will believes that he is a simple cog in a system and tries to do everything to fulfill his role and protect others. Both are strong characters yet it is yujis drive and strong resolve that makes him so much more mentally stronger than sukuna and what irritates sukuna as yuji is claimed to be unbreakable in his views and passion. Yuji also makes sukuna question his own purpose and what he is here to achieve. Even though the two are strangely similar in many ways considering that yuji is a part of sukuna they're vastly different especially with their ideologies.

There's also the huge contrast between sukuna and his twin Jin itadori. Sukuna is strong, cold hearted and would put himself before anyone. Sukuna doesn't care for others and his existence is mainly him trying to satisfy himself and his needs while flaunting the immense power he carries. Yet from the little we have seen from Jin itadori he is is the polar opposite of sukuna. Jin itadori died for love, he was so blinded by grief that when kaori came back even though it was kenjaku he still loved her the same and he loved itadori more. It was stated that Jin really wanted to have a child and truly cared for itadori to the point he and itadoris grandpa got into fights about it. Jin from the moment we see him seems like a really nice and somewhat nerdy guy the complete opposite to his twin sukuna heck even their character designs are completely different with them only having the same colour hair and eyes (I think).

These twins are also juxtaposed to the zenin twins. Its stated that sukuna had to eat his twin to survive in the womb due to how poor their mother was. However, the only thing that sukuna got out of his twin was the physical characteristic and his CT while Jin's soul went through cycles before coming into he human realm again. This contrasts with eh zenin twins whom voluntary chose to join together and when she died Mai chose to take all the CE they both had while dying physically she joined her sister spiritually by becoming a sword. Maki and Mai will always be together and entwined by their souls. The sukuna and jin twins are only connected physically which could be why sukuna has 4 eyes and 4arms.

Sukunas own character design just shows that he is the embodiment of destruction and how he simply devours everything around him. When asked if sukuna ever feels lonely he literally says that he lives however he wants and that he can eat as much human flesh with all of them tasting different and filling him with different emotions. The closest thing that sukuna has to a friend is his loyal servant urauame and they only obey his orders while entertaining him. It's stated that the only reason sukuna keeps urauame around is due to their talent in cooking human meat, the same thing that gives him joy aka any real emotion.

There are then his other fights that focus on sukuna and his views on love and power. Yorozu's fight is an interesting one where we get more on sukunas cannibalism and how both of those characters view love as a means of destruction and death. Yorozu is happy that sukuna killed her and got to know more about her through that while sukuna is questioned on stuff that he views as pointless and meaningless like marriage. Yorozu sees the solitude that sukuna is surrounded by and think that he can understand her since she has faced similar yet they heavily clash with sukuna believing that to have power one must face the burden of solitude. In the end yorozu, does give sukuna a gift crafted by her which he actually takes and uses during the current battle. Yorozu's attempts to get to sukuna and to make him reciprocate his love all fail even when she makes a TRUE SPHERE. Something that has the largest surface area and can contaminate and touch everything yet sukuna leaves untouched by yorozu at all. I think it's interesting that yorozu's heart took a shape of a true sphere just to show how obsessed she is with sukuna and her desire to be with him.

Sukuna then fights with kashimo. Kashimo somewhat like jogo has an understanding of what it's like to be strong yet kashimo is sick of superficial interactions that the strong have to have with people that are inferior to them or want to challenge them. Kashimo asks sukuna if there is a way where he can be strong and surround himself with love sukuna says that this is selfish thinking considering his view that everything he cares for must be burnt for him to be strong. Kashimo isn't satisfied by only having strength but he also wants to experience simple things such as love, sukuna could of been similar to that long ago yet he gave up and has resorted to taking in all the destruction and enjoying himself from it. Kashimos fight with sukuna was more of a self discovery journey for the both of them and at the end they both come out on different sides.

After higumara's death there is a whole chapter about sukuna and he starts questioning his own life view. What has he been doing? Is it worth it? Where is the joy in what he used to do? And he is again faced with his complete opposite yuji. He is deep in thought and he feels empty, confused even he can't seem to understand why everyone is dedicating themselves to this belief, they're all united and strong yet he is alone and bored. Sukuna has done everything he has fought and killed but like kashimo said that caught up to him and now he is tired of it he wishes to experience the unity and stuff that the others fighting him are experiencing. Sukuna has no purpose but to destroy at this point but he has caused so much that him destroying over and over again has just been a mundane cycle.

Yet things start to change as the tides are against him and he may taste losing for the first time.

In conclusion, sukuna is an abstract and literal ideology of nihilism to a cerian extent and conveys the big bad villain trope in a fantastic way. I find him way more well written than AFO and muzan.

[creati-bunny]

bisexual

[bramblepaws]

it was weirdly pleasing to me that Mike's closet is full of multi-colored clothing even though we only see him wearing 2 different outfits in the comic. makes me think he has a special sweater for family dinners out on the town, something to wear to church on sundays, etc. a life outside of the comic....

[zerguette]

Friendship hc for the angels of the last vestige >_<

Verathiel, Mikayel and Andalon were kind of besties for me. Like, not entirely besties but probably they knew each other kinda very well (not romantically). I believe Andalon was the brute force, Mikayel was the brain and Verathiel was like the dps.

About all the angels, Turush and Ihadir are besties for me, Padius is probably being held down by Zepydra and being talked and calmed down about the loss of Muqiel. There is anonther angel who asks you help because hes grown fearful of the realm and you watch him getting converted int oa demon, i believe he met Padius and had kind of a friendship (like, default warrior angels of course know each other).

Shaddox was the most loyal to Verathiel and maybe he truly appreciated her, for bringing hope to the entire group of angels, knowing that heavens have basically cut ties with them. He also probably talked a lot with her, i believe he was from the house of Wisdom, but more than that, maybe his death truly affected Verathiel, and maybe Shaddox just fought all he can lmao, i also beleive he knows Andalon and Mikayel, they were just, the group of besties (Wisdom, Fate, Valor, Hope and Justice(Zepydra)).

Yoventh and Tormaros do know each other specifically for being angels who go after the same thing (Yoventh being a jeweler and Tormaros an identifier lmao and then you have Ihadir the blacksmith and Turush the transfer essence guy). THEY ARE GOSSIPPERS I KNOWWWW, let these women gossip abt their daily lifes pleasseee.

So i think they arent exactly friends, they are more like, they need each otehr to survive more than anything. Mikayel and Andalon would grow to understand each other better as same as Andalon learning to understand anyone bc he screams Imperius propaganda from his place to ten thousand miles away. Mikayel is probably under the wings of Itherael and he just tries soothing the waters, trying to read what last he has in order to calm the angels. Like, they aren't friends, they are family, they need each other.

Also Andalon and Ihadir would be like Tyrael and Imperius for some reason, weird friendship there, but they just gotta deal with it. Zepydra and Mikayel scream to me of being friends and just talking about scrolls. Tormaros would also speak with Zepydra, girls gossiping lmao. I beleive Yoventh is just a crazy bastard and sometimes bothers Ihadir with her jewelry questions like

Ihadir: Hmp? Yoventh: And, what if you add some little more shi- Ihadir: we are running out of supplies, Yoventh, don't be foolish. Yoventh: :[

Still dying on my hill that Andalon never acepts Verathiel's death because he believes it was his damn job to have died instead of her, and like for me, angel's friendship/affection/relationships are based on how much they respected and adored otehr angels and how much their resonance was in match with theirs. So like, yeah, the last vestige would be like a lost family, lost group of friends but they still feed each other Hope a lot, (because Hope(and Wisdom) is the thing they have lost).

what else.... If angels had birthdays, they all throw beaming light to Andalon when he wakes up on his birthday and they all are scolded by him (but he trully appreciates this).

uhhh Mikayel is the straight friend of the group but also the aroace guy so everyone is like ''lmao you're saved'' ''wdym'' ''You will die single'' and Mikayel leaves the chat DJKLWAJDAW.

Ihadir and Turush adore each other, they hug each other a lot but they are truly best friends, nothing more, Ihadir shows Turush what he's building, how to upgrade that and that, while Turush listens carefully and then also talks about his things, like these two chat all day, if they had playstations they would game togueter. Ihadir gets along with everyone tbh.

hmmm Padius when he's not being watched by Zepydra, just goes with either Tormaros or Turush, just having his head low and like everyone can hear he's very depressed because he still can't find Muqiel (and he still can't acept Muqiel is dead)

I dont have more funny scenes of them inside my head, i beleive the angel who guards the entrance is just the normal guy TM but he always tells Andalon to take care and not kill himself lmao, they all are a family, they have to understand each other, if they dont, they will die

edit : I forgot abt fucking Kyriel, he appears a lot but as he's also in a quest where Zepydra appears then he would also help Padius overcome his loss.

There is also Yolstus and he is a brother of Kyriel, but dont quote on me if he's still alive or not (let me believe so i cant remember). Yolstus of course is very close to Kyriel if hes alive, he probably has a friendship with Padius (default angel warriors united!)

I FOUND THE ANGEL I WAS MISSING, Netzrae, he was friends with guardian of the last vestige the one of the entrace :](because he is now dead, he got corrupted ugh....but i believe he truly defended his place he just got angry at the demons and then got fearful and then you find him and he asks you help and then you watch as he slowly succumbs to the demonic forces), that that, yipee. I hope i havent forgotten anyone, i tried to find them all, they are very important for me and i need them a lot -slowly curls up-

(Thanks for the ask!!!!!

[iam-57311]

this Splinter screen shot is sending me how do I always draw him with the silliest expressions

I can't show the full version for Obvious Reasons but look at this freaking guy. silly little rat man. absolute disaster we love.

[technikki]

need to draw team idle one hundred thousand billion times. or i will Die

[naenaex0xx]

ITS 12AM HOW DID THIS HAPPEN ?!??!?!!??!?!??!

[bizlybebo]

JRWI CHARACTERS REACTING TO YOU GETTING A TAPEWORM

goobleck: is the tapeworm

[margo-mania]

Sorry for being kinda fucked uo I entered another art coma and my friends have banned me from drawing for 24 hours lol

[shit-ultrakill-imagines]

fuckkkk ummm skibidi toulet filth?

[bibibbon]

Worse, is that this general is the one who cannonically suffers from abuse and being treated like a monster for his magic ability to raise the dead by his mother and folks in his hometown. AND HE'S THE KINDER ONE OF THE GENERALS WHO STILL CARE FOR HUMANITY DESPITE BEING ON DRACULA'S SIDE! Oh, and he ended up leaving Dracula and fought against him and his former general friend in the games! Yet, the show treats him so cruelly (mainly because the screenwriter was getting back at his coworker who was telling him he should stop disrespecting the franchise their doing the show on(that screenwriter was fired for allegations but the crew still used his scripts regardless). And that's just an icing on the cake with Netflix Castlevania. 4/5

Part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4

Hector is probably my favourite castlevania character in the series just because I find his character arc so intriguing. However, I was quite disappointed by how his character arc in season 4 was handled and how they tried to paint it so that hector x Lenore was somehow a healthy ship when it never was.

Iam guessing that you're comparing netflix hector to the OG hector which to be fair netflix castlevania has very much done a complete spin on many of the OG characters hector included (if I read the OG spoilers right hector ends up fighting Issac and being much more active in the plot to the point I have seen people describe him as alucard 2.0)

Hector's character starts with him being a general for dracula and working for him. The depicts Hector and Isaac to be on equal footing during season 1 especially during their shared scenes either them together or with dracula. Heck even their own individual scenes interacting with other characters like camilla or godbrand held weight and showed the importance and power they held.

During season 2 we see the differences between Hector and Isaacs ideologies and we see the different paths that the characters are narrativey built up to take with Hector getting manipulated by camilla and betraying dracula which is contrasted to Isaac who chose to stay by dracula's side and had to be manually teleported away by dracula to escape safely.

We learn that Hector's ideology and belief when making the truce with dracula is that the human population will live like livestock and be controlled as such. Hector wanted humanity to be controlled in a "merciful" way pigs raised to slaughter in a way where they can be used tools to feed the vampires and for them to be raised in a way where they cannot harm and kill other humans.

What's interesting is that Hector clearly states that he doesn't love the rest of humanity but still views their existence as valuable and and important to the world. Ideally, with this ideology Hector shouldn't mind if dracula did change his plan and resorted to killing all of the humans that plauge the earth but in as we see from his conversations with camilla he very much does mind that. The whole reason that Hector was able to be manipulated to betray dracula is because of that change within his character. What's even more interesting is that Hector was able to tell that dracula was grieving and a "a shell of his former self". Hector could tell that over the past year that the death of lissa truly took a toll on dracula and this could be linked to the reason as to why Hector is considered somewhat empathetic especially when it comes to his night creatires whom he treats like proper beings.

Hector believes that by forging night creatures they become their own beings that need a merciful master and he believes that the act of brining night creatures to life is an act of mercy. He believes that he "brings life from death", giving a new purpose or meaning to a soul and saving them from hell.

Hector holds the belief that humans should be controlled like livestock to limit them from their evil actions and an interesting thing that both dracula and isaac bring up is that Hector only knows how to treat others like livestock and he only knows how to also be treated as such. All of Hector's past relationships, whether that be with random individuals or his parents, have all been negative. They have all been so bad that Hector decided that the perfect way to live his life was to be completely isolated away from civilisation. This twisted view that he has ends up ending into quite the tragic irony later on.

From birth Hector was unwanted by his mother and his father used him as a tool to get money and power from him because Hector could do alchemy. So yes from the beginning of Hector's life he was abused by both his parents (it got so bad that he literally burnt them alive in his old house to get away from them) so that's a major reason as to why he doesn't understand how a normal healthy relationship works because sadly he never had one. The only joy Hector could receive was his friendship with his night creatures and ultimately this led him to develop a dangerous belief that things should be controlled by a "merciful" ruler ultimately the term merciful is incredibly vague and may not even be what the standard belief of the word is as he fully described that having humans be pigs raised to slaughter as somehow merciful?!?!

We then move onto season 3 where we ultimately should see Hector at his worst state and we see the complete dehumanisation and manipulation that Hector goes through. In the beginning of season 3 Hector arrives chained up like a dog and walking barefoot. He is literally being treated like an animal, like livestock which is ironic considering his previous beliefs.

After he arrives he is physically stripped off any clothes and gets cold water poured all over him as a way to clean him and gets a mouldy piece of bread as food. Yep castlevania goes out of its way to show just how badly Hector is being treated and the utter dehumanisation of his character. This can also be interpreted as a form of karma for betraying dracula and showing him that his previous ideologies by having humans be controlled like livestock is a bad idea (he literally suffers the consequences of his ideology).

This dehumanisation isn't only done by camilla but also by lenore who in their first scene together literally compares Hector to a dog and treats him as such (actually you can argue that she treats him worse than a dog). We see lenore actively manipulating and stripping Hector of his own autonomy and agency as a being keeping him trapped and only allowing him for a walk if he had a collar on?!?! (Handcuffs exisit but i think the collar thing was intentional by her) and she goes further to basically ignore his experiences with vampires and say that "they aren't monsters" like she and camilla aren't committing vile acts towards Hector (this is just another way of lenore's manipulation on screen)

Hector and lenore's first meeting is clearly staged in a way where we can see that ultimately lenore has more power whether that be from the proxmeics where we see that lenore is clearly above Hector and she has to sit down to reach his level. Heck even when she is sitting down she is still above him (literally and metaphorically) she is also clothed elegantly and has a veil on her that she removes to make herself seem more friendly and make herself seem like she is getting down to Hector's level all while Hector is naked and barely has anything to cover himself. The two are separated by a jail cell quite literally showing us that they have two different lives and showing us just how separated the two are with lenore still leaving a huge gap between them (enough to show that she still cares but also enough to command respect and show authority)

Ultimately Hector is at his worst and lenore is at her best. Hector is practically bribed into making a pact or a deal with the devil. A deal where he is exploited day and night for simple human rights (the right to decent food, clothing, some autonomy etc etc). This from the very beginning is an unequal deal one that lenore cleverly frames as a business deal where Hector is somehow on equal footing when he is literally their prisoner and foremaster.

(Am I ignoring some aspects of season 4 when ir comes to lenore's characterisation? Yes! Yes iam because I liked her so much more as a character who manipulates, who wants to be seen as important and is kind for image purposes. I liked her evil more than her being whiny in season 4)

Throughout season 3 and 4 we see lenore get closer to Hector and ultimately do more manipulating. She uses sex as a means to overpower him and show him whose in contorl. She traps him both mentally and physically with the ring on his finger and she tries to depict herself and her sisters as the good guys. Her phrasing going around the whole "yes camilla is angry and has an attitude but she would never kill you" (because you're valuable and needed to be a forgemaster although she doesn't say it). Heck even in the very last episode she still clings to that belief that after everything vampires (specifically her and her sisters gave done) that they aren't monsters and that in a way her actions are justified.

Like I said I hated season 4's characterisation of Hector, lenore, the sisters and Isaac's (not so much isaac though)

It made sense for isaac to spare Hector and heck I think it may of been a bit foreshadowed if we take the conversation isaac had with the pirate into consideration.

Hector should (but never got to) of stood up and betrayed the sister's. He should of learnt that his ideology of having humans being controlled like livestock is wrong because it will never be and can never be done under "merciful" conditions since good must always exsit with evil and the other way is also true. Hector learning such a thing would also have his character betray lenore and go back to his previous beliefs that she was indeed exploiting him.

The sisters should of ended things together. Season 3 established the undying loyalty and trust that they had for each other and in my opinion it would of been imapctful to stay that way even if camilla's ambition was the thing to cause their downfall.

Lenore should of lived and died, lived and been taken down by Hector ultimately escaping and landing om top pr she should of died with the sisters. She had potential to be a cunning villain who in her words shouldn't be looked down upon or underestimated for wanting peace or little amounts of violence as possible.

In the end I agree. Hector was treated horribly by the narrative specifically when it comes to terms of abuse and how the narrative treats the topic or theme.

However, I am not fully aware of the controversy surrounding the nextflix castelvanina especially the things to do in the writing room but I have started to look into it and yikes it's not good (and that comment is an understatement)

[peachphernalia]

psssst just so you know. there is a known thing where you can simultaneously deeply desire relationships and connections AND be scared of it/avoid it. they call it disorganized attachment. relatedly i am putting your whole interp under a microscope in hopes that staring at him real hard will make him known to me as he keeps asking if he can leave yet BUT ANYWAYS....

ouwww upon some research that Does sound quite like him …..

i do think it makes sense also because it’s not only representative of his relationship with soul it is also pretty congruent to how i think he interacts with the love interest there areeee . parallels there . his relationship to the two of them is definitely very different he’s odd about them in very different ways but similarity absolutely lies in the simultaneous [oh i want this Bad] & [oh i am Scared] he gets with both of them . to me to me !!! so that is two supporting data points .

hes like a small critter or perhaps a bug of some kind he should really go back to his natural habitat . i trust him in the hands of the People just please treat him nicely maybe give him a treat to make up for the microscope light shining in his eyes ..,<3

[ack1234567]

I FINALLY BOUGHT NIGHT IN THE WOODS