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god damn it mai 💔💔💔 way to destroy me mentally again

just grabbed these from the wiki and i should have more examples but. i am permanently fucking insane about how in so many of the panels jin is featured in we see him from a low angle shot. particularly the ones where he's featured in opposition to someone else (tohma, t*iga) who is viewed from an elevated perspective. it's so fucking good i'm obsessed with it

the way this contributes to his role in the story aside there's also an implicit divide that comes with this kind of framing. the technique works not only to emphasise his strength and authority but also to create distance between us and him

and it's so good because once you look past all the in-universe fanfare and controversy surrounding him we see that he really is just. lonely. so much of his story deals with isolation and what it means to be destroyed by the things you were born and bred for (yes he was meant to take the throne but what of how it hurts him. yes this is his destiny but hell if it isn't painful) and we see him slip further and further away due to it each time

what i'm getting at here is that he really is the storytellers' favourite princess. obsessed with him forever and ever

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coming back from the dead just to say i’m about to bake a cake for jin’s birthday

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WHERE ARE THE YURIJIN FANS??

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My dumbass got so confused 😭😭😭 I fr thought it was a new card.

I stared at this shit for a solid minute and was like "Is Jin's hair naturally black??"

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guys be honest am i doomed forever

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gotta hand it to Leo, he gave my girl a will to live so I'll give him that

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discussing kaito's stigma following revelations in the newest episode

spoilers through ep 20

STIGMA REVEAL AAAAAAAAA

First of all. I would like to say. It is sooooo funny that his trigger word is basically "oopsie"

anyways!!

opsi is an anagram of ipos!

so as we kind of learned when alan's backstory was revealed, the demons have more to do with why they were summoned than a direct correlation to their abilities (but it does still vaguely tie in). alan wanted to know why his father was killed, he got a demon of murder and got crazy strength.

kaito, in his backstory, wished he could make his gram forget the shameful things he'd done so he could go visit. the demon is listed above as having the ability to make men "witty and valiant," and in a way, made kaito appear valiant by erasing his gram's memories of him

super fucking sad right

but at the same time we've seen kaito make some major steps forward into overcoming that fear and doing things despite being super scared. he fired his bow at the mirror in ep 14 (13? whatever, the masquerade) and then was able to locate the core for us in this episode. in a way, he is becoming more valiant by doing things despite being afraid

anyways i'll go update my big post now but this was super cool

love you kaito

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God, I love his teeth.

Those razor-sharp things that glint even in the lowest light—moonlight, hallway fluorescents, the sunset glow from the window when he's broken my lamp again. Always there. Always gleaming. Always threatening in the most intoxicating way.

I love his unhinged grins. The way his mouth hangs open when he's bored, like he's waiting for the universe to offer up something to devour. I love the flash of fang when he laughs too hard. The snap of his jaw when someone pisses him off.

And his tongue is—Surprisingly dexterous.

Oh shut up. Everyone's is, with enough work. He works around bone and sinew every time he eats something whole, alright? That's what I mean. That's all I mean.

Not about the way flesh gives beneath the apex of each tooth. Not about the way his bite is unmistakable—sharp, possessive, designed to bruise. Not about the times I've let it go unheeded, just to see if it would scar. Just to see if it would last.

It doesn't. Damned ghoul physiology. Always healing too fast. Always smoothing over things that were meant to stay.

Sometimes it feels like there's no reminder that could ever be permanent. No proof. No souvenir. No lasting damage. Nothing that could etch me inside him like he's already etched in me.

And god, that's the problem, isn't it? I want to leave a mark for once. A real one. One he doesn't laugh off or bite away or sweat out on some rooftop at 3am.

I want to be carved into him. Beneath the surface. Between the bones. I want permanence. Which is idiotic. Laughable. Desperate. But it doesn't stop me from wanting it.

How do you make yourself permanent to someone who refuses to be still?

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What would mc do if she was told she could only work with one house from now on, and the ghouls had to come to a unanimous decision on it. I feel like Jin would immediately claim her for frostheim and not accept any argument about it. But I feel like Ritsu would have something to say cause she's his business partner, but also she's Yuri's assistant, and she helps Sho with his food truck, but Haru needs help around jabberwock, and Rui could use the help around the bar. Idk I'm just yapping what do you think, would anyone argue with Jin

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THEY LOCATED KYLOS‼️‼️‼️

My girl better be cured or ima crash out

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The fact that Taiga remembered MC right away at the end of episode 20🥺🥺🥺

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I feel like Haku was in that episode more than Jin was. Which as a Haku fan I'm definitely not mad about, but I do feel a bit bad for Jin fans.

Like, instead of telling us all the things Jin did throughout the episode, they should have been showing us what he was doing. Even small glimpses where he is actually on screen would have been better then what they did.

On another note, I'm so pumped for the next episode. We get Rui and Haku as a main feature how exciting.

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rui cosplaying as his bf is taking me out LMAO

EPISODE 21 "WHO KILLED ROBIN (PART I)" PREVIEW HAS GOT ME HYPE

Also remember: spoilers and leaks should not be posted/reposted untagged or without a cut! Please be considerate to other members of the fandom!

THAT IS TAIGA IN A MUZZLE, HAKU AS FUCKIN THAT ONE DUDE FROM TWISTED WONDERLAND MALLEUS IR WHATEVER, HARU AS A JIANG SHI MAYBE???? AND I THINK VAMPIRE RUI????????? HELLO??????????

Please tell me Taiga's card and sprite will have the muzzle please tell me that's not just one scene. . .i need muzzled taiga. . . . . .please. . . . . . .

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Kind of continuation of this post

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His suspenders are hanging in my bathroom.

Just—there. Dangling off the corner of the towel rack like they belong there. Like they pay rent. Like this is normal. Like I'm supposed to walk in, brush my teeth, and ignore the fact that Taiga Fucking Hoshibami has left part of his outfit in my personal, private bathroom.

No other clothing, by the way. Just the suspenders.

No shirt. No jacket. No pants in a heap by the door. Just those suspenders, hung neatly—deliberately—like a goddamn calling card.

What the fuck.

This isn't even the first time he's pulled something like this. A shoe in my closet. One of his earrings on my bookshelf. A bloodstained poker chip under my pillow like some cursed tooth fairy.

But this feels worse. More intimate. More... domestic?

They're dry, too. He must've gone out of his way not to get them wet. Which means it wasn't careless. It was intentional. He thought about leaving them there.

I don't know what the message is. I don't know if it is a message. Maybe it's just him being feral again. Or maybe it's something more—some twisted little ritual he's decided we have now.

I should throw them out. Burn them. Send them via courier cat to Mortkranken with a formal request for psychological evaluation.

Instead, I walked back into the bathroom three separate times today. Just to check if they were still there.

They are. God help me, I haven't moved them.

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Say sike rn,,,

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I'm back people!