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bankotsu x kagome gotta be one of the worst choices for IY ships. is there any clearer example of something existing solely in misogynistic fanworks that strip away Kagome’s personality and agency so she can be ~swept off her feet~ by a Big Strong Man

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honestly I understand that a lot of people prefer certain scenes in the manga, and even I prefer (1) whole scene in the manga (although I'm not necessarily upset the anime adapted it differently), but to me the scene I'm the most glad the anime changed is the alarm clock one

so Kagome is clearly amazingly emotionally mature in the manga, and that's great. but I kinda love that she won’t accept that treatment in the anime. but MOSTLY,

I love that MirSan + Shippo tell on Inuyasha for being a simp, and yell “FORGIVE US, INUYASHA” while he chases them around angrily like he's playing tag w/ them

Its just so. Dumb teenagers w/ their friends. How often do they all get to act like dumb teenagers that way?

Inuyasha's not gonna hurt them (except maybe Shippo, but def not Sango he's a feminist) no matter how annoyed he is, but he's chasing them and they’re running and its just— they're kids. they're dumb kids and they get to act like it for once.

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it was nice to finally write about my HC for when Bankotsu realized his feelings. shame there’s really no market for it.

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'cause you're really my dearest friend

(a fanfiction by someone very out of practice.)

Pairing(s): Bankotsu/Jakotsu

Summary:

5 times Bankotsu almost realized his feelings, +1 time he did.

For @inuyashapridemonth, which I did not actually realize was a thing until this month. Oops. Hope it's cool I waited until last second to finish this piece.

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among the IY characters I wish were more shippable in canon is Sango. girl you could have literally ANY man. please pick a different one

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I DESPISE alpha dom Inuyasha in fics, because who tf is that?

But to each their own I guess.

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Bankotsu: What is with you and fire?

Renkotsu: Honestly, it’s just so beautiful while it destroys.

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if sunrise released like, an English version of Abarero!! covered by Jenn Forgie and Matt Hill, nothing could Stop Me

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this means that with Bankotsu (17) and Jakotsu (20), they could either both be done with puberty, just one of them is, or they could both still be in puberty.

imagine 2/3 of the Band of Seven’s highest ranking members are pubertal. That’s actually why they commit so much murder, it’s the hormones

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I don’t want an Inuyasha remake but I DO want them to remake the first 3 movies with the normal art style because what. were they doing there.

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oc/self-shippers always seem to want the hottest most emotionally unavailable man they can find, and I’m always like. girl,,,,, you can’t fix him please don’t make this a pattern that makes unconsciously you seek out shitty men.

(*as having a pattern of being attracted to emotionally constipated fiction can and often does lead to you developing a type and unconsciously seeking it out.)

Anyway, this fandom is full of COWARDS because WHY are you not romancing Jinenji?

Big beautiful kind blue orbs

muscularrrrrr farmer boy

Curly hair

Sensitive

Wants love

Strong, shiny glowy powers

Gentle giant

get yourself a half-horse half-man today

y’know, he’s probably hung like a

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i do joke about being hateful, and I am, but that's just because hate must exist in order for love to. it’s a delicate balance

nobody ever asks about my hateful thoughts 😔

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unrelated to everything, but I’ve recently realized that “ofc” no longer primarily seems to mean “of fucking course”, which is what I always knew it as. anyway, I’ve been reading a lot of things a lot more aggressively than they are,

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does everyone still get those anonymous asks about s*ssrin fans being annoying or do I seem like I care about it a lot more than I do?

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Kagome when she sees any sad and alone person:

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my hateful thoughts… must release them.

okay so basically, I keep seeing Bankotsu x OC and while I don’t like any OC x Canon myself, THAT is the one that personally offends me the most (admittedly, even more than Jakotsu x OC).

I hate when people act like they care about a character and they really only care about if they’re hot or not. Unfortunately I am the kind of autistic that cares about characters being in-character.

There is absolutely no way to do Bankotsu x OC without completely obliterating his character in the process, frankly. I mean, that’s true for most Bankotsu ships, but esp with OCs because Bankotsu,

Is so Incredibly Specific about the company he keeps. Some generic attractive white girl (??? I think i’ve seen like multiple redheads ???) isn’t going to cut it.

(He openly says he wouldn’t be so much as friends with demons, either, so the company he keeps is STRICTLY human.)

He hangs out with a giant man who eats demons, the ugliest man alive who is also IMMUNE TO HIS OWN ADVANCED POISONS, a man with prosthetic limbs and a wide weapons skillset with weapons that weren’t common at the time, an ex-monk who is a “genius” and “devious”, a kind-hearted doctor who was so morally good that killing in self defense broke his brain and gave him DID, specifically a personality that kill’s people—

and Jakotsu, who is openly gay in that era, doesn’t dress like a warrior despite being one (still dresses practically enough tho), has ninja-like skills and AMAZING accuracy with a weapon that IRL would be impossible to use.

The company Bankotsu keeps is the definition of out of the ordinary. Not only are they freaks, but they’re the BEST freaks.

And it works in canon material, but adding an OC who is capable of keeping up with the Bo7– there’s no line between “special enough to join the Bo7 and capture Bankotsu’s attention” and “Mary Sue” here. The OC would have to be able to actively keep up with Bankotsu in strength and personality.

and they always have to tone down the Bankotsu/Jakotsu relationship, anyway, because no matter how you see them— friends or more— Jakotsu is literally cited as “the only person in the whole world [Bankotsu] can trust/rely on, even if [Jakotsu’s] a bit weird”.

like I’m sorry, but Jakotsu is the only one he invites to drink with him, and the one he outright ignores Renkotsu bringing up the Naraku problem so he can ask Jakotsu about it like 15 seconds later and a girl could never change that.

And frankly? I don’t think women operate any space in his mind. He never tries to fight Kagome or Sango. Talks about fighting Kikyou but doesn’t. Mostly complains theres no women around to pour their drinks so he doesn’t have to. (He still pours Jakotsu’s drink, though, instead of making Jakotsu pour his own drink.)

the only two plausible Bankotsu ships within canon are:

Bankotsu/Jakotsu (OTP)

and— this is me being completely unbiased, as I don’t ship this even remotely— Bankotsu/InuYasha (and I don’t think this would be requited on Inuyasha’s half, as he’s pretty Kagome-obsessed.)

That’s it. Those are the only in-character ships for him.

Anyway, this reminds me of an old abandoned fic I read called Catching Broken Glass, which is a crack fic about the absurdity of Bankotsu accepting a random girl into the Bo7 and everybody being chill with it.

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in the anime, Ayame gets offended that Kagome’s name ends in the same syllable as hers, because it’s too similar— but Yashahime can just go out and make “Jakotsumaru” and we’re not supposed to bat an eye