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bow tie

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FLAME BONE

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shall we dance?

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is it too early to start dreaming about her being a part of their lil group….

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💋🐟💖

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This time I’ll be the one protecting you!!!!!

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quick 2 hours hiruhiko

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yura drives a kei van with a stick figure family decal of the hishaku on the rear windshield (treeshaku being the mother) and a bumper sticker that says “I LOVE MY GAY SON” with hiruhiko’s face on it

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Yura's words here have definitely helped define the fandom perception of Hiruhiko. He uses very blunt language, it serves a narrative purpose of solidifying the impression we were able to intuit from Hiruhiko himself (his impatience in regards to the preparations the Hishaku were taking, him referring to his fight with Chihiro as "playing", his inconsiderate attitude toward the Hishaku's mission), and becomes the context through which we interpret everything else he does (not being able to "get" Chihiro's perspective on killing, calling his preparation for a rematch without both arms the moment where his fight with Chihiro was "getting good", rejecting Kuguri's teachings on how to use a sword properly in favor of feelscrafting, etc.)

From the perspective of every Hishaku member we've seen of him, even the ones who hold no animosity towards him, Hiruhiko is foolish, lazy and spoiled, and simple-minded. He's childish. And of course, the audience will have been primed to believe this about him. Kagurabachi defines its characters through the perceptions other people have of them. Despite considering himself a monster, Chihiro is surrounded by people who were directly affected by his kindness. Despite believing that her existence causes others to suffer, Iori's universal consideration of others saved Ikura, and gave him the determination to save her. But Hiruhiko's situation subverts this. The Hishaku don't see Hiruhiko as a person, he was always meant to act as a tool for them, so Hiruhiko having his own desires gets in the way of their expectations for him.

So this... discharacterization of Hiruhiko by the Hishaku persists through Yura, in a very sneaky way. Because indeed, not having very much exposure to the world makes you immature. That lack of experience doesn't allow one to create and refine their own perspectives to view it with. Hiruhiko is indeed immature in that way. But it's important to consider how Yura assesses things; He calls Chihiro "too green to harvest", his growth is the result of those "seeds of hatred (sown) all those years ago". There's an acknowledgement of Chihiro's potential, that in some way he will provide "nourishment" to the Hishaku, though it's unachievable now due to Chihiro's ignorance of the situation. Yura describes Hiruhiko as immature in the same way he describes Chihiro as green, he certainly didn't spend a decade raising Hiruhiko as a member of the Hishaku just to have him wield two enchanted blades.

Hiruhiko has potential that's waiting to be realized, and to that end Yura seeks to completely remove the notion that Hiruhiko could be connected with anybody. Yura, who can read Seiichi Samura like a book, doesn't do anything to alleviate Hiruhiko's suicidal ideation, despite knowing him for far longer and having the power to offer him the proper resources. Yura continuously reinforces Hiruhiko's nihilism- his contempt for everyone and everything in the world- teaching him to treat people as objects, giving him the words to further separate himself from humanity, not letting him experience the world on his own, only letting him navigate a relationship where he and the other were already set up to not be able to understand each other.

In the way that a child's social value being measured through their obedience (masked as maturity) makes any defiance from those expectations result in them being considered as less worthy of respect, Hiruhiko's want for autonomy and connection- things that would make him less of a tool and more of a person- makes him immature.

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Oh. My god no wonder Hiruhiko gets extra special attention from the narrator to explain to us why he's like that. Even Soya had Hakuri- who consistently maintained the idea that Soya beating him up was simply the shape his brother's love took, even if he couldn't accept it- to help characterize him as a person in the all-oppressing environment of the Sazanami clan. But Hiruhiko is surrounded by people who consistently deny him his personhood, to the point that he truly believes it of himself. There's no character we can trust to truly understand Hiruhiko and so that burden is placed on an unbiased omniscient entity.

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THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS

Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.

This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.

THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.

If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.

CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.

Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.

I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.

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‘sorry it took me so long…’

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More Prince Hakuri x Rogue warrior Chihiro

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immediately saw them

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Azami's slap of sheer power.