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sometimes you just need to paint an eye

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Granny cat made him sign contracts with all the clan strays (it was the least he could do)

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I feel like it's been a while since we've talked teeth and since I had war flashbacks to when I got my wisdom teeth yanked (all those years ago) I am now thinking abt Kakashi with teeth and fangs "too big for his head" to quote my dentist. Real "your front teeth are pushing your back teeth down your throat" pearly whites. Like maybe the reason he likes simple, soft food is because he just can't open his jaw quite wide enough to get anything interesting down. He wears a mask because they're conversation starters but also useless because he can't get his jaw around anything for it to be a serious threat. Just baby boy big chompers hours.

My condolences and congratulations on having your wisdom teeth yanked! I got one pulled recently and it was scary but my dentist always pets my hair and coos at me that I'm being good so good and that she's so proud of me and I get so distracted by being blatantly treated like a little anxious dog that I barely notice what she's doing in my mouth. It's... an experience.

Anyway!

Kakashi's big chompers

Definitely a good reason to wear a mask, if he's got fang tips poking out or if he frightens children as soon as he starts talking. Doesn't it feel like a waste of a good set of huge dog teeth on a ninja if he can't even chew his own food though? I'm thinking that if he was born with the trait of growing huge sharp teeth then his body should be adapted to house them. I've read a few (at least three?) different fics where Kakashi is put through experiments that force his teeth to grow and in that case it's understandable that he'd have all sorts of trouble eating or even talking properly. If he got them naturally while growing up though I think he'd love chewy foods and just any foods at all really, if it's a dog trait. Another important question is if he'd get a dog tongue to go along with that dental setup. I don't think I've seen that one addressed in any of the forced dogification fics.

In any case, I love the idea of Kakashi with canine traits. The teeth are very cute when he's little and as a grownup they can be made to be both terrifying and sexy natural weapons. The idea of Kakashi just going feral and tearing someone's throat out is really interesting since his personality is almost the opposite of feral. He's so much about self control and calmly analyzing situations before engaging and he almost never loses his temper. Even when he does he fights in a way that's clean and systematic.

What would it take for him to pull his mask down and just chew a guy to death?

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found you!

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

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Previously, I talked about Shang Chao’s and Xia Qing’s contrasting ideologies on what kind of hero Yang Cheng should be. Gist of that post is that to Xia Qing, Yang Cheng and E-Soul are different people. But to Shang Chao, there is no difference between them; Yang Cheng is E-Soul and vice versa.

So isn’t it just interesting that on the night Yang Cheng became a hero, Xia Qing—despite actually already knowing that it was Yang Cheng under the mask, as revealed in Episode 6—she called out the name E-Soul instead. Meanwhile, Shang Chao, who has only just learned the truth, called Yang Cheng by his real name with no hesitation.

It’s small moments like these that really convince me that Shang Chao is the right person for Yang Cheng. He’s just so naturally in sync with what Yang Cheng needs, and at that moment, Yang Cheng needed acknowledgement of himself as a person. Sure, he just did some superhero stuff, but the name Xiao Youzi called out back then was still E-Soul. That Trust point may have given him the boost to defeat his enemies, but it didn’t really do much to raise his self-esteem.

It’s just like that time he got asked out by Xia Qing while in his E-Soul costume. He also didn’t feel good about that:

So Shang Chao’s presence at the end of Episode 6 was very timely.

On the night Yang Cheng became a hero, the first person to call him by his real name and acknowledge that it was him, Yang Cheng the person, who did all those stuff, was Shang Chao.

Not the kid he saved. Not the girl he’s always had a crush on. But Shang Chao.

And what’s more affirming than being personally acknowledged by someone whom you think is superior than you in every way?

Xia Qing is nice, but she pays too much attention to Yang Cheng’s weaknesses instead of his strengths, and that doesn’t really help our Yang Cheng, who already has low self-esteem. Pity is the last thing he wants from her.

Shang Chao is different. At this point, he doesn’t know much about Yang Cheng. He only sees the diamond in the rough, while the people closer to Yang Cheng are being too careful with the dirt around it. But Yang Cheng doesn’t need to be reminded of the dirt; he knows that himself all too well. What he needs is to be made aware of the diamond within him. Shang Chao’s verbal encouragement and proactive support help with that.

This becomes clearer as Yang Cheng starts cooperating with Shang Chao:

Xia Qing is a realist who will point out the cons, while Shang Chao charges ahead optimistically in spite of the difficulties. His wealth and privilege allows him to do so, and by extension, it also gives Yang Cheng the resources he needs to give things a try. But more importantly, it also gives him the courage to dream:

Before he started working with Shang Chao, Yang Cheng didn’t even have any plans for the future:

But Shang Chao took him by the hand and opened his eyes to what he is capable of:

He gives him concrete steps on how he can act like a hero.

And also outlines a clear future for Yang Cheng.

At surface level, it may seem like Shang Chao is just imposing what he wants on Yang Cheng, but I don’t think that’s the case.

Yang Cheng had zero trust points his whole life. Nobody really expected anything from him. So Shang Chao clearly stating what he wants from him and fully believing that he can do it, although new and confusing, should be not unpleasant.

Because at last there’s someone who believes in him. Someone who isn’t just a random number on his wrist. Someone who actually sees him and supports him every step of the way with concrete actions.

Shang Chao is exactly the person Yang Cheng needs.

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slop… i hate green sm im not gonna finish it

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it really feels like the people who insist yang cheng wanted shang chao to die have never had an intrusive thought before

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heat abnormal

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experimenting

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Nice nice

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An au where Lin Ling got hired as Ms. J's assistant

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A canvas for the masses

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"died and came back wrong" nah, died and came back an entirely different guy. like actually, that's just some random other dude. where did you get him

<this post is about the show 'To Be Hero X'. You can derail but like, just be aware of that. and also join us I'm begging>

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In this game - you gotta play Nice