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Take my soul

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talking under the olive tree

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Just wait. I’ll be there soon.

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𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆

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Yona of the Dawn: Chapter 191.5 ~ My Favorite Bits (SPOILERS)

YES. FINALLY. I THOUGHT I DREAMED THIS UP

Ooo, hello hot-stuff 😍

I want freshly baked apple pie tooooooo 😥

Yay, I have something else in common with Yona! We both suck at math 🙃

ALRIGHT. HOLD UP. Shin-Ah in glasses and a hoodie is the greatest thing since sliced bread 😍😍😍

Math illiteracy is now canon among the hungry bunch

Love oblivious Hak 🤣

🚨psychopath alert🚨

Dis 1 (stick to your age range buddy 😒)

Dis 2 (ouch, poor Kija 🥺)

I MEAN HE’S SO CUTE 🥰

Can you make me a latte too 🥺

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I want to go to this cafe soooooo bad 😩

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I've heard some people complaining about the addition of Meinyan and Val's relationship to Akatsuki no Yona on the grounds that it detracts from Hak and Yona's "screentime". To me, I think it adds to their story.

Admittedly, when Meinyan was first introduced, I didn't care for her at all. She seemed spoiled and shallow, and overall just bitter about her lot in life. But as her story developed, I've come to realize the genius of adding her to the ensemble, particularly in how her character relates to the three central characters of the plot: Yona, Hak, and Su-Won.

First, she's a foil for Yona. In the beginning, Mei is shown for what Yona could have become, a bitter woman who compromised her values and self worth just to survive. But then, she's befriended by Yoon, and her potential blossoms. Later, through Val's eyes, we she her as she was - a strong woman who was determined to become one of the best fighters in the Kai Empire.

Val is a foil for Hak, and Hak can relate to him (and thus to Mei) because of his strong feelings for her. Check out these panels from ch. 135...

Hak knows *exactly* how Val feels. After all, Val and Mei were friends first. When Meinyan became the Emperor's concubine in order to have a chance to meet the one person who thought she could really relate to - Su-won - she became unreachable to Val. But he was (mostly) content to watch over her from afar. When he learned that she was being harmed, and that she wanted to escape (and that she had feelings for him too), he sacrificed everything to save her...his career, his country, his reputation. All that mattered was being with her. Val is a tanned, blonde-haired, Hak. And because of that, Hak is eager to help Val achieve his goals.

This isn't lost on Yona either. She gets it. Yona and Hak are both rooting for Mei and Val, because they see the parallels in their stories. And so, the audience is meant to be rooting for them, too.

But probably the most interesting part of this relationship is how it relates to Su-Won. I don't completely hate Su-Won, but I wouldn't shed a tear if the crimson dragon sickness claimed his life. He's earned that fate. If it was just him suffering from it, I wouldn't care if they ever found a cure for it. But now that I'm rooting for Mei and Val, I suddenly have a more compelling reason to want them to figure out how to cure this disease. Because, LOOK at them!

They're so cute. They deserve to be happy too. I want them to have a long life together. I want them to be lifelong friends with Hak and Yona. I want their kids to be buddies. I want them to have a bright future too, and it doesn't take anything away from Hak and Yona to give them that.

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I think I’m going to rebrand my blog and make it my tiny little space for my happy little obsessions (it already kinda was that but I want to interact with it more)

I am also going to start posting my fics here once I get them out of my head and onto paper….if you are in love with the stuff I’m in love with I would love to be friends 🫶✨

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Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi  from twitter @ KusanagiMizuho

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Yona of the Dawn | Akatsuki no Yona by Mizuho Kusanagi – Chapter 243 ☉ The Night We Parted Ways 

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From Kusanagi's Twitter we receive this lovely new sketch for Xmas this year! So cute! 💕

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I cannot stress enough how much Kusanagi has been cooking with the latest opening pages. Like, wow!

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Kija 🤍

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I heart them.

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Taking a deep breath and a break from rapidly spiraling down into insanity to say: I find it so fucking funny that during this story that has spanned 268 chapters so far where everybody and their mother has been kidnapped AT LEAST once, the only thing that has managed to kidnap hak, regular mortal 20 something hak, are the diabolical abominations of Heaven’s Will that are the Four Dragon Gods Of Old.

Not bandits or warlords or kings or queens but the mythical honest to god scaly founding dragons of this kingdom. And EVEN THEN he does NOT give a single flying fuck he is facing the cosmic horrors by wooing the everloving fuck out of his lady and looking hot as fuck all the while

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i am never moving on from this. they are so madly in love it makes me want to cry. hak holding her so gently, with the sweetest smile on his face while yona smiles so brightly. hakyona changed my life. they are just so beautiful and perfect to me!!!!!!!!!!! MY NEW FAVORITE HAKYONA DRAWING!! <33333333

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Quick meme redraw of how I'm currently feeling about akayona after 264