#Ouki

[the4rcanist]

here's one for my two currently favorite characters from Kingdom, The Monstrous Bird of Qin and his right hand man

Art + process

[portablesleep]

“She’s crying again… Why?”

[nonsensisystem]

@irlkomaedanagito This you?

-Josh

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Ouki - Fantasia Sango: Realm of Legends

[nonsensisystem]

TUMBLR DESKTOP HAS A NEW GLITCH WHERE CLICKIN ON POSTS IN ACTIVITY TO OPEN THE POST DOESN CLOSE THE ACTIVITY FEED SO IS IN THE WAY OF THE POST N YOU CAN'T CLOSE IT WIFOUT GOING BACK OUT THE POST N I HAAAAATE IT

-Kokichi Ouma

[goryfluff]

Kaname Ouki as Tybalt in Gérard Presgurvic's Romeo & Juliette | ロミオとジュリエット Takarazuka Star Troupe | 2010

[finch-like-the-bird]

Things I appreciated in the aib tv show (not necessarily what they did better, just what I enjoyed):

- Chota: they made him a great friend who's a smart and capable man and not just a whiny perv I love adap chota with my whole heart

- Putting Tatta in tag: a great intro to his character and I like that Arisu could recognize him at the beach instead of just walking into an entirely unfamiliar place

- Similarly, Tatta's mechanic backstory: I thought it was a really nice change to his character and the parallel between his bosses hand getting crushed and him crushing his own hand made me cry

- Banda and Yaba's casting: idc if they don't look like the manga it was so perfect hayato isomura killed that role

- Making the trio + Usagi grown adults: again, I so really like that they were teenagers in the manga, probably more than the show still, but I also kinda like that they were in their 20s bc it allowed them to cast fitting actors and then adapt the storyline around them vs either casting 30 y/os to play children or casting actual children

- Hatter's character design: idk I just think he's such a vibe like he was so menacing in the manga which was cool but adap hatter just exudes this confidence that commands everyone to listen to him without having to physically intimidate the beach members

- The pieces of dark hair + grown roots in Chishiya's crusty ass wig: OK YEAH the wig sucked we all know, but I like that they actually put effort into making it look like bleached black hair and not just straight blond from root to tip, mans already canonically wears eyeliner like ofc he bleaches his own hair

- The rabbit hunting scene where Arisu and Usagi are all smiley and playful: soft arisagi soft arisagi soft arisagi I love them your honor let them be happy please

- Arisagi S2 reunion scene: don't get me wrong I hateee that they got split up in S2 instead of just adding Dodo but also THAT HUGGGGG AGH I love arisagi guys sue me for liking a straight ship idc I needed to see that so bad

- Asahi and Momoka's video documentation of being dealers: I loveeee the idea that the players got the tiniest amount of insight into the dealers' side but not nearly enough to answer all their questions, it honestly feels like a bigger mystery than if they had left the two storylines completely separate

[localfandom]

why is nobody talking abt how fruity they were the entire game(banda and yaba)

[mizusjawline]

Look at her sitting behind that desk. Looking all smug and pleased with herself as she plots Yang Wenli's demise

[nestokaodevojka]

uhh

[ghost-reader07]

Brb, gonna go sob 😭

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[shimonerin]

Literally nothing gayer in the whole series than these two

You mean the two of you will stay in the Borderlands because you finally found someone who you can satiate your cruelty with in the most sadistic ways only the borderlands could provide? Even if it means dying/being in a coma in the mortal realm? That's gay.

[nonsensisystem]

Listen, I talk about Mafuyu a lot because she's literally me but tbh Ena's also heavy on my radar because she's got a lot of similar struggles to someone very close to me. We were just talking yesterday about how the differences in effort of creation and consumption of creative work can pose a big barrier to engagement with certain types of work that lead to a lack of perceived interest that discourages creators.

So imagine my horror when I start Ena's first central event and she comes in on episode one swinging with the steel chair of a selfie that takes her less than five minutes to take gets an immediate comment while her high-effort illustrations barely even get any likes...

-Ouki

[miraofhearts2point0]

i cannot stand the fact adap Chishiya is a Hearts player, sowz. it's clear to me the adap writers completely misunderstood what makes someone a Hearts player in the first place and ran with it.

Chishiya can read others emotions to some extent, sure, but not in-depth enough to sympathize.

you wanna know why Chishiya (and Niragi) are Diamonds players? because they don't care enough to truly understand the hearts of others. they manipulate situations, not (usually) out of desperation, but because it's all they know. they lack a genuine understanding with others.

(adap) Arisu being a Diamonds player also completely misses the point: Arisu is so similar to Chishiya and Niragi that if, at any point prior to the Borderlands, he had one more thing go wrong, he could've ended up like the two of them; but he didn't because he refused to be like that.

Arisu is a Hearts player because he's both smarter than he gives himself credit for, and emotionally mature enough to take to heart (wink wink) the emotions of others and actively put himself in their shoes to get through a game.

that last reason is why Matsushita Enji is such a lousey Hearts player, because, like Chishiya and Niragi, he isn't emotionally mature enough to truly be good at Hearts. he has great setups, sure, but he's too proud to acknowledge other players and their inteligence, which is why he was ultimately defeated by Yaba and Banda.

Yaba and Banda both come from backgrounds where they need to read others to some extent: Yaba, a CEO who climbed the corporate ladder by reading others and using those emotions to his advantage (as we saw happen with Arisu when he was confronted by the militants), and Banda, a misogynistic murderer who got into the houses of women he killed, needed to be agile enough to get them to trust him by manipulating the situation in his favor, all while keeping in mind the emotions of those he killed.

Hearts games are not won by sheer manipulation, as we saw with Enji and Urumi; there needs to be a level of connection with others if you want to survive, which is also why Mitsurugi's defeat was so upsetting; ideally, he did everything right, but ultimately was a bit too confident in his plan and thus, refused to acknowledge the power the other players had. he was too good of a person.

Mira is a bit of an outlier, not because she was bad at the games or anything, but because she's the perfect mix of both understanding and master manipulator; if she went up against any other player in the Borderlands, they would easily lose. Arisu almost lost too, but as we've established, Hearts games are built off connections with others and Usagi was needed in order to make it.

I'm sure Mira was well-aware of that fact, especially with Arisu, but her ulimate failure was the same as Mitsurugi's: she ended up downplaying the connection between him and Usagi. Hearts games need love, level-headedness, mild manipulation, and an open mind if you intend to win.

going back to my main point, that's why Chishiya either avoids Hearts games all together, manipulates people during them, or turns to violence; he lacks the emotional maturity and agency to clear one the way they are meant to be cleared, why Arisu is a much better Hearts player than Chishiya will ever be, and why the adap writers completely misunderstood that point.

[nonsensisystem]

@irlkomaedanagito Your tags are real and you should be louder I think.

-Josh

White Hair and Trauma Preliminary 4: My Hero Academia

Dabi had 4 submissions while Shigaraki had 2

trauma and propaganda under the cut! (there really is a lot this time.)

Trauma!

Shigaraki: “Well where to start. His superpower is making anything he touches with all five fingers crumble into dust. His dad was abusive and he accidentally killed his whole family as a little kid when his powers activated all of a sudden. He gets taken in by a nasty villain and gets groomed into becoming a supervillain. They give him the hands of his family members to wear on his body. And later in the manga theres even more. Everything in the world happens to this guy. He goes full white hair after unlocking even more of his quirk and it looks cool as hell in the manga.”

"Killed his family, got taken in by a villain who basically raised him as a weapon. Hair turned white from trauma and sorta medical experimentation"

Dabi/Touya: “Ok so his dad wanted to be the best hero ever, but also was a terrible person who abused his wife and son. That son, Toya, would survive his powers going balistic...but he would be heavily wounded to the point of having his flayed flesh falling from his body. He survived...and would be his father's biggest nightmare. He dyed his hair black until specifically the moment where he could reveal himself to his father and crush him emotionally...and just a bit physically.”

“Had an abusive father that put too much pressure on him, and his hair turned white due to extreme stress”

“I wish i could loredump but my hc are really fucking canon divergent so i'll wrap it up: his dad wanted a super strong heir with a better version of his fire powers to become Hero #1 and when lil Touya actually got there he abandoned him, had other children that he ignored him for etc. Then Touya goes to practice in the woods and accidentally burns like 10 km² of land and almost kills himself in the process. Basically enters a coma and wakes up years later in a secret hospital, escapes that too and sees that his family "moved on" from him, joins a gang and seeks vengeance (spoiler: bro fails and is hospitalized and dies(?) idk i hate endings so idc lol)”

“Once, there was a boy who wanted his father to love him.

Enji had loved Touya, at the beginning. He’d spent time with him, cared about him; that’s why it had hurt so much, once all of that was taken. For at the end of the day, to Endeavor, Touya was not a son but a weapon; and when found to be a “defective” one,  Touya was put aside and forgotten. There was only one reason that the father had had his children, after all, and with each new child Touya felt further replaced, further pushed away. I can only show him the world of heroes, Enji had said; he hadn’t even tried to be a dad. So instead of trying, he told Touya to let go.

Touya couldn’t let go; his father wouldn’t look at him, only spent time with the youngest brother instead. Making him into the weapon that Touya was begging to be— no one had looked at him, so he couldn’t see. He still can’t see. He had figured out why he had been created, and determined to fulfill a goal no child should strive for, Touya attempted to prove himself worthy of being born.

And one day, Touya didn’t come home; he didn’t die, but he found his end on a mountain wreathed in flames. And a villain found him before he was truly lost, and three years in a coma on, Touya woke up. And what was the first thing he did, then? He ran home— once there, he found his own shrine, he found Shouto being trained, he found that he had been forgotten.

If you ask Dabi, he’ll tell you that that was when Touya really died. But Dabi is the king of lies— and to no one does he lie more, than to himself. No, Touya died sometime in the six years between then and now— sometime in the silence that we know nothing about— he took a life, he lost his mind, he changed his name. 

Either way, Touya is dead, and Dabi lives; but there is a chance, I think, for something to give.”

Propaganda!

Dabi/Touya: 

The man hid the fact he had white hair until the most extra moment to reveal it. Seriously.

1) White hair is revealed dramatically, 2) depressed bi cunt, 3) Daddy issues and imo top older sibling representation, 4) Blue Fire (best fucking fantasy element)

He has such an interesting character arc and! When his identity was revealed in the manga, he trended over US election results in 2020 ajdhdj he was trending at 1 for days 

Shigaraki: He had such a good arc and was like the hero of villains 

[innocent-faced-murderer]

my marriage is still alive and well, if anyone wanted a clarification.

- B☆