If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order:
Hello, you fucking-
Ah- Hello, Akira!
Fuck off, why should I tell you-
Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.
I don’t want your shitty gift.
Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.
I hope I choke.
They’re lovely, thank you.
Like hell.
Likewise.
There’s no way it’s just a coincidence.
Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.
I've been watching The Westward (thank you for that btw, its been really good up to season four so far) and I've noticed that all the dragon characters have different colored horns and powers like you said on your post the other day. Was it like that in the manga perhaps or was it an anime change?
(I'm glad you like it!) But I can't say that the different colored horns was an anime-only choice as there are plenty of different horned dragons within the comic.
Looks like both Ocean Dragons and River Dragons have different colored horns to show which family or sub-family clan they are a part of. I do enjoy how this manga goes into more dragon politics and how that is both connected and disconnected from Heaven's politics.
I haven't caught up with the manga in a while but this ask if a good excuse as any to re-read!
I need to start thinking of ideas for the prompt list I made to get myself to sketch more in October, but instead I'm drawing self-indulgent comics about cats 😭
finals absorbed my entire brain and all i've been able to do for like two weeks is write my exams and my term papers and also chew my way through three (3) books in a series lmaoooo
have any boyfriend (the kpop group) fun facts for me? they were my fave for a while there but i never like super mega got into them (although i want to know who's letting official sites lie so much. min woo is FOUR INCHES SHORTER THAN THE TWINS??)
Not facts so much as assorted Things I know abt them bc they aren't a group I care much abt outside of their music. like if you held a gun to my head rn and asked me to name the 3 members that aren't the Jo twins or Minwoo I'd say pull the trigger piglet
I can recc Minwoo's youtube channel. he hasn't posted to it in years and only some of the videos have eng subs but honestly you only need to watch this one
youtube
Its basically just him and the Jo twins cringing over their cutesy debut and out loud pondering why the fuck anyone would like this lmao
Its also home to the funniest thing ever said by a kpop idol thank you Kwangmin
OH THIS CLIP I HAVE AN EXCUSE TO SHARE IT NOW HEHE (its also from a video on Minwoo's channel but its not eng subbed)
Kwangmin, reading a message from a fan: swear at Starship plz (Starship being the company they used to work under)
Youngmin, who's been waiting his entire life for this moment: STARSHIT
Kwangmin: O_O
Youngmin: ovo
Side note: only Youngmin was officially listed as the visual [designated fan attractor/ideal korean beauty position] for the longest time but not Kwangmin. despite being his literal identical twin. my guess is that since Kwangmin was a rapper, that inherently made him uglier ig??? no idea. if you check kprofiles now it list both of them as the visual and that is a lie and blatant rewriting of history
Boyfriend also famously disowned hard by Starship after they sent them to promote in japan and were only mildly successful (and their shitcanning was kinda inevitable bc Starship's subsequent boy group, Monsta X, was ten times as successful as Boyfriend, both in Korea and abroad). they reunited a couple years after getting disowned and are currently promoting in japan as BF btw
Also everyone listen to Love Style NAOW. ez top 10 kpop songs of all time
daisy : did your muse ever feel as though their innocence had been lost ? what moment in their life could be described as the end of their innocence ?
[I don't think it sunk in at the time as losing her innocence, but the weight of her people's plight and their place in the world overall really sank in when Aveil's mother and the Gerudo's best general was killed in battle by a Hylian stabbing attacking her from behind. Though she was only five, she had already been surrounded by death for a good portion of her life, both from the conditions of their environment (though, before the war, things were better for the Gerudo) and due to the toll the war took on their tribe. However, because this death was more personal and one she came to understand is what lead to their loss, it was then that she started to really dig into ideas of not just wanting to be the greatest warrior the tribe had ever seen but also in wanting to help better their lives and make sure this couldn't happen again.]
ivy : what are your muse’s views on marriage ? do they believe it is something strictly for love , or an institution rooted in business & social benefits ? do they desire or have they desired to be married ?
[Considering she was engaged before...everything, she doesn't necessarily despise the idea. However, marriage in Gerudo society is very rare since the general loyalty to the tribe doesn't always play particularly well with other cultures' ideas of marriage and how it should work, and the fact that it's not something that's pushed culturally (*stares in angy @ bo.tw and to.tk*) like it is for other cultures, especially when it comes to women.
With that said, Nabooru has a neutral-ish view on marriage, though, depending on the context, it might lean more toward a negative view when generalizing the idea of marriages for social benefits and the like as well as how Gerudo women who WANT to get married to a Hylian often don't because the Gerudo wants to be with their tribe as much as possible, but most Hylians expect to live with their partner full time (and if it's a heterosexual marriage, the majority of Hylian men expect women to take care of the children and home, meaning she would have to break from the tribe completely to do so).
Thus, Nabooru definitely does feel like marriage should be for love, not convenience or status or anything else, which stems both from her own ideals about love and relationships as well as how the Gerudo don't view marriage as a necessity in any way. To them, relationships are just as valid without marriage, so it's more typically viewed as a reason to celebrate with the Gerudo than anything legal, religious, or super binding outside of how the couple perceives themselves as bonded together or monogamous if that's how they feel.
As for Nabooru's case of nearly marrying, it was definitely out of love, but not something that was necessary. Even though her title would change, her duties would stay notably the same. What mattered to her in accepting the proposal was first and foremost she was in love. Head over damn heels. Second, it was because it further showed that Ganondorf not only trusted her, but that he trusted and respected her enough to WANT to name her his queen. But on top of that, it also meant that they could actually be public with their relationship instead of hiding it after the marriage (even though everyone basically knew they were at least canoodling anyway). Marriage itself wasn't the reason she accepted; that didn't matter because she liked their relationship as it was and didn't need anything like a ceremony or celebration to legitimize it.]