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HAHA! FINALLY GOING TO POST FINISHED ART FOR MERMAY!!!
This wasn't the planned picture I was going to make for mermay, buuuuutttt 13 hours passed aaaand I needed a break from it to make something more fresh in my mind
#c.t.au#c.t. moon#celestial tides#celestial tides au#inky'sart#mermay#fnaf mermay#moon fnaf#fnaf moon#moon dca#dca moon#dca moondrop#moondrop dca#moondrop fnaf#fnaf moondrop#moonrise fnaf#fnaf moonrise#moon sb#sb moon#moon#moondrop#dca moonrise#moonrise dca#fnaf daycare attendant#daycare attendant moon#dca au#fnaf au#dca fnaf#daycare attendant fnaf#mermay 2024
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#C.T.#anime#pokémon#sailor moon#nijien#kyo kaneko#luca kaneshiro#ike eveland#digimon#ouran highschool host club#allen walker#kimihiro watanuki#xxxholic#fruits basket
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Welcome to the Crystalsandbubbletea blog!
We're the Crystallized Cosmos System, a traumagenic system that's endo friendly :3
Info about everyone + Other blogs under the cut
BYF
Our AO3: eclipsesandmilktea
People here:
Rian (Host):
-They/Xe/Ve/Zir/It
-Trixic, Demisexual, Demiromantic, and Polyamorous
-Transmasc Nonbinary
-17
-AuDHD
-Birthday is March 7th
-Text color is the default color
-Therian and furry
-PTSD, Prolonged Grief Disorder, and possible anxiety
-Emoji signoff is 🧋💎
Rose
-She/Her
-Cisgender
-Apothisexual and Apothiromantic
-15
-Birthday is December 31
-Autistic
-Text color is red
-Emoji signoff is 🌌🌹
Comet
-He/They
-Demiboy
-19
-Birthday is January 1
-Aroflux and Aceflux
-Autism, ADHD, and Anxiety
-Text color is blue
-Emoji signoff is ☄️🌕
Saturn
-She/It
-Biromantic Lesbian
-AuDHD
-17
-Birthday is May 2
-Text color is orange
-Emoji signoff is 🪐✨
Nova
-He/Her
-Genderfluid
-Panromantic, Asexual, and Polyamorous
-18
-Birthday is September 11
-ADHD
-Text color is green
-Emoji signoff is 🦇🔥
Smore
-Persian cat
-2 (Human years)
-Birthday is September 29
-Emoji signoff is 🍫🐱
-Text color is pink
Kamaria
-They/Them
-14
-Birthday is February 1
-Biromantic Demisexual
-AuDHD
-Suspects they have Alexithymia
-Emoji signoff is 🌙🌠
-Text color is purple
Callisto
-She/They
-Biromantic Demisexual
-AuDHD
-Fictive of our Callisto gimmick
-Emoji signoff is '🌑☁️'
-We still don't know much about them-
Macula
-They/It
-Aegoromantic and Aceflux
-Fictive of our Macula gimmick
-Emoji signoff is '🌘🕯️'
-AuDHD
Berat
-They/Xe
-Trixic, Demisexual, Polyamorous, Demiromantic
-Text color is blue
-22
-Birthday is May 28
-AuDHD and anxiety
-Emoji signoff is '❄️🌊🌔'
Ruby
-Text color is red
-Birthday is October 31
-ADHD
-Semi canon divergent RWBY fictive
-17
-Demiromantic, Demisexual, and Polyamorous
-Emoji signoff is '🌗🥀'
Anya
-She/Her
-25
-Canon divergent Mouthwashing fictive
-Apothisexual
-Emoji signoff is '🩺⚕️'
Iapetus
-He/Him
-Apothisexual Gay
-Canon divergent Solarballs fictive
-Still learning about him
-Emoji signoff is '🌗🏔️'
Europa
-She/Her
-Biromantic asexual
-Still learning about her
-Canon divergent Solarballs fictive
-Emoji signoff is '🧊🌒'
Venus
-He/Him
-Canon compliant Solarballs fictive
-Emoji signoff is '🌶️🔥'
C.T
-She/Her
-Demiromantic Cupiosexual Lesbian
-26
-Canon divergent Red vs Blue fictive
-Fine with being called "Connie"
-Emoji signoff is '🍂📁'
-Birthday is November 19
Dione
-She/Her
-Sapphic
-Semi canon divergent Solarballs fictive
-Emoji signoff is '🧊🏔️'
Rhea
-She/They
-Sapphic Cupiosexual
-Canon divergent Solarballs fictive
-Emoji signoff is '❄️🗻'
Enceladus
-He/Him
-Asexual Gay
-Semi canon divergent Solarballs fictive
-Emoji signoff is '❄️🌫️'
Luna
-He/They
-Demiromantic Apothisexual
-Solarballs fictive
-We don't know if they're semi-canon compliant or fully canon divergent yet
-Emoji signoff is '🌕🌌'
Eris
-They/It
-Trixic
-Fictive of our Eris gimmick
-Emoji signoff is '🌨️🪻'
Daisuke
-He/Him
-Canon compliant Mouthwashing fictive
-19
-Emoji signoff is '🌺✨'
Fandoms we are in:
Baldur's Gate, RWBY, Red vs Blue, Halo, Percy Jackson, Andromeda Six, Murder Drones, Doctor Who, Demon Slayer, Hollow Knight, Warrior Cats, Undertale + Deltarune, Astroneer (Slowly getting into it-), Fundamental Paper Education
Fandoms Rian, Saturn, and Rose are hyperfixated on:
Solarballs and Gemini Home Entertainment
Series Rian absolutely loves:
Madoka Magica (Note: Rian has only read the manga, xe has not seen the anime yet)
Other blogs:
@crystalsandbubbletea-art (Art blog)
@the-official-legacies-blog (Webcomic series blog) (On back burner for now)
@berat-adil-emre-yukime (OC blog) (Hiatus)
@crystals-lo-rewrite (Lore Olympus rewrite blog) (Hiatus)
@cornflower-clangen (Blog for our WIP Clangen comic) (Hiatus)
@crystals-warriors-rewrite (Warriors rewrite blog) (Hiatus)
@the-moons-talking-corner (Blog for Macula, Callisto, Iapetus, Europa, Enceladus, Rhea, Dione, and Luna)
@crystaline-userboxes-dividers (Blog for making userboxes and dividers)
@crystalline-cosmics (Blog for Rian, Anya, Rose, Saturn, Kamaria, Anya, Daisuke, and Berat)
@crystallized-cosmos-system (Our system blog)
@gilded-veil-official (Blog for Gilded Veil, the webcomic series we're currently working on)
Gimmick blogs we run:
@aroace-spec-empire
@definitely-totally-croatia
@crystals-la-bubble-tea
@the-ottoman-empire-for-real (Hiatus)
@the-republic-of-california-fr-fr
@actually-czechoslovakia
@totally-czechoslovakia
@official-sakartvelo (Hiatus)
@croatias-ghost-vesna (Hiatus)
@actually-cuba
@actually-titan
@totally-callisto
@nonbinary-communist-republic
@venus-for-real
@the-real-planet-x
@the-real-uranus
@official-macula
@amalthea-moon-of-jupiter
@sclera-officially
@totally-the-moon-oculus (Ran by Rose)
@the-dwarf-planet-eris (Ran by Kamaria)
@blue-marble-earth
And two secret ones
DNI LIST: RWDE, Pro-life, anti-endo, Vivziepop stans, people we blocked, ableists, Zionists, Nazis, pedophiles/MAPS, anti-queer, radfems, TERFS, radqueers, anti-therian, anti-furry, JKR defenders, victim blamers, bodyshamers, people who misuse tonetags, "LGB drop the T" (Y'all are hypocrites and traitors), proshippers, NSFW blogs that don't tag NSFW, anti-xenogender, anti-neopronouns, people who participate in r/systemscringe or anything similar to it (Kamaria has a automatic pass to be passive-aggressive to you if you participate in those subreddits)
Things that triggers Rian (Mutuals use "#rian begone" when talking about these please): Incest, pedophilia, grooming, suicide, eating disorders, proshipping, sexual abuse, cyberbullying, Oshi No Ko
Things that triggers Berat (Mutuals use "#berat don't look" when talking about these please): Genocide, war, death
That's all for now! :3


(Credits to the people who made the userboxes)
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ALSO... TAGS TO FILTER (Filter them if you don't want to see them plz-): "#vent", "#vent post", "#rian being trixic hours"
#introduction post#intro post#rian 🧋💎#rose 🌌🌹#saturn 🪐✨#comet ☄️🌕#nova 🦇🔥#smore 🍫🐱#plural system#system#endo friendly#endo safe#traumagenic system#kamaria 🌙🌠#macula 🌘🕯️#callisto 🌑☁️#berat ❄️🌊🌔#crystalsandbubbletea#ct 🍂📁#anya 🩺⚕️#iapetus 🌗🏔️#ruby 🌗🥀#europa 🧊🌒#dione 🧊🏔️#rhea ❄️🗻#enceladus ❄️🌫️#venus 🌶️🔥#luna 🌕🌌#eris 🌨️🪻#daisuke 🌺✨
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"July 23 - 14 Warsaw certainly is a beautiful place. We expect to stay and see this scence by moonlight. Had a hard rain just as we arrived here. Belle"
Ansichtskarte / Vintage Postcard
MOON BLOCK BY MOONLIGHT. WARSAW. IND.
Warsaw Ind.: W.R. Thomas 5 & 10 Cent Store.
C.T. PHOTOCHROME
#Warsaw Indiana#USA#1910er#1914#Philokartie#USAPhilokartie#Indiana#deltiology#Postgeschichte#Ansichtskartendesign#KosciuskoCounty#Vintage Postcard#Kulturgeschichte
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Hello 👀
My name is C.T.; Sagittarius - moon; Libra - venus; i'd like to choose baekhyun and xiumin from exo, wonyoung from ive and Mark from nct.
My favorite readings ar personalities and ideal types 🥺
Baekhyun || ten of cups: NICE. oh, he'd love you for sure! I think just seeing you on the screen would bring a smile to his face. he'd find your good vibes extremely contagious and very pleasant, of course. Xiumin || king of wands: NICE. biiig fan of yours. you'd probably end up being the sort of idol that he already finds himself following the work of. Wonyoung || eight of swords: NAUGHTY. you'd be either (noticeably) way too different, and Wonyoung would being turned off by it, or you just wouldn't be the sort of idol that she gravitates towards anyway. Mark || six of cups: NICE. he would like you, yes. actually, I think you'd remind him a lot of the Dreamies, for some reason, and that would be a big part of it…
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Hi 🌻Can I ask one more question please if it's allowed. Please let me know in case it's not allowed. I'm CT, sun sag, moon aries
I wanted to ask if I'll move out of my current house before the end of 2025?
Thank you so much 🙏

Hello again C.T. ☀️
The card I pulled for you is the owl. This card represents good fortune, wealth. It is a good omen that fortune (whether that be metaphorical or physical) is on the way to you. I am not sure if this entirely answers your question but good things are coming your way! Trust the owl energy, perhaps get a piece of jewelry that has an owl on it and wear it to promote this energy coming your way.
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Happy Asexual Awareness Week!
Happy Asexual Awareness Week!
Happy Asexual Awareness Week! As the week celebrates asexual, demisexual, gray-asexual, aromantic, and demiromantic identities, so does this post! Details are provided where known and not made explicit in the blurb.
Please note that this post only includes titles not included in last year’s Asexual Awareness Week post, so for even more a-spec goodness, check over there! (And, as always, check…
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#A.M. Strickland#Aisha Monet#Alex Gino#Alex Harrow#Amy Rose Capetta#aroace#aromantic#Asexual#B.R. Sanders#Beyond the Black Door#Biromantic#Brooklyn Ray#C.T. Callahan#Chameleon Moon#Claudie Arseneault#Common Bonds#Darcie Little Badger#demiromantic#demisexual#Elatsoe#Elyse Springer#Emily Victoria#Empire of Light#Erin Judge#Hazel&039;s Theory of Evolution#Immoral Code#Jude Sierra#K.A. Doore#Lana Wood Johnson#Laura Pohl
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i am the ocean; the earth; whatever dies for you
pedro salinas tr. by ruth katz crispin, the voice I owe to you / patty dickson pieczka, autumn / louise glück, marathon / dulce maría loynaz tr. by james o'connor, absolute solitude / vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife véra / c.t. salazar, headless john the baptist hitchhiking / sara shagufta tr. by sascha aurora akhtar, how solitary is the moon / vladimir nabokov, ada, or ardor / alice notley, the black trailer
#web weaving#ww#a kingdom for us#about being hopelessly in love with someone#poetry#pedro salinas#patty dickson pieczka#louise glück#dulce maría loynaz#vladimir nabokov#c.t. salazar#sara shagufta#alice notley#**
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Sure, we all know about what happens when 2 becomes 1 (thank you Spice Girls), but in my exclusive interview with science fantasy writer C.T. Rwizi, we discuss what happens when 2 becomes 3.
📖🧙♂️
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#books#reading#Author Interview#C.T. Rwizi#C.T. Rwizi Interview#Sci-Fi#Sci-Fi Books#Science Fiction#Science Fiction Books#Fantasy#Fantasy Books#Science Fantasy#Science Fantasy Books#C.T. Rwizi Requiem Moon#C.T. Rwizi Requiem Moon Interview#C.T. Rwizi Scarlet Odyssey
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c!Clingyduo - {D'you wanna know what we have left Tubbo? Listen my friend. We have each other.}
the castle, franz kafka // the song of achilles, madeline miller // @/guooey // in a week, hozier // the swan no. 3, hilma af klint // cardigan, taylor swift // the lover as a cult, olivia gatwood // @/poeticsuggestions // hafiz // corpse song, margaret atwood // catalog of unabashed gratitude, ross gay // cornish children, harold charles francis harvey // come under the covers, walk the moon // west wind, mary oliver // vicious, victoria schwab // headless john the baptist hitchhiking, c.t. salazar
#dsmp#tommy#tubbo#clingy duo#dsmp web weaving#dsmp web weave#🕸️#hi ive been working on this forrrrr a while :)
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As expected, I don't really have the final thing finished, but I do have a whole bunch of random sketches of the AU! So... Here?





I hope this satisfies for now-
(Psst! You should totally join this! It has art I probably won't ever post to Tumblr - plus, we could use the company)


Yeah I've made a lot...
I dunno, I wanted to start Mermay off with SOMETHING, rather than a few days of nothing-
#mermay#inky'sart#c.t.au#c.t. bloodmoon family#c.t. moon#c.t. eclipse#c.t. sun#c.t. elders#celestial tides au#celestial tides#dca au#fnaf sun#fnaf moon#fnaf eclipse#fnaf bloodmoon#dca sun#dca moon#dca eclipse#sun#moon#eclipse#bloodmoon#oh#by the way#this isn't a sams au#i just wanted to add sharks and thought the bloodmoon twins would be perfect for the role
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"CITIZENNIES, I'm Yeo Chikao~"
༊*·˚ BASICS .ೃ࿐
✧ STAGE NAME: Yeo ✧ BIRTHNAME: Yeo Chikao ✧ NICKNAMES: ✧ BIRTHDATE: 00/01/23 ✧ BIRTHPLACE: Osaka, Japan ✧ HOMETOWN: Osaka, Japan ✧ NATIONALITY: Japanese ✧ LANGUAGES: Korean, Japanese ✧ HEIGHT: 5'9" ✧ FAMILY: Mother, Older Brother ✧ SEXUALITY: Bisexual
༊*·˚ CAREER.ೃ࿐
☽ GROUP: C.T. BOYZ ☽ POSITION: Main Dancer, Sub Vocalist ☽ AGENCY: SM (2016 - Present) ☽ TRAINING TIME: 5 yrs
༊*·˚ SKILLS STATS .ೃ࿐
☽ Vocals...[75/100] ☽ Dance...[98/100] ☽ Rap...[50/100] ☽ Visuals...[89/100] ☽ Acting...[65/100]
༊*·˚ PERSONALITY .ೃ࿐
✧ Extroverted ✧ Funny ✧ Cheerful ✧ Playful ✧ Childish ✧ Polite
༊*·˚ TRIVIA .ೃ࿐
✧ Yeo has one older brother
✧ He can speak fluent Japanese and Korean
✧ Yeo is good friends with SPOTLITE's Jayson and Moon (@alleyezonspotlite), BLUM's Yeonwoo (@blumingwithu), and NCT's Yuta and Shotaro
✧ According to the members, his ageyos come naturally
✧ He used to be a part of a dance group in Japan, but left it to pursue his dream of being an idol
#aeskocnet#aes!ocnet#deluxocnet#kpop oc boy group#oc group#koc#kpop oc gorup#oc boy group#koc boy group#koc group#kpop oc group#oc idol#idol oc#ctboyz.txt#ctb.yeo
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BLEACH - Name Games
Aizen[藍染] Sousuke[惣右介]
His family name is “Indigo Dye” which is a pretty straight forward occupational name. (like Smith or Baker in English) We forget now’days but once upon a time the ability to create certain pigments in paint, ink or clothes were largely dependent on the availability of the raw materials; Blue was an especially rare color to come by, and so Indigo dyes were an extremely lucrative item to deal in, so his background implies mercantile and financially well off, but still middle class rather than nobility.
His personal name means “All+Right+Assist/Mediate,” but keeping in mind that the -suke[介] here is also just a common name suffix, and so doesn’t always carry a lot of explicit meaning of its own, and generally just modifies or overstates the adjoined subject. Also the word “Right” here meaning the opposite of Left, and not “Correct” or “Proper.” I’ll be honest I’m not sure I really see too much meaning in the name choice here, but I really can’t shake the feeling that there had been one. Aizen is a character with a lot of personal history for Kubo, so I can’t imagine he didn’t have a clear vision for some of what he wanted out of the character, and in his clearly established style surely that would mean Kubo named him with some intent or meaning...
(this post is old and i wasn’t going to go back and edit it at first but its come up before, and i don’t think i’ll ever really do another more detailed aizen specific post, so I’m adding this back in now, albeit very very late: his name is a homonym with the the buddhist figure, a wisdom king, Aizen Myouou[愛染明王]/Rāgarāja[रागराज]. the same myouou class of divine being that Komamura’s bankai is named/modeled after.)
Aizen is part of a salvaging of old characters from Kubo’s previous serial manga, Zombie Powder, along with many other core characters like Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Uryuu and Urahara. But Zombie Powder had a much looser set of naming conventions, so it’s possible that Aizen’s name was chosen for aesthetic reasons over inherent meaning in the same way theirs were.
The core characters of Zombie Powder, btw, were named
John Elwood Shepherd
Akutabi Gamma
C.T. Smith (meaning behind the initials unknown)
Wolfgangina Lalla Getto
Angelle Belle Rose Cooney
and Nazna Gemini
So you can see what I mean by the names not having a lot of overt meaning behind them...
Ichigo was given several traits from the duel protagonists, Elwood and Gamma. Gamma also visually influenced both Renji and Grimmjow. Angelle and Wolfgangina basically did a swap of body type/personality type to make Orihime and Rukia. C.T. Smith had visual and character elements borrowed when making Urahara, Aizen, Uryuu, and even Robert Accutrone. (Sternritter: The N) Nazna Gemini also filled a character role similar to Urahara’s, right down to a trio of maids/lab assistants she kept that were pretty clearly an early model for Jinta, Ururu, and Tessai. She also has a few superficial similarities to both Yoruichi and Sui-Feng, and has a bit of the mad scientist vibes that wound up turning into Mayuri.
I know it’s sorta odd the have zero conclusions on a character as central as Aizen but that’s really all I’ve got... I can talk about his sword for a bit though:
Kyouka Suigetsu[鏡花水月]
has a pretty literal translation as “Mirror Flower Water Moon,” but I don’t know that the reference therein is always caught. There’s an old fable originating in China but also prevalent in Japan about a monkey who sees the reflection of the moon on the lake’s surface. The monkey is fixated by the moon’s beauty and tries to climb out over the water to get it, but ultimately falls into the water and drowns. The moral of the story (if you can really call it a “moral”) is that sometimes stupid people will put themselves at great risk thinking they’re “close” to their goal, when in reality they don’t even understand how far out of reach their goal was to begin with. It is rooted in pretty stringent Confucian ideas of knowing one’s place and not overestimating or stepping out of one’s station in life.
The “Flower (in the) Mirror’ describes a beautiful illusion, and of course the “Water Moon” is just that, the Moon seen on the surface of the water; it’s not actually describing two things, but the core “Water Moon” described as a “Mirror Flower.” Aizen’s sword (like most shinigami’s) describes his own truth: A person who is only ever seen as an illusion, never his true self, which is always out of reach. It may also have been a set up for the ironic downfall in which Aizen believes himself to be capable of attaining godhood, but ultimately even his understanding of it was always insufficient.
This same fable is mentioned as the theme of Renji’s fight with Byakuya as well, and Byakuya’s “your fangs will never reach me” line.
Ichimaru[市丸] Gin[ギン]
The name Ichimaru[市丸] reads as “Marketplace”/”City” and generic male name suffix, so “City Boy” basically. And his given name is actually only ever written in katakana, so it has no attributed meaning; although the obvious word that comes to mind is Gin[銀] meaning “Silver” in reference to his hair. The non-kanji name, as well as the generic locational surname suggests he is just a poor boy from the/a city, and that he has no real family to take his surname from or to have been given a personal name by. He’s effectively “That silver(haired) kid from the city/market.” He’s an orphan and a street rat type, which we know isn’t at all uncommon in Soul Society.
You probably already noticed even without the wordplay, but Kubo really loves his white/silver haired characters and its kind of an interesting point of contrast when Bleach has a distinct theme of black-vs-white with Ichigo’s orange hair putting him right in the middle of how color strips from black hair when bleached. It’s also worth nothing that Kubo, being very keen about his puns and homonyms in names, very likely put the Ichi[市] in Ichimaru on purpose, sounding like the Ichi[一] meaning “One” like in Ichigo’s name. (and Yoruichi’s)
While we’re on Gin’s wordplay, his shikai, Shinsou[神鎗] and his bankai, Kamishini no Yari[神殺鎗] are the same kanji with Shini[殺] “to kill” thrown into the middle. So when the name goes from “God Spear” to “God Killing Spear” the written name stays the same but the spoken name changes entirely. The very minor change in written form isn’t at all apparent when you’re just hearing the spoken or romanized names.
Fun Fact: Unlike basically any other character in Bleach, Gin’s character design has remained more or less totally unchanged throughout the entire series, from his introduction til his death. I have no idea why but Kubo apparently just knew right away what he wanted out of Gin and never wavered from that vision or got bored, because he seems really into redesigning characters just for shits and giggles throughout basically the entire series.
Tousen[東仙] Kaname[要]
I mentioned when addressing Sentarou’s name that Sen[仙] can carry a few different but associated meanings: “hermit,” “sage,” “wizard,” or “immortal” depending on context... As you can imagine in a bygone era, a wise sage may very well also be a wizard, and a weird reclusive old hermit may very well be a sage, or look like a wizard, and an old hermit or wizard who seems unnaturally old might well be presumed to be immortal...
In the case of Sentarou[仙太郎] the name seemed to communicate robust health, meaning reading it as “Immortal Thick Son” made more sense than “Hermit/Wizard Thick Son.” In this case Tou[東] meaning “East” doesn’t actually give us a lot to work with... Given Tousen’s background I was already inclined to think it was meant to be either “Hermit” or “Sage” given his solitude or his blindness. But the addition of “East(ern)” doesn’t really feel like it adds anything concrete to this... Images of an “Eastern Hermit” or “Eastern Sage” or even “Eastern Wizard” would normally point toward something more in line with old Chinese mythologies, folk lores, or media; an old kung fu master, or an ancient sorcerer...
Additionally, the one kanji name, Kaname[要] reads something like “corner stone,” “key stone,” or “pivot,” all generally referring to something to something either literally or figuratively essential that a larger structure is built on or relies on to function. The “Keystone” or “Pivot (point)” here is clearly in reference to the concept of Justice that defines Kaname’s character, but I still don’t get the surname.
I honestly can’t tell if Kubo really loved or really hated designing Tousen as a characters considering how many different iterations he did on his hair and outfits and forms; all of which were just really cool, despite the relative lack of attention he really got in the story proper.
His bankai btw is the single LONGEST Bankai title, and by a long shot. Oddly his sword functions very unusually in basically all regards... For one he got his sword from his dead friend, which is peculiar given the nature of the the zanpakutou exist and manifest their powers; he also doesn’t appear to have any core ability to his shikai, nor any clear form change, and can do a number of seemingly unrelated things with it; and then his bankai of course has the unusual name, but its form is actually pretty by-the-books other than that name...
Suzumushi Tsuishiki: Enma Kourogi[清虫終式閻魔蟋蟀]
Suzumushi[清虫] is written literally as “Clear”/“Pure”+“Bug,” and is also the regular name of the shikai. The name seems to be referencing a “clear chime” as in the sound of a ringing bell, often used in purification or exorcism rituals. The idea being to evoke the sound of a cricket. (For whatever stupid reason the English translation just jumps the literal aspect all together and calls it “Bell Bug.”)
Tsuishiki[終式] is just the phrase, “End Form,” which is peculiar in that most bankai don’t bother prefacing their additional title gained in bankai? The bankai is already a final form, implicitly, so it’s kind of redundant? If anything, this just makes it sound like this isn’t a bankai at all but some kind of ultimate Shikai technique...
Enma[閻魔] is the name of the king of death and the underworld, borrowed from Hindu mythology via buddhism by way of Chinese influence. This is the same mythological figure sometimes known as Yama, or King Yama.
Kourogi[蟋蟀] is the word for Cricket, technically composed of two different individual kanji each also meaning “Cricket.” (This is actually a thing Chinese does quite frequently and by proxy Japan as well; certain words that were long ago duplicated in various regional dialects and variants of Chinese got consolidated into words that are basically just redundant root kanji.)
So the name reads “Clear-Bug Final Form: Death-King Cricket.” I bring this up because I think it makes for an interesting comparison with how Kubo then wrote his Resurreccion:
Suzumushi Hyakushiki: Grillar Grillo[清虫百式狂枷蟋蟀]
Hyakushiki[百式] reads, “100 Form” and follows in on the bankai’s “Final Form” naming format
Grillar Grillo[狂枷蟋蟀] reads, “Insane Bonds Cricket.” The “Bonds” here can mean literal bondage like Shackles, Chains, or Cuffs but also can also refer to non physical bonds like familial ties, or the binding of people in a relationship.
This form has literal chains hanging off it, but Tousen is also literally driven mad and abandons his deep friendship with Komamura during their fight, and is driven mad initially by his pursuit of Justice in the name of his dead friend. So that seems a pertinent reading. Also I like how it also mimics the name format of “Suzumushi ____Form: _____Cricket.” For whatever insane reasons of their own, Viz translates this as, “Bell Bug Hundredth Ceremony: Crazed Cricket.”
Also I haven’t really touched on the way Kubo used Spanish and German in Bleach very much, but it’s probably clear by now that he plays some word games with it.
In Japanese there are Kanji, the ideographic characters borrowed from Chinese, and Kana (in two forms) which are only phonetic, much like Roman script. Generally Japanese is written with Kanji almost exclusively, as literate adults are expected to know how different Kanji can be pronounced and know which pronunciations are in use based on context; but for school kids (the target audience of many best selling manga) those Kanji readings can be a little obtuse depending on age and level of education. The solution is that Kanji in print will have little sub/super script kana clarifying pronunciation, which Kanji denotes meaning: This sub/superscript is called Furigana. Kubo uses unconventional Furigana to assign foreign word pronunciations to Japanese Kanji denoting meaning.
In this way [狂枷蟋蟀] was given the furigana, Gu-ri-ja-ru Gu-rii-jo[グリジャル・グリージョ] which which is an approximation of the Spanish Grillar Grillo, which is a rough translation of “Chirping Cricket” in Spanish; so the “Crazy Shackle” bit really just kinda comes out of nowhere. Kubo does this with great frequency pretty much all throughout the Arrancar, and into the Sternritter, and it gets very little (if any) attention from English translators.
I might talk about some of the interesting cases of that later...
Other Bleach - Name Games posts: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
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Hello~ I was wondering if i could get a general reading for 2021 from you? My initials are C.T. I'm a Capricorn sun, Gemini moon & Virgo rising. I must add that academically, i feel very lost since this new semester has started. Just wanted to add that 🙃
Henlo friend =D I love your placements ;n; seeing as this is ... the 10th.. I wanna say. this will be good up until the 10th of Jan of next year ;)
Before I even like shuffled fully I saw the Hanged Man. so, I think something you should try, is taking a step back and see a new perspective. try something new perhaps or maybe just give yourself some time to breathe c= come to me and vent anytime because I feel you and we all need a safe space lol I ask for three cards and you got six lol. so let me start with the overall energy here. from one earth sign, to another, we both should learn the art of Temperance lolol. The overall energy here is to relax and be patient. with the situations you will face, with other people, but most importantly, yourself. I know it’s easy to get worked up about not having perfection, about not reaching a certain goal, etc etc, but -and I should listen to my own advice- it does no one any good, not even yourself, if you work yourself to death. things do come with time. and if you’re confused, that’s okay. your answer will come to you c=
I’ll save the best for last ;)
so the eight of cups and Judgement. You’re going to be taking the Hanged Mans advice here and go through a sort of awakening. You’re going to reevaluate areas of your life and make some changes. you’re going to be walking away from something -people, ideas, places- that no longer suit you. and that’s good c= I see you being more diplomatic with people. Opening up perhaps and making room for new ideas. a lot of planning is going to take place this year. You’re going to be more clever, more outspoken. You are going to want to try something new. and you should do it.
then we have the 6 of wands and the 10 of pentacles. whatever work you do, and whatever skills you grow this year, will be rewarded. something, someone, some new ideassss are going to come in and you’re going to grow. You’re going to be inspired, you’re going to achieve success this year. baby steps. I’m hearing just take one step at a time. things will come to you and you will prosper this year c=
I hope this helps c=
you have a beautiful year, but a hard one, coming up. If you ever need anything, feel free to stop by =D
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Hello~ My initials are C. T. and i was wondering if i could have a free tarot reading? I'm a Capricorn sun, Gemini moon & Virgo rising. My question is: How will i meet my first boyfriend?
Hi C.T 🔮🌱
You will meet your first boyfriend when you work together or if you're in school then in the same team where you have to work together. He is someone foreign or you'll meet in another country.
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