#divison

[marbleboa]

Baseless Sakurai headcanon #152: He got it into his head that he was a potential contender for the Ultimate Five and was VERY jealous of Serizawa for taking the spot.

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always on your mind

[slicklike007]

Welcome 2 gloom!

[bellmo15-blog]

It may of been a month and a half since that whole "gamers need to get comfortable with not owing there games" quote from a Ubisoft executive but no, you DON'T just say shit like that and expect me to pretend you didn't say that!

[mith-gifs-wrestling]

Someday Kevin Owens will be less relatable. But this is not that day. 

[asurrogateblog]

just because you two are the blue ones to your red counterparts does not mean you're the normal ones

[marinatedsaltea]

I am way too proud of this doodle to let it slide

The greatest character ever belongs to @eggariesalad

[nellasbookplanet]

Fantasy works commonly (though obviously not always, this is a general observation, and I'm more of a scifi enjoyer than a traditional fantasy enjoyer anyway so my pool of reference is limited) place this divide between magic and technology. The two are placed as incompatible to the point that many fantasy worlds are almost stuck in this semi historical setting, not really allowed to grow or evolve past this mythological past, as if we can’t imagine magic and technology mixing. Why would technology evolve if we have magic? The stories I think of rarely outright say this, and I think writers create these types of settings more out of genre tradition than a genuine belief in never mixing magic and technology, but it saddens me that we so rarely see secondary fantasy worlds that are futursitic, or modern fantasy worlds that aren't either an obvious mirror of our present or literally our present but with a secret magical underbelly that has had little to no impact on the evolution of the world at large.

And it just occurred to me that in critical role, the divide is more often placed between magic and the divine, while magic and technology are presented as almost one and the same, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the Age of Arcanum. The magical fey changeling of Avalir was fantasy tv personality!! Magic doesn't hinder growth or trap the world in a medieval state of nature where people become incapable of imagining technological growth due to the convenience of magic: magic is technology. Magic interweaves into their societies, their ways of life. They study it, they grow it, it doesn't hold them back any more than discovering fire or electricity held us back because it’s the very foundation of their growth. How very fitting that Corellon, god of the arcane, takes the mortal form of an aeormaton, a robot, a being we would normally consider the anthitesis of magic, but which here is the embodiement of the sameness of the two.

[babymorte]

i hate when you finish a game and you just have no desire to play anything else

[weareallgonnaliveforawhile]

7th Division Arc- Kokomi Reigen AU

Orignally, this was gonna be about the Teru's but then I realized that Teruki doesn't really interact much with Reigen

Ah, the Teru's. The reason I have to use both of these fucks full or first names when referring to them. To make this less annoying for me, I'm referring to Teruhashi as Kokomi and Teruki as Teru.

Kokomi meets Teru during the 7th division arc. Kokomi, in the time that since she had been hired, was extremely attached to her coworkers, and when Reigen tracked down Mob's location, she went with him. Despite Reigen's numerous protests that it might not be safe, Kokomi refused to budge and went with him anyways.

The whole claw confusing Reigen for their boss goes even better for two main reasons

Kokomi's natural glow, beauty and aura made it seem like she was a powerful psychic who was willingly listening to their random guy

Over month or two that she's been at Spirits and Stuff Consultation Office, and the weeks she's spent mainly around Reigen, she managed to hone one skill. The skill of 'Yes and'ing

So they see this powerful young psychic being like 'What? They really can't tell who you are' and were like 'Holy shit, this must be the boss and one of his right hands'.

(Reigen did not realize they were mistaking him for the boss. Kokomi absolutely did and had a field day with it.)

She meets them very briefly before they're attacked again and for the first time in her life, she's put in danger. Not the kind of danger that her brother brings but the kind that brings death or severe harm.

Unfortunately, Claw's upper echelon have no qualms about attempting to attack her alongside the rest of the cast. Half of them believe she's psychic and are enraged at her for taking 'the other side' and 'making herself look prettier while the rest of us suffered in society'. The other half think she's not psychic but are angry that someone so pretty exists in a sense.

(Remember, these people think society wronged them by existing and that they're above it. They're not happy to see someone 'normal' who has abnormal traits, Kokomi's beauty, that make her almost on the same level as them)

(It's kinda like incels to put it simply)

Luckily, Mob and Reigen make sure to protect her and Reigen ends up saving the day.

The arc ends with Kokomi realizing that her beauty doesn't necessarily mean she's unable to be hurt. The cosplayers psychics in Claw clearly thought she was beautiful but their own delusions made it so that they believed they were fully entitled to harm her. It also makes her think about her own morals and what it'd be like if she let her beauty go to her head like that.

She ends up asking Reigen if she's a good person. He tells her that if she has these types of doubts, she's already doing better than the Claw fucks.

He also tells her that he knows it takes effort for her to be kind to other sometimes, but she puts that effort in constantly. So yeah. He'd consider her a good person.

[zrllosyn-art]

I dont know if this will interest anyone else but. A map of the JAKDF base locations.

(and also possible bases? Those are mostly me throwing around cities though.)

map that shows up in the manga and the locations on it

and the locations on it

[emily-mooon]

My villain origin story will be if Jonathan does not work at the radio station and it’s some other character

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who did u expect me to be ?

[marbleboa]

I know he isn’t really discussed in the fandom outside of the Detestable Anime Design(which I absolutely get, it’s SO bad), but man, Takeuchi is a character I’m still so intrigued by. In particular I really like the concept of the whole “face changes when powers are activated” thing, especially knowing that psychic powers are never really just in Mob Psycho. What they are, how they’re used, a lot of times they end up reflecting a bigger picture.

We don’t really see any powers that affect a person’s physical appearance that drastically(according to the fanbook, even Takeuchi’s height/weight changes), and it only really happens for him and Toichiro at the end of his fight with Mob. There’s Shibata and Udo’s muscle abilities, sure, but those strike me as more of a purposeful use of their powers, not an unconscious effect.

Faces are important things—a way to express your feelings outside of words, and something people often remember you by. Ishiguro says he can’t get a read on Takeuchi, but he’s powerful—so it probably doesn’t really matter to him. Takeuchi joins Teru & co against a group of Scars during WD arc, and as shown in this one omake they don’t even recognize his normal face(despite previously recognizing Terada). One of the Scars basically goes “Oh, I thought this might’ve been this one really powerful guy in the 7th division, but this can’t be him.”, Takeuchi activates his ability to show them otherwise and that’s that.

Despite Claw’s indoctrination the other 7th division Scars still kept their quirks, their stories, their interpersonal relationships, but Takeuchi—it seems like he’s always known by his powers first. The face crafted by them is the only one so many others have cared to remember. And he’s only 21, one of the youngest out of the Scars(save for Mukai of course)—I have to wonder how long he’s lived in that sort of isolation. All the Scars had the mindset that their powers gave them worth, set them apart, but I think Takeuchi takes it a step further and sees himself as just a vessel for his powers. When all of that got shattered, I’m curious how he worked through that fallout.

[snailfriend777]

I think one of the main reasons why I'm so bonkers for the new idkhow album (aside from it being a no-skip album written by one of the most beautiful men to have ever lived) is the breathiness in the songs

this is something patrick stump does too, like using breath to set a tempo or add like. another layer of instrumentals? idk. but dallon did it in bleed magic back in 2018 and it's made an appearance in several songs off gloom division and its So Sexy I love it

[dino--draws]

I needed to increase his silly whimsy swag. Which is ranging from article references to silly nerd stuff