#inue aijiro

[datesoma]

Orient: Volume 19, color page.

[yeonban]

First off, rude as hell. 😭😭😭 Secondly, I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS RIGHT WHEN I THOUGHT AIJIRO'S GOAL IS JUST POWER

[nollatooru]

Hi, I’m sorry I’ve been so inactive but there’s been several reasons for that, number one being that my drawing tablet broke and I’m not really keen on drawing comic doodles on paper. But while I’m saving those ideas untill I get some means to effectively draw them again I decided to make myself this little Hakuouki character challenge:

I made a list of all Hakuouki characters I could name and remember (and who had some kind of picture existing) and put that into random generator to pick out a name, then I used another generator to pick out a random adjective and finally I would try to draw that. Here you can see my first 4 tries, I had fun with it so I’m planning to draw more of these in the future. I’m putting my name list under cut so if you don’t mind, please check it and feel free to comment me any name that I might have missed. I’m also taking this as a chance to practice lesser known characters.

Amagiri Kyuju Enomoto Takeaki Harada Sanosuke Hijikata Toshizo Hirama Juusuke Iba Hachiro Ibuki Ryunosuke Inue Genzaburo Itou Kashitaro Kazama Chikage Kimigiku/Kikuzuki Kondou Isami Kosuzu/Shizu Matsumoto Ryojun Miki Saburo Motoyama Kotaro Nagakura Shinpachi Nagumo Kaoru Nakaoka Shintaro Niimi Nishiki Nomura Risaburo Okita Mitsu Okita Souji Otori Keisuke Oume Saito Hajime Sakai Hyogo Sakamoto Ryouma Sannan Keisuke Sasaki Aijiro Sen Serizawa Kamo Shimada Kai Shiranui Kyo Souma Kazue Takeda Kanryusai Tonouchi Yoshio Toudou Heisuke Yamazaki Susumu Yukimura Chizuru Yukimura Kodo

Also if you have any other suggestions feel free to let me know :)

[yeonban]

Ummm quick question why is Naotora my ONLY non-batshit Orient muse,

[yeonban]

Worst thing about this man is that he has the required skills to back up his arrogant claims 🙄🙄🙄

[yeonban]

By the way this hurts a thousand times worse (<- both Naotora and me) when you consider how Aijiro went OUT OF HIS WAY to squander Naotora's potential from an early age by telling him to stand aside every time he tried to do anything, only to then say this to him when he was dying and Naotora, who had been banned from doing anything BY AIJIRO HIMSELF until then, was too weak to protect the clan, at twelve (12) years old which is how old he was in these first few panels.

Plus Aijiro, a born genius, clearly compared Naotora, a normal kid, to himself in terms of strength and talent and basically blamed Naotora for not having been born a genius. Truly the worst father in all of Orient and it doesn't even MATTER if Ohtaka decides to give him a redemption arc or not bc the trauma he's inflicted on Naotora will forever remain with him. AND EVEN WITH THAT BAGGAGE NAOTORA STILL PRAYED FOR AIJIRO'S PEACEFUL PASSING WHEN HE THOUGHT AIJIRO DIED. Aijiro you wouldn't deserve a child like Naotora even if you experienced reincarnation 100 times over.

[yeonban]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[yeonban]

How is everyone in the Takeda family beautiful...

[yeonban]

Can't wait for the day Ohtaka tells us what Aijiro's deepest desire is because she SWERVED this opportunity like her life depended on it

[yeonban]

He's only going to talk to Shiro again when the white soul learns his place.

[yeonban]

Instead of making a lengthy post for each of them explaining how they feel about everyone we've met so far, I made a tierlist to make things easier and placed every character in rows in order of most to least from Soma's / Naotora's / Mikito's / Aijiro's points of view (i.e: the first character at "most cherished" is THE most cherished; the first at "disliked" is THE most disliked; the last at "tense" is kind of tense kind of indifferent etc)

[yeonban]

Once you're stripped clean, what's at your core?

SOMA: animal intuition.

loyalty is the saint you pray to. if you ever were stabbed in the back by your beloved, you'd probably apologize. to your enemies, you're fierce. to your allies, even fiercer. you cultivate a thick inner circle built on promises and devotion, fit only for the best of the best. it's impossible for most to even begin to dissect the type of person you are, owing to your unbreakable emotional walls and confusing philosophies. dream careers? body guard, movie star, unwitting pawn. don't let people get the best of that loyalty.

NAOTORA: cauterizing rage.

the house has burned around you, and you’re the only one left standing. is it gratifying to be the survivor? fear and anger are weapons in your capable hands, used only to serve your agenda of fighting back when deemed necessary. you're a powerful person, built from the ashes of your despair and your family's mistakes. with time, you'll bloom into someone softer, like the full blossoms that grow each spring and wither away with the leaves in fall. they won't disappear if you take your eyes off of them. you're enough.

MIKITO: acerbic wit.

you're a mentor — an old scarred wolf, an injured soldier, a disgraced paladin. your teachings read as shamelessly pretentious, speaking in rhymes and biting down hard into anyone stupid enough to make the wrong move. this isn't your first life, nor your second, nor your sixth — you'll make the most of your time shackled to this world, no matter how many loops it takes to get it right. with every defeat, you reincarnate; a little smarter, a little quicker, crueler and nastier. will you choose to be brutal, equalizing, that final strike in the face of your enemies? will you go soft, become tender and domesticated? the choice is yours. it's not like i can stop you.

AIJIRO: spun gossamer.

the easiest thing to do is stay quiet when something’s up. you’re not bothered, and you know what? you shouldn’t be! it’s none of your business, even when it’s entirely your business. it’s difficult (read: impossible) to tell if your cheery demeanor is a cover-up for something sadder, or if it’s simply your natural state of mind. you see a lot of things: people coming through town, people leaving the house and never coming back, lies and deceit of the highest degree. what happened to you? will you ever be that kid again? your presence smells like cotton candy, and your fingertips sparkle like stars. whatever white rabbit you’re chasing isn’t going to lead you to wonderland if you don’t start reaching out when you’re not feeling okay.

[yeonban]

Shiro with the people actively trying to bond with him:

Versus Shiro with the one guy who doesn't care if he's around or not:

[yeonban]

I'm so unwell

[yeonban]

Now this cover makes so much sense

[yeonban]

WAIT WAIT. I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING. Did Aijiro kill his father to become clan leader.