#kagephibia

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Kagephibia. Because its my birthday for the whole entire day

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Sometimes I think about that “Would they accept Kyubey’s contract?” account and that time ayano was on it and it's like WHOA madoka magica kagepro au

ayano makes a contract and becomes a magical girl, and at first it’s something she gets really into because of her whole thing with heroes and her desire to help people, but then the horrors hit and she just has to pretend to be normal . which honestly isn’t far off from what happens anyway, but I'm not sure if having the kagepro horrors and madoka magica horrors coincide in this instance would be too much, but also idk, maybe her messed up situation would influence her into making a contract.

anyway magical girl ayano

ayano is so perfect to be a magical girl it's not even a joke. it's like she's in the wrong anime genre. she was meant to be a madoka magica type or even get isekaid but instead of becoming god she became a snake with an obsolete job. and her good end counterpart has to walk back from killing herself like heeey guyssss

i think what's so funny about kagepro is that they're literally on their own to figure things out. the one person who could explain things to them is azami and she's in another world, and the times she does speak to all of them when they die one by one, she talks in cryptic messages. kido's the only person who had an actual prolonged conversation with her but then concealed their own memories of it, so they're all super clueless.

i usually don't care for the Super Genius Character trope but it works insanely well for shintaro because of retaining eyes. he's always been academically "gifted" or whatever u call it but retaining eyes has made him as bored as he seems in canon. he's already lived this so many times he's done these exams so many times. sure he doesn't remember he did but he also does remember. yknow. it's smart it's fun.

i think an interesting part of the shinaya dynamic is the fact shintaro's very condescending and ayano's got very low self esteem, and for ayano to end up giving up her "heroism" or "relevancy" to shintaro because she realizes he's the one who can do it is so sad for her as character. i think this is all from jin being sorta terrible at writing female characters and being mostly focused on the male characters, so i doubt it's intentional and its rather jin writing ayano as the damsel in distress and shintaro as the hero and savior. ayano herself never having her own pov in the novels, second manga route being evil and stupid... but like much of everything in kagepro, the idea is very much there and it is very much Good.

another piece of media i LOVE is amphibia and i think it does a similar thing because it's got a protagonist (anne) who DOESN'T wanna be a protagonist and is like, really not on board with the wacky adventures at first. when the series start, she's bratty and selfish. meanwhile, an important but still secondary character, marcy, loves this world and the spotlight and being a hero. it's just not her story, and she ends up getting the short end of the stick in every possible way, forced to be used as a puppet while everyone else, who didn't even wanna be there, save her. it's awesome.

in my kagephibia doodles (heeehehee) i've drawn ayano as anne bc. idk her with the leaves in her hair and one shoe is cute, so it was mostly for aesthetic purposes. but she'd be marcy, 100%. marcy as haruka is funny too cause of the evil guy using ur body to do the evil deeds + lol get inside the tank u freak! but truly marcy and ayano are the same type of characters, who want more than anything to help, to be a hero, to be relevant, to be needed... but because they can't do the first important thing, which is to Believe In Yourself, they fail, and someone else has to come to their rescue. so tragic when characters like these have an ending where they're like "wow, i didn't get any personal growth out of this experience. if anything i just hate myself more now" and like, THAT'S THE ENDING FOR CHARACTERS LIKE AYANO AND MARCY. i'm so obsessed with it.

coming back to the point (sorry i love amphibia), in kagepro, everyone gets some sort of character development. but ayano, with no agency over the story even though she desperately wants to... really doesn't. get the chance to grow like everyone else. when she's back in str, she's the same depressed girl she was when she died. looking at friends like haruka or takane, who died the same day and DIDN'T wanna die or be part of this story, are hopeful and glad to be back. what does she end up with, other than all this regret??

ugh. sorry. this is all over the place but i love u tragic side characters who think they should be the protagonist.

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Do you have a bluesky?

nope! i only use tumblr and twitter, and ocassionally tiktok and instagram but not rly as social media, i open them every once in a while to post and that's it (well i open tiktok all the time to look at funny vids. heh) my main tumblr is kyoryu, my main twitter is kyoryuv (also kyoryuv on tiktok and insta) and, probably the account i use the most (aside this one), my side twitter kagephibia!

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Sorry for the kagephibia but kido mary and momo would make a great calamity trio

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hey, dont cry. kagephibia

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more kagephibia. seto would love that shit

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cringe little doodles from a couple days ago

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hi. heya. i havent posted here in a while bc im currently fixated on something else (take a guess on what) but im always back on my bullshit so dont fear. have these cursed doodles i made because i think theyre too funny not to post