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The Unforseen Price

Or- in my headcannon, about four years of combat training later, all these traumatized kids need therapy IMMEDIATELY because they are terrifying and fucking DANGEROUS when set off

Let’s go down the list here…

Guren

Being leader of any team comes with heavy burdens-including the heaviest dose of trauma when it comes to heroic persuits

You don’t just FORGET the brief moment in time where you were the last living human in the universe-as much as Guren tries to. Being host to the most dangerous and volatile of all the elements does not help these issues one bit either.

The guy is responsible for four OTHER traumatized kids like 24/7 on top of the ESP bullshit driving him up a wall-catch him on a bad day and your body will never be found

Ceylan

Humor can be a great coping mechanism-if it’s not the only one you have. From watching his best friend get murdered (alongside the numerous attempts beforehand) to the everyday traumatic experience that is the horrors of war, one is liable to snap-ESPECIALLY if you’re a sniper like Ceylan. The dude has had to look his victims in the eye for four years, and while they may have been corrupted Quartonians, you don’t just shrug off shit like that

Humor can only take a guy so far, and once it stops working for even a moment, trouble comes knocking in the form of deadly precision arrows that’ll rip through a skull like it was a wet paper towel

Toxsa

Escapism via Video Games only works if you play them constantly-which Toxsa simply cannot do all the time. Considering this is Toxsa’s ONLY coping mechanism, he’s very volatile and moody when not training or fighting on Quarton.

Despite not being anywhere near a fault line, Benham City has become a strange epicenter for daily earth tremors thanks to this gremlin

Chooki

This lad is aware he’s fucked up-but does nothing about it. He tries to bury his feelings and trauma in sports, extra curriculars, training, and of course fighting Corrupted up on Quarton. He dares not to be alone with his thoughts-lest the darkness come swiftly for his mental well-being

The guy doesn’t even TRY to go fishing anymore-the silence can send him over the edge in mere minutes nowadays. But he has to hold himself together around people because he has venomous knuckle stingers and electricity as an element-not a great combo for blowing off steam at all safely

Gen

Shit home life, shit coping mechanisms, and still denying being gay has made Gen quite the mentally disturbed teenager. He can hold himself together longer than the other knights, but if Guren is in any kind of danger, Gen goes batshit feral-moving just as quickly as the whirlwinds he commands to engage the enemy in what is sure to be a quick, painful death

Yet he still denies to everyone that he’s gay-despite spending a LOT of time in his days thinking about Guren nonstop.

The denial is damaging to his psyche at this point, and yet, he still refuses to admit he wants to kiss a boy for fear of rejection-the fact that Toxsa and Ceylan have been dating for six months has somehow not changed this

@kazumahashimoto

[sairen-dies]

Gen: I'd die for you.

Guren: if you'd die for me, are you going to jump off the rooftop?

Gen: *jumps off the rooftop*

Guren: wAIT GEN NO THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT-

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Teen Wolf Knights lol

Been on a Tenkai Knights binge lately-decided to redraw my favorite characters (and ship!) from the show in their teen years-my style with a few headcannons of course

(You’re mixing alien mecha fighting with human children-there’s gonna be some weird feedback on that the longer you expose them to it-hence the pointed ears and Guren’s snuggle fang)

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This little snapshot brought to you by Insomnia!

What are the boyfriends discussing? Something to do with the team, probably, and how Gen tends to make competitive situations worse due to his lack of social graces-ending in fights between the Knights.

Guren is the only responsible one, which is probably why he’s the one in charge, but he has his moments of temperament too

Anyway you have no idea how cathartic it is to make fanart for a show I loved back in the day, especially since I wasn’t that good of an artist back then. Now I actually feel like I can make stuff that I can be proud of for it-and it feels wonderful seeing how far I’ve come

The next couple of days will probably be a Tenkai Knight overhaul-just because I’ve missed this show and wished there was a second season that focused on the characters as teenagers-with Guren trying to balance the conflicts of a very diverse group in terms of personalities as a leader, and everyone dealing with the changes of growing up while also still dealing with an alien civil war.

It probably wouldn’t have been as gay as I’m gonna make it for however long I end up making this stuff, but I’d like to indulge in the potential this show had for a while

Also @kazumahashimoto, saw your sidedcoin fanart the other day, know you are the main reason behind my reignited hyperfixation right now and I thank you for it

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Puppy Love <3

Bc dogboy shenanigans are fun and Guren ABSOLUTELY would meow like a cat looking like that, despite knowing he’s a wolf. Boys a cat person, through and through.

Meanwhile Gen would LIKE to think he’s more of a catlike person, but the dude follows Guren around like a lost puppy during most the second half of the show XD

Sorry Gen, but you’re more doglike than Guren will probably ever be lol

@kazumahashimoto I’m still on my bullshit-and I still be thanking you for it