#taiga.. i love you so much...

[hokkienmee]

Ichiban Sukina Hana (2023) ↳ Episode 1

[witch--btch]

Sleeping positions…

Official Art by Satoru Nii

[knbposting]

you dont get it. you don't FUCKING get it.

[dawngel]

I cannot stop thinking about Haku.

I have a much longer post in the making, talking about his behavior and his relationship with trust and truth/lies and another one about his relationship with being a ghoul, but in the meantime, have this:

Kano from Mekakucity Actors (Kagerou Project) and Haku from Tokyo Debunkers

Same vibes, trust me.

Just. Listen.

Happy/flirtatious behavior, glimpses of a darker/upsetting hidden past, self-loathing, family not treating them right, hiding their true self, not being happy with what they have become, wanting someone who they can be honest with and who fully trusts them, working hard while acting like it's nothing, lies lies lies, "Ah sorry, I was just joking/it was just a story! haha", just---

Just trust me c:

Looking for more proof? Look no further: listen to Kano's song

(it's so good yo, you won't regret it)

Also, Hotarubi's episode is filled with lies/truth themes... Like.......

Bonus: Subaru saying this to Haku send help please someone save me aaaaaaaaaaaaah

Extra note:

In Kagerou Project many of the characters go through "a traumatic experience" (which is sometimes described as "having your heart be devoured by a monster") that grants them a "power" and they feel "othered" and like a "monster (no longer human)" because of it.

Sound familiar?

Kano's power is to "deceive" btw :)

[boreal-wood]

Alright wise guy, what are your thoughts on the theme(s) of the first Mistborn book. This is literally an excuse for you to ramble about it, have fun.

VOID I LOVE YOU SM

So spoilers for Mistborn: The Final Empire! If you haven't read it, please beware because under the cut, Here There Be Spoilers (and also beware, Very Long post under the cut!)

The big running theme in The Final Empire is trust. Who can one really trust? Is it worth it to put your life in the hands of other people? What says they won't betray you as soon as it becomes favorable to do so?

Honestly this really is what Vin's character arc in the first book is about. At the beginning of the book, she's trapped in a low-level street gang where everyone is always out to get everyone else. Heck, the second time the audience ever sees her use her powers is when she is helping her boss betray a business partner.

Vin's brother has beaten into her the idea that she can trust nobody, not even him. Everyone is always out to hurt her or take advantage of her, and if she does not prove her immediate worth to her group, then at best she will be kicked out.

This, of course, is not helped by the fact that she is part of the literal slave class! Which is a whole nother essay tbh.

Then Kelsier takes her in and everything changes. There's a scene early on in the book, after vin formally joins the crew, where Kelsier and his men are all laughing and enjoying themselves while plotting their Big Plan™. And Vin, who does not trust any of them, is on the outside, quite literally. She's outside the room, watching them plan, wishing she could be included but not allowing herself to, because at this point in the book she still thinks they could betray her at any time.

I think now is a really good time to mention that being a Mistborn is built on secrecy and paranoia. Mistborn are literally the nobility's assassins. They hide their identities under hoods that blend into the mist so as not to be seen. So their powers cannot be used against them or their Noble Houses. In broad daylight they have to pretend to be normal people, or at best, regular Mistings. They can't trust anyone with the truth that they are Mistborn.

(Heck, even a quarter of their powerset- Copper and Bronze- create mistrust. With Bronze, after all, one can hear the allomantic pulses of burning another metal. Copper, on the other hand, blocks that; the use cases for these two metals lies in paranoia that someone else can use their Allomantic powers against you.)

Anyways! So we've explored some of the different aspects of mistrust in Mistborn, so what's the counterargument?

In a word: Kelsier.

Kelsier shakes up everything that Vin believes about how relationships work. He introduces his crew as something different- despite being a thieving crew, they operate under a principle of trust and camaraderie. "My crews rely on trust," Kelsier says at one point. In direct contrast to the dirty, paranoid crews Vin worked with before, Kelsier's crew is welcoming, understanding, and trusting of her.

But Kelsier's trust isn't just talk, either. When we learn that the crew believes Mare betrayed them in their last heist, Vin asks Kelsier how he could love Mare even though she betrayed him. Kelsier answers that given the choice between loving Mare and being betrayed or never knowing her, he would choose loving her. "I'd rather trust my men than worry about what will happen if they turn on me."

In the same passage as above, Kelsier poses a question to Vin: where has she been happier? with the old crews that we built on lies and suspicious, or with Kelsier's crew, who trusted each other and let their guards down? It's a rhetorical question, and the meaning is clear: Vin and Kelsier both are happier for risking themselves in order to be loved.

I don't think I've nearly done this topic justice. There are a million more points I could pull out and point to, but I want to end with my favorite quote from The Final Empire. It's from Vin, in Chapter 32. She says:

“Once I may have thought you a fool, but… well, that’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren’t going to hurt you... Distrust is really the same thing, only on the other side. I can see how a person, given the choice of two assumptions, would choose to trust.”

[ni-kol-koru]

Drew something as a little gift for @transmasckagami ❤️✨️ This is a way of me saying 'Thank you' for all the nice things you said about my art, I hope you will like it ❤️

[whywoulditho]

kagiura akira is SO asexual coded i'm losing my mind

[cptnghoulowl]

Hello Sasamiya and HiraKagi fandom I just wanted to know how many fellow aces are here because I've seen so many and I wanna prove something...

Uh, reblog or like or say hi in the comments or smthn I've never done this before

[japeneselunchtimerush]

kagami for bingo

I really like Kagami's character he's my son. My tiger boy.

He's literally a tiger enough said.

I love his design. I really do like his hair and how it's both black and red(he's the only character with duel colored hair). He also has good style as seen in the official art.

Have you seen this guy? He is one of the silliest mfs on the planet. His fear of dogs is hilarious as well.

*Affectionate squeezing*

He's a bastard in the same way aomine is but more anger issues than lethargic cat.

I will cry if anything happens to kagami. That entire thing with himuro was really sad because he started playing basketball because he was lonely and it was something that helped him develop genuine relationships.

One thing I really like about his character is that he has this duality about him. He absolutely believes in teamwork and playing as a group but he also wants to be a winner, he wants to be the one to bring his team the win, this duality in his thinking makes him so real.

[ayumunoya]

How it started:

How it's going:

[slightlytoastedbagel]

kohane azusawa is not a pick me kohane azusawa is not a pick me kohane azusawa is not a pick me kohane azusawa is no-

[kamuro-junrenka]

I love him so much

[knbposting]

i hit the nail on the head with this one let's all be honest for a second

[definitely-not-samayoi]

the man with the saddest eyes in the universe

[sylhea-raemi]

it's so hard not to be an anhaner with the notch event because holy fucking shit the more kohane improves the worse an gets

[megaclaudiolis]

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