#tama's thought

[tama1313]

My forbidden dream would be hosting a crossover/comparison map between Houseki no Kuni and Steven Universe

[submech]

Happy Ryuki day ^_^🎊🎉🎈💞

[anisaanisa]

Cycle.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

IM SO IN LOVE WITH VAMPIRES!! and boy do i love THE SUCKENING!! VERY excited to see the misadventures of sad wet cat, sharp angry cat, and the COOLEST cat i ever did see

[keroppidreams]

Psst...hey, you...rb this post with a f/o and I'll assign them a tamagotchi character based on their vibes!

[angomay]

[ID: The “Shout out to Women’s Day” meme, edited to read, “Shout out to ai girls in media fr 🤞🏾 / Gotta be one of my favorite genders.” A collage of several characters has been edited on top. From left to right, top to bottom, they include: The Weapon from Halo, Lyla from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Lyla from Spider-Man 2099, GLaDOS from Portal, Aiba from AI: The Somnium Files, Cortana from Halo and Tama from AI: Nirvana Initiative. End ID]

[ajihaew]

how many stitches do you think he reopened during the grand finale

[lunacias]

deleted post credit AiNi scene just dropped

[ayotamacorner]

something about miguel's insistence that he shares his father's (or at least yk who he assumes to be his dad at the time aka george) face before he finds out about the stone thing is augh. okay. because. he says oh i remind mom of dad, that's why she doesn't like me, etc etc, but realistically, wouldn't gabriel resemble george more than he does?? sure they both predominantly share a lot of conchata's features, but if anything, gabriel must've inherited some visible traits things from george. if anything, miguel should be reminded of george when he sees gabriel. but he isn't. because deep down he loves his brother and he knows gabriel is nothing like george, knows it like he knows the earth is round and the sky is blue. the two are entangled in his mind in the same messy way everything from his childhood is, but he will never see his father's face in gabriel's. miguel hates himself so it's easy to see his that in himself, but never in his brother.

[becdecorbin]

kitty fambly.

[milkbreadtoast]

Kyoya being in love with Tamaki moments....that still live in my brain rent free to this day.....🫠

[tama1313]

(HNK spoilers!) Trying to explain why nobody likes Aechmea...

Disclaimer: Everytime I criticize something, I already expect someone to comes after me, telling "You shouldn't consume medias you clearly don't like!!" I DO love HNK! I love the characters, the plot, the meaning behind! If I didn't like it, I wouldn't be here, wasting my precious time at writing this.

After this premise, let's start!

(I apologize in advantages for this wall of words, but I need to say something...)

So, it's pretty obvious that at least the 95% of the active fandom doesn't like Aechmea and hoped for a punshment for his actions (that never happened)

Yet at least a big part of that group likes/enjoy the meaning and the plot of HNK, so it's also pretty obvious that the main problem is not in the storywriting, but into Aechmea and the Lunarians'.

One of the main themes of this manga is the criticism about the myth of being immortal, and tbh that's one of the things I like the most about hnk: the fact that we have plenty of representations throught the characters how being immortal is often only tiredsome and doesn't give any actual advantage, is something really interesting and often overlooked in any other medias (as far as I know).

I know a similar topic can be hard to discuss, expecially due to the many different cultures around the world, but there's nothing wrong to test/uses overlooked topics for your story! It can make it original and feeling "fresh" unlike many other more famous medias. Same goes with having morally grey characters (90% of character in hnk)!

However, to make everything works together fine, an hard work is needed otherwise most of the pubblic won't enjoy the final product (or at least, they'll feel dissatisfied).

And this is exactly what happened to the Lunarians character concept:

In just a few words, what we know about them is that they are the remains of human souls, that overtime got tired of this and all they want is simply stopping to exist (here's the whole thing about the praying machine, becoming nothing, etc...).

As said before, hnk criticize very much this topic, hence it's easy to understand Aechmeas's reasons... but only rationally

Rationally, any of us has understood what the author wanted to tell us about the lunarians, yet none of us like them as characters...

This is due the fact that the character of Aechmea lacks of simpathy: during the course of the story, besides a few pages where he tells the lunarians' past, there aren't any other events to make us, the pubblic, feeling simpathetic toward him and rooting for his action.

The lunarian are meant to be "misunderstood villains"?? You as the author must work on this so us the pubblic can feel it emotionally

This may seems meaningless but it's actually very important in the storytelling, even if said character doesn't represent the morals!

The main reason why people consumes medias nowadays is to find something to relate to (which can be characters, situatuions, backstories, etc...) otherwise medias such as cinemas, comics, mangas, etc... wouldn't be so popular

The only exceptions to this are the unmorally villains (the ones that commits so many disgusting actions that no one on earth could like them. Examples: Ozai from ATLA, The Emperor from Star Wars, Niragi from Alice in Borderland, etc...), but to this case, again, there should have happened more events that make us like Aechmea and Co.

Another important theme that follows strictly the main plot is the "unability to leave the past behind to try something new" therefore the Lunarians are also meant to be somehow the final solution to get free the gems from their phisical/"flawed bodies", but there wasn't anything that I could actually like about this:

the gems that should have represented the theme of "breaking free" better (Dia, Cairn, etc...) instead of getting better as characters, their development only got worse at the point to ending up being hated by most of the pubblic (Dia only joined the massacre of the other gems not even to help Phos, but only to have some emotional revenge over Bort. Cairn got only selfish, bragging and uncaring toward everyone, after they got "freed" from "Ghost's control". You can't tell me these are good things)

The only "escaped gem" that shows some likability throught their action is Benitoite (who should be only a boring secondary character) by trying to save the gem that they despise (an that in my opinion has a far stronger/deeper meaning that anything else having to do with the other gems, beside Padpa and Yellow development, ofc!) and this is very ironic, knowing that they had little screentime than the others.

The whole things about all the gems that didn't joined as lunarian at first now wants to become like them, sounds very iffy to me too (much like they were "forced/manipulated" by the others. You know, the "since everybody do this, I'm doing it too" trope, which is really contrasting with the theme that this story wants to show)

Lunarians are meant to be human, but ironically the "actual villains" (Kongo and Euclase) show to be much more humans than them (the unability/pain to not let go the past is a very human feeling and even if they are in the wrong, we are still able to like them at least a bit), which is something that lack in Aechmea's character:

On top of this, he is also full of contraddictions: he grinds all the gems he caught, but later he is seen even being actracted by them, at the point of keeping Ghost's arm and flirting with Phos and Cairn. He is shown to welcome the Admirabilis when they are in desperate need, but later he does agree with Phos to kidnap and uses them to collect all the gems shard (I'm not too sure about this point, because I don't remember very much that part, so feel free to correct me). And I'm pretty sure there are other topics/ about this.

In general, he should have been the "desperate anti-hero", the only certain thing about him is his manipulatoy behaviour and his obsession with the final goal (interrupted sometimes only by he and Cairn's cringey flirting), and this is not enough to deserve to be eradicated from the reality with anyone else.

The ending is acceptable, but Aechmea's fate is not. No matter how strong I try to accept it rationally: it doesn't feels right!

The Phos's character development is a different kind of this: the meaning of "you tried to satisfy everyone, you ended up being alone" and "you are perfect as you are, no need to fit with everyone" is not only true, but allows the pubblic to simphatyze with our protagonist very much. Phos is simpathetic! And it's very easy to see ourself in them: from us, people phisically/mentally disable that have this internal pain of not feeling accepted by the others, to simply people that are "different" and wants to be recognized as valid ("different" meaning anything that doesn't hurt anyone. Don't get me wrong).

Therefore I still love HNK ending despise everything and Phos has officially become one of my favourite protagonists ever!

Perhaps, the only right thing that could have been done with Aechmean, would have been that, while all the others become nothing, he being locked forever in a human body made out of flesh, bone and blood, able to decompose but unable to die (much like Rock's fate from Warriors Cats)

(Maybe this is a bit too sadistic, but for sure I would have liked it more)

Ok, I'm done! Once again, sorry for this wall of words and if you disagree with me or have other thoughts, let me know through reblog or comment

[just-a-regular-fan]

Sometimes family is a secret agent and a secret agent and a secret agent and a secret agent and a secret agent and an eyeball and an eyeball and an eyeball.

I have even more big feelings for AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative as you can see.

[glittergoats]

Part 1 of all my AINI doodles since starting the game!

[cowboychrome]

Just when I was telling myself no one's taking Solo Sikoa seriously now that Roman seems like he's gonna be absent for a while, he goes and beats the dog shit out of his (admittedly goofy) brother and replaces him??! That's cold, bruh. Lmao that's cold as heck but I'm here for the messiness of it all.

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Okay, everyone please answer what you think is Beniko's dream for the future. The wackier their answers the better.