#that. that's Zai.

[soulsxng]

"Mmm, I don't really want to fight right now, though. Sounds like a hassle. My hair is super nice today too, and this is totally gonna ruin it."

"If that's the case, you can feel free to forfeit...though I was hoping to get a little bit of a workout from this."

Zahine Besiira: His biggest three abilities are his affinity for ice, and his abilities to inflict charm (which he's not allowed to use, because it doesn't really wear off, and tends to essentially brainwash whoever gets hit with it), and frenzy respectively. For ice, he prefers to use it at a longer range-- typically forming arrows and a bow of ice that will spread over his opponent's body, or burst once they're hit, depending on how gory he feels like getting that day...though he can also use it for deflecting other ranged attacks away from himself. He's exceptionally knowledgeable in anatomy and the like, and his precise aim allows him to target vulnerable areas with relative ease. As for frenzy, the most dangerous thing about this state is that it makes the opponent lose any and all inhibition, and they will fight even at the expense of harming themselves. It also usually tires them out quickly, as they expend huge bursts of energy to attack pretty much whatever catches their attention.

Aside from that, he's actually the most dangerous when he's up close. Typically, he tries to keep a more "impersonal" approach to fighting, which is a big part of why he usually fights at range. Once he's fired up enough to allow someone to get in close, he uses his brute strength to take them out immediately. Surprising to most, his physical strength is actually much higher than his magical strength, so they'll get close thinking he'll be at a disadvantage, only to have him literally crack them like a glow stick. Also, major healing! But he doesn't usually do too much of that in a fight, if he doesn't have to. He's stubborn about that.

Ber Bireth: Primarily a caster, relying on elemental magic (He really has next to no physical strength. It's very similar to what an average human's might be)-- he favors the earth element most, as he feels it gives him the most range for "status affliction" type attacks. That being said, he does also tend to favor large scale, powerful magics right off the bat, and has the energy to cast them more frequently than most others would. Tends to just wrap himself up nice and cozy in the strongest barrier he can cast, and sit there while his ranged magics force his opponents to run around the field like a headless chicken, trying to dodge them.

The biggest issue with fighting him (in a battle like this anyway-- otherwise it's the fact that he just regenerates immediately upon being killed, and comes at you like an angry cat that you just tried to drop in a bath tub) is by far his command over time based magics. Though he's no longer one of the masters of the Stream of Time, he's still able to do things like temporarily speed up, slow down, or stop time. He can also leap forward and back in any given timeline, but he's not allowed to do that here. He also isn't allowed to just indefinitely pause time to decimate his opponent while they're frozen. Soul sight and hearing means that, if his opponent has a soul, Ber knows exactly where they are at any given time. He can also manipulate souls like his dad can, but...again...that's not allowed here either. No murder, baby Ber. That's bad.

[saltedbiscuiit]

Apple Zai

[thecollectibles]

Pixel Art by Elizaveta Zay

[zaiofender]

self indulgent shadowpwach lego style drawigns. Yes

[whywoulditho]

I know people love the "You used corruption believing in me? How beautiful." scene but it just doesn't sit right with me that many of you don't know that's a creative translation and what he actually says is "You're gonna make me cry." i dont know why this matters so much to me but it just does. the original line has so much more impact. especially for a character like Dazai, who has never shown human reactions —like crying. and yes i know that he's just being sarcastic but it's still. You're gonna make me cry, he says it like he knows that Chuuya knows it's not true. Like even though they both know he wouldn't really cry, he still couldn’t find anything else to explain how he felt at that moment. Like if he could cry, this would be the moment he did. IN THIS ESSAY I WILL—

[boxesblr]

I never moved on from pib's final pickpocket on the Baba Yaga and saying "I would like to try to steal back everything she took from us" btw. It's the perfect capstone on a running joke that underlined the character archetype. It's loving and heartfelt and simple and cheeky. It makes no apologies about being a trickster move. Real in what it means to accomplish and unreal in what it makes true about the world.

And then he's honest with her about it. And she remarks that it's just like the two of them, for him to steal and her to be stolen from. That they're so alike, that they transcend this corruption and unmaking and soon to be remaking. They're just so archetypal - a witch and a black cat

[boyanacronism]

can you guys hold my pmzai for me while I head to the store? thanks.

[northgazaupdates]

30 January 2024

Journalist Hossam Shabat reports a gruesome discovery this evening. He writes,

A major crime has been uncovered in northern Gaza. The bodies of citizens were discovered handcuffed with cloth over their eyes, and they had been executed. We found them under a mountain of rubble and garbage.

Resistance News Network on Telegram provides additional details:

🚨 30 bodies left in plastic body bags were discovered in the Khalifa bin Zayed school in Beit Lahia in the northern #Gaza Strip following IOF withdrawal.

All 30 people were executed by the IOF, with their hands tied behind their backs, eyes covered with cloth, and their bodies concealed in zip-up bags buried under the sand by the zionist occupation forces.

[zaimta]

thinking ab boyfriend!laxus <3

boyfriend!laxus who is a sucker for hip dips, he as no real reason to but he loves them. he loves seeing you in clothing that shows them off too

boyfriend!laxus who shocks you a little with his lightning to get your attention or to tease you

boyfriend!laxus who crumbles under your touch when you hold him close

boyfriend!laxus who constantly apologizes to you for the man he was while kissing your palm and thanking you for staying by his side because he doesn’t know how he would live without you

boyfriend!laxus who often gives you his coat the second you shiver

boyfriend!laxus who traces your guild mark lovingly

boyfriend!laxus who has unsent letters from his exile from fairy tail and gives them to you one by one to remind you how much he loves you

boyfriend!laxus who loves kissing you on your neck and your shoulder because you can’t see the faint blush coating his cheeks

boyfriend!laxus who listens to his grandfather’s advice when he tells him not to let you go

zai says: i’m in love w/ him so bad totally gonna do this again bc i could talk ab him for AGES, laxus moots WHEN💔

[littencloud9]

asagiri hasnt given us kunikida’s backstory because 16!kunikida would be the biggest rebel with piercings and an undercut and leather jackets and the world’s not ready to handle that yet

[bexx1things]

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

[booskwan]

LEVANTER 191215

[etrevil]

I have so much to say but I honestly just love how they look and feel like teenagers that do shit on a daily basis with side gig in the mafia

anyways NEXT 15 CHAPTER UPDATE THREE DAYS AHHSHAHSNKWMDNA

[thecollectibles]

Pixel Art by Elizaveta Zay

[zaiofender]

— Grief, is perhaps the last and final translation of love.

[sweetwhitechoco]

From Episode 6 - The Devil is in the Tails