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Thanks for the ask! I may or may not go hogwild, so it'll be under the cut:
Favorite Thing About Them?
How much this guy cares.
Someone's getting mistreated? He's backing them up.
A village of oni needs help? He's got it, no questions asked.
The Arataki Gang? He took them all in and accepts them as they are.
Stuck in a cavern? He'll punch his way out. Literally.
Youkai wanna have a festival? Well, he's on it and he'll do it all himself?
You graduate? He's arranging a whole celebration for your achievements.
He just cares so much about everything and he does so with an intensity that is fierce and an intensity that you can feel.
I love him.
Least Favorite Thing About Them?
I'll be the first to say that I would like for him to think on occasion.
The intensity with which he acts on things without reasoning through them gets him into more trouble than not.
I guarantee you that if he actually took things into consideration, he'd have had a bit more success in his life.
He can still do the damn thing, but at least he wouldn't be running in blind.
Favorite Line?
Boy, do I have a lot of them. I'll do the top three starting from the bottom:
"Hey, this is the mighty Arataki "Above All, Bold-Blooded" Itto you're talking to here! I'm a say-what-I-mean, mean-what-I-say, might-sound-mean-but-I-say-it-anyway kinda guy. And I say, we're gonna have this duel!" (The delivery)
"What can you possibly find inside? It can't be a living person, can it, hahaha... Whoa!" (Again, the delivery)
Arataki Itto: Hello (The line that reeled me in)
BONUS: "If you wanna take my Vision, you're gonna need a lot more people. 'Cause I'm Arataki Itto, The Supreme, The One and Oni!" (Character Demo, this shit dragged me into Genshin Impact in the first place)
BROTP?
Itto, Thoma, and Ayato are already a given and pretty much the closet thing to canon but hear me out:
Itto and Bennett.
They would get along so well because Bennett would be like 'oh no my bad luck' and Itto would be like 'that's nonsense because you're like one of the best guys I've met'.
They'd go adventuring too.
ALSO: Itto and Eula. They're not as similar as you'd think, but we already KNOW that Itto wouldn't tolerate people treating Eula bad over something she can't control because he knows all about that.
Itto and Zhongli but I'm already doing something with that one-
OTP?
You see, the only one I can see for me personally is Itto and Sara, but even then, I'd want them to be friends first.
The dynamics of them both being youkai as well as their own individuals struggling around that identity have so much potential, I'm telling you.
Other than that, I haven't seen any, but I will say that there's a case for Itto and Yoimiya. Just a bit. It's not my favorite, but I see where people are coming from with that one.
So in general, even if you did see me in my Ittosara phase, I'm over it and just want people to be friends with each other I guess.
NOTP?
. . . I don't have any? I think? Besides the obvious ones involving literal children?
I don't actively decry any ships that have some basis, really.
Random Headcanon?
You cannot tell me that this man wouldn't try snorting Pixy Sticks at least once.
Unpopular Opinion?
I really don't get why people only see him as an idiot.
He has his moments, sure, but in multiple instances, he's shown an incredible aptitude for reading certain situations and managing to solve the problem as well as gain the respect of others.
There's also the horniness and while I am the last person to bash people for anything of the sort, that seems to be the majority of the content for him.
I like digging deep into characters and really forming attachments to them based on the attributes I see and on occasion, I'm disheartened by the fact that I seem to be the only one who does.
But hey, who else is going to do the work if not me?
Song I Associate With Them?
Oh, this is interesting. I obviously associate his theme with him, but I feel as if that's too easy . . .
Got it. Escape From The City or City Escape from the Sonic Adventure 2 OST. The lyrics, the music, the sound . . .
It's definitely Itto.
Favorite Picture of Them?
I'm sure you can understand why.
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the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.
capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.
now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.
and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.
and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.
and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".
it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"
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I'm so tired of cis people asking stuff like, "Why would Texas want a list of trans people who legally changed their names?" or "Why would Florida want a list of college students who have seeking gender affirming care? We can't figure it out."
It's eliminationist.
Ken Paxton wants a list of trans people who have changed their name in Texas so he can reverse all of those decisions (and that's the most charitable interpretation). Ron DeSantis wants a list of college students who have sought affirming care so he can force them to detransition.
Oklahoma introduced a bill to forcibly detransition people under the age of 21 (ironically doing what they accuse us of doing, forcing someone to live as the wrong gender). Texas has a new bill that will ban gender affirming care for every Texan of any age and makes it a felony for doctors to provide it. Multiple states either have passed or will pass bills that will ban legal name changes. Some states have slipped in language to anti-drag bills (which are horrific enough on their own) that ban anyone from displaying, presenting, or dressing outside their "biological" gender (one state has language about "DNA gender") in public.
It's about legally and morally mandating trans people out of existence.
Plain and simple. It's about making sure that trans people can not exist. Period. It's not about restrictions, or "think of the children!" It's about eliminating us from public life and then eliminating us from private life so that we have a choice of either die or conform.
When will y'all realize this isn't some wedge issue or a political football that they'll just give up on if they lose an election or two. These are ideologues who are singularly focused. They don't care about the marketplace of ideas. They don't give a shit if they get mocked on lefty Twitter and the late night shows. They only care about one thing: gaining and then wielding power to achieve their goal of eliminating trans people (and then gay people, and then women who don't conform to their gender standards, ect).
If you give them that power they will use it.
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