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ok what happened to Sonic and Tails? Why are they villains now?

That’s kinda of a secret for now mostly because I do wanna draw it out!! :) BUT I will say their whole villain arc is inspired by castlevania, The Daily bugle(Spider-man) and Noah Total Drama Fanfics (IM NOT EXPLAINING THIS ONE)

I’ll also add that this may be a villain AU- but I only see Tails as a villain and sonic as a cowardly henchman yk

Example:

[batbeato]

Sometimes I feel bad for Kinzo. He was forced into a marriage he didn’t want, a position he didn’t want. He might have been upper class - not rich rich like the main family, but upper class - before the quake, but then he was dropped into the headship and being pressured to renew the family’s wealth …that can screw with your mental health. Even if those things ultimately led him to meeting Bice, it still…sucked?

Then I remember he abused his children by his wife, raped his own other daughter who he kept in a cage designed like a mansion - and I want to punch him. Hard. Regardless of his mental state, it’s not an excuse for what he did.

Sometimes I wonder if he was legitimately going insane, his capability to control himself impaired - though it would be even worse for Kinzo to be sane, as many abusers are for the most part, and simply be hiding behind his own delusions.

He really probably did begin to loose it with Lion’s death, though.

We don’t even know if his relationship with Bice was fully consensual, because they both communicated through their secondary languages, she didn’t know japanese - or maybe only picked up bits and pieces of it - and she had no place or family to go. For Bice’s sake and some minor sympathy for Kinzo, I hope it was - but canonically…we don’t know.

It’s jarring to know that he was capable of brutally beating his legitimate children with his bare hands and wooden swords, but treat the two Beatrice he loved - even if it was an possessive love, even back when Bice was alive - so gently, giving them all the luxuries in the world he could afford.

Anyway, the entire reason behind my rambling is - do you think Kinzo would have treated his grandchildren more gently post-lion’s death? Or be harsher? I’m not going to exactly say kindly because Battler mentions being unable to breathe when he was in the room and everyone being frightened of him, but gentler? In a way.

That's the thing with Kinzo: he actually went through a lot. He was forced into becoming head, used as a puppet by the elders, forced into a marriage with a woman he didn't love, had children with her that he didn't care about, and all the while he was really depressed/suicidal to the point of signing up for the military in the hopes of dying. But that doesn't excuse his actions, just explains how the cycle of abuse includes him, too. An endless chain stretching back unbroken.

The point about languages for Bice's consent is interesting - I always felt it was more in doubt due to the implication of Kinzo machinating the Italian-Japanese conflict so that he could have Bice and the gold to himself. Very extreme form of isolation that he intentionally brought about. Hell, even if she was consenting the relationship still had a very lopsided power dynamic (she didn't speak the language or have a legal right to be in the country or have any allies besides him) and from their dialogue (if taken at face value) it seems like they grew to be codependent on each other. "I will die without you" is romantic but also. Get therapy.

A lot of abusers are like that, where they have specific targets of the abuse but also treat outsiders or a specific person kindly. For example, golden child/scapegoat dynamic (is often terrible for both but on the surface the golden child is treated far better and granted a lot of privilege).

As for Kinzo being kinder to his grandchildren... Maybe? If we take EP8, we see Battler talking about Kinzo doing stuff like having a Halloween party or giving presents to his grandchildren. EP8 is definitely a flanderized version of Kinzo but it does seem like he might have been capable of some kindness towards his grandchildren in light of Lion's death? There's a grain of truth in every illusion after all. But it does seem like he was still very strict given how the cousins talk about him at other times, so he probably didn't soften that much. One idea is that his self in EP8 is him after he really began to try to atone for what he did post-death and came to start to care about his other family besides his obsession with Bice/Beatrice/Sayo. ...Still probably flanderized a bit though.