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Sometimes a family is the second son of the Shogun, his gatekeeping, gaslighting girlboss wife, her disgraced balding fiancé, his definitely-a-boy friend hellbent on revenge for being conceived and the bestest boy in the whole wide world

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Sometimes a family is the second son of the Shogun, his gatekeeping, gaslighting girlboss wife, her disgraced balding fiancé, his definitely-a-boy friend hellbent on revenge for being conceived and the bestest boy in the whole wide world

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Me: Mizu’s gender in Blue Eye Samurai is complex and ambiguous even to him/her/them and that’s part of the richness of the story, not a reason for the fandom to get upset at one another or especially at the show creators for saying they envisioned Mizu as a woman struggling to survive in a society hostile towards her racial background and women in general. Mizu’s upbringing was, to put it lightly, supremely fucked up and I respect the show for leaving Mizu’s gender identity and sexual preferences fairly ambiguous because I think they’re ambiguous even to Mizu, who doesn’t exactly lead a life or display an internality in which this question is any kind of priority for Mizu to answer, even if Mizu had a cultural context that gave the tools the answer it, which Mizu does not. Mizu’s relationship with all aspects of their identity, including their race, gender, sexuality is an ongoing question and dialogue being actively explored in the show itself, without a strict conclusion offered, and a conclusion might never be offered, even in later seasons, as Mizu continues to grapple with identity. In this essay, I will…

Also me: Mizu’s gender is revenge.

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tumblr posts with these two give me life inspired by @carrot-love-to-be-indecisive post

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i can't stress it enough how crazy the love triangle situation is. mizu and akemi have a slow motion romcom first glance at each other. mizu and taigen are enemies to lovers. mizu taunts akemi about taigen while wearing his scarf. mizu imagines taigen while seeing a threesome. mizu and akemi have sex scenes juxtaposed with each other. taigen and mizu's brawl is an obvious parallel to mizu and mikio. "this isn't over" "i know". both could happen. neither could happen. all could happen all at once. and i'm watching it all like this

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So them

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I WANT TO BE GREAT.

BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023)

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this is how their duel went, right

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i can not believe she did do it to both of them

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ALL ABOARD FOR THE MASTER EIJI FAN CLUB

inspired by this post. Immaculate, @aye-of-newt

Best father and son-daughter-stupid-lost-boy duo. that’s her Dad of Steel your honor.

ID by @princess-of-purple-prose

[ID: Blue Eye Samurai fanart of Eiji and Mizu. Eiji is smiling and wearing a shirt that says "I'm not the step father, I'm the father that stepped up." Mizu smiles and does a thumbs-up. End ID]

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What a dysfunctional squad.

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Mizu from Blue Eye Samurai 👹🎎🔥

Androginity peaked with her

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uh oh guys new favourite character time

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The Swordmaker and his Meteorite Child.

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Had to draw the trio

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If my wife handed me my ass in combat and then kissed me after pointing a katana at my throat, I would recognize the gesture as the peak of romance it is and would fall even more in love with her. Rip to that guy Mizu married for like a year but I'm different.