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You discover the true nature of a person while lying down, vulnerable and helpless"

Your husband, who wanted to know you, UNTIL you beat him.

Your rival, who decided to know you, AFTER you beat him.

This series has so many beautiful parallels.

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TaiMizu Week is over, but my love for this ship never ends✨️

I just wanted to do a thank-you post for all the love and support my fanarts received (especially the first one!!). It's been a long time since I've done fandom content so I was a little nervous, I'm glad you liked it 😔🩵💚

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HEY GUYS I FORGOT TO SAY I'M MAKING STICKERS

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Spoiler alert: it’s been a year and a half and twenty chapters, and I won’t get to anything horse girl-y until maybe chapter 27 😅😅😅😅

I think everyone in the blue eye samurai fandom should be really proud of me because not only have I not mentioned horses at all so far in my fic, I won’t even hint at Mizu’s horse girl-ery until chapter 17. And I didn’t even consider putting a horse girl subplot in until after I’d finished chapter six.

my restraint is incredible yall, be proud of me

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Update: chapter 20

frat house shenanigans, broody Mizu, awkward Taigen, and political-animal Akemi…

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Taimizu week 2025

I didn’t really get to any of the prompts but instead this is a little season two version of Mizu and Taigen in my style 🫣

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But wait! There’s more!

4. London – “By Torchlight” 🕯️– post season 1 – rating: G – in a mansion abroad, a plan goes awry, and Taigen makes a quick decision.

5. Utility – “Stretch” 🥋– sports AU – rating: E– in the days following an unplanned hookup, two martial artists get a little hot and bothered at the gym…

Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈 have some more disaster queers doing disaster-queer things

“Scenarios” – Taimizu week 2025

Japan – “Hinoban”– 🏯 alt. canon – rating: T – Mizu becomes a fireguard for the shogun's inner palaces.

Snow – "Ask" 💍– modern AU – rating: G – On a gray winter's day, somebody is feeling nervous.

Sea – "Bilge Rat" 🌊– post season 1 – rating: E – At sea, Taigen finds himself alone with nothing but Mizu on his mind.

Will be updated with more for other prompts as the week goes on <3

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TaiMizu Week Day 3:

Japan

(Sukeban & Banchō AU!)

(Close up)

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Would she ever tease him like that? probably not 😂 is it a cute scene from Ms. Congeniality ? very much so 🥺❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much Emmy for the idea, I love your content it never fails to make me laugh 🫶

But anyways back to the London Taimizu I’m manifesting the fact that Taigen is on that boat 😓

(I am probably gonna follow the prompt so this is technically not day one of Taimizu week but I still wanted to post something in the meantime 😭)

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TaiMizu Week Day 2

Devotion

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“Scenarios” – Taimizu week 2025

Japan – “Hinoban”– 🏯 alt. canon – rating: T – Mizu becomes a fireguard for the shogun's inner palaces.

Snow – "Ask" 💍– modern AU – rating: G – On a gray winter's day, somebody is feeling nervous.

Sea – "Bilge Rat" 🌊– post season 1 – rating: E – At sea, Taigen finds himself alone with nothing but Mizu on his mind.

Will be updated with more for other prompts as the week goes on <3

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TaiMizu Week Day 1:

Sea

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It’s happening, y’all! ✌️⚔️🏯👹🎎💙💚🔥🌊

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!!! literally I will always be obsessed with casually-skewering-this-mofo Taigen, it’s one of my fave moments for him, but I never thought about how Mizu-y it is until just now?? You’re right????

and what’s really killing me is this is a few fucking minutes after mizu tells akemi “he’s not a good man, but he could be a great one.” She has no idea he’s going to do this, she has no idea gates the fact that he did it at all, as far as we know… but she’s still judging Taigen by her whacked out sense of logic and honor, and part of what had been holding taigen back from greatness, to Mizu’s mind anyway, was his inability to break from formality, his reliance on Bushido shit. And then, while she’s telling akemi she thinks Taigen could really be somebody (while couching it in an insult saying he isn’t a good person, this backhanded compliment) Taigen is out here trying to save the shogun’s life by doing Crazy Shit in What Would Mizu Do mode… it’s such an amazing set of parallel actions for them, throughout the episode, and it’s incredible that, when all is said and done, Taigen is the one who alters course and decides to lean into the chance for a happy, less-violent, non-glamorous life- everything he hadn’t been interested in before meeting Mizu again. And it’s Mizu who doubles down on what makes her “not a good man” and gets on that boat with Fowler without telling anyone that she ain’t dead.

God, I love this fucking shooowwwwws

yall ever think about how one of the first times we see taigen kill anyone onscreen it's a "dishonourable" kill he does out of revenge.

like before this we hear akemi's father mention him killing 24 people in duels, but we never actually see taigen kill anyone onscreen until this moment. he helps mizu temporarily evade the archers in episode 3, but he doesn't actually kill anyone; the archers are invisible to them and the viewers. then he gets caught and tortured and when mizu finds him again, he's too weak to actually do any damage to anyone and mizu just slaps him away during the "bell tolls" fight sequence. and then skip to the final episode, there's that moment where he and ringo charge through the front door to meet the shogun, but even then it doesn't really look like they did any real damage and that's why they get easily caught after. only is it in this scene do see him in the background killing fowler's men alongside mizu, before finally taking centre stage and making this kill.

him killing heiji shindo in this way just shows how far he's come as a character. it's symbolic of him following in mizu's footsteps, not only in getting revenge against a man who's wronged him, but also in shedding his usual code of honour.

like this man got everything stripped from him by the boy he used to bully as a kid and then proceeded to be completely changed by that same boy.

his entire worldview and values were flipped all the way upside down. from wanting to be rich and powerful to just wanting to be happy. and all because of this one person, who, by "ruining" his life, actually made him a better person.

this beautiful badass stoic mysterious incredible strong arrogant intelligent person whom taigen has come to completely respect and admire by the end of the season.

someone whom he'd thought was ontologically evil by the nature of their birth, someone whom he himself had tormented in the past, now just constantly changing and saving his life and showing him there's more important things than ambition and pride.

imagine being so changed by your greatest rival. oh taimizu nobody is doing enemies to lovers like you!

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same mizu same [x]

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Special look at Taigen in season 2