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nagi seishiro

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I love how this is Isagi’s character core point: differently from the other guys in Blue Lock, who have always known to be good - and have always played to their strengths enhancing them throughout the narrative, Isagi on the other hand has no delusions about being above average player skills. He simply understands reality as it is, and that is exactly why is he both able to evolve, and be as rational as he is, at the same tome incurring in the ires of the other players and putting them in their plays.

Isagi’s real weapon here is being with his feet well placed on the ground: he sees things as they are, he processes them rationally and then acts on them. Unlike Rin, the same Shidou, Barou, Kaiser and Yukimiya - Isagi is a realist. He is never been in the situation when he was the best, and has no expectations for himself or what he can achieve: there is no peak, it’s all a road up and above.

It’s also why Ego’s commentary in this chapter is important: what he says for Nagi and Yukimiya is a bit of a general discourse that Isagi has applied unknowingly now for a while. Once a player is over in his head above himself (somewhat Kunigami) it’s over: they believe a fluke is their ability and when they fail to up keep with their own expectations and those of others, they start yo fall into a pattern that eventually makes them mediocre, instead of true egoists.

On the other hand, Isagi by the virtue of now having a self to fall onto, a talent he can use, of not being as good as, is able to put himself in the situation where he can learn, where he can best the others by exploiting not only his own strengths but also their weaknesses. It’s about about an ‘I’ type of ego, but an ego that makes you conscious of yourself in the field and your position: it’s a selfish ego that makes you jump when the moment is right. It’s not about a “I will do this all alone”, but a “I will make it happen, because I am the only one able to make it happen” and that, my folks is Isagi’s essence.

He is an egoist because he has learned to cope with his faulty self and has passed a stage where he is the challenged rather than the challenger. Isagi IS evolution because he does not care about falling prey to mistake - but instead uses them to devour himself all over again.

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All the blue lock volume covers until now, for your enjoyment and my obsession

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The real reason Cyno told so many jokes during windblume…

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gamer bfs

https://twitter.com/jei_mjr

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ive just always had this furious urge to draw nagi licking isagi this is the first of many im afraid

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rereading the manshine vs BM match and i notice these cruel(?) parallels

their combo play is going well. reo thanking nagi, of course right??? theyre teaming up after all. AND YET nagi is thanking ISAGI for the play he managed to pull out

coincidence? check this one

reo saying nagi is all he sees. sure. BUT THEN immediately after his goal nagi is only thinking of and looking at isagi

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This screams NagiSagi tbh. Can’t get over the fact that Nagi noticed Isagi first 😖

He called him shorty LMAO 😭 Isagi’s 5’9 but Nagi is so tall he’s almost a head taller than Isagi.

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Can we talk about how Isagi is the first and only person (so far) to ever make Nagi go all out like this.

The first instances is in the second stage of the second selection when Isagi told him to intercept the pass from Reo to Chigiri.

And then we see it again with the latest Manshine City vs Bastard Munich match.

Look at him being so desperate.

Which is understandable because Isagi is evolving in a rapid pace and Nagi is getting left behind further and further.

Isagi being the person to reveal the hidden sides of Nagi and drives him to actually put effort, pushing his limit in order to improve, is what I think the essence of their relationship and the reason why I love them so much.

I mean, let’s look at this for example.

The pre-Isagi Nagi didn’t even want to finish the training. But with Isagi, he volunteered to join Barou’s rigorous training even without anyone nagging him to.

But of course, the best part is how Isagi still manages to leave him behind in the end.

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i wanna hear your heart’s song!

full piece for heartstrings, a genshin music zine! thanks for having me 🎵

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🍃 Scholars and Scaras 🍃

For this week’s video I drew some of Sumeru’s finest fellas! ✨🍃 (here’s hoping it manifests some luck for Al Haitham’s banner so I can complete this set in-game 🙏💦)

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[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS] ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

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a piece i drew for raging tide, a tartaglia zine that finished last year!

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Wanderer

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Your heart. 

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woosh woosh anemo babyyyyy