#anzai yae

[cornfarm]

isjeishwish plz tell us more about anzai-chi

like her relationship with the another characters

also ur drawingstyle is 🥺🥺🥺

OMG i'm so happy you asked!!! i'm so happy people care abt her, and thank you!!!! :DD

i'll give some fun facts about her and then talk a bit abt her relationships! i wrote a LOT so i put most of it under a cut! i'll give anyone who reads it all a cookie lol

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her planets name is mezpria! she calls herself a mezprian.

anzai is usually seen carrying around a mop. she usually has it slung across her shoulders carrying bags. shes very skilled in spearsmanship, so she sometimes swings around her mop for fun, and people with keen eyes for fighting recognize her precision with her strokes.

that being said, she does have a spear! i mentioned that she could channel thunder to strike, this spear is what allows her to do so. when she swings it and a certain speed, it creates a line of static, and lightning will strike whatever connects, or is closest to that line. because of how dangerous it is to be put in the wrong hands, she keeps it under her bed in her apartment.

her extensive use of it during the war is what caused her hearing problems. she's not entirely deaf, but she does miss things if people speak too quietly. she does know sign language! she teaches the yorozuya some so they can gossip about people across the room.

this does mean though, that she fights frequently with simply a mop. it's a similar gag to gintoki's wooden sword, but when people say she's holding a mop, she just tilts her head and says "this is a spear?".

this is her and her spear:

sougo thinks she's funny because hijikata HATES her. he's always pissed off about how she's skirting perfectly around the law, and manages to avoid being arrested. he even hates her more because he really likes a certain type of cigarette she sells. she sells them in packs of 20, and they're made from a type of fermented, then dried wheat from her home planet.

he'll come into the shop yelling about he's "gonna arrest her and she better watch out" while buying cigarettes. the only quality he'll ever admit to liking about her is that she never comments on his hypocrisy, and that she doesn't (outwardly) judge him for his food choices.

other than hijikata, the rest of the shinsengumi is relatively neutral about her. sougo does find her antics very amusing. he definitely comes to her shop like "miss anzai will you please teach me how to roll cigarettes <3" and then puts cyanide in one for hijikata. then when it's the one she picks up to smoke he punches her so that she doesn't. maybe he hangs around because he can sense how mischevous she is.

she's always eager to teach people things about her culture and how she runs her shop! as much as she's eager to teach sougo, she also ends up teaching shinpachi and kagura lots of stuff as well. she would never say she's maternal, or a mother figure, but there's something about the way she explains things, and brings them food, and gives advice that get a "thanks mom".

sometimes she gets it from gintoki too, but when he says it she looks at him very sadly. she HATES being called mom and scolds them for it.

speaking of gintoki, i'm tired of a harem, so he likes her! it's entirely unclear to everyone if she reciprocates. she shows just enough interest to suggest she might have feelings, but she's so distant it's hard to tell. even though his kids tease him by saying shit like "please don't lower your standards to someone as low as him," to her, theyre all secretly rooting for him.

she initially met them because she needed some people to help her move and decorate her shop. they asked her why she didn't hire a moving company instead. she says there wasn't a particular reason, but she had been lingering outside their shop for a solid week before talking to them. they definitely noticed and were like "whats with this chick", especially cause she would just stand there and stare up at the sign trying to muster the courage. she really wanted to meet people and try to make some friends!

she pays them so well they actually do an okay job! anzai thanks them, and tells them they're allowed to come by anytime, and she'll give them a discount for anything they'd like. they come by very often, gintoki particularly likes the alcohol she sells, as a lot of it is very sweet, so they frequently drink together at night.

she also brings them food often. it's an easy way for her to express gratitude and affection. she's pretty poor at cooking japanese food at first, but she learns quickly!

her and gintoki have a lot in common, the biggest aspect of their relationship being their sense of humor! she's always amused by the things he says, and it's very reciprocated. he likes that her humor is so similar- they end up bonding really quick. they do banter a bit, but a lot of their interactions are enabling each other. he teases her a lot.

kagura and shinpachi don't like the way they talk to each other. kagura says their weirdness rubs off on each other too much, whereas shinpachi is simply baffled about how there's someone who can match his energy so well.

heres a silly comic i made:

anzai does give him these judgemental looks sometimes, but they're done playfully. when he does cross a line and piss her off, she just disappears, always managing to be away when he looks for her. when they fight it's miserable to watch because gintoki's too stubborn to talk to her, and she's too freaked out by emotional confrontation.

they're all very thankful anzai is a little bit responsible and always makes up with them. gintoki frequents her shop and is like, "hey, i'm not here for you. give me 5 of those little bread things, three of them strawberry and the other two peach. that's what i'm here for, not for you. are you free later?" and then lingers around way too long.

she tries to give otae cooking lessons, masked by a "let me teach you how to make a classic mezprian dish ^__^" in an attempt to alleviate shinpachi from his despair. she manages to screw up even simple recipes so she just shrugs at him.

one time katsura's ronin try to assassinate her because they heard crazy rumors about her war crimes and exploits and she just looks at him like "can you stop trying to kill me please." eventually he's like "my bad lol we heard a bunch of crazy rumors about you" and she's like "those are all true :)"

she gets very silly and happy when drunk, so her and gintoki have a lot of fun drinking together. although sometimes she tries to tackle him, she doesn't have the arm strength when she's drunk, so he always ends up just swinging her around. she's definitely gotten a concussion at some point.

she also tends to crash with him, so when shinpachi sees her sneaking out in the early morning she always gaslights him into thinking he was seeing things.

hasegawa, gintoki, and her gamble often! she's pretty well off so she's not too worried about money, so she just thinks its fun. when they tell her to start stripping so they can continue gambling something away and she's like "absolutely not" and then takes her apron off.

i feel like i've spoken really only highly of her, but despite how she's generally liked and beloved by many, she's painfully distant. she's always a few steps out of reach from everyone, and because of that she feels like an outsider. heres another drawing of her:

most people call her anzai(-san), but otae and hasegawa call her yae, while kagura calls her yae-chan. sougo commonly calls her boss, and gintoki calls her a slew of shitty nicknames, most commonly with her lastname, since it uses the kanji for "toki". she calls almost everyone by their first name with no honorifics.

AND THATS IT!!! i can definitely think of a hundred more scenarios with her and different cast members but i've already written so much ;__;

if you've read this far i'm giving u ur cookie of choice

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[cornfarm]

hiii i wanted to share my gintama oc because i've been developing her for literally 5 years at this point and i think i'm finally settled on it!!

here's some artwork i've made for her:

so info abt her^__^

her name is anzai yae, and she's an amanto immigrant! she's 24, and she owns a small specialty shop in kabukicho.

at her little shop, she sells a wide variety of things, such as small pasteries and drinks native to her home planet, as well as smoking and alcohol products. her store hours are very strange- she opens up shop at noon, and closes around 2am! she has a garden in the back of the store. because her home planet is not in great communication with earth, her shop is a very popular place to hang out at since it has lots of rare food!

yae isn't techincally allowed to sell her smoking products, since the materials used to make them are unliscensed in edo's official health records. basically, they don't know what it is, so she's not allowed to sell it. because she doesn't have a visa, she can't apply for a license to sell her smoking products. she techincally can't do that much bc of her lack of documentation but she cheeses it barely within the law.

the shinsengumi frequents the store being like "miss anzai you can't sell this", and frequently threatens closing the shop, but after an incident when her home planets government threatened the shinsengumi, they begrudgingly give her a pass to continue selling. she saved their asses, and they were like "damn... we'll give you a pass as long as you don't cause any trouble... as a treat..." which she is very well behaved (within the law) <3

backstory! she's a war criminal! she served during a 5 year long war between her country, the empire, and a neighboring one, the kingdom. she grew up in a monastery, being trained and conditioned since a young age to become a weapon of war. she's very strong, and was nicknamed "executioner anzai" during the war, for her very cutthroat and remorseless style of killing. i have so much lore about this but i will stop here.

she has lots of arrow scars on her abdomen- she rode on a dragon during the war, and was frequently targeted by archers. she was essentially a weapon of war. she used her spear to strike thunder down onto her opponents- her hearing is poor because of this.

because of how she was raised, she has no sense of identity, no hobbies, no desires, no dreams, nothing. all she knows is that she wants to live freely. she wants to be liberated from her past of blind servitutde, and her craftsmanship making jewelry and weapons and food and custom rolled cigars is how her desire to live free has manifested.

she's comically unpredictable. at times she scolds the yorozuya for their antics, and at others she not only joins them, but goes one step higher than them. it seems like her moral compass is broken, the needle pointing in all different random directions. she also tends to do very abnormal things totally nonchalant, thinking that whatever abnormal thing she just did was normal. it's not cultural.

she's frequently seen staring very intensely at people she recognizes, but wont talk to them. she looks sad and dead all the time but she's actually just contemplating very silly and mundane things like if she should treat herself to dessert, or when it's going to rain. she just looks very o__o.

she comes off as distant and mysterious upon meeting her. the yorozuya's first impression of her was "yeah, this chick is definitely hiding something really good", and yes, she is hiding stuff, she actually just comes off that way out of shyness. they're almost a little disappointed when they find this out, but their persistent advances towards her gives her a sense of ease and she becomes significantly less stiff and much more animated.

she's very strong willed, especially when she learns how she wants to live her life. she is scarily devoted to her idea of peace, and would, albeit very sadly, betray her friends to achieve it. ironically, she also learns to want to love and protect things other than herself. her blind submission to the empire was both rooted in isolation as well as fear of what would happen to her if she said no, and now that she's been freed of that part of her past, she can begin to love others for the sake of love.

this poses conflict, though, when she's put in situations where to maintain peace in her life, she must hurt the ones she loves. her brain kinda short circuits and doesn't know what to do. and although she usually makes the right choices when in difficult moments, it's a challenge nonetheless .

ummmm that's kinda all i wanna share ^__^ i have so much more lore but that's all to say that i don't want her to be a mary sue or anything.

i know there is a lot of text, but if u have anything to say abt her, or share ur own oc then pls!!! my askbox is open for a reason :D

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