ok- soooo… my brain thought of smth a tiny bit fucked but the i remembered this is kny and atla so it’s ok to be fucked. so, in the series water benders are like- not really in the war, but they were basically taken from the south tribe for war reasons. the angst in my brain is that the southern tribe in this au is where urokodaki would train all of this students (yes, the past dead ones are alive in this) and then the demons attacked (they’re basically the fire nation in this).
(also in this au in my take (you can see how you’d like) the demons aren’t really demons. they’re human, but they use this fucked up branch or rather a “weed” of the breath-bending that’s the equivalent of dark magic basically.)
they just took everyone with no remorse for anything, and then they found out that water’s conductive. sooooo- torture via electricity was used to make the water benders weapons of war!!! yay!!
giyuu was considered one of the best in the small tribe (i think between him, sabito, and makomo, giyuu was the one to completely master water breathing and well- survived canon). shock collars were obviously used- cause this is demons we’re talking about.
giyuu and basically all of the tribe were just abused for years (lets use giyuu’s age as a reference). the tribe was taken when giyuu was 8- the controlling and abuse didn’t stop until giyuu was 19. basically instead of him finding tanjiro, tanjiro found him.
you can only imagine how just aggressive giyuu was, a major contrast to his usual calm and stoic personality. tanjiro probably couldn’t even get close without giyuu being violent so he called for backup from the corps/friends. let’s say that sanemi and shinobu and kyojuro were sent there (sanemi was there in case of a fight.) to say that giyuu’s condition was worrying would be an understatement.
literally every single water breather was fucked- they needed the moon for spiritual healing but we’re never given the chance to see it for god knows how long, barely any food or water. kyojuro probably threw up when he saw kids in there. sanemi was just pissed about this, a whole ass tribe was ignored by the world. also don’t worry, literally no one is dead from the water tribe. but idk of that’s a good thing tbh….
it took them literally forever to get giyuu to trust them, like trying to tame a wild animal. but the simplest thing is what got literally the whole tribe to trust them, the promise of seeing the moon and sea again. tanjiro was just happy to see the southern tribe from the stories, but so sad that they were like this for 11 years. the moment they even opened the door for the tribe- it was literally like setting caged birds free. though urokodaki was the one who told the four, “thank you” and followed his students into the beach on a full moon.
also the shock collars took some time to remove, no one really sat still at all, or some stood unnervingly still. shinobu knew that it would them literal years to recover from all of that trauma, potentially a whole lifetime. kyojuro probably sobbed his sweet little heart out when he saw them so happy on the beach (emotional bitch), sanemi was still fuming, mf was READY to put an end to this war. he just imagined genya in this situation and was like “no i im not letting this slide” and proceeded to sink the entire fleet that did this to the tribe (W sanemi).
sighhhh this thought happens from remembering the episode of when katara found another water bender from the southern tribe (holy fuck i can’t remember the name) and she ended up being fucked in the head after all.
so, does that mean giyuu can be feral and deranged when he’s completely ticked off?? yes, more feral giyuu content for the starving people. he’d be so much more intense with any threat (maybe like when azula was going a bit silly) but after the threat is gone he’s just “woopsie daisies my bad yall”
they ended up taking the tribe to the corps and basically giving them a safe place to heal and relax. gyomei ended up being good friends with a lot of them because water benders are very sweet to him and the kids thought he was cool (a little scary at first). giyuu, bless his soul, was found by tengen immediately. mf knew he HAD to befriend this guy, sabito wasn’t having it tho so know there’s sabito and tengen beef.
anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk about this fucked up lil thing… i’m not okay because i started typing this out at 8 in the morning…
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Whumpers, what are your earliest memories?
Mine is from when I was about two or three. I was in a stroller, at my cousin’s Irish dancing recital. After the recital, my aunts were talking down to me in the stroller, and to each other. I was experiencing extreme anxiety because I couldn’t understand what they were saying, when I felt I should have been able to communicate with them like they were communicating with each other. I was also very tired and dazed. I did not cry though… I probably looked normal on the outside.
I also remember when I was about four or five, I went to the beach with my dad and one of his friends. I somehow found my way onto the dock, planted my little rear end on a jet ski, untethered it from the dock, and started floating into the sunset. There was an old lady lounging in a donut inflatable out some way; she said something to me, but I couldn’t understand what she said, despite trying really hard. I’m assuming it was something along the lines of “Oh my god get off that jet ski you’re going to fucking DIE, kid,” but again… couldn’t understand a word of what she said, and got frustrated because she was speaking English (without an accent) and I should know how to understand adults speaking English to me.
At this point, my dad is yelling at me from across the water, and a young lifeguard drags the jet ski back. On land, my dad lectured at me very harshly as he led me back to the car. I didn’t know I had done anything wrong, and was very confused. At some point this guy starts quoting the Bible at me, and the only thing I could pick out were the words (spoken very emphatically), “Your days are numbered.”
“My days are numbered?” cue a vivid mental image of a calendar, with dates listed for every day of the week, “What does that mean?” Later on I figured out this was the Bible’s way of referencing death at God’s hand which just made me even more confused as to what I did, until at age thirteen, I figured out, “Oh a baby who can’t swim floating on a jet ski is terrifying, actually.”
Tagging: @kaleidoscopr @redd956 @hereissomething @astudyinpanda @c0ldbrains @straight-to-the-pain
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okay, so, the cool thing I said I had to show you!!
as a very kind xmas gift, my mom paid for a very special commission back in december, who’s been waiting at her house for me for about a month or so.
I got to see her for the first time in person yesterday, and y’all, she’s beautiful 😍
Rora, in the style of @stitchybutton — and good goddamn, did she go above and beyond on this one, I’m in love 🖤🖤🖤
Detail shots below (some of which might be slightly blurry bc my hands are unsteady, but bear with me)!
This version of Rora is based partially on Eva Green and a reference sheet I sent to Stitchy, but mostly on this picrew, which I loved for the white dress:
But I didn’t even realize how many small touches there were Stitchy would be kind enough to take the time to recreate in full!! Not only did she include the smeary eyeliner, but
Look
at these
details!!!
her little shoes!! 🥹
and the HAND BELT!!!!
It’s perfect! It’s adorable!!
But even better than this, is what Stitchy did with Rora’s resurrection scars:
She matched the ones on her face perfectly, capturing the reference to Elsa Lanchester’s makeup on Bride of Frankenstein
and just look at the pearly strands over her Y-incision!!!!
She’s literally perfect, and I’m unspeakably delighted 🥰🥰🥰
here she is with the boys and the tiny versions, all together at last:
(Poor Maxi, you can tell I’ve had him longest bc he looks the most loved 😂)
She’s a little taller than the boys, but that’s bc she’s more detailed (and I can’t help but think at how tickled she would be to be taller than them just once). They make a perfect set, and I’m so thrilled to be able to hug all of them at last when I put them through the Horrors lmao. I’m definitely going to have to work on a specific place of honor for them as a group in my room.
Anyway! Thanks for humoring me and my plush problem yet again — this is the last one I’ve been really wanting, so I’m delighted to be able to hug her after I just turned in my latest diss chapter draft 🖤
And once again, if you have some cash saved and want a beautifully made, handsomely detailed doll of your blorbo or your own OC, definitely look up StitchyButton on etsy! She has sales fairly regularly, you can get a 15% coupon every month through the lowest tier of her Patreon (literally just one dollar USD, and one of the few I kept when I had to cut back this year bc it’s so incredibly worth it), and she always has the most consistent schedule of any plush artist I’ve ever, ever worked with. Anything by her is a work of art, for real.
(The tinies are by another etsy artist called NoizFoxy, and I know she stopped doing small dolls for a minute, but I think she reopened?? Definitely check into her too, if that’s more your speed!)
The three of them are finally together, and I’m unreasonably thrilled about it for being the age I am 💀♥️💚💜
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