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ryuichirou · 22 days

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A couple of replies with fandom stuff, then a couple of twst replies.

irregardlessly-tish asked:

A friend message me "YOU FOLLOW THE LEVI X GRISHA PERSON" and I had no clue what they were talking about but then they showed me the two pictures you drew of Levi and Grisha lol. It made me laugh a lot. Then I helped them found the uncensor version of one of the drawings in your pixiv since the link to twitter seem to be broken (I'm a great friend I know/j). I guess you could say they are big fans of your rarepair work!

LEVI X GRISHA PERSON AAAHH 😭 It’s always so funny to learn how people are referring to us; I was the Zevi artist, the Shroudcest artist… For some reason, being a Guriri (wow Grisha’s and Levi’s shipname is cute, I completely forgot about it) artist feels like such a high honour lol Especially because I had no idea there was someone out there invested in this ship. Your friend’s taste is excellent. A huge thank you to them for enjoying our stuff, and a huge thank you to you for helping to find the uncensored version. You really are a great friend hehe.

It’s honestly a shame that even the pixiv version is still censored (albeit not cropped like the tumblr version), because you can’t really post uncensored stuff there… So now only a few people who had saved our snk smut back when it was posted on our now-deleted twitter have it :(

(it’s a bit embarrassing looking back at those sketches and seeing all the mistakes though, yikes)

Anonymous asked:

I want to shake antis by the shoulders and scream at them all the time cause I see them being sooo unhealthy with themselves, and I've BEEN there I know what they are doing and I know it is just going to get them hurt with the same train wreck I got myself in!!

It's the whole problem with black and white thinking where you go "people treat incest shippers like satan himself, so I cannot accidentally enjoy it or I would be evil incarnate too, and adopted/step is the same thing, so I cannot accidentally like that, and found family is basically the same as adopted, so I have to avoid that, and character A called character B his bro one time, so..." that thinking pattern does not have a stopping point!!!!!! It is so unhealthy!!!!!!!!

And then people realize they can't stop themselves from enjoying unhealthy ships, and instead of separating fiction from reality, they just excuse everything abusive about the ship like it is fine and normal behavior because they cannot accept themselves enjoying something that is remotely problematic. It is so much more likely to get people hurt than just enjoying the porn of some fake brothers fucking 😭

Anon! First of all, sorry for replying late; we received your ask about a week ago but I didn’t have enough time to properly address it. Second of all, thank you for talking about it and sharing your experience.

It’s just like you said; people really don’t want to get ridiculed or hated, especially younger people, therefore, they are afraid of liking stuff that is even slightly problematic. And for some of them, if they don’t want their so-called friends to suspect them loving problematic stuff, they’ll act even more aggressive than they should to overcompensate. I feel like when it comes to antis who talk about us specifically, the most vocal and persistent ones are those whose friends called them out for following my accounts or liking my drawings. And this is honestly both sad and pathetic at the same time; I cannot imagine how bad of a headspace this might be. I don’t pity them though lol

We always talk about it, but still: this is a game you can’t win because the rules are always changing. The only thing that never changes is that there is no nuance, once the crowd decide that the ship is bad, it’s bad. Starting out with the basics, age gaps and incest are bad, right? Right. But what if the characters aren’t canonically related but could be interpreted as brothers? Then it’s still bad, right? But what if they aren’t at all brotherly, but one of them expressed that they want to do bad things to the other? Sounds bad, right? And thus, the only type of dynamic that exists is a romanticised version of a perfect gay couple: they are equal in every way, they love each other, they are SUCH DORKS together who fit perfectly to any “redraw this as your ship” meme that’s the hottest thing these days, they don’t have arguments, they don’t have misunderstanding and rough moments. Their personalities, everything that made their relationship unique or interesting completely disappears and smoothes out, and after that it’s not even a ship, it’s just a nice blend that is perfect for consumption because it doesn’t irritate your teeth, your throat, or your stomach. It’s tasteless, it’s boring, it’s nothing, and it’s not about the characters, it’s about deciding which two characters are unproblematic enough to be transformed into blorbos, and if they have some problematic elements in-canon, it’s okay, we’ll just erase those because being unproblematic doesn’t really matter. What matters is to act in a way that doesn’t go against what the rest of them are doing, because otherwise you’re making people uncomfortable, and if they are uncomfortable with you, they feel morally correct for attacking you.

It’s never about characters. It’s always about control, about cliques, about bullying and making everyone afraid to have an actual opinion. It’s about instilling in people’s mind that attacking strangers on the internet makes you a cool person because you are simultaneously a rebel for being so ballsy and brave, and a saint for having moral standards so high that you can’t stomach bad things even if they are fictional.

Sometimes people just have different ships and that’s okay. Sometimes people don’t have any ships and don’t understand the shipping culture, and that’s okay. What’s not okay is to feel entitled to this control over the way others consume media and interact with it.

Because it makes the fandom experience boring at best and unbearable at worst.

Sorry, I digress lol What I wanted to say is that you are right, it messes with people’s brains. And it is much more unhealthy than fantasising about the things that are 100% fictional (which is, by the way, a huge part of their appeal).

Anonymous asked:

just wanted to say I love your content a lot, it's a breath of fresh air from all the anti content present in the fandom

You are very welcome, Anon! And thank you so much for your support <3 It means a lot to hear that our stuff is refreshing to you.

Anonymous asked:

Is Lilia sneezing on people on purpose, or is it a sneeze button for him?

(this is related to this post)

We’ll never know, Anon, it’s one of Lilia’s many mysteries…

Maybe it started out as a joke, but then he really began to sneeze on people every time his nose gets booped lol

Anonymous asked:

Where can I see the art for the new Shaftlands event?

I don’t think all of them are fully out yet, but people are pretty active on twitter, so simply looking up characters’ names is probably going to work!

Anonymous asked:

…Quick, someone bully Idia into sending nudes.

And be quick about it because Idia could also quickly change his mind and hack the recipient’s phone to delete the pictures!!

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fj10gaa · 8 months

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"The Abominable Wall" (Post Canon)

Reposting my fic on AO3

Ship: Shigadeku

Rating: Not Rated

Word-count: 6286

Additional Info: Aged-up, incomplete fic

In a world where the league of villain was defeated by heroes, Deku is going to interview Shigaraki who is trapped in the Tartarus.

One day in the last September,

Cold rain was constantly pouring from the deep gray sky.

The War between the league of villains and heroes ended that day.

There were so many casualties in the battlefield including civilians, heroes, also villains.

I——Midoriya Izuku was badly injured during the battle as well as other people.

Most of my bones and organs seriously messed up, and didn't function without help.

Uraraka told me "The doctor said to me, you may not possibly wake up this time.", when I woke up in bed at the hospital.

She was crying so hard.

Too many things happened around me, so I can't believe that I got my normal life back even now after almost one year the day.

At the same time, we can not forget that there are so many people who can't be back to normal life even now.

the reconstruction of the city which has turned into a mountain of rubble is still on the long endless road.

It's not necessary to say but the trauma that people in the city got is also a huge problem.

That's why we——heroes go to the city every day, to help them.

Heroes helped build some temporary homes as soon as they heard people say "there's not enough place to stay".

Heroes took the initiative to help clean the debris in the wake of the war.

Heroes listened to their suffering, and considerate of their feelings.

U.A. students are also joining the volunteer everyday as a part of class.

Recently I saw many people in the city were laughing during the volunteer work,

so it must be due to their efforts.

Meanwhile, speaking about Shigaraki who is a crucial person of this story, a searching party found him falling down under the rubble.

His body was exposed to the rainwater flowing down through the gaps in the rubble.

About half of his body was crushed because of the impact he got during the battle and the weight of the rubble.

He was bleeding badly and losing his body temperature.

Every member of the search party thought “He doesn't breathe.” but it was not true.

He was still shallowly breathing for better or worse even though he's under the condition like that!

Of course he was immediately taken to the Medical Prison nearby.

Because he had to survive.

Because he had to atone for his sin.

Most people didn't know what happened to him after that because of media restrictions.

But they know 'Shigaraki is still alive in the cage'.

However I've asked Tsukauchi Chief Inspector once when he visit me in the hospital "how is Shigaraki doing in the prison"

Mr.Tsukauchi told me just “you have the right to know about him”, then he started talking to me.

Tsukauchi said, Shigaraki slowly but surely regenerated his crushed body to its original state, with help of his recovering quirk.

After a few days of coma, he woke up and muttered in the first word, "I lost."

Tsukauchi also said he has seen him just once when he joined with the surveillance work.

Shigaraki looks like he's not right here.

There was no "king" there anymore, it was just a man.

The fact of his survival made people badly agitated as a matter of course.

Some people were delighted at his survival and the opportunity for conviction they had.

Other people hated his survival and screamed, "He deserves to death."

When I was in the hospital, I would often watch TV shows blankly.

I remember every TV station was having a heated debate about Shigaraki himself or the penalty for him.

The painful voices of the surviving bereaved families and the images of the disaster area that turned into the horizon, which were inserted between the intense discussions, made the discussion even more enthusiastic.

I was also spending time thinking about him while I was watching those TV shows, because there were no other things I could do.

And I got my own answer with plenty of time and a head that didn't work well with sedatives.

No matter what he did, he cannot make up for it.

It's true that many people agree that Shigaraki has an obligation to atone for his sins in some way but I have a misgivings that I can't ignore.

For example, if he was put to death with the will of the people, for example, if he was put in prison until his death.

I wonder if that will be a solution.

No matter how he compensates, the lost people never come back, and their broken hearts never are restored to what they were after all.

So what will it be for?

Perhaps the reason I feel this way is because I'm a hero.

Maybe it is because I think of people who couldn't be saved or who were left behind every time I finish my mission.

I cannot stop doing it even though I know it’s not good for me.

So if there is any compensation for the sin Shigaraki made, I think it's about knowing how serious his sin is.

Knowing the feelings of those who have lost something important……

He may have lost that heart a long time ago, though.

It was in the midst of such turmoil that his Tartarus transport operation was carried out.

Aside from many speculations about him, police and psychiatrists who saw him as Inspector Tsukauchi said his mind tentatively was broken.

And They decided to transfer him to Tartarus as soon as they were fully prepared.

He was in a well-equipped medical prison already.

But we needed to make assurance doubly sure before it's too late and something happens.

The reason why the start of the operation was delayed a little was that many of the heroes with sufficient ability had not healed their wounds completely at this time, and in addition to the lack of human resources associated with the transfer. Besides, It took a while to fully consider the possibility that Shigaraki was pretending to be in a state of mental loss.

And I was also involved in this Tartarus transfer operation.

All the other heroes were worried about me.

people thought I might still feel a bit under the weather.

But I didn't have any other way but to participate in the operation from the beginning.

I felt it. I heard my heart said.

Or maybe I just heard the memories live in OFA whispered to me.

“I have to watch him to the end”

Needless to say, the transfer of Shigaraki was originally planned to be done confidentially.

But worst of all, the date was leaked from somewhere, so the transfer operation was getting more tense.

Despite various regulations on the day, a lot of media rushed along the roadside on the transfer route to relay the state of his transfer.

Media-related helicopters are flying with military helicopters,

The roar of the spinning blade was pouring down from the sky.

But it wasn't just the media that was paying attention to him.

The roadsides on both sides of the transport vehicle were filled with many onlookers and victims of battle.

They were throwing stones and drinks around them at Shigaraki in the transport vehicle.

but we’re heroes, so there is no way to point our quirks to citizens.

We were silently carrying out our operation so as not to see them.

I was right next to the transfer car with Shigaraki.

I heard their overflowing grudges echoing all over the area.

......but it is not the only thing I heard.

The sobbing voice that is sometimes heard in the hustle and bustle, and the voice that loses everything and is at a loss and asks for help.

People's various thoughts, voices, and curses were layered on top of each other, and the heroes in the operation were overwhelmed.

Nevertheless, we managed to get the transfer vehicle safely to the underground entrance inside the Tartarus facility.

The transfer vehicle stopped at a predetermined position in front of the carry-in entrance.

While being held on both sides by two of the most large members of the operation, Shigaraki Tomura got off the transfer vehicle.

Shigaraki, who was tied to a wheelchair, wore a white straitjacket with lots of belts, and a blindfold on his face.

His hands and quirk are sealed with a box-like shackle.

A scar on his slightly visible face that would not have healed with his super-recovery, as if covering the original scar on his mouth —— was strongly left.

He hung his white head without force and sometimes staggered.

From the appearance, the effect of the sedative prescribed for transfer was clearly seen.

At the same time, I felt like “He’s no longer the one I know” just like Tsukauchi said.

And it made me have mixed feelings.

While thinking about that alone, I was observing Shigaraki in a wheelchair passing by on a white concrete background, from a distance.

Then, guess what?

It is unbelievable but he looked back at me for a moment!

In fact, I don't know if he was blindfolded and was looking at me.

It was just a momentary event.

But at that moment I was staring back at his bright red eyes that would be under the blindfold,

I certainly felt that way.

After that, Shigaraki turned to the direction of travel as if nothing had happened, and disappeared into the depths of Tartarus with professional heroes such as Endeavor.

A few hours later, the operation was successfully completed with a general communication saying "mission completed".

Despite the relief of the participating heroes completing the operation and chatting, I couldn't feel like joining them...Because of him.

Even now, a few days after the transfer operation was completed, I keep thinking about Shigaraki in agony.

I sat down on the bed in my room which was filled with All Might merch.

leaning against the wall, and holding a pillow instead of a cushion, which made me feel a little calm.

In the lonely room, only the sound of the continuous rain hitting the ground echoes.

It reminds me the day our war ended, not to forget him.

The air in the whole room is cooled by the cold air from the outside that leads through the window, and it helps to cool my thermal runaway head.

Why did he look at me back at the time?

In the first place, I don't know why he cares so much.

I don’t even know this is just curiosity or fear.

When I was troubled by his red eyes that didn't disappear from my head, I got a phone call.

I hurriedly picked up the cell phone that was lying on my bedside.

Confirm that the name of Inspector Tsukauchi is displayed on the incoming call screen,

I slid one finger on the screen in the direction of the response.

"Yes, this is Midoriya."

"Hello, Midoriya-kun. This is Tsukauchi. How's it going?"

"I'm fine. How about you? Um, that is...what happened at this time?"

I’m uncomfortable when people pay mind to me, so I asked frankly.

"You are quite perceptive, Midoriya-kun! That makes this much easier...OK, actually, I called you today because of him......Shigaraki Tomura."

I felt the blood drain from my face when I heard his name.

"What happened to Shigaraki? Did he run rampage? Who was injured?"

I asked him a lot rapidly and one-sidedly because I am upset.

"No no no! He's so calm unimaginably. Just hearing isn't going well. He doesn’t talk about anything or he doesn't even make eye contact."

"... So, did he make any request?"

"yes, yes indeed... and that's the problem."

I’m feeling the voice of Tsukauchi-san is a little hesitant.

Tsukauchi-san sighed a little and said as if he had decided.

"He wants “you”, Midoriya-kun."

My heart pounded when I heard the words.

And the doubts I felt that day turned into conviction.

That day when there was a transfer operation, that day when I saw him with my own eyes for the first time after the battle.

Shigaraki Tomura did not just look back for no reason.

Despite being blindfolded, He was certainly looking back at me.

My unlucky heart, which has gained incredible conviction, pulsates unpleasantly quickly,

My right hand holding my cell phone was trembling from tension.

Sweat oozes slowly and unpleasantly on the cold palm.

"He said, he just want to talk to you."

I was trying not to face my curious mass of anxiety inside my heart, and I was just trying to pretend to be calm.

The inspector keeps talking, knowing or not knowing the tension that ran to me.

"Given the history of you and him, I know it's not a good idea to obediently grant his request. I'm also worried about your mental burden of confronting Shigaraki. you know just———— ”

"... There is no other way."

The best solution is often the easiest one.

Shigaraki knows or not, or is it our fate.

I am forced to decide to confront Shigaraki Tomura again.

Inspector Tsukauchi-san went on to explain how his hearing—which could be called an interview—goes on.

There is only one subject I have to ask him is “his mind”...like motivation for this large-scale criminal terrorist act, including his past career.

In the explanation, the inspector suggested to me that he would probably offer some sort of deal...also the police have no idea what the deal is like.

"but, Midoriya-kun."

The inspector continued:

"In my experience, when a person who has done such a big thing instinctively feels the end of himself, there are roughly two types."

"what are those?"

"Yeah, the first one is a guy who rampages up to the end of their own life, trying to reach a spectacular and big end! And the other is to realize his end and suddenly want to pour their heart to somebody.so they begin to confess. Shigaraki Tomura was undoubtedly the former one at first, but I think it's different now. "

"How come?"

Certainly, as the inspector said, he showed no sign of resignation even though they became inferior, or rather, he was rampaging at the final battle.

"Now, He has known he was defeated. It means he has truly known his "end", so he might want to look back on his whole life. and I think it’s good. Maybe he’s trying to be human once again. "

"he does?"

I ruminated to bite the words of Inspector Tsukauchi inside my mind.

"Well, it's just my opinion," said Inspector Tsukauchi, but he is reminded that he is an elusive person who suddenly becomes convinced at such times.

Inspector Tsukauchi said he wanted to start hearing as soon as possible, so the first visit will be carried out this Saturday.

This Saturday, I have 3 days left, including today.

I will spend time left for me thinking about "what Shigaraki wants from me".

By the time I finished the conversation with Inspector Tsukauchi, the gray scenery that was dim due to rain clouds was completely covered in darkness.

The mobile phone shows that the time was around 7:30 pm.

"I have to have dinner-."

Somehow I want to eat katsudon on such a day.

I get a bright sky blue hoodie casually hung on my bed head.

The chilled room air also cools the fabric on the surface of the hoodie.

The coldness makes me goosebumps a little, but it's still better than nothing.

At the foot of the bed, I pulled out my wallet from my yellow school backpack, which was casually placed on the wooden floor, and I left my room to head to the cafeteria.

While thinking about hot katsudon.

When I headed to the cafeteria, other classmates were already in the middle of eating.

If you take a deep breath, the warm air created by the cheerful voice and the delicious smell of rice will accumulate in my lungs, where the cold and heavy gray air has accumulated. .. I picked up my favorite katsudon and looked around looking for a seat.

"Deku-kun !! over here!"

Uraraka-san, who found me holding a tray with a bowl of katsudon on it with both hands, stood up and waved toward me.

hurry, but I walked there carefully so as not to turn over my favorite katsudon.

As usual, Iida was having dinner with her at the same table.

Today's dinner seems to be a stewed hamburger set meal for Uraraka and a grilled saury set meal for Iida.

"Midoriya-kun, what happened? It was quite late."

Iida-kun, who had been unraveling the white fish, stopped his hand and

look at me through his glasses anxiously.

"Are you sick? Oh, but katsudon...looks like you have an appetite at least. that’s good!"

Uraraka-san also was trying to read my face.

She’s worried about me and looking into my face with her eyebrows go down.

These two people immediately notice my change and worry about me from the bottom of my heart.

I'm really happy about it, but now it has become a source of problem.

The matter of his listening is big to hold alone, but it was too heavy a problem to talk to someone.

"Actually ... I fell asleep when I was reviewing my homework in my room!"

Is there any sleep mark? ——I didn't want them to worry about me, so I laughed.

"No! I think it’s OK. but hmm, then you have to go to bed earlier today, Midoriya-kun!"

"That's right, but I have to work on my homework before I go to bed..."

"Uraraka-kun...!!"

The topic shifts from me to something else.

whew I got through it.

I don't want to be pulled back to the heavy atmosphere, so I tried to pay attention to their conversation more.

it went like this…

Uraraka-san talked about the experience when she went to the disaster area after school to help remove the rubble.

She also said she was happy because an old woman gave her a Dorayaki at that time.

and It wasn't just a dorayaki, it was chestnut dorayaki! she said to me with delight.

Iida also tells us that he went to the disaster area and played with the children in the temporary housing.

He thought that kids these days only play video games, but it seems that he was relieved that kids loved the good old play such as tag you're it or hide and seek.

While listening to the story, I tried to eat the bowl with one bite, and another bite.

Katsudon, my favorite food, which I usually think katsudon is the food that the concept of happiness has become food, is somewhat oily and sticks to my stomach today.

It seems that they are planning to go to the disaster area to support activities after school tomorrow.

Uraraka-san is enthusiastic that "Tomorrow will be the time to clean up that area!"

"That's the spirit, Uraraka-kun !!", Iida says.

I still feel a burning discomfort in my stomach.

Even so, I continued to eat and finish my katsudon one bit by one bit, and the inside of the bowl finally became empty.

"Sorry I've got to go. Maybe I'm feeling so sleepy... "

I said like that, but actually I was feeling sick.

Also, I needed some time alone, so I tried to leave the table.

what happened to me today might be more shocking than I thought.

My body reveals discomfort as if to warn me that I keep pretending to be calm.

The unstoppable sound of rain reminds me of that day of the decisive battle.

"It can't help being sleepy. but laying down right after eating is not good for your stomach, so you should go to bed after you take a break."

"yeah, and don't forget to brush your teeth!"

Iida-kun showed his white bright teeth and laughed. Uraraka said to him "you’re like a mother!" and laugh.

Iida-kun who received it also returns "You too".

Looking sideways at the two people laughing happily, they greeted with a smile, "OK! Good night."

And headed to the tray return with the tableware that I had finished eating.

The tray return is a moving lane, and I placed the trays as straight as possible so that they wouldn't get caught in the middle.

"Thank you for the meal.", I called out to the cafeteria staff on the other side of the lane and looked back toward the exit trying to return to my room.

However, a person interrupted me trying to take a step toward the exit.

“Yo, Deku. we need to talk.”

“Kacchan…!”

my childhood friend with an unprecedentedly moody look stood there, in front of me.

and he is the one who I don't want to meet most right now.

because this childhood friend is such a person who could see through everything I’m thinking.

I have to do something about it...

while I’ve posed in thinking, he has finished putting his rugged arm around me in a twinkling.

He’s trying to bring me somewhere else.

The strength of his hand which is holding my shoulder tells me the fact he’s not gonna let me go at all.

“I know you have some time for me, right?”

“OK,OK! but where are you taking me, Kacchan? ”

“Your room.”

He answered my question shortly. He’s still restricting me with his arm.

“What-, now?! it is too sudden!! Did I do something wrong to you?”

“...yes, you did.”

“What is it?”

Even while doing so, the eyes around us were so painfully gathered toward us.

Oh, is there a quarrel?

Bakugo again?

Should we call a teacher now?

Finally, I was impatient with the curiosity and worries of the people around me, and I had to do something quickly.

However, the ruthless and pitiless childhood friend Kacchan made the fatal strike on me.

"Hiding something."

"...from me." He said with a smile on his face of a bully who had recently disappeared.

My heart made an unpleasant huge noise with pain.

Today is my worst day ever. I think I'm out of luck, today of all days.

I don’t think Kacchan found out about Shigaraki’s interview of course.

but I feel his words sound like confidence for some reason.

I squeezed the hem of my clothes because of the tension caused by the unexpected event.

And Kacchan didn't miss the gesture.

Oh no! --it's already too late when I think so.

"Huh, That’s it! That habit, you haven't made any progress since you were a kid. Thanks to that, I can know everything about you!"

I cannot match this childhood friend after all.

"If you don't like it, you can come to my room, I'll let you choose."

"In my room, please."

I’m doing what Kacchan told me, I’m following on the heels of Kacchan.

but he is still holding my shoulder with his arm.

“Kacchan, I- I’m not gonna run away from you...so, can you move your hand now?”

please, I ask for him to unleash me.

“Don't even think about it” Kacchan said like that, and he put his hand away from my shoulder.

I felt my steps in the dormitory corridor were heavy as if I were walking to the execution table step by step.

If I'm a sinner climbing the execution table, I wonder if Kacchan is the executor.

The actual destination was my room, though...

Because I know what's going to happen after this.

What did Kacchan say to me first when he heard about the situation around me?

“Are you that stupid?”

Of course, it must be like this. I knew it.

"Don't you know? Then I'll tell you the situation, Shigaraki Tomura went to Tartarus by us, forever. Happy ever after! so, do we need to do anything more now? Definitely, NO. It’s over, Deku.”

Kacchan, who sits on my chair with his legs and arms crossed, leans against the backrest of the chair without looking away from me, who sits on the edge of the bed.

The chair makes a squeak every time he leans against the backrest.

“But...”

“There is no "but"!! What you're trying to do is completely complacent and totally unnecessary. And what happens when you go to see Shigaraki? No matter what he does, he’s just gonna be preyed on you. "

...Kacchan is totally right, It's so much that I cannot even make a noise.

Katchan didn't give me any way of escape.

And in fact, I don't even think there is such a thing for me.

"That's right, but I feel like I have to go see him-- !!"

The next moment I was saying back.

Kacchan looked a little surprised at me, who unusually shouted, but immediately he told back to what I said.

"Is that your intuition, or is the memory in your power making it so?"

"I, I don’t know. but I feel like I need to know more as a hero, about him."

I managed to answer back to his question. and Kacchan listens to me.

"And if there's a sign that Shigaraki is still plotting something, I want to pull that out of the conversation. Because I don't want to cause such a terrible event again. so, Kacchan. It's not such a bad thing."

I persuaded him while squeezing his right hand, which was distorted by his wounds, with his left hand.

"Why are you always like that?"

Kacchan leaned forward while he’s sitting and said to me with a face that "he has had enough of".

He brought the chair and him close to me and kept talking.

"I think you know, but this is for sure. You'll definitely feel like shit by going along with his farce."

Katchan leaned back on the chair with momentum to return to the previous pose and said so.

"Yeah, I know."

"Really, you don't need to go."

"Still I need to go, Kacchan."

I looked back at his red eyes with determined eyes.

Silence flows between Kacchan and I staring at each other.

"...Deku, Don't talk to him in vain from you. you know,

tantalize him up and let him talk."

"Kacchan ---!"

"And don't lie. You're seriously bad at lying."

"Yup!"

"Finally, if something happens, tell me."

"Thank you, Kacchan!"

I was so happy to have such a friend-like conversation with Kacchan.

But after a few seconds Kacchan said, “I’ll listen only in my spare time.”, though.

Even so,I felt his rustic kindness saved me as always.

When I realized it, the heavy feeling in my stomach had gone.

Satisfied with listening to the story for a while, Kacchan stood up and muttered "I'm going to go to bed" and left my room.

The unpleasant rain noise that bothers me has turned into something strangely calm.

Katsuki who left the room stopped for a moment in front of the door of Izuku and muttered.

"Deku, you're always like that. You’re not satisfied until you have saved everyone...

...Are you really going to save even him ?"

Katsuki's question disappeared into the cold air of the corridor without an answer.

I walked through many layers of the wall in the Tartaros, and the door of interview room, there was ‘him’.

I felt like Clarice Starling from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Even though there was no criminal who yelled at me or tried to scare me out, but just a long empty hallway without sound and color. Also the person who was waiting for me is not a crazy man-eater psychiatrist, but just Shigaraki Tomura, who is a broken man with a powerful quirk.

“Excuse me, how much longer will it take? I believe It’s been almost 3 hours since I left the mainland...”

I couldn’t stop asking a staff guy, because I was completely tired of walking on the evil disney land with anxiety.

“Sorry kid, it’ll take a bit longer. Because he’s one of the most dangerous men in this facility, so we need to go down deeper. Say goodbye to the sunshine before we get on the elevator.”

“got it.”

I stopped to complain and just got back to follow after the swingy tail of the stuff guy. The staff guy said “We’re almost there.” when the beep sound of the elevator announced to us that we have finally arrived at ‘his’ floor.

“Over there, the door in front of you. Do you want me to come inside the room with you?”

“No, thank you. I’m fine going by myself. ”

“He looks harmless than before but be careful, nobody knows what the man will do.”

“Thanks, see you later!”

I waved my hand to the fluffy guy and looked back to the door of the interview room. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath slowly, then said just one thing in my mind like said it to myself.

There’s one thing I should do, talk with him and complete his personal file.

that’s it! There's a surveillance system in the room, restraining devices on him. I said to the camera on the ceiling “Open the door, please.” A man’s voice came from the speaker. That told me ”you have 20 minutes.” Soon, the door opened for me. The next moment I froze. There was ’him’.

His dry hair was wavy and white like whitecaps in a winter day, His skin was pale like a vampire and it looked unhealthy, His eyes bright red as I can see from the distance, and those were surrounded with wrinkles His wounds around his mouth and right eye ripped and got wider. He wore the same white straitjacket when he got a transfer. I can't see his hands, but I could tell from how he was sitting in the chair that he probably wore the same restraints too.

-oh, gosh.

At first I thought I can handle this by myself but once I entered the room and stood in front of him, I discovered I had no idea what I should talk to him about. Of course I simulated a thousand times in my brain but how he stared at me blew my mind. There’s just a glass board between us but It won’t make me feel safe.

He, Shigaraki Tomura started the conversation while I was freezing by the door like an idiot.

“Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in! Midoriya Izuku! It’s been a long time, how have you been?”

Shigaraki crooned my name with his joyful voice. He beamed with delight like he met his old friend who couldn't see him for a long time. What kind of feeling are you having now? I was totally confused.

A year ago, I certainly fought against Shigaraki for my life. Whatever reason he was our enemy and hurt a lot of people including my friends. I was confused by the absurdity I couldn't swallow. Because Shigaraki pretends to be peaceful, as if to leave behind my feelings. I clenched my fists to hide the sweat that had exuded in his palms. I couldn't grasp his intention too much, and I was watching his expression from the entrance of the room, without being able to answer anything. He looked really like a "normal" person. Shigaraki and kept talking to me.

“Hey, how much time has passed since then?”

His gaze like a snake was clinging to me and It was enough to keep me shut up. If he is a snake, I would be a poor rabbit who left 10 seconds until dead. The only thing I heard in the moment was the pounding sounds of my heart echoing in my ears so badly. I’ve heard that the number of times our heart beats for a lifetime is fixed. If that is true, It was not like I was feeling I lost a few years off my life, no, literally I was losing a few years off my life or I could say he stole my lifetime. Anyway it seems like I kept him waiting too long. He asked me again.

“Hey, tell me how much time has passed since that day. My sense of time is off because my room has no window...”

“Please,” he added so. He begged me to give him an answer.

shit- I should answer it…

I opened my tense and stiff chin and squeezed my voice to screw it through.

"It's been about a year since that day."

My voice, which I forcibly uttered, was faint as if I hadn't made a voice for a long time. My saliva got dry in my mouth. It stuck to my throat when I tried to swallow it down.

"It's been one year…hmm, Not much time has passed more than I imagined."

A day in an empty cage must feel long for sure. I imagined him just staying there without doing anything in a room without windows every day, and I felt sorry for him a little. Then I thought of his sins again and I shook off my dumb thought about him.

“You don’t have to be nervous that much! Look at me, you know I can’t lay a finger on you! I don’t wanna do such a thing in the first place… anyway, here. Have a seat!”

As prompted by his voice, I approached the white chair in front of the glass board, step by step. He kept talking.

“Let’s have a nice chat, Midoriya. It’s like we’re...”

“We’re like old friends?”

“Exactly.”

I said so when I noticed. I said as if I was tracing his words that day when I had a conversation with Shigaraki for the first time at a shopping mall. I sat on a seat in front of him and stared back at his bright red eyes. My back fits snugly against a mysteriously designed backrest with holes.

Shigaraki tilted his head a little to affirm my words. He narrowed his eyes in an arc with joy. His pure white hair swayed as he moved.

"But the both of us aren't good at talking to others, so let's set the rules."

"Rule?"

-Did it come-? I got ready and waited for his suggestion.

"Don’t worry, it's really simple. There's only two things. you ask me a question, then I’ll ask you a question. Both of us can pass 3 questions so make careful decisions...hey, It's a good deal for both of us. I know you came here with a purpose. "

Asking me something can be his price? Do I even know the answer to the question he will ask? What is his question in the first place? Various possibilities filled my mind. However, it is a strange story, but it would be helpful if he answers my question.

“...Ok, deal.”

“Good. oh, and, don’t lie to me.”

“I know. so I’ll ask you. Why do you want to see me?”

“hmm, I see... you wanna get straight to the point. but also it’s a totally proper question...”

Hmmm, Shigaraki twisted his neck. He looked up at the ceiling to the upper left, then looked down to the right next time. Then he turned to my face again and replied with a smile.

"I'll pass on the question."

"What?! you'll pass on a question right at the beginning?! You're the one who told me to make careful decisions!! "

"There are a few questions I don't wanna answer and you just chose it. Ok, so now it's my turn...Why did you feel like coming here? you know you're gonna feel uncomfortable."

"Look who's talking."

"I have nothing else to say about that. and? Will you tell me your answer or..."

"Fine, I'll tell you...so I came here because the police are concerned that your plan B might happen."

"Interesting... you guys are so smart and so wary, aren't you? hmm, but it's a shame that you came here not for me but for the police."

"... of course not."

"But you don't look so...I believe you didn't have to come here. The police would have been sent to a detective or someone else instead of you if you had said just no. But you didn't, right?"

"That's...true. But, I don't know, I might be feeling responsible for you. Probably, I might think I should see you through to the end."

"Is that a marriage proposal?"

"No, that's not what I meant to say!"

He said that with his serious face, so I didn’t know what he was talking about at first. Then I understood what he said and I blushed like a red rose. I felt He found my face flushed and stammered. It seems like that was enough to entertain him. He was smirking like a cheshire cat. It was so embarrassing to me.

"My bad, I'm just kidding. I know it's a kind of feeling, the feeling you won't feel at ease unless you kill a bug when you find a bug and lose sight of it in your room, right?"

"I didn't say that much."

"Then you should, hero."

There came a beep sound between us. the announcement said "It's 20 minutes, you have to get out of the room." Shigaraki just said “I’m waiting here.” when I looked at him. so I just said “Okay” and left the white room. I didn’t feel like saying “see you again” or something to him. He is not my friend.

Got back to the hallway and the fluffy guy came up to me and said “Are you okay?” but I could say “I don’t know.” at that time. After that I went outside of the building to see the sunshine.

#弔出 #shigadeku #tomudeku #死出

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bookwyrminspiration · 11 months

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i've been having some discourse thoughts recently and going back and forth, and I don't really have a final conclusion at the moment so I'm just writing it out to try and make sense of it. I am not intending to get into heated arguments or cause problems, I'm genuinely just trying to question thoughts and beliefs I've been holding to that i picked up from others to be certain whether or not they're solid and I want to continue in that manner because reflection, introspection, and critical thinking are good practices. and posting it because consulting and engaging with others and perspectives outside your own is helpful. so don't mind me trying to sort myself out it's a genuinely earnest attempt to properly reason it through

the crux of it is that I realized it seems hypocritical of me to say I firmly believe in shipping and letting ship, supporting fiction's right to be fucked up and unhealthy, controlling your own experiences, for people to do what they want with fiction because fiction is not reality and should be a safe space where you can explore fucked up things, agree that policing what you can and can't do with fiction is a dangerously slippery slope, and then also turn around and condemn wylinh/wylinh shippers

I don't like the ship myself, I've made numerous posts discussing why I find it harmful--the main thing being its an adult x minor ship (Alden and Della's relationship is completely different, do not bring it up here as a counterargument. you can ask me to explain further if you don't understand). But people are allowed to engage with things that would be harmful or predatory or questionable or etc. in fiction; it's fake. People have said it before, but writing about murder doesn't mean you want to commit murder and all that.

So then since its okay to ship fucked up things because this is fiction, the problem with wylinh seems to become that people ship it in the same manner they do other ships without adult/minor dynamics, not with the understanding that it's got questionable elements. That it's okay to ship fucked up things but you have to do it a certain way that I think is acceptable (you have to know its not really healthy irl), and I don't think that's a mindset I want to have? That people's shipping needs to meet a standard I set? Even if I don't like it? I'm not arbitrator I don't get to decide those kinds of things for others, I just get to decide for me

And another big argument that's been made (including by me) is that children/young teens read these books and find fandom spaces even if they're not supposed to be here, and that that exposure could normalize a harmful age dynamic. Because while Wylie and Linh may be lovely people, they're fictional and it's not reflective of how an age gap like theirs would look irl and children could end up missing red flags of predatory people in real life by thinking of it like idealized fiction. But think of the children rhetoric is one that has been often criticized as cover for more malicious intentions (such as in politics) with the convenient safe fail that if you disagree, you must not care about children.

Part of the critique of that rhetoric is also that the actions being defended don't actually help or protect children. So I'm now wondering, does trying to stop (I can't think of a better word at the moment) wylinh shippers actually achieve that goal of protecting impressionable kids from idolizing an unrealistic relationship, or does it just motivate them to hide it and not trust the people who are, to them, unjustifiably criticizing them?

Wylinh is a widely disliked ship in the fandom, and that's okay, we're all allowed our opinions including negative ones. I just feel as though I'm contradicting myself on some points and want to straighten them out for myself. I don't like Wylinh, I don't ship it, I don't engage with any Wylinh content because of the aforementioned reasons. But my personal dislike shouldn't shape fandom spaces and others' actions, and making sure people are shipping things the "right" way feels like a much more harmful slope.

And if the best course of action to align with that is to just focus on myself, not engage with what I don't like, and politely share my thoughts without forcing them on others or trying to control their actions when the opportunity arises (though maybe this isn't the best course of action, there may be others), that makes this whole post feel redundant because that's...already what I'm doing. I suppose this is just to change my internal perspective not my outward actions? My intentions?

There's no real final conclusion to this, it's just me going "hmm, I've been criticizing wylinh shippers for shipping what I think is a harmful ship, but I also believe in shipping and let ship and allowing fiction to explore harmful things and not controlling others. can these co-exist or do I have to rethink something?"

and I think the answer is I have to rethink something? and that something is criticizing people for shipping wylinh. i still maintain my critiques and dislikes of the ship, but that's a separate thing. i find it more important to maintain and respect individuals right to engage with fiction of all sorts how they want to, without control from others

there's probably a million ways to negatively misinterpret things I've said, so just know all of this is genuine reflection made in good faith. i am earnestly trying to figure it out, and if anyone has input or opinions or perspectives they'd like to share you're welcome to, provided its also in good faith.

alright cool that's all, please do not be mean to me as I try to be a better person because I know its a discourse heavy topic :)

#kotlc discourse #discourse #i can't help but feel like I haven't worded this well and its all going to go wrong if I post this #but also. i am not going to let myself be ashamed of questioning things. even if I come to a similar conclusion at the end #so. don't be like 'how could you entertain these ideas--' because you need to think through both sides to best understand your own position #and i'm trying to figure out what that is #i don't want to just go along with what others say I want to understand where I stand and why #and right now its that I think I thought of wylinh shippers in a way that contradicted other beliefs and values I hold #and I want to correct that #so. this post is me trying to figure it out #i keep writing tags to stall because I'm nervous you'll all hate me for this #but like I said. won't be ashamed of questioning things #also am open to other perspectives and changing my mind #i can learn #augh this is. stressful. be nice please I'm trying to be a good person #long post

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Okay, this has thankfully never come up in the two years I've had this blog, but I wanna nip something in the bud. I want to explain why in my opinion, Corhajat is not a problematic ship. Just in case someone stumbles across this blog and thinks I'm promoting something I'm not, and so I can reference this post if anyone in general confronts me on it.

I feel some people interpret the deeprealms as "This character is only a few months old, but they have the bodies of adults." This is not true at all. The 2nd generation lived their lives at normal rates from their perspective. It's just that deeprealms and fateslandia move at different rates. Which is why Rhajat is now older than Hayato.

Rhajat mentions that her deeprealms moves at an even faster rate. She says "It was only after I left my Deeprealm to voyage here… that I discovered how time flowed at an accelerated rate.A rate far faster than the other Deeprealms… If I had remained there, I'd be a white-haired old lady by now. That's how I know I'm older than you. I may actually be older than Mother, too."

This implies Rhajat is one of, if not the oldest 2nd gen. For all we know, she could be older than Shigure. That support never says who the older one is between them. She even mentions she might be older than Hayato's wife. Of course, Hayato can marry Nyx and Orochi, it's very unlikely that she's older than them. However, it does state that she's not a child. In my opinion, I can't see her being younger than 17. And even that might be lowballing it. The canon status of feh is VERY debatable, but it also refers to Rhajat as an adult.

Let's say Rhajat isn't an adult though. Corrin doesn't have a canon age. Corrin could be somewhere between 17 and 19 for all we know. All we know is that she's older than Takumi and Leo (who lack canon ages as well but are teens at youngest) and Sakura and Elise (who are both young, "short for my age/adult you technically are" be damned.) Hell, Rhajat could be the older of the two. So they're both adults, or at least around the same age is a pretty safe assumption.

Now when they met, Rhajat was a child. This is a canon fact. BUT. According to the Japanese support "You don't remember your childhood, but a long time ago, I visited the secluded village where you lived, just once. And, you bet (met?) us." Corrin did not raise or even really interact with Rhajat as a child. He played with her once, saved her and they didn't meet again until she was an adult.

To play devil's advocate, there is a HORRIBLE line exclusive to male corrin's version. Corrin says "I love you too... I'm sure... back then, I fell in love with you too." I will not defend this. I have NO idea who thought this line was cute. However, the wlw version, the version most people ship, is completely different in Japan and says nothing about that in either version.

Hell you could argue all of this is moot because only male corrin has this, but I'm addressing it just in case.

Lastly, I wanna talk about Rhajat being a "predatory lesbian." Stalking is wrong, let me throw that out there. But I feel calling Rhajat predatory is pushing it. Rhajat describes her stalking as "watching over (corrin)." The phrasing sounds like she's watching their back to protect them. Still wrong, and arguably a reach, but not predatory. Not to mention that Selkie's support with Rhajat makes it clear Rhajat is VERY socially awkward. She's not being malicious here. Predatory implies malice in my opinion, and Rhajat is a girl with a crush who expresses it, admittedly in a problematic way.

This post isn't an attempt to convince you to ship it if you don't. It's cool if it makes you uncomfortable. However, it is not abusive, it is not an age gap, it is not a pedo ship.

Tl;Dr rhajat and corrin are around the same age, corrin only interacted with child rhajat once, and Rhajat isn't predatory.

#tw pedophila mention #rhajat #rhajat fire emblem #corhajat #corrin fire emblem #corrin #fire emblem fates revelation #fire emblem fates birthright

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deeply-unserious-fellow · 4 months

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Okay... this is gonna sound like blasphemy, but istg if I dont get this out into the world for people who care to read about Im literally going to go insane, so here it goes. I think Felonyglob is kind of boring. Don't get me wrong they're still a really cute couple! I just. Don't find their relationship all that interesting. Like there isn't all that much to explore in their dynamic.

I think most of the problem lies in Felony Carl not really being all that interesting on his own? Like, he isn't meant to be his own character. He has no depth. Which is okay! Not every character needs to be fully thought out or layered, but typically, the better thought out a character is, the more interesting their relationships are. Felony Carl, right down to his NAME, is really just a joke character. The joke being the juxtaposition between his appearance as a big strong criminal biker guy vs his emotional maturity and comfortability in who he is. He's kind of a cardboard cutout of a man. And instead of his relationship with Globby adding anything to his character, he ends up falling victim to the age old trope of "token love interest to motivate the main character". Like, the Princess Peach to Globby's Mario(it was the first example that came to mind don't @ me andnfnsmsm), minus the damsel in destress stuff. Granted Mario isn't all that interesting of a character either but yOU GET THE POINT RIGHT- Felony Carl just kind of falls flat. I was initially gonna drive this point home even further by comparing him to a really similar, and much more interesting, character, Brock from the Unikitty show, but this paragraph is getting long so I'm just gonna leave it at that. He's also really hard to ADD depth to because we just don't get that much info on his backstory outside of how he used to be named Misdemeanor Carl and that he has a good enough relationship with his father to willingly attend his birthday, which really isn't much! There's nothing interesting about this man to latch onto and expand upon without teetering dangerously close to OC territory!

Now, like I said before, having flat characters is fine. It's kind of a necessity, actually. If every single character in every single show got their backstories fully explained to us then there would never be time for any kind of. Plot. Ever. And, for normal viewers of BH6tS, Felony Carl being flat is perfectly okay, because he really had nothing to do with the main cast. But for ME, a weird little freak who likes to pretend BH6tS is actually The Globby Show(the amount of times I've rewatched literally only the episodes with him in them is evidence enough), Felony Carl is a lot more prominent because, to my eyes, he's technically the main love interest of the show. And he's just. So boring. Funny, but SO BORING.

Now, I am ABSOLUTELY not saying you can't still enjoy this pairing. Literally doesn't fuckin matter. I get the appeal, hell I've made stuff for the ship and have plans to make more! I just think it would be fun to explore Globby's potential dynamics with less one-note characters, y'know? Like, there's an ABUNDANCE of interesting adult characters in BH6tS and the only other Globby-related pairing(bcuz remember I only ever pay attentioj to Globby related stuff) I ever see is Globby x Honey Lemon. Which is a fine pairing, and they do have an interesting dynamic(and before you say that pairing is problematic it fucking isn't Honey Lemon is 21 and when your a consenting adult a 20 year age gap is literally fine omfg), but I think we should get more CREATIVE with it!!! And by we I mean people who. Like to think about Globby and put him in Situations. Actually maybe I'm the only person who really cares about this there's only like one other person on here that posts about him regularly... downsides of having super obscure interests, I guess.

But yeah if anybody wants to like... build up some fun cool ship dynamics between Globby and other characters my dms are always open hehe. This post was actually just a really longwinded and dressed up way for me to ask if anybody wants to talk about Globby ships with me. Sorry not sorry I just want more excuses to talk about this man-

#btw the last part was semi joking I did also genuinely wanna talk abt my personal grievances with Felonyglob #again its an okay ship its just kinda boring :(#big hero 6 #big hero 6 the series #globby #bh6 globby #felony carl #felonyglob #shipping #late night ramblings #gal overanalyzes random shit

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owlyflufff · 1 year

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Heyyy! I'm feeling a bit evil today, so I wanna ask some more controversial questions than I normally would (hehehe >:))

Anyway... What is ur least favorite ship in general (or just from haikyuu)? Or alternatively, what is ur least favorite character? Could u also tell us why? Thanks!! :)

Oh no TvT, I personally am not the biggest fan of discourse and don't want to start any in my inbox so hope you don't mind me answering more generally anon <33!

Warning that this contains spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen and Sk8 the Infinity btw!

Least favorite ship

Simply, I have the biggest gripe with these two ships. Alternatively, I have a dislike for this type of dynamic in general:

Genuinely and respectfully, if you ship either of these two then I'll have to ask you to kindly unfollow my blog because I hate both of these ships with all my heart.

Before you say, 'you just hate them because of the age gap', and though I personally also don't like ships with big age gaps, no. No because there's more blantantly problematic things about these ships that are evident reason enough to dislike them like hello TvT???

The aesthetic of these two dyanmics is not 'hot' or is it 'enemies to lovers', respectfully it's just straight up odd and messed up. Sukuna and Adam have obsessive behavior towards Megumi and Langa respectively and I just can't see how people would find this appealing? Sukuna traumatizes Megumi via what he did to Yuji post fight (and if you know and are reading the manga then ;-;) and Adam just beats numerous of Langa's friends (and boyfriend-) while touching him in areas that are concerning and without consent (even if Langa semmed indifferent, it still doesn't take away how naturally weird it is). So for people to say that these two would work well as a ship or make wholesome domestic art of these two despite how concerning their actual dynamic is in canon, it simply doesn't make sense on my end I'm sorry :<<

Least favorite character

Adam. Genuinely Adam from Sk8 the Infinity, and it's sad on my end because I honestly believed he was a pretty good written villain, that is, if they didn't rush his redemption. Having done so though, his character just comes off as concerning to me even with his backstory. For one, as mentioned above he just has this odd attachment and behavior towards Langa. Considering them to be "Adam and Eve", he also just straight up touches and seduces Langa and it makes me so uneasy, not in the "whoah this is a well written villain because I'm unsettled of his presence" but just "dude stop.", it simply creeps me out TvT. Second, because Adam has fun in hurting/ beating people in his path like Reki and (spoilers ahead) when he hit Cherry with his skateboard. It's natural to expect something like that since he is the antagonist afterall however, if you're going to "redeem" his character in the last episode, at least give a resolution to it just as much. Whatever happened in episode 12 was personally rushed and the characters acted as if nothing had happened, pretty much allowing Adam to still be this weirdly possessive individual. Third, personally I believe I would have considered Adam a well written villain or at least appreciated him more if they didn't give him a redemption arc/ speedrun said redemption. Given that Season 2 is confirmed, they could have saved and built up a better Adam redemption arc for it rather than what was promptly given to us in the last episode of Season 1. Overall, I just really hate Adam and I think his writing was a bit of wasted potential most especially in the last episode. I always love a good villain that does evil for no reason, but Adam isn't a good example of it, he's just straight up creepy and obsessive, more so towards Langa who's still fairly young.

#thank you for the ask anon!#sorry if I offended anyone TvT #Eli rambles #Hoots

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alastairstom · 8 months

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Hello there! I know your opinion of charles alastair, between the many reasons their relationship was toxic one is the age gap (a thing many on reddit see normal, personally a 25 year old mingling in that sense with a 17 year old doesn't sit right with me). I wanted to ask you what do you think of other age gaps in tsc and if you think those ships are problematic in that sense, for example Dru and Jaime, Livia and Cameron and Gabriel and Cecily. Where one is an adult (or soon to be one) and the other not yet.

As you acknowledged, there are a lot of things contributing to Charles/Alastair's toxicity. The age gap is just part of the bigger picture. One of the biggest issues is the age at which they met. Charles would have been around 20 while Alastair was around 14. That's disgusting, and even if they weren't immediately having sex, it was grooming. Charles also is in a very heightened position of power in society as the Consul's son; he's rich, he has political power, he has a family who loves him. Alastair's a mixed-race kid from an abusive home that doesn't really have a lot of money. They have 0 political power and people actively look down on Elias for being embarrassing.

The other couples that you mention are very different from this, I think. I will talk first about Gabriel and Cecily, who I do like together and do ship. I will say that I do dislike their age gap, and it was not necessary in any way. I don't see why Cassie did it. But I don't think Gabriel is a creep. He didn't groom Cecily and really isn't that much older than her; they're equals. It's annoying, but it doesn't bother me all that much.

Now that that's out of the way, the others you mentioned. If I'm wrong about the following, correct me. It's been a hot minute since I read TDA.

Dru and Jaime don't bother me for the simple reason that they're not in any kind of relationship yet. If they do become a ship in TWP, I would be opposed to it because Jaime is a lot older than Dru and met her as a kid. Also, there would be a power gap here and that dynamic would be awful. I would be very opposed to this. But I don't really think that it's going to happen. I'm pretty sure it's going to be Dru and Ash, which I support.

I feel like I can't give much of an informed opinion on Livvy/Cameron because I've blocked Thule from my brain, but I consider anything that happens in Thule ridiculous and therefore won't be bothered by it. I also don't think that they have that big an age gap, if I remember right (?) Livvy's 15 and Cameron's 17 (?) So honestly nbd.

I also don't think I can post this in good conscience until I admit bias. I'm much more bothered by Charles in part because I adore Alastair, he's my fave fictional character besides Matthew (and even that's a close race), and he's my precious blorbo that lives rent-free in my brain 24/7. I like Cecily and Gabriel well enough, but don't love them, and I give 0 fucks about any of the TDA characters. So there's a bit of a personal sting with Charles/Alastair that doesn't happen with any of the others.

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I used to be one of those people who believed that age-gap ships groom people, because I'd been in the fandom for one where I saw 20-something adults using it to convince teens that romantic and sexual relationships with them were normal, and other people following those blogs responding with "aww there's nothing wrong with this 23-yro 'dating' a 13-yro age is just a number!" and it grossed me out and turned me against that ship. The vast majority of people into that ship weren't like that, but there was enough in one particular community that concerned me about how a ship like that could be used for something like that.

What convinced me otherwise was staying in fandom and seeing that - sadly - grooming occurs in all corners. It occurs in fandoms for ships that have nothing "concerning" about them. It occurs in gen fic fandom. It occurs in corners of fandom that have nothing to do with fanfiction - in fact, IME, that's where it tends to happen the most, as those are the corners of fandoms with the most cis dudes who seem to do the most grooming. Groomers are opportunistic. Sure, if you're both into a ship where it fits the narrative they want to sell about adult/teen romance being "normal," they'll use it, but if it's not that, it's something else. Simply being into an adult/teen relationship in fiction is in no way "enabling grooming" any more than any other fandom activity is, if you do the right thing and when you see a real 23-yro trying to have a "romance" with a real 13-yro, you call that shit out, alert authorities if you know enough to do so, rather than excuse it with "age is just a number."

I'm not sure there's really anything in fandom that "enables grooming" other than that fandom is a community where it's not considered unusual for teens to be friends with adults. I'm not sure how to "fix that" given that I know a lot of people have had positive experiences of those inter-generational friendships, as the adults they talked to were not creepy or boundary-pushing. Perhaps for fandom circles to do more to educate younger people about what kinds of behaviors in adults are inappropriate, and also to self-police, call out when you see adults becoming inappropriately close to teens, making inappropriate requests of them, etc.? I do have to say that as someone in my early 30s, I am fine sharing general spaces with teens but can't really see wanting to become close friends with someone I feel like I have so little in common with as far as life experience goes. It kind of weirds me out if anyone my age is becoming besties with a 16-yro and would automatically raise my red-flag radar.

But even then.... a few years ago, one of my fandom friend groups had to kick out a guy in his late 20s who turned out to be sexually assaulting people and grooming teens. And we had no idea about it, because he kept that friend circle where he was doing that completely separate from the friend circle I was in where we were all closer to his age or older and where he played the role of a good male feminist who supports rape and abuse victims because he was one too (his "rapist/abuser" turned out to be one of his victims that he was using DARVO against). Of course, he used his friendship with our group (which included a lot of BNFs and professionals in the industry) to make the young people in the other group feel like they wouldn't be supported if they spoke up. Thankfully, a few of them didn't listen, since he was wrong. But without someone having done that.... we would've had no way of knowing about what this guy was up to. He was talking to these people on different Internet spaces, at different cons, etc. On the one hand I was proud of my group for all kicking him out when we found out, but I also felt kind of powerless, how long we might've not known if a few of his victims hadn't decided to ignore his threats and speak up anyway.

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nebulaleaf · 2 years

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Heh. Giving youuuuu… akira and futaba. for ask game. bc theyr neat.

they ARE neat. tey're probably one of my fave relationships in this game. this is gonna be . real bad because i am not very articulate tonight .sobs cries. this is just me word vomiting about how much i love the sakura family, akira included sorry .

your ideal/headcanon version of it? how does it differ from how it is in canon & why is this your favorite version? any other alternate versions of it you enjoy? definitely siblings. i won't shoot you dead for shipping them as it's none of my business but age gap, futaba's dependency on akira and other various reasons i see not to ship them aside... i think the main killer for me is just how familial they act... I can't ever imagine futaba having a crush on akira like. that's her older brother that's the guy she uses as a human shield in a walmart. that's the guy who'll let her sit on his shoulders to get a pc part that's too high up. that's the guy she'd sicc on a classmate like a dog!! she's so blase towards him in the romantic aspect save for like... one scene that doesn't even feel that romantic, just weird imo. i'm also down for them just being pals and not sibs but... idk there's just a specific layer to it that i enjoy far more when it's played like that. i really wish i could word it blurgh.

what do you like about their relationship, why is it interesting or enjoyable to you? I am not immune to siblings alright. i see a character who's a good older brother and has a soft spot for his sister and i weep because i know he'll probably be my fave. kicking rantaro amami down the stairs fuck you man. anyway i kinda feel bad just reducing them to that because there's so much i enjoy in how they interact but i can't put it to words. im on the cusp of futaba's palace in royal though so be on the lookout for posts where i go fucking insane .

what about the individual characters involved? what does this relationship mean to them, what makes it unique among their relationships? honestly i think akira's relationship to futaba means the fucking world to him. obviously he loves all of the thieves, but futaba specifically ... man. i should just say the sakura family as a whole... idk how well akira's home life is or isn't, but the sakura family feels like Just what he needed, y'know? caring but not overprotective, blunt but not cruel... a good mix of giving him the right space but also loving him unflinchingly and hey!! he fucking reciprocates that shit too!!!! and on futaba's end... yeah this is an important relationship to her too. when you first get her and the gang tries to reintroduce her to social situations.............. it's like autism to autism communication. akira is that perfect blend of a safe space, but not too safe where she'll never come out again. he will protect her but push her out to do things when needed and DAMB! she do be needing that. they fill that niche void in the other in ways the other thieves can't. like yeah futaba is the "little sister" of all the pts in a way, but she clearly interacts with akira differently than the rest of them... n yeah you cvould chalk that up to akira being a silent protag whup whup we need her to be clingy so you can have an UwU Gamer GF; but shut up fucka you. It's Different. To Me. and i'm serious like again the scene where all the PTs push her... she ends up reacting well to both situations in the end, but she reacts Best to akira's prompting because he's not too lax like ann and ryuji n' not too forceful like makoto was. zing. zing. i'm gonna shut up on this one now because im embarrassed Ah Hee Hee

favorite interaction they have in canon either the fire crackers scene outside of leblanc or futaba's first beach trip. the way she glances at akira for approval and then he just... gives her that soft smile... it fuckign kills me oh my god. [grabbing you] im so normall about that scene i only watched it thrice. oh my god and then the christmas scene......... that one is a close third

favorite interaction they have in your head/a situation you want to put them in so many. all the time constantly. I want them to get into shenanigans. I want Futaba to bring her classmates home to Leblanc and for all of them to laugh about Akira tripping over the mop as he delivers their coffee. I want akira to gently tuck her back into bed when she stays up too late studying or going too hard at school/social interactions in general. i want futaba nag at him to take better care of himself until she has to whip out the pleading puppy-dog eyes to one hit KO his older brother instincts. i want them to steal credit card information together and make sojiro go grey by next year from the sheer stress of having these hyper-intelligent morons in the same room.

#ask meme #what if i died.#sakura siblings #sure fuck it.#p5ram

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tsarinatorment · 2 years

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Thoughts on solackson..... because for me its just as bad as percico or jasico because age gap :/

Also thoughts on the opposite? Like will and percy rivalry

Because i have seen so many posts about it but will give a little "let it goooo" vibes

Will he hold on to the grudges?

Okay, so I'll preface this with a general blanket thing about me and shipping: usually, with a few exceptions across a few fandoms, I'm not an active shipper. My stance is usually "is this couple canon? Yes? Neat" or "is this couple canon? No? Okay, I don't really care about it". I very rarely actively ship characters who are not canonically together, and for the most part I accept canon couples as being canon and acknowledge their existence but give them no more of my mental facilities than that. I also almost never see any point in splitting up canon couples unless they split in canon; I'm largely a stickler for canon so aside from the occasional toxic relationship I see presented as "this is fine and normal look how adorable they are", I functionally ship canon ships and dismiss non-canon ships that break up canon ships to happen.

(Solangelo is the first canon couple in a while I have been more than just passively "okay that's neat" about; the other Riordanverse ships very much fall into that category for me and while I'll acknowledge their existence in my fics, I won't go out of my way to specifically write that ship. I'm far more of a platonic or familial relationship fan).

With that in mind, I automatically don't ship Solackson because it's a) not canon, and b) in order for it to happen, both Percabeth and Solangelo need to be split up, so even just on those grounds... no, I don't ship Solackson.

That being said, I do have other reasons why I don't ship it beyond the bog-standard ones. One, as you say, is age. I more don't ship Percico or Jasico because I view their relationships as being more familial, but the age gap there is also a bit eh, considering how young they are in general (an eighteen year old with a fourteen year old is urgh. A twenty-four year old with a twenty-eight year old is not so bad, for example, and the older the involved characters get, the less it bothers me), and of course Will is approximately the same age as Nico (about five months older, if we ignore the casino and use the fanon birthday of 23rd August for Will). Another is their lack of interaction in canon. Now, that isn't always a no-go for me in fandoms (I have a ship where the characters are never seen together in one fandom, although they canonically would have known each other), but in this fandom it feels odd - especially as Percy is the main character and our main narrator for the first series.

(Non-canonical main character shipping is, as a general rule, something I really tend to steer clear of, because they get shipped with everyone regardless of chemistry or care for keeping them or the other character(s) in character and it honestly bores me.)

But even when we compare Will and Percy in general... I can't see it. Will has the stubbornness to handle Percy, that's true, but Percy doesn't have the stubbornness to handle Will where Will needs it most - calling him out on his own self-esteem issues, forcing him to stop and rest instead of working himself to the ground. It would be like the worst Solangelo takes I've seen - Will functionally acting as the healer/caretaker but getting no healing or care in return (there's a word for this and it's unhealthy. Toxic is also applicable).

And then there's the elephant in the room - Michael's death.

This links into your second question as well - how do I feel about their rivalry? Honestly, I can't see Will holding a grudge over it. For one reason, holding a grudge is not like Will - he will call someone out, he will make his displeasure known, but once it's been aired he lets things fall by the wayside because it's over and he sees no point in beating a dead horse (if grudge-holding was something Will struggled with, Solangelo would never work because that's Nico's fatal flaw and they'd clash horribly, but that's clearly not the case because TOA shows us a lovely, healthy relationship dynamic between the two of them).

Another important fact to remember about Michael's death is that while, yes, it was the act of Percy breaking the bridge that resulted in him falling, the entire situation was Michael's choice. Michael is the one who stood his ground, Michael is the one who told Percy to break the bridge. There is no canon evidence that Michael even tried to run - and Will, at the end of the bridge, would have seen this. Will would know that Michael chose not to run, that Michael died to stop Kronos' advance and save them, that it was Michael's decision, basically, to die there.

I cannot see Will blaming Percy for Michael's own decision. I can see Will being devastated by Michael's death (he must have been), I can see him potentially being upset that Percy dragged him off to heal Annabeth rather than letting him keep searching for Michael (although it was Will's duty to heal if he could, and as the camp's top healer, he had to put his duty before his heart then anyway), but I cannot see him blaming Percy or holding it against him.

That being said, I don't think Will and Percy are particularly close. For one thing, in Percy's narration he almost always calls Will "Will Solace" when he's thinking about him or describing what he's doing. There's a distance there between them that suggests they don't interact, like with Michael, who is almost always referred to as "Michael Yew" in narration, but unlike the likes of Silena and Beckendorf, despite also being single-book characters with not much more page time (and while Nico is the same in BOO, we then get TOA where they're - obviously - much closer and the surname thing has been dropped. We never get that from Percy at all). For another, Percy spends very little time at camp and doesn't seem interested in socialising much at all anyway - while his narration calls a bunch of characters "friends", this is very much telling, not showing, and the showing doesn't support this at all (and then we have the Castor Incident, where despite being at camp for two years, Percy never even bothered to learn his name). As Will likely spends a lot of his time in the infirmary, and Percy seems to prefer using water to heal, there's also not much indication that they'd overlap anyway.

So, overall - no, I definitely don't ship Solackson, I don't believe they have a rivalry/Will secretly hates Percy, I think they're just two demigod acquaintances who know who the other is but as a general rule don't hang out that much, but are perfectly fine around the other on the occasions when they do interact.

Neutrality is a very valid dynamic!

#Anonymous #will solace #percy jackson #riordanverse #rrverse #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #hoo #heroes of olympus #toa #trials of apollo #not tagging the ship name because putting negative stuff in ship and character tags is just rude #tsari analyses things

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