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paraemu · 2 years
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which of the main riders should NOT be a parent
godai: canonically kids love him and we know he's good at household chores and he's just a great guy all around so he'd make a wonderful father. however its unlikely that he would have kids cause he's always traveling around, but if he ever settles down i can see foster kids coming in and out of his and ichijou's house all the time
shouichi: i havent seen agito but all i know about him is that he's basically a housewife so i assume he could take care of a kid. he seems to have some baggage that would stop him from becoming a parent tho
shinji: i dont think the thought of having kids has even crossed shinji's mind. can't really imagine him as a parent
takumi: he'd probably have to think long and hard about it first but i can see him warming up to the idea of having kids in the future (i will NEVER forgive inoue for robbing him and kiba of a future together i hope he goes to hell)
kenzaki: for obvious reasons kenzaki can't have children and actually its making me sad just typing this im skipping this one
hibiki: him being a dad is like the whole premise of the show
tendou: tendou is the perfect mary sue which means he's immortal and will never die and as such reproduction is meaningless to him
ryoutaro: he canonically has a grandson so congratulations on reproducing. i hope it was with yuuto. the idea of all the imagin pitching in and helping ryoutaro raise his child along with his sister is rly cute i love den-o
wataru: ok listen i KNOW inoue just threw in wataru's child from the future as a joke but i think wataru having a child 2-3 years after the show completely unprepared to be a parent and having a rly hard time with parenting all around is unfortunately very in-character for him. i believe in him tho i know with some therapy and a couple of parenting classes he can power thru
tsukasa: tsukasa would be a shit ass fucking dad and i dont think we should allow him near children. however it would be insanely funny if he and daiki were sougo's awful deadbeat parents who left him in a wet cardboard box all alone as a baby so now i am married to this au
philip and shoutaro: can't imagine either of them having kids
eiji: after the ooo summer movie i am convinced that eiji REALLY wants to have kids but his trauma prevented him from ever giving any serious thought to it. and then the whole ankh situation happened, so it'll probably remain an unfulfilled desire. he'd make a great dad if he ever had the chance tho (the ooo vcin doesnt exist to me)
gentarou: he has the vibes of someone who will have 5 kids by the time he's 30. in his case they're all most likely adopted but still. also probably houses and rehabilitates troubled teens
haruto: he wouldn't be half bad at parenting but i don't think it's something he wants. even after he's let go of most of his emotional baggage he's just the sort who likes to keep to himself and live independently
kouta: if he wasn't a god he would probably marry mai and have 2.5 kids with her
shinnosuke: HE DOESNT DESERVE KIRIKO SHE SHOULD BE MARRIED TO ME AND HAVE MY CHILD NOT HIS
takeru: i heard he has a child in the novel? ok i read the novel summary and nvm thats not canon to me. he should marry akari instead. the 3/3 on normie het marriages is concerning gaim-drive-ghost truly was the dark ages
emu: fast forward 4 years from the end of ex-aid and you'll find emu entering his milf era. he's going to have 3 kids separated by 2 years each. he's had like MAD baby fever since college so he's got it all planned out already
sento: realistically? banjou and sento are definitely not having children. s/o to ppl who write kid fic of them where their baby is also a science genius tho i think thats cute
sougo: no. just no.
aruto: i.... honestly dont know. hes too busy looking after the company and fighting for humagears and stuff i guess
touma: i havent finished saber yet but i think kento and touma should have two kids one boy and one girl I DONT CARE WHAT TRIO OF DEEP SIN SAYS
ikki: probably also getting normie het married and having 2.5 kids idk hes not important
ace: complete wild card we're still on episode 3. will update this when geats is over
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castelleve · 2 years
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𝘒𝘕𝘖𝘞𝘐𝘕𝘎  𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙  𝘗𝘈𝘙𝘛𝘕𝘌𝘙  𝘞𝘌𝘓𝘓  𝘊𝘈𝘕  𝘗𝘖𝘛𝘌𝘕𝘛𝘐𝘈𝘓𝘓𝘠  𝘔𝘈𝘒𝘌  𝘞𝘙𝘐𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎  𝘛𝘖𝘎𝘌𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙  𝘈  𝘓𝘖𝘛  𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘐𝘌𝘙.
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NAME :  Inc.
PRONOUNS :  she/her
PREFERENCE  OF  COMMUNICATION : tumblr IMs, tags in threads, i give discord to friends
NAME  OF  MUSE(s) :  OH GOD UHHH not including NPCs: Henri, Beau/Mortau, Damian, Krisha, Sylvester, Dalet, Sebastian, Gemini,  Serena, Onya, Claudia, Shang, Michael, Jessica, Grace, Ryan, Heth, Hei, Vav, Mika, Angelisa, Solomon, Dantes, Eung-Ju, Atari, Hayami, Helena, Hana, Elliot, Darva, Namalee, Afraa, Gabriel, Theo, Anastasiya, Nocturne, Adelaide, Juniper, Gideon, Enoch, Beatrix, Penny, Augusta, Baphomet, Touma, Ambrus, Kenichi, Maxwell, Lundy, Irusan, Foxglove,  Miguel, Officer Ishibashi, Roy, Germaine, Suki, Lucia, Dakota, Lucas, Jezebel.
EXPERIENCE  /  HOW  LONG  (  MONTHS  /  YEARS? ) : I have been writing for about 11 years now! 
BEST  EXPERIENCE :   OH GOD SO ig it kinda sucks cause this is actually fairly recent BUT the best RP experience I ever had was my plot with @batoushoujo, @cxnfectioniism and @desparialuna . It’s the first group plot I have ever been involved in. Ever. And it’s just,,, been a lot of fun. Even if one of us is off for like 8 months, when we get back on we can pick off right where we left off and it’s really nice. Another good one is meeting @ohfiendangelical and @piinetrees​ cause they’re really great people and have a very interesting shared world / over arching plot with their muses. I’m really glad to have met everyone I mentioned here.
RP  PET  PEEVES  /  DEALBREAKERS :  SEVERAL THINGS HONESTLY. 
People who don’t read my rules is a big pet peeve of mine. And I can tell when someone either hasn’t read them or just does not give a fuck about them. In addition, when someone doesn’t read my bios. I know a lot of my muse bios aren’t complete, which is why I have the blurbs there, but when I DO have the full one up I can tell when people don’t read them. Again, either they don’t read them or they like to casually glance over a few very important details, leading me to the next one:
I get a lot of people who want romance with Damian, when he’s (gray)aromantic. There is a reason he is plotting only when it comes to ships and the reason is 99 times out of 100, he isn’t gonna like your muse back. He’s going to be a toxic, shitty, emotionally neglectful and kind of abusive boyfriend. Hell, he’s not even that great of a friend. Similarly, people also want to ship with Enoch. He’s not aromantic, but he’s the same in the toxicity and he’s not even attempting to improve himself like Damian is. I’ve got, like, 60 other muses to interact and ship with, so it confuses me when people want the worst ones that I’d like to be more selective with. ‘i can fix him’ does not work with my muses - it just enables them.
When i reject a plot idea and people take it as a challenge. ‘No’ does not mean ‘convince me’. ‘No’ means, ‘I’m not interested’, ‘the muses we’re using aren’t compatible for this’, or ‘this is against my rules’. No is a complete sentence and I shouldn’t have to explain over and over again why I said it.
Lack of consequences. Now, this is just my prefered way to run my blog, nothing wrong with not wanting realism in your writing... but I do want it in mine. If your muse provokes one of mine, gaslights them, tries to hit them, etc. depending on the muse... I’m sorry, but yours is probably going to get their ass beat if it’s someone like Damian or Serena. Now, if it’s someone like, say, Lucas or Suki, they’ll probably be the one who ends up beaten up but I digress. Consequences is what drives a plot. It’s what makes interactions interesting. 
Trying to force interactions with incompatible muses. I’ve got 60, man, if one doesn’t work out, there is 59 more to pick from. Just let the interaction die and we can use a different combo.
Probably more but this is getting long
MUSE  PREFERENCES  FLUFF,    ANGST  OR  SMUT :   I find fluff kind of boring at times, and smut is not something I’m 100% comfortable with writing. I do like my angst, but too much can be draining. All in all, plot driven threads are my favorite. 
PLOTS  OR  MEMES :   A mix of both? I like to have an idea of where to go, but flexibility in how to get there. plus, memes are really fun to answer when I’m not in the mood for my drafts. 
LONG  OR  SHORT  REPLIES : It depends! Both? Neither?
BEST TIME TO WRITE :    When I should be sleeping ghfvghjf either RIGHT after waking up or when I’m tired as fuck at like 2 in the morning. One time I pulled an all nighter and i got like 20 drafts done. 
ARE  YOU  LIKE  YOUR  MUSE(S) :  Edit: wow I forgot this section omg. It just depends on the muse. Thry all have something in common with me, but I try to make them as different as I can as well.
TAGGED  BY  :   i stole it from @piinetrees haha​
TAGGING  : @yesfxckyxu @pvremichigan @ohfiendangelical @hhemeraa @smokes-and-bullets @batoushoujo @perennial-tenacity @wiildhearrted​ @nullificationofthevoid @stainedcarmine  @suizokukans @zhuangshii​ whoever else sees this and wants to steal it
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uniformbravo · 4 years
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@cry-beeby​ replied to your photoset: Touma’s Big Gay Tai Panel
sjdksjdkdjd not to show up late to the game but Fuck Yeah Hell Yeah Damn Right Fuckin Right
the bit immediately following when he like rubs his mouth/the back of his head. god damn kaito how you walk around town w that fatass brain
ghggkdoGOD I KNOw that whole sequence.................
similarly when touma gives tai his bday present & tai says he loves it w/ a big ass smile & them big ol’ eyes & touma has to Take A Moment
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scaramouche-bully · 3 years
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also i was wondering if you would write for thoma in the future? because ever since i played the quest ive just been having thoughts on how he would just love to fuck you in public, be it in the teahouse or even behind the kamisato estate
and everytime he sees you trying to hold in any noises or whimpers, he just pounds into you harder, laughing at your measly attempts of salvaging any dignity left
in conclusion i have jumped from childe to thoma like the shameless person that i am :')
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Hi 🍭,
Yes, I would love to write for Thoma! Since we don't believe in Top T*rtaglia (at least publicly), Touma is my excuse to write a guilty pleasure. The only reason I held off writing him was that I knew nothing about his character, but now with the new Archon quest, I think we can indulge a bit. By a bit, I mean a lot...I haven't finished the quest so this might be a bit out of character haha.
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You're both barely hidden under the cover of night as you're laid over a wooden crate as Thoma teases you with his cock. Always pushing into your sloppy hole until the tip is in before pulling out, smearing pre-cum everywhere like you both have all the time in the world. Your thighs clamp against his waist as you try and nudge him inside further, to get the hint that you didn't come to meet him for him to act like such a tease. But he continues to ignore you as his hands softly brush against your inner thighs and spreads your hole wider.
"If you don't hurry, we're going to get in trouble Thoma..." you whisper out as you reach up and curl your arms around his neck. His hands are on either side of your head as he cages you in so that all you can see is him.
"Only if we get caught, so be quiet for me okay?" he chuckles lowly as he leans down and kisses your cheek before sitting up and planting his hands onto your waist. Eyes focused as he slowly pushes in. It's been a while since you both got together like this. Maybe that's why he took the first opportunity to have you in his arms, even if it was out in the open where the both of you could easily be caught. With his luck who knows, maybe you both would be but that only makes you feel hotter.
"Hurry u-" you're quickly choked off as he slams into you, knocking your words out of place as he groans at how tight your walls squeeze his cock before forcefully pulling out and thrusting back in just as harshly. Your fingers dig into his black shirt as you hang on for dear life as he fucks you like a man possessed. Your wails and moans echoing through the night as your brain melts in pleasure that you forget where you are.
"Y-You know, fuck- if you don't keep it down. We might have rumours of a siren that sings near our docks," Thoma grits out as his hand's grip harder that if he doesn't see bruises the next day he's dragging you back here again. Your glazed-over eyes and drooling mouth are enough for him to cum already, god you're so beautiful.
"S-Shut up...!" you whimper as you bring a hand to cover your mouth. He grins smugly that even if you say that, your body is more honest as you seize up at the thought of getting caught. If he were a less selfish man, he would let your dignity remain in tatters as all of Inazuma knows how much of a slut you are. But he isn't. He leans forward and kisses your desperate whines shut. He's missed you. Running around everywhere as Inazuma changes, he's barely been able to keep sane without seeing you at least once. He towers over you and even then that's not enough, not close enough for him. He wraps his arms under you and pulls you into his chest, holding you suspended above the crate as he rails into you. Whispering sweet nothings and feral claims into your mouth as he chuckles at how warm your cheeks has gotten.
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asknarashikari · 2 years
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Funny minific idea: Haruto uses connect to grab some donuts again… but he accidentally gropes someone in the process (bonus points if someone tells him he should stop being lazy after that)
I want to make this as humiliating as possible for Haruto... so I’m gonna make him grope a gremlin and have the entire N. Base gang kick his ass bwahahahahaha 😈
“...Alright. That should the trick.” Haruto sighed as he finally got past the last of the wards Mayu had placed on his ring. “Time for a test run...”
How the little witch managed to twist the spell on the ring so he can summon everything but his beloved doughnuts, he didn’t know. Surely Wiseman had more important things to teach her than that. Even more baffling was the fact that Emu somehow managed to convince her to do it to begin with- he was pretty sure that Mayu had no idea who Emu even was.
Anyways. Mayu may have come a long way in her use of magic... but so had he. It had taken him sometime, but he was now certain that he had the ring working properly again. All he had to do was test it out.
And he could have his glorious plain sugar doughnuts once more, doctor’s orders be damned.
He put the ring on his finger and held it over his Driver, willing it to connect to his favorite doughnut shop. CONNECT, PLEASE! The Driver announced, and the red rune circle appeared as always.
Now, it was just a matter of seeing if he could claim his prize. He could almost taste the powdered sugar already.
He reached through it, his hand disappearing into the rune circle, and then grabbed at the thing on the other side...
~0~
“WHAT THE FUCK!” Ren swore as he flew out of his chair, grabbing his tush as he did so.
“Ren? What’s wrong?” Kento asked, looking at the younger Rider in concern.
“I- I felt something grab my ass!” Ren squeaked, his cheeks pinking in embarrassment. The other swordsmen stared at him in disbelief. “I’m not lying! I swear someone groped me!” He looked behind him and yelped. “Oh my god, what the fuck is that?!”
Everyone stared at the disembodied hand floating in the air, just behind the chair where Ren had been sitting it. It seemed to be groping at the air, as if confused that whatever it had been reaching for was no longer there.
“Hold up. That looks familiar somehow.” Mei squinted at the glowing red symbols surrounding the hand. “I can’t just remember where I’ve seen it...”
“Oh hell no.” Touma cursed loudly. “That’s Haruto! That’s one of his rune circle thingies!”
“Wait, Haruto-san? That’s his hand?” Rintaro asked.
Touma nodded. “Yes, I’m sure of it!” He insisted. “Wait... Haruto groped Ren?!”
“He did what now?!” Ren was cut off by the thunderous voice of Ogami Ryo. The younger swordsmen shuddered at the rage etched on his face.
“Well. We can’t have him getting away with assaulting our gremlin.” Tetsuo said in a deadly tone, reaching for a Book Gate and his Seiken.
“Oi, who you calling a gremlin-“ Ren’s eyes widened as a Book Gate opened, and the other swordsmen all stepped through it with their Seiken in tow. “Wait, where are you guys heading off to?”
Mei gently patted Ren, leading him to sit on the other side of the room. “It’s best not to get in their way when they get like this,” she said gently.
Ren gave her a bewildered look. “Is that Haruto guy gonna be okay?”
“...I doubt it.”
~0~
“You really have no sense of shame do you.”
Haruto glared at Shinnosuke with a pout. “Fuck you, Tomari. If you only just let me have my doughnuts already...”
“Haruto, you proved the exact reason why we put you on the goddamned diet in the first place.” He said. “This is what you get for your laziness.”
“I didn’t mean to grope the kid’s ass, geez,” he grumbled.
“Well, too late for that.” Shinnosuke said, gesturing at the practically mummified Haruto, who had taken quite the beating from five protective swordsmen. “You’re only in that hospital bed because you can’t be bothered to walk two blocks to a doughnut shop and used a botched ring that ended up making you a pervert!”
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Ehhhh fuck it I can't sleep so
What Servamp character you kin says about you
(This is for jokes please don't get offended-)
Mahiru: I love you but please take a fucking break you can't do everything for everyone and that's ok also please go to therapy there's also a lot to unpack there
Kuro: welcome to the sad bitch club where we think we don't deserve to get human kindness go to fucking therapy (unlike I who will in fact not) and like take a nap (and I'm guessing you're either simping for Mahiru or in love with a Mahiru kinnie)
Hugh: you like hearing the chisme around your family which honestly same bro but go to fucking therapy
Tetsu: I love you with my whole heart and you're probably clueless sometimes or the youngest in the friend group but please also go to therapy
Mikuni: you have daddy issues don't you? And probably a lot for trauma go to fuckin therapy you heartless bitch (in a caring way kinda)
JeJe: you're the quiet friend that's at their fucking limit which honestly I probably don't blame you but you also got some issues going on so please go to therapy
Freya: I literally love you you're a bad bitch stay being a bad bitch literally marry me/hj but please do go to therapy
Iduna: I love you as well and you're probably trying to stop that one friend from making a big ass mistake which honestly I am that friend- not the point- also go to therapy please I feel like you're going to need it
Tsurugi: family issues, mommy issues, daddy issues idk which one it is but it's one of them and probably a bunchhhh of childhood trauma so please for the love of God go. to. therapy
Hyde: you fucking theatre kid you're probably in love with a Licht kinnie huh? you also have A LOT to unpack so go to therapy you sad bitch
Licht: yes I'm aware you have a dumbass friend who you love dearly (may that be platonic or romantic) and look I know you might think you might not need it but please go to therapy
World end: I fucking love you and I'd marry you on the spot. But uh you also got some hidden issues there and it seems to be a lot to unpack so please go to therapy you can't keep it in forever
Nicco: look. I know it's scary but we're gonna have to do whatever it is eventually (we're I mean by me as well) also you definitely have trauma (is it childhood trauma?) so please go to therapy
Cappuccino: you're not fooling anyone you're in love with your childhood best friend aren't you? Yes I'm coming for your throat you ain't fooling nobody you also have a lot to unpack so go to therapy
Shuuhei: listen here bitch living off of caffeine isn't good for your health, listen to that friend trying to stop you, and please for the love of God TAKE A FUCKING BREAK and you definitely got some childhood trauma so go to therapy you bottled up emotion bitch (yes I'm also calling myself out)
Lily: I love but sweetie, honey, literally someone I'd die for I know you have trauma and you're constantly bottling up your emotions that's not good and I know you try to keep a smile on your face that's not good sweetie sometimes you just break and that's ok and please go to therapy (I in fact will not be going to therapy)
Misono: I can't tell if you have daddy issues or childhood trauma that or it's both and you sometimes feel like you aren't good enough but you're doing your best and please if you have a friend who kins Lily please check up on them (or if any of your friends kin a Servamp character that's literally the first sign they aren't mentally stable-) but uh please go to therapy
Tsubaki: LISTEN HERE YOU FUCKING BITCH go to therapy. Please stop doing dangerous shit. You're worrying your friends. And 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙋 for the love of God stop fucking playing off your issues like they're nothing your feelings fucking matter you bitch
Sakuya: you definitely have childhood trauma or you have trust issues either way you need therapy also please don't stalk people yes even on social media also if that friend is concerned for you please fucking listen
Toru, Iori, Touma: go. to. FUCKING. therapy
Yumikage: you probably have a lot of bottled up emotions please don't do that that's not good for you mental health go to therapy
Junichiro: you're trying your best and thats enough please still go to therapy I feel like there's a lot to unpack
Miyako: you're literally beautiful and I'd also marry you on the spot but I feel like there's some trauma there and a bit to unpack so I suggest therapy
Gear: you probably are still holding some sort of grudge but you probably have a bit of self hatred and some trauma so please go to therapy
Youtarou: look you may think you're fine but there're obviously some trauma there and some other emotions I can't figure out so please therapy
Inner Kuro: I'm already making the therapy appointment there's no way of getting out of this
Inner Lily: look I know you just want them to be safe but it wouldn't be normal if they were safe all the fucking time ok? And you also have a lot to unpack so therapy please
Inner Freya: ..... You scare me.... And you need therapy...
Inner Hyde: you can't keep that energetic attitude the entire time go to fucking therapy you can't fucking fool me I know a depressed bitch when I see one
That's all I got
Should I do what character you simp for says about you next?
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firemblem-fics · 4 years
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Running With the Wolves [1]
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-> Yuri Leclarc x Fem!Reader
-> Modern!Au | Gang!Au | Enemies to Lovers
-> Word Count: ~3.3k
-> Warnings: Violence, Blood, Cursing, Weapons
-> Summary: You were just a normal college student, trying to find her way in a new place. You didn’t mean to get caught up in the wrong crowd. You just wanted coffee, but now you’re running with the wolves.
-> A/N: SURPRISE I POSTED IT EARLY ! thanks to my lovely beta readers for helping me revise and edit this chapter to make it better! i’m still in a writing mental block but i think this is one step closer to getting out of it! so, please enjoy (again)! also, all characters are aged up (21+)! also y’all should reblog this so it gets out more 🥺
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"Fuck- She's losing too much blood, Boss, she's not gonna make it!"
"No, no. She's going to make it- I'll make sure of it. Stay alive!"
Your vision was dark and blurry- you couldn't quite see anything. You could only make out a few silhouettes hovering above you, each one rushing around and yelling frantically. You couldn't count how many were there. Your vision kept doubling and it was hard to discern one person from three. Focusing just caused things to get worse.
"Someone put pressure on the damn wound! She certainly won't make it if you all keep messing around."
It was only now that you noticed a sharp pain radiating from your chest, right below your ribs. You gasped loudly and coughed. It hurt worse than the throbbing that already coursed through your head. Your body burned.
Trying to look down, you saw a rag soaked in blood. Hands with bright nails pressed down on your wound to slow the flow, but it didn't seem to be helping. You started feeling dizzy and laid back again, clenching your eyes tight as nausea engulfed you.
"No, keep your eyes open, Y/N, dammit! Wake up!"
Slowly, the pain began fading, as did your view of the people above you and their voices. You could still barely hear the voice crying, sobbing out your name. Whoever they were, they were crushed.
"Wake up!"
Was that voice finally fading away too?
"Wake up!"
No- it was getting louder.
"Wake up!"
"Ellie, what the fuck do you want?" You groaned, rolling over on your bed.
Your roommate bounced on her knees, making your bed creak loudly. "What do you mean? It's like 10am, your class is at 11. Don’t talk to me with that tone of voice."
"Fuck me."
"Absolutely not, baby." Ellie smacked a pillow beside you and got up. "Get ready!" She went to her own room, leaving you to your own devices.
When you applied for an apartment roommate, Ellie was certainly not the one you were expecting. You would've preferred a chill, laid-back, person. Instead, Eleonora Yumizuru walked into your life (and apartment) and practically made herself at home. She didn't judge you from transferring so far away from your old home for your last year of college, claiming that "home roots don't mean shit when it comes to making it in the real world".
She had the right to say such a thing, having moved to Fodlan from another country in her youth. She was able to understand the occasional homesickness and help you cope as you adjusted to Fodlan life. She understood you like the back of her hand from the moment you met and you did the same for her.
Really, you had to let her move in. She’d probably have stayed even if you rejected her.
She was the complete opposite of what you were looking for- overconfident, stubborn, loud- but she grew on you and easily became your best friend. There was just something about the bubbly, blue-eyed, blonde-bobbed bitch that hooked you.
She had certainly hooked other people as well, but thank God her bedroom is on the other side of the apartment. Her social skills and magnetic personality worked for platonic friends and acquaintances as well. Ellie was constantly bringing over friends, allowing you to expand your own circle. She was heaven-sent for a newbie like you.
You sat up from your bed, yawning and stretching. Trudging to your bathroom, you rolled your eyes as the infamous Taylor Swift blared through Ellie's speakers, "Shake it Off" shaking the entire apartment. Nothing against T. Swift, but sometimes she was not the first thing you want to hear when you wake up. At least not at max volume. Ignoring the song switching to "You Belong With Me" -another banger from Swift herself, but really "Teardrops on My Guitar” was your favorite- you finished getting ready and lazed into Ellie's room.
"I've got class 'till late today." You sat on her bed. "Do you want me to pick up dinner? It’ll let me explore the area."
"Oh, please do. You need to get out more. But where?"
You shrugged. "There's really only like two good food places here. Golden Pizza and Blue Lion Buffet. Your choice."
Ellie thought for a moment. "I went to the buffet with my little friend Touma the other day... so pizza! I just can't choose a side in their little spat."
"Spat?" You tilted your head.
"Goodness, Y/N! I know you're a little new here, but you haven't even heard of the shit that goes on between those restaurant owners?"
Shaking your head, you stayed silent for her to continue.
"The owners of Blue Lion Buffet, Eagle's Freezery, and Golden Pizza are all huge rivals. I heard they were all close, but went their separate ways. All the owners' kids are our age, too. They go to Fodlan Uni, but I don't know who they are." She smiled. "I am an esteemed woman with an upcoming high status. Who would I be to take sides? I prefer to cater to them all."
You could only nod, hiding a smirk at Ellie’s infatuation of fame. A huge restaurant rivalry. How funny. "What about that little cafe on the corner? What's it called? Café des Loups?"
"They're pretty neutral, just some college dropouts trying to make some money. I think they’re gonna get involved eventually- every restaurant’s been dragged into their drama at least once."
You nodded, standing up and messing with your apartment keys. "I'll keep that in mind. Bye, Ellie!"
"Bye! I better see some pizza later!" She called as you made your way out of the apartment, now playing "I Knew You Were Trouble".
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College was honestly a scam.
You sat in the classes for two hours at a time, for what? You were paying thousands of dollars to be talked at by old dusty men who made you fall asleep faster than trying to read their overpriced textbooks. You paid thousands to nap at a desk.
Unfortunately for you, though, your thousand dollar desk nap was interrupted by a tapping on the surface. You huffed and looked up, coming face to face with a pair of soft, orange eyes. They radiated kindness and just looking into them seemed to lift your mood immediately.
"Hey, you need to wake up for this part. The professor said there's gonna be a quiz on this section tomorrow."
You shot up, looking back at your professor. Blushing embarrassedly, you smiled at the boy. "Thank you..."
"Ferdinand." He drew his bottom lip in between his teeth, as if to conceal his smile, before giving up and returning yours just as brightly.
As you faced forward to Professor Hanneman, as you were pretty sure his name was- or was it Ham Man? You didn’t care enough to know- you were now struggling with two distractions. One, the weight of your eyelids as they threatened to pull you back into dreamland. Two, Ferdinand.
You kept glancing at him, taking in his complexion. He must have come to class late, since you didn't see him before. Or maybe he was on time- you did fall asleep quite early into the lecture.
You were eyeing his carefully sculpted jawline, dotted with subtle stubble that connected to sideburns and led up to clean, silky, orange hair. You wished to run your fingers through it-
"Y/N, this is the second time I've seen you not paying attention." You jumped nearly three feet in the air. "Next time, I'll have to ask you to leave my class since you are obviously taking it as a joke."
"I-I'm not joking! Sorry!" You stuttered, finally finding a reason to keep your attention on the lecture. You did look away once, just to glare at Ferdinand, who only winked and chuckled at your misfortune.
Class was eventually over and you sighed, finally loosening up from forcing yourself to pay attention. You packed your notebook and laptop and swung your backpack on, getting ready to leave the room before a voice called to you.
You turned back. "Ferdinand?"
"I was simply wondering where your next class was. I can walk you to it, if you'd like." Said boy walked quickly towards you, holding himself with a nearly-perfect posture. You felt anxious- he was trying to make himself seem like a gentleman, but you still felt a little unnerved.
"Oh, um, sure! It's not for another fifteen minutes, but it is across campus."
Ferdinand's grin seemed to get larger, making his eyes crinkle at the edges. "How wonderful! That little café is down there and I've been meaning to check it out anyways. It works out perfectly."
"Uh, yeah." You laughed nervously. This was the first time a boy had taken interest in you- or was he really interested? Maybe he's just being nice-
"Also, before I forget. May I get your number? I'd like to talk to such a gorgeous woman like you a little more."
Oh, he was so interested. You had to make yourself breathe again as you handed him your phone to let him put his number in. He gave it back to you and you noticed a heart and a smiley face emoticon next to his contact name. Your heart fluttered at the sight of the emojis and you felt your cheeks heat up a bit. Ferdinand gave you a sweet smile before holding the door open for you, letting you lead the way to your next class.
On the way to the building, Ferdinand spent the time asking you questions and getting to know you better. He had scratched basically the entire surface of you, save for the secrets that new people shouldn't know, and the same could be said for you. Ferdinand was definitely a polished and refined man. He made quite the impression on you.
"What are you doing after classes?" You asked, hoping to invite him for pizza at your apartment.
"Ah, I've got work!" He smiled sheepishly. He definitely caught onto your hopes...
"Really? Where? Maybe after, you could stop by for some Golden Pizza-"
"Actually, I work at the Eagles Freezery." He was tense, suddenly. "So I really shouldn't. Rivalry and all of that, you know?"
You were a little confused, actually. "Why would that prevent you from hanging out for a bit? You didn't buy it, I did. Plus I thought the rivalry was only between the buffet and the pizza place?”
"It's- it's a loyalty thing. It’s between all three of us.”
"It's a restaurant. How loyal could you possibly be to a dumb little ice cream parlor-"
"It's more than that!" Ferdinand snapped his mouth closed, suddenly making himself quiet after his angry outburst. "Listen, I cannot and will not eat there, look at it, talk about it, or do literally anything about it. Please, just understand that."
"Uh, yeah." You nervously readjusted your backpack on your shoulder. "I- I should get to class now. I'll see you later, Ferdinand."
"Goodbye, I'll message you after work!" With that, he sent you a wink and a smile and turned, going about his own day with the most carefree pep in his step. As if nothing ever happened. You, on the other hand, could not have been more confused. Ferdinand seemed unpredictable when it came to his moods. He was comforting and kind, yet was so… upset when you insulted the parlor. It was a restaurant. Why did he get so worked up about it? Maybe Ellie was right about it being such a big deal.
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“I just ordered! Go, go, I’m starving!”
Not even five minutes after you got out of your last class, Ellie was calling to remind you about dinner. You were still slightly unnerved from your encounter with Ferdinand, but you agreed to pick it up and would never hear the end of it if you didn’t do something as simple as takeout.
Golden Pizza was only about two blocks away and you stayed on the phone with your roommate the entire time, only saying goodbye as you walked in the establishment. The restaurant was very nice, the honey yellow walls and the glow of the wood-fired oven making the ambience warm and welcoming. You didn’t wait long in the line, soon coming up to meet a boy about your age with a glimmering emerald gaze and a smile just as bright at the front counter.
“Hi!” The boy- Claude, according to his nametag- greeted, “How can I help you?”
“I’m just picking up an order for Eleonora Yumizuru.”
Claude nodded and typed a few things into a computer at the counter. “I know Ellie! She and I had Stats together before she dropped out to pursue her acting career. She’s certainly something.”
“Oh, definitely. I’m her roommate.” Speaking of the devil, your phone vibrated in your pocket. It was a message from her. “She actually just messaged me. Wants me to bring her a dumb little lemonade from that cafe.”
Claude laughed, “You can go and get it now, if you’d like. Your pizza will be a few more minutes. Ellie set the time for your pickup for later, so you’re actually ten minutes early.”
You thanked him and left, walking to the cafe. You took your time, observing the shops around you. Across the street from Golden Pizza stood the Blue Lion Buffet. You smiled to yourself- what a cliche to have rivals across from each other. Beside the pizza parlor was another food shop, the Eagles Freezery. You thought about Ferdinand- he said he was working today. Maybe you could drop by and- No. No, Y/N. Go get your lemonade and go.
A soft bell chimed as you opened the door. You saw four people in cafe uniforms, going about their day as you approached the register.
“Welcome to our humble abode!”
“Constance, that’s only used for a home.”
You shyly waved at the so-called Constance and the pink-haired girl who corrected her. Cafe des Loups- or Cafe of Wolves- was a quaint place, quiet and not crowded, kind of like an off-brand Starbucks. Dim lights adorned the high black ceiling, illuminating the shop just enough for a comforting ambience. There was a mural of a rainforest painted on the wall to the opposite of the counter with comfortable tables and lounging areas. If you could, you’d probably waste the day away lounging around. It was the perfect environment for an introvert like you.
At this shop, a large dark-haired man controlled the register instead of Claude. As you approached the register, you noticed that he wasn’t wearing a nametag, but you had a small urge to call him Bigfoot.
“Hey! What can I get ‘cha?”
You scoured the menu. “Just two pink lemonades is fine-”
“Oh! Good choice!” Constance interrupted you, coming to stand beside the man. “Yuri-bird over there makes the best sweet lemonades!”
You followed her gaze over to a man who was sitting on a stool, slouched down and leaning his head on his hand. He stretched and stood up. “Thank God, we haven’t had many customers all day. I was starting to think we lost our appeal.”
“Of course we have not!” Constance replied. She turned to you, but you couldn’t tell whether she was still talking to Yuri or you. Maybe it was neither. “Not when someone as handsome as Yuri is making the drinks and my attractive self is greeting the customers!”
“Hey! I’m just as much of a visual as the boss-man.” The taller man joined in after taking your money. “We’re all pretty nice looking. Especially this little lady ordering~”
You blushed a bit. “Oh, please, I’m nothing special-”
“Nothing special?” Constance laid her hand against her chest. “You’re wonderful! Almost on the same level as me. Isn’t that right, Yuri-birdie?”
Yuri looked up from making your drinks, his analytical eyes seemingly boring holes into you. You shuddered, feeling like he could tell your deepest and darkest secrets from just looking at you. He shrugged, going back to the lemonades.
“She’s alright, I suppose.”
“You suppose? Yuri, that’s rude-”
Hapi was midway through lecturing the purple-haired man when the door to the shop chimed open and a rather large group came in. Yuri looked up and suddenly stood alert, as did the other three workers. In the group, you saw a familiar head of orange hair and orange eyes met yours. Your face screwed up into confusion.
“Ferdinand?”
“Don’t say anything.” The leader of the group, a short, white-haired girl snarled. “Are you a new… worker here?”
“Wh- you just told me not to say anything.”
Slowly, Yuri and the other three came up beside you, standing slightly in front. Your heart nearly stopped- you were in the middle of something you definitely weren’t supposed to be in and your sass had gotten on their bad side already. The white-haired girl scrutinized the five of you, her lavender eyes piercing holes through whatever facade of confidence you had tried to put up. You could feel yourself literally wither under her gaze, even more than you did when Yuri looked at you.
“What do you want, Edelgard?” Yuri put his hands on his hip, one fiddling with something under his shirt.
“I want your loyalty.”
Yuri snorted. “You aren’t in charge.”
“I’m not? Hm. Tell that to my father after he stepped down. I’m the leader now- the emperor, if you will.” Edelgard sighed heavily. “I have no time for more conversation if you won’t comply. Hubert, deal with them.”
The terrifying man who you assumed was Hubert suddenly reached in his coat and pulled out a handgun, aiming it at the five of you. Yuri quickly retaliated and pulled one of his own, throwing it at Constance before grabbing your wrist and running to the back. A loud gunshot rang through the air as you and Yuri continued to run. You both dodged around coffee shop equipment and he dragged you through a labyrinth that they considered the back of the store.
As you were running, Yuri pulled you to a sharp right turn and your arm scraped against a metal machine in your way. You hissed in pain and looked down at it, seeing a large wound going down your shoulder to your elbow. It was starting to bleed rather quickly, but you had no time to worry about it. You’d have time to tend to it if you survived.
“What’s happening?”
“No time to explain. Quick, hide!”
Yuri pushed you against the wall in between two larger cabinets and stood in front, grabbing yet another gun from his other hip. He cocked it, listening for the ruckus of the fight in the main room to make its way towards your location. You were shaking like a leaf, grabbing tightly onto your wounded arm and smearing blood all over your fingers and your clothes. You breathed heavily, trying to calm yourself at least a little- was this why Ferdinand had been so defensive over the Eagles Freezery? What kind of restaurant rivalry would constitute attempted murder? And wasn’t this cafe uninvolved anyways? You didn't have time to ponder any more questions as a loud crash echoed through the room. Yuri lifted his gun and began to speak lowly, not taking his eyes off of the door.
“When I say run, go out the back door and get in the black car back there. Don’t go home- one of them will find you.”
A gunshot rang through the air and Constance, Balthus, and Hapi burst through the doors, running towards you all. Yuri turned to you as the three of them caught up to him, pulling out their own weapons again as Edelgard began yelling.
“Run!”
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narashikari · 3 years
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Okay, so I really love your kitty!Tsukasa and kitty!Sougo, so can I ask about big kitty!Tsukasa and baby kitty!Sougo and the different Phase 2 rider teams taking care of them? (And maybe Zero-One and Saber?) I wanna see kitty!Tsukasa with a baby kitty!Sougo and all the fluff they will give the other riders (and maybe a headache or two on Tsukasa's part).
I’ve actually done a few shorts of kitty!Tsukasa and kitty!Sougo over on my askblog, which were also compiled into a fic on AO3 (kitty!Tsukasa here and here and kitty!Sougo here) so I hope you don’t mind if I do a Saber-version for now hahaha
The shop’s bell tinkled as a new customer stepped into the Fantastic Bookstore Kamiyama. The owner looked up from what he was doing to greet, “Welcome, how can I help- Aruto?”
His senpai, the tech CEO Hiden Aruto, stood there looking rather winded, panting for breath. “Hey Touma, by any chance would you have seen two kittens today? Like, really smart and naughty kittens?”
Touma blinked. “Kittens?” he repeated. “You mean... like these?”
He pointed to the floor near his desk, where his trio of friends sat cross-legged cooing over a pair of kittens. The smaller of the duo basked in the attention it was receiving, happily meowing as Mei and Kento alternately scritched its ears. The other was more standoffish, merely glaring at the cat toy that Rintaro was trying to persuade it with.
Aruto sighed in relief when he saw the two kittens. “Haaaaah, thank Kouta, I’ve found them!” he cried out. “I can call off the search party!”
“S-search party? For a pair of kittens?!” Touma exclaimed incredulously. “What kind of kittens would warrant a search party?!”
“The kind that are actually Kamen Riders that were turned into kittens by a pissed off magician,” his senior grumbled. “And yes, before you ask, this is something that has happened more than once.”
“I- Wait, they’re Kamen Riders...?” Mei questioned, butting into the conversation. “But they’re not part of the Swords of Logos right...?”
“I think we’d know if Ogami-san or Ren or Daishinji-san got turned into cats, Mei-chan,” Kento pointed out. “But then, who are these guys...?”
“That bigger one is the Destroyer of Worlds, Decade,” Aruto said, pointing at the aforementioned cat.
“He did what now-” Rintaro immediately recoiled from the cat, who seemed turned its unimpressed gaze onto Aruto and meowed pointedly. 
“Oh fuck off, you kidnapped my boyfriend and tossed him onto a mattress to float out on Lake Biwa!” Aruto scolded. “And that small cute one is Zi-O, the Demon Overlord of Time- don’t give me that look senpai, you know if Woz was here he’d be doing that iwae waga maou shtick of his!” Aruto exclaimed as the smaller kitten turned to him with wide, innocent eyes.
“D-Demon Overlord?” Mei stammered. 
“Wait, these guys... they’re Sougo-san and Tsukasa-san?” Touma looked between the kittens and Aruto. “But, how-”
“Like I said, they were turned into this-” Aruto waved his hand at the cats, “-by a pissed off magician. By that, I meant Haruto, because somehow these two managed to destroy his favorite doughnut shop when they were having some kind of kerfuffle. And nothing good happens when a Kamen Rider gets turned into an animal.”
“...You say that as if it’s a usual occurence,” Rintaro hesitantly pointed out.
Aruto sighed heavily. “Look, with us, there’s at least two mad scientists, a wizard, a fucking space god, and these two.” He gestured again to the two cats. “Shenanigans can and will happen.” He pat Touma on the shoulder apologetically. “This is what you signed up for when you became a Kamen Rider, kid.”
Touma, Rintaro and Kento gave each other bewildered looks. What have they signed up for, indeed?
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charmspoint · 3 years
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Top 5 characters that live in your head rent free 🤔
For this ask meme
Oh god ONLY five??? GOOD QUESTION. This is gonna be hard to both decide on and rank fairly uhoh lets see, this ranking his shifty as hell depending on what I’m into atm obvs
5. Tsurugi Kamiya from Servamp
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Does he look like a knock off Izaya? Yes. Is he? Very much no.
Tsurugi is like my no 1 reason for getting back into Servamp, I left right in the middle of his arc and I ;-; IS HE OKAY??? DID HE GET AWAY FROM TOUMA??? DID HE BECOME WRATHS EVE??? NOBODY TELL ME I’LL FIND OUT ON MY OWN.
Servamp was one of those shows where I didn’t really have a fav main character for a good while until this guy showed up. This guy is an absolute crazy little monster I can’t overemphasize on this, his coat is used as a fucking straight jacket I’m not even kiddin
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You get introduced to him and he’s scary and terrifying because he’s so strong, like he’s one of those strongest in the series characters and since he and the heroes are on semi opposing sides he is a serious threat. So you get introduced to this guy who seems borderline crazy and feral and then...you get to see him goofing off with his two boyfriends and their kid and it’s just
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The domesticity!!!!Look at it!!!! It’s so fucking cute aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, they are so cute together OT3 of C3 ftw, MY SON. Like Tsurugi had a horribly abusive childhood and was basically raised like an attack dog and his previous partner :) well he do be trying to seriously kill him don’t he. But look! He found his own little family he can be semi normal in!! Until is torn apart by his abusive adoptive father figure :D!!! I ABANDONED HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT ARC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
im sorry this got so long on this particular character none of the others will be so long i just miss him TSURUGI ILL CATCH UP FOR YOU!!!! Maybe he should have been no 1 hbjhbjh fucking sleeper agents am i right
4. Izaya Orihara from Durarara
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Ah yes, the og queen bitch. Has my taste for villains ever recovered from Izaya? No. If your villain isn’t at least a bit like Izaya I’m not interested. Durarara was one of my first serious fandoms and Izaya was the first character I ever wrote for and I think you can explain me as a person if you consider Izaya was my all time fav at 13. I can’t really say anything about Izaya that hasn’t been said thousands of times before, I love how goofy and overperformative he can be, I love how there’s so much in him once you crack him open, I love how good of a villain he is for a messy story such as DRRR, puppeteer villains are really a league of their own. We need more puppeteering twinks, maybe then I’d be more into villains yaknow.
3. Hawks from Boku no Hero Academia 
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To no ones surprise!Him! I’ve been drifting off from BNHA recently what from catching bad case of JJK what from just reading n watching more other stuff and honestly that’s probably good because I’ve been into BNHA for a couple of years now as my main fandom and I really could have used a break. Not to say I don’t like BNHA anymore tbh I think right now BNHA is the best it’s ever been just ya know, drifting. That being said my love for Hawks will never die, god what a good boy and we got his backstory too aaa ;-;. BNHA was just like Servamp, something I liked but didn’t really have a fav character in until this random support character strolled in and won my heart. God I love how much we got on Hawks. He’s completely different from his initial impression and his unrelenting strive to do good despite being thrown from one horrible situation to the next is just ;-; HES SUCH A GOOD BOY. He’s selfless to a fault, literally putting everyone before himself and putting himself down for not being able to achieve more than is humanly possible I’m just ;-; I WANT HIM TO BE HAPPY. He just makes my heart happy, he’s good and warm and hardworking and in a manga where trauma plays such a major role in so many characters it’s so good to see Hawks there, having been through three different types of hell and still coming out unnerving in his goodness. All I want for him is to have a good life and to one day be able to smile for real.
2. Gojo Satoru from Jujutsu Kaisen
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Again no surprise since I’ve been so into jjk lately. Satoru is p high up rn cuz I’m mainly into JJK now but god knows where he will actually settle. He’s not even really my favorite character in the show, that goes to Inumaki, but this is a list of who I think about the most (tho all of these characters are either no 1 or no 2 for their shows) and boy my brother and foxy can tell you I’m constantly thinking about this bitch. I didn’t really care about him that much at the start but then I got to Hidden Inventory and OH BOY MUCH TO THINK ABOUT. Satoru is such a wonderfully complex character whos evolution you can clearly follow through the years. He’s under so much pressure as the strongest sorcerer to deal with everything and he has to operate in that system trying to change it for the better while at the same time trying to make sure his students arent sacrificed in the name of that change. He has a very goofy disposition but along side with Nanamin who’s a lot more explicit about it, it’s clear he cares about mental state of his students a whole lot. He knows this world is terrible and that the will come out of it with scars and that he can’t protect them from all of it, but he balances protecting and letting them grow as much as he can. They need to grow so jujutsu society can change after all, but they also need to be protected so they don’t fuckin die before that can happen. This is without all the many many opinions I have on Hidden Inventory and SatoSugu as a whole, how they influenced each other, how differently they reacted to their shared trauma (Funny how everyone on this list is fuckin traumatized) and what resulted from it. How their fucking love story is dramatic enough to be a Shakespeare play. Also I like it when he’s long and goofy ahahah
1. Chuuya Nakahara from Bungou Stray Dogs
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If there is ever a day when I don’t go feral over Chuuya I’ll probably be dead. He not only lives in my head rent free he owns the place.
HES SO UNDERUSED.
BSD has such a great setup with Chuuya, like he’s ex partners with the mentor of the main character who got betrayed and abandoned when the mentor left shared evil organization. Sounds like grounds for drama right? YOUD THINK SO. Like Chuuya and Dazai have such a great and interesting dynamic and you can feel how strained it is from the distance and betrayal and they bicker and fight as their defining relationship trait BUT there is such a strong underlying trust to all the fighting. These two trust each other with their whole lives and that hasn’t changed despite everything, despite how much time has passed and how much that trust had been tested. So you’d think he’d be an important character :) HES STUCK IN SUPPORT HONESTLY HES STUCK IN BACKGROUND UNLESS HES NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING COOL AAAAAA. Chuuya is literally one of a kind, I’ve never seen a character with such a good design and such an cool power and such an interesting relationship to one of the main characters and such a love and support from the fandom BE SO UTERLLY AND COMPLETLY WASTED. Even when we get Chuuya scraps they rarely build on relationship he has in canon but just throw in new random ones at him (tho that’s a broader problem of Kafka throwing new characters at the plot instead of developing the one he already has really). We get a hint of a cool fight with him? Completely cut out, More often then not it just feels like he is benched because he’s so damn strong there would just be no plot tension if he went in and broke some heads (which is also a problem with Satoru, guys stop writing op characters if you’ll just put em on the bus aaa). Anyway he’s completly and utterly wasted by the plot.
And it’s such a waste because he’s such a good character. Like he’s a member if the villain organization and is obviously by that very vicious and violent but also so empathetic and kind to people he considers his friends. He and Dazai have the brawn and brain thing going on and stg Chuuya is like the only brawn I can think of that is classier then their brain. Look at how this guy dressed, he’s high class gay, hat, choker, coat, gloves, he is bringing in the looks. I love how he can actually be completely calm and rational and put together but then put him with Dazai and it’s back to ‘we are 15 and we will scream out heads off at each other’, they are so childish. 
Anyway I love Chuuya he deserves to be treated better and I will never stop screaming about Chuuya ever
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fantasyinvader · 3 years
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Kamen Rider Saber: Finale and Series Review
Okay, before I start disemboweling this series I want to give the finale two points of props.
It was nice to see the main trio fight the big bad together rather than it just being the lead Rider.
The ending really feels nostalgic for me. It's like one of those old games or anime that tried to do something like Evangelion, mostly Star Ocean 3 comes to mind.
I was going to add another point: how the ending didn't have to rely on a cosmic retcon to turn things into a happy ending like Build or Zi-o did, leaving those who died dead and having some level of maturity. I was going to give the show that point, even if it felt like it was leading into Touma essentially becoming God, but then the show did it and...I'm going to be honest here, I was saying fuck you at the screen. Multiple times, kinda like when Doctor Who's 50th anniversary where it turns out Gallifrey wasn't destroyed, the Doctor sealed it away and just couldn't remember it. Like, that is the level of bullshit I was calling out, and with Doctor Who I only said it as an “oh fuck you” rather than just “fuck you fuck you fuck you” until I noticed I was doing this and stopped myself.
Got it? Good. Now let's put Kamen Rider Saber on the examination table, rip it open, and see what went wrong with it.
Oh my god, where to begin with this series?
You ever see a show or movie that tries to do too much for it's runtime? Maybe a book that has some ultimately good ideas, but it never fleshed them out properly? That's my biggest feeling with Saber. Individual parts of the story, some arcs and characters are good on paper. Not to mention, Touma has two incredibly sexy upgrades (the Ryuki-inspired Draconic Knight and the berserker Primitive Dragon). But there is just so much in here that, given the proper focus could have carried the show if properly developed. It's a case of quantity over quality.
But the main problem comes to it's central McGufffin, the Omniscient Tome. This book is supposed to have all knowledge and later on all stories contained within it. It's what powers Wonderworld and the Wonder Ridebooks that are the main collectable trinket of the season. But when you stop and think about it, Saber is a world where there is no free will and the antagonists are all rebelling against this in their own way. Kento's dad (former Kamen Rider Calibur) went rogue in the backstory because he was given a vision of the future through his sword, and it led to the former Saber taking up the role of Calibur and going rogue in order to learn the truth. When the other riders are turned against Touma, the argument is over how he's destined to become more powerful, making Touma seem like he's seeking power and could be a future threat. When Kento returns from the dead, he's haunted by visions of the world ending in multiple variations, leading to him trying to seal the Sacred Blades in order to stop it. But then Master Logos is revealed to be buttfucking insane, wanting to rebel against his position in the world. Then it turns out the monster faction's leader, was a former poet who lost hope when he learned that all his creations were already in the Omniscient Tome, so he decided he would end the world his way rather than the predetermined ending. And even then, the world still ended the way it was always fated to end, even with Touma disappearing to nu-Wonderworld if only for a year.
The world wasn't saved, it was destroyed and then rebuilt because Mei wrote an online post that encouraged people to share their stories, which they did in oblivion even though these guys shouldn't have seen the post at all and instead just heard her voice.
Like, maybe the nu-World has free will. I'd buy that. But when applied to the 47 episodes I've spent the last year watching (alongside the Zenkaiger crossover episode), it felt pointless because it ended the way it was foretold in the Omniscient Tome. It didn't matter that Storious was defeated, fate was not averted. It's like, the complaints people have about the MCU post-Loki. It doesn't matter that Tony decided to sacrifice himself, because he didn't have free will. He was always going to sacrifice himself. Thanos was always going to snap away half the universe, and it would always be undone because choices didn't matter before Loki's ending.
And that's not even going into how they final arc reveals that Touma can somehow create stories not present in the Omniscient Tome. That he can somehow, because the personification of Wonderworld choose him as a child, that for some reason he's the only writer in history that can do this. His catchphrase is about how he'll be the one who'll decide how the story ends, but with the idea that everything was set into stone? It's laughable.
Like, my problem with Zero One's ending was the last scene. Aruto had learned a lot about the Humagears and was an advocate for them finding their own dreams as they became self-aware AI. So him trying to treat a new humagear as just an amnesiac Is  and try to help her “remember”? That felt like a betrayal of the character and what he stood for. But the post-series movie revealed that Is left a copy of herself in the Zero Two driver, and merged with the non-self aware nu-Is who the movie kept reminding us wasn't the Is we knew. Aruto even had a sobbing scene about what he was doing, lowkey acknowledging what he was doing but without overtly calling him out. It fixed Zero One for me after that last scene left me with a bad taste in my mouth that overshadowed an otherwise excellent show.
You can't fix Saber with a single movie, that's what I'm getting at here.
So, with that out of the way let's go into my thoughts on each character.
Touma: Is one of the blandest main riders in the franchise. His sense of style is probably one of the worst I've ever seen though. Like I know they like to try and give the main riders their own look rather than having them dress like normal people, like Aruto wearing a hoodie under his suit jacket alongside with his very bright shoes, but this wasn't a W or even something like Ghost (where honestly I really liked Takeru's robe-like shirts). What they eventually settled on with Touma was a stupid hat, really baggy pants, and shirts that look like they came out of a stern librarian's closest. You know, the type with her hair in a bun and their horned-framed glasses on a chain.
Rintaro:Is one of those cases where he's meant to be the secondary Rider of the series, but is overshadowed because the writer likes to use someone else more. The idea of him having to turn against the organization that raised him (like a child soldier) could have worked really well if the series had a more free will-direction. But alas.
Kento: Kento's the one character I found I could really like. His arc was more interesting during the first quarter, his return as Calibur, but then he returned to being Espada and, as much as I love that suit, he just became Touma's main cheerleader. Really, I felt like towards the end it was a waste of him, especially since he doesn't get any power ups like Rintaro did to solidify him as one of the main three. He definitely feels like a victim of rewrites or just the writer not knowing what he was doing.
Mei: The female lead. Honestly, I just found her annoying most of the time. A womanchild to match Touma's more manchild moments, with a potential romance with Rintaro thrown in to only be confirmed in a future movie. Really, she should have taken over as Espada after Kento disappeared early on (especially since she's one of the three in the Ending dance while Kento isn't).
Daishinji: I'd say best boy, but he became a background character pretty quick.
Ogami: An older Kamen Rider who is also a father to a young child? Cool, and could even have worked in contrast to Rintaro's raising as essentially a child soldier. But alas, it was not to be.
Ren: OMG. A somewhat psycho younger Rider, idolizing Kento, and his social Darwinist beliefs on strength leading to conflict as Touma gets more powerful, leading to him abandoning the team to train with an enemy monster? HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT NOT WORK! I swear, Ren should have been the secondary Rider of the series, with his changes in beliefs being used more effectively.
Yuri: One of the most competantly written characters in the entire show. One of the original swordsman who became his sword, returning after 2000 years and not only feeling the culture clash of then and now but even how the idea of what makes a hero has changed? Good boy. Also loved him using a shadow body early on during fights.
Sophia: Why are you even here?
Reika: Oh boy, the swordswoman who leads the rest to distrust Touma under the orders of Master Logos, and doesn't sway from this until he's proven to be batshit insane? And even then, reluctant to join the others? Could have been better, especially if her relationship with her brother didn't come across as incesty. Though, could we please return her to Magine in Zenkaiger? Reika hugging her was really cute, in a socially awkward type of way.
Ryoga: Reika's brother. With his powers being something out of Jojo, time manipulation powers which are a bit hard to explain. He starts them and to his opponents things seem like the fight is continuing as normal, but he really exists outside of that and then can attack from a blindspot? Could have been really good with if the series had gone Team Free Will is all I'm saying.
Master Logos: What I mentioned above, but his Rider suit is one I'm in lust with. Just laughs like a madman and you're wondering why Reika and Ryoga don't rebel against him earlier.
The Megid: Two are a waste who I never bothered to learn their names. Fall out of focus for a bit and only return to be beaten, with the sad fact that they were once human. Storious is the exception, but even then I felt he was a little too late to save the series.
Tassel: Bon Lecture! I still hate you you weirdo, even if your death scene made me feel a little sad. The fact that you treated the early parts of the show as a story you were reading? Have you seen my other complaints?
As for the message of what the show tried to say? I don't really mind it. It's encouraging people to love stories, even if they are copies (considering the controversy of Time Paradox Ghostwriter and Cheat Slayer within recent memory, I'm trying not to make jokes about Saber encouraging plagiarism). And I don't think that's a bad thing in itself. Hell, how many stories take stuff from older stories and just tweak elements to make them their own? I love the Elric saga, but that was based on old legends and meant to subvert the likes of Conan the Barbarian, and some other stories I've liked have borrowed elements from it as well. The idea that stories can be used to pass on our hopes, thoughts and dreams to others is pretty nice as well, rather than writing being a form of masturbation on the author's part.
But in the shadow of the Omniscient Tome and it's implications, I really feel the story should have taken another route.
A lot of Riders start of weak, having to introduce the plot as well as the main release of whatever trinket they want kids to gorge themselves on this year. But they usually start getting better towards the end of the first quarter, while maybe stalling a bit towards the end of the second/third. Saber was a series that I felt never really found it's legs. Too many bareboned plot threads on the go, dropping some for a while only to pick them up again after they've been forgotten about. This is not a good series, to be honest I think Zi-O and even Ghost were better, and really feel it would have been better handled in the hands of someone who could actually write. 
Not to mention, this gave me flashbacks of Power Rangers Megaforce over how much this series relied on fight scenes. Throw in greenscreen everywhere, lack of civilians...oh god, it is Kamen Rider Megaforce. And it felt like Saber was trying to have a story, unlike Megaforce, but it has the same “it’s a kid’s show, we don’t have to try that hard” energy.
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Tsubasa: Oh my god, I’m the Karen in this friend group.
Itsuki: What? No, you’re the precious cinnamon roll. McNamara?
Tsubasa: Itsuki, that means that- Wait, who’s Ronnie? And who’s JD?
Ellie: I’m Ronnie, obviously.
Yashiro: I’m guessing that since Touma’s Duke, that makes me JD.
Touma: Seeing as how I get “Shut up, Heather!”ed constantly, I’m definitely Duke here.
Kiria: Who am I? Ms. Fleming? I’d say I’m Chandler, but in this scenario, that’s Itsuki.
Touma: Oh, you’re Ms. Fleming. 100%.
Kiria: shINE SHINE SHINE A LIGHT-
Tsubasa: Can you guys let me finish??
Kiria: Fine...
Tsubasa: Thanks, guys. Alright, so Itsuki, that means that you’re a mythic bitch, Touma’s got basically zero personality, and I’m just there. So Touma’s Bulimic and he’s throwing up so we’re helping him out and Kiria walks in and gives us all detention, but Ellie forges a Hall Pass and gets us out of detention, we invite her to join our little clique, we try to destroy Ellie’s childhood best friend emotionally by forging a note by her crush of 12 years that he liked him back because she’s overweight, Ellie protests and we sing an epic trio song about dumping her and joining us, Touma gets “Shut up, Heather!”ed and shoved down, he jumps up and joins us for the last harmony, she decides to join us, and we find out that Yashiro just transferred in and he’s immediately picked on by Ellie’s childhood friend’s crush and his best friend, Yashiro punches one of them in the face, the entire school’s does a harmony of “Holy Shit”, Ellie’s like “Damn, he’s h o t !” And sings an entire solo about how if he’s still alive after punching one of the school’s biggest bullies in the face, can they go out? So then there’s a huge party, and they’re at the local 7-11, so they can buy some corn nuts for the party. Yashiro sings this whole solo about how his mom died and his dad’s always moving him around so he can never make meaningful human connections, and also how he’s basically running the house because his dad doesn’t really do much, so he drinks a lot of slushies because he uses brain freezes as a way of self-harm, you yell from outside that Ellie’s taking too long, and so you all go to the party and Ellie’s having the time of her life. Me, you, and Touma then see Ellie’s childhood friend walk into the party, and then Touma tries to pitch an idea to destroy her and the “Shut up, Heather” counter hits two. So then after everything happens Touma brings in the pig-shaped piñata and says “Who’s this pig remind you of, especially the snout!” And then “Dang Dang Diggidy Dang-a-Dang” intensifies, then they dress the pig like Ellie’s childhood friend and then afterwards they pretend to like her so she’ll hit the piñata that’s dressed as her, Ellie realizes and grabs the piñata and tells her friend to go home, she does, and then Ellie’s like “I’m resigning my commission from the lip gloss gestapo” and you tell her that she doesn’t get to be a nobody anymore, she’s an ex-somebody now, and then she throws up on your shoes, you scream, and Ellie says, in the most epic way possible, “Lick it up, baby, Lick it up!”. So Ellie realized that she just committed social suicide, and decided that hey, she’s gonna die? Well she’s sure as hell not gonna die a virgin. So she breaks into Yashiro’s house in the middle of the night and he’s... he’s just down to fuck so let’s go. So then she’s asleep, and then she has a nightmare of you taunting her for being a slut because you know everything, Ellie wakes up screaming, she decides she has to apologize to you, and she goes over, grovels for mercy, and then she makes you a hangover cure because you said you’d think about it if she makes it, and so Yashiro makes a joke by pouring drain cleaner into a mug and saying that they should give it to you because it’s hard to tell in a mug that it looks wrong, she says that’s not funny, and goes to grab a mug, and it’s the drain cleaner one, Yashiro notices, but doesn’t say so, your last words are “Corn Nuts”, and then they stage it as a suicide and you haunt her, there’s a thing at school where everyone’s reading your suicide note and everyone’s happy meanwhile you’re screaming that everyone loves you now that you’re dead and everyone thinks you were a good person-
Itsuki: What the fuck?
Tsubasa: I’m not done! *deep breath* so we begin act 2 and everyone’s doing decently, and then I call Ellie and ask her to meet us at the graveyard, where we run into two drunk idiots that keep begging for consent to sex, Ellie’s immediately saying absolutely fucking not, leaves, and then Touma rises to power almost immediately, gets a dramatic solo because Ellie tries to yell at you to shut up, but since you’re a ghost he assumes she’s talking to him and does this whole solo where he says he’ll never shut up again and he and two other guys spread a rumor about Ellie doing the two other guys at once, Yashiro goes even more batshit and tricks Ellie again into killing the two guys that they say she did and makes it looks like they were gay for each other and killed themselves because the world would have rejected them, Kiria runs a whole assembly where she says she cares about saving lives when really she just wants attention, I volunteer to talk at the assembly, say “Jesus, I’m on the freaking bus again because all my rides to school are dead” I have my solo where I say I feel terrified at every turn about making the wrong move and losing every bit of my popularity, Touma goes feral on me for saying the truth, that the school is shit, and he drives me to a suicide attempt, Ellie saves my life and points out that if I was happy every day of my life, I’d be a game show host. Yashiro asks why the hell she saved me, Ellie says it’s because I’m her friend, Yashiro then suggests they kill Touma because he drove me to the suicide attempt, Ellie dumps Yashiro by singing that she’s done with all this murder bullshit, Ellie’s childhood friend jumps off a bridge, Touma makes fun of her and Ellie goes to the hospital to apologize, and ghosts of you and the two guys taunt her as Ellie’s parents come in and say that Yashiro told them about Ellie’s “suicidal thoughts” that he fabricated, and they showed her the copy of Moby Dick that she owns, which is filled with suicidal thoughts in her own handwriting, you go over her shoulder and go like “He’s got your handwriting down cold” and-
Itsuki: I don’t think I want to know the rest-
Tsubasa: I’m almost done! So then the ghost trio’s haunting the fuck out of Ellie and telling her that like. He’s coming for you and shit. And he is. Yashiro comes in through the window and then sings this entire solo about how they were meant for each other, and that he’s gonna blow up the school during a pep rally that’s about to start, says he’s gonna count to three before he opens the closet that she’s hiding in, goes “1, 2, Fuck it!” Pops the door open, sees Ellie hanging there, says he can’t do this alone but hey, if he has to, he’ll do it. So then Ellie’s mom walks in and screams, Ellie’s like “WAIT NO IT’S A JOKE”, heads to the pep rally, sings this whole thing where she says no one deserves to die except her and Yashiro, runs into Kiria who’s like “wtf Yashiro told me you committed suicide��� and then tells her about the fact that the boiler room is under the gym, so Ellie goes down there, makes this entire speech about how she wishes they could have met before he was like this, they fight over the gun, Ellie gets it, shoots him, goes like “oh wait fuck I can’t disarm this”, brings the bomb out to the field and waits for it to explode so she’s the only one who’ll die, Yashiro runs in, grabs the bomb, tells her to get out of the way because he’s too damaged but she can still save herself, she leaves, comes into the school, dismantles the school’s social hierarchy, and then invites me and her childhood friend to binge movies.
Itsuki: Once again, what the fuck?
Tsubasa: I mean, hey, you’re the one who said I was McNamara.
Itsuki: You could have just said no??
Tsubasa: Not as fun. But, either way, if I’m the Karen that makes you Regina so that’s definitely wrong because-
Itsuki: I’ve seen Mean Girls, calm down-
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I am starting from fluff and putting all the drama below the cut, so better prepare yourself for being completely trashed, because this episode trashed me.
I knew something was up when last week we got all those weird signs that something is going into a bad direction and this feeling only intensified when opening started somehow from the middle in the song and then rapidly cut. It was like screaming "danger" straight into our faces without actually saying what this danger might be... so, coming back to episode. Most of it was focused on match, so everything else was put into last few minutes, which OH MY GOD turned everything upside down! Completely upside down in 5 minutes!
Maki’s and Touma’s drama below the cut. Be prepared for hardcore.
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It turned out that my predictions about Touma's mother weren't completely off-shoot. I exaggerated a bit with suicide, but weren't wrong about the fact she may want to leave and that she made a decision. I didn't though think she will fill for a divorce. I thought she may for example fill for separation at first. I can see that she has enough, but also I cannot understand her at all too. 
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Today's situation is the best example, she told Touma everything he wanted to hear and seemed to be happy for him and then suddenly dropped such a bomb on him and hurt him in the worst possible way. Telling him that she has enough of him and that he will now live with his father while she will live with Ryouma, because she cannot stand Touma. It was as if she ripped something from us all too. We heard her praising Touma and maybe even felt their relationship may be repaired, but then... she took it with her harsh words. I don't know if she did it intentionally, but it really felt as if she wanted to hurt him in some way. And she did, giving him the attention and praise he wanted and then informing him that she also tried hard and has enough and live without her is his new reality. I would refrain from blaming her though. I can see that Touma isn't the best child in the vicinity, he hurt her so many times and made her scared of him, so it's understandable that she wanted to live, but at least she could stop herself from ruining his good mood and let Ryouma tell him. If she did, it wouldn't come out as if she rejected her child all together regardless of his effort to achieve something similar to what his brother achieved. How is he supposed to feel now? When she told him he is the reason for her divorce? HOW?
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And then Maki. We don't know what happened to his mother, why she wasn't at home, why the glass with water was broken and why Shou was alone in the apartment, but we do know that he also had enough. His great mood also destroyed by the parent, though this time Maki wasn't having it. I would really never in my dreams imagine Maki in this scenario, but it's real, he really went to buy a knife and is gonna murder his father. And as much as I understand why he thought it to be a solution, I think Maki isn't in his right mind. Did he even consider what will happen to him? To his life? To his mother's life when he kills his father? Or if nobody ever learns what he did, how much it can fuck up his mind? He definitely didn't consider any of that when he decided to go with the promise he made before. Do I have to point out how dangerous that is even? Maki is just a child, he really thinks he will be able to overpower his father? He really thinks he can win this fight and effectively get rid of him? Does he know how big is the chance that his father with use the knife to hurt him instead? Did he consider that he is so afraid of his power that he may lose any will to fight in the entrance just because he saw him? He definitely did not! Is this sudden cut at the start supposed to express the murder of someone? Who then?!
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gffa · 5 years
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Name ten favourite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people
Tagged by @thewillowbends.  These lists are always hard, but that’s kind of the fun of them!  And that’s why we cheat and sometimes have lots of ties because no you can’t make me choose. 1.  Thor from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe - I am a sucker for a character who has their shit together but can still be human and face ridiculously traumatic experiences and come through them whole because they had a rock solid foundation to begin with.  From being thrown out of Asgard, made mortal, and taking that chance to suck it up and make himself better that he did that himself to the loss of pretty much his entire family and most of his people and his sense of purpose, the thing I love about Thor is that he keeps getting back up.  That kind of fortitude is even more appealing that the ridiculously hot lightning powers. 2.  Tsukino Usagi from Sailor Moon - I always loved her in the ‘90s anime, but reading the manga skyrocketted her into this special untouchable place in my heart.  The beginning of her journey is a girl who is so fragile that she would kill herself if she didn’t have the emotional support around her, who had to take step after step forward to find her inner strength, who wasn’t weak or terrible for her fragility, but instead her story was worth telling for it, that the point she started out as was just as valuable as the place she ended up, where she could be the one to stand up to save her friends and get them back herself, that journey was worth telling.  I LOVE HER TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. 3.  Thranduil and Maedhros from Tolkien’s Legendarium - It was really hard to choose, because I love a lot of the characters (and I feel badly leaving Thingol and Maglor off the list and I will fight a bitch for Galadriel and Elrond and listen Glorfindel is pure joy and also the internet is too mean to Elwing and I kind of want alllll the Melkor and Manwe fic because sobs they’re brothers shut up you can’t make me not have feelings about that, but also trashbag Melkor/Sauron and--) but those are the two I usually wind up wanting to know their pov in a fic I’m reading or have them around when shit’s going down because I want to see what they’ll do or I just miss them the most when they’re not there. 4.  Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars - If you asked me to pick between them, I don’t know that I could.  Yeah, sure, I love Obi-Wan ridiculously, but if you give me five minutes, I’m pretty much always going to drift back to talking about Anakin and his issues instead.  I’m not sure I can even boil them down into a nutshell about why I like them so much, they’re the kind of characters that I love so intensely and with such big, sweeping thoughts, that I’d have to write a whole essay.  But my best attempt:  Anakin’s being both dumbass and genius at the same time, being charming and magnetic while also being a bag of garbage at the same time, who had such good in him but was also an absolute monster, who I desperately want to be happy, but I also struggle to forgive him sometimes and that’s saying a lot for a fictional character, he’s brilliant enough to truly carry an entire Saga about him.  And Obi-Wan is the bedrock of all goodness in that galaxy, he could be obnoxious at times and he didn’t always see Anakin clearly, but he always cared and he remained good and hopeful, he continued to serve the galaxy, no matter what it threw at him, and even forgave Anakin in the end, because he always rose above.  That’s it, that’s my shit right there. 5.  Inoue Orihime from Bleach - ORIHIME WAS MY GIRL FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, her unwavering kindness and care, her desire to be soft in a world (and, frankly, fandom) that wanted her to be hard and to fight everything, when she didn’t want to fight, she wanted to heal, she wanted to have fun and be weird, she wanted everyone to be happy, all of that made me love her.  Her loopiness is an absolute delight, but what I loved so much about her is that Orihime had the powers/abilities to be quite possibly the most OG of the entire cast, she could reject reality itself, and she never once wanted to use it to beat anyone up or to destroy anything, she wanted to make friends with her fairies and she wanted to help people.  That girl refused to let the world make her anything less than kind and caring and sweet.  She was THE BEST. 6.  Hara Akiha and Umeda Hokuto from Hanazakari no Kimitachi e/Hana-Kimi - Sometimes we all fall in love with those minor characters and they just fucking consume us.  A lot of it came from that they were both hot, they were both hilarious, and so they were just really fun, but what really got me was that I genuinely loved everything Nakajo did with Umeda’s character.  There weren’t a lot of gay characters in shoujo manga that weren’t complete comedic relief, where their sexuality was the joke.  Yes, Umeda was often a humorous character (all of the cast was) but he firmly was completely uninterested in high school kids, he liked adult men, and his advice to Mizuki may have been crabby as hell, but it was genuine and good.  His sexuality wasn’t the punchline of his character.  Then there was Akiha, who was also comedic, but his bisexuality (another rare thing to find in manga!) had nothing to do with the humor of his character, all of it was in the way he chased after Umeda.  He was a genuine suitor (and, reading the post-manga character interviews, apparently they got together, OMG MY HEART) and the kiss they shared was treated just as seriously as any straight kiss would have been.  That meant a lot to me, even though I’d have loved the characters just because they were so interesting and Umeda’s struggle to get over the guy who never cared for him and to let himself be vulnerable with someone that he could actually care about, was so great. 7.  Yuki Eiri from Gravitation - I can’t begrudge anyone for giving this show a lot of shit (and I definitely am going with anime!Yuki here, rather than manga!Yuki) or dismissing it as being god-awful, because it probably was pretty cringeworthy.  But Yuki got under my skin because he was one of the first characters I resonated with where his depression was real and it was ugly.  He could be cruel to people around him, he pushed them away, not just half-heartedly, but genuinely, and he couldn’t stand being vulnerable, because it touched on all the terrible places that had been damaged by what Kitazawa had done to him.  And he couldn’t just be magically fixed by Tohma’s devotion or Shuuichi’s unwavering amounts of love poured into him.  He couldn’t just be fixed with a hug or one good crying session.  He was damaged and it was going to be a hell of a long hike back up to anything even a little bit normal.  Especially back at that time, I felt like depression and trauma were never given any real weight, then along comes this ridiculous BL series that just refused to make Yuki anything less that genuinely damaged and it hit all these places in wee me that was struggling through my own depression that couldn’t just be cured with some hugs and people telling me they loved me.
8.  Hashiba Touma from Yoroiden Samurai Troopers - I’m not sure I could even say why this character got under my skin the way he did, other than that there was definitely a group of us who were SUPER into the show and it was fun to make a playground for ourselves, and Touma just really got to me.  The brilliant character who didn’t always know how to relate to others, but who cared very deeply about them, who gravitated to those who were better at social interaction than he was, who were better able to connect to people than he was, that he found this group where he really belonged, that just really touched wee me’s heart. 9.  Tendou Souji from Kamen Rider Kabuto - THIS OBNOXIOUS HOT MESS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.  It was hard not to put Kagami on the list as well, because so much of what I love about Tendou is illustrated through his relationship with Kagami (whom I also love on his own), but I think I keep coming back to that I love his issues the most.  He’s the best at everything and so it puts distance between him and everyone else, all the more so because he’s so obnoxious about it and doesn’t slow down for anyone else to catch up, but the thing is that there’s a very caring heart underneath all that.  He loves his sisters, he loves Kagami, he even kind of tolerates the rest of their weird gang, and trying to find that difficult line of his superiority over the others versus that he wants them to catch up to him in his own way, all while being the most condescending dick ever, is absolute joy. 10.  Relena Darlian from Gundam Wing - I had a difficult path to liking Relena, because so much of fandom boiled her down to either being a creepy stalker who got in the way of Heero/Duo or they only ever wrote her in romantic pairing stuff with Heero, neither of which really encouraged me to like her.  But, as time went on and I rewatched the series a couple of times, I realized there’s so much more to her.  She’s a character who has to walk an impossible line between both of the legacies that weigh on her, the birth family that she never knew but maybe she could help bring peace to the world by taking up that name, by trying to bring back the Sanq Kingdom that promoted absolute pacifism and peace.  Yet, ultimately, for all that her relationship with Zechs is really important and she was the heir to that kingdom, she chose to be Relena Darlian.  She choose to try to bring peace to the world by standing up on her own as a politician, not a figurehead queen of the world.  The struggle to figure that out, who she wants to be and how she wants to achieve it, to go from a sheltered young girl at the start of the series to someone who has seen how terrible war is, is far more interesting than either of those first options for me! And I’ll tag @forcearama (and if I couldn’t put Obi-Wan as all ten entries, neither can you!) @belldreams @subskywalker @cacchieressa @bpdanakins @glompcat @writegowrite @fireflyfish @evaceratops @amarielah and anyone else who wants to do it that I’m not sure I feel quite like I’m able to try peer pressuring you into it.  ♥  I love seeing these from anyone who wants to do them, I’m just never sure if I’m allowed to go HEY YOU DO THIS THING.  orz
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getoffthesoapbox · 6 years
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[VKM Spec] Ridiculing VKM 18
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As expected, Hino’s obsession with dreary funerals continues.
Obligatory disclaimer for my anti-fans: This post is zeki criticism, vkm criticism, hino criticism, and anti ky. Please blacklist those tags accordingly.
Scanlations can be found in the usual places.
The Good
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Gotta give credit where credit is due!
Hallelujah! Kaien Cross bites the dust (literally) at last! Praise the heavens! At last, one of the cancers of this story has been eradicated! Screw you, Hino, for trying to make him more than oozing pustule he was. (And LOL @ that guy facepalming in front of his coffin, who the hell is that anyway, I want his autograph? XD)
Kaien’s melodramatic “woe is me, what a shitty way to die” and then his pathetic “oh a girl is finally crying for me after all this time!” dramatics were hilarious. Like...how sad of a person are you that you’re relieved any girl is crying for you at your death?
Ren is a girl. I repeat: Ren is a girl. At last we can put to bed all that nonsense.
Ren is null!Zero’s and Yuuki’s child. I repeat: Ren is null!Zero’s and Yuuki’s child. Farewell, fantasies of test tube babies and clones and in vitro. Not only that, Ren was clearly conceived in the usual fashion of conceptions, not via any Zeusian head-births or immaculate conceptions. 
Null!Zero lived to raise Ren. I repeat: null!Zero lived to raise Ren. At least the “null!Zero can’t have anything Kaname doesn’t get” rule no longer applies. 
Kaname is too much of a chicken to look at the photo album of a man who worshipped him. Methinks nu!Kaname has received some intimations about how much of a shithead he was in the past. Makes me think better of him.
Kaname is actually interested in someone from the past who isn’t Yuuki and what that person might think of him. Also that he actually genuinely seems interested in finding out how much Ai suffered from Kaien’s loss and is trying to empathize for the first time in his life. 
Ai finally showed up for a funeral. ‘Bout time, since she didn’t even bother to show up for Yori’s. 
The little girl the Prince was living with is not the mayor’s daughter, thank god. 
The mad scientist got a stylish cameo! 
And that’s about it!
The Bad
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Perhaps I should rename this section to “The Stupid”? I’ll have to consider it.
Hino forgetting her own lore and that pureblood blood can cure wounds and illnesses--see Shizuka with Ichiru. Ai was right next to Kaien--she didn’t need to offer him vamprism, she could have just fed him her blood. For him to die in such a stupid fashion, despite how great it is, is positively mind boggling given the established vampire lore in this story. 
Hino retroactively trying to act like Kaien meant something to these characters when he’d routinely fucked them over in order to rescue his precious Kaname. 
Yuuki boo-hooing over Kaien dying when she didn’t bother to spend any time with him during the 100 years of life she had to enjoy his company.
Kaname’s unexplained “curse” on Touma that came out of the clear blue nowhere with no foreshadowing or set up in order to “justify” Touma’s insane behavior. Hino’s just phoning it in at this point. 
Touma is the Prince, snooze. Boring and obvious and a narrative dud. 
The “Mayor” is useless and already under arrest, and why the hell does anyone even still care about him?
Kaien’s funeral was a joke and got more panels than Yori’s, which is ridiculous.
The timeline is fucked. Ai was acting last chapter like a bunch of time had passed between the mad scientist kidnapping and the Ren pregnancy being discovered, yet the little girl is still the same age. Either she’s a vampire or Hino has no clue what the timeline is.
Instead of talking about how excited they are to meet Ren, Yuuki spends most of her pregnancy screentime rehashing bullshit about Ai’s childhood with Ai. We already spent 6 chapters on Ai’s childhood Hino, you might want to give us some time to enjoy Ren for once yeah? 
Yuuki whining about Kaien and Yori not being there is a complete joke. Bitch, please, you waiting seventy years to get in bed with your side piece is the reason they’re not there with you now. You have no right to complain because this is your own fault. You squandered the time you had with your precious people.
Null!Zero’s apparently barely there as a father figure since Hino didn’t care to show him in more than one panel with his child. 
The Ugly
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All of the ugly this chapter was packed in at the end, appropriately.
Hino just completely excised null!Zero from the family. In the montage of raising Ai images, Zero doesn’t even get a panel with Ai or Yuuki--he’s separated in his own itty bitty panel as if he’s still an outsider in his own family.
No sex scene, no waiting for the baby scene, no naming Ren scene for Zeki. That’s a pretty low blow to make us wait all that time and then skip over everything, Hino. Fuck you, too.
Zero’s and Ai’s little argument at the end would be cute if we’d actually gotten some fucking answers as to why Zeki didn’t get together for an entire human lifetime, but no, Hino doesn’t care to tell us why, we can just make the answer up for ourselves!
Whether Hino intends to “make good” on this implication or not (and my bet, given how gross Ai and Ren act in the future, is that she’ll make good on it), it is utterly reprehensible that Hino made Ai have a sexual attraction to a fucking innocent baby. We all know the VK/VKM world has established that vampiric hunger the way Ai experiences it in VKM 18 is sexual in nature. Hino trying to act like it’s cute there at the end is not ever acceptable. It was not even remotely acceptable when Kaname did it, and it’s not at all acceptable now just because the girls are sisters. Just like slapping Aidou, child grooming is not appropriate or laudable behavior. Ai having a sexual interest in her baby sister is not okay.
And last, but certainly not least, null!Zero and Yuuki approving Ai’s interactions with Ren without having any concerns is deeply disturbing to me. Hino trying to play this off as a cute and normal happy family is even more troubling. I’m very concerned about how this all is going to play out in the future. 
General Aside
@vampireknightmeta brought up a few ways in which Hino might be able to salvage the story as it is now in our private conversations, but I will leave any public speculation on future positive developments to her should she choose to share them with the fandom at large. 
At this point in time, I myself have no interest in speculating about potential positive narrative developments because Hino has shown time and time again that she’s happy to sink lower than even the lowest bar I set for her. I’d rather be happily surprised by Hino saving this story on her own and just laugh at her bumbling in the meantime rather than investing my heart into trying to uncover the “secrets” of the story of a repugnant and morally bankrupt failure of a writer. From now on, I’ll only be speculating about worst case scenarios, the worst I can possibly imagine, and maybe Hino will do even worse than that just to prove to me that there’s no low she’s above sinking to. 
As such, if you’re looking for positive theorizing, you won’t find it here until I see some significant improvement in this sorry excuse for a story. Please look elsewhere for your hit of “positivity.” 
Crackpot Theory Corner
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Can’t end this debacle without some crackpot theories. Here’s what could happen that could make this story sink even lower than it has already sunk!
Null!Zero might actually get suspicious of Ai’s “attentions” to Ren, but he’s going to die before he can stop anything. =P Null!Zero does still seem to have some fatherly instincts.
Null!Zero is up next for being killed, probably next volume. We’ll probably have a funeral or two every volume, because that’s totally what everyone’s reading for!
In the chapter where null!Zero dies, we’ll have Ren dying in the future while protecting Ai or Kaname! Gotta kill off dem pesky Kiryuus!
When Yuuki meant “short time after Zero” when he died in VKM 4, what she meant to say was “null!Zero died 20 years after I screwed him and I put myself to bed for 900 more.” Hence, “short time.” Time’s relative, doncha know.
After Ren dies, Kaname and Ai will mourn, then resurrect Yuuki to ease their sorrow and the Kurans will live happily ever after. 
Yuuki never intended to marry Zero, and that’s why she let Yori die before getting together with him officially so Yori wouldn’t have to know Yuuki loved Kaname and not Zero (why, only Hino knows). The wedding Yori and Aidou were waiting for will happen after they’re long dead with Kaname and Yuuki instead. 
The baby from Yuuki’s dream is her second kid with Kaname, a boy who she’ll name Zero. Ai will imprint on her new brother and the horror will start all over again with a new generation, this time blessedly free of Kiryuus, who are all dead.
Oh, and the Vampire King will never be found, because who cares. ;)
Until next time, see you later!
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Fic time!
Akiko is from Osaka (duh) and Mei likely is too, so how about a minific of them reminiscing about the city and possibly having met each other before?
Personally I don’t subscribe to the Mei is Osakan theory but Mei and Akiko knowing each other pre Rider shenanigans... is an intriguing concept... so I’m going with it~ 
This has just descended to pure chaos lmao
“EHHHH? AKIKO-SAN?!”
“MEI-CHAN?!” 
“...What the fuck?” Shoutaro said for all the flabbergasted men present, as they watched the two women squeal and embrace each other like old friends. 
“Oh my gosh, look at you! You’re all grown up!” Akiko gushed. “How long ago was it when you moved away from Osaka?”
“I was eleven, Akiko-san, so it’s been thirteen years. I didn’t know you moved here too!”
“I actually live in Fuuto, but yeah, I moved there a little after you and your family did-”
“Whoa, can we back up here for a sec?” Shoutaro interrupted the two women, whose pitch was getting higher and higher as they talked. “How the heck do you two know each other?”
“Oh! I was originally from Osaka, but like I said, I moved to Tokyo when I was eleven.” Mei explained. “Akiko-san and her mom lived next door to my family. She even used to babysit me when I was little!”
“Oh...” Touma muttered, looking at his senpai. “So you’re both from Osaka...”
“Huh? What’s the problem with that, ahou?!” Akiko spat at Touma, slipping into Kansai-dialect with the insult. 
“N-Nothing! It’s just that you’re both...” The novelist looked pleadingly at the other swordsmen, begging for a rescue.
“What Touma means is that you’re both very passionate and energetic,” Rintaro said smoothly, with his most charming smile on his face. 
Instantly the older of the two women calmed down, her ruffled feathers soothed. “Aw, Mei-chan! You got yourself a real catch here!” Akiko said approvingly. “He’s so adorable! I bet he’s a good boyfriend to you!”
Rintaro’s cheeks reddened as he looked away, adorably shy. Mei, slightly embarrassed, began to say, “Uh... Akiko-san...”
“Or maybe you’re dating this one? He’s the strong and silent type isn’t he? That’s pretty appealing...” She looked Kento up and down. “And he’s kinda hot, to be honest!” 
Kento blushed deeply, and Akiko’s husband, Ryu, spat out his coffee in shock. “Ch-Chief!” he cried, nearly pouting.
“And this one...” Akiko turned her appraising eyes onto Touma. “Well... I guess he’s not so bad, if he’s an award winning novelist and all. Not bad on the eyes either.” 
Touma made a face as if he didn’t know whether he was just complimented or insulted.“For the love of God, Akiko.” Shoutaro groaned, covering his face with his palm. 
“Aki-chan,” Philip interrupted. “These four are all dating and fucking each other,” he said, utterly nonplussed by what he just revealed. 
Akiko stared owlishly at Philip, opening and closing her mouth soundlessly. The quartet all started sputtering incoherently, while Shoutaro smacked Philip on the head. “Oi, you can’t just say things like that all of a sudden! Do you have no sense of delicacy?!”
“I see no point in beating around the bush with it,” Philip said in confusion. “It’s not like Fukamiya hasn’t been called out in the Rider chat by that swordsmith because he overheard them fu-”
“H-How do you even know that?!” Kento yelped, then covered his mouth as he went even redder, realizing that he just confirmed what Philip said. 
“Wait, what do you mean- has Daishinji-san heard us?!” Mei exclaimed. “And you didn’t tell us he knew?!”
“I’m sorry!” Kento wailed, covering his face. “I just- it was so embarrassing-”
“Oh Christ- no wonder he couldn’t look me in the eye at training the other day...” groaned Touma.
“We must apologize to him soon... perhaps we can bring him some chocolate eclairs to make up for it...?”
“What... So you four are really...?!” Akiko shrieked, stopping them in their tracks.
“Yeah...” Mei nodded, suddenly looking bashful, as did the three other boys.
Akiko sighed deeply. “You have your work cut out for you, don’t you?” 
“My... work?”
“Yeah. You have to wrangle these idiots in a lot, don’t you?” She asked, gesturing to the three boys. “They do lots of stupid shit, don’t they?”
“...Yeah, I guess?” Touma, Kento and Rintaro simultaneously gave Mei wounded looks.
“Uh-oh... I don’t like where this is going...” Shoutaro muttered.
Akiko looped her arm around Mei’s, a sly smile on her face. “Then it’s a good thing that the girls and I were supposed to meet up tonight. I can introduce you... and we can teach you our ways.”
“Teach me... what?” Mei asked in confusion, as Akiko lead her away from the boys.
“Oh no...” Shoutaro paled. 
“Not that... anything but that!” Philip exclaimed, looking panicked.
“Uh... should we be concerned?” Rintaro asked befuddlement, watching as his senior dropped his cup of coffee, the mug shattering on the floor.
“They’re going to teach her that. That technique.... the one that could send even Tsukasa to his knees...” Shoutaro whispered in horror, then looked at his three juniors mournfully. “You boys... better ready your souls.”
“...What the fuck?!”
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Part 3 after like
A week or 3
Kuro: Let the rest of my day be quiet thank you
Literally anyone: hey Kuro
Kuro: see there is no god
Hyde: GIVE US SOME MONEY
Gear: did enjoy the 200 years?
Kuro: no I wish
Lily: and I said I'm young but I lied I'm 300+
Misono: SILENCE
Hyde: HELLOOO MY BOYFRIEND'S A BITCH
Licht: everyone get out of my way I just want to sit here and feed Neko san
Tetsu: I don't know what my body is for other then just taking my head room to room
Misono: when will I get big and strong?
Kuro: I didn't drink water the entire time
Tsubaki: no in fact we're gonna frame you for murder and you're gonna go to jail for 30 years!
Kuro: well then let's just not see each other for 200 years and it doesn't matter at all
Sakuya to Mahiru: hey do you want me to kill that guy for you?
Kuro: they don't even need to look at you for long they'll just be like "hahaha hahaha hey look at that high waisted man he got feminine hips" and I'm like "no! that's the thing I'm sensitive about!"
Youtarou: you ever seen a ghost?
Hugh: thank you for asking well you know how I'm filled with rage?
Kuro: which was kind of nice cuz I don't keep in touch with people so that's my bit for the year
Tetsu: I zone out constantly have you ever zoned out for a few minutes? I've been zoned out since 2014
Kuro: you sit on the floor with your back perfectly straight which I hate more then vacuums and then you take deep breaths I DON'T LIKE SITTING UP STRAIGHT ALL RIGHT? IT'S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN
youtarou: sometimes my boyfriend- I have this boyfriend and he'll be like "are you watching the road?" and I'm always like "I am looking through the windshield and I'm not gonna hit anyone but no I'm thinking about dogs"
Inner Kuro: dearest eve could I enquire how your physical form was able to reach this place in such a short duration of time?
Kuro: I wanna go home I don't like this party I'm allergic to people
Mahiru: you're not allergic to people Kuro
Kuro: yes I am
Inner Kuro: do you like socializing?
Kuro: no I don't like socializing
Inner Kuro: do you like people?
Kuro: I don't like people
Inner Kuro: do you like the war?
Kuro: LEAVE ME ALONE!
Izuna: OH NOOOO
Izuna: MY NENTENDOGGGGG
Izuna: I HAVEN'T TAKEN CARE OF HER SINCE 2008
Izuna: PLEASE BE OKAYYYY
Izuna: Please please please pleaseee PLEASEE-
Izuna: she's ok! ehah.. That was a close one! Hehahaha!
Izuna: I almost spiraled Ehah!
Hyde: yes babe the heelys are off this time I promise
Licht: -_-
Hyde: please come back to bed
Licht: *comes back to bed*
Hyde: I FUCKIN LIED
Licht: you fucking r-
Hyde: THE SWAG NEVER STOPS
Licht: you have five seconds before I kick you off this bed and murder you
Shuuhei: what are you up to?
Izuna: nothing big just practicing my time traveling so-
Shuuhei: I'm sorry did you say time traveling?
Izuna: IN FACT the love of your life is gonna walk through that door!
Izuna: in 3,2,1-
Ildio walks in: hey sorry have you seen my eve?
Shuuhui: the love of my life is a man? AND A VAMPIRE?
Izuna: oh have we not gotten to that part yet?
Cappuccino: wait what the fu- wait- what are you doing in my room? What do you want!?
Ildio: *silently staring at him at the edge of the of his bed*
Cappuccino: WHAT DO YOU WANT!?
Ildio: I want waffle fries
Hyde: Ruhroh!
Ildio: zoinks!
Lily: jinkies!
Freya: jeepers!
Kuro: FU-
~we'll be right back~
Touma: then you're a normal cat aren't you?
Kuro: that's true
Touma: a heterosexual cat
Kuro: a what😀?
Misono: if you press that button it'll take one year off your life
Lily: *starts pressing it*
Misono: but you'll get a hundred- thousand dollar- .....
Lily: *still pressing it*
Misono: ..... L-
Lily: *pressing it as fast as he can*
Misono: LILY NO STOP-
Lily: *pressing it even faster*
Misono: NO-
Mahiru: I'm gonna let God fix it
Mahiru: because if I fix it
Mahiru: I'm going to jail!
Shuuhei: I used to be a sprinkles guy when I was younger so this is nice
Mikuni: you look like a sprinkles guy
Shuuhei: the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Mikuni: I'M JUST SAYING YOU LOOK LIKE A SPRINKLES GUY-
Mitsuki: why is there so many romance animes on MY account?
Lily:.......LET ME DEAL WITH WITH MY DEPRESSION IN MY OWN WAY-
Hyde: could it beeee...... You fell in love?!
Ildio: ...!
Hyde: oh my tails swinging maybe I'm in love~!
Ildio: .....
Hyde: Il-Il-Ildio I-Il- wait- HUH!? *running to Ildio*
Ildio: *walking off*
Hyde: ARE YOU SERIOUS!? YOU?!!!?? WHO'S NEVER HAD A SIGNIFICANT OTHER SINCE THE BEGINNING OF NEVER! WOW! YOU REALLY HAVE CHANGED!
Ildio: let's get back with the others-
Hyde: wait who is ittt!?
Inner Kuro: well what do you have there Kuro?
Kuro: it's mental illness just insult me and let me go homeeee
Inner Kuro: well explain it
Kuro: WELL IT'S TRAUMA AND BOTTLED UP EMOTIONS I CALL IT MENTAL ILLNESS
Misono: why are you calling your therapist at 3 am!? He told you not to do that!
Mahiru: Misono.......You do know I'm a literal teenager trying to stop a war right?
Kuro: this is the perfect moon for a werewolf to come out
Gear: ... I'm gay
Mahiru about Kuro: you never know what the homosexual is about
Mahiru: he may appear normal
Mahiru with Kuro in his arms: and it may be too late when you discovered he is mentally ill-
Hyde: fuck C3
Ildio: yeah fuck C3
Later
Ildio: guess who I hooked up with last night
Hyde: who?
Ildio: Shuuhei Tsuyuki
Hyde: W H A T
Ildio: you said fuck C3- ....
Ildio: you didn't mean literally-....
Hyde: NO I DIDN'T MEAN LITERALLY-
Ildio: ・///~///・
Tsurugi: p.o.v you never thought you'd live this long and now you're just gonna keep on going out of spite
Tsurugi: "to spite who?" might ask
Tsurugi: TO SPITE GOD
Shuuhei: did I get anything out of this experience? No it was completely and totally uneventful
Izuna: he kissed a guy!
Shuuhei: no I didn't!
Izuna: yes you did!
Shuuhei: DIDN'T
Izuna: didddd
Shuuhei: DID NOT
Izuna: did, did, did, did, did did did diddd
Freya: ahem I can break this tie
Freya: he totally did *looking at Ildio and Shuuhei*
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