#Rei Saejima

[shewritesallnight]

Ohhhhhhhhohohohohohohohoho!!!!!!

It's all coming together now!!!!

Time for a long over due rant and some theories. Volume 10 was juicy 🧃🧃🧃

Spoilers below! I'm SERIOUS do not read if you aren't caught up to volume 10. I don't want to ruin anything for you!

This madness got loooooooooooong 😭

First and foremost the time line is fucked. Good luck getting everything in order but hey, I've tried here.

Let's break it down to the basics. The way I see it, we have 3 main characters.

𖢺 Our resident skeleton boi ~ Sasaki

ຊ Our resident snake boi ~ Rei, who I will refer to as Rei (present day Slayer); and Adult Rei (past adult life)

℘ Owner 🖤

For today we are gonna focus on Sasaki and Owner with a dash of Rei

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From what I can tell, there have been 4 versions of Sasaki (that we know of)

𖢺 Oldest version: Singing Bone ~ we know this is the oldest version since Owner tells us that this is the first time they met.

𖢺 Super Old Sasaki: from volumes 7 & 9 ~ this version is the Sasaki with Adult Rei who reveals himself as a skeletal monster. Adult Rei blows him on the spot you KNOW what panel I'm talking about!

𖢺 Adult Sasaki: from volume 8 ~ this is the incarnation who was arrested for political writings and whose will-o-the-whisp moved on. He even stated himself that it was in his previous life that he was a novelist (obviously he is aware of his own reincarnations (at some point in each life))

𖢺 Then there is Sasaki ~ our present day kiddo.

What we know so far about Sasaki & Rei:

~ Sasaki & Rei have been reincarnated multiple times (tho so far we've only seen 2 reincarnations of Rei)

~ They have a history as far as their lives shown in volumes 7 & 9 (possibly more)

𖢺 Sasaki our sweet walking bag of bones does die (tho it's not clear how long each of his lives are) and then is reborn. Presumably due to Owner burying him each time.

ຊ Rei comes from a cursed family line that there are so many curses now that they must continue the family line in order to prevent the curses/malice from taking over.

ຊ In order to become an "adult" and gain control of the malice the males in the family have to eat their fathers.

What we know about Owner:

℘ They are a "trueborn monster" per the mermaid huntsman in volume 6

℘ They have no true form as mentioned by Owner multiple times thru out the series and most recently reiterated in volume 10: "long ago I was merely darkness" and that they had no face or body.

℘ But now they can manipulate their form/body (tho there is nothing under the skin) yet they can't age. We see this in volume 5 where the fox spirit stole Owner's adult body after a bet and Owner never appears as an adult.

℘ They are immortal (it seems) based off of Owner's own words in volume 7 that they "have all the time in the world"

Now the reoccuring theme of Saskai's existence is revolved around "people feeling complete by filling the void that is him". (Which I find interesting since Owner has no true form... little bit more on this at the end)

Super Old Sasaki was a student wanting to become a writer and was working on a manuscript so he frequented the Inn to focus on his writing.

Now in volume 10, when Owner employs Sasaki he starts by having him clean his old room (which has to be 100s of years old by now) I THINK Owner was hoping to maybe jog his memory and get some sort of reaction from him.

Also in volume 10, Owner tells Sasaki that he went looking for SO Sasaki/Adult Sasaki and that "No matter what form he takes I will always be there to greet him. After all, I want to keep playing together."

In a previous post I mentioned that I believe that Owner thought of Rei in a parental way and that I was unsure his thoughts on Sasaki.

My feeling now is more that Owner is in love with Sasaki's soul. Hence why they reject anyone who confesses their love to them. But they keep coming back to Sasaki during each of his lives.

Owner is also very cautious about all the Sasakis. They always come to his aid, so much so that present day Sasaki states that he's not worried about being cursed because he knows that Owner will help him.

For Rei, I'm still getting parental vibes from Owner. I also think that the only reason Owner stepped in to assist (or whatever he is doing) with Rei's family is ultimately for Sasaki. It seems that they are connected and perhaps Owner is trying to set up the breaking of the curse to free Sasaki's entanglement with it so that they can be together.

If we wanna get weird, would Owner take over Sasaki's body?? They would truly be together then- Sasaki would be "filled" and Owner would have a true body.

All in all, I absolutely love this series. The artwork BLOWS MY MIND EVERYTIME!!!! I wish we could see it animated 😩 and I'm excited to see where Matsuri takes it.

TELL US OWNER'S SECRETS!!!! 🖤

#ptotn owner #ptotn #phantom tales of the night owner #phantom tales of the night #spoilers #volume 10 #ptotn spoilers #sasaki #ptotn sasaki #rei #ptotn rei #casswan #casswan ptotn #Tokihito Sasaki #Rei Saejima

[randomanimeandmangablog]

Rei, sweetie, it took your cousin all of 10 seconds to decide to slice and dice his parents. There is no "giving him a chance to be a kid" anymore.

#phantom tales of the night #Rei saejima

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

#phantom tales of the night #owner #saejima rei #ptotn #phantom tales #Bakemono Yawa-zukushi #that chapter was insane help

[flipcitrus]

[Powerpuff Girls Narrator:] THE INGREDIENTS FOR THE PERFECT LITTLE Y*KUZA

#my art #taiga saejima #saejima taiga #yakuza 4 #Yakuza 5 #Yakuza 7 #yakuza like a dragon #rei ryugazaki

[pretend-im-not-there]

Kouga: "This is my training ground. Only those I've accepted into my heart can enter."

And Rei is standing right there.

#garo #saejima kouga #suzumura rei

[kstnt]

garo and smiles

#garo #raiga saejima #rei suzumura #jinga mikage

[shingansoul]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: GARO: Makai Senki Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Fudou Leo & Suzumura Rei, Fudou Leo & Saejima Kouga, Fudou Leo & Mitsuki Kaoru, Mitsuki Kaoru/Saejima Kouga/Suzumura Rei Characters: Fudou Leo, Suzumura Rei, Saejima Kouga, Mitsuki Kaoru Additional Tags: I dont ship leo with the others but if you read it that way power to you, he's their little pup kouga adopted, Cuddling & Snuggling, Literal Sleeping Together, Comfort No Hurt, Developing Friendships Summary:

Leo, on an instinct from before he lived alone for so long, seeks comfort in one he looks up to one night. Whether good or bad fortune, he finds much more than he bargained for instead.

#GARO #fanfic #leo fudou #kouga saejima #rei suzumura #kaoru mitsuki #tokusatsu

[yyxandere]

Ok but what if like darling made the yanderes ((from any ace attorney or yakuza character)) the second choice like y'know if darling doesn't get with the first person / first choice they'd go to the yanderes (?) I feel so bad to think of it but like H!$(2)?2{¢ - 🍎 anon

-ˋˏSINCERELY YOURS. . . ->

🍎Anon, you just love your angst huh😭😭 {{{(>_<)}}}

They would be so devasted, they are willing to bare their entire heart for you, but only when you don't have another choice, always the second, it hurts yet, they are desperate for you and are willing to accept the fact that they are your second choice anything to be with you.

YAKUZA

Kiryu Kazuma, Goro Majima, Saejima Taiga, Shimabukuro Rikiya, Makoto Makimura, Reina, Tatsuo Shinada, Kiyomi Kasahara, Ichiban Kasuga, Eri Kamataki, Issie Hoshino,

ACE ATTORNEY

Phoenix Wright, Maya Fey, Maggey Byrde, Dick Gumshoe, Adrian Andrews, Iris Fey, Apollo Justice, Wocky Kitaki, Vera Misham, Athena Cykes, Juniper Woods, Robbin Newman, Raymond Shields, Sebastian Debeste, Katherine Hall, Espella Cantabella, Ryunosuke Naruhodo, Susato Mikotoba, Rei Membami, Albert Harebrayne,

No. They will not accept this. They ruined people's lives, careers,s and many more just for you, and all they get are you taking them for granted?! Disappointed and rage aren't even enough to tell how much they felt when they found out those facts. No one takes them for granted and that logic also applies to you. They will make you crave for them they will ruin your life, and when you reach rock bottom you will see them as your only choice.

YAKUZA

Akira Nishikiyama (Kiwami), Tachibana Tetsu, Goda Ryuji, Yoshitaka Mine, Takumi Someya, Ryo Aoki, Joon-Gi Han (6), Mitsuru Kuroiwa,

ACE ATTORNEY

Miles Edgeworth, Matt Engarde, Dahlia Hawthorne, Kristoph Gavin, Alita Tiala, Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in, Simon Keyes, Mael Stronghart, Barok Van Zieks.

#✧- ‘ACE ATTORNEY’ ☆ #✧- ‘YAKUZA’ ☆ #🍎 Anon #WRITERS BLOCK IS KICKING ME IN THE ASS😭😭 #yandere x reader #yandere ace attorney x reader #yandere ace attorney #ace attorney x reader #ace attorney #yandere the great ace attorney #the great ace attorney #the great ace attorney x reader #yandere yakuza #yandere #x reader #yakuza #yakuza game #yakuza: like a dragon

[mjm5655]

ok, since yakuza 5 took me a bit of time today, i have a bit of a to do list to get sorted for tomorrow.

kijin au starters for @yakudans ( sagawa ), @bellsliturgy ( rei & saejima ), @crystalcracked ( will actually be poking you to plot sometime ).

ask continued for @cogiita ( the one where majima wants to make sure volo is dead lol ).

draft count ; 7. ask count ; 57.

i'm going to be scheduling the drafts out, asks are lower priority/just something i do if i cba with drafts.

#﴾ DEMONIC ⸨ MUN POSTS ⸩

[beevean]

For the shipping thing:

KiryuXMajima

KajiXWatermelons

AsukaXArael

ShinjiXHis Mother

ShinjiXHis Mother 2

ShinjiX His Mother 3

Kazumaji:

Wow, I haven't talked about Kazumaji in a while!

What can I say? Peak rival ship, best example of "fighting as flirting/foreplay". They genuinely respect each other while beating the shit out of each other! Ngl the main reason I never looked up content of Y4/5/6 is because Majima gets mainly paired up with Saejima, and I was like... but-- but my homoerotic tension with Kiryu :(

Anyway, I know that Majima Everywhere is slightly controversial for how it doesn't fully fit in the context of Y1, but after Majima poledances for Kiryu and goes on a date with him as Goromi, can you really not consider it canon? C'mon <3

Kajimelons:

they're his babies, your honor

Asukarael:

Shinji/Mother 1 (Rei):

They're cute :) but I probably need a three page essay myself to get fully on board.

Shinji/Mother 2 (Misato):

I may be interested in the scenario where Misato has a crush on Shinji and is fully aware of how fucked up that is...

I, uh, don't understand who Mother 3 is supposed to be lol. I hope you don't mean Yui. That would be very awkward :P

[shewritesallnight]

Here we go again... time for another Phantom Tales of the Night rant dump

⚠️ Warning for major spoilers up to Volume 11

From my previous notes on Vol 10 plus what we learned in Vol 11 there seems to be 5 incarnations of Sasaki that have been highlighted in the story.

Starting from the oldest incarnation...

Singing Bone: ~ we know this is the oldest version since Owner tells us that this is the first time they met.

Lover Sasaki: from volume 11 ~ was somewhat living with Owner and Owner stated that they loved him.

***Super Old Sasaki: from volumes 7 & 9 ~ this version is the Sasaki with Super Old Rei who reveals himself as a skeletal monster. This is the version that is the Author --- this is also the version that Yoshitaka Kudou sees and that Kaibara is researching.

Adult Sasaki: from volume 8 ~ this is the incarnation who was arrested for political writings and whose will-o-the-whisp moved on.

Current Sasaki ~ our present day kiddo.

For Saejima Rei, he does not show up until the Super Old Sasaki timeline. I believe this is where their souls or fates became intertwined. This is probably the only reason that Owner became involved with trying to 'change' the Saejima curse.

We see 2 Saejima Rei incarnations:

Super Old Saejima Rei/Mandarin Orange Rei ~ where their paths seem to first cross (I'm thinking more of Current Rei's grandfather or great grandfather) because Kaibara found the *old* writings of SO Sasaki.

Current Rei ~ teacher and newest incarnation of Rei, brother to Rin and cousin is Tousei, grew up with Yoshitaka Kudou.

With the info from Vol 11 it's not too far fetched to say that Owner feels that SO Saejima "stole" Sasaki from them. I was getting the impression that Sasaki cared for and maybe even loved Rei in that timeline. Perhaps Rei loved him back as he kept his skull with him.

So the one thing Owner wants (family/love?) is taken from them. When Owner kicked out Kaibara, they stated that they "did try to make a home once but couldn't do it."

SO/MO Rei tells Owner that "Only by speaking to others can we end this cycle."

By setting it up for Rei to cross paths with Current Sasaki, Kaibara, and Kudou again... (ppl who understand his family's curse) He is setting up the opportunity to "speak to others" and end the grudge/curse cycle.

The same goes for Sasaki, SO Sasaki wanted a true friend someone he could speak to freely without hiding the knowledge of his body. (Or so he thought...)

This branch goes back to Kudou's conversation with Owner at the waterfall. Owner states that Kudou loves Rei and then asks "what will you do with this knowledge.... if I say he is not happy... are you going to try and make him happy?"

To which Kudou responds, "That's not what it means to wish for a person's happiness. It's to hope for that person to be happy even when you're not there."

The showdown in Vol 11 is centered around Rei. Kudou wants to save him. Tousei wants to consume him. Sasaki relates to him.

Owner thought there was a connection building between them when Sasaki asked what he wanted to fill himself with so long ago. They reach out to him only to be left behind when Sasaki says it isn't about him right now.

Then again at the end of the volume Sasaki asks Owner to tell him what he's been searching for 'up until this life'. It looks like Owner is about to tell him when they are interrupted by Kudou and Rei 😩

Reviewing older volumes, I think Owner is sticking with the reincarnations of Sasaki to figure out what/where his "core" or soul is. It seems that he is hoping for the version that loved him back to return, based off my interpretation of Owner's convo with the Bone Monk in Vol 8.

That ultimately Owner is trying to rebuild their family/home with Sasaki as it once was.

#PTOTN #phantom tales of the night #owner #ptotn owner #saejima rei #sasaki #ptotn rei #ptotn sasaki #cass.thoughts #cass.txt #casswan ptotn

[randomanimeandmangablog]

Saejima: Welcome to the latest meeting of the Fuck Owner club, where we talk about how Owner has ruined all of our lives and how we can get our revenge. I would like to open the floor to our newest member to share a bit about himself.

Kaibara: (sweating) So I may have misunderstood...

#Owner #Rei saejima #Kaibara #phantom tales of the night

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

❌ childhood friends

✅ training buddies

#phantom tales of the night #ptotn #saejima rei #cant remember the cool emo's name please forgive me i love him rly

[tokusongs]

"Under the Aurora", from Garo: Beast of the White Night (2006). Performed by Garo Project (composed of Garo/Saejima Kouga (Konishi Ryusei), Zero/Suzumura Rei (Fujita Ray), Mitsuki Kaoru (Hijii Mika), Kiba/Barago (Kyomoto Masaki), and Garo/Saejima Taiga (Watanabe Hiroyuki)).

#Garo #Original Garo #Beast of the White Night #Garo Project #Movie songs #Character songs #Youtube

[best-match]

This is a blessing that must be shared.

Rei, Tsubasa, and Kouga. The people’s Makai Knights.

#garo #tokusatsu #kouga saejima #rei suzumura #makai knights #tsubasa yamagatana

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Not enough Garo love out there so Kouga/Kaoru/Rei to "Satisfied" by Squeeze, please and thank you.

Never, never, never enough Garo.

Song: "Satisfied," Squeeze (Spotify)

he couldn't be certain if this was his home

The sun rises warm and sweet through open curtains, and it is definitely too early to be awake. Rei makes a faint protesting noise to nobody, reaching for the pillow to pull over his face, and then, with dawning certainty, realizes that the bed he’s in is too soft to be his. Too soft and too large; he should be able to feel the edge on either side of him even lying still, but while his arm is hanging over one side, the other one isn’t in evidence at all.

Experimentally, eyes still shut, he rolls over, and instead of open air his face meets…what feels like a leg. No—one eye open to confirm, it’s definitely a leg. A woman’s leg. Which is unusual, he can count the number of hook-ups he’s had in his life on one hand and have fingers left over.

Soft laughter above his head. “I never figured you’d be an early riser type.”

“’s bright,” he mumbles against the leg, trying to parse the woman’s voice, and then sits bolt upright when he realizes who it is.

Kaoru is sitting back against the headboard of the bed, one knee drawn up to balance her sketchbook, a pencil in hand. She pouts at him. “Hey, don’t get up now, I was nearly done.”

“I’ve got to—done with what?”

She turns her sketchbook and shows him a drawing of himself, asleep, a beam of light falling across his eyes and the blankets tangled at his waist. “I don’t do as much life drawing as I should, and you looked so nice.”

His thoughts are still too jumbled from sleep and shock to process much of anything, but the one thing coming through clearly is, Kouga’s going to kill me.

Apparently his groggy confusion is cute or something, because Kaoru laughs again and reaches for him, pulling him into a kiss before he can protest, and then whispers, “We should keep it down, though, Kouga’s still sleeping and I was going to draw him next.”

“I’m not actually asleep.” Kouga’s voice, a bit fuzzy still with drowsiness, is coming from—the bed, on the other side of Kaoru. “But you were so pleased to wake up first and I hate disappointing you.”

The shock of hearing Kouga speak wakes Rei up further, the last of his disorientation finally fading into the memory of the previous night. Memories of the previous night, a lot of them, some of them pretty overwhelming, and meanwhile Kaoru’s pouting at Kouga now and sliding her pencil into the coils of her sketchbook, and Kouga’s got his arms around Kaoru’s waist and his face pressed to her side and the most spectacular bedhead Rei’s ever seen.

Kouga looks up at Kaoru, and she looks down at him, and they adore each other, and Rei doesn’t belong here. He’s just a visitor, a momentary diversion in their fairy tale.

He’s about to get out of the bed and start getting dressed when there’s a soft knock at the door and from out in the hallway Gonza says, “Would you like me to start on breakfast now, or do you need another thirty minutes?”

Kaoru’s face lights up. “Oh, can we have French toast?”

“Of course, I already have the bread you like.” Gonza sounds amused. “Master Rei, do you prefer tea in the morning, or should I just leave the entire bottle of honey at your place for your coffee?”

Rei freezes. “I, uh. I should probably be go—honey in coffee?”

“Definitely leave the bottle. And cream,” Kaoru says firmly, “he likes lots of cream in his coffee, you might want to fill up an extra…thingy.”

“I’d suspected as much,” Gonza says through the door, even more amused, and then his soft footsteps are retreating down the hallway.

Rei feels watched, and turns to see Kouga squinting at him over Kaoru's hip. "You were telling him that you were leaving. Why?"

"Kouga, don't put him on the spot, I know this is just as weird for you, I'm kind of freaking out a little bit too. You can't just puff up at him, if you do then he'll start doing it back at you and it won't get us anywhere. Here, we should--oh my god, Kouga, look at your hair, Rei, would you pass me the hairbrush on the nightstand?"

After a brief moment of stunned staring, Rei grabs the indicated hairbrush and hands it to her. "You're freaking out."

"Well, yeah, kind of." She's putting her sketchbook aside on the pillows and brushing out Kouga's wild bedhead, and it's very weird to see him sitting there with his head so meekly bowed even if it is for completely reasonable personal grooming purposes. "I wasn't, I wasn't even sure if last night would work, and then we didn't really...talk at all beforehand, and what if you regret it? What if you both regret it?" She frowns at Kouga's hair, forehead wrinkling, as she works out a last little tangle. "I don't want either of you to regret it, I want you both to be happy because I'm greedy and I want to keep this. Here, you’re a mess too, let me just,” and her fingertips skate down the side of Rei’s face as she twitches a strand of hair out of his eyes.

She looks up at him, and he looks down at her, and her eyes are gleaming, and he adores her, fuck, if she says to stay then he’ll stay as long as she wants him to even if she doesn’t really feel the same way.

“Here, turn around.”

He turns his back to her and sits with his head bowed while she brushes his hair, feeling the bristles pull gently through each tangle as behind them he hears Kouga get out of bed and start hunting for something, probably his pants.

“There you go,” after not very long, “your hair doesn’t knot nearly as badly as Kouga’s does, it’s wonderful.”

“Yeah, it’s, uh, my father used to say my hair was the only thing about me that ever did what it was told without arguing.” He looks up—

—at Kouga, who’s standing there, blanket around the waist, looking down at him with an even more impenetrable expression than usual, and then leaning down and tipping his chin up and kissing him, and his first, insane thought is, Kaoru’s going to have to brush my hair again, because with the way his scalp prickles it feels like it’s all standing up.

Kouga says, “Stay.”

And because it’s Kouga he has to be a little obnoxious, so despite the fact that his hair’s still standing on end he says, “I thought we already established that I’m staying for breakfast, apparently I get all the whole bottle of honey to myself.”

Kouga’s fingertips are still under his chin, tilting his face up, and Rei adores him, Rei loves him in ways that are probably impossible to put into words. “Stay for as long as you like.”

Kaoru’s arms wrap around him from behind, her face pressed to his back, he can feel her eyelashes moving as she blinks, and she’s saying, “Stay forever.”

“Ok,” he says, bewildered. “Ok, if you both want me to.”

“Gonza already has a room made up for you,” Kaoru’s saying, barely audible over the sheer sensation of Kouga kissing him again, “when I asked him if he’d do it he said he’d already started airing it out.”

All Kouga says, again, is, “Stay.”

Rei shuts his eyes against seeing Kouga’s face, because he’s not sure if he’s ready to have that look directed at him, not when just ten minutes ago it was pointed at—“Sure, ok, I’ll stay.”

#saejima kouga #mitsuki kaoru #suzumura rei #fanfiction #anonamouse