#he prolly thinks about his dead sister constantly. that’s like canonically what he considers his biggest personal failure right

[nishikiyamayuko]

Reddit guys often act like Post-Evilification Nishiki is some kind of independent masculine icon compared to the way he was in Yakuza: 0 but the truth is that Patriarch Nishiki is. Lmao. He is infinitely more fragile and pathetic than he ever was in the eighties. All the energy he puts into concealing his weaknesses is subtracted from his ability to control them - which makes him a good leader for a gang of brutal thugs, but as a private person it strips him of all his strengths, and what’s left is neurotic and bloodthirsty and unstable and 100% charmless when parlaying with others on equal footing instead of barking orders at men who are terrified of him. He’s much wealthier while simultaneously being down at least fifteen percent in body fat, all his features razor-sharp, almost like he’s starving. He tries to convince people he’s on top of everything but you just know he isn’t getting any sleep. He’s a blatant contradiction, so desperate to inject a sense of value into the power he’s chasing but so uninterested in denying just how ragingly miserable the pursuit is making him. When Yumi reminds him he won’t be happy even if he has the money, he freaks out and demands that she acknowledge what he’s “achieved” - it’s about his worth, not his happiness, and the latter is an afterthought without the foundation of the former. He’s never been more dangerous or more hard to love and it’s eating him, wearing him away, all the people who once held him up transformed into names on a list of his failures. I am shoving him in a washing machine and turning on the spin cycle as we speak.

#he prolly thinks about his dead sister constantly. that’s like canonically what he considers his biggest personal failure right #he who knew her better than anyone else #only to just. to just transform her into One Of Akira’s Personal Tragedies the way everyone else did in the end #first by failing (in his mind) to save her and then by using that failure as a catalyst to reinvent as a monster #this is Because Of Yuko whether Yuko would’ve wanted it or not 🫠☹️😶‍🌫️ #(she definitely wouldn’t have. like ever. but no one cares.) #akira nishikiyama #nishikiyama akira #yakuza 0 #yakuza kiwami #yuko nishikiyama #nishikiyama yuko