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thatlittleegyptologist · 1 year

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Hi! I sent this ask to another Egyptology blog, but was unsure if they were taking questions/if that was the right place, so if they see this, I apologize! But essentially, I was curious about Egyptian pre/suffixes to names. I was wondering if there was a specific pre/suffix that means “son of-”/“-is my father”. I got into a rabbit hole regarding the suffix -mses, which I gather to mean “has been born”? And now am curious about whether or not there are familial suffixes to names, as is common throughout history due to lack of surnames at certain points. Thanks so much!

If that was @rudjedet, she's on a break rn so asks are getting answers when she has time/energy.

There are no pre/suffixes in names that mean 'son of' or 'is my father'. What you're reading as a suffix, 'msi', isn't really used like that in Egyptian. While it's true that the verb 'ms' does mean 'born/born of', it's only used in naming terms when used in conjunction with the name of a god. In the name of Ramesses it means 'Born of Ra' or in Amenmose 'Born of Amun'. It's much like Giovanni means 'God is Gracious'; it's not a suffix it's the meaning of the entire name. The word 'msi' can also be used to mean 'child', so there's an equal chance the names mean 'child of Ra', but again that's no different to any name that means 'gift of god' now.

People in ancient societies were often equated with members of their family via their names, such as a man being named as “son of” when he is addressed. However, when assessing these familial links we must bear in mind that Egyptian words for kinship are limited, and these words are sn and snt for brother and sister, but also meaning cousin, aunt, uncle, nephew or niece, and sA and sAt for son and daughter, but also meaning grandchildren or children that belonged to a spouse which were not their own, so we cannot say precisely which family member is being spoken of, but we do know that it is a familial relation of some kind.

So the most you're going to get in Egyptian is someone using sA n 'son of' or sA.t n 'daughter of' between two names. So Hori son of Nebamun is 'Hri sA n nb-imn' or Amenkhau son of Mutemhab is imn-xAw sA n mw.t-m-hAb.

More often than not, however, they're identified by their job titles before they're identified by who they're related to. You'll get Carpenter Panehesy or Stonemason Amunpanefer, before you'll get the 'son/daughter of' addition. They likely use this when two people have the same name and job title, thus identifying which one is which, or the person involved is a child or jobless and thus this makes it the only other way to identify them precisely.

Job titles/place of birth/family relations are the most common ways surnames have formed, with jobs like Cooper/Smith/Collier becoming surnames and other descriptive words like 'Black' (coming from hair colour) forming other surnames. I think you were looking for suffixes like they do in certain Scandinavian countries where the name of your father/mother becomes your last name? Like Ralf Olegsson is Ralf the Son of Oleg. This doesn't happen with names in Ancient Egypt, unfortunately.

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haleigh-sloth · 2 years

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Honestly I wanted so much more of AFO taunting Endeavor about Touya and actually see Endeavor feel like shit for everything that happened to Touya. I wanted to see him reflect on being a father not a hero. I don't want to see Endeavor continue to be stagnant, I'm begging Hori not to continue to drag Endeavor's arc. I'm even starting to get a point where I wonder if he is even going to make the right choice.

He will. When Touya is THERE. Because that’s when it’ll matter.

That’s literally exactly what I mean. Why are we focusing on these characters if it actually gets us fucking NOWHERE.

The translation makes me feel a lot better. But I’m gonna go ahead and say this:

This was pointed out to me by @redphlox when we were discussing this last night, so take this as her observation not mine: But there is a big issue with that very randomly inserted backstory. Not Endeavor chastising himself, that’s fine. And no I don’t mean the father/daughter death foreshadowing something for Endeavor and Touya. Not that (I’ll touch on that at the end), I mean this fucking origin that Endeavor seems to have ✨magically✨ forgotten when he actually HIT the top hero spot. And had to ask All Might what it means to be number one, and All Might had to tell him it’s for the children and the future. Like, Endeavor if your origin and inspiration to BECOME a HERO was from seeing parental sacrifice, why the fuck did you need to hear that from a non-parent adult. And how has this not become so much as a thought in your head until NOW, when you’ve been reflecting on your role as a parent for the half of the story? How? See what I mean? It makes no fucking sense. It’s out of nowhere.

And tbh I didn’t need Endeavor’s reason for becoming a hero. Like yay we have it, cool, but it was unnecessary. Honestly.

I agree with the opinions I’m seeing that it’s disjointed and confusing. Now idk what Hori was going for, and I don’t really care because nothing about the story as a whole changes for me. But please, for the love of Christ move on if stagnating this character was gonna be the end game of this chapter. I can’t tell if that’s even what I should think. He had a good reflection on his past, he did! But then going back to saying “Oop, gotta defeat this villain!! That’s my mission!” Like no, that’s your job, but your mission should have been focusing on your sons on the battle field. Otherwise what was the point of this good development last chapter:

Thankfully he didn’t completely abandon this development, but still this whole thing feels fucking out of nowhere and out of place.

Addressing the father/daughter dying concern:

Yeah. Honestly it’s annoying. Because I’m sure it’s there to scare us later. An Endeavor fake out death was always a prediction, and now it seems like it’ll be a “son saves Endeavor from dying and we’ll think they both died but they didn’t” type of situation.

No, I don’t think it foreshadows the end of the Todorokis. The family needs to be whole, per the story itself. It’s what both main characters of the subplot want. Endeavor losing his arm makes me think exactly this because tbh, who cares that he lost an arm 🙄🙄. Do I really think he’s gonna die right here and now? No. Though I’m sure the suspense for other people reading is real, so good job I guess. Still feels really unnecessary imo. But it being there paves a way for us to actually wonder if he’s gonna survive later at some point, and I’m sure both sons will be there for the death scare.

Then also, these well-placed, important moments have significantly more weight in the story than this random ass pull Hori gave us this week:

Personally I’m not worried. But I saw concern about it and I get it. This backstory is super annoying and to me feels unnecessary because we really could just end the story but instead we’re bouncing back and forth and continuing to make one specific character a complete pain in the ass to follow.

Overall though, chapter isn’t terrible. Not a waste like I originally thought. But imo it really isn’t a well-done chapter.

#bnha #boku no hero academia #anonymous #bnha asks #bnha spoilers #bnha 356 #idk why but Hori just cannot keep his head in straight with endeavor #of all fuckin people #why #every other character #EVERY other character #is great #the man can do it #but endeavor he just cannot

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tilbageidanmark · 2 years

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Movies I watched this Week - #81

3 Holocaust films:

🍿 Re-watch: Claude Lanzmann’s 9-hour-long documentary, Shoah. An unbearable testimony made more horrifying by Lanzmann’s editorial decisions: Not using any historical footage or music, slow camera panning of the quiet locations where the murders took place, uninterrupted static interviews without voice-over translations. An impossible cinematic feat exposing humanity’s nadir. (Photo of The man in the poster above).

10/10.

🍿 Marcel Ophuls’s Oscar winner long documentary Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, about the infamous "Butcher of Lyon". He brutally and personally tortured and killed thousands while head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war he was protected for decades by the American intelligence community, in their “fight against communism”.

🍿 On the other hand, filmed fiction about the holocaust is always doomed to be terrible, including acclaimed dramas like the Schindler’s Lists and ‘Life is beautiful’s of the world. I was hoping that Amen would be better, because it was directed by Costa-Gavras. But it was the same staged and disingenuous Hollywood-style theatrics. Rolf Hochhuth’s play ‘The Deputy’, on which this atrocity was based was 'controversial’ because it showed how the Vatican knew about the Nazi executions but still did nothing. After watching ‘Shoah’, Costa-Gavras even decided to includes numerous shots of cattle-car trains on their way back & forth from the camps. Just dreadful. 1/10.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019), a terrific documentary about the history of sound design in cinema of the US. Main interviewees are Walter Murch, Ben Burtt and Gary Rydstrom. Catnip for anybody who has interest in the technical art of film making. 9/10.

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My 5th Hirokazu Kore-eda film and by a long shot, my favorite film of his, The Truth, with the magnificent 75-year-old Catherine Deneuve as a very famous, self-absorbed actress and the brilliant Juliette Binoche as her estranged daughter. The little girl was absolutely adorable. Kore-eda's first film set outside Japan. Very emotional setting.

10/10. Absolutely the best film of the week!

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2 films from 100+ years ago:

🍿 Pruning the Movies, a silent 1915 short, a satire on movie censorship. (From The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum).

🍿 The man there was (Terje Vigen), a 1917 Swedish epic at sea directed by Victor Sjöström, and the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point. A restored YouTube copy with vibrant tinting.

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, my 3rd subtle masterpiece by Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan (after ‘Winter Sleep’ and ‘Distant’). Like 'Winter sleep’, it was inspired by and feels like a story by Anton Chekhov. 2.5 hours long, very moody and slow-moving, and without music to distract from its beauty, it will only appeal to people who are willing to embrace its rich, poetic elusiveness.

Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2011. 9/10 - Highly recommended!

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Orson Welles X 2 (+1):

🍿 “... A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl...”

Re-watching Citizen Kane: Orson Welles, Gregg Toland, Bernard Herrmann. Also, the innovative 1940 trailer.

in 2002, Errol Morris interviewed film critic dinild drump who interpreted it to be a film about “accumulation”.

🍿 First watch: F For Fake, his infamous, rambling film essay. A meta-mockumentary about art and fraud, centered around art forger Elmyr de Hory, hoax biographer Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes, Welles mistress Oja Kodar, and Welles himself as the ‘Big Conjuror’. With beautiful footage of Ibiza in the 60′s, and score by Michel Legrand. I would have enjoyed much more if it was done 30 years later by a Ricky Jay. 3/10.

🍿 The Tell-Tale Heart (1941), was Jules Dassin's directorial debut short. It is considered to be the first film directly influenced by ‘Citizen Kane’. (This copy is of very low quality).

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Paid for by Yoko & John Lennon, and produced by predator producer Allen Klein, The holy mountain by poet-provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky, was a Magical Mystery Acid Tour, a surrealist wet dream a-la Salvador Dalí. Allegorical, religious symbolism of the early 70′s, with alchemist, ritualistic plot, as deep as the tarot universe on which it was based.

I forgot how little dialogue was used in the story, as it was mostly visuals, wild, shamanistic, outrageous, feverish visuals. But maybe because the dialogue was along the lines of “The Cross was a mushroom - and the mushroom was also the Tree of Good and Evil” or “Rub your clitoris against the mountain - Give yourself to the world!”...

Because it influenced hundreds of other films since, it lost some of its bizarre uniqueness. Still, it remained on re-watch an historically major masterpiece. 7/10.

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3 from Australia:

🍿 First watch: Chubby, 22-year-old Toni Collette in the dysfunctional Australian comedy Muriel's Wedding. A strange character that is not fully flashed-out, and whose main claim to fame is her desire to have a glamorous wedding.

🍿 ...”That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock...”

‘Filmed in Dragarama’, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Terrific Terence Stamp, drop-dead gorgeous transgender woman Guy Pearce, and 'Agent Smith’ play exaggerated caricatures of drag queen tropes, traveling to the outback in an old, pink bus. Camp & flamboyant, it didn’t connect with me until the ‘I will survive’ dance number in the night. 5/10.

🍿 First season of Mr Inbetween, about “Ray”, a Sydney underworld hitman, created by the actor playing him. On the one hand, he is a doting father to a 8-year-old daughter, a loving boyfriend and a loyal friend. On the other, he is a practical and old-blooded killer who eliminates violent thugs without a second thought. Dark, dry, often funny and poignant. 8/10.

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Ray Donovan was another tough but silent fixer, but without any charms: Had I seen the series ‘Ray Donovan’, maybe I would have found Ray Donovan: The Movie interesting. But as a stand-along crime story it was empty and dull.

Also, the same terrible actor who was awful as Young Jeff Bridges in ‘The Old Man’ last week, was awful as young Jon Voight in this one. 2/10.

🍿 Benny’s Video, the second film (and my 9th one) by Michael Haneke. A deeply disturbing film that opens with a home video of a pig slaughtered with a bolt pistol shot to the head. But not knowing anything about it beforehand, I did not expect the horrifying twist which came after a relatively “normal” day in the life of a “normal” family. Reminded me very much of the empty alienation of Camus’ ‘The Stranger’.

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2 Korean serial killers:

🍿 Bong Joon-ho‘s Memories of Murder about a famous serial killer is considered one of the best Korean movies of all times, but in spite of a strong opening scene at the fields and closing scene at the tunnel (and then back to the fields), I just didn’t get it.

🍿 Memoir of a Murderer (2017) is an unrelated but a similar thriller. I could not find any reviews connecting the two, even though it was an obvious throwback to the original. Both tells of a prolific serial killer in the countryside, and the bumbling police search for him. It opens at the same distinct train tunnel where Bong Joon-ho‘s film ends, it has triggering girls in red dresses, etc. It's about a retired murderer with dementia, who must jot down the little he remembers, so he can understand what’s happening around him (’Momento’-like). I actually liked it much better than the original.

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The Old Man and the Sea, a paint-on-glass-animated Canadian short directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov, based on Hemingway’s novel. Winner of the 2000 Best Animated Short Oscar.

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Dirty Pictures, a documentary about psychopharmacologist Alexander Shulgin who developed hundreds of psychedelic compounds including MDMA.

Obviously, I’m 100% for the use and studies of any and all types of psychedelic drugs, but films about them are usually dull and pedestrian. Including this one, that was made 4 years before 'Sasha's death. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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problemswithbooks · 2 years

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What’s up with endeavour’s backstory because even after seeing the translated scans I’m like ???

I think it's a bit little to be called a backstory--it's more just an explanation/exposition.

That said I do think for now it will be a bit confusing because we'll more chapters to see what Hori is actually trying to convey with these new developments.

From what I've seen I feel people are putting a bit to much emphasis on the whole father/daughter death thing, feeling like it's his origin story in someway. This has lead to people who are critical of his character to question how this big event in his life wasn't brought up before, or how he had to be told by All Might that children and the future is what his powers should be used for as the new #1, when he should already know that given what he saw.

Personally, I don't think Enji ever viewed that moment as a defining trait of why he wanted to be a Hero. Not to say it didn't effect him greatly, but the reason he didn't really think about it before is because he never really understood how much it impacted his life. This wasn't like Nana dying for All Might, or Oboro's death for Aizawa, where they never could forget it and clearly understand that it was an event that shaped their current view of the world.

These were random strangers and so most of the time, once he got over his shock from the experience, he didn't think about them. He wasn't constantly reminded by their lack of presence in his life. His life moved on and he's gone through a lot in that time. So to me it makes sense he only recalls it when thinking back to his younger years and is actually seeming to wonder how he even became the person he did.

Now, with reflection he remembered that moment and can see how it effected his outlook on life, and probably influenced his jealously of All Might and his name as a Hero.

I don't think that some of takes where people say he took the wrong thing from incident are necessarily fair. It's true that I believe Enji didn't see the fatherly instinct in that moment and probably took away, instead the helplessness of the situation, figuring that if the father was stronger (the super-human individual he perceived All Might to be) he could saved both himself and his daughter. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad take away either, or even a surprising one given Enji was a young teen at the time--aka a child himself.

Most kids wouldn't look at that situation from a parental perspective--a "I will be the type of parent that dies to try and save my child, and probably more from the perspective of "If that was my father I'd want him to be able to save us". So it's not shocking to me that Enji didn't take away a lesson in parenting from the situation. Also, even as bad as a father as Enji has been, if he didn't freeze up, I'm sure he'd die to save his kids--heck he probably would have died to save Shoto even before his character arc. Just because a parent is willing to risk their life for their child doesn't mean they're a good, non-abusive parent.

As for what all of Enji's self refection means, again, I don't think it's possible to say yet. From what we've seen, I'd say maybe he's turned his weaknesses into his strength--aka his stubbornness to keep going in order to prove himself. At least I hope it is, because this late in the story, that is rushing toward an ending we don't have time for Enji to not move forward with his character development. But we won't know for sure until we see more of what these new revelations mean for/to Enji and how they might effect how he acts moving forward.

#ask #thanks for the ask!#bnha #bnha spoilers #mha #endeavor #enji todoroki #i'm a little confused to given we dont have much context yet #by the framing id say it's a break through #and improvement #but it's kind of vague wording wise at times #so it's more then fine to be unsure what's going on #I'm not sure 100% either

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rex101111 · 3 years

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my hero academia au where everything is the same except it ends with Eri walking up to AFO and calling him a big stinky meanie face before kicking him in the shin and dragging off the league of villains to therapy (and also prison)

#My hero academia #Eri (bnha)#hori where is my daughter #i need to know that she knows she prevented the deaths of thousands of people and I also need a scene of Ochako and her standing over Deku's #hospital bed and comforting each other come one

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hinamie · 3 years

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hoLY F UC K HORIMIYA IS SO GOOD IM NOT EVEN JOKING WHEN I SAY THE WAY I HAV BEEN Y E L L I N G

#THEYRE SO CUTE IM GNA FUCKING SOB I LOV MIYAMURA SO MUCH HES SUCH A SWEETHEART #N HORI !!!!!! HORI !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DAUGHTER. DARLING DARLING GIRL I CARE U SO MUCH #SHES SO FUNNY SHES GOT SO MUCH PERSONALITY SHES SO. holy shit i wna b her friend so bad #god the two of them. holy fucking shit my kokoro.#oh my god the way i am craving int*macy.....................#where can i get uhhhhhhhhhhh whatever the fuck this show is giving me

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welcome-to-the-cafe · 2 years

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ASAKO I & II (2018)

asako i & ii (寝ても覚めても, netemo sametemo, "whether asleep or awake") is a surreal romance about a woman who falls in love with two men with the same face. it was directed by ryusuke hamaguchi, who also directed drive my car.

the premise: asako (erika karata) falls in love with a mysterious young man called baku (masahiro higashide). one day, baku disappears. years later, in tokyo, asako sees him again. or, well, not him, but a young salaryman called ryohei (also masahiro higashide). they begin building a life together, until asako's past resurfaces.

(just some disorganized thoughts below. i tried to organize this but i gave up. i just want to get this out of me.)

point of view:

the first part of the movie (up to the title card, which shows up about twenty minutes in) is in asako's point of view. most of the movie is in ryohei's point of view, and then we switch back to asako's at about halfway through the movie.

asako kind of reminds me of hatsumi from the hot gimmick film adaptation. there's something opaque about them. both are quiet and innocent-looking. both of their respective films have shots of them where we view the heroine head on, eye-level, like in a mirror. both are played by young and inexperienced actresses (hot gimmick was miona hori's first feature film; asako i & ii was erika karata's second—her first came out the same year)

for asako, baku is the mystery, the manic-pixie-dream-girl-like character. for ryohei, when he first meets asako, asako is the inexplicable, confusing mystery. we know why asako is acting weird (because he reminds her of baku), but he doesn't.

the novel this is based on is entirely in first person (in asako's point of view, i think)

similarities to drive my car:

chekov

spaciousness, a slice-of-life feel

both movies are somehow both contrived and naturalistic

contrived: fate and coincidences (in this movie: the whole doppelganger scenario, the way asako and ryohei run into each other) (in drive my car: things like how the driver's age is the same as what the male lead's daughter's age would have been)

naturalistic: slow, realistic moments (in this movie: there's a shot of a side character just misting plants. the aftermath of the earthquake. also moments like asako giving ryohei a massage.) (in drive my car: the driver, misaki, waiting with a book, or leaving a grocery store...)

the title of the movie:

the japanese title and the english title are different

sleeping and waking (asako's monologue near the end of the movie)

the two asakos

which two asakos?

when is she asleep and when is she awake?

before and after baku? before and after baku comes back? before and after she comes back to ryohei?

trivia, re: names:

asako's name - asa for morning - the title "sleeping/waking"

baku's last name, torii, means "bird" - he might fly away at any moment

appearance, the body:

supporting character haruyo's plastic surgery

identity and how much of your identity is your body and how you look

the superficiality of attraction

how weird it must feel to think that someone might like you just for your face (even though that's not at all the case for ryohei and asako)

i was reading denial of death, and it said a lot of stuff about the body, and how people don't want to be just their bodies, because being your body means death, because your body will die... and how ryohei doesn't want to just be reduced to his (baku-like) face.

dreams vs reality, the other vs the mundane, baku and ryohei as representatives, magical realism:

we don't understand why asako likes baku. except i want to say that it's not female hypergamy. or it's not just female hypergamy. can we acknowledge that people do things because they're human and have human weaknesses, but also because of like... idk, special personal reasons? i think asako has plenty of special personal reasons for her weird behavior. even if we aren't explicitly told about them.

baku as a manic pixie dream girl like character. (catalyst for asako's ... change?)

love as a curse on asako.

baku doesn't feel human sometimes. he seems like. like a fairy maybe. manic pixie dream guy. the way he suddenly disappears and reappears. the detached, nonchalant way he speaks. baku is like a dream. there's an unreality to him. the scenes where asako and baku are together... similarly don't feel real, and have a dreamlike quality to them. the whole entire intro scene (the eighteen minutes before the title card) with baku seems like a flashback. the slow-motion in some scenes, the music.

there's this sense of inequality almost? like how haruyo says that asako isn't the kind of woman someone would fall in love with at first sight. and yet asako immediately, with baku, falls in love at first sight. how baku will leave at any time and asako will be waiting for him to come back. how asako is shown as... chasing after him. sometimes? like he's there, unseeable and unknowable, and asako's unable to reach him. also foreshadowing of asako's abandonment by baku (haruyo saying baku is a heartbreaker, etc).

the abandonment is an open loop (open wound?)

ryohei is a real guy. we know him better than we know baku. we see asako's life with him. their shared time and shared efforts. their domestic life, their cat, the massage asako gives ryohei when they come home late at night.

ryohei speaks in kansai dialect (stereotype of immediacy, honesty), baku speaks in standard tokyo dialect (despite being from osaka) (distance, aloofness)

asako only really comes to terms with baku's disappearance when ryohei appears in her life.

asako seeks closure

the cat that asako and ryohei have. the cat as a symbol for their relationship.

on one hand, asako only falls in love with ryohei because he looks like baku. on the other hand, in an atemporal and acausal way, maybe asako only fell in love with baku so that she could fall in love with ryohei later.

asako running after people (men) or cats

the asako who is asleep, the asako who has woken up

asako is only able to truly choose ryohei after she's "awake"

random stuff:

the way the camera tracks feet walking, characters moving

there's a random scene where a sheet falls on baku and asako (in the beginning, honeymoon phase) and they kiss under it, like the lovers by magritte.

self and others - that's the name of the photography exhibition where she meets baku. and the photography exhibition that ryohei helps asako and maya get into, before asako and ryohei get to know each other. there's this really striking parallel where asako is looking at a certain photo, and baku or ryohei appear beside her in frame.

pregnancy and birth motif / revelation of the truth

doppelgangers, identical strangers

cell phones as a recurring element (breaking up via phone call, throwing away your phone to cut off communication, etc)

waking, sleeping

maya and kushihashi, talking about chekov and acting... "everybody does that" - everybody uses the audience to be the center of attention

2011 tohoku earthquake. a big part of asako and ryohei's relationship. i think the earthquake wasn't in the novel (because it hadn't yet happened when the novel was published in 2010)

#joy watches #asako i & ii #netemo sametemo #media review #media commentary

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ariel-seagull-wings · 3 years

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TOP 12 BEAUTIES (FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)

@princesssarisa @sunlit-music @mademoiselle-princesse @the-blue-fairie

@amalthea9 @theancientvaleofsoulmaking @astrangechoiceoffavourites @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @superkingofpriderock @draculashaxanbride @lioness--hart @anne-white-star @gravedangerahead @grafedelweiss @lord-antihero

Growing up, Beauty and The Beast has always been one of the fairy tales wich i have a deep emotional connection. I love how it combines elements of adventure, mystery, horror, comedy, drama and romance to form a beautifull narrative about external versus internal beauty, coming of age, self-discovery, familial love, friendship, building of a romantic love and redemption. And connecting me to this emotional rollercoaster of a story, is the heroine, the curious and sensitive Beauty, who faces her fear of the unknown to save the life of her father, and trough this act of sacrifice discovers eternal happiness in the most unlikely of places.

And tonight, i make this humble ranking in tribute to her.

12º Mitsuko Horie as Maria in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics (1989)

In this anime episode based on the german variant The Summer and Winter Garden, we are presented to Maria, a simple and hardworking peasant girl who is kidnapped by the Beast away from her family home. Maria lives a long period of silent sadness in the Beasts palace, until he starts to show a more sensitive and considered side, and she forgives him. When he lets her go visiting her family, Maria has to say goodbye to her father, who dies, and due to her grief, forgets for a moment of Beast’s castle. And after finally remembering, she rushes in despair hoping to save Beasts’s life...

Maria is the most vulnerable encarnation of Beauty, and one cannot help but constantly want to hug her in protection.

11º Léa Seydoux as Belle in Christophe Gans’s La Belle et La Bête (2014)

A young woman who tries to act always calm and serious, but inside herself hides deep sadness and melancholy, born from the feeling that she is considered guilty for the death of her mother at her childbirth. So she treats her journey to the Beast’s castle as a way to make amends, because she feels that if her father went to die at the Beast’s hands for picking a rose that she asked for, it would be another death that would be her guilt. And in the castle, exploring the mirrors that reveal the Beast’s past, she learns that someone shares her desire of becoming cleaned from any feeling of guilt, and take its right to happiness.

10º Trish Van Devere as Belle Beaumont in Beauty and The Beast (1976)

An older, more grounded and no nonsense, but still sensitive portrayal. Coming from a family formed by a well-intentioned but misguided father, two materialistic and mean spirited older sisters, a vulnerable younger brother and a cruel brother-in-law, Van Devere’s Belle has great pressure over her shoulders to be the voice of reason to people around her, wich makes us empathize with the state of tiredness she gets in. She is always tough and honest when necessary, and kind and gentle when she also needs to be.

09º Nina Krachkovskaya/Amy Irving as Anastasia/Nastenka in Soyuzmultifilm’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1952)

In this animated short adaptation of the russian variant The Scarlet/Crimson Flower, writen by Sergey Aksakov, our Beauty is Nastenka, the youngest daughter of a brave captain of a merchant ship. Nastenka is a dreamer, shy, and prone to philosophical melancholy, even tough she doesn’t necessarily knows the reason of her sadness, what makes her self-discovery all the more relatable to audiences, specially young ones.

08º Marina Ilichyova as Aljona in Irina Povolotskaya’s Alenkiy Tsvetochek (1977)

Besides also sharing the shiness, sadness and melancholy of her animated counterpart, the peasant-girl-next-door Aljona is also a deeply frightened young woman, whose narrative arc involves learning to let herself loose a bit more, and not let her fears dominate her. This arc is highlighted in the moments where she gives a subtle smile when she talks to and plays along the Beast of the Forest.

07º Joyce Taylor as Lady Althea in Edward L. Kahn’s Beauty and The Beast (1962)

An elegant and confident noble lady, Lady Althea is the fiancée of the wise, brave and humble Duke Eduardo. She arrives at the dukedom excited with the wedding, but makes a discovery: since assuming power as a ruler, Eduardo is under a curse that turns him into a Beast every night. Now Althea has to deal with the dillema of staying to support her fiancée with her love, or leaving, in fear of his Beast side, and Joyce Taylor’s performance in the role engages us into this dilema till the end.

06º Dima Bawab as Zémire in Zémire et Azor (2014)

This comic ópera composed by the belgian André Grétry transports the story to a fairy tale land combination between France and Persia, presenting us to the adorable Zémire, a merry, romantic and idealistic young lady, who enjoys letting herself get loose in a world of dreams, reading books of fantastical stories. She also is curious and inquisitive, insistently questioning the servant Ali until he thells what concers so much her father, so she gets to take the journey to the palace of Azor, the Prince turned into a Beast. There, at first she is scared, but then, showing a sense of wonder, starts playing with the wolves that guard the palace and have merry conversations with Azor, with whom she eventually falls in love.

05º Josette Day as Belle in Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête (1946)

At the same time a relatable audience surrogate, and an individual character in her own right. Day’s Belle starts as a mysteryous woman, with a stoic, resilient face, and elegant, if rigid, gait. As the film rolls, we slowly get to piece her passions, her vulnerabilities and her fears. Specially her fear of leaving the comfort of her family home life, adventuring to the unknown, and falling in love.

04º Vanessa Williams as Beauty in Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child (1995)

The sister of a tall and strong, tough lazy man, named Tree, and a pretty, tough vain lady, named Precious, William’s Beauty is brave, truthfull, altruístic, and also has a light hearted sense of humour and an introspective sensibility. The highlight of this encarnation is when she is at her home room’s window, she sings a song pondering her doubts between staying at her family home, or returning to the Beast’s palace.

03º Beauty from Megan Kearney’s Beauty and The Beast Webcomic (2012-17)

Made as a tribute to other Beauties that camed previously, while being her own version. An emotionally repressed young woman, who lost her mother at childbirth, and suffered bullying during childhood, being called ‘ugly duckling’ by other kids, Kearney’s Beauty grows burying her emotions in the hard work on her family’s farm, and is in search of an identity and a place in the world. One day she asks for a rose that grows in winter that appeared in her dreams, and this is the exciting incident that catapults her journey to the Beast’s enchanted castle, where she blossoms into a lady who is brave, witty and confident.

02º Paige O’Hara as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (1991)

The first encarnation i ever saw when i was a child. The young lady who newly arrived at a small village, with an introspective bookworm behaviour that is the target of her neighbours. She doesn’t pay attention to the gossip, but laments her loneliness, and longs for a friend who understands her sensitivity and shares her desire for adventure in the great wild somewhere. When she first meets the Beast, she resists coming closer to him, who provokes fear and anger in her. But after the Beast saves her from wolves, Belle’s reaction, while still energic, becomes of compassion, empathy and zeal. As she spends more time with the Beast, learning to see him as her friend, Belle finally notices that her beautfiull discontentment was rewarded, because she finally found someone to understand her.

And now the moment that everyone was whaiting: My Number One Beauty is...

01º Zdena Studenková as Julie in Juraj Herz’s Panna a Netvor (1978)

Julie is the youngest of the merchant’s three daughters, and also the daughter born of his second wife and greatest love. This makes her the merchant’s favorite daughter, while in turn that favoritism makes her life very sheltered, since her father fears loosing her like he lost her mother. When she takes her father’s place and rides a horse to the ruins that the Beast calls his palace, you get the feel that is not only out of filial duty, but also a desire for freedom that motivates her decision. Arriving at her destiny, she is fascinated by the ruins and the magic that they contain, and gets even more fascinated by the voice of the mysteryous Beast, who unbknowns to Julie, is containing a violent desire to devour her. Slowly, Julie learns that it wasn’t just out of curiosity that she inquired and playfully talked to her host: even without seeing the Beast, Julie is falling in love with Beast, and must decide wheter she accepts this feeling or rejects it and returns to the safety of her family home.

Starting out as passive, but slowly revealing herself to be braver than she ever expected, showing strenght in her vulnerability when learning to find the sublime in the grotesque, Zdena Studenková’s Julie is both an easy to follow audience surrogate and a unique individual character, beautifull in her complexities, and that is why she is my Number One portrayal of Beauty.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Susan Sarandon as Beauty in Faerie Tale Theatre (1984)

#beauty and the beast #fairy tales #one of my favorite franchises #pop culture #feminism #literature #fantasy #folklore #mithology #genre fiction

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I can totally see Gojo’s eldest daughter treating him like how Hori treats her dad in Horimiya!! Gojo’s daughter NEVER calls Gojo “dad” only Satoru and even when she first learned to talk she never called him “dada”…In fact the first person she called dada? Shoko…Shoko and MC think it's hysterical and Geto thinks it's karma because of how Gojo was such a playboy (*coughs* cheater *coughs*) before he settled down with MC 😂😂😂

In your poly au if MC has kids with Gojo and Geto i could picture Geto being the favorite amongst all the kids and all of them being kind of meh with gojo except maybe the youngest of the Gojo kids and maybe the youngest among geto's lol and gojo's depressed and keeps begging MC to have more kids just so someone actually likes him lol, and yes the thing with his eyes and babies sounds so cute kind of!!

YES

when celi and i were talking about the kids I literally said that hori and her father’s relationship is exactly the same as gojo’s relationship with his daughter 😭😭 (I guess you literally read my mind anon LOL)

all the children love geto so much. that’s their father!!! but gojo???

that’s not their father. that’s an uncle. gojo despairs. riko (the eldest daughter and the only one that inherited limitless and the six eyes) only calls geto ‘papa’ and started calling gojo ‘satoru’ when she was ten lmfao. gojo cried about it. every. single. day. later, she alternates between calling him ‘old man’ and ‘satoru’ and gojo can only wonder where he went wrong.

in fact, all the children call geto ‘papa’ or ‘dad’ but gojo......

the only one that can stand gojo and actually adores him is the youngest girl who calls him papa and clings to him when they go out. since she has a lot of siblings, she’s happy to get one on one time with her dad. gojo gets nervous thinking of her growing up and not needing him anymore. every time his children bully him gojo goes into her room and stays there, after all she’s the only one that ‘appreciates him’

rip!mc or geto have to always pull him out of her room (you can’t live in here, Satoru)

riko tells the youngest daughter to ‘keep him’

the youngest is also the only one that looks like rip!mc and inherits her cursed technique too bc gojo and geto’s genes are stupidly strong....

it’s horrible because both gojo and geto are wrapped around her finger and they always go all out indulging her in whatever she wants. she would be so spoiled if it weren’t for the fact that she also inherited rip!mc’s temperament. thank god for that.

except that she wanted an actual pet panda for her sixth birthday (yaga wouldn’t give her panda)....let’s just say rip!mc put an end to that real quick.

when riko was a baby she probably cried whenever gojo held her. but for papa geto she was always giggling and tugging on his hair with her chubby fingers. i actually really like the idea of riko’s first ‘dada’ being for shoko. so yeah, both gojo and geto were beat by the one and only ieiri shoko!!!!

unfortunately, as gojo is the only one in the world who also has limitless and six eyes, riko is forced to spend time with him. the one and only time they got along was when riko accidentally decimated an entire wing of the house by using purple for the first time. she was trying to get her brothers to stop fighting

anyway after it became clear riko wasn’t going to warm up to gojo, gojo begged rip!mc for another child, and geto wasn’t averse to the idea either. so it took....a couple (a lot) of tries for the youngest.

#the way i info dumped a lot of what i thought of w/ celi for the poly au LOL #im not sure if the first ask was referring to the poly au but let's just say that even in ripverse riko is going to call gojo 'satoru'#and be very unimpressed with him #they would have one chaotic family #everyone's chaotic but ultimately it would be a very very happy household #no angst in this au!! just happiness.#family au

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there is some stratospherically awful stuff like framing Toga’s backstory as her parents being “worried about her future” even though MVA had already run, so we knew good and well that Toga's parents' reaction to her quirk was to beg their three-year-old to be normal and tell her her smile made her look like a deviant. — To me, it’s another layer of japanese society. That’s the tragedy of it. I could see this from my grandparents and my uncles’ families. They say these hurtful things in order to make you conform because of both care and collective bs. It’s why I’m not surprised at all that they washed their hands of toga after she killed someone. Society would expect that and think there’s something wrong with them too if they didn’t. So yeah I don’t think there’s anything false with that description just that I don’t agree with the actions they took.

Getting back into the ask backlog! This was in reply to this post about character profiles.

So, point taken about the collectivist angle. I can just about buy that what we see in MVA is a somewhat extreme take on worry for how Toga could fit into society from misguided but well-intentioned parents. Back then, we didn’t know how they reacted other than the baby bird incident—there's one shot of an older Toga being rebuked to just act like a normal little girl, but we don't have any particular context for it, and I can see the baby bird incident being rattling and upsetting enough to shake free some too-sharp words. Also too, I certainly recall a lot of people, back when those chapters dropped, thinking that the takeaway was meant to be, “Oh, so she was supposed to be a villain from the start."*

That’s all from before we found out that her parents stopped measuring her height at three years old, though. That image certainly doesn’t give one the impression that here were parents who loved their daughter regardless of her troubles and were just doing what they thought was best for her; it really does feel like they all but gave up on her the moment her quirk came in. It all puts me much in mind of Re-Destro's comments from the observation tower, about how Hero Society insists on clinging to old ideas of "normal" regardless of how much the world has changed. What does being normal and fitting in even look like, in a world that glorifies heroes like BNHA!Japan's does? And what could it ever look like for Toga, with her quirk being what it is?

Of course, like I said in the post you’re quoting, anon, Ultra Analysis came out some time ago, well before the flashback in 341. That’s why I’m hoping any third one we ever get drops the framing device of the villains’ profiles being performatively filtered through an implicitly heroic “narrator.” If you’re trying to keep the villains scary and, well, villainous, I can see taking that sympathetic stance on Toga’s parents, especially when the narrative was so sympathetic to Kotarou as well. But Hori has long since dropped that desire to keep his villains at arms-length, so I wish the data books would follow suit and stop playing up the Hero/Villain divide the canon itself has been throwing more and more into question.

Thanks for the ask, and for sharing your perspective!

* Largely the same people who came away from the Shimura flashbacks with the conclusion that Tenko was born twisted just like AFO said back at the beginning. I'll tell you guys, if you ever get tired of the tumblr discourse, you know where is a good place to go to get a refresher on what non-tumblr fans think? The Viz comment section, that's where. Yeesh.

#bnha #toga himiko #stillness answers #stillness answers more #I read the viz comment section when I'm tired of tumblr slapping ill-fitting social justice words on their argument for emphasis #to remind myself that there are people whose bnha opinions are just as bad but in the opposite direction

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Just saw an Endeavor stan on twitter lamenting the fact that Endeavor’s story wasn’t as ~morally grey~ as the Bloody Baron’s story from The Witcher 3..... and now I wanna claw my eyes out!

You wanted Endeavor to be as ~morally grey~ as the alcoholic, rage-filled abuser who forced his wife to stay with him after she tried to run away, brutally murdered the man she loved in front of her, raped her, and then beat her so bad that it caused her to have a miscarriage, and then kept her as his prisoner and kept on beating her for years, to the point where his own daughter feared and hated him???

You wanted Endeavor's attempts at redemption to be reduced to him stalking his family, forcing himself on them, emotionally abuse them when they refuse to reconcile with him, and never respecting their wishes or establishing any healthy boundaries?

You wanted Rei’s characterization to be just as shitty and sexist as Anna (the Bloody Baron’s wife) who was basically shamed for “causing her own abuse” and for being “just as bad as her abuser” and who had little to no characterization at all???

That’s ~morally grey~ to you?? That’s the superior writing choice??

Wow, i’m so fucking glad Hori wrote Rei as an actual character with her own personality and never once implied that she was just as bad as her abuser or that she deserved any of the shit she suffered at his hands.

If Endeavor’s writing was anything like the Bloody Baron I would have hated him SO much. I loath the Bloody Baron and can’t fucking stand how so many dudebro gamers sympathize with him and even excuse him (you wanna see actual abuse apologia from fans? check out any discussion about the Bloody Baron in the Witcher 3 fandom). I’d rather see Endeavor’s character be irrationally hated than to be irrationally loved like THAT.

#fandom stupidity

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This is probably a very unpopular opinion among the overhaul simps but I’m gonna say it

I’m gonna use two examples for why I think this.

I don’t think Overhaul would abuse his partner like half the fics of him depict him to.

By the way, I spent a handful of time on this so I would really appreciate if you reblog it if you agree. It’s not proof read so it’s likely sloppy.

For the first let’s focus on the present timeline. If I had to guess how attached Overhaul is to his partner, they are probably on the same level as Hari at the least, and somewhere between Hari and Pops or even possibly on par with Pops depending on how long he has known them. Why? He’s a germaphobia, paranoid, delusional mess. He has a small group of about 10 people in his clan not including you and Pops he trusts and that’s it, which sounds like a handful except for the fact that pretty much all of the eight bullets were people at their lowest he just picked off the streets like a stray cat and ran away with them. For you to be considered his lover, I think you would have to be someone he holds very near and dear, someone he is comfortable with touching and not getting hives at the minimum. We have seen how he treats the ones near to them in terms of doing things to them. I’m gonna assume you are probably somewhere between Pops and Hari for this. I headcanon Pops as quirkless personally, so if you have a quirk I can see there being a very high possibility he would get rid of it. When it came to pops and he rejected his plan, he didn’t hurt or torture him, he put him in a coma using his quirk, and this is the highest form of ‘punishment’ he would use on a loved one, including you, I don’t think he would hurt you or manipulate you till you’re mindbroken. Now that’s also Overhaul before he was arrested, and manga spoilers going on. After the whole Tartarus breakout, I think he, ironically, gets a whole overhaul of his views and personality. He’s had a lot of time to think, and Overhaul is smart enough that he would realize how stupid his plan was and how foolish he was. He lost everything. You, Pops, Hari, the clan, his arms, and the little girl who could’ve been like a real daughter to him who he has now traumatized for life. When he gets out, all he wants is a portion of that back. More specifically, all he wants is you, Pops, and Hari. If he finds you again, he would be to afraid of himself to ever dare even thinking of hurting you like he had again, so there is basically no chance he would be abusive after Tartarus.

Now, that’s also CANON overhaul, so I’m also going to give a second example of a second scenario, hence forth known as an au, for this. I’m gonna say this is an au where Eri either doesn’t exist, or if she does she isn’t abused by overhaul. Well first off, the whole reason he abused Eri was because of his plan, which also was because of his delusional view on quirks, so if Eri isn’t abused we can assume neither of those exist. In that case, he definitely would never hurt you. He would be a completely different overhaul, and in the case he doesn’t have these views anymore that would lead to a lot of other things. He wouldn’t remove your quirk, in this au because he doesn’t have those delusional thought, and also Pops would still be around, and trust me that man would beat it into Kai’s skull that hurting you or his granddaughter was off the table. Don’t ask me why canon Pops didn’t idk.

I decided for my second example I didn’t exactly have a point I was getting to, so I’m going to make one here. None of you I’m sure play it, but I play a game called World of Warcraft. There is a character in there, and alternate universes exist. In the timeline you play in, there is an orc names Garrosh Hellscream, and according to others in the game that Garrosh is one of the worst possibly incarnations of him to exist. I think this is the case with Kai as well. The Kai we got is the worst version of Kai I think we could have gotten assuming he stays true to his general character that Hori wrote. This being said, assuming what I said about canon Overhaul is true, that likely means that any other version of him, the better ones, wouldn’t be toxic either, at least not to nearly the same degree. Also, I think that playing and twisting around characters is very fun, so I don’t mind angsty fics where overhaul isn’t a very nice lover, but at the same time I really don’t want people going around and saying that he is most definitely like this outside of fics. It just feels harmful and wrong if you say that someone’s fave is most definitely toxic and harmful. I could go on for hours about this man and how I think he wouldn’t canonically be toxic, but I will stop here. I do hope anyone reading this enjoys the writing, and I’m very open to other opinions if you want to throw them out.

#bnha #mha #shie hassaikai #shie hassaikai x reader #overhaul #overhaul x reader #kai chisaki #chisaki kai #kai chisaki x reader #mha x reader

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𝓐𝓷𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓪 𝓡𝓸𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓿

𝓑𝓲𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓘𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷

Name: Anastasie

Actual Name: Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ; Anastasia Romanov

Nicknames: Ana

Gender: Female

Birthday: 18 June

Star Sign: Gemini ; Ox

Height: 157 cm

Weight: 50 kg

Eye Colour: Bright blue

Hair Colour: Strawberry blonde

Homeland: Russia

Family: ??

Vampiric Type: Pureblooded Vampire

Quote: “There have always been lines separating me from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.”

𝓕𝓾𝓷 𝓕𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓼

Dominant hand: Right

Favourite Colours: White, silver, gold, pink

Favourite Food: Honey milk tea, anything Sebastian makes, fresh cream, desserts

Least Favourite Food: Anything too bitter

Likes: Animals (Vic especially), cafe-hopping, cold weather, snow, stuffed animals, dolls, being spoiled by Comte, long baths

Dislikes: Loud sounds, guns, knives, violence in general, studying, being cooped up in the house, nightmares

Hobbies: Collecting hair ribbons, sewing clothes for her dolls, knitting, going for long walks, riding, comparing sweets from different cafes and restaurants, star gazing, cloud watching, watching sunrises

Special Skills: Climbing trees, jumping onto rooftops to travel across Paris, dancing

Love Interest: Undecided

𝓟𝓱𝔂𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼

Style: Her casual style is fairly fancy and feminine, with muted or dark tones. She is particularly fond of wearing modest, gothic style outfits, with frills and ruffles and ribbons. She has shown a fondness for white dresses, and most of her wardrobe consists of them. She wears either ballet flats on her feet or low-heeled Mary Janes. During colder weather, she tends to wear furs and coats.

Accessories: A pearl necklace hangs from her neck.

Hair: Her hair is strawberry blonde and falls in soft ringlets to her waist. Her bangs just reach her eyes, and parts of her hair are pulled back in braids, away from her face and secured with a hair ribbon at the back.

Makeup: None.

Body type: Slim and slender as a willow. Small hips, breasts, and thighs. Unnaturally graceful.

𝓥𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓼

Songs to describe her: Once Upon a December by Liz Callaway ; Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift ; Stay Alive by Rie Takahashi

Voice actress: Horie Yui ( specifically, her role as Kushina Anna in K Project )

𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓪

Personality: The youngest member of the mansion, Ana is an introvert by nature and can come off as being shy and closed off to those unfamiliar with her. Compared to the louder and more eccentric members of the mansion, Ana is conscientious, polite, and quiet, behaving with perfect manners most of the time. She can have a sharp tongue as well, murmuring pointed insults under her breath with a perfectly straight face; of course, in a house full of vampires, her comments do not go unheard. There is a kind side to her as well; Ana is observant and can tell if one of the residents is having a particularly bad day, in which Ana will bring them their favourite food to make them smile again. She blushes easily and stammers when she is complimented.

She is surprisingly insecure about her lack of memory, which troubles her immensely, especially since she cannot remember anything in her past, only vague impressions and fleeting sensations that leave her with a sense of unease, and also, a lingering sadness that haunts her.

Surprisingly, she has a sharp streak of mischief and is prone to causing havoc in the mansion when the mood strikes her; most of the time her pranks are pinned on someone else, much to her delight at having managed to evade punishment. She is also quick to agree when other residents ask her to help in their schemes.

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Strengths: Independent, kind, straightforward, observant, calm, self-controlled, thoughtful, brave

Flaws: Mischievous, seemingly indifferent, non-violent, solemn, rebellious

𝓟𝓪𝓼𝓽

Anastasia Romanov hails from Russia and is the youngest daughter of the Romanov family, a family of pureblooded vampires who once ruled over humans. When the humans rose up against them in rebellion, the family was forced to flee from their castle. In the chaos and confusion, Anastasia was separated from her family and was supposedly shot and bayonetted to her death by the angry mob. However, she would awaken once again, only to find herself staring up into Comte’s golden eyes, and herself void of all her memories. Comte would later bring her to his mansion, where she would spend her days in the company of other famous men in history. However, she still cannot remember any of her past and believes that she was turned by Comte into a lesser vampire, and Comte has not corrected her.

𝓡𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹𝓼

Comte de Saint-Germain: Comte was the one who found and saved her; Ana was reportedly found by him, bloodied and dazed and refusing to speak for days. As Ana puts it, “The only face I can remember from my past is his.” The normally impassive Ana adores him, visibly brightening up in his presence, and their relationship is similar to one of father and daughter. Comte is equally guilty of spoiling her, bringing her along on his trips and taking her for outings whenever he is free. He has also kept her largely sheltered from her past.

Leonardo Da Vinci: She feels a certain kinship and connectedness to him; this is due in part to both their statuses as pureblooded-vampires. If not found with Comte, Ana can most likely be found with him. Ana likes him almost as much as she loves Comte, and is even willing to climb trees to pluck apples for him to eat.

𝓣𝓻𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓪

She hates doing schoolwork and has climbed trees to avoid her tutor, Isaac. Ana has also reportedly tried to bribe him with apples and Comte’s money so that he’ll raise her grades or let her off the hook for the day.

In terms of speed, she’s the fastest vampire at the mansion.

She can do her own chores and tries to help Sebastian with his work.

Ana has tried making clothes for Vic and King, and has the two dogs model her clothing when she feels bored.

She sometimes calls Vic “Jimmy” by accident, but has no idea why.

Lately, she’s been having trouble sleeping as bad dreams keep her awake.

Like Comte, she can also be protective of the residents in the mansion.

#ikemen vampire oc #ikevamp oc #ikevamp ocs #ikemen vampire ocs #cybird ikemen oc #cybird ikemen ocs #ikevamp #ikemen vampire #GUESS WHO MADE ANOTHER OC #ITS ME

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satoshi-mochida · 3 years

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Bandai Namco has released new information and screenshots for “Brain Punk” action RPG Scarlet Nexus introducing the game’s world, dual protagonists, and characters Arashi Spring, Shiden Ritter, Kyoka Eden, Kagero Donne, Naomi Randall, and Cullen Travers.

Get the details below.

■ World

Long ago, deranged mutants known as “Others” began to descend from the sky with a hunger for human brains. Humanity had no choice but to lead an enclosed life on the earth’s surface, but thanks to highly developed science and technology based on “psionics,” extra-sensory abilities that everyone has by nature, all things in world were connected by a large-scale network.

In this world where brain science has developed beyond convention, an army to oppose the Others known as the “Others Suppression Force” (OSF) was formed in New Himuka.

The OSF is an army of soldiers that possess exceptionally powerful abilities called “powers,” and are the only ones with the strength to annihilate the Others.

For the people, the members of the OSF are heroes, stars, and role models. This era was long-lasting, and the Others are now perceived as a natural phenomenon in the vein of thunderstorms and typhoons in that battles against the Others are an unfortunate occurrence that exist as an extension of everyday life.

The OSF will be joined by new recruits against this year. They, too, are forced to fight on the frontlines of the never-ending battle between humanity and the Others.

Experience a deep story of human connection from Bandai Namco Studios and the developers behind the Tales of series.

—New Himuka: A near-future world developed by psionics.

—The story of superpowered humans with particularly outstanding strength.

The Others

A threat to humanity that has existed since ancient times. Deranged mutants that descended from the sky with a hunger for human brains.

Others Suppression Force

A group of humans with powers formed to protect the people from the Others.

Their standout features are red cables and hoods. They are known as the “Scarlet Guardians.”

■ Dual Protagonists

Scarlet Nexus has two protagonists: Yuito Sumeragi, whose life was saved by a member of the OSF at a young age; and Kasane Randall, an elite scouted by the OSF who was always at the top of her class in training school. A dramatic story await players from the perspectives of two protagonists who have joined the OSF as new recruits.

Players will start the game by choosing one of the two protagonists. Which protagonist you choose is up to you. By playing as both protagonists, previously unseen truths behind certain events will come to light, such as conflicts between OSF soldiers and the “Red Strings” that hold the key to the story. The fate of the world is at hand.

■ Characters

Arashi Spring (voiced by Yui Horie)

“Being able to selfishly slack off whenever I want is something a grownup gets to do.”

Power: Hypervelocity

Service Record in the OSF: 29 Years

As the face of the OSF, she works as public relations and has enthusiastic fans of all ages and genders, but the hard working, cheerful, and sweet girl she plays on screen is only a persona for the camera. In truth, she is a sloth who is more enthusiastic about playing slacking off than she is working. Some of her teammates even tease her with the nickname “Lazy Ara” since as soon as the cameras go off, she loosens up and slacks off.

However, her true abilities are rumored to be on par with those of the “Septentrion,” and she is a also a gifted engineer. If she is motivated enough, her calmness and brilliant mind are extremely reliable assets. She is also the older sister of Fubuki Spring, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the OSF Arm. While she may seem younger than Fubuki at first glance due to the effects of anti-aging drugs, she is in fact the older one.

Shiden Ritter (voiced by Kengo Kawanishi)

“I don’t plan on being your friend.”

Power: Electrokinesis

Service Record in the OSF: 14 Years

A twisted and cruel OSF soldier with a sharp tongue. His high sense of pride, slight negativity, and highly strict nature tend to cause problems for his teammates. He did not get along with the commanding officer of his previous platoon and was reassigned to a new platoon where he teamed up Kasane. His ability in combat, however, is outstanding, and his results on the battlefield make up for his bad attitude.

He does not shy away from complimenting those stronger than himself, and both admires and longs to become as strong as the seven members of the “Septentrion.” Above all, he has particular respect for Seto Narukami, who possesses the same “Electrokinesis” power as him.

Kyoka Eden (voiced by Yumi Hara)

“We can’t just abandon people who need our help. Let’s do what we can.”

Power: Duplication

Service Record in the OSF: 29 Years

As an OSF member gifted with beauty and brains, Kyoka’s name is widely known. While she has many fans both inside and outside of the force, she herself does not seem very interested in her appearance. She is great at looking after her units and often oversees platoons as a result. She usually has a kind and gentle air about her, but becomes an entirely different and dauntless person in battle.

She considers the members of her unit to be like family, and shows a strong motherly side in that she is devoted to her comrades and subordinates to the point of nosiness. She loves things like jinxes, good-luck charms, and fortune-telling, and cannot help but try out each new one she discovers. She and Arashi graduated in the same class and know each other very well.

Kagero Donne (voiced by Daisuke Namikawa)

“Man, my invisibility power really saved the day!”

Power: Invisibility

Service Record in the OSF: 12 Years

A sociable, somewhat frivolous young man. He was scouted by the OSF after becoming an adult, which is much later than usual, and is commonly referred to as the “adult enlistment.” With his handsome appearance and silver tongue, he can get along with anyone and get himself out of any situation. According to himself, he is especially popular with women. The mood maker of the party, he is calm in a pinch and jokes around even in the direst times, but never seems faltered. He is an immigrant from Togetsu, a priest of their faith. However, he does not appear interested in their teachings anymore. His past is the only aspect of his life that he is secretive about.

Naomi Randall (voiced by Asuka Nishi)

“Kasane is the type of person who is easily misunderstood, so I would worry if I’m not by her side.”

Power: Precognition

Kasane’s kind and somewhat reserved adoptive older sister. As the eldest daughter of the wealthy Randall family, she grew up comfortably as a princess doted on by her parents. However, she is selfless, treats everyone equally, and possesses the integrity and strength to side with the weak and crush the strong. Although she is the same age as Kasane, she treats the adopted Kasane like a younger sister. She loves Kasane like a real sister and shows her affection from the bottom of her heart. She supports Kasane often, who tends to clash with others.

Cullen Travers (voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama)

“Don’t waste my time.”

Power: ???

The commander of the 2nd Regiment of the OSF Army, and the order of the 1st class of the “Septentrion.” Even among the OSF’s most remarkable, his abilities are particularly outstanding. Since he is untalkative, self-confident, and does not mince words, he is sometimes described as arrogant. However, his overwhelming charisma and strength are irresistible assets that many members of the OSF admire.

As Luka’s older brother, they have lived together as siblings without other relatives. He is also childhood friends with Fubuki, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the OSF Army, with whom he graduated in the same class. Together, the two are known as the matchless duo of the OSF.

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