#i feel bad for saying it but I guess I really just don’t like Harumi as much
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Okay here’s another controversial “Green family take” tell me if I’m wrong.
“People who hate Harumi and Lloyd family dynamic ignore that Lloyd and Morro also shouldn’t have a family dynamic, when Morro did the exact same thing”
Because besties I agree I honestly think green cousins doesn’t make much sense either since yknow Morro and the whole possession thing, but at the same time if you look at canon, they just aren’t the same thing and yknow I need people to actually stop looking at Harumi as the girl version of Morro and the only reason we hate her is because she’s a girl.
Because she’s not.
Like yes I agree there’s definitely a lot of bias towards Morro, if he was woman he would be demonised to hell and back but since he’s man then he is adored, and vice versa with Harumi and sexism fucking sucks.
But Harumi and Morro are different guys. Harumi is portrayed as worse in canon in Lloyd’s eyes. Yeah Lloyd got possessed by Morro and that’s obviously bad tm but other than what people assume possession entails, Lloyd was never as shaken as he was with Harumi.
In s5, we never saw Lloyd be conflicted about the possession thing. He had no fear of Morro. We have no reason to believe that a ghost possession feels worse than being a sleep and maybe having a vague awareness of what’s going on. He barely mentions Morro after s5. And I will say I think this is a writing flaw, obviously it would’ve been cooler if Morro actually had some kind of impact on the ninja, but regardless this is the canon. Lloyd hates Morro but he’s not traumatised yknow. It’s not to the point that Harumi got to.
I feel like getting possessed should be worse than getting lied to, but Harumi did on top of it, start a cult in his name, Kill actual Characters (the royal family and Hutchins) and then kidnap Lloyd and his mother and his uncle and then resurrect his father removing vital parts of his father’s mind/personality/emotional cognitive abilities etc. on top of that she also nearly killed the ninja and wu (which Lloyd believed she did).
Somehow she was much more dangerous than Morro was, she was a much more successful villain.
Additionally I would say Morro has more of an excuse to be seen as family, even if I I’m less of a green cousins fan. Because Morro and Wu actually have a father son relationship, in which Wu was actually responsible over Morro. They had a normal albeit imperfect dynamic before Morro left. Regardless of Lloyd and Morro’s interactions, that dynamic was still present even in the very end.
It doesn’t mean and Lloyd and Morro have to be buddies, just because there’s a family connection doesn’t mean shit (this is the show of found family have we learned nothing? Blood connections don’t matter, only friendship).
But like in comparison to Harumi and Garmadon’s absolute parody of a relationship, where Harumi turns to the man who doesn’t remember what love is and asks him to be her father (at this point neither of them know what “father” even means), Morro does have a family dynamic and Harumi does not.
So in response to the original quote, Morro has a much more solid claim to any kind of family dynamic bc his relation to Wu is much more family esq, and also he was bad yeah, but the show portrays Harumi as worse especially in Lloyd’s opinion.
I just don’t like the argument that Morro and Harumi have done the same things, when the severity is definitely different imo and they aren’t just copies of each other. Imo it’s an oversimplification to reduce their characters down to each other.
#u heard it here first#spicy is not the biggest fan of green cousins or Garmadon siblings#sorry#if ppl make good content for it then I’ll let it slide but generally not a fan#i feel bad for saying it but I guess I really just don’t like Harumi as much#i feel like whenever people talk about Harumi it’s always ‘oh you hate her cuz ur sexist’#no I hate her because I don’t like how she’s written or how her character is established#like Ik some people like her backstory but I just don’t#it just feels like the writers went ‘let’s blame the characters for no reason’#and I’m just so sick of the evil love interest trope I hate it so much and that is what Harumi is on s8#because it’s happened 3 times now#THREE#PIXAL SKYLOR HARUMI#It’s that mindset of women are evil they’ll seduce you with their crimes against human nature#okay that tag is gonna sound very appealing to the gays on here but like in the context of the show it’s just demonising women#like take out the romance aspect and fix Harumi’s backstory and maybe I’d like her more#i will say Morro is badly written also he does nothing interesting really other than his backstory#i like what he means about wu but like they do not even explore that dynamic much in the show#he’s like an unopened present#his set up is so good but they don’t do shit with it#idk idk#obviously all my opinions#ninjago
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Redemption: Harumi’s Only Option For Character Growth.
HIIIIII
What am I doing here? Writing a rant/ essay/ crazy vomit pile of words and half-thought ideas? I don’t know, can you please tell me?
Yeah, probably shouldn’t have written this while I’m drunk on sleep-deprivation and procession of the most recent episode.
Oh boy, that was fun. Yeah, don’t keep that episode in mind when reading this (if you do) It’s not really connected to the most recent episode, more just my jumbled thoughts after the last episode before hiatus was rotting in my brain.
Also, subtitles probably won’t do my understanding of it justice anyways.
For future reference, this was written before the last 22 episode of this season came out, and it’s just my thoughts as far as Harumi and the way this season has handled her return so far (with only the understanding of episodes 1-12 of crystallized, thank you for your time.)
My only criticism for Harumi’s return this season is the probable inevitable repetition in her character arc.
Harumi is my favorite character in this whole fucking series. There, you have it. Ninjago’s full potential in characterization was crafted to her and the entirety of season 8. She’s manipulative, flawed, emotional, conniving, and driven. Her character arc was amazing, ended amazing, and her lasting effects were present in seasons following her death. Utterly perfect. Do I take criticisms? No.
Here’s the thing, despite how much I loved her and season 8, there’s no way I’d ever want Harumi back. Crystallized didn’t get the memo.
Honestly, my biggest concern for her return is the fact that they really did everything for her character. She was a love interest, a character on the good side. The villain-twist really brought the edge to season 8. Her last-minute redemption was utterly amazing, and really brought her character full-circle. Say what you will about season 8, but I loved every minute of it.
So, Harumi survived the building collapse? Good for her, I guess.
Here’s the thing, there’s nothing left but redemption.
If they were going to bring Harumi back, the last thing I’d expect is for her to return to the villain role. If her last minute before death told us anything, it was that she saw error in her ways, and perhaps even felt regret. She’d been at that point where she’s lost control of her pursuits, and now others are suffering because of it. It’s already been proven that she’s willing to break a cycle, see last two minutes before death.
Yet here she is, second-in-command to the epitome of darkness to torture green boi.
It’s not surprising, but it feels overused. Remember when Garmadon was brought back in season 8 as big bad boi? Some were concerned that the writers were reusing Garmadon’s character arc. Is that what happened, though? Personally, I thought it was wonderfully done. (Are you surprised? I mean, it’s not like I haven’t been ranting so much about how much I love season 8 what are you talking about-) I thought that this reincarnation of sort was tastefully done, and even better than previous incarnations of the whole “villian-Garmadon” fiasco.
I don’t feel the same way about Harumi’s return, especially if she’s just brought as the villain. I know this isn’t explained very well, especially as I’m comparing her to Garmadon of all people, but there’s a difference, I swear. For one, Garmadon’s state of mind during his season 8 comeback was in tune with the plot. It was established early-on that this would not be the same Garmadon we had seen in the past, and frankly, this Frankenstein-of-sorts was definitely something cohesive to the plot. With Harumi in Crystallized, it’s really hard not to feel as if she was just shoved in there for shock value.
So yeah, I really feel like there’s a big difference here.
So here’s the cinch, I think that bringing her back into this form as a villain really undermines the last-minute redemption that brought her character full-circle in the first place. Say that Harumi undergoes this kind of redemption in this season? I might think differently about it.
We have what? 22 more episodes to go? I’ve heard that this season’s a doozy, (but aren’t they all?)
Truthfully, and albeit cynical as I may be, I wouldn’t put my trust in the writers to cover this kind of characterization. (Or Lloyd’s trauma *cough cough*) While I was disappointed, I wasn’t surprised to see Harumi in this state again.
All I can hope for is a return to redemption for her.
What will probably come for her: Death / permanent punishment for her actions.
SCREECH.
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Ramblings and crazy theory time about GK chap 275 “Tokyo Love Story”
So we’ve a new chapter and I’ve discovered…
Yeah, the fake Yuusaku theory turned out right and wrong at the same time as we’ve someone posing as Yuusaku… but it’s definitely not how I was expecting things to be.
But whatever, let’s start.
We’re in Kanagawa, in 1901. The scene is placed after the one in chap 35, when Toraji and Sugimoto fight the night of Toraji’s marriage, because Toraji is afraid Sugimoto came back to snatch Umeko away from him.
Since Sugimoto’s father died in 1899 according to the official timeline, this confirms Sugimoto waited 2 years before coming back to his village.
Evidently the two have calmed down because they aren’t fighting anymore and Toraji is asking Sugimoto where will he do now. Sugimoto informs him his father told him to search for a place he can be happy. You might not remember this bit being included in chap 236 because it was a volume addition.
Sugimoto says he wants to go to Tokyo, since up until now he was in places with few people, which makes sense since he feared he was infected with tuberculosis.
In the Q&A section from the Golden Kamuy fan book it was said:
Q8: What did Sugimoto do in the 2 years between leaving the village after burning his house and coming back to Ume’s wedding?
Noda: He travelled to places such as Tokyo and Kyoto. [translation here]
But it’s likely Noda means Sugimoto didn’t stay in the big cities, but in the areas around them.
So okay, we move to Tokyo and after getting a glimpse of Sugimoto moving overly excited through the city playing ‘singing in the rain’...
...we see him being involved in a fight with more than 10 candidate officers.
Kikuta is called in to stop the fight. Evidently they forced him to interrupt his meal as he is still holding chopsticks and a bowl of rice.
We learn from the info box that Kikuta, full name Kikuta Mokutarou, was at the time a Sergeant in the 1st division (which tells us in his future he was promoted and transferred in another division, the 7th in fact in 1902 he’s working for Tsurumi during the Koito kidnapping), in charge of instructing and providing guidance to the officer candidate students enrolled at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy.
He’s also keeping his hair short and there’s no facial hair on his face, giving him a much more proper appearance than the one he’ll have later on, although he keeps his uniform unbuttoned, which is less proper.
As Kikuta tells at the rather bruised officer candidate students to stop fighting as it’s disgraceful for them, they protest they can’t let Sugimoto go as he’s dangerous while Sugimoto, completely restrained by their weight, seems to bark and growl like a wild dog. Kikuta offers him his bowl of rice and this gets Sugimoto to calm down as he starts eating the rice.
LOL, Noda couldn’t have made more obvious with this scene that Ogata and Sugimoto fight like cat and dog because THEY ARE A STRAY CAT AND A STRAY DOG.
Kikuta comments that by how it took such a huge number of students to stop him, he expected Sugimoto to be some sort of monster… but now he thinks Sugi can be of some use for him, so he tells the students he’ll take him and tells Sugimoto to follow him as he’ll get him something to eat.
As they eat Sugimoto confesses he got into the fight because the students glared at him, revealing quite a horrible temper. Kikuta points out how his was a stupid reason to start a fight, asking him if he’s a STRAY DOG (ノラ犬 ‘nora inu’). This leads him to nickname Sugimoto “vagrant boy" (ノラ坊 ‘nora bou’), warning him Sugimoto was lucky Kikuta got in between the fight, because otherwise, if the students had managed to take him away, Sugimoto would have been in deep troubles.
As Sugimoto asks why he’s called in such a way, Kikuta explains it’s due to the norabou vegetables that grow in his area. Kikuta then proceeds to explain that there’s an officer candidate in the army named Hanazawa Yuusaku, son of the commander of the 7th division.
Kikuta wants Sugimoto to take his place. So okay, it’s a chapter in which we’ve a fake Yuusaku… only he’s not the one I was expecting.
Kikuta then proceeds to explain how Hanazawa ‘I’m the worst father of the century’ Koujirou, wants his son to become the regimental flag bearer because whoever cares about the high death rate of flag bearer when he can gain more honour through Yuusaku?
Yuusaku’s mom, Hanazawa Hiro, from whom Yuusaku got his nose and, probably, his eyes, doesn’t like the idea of her son being used as cannon fodder for her husband’s glory,
but know better than to say it out loud and also know it would be a crime to murder her husband so she did the next best thing, she plotted against him, secretly contacting a “marriage agency” in Tokyo so as to find a girl desperate enough to get a husband she would be willing to steal Yuusaku’s virginity (you might remember virginity is a fundamental requisite for a flag bearer), Kaneko Kaeko, daughter of an executive in the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu.
If the name Mitsubishi feels familiar to you yet it doesn’t make you think of a car, it’s probably because we already had to deal with someone from the Mitsubishi in the Igogusa/Harumi Chiyo story.
In GK it seems people from Mitsubishi are always desperate to get married... it makes you wonder if Tsurumi had a hand in this mess as well or it’s just a coincidence...
Sugimoto, who’s poor, doesn’t get why a rich girl would be desperate to find a man, so Kikuta explains him her potential partners wouldn’t care about her being rich as they’re rich as well.
Overall Sugimoto ends up on showing again how he’s not very good at placing himself in the shoes of people of upper classes.
Turns out though Hanazawa figured out how his wife his plotting behind his back and tried to plot behind her back as well, asking the help of the commander of the 1st division, whom he trusts, who passed the job to Kikuta (I guess Kikuta might still be loyal to his former commander, which might be he’s okay with plotting against Tsurumi... or was he sent there specifically to do so? We’ll see...).
Anyway Sugimoto, who’s so NOT FAMOUS for sitting around a table and having a honest discussion with people, asks why they didn’t just do that. Really, Sugimoto, if you know talking can solve problems why don’t you try implementing it?
Kikuta replies the things had gotten too far and they’re afraid this could cause an incident that will affect the morale of the division, and, more importantly, could put Hanazawa’s wife patriotism into discussion and this would SURELY reflect bad on Hanazawa who was already willing to sacrifice his son on the altar of his own honour.
To all those who’re reading my meta for the first time, in case you’re wondering no, I don’t like Hanazawa. Not one single bit. Sorry for being biased against him.
Anyway Sugimoto gets a haircut and then Kikuta has him wear an uniform with some stars on the collar so as to make him look like a candidate officer.
Sugimoto wonders why Kikuta picked him and isn’t just using another candidate officer. I don’t know if this is relevant but Kikuta seems thoughtfull when Sugimoto says so, his hat slightly shadowing his face.
Hopefully this doesn’t mean this deception is going to put Sugimoto in serious troubles.
He then explains Sugimoto if they were to use someone from the army they would risk bad rumours about the Hanazawa to spread around.
Kikuta then comments that Sugimoto, wearing the full uniform, looks good as there’s a touch of elegance on his face that can help him impersonate Hanazawa Yuusaku, son of a high-class general. I wonder if this is meant to foreshadow Sugimoto is actually more than the commoner we believe him to be or if it’s just another way to inform us Sugimoto is good looking, in case we’ve missed it.
Sugimoto wonders if, by joining the army, he wouldn’t have to worry about food anymore and I facepalm here because really, if this is what pushed him to join, he really made a poor decision, but his expression as he talks makes me wonder if he’s just being so very naive I kind of feel bad for him... did he really have no idea what joining the army could include?
His words cause Kikuta to remember his younger brother, apparently sick, telling him to take the army cap back with him.
I guess Kikuta is kind of adopting all those young men, Ariko, Sugimoto, maybe even Nikaidou and Ogata, because he lost his younger brother.
It’s interesting how Noda shadows his face here...
Anyway Kikuta proceeds to educate Sugimoto, as he’ll have to be capable to eat great food at a fancy restaurant. So, once Kikuta thinks Sugimoto is ready as he mastered enough good table manners, a nervous Sugimoto can take part to the marriage interview… where Kikuta discovers with horror they served western cuisine… with Sugimoto being completely ignorant about western etiquette and trying to eat the shrimps using two forks… and Kikuta, who’s pecking through the window while being seated on a tree, panics, thinking he’ll be discovered immediately.
Well, that’s all for this chapter.
It was undoubtedly a fun flashback chapter that reveals that the fake Yuusaku theory wasn’t completely baseless… but definitely not what I expected it to turn out as I would have never guessed Sugimoto impersonated Yuusaku.
On another note this give me additional fun when I think at this scene.
Sugimoto should have been thinking at the time he played the high ranking officer, here... though I guess the idea is that Kaeko didn’t immediately recognize him because she’s not in the army? Didn’t they gave her a photo of Yuusaku? Sugimoto’s nose and probably his eyebrows too are different.
We’ll see.
I don’t dare to think Kaneko is also a fake sent, this time, by Tsurumi, to steal Yuusaku’s virginity because Tsurumi doesn’t want Yuusaku among them.
This would just be too crazy.
On more serious topics we can assume now that Kikuta saying Sugimoto to forget about Yuusaku in the previous chapter is due to the interview failing and Yuusaku now being forced to become a flag bearer, high mortality rate and all and the whole fake Yuusaku thing having to remain a secret between the two of them so likely Sugimoto doesn’t know anything dark about Yuusaku… beyond the fact his father wanted to use him as cannon fodder to increase his own prestige but whatever, I hardly think someone could have missed it.
I find rather fun how Noda isn’t really fond of drawing Hanazawa, he’s just using the same image of him over and over… and how instead he had no problems showing us Yuusaku’s mom, name and all, but we still have to see Yuusaku’s face. Really, I can’t wait for the big reveal.
Oh well, we can only wait and see.
#Golden Kamuy#Sugimoto Saichi#Kikuta Mokutarou#Hanazawa Yuusaku#Hanazawa Koujirou#Hanazawa Hiro#Kaneko Kaeko#Golden Kamuy Ramblings and Theories#Kenmochi Toraji
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Random thought but when I was rewatching season 6, I just realized that it actually shows that Lloyd knows how to pick locks. When they were arrested he breaks them out of the hole by picking his lock with a fork. So have this oneshot...
Picking Locks
They think they can make fun of him, he is Lloyd Garmadon for heaven's sake. He is so fed up with them not calling him evil. So if everyone says he not evil well hes gonna show them how wrong they are.
He needs a plan something big. Pranks won't work thats to basic. He could try get good grades, if he got good grades then it shows how good he is at being bad. Yeh thats the plan, soon everyone is going to regret being mean to him.
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"Okay class today, you're going to be picking locks, as you can see you each have a standard lock on your desk. The instructions are on the board, you have ten minuits. If you fail to unlock it in the time given you will be punished. You may start."
Okay Lloyd c'mon you can do this. It's simple all the instructions are on the board. He can't fail at this, because if he fails, he'll be punished and those punishments hurt. Okay if he jigles it this way he should feel a light click. Ughh why can't he feel a click. All he needs to do is push the pins on the inside of lock up and put a little bit of pressure on it with the paper clip and it will unlock, simple. Although it's not simple, its hard.
"One minuit left" the teacher anounced. Only a handful of people had theirs done.
Wait he nearly has it just click there...
"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,"
Click, he's done! With 5 seconds to spare. He can't believe it! He thought for sure he was going to fail.
"1, Locks down everyone if I see a single hand on thier lock i swear... Anyways the people who didn't finish will meet me here after school for their punishment and trust me I know who didn't get there's finished. Okay now leave you little brats before I make you."
Everyone packed up there things and started leaving when the teacher came over to Lloyd.
"Cutting it close there Garmadon. This is the first time i've ever seen you succed at anything you worthless brat. Keep this work up and you might make it."
"Yes Mrs"
And with that Lloyd took off to his next class.
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"All you need to do is kill it!" His teacher next to him told him with frustration over Lloyd's hesitance, in his voice.
In Lloyd's hand was a little mouse, it was a very small one, with white fur and big adorable eyes that seem to be staring into his soul, begging him to let it live. It was like it was mocking him. He needed to kill it for him to pass this class. Lloyd so desparetly wanted to kill it so he could prove to everyone that he was evil like his father. So far he was acctually doing good at his classes, but when it came to hurting anyone or in this case anything, he just couldn't.
A small part of him, that he has tried to burry for so long, kept coming up and it would remind him that everything about this place is wrong. It almost buzzed like it was alive, but that was just his imagination.
He just couldn't get rid off it the only time the buzzing stop was when he did something good but he couldn't do good because he was born to be evil.
"Hurry up"
Lloyd was to scared to speak back so he started to squeze his hands shut. The little mouse let out a sqeek when he started to squeze harder, It looked up at him with big eyes and Lloyd finally broke, dropping the mouse.
"I- i" Lloyd felt like his throat was closing up the more he tried to speak.
"Save it, your a disappointment to the Garmadon name, we noticed the way you care for others but we had hope to snuff the light out of you."
"B-but I do g-good in my other c-classes."
"That is true but for all of your other classes to matter you need to be cold hearted or else you won't survive in this world"
"Y-yes sir"
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Those memories feel like ages ago or like they happened in another life. After he was kicked out he spent a good time on the streets then he met the ninja and his life changed for the better. But now he was in jail because the stupid djinn framed them. He is so sick of being in jail, Wait!He can just grab a fork from the cafeteria and pick the locks, ughhh he so stupid, he could off done this alot sooner.
Well he got the fork but now there in this thing called the hole, oh well they're getting out of here either way.
After they broke out he really forgot that he didn't tell anyone he knew how to pick locks. So obviously that was a convorsation starter with his big sis, while the other were talking to Captin Soto.
"Lloyd you never told me that you could pick locks." Nya exclaimed.
"Well yeah I guess it never really came up" Lloyd shrugged
"When did you learn to pick locks, thats not something any of us taught you"
"Well I did go to a school where they taught you how to be evil, I learned alot of other things too, but I don't think any off them really go with the whole 'saviour of ninjago' thing" laughed Lloyd
"Yeh I suppose so".
Nya remebered reading Lloyd's file from darkly's with the other ninja. It said that he was a good student, but got kicked out because he was to good and kind. In there words 'he did not have the moral ambition to be one of tomorrows master minds' or thats what Lloyd told them anyways.
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Its been a few days since his father had taken over ninjago and to be honest he wasn't faring well. Not like ninjago was doing any better with buildings collapsing, people getting hunted down, people dying and the list goes on and on. He was currently over looking the city from the roof of there hide out.
Just his luck his family was dead, he was being hunted down by his newly resurrected, deranged father, who had put him in a coma and disowned him all in one night, and Harumi his psychotic ex? Were they even together? he really dosn't know. All he knows is he had been too trusting and too good and what had that gotten him? Destiny had set him up to fail before he was even born. He probably has a good few bets resting on him up in cloud kingdom. There was a sound of the rooftop door opening but Lloyd kept starring off into the sky.
"I knew I would find you up here"Nya said softly.
Lloyd didn't reply, he didn't trust himself not to breakdown right there. Altough there wouldn't be much tears. Lloyd thought bitterly, another thing darkly's forced out of him. After what felt like an eternity of silence he spoke.
"You know when I was little I wanted so bad to follow in my Dad's shoes" Lloyd laughed shallowly.
"Lloyd, this man isn't truely your father, your father is the father that loved you and would never even think about hurting you"
"Did I ever tell you why exactly I got kicked out of darkly's?"
"You said something about 'lacking ambition'" Nya recalled
"Well they told me I wasn't cold enough, that I needed to be cold hearted to survive in this world, after I couldn't kill a mouse. I guess they were right, I opened up my heart and now look what thats done." Lloyd motioned at the city.
"Lloyd you're caring, loyal, trusting, a great leader, an amazing baby brother and so many more. Don't let this stop you, I promise we will rise above all this and when that time comes you can laugh at all the people who told you any different."
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a weirdly long event “summary” of the honeypre harumiou event!
this got weirdly long, so here’s a tl;dr: dumb himbo serizawa haruki tries to cook for his cute not-gf aida miou
Chapter 1:
Our protagonist for the first 5 chapters is Serizawa Haruki.
The season is Spring.
During lunch, Haruki and Miou talk about the season of spring, and about how nice it would be to go flower viewing.
Miou asks Haruki to go flower viewing with her.
Haruki: How about next Sunday?
Miou: Sounds great!
Haruki: Nice! I'll invite everyone else too! See ya!! [runs off]
Miou: ... :/
In the classroom, Haruki tells everyone else (Natsuki, Yuu, Mochita) about the flower viewing plans.
Natsuki: :/
Haruki: What’s wrong?
Mochita: ...you haven’t realised it? Aida was asking you to go flower viewing alone with her.
Haruki: ... eeh!?
Yuu: ...from that reaction, you clearly didn’t realise it.
Haruki defends himself, saying that Miou didn’t explicitly mention going alone with him.
Natsuki all but calls him dense and wonders what Miou sees in him.
Natsuki muses that all they talk about is movies.
Haruki says that Miou always looks interested when he talks about movies... then he comes to the realisation that he has yet to listen to Miou talk about her interests.
Natsuki, Mochita and Yuu all look at him like :/ and all but internally pity Miou for her horrible taste in men.
Natsuki: If this carries on, what if Miou gets taken by another boy?
Haruki: Another boy!? What do you mean by that?
Chapter 2:
Natsuki explains her point, saying that Haruki’s insensitivity to Miou’s feelings may result in her falling for another guy instead.
Natsuki returns to the topic of the flower viewing, asking Haruki if he had even considered Miou’s feelings on the matter.
Judging by his resulting expression, the answer is “no”.
He admits as much after thinking it over for a moment.
Haruki: You’re right. I should have considered Miou’s feelings.
[Cue timeskip]
The school day has ended and Haruki is walking home with Miou.
As they walk together, Natsuki’s words (regarding the consideration of Miou’s feelings) keep revolving around in his mind.
Haruki ponders so hard about Natsuki’s words to the point that Miou gets concerned about the troubled expression on his face.
Haruki: It’s nothing!
Miou: If it’s really nothing, it’s fine but...
Miou: I’ll be willing to listen to anything that’s troubling you!
Haruki: Miou...
Cue Haruki’s internal monologue, where he praises Miou’s kindness and consideration for his feelings.
Inner Haruki: Miou is always looking out for my feelings, and she is always willing to say kind words to me...
Inner Haruki: On the other hand, I've never really considered Miou’s feelings nor spoken kind words to her.
Inner Haruki: Natsuki was right. If this carries on, Miou will fall for someone else.
Having made up his mind to consider Miou’s feelings, Haruki makes a suggestion to Miou.
Haruki: Hey Miou, for next Sunday’s flower viewing... why don’t we go, just the two of us?
Miou: Eh? Just the two of us?
Haruki: Yup. Just us two.
Miou: ...yes. I’ll go!
Haruki breathes a sigh of relief.
Haruki then asks if Miou wants him to do anything special for the “event”.
Miou can’t come up with anything, so Haruki asks what she wants the most as of that moment.
Miou: Hmm... I want to eat delicious food.
Cue Haruki deciding to cook food for her for their “date”.
Haruki then apologises to Miou before running off to make preparations for his upcoming cooking exploits, leaving a confused Miou behind in his wake.
Chapter 3:
The next day, Haruki calls Yuu and Mochita out.
Haruki: I need your help to make this mission a success!
Mochita: What is this mission, anyway?
Haruki: Take a look around the room we’re in for a clue.
Mochita: We’re in the Home Ec. room..
Yuu: I haven’t got a clue as to what’s going on.
Yuu: Stop talking in circles and just explain your plan already.
Haruki: As I was saying... I want to make a reeeealllyyyy delicious bento for Miou when we go flower viewing together!
Mochita: ...oh. As I suspected.
Yuu: Have you even cooked before?
Haruki: Nope! But if I try my best, it’ll all work out somehow!
Mochita and Yuu: [visible doubt and confusion]
Mochita: I’m worried about this... extremely worried, in fact!
Yuu: Same here.
Haruki: Hey... everyone has to start trying from somewhere, right?
Mochita: That’s true... but it’s difficult to start off with a bento.
Haruki: Really? Well, I brought some ingredients with me!
Haruki places the ingredients he got at the supermarket onto the table.
Mochita considers the ingredients before him and guesses that Haruki intends on making karaage.
Haruki affirms Mochita’s guess, saying “It’s a staple component of bentos, right?”
Haruki: Well, let’s get cooking! [starts cooking]
...only to be immediately stopped by Yuu for trying to put the (unseasoned) chicken into the oil as-is.
Mochita begs Haruki not to rush through the cooking process.
Haruki: I’m making karaage, right? So what's wrong with putting the chicken into the oil? Why are you guys stopping me?
Mochita: ...he’s hopeless.
Yuu: Okay, Haruki. What's on the karaage you always eat? Think carefully.
Haruki: Eh? Um... lemon?
Yuu: ...let’s leave, Mochita.
Mochita: Yeah.
Haruki: Oi! Guys, wait! Just what’s on the karaage?
Yuu: [sighs] It’s coating. In other words, you have to coat the chicken in batter.
Haruki: Oh! If you say so, it must be true!
Yuu: Saying something like that... you’re really...
Mochita suggests giving up on making Miou a handmade bento (and bringing her a ready-made one instead)
Haruki refuses the suggestion, vocalising the fact that (as Natsuki had said earlier) he had not taken Miou’s feelings as seriously as he should have, and that he was basically being spoiled by Miou.
He finally says that he wants to do his best to make the bento for Miou as a way of doing something for her, despite him being bad at cooking.
This wins Yuu and Mochita over and they agree to help him with his cooking shenanigans.
Chapter 4:
Aided by Yuu and Mochita, Haruki begins his cooking shenanigans.
“Thanks guys! I’ll do my best!” - Serizawa Haruki, moments before disaster.
[a few moments later]
Haruki: What is this…
Yuu: Isn’t it supposed to be karaage? :/
Mochita: Isn’t this too burnt?
The result of Haruki’s first attempt at cooking karaage: basically charcoal.
Haruki: I suck at cooking :(
Yuu and Mochita: You just realised it?
Yuu encourages Haruki anyway, saying “Don’t be too depressed, Haruki. You’ve been so focused on filmmaking, so it’s only natural that you’re bad at something (like cooking).”
Mochita jumps on the encouragement bandwagon, saying “That’s right, Haruki. We’ve only just begun, so keep at it!”
Haruki brightens up at his friends’ words of encouragement and strives to do his best.
[mini transition here]
Yuu: [instructs Haruki on his cooking]
Mochita: It’s rare to see Haruki so focused on something other than his filmmaking.
Haruki: Everyone calls me a “movie idiot” because I’m always thinking about movies… But when I think of Miou, I forget all about movies because my head is filled with thoughts of her.
Yuu and Mochita are mildly stunned/amused by Haruki’s honesty.
Haruki is embarrassed.
Mochita laughs and tells Haruki to carry on with the tamagoyaki.
And so, Yuu and Mochita helped Haruki out until he was finally able to make a decent bento.
[cut to Sunday]
Haruki brings the bento he made to meet Miou at the park.
Haruki: (thinking) The sakura have started to bloom, huh…
Haruki thinks about how he immediately contacted Miou when he saw some info about the blooming sakura on the news the previous day, and about how he woke up extra early to make the bento for the two of them.
Haruki: (thinking) I want Miou to eat the bento soon…
Haruki walks towards the park, holding the bento carefully so that the contents don’t spill.
Suddenly, Natsuki appears.
Natsuki: Where are you going with such a big grin on your face? Wait… is that a bento?
Haruki: T-this is…
Natsuki: That’s right! Your date with Miou is today!
Haruki: I-it’s not a date…!!
Natsuki: Did you make that bento yourself? It can’t be… Making a bento for a girl is so unlike you, Haruki…!
Haruki: Is that a bad thing?
Natsuki: Not at all! This is definitely a good change! Haruki, you’ve always been focused on movies, so it’s definitely alright to focus on something else every once in a while!
And with that, Natsuki leaves with a “Do your best, Haruki! :)”.
Haruki thinks about the “focus on something else every once in a while” part of Natsuki’s words for a bit… and is late for his meeting with Miou.
Chapter 5:
Haruki reaches the park that he arranged to meet Miou at.
Haruki thinks about how amazing the bloomed sakura look.
Haruki spots Miou standing under a tree near the entrance of the park.
Haruki: (thinking) Miou looks beautiful…
While Haruki was thinking, Miou approached him with a wave.
Miou: Haruki, you’re here! Is anything the matter?
Haruki chickens out of calling Miou beautiful, saying “N-no…” in response to her question instead.
Miou notices the large bag that Haruki is carrying and inquires about its contents.
Haruki takes out the bento, saying “I made this for us to eat together.”.
Miou is shocked that Haruki made a bento for them.
Haruki shrugs off Miou’s surprise and urges her to “Hurry and eat the bento!”.
And so, they sit on a bench under the sakura and uncover the bento.
Miou compliments the bento (“Wow…! It looks delicious…!”)
Haruki agrees with her (“Right? I added karaage and tamagoyaki to this!”)
Miou is amazed by Haruki’s karaage.
Haruki responds with an “It was easy!”.
Miou laughs. Haruki asks her what she was laughing at.
Miou says that she saw the small burn marks on Haruki’s fingers. Haruki is displeased that she had noticed it.
Miou laughs and says “Haruki, you’ve really done your best, yeah?”.
Haruki is highkey embarrassed because “It isn’t cool to have difficulty with making a bento…!”.
Miou asks if Haruki made the bento for them because she said that she “wanted to eat delicious food” a few days ago.
Haruki affirms this, saying that he just wanted to make Miou happy because she was always kind to him.
Haruki: But, I can’t ever do anything for you, Miou.
Miou: Haruki…
Haruki: I always talk about movies… Sorry for always being so uncool during times like those.
Miou: No, I'm happy. Thank you.
Haruki: Miou…
Haruki: (thinking) I see… I’ve wanted to see this expression on Miou’s face.
Inner Haruki: This feeling is different from the sense of accomplishment I get when filming goes well in the Movie Research Club… This feeling warms me from the bottom of my heart. I wonder what this feeling is… It only comes up when I’m with Miou…
Miou: Hey, let’s hurry and eat this bento.
Haruki: Y-yeah…!
And so, the two of them began to eat the bento.
Miou: Haruki, that looks delicious.
Haruki: Wanna eat this? [raises food to Miou’s mouth]
Haruki: (thinking) Feeding Miou like this… Just what am I doing?!
Miou: [softly and shyly] Yeah… I wanna eat it.
Haruki: [embarrassed] A-ah, please eat up! There’s plenty of food to go around!
Miou: Okay. So, thank you for the food. [opens mouth]
Haruki feeds Miou a piece of tamagoyaki. Miou smiles.
Miou: This is delicious…! Haruki, this is really delicious…!
Haruki: (thinking) Whoa… This is kinda amazing.
Haruki is surprised by the fact that Miou is eating his handmade bento with such a happy expression.
Inner Haruki: Maybe Natsuki was right. If I can see this expression on Miou’s face, it’s not so bad to turn away (from my movies) every once in a while.
Epilogue:
It’s now in Miou’s pov.
The two of them are still at the flower viewing.
Inner Miou: The bento that Haruki made was a little ugly, but it was delicious.
Miou: Which part of the bento are you most confident about, Haruki?
Haruki: Of course it’s the karaage! There were many failures… not because I didn’t put in the effort or anything!
Miou: I see. :)
Inner Miou: (laughs) Haruki seems to suck at cooking fried foods…
Miou: [eats the karaage]
Food critic Miou: The karaage looks ugly, but its taste is decent.
Miou: Yup! It’s delicious!
Haruki: Really!? [blushing]
Miou: Yup, it’s really delicious.
Haruki: I’m glad…!
Inner Miou: Haruki really did his best, huh…
Miou: You should eat as well, Haruki. It’s delicious.
Haruki: Okay! [enthusiastically eats the karaage]
Inner Miou: He must have skipped his breakfast in order to make this bento.
Miou: [imagines Haruki panicking in the kitchen]
Miou: [laughs]
Haruki: What’s wrong, Miou?
Miou: Nothing!
Miou: Ah. Geez, Haruki, a grain of rice has fallen onto your lap.
Haruki: Ah…! M-my bad!
Miou picks the rice off Haruki’s lap. Haruki is flustered.
Inner Miou: Haruki seems different from usual today… He’s kinda cute like this. :)
Inner Miou: But I can’t say this to him in-person… [getting depressed]
Miou: … anyways, I didn’t know that you were doing things like this in secret. Let’s do it together next time! (probably referring to cooking/bento construction)
Haruki: Yeah! Hey… Miou.
Miou: Yeah?
Haruki: It’s nice to make plans like this, huh.
Miou: … Yeah. [blushing]
Inner Miou: We’d have graduated by this time next year. Will we still be able to spend time together then?
Inner Miou: [mentally shaking off her previous line of thought] For now, I should just enjoy the time I have with Haruki.
Haruki: Miou, want another piece of tamagoyaki?
Miou: Yes! Thank you for the food. [gets fed by Haruki]
The tamagoyaki: CRUNCH
Miou: …
Haruki: What’s wrong?
Miou: There was an egg shell.
Haruki: A-are you okay!?
Miou: Yeah. I’ve already swallowed it.
Haruki: I’m sorry, Miou…!! This happened even though I practised cracking eggs like crazy!
Miou: [laughs] Is that so.
Haruki: [is embarrassed]
Miou: [laughs at the flustered look on Haruki’s face]
#this was supposed to be a crack summary but it got out of hand real quick.#honeyworks#honeyworks premium live#harumiou#serizawa haruki#aida miou#just honeypre things#this was supposed to be a quick summary but then i ended up getting too invested in the film club trio’s interactions...#instant ramen instructions comprehensions#also ya i rebranded myself out of boredom lmaooo
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I am VERY worried for what’s coming, are all Quantum members keeping up with the situation?
So you are Nanami Tenmei, Nanami Harumi, and Ise Misako, I presume?
Yep, that’s us.
It is a pleasure to meet you all. We are quite close with your daughter. My name is Sonia Nevermind.
Oh! It’s a pleasure to meet you too, Princess Sonia! Umm...
I-I’m sorry, are we supposed to bow before you?
That is alright. Please treat me as you would any normal high schooler.
So you’re Chiaki’s parents. How are you all feeling?
Beyond worried. As soon as we heard what was going on and couldn’t get in touch with Chiaki, we came home.
We feel much the same.
Are you all here to speak with Kasugano as well?
“If that is the case, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.”
Whoa!
Gaah!
O-oh...
Kasugano-san, I understand these are difficult times for you, but thank you very for agreeing to meet with us.
“There are over a hundred innocent people on that island that need saving, and the forces that conspire against me mustn’t be allowed to impede my work. However, I will not hold the people of Japan accountable. They do not yet understand the truth.”
Do you know if Nanami Chiaki or Misako-san’s daughter are okay? Anything, please.
(He knows about Ise?)
“I cannot tell you exactly what’s happening to them, but I can assure you that, yes, they are still alive.”
Oh, thank god.
You’re planning a rescue mission, right? Then, I’m asking you...please let us help.
*She starts loudly cracking her knuckles*
Whoever took my baby girl and the others is gonna be walking funny after I’m done with ‘em.
Wh-Whoa, Harumi calm down.
Nice to see that side of you hasn’t changed.
“Before I can permit such an action, I must ask you all for some information in exchange. Specifically from you, Nanami Tenmei”
M-Me?
“Have you remained entirely faithful to your wife?”
Yeah? Of course I have.
I love Harumi just as much as I do the day I asked her to marry me.
“Then I will ask this, and I request that you answer honestly: if you have remained loyal, who is the father of Ise Kana?”
I...What kind of questions are these?
A-Are you accusing me of cheating?!
I am...very sorry for all this. This is not meant as a personal attack. All we wish to understand is the truth.
What truth?!
You know, I’m still here, and I don’t like what I’m hearing.
Tenmei is not, and never has been, a cheater. End of story.
We’re not saying this because we want to start a fight, I promise.
It is simply that the same information that allowed us to learn of Chiaki’s fate also brought us to the notion that Ise Kana was the product of an affair.
Oh...
Wait...that’s it?
Ah. This shouldn’t be too hard to clear up then.
Yeah...well, for starters, Tenmei and I have been married, oh...26 years now. Right after we finished high school.
The two of us started attending college together, along with Misako-chan here. We saw she was usually off by herself or eating lunch alone, so we asked if she’d like to hang out with us.
Admittedly, I was very asocial back then, but I appreciated the gesture. Afterward, I found myself hanging out with them more and more.
Unfortunately, I happened to play a certain video game you had a role in making...
Never gonna live that down, huh? Hehe...
So you guys were good friends?
Yeah! Even after we graduated, we always celebrated the holidays, we went on trips to other countries, played games, we did everything together.
I still look back on those times fondly.
Yeah. Good times.
So...what happened? Cuz Chiaki’s never mentioned you, and we never knew she had a half-sister out there.
…
That was due to my marriage.
It started around 1994, when Misako-chan met a guy who was really swept up with her. He seemed like an alright guy, but he always gave me bad vibes.
You always did have a better instinct for toxic people than me.
Guess it comes with hanging out with the wrong crowd. I knew people like that growing up.
Regardless, I brushed aside many of their concerns in my relationship with him. He was, at least initially, a romantic who wanted to spend every waking moment with me.
And less than six months into our relationship, he proposed to me.
That soon?
Yes. I also made it clear to him that I also wanted a child, but he explained that he was sterile due to a preexisting condition.
Oh....Oohhh....now I’m getting it.
Sperm donation wasn’t really been a big deal, even back then. But this was back during the economic crisis, so...raising a kid sounded like it’d be tough.
Still, she was committed to the idea.
I also...only felt most comfortable asking them.
So Harumi and I had a long talk about it. And you know, we thought it would be another fun idea. She was already pregnant with Chiaki, so maybe we could raise our kids together.
I would’ve loved for that opportunity.
What...what happened?
…The man I married forced us to move. He didn’t like that I was so close to Tenmei and Harumi, so forbid me from speaking to them...or else he would get violent.
Another vile devil by the sound of it.
He was. And our marriage ended when Kana was less than a year old.
He got off lightly...
Misako-chan, why didn’t you call us? We were worried about you.
…He’d forced me to change all our contact info, and when I tried to get in touch with you again, yours had changed too...and, well...I suppose I felt ashamed for ignoring you both.
Don’t be. He tricked you. That’s not your fault, alright?
Don’t blame yourself for the shit he put you through. He’s not a part of your life anymore, so it doesn’t matter.
It really is great to see you again. After all this is over, we can finally catch up.
Absolutely.
I...I’d love to. Thank you both.
"I see. So this is the truth?”
Yes, it is. We both agreed on it, Ise Kana is mine biologically, but I’ve never had the chance to meet her. Where’d you even get the idea I’d ever cheat on Harumi?
“The word of the one behind this situation. He has been spreading lies that Ise Kana was the product of an affair, and is attempting to pit her and Nanami Chiaki against each other.”
All three: WHAT?!
Okay...how soon can we find this island?
Not soon enough...
If you are willing to cooperate with our plans, we can begin preparations to rescue them. Our deadline remains the morning of October 2nd.
#danganronpa#sdr2#danganronpa 2#sdra2#super danganronpa another 2#drbb#danganronpa blowback#sonia nevermind#tenmei nanami#harumi nanami#misako rokuhana#gundham tanaka#mahiru koizumi#hibiki otonokoji#a student out of time#DR#The Puppetmaster arc#mirumiruyoko
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The Rights of A Nindroid
Chapter Twenty-Five
(Previous Chapter Here)
There’s something slightly extra angsty in Zane’s section... try and see if you can figure out what ;)
Also oh my god I hate politics this is going to suck-
Kai groans as he stares at his computer. “This is a lot harder than I thought…” he mutters to himself, closing his eyes for a moment.
But he quickly shakes his head, returning to the computer. Zane needs him! It doesn’t matter what he has to do or how exhausting it is, he needs to save him.
Politics are the absolute worst, but this was Kai’s idea, so he’s going to have to suck it up and keep going.
Right now, he’s looking into how Lloyd can start running on the ballot: there are two main political parties, and if they want to stand even a chance of getting him elected, they’re going to need to find a way to get him on one.
The current Emperor- or in this case, Empress- is called Harumi, and she’s running again on the political party Monocrean. So the other political party, Arosticarist, will-
Kai mutters a quiet curse as he reads the next line. Damn it.
Someone is already running on the ballot.
His name is… Rune Duncan, apparently. Huh. Kai’s never heard of him, but he’s never really been all that invested in politics.
But if they already have someone running, there’s no way that Lloyd could get in!
Grinding his teeth, Kai shakes his head. No, no, no! They’ve come so far!
With a huff, he gets to his feet, grabbing a jacket and heading out. His house arrest had ended the other day, so thankfully he can go to Borg Tower without breaking any laws.
It doesn’t take him long to find Sentry, who’s talking to some weird blond. But when Kai tries to get into the room…
The automatic door won’t open.
Why does technology hate him so much? What did he ever do to make technology work against him?
“So how has your paper been coming along?” The nindroid general prompts, not seeming to have noticed him.
"Pretty well, actually!” The blond chirps. “But there's still so much I want to learn here, so it may end up being twenty something pages long-"
Finally, Kai manages to get the door open. Ignoring the other guy, he goes up to Sentry. “We have a problem.”
Sentry frowns. “... well hello to you too.” He pauses a moment before adding, “What’s wrong?”
Wasting no time, he cuts to the chase. “Did I tell you about the new plan? Rescuing Zane by making Lloyd Emperor?”
He gets a head shake in response. “No, but it’s all over the news, so I kinda figur- wait, that’s why you’re doing it?”
Annoyingly enough, Kai can’t answer, because the other guy there decides to speak up. "Hey, haven't I seen you trending on Chirp? You're that, uh, Kia guy."
“The name’s Kai, actually.” He corrects. “Look, I don’t know what you do here, but I’ve got something kind of important going on, and I think you should go do something else.” He makes a gesture for him to leave, but Sentry shakes his head, looking mildly annoyed.
“Actually, no, he works here and I was talking to him.” The nindroid general argues. “He can keep working while we talk.”
The blond gives him a smug look, and Kai makes sure to shoot him a glare before continuing on with his point.
“Okay, fine, whatever.” He agrees. “We’re having Lloyd run for Emperor so that he can have the authority so get Zane out of there.”
Sentry nods. “And Cryptor, right?”
Kai feels his frustration building again. “Yeah, him too. Not the point. The issue is that there’s already someone running on both ballots. We need to find a way to get him on one.”
The blond speaks up again. “Have you asked any of them if Lloyd could join them?" He prompts.
“Wh- no.” Kai scoffs. “No, we haven’t, because...“ He stops as he realizes that that might actually be a good idea. “... well. That might work, I guess?”
Sentry shakes his head with a grimace. “No politician gets this far by being nice.” He points out. “They wouldn’t let Lloyd join unless we have a good excuse for them to consider it.”
"Well, there's loads of good reasons and excuses.” Kyle returns. “Blackmail, mainly, has been proven to be… useful."
Kai stares at him for a minute, trying to process what the hell he’s talking about. Blackmail? Seriously?
Eventually, he turns back to Sentry. “... so these are the kind of people you hire here, huh?”
The blond scowls at him, crossing his arms. "I mean, you haven't contributed much yourself. I'm just saying, this could be a possibility."
With a snort, Kai shakes his head. “Yeah, but that’s a little thing we like to call illegal.” He reminds.
“Has that really stopped you so far?” Sentry looks disapproving as he speaks. “How many laws have you broken already?”
A sputtering noise escapes him as he tries to come up with a defense. “Aggravated assault is one thing, blackmail is completely different!”
It only registers that the former is actually worse when he gets a look from the nindroid general.
His face starts to heat up as he crosses his arms, trying to find a way to play it cool. “Why are you trying to convince me to break more laws?” He argues. “Weren’t you just trying to get me to stop?”
“I’m not trying to get you to commit more, I’m trying to point out how bad the ones you’ve already committed are!” Sentry seems to be at his wits end.
As Kai’s about to respond, he notices the blond stifling a laugh of some kind. Frustration wells up inside of him again, and he turns to glare at him.
“Something funny?” He snaps.
The blond smirks. "Nothing for you to worry about."
Kai opens his mouth to snark back, but Sentry speaks up before he can.
“Okay, we’re done here.” The nindroid general pinches the bridge of his nose. “Kai, why don’t you brainstorm with your team to come up with an ethical way to convince them to let Lloyd join. Kyle, please don’t antagonize him- I know he’s annoying, but-“
“Wh-“ Kai fumbles for an argument against that. “He started it!” He snaps.
Sentry gives a tired sigh, but Kyle is soon talking. "Please, Sentry.” He gives Kai a wide, plastic smile. “We're like best friends now!"
Sucking in a deep breath, Kai resists the urge to do something that would probably get him banned from Borg Tower for life. Instead, he forces a strained smile. “Yeah, sure, whatever.” He agrees tightly. “Just stop talking.”
Groaning, Sentry shakes his head “Could you at least pretend to be polite?” He pleads.
Huffing, Kai crosses his arms again. “Like I said: he started it.”
He notices the blond- Kyle, had Sentry said?- typing something on his phone. After a moment, he stops, and Sentry sighs again, glancing at him.
“Kai.” He looks the brunet dead in the eyes. “Go back to the Bounty. I’ll try to come up with some things on my end, but you should keep working on yours.”
Flashing the blond another glare, he gives in. “Fine, I’ll leave.” After getting the words out and turning towards the exit, he pauses. He doesn’t like what he’s about to do, but Zane would probably want him to be polite, if he were still here…
Quietly, he mumbles, “... thanks for the advice, I guess.”
He can hear the smug grin in Kyle’s voice. "That? Oh, that was nothing, you're very welcome."
Sucking in a deep breath, Kai heads out, back to the Bounty.
It’s time to do some research on this Rune Duncan.
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Zane stares blankly at his handcuffs, staying silent as he walks.
As of late, Kyle and occasionally a guard will take him out of his locker and walk him around, most likely to prevent any of his joints from locking up after having been caged away for so long.
Still, the logical reasoning behind it doesn’t make the way he’s taken around by a chain on his cuffs like a dog on a leash any less humiliating.
After a while, Kyle speaks up. “How are your ankles?” He prompts. “They look fine, they didn't lock up once this time."
The words make Zane instinctively glance down at his feet. “I’m functioning normally.” His voice has a very bitter note to it as he speaks. “Nothing’s currently locking up.”
"Good.” Kyle smiles- and not even a psychopathic one. “That's awesome."
There’s silence for a long minute as they walk, but Zane doesn’t speak. He just stares downwards numbly and waits to be addressed.
There’s a part of him screaming at the injustice of it all, at the way he’s being treated and the humiliation he’s been forced to endure. But the vast majority of it simply… doesn’t care.
This is happening to him whether he resists or not, so why should he keep fighting? It never makes a difference, and he’s been fighting for so long that he just… wants a break. To be able to rest. He’s so tired of all of this, and it feels so much easier to simply give in to their whims.
After a few more moments, Kyle speaks up.
"...Kai passed by, today.” He comments. “Talked about politics." As he speaks, he seems to be studying him carefully.
Zane tiredly glances up, not enough to make eye contact. He doesn’t know whether to believe the words, but it doesn’t really matter if he does. Having an actual verbal conversation is a form of relief, and Zane will gladly take this chance.
“That’s interesting.” He comments quietly. “Did he mention me?”
There’s a low chuckle. "He did, actually! He's still trying to get both of you out, somehow.” Kyle smiles as he shakes his head. “Good to know some things don't change."
Some things never change, huh? Just like the torturous routine in this facility.
A tired sigh escapes him as he looks off to the side. “Yes, good to know,” he agrees in a dull tone.
"I'm actually surprised at how little you care about him, now.” The blond continues to walk alongside him, thankfully not randomly tugging on the chain like he had done in times past. “I mean, it was never real emotions, but it's weird not hearing you ask desperately about him like before."
Zane feels himself tense up. “They are real emotions.” He growls out under his breath.
Kyle suddenly stops, making Zane stumble at the unexpected pause. "Zeroes and ones. It's the only real thing about them." He reminds, stepping in close. "You better remember that."
Refusing to look up, it gives a weak nod. “I’ll remember…” he agrees, hating how little life is left in his voice as he speaks.
"Good.” Kyle has a satisfied smile on his face. “Let's go." He prompts, starting to walk again.
Zane dutifully follows, cursing himself for how easily he’s begun to give in. There wasn’t even a real threat this time, he had simply given in of his own accord.
His days are numbered.
At the realization, he stops in his tracks, feeling himself begin to tremble, fear taking a cold grasp over him.
Kyle stops beside him, raising an eyebrow in a way to demand answers.
He finally manages to look up, to look Kyle in the eyes. His voice is barely above a whisper as he speaks a simple haunting question.
“... what do you plan to do with me?”
There’s a brief pause before Kyle answers him. It seems that he doesn’t quite understand what Zane’s getting at.
"Break you.” He says bluntly, seeming almost confused by the question. “I thought it was obvious."
Zane manages to shake its head. “No, I know that.” He agrees. “But… after that. When you’ve won. What will become of me?”
The question sets dread seeping through him as his mind comes with worse and worse possibilities of what he may be made to do.
Kyle frowns, seeming to be pondering the question. "...We could use extra engineers for weapons no one in their right mind would agree to build." He decides.
Confusion momentarily takes place of the dark feeling inside. “... you were upset that someone had died because of me, but you would use me to create things to kill others?” He questions.
Kyle’s voice is quiet and almost threatening. "...Gavin was the only thing I cared about. Still is. Now…" He looks over at Zane, and he can see the bitter darkness in his eyes. "...Now the world can burn, for all I care."
After taking a moment to process the words, Zane gives a soft nod and looks back down. “Thank you.”
He can feel Kyle’s confusion. "For what?" The blond questions.
“Answering.” Zane says simply. “I… I do not want to build weapons, but I… I’m glad to at least know what my future will be before I…” He trails off.
Before he no longer cares.
There’s a bitter laugh from the blond. "Not like you have a choice." After a pause, he sighs. "I feel like I'm being way too nice to you again."
Zane stays quiet, unsure of what to say. He keeps his eyes cast downwards as he waits for further instruction.
There’s a dark pause for a moment before Kyle roughly yanks on the chain connected to his cuffs. "Walk." He orders.
Zane stays silent as he does what he’s told.
There are no words left for it to say.
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Thoughts on Sons of Garmadon cuz redesigns :]
Also instead of watching all of the season and then adding my thoughts later I instead took notes while watch the season so that’s why this post is incredibly long, sorry about that :/
Anyway enjoy :>
Sorry for the accidental posting and I don’t want to rewrite everything so here’s from the original post
Lloyd reading the title of the episode also caught me off guard the first time I watched this
Basically Lloyd caught me off guard entirely the first time I watched this
Also his eyebrows are now THICC
“Still thirsty?”
...
I can see why people like Nya a lot (._.’)
Nya’s badass and f—king love her
Also the water bubbles she makes look really nice
Jay mimicking Cole is adorable
The first time we see them after a year and the first thing we see them do is argue and disturb a group of people that took a vow of silence 
I love them
“Did I call you at a bad time?” They’re in the middle of a fight with the mechanic, what do think?
Also Pixal calling Lloyd “Master Lloyd” :’/
“Whoever said fight fire with fire clearly didn’t know what they were talking about.” “Hey, you’re stealing my lines!” I love you Kai
“Who likes ice cream? I do! How was that line Kai?” I love you Zane
Them teasing Lloyd for his deeper voice and them just genuinely having family fun bonding time just fills me with such happiness that I can’t describe with words :’’’’’’’’>
Misako abandons Lloyd yet again, and she was just starting to act like a good mother in Hands of Time >:/
Jay is not understanding a single thing being said to him, but at least he’s trying 👌
Their excuse for not mentioning the royal family throughout the series is “they like their privacy”? Really? Like really? Are they expecting us to believe this bullish-t? 
Lloyd seeing Harumi for the first time: Can You Feel The Love Tonight🎶
Now Cole’s the only one who hasn’t had a crush in the series he is so gay and the writers can’t convince me otherwise
Can I just say the lighting for the inside of the place is beautiful? Cuz it is.
Also I just realized Cole’s the only ninja that isn’t wearing sleeves on his ninja suit, that’s cool👌
Since Harumi’s natural hair color is white, does that mean she’s albino?
“The maskes must never be reunited” Says the person who reunited the mask >:/ I know she’s acting good here but still
“No thank you, I actually gave up sweets. My body is a temple.” The moment I heard that for the first time I was like “WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY BOI?! WHO HAS HURT HIM?!”
Lloyd, stop stalking the princess, that’s illegal >:|
“Don’t worry, we’re ninja, we’re experts at this kind of thing” They proceed to loose the mask, let their main villain onto their ship, and Lloyd gets a crush on her :/
Grade A ninja-ing right there 👌👌👌
I’m on episode 2 and seeing Harumi acting nice and sweet and connecting with Lloyd and knowing that she’s faking all of it, I just feel so so so so bad for Lloyd :’<
Cole, don’t try to give Lloyd advice about girls when you aren’t even attracted to them
Ok so I procrastinated a bunch on doing this for some reason so Yee, let’s continue
I’ve only seen Mystake for 1 scene and if anything ever happens to her I’ll kill everyone in this room and myself
Oof I’m now sad and realize why everyone likes her
Ok so we all agree the tea Mystake gave Jay and Lloyd to see the drawings move is weed right? Or had weed in it?
Why is Cole hiding in a garbage bin when Zane is using a perfectly good newspaper? Also oh boy can’t wait to see Rocky DangerBuff and Snake Jaguar in action :3
The way Snake walked into the bar Jesus
and I’m trying to watch this without skipping it cuz to me the whole thing is very awkward and I can’t stand awkward stuff like this but I also heard there was glacier so I’m gonna try to watch this without yeeting my phone and burying my face in my pillow
Chloe: Snake is gorgeous and we stan
Me: I know he’s beautiful look at him, he’s amazing
He’s bad boi and baby boi at the same time and I love him
Just added Cole into a scene with the ninja when he’s actually still kidnapped by UV so noice job Ninjago HQ 👏👏👏
Zane looks so weird in the flash of Wu finding him dear god
Stop bothering him Cole, let Zane Rp as Snake for a little bit longer
DAD COLE DAD COLE DAD COLE DAD COLE DAD COLE DAD COLE
Cad is what Cole would have named the baby if it didn’t turn out to be Wu cuz Cole + Dad
Ali: "Why cad?" "Its cooler than Chad cause you take out the h for hoe"
Ali/clumsy you’re a genius
”you didn’t think it would that easy, did you?”
Guys is weird to think that UV is 100 times hotter after saying that line?
Mommy UV vs Dad Cole, Mommy UV is fighting Dad Cole for the baby
Oof I remember what’s gonna happen to Zane y’all and I’m not happy plz Mr.E stahp plz
Mr.E to the SOG after he kicks Zane’s ass: Guess who just got murdered!
“Not all men-“
Me: You’re right, Zane Ninjago would never do this
Mr.E: I’m on my way, I’m on my way, I’m on my way to kick Zane’s ass :D!
Cole is Pearl from SU confirmed, he was staring at baby Wu sleeping
Harumi: Maybe we can use this blanket at a Parachute?
Lloyd: What do this is a cartoon?!
Lloyd proceeds to do the exact thing he said wouldn’t work
Also Harumi is the best actor I’ve ever seen like seriously 10/10 👌 actor, playing with Lloyd’s heart strings like she’s been doing it for years
“How to be a heartbreaker” is Harumi’s jam and theme song
SO I WAS ADDING MY THOUGHTS ON HERE AND TUMBLR JUST DECIDED�� TO BE A LITTLE B-TCH AND CLOSE ON ME BEFORE I SAVED MY THOUGHTS AND NOW MY THOUGHTS ON HALF EPISODE 5 AND 6 ARE GONE OOF SO I’M JUST GONNA SAY THAT PIXAL IS HAVING SELF ESTEEM ISSUES OR SOMETHING SIMILAR AND SHE’S AMAZING AND IT’S MAKING ME SAD THAT ALL SHE SEES HERSELF AS ASSISTANCE AND NOTHING MORE
Also Lloyd falls onto a few branches and gets a hurt arm that requires a blanket while Nya was at the front of the ship with 0 protecction and was basically yeeted to the main deck while it crashed into the jungle and she doesn’t even get a break?!
I know Nya is stronger than Lloyd but GOSH DIDDLY DARN I didn’t know she was that STRONK!
Baby Wu: “Ninja never quit hehehehehe”
The ninja:
Lloyd: Confused Green Bean Noises
Harumi: kisses him on the cheek
Lloyd: •////• completely forgets what he was confused about
Harumi saved by lovestruck Lloyd and boners
Cole to Baby Wu: You took care of us, it’s only fair that we take care of you.
Me:
GOD I LOVE COLE HE’S AMAZING
Harumi and Lloyd during that one waterfall scene in Episode 6:
Also Harumi’s backstory for why she likes Garmadon and hates the ninja including Lloyd, it completely makes sense cuz she was a child that over heard that the ninja didn’t do sh-t and Garmadon saved the city so it makes sense why she hates the ninja and believes Garmadon should be Ninjago’s leader, and since it happened when she was young she didn’t think things through, she didn’t think about it from the ninja perspective and especially didn’t think about it from Lloyd’s perspective cuz she was a child, kids don’t tend to think about the other person’s perspective on things, so I think it makes sense and it’s really good 👌 also this is Ninjago’s first main female villain, all the other ones were either second in command or were in a crew that worked for a bigger villain so yeah that’s cool
“Don’t you guys have any idea what she’s doing? She’s resurrecting Garmadon! Lord Garmadon!” Yeah no sh-t Kai, the name of their gang is “Sons of Garmadon”, of course they know and of course they’re ok with it why do think they’re helping her?
“Then it’s a good thing the Quiet One isn’t a bad guy but a bad girl” It doesn’t matter that Pythor, Chen, Morro, and Garmadon had dicc, what matters is that the greater evil didn’t listen to them dipsh-t.
Harumi screams a lot, like Princess Peach/Damsel-in-distress amount of high pitch screaming and I’m surprised Lloyd or the other ninja haven’t told her to shut up at one point.
a slightly dark room suddenly turns a little bit darker
Harumi:
Lloyd: Jesus even when I was a kid I had tougher skin then you, I know this is a little hypocritical for my to say, but grow the f—k up god
Ok woah woah woah, how did Lloyd go from “I didn’t tell you about the fact that I’m part Oni, Mystake only told me and Jay” to “You’re the Quiet One” like he isn’t wrong but how did he put it together in such little amount of time?
Ok this is how the Lloyd vs Harumi fight should have gone down:
Lloyd: Give me a good reason not do destroy it right now.
Harumi: I’ll give you 2. You want to see your father again and you love me.
Lloyd: HAH! While you busy being a heterosexual b-tch I studied the blade!
Lloyd kicks Harumi’s ass and the day is saved
Am I wrong? Lloyd only met Harumi a couple of days ago, it’s like Anna from Frozen but LEGOs
“Love is an open door” is Llorumi shippers theme song
“I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE EMPTINESS THAT I FEEL”
B-TCH HAVE YOU NOT SEEN HIS F—KING CHILDHOOD HE HAS MORE TRAUMA THEN YOU WILL EVER GET YOUR F—KING LIFE TIME!!!
I KNOW SHE IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND THAT SHE HASN’T SEEN HIS LIFE LIKE WE HAVE BUT DAMN IF IT ISN’T ACTIVATING MY PROTECC-LLOYD-AT-ALL-COSTS-AND-THAT-THIS-IS-TOTAL-BULLSH-T INSTINCTS
“Or we’ll have to get all ninja on you!” “What does that even mean?” “I don’t know I was improvising” Tbh that’s a mood Kai, at least to me
Lloyd: Guys, Rumi is the Quiet One!
The ninja who are currently surrounded by the SOG including Harumi: Oh really, ya don’t say?
Lloyd just got yeeted out of a waterfall so it sorta makes sense why he didn’t notice
Lloyd said I won’t let you get away with this and Harumi said YEET
They have Lloyd they have the masks and we have trouble
Baby Wu: Puppy!
that ain’t a puppy Sensei it’s a giant underwater scorpion monster
I forgot they tamed the giant underwater scorpion monster and named it Crabby, and Jay hugged one of Crabby’s claws, Jay’s favorite pet the ninja have ever had is Crabby confirmed
“So this is your true face without the mask, no wonder you covered it” Damn Lloyd is salty, LET LLOYD SAY F—K 2020
Chloe: Lloyd said "bitch u ugly" poetically
Me: Yeah, he got the saltiness from Kai and the poetic speech from Zane
“There was never anything between us”
One episode earlier
“You want your father back, and you love me”
One episode earlier
Harumi kisses Lloyd on cheek and proteccs him from the corrupted Samurai X suit
Me:
Harumi gets close to Lloyd
Me: KICK HER IN THE NONEXISTENT BALLS
Yay the most useful and totally not child abandoning character, Misako, is here and giving Lloyd information that he already knew and is being incredibly useful buy not only abandoning Lloyd for a second time in his life but also finding Baby Wu for the SOG Hooray
“Stop Rumi, this isn’t you!” B-tch you’ve only known her for a couple of days, and she has played with your heart, in dangered your friends, and tried to kill you and your friends on multiple occasions, and she nearly succeeded on killing Zane (though tbh Zane gets nearly killed every season so that isn’t a surprise)
“You were right, this isn’t me” YOU SERIOUSLY BELIEVED HE’LL FALL FOR THAT BULLSH-T AGAIN? AFTER YOU TRIED TO DROWN HIM AND HIS MOM WHILE SUMMONING HIS EVIL DAD FROM THE DEAD? HAH, B-TCH YOU THOUGHT!
“Stop. Save it for someone who cares” Yesssssss I love youuuuuuu by baby boiiiiii
Sees the arm coming out of the anvil-thing
Me: Terminator Garmadon? Also this is what happens when we complain too much, we also gotta be more specific people! We can’t ask for just Garmadon, we need to ask for Good/Sensei Garmadon or else we’ll get bullsh-t like this!
THE SCENE OF THE NINJA SINGING WEEKEND WHIP JUST PLAYED AND THE HAPPY WHOLESOME VIBES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Also there’s no way harumi gets the resurrection spell right on the first try, like no way, impossible, like she even gets interrupted by Lloyd and the ninja at the end and then Garmadon appears after that? Like I’m not a witch/wizard myself but I’m pretty sure that’s not how spells work? You don’t just start a spell, stop before the spell is finished, and the spell still works :/
Also how the hecc did Garmadon know where to find Harumi? It was never explained, he just like punched his way into the police station and was like “Yo b-tch what’s up?”
“I can turn him once, I can turn him again” ends up getting his ass handed to him and nearly dieing for the millionth time in his life
“That sounds like a really bad idea” “And Kai knows bad ideas, he’s full of them” Oof Kai just got roasted
“Lloyd, what are you doing?” “I’m sorry, Nya. I have to confront him” OOF HE REALLY DID JUST PULL A KAI DIDN’T HE
I’m not gonna quote everything Lloyd says here cuz there’s too much but DAMN HE’S REALLY PISSED OFF AND IS REALLY DOING A KAI JESUS
I know we all wanted Sensei Garmadon back but I’m ngl this Garmadon looks really cool and gives really good evil speeches to unmotivate his opponent
OOF Y’ALL REALLY HAD TO ADD LLOYD HOLDING OUT THE PHOTO OF HIM AND GARMADON WITH LLOYD STRUGGLING SAYING “FATHER” AND THE PHOTO GOING INTO THE WIND DIDN’T Y’ALL MY HEART CAN’T TAKE THAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AND I STILL HAVE TO MAKE IT THROUGH EPISODE 10 WHERE I KNOW LLOYD’S HEART IS GONNA BE RIPED OUT OF HIS CHEST AND STOMPED ON WITH A SPIKED SHOE
F—K HARUMI F—K NINJAGO HQ F—K EMPEROR GARMADON F—K THE SOG JUST LEAVE MY POOR BABY ALONE
Y’all I don’t think I can make it through the next episode f—k man
Holy f—k I forgot Emperor Garmadon reads the title card in episode 10 oof
“Not so fast!” “‘No so fast”?! You used that ages ago!” True, it sucked then and it sucks now
“My brother is coming” “How do you know?” “I know” Dang even baby Wu doesn’t tell people sh-t
“You sure you’re up for this?” “I was married to him once, I’m up for anything” Ok so you’re saying that as if you were the one that was treated badly in that relationship and not the other way around like it should be but whatever floats your boat pal
“Careful!” “Are you actually doubting my ability to closely approximate the true value of our surroundings? I’m a nindroid.” Damn Zane is pissed
COLE LITERALLY JUMPED OFF THE BOUNTY TO CATCH BABY WU NOT KNOWING JAY WAS GONNA CATCH HIM AKA HE WOULD HAVE DIED FOR BABY WU I’M SCREAMING GOD I LOVE COLE
Ok so Lloyd you are excellent at fabulous/eat-a-dicc-b-tch exits like wow 👏👏👏👏👏
Also the scene with the 4 OG ninja and Baby Wu traveling to the first realm looks really really nice ngl
All in all I really really like this season, it’s great 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Snippet (It's so long oh god please put a read more on this)
This is an AU which I just came up with, in which Kai and Nya get adopted into the royal family before Harumi gets adopted. They form a happy little family, and nothing horrible happens. Most certainly nothing like season eight.
Kai used to think he was doing well in the family department, at least as far as his little group of friends went. Sure, he had lost his original parents, but then he had gotten the emperor and empress as his parents-which wasn’t even that weird considering his general life events-then his ninja brothers and a bratty little brother, and then he had gotten another little sister, and then his original parents back-
The point was that Kai was lucky. Absurdly lucky, even by normal standards.
The past week had really ruined that. First off his home got blown up, with his parents presumed dead-and then it turned out they were being held captive by this mysterious Quiet One-but at least he still had his siblings. Right up until they had gotten separated by the Samurai X suit kidnapping his little sister and Lloyd had jumped after it, like an idiot, and left him and Nya freaking out about his safety. Desperate to find the both of them, and the Quiet One so he could get his missing set of parents back, Kai had driven himself crazy trying to get what he wanted.
Well, he had gotten what he wanted, he guessed. He just wished that he hadn’t.
He hadn’t believed it at first. Neither had Nya, for that matter. Neither of them could believe that their little sister-the little sister who patched up their wounds after every mission gone wrong, the little sister who had far too much of a big heart for her own good, the little sister who had snuggled up to him whenever she had a nightmare-neither of them wanted to believe-
But it was true. All of it was. And Kai didn’t know what to do.
Harumi, for her part, didn’t look like she knew what to do either. Both of their respective groups had frozen, the ninja looking to Kai for clues as to what to do, and the Sons of Garmadon looking at Harumi. As if Kai needed any more confirmation of the horrible, awful truth that she was their leader.
“Why?” he asked. “Harumi, why?”
She shifted her feet, looking far more like the fifteen year old that she was than she had any right to. “You should understand, Kai, Nya. Better than anyone else, you should understand why I had to do this.”
Kai barely recognized his own voice when he spoke. “You know what, I don’t think that I do. Maybe you should explain to me why you think bringing back Lord Garmadon is a good idea that I should understand!”
Harumi flinched back from him, right before her face slipped back into the calm, triumphant look she had on when she first stepped out of the temple. “I suppose I will have to, brother. But first I have a job to complete.”
Kai could feel the Sons of Garmadon moving closer around them, notably pointing their weapons at the others, not him and Nya. Kai took in a deep breath, trying to steel himself for what he knew was coming next. His voice was desperate, borderline pleading. “I can’t let you do that. You know I can’t. Just give me the mask and I’m sure that we can work this all out.” His voice caught on something between a gasp and a sob. “Please, Harumi.”
Kai’s not sure what would have happened next, if it hadn’t been for Lloyd falling from the waterfall. He caught his brother with shaky hands, trying to ground himself with the knowledge that at least Lloyd was alive. That he was alright, that he hadn’t turned evil-
“You guys, ‘Rumi is the Quiet One,” Lloyd managed to gasp out, slowly steadying himself on his feet. Kai helped him up while keeping a wary eye on his sister, whose face had distorted into a snarl.
“We kinda got that much,” Kai said, trying to go for a light, reassuring tone which he himself probably needed. He shut his eyes for a second, trying to stop his brain from spinning out of control, trying to-
He’s not sure, actually. But that hardly mattered, because an animalistic growl and Harumi’s startled cry jolted him out of it. He just about had time to see two gigantic claws before he was being dragged along by Cole, who was running away from it. All of them, ninja and Sons of Garmadon and-whatever his sister was-were running away from the giant beast.
They ended up on a small plateau just above water level, watching it circle the ground with apprehension. Kai backed away from it, trying to get as far inland as he could-when he bumped into someone. It was Harumi. He could tell from all the nights they had spent together, laughing over some dumb tv show, crying over a sappy movie, or just talking. Just being happy.
His hand closed over hers for a split second.
The monster burst above the water hard enough to startle them apart. The beast’s presence forced Kai to briefly put aside his emotions to focus on the immediate danger ahead of him. He ran forward, scraping his swords on the underside of its shell and finding it impenetrable. He was ready to go for its legs, or maybe its eyes next, when he felt a harsh tug on his arm. He turned to see the face of a monster.
The Mask of Hatred completely obscured his sister’s face, leaving only harsh eyes and a couple of strands of her bleached hair that tumbled down around her face. For a split second, the two of them stared at each other, neither sure what to do. Then Kai did the only thing he could do.
He hugged her.
“‘Rumi, please,” he said, voice closer to a sob than coherent speech. “You can stop all of this. You can just call them off. I know you don’t want to do this.”
For just a second, he felt her relax into him. For just a second, she hugged him back. For just a second, he let hope flare in his chest.
Then Harumi’s grip on his arm tightened roughly, and Kai barely had the time to let out a pained noise before Harumi had wheeled around and tossed him high into the air, over the side of the Bounty, and onto the deck.
He landed on the wood with a sharp cry, feeling something in his arm snap at the contact. Before he even had time to curl into himself in the pain, the Sons of Garmadon were already on top of him, grabbing his arms and pulling them behind his back. Kai yelled again, trying to fight back, but it was pointless-even though they were weak individually, they were swarming him. Before he could light a fire on his hands, a pair of vengestone cuffs had already been forced on him. He struggled, but could already feel his power draining away, suppressed by the stone.
It didn’t take long for them to restrain him completely, with his arms tied behind him and forced down to the ground with Ultra Violet stepping on his back. Kai listened desperately to the sounds of fighting below him, trying to determine if one of his friends had gotten hurt, or was on their way to save him.
Ultra Violet gave one of her loud, cackling laughs which hurt his ears. “You know, I never expected the brother of the Quiet One to be such a goody two shoes.”
“Shut up,” Kai hissed. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Oh, I think I do,” she purred. “You see, I had a brother too. He was such a nice person, saw the good in everyone. Even me! He was so very shocked when he found out what I got up to during the night. He threatened to tell Mom and Dad.” Her sai grazed his chin, drawing some blood. “That was, until I… dissuaded him. I wonder what the Quiet One will do to dissuade you.”
He jerked hard enough to throw her off his back, staggering to his feet. “Shut up!” he screamed at her, feeling no small amount of vicious satisfaction when she took a step back. “She wouldn’t hurt me-she wouldn’t ever-you don’t know her-”
He didn’t manage to get the rest of his words out. Mostly because Killow took the opportunity to bash his fist into the side of his head. The world went black like a star going out.
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That could have gone better, Harumi thought as she got the last of her men over the side of the Bounty and ordered them to get the ship flying. She had always known that the reveal of her role in the Sons of Garmadon would be rather startling towards her siblings-her real ones, not those ninja posers-but she hadn’t expected it to go quite so awfully. Nya’s fury and rage, along with Kai’s obvious desperation that it wasn’t true, had left quite a mark on her.
But she could deal with it. She had already gotten Kai away from them, after all, and back with her. Not being able to grab Nya as well was a disappointment, but she knew as soon as she resurrected Lord Garmadon she would have all the power she needed to get her sister back.
And then she could make them both understand. She could make them both understand why she had to do this. They would understand her-both of them knew what the pain of losing their parents was like, and the extent one would go to to get revenge.
And she would get her revenge. With all three Oni Masks at her disposal, a hair from the wife and brother, all she needed now was-
The clunk behind her caused her to whip around, only to face a pair of furious green eyes. Lloyd Garmadon, the last thing she needed, had delivered himself to her, it seemed. She smirked as Killow grabbed him from behind, the idiot boy obviously not realizing that jumping onto a ship full of armed enemies was a bad idea. He struggled weakly, right up until Killow slammed him into the deck, leaving him limp.
Harumi looked on with satisfaction, letting her grin crawl across her face. Perfect. The last thing she needed.
She turned around, scanning the deck for her older brother, who would most likely still be struggling against her members, too determined and stubborn to stop. She hadn’t thrown him over the other side, had she? She looked for a bright splash of red-and her breath caught in her throat when she saw him crumpled on the deck.
In a split second she was at her brother’s side, rolling him over so she could see his face. A nasty bruise was beginning to form on his forehead, and a shallow cut on his chin had caused blood to stain all over his neck. His arm made an odd cracking sound when she rolled him over, and she noted with no small amount of repulsion that his hands were changed behind his back. As she surveyed his wounds, fury at her gang’s recklessness with her brother, her family, choked her.
“Who did this.” Her words came out like a hiss, carrying all the way to the edges of the Destiny’s Bounty and stopping any premature celebration. The members of her gang closest to her stopped moving immediately, rooted to the spot. Mr. E turned to face her, his red eyes narrowing.
The only people too stupid to realize the danger they were in were Ultra Violet and Killow, it appeared.
“What?” the girl said, waving her sai around-which Harumi saw had blood on it, Kai’s blood-”He wouldn’t stop struggling. We had to get him down somehow.”
Her eyes narrowed, and she grabbed the mask at her belt. “You are mistaken.”
Ultra Violet paused ever so slightly. “Uh, what?”
Harumi stood up and glared at them, letting her cold gaze and the threat of the mask on her belt do most of the speaking for her. “You must be mistaken. Because I specifically ordered that my siblings, under no circumstances whatsoever, would be harmed. Correct?”
She could all but see the gears finally turning in their heads.
“Yes, ma’am, you did,” Killow blustered. “And we didn’t hurt him. The fall did that.”
Part of her flinched at the idea that she would be so careless as to hurt her brother, but she let herself absorb the blow. She didn’t want to actually get rid of two incredibly useful minions yet. Even if they had hurt one of the few people she had left in this world. Nevertheless, she took a step towards, and raised the mask towards her face. Ultra Violet took a couple of steps back, raising her sai ever so slightly, and Killow’s hand went to his own belt, where the Mask of Deception was. “Because,” she purred. “If anyone on my crew was so stupid as to hurt my family, they would know the consequences. Correct?”
They nodded, and Ultra Violet squeaked out something that could be considered an apology if she was being generous. Satisfied, Harumi turned back to her bruised and bleeding brother. “Good. Now get him the medical attention he needs. That arm might not heal right if it’s not attended to.”
To her joy, two members of the Sons of Garmadon immediately ran to Kai’s side, picking him up and throwing his chains off. He let out a soft moan of pain as they did so, and her heart twisted in her chest, her fury towards Ultra Violet and Killow threatening to drown out her reason again. She watched as they carried him below deck, probably to the medical station she knew was down there, before she turned and walked towards the wheel. She had no interest in seeing them reset his arm, knowing it would do her no good to see her brother in pain.
With a sigh, she reached the bow of the ship, setting the Mask of Hatred down on the deck. She would have no need of it until the ceremony, which would hopefully occur in a day’s time.
If the ninja didn’t manage to stop her, that was. Nya and Kai would probably join them if-when they tried, stubborn as they were.
She bit back a growl, resisting the urge to punch the ship. The ninja always got in her way and ruined almost everything for her. First it was with the Great Devourer, then it was at the palace, then it was at the Oni Temple-
And now it was with her siblings. She almost snarled when she remembered how Jay had gotten in front of Nya when they had confronted her outside of the temple, how she had to force her way to Kai with the mask to even get close to him. They had no right. Kai and Nya were her siblings, her beloved brother and sister, who they had misguided for years. As soon as she got her family back, safe and sound, and Lord Garmadon by her side, the other ninja would have hell to pay.
Harumi grinned at the sky, finally letting her guard drop. Despite the probable difficulties in the future, she could feel nothing but happiness. She had her brother with her, her sister soon to follow, and everything she needed to complete the ritual. And that would be that. Ninjago would fall underneath Lord Garmadon’s feet, the ninja with it, and Harumi would have her family back and at her side. Everything as it should be.
Everything would be alright.
#blursed ninjago submissions#ninjago#lego ninjago#submission#mod kat#blursed ninjago snippets#blursed ninjago aus
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The One That Got Away
@penofwildfire whoops...hehe :)
this is entirely based on their lovely and angsty post here!
Lloyd shot up from his makeshift bed, forehead dotted with sweat and eyes rimmed red with tears. His heart so beat loudly in his chest he was sure the thumping could be heard from a mile away.
At once, a steadying hand held his back, murmuring soothing utterances that he did not care to listen to. Harumi’s words from a week prior rang in his ear, the image of the Bounty- along with his brothers- being ripped apart still burned into his mind every time he shut his eyes.
For the past few nights, sleep had not provided any sort of escape or remedy for the past week’s events- rather proving to be an oblivion and open invitation to nightmare.
Nya seemed to have taken notice, much to the despondency of a certain green ninja.
She stood above Lloyd’s pallet, her hand still on his back rubbing small circles and her voice still cooing words of comfort.
Once he had calmed down a bit, Nya quirked an eyebrow. “Nightmare?”
Lloyd held his head in his hands. “Yeah.”
“Tell me about it?” she asked, sitting herself down beside him.
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“I wanted this,” the Jade Princess had said, as she dangled Lloyd hopelessly over the once-bright Ninjago City. She giggled maniacally, her eyes wild and glued to the Colossus a few blocks down the street with fierce intensity.
“I wanted this!” she screamed in the green ninja’s ear. Her smile stretched from cheek to cheek, whatever semblance of sound mind she had left fading before Lloyd’s helpless form.
He was pathetic; he couldn’t do anything in Harumi’s grasp. The green ninja, once highly esteemed and venerated by citizens of Ninjago, was about to watch his friends die at the hands of some sadistic teenage girl and his father.
As much as the sane voices in Lloyd’s mind told him to turn his face away, he couldn’t peel his gaze from the ship in between the stone giant’s arms- the one his brothers were in- being crushed before him.
Harumi dug her fingers into the back of Lloyd’s neck, before pulling him back down to the train’s roof. “Now watch,” she breathed in his ear, a sweet and bitter edge to her cutting voice.
As if on command, the Bounty was crushed to a pulp.
Lloyd did nothing but watch in disbelief. His teammates were still on that ship. They were still on there, they must have been crushed too-
The Jade Princess jerked his head away from the fallen airship. “It’s too bad you were the one that got away,” she clicked her tongue, twisting her mouth into a grin. “I guess that just means I get to personally deal with you later.”
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“Oh, it was nothing,” Lloyd reassured Nya with a sad smile. The same steadying hand from earlier once again patted his back, and though he was grateful for her presence- don’t get him wrong- something still was missing.
To be precise, 3 teenage boys, a nindroid, and a 500-year-old sensei turned infant were missing.
“I don’t believe you, Lloyd,” the water ninja deadpanned. “It’s okay, you can tell me what’s up.”
Lloyd fidgeted with his hands and looked around the room. It was completely empty, save for Pixal and her mech off to the side; his mother and Dareth presumably off somewhere in the city. He sighed, turning back to look at the last remaining ninja left on the team.
“It’s just that we lost them, Nya-”
“Lloyd.”
Upon hearing Nya’s grave tone, Lloyd flinched. Her hands were now bracing his shoulders, and she stared into his eyes; such firmness was not really out of the ordinary for the water ninja, but she usually never took this attitude with him. “We didn’t lose anyone,” she frowned, “my friends- our friends- they are fine.”
“How can you be so sure?” Lloyd interjected. He wanted to believe Nya, he really, really did.
But he couldn’t. He had watched them...
Nya continued to hold Lloyd’s arms, and he couldn’t help but remember the way Harumi’s own hands had held him in place just a week prior. As chill ran down his spine, where he could still feel the Quiet One’s fingers wrapped around his neck.
The green ninja spoke up again, more softly this time. “I saw them, Nya. I saw the Bounty get crushed to pieces. I saw them die.”
Nya bit her lip, visibly tensing. She closed her eyes and whispered a small “I know” before wrapping her arms around the last remainder of her former team.
“I lost people, too, Lloyd,” she muttered into his hair. “But they’re not dead.”
Doubt crept its way into his mind, and subconsciously he thought Nya knew how irrational she was being.
Perhaps more so how irrational he was for believing her. For a split second, he hugged the water ninja back, and accepted the fact that maybe his friends weren’t dead, and that they would come out of hiding soon enough, and Harumi and his father would be defeated, and Ninjago would be saved. That’s how things normally ended, right?
Just as soon as the moment of belief came, it too passed.
His mother and Dareth burst into the room, both Nya and Lloyd startled from their thoughts.
Misako’s face furrowed into an expression somewhere between scared and confused, and Dareth looked like he always did- mostly confused- and out of breath.
“We have to go,” his mother’s voice faltered slightly in a way that made Lloyd’s stomach turn. “The Sons of Garmadon are sweeping the block.”
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The narrow alleyway the group of five were now hiding in was familiar to the green ninja in a very distant sense- something only Lloyd could liken to vague deja vu, or the moments of disorientation after waking up from a realistic dream.
He held his breath as Mr. E and the rest of the gang passed their hiding spots, with Nya beside him, Pixal and his mother adjacent, and Dareth...somewhere.
Only once the Sons of Garmadon were certainly out of range did anyone dare make a noise. “Thank FSM,” Nya breathed, pushing the piece of wood the pair had been hiding under out of the way.
Beside them, Pixal and Misako did the same, and the self-proclaimed brown ninja emerged from wherever he had been.
Misako laughed in relief, dusting herself off as she stood. “Do you all smell that?” she asked, trying to clear the air. She turned to her son, who still sat on the ground. “Lloyd, doesn’t it smell-”
Lloyd clutched the piece of wood Nya had previously shoved aside. “It’s the Bounty.”
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The Colossus’ hands closed in on The Bounty, the sound of splicing wood and crushed memories ringing in Zane, Kai, Jay, and Cole’s ears. The stone giant was quickly compressing the ship to a pulp, and with each rattling shake the ninja stumbled closer to one another on the broken deck.
Wu clutched Cole’s gi and squeezed his eyes shut, burying his head in the earth ninja’s chest and whimpering softly. In turn, Cole hugged him tighter, shielding him from their imminent demise.
“Zane!” Kai stared at the nindroid at the wheel, an unreadable and blank look on his face. “Do something,” he pleaded, before desperately adding, “please.”
Zane sputtered. “I- I cannot-” He wanted to say that he couldn’t save them, but he supposed the rest of his teammates had already figured that out by now.
Jay looked at Cole, the baby in his arms, then to Zane, then to Kai. The wind whipped wildly around the team and the distant sound of sirens blazed in the background, though almost entirely erased by the screams of onlookers and the clamor of their precious Bounty being torn apart underneath their feet.
But between the team on the ship, it was silent.
Time moved in slow motion as the Colossus’ hands began to meet, and each ninja glanced at one another other with a small smile on their face and a look that said ‘Thank you for the past few years.’
Cole relaxed in acceptance, though the small figure in his arms began to squirm. “We have to go!” Baby Wu shouted.
The tea. Mystake.
Jay’s eyes widened in realization as he registered Wu’s words, and then the fact that it was too late to do anything about it.
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Nya felt her chest tear apart.
The Bounty.
She said nothing as moved a few pieces of wood aside, revealing a broken picture frame that belonged on the ship. Pixal looked around- two engines, an anchor, a sail, a rudder- her home- and it was all right here, lying strewn about before them.
Lloyd sucked in a breath. “No, no, no, no, no…”
He knew this day would come, when he would find the ship he had watched just a week ago be completely obliterated, when he would see the remnants of his home somewhere in Ninjago City. He remained on the ground still, desperately searching through the wreckage for more fragments of the ship.
Lloyd froze when he grabbed something cold, and panic and awareness quickly set in.
His body began to jerk and tears began to spill freely from his eyes, because he knew what he had found. Still, he couldn’t stop himself as he brushed the wood away, revealing exactly what Lloyd had hoped he would never find.
Kai. Buried underneath the rubble of the Bounty was Kai- but it wasn’t. This wasn’t Kai. It was his corpse.
A scream caught in his throat, rendering him unable to comfort the master of water as she realized what Lloyd had found.
Beside him, Nya began to breath faster and faster, stumbling in her legs until Misako had to help her slide to a sitting position.
“No,” she sniffled and shook her head, “he’s okay. There must be a pulse, there has to be, they’re all alive.”
Nothing about Kai was alive, and Nya knew that. Lloyd knew that, too, but that didn’t mean he accepted it.
“Here,” Pixal called, small tears rolling down her face. She held a broken and battered nindroid in her arms, with dark and deactivated eyes and stray wires indicating no sign of life.
Neither Lloyd nor Nya moved as Jay, Zane, and Kai’s bodies were all recovered from the ruins; the two simply sat in the same crouched position beside each other in disbelief.
Had it not been Nya telling Lloyd just that morning that they were alright? That his brothers were just hiding?
He had watched them die.
A few more moments of waiting and Pixal had found the final two bodies. Quietly, Nya helped Lloyd to his feet, and they stepped over broken wood and their own teammates’ corpses to where Pixal was trembling slightly.
Cole, skin cold and gray, body covered in blood, was finally found lying underneath a large pile of wreckage. Still in his arms, despite being crushed then falling hundreds of feet to the ground, was a small figure, its fingers still curled tightly around the earth ninja’s body.
A baby that had died in Cole’s arms.
Their sensei.
A harsh, half-stifled yell sounded in the ash gray sky- undoubtedly alerting Mr. E along with the rest of his crew of their location- but Lloyd did not care.
He didn’t care when Nya broke down into sobs beside him, when Dareth and Misako too began to cry, or when Pixal fell to the ground on her knees, unable to stop herself from shaking.
He didn’t care when a smiling Harumi found him not fifteen minutes later, still clinging to each of their bodies.
#ninjago#tw#tw death#tw panic attack#tw blood#corpses#uh anyways lego ninja amirite#lloyd#nya#hunted#claire writes
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My Review of Tamako Market
How did I get into this anime? Let’s just say that there were several Kyoto Animation animes I’ve neglected to watch and after the horrific incident back in 2019, I wanted to at least see all of the major Kyoto Animation pieces. No matter if this looks like we’re in the same universe as K-ON!
Tamako Kitashirakawa is a normal, ditzy, moe-looking for a KyoAni anime, teenage girl! She comes from a family that owns a mochi shop inside this tight-knit shopping district. One day, Tamako was at the local flower shop and a bird flew into her face. While stuck to her face, she sneezes him off. And then, the bird spoke.
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I think I’ll just cross off the theory that we’re in the same universe as K-ON! Give K-ON some credit as they didn’t have a talking bird.
So this bird is named Dera Mochimazzi. I will never pronounce anyone’s last name in this anime! Dera claims he’s royalty from some far-off land and says he is looking for a bride for his country’s prince. Although, it just falls to the waist-side (literally and figuratively) when Dera took up residence at Tamako’s home and gets addicted to eating mochi. I guess for the time being, Dera will be this anime’s adorable mascot. Aside from the misadventures of Dera the talking bird, we also follow this leading lady Tamako in her normal life. We get school stories, friend stories, stuff about her sister, stories surrounding the colorful folks in this shopping district, and mochi. Lots and lots of mochi!
BETWEEN THE SUB AND THE DUB: Ah yes, another Sentai licensed anime. I actually watched the entire series dubbed and only the movie subbed. Aya Suzuki is perfection as Tamako with all of her bubbliness. As for the dub, is it just me or was Jay Hickman trying to act too much like Excalibur from Soul Eater? Was he trying to unleash his inner Troy Baker for this role? Aside from Hickman, there’s really nothing else extraordinary to say about the dub. I will give them credit for not casting Luci Christian and Monica Rial as any of these characters. Love them dearly, but give a little spotlight to some of the other voice actors they’ve got. This was fine for what it was. Here’s what you might recognize these folks from.
JAPANESE CAST:
*Tamako is played by Aya Suzaki (known for Mako on Kill la Kill, Kaede on Assassination Classroom, Takitsubo on Railgun, and Shouko on Happy Sugar Life)
*Dera is played by Takumi Yamazaki (known for Bansai on Gintama, Kayneth on Fate/Zero, and Jillas on Slayers Try)
*Mochizou is played by Atsuhi Tamaru
ENGLISH CAST:
*Tamako is played by Margaret McDonald (known for Rikka on Chunibyo, Haruka on Little Busters, Sakura on Maid-sama, Risa on To Love Ru, Sachi on Maria Holic, and Harumi on Citrus)
*Dera is played by Jay Hickman (known for Jouichiro on Food Wars, Kurama on Elfen Lied, and Ryuuya on Air)
*Mochizou is played by Clint Bickham (known for Renji on ef – a tale of memories, Akihito on Beyond the Boundary, Haru on Tsuritama, Isami on Food Wars, Finland on Hetalia, and Mochizuki on Another)
SHIPPING: We’ve got a girl-next-door type of romance happening. Mochizou lives next door to Tamako and is infatuated with her. There are however a few little problems with this. The big problem is that Tamako and Mochizou’s fathers are business enemies. They both sell mochi, they live across from each other, and they have kids that are friends. It’s almost Romeo and Juliet except Tamako seems oblivious when it comes to Mochizou’s advances. Or Romeo here has a brain-fart and forgets vital things he wants to do for Tamako. Like episode one, he forgets to give her a present for her birthday. I will let him off the hook for this because dude already buys her a present and has plans and everything. But because Tamako’s birthday is on New Years and both kids work on New Years to help their families, things like this can be forgotten. So again, I can’t hate on our by Mochizou. His heart was in the right place, but his brain couldn’t catch up.
Halfway into this series, I shook my head thinking these two will never hookup. Tamako’s baby sister had more of a chance with her crush and he moved away.
Then again, this was all from the series. The movie got really deep with the Mochizou x Tamako ship that so much in Tamako changes. The movie kinda drops a ball on us so I’ll talk about it down below due to spoilery things.
ENDING: So it seems like this series moves quite fast calendar wise and the episodes seem to be like a problem of the day kind of thing. Like there will be an episode about Valentine’s Day, an episode where Dera goes on a diet, an episode with a festival, and so on. But along the way we do get a few cute moments like when Shiroi opens up to Tamako and her friends or when Tamako’s father remembers his wife through song. And let’s not forget that halfway into the series, we’re introduced to Choi, someone who serves a prince (like Dera). She really doesn’t do much to move this plot along for a while and is only there to stay with Tamako’s family and keep Dera on a short leash. But then at the end of episode 10, Choi makes a rash decision.
By this point in the series you might be wondering if Mochizou’s mochi balls are going to drop and he asks Tamako out. Well that might not happen just yet as Choi has set sights on Tamako to be the bride for the prince she serves under. But Tamako has no interest in becoming the prince’s bride. In fact, Tamako was more excited about winning a medal than learning she might get engaged to a prince of a far-off land. Add to that, the entire shopping district is excited for Tamako to become a prince’s bride. Everyone except for Tamako’s father! He got mad, stinkin’ drunk. And as for Mochizou, he’s just a sad sack. So no mochi balls dropping for this lad! Tamako did get a chance to meet the prince through Dera’s communication for a second. But once the prince landed in Tokyo, he ends up in the shopping district and meeting Tamako up close. Everyone in the shopping district was happy for Tamako and excited that this is happening. There are just two big things!
One, Tamako is too attached to her home and the people around it to ever leave them to go marry a prince from a far-off land. And two, there was a misunderstanding on Dera’s part where the prince has said that Tamako is not going to be his bride.
Choi and the prince end up leaving to return home. Dera on the other hand decides to stick around at least until New Years. Dera, being the little hammy-bird he is tries to make a graceful exit without saying goodbye to Tamako. He leaves Tamako without a word, but in same Dera fashion, he falls asleep in a pile of flowers and ends up inside a box. Turns out that box of flowers is going straight back to Tamako. Mochizou actually remembered Tamako’s birthday this year and gave her a box of flowers for the occasion.
When she opened it, there’s Dera! Don’t worry, Dera eventually goes back home with the prince and Choi. We just don’t actually see it here.
TAMAKO LOVE STORY: Now that Tamako, Mochizou, and the rest are all in their third years of high school, the thought of what they’re going to do with their lives hits. Like is Midori going to take over her grandfather’s toy shop in the district? Is Kanna going to do something carpentry related? Is Tamako going to continue working in her father’s mochi shop? Well, the story focuses on two things. One is a competition that Kanna gets interested in that involves the girls of the baton club. And the second, Mochizou’s decision to go to college in Tokyo to work on films.
Obviously, that’s the big story in this movie. Mochizou is madly in love with Tamako and they’ve known each other since they were babies. It’s just that he’s never made his feelings to Tamako known to her until he reveals his decision to leave town. After that, the once mochi-loving ditz we’ve grown to love these past 12 episodes changes. This is the first time we see Tamako feeling this way and it’s unknown what she’ll do. Is this the moment where she bails on her family’s mochi shop and go to Tokyo with Mochizou? After being told she’s loved by Mochizou, she goes through a lot of emotions. She’s distant, spacier than normal, avoiding mochi, and avoiding Mochizou. It wasn’t until she gets a nudge from her friend Midori to go to Mochizou before he leaves for Japan.
And right there, along with her handmade cup phones, she tells Mochizou that she loves him.
We end the movie with kind of a video that I assume was made by Mochizou and that’s how Tamako Market ends. I guess these two are a couple. Not sure if Mochizou stays in the district with Tamako and his family or if Tamako ditches her family and moves to Tokyo to be with Mochizou. I guess it’s one of those leave it up to your imaginations.
So…The anime was just okay. The series I mean! Love Story was almost at peak KyoAni perfection. Seriously, look at the animation here. The backgrounds are freakin’ gorgeous. And after watching the series and the movie, it almost felt as though they were two separate animes. Dera, Choi, and the prince were only shown in pictures at the record shop, one second near the end, and that short before the motion picture. Take all of those out and you’ve got something solid. I mean let’s face it, Tamako Market was fluff on the same level as watching K-ON or Lucky Star. You’ve got a variety of random crap happening throughout the span of one year except this series has the great fortune to have an annoying, talking bird. I don’t want to dunk on the series that bad, it was cute. But the winner with me was definitely Tamako Love Story.
We see Tamako and Mochizou express a vast variety of emotions that we never saw in the series. Especially, Tamako! She was always this ditzy girl with a love for mochi. And Mochizou was seen as that dope that’ll never get his shit together and tell Tamako how he feels. He always forgets her birthday, what makes you think he was going to get his shit together? But then Mochizou grows a pair and tells Tamako he’s leaving town and that he loves her and you see Tamako change. She’s not sure what to think anymore. She even goes through a phase where she can’t be around mochi. But I suppose we needed the silly fluff with the television series. After all, it’s not just Tamako, but all of the people who live in that shopping district. And I suppose Dera was a fun mascot character. If you want that cuteness, watch Tamako Market. But if you want a more romantic-driven story, definitely check out the sequel movie Tamako Love Story.
If you would like to watch Tamako Market, Hidive has all 12 episodes and the movie available for streaming.
Now then, what’s next on my Sentai Filmworks list?
Redo of He…
Choose your next words wisely.
Well Medea, do you love anime that’s directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara?
Oh dear God. What fresh hell did I miss from that iconic enigma? And is it crazier than kappas eating people’s asses?
Okay Penguindrum…please do not contain penguins eating people’s asses.
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More Notes! Part 2.
Notes of space au/space crown.
Because I’m bored and don’t really feel like finishing up the next chapter of the Whodunit right now :P Based on this post!
It’s kinda funny because my initial plan for Chapter 5 was to spend a majority of it with the two dorks as Jay looked for something to disguise Cole in.
It ended up only being the last third of the chapter. And it wasn’t even that long?
I don’t know how or where it started but the whole bad guy v good guy thing came out of nowhere when I was typing it and it was just really good? So I kept it in.
Shockingly it worked really well in Chapter 7 when Harumi calls Cole “the bad guy” and Jay fights back saying he isn’t a bad guy, yet Rumi says he’s certainly not one of them, so why call him a good guy?
Also, I really don’t know where Zane went in this fic. There’s so many characters in the show I just? I guess I accidentally gave him a very minor role. I FEEL SO BAD THOUGH.
He only appeared so far for like, just a small chunk of dialogue and then POOF!
But I really love incorporating Pixal in my fics now. Only one nindroid can remain. Lol jk.
Looking back at Chapter 4, I can’t tell if I titled it “I’ve Got a Dream” because I was listening to that song non-stop as I wrote it, or because it was really heavily inspired by it. :P
One big note, however, is... Firstly, I get a lot of Befriending the Criminal vibes writing this LOL. (Speaking of, the one year anniversary after it finished was in March?? I didn’t know bro. Man, I forgot to draw something... or whatever. I should really try that with my new style).
ANYHOO, I don’t want it to end the same way that fic ended? I kind of want a mix between BTC and He Came To Get Me where the problem is resolved just a little over halfway before it ends. And then the rest of the fic is used for developing Jay and Cole’s relationship.
Ex. Jay teaching Cole to become a better person. Oh, definitely, most importantly...
Jay gaining Cole’s trust back. Because that’s really important.
I just... don’t quite know how well that bodes.
I REALLY want to do that though. Like, REALLY REALLY.
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HypMic 7 - 9 | Maou-jou 5 - 6 | Akudama Drive 6 - 8 | I7 s2 6 - 9 | Taiso Samurai 5 - 6
HypMic 7
I will never not laugh at the content advisory, haha.
I like Kazuha already. Too bad he’s probably evil…
Oh, is it the day of the DRB in the series already…? Or maybe, because it’s the qualifiers, BB and MTC’s match is on a different day to FP and MTR’s.
Oh? Does Tom know Jakurai well enough to call him “Jakurai-sensei”? (<- middle ground between “Jinguji-sensei/Sensei” and “Jakurai”) Also, Tom uses “ore”.
Ooh, Iris is a motorbike rider, eh? Interesting. I thought they (<- not sure if Iris is a “she” or “he” with a really weird name) were more of a Saburo-type and didn’t bother with things like that, based on their appearance. Update: Someone on Yahoo Answers said based on Iris’s watashi, she is a woman.
Typo fixed! Good job, anime staff! Update: I’m referring to “…darkest hour is just before the down” (sic).
…bukkorosu = “f***in’ slaughter ‘em”. It’s not wrong…it’s just the subbers really like to abuse the F word for MTC. But you knew that already if you got this far…right?
LOL, Ramuda wants to “scratch [Rex’s] back” (figuratively) to…get SNS views? Hahaha.
This Studio Alita is probably a reference to Shinjuku Alta.
Yotsutsuji!!! That was the one big spoiler I got before watching the episode today and I’m so happy I got to see him animated!
(One of) Irihatoma and Degarashi refer to Jakurai as “Jakurai-sensei” as well. Hmm, I never noticed. Update: That’s Degarashi, because Irihatoma speaks to Jakurai alone later this ep.
There’s 50% chance I’m getting this wrong, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Kazuha is voiced by a veteran VA…one I already know about.
Doppo calls Kazuha by his first name…That upgrade means their relationship escalated quickly (or this is a quirk of HypMic in general, since I noticed most characters are on first name basis with each other). Also, it’s cute Doppo finally has someone in his corner. No other part of the franchise has one, to my memory. Update: It might actually be “Kazuha-kun”…but I’m still surprised though. Update 2: It’s both, actually.
I’ve listened to the phrase “some random guy” several times from Hifumi’s mouth and all I can figure out is the “yatsu” at the end. (Doesn’t help my ears blocked themselves up again, although it’s less than it used to be.)
Harumi Wharf.
R? On a helicopter landing pad?
…uh oh. I was right when I thought Kazuha was going to be evil. Also, Doppler shift/effect. Update: “Doppler” is clearly a pun on “Doppo”.
Hmm? “Hey, Doppo” from “yaa”…it doesn’t have a name referred in there. It’s a small but odd thing to do. (I remember a professional translator was complaining that people with intermediate Japanese were giving them flak for translating things “wrong”, but what I do here is analysis for my future and edificiation. I’m not here to knock down pro translators’ doors and demand a refund, because I’m trying to go pro to atone for my sins as a scanlator.)
The soundtrack’s slightly sinister tone, plus the fact I figured the culprit well before Doppo did, makes me slightly scared…for MTR.
I realised they skimped on the budget…this “hot off the car chase” line seems more like an MTC line, doesn’t it…?...Yeah, it’s almost word for word for MTC in DRB+. Maybe the subbers rushed and used this translation (this link I put here) rather than their actual lyrics…? I will have to get to the bottom of this. Update: Turns out the translation is slightly different, but…yes, there is reference to a car chase in the start of Shinjuku Style. (Sorry, I don’t know every lyrics of every song off the top of my head.)
…wow, this got really Doppo-centric. I’ve never seen the leader relinquish their position when it comes to “leading into battle” before. It just goes to show the staff really do pay attention to how popular Doppo is.
Note “Doppo” means “walk alone”, roughly speaking, hence the “solitary” line.
This song is very, very faithful to its original lyrics, because I was trying to look at Hifumi’s “mixing paint” line and it pretty much matches.
Hifumi’s “my men”, LOL.
Kazuha = “one leaf”, hence the “leaves” in one of Jakurai’s lines.
I cringe every time I hear screaming coming from this episode, y’know…?
…oh dear. MTC’s plot actually bled into MTR’s.
I already knew from browsing Twitter earlier today that Kizuna was going to become FP’s today, but hearing it is another matter entirely.
Kosuke Miyoshi is Kazuha. Apparently, this guy also voiced Mashirao Ojiro (the tail guy) from BnHA, but that’s his only major role…so I was right in that I knew him, but wrong in that he was, again, a relative rookie in comparison to most.
Apparently FP’s sign is a peace sign sideways to represent an F, but…it’s just a sideways peace sign to me…
…how is Dice’s bead ornament attached to him? Is it on his hair, on his ear, on the skin behind his ear…? I was trying to replicate his outfit and got stuck on how to represent it, so I ended up opting for trying (and failing) to do a small braid on the right side.
IWGP shows up this season…it’s the song with the “hoo!” noise BB perform in this episode.
LOL, “Dead men tell no tales” is a perfect saying for MTC.
Akudama 6
Is there a movie called “Brother”…? There’s apparently one that’s the plural of that, but not that itself.
If HypMic likes the F bomb, then Akudama like the S word.
I-Is it just me or is the choreography sped up at some points in this episode…? It’s a bit disorienting to come back to.
I thought the kid was a robot…but close enough.
Oh no! Why does the teacher always have to die for the student to become stronger???
Kairaku/shugi -> pleasure/doctrine (if I didn’t somehow misunderstand the shark’s kanji combo),
The part after the ED looks a little too long…keep watching.
The Japanese says “Lost Children”, but the English says “The City of Lost Children”, probably referring to this French sci-fi film.
I7 s2 6
I like how Gaku is taking special offence to Yamato’s comments about him being a playboy.
Re:vale-san. I never noticed until now.
“I’m already looking forward to it.” That’s how I would translate Tsumugi’s “I’m already excited”.
“…who could possibly complain?” – I think Mitsuki might.
The pun in the MEZZO show is that tai (group/squad) sounds the same as tai (want to ~). Rabbinsta is obviously Instagram + Rabbit (Chat?).
Oh my gosh! It’s the Yotsuba sister!
Mitsuki’s shopping trip OST is nice, man. This piano.
This episode has a really great sense of danger and foreboding for the future.
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Perfection Gimmick. Never heard it in the anime before.
Even the ramen house’s name is a play on “Idolish7”.
LOL, Yamato sure turned that comment around.
The sign talking about beer says something about coupons below it. (It went by too fast and my CR app’s kinda fiddly, so I can’t really go back…)
Kimi to Ai na Night (pun on Idolish7, aka “AiNana”, again).
Mitsuki, no one hates you! You’re just imagining it all!
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Momo hugely resembles Sasara, right down to the highlights on the hair…
“…you’re so handsome…” – I’m dying on the inside here, people! *laps up the BL pandering with a derpy smile on my face*
Banri and Tsumugi haven’t been focussed on lately…they’re clearly doing something regarding Banri’s ties with Re:vale, but I can’t quite figure out what that “something” is.
Why is there a basketball and a football in the back of the Takanashi office…?
Please don’t run in heels, Tsumugi…
“I love Idolish7!” - Ah, despite my quibbles, Tsumugi is good after all.
“making one’s best exertions” – Why do those words on the cup worry me a bit…?
Isn’t “I’m watching you” a creepy statement…?
Apparently Tamaki’s symbol is mp (mezzo pianissimo), hence Sougo’s words.
…my gosh! Aya’s foster father is Kujou?!
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If I heard it right, Tenn’s line was “I can be your idol”, not “your prince”.
“Older Izumi” - …ah, poor Mitsuki.
“Damn you, sexy beast…” – LOL!
…aw, I think this is the first time my heart has been lightened by Tsunashi’s laugh. He’s a good boy.
The chibis…I’m still trying to get used to them…
As a song once said, “You can’t please everyone so you just gotta please yourself.” (Blah blah blah, something about garden parties…)
Takao what now???...okay, Takao Dayuu.
…You’re lucky that wasn’t Tenn doing Takao Dayuu. It would’ve been very “Gentaro does his courtesan voice” if it was.
Nagi doesn’t overpronounce things as much in this season. It’s…pleasant, actually. Give me more of that.
Nagi’s “Oh my god!” was hilarious.
Taiso 5
Ra (ら) and ro (ろ) look kinda similar in hiragana.
Even without the audio, I can guess the words were “yarubeki koto” (things you should do) -> shachihoko.
The texts are written in gyaru-moji. Gyaru-moji is basically indecipherable to anyone who doesn’t know how it works – kind of like the common teen vernacular, to be honest (LOL…?) – and so the subs actually kind of ruin the confusingness of it all, but they did slightly better when they went “UR”.
Movie shiritori! But…has it really been half a year since Leo started? I feel slightly robbed about that plotline with the Men in Black right now…(then again, HypMic is just as bad about important plotlines, if not worse, so…I’m going to be patient and not complain.)
July 5th…Rei is a Cancer…?
They’re…finally moving on this Men in Black plotline! I only complained two points ago! Thank you, staff, for listening to my complaints (…?).
Moon Land finished recently, so I wonder if I’ll lose interest in this anime from here on out…? There was a Pommel Horse Prince in that.
Moon Land taught me that gymnastics has a lot of skills named after their creators, much like the Aragaki previously. The score is out of 10 for both D (difficulty) and E (execution), meaning a 20 is the best you can do, but the judges can get really picky...
The word for “vault” literally means “leaping/jumping horse”…makes sense.
Some of these names are names I’m familiar with from Moon Land already…but I never remember what the skills look like.
…welp, Leo just proved he really is a ninja after all.
Dr Stone’s s2 had its ED announced to be “Koe?” by Hatena and “Yume?” here really makes a theme…does Hatena give all their song titles question marks on the end?
Taiso 6
Colour gangs? Like in IWGP?
It’s nice to see they’re (Jotaro and Rei) communicating properly for the first time in possibly this entire anime.
On the wall, that thing is an evacuation map…of some sort.
…I’ve always wondered: if a bird eats chicken, does that count as cannibalism?
This is like thw Makkachin incident all over again (in YoI).
“…there’s no reason for you to grin and bear it.”
…Leo and Jotaro, both are so dense! Boys *shakes head*.
BB? More like ET (LOL)!
Maou-jou 5
…I didn’t even notice the cast was all dudes bar the princess at this point.
Tatakau Onnatachi. It could mean “fighting women” or “female warriors”.
I’m still vaguely pissed that Kirito is here under my nose…darn Demon King!!!
One of the harpy’s recent worries was that she wanted to become friends with the princess…That’s kinda cute…
Didn’t Syalis already get the coffin that one time? Or did it get confiscated?
*eyes sparkle* Cloud…I’d like to sleep on a cloud…*dreamy look on face* Cloud.
This is basically Princess, ‘Tis Time for Torture in reverse.
Is it “make do” or “make due”…?
I don’t think I need to explain the joke where the harpy is happy.
Gendo pose!
I wonder if the bed or the sheets will talk to her (Syalis) someday?
Maou-jou 6
The New Gearbolt’s quote is “guruguru dokkan”, which is just a bunch of sound effects. It would translate to something like “whir-whir-thud”.
Underwear episodes are some of the worst episodes ever…they’re so juvenile…I dropped at least one series based on the underwear episode alone.
Ah! The seal on the ice monster’s shoulder! Too cute!
How can a mechanical princess mecha (…thing?) have worries?
LOL, never underestimate the hilarity of the teddy demons ganging up on the Demon King.
I like how the Japanese pointed out the demons only moved the princess.
HypMic 8
I thought the robberies were Kazuha’s doing…? Or is this a separate case?
Samatoki answering his phone with his feet up…LOL, there’s just something funny about it. It shows he’s just so badass, he can get away with it.
Riou’s hacking (?) skills come to the fore again. (Or is that listening to enemy intel?)
Ooh, Iris is sassy. I love her already.
…er, Samatoki? Blowing cigarette smoke into Jyuto’s face is just rude…
“…don’t hang up your gloves.” – Considering Jyuto has his red gloves…LOL.
What the heck is that backing track when the 2nd car moved out? That’s a cool track.
Ah! Iris is a Saburo-type…LOL, Saburo’s fake identity.
“a cop who’s in with the yakuza” - Wow, way to diss your own teammate, Samatoki.
For a guy who was only just in the water, Riou doesn’t even look wet.
“2 DIE 4” – Hmm? So did the anime staff know what Riou’s 2nd round song title was at the time…? Update: Judging by the name “Requiem” dropped in the next episode, I would say yes.
“…f*** the police…” - Wow, way to diss your own teammate, Samatoki. X2
Hmm? In Riou’s rap bit near the end, he goes “mad warrior” and that rhymes (in a very loose way of speaking) with “Mad Trigger”. The English didn’t keep that.
I remember seeing a spoiler which said that line (the one about slaves)…but seriously, Jyuto is such a “sexy revenge cop” (as someone once said – I think it might be Slug, or an anon to Slug) that literally nothing else seems to matter about him.
Why do they subtitle the laughing??? I still have no idea.
“Sgt. Iruma”? The guy just says “Iruma-san”. Is he a sergant or some other rank? Update: Yes. (As in, he is a sergant.)
I’ve never actually seen Ramuda sleep in a bed before, come to think of it. Does he not have a bed?
I would assume Gentaro is going…but he said he won’t be going, then negated that and then negated it again. Unless the 2nd time was him admitting it was a lie the first time…is he going or not???
“shinsetsu no human” – (Spoilers for later on/manga)…Yes, that’s actually what Ramuda says. It’s as if Ramuda subtly admits, right there, he isn’t human.
Nodo = throat…If this were translated more literally, it would sound pretty clunky.
“…rappa no inochi…paa!” – Yep, the subbers got the gist of the joke there.
Dice is basically a worm at this point…He’s squirming like one, anyway.
That “number of pips facing up” thing has got to be foreshadowing for something, y’know? Nothing in a story ever goes to waste. Also, it’s likely the dice are weighted or something…
…yep, there you go.
That voice Gentaro used for “I despise lies” was amusing…because it’s so different to his normal voice, and because Gentaro is a serial liar.
The 2nd song…which I already know is called “JACKPOT” from browsing Twitter earlier today…was a bunch of fun.
Udagawacho.
Hmm…emphasis on the candy. I wonder what that means? (<- already knows, I just want to keep it a secret from you, dear reader, if you don’t know it too)
ANIME SHOP is so clearly a pun on Animate, including the colours, that I can’t even…LOL.
FP’s Kizuna sounds distinctly different to the others…probably because of Ramuda. It’s mostly Ramuda carrying the tune there.
“Life is what you make it.” – Hmm, an interesting quote for sure.
HypMic 9
…welp, they don’t call it Fling Posse for nothin’.
I didn’t believe my ears, so I went and listened to it again. Sure enough, Ichiro calls Jakurai -san, not -sensei.
Ramuda’s normal voice! Things are getting serious~!
“Hifuming”? Is that a deliberate choice on the translators’ part? Or is it a mishearing?
…I’m laughing at how Samatoki called Ichiro a “hypocritical piece of s***”. I know the “s***” part is correct at minimum from the audio.
I believe Samatoki said -san, not -sama when he asked for an honorific. Hmm, interesting.
I knew this would get animated, but…I still can’t believe I’m watching it! Amazing…absolutely amazing.
If you’re wondering…yes, that long thing is her entire title and name. It’s said the name “Kadenokouji” is the longest Japanese surname in existence.
I remember reading a tweet earlier today that said somebody wanted “Altercation! Altercation! Altercation!” as a song title…and now I LOL, because the subbers made Gentaro say the exact same word.
Hmm…I only just noticed BB are the only ones with bags. They probably came last, but who took the others’ bags into Chuoku…? Update: Some of the others did have bags, I just never spotted them. For instance, Riou is carrying a large black rectangular bag, but Samatoki and Jyuto don’t have any. Jakurai has the bag from his TDD days.
The 2nd DRB brackets got announced today. BB vs DH, MTR vs BAT, FP vs MTC, rolling out across Japan (and Japan only due to COVID) in 2021.
“What happened between you and him?” - I was going “who?” in Cantonese (as I sometimes do), but turns out they’re just referring to Samatoki.
This is exactly as it played out in the drama tracks and manga…exactly what I was waiting for all this time! So good, dangit!
LOL, in the future, we will have camera drones working our concerts like they do in the DRBs…I think (?)
I wonder what Dice is thinking right now, seeing Otome on the screen…hmm…
…gah! Airhorn! Airhorn to the ears! *tilts to side due to sound*
I still kind of remember Slug’s take on the final battle…”The popo? More like the poopoo!” (or something like that). *sniggers*
The little barking bit after Jiro’s verse was…kinda cute, actually.
…ow, these are some burn-ass words. See? This is the power of the DRB!
…eh? Riou’s mic has his MC name on it. Don’t think I’ve seen that in any other part of the series.
Hoh, Riou even made references to Saburo’s character songs.
You can see “Hc” on Samatoki’s mic too…probably another case of his MC name, but partially obscured by his hand.
Aw, “Samatoki no sabaku toki” is a good lyric. Why couldn’t you try to keep that, instead of translating it literally to “judgement day for Samatoki”?
You can hear a thumping beat in the background when Samatoki prepares himself. That seems to be a similar way to how ARB treats this stuff.
“I’m THE Samatoki” – “Samatoki-sama da”.
I think it was really cool to show Samatoki handing the song over to Riou, but it also indicates there’s a disjunct in the lyrics that would cause such a thing. From this, maybe Riou is MTC’s weak link…?
Skeletons with katanas! Is that not cool?!?
…hey, that joined words thing Ichiro does…I would assume that’s what Rhyme Strike looks like in the HypMic universe?
Notice Samatoki took the word “signal” from Ichiro’s part and put it into his own one.
“Today is a good day to die.” – *eyes bulge* Oh…gosh. What a quote. Update: Someone theorised Ichijiku wrote these titles (the last 2), but someone else – like me – theorised this quote was what FP and M fans thought for this battle.
Akudama 7
…that’s one twisted kid.
Never threaten to kill a kid who can regenerate far better than you, Hoodlum.
Brawler is still in the OP…it’s kind of saddening to see him now.
I noticed a certain character appears on the Executioners’ hands if you pause at the right moment in the OP. It’s the first character in shori (management).
Bunny: set meal/Shark: roasted meat (yakiniku)
…This sounds a heck of a lot like the genbaku dome (Hiroshima Peace Park).
Bunny and Shark’s shirts together: Idiot -> Shark: Bone
Actually, this also reminds me of the Osaka Expo held in 1970. I loved writing about that event – it was just so fun to write about.
This anime is like Appare-Ranman’s sequel, except without the racing and crazy racial stereotypes (although there are still crazy stereotypes).
…whoa! This scene is going on the end of year list for sure. Just…have to remember this scene, where all the children disappeared, exists.
…”The City of Lost Children” is an apt title for this episode.
(HypMic spoilers!) I wonder if they’ll reveal that Ramuda is a clone in what’s left of the HypMic anime?
…oof, Doctor’s a filthy traitor!
Rule number 1 of fighting: never yell out “Smokescreen!” when the smokescreen is meant to cover you.
…LOL, dark censorship bar. Please wait for the Blu-Rays to see this scene uncensored.
What the heck?! The countdown went from 7 to 0 so fast!
Akudama 8
Black Rain, huh? *checks* It’s a movie about a pair of New York policemen who have to save a Japanese gangster from his death.
…don’t jinx it, Swindler!
Your brother isn’t on the moon, Sister. It’s just your dreams on there.
Notice “Neo Lake Biwa” actually has “Reiku” in its name, as opposed to, say, “mizuumi” or “ike” (the Japanese equivalent).
You can still see where Doctor stitched herself up.
What did Doctor “hold on to”?
Way to monologue through the whole morality thing… (<- not as satisfied as they would like from this scene)
I wonder if the seal is electronically tracked…
Tsubo = pot, vase…*thinks about drugs* (Not that pot.)
“…I’ll make you into a real man.” – More like a eunuch, LOL. (partially sarcastic)
I recall from Sarazanmai that “pair look” is the term for “twinsies” in Japanese.
Oh! Swindler kind of looks like the Executioner Boss now.
…I find it ironic that Swindler had long hair up until not too long ago.
Can to the eye! Ouch! That’s gotta be worse than a lightsaber…er, jitte to the eye!
This makes me wonder…was Courier a rich kid once…?
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The Wedding: Part 7: The Build-Up
*it is finally the big day, as everyone is getting the wedding ready to go. With the two parties, they’re getting themselves dressed up*
Retsuko: *setting up her veil* ….I don’t know, it doesn’t look quite right. Looks a little crooked.
Tsunoda: Oh, NOW you’re worried about how good things look.
Retsuko: Hey, it’s different when it’s on you!
Rie: Honey, relax. You look great!
Hiroko: Yeah! Chill a bit, my bro will love ya no matter what!
Retsuko: ….well, yeah. That part I know for certain.
Harumi: So you shouldn’t have anything to worry about.
Retsuko: Yeah….heh.
Riko: What’s up?
Retsuko: I don’t know. Just...something about Haida, and Ryuu...kinda makes me think about Ikari a little bit.
Hiroko: ...huh?
Retsuko: Er, nothing! I-I’ll chat with Haida about it later.
Harumi: Oh. Um, alright.
Retsuko: Yeah….um, what time is it?
Tsunoda: *checks phone* It is-*GASP!* We need to get a move on! We don’t have much time!
Retsuko: UH, a-alright!
Rie: Just put a little lipstick on, you look fine otherwise!
Retsuko: Uh, right! *gets lipstick on her mouth* ...I wonder if Haida’s stressing out as much.
*MEANWHILE!*
Haida: *setting up his tie* ...so, how do I look?
Ryuu: Oof, you SURE this guy’s gonna be my brother-in-law, dad? *snickers*
Haida: H-hey!
Ryota: Ah, all in good fun!
Ookami: Being real, you look about as good as a groom could probably look.
Hisoka: You look great, son…*sniff*
Haida: Aw, dad, c’mon, not now!
Hisoka: S-sorry! Just...oh, my son’s about to get married, I feel like I need to shed a few tears!
Ryota: Don’t feel too bad, I’m probably going to be crying a ton giving my baby girl away...er, happy tears, rest assured.
Haida: Heh, thanks.
Ryota: ...er, listen, Haida. I know, I probably shouldn’t be one to talk about this, given...well, some of the stuff I’ve done, but...treat her well, okay? Treat her the way a good man treats his wife.
Haida: O-of course, sir! I will try to make sure I treat your daughter with the utmost respect and dignity!
Ryota: *chuckles* I don’t think she’ll care so much for that, I think she just wants to be loved!
Haida: Well, I will love her until the end of time.
Ryota: Wonderful.
Ryuu: ...I, uh, I wish you two all the best...brother.
Haida: Hehe, dude, you’re still uncomfortable? I thought you warmed up!
Ryuu: It’s all still a little much for me, I’m just trying to take it all in.
Haida: Ah. Well, maybe some time soon, you and I can hang out again, do some more brother-in-law bonding, huh?
Ryuu: ...alright. :)
Haida: Awesome!
Fenneko: *opens the door* Is the dum-dum ready to go, or do we need to wait another five hours?
Haida: Er, just about, Fenneko!
Fenneko: Alrighty. If you guys wanna go out to the lobby, I’ll make sure Haida didn’t forget anything. Spoilers, he probably did.
Ryota: Very well.
Hisoka: *pats Haida on the back* See you out there, sport!
Haida: Thanks, dad! *they leave, with he and Fenneko the only ones there* So, did I miss anything?
Fenneko: Let’s see...ah. *fixes his collar* There. Now you look something vaguely resembling presentable.
Haida: Hahahaha. *Fenneko goes over to check on herself in the mirror* ...say, can I ask you something?
Fenneko: I dunno, CAN you?
Haida: No, being serious here...why ARE you so hellbent on me and Retsuko being a thing? Like, you tried to help in the hospital, you were quick to help me figure out Retsuko wasn’t going out with someone, you even helped us try to calm down Ryuu. You just overall seemed to want us to be together. Even willing to pay for the wedding! Seemed kinda...weird, I dunno.
Fenneko: …….you….you really want to know?
Haida: ...what, is there something to it?
Fenneko: Erm...kinda…….look, what I’m about to tell you? It does NOT leave this room. Under any circumstances. Got it?
Haida: S-sure! No problem!
Fenneko: Okay. So…..when you and I first met…….I MIGHT had gotten a bit of a crush on ya?
Haida: ...what?
Fenneko: I should also emphasize HAD. It’s dead now. But yeah, for a brief time, you were actually the one thing that warmed up my cold, black heart.
Haida: ...h….how long did this happen?
Fenneko: Erm, not too terribly long. I think over time, I quickly started just seeing you as a good buddy, more than anything. Pretty sure the first time I saw Tsunoda as a hot piece of ass was the final nail on the coffin.
Haida: I...huh….so, how does that correlate to-
Fenneko: I’m getting there, you impatient Ingrid. :3
Haida: Right, sorry.
Fenneko: I kinda just happened to notice you crushing hard on Retsuko, and sort of figuring out stuff between you two, and...well, realized you two would actually be pretty badass together. So, I wanted to see you two happy together more than anything. Like, that’s kinda my high...in fact, it actually kinda reminded me of something you told me.
Haida: Yeah?
Fenneko: When you and Retsuko actually started getting real serious in the relationship, I remember you being just so awestruck by how much you genuinely loved her. Like, whenever we got the time, and the alcohol in our systems, you would just list off every single wonderful thing about her you could think of. And I remember this one day, this one fucking day, you said this thing that, at the time, I didn’t really get, but it soon sunk in. You said you were so in love with her, that even if you two were to break up, you wouldn’t even feel too bad, because you now cared more about her being happy, than her being with you.
Haida: ….you know, I...I do remember that.
Fenneko: Yeah. I guess I sorta realized that was kinda my motto for you two. Like, if somehow I wound up with you, that would be kinda cool, I guess. Hell, truthfully, I wouldn’t mind hookin’ up with Retsy. But if it had you two being happy and in love with each other, then quite frankly, I would be much more satisfied. To see those faces staring lovingly at each other, with your own little bundle of joy in your arms...that would bring me so much more joy than any 4chan member could ever do.
Haida: ...wow...well, uh...I must confess that after knowing you for as long as I have, I unfortunately don’t really have any romantic feelings for you.
Fenneko: “Unfortunately”? Dude, that’s a godsend. I don’t wanna waste all this money, just so you can flip-flop on Retsuko.
Haida: But...I do appreciate all the help you’ve given. Is there any way to repay you?
Fenneko: Just listen to Retsuko’s dad, and treat the girl right. That’s all.
Haida: Will do...so, uh, is there anyone that IS warming your heart at the moment?
Fenneko: Tsunoda, duh. ;3
Haida: Heh, I never thought you would ever say that!
Fenneko: Me neither. But yeah, she...I dunno, she’s still a bitch, and gets on my nerves, but...I don’t think I’ve ever felt so close to someone as her. Even when it was you, I don’t think it ever got this bad.
Haida: You’re starting to see how I felt with Retsuko! *chuckles* ...well, if you need any real help expressing yourself to her...I’ll try to help out whenever I can. To pay you back. :)
Fenneko: ...you...you mean it?
Haida: Yeah! What are friends for, right?
Fenneko: ….*hugs him* thanks, dude.
Haida: *hugs her back* No problem.
Fenneko: *breaks the hug, and starts making her way to the door* C’mon, let’s get you hitched already. You get to the aisle, I’ll check up on the bride.
Haida: Okay...ah, man, today’s going to be awesome. All these years, leading to my special day, with the girl of my dreams. ^_^ I just hope she says I do...but I guess even if she doesn’t, that’s okay, right? I mean, as long as she’s happy...then again, there’s Ikari, that would complicate things. How would he feel? Well, I guess he’s a baby, he probably wouldn’t care. Actually, if the wedding is off, would that break us up, or just keep us in the boyfriend-girlfriend stage? Or would we stay in the fiancée stage? Oh, whatever it is, I hope we don’t have to go through tha-
Fenneko: Dude, if you don’t get going, I will marry the damn bride myself.
Haida: Gah! Sorry! *follows her* ….wait, I thought you wanted Tsunoda?
Fenneko: Do I look like I care? :3 *closes the door* Besides, I don’t mind trying to do that, given I have the power to wed you two.
Haida: ….huh?
Fenneko: Oh, didn’t I tell you? I got ordained just for this occasion! *starts walking ahead of Haida*
Haida: *standing in the hallway* …….you got WHAT?!
Now, I hear the lot of you. “Jacob, you just posted Part 6! How the hell did you post Part 7 so fast?! You should be taking longer than System of a Down takes to release a new album, you lazy piece of shit! I bet you had your thumbs up your bumhole throughout the entire time you were supposed to be writing, considering what a slob you are!”
Firstly, uh, wow, a bit rude.
Secondly....IIIII kinda finished this one up way early? Yeah, I was trying to do a thing where I had some parts done beforehand, so I have a clearer idea of where I want the story to go....ended up not going with it fully, but it did allow me to finish this! So, now, I have one (well, technically two, there IS an epilogue) more chapter left! And it’s a BIG one! With paragraphs! Narration! And even a big bit of art that I plan to show at the end!
And I wanna get this done before either May 31, or June 14, when Season 2 comes out!
Somebody please kill me, for the love of God! :D
#aggretsuko#Aggressive Retsuko#Retsuko#Haida#Fenneko#Ryota#Rie#Ryuu#Riko#Hisoka#Harumi#Hiroko#Tsunoda#Ikari
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Popular AWOl Ships in a Nutshell
Long post ahead.
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Suwon:
Won x Soomi
Queen of all ships
Intellectual meets philosopher
Funniest couple you will ever meet
Agdjkfdgdaf there’s just so much chemistry
Stans have like written full-length thought-out analyses on this shit
When they dance together it’s the best cause Won can dance like no one’s business and Soomi is just trying her best but they still look awesome together
Gyuju:
Gyuri x Jinju
Both have two siblings
Both play guitar
Both are the two tallest in their group
Both do modern dance
At this point no one knows if the only reason this ship is so popular is cause they just have so much in common
But they do kinda balance each other out
Gyuri’s the drill sergeant and Jinju’s the cheerleader
Hyeju:
Hyerin x Jinju
Leader/maknae stuff, ya know
They’re actually pretty cute together
“Oh my god, they were roommates”
These shippers will never get over the one time Hyerin made Jinju ramen when she was super stressed and helped her to take a break from working
WonderMod stans be like “I ship Hyeju” and LOONA stans be like “but with who tho”
Hareum:
Hanbyeol x Areum
Hanbyeol can cook and Areum loves to eat so
Also lots of dad energy for some reason
This one’s only as big as it is from that one fanfic “I’m Trapped in a Hareum Anime”
Shenanigan
Sangeun:
Sangwoo x Jaegeun
It’s a duo group
Of course it’s a ship
Generates lots of enemies-to-lovers fanfiction for some reason
Sangwoo’s the flirty one and Jaegeun’s the dapper one so you get all the cute shipping dynamics
AK6
2Woo:
K.O. (Kiwoo) x Woori
“Oh my God, they were roommates”
Scary but weak meets buff but softie
Honestly could become real
I mean K.O.’s bi so
The fans feel vaguely justified
Uwu
Lites Out:
K.O. x Lite
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: 2Woo vs. Lites Out
K.O’s stage persona is almost aggressive enough for Lite’s actual personality
Jk she’s soft for like one person and it’s him
Need to host a variety show stat
DeLite:
Lite x Luxe
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: Lites Out vs DeLite
Fashion king and queen
They got that yin/yang thing going
Watch them like actually get away with murder tho
Labyrinth:
Miro x Luxe
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: DeLite vs Labyrinth
The thinking man’s ship
They’re always the ones to sit back and lovingly shake their heads while everyone else does something fun but stupid
No one really sees this ship going anywhere sexual but it’s got all the good memes so
Forget-Me-Not
Hanhwan:
Hanbin x Joohwan
That name tho
Poetry
Absolute softies for each other
If this were a fanfic it’d be a slow burn cause they’re so goddamn oblivious
Hanbin’s a sex-demon on the outside and a cinnamon roll on the inside
Let’s just say people suspect the opposite of Joohwan
Kim Woo:
Kim Gyeong x Siwoo
More leader/maknae
Try and make this one sexy and watch yourself get kicked out of the fandom by angry stans
This is why Forget-Me-Not doesn’t have ship wars
PINEAPPLE
Shinmin:
Shinyoung x Minchul
We don’t know how anyone let this happen
They’re cousins
Like not even distant cousins
I know the internet sucks
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: Shincest or Mincest
Lots of pining jokes cause gEDDIT they’re in pINEAPPLE
But yeah this one gets all the shame it deserves
a.LOVE
Jangyoung:
Gayoung x Tokki (Jangmi)
Their MV characters have a sorta abusive dynamic so
This one gets a lot of eyebrows raised
But IRL they’re both just trying to out-care for each other
So the fics are either hardcore angst or total fluff
I would say “oh my God, they were roommates” but they’re all roommates so like
Sungyoung:
Gayoung x Sungmi
The Unpopular Ship™
Oh look it’s another enemies-to-lovers Sungyoung fic
Half the time they’re both j chilling and the other half they’re the literal definition of sexual tension
MiMi:
Tokki (Jangmi) x Sungmi
Technically leader/maknae but like
It feels different
It’s just really cute man what can I say
They’ve got that tsundere/genki girl dynamic going
*insert meme man* Show ALL the affection!
GSG
Yangbin:
Yang x Sebin
All the chemistry, all the feels, and sadly also all the annoying straight girls fetishizing Asian men
But like seriously when they dance together it’s absolutely golden
Yang’s all flowing and expressive and Sebin’s all sharp and aggressive
Kinda matches their personalities too
It’s just sad that so many stans have to be all sasaeng-y about it
AB Yang:
AB Young x Yang
Who wants to bet it’s just for the name huh
But no it’s low-key cute
You wouldn’t think they’d have too much chemistry at first
They’re like the “don’t match on paper but perfect irl” kinda couple
More platonic vibes than the Yangbin shipping content
Kyunghorang:
Horang x Kyungho
Literally just Sangeun all over again
Everyone wants to protecc our precious maknae Kyungho from bad boy Horang
But they’re actually both really good for each other and Horang just gets him ya know
You know what it is? It’s Good Omens. That’s the dynamic here.
DGRM
Moyeon:
Moya x Doyeon
Also called Doya by people who are stupid
Should really start their own pranking channel
Who’s ready for h/c fanfiction~~~
No but seriously Moya has helped Doyeon through panic attacks a lot
She’s tall so she can fit all the comfort in her
And Doyeon’s short bc
Um
Ok it’s just cute how much taller Moya is compared to Doyeon lol
Duanjung:
Jung-ah x Duanphen
Softies trying to be baddies
Like Yangbin in their dancing styles
So much poking fun at each other it’s not even funny but like it is tho
All the cuddles, all the selcas with cutesy filters
And then BAM new set of teasers comes out and they look sexy as FUCK
Yufang:
JD Fang x Yuyan
No one would’ve shipped it until the behind-the-scenes vid for Midnight Girl came out
And now they’re just weirdos together
They’re like the Sith: One master, one apprentice
Yuyan is the dark mysterious inner core JD wishes she had
And JD is the stability and reasonableness Yuyan has been searching for her whole life
JD Aika:
JD Fang x Aika
It’s 99% because they kissed in a music video
But like COME ON THEY KISSED IN A MUSIC VIDEO
AND NOT HALFHEARTEDLY EITHER
Honestly gorgeous fan art for this couple
Not as much obvious chemistry as some ships but fans are always like “omg thEIR HANDS tOuChEd”
Yiyan:
Yifei x Yuyan
There’s something about whenever they have lines or screen time together that just works
Both trying to soften each other up but in different ways
And usually succeeding
They’re just really good close friends ya know
The kind you could see accidentally developing a crush on each other
RFei:
Yifei x RJ
“Oh my God, they were roommates”
Ultimate good girl/bad girl ship
But secretly they’re both just nervous wrecks
We know Yifei helped comfort RJ a lot after she came out and heard back from her parents so
Get ready for more h/c fic~~~
Ho-J:
RJ x Hoa
The actual baddies
*stifles laugh* hoe-j
Remember the “sugakookie with a cup of tae” jokes? Yeah it’s that bad
They’re both just too sexy for the fans to handle so naturally what better ship could you get it’s just basic math
Also need to host a variety show stat
Triple D:
Duanphen x DaO x Doyeon
It’s a joke ship that some people started taking seriously
Don’t ask, no one has an explanation
SET! (Korean soloists)
JZo:
Jihoon x Zo
Because Jizo is an objectively bad name (ok sure it looks fine but try saying it out loud)
Also occasionally known as Jezus
Lots of uncle energy (?)
Zo would totally be Jihoon’s real life manic pixie dream girl if she wasn’t, ya know, a strong and badass woman with her own agency who also happens to have quirky hair
Mayoon:
May x Hayoon
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: Do you pronounce it like “May” or like “Hayoon”
Tbh this ship died pretty quickly
Since we’re all pretty sure now that May’s aroace
And like they’re young, we don’t get in the way of their friendship
That iconic answer-your-tweets vid where someone asked “how do you pronounce Mayoon” and Hayoon was just like “you don’t”
But for real they have the BEST FRIENDSHIP HANDS DOWN
PERFECT FOR EACH OTHER
Mesmere
Jaereum:
Jaegeun x Areum
The thing with Mesmere is that there are canonical “couples” in the MVs
Which were decided based on which members were like “yesss I’m so down for this concept” and which ones were like “this could be fun to try I guess”
Jaegeun and Areum fall into the former category
The shippers tend to be very kinky
So much smut but like most of it’s inspired by Mesmere’s original concept so it shouldn’t be surprising
Is there real chemistry? Who knows? Does it matter? Not to the fans it doesn’t
Robin:
Miro x Hanbin
The “this could be fun to try I guess” gang
Everyone stans bc omg that ship name is adorable
If Jaereum is the “sweet on the outside, sexy on the inside” pair, Robin is the “sexy on the outside, sweet on the inside” pair
This one always throws AK6 and Forget-Me-Not fans for a loop because no one expects them to be THAT SEXY
BUT THEY ARE
Fireflower
Seiko:
Seori x Teiko
Another tsundere/genki girl ship
Except the genki girl is surprisingly intimidating in that “she’s not scary she’s just hot” way
New fans never expect Seori to be the head-over-heels type
But she is~
Someone make this into an actual book please it would be so cute
Harumi:
Haruna x Mega (Megumi)
1 ball of energy + 1 ball of energy = perfection
No but literally they have so much enthusiasm
They could be a perpetual motion machine where they both just survive off the other’s energy
Opposites attract more like no I love Harumi
Firepower
Junto:
Hiroto x Junya
Obligatory main-vocalist ship
Surprisingly pure ship until you realize you just haven’t looked hard enough
Like seriously it’s all fluff or all smut with this one
Irl they’re fairly cute together but mostly because they’re good friends
Good friends who happen to be very sexy
Yoshico:
Yoshi x Nico
The one fans actually care about
Partners in crime except they would suck at any actual crime
All the memes. And when I say all the memes, I mean all. The. Memes.
Wouldn’t surprise anyone to know that Yoshi and Nico made all the memes themselves
They don’t like it when fans box them into a specific romantic relationship but they’re also like “yeah we ship Yoshico too” to be funny and cute about it
Flower+Power
Coco:
Teiko x Nico
The Cute Ones™
Sometimes it seems too perfect and you have to wonder if it’s just an idol personality thing they’re putting on because they’re supposed to
Until you remember this is AWOl we’re talking about
Probably just friends but still
More food puns
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: Coco vs Ho-J
Ryouna:
Ryouga x Yuuna
So #sophisticated
Shipping Ryouna is a wild ride cause like
First of all they’re both hot as hell, especially together
And there’s just something about most Ryouga/Yuuna biases, they tend to be very hardcore stans (let’s just say neither of them are the Jungkook of their group in terms of popularity so if you stan them you STAN them)
And they are well aware of this fact
And love to tease fans with like “pretend” kisses on stage or during variety shows
There’s just so much Ryouna content like who cares whether or not it’s real
We all know they’re gonna fall in love eventually
Other
WorldWideWoo:
K.O. (Kiwoo) x Sangwoo x Siwoo
AWOL’s version of the Dinosaur Triplets
Sangwoo came up with the name himself so you know it’s legit
All flirtatious bad boys on the outside, all surprisingly courteous once you get to know them
On their own they’re genuinely cool people, but for some reason whenever they get together they all become the kind of person to (un?)ironically use the word “swag”
So of course someone’s gotta ship it
Kim Hyerin:
Hyerin x Kim Gyeong
The pure one
Kinda overdone so
You either love this ship or you hate it
And either way it’s because they’re both such caring people that it becomes an unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object problem
But everyone tends to agree that it’s at least kinda cute
It’s also funny ‘cause in Korea women don’t take their husband’s names
Hyesang:
Hyerin x Sangwoo
Because Sangrin is an objectively bad name
The sexy one
They did ONE performance on e.LIVE together and now no one can get over how hot they are
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: Kim Hyerin vs Hyesang
No seriously the number of Kim Hyesang love triangle fanfictions is kinda insane at this point
The shippers love to pull the “they’ve known each other longer, of course they’re emotionally closer” card and then make absolutely no content that reflects that
Naozo:
Ah yes, the ultimate ship war: is this referring to Naoko x Taizō or Naoko x Zo
Of course it’s Naoko x Zo they’re so much cuter together
Naoko and Taizō kinda go together as the two Japanese soloists but like
Naoko and Zo~~~
The chemistry~~~~~
NaoZo > Naozō
Why
Because it’s gay you fools
Cococo
Naoko x Teiko x Nico
Ok this is just ridiculous
#mod june#awol#wondermod#shenanigan#ak6#forgetmenot#pineapple#a.love#gsg#dgrm#set!#fireflower#firepower#flower+power#naoko#taizō#jihoon#may#zo#hayoon
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those left behind (part two)
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In the aftermath of Harumi and Garmadon and the loss of Ninjago, Lloyd and Nya try to piece together what’s left of their family - and figure out what comes next. It’s a slow process.
(Aka Crippling Angst! Post-Finale Edition)
"…all we have left, Misako, they're our best bet…"
"….too soon, they're not…"
"…-madon isn't going to wait around for anyone, we need to move now…"
"…you know what they lost, Ronin, they need time…"
The voices filter in through the warm haze of sleep she's in, muffled at first, but slowly growing clearer as she reluctantly wakes up. Nya cracks her eyes open, then immediately closes them against the sudden, stabbing light, wincing. Shaking off the headache, she carefully opens them again, ever-so-slowly, blinking away the bright spots in her vision as the world comes to focus.
It takes her a moment to recognize where she is. She's on the Walkers' beat-up old couch, half on top of Lloyd, who's still snoring softly where his head is tipped against her shoulder. Lloyd feels like a furnace, radiating heat against her, and she's reluctant to move, content to just stay where she is. She fought Garmadon earlier, if they need a ninja right now they can get Kai or someone-
It hits her like a bucket of ice water, and Nya's stomach drops.
Oh.
She hadn't believed him, at first. When Lloyd had stumbled off the boat, beat-up and off-balance and somehow looking even worse than he had when he'd been dying in Mystaké's shop earlier.
(Dying, she'd been this close to losing him too-)
He'd barely been able to tell her, stammering through the words like he didn't even want to hear what he was saying. Nya had gotten the message though – and immediately rejected it. He couldn't be right – there was no way the words coming out of Lloyd's mouth were anything but true.
But she hadn't been able to ignore the grief-stricken look on Misako's face, the blank emptiness in Lloyd's eyes.
Kai would never have left Lloyd alone like this. Jay, Cole, Zane – they would've come with him. They wouldn't have left Lloyd and Misako to fend for themselves, wouldn't have left Nya waiting in baited breath.
Ninja don't last forever.
Kai had said that to her, hadn't he? Sitting in Mystaké's shop, worried to death about their little brother. He'd been right there, right beside her, looking out for them as he always is.
(was-)
Nya flinches away from the thought. It's soon, too soon to put terms in the past – to even think about-
A new voice cuts in the conversation, soft and even – Pixal. Nay feels her heart twist again. Pixal had met up with them just outside of the city, the Samurai X mech dented and sparking. Lloyd had barely been able to look at her, and Misako had spared him having to retell the story again.
Pixal hadn't believed it either, shaking her head emphatically.
"No," she had said. "No, I would know it if he was."
"Pixal-"
"We share the same core," she had said, her voice trembling. "I would have felt it – he's not dead, he's not."
They hadn't been able to get much through her after that, all of them too heart-sick to argue the point. Nya gets the feeling Pixal isn't holding on to false hope, though – her voice is too quiet, her posture slumped uncharacteristically, her expression blank. Maybe vocally denying it is her way of dealing with things.
Nya tightens her grip on her blanket, pulling it closer to her. She doesn't want to deal with this. She doesn't want to deal with anything. She wants to stay here forever, curled up on the couch with Lloyd and ignoring the rest of the world, the two of them forever out of reach of Harumi and Garmadon. Safe from reality-
The sound of footsteps suddenly draws near, and Nya tilts her head up. Ronin's staring down at her, his normally hard-set eyes softened as his weathered face gives her a wry, sympathetic smile. "Hey, kid," he says, quietly.
"Ronin?" She blinks, moving to get up – then abruptly remembers that Lloyd's still asleep on her. Reluctant to wake him up, she settles back down. "What are you doing here?"
"Eh, some crazy biker gang decided to take over the city," Ronin says. "Had to make sure I didn't have to drag the water ninja out of another disaster."
Despite herself, Nya feels the corners of her mouth lift slightly up, Ronin's familiar banter comforting in its own odd way. "Nah, I got out myself this time," she says. "Gotta pick your battles, you know."
"Smart kid," Ronin says, with a dry grin. He sighs, suddenly looking ages older. "This might be battle we can't outrun though, sweetheart."
Nya looks down, her fingers tightening around her blanket again. "No, I guess not," she says, quietly. She glances up at him. "Are you going to watch from the sidelines again?"
"The destruction of Ninjago is pretty terrible for business," Ronin says, rubbing his chin. "Figured I'd see if I could help you guys speed up the whole 'save the day' thing you always do."
Nya bites the inside of her cheek, a wave of grief sweeping her. "I don't know how well we're gonna do," she says, shakily. "It's down to just us two."
She flicks her gaze to Lloyd, who is somehow still sleeping through the entire exchange. She can't see him as well from her vantage point, but it's enough to know that he looks terrible, the bruise-like shadows beneath his eyes almost matching the bruises that decorate his face shade for shade. She can't look much better herself – they're a pathetic pair on the whole, the two of them.
"Three," Ronin says. Nya's head jerks up, and he gives her a smile that's almost gentle. "I'm not about to stand around and watch two kids try and take Ninjago back on their own."
"Four, actually," Misako says, walking over. "And five, if you count Pixal."
"Five," Pixal says, the tiniest spark of determination in her voice. "There is no question."
Nya stares up at the three off them, desperately trying to keep her eyes from watering. She's saved by Lloyd, who suddenly stirs, finally waking up with a quiet, pained moan.
"Wus'goin'on?" he mumbles, blinking in confusion at the people surrounding him.
Ronin snorts. Misako sighs, watching her son with a gentle, pained sort of look.
"They just pledged themselves to our cause," Nya tells him. She glances at Ronin. "No take backs."
Lloyd looks confused for a minute, obviously trying to figure out what he's doing on the Walker's couch. Nya can pinpoint the second the realization hits, though - the way his expression suddenly crumples, the normal bright spark of life in his eyes flickering out.
"Right," he whispers, his eyes flicking down. He takes an unsteady breath, conscious of everyone's eyes on him. "Um, so – you all really want to go up against my…Garmadon?"
"Obviously," Ronin says.
"Yes," Pixal says, her voice now uncharacteristically venomous. "We have yet to decide a winner in our fight."
She receives four stares.
"Alright then," Ronin finally says, clapping her on the back. Pixal gives him a blank stare that is somehow still heated enough that Nya fears she might remove that hand on the spot. "Someone's got the right attitude."
"Let's hold out on the reckless aggression for now," Misako says. "We don't even know what the situation in the city is, and you two-" she pins Nya and Lloyd with a firm look. "Need to heal up."
She's met with twin protests.
"I'm fine, Mrs. G, really-"
"Mom, I'm good to fight-"
Nya cuts off her own complaint to glare at Lloyd. Pixal, Misako, and Ronin do as well. Lloyd shifts, shrinking under their combined glares.
"I had tea," he says, feebly. "It helped?"
"Yeah," Ronin says. "I'm actually with you, Misako. Let's hold out for now."
The conversation dwindles after that, Ronin taking Pixal aside to talk about finding transportation. Misako heads outside, murmuring something about checking on the Walkers. After all, they just lost-
Nya bites her lip so hard she almost draws blood.
"Are you okay?" Lloyd asks, his hands stilling where he's inspecting her arm. "I'm not hurting you, am I?"
"No," Nya says, fighting to keep her voice steady. "You're good. How's it look?"
Lloyd's expression scrunches up. Nya's wrist is turning an ugly shade of purple-black, a souvenir from her brief fight with Garmadon. Lloyd gently pulls her arm closer toward him, his fingers prodding the edges of the bruise lightly.
"It doesn't feel broken," he says. She hisses as he hits a particularly sensitive spot, and Lloyd winces. "Sorry, sorry. It should heal up pretty fast, you just need to keep it wrapped."
Lloyd winds the gauze around her wrist, eyebrows furrowed in concentration as he takes care not to hurt her any more than necessary. There's still a subtle tremor in his fingers as he works, and Nya would call him out on it if her own hands weren't shaking so noticeably.
"There you go," he says, as he finishes tying it off. "Does it feel alright?"
Nya tests it, nodding. "Thanks," she says. She glances up, studying the myriad of cuts and bruises that still decorate Lloyd. The worst of them have already been bandaged by Misako, but the skin around his neck is turning an ugly purple-black, the color spreading across his collar bones, where it's obscured by the collar of his t-shirt.
Lloyd notices her gaze, and winces again. "It's not as bad as it looks," he says.
"Uh-huh," Nya says, with thinly veiled disbelief. "Can I check that?"
Lloyd hesitates, but he nods, allowing her to draw closer.
"How does it feel right now? This looks pretty rough," Nya says, tugging on his collar a bit so she can check the bruising that lines his neck and collar bones, her fingers barely skirting his upper chest as she assesses the damage-
Lloyd flinches away so violently he almost topples of the couch. Nya jerks her hands back, her eyes wide as Lloyd gives a sudden, panicked gasp. A flurry of expressions crosses his face before he pulls his mask of calm back up again, obviously trying hard to look as if nothing's happened.
"S-sorry," he mutters, his voice unsteady.
"What was that?" Nya asks, concerned. "Did I hurt you? Is something broken? Is-"
"No, no, it's – nothing's hurt," Lloyd says, shaking his head. His face flushes. "It's fine, it's nothing."
"That wasn't nothing-"
"It's nothing," Lloyd says, almost desperately. "Please, Nya, just-"
"Okay, okay," she says, relenting.
Not for the first time, Nya gets a sinking feeling as she wonders just what happened between him and Harumi.
"We've got transportation," Ronin announces as he walks back in with Pixal, before Nya can question Lloyd further. "We won't be sitting ducks when we move, so that's some good news."
"We need to leave as soon as possible," Nya says. "We're putting the Walkers in enough danger as it is. We can't drag them into this."
Lloyd nods in agreement with her, his eyes creasing in concern. They're red now, the same color they were when she met him. It's almost unsettling – she'd grown so used to that bright, electric green that the sudden change throws her off-balance. "If we leave tonight, no one will know we were here," Lloyd says. He bites the inside of his cheek. "I just…have no idea where we'll go from there. The temple is pretty out in the open."
Pixal speaks up, her voice flat and analytic. "It would be strategically wise for us to be back in the city, if possible," she says. "It needs to be somewhere Harumi would not think to look."
"We still have a few hideouts scattered around the city," Lloyd says, pensively. "They're…they're pretty risky, though. We can salvage our vehicles and stuff, but they're too close to the palace to be reliable."
"We should try and get to Mystaké," Nya says. "She helped us before, maybe she can help us now."
"Garmadon knew her, she'll probably be under watch, at the very least," Misako says, heavily. "I doubt we'd find shelter there. She would be a valuable ally, though."
"Great," Ronin says. "One cryptic old lady who's shop is probably under watch. We're off to a fantastic start."
"My parents are still away, so…." Nya trails off, her breath catching. How is she supposed to tell them? And Cole's father, too, how can they tell him that his son is-
"That means they're safe, for now," Misako says, firmly. "We'll deal with that when it comes to it, alright? For now, we just need a place to go."
They fall into a heavy silence, the disheartening sound of everyone drawing blanks. Nya can't help but think that if the others were here, they'd be tossing around ideas like it was a game, Kai with outrageously risky solutions and Zane with-
"I will scan to see if any of our bases are still operational," Pixal says, standing abruptly. "That should give us a start, at least."
She's gone before any of them can even blink, the screen door swinging closed with a loud creaking of hinges behind her. Lloyd gives a shaky exhale, and Nya closes her eyes briefly.
She wants to comfort Pixal. She does. But how is she supposed to even begin to ease Pixal's pain when her own heart is actively ripping itself to shreds? Besides, aside from the occasional burst of anger, Pixal has all but shut down emotionally. Nya doubts she'd be able to get through to her one way or another.
She should try, though. It's the least she can do for Zane, now that-
Nya swallows.
"I'll see if I have any storehouses left near the city," Ronin finally says, breaking the quiet. "If anyone else has any ideas, speak up."
Nya glances over to Lloyd, who's staring at the table. If she's being honest - deep down, truly honest with herself - she doesn't want to go back. She wants to run - run away from Ninjago City, from the Sons of Garmadon, from the memories - just get away from it all, run to her parents' arms and cry herself senseless.
But she can't. She can't abandon her city like that - she can't abandon her people. That's not the kind of life she's chosen for herself. She could never live with herself if she did, and Kai would never forgive-
It doesn't matter. Nya is going to see this through.
At the very least, bringing Harumi to an end will help her feel the slightest bit better.
Lloyd doesn't have a lot of memories between crashing through the prison wall and waking up in Mystaké's shop. Most of them are muffled, shadowy impressions colored with intense pain - he prefers not to think about those.
He does, however, have a brief snatch of memory of staring up at the night sky, barely able to pick out Ninjago's stars through his blurring vision. He can't remember what point that was at - if he'd just crashed through the walls, or if he was closer to being found by the ninja.
(It was a long night).
He does, however, remember quite clearly thinking that he was going to die. It had hurt - worse than the time he'd broken his ankle, worse than the battle with Chen, worse than Morro. But compared to where he'd been mentally - the last horrible, grating words his father had ever said to him echoing through his head on repeat - the physical pain was nothing.
Okay, so it wasn't exactly nothing, he's still hurting from it, but the comparison stands.
The point is, Lloyd had been absolutely, ninety-nine percent positively sure he was going to die out there. He'd been ready for it.
So having to carry on now, after everything that's happened…it's a little jarring.
Lloyd exhales, shifting his position where he's sitting on the small hill of scrap metal in the Walker's junkyard. It's not the most comfortable place in the world, but he needs to get away from people for a minute, and he can't stand being inside the house anymore. So this works.
He glances down, Nya's spare katana glinting at him from his lap where he'd been sharpening it. He'd prefer his own, but that's out of reach for obvious reasons, and he needs to have some way to keep himself alive. Since his powers are-
Lloyd flinches, pushing the thought away. He shifts positions again, wincing as his shoulders twinge angrily. He's had to be careful with that area - it feels a little like several angry, vicious trucks hit him repeatedly, and then ran back over him once or twice for good measure. Trying to alleviate the ache, Lloyd stretches his arms over his head – and immediately pulls them back down, hissing at the flares of pain that run up and down his back. Ow, ow, ow-
Mystaké's tea may have saved him from death, but it took its liberty in skipping over everything else wrong with him.
Not that he's complaining, or anything. He's lucky to be alive.
(Even if it doesn't feel lucky right now-)
Lloyd shakes the thought off, looking up from the katana to the skyline, the setting sun casting the world in a fiery red. The blinding light leaves his eyes watering, flickering dark spots appearing in his vision. He closes his eyes, letting the warmth from the sun wash over him, the light winds sending his lengthened hair whipping around his face. One second. For just one second, he can pretend that everything's okay, that if he opens his eyes everyone will be-
The sun drops below the horizon, taking the warmth with it. The sky grows dusky, the chilly night air beginning to set in, and Lloyd shivers.
He finally stands up, skidding down the pile of loose parts with a clinking of metal. He starts back for the trailer, carefully pacing his steps – if he tries hard enough, he can almost convince himself that he doesn't need to limp.
They haven't figured out where they're going yet, but it doesn't hurt to be ready, and wearing something slightly more battle-ready would probably be a good idea. He's currently dressed in a loose t-shirt and sweatpants the Walkers were kind enough to lend him, the fabric soft and comfortable in a way worn clothes are-
It suddenly hits Lloyd that the clothes he's wearing are probably Jay's.
….were, they were Jay's.
A wave of nausea hits him, and he walks faster, stepping into the trailer and snatching for his own clothes were they're folded neatly on top of the laundry machine. Ducking back into a spare rooms, Lloyd drops his gi on the bed, taking small comfort in the lack of the bloodstains he'd left-
Lloyd's hands still over the robes. The bright green stares back at him, the color as familiar to him as the back of his hand.
He remembers the first time he'd donned the green gi clearly, the uniform too-large as he'd struggled to find a way to save his friends. It had given him confidence, then - a sense of belonging, a reminder that he was part of something now, that he was destined to be someone.
Now, the thought of putting it on makes him sick. He struggles to remember Mystaké's words to him, but they won't come back, stuck under the crushing reminder that he's powerless now. How is he supposed to be the green ninja when he can't even live up to the part? His eyes aren't even green anymore, he's left with the eerie red that marks him as Garmadon's son-
I have no son.
Lloyd's breath stutters out of him. He's not the green ninja anymore. He's not the son of Garmadon, either.
Where does that leave him? A lost little kid hanging from a street sign in Jamanakai village?
Lloyd drops the gi back on the bed. Maybe he can borrow something from Ronin.
He sighs, sagging against the bedside and burying his head in his hands. He'd told Harumi he was going to keep fighting, and he is. He fully intends to fight back against her with everything he has, it's just-
It's a lot. The last few days – has it even been that long? – have been more than Lloyd ever imagined he'd need to deal with. And that's not even starting on the stuff he won't allow himself to think about.
Plan. They need a plan, they need to keep moving – they need to find somewhere to go. They can't jeopardize the Walker's safety anymore. Garmadon may not care whether he's alive or dead anymore, but Harumi does – Lloyd's going to have an enormous target on his back. No one's going to want to take that risk. No one's going to want to shelter the son of the person conquering Ninjago, and no one's going to understand what that's like-
Lloyd pauses. Well, actually – he doesn't want to pull her in, especially because – well, because, but she is reliable-
"Hey," he says, startling his mother and the Walkers as he slides into the living room. "I think I've got an idea of where we can go."
#ninjago#lloyd garmadon#nya smith#ns8#my fics#I'm so far behind posting on here rip#anyways here's part two of the angst-fest!#part three to be up soon
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