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Azula (atlab) as Okumura Rin (be)?
Well, it’s not the first time I’ve been called a monster.
And Fire has always been in his blood.
He makes a spy network of demons. (Azula was once a princess of the Fire Nation. She knew the importance of knowledge. It wasn’t her first time creating a Web from nothing. (Think Reiko Book of Friends style?)
This couldn’t be all.
There had to be something.
Fire was in his blood. Coals burned in his lungs and sparks flew with every exhale. Fire marked them as theirs, with hair of soot and burning eyes.
(But his eyes were blue now.)
They couldn’t take that from him. Couldn’t. So he reached, and dug, and clawed.
And finally, something cracked.
A snap, and a trickle of heat rose in his chest. A candles flickering flame, fluttering but settling.
His joy was short lived however, because with it came an increase of nosy priests.
So over weeks, he slowly guided that flame. Curled around it, let it warm him (he’d been so cold, how didn’t he notice?), and just breathed.
And one day, he lead that candle flame to his cupped hands, shielded from the outside.
Yes, his eyes were blue now. Blue like the fire in his blood.
He’d try to do better this time. As the older sibling, without the pressure of a burning throne.
Because-
“We were happy once.”
This must be karma.
The old man’s on fire.
The wrong voice is echoing in his ears.
And then-
His twin. Yukio.
Has a gun pointed to his head.
(Did the old man really care? Or did he too think he was a monster?)
He doesn’t know how to feel about his classmates. They have potential, (that he could nurture, provide them with fangs and claws of their own, like old times), but-
It’s hard to have goodwill when every twitch is scrutinized.
He’d fallen back on his etiquette training from when he had to attend fathers court. The steel in his spine hardened from making others listen when he was a princess of 14 on a battleship.
And yet.
He tried to maintain the feeling of when he could relax surrounded by family. (Something he’d tried to have before, when he thought he had friends.)
There are no friends here.
It’s hard to relax around Yukio.
Finger always on the trigger and quick to suspect.
In contrast, it’s almost too easy to slip into mind games and word play with the principal of True Cross Academy.
He’d always found demons easier to understand.
Humans found manipulation… distasteful, unless it helped further their goals.
Azula had found manipulation second nature. A trait nourished on Fire nation politics and battlefield tactics. A skill that followed him in this life.
And he’d tried to keep it minimal with family. Nothing harmful. He didn’t need to manipulate his family, it wasn’t like the court or the palace from before.
Now?
With enemies everywhere, people who’d like nothing more than to see his head roll?
Why should he keep that piece of himself locked away?
He was already a demon in their eyes.
And demons were manipulative creatures.
Fitting, wasn’t it?
Growing up in the Fire Nations royal family, it had been expected for Zuko and Azula to master the arts. From calligraphy to riding, and martial arts to swordsmanship.
Azula had been exemplary, of course.
But swords had been the one area Zuko had firm ground to stand.
The one thing Azula could leave him.
(Before he opened his fool mouth anyway.)
“You are the son of Satan.”
Like there was any difference.
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xan-from-space · 7 days
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Honestly if any Dungeon Meshi character deserved an expanded role in the series, it should have been Rin. She's the character to me who most feels like her story is incomplete and glossed over...probably the one instance where the manga actually frustrated me with its refusal to engage with her as a character in favor of Kabru.
I mean, the backstory Kui gives her in the extra content is, like all of them, really well thought out, but in the manga itself a lot of the time she kind of just exists as an accessory to Kabru? Like, she's the Girl who Likes Kabru to Establish that Girls Like Kabru...there's a couple moments in the manga where we see hints of a deeper character, but most of her story is relegated to the extra content...which sucks because I think her role in the story and especially her history with the elves is so incredibly important to understanding the wider world.
Because we mostly learn about the elves through the eyes of Kabru, and while Kabru didn't have a great experience with the elves for sure, he was doted on, a golden child. We do learn that Rin was treated terribly by the elves in the manga, but again, we learn it through Kabru's words and it's not really something that's focused on. I think Kabru has genuinely good intentions and cares a lot about humanity, but unconsciously he has a tendency to treat people like pawns in a similar way that the elves do; part of his character arc is learning to be actually genuine with people, but that only actually happens once he's separated from the rest of his party, with people he barely knows. It makes sense for him and the place he's at, but I can't imagine how frustrating that must have been for Rin, who doesn't really have anyone else. She's trapped in an unresolved character arc, left in this limbo space of chasing after someone who just doesn't have the same reliance on her that she has on him.
If I were writing the manga, I would have made her a character of equal importance to Kabru. Rin would balance out his role in the story...she's more pessimistic than him, for good reason, and despite or maybe because of the ease in which he traverses the social and political worlds, in many ways I think she understands the world better than him. I want to see the world from her perspective, to learn more about what her view of the dungeon is and why she's supporting Kabru in his quest to become the next dungeon lord, to see her grapple with her trauma, for her to have to learn to lead the party when Kabru isn't there, for her to come into her own as a character. I also feel like she just would fill out the main cast in a really satisfying way...she could easily be a narrative foil for so many characters, Kabru obviously, but also Marcille, Izutsumi (God, think about the potential interaction between Rin and Izutsumi), Thistle maybe, there's probably more if I spent more time thinking about it
Also kind of going on a tangent here but she's sooo ignored on the fandom side. Frankly I think that whatever Rin and Kabru have going on is just as interesting if not more so than the relationships between Kabru and Laios and between Kabru and Mithrun, but I don't think I've seen a single post or art piece on this website where she's present in his life at all (or even not present in an intentional way that would serve her character.) To be clear I'm not saying that I ship them or whatever (kind of hate that word tbh) or think they should end up in a romantic relationship (I really do not think they should end up in a romantic relationship). But like. Come on. They're so important to each other's characters and she can't just be written out of his story.
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koiwynn · 7 months
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hello rinvenka nation, how are y’all doing? i personally don’t feel that well.
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sweeetsh · 3 days
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alphonse mucha paraphrase
mucha’s is partially about cultural pride, which i found to be fitting for rin. rin had to represent a culture she never knew, she never had any connections to speer outside of what altan told her, what she was showed through the phoenix, and through text books (which were horrendously racist for sure), which gave her a very limited understanding of speer and speerly culture. yet, despite not knowing speerly culture, she became its face. so in my paraphrase she’s wearing a hanfu (traditional chinese clothing = nikara) instead of the clothing that tearza is wearing in the background (inspired by traditional taiwanese clothing = speerly) to simply show her discontent from the culture she’s supposed to represent. this is also why the necklace she is wearing is breaking.
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The train ran through Gotham erratically, giving no signs as to were it would twist or turn next. There were many times it would suddenly lurch skyward only to fall back down a minute later.
The bats and birds had been forced to evacuate a large section of the city just because this thing kept plowing through trees and buildings like they were made of tinfoil, but would also turn intangible at seemingly random intervals. What was going on?
The train finally crashed into the ground at a ninety degree angle and the whole thing fell limp. It let out a sharp hiss as steam began to flow out from beneath it, it probably would have been really cool if it wasn't so comical. Finally the bats were able to approach without being flung off or dropped from the sudden intangiblity and they entered quickly, expecting a fight. Instead they found two boys, one with black hair and blue eyes and the other with white and green. They stared at them wide eyed as if they were the ones who should be surprised.
Nightwing groaned, mentally preparing to have two more little brothers. Batman took charge and asked them what thier names were. One gave what they assumed was a real name, Rin Okumura and the other gave an alias, Phantom. Scanning the scene as the two boys bickering he found a tied up woman with the bottom half of her body in the form of a giant spider.
"Don't touch. Demon." The boy with blue eyes told them in broken English, his tail waving behind him anxiously.
"She ate the conductor and everyone else on the train." The glowing one said.
Red Robin and Nightwing turned to them wide eyed, "She ate them?!"
The boys nodded, and Rin sheepishly added in Japanese, "Thats why the train was out of control. We...uh...didn't know how to drive."
They explained, separately due to Rin only really knowing Japanese. Appearently both teens were from different dimensions or realities, the adoption bait belonged to a group of people that fought supernatural beings and the magic users calling themselves "Excorsists" and they were basically in a secret war with the demons of a hell dimension called Gahena. Rin was a half demon and his father was high up in the hiarchy so from what they gathered people were pretty regularly racist toward him and Rin had normalized it. Nightwing already wanted to comfort his new baby brother.
Phantom didn't really explain anything, only saying he didn't mean harm. Which, fair.
Batman offered them a place to stay but they refused citing that they had schoo- places to be soon and they needed to get going. Phantom brought out a glowing map and ordered it to take them home.
A moment passed before the boys seemed distressed. Opening the map they found words forming in it in both English and Japanese, stating that there were no portals leading to either boys homes nor the Infinite Realms due to the presence of the Lazarus Pits. The boys looked at each other worried. Niether knew what the Lazarus Pits even were or had heard of them before. The way they got here was through the Spectral Express, which not only did they not know how to operate, but was currently totalled.
Bruce again offered them a place to stay and Rin excepted, but Phantom refused and chose to rough it in the wilderness outside the city despite the batfams warnings that that was a terrible idea. The words, "It'll be fine. I'm already dead." Shocked them long enough for Phantom to escape.
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Blue Excorsist x Danny Phantom x Batman crossover my beloved <3
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jaguarys · 7 months
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It continues to kill me every day to think about the character that Rin could've been. She had so much to her. In being the normal one. In being the caring one. In being a Jinchūriki. In sacrificing herself. It should have been about her, and yet in the end she's just Obito's incel-y revenge manic pixie dream girl (extra trauma edition)
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honeykiller666 · 4 months
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Kakashi was 9 years old when he became Jonin and Obito died.
Change my mind. (Or demand proof)
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alexiethymia · 14 days
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I don’t go here in the sense that I haven’t finished the series yet. Like honestly, the cameo in Queen of Tears was what made me finally buckle down and watch it.
But I do know from spoilers the general gist of where they end up in the end. So the cameo has some pretty great implications - that in three years Chae rin managed to transform Jipuragi into such a big-shot law firm that even the Queen of Department Stores is their client, that Vincenzo possibly gives up his high-stakes mafioso life to take the bar in Korea so he can practice law there, that he would have obviously done so to start working at Jipuragi, that he didn’t pull his punches in that settlement because obviously he still has strong views about marriage, and it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think that Hae-in reminded him of another Hong in his life, and not knowing the full story, he’d definitely do his best to help Hae-in because he’s always been an ally of unapologetically strong women.
(In other words, nope, no will not take any other interpretation, he gives up all his wealth and power just so he can come home and work for his wife and fulfill his domestic office marriage dream.)
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deathbyfiction · 1 year
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STOP PLS I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE 😭
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tres-fidelis · 15 days
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answer these questions and i'll tell you where your soul rests.
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Painted on a Canvas
If your body wasn't made of flesh and bones, your soul would live painted on a canvas, mixed in quick, colorful strokes of pinks and reds, of blues and oranges. Your existence itself is pure art; although you might be ripped at your edges, you're still a masterpiece. People admire you and look up to you for your creativity and your uniqueness, that truly make you one of a kind. To someone you're a muse, an inspiration, something that takes your breath away. I wonder- how does it feel to be so marvelous? To be such a beautiful creature, dipped in so many shades of colors? I think your soul would smell like fresh crisp morning air, the kind you smell when you wander in woods and the sunlight barely creeps through the trees. I'd spend hours just admiring you.
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Right Over There, Behind the Moon
If your body wasn't made of flesh and bones, your soul wouldn't live on this planet; I think it doesn't suit it. You deserve more, better, you deserve the moon and all the stars and the entire galaxies. Funny how people can spot colorful planets playing hide and seek in the depths of your eyes, such beautiful mirrors, and I don't really blame them if they get lost in them. To someone, I feel like you're hard to reach. You have dreams, ambitions, you're like the humid august wind that dances in a lover's hair. Do you ever spend nights with your nose up, facing the sky? Maybe stargazing? I think it would be comforting knowing your soul would be there, always present, holding hands with falling stars and singing lullabies to the clouds. You're such a dream. If your soul had a color, it would be a glittery purple with blue highlights, and it would smell like peonies.
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tomatoteddy · 4 months
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Me, complaining about Otona: AND THE THING IS SHE WAS FOURTEEN WHEN THEY MET AND STARTED DATING!! AND HE WAS OLD ENOUGH TO PRETEND TO BE HER TEACHER, WHICH DEFINITELY MEANS HE WAS AN ADULT!!!!! And then I thought they were gonna fix this in the spin-off BUT NOOOO!! THEY JUST HAD TO MARRY THEM OFF!!!!
My older sibling, looking at Rin: Wh-Who’s she? 😳😳😳
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bl-inkstone · 1 year
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a short blurb about meitham inspired by @zhongrin's ebg + afterparty events! this isn't super long or detailed or anything since it's already been a few days since the idea first came to me, but i hope you enjoy it anyway <3
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"haitham, do you think other worlds exist?"
alhaitham blinks once, twice, before lifting his eyes from the book he had been reading to look at you. you're a dream lying on his chaise, with your hair loose and freshly washed, slowly drying in the evening light. he notes the subtle droop in your eyes and the heavy tilt of your head, the way you seem to melt into the scrolled arm of the sofa. you're tired, but it's barely a quarter past seven. neither of you have even eaten yet. did you overwork yourself again?
"well," he begins with a card of his fingers through your hair, gently detangling the strands as he works to gather his thoughts. "given the nature of the world we live in, ignoring the possibility of such an existence would be foolish. i'm hard pressed to say yes to something i haven't seen with my own eyes, but the idea isn't something i'd completely disregard. does that answer your question, mei?"
in lieu of a coherent response, you give him an affirmative hum and close your eyes to the soothing motions of his fingers running through your hair. unease settles in alhaitham's gut the longer the silence between you, something normally so comforting, goes on and he feels compelled to continue the conversation. as loathe as he is to disturb your rest, something in the back of his mind urges him to keep you talking, to keep you awake.
"love," he calls right as he stops playing with your hair. he sits up properly and plants both feet on the ground to pull you up from your rest on the chaise's arm, settling you into an upright position at his side. his arm snakes around your waist and pulls you closer to him, like a subconscious effort at seeking comfort at the uncomfortable feelings rising from the base of his spine, and he leans down to nudge you awake. when your eyes flutter open and you grumble in soft protest, the muted worry subsides just a little.
"mei, it's too early for you to sleep. our dinner hasn't even finished cooking yet. it's not good to rest on an empty stomach," he explains with some force behind his voice in an effort to keep you awake. he considers pinching you a little before completely ignoring the idea in favor of something else. "do you want some coffee? maintaining a healthy work-life balance is essential to a comfortable life, love. if your work is proving to be too much, i am more than willing to—"
"i think... i think i want to travel. to those other worlds, i mean. i think it will be fun."
alhaitham's jaw snaps shut.
once again, that damned silence returns and he finds himself at war with worry and fear. why are you talking like this? what do you mean you want to travel to another world? is this one not enough? is he not enough? wasn't your question just a hypothetical, just one of the many you like to throw his way?
where is this all coming from, and why does he feel so cold?
"mei," and it's all he can say, all he can do, to hold you and beg in a way that's not begging. "mei, my love, i don't... i don't mind if you want to travel."
the words taste like poison in his mouth, thick and bitter and so so unpleasant that he can't help the displeased twitch of his lips once he grinds the last syllable out.
"i'd never cage or chain you down," he soothes when your brows furrow at his words, "if you wish to see new sights and learn new things, then by all means, go ahead. i'll arrange for any preparations you need, and you know my mora is yours to use. all i ask is that you take me with you."
don't go where i cannot follow, alhaitham pleads with words unsaid, orange-teal eyes blurring at the edges with strange black lines. don't leave me without your warmth.
you don't reply, and a numbing cold trickles down the acting grand sage's spine when he realizes that you've fallen asleep. he feels the beginnings of a headache coming on, quiet whispers and flashes of colors he can't decipher slowly growing in volume past the deafening beat of his heart. he's only ever felt this a handful of times before in his life, but never to this degree.
you're sleeping. just sleeping, as you do every night in the comfort of his arms.
so why does he feel like his heart has turned to sand slipping through your loose fingers?
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gay-strawberry · 13 days
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a fade to black.
i just read more than 300 pages of the most delicious scrumptious slowest burn ever
and then got a fade to black
write ! the p0rn ! down !!
let me in let me innnnnmn remy lET ME INNNN
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koiwynn · 2 months
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short analysis of the tragedy of fang runin because she’s scratching at the walls of my brain like usual.
fang runin is probably the most tragic character i’ve ever read about. she left tikany to escape drugs, poverty and abuse, and then had to suffer tremendously by those factors again and again. she fought whole-heartedly to build a world free from corruption and oppression, even if her methods were… less than ethical on some occasions. hell, she refused to even sit on the throne because she deemed that there’s where her corrupt predecessors sat. that’s how badly she wanted to separate herself from the evil of nikara.
rin so desperately wanted to give her people the childhood and life she and the people she loved never got. and then only for her at the very end to realise that war and oppression won’t end and that her country could never be free. her country is broken beyond repair, and the only way for nikara to survive is for colonialism to put it the broken scraps together, the one thing rin fought all her life to defeat.
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empressyu123 · 17 days
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I made a birthday gift for isagi sorry that it came late 😅
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Halloween prompts no. 14
Danny gets thrown into the Blue Exorcist universe, saw how Rin was being treated and straight up kidnapped him when no one was looking and took him to another dimension/reality/whatever to keep him safe.
Rin, as you can imagine, doesn't take kindly to being kidnapped and tries to roast Phantom. The fact neither understands the others language did not help. Danny, taking a gamble, dropped his phantom form and raised his hands in surrender.
Rinse eyebrow twitched and he asked wtf he thought he was doing. Danny got an idea and raised a finger ask if asking one moment please before bringing out his phone and typing into Google Translate.
Things go better after that, Rins still kinda mad and demanded to be taken home but Danny refused, saying he wasn't going to send him back to a place that would treat him like that! The fight escalated until Danny confessed he died because people ignored the abuse and neglect from his home situation and he terrified Rin will face a similar fate. This finally took the wind out of Rins sails. Rin comforts Danny who may or may not be crying.
This is when the local heros show up because it turns out they landed in the dc universe. They realize they've pretty much melted part of the city they were in during thier fight and scram before anyone can get a good look at them. They're branded as mysterious villains almost immediately.
Danny and Rin take to stealing in order to survive and start teaching eachother thier language so they don't have to keep relying of the translation app. (Also they can't reliably recharge the phone) They're bonding and building up eachothers self esteem. Rin enjoys having someone who let's him protect them as a big brother should and Danny enjoys feeling safe and protected for once in his afterlife. They both start wearing masks and start stealing bigger marks as supervillians in order to survive.
The Justice League Dark is absolutely freaking out because why is a Gahena demon and some kind of Lazarus Pit child working together?? Demons from Gahena never come here cause they shouldn't even be able to and they had no idea Pit People even existed up until now. And why are they stealing such strange things? The bank robberies they understood but the baby food incident? (They stole a bunch of baby food to help the homeless and low income population) The lab thiefts? (Danny recognized the type of machine they were making was designed to be a portal when the press conference about it said nothing about portals. So he stole it and destroyed it cause it was sus.) The JLD knew they were missing something.
Batman himself eventually tracks them down and finds out
1. They are 14 and 15 year olds.
2. Both are traumatized
3. Black hair blue eyes
4. Both have supernatural abilities they can't fully control
5. Both are very sweet and are being more vigilante than villain
Bruce has already mentally signed the adoption papers.
Unfortunately, Danny has bad memories of another billionaire who kept trying to adopt him and is avoiding both him both as Batman and as Bruce Wayne. The boys run in to Harley Quinn and she figured out these kids needed help. She aids in thier language endeavors and if the only reason she knows Japanese as well as she does is from her binging anime for a few months during a quarantine caused by Scarecrow then thats her business.
Anyway, she gives them not-therapy since she can't ethically give them therapy therapy and in exchange they pay her with cash they stole. Neato. Rin eventually gets onto an ADHD medication that suits him and he's doing so much better. He uses a lot of the coping skills aunt harley taught him and its like hes a totally different person. Granted Rin has to take an ungodly high dose for it to work due to his demonic heritage but they make due. They already rob banks, whats a few pharmaceutical companies?
Ivy and Harley pseudo adopt Rin and Danny and sometimes the boys would just come over to Gotham to hang out or play with the pets. Rin loves cooking and has taken over the kitchen in his and dannys safe houses. He does most of the cooking and keeps the kitchen spotless. Danny does the laundry and dusting and they share most other chores. Rins used to having Yukio sleeping in the same room as him so sometimes he sneaks into Dannys room in the middle of the night to sleep on the floor.
Danny keeps waking up and moving him to the bed. Neither say anything about it and Rin assumes he slept walked into the bed and flees before Danny can be woken up and weirded out. Miscommunication! Yay!
Meanwhile the birdie brigade are on thier tails and watching/spying on them every chance they get. They're already making preparations in the manor for two more people.
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