#theres a lot more to it compared to my other gijinkas

[subarashiihibi]

my thing about izaya is that he's so strange and weird and i love that so much. i didn't want to ramble too much in the notes of that poor person's post but i find the way he speaks and the words he chooses so interesting so let me ramble a little bit. this may or may not even be coherent so bear with me here im just going to speak my thoughts.

ok this got really fucking long and all over the 0place so im putting this under a read more sorry.

so i have volume 9 of the novel in both english and japanese. i only have two novels in japanese and that is this one and yuuyake wo. so i'm pretty crazy about this izaya speech analysis shit. anyways i was rereading thru the jp ver the other day just to compare it to the eng and i kinda realized that like.

a lot of people you can separate their speech in either formal and informal speech right? someone like shizuo speaks really informally and uses a lot of rough, dragged-out versions of words and stuff (しゃーねえ vs しょうがない) and then someone like shinra who speaks in a ton of yojijukugo and generally sounds like a nerd emoji gijinka.

izaya on the other hand rly... doesn't fit in either? i mean sure he sounds like another nerd emoji gijinka but it's kinda different. it's not so much the words he speaks but rather the intonation and his tone...

and he has his moments where he speaks pretty seriously and whatnot of course, but in general he just... doesn't sound very human when he speaks? i don't know if that's a conscious effort or not. is it his attempts at distancing himself from his own individual humanity? or is it just because he's a weird guy? i dunno. but it's interesting nonetheless.

one thing i will note though is that despite his somewhat inhuman speech patterns, it's also pretty...dramatic? to the extent where it's really exaggerated but also very cute and charming. (this part is important.)

i think a lot of what makes izaya's speech so weirdly inhuman is because he doesn't really use a lot of slang or similar lingo that people his age would typically use. i know mikado said in the novels that he doesn't really try to fit in with his age group's fashion sense either so it makes sense but still. he's like an old hag it's so funny. and it's because of that that when he says stuff like 'i don't get all hot and heavy over headless women' or whatever he said to celty it's really amusing to me because like... why is the strange man saying this?💀

another example i kinda giggled about on my twitter when i read it it's not even crazy and i sound corny and cheesy and stupid but theres this scene in vol 9 where izaya messages celty for business and hold on let me just put it as a quote.

he sounds so old saying 'video game' like 😭 idk it's just funny cause he barely even knows anything abt games like bro knows nothing im crying

in the jp hes like 「…ゲーム中なのかい？」 and then when celty tries to explain herself he says 「何を言ってるのか、良く解らないんだけど」 and im rly bad at tling parts of sentences and stuff but just know that the way he words it makes it sound like this gif to me

i love both versions i think the original jp makes him sound like hes so lost and confused (hence why pw gif cause lord that man always looks lost LMFAOOOO) and then eng tl just blunt ass "I don't know what you're talking about." makes him sound like full on hag 😭😭😭

OMFG WAIT I HAVE TO MENTION THIS FUCKING SCENE WITH SHINRA ITS SO FUNNY.

first i think it's funny the translation has izaya say fuck here cause he very rarely swears and i did read this one thing about how he only swears when his mask slips so to me this is like genuine bewilderment that he cant even hide LOL. second why is he so excited to hear about 'whatever sexual fetish' shinra has im crying he's so damn nosy . okay but this is not the funniest part let me add that now.

???

ehy the hell is izaya orihara talking about foot fetishes???😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 im crying bruh i was so flabbergasted when i read this i was like WHAT did he just say? he says it in the jp ver too which just makes it even funnier. this goes back to what i said earlier but i always get so amused when izaya has something to say about sex or whatever cause he's so fucking weird and unsettling why does he know that

(i mean i also get so hard i nearly pass out thinking about izaya tlaking about sex but thats probably just a thing with my heart condition and stuff)

oh also another scene i think is really cute and amusing and funny is back when shinra was first still trying to get izaya to form the bio club w him.

1. shinra is funny as fuck in this scene but also izaya's "Hmm. Can I punch you?" made me havbe a good laugh. in the jp he says 「んー。殴ってもいいのかな？」 which is pretty much the same thing just with the intonation of like 'hmmmmmmmmm should i hit u or not...' sorry like i said im just bad w explaining this stuff. but i felt the need to point it out not cause im one of those annoying ppl who praise the original jp ver and reject translations and localizations i just think it's important for izaya specifically cause i love him and i want to analyze his speech patterns as best as i can.

i was going thru the novel just now for other stuff i wanted to mention and i forgot abt this part but it's so funny.

'Let's not get hasty. Type calmly, please.' its not even funny or nothing i just find it so amusinf whenever he talks like that💀 i will say though the english translation kind of makes him sound more weird and inhuman than the original. that line in the original was basically just him telling her she needs to calm down enough to at least type properly LOL. idk if im just being nitpicky cause this is izaya tho so feel free to ignore that. fwiw i like the eng tl bc while it's a different intonation than the original japanese ver i think if he did speak english it would probably sound smth like that anyways.

this too made me laugh like ??? seriously he is really nosy when it comes to people's intimate affairs. in the jp ver he calls them an 'intimate couple' which just is like .. ok bro💀

does anyone else see my vision of izaya getting cucked by celty (does it count as cucking when celtys the one dating shinra) while he looks sad and pathetic and miserable that he never decided to shoot his shot w shinra back in the day

if i were commenting on the actual stuff going on in this scene rn this post would be a lot olonger and even more terribly all over the place so im just gonna focus on how i think it's funny izaya says 'easy, man...' this is like one of the only times his words are somewhat natural and sound like smth you would hear someone else say. in the jp ver it's 「おいおい…」 which is somewhat less out of left field in terms of coming from izaya but still it's pretty surprisingly normal. i have to wonder if in that moment he's too worried about shinra to care about keeping up appearances.

this is just random and me making fun of izaya as usual but why the hell does he weigh himself after his showers💀💀💀 it's cute and endearing and only adds to his strong gap moe but still... it's strange...

speaking of cute things this is from a volume i forget but he says this one phrase a couple of times and it is just both really cute and also kind of idk... saddening. one of the times i can remember he says it is when namie was making fun of him or something and he replies 'Don't tease me. I'm only human.' or something along those lines and it's like . hm. ok.

i think it's cute he says 'dont tease me' a few times cause eughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (trying to ward off severe brain damaged incoherent thoughts) but 'im only human' is like... are you really? even after you try so hard to escape your own humanity and individual self so much... im going to try and give my thoughts on it here but this is just based off my hc that izaya has bpd so yanno. im basing a lot oif this on my own experiences sorry. i do that a lot. (gestures over to all the posts i make abt fob/mychem fan izaya)

when it comes to just straight up acknowledging his humanity izaya has no problems with this because 'sure, i'm human. isn't that obvious?' is probably something along the lines of what he thinks. it's easy for him to just say that because it's just that. it's just words. it holds no real meaning and shows no true insight into how he actually perceives himself. but when it comes to actually having to come face to face with his own humanity and the fact that yes, he is only human, it's a lot more difficult because now it's out of his control. i wonder also if he has problems with perceiving his own self.

i say this a lot but i truly do believe izaya is so so so beautiful and i love him so much. also i just saw a funny post on twitter so i wanna say this here idk if yall know this but izayas actually a latina hes got chismosavirus❤ ok thats all i have to say sorry for rambling so much

#my media literacy suddenly skyrockets when it comes to izaya #anything else im like zzzzzzzzzz as soon as its time to talik abt izaya im like I'M UP !!!! 💯💯💯💯 #but ya this isnt meant to be like anything crazy or nothing i just felt like talking abt izaya and some stuff in particular i found amusing #sorry if i sound stupid in some spots im trying not to just add 20 skull emojis or crying emojis and make fun of him #it's either that or im trying not to sexualize him #it's a battle. it's prety hard. #theres a REALLY easy joke i could make there but im not going to . im gonna be mature . #ok sorry thats all i dont have enough energy to think anymroe #i started new meds today and my heartds feeling a little funny so imight die after posting this</3 #mine

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Yoooo Marilou has a sword? :O

Also I saw something about waterproof hair and fabrics in that gijinka universe, which is really interesting! Are there any other little details like that, about the funky traits pokemon can have and how they affect the world?

(my inital response got too long and crashed my computer lol TAKE TWO)

SHE DOES! She's an oshawott so her sword is her scallchop :3 it looks and behaves mostly just like a normal non gijinka one does. is attached to her belly button and considered a part of her body. the suction to her belly button is strong enough that it can be attached through a thin layer of fabric: but ussually marilou will still have her clothes either modified to have a hole or have a special belt to attach it too. Her scallchop extends to a full length sword when she chooses! no one else including another oshawott can make it extend to sword mode.

the sword itself is based off of pirate swords and samurotts' sword thingie

THERES SO MUCH FUN FUNKY STUFF so much i'm working on some drawings of eevees evolved into every eeveelution as an excuse to infodump lol

heres some fun psmd gijinka au world building/lore facts!

-if marilou were to put on a normal collared shirt, the collar would transform into an upturned frilly one: bassically a pokemon 'pokemonness' (being very connected to not just nature but like the nature of the world) connects with the physical natural material in the clothes and can modify it slightly. never by a whole lot. but enough that theres a canon explanation

so yeah the universe has a species dress code basically

-species names function a bit like last names. most (but not everyone!) does have a 'real' name, and in smaller communities generally everyone will know and address others as such (with the exception of like, an elder figure, like a kid won't call the kind charizard across the street by her name she's 'ms charizard' ), but generally speaking it's rude to ask for someones name, or adress someone by such if they havn't told you you can. whats wacky is sometimes if someones adopted by another species they'll adopt an aspect of one of their adoptive parental figures names as a middle name. Marilou and Comet both do this! Marilou's full name is 'Marilouise Brazil Oshawott' Brazil as in the tree nut (Nuzleaf's name) and is 'Comet Costa' Bulbasaur' Costa like Carracosta

- humans (while considered exitnct technically can still exist in the psmd-gijinka verse) can't have 'unnatural' hair colors! within anime reason of course like a black haired humans hair can be actually a shade of blue but like, a human can't naturally have a bright colorful hair color: they can have any color eyes though!

-pokemon still come from eggs in the psmdgijinka-verse. And they still can only reproduce with pokemon from the same egg group and the species of the kid will ussually be that of the 'mother' theres a chance it can be the other parent's. though maybe some species may give live birth like how there are some reptiles etc in our world that do that, but i'm not sure yet. yeah I'm that one nerd that will go on about how theoretically how pikachu can be both a mammal and lay eggs

-most fairy types have particularly like idk the word cause usually 'fair' means pale but what I really mean is that when drawing a fairy type I'll make sure they're skin tone is more saturated than I'd usually choose has more noticeable blush and is closer to the red/pink then orange/yellow hue

-so the shades of color a pokemon can be varies a lot! however the shiny color of a pokemon does effect this. like take vaporeon for example, It's more common for a vaporeon's shades of blue to be teal then indigo sense indigo is closer to purple (vaporeons shiny color)

-while more rare type exclusionist/discrimination/not comparable to any real life bigotry so idk what to call it does exist: like they make grass type dominated towns where fire types aren't allowed and dark and ghost types are often stereotyped as mischievous and up to no good. like yeah sometimes they are but not to the extent that people act

#marilou oshawott #psmd #pokemon super mystery dungeon #pmd #yumehocshi #kyuchat

[rabbitclown]

did i say i was done with the console gijinkas for now?

whoops

i have one more (technically not a console but i wanted to include it somehow)

introducing the one of many, shapeshifting, many glowy parts, lives in the xbox family basement

pc

#oc #gijinka #pc #ive been sitting on the idea of making a shapeshifter pc gijinka for a while #then more ideas came like constantly being hooked up to wires #unless in a more portable state (like a laptop) #being one of many #this ALSO breaks my personal rule of limiting myself to the main families i set up #but i put pc in the xbox group simply bc micklesoft and windows #idk how many designs i'll end up making #this one was kind of simple with like rgb elements #the idea being anything that like a legit color could change #any pronouns as well #while the design itself is...pretty simple all things concerned when it comes to gijinkas like this #theres a lot more to it compared to my other gijinkas #original character

[maned-cerdae]

Transformations

so this was created because i wanted a way to justify how different peoples gijinkas look very different in how similar to their dragon form they look and even like. in my own lair because like. pride and lorelei are two of my very few dragons with actual art of their gijinka forms and there’s a major difference in terms of how draconic they look. like have you seen them christ.

anyway the quick and dirty explanation is

different dragons have differing amounts on how many dragon features they keep when they transform

the ‘level’ is loosely based off the average of your parents, but like fingerprints exactly what is kept or not is completely unique. even identical twins will still have minor differences between their shifted forms

when it comes to the level of dragon kept, its a bell curve. most dragons fall somewhere in the middle and having a very low level or a very high level gets rarer depending on just how extreme it is. when a transformation is nice and like, even i guess is the word?, its referred to as a clean transformation. its possible for colors and or scales/feathers to show up in patches so if you dont have anything like that, its said to be clean. this is more common when referring to someone with a low level, but if you keep your scales/feathers and they cover everything youre high level but technically also clean, because they arent in patches

with a lot of time and effort, it is possible to change the level in your transformation, within reason. you aint hopping to the other end of the curve. its more common among royalty as they have the time and security in order to sit for hours/days at a time and concentrate on slowly changing things like evening out your complexion or something. while it will permanently stay once you change it, it however doesn’t carry over to offspring so even if your shifted form is a really low level because you changed it the level you had originally is what passes on. it then breeds gossip because “that hatchling’s transformation looks a little too dragon. are we sure its actually the child of that dragon quick does anyone have baby pictures of the supposed parents original level”

theres scholars who have dedicated their lives to researching transformation and if theres ways to determine what characteristics a hatchling will have based on their parents or being able to make that drastic hop to the opposite extreme without the assistance of illusion magic and stuff like that. theres then also massive arguments about what defines each level. “if they have wings theyre automatically a high level!” “well what if they have wings but everything else is clean and if they didnt have wings theyd be an extreme low huh what then” “FUCK OFF” theres a chart.. somewhat fairly well accepted by the community giving certain characteristics number.. weights? and then you add together the weights depending on what they have and how high the number is corresponds to a certain level. someone with a high score would be high level, low score low level, and then in the middle theres those who lean closer to one side and perfect middles and all that. very scientific

more details and explanations under the read more

one is pretty self explanatory. when a dragon shifts to their smaller bipedal form, its almost never completely to what we as users would call humans. their hair might be an unnatural color, they might have claws, they might keep their crests/horns/whatever they have. dragons who change so completely you can tell Nothing about their breed or colors are so rare they sometimes end up being compared to the deities and worshiped. or sacrificed. depends on how the clan feels about low levels lol

two. how many dragon characteristics you keep depends on how much your parents keep. when a new dragon is born, the level they have in already an ingrained part of who they are, even if they never even shift in their life. no one looks exactly the same in their shifted form, because like fingerprints in humans the small truly defining characteristics are completely unique between dragon to dragon. you could have identical hatchlings in a clutch but when they transform, youd still be able to pick up tiny little differences here and there like thicker nails or sharper teeth or something. everyone is a special snowflake but actually true this time

three. more dragons have an average level than those with an incredibly low level or incredibly high level. like one, explanatory. and then clean is like i said before, no random patches of mismatched colors or feathers/scales. now if the dragon has piebald or poitox thats a different story but its kinda easy to tell between “oh they have poison” and then “smooth even tan- GIANT RED SPLOTCH”. relating to pride and lorelei again, youd think pride would be the clean one because he looks more human but its actually lorelei. her cherub markings cover her entire body while if you look closely at pride’s ‘freckles’ you can actually see its patches of color trying to break through and then on his lower body and stuff theres patches where you can just barely see the circuit showing through but its definitely there.

four. if one sits and concentrates and focuses their magic inward, they can change what is being expressed. when you live in a crowded place like a palace where its just not plausible for everyone to be fullsized all the time, a lot of importance starts being placed on how you look when in tiny fleshy form. if you live on a farm somewhere and you go to a place crowded enough you need to shift only like twice in your life, well then who gives a shit. a lot of the time one changes it to look lower leveled because its taken on a meaning of wealth and luxury. “hey i dont need to do anything so i dont need to keep my wings and my claws or anything in this form”. though there are rare instances one wants to look more like a dragon. the most common is imps. if they dont have a characteristic that quickly and obviously identifies them as an imperial, they change it so they do. most go antlers, since thats fairly unique and recognizable at a glance. its probably pretty obvious why an imp would want to be instantly recognized in an imp even when theyre shifted lol. and then theres some that do it for the #aesthetic because they think it loooks cool

five is again pretty self explanatory. there exists those who want to find out everything they possibly can about how dragons transform and how the characteristics you get are chosen and why pretty much everyone is born being able to do it etc etc. some go about it in more humane ways, getting volunteers to shift for them while they record everything down, but theres also those that kidnap dragons and force them to shift back and forth under various conditions and use pain to motivate them. and then theres also the fact shifting takes energy and magic and the more brutal among them will make dragons continue trying to shift even if they obviously suffering from severe lack of magic to study how low amounts of magic affect transformations. the community tends to shun the ones who conduct experiments like that, but theres the unfortunate fact that a lot of valuable information has been collected from them and really no one can say without lying that they havent used those studies in order to get ideas for their own experiments. “f-for science? ;-;”

#flight rising #fr lore #fr worldbuilding #? #i guess #main lore #hey WHY DO I WRITE LONG THINGS LIKE THIS