𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚎𝚒𝚔𝚘!
we have two december babies and the first one is eiko! have fun while you can, girlboss, because season 3 is going to hit you. uh. hard.
you can read the bday timeline conversation under the cut!
Shun: Uh.. Eiko-san, forgive me if I'm wrong..
Shun: But it's your birthday today, right?
Eiko: .. Wow, I can't believe you remembered.
Eiko: Haha, looks like your memory really is getting better.
Shun: O-of course I remembered!
Shun: I always try my best to remember the things I.. uh.. care about.
Eiko: But you can't even remember your own name or age sometimes. Does that mean you don't care about yourself?
Shun: ...
Eiko: Haha, sorry for asking such a deep question.
Shun: N-no, it's okay. I just..
Shun: W-well, I haven't prepared a birthday gift for you, but I thought that maybe..
Shun: .. D-do you want to spend some time with me today? You know, just.. hang out a little bit?
Eiko: It almost sounds like you're asking me out, really.
Eiko: But fine~ I don't have much to do anyway.
Eiko: "This guy is so creepy.. But I can't say I hate the attention I get from him."
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alizayd for character opinion bingo 🧍🏽♀️
Thank you! 💖
Alizayd al Qahtani is the fucking best. There is no contest. He's empathetic, he's a sass machine, he's got a backbone made of righteous steel, he's a nerd raised to be a jock and was the best zulfiqari of his generation through sheer determination. He's the smartest (and tallest) man in the room that loves to help people and is also an oblivious social loser. He's a math genius and an economic wizard that outsmarted the Royal Treasury's best accountants as a teenager to secretly fund and make the Tanzeem's illegal transactions untraceable, and *During a Recession* got a millennia-old decrepit hospital to be completely rebuilt and functional in like 6 months. He also actually listens to people, and did possibly the most romantic thing in the series by building Nahri her private Cairo-themed office. He's self-sacrificing and self-denying to a fault and all he wants to do is fix things (and swim, and read), and he perfectly fits into soldier life and civilian life.
My man has the best character arc of the trilogy as he learns and grows past his early prejudice and indecision while sharpening his best traits. He is constantly reevaluating himself and his actions while still holding on to what matters to him, like his faith and his idealism that Daevabad can be improved. Even in the depths of his bitterness or grief, he always returns to trying to do the right thing, and not holding unrelated people responsible for the actions of others. He has the best motivational speeches in the series. His great grandpa is a crocodile and their scenes together are hilarious.
My man Alizayd has some Lord of the Rings: Return of the King-level epicness, in how he is descended from both Zaydi al Qahtani and the marid-blessed Armah. Zaydi, who rallied the djinn world against the genocidal Nahids and overthrew them to take Daevabad 1400 years earlier; and his ally Armah who commanded the marid to help take the city and Suleiman's Ring, and made the ultimate sacrifice by staying allied with the djinn. Ali is constantly compared to Zaydi in City of Brass and Kingdom of Copper, but there's this steady transfer of similarities to Armah in Kingdom of Copper and Empire of Gold, until Ali is truly representing both sides combined as he aids Nahri and a global army that he put together in three days to once again take back Daevabad from a genocidal Nahid. The man is a fucking legend, and with any other author or director it would unquestionably be at the forefront of the story. Instead it hides in background details foe readers to piece together, like it's barely worth mentioning.
This is because my man Ali also has the self-confidence/self-esteem of a shy beetle hiding six feet under the earth, and the author's subtle/vague writing style and inability to stand up for what she's trying to say when people misunderstand has created... how do I word this... A lot of wiggle room for bullshit?
Ali gets dragged a lot for being self-righteous and a fanatic, because characters that are threatened by him in the book call him that, and readers parrot it without any consideration or critical thought. Is it self-righteous to be against slavery? Or to create personal boundaries regarding drinking and premarital sex? Is it fanaticism when he argues against corruption, or practices his religion *in a completely normal way?* I dare say no! But Ali is both black and muslim, so he gets a shit load of shit from every corner, and with the author unable to really clear things up and too cowardly to even admit that Ali is her favorite character without immediately asking everyone to forget she said that (Oops. Also: no), it makes me very, very concerned for whoever ends up playing Ali in the Netflix show. Because if past is any pretext, he's definitely not gonna get paid enough for all the harassment he'll face. And if the author can't stand up for her characters and book themes now, how will she do it when the audience is much, much bigger and louder? :/
As much as I love Ali and his countless parallels with Nahri, and have a thousand headcanons for him (and a thousand fic & art ideas/wips), the series itself (or rather how it undid all its narrative themes in the end to appease loud fans who never understood what the series was trying to say in the first place, along with the author's blindspots regarding the Nahids/Daevas), has made me incredibly bitter. 🙃 I am someone who worships canon encyclopedically and remembers everything, and have come to the unfortunate realization that I cannot in good health ever read this series again.
So my beloved blorbo Ali exists for me in a weird dimension that I cannot really interact with anymore. Made worse because I still desperately want to see fandom stuff, but then also viciously tear apart everything I find. 💀
Idk how to end this. Thanks for the ask! ☺️
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Minus sixty one / Have I every really loved someone? / *Do I deserve what I've got? / Now the grid system's turned into traps / & the fear is switching sides / I own a million dollars worth of stock / *But I still don't sleep at night / What is it that I've become ?
Minus sixty one / Now the water level rises / High in my cold paradise / *Where men sit in circles / & talk numbers I never really liked / The way they think of life as some kind of gamble / & watch the city drown / Where is it that I belong ?
Minus sixty one / Now the wind cuts the lips like a knife / & the sun is out of sight / *I see a world I build to lose at trial / What is left & what is right? / I made the worst mistake one can make / Pretended & playing blind / What is it I'm trying to find ?
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HI AGAIN if you don't want people to request more than one please disregard this ahah,,, but if its ok could you possibly also do bi Momoi Satsuki to go with Aomine? I Just Think they are bi4bi <3 thank you again and no worries if you don't do this one!! (I will stop after this ahah)
MY BELOVED BISEXUAL MOMOI 💖💘💗💕💞 they are SO Bi4Bi and I love that for them 😭😭
And send as many requests as you want!!! I'm thriving off drawing KnB characters so I would love to draw any and all you send mwah 💖💖💖💖
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hmmm~. oc stuff.
i gotta admit, i havent really thought out much of cat’s background, but there is a life she lived a one point. can’t say she is an orphan, but definitely was neglected as a kid. definitely did study, but may had dropped out of school at one point, willingly or unwillingly, idk. tho i see her in her early 30s, she could be significantly older than that.
but in character reason, she has been through a lot of trauma, so her memory is kinda scrambled. but she does remember some major key points, such as her “home” and a doctor. she will always be a little weird, aside from her heart glass, and immortality.
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