#yuko nishikiyama

[valeriannnn]

Happy Birthday, Yuko

#yakuza #valerianart #akira nishikiyama #yuko nishikiyama #kazuma kiryu #yumi sawamura #this was originally a personal project i started two and a half years ago then turned into a zine piece but the zine died #so now im just posting it ig #enjoy #oh yeah the concept here was 'the last time all four of them were in a room together'

[nishikiyamayuko]

Biannual reminder of just how much it sucks that Yuko has no presence in the story whatsoever because Kazama’s whole purpose is to unmoor the audience by starting out as a trustworthy symbol of paternal guidance only to be revealed as a murderer and liar at the very end of his life. And with that reveal in mind, the fact that he paid for Yuko’s medical treatment gets retroactively evolved from a fairly simple act of generosity into something… deeply, insidiously gross and invasive. Especially consider that Nishiki’s whole involvement in the Yakuza started in part because he felt indebted to him because of it, and Yuko & him functioned as Kazama’s surrogate children.

Like oh yeah, Kazama funded all efforts to keep Yuko alive for two decades. After killing her mother and father when she was a baby, without her ever finding out. You think she loved him? You think he loved her?You think she loved the idea of him more than the man, because he became so distant after she got sick? You think she wrestled with the part of herself that understood why he couldn’t visit her more often & the part of her that resented him for not making more of an effort? You think, when he did visit her, she was so glad to have his company but so offput by the fact that he basically saw her as a little girl, since that was when he had the most contact with her?

You think she admired his authority, but felt some twinge of bitterness knowing she could never claim any of that power for herself? You think she listened to Nishiki whine about not feeling wanted by Kazama and had to decide if she was sympathetic or jealous that he even had so many opportunities to be around him? You think either of them came to visit her when she was in comas or unconscious, and she woke up with choppy, distorted memories of their voices at her bedside? You think she cherished those, knowing she wasn’t forgotten? You think being spoken to while unable to respond disturbed her, and she tried her best to forget them?

You think she asked Kazama about her father when she was a little kid, and he dodged the question because it had only been a few years since he killed that man & Yuko is talkative and he just could not stand the possibility that she might start prattling on about her dead dad if he did share any information? You think she asked him about her mother when she got older, became a woman herself? You think he told her what little he knew, because he didn’t emotionally react to her death in the first place, she was just collateral damage & Yuko doesn’t look as much like her anyway, so the conversation feels less brazenly deceptive?

You think he bought her gifts? You think she looked at them and thought of how lavish her funeral would be? You think he got any of her belongings after she died, something small like a hair clip or a well-loved doll, because Nishiki took all the big stuff? You think she had already given him some little trinket long before she passed, because he saw her so rarely that it had the same effect as if she had already been gone? You think that morbid liminality reminded him of how it felt the first time, driving to some quiet part of Kamurocho, knowing you’re going there to end a life? You think she picked up on that unspoken, one-sided significance, maybe wondered why he sometimes seemed tense around her? Did Kazama go to her funeral? Did him and Nishiki talk at it?

And the writers didn’t even think her perspective on that series of events was worth bringing up. Fun!

#kazama shintaro #shintaro kazama #nishikiyama yuko #yuko nishikiyama #nishikiyama akira #akira nishikiyama #oh and technically #Souta

[mushrooms-and-blooms]

fanart of friend @sadkois @stoopidstapler's nishikiyama vamp au >:3 plus a bonus angy nish

#please ask about the au friend said they would post it if people asked about it #im so indecisive ;; my yuko changes every time i draw her #who knows how long this look will last #akira nishikiyama #yuko nishikiyama #nishikiyama akira #nishikiyama yuko #nishiki yakuza #yakuza #yakuza au

[madsscreenshots]

yakuza 3 (2009)

#kazuma kiryu #kiryu kazuma #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #yakuzaedit #yakuza 3 #nishikiyama akira #akira nishikiyama #nishikiyama yuko #yuko nishikiyama #sawamura yumi #yumi sawamura #mads takes screenshots

[hedgerlogs]

pictures taken instantaneously! 📷

#yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #kazuma kiryu #akira nishikiyama #yumi sawamura #yuko nishikiyama #shintaro kazama #my art #this took foreverrrrr #but i had this idea and wanted to make it real. so #(unedited version under the cut if u want to see the details!) #text should be “june '85” sorry if its written weird. i dont speak/write japanese

[m-u-n-c-h-y]

I always end up doodling Yuko while I'm at work 😂 Also have a table of my own personal timeline for Yuko's life.

#yakuza #yuko nishikiyama #yakuza 0 #yakuza kiwami #akira nishikiyama #kiryu kazuma #they're her biggest fans #yuko deserved better #0 amd kiwami would have been the PERFECT opportunity to actually show her #and they WASTED IT #WASTED #IT #my art #sketches #doodles #got the munchy's?

[smol-tired-binch-blog]

Welcome back to the Yuko Lives AU. Today I'm showing the results of messing around with an incorrect quotes generator.

Starring: Majima's usual nonsense, Yuko being sillypilled, and Nishiki's Eternal Suffering as a result.

#yuko lives au #smol makes art #yuko nishikiyama #akira nishikiyama #goro majima #idk if Yuko x Ryuji would be canon I literally just thought about it this morning and thought 'i know the perfect quote for this' #like most ships i have i think it'd be funny. also i made the first two sketches a few weeks ago but wanted more than 2 to post #also Yuko darling I'm sorry I can't pick a consistent outfit for you they always have a similar vibe but I can never decide vbhnjkmjnh #also fun fact the snake did not end up being named William Snakespeare its name is Communism #poor Nishiki he only ever suffers when I doodle him like this bhjnkbhnj and yet i treat him better than canon ever does

[bloomeng]

it’s so cruel that we never got to see nishiki’s sister she’s such a big part of his story and they had the audacity to give us nothing but a name

shout out to yuko you’re real to me (an oc practically)

in my head she would’ve been a bit of a tomboy someone fairly grounded to balance out nishiki but also very competitive i like to think that she would absolutely insist on playing with him and kiryu as kids and nishiki was like noooo and kiryu was like oh cool another person closer to having a real baseball team

…might’ve drawn her at some point i should dig for that

#rgg #yakuza kiwami #yakuza #nishiki #kiryu #yuko nishikiyama #akira nishikiyama #yakuza nishiki #ryu ga gotoku

[g0deatgod]

I Don't Want Any Damn Flowers

#yakuza #ryo ga gotoku #yuko nishikiyama #ashen waste #kind of a teaser for the next chapter also i love her lots #📸scrapbook📖

[mendipite]

A Timeline of Yuko Nishikiyama

Was having some thoughts and wanted to put this together.

At the start of the prologue movie (x), in the Summer of 1980, we hear Kiryu (11-12, most likely 12) and Nishiki (11) talking about Yumi, who is about to move to Sunflower after her parents were killed. Nishiki says that she’s “really young”, but not as young as Yuko.

Yuko appears to be, at youngest, 5 years old here (though open to interpretation). Since we know that Yumi was born in June 1971, making her 9 years old, this would put Yuko between 5-8 years old in 1980. Making her year of birth 1972-1975, and the age gap between her and her brother 3-6 years. This would mean that their parents died when Nishiki was at youngest between 3 and 6 years old (1971-1974).

Yuko’s health problems begin in 1983 (aged 8-11), as also seen in the prologue.

The RGGO story with her and Nishiki is in 1984 (age 9-12) (x).

In RGGO, Nishiki has a voice line (x at 4:44) where he mentions that (around 1988) he made enough money that she was able to move to a better hospital. Unless she moved between hospitals on multiple occasions, this would be the time she moved to Touto Hospital. (Perhaps she was at Touto originally but teenage just-joined-the-yakuza Nishiki couldn’t afford to keep her there without Kazama’s funding? Who knows. As an aside, there is a Kazama-centric RGGO story where he says that as a parent he could never abandon his own child. Does that imply he didn’t see Yuko as a daughter given well… everything? (x))

Though the flashback scene of Nishiki after her death in Kiwami has no date, there is an RGGO card that confirms it is in 1996 (aged 21-24) (x). Her death was presumably organ failure since they were unable to find a donor for her, but Nishiki says that she was so weak by the end that she may not have survived the necessary surgery even if they did (x).

#Let me know if there’s anything I missed #I keep forgetting that she would be an adult by the time of kiwami #wish we had more lore on her #nishikiyama yuko #nishikiyama akira #yakuza kiwami #yuko nishikiyama #akira nishikiyama

[rainreignreine]

FUCK IT so i sketched/doodled a couple cool yakuza AUs on paper and figured yeah. i told these people i'd draw them why not do it now lol (i apologize for the horrible quality)

also here's a list of credits i put on the paper

(pic 1) vamp nishiki au: sadkois

^'s visual inspiration: mushrooms-and-blooms

(pic 2) yuko lives au / ryuko: @smol-tired-binch-blog (hope you dont mind the ping! you told me to do that so. well)

(i am not sure if the first two would mind if i tag them so. uh. i wont. for now if that's alright)

#tw blood #maybe? i mean. the scans are b&w but its there #yakuza kiwami spoilers #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza #rains art tag #rain scribbles #counts as both #i care both of the aus so much i will draw more of them eventually. (threat) #akira nishikiyama #yuko nishikiyama #not tagging ryuji and majima since they're baaaarely here #nishiki <3

[paganminiskirt]

Freak Fic Friday

Thank you to @detectivelokis, @theresaruggedroad, and @adelaidedrubman for tagging me! I'm in the final slog @ school right now, but I'm grateful for the oppurtunity to reintegrate myself into the personal work that's on the shelf. This is from a long standing WIP called "Derori," which I'll eventually post on my yakuza sideblog.

Tagging: @henbased for that Goth Girl Shit, @strafethesesinners @snake-in-the-garden @purplehairsecretlair, and @shallow-gravy

When the red fluid draining from the tube in her chest has been running clear for three hours, her brother asks when they can take them out. 

His sense of hope is premature, overgrown; brought on, she suspects, by the little sips of water she’s been taking. They boiled it for her, left it to sit until it was lukewarm; she’d prefer it cold, but it sloughs the film of cotton off her tongue just the same. Yuko drinks eagerly, more eagerly than perhaps is safe, until she realizes it’s the exact same temperature and color as the liquid streaming out of her chest. She thinks of roman aqueducts, curving iron pipes; as if all her body’s carefully arrayed systems came together to form a conduit, a conductor, no more complex or sentient than a hole in a wall. She puts it down after that, his urgency to have the tubes out beginning to creep up on her. 

It’s a long night.

Nishiki is there for the entirety of the first day, into the pallid, silver-edged morning and the wet gray afternoon. He watches Nurse Mai turn her onto her side, picking at the loose skin around his manicured nails, she watches him snore slumped over in his chair, ignoring the open magazine in her lap. It isn’t until evening begins to set back in that she starts reading for real; tripe from last year, but it distracts her well enough. Around the same time, her brother gives her a peck on the forehead and tells her he’s going to duck out. She thought he just meant for a cigarette or something, but he stays gone into the night, even after the doctors fill the room, even after they put her back under. 

She wakes up hurting, entirely unyoked. 

#yuko nishikiyama #writing

[nishikiyamayuko]

Justifying Yuko’s absence in Yumi and Kiryu’s lives (even in times of crisis) by writing her as someone who self isolates when she’s in pain, just like her brother, is fun because it basically means having her be like

#akira nishikiyama #nishikiyama akira #yuko nishikiyama #nishikiyama yuko #yumi sawamura #kiryu kazuma

[mushrooms-and-blooms]

An exploration of Nishiki's pov after the confrontation in the Millennium Tower, a chat with his sister, and a hopeful future

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Words: 4362, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 龍が如く | Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza (Video Games)

Rating: Teen and up

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen

Characters: Nishikiyama Akira, Nishikiyama Yuko, Kiryu Kazuma

Additional Tags: Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Bittersweet, Character Study, Injury, Burns, Post-Ryuu ga Gotoku | Yakuza 1 (Video Game)

#first time posting one of these ever #sure hope I did it right #yakuza #nishiki #nishikiyama akira #nishikiyama yuko #yakuza nishiki #ao3 #fanfic #akira nishikiyama #yuko nishikiyama #gen fic

[majimassqueaktoy]

You know who might as well be a plant? Nishiki's sister. We don't even get to *see* her on screen.

I'm forver dirty about that!! We deserved to see Yuko... Not only that but if they had added Yuko and Yumi to Yakuza 0 I feel like it would have really helped add to everyone's stories as well- Yumi most obviously, if we'd seen her as a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl it would have made her arc in k1 all the more tragic and if we'd seen Yuko, it would have made her eventual death hit so much harder- Reina is perfect proof of this! I fell in love with Reina in Y0, just that little addition made what happened in k1 hit so much harder than it would have- much the same with Shinji as well! It was quite frankly odd that they didnt add at least one short scene of those two and it was a big missed opportunity.

#ask #but yeah def agree!! #sorry for the long ass repsonses 😭 #yuko nishikiyama #yumi sawamura

[opalfur]

nishiki character study. i now have double depression

#ryu ga gotoku #yakuza #akira nishikiyama #kiryu kazuma #nishikiryu #yakuza kiwami #yuko nishikiyama #vent fic about being the eldest sibling #actually just a vent fic #i love it here #ao3