a discussion of jabberwock with team interaction hcs + deeper nash analysis
for anon who asked "Can we get some headcanons for jabberwock members or like headcanons when they're together? (its okay if it was jason or nash only)" and made me realise it's about time i get these guys' personalities down
note before we start: cause i didn't know their names until i wrote this
zack is the bald one, allen is the one with a headband, nick is the other white guy apart from nash.
team hcs
nick gets bullied for being under 6ft, but not by jason
nah good old jason teases all of them for being short fucks, emphasising that they’re all 5ft tall in comparison to him
he 100% lifts things out of the others' reach and then laughs for ages after when they try get them
unfortunately though, they’re all used to this and now just ignore him. either that or nash stares at him so intensely jason actually repents and hands it back
zack’s another one with a very good glare, but he’s used it too often on jason and it’s since stopped working.
also jason gives me ‘straightens his back as much as possible when getting measured so he’ll measure in as 7ft’ vibes
oh and he thinks he could wrestle a gator and win. i’ve got no explanation for that except for the fact you can't tell me it's ooc.
allen’s very protective over his white headband - it’s his lucky item - but he’d never let anyone know that
he’s confident in his abilities like the rest of them, but there’s nothing wrong with wearing a headband just in case
(nash knows anyway)
they watch nba matches together and do not shut up once throughout the entire match - lots of jeering, booing each other if someone criticises a player they like, lots of “i could do that”, lots of “get your fucking hand out of my popcorn do you want me to punch you in the face” etc
they used to all live together, but nash has since moved out. he was sick and tired of trying to make people do chores, as the only one who kept their room clean.
yeah the others’ house looks like a heap of trash but also very much “where’s my toothbrush?” “it’s in the third coke can by the orange peel behind the sink” *silence* “yeah thanks” *a minute later* “who the fuck has been using my toothbrush”
they’re all “bro your dribbling sucks why are you on this team loser” to one another, but also very protective (aka arrogant for one another) if anyone else Dared to criticise one of their teammates
then again, what kind of person would criticise jabberwock
half of the time he spends with jabberwock, nash is a Single Mother TM trying to get a bunch of man children to behave; the other half of the time, he's just as bad as the rest of them
i talk about this a lot but i get the feeling nash is an exceptionally hard worker, but at least he gets to let his hair down around his teammates sometimes
nash is also the only person jason thought was truly ‘strong’ at first sight
and nash is also the only person who can beat jason in a fight, and also the only person who can get nash to train, and also the only person who can.. [etc. you see my point].
(n.b jason calls himself the ‘almighty me’, nash says that ‘even god can’t beat me’. point made.)
you know how jason silver’s motto is “I have never thought”
imagine him proudly stating that, before zack adds with a straight face, “yeah cause nash does it for you.”
in short, the team would fall apart without nash.
although the team’s communication and coordination is very fine tuned, nash is the guy who keeps everything in order off the court to prevent what is essentially a team of aces ('main characters', if you will) from falling apart
they hang out together a lot, but do all have other friend groups that do not overlap
team bbqs
unofficial rule not to criticise anchovies on pizza because the one time nick did, nash snapped
however pineapple on pizza is fair game, even though zack quite likes it
more than once, jason has brought a girl home and nick has stolen her attention away with effortless trick shots, funky ball manoeuvring etc
more than once nick has had to trek to nash’s place (with a black eye) at midnight to have somewhere to sleep
do you see a correlation?
oh and everyone in the team has been walked in on by nash when they were naked with some girl
nash has absolutely no shame
he apologises to the girl with a charming albeit insincere tone, and then remains standing in front of the bed/couch until his teammate does what he expected of them
usually it involves not having come to practice
allen learnt a few (emphasis on ‘few’) words of japanese before they travelled to japan and was disappointed that he never got to use them
that said, one of those words was hentai
and now a quick analysis of some panels
a) so there's at least one player who wasn't underestimating vorpal swords. if i were to overanalyse, i'd add that nick's wearing a hoodie (possibly athletic wear) whilst nash has a 'fancy' shirt on; perhaps nick wasn't expecting them to be going to host clubs instead of chilling/training?
b) i know what you're thinking: "how can you say nash is a hard worker when he didn't want to practice for the match". i reckon he was still pretty high on the complete and utter success of their previous match, that plus being around girls, encouraged him to have a more 'jason-y' personality. (either that or fujimaki didn't want to add too much depth/realism into nash's character bc he's unequivocally the villain, right? and obviously this helps with the plot and the jabberwock bad geniuses gom good geniuses rhetoric.)
earlier, i mentioned how nash is the only one that could keep the team together, and is thus the undeniable head of the team; here's a clear example. you can see both jason and zack have no interest in continuing - if anything, there's disgust in their faces, kinda just saying "we spat on all of japan, now we can go home". whereas nash won't allow for the slightest of possibilities that there might exist a team stronger than them, and hence agrees to the match. the key thing here is that the others do as he says without too much fuss.
another thing to note is nash's reference to harakiri. now what can we make of that, alongside his proficiency in japanese, in relation to his character? the way i see it, he's either a weeb or possibly has some japanese lineage. (you could spin that even further and say his mother was japanese, taught him the language, then abandoned him, and hence his almost excessive hatred/mockery of the japanese people.) (is that why he wanted to do another match in japan..?)
just a quick point. "thanks to him" - jason isn't so superior as to think that he could win this match effortlessly without nash's support. links pretty nicely with my earlier idea about how nash is the only person jason has always considered 100% strong.
yet another point about how nash is the strongest of the team in pretty much every way you can think of. you know how scary/powerful you have to be to shut jason up (after he's getting real pissed from being prevented from scoring?)
i personally think this is a pretty important panel, though i've never seen anyone mention it before. did nash grow up training in a professional basketball training situation, as opposed to growing up playing streetball like i suspect the others did? well, to answer that question, imma bring in another panel.
here we see visible rage on nick, zack and jason's faces - they can't accept their loss, which is fair enough. but i'd argue that nash's face seems to depict sadness more than it does anger like to rest of them, look at how downturned his mouth is - and he's looking away from the 'camera', as if hiding his shame.
when you combine that with what he says here, i have no doubt that this is someone who has experienced some proper lows in basketball - as would be expected from someone who's played 'properly'. he's possibly not even a prodigy like the rest of them - compare jason's motto with his. "i have never thought" versus "do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door".
there's various lines of thinking you could design with this - he might have been trained by alex (hence, himuro having heard of jabberwock, though he should have known of a team as popular of jabberwock regardless), he might have grown up with professional basketballer parents etc. but here's my own little theory:
nash received serious basketball training from early on - maybe because his parents were living vicariously through him, or maybe he always loved the sport and wanted to be no1. so there he was training away, but, as he grew older, it started getting all a bit too much.
he didn't want to dedicate his entire life to basketball. after all, his hobby is water sports and his speciality is boxing; that's a lot of different things to be keeping up with, whereas the pipeline for promising athletes demands people focus solely on basketball. as a result, nash become bitter: stopped attending practice regularly, got in trouble for trash talk of increasing severity, etc.
result was he was kicked out of the program.
only when he was no longer playing basketball again, did he realise how much he missed it. and hence he got into streetball, where he was tremendously successful as someone with so much training, 'elite skills', and the overly confident attitude to boot.
then, one fateful day, he met jason and the rest is history.
It’s really depressing when every characters gets a bunch of different Deep Quotes and then all Aomine gets is “the only one who can beat me is me” over and over again on graphics. He’s said other stuff - stuff that is just as repetitive in themes but are much more telling about him as a person.
I don’t think anyone’s translated the tweet that lists all the books we see Kuroko reading in canon, so here you go:
『スロウハイツの神様』 辻村深月 (Slow Heights no kamisama by Mitsuki Tsujimura)
『凍りのくじら』 辻村深月 (Koori no kujira by Mitsuki Tsujimura)
『うたかた』 吉本ばなな (Utakata by Banana Yoshimoto)
『走れメロス』 太宰治 (Run, Melos! by Osamu Dazai)
『細雪』 谷崎潤一郎 (The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki)
『こゝろ』 夏目漱石 (Kokoro by Soseki Natsume)
『それから』 夏目漱石 (And Then by Soseki Natsume)
『ニーチェ詩集』 フリードリヒ・ニーチェ (Nietzsche poetry anthology by Friedrich Nietzsche) - Kuroko reads this in the Akamaru Jump one-shot
Run, Melos! wasn’t listed in the tweet for some reason. Also, I can’t find the exact panels where Kuroko is seen reading Utakara or Kokoro but I’ll update this post when I do.
I don’t think Utakara or Mitsuki Tsujimura’s works are available in English, but Kuroko’s taste in books is very… Philosophical? Literary?? Although I get more of a pop-literature vibe from Mitsuki Tsujimura since she writes mystery novels…
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I started posting translations for the heck of it and didn’t expect it would turn out like this. Nonetheless, thank you so so much for supporting my translations! ♥♥♥
So just for the fandom…
I translated the Teikou timeline.
Anon gave me this link, which shows the detailed sequence of events when the Kiseki were still in Teikou.
I translated »712
Teikou period sequence of events
1st year
April
- Kuroko, Aomine, Midorima, Murasakibara, Akashi, and Haizaki join the basketball club.
- 2 weeks after joining, Aomine, Midorima, Murasakibara, Akashi and Haizaki rise to first string (171Q), Kuroko is at 3rd string. (Vol14 124Q)
? month
- Aomine has been chosen as a starting member (Vol14 124Q)
End of August
- Teikou wins the Nationals.
? month
- Kuroko and Aomine meet at the gym (Vol14, 124Q)
- Akashi thinks “I haven’t seen him recently~” pertaining to Aomine shortly before ↓
October
- Kuroko fails the promotion test for the 2nd string and thinks about quitting the basketball club.
- Kuroko also meets Akashi, Midorima, and Murasakibara; and his talent is discovered by Akashi.
This year, Midorima, Murasakibara, Akashi and Haizaki compete with Kiyoshi’s school (Shouei middle school) once. (Vol7 55Q — Midorima says “Before Kuroko joins the bench”, Vol11 96Q — Murasakibara and Akashi, 171Q — Kiyoshi has experienced playing against Haizaki)
Around this time, because Teikou is too strong, there is also a lot of animosity. Haizaki becomes one of the reasons why Teikou gained something close to a villainous impression. (171Q)
*** In LA, Kagami who has changed middle schools, reunites with Himuro and wins against him for the first time (Vol9 76Q). Hereafter, they compete every week, and it has become a win-lose cycle.
1. Kokoro by Natsume Souseki // 2. And Then by Natsume Souseki // 3. Run, Melos! by Dazai Osamu // 4. Nietzsche poetry anthology by Friedrich Nietzsche // 5. The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichirou // 6. Utakata by Yoshimoto Banana // 7. Koori no kujira by Tsujimura Mitsuki // 8-9, Slow Heights no kamisama by Tsujimura Mitsuki
Sanrio had a new collaboration with ina11 again and they didn't include any of the girls or someoka (not surprised but disappointed nonetheless) so I took it upon myself to draw somenashi in it, and here is the result!!
I tried my best to mimic the art style and this is what I have got (:
Close up ↓
I'm not really into sanrio and I only recognize the famous characters, I selected mocha for haruna because I thought he was cute and my sweet piano for someoka because of her pink wool since I decided to go with a pink theme for him.
Anonymous asked you:
I’m a native Japanese, so I first apologize for my bad English. And it’s pretty long, so please let me divide this. Part 1: The book kuroko was reading in the first chapter, “『凍りのくじら』(Koori no kujira)"is a story about a girl who thinks that she was abandoned by her father named "Hikari” (Note: Hikari means light in Japanese). What’s interesting is that the MC has an ex-boyfriend named Daiki.who’s portrayed as freaky guy that became weird because he don’t have the MC who support him around.
Part 2: What’s intriguing is that this Daiki let go of the MC by himself, and became like some psycho because of that. Moreover, in the story there’s a part where the MC goes to meet Daiki even though he is not what he used to be, because she clings to her past.
Part 3: Plus, the beginning of the story has a line like this, “Why is the light you shine so beautiful?”. “No one may not believe me, but long time ago, I had this light lit me up.” Don’t you think this is so suggestive?
Part 4: .I’ve read many of your opinions and discussions, and been impressed by how you read KnB, which is a Japanese comic so closely, even though you are not Japanese (I’m sorry if you felt this impolite). I think you read this manga more closely than most of my Japanese friends do! XD So I want to hear your opinion about this. Do you think the author Fujimaki chose this book on purpose? Or just by coincidence?
…I’m dying right now for so many reasons. Every time a Japanese fan happens across my blog and says nice things about my ridiculous English tl;dr I’m like alkjfhdkah omg thank you for taking the time to read and make sense of my walls of text which are crazy disorganized even to native English speakers. I just feel really honored for some reason, lol.
In regards to that book:
Oh good lord, that sounds like way too many similarities for it to be coincidence. The names, the light and abandonment themes… I’m basically writhing in agony at not being able to read Japanese or else I’d buy that book in a heartbeat, haha. I totally want to analyze and compare it now.
I don’t suppose any of my followers have read it and can comment? /stares at the lot of you who can read Japanese
This made me go check the post that listed all the books Kuroko is seen reading in the series, and judging by the summaries I can find, some of them seem like they have relevant themes of dependence vs. independence, transition, and identity. …Huh, I guess I should buy the ones that are available in English and give them a read. It’ll be like being in college again, lol.
Thanks so much for pointing this out, anon! I wish I had more to say on it but analysis is hard without being familiar with the text in question. It does seem like a significant choice on Fujimaki’s part, though. I’m sure a lot of non-Japanese-speaking fans will agree it’s intriguing, and we’d have never caught onto it by ourselves, so thank you!
Did my semi-regular catch-up on KnB and I’m really enjoying what a ruthless bastard Akashi is, lol.
It’s been a while, but here are some recent thoughts concerning his character arc and how I’m pretty sure it’s going to end.
#pander 2 me more fujimaki tadatoshi #also i love how kuroko is the first one 2 notice when somebody converts 2 his basketball religion #yes they have accepted kuroko as their lord and savior
Scores 10/10 in offence and teamwork, 6/10 in defence and height, and 4/10 in bench strength
Is a new school with good facilities, but is relatively small in size in regards to other major schools in the series
Offers a total of 18 different types of bread in its cafeteria, including its special sandwich
The special sandwich is made with black Iberian pig, caviar, foie gras and truffle
The special sandwich is sold in limited quantities every 25th of the month
Seirin’s cheer is “Seirin FIGHT!”
Kaijō
Located in the Kanagawa prefecture
Scores 8/10 in offence, defence, height, and teamwork, and 6/10 in bench strength
All of the sports clubs in Kaijō are of national level, and thus the facilities are of a high standard to match
Shūtoku
Located in the Tokyo prefecture
Scores 8/10 in offence, defence, bench strength, and height, and 6/10 in teamwork
One of the Three Kings of Tokyo
Has a long history, and the facilities are quite tired and worn
Has a strict management system
Their official cheering squad is called Persistent and Tireless
Touou
Located in the Tokyo prefecture
Scores 10/10 in offence and bench strength, 8/10 in defence and height, and 4/10 in teamwork
Its basketball team was unknown in the past, but had recruited a number of national-level players over the past year, prompting them to become one of the best in Tokyo
The basketball team focuses more on individual strength than operating as a team, resulting in a weak foundation for teamwork
The school has a large amount of freedom in its curriculum, the system reminiscent of a university
Known for its lively culture
Yōsen
Located in the Akita prefecture
Scores 10/10 in defence and height, 8/10 in offence and bench strength, and 6/10 in teamwork
Members of the basketball team are not allowed to participate in non-school competitions
The school is very influenced by western style, which shows in both the curriculum and in the building’s architecture
Known for having enrolled foreign talent
The food in the cafeteria has allegedly delicious
Rakuzan
Located in the Kyoto prefecture
Scores 10/10 in offence, defence, and bench strength, 8/10 in teamwork, and 6/10 in height
Has participated in the Winter Cup every single year since the very first tournament
Kirisaki Daiichi
Located in the Tokyo prefecture
Scores 8/10 in defence, height, and teamwork, 6/10 in offence, and 4/10 in bench strength
Known as one of the best eight basketball teams in Tokyo
Has a high promotion percentage
Popular with wealthy families and those with higher social standings
Aside from its strong basketball club, they are also known for its golf club
Seihō
Located in the Tokyo prefecture
Scores 10/10 in defence, 8/10 in bench strength and teamwork, and 6/10 in offence and height
Notable for using old marital arts techniques in their training, such as the Nanba Run
Due to their national-level skills coupled with their unique methods, there have been a few articles written about them in basketball magazines
Their official cheering squad is called Invincible Resolve
Teikō
Located in the Tokyo prefecture
Scores 10/10 in offence, defence, bench strength, and height, and 2/10 in teamwork
Moto is “ever-victorious”
The kanji for “Tei” translates to emperor whilst the kanji for “kō” means light
Their basketball team boasts over 100 members
A quota of 20 points is placed on each player per match, with additional training being the punishment for any player who fails to reach it
The school was founded during Japan’s rainy season
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