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Cutesy little jaykyle stuff I drew for a animation meme I did
Question: JayKylePrime?
Also known as Kyle Rayner x Bad Decisions
Remake of my old jason todd kagurabachi fanart (and the original scene for comparison)
Nara fam doodle kinda for Shikamaru and Shikadai’s bdays
I think we should skip the flirting and go straight to psychological codependence.
Strayson anyone? …..no? just me?
You can thank @iratetoast for this one! He introduced me to stray!Jason and sent some refs for me to work with, go check out his fics!
Here are all my notes on Jason and magic and the All-Caste from Rhato, Red Hood and Arsenal, and Rhato Re. I worked on these notes while reading so it's messy and jumps around in style but feel free to use or add on
Graphic design is my passion
Batman 408-9 by Max Collins: See, I am using the aesthetics and context of a typical "no good punk kid" to immediately subvert the surrounding expectations therein by showing how Jason brings joy immediately to Batman, wants not only to survive but to do good, and he feels strongly enough about doing good that he will -- without help or prompting -- try to stop crime on his own! And the title of "Just Another Kid On Crime Alley!" emphasizes nothing about Jason's circumstances, backstory, or aesthetics preclude that goodness and joy!
Average reader who cannot read below the surface: In Batman 408-9, Jason Todd was re-imagined completely as a tough, gruff, smoking street rat with, I can only assume, a massive chip on his shoulder and a mean streak a mile wide.
Chapter 123 Baby Posting
I confess I admitted defeat trying to translate this chapter in full, kind void. The yap game was too strong.
Editor's Notes First Page: 迫りくる少国の脅威に対抗すべく、日本はー… [semari kuru shokoku no kyoui ni taikou subeku, nihon wa-...] "In order to counter the threat of Shokoku, Japan..." Last Page: 成すべき事はー [nasubeki koto wa-] "What needs to be done is..."
Information Bonanza
Another name! Hasumi's given name is 晋作 [shinsaku]: 晋 [shin] - advance, Jin Dynasty (of China); 作 [saku] - make, prepare, build, work (of art), harvest, crop, technique. Our man is The Prepperrrrrrrr
Jokes aside, his name is very traditional and invokes a sense of someone who's hard-working and responsible. Seems to fit. And once again it's the name of a famous samurai in Japanese history: Takasugi Shinsaku [高杉 晋作], a guy who decided that classism was for chumps and formed the Kiheitai [奇兵隊] from samurai and commoners alike in 1863.
Anyway. Remember the legendary talk chapter that was 115? We are back to do it even bigger and better. Play Spot Kudo in the backgrounds if the walls of text get to be too much.
The same pun applies here: when the suits are talking about "ore veins", they are saying 脈 [myaku], which means "vein", "pulse", or "hope". Nice one there, Hokazono.
It's nice to see that Izaru was always a doubter and a hater, though. He's nothing if not consistent.
Realistically speaking, he's the rational asshole that every major organisation needs. He's correct in everything he says here too since only about five people know that Kunishige's the real deal, and only one of them is in this meeting. So of course they choose the more practical route of trying to buy time until a more reliable solution is found.
And that solution's name is...
HIYUKI
At long last, Hiyuki crumbs!
Does the androgynous person in the back with messy hair have a name, and are they single?
She's the long-awaited wielder of Enkotsu (炎骨), or Flame Bone of the Starving. She's also about 19 years old in the present even though the math of her anticipated birth date (late September/early October) and her official one (January 8th) don't match up. Did Hokazono forget? Was her official birthday recorded later after she proved capable of wielding Flame Bone through the tests that were mentioned? Inquiring minds would like to now.
We've known the kanji for Hiyuki's name for ages now, but it's a pretty name so I'm going put it down here anyway. 緋雪 [Hiyuki]: 緋 [hi]: scarlet, cardinal; 雪 [yuki]: snow, snowfall. I think "scarlet snow" is the best character name in the series so far.
As for the Kagari clan, it's spelled 香刈. 香 [ka]- scent, smell; 刈 [gari]- reap, cut, clip, trim, prune. I think it's mostly meant to be a pun on 篝火 [kagaribi], bonfire/campfire/watch fire since the literal meaning is "harvester of scents" or "reaper of smells". Doesn't come across great in English anyway. In my humble and non-professional opinion of course.
...Are they really going to send out an infant though? It's great that Hiyuki will be able to wield Enkotsu and all, but she'll also not even be at the identifying shapes stage of development yet. I guess the plan would be to jingle keys in front of her and tell her to bring Rikuo out to play or something...? It seems pretty desperate even if they are buying a year's worth of time to make this work.
Which is why everything comes back to Chiaki and Kunishige.
Chiaki...
Yeah. She's going through it, alright.
TL quibble.
"The me that is Princess Soga... isn't important... to me..." sounds clunky and awful. It's a tough thing to translate naturally, yes, but this is supposed to be a professional product.
It comes from the discrepancy between the text in the dialogue box and the Ruby in the first bubble
Dialogue: 曽我の姫は… 私にとって… 大事じゃない…
Ruby: いまのわたしは… 私にとって… 大事じゃない…
In the blue text, she's saying "Princess Soga..." and in the pink text that was over top, she's saying "The me right now"... so we know she's not happy with her station and how she needs to present herself to fill the role of "Princess". The wide-eyed girl who admired the Princess became one herself and found out how hellish it really is. How powerless and constrained she is as an individual despite being so incredibly important to Japan as a whole. Chiaki's identity as Princess Soga isn't important to her.
So I think it would have sounded more natural as:
"Princess Soga"... isn't important... to me...
Putting it in quotes is the most direct way to make the implications loud and clear without the jank. But if you don't trust the audience, then it could be:
"Who I am now... isn't important... to me..." or "The identity of 'Princess Soga'... isn't important... to me...
That just says it flat-out while keeping the the same deep sadness of Chiaki realising that giving herself up is best for everyone... except her. Chiaki herself isn't important enough to get a say in things since she's the princess who acts for everyone else's sake. No matter what though, you really get the sense that she'd give it all up to be able to touch Kunishige and see her "commoner" friends again.
And another TL note. "Sogo" is a typo; Shiba's given name is Togo (登吾). Azami being "Sou-chan" (probably because he's a few years younger than the others) is really cute though. And at least one of these characters refers to their friends by their first names! Good job, Chiaki!
Look at those menacing ne'er-do-wells goofing around and getting into normal kid stuff. It's great that Chiaki got to experience that stuff before becoming the most important figurehead in the country. She might regret being the girl who gazed dreamily at the princess in her youth, but it wasn't her fault. She was just a kid from an unimportant branch family that didn't have many expectations placed on her.
Kunishige's handwriting really was awful.
So by the time she's ascended and ratted out, she's of two worlds: the ordinary one she grew up in, and the walled garden she's in now.
WARNING: long yap ahead
I get the accusations of misogyny and why there's a lot of strong opinions about Chiaki and how this arc is playing out. Kagurabachi has a lot of strengths but it's treatment of women in general is not one of them. We have way too many dead moms and a general dearth of women's stories compared to the massive effort put into the guy's.
That said, I don't think Chiaki is necessarily part of this issue so far. A prince in the same position as her would have the same obligations and the same feelings, and probably take the same actions.
Is it annoying to see a woman's story at last and it's her being forced to chose between her family/duty and a man? Yeah, not gonna fight that one. But I will argue that this situation isn't being told in a misogynistic way.
The very first thing we learned about Chiaki this arc was that she is in an incredibly powerful position. We are shown that the government and powerful clans hang on her every word; that the fate of the nation is in her hands. She could lie and get someone falsely accused. She could cause catastrophe with a single unclear phrasing. Japan's safety and security hinge on her!
Then we see her being an ordinary girl with a crush on her childhood friend. Now we are seeing how she's mistreated and how much pressure her mom is putting on her- and why. Surprise surprise, the Soga clan sucks at treating their princesses like people and are absolute asses about bloodline purity. We already saw this with the Sazanamis so we know it's not just to be cruel to Chiaki. Hokazono is commenting on how strict adherence to traditional values and systemic practices isn't healthy for the individual again.
Chiaki knows she's going to be replaced as soon as possible and the main branch of the family will be glad for it. Her mom's aware too and that's why she's hysterically demanding so much perfection. Chiaki's situation is absolutely shit and she can't do a thing about it. If the reader is angry, then that's intended! Get pissed that this woman is treated like a tool instead of a person!
So this chapter, she used the only agency she had to prioritise what means most to her: protecting Kunishige. She didn't refuse for the honor of her clan or Japan. She didn't accept for the safety guarantees and breathing room it buys the government. Chiaki accepted being handed over the Mikaboshi clan like a pawn because she wants to ensure the well-being of the one she loves despite how often she's told she's not supposed to.
I think what I'm trying to say is that showing Chiaki having a thing for Kunishige isn't to tie her to a man for narrative relevance. Given her position, she doesn't need Kunishige in her life at all any more. He could be more like Shiba and Azami, the childhood friends she used to play with before her fate changed forever. But she holds on to her affection for him and the time they used to spend together anyway.
Chiaki used to admire the princess and maybe want to be like her. She didn't realise how good she had it as a nobody to the clan until she was somebody and suddenly everything about her life was dictated to her. Now that she's the princess some other girl is adimiring, she gets it. She fully understands everything about what her actions and decisions mean and that's why she chose to symbolically burn the letters Kunishige sent her through Shiba: she's no longer Chiaki but Princess Soga.
So it's no surprise that she admitted that "Princess Soga" wasn't important to her and agreed to go to the Mikaboshis as a bargaining piece. Whatever her mom's plan is to cling to power, Chiaki doesn't give two whits. She doesn't care about that status and would probably be glad to be rid of it. That's the whole point of showing her relation to Kunishige in the first place.
And I mean, of course she has a crush on Kunishige... we know she's Chihiro's mom. The ideal scenario is that it's mutual between them, right? No assault or manipulation involved?
So yes it's distressing that she's putting herself in a position to be assaulted and used, of course that's upsetting. We are meant to be worried about her and anxiously waiting for whatever Kunishige's got planned.
But we should cheer for her too. She decided her fate on her own terms, and it wasn't for the "right" reasons according to her status and duty. She chose love instead. The silly crush that will lead her to have a son that's loved so much he will share half her name.
All that's left to do right now is hope she keeps a stiff upper lip and keeps managing the situation as she wishes. She's not some helpless damsel that needs to be saved here (though of course she probably would be glad to be bailed out so long as Kunishige could stay safe).
Honestly speaking, I'm on Team Ship Chiaki's Mother Off to the Mikaboshi Instead since she cares so goddamn much about appearances and tradition. What a horrible mother to be the worst about treating Chiaki as a "thing" instead of a person. Support your daughter while she's in that snake pit! She seriously needs at least one person who remembers she's a human being in there and it should be you! The Kyora/Sazanami parallels are strong here. Or maybe I have psychosis from missing Hakuri so much, hard to tell.
Anyway, I'm just gonna let Hokazono tell the story and see what happens. Peace and love and Happy Pride, dear void. Remember that resistance also means staying alive when others wish you would quit life. You deserve to be here, so stay safe and see you next week.
The current Kagurabachi chapter pretty much cemented the fact that Hiyuki's not much older than Chihiro or Hakuri, but during the period that we get to see her character in the Auction Arc she keeps referring to them as "kids"/presents herself as a lot older (to me). This is pretty speculative, but it might've been because of her upbringing that forced her to view herself more mature than others of the same age.
I wanna put Jason Todd and Hakuri Sazanami in Situations together to see what would happens.
Its weird when anything has an insistence on Jason begging Batman to save him while he was being killed by the joker because he really... didnt. Jason did not mention Batman once throughout the whole sequence. And im not really fond of trying to say he did? Like- fun angst points for Bruce i guess. But Jason was focused on what he could do himself. Did he internally probably wish batman was there? Maybe! Sure! But like- idk. Considering how it was never originally the case, Jason begging for Batman combined with how Jaybin in general gets treated just- implies something of a dependence? Like oh he is over his head he is a failure robin and he absolutely needs batman to save him because he cant work on his own. Im not saying its bad to ask for or need help, but like? With how Jason gets rewritten i dont like it put in there? If you get what i mean?
Also, Jason begged for Batman's help in legends and didn't get it. Jason begged again in the cult but even with Batman right there he had to cry repeatedly for the assist. Batman is not here right now. Batman may not even be near. Jason can hope for Batman. But hes more focused on living, then on getting shaking hands to free Sheila. Hes not spending his dying breaths asking for Bruce, hes spending them telling his mother that he cant deactivate the bomb in his condition but she's free and should run
He also doesn't tell Sheila to not save him. This is another addition added in- more angst points with extra self sacrifice. But thats wasted energy to fight like that, to try and say dont bother. Jason lets her hold him, and then when the door is locked he shields her from the blast, which is something i 100% see as what did him in. And this is unrealted to the batman deal but like idk. I feel like theres too much insistence on the nobility of going "no leave me to suffer" as well. Jason is- not that. Not in his current state certainly. He's dying and theyre both running out of time. Theres no time to insist she leave him to suffer and die for his sins. Theres no breath left for it and there's no point to it. Theres just time to shield her when the time is up.
I think a lot of morally gray women enjoyers in this fandom don't actually want to deal with the consequences of a morally gray woman. You can't call Jason a nazi or a cop and let Barbara "pro cop surveillance state that uses the governments bombs with pretty much no opposition" Gordon slide by with a stamp of moral superiority. Bruce/Jason/Dick can't be obsessed with their man pain to selfish ends and unable to get over themselves while Cassandra "whole personality and moral philosophy is a trauma response she has never actually evaluated the effectiveness of" Cain is walking around projecting on anyone she sees a passing resemblance to herself in. You can't criticize Slade's emotional neglect/lying/cheating but make Adeline seem like the victim of their relationship as the one with objectively more power in their dynamic for most of their marriage (older than him, position of authority, better combatant/very prone to putting her hands on him, the one with the financial power and family support and public relations due to her old money family in the older comics) those bitches are toxic4toxic and Adeline has always held a lot of agency in Deathstroke comics that characters like Rose or Tara are denied.
I'm not saying fans of these characters are bad/the characters are bad/that you HAVE to criticise their every action to enjoy them, but I am saying if you don't give their actions the same narrative weight as the men YOU are contributing to the inequality problem. The "women are allowed to be evil because they're women but when men do it they really are evil" rhetoric is a form of infantalization. It's just "women/femininity are inherently good and pure while men/masculinity is inherently dirty and bad" bioessentialism repackaged under #girlboss that, in attempting to wave away any analysis that might invoke criticism, ultimately undermines the complexity of the characters as a whole. These women are messy! They're not bastions of moral righteousness and responsibility who are always right!
They fuck up, sometimes they hurt people, sometimes they do it on purpose, sometimes they impose their will on others because they believe their way is the right way and they violate people's privacy, autonomy, and boundaries to do it! It's okay for women to have flaws that aren't quirky and sexy that's the goal of complex female characters actually. Let them be complex that's what we want. You should want people to put weight on the actions of your characters and acknowledge their flaws and do fun story things with them instead of sanding them down into The Normal One, or The Mom Friend, or The Big Sister, or The Sad Ex Wife or whatever. Fanon is not going to stop doing that if even their fans handwave the batshit/dubious/straight up bad stuff they do and never actually analyze them from the same perspective they do the male characters.
A little detour while I make some drawings from the previous comic
Someone drew nerdy Jason with glases and I needed to draw it
Alsoo the sketches: