hello my friends i am here to give you reasons to vote for shura! i know this is a worthy green hair and pronouns opponent and there would be no hard feelings either way as we, saint seiya fans, didn't even know there were other saint seiya fans on the hellsite??? 😭 we mercilessly push him to fight more and more popular teenagers but the truth is we're really proud he made it this far. this poll has been instrumental in uncovering a new fandom (our own!!) we didn't know was present on tumblr and now, maybe we're letting even more people know about this manga from the 80s that is for some unfathomable reason a huge phenomenon in southern europe and latin america and completely obscure everywhere else in the west.
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alright, here goes nothing!
shura is originally your classic shonen antagonist: not much going for him besides being a bit scary, having a backstory of homoerotic crime, and fighting and losing to a 14 year old shonen protagonist.
so reason number 1 to vote for shura: please allow this man the chance to win against a pretty and popular 14 year old for the first time in his life. 😭
but then for some reason the fandom latched onto him. fandom loves his kind. fandom loves to take antagonists who lose against kids and turn them into special poor little meow meows and write endless homoerotic fanfiction about them. saint seiya doujinshi is actually how BL got popularised as a genre in the west.
reason 2 to vote for shura: i think old (perhaps initially unintentional?) queer coding in media that led directly to normalising queer rep deserves to be given a chance, especially when put against modern media where gender non-conformity and queer identity is more widely understood and accepted. That a character that was written 35+ years ago still manages to look so green haired and pronouned is something I think we all could respect, it was a much more radical statement in its time.
also, the sympathy garnered by shura was such that, aside from about ten thousand gay fanfiction where he miraculously isn't dead, he got to make several comebacks in canon and official spin-offs after his death through means ranging from resurrection to time travel to a literal chapter that happens in literal hell (where he obviously went after dying, who are we kidding 😔😂)
reason 3 to vote for shura: there are so many alternative shuras out there because canon needed him even after killing him off, that it would be actually far more accurate to use they pronouns. 🧐
and finally, look at us, reblogging this post and making propaganda and going utterly insane. do you think all (or even most) of us are over 35? we're here fighting to the death for a character that was written before we were even born! this is such a multi-generational fandom i have no idea how it came to happen but for some reason this poll has solved our generational divide and made us agree for once to support shura and rally behind quixo who's been tirelessly making propaganda since day 1! 😭😭😭
reason 4 to vote for shura: to save tumblr user @quixoticprince from insanity, they've been having a blorbo meltdown over their specialest littlest man and it'd break our heart if they're sad 🥺 (and also because, let's admit it, it would be very funny to see them go on even more blorbo meltdowns if shura qualifies)
this is not a request, or a suggestion. this is a plea. we're just begging here 🙏 if you love saint seiya, if you've heard of saint seiya, if you or a loved one's sign is capricorn, or if you don't care about any of this but want to make a cultishly dedicated obscure fandom very happy, please consider voting for our man, Capricorn Shura.
Thank you for anyone who's read this far, and best of luck for fans of either characters!
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