Phantom's Manor

[oliversepitaph]

crazy how bayonetta and dmc are just so casually in the same world, i mean, it comes as no surprise to me

there’s a billion dmc references in bayonetta, even going as far to mention eva and sparda themselves on the bracelet of time:

along with dante stealing his alias from lukas dad, antonio redgrave, that’s pretty funny :

theres other silly references, like when Luka lists his “girlfriends” and mentions trish

theres also the torture attack tombstone with “dmc” on it

i forgot to add this but this is my favourite reference: dante’s in the bayonetta art book playing i assume poker with enzo and losing tremendously bare ass naked heheh

i just wish dmc would reference back, it dosent even need to be big but come on man bayonettas been doing it since its inception and you can’t even put a small mention ?! you could’ve put like a building off to the side called the gates of hell or something but noooo

best case scenario would be a crossover game but …. thats never gonna happen (unfortunately)

[itz-pandora]

Funny Amy ship dynamic: She only has eyes for Sonic, Sonic doesn't reciprocate. Every single counterpart for Sonic likes Amy. Amy is oblivious despite claiming herself to be a love expert. Secret Amy harem.

[gregrulzok]

My AlienStage hot take is that I really don't get the IvanTill JockEmo AU.

Emo Till? 100%, of course, the most natural thing in the world.

What on earth makes Ivan a JOCK, on the other hand, I don't get. I've never seen such an obvious overdramatic goth theatre kid in my life.

I get the inherent appeal of jock X emo, obviously, I just don't see it as a good enough reason to entirely subvert one of their personalities. I get that Ivan being the popular kid is appealing, but a theatre gay being popular for his performances and totally unapproachable otherwise, only for Till to approach him anyway and discover that he's a nerd-ass loser freak is not only very plausible but also way more in character.

I mean. Ivan? A jock? The man whose only known interest is classical literature? The flouncy little gay boy that he is??? The man wearing nothing less than fourteen layers of leather, glitter and capes at every opportunity? Mr. Black Sorrow? Lord Autism himself???

I just don't see it.

[phantomwitch16]

I see what you're saying, as I was in the same boat as well before the AU grew on me.

I think what makes Ivan being a jock is so popular in the fandom is how plausible it might be.

In canon, Ivan is shown to be the most well behaved of the core four, seen as he was never or at least rarely ever shown to have ever worn a collar and was very well liked by the practically every there. Plus, there goes the fact that Ivan hides much of his true personality (namely the 'twisted' parts of himself), acting friendly to people while in reality keeping everyone at arms length.

For the JockEmo AU, in terms of the American high school, Jocks are seen as the top of the social hierarchy. And often in films in this setting, there being a trope where the jock is unable or forced to do something that goes against their built up reputation at school. this becomes a big thing for them as they fear of social backlash by the student body if they ever deviated from the status quo.

If most of Ivan's backstory remains mostly the same in this AU, being adopted by Unsha as a child, Ivan is likely pressured to have the image of Unsha's perfect son. Now he wouldn't fit into every category of the jock, the football thing is still something I struggle to accept, but feeling forced to perform as Unsha's perfect little boy, masking aspects of himself and interests in order to for that reputation to continue? Yes, that's very plausible.

Plus it probs is what draws himself to Till in the first place in the AU. Till who is completely so authentic and himself, no matter the consequences even as he becomes the social pariah. Ivan looks at Till with a complete yearning to not feel that pressure of having to perform. There are little bits of hope that maybe Till would accept him for who he is. Affection soon grows in its place as the two grow closer.

Thats what i think anyway.

[phantomwitch16]

It’s so nice to see Dewey and Isaac doing (relatively) alright after everything that happened on Alien Stage. I love how they took Till under their wings as he recovered and settled into the rebellion. It’s such a cute brotherly relationship that they’ve built between them in the seven years they’ve been in their care.

Huh. I don’t like what this implies when you remember Jacob and Hyuna and how close Dewey and Isaac were to both of them before they died.

[bogbees]

kakairu age swap (with some shiiru on the side for me)!! bratty 8 yr old kakashi HAAAAATES iruka bc he's expected to do great things but never meets that potential. the side shiiru is bc 1) i think shisui being iruka's friend is really fun (mirrors sakumo and obito at the same fucking time) and 2) i'm imagining him going "oh. you haven't experienced the iruka effect yet" which is the effect in which iruka makes you smile. and 3) shisui's age is ??? so i can make him iruka's age in canon compliant and in aus heheheh

more details ab this au by @bewinsome in the replies on this post that i'm giggling like a loon over. the angst potential. the conflict!!! the way we could have iruka adopt naruto when he's like 4/5 bc iruka's 26 now at the start of canon!!!! augh i wanna write it!!

also doodled this, it's the morning after the attack. iruka is still inside, kakashi out. this only changes iruka's chunin promotion age to 14. i wanted doodle hiruzen telling kakashi that iruka lost his parents but hm

[phantomwitch16]

I love this, I wonder how this would affect Naruto in he academy and as a genin, because I just know Iruka would’ve made him study and take the lessons seriously since canonically Naruto was a really bad student. Plus I totally think this would change the dynamics of his relationship w/ his students (Sasuke’s spec). Lowkey think he would be a bit more involved in their lives and take take a more direct approach when guiding them. Sasuke especially after the Uchiha massacre cuz he was close to Shisui, and probs knew a bit about Itachi. With that, I think that his students would be very protective of him whenever anyone would try to talk badly about him (Naruto esp). Like Kakashi trying to antagonise him and be surprised that his team would come to Iruka’s defence.

[awinterrosesstuff]

When people list the persons who 'impacted' Naruto the most, they often mention Jiraiya and Hinata but completely overlook Iruka, which annoys me to no end.

I know Iruka doesn't appear much in the manga, but he was the first to show care and love for Naruto. He was the first person to verbally acknowledge him—not just the first adult, but the first person overall. Iruka is one of the people Naruto loves the most. From the very beginning to the end, Iruka is consistently mentioned among Naruto's precious people, with Sasuke being second.

Iruka is Naruto's family, and the fact that people 'forget' this is really upsetting. Iruka is the person who was always there, always. No amount of retcon (yes, I'm talking about the last movie) will ever change that.

While we're on the topic, Hinata didn't give Naruto a family; they founded a family together. That's actually quite different. And anyway, he already had a family. Their names are Iruka and Sasuke. 'Naruto Gaiden' heavily emphasized the idea that blood isn't necessary to have a family, at least for Naruto.

[phantomwitch16]

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[bogbees]

tbh im not really. i don't really think Mizuki and Iruka were great friends, as that was anime filler, fabricated to stay on air.

like, i love Mizuki as an antagonist, don't get me wrong. i just, don't believe Iruka was more than his coworker, due to what we're given in chapter 1.

THAT ALL SAID. i really do enjoy the way Iruka and Mizuki have the potential to mirror Kakashi and Obito? and the way the anime made it so that Mizuki was an Orochimaru goon, and so it pairs up neatly with Sasuke being an Orochimaru goon. there's smth tasty there.

[bogbees]

like. maybe im just crazy ab Iruka being lonely, but... Mizuki being Iruka's childhood friend fr 10 to 22 kinda negates the loneliness in away?

like... Iruka being the same as Naruto wouldn't have really hit him as hard if he had considered Mizuki a friend? like maybe they were friendly, chummy, but Iruka's loneliness, his otherness, his "I'm different from everyone," would have skewed his perception of what defines a friendship and Mizuki wouldn't have made the cut. nobody would have. he'd be ... sabotaging his sense of fulfillment by making it difficult for people to meet his standards of what sort of relationship qualifies to be a friendship.

so that he doesn't get hurt so bad when they leave him.

"ok but what about his students, they're like family to him," well like, he learned from his own parents to die protecting those he loves. his students being family is like, "i will die for you," and it's a promise he intends to keep. he'll be the one leaving, dying, in this relationship.

(his argument with Kakashi being bc he thinks kids so young and inexperienced should NOT be participating in death matches, and not bc he's still thinking of rookie nine as his students. Naruto has become his family for realises now bc he's already attempted self sacrifice protection to cement his feelings, but his worry for Naruto isn't the only thing at play here)

like. we're not even given his genin team? and like it's pretty much "Kishimoto doesn't care for us to know," but the anime team didn't give us one either, and so: he's either a very very very special case in that he never had one (uzushio fuuinjutsu shenanigans mayhaps? both his parents being anbu makes him special?? the third hokage personally trained him?????) OR! whoever they were died, and/or he simply didn't attach himself to them, due to his issues with connecting with others and fearing when they leave.

like! he needs to be soul crushingly lonely to be able to connect with Naruto. not just "we both acted out for attention as kids," the why the acting out is important!

[phantomwitch16]

While i do think that making Mizuki and Iruka childhood friends is a bit odd, i think that what the anime might be trying to show with the friendship is that even if Iruka had someone close to him, he probably went through a case of emotional/intimate(???) isolation. Sort of like a person can still feel lonely even with close people with them.

The fact that he feels this isolation is quite odd when you read the manga and learn that Iruka is actually quite popular in the village, socialising quite a bit with the villagers. But upon thinking about it, it makes sense as this behaviour/way of life is certainly directly related back to the Nine Tails attack and witnessing the deaths of his parents.

I think most people forget how traumatic and brutal the Nine Tails attack is to regular people who witnessed it. Being a kid, Iruka probs didn’t know much about what was happening or the reality of the attack, but had the general belief that his parents would be alright cause they’re powerful Shinobi. At least until he hears about what’s happening during the attack and runs over to try and help his parents, only to watch them die. Given the fact that he was likely the only (pre-genin) kid there, who probs still had a narrow view of the world, seeing his parents, people he looked up so much to reduced like that leaves an impact. Leaving him feel so powerless and utterly destroyed emotionally.

that event sets him apart from other pre-genin kids as most if not all of the kids were in shelters with Iruka being the only one to witness his parents dying, even having his mother die in his arms. the truth is, no one can really relate to him and what he's been through, or at least thats what Iruka thinks. This isolation he feels then becomes a major part of his life since then, sticking to him until his and Naruto's confrontation with Mizuki. Probs going along with the belief, if i don't let people get too close to me, i won't have to feel that pain ever again.

That doesn't stop him from being a good person though, helping out people around the village, whether that's just his personality/good faith or as a way to distract himself and others about the lack of any close bonds. but even with this emotional distancing from other people, he can't help but feel some things for his students, namely Naruto.

This sort of thing adds to the parallels between Naruto and Iruka to the point where I think a lot can be discussed when it comes to Iruka’s isolation and Naruto’s relationships with the Konoha 12 before their graduation from the Academy and the Chūnin exams. And maybe Sasuke's too if we actually think about it.

[bl00dalchemist]

Sakumo go get your fucking dog son.

extra:

[bl00dalchemist]

he goes straight for their faces after that.

[phantomwitch16]

The fact that I can totally see kid Kakashi pouncing on Jiraiya from the darkness like Foxy from Fnaf!

The poor bastards have their work cut out for them. They’d rather be at war than deal with Kakashi again.

[hetalianreader-writer]

Inazuma Eleven (OG) Headcanons: Gouenji!

In canon, Gouenji acts pretty calm, level-headed, and pretty non-violent.

I have this headcanon that before his mother's fateful, sad death and his drift and distance from his father, he was a bit more expressive and joyful. Not that present Gouenji is depressed or such, but that he's simply not as happy as he used to be. He was joyful and smiled more back then, but because of grief affecting his father—even though Shuuya was also grieving—his father grew bitter, distant, and avoidant of his son. Gone were the days when little Shuuya would go up to his father and just chatter with him, where now, they would usually only have small talk.

Shuuya still has an awkward, rocky relationship with his father—dulled by grief, loss, and pain, that his father refused to express and show such vulnerability to the rest of the family. His father had to put his own feelings away for his children. It was to support his two children amidst his wife and their mother's death. But...while he attempted doing so, he got lost in his own pain and said pain inflicted more damage onto his son and daughter.

Shuuya feels somehow abandoned by his father at times, feeling that he wasn't the same anymore. His father was emotionally constipated. He couldn't—no, he wouldn't talk to his own son honestly and transparently anymore.

And that tore a hole in Shuuya's heart that he never realized was there.

He knew that deep, deep, down, his father still loved him. But his heart kept telling him otherwise that his relationship with his father would never be reconciled—that they would forever be alike to fire and gasoline. Fire and gasoline just blows up in your face, just like his past attempts to address his father's suppressed grief and pain—trying to be the adult, trying to be the therapist to his father. He just kept trying and failing to get his father to be honest, vulnerable, and aware of everyone else's grief. But to no avail, he let himself be shut in.

And Shuuya felt even more distant from his father. The pain that set in his heart. He couldn't bear to unload on anyone. But what could he do? He was practically hopeless.

[phantomwitch16]

TBH i can see this sort of thing continuing on even into the GO era. with this pattern being around for so long, its probable that even after the events of the OG series, there would still be some notable distance between the father and children. while yes, Gouenji's dad would be off his back about quitting soccer, but that wouldn't fix all the repressed grief that's present in their dynamic for years. And what's worse, Shuuya would've long learned to avoid broaching his father cause it's just something he got used to.

As for Yuuka (or Julia in the English dub), she probs would've noticed things as she grew older. I think they could have a different relationship compared what her father and brother have but the dynamic is still there. i think she would've eventually become frustrated too by the distance between them, especially as she got into their teen years and spent most of her time around her brother instead of home.

[phantomwitch16]

I totally believe that in a modern AU of Naruto, Iruka would've been a punk/goth kid at one point and be very heavy into that scene. Like to the point when looking at old photos of him when he was around the same, people would've confused him for Sasuke, especially when he first got into it.

He wore a lot of grungy clothes and stuff (think a black and white stripped long sleeves under a graphic t-shirt alongside cargo pants), but primarily went all out with piercings. He started getting piercings around 14-15 after he pierced his ears before quickly advancing up the lobe until he got his nose rings and cat/snake bites. He does have a few tats, but only when he's eighteen and mostly in less visible areas like his ribs and back cause he doesn't want to be as blatant with them as he is with the piercings. Maybe makeup too, such as eyeliner and eyeshadow too but probs not nail polish cause he'd probably think its too much effort just to do them for a few days before he has to wipe them off. I can totally see him experimenting with them otherwise.

I'd also like to imagine he smokes too, given that he had taught Naruto and the Konoha 12 but that's beside the point.

He tones down his style when he becomes a teacher, taking out most of his piercings and wears the typical teacher attire, he still keeps aspects of the style when he's out and about on his own. Like wearing most of his piercings (some closed up) and wearing loose sleeveless shirts that shows off his tattoos (and muscles). I'd like to think he'd wear his hair down too as an adult but that's just me. Again, most people who knew him wouldn't recognise him off the street until really looking at his face and see his scar.

Very few people really know about this phase of his life, the only people who do would be Teuchi, Ayame, Hiruzen and Mizuki, with the latter being the one who more or less influenced him into styling himself this way. Mostly as a way to make fun of him but it actually became something that Iruka really liked, which secretly infuriated Mizuki but this isn't known until their falling out later.

IDK if it would actually fit him tho but given that he was a bit of a goofball and troublemaker as a kid but it does fit in with the early punk aspects that were present in the manga.

[phantomwitch16]

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[phantomwitch16]

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[phantomwitch16]

Hi there,

I’m reaching out with a quiet hope in my heart. These days are heavy, and my family is living through a reality filled with uncertainty—but I’m still here, doing my best to hold on and keep going.

If you have a moment, please check out my pinned post.

A simple share could help it reach someone who might be able to make a difference.

If you’re able to give, even the smallest kindness can bring light into the darkest places.

Your time, your voice, your compassion — it all matters more than you know.

With deep gratitude,

@nadinfamily

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[phantomwitch16]

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[phantomwitch16]

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