r.yui

Fanartist & OCs. Multishipping and fangirling. Occasionally draws. She/Her.

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Maid day

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Car ride with uncle

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Missing you every day

[brutalitybunny]

i like deranged kunimutt but my heart belongs to kumashige

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You

[gay-manousos-truther]

baby kunishiba.. wow I sure hope neither of them grow up to be forever haunted by his failure in preventing the other’s murder 🥰 and enabling the other’s son on a self-destructive quest to avenge said murder 🥰 when all he ever wanted for them both was a life that’s finally free of violence 🥰

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Rokuhira sells so few swords that he is perpetually broke. Like literally starving poor.

Which I can only take to mean he already has his high standards for who wields his katana. He has to trust that they’ll use it only to protect others.

And evidently, he gave one to Shiba.

Did Shiba specifically ask him to forge one for his junior? Tell him what kind of person Mashiro is? Or did Rokuhira just give it unprompted, trusting that Shiba would abide by his principles when he passed it on? Either way it’s a massive display of trust. But it’s always struck me that Shiba grew up with a swordsmith and never learned to wield one himself.

…Does Shiba not consider himself the kind of good person who would be worthy of his friend’s katana?

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[reaperraksh]

OKAY NEW THEORY TIME!

What if the Soga clan got mass exterminated during the Seitei war?

Like Momhiro went back to the Soga estate to have Chihiro and the estate was under attack.

She hid Chihiro and pretended to be pregnant so when she died the enemies would think the child dies with her?

And now the only two survivors of the Soga clan is Chihiro and Akemura hence that’s why Shiba is so loyal to Chihiro he is the last good living member of the Soga clan?

OR

Shiba was bosom siblings with Momhiro?

Hence he was protecting her from enemies their entire childhood and hence was dubbed “Soga clan’s guardian”

Her last wish before she died or ran away could have been “to live not only as Kunishige’s friend but Chihiro’s guardian too”

It can explain why in the character profiles Shiba is not named as a family friend because he is literally Chihiro’s god father.

[ritzcuit]

>originally dedicated to the soga clan, but defected to protect kunishige alone

>hyping up kunishige for two years already

>ignoring govt orders to smuggle highly sensitive dangerous material to kuni directly

Kunishibaheads we're so fucking back

[eephemeris]

SHIBA NO DONT DIRECTLY CREATE SWORDENHEIMER NOOOOOO

SHIBA I KNOW YOU LOVE THIS MAN BUT GIVE HIM A DIAMOND NOT DATENSEKI

[brutalitybunny]

hey check this shit out

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Just wondering about Shiba's condition at train station. When other people overheat due to sorcery overuse, they immediately get a nosebleed, no heavy breathing beforehand. Hakuri, Kyora, Ikuto… none of them showed any shortness of breath first. Only Shiba did, which is honestly really weird.

If it’s not because Hokazono doesn’t want Shiba to lose even a single drop of blood right now (why though), and not because Shiba doesn't even want to risk getting nosebleed when Akemura was killing Chihiro, the only thing I can think of is that Shiba’s body is fundamentally different from the others. That would explain why when his sorcery energy runs out, he starts gasping for air instead of getting a nosebleed.

There was also that scene where Shiba rushed to Rokuhira’s house and he was clearly out of breath there. Honestly I didn’t think much of it earlier, I just assumed he was tired from rushing or being in panic. But what if that wasn’t the case? what if it's because the Hishaku were deliberately draining his sorcery energy so badly that he had to rest and ended up being 10 seconds late? They got info from Kasen who probably could have access to Shiba's physical profile and all.

If that’s the case, the question is why does Shiba show signs of sorcery oversuse exhaustion differently from others?

My headcanon is that Shiba has his heart on the right side. People with dextrocardia can have weaker hearts and lungs, so they get fatigued more easily. Him having an unusual heart, or other mirrored organs (situs inversus), could also explain why he’s an outlier, the pinnacle who can use sorcery to its absolute maximum.

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There's something I'm interested about how in manga introduction section and every official data never state Shiba as Kunishige's or Rokuhira family's 'friend', 'guardian', 'bodyguard' or anything specific, but use 'close', 'associated', '付き合い' (old acquaintance, a long-standing relationship) instead.

付き合い (tsukiai) is flexible and layered word. It means to hangout, to keep company, to associate, or even to date/being in a relationship. They aren't wrong, it's neutral word but why use them when Chihiro already confirms he's Kunishige's old friend (古い友人) in chapter 1?

It's even more sus because Azami is 旧友 (old friend) of Kunishige and Shiba. This is very straightforward and clearly says they're friends. While for Shiba towards Kunishige and Chihiro, they use broader and more ambiguous term.

This could mean for Rokuhira's family, Shiba may not be just a family's friend, hence more flexible term for him. He could be a friend, uncle, father figure, guardian, family member, etc. As his relationship with the Rokuhiras have layers like friendship, loyalty, guilt, devotion, maybe love too, reducing it to 'friend' feels too shallow.