Reiiyo

You can call me Reiiyo/Rei | 20+ | she/they | Reiiyo on Ao3 | 💻 from @daargraves | warning: grammar can be a bit shit

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Given that it's the new year, I figured I would finally do an intro :) So, hi!

You can call me Rei! I primarily post SFTH/RFTH content (as it is also my main fandom currently), but I'm hoping to post more of my other fandoms, specifically Tears of Themis and Detective Conan!

Please feel free to send an ask about any of the fandoms, that might help me post more lmao!!!

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It's 6/10, you know what that mean :)

Happy MidoTaka day!! Yipeeee!!!

My beloved OTP, my comfort ship <33

Anyway, I also wrote a fanfic for this day :) check it out here!

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Can I say what's been on my mind for a while?

I think Shuutoku is the real rival of the series.

Not Touou, not Rakuzan.

Shuutoku.

You can even say Shuutoku, and particularly Midorima, is the secondary protagonist.

Let me explain :) *pulls out a board filled with red strings* So :)))

Out of all the schools with a Generation of Miracles member, Shuutoku is the only one with no emotional stake to them, except the fact that the second years lost to them the previous year because they lost Kiyoshi and there's Midorima, one of the GoM.

Kuroko is close with Aomine (and kinda Kise), and Akashi is the reason he found out his style of basketball. So Touou, Kaijou, and Rakuzan already have high stakes to them for Kuroko personally.

Yosen is a bit different because it's more emotionally staked to Kagami. Because Kuroko does not get along well with Murasakibara (and even after getting defeated, Murasakibara didn't change much, really) so the series introduced Himuro.

Shuutoku, on the other hand? Kuroko is also not really that close to Midorima, so nothing really had stake in that area. But what do they have instead?

Opposition. The "natural enemy", if you will.

Our two main characters are Kagami and Kuroko.

Kagami is known to be able to jump high, rivaled with Midorima, whose shooting style defies the law of physics–I mean shoots really fucking high.

Kuroko's whole thing is his misdirection, the fact that his presence is really low, people don't tend to notice him, so enter Takao, who has the ability to see him even outside of court.

And then there's the fact that Seirin fought against Shuutoku twice, technically thrice or more if we count the training camp. Yes, they also fought Touou and Kaijou twice, but those stakes are different. So already, Shuutoku is the school we see the most of after Seirin.

There's also the character development. Midorima didn't change much from when they're in Teikou. In fact, he's the one working the hardest, often seen practicing after everyone else leaves (except Takao who decided to accompany him), as opposed to the other three whose grown compliant and Akashi whose all about he never loses. It also didn't help the fact that, when the others get new abilities when they're about to lose *coughcoughzonecoughcough* Midorima instead learn teamwork.

Hm, a character who started as arrogant and selfish, who is so sure of himself, slowly learns to trust his teammates and that he can't win alone? Sounds like a typical protagonist character development to me.

Have you ever realized that? The others, even Kagami, ultimately is dependant on themselves, but Midorima is the only one who actually embody teamwork *screams about the sky direct 3p shot*.

Hell, the Shuutoku vs Rakuzan have the same vibe as Seirin vs Touou.

There's a reason why Midorima and Takao are the only duo officially called the "Light and Shadow" in the series.

Anyway, Shuutoku is my school and I will continue crying over Midorima and Takao being the only two left of the original starter, goodbye ✌️

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Me and my friends did a fandom trend thing for tiktok earlier (you should definitely see it hehe #totallynotaselfplugit'snotevenmyowntiktokaccountidon'thavetiktok).

I, of course, choose Kuroko no Basket as my fandom since it's my current obsession, and one of the sections is favourite scene. I can't chose between the okonomiyaki scene where Takao flung his okonomiyaki to Midorima's head (fav bc funny as hell) or the sky direct three point shot (my ship time to shine we forget about last game okay), so I put both of them. Since I have two, my friend who edited the thing combine the two images and it's just so funny 😭

It's like they're making two different kinds of very high accurate shot 😭😭😭 they're so silly!!!!

(Yes, that picture in the corner is my pfp on discord)

(Yes, it's THAT midotaka selfie pic, it's my most precious treasure because LOOK AT THEM! LOOK AT MIDORIMA'S LITTLE SMILE!! I DARE YOU SAY THEY'RE NOT CANON!!!)

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Have you guys ever realized the Shuutoku team (the og in case I have to say it) are all older brothers with exactly one younger sibling?

Ootsubo, Miyaji, and Kimura's younger sibling are shown at the end of the story.

Midorima and Takao are said to have a younger sister.

Someone make all the five younger siblings meet lmao.

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Another Last Game thought.

Midorima's lucky item was a tv remote during the match, that he likely took from his own home.

Now imagine his mother frantically searching for it "Where's the remote?! I can't watch the match now!! My son is playing!!!" Lmao

Because that would not be the first time he took something from his family because it's his lucky item, he once took her red heels! XD

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One thing I really appreciate about Kuroko no Basket is that they always speak english when it was supposed to, like the scene in America, even though all of the english speaking characters ended up speaking japanese afterwards.

That being said, watching Last Game again, it would've been so funny if Jabberwock didn't understand japanese at all and only speak english throughout the movie. Then like half of GoM would not be able to understand them lmao.

Like, picture when Kagami yelled at Jason Silver after Murasakibara's arm was broken, he like swore at them loudly in english and Aomine just went "I don't understand what he's saying but YEAH YOU GO KAGAMI!"

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Listen, I love Kuroko no Basket. It's my obsession when I was younger and my comfort anime. It's undoubtedly more fantasy than reality if you really think about it but I love how they at least tried to give it a bit of realism of how each things work, like Perfect Copy is just Kise being a quick learner and Emperor Eyes is Akashi being really good at reading his opponent that it seems like he can see the future.

The keyword here is tried to because now that I'm rewatching it as an adult those explanation sometimes doesn't make sense LMFAO

Like Vanishing Drive, from my understanding, how it works is Kuroko going diagonally down and using Kagami to use misdirection. If that's the case, shouldn't it not work for the audience? And Takao also, misdirection doesn't work well against his Hawk Eyes, but Vanishing Drive does, even though it still at its core using misdirection? Don't get me started on Misdirection Overflow, if using it made them not able to use misdirection against Touou ever again, shouldn't it also not work against everyone who watched the match?

At the end of the day I still enjoy this anime a lot but it's just so funny.

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Something that I've only ever actually thought about now for some reason because I'm currently writing a MidoTaka fic is Takao's Hawk Eyes.

Is it something that he was born with? Probably, right?

But supposedly he didn't use them during his middleschool match against Teikou because he was able to see Kuroko and that would've made him memorable. But Midorima and Kuroko didn't remember him, and he also didn't seem to remember Kuroko.

So either 1) he didn't take basketball seriously enough back then (thus not remembering any players and wouldn't even bother using his Hawk Eyes) and only did because of his loss to GoM, specifically Midorima, or 2) Kuroko didn't play when the match happened, so Takao wouldn't have had any memorable traits (even with his passes without seeing, if your team didn't get the ball, it was worthless).

Or it could be, as my sister said, "Fujimaki didn't think the story far enough in the beginning", lmao

Also, when did that match take place? 2nd year or 3rd year? I always thought it was 2nd year for some reason..

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You don't understand, the Generation of Miracles are such freaks, they're weirdos, they can't be normal with each other.

They'll be like meeting accidentally in public and they'll go "hey bestie :) long time no see bestie :)) haha just you wait I'll be the one winning our match :)))" and a few days later the moment they step in court they went all "I'm going to break and tear you apart even if it's the last thing I do"

IT'S JUST BASKETBALL WHY ARE THEY SO SERIOUS ABOUT IT 😭😭😭 THEY ACT LIKE THEIR FAMILY'S LIFE ARE AT STAKE LIKE DAMN CHILL TF DOWN

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I am currently in what I called my "fandom frog era" meaning I've been jumping through fandoms (specifically my old fandoms) like a frog. The lily pad I've currently been sitting on for the past month is Kuroko no Basket.

And suddenly I am fifteen again when I was OBSESSED with this anime, and one ship in particular: MidoTaka.

I'm currently rewatching the anime again and holy shit it's a lot gayer than I remember lmao.

I've been singing the songs nonstop (especially Punky Funky Love by Grandrodeo, it's so fun to sing) and thinking about my old fanfics that I want to polish and rewrite.

It's really a shame this is an old fandom so little people still talk about it, but I still scroll through the MidoTaka tag on ao3 and tumblr. It's really nostalgic.

Oh, boy, don't get me started on MidoTaka. OTP, basically canon, what do you mean it's not–

I am screaming 24/7 about them.

Kuroko no Basket may not be the best anime but honestly it's so entertaining, I recommend watching it if you're into sport animes.

They also have cd dramas and novels but I haven't seen all of them just yet.

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Gonna be honest, haven't been watching any new sfth videos since highway to hell since I've been fucking swamped lmao. Don't know when I'll pick up this fandom again since I got sucked into an old fandom of mine and my brain cannot comprehend me following more than one fandom.

My rfth obsession is still quite strong tho for some reason, so there's still that.

(I really need to continue my fanfic lmaoo)

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A few headcanons/thoughts on the Creeley family that I've had for a while

Just from their one appearance on the first episode, we can already kind of see what type of parents Simon and Elizabeth Creeley are.

I do believe that they do care for Kevin, just not enough. They give him like the bare minimum (food, clothes, home, toys) but always choose for him, never asking him what he wants. And even then, they rarely interact with him, sometimes even leaving him behind while going somewhere that Kevin had trouble eating when he's alone. Yes, they never hit him or things like that, but they are neglectful, both physically and emotionally. Who knows how many times Kevin cry while they just watch, never offering him comfort, as we see in that first episode (him stopping his crying is so sudden after his father gave him the disney music book, like he knows it doesn't really matter, THEY DIDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A HUG).

For the violin, I think Kevin is the one who wanted to play it. His parents wanted him to play piano (iirc the disney book they gave was for the piano), but after a while, he didn't feel connected to it. Then he saw or heard the violin class next door, and he decided he wanted that instead. Kevin sees the violin as his own thing because he chose it. That's why he likes to play classical music more than the disney songs his parents wanted him to.

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We've all been joking about Luke being a shapeshifter (because he is, like wtf) from his ever changing appearance, but Highway to Hell literally just showing it more, cause like, how the fuck did his voice change like that?? If I close my eyes not knowing this is Luke I legit would thought that's an actual woman talking o_O

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The thought of Kevin and Monty most likely being brainrotted makes so much sense but also terrifying.

– Someone who has a 10 years old brother and is surrounded by brainrotted friends

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Ever since I've seen this trend, I knew I wanted to do my own :)

Full drawing of the last one!

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I absolutely adore the gay poets in the newest longform, but I can't help but constantly think about how it's basically implied that Percy is a sugar baby to many poets. Some of them are men, as Franklin pointed out the quill that Lord Byron gifted him.