#basilicum

[yamacaps]

[queenharumiura]

I asked my sister to help me scan the cards, so the quality should be higher than the ones from the previous post. Click on the image and zoom in! Enjoy!

[ID: Official art of multiple characters from the manga and anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

They're all drawn as if taking a selfie, most of them smiling and/or doing a peace sign or another playful gesture with their hand.

Reborn, Colonnello, Viper and Fon are in their cursed forms, with Viper pulling their hood down, trying to hide more of their face.

Gokudera waves at us, with "Vongola Famiglia" written on his palm and the Vongola's emblem drawn on it too. Lambo is in his Ten Years Later version, Tsuna's shown both in his normal state and in Hyper Dying Will mode, Basil is in Hyper Dying Will mode too and Chrome's wearing cat ears.

Squalo and Xanxus are scowling. /End ID]

ID courtesy of @hopeswriting, yoinked from the other post.

[bi-accident]

[khr-gilded-cage]

Most of KHR's bashing fics end up with those two having similar parallels

[what-the-fuck-khr]

new merch from the PALE TONE line has been revealed! artwork from the Varia arc featuring 20YL!Lambo + Dino, Basil and Colonello!

[kinbari14]

Katekyo Hitman REBORN! April 2022 Calendar featuring Basil

[wimjee]

Onze-Lieve-Vrouw basiliek Bexoek Tongeren: stad en Gallo Romeins Museum. https://flic.kr/p/2nMtEoi August 18, 2022 at 02:12PM

[cedefaci]

Other reasons for Basil’s anachronistic speech

Assuming that Basil is indeed trained as a spy and not without powers of observation, he should have realized by now that the way he speaks Japanese is not normal. (Honestly, he should have realized that even if he had never been to Japan, CEDEF is not cut off from the outside world.)

Therefore, I propose that he continues to make a fool of himself on purpose, potentially for the following reasons:

Spite. He’s actually conducting a social experiment to see just how far he can go with the act before his master fesses up. So far, the conclusion is infinitely far, and that Iemitsu will confess never.

Guilting Iemitsu. Iemitsu might not ever confess to making a fool of his apprentice, but he does sort of feel guilty about it, so Basil has realized that his boss is a whole lost more amiable to his requests if he buckles down on his Ye Olde Japanese.

Playing stupid. Being underestimated is quite useful in his line of work, and people seem to dismiss him as a gullible fool the moment a “thou” passes his lips, at which point they forget that he successfully survived two chases across Eurasia alone. Given how little effort they put into lying to the teenager who believes that Japanese people speak this way, it’s hardly a surprise when they get caught due to the information they let slip to the person they thought was an idiot.

Spite again. Iemitsu is a Japanese man in the rather xenophobic mafia. Emphasising that aspect of his master’s identity reads as rather viciously spiteful. Jury’s out on whether Basil’s trying to make Iemitsu uncomfortable or his detractors.

Leading on this point and my decoy son headcanon, playing up Japanese stereotypes makes it more likely that people actually believe in a degree of family relation between the two, and when you need people to believe that the Young Lion’s hiding his son in plain sight so they don’t need to look further, every little bit helps.