#buruburi

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I got two wonderful Christmas commissions from @bashfulkisser of my wife's self-ship and my self-ship! They turned out soooooo cute and festive! Merry Christmas Eve everybody!

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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, from Bull Armor!

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The image quality difference between the DVD release (left) and the Blu-Ray release (right) is so huge and yet so small and I don't know how to fathom it.

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7 and 13 for the general selfship ask game :)

- @aro-simp

OMG THANK YOU FOR THE AAAASK 💞

7. If you could choose one f/o to be with you RIGHT NOW who would it be, and why?

Bull Armor from Shippu! Iron Leaguer! Really, he's my main/only.

(The one with the horns.)

I just love him sooooo much and I've never selfshipped this hard before, I would love to have him here with me! Hell, it would be interesting for him to meet my wife! 💦

13. How close do you prefer to stay to canon?

I like staying really, really close to canon, but with some caveats and conditions in there.

I wanna stay so close to canon that I flesh out the world within Iron Leaguer, but unto itself, these fleshing outs are indeed rooted in headcanons and idealizations. So for example, I set forth that Iron Leaguer takes place in the early 90s (when the show released), but it is in an alternative reality where technologies advanced at a different rate. People aren't walking around with cell phones yet, but at the same time, there's robots that are so advanced that they essentially have souls. And folks treat that as normal, not new or strange.

Then comes the headcanons, where it's pure extrapolation of the groundwork I set forth. Leaguers seem to be 1) the main form of entertainment for humans and 2) really fucking gay, so I think that this is also a world where queer identities have been normalized and accepted much earlier than in our real timeline. So me, being an openly queer agender HRT-taker, isn't out of place even though our story is taking place in the 90s.

Then there's also the fact that I personally despise the OVA, so it's not canon to our timeline together. I treat our relationship as like, a sequel series to the show, supplanting the OVA entirely. The OVA does not exist.

There's nuance there that I always try to acknowledge. I say I stay "true to canon", but it's my interpretation of the canon. I wouldn't be upset if Sunrise (for some reason) said that like, Iron Leaguer doesn't take place on Earth at all, or that it actually takes place in the year 3869 but humanity decided that cell phones were stupid in 2080, or something. And I don't ever want other Leaguer fans to think I'm insisting that my version or understanding of canon is the only one, because it's not!

Mostly, it ends up meaning "the robots have no fleshy bits, they exclusively drink oil, and yes, I do have to adjust his mouth guard every time I want to kiss him".

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Oh dear GOD *bombarded with visions of Christmas with my f/o*

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do u hc that bulls face cage is removable or do you just like. live with the unfortunate fact that smooching his lips is not possible 😔

He can move it!

I don't think it's DETACHABLE, like that shit is indeed a part of his face. It basically takes a lot of finagling and maneuvering to get a kiss on the lips. He usually asks for kisses first, that way we can collaborate in making it happen together. "Surprise" kisses are out of the question. But honestly, I don't mind that, I think it makes every kiss all the more tender and intimate. Deliberate, has to be planned.

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It just dawned on me that Leaguers probably don't need passports. Mech in general.

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Thinking more about me and my Buru awwwwww--

I saw something that was like "oh imagine your F/O teasing you about not being able to open a jar and they do it for you all smug" and that's cute and all and it has it's place, but that just isn't very Bull Armor.

I think Bull would have a habit of assuming that things about me are in fact the default for humans in general. Like, I can't open a jar. But that's okay, he's there, and he'll always happily do it for me. But then he'll draw the incorrect conclusion that most humans can't open jars. He wouldn't judge or tease me for being unable to open a jar, because humans just can't do that! And nothing would really give him the opportunity to question that notion unless he directly brought it up with me.

The fact is, most of his interaction with humans is in very specific settings. It's at sports galas, it was when he worked in the Leaguer hospital, it's when he talks to Coach Eddie about plays, etc. The workplace and domestic life are two very different realms, and he knows that. But I'm his only frame of reference for the typical non-work life of a human being.

And it's nice being with someone who doesn't view the little things about you as anomalies or oddities. But on the flip side, I also think it can cause problems if your partner thinks everything about you is typical or average. If he thinks everything I struggle with is something that no human is good at, then he wouldn't understand why I feel so dejected and out of place for not being good at that thing. Thankfully, I think these things would just lead to a conversation about it. Bull is a good listener and has a massive well of emotion in him, so he'd be quick to understand where I'm coming from. Plus, with time, he'd be able to balance thinking "this is a Bridge thing" vs "this is a Human thing".