my best wishes to the birthday boy. that one dlc mission says sooga usually takes over kohga's training sessions should he get stuck at the procrastination station. but what is kohga like as a teacher without these fallbacks, does he have difficulty teaching skills that come more naturally to him?
my 2nd question: he's honestly kinda chill even when committing felonies. is there something, barring the obvious like the royal family and having his plans foiled, that would *genuinely* piss him off? an action and/or a sensitive topic.
Helloooo, thank you! =D These are really good ones!
Kohga does do training, as part of his Master role, and it's mostly magic stuff. He leaves most of the weapons things to Sooga (and other high-ranking Yiga) 'cause like I said in this post, the arcane is more of his forté.
Kohga as a teacher does better when he's dealing with kids than with adults, in no small part because he's just fond of kids and finds them entertaining and so having a 'class' with a group of them feels a lot less like Work. He's got more patience for little ones not getting things immediately (again because watching them mess up in harmless ways is funny) and doesn't expect them to 'just know' basic concepts. Kohga himself learned a lot of advanced/exclusive techniques very early in life and he remembers how his Nana instructed him. Of course, Nana Kohga was much more no-nonsense. But like, the way she explained things like how to visualize your energy. How to breathe. The hand gestures. What doing a technique should feel like. In simple, child-friendly ways.
With kids, Kohga turns his lil' training classes into games that work out so that even if someone isn't getting the hang of something they could still have fun. One of his favorites is breaking in on the 6-9-year-olds' teleportation trainings, after they've been taught the basics of how to do the technique and most of them have figured out how to do it in a controlled setting (ie just standing still and 'porting from one spot to another). He'll have a room set up covered in soft things and pillows, and then. It's games time! He'll toss kids. 'Try to teleport away before you hit the pillows!' Tell them to play cucco. 'Run at the wall! Whoever teleports away the closest to it without touching, wins!' And so on. Kids love this sort of silliness. If they fall there's no harm done. If they manage to teleport they'll have learned to do it while moving!
With adults, the Master is a bit more prone to frustration if people aren't getting it, because--like you said--things came pretty naturally to him. So he'll start off a session on how to wield a Demon Carver (the one weapon he will still train people in) feeling pretty good, optimistic, explaining a grip or going over how to get your slashes angled correctly to disembowel or whatever, and all is good. But if someone isn't doing it right after a bunch of tries he can get huffy and foot-tappy and critical. He told you. Sheesh! You're gonna make him look bad, with that sloppy technique! Ultimately he'll end up slapping the person on the back and telling them to just keep trying, but still. It's harder for him to think of other ways to explain things, than the ways he learned with. He'll leave that to Sooga and Chisao and some other lead underlings to worry about.
And for the second question... Well! My headcanon universe is post-Age of Calamity, right? Where the Yiga have assisted in the defeat of Calamity Ganon? As time goes on, the Clan does have more of a Known presence in Hyrule, and one of the ways they're more visible is that there are now Yiga working as tech researchers along with the Sheikah at the Royal Lab. My Kohga himself is a big participant in that. He's tech-minded, the Yiga have tons of ancient (and copied-from-ancient) records in Karusa Valley, and Clan members are as a group vastly more in tune with the magic that makes ancient Sheikah tech run than contemporary Sheikah themselves are. The folks at the Lab have been trying to get more investment funding from sources other than the Royal Treasury, lately, by presenting their research and intended projects--stuff like magitech lighting, vehicles, etc. that will benefit everyday Hyrule.
And a thing that Pisses. Kohga. Off. Is when snotty Hylian nobles get RACIST when they hear that there's YIGA behind and working on these innovations. And refuse to back them or pull their funding. Are these bozos KIDDING? The Clan put their NECKS on the line to SAVE this stupid kingdom, and some guy with a big farm who hid in his basement the whole time is gonna act like he's BETTER than MASTER KOHGA??? Too GOOD for YIGA TECH? Screw that guy! He's banned from ever buying anything any Yiga ever worked on! If he ends up with his throat slit don't look at Sooga! Oh man Kohga was about to climb over the table at that meeting.
Yeah in general a thing that Kohga is acutely sensitive about is ignorant Hylians (and others, but it's mostly Hylians who do this) acting either like the Clan is 'still bad' and can't be trusted and are all marauding evildoers or like they're 'good now.' He hates comments like that. 'Oh they're good now.' Or worse, 'They're good citizens of Hyrule now.' Uuuuugggggghhh he gets so pissy and offended at this complete lack of nuance and understanding. Understandably, I think!
in another answer you said the island was usually too cold for swimming which got me curious about the veil's climate. what is the weather like in rothsraine, and what wildlife lives there - are there any real places you would compare it to? i assume it must be pretty chilly for them to wear those cloaks! and do they have any big environmental events unique to the veil?
Thanks for being patient for me to answer this one, but let's see...
Lichgate, the Island Rothsraine and its body know as home, has a Boreal or Subarctic climate on average. Short, mild summers with bitter cold winters. So think of places like Newfoundland or Greenland.
I say On Average since the large liminal tear on the island does tend to have some sway on the weather, severely from time to time. This often comes in the form of stream surges-- a high saturation of elemental aetherial currents of like-type bolstering an already strong storm, or worse, clashing elements leading to devastating bale cyclones and other such volatile forces. At least, they *would* be devastating if caught in one with no protection outside the confines of the spire or the local farmstead village. Magic wards keep the residents safe and cozy, making the storms nothing more than a nuisance (Maia complains about one that kept her up in chapter 2, leading to her making a heavy duty sleep potion to get through it.).
It's definitely quite chilly, but there's plenty of ways to get around it... the transformation sigil baked into the Rothsraine uniform's coat can be activated to convert the lighter fall/spring version into a full winter coat or cloak, which we'll be seeing soon enough in the comic if we go by the foliage starting to turn.
Apart from the nasty storms enhanced by the aetherial currents that traverse through the veil, there's also the matter of what goes on in the deep zones closest to the limnus tears. There's a reason there's a whole subject designated to Aetherial Orienteering to aid traversing magi (and mavens, though they're a little more grounded in these spaces), but it's safe to say that everything gets a little mixed up in these unnatural environments, including the weather.
yo! @carrotsnake! I believe I’m your @boku-no-secret-santa? And hey, you like some characters I also really like!! I had a lot of fun drawing this (confession: it’s one of my only bnha fanarts, and the first with any of these characters, so thank you for the excuse to draw them)!
Also, fun fact, my tablet broke about 3/4 through drawing this, haha. But I fixed it eventually! It just took a few days, lol. So I’m very glad it worked out, and that you get a fully finished piece! :)
@carrotsnake ryunosuke actually thinks it's herr lock as well when they first meet! he thinks he's german and herlock says something like "no, no, i have no herr--i mean, i do have HAIR" . i may just have to find a video of the fan translation to see what exactly they did for that part lol.
thank you though!! that's not as funny as “herr lock” to me but it makes sense.
Heya! I have a question about daisy: We all know how flirtatious she can be with everyone, but do you think if she ever had the chance to enter a deep, serious and fulfilling relationship...would she take it?
*looks at Lasiandra, her and Jonquil’s future daughter*
hi! do you think in the reunion falls version of the finale when bill captures the twins and almost kills one of them, since it would've been mabel in the original, would it be dipper instead in rf?
uhh....maybe? sure, let’s say yes. i dont think thats a detail that matters too much in the grand scheme of things, but i did see someone point out that since bill gets a real kick out of making dipper suffer, he might’ve picked mabel with the intention of dipper having to watch her die. so...yeah, i guess he wouldve killed dipper first in rf.
