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[shysheeperz]

[sage-reads-things]

Goliath lore!! We finally get an explanation for how Goliath is SO absurdly powerful. It turns out he's an Okami dog--I couldn't find the kanji version of his breed name, but I bet the name stems from the polite honorific 御 (o-) and 神 (kami), a deity spirit. It'd certainly be fitting, as we'll soon see. Mutsumi doesn't say where the Okami breed came from, but I feel like the Yozakuras had something to do with their creation. If that's the case, it's likely that someinine was involved and that's how Okami dogs can grow to such monstrous proportions. I would love to meet a mad scientist ancestor who bred superdogs using their own blood.

The Okami breed has been around since the mid-Edo period, which is around the time Tsubomi was active. Goliath himself is not nearly that old, but if he belonged to Mutsumi's great-great-grandmother, he's easily around 100 years old. He's an old geezer! No wonder he never wants to join in on the Yozakura siblings' shenanigans lol.

(Rambling about Yozakura heads and timeline stuff under the cut)

Goliath joined the family during the time of Mutsumi's great-great-grandmother, who was the 6th family head. The 6th head would have been Itsuwa's daughter, currently unnamed. The anime actually gives us a picture of her:

She's very cute! She definitely has strong Yozakura genes and looks a lot like a female Kyoichiro. (Side note, baby Goliath is so cuuuuuute <333 Look at his huge eyes and tiny little head!!!)

Itsuwa's daughter would be Keiko's grandmother. That means Goliath has been with the family for at least four generations, and has lived through several generations of Yozakura kids while living with them as their family pet. He may have even met Itsuwa, if their timelines overlapped. I love thinking about him as a puppy, hanging out with the sixth head and following her around everywhere out of puppy love. There's also something special about the thought that Goliath will always protect the family head because he's had a special bond with them from day one. He is and always will be the Yozakura family dog <3

[vanityfaire]

i am a woman of my word

[puckdrunklove]

How many babies would it take to take down Connor Hellebuyck?

3 apparently

[dailysmilingnatsume]

[everymariemjolnir]

[nagirambles]

Rambling about Fairies - Manga Chapter 37 and 38

PTSD is real.

Lyon’s in denial. Ur’s regarded on the level of the Ten Wizard Saints, but that’s talking about Isvan, a country where there’s only Ur around. Is he just naive in thinking that Ur’s the strongest of them all? Or has he really believed that Ur was the strongest, in some self-fulfilling prophecy? It’s hard to tell. 

Deliora’s been running rampant for a while now-- towns have been destroyed. If there were people stronger than Ur, surely, they’d have come already. Gildarts was on his way (according to Ice Road) but he didn’t make it in time. 

Isvan isn’t even on the map. 

Ur was the strongest-- as far as a tiny little, unmarked country’s standards goes. Lyon’s never seen the world yet. He can’t even imagine the scale of the world, because they’ve never been here. 

Frog in the well knows not of the world. 

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