#ei sei

[fwebhhh]

NO PLEASE THIS HAS FO BE A JOKE I JS READ THS BEST MANGA KINGDOM ABD THERES NO FKING FANDOM. AND EVERYONE IS SO SHIPPABLE WHERES THE AO3 FICS ??!!!! 😭 😢 😢

E.g:

Shin/kyoukai

Sei/kou

Ouki/kyou

Shin/sei

Ouhon/mouten

Ouhsen/kanki

Kanki/me

Riboku/kaine

Futei/kaine

Mouki/ten

Moubu/shouheikun

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

arghhhhhhh the fact that zheng's relationship with his mother, whom he canonically takes after physically and mentally, is described to be "nothing but 'darkness'"... yeah no mother/son dynamic in anything ever will ever drive me quite as insane

[karwailang]

One of my favorite genres in fiction is main characters carving/engineering the future they want to see for society through conscious morally-uncomfortable action

Examples of this are:

Dune by Frank Herbert. Paul picking the slightest best possible way forward via the ability the spice provides – that of knowing everything that was and being aware of everything that is potentially to come, like if as seeing a tree of possibilities.

Kingdom, the manga by Yasuhisa Hara. King Sei ushering the end of the Warring States period in China, setting out to conquer all other warring states, taking it upon himself all the bloodshed to come. All so that an age of peace comes in China. While Sei isn't the main character, his role is key and all of Kingdom's plot follows a similar framework of strategical thinking + having the good of the people in mind. (Most beautiful is when other characters, such as important figures from enemy states, either resist him because they see it as an impossible task, not because they see his method as immoral, or they don't resist him as much... choosing to have faith in his vision).

The Chronicles of the Avatar series by F. C. Yee, especially the two Yangchen novels, where we see the avatar as a figure with huge political agency, in large part crafted by herself, being painstakingly aware of the losses needed for each and every choice she makes or plan she designs.

Attack on Titan by Isayama Hajime, to a degree. But I kind of see the ending and its conflict resolution as a cop out.

[itoendme]

thinking about this again…

[bapperzette]

Drew Ying Zhen/Ei sei from kingdom. 3rd picture is obviously the reference pic lol. My red pencil is shrinking tho💔

[electricsoul-rpg]

Yoshizawa Ryō (吉沢 亮) / Ryo Yoshizawa - Japanese

as Ying Zheng/Li Piao/Ei Sei/Ri Hyō in Kingdom/Kingudamu (キングダム)

[chersonesse]

No one wants a broken king.

[bytheminute]

Fandom: Raven of the Inner Palace

Rating: General

Relationships: (One-sided?) Ka Koshun/Ryuu Jusetsu (implied)

Characters: Ka Koshun, Ei Sei, Ryuu Jusetsu (mentioned)

A/N: i.e., Koshun being sentimental after Jusetsu leaves. May or may not be a series, contains light novel spoilers not in the anime. I wrote this with a Modern AU in mind but it ended up being vague enough to fit both the AU and canon so there's that lol

———

They don't look alike.

The words roll around in his mind, but he knows this. It's why it came as a shock when Ei Sei first revealed it to him, shoulders shaking and eyes quivering in a way Koshun has only seen a handful of times before. Because on first inspection, there's hardly any evidence to support the idea that Jusetsu and Ei Sei could be related, much less be siblings, from their hair to their eyes to the planes of their faces and bodies. There were no records, their parents were deceased, and no other reliable witnesses.

And yet.

There it is, he thinks, peeking at Ei Sei over the rim of his tea cup.

They've been friends for years, but Ei Sei has always kept his distance, claiming the difference in their stations as a reasonable excuse. Koshun never agreed—in his eyes, they were both orphans with mothers who protected them to their ruin and fathers who couldn't care less. They had the same teachers, ate the same food, slept under the same roof ("Only because you made it so, Koshun-sama," Ei Sei lamented). Ei Sei was achingly familiar, more family to him than any of his half-siblings, whose own families have shielded them from the estranged Ka boy.

All of this is to say that despite Ei Sei (stubbornly, stupidly) always standing five paces away, Koshun knows him. Even now that he's more relaxed than he's ever been (especially so in the year since they met Jusetsu), seated across him with his back slumped against his chair, nursing a cup of tea with a free hand. His other massages his temple as his eyes are closed—a long-time tell that he was mentally preparing a lecture for Koshun, a tell that would always and only ever remind him of Ei Sei if anyone else did it.

But then he opens his eyes, and there's that look. When he opens his mouth to lecture him, there's that tone. He tilts his head in the same way as he finishes his argument. And even though Koshun has only known her for a fraction of the time that he's known Ei Sei, he sees her—all the little bits that she somehow shares with his best friend who is miraculously also her brother, who is his only tie to her now that she's left their home to explore the world.

"Oi, Koshun-sama." Ei Sei huffs—something he's always done, but how did Koshun not notice sooner that she did the exact same when he annoyed her? "You're doing it again."

"Doing what?"

"Deluding yourself." Ei Sei moves to stand, taking his and Koshun's cups with him to rinse in the sink. "We aren't that alike."

Koshun and the running tally in his mind beg to differ.