he’s so handsome he’s my hero!

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he’s so handsome he’s my hero!
The purple medals seeing Eiji, the saddest, emptiest boy on the planet:
this seems incredibly niche but the catradora and ankh/eiji parallels...
“what do YOU want, adora?” // “have you ever wanted anything, eiji?”
*adora tries not to fight chipped catra and then jumps off a ledge to her apparent death to save her* // *eiji refuses to fight the shell of ankh and then jumps off a building to his apparent death just to try to get him back*
*catra helps bring adora back to herself in time to save her life & the world* // *ankh breaks thru eiji’s medal infection thing in time to save his life & the world*
adora and eiji are both the magical girl/boy of the show... they’re both overly self-sacrificing, while catra and ankh are partially selfish as a defense mechanism and they need to learn to reach out and sacrifice a little
I just realized sitting here doing my job that now I have time to write/edit my fanfics and while I have fics I need to edit and post (and stories I have to finish writing) I, like many OOO fans, have a different way I wanted the OOO movie to go that didn't make me lose faith in humanity and I may write a fic about it...or just post this who knows.
Anyways I thought it would be interesting if in his search to resurrect Ankh Eiji was the one who accidentally resurrected the old king and the other Greeed (also I'm sorry but I find it hard to believe Eiji, the guy that was implied to be better than the original King at being OOO would lose to the original King while they're both OOO adding that little girl wasn't the good idea the writer thought it was. Also why are the Greeed with the King for like zero reason did I miss something? I think they of all people would need a reason to team up with the King and play nice with him). This would be a better explanation for why Ankh was healed rather than "I wanted it enough as a dying wish" you mean to tell me Eiji never wanted Ankh back enough before that some random magic couldn't have done it then before he dies? I don't believe that, sorry.
Anyways the King steals the majority of the medals from Eiji and gets the other Greed to join him by promising them their medals if they cooperate leaving Eiji with a fixed core medal, the few other cores he was able to protect, and a bad wound from the King's surprise attack when he resurrected and stole the medals. Then he has to go find his friends at the resturant, get his injuries taken care of, and get some cell medals from Kougami (cause you KNOW that man has a secret stash of them) and then they go to stop the King's tyranny that he's spreading across Tokyo.
We learn later that the wound was worse than originally thought, except for Date who found it weird how after a nap and some stitches that the wound Eiji had was feeling well enough to continue fighting. Once Ankh is resurrected he gets in Eiji's face asking who he is and why is he wearing Eiji's face which Hina and the others try and pull him away until Date also questions it saying it should have been impossible for Eiji to just get up after getting back with that wound. Sure the adrenaline got him home in time to get medical attention but adrenaline doesn't last this long. Then we find out that Kougami made those new medals based on Eiji and Goda pulled an Ankh with a hurt Eiji.
Shingo and Ankh are conflicted about this because Shingo knows what that's like even though he likes Ankh he knows Ankh used to be different and this Goda character could be just like the old Ankh and Ankh fears the same. Ankh now realizes how Hina felt when she didn't know if her brother would ever get his body back from him. He's afraid of losing the person dearest to him. They decide to work with him in hopes he is more like Eijo than not since he's based on Eiji's desires but they're still keeping a close eye on him.
Cut to the Greeed coming together to discuss the predicament of basically being the King's tools again. The Greeed decide that they'll lure the King and OOO into a fight where they will attack the King when he and OOO are in mid-combat. Once they're plans in motion they don't realize two things 1) they're so caught up in their plan they don't realize Goda is controlling Eiji, they may feel somethings off but again they don't know Goda exists and 2) that Ankh is back as well, they think he needs Shingo like before and since they see him (Shingo) on the battlefield they think they have nothing to worry about.
Well as we all know their plan goes side ways cause Ankh is around. When they attack the King from behind they reach out to grab their flying medals only for Ankh to collect the majority of them and fly back to Goda who he still doesn't trust and he gives him some of the combos to beat the other Greeed and collects the remaining medals.
Then it goes on like the movie. Goda releases Eiji's body and steals the medals that he can from Ankh's medal holder, Ankh takes hold of him by becoming his arm form and controlling Eiji's body. He gets the power up, they beat Goda, and Eiji and Ankh have to stay as one for a little while while Eiji heals but eventually after a month or so of healing up we see Eiji and Ankh as two separate people deciding on what they should do next. Go on a few more adventures? Settle down for a bit and catch up with their friends? It doesnt matter, because after all, they have all the time in the world now.
...this was MUCH longer than I thought it was going to be but guys...I love OOO and it deserved better, my boys deserved better. 😤
I wrote this all pretty quick so please ignore any spelling or grammar mistakes. I'll probably fix them later...maybe...who knows.
Does no one else find it strange that in the early episodes of OOO when they introduced the Eel candroid Eiji freaked out cause he's afraid of snakes but when he transformed into his movie exclusive form BuraWaKani which literally has a snake charmer attack and where there are snakes on his head he's like "Meh, this is my life". I would have loved to see him being hesitant to use his powers in that form because he's like "Oh my God Ankh there are snakes everywhere I dont wanna do this!!!! ;n;". Of course he puts the fear aside to help people but like...let him be afraid of snakes Toei!
I'd love to draw something like Ankh styling Eiji. Can you imagine Eiji in Ankh's style of clothing. Blessed.
Ryon and Shu did this for a magazine once but they picked outfits for each other but I don't think Ankh would let Eiji pick his outfit...unless...🤔
OOO is probably going to be my favourite Kamen Rider of all time (tied with Build but like OOO sometimes just stretches a bit into first place without my brains consent but definitely with my hearts consent) because OOO is the only Kamen Rider ending I ALWAYS cry during. Just the thought of the ending and the movie endings where Ankh sometimes comes back but never actually does leaving Eiji to think he's alone but in reality Ankh is watching him as a spirit but we all KNOW he'd never admit it to Eiji whenever he comes back rips my heart out.
Me thinking about AnkhEiji and RyuSen at the same time: