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Can you please tag dark road stuff? I'm waiting for it to actually release in global to play it myself and your recent posts don't have any tagging for my blacklist to catch.
OH SHIT YES I CAN!!!!
edit: okay, I now tagged these as “#dr spoilers” and “#dark road spoilers” hopefully that helps! Sorry again!
I temporarily unfollowed you so I could listen to Darkness unspoiled and now I'm back to tell you my heart is generally destroyed but in particular Terra, Xion, and the Thirteenth Struggle have ruined me with the story they tell in the instrument choices and the quotes from other pieces, excuse me while i have a GOOD CRY.
:DDD So happy you enjoyed these stories we told <3
Imaginary Friend, Shinah or Kija
Of course I chose Shinah for you!
“Ao said...even if I fought with a sword, I probably can’t make friends.” The little boy reaches out as if to touch him, then stops short. He looks down. “You’re...not my friend, are you?”
The soldier sighs. He can’t say exactly what he is to the boy. “Think of me as your imaginary friend.”
“‘maginary?”
“Pretend.”
“Oh...then I’ve got lots of ‘maginary friends. I like to pretend all the other children in this village are my friends, even if they don’t…”
Damn this village! Half-coherent thoughts of what he could do to them form and flit away. Anything he does will only make it worse for the boy.
“Even if Ao was right, I’m still going to try!” the boy announces, drawing his dagger. The sword is still too much for him. “Train with me?”
The soldier takes his own sword in hand. He lets the boy lead--he never learned any of these fancy katas. He’d just taken the blade his lord had given him and gone where his lord had sent him, and in the end, no amount of training would have made a difference.
“I know what you are, though,” says the boy, lowering his dagger at the end of his routine. “I know why you can only ever be a ‘maginary friend.” The boy’s mask remains in place, but he can still feel himself pierced by those eyes. It’s the only thing he can feel. “It’s because I killed you, isn’t it?”
The last place his lord sends him is to an unknown village, to seek out an unknown swordsman rumored to be one of the four dragons of legend. The demon gives them no warning. The first rank of soldiers simply falls down dead. Then panic spreads through the lines almost as quickly as the demon’s reach--his closest companion, marching by his side, dies all unknowing.
That’s what he hopes, anyway.
He sees those claws reach through his brother’s chest, feels them tear through his own, and then--he doesn’t know what keeps him here when all the others have moved on. The first thing he recalls after that--after dying--is the image of a boy, facedown in the mud, and his own rage at a demon who would attack so indiscriminately that even an innocent boy would be caught in its path.
He’ll do everything in his power to curse the monster that did this.
He watches until the boy wakes. Until he opens his eyes, and the curse takes hold. “You did this!” he rages, only to be met with the boy’s constant cries of “I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
Villagers come to the boy too. “You did this,” they speak accusingly, and are given the same reply. He can see the demon in the boy’s eyes but this boy is not a murderer, and he doesn’t understand.
“That’s right,” says the soldier. “And now I have to move on.”
“N-no! I’ll get better! I’ll train so I never have to use my eyes again!”
He gives the boy a sad half-smile. “You do that,” he says, “but that won’t keep me here.”
“But...but if you go...then you’re really...then I really…” His voice is trembling, terrified.
“Yes. You did.” The boy erupts into full-fledged sobs. “I bound myself to you when I swore vengeance on the demon that killed me, but you...you already bear a curse I wouldn’t wish on anyone. And vengeance…” At the boy’s side for months now, he’d seen how the village shunned him. Seen how they created the very monster they sought to contain. If he could curse these villagers without hurting the boy, he’d revel in it. “If I stay, I’m going to become an evil spirit. You wouldn’t want that, would you? You know what it’s like.” The boy nods, tears still streaming from beneath his mask. “So I have to move on, while I can still make that choice.”
“...Ao…”
He doesn’t know what the boy is trying to say. Ao left me too or greet Ao in heaven for me or simply crying out for the one person who’d ever cared for him. So he doesn’t try to reply, exactly. “Ao was wrong,” he says. “You made a friend even out of me. So wait, and live, and one day, you’ll find a real one.”
KH, Sailor Moon, ffvii
Kingdom Hearts:
Least favorite character is a tie between Lexaeus, Marluxia, and M. Xehanort, because of the bad experiences and hella abusive attitudes by this trio of men.
Lexaeus backhands children without warning to teach them a lesson and beat the shit out of Riku mostly because he felt embarrassed, rather than because of their enemy status.
Marluxia blatantly abuses Namine for his own benefit and is just a general creep.
And then there’s Master Xehanort, who orchestrated so much pain and misery purely because of what appears to be a combo of curiosity and god complex.
Sailor Moon:
The anime version of Helios, good god, his entire character screams child grooming throughout SuperS and it’s one of the most disturbing things to watch, and the fact that he’s shoved into the highlight in that season to the point that the Senshi can hardly do anything without him... he’s just not fun to think about in the anime.
FFVII:
Genesis motherfucking Rhapsodis in the full compilation, because god almighty, he’s such a complete fucking asshole, I hated his every moment on screen, I hated his every moment in general, and the fact that it’s treated like a bad thing when Sephiroth finally tells him to go fuck himself, after an entire game of being an asshole, just makes me hate him all the more.
If we’re talking just the original game, I guess it’d have to be Don Corneo or maybe Reno. Reno’s not like...bad, but he’s so over-hyped that I have difficulty getting into him.
hanyounomiko replied to your post: A straight friend of my mine was watching how me...
Gross lmfao. Can she not.
she’s treated me different ever since i outed myself to her (+ a vast majority of the choir, it was on the choir trip). like she bought me a drink in a pub once, which i thought was nice at first, but then she kept calling me ‘sweetheart’ sporadically after that and even told me once that ‘you know i have a boyfriend so it’s unfortunate i never got to experiment’ with a like Meaningful Glance at me. and sometimes she sits too close to me or whatever. like i don’t know maybe i’m reading too far into it, and i’m usually pretty fond of her but then she’ll do shit like this and i get so like......i feel so ?????
Akayona 9, 16, 23
9. Most disliked character(s)? Why? Already answered. But I guess I can also say that Hiyou is probably my least favorite villain. I think the single-arc villains have gotten progressively worse in terms of how developed/interesting they are as characters but Hiyou was around more than Kushibi and he was the low point of an otherwise very good arc (whereas Kushibi was the low point of a...less good arc) and he had that unfortunate Flamboyant Gay Villain thing going on, which.
16. If you could change anything in the series, what would you change? I would give Kija and Shinah more development and time to shine, since of the four dragons they’ve taken a back seat to Zeno and Jaeha. Zeno’s got his own thing going on obviously, but Jaeha seems to have sort of become the “voice” of the four dragons as a group somewhere along the line and I just wish the others could have more of a spotlight too. For a while there Shinah seemed like he’d been reduced to the “look over there” guy and he has so much more potential than that.
23. Unpopular character you love? Is Lili unpopular? I love her, and I was reminded the other day that some people actually hate her. Weird. But I think a lot of other people love her too so she probably doesn’t count. I also like Yak-shi, but like, a mostly headcanon version of him.
FMAB 9, 11, 16 (for salty ask meme)
9. Most disliked character(s)? Why?
hm. i dont really know, i dont actively dislike a lot of fmab’s characters just cuz they play great roles in the narrative....kimblee has always been kind of annoying to me, and pride annoys me for non-canon-related reasons, but pretty much everyone else is either a forgettable character or a good one
11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?
lan fan does not get enough love and i sincerely wish she existed outside of her role as ling’s bodyguard. like i want to see what she wants and how she thinks, shes one of my favorites. but shes not necessarily disliked by the fandom, just ignored, so hmm... im not actually sure who the fandom dislikes so ill stick with lan fan
16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?
more narrative time spent on lan fan outside of her relationship to ling. paninya getting much, much more plot impact than the very simple Reformed Thief archetype. lust not dying so fucking early. more dynamic girls in general
hanyounomiko replied to your post “You don't need to answer everything, I guess I just needed to share....”
I was fucked up for days tbh. Just random crying jags all over the place
YEAH I FEEL YOU. i don’t think i physically cried much after the first day but i was very much Not Good At Being A Person for a while
