#iimura mari

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Had a lot of inspo from Mr brightside when drawing this except the song is from eagles pov and he's baffled how his wife is constantly leaving him for a woman (he's like "the divorce came out of nowhere!")

[fishout-of-water]

Got to work on the next card! This time it's The High Priestess. I picked Mari cuz I'm biased lol. Might change her facial expression, I kinda want to give the impression she's studying you before an interview.

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kumi & mari

[melikedraw]

why are their outfits low-key giving shadamy

Some Ippo slander:

Also I feel like mari and kumis shirts dont really fit well into their outfits??? I don't know it's weird whatever

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Here's the reel I drew these for

THEY DRIVE ME MADDDD

[fishout-of-water]

You've seen Ishimura, now get ready for Ishimari! Sorry it's a little scuffed, I was a little out of it last week, and getting back into the swing of things. I love Mari so goddam much, she's such a queen.

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Hooo boy lore time (wlw edition) (IM SORRY ITS LONG)

Ok so remember this is an AU of band au, where eagle is slightly tweaked so that I can ship my girls, I do not think eagle is like this towards his wife in actuality, although I'm going to make it as in character as I can still

So if y'all are up to date on band au david eagle y'all should know about how him and his wife came to be (if you don't then here it is) (his wife shall now be named Angelica btw)

So in this alt timeline they meet all the same, except instead of falling for her, he falls for her voice and doesn't see her as anything but that (kinda still very similar to actual band au)

He's in love with the idea of her singing for him but not really her herself

They don't talk about much other than work (music) and he doesn't really listen to her, kind of zoning out her voice as if it were background tunes

He does love to spoil her still, though this is more him decorating his trophy wife rather than actual loving gifts (he likes to give her gold as it's expensive and it matched his own vibe, yet she's actually a silver girly, not like he cares)

At first she was absolutely smittened with him and honestly thought that was how he showed love, but it left her a little empty since she couldn't get his full attention unless she brought up their joint career (or mainly his career)

Plus she usually lets him do the talking in any interviews or public appearances they have while she just smiles in the background looking rather blank but good enough, leading people to think she's just introverted ditzy gal and that their relationship is healthy and happy

It's not until she meets iimura that she realises how unsatisfied she is

At first she was like "I'll just tough it out, it's a little boring but my life is comfortable" but once iimura came into the picture, it changed her mind about things, fast

So iimura is an interviewer/journalist, but she likes covering things no one else does, leading her having a small cult following of people who enjoy her very real and objective takes on things others rarely bring up

Considering how most journalists interview eagle and his wife as if they were one entity, and typically only eagle talks, iimura was curious about what eagles wife had to say, if anything at all

She knew it could just be some wild goose chase, but that never stopped her

So iimura interviews ange at one of those music award ceremonys once eagle is out of sight (he's probably talking to other equally famous people cuz uh yappatron idk)

Ofc ange is really vague and occasionally suggests iimura waits for eagle to come back, but even then iimura was already hooked. Why did she keep dodging questions? Where did she come from? How did she meet eagle? Iimura wanted answers and she just had to keep trying for them

The intrigue became attraction and iimura couldn't stop scanning the crowd for her whenever she knew they were at the same venue

Moreover ange found herself looking forward to seeing iimura at various events more and more, since she was the first to actually listen to her words and not just her voice

They eventually get close enough to share numbers and they'd call each other (although iimura says those are just interviews over the phone, she's starting to genuinely want to know more about ange not for journalism but for herself)

Ange is close enough to her to open up and learning about ange and eagles backstory and what ange used to do made iimura even more obsessed

She wishes she was there to see it smh lesbian yearning ensues blah blah she can't stop thinking about what she'd wear how she'd sing and dance on stage yada yada anyways

Ange starts taking more risks as well, sneaking away from hubby to just chill with iimura, and it gets obvious enough for fans of either side to notice and some madlad theorists come up with wacky theory's that they're actually together and in love (haha that's crazy) (wait a minute)

She's rather touchy (touch starved + doesn't know how much is too much as she's never had anyone tell her) with iimura and has no personal space (from having way too many "fans" get way into her personal space, numbing her from the concept of it)

However I obviously need to doom them for lore purposes

Now ange is very aware of how this looks to outsiders. Scandalous. She knows that if this situationship gets big enough to catch mainstream media, or even JUST normal eagle fans, attention it could affect not just her but also her husband's public image and she knows that matters a lot to him so she can't risk it

Plus she's never really had life away from him/fame/money so she's scared of what would happen if that's taken away from her via scandal or somn

Iimura can understand this too, she's seen her fair share of people being ruined by nosy paparazzi and she love ange, she wouldn't want her to go through that so she loosens her hold on ange

They stay in touch but avoid frequent contact (no more nightly calls), they greet each other and still look at each other too lesbianly, or shake each others hands too longingly, but it's rarer by a lot

Their little situationship lasts two to three years before they go back to "friends" but you could argue that the situationship is still ongoing considering how they kinda desire each other still

THEY CAN NEVER BE TOGETHER AND THEY CRY THEMSELVES TO SLEEP

WHEN YOU WAKE UP NEXT TO HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HANDS YOUR NOTHING MORE THAN HIS WIFE AND WHEN YOU THINK AB

I'll shut up sorry

Congrats for making it so far have some art

Sorry for wasting y'all's time

[fishout-of-water]

I headcanon Mari as a transwoman. She's so gorgeous and incredible. Her addition to the series was wonderful. I love how she encouraged Ippo when he was in that slump.

I also gotta feed you all some wlw. You see I have an oc named Nozomi I'm gonna ship with her. They went to college together.