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AnS Characters as D&D Classes

Honestly this is kind of difficult because all the AnS characters are so beautifully complex and it's hard to fit them into one class, but I tried my best

Shirayuki - Cleric/Ranger

I think Shirayuki might be the most difficult to classify. When I think of her, the first word that comes to mind is healer. She's very focused on using her skills, knowledge and research to help people. In the AnS universe, she's not a fighter. Not physically, anyway, although the longer the manga goes on the more skilled she becomes with using words to cut and discover. But Shirayuki is primarily a healer, and the Cleric class is the closest I could get to that. In the D&D world, she might be more of a fighter and maybe(?) have a god she devotes herself to? (There aren't really any deities or religious systems in the AnS world that I know of).

This is the closest I could get, and maybe Shirayuki could multiclass into a Ranger or something, since she also has a strong connection to nature and could probably use that knowledge to survive out in the wild.

(Plus I just love the idea of Shirayuki with a bow. Very Yona-like.)

Zen - Paladin/Fighter

I feel like 3/5 of the Zen Squad will be either Paladins or Fighters, tbh. Zen, Kiki and Mitsuhide could all multiclass into one or the other. The lack of any deity or religion makes it difficult to classify the knight-figures as full Paladins, which is the closest I could think of to Zen's princely natures.

Fighters can easily be knights too, but they tend to focus more on the art of combat and physical prowess. Paladins have a stronger sense of justice, right and wrong, and a desire to uphold goodness, which I feel characterizes Zen very well. He's a prince, and his primary responsibility will always be to his kingdom. Zen has a strong sense of duty but also fairness and rightness, which is why I classed him primarily as a Paladin and not a Fighter.

I mean, "knight in shining armor" heLLO?

Obi - Rogue/Monk

HOOOOOOOO BOY. If you know me at all you know my obsession with the Obiyuki ship (I WILL GO DOWN TO HELL OR UP TO HEAVEN WITH THEM) and Obi as a character particularly.

Obi is obviously a Rogue. For so many reasons. I even rolled up an actual D&D character for a campaign based off of him. That's how much I love him. Obi in the D&D-verse would be amazing.

"A scoundrel who uses stealth and trickery to overcome obstacles and enemies" (DNDBeyond) if that doesn't SCREAM Obi, idk what does. Especially pre-Shirayuki Obi. Before he met the Zen Squad, Obi was the classic rogue. Master of a wide variety of skills, putting those skills to use in mostly illegal or at least illicit activities, prioritizing cunning over brute strength...yeah. I don't really need to go on.

After Obi joins the Squad and becomes an official knight, he's not really a stereotypical rogue anymore in that he has a family, a home, something to protect beyond his own self-interest. He becomes much nobler, more loyal, a true knight. He just happens to be a different sort of knight than most others, putting his skills and cunning to use in a different capacity.

I would also definitely multiclass Obi into Monk because of the martial arts. Obi has extraordinary control over his physical self and can use his body to devastating effect in several ways, which is very Monk-like (sword-flipping handstand AHEM). I debated making Monk primary, but I realized pretty quickly that Rogue fits Obi first way more. The biggest reason against putting Monk first is that Obi doesn't have much of a spiritual connection to his skills, nor did he come from a monastery/academy nor have traditional training. Definitely a Rogue first.

Mitsuhide and Kiki - Fighter/Paladin

Mitsuhide and Kiki's fighting styles are very similar, especially because of their occupation as Zen's aides and guards. "Well-rounded" specialists" is a good way to describe them. They are dedicated knights and skilled warriors for sure.

The only reason I wouldn't make them Paladin-Fighters like Zen is because they have different goals and duties. Their primary goals as Zen's knights is to protect him. They don't have the same responsibility of running a kingdom and navigating politics the way Zen does. Okay, maybe Kiki does somewhat as the heiress of Seiran, but still not in the same capacity as Zen. They have strong senses of justice, etc, but it's just not the same feeling as Zen. I think of Mitsuhide and Kiki as warriors first and diplomats/nobles second, which is why I'd make them Fighter-Paladins.

I'm not gonna go through the whole cast of characters of course, I mainly wanted to describe the Zen Squad. But I'll add a few more here:

Ryuu - Wizard

Ryuu is a NERD™. Yes he's a healer like Shirayuki, but he's always been more prone to scholarly pursuits, staying up until ungodly hours to research something highly specific. He also has a fantastic memory, and of course he's a pharmaceutical prodigy by age 12. The kid's a genius, and he would be very much at home in any library, researching plants, medicines, diseases and cures.

Ryuu is very much a Ravenclaw, and Wizard is the most Ravenclaw, nerdy class there is. Learning magic from books, scholarly knowledge of the arcane, that's what Ryuu would be doing.

I could multiclass him into either Cleric for the healing powers like Shirayuki, or Ranger for the nature connection and knowledge. I mostly see him as just a wizard though, probably specializing in compounds and minerals to create complex magical effects.

Izana - Paladin/Wizard

Our King Izana is hard to classify, man. He's such a complex character but we don't know all that much about how he thinks or works. He might be even harder for me to classify than Shirayuki.

I don't really see Izana fitting any of the D&D classes strongly. He's very much a skilled warrior for sure, like Zen, but he doesn't really fit the Paladin bill in the same way his younger brother does. He's much more mysterious. He's also very very smart, skilled in politics and diplomacy. He's good at manipulating people too and using any means necessary to protect what's close to him. Very much a Slytherin. There's not really any D&D class that deals with the political side of things a whole lot. Charisma and Intelligence yeah, but most of the classes are focused more on fighting style or something else like music/art (Bard).

If I had to choose, I'd probably go Paladin anyway, just because of Izana's relation to Zen and the Paladin's focus on Strength and Charisma. I'd make him an Int-heavy Paladin though, and multiclass him into Wizard because of the strong emphasis on Intelligence and Wisdom.

Izana's tricky man

Raji - Bard

This one's mostly just for fun

Solely because of his violin skills

Also Bards have a reputation for being horny af, and although I feel bad, I think of how he wanted to make Shirayuki his concubine at first just because of her beautiful hair

I know Raji has changed and I think he's a great character who obviously learned from his mistakes

But it's just funny

I love Raji and him being a stereotypical horny Bard who loves his friends is absolutely hilarious

[akaivampire]

That was a really great character, or... Couple study? You did there with Mitsuhide and Kiki. Great job.

Thank you! Although I feel that I left some things out, or haven't noticed something's. But it's true that Kiki and Mitsuhide's relationship is a lot deeper than it looks for some who just read the manga. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THEM THAT I NEED TO FIGURE OUT!

[akaivampire]

A little talk about Mitsuhide and Kiki's relationship

as we all might know, Kiki wasn’t used to relying on people around her, but to count on herself and close family only, well that until she first met Mitsuhide and Zen, but mainly, Mitsuhide. That can be seen when Hisame-dono asked for a duel and allowed her to work with a partner as he’ll do, at one moment Kiki remembers when Mitsuhide and Zen told her that ‘It’s alright to rely on me’ but to her that wasn’t from the heart. it’s something you normally hear when working with a group of people, or as in her case guards in the palace in general have each others backs and not always becuase they want but becuase they have to work together as a team.

(chapter 43 page 29)

But Kiki doesn’t trust them, at least not yet. for she says right in the page following that “until now, all i had was myself”.

(chapter 43 page 30)

Kiki grew up in her house along with her father and there was no trace or talk about her mother so there’s the chance that her mother died when giving birth to Kiki or when Kiki was young. (If her mother was killed also many years ago it might be related to the current events of the manga with the Bergatt family)

So Kiki only counting on herself, and her father is becuase all of the people around her only wanted to offer help to get into her and her family’s favor. and that started at a very young age, considering that Kiki was about 15 years old when she first came to the castle and the marriage proposals started maybe a couple of years before that, meaning when she was about 13 years old.  in Kiki’s world no body helps you and looks after you unless they’re either close family, like her father, or want to take advantage of you.

So the shock showing on Kiki’s face when Mitsuhide jumped in the middle of the fight to help was from shattering almost everything her 15 year old self ever knew.

(chapter 43 page 35)

and when Mitsuhide said 'allow me to protect you’

(chapter 43 page 39)

When Kiki thanked him after the fight, that was a sincere thanks, she didn’t do it just to be polite but becuase she was very grateful to him. The way their relationship grew and how they both got the privilege/honor of watching and protecting each others backs made them both realize you close they’ve gotten.

so when Kiki didn’t tell Mitsuhide about leaving the castle, Mitsuhide wasn’t angry about her leaving but about her not telling him sooner. He knew that Kiki wasn’t used to trusting anyone and when he thought that she was finally trusting him she hides an important fact from him.

(chapter 42 page 15)

when she 'reported’ it to Zen before she did to him, Mitsuhide was crushed, he felt that she was telling him that as a matter of fact, like 'i won’t be guarding your back anymore, I’m leaving and I thought you should probably know’

(chapter 42 page 16)

here you can see how Mitsuhide is hurt and asks her to go back first, becuase he felt as if everything they had for the past 5 years wasn’t more than work, that they weren’t very close friends and everything else was only in his head. And the duel part when Mitsuhide said that it’s the same thing that Obi and Zen did before Obi and Shirayuki went to Tanburn, Zen wasn’t even allowed to go with Shirayuki to Tanburn but only send someone he trusted with her and he knew that he couldn’t defeat Obi no matter what, but a duel between two is a way deliver feelings that cannot be delivered with words. It’s a way to communicate.

And another reason (probably) that when Kiki first became Zen'a aide she and Mitsuhide had a duel, so a sword match between the two of them is a sign of their place as fighters and as partners. At the end of the duel when Mitsuhide says 'no matter where you may be, Kiki. I’ll always be your partner’ at those words Kiki remembers the 'let me protect you’ line Mitsuhide said years ago, and that’s a sign for them that their relationship hasn’t weakened but only grew stronger since they met.

and When Kiki sleeps on his shoulder and says she wants to sleep for a while and that he should wake her up whenever he thinks it’s right. it isn’t about Kiki being sleepy or tired, it’s about it being their last year together and she wants to spend it with him and that this little moment between the two of them will end when the sun rises tomorrow and they go back to their daily work.

with the panel of the moon and Mitsuhide’s calm face before he closes his eyes, says that he never found the 'right’ time to wake her up and that they (probably) just slept there leaning against each other, shoulder to shoulder. the next day when she goes with Mitsuhide to visits her father to talk about the promise she takes Mitsuhide with her becuase he’s a great part of her wanting to make a new deal with her father, which is making her visits annual instead of returning for good.

(chapter 44 page 28)

When Kiki’s father looks at her and remembers his little girl with the words 'yes, father’ he smiles, now sure that his daughter grew up in the castle and now is strong and smart to make her own decisions.

(there’s still ALOT  to be said about their relationship in the current arc, but it isn’t fully out yet so i don’t want to say anything wrong or not well thought out about the two of them) (well you got to here….. I’m a little surprised that you read all the way through all of this, and the post ended up being more Kiki centered than Mitsukiki centered. Oh well)

[akaivampire]

Can you recommend a mitsukiki fic?

this little beautiful one right here :)

slipping

oh almost forgot this delicious one

She Always Wins

[akaivampire]

About the slightest hint of sadness in Kiki's eyes, seeing her partner opposite his usual strong and confident self.

[akaivampire]

If the next AnS chapter doesn't contain a GREAT mitsukiki moment or a love confession. I might literally lose my mind from the lack of affection in my manga/anime life.