#lio oak

[kipobipo]

Something that’s not canon in the show but is canon to me is that when she was a little kid one of Kipo’s favorite pretend games to play was knights and every time Lio saw her playing this all he could think about was how much fun she could have had with an older brother whose favorite thing to pretend to be was a king

[arealblitz]

nobody talks about enough the shit lio and song oak went through

like imagine being separated from your lover for 13 years after one of you turned into a giant mutant who then was mind controlled by the white woman who wants your whole family dead including your son and your daughter because all you wanted was to live on the surface peacefully with your family without influencing the genocide of mutant kind, and that when you got separated, you didn't get to give a proper goodbye to your spouse and your kids and you spent those 13 years thinking you'll never get to see them again, and you never got to see them grow up, you never got the chance raise them

and that the one who stayed human had to spend years wondering if you'd ever see your lover again, and then you feel guilty for the entire situation because you left your son behind thinking it would save you and your daughter and that there was too much going on (even though you still could've went back for him) but it actually turned your son into a deranged monarch who occasionally was mind controlling your lover that turned into a giant mutant and who influenced an entire population into following him, and you had to convince your daughter her whole life that her mother died from a disease that didn't exist, to then having to raise your half-mutant daughter alone

and then you both realize the life you planned for on the surface was taken from you until 13-18 years later when your daughter is almost fully grown and your son is now dead after sacrificing himself to save your daughter/his little sister from the woman who not only wanted to kill your whole family but also killed her own brother and wanted to kill an entire population

[phantomcellar]

[messyjessiethoughts]

i just finished Kipo. i know i’m late to the party. but i am crying just as many tears as everyone else.

[kip-kats]

you guys are letting kipo's cheerful disposition distract you from the fact that she's just as severely depressed and mentally ill as hugo.

and by "you guys" i mean song and lio....

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

Just saw a dumbass Kipo post that was getting angry about Emilia feeling "guilt" over her brother in s3 and like... Did you not think that was done solely to manipulate the group of very idealistic, naive, and compassionate children? Did you not think she was preying on their kindness, their willingness to forgive? Genuinely saw someone say "we didn't need to see her eugenicist father in the flash back - we already know she's a eugenicist" and like. Are you stupid? This is a children's show, and the flash back was not only necessary to illustrate to children WHAT eugenics are (they were truly just giving north american education far too much credit LMFAO), but to also illustrate how easy it could have been for Lio and Song to go down the exact same pathway. I also feel it helped illustrate how Hugo was also very much acting in the interests of white supremacy, more specifically imperialism. There is a reason he places such focus and emphasis on him being an emperor, and there is a reason the show chose the "aesthetic" of British Imperialism with the heavy visual reference of the Redcoats to illustrate this. Use your fucking brain. Emilia is not painted as tragic at all, she is conniving and evil, she is a genuine and actual Nazi. But they still have to find ways to communicate a topic as heavy as eugenics to their child audience while also explaining/illustrating that it's bad, and why. Kipo has the respect to treat the children it is advertised to as intelligent and capable of thought, but they are still children, and critical thinking is a skill, not an inherent trait. And it is so bonkers to me to get angry at a show for spending time with such an evil subject to really sit in why it is so awful. Children do not learn about the holocaust in the explicit context of eugenics, at least not North American children. I would much rather a show assume base knowledge and attempt to build upon it than to just assume the children are immediately capable, because the children who don't are often made to feel stupid because they don't understand it. And that is just antithetical to Kipo in and of itself lol. Like sure, you're an adolescent or a young adult watching this, but it was not made with you in mind. And the reason you are capable of understanding these things is because you have had the time, life experience, and education to build your critical thinking skills. We are in an era of horrifyingly low media intelligence, and it is SO bizarre to fault a piece of media for attempting to meet its audience where they are at. You can't just throw advanced communist theory at someone who has never read The Conquest of Bread or The Communist Manifesto.

They were even angry about Jamack not having any serious moments after his initial arc. And like, yea? He's not a main character, he was never intended to be. He is someone's lackey before he stands on his own two feet and is then an ally of Kipo. He is not a leader, he has little connection to Kipo outside of him relenting on his chase for her. He is barely a rebel, he is meant to be a character who plays the fence and serves the purpose of furthering the plot. He was never meant to have as much depth of characters like Wolf, Hugo, or Benson. Some of you have got to understand the differences between main characters, and side characters, and that someone being a protagonist or antagonist does not immediately make them a main character. (For example, the lower level villains fought in BNHA are not main characters, but they are antagonists.) Like. God. I fucking hate fandom tumblr.

[the-irreverend]

Since I did one for Mother's Day, how could I not also pay tribute to my favourite fathers across fiction (and their crowning moments)!

[b3anieperson]

Kipo is up next for my obsession with using this headcannon generator