#shicrood

[curiouslylazy]

If characters are gonna look at each other like That and they don’t end up fucking what is even the point

[marlikesthings]

Well, since I feel like talking about my favorite mangas/manhwas/characters and I just learned black haze is going to (more than likely) be taking a longer hiatus, I decided to talk about it. Not surprisingly, I decided to talk about shicmuon and rood XD

One thing I like about black haze is how characters react when shicmuon is with rood. Or, when people doubt the black magician’s identity, but then they see shicmuon talk to him/fight him, and suddenly they are convinced he is blackie XD 

Here are some scenes that I love:

Chapter 85

Chapter 134: Context: Shicmuon (disguised as prince yumehen) finds rood. Ren thinks he is attracting unnecessary attention (as rood was hiding his identity as the black magician, and prince yumehen has no reason to visit rood nor does he knows him. The tower will definitely find it suspicious). Shicmuon almost ruined the mission. If people discover he is shicmuon, then they’ll know rood is the black magician. Still, this scene is funny jaja. Anyway, can we talk about how shicmuon is always able to find rood? Is it due to his powers? Or is there another reason?

Chapter 187: “That man really is the black magician”. What I like about this scene is that his majesty had already figured out the black magician was the man wearing the association robe, but duke nuadly only confirms/seems convinced after seeing shicmuon and rood fight/talk. 

Chapter 188

Bonus:

Chapter 103

Professor orphell is confused XD Well, I can’t blame him, even I want to know why shicmuon is so obsessed with rood. I know shicmuon likes how strong rood is, but as I’ve already said it before, I don’t think that’s all. 

Chapter 131

I think it’s amazing how convinced lanoste is that his son will definitely find rood.

[mayabeille]

Like father, like son

Lanoste and Eperia.

Shicmuon and Rood’s first meeting.

Shicmuon and Rood’s second meeting with bonus pinning-to-a-plane-surface like with Lanoste.

Lanoste about Eperia.

And Shic... Hum. :’)

[curiouslylazy]

How am I supposed to Not ship them

[marlikesthings]

SHICMUON AND ROOD’S RELATIONSHIP

Well, I think everyone in this fandom knows shicmuon is obsessed with blackie. The reason I made this post, is because it caught my attention how shicmuon reacts when he is with rood or when he leaves him (or more specifically, what interests me are his eyes and his shocked expression in certain occasions).

A few examples:

This is after dio shows his true form in helios and shicmuon noticed rood is not there anymore. 

This is after rood left him, the first time they met (iel’s flashback). 

Now this is how he looks after someone mentions the black magician:

Lanoste, of all people, had to use rood’s name in order to have shicmuon go to helios as a student. Lanoste is his father, and he is quite stubborn himself, so the fact that he was forced to manipulate/make shicmuon believe the black magician was there for him to go, is very interesting for me. 

Here, he only got interested in the mission that was given to him after being told it was to rescue rood. Supposedly, if we believe shicmuon, he only wants to fight blackie and to kill him. Yet, he went out of his way to save him. Heck, he only accepted the mission because he heard his name. I don’t believe him when he says he wants to kill him.

For some people, shicmuon is probably a boring character whose only role is to obsess over rood. I personally think there is much more to this obsession than what we know. Well, that’s the reason I made this post in the first place. Why does shicmuon seem so surprised/shocked/I’ll even say lonely (?) after rood disappears? (he is also pissed, but I want to focus on his surprised face. Anyway, him being mad that rood left him makes more sense than him being shocked, since if rood isn’t there he can’t fight him, so of course he would be furious. But why shocked?) As I said before, this is probably just me, but why does he looks so lonely?

In my opinion, there is more to it, than him liking rood just because he is strong. Sure, that’s what first attracted him. I think that rood was the first person to match shicmuon’s strength and that’s what caught his attention at first. But, in several occasions, we saw how shicmuon, in his own weird way, seems to care for blackie. He seems to know what he is thinking, and he is the first one to notice if rood isn’t feeling well.

The way he looks at rood here. After meredith tells rood: “The place you belong is right here” (chapter 143), shicmuon kicks him and later says: “What. Are you saying this is the place he belongs to? According to whom?”. Several times, he will repeat this to meredith. He seems to hate it when someone wants to force rood to do something he doesn’t want to. I wonder if this is related to eperia? I mean, the tower is the reason why eperia will die and the tower also wanted to use shicmuon for their own plans. Maybe that’s why shicmuon reacts this way? Or maybe, although he doesn’t want to admit it, he is attached to rood and he cares about him, so seeing someone force him to do something he is unwilling to, bothers him?

More images:

Look at rood’s eyes, please! He seems so surprised!! Shicmuon said the words rood needs/wants to hear the most.

Shicmuon cares about rood, that much is obvious to me. He listens to him when needed. At least, when it involves rood. He doesn’t listen when rood asks him to help the students.

For example, there is the time when rood threatened to kill shicmuon if he didn’t stop attacking him (since the students were in danger and he couldn’t focus on the enemy if shicmuon kept attacking him) :

And then shicmuon actually started teaming up with rood and stopped fighting. Why make that face?? Why not smile since rood is finally willing to fight him? Why not being pissed off that rood threatened him? etc. If anyone else had said this to him, he would have attacked them for sure and then provoked them. Here, he decided to obey rood and stop what he was doing.

Another example, because why not?

What the hell shicmuon? XD I love his eyes here. 

Basically, I just love their relationship and I wanted to talk about them. Although, this post mainly focus on shicmuon jaja. Anyway, I wasn’t sure if I should post this, but I thought I may as well do it even if no one reads it XD

[mayabeille]

Shicmuon is waiting for Rood’s return in a matching outfit.

Of course he is...

T.T

[marlikesthings]

(Shicrood anon from before) I agree with everything you've said, haha, it's crazy. Especially how Shic/Rood are so similar to Lanoste/Eperia it can't be a coincidence. I mean, even the way they met, that was such a deja vu? And oh my god, the flowers... At the beginning of chapter 148, Shic is looking at (well, destroying) flowers and remembers the first time he met Rood. Guess what happens in chapter 215... yep... exactly the same thing, only with Eperia remembering Lanoste... (p1)

It’s even the same flower. Could have been any flower. But it’s that one. Just. Moving on, I’m holding my breath that after the flashback arc, we’ll have Lanoste and Shic directly talking about the parallels between Rood and Eperia, because I don’t believe such a long flashback was there only for the King/Liltopaz story. I’m sorry for this monsterous ask, haha, it’s just that BH isn’t big on tumblr and I’m not very fond of the fandom for BH elsewhere. (p2)

I’m so glad to find another shicrood fan in tumblr!! Before starting, I feel the need to apologize, since this is going to be long :p 

To be honest, what made me officially say: “yes, I ship this” was lanoste’s flashback. Like, I always thought it was interesting how shicmuon reacted to rood, and how rood (although reluctantly) depended on shicmuon to help him defeat the enemies. They are/were both ‘equals’ (before rood awakened as the demon king). It’s just that, when I saw how lanoste/eperia behaved when they were together, and after rereading the scenes with shicmuon and rood, it was impossible for me not to notice how similar they were. That’s when I thought: “wait, why is this married couple and shicrood’s relationship so similar??” and I realized that I could no longer ignore this ship. Too many coincidences and what made it better, was that those hints were established very early in the series. Lanoste first talked about shicmuon chasing rood in chapter 57 and considering that there are already 223 chapters, I’ll say this is quite early. The author also planified introducing eperia many chapters ago, since we saw how lanoste had flashblacks of eperia. So, it can’t be a coincidence. The author did it on purpose, but why? 

Eperia got interested in lanoste after learning he was the one who defeated all those monsters. Who did the same thing? Shicmuon. After seeing rood’s strength he was fascinated by him, and decided he would start chasing him. He went to every mission where blackie might be, after seeing him just once. 

After shicmuon met him again during the auction, even Van noticed he wasn’t being his usual self and said: “Shic’s gotten talkative. He’s too excited” (chapter 6). How can someone be so excited after meeting someone they only saw once before? Someone they barely know? I’ve always felt that shicmuon found in rood, someone who could understand him. That he could be himself in front of rood. Rood is the only person who is able to match his strength, and hence, he is the only person who doesn’t fear his powers and who treats him as a normal person.

Since I talked about how rood and lanoste defeated all the demons, I’ll show pictures because I like them XD

This is what shicmuon saw in chapter 155. The reason why he became so obsessed with blackie.

And this is how lanoste looks after defeating all those demons. 

I didn’t notice before, but your comment made me realize that rood and lanoste also have some similarities (I went back to reread some scenes jaja)! Not only they are powerful, but they both got stalkers after fighting demons. For eperia and lanoste, this was a faithful meeting, for shicmuon it’s the same thing, but what about rood? I am convinced that shicmuon will play a key role in helping him fight the tower/the empire. Shicmuon is strong, and he is always helping rood save the students/humans (first when the door opened in helios, and then when they were in the empire. He also helped him in the tower, although this time shicmuon didn’t help the students. Anyway, the previous times, he only helped them indirectly. His objective was always to save/help/fight alongside rood). Another similarity between rood and lanoste I’ve noticed, is that they both have to pretend/lie to the other magicians who are with them. In chapter 208, lanoste warns/tells the magicians that the tower is getting rid of low classed magicians “in order to be used as food for the secret experiments being conducted by the empire”, he then tries to act as if he didn’t really know by saying “…is what the rumors are saying…is that true?” and smiles. Rood and lanoste know more than average people, but they are forced to act as if they didn’t. 

They are also forced to act as if they weren’t strong. In chapter 210, lanoste tries to lie to eperia by telling her, he isn’t the magician who killed all the monsters. Probably to avoid attracting too much attention, but still.

Chapter 152

In rood’s case, he is forced to say he wasn’t the one who killed the woopis, since he realized no one believed him, and everyone thought it was strange for him to defeat them alone.

They are also both underestimated by the others. 

Lanoste chapter 208

Rood chapter 149

To be fair, lanose does it on purpose (since he is a spy working for sephia, I think), while rood doesn’t. He tries to deny it, although not hard enough. Anyway, the man doesn’t believe him since he looks so young and at that time, no one ever heard of [opion]. 

Okay, I’ll stop talking about lanoste and rood XD

I noticed the flowers were the same! I thought it was a nice detail, since eperia seemed to like these flowers. Also, I love how shicmuon looks at the flowers and think of rood, please! This is too much. But yes, parallels are everywhere, it’s hard not to see them. I think, this is probably one of the reasons why I am enjoying this flashback so much. I mean, I love lanoste and eperia’s relationship, although I know all that awaits me is pain… but this flashback happened for a reason. Why is lanoste telling all this to kielnode? This is obviously related to rood and that’s why lanoste felt the need to tell him everything. Also, kielnode already said that lanoste isn’t the type of person who “help others out of his good gracious heart” (chapter 173). There is a reason why lanoste keeps helping rood, and I think it is definitely related to eperia. Another thing that I am curious about: Why does lanoste want shic and rood to “become partners and combine their strength” ? (chapter 173). He even goes as far as to falsificate a document that shows opion’s magicians now belong to the association. Another thing, when diorook appeared in his dragon form, lanoste wasn’t surprised and immediately knew the black magician had send him. Why? I mean, he already saw diorook in helios, but it still seems weird to me. Moreover, lanoste knew rood wasn’t human. He says to kielnode “[rood chrishi] is not a human. As for you [kielnode chrishi] you won’t be able to handle that” (chapter 171). Why does it seem like he is talking about eperia? Once again, we have rood/eperia parallels. 

Look at lanoste’s face here. How many times have we seen lanoste being serious since the beginning of the series? Not many times. Actually, I think this is the first time lanoste looks so serious, like he is reminiscing bad/painful memories. 

I also think lanoste and shic will talk. Or at least, I hope so. If lanoste is trying to avoid rood ending up like eperia, then telling shicmuon the whole truth is necessary. As I said before, shicmuon is strong, so he is (among the humans) the only person who can help rood fight demons/humans. He is also a kansiol. His status might help rood in the future. I mean, he already used his name to help rood before, and he may have to do it again in the near future. He is the only kansiol who have the power to help. The “perfect kansiol”. The princess is still young, she does have good allies, like marquis hadelio and professor rowell, but while they will definitely be useful, if there was a fight against demons, they wouldn’t be able to help too much (against strong demons like lispen). At least, that’s what I think. 

To finish this long post, I wanted to post images showing shicmuon and the king interacting together:

The king knows what shicmuon wants XD The fact that the king acknowledges that shicmuon is willing to do whatever is necessary only to fight him, is very funny for some reason.

Even here, the only reason why the king kicked shicmuon was to protect him, since rubymontes was going to attack him.

I know the king is gentle to humans, but I think it’s cute how nice he is to shicmuon.

Don’t be sorry for the ask! I love talking about my favorite characters, so it made me happy :D 

[mayabeille]

Oh my god.