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@wannabe-everythings
What I’m really glad about is that Sonon and her boy are safe and rewarded for what they did for Hak and the others
I really didn’t expect them to reappear, yet here they are. I was lowkey worried about their fates after they helped the hhb.
She ressembles the mother from mugen spiral and she's also so motherly here I love itt!!
What I’m really glad about is that Sonon and her boy are safe and rewarded for what they did for Hak and the others
I really didn’t expect them to reappear, yet here they are. I was lowkey worried about their fates after they helped the hhb.
Well hello Zuko
Some names just sound so ridiculously fake that had they been fictional, people would’ve rolled their eyes in complete disbelief. Like seriously. Wdym there’s a mf called Galileo Galilei. Stfu. You just made that up
Fastest man on earth is a guy called Usain Bolt. Sure I guess. There’s a poker player whose real name is Chris Moneymaker. Whatever. Scott Speed is a racecar driver. Founder of Tito’s Vodka is some guy called Bert Beveridge. There’s a former CNN bureau chief called William Headline. You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
let's put this one here as well
I fucking love it when people are OBVIOUSLY born to do that exact job! 🤣🤣🤣
Gaiden 1 - Before the Enthronement
I will honestly not touch everything. Hak and Yona for example are not exactly a great concern for me - my bad.
1. General Jon Gi - the clever strategist
Like one could expect, General Jon Gi is disappointed, that his daughter did not marry the king - but Lily will marry Soo Won in the future; just that he won´t be king then.
However, Yona is Lily´s "bossom friend", so he intended to win her favor.
2. The unfaithfullness of her father
For this purpose Jon Gi had invited his wife Nene. Just that Nene did wish to sit 200 steps away from him.
Lily is absolutely cold towards her father here. She considered it fair play. Not even after the death of her mother will Lily forgive her father for the "cheating".
It really appears, as if the unfaitfullness of her father hurt his daughter quite heavily.
By the way, her mother is not a dependant princess, but a quite occupied business woman.
3. Lord Geuntae is disappointed
Lord Geuntae has not yet found the next general. He himself is unfit for war. Certainly, he has a wife and a son and the child is really cute, but honestly older than one month.
There is a person that resembles Lord Geuntae - Soo Won. He too cannot fight anymore - physically, but partly also mentally. Soo Won believes, that he has utterly failed. For a perfectionist, who gives always more than 100 % - this state is unbearable.
Always, always Soo Won had been, what other people needed. And for the first time in his 18 years Soo Won has failed. He could not completely get rid of his feelings and was therefore not the king, he wished to be. And of course people like Geuntae, who have not been faithful to their king, are complaining ,yet have expected of him to always bear the brunt of the pain himself.
4. Crybaby Kurif, the next General and a wannabe-lover of Lily?
I believe that Kurif, the crybaby here, Geuntae´s second in command might be either become a contrahent of Hak or Soo Won for Yona or Lily. I would suggest Lily, as Yona already has a wannabe-lover with Tae Jun. That guy, too, had played a heavy role at the last coronation of Soo Won.
Either way, Kurif was being dragged to Yona´s ceremony.
5. The only General with a genuine Joy
Mundoek had - it appeared - believed that Yona would be one day "king", when he had seen her with the dragon warriors.
Yona is the first Queen Regent of Kouka Kingdom and relatively overwhelmed with her current duties.
6. Zeno´s hidden pain - without a purpose
I think, he has hidden his doubts pretty well. Yet it appears Zeno still felt forlorn. A person that has been a dragon warrior for 2000 years. What will he do, when the pressure and pain, he has felt his whole life has left him?
And even more - his task was so much more than being just one dragon warrior. Zeno was the dragon warrior. One of the first generation with the most experience and knowledge. The one who cared for his "children".
Yet they do not need him anymore.
The heavy drinking that both Meinyan and Zeno demonstrate, appears funny and hilarious - good in Zeno´s case it was the first time, but Meinyan apparently was drunk 8 days straight.
Somehow, though, his purposeless existence bothers Zeno
The new shot at life...Yet an existence without a purpose - again, like he experienced it in the first couple of hundred years of misery.
What is more, Zeno pointed to this being the reason, why he had hidden himself away for 7 days in chapter 276
Yet, at least one part might give him a little solace: There is still some kind of bond between the "four dragon warriors" - just that it is not magical anymore.
7. Soo Won and Lily´s development: Friendship ahoi!
It is one of the funniest bits of this chapter, that Lily showed her concern for Soo Won so openly, while her father was basically completely uninterested in him.
The moment Soo Won did not fullfill his purpose, people would forget him entirely.
Not Lily though.Lily was so shocked. Her father had to repeat, what he had told her.
Immediately Lily worried for Soo Won´s health. She could not understand - like Geuntae, like Jon Gi and even later Ogi, why Soo Won would give up the throne.
With Soo Won´s abdication - his "real relationships" clearly differed in their visibility after his kingship from the ones, that had merely existed, because the other person could win benefits.
Lily´s decision
For the first time Lily had to confront something: Lily could not hide behind the fact anymore, that she just wanted to get to know him - for Yona´s sake or for whatever purpose.
In contrast to her father, Soo Won had proven his sincerity to her.
The unrest, the fear for him, she felt were still present. So Lily accepted, that she had to take a step forward.
On a clear, fine day - the sun was shining - Lily came one day before Yona´s coronation to Hiryuu Castle.
Soo Won´s first posture
The first thing the reader is presented here in that panel, are Soo Won´s eyes - half in light, half in shadow. A book - work - laid on his legs. (Of course the worhaholic is doing what he can best - working).
His eyes, even the way he held his head speak of high attention. There is something to the left side he was focused on.
Min Soo, who still addressed him as "Majesty" for the last day of Soo Won´s kingship, told him of Lily´s visit.
He, too, like Zeno would lose his former purpose. Relationships had changed. And Soo Won would, like Meinyan told us before, sink into the shadow.
"Is that so?", Soo Won asked.
Directly before the Castle Arc, Soo Won had been intent not to let Lily go; but this time, Soo Won was basically putting into question, if she even wanted to visit him.
So he took the book up - holding it in front of him like a shield - and said:
"Kindly leave."
All this is a posture of somebody, who wished to protect himself.
Of course, Lily reacted brashly. After all, Lily has been so worried, that she had not heard her father the first time. And now the guy did not even want to see her, at all.
She screamt loudly and she appeared to slam something:
Why?!
This reaction broke his cold exterior and Soo Wonl apparently- started to either laugh or smile - a genuine expression of joy, that is hidden to us, because the mangaka separated Lily and Soo Won physically enormously from each other. His face is hardly to recognize, the smile was at best implied.
"Hi Lily, I see, that you are as lively as ever".
This time, Lily admitted defeat. (Usually Soo Won had to admit defeat, this time both are taking a step back. For a moment Soo Won had forgotten, that he wanted to act cold. Lily did want to pay attention to his feelings, this time. )
She considered his laugh rather as an attack, as as the genuine expression of joy for Lily being Lily. Her emotions were on a certain high, after all.
"My bad, I´ll be quiet".
When you look really closely, you can see the smile. Soo Won had put down the book for a moment and had looked up, smiling.
Only the massive distance between them distorted the situation. Lily - most likely - couldn´t see him too clearly either.
Jealousy of Yona
Lily - most likely - could not understand his sudden change of behaviour (Before he let her stay, this time, he did not want to see her, at all). She could not understand, how somebody felt, that had utterly failed in his plan.
How much Soo Won would hate it to "eat the crumbs", Yona left behind. To have people show politeness or worse sympathy for his state...
It is sad and funny at the same time: But I believe, that Soo Won was indeed a little jealous of Yona in regard to Lily.
Immediately after the small light on the horizon, Soo Won looked down on the book, at his work (as a king) and said:
"Have you seen Yona yet?
Her enthronement is tomorrow, so you shouldn´t wait to go see her."
Thank you Kusanagi, for pracially demonstrating, that Soo Won´s heart has been broken in Xing. (That is why he gave in so quickly. Guy felt the pain of his life).
About worry and friendship
Since her feelings are pretty strong right now, she blurted them out:
"I was worried about you, geez. How is your body?"
Lily just wanted to know so badly, how he was feeling.
Was it a general disbelief? His hate to be seen as vulnerable and weak? - his father told him after all: Fight!
Soo Won did not appear too be happy about it. His eyes are not too lively.
His face made her realize, she might have to close the distance even more. Lily had approached him, while both talked with each other.
"I mean, aren´t we friends?"
"Oh, we were?"
For the first time Soo Won hadn´t his feelings completely under control. He stopped the game: The claim that both did not feel anything for each other. And Lily did so as well.
Suddenly that guy expressed his doubts openly. However, the brows weren´t as tightly knitted as before. Soo Won appeared glad, but had to take up the book again.
"Don´t worry. I am alright. My head is working just fine."
This sentence makes me sad. So just as long your head is working, it does not matter, how your body is feeling?
Of course, Soo Won deflected her care again. Yet Soo Won did not hold the book as high, as the first time, when he refused her. It had sunk finally in:
They do have a personal relationship.
Only his reaction alienated Lily, visibly.
Most likely she considered herself silly, that she had been so worried. After all, Soo Won had reacted hardly.
"Okay then".
Shin ah´s get-well-gift
Apart from this, she was most likely also flustered. So she gave him "Shin ha´s gift"; definitely Shin ah´s gift, not hers!
"It´s from Shin ah, not me",
she told him.
This surprised Soo Won.
Very carefully Soo Won held the honey in his hands, that Shin ha (and Lily) gifted him.
A gift that told Soo Won basically two things:
I am sorry. I wish for you to be well again.
Soo Won smiled - sadly. It did not yet reach his eyes, which thoughtfully looked at the gift in his hand.
I am pretty sure, that Soo Won might even feel guilty because of Shin ah now. After all, Soo Won is convinced, that it was he, who had wished for it and had used Shin ah for this outcome.
However, they - Shin ha and Soo Won - are both guilty regarding this situation.
8. Ogi really loves Soo Won
Another true relationship of Soo Won was with Ogi. Ogi, who still worried for Soo Won - like Lily. Ogi, who had lost his house in the fire and still tried to help and rescue other people. Ogi, who had been Soo Won´s friend, whom Soo Won had discarded in order to be a good king.
"Then, do you know why is Won...Why is his Majesty abdicating?...I am sure something happened",
Ogi asked,full of worry for Soo Won, Meinyan, who definitely disliked Soo Won. He had to correct himself, because for him, this person had and always will be Won.
Soo Won -had most likely -discarded Ogi, because he cannot really believe, that people really like him. Ogi had betrayed him - therefore Soo Won considered it confirmed, that Ogi had seen how dirty Soo Won was. One reason more why he gave in in Xing. All the people saw, what he had done...
After all when people really looked at him, they would not like him. Soo Won´s education led to the child shutting out people, hiding himself behind masks, never telling people, who he really was.
"Even though he came off as a know-it-all, he never did talk about himself...",
Ogi had told Lily, another "friend" of Soo Won.
Meinyan, who has not the greatest love for Soo Won, told Ogi:
"That guy´s persistent, so I´m sure he´ll do just fine while operating behind the scenes."
"But if he´s fine, why would he retire?",
objected Ogi. So the people, who really love him, do understand that Soo Won does not feel good at all.
When Meinyan told him, however, that he could see Soo Won again. Ogi started crying. I know, that this is played for laughs, but neither Zeno nor Ogi are really funny in my eyes.
The guy in question appeared right after this scene, just to point out, that there might be a connection between Ogi, Meinyan and Zeno.
So. About three months ago, I drew a Diana fanart. And I think it looks pretty so... yea, pls praise me?
Btw, just in case you're wondering. I sketch a general idea in a smaller canvas, and if I like it, I move it to a bigger canvas and turn it into a finished piece.
Male writers writing female characters:
“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”
‘ She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards’ is the greatest fucking sentence I have ever read.
THE ORIGINAL??
(smh) Never thought I’d see it in the wild. Yet here it is. :)
always gotta reblog the ‘breasted boobily’ post
Oh Yona, I'm so sry they did u dirty
Yona being the king/monarch from the prophecy (and irl) was the most obvious, anticlimactic, disappointing thing in the world.
When Ik-su was asked this, I thought there would be a catch, that it would be harder and complex than just a pick between Yona or Su-Won. Something grand that would challenge the audience's expectations.
WELP. I GUESS NOT. ALL HAIL QUEEN YONA. /S
I think what irks me the most really about Yona being in “the system” again - aside from the messy Emperor Il portion of that - is that I genuinely think she would be good at it but it wouldn’t mean that she would like it. What Yona LIKES is being on the ground at the front lines helping people with her own two hands. She likes seeing people in person, likes befriending them slowly or not. These things are very hard to do on the throne when she’s juggling inter-country affairs and all her predecessors (excluding her dad) have tossed any foreign affairs goodwill into the air.
To play my own devil’s advocate, I guess I can pinpoint many other times when she hits that wall because “helping” people can only go so far when what’s needed is systemic change. This is something we see in moments like Tae-Jun having the means in which to help when others couldn’t, not without his reach and money, and Lili’s use of her father’s stamp at the Nadai arc. It’s with the whole ordeal with the life-sustaining crop. I don’t know if Kusanagi intended to sprinkle in the limits of grassroots organizations as a theme but it does explain why Yona might have taken up the crown. I don’t personally love that, but to Kusanagi it’s clearly something that doesn’t have the same connotations or limits. We end the manga with Yona intending this new role will open up paths for her to actually make real change - whether it’s possible or not in hindsight - and I don’t think that, at the very least, is dissonant to who Yona intrinsically is.
I agree
Systematically, Soo won was perfect on the throne. He was also all healed up. He could live long, continue as king and Yona would work with him as his right hand or something.
I don't like that Yona has to be the top to be great.
I agree that what Soo won's done was necessary but still maybe immoral just like what Ill and Yu hon did but now that it's done it wasn't bad and one of the main theme of AkanoYona was to work with what we have. So I don't know why we needed to fix it all of a sudden.
Yona as a leader in the field. Maybe an ambassador or something and Soo won as King!! That's what I was imagining for the ending!!
Not whatever this is...
I don't really like that dragons got their limbs and eyes back. I'm not sure why. They lost their limbs and they just magically grew new ones? I feel like it would be more fitting for them to stay as they were instead of getting their disabilities magically repaired. I feel like it could be seen as offensive actually. Like of course good for them but... I don't know...
I can't believe the author is saying this is the end Soo-won deserves after dedicating her whole story to explaining how Soo-won is far from as bad as he seemed. After writing how people and their actions are not black and white. That it's way more complicated. That was basically what half of the story was all about.
All of that to actually divide people to black and white, make Soo-won say he is a bad person and he did what he did only for revenge when it was never the case. Leave him crippled, miserable and alone, which screams "that's what evil people deserve", in contrast to Yona who got everything because "that's what kind people deserve".
Not to mention the dragon gods who killed thousands of people for no reason got away without any punishment or negative consequence. A joke, no more.
After all of the stupidities of the final arc, this was the final blow to me.
Thissss!!!!
How is Yona able to go from not wanting the throne:
suddenly to "all according to the keikaku"?
Like what happened to wanting a more "modest and grand wish" than the throne??
It's inconsistent and rushed. Don't like it.
It's all a misunderstanding. Akatsuki no Yona is not ending, it's just practicing a strategic retreat.
Yona -I don't want the throne- suddenly does a 180-degree turn.
No SuHakYona trio resolution error 404 communication not found.
Not a word from Suwon about the Hakyona romance.
Lili utterly forgotten.
The hairpin's subplot forgotten.
Tae-jun-the-someone-important-for-Kouka-Kingdom forgotten.
Ik-soo did absolutely nothing (moreover what exactly is he doing as a priest now that Kouka's deities said their goodbye? )
Titia's legend forgotten.
What about that weird nightmare of Yona's where Kashi stands back turned?
No reference to the Kai's lake.
Why was Mei-Nyan's character even introduced???
Hyoo-ri never spoke once!!!!!
Who knows who the next Earth Tribe general is-
We can argue over liking or disliking Akayona's ending, but you cannot lie : this is NOT how you write a decent finale.
.....that was it? That was how it ends?
What was even the point of this scene?
It was just an alternate future that never came to pass....?
Regarding the final chapter of Yona of the Dawn. A few pet peeves ----
If Yona had to be queen I would have preferred Suwon make her his heir. Thereby allowing her to have that status while giving her time to learn more and grow up. Like idk being 16 years old and thrust into what is a volatile political situation sounds terrible. Even in real life young rulers often either do terrible or have people ruling in their name until they're old enough to shake them off.
Also I hate how Suwon diminished himself. Him saying he was an Usurper out for revenge?? That doesn't seem fair. Usurpers aren't always inherently bad. Il was an ineffective king who would not have stepped down for Suwon. Suwon proved himself to be mostly effective and his early messaging about relying on the power of people instead of gods was a good one.
