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Kaito and Tenko's hypocrisy

You ever wonder about how Tenko and Kaito suck at taking their own advice like Kaito and Tenko would rather be crawling on the ground actively bleeding out than asking for help but when one of their friends are even in the slightest bit of distress they'll be all about supporting each other, vulnerability is okay etc.

Kaito and Tenko's shared altruism and hero complexes intrested me and their dynamic was taking over my brain so of course I wrote something about it.

If this intrests you, check out Even a Hero Needs Saving. My three part series exploring Tenko, Kaito and what it truly means to be a hero.👇

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4590754.

Even a Hero Needs Saving.

Three short stories about Tenko Kaito and their hero complexes, putting others before themselves, playing off their injuries, and avoiding medical help like the plague.

This series will be about these heroes falling from grace, getting supported by their friends, and partners, and learning that even heroes need saving.

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superparadise i held onto but i settle for a ghost separates:

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I've been wanting to share my thoughts on the print on Kaito's shirt for a while now. This post is largely inspired by this one

Kaito's shirt has a print of a special type of makeup used in traditional Japanese theater. This makeup type is called Kumadori. I'm not an expert, so I'll just briefly summarize what I found about it.

The makeup itself is a dramatic pattern of symmetrical lines that highlight facial features, drawn on a base of a certain color that is applied to the face in advance. The placement of the lines and their color reflect the character's personality.

Dark red (which is what Kaito has) is used to reflect courage, bravery, and a sense of justice, but can also reflect anger and short temper.

There are many types of this makeup. The one on Kaito's print most closely resembles Suji-guma (筋隈). This style is used for roles of strong heroes full of anger, which suits Kaito perfectly.

The post I linked says that in each game there is a character in a white shirt with a red print that somehow reflects their death. Leon has a broken skull, Nagito has something resembling a spear (or toxic fumes). And Kaito has his "mask" of a hero. And technically, that's what killed him. His desire to be a hero.

He tried to act like an indestructible hero the whole time. He hid his illness from his friends. He became a murderer to save Maki. And he agreed to Kokichi's plan to give others a chance to be saved. He died from his illness in the middle of an execution, but what drove his illness to that point, and what led to his execution, was his desire to be a hero.

So in a sense, it was Kaito's heroism that led to his death.

Sites where I found information about traditional Japanese theater makeup:

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And what the Suji-guma (筋隈) style itself looks like

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The existential crisis that is waking up in a body that isn't your own in a life that isn't your own but it really is yours and your perception of fiction and reality has been warped so much you still believe you're the person you were written to be in the simulation even though you know that person is fake because it's the only sense of identity you have left.

It's like having two people trapped in your body the person you were in the simulation and the person you used to be.

honestly, i really hope tsumugi lied A Lot at the end of V3 because if she is even telling 90% of the truth, the survivors are exiting the game into an existential nightmare

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I decorated a box with a bunch of my pre-game Kokichi pen doodles I made at work, and now I have a Bonkichi box! It will hold all of my treasures :]

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If Rantarou survived first chap+

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Sakura shows a little parlor trick, based on that one DRS interaction.

Happy I finished some animation already, trying to really keep to it :]

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I don't get the 'if Tenko was a man everyone would hate him because he would hate women' argument.

To preface I am a Tenko fan but even if I wasn't I still wouldn't get it, because you would only come to that conclusion if you changed Tenko’s entire backstory and I don't understand why you would because it's not really gendered.

Tenko’s master could have taught a boy that he shouldn't hurt women because that's bad and only what 'degenerates' do without the specific extra warnings about men that a woman may get because they are more susceptible to being assaulted by a man, then could still take Tenko out into the streets to protect woman, and beat up predators.

Tenko would then act pretty much the exact same as in the game, protecting women and hating men who hurt women, he might just be a little less overbearing on his hatred towards men (unless his master still told him about how bad and horrible men are without making a separation between bad men and good men and he grew up with some self hatred.) It might be a bit unnerving for a guy to be like "men are always trying to prey on vulnerable women" but he wouldn't be a misogynist.

And I don't think Tenko would be an alpha male or nice guy stereotype because there would be nothing to influence that. People aren't born with ideals or beliefs and there is nothing in Tenko's backstory that would have caused that.

Do people think that just because Tenko dislikes men as a women she'll dislike women as a man?

Tenko's animosity wouldn't change based on gender it would just transfer over.

I know Tenko's master had an anti romance stance, and might tell him that interactions with women would weaken his neo aikido energy so that he wouldn't date them, but then on the other hand if there's so many sexual predators out that they can just go out and find them multiple nights he would have to teach Tenko something about bad men and how some women get taken advantage of especially since Tenko in this situation is a man himself. Then he would still want to give Tenko a moral compass so they would still go out and protect woman.

Tenko's reason for hating men is mostly experiences anyway, the master's words are just the straw that broke the camels back.

There would be a lot of mixed messages, and the two would probably just cancel each other out and make Tenko more awkward around women. For example Tenko would protect Kaede or someone and then she would give him a hug and he would be like "no Kaede you can't do that you're going to make Tenko weaken his neo aikido energy."

Then Tenko would be afraid of having romantic or sexual thoughts about woman because A he doesn't want to fall back on his training and B he doesn't want to turn into the men he fought on the streets.

But that's just my characterization.

The gag is like Tenko as a man spews traditional gender norm like oh woman should be in the kitchen make me a sandwich but she doesn't say men are the earners of the household you shouldn't cry because you're a man etc so that doesn't make any sense.

Also male Tenko is basically just Kaito and plenty of people love him.

Second also if Tenko was a man he would transition to be a woman.

Someone please explain it to me because I don't get it.

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i think the fact that we can see the vote count at the end should've been discussed more

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I bestow the the transgender flag onto my two favorite DRV3 characters