#//he's literally uncle/dad

[grey-viridian]

Little good things in big bad times

[nobodymitskigabriel]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gabriel should have lived and become Jack's favorite uncle

[stuckinapril]

Being not only the eldest daughter but also the eldest cousin on my mom’s side is such a difficult role but someone has to take it

[youaremysunshine-court]

Do you think sizhuis one flex post canon is that wen ning is his uncle and his uncle alone and is in no way related to jin ling and so he's the only one allowed to call him uncle

[capcollector]

sorry i literally just got on and already..

i know it’s just a glitch but this made it seem like he called danse dad

[hesitantsorrows]

I miss u baby John 😌

[gxlden-angels]

I think it's so funny when Christian flat out reject the concept of being intersex like oh so me and about 2% of the population aren't real but you expect me to believe homeboy's gonna come back after (holy) ghosting us for over 2000 years?

[moongothic]

When people treat Mihawk as Perona's "adoptive goth father" when that's literally and canonically Moria

[theology101]

For a party where literally half the group has been adopted by a Werewolf Therapist, these kids are REMARKABLY mentally ill.

[b4kuch1n]

more sk8. I think the cindereki stuff is extremely stupid but I am not immune to trying to conceptualize a princess gown in any setting

[ornstein]

*taps mic* Okay, going to be really silly for a moment here with unsolicited half-jokingly, half-honest rambling. Unless forgetting someone, not many Ghosttsu characters have this type of receding hairline except Kazumasa Sakai and Ryuzo, side antagonists both born of different backgrounds but united in their means by a similar cause: grief.

Kazumasa was widowed after the premature loss of his wife Chiyoko, this much is clear. As a consequence, he went down a grievous path for the rest of his life, neglecting his son's emotional needs and dedicating his final days to bloodshed in order to gain control over a piece of land.

Kazumasa pic from Firescorpio on twitter.

The thing is, Kazu's widow's peak is less prominent than Ryuzo's. So how does the myth affect Ryuzo in the greater scale? At first glance the answer is simple. He is mourning the many straw hats who died. As he recalls, he lost a great number of friends and is trying to make it up by being in charge and caring for the remaining ones. He works completely on his own, devoted to his job and brooding in a deep sense of duty, begrudgingly accepting Jin's help but hopeful it'll at least ensure that he and his men won't go another day without food. Now, I have my personal theories (or headcanons) about what truly went down in Komoda beach that made Ryuzo so sensitive towards his success with keeping his men safe and Jin's unwanted good-willed intrusion, but I'll leave that out of this post for now.

Thing is, that may not be the sole reason for Ryuzo's mourning, at least not in a straightforward in-the-face fashion, but still quite prevalent if we take into consideration his inconsistent behaviour during act 2.

Enter Jin dying at Komoda beach and being reborn as the Ghost, who in Shimura's (and more latently in Ryuzo's) eyes is nothing but a husk of the perfect son/brother-in-arms he was revered to be. During his childhood, Ryuzo was transparently disdainful about Shimura's influence over his friend, but despite so, he idolized the traditions and principles of the Samurai culture and admired Jin's expertise and a part of him likely aspired to grow up into a Samurai himself so he could become his equal. But if the Tournament wasn't enough for Ryuzo to have one sided beef with Jin for over two years and further stain their relationship, with the death of Jin Sakai, the Samurai, and the birth of the Ghost, Ryuzo rewinds his brain and clutches on to the deluded ideology that Jin could have been better off under the tutelage of a hateful and narrow-minded puppet like Shimura, showing disappointment at Jin for breaking the Samurai code, and not as the Ghost, an unrestrained moral strength bringing hope and kindness to the helpless townspeople when nobody else would, someone him and the straw hats could have allied to if Ryuzo and Jin didn't have such clown-to-clown communication skills and the ronin had made plans on behalf of Lady Sanjo's protection to ensure their survival while aiding Jin on taking back Castle Kaneda (there must've been close contacts to Umugi Cove among the straw hats unless both sides had been holding a grudge, which would leave Umugi Cove out of the question, or unless those ronin who could reach Toyotama were dead 🤔).

Instead, Ryuzo becomes a walking contradiction for the sake of subterfuging his inexcusable acts, opting to villanize Jin for his sacrifices as such a radical change of character would leave him confused and deeply hurt and betrayed, for which half of act 1/act 2 he spends projecting his insecurities and flaws and even his ambitions onto Jin, possibly to justify what was done was inevitable, and even to not think of himself as an enemy or (more questioningly) a bad person. Altogether, he mourns a Jin from the past that, deep down in his gut, knows never existed, but clings to during his most distressing moments as a self-defense mechanism -it is possible the human brain may involuntarily regress when faced with harsh realities and catastrophic events, and though this is not quite a literal "regression", it could still manifest otherwise.

My point is, he really is a widowed maiden grieving a literal ghost, in this essay I will-

[theghostinthestudio]

Had to make this asap. I present to you, TVs kin list (characters he related to) he definitely wanted the bad guys to win in every single movie he saw as a kid. I'll make one for Gino and 15 soon

(TV originally created by @ominus-potato)

[stuckinapril]

You guys don’t know how much yearning for Baghdad takes up of my mental real estate

[divingsave]

don't know why, but arne introducing himself and shaking all cooks' hands is so precious to me

[weird-unlimited-ramblings]

Willy choose Scary because Sparrow could’ve taken the secret to his grave, and he would have actually had to take care of normal for a period of time. Scary’s in trouble and she needed my help, well she can handle it cause she has so much power that I gave her. Normal’s in trouble,why didn’t you save me? If you are so strong then you should have just saved us it would have made it go by faster. After a period of time normal would have the backbone of a chocolate eclair, but that’s too much work

Normal is also desperate for friends, Scary hypothetically cut of her old friends (girls soccer team), refuses to make new relationships (the majority of the story prior to going to earth. Scary is already isolating herself. Normal puts in the effort to not be isolated. The only people Willy needed to sever a connection to was the other PCs and Scary’s parents. Normal was actively trying to make friends, was he failing? Yes, but he was trying. That’s is too much work for Willy.

In general it’s one of the reasons why I think Willy is a great antagonist, he refuses to do certain things. Faking affection for normal would have taken to long and have been to hard. Scary didn’t need fake affection she needed to feel like she was independent and alone. However, normal has been shown to be a bit crazy about certain things, and I fully believe that if Willy was able to suck it up and go for normal shit would have hit the fan.

Normal also seems to base his active will you be my dad on people he perceived as good dads (Terry and Grant).

But then again I may also just be wildly misreading everything. Genuinely want to know some of you guy’s opinions. I’ve seen people talk about how far gone normal would be if Willy chose him, but not a lot of people say how much more effort it may have taken (maybe Willy said that’s why he didn’t. And I just forgot.)

[wimbledonstrawberry]

my family bonding activity of the night is this djokovic vs popyrin match