#✘𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐘: if for a breath: breathe still; and rise with the dawn.

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the lily discord guide *

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my discord for anyone who would like it ! limited time onl --- well, maybe not. i thought i’d use an icon that had actual lilies in it so i used my first video game fave! please let me know who you are, and if you’d rather just im me, that is most welcome also. really, my goal is to be a safe place and a mutual that looks out for you / does right by you, as much as you may allow or even in subtle little things like comments ! i know it’s hard to earn trust, but i’m up for trying and not be someone disingenuous or fake. you won’t get that. ever. i am many things but not that.

details of being lily’s mutual and possible friend. - protector  mutual / friend. no if’s and’s or but’s. lily-types will protect with their life. - gentle conversations! no time limits to when you reply! space respect! - honesty and the ‘nothing leaves this chat’ policy, our place is sacred! - me up at weird hours because i can never sleep properly earning a look. - always available to talk about whatever you’d like to share, be it in the physical world or just our roleplays, and always always gratitude that you opened up or invested!  - plots, plots and more plots. i may be slow, but that’s okay because i believe quality is as much as quantity. judgment free zone on replies / responses, i can’t stress enough. - hopefully, a calm, warm, gentle, protective place where you can feel at ease telling me what you’d like, knowing that i will never ask for more than you feel you can give. as kaoru says, ‘we all have things we don’t want to talk about!’ 

as ever, there is no pressure to add me on dms, i’m very easy going! you can always, always just im me. but if you want a place i’m always on when i get online, that is also a spot as well because we all need dash breaks. i want to be respectful of what makes you comfortable and i want to make sure your experiences with me are nothing short of calm and gentle and quietly warm! i want you to feel safe so please, do what is best for you, but just know that this is an open ticket that will never expire. thank you kindly if you read this, thank you either way, and know there is no pressure to add me, just do what you feel is best for you. 

sincerely, lily.  ps: please drink your water!

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are we all just picking the wrong quizzes or is there a deeper message here.

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@miburoni​ when miss sunny and i go back into the bakumatsu to meiji restoration times .... ishin shishi and shinsengumi bonding . . . . wholesome..... kenshin and hijikata bonding imminent, a walking mass of talent if i do say so myself. guess i’m making a fate verse and working harder than ever on my research / reviewing! people like her are worth following. this is a polite promo.

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Wakes up insanely early but also free day so. Honestly don’t know about you but I’m suffering from brain rot but and this blog’s beginning and continuation of having Tumblr completely ..... not make things work right. Will that stop me? Probably not but it’s a bit frustrating! It’s just one of those things that it inevitably when you think it never will, will probably sort itself out. 

Honestly my first meta will be about Kenshin’s red gi but I also just want to talk about one of my favorite fights / that one time Kenshin roasted someone so bad they were almost Shishio 2.0 aka the second battle with Shinomori Aoshi and just how Kenshin gives so much wisdom and inner, unshakable strength of will against empty physical strength and how he calls him out on it as using it to do awful things. 

It’s a great example that while Kenshin is the strongest warrior of the Bakumatsu / Revolution in this canon, that’s literally stated in the opening pages starting our story,  and just how I feel again, Kenshin hones in on what matters. Is it cool that you can single-handedly deal from 14-19 against adult men of the Shinsengumi on your own at once without breaking a sweat greats like Okita Souji and Saito Hajime and make them consider if it’s smart to touch you? Much less be the very person to make them break back or break their stance, again, at once? Yes, it’s very impressive and quite scary and very telling that at that young he’s so strong, in that way.

Is it perhaps even more compelling to me that such a legendary swordsman has a soul, even when it’s ultimately tested and broken, restores itself at the end of the story simply by listening to an innocent girl weeping for his protection to save an innocent life and finds even when he wants to give up, his own will won’t let him? In a way, yes. Both aren’t exclusive. But it gives Kenshin’s title of strongest in battle new meaning when you realize that out of every character in Ruroken, Kenshin’s willpower  / will to live is the highest and  “off the charts “ , canonly in one of the many info books that...I don’t have my hands on.

Me: And most of the series he didn’t even care if he lived or died! GROWTH.

Also me: That is chapters and volumes away / a season away. One thing at a time!

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😔 mayu suzukaze literally being every aspect of kenshin is just iconic, the inflections, the delicacy turning to fierceness, the shift between every aspect of kenshin’s facades and inner turmoils to true core emotions is just  😔 😔  and it really fits how seemingly ‘delicate’ in physique outside (beneath his gi he’s quite muscled without being bulky (which lends itself to his shinsoku / godspeed )  kenshin appears despite having incredible arm strength / leg strength for his height of 5′2 and really no one that practices hiten mitsurugui-ryu is going to be able to uphold it without having it - and also paying for it like any human being in the most realistic sense.

the first live action film demonstrates and confirms that kenshin doesn’t need to use his sakabato to be able to pulverize and curb-stomp you and then take you to the doctor in less than a minute ! !!! but seriously props to mayu for voicing someone who’s such a fictional legend / icon and doing it insanely well when i imagine the role would feel intimidating due to kenshin’s considerable fame as a character and protagonist / hero.

frankly i also am vastly impressed in general by sato takeru, who i think the pressure would especially be intimidating if it he wasn’t so joyful about kenshin as a whole embodying all my expectations and wishes of kenshin’s mannerisms and my own headcanons confirmed / perspectives, so i also like his voice as well as much as hers. but there is a nostalgia in mayu, and always will be, so i think it’s a blend of both in a sense? 

i love how even his voice is complex and a thing in itself. it dips from soft and dulcet to low and fearsome, to formal to going ‘yup!’ in the most unexpected moments or ‘huh’? i watched some episodes today since tumblr i read was really glitched this month so it will take a while likely for me to get some of my images up when you hover over my url for me, lily, to see so i’ll be slow here since it’s mildly irksome, but not unbearable! 

my first headcanon since...eight months will be about the red gi . i honestly don’t think it’s realistic that he could afford such a fine red gi when it’s heavily implied and outright stated he can’t afford an inn so i’ll take some liberties from the films.