#Ei Sei

[electricsoul-rpg]

Yoshizawa Ryō (吉沢 亮) / Ryo Yoshizawa - Japanese

as Ying Zheng/Li Piao/Ei Sei/Ri Hyō in Kingdom/Kingudamu (キングダム)

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

it seriously depresses me that despite all the bad blood and history between them, zheng and chengjiao had hints of what could have developed into a strong, genuinely close bond. zheng trusted him with xianyang when he went to fight at zui, and even though there was no real warmth between them, chengjiao followed through on his implicit promise by keeping the capital out of lü buwei's hands. and although he still resented zheng on a certain level, chengjiao canonically came to respect and want to understand him. he even!!! decided that he would be zheng's mental and emotional shield against the toll that unification might take on him, and that if his brother ever began to falter from the strain, he would be there to finish the job for him. and even though they still weren't close by the time of chengjiao's death, his last words were asking xin to be zheng's shield in his stead and protect him from the brutality of the world, since chengjiao himself could no longer fulfill that role. not to mention he posthumously continues to help zheng by making arrangements for liu yi to take over as the head the chengjiao faction, and keep up the support of his brother even after he (chengjiao) dies. ugh. it's such an underrated relationship imo. in their youth chengjiao incited a rebellion and tried to kill zheng, and almost succeeded! piao was killed because of him! yet zheng trusts chengjiao and doesn't believe the trap framing his brother as the culprit of a second rebellion, and chengjiao, man - chengjiao actually wanted to help zheng in any way he could. plus if you believe in the more supernatural aspects sprinkled here and there in kingdom, chengjiao's spirit is one of the ones explicitly there supporting zheng during his debate of ideals with lü buwei. their association with each other was ostensibly based on utility and political convenience, but it's clear that there was more there. the events of the series kicked off because chengjiao ousted and tried to kill zheng, but in the end, zheng sincerely trusted chengjiao, and chengjiao died wanting to protect him.

[itoendme]

thinking about this again…

[nocandnc]

Ei Sei being cool~ glad we got to see him use his precious sword before the end!

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Raven of The Inner Palace | 後宮の烏 | Kōkyū no Karasu

[chersonesse]

No one wants a broken king.

[halohalona]

I'M BACK though i might dissappear again not sure. School just started again and I'm in my graduating year of highschool so it might get hectic. I will get to the asks as soon as I get free time i promise, I'll post as soon as i can. loves ya'll <33

[queenbananya]

Shin is an idiot. But he's a good person. I know that's a widely accepted fact but this panel here, his face-- he hasn't forgotten about Hyou and who exactly his killers are. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that he HAS let himself forget and move on, to his own life, his own dreams. He's grown. Where 16 chapters ago he would have jumped at the chance to insult and attack Shoubunkun, at this particular moment he knows what's important: Sei. For just this small moment, he lets himself remember and ache.

In the first few chapters, I often wondered, Shin, whatever happened to your revenge? This single minded fool should by all means slaughter Sei for his revenge, but here he is now, attached to him and risking his own skin to protect him.

But really, Shin is only 14 here. He's allowed to move on. He's also allowed to be a fool and kill Sei and particularly Shoubunkun in his revenge. Yet he doesn't. He found strength from the death of Hyou, and while Shoubunkun knows exactly what he's doing-- making himself vulnerable and apologizing at this crucial time because he needs Shin, at the end of the day Shin is just a boy. Hearing a sincere apology now, after he has calmed down and isn’t so angry anymore, it's all he really wanted from these people. With this, he can finally and truthfully move on.

[potsquared]

Real Gold x Kingdom Collaboration #realgold #kingdom #eisei #zhengying

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

random evening thoughts about zheng and his mother

one of zheng's meatiest character connections in the series is with his mom, imo. kingdom really did something special with those two because while bi ki's treatment of her son is inexcusable, it's also (much to my initial surprise) made clear that she's meant to be a character we have sympathy for. zheng is traumatized by her treatment of him and knows that they will never have a good relationship, and he also knows that she will never love him. and while he has every right to resent his mother for everything she's done to him, he understands how much she suffered because of his birth - which she never wanted - and has empathy for her. like it must be a double whammy for zheng, because bi ki loves the children she had with lao ai. she shows that she would be willing to give her life for them if she needed to. this is undeniable proof, right before zheng's eyes, that bi ki IS capable of loving her children - and yet she can't love him, yet she only has hatred for him. but, crucially, zheng understands that his mother had agency in the birth of her children with lao ai, while she had no such agency in giving birth to him. that's why, as hard as it must be to accept that his own mother will never love him, he doesn't begrudge her for it.

and interestingly, bi ki doesn't try to excuse herself either. she makes her hatred of zheng clear and she makes it obvious that she blames him - or rather his birth - for her shitty situation in the state of zhao, but she never acts like she has the moral high ground over him, or that he actively chose to ruin her life and therefore deserves her loathing and abuse. she's never apologetic to zheng and she never regrets that she treated him so horribly, but she doesn't act self-righteous about it either. and i think their ending is nice closure for both of them. there's no way that they can ever make up or truly be parent and child with each other, but they've at least accepted and tied off the loose ends between them.

not to mention, i actually really love how hara wrote bi ki. like in some ways it still falls into very typical "man writing a promiscuous female character" tropes (for example, all the fanservice she's used for), but the narrative still treats her as someone who's ultimately meant to be pitied. it's a far more complex depiction of a female character who is genuinely a terrible, abusive mother to her son, and who turns to sex to distract herself from her trauma, than i thought i would get from a male author. imo, bi ki is not slut-shamed and punished for her promiscuity in the way i would have expected from a seinen manga. unfortunately, though, the fandom is still misogynistic as hell towards her, vastly more so than the actual story is.

regardless, i absolutely adore how, in the end, even though she initiated a coup and tried to kill him, zheng still treats his mother with compassion and respect. and this isn't some sanctimonious "i will be better to you than you were to me because i'm a better person than you" schtick. zheng does not think that, because he knows that his mother suffered in a unique way that he, for all his own (also unique) suffering, did not. and he truly understands that his birth, which bi ki didn't even want, was ultimately what sentenced her to a life of misery and ostracization and years of trauma and hardship. his desire to ease his mother's pain, even though he knows she hates him, is genuine. at the same time it's not a shallow, hamfisted "you should forgive your abusive parents bc they're human too!1!!1" message, either. i do think that the story indicates that zheng sincerely forgives his mother, but the focus is not and has never been on him giving her "forgiveness" for her abuse of him. and nor is this forgiveness lauded by the narrative as some grand indication of his kindness and generosity and how much of a Good Person he is - because it would have been just as valid and understandable of him to not forgive her. he would have still been a good person if he didn't forgive her. zheng's forgiveness itself is neutral in the story; a choice that he made and had the right to make, but if he had chosen differently, he rightfully wouldn't have been condemned for it, either. rather, instead of forgiveness, the narrative focus is on the two of them finding closure from each other and the part that they played in each other's lives, and acknowledging that yes, bi ki is an abusive mother, but that doesn't negate the fact that she's suffered. and while they will never be close, zheng knows what his mother has been through, and he actively chooses, at every turn, to have compassion for her.

all that to say, their final scene together, when zheng asks her to take care of herself, to not let herself waste away - wow. i have feelings. let me go stew in my feelings.

[itoendme]

[chersonesse]

One of the best characters out there, regardless of historical accuracy.

Zheng Ying “Shi Huangdi, Ei Sei” (嬴政) - Kingdom 2nd Season - Episode 1

[nocandnc]

something something

parallels

something something

contrast

[karilapio]

Yksiöiden kaksi ääripäätä,

Keittiö eteisessä

Tai, koko yksiö on pelkkää keittiötä

[gotaholeinmysoull]

scrivere questo in un annuncio per camerieri di sala da abbastanza ridere

i clienti ti trattano praticamente sempre malissimo, lo stipendio è relativamente basso e gli orari fanno schifo

[halohalona]

'M bored. I'm taking requests for the following characters (be it drabbles or headcanons):

Chris Redfield (Resident Evil)

Shin x Ei Sei/ Xin x Ying Zheng (Kingdom)

any Batman character

I wanna write something 😗.

Yuh