#Eugeo: Kazuto I—

[shima-draws]

Actually yeah now that I’ve got Yujikiri on the brain. I feel that Eugeo would rarely ever call Kirito Kazuto bc 1. Eugeo met him and grew up with him and knew him as Kirito so it’s just engrained into him at this point and 2. Because Kiri’s fine being referred to as Kirito, it’s actually more strange to hear someone call him Kazuto. BUT. The rare times Eugeo DOES whip out the real name. Kirito gets reeeeal flustered lol

[kleoplasm]

Okay, and so what if I genuinely really like SAO? It was one of my first anime and means a lot to me, okay?? And, maybe I like analyzing how female vs. male characters are portrayed, and talking about the flaws of media with my friend and SAO is a really good example of that? Maybe I think Asuna and Kirito are a good example of a healthy and meaningful relationship, and what of it? SO WHAT, If I wrote a whole ESSAY about Kirito and Eugeo’s relationship? WHAT IF I do really like this show???

[eeksmok]

phone doodle

[94badbye]

i just came to the realization that saudade is basically kirito's and asuna's word with eugeo and with yuuki and even with each other. i can't even begin to explain it. it's such a powerful word that has no translation into english at all, and even its meaning in other latin languages is different from its meaning in portuguese, but it's their word.

because saudade is about missing something so deeply that it hurts. it describes the melancholy that comes when you lose something or someone that may never come back. it's about asuna's feelings when she thinks of yuuki and realizes that she lost part of her heart when yuuki died. it's about kazuto thinking of eugeo and seeing that a part of his soul will never return. it's about what kazuto felt when asuna was trapped in ALO, or what asuna felt during the underworld war arc.

but also, strangely enough, saudade can be about missing someone even though we know we haven't lost them forever, even though we know that person will come back. it's about affection and warmth and love. it can be a good and necessary feeling that don't need to be followed by pain. such a complex word, but i think it fits them perfectly.

[momochizu]

🐦‍⬛🌹

[berserkyuya]

My Baby Bois 🥺

Why you bois look so god dam pretty?! 🥺😭

Look at them! 👀

@kiri-coma @kiri-tired @transboykirito @yuji-thirsty @yujikiri-zone

[bobgoesw00t]

I'VE POSTED THE FIRST OF MY KINKTOBER ONE-SHOTS!!! It's an YujiKiri, SAO/Hundred literally NOBODY ASKED FOR BUT I WROTE ANYWAY...hope you enjoy it if you give it a read x3

[bluerosesinthenightsky]

It's been 3 years and I still haven't fulfilled this certain Yujikiri reunion rp with anyone. I am literally going to cry. I need this rp like I need air to breathe. IM BEGGING. I have this very SPECIFIC Yujikiri reunion rp that I NEED to make a reality. It's been plaguing me for YEARS. Someone... anyone... please.

Seeking out SAO role players!

Hello there! I'm seeking out SAO role players! I want to rp Yujikiri and just SAO stuff in general if anyone out there has Discord and wants to rp with me hit me up.

However there are some requirements I qont budge on.

1. No giving out my Discord information to anyone, or posting our private convos. I'm anxious. Also if I upset you somehow, please don't post our convos online for everyone to see. Chances are I have no idea I upset you, because I'm autistic and sometimes I can't really tell because of it.

Please just come to me privately so we can work things out. And if we find we aren't compatible then we can just part ways without incident. I'm actually a really anxious person and would rather not get into a heated situation if we can resolve it with no hard feelings. Please and thank you.

2. If we rp and we wanna make a story out of our rps, we don't use the other's idea. Like if I have an idea for an rp, please don't use that idea or that rp as your own story and vice versa. We only make stories out of our own rp ideas. Unless we come to an agreement of using one another's rp. Like day I come up with an rp idea you really like and you wanna turn the rp in a story. Ask me first and I can accept or refuse.

3. You have to be an adult. I'm 25 and want to rp with people around my age. Sorry kiddos.

Anyways that's all the requirements~

Oh and maybe if you guys have any places of SAO Rp recommendations I'd love to hear them. Maybe I can find people there too?

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Autistic Anime Boys Prelims - Propaganda Division - Group 2

Propaganda:

Kyouya -

"what's there to say? you know him. you love him. vote kyoya."

Rinnosuke -

"Rinnosuke Morichika lives in an overly-cluttered curio shop, and has a special interest in making magical inventions. Since he doesn’t live in a modern setting— but a pocket dimension slightly disconnected to the outside world— whenever a modern item shows up in his shop via spiriting away, he can obsess over it for extended periods of time. He is quite blunt without realizing it, even to people he cares for. He also has a special ability to generally understand the name and use of any item he touches (though this backfires sometimes, he thought a Gameboy was a doomsday device once)."

Fuuta -

"okay look theres so many fucking signs hes autistic. he cannot tell tone and often doesn't know how to react to stuff which is a major point in his character id say. he was asked if he remembered his victim's name (hes a murderer. oops!) and his response was something along the lines of "Of course I do. I saw it everywhere." because he did not understand that they wanted to know what it was since it wasnt directly stated. im convinced that hoodies are a comfort object of his because i genuinely have not seen him without one except for one time. also hes canonically a chronically online twitter user. also he gets really passionate about his interests. also not really related but everyone in the fandom agrees hes transgender but no one can agree on what way. ive seen every single gender hc for this dude. vote kajiyama fuuta for this sopping wet poor little meow meow of a man."

Hansum -

"He's just a very odd and strange lad, can't remember names well, is an alien (mild spoiler), he's very popular, obsessed with Doritos and becomes their mascot, just refers to everyone as humans which is a mood, and is completely socially oblivious."

Miyuki -

"Relatable neurodivergent-Gifted Child syndromeTM case with all the superiority-inferiority complex that results. A chronic show-off and scheming strategist with a lowkey hopeless romantic dramatic aspect to him, silly cool and pathetic in a very hilarious way. Shirogane has a trademark glare purely thanks to his eyebags as he runs on coffee everyday having to support his family with multiple jobs in addition to class, on top of student council president duties. He's kind and an obsessive perfectionist who fills his entire wall with the weirdest motivational posters. Shirogane is very devoted to his love. He likes penguins (Kaguya and him is peak asd4asd and bi4bi btw)."

Kirito -

"He's autistic and bisexual as hell, and there's a good bit of trans coding in him 🥺

Autism coding: Bro's literally got a sword and swordfighting hyperfixation where, despite playing a game that focuses around guns, he still chooses to use a sword!! We also see him completely missing Asuna's flirting at first (he tells her she could have just checked her friendlist to make sure he was alive, in response to her tracking him down to see him)

Bi coding: Dual wielding swords is literally a euphemism in Japan for bisexuality; and Kirito initially tries to hide the fact he can dual wield out of fear of how the people he's close to will view him (and once he reveals it to them and they accept it, he begins to be more open about it.) Also in the Underworld arc he becomes very close with Eugeo to the point of living with him (and sharing a bed on occasion), and there are several parallels between Eugeo and Asuna, and they're so gay for each other that despite the anime having only a toned down version of it, they're still very affectionate (Also of note is that Eugeo is the only guy in SAO canon to consistently have a 'laying in bed with Kirito' talk CG in the spinoff games) (There's more but it's spoilers and this is a shortened version)

Trans coding: Kirito is very trans coded in the light novel (which shows Kirito's thoughts in much greater detail than the anime) Aincrad arc reveals that Kirito explicitly Does Not Like his real face, and dislikes how feminine it looks (he mentions that its led to him and his cousin being mistaken for sisters) And in Phantom Bullet arc, he's visibly uncomfortable at being mistaken for a girl due to his avatar's appearance, and in response to being misgendered he briefly panics and checks to make sure his chest flat (at least in the anime adaptation) 🏳️‍⚧️"

Shirou -

"Has one goal in life and ignores almost everything in favor of trying to fulfil that goal."

Keith -

"Speaks in a way that is seen as weird and has mannerisms others think is funny. He struggles with not being taken seriously by others because of this and many of the things others say goes over his head. He struggles to connect with other people because of these things. His entire arc in the second film is about him deciding that the people who don't accept him for who he is aren't worth it and that he's going to continue being himself."

Junpei -

"for other fans of this series, I know the more obvious representation here may be Luou, Junpei is So Good. his special interest is ballet and he has so many hangups involving how his family sees him and how other boys his age interpret him to the point that his idea of masculinity is extremely narrow and he enforces social rules on himself to mask and keep people from realizing that he loves something that Isn't Manly. he misinterprets social cues and takes things literally, like assuming that when Miyako asked him to dance with her she meant Right This Minute rather than as a pair in the studio. for some reason the point where he cuts his hair super short to prove his devotion to ballet is also sticking with me, I think maybe it's the combination of the way it's normal for boys/men in Japan to do that, yet Junpei didn't realize that kind of attitude/action didn't suit ballet at all? he wasn't aware that the context was completely different. Junpei also doesn't act or pretend very well, he's gotta put his whole entire ass into his roles, which he then proceeds to get TOO into and cause a lot of trouble, without giving too much away! he's really relatable to me as someone who's socially anxious but very skilled at masking, and seeing him become more comfortable with himself and start to show how he really feels is so inspiring to me."

Kazuma -

"He may be (wildly) misguided but his intentions are good kinda! He’s just the Guy of all time idk how to explain it."

[heyyallitsbethfanfic]

The Home We Built

It was unusual to log back into Sword Art Origins after all this time. 

“I suppose it had only been a few days in the real world, but it was 2 years for me… this is gonna be tough…”. Kazuto hefted the AmuSphere over his head. He desperately missed his family and friends back here, but the feeling was off. The idea of being in a “home” without Ronye or Tiese or Alice or Liena… or Eugeo…

Alice had been able to receive a physical body, the rest were still waiting for them as suspended data. She was still at her home in the facility, visiting Kazuto and Sugu frequently, mainly for Kazuto, he was her anchor in this world after all. But Kazuto was still anxious to be alone again. He was used to the feeling of someone else beside him throughout everything.

He hadn’t slept alone in 2 years.

Regardless, Kikuoka had granted permission for the Artificial Fluctlights to join Kirito in other virtual worlds, and Kazuto had promised Eugeo to show him Aincrad. The place ‘Kirito’ was truly born. It was time to log in.

…

Kirito woke up in bed back on Floor 22, in him and Asuna’s bed. The rest of the party was most likely in Agil’s Bar or out questing on higher floors if they were playing. He needed to return to The Town of Beginnings to meet Eugeo. He trailed the quilt of the bed he laid in. A sigh met his lips. He wasn’t sure what exactly he had been feeling, but he knew guilt was the prevalent emotion. He had left behind his wife and daughters for 2 years. Tears met the corners of his eyes. 

“How many times did Eugeo hold me when I thought of them- Asuna, Yui, Strea…”

He slowly got out of bed and patted the space where Asuna usually slept. He walked out of the house and grabbed a crystal to return to Floor 1.

…

“C-cor? I- I’m sorry I don’t know much about this world- I’m supposed to be meeting a friend here…”

Eugeo had barely taken a step in town when he was being accosted by someone in a large cloak.

“Oh? Need some info on ya buddy? I got all the info ya need if ya got the Cor-”

A devilish smirk met the woman’s face as she stared up at Eugeo.

“I-I think I will be fine. It is typical for Kirito to be slightly behind schedule…”

He turned to walk away from the girl, but she snatched his arm back and pulled him into facing her.

“WAIT- You said you know Kii-boy?”

Eugeo looked flustered.

“Ki-Kiiboy? Is that what the people of this world call Kirito?”

“Nyah. Here Kirito is Kirito. To some, he’s tha Black Swordsman. To others tha Beata. To me he’s jus Kii-boy. We were eachothas first friends here.”

She flashed a toothy smile to Eugeo, almost startled by the girl’s grin, looking more like some monster than a girl.

“Buuuuuuut- I’m surprised ya know Kii-boy. He’s neva been around guys much. And I dont rememba ya from seein him in real life.”

“O-oh. Me and Kirito grew up together in Rulid Village. He lost his memories and said that he had lived here…”

“Interestin’- well, he aint lyin. Kii-boy lived here for 2 years, and then he was able to kill the bastad that trapped us all in this castle. Butttttt we come back since it’s hard to let go of those memories. I know I dont wanna forget ‘em after all.”

The girl looked down, clearly reminiscing. Eugeo could see a streak of blonde hair tickle her face as she smiled fondly.

“My name’s Argo, I’ll give ya that info for free, since ya took care of my Kii-boy. Butcha can just call me The Rat”

“Oh! My name is Eugeo.”

“Nice meetin ya! A friend of Kii-boy is a frienda mine.”

Argo’s toothy smile still startled Eugeo as she beamed up at him.

“YO! Argo, Eugeo!”

A blur of black came in and tackled the cloaked girl and blonde boy in a hug.

“Ey- Kii-boy- Nyeheh- You’re not so affectionate usually- what’s gotten into dat airhead of yours?”

“Haven’t seen you in years. Hug now.”

Both Eugeo and Argo laughed at the boy’s brief explanation, still holding them tight to him. It took several moments before he pulled away, blushing.

“S-sorry about that…”

“It’s okay Kii-boy- butcha gotta pay me to not tell A-chan about dat hug with me-”

Kirito sighed and shook his head.

“You never change Argo…”

Eugeo looked between the two with confusion.

“A-chan? Whose that? And does Kirito not usually hug people?...”

“Jeez blondie, wait til we meet the whole gang here before ya go askin too many questions. They’re all at Agil’s. I’ll be ya guide.”

…

Argo practically bounced into the bar, giggling like a maniac. The rest of the crew looked on at her with exasperated confusion. She pounced into a seat beside Asuna.

“A-Chan! Ya got some competition! Kii-boy’s got a new blonde cutie friend-”

“Argo- I know you like teasing Kirito- I’m used to it now.”

“Nononono! Not me this time! They’re new-”

The girls at the table winced at the thought. Oh god- another girl to compete with. Agil just smirked as Klein beamed.

“Sweet! Another cute chick for the party!”

“Oh you’ll love ‘em Klein. Just ya type.”

Argo cackled in place as Asuna shook her head.

The group sat with baited breath as Kirito walked in with his new friend.

Who shockingly to the group- was not a girl.

…

Kirito and Eugeo walked hand-in-hand into Agil’s Bar, Eugeo doing his best to not simply cling to Kirito as he guided him in. Everyone did their best to pick their jaws up from the floor as Kirito waved to the rest of the group with his free hand.

“Hey guys! Sorry it’s been a minute…”

“Ki-ri-TO! You were almost killed and you had us worried sick! And you’re worried about being LATE?”

Liz shook herself out of her shock and ran over to yell at the boy.

“Heh. Nice to see you again Liz-”

Kirito broke his grip on Eugeo’s hand and embraced Liz and pet her head. The group looked on in a shock as Kirito hugged everyone at the table, Asuna, then Sinon, Leafa, Silica, Philia, even Klein and Agil. 

“Awwww nothin for ya favorite Rat?”

Argo mock pouted at the boy.

“I hugged you when I logged in, don’t be greedy!”

The group was all blushing red, and Leafa shook her head wildly to try to rid her mind of all the thoughts that just came rushing in.

“I-I’m just not used to Kirito being that… Touchy…”

“Yeah seriously, Kirito seems to hate physical affection.”

Philia nodded along to Leafa’s assessment.

“R-Really? In my memory, Kirito has always been like this, even since we were kids…” Eugeo cocked his head to the side confused.

“Ah right! Everyone, this is my friend Eugeo. Eugeo, this is Asuna, Silica, Leafa, Sinon, Lisbeth, Klein, Agil, and Philia.”

Eugeo shyly waved.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you all-”

Kirito dragged Eugeo into a seat, sliding next to Asuna so that Kirito was flanked by her and Eugeo.

“Wait- what do you mean since you were kids?”

Sinon placed her drink down and sat her head in her hands.

“Me and Kirito grew up in Rulid Village together. One day he disappeared though, I only met him again two years ago now, but he seems to have lost his memory.”

“Wait. Two years ago Kirito would’ve still been trapped in Sword Art Online!-”

Liz pounded on the table, shaking everyone’s tea, threatening to break the cups.

“What? No, Kirito and I spent over two years travelling from Rulid to the capitol to train at the SwordCraft Academy.”

“I think we’re skipping over something here- Kirito wasn’t born in Rulid- I should know, as his sister and all-”

“I don’t remember Kirito having a sister- although I suppose after he left most of my memories of him faded away…”

Kirito cleared his throat.

“Hem- Sorry. Long story short, to make it simple for everyone. I was born in Rulid and knew Eugeo when we were very young. Some things happened, me and Leafa moved in together. Then I got trapped in Aincrad, and then after an accident found my way back to Eugeo.”

“I’m still unsure what you mean by spending two years with Eugeo-”

“Yeah, you were in the hospital for like a week, what happened?”

“Um. Basically, the machine I was in was a device designed to help rebuild my mental functions. In that time, I was in a place called Underworld where I met Eugeo again. That is about as much as I can tell you without issues from Kikuoka.”

“Alright since we’re not gonna get answers from you-”

Sinon looked towards Eugeo.

“What do you mean Kirito was ‘always like that’?”

“Oh! Kirito always hugged his friends in Underworld. Ronye, Tiese, Liena, he practically held onto me for dear life as he slept.”

Eugeo laughed, but Kirito’s eyes widened momentarily, before shooting daggers at the boy, not noticing Kirito’s mental attack.

“Wait, you slept together?”

Lisbeth dropped her teacup, with it shattering into glitter.

“Yes. During our trip from Rulid to the capital it was cheaper to rent rooms with one bed. And our room was small in the academy as we were not nobles.”

Out of the corner of his eye, Eugeo caught Kirito almost vibrating from shaking, now with a red flush to his face.

“Mmhmm- And who were these ‘Ronye, Tiese and Liena’ you mentioned?”

Asuna had a vicegrip on Kirito’s hand.

“Ah! Ronye and Tiese were Kirito and I’s pupils. We taught them how to sword fight. Kirito also was my teacher on the road prior to our time at the academy haha.”

Eugeo fondly recalled the memories and Kirito tried to maintain composure and add to the conversation.

“Yes, Ronye was my pupil and Tiese was Eugeo’s, although we mostly trained in a group of four. I’d say Eugeo was the better teacher though.”

“Kirito was quite soft as a teacher. I don’t believe he ever scolded any of us, and brought us all lunch.”

“Oh that’s quite sweet of you Kirito.”

Asuna released the grip on Kirito’s hand and gently pat it as an apology.

“And Liena?”

“Oh that was Kirito’s senpai- Kirito was her pupil, although they seemed to teach eachother a lot. Kirito already knew a lot of swordcraft, although different from what was traditional.”

“Yeah that sounds like Kirito. He fight’s as if every fight is his last, and he wants to put on a damn show.”

Sinon shook her head laughing.

“Hmm. I’m not sure. Practicing with Kirito- His swordmanship and battle is more elegant. Almost like a dance more than a brawl.”

“Interesting. I suppose he took more lessons from Asuna and Leafa.”

…

“Daddy! You’re back!”

A small girl clad in a white dress practically flung herself down the stairs of the Bar’s Inn and into Kirito’s arms. Kirito shot up out of his seat to catch her and spin her around in his arms.

“Yui!!!!! I missed you so much!”

Kirito embraced Yui into a tight hug, her feet dangling off the ground as he pulled her into his chest. Yui giggled. Another set of arms draped themselves around the pair.

“Hey Dad- Missed you too. Glad you’re doing okay.” “Strea! I missed you too!”

Kirito couldn’t hug the girl back, as he was pinned in her arms, but attempted to lean his head against hers.

“Um- Kirito who are these-”

Eugeo looked incredibly concerned at the display of affection.

“Oh! Right…”

Kirito bit his tongue, knowing this would be a rough conversation.

“These are Yui and Strea, they’re my daughters-”

“D-DAUGHTERS- But that- that means-”

“Adopted”

Strea added, saving Kirito the mental anguish. The cuddle pile broke apart.

“O-oh. I see. Is this why you were so sweet to Ronye and Tiese?” “Eh- Kinda? It helps to have some experience with that sort of relationship. Also I think I accidentally called Ronye Yui like a dozen times.”

“And I believe you once called Tiese Asuna.”

“You look at Asuna and tell me that they don’t look similar.”

“Hmmmm… You’re right- they could be sisters for sure.”

“Sooooooo- you Dad’s new boyfriend?”

Strea teased, flashing Kirito a smile of “Can’t save you every time”

“Yes” “NO!”

Eugeo and Kirito answered simultaneously.

“Kirito? Are we not friends?” “Nononononononono, Eugeo we are friends. Strea means boyfriend as in, like, romantic partner.”

“Oh-”

Eugeo flashed a bright red.

“Then also yes.”

Eugeo beamed out a pure smile, stunning everyone in the room.

[mystic-starlights]

★ 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 ! ★

Hi everyone, nice to meet you!

I've been here on Tumblr since 2018 but just now I decided to update my profile, my biography and post an official introduction. This time I intend to be more active here, so I hope to interact with you. ❣️

🖤 Ａｂｏｕｔ Ｍｅ :

• I'm bissexual;

• I am Brazilian;

• I'm doing animation college;

• I'm a big fan of anime, cartoons, series, etc;

• My favorite colors is: black, pink, and brown;

• I love to draw and sometimes I create OC's;

• I also write fanfics, but these days I rarely have time to post any;

• My dream is to write and publish my own fiction story, either as a book or light novel (Japanese books);

• I'm currently addicted to SpiderVerse, and by addicted I mean I can't stop thinking about this universe, I think about it 24/7 non-stop! (😅)

• I'm not very good at speaking in English, so I use the translator to communicate (so if something is incoherent, forgive me).

💜 Ｍｙ ＴＯＰ'ｓ :

★ ! 𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 :

- Sword Art Online

- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

- Darling in the FranXX

★ ! 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐍𝐒 :

- Star vs The Forces of Evil

- (Dis)Enchantment

- Harley Quinn

- Gravity Falls

- South Park

★ ! 𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐒 :

- SpiderVerse (specifically ATSV)

- Barbie (all from 2000's to 2016)

- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

- Miraculous: Awakening

★ ! 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 :

• SpiderVerse:

- Miles G. Morales (Prowler) 💜💜💜💜💜

- Miles Morales (Spider-Man) ❤️🖤

- Gwen Stacy (Spider-Woman) 🤍💖

• Sword Art Online:

- Kazuto Kirigaya (Kirito) 🖤

- Asuna Yuuki (Asuna) 🧡

- Alice Synthesis Thirty (Alice) 💛💙

- Eugeo 💙

- Yuuki Konno (Yuuki) 💜

- Misumi Tozawa (Mito) 💜

• Darling in the FranXX:

- Zero Two (Code 002) 🩷

And that was all a little bit of me.

Anyway, the main reason I want to be more active here on Tumblr is because I have more contact with the SpiderVerse fandom here. I love reading OneShot's, Shortfic's, Headcanon's and seeing the fanarts around here.

I'm addicted and madly in love with our boy Miles Prowler, so much so that I'm planning to write a fanfic set in the Earth-42 universe and I'm also creating an OC to be a partner for Miles/Prowler (👀).

If you like my bio and what I intend to post, I'll be happy if you can follow or repost me.

I hope I can interact a lot with the ATSV fandom and that we can exchange ideas for my fanfic.

Thank you! 💜 🫶🏽

★ 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐭𝐚𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭:

[lthomasthoughts]

Sword Art Online (Ep. 1, 2, 5, 8)

This anime was very confusing to me, especially through the first few episodes I watched. Without having experience about how this foreign world works, it is difficult to grasp the ideas of the games they live in and the virtual reality that they experience.  The first episode starts with Kazuto and Eugeo trying to cut down a tree that has been there for generations.  Eugeo’s family’s purpose is to cut down this tree, but over a 300-year time period, they have made little progress to speak of.  This part confused me, as it made me wonder why there is such a blind adherence to the taboo by everyone involved in the world.  This blind adherence rears its head again later in the first episode, after Kazuto, Eugeo, and Alice go to the cave to try to find ice.  Alice falls over and her hand lands in a forbidden area, and because of this, she is taken away and will be executed.  What shocked me most about this turn of events was how willing Alice’s dad was to give up his daughter to the Integrity Knight, who he knows will kill his daughter.  This is mind boggling to me, as he does not even seem to care that his daughter is the one being taken away, as long as they are adhering to the taboo.  I think this is making a larger point about the blind following of rules that make no sense on their face.  It is trying to tell the watcher that they need to evaluate the rules that they are following and be critical of them in order to do the truly right thing.  If you do not, you are in danger of violating any form of human norms or decency in the name of “following the rules”.

[pitohuimaki]

Please please please elaborate on fairy dance being your favorite arc and alicization being at the bottom, I feel exactly the opposite after having read the novels last year so I am fascinated

well you see it all comes down to the fact that at my core i’m a fuckin theatre kid 😭

i love midsummer (i’m getting a quote from it tattooed very soon lol), i love the characters, i love the character designs and aesthetics of the whole arc, i love the little tiny moments (ive mentioned before that fairy dance was really the last time kazuto felt like a Teen Dad™️ and i think by the time of phantom bullet things have like… set in for him so to speak?? idk how to explain), i love the kirigaya siblings, i love asuna and her storyline in fairy dance hits very deep for me, i absolutely adore sugu, it’s the last time until unital ring that (for me) yui felt like she was really kirisuna’s daughter, and sugou (despite being… himself) is a really interesting and fascinating character to me. not to mention i love all the voice actors for the anime lol

so that’s why i love fairy dance (it’s also 11:30 and i’m having a lil menty b so it’s a quick summary of why i love fairy dance lol) but as for alicization… i do like it, it’s not that i dislike it, but the first half really drags on for me and i don’t love eugeo. i do really love war of underworld!! war of underworld is probably above phantom bullet for me, but alicization as a whole is just A Lot (i’m classing alicization, war of underworld, and moon cradle* as part of one mega arc, which i probably shouldn’t do lol)

*moon cradle is technically not an arc by itself, but like. it’s too long imo to be just a side story. and it’s part of the alicization clump. so

ALSO i associate fairy dance with a lot of wonderful things that i love and make me happy and i associate alicization with a lot of things and people that make me upset to think about. so that also impacts it a lot :’)

[approximateknowledge]

also like

quotes like this

[After I gained my freedom from SAO, my reputation for strength in VR had to be continually upheld, lest I lose that valuable image. I was trapped by the knowledge that others knew me not as the weak, mortal Kazuto Kirigaya, but as Kirito the hero, champion of the game of death. And I couldn’t deny that I had been leading them (and myself) to that conclusion, even though I knew deep down that the more layers of that artifice that built up, the further I got from the truly important things. So when I first realized after meeting Eugeo that I didn’t have to pretend to be anything, I was amazed—and wondered why. Because unlike me, Eugeo had an artificial fluctlight? Because he didn’t know Kirito the SAO hero? No, the greatest reason was that here in the Underworld, a place that was both real and false, Eugeo was blessed with far greater ability. His natural talent for the sword was tremendous. Perception, decisiveness, reaction speed: I’d been fighting through plenty of VR worlds, but he was greater in all categories. If my fluctlight’s battle processor was a current-model silicon CPU, then Eugeo’s was a next-generation diamond CPU. I was still playing the role of instructor to him, but it was only because I had more experience and knowledge. If Eugeo kept improving at his current pace, it wouldn’t be long before our positions were switched. Like sand sucking up water, Eugeo had absorbed all the combat strategies I’d built up over the last few years, which I grandiosely called the Aincrad style. I couldn’t help but feel a strangely deep joy and satisfaction in his progress. This swordplay had been the source of my personal pride, and yet nothing more than gaming techniques—and it felt like Eugeo learning and making them his own had turned that skill into something real for the first time]

straight from volume 13 of the LN

like im not theorising here this is literally canon

and then he dies

all this and then he dies

reki you monster, genuinely how could you do this

eugeo was hope

and he died

pretense and responsibility

this is gonna be both a personal rant and soa meta post, i promise it makes sense

so a while ago i made this post:

^and the main point im trying to make here is that as far as i can tell eugeo being alive completely changes kirito's situation to the point her egg is finally allowed to crack, because eugeo kind of takes over her narrative role, leaving her free to be someone else

now how is this a personal thing?

well, until my egg cracked i had a certain coping mechanism i clung onto to avoid being *completely* miserable looking in the mirror: trying to be "the kind of guy i like"

now look at kiri and eugeo; eugeo is that guy! explicitly! the lifter of the responsibility of having to be, well, like him! because he's already himself! he's *real* now, not a part you have no choice but to play because someone has to!

he's real

and then he dies

and the burden of responsibility increases tenfold to the point her egg never cracked over the 200 subjective years in the underworld, because *nobody else could do it*, because eugeo is dead so she has to play the part and it's never a choice and she's not even sure she's the *real* one!

like i dunno

it feels so familiar, and then so much of the crux of who she is a as a person finally finds an anchor and in one timeline he stays and in the other his death leaves everything off worse and like

the worse one is the main one

aaaaaaa

coherence failing but there's so much here and like

^she really is it's painful

like i *get* it and it's fucking me up

(reki why aren't you a slightly better writer im gonna fucking die)

[momochizu]

Happy (late) white day 🖤💙

Actually it's not late, I just forgot to post it here 🤣

This was not supposed to be white day fic but the timing was just too perfect so why not 😁

So yeah, this is the next chapter of the collab fic "days with you" fic by @/doodklefish (twitter) and art by me

It's a flashback chapter about when eugeo first came to RW 😳

💖Please read the rest here : ⤵️