#Evangeline F Kimishima

[seaylla]

how does bandai come up with this stuff ???

they just keep feeding us WLW shows . first g-witch, now birdie wing??

anyways i love birdie wing<3 my silly little lesbians

[littlemisspinky]

venus line!

goth gf? no u misheard me i said "golf gfs"

[seafoamstatice]

they’re going to kill you in golf!

[regallibellbright]

Welp, it’s been a few weeks, brain says it’s time to talk about Birdie Wing again! Today, I want us all to take a moment to think about the ending sequence. Which I have listened to quite a lot, it’s a lovely song, if a bit of an odd choice for a show as unabashedly camp as Birdie Wing. (For those who aren’t aware, it’d be Tsukuyomi and Yurrycanon’s Nightjar. Heads up, I’d be willing to class the first verse as “kind of suicidal ideation”, though the full song is at least somewhat less heavily depressed.) The ending, for reference!

I don’t have it in me to describe the entire video, but its opening visual shows mannequins in a golf store window, dressed in very marketable golf apparel, with wigs making them resemble our protagonists, Eve and Aoi. In the shots later where we see Eve and Aoi, they’re dressed in these same outfits. The tension of the verse builds until exploding into a burst of feathers at the chorus, cutting to images of birds flying through the sky playing over the silhouettes of Eve and Aoi, lying in opposite directions so that their heads are next to each other, nearly touching. The ending closes on a shot of Eve’s golf ball on the green, showing the pink wing mark on her balls, morphing into a bird flying in front of the full moon, shining above a sea.

The chorus has different lyrics both times it appears in the full song. Given the bird imagery, you’d expect they’d be using the version of the chorus that gives the song its title, talking directly about a bird flying freely in the sky.

It actually uses the second rendition of the chorus, the one that goes “If I’d never met you, I’d have lived in a cage deceiving the world.” (Translation courtesy of the official music video’s English captions.)

This can apply to Eve as well as Aoi, of course - she was adrift in the world and just getting by supporting her adoptive family before she encountered Aoi, who showed her what playing golf could really be like. But between the mannequin imagery and the lyrics, I tend to read this one as more about Aoi and the expectations of her mother and grandparents for her to be a perfect golf princess so that she can be a vehicle for marketing their products. Meeting Eve, who defies every convention of the game of golf, respects no authority whatsoever save “whether or not you can kick her ass at golf,” is generally brash, aggressive, and unmarketable, and also is the first person to match Aoi in golf skills and histrionics opens her eyes to a whole new world of what golf can be. That world includes getting a bogey because you hit your ball directly into a tree branch, sure, but it ALSO includes the very next day managing to hit your ball into the same exact spot where that tree branch was so that you can bypass the entire trap of the hole and go straight for the win. Eve is ridiculous and we love that for her. And seeing this inspires Aoi to go off-script and behave in ways that aren’t designed to be perfectly palatable and marketable, breaking free of her cage.

What I’m saying is, if the show DOES pull the rug out from under us and reveal they’re sisters, it’s obviously going to weaken the story because then Athena just has TWO golf prodigies to try and market as they resist these attempts (newcomer Eve being even less agreeable than Aoi), but also the ending sequence is contextually gay as hell and if it gets walked back they are cowards.

[whiterose-fans-blog]

Not only RWBY fans. 😏

Soooo… is anyone else getting a hunch that there are some RWBY fans at Bandai?

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Eve fans.

[comradeyurika]

The relationship between Eve and Ichina continues to be one of my favorite aspects of this season. The trust that the two of them have demonstrated with each other really warms my heart, and you can see how they've each made each other stronger. It's impossible to imagine the Eve of Season 1 being willing to make a decision like this, but she's able to put her trust in what Ichina tells her. And Ichina in turn is able to turn off the logical part of her brain on the 18th and fully put her trust in Eve's golf being able to push through.

And at the end, Eve obtains an even greater power, one that stuns Leo as he realizes that Eve has managed to reach the golf that he and Kazuhiko could never visualize. Eve has now fully surpassed her mentors and reached the ultimate level of golf.

[s-lycopersicum]

[regallibellbright]

[ID: Two stills from the Birdie Wing ending sequence, showing Eve and Aoi. The first shows Eve on a golf course surrounded by rocky outcroppings. There is a small Eve, her back to the viewer, hitting her ball out of a bunker in the background. In the foreground, we see her directly, striking up sand as the ball swings out. Her club is wide at her side and her hair, in a ponytail, swings with the motion. She has an intense expression on her face.

The second shows Aoi on a golf course surrounded by green trees. Both the Aoi in closeup and the smaller one in the background are facing forward, with identical posture, bending over and preparing to swing. Her face is equally intense and determined. End ID]

[ilimitadoworld-r]

https://twitter.com/ilimitadoEXE/status/1646984221653708800

[freakuotes]

"Si un muro se atraviesa en mi..." - Evangeline "Eve" F. Kimishima/Aleon (Birdie Wing: Golf Girls' Story)

http://freakuot.es/aRjKk

[phuezo]

Another doodle before sleeping bc I am so obsessed hehe... since they resemble in a way to Blake and Yang lol 🐝

Imagining that Eve suggested the idea of cosplay (?) :3

[seafoamstatice]

Eve’s going back to Nafrece next episode! I’m glad- I’ve missed the setting and that means we’ll get more of the mafia plotline, which is fun. I wonder if Ichina is going to somehow follow her there, like the opening suggests, why and how? I love that its a running gag now that Eve and Aoi just can’t coordinate a game between them.

Also:

Eve’s mom was definitely tied to the mafia in some way, right?

[regallibellbright]

Eve and Aoi are completely unconcerned with their competitors here. They’re up against Mizuho Himekawa, who finished ten under a few days prior.

We see Mizuho and her partner Kaede discussing their competition when they get the news about Raioh’s win. Both Aoi and the mysterious Evangeline F. Kimishima finished eleven under. Mizuho, calmly: “They’re coming after us.”

Then we cut to Eve and Aoi fighting about who won, since they tied. Eve got eagles where Aoi didn’t, but Aoi points out Eve got two bogeys, too, while she had none, and that Eve can’t do a par putt. After all, she’s a gambler.

The officiants are just as taken aback by this as the other golfers, especially when one gives Aoi the trophy to break up their bickering and they turn away from each other with huffs. Amane laments that she worked so hard to build up Aoi’s perfect image.

Meanwhile, when Golf Amuro reports the scores to the Amawashis, both Aoi’s grandfather and mother are pleased to hear Aoi’s score and that, in CEO Mom’s words, Amuro “brought Aoi the best partner possible.” They’re not thinking of Eve as competition yet.

It is a narrative inevitability they will.

[anthurak]

So rewatching season 1 of Birdie Wing has given me a newfound appreciation for the advantages that ‘Rivals-to-Lovers’ has over ‘Enemies-to-Lovers’ that I don’t think enough people appreciate.

See, with Enemies to Lovers, the couple kinda has to stop being enemies when they become lovers. They’re sort of mutually-exclusive character dynamics. Or at the very least they have to stop being the really hardcore enemies. There’s a reason this trope is tied so much into villain-redemption arcs.

But with Rivals to Lovers, the couple don’t really HAVE to stop being rivals after they become lovers. All the fun parts of having two characters in a heated, intense, and possibly homoerotic rivalry don’t really need to actually stop once those two become a couple. Hell, those could be the very things that lead to them becoming lovers.

If nothing else, that definitely seems to be where Birdie Wing is going with Eve and Aoi.

[comradeyurika]

The relationship between Eve and Ichina is so good. No questions needed, she's ready to drop everything for her. And it shows just how much Eve, who had relied on no one but herself her whole life, has come to really trust and rely on Ichina since they first teamed up.

Get yourself a caddy who will drop out of school and travel across the world to a mafia torn country to help you go pro