#I resonate with Kagami’s character so deeply

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Akumatized Kagami in ChocoAU! 🌸🐲🌱

She meets Adrien for a date at the Louvre, hoping it will go well and dispel her nagging thoughts and they can learn to love each other. But she finds him looking at Marinette with eyes she has never seen before.

Kagami is transformed into Hanabira! She turns the museum into a kind of rainforest/jungle. Chat Noir and Ladybug have to evade her sentimonster Senryu, which turns people into grass hedge sculptures as they are overwhelmed them with what Kagami is feeling.

Plus some ref art of her!

Thank you @generalluxun for the name ideas!! THEY FIT VERY WELL AND ARE SUPER CUTE 🫶

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Sanrio Characters I'd Assign/Give the Teikō Gang™

Exactly what it says in the title, here are some Sanrio characters I'd give the gang if the collab allowed for more niche picks! This post was inspired by me just reading the character entries on the official Sanrio website for this year's voting campaign >:3💖

My Melody's friend. This young girl sheep is kind, but can occasionally seem a bit spoiled. Her most charming feature is her soft baby-pink coat of wool. Her favorite food is meringue cookies. She likes to pick flowers with My Melody and chat with her.

Momoi first because I'm sick and tired of my girl always getting excluded from official art and promotions😤🩷 Sweet, lovely, a little spoiled, but charming through and through. Everything about her just screams Momoi to me! Plus, I definitely don't mind the idea of her and Kagami as matching besties~

Mysterious ghosts who give you a "Hanamaru" (like a gold star) for your hard work today. The ghosts lurk in the vicinity of everyone, and each person seems to have a different ghost. They will appear without your knowledge and gently praise your daily efforts.

Kuroko, next! I was so upset when I discovered this guy because he's like the perfect pick. Like yeah, sure, Cinna matches Kuroko's aesthetic and all, and has consistently been the most popular Sanrio character in recent years, which essentially makes him a protag, but this guy also fits! Not only in aesthetic but also personality!

Kuroko being the quiet, often unnoticed presence that he is who still deeply values effort? The idea of an invisible ghost gently praising people from the background is so Kuroko-turned-Sanrio-character it's not even funny.

Prince of the Giraffe Star, this fellow loves company and the attention of others. His horns light up whenever he uses their wondrous energy. The ball-like object he always carries allows him to fly anywhere he wants, including the Land of Dreams. Pau Pipo means 'a little happiness' in star language.

Purin was a great match as Kise's little guy, but this guy resonated with me just a tinsy 🤏 bit more. Idk, there's just a sweetness to him that is emblematic of an aspect of Kise's character, which I often feel goes unacknowledged.

Something innocent and full of goodwill that makes it hard for someone to dislike him even though he's exasperating and obnoxious to be around. He just wants to be the life of the party and a ray of sunshine in order to brighten up your day! What's so wrong with that?👀✨

This male calico cat is a rarity! (So rare, they are thought to bring good luck!) His neck collar looks kind of like the costume of the famous Kabuki character, Tasuki. When Nyantaro walks, the ringing of the bells around his neck are sure to catch your attention. The cute heart mark on his back is perhaps his most charming feature.

His name is Nyantaro. NYANTARO!!! Nyantaro = Shintaro. I legit cackled when I read this guy's character description. He also reminds me of the manuki-neko Midorima got from Kuroko as a lucky item in the Replace PLUS novels. Additionally, male calicos are a genetic rarity, which ties into his fixation with luck and ensuring the odds of the universe are perpetually in his favor😗🐾

Badtz-Maru is one mischievous little penguin. His favorite foods are high-end sushi from Ginza and Poripari Ramen. He dreams of owning his own business someday. He seems a bit twisted, but he's actually not such a bad guy...??

No alternate pick for Aomine, the penguin matches his energy to a T🐧 Rough-around-the-edges, a foodie, has hidden aspirations, and is secretly a softie? Granted, I don't really have much to work with since this guy's description is one of the shortest in the entire cast, but I think they go well together~

Eggs are yummy… boiled, baked, or raw. There are many ways to make an egg, but eggs are so lazy (gude gude in Japanese). If you look closely, you just might notice that the eggs that you eat entirely lack motivation.

I don't really think I need to explain myself on this one. Although, I definitely love the matching color scheme Mura has with Kuromi in the promotional art, but Gudetama is the mascot of “why try” and that’s… just Murasakibara distilled. In terms of personality, I definitely feel like this is an obvious choice. He is the egg.

As tall as five apples and as heavy as three, Hello Kitty is a bright little girl with a heart of gold. She loves to bake cookies and play the piano, and dreams of one day becoming a pianist or maybe even a poet. She has a gift for music and English and a soft spot for Mama's apple pie. Hello Kitty and her twin sister, Mimmy, are the best of friends.

I actually really like Hello Kitty for Akashi! Having read her character profile, I think she's perfect for him and matches his gifted overachiever energy, lol. Plus, she's a mama's girl and they're both icons!

I debated whether I should pick Aggretsuko, but feeding into the future corporate member and severely overworked aspect of his personality felt a little boring to me.

I'm also a huge supporter of the “Akashi is a Cat” agenda, so if I had to give him an alternate pick, I'd probably go with Mellotune🐱💕

thanks for reading❣️ dividers are by @/cafekitsune

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Name ten favourite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people

Tagged by @thewillowbends.  These lists are always hard, but that’s kind of the fun of them!  And that’s why we cheat and sometimes have lots of ties because no you can’t make me choose. 1.  Thor from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe - I am a sucker for a character who has their shit together but can still be human and face ridiculously traumatic experiences and come through them whole because they had a rock solid foundation to begin with.  From being thrown out of Asgard, made mortal, and taking that chance to suck it up and make himself better that he did that himself to the loss of pretty much his entire family and most of his people and his sense of purpose, the thing I love about Thor is that he keeps getting back up.  That kind of fortitude is even more appealing that the ridiculously hot lightning powers. 2.  Tsukino Usagi from Sailor Moon - I always loved her in the ‘90s anime, but reading the manga skyrocketted her into this special untouchable place in my heart.  The beginning of her journey is a girl who is so fragile that she would kill herself if she didn’t have the emotional support around her, who had to take step after step forward to find her inner strength, who wasn’t weak or terrible for her fragility, but instead her story was worth telling for it, that the point she started out as was just as valuable as the place she ended up, where she could be the one to stand up to save her friends and get them back herself, that journey was worth telling.  I LOVE HER TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. 3.  Thranduil and Maedhros from Tolkien’s Legendarium - It was really hard to choose, because I love a lot of the characters (and I feel badly leaving Thingol and Maglor off the list and I will fight a bitch for Galadriel and Elrond and listen Glorfindel is pure joy and also the internet is too mean to Elwing and I kind of want alllll the Melkor and Manwe fic because sobs they’re brothers shut up you can’t make me not have feelings about that, but also trashbag Melkor/Sauron and--) but those are the two I usually wind up wanting to know their pov in a fic I’m reading or have them around when shit’s going down because I want to see what they’ll do or I just miss them the most when they’re not there. 4.  Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars - If you asked me to pick between them, I don’t know that I could.  Yeah, sure, I love Obi-Wan ridiculously, but if you give me five minutes, I’m pretty much always going to drift back to talking about Anakin and his issues instead.  I’m not sure I can even boil them down into a nutshell about why I like them so much, they’re the kind of characters that I love so intensely and with such big, sweeping thoughts, that I’d have to write a whole essay.  But my best attempt:  Anakin’s being both dumbass and genius at the same time, being charming and magnetic while also being a bag of garbage at the same time, who had such good in him but was also an absolute monster, who I desperately want to be happy, but I also struggle to forgive him sometimes and that’s saying a lot for a fictional character, he’s brilliant enough to truly carry an entire Saga about him.  And Obi-Wan is the bedrock of all goodness in that galaxy, he could be obnoxious at times and he didn’t always see Anakin clearly, but he always cared and he remained good and hopeful, he continued to serve the galaxy, no matter what it threw at him, and even forgave Anakin in the end, because he always rose above.  That’s it, that’s my shit right there. 5.  Inoue Orihime from Bleach - ORIHIME WAS MY GIRL FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, her unwavering kindness and care, her desire to be soft in a world (and, frankly, fandom) that wanted her to be hard and to fight everything, when she didn’t want to fight, she wanted to heal, she wanted to have fun and be weird, she wanted everyone to be happy, all of that made me love her.  Her loopiness is an absolute delight, but what I loved so much about her is that Orihime had the powers/abilities to be quite possibly the most OG of the entire cast, she could reject reality itself, and she never once wanted to use it to beat anyone up or to destroy anything, she wanted to make friends with her fairies and she wanted to help people.  That girl refused to let the world make her anything less than kind and caring and sweet.  She was THE BEST. 6.  Hara Akiha and Umeda Hokuto from Hanazakari no Kimitachi e/Hana-Kimi - Sometimes we all fall in love with those minor characters and they just fucking consume us.  A lot of it came from that they were both hot, they were both hilarious, and so they were just really fun, but what really got me was that I genuinely loved everything Nakajo did with Umeda’s character.  There weren’t a lot of gay characters in shoujo manga that weren’t complete comedic relief, where their sexuality was the joke.  Yes, Umeda was often a humorous character (all of the cast was) but he firmly was completely uninterested in high school kids, he liked adult men, and his advice to Mizuki may have been crabby as hell, but it was genuine and good.  His sexuality wasn’t the punchline of his character.  Then there was Akiha, who was also comedic, but his bisexuality (another rare thing to find in manga!) had nothing to do with the humor of his character, all of it was in the way he chased after Umeda.  He was a genuine suitor (and, reading the post-manga character interviews, apparently they got together, OMG MY HEART) and the kiss they shared was treated just as seriously as any straight kiss would have been.  That meant a lot to me, even though I’d have loved the characters just because they were so interesting and Umeda’s struggle to get over the guy who never cared for him and to let himself be vulnerable with someone that he could actually care about, was so great. 7.  Yuki Eiri from Gravitation - I can’t begrudge anyone for giving this show a lot of shit (and I definitely am going with anime!Yuki here, rather than manga!Yuki) or dismissing it as being god-awful, because it probably was pretty cringeworthy.  But Yuki got under my skin because he was one of the first characters I resonated with where his depression was real and it was ugly.  He could be cruel to people around him, he pushed them away, not just half-heartedly, but genuinely, and he couldn’t stand being vulnerable, because it touched on all the terrible places that had been damaged by what Kitazawa had done to him.  And he couldn’t just be magically fixed by Tohma’s devotion or Shuuichi’s unwavering amounts of love poured into him.  He couldn’t just be fixed with a hug or one good crying session.  He was damaged and it was going to be a hell of a long hike back up to anything even a little bit normal.  Especially back at that time, I felt like depression and trauma were never given any real weight, then along comes this ridiculous BL series that just refused to make Yuki anything less that genuinely damaged and it hit all these places in wee me that was struggling through my own depression that couldn’t just be cured with some hugs and people telling me they loved me.

8.  Hashiba Touma from Yoroiden Samurai Troopers - I’m not sure I could even say why this character got under my skin the way he did, other than that there was definitely a group of us who were SUPER into the show and it was fun to make a playground for ourselves, and Touma just really got to me.  The brilliant character who didn’t always know how to relate to others, but who cared very deeply about them, who gravitated to those who were better at social interaction than he was, who were better able to connect to people than he was, that he found this group where he really belonged, that just really touched wee me’s heart. 9.  Tendou Souji from Kamen Rider Kabuto - THIS OBNOXIOUS HOT MESS I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.  It was hard not to put Kagami on the list as well, because so much of what I love about Tendou is illustrated through his relationship with Kagami (whom I also love on his own), but I think I keep coming back to that I love his issues the most.  He’s the best at everything and so it puts distance between him and everyone else, all the more so because he’s so obnoxious about it and doesn’t slow down for anyone else to catch up, but the thing is that there’s a very caring heart underneath all that.  He loves his sisters, he loves Kagami, he even kind of tolerates the rest of their weird gang, and trying to find that difficult line of his superiority over the others versus that he wants them to catch up to him in his own way, all while being the most condescending dick ever, is absolute joy. 10.  Relena Darlian from Gundam Wing - I had a difficult path to liking Relena, because so much of fandom boiled her down to either being a creepy stalker who got in the way of Heero/Duo or they only ever wrote her in romantic pairing stuff with Heero, neither of which really encouraged me to like her.  But, as time went on and I rewatched the series a couple of times, I realized there’s so much more to her.  She’s a character who has to walk an impossible line between both of the legacies that weigh on her, the birth family that she never knew but maybe she could help bring peace to the world by taking up that name, by trying to bring back the Sanq Kingdom that promoted absolute pacifism and peace.  Yet, ultimately, for all that her relationship with Zechs is really important and she was the heir to that kingdom, she chose to be Relena Darlian.  She choose to try to bring peace to the world by standing up on her own as a politician, not a figurehead queen of the world.  The struggle to figure that out, who she wants to be and how she wants to achieve it, to go from a sheltered young girl at the start of the series to someone who has seen how terrible war is, is far more interesting than either of those first options for me! And I’ll tag @forcearama (and if I couldn’t put Obi-Wan as all ten entries, neither can you!) @belldreams @subskywalker @cacchieressa @bpdanakins @glompcat @writegowrite @fireflyfish @evaceratops @amarielah and anyone else who wants to do it that I’m not sure I feel quite like I’m able to try peer pressuring you into it.  ♥  I love seeing these from anyone who wants to do them, I’m just never sure if I’m allowed to go HEY YOU DO THIS THING.  orz