#Ikenami Ryunosuke

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Hey, Utchy… did you know the Shinkengers???

[nanaaaxmch]

I finished shinkenger recently and my chest hurts sm every time i remember their last ep i literally cried like a bitch i love them too much…… i still want to see them together……………;;;;;; so expect more drawings of them from me lol

also ig u can tell im so obsessed with ryu/take o(—(

(i’m also on twitter btw (@nana___henshin)!!)

[taliquest]

Shinkenger 37:

I thought I was ready. I thought I was prepared. But no.

No, I was not prepared for the incredible homoeroticism of Ryunosuke and Chiaki being stuck together at the wrists.

[aliencatart]

a gathering of some dragon guys

[chootaminute]

animal crosses your samurai

[r1ch1e-the-killer]

chiyunosuke amirite (pls im the only one ik that ships this) + trans chiaki he's like me af!

[sunxy45]

ryuu n’ mako evil reverse😵🔥🔥

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(color & rendered ver lator)

[aero-sense]

Makito is Ryunosuke with a pure heart

[inkyuki]

inksatsu día 12.- Arquero

hola a todos! bueno hoy toca la palabra arquero pero si soy sincera no sabia que dibujar XD así que hablando con amigos me acordaron que el shinken blue era un arquero, no me la complique y les hice caso XD si soy sincera no se si era arquero o no, recuerdo que era un actor de kabuki y ya, pero asi quedo el dibujo espero les guste x3

[stickers-on-a-laptop]

Since I have recently started Shinkenger, I would like to request Ryunosuke/Takeru where Ryunosuke gets taken a little more seriously than the show tends to take him. Maybe something with battle injuries :D

Loyalty and Dependence (are dangerously similar)

He didn’t have to say anything to the Kuroko. They simply moved away from Ryuunosuke with one single movement of his hand and from the expression on his face.

(And who was he to have this power? Nevertheless, it was the way it was, and the fact was—odd as it seemed to him—that he wanted to be the one to patch up his Blue Vassal.)

However, as the Kuroko moved away, in that silent way of theirs, Takeru found that Ryuunosuke had apparently been trying to patch himself up, probably in some way to punish or discipline himself for allowing attacks to get through.

“Ryuunosuke,” Takeru sighed, grabbing a roll of bandages the Kuroko had left behind.

“Tono!” Ryuunosuke gasped, gaping. “You don’t have to do this for me!”

(And that was the thing, wasn’t it? He, Shiba Takeru, did not have to patch up his vassals. He had to throw them into battle, and he had to make sure the world wasn’t swallowed by the Sanzu River, which was why his vassals were being thrown into battle. But it wasn’t his duty to do something as trivial as patch up the other Shinkengers; after all, they had the Kuroko.

And sure, Mako was trying to dress a wound on Chiaki’s neck as Chiaki made a mess with the bandage rolls trying to wrap Kotoha’s sprained ankle, despite Kuroko fluttering around. But Takeru didn’t need to concern himself with such matters.)

Having gotten lost in thought, Takeru almost missed it when Ryuunosuke got up to leave, but his reflexes were honed enough to grab his most loyal vassal’s wrist. The bandage wrapped around said wrist was better dressed than one would expect for it have being done one-handed, but still needed to be secured better.

Takeru wasn’t sure why this detail seemed so important all of a sudden, but it was something he, at the very least, could fix.

“Sit.”

Ryuunosuke wavered, probably torn between obeying the person he had sworn his (earnest-to-a-fault degree) life to and thinking it was improper for someone like Takeru to do such a task.

(Which, Takeru was just a man. He was no better than Ryuunosuke when it came to matters of his birth.)

Thankfully, Ryuunosuke sat, biting his lip.

“I can just have Mako redo it,” he offered.

“She’s busy dealing with Chiaki’s injury.”

(And again, who was he to send these four into battle? Simply because of families they had been born into? He might have overestimated the enemy’s escalation, but…)

Ryuunosuke watched as Takeru starting undoing his bandages, eyes wide.

“Tono…”

Takeru didn’t say anything for a moment, trying to collect his thoughts. There was a metaphor here, in the unwinding of bandages, and his unwinding thoughts, wasn’t there?

“You...you’re my second-in-command,” he started, needing to get the right words, so that Ryuunosuke understood.

“That may be so, but your life is still more important than mine,” Ryuunosuke replied swiftly.

Takeru frowned, wishing Ryuunosuke hadn’t used those words.

After all, water was used to put fire out.

He fixed the bandage so it was more secure, wondering what the magic words were. How ironic, to have the power of words at his fingertips and yet not the knowledge of how to get them out in a way that let others understand him.

Maybe if Ryuunosuke was more like Mako, this would be easier. Even in their short time spent together so far, she seemed to understand Takeru in a way the others weren’t. But then he wouldn’t be Ryuunosuke, would he? He wouldn’t be sweet, over-eager and earnest, good at what he did but riddled with insecurity Ikenami Ryuunosuke.

Somewhere in the depths of his memories, a very vague one of lips kissing a band-aid on a scraped knee arose.

If he couldn’t say something, maybe this would suffice…? Takeru mused, raising Ryuunosuke’s wrist and placing a kiss on the bandaged pulse point and hearing a gratifying squeak.

[denebsapphic]

Top two favorites from Toku I Finished so far in 2024, Part 2

Engine Sentai Go-onger: Hant Jo and Renn Kosaka

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Chiaki Tani and Ryunosuke Ikenami

Ultraman Orb: Gai Kurenai and Naomi Yumeno

Dogengers: Fukuokalibur and Yamashiron

Garo: Kaoru Mitsuki and Kouga Saejima

[absolutelyfibulas]

New updated character card for my catson! Once again, further elaboration is under the cut, because I'll stop rambling aimlessly when I'm dead. People may notice a theme with this new selection. Which is kind of the point.

My catson is a dandy AND a clown.

Shang Xirui (Winter Begonia)

The original inspiration for Ai when I was playing around in the character creator. Provided the general inspirational figure of a talented and dedicated performer, and as I fiddled with Ai’s features more, I leant more into the idea of an actor who played male and female roles. Shang Xirui is the Vibe Setter, the general mould into which Ai was poured. All hail.

Bernard Black (Black Books)

He’s short-tempered, rude, and well read. If it wasn’t for the lack of personal hygiene, he’d be awfully close to Ai’s state at the start of ARR - namely, when he’s at his worst post Bad Break Up. Ai definitely has a stash of wine ice lollies, too.

Ultimately Bernard is more an inspiration for how Bad Timeline Ai behaves in terms of throwing tantrums, being belligerent, and also being kind of pathetic. Also Ai's reaction to being given literally any mission outside of a city is definitely this:

Ryunosuke Ikenami (Shinkenger)

A recent inspiration realisation, Ryunosuke is a talented, dedicated performer…who is also an absolute clown off-stage. He takes the obligatory Crossdressing Trope as an opportunity to improve his performance of female roles; he does the saddest slide humanly possible when it’s suggested he might be homesick.

He definitely seeded some of Ai’s emotional issues when it comes to being alternately melodramatic and masking his own feelings. Ai has similar moments of “oh hey this would be good for my ART” when in the middle of a serious mission, balancing having An Actual Job while doing Scion stuff.

Ai's the person they send new recruits out with to weed out the weak - there's a decent chance he'll scare newbies off with his temper OR his eccentricities. If you can survive working a job with Ai, you're hired.

Hyacinth Bucket (Keeping Up Appearances)

THE ULTIMATE FINAL BOSS STAGE AI. Hyacinth’s snobbishness and class insecurity? Ai to a tee. Ai doesn’t come from an underclass background like Hyacinth, but he is VERY aware of his social standing having grown up as the child of merchants who had some lean years, in a city built on trade and Social Expectations.

Ai is a hypocrite who dislikes snobbery in others, while being a lil bitch about it himself, and definitely has neighbours who try to avoid encountering him in the street. Thank god Ai has the Scions (and Hildibrand) to bring him down a peg or two.

Rio (Gekiranger)

The imperious air, the aloofness, the utter FASHION and DRAMA! 

Constant resting bitch face while being pretty is both Ai’s goal and his destiny. He’s a solid fighter who appreciates good technique. He loves a fancy mantle and is secretly soft when it comes to his loved ones. Yeah. Rio is probably the closest I have to a faceclaim for Ai (as opposed to just the actor - he has to have the stank face).

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi)

The gremlin catgirl is basically what Ai was like growing up. I think Ai’s parents endured some trials after they adopted him and his sister, because they were both the skrunkliest, hissiest kids possible. Full feral kitten getting affection, hissing the whole time, then going “I didn’t say STOP” when the affection giver backs off.

But the reluctant acceptance of being part of a team, taking care of others while going “I only did it because I need you fit and healthy to achieve MY goals >:(“, is pretty much 80% of Ai’s journey from sopping wet abandoned beach kitten to Thespian Kugane Princeling. He might no longer be in his Izutsumi phase, but she is fully what I have in mind when imagining him as a kid.

[t-u-i-t-c]

Blue Is Best

↳ Samurai Sentai Shinkenger - Ryunosuke Ikenami - Shinken Blue

[gemlighter]

chiaki is my favorite

[best-match]

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger role call!

I can just hear their dialogues whenever I look at these. Ugh. Genta’s is my favorite.

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[dangerouscommiesubversive]

ShinkenBlue with anyone of your choice, number 20?

Ahhh, wonderful! My choice of smooching partner for Ryunosuke is pretty much always going to be Takeru, and 20's my choice as well, so we will go with a number 7, the romantic kiss. And I will be honest, I actually lifted a great deal of this from an unfinished fic that I was really happy with but could never quite figure out a plot for. a person with a life

Ryunosuke takes a sip of his tea and says, "You really haven't seen any of the others since?"

Takeru shakes his head. "I'm not totally isolated, I see Kotoha fairly frequently."

They're at a cafe, and they're drinking tea and having some kind of pastries, and Takeru's going to kill Jii. The theater class had been his idea, and Takeru's been enjoying it, but having Honda-sensei walk in with a guest lecturer who'd introduced himself and then looked across the room and frozen and said, "Takeru?" hadn't been a surprise he was prepared for.

Not that he's unhappy to be seeing Ryunosuke. No, of course he's happy to be seeing one of his friends.

Jii could have warned him, though.

A nod from Ryunosuke, who's been smiling in this sort of strange, gentle surprise ever since class ended and he came over to say hello. "Kotoha, really? What's she been up to?"

“Teaching music lessons to primary school students and taking care of her sister, mostly, but she and the prin—Moth—Kaoru have gotten really close.”

“What, really?”

“Well, Moth—Kaoru’s lived a very sheltered life, she’s never gotten to have…friends. She wanted to learn how people actually live when they’re not constantly studying to defeat ancient evils, and Kotoha’s her age, so Kaoru got me to call her—”

“She didn’t want to call herself?”

“She’s very shy. And she asked if Kotoha would teach her how to go grocery shopping.”

Ryuunosuke blinks. “I bet Tanba hated that.”

Takeru grins. “He was furious. Especially because she wouldn’t let him come with them.”

There's an odd noise that Takeru realizes after a moment is Ryuunosuke stifling laughter. “I almost wish I’d gotten to see that conversation.”

“You really don’t, I think Tanba actually damaged my eardrums with all his screeching.” Takeru takes a sip of tea. “So now they meet up every few weeks to do something ‘normal’ together,” air quotes over the top of his teacup, “and sometimes we all have dinner. Last time Kotoha took her to the movies, I think.”

“That’s wonderful.” Ryunosuke reaches for the warm teapot in the middle of the table and gestures for Takeru's cup. "May I?"

“Yes, please--Kaoru’s very happy about it, I think she likes getting to be a person with a life.”

“What about you?”

Takeru frowns. “What about me what?”

Ryunosuke pauses in the middle of bending over his own cup and looks up at Takeru through his eyelashes in a way that makes Takeru feel off-balance again. “Do you like getting to be a person with a life?”

Takeru stares into the air past Ryunosuke's head for a moment before saying, "I'd like to like it. But I don't think I'm very good at it." A long, awkward pause, and then he coughs. “So, uh. What have you been up to? You said the troupe's doing well, but what about you? Do you have a, a girlfriend or anything?” Ryuunosuke makes another one of those surprised noises, and he frowns. “What, was that funny? I promise I’m not making fun of you.”

“No, no, it’s not—you thought I’d have a girlfriend?”

“Is that strange?”

“Takeru, I’m gay. I thought you knew.”

Takeru almost jumps. “What? But, I thought you and Mako—I mean, at least, I thought you were interested in Mako.”

Appropriately enough, Ryuunosuke turns briefly pink. “Mako’s an exceptional woman, but—no. I mean, even if I were interested in her like that, she wouldn’t have me. And in any case, she was clearly in love with you, which I’d…thought you reciprocated. Are you all right?”

Takeru is choking on his tea. “You thought I was…with Mako?”

Ryunosuke's turn to frown. “Weren’t you?”

“No. I mean, not that she isn’t very, she’s, she’s extremely—I wouldn’t have with any of you.” A hurt look flickers across Ryunosuke’s face, and Takeru immediately regrets his phrasing. “I mean. Look, I thought I was. Going to die. And I was lying to everyone. I wouldn’t—I couldn’t have done that to anyone. Least of all you.” He means the “you” generally, any of you, but Ryuunosuke looks away from him, cheeks reddening, and Takeru has a sudden, vivid realization of how it could have been taken. He very nearly clarifies and then…doesn't. And isn’t entirely sure of why, except that it seems important not to clarify, to let the statement be specific.

There's an awkward, shy silence in which they drink tea and eat pastries and fail to make eye contact, and then Ryunosuke says, very quietly, "I should get home, I have early rehearsals tomorrow."

Takeru blurts out, "Can I drive you? I mean, on the, like how we got here from the university, on the motorcycle."

"Yes, please." Ryunosuke's still not quite looking at him, or at least not directly, just out of the corner of his eyes. "I'd like that."

---

They pull up outside the Ikenami house, and Ryunosuke lets go of him and pulls off the spare helmet and says, "Would you like to come in?"

Takeru lifts the visor of his own helmet so he's at least audible. "I--sorry, I don't think I can, I have some kind of meeting tomorrow that I have to attend with Jii, I should get back as soon as I can." A beat, and then he twists around to look at Ryunosuke, still perched on the back of the bike. "But, um. Would you like to have dinner with me next week? Tuesday, at seven? Not at the compound, at, at a restaurant."

"I'd like that," with a shy smile. "Which restaurant? Should I meet you there?"

"I'll...I'll pick you up, it'll be a surprise," as he quietly resolves to ask Jii or Kotoha or someone for restaurant recommendations.

"That sounds very nice, then. I should be here at the house then, but if my schedule changes and I'm somewhere else then I'll text you." Ryunosuke smiles, and then his shoulders set, like he's deciding on something very serious. "I should get inside, Takeru, but--one more thing?"

Takeru blinks. "Sure, what is it?"

The thing is, Takeru's never kissed anyone. There had never seemed to be a point to it before. His job wasn’t to look for romance, just to live, and eventually die, for Shiba Kaoru. Now he's actually head of the Shiba Clan and he's taking extension classes at the university and he's trying to be a person with a life and Ryunosuke is kissing him, which is somehow both unexpected and completely reasonable, and he has no idea what to do.

He's pretty sure he makes a surprised noise, and then he relaxes and tries to follow Ryunosuke's lead. They're at a bad angle with him twisted around like this, anyway, so it doesn't last very long, and then Ryunosuke sits back a bit, red-faced, and says, "Um."

Takeru blinks several times. His own face feels pretty warm. It's not bad, though. Kissing's not bad. Kissing Ryunosuke's not bad. "I, uh. That was. I...hope I wasn't too bad at that?"

Ryunosuke stares at him and then lets out a slightly hysterical laugh. "You were fine. Please excuse me, I don't know what came over me."

"You're not excused. I mean, it's fine. I mean, no, look, I'd. Can we try that again?" Takeru shakes himself. "Maybe next week after dinner? I think I might be better at it then."

Further laughter, less hysterical and more genuine. "Yes, I'd like that."