#Legoshi/Tem/Riz

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Aggretsuko x Beastars

[luxthestrange]

Beastars Incorrect Quotes#57 HELP!?IM FEEEELING!?

Bill*Looks to see a picture of Legoshi and Tem in your wallet, Tilting his head* Ehh?~ You have a picture of the Legoshi & Tem?

Y/n*In a swift movement...shows the accordion pictures of ....All of them* Of course, I carry photos of all of you guys, You all my precious friends and Club members-

Drama club*Look at their human club member who is on a tangent on the pictures and gush about their cool moments*...

[bastardlybonkers]

thinking about the parallels between dunmeshi and beastars. consumption as an act of love. to love is to consume and to be consumed. you cannot gorge yourself because if you take everything then there is nothing left to be loved, and you cannot let yourself be gorged completely because then you will be empty, gone. i could think about this forever

[legoshis-right-ass-cheek]

[hikikomoriheadphonegirl]

[geryuthespacesquid]

I just think people are a little too dismissive of how important Tem is to the story of beastars but more importantly than that I think people are too dismissive of how important Tem's friendship probably was to Legoshi.

Because like yeah, Tem kinda suffered from what Junpei Yoshino had going on in the manga, where he basically only existed for plot, and thus we didn't get enough scenes of his interacting with the protagonist for people to really care about him. But if you examine Tem for about 12 seconds, you kinda start to realize that Tem is the logical core of the relationship between Carnivores and Herbivores in a way that Louis and Haru just aren't, both because of Louis's history with carnivores, and because Haru's relationship with Legoshi is a romantic, love at first sight type, which tends to cause some problems. Riz and Tem are a tragedy waiting to happen but Legoshi and Tem's friendship, on the other hand, was nearly perfect, and I'd probably argue that of the two, Tem was closer friends with Legoshi, mostly because he's not scared of Legoshi at all. Startled by him at times, but for the most part, every scene we see of them, they're just friends being dudes.

And yeah Legoshi doesn't acknowledge Tem much in canon but he fought a bear, hunted down a murderer, and betrayed his principles on eating meat to avenge Tem. Yeah Legoshi never breaks down crying over Tem but he also let Legoshi touch his wool. Sure Legoshi has Haru and Louis and Jack but I think Tem is so much more important than people think about because he was Legoshi's Herbivore Friend before Louis or Haru or San or Kyuu or any of them.

Do I have too much stock in this relationship? Yes absolutely. Do I think more people should have as much stock as me in this relationship? Yes absolutely.

[mintaikk]

I love Haru sm, but man, idk how to describe it, but she feels boring in this later arc.

Kidnapping arc? We see why she is the way she is? Great! I'm sure many girls could relate to feeling like they need to be sexual in order to be understood or form connections! We see her and Legoshi's friendship, and eventually relationship, grow and her side of it? Great, love that for her and seeing how the herbivore would view this situation, and that it's not just all from Legoshi'a perspective!

But man, now it just feels like she's a plot device. And as much as I love romance, I feel kind of annoyed with Haru and Legoshi. Not just bcuz of Haru, but the way she's just used. It just feels like she's only here to further Legoshi's character, but she still has developing she needs to do. Imo, she could have a good arc with Juno, but even she was used to further Juno's arc. Another one could be her realizing that she doesn't need Louis or Legoshi, and that she's completely fine on her own.

(Also, like the Panda dude said, I really don't feel like hearing Legoshi talk about his relationship issues when he's trying to overcome his cannibalistic instincts. Yes, ik it's "can a carnivore snd herbivore truly be together?" thing and I love them for that, but the same role is being filled with Louis honestly-)

Idk, just watching basic romance in a world like Beastars? Ik it's the whole "devouring thing" going on, but again, that's furthering Legoshi's arc and not hers :(. I just wish she could be used more, bcuz I love her a lot, and she makes the story brighter.

And, like I've said said above, the same role is being filled with Louis, and in a much more interesting way. No, this isn't me being sad my yaoi ship isn't canon, bcuz I also still kinda like Haru & Legoshi (sunshine x gloomy, cmon). But, we see Louis battle with his instincts (*cough* fetish *cough*), and he becomes leader of a GANG because of them! Louis and Legoshi were already were "friends," and if Tem & Riz is anything to go by, you still feel urges to devour your friends. Even if they're not romantic, it'd still be fun to see their relationship as friends grow but with more ✨️angst✨️ and all that.

Honestly, just give Haru an arc away from Louis and Legoshi. I don't like just associating her character with either of them

If you have anything you wanna add, please tell me, bcuz I really need to expand my media literacy!

[mdeathinside]

I genuinely can't believe that people read the whole Beastars manga and still think that Riz & Pina's friendship was unnecessary and came out of nowhere when the whole Murder Resolution Arc points in that direction:

Because Riz & Tem's relationship is meant to be a representation of everything wrong in Beastars. Their society fears conflict, so they try to avoid it, BUT they do it wrong.

When the other boys of the drama club leave the school, Legoshi notices that carnivores and herbivores coexist and live together in peace. Later on, when they end up in the BAM, Bill tells him that they are happy BECAUSE of the BAM, because they can have a place where they eat meat.

Basically, what Bill is saying is that carnivores and herbivores can live together and be in peace, as long as carnivores still have a space for themselves to show their real instincts. It is the same idea their whole society has: carnivores want to eat meat, so even if it is wrong, as long as they do it in a hidden place away from herbivores, the peace outside the BAM will remain.

Later, Juno comes up to a similar conclusion. Yes, the infamous "What's wrong with segregation?" For some reason, she's been criticized a lot for that lol, even though she's just saying what everyone else thinks is the right thing.

And, even if she's wrong, her reasoning does make sense (from a logical point of view). She understands that predation cases reinforce herbivores' bad views about carnivores, and in consequence, it makes carnivores' lives harder. So, she sees the same solution Bill and society see: as long as each has their space, and as both sides hide the worst parts of themselves while being kind on the outside, they can maintain peace.

However, that doesn't work, and Tem's death is the perfect example of this.

Riz believes that other animals like him just because they think of him as a "cute, nice bear". But the thing is, Riz doesn't want to be liked just because of his virtues, he wants to be liked completely as he is, to be accepted despite not being perfect. That's why, when he tells Tem about the pills, he feels happy: he has just admitted that he can be a lot more intimidating, and Tem offers to spend more time with him regardless. Riz believes that, since Tem already seemed to be fine with that information, then he would accept him and love him even if he saw him as he is naturally— bigger and stronger.

Now, of course, the execution goes terribly wrong, BUT, Riz's reasoning is actually right. The thing that can solve all their problems and make them all happy is to accept the other completely, with their flaws and all, and not just ignore that which they might not like.

In fact, that's exactly what Els does with Bill: she calls him out on ALL his mistakes, but she admits that, despite his flaws, he's a good guy at heart. She's not ignoring his wrongs, instead, she acknowledges them, and accepts him as a friend regardless.

THAT is what Riz wanted. For someone to see him as flawed as he could possibly be, as dangerous as he could possibly get, and still love him anyway. Beastars is not the typical "oh, you're not so bad after all!", nor the "I guess we are not so different, huh?" NO. That's not how true acceptance works. Beastars is the exact opposite: it is "Yes, we are different, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to understand each other". It's a "Yes, you are flawed, terribly so, but that doesn't mean you're undeserving of love".

Riz was happy when Tem pointed out he was scary and when he called him a monster, because it was the first time that someone, FINALLY, saw him as something more than a cute bear. Someone, finally, saw him as something else than perfect, and that is good! Because no one is perfect, because we are all flawed. The point of the story is to accept that imperfection is good, and is part of the beauty of life.

Riz, in his fantasy, believed that Tem had seen him as monstrous as he possibly could be and had still seen him as a friend worthy of love. Unfortunately, what truly happened was that Tem, who up till then had never actually seen carnivores as a real threat, suddenly had to face what everyone else told him: that carnivores hide their true, dangerous self.

The big tragedy about their story is that none of them are wrong. Tem did exactly what society taught him to: be nice and friendly to carnivores, and they'll be nice to you. He just saw Riz as another classmate, another boy just like he was, not even aware of their differences.

But that's the problem with the whole Beastars' world: you don't truly accept someone until you know everything about them, and that includes the negative things. Ignoring stuff you don't like solves nothing. As Riz realized, the way to shorten the distance between carnivores and herbivores is to show yourself as you are, with all your virtues and flaws, and hope for others to accept you as such. You can't hide what you're afraid to show others because you don't wanna be rejected, because it will eat you from inside, and that's what ends up causing carnivores to lose it: the stress from trying to be what others want you to.

And that's exactly why Riz's headaches and side effects went away when talking to Tem: the pills are just a narrative device that works to show how, the more "likable" carnivores try to be around others, the more it hurts them. It's not a placebo effect, but it is only an example of how things get better when we just talk and listen to one another.

Seriously, if you paid attention to the whole story, you'd see that Pina was literally the only one who could give him the relationship with a herbivore that Riz longed so much for:

Pina, who knew that he ate Tem. Pina, whom he threatened more than once, Pina, whom he literally hurt just to get Legoshi mad. That sheep, who saw the worst of him, accepts him anyways, deems him deserving of forgiveness, and befriends him. Pina is what Riz always wanted: someone who could see him as a complete monster and love him regardless.

Herbivores' and carnivores' relationships are about taking that risk, accepting that things may go wrong, but trying to be better together anyway. Yes, Riz does deserve to be in juvenile because he made a mistake, BUT he also deserves kindness, and someone willing to help him, and Pina is the one animal that can do that for him. Just like Riz & Tem's relationship represent the mistakes most make, Riz & Pina's represents the way to do things better.

[drunkoffsmoke]

could I request a 2nd part to the prev riz ask where the reader wants to forgive riz for what he’s done? Thanks!

a/n: of course! this was a but difficult to write, but fun nonetheless! (also super sorry for taking so long to reply, i really hope i made it worth the wait...)

pairing: riz x short!male!bear!reader

fandom: beastars

genre: fluff, headcanons, making amends, yada-yada. you and riz are chill now.

p1 here.

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୧‿̩͙ ˖︵ ꕀ⠀ ♱⠀ ꕀ ︵˖ ‿̩͙୨

little story again

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You haven't seen Riz for awhile now. Ever since the truth has been found out, ever since Legoshi confronted him that night and blood was spilled, nobody really wanted to talk about the former Cherryton student. It's like he was a ghost now, one that needed to be forgotten. But you couldn't move on.

The news spoke of him, calling him a 'dangerous individual' and a 'heartless monster' for taking Tem's life for his selfish desires. Sure, he was selfish for wanting to continue the chain of 'predators feast upon prey' chain, but he didn't deserve half of the things said about him. You knew that very well.

You refused to visit Riz due to many reasons, one of them being the not-so-pleasant memories you had with him, in which he no longer smiled warmly, but with malicious intent. Yet one of the other students visited him, and said he was a changed bear. So, you clenched your jaws and gathered all of your courage and made your way towards the facility where your friend was held.

It took awhile to get you to talk to him, mainly because you didn't reserve a meeting with him. You waited, seated on a chair, anxiously tapping your claw against your lap. Countless questions swarmed your brain, questions only the future would be able to answer. Before you could get too lost, footsteps could be heard approaching, and you looked up to see one of the guards.

''Follow me.'' The tiger stated, and you wasted no time in getting up and trailing after the taller animal. Before you could enter the room where Riz was held, you were supposed to drop your phone and other metallic accessories in a small tray. You did as told, anxiety bubbling inside of you the longer you had to follow the guard.

You stopped in front of a metal door, which was guarded by two other animals─one of them a bull, and the other a lion. Or a maned lioness? Before they could unlock the door they had to give you the rules. ''No getting too close to the inmate. You are to not give him anything, no matter how small or harmless it is. You will be monitored and your conversation will be recorded. Is that clear?'' The lion's soothing voice caressed your ear, and you identified them as a lioness. You nodded, finding difficulty in speaking at the moment, and the bull turned to unlock the door.

You stepped inside, instantly greeted with a table and two chairs, positioned across each other, and you hesitantly took a seat. There was nothing that you could hear aside from the soft thumping of your heart, and the occasional chair creaking under your weight. You lightly flinched as the metallic door was opened once more, and you turned around to see Riz handcuffed, with a muzzle and the two guards holding him by his arms. They led him to the other chair, swiftly cuffing him to the table, before disappearing quickly and locking the door behind them.

You stared at Riz, and he stared at you. He had an apologetic smile on his face, which you could barely spot due to the restraints he had around his muzzle. He'd be lying if he said he didn't miss you,

And you'd be lying if you said you didn't miss him.

headcanon time !!

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He's changed. Drastically.

You've never seen him this calm, this at peace.

Riz spoke to you calmly, and even tried to wave, despite the handcuffs not really helping him.

He talked to you about the past, how he was feeling, and even apologized for the way he's treated you. He said that his time in jail has made him understand certain things that his past self couldn't have ever understand.

He wanted to start all over with you and treat you the way you should be treated.

You were hesitant, you didn't know whether you should or not.

But when you saw the tired look in his eyes, the guilt clawing at his throat whenever he spoke, you knew he truly changed.

And you accepted.

Nearly every week, when time allowed you, you'd visit Riz.

The guards have grown used to you, and they said they might remove his muzzle if he behaved nicely. Obviously they needed approval from their superior, but Riz's behavior was monitored 24/7, they knew he was no longer the beast that they brought in.

Unfortunately you never knew how long he would remain in prison, but you promised you'd wait for him.

Soon enough, due to his good behavior, he was allowed to receive gifts.

You bought him books, poetry, and even paper for him to continue his passion for origami.

He appreciated every single gift you brought him, and promised that he will do the same to you when he's out.

''But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever,'' - Haruki Murakami

reblogs & likes r greatly appreciated !!

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BEASTARS MASTERLIST

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⨁ HARU /THE WHITE DWARF RABBIT ⨂ TEM /THE ALPACA ⨁ JACK / THE LABRADOR ⨂ LEGOSHI /THE GRAY WOLF ⨁ COLLOT /THE OLD ENGLISH SHEEPDOG ⨂ LOUIS /THE RED DEER ⨁ PINA /THE DALL SHEEP ⨂ RIZ /THE BROWN BEAR ⨁ MELON /THE LEOPON ⨂ JUNO /THE GRAY WOLF ⨁ BILL /THE TIGER ⨂ GOHIN /THE PANDA

⨁ MULTI-SHIPS

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This is the second part of a two-part rambling about parallels between some of the carnivores in Beastars; if you haven't read the first part, you should do that here, but the tl;dr for part one is as follows:

Carnivores in Beastars are told that they defined by their strength (both physical and emotional), swagger, and hunger (both metaphorical and literal), but are also simultaneously told that they must proudly embrace these things to be "true carnivores", and that they should be ashamed of these things which make them a threat to herbivores. Bill and Legoshi each initially attempt to dogmatically cling to one of these lines, Bill the former and Legoshi the latter, and all it does is make them miserable; their character arcs see them abandon these positions for a more nuanced middle ground where they can live happier lives.

With that out of the way, we can move onto the second part:

Carnivore Parallels, part 2 - Riz & Ibuki

Having established the start of Legoshi and Bill's arcs in the first quarter of the manga, in the second quarter of the manga, Paru Itagaki builds on the ideas and themes explored in those arcs through the characters of Riz and Ibuki.

Riz and Ibuki are parallels both to Legoshi and Bill, and to each other. They're dealing with the same contradictory societal messages of "carnivores should be proud" versus "carnivores should be ashamed" that Legoshi and Bill are, but, they have additional pressures or factors exacerbating their situation that Legoshi and Bill don't.

Riz, like Legoshi, internalizes the "carnivores should be ashamed" message and comes to loathe himself for existing as a carnivore - as he explicitly tells Tem, "the real me isn't a good person". Unlike Legoshi, however, he has the additional circumstance that bears are made particularly ashamed of who they are by literal law, forced to take drugs with debilitating physical and mental side effects as punishment for being large and strong - and then given no support whatsoever for dealing with the side effects of those drugs beyond whatever self-medication they can work out themselves.

Ibuki, like Bill, internalizes the "these are things of which you should be proud" message. Unlike Bill, however, he has the additional circumstance that lions are told they are the kings of beasts and must live up to an especially extreme version of that ideal, and the personal history of being sold into slavery and getting drawn into a yakuza gang whose leader enforced the harshest, cruelest conception of what it meant to be king of beasts, which means the things which Ibuki did in the name of proving his worth as a carnivore are much more extreme, and induce much more guilt, than anything Bill ever did.

These additional circumstances push Riz and Ibuki over the edge, and where Legoshi and Bill get lucky, end up on the path to dealing with the self-loathing that came with their dogmatic adherence to the societal messaging, for Riz and Ibuki it ends in tragedy.

Riz ends up totally isolated, in physical pain and mental distress, failed by the Cherryton faculty, failed by Louis in his capacity as drama club leader (since Louis at this point is too busy hating carnivores to care about them), failed by a society that punishes him for merely existing as a bear. He ends up with no real friends, except for one herbivore who looks at him and isn't afraid - Tem - and his mental stability ends up resting entirely upon that one herbivore who looks at him and doesn't hate him, doesn't fear him, who gives him an escape from his self-loathing.

Ibuki does enough horrible stuff in the Shishigumi trying to play the part of the king of beasts that he comes to utterly fear and hate himself as a "mass of unstable darkness", he sees no escape from the bloody corner he has backed himself into, trapped playing a part that he hates but can't hope to get out of - leaving the mafia isn't exactly easy, and Ibuki has nothing beyond the black market, having been sold to it so young. The only thing keeping him going is the one herbivore who looks at him and isn't afraid - Louis - and his mental stability ends up resting entirely upon that one herbivore who looks at him and doesn't hate him, doesn't fear him, who gives him an escape from his self-loathing.

And the moment that herbivore leaves…

Riz doesn't take his pills and wounds Tem by accident; Tem, who - going by what we get in looking at the backstories of other herbivore characters - has no doubt been bombarded his whole life with the idea that he ought to be scared of carnivores, that he ought to hate carnivores, freaks out and runs away. The one person who looked at Riz and didn't hate or fear him now screams at him that carnivores are nothing more than monsters.

Seeing the entirety of his support network vanish in an instant, Riz suffers a mental breakdown, murders his only friend, spends months slipping deeper and deeper into delusion as he desperately tries to live with the mix of the self-loathing he already had and the guilt of what he's done, and, once caught by Legoshi, goes to prison for god-knows-how-long for it.

Ibuki can't convince Louis to stay in the Shishigumi, since Louis - progressing along his own character arc - has realized that actually he does care for the carnivores in his life, and wants to make sure that Legoshi doesn't get himself killed. He resolves that he'd rather die happy under Louis’s leadership, next to him, than keep on living in misery and self-loathing.

He knows that he gave Free a gun and told him to use it if it ever looked like he was going to attack Louis, and he knows that Free followed him and Louis into the tunnel (this particular detail is left kind of vague in the manga and the anime, but it's super clear in - of all places - the full music video for the season two ED). So he makes it look like he's going to attack Louis, knowing that either Louis will shoot him, or Free will shoot him, and either way he'll get his wish of dying happy next to the boss he faithfully served.

Neither Riz nor Ibuki had any control over the fact that they were born as carnivores, nor the species they were born as. But the way they were treated as a result ultimately results in suffering and death.

But - and here's where Paru twists the knife - we still see it made clear that Riz and Ibuki could've been like Legoshi and Bill, could've had happier endings, had society not failed them so relentlessly and repeatedly.

Riz, as we see in the chapter where he cooks for his roommates and in his flashbacks to his friendship with Tem before it all went wrong, was legitimately a kind and amicable and reliable person, like Legoshi is for his roommates. He has cooking as a hobby in the way that Legoshi has that interest in bugs, and so on and so forth.

But while Legoshi got really lucky the night he nearly killed Haru - the one thing that prevented Legoshi from becoming a murderer just as much as Riz was Zoe running outside to get Legoshi's help after Louis broke his fucking leg - and Riz, through no fault of his own, didn't.

Meanwhile, in the same way that Bill shines when he's caring for Els and his friends and the drama club and the shock chick because deep down he’s warm and caring and supportive, Ibuki really shines when he's being warm and fatherly towards Louis.

Seriously, Ibuki is the best damn dad Louis gets in this manga. Louis’s birth father is a total nonentity in his son's life, and while Oguma loves Louis, his obsession with the business means that he isn't there for Louis like he should be, and he only really changes that on his literal deathbed when he realizes that this is his last chance to be a father to his son. Ibuki, meanwhile, is basically always there to look out for Louis, even when Louis would rather pretend he doesn't need help.

Riz and Ibuki have tragic fates not because they're bad people, but because society dealt them a losing hand, because of who they were born as and the world they were born into. Because of sheer bad luck beyond their control.

In a society that didn't fail carnivores, in a society that didn't fail bears and lions so particularly and severely, Riz and Ibuki could've ended up like Legoshi and Bill. They could've gotten on the path to resolving that self-loathing, to finding a place for themselves in the world, a place that they're comfortable in, people who care for them. But the society of Beastars does fail carnivores, and it does fail bears and lions particularly severely, so two characters who could have had full and happy lives are jailed and dead respectively.

As a result, the two of them stand as parallel tragic mirrors; they're dealing with the same societal failures that Legoshi and Bill's arcs involve dealing with, but because society especially screwed them, even compared to other carnivores, their paths end in tragedy, both for them and those around them.

Legoshi, Bill, Riz, and Ibuki are part of the broader picture Paru Itagaki paints of the society in Beastars, and perhaps the overarching point that Paru makes through all of her characters is that this carnivore-herbivore societal arrangement, as it stands, works for nobody. Herbivores live their lives in constant fear and regularly face either infantilization or objectification, carnivores live with constant self-loathing either for being carnivores or for not being carnivore enough, and hybrids get all the downsides of both with the upsides of neither. Nobody benefits from it, but everyone acquiesces to it because they think it's normal, natural, inevitable - and that results in people being bent and broken by it.

And boy, even though Beastars isn't a one-to-one allegory about any particular real world thing, doesn't that feel relevant?

[doopn00p]

Herbivore with guns

[anotherbeastarsblog]

I really really wanna do a Riz and Pina story that just rips to shreds the idea that they're actually a good couple but it feels mean and it'd be pretty intense trying to write and I've got the terminal Brain Bad that's got me already hung up on like 6 other WIPs rn but hear me out

Pina's one of those characters who everyone likes and everyone wants to like so we interpret him in the most generous way possible, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that and in fact him growing as a person is all considered the more likely scenario, but we don't really have a solid reason to think he's not still the little shitheel that goes around antagonizing people for shits and giggles. Maybe it doesn't even matter what his actual intentions are for this idea, maybe Pina just doesn't realize what a massive backhanded move it is, what matters is how he affects Riz, and Riz has PLENTY of reasons to not think Pina's changed.

Legoshi didn't want to call the cops because he knew the carcaral system would be bad for Riz, Riz actually had his breakthrough that let him start processing his shit for real because Legoshi decided to fight him. Riz probably would've insisted on turning himself in sure but Legoshi could've pushed him toward actual treatment and once Gouhin got him he could've actually acclimated y'know.

Pina is the reason he's in jail. Pina is well known for making carnivores uncomfortable because Pina actually understands the power herbivores have over them in society. Pina is one of the only people on Earth who know Riz has an obsessive personality and a deep need for connection and a particular affinity for little wooly guys. How is Riz supposed to think anything about Pina other than that he's here to mock him? Make Riz "like" him so he doesn't kill him when he gets out.

And what's maybe worse is it's working. The guards are uncomfortable letting Pina in but he's an herbivore, he can get what he wants, it just means Riz is in a few more restraints than usual, fuck they won't even let his family visit most of the time but Pina gets whatever Pina wants. It means Pina is his only friend, it means the focus of his obsession is slowly sliding off Tem and onto Pina, he can feel it, and he hates it.

But he can't talk to anyone about it, his case manager and his mandated therapist think it's good for Riz to be able to acclimate himself to an herbivore like that. If he complains he'll get a sentence extension. If he confronts Pina or scares him off then there's no herbivores around to vouch for him, to show how much "progress" he's making. Of course Pina could just get bored and stop coming some day anyway, and what does that mean for Riz? He has to play along, let Pina think he's making him uncomfortable, but play nice anyway?

It's not bad enough that he's losing a decade of his life to a system that hates him, now he has to juggle keeping his real self alive and not broken by the system, looking like he's doing what everyone wants him to for even the chance of getting out one day, and let this smarmy little fuck bat his feelings around?? All because Pina gets whatever he wants, the world was made for people like him, Rex he wishes he actually pully that pretty boys guts out when he had the chance but no even at his absolute lowest Riz always had to acquiesce to pretty perfect little Pina, he can do whatever he wants to Riz, and Riz will let him, and trying to draw the line between whether it's survival, lust, rage, desire gets harder every day.

[neversthecharm]

Beastars but instead of drama club they’re all in band

I made this on my notes app like a bit over a week ago. Some of these are based on their respective songs on the ost

Legoshi- trombone cause it’s a versatile instrument and highly under appreciated tbh

Louis- alto saxophone (is that even a question), small yet very popular and have good range, very jazzy which suits him duhh also fun facts I play alto as my “secondary” instrument

Bill - trumpet, smaller instrument yet it can be very loud and very very in your face, takes a lot to tolerate it LMAOO I also used to play trumpet

Pina- clarinet, it’s used in both of his themes. Smooth instrument, smaller and quieter in size yet still has energy to it which goes well with him

Juno- euphonium/baritone, her themes has a trombone in it but I like the idea of her playing euphonium. Highly under appreciated instrument shout out to the baritones out there

Riz- percussion I think people would normally assign him as a tuba but idk percussion suits him. They can range from quieter and softer(?) sounds like marimbas and vibraphones to loud and more bold ones like snares

Others but without explanations cause I’m lazy and I don’t care for them as much

Tao- tuba

Ellen- clarinet

Zoe- flute

Aoba- bass drum

Kai- trumpet

Tem- marimbas

Sheila- Bari saxophone

Dom- trombone

Kibi- tenor sax

[shifty-fics]

I didn't originally plan for Emily's mother to be a sympathetic and tragic character, but as the story developed, doppels became less of the villains, and I started thinking about how her and MC's parents met, things changed

MC's dad was already set up to be a horrible person, so I realized I couldn't do that again with Mallory

A lot of my inspiration for her story was Beastars, specifically relationships like Haru and Legoshi, Melon's parents, Tem and Riz, and even the story of the wolf and the camel from Beast Factor

I knew while writing the main story that MC had to change and grow as a person by the end of the story, so the seeds were planted. To have a tragic character like Mallory die by the hands of the MC and Francis, two people who knew nothing of her pain and only acted in self defense, would be an effective way to avoid their actions existing in a vacuum and show it's not black and white. Hell, it can even be debated if killing her was a mercy with how far gone she was, just depends how you want to look at it.

Winslow's perspective also brings to mind the idea that the reader did essentially keep a mother away from her child. Was the child scared of her? Yes. Was it necessarily dangerous for her to be with the mom though? Possibly. She had been the best mother she could but in her blood frenzy who's to say where her mind is

MC isn't some righteous hero, they are just as morally gray as everyone else. They make mistakes and false assumptions, they have knee-jerk reactions. Like everyone else, they're just surviving