#Majima mention

[angrybatart]

Sketch of a really neat chicken I saw in a dream last night. Will ink and color later, because it was just so gosh darn pretty. And I CAN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST. 😭

Dream description under the cut.

I tend to have upsetting/unsettling dreams when I'm stressed out. (I call them stress dreams.) Not necessarily nightmares, but they're not fun. And they stress me out even more, as they target whatever I fear.

In this case, I had one last night where demons were trying to get my chickens. (My coops are old and starting to fall apart, but we're working on getting a brand new one with a HUGE run set up.) I didn't really see what kind of demons they were, because it was some random person telling me what was happening. And I had an image one flash before me for a brief second....for some reason it was Majima's Hannya tattoo...

Like ....what the hell does Majima want with my chickens? Does Majima want to be like Kiryu and have a chicken run a business as manager for him???? (Good luck. Maybe my Australorp or one of the black and gold/red ones will do it for mealworms, but the others will peck/rip you to shreds first as they came to me with an extreme dislike for humans.) Also, when I last looked up Majima's tattoo, the Hannya is supposed to bring good fortune. So having that around my coops should actually be a good sign. Not ominous.

I dunno. I have weird dreams, and sometimes they upset me. But this one got interesting because I went looking for coops and found neat looking chickens.

[catragemiau]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! <3

[tojosuggestionbox]

When I was initially doing research on the clan prior to joining it, I did manage to find images of the Chairman before he took the position. All I will say is that my preference is for the Sixth Chairman to be happy and well. 2006 seemed to be a turbulent year.

[shoccolat]

AU where nishiki becomes a host and kiryu is his manager

[clownsuu]

Art block fucking sucks so

Poppet got pastries for the gamers :]

Hope you feel better my gamer🏵️🥄🥄

aWEE look at thembs ;;;

[bigfrogdraws]

kids ask the damndest questions dont they

[coltonlinde]

truly a ladykiller

the majimas!!!

[skrunksthatwunk]

blorbo bingo blorbo bingo. blirngbo. blorngo. :) blorbingio

even if no one interacts w this i was giggling kicking my feet etc deciding who i'd put on here. but also lmk who you can check off as (minimum) a silly guy of yours. @accurzed @nyarlathesleeper @seventhstone and idk whoever wants to join yk. i am personally and directly enabling you to make a favorite character bingo

[todayisafridaynight]

theres something really funny about how the other day i was talkin bout majima fans complaining and then like three days ago yokoyama says something and now theyre complaining again

[cheesecake801]

There is never too many Majima sketches to dump on you

[majimasleftasscheek]

OMGGGGG OLEASE WHERE DID THE KIRYU TATTOO LIGHTER COME FROM OMFG

it's official merch for y8 that was on preorder on ebten since last december if I recall but by now sold out. you can still find some via 3rd party sellers on jp marketplaces and ebay 👍 there is also an ichiban variant.

if anyone is interested in this, I rec ebay for this one - sellers there are more versed in selling things that are harder to ship such as lighters or flammable fluids like perfume internationally. in this case, they will disassemble the lighter so it's legal to ship.

*note: ebay also has many lighters that are NOT the official ones. the official one is zippo brand and only features the dragon. if a listing is cheap, it ain't the official one

if you must go proxy, I used fromjapan as they were able to dismantle the lighter upon request. but be sure to also request to dispose of the inner lighter components (flint and all that) so it's just the metal case left.

in any choice, ebay or otherwise, you would have to repurchase new lighter parts if you wanted it to be functional

[gazkerber]

Prison buddies

[baalzebufo]

guard dog

3am drabble about majima and haruka. very short, very sweet. wanted to get this down somewhere because ive been thinking about this scene all day.

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The voice is so soft he doesn't hear it the first time. He's too occupied with scrolling, the light from his phone the only illumination in the room, brain locked in that tired haze where sleep escapes you but you have no energy to do anything more. It's only when he hears the sniffle that he picks up on the presence lingering in the doorway.

‘Haru-chan?’ Majima squints, tilting the harsh blue of the phone screen away from his eye. He props himself up on his elbows. ‘That you?’

‘Oji-san…’

Oh no. Her voice quivers and immediately, Majima knows something is wrong. He sits upright, glad that the darkness hides his worry. Fuck- Kiryu wouldn't be home until tomorrow. He was good enough at babysitting Haruka when he had to, but this was new- what was he supposed to do now?

‘Hey, hey- Haru-chan…’ He mumbles, sitting up. ‘Whassup? What's wrong?’

Tiny feet pad against the hardwood floor and he feels the bed creak- then all at once, she's on top of him. Little arms wrap around his chest and he hears the muffled sob and-

Oh, shit. Majima’s hugging her, now. Pulls her close to his chest and holds her tight. She's crying.

‘Hey… s'alright. It's gonna be okay.’ He says, words uncertain. ‘Did ya… have a nightmare?’

She nods against him, grip tightening.

‘Okay… okay, I get it. Shh, c'mere-’ He leans back and pulls her next to him to lie down more comfortably, tugs the blanket back over himself and nestles her in. Okay, no need to panic- just comfort her. It can't be that hard- fuck, he wishes Kiryu was here.

‘Do ya’ wanna talk about it?’ He ventures. She shakes her head, burying it further into his collarbone. Her voice wavers up from beside him.

‘I want Uncle Kaz…'

Oh.

‘Yeah- yeah. You too, huh? Shh- s'okay.’

He rests his chin atop her head, shutting his eye. It must be even worse for her, he thought. She'd been through so much, and at such a young age… Kiryu must have been her entire world. To wake up, scared and alone, without the one person you knew could protect you…

Majima hugged her tighter.

‘S'okay. He'll be back tomorrow. But until then, I gotcha. I gotcha…’ He sniffed, the warmth against his chest making him feel… something. Something he hadn't felt in a long time.

‘I'd never let anythin’ happen to ya. Okay? I'll scare off all the bad dreams.’ He hushed her again, felt her shaking slow down and sniffles quiet. ‘No monsters or ghouls or nothin’ is gonna getcha when I'm around. They gotta get through me first.’

She hiccuped, a noise that might have been a tearful laugh.

‘Yeah. Yeah.’ He whispered. ‘Y'know, uh- th’ tattoo I got. The scary lady, right?’

There was a pause. Then, in the quietest voice-

‘I don’ think she's scary…’

Majima smiled.

‘Yeah, you don't, cause you're braver than anyone. But monsters, they're all real scared of her. She helps keep ‘em away. Even when I'm asleep.’ He whispered, almost conspiratorially- like he was sharing a big secret.

‘See… she's nice…’ Haruka mumbled, and Majima nodded in agreement.

‘Yeah, exactly. Means you can sleep here an’ you'll be safe and sound. I promise.’

He shuffled, arms hooked around the girl clinging to his chest as she released him to get more comfortable. He could, in the light of his phone screen still laying upright on the bed, faintly see her eyes. Still glistening with tears, but looking at him. Looking at him, like…

Like how she looks at Kiryu, he thought.

‘Thanks, Oji-san…’

Her voice was thick with sleep- must have been tuckered out from the crying, he thought. She buried her face back into his arm, nestled up next to him. Something soft and warm felt like it had crawled into his chest.

‘No prob, Haru-chan.’ He chanced it, and leant down to give her a kiss on the forehead. Felt the way, even in the darkness, her face creased with a smile.

‘Sleep tight, kid.’

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When Kiryu crept in the house early the next morning, the sight of Haruka's empty bed made his heart jump into his throat.

Only after he peered into his bedroom did he see the familiar sprawl of Majima, coiled protectively around his soundly sleeping daughter. One of her hands was resting on his head, fingers tangled in his hair.

As he turned away to prepare the kitchen for breakfast, Kiryu was glad they weren't awake to see the smile on his face and the tear that snuck down his cheek.

[junimoss]

nishitani is actually real as fuck because if i saw goro smoking somberly on the park bench, i would also become crazy obsessed with him

[dragon-business]

Parallels between Majima-Makoto and Kiryu-Tachibana

TW: SA mention + brief discussion of the Hole in the 3 paragraphs that are in brackets right under the cut.

So, for Majima Makoto was (amongst other things) a complicated metaphor of getting away from the bad past and being saved and healing and of having a chance to get your freedom and life back.

I can't, my heart tears itself apart thinking about them… it's all in the 👌 facing your pain through recognition in the other 👌the projection 👌 the empathy and mutual understanding 👌

(Speaking of them understanding each other, I do think some form of SA happened in the Hole, but like all SA it wasn't about sex, it was about control. It was part of the torture. I maybe even approve of how it was approached with some respect in the story, while still being a clear read.)

(And just like that I do not think Shimano or Sagawa were sexually abusing Majima after the Hole. They had different, no less terrifying ways to do that.)

(The deepest way Majima bonded with Makoto? The careful way they both talked around the past? And it breaks my heart how even with all this Majima went "well, it's nothing compared to what you went through.")

Facing Makoto as a mirror of himself Majima finds out he can't not try and be his best self. He finds out that for her he'd do anything no one ever did for him. Finds out he can never be like people that did terrible shit to him, even after many years of his self sacrificial crusade of revenge.

These stories fit together like pieces of the puzzle, the parallels are killing me. For Majima, helping Makoto is like holding on to a plank of wood in the middle of a storm, it's desperate and painful, like re-breaking a badly healed bone.

I don't even ship them. Partially because I read Majima as a gay man, partially because there is a lot of importance and value and reverence in this relationship even without the romance. My heart can barely handle how important they are to each other.

Ok, many words I can write on them aside, they are each others' symbols/final push for standing up for themselves, of taking their life back. And for Majima Makoto is also the symbol of the future and all the good things that can be possible. In the world and for Majima specifically.

And the terrible, scary question is – was Tachibana a symbol of a different, safer and more gentle life for Kiryu, too?

Because parallels.

Because despite trying so hard to get into yakuza world, Kiryu still fell so neatly into the civilian job. Because with all the fucked up stuff going on in the family at the time, it was Tachibana who was always pulling Kiryu out to safety, to normal life.

Because amongst the fucking despicable assholes killing and ruining lives in the blood and dirt over a tiny piece of land, Tachibana was there to find and save his family.

He did go into all the criminal stuff very young, like Kiryu - for his family. But unlike Kiryu, who was naive and didn't want to be left out, Tachibana did it to survive and to protect his family. And is now dealing with it all again, just to get his close ones back (Kiryu also became one of those close ones to get out of this mess along the way). He was all stoic face mute rock type, up until he learned that he can do it. And then he turned all his life around, put his everything into working for freedom from this bad shit.

And here comes Kiryu, repeating the same steps, getting into the mafia, going down the dark path for his own family. The moment of self recognition hit Tachibana like a top tier sports car, I bet. He's smart, he can piece together a lot of background info going around, considering he knows Kazama as well.

And Kiryu turned out to be not just a shivering big eyed puppy Tachibana picked up from a box in the rain. But a shivering big eyed puppy with themes and narratives. That is not only loyal, but also kind and stubbornly honest.

After a lifetime of treading half submerged in all the dirt of this world, this probably felt like a breath of fresh air (dang, Kiryu gets everyone with this).

*Gestures between Oda and Kiryu* Tachibana really got hit with the difference, didn't he.

Tachibana and Kiryu are 25 and 20! Majima and Makoto are 24 and 20! Insane, I'm going feral. 

It's all coming together.

Projections, parallels.

Because along the course of 0 Kiryu came full circle to Tachibanas' position both factually and personally. Because Tachibana and his quest of saving his family was the embodiment of all Kiryu wanted to be and to believe in in the world.

It's through helping him Kiryu finally faces the real world and who he wants to be in it. And turns out it wasn't the yakuza world. Him being connected to yakuza made this worse and harder, actually. Thank g-d he wasn't a yakuza anymore, right, hahah, sorry, dad.

Setting Kiryu up with Tachibana was probably the nicest thing Kazama did for Kiryu. Amongst all the manipulation and overt powerplays, only Tachibana was direct and honest with him (oh Tachibana, and his kokoro doking with Kiryu, man knows the value of honesty, and Kiryu has it in buckets).

- The parallels are very clear, and beautiful. Letting go of the past seemed imminent, freedom was within grasp.

But then Tachibana fucking dies in Kiryu's arms, and Majima doesn't let himself reconnect with Makoto, and both of them go "Yeah, I'm back in the family, it's all good, this is a nice logical choice I'm making here".

Majima lost Makoto on the last stretch of her journey, because his fucking past caught up to him (oh, the parallels), and so his metaphor was robbed of its conclusion. It was switched into another form of "you can't run away". It all would've been so different if they stayed together through it all.

Still, he didn't fully see, acknowledge his own trauma, until it looked at him with Makoto's eyes. Makes "you can't run away" more painful, tho.

And look at Majima afterwards – coming back to work under Shimano. But it's all alright now, he's free now, look, he's so crazy and wacky, crazy enough that no one can really control him anymore. Well except Shimano, who can still silence Majima with just his presence. But they don't meet much, so it's okay. It's fine.

And look at Kiryu, look at his past catching up to him, and taking Tachibana away from him. Look at Kiryu trying to help, but inadvertently causing death (hello, Jingu massacre, we didn't know about you yet, but Kiryu’s guilt from you looms over the Millennium Tower, too). Look at Kiryu's metaphor for the happier life wither away, while Tachibana is dying in his arms. 

(And Kiryu didn't even cry. We didn't see his face once. He let Makoto grieve her brother, because, what, he felt she had more rights for it?)

Look at Kiryu coming back into the family to "take his responsibilities". Because there's no responsibilities or future left for him outside of it.

Do you see what I mean? Do you understand?..

I want Kiryu and Majima to talk about Tachibana and Makoto. Because something something, they are the only ones who can understand all of this, understand what it means to the other. Something something, the shadows of Tachibana and Makoto meeting in Majima and Kiryu, like they couldn't meet in real life, and everything suddenly makes sense.

Something something, no one being a stand-in for anyone in this exchange, and this bit of the past now connecting Majima and Kiryu to someone, instead of separating them from the world.

But, I'm pretty sure, Majima will be able to have this conversation only after getting closure with Makoto, in his pre k2 substory. And I'm not saying I wrote it all out already… well, no, I am saying it. I did it.  We all need more hope and heart wrenching kazumaji moments.

So I guess you can look forward to the day I'll get to translating them (I'm going through all the notes in order, trying to not jump around too much)

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[heazueken]

‼️like a dragon infinite wealth spoilers‼️

i’m so sad thinking about Majima in y8 and how after everything that happened in y7 everything he worked so hard for Saejima is just gone. All those years he spent getting back in the yakuza and the things he had to do to get back into the yakuza just so Saejima could have a family to rely on he got out of jail…ugh i feel so bad for Majima and now he’s just a fisherman…lol that is all