#Mizu gender dischorse

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#she’s some kind of heir to something#who someone tried so very hard to kill#and someone else tried very hard to save

(via the-grand-gemini) I too subscribe to: Mizu's mother might be British! Especially with the past idealization of her "mother", male vs female power. I don't know how to say this properly, but having to come to terms with her white and therefore the violent/rejected part of herself being from her mother? When Mizi already has a difficult time existing as a woman both from society and feeling like she doesn't fit the role? To have all this anger towards four men suddenly be direct at the suddenly directed at her birth mother??? Symbolically the mother is the idolized feminine even the divine feminine in many cultures, the societal goal of all women (in this period and place) that Mizu is already not allowed to be? Having to physically confront symbolism of an idealized figure??? Having to kill her mother a second time? I feel like it'd be a predictable plot twist but could be amazing if the writing is good?

I literally got brain poisoned by 8 hours of blue eye samurai but the ending scene with Fowler already gives enough information for me to believe Mizu wasn’t an accident, wasn’t a product of rape, wasn’t a child of a whore.

What if, this entire time, Mizu was wanted. What if her mother, her real mother, is still out there. What if her parents had her together. What if they loved each other. What if her father actually wanted her. What if she was a product of love.

I think that would be the biggest twist possible for Mizu. But I don’t think that’s fully it.

Because who has been trying so hard to kill the blue eyed girl child? There’s only two choices. Her real mother…or her white father. One or the other.

Either her real mother tried to save her. And her white father tried to kill her.

Or it’s the reverse. Her real mother is trying to kill her. And her white father sent her away with money and a maid and a stipend.

Either way, none of this would matter, she would not matter, if her mother wasn’t Someone. Fowler had dozens of bastards by dozens of women. Mizu has a particular target on her back, because someone stands to lose something if her heritage could be proven.

Mizu is a Someone.

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#mizus gender is an enigma and a mystery. mizu is gender apathetic. to ME. mizu couldn’t care less.#that said. trauma related to gender doesn’t automatically cause someone to be trans. likewise however trauma related to gender doesn’t mean#they’ll wanna be their birth gender once they past their trauma. as Mizu is now#we can’t be sure and that’s fine.#the trauma of being a woman can also be very very separate from Mizu wanting to be trans too btw. like there’s a thousand different ways#you can spin this and they would all be satisfying to Mizu as a character.

#YES !!!! You worded it so well!!!!#the only thing I’d have to add is that I feel like even if you think mizu is cis it’s worth acknowledging the other aspects of the story#that sort of challenge that (even though I am pretty sure mizu will become more comfortable with being a woman later on rather than -#- transition completely to a man or deciding to be non-binary vice versa and etc)#because it is important to mizu’s character as a whole that you look at those points in the story and how mizu reacted to it and how we -#- think they probably felt!#sorry for the edited tags I rb’d this and realized I had more to say#coming back again. meant this in regards to Mizu as a whole not just their gender (via forgetmenautical)

#there’s nothing more to add here tbh these are just good tags#100% cis Mizu is interesting BECAUSE of the things that signal possible queerness makes it so#acknowledging the queer aspects of Mizu (esp if u think she’s cis) is important bcus it’s not only good for the character but it’s good to#just acknowledge and understand where people are coming from.#also like. not to make Mizu’s character all abt their gender but so much abt what’s interesting abt them is surrounded by their gender and#the roles they’ve been performing bcus of it. (via apatura-ires)

Mizu’s relationship with their gender is very very complicated and we MUST acknowledge that.

No one should have to justify why they think Mizu is one thing or the other, because Mizu’s past, their environment (how it treats women) and their negative associations with being a woman, can easily make a case for Mizu wanting to be a woman, or for Mizu preferring to be a guy. If I see ANY of you get mad at people for thinking Mizu is either a strictly a man or strictly a woman, or something out of the binary, I am going to GET you.

Any HC to do with Mizu’s gender has narrative merit and importance to Mizu’s character, and one does not make Mizu less complex than the other. One does not make less sense than the other. One does not MEAN less than the other. And even if it’s not about the narrative significance of them being trans or cis, and it’s more about how you think the character is coded, or even just their vibes, that’s fine too. A HC doesn’t need a justification.

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(via OP's post) #everything about mizu is so deeply upsetting#like ok revenge!!#revenge of what - exactly?!#white men?#and/ or your white self?#born against your will?#and who and what shapes this will of yours except the society you were born in?#this is so deeply fucked in every way#but anyways#I love Mizu and I hope he kills his father dead. if only - if only that would satisfy her.

#i am going to claw my eyes out#when the swordfather turned away and did not want to hear her confession. he was the only one she ever tried to tell. and he didnt want it.#SHE CALLED THE SWORDS IMPURE. BECAUSE SHE SEES HERSELF AS NOTHING BUT A STAIN AND A CURSE.#BUT THAT IS NOT ALL SHE IS. OR IS IT. SHE HAS FEELINGS AND SHE CARES AND LOVES SO DEEPLY.#I A M E A T I N G M Y E Y E S (via eerna)

#Mizu's conflict with her own identity is the very drive of her path and I loved every minute of it#The conflict of her birth her gender her mixed race her certainty that she has nothing but her revenge#She even has a conflict with her desire (via nithili)

#hm i think it's important to note that the agency afforded to mizu while she crossdresses or assumes the male gender#is also why she continues to pass as a man#idk if she rly identifies as a man bc in order for her to exist she has had to pretend she is a man#even when she was young and living with her mother#her mother shaved all her hair off because her father's men were looking for a girl child#and if mizu was a 'boy' then she would be harder to find#i think it's important to understand that so much of her identity is also based on a rejection of womanhood bc it has offered her#nothing but suffering#and on top of that she was excluded from that womanhood bc of her race too#it's true even for women now#a rejection of gender born out of a frustration of what that gender expects from you and the performance of that gender#in many ways i would say her revenge is based on that anger too#and the one time she very openly accepts womanhood - in the way that womanhood should be performed in edo japan - she is punished for it#and she is once again rejected despite doing 'everything right' bc she's mixed race#anyways i love mizu so much and i love her gender whatever it is#bc it encapsulates so much of my own struggle with gender and gender identity (via unmide)

#gender isn’t instrinsic or universal. its based on cultural contexts. but its still really complicated#he lives as a man most of the time and is comfortable occupying a masculine role in society. so he’s a man.#she feels like she has to live that way and resents that women have little choice in this culture. so she’s a woman.#mizu is kind of both! both the ronin and the bride. both a man and a woman#blue eye samurai (via cease-cartography)

I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?

On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.

I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.

And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.

And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.

So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.