#Neku

[riotgrrrlkat]

I love Neku Sakuraba

[melonchews]

[owari--hajimari]

i never got around to cleaning this up but it kills me every time i see it in my files

[jisuto]

[waterpixelart]

I think it's neat how some of Neku's poses were recreated in NEO. Same goes for Beat, actually.

I made a compilation of Neku's poses in both games (there's more poses in gameplay but I've got no idea how I'd isolate those lmao) Let me know if I'm missing any

[joshnekuu]

I really am still just so obsessed with Neo’s take on Neku and his development. So obsessed with his calm, gentle, patient demeanor- his softness and his acceptance of a mentorly, leaderly role.

In love with the idea that this is something of a coping mechanism for him. If he can just focus on being the gentle and understanding mentor for Rindo and co, the reliable partner and take charge guy for Beat and his friends, then he doesn’t have to think about how painful everything is and he can ignore the justifiable anger and frustration he feels about everything he has been put through.

Like yeah, I do think that Neo Neku has reached a point where he feels that being angry isn’t productive and that’s what allows him to become so chill and willing to befriend and work with multiple people who have wronged him. But at the same time I think there’s an element of Neku putting himself and his own feelings behind everyone else’s.

But once he’s out of the Game, once the life or death stuff is behind him, once he actually has time and space to settle back into a normal life and perhaps sort through the mess of feelings he has… he isn’t able to do it. He doesn’t want to be angry and scared again. So he just focuses on being there for his friends. Soothing their worries, comforting their guilt and grief over having lost him and not being able to save him for those three years. Don’t worry about his grief, though. He’s fine. There’s nothing bothering him.

And this ties into my headcanons about him initially distancing himself from everyone emotionally, because he is worried. That if he shows them how damaged he is from everything, how bitter he feels sometimes, how ANGRY he is sometimes, it will only make them feel worse. They will feel even more guilty for their powerlessness, and he doesn’t WANT that. He doesn’t want to hurt them. It wasn’t their fault.

It’s easier to just be the softhearted mentor, the understanding friend. And if he has any negative feelings, anything he needs to bitch about… Joshua is there. He can always turn to the one person who understands the UG and everything he’s been through more than anyone else. He can blame Joshua, if he can’t bear the grief of it all. And Joshua won’t stop him, because Joshua knows and accepts that it was his fault and his doing.

Which, going back to my earlier post of Neku being jealous of Rindo… I think that being the catalyst for Neku to start showing some of his uglier feelings would be really interesting. Neku being forced to acknowledge that, yeah. He DOES feel like he was robbed of times and friendships he didn’t get to indulge in. And seeing Rindo get the post game happy ending that Neku was SUPPOSED to get… fucking sucks! Like yeah he’s happy for Rindo, he’s relieved that Rindo doesn’t have to go through what he did, but also! Fuck! Why not Neku? Why did he have to go through so much?

And finally being able to vocalize those ‘ugly’ emotions, being able to acknowledge that he wants more than what he was given… I think that is good for him. Realizing that he is not satisfied, and that he is allowed to ask for more. Forcing himself to talk about his feelings and his desires, and realizing that his friends WANT to be there for him, want him to rely on them more!! And that he doesn’t have to be this perfect, fully realized person who went through hell and came out 100% better for it- that he’s allowed to be angry and feel that he was treated unfairly.

I just need to sit down and write my post neo angst lol

[violet-gleam]

Remember Neku, always trust your partner

audio

[luxmoogle]

..what if Sora was just, chillin' over at Quadratum? :'D

[genericpuff]

I FUCKING LOVE MISERABLE JERKASS MALE CHARACTERS WHO TURN THEIR LIVES AND SITUATIONS AROUND AND BECOME MORE THAN WHAT THEY EVER THOUGHT THEY COULD BE AND WHAT SOCIETY MADE THEM INTO THROUGH THE SOFTENING OF THEIR TOXIC MASCULINITY AND EMBRACING THE SUPPORT OF THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AS A STRENGTH RATHER THAN A WEAKNESS

GOTTA BE ONE OF MY FAVORITE GENDERS FR FR

[kwoojii]

to answer the who is sora's dad in eimi lore /j

[tankbankss]

Oh Insomnia, seems we meet again

[cinnamon2tyx]

You decided which one is autistic and dead (the answer is both)

[stupidtwewymemes]

[owari--hajimari]

goddamn. hanekoma. playing dealer with a stacked deck. arming every faction. placing eggs in every basket. bets on every hand.

“an inevitability”; that the proxy handpicked by the composer would be a fan of CAT, the proxy being a fan of CAT ensures a strong imagination, the proxy possessing a strong imagination means the proxy’s worthy, the proxy being worthy ensures the composer would pick him. it didn’t have to be neku, necessarily, but it always would’ve been. neku is at the mural, because he is the worthy proxy, joshua is at the mural, because he’s there to collect his proxy, minamimoto is at the mural, because the fallen angel has informed him of the composer’s identity.

shibuya being destroyed is an unacceptable outcome. the composer must be stopped; the proxy must change his mind, the conductor must win their game, or the fallen angel’s game piece must kill him. there’s a perfect outcome out there, but insurance is necessary. so kitaniji gets his pins, minamimoto gets his taboo noise, joshua gets a busted tracker, and neku gets a mentor.

hanekoma lays the groundwork for neku to become the kind of person that can influence joshua. “trust your partner”, the other various advice, telling neku some things about joshua to get him to sympathize. and it’s because he’s neku’s idol that neku tries to internalize it, because it’s CAT saying these things. and neku died because he loved CAT’s mural. an inevitability.

[jisuto]

[waterpixelart]

twewy's original cast in their neo designs, as if they came from the Nintendo DS! (OG Rhyme sprite made by me, too)