#Sifu Sean

[raphies-art-blog]

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For Huevember this year, I did Yandere Prompts and called it Yanvember. Of course this is all on my insta and you know, you can drop a like or follow there, I’d appreciate it. I had a lot of fun doing this, but man it was killer.

[arleniansdoodles]

Happy Chinese New Year! And happy 2nd anniversary to the best Kung-Fu game I have never played! <333 Don't get me wrong, I'd really love to play it; I just don't have the time or enough space on my computer T_T

So I thought I'd draw the whole gang having a little New Year's party to celebrate! XDD MC gets out her camera and takes photos of everyone - even Sean, whom she finds notoriously hard to get a good picture of loll Kuroki and Jinfeng are of course the most stylish of the bunch; Fajar's just glad to have a new coat, which he's very careful about keeping clean (even as he hovers near the free food loll)

Also, quick note, the game uses simplified Chinese for "Sifu" but I decided to go with traditional just to keep it consistent with the "Happy New Year" text :)

[eurodynamic]

SEAN – "THE FIGHTER" SIFU (2022) dev. Sloclap

[tytumbles]

SIFU (2022).

After 70+ years, I have achieved wude.

[adriartts]

"Forget about it. If you're not on the list, you're not getting inside."

YOIF this took so long but also it was a blast i fuckin love this level and I always enjoy coloring with neon so this was bound to happen

↑ original screenshot

[yvesrything]

Oh my god the pre-lulus just cant stop

[emilkylime]

Something in the water at Lulu is making them engineer the messiest quits possible, huh?

[sempiternox]

9 days too late, but I don't care.

Got the idea from 5secondfilms' Cinco de Mayo videos ^^

[celibibratty]

Ngl, would be kinda cool to imagine an idea of lis2 sifu AU, okay, lets think, the main characters I not even need to say who will be, do I?, this yang, his our main characters big brother...sooo It all points to sean(but its kinda weird taking in consideration we also have a "sean" in the game, tho sean doesn't look like neither of them, tho "I tired of this shit"(this a dialogue of this sean(sifu)) is a very sean(lis2 sean) thing to say😒, and the older version of this yang doesn't combine with the older version of sean(that could be him from bb I guess?), It doesn't need to be coherent to the original characters, lets pretend sean being this yang so It makes more sense with Daniel.

the vengeance, like, Daniel would be avenging who? Because in the logic of the game, the main characters are avenging their father's death, so Daniel would be avenging...Esteban?😒(spongebob hawaiian cocktail playing in background), sorry!! I just don't like esteban(I respect him as sean and daniel's father, but I don't care about him), I mean this one kind makes sense, the problem is that I DON'T LIKE ESTEBAN💦(and the visual gets me too, our main characters father is an old man, I mean esteban is an old man too, but our main characters father looks like a grandpa and Esteban looks like "a daddy😩👌"or dilf(I don't like much this word), tho playing the opening again ngl I found the old man kinda good looking, he's an old man of respect, I prefer the old man than Esteban😒)

this fajar, this one is easy, for me super combine to be the gangster/short dude that got fucked up both in bb and lw(cuz I feel this dude have a tension with daniel, the same way our main characters have a tension with this fajar because he is the one that killed them, so they have this fear, but also this hate/rage towards him), actually all the three First bosses could be portrayed by the gang members If you want, the short dude would be this fajar, the big bald dude this sean and the girl could be this kuroki, this one makes sense cuz those are characters I could Cleary see daniel messing with, its just funny cuz they are very random

okay, but if you want some important characters, this fajar for me super combines this dude, this sean unfortunaly idk, this kuroki if you want It could be lyla😒, one of the things that make lyla combine with this kuroki for me, its that both of them combine with the word "bitch", I feeling kinda bad to associate this kuroki with this word 😅but it kinda combines with her, but ofc way more to lyla, ugh, I don't like this girl)

the old lady I mean this jinfeng, tsc, its very obvious who combine to be, lisbeth!, even the way our main characters kill this jinfeng is exactly alike the way Daniel kills lisbeth and I never notice that, I mean I founded similar when I saw it, but its more similar than I thought(i always thought that our main characters killed this jinfeng by choking her, but playing again and again now I see that they actually break/crack her neck, thats what kills her, which exactly what daniel's do when he kills lisbeth, and both deaths/scenes are kinda creppy, our main characters is a cool creppy, daniel's to me its a bad creppy(I have a trauma with this scene/episode 4 in general💦), but I will accept for the sake of coherence😓

(jokes asides, what makes lyla have something in common with this kuroki is that both have some sadness/mental problem(like depression!? idk what this kuroki have, but she has/had something and lisbeth and this jinfeng are both very gredy old ladies)

[springcatalyst]

i just realized my rant under the club piece cut off at 30 tags even tho it let me write out more than that and i need to have this somewhere or i'll die so it is now yalls problem. alas

the fuckign. the way that the bosses each foil the main character in sifu. the intrinsic way their personalities and motivations are portrayed and told to us as the player is cool as balls anyway but their contrasts and similarities to the mc is. how u say. really satisfying

Kajar is, by all intents and purposes, a hermit. He has drawn dramatically inward in these 8 years, so much so that Yang is the ONLY one who is allowed to see him. He seems to spend all his time working, growing things. He never leaves that warehouse. Likewise, the mc is overwhelmingly alone- it's part of the pitch of the game, but really. We never get evidence that he has any friends, any family left, he doesn't really interact with people in a way that isn't violent. The most we get is indifference from the few non-aggressive npcs. A look around the wuguan shows that he just pours all his time and energy into this quest of his- finding his targets and training. There's not really room in that for a social life. The mc seems to look down on how oddly alone and holed-up Kajar is, but he does the exact same thing, just to less an extent. He's hypocritical that way.

Sean is FUCKING fascinating as a character, and even more so as a foil because he is a near-perfect juxtaposition. Both their fathers were members of the guardians... Sean took part in the thing that killed his own father. Chances are, Sean himself killed his own father. That's a far cry from the revenge we see the mc seek for his. But Sean also has people. He has built himself a community of sorts- it's imperfect and more than a little cult-like but it doesn't feel like it stems from a power fantasy of his because he abides by the same rules- he, too, is burned. Contrast this from the mc's crushing isolation, something that Sean doesn't seem to have a problem with.

Kiroki's museum is a fantastic segment and when I first played through it I stopped to read all the descriptors once I killed the enemies in an area because damn. But her art is all about duality and identity: her fight, too, separated into two distinct and opposing segments. The mc exhibits a sharp dissonance from who he is when fighting to who he is when not. It's something I really like about the game- all those small segments after clearing a level where you get to just sit alone in the quiet for a moment before continuing forward. They're very contemplative, something you don't typically see in fighting games. A fight is all ruthless motion and violence, but after the fact, he seems to be a more thoughtful person than you would expect, considering. He's clearly patient: biding his time for 8 years until he knew he could do it, until he had the ability and the knowledge to pull this off. This duality is showcased in a much sharper way in Kiroki- she goes from "I don't want to fight you" to "I'll kill you a hundred times over" in very little time. All her minibosses tell you she's past this, she's put it behind her, she doesn't want to fight. But when she gets to it, she's not only very good at it, but she DOES enjoy a fight. These two things are both true, not as hypocrisy, but as twins of each other. Speaking of twins (lol)- Kiroki's twin's death and her subsequent grief and regret, the destruction of her family and the way it follows her for years, chases her out of her home- that, too, is something that directly parallels the player character.

Jinfeng, I think, means well. Or at least, she did. She started her business and as well, her goal of killing the other guardians, to help people. But in the end she remains just another functionally useless CEO, up in her ivory tower, looking down at the people she began all this to aid. She, like the guardians she resented, keeps secrets hidden underground and uses her power to help herself, her acquaintances, and few others. Our character, likewise, began his quest with arguably honorable intentions. But he kills more than just the five that hurt him along the way, and hurts so many more. By the time he reaches his goal you have to ask: what has he really accomplished? All he's doing is continuing the same violence. All she's doing is upholding the same status quo.

Yang is the most obvious parallel to the player character. He is a direct line from here to there, from what he was to what he is- a line that the mc is following to the letter. Yang is, similarly to Jinfeng, a cycle of the same harm, the same violence. Yang was enbittered with loss and he used that to justify hurt- our character does the very same thing. He becomes precisely what he despises, and you see it coming from a mile away. But because of the different endings, he can also be a cycle broken. It depends on the choices you make. He is one thing, or the opposite. A parallel, or a juxtaposition.

And the thing about the bosses too is that the five of them together also prove something interesting, and that's that they are all so interconnected. 8 years later and their lives stay entwined, at least to an extent. Sean sends fighters to defend all the rest, particularly Kiroki and Yang, and is acutely aware of your killing of Kajar. Members of Kajar's gang are also members of Sean's club. Yang routinely checks up on Kajar, treats him for some illness that is never specified but is clearly chronic, or at least long-term. Jinfeng funds both Kiroki and Yang, and either has replicas of each other bosses' weapons, or gathers them after you kill them. Yang holds pieces of each member in his wuguan- courtesy of their talismans. They stay entwined even after their task is complete, aiding and defending one another. The main character has none of this. He is, as previously mentioned, remarkably alone. There is no evidence pointing to any allies, anyone at all on his side. He justifies and moralizes his revenge but ultimately who mourns for his death? The deaths he inflicts will cause far more ripple than his own ever would, because they are actually connected to each other. He is alone and so, as cruel as this sounds, his death would not be felt. Theirs will be and are as he stubbornly refuses to die. Of course, this doesn't have to be true: he can choose- not forgiveness, even, but nonviolence- and in doing so, chase away that isolation. But if he does what he set out to do, he stays alone just as much as they stay connected.

[professionalfixator]

I've had a divine vision.

If you stanned __ during 45, you now stan ___ in 46

Dee, Venus ("is she kind of a mean person? sure. still a queen tho", oddly aggressive with other fans on social media, will excuse anything she does)

Austin, Hunter ("himbo sweetheart pls win this for us", also love bromances)

Jake, Ben ("they're so skeojajslks BABYGIRL")

Katurah, Soda ("she can do no wrong in my eyes", will defend their girl against all the people hating on her for really lame reasons)

Julie, Maria ("mother is mothering", really want a middle aged female winner, strongly believe this is their time!!)

Drew, Tevin ("is he a little mean? yes. it's iconic tho & we all know he's actually a sweetheart deep down", will defend him against any and all haters, also love bromances)

Emily, Kenzie ("people can change, guys!", love a good underdog success story)

Bruce, Liz ("everyone hates them, but not me!" wants them to win just to clown on everybody, not sure if they acc believe it or not)

Kendra, Moriah ("she's so silly i love her", love her quirkiness & free spirit, desperately hoping she'll go far in the game)

Kellie, Jem ("BRING HER BACK!", mourning their strong and strategic winner pick gone too soon, not having a good time rn)

Kaleb, Q (love dominating threats with solid social games, also deeply afraid of their giant targets getting them voted out)

Sifu, Randen (had such high hopes, unfortunately things did not go well, also got criminally underutilized in the edit)

J.Maya, Jess ("they did my girl so dirty :(", loved them for their chaotic and fun personalities, were personally offended by the low-key bullying they received from the other female players)

Brando, Charlie ("my nerdy son who i have such high hopes for", really hoping for the best this time around, find their hyperspecific interests in things endearing)

Sean, Bhanu (not sure how to explain this one)

Sabiyah, Tiffany (a whole queen with a shit ton of strategic potential, has to put up with the constant madness from her chaos loser tribe)

Brandon, Tim (really like underrated side characters?)

Hannah, Jelinsky ("they are legends in my eyes", love the messiness, embrace the chaos)

if you think i'm wrong...🤷🏻‍♀️

[arleniansdoodles]

Some pre-Sifu art this time; last time I drew child!MC training with Sean was at the beginning of my Sifu art journey ... Feels like a long time ago, but it hasn't even been half a year now that I think about it ^^;;

Anyway, here they are again! I'd say it's a companion piece to my old painting of Yang training MC :D Also, I don't think Sean spent a lot of training time with MC (that was Yang's job loll), but those times he did would've stuck with her. Sean just gives me those "strong first impression" vibes XDD

[cutielatias]

does this guy ryan gosling is haunting me? everything that i like has some reference or something relate to that guy at some point. life is strange 2 with sean shirt on ep4 (i know that his shirt image is about a meme of this guy) sifu with the white jacket (i know that the jacket is a reference of a movie call "the driver", and guess who wear this jacket and it's the movie protagonist?…this guy again!) and now we have the barbie movie where this guy is the ken. ok, are only 3 things (which doesn't seems much but its funny that it happend 3 times) this guy is everywhere! It's only missing the pokemon😅 the way that it is i don't doubt it that will have something about that guy at some moment…does have?

[mysweetoddbird]

i almost wonder. if sean didnt believe them about the plan to vote out sifu. and just wanted his departure to look like it was his idea the whole time

[pitty-aegis-parlor]

So for an understanding on what was going on, the world you saw was known as Sifu. A Kung-Fu Student’s family, most notably his father who they respected very much was killed by 5 Martial Arts Masters, one of them being Yang, the students older brother. The Student was only 11 years old at the time of the incident when Fajar cut the students throat, though the student had a pendant that would resurrect him after each death, at the cost of aging one year, therefore The Student was resurrected at the age of 12. When he saw that his father was killed, The Student swore vengeance in the 5 masters responsible, being Fajar, Sean, Kuroki, Jinfeng, and Yang, so he spent the next 8 years training so he could avenge his father, and that’s what he did once he was 20. He killed all 5 of the Masters responsible for his fathers death, including his brother Yang, but at the end of it all, The Student never found satisfaction even after getting revenge, just emptiness.

Where it all began.

Ooohh, a martial arts movie in the style of a videogame? Sounds like fun!

Are any of these “videogames” about knights?

Wow… those are some huge family issues they have!

[shamefulzombie]

Is Sifu fandom still alive? I really miss that game and I still love Sean...