#Yoruko

[nikeikeis]

didn't realize it's been so long since my last post... woops.

anyways, did a drawing of yoruko since it's her birthday today!

[shslanonymous]

Nikei in Yoruko outfit???

[the-yoruko]

Musings Under Moonlight, 16.

Longing.

It’s a simple, boring word yet it spans a vast array of feelings—desire, hunger, hope, aspiration, melancholy. It is often hushed, acknowledged only behind closed doors, and with each and every moment it spends hidden, it burns as an invisible catastrophe.

Longing.

It’s a restless, lasting, often wistful need for something, someone, unattainable. It’s as gray as asphalt, equally rough, jagged and cutting as its reflective cracks. It is earnest and deep, profound and engulfing as the ocean.

Longing.

It’s a tragedy, when one is enraptured by longing. For like its sisters, grief and anger, it too, has an iron grip, similarly unrelenting and unforgiving. It is subtle, a master of concealment in shadowed blues, surfacing only during the least expected moments and striking like the most venomous viper.

But you aren’t spellbound by it, are you, avecilla?

夜子☆

[palatteflags]

yoruko kabuya (from sdra2) based Genderdoe moodboard~ ^^ For an anon!! Hope you like how it looks~

Want one? send an ask!! -mod Jay

[siriusanotherside]

One thing I dislike about the SDRA2 fandom is the way they treat Yoruko, most people just call her Sora’s girlfriend and leave it at that, and rarely acknowledging her flaws like when she told Yuki to stop crying over Shinji’s death.

I don’t think it is a problem specific to this fandom. I see problems like this, of reducing a character to one-single personality trait and/or backpack for a ship, in every fandom I have ever been in. There is always, unfortunately, at least one character that gets hit with that stick. It sucks but it is unfortunately common.

I imagine that this kind of discussion might have been a matter of timing, as I imagine it would have happened around chapter 4 release and translation.

Another factor that might impact this, is the matter of, when comparing to everyone else plot, Yoruko being the civilian type of character who is minor-ly connected to the situation at hand. That is: Not a Void, Not a victim/murderer who unleashes a subplot, not getting possessed, not amnesiac, not doing crypit actions. I feel that this contributes to, in a way, calling less attention when there are more bombastic/attention-calling scenarios happening.

That said, yeah, there is more of Yoruko than all of this one-note-ness.

(sweating as I answer this quest due to not having the time to rewatch everything)

(Edit: extra sweat over me taking a very long while to answer this due to rewatching chapter 4)

Anyway, back to the subject in question. Flaw discussion ahead 

Yeah that you mentioned was fucked up.

I think it usually ends being shrouded due to Chapter 4 having so much things going on already that a small detail like this ends up lost in the sea of bombastic revelations, personality switches, the *grimace* jokes, the anxious and general hopeless tone of the chapter.

My usual interpretation is that this is more Yoruko losing it due to the sheer stress of the chapter. Syobai himself points out in the elevator that everyone is at their limit. I do think it is a manifestation of one of her flaws.

It is also very sad that due to the narrative structure + trial’s twist (Yuki thinks he killed Shinji), Yuki doesn’t get the proper space to mourn Shinji. It gets even sadder in that, due to everything else going on, (Sora trying to not lose it since she acted in a way that either SHE is the killer or made Nikei is the killer + the grappling with what the hell had happened to her body moving unnaturally + what the hell had happened with emotions seemingly being artificially entered in her body; Nikei beneficiates from Yuki losing it; Yoruko having the gnawing suspicion that Sora may have something to do with the murder), no one gives him space to mourn or talk about his mourning.

And then in chapter 5, everything gets worst due to the whole personality insertion and again we aren’t able to dwell on that.

Anyway, sorry, probably not the ask’s point. Going back to the topic.

Disclaimer: I love Yoruko to bits. Flaw discussion ahead.

That said, I would personally ascribe Yoruko’s flaws as something else. That phrase seems to have been said in the heat of the moment, instead of something consistent that happens.

If I had to point a flaw, I would say that it would be her tendency to kind of……glue / lash into people. This happens with Minako, in that Yoruko practically changed her entire life to be around her, gaining a talent in a business she previously had no interest, and then it somewhat happens with Sora, in that as the killing game stakes rise, she glues herself harder to Sora and mostly agrees with her. While, through the game, she learns to call out Sora when she thinks she is wrong (end 4, first part 5), I would say it is a tendency Yoruko has and a flaw.

We can see how this affects her life, in that it destroys her relationship with Minako, due to her admiration blinding her for what was happening around her, and in that it causes her conflict with other people in the killing game for defaulting to side with Sora (who is not always right, as in chapter 5) or talking back against people who either stress herself or Sora.

Related to that flaw, she gets defensive fast, be it as a tsundere characteristic, as lashing like that, or talking rudely to people when she is stressed. Which can and does hurt people feelings. I do think that due to Sora’s personality aka the person who most talks with Yoruko, Sora is able to…… bounce out of it / not be bothered by it, but it would be highly more frustrating and could hurt people feelings.

This…… err…… I am not sure how to phrase it, extreme admiration (?) (in the general sense of Yoruko’s tendency to glueing/lashing herself to a person) blinds her through the game to Sora’s flaws, and so causes Yoruko to not question Sora.

Her tsundere tendencies also impact negatively Yoruko, in that it doesn’t allow her to be more……explicit in what she meant when she fought with Sora in 4, and thus it causes a bigger fight with her that only is resolved mid chapter.

To be clear, I think Yoruko’s fight was valid due to it being both her snapping under all of KG paranoia much like the other characters + Sora’s flaws themselves, in that she was cryptic right after the trial where she revealed she had a role in the murder, and in the way she procrastinated resolving things with Yoruko.

In conclusion, I would say that Yoruko’s flaws would be: her tendency to the hyper admiration of certain people, which leads her to blinding herself to her surroundings and how people are being affected by it; her tendency of not being clear of what is bothering her (as an offshoot of her tsundereness), which causes misunderstandings; and of being defensive/lashing out when under pressure.

[ninetypercentspoon]

Summertime vibes

[ninhawesome]

[reima-c]

Here's some sdra2 doodles i forgot to post

[pluto-bop]

Behold, a mere fraction of my MANY DRA/SDRA2 memes

I have so god damn many from contributing nothing but memes to Reddit and now the people of Tumblr must pay the price

[nikeikeis]

a drawing i did cause halloween is coming around !

[shslanonymous]

Y’ALL IM BACK

[leviadraws]

Happy Valentines day! <3

Thanks to everyone who participated in the valentines event! I was kinda overwhelmed at the response. Here's the coloured prompts, the sketch prompts will go up this Sunday (as I've not finished them yet)

Some prompts were duplicated, so in those cases I changed the pose or angle slightly (hopefully) it's still recognisable.

[sarrinight]

bee who yeww aree

[the-yoruko]

Musings Under Moonlight, 15.

Anger.

It’s so easy to tell another to forgo anger, when its nasty, ugly claws aren’t clasped around your neck, when it isn’t rooted deep within your bones, piping hot and robbing you of reason. Those on the bylines can simply quip words of shallow concern, oblivious to the agony of its victims burned at its wake.

Anger.

It’s as intense as a roaring fire, consuming and devastating all the same. It is blinding, numbing, except for the sheer violence, the desperation of wanting to be rid off that antagonism. Then it projects itself as an outburst, an altercation, and at worst, an exchange of blows that leaves stark red blotches staining the debris of an inanimate witness, as vivid as its feeling.

Anger.

It’s a response aroused from unjust behavior, fueled by the lack of accountability from the catalyst. More often than not, the trigger gets overlooked by the collateral damage brought about by indignation—a never-ending sequence. Unless there is genuine desire to understand its underlying cause, the tragedy continues.

夜子☆

[hajikei]

memes + a wip that spawned casemiuri on reddit

[siriusanotherside]

Recently I discovered that all the "Minako is Yoruko's sempai" thing is incorrect .

In Yoruko's character page on LINUJ website, Yoruko's sempai is mentioned, and LINUJ says that her name is Amane Kaira. And with the fact that, to be her sempai, she had to be close in age to Yoruko, and that, in SDRA2, Yoruko is a bit older than Yuki (The original class 79's Lucky Student) and Sora (Pretty much a "clone" of Akane Taira), but still younger than 30, while Minako, while Yoruko was still a teen, should already had Kizuna at that point, so sho would have been more than 35 at least (I'm not sure what's Minako's exact age).

In reality, Yoruko's connection with Minako was that the latter was the owner of the bar Yoruko and her sempai worked at.

Indeed anon, you are correct.

In fact, Yoruko herself in-game confirms this. In chapter 6, while they are exploring the island, right after finding Yuri’s capsule and information.

“Minako was the madam at the bar I used to work at high school”.

I checked 3 translations and they confirm it.

I think, at least for me, the confusion happened due to:

a) It has been a long time since watching everything

b) the Paradise cg's pink hair in a shade close enough to Minako's that my brain immediately connected them, when Yoruko’s senpai also had pink hair.

c) it is a line in between a huge amount of texts and reveals and so it can get easily lost.

d) Yoruko's senpai not having a sprite / easily assignable clothing while Minako has and looked oddly matching in Paradise's cgs.

So yeah.

Thank you for the ask!