#akayona zeno

[akatsukinoyonadrabbles]

reread the akayona manga after so long and finally caught up with it-

dear wormwood by the oh hellos and harpy hare by yealokre are zeno songs, in this essay i will-

[rddykilowatt]

I think the akayona fandom severly underestimates the shippability the entire cast of characters has because what do you mean Hak/Zeno isn't a pairing anywhere on the face of the internet and I had to discover this via my friend scouring ao3 tags beside me while we watched akayona together at 2am

[erachiiii]

Happy & Hungry Official art redraw cause I finished catching up on yona of the dawn and it's still the best manga ever made

[yonae]

Akatsuki no Yona by Kusanagi Mizuho

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

Credit goes to @yonaks who came up with this one in the tags of one of my posts; they were so right and so here we are

[murasaki-cha]

THINGS HAVE BEEN TOO SAD AND DEPRESSING FOR TOO LONG I MISS THE SILLIES!!

[lujart]

wrath 🐉🏯💙

[emotional-support-waterbottle]

digital art attempt 2! happy hungry bunch sleepover. idk if this is canon or in my modern bodyguard AU

supplies: pencil sketch, clip studio

[shxrry-blossom]

i miss this silly zeno when something serious was happenning and he was just there with his stupid and big smile :(

[iluvluvnutella]

◦•●◉✿ 𝓐𝓴𝓪𝓽𝓼𝓾𝓴𝓲 𝓷𝓸 𝓨𝓸𝓷𝓪 ✿◉●•◦

[cindytranart]

Zeno & Sunflowers 🌻🐉 (Art Print)

[qweaenr]

AKATSUKI NO YONA

[rddykilowatt]

ramble ramble ramble ramble zeno beloved ramble ramble ramble ramble

I’m gonna dump akayona thoughts here ‘cause I love this series lots and they make me very happy to ramble about! (warning for spoilers if you’re unaware of anything about zeno or his backstory)

I don’t see a lot of people analyzing or digging at the things that I do, usually they’re more centered around widely known details and fan favorites and such.

So here we go:

Ever since Zeno wiggled his silly way into the group (the dragons, yoon, hak and yona) he completely threw away all of his self preservation. And you can say “well ofc, he’s there to protect yona” but I think you’d be wrong for simplifying it that way. He's such a complex character. Out of all of them he is the one that stands to be the least affected by Yona’s presence same with the presence of the other dragons. He simply decided to approach them on his own accord, they didn’t approach him. This guy has had to kill and run to protect him from others and from himself for millennia.

He’s completely lost his purpose in life by the time we meet him in the series, having lost so much and constantly being at odds with the concept of time. But he found that purpose again in protecting the hhb, which is where I bring this back to the previous statement that he completely threw away all his self preservation, or rather he actually gained some.

During the Xing arc the dragons end up being imprisoned, and Zeno willingly offers himself up to Mizari to have his arm cut off as means to get away easy, but they all outwardly express their disdain toward this. Jae-ha being the one to intervene and avoid Zeno being subjected to such treatment.

Though I think it should be said that he could’ve easily sacrificed himself for them here, it's just his arm right? But he let's Jae-ha intervene and sway the topic away from him. Despite the fact that he could at any moment throughout the series (after his power has been revealed) when there’s a battle or confrontation, power his way through fights and run away or get help at the drop of the hat but guess what? He doesn’t do that, he stopped doing that for the sake of the others. He instead he chooses to stick by the side of his companions even if he could just as easily tear himself apart or be torn apart in order to help them escape.

A good example is this scene in the current arc:

Even with the artifact from Hiryuu castle in their presence that causes there powers to amp up and everything, Zeno sits tight, literally. He sits there tied up tight with the others. I bring this scene up as an example because like I previously stated he could just tear himself apart here, now more than ever to help them escape. But he doesn't.

(Whether this is due to his wisdom beyond years or because he doesn't want to upset the other dragons is up in the air for sure but we're gonna say it's cause he doesn't wanna upset the others for the sake of this post)

I feel like it should be explained further, it’s been brought up multiple times throughout the series where Zeno’s partook, especially in anxiety inducing parts, the others don’t like to see Zeno hurt even if he heals, even if he’s used to the pain. They don’t like it, they’ve been very upfront about how much they hate it, how much it scares them to see him injured in ways that would kill any mortal being, in ways it would kill any of them. Seeing him bleed is the worst experience for them. And I think Zeno makes the conscious choice to no longer completely tear himself apart just to escape in order to save them because he doesn’t want to scare them more than they already are in the situations they get involved in. As well as when it wouldn’t be necessary to do so, when they work together just as well to escape without unnecessarily blood being shed.

Zeno is honestly an enigma of a character, he says a lot but simultaneously says nothing. Which makes me love him even more.

What I’m saying here is all me reading between lines and using my own brain to come up with something that would make sense rather than it being a verbal statement or thought being stated in the series. There’s no real textual evidence that outright states that Zeno has made any of the choices I’ve stated, it’s just my own thoughts surrounding him.

At the end of it all here, I personally believe this is one of the best ways his character could be written, especially as the only one remaining from the original dragons. He gives things away to the group and the readers but only with bits and pieces. The rest is speculation or a matter of putting things together. In my opinion he keeps us hooked into the series, he’s the one character still present that carry’s so much weight and wisdom with him. He’s the one character in the hhb that understands the pain that each separate individual has faced that even they amongst themselves can’t understand.

They’ve all learned how cruel the world can be, how painful being alive is in their own ways but in my opinion Zeno is the only one that understands their individual experiences infinitely. For crying out loud he knows things that the characters around him don’t even know and that we the readers don’t as well. He’s seen and lived through more life than them all combined, but he still holds onto his humanity albeit rather stubbornly. He still continues to learn and grow and above all else he sees that everyone is human and that there can be/is still good in the world even with all the bad.

Yona maybe be in the title of the series, but Zeno is still just as much of a main character as she is.

[erachiiii]

Happy Hungry Bunch cuddles are all we really need in life right

[yonae]

Akatsuki no Yona by Kusanagi Mizuho

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

“Zeno, put god on the phone, I just want to talk”