#and then theres kiryu who was canonically a little shit

[squidcandy]

is he bad with kids or are these kids just horrible (the kids are horrible)

[helioshellion]

hello helioshelion.. i wonder what ur thoughts are on majima's (absence of) backstory up until age 20 and how u deal with it canon compliant-ically or in aus. i find it frustrating like everyone else but at the same time any kind of explanation people come up with to fill in the gaps doesnt land for me... i am unsure why. maybe becuase theres so little to go off so its basically entirely made up? or maybe because its not in the vein of his character? anyway i think you are the yakuza man so i would like to know what u think happened in that time. snake eyes is kind of narratively satisfying to me because patriarchs being father figure adjacent and imparting traits and shaping their subordinates is the closest thing to kind of. growing up i think?? that majimas story has. so having sagawa and shimanos influence transposed onto his actual developmental years actually feels like the most character accurate backstory to me even if it is removed from canon. (i dontknow very much sorry if i got anything wrong) butyeah anyway love ur models im like OH SHIT!!!! HES FUCKING MAKING!!!!!!!! ok thats it have a good daaaaayyy

I think what's important and vital to this narrative is for Majima to not be the central focus. Of course I believe the most interesting concept for Snake Eyes is Majima's exploration and coming into his own in a way that justifies who he is within what we DO know of his past, aka Y4 and 0. I believe it is within Dead Souls' cabaret where Majima tells the hostess that if he could go back to any time to redo things, it'd be 14, and therefore it's where I landed on a timeframe- the moment Majima meets Shimano. I believe Majima is at his best as a character who is reactive, but not focused on. He is entirely a character who is shaped by the people around him, both within the lore and within the meta itself, he is not the main character. He is swayed and changed by the events around him, with little to no control in changing this, because he is simply an NPC, and that's the small tragedy of Majima. A character who is so strongly tied to the idea of control, of shaping his own future, when really he has no agency, not within the narrative, not within the game. Anyways, that is the central focus on Snake Eyes. What kind of man Shimano Futoshi is, and by extension, what that says about Majima Goro as a boy. Is there any parallels I can make between the men Majima would later on follow in life and the man he swore his name to? I wrote earlier about agency, and that's something I think that's very important to Shimano's character as well. Present day, you wouldn't exactly compare Shimano to Kiryu, or Saejima, but that's what I find to be the most interesting thing to explore- if I can make a case that there are those similarities, what would change so drastically that Shimano would become the man you see in the series. Sagawa is merely a pawn in this exploration, just the same as he is a pawn in 0. I really enjoy connecting narrative within gameplay. Majima's a stone in the tide, I'd say, stuck on the bottom to be shaped over years and years and years.

So yeah! Snake Eyes is about Shimano, and how he changes the people around him, and how that changes him. Uroboros or whatever.

I think what's funny is that despite being the AU guy, I try to keep myself strictly to canon compliancy, and the things I do change I need to justify. Like me making the decision to have Sagawa be Yasuko Saejima's birth father. We knew her dad was an Omi man in Sotenbori, and that he was money focused. It was a loose comparison, but the idea of exploring that was so interesting to me. Yakuza is all about fatherhood sometimes, so why not.

Majima's character in Snake Eyes, again, meant to justify who he is later on, but also I do not want this idea of Majima being wholly good and brought into evil. I do not think it's black and white. There's something in Majima that was probably there long before Shimano, something that brought him to the point that men like him were to be followed. In the right light, even the worst actions can be seen as heroic, justified, admirable, especially to a kid. Kind of like Ichiban, I guess!

Another funny thing is that I tend to steer away from the idea of Majima needing a backstory. I believe how he is is perfectly suitable and fine for who he is. I do not want to see where he grew up, but I do like using implications to paint an idea of how and why he is who he is. It's sort of why I have an OC who exists as Majima's birth father in Snake Eyes, meant to sort of paint this all literally. Discarding this past for the sake of the role you are meant to play. Maybe it's a nihilist perspective, but I believe Snake Eyes is a nihilist's story. It's a perfect parallel for Forever Yours, an optimistic exploration of fatherhood and how that shapes a person.

This was a lot. hope you enjoy to read.

[missfingers]

ok i don't know much about yakuza but i gotta know for the choose violence ask game: 3, 8, 11, 16, 22, 24? (you can also do these about another fandom instead if you want, i just chose yakuza bc those are ur little guys)

HI AUSTIIINNN. forgive me this will get long

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

ohh my god theres been so many. but okay i will specifically pull up an example from the server i run. no screenshots cause the conversation was way too long but essentially yakuza has a massive misogyny problem with its female characters (of which there are. barely any). the conversation was specifically about the hostess mechanic, which is this minigame that appears in almost every game where you go to a hostess club and have a date there (a hostess club if ur unaware is basically softcore sex work its paying a woman to talk to you at a club). ofc nothing wrong with hostessing but people were specifically talking about how it was Kind Of Creepy that all the protags are like.... 40+ and all the hostesses / other female love interests are a lot younger.

and then this guy came in saying something along the lines of... if you criticise the way hostesses are objectified in yakuza then actually you hate women and sex workers and youre saying its not a real career .....? NO ONE WAS SAYING THAT. it was really one of those situations where the person was acting like these fictional female characters have their own agency to do sex work and flirt with older men ignoring completely the Old Men Writing The Series. they are not real people making their own decisions these are women written by men. it was bizarre. this guy also eventually said that if you criticise panty shots in anime youre racist or something because "japanese culture is like that" okay.

already answered 8 here! <3

just realised i completely got switched up on numbers and i already answered 11 and thought it was 10, so my answer for 11 is here but i will also answer 10 for @kasugas since i fucking. didnt.

10. worst part of fanon

majima woobification. and the worst part is its in the games now too like they straight up woobified him in kiwami and i cant STAND IITTTT. hes literally a yakuza boss he violently beats up his men he canonically married an 18 year old and hit her when she aborted their fetus hes not a good guy and i love when canon shows that. but then fanon is just like solely fucking majima everywhere characterisation of ooo hes just a silly little faggot who loves kiryu and kiryu hates him <333 (even though kiryu. does not. and finds his antics hilarious in every other game. and treats him as his closest friend.) and also the uncle majima stuff....... i like thinking about his relationship with haruka as much as the next guy but when people just. slap them together with no consideration to the fact he KIDNAPPED HER. AT 10 YEARS OLD. like dude shes going to be traumatised you cant just Ignore that for the sake of giving her two dads?

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

oh i fucking know. i KNOW why they like it and the answer is theyre uncreative yaoi loving freaks but so much nishitani content is just him acting like some borderline rapey daddydom and its soooooo Eugh. they make majima into this uwu baby who doesnt want any of his advances until the relationship is literally liek something out of a fucking yaoi where he "really wants it deep down but hes going to act like he doesnt so its going to feel so uncomfortable and hes going to get borderline assaulted". the entire appeal of nishimaji to me is that nishitani is literally so down horrifically bad for majima and majima actually likes him back even if he thinks hes weird as shit. theyre both insane for each other.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

ok im going to sound deranged here but his relationship with mirei. thats the 18 year old i mentioned. a lot of people choose to ignore he did that and like.... i get it its very uncomfortable to accept your favourite dude would prey on a kid like that but like. i feel like it does a disservice to his character to ignore that? it shows how he perpetuates the cycle of abuse and its so incredibly interesting to me but so many people just say "he wouldnt do that!!!!" when like.... yes he would. im sorry but he would.

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

fuckig hell idk theres so much horrible yakuza discourse. ig its relevant rn but like whenever anyone genuinely critiques how fandom acts (misogyny, racism, woobifying a genuinely morally reprehensible character, ableism, just anything) and then the people who do this shit get all up in arms about it and act like its pointless infighting when its... genuine shit that makes a community unsafe

[pikaflute]

Sending you all the shipping ask emojis because I like hearing your thoughts a on things :)

we start kissing

ALSO DO NOT TAKE ANY OF THIS SERIOUSLY

Ship that you’re indifferent to 😑: anything with magnus. hes like. fine as a person but with all the members of dethklok being hurt by him in someway im just kinda eh to it. i know i wrote magcharles but anons bullied me for it, so now im just neutral to it.

also skwistok. but thats personal reasons

Ship that makes you sad 💔: going to yakuza: tachikiryu :( why did they kill tachibana. he was so good to kiryu and i get WHY THEY DID IT but :( i needed narles prime to win and it didnt :( and they should've had more interactions before the end :( im so sad when i think about 0 okay.

also the way i write chickles. i love when bitches cry!!!!!!!

Ship that you find disgusting 💩: toki with rockzo. FUCKKKK THAT STUPID CLOWN MAN.

Ship that you find cute but don’t ship ✌: abigaar (YET). i think the stuff @little-murmaider puts out is very teehee. i likes them together.

Ship that you find most sexy 👅: any combo of charnickles. i think nathan and charles specifically can get it. pickles is just automatically apart of that. also most of my porn wips are of chickles so there.

Ship that you can never see happening 👎: melmord with charles. charles would probably kill him again before they ever hooked up tbh.

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship 💤: nathan/abigail is fine but i think theres better options for the both of them. they are buddies though. bffls.

Ship that is unpopular but you still like 💘: does narles count. i swear like i know narles is like one of the top three on ao3, but its all old stuff. where are the narles shippers!!! i wanna talk about them and see more content for their asses!!!

Ship that is taboo 💦: uh. the way i said pickles fists nathan. is that taboo. i think one of them has a pee pee thing too. idk. im not gonna say weird freak shit here!!!! im too sexy for that

Ship that pisses you off 💣: anything with seth in it. i want that motherfucker wiped off the face of the planet. he is among my most hated men in media list. also rockso. i want that clown dead!

AND back to ykz for a sec: sagawa x majima makes me so mad. That ship literally made me leave the fandom because it was very bad and people insisted that the relationship in 0 between sagawa and majima wasn't anything but like abusive. HE TRIED KILLING HIM MULTIPLE TIMES AND WAS LITERALLY CONTROLLING MAJIMA AND FORCING HIM TO STAY IN SOTENBORI???? HELLO????

Ship you’re curious about 👀: abigaar again. actually any skwisgaar ship. i think i neglect him a lot when i make mtl content and its time to change that. like...two years later LOL

Ship that needs more love 💖: picklesface and cfoface. murderface deserves love and i think these two ships are the best ones for that. pickles was probably murderface's first crush lbr, and i think murderface should feel comfortable in liking men and i think pickles should tease him for his crush. its cute!

also cfoface is good. charles doting and being really affectionate with murderface who never gets attention like that is very pleasing to me. also i want charles and murderface to bond over history stuff. go to a museum date :)

Ship that is most misunderstood 💢: all murderface ships. LOOK AT ME. HE DESERVES THE ATTENTION. THIS FANDOM WILL NOT GIVE IT TO HIM SO ITS UP TO ME AND THE GAYS TO SUPPORT OUR FAVORITE BASSIST.

[cloneslugs]

majima </3

my friend <3 my beloved <3 ty for majima brain worms in my head every once in a while i <3

under cut bc this got longer than i wanted

Sexuality Headcanon: gay homo <3 

Gender Headcanon: trans guy to be vague but his gender is faggot ithink.. homo gender., he hasn't had top surgery <3 he planner a transition timeline w saejima but that got fucked and now he doesnt care

A ship I have with said character: kiryu (: 

A BROTP I have with said character: everyone really <3 i love how surrounded by love and friends he is now, but saejima for sure, kiryu, daigo is very cute buddies w him they're sweet he likes to look out for daigo & handle his own complex relations w parenthood/paternal figure whatever, um makoto and lee that's a family right there (:, kashiwagi is also now his buddy his bestie but not really it's one sided <3 haruka is also his little buddy they like to sing idol songs together and teach each other dances he has like a different connection w haruka than other people i think they just click sometimes 

A NOTP I have with said character: saejima </3. Freak level shit is nishitani or sagawa . then theres random niche level ships that are gross but not very popular so i am choosing not to see them

A random headcanon: he's autistic (:, he isnt a very good swimmer, he and saejima both cant legally drive they never got their licenses, he paints his nails under his gloves and everyone thinks hes kind of stupid for it but he has fun he likes it he usually goes black but sometimes he'll go green if he does it thinking about saejima or red for kiryu or haruka, really shitty sleep schedule not really caused by anything he just ends up staying up late a lot, he loses track of time really easily he can forget to eat/sleep/drink/etc but having saejima around helps since they're kind of joined at the hip at this point so whenever saejima does something he does too, i think hes missing a pinkie on his left hand, anger issues but really emotional issues he doesnt know how to keep his emotions in check it's either lock em up of blow up, his favorite color is pink, ik this is canon but hes really polite and well behaved in most public settings like when hes getting food or shopping or whatever so he hates going out w anyone who isnt w friend (namely saejima or kiryu) bc it would embarrass him if anyone said anything, hes not good w kids but he is but he isnt i think hes scared of getting close and hurting someone bc he can be moody/sporadic but hes like saejima where he'll always always look out for them or hold their hand if they need help walking somewhere and etc etc, gets cold easily, he can cook simple/traditional dishes but that's it and he doesnt do it often but sometimes cooking calms him down, hes cuddly very overly touchy w friends i think this is most evident w saejima bc once saejima came back he wouldnt stray too far from him and always stays close and just full of love and (: gets in your space too much it's his love language (he doesnt like it reversed on him though from most people) physical contact overall is just a very big thing to him good or bad, his apartment is really clean hes kind of meticulous on organization and tidiness but he doesnt put the same effort into his office ever

General Opinion over said character: my beloved friend <3 im sorry i pretend you're nothing to me bc you are actually a side character i enjoy a lot and mean the world to me you are very sweet (: we are homo gendered together <3