#arihiko

[darkveracity]

Tsukihime's cast rated by how mad Akiha is about Shiki falling in love with them from best to worst

Displeased

Sacchin: At a fundamental level Sacchin is just an ordinary girl. There's nothing objectively wrong with her. Akiha is never going to be happy about Shiki falling in love with anyone but there's very little she can object to here without looking insane. Also being a cute girl who's easily flustered, fun to bully, and has a bit of the vibe of a small scared animal makes her very much Akiha's type if she were willing to be honest with herself.

Hisui: Akiha's primary problem here is the status difference (which is fake but she'll never admit that). If the relationship progresses to the point of talking about marriage it will become an enormous issue. However in the near term this has a number of advantages for her - first, she genuinely likes and trusts Hisui, second falling in love with her instead of an outsider keeps Shiki trapped in the incestuous tidepool of the Tohno mansion where he'll also pay a lot of attention to Akiha, third she has no high ground to stand on considering her own relationship with Kohaku. She can't push too hard on this one

Angry

Arihiko: Akiha is homophobic. Full stop. She was raised in an intensely conservative environment and does not have enough self-awareness to understand that she herself is gay. She's going to ruthlessly bully Shiki about this and also every other one of the reasons Arihiko is an inappropriate partner - an unserious delinquent with dyed hair who skips school and stays out late at night. Absolutely unacceptable company for the eldest son of the Tohno family. The only thing that mollifies her is how genuinely happy he makes Shiki

Ciel: Ciel checks most of the boxes. She's serious, reliable, extremely talented, a good student, pushes Shiki to be better. She has everything Akiha would want in a partner for her useless brother except for status. However she has the enormous dealbreaking flaw of being an executor and any long term relationship with her is inevitably going to result in Shiki pursuing the same career. She and Akiha do not like each other any of the times they meet in canon but those are all under unfortunate circumstances - showing up in a combat habit with a comatose Shiki, trying to hypnotize her at school, sneaking into the mansion and getting into a fight to the death in the manga, etc. If Ciel were to properly visit the mansion and get introduced to Shiki's family as his girlfriend after her route then Akiha might be able to tolerate her a little better

Arcueid: Akiha absolutely cannot handle Arc. Their personalities are incompatible. Arc is an airhead who doesn't understand human norms and doesn't get subtlety and every word out of Akiha's mouth is a venomous barb that flies completely over her head. This relationship is the absolute worst case Akiha can handle before she starts physically trying to separate Shiki from his new lover

Ready to commit homicide

Noel: Noel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever (and is also my favorite near-side remake character). She's flighty, unreliable, selfish, petty, unprofessional, a coward, works for the church, and most importantly is an adult woman leveraging her position of power as a teacher to pursue an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student. Akiha is going to do everything possible to get rid of her from threatening her to destroying her career to sending her to jail to if worst comes to worst outright murdering her. She will never accept this relationship

Kohaku: This relationship drives Akiha completely insane in canon. The spectre of the abuse Kohaku has suffered, Akiha's intense guilt about it, and her own possessive pseudo-romantic feelings for her make her never want anyone else to lay their hands on Kohaku and also simultaneously her possessive pseudo-romantic feelings for Shiki make her never want him to fall in love with anyone else. The two people she loves most leaving her to be with each other double-cucks her and pushes her so far she tries to murder both of them. The only way she could ever be okay with the two of them kissing is if they're doing it in front of her for her entertainment

SHIKI: I do not think the city of Souya would survive Akiha's reaction to this

!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!

Len: What's wrong with you, Nii-san????

Bonus:

Extremely Pleased

Akiha: At long last you've seen the light, Nii-san. Why would you ever choose anyone else when you have the perfect younger sister right by your side who loves you very much. Please never look at any of those other wretched women again

[actual-haise]

Can't believe they're already building up Red Garden...

[getmoneyghoul]

doodles

[arcuiedforever]

Thinking about how he has his earring in the gay ear, I’m onto you arihiko inui

[xbuster]

[avicebro]

inui has by far been my favourite character in kagetsu tohya so far. i have so many shitposts in my brain for him alone.

(please no spoilers!!!)

[nasuversekinkmeme]

issei/arihiko aka the two that should've gotten their own routes

Oh ho ho!

[theanontrain]

"I don't think I've drawn Arihiko Inui before.

VERY early morning post. It's not that he's a bad character, it's just that I've really enjoyed drawing the Tsukihime heroines (and Yumizuka) more often. Also I don't know what to do with him."

[satsuki-yumizuka]

How do you feel about your senior? With the red hair?

i assume this ask means arihiko? that guy is awesome. hes like loud and annoying but in a dope kinda way. he should get a route next (after me. of course)

[tsukihimewolves]

arihiko

[brave-symphonia]

Arihiko...run.

We're on a date! Read the room, Arihiko!

[mako-neexu]

why cant we have issei route and arihiko route between fsn and tsukihime 

[wacko-01]

I love Arihiko

[drmobiusvanch]

that post about akiha's opinions on shiki's dating options is so much funnier now i've played akiha route. there are multiple scenes where i'm like 90% sure she's discretely trying to sus out 'does shiki tohno is gay'

[azothojousama]

Takeuchi's artistic abilities really improved rapidly in the early to mid 2000s, and you can tell just from the boost in quality from Tsukihime's CGs from 2000 to Kagetsu Tohya's CGs from 2001. This is going to sound funny but I really noticed this during the Kohaku and Hisui h scene in Kagetsu Tohya where the anatomy is noticably better and there's actual shading and shine and such. You can really see it.

[studentofetherium]

there's a plot point in the Arihiko route where he switches what ear his earing is in