#baccano maria

[underwaterrain]

Family portrait 📷

Postcard for Guns & Roses, a @baccano-zine

[gunmeister]

i actually genuinely consider baccano to be a masterclass when it comes to compelling relationship characters and i mean this in the romantic platonic and familial way. it's one of the only pieces of media where i've genuinely enjoyed the majority of the canon ships. it has realistic healthy AND unhealthy sibling dynamics (maiza & gretto and the gandor brothers are genuinely some of the best siblings i have encountered. in media). when two characters are friends (chane & jacuzzi, chris & ricardo, maiza & begg) i genuinely do believe and understand them being close to eachother and getting along.

[brbarou]

20 years of baccano huh

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[avvos]

doodle

[esperanzacboronial]

Happy Baccano! Week!!!

Day 1: Connections, fate and coincidence

The links between people aren't cut that easily. They don't have any form, just like air, so you can't cut them even if you tried...

[savannahstanfield27]

Baccano Week Day 3: Resilience and Adversity

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I couldn’t think of anything to draw for this day so I drew women. Lol

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Maria Barcelito fans.

[agallimaufryofoddments]

Speaking of the Advena Avis, it was jolly well good of Szilard to spare Nile, Denkurō Tōgō, and (*inhales, crosses fingers*) Zank Rowan like he did during that wee massacre of his. You know, the alchemists whom Majida Battuta sent in part because they were also fully qualified sailors who could pilot the ship? Those guys?

I expect that the trio did recruit and teach some of their fellow alchemists in the ways of seamanship because the more the better; just because the Advena Avis is a special ship that can be operated by far fewer people than a ship that size normally would require doesn’t mean it has to. Still... I do wonder how the ship and its immortal survivors would have faired without the Battuta Boys. Majida Men.

Y’think Ronny would have deigned to do the survivors a compensatory solid by ensuring fair weather and fish galore for the rest of the trip? I mean, he gives the mortals immortality, and what do they do? First thing one of them does is eat thirteen—whoop, sixteen, bye-bye Battuta Boys—there goes the most qualified if not only sailors on board. Szilard’s bad, but still. Oof.

Frankly, as much as the majority of passengers were nerds alchemists who could certainly busy themselves during the transatlantic journey with some paper and pen, some of them might even have welcomed learning the ship’s ropes and engaging in the physical busywork, despite how hard that work was, because...well, that would keep their minds off the massacre. Also, entertainment and activities were, I imagine, limited, since fleeing the city as fugitives probably didn’t leave much time for packing such possessions.

On the other hand, picturing the alchemists emerging from the catacombs to dash past the burning buildings toward the Advena Avis with instruments (musical and alchemical) on their backs, dice, chess pieces, and knucklebones in their pockets, and books in their rucksacks is somewhat compelling. Ah, imagination. The original entertainment.

Edit: What are the chances that resident noodle LFV would have pitched in to blend in vs. LFV worming his way out of helping every single time? Patching the ship with oakum? Can’t, sorry; it’s time for Czes’ bath. Painting the rails? Excuse me, but I must pen a wrought memoir lamenting Szilard’s wretched deeds. If only I were the writer that my dear friend Jean was...

[luckstreetboy]

i fucking ADORE The Slash but even i will admit that it gets very clusterfucky at the end i genuinely couldn't tell what was going on at times

[closedcoffins]

i will never ever EVER agree with people who say laz smith only took on the "ice pick thompson" name to increase his own clout. i will never agree with that because it's so clear to me that laz saw a child who was put in a position no one should have ever been put in and also saw a way to get him out of that situation in taking on his serial-killer moniker and his crimes. do not EVER insinuate to me laz's motivations for becoming ice pick thompson were selfish he's a good guy and he deserves a better reputation than the baccano fandom's "r/im13andthisisdeep" punching bag

[sidestriker]

relevant to exactly no one but striker in his baccano au making the trip up to new york from south texas alongside maria barcelito fresh out of mexico is a really funny image and i want that to be canon to this au because i think maria would annoy the shit out of him

[gunmeister]

i could write a thousand page essay on why maria barcelito is one of the best written characters in fiction but really nothing exemplifies that more than her victory against adele. adele has spent all this time taunting her about how she just doesn’t have the weapon range necessary to beat her, so what does she do? she hurls one katana forward and pushes it with the other katana, faking adele out into thinking she’s trying to double her range when actually the katana in the front is just a distraction. she’s not winning against adele because her weapon has a better range, she’s just winning because SHE is better. and that is very neat to me.

[arabian-batboy]

Someone once said “imagine Jessie and James from Team Rocket.........but make them an actual straight couple instead of F/F & MLM solidarity.........who are also somehow way more efficient criminals even though they’re like 10X dumber” and that’s how we got Isaac and Maria from Baccano.

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[boundlss]

meechi put me in a baccano mood so like this for a starter from one of my baccano! muses. i'll list them under the cut but there's a lot so you don't have to specify; i'll just pick one for you if you don't. multis still specify on your end please!

claire stanfield

melvi dormentaire

luchino b. campanella

maria barcelito

laz smith

huey laforet

ronny schiatto

nader schasschule

graham specter

christopher shaldred

keith gandor

victor talbot

nile

sham

dallas genoard

gretto avaro

ladd russo

dune

pamela mccall

lana sutton

sonia bake

rachel jones

roy maddock

edith carmine

renee parmedes branvillier

connor torra