#but I do feel for him

[waffleslashermaster]

I Wanted to doodle my own little humanoid p.ai.nter. Hopefully I can make him a finished drawing later. Sebastian is also there for height purposes.

[morteisshipping]

So, about Blue Willow Leaves...

I was rereading S-class webtoon/manhwa again, since I finished the translated novel and is currently waiting for updates again. Of course, as expected, I cried when 25 yo Yoohyun died.

After knowing things that you do in the novel, his perspective and what he went through as he was reshaped and molded by Yoojin, I grew a lot of sympathies with him, even knowing that he is not entirely human - maybe because he is NOT entirely human. He has been enduring and holding himself back since after his birth because he loves being loved by his hyung.

"No living creatures shuns being loved."

And so, Yoohyun molded himself as per Yoojin's love. A fire molding himself into a polite, sweet child, because that's what his brother wants him to become - to grow up to be. Even though he knows he can find relief and ecstasy by fulfilling his fiery nature, Yoohyun holds himself back, because he values the love his brother gives more than that brief sense of relief.

Understandably, people in the comment are upset with Yoohyun's choices, as I was, but Yoohyun was a child, barely an adult, when he decided to go no contact with his hyung, who is his entire world that he tries to protect.

For Yoohyun, he is okay if his hyung hates him, rather than seeing him dead. I've seen much of this tropes with parent characters as well; many of them will risk their children hating them, even going as far as cutting their connection, as long as they're safe. This is what Yoohyun did because he deemed the threat of the dungeon and the Transcendants are too great for his F-class brother.

Now knowing that Yoohyun is actually a creature more akin to fire than human, it got me thinking; all of his attributes and his skills are connected to fire somehow, except this one skill:

Blue Willow Leaves

This skill allows him to acquire flight-like skill by stepping on them on air. This is a skill that he acquired not long after his awakening, I think. The longest, I think before the three years he's gone no contact with Yoojin, because he did use this power after regression against the Golden-Beaked Maiya - just not proficient enough to know how it's used. Noting that, I think Yoohyun got the skill maybe recently because he had no idea how to use it and only used it to blind his enemies. Or maybe he got that for a while but never actually uses it in combat so he never actually explore over what to use them for.

Either way... If Yoohyun is a creature of fire, then why does he have the Blue Willow Leaves skill?

It is said that skills a person awakened to is actually just an essence of who that person is, just enhancing it and making it their identity and power. Now, we know that Yoohyun is literally the personification of Fire. But then, why Blue Willow Leaves? Why not Blue Fire like the one Azula wields? Or Blue Spark? Or Blue Jet Fire that he can use to fly around like a jetpack? Or something of that note - as long as it's fire.

Why leaves of all things? The thing that the fire eats for breakfast?

In fact, Willows are the opposite of fire attribute. Willows are of the Salix genus. The name Salix, that is used for different kinds of Willow species, may originates from Celtic language where Sal means "near" and lis means "water". It's also referring to the tree's natural habitat. (https://simplybeyondherbs.com/willow-tree-symbolism/)

So because of that contradiction, I asked Google about the meaning of symbolism for Willow Leaves, and my jaw dropped:

It's a symbol of mourning and sorrow.

Yoohyun has been grieving. We do not know what he is grieving about but I'm pretty sure it's about his hyung. Because during that time apart, he was no longer part of his hyung's family. He thought that his hyung hates him and will no longer loved him.

But he still thinks, "it's fine, as long as my brother is alive and safe."

Yoohyun has been grieving. His grief is so profound that it is now embedded into his being, shaped by the guilt and sorrow towards his hyung and is now represented by a skill, which is the Blue Willow Leaves.

It's also important to note that we first see Yoohyun wields this skill the first time (in manhwa/webtoon) as he was saving his brother from Lauchitas dungeon. Of course by then he was already proficient but I have no doubt that meaning is clearly implied by the webtoon authors Seri and Biwan.

Do you know what else I found about Willow symbolisms?

It is often engraved on tombstones.

Is it possible that Willow Leaves actually foreshadowing his death all this time?

But that's just my theory. A MANHWA THEORY!

Just for the record, I do not condone what Yoohyun did to Yoojin as something right. He just did what he thought he was best. It was not, of course, but he tried his best. True, everything could've been solved if the two of them just TALK. But he did his best, as best as he could, as a non-human person who misses social cues of human society and messed up sometimes. So I cannot in my conscience ignore Yoohyun's effort before the dungeon break and sufferings in pre-regression timeline.

Of course I cannot say nor compare his sufferings to Yoojin. I just want all of the readers to remember that Yoohyun also suffered. Maybe not the same way, or the same intensity, but he'd been holding himself back for 25 years for the sake of his brother without gotten any kind of relief or reprieve.

Besides, everyone suffers in this novel. Even Sung Hyunjae suffers on his own for some degree. It's not our place to compare whose suffering is greater.

I already know that there is no way Yoojin can go back to bury his dead 25-year-old brother, but maybe we can have a moment of silence for the 25-year-old Han Yoohyun who willingly sacrificed himself so that his world - his only world that comprised only one person - Han Yoojin, stays safe.

As an ending note, please enjoy this picture of these two doomed brothers.

[jeanmoreaue]

hello jess <3 humble query for you: do you think a seth moodboard is in the cards?

- love, Adler xx

omg hii this is so sweet thank you for popping in my inbox i’m sorry if this is not what you’re expecting <3 (the last one of these is courtesy of @allforthegayphase)

[duckysprouts]

when ur just a funky little skater punk hedgehog

(idk if u can tell but only his bangs are straightened, he has braids)

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[artsymeeshee]

Felt a need to draw hugs (thinking about sea grunks has made me extra emotional :’))

[prlssprfctn]

I actually need some fanfic, where Bruce and Jason are in the middle of some argument, and a casual (and a well-practiced with Dick before) sentence leaves his mouth, something along the lines "How old do you think you are?!", meaning that he is acting childishly. And because Jason is irritated, and his tongue runs loose in his anger, he screams back that he is nineteen, and Bruce just freezes, because... Oh. Jason is nineteen. He is a fucking kid - his kid - that lost years of his teenhood, and was forced back without anyone giving him a space to catch up, with everyone else already treating him like an adult... When he isn't.

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[hinamie]

mentor

[stickyvoidpaper]

Dick : Jasons been more, relaxed lately. It's unsettling.

Tim : Yeah, I've started spiking his water with mood stabilizers.

Dick : What

Tim : I've been thinking of doing it to the wider gotham water supply. Think about the crime rates.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[sangthael]

jimmy doesn’t practice knife safety

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[enigmaris]

Another DPXDC for ya fellas!

Pandora, the ghost, was an Amazon from Themyscira in life, losing her life to trap all of those eldritch horrors in her box. In her afterlife, she has kept in contact with the other Amazons, coming to their aid when called upon.

So when the first child of themyscira was molded out of clay, Pandora knew. She liked Diana, admired her stubbornness, strength, and sense of wonder. She knew the girl had left to go to the world of man a while ago, but hadnt heard anything else about her. She wasnt worried about her though, Diana was the strongest of all the Amazons, kind and brave. The world of man would not pose too much of a danger to her.

After the whole thing her box getting stolen and Danny returning it to her. She takes on something if a motherly role to Phantom. She doesn't really know how kids work though, she comes from a race of women where there were no children. Diana is literally the only living child she has ever known. Pandora herself was never even a child. When Danny flees from his life in Amity Park (reveal gone wrong, family dies, or something) he goes to Pandora who wants to help him, but her acropolis is no place for a half living boy. So she tells him about her niece Diana.

"She was the only child of my people, when she grew up she left to the world of man."

Literally the only child??? Danny is imagining like, someone maybe his sister Jazzs age who ran away from home because she lived on an island with all adults and no fun. It does not help his assumption that Pandora talks about Diana like shes still wet from the clay she was molded in.

Danny is given a letter written by Pandora, asking Diana to help care for him and told that last Pandora heard her little niece lived in Washington DC. Danny goes to DC and manages to find Diana based on Pandora description. She is not at all what Danny was imagining, but she takes him to her home and reads the letter describing Danny's heroics with Pandoras box.

Diana Prince takes one look at this human boy and thinks to herself: if Bruce and Clark can just show up with a teenager, then why can't i?

Queue the next Justice League meeting:

"I would like to introduce my son, Daniel of Themyscira, he will be accompanying me on all Justice League missions. No Batman i will no be accepting any criticism from you of all people."

Danny, in human form, waves at the team of heroes with his string bean arms.

"Hi."

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

why did he do that to me? part 2 of this :3