#cabashira

[evinanime]

Cabashira Sae

[0w0tsuki]

I think it's important to note Death of the Author and Authorial Intent when discussing the transness of Chihiro from daganronpa. I've talked about it in reblogs but I wanted my own post. A lot of people confuse the two and in the case of old school Chihiro transmisoginists purposely create a new definition.

People seem to be under the impression that death of the impression a lot of the time that Death of The Author means "If I don't like what the author has to say I can just ignore it and say it didn't happen or Miku wrote it or something" which is a true statement but it's not the definition. And people who still comment "him*" on any fan post that uses she/her for Chihiro in 2024 define Authorial Intent as "The creator of every work writes with a specific intent and if you disagree with anything the author says you are WRONG and NOT a TRUE fan!" which not only isn't true but doesn't account for if the author's vision is even worth defending.

This is why there was such a nuclear meltdown over Bridget's trans confirmation and why it took them so long to get out of the translation conspiracy retcon bad ending phase before they moved on to trying to co-opt leftist language to make it about "femboy representation". Because it was the first time the author of one of their darling femboys didn't agree with them and they couldn't use "facts don't care about your feelings" to harass trans positive people.

But actually Authorial Intent is just a term to refer to "what did the author mean when they wrote this?" and is actually a part of Death of the Author which means "No matter what the Author says they approach every work with their own biases and that affects the work. So in order to understand the work you must understand the author so you can understand how their worldview bleeds into the work."

When people talk about Death of the Author in reference to H.P. Lovecrafts racism they don't mean "Well HP was a racist so you can just ignore him and write Cuthulu however you want." they mean "HP's racism is very prevalent in his works and viewing how he describes the monsters in his world gives insight to the times prejudices.". HP's works are actually a very effective tool in learning how bigotry affects horror.

Now to see where I'm going here is that Kodaka is a massive transmisogynist. Not only is there everything that is going on in DR1 chapter 2, but there's also his newest work which depicts a male character who dresses up as a girl for the explicit purpose of tricking girls to and sexually take advantage of them, there's Sakura who's in the same game as Chihiro whose character design the Spikechunsoft team initially didn't approve of but Kodaka got through under the guise of "body positivity" only to turn around and make her the butt of "woman who is ugly because she looks like a man" jokes for the entirety of her screentime, hell the only character who ever displays any positivity for trans women (which is transmed at best) is Tenko Cabashira who herself is a standin for Kodaka's misogynistic/lesbiphobic idea of "Man Hating feminazi Dyke".

Chihiro is a trans woman not because the work literally says she is which is what the criteria is for transmisogynists. She's a trans woman because she represents what trans women are to Kodaka. To Kodaka they are at best confused boys who just don't know that they are "allowed to be feminine", at neutral they are good jokes to get a quick laugh, at worst they are predators who prey on young girls, and anyone who supports them is a raging feminazi who probably grew up in a cave.

It's why after we had the incredible uncomfortable corpse investigation every student automatically switched to he/him without so much as a discussion to how Chihiro would want to be referred is because to the author there is no discussion. To the author your genitals are your gender (See also the "transmed at best" Tenko final FTE where will be cool with Suichi as long as he becomes a girl which of course involves getting The Surgery™) and Chihiro's genital reveal is instead this harsh truth of reality that the characters are supposed to feel exposed and lied to about, even the character who is the target of Kodaka's transmisogynistic humor.

This is why it requires a real stretch of the imagination to pull Transmasc Chihiro out of this story because Chihiro is not barred from masculinity in any way, shape, or form. Masculinity is actually expected of her and she is punished with bullying for not performing it. Chihiro does not feel pressure to present feminine, Chihiro is pressured to perform masculinity and her feminine presentation is written as an easy escape from that expectation. Because to Kodaka, Chihiro represents the trans women he views as failed men whose motivation for transitioning is a convenient escape from having to meet the rigorous standards of toxic masculinity. When the secrets are threatened to be revealed, Chihiro does not pursue masculine presentation out of some desire to finally be seen as a man, but out of desperation to not be seen as weak and exploitable when her secret is exposed.

I don't know how to segway from that into this so I'm just going to say. The next time some femboy fascist tries to butt their heads in to "Um Akctually" about a trans woman's existence do not attempt to argue "well actually she IS a trans woman in canon" because unless the character in question is specifically Bridget Guilty Gear, chances are the author is going to be on their side. And even in the case of Bridget, the ones that are still arguing for "canon femboy" Bridget are the ones who never moved on from the mistranslation conspiracy stage of denialism. No amount of pointed official interviews, dialogue, or official wikis is going to convince them because in their mind Daiuske is a turbocuck who is either capitulating or has been brainwashed by the woke West and has forcefully taken the reins to retcon the true author's authentic vision.

If you're going to engage with them which by the way I don't recommend you doing. But let's just pretend you have to. Let's just pretend you're a popular YouTuber which never presented that you have progressive views who unknowingly drew in these people into your fanbase who had a very vocal transmisogynistic reaction to a transfem headcannon. So in this completely imaginary scenario you need to challenge them on their transmisogyny. Ask them why the "correct" interpretation of the work is worth defending and harassing people over.

As the Bridget denialism has shown, these people are VERY dependent on the work agreeing with them because it allows for them to argue correctness without having to deal with such silly little complications as "morals" or "values". They are completely unequipped to defend their transmisogyny because they are so used to using their idea of "Authorial Intent" as a rhetorical crutch and most of the time DO NOT WANT their transmisogyny to be called out as such. It's why when left with no convincing way to deny Bridget's trams existence the ones that DID pivot decided to pivot to taking leftist arguments and swapping some of the words out to make their arguments SOUND progressive. Because they felt that if they couched themselves in leftist sounding language then that would be enough to convince people that they weren't violent reactionaries but were instead GNC men who were expressing loss over valuable representation. Which is just bullshit considering it's just the transfem version of "we're losing our tomboys!" transphobic arguments that people are pretty quick to pick up on but since targets of these arguments were trans women we had genuine queers who were sympathizers and parroting talking points of "While you can't be mad over new Transfem representation you can't fault them for expressing sadness over losing a positive role model for GNC cis men"

Just don't play the "well actually" game with fascists if you can avoid it

[jiyeka]

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[crimsoncat14]

my favourite ndrv3 girls,

Maki and tenko with hair parsed, their hairstyle and  their sailor clothes are  almost same

I decided to finish this project, though the result is a bit messy. Because I'm stuck in a never ending wip

[awesomesugr]

Thenko Cabashira

[artisticvesscl-archived]

@ukenage said “I’m sorry!” for their muse to be drawn/painted by angie!// accepting! For some reason, the other would not stop fidgeting. The artist tried to compensate for her movements, but her accidental movements were so profound that Angie paused. When Tenko finally froze and uttered an apology, angie smiled and nodded. “How is Atua supposed to capture your likeness if you won’t stay still?” She commented. She took her pencil and scribbled all over the well-drawn picture thus far, featuring a blank head and neck, and an array  of erase marks around the shoulders. She was used to a little fidgeting, but Tenko was certainly unstable on her feet-- surprising for a martial artist. Her body was swaying the entire time.

“Atua has to start over now!” She said calmly, grinning and flipping the page to start anew.  “But He forgives you~! He knows you didn’t mean it!” She began to sketch the crown of Tenko’s head, looking seemingly overtaken by the spirit of Atua. Her smile had an eerie feel to it, as if she were a doll, expression painted onto her face. Sometimes, she did seem like a doll as she took breaths that weren’t noticeable. It would appear she wasn’t breathing at times. Her voice all of a sudden lost its vigor when Angie spoke again. “Lets try this again...”

[a-var1c1ous]

My Danganronpa v3 ships of all time

K1=B0 x Ouma

Saihara x Ouma

Saihara x K1-B0

Cabashira x yumeno

(Ok I don’t know where this came from but)

Korekiyo x Amami

Gonta x Kokichi

Maki x Kaede

[daydreamdanganronpa]

NDV3 girls reacting to their sandwiches being snatched away by a giant bird.

Kaede Akamatsu

-First off: how are birds that big!

-just shock and stares at it as it takes away her sandwich.

- next time she comes, she’s packing extra sandwiches.

Tenko Cabashira

-was probably wary of the bird in the first place.

-r u n s after that bird

-probably leaves it alone after a bit of running, she doesn’t want to get in trouble or hurt it.

 Maki Harukawa

-takes her a moment to process it.

-upset but lets the bird off, it’s just doing it for survival.

- if it happens again, she may or may not strangle it.

Miu Iruma

-curses at the bird no matter the size.

-runs after that bird yelling profanity until the bird starts chasing her instead.

-has now developed a fear of birds, or holds a vendetta against that bird.

Himiko Yumeno

-let’s face it she probably let the bird have it or dropped it to run away from it.

-acts like she doesn't care, but she does

-just magically makes another sandwich.

Kirumi Toujo

-doesn’t mind, but if it starts taking every sandwich she makes she’ll start to get irritated and probably inform animal control.

-If enough people complain she’ll take into her own hands.

-the bird is ok though.

Angie Yonaga

-probably in awe of the bird

-follows it in an attempt to have it join her picnic. After all, it might be Atua in disguise.

-in the end, the bird has a bonnet and gets as many sandwiches as it wants.

 Tsumugi Shirogane

-sees the bird wanting it so she gives it to it as to not cause trouble.

-the birds wants m o r e

-probably ends up crying and running from the bird. 

[0w0tsuki]

Hey. You know since the end of the game says that all of their back stories are fake and made up wouldn't that mean that in Korekiyo's excecution his sister's ghost shouldn't be there since she's an artificially character created in Kiyo's mind?

Exactly! So that why I say instead of Kiyo's sister's ghost it should be Tenko's. And instead of salt she should just powerbomb him straight into hell.

[artisticvesscl-archived]

@ukenage  needs a guardian angie!// not accepting!

“Hey~! Angie finally arrived, Tenko!” Angie suddenly appeared in the corner of Tenko’s eye, with her usual openness and peaceful air about her. “Angie tried using the front door, but it was locked, so she let herself in!”

“Atua says that you need guidance, ri~ight?” She closed her eyes, and took a deep breath, messages of thanks going through her mind for pairing her up with someone who needed Him in their life.

“He Himself sent me, so you must need a lot of guidance! But y’know, Atua speaks to Angie; isn’t that divine? Nyahahaha!”

She assumed a disarmed, relaxed position, assuring that she means well. She held her palms upward, as if receiving a blessing. “Angie is here to protect you and guide you for Him, since even He needs a break!” 

“Now lets see...” She became pensive, tapping her finger on her cheek. “When was the last time you gave a blood sacrifice to Atua?” She shifted her eyes to meet with Tenko’s anticipating an answer.