#clamp kujaku

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Knowledge 22

Summary

The skills of the Assyrian “engineers” are attested in the fields of city planning, the construction of monumental buildings and bridges, hydraulic engineering, and transportation of heavy loads. In all major engineering projects, the Assyrian king appears in a key position as the principal client, financier, and manager. Hydraulic works are attested in the Near East in all historical periods and geographical regions. Among the most significant engineering projects were the Assyrian hydraulic installations created from the 13th century BCE onward in conjunction with the foundation of new royal residences or with the reshaping of existing cities. Timber was scarce in Assyria but was indispensable for the roofing of buildings and the construction of gates, and thus its acquisition and transport represented a particular concern. The water transport of timber is attested several times in the correspondence of Sargon II. Another method for transportation is shown on a wall relief from Sargon's palace in Dur-Šarrukin.

[W.G._Lambert]_Babylonian_Creation_Myths

[hitsuzen-daijoubudayo]

[clamp-box]

I have this guy now

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(why are there so many fais??)

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Figure collecting: RG Veda's Kujaku 1:7 from Emontoys

Wouldn't be exaggerating to say it feels like it took a lifetime to get a figure of Kujaku, as RG Veda was first published in 1989 -_- And weirdly enough he beat out the main protags Ashura and Yasha-oh in getting a scale figure - but I'm not complaining, as Kujaku was far and away my favorite character from the series.

He's pretty. Not crazy about the base (it seriously looks like styrofoam) but I love the sitting/perching pose. He's not super detailed overall, like the hair shading is a bit lackluster (looks like a messy ombre dye job rather than highlights) - but mmm, wings. His wings have a cool oil slick type rainbow effect, with the large feathers at the tips being softer to the touch and slightly semi translucent, which is a nice added effect.

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Liseur d'Etoiles

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I would love a fic where the Tsubasa crew ended up in the RG Veda world after all the canon happened, and end up passing a few days with Yasha and Ashura.

If we go by post canon Tsubasa, this means it's only Syaoran, Kurogane and Fai, but that's fine by me too. I prefer them all settled on their skin.

Imagine those three finding again Yasha and Ashura, only this time the two are alive and together as their counterparts in the country of Shura/Shara wished, and still gods, but at the cost of loosing everything else. I imagine it's be a very bittersweet feeling.

Imagine the Tsubasa trio (and oh, syaoran only has the memories but he never really met Ashura in person after all. maybe he takes care of remembering everything to tell his parents when he gets them back. the end of the shara arc was so melancholic and sad),

Imagine the Tsubasa trio swapping stories with the RG Veda duo, and the surprise and sad happiness at the recognition of their past companions names, living other lives, happy lives, in other worlds without them. Just the duo reaction to Kendappa being the ruler of Nihon, with Souma as her loyal retainer and a little sister to take care of and spoil, and Ryu having been a close friend of past Syaoran in Outo and also Souma of that world, and misterious Kujaku who helped Syaoran and the rest in Nirai Kanai, still someone of great power and kind nature.

I would love to read it if written skillfully, it could lead to pain, like Ashura deciding it was due to not being born in those places that everything went well, and Yasha reasuring them that it has nothing to do with anything. Maybe TRC-trio revealing what happened in the Shura-Shara world, that they were kind if misguided and people were happy with their rulers and remembered them for centuries.

They both died at the end of course, but given this is the og RG Veda counterparts, Ashura letting go of life after realising there would be no bringing Yasha back makes perfect rational sense to them. It was what Yasha intended to do in this world if there was no bringing back Ashura alive to themself.

Fai getting chills when TRC gets the resumed story of what went wrong in this world and it starts with Ashura going, my father Ashura-ou heard a profecy that I would... I don't think Fai says anything to them? But getting a conversation with Kurogane about the like good of it being the same Ashura-ou who raised him and fucked him up at the same time, and brought the destruction of Ceres by the end... Some startling parallels there, CLAMP did well in choosing the figure of Ashura-ou for Fai father. Didn't our Ashura also had a twin who was killed at birth or something? Or just the living half brother?

Maybe Fai does end up talking a bit with Ashura about the madness of Ashura-ou. And the fucked up thing about destinies and curses that others impose on you. And being saved by meeting their guys and a new family.... And then it gets melancholic and a but sad ;_;

But I belive that Yasha and Ashura are living incognito between humans, although without mingling much, so this visit from the TRC crew maybe makes them realise that although their lives are short, both of them deserve to care and be cared for their new friends and neighbors. Leave them in a better please than the desolation of, at least we both have each other for ever and ever of RG Veda ending, please. More like, without you by my side I wouldn't be able to enjoy life, but together we can be happy and meet new people and new places and help others.

Syaoran telling Sakura about this world, Kurogane and Fai meeting the true Yasha after his feather fake on Shura and realising how much was missing and not, and the measure of the love that's it's there across dimensions and lives for these disasters, Fai and Ashura awkwardly bonding, Syaoran realising this Ashura has never been a ruler of anyone and how that affects then, Yasha being a bit distant from these weirdos who galled through the sky until they sit talking and then warming up bc he's fond of their devotion and follow through, etc, etc.

Just. All these people meeting and being themselves, and the funny realization that Yasha and Ashura had been very powerful and/or gods the two times they've met, deciding the future of their worlds. That nobody is ever all gone.

Lovely lovely.

Of course I also want more Yasha/Ashura fic in general, but also more tsubasa proper crossovers with other clamp verses, or other canons in general so this scenario is like catnip for me, specially considering the arc of shara/shura which adds the extra knowledge for the TRC trio here.

[song-of-amethyst]

Now read RG Veda :)

Ashura-ou still is the minor, yet important character.

Oh hello anon! You'll be happy to hear that I have, indeed, read RG Veda and also that I made myself go through all that suffering all in order to gather headcanons for Celes!Ashura. The things we'd do for blorbos am I right?

But it was definitely worth it. I loved how Clamp took RG Veda's Ashura's uncanny ability to know things (which was called 'Maya' or something? It's been so long, I think it's why he (and thus Taishakuten) knew the circumstances of Kujaku's birth) and made it have more of a presence in Celes!Ashura and in the consequences it had on the plot (specifically how he always "just knew" what Fai was up to, which made Fai very paranoid in trying to elude him--not using magic, for instance.) Though it turns out Ashura was playing 4D chess all along and already "just knew" Fai would return to Celes so. :D

Also I suppose this is an uncommon one but I ended up heavily headcanoning him as aroace. Though I see the point of people who ship him with Taishakuten! Clamp have a way of linking their works in a way that can create all sorts of implications you wouldn't get just from one or the other.

I wonder if there's a Taishakuten in Celes. I've always assumed there wasn't. That he'd gotten involved with Shashi and Taishakuten all so that his child would exist and survive, and that neither of them existed in Celes specifically because his child didn't exist (and Fai replaced him.) So in a sense, he became what his RG Veda self was trying to prevent his child from becoming (my hc/interpretation being that the curse would always manifest in the last of their line and given that Ashura's child in RG Veda was sexless it had to be him, but Celes was an alternative end), but he also remained stuck trying to change Fai's fate through extreme methods because it seems he wouldn't be himself if he wasn't destroying the world for the sake of his kid, adoptive or not, doesn't it.

[classicanime79]

#249 : Peacock King / Spirit Warrior

Let’s mix it up and make an anime. Hopefully you all can catch these references, but if you love anime you should (fingers crossed). Peacock King, also called Spirit Warrior, but the official translation is Kujaku Ō, is in my best description a seinen version of say Fist of the North Star, maybe Saint Seiya, and CLAMP’s Tokyo Babylon, or X: 1999 from my eyes and experience. And yet Peacock King…

[noa-ciharu]

These are all occupations clamp characters had:

False prophet - half of X cast. Kudos to Hinoto tho she's false false prophet, knows it all but lies for funsies

Wrecking ball operator - sounds like something Hideki would do once he fails to graduate from high school 5 years in row because half naked Chii clings to him every morning and he can't find determination to get out of bed. But neither can he do a thing in bed without fucking up his gf's CPU

River styx ferryman - tell me Kujaku doesn't give off those vibes. He'd hit the waterfall then use wings to fly away while you're still trapped on the boat plummeting to second death

Urban legend - Clow the clown

Court jester - also Clow. Alternatively entire Dyklion cast. Nokoru is the king of palace tho, he's only 9 but owns more land than any of us would ever see in our lives

Paranormal investigator - Subaru literally. I bet post TB ghosts were consoling him, not vice versa. Ghosts see him and decide it's better for them to move on to afterlife immediately

Death omen - baby Ashura canonically. Also Kamui since everyone is dropping dead around him but it's not his fault. We can add Seishirou too. Everyone is dropping dead around him and it's his fault

Catacombus tour guide - trc!Syaoran. He'd be so engrossed in Catacombs he won't notice he's been talking for 8 hours and half of tour is on verge of starvation. There's earthquake going on but once hyperfixation kicks in not even that would stop Syaoran

Curiosity collector - Yuuko's entire shop. Her most beautiful and most deadly items. Touch that dead blowfish and 1000 years of suffering my dude. If Yuuko is on the roll she'd pin you against her evil cabinet, homoerotically smoke pipe into your face and make it 2000 years

Medieval falconer - there had to be at least one rg veda characters that used birbs as Twitter. If not then we have trc fake priest Seishirou and spilled ink hawk. Sadly said hawk has nowhere to sit bc Seishirou paid with his shoulders to persuade his vampire fetish

[hitsuzen-daijoubudayo]

[figurecollection]

Kujaku 1/7 Scale by Emontoys, from RG Veda

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RG VEDA, CLAMP

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They've been sluts for long long ??? years

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It wasn’t until the 3rd or 4th time I read this, that I realized Kujaku is the one who Ashura hears rustling in this scene.