#cthoni gachiakuta

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finally got around to reading gachiakuta, drew some of my favs!

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More Gachiakuta doodles

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antagonists sketch dump 3/5: Cthoni

Kei Urana || March 14, 2024 || Instagram [link]

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Gachiakuta vol 3 summary

We resume with Rudo and his 2 Support buddies trying to escape. Uh oh, locs guy drops in front of them. Did he kill Zanka?!?! Nah, he likes tough guys so he just incapacitated him via a nick with his poison claws. Locs guy does not give a shit about grunts though, so he slices through Gris the veteran Support guy with his giant claws.

Rudo stares in horror and catches Gris' amulet as it goes flying. He flashes back to his early time with Regto and how Rudo found his passion for finding worth in what others throw away. Fade back in, and Gris comments that that is actually how Rudo's power works: finding the worth in any object he touches and drawing out its full power. And boy has he pulled out the defensive power of Gris' amulet

Rudo managed to hold off locs guy (who jovially shares that his name is Jabber and is very excited to have fun fighting Rudo) fairly easily since the amulet prevents him from touching Rudo while Rudo wails on him every time he tries. Jabber realizes the amulet is working off detecting hostility, so he poisons himself so he can unconscious attack Rudo. This is effective and now Rudo is on the ropes while trying to figure out how to beat a unconscious insane masochist

Zanka staggers back in to help out. They get some good hits in but once they think they've won, Jabber stands back up, conscious again, while Rudo collapses. He must have been nicked by the poison claws at some point. Jabber poison Zanka again to re-incapacitate him

Jabber grabs Rudo- his goal all along- and jumps out of the building. But oh ho who's there but every Cleaner we've met so far! They tell Jabber to give up, and he cheerily acknowledges there's no way he'd beat all of them when he's already taken a beating and also his boss would be pissed if he fails the mission of kidnapping Rudo, or he resolves to fight to the death and have fun doing so

Before the fight can start, a woman shows up behind him. She's named Cthoni, and she says it's time to retreat. Jabber is resistant until she says boss "had a great big smile." Then he acquiesces happily. Before they dip, he notices Rudo's gloves and says "Your hands... You have that series too? The boss will love to hear this! Okay byeeee Rudo 😘" And on that cryptic note, the two villians teleport away through a magic manhole cover the woman uses

Scene change: everyone regroups at the Cleaner HQ. Rudo is sad and sulking outside because he feels useless for not being able to protect anyone while Enjin tries to tell him well done for holding his own against such a powerful foe. Rudo is sure Gris is dead so he's mourning, but Enjin brings him to the infirmary where hey! He's alive! That's kinda bullshit but good for him! He survived thanks to the Cleaners only healer Giver, Eishia.

A man then walks through the door. He recaps the new information they've learned about the raiders from this whole ordeal (that they're trying to find a way through the boarder into the Sphere). Who's this? Ayyyy it's boss man! Welcome back boss man!

He introduces himself as Corvus, and he welcomes Rudo into the Cleaners since he's pleased with what he's seen of Rudo's drive to protect the other Cleaners. He invites Rudo into his office to share what info he has: everyone who tries to cross the boarder dies. Except, there's a mysterious woman who lives near it who's rumored to have seen "some who can go up and down without dying on the way." She's Rudo's first lead on how to get back, and maybe how he survived the fall in the first place. We end with Enjin delivering Rudo's official Cleaners uniform

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sketches of my babies no biggie

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i NEED to see them interact more + their history (if they have any before the whole raiders thing)

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finally finished this ^_^ original template

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cthoni lifting jabber

Kei Urana || August 26, 2022 || Twitter [link]

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volume 7 front cover (japanese)

​Hasegawa (Red Rooster) || October 17, 2023 || Fandom Wiki [link]

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volume 7 back cover (japanese)

​Hasegawa (Red Rooster) || October 17, 2023 || Fandom Wiki [link]

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Gachiakuta vol 4 summary

Rudo tries dessert and candy for the first time and falls in love. Sweets were not something available to underclass Spherites but it's available on the ground due to Givers who specialize in food. I taste a theme being built: Is life better as underclass in a privileged place or as an equal in a poor place?

Training time! Zanka, Enjin, and Riyo spar with Rudo to help him figure out the details of his powers. Zanka realizes that he can only use items that are broken or discarded. He can also only do it so many times before giving himself a nosebleed because his physical skill is far outclassed by the quality of his gloves. Riyo postulates that his temporary vital instruments dissolve or die once they've meet their purpose and are no longer needed. So he's not "killing" the items (which he was worried about) but giving them a second chance to fulfill their purpose. They speculate what it means that his gloves are part of a "series"

Jump to Jabber and Cthoni meeting their boss. He mutters a bunch of different nonsense phrase (ie plot teasers for future developments) and we get a zoom in on something he's wearing: the same symbol from Rudo's gloves

That night, Rudo washes his gloves. He whimpers and moans through it because of the pain that the mystery injuries on his hands cause him (which the gloves usually dampen). Riyo breaks into his room to check on him. She asks about the injuries, and Rudo says only his good for nothing dad would be able to answer what they really are

We meet the crew for this journy: Enjin, Zanka, and Riyo from Akuta (the name of our HQ); Delmon and Tamsy from Eager (another Clearn base?); and three supporters Gris, Follo, and a recorder named Tomme

We also learn they have a resident artisan mask maker who cannot be restrained by deadlines or expectations. He's still working on Rudo's mask, and they can't venture into No Man's Land until it's done. So in the meantime, they go to get supplies and art charms in Canvas Town

Canvas Town- or the City of Graffiti- is an artist town. Every single surface in town is fair game for graffiti. It's protector, the Spellcaster, has a special vital instrument passed from generation to generation that grants the owner the ability to imbue anything they want into their art. It's rare for a vital instrument to be passed on like that, but it happens here and there. The Spellcaster works regularly with the Cleaner, giving them charms and graffiting their HQ (whether they want it or not). Unfortunately, the current one died just last night: not from deliberate violence, or an attack, but from body pollution- an every day tragedy on the ground. Personally, I think this calls to mind a parallel to the opening of the volume: Is life better as underclass in a privileged place or as an equal in a poor place?

The Spellcaster named his successor Remlin Tysark, a kid who's been sobbing in the corner this whole time. Enjin is good natured and resigned to the situation- oh well we can't get what we came for so we'll just go normal shopping- but the kid takes a deep breath, then screams that they're ready.

They go to the roof. The very first thing they do with their instrument is to launch spray can fireworks in memory of their predecessor. The town collectively joins in. Rudo looks at his own gloves. Did he give them power, or did he inherit the power they already had?

They get their charms. Enjin and the Mayor of the town (who's looking out for the kid) discuss the nature of the inherited instrument while the kid talks about artistic value and freedom.

On the way back to bade, Enjin lets Rudo go trash picking for supplies for the trip. Unbeknownst to Rudo, we get a close up of a TV. It flickers to life. There's a figure on it. The leader of the boss antagonist? Is he wearing Rudo's gloves...?

Back at HQ, Rudo gets his mask. The mask artisan is named Augustus, he's boisterous, and his sister is the healer Giver from last volume. Enjin also lets Rudo go trash diving for supplies for the trip. In the next chapter, we see Rudo has brought this TV along in the car as a supply

Enter No Man's Land! They immediately fight a hoard of giant scorpions. All of the Givers we've seen before get a chance to show off, including Rudo.

As the literal dust settles, a girl shows up. She's not wearing a mask. She asks if they're there to talk to Amo. Is this the woman they're looking for? She seems to know about people coming and going safely from the Sphere, so perhaps? Riyo and Enjin have a few cryptic lines about whether he'll be okay to handle this or if Riyo should take over. Our last few pages are a teaser presumably back at her house, Enjin falling to his knees and puking

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AUDIBLY GASPED WHEN I SAW THIS

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