#dk trio

[danceofthephilos]

On the DK Trio (spoon.2di vol. 73)

—In episode 9, you showed Cherry Blossom, Joe and Adam's high school days, but how did you capture those three's respective feelings when they met and leading into the present? Also, how were the trio's visual designs in the high school era created? Okouchi-san wrote that those three had this sort of time in their pasts, so if that was the case, wouldn't their attire and such have a delinquent vibe? That speculation expanded into my mental image of them. We weren't able to depict much of Sakurayashiki and Nanjo's relationship, but I figure they've been fighting since this time. I think their relationship probably hasn't changed at all between then and now. And the "extraordinary" thing that suddenly appeared in their ordinary everyday life was Adam. Meeting someone as gifted and charismatic as him, of course they would be affected by that. Anyone would end up admiring him, being attracted (drawn) to him. —Cherry Blossom was especially enchanted by him. He was, wasn't he? We didn't show what Nanjo thought of Adam at that time, but he surely must have felt very similarly. Exactly because it was when they were young, I think for the two of them, the impact meeting Adam had on them was huge. —I think a lot of viewers were just as charmed by Adam in high school as those two were, but were there any points about his design you were especially particular about? Because Adam is someone Sakurayashiki admires (longs for) so much, I wanted his design to be overflowing with charisma. Also, the white gakuran. A normal person couldn't wear that. (lol) And Sakurayashiki and Nanjo wear blazers to differentiate them from Adam. Since Sakurayashiki in particular always wears Japanese-style clothing in the present, I also wanted him to wear western-style clothes as a student. For Nanjo, there was the length of his hair, and I wanted him to seem like a fresh young man who was suited to sports. Chiba-san designed all three of them to show their muscles less than in the present, but that "perfect dosage" was wonderful, so please look at the concept art when it's released!

(Director Hiroko Utsumi, spoon.2di vol. 73)

[specterthief]

jk aiko/adam finally, both in her regular everyday school uniform and dressed to sneak out skating! it took a while to figure out what exactly i wanted to do with her hair but i had to go with the iconic hime cut in the end, since she's the character i most wanted to resemble a classic yuri character.

her hair is based on simone from shiroi heya no futari, widely considered the first yuri manga (though many, many other crimson rose/onee-sama type yuri love interests have had very similar haircuts since) and her uniform is based on the one from maria-sama ga miteru (another very famous yuri series.)

and for her skating outfit, she starts off "borrowing" tadashi's old high school uniform and pretends to be a boy when she first starts sneaking out to skate, hoping there would be less chance of her getting caught and word getting back to her family that way. kaoru and koharu are the first friends she has then that she trusts to tell she's a girl, and while it eventually becomes an open secret among the rest of their gang, they're the only ones who she lets see her with her hood/hat off and her hair down

bonus: all three versions of the jk trio!

[scalecallerpeak]

I also don't know if it's apparent but I love making oc trios

[jun-mie]

twitter

[bei-b]

@kpopcreators 30 days of k-pop event day 7: favourite friendship

[brainrot-yumm]

my brain is an enigma but boy is it funny to watch it run around the hamster wheel trying to catch the braincell

[reaperfox]

Some old Sk8 doodles of varying quality I forgot all about, mostly prompts for various fandom events or just shameless self indulgence.

[thelastlaff]

they’re all wlw and poly btw they’re all gfs jsyk they told me themselves now shhh they’re sleeping

[spacerangersam]

a fun little find at the bookshop. I've never seen a hardback of the HH books before, and not a two in one either. Had to get it obviously, especially when I saw the previous owner had scribbled my name down

[danceofthephilos]

Who founded S, and when?

In episode 4 of SK8's dub, Reki refers to Joe and Cherry as "founders" of S, and this has led to a pretty widespread conception in the English-speaking fandom that the two of them were... well, S's founders alongside Adam, that it started when the three of them were in school, that they're still involved in it on a managerial level, or even claims that they founded it first and Adam stole it after the fact.

But what is actually being said here?

It's the word "初期メンバー" that was translated as "founders" in the dub, and while it can mean "founding members", in a sense, there is no implication in the word 初期 of actively being involved in creating something, simply that they were the earliest members (it means "in the initial stage.")

Even more telling is Reki's use of みんな - he's talking about a larger group than two people here. He's not setting Joe and Cherry apart as "founders", he's counting everyone who skated at S at the beginning as "初期メンバー" and namedropping the two characters from that era whose names we know and who are going to be significant to the story. (This reference to "everyone" establishing that there's a larger group going unnamed is also cut from the dub; instead Reki says "Cherry, Joe... man, I bet they'd love to go off about that guy.")

Conversely, looking at how Adam is described...

...it's pretty straightforward.

He's also described in his profile on the official website (and consistently in other official sources that use these character profiles) as 創設者, which does mean founder, explicitly referring to "the person who first established something."

Cherry and Joe, meanwhile, are both referred to as Sの実力者のうちの1人, or "one of the big names at S." They're certainly both respected, influential people within the community - recognition they've earned, not something they're set apart for in any "official" capacity. They've never been described in an official source as 創設者, or in any other way that would indicate they were involved in S's creation rather than simply being two powerful people in the community as it exists now.

There are a few other details that tie into establishing this - mainly disproving the notion that Adam stole something already existing. In episode 5, as they're fleeing from the police, Tadashi says this...

...indicating that Crazy Rock was part of a regular police patrol route before Adam was able to use his money/influence to have it removed, something that Cherry and Joe (particularly years ago, when Cherry wouldn't have had the money he's earning now) would not have had the power to do.

And in episode 12, when discussing the change in course, Joe says this:

Literally saying "it became banned", this is wording on Joe's part that would make no sense for a decision he was involved in. He's describing this as something that happened totally separate from him. Early enough that the funeral course was still being used, Joe (and presumably also Cherry) were not making calls about the management of S like this.

There's also a relevant quote from SK8's screenwriter, Ichiro Okouchi:

When considering Adam as a character, I thought he would need someone beside him. If Kikuchi wasn't there, Adam would become a character who would do nothing but talk to himself, and it would be difficult for Adam to manage S alone.

(spoon.2Di, volume 72)

Part of Tadashi's entire conceptualization as a character was because without him, Adam would be running S alone. Early enough in the development in the series that Tadashi hadn't properly been created yet, S was imagined as something solely belonging to Adam.

Adam is S's founder; Joe and Cherry were simply in the initial group of members, along with other people who haven't yet been named.

Additionally, from only a few pieces of dialog it's possible to narrow down when Adam started S - and it wasn't during the DK era. When Joe interrupts Reki in episode 4, he says this:

Earlier in the same episode, Cherry says this:

And the two of them have this exchange at the beginning of episode 9:

Adam, Joe and Cherry are all 26 years old (25 going on 26, in Cherry's case; he hasn't actually had his birthday by the end of season 1, but this is normal for how ages are listed for anime characters.) Seven years ago would have been the end of their last year of high school (Adam, as the oldest of the three of them, would have turned 19 just over a month after graduating high school.)

When Adam skated with Joe and Cherry was seven years ago, before he left for America, and he hasn't accepted any of their challenges since he returned to Japan. In Joe's words, this time skating together was "way before S started."

So, all together:

For some time in high school, Adam, Joe and Cherry all skated together as a group (sometimes with some other friends/gang members.) Seven years before SK8 season 1 takes place, Adam was sent away to America by his father, ending his friendship with Joe and Cherry. Some time after that (presumably upon his father's death,) he returned to Japan and founded S with Tadashi to assist him in managing it, using his influence to remove the abandoned mine from regular police patrols to protect it, and Joe and Cherry were among a larger initial group of skaters who competed at the time. Since then, he's never agreed to a beef with Joe or Cherry despite them challenging him many times, so neither of them have skated with him since S started.

TL;DR - Adam is the person who started S and he and Tadashi were always conceptualized as the only people running it, and the idea that Adam, Joe and Cherry founded it as a trio comes from a mistranslation in the dub.

[ananinidraws]

IT'S NORMAL ALLIANCE TIME <333

Featuring @yinyangle and @1dkreally

[hannnsh]

ooo joelscar wizards be upon ye 🪄🪄🪄

i’ve had this au for a while but havent rlly thought abt it a lot … i just want my joelscar content tbh. im also gonna mix in grian to the group later bc i alrdy have a role for him (crazy bird guy w an obsession w eyes) dont ask, even i dont know, i just need them tgthr again okay, i miss my 100 hardcore trio 😢 life series teamup when ????

i dont have much lore but joel is sick and is on a journey to find the ingredients for the cure of said sickness, he is technically a witch ig not a wizard, he alrdy graduated wizard school idk. scar is a wizard that does tricks and stuff, he also graduated wizard school a few years earlier than joel. he tags along w joel to find the ingredients w him for some reason i still dk why, and they go on crazy journeys tgthr :3

they travel via scar’s wagon and does shows lol, for money and scams people. along the way they meet a weird bird man, who had tried to steal scar’s (?) eyes, but they made a deal and whatnot and then grian tags along w them. joel occasionally steals eyes for grian :3 (gribeans my beloveds)

i think thats it for now, i should rlly stop drawing and start studying lmao 😭😭 im working on a smalletho au with aquarium worker joel and florist etho lol, im slowly building the au

[skinkmi]

"The original members of Chaos UK had gone their separate ways, leaving me suddenly without a band. This was also when I met Rob (Amebix) and the guys from Disorder. I had moved into a studio in a two-bedroom flat in a posh part of town (ha!) with my then girlfriend and another studio became available in the building opposite. Within a few days the Amebix/Disorder crew had moved in. (This is the room you see in the UK/DK film, they came to interview me for the film and I told them to fuck off next door and film the others, that's why I wasn't there.) What followed was pure hedonism, it was gigs, parties, drinking and drugs 24/7. This, in my opinion, was where the original crust punk began. I can't credit just one band or individual (although I could point the finger!), it was all of us. We quickly gained a reputation that spread across the country like wildfire. "Those filthy, smelly punks from Bristol!" Slowly but surely it started to catch on, before you knew it the whole scene was full of stinking medieval thugs. Also at this point, Bristol’s trio of infamy, Disorder/Amebix/Chaos UK (I had found a new line-up) somehow managed to resonate and interest began to flood in from all over the world. There is no doubt about the influence our three bands had on the rest of the punk and metal scene; it is well documented everywhere except Bristol. In Bristol, it is completely ignored in favour of trip hop and the commercial success of Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky. It is something to be scoffed at and belittled or ignored completely. We were the underground, underground and long may it remain so."

- Kaos

[kathaelipwse]

MasterList:

OT8:

52 works

Straykids:

19 works

Their Reaction When You Whisper Something Not So Innocent

Midnight monster's (and mischief)

New hair color

Silence Is Not Safe

Chan:

If Only You Could See Yourself

Chan's Live gone bad

Pervy chan

A Love That Time Forgot

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Just come here

3rd october, again

The Bang Chan Husband Files

Not Just a 'Stylist'

Minho:

More Than Best Friends

Paper Promises & Second Chances

Changbin:

-

Hyunjin:

Dancing in the Moonlight

Felix:

Cookies, Cravings, and a Tiny Heartbeat

Han:

Still Yours

Seungmin:

Hate You Less Every Day

Jeongin:

-

OT 8:

Ateez-

10 works

Hongjoong:

CTRL + ALT + Heart

Yeosang:

Seonghwa:

Stolen Hoodies & Soft Confessions

Jongho:

Mingi:

You can take it, Right?

A Little Too Close

Yunho:

Stuck With You (series)

San:

The Moment I Saw You

Written in the Pages

Mission: You

You Didn’t Have to Handle It Alone

Wooyoung:

Set me off

OT13:

Seventeen:

18 works

Home is Where They Are

S. Coups:

"No More Hiding"

"Keep Writing Sweetheart"

Mine to Ruin

The Fan Who Got Away

World's Apart

Offline, It's you

Guarded by you (series)

Contract, Cooked & Kissed

Jeonghan:

Soft Drinks & Sharp Tongues

Jun:

Joshua:

The Art of Love and War

Hoshi:

Styled for you

Wonwoo:

The Fine Print

Woozi:

Not just a work crush

DK:

Carved in Sin (series)

Texas sun, seoul stars

Mingyu:

The barista who stole his heart

Seungkwan:

The8 (Minghao):

Sunlight on a Rainy Day

Vernon:

Dino:

OT7:

GOT 7:

5 works

Oops... Did I Just Confess?

Members As Friends And Lovers

Jay B:

Mark:

Jackson:

"You Can’t Hide From Us" (Part 1) (jackson x gn.reader x bam)

"You Can’t Hide From Us" (Part 2) (jackson x gn.reader x bam)

Jinyoung:

Youngjae:

Trio best friends. (Bf!Youngjae x Reader x Bestfriend!Jaebeom)

BamBam:

Yugyeom:

NOT WORKED YET ON: TXT and BIGBANG {request will be accepted for these groups as well!!}

[andrasdreamss]

drift king

pairing: vinnie hacker x fem reader

summary: vinnie hacker was know for being the dk of los angeles, he won every one of his races, but one day one of the others racers asks him to bet the most valued thing on his life

warnings: swearing, u know my characters swear a lot lol. reader being treat as an object for a few second. little bit of angst, i love angst and you know it hehe. and i think that's all, hope you like it xoxo

the races were one thing vinnie attended every weekend, with his yellow miata and his girl in the passenger seat, vinnie loved to race and y/n loved to see vinnie happy and having a good time, even tho that meant vinnie risking his car and worst, his life, but y/n knew she couldn't change vinnie's mind about the races

the couple was getting ready to go to the la downtown, were all the racers met to just show off their cars and be just men for a night, y/n was wearing black cargo pants and a top that looked more like a bra than a top, her long red hair was straight and with some star pins decorating it

"you look amazing, baby" vinnie said looking at his girlfriend with awe, y/n smiled at him “you ready?” he asked

“sure” she grabbed her phone and followed her boyfriend to the door of his apartment

the couple arrived la downtown, y/n was nervous as always, she didn't really liked the idea of being among drunk men watching her boyfriends risk his life, y/n saw jordan approaching to them and smiled at him, he waved at her

"hey v, you ready?" he asked the blonde boy

"i was born ready" jordan and vinnie shared a few more words, y/n saw a new car arriving the place, it was a pretty porsche, it was the same color as her hair and that made her smile, the boy on the front seat noticed her and send her a wink, she rolled her eyes and she started hearing what jordan was saying

"they say a new racer is coming, he has this amazing red porsche" y/n scoffed

"i think he just arrived" she said, the two boys followed her gaze where the car was parked, the driver was now seating on the hood, he noticed her gaze and then he looked at the boy that was behind her like a guardian dog, vinnie frowned and put his arm on y/n's shoulders, the unknown guy laughed and then started walking to the trio, y/n rolled her eyes

"hey man, you must be vinnie" he said when he was in front of the couple, he was tall, not as tall as vinnie but he was definitely taller than y/n, he was towering her

"yeah, i am. and you are?" he asked annoyed, he could see the look he was giving his girl and he didn't like that

"woah, chill, big boy. i'm lorenzo, zurzolo" he introduced himself, she then recognized him, he was an actor and yes, he was handsome but the second she saw him she knew she was an asshole "you going to race?" he asked the tall boy

"i always do, you?" by this moment almost all the people at the event were looking at them

"first time racing here, i heard you always win, is that right?" he asked with a mocking tone, vinnie scoffed

"what do you think?" lorenzo laughed and vinnie tensed his chin

"what are you betting?" he asked and vinnie frowned

"the car" he responded simply, y/n was looking at them like she was at a tenis game

"let's make this more interesting, if you win i give you my car and 10k" vinnie arched his brow

"deal" he said, y/n looked at him frowning, he didn't knew what he had to bet

"don't wanna know what you have to give me if i win?" he asked vinnie crossing his arm

"you're not going to win, pretty boy" lorenzo laughed again

"if i win, you give me your car" he made a pause, like if he was thinking "and your girl" y/n frowned and looked at vinnie, the boy was mad, it was obvious

"what the fuck, man?" vinnie asked, jordan grabbed him before he could do anything against the boy

"you already accepted, hacker" he said, everyone looked at the boys

"i'm not going to be part of your stupid games" y/n said at lorenzo, he looked at her "stop this, vinnie"

"you already made a deal, do you really want all these people to see that you're a pussy?" y/n frowned again, she knew what he was doing, he wanted to provoked him, and we was getting it

"vin, please, stop this madness" she said to her boyfriend nervously

"fine, i'll race" vinnie said, everyone started to cheer, y/n looked at him hurt

"what the fuck, vinnie? are you for fucking real?" she said, the two boys started walking to their cars "you are an asshole!" she screamed at him, while he was driving to the start line, y/n ran to him, she looked at him trough the window "i swear to god vinnie, if you do this we're done, you are betting me like if i were nothing"

"i'm not going to loose this race, and i wont loose you" he said, the girl that was going to start the race was in the middle already

"ready?" she asked lorenzo and he nodded "ready?" vinnie nodded "on your mark, three, two, one" she moved the bandana and the two boys started to race, y/n sighed and started to walk away from the place but jordan grabbed her

"you need to be her, y/n" he said at her, she frowned at him and pulled her arm

"i won't be part of this stupid game" she simply said, and again started to walk away, but lorenzo's friends got her

"you're the prize, you can't leave" one said, they took her again to the finish line, and she felt like she was about to cry, she felt anxious and she was hurt, she didn't know what was going to happen but she felt that it was not going to be cute

aaah, i want to torture you and i will start working on part 2, stay tune lol, lyyyy, hope you like it, and if you hace any request, text me, xoxo

[class1akids]

I don’t understand why do you accuse only the bkdk fandom of normal fandom behaviour. All of you do the same thing but pretend you guys are on some sort of higher moral ground. So what if the bkdk fandom treats Shouto as a third wheel? That fandom is not about Shouto in the first place. Saying other fandoms like tddk don’t do shit like that when a large chunk of them term bkdk as brothers because they can’t stand the ship. Every fandom does this. You accusing bkdks of not caring about Deku when you take every opportunity to trash Bakugou. You have every right to do that and be biased towards one half of your ship btw but it just sounds so condescending when you accuse other fandoms of doing the same thing you guys do

I don’t know if it’s “normal” fandom behaviour. I saw people throwing a hissy fit that Shouto was included in that one-shot panel as “trio baiting”. Because it’s not enough for some bk///dks to be appeased, unless everyone else is denied. Bullying the official into content and then still not being happy because someone else’s fans also got something is really embarrassing behaviour.

Calling him not just a thirdwheel but treating him like an accessory, nuisance, idiot child who doesn’t realize he’s unwanted (with Shouto’s backstory that’s pretty triggering tbh), calling him child of divorce, etc.

And yes, I agree that bkdk shouldn’t be about Shouto. So why are people so obsessed with making putting him down a favorite trope? It’s so widespread too?

And yes, other ships also do it occasionally to Shouto and they suck too when it’s being done in a disrespectful way.

I don’t think portraying the bk/dk dynamic as sibling-like in the context of another ship dynamic is inherently disrespectful the way the “idiot child thirdwheel Shouto” trope is or making literally every Origin Trio panel into a Shouto third wheeling thing as if he didn’t have a right to be there.

And I’m not saying bk//dks are the only problem. Dudebros and iz//ch after 430 were also toxic and I did call them out too.

I don’t hate Katsuki btw, but I dislike the part of his stan-dom that behave like an entitled bullying mob, coming after everyone in big groups who dares to utter anything critical and in the last years have made this fandom a worse place. It didn’t used to be like this. I used to have more moots and interesting interactions with that side of the fandom. But things have become so bitter and combative.