#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!

[jun-mie]

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[bei-b]

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

[smokbeast]

oh chriminy I’m cooking things , I’ll be real I just see murder boys everywhere but Idk what they’re about, or nightmare. Or error,. But uhm his colors I like..them.. and nightmare is big spooky octo thing, I uh, I’m lost in some kind of thinking sauce

[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

[ananinidraws]

IT'S NORMAL ALLIANCE TIME <333

Featuring @yinyangle and @1dkreally

[yixiangs]

i just saw someone say junhyeon taerae and phanbin are booseoksoon coded and i feel absolutely INSANE about it

[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.

[taee]

Post a color palette using your birth chart based on this thread!

I was tagged by the loveliest Sher @bluemingdream tysm hehe ♡ I’m tagging: @gukqi @jmin @kth1 and whoever wants to try this!

[kyeomshuset]

[230520] dk twitter update

dk: na pd-nim, seventeen youth over flowers let’s go🌸

t/n: the note dk is holding says ‘seventeen appearing on youth over flowers’

[bladebloodied]

paladin sibling and death knight sibling is a good dynamic always

[roscolate]

Awww, I love the cozy and cheerful vibes of this! 🥺🥰❤️

End of Summer campfire 🔥

[multicolour-ink]

Mario x Anastasia AU

(no references to the real life Anastasia! Just the movie)

- Mario and Luigi are princes of a kingdom. When they are young, they are each gifted small music boxes - a sun and a moon respectively.

- One day, Bowser attacks their kingdom to conquer, and take its power for himself.

- King Pio stays behind to fend his forces off, and is killed in the attack. Meanwhile, Mia manages to get the twins as far away as possible, before she too is killed by Bowser's forces.

- The twin princes rush to a train that will take them to safety. Mario pushes Luigi on first, but is unable to hold onto Luigi's hand, and he falls, hitting his head and falling unconscious. Luigi screams as the train carries him away from his brother.

- Years later, Mario (now 18 and going by the name "Maurice") grows up in an orphanage, with only one thing that is his own - a small box in the shape of a sun, that plays the most beautiful music. He doesn't remember who he is, other than this box is very important to him, and he feels like he has been missing something...

- Determined to find out who he is, "Maurice" sets off on a journey, with only the music box and an anonymous message inscribed on the back of it: "Nothing can hurt us,"

- On his journey, "Maurice" comes across two con artists, Toad and DK, who are looking to pass off an unsuspecting young man as the Prince, and claim the award from Prince Luigi.

- Along the way though, "Maurice" ends up growing closer to Toad and DK, and both con artists start to being to rethink their scheme...

- Meanwhile, Prince Luigi has grown up in the safety of the Mushroom Kingdom (where the train took him) and has been living with his uncles who had already took up residence there long before. His friend, Princess Peach and the ruler of said kingdom, offers support, but he is far from consolable...

- Every year, on the anniversary of his brother's disappearance, Luigi looks up at the stars, and holds his moon shaped music box, praying that he will be united with his brother again one day.

* * *

*points below discuss the AU's ending. Some spoilers for the Anastasia movie*

- By the time the odd trio reach the Mushroom Kingdom, Toad, having by now had a change of heart, truly believes "Maurice" is actually the missing Prince Mario, and encourages him to see Prince Luigi.

- However, upon seeing "Maurice", Luigi flies into a rage. Having been tricked numerous times in the past by imposters claiming to be his brother, the Prince is at his breaking point. He comments that it is especially cruel that this imposter looks so much like his brother, and dismisses them.

- Shaken up by the disastrous reunion, "Maurice" realises that Toad and DK were just using him to con Prince Luigi and get the reward money. Furious, "Maurice" proclaims he never wants to see them ever again, and runs off in tears. More lonely and broken than ever...

- Toad seeks out Prince Luigi and "kidnaps" him in his kart, begging the Prince to listen and meet with "Maurice". Toad reveals he worked under their parents as a very young toad, and witnessed the two of them escaping with their mother. More hopeful, but still unsure, Luigi agrees to meet with "Maurice" in the fire flower field.

- Meanwhile, DK also corners "Maurice" and attempts to apologise for the way that they used him. DK reveals that he too is actually a Prince. After Bowser lost track of the missing Prince Mario, he sought to attack other kingdoms, in order to gain and build up an army once again. Even in his weakened state, Bowser still managed to do a lot of damage. This left the other kingdoms, including the Kong Kingdom, in a financial crisis. DK shamefully had to turn to being a con artist, as this proved to be the easiest way to make money to support his struggling kingdom.

- Hearing all of this, "Maurice" feels the need to forgive them.

- Toad unites with the pair and tells "Maurice" that Luigi is willing to talk to him. Shaking with fear and excitement, "Maurice" agrees to meet the Prince.

- The two beings, the Lonely Prince and the Lost Soul, meet in the fire flower field. "Maurice" reveals his music box, with the inscription on the back.

"Where did you get that?", asks Prince Luigi shakily.

"I've had it since as long as I can remember...", says "Maurice". "Please. Just tell me. Who am I?"

Luigi, with shaking hands, reveals his music box and an inscription on the back

"as long as we're together."

- And then in that moment, both men are overcome with emotion. They pull each other tight, hugging and crying, finally reunited after all this time.

- But soon after Bowser returns to claim both Princes, and Mario and Luigi have to team up together again to stop him! All is then at peace, and the brothers and their new friends continue to live peacefully 🙂

[so-aguarela]

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