#eliasxchise

[mae-i-scribble]

One of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to fandom/media interpretation in general is that seemingly whenever something tries to explore the emotion of love in a nuanced or non-straightforward manner everyone and their mother jumps to the conclusion that it’s inherently romantic in nature. I don’t know if this is my aroace brain speaking, but it’s something I’ve never understood when clearly the author doesn’t mean it in a romantic sense. The two examples I’m thinking of are Violet Evergarden and Ancient Magus Bride.

Violet Evergarden is about a child soldier, Violet post-war trying to discover what emotions are, so that she can better understand the major who sacrificed his life for her. She’s specifically fixated on the notion of love, because the major told her once that he loved her and she’s struggled to understand what he meant by that. As the show goes on, she begins to discover just what these emotions mean, both to other people and to herself. Now, it needs to be said again that she was a child soldier, the major was around 30 if I remember correctly. Either way very much an established adult when he found Violet when she was like 8-10. Naturally he meant that he loves her in a familial way, everything the show does supports this interpretation, the only obscurity comes from Violet’s perspective because she doesn’t understand his meaning at first. Take a big fat guess as to half the posts I saw about their relationship framed it. Yep, “oh how gross he was in love with a child,” “this show is gross,” “its so sad how he was in love but now they can never be together T-T.” Like. What the fuck y’all. What the actual fuck. Did we watch the same show????? It’s legitimately baffling that just because the word love is used that is the assumption made in direct contradiction to what canon is saying.

Ancient Magus Bride has it much, much worse unfortunately, because it’s a much more,,, morally suspect look at what love is, or more specifically, the nature of human relationships. Chise and Elias have a bond that cannot be easily summed up in a few words (which is the entire point), and they see a lot of various twists and turns in their dynamic as they learn  not only to live with each other but come into their own and grow. Now, a lot of people assume Ancient Magus Bride is a romance because of how it starts out, with Elias stating that he bought Chise to be his bride. However, as you read further, specifically into the 40′s, Elias reveals that he only said the word bride because he understood it to be people who spend their lives together, and wanted to cut corners by making his student and bride the same thing. Elias, as an inhuman creature, does not have the capability for empathy or understanding emotions/concepts as humans do, which is what leads to a lot of the suspect situations in the beginning of the story because he doesn’t get the implications of what he’s doing.The author herself has even mentioned in official interviews that she doesn’t see their relationship as romantic (not that it stopped anyone), along with the entire story rejecting such an interpretation because shoving Chise and Elias into such a box goes against what it’s saying about the messy nature of relationships. Additionally, much like Violet Evergarden but worse, Chise is 16 while Elias is a being 100s of years old (although without the emotional intelligence to match). Either way though, their dynamic for the beginning of the show is very much of Elias trying to control Chise. He withholds information from her, manipulates her into trusting him more easily, does things behind her back that he knows she wouldn’t approve of. And that is important, I appreciate that aspect being there because it’s all completely necessary to show just what kind of person Elias is, and how his standards are vastly different compared to human ones. But a lot of the whole “EliasxChise is soooo good” hype came from anime only watchers- and is that really the dynamic yall wanted? Really? Especially when the anime watered down the resolution to that conflict? More importantly, imagine being braindead and also having no taste at all simultaneously. You take so many interesting aspects of their dynamic by just going “and theyre in love UwU” because you ignore their complexities. On top of being really fucking gross in my opinion.

And these two aren’t the only example of this. In general I think plenty of relationships would be far better off being explored as the nuanced, complex things that they are without slapping an “in love” label on them. (Jayce and Viktor from Arcane come to mind for me, what they have going on as friends and the importance the narrative places on that friendships is so much more valuable to me then any shipping). And again, I’m left wondering if this is an aroace thing, bc talking with a friend who is also aroace about her experiences in researching romance literature and what allo people find rewarding about a romance is like reading about an alien species. Do yall just live like this???? It’s so sad you are missing out on so much

[tanblaque]

Did I hear an Ancient Magus Bride 2?! HYPE.

[anonymousbathtub]

Since enough time’s past now, here’s my final spread peice for the @mtnyzine in all its digital glory! As I’ve said before, this was an amazing project to work on and it was made all the better by the lovely peeps who took part.

Here’s to looking forward to Season 2 of The Ancient Power Couple! ❄

[whitericelover]

“Progress” - Elias Chise Mini Comic Page 1

Alright Page 1 is up! I don’t see how I’m gonna do the next pages....patience give me your powers! I deeply appreciate your share of patience as well! and for the other next pages to come!

Hope you enjoy it!

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[arisa-chibara]

Meet the maker day 6! I'm currently a freelance illustrator/designer at multiple companies. I've worked on board games, card games, mobile apps, visual novels, dating sims, and tcgs! I'm slowly preparing to quit my full time job to focus solely on my own projects and brand! Here's a look at one of the prototype merch! I love coming up with fun merch. Ancient magus bride bird cage chise and thorn demon Elias stand! This stabs was an add on, part of my magus pin ks campaign. They are currently in mass production. #meetthemaker #marchmeetthemaker #marchmeetthemakerchallange #meetthemakermarchday6 #theancientmagusbride #anime #fanart #artistsoninstagram #merch #ancientmagusbride #elias #chise#eliasxchise #magicalgirl #mahotsukainoyome #mahoutsukainoyome #eliasainsworth #chisehatori #magical #acrylicstand https://www.instagram.com/arisa_chibara/p/Burql3chobC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bogwevhgcwfc

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[wildzo]

Elias and Chise 

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[moonchildmagicks]

Fine Lines

Summary:  “The College of Alchemy and Folklore, hm? It looks like we made it Ruth.” 

Chapter Title: Connection

Warning: Semi AU  

“The College of Alchemy and Folklore, hm? It looks like we made it Ruth.”

Chilly winter winds welcomed her as she stepped on to the campus, looking for a way to her new lodgings. She may have been a bit young to start attending at seventeen, but she worked like any other student from her country would to get into a prestigious school to make her parents proud. 

Except, she had no parents to make proud. She had no clue what drew her to the semi-enchanting land of England. The gentleman who was recruiting for the school stopped her from making a stupid decision, and for that she was grateful. She applied to the small college on the outskirts of London and was accepted within days. 

Now there she was with a map in one hand and her dog, Ruth, in the other, embarking on their new adventure. 

Chise made her way through the grounds; the more she wandered the more she felt an emotion bubble with in her leading her from building to building. She felt a type of pulling in her chest leading her in every direction imaginable. “How difficult is it to find one dorm building- they only have one!”  Grumbling to herself, she glued her eyes to her map, mentally checking off each building they visited, while letting Ruth lead the way. Ruth barked, but Chise was too busy looking at her map to acknowledge the gentleman who was not paying much attention to his surroundings or the book he was meandering with.  Within in seconds, they collided. The simple bump-in was escalated further when Ruth tried to get out of the way, wrapping the two into his leash.  Both caught off guard, though the taller of the two grabbed onto the redhead to cushion her fall. Chise opened her eyes, flustered that she landed on a man’s lap so suddenly, she attempted to get up, but their legs were still tangled. “I’m so sorry!” She exclaimed, still trying to untangle herself from the stranger’s legs. Her flustered stammering and fumbling were placed to a halt as a gloved hand pulled her softly into his chest as the other one worked gently to untangle the two.

“There. No harm was done. Are you alright?”

Chise looked up at the man to properly thank him, but she was caught quite surprised. The man looked odd. He was quite handsome to her taste, stern brow, defined chin, soft looking blond hair, and azure eyes- but he looked…fake. She moved to straddle him as she placed her hands on both sides of his face, feeling to see if he was wearing a prosthetic or something. “Miss-” The man grabbed her by the hips and hoisted her in his arms. “I’d prefer a name before someone was to fondle my face.”

Chise then fumbled again; she was so fascinated by the feeling she couldn’t shake, when he smiled at her- she became uneasy.  “I’m Hatori Chise, and I’m a new student here.”

“Ah, well how does it feel to be straddling a professor on your first day on campus?” Chise looked at him confused, but she quickly jumped off of him and apologized profusely when she realized what she had just done.  He offered her a hand up, smiling, “I am Professor Ainsworth, and I specialize in Folklore and the study of Arcane Practices in history.” “Arcane Practices?” “Yes, our school was built over some magical happening in the last handful of centuries or so.” Chise untangled Ruth’s leash as she took a better look at the much taller gentleman. He adorned a long robe and wore what looked like suit underneath and a bolo tie, a combination that seemed rather odd. “Oh, I did not know that.” She stated humbly, picking up her belongings as he grabbed his book from the ground. “Not many do when they first come here, I usually get the satisfaction of getting a mixed reaction from my introductory seminar.” “That must be fun to see their faces.” She giggled, “I guess I spoiled one for you.” “Yes, I suppose.” Ainsworth gestured to her belongings, “I assume that you are looking for the Dormitory, I can escort you if you would like?” “I would really appreciate that actually. Professor.. Ains-wart?” The professor turned, Chise stopped herself as he just continued to stare at her. She could see the dismissal in his eyes and smiled at her, which made her feel somewhat ill.  

“Ainsworth, Professor Elias Ainsworth.” “Elias…” She felt her heart skip a beat speaking his name softly to herself. “Yes, very good, let’s get you home.”

I have been out of the fanfiction community for such a long time. Please let me know what you think!  The idea is to semi follow the  anime arc and then diverge from the main story quite a bit to better establish the AU. 

I have two more chapters for now. If you like it I will keep posting ^3^

[sumoolifanart]

just personal study I did to help draw my fav British skull boy

[demonic-chaos]

BLUE I READ YOUR TAGS THANK GOD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS IS WRONG In all honesty, I'm not liking these new chapters. I wanna know your thoughts as well??? Everyone seems to hate elias but I feel like chise is the big issue. Idk I'm so troubled ;-; no punching the husbando

Aaah, I totally feel ya~  This next chapter is gonna be hella rough D:  I hope the translation comes out soon though because I really need context XD  But just going by this one little bit we’ve seen…really not liking it.  Most people seem to be into it in the comments/tags, cheering Chise on and stuff…and I’m just sitting here like ‘ummm….this feels…not ok.’  Judging by Chise’s expression it looks like she might be lashing out in the heat of the moment or something but it’s hard to be sure without the rest of the chapter. Hopefully the context will explain more but….I just really don’t like the idea of resorting to violence like that. Granted, Elias is attempting to do something horrible in his desperation to save Chise, but I still don’t feel like it’s right to just…hit someone like that.  Elias may not be human, but he is still a person and I feel like it would be better to just…talk to him???  I dunno maybe I’m just biased because I adore Elias but…I dunno, this makes me sad. I just want them all to be happy dammit! 

[tanblaque]

mmhghgh my otp

[anonymousbathtub]

The Ancient Bonely Sugar Daddy is my favourite mango

[iamthepandacorn]

Next week : Wait.... WHAT ?

[totallynormalfanficauthor]

9 and 15!

Firstly I just want to say I wasn’t expecting to actually receive any asks and especially not so quickly so tysm you have completely made my night

Now for the questions! <3

9- “Fake Dating or Arranged Marriage?” Ahh that’s tough! I’ll go with Fake dating though :) I just find it more interesting I guess

15- “Post the last line you wrote without context”

There you go :>