#gachagon

[medievalwing]

"I'm gonna be late!"

[miyamiwu]

unpop bllk opinion: Chigiri having his arc so soon was fine because his issue wasn't as complex as the other characters issues. Most of the other Bllk boys have issues where they feel like they have to prove themselves to be worthy, but Chigiri had already entered Blue Lock with a lot of self confidence in his abilities so his problem didn't involve that. He struggled with trying to find a reason to keep going because he already knew he was good at the game, not with "Am I worthy enough to even be here?" and that's also kinda why isagi was really harsh to him during their conversation.

And anyways, I just feel like if they built Chigiri's mystery up until a much later point, the pay off just wouldn't have been worth it compared to all the other issues everyone else is facing or whatever. Like it'd be disappointed to wonder what's going on Chigiri if we learned about it like...after we learned about Bachira or Reo or Nagi.

So I kind of get why he was the first we got to learn about since his issue isn't as complex and is pretty short (less writing involved and all that)

I do hope we get to see him score more goals in the future though, and I get why ppl think he's kinda boring now (because the curtains been unveiled and now he's just there lol)

Hmm… perhaps the word “early” is not right. When I say “early” when referring to Chigiri’s arc, I simply mean that we didn’t see enough of him pre-development. Chigiri’s arc involves a big personality change, and for that to feel impactful, the audience must first be invested in the previous personality. However, Chigiri’s mysterious/quiet side was only shown to us for a while. It was then quickly dismissed before the audience could get curious about him.

Like, there has to be suspense first. We get to appreciate something more if it’s done gradually and not all of a sudden.

Look at other character arcs involving a personality change: Eren from Attack on Titan, Leo from Pandora Hearts, and even Mob from MP100. Their stories are completely different and shouldn’t be compared with Chigiri’s, but I want to point out here that their personality change was so stark that people couldn’t help but reminisce about their previous personality. But for Chigiri, there’s none of that. It’s as if his mysterious side never even existed.

And since Isagi’s the protagonist, through whom we get to know other people’s stories, there should have been more interactions between him and Chigiri before the latter’s arc. You have to expect at least that for a character set as one of the main four in this series.

But before the set-up for Chigiri’s arc (which started when he and Isagi watched that footage together), we don’t even see them talking to each other. Nor have we seen Isagi at least commenting about Chigiri in his head. A simple thought of “why is this guy so uncooperative” would have been enough. Or, the author could’ve let Isagi respond to when Chigiri said that Ego shouldn’t be completely trusted, or at least let Isagi think about his words in his head.

Even better, we could’ve had a scene of Isagi complaining about Chigiri taking too long to get to their meetings, and then cue in a panel of Chigiri actually taking care of his injury without anyone in Team Z knowing. That would’ve made the audience curious: Is he injured? How bad is it? That could’ve also built indignance among the audience! Shut up, Isagi. You really don’t know what he’s going through.

Or, if they want to make the injury less obvious, maybe just show a panel of Chigiri doing his stretches.

Like, there are so many ways that the author could’ve built up Chigiri while still having his character arc as early as in the First Selection. But they didn’t do that. Yukimiya’s backstory got more build-up, and he’s not even one of the main characters.

I get what you mean though that Chigiri’s arc being revealed after Bachira’s, Reo’s, or Nagi’s would make it less impactful. But as for his backstory not being too complex, I disagree.

I mean, look at Barou. His backstory is much more simple. Like Chigiri, he also came to Blue Lock already confident. His backstory is simply that he was put on a pedestal since he was young and it got into his head. But part of the reason Barou’s arc feels more satisfying is because we see a lot of him pre-development. We see him interact with Isagi several times in the First Selection, and we see him exchange insults with Nagi in the Second Selection. We, the audience, got so much of him that we started to find him annoying, so when his arc came, it was a big fucking finally.

If Chigiri were just any other side character, maybe I wouldn’t care much. But since he’s being set up as one of the main four, I really expect more of him.

Someone on Twitter also mentioned how Chigiri was a victim in the Germany vs England match. There was only one chapter about him, and then it was as if he wasn’t part of the story. His character was sidelined to make way for the intersecting stories of Nagi, Reo, Yukimiya, Isagi, and Kaiser. Chigiri was like an extra who just appeared once in a while to show a cool move or two. His story no longer affects the plot.

It’s such a shame though because his character has so much potential. I really hope the author can turn things around

[antiv3nom]

Hii I saw your 100 follower special post and I wanted to put in a request for a Chigiri Mood board? Possibly with lots of pink things in it!

HI HI HI!!! omg im finally getting around to doing these requests again, ofc you can!!! i hope this is decent sdkgjksldg

[plantsrkewl]

uhhhh wip from ages ago I finally finished. Live laugh love Frann

[gachagon]

I've recently gotten a new influx of followers, hello new followers! I'm Gacha, I am primarily a Blue Lock fic writer, I ship Kunigiri and I also play genshin and post about it on my side blog @gachagen

currently my requests are open and you can go to my A03 to read more fics from me that I don't post on tumblr.

Right now my main fic is a Genshin multi-chapter fic called Sharpen Claws, Sharpen Teeth that currently has 31 chapters. I sometimes talk about the fics I'm writing here, and will even give updates to readers when something comes up like if I have plans that conflict with posting.

And lastly, I write a lot of Meta about Blue Lock, RWBY, and pretty much any other interest I find myself consuming that day lol.

[thehueofdalan]

Decided to post my icons separately to avoid clogging the previous post. In order:

Headshot icon for Mischief

Icon specially made for a Spotify playlist, made for the Travel Trio (Talla, Armando, Brett)

Headshot icon for Asclepius

Icon of my sona with fluttering papers around her, made for the Art Examples page on my TH

[milkymosaic]

Still can't bring myself to change my icon on here since I've had it since I joined, but I wanted to share the amazing Pride icon I commissioned last month from @/whereshadowsthrive, plus the wonderful ref I commissioned from @/bri-wolfer. 💕 Their name is Wishapon and they are a Gachagon: a highly variable and often brightly colored species of fluffy dragon. They love collectables and trading, and when they are particularly happy, toy capsules will magically appear in their pouch for them to give away as gifts. 💖

[oo-mi-ru-oo]

Found this and it looked funny soooo~

Make yourself as a worm!!!

That's me xDD^^

Tagging : @blog-de-segunda @x-noechi-x @marycorn @griffiths-behelit @ssubby @belovedkaveh @truegoist @httpghostface @echari3 @alienjack @black-and-blue-hood @miyakuli @gachagon + everyone who wants to do this too <333

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Hiya there!! ive been a casual welcome home follower for a while now, but i want to get more into theorycrafting and speculation—do you have any recommendations for specific places to go for that :)? that is, any posts you like? specific theories you enjoy? videos, docs, well, anything at all really haha :D?

no worries at all if you don't! i just really liked your blog and found some of the things you've talked about in your posts so interesting :D Hope you had a good halloween!!

thank you, i had a lovely halloween! did a dramatic reading of 3d workers island and good sky by tony domenico and then watched a bunch of animash with my gf and a mutual friend of ours over pizza.

as for people whose theorycrafting i really enjoy, i'm afraid my recommendations are mostly limited to tumblr. youtube coverage of welcome home/WH speculation tends to be pretty hit or miss for me, and i don't visit WH subreddits often enough to see what the speculation there looks like.

WITH THAT SAID. some tumblr users who have been featured on this blog before and whose speculation is pretty in depth include @carnivalcarrion, @cloverchameleon, @pastelalleycat, @chinchillasinunison, @mobileleprechaun and uhhhh probably some other folks whose names i'm forgetting rn. @gachagon also has a good bounty of theoryposting that i have yet to go through but it looks very promising. @hyperrealisticblood does not post speculation often but we talk now n then and i've yet to see a bad take from him so go check him out probably

[shititsarobyn]

Hey so whilst reading a good welcome home theory by @gachagon i noticed something in the art of Frank they used

I’m not sure what it means but if you look at the red rectangle those aren’t franks hands

I mean look at them, first off it looks like they are structured to have five fingers not four like Frank does.Plus they have nails, a detail no puppet has had as far as I’m aware.

I’m not exactly sure what it means theorywise but my point is those hands don’t look like puppet hands, they look human.

The fact that they’re holding a red rectangle something in front of Frank, as if presenting it to him, could be of significance too but I’ve not really thought of a theory here like I said it’s just a detail I’ve noticed and thought could be important.

I’d like to hear feedback/theories if anyone has any (((:

[medievalwing]

I updated Vertigo's character reference!

[miyamiwu]

Trick or Treat!

Have a cat~

[antiv3nom]

Hiii I read your Bachisagi fic that you posted recently and I just wanted to say that it was SO GOOD and so cute, I really just loved the way you made Isagi such a chronic overthinker that the moment he even has like the smallest thought about even holding Bachira's hand he spirals into a gay panic and zones out completely T_T I thought it was so funny honestly, and its so different from how I normally write Isagi so now you've inspired me to put this side of him in more of my own fics in the future lol

HI THIS IS SO SWEET??? TYSM 🥺 and YES if there is anything i have incorporated after watching/reading the early pieces of bllk as many times as i have it is that ISAGI CANNOT STOP OVERTHINKING THINGS, love him to bits but lord this boy needs to calm down, and i can only imagine how that would translate to a romantic context lmao, and im glad i could be in inspiration :D!!!

[boinin]

WIP game

tagged by @redrocketpanda 💜 thank you! you can check out their post here

Rules: In a new post, show the last lines you wrote and tag as many people as there are words you like.

I also have an abundance of fanfiction WIPs 🫠 They'll get done... eventually. Though each are at different levels of completion, I plan to share most of these someday.

Cassis Orange (Kunigiri longfic)* - read here

The sense of triumph is fleeting. It sizzles through Chigiri like acid, leaving only emptiness.

Blue Lock genderbend oneshot (feat. all your faves as girls)

“This changes nothing, Isagi,” he growls, though it's closer to a purr in Barou’s higher register. “I'm still going to devour you, inch by inch, until I can—”

“—Good morning, unpolished gems.”

PXG stratum oneshot (Otoya's POV)

The halls of the unfamiliar stratum are quiet, but the layout resembles his current quarters. Whenever he passes a camera, sleek black domes adhered to the ceilings and walls, he puts a finger to his lips.

He's starting to think that he's being punked.

Untitled Ubers oneshot (feat. Aiku!)

He ate, drank, slept soccer in his adolescence. He knew from a young age that he wanted to play for a living, but never envisioned it going this well. At home, he was run-of-the-mill, no taller than the average kid. In Tokyo, he was the bulkiest defender in the under-18s circuit.

Kunigiri Soulmate oneshot

“Exactly what I want to hear,” Kunigami smiles, squeezing his hand. And though they're barely more than strangers, in a dystopian situation of win or die, Chigiri knows the two of them will make it through.

It's destiny, after all.

Dark post-Ubers match oneshot (Kunigiri focus)

[Chigiri's] eyes find Kunigami’s and linger. As Isagi goes to squeeze Bachira’s shoulder, then begins firing question after question at his two friends, an entire conversation takes place beyond words.

I’ve been stupid. I'm sorry.

You should be. But you’re here now. That matters more.

Halloweek fic 1 (Kunigiri) - check out @bluelockhalloweek for the prompts!

“So show me,” Chigiri breathes, wind whispering through the trees.

So Kunigami does, until the glowing embers of the fire become ash, and the horizon shifts from dark blue to azure.

Halloweek fic 2 (Gen fic)

The film turns out predictable, but Rin isn't overly disappointed. It’s the director’s tight pacing and creation of atmosphere that he was invested in. But not everyone present is a hard-bitten horror veteran like him and Hiori.

And for the hell of it... here's the latest lines from a rewrite of my OC fantasy novel:

“You know Polly’s having a get-together tonight?”

“I—I do.”

There was no point lying—not when my oldest friend was his ex, and the two of them hung out on the regular. She must have put him up to this. The dull heat needling my spine prickled further, sensing an obstacle.

“And you knew about the last four she’s had,” he continued, the corners of his lips tightening, turning his expression rogueish. “She’s starting to wonder if you’re avoiding her.”

“I—I promised I’d catch up with her,” I replied, the notion of freedom slipping further from my grasp. Mikey stepped forward. As if to taunt me, behind him, the moon bloomed, waxing and startling in its brightness.

*Chp 8 of Cassis Orange's last line is spoilery, so you get a scene ending instead.

Whew! These were fun to read through, at least for me 🤭 No obligation tagging for @witch-from-a-block-of-flats @choki-the-rich-cactus @gachagon and @variabels.

Anyone else who likes the look of this, please go ahead! People who write always have a trove full of half-written things that they want to show off, but can't because they're unfinished. Here's an excuse to share at last!

[gachagon]

Isagi Yoichi is a weak protagonist

And that’s why he’s perfect for Blue Lock. I like Isagi a lot as the protagonist but many people who are reading and watching Blue Lock for the first time find him to not be that suitable as a protagonist. I’ve already written about how Isagi is a great protagonist for Blue Lock’s themes on egoism here

But I want to talk about how he sort of deviates from the normal shounen protagonist role and how that might be why some people also don’t like him as the protagonist. In many other shounen, the protagonist is an Under dog that we the viewer get to see rise up in their own world and become #1. Right off the bat, some of them are already incredibly confident in their own abilities and believe they can reach the top all on their own.

However, often times these protags can’t reach the top in the beginning and are nowhere near strong enough or smart enough to be #1. For example, Luffy proclaims he’ll be King of the Pirates one day, even though he doesn’t have his own crew, he’s never really been in a fight before, he has no experience being a “real” pirate in the beginning. He’s an underdog who’s talking big when we all know he hasn’t quite reached that level yet. And often times these characters are also unaware of just how “weak” they are in the beginning, they’re so blinded by their own self confidence that they don’t actually see their own flaws until it’s too late.

Isagi however is a bit different then this:

Chapter 1 we see that from the get go Isagi is really determined and that he’s already got his own goal in mind. Sure it’s not a “huge” goal, but we’re actually seeing him fail and lose from the jump rather than learning about the unfortunate circumstances of why he failed in the past.

Isagi has no sad backstory for why he didn’t make it to nationals, there’s no terrible consequence for him losing this game other than his own disappointment.

Even when his own team is sobbing because they’ve lost and this is the last time they’ll play together, Isagi is just disappointed because he lost the game. There’s a clear separation between him and his teammates that becomes really apparent  just from this panel. And compared to the guy who did win? Isagi almost looks like a background character in his own manga:

Blue Lock starts with us seeing the failure of the protagonist, and we see what skill he is at from the very first chapter. Isagi lost a simple game that he had everything riding on, and he lost to a character who looks marginally better and more charismatic then him. So when this scene happens

its clear to the reader now that Isagi’s motivations are entirely selfish. He didn’t care that he would never get to play with his teammates, he didn’t care that it might be his last year playing beside his team, he only cared about winning. So now we have this “bad” quality that is attributed to our own main character, this selfishness even in the face of loss makes Isagi look a bit like a sore loser.

And I can see why this would kind of make people not like Isagi from the jump, since he’s being incredibly selfish here. He’s upset for the “wrong” reasons when it comes to losing the game, he isn’t okay with just playing “for fun” and to be with his friends. All of the usual friendship tropes many shounen protags are not present in Isagi at all.

Isagi’s selfishness and ego can also feel “unearned” to some people because of this. Isagi has no sad backstory, he wasn’t “the best on his team”, he was completely unremarkable and even says so himself

“He has no feats” is what some might say to prove how lame Isagi actually is. At this point in the story there is no reason one would really believe Isagi could make it anywhere because that’s just how boring of a player he is. But despite this he has the audacity to feel upset he lost, and not only is he pissed that he lost, but he’s got an ego that says he should’ve won. If he hadn’t passed then, if he had just taken the chance to actually try and score on his own...if he hadn’t decided to rely on his teammates in that moment, he feels like he could’ve won that game.

Its why he becomes so angry and frustrated in chapter 1 because he realizes he made the wrong choice in deciding to rely on players who he deems were lesser than him.

So not only is our main character incredibly selfish when it comes to soccer, he laments about his choice to rely on his own teammates in the moment he was at his lowest. And this can feel “unearned” to people because there’s nothing Isagi has really done to let us know that he could’ve won without the help of his other teammates.

However, I don’t think that is really the point of these scenes in chapter 1. Or at least, it doesn’t actually matter if Isagi had the skill to win. What matters here is his ego and selfishness despite how mediocre he is. It doesn’t matter to Ego Jinpachi that he lost this game, all Ego cared about was how deep Isagi’s ego runs and whether it can persist in the face of adversity.

If Isagi had decided to be humble and calm himself down in this scene with weak platitudes about how “Soccer is a game played by 11 and not 1″, if he had decided to be content with losing because “At least he got to play with his friends one last time”, he wouldn’t have ever stepped foot in Blue Lock, or even been invited.

Teamwork is not the end goal here. “Working together” to win is not the goal. Playing as a team is not the goal. The goal is to simply be better than everyone else, and that includes the people you’re working together with.

Isagi’s egoism is entirely selfish and it isn’t rooted in his own ability, it exists simply because he wants to win and he feels like he deserves to because he, like Ego Jinpachi, felt that he shouldn’t have relied on others to try and win that game.

In a sense, Isagi’s egoism is almost like that of a villain rather than a hero. He doesn’t become this way after failing over and over again, but rather because he passed the ball in a moment where he could’ve scored. He held himself back so he could play “as a team” and he regrets it.

So Blue Lock’s protagonist is one that is different from others in the shounen category because unlike the others, he’s a selfish, egotistical person right from the beginning and he has no intentions of ever changing that. In fact, throughout the manga he just gets “worse” at this, and all the moments he does score goals are because of this selfish nature of his.

[thehueofdalan]

Once again, your ol' pal Dalan has neglected to post her art. Better late than never, right? In order:

Helping Hands and You're Invited prompts for the Gachagon Keep

Fall event (which has since concluded)

My five main Heart Beast characters stacked atop one another like a cairn

Color pencil fullbody of Neon Sky

Color pencil headshot of Shockwave (with typography referencing The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop")

Gouache painting of my WOAS OCs Brian and George

Shaded bust of Alan

Jan/Feb 2024 Bunyo prompt, with Sweetums and Zesty

Valentine's 2024 Magimite prompt, with Sandy