#gosha the komodo dragon

[w2beastars]

Im probably gonna get cancelled for this...

But my complaint about Leano (Legoshi's mom) in the anime is that she is showed her in a way too good light.

Yes, Leano is a victim because nature decided to play a joke on her by first making her an exceptionally beautiful wolf(btw, kudos to the anime for making her a model, that is my HC for her) but she was also a narcissist.

Yes, I'm aware that's not a very nice thing to say about this woman who killed herself, but it is an important character trait.

My guess is that the anime either skipped the parts of her backstory that showed her less nice traits (like spending more time in her room than with her son) either to save time or in fear that the viewers would be furious over the implication that she killed herself because she was ugly.

I'm not saying she is not a victim, I'm just saying she also a narcissist.

[mazojo]

Me when the boyfriend that doesn’t know he is my boyfriend breaks up with me unknowingly so to marry his alleged 6 month pregnant girlfriend instead of becoming Batman and Robin with me holding hands while saving the world to complete my 360 vision or something

[hellagator]

Gosha redraw!

[musenilla]

“Do you even see me, or just the mistakes I made?”

Just an old horse yearning for his komodo dragon partner in crime… how did we get here you all.. 🦎🐴 

More beastars art I managed to do in my free time!! Felt like drawing them because I just realised how much Yahya was tweaked the hell out when Gosha got a ladyyy 😭 him being dramatic was very much valid though damn

[willstoneworks]

Scales like gems

I got so excited to see Beastars S3 come out. Happy with it so far, I knew it wouldn't be brilliant due to time restraints but I think the new team is doing alright.

Enjoy my drawing of Gosha and lil Legoshi while we wait for part 2 of S3.

[casreturns]

saw this old asian man on the plane that looked like if grandpa gosha was real☹️

[aretheyqueer]

Is he gay?

disclaimer: this is a hc, not speculating on what the writers intentions were.

reason: Obsessed with his childhood best friend and he's so petty about their falling out he almost beat the shit out of him and his GRANDSON 30 years later. Get over it girl. Besides his obvious feeling towards Gosha (who is a Komodo dragon), there's a part of the story where he sleeps with another female horse, she asks why he slept with her and his answer is basically "because heterosexual same species relationships are normal 👍". Like. Ok queen, whatever helps you sleep at night ok. Gay horse.

[beautifulstarsbeastars]

Something that kinda seemed off about Melon's dad to me is just how abnormally calm he acts.

Gosha pounced on him. A large poisonous komodo dragon is restraining him (not attacking but still) and this man did nothing to try and escape. No struggle, no screaming for help when Yahya's less than a meter away, no pleading for his life, barely any change in expression. It doesn't feel like when Haru would accept that it's her faith to be eaten by a carnivore either. It's like Gosha's tackle doesn't affect him in the slightest even tho we are shown that physically he fell over and can't get up until Gosha moves.

What's even more bizarre is that after Yahya and Gosha leave, there's a small panel of Gary sitting up that says he spaced out 🤣🤣

It's so weird to see this old herbivore not really depicted as scared of carnivores due to his instincts like other herbivore characters when those same instincts are the reason he left his leopard gf and hybrid son.

Not to mention how even Yahya another herbivore is put off by him. I think he's on to something. From my memory no character in Beastars ever acts that catatonic especially not Melon, his own son.

So yeah. If Melon's lack of taste isn't a hybrid trait, but genetic, it's probably inherited from his dad alongside a goodie bag of undiagnosed mental illnesses 😘

THIS!! Ok, let me rant here for a second:

If the whole lore and ongoing conflict in Beastars is the fear of herbivores devouring herbivores, then HOW is Melon’s father THAT calm in the face of certain death by Komodo dragon venom?! Like BRUH!!

But seriously:

It’s possible that Gary has a slow reaction to things like that or is just very calm despite terrifying circumstances. I’m not sure if I’d call it mental illness but the way he describes him leaving Melon and his mother reads as very casual and unemotional. Not robotic but similar to how someone might describe going to the market or something like that.

Similarly to that, he didn’t seem to pick up that Gosha lunged at him out of anger or (like you said) what to do after that. I’m not trying to say he’s neurodivergent but I can’t think of any other possible explanation for it.

Please note that if that is the case it wouldn’t excuse his actions nor am I trying to say ‘disability would explain it’. This is just the thought I have based on the few panels we have of Melon’s father.

Also, mental illness and/it disability is not always genetic but that being said, I think we all agree Melon is most certainly not neurotypical (I think most of the fandom has embraced him having Anti Social Personality Disorder or something like that).

But all that aside, there is something very strange about the relationship between Melon’s parents. I would have understood Gary’s reasoning if he really did fear for his life or if Melon’s mother had r-worded him (I mean I wouldn’t put it past her to do that-she already did that to her son) but the way Gary describes her makes me think that wasn’t at all the case.

Really, it sounds like Gary viewed her as a little more than a ‘one night stand’ and Melon as the ‘cruel gift’ that came from it. He’s an interesting character but I just hate him. 😑

Lastly! He is kind of hypocritical for leaving his leopard girlfriend and his son out of fear of being eaten by her but WASN’T scared when Gosha pinned him to the ground!

[rain-embrace-nymph]

Legoshi actually went through a milder hybridization process from childhood to pre-adolescence.

As far as I understand, all the hybrids in the Beastars universe up to the age of 20 belong more to the species of one parent, and after this 20 beginnings, the guides of the other parent begin to manifest.

This was the case with Leano, who looked like an "ordinary attractive gray wolf" until her twentieth birthday, but after that Gosha's genes began to rapidly dominate her body - by the time she committed suicide, she already looked more like a Komodo dragon.

This was the case with Melon, who for 25 years of his life looked more like a Gazelle with bright predator features, but most likely after the age of twenty he began to be covered with leopard spots, which he tried to hide with a tattoo of melon leaves - at the end of the manga, he already looked like a purebred male leopard if not for his horns.

And... the same thing happened with Legoshi, but instead of 20 years old, it happened in adolescence, due to the fact that he was only a quarter of the Komodo dragon.

Let me explain.

How do we see little Legoshi? (his baby photos and flashbacks to his puppy days) - an ordinary cute gray wolf cub who looks absolutely ordinary and feels the same way, normal average height and build, big eyes, more animated facial expressions and behavior more appropriate for a representative of the canine family, although he was a little introverted due to his own personality and Gosha's upbringing. An ordinary wolf cub, an ordinary member of the canid family, which you would never think of as having reptiles in his family. It's the same with hybrids - in childhood they look more like the same parents.

What do we see in Legoshi's teenage years?

He is much larger than other canids and produces a real sinister valley effect, he has poor facial expressions and small eyes that look like the eyes of his grandfather, the eyes of the Komodo dragon, and he is extremely - Legoshi has become overly antisocial and prone to loneliness, he has an extremely narrow circle of loved ones and friends. Who does it remind you of? That's right, a reptile. Yahya literally says that Legoshi - Gosha if he were a mammal.

•••

This brings me to the essence of my post, which is explicitly stated in the title - Legoshi really went through a softened variation of the process of hybridization and changing the dominance of genes that all hybrids go through from childhood to adolescence.

As a child, he was more of a gray wolf, and in adolescence he - Komodo dragon.

[my-drama-heart2406]

gosha gives legoshi a lil poison every time he sees him to make sure he stays resistant to it, I believe. it's been a while since I read the manga. but it's one of the cutest little routines :3

No no, Legoshi is already immune.

Being Gosha's genetic grandson he has the komodo dragon eyes(which Yahya recognises) and immunity to the poison. I think it's mentioned that while the poison is deadly for anyone, even other komodo dragons, the ones who are genetically related are immune to the poison.

It's as you said. It's their cute routine. We do have the flashback scene of little Legoshi happily sucking the poison from his granpa's fingers. He says that it tastes like marmalade to him.

[w2beastars]

Why didn't I think of that?!

[deuterosapiens]

More of Beastars: The Final Season- Part One (episodes 3-5).

So the conflict we are setting up is that the Shishi-gumi have new leader, one who is quite simply actually insane (we have yet to see Melon depicted on-screen, but his off-screen presence is enough). They have been involved in an energy drink crisis which increases aggression in carnivores who have consumed meat. Meanwhile, we have finally met the Beastar, a horse named Yahya who is militant about keeping order in the world. Yahya has a history with a komodo dragon named Gosha, who just so happens to be Legoshi's grandfather.

On to the highlights!

Gosha's reunion with Legoshi is so incredibly weird. If this is the man who raised him, you have to respect that Legoshi is as socially adept as he is.

Louis has become so incredibly zoophagophilic (look at me coining a new word for "carnivore fetish") that he is physically incapable of having sex with his future wife. This is pretty damn funny, actually.

More baby Legoshi!

Legoshi comes out to Louis about having an herbivore fetish. Louis informs Legoshi that the only person who did not know was Legoshi himself.

Upon meeting a leopard seal, Legoshi continues his trend of having his entire personal belief system and world view overwritten by a total stranger.

We meet a Civet drug dealer. While there's all sorts of real-world precedence for this scene, it's still weird as hell.

Oh look, Pina! Aaaand he's gone. Well, that's rude.

Legoshi continues to go the extra kilomile by ripping his fangs out for Yahya. This will obviously not come up weirdly later.

Upon finding out that Legoshi has a job, the drama club jokes that they hope it isn't customer service. Legoshi of course has a delivery job. This bit amused me.

So, we are setting some things up that I expect will be interesting later. Unfortunately for me, gotta go to work. Oof.

[tsunflowers]

damn it's too bad that you don't have a bestie to help you out with that, perhaps a komodo dragon named gosha

[leo-the-trashcan]

!Beastars s3 ep 10 spoilers under cut!

Ya'll remember that scene where Leanno asks Gosha to keep her komodo dragon heritage a secret?

This part right here.

Gosha says he's just happy he can share a meal with her without worrying about his venom which probably means Toki got accidentally poisoned by Gosha.

This makes me so sad because imagine accidentally killing your partner with something that you're born with and that's out of your control. Poor Gosha must've been devastated.

[maxarat]

More random stuff from my AU.

— Abelia started getting scales soon after her parents died, and it was such a comfort to her.

— I don't remember mentioning it, but Abelia is poisonous. She was seven years old when her baby wolf's milk fangs fell out, and they were replaced by the venomous fangs of the Komodo dragon. And she has poisonous claws (from the point of view of real biology, this is most likely impossible, but this is my AU and I do whatever I want).

— Jason Redlee is actually tiny in stature and graceful in build. Miyagi and Abelia got their tall stature from the Komodo dragon side.

— Abelia, despite her large size, is truly graceful, it is the eye-catching smoothness of the Komodo dragon that glides gently in the water.

— In fact, Abelia can't have scars. All the traces of the severe wounds she received turn into scales... She has scales instead of scars.

— Womance Abelia & Haru.

— Louis x Abelia is a reality.

— Abelia has a reputation for being the creepy quiet one who can most likely turn out to be dangerous. This is the effect of the sinister valley combined with its closed behavior. (Although this is canon...).

— "The Warmth" by Paris Paloma is a song by Abelia Tanaka. She listens to it lying in bed early in the morning and staring at the ceiling thinking about her life.

— Jason Redlee is listed as Abelia's legal guardian. (Because he's a regular gray wolf).

— Gosha had to physically restrain Jason from beating for Yahya.

And Oh, I'm already thinking about how certain moments from the anime with Abelia could look, if you have any favorite moments and/or episodes, send me a question and I'll tell you how it could be in my AU.

I don't think poisomous claws make sense thr Beastars verse either lol, since Gosha gets spit on his hands for poison, but it *is* your au!

Scaley scars sounds cool!

Is womance like a feminine version of a bromance, or..?

I love lougoshi! What's the ship name with Abelia?

I think Jason *should* beat up Yafya tbh

[gothamcitycentral]

Wife Guys

Rango: Rango is a pet chameleon with aspirations for the stage and stardom, but he desires companionship most of all. After being accidentally thrown out of his human's car, he starts his journey towards his destiny. Upon reaching the rough and tumble people of the West, he builds himself up as a western legend. Throughout the film, he realizes he must become truly become one.

Gosha: He is the protagonist’s, Legoshi's, pacifist grandfather and sole living relative, whose relationship has been strained since Legoshi's mother died. He is a Komodo Dragon who entered into an interspecies relationship with a wolf, Tori, fathering Legoshi's mother. Because he is a venomous reptile, he has faced much discrimination throughout his life. While interspecies marriage become legal 25 years after meeting Tori, they were still unable to wed due to laws against toxic animals marrying non-toxic animals. He fully accepts this fate as someone belonging to a shunned species despite wanting to live in the society, and is highly paranoid about accidentally poisoning someone.