#grimdark kin

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[hskinhome]

A fashion board for a goth Grimdark Rose

Shirt

Skirt

Shoes

Earrings

Headband

Choker

Necklace

Coffin ring

Crystal ring

Leggings

Purple eyeshadow

Eyeliner

Lipstick

Nail polish

Black eyeshadow

[system-owned-and-operated]

Can I get some grimdark rose icons?? Tyty

here you go!

[hazyaltcare]

A gold/black/white moodboard for a Rose Lalonde (Homestuck) kin who went grimdark multiple times, with themes of corruption, glitches, and getting worse.

Mod Vintage (AC)

[glisteningdaydream]

I never knew after getting into old grimdark MLP fanfics I would get into MLP again, but not as big as I used to be tbh. I did just order a G1 Moondancer plush. She was my favorite lol

[oraleandreu]

Las Ligas de los Votann en Warhammer 40K

Las Ligas de los Votann son una de las facciones más recientes y misteriosas del universo de Warhammer 40K. También conocidos como los Kin, representan una raza antigua y tecnológicamente avanzada, que comparte similitudes con los enanos de la mitología clásica. Sin embargo, las Ligas de los Votann no son simplemente una raza de guerreros endurecidos; su sociedad está profundamente entrelazada con la minería, la tecnología avanzada y una relación única con los Votann, poderosas entidades cibernéticas.

[a-student-out-of-time]

The Post-Tragedy Horrors of Despair Time

Hello everyone, Mod Bubbles here!

This Halloween, I decided to do something a little different. Rather than a dedicated post or song parody, I've decided to share a worldbuilding analysis. A pretty fortuitous one, since we've recently completed Chapter 2 of Despair Time.

I'm sure it's no exaggeration to say that DT is a pretty dark fangan, especially within its own context. I wouldn't say it's as grimdark and nihilistic as some people are convinced it is, but there's some elements to it that I feel are worth analyzing going forward.

See, it's been established that DT is set within the Hope's Peak continuity. This would mean that the canon games sans V3 (and if you want to have fun with it, other fangans like the Another series) have all happened here.

According to a Q&A, DT is set around 70-80 years after the end of the Tragedy, so if you wanted to estimate based on in-universe dates (such as Makoto's Hope's Peak brochure saying 2010 in the earliest version of the game but 2014 in a re-release), that would put it sometime around 2080 to the mid-2090s. Veronika backs this up in Chapter 2, when she mentions the Tragedy happened "almost a century ago."

Why do I bring all this up? Because if you looked at DT, you'd probably never guess it was that deep in the future. I know I didn't at first. And this is all by design, but it goes beyond simple cosmetic details. Allow me to explain to you why this is probably the darkest timeline that could've happened after Class 78's victory over Ultimate Despair.

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Modern Stagnancy

So if we look at the obvious, the world of DT looks pretty much identical to our own, which should be a good thing. When you consider that this is set after The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History- an event that saw societal collapse, wars happen for the sake of destruction, massive pollution, rampant murder, and countless killing games- then it almost seems utopian.

Cities have long since been rebuilt, the skies are clear, there are functional trains, movies, celebrities, schools, music, art, Ted-Talks, the internet, all the trappings of normality. And that's really the problem.

Once the recovery efforts were underway, the goal of those in power was to rebuild things exactly as they used to be. Bear in mind, the world looks like our modern day, yet this is set deep into the late 21st century. In that context, the world almost seems stunted in its growth or even that it's regressed, given that CDs and DVDs are used rather than USBs or digital downloads.

Not only that, but this extends to societal attitudes as well. Nico was the victim of bullying over their status as an enby by everyone who knew, including their own father. It's almost the 22nd century and anti-LGBTQ bigotry like this still exists.

In that context, it feels less like the world is recovering and more that it's been stuck in its pre-Tragedy status quo, right down to continuing the Ultimates program that contributed to The Tragedy in the first place. And who would be motivated to do that?

2. Hope's Peak And Their Kin Are Stronger Than Ever

Probably one of the most contentious aspects of DR3's ending is that, after everything the people in charge of it were responsible for- exploiting their students, covering up crimes, human experimentation- Hope's Peak Academy was rebuilt by the survivors, now with Makoto as headmaster.

Now, one could make the argument that Makoto is a better example of hope and thus better suited to lead the school to follow its stated ideals than the Steering Committee ever was. That very well may be true, but as they also proved, nobody stays in charge forever. And now, because of his decision, Hope's Peak isn't contained to Japan.

There now exist Hope's Peak branches in every major country on Earth, with two in the United States. Teruko and co. are students of the East Coast Division's 27th class, meaning that one opened almost thirty years ago. This would also mean that Japan's Hope's Peak would have seen over 150 classes since its inception.

I bring all this up because, as has been made very clear by canon, Hope's Peak is a terrible place even in concept. When you remove the idyllic aspect of fostering talent and guaranteeing its students are set for life, the truth is that ultimates are stunted in their development. They're only encouraged to excel in their particular field, whether they really want to or not.

In addition, Hope's Peak has always quietly held this belief that only people with talent hold any worth; those without talent are just "ticks" who leech off the success of their betters. Characters like Byakuya and Nagito echo those very same sentiments, this extreme elitism that encourages people to view the "99%" as inherently inferior.

Even if you wanted to say Makoto managed to undo that idea, can we really say this divide would never come up again? No matter how many years pass or how many divisions of Hope's Peak are set up across the world? That seems really far-fetched to me.

Consider Min's bonus video. As she explains, she was never scouted by the school. Instead, America's Hope's Peak announced something called the Ultimate Contest for Eminent Students, where eligible high school students would be allowed to take a test, the best of whom would be admitted to the school when they graduated. The catch is that they had 12 years to prepare. Min, who was only 5 at the time, wasn't initially going to participate, but then the founder of a company called XF-Ture Tech approached her family- who was quite poor- and wanted to sponsor her in exchange for her participation.

She spent her entire life preparing for that test. And when she passed, she realized it was all really just an experiment to create their ideal version of the Ultimate Student. She even doubted that she was the best in terms of raw score, just that she met their desired expectations by cutting out everything else in her life for that test.

It also extends beyond just Hope's Peak itself. Those with power and influence now hold a strangle hold over the most vulnerable people out there, as we can see with the Lacroix family.

Rose wanted to help her family out of their financial limitations using her painting skills and her photographic memory, which lead to her becoming an art forger. However, at 15, she was found out and her family faced tens of millions in fines. This would've been the end, but then they were bailed out by a billionaire named Richard Spurling, founder of the Spurling Foundation. In exchange for clearing her charges, Rose had to sign a contract that meant she doesn't own the rights to anything she paints.

She hates what her life has become, where she can only ever really paint things at the whims of the Foundation because it was the only way her family could survive that mountain of debt. The exploitation there is undeniable.

No matter where you look, there's still exploitation and experiment abound with the school, corporations and the wealthy. And if you think the Spurling Foundation sounds bad here, they're implied to be responsible for something much worse.

Which is also brings us to Xander. See, there's a curious detail when we first meet him in the prologue:

And I agree. Xander being the Ultimate Rebel really doesn't fit him, as he's better described as the "Ultimate Revolutionary." Except there's no chance Hope's Peak would call him that, instead paying lip service to the idea in a digestible format to still support the status quo.

Xander is an activist who works to oppose corruption, but the ones who benefit from corruption wouldn't want him to flaunt that. It's a subtle but very clever detail that shows those in power still maintain a hold even over their beloved Ultimates.

They probably had no issue throwing the obviously corrupt under the bus to save their own hides, and raised Xander up with a quasi-supportive title. It gives them a chance to look like they're supporting what he's doing while still tying an element of a "rebellious child" to his image with the name.

Had Xander survived, he had a good reason to want to bring them down, especially the Spurlings.

3. Illness and Poverty

Xander's bonus video clued us in on what I believe is one of the most important parts of DT's continuity: the fate of the town of Chariton, implied to be where he lived. It seemed to be a small town, home to a couple hundred or a couple thousand people, where the only hospital for miles was "dinky, understaffed" and barely able to handle a minor flu outbreak. They were completely unprepared for what became known as the Chariton Incident.

When he was around 14, the town was hit by a disease that caused those infected to decay from the outside in; their limbs would stop working before their organs did, meaning they would just lay there and feel themselves slowly dying. So many died that nobody was left to move the bodies, so they were left where they fell, rotting in the summer heat.

The cause of this outbreak? A contaminated river that served as the town's water source. Chariton was an impoverished community, where people had no money to treat their water, get medicine from a nearby city or to even move out. It's also implied, based on Xander's anger, that Duke Spurling was partially responsible and that he got off the hook, which may be what drove Xander to become the Ultimate Rebel. Especially when you consider he's the only surviving member of his family.

Duke Spurling is, as the named implies and Dev has confirmed, the younger brother of Richard Spurling. The money and influence needed to get his brother off the hook is the very same that has the Lacroix family under his thumb.

So as we can see, Chariton was a major event in DT's canon. Not only does it showcase corruption, it also showcases understated but still prominent problems in the post-Tragedy U.S. If you pay attention, you'll also notice Teruko, Min, and Rose mention poverty playing a role in their lives.

As we can see, poverty plays a major role in their lives, and that extends beyond a personal level. Chariton's poverty is why the incident happened at all, and a big reason is because it's also an example of a medical desert.

"Medical desert" is a term used to describe regions whose population has inadequate access to healthcare. This can be all healthcare in general or in specialties such as dental care or pharmaceuticals. This is an especially prominent problem in rural areas, but it can affect urban ones too.

If that sounds implausible to you, today it's believed that around 30 million Americans- over 1% of the population- live over an hour from a hospital. Can you imagine how bad the problem is in a world after The Tragedy? All the damage to infrastructure, established institutions, the economy, and the population? I doubt Chariton was the first to see something this bad.

Ace's execution gives us more clues. In the Death By Illness section, there are several newspaper clippings on the wall, most of which are readable. One flashes on screen saying "Unexplained Illness Kills Thousands," which I believe is another reference to Chariton (why else would it flash on screen?), but there's more as well:

"More people are dying of cancer than ever before"

"Flu season claims thousands of lives"

"Falling rates of survival for hospitalized patients"

"Antibiotic-resistant infections a growing threat in this hospital"

One is harder to read, but I believe it mentions Chronic Kidney Disease being tied to an early death

Now, the interesting thing is that most of these are modern headlines, and they can be pretty misleading. The cancer one is actually based on the fact that more people are living longer lives, thus are reaching ages where they develop cancer due to their cell infrastructure breaking down naturally. It doesn't mean there's more cancer cases overall across all ages.

The only one that's not true is the falling rates one. Which suggests that not only was it Chariton, but healthcare infrastructure in general after the Tragedy seems to be a mess.

See, I was assuming that these articles are identical to what we see today. But it's also possible that the cancer one is now literally true, and it could be because The Tragedy was rife with this kind of horror. We know that terrorism, coups and wars happened for no reason other than to spread despair across the world.

Could you imagine how many nuclear, chemical, biological and radiological weapons were used? How many diseases and hazardous materials were seeded into the environment? If it's unsafe to drink tap water after a serious hurricane or earthquake, how bad is the problem when contamination is the goal?

And this doesn't even touch on how disturbingly easy it would be to spread long-term illnesses such as HIV or CJD in contaminated food and medical supplies. Some diseases have latency periods that last decades, meaning they could still be killing people even by the time DRDT is set.

Antibiotic resistance is also a very real and serious problem. Even today, some strains have become immune to even the strongest antibiotics available. This has given rise to Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci or VREs, which are immune to basically every medication we can throw at them.

Now, it's still possible to deal with them, such as with naturally antimicrobial metals or experimental treatments such as CRISPR and Phage Therapy, but in a world that saw such a massive hit to everything? I'm certain antibiotic-resistance bacteria have become much more serious, potentially resulting in epidemics over the years.

And when these things happen, it's always the poor who suffer the most.

4. Lethal Repetition

Now we come to the most obvious example, something highlighted by the same reveal that DT is set nearly a century into the future:

Veronika, who provided us with information on the effects the Tragedy still has, apparently has never heard about The Killing School Life.

Now, it's important to keep in mind that most of the Killing Games in DR were pretty secluded and motivated. SDR2 was only broadcast to Future Foundation with the goal to allow Junko to escape into the real world, for example. However, DR1's Killing School Life was broadcast globally as a means to break humanity's hope by showing the Ultimates slaughtering each other. Instead, Makoto and co. managed to reinvigorate the world's hope and played a pivotal role in ending the Tragedy.

...And yet Veronika apparently hasn't heard any of it.

Now, there's two possibilities here, neither of which are good:

One is that the Mastermind has removed their knowledge of previous killing games, specifically. Now, I actually consider this an unlikely explanation because, not only does Teruko seem to vaguely remember the Killing School Life happened, but what's the goal in doing so for the participants?

The canon games all had solid reasons why the other masterminds erased the participants' memories: the revelation that they'd been killing their friends, the fact that their past identities were supposed to be undone to save them, even the fact that they weren't even who they were supposed to be in V3.

But what's the purpose of suppressing the memories of the Killing School Life in the participants themselves? Especially since this game is also apparently being broadcast to the outside world, although we only have MonoTV's word on that. Is it to undermine everything the survivors achieved or to get the participants not to consider the same strategies?

The other, more plausible explanation to me is that the mastermind isn't the one who erased their memories. The outside world did.

It's possible that, in the decades since the Tragedy and the drive to return things to the status quo, knowledge of the Killing School Life has been suppressed. It would be so easy to blame Makoto's decision to rebuild the school, but it's just as plausible that his attempts to genuinely reform the school were undone over the years.

Corporations and those that came after had a vested reason to improve their own reputations, and why would they allow their connection to the Tragedy to remain public knowledge? The entire thing began as a revolution of lower classes against the rich before it became a whirlwind of mindless violence.

So what does this mean for DT? This is more hypothesizing on my part, but I'd say this could tell us a lot about the potential motivations for this very killing game. Could it be someone trying to remind the world about this event and how we got here? Is it more retribution against the wealthy? Is it someone who was inspired by Junko to slaughter her friends? Or is it something else entirely? And what role does Teruko have if someone involved is so hellbent on trying to kill her?

For now, we can only speculate. But I can tell you that, based on what we've seen here, DT is probably the darkest future we could've gotten out of the canon series.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

So you know how sapphics have this psudeo subgenre in adult SFF called "Lesbian Space Atrocities". I want there to be an equivalent but for asexuals. I want it to be a thing so I'm gonna make it a thing; Dirt Bag Aces.

My Criteria for this is:

Must be Adult Science fiction, fantasy or horror

The main character(s) must be asexual men or asexual nonbinary person(s).

The main character is Morally grey. Doesn't have to be a full on villain.

The overall tone and themes of the books must be dark or at the very least not particularly sweet/light (dark doesn't have to be grimdark nihilistic murderrape fest level dark) but It won't be put on any "cozy" fantasy lists anytime soon.

Some books I've found that meet my criteria(♠️ for A-spec authors)

Ymir by Rich Larson

The Graven trilogy by Essa Hansen♠️

Vicious and Vengeful by V. E. Schwab

The Smokesmiths by João F. Silva

The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor♠️

The Fae Feast by Eka Waterfield

Edit: F it I'm adding Imperial Radch too, yes I know I know AI/Robots aren't great ace rep BUT I Kin Breq soooo and all the others on the list are human so let me have the Agender aroace warcriminal robot uwu.

TL;DR I love it when ace dudes & NBs are POS

More recommendations welcome

[Psst check my pinned post too 🥺]

[eclipian]

Red Riding Hood Members

pt: red riding hood members

reminder beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited and changed as needed.

divider credit

“ Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is “

Name: Woods , Oak , Amber , Birch , Cedar , Ginkgo , Sycamore , Fig , Tree , Branch , Stump , Spruce , Elm , Fir , Hemlock , Hickory , Larch , Pine , Maple , Leaf , Florence , Flora , Whispy

Pronouns: They/Them , It/Its , Th🌱y/Th🌱m , 🌱t/🌱ts , Th🍃y/Th🍃m , Thron/Thorns , Lea/Leaf , Leaf/Leafs , Branch/Branchs , Tree/Trees , Leaf/Leaves , Wo/Wood , Fe/Fern , Fern/Ferns , Oak/Oaks , Fig/Figs , Elm/Elms , Fir/Firs , 🌱/🌱s , 🍃/🍃s , 🍂/🍂s , 🍁/🍁s , 🪵/🪵s , 🌲/🌲s , 🌳/🌳s

Gender: Neutral , Panforest , Forestembodiment , Forestkinic , Lushforestgender , Gothforestean , Nihtforésen , Pictuforestnix

Attraction: Cenelian , Forestallion , Arborsymaffectis , Silvacrittaffectis

Other ID: Sentispace , Forestsum , Forestvesil , Forestperspesque

Species: Living Woods

Role: Beastmaster , Peacemaker

Aesthetics: Grimdark , Fairy Tale , Naturecore , Fairy Grunge

pt: name , pronouns , gender , attraction , other id, species , role , aesthetic(s)

Name: Red , Scarlet , Ruby , Rose , Rosé , Maroon , Hood , Little , Small , Darling , Dear , Apple , Amorie , Amour , Amourette , Juliette , Ophelia

Age: 19

Pronouns: She/Her , Sh♡/H♡r , Sh❤️/H❤️r , Sh♥️/H♥️r , Sh❤️‍🩹/H❤️‍🩹r , Sh🤍/H🤍r , Ae/Aer , Ae/Air , Be/Ber , Be/Bir , Ce/Cer, Ce/Cir , Adore/Adores , HeartHearts , Lov/Love , Luv/Luvs , ❤️/❤️s , ♥️/♥️s , ❤️‍🩹/❤️‍🩹s , 🤍/🤍s , 🧺/🧺s , 🥖/🥖s , 🥐/🥐s , 🍞/🍞s

Gender: Fem Colorgender , Redgender , Redthing , Redbowic , Reddressic , Heartgender , Cupiddarling , Lovecoregender , Valenic , Amacoquic , Lovething , Redstringic , Aromogender , Aniamoura , Loveblooded

Attraction: Lesbian , Mentisorffection , Lovuer

Other ID: ACuAB , Envivalen , Love Emsoul

Species: Human + Color Kin

Role: Protector , Stress Holder

Aesthetics: Grimdark , Fairy Tale , Cottagecore , Fairy Grunge

Name: Wolf , Wolverine , Archer , Bandit , Bruno , Brutus, Canine , Lycan , Hunter , Howl , Scout , Hunt , Lucine , Canis , Canidae , Lupin , Ralph , Remus , Wolfgang , Grim , Grimmwolf , Romulus , Lunar , Night , Moon

Age: 30

Pronouns: He/Him , H✦/H✦m , H☆/H☆m , H*/H*m , H🐾/H🐾m , Bite/Bites , Growl/Growls , Mutt/Mutts , Wolf/Wolfs , Howl/Howls, Cur/Curs , Grr/Grrs , Woof/Woofs , Growl/Growls , Yap/Yaps , Moon/Moons , 🐾/🐾s , 🌓/🌓s , 🌔/🌔s , 🌕/🌕s , 🌙/🌙s , 🌒/🌒s , 🌖/🌖s , 🌗/🌗s , 🌘/🌘s , 🐺/🐺s , 🥩/🥩s

Gender: TransMasc , Werehonum , Wolfmestic , Mascwerewolfic , Kyarkecin , Rendgender , Mordregender , Puolupus , Pluralwerewolf , Moonbeast , Wolflexic

Attraction: Turian , Wolfallion , Lupithestic Attraction

Other ID: ALyAB , Lupinevior , Wolfvesi , Wolf Omninoun

Species: Werewolf

Role: Persecutor , Urge Holder

Aesthetics: Grimdark , Fairy Tale , Goth , Dark Academia

pt: name , age , pronouns , gender , attraction , other id , species , role , aesthetic(s)

Tagging: @galaxy-starshine & @bahtive

[synergyedits]

i contain multitudes / i contain multiple dudes !!

MODS

🌸 mod viva

🧶 mod ruffle

🐸 mod phineas

👽 mod spacecase

WHAT WE DO

rentry graphics

icons (shaped, pride, matching, etc.)

headers

npts (names, pronouns, titles)

positivity

banners (no dni banners)

userboxes

blinkie/favicon suggestions

moodboards

stimboards

pendulum, tarot and shufflemancy

all of these are welcome to be done for kin, fictive related stuff or even just ppl who like the characters theyre requesting!

WHITELIST

( heres a list of medias that i will do that im familiar with. you can try to ask for other stuff, but no promises! )

persona (any games)

ace attorney (any games)

danganronpa (any games)

ai the somnium files (either game)

pokemon (all games and other media)

cookie run

warrior cats

mlp:fim (especially grimdark stuff!!)

homestuck

saw franchise (all movies)

BLACKLIST

( i have no ill will towards anyone who likes these medias, considering i understand critically consuming them, i am just highly uncomfortable with even seeing them requested )

hazbin hotel

south park

rick and morty

alfreds playhouse

i wont do joker x futaba, i also wont do sumire x futaba or goro x futaba

i will not do anything involving hiyoko from danganronpa

i do not have a dni otherwise. i just dont really like making them - ill just block if i need to.

TO DO

sunstar npts

korekiyo npts

crowfeather rentry graphics

QUEUED

n/a

[thegodemperorsmycopilot]

[hskinhome]

Grimdark Terezi Pyrope who was moirails with Tavros Nitram, for anon.

X X X | X X X | X X X

[jayesprite]

SPRITEVEMBER DAY 3: Grimdark

was this the outfit he was wearing when rose went grimdark? same chapter? idk man i havent read homestuck in a longggg time.

(ok to tag as kin/id/me)

[supermetalfandomfreak]

INTRODUCTION/BYF/DNI/BIO

Minors proceed with caution

I go by Cain

My pronouns are It/Its and Pup/Pups

I am an adult

Somewhere between a naive optimist who loves fandoms and a grimdark punk who only wants to burn the government

FANDOMS/Interests

One Piece

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Jujutsu Kaisen

FMA:B

Kirby

Splatoon

Minecraft/MCYT

Harajuku Fashion

HxH

TMNT

Transformers

Pokemon

Chainsaw Man

Columbo

ETC

F/Os & KINS

Romantic F/Os

Buggy the Clown (One Piece)

Vice Admiral Smoker (One Piece)

Caesar Zeppeli (JJBA)

King the Wildfire (One Piece)

Larry (Pokemon Scar&Vio)

William Afton (FNAF)

Starscream (Transformers)

Therian/Others

Corgi

Ghost

Doll

kins

Franky (One Piece)

Portgas D Ace (One Piece)

Donquixote 'Corazon' Rosinante (One Piece)

Denji (Chainsawman)

Yamato Oden (One Piece)

Charlotte Katakuri (One Piece)

Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist)

Josuke higashikata (JJBA)

Aoi Todo (JJK)

DNI

-Anti LGBTQ/Queer/MOGAI

- Exclu/Transmed/TERF

- Nazi/Sympathizers

- Support Apartheid/Colonialism

- Misogynist/Anti-Woman

- Pro-Cringe/Cringe Culture

- Pro/Com Ship

- Ableist

Any other scum

My fanfic writing sideblog can be found here:

@grafeas-of-tartaros

[linkspooky]

Who's your favorite character (or top 3 if you can't decide) from the culling games arc (the new ones)?

TOP 3 FROM THE CULLING GAMES

Thank you for sending this ask anon, because unlike most people despite the fact I do agree the pacing for this arc is kind of wonky, I really enjoyed a lot of the new characters and fights introduced in this arc. I wouldn’t call any of these characters “favorites” yet, because they haven’t gotten a lot of screentime but these are the three that I’m most invested in. 

1. Hakari Kinji

Hakari is not only a rebel against Jujutsu Society, he is a breath of fresh air compared to all the other characters. Everyone faces the grimdark world of Jujutsu Society with a scowl of determination on their face, and meanwhile Hakari michael Jackson dances in the middle of a fight, has like fifty ex girlfriends, and blows all of his money at the panchinko parlor. 

Hakari is irresponsible, a lush, selfish, but there’s something really unique about his drive to take gambles, risks, and enjoy life. The part where he says that if people didn’t take a risk then they wouldn’t be able to fall in love really gets to me, because many characters in Jujutsu Kaisen tend to play it safe in their relationships and never try to get close because they are afraid of that inevitable loss, meanwhile not only does Hakari have a girlfriend, he has been through several. 

He is just so unafraid of loss and risk it has turned him into someone devoted to enjoying life to its fullest, he hums the jingle of his favorite tune in the middle of a fight, he is an admittedly selfish character in his motivations and yet at the same time Kin-Chan shines the brightest when he’s helping his friends. He’s made up of equal parts selfishness and selflessness. 

His fight is also just the most fun of all the culling game matches, he’s jumping around throwing punches, and taking damage with his immortal body without breaking a sweat, and using his overly complicated jujutsu technique that nobody understands over and over again. He’s not the most complicated character, but he may in fact be the most fun. 

2. Hajime Kashimo

I like Hajime for similiar reasons that I like Hakari, they are extremely selfish individuals and yet there’s something likable in how much they devote themselves to their more hedonistic and adrenaline pumping desires. Everyone in Jujutsu Kaisen wants to be the strongest, but of all characters Hajime is shown to be one hundred percent dedicated to the fight. 

He’s not out to win, he’s out to compeltely conquer his opponent and show that he is superior. Which is why his fight against Hakari is so spectacular because while Hakari is getting by on luck and risk taking, Hajime is trying to dominate the fight and at a disadvantage because he doesn’t want to cheat he wants to find some way to break Hakari when he is immortal and at his peak strength because otherwise the victory won’t be satisfying for him. 

There’s also something interesting about how Hajime has no qualms at all about bloodshed and murder, but despite being totally ruthless he’s willing to pal around with Hakari both during and after the fight, and Hakari even leaves an impression on him just by being able to put up a fight and give him an interesting challenge. He’s not really malicious or outright evil, he is just one hundred percent dedicated to the fight, the same way Hakari always takes risks, Hajime will always challenge the strongest person around without holding anything back. 

3. Hana / Angel

This is a pretty recent one who does not have a lot of screentime, but there was something about her backstory, and her connection to both Megumi and Sukuna / Yuji that shot her up to the top for me. She relfects Megumi in a lot of itneresting way, basically the same way Megumi puts his sister on a pedestal as the ideal good person and the kind of person he wants to support, Hana puts Megumi on that same pedestal as her savior. She only helps people to be worthy of standing by the side of the person who saved her. 

There’s a lot of interesting symbolism in her character, being a christian angel is mainly japanese story, the conflict she brings about by being the opposite of the disgraced one Sukuna and out to kill him, the way her ideals and backstory line up with Megumi so well. 

It’s my hope that she’s going to turn out to be an important female character, just because of how much she is connected to the plot and plot important now, especially since Jujutsu Kaisen is sort of lacking in those characters right now. It’s also interesting to see where her bond with Angel will go, because it seems on the surface a much more cooperative one than Yuji and Sukuna but at the same time there’s a lot of ominous foreshadowing in a character who looks like a simple and straightforward pure angelic archetype in a story that tends to you know... subvert both symbolism and black and white thinking and traditional ideas of good and evil. 

[terralavee]

The Feast of Pigs

A Grimdark Tale about an experience Terra Lavee had in her own universe while dealing with another domain.

Based on a nightmare I had a long time ago, I've been waiting a long time to write it out and I finally managed to do so... for RP reasons.

Still It's a piece that symbolically and literally shows how Lavee operates herself when dealing with treachery and depravity within her own universe and shows why some other Domains are out to get her.

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“There was a time long ago where I had sought to infiltrate a wealthy domain to whisk off their wealth to those newer rulers who were struggling. Hordes of gold, but especially troves and troves of food from fertile fields that filled their gluttonous stomachs. More than enough to share, enough of a reason to take matters into my own hands.”

“Only when we got there my followers and I came to find a domain bleak and barren. Her citizens clothed in rags and little spoils to their name. Pantries and grocers empty. Completely unlike the stories of opulence and a gilded city I had been told of.”

“My curiosity took over as Farol and I inquired to the townsfolk what had happened to their once mighty home. We were told stories of the royals having found some sort of ‘delicious secret’ that would make them even richer and stomachs fuller.”

“At first they required all of the wealth of their citizens. Which they obliged. Then all of their crops… Lastly, all children of school-age be taken to the castle so that they could be “trained” and this would be the key to unlocking the ‘secret,’ which they would share to everyone.” “Before they knew it, the royals had bunkered themselves up in their castle with no word in ages. Fertile fields sucked dry with no returns. Their citizens soon became malnourished, neglected, and forgotten as not a single child remained within their numbers.” “Something was wrong. Anyone’s alarm bells would be going off. So naturally I snooped more.”

“The castle was more like a fortress, locked up like a prison, but of course we snuck our way inside. There we saw what we had initially expected, glistening and lustrous excess, coated from floor to ceiling that would make even Versallies blush.” “The deeper we went the more we found storeroom after storeroom of fresh food. No expense spared to preserve and prepare it. Kitchens lined with cookbooks and tools ready to prepare any kind of meal imaginable. From the surface, one could see that they were greedily hoarding all the food for themselves. Leaving their people to suffer and starve… but that wasn’t the true source of their sudden withdrawal from their subjects.”

“No words can describe the horror that befell us both as we discovered the largest and most expensive butchery we had ever seen. Within was meat unlike any I had seen. It did not take long for me to realize what it was.” “Not pork, nor poultry, nor beef, nor seafood, nor venison, nor rabbit, nor lamb…” “They had been slaughtering their own kin and consuming them.”

“So gluttonous and mad in the minds of a gourmand that they became addicted to the fresh meat and bone of their young. A taboo and morally bankrupt delicacy so out of control evidence suggested they were considering tricking other domains into sending their children for the slaughter.”

“Oh… Had I not felt such a pit in my stomach in a good long time… and I was going to make them pay. In the only way I sought fit.”

“I hurried back to Libertalia to make preparations for the coming morning. This time I paraded to the foot of their castle with my followers, offering a hand of peace and trade in a “time of need.” My offering? A vast and expansive feast fit for only the most ravenous king. Their souls practically watering over the dishes only a witch of my kind could create.” “They rushed inside in hopes of no peasant watching. They did not even make it to their own banquet halls before tearing into the meal. Despite their expanded stomachs and stained bibs prior to my arrival they ate like they had been starved of even the smallest of crumbs.”

“Together Farol, my followers, and I simply watched as they devoured entree after entree. So entranced in their animalistic feeding that they did not even notice as their bodies began to contort and take new shape. The food was a trap, enchanted with true polymorph. Every last royal, from the domain ruler to his court, slowly took the form of the swine they truly were, and by the time they realized what had happened our own knives were upon them.”

“Much later I returned to their people and delivered the bitter, yet honest news. Those fortunate children spared from slaughter were returned to their waiting parents. Yet I opened my arms to the now orphaned people, their tormentors were gone, and I offered them a gift to ensure my sincerity.”

“A feast. Even grander than the first to fill the starving mouths of the people betrayed by the ones who were supposed to protect and nurture them. Now jubilantly dined on the finest pork they had ever tasted. Many wept for the first good meal they had eaten in ages. None the wiser to the fact they were now the ones who finished off their traitorous royals.”

“For the lowest form of depravity one can be driven to by gluttony, no greater punishment was there than to be torn apart and feasted upon by the ones they had stolen from and betrayed. Thus I came to call it ‘The Feast for Pigs.’”