#he’s the same age as majima and that’s so weird to think about in y0

[designernishiki]

it’s actually a tragedy that they didn’t put 24 year old date in yakuza 0

[missfingers]

for the voice ask prompts: 2, 4, 13, and 15!

2. give a hot take about your f/o's source.

oh mannn youre making me prod a hornets nest austin. ill settle for Just y0 since nishitanis only in that game (well. not counting whatever fiasco is happening with gaiden) but. hmmm. its not a hot take that makotos treatment in general is garbage but i dont see nearly enough people criticising how weird the game is for curing her eyesight. able bodied people just accept it. and even if they draw/write her while shes blind they dont incorpoate any kind of disability typical behaviour into her e.g Just using her fucking cane. let her use her cane let her have autonomy

4. if you have more than one f/o, do you notice similarities between them? differences?

this is so funny theyre the same guy. austin you dont get it theyre literally the same guy. ok so let me explain it majima meets nishitani when majima is 24 and sees his whole hedonistic "live life as you want it and die trying" attitude and when he finally breaks out of the abusive situation he was in (he didnt really. but thats another story) he incorporates the aspects of these men he met into his new carefully crafted persona. lees compassion sagawas calculating nature and tenacity and nishitanis .... nishitani-ness.

so now majima age 40 is just as much of a batshit insane hedonist masochistic fuck who treats combat as sex. theyre different in that nishitanis was (mostly) genuine and majimas is entirely a constructed mask. its a mockery of nishitani

13. give a headcanon about your f/o or ship.

i love thinking about his old man isms. he snores so loud he sounds like hes dying and i force him to wear one of those snore strip thingies. he'll go on a three day bender from club to club having the most horrendous despicable sex in toilets and doing so much coke but then he'll come home and just sit on the couch falling asleep. "m just restin my eyes..." he cant cook for shit. hes also fat as fuck people who draw him skinny can die

15. name a song or lyric that reminds you of your f/o or ship, and why.

not to have an abba moment but man in the middle is SO him. exorbitant wealth.

ADDITIONALLY i am the city is SO him on a symbolic level. he IS sotenbori he is its sleaze and exorbitance he represents every user of the sex industry and the nightlife and reflects to majima every terrible thing about his prison cell

:)

[designernishiki]

ok gonna be real I’ve never understood the “daigo is like a son to me” route that the writers took with kiryu. they’ve never, at least for most of their time knowing each other, felt like they’ve had a father and son dynamic– an older brother/younger brother one sure, or maybe a young uncle/nephew one. because I mean? they’ve known each other since they were both kids and they’re literally only 8 years apart in age. in y0 it’s implied that kiryu played with him and babysat him more or less when he was around 16-20 and it just doesn’t feel like a Dad sort of thing At All. kiryu was also a kid. just an older kid. daigo was a little brat to him just like an annoying little brother while secretly thinking of kiryu as a Cool Teenager he looked up to and wanted to be more like. it feels way more like an older/younger sibling sort of thing or something akin to that and it only starts being a little more like a father/son dynamic some time after daigo loses his father and feels the need to fill the void– which he couldn’t even begin to do until at least ten years later because kiryu was in prison. and it’s not particularly in a healthy way either, considering. well. like I said. kiryu’s never actually been like a father to him. I don’t even mean that in a negative way in this case, it’s just literally not the role kiryu fundamentally had in his life (especially because their age difference is a good 10-20 years too close to be that of a parental relationship.) so idk. having kiryu say all of a sudden that he sees daigo as a son (especially rather than as family in some other way) just feels kinda. wrong. and jarringly unfounded.

I mean shit, even majima would be more of a dad-ish figure to daigo realistically considering kiryu basically assigned him to look after daigo for like. years. while kiryu just kinda left without any known plans of reconnecting at all. or even kashiwagi on a certain level because of how he stepped in alongside yayoi after sohei’s death. kiryu has barely been around, hasn’t really showed any interest in legitimately being in his life, and has barely had any deeply personal interactions with him since they were basically both kids. and as much as I think how long they’ve known each other and what they’ve both been through is a means for a familial bond of SOME kind, there just seems like no room or evidence for a paternal role being taken on.

at least nothing healthy in that regard; if kiryu’s like a dad to him then he’s undoubtedly a deadbeat one and perhaps feels like a dad to daigo in a way because daigo’s paternal model (his birth father) was also emotionally (and probably largely physically) absent and near-impossible to live up to. that’d at least make sense, regardless of how unhealthy it’d be, but it STILL really doesn’t explain kiryu saying he thinks of daigo like a son.

it’s just. it’s such a weird thing to have him say and I wish it was this confusing because of nuance but honestly I just think the writers watered their dynamic down to supposedly father/son because it seems more emotionally impactful for kiryu to say “you’re like a son to me” than anything else he could’ve potentially said about their bond.