#his name is yobi!!

[cowplushies]

husband got me the yoshi build a bear for when we go to see the mario movie :] !!!

[yuurei20]

I heard the way Cater does nicknames in Japanese shows the distance he puts between himself and others, and he only really uses someone’s name when he’s serious, and this somewhat gets lost in EN translation. Does this reflect your interpretation of Cater’s speech patterns?

Hello hello! ^^ Thank you for this question!

Yes yes, this was touched upon a little bit before!

Cater is unique in that his use of honorifics has been explicitly explained (in the novel):

“Usually, Cater does not ever yobi-sute anyone. When he calls to Trey, he always adds ‘kun’ to his name...When Cater uses Trey’s name like this, it is only when he is really serious. Only when it is important.” - Twst the first novel

(While there are times when the novel and the game are different from one another, this character point might be canon to both, with game-Cater strictly using honorifics with one exception: Trey, during Riddle's overblot, and never any other person or situation before or since.)

As mentioned briefly in posts about Cater (re: Is Cater a Playboy? - Is Cater Bisexual? - Cater: Secret Inner Life), he seems to be using honorifics to intentionally keep up barriers between himself and other people, so as not to give anyone the impression that they are close.

In the first novel, for example, both Ace and Deuce go out of their way to ask that Yuuya stop referring to them with honorifics:

"‘This isn’t some academy for spoiled rich kids, you know—just Ace is fine.’"

"‘Why do you use ‘-kun’ only with me? Just Deuce is fine.’"

Was there an instance where someone once encouraged Cater, too, to drop the honorific from their name, and he refused? 👀 We do not know!

You are correct that this is not really reaching the English-language audience due to language/cultural differences, and I am very excited to see how the English-language novel (releasing this month!) is going to handle the situations described above 👀

Are they going to be translated directly, with English-language readers receiving a crash-course in honorifics and yobisute? Or will it all be rewritten/removed for the American target market?

The English-language manga translated the "-kun" honorific as "Mr." for Crowley, Deuce and Azul, but--like the game--has decided to not localize it for Cater, so it seems that "overfamiliarity-buffer-zone-Cater" is exclusive to the original game and manga! 🔸

[jgblkshot]

It's that special time of the month... oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy OH BOY-

I think now is a good time to mention... someone else is helping me make the portraits for my fighting game project; artist by the name of Yobi, real great dude... absolutely AMAZING in his line of work.

All credit goes to him for the amazing job he's done on all these portraits, I'm just making the concept art... I'll... post that tomorrow.

Here's his twitter and pixiv handles :D

(forewarning that a good portion of his stuff is nsfw beforehand)

[forgive-me-your-highness]

Rainbow and Sunshine icons 💗

[demonslayedher]

Changing Terms of Address: The battle with Douma, and how it changes Kanao and Inosuke

One thing that may or may not come across in translation from Japanese source material is the use of not only honorifics, but various titles and terms of address which either have no equivalent in a target language (for the purpose of this post, English), or come across clunky when literally translated. Since a lot of otaku love to stick as close as they can to the original languages to better appreciate the characterization, and because I know there are other canon sticklers out there in the fanfic community, I'm committing a fool's errand by trying to compile the terms of address used in KnY. It's lead me to the heart-wrenching realization that not only do we never see Inosuke get Shinobu's name wrong, but he used her name correctly seven times in the battle against Douma.

Ow.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ooooooowwwwwww. Ahhhh. AHHHH! Gah, the pain, the paaaain. If you've seen this post of mine, you can guess how deeply this stabbed me with want for more soft interactions between Shinobu and Inosuke. It's worth nothing that Inosuke has gotten names right before by this time, or he's used some made-up names with consistency, but this is the first we've seen him used any name but his own with so much consistency and accuracy. Another term he uses very consistently in this battle is "ore no hahaoya," which translates to, "my mother." Haha-oya (haha=mother oya=parent) doesn't particularly lack warmth, you might say, but it is rather objective. It's at the very end of the battle when Inosuke sinks to tears that he calls her by a more subjective title, "Kaachan." That isn't the title Kotoha used when referring to herself in third person, "Kaasan," so instead of Inosuke simply pulling from his memories, this is Inosuke making the choice to refer to her in a more endearing, close way. (Kaasan and Kaachan are not far off from one another, Tanjiro uses both for his mother, but Kaasan is a smidge might respectful.)

As for Kanao, she enters this battle still calling Shinobu her master, "Shihan." This both in her speech and her thoughts, they've very clearly established a seriously Hashira-Tsuguko relationship. On Shinobu's part, she refers to Kanao plainly in 'yobi-sute' (that is, addressing someone without any honorific). Yobi-sute can mean a lot of things, from showing closeness (hence the manga trope of 'already yobi-sute!?') to showing a lack of respect for someone. You see it a lot in KnY, for example, everyone in Tanjiro's Final Selection batch always refers to each other in yobi-sute, like a sign of being each other's equals, but everyone who hates Muzan addresses and refers to him in yobi-sute too. Shinobu also addresses Aoi in yobi-sute (and Aoi calls her Shinobu-sama, clearly showing a deference on Aoi's part), and we know that both Aoi and Kanao have been in her care a long time. Kanae likewise addressed Kanao in yobi-sute as soon as they took her home, as opposed to calling her Kanao-chan. Shinobu addressed Kanae as "Neesan," but it's unclear what Kanao addressed Shinobu and Kanae as before she joined the Corp and started calling Shinobu "Shihan." (For the record, Kanao and Aoi are yobi-sute with each other.) When trash-talking with Douma, Kanao one time refers to Kanae as "Kanae-san." An oddly respectfully distanced term of address for one she calls her sister (though she did use "Kanae-neesan" in the light novels in what chronologically would had been right around the start of Pillar Training). The change in Kanao's distanced language happens when Shinobu's poison starts to show an effect, and Kanao knows it's time to go all in. Despite having referred to Shinobu as "Shihan" for the entirety of this battle, it's when Kanao is taking that moment she's been waiting for to make a strike at Douma's neck that she first thinks, "Shinobu-neesan." For the remainder of this battle, and its aftermath when she's looking for the broken butterfly hairpieces, and when remembering them and finally able to cry, she consistently uses openly sisterly terms for them, "Kanae-neesan" and "Shinobu-neesan." Besides the inability to cry, it may be that Kanao also never quite felt able to address them as her sisters, despite how much she may have wanted to? While I'm here and having a case of the Inosuke and Kanao feels, here, have another piece of my fanart that shows how much I crave soft interactions. I'll just continue hacking away at this list of titles as I continue getting stabbed in the heart on this reread.

[intimidating-fettuccine]

Creepypasta AU but it’s just the creeps as opposite low quality meme versions of themselves based on the ways I’ve misspelled their names.

Heff the Killer

Ticci Yoby

Paulson the Toymaker because my phone decided that’s his name

Also the fact that my phone corrects Tim to “My I’m” and Brian to “Me Ian” so. My I’m Wright and Me Ian Thomas

Slebnarmen, my favorite cryptid

The list could go on

[carlyraejepsans]

Technically not my kitty but I had visited him and his name is yoby:)) he loves the play and left me with many scratches, bless him

and a charming little fellow he is!

[favorite-anime]

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (천년여우 여우비)

Review: 8-10

-- Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox was a rather cute anime that came from South Korea. It featured the story of a kumiho (gumiho) (A Fox Deity) girl named Yobi who had the ability to transform from her divine fox-spirit form into a human (with five tails if she becomes distracted). The one thing that she desires overall is to have a soul.

Yobi decides to infiltrate a school for ‘unfit’ children; interjecting herself into school life to learn and socialize.

A romance begins to develop between Yobi and a human child named Hwang Geum-ee.

When the Fox Hunter attacks Yobi near her home in the mountains; she is saved by a phantom named: Mr. Shadow.

Mr. Shadow reveals to Yobi that to fulfill her dreams of having a soul, she will need to use a technological device that would steal the soul from a human who loves her.

Things reach the climax when the Fox Hunter infiltrates the school, setting up camp and leads to Yobi revealing herself.

She runs away back home, however, Hwang goes after her. He discovers her secret and when the authorities come; he remains silent for her sake.

When the Fox Hunter attacks both Hwang and Yobi; they fall into the Spirit World where Hwang’s soul departs from his body.

A second short climax unfolds when Mr. Shadow reveals his true nature and steals Hwang’s soul so that he may be reincarnated once more.

Yobi and the Guardians of the Spirit World attack Mr. Shadow and defeat him. When the Guardians come for Hwang’s soul; Yobi sacrifices herself, revealing that she already had a soul.

With the debt paid, Hwang’s soul returns to his body and Yobi dies. The last we see of Hwang, he is searching for Yobi. A few moments later; Yobi’s soul is released to be reincarnate as a human.

Overall, the story was very nice. I do not think that aliens were needed in the story telling. They seemed to have been added afterwards to help the story flow. But honestly, they really didn’t help to add to the story's narrative. And at the end of the climax, they simply disappeared from the story.

They could have used this time to continue building character development between Hwang and Yobi.

One trait I appreciated was the story arc and animation depicting Yobi’s conditioning from Fox-like to human.

Soundtrack Worth Listening To? : Uncertain.

Favorite Characters: Yobi...she is cute, clever, and a trickster...just as fox spirits are said to be.

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Video Facts:

Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (천년여우 여우비)

Year: 2007

Country: South Korea

Written and Directed: Lee Chang-dong *Written, Lee Sung-gang *Directed

Studio: Unknown

Genre: Romantic, Supernatural, Cultural

[canmom]

Toku-adjacent Tuesday 21: Bong Joon-Ho

안녕 친구들! Tonight we’re going to South Korea! or more specifically, we’re going to be checking out some films by a well known South Korean director, Bong Joon-Ho (봉준호).

The impetus for this is mostly that although Joon-Ho’s a very well respected director all around the world (with Parasite causing enough of an impact that the rich people it targets started feeling the need to praise it ironically), and many people have recced The Host to me, I have yet to see his films outside of Snowpiercer! So this one’s being really an excuse to give myself an overdue education in Korean films, because the ones I’ve seen have been p amazing.

(The first one I saw was Oldboy dir. Park Chan-Wook at university - it left a hell of an impact though honestly I wasn’t yet in a place to really appreciate it. It may be ironic given the recent commitment to being a kind of overt guro girl but it took me a long time to appreciate gore and transgressive content like that in movies - today it probably wouldn’t even seem that big a deal when the guy eats an octopus and is tricked into fucking his sister but back then it was like whoah they make movies like this!? Years later, I watched Snowpiercer - which I could appreciate was an excellent and intense movie, but my critical faculties were so undeveloped that I had to have ‘the train is capitalism’ pointed out to me. And some years after that I watched The Handmaiden, also dir. Chan-Wook, with a really sexually pushy trans girl who was honestly much more interested in getting me to suck her off, and who I later fell out with me after I refused to take her islamophobic rant. Not quite the ideal viewing circumstances in any of these cases! Now I’ve gotten way more into film in general, so I’m looking forward to finding out what I’ve been missing all these years.)

Later we did an Animation Night on Korean animation! The list was sadly pretty sparse compared to say France/Japan, since the Korean animation industry largely exists to provide cheap services for overseas studios, which is pretty much the basis of ‘American’ animation today. But there were some very beautiful interesting entries like Sky Blue/Wonderful Days, notable as the starting point of the animators who would go on to give AtlA/Korra such life, and the Ghibliesque Yobi the Five-Tailed Fox. There is another side of Korean animation more akin to live-action film which gave us projects like The Preacher or zombie movie Seoul Station, which we might yet cover another time.

Anyway, tonight the focus is specifically on Bong Joon-Ho.

A brief background: Joon-Ho grew up during the days of the American-backed military dictatorship in South Korea, and as a student (of sociology) participated in the 1987 popular movement that overthrew it in favour of liberal democracy. (The Americans really don’t like to talk about that period of South Korean history since it doesn’t really fit their preferred narrative of ‘crazy cultist north, enlightened americanised south’...) In the early 90s, he did his compulsory military service and then returned to education, and started experimenting with film:

Bong later co-founded a film club named "Yellow Door" with students from neighboring universities.[10] As a member of the club, Bong made his first films, including a stop motion short titled Looking for Paradise and 16 mm film short titled Baeksaekin (White Man).[10] He graduated from Yonsei University in 1995.[10]

Following this, he went to film school and started submitting his films to film festivals. After graduating, he spent the late 90s in various miserable low-paid positions at the bottom of the film industry.

He began directing his own film in the 2000s, starting with Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), a dark comedy about a man who tortures dogs. This gradually became popular on the film festival circuit, with word of mouth spreading about this cool new Korean director; the same applied to his next film, a serial killer horror Memories of Murder (2003), scaling up production and finding a warm reception at film festivals.

His first really big film was The Host (2006), which takes us to perhaps somewhat familiar territory of Toku Tuesday - a monster disaster movie, which has been described to me as putting the lie to all the ‘rules’ of how horror is supposed to be shot (e.g. that you shouldn’t show the monster too much), and was a huge success both in Korea and at film festivals. It’s as much about geopolitics as the monster, especially the ongoing American military occupation of Korea (who rush to quarantine people who made contact with the monster to hide their responsibility) - much like in southern Japan, but even more so given the sabre-rattling with the North, being a client country for American military bases is not fun for the, well, host population (¬¬).

The next few years, he appeared in various short film anthologies such as Tokyo! (2008) in which he directed a short about a hikikomori and 3.11 A Sense of Home (2011) in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake that hit Japan. He also directed a fourth feature film, Mother (2009), portraying “a doting mother who struggles to save her disabled son from a murder accusation”.

The next major development came in 2013 with the American co-production Snowpiercer, adapting a French band dessinée Le Transperceneige (1982) by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette. It portrays a micro-society on a globe-circling train in the aftermath of a climate apocalypse (terribly French huh) and a revolution led by the underclass at the back of the train. I can actually talk a bit more about this one since I’ve seen it! Alongside its beautifully stylised axe violence, the movie is quite in your face with its metaphors: the underclass brutally tortured and forced to eat bugs, the childrens’ bodies replacing parts of the machine, the concept of a periodic revolution as a population cull; it also makes a strong case that, even though this train is believed to be the only thing keeping people alive, the right thing to do is to stop it and leave for the barely glimpsed possibility of life outside the train.

Which if you’re sensing a theme... yeah this guy’s movies are 1. violent and 2. very overtly political, which seems to be the case for a lot of Korean films. His next film, Okja (2017), continued the trend with a girl trying to get back her pet genetically modified ‘super pig’ from the meat industry; but his biggest success came just two years ago...

Parasite! It won a ton of awards including like four oscars, it was all over the news for a while, rich people had to pretend they liked it even though they are fully its targets, and somehow I never saw it at the time RIP. Well tonight we remedy that... I have avoided reading too much about this film because I would like to be surprised by its various turns.

Watching these trailers I’m constantly struck by how clearly lit and well shot Joon-Ho’s films are, which I guess is in part like, being a major director in the HD era, but damn they do look very nice in fact. Perhaps we can credit some of that to inspiration from Del Toro; he also cites Nagisa Ōshima, whose work I admit I’m not at all familiar with but at least going off that article definitely seems to share a thematic interest in making deliberately challenging, political films about social conflict, xenophobia etc.

The actors who work with him describe him as a very precise and confident filmmaker, knowing exactly what he wants to use in the edit, adjusting the camera between cuts, and shooting very little extra footage; conversely he is described as less strict as an acting director, preferring to let the actors apply their own expertise. But at this point I’m just copying interesting things I saw on Wikipedia so let’s leave it lol.

I am increasingly thinking when I do these writeups that I’m sort of automatically falling into a kind of auteur theory which attributes just about all the good and bad qualities of film to its director, unless I happen to have an anecdote to say otherwise. This is I suppose in part deliberately shaped by the film industry - a director’s name is a marketing tool after all - and it’s a helpful scaffolding for learning about the people who make this art I consume, but it’s not really how I believe films (inherently group projects) work. There’s a kind of cultish attitude to ‘big name’ directors which obviously allows all kinds of abuses to take place, they become like... unapproachable symbols rather than merely people like us who ended up in a place to control the whole filmmaking machinery.

But I’m not sure how to address this problem without setting myself a great deal more homework I don’t have time to do. Still filmmaking has fully become a special interest, and I really need to start digging into film theory to find out the other models people have come up with to process these weird, massively labour intensive social artefacts. (I kind of wonder what people would do if we had to come up with an all new categorisation of films without knowing anything about the directors, genres, studios etc. behind them.)

So like the Korean film industry is known for its hard-hitting, violent, socially conscious movies; how much is that associated with one or two guys like Joon-Ho who happened to get big at the right time, and how much can be attributed to whatever sort of social factors, etc. etc.? Probably unanswerable, you might as well ask why anime happened in Japan (i.e. why animation attained its unusual cultural place there) and not somewhere else, it’s something you can argue about til the end of days.

Anyway, Joon-Ho’s directed enough films all around the two hour mark that we’ll definitely need multiple nights to cover them all, so tonight I’m going to pick out The Host and Parasite and see if I can dig up a few of his short films; next time we come round to him,  I’m looking forward to going back to the older ones on the list. If that sounds fun, please join me at twitch.tv/canmom in two and a half hours at 7pm UK time! In the meantime I will be drawing some animation frames so feel free to drop by~

Also if anyone has an idea for a new name for this film night I’m all ears! I don’t want to restrict myself to special effects movies, so even if we argue that there can be non-Japanese toku films, there’s stuff that isn’t under that umbrella I’d like to cover. So it’s gonna be something like ‘international live-action film Tuesday’, but that’s not as pithy as Animation Night!

[ketchupkio]

KIO HOLY FUCK! I just read your guys’ Legend/Link fic and HOLY SHIT?? MY HEART?? It was so sweet oh my god I cannot take how sweet Warriors singing to Leg was. (Also I constantly forget who their other 3 partners are) but the teasing between them of not telling the others was so light hearted and sweet.

And oh my heart when Legend was calling for Warriors in his nightmare, the poor boy 💗

Yobi you fuckin SWEETHEART VSGSHSHSJSN

Their other partners are Marin, Ravio, and an OC named Nadea!!!! Need to draw all of them together.... Mizu actually has a draw of Nadea somewhere??? It's with a bunch of other doodles somewhere in the new AU tag 😅

And Y E A H he was not having a good time, esp considering prophetic dream = BAD TIME IN THE FUTURE so calling for help will be.... warranted... 😬

BUT TYSM GXGSBSBSVDBD Mizu and I screm about the nice comments/asks you leave all the time!!! 💕💕💕💕💕

[kimonobeat]

Spitz Lyrics: Kaede (楓; Maple)

English translation and romanization below the cut.

ENGLISH

Even as time goes by, I’ll never forget Our playful back and forth Or how the thorns in my heart Became smaller, blunter when you smiled

What did we see As we took turns looking through the hole? I had dreams I couldn’t make happen All by myself too

Goodbye. I walk, embracing your voice Oh, where will I end up given how I am?

I’d been looking up until the day I met you The things you said to me really take me back now The polka dot clouds on the other side of my windowpane Were scattered across the sky until that day

My soul was so light back then It would’ve been blown away by the slightest breeze And I used to believe in the same kind of happiness As everyone else did before, but now...

From now on I’ll let myself get hurt, even if I end up hurting others too Oh, where will I end up given how I am?

A season as long as a blink has come along And the names we call each other have begun to echo Can you hear it?

Goodbye. I walk, embracing your voice Oh, where will I end up given how I am?

Goodbye. I walk, embracing your voice Oh, where will I end up given how I am?

Oh, your voice...

ROMAJI

wasure wa shinai yo toki ga nagaretemo itazura na yaritori ya kokoro no toge sae mo kimi ga waraeba mou chiisaku maruku natte ita koto

kawaru-gawaru nozoita ana kara nani wo mite’ta kanaa? hitori-kiri ja kanaerarenai yume mo atta keredo

sayonara kimi no koe wo daite aruite iku aa boku no mama d edoko made todoku darou

sagashite ita no sa kimi to au hi made ima ja natsukashii kotoba garasu no mukou ni wa mizutama no kumo ga chirakatte ita ano hi made

kaze ga fuite tobasaresou na karui tamashii de hito to onaji you na shiawase wo shinjite ita noni

kore kara kizutsuitari dareka kizutsuketemo aa boku no mama de doko made todoku darou

mabataki suru hodo nagai kisetsu ga kite yobi-au namae ga kodamashi-hajimeru kikoeru?

sayonara kimi no koe wo daite aruite iku aa boku no mama d edoko made todoku darou

sayonara kimi no koe wo daite aruite iku aa boku no mama d edoko made todoku darou

aa kimi no koe wo...

[yuurei20]

Using Honorifics to Track Character Relationship Progression

In the Japanese language, honorifics are those sounds that are added onto people’s first or last names like -chan, -kun, -sama, etc, that we all know and love. But they are more than merely sounds: they are also used as a signal of your relationship to the person you’re speaking to and their relationship to you. When we don’t use any honorifics at all, this is called 呼び捨て (yobi-sute), which I can’t figure out how to translate into English. It is used with the kanji for “to call” and “to throw away”, and it is a verb that means “to refer to someone without honorifics”.

Twisted Wonderland: the Novel uses these (usually unspoken) dynamics created by honorifics to track the evolving relationships of the characters with one another.

The first fellow-student that our MC Yuuya meets is Ace, who introduces himself as “Ace Trappola”. Yuuya calls Ace by name for the first time in that same conversation, but he notably hesitates for a moment before adding ‘-kun’, as if uncertain what honorific he should use.

Anxious and awkward, Yuuya refers to Ace as “Ace-kun” from pages 97 to 179, at which point Ace himself finally says “Just call me Ace”, as Yuuya refuses to make the jump for himself. Yuuya does so for the first time on page 181, while in narration it is explained, “Yobi-sute was a little awkward, but Ace didn’t seem to mind at all. In fact, he looked refreshed.”

Yuuya says Deuce’s name for the first time on page 121, referring to him as “Deuce-kun” until page 197 when Deuce, too, gives Yuuya that push he needs, saying, “Why do you use ‘-kun’ with only me? Just Deuce is fine.”

It is an adorable way to track the progression of the main three as their relationship evolves. Deuce and Ace, for their part, never refer to Yuuya as anything but ‘Yuu’, as insisted upon by Grim.

“Yobi-sute” comes up three more times in the book, twice at more important points than the other.

1) As Riddle’s abuse of his dorm-mates increases, Cater―who has referred to absolutely everyone, including himself, with some form of honorific up until this point, says “Trey”, as yobi-sute. In narration it is specifically explained, “Usually, Cater does not ever yobi-sute anyone. When he calls to Trey, he always adds ‘kun’ to his name. This is probably one of his skills as a good-natured person. When Cater uses Trey’s name like this, it is only when he is really serious. Only when it is important.”

2) When Chenya appears before Ace, Deuce, Yuuya and Grim, he refers to Riddle as “Riddle”, and Yuuya reflects, “Chenya speaks of Riddle with a lot of familiarity―he is the only person Yuuya has met who refers to Riddle with yobi-sute…except for Trey.”

This reveals to the main four that Chenya has a history with Riddle, without him ever needing to say so in as many words.

3) The next time it is referenced is shortly after, when Ace has decided to challenge Riddle for the position of Housewarden. Grim complains about the collar that Riddle is forcing him to wear, and Ace announces, “Don’t worry. When I become house warden, I’ll order Riddle to to remove it.” And Deuce responds, “Oof, already with the yobi-sute…”

It is really great how the novel weaves the language itself so much into the story’s plot, but I have to admit I don’t envy the translators who are going to have to make some very hard decisions if any of this is going to make sense in other languages without similar patterns.

Lastly, here is a graph of how all the characters in the novel refer to one another and themselves.

[chaotic-yeet]

every single fucking one yobi

Hey Strawberry, you asked for this

Do you ever doubt anyone else's existence other than your own: Not really no

On a scale of 1-5 how afraid of the dark are you: 5+ I have nyctophobia so it's extremely bad for me

The person you would never want to meet: Does knowing them and no longer speaking count? An old friend of mine, I hope I never see her again

What is your favorite word: I'm actually not sure, I have a few ones I like to say because I pronounce them wrong, but I don't think I have a favorite

If you were a type of tree, what kind would you be: Maybe a birch tree? They're my favorite kind in minecraft sooo

When you looked in the mirror this morning, what did you first think: "Damn I need to wash my face more"

What shirt are you wearing:. A Mammoth one! It's dark gray, has a bear on the back and front chest area, and has blue, pink, and purple fade on it (the bi flag!)

What do you label yourself as: a fuckin bastard or dumbass thats what

Bright room or dark room: I have sensitive eyes so a dark room, but with either soft light or nightlight, I hate complete darkness

What were you doing at midnight last night: Talking to @the-strawzish-clownfish , while being on call with @psychotic-roach he had fallen asleep

Favorite age you've been so far: 13 probably, which sounds weird, but my mental health got better that year (it didn't stay that way but eh)

Who told you they loved you last: @psychotic-roach !! And I love you too (once you read this :D)

Your worst enemy: Myself and an old friend I mentioned in like, question 3

What's your current desktop picture: On my main laptop it's a Marble Hornets fanart (that I adore) and on my Chromebook it's some space doodles in the bi colors

Do you like someone: Fuck yes I do, @psychotic-roach you're fucking great and deserve the world

The last song you listened to: Deku Palace remix! I'm a huge EDM/ Trap fan, combine it with Zelda music and I'm hooked!

You can press a button to make one specific person explode, who would you pick: Old friend from before

Who would you really just love to punch in the face: Many, many people

If anyone could be your slave for the day, who would it be and what would they do: Well probably a close friend of mine, and I'd have him play smash with me and make pancakes with me (basically beg him to hang out even though it's quarantine so we can have fun again)

What's your best physical attribute: Probably my hair, it's dyed purple and used to be shaved

If you were the opposite sex for a day, what would you look like and what would you do: I'd probably look the same just taller and less curves, and I'd probably jerk off or go on some 3am walk because fuck it I can

Do you have a secret talent: I don't think so, I have a shitty memory, but not when it comes to naming ninjago episodes, @the-strawzish-clownfish can verify

What is one unique thing you're afraid of: Touching Rays, any kind, especially the ones at aquariums that come up to the tank wall that you can pet

You can only have one kind of sandwich, every ingredient is at your disposal: Well call me white, but my usual, white bread turkey and shredded cheese. That's it. I'm super lame.

You just found $100 how are you gonna spend it: Save it, I always save hundreds without hesitation

You just got a free plane ticket to go anywhere in the world, but you have to leave immediately: Uh, probably Georgia to see some family

Basically an Angel says I'll give you lost of booze forever be specific: Uh, fuck I dunno I don't drink, Fuckin' Crown Royal for shits and giggles why not

An island in which you can make your own rules, what's the first: Stay on your own turf unless someone allows you to come in, unless it's emergency (and I know this rule will cause problems, it's a guideline at best)

What is your favorite expletive: Tie between Bullshit and Fuck, I absolutely love those two

Your house is on fire (but everyone is okay) what one object do you grab: Well, in my current room right now? My phone, I'll still have contact with people I love and have my art (the only thing I care about in here) with me too

You can erase any horrible experience from your past: Main one, I won't actually say allowed but Roach you know what it is, but one I can put on here, Probably some embarrassing thing I did, most like everyone else

You got kicked out of your country, where would you live: GERMANY! I love the German language and I'd absolutely love to go to Germany and live with it!

Death is a good dude and says you can choose who to bring back: My cat who died a few years ago, he was an awesome cat that didn't deserved to die at 6 years old

What was your last dream about: I have super long dreams, like so much goes on in them it's like a story, too long to type out, @psychotic-roach knows it. Long story short, Pirates and apartments under water

Are you a good (insert whatever): Am I a good, fuck I dunno let's do artists because it's easy. I think I do decent enough

Have you ever been admitted to the hospital: No, only when I was a newborn in the nicu because I wasn't latching right

Have you ever built a snowman: Nope, but my friend did and I watched. His snowman was tiny and got stepped on, my friend shed a few tears

What is the color or your socks: Not wearing any right now, but usually gray

What type of music do you like: EDM AND TRAP BABYYY IF IT'S LOUD I LOVE IT

Do you prefer sunrise or sunset: Sunset definitely, I burn easy so having the nice night air slowly come over with the stars is nice for me

Favorite milkshake flavor: Chocolate!

What football team do you support: American football? None. German Bundesliga teams? Stuttgart. We were assigned teams in my German class and that was mine! Stuttgart all the way!!

Do you have any scars: Yes, many. They range from self harm, to actual cat scratches, to me falling, and many more

What do you want to be when you graduate: No idea!

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Weight, I have bad self esteem so it's never enough

Are you reliable: Honestly, no. I have bad memory and I will forget if someone needs something

If you could ask your future self a question what would it be: How's Roach doing, and what's Oregon like?

Do you hold grudges: depends, mostly no, but sometimes yes

If you could breed two animals together and defy the laws of nature, what two would you breed: Uh good question, probably Cat and Opossum, really just to see what would happen

Most unusual conversation: Mental health stuff with my parents and therapist, more awkward than anything

Are you a good liar: Not really no depending on the person

How long could you go without talking: Well in quarantine all day, regular days though, maybe an hour at best, I absolutely love my friends, just only certain ones

What has been your worst haircut/ style: Back when it was longer than my shoulders and I wore it down. Except I never took care of it so it looked like shit.

Have you ever baked your own cake: Yes every birthday I make mine! I even had my friends help me with my most recent one!

Can you do any accent other than your own: maybe a southern one but no not really

What do you like on your toast: Nutella or cinnamon and sugar. I know, terrible for you

What is the last thing you drew a picture of: Uh me and @psychotic-roach and our pets but I'm self conscious about my art so I just didn't really show it to anyone (sorry Roach, I'm just super shy about my art!)

What would be your dream car: Me and my family had a running joke that I liked Tesla's, so probably a Tesla

Do you sing in the shower: No but I want to, I just don't like people hearing me sing

Do you believe in aliens: I believe we're not alone in the universe, weather it be new life billions of miles away or way advanced life a few galaxies away

Do you often read your horoscope: No, but astrology is fun to fuck with sometimes

What is your favorite letter of the alphabet: probably E or something, it's soothing in a weird way

Dinosaurs or dragons: DRAGONS DRAGONS I LOVE DRAGONS I'M A HUGE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON NERD!!!

What do you think about babies: They're sweet sometimes, I'm honestly afraid of holding one or having to take care of one though

Freebie! Ask anything you can think of: I can't really think of anything so I guess just @psychotic-roach I love you!! @the-strawzish-clownfish thank you for these painful asks, they were fun :)

[dawn-phoenix]

Name of Love lyrics [kan + rom]

Lyrics: 三島想平 Composition: cinema staff, 野村陽一郎

さよなら 世界 並ぶ影伸びて 交わらない 願い 光 まだ知れない景色 探していたんだ Sayonara sekai Narabu kage nobite majiwaranai Negai hikari Mada shirenai keshiki sagashite itanda

ただ一つ約束交わそう Tada hitotsu yakusoku kawasou

僕らだけの名前を呼び合って 僕らだけの喜び分かち合った 僕らだけの言葉で確かめて 僕らだけの痛みを抱きしめた Bokura dake no namae wo yobi atte Bokura dake no yorokobi wakachi atta Bokura dake no kotoba de tashikamete Bokura dake no itami wo dakishimeta

この世界の何処か 未来で逢えるなら 忘れないでいて 僕のこと 本当のこと Kono sekai no dokoka Mirai de aerunara Wasurenaide ite Boku no koto Hontou no koto

おやすみ 世界 僕ら以外 誰も知らなくていい 時よ 止まれ 冷たくなった手を 握り返した Oyasumi sekai Bokura igai dare mo shiranakute ii Toki yo tomare Tsumetaku natta te wo nigiri kaeshita

終わらない夢 青い影 Owaranai yume aoi kage

晴れた日は小さな旅をして 雨の日には傘の中寄り添った こぼれ落ちた涙は掬えばいい 傷だらけのままで歩いてく Hareta hi wa chiisana tabi wo shite Ame no hi ni wa kasa no naka yorisotta Koboreochita namida wa sukueba ii Kizu-darake no mama de aruite ku

胸の中にある 僕らの誓いを 色褪せぬように 風の声 この地図の向こう Mune no naka ni aru Bokura no chikai wo Iroasenu you ni Kaze no koe kono chizu no mukou

僕らだけの名前を呼び合って 僕らだけの喜び分かち合った 僕らだけの言葉で確かめて 僕らだけの痛みを抱きしめた Bokura dake no namae wo yobi atte Bokura dake no yorokobi wakachi atta Bokura dake no kotoba de tashikamete Bokura dake no itami wo dakishimeta

始まりの鐘 僕らを 朝がもう 迎えに来る In the truth name of love 怖くない 行ける Hajimari no kane Bokura wo asa ga mou mukae ni kuru In the truth name of love Kowakunai ikeru

この世界の何処か 未来で逢えるなら 少しだって 忘れないでいて Kono sekai no dokoka Mirai de aerunara Sukoshi datte Wasurenaide ite

胸の中の未来 僕らだけの誓い 忘れないでいて 僕のこと 本当のこと Mune no naka no mirai Bokura dake no chikai Wasurenaide ite Boku no koto hontou no koto

[bishishound98]

"Believe... That's what I told friend... He said that those stories aren't true, that I don't need to believe in such things that I commonly found on hidden forums on the internet. But I have seen them, I wanted to show him all those things that I've had seen and so I invited him to do this ritual... Only some salt, candles and some scripts shouted loudly and everything was set... We waited some time and nothing happened... He was about to turn around and leave saying that he didn't have time for some freak's trash... I was disappointed... but suddenly a deafening scream rumbled across the house and a portal opened in front of us. A creature appeared and looked at us. I was happy because I was right, the creature or demon was there... My friend got shot by a energy laser thrown by the creature's hand. Then spoke with a monstrous but calm and charming voice -Your friend didn't believed and suffered the consecuences. Now I'm here and accepted him as a sacrifice. Thank you for trusting in me, your faith has saved you-. I was so happy and started praying on the floor thanking my new god that is fair and caring. God created a bubble on his other hand and inside it I could see one of my greatest desires and gave it to me... I'm happy because my god is fair. i'm happy because my god is caring. I'm happy because my god is there for me and I shall not be against it's will..."

I was bored and so I created this concept and loved so much the result. I'm naming this character "Yobi", a demonic god.

[christopher-pdx]

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