#hnk beat

[moonamite]

THE GENDER ENVY THESE GUYS GAVE ME…..

[vaugarde]

BE NICE TO HIMMMMMMMMM HES A BABYYYYY

[lelsiemeyers]

your not a true houseki no kuni fan until your dad suggests the show to a technician. no this is not a joke yes this is a real email

[tama1313]

Revenge! (HNK parody of "Made of LOVE")

This is Phos! Back together! And if you think I'm gonna spare you well, you better forget it! As you can see, there's no run away anymore!

I tried to tell you about the truth But you kept acting as I was the fool Let's now the consequencies of you actions… Let's see now who's gonna shattered into fractions!

Go ahead and try to hit me, if you're able Can't you see that your society is unstable? If you think soon it all will be over I'll keep coming back and forever!

I ain't gonna stop, I wanna see you gone! Forever trying, to bring me down! Forever running in this hometown!

As you can see it's not workin'! 'Cause I'm! Fulfilled with revenge! Fulfilled with revenge! Fullfilled with revengeeee!

….

This is were it stops! This is where it ends! If you think that you can end me well, you need to try again! And you torned me apart, without giving me a glance, all keeps telling me again, You don't deserves a second chaaance!

So! Go ahead and try to shatter me, if you're able! But as you can see, I'm always back and stable! Soon or late all of this will be over! And you all will be gone forever! Can't you see your pathetic tentative isn't breaking down all my means?

I've become stronger, I've become restless, I've become avengeful!!!

I'm here to take! Re-e-e-revenge! Re-e-e-revenge! Re-e-e-revenge! Re-e-e-revenge!

And I won't give up for you!

Re-e-e-revenge! Re-e-e-revenge! I won't give up for you!

Re-e-e-revenge! Re-e-e-revenge! Uh-uh-uh-uh!!!

....

(Will you pray now, Sensei?)

[nacaharachuya]

YEAH! People don't get how complex gender identity is, and how the one thing from another isn't necessarily bad but they just see it as black and white :( the Hnk au brings me comfort because even if it's still in its infancy stage (please take your time though, I love you Dana <3) I know everybody looks hella pretty regardless and don't know shit about gender! They all wear dresses during the winter, dress in cute clothes, and look sparkly and fabulous regardless of their nonexistent gender, it really reaffirms me

Yes!!!! It’s not black or white or anything. It’s just…that and different for everyone and each person and each timeframe and period. It’s wild ride, but you know as humanity progresses the more androgynous we become. The gems exhibiting this is so fun!!! Cause they use different pronouns and it’s really up to interpretation.

Also ily too 😿♥️♥️ I love the hnk au already and it’s already on my list to write 😿 I love it I love it I love it. I just have to finish my finals and I can be silly and write again, but I am taking my time!!! You do what you gotta do babe too.

[randomnumbers751650]

Seeing this today (first published over six years ago) goes to the category "posts made before disasters"

Started watching Houseki no Kuni - so far it’s interesting, Phos reminds me of Cirno for some reason (and they made her (them?) Master Scholar, what a joke).

[marshmurmurs]

soooo vh hnk au anyone?

its mostly just vibes at the minute with some vague ideas for some plot beats however i am being so silly with it

[lunar1an]

Ghost as Phos: An Analysis

Now that HnK is done it's fascinating to go back and comb through the story beats and try to tie them together. In particular there's a really interesting pattern to notice in all of Phos's partners, or rather, a pattern break.

For the purpose of this post I'm considering Antarc, Ghost Quartz, Cairngorm, Padparadscha, and on a symbolic level Cinnabar* as partners. For the most part, they fill the following functions: they tutor or discipline Phos in some aspect, they're stabilizing forces that rein them in, and they all have some degree of care and love for Phos. Cinnabar repeatedly gives Phos advice, urging them to think through things more. Antarc genuinely believes in Phos's ability to do better, urging them to rise above their defeatist nature. Cairngorm, despite what Cairngorm says, seems to have genuinely wanted to protect the idiot who lost Ghost but gave them their first non-Ghost name. Padpa regards Phos like a little sibling they have to babysit, but still goes to great lengths to help them.

And then there's Ghost Quartz. Ghost is in a weird, kind of liminal place in the narrative. Ghost comes about at a time when Phos is arguably at their second lowest point -- without knowledge or a way forward, breaking down under the weight of isolation and their conspiracy. Ghost doesn't last long. In fact, they partner up with Phos for less than a day before sacrificing themself for them, leaving Cairngorm behind. But hey, a lot of these other partnerships don't last long either. Padpa only had one raid and then one rescue mission, and wasn't even an "official" partner so much as the one who took on the Phos babysitting responsibility.

But either way, Ghost was still a partner. I'd probably put the start of Ghost trying to fill that role after they thought Phos was trying to reach out to help them, up until their sacrifice. So. What do they do, as Phos's partner? How do they stabilize them?

Pictured: Ghost and Phos soon to start the worst mutual rebound in gem history

They try to get Phos to allow them to help, immediately, almost forcing the partnership onto them. They latch onto a false idea that Phos was trying to save them and say Phos reminds them of Lapis. They commiserate over feeling stupid and express a desire to change.

If anything, Ghost was a more passive, enabling personality. When Phos says they're researching Lunarian communication, Ghost tries to help, and later on doesn't stop them from investigating a large group of Lunarians.

In Ghost's mind, Phos seems to be placed as the competent, smart figure, who reached out to them and showed the bare minimum care for them.

Sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it?

The context is different, but there's more parallels elsewhere.

Ghost is a gem who hadn't appeared at all in the story, up until a mention in volume 4. They're seemingly absent from the daily social life of most gems. They aren't even present around Euclase or Lex when they deal with paperwork. The library, when we visit it, is a lonely, dark space. The convalescent chamber just has a bunch of inactive gems sitting in boxes. They confess to Phos that both of their jobs -- the library and the convalescent chamber -- are barely jobs at all.

There are two other gems we see with similar roles. The first is Phos themself at the beginning, who didn't have any job. The second is Cinnabar, who runs a pointless night patrol. Both of these gems are outcasts, and unsuited for gem society -- Phos is too brittle and weak, and Cinnabar is overflowing with mercury that forces them to isolate themself. Antarc is pushed to the sidelines as well, being liquid outside of winter, but they at least found a useful role and place in the world.

We know what makes Ghost "unusual", of course. There's a Gorm in there.

As Ghost's inner layer, they're troublesome and said to do surprising things, such as climbing on top of the concealed Lunarian to check for Lapis. Even before going to the moon Cairngorm had a notably rougher, bolder personality than Ghost.

So imagine how that plays out for every other gem, before Lapis. Imagine if Ghost is out on patrol, and they see a Lunarian. Cairngorm rushes in when they aren't supposed to, and someone gets hurt or taken because of it. You could draw parallels to how Phos, even after getting powerful legs, froze up when the Amethyst twins were captured instead of going to get Sensei.

Their nature makes them unsuited to fighting. It makes them troublesome to their fellow gems. Is it any surprise they were given the convalescent chamber job, which has little to no chance of Ghost's inner layer acting out and causing serious harm or inconvenience?

Lapis was the exception -- someone who didn't see their nature as a burden, who their inner layer actually listened to. And then Lapis was taken, leaving Ghost blaming their own nature for their incompetence.

Similarly, Antarc refused to let Phos blame their hardness for all of their woes, having a low hardness themself, and they did have a successful Winter partnership for a while. When Antarc gets taken away, Phos blames their own body and uncooperative arms for their inability to rescue them.

As an aside, this is all rough for Cairngorm too. Being stuck inside another gem, with that gem being the only one everyone else sees? Wanting different things and only really being able to express that through acting out? Only being known as something 'troublesome inside Ghost'?

It's fucked. Sensei and every other gem could have done better, to make sure Cairngorm's personhood was recognized. Instead, Ghost is left feeling shame and hate towards their inner layer, and Cairngorm ends up with an identity complex and feels haunted in a way that Aechmea later exploits.

Anyway. If you could say that Phos's partners parallel Antarc in role and behavior, Ghost turns it around. Ghost parallels Phos. They want Phos to be an Antarc/Lapis for them, because now that Phos is useful and strong, they're someone who can give Ghost a sense of being loved.

And at this time, Phos is very much trying to be an Antarc and not a Phos. Phos has a shorter haircut to better resemble Antarc, they take their lessons to heart and farther, overworking themself in an effort to be disciplined and useful.

This inversion is unsustainable. Phos isn't an Antarc or a Lapis. Antarc did all of that because of their love for Sensei and Phos. Well, not exactly love in Phos's case but there's a definite care and desire to protect them.

Phos acts like Antarc out of grief and suspicion. They go after the Lunarians relentlessly to get Antarc back. They continue acting "courageous" and overworking themself so they can find out what the connection between Sensei and the Lunarians is. They're given multiple warning signs that this search could harm those around them -- Padparadscha warns them about the truth, and Cinnabar practically goes "hey phos this sensei thing isn't fun i just want to spend time with you". Hell, Phos stops helping Ghost in order to see what Sensei will do.

(boy i sure hope phos learns from this experience and does not continue to neglect the gems around them while furthering the lunarians' goals)

It all comes to a head when Phos gets distracted and gets shot. Ghost has to jump in and save them, sacrificing themself in the process.

When Phos lost Antarc, there was some level of...lack of agency, I suppose? Phos was in the role of the mentee or younger sibling. They did something reckless, with their arms being lost as a result, but a lot of what happened was out of control. They couldn't have predicted the Lunarians emerging that day or trapping Sensei. They couldn't have predicted the metal would attach to them, and furthermore imprison them while Antarc was being taken. They were still "the useless one".

But now Phos is the Antarc. Ghost is supposed to be a gem they protect, like they protected the Amethyst twins by easily dispatching a Lunarian. They had every possible red flag telling them that messing with these Lunarians was a bad idea. But they didn't. They couldn't have predicted their alloy would stop working, but their negligence did lead to them being shot in the first place, and Ghost getting taken.

It's interesting in that while losing Ghost is a breaking point that leads to Phos's complete mental break shortly after (forcing Cairngorm into the Alloy Box), followed by them mellowing out at least a little bit (up until they lose their head protecting Cairngorm in a much more suitably 'Antarc' move), the harm Phos does to the gems only escalates.

As the useless child, a gem who chose to look after them gets lost. As the competent fighter, a gem they had a responsibility to look out for gets lost. As a wiser, older figure with Lapis's head (no longer the youngest gem, deliberately framed as a mentor for the younger Morga and Goshe), they have Cairngorm attack and send them to the moon, reigniting god knows how many traumas in Cairngorm, and making all the gems believe they're dead. As an important figurehead in the community, who's the only gem they know who came back from the moon, they shatter that community. And eventually, as the savior of gems dusted and alive from the Lunarians, their actions lead to the ultimate extinction of gems as a species.

So maybe Ghost was the first warning sign, on a lot of levels. A stand-in for Phos themself, or someone a lot like them. Like the story was practically screaming at Phos "hi, there's someone who understands your loss, another outcast who you can confide in, two of them even"!

But Phos let them be harmed in pursuit of their goals, goals they eventually lose sight of until it was too late.

Or alternatively Ichikawa just killed Ghost off because if they got attached to Actual Phos and not the Lapis 2 they projected onto them god knows where this series would have gone. This is the fucker who spends 10,000 years on the moon preserving every trace of the past/Lapis's legacy and Not Letting Go Of Their Attachment, from what Party at the End implies. If I were Aechmea I'd be terrified.

* = never officially a partner, but had the same function and role in Phos's life in the background, and is grouped with Phos's partners in the narrative (hangs with Antarc and Cairngorm on the moon, later seen on the same side of Sensei as Ghost and Antarc when being prayed away). I suppose in that regard Padpa isn't an official partner either really but they definitely acted as one.

[editloids]

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Why of course! This is a long post though.. -Mod Len

KAITO'S CLAIMS ~

Soap - CODMW Rentry Template

Dahlia - Fortnite graphics

Malleus Draconia - TWST rentry graphics ( that use the same masks as the Idia Shroud resources. )

1977 Raggedy Andy rentry graphics ( this will be part of a two parter post, with Rin doing the other half of the graphics )

Queer Flag Heart

Circus Baby Graphics

Rin Matsuoka - Free! rentry graphics

Dave Strider - Homestuck graphics

Hu Tao graphics in pastel pink

Optimus Prime profile layout ( older animation preferred ) RIN'S CLAIMS ~

Sonic the Hedgehog graphics

Zircon - HNK graphic

Amite - Puyo Puyo graphics

Dottore graphics in light / pale blue

Emily Dyer - IDV graphic

Ortho Shroud layout

Hirofumi Yoshida - CSM graphics

Kaveh - Genshin Impact graphics

Qifrey - WHA graphics in blue

Princess Bubblegum graphics

Shadow the Hedgehog graphics ( art from his sonic channel preferred )

Mafuyu Asahina rentry graphics LEN'S CLAIMS ~ ( disclaimer, I already did most of them .. So there's not much left ! )

Tighnari rentry graphics

Peko Pekoyama graphics with frills and ribbons ( DR3 art preferred )

Kuroko Tetsuya - KNB layouts for tumblr UNCLAIMED ( haven't talked about who gets it yet )

Kyo Kaneko graphics in soft pink

Yui & Hideki Hinata - Angel Beats graphics

Fuyuko Mayuzumi graphics

Kiriko Yukoku Graphics A QUESTION

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[moonamite]

ONE fruit must GO😭

[doggirling]

What do you think of knuckle joe? (So sorry if I already asked and I forgot 😅)

dw this is the first time ive been asked. he's literally my irl nephew and my cousin and my little brother (real screenshot from my hnk livethread)

on a real note i like him a lot. he's seriously off the wall in the anime and i really enjoy how they made him actually cunning rather than just going down the more typical route of making a headstrong brawler character who's just needlessly violent with no brains. even then i think it was a nice touch that he was initially dealing with very misplaced/mishandled spitefulness and vindictiveness during his first appearance considering he's a kid who's not only dealing with grief but also a ton of unanswered questions regarding his fathers death. experiencing that type of loss so early on often can cause a lot of destructive behaviors, especially when you're young and confused.

but yeah. i love how they managed to balance a ton of defining character traits with him. he's kind of crazy and prideful and a bit of a hotheaded brute but he's clever, resourceful, and very set in his beliefs (especially once he decides he wants to fight the good fight). like that stunt he pulled by becoming a mole in nightmare's workforce and playing the long con just so he could beat mashers ass was some crazy shit especially for someone presumably that young i gotta respect the hustle and that level of determination.

[vaugarde]

kirby copying his little stim……

[0dd-tank]

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[justmenoworries]

HnK opinion incoming!! Spoilers ahead!!

I think the reason I fell out of love with HnK as soon as the whole shattered Phos thing is that I realized I was baiscally reading fancy torture and trauma porn.

Like, at the start I liked both the manga and the anime because they looked beautiful, the world and premise were both interesting and the characters were flawed and likable in a very understandable way.

I liked that the story as a whole seemed to be a deconstruction of the concept of self-sacrifice, with the protagonist literally losing pieces of themselves to become what they think their community needs and wants. And how no one in said community discourages this, even seems to view one of their youngest basically destroying themselves as something good and admirable.

Heck, the (sort of) Big Bad of the story confirms that he took advantage of Phos' kindness and tendency to put everyone's needs before their own to mold them into a replacement praying machine, something they would not have consented to had they known what was happening.

I thought there would eventually be some big moment of realization for Phos. That they've been taken advantage of by both the Lunarians and the Lustrous. That winning either side's love and admiration has only brought them more pain and suffering. A realization that in the end, neither the Lustrous nor the Lunarians are worth it.

I expected Phos to take a third option and find their own happiness, to stop being the puppet of first Adamant and then Aechmea.

Neither happened.

Instead Aechmea basically wins. The Lustrous are wiped out and forcefully remade as Lunarians. Phos is turned into the new Adamant and prays, enabling literally everyone but themselves to move on peacefully into nothingness.

This whole series in retrospect is basically an abuser picking a victim, literally and metaphorically breaking them down until they'd do basically anything to make the pain stop and then winning.

That's horrible.

Objectively speaking that is a horrible, gross and bleak story to tell.

I don't care if the story is meant to align with Buddhist philosophoes or whatever.

It's really just a long line of watching a poor child getting beat down, losing themselves and being groomed into further and further levels of self-harm.

While everyone responsible gets to live a good and luxurious life in paradise and in the end profits from the child completely losing their sense of self.

[grayfxce]

Koyokuma a.k.a

“The Proving Ground”.

“ So, earlier I spoke about Gray’s side stories and how he fights Kabachi at the very end. I figured I’d do a world building post to elaborate more on the side stories and setting where these events mainly take place and what not. Kabachi is the head of this criminal organization/Yakuza called “the Red Lotus” that doubles as a private army. Well, true head of the organization. I’ll get to that part, later. ”

“ These Side stories all mostly take place in a giant city dubbed “the proving ground”. Kinda like a Kamurocho-esque city mixed with Ashura island from HNK and the “inside” from Kengan asura but the thugs are even more ruthless. ”

“ As soon as Gray first enters the city, he discovers a few thugs beating up a hulking demon with lead pipes and other mundane weapons. Only the most fearsome and ruthless fighters make it in “the proving ground”. ”

“ The Proving ground is a place where the strong thrive and where the weak are crushed. The proving ground is a place of violence, and it is not a place for the weak or foolish. Those who live in the proving ground are constantly fighting for their lives, and those who manage to survive are either very strong or extremely lucky. ”

“ And while the city has a reputation of violence, the architecture and streets are well kept and clean by the Red lotus. Newcomers wouldn’t know right away that this city was a battle field at a first glance…unless you were Gray who saw first hand what the inhabitants were capable of when first arriving into the city… ”

- The mun, Tanuki.

[nacaharachuya]

God damn im so excited for when you catch up to the manga so everyone can expand on this au more because AUGHHH whenever i see an hnk au i combust its just so good 😩😩

AND NOW THAT YOU’RE MORE CAUGHT UP ON THE ANIME HERES THE ORIGINAL IDEA I HAD FOR CHUUYA AND THE ADMIRABILIS.

Basically chuuya has the same thing happen to him as phos where he melts inside of the shell and now everyone is thinking he’s become a slug (or rather dazai convinced everyone) and everyone starts panicking because their strongest gem has been weakened to nothing but a useless slug. The entire time dazai’s all like “ohhmyygooodddd the slug has become a slug 😭 i manifested this it’s all my fault but it’s kinda funny tho too 😭😭😭 but ohhmyyygoodd nooo 😭😭😭😭😭” and just not taking the situation very seriously.

RIP CHUUYA GOT EATEN BY THE BIG SLUG!!!! </3 He would be doing it while pushing someone out of the way . it goes on like that for a while longer because everyone would be freaking out because it's chuu obviously and they need him. But i saw the beginning of your other ask and It would probably be like that. Dazai's like o_o for a bit, but he's smart enough to figure something out/ everyone likes chuu so they're not going to stop.

but also I was thinking about skk having the dynamic like rutile. Now, i know everyone is talking about chuu taking care of dazai all the tie cause he fractures, but what about chuuya being destroyed and picked off but dazai building him back up for years and years and years because he became this mythical, legendary gem who couldn't be beat until he let it happen so that someone didn't get taken to the moon.