#i dont even ship them romantically

[queennai714]

Random hcs I have because I may be cringe but I'm free part 23 (Ninjago)

HOLUP CAUSE I ONLY STARTED REALLY THINKING ABT THIS AN HOUR OR TWO AGO AND I ALREADY ADORE IT

WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS BEFORE ITS PRACTICALLY CANON

Ok, I feel like if you exclude familial relationships like Nya and Lloyd, (andromanticrelationshipslikeColecuzthisismyheadcanon) Zane and Kai are most definitely best friends.

(I know I made that post a while ago about Kai and Jay's dynamic and don't get me wrong those two are another example of why the ninja are the found family of ever, but you can tell that sometimes they just get really fed up with each other lol)

Like, dont quote me on this but I'm pretty sure those two haven't even had a really serious argument since SEASON ONE, Kai was the one to deliver that speech at Zane's funeral, speaking of which he was utterly distraught after those events, they were together at the beginning of s8 (much like the CANON bff's, Jay and Cole), they had a lot of fun interactions in s9 when Jay was really out of it, and the entirety of their scenes in s13 were just gold, and thats just the big stuff I can come up with off the top of my head. I guarantee there's a lot more subtle moments and definitely more big ones that I just can't recall rn (I mean, I completely skipped over seasons 4-7) and the more I think abt it the more I realize how well these two work together. In fact, I remember reblogging smth abt their dynamic as the ones to step up as leaders/advisors or even making plans when the others can't and don't even get me started on the fact that they're literally opposite elements. Istg you could sum up their whole relationship by saying they balance each other out. Kai is impulsive and emotional normally but thinks logically when it really counts, and Zane thinks everything through logically but still makes purely emotionally driven decisions when tensions are running high enough. Kai has his whole 'hot-shot and I would kill for this family' personality that sometimes leaves him a little morally gray, and Zane's morals are so deeply embedded into who he is that the idea of protecting someone who can't protect themselves is enough to remind him who he is when he literally should have no memory of ever hearing those words in that order and had never even heard of a white lie before s13. They're both really sweet and care about the people close to them a lot, but Zane tends to express those feelings in words while Kai speaks more with his actions. Zane is more mellow while Kai has higher energy, I could go on and on. My point is, they balance each other's extremes out wonderfully and have just enough in common to be even closer than a purely 'opposites attract' friendship and the rest of the team would fall apart without those two and their dynamic 😌

[sananaryon]

No characters will ever be as soulmates as Paperinik and Xadhoom

[blorbocollection]

them...

[jellyfishcandyy]

being a timebomb fan in these trying times is so detrimentally hazardous because one second, I'm looking at a wholesome fanart or edit of baby timebomb playing together and the literal next moment, I'd see someone bring up the fact that Jinx calls Ekko 'boy saviour' because he tried to save her from silco and it's like a lethal shot into my psyche

[honeycreammilkshake]

at first you couldn't stand the idea of an afterlife with him...

but now you want to live the rest of your life with him?

seriously though.

yuuji went from hating him on sight to wanting to take him home with him. and honestly, i can't stop thinking about that.

the time yuuji spent with sukuna showed him there was much more to the monster than he first believed..... the fact that this whole story began with yuuji wanting to consume all 20 fingers so he could kill sukuna but ending with him wanting sukuna to come back to him so they could become one again..... and no, i don't care what anyone else says, it's canon that yuuji genuinely wanted for them to coexist with each other.

also. i just want to point out how full-circle they've become. sukuna screaming "your future is mine, brat!" at the beginning but dying in the end when yuuji offers (not surrenders, not gives in, but truly offers) that future to him. yuuji is willing to give sukuna his heart, soul, and body in the most compassionate, honest sense. it's such a display of kindness and warmth, such softness as yuuji cradles sukuna's remains, that sukuna probably couldn't take it.

i think it was more or less a split-second decision for him. and he chose to die as he was born: a curse.

i could be wrong but it seems to me like yuuji was breaking sukuna's resolve over the last few chapters, especially chapter 265, which focuses a lot on yuuji's empathy for sukuna... and also sukuna's mask starting to slip and reveal more of his contradicting nature.

i can't get over this scene. yuuji wants to talk to sukuna. he asks sukuna to indulge him. and sukuna does.

this entire chapter sukuna is uncharacteristically willing to go along with it. he's listening to yuuji the entire time because he responds to what yuuji is saying even when it's over such small things. and even his insults are for more subdued and strangely sound more affectionate/light-hearted compared to the stuff sukuna is usually spitting out.

i've said it before and i still think it's canon that yuuji has had the most power and influence over sukuna.

sukuna doesn't fight with anyone as closely or possessively as he does with yuuji (he treated todo like an unwelcome third wheel after todo crashed sukuita's violent little date entered the fight). sukuna isn't as moved as he is with others when yuuji challenged his ideals. no, he literally stopped mid-fight to wonder why the brat had such an overwhelming effect on him. he wanted to crush yuuji's ideal apart because they started to make him doubt himself as well.

yuuji gets under sukuna's skin and stays there like a thorn. like the parasite sukuna was supposed to be inside of yuuji. but the brat is now sukuna's own curse.

and i think he knew that if he'd accepted yuuji's offer, that curse would kill him. love is the worst curse of all.

sukuna knows his own nature. he's selfish and evil and cruel. yuuji embodies the opposite of all those qualities: he is the shades of love and hate that are far away from sukuna's mask of indifference. they could coexist but overtime sukuna's persona would begin to erode because yuuji has the most power of anyone else to change him. to make him rethink. and he can't have that. he needs to remain the static cruelty he was made into. he doesn't know any other way and he'd fall apart if yuuji showed him another fate.

it's really tragic when you realize yuuji's soul has been tied to sukuna's for so long. and in a sense, yuuji completes sukuna. he is kind of like the embodiment of the humanity and empathy that was probably forced out of sukuna. he's the missing whole that makes sukuna's whole a matching set. like yin and yang, the opposites that complement each other and cannot be separated.

in both a poetical and literal sense, yuuji was made for sukuna. he understands that they're like reflections of each other, one brighter and one darker. and yuuji still accepted and was willing to bear sukuna's monstrosity. because he saw him. studied him, even. loved him in the most selfless sense of the word.

it's so tragic.... i hate them.

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

[shaydh]

when i "ship" a thing really it just means "I would like to see more interactions between these two characters" regardless if the relationship is romantic, platonic, whatever. I just think it'd be interesting if you put these two together. usually there is also a coke and mentos aspect to it.

[euporie-art]

ive thought about this for a while but ive finally had 1 person agree w me on it so im going to share it even tho this is an art blog

i think the bond between kazuma and ryunosuke is supposed to mirror that of sholmes and mikotoba in some way? I feel like the idea of "these characters are inseperable partners" is very much hammered in with both of them by the narrative, and the case of sholmes and mikotoba, is supported by the general holmes mythos.

the idea that they'll always find eachother, that there may be other people that yeah sure they work fine with, but they'll always work best together, seamlessly as one being. i feel like that exists within both of them.

also, sholmes mentored ryunosuke, and mikotoba was a mentor to kazuma when he was younger. i feel like theres a better way for me to articulate this but im not very good at it. someone smarter than me could probably figure this out.

[vanisa-ray]

oh the tragedy it is to be the grace family.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

renheng is arguably too delicious for the average hoyoverse fan because when i found out one of the main characters is haunted by a spectre of his past who hates him so much entirely because he once loved and trusted him. and they watched the stars together. and they have matching bracers that they can sense each other through. and they were closer than any other two in their old friend group. and

[hohohomelander]

so sirius and james trusted each other more than anyone else, was described as inseparable and 'never saw one without the other'. they were the closest in their little group, they had the mirrors to stay in contact at any time, just for themselves. sirius ran away to james. godfather, best man, loved james more than anyone else and was dedicated to him for the rest of his life. and you fools prefer to ship him with ..*checks notes* that other guy?? the one he suspected was a spy?? the one that thought the same of him and let him rot in prison?? the fuck?

explain pls, cause i dont get it

[dickmus1k]

Hello 20 people in the life eater fandom i have a question for you all.... when ralph said "i love you" did you guys think it was intended to be platonic/familial or romantic?

[sesamestreep]

“requiem for methuselah” crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I don’t actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that he’d go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but that’s neither here nor there, because in the background you’ve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesn’t usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Rayna’s competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???

And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, it’s just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Rayna’s death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how it’s sadder that Spock can’t even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he can’t love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??

[amyrosedaily]

Day 29: Caught you!

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[kiisaes]

Here’s an ask… Deku and Ochaco in chapter 431

aauughh. what a magnificent way to ruin two main characters. I'm not even against the ship normally I just think it's so poorly written if you're enjoying it as an endgame ship. build-up that realistically ends around s4 then suddenly picks up again in the questionably-canon final chapter. if I were an izch stan I would be livid knowing THIS is all I get in terms of a STRAIGHT ROMANCE, in which horikoshi didn't even need to code anything in order for it to pass, the way he'd need to for queer romance

I'm not even gonna go into how, specifically, their personal characters got fucked up by 431. I'd be here all day

[its-coda]

My rarepair disease strikes again 😔 he’s protecting his pure white coat