#i feel like i didnt capture EVERYTHING but this is the gist!!!!!

[kroosluvr]

akira/sumire dynamic is kind of obvious based on the game, and shuake’s is very much discussed, but what is the goro/sumire dynamic like. what’s their specific relationship with each other? how do they end up falling for one another? i don’t see a lot with just the two of them from you and i wanna know what you think :oD (maybe you answered something like this before i only just started following recently LMAO)

OMGGG HII i have so mujch. So much. honestly none of my royaltrio stuff is very explicityl romantic yet but i have LOTS of comics centering them!!!! (bc like u said theyre the least explored so theyre easy to write abt FKHDKJAKSHA)

notable comics: saferoom / the clock is ticking / bentoverse (3 parts!)

specifically, goro sees a bit of himself in sumire - his bitterness, his anger, his envy, his loneliness, and offers her (in his own way) a shoulder to lean on. of course goro is very prickly and very distant himself but he's trying to change himself for the better (and akira knows he can!!!) and also forgive himself for the things hes done and the things thats happened to him in the past that were out of his control...

i think he sees her as strong, too: at first ofc he sees her as kinda weak kinda pathetic but she proves herself a million times over in 3rd sem so his respect for her only grows. goro isnt ermmmm a team player so its really nice to see him work with someone without the fated rival strings attached ehehehehe like rough-around-the-edges trygn to support her but hes kinda bad at it bc hes never done this shit before

meanwhile sumire sees him as dependable, honest (uh. to an extent. mostly bc she only knows him in 3rd sem LMAO), strong (physically mentally emotionally - from what she can see from the outside). my fav thing abt violetcrow is that she has no clue about his past (goro isn't keen on telling her anytime soon, and akira also respects that i think?) so she takes him at face value, which he's also grateful for. he just Exists in sumire's eyes, no strings attached and that... is a really nice feeling.

tldr i think they in particular are important to each other to grow past their painful histories, and especially since both of them are still navigating friendship, identity, and the idea of love (either platonic or romantic) that really stands out to me. also i like slowburn of any sort.

LASTLY i wnted to say im a big sh/us/umi fan but the way i particularly enjoy them differs frm canon bites fist. i like them in a particularly doomed evil "this love won't last" "we get destroyed under the weight of our own love" kind of way. if that is interesting to u.. i offer my fic (10.5k words 2 oneshots but the second one is optional. KSDHFJKSD) for s/hua/ke i lauv them theyre super fascinatign to me... but i am not the smartest biggest brain sh/uakeo/logist JKASDHKJA aksm and shsm have very little exploratory content so i usually focus on that heheh...

i just remembered i have slightly more notes here but i feel like im not that eloquent DKJSHKSJF

[hyunjinspark]

in both of your stories, you write hyunjin so beautifully, & I feel like you capture why we love him so eloquently. what are some of your favorite things about hyunjin? & do you feel like it's easy to write about him?

oh my god thank you for saying that. 😳 i could write a PhD paper on that… but honestly there’s so many things…idk where to start and this gonna be cheesy as fuck but ill give you a gist of it.

if it wasnt obvious already (?) hyunjin is one of my favorite people in the world, and apart from him being just an incredible dancer/performer/vocalist, his personality and existence has such a profound effect on me.

this is gonna be super specific and may not be relatable. i know this can probably be said about most idols in that industry but apart from how passionate/hardworking he is, i love that he makes times for the things he loves like art and painting, despite the stressful schedules that they have? sometimes i feel like i spend most of my life working for uni and i always wish i had more time to do the things i love (like writing, reading, creating more art, going out, and spending time with the people i love) and it ends up making me feel really sad that theres such less time to do the things i genuinely want to. so many of my days go by where im drowned in work and feel like i should be doing more at my age, but then i see hyunjin doing everything he possibly can and making time for it, and it inspires me like crazy. hes my inspiration for a lot of things and i think for me - thats the whole point i follow idols and celebrities - the way that they can be positive role models.

and the little things like how he finds the beauty in every thing, views life through such a romantic lens, his emotional intelligence in general and the dedication to being the best performer that he can be !

and yeah i do find it easy to write him, obviously since in my story it’s a fictional character i take my liberties with how i write him, so i just kind of embody an ideal person into his character. 🩷 you probably didnt want such a long answer but thank you for asking me that haha.

[tumblunni]

Man the manga makes it look so fun to be a Nobody!

I really marvel at how they captured the uncanny nature of the enemy Nobodies?? Cos seriously the whole point of them is that they look humanoid but move in really inhuman ways. And each individual enemy type has its own unique mannerisms for this, but in general its like..slugs? I'm pretty sure its slugs?? They stretch and squish and wiggle around and its like pretty much EXACTLY how medicinal leeches move, but thats a very underrated animal so its probably more likely it was slugs or worms. Like 'hey lets exaggerate slugs' but BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT FATEFUL WIGGLIER SLUG DOES TRULY EXIST. And i love their cutie patoot lil faces. And the world needs to appreciate them more!

...ok im getting offtopic but you get the gist of what i mean. The basic Dusk enemies are vaguely humanoid things with their arms and legs tapering off into sticklike points, and they either wiggle them around like leech heads or hold their arms behind them naruto run style and use their entire body as a leech! Like its more likely that they pick up stuff by wrapping around it like a snake, rather than just using hands?? And also they can fly and stick to ceilings and just generally have loads of fun?? And look really pretty?? And some of the other more complex nobodies look even cooler doing their weird wiggle flying. Like the Assassin type have these weird big metal petal shapes on their arms that flutter like feathers and make them look like winged snakes crossed with.. Kites...? Kites made of kimonos? Being worn by a man with no face..?

SERIOUSLY WHO DESIGNED THESE FUNKY THINGS THEYRE SO UNIQUELY GENIUS

And aaa the Days manga has a REALLY good panel showing a big swarm of them in flight and it just looks SO MAGICAL AND SPOOKY! this is the exact kind of Aesthetically Nutso Ghost Monster Person i wish i could be! The manga is so cool at iimplying the same sense of inhuman motion by drawing them like motion tweens? Like theyre warped into wildly different body shapes in every panel and its just SO CREEPY and SO BADASS and SOMETIMES KINDA MAJESTIC AND ENDEARING EVEN! And this big flight scene has EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL ONE drawn with its own different pose and mannerisms and like man every one of these weird squiggle flights looks like a world of fun to do!! God i love when superpowers actually look FUN, yo! It fuckin sucks that theyre just low level enemies and not ever playable. The only Nobodies that are playable or even get a big amount of screentime in cutscenes are the ones that ACTUALLY look humanoid and also move humanoid and BOOOO have zero traits of the monster theyre supposed to be. Like man just give me a whole game playing a lil bebby Nobody flying around! They remind me of the wanderers in Journey, they'd be so well suited to a chilled out exploration game like that.

And AAAAAA i get so sad thinking about how they're like bebbys!!! Noooo! Why do we not have more sympathy for them?? Like the particular way they write their 'bumbling weak enemy' scenes just comes off more like..well..sad thoughts about what happens when you lose your heart. Cos i mean the series really doesnt dwell much on the implications of the fact every single one of them used to be human! And whenever they're not being given orders by the higher ups in the organization, theyre just shown wiggling around flying in circles for fun, like a shoal of fish. They're so inhuman now, aside from vague resembelance in their appearances. They'd be seen as the cute wpodland critters in a disney princess musical number if they werent designated as monsters! Like they're not just 'dumb', they friggin dont remember how to talk anymore. And in their most memorable scene they dont understand the order "find this person" and can be easily tricked by photos of him. "Yes boss here is roxas he's a little more flatter than usual but here he is!" And they just keep gathering hundreds of the same person and never once cotton on to anything being wrong. Its so cute and also scary?? Cos seriously they are such eldritch monstrosities of fragmented soul that they move on to STEALING THE WORD PHOTOGRAPH. Just plucking it right out of the language! Failing so hard that you warp the laws of reality! I feel sorry for the poor lil guys, you definately cant say they didnt try as hard as possible!

AND SERIOUSLY THATS ALSO A COMMON TRAIT IN THE MANGA

I'm just so happy that they gave a bit more sympathy to the low level enemies because seriously WHO GIVES SUCH A GOOD DESIGN TO A LOW LEVEL ENEMY AND THEN BARELY EVER USES THEM FOR ANY SCENES

They actually give some sorts of pseudo dialogue to them?? Like during the kh2 prologue they show roxas being able to psychically perceive their thoughts while theyre trying to kidnap him. And its just so sympathetic and sad in retrospect?? They did a great job amplifying everything about this sequence because they made the Nobodies look so much scarier, made Roxas's life with his friends look even more heartwarming, and made it all super tense so you overlook all these little hints and just cheer for roxas in defeating these guys. But they left so many things that actually foreshadow that Roxas is a Nobody too, so reading this a second time is so sadddddd. I almost wish this was the first time i experienced the story, i think it does basically everything better than the original game version. Like seriously THAT ONE LINE OF WHAT THE WEAK ENEMIES ARE THINKING! "We've found you, my leige". THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO SAVE THEIR BOSS AND DIDNT KNOW WHY HE DIDNT RECOGNISE THEM. AND THEN HE ATTACKS THEM AND THEY DONT KNOW WHY!! aaa theyre just BABIES god theyre just ghost demon thingies that are like the larval stage compared to the main character versions. They dont remember who they were as humans, they just know they love their boss!! and he's apparantly been kidnapped by scary humans!! THEY WERE TRYING SO HARD TO SAVE HIM!! they got so damn close to taking over the town and they were swarming everywhere searching for him and Axel was trying so hard too and Diz just kept interrupting him before he cpuld explain or lying to roxas to manipulate them against each other! And axel even brought cake and icecream with him!! He was just trying to rescue his lil bro!!! Auuuugh seriously it was such a good twist that the Scary Monster Dudes were objectively in the right throughout this entire intro, and they just wanted to save Roxas's goddamn life. And he didnt even get to remember his peaceful days as a family with his fellow monster boyos until like five seconds before dying :(

Did anyone else just.. Not want to play kingdom hearts 2 after the prologue?

Like i couldnt stand the mood whiplash of going back to happy go lucky disney worlds with sora and having no more deep sad intriguing plot points for like ten hours of gameplay. And i could never take Organization 13 seriously as villains when the entire damn prologue was them being SUPER FUCKING SYMPATHETIC and the 'good guy' trying to murder a child in order to bring sora back. Like why am i supposed to be happy that he succeeded when i know sora himself would say no if he was told what sacrifice had to happen to bring him back? I would have been way more interested in this sequel having me play as roxas and try and take on the legacy of sora as the next hero and try and find a way to bring sora back without anyone having to die. Like the whole story could be people being all 'blah blah youre worthless youre not human your only purpose is to die for the sacrifice' and we explore all different sorts of 'heroes' doing horrible acts and justifying it to themselves because some people are just 'born evil' and its okay to do whatever you want to them. And Roxas is always struggling with almost believing that shit about himself, but in the end he does succeed to find a happy ending for everyone without a need for 'sacrifices'. And he learns to have self confidence and form his own identity and have more friendship scenes with Axel and co and also redeem all the other Nobodies please and also hug the tiny enemy childrens ones. I just did not feel much for the plot of kh2 at all except for the Nobodies!! Its just not sympathetic to have your 'heroes' arguing that 'oh they dont have hearts theyre not human they dont feel anything so theyre all evil and its all fine'. The game acts like this is true despite giving sympathetic backstories to half of them and the other half all die crying that they want to live!! What the fuck!! Like the only consolation is that they clearly cottoned on to the Org being RIDICULOUSLY POPULAR and later games literally bring all the most fan-loved ones back from the dead and add EVEN MORE sympathetic backstories and also here have a bigger villain who was really responsible and also he lied to them and theyre NOT really empty hearted and incapable of love. THEY ARE CONSTANTLY SHOWN HAVING THAT, EVEN THE WEAK LIL ENEMY DUDES HAVE ALL THAT LOYALTY TO ROXAS AAAAGH THEY DIED IN DROVES TRYING IN VAIN TO SAVE HIMMMMM

And god theyre so cute and so well designed and so sad and im sorry but AGGHHHH

I Forgot I Had So Many Emotions For The Emotionless Bebs :(

...also i really wish i cpuld get this pic of thos one panel to upload cos it looks real cool. I didnt think anything could make me love them more!!! Theyte just innocent weird snake bird worm person mannequin origami things. They just want to flutter around like messed up butterflies! And adorably poke at things they're curious about, and hold brooms awkwardly with their squiggle hands! The manga shows them doing lil chores around the house!! I LOVE THEMMMMMMM