#i think she'd definitely make a snarky remark if she was being stared at so blatantly
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infamous-if · 2 years ago
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im feeling a bit better and here's some more chapter 2 for ya
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theprettyarachnid · 3 years ago
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arcane char reaction to the reader appearing to be a soft and cute person but end up to be cruel and a little bit of rude.
a/n: i had to look up pet names at one point for this and one of them was "daddy mack" and i don't think i'll ever recover from that
warnings: like 1 curse word
characters: jinx, vi, viktor, jayce, silco, vander
Jinx
🕷 She'd probably find out because one of Silco's gang members were picking on you about how you shouldn't even be in Zaun
🕷 Before Jinx can say anything to shut them up, you're already giving a rude and snarky remark making her burst out laughing
🕷 Jinx wouldn't let the guy live it down and honestly likes that side of you, especially when she feels like shit-talking
🕷 Will sometimes say something just to get under your skin so she can get a reaction out of you
Vi
🕷 One of the reasons why Vi was attracted to you was because of your seemingly soft nature
🕷 Think of it as kind of balancing each other out
🕷 When she found out about your tendencies to be more cruel, she would honestly find it hot
🕷 You two would be in an argument when you said something and she had to do a double take
🕷 "what did you just say?"
🕷 At first you thought you went too far but Vi was actually just horny
Viktor
🕷 I can see him actually being quite surprised by your rude remarks
🕷 Some rich high top snob had made a snide comment about Viktor's limp which made you go right up to them and give them a piece of your mind
🕷 Viktor the whole time 🧍
🕷 He'd probably be a little embarrassed mainly because no one has really stood up for him like that
🕷 Would drag you away while you're still insulting the guy
🕷 Eventually he does get used to it and may even find it amusing at times, especially if you're telling off some big Piltover hotshot he can't stand
🕷 You two definitely mock and joke about of some of the citizens of Piltover, whether that's behind closed doors or hushed whispers
🕷 "doesn't anyone else find it a little... strange that hoskel always plays with children's toys during council meetings?"
🕷 "i believe he has a collection,"
🕷 "do you think he steals them from orphans?"
🕷 Cue Viktor starting to choke on air in the middle of a council meeting making everyone stare
Jayce
🕷 Mans would be flabbergasted
🕷 You two would be at home and he would be ranting about how Heimerdinger isn't letting him and Viktor continue their progress with Hextech
🕷 "isn't heimerdinger like hundreds of years old? i'm sure he'll croak any day now."
🕷 "y/n!"
🕷 Would be beyond embarrassed if you did it in public, especially if it was at an high profile event
🕷 "y/n, i told you to behave."
🕷 "i am! besides, mel had it coming... and you have to admit her face was pretty funny."
🕷 It's true he does find your snide comments a cynical jokes funny in private, especially if he is in a bad mood because of his work
Silco
🕷 He honestly finds great comfort in your cruelty
🕷 I feel like he would already know your true nature before you even showed him, why else would you be recruited into his mob?
🕷 also finds it kinda seggsy
🕷 Whenever someone has fucked up, he always goes to you to think of punishments
🕷 "what should we do with him, my beautiful nightshade?"
🕷 "the rats seem to be hungry, especially since it's closer to winter."
🕷 "consider it done."
Vander
🕷 He might be a little surprised but he wouldn't judge
🕷 Vander wasn't exactly considered a saint in his youth, far from it actually
🕷 He would be kind of relieved that he knows you can take care of yourself because he wasn't quite sure when you first started dating
🕷 You've gained a name for yourself in The Last Drop, not just because of your relationship with Vander but also because of your snarky mouth
🕷 He just wouldn't want you to accidentally get caught up in the law with the enforcers
🕷 He sometimes gets a little curious and likes to hear your thoughts about some of the customers in The Last Drop
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seollenda-moved · 3 years ago
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Hi! I have these ideas and I saw that your request box was open so here you go! (Also you don’t have to rush or write this at all!)
For mina (twice) x fem reader where they were assigned as partners for an art project where they have to illustrate each other in different mediums of art. Like, ex.- mina would paint the reader, and the reader would take a photograph of Mina, etc (your choice of what kind of art) and Mina has always had a crush on the reader (and the reader has a crush on her too, mutual pining ^-^) so she gets a bit shy and all that. And it's all cute and fluffy, with them flirting or you can put a bit of angst too if you like, and when they've already passed their projects, Mina gives the r an extra painting of her(the r) and there’s a not on the back of the canvas that says "you are a work of art" or "an art gallery could never be as unique as you" or something :D and I'll leave the rest to you!
You can make this into any form you like! (One-shot, full fic, or headcanons).
I'm sorry if this is a bit long hehe. Have a great day/night ahead!
this is so cute and i made myself a little emo ngl
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you aren’t one to get distracted in class–but being sat next to myoui mina is testing you
not to say she’s talkative
rather, she’s the opposite, even quieter than she was with the last seating-chart
now she pays intense attention to the front of the class, to her paper, her book, whatever unseen space she stares off into when there’s nothing else to do
so you spend the better part of your (graduation requirement) art class working up the nerve to try at a conversation
you aren’t sure if it’s relief or panic you feel when the teacher announces that partners for the final project are decided by the desk arrangements
when she turns to you, her elusive gaze suddenly completely on you, smiling shyly, all the daydreaming you'd worked through evaporates because how could you have imagined this rush?
the project is simple--portraits of your partner, in any medium, literal or abstract, and some analysis applying art theory concepts you'd written a million essays on already, yadda yadda
you're just glad to finally get to make some actual art, you say.
it wasn't a particularly funny remark, but she laughs anyway, a soft giggle that you could listen to forever
luckily, she seems to find almost all your words particularly amusing
(talk about an ego boost)
---
the typical route is a literal painting. at least half of the class is opting for some form of painted portrait.
"do you paint?" she asks. you most definitely do not.
neither does she, mina admits sheepishly.
well what's mina's art? "ballet"
duh. what a silly question. everyone knows about myoui mina, juilliard-bound ballerina. the straight-As are just a formality.
"do you think they'd accept dance as an art medium?" you wonder. something perks up in mina at the thought
her project will be original choreography, she decides.
(you have to wonder how a portrait would work in that medium...but you can't argue with the rush of confidence it had seemingly inspired in your classmate)
so it only makes sense to make your half of the project photography, right? no better of a subject than a ballet dancer
that makes mina blush a bit
---
mina myoui gradually opens up through the few weeks of sitting next to each other, and you discover there is much to get to know about her
that she has a lot of opinions; some of which fiercely contradict the rather stubborn teacher
(she never really speaks them out loud to anyone but you, passing snarky notes, giggling behind textbooks until the teacher casts an evil eye your way)
that she has a close little family and an affectionate but contentious relationship with her older brother
that moving from japan as a child wasn't as hard as she'd expected; that she's always been proud of her independence
(but sometimes she misses her friends, and the castella from the bakery on her street, or the neighbor’s little white kitten who purred on her legs after elementary school every afternoon. but she’s glad to be here too. and making friends is nice. like you!)
and you find out that she thinks the castella cake from the bakery on your street is pretty good too. and that her favorite drink is strawberry matcha lattes, and that she really likes sharing her food with people, especially last bites
there's no real reason to go to each others’ homes, not when the art project seems to be progressing independently, and there's nothing to do until the video/photoshoot day.
but you tell your parents that it’s for school anyway
so she introduces you to her grumpy brother, her parents’ cooking
and you introduce her to your own embarrassingly loud family, your cat
(he's grey, not white, but still takes to mina instantly)
the end-of-year project is only for three weeks, but it quickly feels like you’ve known each other for a lifetime
(and a silly moment--when she admits that the reason she’d ignored you for the first couple weeks was because she wanted so badly to talk to you...but had no idea what to say. that's the subject of teasing for another few days.)
---
it's filming day and mina had practiced the choreo until she deemed it perfect (a high standard)
she’d insisted on keeping it a secret from you until now
you brought a multitude of cameras; a polaroid, a fancy borrowed dslr, your phone, and of course a video camera to shoot mina’s dance
you meet her at her dance studio, late after classes had ended and it's an empty room
except for one ballerina, stretching deeply on the floor, the fringes of a full white tutu splayed against the hardwood flooring
her hair's drawn into a tight bun, her feet in neatly wrapped pointe shoes
her eyes brighten when she sees you, she waves you over
you spend way too long fumbling with the equipment to set it up and get the shot and lighting right. mina finishes stretching, finishes warming up, wanders around and watches you work patiently, fidgets with the polaroid
and then you’re finally ready. you set the camera rolling, pick up your dslr, and begin shooting as she starts
you don’t know any of the technical dance terms; all you know is that she moves in ways that could hardly be considered mortal
rather an angel, except the agile thump of her shoes on the wood floors are very much real and echo the sudden nervousness of your heartbeat
you hope your hands aren’t shaking too much as you snap your shots, moving carefully around the outer edges of the floor and taking a hundred pictures
her choreography is gentle, sweeping, expansive. she makes use of the whole room, her gaze simultaneously faraway yet startlingly present.
the music she picked swells, and she moves into a mode which you could only describe as effluent, playful.
you’re in one corner of the room when she happens to wander your way on joyful leaps
she makes eye contact with you and her trained expression breaks into a brief proud grin, giving you a quick pirouette that you almost forget to snap a shot of because it feels like a bird of paradise has landed just in front of you and you’re frozen, afraid of scaring her away
---
it’s finished in one take (what a shame, because you could’ve watched her all day)
you’d only used the one camera, but it was okay, because you probably have a thousand photos to sift through when you got home
instead of packing up, you sit on the edge of the dance floor, watching mina let her long dark hair down, wavy from the crease of her bun; deftly unlacing her shoes and discarding the unwieldy skirt of her dance outfit
in an inspired moment, you grab the polaroid camera and capture some shots of her undoing her ballet persona
she looks up at the flash, her startled expression turning to a shy grin as she realises she’s become the subject of a candid.
you shove the undeveloped film into your pocket before she can take it back
she only rolls her eyes good-naturedly and helps you pack up the equipment
---
something’s up the next day at school, the last week of classes before the long-awaited summer
you like to think that you’ve become somewhat familiar with mina’s otherwise imperceptible emotional tells
so when she’s just a bit quieter than usual, and her expression freezes at gracious smiles, you know there’s something the matter
what’s up? you nag her a couple times. but you quickly realise you’re testing her patience, so you back off
“don’t worry,” she finally says, patting your hand. “i’m not mad at you.”
because apparently she can read your mind too
---
by some stroke of misfortune, the two of you are picked to present your projects first. at least it’s the last day of class.
the analysis you wrote is slapdash, but you’d assembled your photos into what you think is a well-curated gallery of sorts, pasted carefully onto a series of trifolds that the class tours with mild interest.
and mina’s video–well. the otherwise antsy class is quiet, because you don’t see this kind of performance more than once in your life
when the video ends and she reads off her presentation in that softly confident voice, you only blush a hundred times, because all the ways she describes you and the choreography choices are things you didn’t think anyone could think of you
let alone myoui mina
when she finishes, you could’ve sworn some of the class had looked back at you and giggled…but you're too busy staring very attentively at your desk to be sure
---
school's out. students are running out of classes and dumping their notebooks in the recycling bins triumphantly, exchanging plans to meet up that night or weekend or all of break
when you turn to look at mina, an invitation to go out to a celebratory dinner at the tip of your tongue, her expression is distraught enough to actually stop you in your tracks
“mina?”
she’d looks at you with the most apologetic of gazes, her hands grabbing both of yours.
she's sorry she has to tell you now, she wishes she’d known sooner, she couldn’t have figured out a better time to tell you because you were so stressed over final exams and busy and everything, she's sorry
but the myouis are moving back to japan this week, her father’s job transferred suddenly back to kobe, mina had asked for more time in seoul but they have no choice, the cheapest ticket is tomorrow so she, her brother, and mother are moving first while her father wraps up business in korea
she is so sorry
of course, how can you do anything but assure her that it's okay?
that she has nothing to be sorry about
that you hope the move will go well
that she'll have a lovely time in kobe and see her friends again; that she should tell you if the cake really is as good as she remembers and to pet the cat-that-is-probably-not-a-kitten-anymore for you
it's okay.
you manage to elicit a giggle out of her again.
she presses something into your hand, closes your fingers around it
her face blushes brightly as she looks into your eyes, leans forward, and presses a quick kiss to your cheek that dizzies you a little bit
“we’ll see each other again soon,” she promises, and the both of you know it's true only because it has to be, there can be no other way
---
and with that she hurries away at the call of her brother waiting in the car, leaving you to finally look down at what she’d put in your hand
a dreamy-toned candid polaroid shot of you, determinedly hunched over a mess of camera equipment
something about polaroids flatters any subject; though maybe there's something to the touch of the photographer that makes it more compelling than any other photo you’d seen of yourself
in her light, fluidly legible handwriting, mina had written at the bottom
“nothing could’ve captured you as you really are. but you never forget seeing the art in person.”
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aot-snk-4238 · 4 years ago
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SNK Meta Part 2: Ymir
In my previous post, I talked about my feelings regarding Historia's character this final arc. Now I'm going to talk about Ymir, her relationship with Historia, and my feelings about her send-off.
Was Ymir a good character?
In my eyes, yes. When she was first introduced, it was clear that she had feelings for Historia, making her one of the only canon queer characters in the series (assuming Historia reciprocated those feelings, which I'm pretty sure she did). She also appeared very snarky and cynical, but us readers came to learn later on that there was a much softer, sensitive side to her deep down that Historia would be the first to witness. These revelations, including her backstory, helped flesh out her character in a way that made her very interesting and mysterious for me. I especially loved how sharp and intuitive she was. I'm going to quote the wiki on this part, because I think it does a great job explaining her impressive observant abilities. "Ymir was extremely perceptive and could discern the nature of the people around her with alarming accuracy, such as Historia's martyrdom mentality, Reiner's split personality disorder, and Sasha Blouse's desire to look good in front of her peers by hiding her native accent and developing an extremely formal way of speaking. Due to her experiences and belief in self-pride, she tended to rudely criticize people for being untrue to themselves. Furthermore, Ymir was very reasonable, as she knew what to do during her kidnapping situation and reconsidered her options to accomplish her goals." I also enjoyed her interactions with other characters besides Historia. Take Connie, for example. When he lamented over the possibility of his mother being stuck as a mindless titan, Ymir tried to distract him, albeit not in the most appropriate way (ch. 38).
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Connie complained about this behavior later on, but Historia defended her, explaining that she was only trying to stray his thoughts from that traumatic discovery. There were a few more moments between these two that were fun to see as well.
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😂😂😂. Ymir's looking at him like, "You ruined it, Connie..."
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I love the way she pats him on the head. Knowing how much taller Connie's gotten I don't think she'd be able to do that anymore.
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This becomes one of the many times that Connie calls her "ugly" when she's in her titan form. Too bad she couldn't talk very well as a titan or else she probably would have had a smartass remark to throw back at him. It's looking back on scenes like this where I wish we could have gotten more out of these two. You can tell she cared for Connie and I know he also cared in his own way.
We only saw her together with Eren once when Reiner and Bertholdt captured them, but it was very interesting to see their perceptions of each other.
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Eren found Ymir to be mysterious and wasn't sure if he could trust her, which isn't surprising considering this was the only time they ever spoke to each other. One detail that he couldn't miss, however, was Ymir's undying determination to protect Historia, a goal they would both come to share later on. Meanwhile, Ymir couldn't trust Eren because she found him to be too reckless and hot-headed.
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These were my favorite qualities from Ymir, although to this day I still question the rationality of leaving Historia behind considering the situation she's currently in. Historia herself called her an idiot after reading her goodbye letter. Now that I've covered my reasons for liking Ymir as a character, let's move on to her relationship with Historia.
Ymir and Historia
I've loved these two together since the beginning for their complex and amusing dynamic. On the surface, you had the selfish, confrontational tomboy and the girly, kind and beautiful goddess. But underneath were two young women who were dealt a dirty hand early in their life and lead empty lives as a result until they found each other. Their story arcs throughout the Clash of the Titans arc were beautiful and complimentary, and it's part of the reason why it's actually my favorite story arc in the series. Everything from Ymir seeing through Historia's charade and urging her to live her life with pride to Historia telling Ymir her real name and the two of them fighting side by side in chapter 49 was some of the most empowering moments for me and I will forever cherish those parts of the story.
Ymir's departure
And now the part I've been most excited to talk about! Ymir's glorious, memorable and emotional departure.
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Her ending...was not what I expected it to be. She left Historia at the very last second and gave herself away to the enemy because she felt guilty for something that was not her fault. Now as we know, Ymir is selfless at heart and she felt indebted to Reiner and Bertholdt for inadvertently helping her return to her human form after 60 years of wandering the earth as a mindless titan. She also decided that Historia might be safe after all after learning that Eren possessed the coordinate. I understand all of that, but what I don't understand is...well...everything else.
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This was Ymir's last real appearance. We see that Ymir has willingly chosen to accompany Reiner and Bertholdt back to Marley to give up her titan powers at the cost of her life. Many people weren't so sure if that was truly the last of her though, because her death was not explicitly confirmed for a long time. We spend the next 33 chapters hoping to get something more, and then this happens...
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A glimmer of hope. Finally there's a real chance we'll hear from her again, and it's got a lot of people buzzing with excitement. Sure enough, we finally get to see what's in that letter a few chapters later and are given Ymir's backstory. Here's where the disappointing part comes, though. Ymir makes it clear at the beginning of her letter that she will be dead by the time Historia receives it, meaning that this is the only goodbye they're gonna get. The last time they saw each other, Ymir wasn't even in human form. Instead of a proper goodbye, all we get is a short letter. The anime even tried to fix this by giving us Ymir's backstory earlier, but by doing that, her letter was cut short by a lot. All that was really left was, "Hi babe, sorry I left you like that. Oh well, I'm about to die anyway. Sorry we couldn't get married." And then this happened:
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Historia touches Ymir's letter and is suddenly bombarded with visions of Ymir's past, including her chained up and about to be eaten. That is definitely not what happened in the manga and its honestly very confusing to me. How was she able to see all of that just by touching the letter? I get that she has royal blood and was able to access memories when she touched Eren, but Eren is a human who just so happens to possess the founding titan. The letter is just a piece of paper. Also, I'm guessing the last thing Historia saw was Ymir chained up so that there will be no need to bring her up again like Reiner and Porco did in chapter 93. I don't blame the anime team for making that change because I'll be honest, when we saw that one panel of her in her death chamber it felt very out of nowhere and I had a hard time concentrating on the rest of the chapter after that. So here are my main problems with her death:
1. It was off-screen
If I recall correctly, Ymir is the only major character in the series whose death was off-screen. All we got were her final moments, and there wasn't even any dialogue. That part especially bothered me because you can see that Ymir and Porco are looking at each other and Ymir's mouth is slightly open, implying that she's speaking. But what was she saying? You seriously don't mean to tell me that they both just sat there and stared at each other the whole time. She must have had some last words, but for some reason we never got to know what they were. At one point I even thought that Historia and Porco might cross paths at some point and he would be able to give her closure that way but no. No closure, just a last minute goodbye letter and a glimpse of her final moments that I now consider completely useless and unnecessary because we never got more out of it. I mean really, we even got closure and an on-screen death for Marco for crying out loud. Why give him that kind of attention and not Ymir? Not to mention one of the more recent guidebooks. Her character has the diceased sticker and it talks about how she went back to Marley with Reiner and Bert, but that's it. Not even the guidebook makes it clear what happened next. Yeah she died, but did anything else happen before then? That's what I wish we could have gotten more details on like, I don't know....her final words???
2. It was anticlimactic
We didn't get enough focus on Ymir's point of view after leaving Paradis in order for her death to have any kind of lasting emotional impact. As I mentioned above, it just felt out of place and messy. There was nothing memorable about her death either. It was quite simple and boring.
3. It contributed to an ongoing literary issue that has anti-LGBTQ roots
Yep. I'm talking about the infamous Bury Your Gays trope. Now before I go any further, I am not accusing Isayama of being anti-LGBTQ, I'm just shedding some light on something that's been continuously repeated in countless forms of media, not just anime and manga. Truthfully, I hadn't heard about this trope before reading Attack on Titan, but when I did hear about it, it only made Ymir's death even worse for me. I'm not surprised that it exists and I realize that this is a manga where death is inevitable, but keeping both women alive in the end would have certainly been very refreshing. At this point, all I could ask for is that Ymir and Historia get to see each other one last time. Obviously since Ymir is dead it will have to be through other means and I don't care how it's done. It can be in a dream, a vision or through Paths (which I think would work best). Seriously, there's nothing I've been more curious about than how Ymir would react to Hisu's current predicament and what she would say to her. It would just be great for them to have one last conversation face to face because for me, the letter just wasn't enough. Of course I'm hoping for too much, though. We've only got 1-2% of the story remaining, leaving no room for further closure. It's disappointing and frustrating, but no story is perfect. I'm grateful for the content that we did get, but I hope one day I can find a story like this one where the queer characters get to live for once. I'm aware of other shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time and Yuri on Ice that give them good endings, but those shows are much friendlier towards younger audiences and aren't nearly as dark and grim.
Conclusion
Ymir was a very intriguing character while we had her, but her death was unsatisfactory and only left us with more questions. I am not going to trash Isayama for it, but I will leave this critique here so I can unload all my thoughts for others to read if they wish, or possibly share their own thoughts. We are coming close to the end of the manga, so now would be a great time to reflect on what we read and enjoy what's left of it.
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