#jigen: I hate children

[coolerhope]

I'm watching that Jigen Daisuke movie and holy shit

[lira456]

Sasuke's revolution is 100 percent effective and has foresight only demerits is you have to kill few super powered shinobis like 5 kage and naruto well warcriminals, maniac killers, ignorants, hypocrites like them deserved painful death who belived in their own village interest without giving damn innocent lives and crimes like massacre morelike genocide,child soldiers,invasion etc, anbu culture etc.

Thing is Sasuke's revolution had its merits, we know through many revolution and lessons of violent wars and loss and human greed today we achieve constitutional republic where also prioritizes lives and rights of minorities like uchiha clan civilains(not rebellious faction who planned the coup but innocent children like izumi uchiha and yashiro's 7 years old son who did not agree and know about the coup) or vulnerable and naive child like rin and ryogi and boruto who would indoctrinate to the system without knowing truth of shinobi past, even think of its honorable to die for the village, sad ending,conclusion and execution and future. That's why support sasuke's revolution, his first task to create deterrent and make 5 villages hate him and some might fight against him and defeat them only killing the strongest shinobi would be enough to slowly shinobi losing their desire to fight against him and but they will stick together for assistance and in case of shortage of power if sasuke attacked suddenly with that sentimental fear, then slowly sasuke would go for social,law related change then political then with progress go for the economical change and they go for the continental and international change thus totally destroy the shinobi system and past, only new way chakra usage with strict laws and regulation for every sides with equal footing so that no one used it for wrong purpose or be questioned immediately, sasuke needs only 60-100 years to destroy this system and create another one to make people used to the new system without no existence of shinoi army,ranks,missions or structure or kage dictatorship, for that long he needs to acquire immortality and reincarnation with powerful able bodied chakra power like demi god of shinobi only problem jigen and momo even he can destroy kara organization completely.

Now you people know why sasuke said i am all alone and can bear the darkness of five villages because in past sharingan named power was connected with uchiha clan which caused genocide because of obito's wrong doing because he was an uchiha and uchiha were falsely accused because of sharingan power even people with no sharingan, if sasuke became all alone meaning no connection with five shinobi villages or other villages in public(he might have recruited orchimaru and taka and small numbers of white clones though) punish corrupt kages like kurotsuchi then no one will harm konoha, becuase he is also enemy of konoha with no secrecy becasue of his killing 5 kage deterrent from the past and all alone with no ties with any of the shinobi villages(might create his own organization like one that akatsuki and kara) and also his plan has nothing similar like danzo he would not wipe out entire country,clan and village because of his objective even don't use children others for his biddings only magical creatures like bijjus who should have eliminated by hagoromo because their power caused destruction they better off dead completely if hagoromo did think good of the mankind, wher danzo would sacrifice total or other or stick with them like parasite for his dream and village, sasuke would only take agency by his own hand without killing or sacrificing innocents, only judge,punish and execute the wicked ones like danzo,five kage and kurotsuchi who would be main perpetrators of violence,conspiracy,discrimination,inequality,power imbalance,greed, personal ambition and dream like hashirama's,selfish desire,resources and benefit seeking in unfair ways,wars,invasion,paranoia,systematic discrimination, corrupts dictators among kage and daimyos, corrupt shinobi etc. which danzo would never do he would just destroy other people community based on person and aspect and assumption and for his greed, which sasuke would never, he would take agency for the revolution he wanted to execute like batman a global threat with no ties to any shinobi villages, more like in itachi's way without causing genocide or mass killing that's why he would work from the shadow

[catchyhuh]

KIDS!!

no not like what they were like AS kids. that's cute though i might do that later but anyway this is just how they are around children. you bring up canon i shoot you dead. now let’s get goin

lupin:

lupin LOVES kids. does that mean he’s good with them/should be trusted to watch them and keep them from accidentally dying? no

he’s expected to have them because. gestures. but he’s not really in a rush. he’s just kind of waiting for fate to do something. (he’s hoping fate will have something to do with fujiko giving his kid pretty incredible genes but the reality is he’d probably stumble across some embittered oliver twist adjacent kid and take them in)

the REALest reality is he’s just every child he runs into’s favorite uncle. he’s a horrible influence and you know kids LOVE that. holds them by their ankles, throws them like five feet into a pool, they LOVE it, and it horrifies every reasonable adult nearby. except his friends. they’ve grown immune to the terrifying sights that come with this guy.

jigen:

(pushing aside the new jigen thing just in case it makes this post age poorly) have you ever met someone who hates kids but children just love them

jigen hates it but he lowkey has some fatherly instincts within. lowkey. it’s faint though don’t expect him to offer to watch your kid for you but like any mildly decent human being he’s not going to let a child run into an electrical fence. usually though those same people don’t just start giving said kid a piggyback ride to guide them back to a more responsible party though but don’t ever bring it up to him

really i think it just comes from a soft spot for mildly vulnerable people. not an obligation he feels exactly just like. this child is miserable. if i made a stupid face, will the child continue to be miserable? granted, if the stupid face does not cheer up the kid, he’s not beating himself up about it either. i said kids LIKED him not that he was GOOD with them

fujiko:

very impartial. again, has the basic human decency to see a child clearly about to hurt themselves within arms reach and moves to stop them, but it’s like. does she care about that child’s hobbies, their favorite color, their latest minecraft build? uh No not really no

not above smiling and cooing over how cute babies are, but again, doesn’t mean SHE FUCKIN WANTS ONE LMAOOOOO it’s just that she has. eyes. if she thinks your baby is ugly on the other hand she won’t exactly TELL you so but her grin is noticeably forced and shes like. “what. an angel. wow. she’s really gonna break hearts someday i’m sure. wow.”

fujiko (pushing aside that fuckass movie) fujiko does not want kids. if she has a kid it’s someone else’s responsibility hands down. it’s not even that she’s afraid of the commitment OF a child (although that admittedly isn’t a thing she’s a fan of) she just knows for a fact that some people on this earth are not meant to be parents and by GOD is she NOT meant to be a parent. honestly it’s a self-awareness she wishes more people had.

goemon:

i have to be. completely candid here i’ve never really thought about this. but now that i am it’s very clear to me that goemon is the type of person who talks to a 5yo the same way you’d talk to a fully grown man and that’s hilarious

kids are always very interested by him in the like. “why are you so dressed up” “why do you talk like that” “is that a real sword” sense which tends to overwhelm him for a brief blip, but leave him with them for a half hour and come back and he’ll be showing them INSANE hide and seek techniques 

he simultaneously doesn’t understand children at all but is also capable of having fun with them. a big chunk of it depends on his current mood, but if they’re like, nice, pleasant kids, 9 times out of 10 he’ll do like. one cool thing for them just to see them go OWAOAAWW!! he can get a little silly with it. if the situation needs be.

zenigata:

do you guys hear that? that like. wooing trumpet noise. with a little bit of stomping in there? sounds like there’s an elephant in the room or something. anyways

kids either love or hate him immediately. like goemon it tends to revolve around his mood and the mood of the kid in question, because sometimes he goes from sulking about losing (again) to “Oh My God is that your baby? TWO weeks old? just two weeks old? that tiny?” in a heartbeat. conversely children also tend to find him very bullyable. either way they flock to this guy

if you had a six year old and you needed one of these five to watch it for like, three hours, zenigata is your safest bet, but that’s. NOT SAYING MUCH he’s just the only one who’s moderately prepared for like. kid fell down and started crying type things. kid doesn’t WANT to eat spaghetti for lunch but that’s what they have to eat. that type of deal. he puts on this calm but slightly stern tone and the kid's like . okay fine i'll eat it. it's very jarring for anyone who's seen the way he is normally omg that trumpeting is back what the hell is that noi

POINT IS he’s good with kids. not perfect (children imitate the behavior they see you know) but good enough. it’s backed up in canon! in fact it’s so backed up you might even say he might as well have a kid even,

I'M SORRY FOR THE JOKES I JUST CAN'T HELP IT

[peaterookie]

I FORGOT ABOUT THE POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON AU NOOO OMG OK.I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THESE

IMPULSIVE MASTERPOST TIME!! ABOUT ALL MY AUS

Merman Lupin 🐟

obviously we've talked much about merman lupin, my favorite child. if you havent caught up on them please check out these two!! posts!!

Swap AU 🔄

its like underswap but with lupin that's crazy. here's a minipost about it. i might rework some shit but here's a basic rundown of who's swapping roles with who

Lupin 🔄 Goe

Jigen 🔄 Fujiko

Zenigata 🔄 Melon ig??

there's genuinely not a sixth recurring character to use sorry..

Demon Angel AU 😇😈

these emojis are funny

this one is just kinda. there. im not interested in making it a thing i just kinda like making cool designs. funnily enough, the demon lupin is my pfp all this time, that's kinda how it started. then i naturally got goemon tied up in this as per usual and made him an angle

here's their designs i literally changed nothing for lupin ong

goemon imo is fire though. the rundown of this story is that goemon is tasked to fucking kill lupin!!! but he keeps failing because hes stupid and lupins just like haha ur funny woww then silly things ensue. jigens also there and hes also a demon but he can turn into like a hellhound. yeah i just made this up on the fly haha

ok so the other lupin fallen angel au is genuinely shitty so let's not even talk about it lets skip to the omori one!!!

OMORI AU 🪻🌌

I DONT. KNOW WHY I MADE THIS.HELP BUT NGL ITS PRETTY COOL

SPOILERS FOR OMORI GAME IF YOU WOULD LIKE NO SPOILERS PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE NEXT AU OK HERE WE GO

ok!! so i remember i made a drawing for this but it really wasnt the concept i was truly going for yknow?

the idea is this:

omori/sunny - jigen 🌷

kel - lupin 🌵

hero - zenigata 🌹

aubrey - melon 🪻

basil - goemon 🌻

mari - fujiko 🪷 (ik this isnt the flower but its the closest to lily ok)

so yeah this story jigen is the one that kills fujiko (my friend and i made a joke that jigen did it on purpose cuz yknow. we love to joke that jigen hates fujiko) it kinda works like typical omor so you can just imagine the rest. yeah i wasnt that creative with this .

you can even imagine it as a super unserious story and goemons the only sane human that's traumatized by all of this. the poor guy he cant catch a break in any universe HELP if anyone wants to steal this idea? go wild baby

SPOILER ENDS

Cookie Run AU 🍪

this shall be saved for a future post. just know that i am COOKING (haha get it? post here

Undertale AU ❤️

woooaoaaooa sorry

this was a joke au tbh did you really think i assigned everyone a charac-yes

yes i did. sorry worm

SPOILERS FOR UNDE- no i don't care. its undertale

frisk - jigen im sorry for giving you the blank slate i genuinely didnt know where to put you

flowey/asriel - lupin jr. (i wanted to give him some feeling of relevance

toriel - fujiko for obvious reasons

asgore - lupin yeah he murders children. typical day man

sans - melon cop giving you a bad time

papyrus - zenigata

undyne - goemon. goemoncore

alphys - kyosuke mamo ong

mettaton - pycal. yeah.

chara - that girl lupin jr was with i forgot her name....

uh i guess gaster can be gnome mamo thatd be funny

PMD Sky AU ☁️ ⚙️

i genuinely almost forgot about this

i remember fixating a bit on the pmd universe during december 2022 and so i made this drawing to accompany lupin month (which i failed miserably at

let me summarize the plot for this decade old game

*inhales*

you wake up in the pokemon world and realize you have turned into a pokemon! meaning you were human before!? ur pokemon partner finds you on the beach, traumadumps on you, then you get assaulted, and your partner forces you to join a guild with them because they have social anxiety. then time travel gets involved and this grovyle dude starts stealing time gears and people think hes trying to stop time!! but no!! he's trying to prevent it!! and then this dusknoir guy who you thought was a good guy stops being good and is working under dialga who wants to stop time !! and then you, your partner, and grovyle gets sent to the future and everything's shit so you find shiny celebi to go back to the present and stop the world from paralyzing!!!! also you find out that when you were a human you were friends with grovyle and when you and grovyle went back to the present you lost ur memory and turned into a pokemon (cuz time stuff)

*exhales* whew.

ok yeah, so to put this in a lupin context, lupin(zorua) and jigen(murkrow) are the protag and partner, who joined the guild purely cuz jigen had nothing going on in his life and lupin convinces him that the cool rock he found could lead to cool stuff if they join the wigglytuff guild and stuff

(uhm i havent really figured out who would be wigglytuff sooo yeah hes there as a placeholder)

when the Shit Goes Down, they meet fujiko(vulpix) who is the grovyle of this au and they think she's the bad one due to zenigata's (who stays as dusknoir) manipulation.

and goemon is the shiny celebi, if you dont know celebi has a crush on grovyle and grovyle's also shipped a lot with dusknoir so its kinda like a cute goemon x fujiko x zeni couple hehe

if we wanna go in depth with my pkmon choices, i picked zorua for lupin because it is a pokemon capable of disguising as anything. jigen is a murkrow because of the hat and their tendency to follow. fujiko is a vulpix because it feels right for her to be a red fox. also ninetales just didn't feel right. goemon and zeni kept the og pokemon because i felt that it fits. also celebi's the only other pokemon aside from dialga that can time travel, so there wasn't much of an option to begin with.

...that was a lot! but i just remember another au. the LAST au hopefully trust

Kirby AU ⭐

woaw!!

there's no extra info or kirby lore needed to understand this au. they still steal shit, they're just kirby characters now!

in the drawing i have right here, lupin is a waddle dee because of their monkey-like appearance. but I've changed him to a key dee after that drawing because they unlock doors and are much more monkey-like than original waddle dees.

jigen is a waddle doo. there's no deep reason for this, he just really fits as a doo.

goemon is the same species as meta knight. they're both swordsmen so i decided to go with that. i tried keeping the knights notif for his design but with a more japanese feel, still partially hiding his face, and giving him gloves and shoes. i imagine before he became friends with lupin his body would look much more similar to the knight characters.

oh my god ok im gojng to sleep now

to date me you have to defeat my 7 evil lupin aus

[dukeswonderousmenagerie]

. . .ya know I was just thinking about this thing and I had a idea

Idea: Jigen becomes impromptu baby sitter during the massive Christmas parties Isei holds every Christmas, where he practically invites the entire damn town.

The toddlers/smaller younger children like the tall skinny man with the soft hair and funny hat and as a result he usually ends up with at least one or two of one of the party participants kids attached to his hip the whole night.

He acts like he hates it, but sometimes Lupin will catch him playing with them from time to time, crouched down to play with the little toys they bring him and as the night winds down and it’s time for the participants to start heading home, no one has the heart to take the kids away from him cause they all fell asleep together on some random piece of furniture and their using Jigen as a bed and pillow and Jigens just laying there wearing a Christmas sweater and his hat on crooked

Lupin has a picture of it, he’s definitely gonna use it for blackmail

[kawakii]

Kawaki: I fucking hate Jigen

Boruto: Watch your language, there are children in the house

Kawaki: My bad

Kawaki: I fucking hate-

Kawaki: *covers Himawari's ears*

Kawaki: -Jigen

[savegalkissy]

Fujiko does those fake campaigns that are designed to make you feel like a bad person if you don’t donate (like some of those animal shelter or children’s hospital commercials but if they were scams)

Harder to think of what Nega goemon might do, his shtick is more assassination than disguise/thievery, maybe social “assassination” by pinning the gangs crimes on ppl in the database?

Jigen is one of those psychiatrists that is quiet and nods and seems like their listening but they’re doodling in the margins of their little clipboard until you leave so he can get his free fat stack of money without having to do anything but not (blatantly) fall asleep

Lupin is your typical overconfident doctor, thinks he knows everything (hates when you look up your own symptoms) he does the scamming rich ppl for exclusive Health Pills and things (and also anybody he doesn’t like) but he does try to give a shit with the genuinely poorer patients. Oh and he steals organs. (Marks ppl down as organ donors when they’re not and sells some of the extra on black market)

This is such a messed up au I love it. House MD but everyone is worse somehow. Bad people are just hurting each other and occasionally helping someone who deserves it. The Character drama.

Also Goemon’s soundtrack would be ussewa then you can’t change my mind

[mothnem]

Jedi Jigen AU

Jigen was a Jedi Padawan, about 12 years old, when Order 66 hit. He was thrown out a window by his Master, a Jedi Shadow (they are more like Jedi Special Operations, in a strike on a Slavery Ring, they would be the ones to get the information for that to happen). Well Jigen, through a series of Rube Goldberg like events, ends up on Earth, a Planet beyond the Outer Rim in Wild Space. Jigen has a sneaky trick. And a lot of Trauma. He knows how to erase Memories. So he erases his own. From there it pretty much goes as canon.... until Lupin finds a Shiny Thing that is said to Reveal the Lost Memories of Star Children. Well they end up seeing Jigen's erased memories and the fact that he erased them. Jigen tries to erase his memories AGAIN. But fails since he hasn't used the Force in so long.... that leads to "Lupin's Training For Jigen So He Can Use The Force Again!" Step one is tying Jigen to a chair and throwing those plastic balls you can find at ball pits at him until he stops one using the Force. Step two is continuing that until Jigen can do it every time and with multiple balls. Lupin is working on the Step Three part. Lupin even has a reward system set up. For every ball Jigen stops, Lupin gives him a candy.

Goemon has decided to make Jigen return to the swordsman he once was. Even if Jigen hadn't been the best one.

So this happens.

Goemon: This is the closest thing I can find to your lightsaber.

Jigen: Thanks but No.... AH! (Barely blocks Goemon's strike.)

Goemon: YOU WILL REMEMBER THE WAYS OF YOUR BLADE!

Lupin: And you can practice deflecting! (Starts tossing the balls at Jigen while he is fighting Goemon)

The Team also teases Jigen.

Fujiko: Okay! And for Team Bonding Jeopardy... Goemon! Erasing Your Own Memories.

Goemon: What is not a healthy coping mechanism!

Jigen:.... I hate you all.

Lupin: Nuhuh! Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to the Darkside, and the Darkside leads to Suffering!

Jigen: Then I must have already fallen become I'm suffering right now.

They even make Zenigata help them.

Lupin: Hey Pops? Since you aren't going to let us go, can you please have Yata help you and toss those plastic balls in the trunk of the fiat at Jigen? He needs to train.

Goemon: He does.

Yata: We are not going to free him just so...

Lupin: No! He has to be restrained so he can't use his hands or feet to stop the balls!

Zenigata: Then How is he....?

Lupin: You will see!

Pops is most surprised to find out Jigen can now move things with his mind.

And of course, that moment when Jigen watches the Fiat with his friends go over the edge of a cliff and he just.... catches them. Slowly, as if he is scared that moving too fast would make Gravity remember they are there, he lifts the car back up and gently places it on the ground, and then collapses because of the strain and stress and worry. It is both terrifying for all watching, and amazing and awe inspiring. Like a hurricane or tornado.

Now you might be wondering, why wouldn't Jigen just use the Dark Side? Easily. He remembers. Remembers who stormed the Temple at the head of an army they once trusted. How there were those that had considered themselves friends of Anakin Skywalker. How Skywalker had Darkness pouring off of him as he destroyed people that thought him family. Jigen doesn't want to risk turning on the people he cares about like that.

Fujiko is actually the one that helps him rebuild his lightsaber. She finds a Kyber Crystal in a Space Rock Exhibit. Although she can't feel it in the Force like Jigen can, it looked a lot like the ones she saw in Jigen's memory. So she steals it to give to him.

And that is the Jedi Jigen AU!

@doctorbluesmanreturns

[morporkian-cryptid]

Lupin III Childhood AU part 4:

1) The shadowy figure enters into the light with aimed gun, huddled in a trench coat and a fedora. Jigen once again fires it but this guy straight up lunges at three teenagers, who are too shocked to react and Jigen gets taken down.

2) Sansei responds by yelling and lunging himself at the Jigen/shadow trenchcoated pile and fighting tooth and fist in dust bunny cloud. Fujiko retrieves her gun and yells at them to stop or she shoots regardless whom she hits (she is joking... I swear...).

3) They separate, but Jigen and Sansei's brawling makes the figure's hat fall off, revealing a man in his late 20s. He introduces himself as Zenigata Koichi, an intern for the ICPO and currently interning for the Crimes Against Children Department. His mentor and him have been investigating the man whose organization ''housed and provided for'' over 200 minors, among whom was Fujiko, which actually served as a crime organization, partnered up with Lupin II Syndicate.

4) Zenigata followed Fujiko for months, trying to get her as a witness and help her, but on the way got thwarted by a little hooligan Sansei (who wrongly concluded Zenigata was her old caretaker). He's been looking for him for months for that. But now that he found them, he could get them all to safety of law under child protection services of ICPO, where they could serve as witnesses on all crimes of their guardians/father. Zenigata finishes this monologue with stars in his eyes, positively glowing.

5) The trio merely exchange a Look(TM) and laugh, tension finally leaving them and folding over their stomachs and knees. Zenigata is confused but takes this as a sign of teens' relief, and decides to join in. Sansei opens his arms, inviting everyone into a group hug, which young police intern accepts very enthusiastically, but the minute Sansei and Jigen's hands wrap around him, Zenigata notices too late the sudden disappearance of his coat belt, gun, keys to the handcuffs and his wallet. Handcuffs were now wrapped around his wrists and arms, a tape pulled over his mouth and belt tied him to the pillar.

6) Ignoring his muffled protests and curses, Fujiko parted from the boys on a mini hydroplane that Sansei prepped for her, leaving for the location of Sansei's secret contact. While watching her leave, Jigen asks, once again, why wasn't he included in this. "I was protecting you! Because dad can't kill me, but... He made me know the same doesn't apply to you. I love y... risking it! But your life is not a gamble. Not for me, not ever.", Sansei earnestly says, and Jigen doesn't miss that little slip. He saves it for later as a topic of discussion which, after all those close calls that night, will happen, because YOLO.

7) "Don't we have a boat to blow up?", he reminds Sansei. "You mean, you won't tell my dad?! You?", Sansei asks surprised. Jigen turns away and pulls his hat down over his face. This will be the first time he disobeyed Nisei and planned to keep a secret of this caliber form his boss, and will eat him form the inside but... "If you're the one protecting me, who's the one protecting you?", Jigen simply replies. This DOES earn him a sincere hug and he actually returns it. They stay like that for a while (minus the struggling Zeni in the corner).

8) "Btw, where did you send Fujiko?", Jigen asks, on their way back. " Remember that place in Japan dad loves to send me over the summer for training?". "That samurai temple? Doesn't that guy hate you and your dad?". "Oh yeah, he does. BUT, his son owes me big time. He waits for her as we speak."

"Come to think of it... June's just around the corner, and we might just all be reunited sooner then you'd hope. Ohhh I'm telling you, Jigen, this is the beginning of something big."

Thank you for your attention, please feel free to add more of your own HCs for this AU!

Ooooh my GOOOOOOOODS

Sadly I am stuck in a packed train right now and I can't stim, which is unfortunate because this is giving me all kinds of emotions.

DID LUPIN ALMOST SAY I LOVE YOU????

DID HE FUCKIN SAY HE HAD TO PROTECT JIGEN? THAT HE CAN'T GAMBLE WITH HIS LIFE??? Oh Lord I love them SO MUCH

"If you're protecting me, then who's protecting you?"

"Your life is not a gamble. Not for me, not ever."

"You mean, you won't tell my dad??"

(Did he say Nisei would kill Jigen if he ever disobeyed??? I will fucking throttle that man)

Also I almost yelled when you said "trenchcoat and fedora" (unfortunately I can't just yell TOTTSAAAAN in the middle of a metro wagon). Poor Zeni genuinely thought he could help them and everything would be solved. I hope the Gang at least help him get Nisei under locks. Additionally to being a shit boss and a shit dad (no one threatens Daisuke Jigen, NO ONE), if he's even partly responsible for what happened to Fujiko, I'm gonna deck him. That asshole is supposed to be a thief, not... this, dammit.

(I keep forgetting they're all teenagers in this and it hurts even more)

Thank you for including Zeni and Goemon ! I'll try to come up with more headcanons, and type them up as soon as I get my hands on my laptop again.

And again. Thank you SO SO MUCH for taking the time to come up with this whole story, and sending it to me. You are absolutely amazing !!

[mcmcntomorii-later]

  — i have added more to mukuro’s princess AU!! ovo i’ll post it under the cut here so y’all don’t have to go to it if ya don’t want but still wanna read it

Setting: Japan or Europe

Age: 18+

Occupation: Princess

For Japan Location Based:

With her parents trying and failing to produce a male heir after having Mukuro, and since her father wasn’t one to behead her mother for not producing a male heir or take on consorts they began trying to find matches for Mukuro in order to have her produce a male heir.

Hating the fact that she was being forced into marriage by her parents - who’d throw balls for the sole reason to find a prince for Mukuro. She’d go along with it, turning down all of the potential matches under the guise of them not meeting to what she considered to be the perfect standards that would continue the bloodline.

Mukuro’s very much a rebel in regards to royalty, often not following the social norms as a typical Princess should. She attends her lessons but also seeks out sword fighting lesson from any of the guards that are brave enough to allow her to learn.

For European Location Based:

The man she address as 'father' very clearly isn't. The Duke had a strong attraction to Eastern Women and so during an invasion, while the invasion as a whole was unsuccessful, he did managed to capture a woman to be one of his concubines. Unbeknownst to him, and Mukuro's mother, the woman was already pregnant before meeting him. Thankfully, the time in which he capture this woman and the birth of Mukuro fell in line that it was fairly easy to pass her off as the noble's child. Much to the dismay of the noble's wife.

Since the current queen has been unable to produce not only an heir, but any sort of child, Mukuro was quickly adapted into the family. Since having a child with a concubine is considered legitimate while as children with a mistress was not. At first, Mukuro was very well-behaved and outstandingly polite. While being taught English by tutors her "parents" arranged, her mother would teach her Japanese in secret, up until the point where her mother passed away 'mysteriously'.

The Duchess loathed Mukuro, going so far as to pour boiling water on her back when she was a young child, in order to punish her for being born.

As Mukuro grew older, the more rebellious she became. Especially as she was becoming more and more hated by the Duchess, who'd make her studies strict and just be overall extremely short-tempered with Mukuro. Especially with how easy Mukuro was passing her studies.

In addition to her regular studies, Mukuro also took up learning swordsmanship from any of the knights that would be comfortable enough to teach her.

While strongly disliking the concept of arranged/forced marriage/match making balls/ etc. ( mainly due to almost all the men she's been 'set up' with are all to hoity-toity for her tastes), Mukuro will act civil about it to her "parent's" faces all the while just trying her best to sabotage or make herself scarce so that these matchmaking meetings aren't successful. Facts for Both:

Her horse is a Black Friesian stallion named Affectionate Gambler ( Gambler or Gamble for short ), he stands at a little over 17 hands ( 68 inches / 173cm ). Very expressive and very playful/affectionate/gentle with Mukuro ( and a very very select few ). Can and will be an absolute bastard to everyone else.

He has a mix between a quiet and an interest temperament

Mukuro has basically grown up with this horse, being a young child when he was born and just bonded with him over time.

Mukuro has no issue riding side-saddle.

For Longsword, Mukuro takes the Posta di finestra stance ( window guard stance )

For Katana she typically takes a Jigen-ryū stance or a Tamiya-ryū stance.

If she's not practicing her swordfighting, she's out riding.

European Dress Style : Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4

Her Claymore she uses in combat

She doesn't really sleep well/at all during the night. So she tends to spend her time during the night either reading or walking in the gardens

[chadsempaikun]

Jigen actually likes kids.

We all know he’s the type of person to pretend to be grumpy and most definitely hate children, because he considers them an annoyance, yet we’ve seen him be one of the most patient characters when It comes to dealing with kids/very young characters that are in distressed. 

For example in “Goodbye Partner (2019)” Jigen was one of the only characters to defend the kidnapped girl. Stand in front of her to protector from the antagonist and even attempt to comfort her (I know there’s other reasons why he comforted her but that’s not my point in this post). 

There’s also that one episode in part 2 where Lupin and the gang (Mainly Lupin and Jigen) have to deal with a little girl who demands to get “her stamp” back (Which Lupin actually stole himself from the Museum). During the whole episode he showed annoyance towards the child and suggested many ways to get rid of her, but nether him or Lupin followed such suggestions, whether that was because she outsmarted them or because they thought it was to mean to do to a child, Plus let’s not even mention the fact that  they took her to eat breakfast at a dinner and got her sweets during the time they were stuck with her. Plus if i’m not wrong they both panicked when she started crying. And lets not even say that nether of them ever touches, push, hit or screamed at the child even when she showed to be a little brat. 

And don’t even get me started at the way Jigen and the gang acted around connan.

In other words, I say Jigen’s the type of person to grab the child and run in any case of emergency and would then pretend to be annoyed as hell for the next few hours, but in actuality is concerned for the safety of the kid. I mean, why would there be a kid around a group of professional thief and assassins in the first place??? where are this child's parents?! He would like to have a chat with them please. 

[ashenpages]

Current Fic Ideas & Emoji Voting Key

Quick disclaimer that I’m a romance writer in all aspects of the term, so most of my fics will contain mature content. Engage at your own risk, you know the rules, you’re responsible for curating your own experience of the internet, blah blah blah. This post serves as a current mock up of fic ideas I’m either actively working on or considering working on next. You can drop me an ask about any of them, or just vote via the emoji combo I’ve assigned them.

Voting lets me know you’re excited about an idea and makes it more likely I’ll actually work on it. You can vote anytime, there’re no deadlines or winner announcements, just me gauging your interest by what I see in my ask box most often.

You can also ask me about the original stuff I’m working on currently. The current WIPs are Medusa centric and the emoji for them is: 🐍

- Lupin: 🤑🤠💍  These are all oneshot ideas, between 5-15K each. If you want to vote for a specific idea, send me the emojis and the number of the idea. 

Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon always play rock-paper-scissors after a big heist to decide who’ll give the group a striptease, and who will get showered with money. Based on a piece of fanart that is basically this sequence of events in a 4koma (except in their version Jigen loses and in mine, it’s Goemon). (written, just needs editing)

Zenigata cuffs Lupin four times, and Lupin steals his heart. Very NSFW conclusion. Zenigata is the most caring lover you’ll ever find. Lupin is as thirsty as usual and twice as intense. (written, just needs editing)

Jigen protects Lupin from poison darts during a treasure hunt in an Aztec temple, and Lupin nurses him back to help--forcibly, since Jigen is a horrible patient. Born from my desire to spoil Jigen and talk about what ridiculous domestic husbands these two are. (WIP)

Born from the idea that Goemon and Zenigata probably couldn’t be an item, my brain decided to come up with how I could write for them. Goemon’s teaching an ikebana class as part of his training, and Zenigata shows up as a student on forced recreational leave for his health from the ICPO. Zenigata wins the samurai’s heart through flowers. But what happens when Lupin and Jigen find out? (Only good sexy things, I promise. These beans are in a healthy polycule--be gay, do crimes)

Trans!Lupin and Trans!Jigen premise: Jigen cares for Lupin after the master thief has top surgery, since Jigen has Been There and Done That. Caring, sweet, and a little sexy. Lupin is a much better patient than Jigen.

- Sonic Vampire Novelist Coffee Shop AU: 📚☕💐 

Shadow is an immortal vampire who has seen the world change for the worse too many times. These days it feels like he only lives for his coffee dates with Rouge, another immortal who loves each new era they encounter, warts and all. He has to admit that the book series she got him into speaks to him, at least. If someone in this era can understand him without meeting him, it can’t all be bad. But he hardly expected the goofy blue barista at the new coffee place to understand him the way those books do.

This is a novel length romcom romp with some big feelings about what it means to watch as things change, grow, and die. Expect lots of Big gothic feelings from this one, emotionally charged kissing, and overly-adoring sex. But also expect shenanigans from everyone in the coffee shop, which include Rouge, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Cream, and more.

- Sonic Blazamy: 💖🌸💎

Amy Rose has been in love with Sonic for a while.

Or has she?

When the Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, and Silver are trapped as the fuel sources for Doctor Eggman’s newest evil scheme, Amy teams up with Blaze, Rouge, and Cream to save them. With Sonic out of the picture and Amy fulfilling his role, was she ever really in love with him? Or did she just want to be like him?

This is a novel length epic romance with lots of competent women and lots of romantic Blazamy content. Expect flowery hopes and dreams, badass self-actualization, and glancing hand touches that give way to cuddly and sweet sex.

- Persona 5: 🗡🍛☕

After bringing down the Metaverse twice, Ryuji didn’t think graduating high school and figuring out what to do with his life would be so hard. Akira’s back in town, and the gang’s more-or-less all in Tokyo, but everyone else seems to have a plan while Ryuji just floats. How’s he supposed to change the world when he’s not a phantom thief anymore?

This is a novel length fic that addresses how powerless one can feel being just one person in the face of all the corrupted systems and bigotry the world has to offer. It’s about holding on to what you believe in, working through the doubt, and fighting your way to a better tomorrow with the power you do have. The whole gang is queer, featured relationships being Mako x Ann, Ryuji x Akira, Futaba & Yusuke as platonic life partners. Akira is polyamorous and omnisexual, Futaba’s asexual and aromantic while Yusuke is demisexual and very romantic, Makoto’s a lesbian, Ann and Ryuji are bi, and Haru’s pansexual, demisexual, and aromantic. They’re one giant band of queer Phantom Thieves, and even if they’re not really doing the Metaverse thing anymore, they’re still gonna save the world!

Also, I’m gonna make Makoto not a cop. That super didn’t age well. Zenkichi and his boss can work on making them better/abolishing them for other better organizations.

- Hades Game: ❤️‍🔥💀

Oneshot. I just really need to elaborate on the threesome you can have with them in-game, okay? Healthy and canon poly relationships are so few and far between, so often I have to do a ton of groundwork to explain why it’s working in the fic, but NOT WITH THESE KIDS!

Get ready for Meg helping Zag and Than be better at expressing their feelings, lots of kissing, and probably pegging.

- Castlevania Animation Trevor/Sypha/Alucard: 🧛🏰🛌 

Castlevania gave Alucard a threesome last season, and I just really need S4 to give me him being taken care of by his partners. They’re probably not going to give it to me, so I’ll need to do it myself. This is just an everybody loves Alucard oneshot, with the gang’s signature banter (to an extent), Sypha being sexy, and Trever being remarkably sincere. This fic is gonna feel like that Ann Hathaway picture with Trevor kissing Alucard and Sypha holding the end of Trevor’s whip while she leans her head on Alucard’s shoulder adoringly.

- Devil May Cry Nico/Lady/Trish: 💋✨😈 

Nico’s gay, okay? Like really, really gay. And Lady’s bi and not into men who make her pay bills, but very into women who make amazing guns for her and demonesses with hearts who fight by her side. Trish is ace, but loves people and is pretty attached to Lady at this point. Plus it’s cute when Lady blushes and says nice things like they’re insults. I don’t have super solid ideas for them yet, and I envision these more like a polycule where Lady’s with Nico and with Trish but they’re not with each other more than seeing it as a threesome, but who knows what might happen. This is probably 1-2 oneshots depending on ideas, but might turn into a series of oneshots if people are interested (or I can’t control myself and inspiration strikes).

- Post FMA:B Blind Roy & No Alchemy Ed: 👀👑🙏

This is actually an old novel-length fic I wrote ages ago and didn’t post that didn’t turn out well because I was new to writing sex when I first wrote it. The plot is good, and is all about Roy learning to work with his blindness to reclaim his ambition of being Fuhrer and changing the system to something that actually cares for its people. He and Ed reconnect, fall into bed, and both set about working through their respective traumas about being “useless” having lost their sight/alchemy. They go to Xing as an ambassadorial party to offer Amestris’s collaboration on Al and May’s Alkahestry experiments--and uncover a plot that might threaten both kingdoms.

- Age of Calamity continuity Mipha x Revali: 🦚🐟💘

The first time Revali noticed Mipha, it was in the heat of battle. She stole his mark, taking them down with a flurry of quick blows from her spear. Violence rained from her like water--and then she healed him on her way to her next battle. No questions, no conditions, just pure kindness. The usual need to measure himself against those around him was quiet in her wake. And Revali couldn’t understand it. But how to get to know more about her? A fish and bird may fall in love, but where would they live?

This fic could be a oneshot or novel length depending on how far down the hole I fall. I need it to cover time, but it could be done in linked vignettes or with actually covering events in detail. I may elect to do a oneshot just to get it done and out of my system faster. So much fic to write, so little time.

Expect trans!Revali, polyamorous Zoras, scary competent Mipha, songbird Revali, love confessions that are made up entirely of berating Link for not loving Mipha the way she wants him to, and breaking these characters a little outside of their assigned roles in BotW and Age of Calamity. Background Link x Zelda, and Urbosa x Zelda’s Mom.

- Epic desert romance about Urbosa and Zelda’s mom: 🏜🏝⚡

I just think Urbosa should kiss women and Zelda’s mom should get more development and maybe a name or something. Also, lightning imagery/metaphors/play.

It also went way over my head that Riju wasn’t Urbosa’s daughter the first time I played BotW, so now I want to write about the Gerudo queen who refused to produce an heir. The Gerudo are fascinating and have a very interesting cutlure, but I think it could be examined from a nonbinary perspective that rejected pregnancy and wanting to find a husband. Not in like a hateful way, but in a way that examines if that’s really right for everyone. There’s that shop in town that sells Voe armor, after all. Maybe finding a husband and having children isn’t something you have to do if you don’t want to. And Urbosa really doesn’t want to.

[stealinghero]

hi!! what would your take be with a fem! sharpshooter who’s very skilled with guns and becomes rivals with jigen when they join the gang (because big man is jealous. he should be the only one that good at guns!) but then on a heist something goes wrong and the girl willingly takes a bullet for jigen in the shoulder. headcanons or imagine is fine!! :) lupin needs a break from these two children lol

Hmmmm, I think Jigen wouldn’t be jealous because someone else is as good as him or even better. What really eggs him on is that they use it for the wrong things. Yes, he was a sniper for the army (several armies to be honest) but he tried his best to put civilian victims aside and spare the innocent. This girl does anything for money and that pisses him off.

When she joins the gang he openly confronts her with it and if she doesn’t have good reasons, he might  scoff at her and ignore her as good as he can. If she gets cocky, he might demonstrate his long experience as a sniper. It’s not as if he’s not good but he prefers to be a bit more laid back when with the gang. he still can kill if he has to.

When she gets shot instead of him, he’s shouting at her for being stupid. Her only reason is that they are comrades... this throws him back into his old days when he was just a mercenary. Only seeing the money and he suddenly reflects on what made him what/who he is now and he pities the girl for still being so young with so many things she still has to lose in order to grow up mentally.

Then his whole attitude changes. He doesn’t add the acid when talking to her, seeing it more as a friendly banter, bickering with her for hours but never taking her serious again. It drives her wild and she will do a lot of stupid things in order to get Jigen’s respect.

It’s up to Lupin to even the ground between them and he hates it. He’s not a big fan of meddling in those kind of things but when both are in the same room, he gets a migraine even if they are silent. Just the “waves” between those two is too much to take.

He will sit both of them down and demand a talk. And no, they won’t be leaving the room until HE is satisfied, leaving them to finally open up. Mostly Jigen about losing his friends and lovers through his shitty attitude that SHE is displaying right now.

It depends on her how the situation will unfold but after taking a bullet for Jigen, he’s willing to work with her.

[tsukinaartthought]

Jigen and Kawaki's Relationship Analysis Pt.1 (from Kawaki’s side)

Actually, I wouldn't say that he hates Jigen from whole heartedly. If you hate somebody you don't want to be a same like he. Forexample in style, gesture etc.

But Kawaki?! Take a look at him.

 He have earrings, and piercing next to his eyebrows, tattoo under his left eye, the vest what he wearing with Jigen’s sign, his gestures and body language. It is all same like on Jigen.

If he hate Jigen so much, he would have all left them as he escaped from Kara.

I think, it is possible that he isn't hate Jigen. Maybe his escape is just a trap for Konoha, to they find out who else has Karma. 

Why doesn't anyone know about it? A parent always trusts his own child more than another people if the child is clever.

Perhaps this is the reason why he didn't leave those things what I wrote before, and that would really explain why his style and his body language  are so similar to Jigen.

And I think if somebody doesn't want an earrings and piercing, you can't make it, because you want that. Okay, maybe yes if you knock out that person, you can make them, but it is too sick, and I can't imagine that Jigen do this with Kawaki....

But I think it is more complicated than what I wrote

Kawaki's hatred of Jigen stems only from being a teenager when he get the Karma. The teenagers are often do not understand parents who want to do their best. Kawaki isn't understand Jigen's actions in the past neither in the action of the present. (For example what I wrote before in Jigen’s side pt.1, when they are training) Kawaki isn't learned yet that how to watch his own things with  an outsiders eye.

The lack of mother plays a big role in this. A mother is always different than a father. Fathers always hold the boys hard, (see U. Sasuke and his father), , they aren't able to show emotion to their own children in one single situation , even if they have a daughter.

Usually the fater want a powerful boy, who can keep safe the family and everything what he built up in his years, they are never cry, they must be strong in anyway. Simply put, they want to raise a perfect man, like they. This is something Kawaki needs to understand and learn, and if he gets to this point, he will voluntarily go back to Kara.

Do you remember that part when they are training?

He said that to him, ‘If you understand that, then get up already.’ He stood up, because we know he isn't laying on the training room's floor, he is in Konoha now. 

And what is important, in that time he isn't have an earrings, and piercings, and under his left eye a tattoo ... 

That’s why I think he is likes Jigen, as a father, it is sooooo complicated...  But I will countinue with the newest chapter. I will continue it with the manga's newest chapters in the part 2. I hope you liked... :)

[gaarfielf]

k im gonna throw in my hot take on part 5 now i think the time has come where i’ve watched enough of the damn series i can make a coherent essay on whats what on what (putting it under a read more bc this shit is gonna be long and i dont want my followers to suffer too much)

I’ll do this character by character starting with the new ones

Ami: I’m having a hard time deciphering whether she’s being underutilized or over utilized because number 1) her character isn’t interesting enough to have her keep coming around, especially when her only connection to the group is Lupin. She hasn’t had any interaction with Goemon or Jigen that i know of and she hates Fujiko for ??? reasons. That being said, I would’ve preferred if she was fleshed out more because 2) literally having her be the distant girl that is quiet and doesn’t understand social norms is..... really boring. It’s almost as boring as having a female character whose only there as a set of boobs... (coughs). She isn’t interesting because they didn’t make her interesting, yeah? It’s hard to hate a character based on the fact alone they were clearly written by a man but I mean it very literally when I say she could’ve been something great. Having her confess her love to Lupin was straight up disgusting and I really expected more from tms in that vein. Putting romance where romance doesn’t need to be is bad enough let alone when you jack knife it in between a child and an adult. And for those of you saying ‘Oh hhhh she’s like nineteen’....look into your heart. Even if she is 1) she sure as hell doesn’t look it and 2) Lupin is like 40-50. In the wise words of me, children loving adults was a myth made up by pedophiles in support of the devil. Npot to mention pitting her against Fujiko because they both like Lupin?? I ain’t even gotta explain why that’s a pathetic excuse at writing. But I will. Fujiko is a grown ass woman so why the fuck would she care and Ami is a child who shouldn’t be in love with him anyway. She has truly been nothing in the series except a tool and even at that not a likable one.

Yata: Do I even have to say that I can’t write anything about a man who hasn’t had more than 4 minutes of screen time in the last 24 episodes? He was hyped up before the series started and he’s done nothing but be Zenigata’s personality in the place of Zenigata y’know. Actually speaking and having one for himself BUT WE’LL GET TO THAT LATER. He’s done nothing but yell and cry over literally nothing? Like he fights Zeni’s fights because for some reason Zenigata got super lazy this season (again, we’ll get into that later) and he’s just a pointless character.

Albert: Gay rep for life haha just kidding he was bad at that too. I think they literally introduced him as faux-gay rep because they know the fans wanted more sensitive interactions from their already existing male cast members and they were like ‘well that’s gay so we’ll give them this guy’. And speaking on behalf of myself - ‘I don’t want these’. So Albert shows up, supposedly having a HUGE connection to Lupin’s past and then............we never see him again. And they literally tell us nothing about him except he’s gay and works in the government. Apparently when we say ‘we want gay rep’ they hear ‘very minor gay character??’ and didn’t hear us say ‘no’ back. And every time I hear anyone say 1) ‘well, his connection to Lupin is supposed to be a mystery!’ I can feel hives growing on my skin because i’m allergic to bullshit like if they weren’t gonna tell us the connection, and whatever the connection is didn’t reveal anything new about the character outside of ‘Lupin knew somebody that wasn’t Jigen when he was younger’ then why?? mention it?? why make an entire arc dedicated to not telling us something if the end result was ‘it doesn’t matter who he is’? 2) ‘well they’re obviously cousins’ except they obviously aren’t. if they obviously were, they’d say that they were cousins. like if y’all are digging up bits of the manga from 40 years ago to say ‘there was a character who had the same last name’ but are also out here saying ‘Jigen doesnt have a sister bc they said that over 40 yers ago and haven’t mentioned it since’ then I ain’t got nothing to say to y’all, you’re just dodgy and ain’t worth the stress of talking to. 3) ‘they’re maybe gay’ well the cool thing about gay rep is that we don’t give honourary mentions out for series that were too cowardly to actually come right out and say it. So in conclusion, Albert was written by cowards who couldn’t decide what to do with him.

Enzo: Boring. That’s literally all I have to say. Trying to give him depth by making Ami his daughter was predictable and not at all interesting. To be honest I completely forgot she was looking for her dad anyway because she didn’t seem to care that much about finding him either (or seem to care about anythign really). He’s a shitty villain and every time he speaks I got my finger on the right-key because I don’t care what he has to say and so far I haven’t missed anything good so yeah. Just disappointing.

I think that’s it??? For new characters?? So I’ll move onto the main cast

Jigen: I 👏 WANT 👏 JIGEN 👏 TO 👏 DO 👏 SOMETHING like good fucking God the man hasn’t done anything this whole series up until 24 where he got  5 minute scene dedicated to him killin’ cops (direct action) but like?? As a character he hasn’t progressed he has BARELY spoken and we’ve learned one new thing about him the whole series in the episode where he meets the daughter of a woman he used to work with. And that one thing that we learned was: he used to work with the mother of this girl. That’s it. Episode 24 he got a little bit of dialog with Lupin that I guess was supposed to be like character development but it was so weird because it was kind of directed at the audience?? So it’s like is he talking to me or to Jigen because if I was Jigen I would not have one goddamn clue what he was talking about. Also, he’s so depressing this season?? Right up until now we’ve seen very little personality from him aside from Angry and Complains a Lot. He smiles sometimes sure but like he doesn’t exactly have a lot to smile about this season considering he’s not really in the limelight anymore and is only brought back to foreshadow how much he hates technology and wants to retire. Personally, Jigen is one of my favourite characters and the fact he hasn’t achieved much this series is a big let-down

Goemon: I can’t even imagine how let down Goemon fans feel because again, up until Episode 23 he did nothing. He had an episode where he fell in love?? With a girl?? Disguised as a woman?? For some reason?? It was in one of the throwbacks and I’ll admit that maybe the episode made sense and I probably missed something but to me I had no clue what was going on. ANYWAY like his big scene in the spotlight is 3 episodes before the end of the series (its not like he’s a main character or anything) and he cuts Lupin. Because he thinks that he isn’t really his friend. That’s it that’s the only reason he almost murders his friend. Just kidding the other reason was that it was a half ass attempt at shock value to make sure the audience was still paying attention. They can’t seem to decide this season whether they want Goemon to be edgy or stupid but I think we’ve gotten a greta big helping of both so thanks tms /sarcasm/. They’ve really just dragged his character through the mud this season because he used to be stoic, mysterious, traditionalist but lowkey clumsy guy and then now he’s. I don’t even know how to describe it he’s just become so cutesy and edgy at the same time so we get him cutting Lupin in half right in front of UwU i eat my fish skin first ! I’m quirky ! like what am I supposed to feel about this grown man? He’s really too back-and-forth for me this season

Fujiko: I’M GONNA GET HEATED ABOUT THIS ONE SO BUCKLE UP I’ve never seen Fujiko written this poorly since TWCFM (yes i’m outting that as a bad series too so don’t @ me about that lil tidbit). She’s there as a piece of eyecandy bUT SHE IS SO POORLY DRAWN IT MAKES ME WONDER IF ANYBODY AT TMS HAS EVER SEEN A WOMAN IN THEIR LIFE TIME. Seriously her proportions are so off and outwardly repulsive looking it makes it hard not to skip anything she says in the series on account of how half-ass her character looks. Not limiting herself to being visually repulsive, she also has a half-ass personality. Suddenly Fujiko isn’t the come-and-go as she pleases, mysterious woman that gives Lupin intel on very high security operations she’s just. There. At some point in the series she said ‘a woman’s body is just a tool to get something she needs’ and I wanted to puke this is NOT Fujiko’s character at all and I’m disgusted that they’re brushing her off as a pair of walking talking boobs. Also her absolute lack of empathy is just mind numbing because they’re somehow trying to convince the audience that Lupin broke her heart due to wedding related reasons that still haunt her but? Seeing him cut almost in half does nothing for her? And then she deadpan ‘This is just how it is’ like this is just putting her in such an evil light that I hate because I love Fujiko! In every other season she’s fighty and sarcastic and witty AND NOT JUST THERE FOR EYE CANDY. And going back to the wedding thing, why is this being made into such a big deal? There’s literal episodes in other seasons called ‘Fujiko Doesn’t Look Right in a Wedding Dress’ ‘Fujiko Doesn’t Want to Be Married’ ‘A Ring Is Like a Trap’ like she 👏 don’t 👏 want 👏 to 👏 be 👏 married 👏. And the preview for the next ep shows her in a wedding dress so I’m ultimately preparing myself for the big season finale being them getting married.

hurray.

Final thought on Fujiko being, the episode where she picks up Lupin to save him from succumbing to his crossbow wound (easily the funniest thing thats happened all season) I mean. Yeah it’s kinda cool. I don’t really have any strong feelings about that like I’m not about to praise them for something like that when it was immediately followed by her and Ami slap fighting over him again.

Lupin: In my days of watching Lupin movies/specials my slogan was ‘if the ratio of screen time in the movie between characters is 10:0 in Lupin’s favour then it ain’t a good movie’ and it’s ringing true to this season where it’s all about Lupin. I understand obviously it’s a series called Lupin III like I’m not stupid but the amount of ass kissing to his character is something else like they’re putting him on this huge pedestal like he’s a do-no-wrong kind of guy to the point where he’s boring because he’s done nothing wrong. Ever. He doesn’t argue with anybody he doesn’t have any strong emotions really (outside of that episode where Zenigata loses his memory we see him outwardly angry for a minute). It just makes him such a dry character when they try to mold him into being absolutely flawless and admirable. Also the amount of faking his own death and ‘oh no is he gonna die’ moments are just not entertaining. Like I said earlier when he got shot with the crossbow that was the hardest I’ve laughed in a long long time. It played like an SNL skit (you know what one). And again we aren’t learning anything new. Whose Albert to him!? We never got to know, What’s his relationship to Fujiko!? We’re probably gonna find out they’re getting married last episode after all the touching moments they had together this season like.... like uh.... when they uh... oh right they’ve barely spoken to each other all season. And when they did they were arguing. Love is in the air huh?

Zenigata: AI’ll try to keep this brief but Yata’s taken over his character this season. He’s barely spoken, he has like, NO energy or determination. After the episode where Lupin faked his death (the first time, not the proceeding 90 times) Zenigata just stopped appearing and stopped doing anything productive. If anything his character became an excuse for an info dump. Like oh we see a war torn area whats going on? Zenigata is conveniently nearby to say ‘these people are at war!’ and then outside character will tell a 18 paragraph history on him of whose at war and their history and then Zenigata says ‘okay’ and doesn’t appear again for the next 2 episodes.

Now for the closing thoughts I guess

i don’t know why they’re looking at Lupin having plot as separate from Lupin being episodic. Like they’ve separated him from adventure so he’s just doing the same things over and over again. Not to mention like I said earlier, the fans wanted to see more sensitive interactions between the already existing characters, and if anything, they’re farther apart and just really confusing and contradictory. It’s hard to get through an episode when every week its another ‘great time for another plot arc they’re never gonna finish’. When I watched episodes of Part 1 and 2 and 4 (not so much 3 because i can’t find anywhere to watch it lol) I’m pretty attentive all the way through because the series drops tidbits of information about the characters and they make the episode enjoyable to watch. This season is so dreary and dry I can’t find anything to enjoy about it because it’s just one disappointment after another. I’m trying to to sound bitchy as I type all this out but I mean I’m speaking as a fan who is just really disappointed. I know I’ve said ‘disappointed’ a lot in this whole thing but there isn’t another word to describe it because that’s really the way that I feel about part 5. Seeing my favourite characters on screen is supposed to make me feel happy and excited to see where they’re gonna go and what they’re gonna do not make me think “I hope they don’t ruin this character for me’ in every. single. episode. This season has been underwhelming, unenjoyable, inconsistent and just really exhausting to me overall.

i gotta go eat now so peace out and if you read to the end of all this then hopefully i’m not the only one in this boat but if you don’t agree with me then i guess thats just how it is yeah?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that the callbacks were cool at first but now I just find they’re baiting me into thinking i’ll enjoy the episode because i’ll find something I liked from one of the better seasons in it. They’re just really overused at this point because these callbacks aren’t being used for anything. like ‘lupin is making his plan at the cagliostro castle!’ like. why. ‘detective melon is also angry at lupin!’ but if she isn’t like teaming up with zenigata or actually doing anything to find him why should i care. 

[reneg661]

Is a former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, who left by faking his death after falling in love with a woman called Julia. He then became a bounty hunter and the partner of Jet Black, the captain of the Bebop. Spike and Jet pursued criminals across the populated planets and moons of the solar system. His ship was the Swordfish II. During his adventures on board the Bebop, Spike is drawn back into a bitter feud with Vicious, a rival from the Syndicate who seeks to kill him. Spike is a slothful, nonchalant, indifferent, and lazy character. He passes the vast majority of his time on the Bebop lounging, watching TV, or sleeping. In a few rare occasions, he is also seen practicing Jeet Kune Do, a martial arts practice he is very skilled in, being among other things passionate of Bruce Lee and his philosophies (for example, he follows Lee's "water" analogy for his style of fighting). He is a hardened smoker, shown with a cigarette in his mouth in practically every shot (the poor conditions in the cigarettes that are depicted recall those of Daisuke Jigen.) Although he rarely acknowledges it, Spike has very little patience. He repeatedly states he hates dogs, children, and women with attitudes, and is anything but happy when each one of the three joins the Bebop, but as the series progressed, he warmed up to Edward, Ein, and Faye, all three of which fall in the category of the three things he particularly hates. He also claims to dislike cats. Spike is rarely seen excited about something and, even less frequently, says he likes something. He usually behaves phlegmatically and walks slouching almost as if he is sleepwalking. He appears to be tormented by the ghosts of his past and has frequent nightmares of his life in the Red Dragon. He considers he already died once and therefore doesn't often show fear at the possibility of being killed, often acting as if to challenge death. One of the recurring themes surrounding Spike's character is how he views himself and his life. Following the implant of an artificial eye, he says his left eye, the real one, sees the past while the synthetic right eye sees the present, making the past indelible in his mind, not allowing him to get rid of or forget about it. Despite that, he usually encourages others to forget the past as "not important." Spike's star sign is Cancer, which fits with his inability to let go of the past. When he is not working, Spike is very laid back, sarcastic, and lively to the dismay of his crew mates. He is typically found either resting on the couch or reading magazines. Spike's philosophy seems to be based on the ancient samurai ideals of immediacy, such as considering oneself as dead and the idea of death as being an awakening from a dream, which are both elements of bushido illustrated in the Hagakure. Although people often talk about cowboys in an almost heroic sense, his image is far from the idea of one and, on the contrary, has characteristics typical of an antihero. He never acts to protect anyone, but only for interest, so he often has to be persuaded to commit himself to a hunt he considers only a little exciting, has a rather sharp and cynical sense of humor, when he pursues a bounty, he throws himself headfirst into action, regardless of damage caused to people and buildings, and doesn't have the slightest moral scruples of having to kill someone. In the movie, he even tells an old woman that he and the Bebop crew don't serve and protect and that their work is strictly business, though Jet doubts that he actually means that. In spite of all this, Spike still has a good heart and, whether he admits it or not, is more caring than he lets on and more than willing to help out others without expecting anything in return, which is rather ironic considering his line of work. A good example of this is in Session 7, when Victoria Terpsichore offered him a wad of cash, and he only took a single note while saying the rest was for her husband. He has also shown compassion for Rocco's blind sister in Session 8, even buying flowers when he went to visit her in hospital and being saddened and sympathetic by the loss of her brother. He treats Ein as kind of emergency food and Ed as a burden, but in reality, despite never showing his companions appreciation, Spike nurtures an obvious affection for each of them and often seems willing to help them. This affection is shown through his constant choice to not interfere as they face their past, even if meaning he has to pass up a bounty. In particular, Spike shares a genuine brotherly affection with Jet, and it is safe to say that they consider each other their best friend. In fact, they are often seen talking together like two old friends. Although they often fight because of the excessive stubbornness of Spike, occasionally resulting in him being banned from Bebop, these arguments are always resolved in short time. Jet is also the only person Spike confides about his past. Spike's most complex relationship in the series is the one he has with Faye. Most of the time they usually bicker, however, in moments of danger Faye has always shown concern for Spike, and Spike has shown some empathy for Faye's situation, but perhaps due to their stubborn natures they can't outright admit to this. Faye has also always taken care of Spike when he was injured, although she still kept a bitter attitude. The affection between them is obvious, and many people have speculated that Faye could be in love with Spike and desires to find a connection with him. Watanabe has addressed the subject saying, "Sometimes I'm asked the question, 'What does Spike think of Faye?' I think that he likes her quite a bit. But he's not a very straightforward person and makes sure not to show it." In Session 26, during their final scene together, Spike ignores Faye's pleas to remain on the Bebop. He walks away from her without looking back. He is never shown thinking of Faye or any other member of the Bebop crew again, but is instead shown thinking about his lost love Julia repeatedly.

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