#just having kazuma thoughts yk how it is

[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

Thinking abt kazuma,,, thinkng abt how he has silver eyes compared to kazumi’s gold,,, as if even kazuma’s character design is telling the world he’s in second place, & that he’ll never live up to his brother’s example </3

[serialadoptersbracket]

Round 2, Match 30: Kazuma Kiryu vs. Yuugo and Lucas

Submitted kids:

Kazuma Kiryu: Haruka, Ayako, Eri, Riona, Izumi, Taichi, Koji, Mitsuo, and Shiro

Yuugo and Lucas: My guy. [They have] like 60. I'm not gonna list them all.

Propaganda under the cut! (Spoilers ahead!)

Kazuma Kiryu:

1. “There's a pretty big section of one of the game that's entirely about taking care of all those kids and it's all really sweet !”

2. “How the fuck did he get 9. There’s like 6-8 games where he’s the main character and he adopts haruka rlly early, but then in one game in the middle of the series, in the beginning like opening scenes he’s like avtually fuck it I’m adopting an ENTIRE orphanage/eight WHOLE children. (not a bit like. He actually did that) he’s the silliest billy badass old man. Grampy Kiryu also, bc haruka has a kid now.”

Yuugo and Lucas:

Yuugo: “I LOVE THIS RAT MAN SO MUCH ok so he starts off not wanting anything to do with these 15 children (ik i said 60 but they come later) who showed up at his doorstep because yk his entire family was killed and he's afraid of loving someone in the same way again. So he tries to push them away but oh boy these kids are clingy and also they found the emergency detonator and threatened him with blowing up his house.

Here's the thing though one character arc, the reuniting with his friend who he thought was long dead, and the rescue of an entire hunting ground full of kids later raising these kids literally becomes his new purpose in life. Along with Lucas (his aforementioned friend who I'm convinced is married to him) he helps teach them everything he knows about surviving in such a hostile world, things he himself had to learn the hard way which cost a lot of his loved ones his life. Before these kids showed up he was hopeless and without purpose. He didn't know why he was still alive and even contemplated ending it all. But all this changed when he adopted these kids.

Lucas: Anyway imagine watching your entire family die in front of you because you got trapped in a human hunting ground run by man eating demons, so you start a rebellion by recruiting kids in the hunting ground and teach them how to use guns among other things. That's what Lucas did!! :D

Anyway it's pretty much confirmed that he's the kids' confirmed dad, there's like 2 scenes where they outright call him their father. But I disgress.

Much of what I said in the Yuugo propaganda applies to him as well, he teaches the kids all he knows about survival which he had to learn the hard way and would protect them with his life. The difference is he's been doing the parent thing for a lot longer, he literally RAISED the Goldy Pond kids.

Both: First off: gay marriage. Second: The way they know exactly what it's like to lose loved ones due to inexperience and how they went "yeah no way in Hell this is gonna happen to these kids we're gonna prepare them for The Horrors" was a 2 person thing you think it's easy to take care of 60 children and homeschool them? Third: This is spoilers btw. They go and do a Die Hard (infiltrate a building that's been completely overtaken by the enemy and take it back from the inside) just so their children wouldn't have to live with the trauma of killing an actual human being.

I wish they were my dads.”

[frogs-in3-hills]

HI SULLY i just need you to know that the "adventures is about gina and resolve is about iris" thoughts are actually life ruining like you are so so right about that oh my God. also your susato thoughts are PEAK always and forever... while resolve is such a perfect game in many ways i have some gripes with gina/kazuma at least and if u ever need to Discuss i would love to hear your thoughts abt susato in that game. hope u are doing well just saw your tags and RAAAA yk!!

i'm so sprry i took so long to respond to this i forgot the context but YEAHHH!!!!!!! obviously each game is about of a Lot of things so i'm being just a little purposefully reductive in the name of feminism, but yes yeesss i think gina and iris really do represent the overall ideas each game tries to present! ESPECIALLY gina... i think as a fandom we really sleep on the way her arc mirrors ryuunosuke's as they both seek to discover/rediscover their drive to move forward after having their trust taken advantage of. even though susato is the one who gets through to gina about letting ryuunosuke defend her (in what is possibly one of my favorite bits of dialogue in anything ever hiii i love you susato), i really think gina and ryuunosuke needed to see each other struggling with this in order to move on from it. everything is converging on this exchange of betrayal that megundal orchestrated between ryuu, gina, and susato (ryuu loses faith in what kazuma taught him, gina loses faith in herself, and susato loses faith in the london courts. or any combination of these). and it's just sooo fucking good how the unspeakable story addresses all these things at once, like ik it's not as well-regarded due to its weaker mystery-writing but the themes and characterization shine so strongly through those issues (the dgs adventures thesis statement actually).

as for iris, i think resolve is about her in the same way bridge to the turnabout is "about" pearl. like, she encapsulates the bright future of a bloodied family, she's the reason any of this matters and the reason kazuma and barok need to heal. she IS hope.... which is incidentally why iris & kazuma is one of my favorite potential duos like please just imagine them being friends it is so important to me.... also as they get to know each other, they would think the other is sooo funny. like. she is adopting him as her pet freak and he is using his sword to cut her sandwiches into cute bunny shapes yknow.

also yeah.. agreed on resolve being basically perfect lol, but susato's writing.... it's hard to complain about, because it's not like she's out of character. like i totally buy everything she does in that game, and i appreciate that the plotline is extremely ambitious and didn't really have time to center a character who already had a complete arc in the first game, but!! there were so many different directions she could have gone.... alas. blossoming attorney is my reconciliatory catnip. like i think that case also dropped the ball wrt her potential (is this a hot take?) but i am NOT immune to my fav receiving genderfluidity and a girlfriend. quite possibly the fourth best yuribait in the series (aurametis adrien/celeste lanamia susahao in that order ofc). i love this fic to blossom by @ magicwhiskers29, it does a great job of folding the themes of resolve into susato's character! i would be SO curious to hear your thoughts about gina and kazuma in resolve too..! <_< i have some thoughts as well but this response is already really rambly so i'll speak of them at a later time afdshgh

[catboyyukineapologist]

Ay yo, Noragami keeps coming out on midterms/finals week check✌️

anyway i got all sappy last time and the post got 2 notes so what’s up fuckers I've been severely depressed for a month but it's the scheduled time to ✨cry about fictional characters✨

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And we thought the boy had snapped before...🙃

Strap in because I have a LOT of thoughts.This was a long one, folks.

THIS CHAPTER WAS BEAUTIFUL ARE YOU KIDDING ME MA’AM PLEASE P L E A S E  YUKINE’S FACE EMERGING FROM THIN AIR, THE FIGHT SCENES, THE CLOSE-UPS, THE BACKGROUNDS OH MY G O D

every month i am reminded of how gorgeous this manga is and how hard the character design goes.

Yato is fine🙃 thanks for asking🙃 totally not using banter to deflect🙃 nothing wrong here🙃 not worried about two dead teenagers' continued existence🙃 everything's fine no one is in danger🙃 your life? your family? don't think about that don't you have a waifu to simp over?🙃

Glad to have proper confirmation that Kazuma's simping for Bishamon is literally stronger than any other conceivable feeling or thought he might have.

No thoughts. Head empty. All Viina.

can trash dad?? hear what rekki says???

I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate him I hate h

THEY'RE GOING TO FUCK UP TRASH DAD'S GRAVE PLEASE THAT SOUNDS LIKE A HORRIBLE IDEA EBI JUST UPGRADED FROM BABY TO SASSY CHILD DON'T KILL HIM AGAIN

But also babysitter Take?? Ebi-Take bonding??? MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED

More like Ebi is babysitting Take tho let's be honest.

And also also fucking up his grave does seem to be the most direct way of getting rid of him. I wonder if Fujisaki (you know. the real one.) would survive that...

Ebi putting all this pressure on himself to do well and single-handedly deal with the sorcerer hurts my heart. I’m glad everyone is helping him, though.

I keep getting a strong nag to call Yukine Haruki in the back of my brain like. That's not him anymore. No matter how strongly he wants to still be Haru. He has three names and I just thought of another essay length thing about names and identity and I may or may not elaborate but this is already long enough. Welcome to my brain.

Anyway my hafuri immunity theory thrives no I don't take criticism.

🎶Yukineee🎶 snapped againnn🎶 and I am okayyy🎶, it doesn't huuuurt🎶 at aaaaAAALL🎶

He literally went rogue. He said fuck gods. Fuck you. Fuck being someone's slave I want to wreck👏🏻shit👏🏻 and yk what? after midterms week? Same.

I WANT TO KNOW WHY HE HAS LIKE?? INFINITE SHINKI FORMS??? Like trash dad looked like he expected the weapon form and the little fucked up cat boy form but the net/cloud/hands(?) AND the staff AND the little fucked up cat boy AND like that weird oz the great and powerful shit he's got going on????? Sir Excuse Me?????? Is it like a hafuri thing? Is it an ayakashi thing?? Is it just Yukine being really incredibly fucking powerful as it is??? Is it the rush of hubris???? WHAT IS THIS PLEASE

“Its precision is sloppy” I knew that was foreshadowing, I knEW IT. he’s spreading himself too thin doing all these different things at once PLEASE I’M SCARED

You know shit's good when trash dad is terrified, and like at least that's a positive i guess. Silver lining and whatnot. I bet he pissed himself.

Yuka is about to be very confused about a lot of things.

Also ma’am excuse me hi sorry i know this is an emotional and difficult moment for you but where’s Hiyori?

I can't wait to know more about all this. I am honestly so hyped about the entire thing as a reader and as a storyteller myself. Can't say I'm happy it smells like an ending but MAN is it epic.

And as always here is your monthly reminder that punching trash dad's face in is self care<3

[momijis-bunny]

so about yuki & kyo's memories

what stood out to me the most in s2 ep 4 was how the memories of yuki and kyo have been adapted into the anime. like, it's so amazing and i may be reading into it too much but hear me out:

i didn't really coin this thought until yuki was walking to the estate and the memories just hit him so suddenly and even i got a little spooked with how sudden it came and as quickly as it did, it was over.

it's so interesting because, see, with yuki's memories, it comes in fragments; very rushed and agitated and incoherent. it's in black and white and the brightest color there is the stark black paint. even the music behind it was haunting and pained like a subdued yell. you couldn't hear the memory. it was only fear. not thought. just cold, raw, fear.

whereas with kyo, in the dojo, his memory was in color and very slow. he was thinking about every single detail. and for kyo, there wasn't music at all. we could hear the memory; we could hear his voice exactly as he remembers it. it was as if everything in that moment was suspended in the air as tohru was after he attacked her. fraught, tense, dangerous.

it came to him like a kinda slow burn and he got so lost in it until kazuma got his attention.

now, obviously with yuki the short answer is that he's got some really really bad ptsd and for kyo, he was probably just deliberately thinking about it but i still found it really cool to see the juxtaposition between the two of them and how their memories played out. cause like, the manga didn't have this kind of effect it's just a book so, yk, there we are.

[quillandink333]

Ok now that I know you like being asked things I can be brave enough to crawl out of anon XD I was just curious, what was the moment that you knew "he's the one"?

HEY omg yes you’re totally welcome to come off anon, it’s so great to see you in my inbox!! :D

Oooohh that is a question… I’m not sure whether to answer it for when I fell for him in this life or in my previous one tbh uhmm, I’ll just go with this one

So for context, I first discovered Kar(u)ma as a BTS fan, he did a collab with them back in 2020 which turned a lot of their fans into fans of him too including me. I really loved his music and his messages, but it wasn’t until I’d met Kazuma one-on-one and started getting to know him beyond just the parts of himself he curated and put on display for the general public that I realised he was permanently living in my heart rent free. It was just another aftercare session like any other—we started out as fwbs right—when I guess something about how caring and affectionate he was and always had been just all of a sudden struck a chord deep down and forced me to face the fact that I just couldn’t bear the thought of being without him… I’ve never felt more paralysed than I did starting from that point and continuing up until the day he finally put an end to that friend zone limbo we were stuck in out of the fear of losing what we had for all those months

If you meant that in a more ooc way tho then (SPOILER WARNING) ironically it would have to have been when he “died” cuz he was already my fav at that point and losing him just made me want to see him that much more yk? It was like the “you don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone” effect… After that and up until I found out he hadn’t actually died, I’d been dreaming up a whole alternate timeline in my head where he made it to Britain alive as intended just to try n bury the grief TT