#kdu paresse

[datlokibumtho]

Rage: "I love it when we have nothing to do."

Paresse: "Yeah, it's great."

Rage: "Like, I could sleep until noon, eat three cinammon rolls, and then have sex with you."

Paresse: "I don't know about until noon..."

Rage: "I could sleep until I sleep, eat three cinammon rolls, and then have sex with you."

Paresse: "Fair enough."

[odd-kid-42]

I dunno who to ask for for the unhinged thing, so let's go with Fusataro and Paresse, mostly 'cause Shift of Tone's first two chapters were centered on them, PLUS a character of your choosing that ur Totally Normal About, any fandom!

Copying your own words, OH BOY

Fussa first: God, I need to finish "Shift in Tone" because as I filled out Fussa and Paresse's charts I remembered where I was going with the story. Fussa is great. What do you do when you are helping to destroy the world and suddenly have to 1) keep going to your shitty job and 2) have a fourteen year old who used to be your robot/roommate/paycheck of revenge? Probably has daddy issues but we're not going to unpack that. Doesn't make me sad as much as I want a play-by-play on what is going through his head because epilogue left Fussa and Rage washed up on the beach before Mizho showed up as the one evil douji user whom I imagine kept her wits about her.

I know Paresse is your man, so this is specifically how I imagine him in SiT. Paresse does make me sad, and post-epilogue is one of recovery in my mind. I interpreted the sin of sloth to be one of apathetic detachment towards oneself and others, so Paresse suddenly having Human Emotions (TM) and experiencing Grief (TM) for things never returning to the way they were hits a chord to me. Suddenly needing to engage with the rest of the world while speedrunning Self-care (TM) and the confusion of oh shit the bigger goal is gone. I didn't act and there were consequences I am only now feeling without Mizho catching what is going on is the snow globe I am shaking him in for a bit before Mizho hauls ass on giving the "Being a human kind of blows, but at least there's penicillin now and the steady betterment of the world fucks a bit." speech amongst other words of encouragement.

I'm so sorry I am obsessed about Dndads and you watch it consume me instead of doing KDU stuff. Keeping the rant short, Walter the Immoral is a side character who used to be a famous swordsmith until the tip of one he rushed to make broke off and killed the great hero wielding it, so he was cursed to be a frog monster essentially and abandoned by his family. In the course of the canonical story, he: adopted an eight year old, build a motorcycle from ye olde medieval material to find his eight year after thinking he had been kidnapped, fended off hired mercenaries trying to kidnap the main characters' five children for weeks on end by himself, lost his legs (and shrugged it off because he built himself a wheelchair from scratch and could still fight), watched his eight year old sacrifice himself (unnecessarily!! genuinely, unnecessarily), and then piloted a mecha in the final fight before ducking out of the s1 narrative worse than he started somehow. I have normal feelings about him (/lying).

If I dwell on how the cast treated his son (Paeden) and him too much, I show my ass on the internet because genuinely what the fuck was that. Thank god Walter is somehow well-adjusted and didn't murder them all in the end. Hell of a podcast (/derogatory).

[rats-and-robots]

Going hog wild with the sk/kdu/jumbor timelines and thinking about there being at least a few people from sk and jumbor in the Facility...

And my brain cooking up a nice juicy new ship in Faust and Paresse.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

3, 10, and 13 for Garion!!

-CC 🖤

3. How did you choose their name?

Its actually the name of a character from The Belgariad! It was going to be my name if I had been born a boy, and it's actually my middle name now because of that! (This applies to all iterations of Garion!)

10. If they have an LI, how much of their character is tailored to be compatible to that person? 

Fusaji is more tailored to him, but I will say, Garion is heavily influenced by Fusataro in general. Sunglasses, cocky smirk, disillusioned and depressed. I actually tailored him more towards being a LI for Paresse... And then Fusataro kicked me in the teeth for the position of favorite character and so Fusaji was born.

13. How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all? 

SEE... This one I don't quite get. Garion, as he is in the Facility, extends far before and far after the canon events of KDU. But also concurrently at the same time. That said, I cannot tell you how he will inevitably die, because he will, but for the most part, Garion spans across multiple AUs so there's really no good answer to this. Unless I misunderstood it LMAO

[kawahageshii]

Karakuridoji Ultimo VOLUME 12

What’s poppin’, Ultimo friends?!!!!!!!! I got this volume on the day it came out last year, but life happened and I havent gotten the chance to read it until now. Aaaannd I’ve been inactive on tumblr for pretty much a whole year, and I come back and I see the fandom looks to be dead T-T. So I dont even know if anybody will even read this. But!! I wanna finish this little series I had where I read every volume and liveblog it lol. So LESSS GOOO

So yeah can we just talk about how beautiful this artwork is

I actually have not read any translations of the final chapters, so I’m going into this completely blind. Tbh I barely remembered what happened last volume (and this summary doesn’t really help lol)

Okayyyy I remember now. Yamato and Rune had just completed their Love Battle, then Sayama comes in all of a sudden and is about to erase Rune’s memories.

BUT YAMATO BEING THE GOOD MAN HE IS STILL LOVE HER (AND RUNE) REGARDLESS

AWWW SAYAMA LIKED YAMATO TOO. Also oh shit that’s right she’s Dunstan’s daughter and Yamato found out!

Murayama Musashi (I’ve forgotten a lot of things, but I can NEVER forget that name) knew too because of his #policeboy skills

OHHH that’s right Sayama joined Vice too! Wtf is going on I forgot everything LMFAO

Aww Sayama. So she knew this WHOLE time about her father and the experiment he was doing? She didn’t suddenly become aware of it when Eco gave all the good doji masters memories of the past? Wow that’s some heavy shit

Drag them Sayama it’s been 12 volumes and they still haven’t made any real progress

NO NOT A GOOD PLAN

Hana & Eater, Sumako & Desir, and Mizho & Paresse arrive all of a sudden!!

Aww Sayama. Yamato is such a good person.

Oh shit Dunstan and Milieu are here now!!

‘Reeducated” okay that isn’t creepy at all. 

Soo Dunstan took Sayama to the year 2989 and now everyone’s fucked.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Vice is having an existential crisis it seems

Awwww this chapter cover is so nice

I love how K immediately jumps to asking about Vice’s well-being while that little brat Jun is like “dafuq is wrong with you”

Nooo Vice nooo Jun is.....seriously disturbed

I’m crying K noticed Vice didn’t poke his eyes out like he normally does. ALSO LITTLE KID K IS SO CUTE LMFAO

Deep thoughts from K’s grandma, making K realize something....but what?

Awww Fussa Fusataro (a name I also can never forget) is a real MVP for sticking around.

Lmfao Rage is like “Oh. Thanks. Thanks for informing me that we’re staying here. Thanks fam”

So Vice goes out and finds Ultimo all alone???

OH SHIT ULTIMO USED TIME STOP ON VICE TO KILL HIM

But was deterred because Jun is Vice’s master now so there’s extra evil to stop his attacks (right? that’s how it works? I don’t even remember fam)

OH SHIT

Omg but Vice is hesitating when attacking Ultimo

I forgot how creepy this kid was

LMFAO EVEN VICE IS LIKE “Nahhhh that’s not cool”

AWWWW THAT SELF-AWARENESS

OH SHIT ULTIMO TOOK THE CHANCE AND STABBED VICE

BUT NOW JUN IS SHOOTING VICE??? LMFAO LET’S ALL GANG UP ON THIS POOR DUDE TODAY?????

I literally said “Yaaaaaassss” out loud. K really is the hero we deserve

Vice has learned to love I’m crying (also K’s grandma actually seems to be the real hero here)

HOLY FUCK JUN SHOT K???? CAN THIS KID STOP

BUT YAMATO AND THE WHOLE CREW SHOWED UP SO NOW I GUESS WE’RE GOING TO THE FUTURE

Oh wow. It’s the final chapter. 

But we still got half of the volume left??

Anyways, here’s a familiar scene

OH the ending already happened??

ULTI IS GONE IN THE ENDING?? EXPLAIN

Ohhh so that’s why Musashi has literally NO body in the future. Wow

OKAY I GUESS WE’RE GOING TO COMPLETELY SKIP OVER THE FIGHT BETWEEN VICE AND EVERYONE RIGHT AFTER THAT

Lmfaooo Mizho is speaking the truth here nothing happened to her at all. Because I can count on my fingers the number of times she has appeared in this manga. #tragic

Okayyy so they all combined and are now going to fight Dunstan

War. War never changes.

YAAAASSS YAMATO SAVE SAYAMA

YAAAASSS  Universal Milieu has come into the fight

Andd wiped everyone out with Dimension Hammer lol

OH SHIT IT’S YAMATO, K, VICE AND ULTIMO FROM THE 21ST CENTURY. That’s a fucking squad right there. So I guess Dunstan destroyed future!Yamato and crew, but not our Yamato?

OH MY GOD THEY’RE COMBINING IT’S HAPPENING

That’s deep guys

OH MY GODDDDDD EVERYONE’S COMING TOGETHER

(interesting how the Evil Doji are naming their attacks after the planets?)

YAAAAAAAAASSSSSS chills

wait what?????

What

Okay the fuck is going on lol

HUH??????

So all the doji are human now....I remember learning that when I read the raw last chapter, but it’s part of the experiment? Dunstan’s endgame this whole time was to create Ideos Ultimo therefore making the doji human?????

Okay??? I guess that’s the ending???

Milieu’s face is my reaction

Okay......... I guess.... at least it was a happy ending??? (even though it was total cop-out)

so let’s move onto the profiles

Takei gives us all the God/Demon Icon forms of the doji, included their combined forms and Ideos Ultimo

Jun’s Demon Vice actually looks pretty cool. Lol @ the crossbow being included in the design

Ohhh so that’s why the Evil doji has that planet naming

Aww they even included the karakuri soldiers

And here’s a cute afterward from Takei

so....that’s it...wow. That was the final of Karakuridoji Ultimo. I’m glad it was a happy one, though I do feel it was very abrupt. But what can you do

It’s been a wild ride. A wild, and often confusing ride. But I had tons of fun reading, loving, and obsessing over this manga all these years. I already made an emotional post about how much KDU means to me, so I’ll just leave this at that. I hope this isn’t the last time we hear about this manga (anime in 2040 anyone? I predict it now),and I def hope the fandom continues to live on~

[datlokibumtho]

Mizho: “I love killing mooks in one hit. Makes me feel like a big man. You know?”

Paresse: “You’re a woman.”

Mizho: “You know what I mean.”

[datlokibumtho]

Rage: "What are you making?"

Paresse: "Bad decisions."

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Remembered my DeviantArt account and I Forgot That I Did This

It's basically how The Mother from the Facility AU presents itself to people within the facility wayyy before I had the Facility more concrete.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(Art by acverg on Twitter)

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Food is like a big deal to Paresse because of, like. The whole Starving All The Time thing in the Alps so if you give him food he's just like. ??? Food??? You acquired food for me??? Why??? But also this becomes his own Big Deal so if he makes someone food it's a Thing.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

I feel like Paresse writes a lot of music but it's not stuff the WTI sings because he writes like really surrealistic lyrics that just boil down into how badly he wants to fuck, love, or die.

And they often cross over one another.

He may or may not share them back and forth with other members of the Crew but mostly Kia and Mizho.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Okay I did it. I'm flinging this at the void and going to curl up and sleep.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

The robot doesn't need to breathe... but his breath hitches nonetheless as his master draws closer. A hundred things run through his processors before everything in them stops and Michel's lips touch his.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Master and Douji are swapped AU

Only the WTI because that's all I feel like writing lmao

Fussa = Fury. Animal is a jaguar or black panther. Sunglasses visor because, uh, duh.

Mizho/Michel = Apathieux or Apathie. Androgynous fusion of the two. Animal is an owl or fox. Visor is one sided, covers the right eye.

Rage = Raiju. An idol who's sick of being mistreated and cut to fit the mold. Fury's cover is as his bodyguard, not dissimilar to Akira, but Raiju regularly has Fury kill specific people who would take advantage of him and is trying to get close to people Higher Up to kill them more personally.

Paresse = ??? Not sure on the name in either time period, but unlike Michel he wasn't isolated literally on the mountain, but more socially isolated among the soldiers. Apathie doesn't have much of a cover with the soldiers, who are--like the bandits were in Edo--all aware of what Apathie is. Eventually another soldier kills past-Paresse to try and take Apathie, who kills them all in retaliation. Modern day Paresse is a trans tattoo artist who's barely making it by day-to-day in a country that's got a massive stigma against tattoos and barely makes rent.

...

The more I write the more I realize this could work with that tattoo shop drabble I wrote last night HMMM....

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Ugh okay, more Fussa/Paresse because werewolf and t4t brainrot have collided.

---

Paresse has seen a lot of things. He used to be a robot from the future, for fuck’s sake. He'd time traveled. He'd seen two world wars. Fought in a secret war of his own. Had the ability to command trees to his will, served as a subordinate under someone literally designed to be a supervillain.

... but really? Werewolves??

His now-human heart was going a mile a minute as the deep snarls continued. Rage was between him and... Fussa. That creature was Fussa. He swallowed and took a slow step back as Rage carefully worked to de-escalate the black wolf. Vivid gold eyes snapped to him as the movement snapped something underfoot. He froze again.

"It's Paresse, Fussa... you know him. Look at me, Fussa. Calm down." Rage glanced towards Paresse, and quickly added, "Don't make eye contact."

Paresse rapidly snapped his gaze away, and the snarling softened. Rage got Fussa's attention again and before too long, she had calmed almost completely.

Rage gave out a long sigh, then turned to Paresse, keeping one hand on Fussa's pelt, "What the fuck are you doing here?" He tried to keep the angry snap out of his voice, well aware that Fussa picked up on his emotions was too easily like this.

Paresse shifted his weight, "I was curious where you guys had gone. I'm sorry for startling her." He kept his eyes down.

"So you followed us, alone, into the woods? Doesn't sound like you." Rage flicked his eyes to Fussa as she sniffed the air towards Paresse, inching closer.

"Never said I did it alone..." Paresse mumbled.

The corner of Rage's mouth twitched, "Of course you didn't. Kneel down, she wants to sniff you. Just... look small. And if she lunges, cover your face."

Paresse let out a slow breath and did as he was told. That last statement hung heavy. With both he and Rage now human, no amount of calm talking would stop Fussa from killing him then and there if she so pleased. This form of hers was massive, easily taller than him if she stood up on her back legs. As the wolf's nose shoved up against his shoulder, he figured it was his own goddamn fault anyways.

Well, his and one other person's fault. He glared off to his right where, somewhere, Mizho was hiding.

Fussa growled low, and Paresse tensed up... only to realize that growl was his name. He looked up and met her eyes. He hesitated, "Yeah... hey, Fussa..."

Rage heaved a sigh... and then promptly walked up to Paresse and yanked him by his sleeve, "Where the fuck is Mizho?? I'm going to beat her fucking senseless--"

Mizho's voice came from above, in one of the trees, "Up here."

"Are you fucking insane??" Rage turned his anger then upon Mizho, his fury redirected entirely.

The wolf started to pace around him. He held his hand out and she sniffed at it, repeating his name before shoving her head under his hand. With the other two arguing in the background, Paresse occupied himself with trying to make sense of Fussa's new form.

Her face was something between a human and a wolf; teeth just on the terrifying side of too big for her mouth, but enough of a snout to make it not look goofy. Her afro was now a massive mane of black fur around her head, down her back, and on her chest. The rest of her was covered in shorter, also black fur. Her back legs were almost completely wolfish, and had a fully formed tail, but her arms still had full human motion and ended in clawed hands, rather than paws.

Soon, Mizho came down from her perch and Rage made sure Fussa wasn't going to attack her, either. Paresse finally tuned in to their conversation.

"How the fuck do you expect me to explain that my master is a werewolf along with all of the other stupid shit we've had to deal with? Of course neither of us told you."

"How long as she been like this?"

Rage rubbed his temples, "Since before Dunstan gave me to her."

"...wait, so when we went back in time--"

"Yep. On full moons we snuck out before sundown and were back in time for drills. Usually I'd be keeping an eye out for, well, shit like this." Rage motioned vaguely towards the two of them, "It's been harder with the whole human thing, though. I'm glad it was you two, though. Anyone else and she probably would've killed first and asked questions later."

"... can she understand us?" Paresse looked up, curious.

Rage nodded, then made a face, "Well, kind of. Her brain mostly functions on instinct like this, full throttle fight or flight. Everything else takes a back seat. It usually takes her a minute or so to process more complex stuff, like words. Longer to form them and actually speak back... watch this." He tilted his head and chuckled. Paresse had taken to scratching right behind Fussa's jaw, and she was leaning into it full bodied. "You're no better than a lapdog."

Fussa's eyes opened just a smidge and narrowed, head tilting in his direction for a few seconds... before she growled and let out an indignant 'wuff'.

"Or she just won't talk at all, I see how it is." Rage leaned against a tree, "You two should head back. She's not gonna be content like this for long and if she decides either of you would make a good chew toy like this, the rest of her brain might not catch up in time."

"Ah."

---

Fussa watched them go and got up to follow. That's what you do when the pack is on the move, after all! But Rage spoke and she paused, looking at him. She tilted her head to the side slowly, processing the words... oh, they're going home. Home is bad while she's like this. But... she turned back and whined softly at the two leaving. The one that smelled nice, Paresse, waved and said something. They would see her later. But she wanted them here. Now. The pack hunts together! She shifted her face, tightening the muscles in her throat, trying to form the words she wanted.

"Stay. Hunt!" She ran a hand over her mouth. "T" sounds felt funny to make. Rage said something. Implied she wanted to hunt them. She growled at him and shook her head, "No...!! Pack hunt... together!" There! She snorted at him. She knew who they were, she wouldn't hurt them. She wanted to spend time with them.

Paresse started walking back. Her ears pricked up! Yes, she got them to stay? Paresse's hand came and rubbed her head again, scratching at the itch behind her ear. He said something. She paused. He said he wasn't like her, couldn't hunt.

Well, she could fix that.

Her teeth flashed and her mouth filled with blood.

[west-tokyo-incidents]

Whatever that thing was... it wasn't a douji anymore.

Its chest lay open and its sphere laid bare, not a taunt nor challenge... but neglect. The same as its torso--almost the only recognizable thing about it--just slumped over. Gauntlets once bright and untarnishable, had faded, wasted away. Chipped and yellowed like human nails that fruitlessly clawed at the inside of a grave. It dragged them between its front legs, arms as useless as an appendix.

These things didn't happen to douji. His own gauntlets were bright and new as they were 900 years ago. As they would be 900 years from now.

This was a purposeful decay.

Whatever was left besides the torso couldn't make up its mind, it seemed. A great beast of a body had formed from hips down. Many things hung from it. In some places vines, others moss, even other wire... or sinew and flesh. Its once flesh-like outer shell warred between woodlike--complete with branches--and metal. Its neck extended grotesquely, head held in one, unmoving place even as its body shifted.

It gave a snort and pawed at the ground with one great hoof. A hoof larger than his own head. It lowered its head, hair slowly swaying behind it as it sized him up.

The only pristine thing about it is its unfaltering gaze from two pinprick holes in a sharp, flawless mask of seaglass green. His eyes followed that gaze up... and up... before he realized it was rearing up. It's head nearly reaching the tree tops where it roared.

Its sphere laid bare.

But Vice wasn't sure breaking that would kill it.