#khr ramblings

[zoroara]

Thinking about Squalo, thinking about how one of his greatest achievements, a two day straight fight of skill against another master, is only ever said as a quick thing, not even mentioned by him, not brought up again. How his next greatest ones, the 100 fights are only glossed over, only mentioned in the smallest bits. We never get to see much of these fights. We only see the match that was thrown really. He fought against vindice members lasting as well as Xanxus did in the fight despite his exhaustion, though it's only a short before and after we get to see this.

I think about the fact that whenever he does get the spotlight when he does go against someone strong, in a pivotal battle. He loses.

Vs Yamamoto, loses his first sword fight in who knows how long, then eaten by a shark.

Vs Zakuro, loses even more of the arm he had lost his hand on and is caught in an explosion.

Vs Jaegar, doesn't even manage to last more than a page before he's punched through the chest.

I think about the fact that even when it isn't as bad as nearly killing him, it's still a loss.

Vs the kids in the first time, does seem like a win, but then you remember he was fooled and returned with fake rings.

Vs shimon, he and the rest of the Varia are stopped in a single move by Adelheid.

Vs Enma he failed to command his squad to seize victory when he could have by taking a boss watch.

Vs Hibari and Fon, the moment Fon comes out he's soon out, much sooner than Xanxus or Mammon.

I think about the fact that whenever Xanxus needed him, Squalo was unable to do anything. That he had to watch it happen. Or at least hear it.

In the coup, he had to listen while half conscious as Xanxus fought the ninth, and eventually, as he got frozen.

In the sky battle, he had to watch again from a wheelchair while the same thing as 8 years ago, when they had just gotten Xanxus back, happened again.

In the final fight against the wreaths and ghost, he wasn't able to do anything but be held up by Dino.

But in the fight against Jaegar, he had to watch Xanxus' arm get cut off, but there, he finally had his chance to do something before it got worse. Only to buy mere seconds before it did.

Then I think, about the fact, that despite it all. His determination and pride still shine brightly. He never gave up despite all of this, and he continues forward unshaken. Even though he keeps failing, even though his roster of fights doesn't seem impressive by the lens we're given, he knows what he's worth, what he's capable of. Even in these pivotal fights being failures, it's just something to make up for later. He's filled with spite and vengeance but he never thinks poorly of himself. He doesn't need reassurance after the fight. He is focused and simply picks back up where he was once he can.

I think, this is admirable. The unshakable confidence he has in himself. I'd say it's a curiosity that his flame output isn't higher, but at the same time it isn't. His ring can only handle so much in it after all, and despite that, he still did negate Zakuro's flame output to protect the kids long enough to escape. Zakuro's Millefiore ring that was limitless much like the Vongola.

It's a shame that we never got an important fight with him where he won since his introduction. But honestly, even with this, where some see futility(and admittedly I do too at time) It's impressive that he continued to fight and argue that he was still going to stand as close to the top as he could be. No matter what the world threw at him.

[dreamieparadise]

I have it SO in my head that Gokudera LOVES talking about his s/o like crazy but it's hard to do that with his besties because Yamamoto is private and Tsuna is shy and so eventually he will turn to the women to gush about the love of his life. I'm talking real teehee. "Where did you have your first kiss?", "first time!?" Type of talk. I also think Hana and Haru EAT THAT UP with him, and he has a good time because they reciprocate. Kyoko is super shy, so she hangs back and listens. She feels like she'd get super embarrassed just talking about wanting to hold her s/o's hand so talking about kissing and sex is SO off the table!! Chrome is also listening and hanging back because she doesn't feel the need to comment but if asked she'd answer.

Anyway I wrote all this to say IMAGINE THESE ADULTS LOOKING LIKE THIS AND GIGGLING:

I need to draw the scene with them honestly...but less looking at the screen and more like that one Amano art.

Meanwhile Yamamoto and Tsuna are together like:

[rebo-chan]

Something I was thinking about lately is Tsuna's daddy issues. Specifically this frame.

Like that's such a loaded thing to think about. He's got so much resentment built up. Obviously, there's no direct connection to any of Tsuna's issues made but I think a few fun things can be said from this. In general, Tsuna clearly didn't have a father figure in his life which sorta results in him leaning on Reborn pretty often. Tsuna doesn't have a very stable self-esteem with him going from confident to "Aah, Gokuderas going to become disillusioned with me now that all my flaws have been pointed out." GOKUDERA. His FIRST SUBORDINATE. The guy who literally has been LOYAL FROM DAY ONE. Not that we consider them canon, but this happens also during the filler arcs where Daemon points out that Tsuna's not worth following to Gokudera and it seems to make Tsuna a little antsy. He DOES NOT THINK THE PEOPLE HE LOVES ARE GOING TO STAY WITH HIM, THIS IS LITERALLY RUINING MY LIFE. What Daddy Issues DO TO A MF. But that's a post for another day. But okay, back to Reborn, Reborn proves himself to be immovable from Tsuna's life. The story points out that Tsuna very much has two fathers. The one who won't leave and the one who is always gone. Tsuna really leans on Reborn throughout the series. "Reborn, what do I do?" Is a common thing he says, until Reborn is literally swept away from him against his will in Future arc where he's forced to think that he's half a person in Reborns absence. Meanwhile, we have Iemitsu who Tsuna has resentment built up towards, does not respect, and is forced to acknowledge in order to win his fight. Throughout the rainbow arc battle, they try to point out that Iemitsu is trying to teach Tsuna something here and unless I'm confused (someone feel free to tell me?) it's not really clear WHAT that is. And I've always thought that was neat, because it's obviously coming from Tsuna's inability to respect Iemitsu enough to want to learn anything from him. Yet when Reborn comes in, hell he doesn't even recognize him in his Adult form, but he politely listens and takes his advice seriously. In the grand scheme of the series, Reborn is a good teacher and father figure in his life. When Tsuna is made to feel like that he can't do anything in Reborn's absence during Future, Reborn takes a step back in that arc and lets him learn to survive without his guidance. (Notice how the training almost entirely disappears after Future.) He lets him learn how to be a person without him, only stepping in to help when Tsuna really needs it. When he's unable to light his flame, with Spanner, or when he's freaking out about the Irie reveal, the list really goes on. There's a scene I recall I believe when Yuni asks to join their group, Tsuna still turns to ask Reborn what to do, and Reborn redirects him by asking him what he wants to do. That it was his call as a boss. And Tsuna ends up making the decision to help her off his own accord.

It's with Reborn's guidance that Tsuna ends up learning to be his own person, it's this guidance that allows him to make the decision and gather everyone on his own accord when it was Reborn's turn to be shaky and give up. Where Tsuna tells him that he's got this under control, without his guidance. To just watch him. "you've always knew I could win before." It's this arc where Reborn's pride in Tsuna shines. Multiple times. "Surprise me again, Tsuna." And he does. It's in Reborn's second absence where Tsuna feels himself get shaky again, feels the old feelings of poor self image crop up, that Reborn comes back. Because Reborn is not Iemitsu, and he wasn't someone who left him in that house alone forever. Because he's still young and has much to learn before he's ready to do this on his own. It's at this he feels a little embarrassed about how glad he is that Reborn came back, but then recalls the "mean words" that Reborn said before leaving. It's here that Reborn tells him it's a good thing he hasn't changed much. Another sliver of guidance that Tsuna takes in from the figure in his life that won't leave him alone in that house.

[zoroara]

Okay so your questions are really fun but the general answer is no they would not work in real life but let's still try to build up something that may work here. That's more fun.

I think the funniest thing though is that they have places to shoot out at all angles with no obvious release mechanism or ability to control them as well. If it all just shoots out, chikusa would just be in danger of his own weapon.

Probably the best firing mechanism is to make it so it's a spray that comes out when hitting the end of the cord, using the high amount of momentum to hit a mechanism within the yo-yo to launch them and thus making it easier to aim and reliably launch. It would also need a safety mode for during carry however, but that would be relatively easy to build in, and likely make it something he twists it to do.

If it was this way too, it'd be easier to have smaller storage parts that can drop them into place once 'fired'. But there would also be a chance of the mechanism jamming, much like a gun. Additionally, to load it the best way I can think of is the sides of them can come off, and the needles placed inside.

As for reloading during battle, it would make sense if he had more than one. But since the needles are very small and you could fit in a lot. Additionally with their extreme poison, as long as he hit his opponent with a few, he wouldn't actually need too many back ups, all the extras are to up the dosage and deter his opponent until they actually die. Meaning if he runs out all he needs to worry about is waiting out his opponent. Which at that point they may already be succumbing to the poison.

While I can't exactly say where he gets them, I can say that the poison is likely some form of neurotoxin as they tend to be much more fast acting and deadly.

As for the flame, I remember we briefly get a look at his and ken's around the wreath fight. But if not the other source is usually the games or cards. (not like flame would help here as an explanation since before rings become common this being the answer is super unlikely either way, but with his fighting style he doesn't need it. Honestly a shame we didn't see this with rain flame because imagine how fast acting his normal way of fighting is with a flame that is canonically capable of stopping a heart out right if strong enough)

But I thiiiiink this answers your questions! Or at least hope it does! thanks for tagging me this was fun~

KHR reread

Chapter 62

Next arc! Next arc! Next arc! Whoop whoop!

Anyways Ken really seems to be incapable of shutting his mouth, i could make a sex joke here but I will refrain.

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Obligatory Kyoya simping

HUSBAND! YOU LOOK AS DASHING AND DANGEROUS AS ALWAYS!

He's such a fucking dork, it's hilarious. Also flip phone, damn this manga is old 🤣🤣

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This interaction is hilarious to me, also yes random kendo kouhai Hibari is indeed God 🫡

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Ohhh it's pineapple time hehehehe

Chapter 64

*squints* sounds fake but okay

@eternitas @dontknow-willaddlater obligatory Dera tag

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Ahhh yes the fight strat explaination... a classic 🤣🤣

Chapter 65

Well... shit has certainly hit the fan. Nice 👍🏼lemme at the action, I was a good girl and reread the daily life arc which had good crack to appreciate but I'm hungry for blood, for pain, for all sorts of bodily impalement... Gimme gimme gimme o((>ω< ))o

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Actually! Question! How does this yoyo even work??? How does he store so many needles in that small thing, do they all fit in that? Does he just have several yoyo's prepped for battle and he switches them out when they run empty? Because you can't tell me that he reloads those in the heat of the fight. ... Where does he get all does needles from? Does he buy them in bulk? Is Chikusa actually a cloud and is propagating the needles? I've only seen him written as a Rain, I have no clue if his flame type is even known (maybe from a game or something) but again... Just NEEDLES!!! (I might not make any sense and yes i know shounen manga logic is at work here but still...)

@zoroara tagging you because weapons

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OHHHHHHHHHH serious Takeshi!!! *smashing the like button so hard it breaks* INSTANT APPROVAL!! Fuck serious Takeshi is so fucking cool, I love it so much 💜💜✨✨

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I love that in the backgrond interaction between Takeshi and Bianchi, it's a small detail but it adds flavour imo, Lix stamp of approval!!

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Mafia information network??? MAfiA iNfoRmAtIOn NeTwOrk???? Ex-fucking-cuse me? Like don't just name drop this? Give me more info? How is it structured? How does it work? Whose part of it? Is it an offical thing or more just rumours going around? I NEED ANSWERS GODAMMIT!!!!

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@childe-of-saulot my liege these words reminded me of you, so you get tagged

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Okay that tomato thing is hilarious? Is this Reborn just trolling here? It feels like Reborn is just trolling, but it's still funny as hell.

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Tsuna relying on Reborn, I like how even when Reborn makes Tsuna's life a chaotic nightmare, he still turns to Reborn in times of need even this early in the story.

[in-asterism]

always one step ahead of you- or watching from behindA

[myrmyrtheorca]

Happy thoughts that keep me going:

- Squalo being genuinely happy and relaxed, smiling from his heart (not his usual smirk of superiority, a sincere beaming expression);

- Xanxus looking out from his office windows to watch the fireflies down in the Varia gardens before going to bed;

- Yamamoto and Tsuna having videogame nights where Tsuna tries to teach Yams a new fighting game and Yams wins by the rule of "beginner's luck" despite Tsuna knowing all his main's combos;

- Bianchi crocheting mittens for Chrome because after noticing she gets her hands cold easily;

- Chrome being too scared of using said mittens because she doesn't want to ruin them;

-Kikyo checking up on Daisy, Bluebell and Zakuro's health because none of them trust medical doctors enough and he has to go with each of them whenever there's blood work to do.

[gelataisa]

Forever obsessed with a 10 years bazooka mishap that bring a tyl xanxus into the present during a party at villa vongola. he is clearly about to have sex (fortunately he only has his shirt open) and has what clearly is a wedding ring on his finger.

everyone is disbelieved and squalo looks like hes about to explode

xanxus is clearly annoyed yet somewhat amused. he probably revels in seeing his father embarassed by his everything. to everyone's surprises he scolds, in this order, the entire tenth gen for not teaching the fucking child anything apparently, and lambo himself for not being more responsible and behaving during an event like that

squalo once again freaks out (VOI!! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THAT TURNED YOU LIKE THIS) and the look xanxus gives him is so amused- yet poignant. the most attentive observers could be led to believe that there is also some fondness, yet they disergard the thought immediately

you know fish, theres this thing called 'being almost 40 years old', you might get to hear it some day

squalo's answer is lost in the smoke that appears right after

present xanxus is far less amused and calm upon his return

[deathsvvitch]

“ Don’t think you can hurt MY Family and leave. Alive. “

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This took!! So long!! My eyes started going static-y from sitting/working for so long bUT MAN IM HAPPY! I never draw stuff like this TvT

[charlottepuddingsposts]

nah I like my hibari siblings a lot their dynamic is just “i don’t question whatever the fuck you are doing and i don’t interfere with anything you do but if you need me i will be here immediately” they both crazy for each other but you will not see and understand it probably if you don’t know kyoya and kotori good enough lol anyway fun fact kotori name means “little bird”

[yanderejesus]

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[steamworksfairy]

You ever think about how the Arcobaleno all have intense cryptic energy?

Like Skull literally can't die. And because he's so loser core (affectionate) he's died in front of people so many times only to get back up like nothing happened.

Reborn....*points the guy with a chameleon that changes into different weapons*. Tbh if you told me he was an alien, I'd believe you.

The Vindice are basically the men in black.

Verde... no one knows if he's an alien, a guy from the future hell bent on giving us better technology to prevent a future catastrophe, or a tired government agent who doesn't get paid enough to babysit his cryptids and therefore doesn't.

Lal, however, is the too tired government agent who does babysit her crypids. Help jer she's suffering and in need of coffee and a break.

Fon *points to Hibari and Alaude* he's clearly a clone. Those are clones! People are being cloned-

Mammon is that shadowy cryptid you can only ever capture blurry pictures for. And then you receive a bill in the mail charging you for said picture. Basically urban legend status. There's a rumor going around if you take a picture of this strange cloaked person you will in fact go bankrupt.

Colonello is that strange inhuman creature that fell in love with the government agent lady who watches him. People assume he's from a super soldier program. Like some kind Marvel bs with Winter Soilder or Captain America or the DC version of that, Deathstroke. He's clearly human but also not.

Luce, Aria, and Yuni are 110% the most normal out of all of them, tho. Definitely not decents of a secret race of non humans that existed pre-humans. Nope, those girls are humans 💚

[zoroara]

Okay so I was thinking about this scene in the anime again.

now, the reason I was thinking about this is not currently important you’re gonna find out in a few days.

and as you can see here, it’s very much the same thing in the manga, BUT. when we go back to Xanxus, he’s turned around.

more importantly his feet are now sitting on the table that he originally was facing towards during the fight with Rasiel. So I thought initially it was a continuation error.

and then I looked more closely.

Xanxus has motion lines on him. and that Chair has fucking scraping movements on it’s legs. IT  DOESN’T HAVE WHEELS. So not only is XANXUS FORCIBLY MOVING THIS HUGE CHAIR WITH JUST HIS LEGS.

HE DID IT TWICE. ONCE TO TURN HIS WHOLE CHAIR TO FACE SQUALO TO HIT HIM WITH A ROCK AND HERE. this man is ridiculous.

[hopeswriting]

i miss when i was writing khr meta on the regular and being unwell about it on here with you guys. i think i like having the time and energy to be chronically online actually

[zoroara]

I was very new to the khr fandom and kinda fucking around on my own for a while but like. Harmonization is just the flame’s attribute in canon and it’s to explain it’s physical abilities like every other flame. I think though that because sometimes people lean a lot into the flames affecting personality and also that skies are supposed to be really important leader types they kind of give that extra ability of. *gestures to attractiveness to other flames as if they were moths to well a.... flame* Really to me it doesn’t mean much more than that though because I tend to take things very objectively. I understand and find it interesting what other people are doing with it but at the end of the day it’s not all that much more than a flame attribute, like tranquility. That one sounds like it’d affect stuff there too but you sure don’t see all of them being well. Calm. and the usage of rain flames has never calmed people either, instead just shutting them down physically. Which is why Harmony to me just makes me go ‘well, it probably just affects things flamewise.’ sorry if that’s a boring answer ^^;;

Despite being a KHR fan for more than half my life, it's only recently I've decided to interact with the fandom. And to that, I ask - can someone PLEASE explain what harmonization is and why do y'all treat it like some urban legend around here. From what I've gathered it sounds like our version of?? An omegaverse??? But please someone enlighten me.

[einsatzzz]

chibi hibakana acrylic stand, drawn adorably as always by @azaracyy 🥰🥰🥰 thank you @lixenn for your tags on this post, it made me remember I have another kana and hibird art I kept to myself for too long and forgot to post shvfgscfgscdf

some ramblings, but generally, animals don't like kana. maybe it's just that advanced animal sense/instinct that they have, so they don't like her vibes at all. for example, imagine tsuna getting terrorized by those dogs in his neighborhood again, if kana shows up they'll start running away asap. other times, they'll bark/growl at her if the animal is braver (but still run away in the end after one glare).

on the other hand, there's hibird. despite being such a cute bird, i do believe that it is also quite an unusual animal??? imagine having that sick bastard birds as ur master, then quickly just switching up to the hibari kyoya(tm). i would switch up so fast too if my choice is between ugly nasty oji-san vs strong & dashing ikemen i do think hibird is very similar to kusakabe, in the sense that they are drawn to people with some form of insane aura 😭😭😭 which is why i can see it vibing with kana too (not to mention her similar qualities with hibari), despite other animals going "NOPE" on her.

[dark-elf-writes]

Thinking about Tsuna having normal little boy interests. Thinking about Little Tsuna watching old videos of stunt men and falling in love. Thinking about little Tsuna going further and further back because he wants to see more and he has pretty unlimited internet access. Thinking about little Tsuna finding a stunt man in all stunning purple and declaring him his hero. Thinking about little Tsuna playing pretend and declaring he’s the “Great Skull-sama”.

Thinking about the arcobaleno cursed in the bodies of their preteen selves. Thinking about Skull wandering like he always does, just drifting from one place to the next, untethered and distant with nothing but a motorcycle and Oodaku to call his own.

Thinking about Skull hearing a little voice claim his name through tears and moving before he can think about it.

(It’s not hard, even for him, to recognize the little Sky. It’s not like they did a very good job at hiding him even with his flames locked away.)

Skull steps in and chases the bullies off and Tsuna takes one look at his hair and makeup before shrieking and trying to tackle him in a hug. (He can’t remember the last time someone was excited to see him. Before the pacifier certainly. Before he was pulled from the world he knew, from his territory and told to find his way in a whole new life that didn’t make sense with a body that no one would take seriously. (He hadn’t been much older when he was cursed, just shy of his nineteenth birthday if he remembers correctly, but at least he was considered an adult in most cultures.))

Tsuna drags him home and Skull? He takes one look at Tsuna’s mother’s vacant eyes and the bruises poorly hidden by Tsuna’s jacket from kids just like the ones he had driven away earlier and decides he can stay a while, if only to protect the forgotten spare of a bloodline. A task that only gets more complicated when it becomes apparent that his little Sky wont stay forgotten or a spare forever.