#killing intent

[stupid-2012tmnt-pics]

this is how serial killers are made

[eurychphanpelcael]

不特定絶対安定多数の万民の安心と安全の前に、ささやかな自由は静かに排除される。 規範精神とは、自由に対する殺意だ。

Before the security and safety of the unspecified, absolutely stable multitude of all people, modest freedoms are quietly eliminated. The normative spirit is a killing intent on freedom.

[deadbaguette]

Dear children of Priam, were you doomed all along?

[dearest-lady-disdain]

ever since the servant of two masters leon and merlin have been my favourite duo

[mari-lair]

cook acquired!

[technically-human]

St. Hilarion's ghost story

[lazycranberrydoodles]

english translation book 5 baby we are in the ‘people assuming kid form hua cheng is xie lian’s son’ era 🔥🔥🔥 / follow for more hualian silliness

[swedenis-h]

Aaanywayss here’s a redraw of my favorite scene from Goncharov 1973

[the-muppet-joker]

He aimed his pistol at the sky... I'm...

Fuck. I'm such a fucKING BAKA!!!!!!!!

[alexpdcl]

just when i thought that i'm running low on brba art ideas another one pops into my head out of nowhere . this show is genuinely rich in complexities and themes that you can pretty much make art from every scene ...

[theomnicode]

Emotions beneath the surface level

Is it just me...or does Saitama look notably sadder than before in this? At the casual dismissal of his heroism and practically being told he was just a baggage and someone else stole his credit again? Also more tired of hearing that nobody knows who he actually is, if you look closely.

He's legit feeling like "Not this again..."

Just after when he commended on Child emperor for being a good hero. Man, that's an emotional betrayal right there.

(Kinda like what is happening to Fubuki rn, that she's just a baggage)

I definitely don't recall him looking this down, empty-fish eyes just staring at nothing.

I also have some kind of memory recall that Saitama talked about noise specifically, but not explosions. I may be confusing it with the noise complaint in 100chp light. Or having cognitive dissonance about it, that may also be.

I did check and found that this panel was actually identical with some previous version, so legit nothing has actually changed... but the reason these might be getting updates is that people can be drawn towards the updated versions and see it for themselves that all is not well beneath the surface level for Saitama, if they actually look closely and search for his expressions and can actually read his minor display of emotions now and understand the character well.

Are we gonna play this game where the archives are there to play tricks on my subconscious to break 4th wall meta retroactively like the 164 redraw and it'll culminate at the newest chapter release within 2 weeks?

Like if someone was to go look again and only vaguely remember what it used to look like or feel like, they'd see glimpses of Saitama's real emotions beneath the surface level- type of deal intuitively.

I could ofc be getting trolled and reading too much into this...but the chapter WAS updated for some reason. So...

Just "feeling" that there is something incorrect here that didn't use to be there.

Like imagine feeling like seeing something and suddenly you start to see more in your vision type of deal and only because you've acknowledged that there's someting funky in there, like if Saitama was to suddenly acknowledge he can see spirits or some shit.

Gaining a new perspective type of deal with more knowledge about the character. If you know, you know and can see beneath the surface. Basically.

This chapter, chapter 106: Terrible multiplying bastard was updated today. Chapter 94: I see was updated yesterday I think and I could have sworn evil eye didn't have his eyeball randomly speak about "crime". But I'm comparing new translations with old translations from another site, so it's definitely not accurate impression.

The overall message seems to have become...distinctly different. Centered around emotions. Ofc, it could be just me again reading too much into it with empathy but hey, brain expansion I guess.

The wail of Evil-eye seems far more pitiful and mournful, Puri acknowledges the level of hateful emotion that he can apparently sense now, instead of just commenting on it's form and Tatsumaki's dismissal of not sensing the emotion from Evil-eye is far, far colder take with new perspective on matters.

This would also allude to Puri becoming more in tune with empathic sensing than Tatsumaki, makes sense because he uses emotion based power and Tatsumaki does her duty as hero because these monsters are a threat so she does not feel pity for them.

Also is she...using her chi/aura/soul-spinning powers to...delete Evil Eye from existence?

Girlie, you're messing with preternatural now...that's why OPM God was trying to connect with you and can use you.

Definitely something they wanted to draw attention to, before next chap releases.

Especially at the wake of the webcomic having her chi-spinning feature right in the next portion.

If she uses this on Saitama while feeling Killing intent...oooh man...he's not gonna like that AT ALL.

He's become spiritually very sensitive and currently vulnerable too. He's going to feel threathened and scared like a cornered animal and he might even lash out instinctually if his soul is being messed with by someone who wants to deal genuine harm. Does not matter if the effects aren't going leave lasting effects, the intent is there.

And worse...Tatsumaki may not notice it, what she is doing. She is not spiritually that sensitive to notice doing something with people's chi might hurt them gravely.

Things may get...messy. Messier than people anticipate. You don't wake the sleeping dragon if you know what is good for you, but ofc Tatsumaki won't know what lurks beneath.

Oh...Genos will feel that too, won't he. Because he's spiritually connected to Saitama due to his divine power empathy. Haha. Hahah...

Literally waking the sleeping dragon. Oh shit.

That means two dragons.

Shitshitshitshit abort abort huge danger zone she could literally spin Genos soul to death because he's not as spiritually strong if she does not care about what she's doing, motherfuck-

Well. Stakes raised. Most certainly. Saitama would crucify Tatsumaki for this. And other people would not even understand why he's doing this because to them, Genos would just drop dead.

(Prepare for the Dark souls: prepare to Cry edition.)

Saitama will definitely remember. This not being the first time Genos has died on him. And he will make sure it will be the last time.

Start praying the OPM world won't end next week. And that Tatsumaki won't actually cripple anybody, or she will be crippled for rest of her life by a vicious curse or something.

Crippled in the physical world by Saitama and Genos would definitely cripple her spirit like the worst possible banshee.

Or. Cold hearted Mob. And Mafia Boss Saitama. Lich Queen and Lich King respectively.

Enough about that.

These messages also sound far more ominous. Gyoro saying they saw only what they needed but now they're saying they saw everything.

Black S talking is the difference between Metal Bat fighting to get pumped up with adrenaline to defend people and Garou fighting with bloodlusted craze to do real harm and trying to actually kill people like Saitama. Let's not pretend Garou is goody two shoes just because he feels a lot of emotions and is empathic to other's suffering, he always attacked with killing intent because he grew up in a ruthless environment and tried to cleave Saitama in two. Then he did the same to Genos. Really, only the level of emotion changed when OPM God came for him and the moral justification behind his actions, so he became detatched. Never pretend Garou is not dark aligned and that OPM god "made" him hurt other people that he would never otherwise hurt, that's totally bias talking because we want to see the protag succeed and he showed he has a morally good bone in him. This killing intent manifested itself as monsterizing and cannibalizing other monsters.

Just because he's refusing to kill does not mean he does not try to gravely hurt other people with intent and he is not the defender, he is the attacker, the provoker in majority of the fights he's been in besides when he tries to protect Tareo. Which is just as awful thing to do honestly. Attacking people lethally without provocation should definitely be curbed.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Please I need to know how Mori made a slitted throat look like a natural death. Please

[stressed24seven]

[bixels]

The Ryoko Kui interview's reception is such a disaster over a pretty normal (yet still flawed) interview between a non-Japanese fan and Japanese artistic. This is discourse for discourse's sake, and it's no surprise that almost every Twitter user I've looked at who's using this interview to parade Kui around as a goated mangaka standing strong against Western ideology is anti-trans.

Like, I do think the interview was kinda wonky with its focus on fandom culture, which Kui clearly didn't have much interest in. But sometimes that happens. Sometimes interactions between two people, especially a fan and a creator, two people who view and interact with a piece of media in completely opposite perspectives, don't click. Does this really need to get blown up into a "West vs. East culture war" issue.

Anyways, Kui saying "I don't consider my audience's interpretations when writing. I leave it to their imaginations, but I have my own read on things too" is the healthiest, most normal thing an artist/writer who wants a non-parasocial audience could say. Artists and writers use this line all the time. If Kui didn't enjoy autistic Laius or Farcille headcanons, she would have probably voiced/signalled her discomfort, like she did on the topic of Senshi fanservice. Overall, Kui handled the interview really well. Props to her to sticking to her guns and keeping a healthy disconnect from the fandom. While I think the interviewer could've/should've been more tactful and restrained, the flaws in their questions is not a symptom of the woke mind virus trying to wriggle its way into the pure Japanese psyche. It's the sign of an over-eager fan who sees a piece of fiction differently than its creator.

[starry-bi-sky]

Unpleasant Revelations - DPxDC Ficlet Idea for the Stillborn Au

"Have you met my youngest, Damian, Mr. Masters?"

Its only from twenty years of long, hard experience and practice that Vlad doesn't increase the room temperature from 'borderline uncomfortably cool' to 'unbearably hot' the moment Bruce Wayne pulls his youngest and "only" biological son out in front of him.

He puts only in quotations because twelve year old Damian Wayne looks scarily, uncannily like one Daniel Brown. Jack and Maddie's foster son, second victim of their foolishness, and only other halfa in existence. Second only to him.

It's nauseating how similar they look. From the scowl and terrible glare on the young boy's face, to his brown skin -- which was only a few shades lighter than Daniel's, the shape of his nose, and even the strange winged edge of his eyebrow. Something that Vlad has long since come to find endearing on the child he considered a son of his own. The only difference was that Damian had dark, sharp green eyes.

Daniel's eyes were blue. The same glacier shade as his father's, who stood behind Damian with a proud, oafish smile on his visage.

It was infuriating how similar they look. Vlad might not have rapidly swung the room temperature from one extreme to the other, but he can't stop himself from letting the fury burning within his core from slipping out and raising the temperature up a few degrees.

Because it really only meant one thing.

Damian Wayne and Daniel Brown were related.

Damian Wayne and Daniel Brown were brothers.

Standing in front of him, it was clear as day. He can already picture a phantom image of Daniel standing beside Damian, the same scowl written on his face, the same glare carved into his eyes. The only difference being the dark, exhausted circles beneath them that seemed to be permanently painted onto his skin. The only thing missing being the permanent loneliness and vigilance permeating his being like a scar.

This, if revealed, would be enough to ruin Bruce Wayne's reputation. Or, at the very least, darken it quite a bit. The great philanthropist Bruce Wayne with another secret blood child? One related to his youngest? One that had been put into foster care? Seemingly thrown away?

It would be a firestorm.

One that Vlad is not keen on starting.

It would ruin Bruce Wayne's reputation, yes. But it would hurt Daniel in the process -- the harassment he would face alone might just be enough to break that fragile child completely. That was just not something he could allow. Or, even worse, bring him into his biological father's care and custody -- something Vlad was even less willing to allow.

It's not out of kindness to Wayne that Vlad will keep mum about this.

His grip on his champagne flute tightens, just a bit. He's still aware enough of the world around him to not let it shatter in his hands. His plastered, pleasant smile tightens around the corners, and he forces his focus to slide from Damian to Wayne.

"The resemblance is uncanny, Mister Wayne." He says, slanting his smile to the side slyly. Although he's not talking about the resemblance between Wayne and his son. Rage simmers beneath his skin, burning coal and embers in the core of his chest, nestled between his lungs, as he meets the man's eyes.

Wayne swaggles his head proudly, his ditzy smile widening as he squeezes his son's shoulder affectionately. Bastard, Vlad wants to spit.

He breathes in through his nose, and exhales out through his mouth. The champagne in his hand cools, and stops its unusual bubbling.

The Damian boy scoffs under his breath, his mouth still coiled upward into a scowl. With the revelation of his blood relation to Daniel evident, Vlad's not sure if he should find it endearing or not.

He is not Daniel, so he decides that it's just simply irritating. He decides to ignore it.

"And you said he was your only biological son?" He asks, voice lilting and head tilting. He knows its a suspicious question at worst, insulting at best. But considering Wayne's past proclivities, he can hardly call it an unexpected question.

Damian puffs in great offense, face twisting angrily. It reminds him of Daniel when Vlad insisted that he was wrong about something or other, and for a moment his heart swells, fond.

But this is not his child, and so the feeling quickly crashes and burns, simmering back into rage. This was not Daniel -- this was his replacement. A replacement that Wayne was free to keep.

Wayne chuckles, idiotically, as if he'd said some funny joke. Vlad's other hand, the one gripping his cane -- something he's required ever since he was dispatched from the hospital all those lonely years ago -- tightens instead. He grinds his teeth -- him and Jack Fenton would get along like a house on fire, he hates it.

"I can understand why you'd ask that, Mister Masters," Wayne says, squeezing Damian's shoulder again, "but yes, Damian is my only biological son. Although that doesn't mean I don't love my other children any less."

Bastard.

For all his posturing and flouncing about caring for his city and his children, Vlad never would have thought the Prince of Gotham capable of abandoning one of them.

But, well.

They all have their dark secrets.

And what one man throws away, another man picks up. If Bruce Wayne didn't want the treasure child that was Daniel Brown, then Vlad Masters was more than happy to take him instead.

"I see."

[wispexists]

Watching Black Friday in 2020 after rewatching tgwdlm: oh wow is that the hot chocolate guy at the end? What a neat callback

Watching Black Friday now: FUCK FUCK FUCK THAT WAS PETE. THAT WAS PETE AT THE END. HE FUCKING DIED WITH EVERYONE ELSE. FUCK FUUUCK. THEY FUCKING KILLED HIM. HIS LAST MOMENTS BEFORE DYING WERE SPENT WITH HIS BROTHER. WHAT THE HELL MAN.