#kira is Good and i Love her

[cattrek]

death to fascism! freedom to the people!

[thunderandsage]

jadzia: *wears klingon battle armor*

me: *sweating* uh oh, this better not awaken anything within me…

[longagoitwastuesday]

I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha

I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.

I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.

It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.

Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?

And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.

The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.

These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?

Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.

The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.

After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.

[galpalaven]

Loved the cameo of the Hero of Ferelden in Absolution 😌

Art by the love of my life @vanityvampire / @luxecoffin as a Christmas gift! Their commissions are open too if you want a fake screenshot of your OCs!!!

[totheidiot]

i discovered the death note musical yesterday and my life has been Changed.

[loudfederationscreeching]

possibly controversial take but neither of kiras so called boring love interests (bareil and shakaar) are boring imo

like obviously i get wanting her to be gay, kira deserves to be gay, and seeing her constantly paired up with guys can be grating

but bareil is a vedek who champions peace and cares about bajor and its future and stability so much that he literally works himself to death to establish a fair peace treaty with the cardassians

and shakaar is literally the leader of kiras former resistance cell. he becomes prime minister after standing up to kai winn alongside kira, using the tactics they used for all those years. theyve known each other a long time, later find they have feelings for each other, and then eventually split amicably, remaining friends. he doesnt have the MOST interesting personality, but hes steady and kind, and these episodes add a lot of great dimension to kira

if they sometimes come off as boring, i think its because they do their job narratively and dont eclipse kira in their episodes, and instead further her journey

and both of these men are also instrumental in the buildup as kai winn as a villain (winn lets bareil die and opposes shakaar), all the antipathy that we feel for her is rooted in these arcs. so on that basis alone i think theyre worth being remembered positively

[bmpmp3]

and since im in a musicposting mood you should listen to jellyfish right NOW

[heyheydidjaknow]

Hello! I don't know if you still do Death note. But I was thinking, before Light get's the death note. He was bored of his life, (Although still had the sense of justice) But when he got the death note. He seemed to change. What if he met the "Reader" Before the death note? And he doesn't have that boring empty feeling anymore? If you could I'd like the reader to have Gender pronouns. I just can't write fanfiction so I wanted to make a request to a good writer!

I do write Death Note stuff still. I am so sorry that you asked me; I am a very anti-Light kind of person.

Light Yagami is inherently a self-righteous man with lofty ambitions. One use into the Death Note and he considered bullying a boy out of his lunch money a crime punishable by death. He was his happiest when he was Kira and, when he had the opportunity and means to get into relationships with people, he made no effort to. He does not care for interpersonal relationships. He does not care for adoration. He cares for power. A relationship would most likely not be enough for him to find fulfillment; his ambitions are just too lofty for that to satiate him. If he wanted a relationship, he could find one.

Let’s say he did get into a relationship with you. Let’s say he invested all his the time and energy he put into being Kira into you. Your life as an independent person would essentially be over. He would be incredibly possessive and maybe even physically abusive. He would hold you to incredibly high moral and societal standards regardless of whether you are or are not capable of achieving them. If you were unable to meet those standards, he would quietly block your number and forget all about you unless or until you can prove yourself useful. If he didn’t, then he would not be breaking up with you because of appearances and would just decide to be quietly miserable.

[heatwa-ves]

Did you already get to jojos part 5?? 😳

I DIDN'T I'm near the end of part 4 there's like 10 episodes left or something but I saw this post earlier and. what if I exploded forever.

[keeps-ache]

redesign :D

[theamazingannie]

Watching the Malia/Kira dance scene at the beginning of season 4 makes me so sad oh how we could have had it all

[thebirdandhersong]

Clark and Lana, Scott and Allison. Do you get what I'm saying?

[queen-scribbles]

Bad boy, Jhesen, that’s not the Jedi way😋

[remythologise]

hanging out w my best friend today for several hours who has not seen good omens but wants to watch good omens and has somehow not been spoiled for good omens while I have JUST come off no sleep marathon of watching good omens s2. god’s hardest battles to his silliest soldiers

[endlessfandomverse]

god. early seasons kira nerys rewired my brain.

[nimx]

the new kira song is bad