#kirari hikaru

[hikayunas]

[coffees-art]

♡~Let's Become Codependent~♡

[karin-misono]

[dragonyearjuri]

posting bad translated screenshots while counting days until new promised blood content

🐲days since yunajuri : 41🐯

bonus dumb scribble to go with today's post 👍

[promisedbloodbrainrot]

Happy 4 years to the event ever!

[mjlol52]

hikayuna handkerchief moment 😭😭 swearing to always be together and yuna calling her by her first name 😭😭😭

[feenixmork]

Last couple of shots from my JuriYuna "Fly Me To The Star"

[muffinrecord]

So you know how Hikaru has the Hikaru army for a magia

Could she use them to do chores?

or is this a strictly fighting thing.

Look I'm just saying, it'd be amazing for my adhd if I could expend a little magical power and cast spell "sootballs clean my room for me please"

[silvermoon424]

Magia Record school uniforms by ルル (@rurumagi on Twitter)

[hikayunas]

Hikaru being reduced down to nothing but "horse" jokes by the wider fandom -- instead of treated as a proper character to be examined and taken seriously -- is something that's stuck with me for a while. It's ironic, if a bit sad in its irony, once you think about it for a moment or two.

Hikaru being "the Horse" isn't just a gag thrown in for a cheap laugh -- "the Horse" is Hikaru's coping mechanism; how she dehumanizes herself, and creates a mental disconnect between herself and her identity as a Futatsugi magical girl -- as a weapon -- a tool -- to further Yuna's goals, for her use alone. Hikaru may not want to stain her hands for Promised Blood's goals, but if Yuna wills it, then Torayamachi's Horse certainly does -- "the Horse" will take as many lives as it can for Yuna, or die trying.

"The Horse" started off innocently enough; Yuna suggested it when she and Hikaru were both still fresh into the ranks of Futatsugi's magical girls. It was meant as nothing more than a nickname, inspired by Hikaru's ability to summon her army of smoke-puff soldiers -- Hikaru would be Yuna's Horse; her cavalry in the shadows to assist when called upon by their general.

But it did not stay that way. At least, not entirely. "The Horse" has certainly stuck around as Hikaru's playful nickname among Promised Blood's ranks -- but it runs much deeper than that; much deeper than Yuna ever intended for it to. For a nickname, it's incredibly personal to her -- she's quick to become offended when Juri makes a mocking play on it, calling her a "stupid mule" instead of the usual "Horse." And, constantly having the "Horse" title referenced in Promised Blood just reinforces the disconnect between Kirari Hikaru, Futatsugi citizen, and Torayamachi's Horse; pack animal, weapon, and tool for Kureha Yuna's use only. In Promised Blood, she is the Horse -- she is not Kirari Hikaru.

As far as coping mechanisms go, it's not as good as she believes it to be. It certainly does get her through the harder parts of magical girl life in Futatsugi, and later on, through the Kimochi wars as a member of Promised Blood, and it serves to connect her and help her bond with the other Promised Blood members -- but it is, by exact definition, dehumanization. Kirari Hikaru -- the Horse -- is not a person, she is not a human being; it is a pack animal, a weapon, a tool, for Kureha Yuna's use. Without Yuna, it is nothing.

Hikaru cheerfully agrees when Ao says that she really is an empty shell, grinning and chirping back without hesitation that as long as she's with Yuna, she's full. A horse needs its master; a weapon needs a general to wield it; a tool needs someone skilled to put it to use. Without someone to use them, they are useless. Without Yuna, the Horse is useless. If Yuna dies, the Horse -- and Hikaru, with it -- dies, too. Where Yuna goes, the Horse follows.

Every little thing that the Horse does is for Yuna. The Horse is not its own person; it's not a person at all. Yuna is Promised Blood's general, and a general needs her loyal horse. When all is said and done, Hikaru does not need to feel any guilt nor remorse for the blood on the Horse's saber, even if their sabers are one in the same. This is simply what the horse was meant to do. It was made to do this. The horse is not its own person; it's not a person at all. It is a pack animal, a weapon, a tool. Its decisions are not its own, and certainly not Hikaru's own.

...which is to say, boiling her character down to nothing but "horse" jokes is something that I think about a normal amount.

[coffees-art]

i- well, you see...

i have the hikajuri brain rot...

[link-lonk]

Side by sides of their normal and adult magical girl outfits. I like how Yuna and Juri stay the same height but Hikaru gets a lot taller.

[dragonyearjuri]

i'm going insane

i'm going insane

I'M GOING INSANE

adult costumes on home screen!!

baby ao on the home screen!!!!!

ADULT MAGICAL GIRL OUTFITS!?!??!!!????

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[promisedbloodbrainrot]

HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT

Edit: I've calmed down a bit so, it seems that the new meguca's name is Mitsuru

(The name was also seen in Part 1 of Crimson Resolve, when Juri was reading her romance manga)

[mjlol52]

read yuna's mss today, juriyuna is kinda cute but hikayuna still clears i love how they play off eachother and when yuna had hikaru speak in front of the parents association and the lacross teacher vouched for her getting better and stuff was very cute and good

[doppel-tournament]

ROUND 1, Part 3