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strawberrieas · 3 years ago

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Hi I love your writing style and agree we are starved of Asura content so any Asura x y/n headcannons!!

DATING HEADCANONS // KISHIN ASURA

# GENRE. general

# RUNDOWN. my thoughts on what dating Asura would be like that no one (except for this lovely anon) asked for <3

# WARNINGS. not proof read, scratching at skin, mentions of killing but it’s the physical embodiment of fear and madness what did you expect <3

# NOTE. i was praying for someone to request something Asura related, love you for this anon❤️now everyone keep in mind that dating hot psychotic death gods is looked down upon and you should never do it because i’ll be insanely jealous

✁ First of all, what fucked up trauma did you have to go through to make you willing to date the fucking Kishin in the first place

✁ You either dig the whole “i can change him” stereotype, are into mentally deranged men, have a bondage kink, or just like him because he’s super hot

✁ Not that I’m judging since I fall into most of those categories

✁ You’re delusional if you think any relationship with this man wouldn’t be toxic and unhealthy, but im delusional too so let’s get into it

✁ It’s unlikely that you’d last a week just being around him before you lose your mind, and that’s assuming that you have the mental strength to withstand the amount of madness being inflicted on you by just standing next to him for longer than a minute, but for the sake of romance you’re different and it’s not a problem

✁ It’s a miracle that he didn’t end up killing you out of fear alone

✁ Props to you for managing to put up with him

✁ Dating Asura absolutely is not a walk in the park so please be prepared you will be put through hell

✁ Assuming you’re anything other than human since I doubt you’d last long enough for him to take interest in him with a short mortal life, you got together well before he was locked away

✁ If you were willing to be with him despite the fact that he was killing hundreds of thousands and even swallowed his own partner, then there’s a good chance that Lord Death threw you in a sack of your own skin too for fully supporting and encouraging Asura

✁ As he should you crazy bitch

✁ If he for some reason showed you mercy or you managed to get away and didn’t get locked up, then you’re the first person he thinks of going to the moment he’s freed

✁ Onto the actual relationship, you’d be entirely grateful that Asura wasn’t afraid of you enough to deem you as a threat and someone he needed to get rid of, meaning you were safe from him and had no reason to worry that he’d ever think to harm you

✁ Try not to think too much about the fact that his scarves are made from his own skin, because he definitely uses them a lot on you

✁ You’re sitting to far from him? He’s lifting you up using the scarves and setting you down beside him just because he likes it when you’re close

✁ You’re wandering too far off when it’s dangerous every once in a while? There’s a bandage wrapping around your wrist and dragging you back too him anytime you get too far for his liking

✁ There’s literally no escaping him. If the two of you are sleeping together and you try to get up for whatever reason, don’t be surprised if you feel yourself getting tied up and practically yanked back into bed with a pair of arms wrapping around you

✁ If you try to get him to let you go he’ll try to play it off and act like he’s asleep but you both know he’s wide awake and can hear every complaint from you demanding he let you go so that you can go to the bathroom

✁ Likes being held by you and resting his head on your chest, we all saw the way he was laid up with Arachne🤨

✁ You’re his personal pillow and frankly the only one he likes to use, get used to it

✁ The only time it’s reversed and he’s holding you is when he’s feeling possessive

✁ His mood shifts a lot and it’s extremely hard to keep up with his scrambled mind so trying to understand him is a task in and of itself

✁ Whenever he’s having moments where he’s spiraling into madness, scratching at his head and destroying anything that isn’t you within a 20 mile radius, completely in his own world, try to help bring him back down and regain his senses

✁ You’re probably the only person in the world that can pull him out of his own fear driven self inflicted attacks, which is most likely because you’re the only one who has the guts to approach him when he’s in that state and clearly not in his right mind

✁ A lot of normal relationship things are out of the question for the two of you for obvious reasons, so you make due with what you have

✁ Likes receiving affection from you more than he’d like to admit, but returns it in very strange ways, if at all

✁ Asura thinks things like wrapping you up and keeping you by his side at all times is a sweet gesture, after all you’re spending time together aren’t you??? Get used to you not having to walk because he’ll be carrying you (and by carrying you I mean wrapping you in a bandage and bringing you alone like a stray balloon) 24/7. It’s the thought that counts I guess.

✁ He bites. Not in a sexual way, not most of the time, anyway he just sinks his teeth into your flesh any time he’s near any exposed skin and doesn’t pull away until there’s a clean bite mark left behind. You’ve asked him many times why he does it and to fucking stop because it hurts like hell his jaw game is no joke but never get a direct answer from him.

✁ Whether that’s because he refuses to tell you or because he doesn’t actually have a reason for it, you’ll never know

✁ Isn’t against laying his head in your lap, whether it’s to have you play with his hair or for you to calm him down when he’s losing it, thrashing around and clawing at his own skin

✁ Asura is also a cynical bastard that will poke fun at you whenever he gets the chance, so get used to him teasing a lot

✁ In canon? Please run for the nearest exit and pray you make it in time because there’s no way you’d be able to withstand Asura

✁ I also feel compelled to add the fact that it is canon that Asura likes baggy clothing and wearing lots of it so stealing and wearing his clothes would be comfortable as hell

✁ He’ll get annoyed with you for taking his clothes since he prefers wearing as much as possible, but doesn’t complain too much since he also enjoys seeing you in his clothes that are almost always guaranteed to be way too big

✁ He doesn’t really need to sleep, but after you two get together he finds that he can’t sleep without you

✁ Asura is known for quite literally being afraid of everything, so he sees you being the one person he doesn’t fear as a good thing, now you’re somewhat of a safe zone and guardian

✁ You take care of the small things that he is afraid of, even when he’s more than capable of handling it himself. The occasional bug that would be seen crawling around, any type of wild animal you’d come across that’s too noisy for his liking, curious humans who are unlucky enough to stumble across the two of you and serve has not only a threat but a source of human souls. You name it, he’s afraid of it and you’re getting rid of it.

✁ Whatever you two have going on, it’s both dangerous and oddly secure for the both of you.

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nissakii · 4 years ago

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Significance of “Madness” in anime

We’ve already established in other posts about significant emotions and concepts in anime or specific media before. The Significance of losing or the one of visuals and metaphors in Haikyuu!! are some of those I would love to mention here, but today we shall delve into a broader topic that goes more along the lines of Makii’s thrilling post about Danganronpa and the Significance of Despair.

Today, our topic of interest is madness.

To ease your mind, in this post we will be talking about the representation of insanity and madness in some anime characters and how that reflects on the story and ourselves as an audience.To make one thing clear, a lot of the times we see overexaggerated versions of unstable characteristics in anime that aren’t realistic.

This is in no way a discussion about actual mental illnesses and not a professional approach to analysing them to our real life standards, but maybe a start to an interesting discussion about how we portray and handle what one may colloquially call “craziness”.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s start!

Artists, and no matter for example if they write or draw, use their platforms to deliver messages in cryptic ways. As humans, we have the innate ability to look at something and consume the facts through entertainment which makes us crave new media to follow and analyse.

We love to question things instead of just taking them as they are, and that is why most writers out there will play around with the perception of their audience.

You may be familiar with the common question that ghosts through your head as you enjoy the latest episode of your favorite anime.

Why did he do that? Is she a traitor? What makes them think that way?

Although one might always do it consciously, we most definitely analyse whatever media we consume and decide for ourselves if it is important enough to keep in mind for future reference.

What the writer or founder of the anime ultimately wants from the reader is a reaction.

No matter what they intend to do with it, if they enjoy the viewer getting excited or traumatised is not of importance, but a reaction is evidently one of the goals.

And as strong emotions always evoke an even stronger reaction, anime characters are often very idealized and have ideologies that make them want to do one particular thing.

Be it save the world or destroy it, we focus and look at these characters and root for them if they give us a reason to do so.

Both sides of good and bad can have deeply rooted admiration drawn out of us, and it sometimes doesn’t even matter because the more interesting part is the lovely grey area in between.

We need a balance of good and bad to enjoy both.

Empathy makes us viewers want to relate to the characters, and if the author gives us the possibility to learn why someone does something, it gets harder and harder to dislike them. That’s why tragic backstories and flashbacks are such an overused tool in anime, because with the extreme behaviour some characters show they also need equal amounts of redemption.

We attach ourselves emotionally to characters depending on our personal tastes as well.

If someone likes and relates to a strong and independent protagonist who would drop anything for the sake of justice, you will find a lot of resembling characters in shounen for example.

On the other hand, if a darker or more obsessive character manages to take over a special place in a viewer’s heart, putting them on a pedestal gets more and more interesting, because you’re not supposed to.

Contrary to that, characters with insane or dark personality traits are often very popular, again tracing this back to human instinct of emphasising with wronged characters and curiously inspecting the fully deranged ones.

As this isn't something that should be put into vague concepts, we’re instead going to look at examples of characters and entities that are seen as ‘mad’ and how they’re interpreted.

It’s not just about villains being unreasonably immoral in this post, as we look into what madness entails and how it's shown, we also have some examples of corruption to look at.

So of course there are the typical evil-thinking evil-doing villains out there.

Some of them have an actual backstory to make them more realistic and believable, some others are just pure evil. While they are often called mad for their actions to achieve their goal, the reason why they are put into that light is the stark contrast between the protagonist and the villain.

If the protagonist loves to save people and always has a smile on his face, of course he will differ from his counterpart when he finds out that his methods are a bit more vicious.

The protagonist perceives the villain as insane most of the time, but what does the viewer think?

We seek to look not only at characters that are enjoyable to watch, but also try to find similarities between us and them or draw lines in their behavior to understand them better. As mentioned before, empathy plays a huge role here as well, since whatever happens in anime doesn't have actual repercussions, we can forgive characters more easily.

For example when they are taken by Insanity as a side effect rather than being insane due to trauma, we often get an 'ally turned traitor' trope through hypnosis or brainwashing, which is just as interesting to look at.

If a person did something horrible under the influence of something they had no control over, are they still to blame?

Does Insanity only involve a separate entity that comes from evil, or are we also looking at the gradual descent into darkness when life just isn't the same anymore?

Insane and with no fear: Soul Eater

A great example of how insanity plays with characters be they good or bad is Soul Eater.

With a premise that one needs a sound mind and body to inhibit a sound soul, we obviously know that people close to becoming Kishin-eggs will have a rotten soul drenched in bad deeds, but what about the good guys?

In this instance we have a lot of different types of madness and insanity that touches multiple characters at different times, and by far the most drastic would be the black blood.

The black blood being a synthesized weapon form of blood that can change form and harden into shape, is a weapon made by Medusa and introduced for the first time with Crona. He was melded together with Ragnarök as a weapon and used the black blood in his proficient fighting style.

Soul Eater as well as Maka and other characters later come into contact with the black blood, and the consequence of the immense strength that comes with it is debilitating madness.

As explained in the anime, the madness makes one deny the soul of oneself and others and takes away your fear. Now with no fear present, the person exhibits extremely erratic behavior and is not scared to hurt others or themselves.

This is an insanity that shows how essential a person's fear is, shown by Maka in one of the latest episodes when she fights Asura. The fact that she learned how to accept her own fear and realise that humans need it to survive is why insanity in Soul Eater is merely a concept to differentiate between what is human and what is Kishin.

A Kishin kills and murders with no fear of anything.

A human protects and masters one's own fear.

The power hungry insanity: Hunter x Hunter

In Hunter x Hunter we have a lot of characters that don't exactly fit the norm of human action.

With people like Chrollo, Illumi and even Chimera Ants there is enough crazy to go around.

Still, the character we shall delve into to look at a different kind of instability is none other than Hisoka Morow.

Yes, in comparison to black blood madness Hisoka is an actual human being with no known influence outside of his own intellect. The contrary to another weapon or entity making someone insane is being shown in this anime.

Hisoka is just insane.

We have no means to see if there is anything that might have caused Hisoka to be the way that he is, but what we do know is that his character is almost too nonchalant for his own good.

His goal is to accumulate power and fight others that he seems worthy, as that is what attracts him. No person is spared if he believes he found a worthy opponent he will make that clear to them and pursue them passionately.

We could rule that the clown is just eccentric, but with the given information from the anime he definitely had some sort of mental difference next to his peers. Harming himself holds no problem to him, and his behavior is deeply rooted only to suit himself. He has no self-preservation except for when he needs to accomplish something, and he even enters the spiders just to get close to Chrollo.

Now we see a single person carry themselves throughout a story only to achieve one thing: a good fight.

After having looked at these two examples of insanity in anime, let's look at how that insanity can be portrayed visually.

A famous way to show someone's psychosis is the “Kubrick stare”. A directorial technique that got named after the director Stanley Kubrick who used a forward tilt of the head with eyes locked onto the camera to show the actors of his movies at their peak of madness. It became a very popular stylistic device and is used still very often in modern movies.

The character is supposed to look menacing, evil-plotting and absolutely unhinged.

Such devices, if used often enough, automatically invoke the message to the viewer.

If you’ve seen the Kubrick stare once in a psychotic character, you will definitely associate it with the same derangement again.

In anime we have a similar thing, and you might be aware of this already.

Familiar with the ‘eye angle just before a character goes insane’ meme?

It’s a running gag that shows multiple characters such as Asura from Soul Eater, Pain from Naruto, Light from Deathnote and Jason from Tokyo Ghoul in a frame where you can only see their eyes and it somehow looks extremely grotesque as if they were looking into different directions with their eyes.

As much as it is a joke, it is a perfect example of something extremely similar to the Kubrick stare used in anime culture. It goes so far that if any anime watcher would see a new character look like in a frame, one would assume they were about to go crazy.

Even Oikawa Tooru from Haikyuu!! was shown with a Kubrick stare in the last moments of the second Seijoh vs. Karasuno game, when his desire to win overtook him with incredible force.

Without loss there naturally can’t be any wins, and without sadness there will be no joy in laughter.

We need the different depictions of what one might call madness, to fill our stories with nuance that relies on our reality.

Be it an unknown entity, hunger for power, lack of fear or the good old fashioned thrive for world domination.

Madness is just another part of what we call life, and to be honest in healthy doses and for effect why not enjoy it in anime?

Now, do you guys know any other characters or concepts in anime that would be worth mentioning? I would love to see them in the comments!

Until then, stay sane!

-Nissa

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hihowyoudoin00 · 4 years ago

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there is a serious lack of asura x reader from soul eater 💔💔 look i know he’s a kishin but he’s not that bad 😭 plz someone give me fics of him i beg

he doesn’t even have a tag

i just think he’s neat ��🤧

#soul eater #lord death #give me recommendations #this is sad

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vernedip · 6 years ago

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Soul Eater x Harry Potter

Man, does anyone even remember Soul Eater? I’ve recently just gotten back into it after nearly ten years, and now that I’m older, here’s a thought: A Soul Eater crossover with Harry Potter. But see, I may have just barely grasped how to write Soul Eater characters, but I have little to no idea how to write the Harry Potter characters right, which is disgraceful, since I’ve known Harry Potter longer. Anyways, I think I have the gist of the houses down.

Maka Albarn- Gryffindor. To be honest though, she could've fit in any of the houses. Hufflepuff values Loyalty and Welcoming members (like her handling Crona), Slytherin values Cunning and Ambition (like her desire to make both her and Soul strong enough for him to be recognized as a Death Scythe), Ravenclaw values Knowledge and Intelligence (she's quite the bookworm), but Gryffindor values Strength and Bravery, which is a main feat in the anime when Maka basically punches out a God of Fear, so...

Soul "Eater" Evans- Hufflepuff. As strange as it might sound, I've definitely noticed Soul's strong tie of loyalty that he shares with Maka, and his willingness to die for her sake, so I figured this would be the best house for him.

Black Star- Slytherin. The choice is pretty self-explanatory, really.

Tsubaki Nakatsukasa- Hufflepuff. Like her meister, I'm pretty sure the house I chose for her should be pretty easy to figure out.

Death the Kid- Ravenclaw. This one is actually more a close tie with Slytherin, with his ambition for a perfect and balanced world (I genuinely couldn't choose between the two). But then I remembered the small fact that was stated in the manga a couple times: Kid was created as an inexperienced and underdeveloped Grim Reaper (I could say Shinigami, but as this is a story written in English, I'll mostly follow the English terms for them) for a reason, that being so Kid could learn things and develop a sort of compassion and sympathy with creatures like humans (and witches, in the manga) that others before him (Kishin Asura and Lord Death) hadn't been able to completely gain. He was technically an experiment to create a Grim Reaper who would grow to learn things, and be the one controlling the Madness of Order, so he was literally made to learn.

Death the Kid (Alternative)- Slytherin. As I had mentioned before, Kid clearly has quite the obsession for order and balance in the world that was likely implanted there by the late Lord Death, as he was the fragment holding Death's Madness of Order, so I would assume he has set high ambitions revolving around that. There was even the whole ordeal with his madness taking over him in the Book of Eibon where he set his ambitions on the symmetry and balance of "nothing," so there was also that to take into consideration when figuring out what house Kid should be in, maybe he might even be accepted better because of his blood coming directly from the great Grim Reaper himself, unless Death is seen as a follower of Moldy Wart, of course.

Elizabeth Thompson- Hufflepuff. While Liz can be fairly brave at times, I don't think the level was enough to make me think of her as a good Gryffindor. Same for the others. She doesn't seem to have the right level of cunning, her only ambition seems to be the protection of both Kid and Patty, she doesn't seem to have much of a thirst for knowledge, as she slacked off during her studies for the Super Written Exam, and so on. But, like I said, despite mostly lacking in those departments, it certainly isn't hard to see that she's still very loyal and protective to her little sister and young meister, so Hufflepuff it is!

Patricia Thompson- Slytherin. Unlike her older sister, Patty's definitely more the daredevil type. With a personality similar to Black Star, I figured she would be that one type of ambitious where she would take on dares pretty darned recklessly and, even if the ideas are likely not the most cunning, I would consider that behavior pretty darned ambitious.

Then, the adults...

Spirit Albarn- Gryffindor, because, come on, we all must know that he isn't the cunning type, nor the witty type, and it's been established plenty of times that he's cheated on Maka's mother, so maybe not the most loyal either. It was more a process of elimination, really.

Franken Stein- Slytherin..? Maybe? To be honest, it was tough to decide between that and Ravenclaw, and the other two seem sort of out of the question, to be honest, but he didn't come across as a book person (he's a VERY practical man when it comes to obtaining knowledge), so I think I've kind of settled with Slytherin for him. Yeah.

Marie Mjolnir- Hufflepuff. In that choice, I have absolutely no doubts.

Sid Barrett- Hufflepuff. He seems like a caring individual, well, for the most part, anyways.

Mira Naigus- Hufflepuff. While she's the type to stick to the rules, I've gathered that she can be strongly loyal too, and wouldn't mind breaking a rule or two if she finds the actions of another unrighteous (like the deal with Kim being a witch).

I have plenty of scenes thought out, but I think I need a beta reader to check my depictions of the characters, most notable the HP cast.

#soul eater #harry potter #crossover #maka albarn #soul evans #black star #tsubaki #death the kid #elizabeth thompson #patricia thompson #liz #patty #spirit albarn #franken stein #marie mjolnir #sid barrett #mira naigus #I can't write

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