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Jabberwock Redesigns + Headcanons (pictures incld. read description)

Thought it'd be fun to redesign/edit pics of Jabberwock from knb, bc I've never really liked their designs (for various reasons).

This is a looooong post, so it's going below a cut, but I hope you enjoy!

Prefacing with these are just my opinions/headcanons.

One of my main issues with Last Game has always been the change in animation style. Characters' hair seems flatter, their eyes smaller, their frames lankier, they also seem much older than they actually are due to an abundance of fine linework. Another thing that always bugged me was Jabberwock. Besides from having only really 2 characters of note (Nash and Jason) their designs were just so....jarring. It didn't feel like these were characters who existed in the world of knb. So I've always wanted to try to redesign them. These are less redesigns, and more like headcanons + edits. I feel like I would draw them (namely Nick, Allen, and Zach) differently if I had the chance (to make them more distinct). But that is a job for another day. A post over on the other subreddit got me thinking harder about my Jabberwock headcanons, and I've always wanted to try to "fix" what I found wrong with their designs, so that's what this post is inspired by. I namely wanted to make it look like you could find these designs for Jabberwock in the anime TV series and not find them aesthetically out of place.

Before I get into my redesigns + explanations, I want to go over something very quickly.

Names in KnB

Canonically, every group/team/character in KnB is given a name with significance by the creator, Fujimaki-sensei. It's one of my most favorite things about knb; how much thought goes into a simple name. A character's first/given name in knb signifies their character traits (Ryouta means "cool boy", Shintaro means "serious son/boy", Atsushi means "serene", etc). A character's last/family name groups them together with their teammates with some sort of theme (the Miracles have colors in their family/lastnames, Kaijo's are names of Japanese rivers, Shutoku's are names of Japanese mountains, etc). Jabberwock's theme for last/family names is precious metals (as assigned by Fujimaki). Of the five significant/named characters in Jabberwock, only two of them have both a first/given and last/family name (Nash Gold Jr and Jason Silver). "Gold" and "silver" being the two precious metals represented by each character. The rest of Jabberwock doesn't have last/family names, and their first/given names are the reference to the precious metal (Allen; aluminum, Nick; nickel, Zach; zinc). So, you can see why this bothers me (bc I'm insane); only two characters match the rest of the knb's cast's pattern of naming. So, a major change I'd make would be to assign lastnames to/rename Allen, Nick, and Zach. But even then, Nash and Jason's last/given names are outliers too, as their names are simply the name of the previous metals by themselves. I've always seen Jabberwock as mirrors to the GoM, and the GoM's last/family names not only have the name of a color in them, but also another word, so their names aren't simply the name of a color on it's own (for example, Kuroko is "kuro" [black] + "ko" [child] and not just simply "Kuro" [Black]). So, if I had control, I would also modify Nash and Jason's last/family names so they weren't simply just the name of the previous metal on it's own. The GoM also have hair + eye colors that are reflective of the color in their names (besides Kuroko, who's color is "black", yet is assigned light blue). So, I would also recolor Jabberwock to have hair + eyecolors that match the colors of the precious metals in their names.

So, here are the main points to keep in mind as you read through this post and look at my redesigns:

- I want Jabberwock to look like they would fit into the anime TV series' style

- I would re-name them so they all fit a theme + pattern established by the main series/Fujimaki

- I would recolor their hair + eyes to reflect the colors of the precious metals alluded to in their names

Okay, now here we go.

Nash Goldbourne Jr.

I feel like Nash would have a name that sounds pretty distinguished, and is perhaps from a well-regarded family, but is sort of the wayward son. So, "goldbourne" seems sort of thematic to me (aka, it means to me "born-into-wealth"). I would also give him darker hair, that is more golden and less flaxen. His eyes are green canonically, but again, I want all of Jabberwock's hair and eye colors to match their precious metals, so I'd change those to gold too. I also feel like his Belial Eye would look extra cool all golden (and would serve as a good mirror to Akashi's golden Emperor Eye). He is also the only character in all of knb to have eyelashes the same color as his hair?? So I would take that away and make 'em black, like everyone else. Nash's OG design just looks too much like Alex (light blonde hair, green eyes) to me. (Alex also has black eyelashes despite being white, just as Nash, so it's not like it's a stylistic choice assigned to all caucasian characters). Jabberwock has a lot of piercings, so I thought it'd be fun if all their piercings were made of the precious metal in their names, so I changed Nash's silver piercings to gold. He still looks a little like Kise, but that was the case for his OG design anyway sooo. -shrug-

Jason Silverton

So. Elephant in the room; anime is notoriously bad at designing characters' of African descent. In specific, I've noticed over the years that a lot of anime artists love to give African characters beady eyes, despite the fact that every other characters' eyes are exaggerated/accentuated. They also love to add a lot of fine linework, which, imo, creates the illusion of wrinkles, which can cause characters to look significantly older than they actually are. Fujimaki/knb is no exception. Jabberwock's members are all in their late teens-early 20s (at most). So, basically, you'll notice a major thing I did for all of Jabberwock's members (that I personally think improved their designs significantly) was simply enlarge their eyes and irises + remove some of their wrinkles. Canon Jason's hair is also very white to me, and doesn't really convey "silver" imo. I don't think I executed it that well, but I think it would be fun if Jason had that same duo-toned hair that Kagami and Aomine had. I think it would be a fun way to allude to the reflective/shiny nature of actual silver. I don't really have a fun explanation behind "Silverton" like I do for Nash's lastname, other than I think it sounds nice and that something, somewhere in the far recesses of my mind is telling me that some sort of irl athlete has the last name Silverton...? Someone lmk is I'm crazy or not.

Nicholas "Nick" Nickells

His OG design wasn't so bad, but he suffered from small eyes + excessive wrinkles like everyone else, so I adjusted those to help make him look younger. If I had full control, I'd probably make his hair sliiightly longer, so that Nick's hair less resembles Jason's hair and also makes it so Nash doesn't stand out too much as the only character with longer hair (I think it'd help make him look more youthful too). Also, I had no issue with his OG hair color, but since I wanted to keep him on theme with everybody else, I changed his hair color to resemble the hue of actual nickel a little more (and his piercings!). Canonically, he is only known as "Nick", and since I decided to give all the lastname-less Jabberwock characters lastnames, I thought "Nick Nick____" would sound very cheesy. And since nicknames are a big thing in the US, I thought it'd be fun that what if his firstname was actually "Nicholas", and all his boys simply dubbed him "Nick" based on his lastname/nickname for his given name?

Zach Bronsley

First things first: I gave him less wrinkles, bigger eyes + irises. Now we are truly entering my "I'm doing whatever I want" portion of this post lol. Canonically, "Zach" is suppose to alluded to "zinc" but it doesn't convey that like at all to me. Zinc is also grey-ish and we've got too many elements that color already imo. Plus, we have gold and silver, why not have a bronze, to truly round out the Olympic medals? (lol). So, since I changed his precious metal to "bronze", I recolored his eyes, eyebrows, and 'stache (to a lesser extent) to be more bronze-y. Plus, piercings are now made of bronze!

Allen Copperty

Last but not least, we have our camera-shy Allen. Seriously, it was so hard to get a decent pic of him (and even then, Nick is still in this frame, I just cropped him out lol). Again; bigger eyes + irises, less wrinkles. His canon element is also aluminum, and just like with "Zack" + "zinc", I don't get "Allen" from "aluminum" at all (plus it's also another grey-ish metal grrrr!!). So, I decided to change his precious metal too. Copper is a very iconic precious metal to me so it came to mind/seemed fitting. Also, if we have nickel, it only seemed right to have copper. So I changed his hair and eye color to a more orangey/coppery brown. And his jewlery, but probably not made of actual copper, bc that shit would turn green so fast lol. I also think it'd be quite fun if he had medium-length dreads or something (akin to Meguro's, but with Allen's sweatband pushing them back, plus perhaps copper-toned tips?; it'd also help make him look more youthful). But I wouldn't have been able to edit that well, so just accept this for now.

And that's that!

If you read all the way to the end, thank you! Again, this is just for fun and I don't mean to upset anybody. These are just choices/changes that I personally would make, hypothetically. Lmk what you think!

[knbzone]

[sportanime-maniac]

Midorima, Aakashi, Tsukki and Akashi soulmates have character like Zachary Smith (yOU hAVe tO WATch his "If i was in mean girls" "Target with Zach" and "If I was in "It") she's very loud, shameless, savage and annoying [she can make anybody laugh] but at the same time she's v nice to people she care about but at the same time she will roast them? Sorry if this is kinda weird and also sorry English is not my 1 language. I send you hugs tho

THANK YOU FOR THE HUGS. IM GIVING YOU SOME TOOO 💙💙 Also your English is AWESOME shush 😁😁 I hope you like what I’ve written and sorry if they’re short💙❤💙

Midorima - KnB

The green haired male was practicing his shooting as he always does, in the gym. As he shot a ball from the halfway line, he heard a familiar voice saying,“AW HELL NAW BITCH! IM GOING IN THAT GYM AND THERE IS NOTHING YOUR ASS CAN DO ABOUT IT!” He sighed and reassured himself that his lucky item was round his neck. Today since it was the month of Pisces, it was an amethyst necklace. The door slammed open and a female walked in, a bright smile on her face.“Midorima, you left your book in class and that teacher, oh girl she had the nerve to send here!!” she greeted. He gasped silently. Thise were the words on his wrist. They were soulmates.“Um, thank you, ___,” he replied. Her eyes turned into saucers and they met in the middle.“Yo ass had better not be thinking what I think it’s thinking,” she told him.“What trouble did you get into this time ___?” he asked, a little irritated. The two were in the same class, but they had never spoken to each other before today. She raised an eyebrow.“What’s climbed up your ass?” she asked. At this point the whole basketball team was listening.“Nothing has ‘climbed up my ass’ as you so said. You were screaming your head off like a camp man out there, and I can’t exactly have my soulmate getting into double all the time can I?” he told her. She laughed.“That was some other first year. They were spying on all of you, from a different school, so I scared them off,” she told him, showing that she really did mean well.“Tch, you didn’t have to do it so extravangently!” he chastised her.“GIRL I JIST SAVED YOUR TEAMS ASS AND YOU GO AND SASS ME LIKE THAT? MHMM, YEAH? IM TALKING TO YOU MIDORIMA!” she started the talk….you know that camp sounding sass voice. The team was in fits, surprised someone spoke to Midorima like that. The Generation of Miracles shooter couldn’t help but crack a small smile. This was the reason he liked her, even before they were soulmate. She was the only one who could actually make him smile. Every other smile was of his own volition.“Yeah yeah, ___, go and do something else. Thanks for scaring off the spy, but your face could scare even the most seasoned of horror gamers,” he said. The female acted like she had been shot through the heart, stumbling backwards, before falling onto the gym floor.“How could you? My heart just broke!” she said with an eccentric flare. The team just ignored her and but couldn’t stop grinning.'Looks like I did my job,’ she thought to herself, smiling and going to sit on the benches to watch her new found soulmate.

Akashi - KnB

___ was skipping through school, along to her locker. She had been off school for a while since she was visiting family in Canada.“Excuse me! ___-san! No skipping!” a voice said. Her first reaction was to reply.“NO YOU EXCUSE ME GIRL! HOW DARE YO- wait what did you just say?” she asked, realising he had spoken the words that she had bandaged up on her arm to cover them. The male that she didnt recognise immediately approached her.“Did I hear you right?” he asked….or more like demanded. She nodded, sort of still in shock. He looked at her arm, and frowned.“Why do you have them covered?” he asked. She raised an eyebrow.“Ever heard the rumour that if your soulmate goes through something traumatic, or dies, their words begin to cry?” she asked him. His mouth opened and she allowed him to take off the wrapping. Sure enough, the words looked like tears had been dropped on them and had started to bleed and blur.“Yeah, so I’m only gonna say this once. I care about you, but around people, I’m eccentric. Don’t come seeking help if I’m in a crowd because I’m insecure as neck, And that’s my only coping mechanism,” she told him, before taking the wrap back, and walking off.The two had got together and sorted through Akashi’s personality problems but ___ wouldn’t seem to let Akaashi change her eccentricity. But he wouldn’t change it for the world. It was one of the brightest things in his life at the time. Currently they were before a game, and ___ was talking to the team.“Hey, ___!” a voice called. She turned.“BOI DONT CHU COME IN HERE AND TALK TO ME LIKE YOU KNOW ME. I’M HERE AS A MANAGER, NOT A PRETTY FACE!” she said, clicking her fingers.“But ___-”“Nope. Don’t even think about it girl. You don’t think I could be a pretty face? Huh? WELL BOOM BITCH, I AM! DEAL WITH IT!” she yelled, in the most camp voice. It made Akashi smile to see her fitting in so well, although she was still awkward and sometimes her eyes held a little darkness, she was genuinely caring for everyone, all the time.

Akaashi

The second year setter packed up his bags and walked up to Bokuto’s classroom. When he walked in, he saw Bokuto having a conversation….with a female. He blinked in surprised before starting to walk over.“But ___-channn, you should be our manager!” Bokutos whined.“Oh yeah? MHMM? That’s real funny Bo, but I’m part of the going home club for a reason….I WANNA GO HOME GURL!” the female replied. Akaashi was intrigued. She had an untouchable aura about her.“Bokuto-san, you’re going to be late to practice,” Akaashi told the third year.“Oh! Akaashi! This is ___-chan. ___-chan this is Akaashi,” Bokutos introduced them.“Its good to meet you. You seem interesting. Sorry to interrupt,” he apologised. Her eyes narrowed ever so slightly.“Its fine Akaashi. I’ll see you round?” she asked, and his eyes widened. He turned to Bokuto.“I’ll be down to practice in a bit. I need to go to the nurse. See you soon,” he told him and the owl ace went flying off.“So, damn you’re my soulmate? I got hella lucky. Hit the jackpot,” she smirked. He chuckled.“You’re too kind ___,” he said. She raised an eyebrow.“Don’t expect it to last,” she chuckled, handing him a piece of paper with her phone number on it before walking out.Sure enough, they were on a date to the arcade and she started arguing with the machine.“OH YOUD BETTER NOT FALL! NU UH. IF YOU EVEN O H H E L L N A W!!!” she basically screeched. Akaashi smiled a bit at her attitude. He didn’t think he’d like her eccentric behaviour, but she doesn’t do it all the time. Only when she’s happy and in front of people to cheer up. He leart to love her how she was, and she loved him just as much, being able to read him and cheer him up every time.

Tsukishima

He was sat in class alone listening to music, since he was the first in the classroom in the morning, when another student walked in. He kept his eyes closed and ignored them of course. When he felt a tap on his shoulder, he glared at the person and took his headphones off.“Did you just glare at me? I think you did. Well, it that case you don’t need your exam table do you?” she asked. He didn’t react, even though those were the same words written on the forearm of his left arm.“Whatever. That’d just be an asshole move,” he replied. A large smirk made it’s way onto her face and he couldn’t help but mirror her.“Oh yeah? Well who was the one that saaame some first hm? Oh wait it was your sorry ass. Now if yo want this timetable, youd better come and see my ass after school,” she said to him, passing him, being rude to him, flirting with him, and odering him about, but the usual cold Tsukishima chuckled.“Alright, you got yourself a deal, soulmate. I’ll see you on the roof after school,” he told her, and she smirked at him.The two of them got closer and closer until it was difficult to distinguish between their personalities. Tsukishima gained a little (lot) of sass, while ___ became more teasing and closed off.

[rhapsody-crossing]

Memories of Oceanink Series (Season 3) - Part 3

5. Moving Forward

The defeat of Kaiyo was a good beginning, but the fact that they have struggled against them a bit does cause for some concern. Midnight Turfers was our next opponent, and they seemed tough, scoring a 5 - 1 over Pier Pressure. However, our match against them was deferred as they had insufficient members to play for the weekend, so this gave us more time to practice.

On week 2, personal issues cropped up for Captain DBen. Upon learning what had happened, I accepted that Splatoon 2 would be the last thing in his mind at the moment and decided to take a more proactive approach in scheduling matches and team managing. The loss of a captain’s lead is often a blow to the team’s morale, I was determined to make t!slots busy with action.

It was DoTS’ first time to Oceanink Series. I want them to have a good time, improve, and gain confidence in their plays.

But to do so means having to take steps to look out for them; I was well aware that t!slots is no Tofu, Furi and I would most likely be the pillars to assist the team. It helped that one’s a slayer and one’s an anchor, so one would lead the battle and cut through the first wave, and the other would defend and watch everyone’s back.

However, that wasn’t all. I want to leave a mark on Oceanink season 3 by getting t!slots to top 3 of the division. I want to do something that KnB couldn’t do in the past, while leading a ragtag bunch of players.

Gone were the hopes of balancing my “new life” and Splatoon 2. I got very invested in researching opponents, getting to know my teammates’ playstyle and weakness, watching some higher division vids, and managing scrims.

Scrim is especially important, as there is nothing practice cannot make better and t!slots need all the help they can get.

Sadly, scrims also led to an incident with XGB.

6. That Incident

XGB was a team formed and led by louhai, a former member of Tofu in hopes to satisfy his long-term thirst for competitive battling and also to achieve his E3 dreams.

For Oceanink though, XGB’s captain role fell on Wee, most likely due to administration not being louhai’s forte, Wee’s consistent availability when it comes to Oceanink matches and Wee’s decent PR skills.

It all started when sot had been trying to lock on a scrim time with XGB to no avail, the issue escalated when VerniySefaro got the time before us in a day and we didn’t. Anger, tinged with insecurities (Of course they’ll pick Sefaro first, they have better players and serve a better challenge. louhai fucking likes Naj and Kent. Of course, of course.), threatened to fill, but wanting to know the truth is more important.

Discussing with louhai did not help, for louhai’s team pride is strong. He knew nothing much about t!slots’ request and was defensive on how Wee or XGB does things. Nevertheless, the short interaction was enough to know that Wee was supposed to be in charge of the managing part, so I brought up my concerns to Wee instead.

Knowing Wee’s reasons sparked fire; sure, the reason wasn’t the favoritism that I thought, but it was still a form of favoritism that led to this negligence. It was also a negligence that stemmed from the lack of passion in Splatoon 2, Oceanink and one’s team in general. All these just pushed my wrong buttons, especially when t!slots is a victim from this negligence.

This led to a scathing lecture of Scrim Etiquette 101, consequences of his actions and responsibilities of being a team captain, followed by a quick re-arrangement and t!slots indeed getting the scrim in the end.

louhai proudly showed me the screenshot of how Wee confirmed the scrim arrangement with t!slots among team. I said nothing, allowing him to believe in the illusion of his chosen’s captain capability.

The whole incident, despite the fix, left a bad taste in my mouth but also led me to search for scrim alternatives. Sources had implied that Nameless would be less inclined to scrim with us due to our recurring connectivity issues, XGB’s team management is a mess that they could not even manage a scrim properly, VerniySefaro is in the same division and therefore out of the question unless we fought each other (which isn’t until week 4, which would never happen because our match was later deferred). 

Just briefly, I missed how simple my Splatoon 2 life used to be.

(Bonus:

a) Bibu ended up not being able to turn up for that night’s scrim due to a sudden family outing. Kuniki subbed in for us, and the entire scrim became a grudge match between him and Wee.  b) On the brighter note, XGB (particularly Zach and Josh) did learn to stand up by themselves without their captain; doing map runs and scrims with them became easier due to sot and Josh/Zach(not a ship!)’s close relationship. c) *cha team would later be our ongoing scrim partner. Their advice would serve to help us tremendously. d) BK was a busy man behind-the-scenes, trying to maintain good relations between Sefaro, t!slots and XGB. Kudos, BK, kudos.)

With that, 2 weeks passed by quickly. Our matches were arranged. We would be facing Pier Pressure on Saturday and Midnight Turfers on Sunday.

Read Part 4 HERE

[joligarcon]

i got tagged by @yehetnoodleboy so lets go!

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

Nickname: zach

Star Sign:  libra

Height: 5′1 / 155cm

Time right now: 9:34 am

Last thing googled: cant remember

Favorite bands: mother mother, and........i cant really think of anything else. foster the people maybe?

Favorite solo artists: troye sivan obviously......... cos im gay

Song (s) stuck in your head: baby boy - mother mother

Last movie watched: the croods

Last TV show watched: spongebob

When did you create your blog: early 2011 ive been here for a very long time.....i have seen things

What kind of stuff do you post: anime, aesthetics, humour, personal posts, sometimes politics

When did your blog reach it’s peak: probably in 2014 when i kept asking for promos and i got like 300 new followers within a month

Do you have any other blogs: i have a nsfw blog but its not very active

Do you get asks regularly: ill get some once in a while but its not something that happens every single day

Why you chose your url: i wanted a url that wasnt fandom-related (otherwise it makes me feel like im misleading people into thinking i only post things related to [fandom] and it makes me anxious) so i just sort of....came up with it. its “pretty boy” in french

Following: 202

Posts: 66 029 jesus fucking christ thats a lot of posts

Hogwarts house: ravenclaw

Pokemon team: mystic

Favorite colours: cool colours (blue, purple...)

Average hours of sleep: lets say 8

Lucky Numbers: 7, 16, 17

Favorite characters: this is a really difficult question cos ive got way too many... if anything, people usually associate me with murasakibara from knb, shaiapouf from hxh and josuke from jjba

What are you wearing right now: a red sweater with jeans

How many blankets do you sleep with: 2

Dream job: professional comic book artist but, more realistically, im studying to become an art history teacher in cegep

Dream trip: paris so i can finally meet my best friend, then id like to go to somewhere in japan, and another european city. and i want to go back to ottawa and bathurst

im not gonna tag 20 people cos thats a lot but i will tag @squirrelfights @darkmasterofdragons @little-violence @transoiks @playstation04 @yuk1zome and anybody who feels like doing this