#kyatt

[teabiscs]

Mayblade 2024: Day 18 - Spirit

a very literal take. this one was finished down to the wire. literally finished this at 2am with 1% charge on my tablet. also another mayblade drawing of kai crying over his dead boyfriend.

[mon3trous]

so it turns out there is a small but active og beyblade fandom on tumblr? perfect, have my shitpost i drew a while ago while watching vforce

[letstalkaboutbeyblade]

Another Kai and Wyatt pic. Can you tell they are my favorite ship? In this one Kai overdid it with the self tanner lol. Wasn't me reaching for the wrong marker. Not at all.

[textsfrombeybladers]

The Beyblade fandom doesn’t have nearly enough Kyatt fanart.

I said what I said.

[ginger-grimm]

Oh, and I want to hear more about the cross country trip with Sam and Sabine!! I MUST KNOW ALL THE SHENANIGANS!!

OMG SO MUCH HAPPENS ITS ACTUALLY NUTS

Sab really does almost fall off a cliff, the terrain is foreign to her so she starts slipping and sliding, they're very careful where they step after that

One night they hear sniffling and growling outside of their tent and they stay so very quiet. Their entire camp is ransacked the next night and they later on see a bear aways away

Kurt and Wyatt go searching for berries and Kurt has a little guide to make sure they don't poison themselves - he's so proud of himself that he takes a million pics to send to Burt and Carole

They keep telling each other stories about serial killers who hunt in the woods, not realizing that they're all freaking each other out until it's too late and don't sleep until 3am because every noise could be a murderer

Sam thinks his backpack is haunted because he keeps tipping over with it, he refuses to admit that he packed too much stuff

They make s'mores because Wyatt has never done that and he wants to do that later with Mouse

There's a strict singing ban, Sabine can't take it anymore

Whenever it rains, Sab and Sam huddle close together for warmth and Kurt enjoys falling asleep to the sound of rain hitting his tent

On the last day, Sabine allows them to sing one song - the Campfire Song from Spongebob

[peonyprophet]

It's wild and it sucks that a portion of language evolution is caused by a percentage of people not understanding a word and using it incorrectly until that becomes so common the new definition is just accepted. Like I understand how and why that happens, but it is frustrating when you know what a word has always meant or what the proper grammatical form should be and now you just have to work it into your understanding of reality that it sometimes is also this other thing because idk a bunch of people said so. And yeah I know all language is fake, but you get what I mean too right?

[teabiscs]

Ah, young love.

Or something.

One day they’ll be happy.

[textsfrombeybladers]

You will absolutely never convince me those two didn’t make out at some point

Oh no! 😭😭😭😭

The thumbnail says that Wyatt’s gonna defect, cuz Kai rejecting the simp “plz help me” and now he’s gonna turn to someone who WON’T isolate him!!

[rainbowbeanart]

Space Kyatt

[letstalkaboutbeyblade]

Love hurts.

Cheers to my favorite dumpsterfire couple/cautionary tale.

Like Romeo and Juliet, they think it's the outside forces keeping them apart, but really these two are their own worst enemy.

[textsfrombeybladers]

Kai’s first plot line in V-Force absolutely fascinates me and I feel like no one ever talks about it.

Here me out: Kai’s plot primarily involves his relationship with Wyatt and the grief he feels after losing him, but why? Sure, he believes himself at fault for his death, but have you ever noticed how strange Kai behaves during this period? The season goes out of its way to acknowledge that Kai has a tendency to just leave while his team is talking, never giving us a clear answer as to why. It’s literally never even brought up, even though the time is taken to show the audience that it’s happening. Kai is also the only one to genuinely appear affected by what happened during Wyatt’s battle with Dunga, enough where he not only begins to hallucinate, but also seems to have a rather genuine PTSD episode. If Tyson hadn’t yelled at him, he literally would have walked right off of the ledge of the beydish. If Wyatt died in Kai’s arms that day, why is he the only one having such a strong emotional reaction? Realistically, all of them would have some sort of trauma regarding seeing someone die and yet the rest of them never seem to even slow down afterward, let alone take time to mourn. It isn’t until Kai opens up during the tie match that Tyson seems to understand what sort of pain he’s in and yet, even as a typically emotional character, Tyson’s response is to smirk at him and accuse him of going soft, taking a minute to tease him instead of immediately acknowledging his pain. Tyson is one of the most emotional characters in the show, regularly allowing himself to cry in front of his friends and shown in seasons 2 and 3 to have anger issues. He should completely see where Kai is coming from, not tease him for it so why does he?

Because Wyatt was not originally supposed to die in Kai’s arms, he was supposed to be an implied love interest.

Let’s begin by discussing some tropes that were rather common during the early 2000s that Kai and Wyatt as a whole, or in some cases just Wyatt or just Kai, seem to fit into. The main one I want to discuss is known as the secondary love confession. This trope tends to involve a secondary character, usually of the same sex, essentially doing all but confess their love to a main character. In order to avoid the controversy of the relationship being canonically depicted as gay, this trope tends to be played in a way that instead depicts a budding friendship that before the confession, did not exist. Characters can either be depicted as enemies who suddenly need to confess they don’t hate each other, or a more cold character suddenly allowing their guard down in order for the person they’ve been originally pushing away to come into their life. Kai spends most of the scenes he has with Wyatt avoiding him. He does not want to talk to him, does not want to be his friend, and does not want him following him around. Yet when Wyatt comes back to him, Kai seems to have an oddly content relationship with him. He doesn’t say anything when Wyatt introduces himself as his friend, he does not appear annoyed at seeing him again and in fact, the way that it’s portrayed (primarily in the Japanese dub) it seems as though Kai does not want Wyatt to actually stop trying to become someone he views as worth his time in battle. He wants Wyatt to continue training, he wants him to come find him again someday, but it’s done in a very ‘Kai’ way. Furthermore, every other character on their team is also given a version of this trope! The only difference is that the remainder of the team is given this trope with a member of the opposite sex. Ray has a similar confrontation with Salima when he learns she does not want to continue working with Team PsyKick, Tyson has one while coming to terms with Hillary being a part of the team and being useful despite her lack of understanding regarding the sport as a whole and Max is given one while trapped with Miriam, proving to both her and himself that she is not their enemy. So is it a coincidence that Kai’s person who he needs to open up to in order to develop his character also happens to be a member of the same sex? Gay characters, especially before the 2010’s, have typically had to remain hidden, their sexuality merely implied instead of outright stated.

This brings me to my next trope, the one we all know as ‘bury your gays’. This is where is gets more complicated as I stated that I don’t believe Wyatt was intended to die in Kai’s arms, but I also don’t necessarily believe he was meant to live. This is a very well known trope in regards to gay characters and I won’t go into as much detail with it, but I do want to explain why I think it was thrown in at the last minute. As I explained before, Kai is regularly shown leaving during scenes where we see the team as a whole, not only that but the way the animation pans makes this very clear and obvious to the audience. Kai leaves, we’re directly shown this, yet it’s never acknowledged. So why does the show go out of the way to make this known to the viewer? Because Wyatt is not dead. At least not yet. During Kai’s final battle with Goki we are shown what’s believed to be Wyatt’s spirit guiding him, causing Kai to have hallucinations and flashbacks. Originally this hallucination is depicted as Wyatt in the Team Psykick uniform in a state of psychosis before changing to the Wyatt we know as an audience who insists to Kai that what happened to him is not his fault. This is our first instance of believing that Wyatt might no longer be alive. The one thing that strikes me as odd, though… if Wyatt died in Kai’s arms, why is he depicted in what seem to be either pajamas or hospital clothes? Not only that, but why do we suddenly get a flashback of Wyatt falling from something and holding out for Kai’s hand in an outfit we have never seen him in before? I know this may get me mocked, but I firmly believe that there was a plot line for an episode that was not made, and I believe that episode involves Kai visiting Wyatt in the hospital and something happening which causes Wyatt’s death. What this something is I can’t be sure, but one thing I do believe is that Kai is the only one who was there when Wyatt died and that his teammates do not know this. (Personally I’m still hoping for a more legit love confession but I understand that Beyblade avoids romantic relationships with the characters and instead only implies relationships or crushes, similar to how no one seems to know for sure if Ray and Mariah are dating or not). Had Tyson not known of Wyatt’s fate, his reaction to Kai makes more sense. He isn’t viewing Kai’s reaction as him mourning, he’s acknowledging that his emotionally constipated friend has developed his first crush.

This brings me to my last point, Kai leaving. This is the main reason that I believe Kai was visiting Wyatt in the hospital. Even if we didn’t necessarily have an entire episode showing a blossoming relationship between them, what if it was supposed to play out in smaller scenes where we followed Kai as he went to see him? Thus making it necessary to show the audience that he is walking away from his friends and going to do something on his own. There’s only one time we are ever given an explanation to where Kai goes when he wanders off and that’s during the scene where he’s laying on his back in the middle of the woods like the little weirdo we all know and love. This paragraph is going to be shorter than my other two because I’ve already explained this belief in a less drawn out way in a different paragraph and because I’m not being graded on this essay. Also I’ve been writing this for over an hour and I’m tired but can’t sleep until I get it out of my head and on paper (digital paper, that is).

In conclusion, it is my belief that Kai was intended to be portrayed as an early 2000s version of an openly queer character. Not only does he fit more than one trope from that time period but he also has several scenes that we are not offered explanation to, has what seems to be a PTSD episode that his teammates never acknowledge, but it also seems that his relationship with Wyatt was meant to play a larger roll in his overall character arch of that season. Ya boi is gay as hell and in love with a posh little brunette and ya essay author is tired and doesn’t actually wanna make this sound like an essay I would have written in school anymore. I will ship these two until the day I die and really hate that they’re of such little interest in the shipping fandom.

Kyatt 4ever

Peace out

[textsfrombeybladers]

Awww how did I miss this?

[patchdotexe]

wyatt mason fate number of KGs...

OH GOD YOU'RE RIGHT . kyatt gason

[mfc-beta-offical]

Guys, theres a stray cat coming to my house now. What should I name it

Catknot

Corey catter

Kyatt

Fujita

Or something else

I suck at names

[goalhofer]

2023-24 Rockford IceHogs Players With 1st Letter Of Names Reversed

Aolan Nllan

Brandon Baddock

Bnders Ajork

Cackson Jates

Crew Dommesso

Couis Lrevier

Dolton Cach

Dthan Eel Mastro

Gave Dust

Hike Mardman

Hosh Jealey

Hale Kowarth

Kyatt Waiser

Kryce Bindopp

Lalen Juypen

Marcel Marcel

Nogan Lijhoff

Pndy Aerott

Ryder Rolston

Rilip Foos

Sntti Aaarela

Srett Beney

Saxson Jtauber

Sustin Atrand

Tichal Meplý

Witchell Meeks

[textsfrombeybladers]

Literally my life

Is there a day when my fav pairing will be popular?