#not every minor character included

[lyferifaes]

The Story Of Flowing Water characters list

Canon (marked with *) + original characters to not get lost. All names are in Japanese order: family name -> given name

Contains spoilers, obviously! (spoilers to the newest chapters / the most spoilery ones will be under the cut)

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~Daigo clan~

Tahomaru* — Lord of Ishikawa’s heir; new Lord of Ishikawa

Hyakkimaru* — Lord of Ishikawa’s heir

Daigo Kagemitsu* — previous Lord of Ishikawa, Hyakkimaru and Tahomaru’s father

Nui-no-Kata* — Kagemitsu’s wife, Tahomaru and Hyakkimaru’s mother

Daigo Iemitsu — Kagemitsu’s father, Tahomaru’s grandfather

Daigo Kageshige — Tahomaru’s great-grandfather

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Yasue Mutsu* and Hyogo* — Tahomaru’s attendants

Umeko — Tahomaru’s wet nurse

Furi — Tahomaru’s maid

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Maeda Masahiro — chief retainer of the clan; Tahomaru’s counsellor

Masashi — Masahiro’s youngest son 

Setsuna — Masahiro’s daughter

Mizuko — Masahiro’s wife

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Imagawa Yoshinori — Kagemitsu’s retainer; leader of the coup

Taizo — Yoshinori’s third son

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Saito Hajime — Commander of Cavalry

Ando Hideaki and Otani Tomoya — Saito’s adopted sons, Maeda Masahiro’s attendants

Shimura — Chief of Guard

Takagi — rearguard commander of the Daigo army

Yusuke — a random minor samurai

Yuichiro “Yusuke’s brother” — a samurai, Sen’s late husband 

Iwamoto Shinichi — a samurai, Furi’s adopted father 

Aunt Shiori — Shinichi’s sister; a cook at Daigo Castle

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~Awazu clan~

Awazu Toshitsugu / monk Shunji — former Lord of Awazu domain, Nui’s father

Awazu Toshinaga — Toshitsugu’s younger brother, next Lord of Awazu domain

Awazu Takenaga — Toshinaga’s son, Nui’s cousin. Current Lord of Awazu domain

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~Ikki~

Dororo*   — Dororo

Yahiko, Jiheita, Doushu* — Ikki leaders

Aki — a girl from Nagaimachi village; Dororo’s friend

Seki — a fisherman from Nagaimachi village

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~Others~

Jukai* — a doctor, Hyakkimaru’s adopted father

Kaname* — Jukai’s apprentice

Biwamaru* — a wandering monk biwahoshi

Yuki* — Dororo’s horse

Sen — a woman in the mountain village

Mamoru and Yukio — Sen’s sons

Inee — Sen’s housemaid

Mai — Sen’s sister

Hina — Furi’s older sister, a ninja of Kurosaki clan

Uncle Goro — a ninja of Kurosaki clan

Asura* — the twelfth demon

Yamaburo* — Daigo’s spy (nameless in canon, so the name is my invention) 

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!Chapter 12 spoilers!

Suma / Teacher / the warlock — Jukai’s brother

Seiji — a physician, Jukai’s adopted father

Aya — Seiji’s wife, Jukai’s adopted mother

Lord Shiba* — Jukai’s former lord 

Haruko — Jukai’s beloved 

[yellow-yarrow]

I think some people genuinely forget that Jean is not a main character in the game

[mastersoftheair]

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

[newtafterdark]

I might be playing DND with a few folks later this year (when I am less busy than I am right now) - and I am already rotating possible characters in my mind!

Klee here is already on my number 1 spot & I am thinking way too much about his backstory already. Oh, to be a little guy who would like to rage, but also cooks questionable meals for the party! 🍀🍳

[taleweaver-ramblings]

Been thinking about different approaches to retelling fairy tales/folktales/classics, and I'm curious what y'all's take is . . .

Elements include plot and specific plot beats, characters, items, locations, specific scenes, themes, and so forth.

For further clarification:

A Snow White retelling written with the thought that all elements must be included would have all the iconic elements (princess, wicked queen, magic mirror, seven dwarves, poisoned apple, prince waking Snow White somehow) but would also work in the elements that are less iconic (the queen's blood falling on the snow and prompting her wish for Snow White, the huntsman bringing the queen an animal's heart in place of SW's and the queen eating it, the enchanted/poisoned laces and comb, the iron shoes, etc.).

A Snow White retelling written with the thought that only the most iconic elements have to be included would have some form of wicked queen, princess, magic mirror, and poisoned apple and the same basic plot, but would leave out or change other elements, even major ones, if they didn't serve the story (e.g., dropping the laces and comb, changing seven dwarves into a trio of androids, letting someone other than the prince wake Snow White).

Feel free to reblog and put thoughts in tags/replies/reblogs/whatever.

[trashcreatyre]

Based on something that happened a few months ago that ruined my whole week

[butchlifeguard]

I HATE FANDOM WANK YALL ARE UNHINGED. VERY NEGATIVE BTW

[altschmerzes]

working on wriggle up on dry land and i just wrote a detail that is gonna be an easter egg for like one person i think and i’m thrilled about it.

[bluebudgie]

now that ive set the record straight that half of my rats are awful people to varying degrees i can go back to the regular content of woobifying them

[floral-hex]

no see I WILL write something eventually, I haven’t been putting it off, I’ve just been uhhhhh cultivating the story for a couple of years yeah yeah

[scattered-winter]

I love my shows but if I see one more piece of queer media say "sex is what makes us human" then I just might turn into the joker

[lancerious]

I'm suddenly in the mood to do an Undertale characters tier list

[yuelun]

This young man displayed the true prowess of alchemy to all, bringing with him a massive corpus of wisdom that even the Sumeru Akademiya did not possess. "The universe is heaven reversed, and the earth is a dream lost to time. This is dust, the most basic form of complex life." As if to provide evidence for this claim, Albedo lifted the burnt ash of the flower that once grew atop a Dendro Slime's head. Seconds later, a Cecilia sprouted forth from the ash in his hand. "And this… is new birth." (Albedo: Character Story)

When I've been wrecking my brain over whether or not Genshin draws the correlation between dust and ashes, and I happen to look into Albedo because of his tie (we can... call it that) to alchemy, and even the art of Khemia specifically which is the much more ancient form of it, and there it is. Now excuse me as I go ramble in my tags a little incoherently...

[kennys-parka-jacket]

While I'm MD posting, I find it so incredibly funny that the ship name for a character who wears a short skirt and garters x a character who wears thigh highs and no pants is called oilrose. Most other ships in that fandom are portmanteaus like you'd expect, but this one pairing is an exception just so they can be called "wet android pussies'". That is the horniest thing I've ever heard

[nitw]

wirt from otgw really is one of the best written teenage characters ever i think. like. he's 15-16-ish and wants people to take him seriously SO badly, but he also struggles to take responsibility for most things. he's dripping with anxiety. he overcomplicates everything in his mind but sometimes he has lapses of impulse. he can be surprisingly blunt when he's angry. he can't help but hate his little half-brother (and stepdad) out of spite and it takes both of them nearly dying for him to start working through those feelings. he's really creative but he keeps his interests in poetry and the clarinet a secret because he thinks it's fucking embarrassing. he reads real estate magazines and knows a lot about architecture and interior design, which is such a random little detail but i love it. he's self-conscious and lowkey suicidial and always assumes the worst in other people's view of him, but BASICALLY EVERYONE BACK HOME LIKES HIM, including the girl he has a massive crush on, and he just can't see it because he never makes an effort to reach out. every minor stepback feels like the end of the world to him. he has no idea who he is or what he wants.

[mikkeneko]

In various places -- here, the bird app, even YouTube comments -- I keep running into people with some variation of the same question:

"Does Scum Villain have a teacher/student romance?" And every time I want to answer with: No, But Also Yes, But Also Not Really, It's Complicated (And That's On Purpose.)

Which is an answer that's too long to fit in a tweet or a YT comment, but fortunately tumblr has no (effective) post limit! So here I go.

1 - No

In the very straight forward porn cliche sense of "oh but professor, I really ~need~ to pass this class or my life will be ruined, can't I do ~anything~ to get you to change my grade?" *bats lashes* and "Hoho, my pretty young teen student, I've got your good grade right here in my pants, if you ~apply~ yourself..." then no.

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of a teacher-student relationship happens in this book. No deliberate grooming of an underage student on the part of a teacher occurs in this book. No sex or a romance between an adult character and an underage character occurs in this book, nor is the adult 'waiting' for the minor to reach adulthood to initiate one.

2 - But Also Yes

No sex or romance between a teacher and their student in the bounds of that relationship happens in this book. Two people who were formerly in a teacher and student relationship do enter into a sexual and romantic relationship by the end of the book. Also the nature of the society they're in further means that even though they are no longer in the schooling environment, it is socially assumed that the deference owed by a student to their teacher lasts forever, even after the student leaves that environment, and they continue to regard themselves and refer to themselves in those roles even though the teacher no longer strictly speaking has authority over the student.

Also, the student was really hot for his teacher even when he was still a student. (The teacher was oblivious to this fact.)

3 - But Also Not Really

By the time sex and romance is even on the horizon for these characters, their relationship has so drastically changed from that of a "teacher and student" that it is barely recognizeable as such. The power/authority dynamic between a teacher and their student is subsumed pretty much entirely by the facts that:

A. The 'student' has become a medeival fantasy warlord of such unsurpassable magic and might that literally no other person in this world can stand up against him, 'teacher' included, and the 'teacher' is well aware of that.

B. Also, the 'student' is metaphysically endowed (heh) with the Protagonist Halo, a literally active force within the setting they're part of, which means that not only can he not be defeated, he ontologically cannot be denied anything that he desires; what he wants, he gets, and what he doesn't want, cannot be forced on him.

C. ...But also, the teacher in this setting is a metaphysical outsider to the world order the student is part of, which means that he is aware of all of the above, and can and does manipulate it to suit his own agenda, which may or may not align with giving the student what he wants at any point in time. Assuming that the teacher has the correct understanding of what the student wants. (He doesn't.)

D. ........But also also, for all his power, one harsh word from him can destroy him. For all his knowledge, one tear can devastate him. (Which one? Both.)

4 - It's Complicated (On Purpose)

*throws the chalk against the wall*

Between a teacher and their student, who has the power? Between an emperor and a scholar, who has the power? Between a hero and the villain he is predestined to destroy, who has the power? Between a character and the reader who's read ahead to the end of the story, who has the power? Do we find some of these power imbalances more acceptable than others? And if so, why do we?

Trying to track Who Has The Power or Who Has An Unfair Advantage socially, physically, and metaphysically between this particular pair of characters is damn near impossible and that's on purpose.

The Scum Villain's Self Saving System is a lot of things, but one thing that absolutely defines it is that it is a parody. It's a parody and a deconstruction of a lot of things -- the 'stallion' genre, the 'isekai' genre, the 'pay-per-chapter webnovel' genre, the 'gay drama' genre and, most relevant to this conversation, it is a deconstruction of teacher-student romance.

What kind of a teacher-student romance has a clueless, fish-out-of water NEET in the role of the Wise Old Mentor? What kind of a teacher-student romance has a black-hearted, demonic, domineering feudal warlord in the role of the Blushing Virginal Student? What kind of a teacher-student romance has the two principals so close in age -- by the end of the book, they may be as little as a year apart -- that they're more like peers than teacher and student? What kind of audience are we, going into a story like this one and finding ourselves cheering for the teacher to fall in love and lust with his student, only to be disappointed when that doesn't happen because the teacher fails for three books straight to recognize love and lust when it's literally looking him in the face and crying?

Asking "does Scum Villain have a teacher-student romance?" is sort of like asking "does Galaxy Quest have a lot of high science fiction concepts?" No, but also yes, but also not really. It's complicated, and that's on purpose.