#not much of hnk or jjba here

[caught-in-a-landslide]

So I wanted to upload another thing onto this account, which is my take on The Mystery Gang from Scooby Doo.

Mainly because since I hate the Velma show and no I’m not bothering to watch it because it’s bad as I see anything from it.

So here’s the info on this redesigned mystery gang:

Fred Jones.

-Popular fresh boy in school.

-Son of the mayor, usually doesn’t talk about it due to his father being wrapped up in his own work.

-He might be popular, but he’s willing to help others in any situation, and handle bullies.

-Has a collection of mystery/detective films he watched as a kid, his favourite is the Sherlock Holmes ones.

-Has a crush on Daphne, not because of how she looks, but of who she is.

-In fact, he wants to confess to her, but he’s usually had other girls rejecting him and he’s scared she might do the same.

-His father is unaware he’s part of a mystery solver gang, but he wouldn’t allow it if he knew since he wants his son to be a lawyer.

Velma Dinkly.

-Smart grade-A student in science and biology class, not very popular though.

-Met Fred when she was getting bullied, she watched his mystery/detective films and both came up with the idea of being mystery solvers themselves.

-Was childhood friends with Daphne, but both lost touch as they were focusing on other things as they were growing up, but they still get along.

-She and Fred met Shaggy and Scooby at a abandoned train station, the same place where they encountered their first ghost.

-She doesn’t make a big deal out of her intelligence, and usually helps people with their grade problems.

Daphne Blake.

-Popular girl in school, and famous model (Which is done by her parents) there is.

-Takes martial arts classes in order to defend herself, as she hates the whole ‘damsel in distress’ memo.

-Actually lost touch with Velma as she went to New York to do modelling for 2 years, she wasn’t quite happy to move from home for that.

-Her family started off poor, but now they are living in luxury with her mom being a actress and her dad being a doctor, they do care about what Daphne wants but are unaware she hates modelling and wants to do artistic work.

-She doesn’t seem to like those popular girls that would bully people for no reason, but sadly she’s friends with those popular girls, and is unable to leave them as they would threaten her.

-Joined the gang 3 weeks after their first encounter with ghosts.

Shaggy Rogers.

-Not very popular in school, but luckily isn’t bullied.

-He’s in Animal Care class to learn about animals as his mom works at a vet, which inspired him to help animals.

-Shaggy is very good at communicating with animals, people nickname him DollitteJr.

-He’s scared of almost anything, this is from a traumatic event he had when he was 9.

-He almost eats anything, in fact, he doesn’t realise he accidentally eats dog food sometimes.

-Met Scooby Doo when he was a stray in the subway, he gave the name to the dog when he got the idea from the cheap dog food name: Scooby Snacks.

-Him and Fred are childhood friends, they’ve always been even whilst growing up, which explains why he never got bullied.

-Him and Velma live in the normal neighbourhood, but they never spoke to each other much as Shaggy was not very sociable with girls.

Scooby Doo.

-He was actually experimented on for purposes of illegal research, this was at the time when he was a pup.

-He managed to escape but ended up as a stray.

-Shaggy took him in and considered him a friend.

-Scooby hasn’t been able to trust humans much as his trauma from humans is that reason. (He only seems to trust Shaggy)

-The experiments gave him the ability to speak and understand humans, but doesn’t do it much as it could cause suspicion.

-He wears a scarf because he doesn’t like collars as he was forced to wear electric shock ones during the experiments, he seems to like it.

-The gang are aware he can speak, but promise to not tell anyone.

I might be uploading more, because half of the artwork I’ve got is from my D.A account and I want to keep this account alive.

[turtlemagnum]

ok, gonna try my hand at compiling my thoughts on fist of the north star first. here goes nothing! warning, this post is gonna be Long, open the read more at your own peril.

i think the best way to go about this might be roughly chronologically, so i'll start at the start. i think it's interesting how very early on, the conceit is "there is but one practitioner of hokuto shinken and but one practitioner of nanto seiken, and they are sworn to never fight lest the world fall into Chaos..." and that degrades very quickly past the first arc. i will say that overall, the shin arc is a very fun, enjoyable and relatively quick watch, with mostly interesting fights, decent character designs and a mostly compelling narrative. i think one of the standout parts, to me, was when shin was actually defending yuria from his former goons while they tried to revolt. it definitely added a certain texture to shin's character where he had previously been just 100% straightforwardly the bad guy, instead of being 99% that. also there's the devil rebirth fight and that time ken killed The Entire United States Military in the same episode that he punched a wrecking ball so hard that it shattered like a christmas ornament. now that i think about it, the leader guy of the former US military was actually probably the first time we see nanto seiken used by someone who isn't shin, and i remember it being kind of a big deal that shin had violated their sacred traditions to such an extent, y'know? how quickly that went out the window

something that's been consistently good in the series was the music. the fight music, the ambient stuff, and especially the openings. all 3 of the openings are S tier, but i will say they never quite top ai wo torimodose, it's just that fucking bombastic and fun, y'know? at the same time i wouldn't stab somebody for thinking silent survivor or TOUGH BOY are better, they're all fuckin great even if in different ways at time. honestly i'm mostly surprised that an anime from back then had more than one opening, much less 3. from what i can tell that shit wasn't nearly as common back then as it was today, so i think it speaks to how deeply popular the series was back in its heyday. hell, OG dragon ball got just one and im pretty sure DBZ barely got two. i hope one day i'll be able to make music as stellar as the hnk soundtrack, really.

something that bugged me about early fist of the north star is how every fucking woman looked like yuria, just sometimes with different hair. this definitely got better as the series went on, and i have no idea if this was a problem in the manga too, but by god is it glaring. thankfully that seems to clear up ironically after mamiya is introduced, who is explicitly portrayed to be the spitting image of yuria. i think the first time i noticed that women finally look like unique people and Not Just Yuria was that one martial artist who fought with roses and shit. side note but i genuinely loved her design, the show got really sexist about her being a Femoid who fights but setting aside that i really loved her. i should learn to draw her. anyways, i like how the series improved over time in that regard, at the very least

one of my biggest problems in the series starts with shin's death. i remember when shin first died and he burst out crying, i had assumed it was just a fucked up manipulation tactic like the yuria doll, but apparently we the audience were expected to take it seriously? and like, this began a longrunning trend of a villain being like, absolutely irredeemably evil, like puppy crusher machine, baby eating, torment nexus evil, and then at the end they're all like "i just wanted 2 play on de play groundt...." and we're expected to take that seriously???? like, i'm all for moral nuance and complexity, and there are times where this whole shtick was done more tolerably than others, but in my opinion they never actually redeem somebody in a way that's satisfying. a redemption arc has to be, y'know, a fucking arc. and even if you're trying to do a redemption = death thing, the thing that makes that trope work is that they die doing something, y'know, actually good???? the reason anakin's redemption worked (aside from actually being foreshadowed pretty blatantly) was because he actually saved lukes life and died in the process. he did a good thing and died because of it. meanwhile shin, he still fought ken right up until the end and acted like nothing was out of the ordinary until he was literally seconds from dying. at least raoh had it built up to a little bit, like jesus fucking christ.

now, i will say that the arc from roughly jagi's introduction to the first fight with raoh is the best fist of the north star gets. if you're thinking about watching the show but don't wanna commit to 150ish episodes, i'd recommend watching from the beginning right up until the end of the first raoh fight. i feel like that's still be a pretty compelling 50 or so episodes, and it has literally all the best bits within it. honestly kinda sad that the show peaks approximately 1/3 of the way through it, but what can you do. anyways, enough backhanded compliments; jagi is probably the best all around villain in this series. he's an absolute bastard, he's one of the first characters in the entire show to just straight up pull a normal gun on people, and he inspires one of the most cathartic moments in the entire show. this is around when we first get into like, the soap opera shit, right? first it's a bit contrived but still cool as hell that rei is a new nanto seiken practitioner, aside from That One Scene he fills the deuteragonist role pretty nicely and is honestly the gold standard by which the rest of the series' guys can be judged off of. he's no ein or juza, but to be fair basically nobody is.

anyways like, that cathartic moment i was talking about. it was just after jagi admitted to ken, taunting him with the fact that he's actually the reason shin kidnapped yuria, and he's the reason yuria died. this, alongside the "actually the main character has 3 secret brothers that we just havent mentioned until now, and theyre ALSO hokuto shinken practitioners" is very like. soap opera/bad fanfic-y, right? but it works because in execution, it's still pulled off well, and we're still nowhere near the bullshit horizon we'd skyrocket past by the end of the series. so, when ken's finally killing jagi, there's a moment where he says something to the effect of "this is for yuria, and...." and you just know what he's about to say next, but he hesitates, and when he finally says it it's so damn satisfying, "and for me!" and the thing is that it's a deeply compelling moment for a variety of reasons.

so, the thing with fist of the north star is that, in a lot of ways, it's very analogous to a superman story where the question is almost never "will the main character lose this fight" because he's so insanely fucking broken, right? the real question is, "will this character protect those he cares about in time", that's where the tension comes from, and it comes from the fact that he is in fact a hero. that's how you write a compelling overpowered protagonist, you give him either people to love or just a love and respect for all life in general and so that always gives you stakes. i get that to a lot of people, the question of "will ken save this nameless chicken farmer?" isn't a very compelling one. but to me, it is, because he cares so deeply about it that i start caring about it. in the words of aphex twin, "i care because you do".

so, the thing is up until now ken is a very selfless character. it's to such an exaggerated degree that it becomes fairly evident that he has very little regard for his own safety or wellbeing. in the first arc, aside from helping whoever he happens across he's motivated exclusively by rescuing yuria. every fight he has up to this point isn't even for himself, really, and there's something almost sad about that. he doesn't allow himself to have needs. so it's actually very satisfying to see this strong, principled man admit that he has in fact been hurt, and that he's not just doing good for those around him but for himself as well. and it's a very natural character progression that you don't even realize is happening but also makes complete sense. there's something deeply compelling to me about a man so devoted to helping others that he has to actively learn how to live for himself, y'know? i feel like that's a relatable struggle to a lot of people, really

i will say i have one gripe about the jagi fight, and it's that it's almost perfect except for the fact that jagi dies laughing. at first it's seeming like he's gonna die in agonizing misery like he deserves, and it's satisfying well up until the point he starts to laugh on the way out. and like, i understand why it was done that way, and i'm pretty sure it was meant to be haunting, but it honestly just felt like it undercut an otherwise great moment, y'know? i want that motherfucker suffering god damnit, its what he deserves.

there's not much to say about the arc up until the first raoh fight, really. toki is really fucking cool, i love me my apocalypse karate jesus boy, and the fight with that uighur guy was really good setting aside the weird racial thing of having a character that's of a certain ethnicity and just naming them that ethnicity. like, imagine if there was just a guy in a show named Jew, and he's canonically supposed to be jewish but it's never really addressed, like that'd be weird right

i will say, the raoh fight was fucking precious, easily the best part of the entire series. it has this amazing and complex rhythm to it, where every character who tries to fight raoh ends up trying their own self sacrificial bullshit move only to be thwarted by the next guy, until there's essentially like 3 or 4 different fights going on at the same time. it's also nice seeing ken get straight up hard countered for once, like straight up he gets just as fucked up as raoh does and it makes raoh that much cooler of a villain. up to this point, ken is like, essentially invincible. he's basically post apocalypse aikido jesus, poking people so hard that their disabilities are cured and punching people so hard that their entire bodies explode like he's got the bloody mess perk. so to see someone even break even with him is a damn impressive thing, it instantly establishes your villain credentials y'know?

the thing about raoh is that i love him, very much, but i very much hate how he was handled near the end. the fights with him after the first one are very eh, the penultimate one is close to satisfying but then there's that whole "and then he randomly got away with yuria and now he's gone!!!" bullshit, and i get what the final one was going for and it's kind of built up to but i still didn't exactly like it, y'know? for what it's worth, raoh's redemption arc was probably the most well set up in the entire series, but it still wasn't actually y'know. good. like, the way we're introduced to him is by him being Ken-Oh, King of Fists, and he's this fucking tyrant who recruits people to be his slaves by giving them the ultimatum of "willingly brand yourself as my property and then be my slave for the rest of your short life or get burnt to death", and we're shown that his goons are inches away from burning lin, a literal baby child, to death. and we're supposed to just buy that he's actually not that bad at the end???

like, something i wish this series would just fucking do would be to have their villains just fucking own their villainy right up till the end. they do it before the end!!! one of the first bits with shin has him literally monologuing about how cool & good it is to be evil before busting out one of the greatest evil laughs i've ever heard from a voice actor in any media ever. the best villains are pretty consistently That kind of evil, like the kind of evil that'd make the average disney executive go "hey maybe we can chill a bit out here real quick", and that'd be wonderful if they were unrepentant about it!! it feels really forced!!! imagine if like, frieza, before the bitter end, went all "hmm, maybe i do regret blowing up planets and spending my days being space hitler...." that wouldn't've fucking worked!!! there is, in fact, such an intense degree of evil in fiction that it just doesn't make sense for them to immediately go "hmm yeah i'm a good guy now. right before i die. how about that :)". it's deeply unsatisfying every fucking time, like my god

there's something to be said about the queer coding in this show. i remember in one of the earlier episodes, there was this bear dressed as a BDSM cop and his two goons were scantily clad twinks, and internally i went "haha that's kinda gay" before he straight up kisses random dudes before he kills them. and it hit me like "oh. he IS gay..." and it's like. i don't think that's even the gayest thing in the series, really. there's that one scene where two fang clan dudes are checking out rei and the one with the binoculars is like "woah, this guy's real pretty!" and the other dude is all "well, not as pretty as me right bro???". and then there's just yuda, in general. relatively uninteresting villain, but him dying in rei's arms admitting that his motivation in trying to kill him was that he was the only other man who he found beautiful, like. i don't think there's a heterosexual way to interpret that, really! and that's even setting aside the hideous makeup he's always in! and that's not even mentioning yuria's brother wanting to "see what she(yuria) saw in him (ken)" and as a consequence, wanting to die by his hands. also ein is a bisexual icon who canonically thinks ken has a pretty face and i love that for him

the next bit after yuda was, i believe, souther and shu. now, i think souther might've been the only villain to outright defeat ken up to this point, and i think there's something that could've been interesting about that if souther just wasn't like, aggressively fucking boring. i think he's also the introduction to ki blasts, so that's cool, but the most interesting bits about the souther arc were the bits with shu. shu was a homie, very speedwagon-esque in terms of vibes if not functionality, i liked watching him at work. i will say that shu was probably the point where nanto seiken was wearing out its welcome, we're at like 4 or 5 guys whose main deal was nanto seiken and their entire fighting style could essentially boil down to "cut em into bits" and the only real variation was the shape of the bits people were cut into. i think this might've been the prevailing attitude at the time too, because they definitely pivot away from nanto seiken after this in favor of other, usually dumber martial arts

i will say that this series is, usually, very good about respecting character deaths. with one piss stained exception, characters pretty much always die and stay dead forever, meanwhile i feel like in series less committed to death mattering would've still had toki or rei around by the end of it. the exception is, of course, yuria. it was to give yuria and ken a happy ending, at least for a little while, and honestly while i kinda hate the concept the execution was still fairly competent so i didn't outright dislike it overall. i think it's stupid and retcon-y and at times feels like yet another excuse to make shin seem like less of a bad guy, but it still felt nice to know that yuria got the spend the last few years of her life with the man she loved

i liked ryuga for what he was, mostly just because he wasn't yet another fucking nanto seiken user. he's probably about on par with the elemental guys that'd go on to die to raoh, juza excluded. which brings me to, the man who is tied for Best Boy, juza of the clouds! i.e., my current profile pic. i like juza. he's probably the best thing to come from the series post the Peak arc of jagi to raoh. one of my first criticisms of the characters in this show was something to the effect of "look, if you're a handsome, muscular guy who's also ungodly fucking powerful in terms of martial arts in a world where martial arts is fucking magic, And you're in a post apocalypse? all i'm saying is that you could have basically any girl you wanted CONSENSUALLY, like seriously shin just ditch yuria and build yourself a harem of all the women that look exactly like her". and juza did exactly that, and i love him for it. i'd like to think i'd be like juza, in his universe, not quite the top of the totem pole in terms of raw power but still well above every normal person, saving women from being abused and letting them join my harem if they want, living in a fucking castle with a pool/bathing house? that's the dream, man. that's the fucking dream.

now, that's setting aside juza's whole "wanting to fuck his sister" thing. like, to be fair, yuria's his half sister, but seriously dude what the fuck is it with everyone in this show and yuria. ken and all 3 of his brothers were into her, juza was into her, shin was into her, if there is a man in this show and he knows yuria there's like an 80% chance that he wants her. what's the fucking appeal? like yeah, she's pretty, sure, but so are all the women in this show!!! personally i'd rather date like, a martial artist lady who could actually defend herself, but that could just be me. well, that's like the only thing wrong about juza to me, and honestly while that's a pretty significant flaw you can still say he's literally one thing away from being flawless, so that's pretty cool. god i love him

now's about when we get into hokuto no ken 2, where the main difference is that lin and bat are actually useful now and i'm pretty sure lin wants to fuck kenshiro now, which still weirds me the fuck out. my other favorite character in this show, ein, is the most american fucker on earth. like literally he wears an american flag suit, has blonde hair and blue eyes, is a fucking bounty hunter, and literally rides around on a killdozer driven by what i'm pretty sure is a slave. literally cannot get more american than that, i just hope that the slave guy is like a former bandit or something. little known fact about me, one of my biggest turn ons in a piece of fiction is when a character is a bounty hunter. something about bounty hunters just fuckin gets my brain goin, y'know? i remember when i played the GTA online bounty hunter quests, they were straight up some of the most fun i've had with GTAV and i still think i'd enjoy playing a game where that's the main mechanic. also, at first glance he's a wife guy, but it turns out he's a loving father which makes him even better. it's even acknowledged in universe that he's cool as hell!!! i love him dearly

viceroy jakoh is a decent villain. he's enjoyable to see die, at least. we also meet falco, who's a homie, and honestly i think it's pretty badass that he's a canonically disabled character who's shown to be strong and capable and yet is still clearly held back by his disability. he's a bit like a proto edward elric, in that regard. honestly one of the most sharp inhale inducing scenes of the show was when jakoh swept his prosthetic out from under him and then proceeded to beat the shit out of him, frankly that was an egregious way to make a villain hateable and it was honestly very effective in that regard. gento koken is ok i guess. at least it's not nanto seiken. honestly that whole "celestial emperor" thing felt rather contrived, but eh.

ok so, around this point in the show is when one of its worst aspects really starts to become apparent. so like, it starts out relatively normally when ken is shown to have a few brothers that we didnt know about. it's not that absurd, it makes some amount of sense, the hokuto brothers remain some of the best characters in the entire fucking show. and now all of a sudden, yuria has a brother we didnt know about, and a half brother, and now we meet raoh and ken's biological bigger brothers and after a certain point it just feels like bad self insert fanfic, y'know? and that's what kaioh is to me, it feels like somebody thought raoh was cool and thought "heh, what if i made my own OC that's raoh but even BIGGER and STRONGER and MORE EVIL", like that's what kaioh feels like to me. and then ken's bio brother is just ok, i already forgot his name despite it not being that long since i watched the final arc

but the thing is that kaioh is just like, arguably the most cartoonishly evil villain out of the entire fucking series, seemingly completely unrepentant, literally regularly talks about existing in the "Dark World", straight up kills his own sister just to make ken's brother wanna kill ken, the dude is just bitter and evil the whole way down, so when he pulls that "i just want 2 play on the played ground" bullshit it rings especially hollow even by the standards of the show. god, fuck kaioh, he's just poorly executed overall

the biggest part of hnk2 that i actually liked was shachi. i liked how he was essentially a stupid kid that lucked into being taught unearthly powers basically on par with hokuto shinken, and as such got a big head over it even though at his core he was still a good kid. hokuto ryuken sure felt fuckin contrived, it kinda felt like the writer(s?) noticed how the hokuto brothers were some of the best, most interesting characters in in the original series, and were just like "yeah let's do that but again", and while i guess it doesn't not work it also doesn't work all that well either. hokuto ryuken sounds cool though, even if "north star lapis lazuli fist" doesn't.

another thing i liked about the last parts of the show were that, while definitely not martial art wizards, bat and lin were still deeply competent fighters and put up a consistently good fight against Real Fucking Fighters, which you really wouldn't expect from bat's cowardly ass growing up. i will say that i always thought lin would make a good successor to hokuto shinken, but that might just be wishful thinking. there is a quite prevalent undercurrent of misogyny in this series, and while i understand that it wasn't exactly uncommon in the 80s, i gotta say that i still feel like they could've done better. i dunno

all of this is to say that i liked fist of the north star, very very much. i'm not sure i could recommend it without a laundry list of caveats and disclaimers, but i will say that if my interminable bitching hasn't put you off of it, it's probably for you. it's got a lot of good fights, it scratches that little kid part of your brain that thinks it's so cool to see a guy get kicked in the dick so hard that his entire body explodes, it has great music and mostly competent writing. if you think about it too hard, you will cry, so don't do that, just go along for buronson's wild ride and fuckin enjoy yourself. i probably wouldn't recommend it to someone who's not like, already an anime fan and already likes shonen though. it feels very of its genre, if that makes sense. which i guess it should, given how foundational to shonen in its modern forms as it was

[badlydrawn-narancia]

Slept through the festivities...

(he would’ve dressed as Bat, though)

[thedevilprobs]

Erratic and somewhat nonsensical notes on my VentoAureo x HNK AU

(Spoilers for JJBA Part 5 and the Houseki no Kuni mangas as of chap.95)

SO a brief preface, the aspect of the houseki no kuni world I'm gonna explore here, and why I specifically chose to AU Vento Aureo of all parts (aside from the fact that it's my favorite part hehe), is the partnership or duo dynamics. As much as the gems (and the bucci gang) operate as a group, there is a great narrative enfasis on exploring the dynamics of two people relationships that is very interesting to me.

That being said, I'm gonna focus on such things for this AU, at the moment the two pairs I got are as follows:

Cinnabar!Fugo x Lunarian!Giorno.

Cinnabar!Fugo just makes sense tbh

Purple Haze can be reinterpreted as the mercury inside Cinnabar without problem not to mention Fugo being the one that stayed could be reinterpreted as Cinnabar being/feeling isolated from the other gems as they both carry that loneliness theme sort of.

Also, both Fugo and Cinnabar are very self depreciating and self critical of themselves.

In the case of Lunarian!Giorno, I chose to make him one because of the ethereal/heavenly theme he has, Giorno also has a very humanitarian personality so making him a character who cannonically is a human soul fits pretty well.

Those aspects factor into Giorno's narrative role of being the paragon of the group. Which connects to HNK, as the gems who go to the moon are inspired, and change, and grow upon experiencing lunarian (and arguably human) culture.

Their relationship would go as follows, C!Fugo would still do night patrols and L!Gio as a sort of rebellion to the moon (also something that mirrors his joining of the mafia, in the sense of following his own beliefs going against society) would go down to the earth at nigh, meeting each other during those times, both away from their respective communities.

That's really all I got from now about them, very fluffy and wholesome both very curious about the other. I imagine C!Fugo is very happy to know his mercury does not affect L!Giorno in reference to the fact that Giorno, in the anime can make animals immune to Fugo's toxins.

Lapis!Bruno x Obsidian!Abbachio

For this pairing I will have to make a very important clarification, Bruno is in fact a lapis lazuli, a choice I made solely on aesthetics as his main color is blue and the golden flakes represent the zippers. Where it really gets interesting is with the mention of this: L!Bruno has a Yellow Diamon head. Not any yellow diamond head but the head of O!Abbachio's lost partner... yellow diamond... head...

As for why I chose Obsidian for Abbachio, it was hard as Abbachio's powers and personality don't have a lot of parallels to any gems that I can I think of, in the end I stuck to Abba's role as a support in the group something that Obsidian, as the weapon maker of the gems, shares with him.

On that note I imagine O!Abba still struggles in battle not recognizing that L!Bruno doesn't have Yellow's speed and throwing way too many blades at him (FYI that's the strategy I came up with the two Yellow, being fast, can consistently attack Lunarians while O!Abba supplies him, this also works bcs of Yellow is a diamond so the highest hardness within the gems).

And just as fluff I'd like to describe my re interpretation inside this AU of the rain scene, which is one very special moment of the part 5 anime. In my AU it would be L!Bruno who steps into de rain as O!Abba watches him, with the powders the gems use removed O!Abba can truly see that his partner is gone as the dark blue make the golden flakes shine even brighter under the raindrops.

This brings closure, for now, to my HNK x Vento Aureo AU.

If you notice anything that might help enrich my work please feel free to mention it

And thanks for reading this <3

[feijuan]

do you have any recommendations for good hokuto no ken blogs?? im really new to it and you literally have the Best opinions on it so im just wondering if you knew anyone else who posts hnk and has braincells..

1) Thank you very much! 

2) As for blogs I would recommend, only a handful come to mind – mostly because I haven’t been as active on this blog lately thanks to participating in society (Booooo!), and partly because I tend not to interact with fandom much and am out here writing my own bullshit and recklessly throwing it into the void on a whim! 

The only active blog I can think of right now in regards to Not Having Brain Rot is jaq-frost, really! (they write/have written Good Shit TM for both fotns and jjba) I would also recommend hokutoandtea for good gifsets and some great comparison posts between the manga and anime, though they haven’t been active since May as far as I can tell. I run a humble fotns discord server alongside resident good taste haver Yamcha and a few other kewl dudes, but I don’t know their tumblrs or if they are currently active…

…So yeah…

I myself really don’t follow m(any) Fist of the North Star blogs! Many mutuals that interacted with this blog in the past never had Fist of the North Star specific blogs in the first place, and have since moved on to other things anyway. So all I can say is Good luck and Godspeed…! It might be disheartening to know this, but when I first got into Fist of the North Star a few years ago, I quite literally back read forum threads from like 2007 in search of content. Oof.

((Me posting about how much I hate Rei in 2017: Be the change you want to see in the world...!!!))

[ouroboros-panacea]

Stone [石头]-Discoveries-[2/?]

Summary: [JJBA x HNK] "Phosphophyllite, my name is Phosphophyllite." Such is your useless life, no matter how many changes you make, how strong you become. Your life will still simply be a tragedy, and you, forever useless. The tale of a gem who suffered because of change, and an ancient being who wanted to change. An odd friendship it'd be. Rebirth seems more like a curse than anything. It would be nice if this didn't end with tragedy. {Disclaimer- I don't own hnk or jjba}

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Kars.

His name was Kars.

Short and simple, yet unique..

Phosphophyllite wasn’t sure if that was the case for him, but she at least knew that he was dangerous. He'd easily be able to smash her up into small, jagged pieces of, well, her. She didn't know why she'd break like glass instead of turning into a floppy, wide-eyed corpse, like the faces of the ground she stood upon just moments back. But it felt right to know she'd disappear like that.

To disappear from the world.

Strangely the thought of it didn’t scare her as much as it should've.

In fact, relief was all she felt in her non-existent heart.

So she kept staring.

At him.

Kars stared at her.

She stared back.

Seeing as the other child wouldn’t speak to him, he decided to initiate the much needed conversation himself.

“Your name then?”

He was met with silence.

Dull eyes peered into his own.

She could've been easily mistaken for a standing corpse, with the pale white pallor of her skin and lifeless mint green eyes.

She hadn’t answered him yet though. 

How rude, seeing as he already gave his own name to her. Still, he waited for her. The silence wasn’t that bad anyways, he was patient enough.

The question hung in the air for a few more seconds, until Phosphophyllite realized Kars had asked her a question. Eyes widening by a fraction, she straightened up from her previous hunched over posture. Her mouth opened-her eyes gaining a hint of light in them-prepared to speak, and a small whisper came out.

“My name? It’s Phosphophyllite.”

They were both anomalies to each other, a mystery in one way or another.

Yet they had both taken up the role of the "villain" in their respective tales, their own timeline.

But was this not a time for rejoicing? (Not that they would know). To be given a second chance in life was a beautiful thing.

Yet now there were new balls to juggle.

One small mistake would lead to the same bad end again.

Phosphophyllite?

What a strange name.

It was excessively long, almost uselessly so. It seemed more like a title than a name.

But he couldn't judge, some of his own had stranger names than that. So he accepted it. Wasn't that hard to do so anyways.

But now he really needed to know how on Earth did this possibly human child end up here in the first place? Why did she look so.. different from the other humans he's seen?

Normal humans didn't wear such strange clothing, covering their skin in a skin tight way. Most of them merely just threw a piece of cloth over their body and that was deemed as clothing. Nothing more, nothing less. Though there had been some particularly different people...experimenting? Yes, yes, experimenting with their newly found ore and time.

It didn't even remotely look like this Phosphophyllite's "Clothes".

Another curiosity was her hair. Whenever any moonlight hit parts of it, the mint green strands seemed to solidify and crystallize into chunks of imitation hair, except with minerals. It would almost sparkle, which was weird because hair should not sparkle and catch the light like that. Yet in the dark it looked very much like normal human hair-with it's wispy strands sticking out at out angles and the original vibrant mint dulling down in the shadows.

Then he looked down to her arms, and spotted what looked like...hairline fractures? On a human arm, which was made of flesh and flesh did not crack like fragile gemstones. Then he blinked and they were gone, a golden sheen covering any part of Phos' body that had fractured.

Curiouser and curiouser.

He needed the answers to the flurry of questions inside his head, right now, and what better way to do so than simply asking?

“Let us get straight to the point, shall we? So how did you get here?”

“I..I'm not sure my myself. I only remember waking up to a horrible smell…” She answered. Phosphophyllite did remember fragments of other supposed memories, but she didn’t quite think they were rather relevant to the question he asked. Would simply babbling about shattering gems, Lunarians (What were those actually? All she remembered was burning hate and a cold, cold acceptance), and...something about hardness, toughness-The components of her daily life?

These "memories" felt personal, in no way did she want to tell this stranger. An image of a pale white being in wispy robes (or was it a formal suit?) was brought to her mind as she slowly got to "know" Kars. Somehow, this made her trust him even less with this image in her mind. But 

'Well, that was helpful.' Kars thought. 'Possibly complete and total memory loss, judging from her state.'

He decided to ask her another question, though the most likely outcome would be a negative as well. Even then, it was worth a try. You'd never know what happened from actually trying something, sometimes they would yield results, others not so much.

The "not so much" was applicable to this one.

“Then, where did you living before you found yourself here? Was it somewhere near here?"

“I’m sorry, but I can’t remember...maybe I could stay with you for now? I don’t think I have anywhere else to go…I'll try not to be a bother and help with anything you need. So can I stay with you for a while?" Again, Phosphophyllite could not tell him anything (About a world where she wasn't there, gone because of her).

'She's kind of gullible' That single thought echoed through Kars' mind. But he had focus on the decision on hand right now-to allow this human to tag along with him and back to the rest of kind, where there was a possibility that his current object of curiosity would get killed or eaten. Or to just dump her here and forget about this "encounter". Option 2 seemed safer for her...so...

...Nah. Since when did he, Kars, care about a measly mortal? All he needed was just a couple of weeks to observe this specimen, it shouldn't be too hard to guard her from the rest. Besides, he could always ask (read: blackmail) Esidisi into helping him. The decision was settled, the human would come with him, and stay with with him. Until she outlived his interest.

While within Phosphophyllite's mind, was a mental debate between three.

'He's way too pushy, what's up with him?' One voice chimed, whiny and childish.

'Wait a bit, he may be useful.' Said another, soothing and calm like glacial ice. Yet there were undertones of confined madness.

'.....' The presence of the third was felt, yet not heard. They did not see any reason for them to input their opinion for now-It didn't matter to them anyways, nothing ever did. All they did was "observe".

'Well...he looks kinda weird too. What's with the skirt? Amirite you sad sack!'

No answer.

'Oi, pay attention to cute little me~' Again voice number 1 punched through the silence.

'Quiet down! You're going to give us both a headache with all the racket you're making!' Number 2 quickly interjected before 1 could say anymore.

Nothing useful came from the third. So Phos decided to go with the much more helpful advice of the second. Not like it was a particularly hard choice anyways. Wasn't like she could just go up to someone and comment on their interesting fashion choices.

"Ok"

Wait what. What happened? Why did he say ok? Did she get lost in her own thoughts or something? Her confusion must've been as clear as day on her near bone white face-Droopy mint green eyes widening to an almost comical degree, her lips parted in question.

To Kars, it told him that she may not be the sharpest in the head. But wasn't that better? She'd be easier to manipulate and use.

"Didn't you listen? I agreed to your little request, you can stay with me until you regain your memories or something. Now let's go, we're wasting time by staying here." Swiftly, he grabbed her thin arms and started to tug her in the direction of his home. Well, community to be more exact but it wasn't like Phosphophyllite needed to know.

Oh. That made more sense now. But man was this guy fast, and he tugging way too hard.

Phos made no sound of discontentment in front of him, but silently protested against his rough treatment.

Like would it kill the guy to slow down and let her walk?

Distinct sounds of cracking started to blast in her mind as Kars basically dragged her out of the rest of the bodies, the distance from her body and her arm fraying the invisible threads that held her limbs in place. Struggling to keep up the pace, she half ran half walked, her feet tripping along the grass like a newborn foal. Then her left foot caught on her right, and she crashed to the ground with the grace of a thundering oaf. The part of her arm in Kars' hand broke clean off, gravity pushing her down so she fell flat on her face. Phos could hear her face shatter, and felt her limbs become fragmented pieces of gem. All in all shocking the young pillar boy in front of her, his violet eyes screaming out the surprise he felt. Kars saw what looked like a clear indicator of the fact that Phosphophyllite was in fact not human, and his interest spiked almost tenfold. 

While on Phosphophyllite's side...

Ah.

She screwed up.

Majorly.

Oh well.

Time to face the "consequences" and see what happens.

-Chapter two end-