#saburo post

[poorlydrawnmoriocs]

"Heeesy, looks like you're having a lil trouble there buddy," a very slightly inebriated man threw an arm around Saburo with a giggle. [poorly-drawn-akira]

“Geh-”

Saburo’s legs nearly give out before he shakily rights himself and turns a bit to get a look at whoever’s getting all touchy.

Mm… No, he hadn’t drunk enough on the way here for this person to be attractive yet.

“I’m… Doing fine. I just gotta get to the machine.”

@poorly-drawn-akira

[poorlydrawnmoriocs]

(Continued)

“Huh! That’s not too far, I might have to go visit sometime. Never actually left the country before, but I guess what I needed was a reason.”

…Unfortunately, that’s probably a lie. He can’t imagine it would go very well if he actually tried to travel. God, what a fucking waste. He drains the last of his drink.

“Mmh- You want some snacks next round?”

The next day, Saburo does call Aya.

-Poorlydrawnmoriocs

A few rings go by with no response, until...

"Hello?~"

[@poorlydrawnmoriocs]

[metal-district]

[markbandanawitts]

Things to Never Say to Someone Who Just Came Out, a Keroro Gunsou version ❤️🥰

I’m sure this has been done before in the fandom but this is the markbandanawitts special (my wonderful two cents everyone cares about)

mois is not here on purpose i promise she’s just not an asshole like the rest of these plebeians . i am also allowing myself to post anything that includes saburo and not just the days counter THIS IS MY BLOG I MAKE THE RULES HERE ALRIGHT

[lucky38-2077]

Bodyguards🖤

[dreamdripdistance]

IM SO UNREASONABLY EXCITED FOR THIS DUO

[thatgaiagirl]

Hello I’m back on the Cyberpunk brainrot and currently thinking too hard about Goro Takemura - specifically as I was replaying it he reminded me of a specific Yokai I remember hearing about years ago and when I did more research on it DAMN are there parallels - and I’m more inclined to write this because Takemura himself has a mystical streak in-game as shown by the Bakeneko conversation.

Specifically, I can’t help but compare him to the Inugami (basically translates to ‘spirit dog’??? Idk my Japanese is shaky at best)

First off, Takemura is DRENCHED in dog imagery. Johnny calls him a ‘Well-Trained Dog’, Takemura claims he can’t pursue his ideas of leaving Arasaka because ‘You cannot teach an old dog new tricks’, and there’s the general running theme of his character being undyingly loyal to his masters, no matter what else.

He was also ‘trained’ by Arasaka after coming from nothing - living in the worst slum of Japan, being recruited as a child and put through intense conversion to become Saburo Arasaka’s bodyguard. Even the way Takemura describes Saburo picking him from a lineup of potential candidates reminds me of someone picking up a rescue dog from a shelter - all lined up, until one catches their eye for no particular reason.

The Inugami functions as a familiar, created through extreme cruelty and undyingly loyal to its master. There are a few versions I found for its creation, but the most common one is a Dog being either tied up just out of reach of food or buried up to its neck with food in front of it, slowly starving until it’s head is cut off at the height of its desperation for food. Then the head is buried under a crossroads, the foot traffic angering the already tortured spirit, before the head is mummified and hidden somewhere on it’s masters estate, creating a ghost familiar willing to do whatever its master says. Usually in art an Inugami is depicted as a dogs head on a pile of robes.

I just… it fits Takemura so well. He was starved, literally and figuratively in Chiba-11, placed just outside of the reach of food, just outside of the Arasaka soldiers patrolling through his district. The crossroads, the foot traffic and AVs of the only people that might save him driving him into desperation, washing himself clean in toxic waters so they might take him. Hell, even his design in-game makes it look like his head is the only ‘real’ part of him left - sliced off and preserved, before placed on a new chromed out body branded neck-to-toe with the Arasaka logo. Inugami can be loyal to just one master or to a family, and Takemura will do anything for what he considers the rightful heads of the Arasaka family despite all the pain and suffering they’ve put him through.

This metaphor extends to the other Arasaka bodyguards, too - Oda obviously has similar cybernetics that emphasises his head as ‘real’ and is similarly undyingly loyal to Hanako, and ESPECIALLY Adam Smasher falls into this. The man died and was literally rebuilt by Arasaka - no matter how rabid or violent he is, he will possess, kill and torture anyone he is ordered too by his masters.

And the sad part is, in the Inugami legend, apparently it’s possible for the spirit to turn on its master if it’s mistreated enough. But Goro never does. Even in the Tower Ending, even in the worst case scenario where he’s a wanted man on the run with no ties to Arasaka, he STILL reeks of loyalty to them. The ‘bitter medicine’ of V forced him out of his old life, and you can tell he wants it back. If Takemura ever realised how fucked up Saburo and Hanako truly are and turned tail, maybe he’d get a happy ending - but his loyalty, forged with starvation and suffering, prevents him no matter what. Like a good dog.

[lucreciaart]

Unusual combination? Definitely.

But after the RP @docalu is currently writing with me, I completely fell in love with the idea of Vodka being like a big brother to Sherry (and a sturdy chest to vent into after Gin - once again - confused the hell out of poor Sherry). Heavily dialogue-littered version under the cut.

[aceghosts]

Rooney Shepard (They/Them): RELIC AU

There are stranger things I've learned on the outside Separated by an open door I find it hard to reach the end of my timeline Salivating 'cause I wanted more Is this the end or is this the beginning? -Too Close/Too Late by Spiritbox

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[instantnoodlestall]

gasp

[poorlydrawnmoriocs]

"Saburo, dude, man," Akira was very clearly freaking out over the phone, "You gotta come over. Like right now." [poorly-drawn-akira]

[Sometime before the date]

Well, it’s not the hot lady like he’d been hoping, but it’s not like he’s going to turn Akira down, and he does need to kill time before he c-

What’d he say?

“Hmgfh? To your house? …Wait, nobody’s coming for me right now, right?”

He peeks out the curtains as he gets his stuff together to check for, like… Bikes, or suspicious cars.

@poorly-drawn-akira

[maneki-meow]

[pattrat]

why did i stick two wanperos on the same page help

[markbandanawitts]

day 1

[luyo-mi]

My children

[fourorfivemovements]

Films Watched in 2024: 38. ゴジラvsデストロイア/Gojira tai Desutoroia/Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) - Dir. Takao Okawara