#samauri

[originalgravity]

[uraniumsunglasses]

[vincentvega0721]

Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors

[scarletkaoru]

unlike mizu’s husband, if mizu held a sword to my neck and kissed me I would be thrilled

[bones-sprouts]

WHERE IS YOUR RAGE!!!! WHERE IS YOUR RAGE!!!!!!!!!

[laughableillusions]

just wanted to say that i absolutely love your shigeru kimura posts and i’m glad to see another shigeru enjoyer in the bullet train fandom 🫶

You know, on the “fucking that old man” website there is not a lot of love for the old man in Bullet Train and I am THOROUGHLY disappointed. The first time I watched the movie I was literally distracted for like a good chunk of it because Shigeru was on screen and I was like “WHO THE FUCK IS THAT HOT GILF GUY??!!??? WHAT???” And then I got sad when he was gone AND THEN HE CAME BACK‼️‼️‼️💪💪💪

Old man that has a rough history but still chooses to be gentle + sword cane + limp = my favorite guy ever.

[yurious-george]

Holy fuck man

[jedi-enthusiast]

Similar Stories, Different Treatments: Anakin Skywalker and Abijah Fowler

Ok, so recently I've been re-watching 'Blue Eye Samauri' on Netflix and last night it dawned on me that, generally speaking, Abijah Fowler and Anakin Skywalker have very similar stories and actions...and yet their respective fandoms react to the two of them very differently.

So, here's my long ass post analyzing the two of them and why people react to them so differently.

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First, comparing the two characters...

So, assuming that y'all know me for my Star Wars content, you probably know Anakin's story but, for the sake of this post, I'll explain it briefly.

Anakin was born into slavery and lived as a slave for 9 years. Then one day he and his mother met two Jedi and a handmaiden, and his mother asked the Jedi to take Anakin and train him---which they agreed to do, so Anakin had to leave his mother. At 19 he had nightmares about and then witnessed his mother's death when he went back to Tatooine before being promptly drafted into war along with the rest of the Jedi by the Senate. After a harrowing 3 years of war and having his worst behaviors enabled/encouraged by the villain and his wife, Anakin begins to have nightmares about his pregnant wife dying. He then tries to prevent her dying, even though she's in perfect health.

We know a little less about Abijah Fowler's past, but we do know an integral part of it from this monologue:

"My country's history is one of manufactured suffering. I was a boy when the Tudors burned any food the rebels under O'Neill might think to eat. We starved. Everyone starved. Mouths on the dead stained green from chewing nettles---you get resourceful in a famine. My parents died early, left me and my sister catching rats. The rats ran out quick. Fed my sister on my blood, it kept her alive an extra two weeks. I didn't sleep for three days to protect her body from the starving 'til the ground thawed. I cut out her kidneys and buried her, fat cap on them like a pea. I haven't eaten a single meal since my mind didn't go to that bite. It was the last thing I ever did because I had to. I control my life now, every bite."

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From my point of view, Anakin and Abijah are very similar in their motivations.

Both of them started out as, assumedly, sweet and kind and caring young boys. You don't harm yourself to feed your sister and then cause more harm to yourself to protect her after she's already dead, if you're not. Similarly, you don't bring three complete strangers into your home because you're worried about them and then risk your life to help them, if you're not.

Both of them then went through great tragedies and likely felt completely powerless because of these tragedies and the circumstances they found themselves in.

For Abijah it was growing up during a famine, witnessing the horrors of famine and what people had to do during it, witnessing the deaths of his parents, being unable to stop the death of his sister, and being forced into cannibalism---of his sister and likely parents, no less---to prevent himself from starving. For Anakin it was growing up as a slave, having to leave his mother at a young age, witnessing his mother's death, and then being thrust into a war and witnessing the horrors of that.

Because of that powerlessness, both Anakin and Abijah hate the idea of them being powerless and their actions are made from a mix of anger at whoever they blame for what has happened---whether they're actually to blame, or whether they've done nothing---and refusal to ever be powerless again, or at least accept that they're powerless.

These motivations led them both to commit- (Anakin) -or attempt to commit- (Abijah) -mass murder, *genocide, **cultural genocide, and murder of their female main character counterpart.

*Abijah wasn't necessarily setting out to commit physical genocide, but he was willing to do so if the people of Japan weren't willing to go along with his plans.

**I do consider Abijah's plans as including cultural genocide, since he has a whole monologue about the people of Japan being "godless" and how he'd force them into Christianity- (Catholicism?) -if he succeeded in killing the Shogunate.

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Now, comparing fandom's reaction to the two...

For Anakin, he succeeds in causing Padme's death, destroying the Republic aka the only democracy in the galaxy, committing cultural and physical genocide against the Jedi, murdering an entire village of Tuskens including the children, and going on to oppress and enslave the rest of the galaxy for decades...

...in contrast, Abijah only succeeds in committing mass murder and fails in all of his other plans---and his success in committing mass murder is partially due to the Shogun's sons and wife locking people inside the burning palace.

But, despite all of this, if you look into how their respective fandoms treat them, you'd assume that it was the opposite.

Anakin is lifted up as this good person who had no agency in any of his actions or, if he did, then the people he murdered "deserved it"---he's loved by most of the fandom and everywhere you look you see think pieces about how Anakin was really a victim, how his actions were justified, how he's not to blame for anything.

Meanwhile Abijah is hated and his actions are labeled by the fandom as bad. He's a terrible person and he's seen as such. I've never seen a single post justifying his actions or trying to say he isn't to blame for his actions.

Now, this is not me saying that the Blue Eye Samauri fandom is wrong to view Abijah this way---on the contrary, I agree that his actions are heinous and he's a terrible person, there's nothing there that I don't agree with.

However, I do think it's interesting how differently both characters are treated when one of them is, unequivocally, worse than the other.

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Why is this?

Now, I'm going to preface this section with the disclaimer that part of it is because Anakin is the main character of his media and Abijah is not---however, I believe that this has a very small effect on how fandom treats them since, as we've seen with other characters, screentime doesn't really matter that much when it comes to whether fandom likes a character or not.

Moving on-

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I think a lot of it is just that Anakin is conventionally attractive and Abijah isn't.

Anakin and Abijah are both selfish, misogynistic, racist, have violent responses to most things, and have committed atrocities in the name of personal gain. The only difference between them---besides the obvious differences that come with the medias they're in---is that Anakin is pretty to look at and Abijah isn't.

It'd be even worse if Abijah was a POC or a woman, even if he was conventionally attractive---as proven by other Star Wars characters.

Mace Windu? Fandom hates him and makes him out to be a villain.

Saw Gerrera? Same thing.

Rey Skywalker? People hate her and say she's "unrealistic" or "too OP."

Reva Sevander? People fucking CRUCIFIED her!

None of these people even come near Anakin's level of "I'm a terrible person and I do heinous things because why not!" Mace and Rey never did anything wrong, and Saw and Reva did the things they did because of trauma/revenge and/or working to take down a greater evil---and even then, neither of them do anything near as bad as Anakin!

Yet they're hated and held to a higher standard and crucified in a way that Anakin isn't.

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Another reason is that people can project onto Anakin in a way they can't project onto Abijah.

With Anakin, they can twist the Jedi's actions to fit whatever trauma they personally relate to, they can shove characters like Obi-Wan, Ahsoka, Mace, Yoda, etc. into whatever archetype they want to fit their story, they can excuse away every atrocity Anakin commits because he's doing it out of attachment and they think attachment means love, etc.

Meanwhile it's hard for people to project onto Abijah because everything and everyone around him is harder to change to fit his narrative.

There's no one really around him that you can say manipulated, abused, or otherwise forced him into doing the things he did. The other characters don't really interact with him, so people can't say the characters "deserved" what he did to them. And he openly admits that he's doing things out of greed, whereas Anakin says he's doing things out of love when he's really not.

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In conclusion, Abijah Fowler and Anakin Skywalker are both people that experienced tragedy and became terrible people that did heinous things because of it---but people only justify one of their actions because they think he's pretty and project onto him.

They're the same person in different medias 🤷‍♀️

[penpinetree]

Vague Phoenix Wright Spoilers

im sorry but watching Edgeworth start to work together with Wright to catch the murderer at the end of Turnabout Samauri was the most romantic tension i've felt between two men in a courtroom ever

[butchshevik]

Hmm. not to be a broody mixed asian/white butch lesbian about blue eye samauri but. oh my god. is this how men have felt about like spike spiegel this whole time

[vincentvega0721]

[deathsmallcaps]

I walk out of the shower. There is a fucking large roach by my trash can.

I tell my roommate’s dog to kill it with fire. Knowing that he won’t, I run and get my shoe and smash it.

Since I believed my brother and his girlfriend (the roommates) are asleep, all I brought to the bathroom was a pajama top and clean underwear.

Once the bug is dead, I flip my shoe back to where it came from. Standing in the middle of my apartment with just a shirt and underwear on.

I look up as I go to grab a paper towel to pick up the smashed bug. On the stovetop is a large pan full of uncovered cooked chicken. It’s been left for at least 2 hours.

You know, where the roach could’ve touched it. Ew.

Mentally I’m thinking “Bug on meat??? Especially the kind of meat most likely to be yucky dirty?? The Samauri’s curse meat? That stuff that gave that entire family a Life full of Shits because they liked to keep some on the counter??? Chicken meet with prints of bug feet??? And we have a perfectly good storage area??? The fridge???”

So, thinking they won’t hear me, I whisper-scream at what I thought was an appropriate level “MEAT? Where the bugs can get it???”

I then Realize that I forgot to brush my teeth, and I rush back into the bathroom just as someone from their room opens the door.

I hear rustling. Oh god they heard me.

I get out of the bathroom again and yup. The chicken is now in the fridge.

I am glad that the biohazard is gone. Being younger than me, they left a slight mess, but being such a great big sister, I finish clearing the stovetop. I try not to do for them anymore but I don’t mind getting those last bits.

But I feel bad because that wasn’t the most elegant methods of communication. And it certainly wasn’t supposed to actually be communication, just an expression of a strong feeling.

Such is life

[askaceattorney]

Dear Anonymous,

Claiming that Mr. Engarde's Nickle Samauri costume was stolen, because the thief wished for him to appear naked.

(Sometimes I wonder what goes through that man's head when he bluffs in court.)

- Miles Edgeworth

[professionallydeadinside]

On the topic of Hiroyuki Sanada movies, in The Last Samauri there’s a part where Tom Cruise goes “Gomen'nasai🥺” like a hentai anime girl and I literally CANNOT watch it😭😭

WAJHJGFDFGHJHGFDFG??? I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT MOVIE BUT NGL I MIGHT HAVE TO SEE IT NOW

[laughableillusions]

SORRY TO JUST RANDOMLY POP IN BUT YOUR TAGS ABOUT LADYBUG BEING AN INSANE BUTCH LESBIAN WKSNCNDNDNDNDN YOUR MIND!!! ITS SO POWERFUL!!! YOURE SO RIGHT!!!!

YOURE FINE OMG!!! IVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU SINCE YOUR RESIDENT EVIL DAYS !!!

I watched it and literally fell in love with it, Ladybug reminds me a bit of my sister (she’s also coincidentally a butch lesbian) and I showed it to her and she loved it as well and was like “oh wow he is me fr.”

Lemon and Ladybug I think are my favorites, but I have a massive crush on The Elder bc I love um…older men 😳😳

[soundlessdragon]

One day tiktok will revive that butterfly samauri song