#seventh division

[bowietiee]

it turned out to be so accurate im gonna cry

[morggard]

Every time I see this album cover I think of them

[here-lies-golden-kamuy]

Hi there! I have come to bring you a GK question

What do you think of Nikaidou? He's my favourite character and I love to hear some insights from you

Hey @moonbirdflies! Thanks for your question, and for the record you have an excellent and quite frankly based taste in favorite characters. I adore Nikaidou (I’ll be referring to know as Kouhei for this post), I’m always happy to see him whenever he pops out! I hope these insights satisfy a Nikaidou stan like you! 

Nikaidou Kouhei Once Whole, Now Disjointed

At first, I didn’t really pay attention to him because he’s…not really someone who stands out (and having an identical twin brother did not help with identifying him as his own individual character). It’s kinda sad that well…since Sugimoto is the main character, you’re meant to root for his survival and his victory against Youhei. But to Kouhei, this was a devastating moment for him — he lost a constant and loyal foundation in his life. Whenever I rewatch the anime, Kouhei’s rage and sorrow at the death of his younger brother breaks my heart. 

There is absolutely no doubt that Kouhei loved his brother. In chapter 76, when Tanigaki tells Tsurumi about his past, the twins are seen whispering and listening to each other in the background. Honestly, the Nikaidous don’t really seem to be close to anyone else in the Seventh Division other than to themselves. I can see them having their own little world that only they share: there’s no one else in their life that means more to them than their sibling. Comparing him to Sugimoto, I can see Sugimoto’s devotion to his found family in Asirpa to be the same love the Nikaidous had for each other. 

Which is why it makes sense that he was absolutely consumed with his desire to avenge his brother and kill Sugimoto. Sugimoto didn’t just kill his blood relative, he killed Kouhei’s heart. The immortal one killed the one person who Kouhei relied on in his life, his responsibility to protect (as an older brother). And his beloved brother was taken from him in such a sudden and grueling way. No wonder his mental health was greatly impacted by his passing. 

Nikaidou’s story is a sad story of someone who gets lost in life because of grief and anger. He’s shown as a picture of how someone drowning turns into vices and even more revenge, rather than find a healthy outlet to heal. He kind of reminds me of Sugimoto in this way: Sugimoto was a man who was lost in his past brutality but was eventually “saved” by Asirpa’s kindness. NIkaidou’s “person” was already lost, and since he didn’t have anyone else who cares about him in his immediate periphery (Tsurumi and Arisaka’s “care” for him as a guinea pig for prosthetics does not count), he got dragged deeper and deeper into that hell and he couldn’t get out of it. 

Aside from his relationship with his brother, let’s talk about him as a character! Kouhei is someone who is treated as a comic relief for most of the story, but honestly, I wished that he was also treated as a serious character too. What I mean by that is that I wished we got a solid backstory with him and how both brothers got into the army. I mean, Usami was introduced later in the series, but he got a solid (albeit very unnerving) backstory. I wish we got more information on the past life of the Nikaidou twins. I wanna see them eating their favorite Mandarin oranges during their season, cutting them into pieces, and sharing it with each other. I wanna see how the two of them got into trouble early on in their lives, having the other as their main confidant and partner-in-crime. 

By the way, I’m glad that despite his several amputations, it does not stop him from being the cool soldier that he is. It’s just very exasperating to see characters who have acquired disabilities (like amputated limbs for example) become reduced to their disability. You know, maybe I’ll talk about disability representation in Golden Kamuy just because of this, but I’m glad that Kouhei wasn’t seen by his other soldiers as a “commodity” or “worthless” because of his amputations. He’s still respected and treated as a soldier, he can still fight (and still wants to, I’m glad they respected his will and desire to keep fighting), and his superior support him getting prosthetics! I like that support from Tsurumi at least. 

Don’t get me wrong though, I love Nikaidou as a comic relief! He’s made me laugh so hard, especially with his antics. And he’s such a badass soldier, fighting with both his wits and strength, even facing off against Hijikata once (well he lost his cool when Sugimoto arrived and lost something else but still! Very cool!). While I wished he was treated as a more serious character, I’m glad that he exists as a cool side character. Kouhei deserves more fans, and I’m glad we're both his!!

[memwazz]

SEVEN : Division United

This story is the one I currently focus on.

SUMMARY

It follows the Seventh Division, a dysfunctional superheroes team protecting a fictive, slightly futuristic version of the USA ruled by a martial law. Most of the plot revolves around them and the teenage MC Erwan fighting different antagonists with or without special abilities, while trying to handle their chaotic daily life together.

Created circa 2019.

CHARACTERS

Protagonists :

ERWAN (R-0)

he/him

A teenager with a mysterious power who meets the 7th Division after a terrible misunderstanding.

ROXANNE (Chlorine)

she/her

A superheroine of the 7th Division who will become Erwan's best friend.

ALOÏS (The Clockworker)

he/him

The leader of the 7th Division.

EZRA (Queen Elizabeth)

he/she

Aloïs' twin brother and the creator of the Division.

ARTHUR (Day Bird)

he/him

The only member of the team not to have a surhuman ability.

GRACE (E-DEN)

she/her

A superheroine and member of the 7th Division.

MYKO (Nuclear Blast)

they/them

The latest hero to have joined the team.

RUBY (Dead Whispers)

she/her

Arthur's teenage daughter who has psychic powers.

Antagonists :

LILYAS (Reborn 7.0)

he/him

A man who was genetically modified in order to bring Roxanne back to the mafia.

KREATOR

he/him

A mad scientist who creates giant chimeras to eradicate the human race.

JORDAN (Gambling Joe)

he/him

An animated skeleton controlling fired, eternally cursed after selling his soul to a vampire.

ARISTIDE (Ariki)

he/him

The vampire Jordan sold his soul to.

LEANOR (Red Velvet)

she/her

Ezra's former best friend who resents him and aims at his downfall.

THE PURGE:

GINGER

he/she/they

The leader of The Purge, an antagonist and rival group of superheroes.

THEO (Motionless)

he/him

A member of The Purge.

HA-YOON (Steelboned)

she/her

Another member of The Purge and Theo's best friend.

RAVI (Thunderstruck)

he/him

Ginger's boyfriend and teammate in The Purge.

MILDRED (Krystal Klear)

she/her

The youngest member of The Purge.

Minor characters :

LOUISON (Mimesis)

she/her

A young freelance superheroine who admires Roxanne and tries to look like her.

SAMIRA

she/her

Grace's wife.

RONNIE (Dark Eagle)

he/him

Arthur's close friend, an influent informator and occult expert.

LYSSANDERA

she/her

Erwan's biologic big sister from another planet.

NA'WËNN

she/her

Lyssandera's childhood friend and ex lover who's forced to fight her.

SELGAR

he/him

A giant harpie, originally one of Kreator's failed experiences.

CAT

she/her

Aloïs' girlfriend/lover/crush.

CHARLIE

he/him

Ezra's personal secretary.

[your-mom-friend]

Truly amazed by the fact that Mob’s main tactic for defeating evil people is to earnestly and with full honesty tell them that they are lonely pathetic losers and he does it with such conviction that it slams his enemies into reality so hard that they sit there and think oh my god…I am a friendless pathetic loser and Mob’s like I never said you were friendless :( and just becomes their friend and they instantly decide that even though they’ve known him for 3 hours and he’s kicked their ass if anything happened to Mob they’d kill everyone responsible

[sallymew4]

my “teru stimming with his hair” collection

[zaiofender]

teru waterboards reigen ..????

[luci3skydi]

AU where Claw finally kidnaps Teru because he's too out of it to fight them off (because of the failure fever after his first meeting with Mob). Then with Teru taken, all of the Awakening Lab (including Ritsu) are snatched too, with no one who knows where they are (or how to torture that information out of anyone) around to rescue them.

All of the Awakening Lab kids are way more powerful than canon because they get that power boost from Toichiro. (I feel like there's a way that that exchange of power could be used as a control mechanism, or a way to almost corrupt or alienate an esper's power from themselves. It makes sense that all of the non espers at Claw shared Toichiro's red aura, but I think it would have been cool if he lent power to other espers, and his red mixed with their colors. It might be an element of the mind control? We never learned how that worked.

Oh! And Teru kills that old man, copies everyone's powers, and becomes the new Seventh Division Chief.

I figure Ritsu gets whisked off to HQ by Shou.

This is just a thought experiment for maximum angst, because torturing Teru with an environment that only allows negative growth directly after he's realized he wants to be a good person is fun for me.

[m00ngbin]

CHAPTER 19!!!!!

[dykeyaoi]

[Image description: A digitally-drawn mimic screenshot of a dark mode iPhone text conversation. The contact is labeled 'Hanazawa' and has no photo.

At 5:03 PM

Hanazawa: hey little brother~!

At 5:10 PM

Recipient (Ritsu): ?

Hanazawa: things are different between us now BUT i was ~teru~ably bored earlier and reminded of something 👁

At 5:13 PM

Hanazawa: you might not like it at first but id appreciate if you took a few min to think about this ok?

Hanazawa: i think we can both benefit even if it might seem unconventional

Hanazawa: it certainly helped when i met Kageyama-kun!!!

Hanazawa: haha shigeo i mean 🤭

Hanazawa: lets fight again <3

These messages are marked as having been 'Read at 5:14 PM.'

At 7:07 PM

Hanazawa: should i take that as a no...?

Hanazawa: :( you can hit me with a brick again if necessary

Recipient (Ritsu): I'm in

End ID.]

[strife-geographic]

[computercreature]

[id: panel from mob psycho manga that shows teru sweating nervously in front of a black background. someone offscreen says "controlling people won't make anyone loyal to you." end id]

gets up falls over gets up runs around falls over gets up explodes

[here-lies-golden-kamuy]

Regarding your words from the previous reblog, I do have some Nikaidou headcanons!

Since it's mentioned the twins are from a Japanese prefecture Shizuoka, the Nikaidou family works in a fishery.

Kouhei and Youhei lived normal lives. The two were menaces to kids their age, playing (mostly) harmless pranks on them, the most obvious one is lying each others identities or guess who is who.

Their hometown is always a warm climate, so when the twins joined the army, they hate the cold. To keep each other warm, the brothers embraced each other.

Their parents are still alive until the present events of GK. This is why Kouhei was desperate of wanting to go home, but slowly loose parts of himself due to blind vengeance.

(These headcanon only exist if Youhei is still alive)

After Youhei gotten a tooth gap from Sugimoto, Kouhei (eventually other people) would put put random objects inside the hole of the tooth.

When asleep, Youhei would 'whistle' due to to the air passing through the gap and this cause Kouhei to irritated by it thus leading to him putting small folded papers or anything to stop the whistling.

Well, that's all the headcanons I have so far. Hope you like it~

@moonbirdflies OMG I LOVE YOUR HEADCANONS, I WANT THEM TO BE CANON STAT!!!! RIGHT NOW!!!! WRITING TO NODA-SENSEI RIGHT NOW /J

AAAAAAH your childhood headcanons for them are so good I'm weepy thinking of them as little kids 🥹 If I remember correctly, the twins were born in November, which makes them Autumn children! I can totally see them hating the cold; maybe they have a thing like Goldilocks where they want things just right? Hence Autumn is their favorite season because it's cool but not oppressively cold, and they can play under the falling leaves too! Also, them embracing themselves in cold, harsh Russian winters? My god you're a genius.

Your idea of them being little pranksters is SOOO CUTE!!!! Maybe that's an identical twin thing to do - messing with other people when it comes to their identity! I can see them being partners in crime since they were children and bonding over pranks and jokes as they grow up! Kouhei already has an adorable laugh, so I'd love to think that their early years were filled with so much joy and laughter!

Wanting to go home? BRB CRYING IN THE CLUB 😭 /J THE NIKAIDOUS ARE DUTIFUL SONS!!!! I WON'T TAKE ANYTHING LESS!!!!

LASTLY, THE TOOTH GAP AND PUTTING OBJECTS IN BETWEEN THE TEETH ARE SO....NIKAIDOUCORE I LITERALLY LAUGHED MY ASS OFF WHEN IMAGINING IT!!!! /POS Yes, that's the type of shit that the twins would do.....Youhei wanting to return the favor to Sugimoto and make him have a tooth gap too. I dunno why that's my favorite hc - maybe because it's so on brand with GK humor, and maybe because it's still a sign of their intense brotherly love <3

I love how you're converting me into becoming a harder Nikaidou stan and I'm living for it!!!! Thank you once again for sharing these with me! I'd love to hear more (or help make more if you want!) in the future, love!

[damascoprateado]

Death: Are you ready?

Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.

[rassilon-imprimatur]

Okay I’m sorry if this is bone-dead stupid, but in sort’ve keeping the “what if the Cartmel Masterplan was actually the Doctor cluelessly bluffing his way through glimmers and brushings with the Timeless Child and Division lore,” I’m asserting this was Division Doctor’s literal license to kill. 

[teruthecreator]

funniest part about watching the shitty netflix adaptation of mob psycho w the server was that we had predicted the big plot twist of the show within three episodes, but we just had the person wrong. like we were one step off from getting it in one go and it was HILARIOUS