#sofia goldenhand

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Women for women’s day

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⎣ GOLDEN KAMUY x astronomical bodies ⎤

all stars appear and tell us their stories for a reason

it took me a plenty of time to finish this thing, and every single manga frame bears its own meaning

if even one single soul is interested, i can make a post about my choices. im desperate abt this creation and i really NEED the world (hello my fellow gk fandom you're my whole world) to see it. not gonna tell you how many times i dropped my tears while making it

so yeah

enjoy my salty tears

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I hate Wilk

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Kiroranke, Wilk and Sofia ▪︎ Golden Kamuy s3e9 "Revolutionary"

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gansoku's bisexual awakening

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Golden Kamuy (ゴールデンカムイ) // Satoru Noda

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Golden Kamuy brainrot

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I've been wanting to cosplay someone from Golden Kamuy for such a long time. Finally finished my young/flashback Sofia cosplay in time for Zenkaikon. Sadly the curls on the bangs got crushed during the drive over, so I straightened them out. I'll cosplay the older/current Sofia sometime in the future.

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gk sketch page + tsukishima

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any thoughts or headcanons on sofia, wilk and kiro, and what it was like for them to be on the run after killing the czar? i have sooo many ideas i would love to share abt this, and even a backstory i wrote for sofia. so many fics to write, so little time,,

Hey there, @interstellarshipwreck! Thank you for your ask, love! I apologize for the delay in my response, I had to research a bit on the three and really think of their dynamic together. I especially love this one because they’re characters that aren’t so popular (at least, on my side of the fandom), I’m thankful and glad to be given the chance to write about them! ALSO “so many fics to write, so little time…” IS SUCH A MOOD. HANDSHAKE EMOJI WITH YOU RIGHT NOW, MY GOOD FELLOW

I would absolutely love to hear about your own thoughts and backstory (OMG A BACKSTORY PLEASE FEED IT TO ME) about this!!!! I would love to hear more 🤲🥺

Sofia, Kiroranke, and Wilk Ten Year Runaways

Okay, I’m gonna lay my main card down already: I hc that Kiroranke loved both Wilk and Sofia. His love for Sofia is canon. But honestly, Kiroranke’s devotion and love for Wilk during their revolutionary days were so deep and intimate, I can’t see it as just plain old war buddies type of love. He loved that man, hence it hurt so much to see the Wilk he loved since his teenage years grow into someone he didn’t know and couldn’t relate to anymore in the end. It was like betrayal. Maybe one day I should write more about that. But yes, sometimes I think the manga was framing the trio as some sort of love triangle, and it was, but it was Kiroranke loving the both of them. I argue that in that aspect, he was their emotional core. 

I think Kiroranke and Wilk had moments together — Kiroranke, a teenage boy in love with someone older than him, desperately kissing an injured Wilk after the assassination. He would be embarrassed about it, ashamed of his actions, but Wilk said nothing but thanks for his concern. Kiro looking deep into shining blue eyes crinkled in mirth underneath a layer of blood, you fucking bet he realized right then and there he would follow this man wherever he goes. I feel like in those ten years, they had some kind of tension between them that wasn’t platonic in nature. Kiro would be passionate and show his adoration for the older man in actions rather than words — being loyal to his leader, following orders without any complaints. Wilk was calculated and cautious, hence he wasn’t verbally affectionate, but he’d always had his hand on Kiro’s shoulder in greeting or leaning into his bigger bulk when resting… there was definitely some quiet affection shared between the two of them. 

Asirpa in the early parts of the manga tells Sugimoto that a lot of women fell in love with Wilk because of his fine motor skills, especially when crafting something from his own hands. I hc that Sofia wasn’t any different. In my mind, there was a point during their runaway days where Sofia asked Wilk to teach her how to hunt, and Wilk crafted her a simple knife Ainu-style while telling her stories about his childhood to pass the time (maybe she heard about the story of child Wilk and the wolf during this time). She started to fall for the man who was passionate about his heritage and was willing to do anything for the people he loved. When it was finished, Wilk brought her along to a two-man hunt. She wasn’t successful at hunting, despite Wilk’s instructions, but Wilk — who had caught their dinner for that night — encouraged her by telling her that she can practice hunting with him and Kiroranke if she wanted to. 

Sofia can’t cook for shit, Kiro can manage, but Wilk was the master at their, er, makeshift kitchen. I can see Sofia being the Sugimoto to Kiroranke and Wilk’s Asirpa, wherein the boys would cook something that is “exotic” to Sofia’s tastes. Initially, she subconsciously balks at the ingredients and cooking processes, but then later reminds herself that her culture and their culture were equal — they both deserve the same respect and reverance. She ends up liking the mixed cuisines a lot. Also, Wilk who came from both Polish minorities and Ainu people probably did a lot of fusion dishes for fun. 

I can see Sofia to be their spymaster. Sofia is a pretty woman, knows French and Russian, and isn’t wanted by the police. Hence, she’s the least suspicious out of the three. I bet that she was really good at her job because she’s a great actress. I’m willing to bet she used her aristocratic knowledge to steal from a fellow nobleman during their runaway years. The reason why she started slipping when it came to Hasegawa was because for the first time in ten years, she felt at peace (this was primarily because of the close presence of Olga, Hasegawa’s child). I can even extrapolate that she enjoyed holding Olga close to her because she would daydream of her own child with Wilk. 

Wilk knew that both Kiroranke and Sofia loved him, but didn’t do anything about it. He also knew that Kiroranke was in love with Sofia, and made hints to Kiro that he knew, but he was passive when it came to emotions like that. Maybe he saw that maintaining the emotions and reciprocating even a tiny bit was beneficial for him as a leader. Although, I can see him being more partial to Kiroranke because of their shared goal.

Wilk has a great singing voice, I can see him as a baritone. Which means that his voice is well-suited for lullabies and humming. Sometimes when Wilk was on the watch for their group, he would hum songs from his childhood. Both Kiroranke and Sofia would pretend that they were already asleep to hear him quietly and gently string notes that would form soft lullabies about Ainu proverbs and stories. More often than not, they both fall asleep into deep slumber whenever they hear Wilk. It’s a soothing rumble, a very nice sound to let go of consciousness and clutch dreams.

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Bosses

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it's still us.

part 1 || part 2

god i love golden kamuy as much as i love creating things that make you think and feel and cry and think even more about the story

it took me a while (a day) to find all these panels and GOSH im obsessed

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teen revolutionaries

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@interstellarshipwreck THIS IS AMAZING !!!! <333 You really poured your efforts in making sure that Sofia's backstory is historically accurate to specific points of time! The bends in canon is totally fine - you're so right, if Noda can bend actual history for his manga, why can't we do it as well? 😤 (I totally cracked up at "...this is the show that Made The Protag's Dad Kill the Czar) /lh

I love how you made her Jewish /gen I totally agree with your logic of how being Jewish would make her more sympathetic to Wilk and Kiroranke's cause for the ethnic minorities and I love the personal touch since you're also Jewish! I personally appreciate those that add personal touches to their headcanons/OCs <3

Sofia being a rebel ever since it's SO ON POINT !!!! Her wanting to make the lives of other people better... it's so noble, even though she has to dirty her hands to do them. But what's admirable about her is that she doesn't care about herself because her focus is on the welfare of others.

THE "CORRUPTING" RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LOCAL RABBI'S DAUGHTER SNATCHED ME 😩😩😩/POS I love this little detail so so much, it made me grin so hard!!! <33

THE PART WITH THE BOYS WITH THE PIPE !!!! To add, I love how your idea of how the three met went - Sofia diving fists first (she was ready to throw some hands) until she realizes there's something fishy about these "spies". I think that's a good event to flesh out her character more! :-D

Kiroranke learning how to make bombs because of Sofia's connections... something about that is poignant for me. A big part of Kiroranke's character is his being a master in explosives. It's touching that something that saved him in the war against Russia, something that served him throughout his journey for the gold came from Sofia... I dunno that's a nice hc that I really like 🥺🫶

Thank you for the meal, I love your hcs so much!!! I love the last part the most: the three of them would follow each other wherever one of them go. I think that's something that's very apparent in the canon, no matter how it got twisted on Kiroranke's end.

Also, just to add, I love how we just both agreed on Sofia being a bad cook HAHA! And for Wilk....actually you know when I thought about it, it would be hilarious if Wilk does have a bad singing voice, but to Kiroranke and Sofia, it's immaculate because (at least for my hc) they both admire and love him HAHA! Love certainly makes us deaf too, in their case!

I'd love to hear more if ever write more about them! <33 Thanks again, love!

research + building a backstory for sofia goldenhand from gk

i don’t know why i like side characters so much but i do, and it’s painful how little we know about sofia. i decided to run with this idea and make her a little backstory instead of writing my cover letter because work is hell. it also got mixed with a bit of infodumping about a special interest of mine, but what can you do?

check it out below the cut.

DISCLAIMER: it’s not the most fleshed out yet, and for it to work (aka to cram a cool piece of historical context in) i had to age kiroranke and wilk up about ten years— so in 1881, they would be 25 instead of 15, making kiro 51 during the series. meanwhile, sofia is 3 years older than them, making her 28 when the tsar is assassinated.

anyway. here’s the backstory, with some slight bending of canon. it’s inspired by some research i did about the historical polyakov brothers’ lives + the narodnik revolutionary movement(s). remember though, im no expert!

born in pinsk, belarus (then russian empire) in 1853. instead of being a noble, she’s the youngest daughter of an upper class jewish merchant family— inspired by the identity of the historical goldenhand. also inspired by me because im jewish, and i think sofia's character and cooperation with wilk & kiro benefits from her having a deep, personal reason to protect fellow minorities.

one of the trades allotted to jews was the production of alcohol because it was seen as rather un-christian work. this meant that jewish people were allowed to corner the market on it, and as such, her father was able to rise to a rather prominent position. not only did he work as a middleman for several distillers and taverns, he practiced tax farming, meaning he collected taxes in a method authorized by the state in exchange for a stipend. her mother held a certain position of value at the largest post office in pinsk. immediately— she had connections to (1) flammable substances like alcohol and (2) pressure-exerting distillery tools for explosive devices, not to mention a source for intel. even if her parents didn’t consent to her abuses of their occupations, she didn’t care. she’d use what little privilege a jew of the pale of settlement could have to help people.

around age 16 or 17, she was sent to odessa. see, until this time, sofia had been on the straight and narrow. piano lessons, classic novels, learning french and so on. her parents were overbearing, so it came as a surprise when they discovered she was hosting a weekly meeting with the more religious women of pinsk— slowly but surely radicalizing them with the pamphlets she scouted for and stole around town. she also may have been in a “corrupting” relationship with the local rabbi’s daughter, but we don’t talk about that.

in odessa, she lived with a distant cousin of hers who was a professor— a solitary, unmarried man. she also attended some kind of preparatory school but hung around novorossiysk university in her free time. surrounded by much more radicalized and well read college students, she gladly joined the narodnik movement. thereafter, she began a clandestine printing shop in the crawl spaces and basements of the university. to the older students, she was almost seen as a feisty younger sister. fiery, and too big for her britches.

in the summer of 1871, with whisperings of a pogrom and the campus gone empty, 18 year old sofia started to use her connections to build a veritable arsenal of weapons in a hidden corner of the university. this is the historical event i wanted to shoehorn in— the unrest and uprising at novorossiysk. and yeah... i did move this back by about ten years. but also this is the show that Made The Protag's Dad Kill The Czar so some bending history is allowed here, alright? it's for plot's sake.

this is also the summer when two strange 15 year old boys stumble off a train after a trip that took, in all likelihood, several weeks and several pit stops. in the dead of night, she finds them in the library with a lantern, pouring over books about the peasant class. who wouldn’t know about the plight of the peasants?! she thinks, only spies! so she knocks them both out and attempts to interrogate them, only for her suspicions to be squashed when the kid with the blue eyes (seriously, they’re the bluest blue she’s ever seen!) can’t speak more than three sentences of russian. the one with the (frankly embarrassing) patchy, teenage beard explains everything. being from sakhalin, being ainu, being radicals. damn near knocks her off of her chair.

(he also offers sofia his pipe, which she takes one puff from before promptly coughing up a lung. the boys— they give their names as yulbars and wilk— get a serious kick out of this “intimidating interrogator” being way more straight laced that she seems... they’ll have to fix that. little did they know how much she would love smoking someday!)

so sofia harshly tutors wilk in russian, and yulbars learns how to make bombs from some of the older students plus a hell of a lot of trial and error. the odessa pogrom of 1871 comes and goes. when it does, sofia finds herself looking to the center of revolutionary work: st petersburg university. with her fathers money, she buys three tickets. doesn’t even ask them. she knows yulbars and wilk will follow her to the ends of the earth. she also knows she’d would do the same for them— and something about that feels right.