#somebody save chigiri

[chodzacaparodia]

Reo (about Nagi): He's not just my boyfriend. He's my best friend.

Chigiri: Disgusting. Please, shut up.

[riririnnnn]

Sometimes, I'll be just admiring Manga panels of Hiori and Chigiri when my mind suddenly goes, "THEY HAVE A COCK AND A PAIR OF BALLS!!" After which I become super uncomfortable.

Like, they are so pretty:

Why do they have tralala?

Not saying you need to have a vajayjay to look pretty, but it just.. Idk how to explain it. I hope they put it away in a separate box or something.

...

Now, I just realised Kurona got one too.

I'm getting too conscious. I don't like it, somebody save me AAAAAAAAAAAA‼️

[delvalentine]

Ways they love you besides saying “ILY”

❥ Headcanons for: H. Chigiri, M. Bachira, R. Itoshi, R. Mikage, S. Nagi, Y. Isagi

❥ Notes/Tags: Implied time skip ages, SFW, love languages, no spoilers, gn!reader, established relationships

❥ WC: drabble (~400w each)

❥ PC: HDR ♡ YI ♡ SN ♡ MB ♡ HC ♡ RI ♡ RM ♡

♡ Yoichi Isagi

❥ He always wants to match. Matching sweaters, jerseys, jewelry, cups, pens, shoes, underwear—whatever. It doesn’t matter how cheesy it is. The subtle ones, like a small initial stitched into the sleeve, also make him happy. It makes him feel connected to you, a visual reminder that he’s your one person, and reassures him that you feel the same about him. He also feels like he has a boring sense of fashion and wears anything you want him to, and you can tell he’s a lot more confident with your help since people have noticed that he dresses well. 

❥ He wants you to mark yourself onto his things too so that even when you’re apart he has visual cues of you. He daydreams about sportscasters gossiping about whom the signature scrawled onto his dominant foot’s cleat belongs to. 

❥ He loves when he catches hints of your perfume or other fragrances rubbed off onto him. He’s addicted to your smell for sure. He cuddles up to you extra hard and close in the hopes that it’ll stick to his clothes. 

❥ He always gives you his hoodies and would basically rip the clothes off his body if you said you were cold, but it’s extra special to him if he notices you wearing something of his that you took yourself because you wanted to. You look way better with his shirts oversized on you than he does.

❥ He knows your ring size and has it written down on a cloud-saved note so he wont forget. That same note has detailed descriptions of what he’s heard you mention you like over the years. He remembers the day that he decided he wanted to marry you. He plans to surprise you with the perfect ring and holds himself to incredibly high standards. He can hardly wait for the day you’ll have matching rings on the same finger. 

♡ Seishiro Nagi

❥ Physical touch wasn’t that important to him until he met you. After that, he’s always finding some way to touch you. He likes holding your hand and being taller than you; he finds you cutest when you’re right next to his side, looking up at him with that smile that makes him feel so safe. 

❥ He really likes back massages. It’s a domestic, intimate but non-sexual, and inherently human interaction that he treasures. He gets so childishly excited whenever you offer and basically flops down so you can climb on. He always ends up falling asleep with you kneading his back, and he’s always sore somewhere from all the training he’s putting himself through. When he returns the favour for you, he always does it so lightly as if he’s scared of hurting you, especially over any knots or pressure points. You can almost feel his nervousness. But, after listening to your cues, he works out the perfect pressure with you. 

❥ He demands hugs and kisses. He is not shy about PDA, but he (begrudgingly) listens to you when you remind him that there’s a right place and a right time. On the busy rush hour train, he likes when you hang onto the crook of his elbow, unable to reach a pole or hand-held loop. When you step down from something, he always puts out a hand to steady you. His knee always finds a way to brush yours under a table. Sometimes you’ll feel him poking you even if he’s looking away while you’re busy talking to somebody else, like a bratty kid forcing you to give him attention instead of the other person.

❥ He’s usually low energy and likes long, slow embraces. In the morning, he basically won’t let you get up unless you really try to squeeze out his arms. He likes how you’ll let him touch and hold you however he wants when in private, since he can’t do this in public. When he’s excited and exhausted, though, like after winning a huge match—he loses his inhibition and sprints to you, kissing you so deeply it knocks the two of you into the turf. It’d probably go viral and they’d make a GIPHY out of it, which was embarrassing at first, but it’s an immortalization of how much Nagi, one of the world’s best soccer players in history, loves you.

♡ Meguru Bachira

❥ He’s obsessed with finding ways to make you laugh. Your laugh is his favourite thing in the entire world, even over soccer or sleep. He knows how to tell the most ridiculously bad jokes or pranks that they’re actually hilarious. He makes weird faces and noises and has no concept of bashfulness. He doesn’t feel like he needs to water himself down around you, or that he has to be scared that you’ll get fed up with him and leave. It took him a long time to trust you to that extent, so he’s willing to protect you with everything he’s got, because he knows you’d do the same for him. 

❥ It took him practice to learn about being tactful, but he’s the only person you turn to after a bad day. He’s so unbreakably upbeat that you snap out of your mood with ease, something that might be challenging to do on your own. He makes you dance with him to move your body. He gets you into the shower and helps you wash your hair, humming your favourite songs and using your favourite soaps. He’ll try to make you a dinner, though it’d probably end up burning. He always has back-up takeout from your favourite place, though, and at least he tried for you. No matter how difficult, tiring, challenging, or grieving the day was… he always manages to make you smile again. He refuses to stop trying until he does.

❥ He can’t stand being away from you, even for a day. He always asks you to come to his games, even if they’re international, so that he can still come home to you. He’s mature enough to understand that you have obligations and can’t pick up and go every time, even if you want to, but it doesn’t stop him from asking with high hopes. Once, you tricked him by pretending you had important work and couldn’t go to Brazil with him. You hugged him at the airport and gave him the “last kiss of good luck for a week” he begged for before he left. You showed up in the stands right in front of his team’s box with a cheesy handmade sign that killed you with mortification when it showed up on the big screen—but the way he almost cried with happiness seeing you is worth it.

♡ Hyoma Chigiri

❥ He is a big fan of the quiet romance. His off days are his absolute favourite. The two of you will dress up to go to a cute cafe in the morning and enjoy each other’s drinks, sipping the others and discussing the flavours. You enjoy brunch at another place, somewhere elegant with bright decor and tasty food that uplifts your face. You check out a vintage bookstore and the ultra-modern mall. You go home and relax together after that. Some evenings you would both be so enraptured by a new anime you’d both be up in the middle of the night binge watching because neither of you can bear to go to bed with such cliffhangers. Other days you cook in the kitchen together, listening to music and chopping vegetables before enjoying the fruits of your labour. Some days he reads while you play a game, the two of you silent, but incredibly together.

❥ Ever since he hurt his knee, he’s always been wary to see anybody he loves endure that same traumatic pain. He worries about your health like an anxious mom. When you get a cold, he all but drops everything to make you feel better. He brews you a ginger and lemon tea even though he hates the smell of it; he gets you medicine and makes you drink water in bed, refusing to let you leave. If you have work, he makes you call in sick and promises to take care of whatever responsibilities you might’ve had that day.

❥ As we all know, he is masterful at skin and hair care. He practically pampers you every day and is strict about making you follow his regime. It gives you such baby-soft, clear, and dewy skin that you can’t deny his magic works. Your hair is glossier than ever, too. He likes the time the two of you scan spend together in the bathroom: washing your face together, doing a mask and laughing at each other’s ridiculous look, chatting about the day, massaging your temples, etc. He’s always so busy in the day that he can’t spend as much time as you as he’d like to, so the moment of getting ready for bed becomes almost like a sacred ritual with you. 

♡ Rin Itoshi

❥ He’s terrible with words, and at texting, and at calling… so he writes them down by hand. He has excellent penmanship that makes you jealous of how pretty it is; he writes in calligraphy, which is definitely extra, but it’s Rin so of course it’ll be dramatic. 

❥ You end up amassing drawers of his letters because you don’t throw any away. Often times he’s away, travelling, so you get postcards from all the different places he visits. He’s made this a tradition—his teammates always make fun of him for making a point to stop by a souvenir shop so he can get you a postcard. Sometimes he includes pressed flowers or a regional specialty snack in the letter.

❥ Some of his messages are short sticky notes on your mirror, like: “remember to eat well” or “home late”. Some are long, sappy love letters with words so raw and passionate you can hardly believe it comes from the hand of a guy who can barely say “I love you” out loud without grimacing or turning away. 

❥ If you speak or are learning another language besides English or Japanese, he researches how to write to you in it without being grammatically incorrect. It’s just as poetic as his writing in the languages he is fluent in. 

❥ Despite investing most of his time and energy into soccer, he’s quite good at art. He writes you poems that make you blush because you can hardly believe somebody loves you like the way he describes it in his abstractive writing. He might also include sketches, his style very neat with almost perfect realism. He draws you most often because you inspire his desire to create something beautiful and soft the most. 

♡ Reo Mikage

❥ Money is of no concern to him. If he sees you put something back because it was “too expensive”, he’ll get it for you. If you try to refuse, he sneaks it back to you as a surprise gift that he refuses to let you return. He loves seeing your face when you open gifts from him. It’s worth more to him than any price tag, which he reminds you of sternly if you ever feel guilty.

❥ He loves to take you shopping for this reason; seeing you happy, energetic, and finally being able to afford everything you’ve ever wanted when you weren’t born into the same circumstances as he was makes him embarrassingly giddy. He feels important to you. The quality time is precious; he treats shopping dates with you as importantly as a candlelit dinner. 

❥ He loves to sit on the “boyfriend chair” and show off his strength by holding all your bags. He insists you go into every store you want to and never makes you feel bad for taking your time browsing. He’s actually quite helpful in stores with you, even if it’s for stereotypically girly things like makeup. He loves getting to answer you if you ask him which he likes better on you, even if he wants to just say “both”.  

❥ He has an instinct to mark you as his so he can visually cue other men to back off. It’s in the branded jewelry the two of you picked out together, the violet silk scarves, the dresses that he picked for you to wear to your dinner date. You being able to say “oh, my boyfriend got me this” whenever people compliment you or ask really kicks up his ego.

❥ His favourite part of the day is when you put on a mini fashion show for him, trying on outfits he picked out for you. He’s got a surprisingly good eye for fashion and knows your styles and aesthetics well. He’s too selfish to pass up a chance to see you in what he wants to see you wear, though. Sometimes it really pushes you out of your comfort zone, but the pleased expression on his face makes all your insecurities vanish. He makes you feel so incredibly beautiful in his eyes.

[s4no]

Oh oh oh I have a new one for you. S, U, and Z for kunigami 🥹

[ s ]: sharing - is he open to threesomes? how does he feel about sharing? kunigami has a bit of a possessive streak. he doesn't like it when men ogle you when you walk down the street and the idea of somebody else touching you is enough to make his skin crawl. however... it wouldn't necessarily be the end of the world. if it was with somebody he trusts (say chigiri or yoichi)— and you were positive that's what you wanted— he wouldn't deny you the experience. he's secure enough in your relationship to know you won't run off with his best friend. he implicitly trusts you.

[ u ]: underwear - what type of lingerie is his favorite? there's just something about seeing you dressed up in white lace that makes his head spin. you look like an innocent damsel in distress just waiting to be fucked saved by the gallant hero.

[ z ]: zzzz - how quickly does he fall asleep afterward? honestly, kunigami can go all fuckin' night. his stamina is unmatched and he has a tendency to turn a quick fuck into marathon sex. you won't catch him passing out afterward— hell, he might even go for a jog.

nsfw alphabet

[blonde-batgirl]

I think we’re going to get some backstory for Kunigami soon.

Primarily, this is because he’s one of the characters the next light novel focuses on, along with Hiori and Niko. One thing that all the guys who were focused on in the earlier ones had in common was that the manga had already explored their backstories. Notably, Hiori’s has just come up. Niko’s playing in the next match, so there’s certainly scope for his to come up soon too.

In the first couple of volumes - before we’re hit with Chigiri’s traumatic, very-sports-manga backstory - we get two absolutely baffling motives from Bachira and Kunigami. Like, we’re still reeling from the whole soccer prison concept and then we’re hit in quick succession with “There’s a monster inside of me” and “I play soccer so I can become a superhero”.

But Bachira’s monster makes a lot more sense once we have his backstory. It’s effectively a metaphor for his inner voice - a manifestation of both his instincts and his loneliness. I imagine that the same will be true of Kunigami.

Of the four major characters who were originally on Team Z, Kunigami is the one we know the least about. (Probably a side effect of disappearing for the entire third arc when the story’s currently only on its fourth.) This makes it hard to theorise about his backstory. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had some level of social isolation going on, because which Blue Lock characters don’t? Even the guys who did have friends, like Isagi, had friends who didn’t understand them or support their goals. Then there’s Reo, whose connections were shallow, potentially only after his family’s money and connections, and bored him (obviously, before he met Nagi). I could see Kunigami having similar social issues to Kuon - being too serious and intense about it for his teammates’ liking (he’s always working out or otherwise training, after all) - or even to Bachira - being seen as weird. Additionally, the fact that he’s carried his idea of strikers as real-life superheroes all the way up to the age of 17 makes me wonder if there’s some sort of traumatic event in his childhood that makes the idea of becoming a superhero so appealing - did somebody perish in a tragic accident right in front of him and he has survivor’s guilt (whether he could have saved them or not)? Did he see something bad happen and not have the courage to speak up about it? Maybe his home situation was bad and he either wanted someone to come and save him from it or wished he could get his family out of it? I’m just spitballing here - we don’t have any solid information to go off so his backstory could be literally anything.

Alternatively, it’s possible the Wildcard is his equivalent to a backstory. There might be nothing more to his pre-Blue Lock past.

I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

LMAOOO but no fr considering how dramatic bllk is too some of the backgrounds just really don’t feel all that important? Like being in the situation irl is one thing but it doesn’t really match the same vibe in fiction since the ceiling for angst in fiction is so high if ykwim?? I feel like it’s even worse with all the recent backstories we get where they try to make them spicy by adding some form of angst or drama which I totally understand but it kinda waters down the impact even more imo LOL

Fr cackling the new profiles are too funny Kunigami being the only one to be properly influenced by his sisters is lowk crazy LMAO THE NUMBER TWO HAD ME SENDING kuronas such a silly little guy though the hedgehog thing totally matches him also LMFAOO THAT WOULDVE MADE MORE SENSE the raws literally says “broken bone girl” though and I fr double taked (apparently because the celeb constantly wore a cast or something that’s still crazy work though)

So true!! I know I stay hyped because I’m always looking for new Karasu moments but imagine if we got the same amount of detailed play through for the side matches in the main series but alas….

LMAOO FR I’m just glad to see Karasu animated and hear his voice (that one scene where he gives chigiri a chance to show off with the dramatic lighting was so good though) but it’s funny how it really looks like a slideshow transition sometimes

BROOO WHAT IS THAT??? Ok if we ignored the ship though the art style isn’t bad but why…?? It’s so random LMAOA whenever I see ships like these it’s not even me being like ew wtf it’s how tf did you even come up with this pair???

Ok also read the KAISER fic before coming here but I narrowed it down to either him or Isagi but had a feeling it was him based off your prev comments LOL 18k words for opp Kaiser is crazyyyy work but I LOVED the subtle little foreshadowing moments of y/n feeling cold despite it not being cold I caught the first one and was like “ohhh yeah death flag right there yup this ones diseased” I also really like the angel take on the fantasy au!!! Very unique and refreshing the whole angel of death contrast was really cool like kaisers appearance being a death flag itself too LOL another fire piece also love the colors and layout you made (I’m suddenly forgetting the tumblr word for it) but the color combo is very visually appealing LMAO

Also NEW THEME OMG WAIT THE NAGI BAROU KARASU PANEL IS PERFECT literally made for you LMAOOO but WE GOT KARASU ON THE BLOG OMG!!!

- Karasu anon

HAHA tbh sometimes the drama in bllk is so unserious too like at the end of the day so what if they fail they can go work a 9-5 in the corporate world like everyone else /j i do think bllk is better about it than most sports animes where the stakes do feel a bit real (especially in first/second selection i was fr on the edge of my seat watching the first season) but compared to the type of stuff i usually watch it’s just like…ok…was it really ever that serious…and agreed they’re just giving everyone sad backstories but not even in impactful ways??? like icl kiyora’s wasn’t even necessary especially at that point in the manga and same w himizu’s SDKLJFHS of the recent backstories introduced i’ve really liked karasu’s from (not just favoritism i think it fits with his established character rlly well), kaiser’s, and snuffy’s

i feel like now i have to do kunigami justice just because he’s the only one who was raised right LKSJDHFSKD (also barou but he’s the older sibling so it’s different) WAIT DID YOU SEE KARASU IS APPARENTLY THE NUMBER TWO GENTLEMAN IN BLLK??? yayoi canon equivalent ate with that one but we’ve KNOWN from the start that he’s built like that…my goat fr 🥹 PLS THE NUMBER TWO WAS CRAZY WORK kurona is so unserious HELP not hiori literally being attracted to casts omg somebody karasu save white butterfly y/n ASAP that’s actually insane 😭 sometimes i try to incorporate things like that into my writing (like their types and all) but i in fact will just be pretending i did not read that because wtf

no yeah the animation isn’t AMAZING but karasu looks beautiful…and so does otoya…haven’t seen yuki/nagi yet but those two are def the animators’ favs this season so i think they’ll be good…idgaf abt isagi rin and kinda shidou being done dirty because i’m not a fan like that so me personally??? I AM WINNING 🔥

THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING like i’m not even judging i just NEED to know how they arrived at the conclusion that karasu and sukuna would be a good pair??? i know a lot of people ship megumi and sukuna maybe it was like a black spiky hairstyle thing or smth?? but like i said i mean the art ate i guess so good for them…😭

I WAS GOING THROUGH IT WRITING THAT FIC OMG this was literally me the entire time:

not even justin biebering anymore just straight up suffering…but yeah i cannot believe it ended up at 18k i don’t want to ever hear people saying i don’t write a lot for my opps IT’S LITERALLY THE PROMPTS GUYS I SWEARRR GIVE ME SMTH GOOD FOR ISAGI AND I’LL COOK FOR HIM TOO TRUST AHAHA anyways thank youuuu hehe i had sm fun dropping in all of those little hints that she was dying literally the ENTIRE story (had to add in a disclaimer though in case people thought i was just making women be weak for the silliness of it all 😭) and yesss heheh kaiser himself being foreshadowing and a mere plot device as well as the “male lead” (ngl i wouldn’t even say it’s a romance because at the end of the day it’s never confirmed if he loves her or if he just realizes that all of humanity doesn’t suck because of her plus like y/n says we don’t even know if angels are capable of feeling things like love so it’s very reader-interpretation)

ANYWAYS so fun fact that story is based on pope gregory’s vision at castel sant angelo which i visited a year or two back and for some reason something about the myth had me SO inspired that i’ve wanted to write smth based on it since i heard it 😩 i never got around to it and never really had a character it would work for until i was like ok fuck it kaiser’s name is LITERALLY michael and the request is for fantasy i’m just going to do it and hope for the best SDKJFHSD i feel like he’s not the perfect character for it necessarily because in the story i made him be a bit more detached and, eventually, merciful, which idk if canon kaiser would’ve been like that but eh close enough i hope it wasn’t awful

OMG YAY I LIKED THE LAYOUT TOO ACTUALLY!! i tried to make the gradient thematically appropriate…since the gold and blue relate to the story sm and are mentioned a few times i thought it made sense hehe i think that’s the format i’m going to follow for this event since it’s a little easier to do (just find a good panel, run it through the ibis paint x color change filter, make a gradient on canva, resize it to a line that doubles as the divider, and put it together on picsart or smth) especially compared to my typical “graphic design is my passion” ahh headers LSDKJFHS

BROOOO AS SOON AS I SAW THAT PANEL I WAS LIKE BAZINGA it’s toooooo good SLDKFJHS WE MAKING IT OUTTA THE FACILITY WITH THIS ONE 🔥 karasu AND barou getting their spotlight on my blog truly as they deserve

WAIT I LITERALLY FORGOT OMG EDITS

karasu (you’ve def seen this)

THIS OTOYA ONE HAS ME LAUGHING he’s pretty though

[chodzacaparodia]

Sharing a room with Nagi and Chigiri was one of the most traumatic times in Barou's life

[m1ckeyb3rry]

I’m laughing so hard I can’t wait to read this officially in reos version!! Omg wait is it time to play guess the wc again…haven’t done this since the first quarter of Karasu bfb….hmmmmmm

STOP these pics alone are giving Reo conversion moment….im convinced you just sprinkle some sort of magic character propaganda dust into ur writing atp

LMAOOO FR omg imagine kdrama nagi….40min eps weekly I would fr eat that shit up

NO FR JJK audios are always insane (Gojo taking over daddy’s home will forever be an insane phenomenon)

FRRRRRRRRR THE S2 HYPE IS SOO REAL I bet we’re gonna see a bit of Karasu in action first ep too!!!

Poor chigiri he deserves compensation for that fr….but LMAOO nah fr hollyhock otoya >> regular otoya jkjk we love goofy otoya too but he would SO say that (yet again proving Karasu supremacy…)

BROOOOOOOOOOO THIS SLAPS???????? Im crying yuki tweaking out the moment you started the sentence I already imagined him just like that like “NO we CANNOT this is literally the OPPOSITE of what we were paid to do???” Ok but wait….what if…..what if this was the long fic…..here we have a yotd bllk crossover they kidnap her and then they’re like welp guess we gotta run from our boss…yotd spinoff plot…ok but anyways maybe im just enamored by the fact that karasus got his own little crow SHEJSHSS

Im CRYJNG THE SONG yet another product of your crazy rizz…ok but is the song good though….

Also im crying WTF is that yuki face on the right LMAOOOOO I’m ngl angry yuki lowk kinda….but wtf is the one on the right I’m sorry it’s like Shidou possessed him

- Karasu anon

HAHAHA OMG ON THE TOPIC OF THE OAEU I LITERALLY FOUND THE EXACT VIDEO TO DESCRIBE THE UBERS DYNAMIC IN IT i’m crying…just need to finish sae’s version and then things are abt to go crazy fr (also barou looks so handsome in this video bro i need him)

i’m literally converting myself tbh 😭 reo is just so perfect nagi is lucky i make him outdo himself in this fic because normal fandom fanon nagi could never compare w peregrine reo (tbh canon nagi lowkey might not be able to either LMAOAOA only men that can beat peregrine reo are peregrine nagi and bfb karasu)

okay wait speaking of nagi and dramas i think it’s so funny that he apparently likes watching dramas?? i think at one point (maybe second selection w barou) isagi’s like “i could’ve watched two episodes of an anime in this time” and nagi’s like “yeah or one episode of a drama 😒☝🏻” HAHAHA bro plays fps games you’d think he’d be into heavy shounen guns and violence type of stuff but honestly besides his video games he kinda has very cutie pie chill interests 🥹 like even his favorite song i listened once and it’s so calm??? truly a man of many contradictions

YESSS KARASU FIRST EP ego’s def going to announce the top six so we’ll get tabieitaken and nagi (and rin + shidou but who gaf abt them) although i wouldn’t be surprised if the first ep starts off with a flashback of reo and kunigami losing to shidou since that game is what kinda builds the hype for shidou and sets him up to be more “villainous” than even karasu and otoya (who are the third selection antagonists) as well as setting him apart from the rest of the bllkers which foreshadows him going to the u20s

somebody save chigiri fr 😭🙏🏻 honestly i think it’s funny when you actually watch bllk or read the manga besides the haircare chigiri is actually one of the most boyish characters??? idk how to put it but especially in the anime he just gives such strong BOY energy tbh fanon chigiri is closer to bachira than anything 😩 but FR hollyhock otoya lowkey does gag regular otoya i’m afraid (but tbf hollyhock otoya would be so proud that regular otoya is the way he is FJSKDJS) and YESS karasu supremacy he truly has such “me and my girl don’t argue she tells me to shut up and i do” energy like that man would be so delighted that someone wants him he’s not questioning ANYTHING

HAHAHA FREE YUKIMIYA only one with an ounce of sense between the three of them…ofc otoya’s like “😨 baddie alert 🚨‼️” so HE’S not saying anything 😭 and karasu’s just a softie he can’t kill her when he realizes she’s like. younger than him. it’s not by a ton probably a couple of years or so but still he’s used to killing like corrupt people or people who have wronged their clients meanwhile reader is just a girl she literally knows nothing…like when he’s about to kill her she wakes up and immediately calls for ness (unfortunately there is a brief ness era in the beginning) and karasu feels soooo bad because she’s like terrified and plus he knows ness was deadass INVOLVED in the plot against her life 😭 karasu number one gentleman fr 🤩 not killing a girl because she offers her half-brother’s life in exchange: LAME (@ otoya) not killing a girl because she’s crying and tells you she’s scared: WHAT A MANNN MAYBE CHIVALRY ISN’T DEAD

i fear this was meant to be my long fic (i came up w the idea a WHILEE ago) but i was never satisfied with how it turned out + i was annoyed by the mc’s lack of agency (crow and cackle karasu >> hollyhock otoya BUT hollyhock y/n >>>>>>> crow and cackle y/n) when i tried writing it especially in the beginning so alas it will remain a fond memory for us all 😩🙏🏻 HAHA karasu’s pet crow is so cuteee though i think it’s so funny to imagine when karasu pulls up w reader yukimiya’s just like bro stop adopting random creatures 😒 BUT a mutual of mine inadvertently reminded of this crazy detailed outline for a pokémon au i have in my drafts so perhaps i will revisit that after the oaeu and see if there’s anything salvageable from it or if it’s another doomed plot (lowkey it’s sad asf though icl the angst is real)

hmm the song is pretty good!! i wouldn’t say it’s my favorite but it’s not bad by any means…unfortunately i just cannot listen without remembering our crazy memories (this is the guy who i only texted about demon slayer and specifically akaza…like i would just send him paragraphs about how hot i found akaza even though me and akaza were never locked in like that but i found it funny that it pissed him off SO BAD and at the time i didn’t know why 😭 then he asked me out and i was like ??? you’re not akaza ??? LMAOAOA jkjk i was much nicer abt it but truly it’s proof that nothing can stop a man when he’s determined to ask you out NOTHING)

i fear this may be the one thing we disagree on i think he looks so fine on the right 🙏🏻 idk he just looks kinda cocky and sassy which is more in line w his mc vs bm match self but i honestly like the splash of personality it gives him LSFJJSJS

[miyamiwu]

....Yeah, the chains symbolize what's locking them down

It’s been explicitly shown in Chigiri’s arc:

Then you can see that there isn't much going on. They are pretty simple. It was only after volume 4 when we started to see some kind of hidden symbols and symbolism. However, one thing remained uniform (except Anri): cuff and chains, which means that the meaning of them has been the same and hasn't change.

Hmm, I disagree that the first 4 covers have no symbolism.

Most of the characters don’t have any special chain designs, and that’s fine. How they pose in the cover already have a lot to say about them.

Isagi facing forward with all eyes on the ball says he’s really a striker.

Bachira’s body is in 3/4 to the side, the same direction as the ball, yet he isn’t looking at it at all. He’s looking somewhere else—at us. Perhaps hinting at how Bachira’s chain is about his desire to find someone to play with else? His desire for somebody’s approval?

In Chigiri’s cover, his leg is very prominent, so his chain is related to his leg injury.

Kunigami’s arm muscles are emphasized, telling us about his strength. There is no ball in his cover, and looking at how he’s focused on defense in the current match, I’m taking this to mean that Kunigami’s arc will resolve with him playing defense, fulfilling his role as the Hero who will save his team.

I’d like to analyze all the covers in order, but there are too many of them so I’ll just pick some.

Nagi’s cover has his face too close-up. Could this be because his chain is solely himself? His personal motivations in soccer?

Reo’s chain has a part of it turning green in the light. Green like a chameleon, and not the bluish tone in Isagi’s, Chigiri’s, and Kunigami’s “simple” chains (Only Bachira’s chain has yellow tones among the E4 for some reason).

I love Karasu’s pose here because it reminds me of how he defended against Isagi in this scene:

On the other hand, Yukimiya has his hand to his face, bringing attention to his eyes. This hints at his chain being related to his eyes.

Aiku has been called a Cop before, and how he holds his chain also looks like he’s trying to restrain someone with it.

I’m not sure what Kiyora’s cover could mean since his arc is yet to unfold… but the way he’s lying low is indicative of how he waits and observes quietly before he attacks

And someone has pointed out before that Rin’s and Nanase’s covers could be linked. Rin is holding his chain, while Nanase has his chain looking like it’s being grabbed by someone. This could be pointing at their current dynamic in the manga right now

So yeah, all the covers actually have some kind of symbolism to them. However, it’s not just the chain that holds all the symbolism.

If you look at the starting volume covers:

Then you can see that there isn't much going on. They are pretty simple. It was only after volume 4 when we started to see some kind of hidden symbols and symbolism. However, one thing remained uniform (except Anri): cuff and chains, which means that the meaning of them has been the same and hasn't change.

However, we never got a clear official statement about those chains, and if my speculations are right, then they represent the THING which is holding back the person from achieving their true self, their true ego.

My reasoning is based upon this panel alone:

If you have read the Light Novel, then you might remember this excerpt from Hiori and Karasu's conversation:

And that's what exactly was in his volume cover:

But when he finally let go of his parents exceptions, the chain broke—he got free from the iron ball, and now, we can clearly see a big difference.

You getting me?

My reasoning is further backed by Kaiser's volume cover too:

His cuff and chain being transparent might represent glass which means: Fragility. And now that we know about his backstory, everything makes much more sense—the fragility represents the fragile nature of his false ego.

His false ego was so fragile that he never sought after an opponent who was stronger than him. He only went after and destroyed those who were already below him which in turn, for obvious reasons, never helped him reach his true ego—his true potential.

The glass nature of his chains can also be a symbol for this:

The blue rose seems to always be encased in a glass, doesn't it?

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No, you haven't gone crazy, I did, in fact, talk about this way before in this post. This post was actually dedicated to Ness, but halfway through, I changed my mind.

I'll talk about Ness in the next post.