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[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]

[polling-sonic-fans]

Should the Sonic Movies hypothetically be:

Accurate adaptations of the games

Loose adaptations

Mostly original

Nuance

Thanks for the anonymously submitted poll!

Polling Sonic Fans for their opinions on all manner of things. Share good questions to indicate what you want asked. Submissions open.

[andauril]

OC Smash or Pass: Silaestra

I did this once before but I only got three votes that time IN TOTAL we can do better than that, right? I mean look at her. She's hot. She deserves more than 3 total votes! This time, the lovely @mercymaker tagged me!

(Artwork by @/ineed-to-sleep, @/dafna-winchester, @/morebird, @/nikoadmeliora & @/cerudinaeart, Screenshots taken by moi)

STATS

Height: 5'7" (or ~170 cm)

Pronouns: she/her

Orientation: bi/pan

Age: ca. 138 during the events of the game

Class: Sorcerer

Race: High Elf (Moon Elf), Bhaalspawn

Alignment: chaotic neutral early game, more chaotic good in the late game

PROS

very patient, good at keeping a level head

very big into consent, she will never pressure you into doing anything you don't want to do

little bit of a tease

polite, but she will swear during sex

fiercely loyal

dry sense of humour

amazing hair and will help you with yours

her ears are very sensitive, do with that info what you want

very good at kissing

if you just want sex with no strings attached, she is down for that too

willing to try things out in the bedroom

will dirty talk you in Primordial

artistically talented, may make a sketch of you or your pet or sth

will literally kill for you, especially if someone wronged you

20 charisma by the end of the game, nuff said

hand kink

praise kink

switch in the bedroom

has a very fine ass

CONS:

daddy issues doesn't even BEGIN to cover it

miserable drunk, you may have to babysit her

emotionally constipated

scared of getting attached but attaches far too quickly

prone to keeping secrets

maybe a little vain so will hog the bathroom to do her hair for 2 hours

may or may not blackout and murder someone or do some other kind of evil shit

copes with the aforementioned blackout murders by engaging in self-destructive behaviour (Loviatar's priest whipping her, drinking ghastly ghost liqour with an undead ...)

doesn't lose her temper quickly but when she does it's not pretty

I shall tag @dungeonsdragonsandlawyers and @naevethewizard :3

[mushtoons]

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#5

See the full post

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#4

im a master comedian

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#3

🍔

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#2

See the full post

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My #1 post of 2022

i just think they're so silly

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I posted 3,916 times in 2022

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#its about the mutual pining before the confessions that make them feel like complete fools for not realizing its mutual a long time ago ♡♡

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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#4

kuwabara a real nonbinary ally since the 90s

2,806 notes - Posted June 15, 2022

#3

pokemon love and pokemon death where the covers resemble lisa frank art and emo blingee edits respectively

13,604 notes - Posted August 3, 2022

#2

NEVER apologize for leaving long tags when you reblog from me. i am reading it like its my daily newspaper in the morning. idc if idk shit about what ur talking about, its like checking out the gossip from the next town over

43,895 notes - Posted October 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

cringe isnt an insult. if you find me cringe that means i have power over you. im having a fucking blast while youre seething with vitriol at my very existence. whos really winning here

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[imbeccablee]

I posted 35,116 times in 2022

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#but the bad things dont outweigh the good in fact they make the good all the more important bc its so easy to be bad and so hard to be good

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Amity: Why does Darius call you baby girl?

Alador: Let's stop talking for a while.

83 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#4

mk: life's tough when your parents are divorced

SWK and Macaque: WE AREN'T MARRIED

mk: well yeah that's what "divorced" means

104 notes - Posted June 8, 2022

#3

how funny would it be if yor just fucking- didn't bring up that she's buddies with melinda desmond. like she'll definitely tell her family "oh yeah I made some friends!!" but what if she doesn't mention any by name so twilight doesn't realize his fucking wife is besties with melinda and anya has to deal with the fact that she knows operation friendship worked for her mama but she has no way of conveying that information to twilight. what if.

138 notes - Posted July 27, 2022

#2

don't TOUCH ME normal took aspects of his FRIENDS to look like a NORMAL TEEN i CANT!!!!!!!!!!

241 notes - Posted April 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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sorry.

I posted 1,412 times in 2022

That's 984 more posts than 2021!

155 posts created (11%)

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#draw tag - 28 posts

#id in alt - 21 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#so . i wanted to digitally draw smth cool for lesbian visibility week and it was gonna be ayda and tracker and kristen and it was gonna be

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

girls who kill and maim and are profoundly sad

See the full post

641 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

#4

role model

713 notes - Posted July 29, 2022

#3

THEY BECOME REAL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!

883 notes - Posted October 29, 2022

#2

guy who is a couch

1,240 notes - Posted October 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

See the full post

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[mageofcolors]

I posted 845 times in 2022

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#donk answer - 60 posts

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#cats - 30 posts

#donk stream - 30 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#the issue here is that the reason for that is bc team chaotix are seen as so much of a unit that theyre not considered separate characters

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

they really said you cant put your sopping wet scrunkly in the microwave huh

97 notes - Posted September 13, 2022

#4

colored the drawing by @candycatstuffs !!!! + genderqueer icon for my side blog :D

shout out to @kuroiyuki96-new for being a huge inspiration with the colors!!!!

117 notes - Posted August 23, 2022

#3

im playing botw for the first time and i have only played a part of a zelda game before so im basically a newbie here

here's what i learned so far:

-link is hearing voices

-they will kick chests open and then get surprised when their foot hurts

-if you leave them alone for like a minute they start flexing

-also you can jump off cliffs in this game and there very much is fall damage

118 notes - Posted October 4, 2022

#2

i think tails, amy, and knuckles should get new theme songs in frontiers actually

171 notes - Posted October 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

this came to me in a dream

1,463 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

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[lizard-spams-your-dash-too]

I posted 26,227 times in 2022

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Longest Tag: 138 characters

#dont think this is a real concern with zoomers since i too made mud pies and only really used the computer when i was already in preschool

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

imsonormalabouthisimsonormalaboutthisimsonormalaboutthisimsoniornal-

24 notes - Posted November 17, 2022

#4

This is a PSA:

Please continue to wear a mask people, COVID is still a real thing!

24 notes - Posted July 16, 2022

#3

I'm not really part of the death note fandom anymore but Ive noticed an interesting bit of fanon.

A lot of fans draw/describe Light with tanned skin, when in the anime and manga he's fairly light-skinned. The only canon source I can think of where he has a tan completion is the official illustrations by Obata. (Comparison below)

Anyway I don't really have a point here but I would like to say, keeping drawing him with tan skin. It's an improvement from the show in my opinion.

It differentiates him further from L, making his pale skin look even more stark. It also makes it harder to confuse him for a white dude, which is good since Death Notes story is so rooted in Japanese society and its Justice system. Also generally tired of people making jokes that Light is a white man.

Edit: changed some of my wording and added the last sentence

25 notes - Posted April 11, 2022

#2

Hey death note fandom, I'm trying to find a fic I read about a year ago.

It was a story on fanfiction.net and it was set in alternative timeline of death note.

Basically it starts of with Sorchiro Yagami's funeral, which L attends. Sorchiro was killed in a car accident, but L is fairly sure it was kira's doing. Sorchiro and him were the only ones looking into the kira case at the time, with Sorchiro losing respect at NPA. They haven't found any new leads on the case.

L's approached by a college age Light yagami who wants to help continue to search for kira. L agrees to work with light, even if he's not exactly trusting of him, as he needs extra help. They both get an apartment by the TO-HO campus to investigate kira.

The fic was abandoned, and was made sometime in the early 2010s late 2000s. It was also a Lawlight fic, with some fake dating in its later chapters.

If anyone can link it or remember the title of the fic I'd be extremely grateful, it's one of my favorite Death note fics and I want to archive it.

50 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Don't get me wrong I love Taika Watiti's work as much as the next gay atm but the amount of like parasocial worship of him I've seen recently makes me nervous.

I think it's important to remember we all know a very small sliver of him as a person.

At the end of the day he's just a guy whose making and in a lot of good things atm.

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[andauril]

OC Smash or Pass: Silaestra

the lovely @shewhowas39 tagged me, and I'm so down for this lmao

Rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

Screenshots & Art (currently only my own while I wait on some comms :3) here:

STATS

Height: 5'7"

Pronouns: she/her

Orientation: bi/pan

Age: ca. 138

Class: Sorcerer

Race: High Elf (Moon Elf), Bhaalspawn

Alignment: chaotic neutral early game, more chaotic good in the late game

PROS

very patient, good at keeping a level head

very big into consent, she will never pressure you into doing anything you don't want to do

little bit of a tease

polite, but she will swear during sex

fiercely loyal

dry sense of humour

amazing hair and will help you with yours

her ears are very sensitive, do with that info what you want

very good at kissing

if you just want sex with no strings attached, she is down for that too

willing to try things out in the bedroom

will dirty talk you in Primordial

artistically talented, may make a sketch of you or your pet or sth

will literally kill for you, especially if someone wronged you

20 charisma by the end of the game, nuff said

CONS:

daddy issues isn't doesn't even BEGIN to cover it

miserable drunk, you may have to babysit her

emotionally constipated

scared of getting attached but attaches far too quickly

prone to keeping secrets

maybe a little vain so will hog the bathroom to do her hair for 2 hours

may or may not blackout and murder someone or do some other kind of evil shit

copes with the aforementioned blackout murders by engaging in self-destructive behaviour (Loviatar's priest whipping her, drinking ghastly ghost liqour with an undead ...)

doesn't lose her temper quickly but when she does it's not pretty

And I'm tagging @nightingaletrash @feyriane @chiibee but no pressure :3!

[t4tklonoa]

I posted 7,078 times in 2022

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

@aceshadow for u !!!!

134 notes - Posted November 5, 2022

#4

I was going to make a post abt smth but I forgot what I was gonna say

So you get Sonic instead. Look at him

138 notes - Posted June 25, 2022

#3

I just think he's neat

144 notes - Posted June 20, 2022

#2

Grabs him like this and shows him to you. Look at my weird cat

212 notes - Posted November 26, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I LOVE HER LITTLE OUTFIT !!!!!

820 notes - Posted September 15, 2022

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I posted 1,127 times in 2022

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#there can be sth so personal & aesthetically pleasing about writing long sentences that describe things in a really roundabout way y'know?

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Sup, kiddos?

35 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

#4

Helluva Boss Season 2 Ep 1 spoilers

Just some musings about Stella, Octavia and the family dynamics.

See the full post

36 notes - Posted July 31, 2022

#3

I wish I had the energy to write a comedic piece from the pov of Chase Graves where he details how Liv and Blaine are the thorn in his side with all their rule breaking and anti authority behaviour, while he's just soooo concerned for all of zombiekind and trying to ensure everyone's survival. And the whole time there is this really obvious sexual frustration seeping through from his inner narrative, he's in denial but you can tell. It's not hidden. And it's a bit ridiculous how the narrative will describe Liv and Blaine as these great temptations, making him question his own approach and actions, and convinction. The narrative will make you think those two are great seducers.

Meanwhile the actual dialogue will go like

Blaine: "Oh. It's you. Sup. Please tell me you'll leave again asap."

or

Liv: "You can't just kill these people. :/"

And then the narrative will go "and there it was again, the personification of the voice from the darkest depths of his most hidden desires."

53 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

#2

It's funny how in the beginning it seemed like it would be Liv vs Blaine in the show, at least from the protagonist-antagonist set-up as we're used to in media, but their paths rarely cross directly, even though they're constantly connected in other ways. And more often the confrontations are Major vs Blaine, Ravi vs Blaine and so on, he and Liv rarely clash directly. And Blaine has his whole own life going on, while Liv does her thing.

They feel like they're each the protagonist of their own show whose lives are interweaving every now and then.

One plotline for how to be the worst zombie, one plotline for how to be a good zombie.

59 notes - Posted June 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

More angel AU! :D

Mild backstory of why the angels let a dude with their enemy’s face live and work with them. Lilith is not thrilled, but Angel has a point. If ya trust your nemesis’ baby daughter with a leader position you can’t really argue about the poor boy who just happens to look similar.

87 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

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[mobius-prime]

206. Sonic the Hedgehog #138

Return to Angel Island (Part 1): The Message

Writer: Karl Bollers Pencils: Jon Gray Colors: Jason Jensen

We're in for a big one, guys! This is another four-parter, and it's time to finally find out what's going on on Angel Island! But first, Sally and Sonic have to deal with the blowback from the king about their little Tommy mission. King Max chews them out for a while, with Sally tersely accepting the scolding, but Sonic actually attempts to cover for Sally by lying (badly) that she only came along because he kidnapped her. Of course, the king doesn't believe him, and after coldly calling into question Sally's ability to rule in his stead when they leave on their tour, he sends them off.

Yikes. Seems things are going to stay frosty between these two for a while. That afternoon, the king and queen, along with Uncle Chuck as their advisor and Antoine as their bodyguard, depart for their world tour. Shortly thereafter, everyone is hanging out in Chuck's diner, which is currently being manned by Jules and Bernie, while Sonic confides in Knuckles and Julie-Su about his troubles with Sally. Julie-Su points out that Sally's feelings are understandable to a degree, as she herself struggled for a long time after Knuckles' return from the grave with feeling comfortable about him going back into battle. The conversation is interrupted by a sudden crash at the door, and everyone is shocked to see a badly injured Charmy and Saffron enter the establishment and immediately collapse. They're immediately taken to receive medical attention, and after that Sally questions the two on what exactly happened. Charmy and Saffron relate, stricken by grief, how Eggman attacked their home at the Goldenhive Colony, and try as they might, they failed to save anyone - and they mean literally anyone. Their parents, all their friends, every single other member of the colony is dead now. I have to say, while this is certainly an… effective way of kicking to the curb Kenders' weird plans to shunt Charmy away from the spotlight, it's also an incredibly brutal way. I mean, how many others here have lost literally everyone they care about? Oh, wait, Knuckles is getting there! Fittingly, at that exact moment a transmission comes through on the Technolo-Tree, but the only thing that can be made out through the static is that Locke is apparently being held prisoner on Angel Island. And at that moment, Knuckles' patience, so carefully maintained just a couple issues ago, finally snaps.

Sally, you have to remember that it's been almost an entire year that he's been off his island, and he knows he still has friends and family stuck there, with Eggman doing who knows what to them. Can you blame him for wanting to rescue literally the only home he's ever known from Eggman's brutal occupation? Sonic sheepishly leaves with Knuckles, and together they, Julie-Su, the Chaotix (back together again! Also this time including Ray, who's been severely sidelined for quite some time now, and Saffron), and Bunnie all pile into the FFS and fly to Angel Island. Bunnie remains behind at Sonic's request, since he wants to make sure Sally still has a heavy hitter watching over Knothole while they're gone, and everyone else airdrops in, landing in the Marble Garden Zone. Sonic races away to do some split-second recon, and comes back with some pretty horrendous news - there's an honest-to-god prison camp not far from there location, sponsored by Eggman, run by dingoes, and filled with enslaved echidnas being worked half to death by their captors. So, naturally, the intrepid infiltrators race directly in and start causing some havoc.

Okay, this is something I've danced around for quite a while now, but… I really don’t like the portrayal of the dingoes as this weird military hive mind. Penders very obviously based them off of Nazi Germany in many ways (like… as we saw before in KtE#22, his hints toward this weren't subtle at all), and I believe he's even said that he deliberately only ever showed male dingoes, avoiding portraying women and children among their ranks, so they didn’t appear too sympathetic. Quite aside from the fact that that's a kind of ridiculous and sexist position to take especially given that one of the comic's current most threatening villains is in fact female, this just turns the dingoes into cardboard cutouts of villains instead of an interesting opposing faction in this world's political landscape. I mean, how much more interesting would they be if the story bothered to humanize them, make them relatable? But of course, that would mean that Penders would have to portray his precious echidna society as less than honorable for discriminating against them, and we can't have that, so instead they're all just military hardasses who love xenophobia and hate democracy. Hell, even the actual Nazis had more depth to their evil actions than the dingoes. And, to be fair, I know that this arc is written by Karl, not Penders, but he's just building on everything that Penders has established here, so I'm still putting the blame on Penders.

Anyway, the heroes make quick work of the dingoes stationed in the camp, though Knuckles takes a bad blow that Sonic has to save him from due to his lack of powers. Knuckles begins to protest at being helped, but he's suddenly drowned out by chanting… from the echidna slaves they've just freed. They're all bowing down to him and calling him the Avatar, hailing his return. A flabbergasted Knuckles spots Remington among the crowd and asks him what the hell is going on, and Remington explains that there's been a bit of a, eh, religious revival shall we say, among the echidnas on the island ever since he returned from the dead. Apparently, there's an old prophecy from the Ancient Walkers stating that someone will come back from the dead and deliver everyone on the island from their suffering, and, well, Knuckles fits the first part of that criteria. However, he'd barely come back from the dead before Eggman made his move on the island a year ago, preventing Knuckles from returning until now.

So things have kind of deteriorated to a severe degree in Knuckles' absence. Echidnaopolis is now Dingo City, and the dingoes are led not by General Stryker, who is conspicuously absent, but instead General Kage, a cyborg underling of Eggman's in charge of finding the Master Emerald somewhere on the island. Of course that's what Eggman is really after here, and they've captured Locke with the intention of getting the location from him one way or the other. He's been chained upside down in some dark room, and Kage has been torturing him nonstop for the past few days trying to get him to crack, to no avail. Eggman merely encourages Kage over video call to keep it up, while we transition to the Lava Reef Zone, which is where Knuckles has led all the rescued echidnas to, away from the prison camp. He's here because this is approximately where the message informing him of his father's capture originated from, but suddenly the group finds themselves surrounded by smoke, and out of the smoke steps an army of Dark Legion soldiers, surrounding them with weapons drawn…

Mobius 25 Years Later: My Dinner with Sonic

Writer: Ken Penders Pencils: Steven Butler Colors: Jason Jensen

…but who cares about all that interesting plot stuff when we can watch some forty-something moms chat next to a pool where their annoying kids and husbands are playing? Apparently, despite their husbands' rivalry, Julie-Su and Sally have actually become pretty good friends over the years, and lament that they barely get together anymore because of Knuckles and Sonic's hatred of one another. Sally is upset because of how distant Sonic has been acting lately - according to her, he barely talks to anyone he doesn't have to anymore, including Tails, whom he hasn’t spoken to in three whole years now! Excuse me, what?! Okay, Sonic and Knuckles at least have some precedent for their rivalry, however weak that precedent is, but I cannot even begin to imagine a world where Sonic just straight up ghosts his best friend for apparently no reason. Literally, no reason is given! He just doesn't like Tails anymore now! Also, in this timeline, Tails is married to Mina and he's moved to Downunda, because why the hell not? Who needs to make sense or give reasons for anything in their plot? Oh, but that's not all! If you thought that was the extent of Sonic's incredibly out-of-character writing, you thought wrong!

That's right - Sonic the forty-one-year-old father, war hero, and king of an entire nation is apparently so petty about not being able to hit a volleyball in the pool that he thinks it's acceptable to shove his own young son under the water so he can get to the ball instead. And this isn't just some case of me taking these panels out of context - on the very next page Manik rightfully calls him out on this, only for Sonic to irritably say that Manik has been "getting in his face all afternoon" and that this was the only way he could get to play with the ball. And then, just as if to rub this in our horrified faces, Knuckles also comes over and points out how terrible of an action this is, and when Manik speaks up SONIC FORCES HIM UNDER THE WATER AGAIN TO GET HIM TO STOP TALKING. I just… I cannot even begin to express how bad this is. This is literally the opposite of Sonic the Hedgehog. You cannot get further off the mark than Penders just has right here. Everything about Sonic's characterization in this arc is bad and inaccurate to who he really is, but this interaction right here is the cake topper, the prime example of just how much Penders does not understand the characters he is trying to write. I can pinpoint this as the exact moment I lost all remaining respect for Penders as a writer. I've defended him before, and I stand by my opinions that I do enjoy many of his earlier stories for the comic, but this is a goddamn travesty. Penders. Needs. To. Stop.

*sigh* We have to finish today's issue, so let's… let's just get to the end. Everyone goes inside for dinner, with Sonia and Manik heading out to play with Lara-Su while the adults have dinner together, because apparently they're so stuffy they don't even let their own kids eat with them. Knuckles and Sonic start arguing at the table, big shocker there, while Abby desperately tries to serve them dessert and their boring wives try to rein them in.

Are we gonna hear anything about what the "drone problem" or the "Overlander uprising" entailed? Those sound too interesting, so NOPE! Instead, the kids walk by and overhear the argument and promise each other they'll never fight like their parents do, while Manik tries to put the moves on Lara-Su, who is not having it. The argument ends when both Knuckles and Sonic belch simultaneously while their wives scold them disapprovingly - I think Penders is trying to go for a comedy movie sketch type thing here where classical music ramps up in hilarious intensity behind the bickering over the family dinner before everything ends on a few sharp notes from the string section, but it just comes off as utterly cringeworthy. Knuckles finally - finally! - manages to get to the point of this entire arc, which is to tell Sonic about how the world is ending. Yes, it took this long for him to tell the main character of this goddamn comic about the main conflict of this goddamn arc. Kill me. Someone please kill me.

…are you kidding me?! You mean all this time we could have been exploring the ramifications of a planetwide environmental disaster caused by dimensional travel, and the possibility of having to evacuate the planet's population into space, and instead we got to watch two boring husbands belch at each other over goddamn dinner?! I'm done. I'm so done. Everything about this sucks and I hate it. Ken Penders, if I ever see you in person, I will be throwing these hands.

[kusogaki-no-heichou]

My thoughts about Mikasa’s kiss

SNK CHAPTER 138 SPOILERS [English isn’t my mother tongue, so I’m sorry for my grammar mistakes!]

I want to say samething about Mikasa’s kiss in the last chapter.  It isn’t about that if I liked it or not.  Nonetheless, I think it really fits to the universe Isayama has created.

He made snk/aot as a whole a really dark world and I love it. And I remind that we are still talking about the same world where children had to eat their fucking dead mother!  The heavy and shocking things aren’t nothing new in that case. Of course, there are two absolutely different situations (last Mikasa’s scene and dead Ymir’s scene), so I don’t try to compare them. I only mark out that our fandom kinda used to things that aren’t socially approved in real world (or are morally questionable). In a whole manga there are a lot of scenes where characters behaved in a doubtful way due to different reasons. We always knew it.

And as I said before, for me this kind of kiss really fitted in such way. It really didn’t disturb me so much that Eren’s head was severed. And don’t get me wrong, I was meaning that it simply didn’t surprise me that the kiss was “unusual”.  I mean, I think I could be more shocked if they would kiss in more… ehem… “classic way”.  And I’m not talking about shipping or if I liked the scene or not. It’s not the case. I try to understand why such scene happened and why it could make sense.

The plot shows us huge amount of moments about crossing the boundaries – different boundaries. We can see how characters cross their own boundaries, boundaries about fear and strength, boundaries in making decisions, boundaries of morality, boundaries between what is good and bad, boundaries of humanity, boundaries between life and death – there are a lot of them! And the recent events of the story also referred to them. We have now a war, the genocide, death, regret, fear, pain, loss and many more. Even if someone is the best soldier who learnt how to keep calm, the events still HAVE the impact on them. Mikasa recently had to experience too many things (like any other character had to), she heard too much, she seen too much and she felt too much. She is strong, of course she is, but the the weight of everything on her isn’t without meaning.

Now she is under huge amount of stress and great dose of adrenalin which let her moves forward and takes actions. She has known what she had to do and she did it. Mikasa literally cut off her biggest strength and the biggest weakness at the same time. That happened almost at the same time as her vison, au, dream or however you want to name that, where she saw totally different reality. OF COURSE IT HAD AN INFLUENCE ON HER. How could it not? There are a lot of different feelings and emotions which she wouldn’t have have during “normal situation”. When our bodies are under such stressful, sudden circumstances we are losing our typical skill of inhibition and our boundaries are easier to be crossed. She crossed her own boundaries (consciously or not)because without that she couldn’t do what she has done (mainly killing Eren).  I’m not saying she lose her mind or ability to think rationally, no. She rather was in such state of mind where instinctive behaviors are faster and more needed than the calm ones.

And because of that she kissed Eren. Also, she didn’t kiss the “dead one” Eren, she kissed Eren she saw in her vision. She isn’t necrophile and she never was, next she was never interested in dead bodies and still she isn’t! (Really, she didn’t put that head under the glass to admire…)The kiss wasn’t supposed to be romantic or showed in sexual way. This was about grief, pain and loss, about letting go and saying goodbye to the loved one. It was about accepting her own emotions, so she can keep moving forward and live after that, because she didn’t want to forget. She made the hardest decision in her whole life and she knew it was the only one she could choose. Taking under account what she experienced during such moment, it isn’t really strange that she behave in specific way.  The grotesque in that scene was very symbolic and it really fitted to the whole universe. I can understand why it was presented in harsh, shocking way. It even connects with the familiar quote from series that the world is cruel, yet so beautiful.

I don’t try to debate if the kiss was good or bad or if it was needed. I just think I can accept that, because it makes sense in deeper way. Also I don’t justify any actions characters have taken. I only look at them on the side and at the same time try to look by their own point of view.

Was I shocked? In some sense – yes, even If I predicted few things which happened in whole chapter. It was something I wanted to see or expected? Absolutely not. Could the last chapter be shown in the different way? Probably. Did the chapter hurt? Hell yes. Did I hate it? Certainly not. I needed a lot of time to proceed things that happened there, but I think I can live with it. I have spent with that manga about 8-9 years and it’s my the most beloved series. So, even If not everything will be perfect I can still accept that.

You can disagree with me – that’s fine. Also, if you think that the last chapter was “too much” or you didn’t like it – it’s also fine. I don’t want to argue with anybody, it’s good we have different opinions.

Lastly I want to admit I focused only about Mikasa’s kiss and her emotions. I didn’t want to analyze any other events, any other motives, theories, characters or story as a whole.  In that case it would be necessary to write much more text and to think about much more wide aspects of the series. And last but not least - I need to repeat – my whole meta post wasn’t about shipping. And to be honest I have never really liked eremika, yet I have to write few things about recent events.

[fyeahsonicthehedgehog]