#tamakoma branch

[mx-giraffe]

Guys guys guys

Hear me out

I know. I know I know I know but wait

I think

That we need more Yuma fluff

Guys I wanna read about Tamakoma making fun of Yuma and Chika for being short. And I wanna read about Yuma hanging out with Ko and Kage and them just having fun as besties. And I wanna read about Tamakoma all spending time together. I wanna read a fic where everyone goes up onto the roof to stargaze with Yuma until they fall asleep with blankets and sleeping bags and just keep him company through the night. I wanna read a fic where Yuma and Yotaro go fishing (and Hyuse gets to be there too because cmon). And I wanna read a fic where Yoneya finally gets that match! And I wanna read a fic just full of Jin being Yuma’s older brother. I wanna hear about all the happy things, I wanna know all the small little moments that are really the most treasured ones.

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk.

(Id just write some myself but I’m currently in the middle of actually important exams, so I have like barely any time 😭😭)

[sad-leon]

was gonna make a most about a World Trigger au i have rotating in my brain but realized that was a bad idea because I don't want spoilers and i'm only on episode 28 of season one ladjflasjdf

but the autism is autisming and i cannot stop thinking about the boys and what triggers they'd have

and how F!mikey's sacrfice would probably give casey a Black Trigger, and how Leo probably had a Black Trigger from Raph or Donnie in the bad future

Thinking about how Karai's sacrfice left a Black Trigger that only April and/or Splinter could use

please don't send spoilers into my inbox or comments i'll cry

[aftokrator-official]

Kooku for the fucked-up ship bingo!

i think these boys are not especially fucked up as they are but thinking about it is making me realize that they would definitely be codependent little war criminals if they'd grown up in the Neighborhood without Azuma and i should definitely. contemplate this further....

[faux-mance]

ooooh thats interesting !!! makes me think of the skanda, actually, being able to read people’s movements? i’d like to combine both his whole art motif with his knowledge about meta & scripts, so it’s a neat idea but i don’t know it’s necessarily the Best one?

going along your line of thought i do like the idea of the heightened sense of prediction or perception though !! like having an uncanny sense of understanding people and being able to come up with quick solutions. idk im spitballing here

utmv world trigger au. Hear me out. Has anyone warched slash read it Please I need to talk about this SO bad

[thatcryptidinthewoods]

Strap in boys, this is a long one.

So I was looking back through the pages of the manga and I noticed something very interesting about Hyuse. It's a really subtle thing but it's been blowing my mind all the way to Saturn and back.

I had to split this post up because of the Tumblr picture limit so if you want the full version you can find it here.

When we first meet Hyuse, he's in the Aftokrator Away Ship, dressed in Aftokrator's military uniform, surrounded by fellow soldiers. And he looks like this:

Look at his hair. It's neat and tidy, slicked back to be smooth and out of the way. It's very round and flat and well-behaved, almost like it's been polished.

Soon after this, Hyuse is instructed to go out and fight Tamakoma-1. So he does. He goes with Viza and he fights Tamakoma-1.

But Tamakoma-1 isn't easy to beat. In fact, they're quite hard to beat, and Hyuse is encountering some difficulties. Their techniques and weapons are new, unusual and unknown to him - he's being exposed to how Meeden works for the first time. And his hair... scruffs just a little bit.

Just a little bit messier, not a lot to really matter. Could be just the effect of an intense fight.

Then he meets Jin.

And then he fights Jin. And after fighting Jin and learning that his fellow Aftokratans have left, he looks like this:

Those back spikes weren't like that before, were they? No, after having fought with Jin and being told he's been abandoned by his comrades, Hyuse's hair is definitely scruffier. (Also, doesn't that crack look weirdly like he's... crying? Food for thought.)

So Aftokrator loses and Hyuse is taken prisoner, and when we next see him, it's here:

Posture slouched, hands in his pockets, hood over his head. A very clear anti-social stance. He doesn't want to be here, he doesn't want to talk to these people, he's pretty much doing this against his will. So he's reluctant, and he's hiding.

This is a common thing with Hyuse. It's how Ashihara communicates the distance between Hyuse and other characters to the audience; if he doesn't want to be there, he puts the hood up and he hides. And it's kinda interesting that the behaviour that is associated with Hyuse hiding is also the behaviour where he covers his hair.

His hair, which went from almost-uniform neatness in Aftokrator's ship to a ruffled mess after being on Meeden.

Do you see where this is heading? Let me keep going.

After the Aftokrator invasion, Hyuse spends some time among Tamakoma Branch as per Border's way of keeping him prisoner. He barely talks to any of the people there, but that doesn't mean he doesn't interact with them. He's still in the same space as them, sharing the same environment, so he continues to gain exposure to Meeden and its people, and he bonds particularly with Yōtarō.

Following this, the next major event in the story is the Galopoula invasion. Towards the end Hyuse meets with one of the Galopoula soldiers (Reghindetz) and demands to be taken with them so he can return to Aftokrator.

Hyuse fakes stabbing Yōtarō in order to convince Reghindetz of taking him with them, but Reghindetz flips out a completely grills him.

Chapter 135 is the first ever chapter to be titled with Hyuse's name; it's incredibly important to his character, and this panel is the centre of it. It takes up half the page it's on. Ashihara wanted to make it very clear to the audience that this moment for Hyuse is absolutely critical - and it is, because this is a major turning point in Hyuse's character growth. He's just had the blatant truth of what it means to be left behind by Aftokrator thrown right in his face.

And you wanna know what Ashihara chose to highlight in such an incredibly crucial moment for Hyuse's character?

His fucking hair.

His messy, fluffy, scruffy hair that looks absolutely nothing like it did when he first arrived in the Aftokrator ship. His hair, which has gone from neat and orderly and controlled to wild and free just from being on Meeden.

But the absolute wildest part? Hyuse looks like a teenager now. The more his hair fluffs up and gets scruffy, the more Hyuse looks like a normal everyday teenager who just grew up on Meeden/Earth. It's insane. It's surreal. It's absolutely off-the-walls batshit bonkers and Ashihara is a bloody genius.

It doesn't stop there either, because the very next thing that happens is the first time the audience gets to see Hyuse put on Lambyris. And lo and behold...

Hyuse, using Lambyris and wearing Aftokrator's military uniform, has scruffy hair.

Ashihara could've just made it so that Lambyris automatically gives Hyuse neatened hair, and excused the previous scruffiness with "he was in a fight". But he didn't. Instead he chose to show us Hyuse putting on Lambyris while looking like a normal teenager, and have his trion body load in with god damn scruffy hair.

What happens afterwards? Well...

Hyuse hides again.

Notice how he took the hood off when facing Reghindetz? He was confident then, self-assured. He had a plan and he was gonna act on it. Now, that's all been crushed. He's back to square one and worse, he's been confronted with the fact that he's been abandoned.

There's a distinct pattern to Hyuse's hiding. Whenever he's faced with something that shakes his world view and/or hurts his pride, he puts his hood up. He creates a second shield for himself and he uses it to cover up his key defining features. This isn't just anti-social behaviour, it's a defence mechanism.

The Aftokrator invasion? No hood, but the moment he's taken prisoner of war it's there. Aftokrator lost and then left Hyuse behind, and he's hiding how he's hurt by that. On top of that, he's being manhandled by Border.

Confronting Reghindetz? No hood, he didn't feel like he needed it. Post-Galopoula invasion? Hood up, head down, won't sit near anyone but Yōtarō. He's having to rearrange his whole perception of himself, Aftokrator and Meeden and it sucks.

And thirdly, confronting the Border Executives. In order for Hyuse to get back to Aftokrator, he needs to join Tamakoma-2 as their second ace, and help them get onto the Away Mission team. To do that, however, he needs approval from the heads of Border - which means he needs Osamu to plead his case.

Notice how, by having him sat down, Ashihara made Hyuse shorter than Yūma in this panel? How Hyuse, who's normally the tallest out of Tamakoma-2, is depicted as smaller than their smallest member? And even more than that, how Osamu is now the tallest?

Where Hyuse is normally the guide, the advisor, the more experienced one that the others turn to, in this situation he is the one reliant on them.

And look, he's regressed. He's gone back to that flat-eyed stare he had when we first saw him in the hoodie, sat in the back of the car.

He's been placed into a situation where he is basically powerless and completely dependent on others to survive, and in response all of his defence mechanisms have gone back up. He refuses to emote properly and only talks when he feels it's absolutely necessary, and the hood stays firmly on - hiding not only his hair but his horns as well, the key defining feature of his Neighbour heritage.

But Mikumo succeeds in getting Hyuse approved for Tamakoma-2. And Hyuse, incidentally, goes back to being depicted as the tallest of the four of them.

From this angle, it also appears that he's no longer slouching. His confidence is slowly coming back.

So at long last, in Chapter 150/151, Hyuse joins Border. He rocks up at the induction ceremony in a customised C-Rank uniform, hair fully exposed and scruffy as ever.

[watori-fics]

Welcome to Bonchi Rice Crackers Club

Characters: Kuga Yuma | Mikumo Osamu | Jin Yuichi Summary: Yuma takes one pack of Jin’s Bonchiage and finds out the consequences Note: Jin is definitely the kind of guy who wouldn’t get mad when someone eats his snacks, but instead, he’d playfully turn the situation around. I imagine if Yuma took one of his Bonchiage, Jin would somehow find out instantly. But instead of getting upset, he’d pull something like this…

It was a lazy afternoon at Tamakoma Branch, and Yuma was wandering around after a light training session. As he passed Jin’s room, the door was slightly open, and the unmistakable sight of Bonchiage rice crackers glint.

“Just one won’t hurt, right?” Yuma thought, casually slipping his hand into the box closest to the door. He took a single pack, tore it open, and munched on it as he strolled back to his room, satisfied with his snack.

The next morning, Yuma found five towering boxes of Bonchiage stacked neatly outside his room. He stared at them in confusion, scratching his head. The stack had a note attached.

“Yuma-kun, enjoy! There’s plenty more where that came from. – Jin”

Yuma stared at the pile, chuckling. “I guess Jin-san found out, huh?”

Osamu, passing by, paused and raised an eyebrow.

“Kuga… what did you do?” Osamu asked cautiously.

Yuma grinned sheepishly. “I just took one snack yesterday. I didn’t think Jin-san would notice.”

Osamu sighed. “He noticed… and he’s definitely not letting it go unnoticed.”

“Still, I didn’t expect him to send me five boxes in return.”

“Looks like Jin-san’s way of keeping you stocked for the month,” Osamu said, shaking his head. ��Next time, maybe don’t take it without asking?”

Yuma shrugged, still smiling. “Hey, at least I know where to go if we run out of snacks.”

————

Jin’s playful nature strikes again, and Yuma ends up with more Bonchiage than he bargained for! It’s such a Jin thing to do—being overly generous to mess with you but in a way that leaves you wondering how he even knew!

[triggeroffzine]

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[namisweatheria]

It's so cute how much Zoro likes to tease Usopp. It's much gentler than how he mocks Sanji. He knows Usopp's not actually going to get mad, he's gonna be like, YEAH IM SCARED!!!!! SO WHAT!!!!!! It's cuteeeee. Especially how he gets up in his space and pokes him.

This was a good moment of Usopp reassuring Vivi, it was funny for the #1 Professional Worrier to tell someone else they worry too much, and for Vivi, who doesn't know Usopp that well yet, to recieve that seriously like wow you're right thank you. And then for Zoro to pop the bubble. At the same time he was being very earnest about believing in his friends, in the way that he is. HE'S SILLY AND HE'S ADMIRABLY STRONG-HEARTED. IT'S BOTH!!!!!!

I think this time around I'm really appreciating the Zoro-Usopp dynamic in particular. When he came to genuinely admire him in Syrup Village to the point of telling him so and fighting for him. How he's still teasing him all the time, but now there's affection and respect under it. I don't know there's something about a monstrously strong cool guy with terminal lack of fear, who morally tends to do whatever, who quietly loves and admires a much, much weaker, silly scaredy-cat guy who tries so hard and is so kind and principled. It's cuuuuuteee. It's sweet. I love them.

It's kind of like Kuga and Mikumo from world trigger except ten thousand times sillier and just one of many fun dynamics in a big, close, loving group. I mean Tamakoma Branch also live together but it's a lot more casual and just not as group-focused. The Strawhats are ultimately one group who all got together at the same time, while Tamakoma is like, three different generations who work together. They mostly have other places and people that are equally if not more important to them, meanwhile The Strawhats are each other's lives. Of course the main character trio in world trigger are pretty intensely focused on each other, more so than the rest of the house. They are trying to save one of their lives from his slow death together, and give him a reason to keep living, and also find people they love who have been stolen. Ugh I love those three.

And I loooove Zoro & Usopp!!!

[findthebae]

Hello, it’s Hyuse from world trigger. I would like to meet others from my source, especially anyone from the Tamakoma branch. I took my time there for granted even when you all treated me with more kindness than Aftokrator ever did, and for that, I am truly sorry. I hope we can make amends.

You can contact me @boiled-cats

@boiled-cats

[riceballoon]

thought this would be a nice place to compile oc stuff... it's still very subject to change but i'll just do it for my main girl (from my own story but i wanted to do a crossover)

1. my mc's name is nue (鵼) kusunogi (樟)! nue as the mononoke and kusunogi means camphor tree. despite being a neighbour her name is japanese (bcs that's how it is in her own story lol)

2. 17

3. new student at mikado

4. two older brothers: both have passed away

5. she's a runaway neighbor from a lost nation, so not from mikado or scouted!

6. joined by making a deal: bcs her neighbor trigger is effective for crowd control (which i think border lacks, aside from amo) she promised that she would protect them from future invasions, as long as they let her live in mikado in peace since she has nowhere else to go home to

7. right after the aftokrator invasion, where border found her and took her in for questioning

8. captain, attacker

9. somewhere mid-high B, tamakoma-3 (ik it's redundant but what other branch would accept her 💀)

10. double scorpions and grasshoppers + basic defense and stealth

11. no, she has middling/ low trion

12. no formal mentor or mentee, although she likes observing and learning from others

13. when she found out it happened, she wasn't too surprised given her background

14. not really, she's travelled for a long time there and has no home to return to in the neighborhood

15. generally outgoing+ friendly to all but she enjoys talking about martial arts with ikoma! (iai for him and kyudo for her) yoneya, izumi, midorikawa were the first agents aside from my other ocs she met and she vibes w them. probably acquainted with hyuse and yuma fairly well

16. ooh a shop... she likes going to music stores w her team bcs they're all proficient in at least one instrument. also flower shops! likes to see the unique flora on earth

(btw yes i am aware one of my ocs names literally means "meat" it's an inside joke hehe)

World Trigger OC Ask Meme

I’m nosy af, so I want to get to know yalls World Trigger OC. You can use these questions to make a new OC too. Have fun!

What’s their name? Is there any meaning behind it?

How old are they?

What is their occupation? If they are a student, which school do they go to?

Who does their family consist of? (If they have pets, you can include them too)

Are they from Mikado City originally or were they scouted by Border?

What made them join Border?

When did they join Border?

What’s their position at Border?

What rank are they? Are they a part of a squad? If so, what squad is it?

What do their Main Trigger and Sub Trigger consist of?

Do they have a side effect? If so, what is it?

Do they have a mentor or a mentee? If so, who are they?

How did the large invasion four and a half years ago impact their view on the Neighbors?

Do they want to go on the away mission or not? Why?

Amongst Border agents, who do they usually hang out with?

Is there a shop in Mikado City they like to frequent?

[notlambiris]

Hyuse and his hate Jin 😂

[shizukais]

[kna-illustrations]

「Hyuse」 First illust post for the year 2022! One of my favs from World Trigger.

[elz-vrx]

Ok I really have thought about Amo being the assassin. There's also strong points FOR him being the assassin!!

1. He "looks like a monster when he fights"

2. As you mentioned, Amo and Yuma haven't met yet

3. His side effect is "good for stealth missions" according to Ashihara. (His side effect is to see people's fighting abilities as color. Not sure if this also works like infrared, but it would be cool if it did.)

However, the evidence against is also pretty strong.

1. Amo is 16 now. This means either

1A. Time flows differently in different parts of the neighborhood or

1B. Amo carried out that mission at age 13.

2. The Black Trigger Amo uses was made by a member of Old Border. This means that it would have had to have been created and given to Amo in a one year time span. Thus seems like a risky move from border, especially due to the fact that that would have been half their black triggers (Aftokrator did the same thing tho, so I wouldn't get too stuck on that).

3. To carry out this mission, Amo would have had to either some passage into and back from the neighborhood like Hatohara did, OR Border had already figured out some sort of travel through the neighborhood. I find the prior more plausible.

3B. Another possibility on how and why Amo carried out this mission is that he himself is a neighbor, but unless he's a plant, I find that unlikely given that he's not under Tamakoma branch.

So I would not rule it out until we see his trigger in action. Gosh I love this series.

been on that world trigger brainrot fr (also a theory below the art) (long post)

I have a whole au living in my brain abt if yuma lives lmao. Maybe I'll sketch or talk abt it if anyone's interested.

Also, a theory I've been keeping to myself for years bcuz it's probably wrong:

Amo is the black trigger assassin. HEAR ME OUT !! I can't be the only one who's thought abt this at least a bit, right????

1. We haven't seen Amo's black trigger yet.

For triggers being so prominent, why haven't we seen Amo's? During Afto's invasion, we could have seen Amo's trigger, but we only got to see the aftermath. We also have no idea how he came into possession of it. We know it's VERY strong and VERY destructive. Kind of like an assassin we've heard of, yes? The assassin tore Yuma apart in a second, but it was only in like, small blasts? for lack of a better term. So the two are different in that aspect, but it's also been years since then, so Amo could have the room to improve.

2. Yuma hasn't met Amo yet.

Yuma has met like, almost everyone? Or has heard or seen them in passing? We've seen most of the squads, and were seeing more in the away missions test right now, and how they fight, their motives, and their skill level. Like, Yuma knows Amo exists, I'm pretty sure Amo knows Yuma exists, and yet they haven't met. Somehow. Seems kinda sus to me.

3. Kind of stupid, but Amo's hair and the assassin's is a little similar lmao.

Self explanatory. They do look different, but there's a three year difference, so yea.

4. We know next to nothing abt Amo.

We know his age, what he looks like, that he's anti-social, and doesn't really know how to reign in his power or that he really cares to. BUT we have no idea who is parents are, or WHERE he came from, or even when he joined border (that I can remember). He could be a neighbor, but he very may well be not.

5. We don't know what the assassin looks like.

We could chalk it to Yuma's memory, having the flashback being from his perspective and only seeing the assassin for a split second, but it also leaves a TON of possibilities of who they can be.

All of these put together COULD be deliberate. There has to be a reason!!! Like, waiting for a big reveal. Amo's mysterious nature really puts him up to be anything. But it really could just be that they haven't met yet because of simple reasons, and Amo is just some normal kid with a black trigger.

Like, this theory popped into my head one day as a what if, and since then, I've been running with it lmao. A lot of it is speculation. But I know that it can fall apart pretty easily, so I won't be surprised if it turns out I'm completely wrong.

But I also won't be surprised if I turn out to be right 😎

I hope I explained it at least somewhat coherently 😭

[saaraofthesand]

Your honor, I love him

[glytchedmuffins]

I’ve fallen into the World Trigger hole and I can’t get out. honestly I don’t even mind lmao. But yeah I fricken love this anime and the tamakoma branch (esp tamakoma-2). this is a little embarrassing but I just wanted to ask if you had any headcanons about tickle fights going on between the main characters. like does kuga and hyuse even know about this stuff? how would they react to being tickled? would osamu and chika have to team up to win? do the senpais use it to control their students? silly stuff like that. ahh no worries if youre not okay with answering, I’ll continue to look forward to your posts! thank you!

Helloooo! Thank you for the request and welcome to the WT hole, there is no escape so be sure to enjoy your stay ^–^

Osamu was only really tickled when he was really young, and since he was never a ticklish person, he never really *got* tickling. To him it was always something you do in order to entertain children... that is untill he became a part of Tamakoma. Tickle fights don't happen often there, but when they do it's chaos. Despite the fact that he is mostly used as a shield since he is one of the least ticklish people there, and that he isn't good at tickling others, he likes seeing his friends laugh and have fun, so he has grown to like them... unless they go way too out of control.

Rinji used to tickle Chika a lot, easily restraining her little body while she didn't have the opportunity to fight back, so when the Tamakoma tickle fights start, she tries to mainly run and hide. She is usually the main target for the tickles since she is small, cute and rather ticklish, yet despite it she really loves them, they remind her of her brother and make her feel less lonely.

While Yuma was aware of tickles, he wasn't used to them. His father, Replica and him were always traveling and no matter where they went there was war, so there weren't many opportunities for them to do many "normal" bonding activities. So when Konami first tried to tickle him he was really confused and afterwards immediately asked Osamu about it, which Chika ended up explaining to him insted. It was still weird for him at first but he quickly got used to it and even became one of the main culprits in starting tickle fights.

Hyuse hates being tickled, since he is very ticklish (which he will deny to his grave), so outside his master, and now Yotaro too, no one is allowed to tickle him, anyone who tries is immidiatly taken care of. A lesson Jin learned in a very painful way.

Usami loves tickling others, she often does with her own little sister and doesn't hesitate to do it with any of the younger members... aside Hyuse.

Jin is main culprit n.2 when it comes to starting tickle fights. Jin also cheats using his side effect so that he knows when it's best to and how to tickle the other and so that he can avoid the other's attempts at tickling him back. Cause of this, they try to avoid a tickle fight with Jin, since it will just be a losing battle. Only Konami and Yotaro are dumb enough to try.

Yotaro is the other main target of the tickles, mainly used against him as a form of punishment when he is being extra bratty. He tried his best to tickle others too, but he is really bad at it, to the point that he doesn't even have any effect on Hyuse.

Konami is the last main culprit in starting tickle fight, if she is frustrated enough (and she doesn't feel like dealing physical harm insted) she will try to tickle whoever caused her frustration, which usually never works out for her. But she keeps trying her best anyway. Problem is that, aside Hyuse, she is the most ticklish there, so it doesn't usuallu end well for her.

Torimaru is the KING when it comes to tickle fights. The guy has 4 younger siblings, he has mastered the craft by now. He doesn't usually start them, but if he does get involved he always wins while keeping his composed, blank face on the entire time. Unless his opponent is someone who is immune to tickles (Osamu and Reiji) or are complete cheaters (Jin), he will win no matter what.

Reiji is the most immune out of them all (Osamu coming in 2nd), so he usually just watches from the side in (poorly) hidden amusement. Unless the tickling starts to get out of hand and Osamu is unable to stop it, then he easily puts a stop to it before they can hurt themselves or break something in the base.