#teen mizu

[interneteclipse]

little teen mizu doodle

its her party and she'll cry if she wants to (thankfully she did not)

[neefari]

Instagram requests part 2

[kisses4mizu]

(current) mizu as your childhood friend + lover

this is actually based on my self-insert oc’s story so i hope you guys don’t steal this oc lore idea for your own ocs 😭🙏 btw, these are much more longer headcannons just so you know!

- Both of you first met at Master’s Eiji home.

- Let’s edit the story a little: When Mizu snuck into Master Eiji’s home, you noticed her and tried to tell Master Eiji about it. Of course, he was well-aware (bro practically has super-hearing) about it but just brushed you off, wanting Mizu to make the first move for interaction.

- As she was hiding, you just ambled up to her and would hold her hand when it was freezing. God, just imagine two tiny kids holding hands like the amount of innocence in that is so 😭

- Secret! Secret! Master Eiji smiles everytime he hears you too running and laughing in the field outside

- When you guys play hide-n-seek, she would always hide at somewhere above your eye level so she could jump onto your back to surprise you

- You were her teenage crush but she was too afraid to confess because she was afraid of you seeing her more as a ‘brother’ and of ruining the friendship

- You try to help her out a little in her sparring like leg placement and hand positioning etc *

- Bro, the amount of physical contact is enough to make her explode… like she is NOT listening to you AT ALL when you teach her that

- Master Eiji always comments (when you weren’t around), “hm.. the big boy has a crush, I see…” + snickers just to annoy her further LOL

- He’s literally the gossip guy in an alternate universe 💯

- She hates that she feels this way about you… like she should be devoted to her goal of revenge but her mind was so clouded with you it was difficult to balance her focus 😕

- She’s either (1) trying to impress you by slashing the air in random directions with an unnecessary amount of force and swiftness OR (2) she’s feigning that confused look on her face so that you’d come and assist her >:)

- She adores how you were so set on ensuring her sword fighting skills were the best they can be

*

Your fingers brushed down her wrists, shifting the palm further from the other on the hilt. At one glance at her, the redness blossoming on her cheeks was a clear sign of her embarrassment—was she insecure? With a soft sigh, you trail your fingers delicately on her arms. with a soft reassuring smile, “Hey, hey, relax.. make sure not to tense up when you’re fighting.”

At the same time, Mizu was practically internally screaming. Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! Her little teenage heart was practically about to explode from inside of her chest at the amount of embarrassment and nervousness stirring inside. Her cheeks would flush, her breathing would grow heavy, her fingers slightly shaky.

“Mizu? You okay?” Your voice snapped her out from that daze.

“I—.. I’m alright..” she mutters as you shift her legs back a little to maintain her balance. Her skin tingled as if tiny ants were crawling on her and before she knew it, she just blabbered out, “your hands are nice and warm.”

Her own words took her a second to process and she could not fucking believe she said that.

“No wonder you liked to hold my hand when we were younger, hm?” You giggled, running a hand down your hair as Mizu watched you with adoration, trying to imagine your hand caressing her own head.

[isitwrongtotrytopickup---dragons]

The funniest thing about Mizu pretending to be a man is how it's perfectly believable just from their height. Bro was the smollest bean as a child 😭 how tf do you grow up to be 5'9 😭

[mahlersgirl]

one of my favorite bes hc's is that a great part of mizu's money came from selling knives and farming tools under master eiji

and she would go happily (as much as mizu can) sell her creations to the nearest non-kohama village while covering her eyes (still trying to think of something that's cheaper than glasses)

and there's a whole generation of village people with blades by master eiji's apprentice

I want her to be doted on by elderly women whose eyesight is so bad they could never see she's mixed

I want said elderly women offering their granddaughters in marriage because mizu is a strong young gentleman and it would be a match made in heavens

[craurpuri]

yall yall I just imagined something in my peanut brain

so this is some modern au shit but like, the girlies meet by pure coincidence, at a hospital of all places 😭🙏

oinao is finally getting checked out and just sits in the waiting room and mizu is there after being excused from school that day for an appointment for smth, and they just glance at each other like "don't I know this girl from school?"

I know. finding your future high school crush at a damn hospital is peak ✨ romance ✨

[exactlyfuturisticbeliever]

[hydranomago]

Samatoki being easily surprised from the back + MTC’s trademark “we are a family so as a dad I will pull you two in by the shoulders” pose 

[kisses4mizu]

childhood trauma has been healed

I’m obsessed with Mizu getting hugs. She needs all the love.

[maemaealltheway]

Sunglasses | Blue Eye Samurai

Modern Teen AU where Akemi helps Mizu to find her the right sunglasses.

[sophswritingthings]

Mizu x fem reader where reader finds out mizu has bangs like on the boat it was wooshing in the air. Reader encourages Mizu to wear it like that more often and reader plays with it? Reader calling Mizu handsome and pretty. Mizu has a little self reflection where if she was a teen again she would want to have had someone to treat her like reader is at that moment. So cute!

pairing: mizu x fem!reader

warning(s): mild swearing 

a/n: I LIVE BITCHES. sorry I know I said I’d be back sooner by the new year hit me like a truck and I have finals this week but guess who got Covid!! IM STILL DOING THESE DW!!

word count: 343 words / 1,893 characters

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you were walking around the ship, brushing your hand across the sides of it. 

you were staying clear of fowler, you didn’t want to be anywhere near that damn prick. he had died to kill mizu—and you, personally, we’re not having any of that.

you slowly lifted your head up, catching mizu’s gaze. you smiled softly, approaching your partner.

you wrapped an arm around her waist, resting your head on her shoulder.

“hello,” you murmured.

“hello,” she whispered back, reaching down to place a kiss atop of your head.

“how are you feeling?” you lifted your head, gazing up at her. her bangs were flowing free in the wind. she looked beautiful, like that.

“sore,” she responded. “but.. otherwise, I’ll be fine. how are you feeling?”

“me?” you chuckled, “I’m fine.”

“you sure?” she cocked her head.

“absolutely fine, mizu,” you gently grabbed her waist, pulling her a bit closer, “I like your bangs, my love.”

she let out an almost surprised chuckle, “really?”

“you look rather handsome,” you smiled, twisting her bangs around your fingertips.

mizu could feel her heart pounding a bit, in her chest. nobody was ever sweet with her, never complimented her. hearing you do so made her feel like she was flying.

“thank you,” she mumbles.

“you should wear it like that more often,” you release your grip from her waist, placing a quick kiss on her check before you retreat back into the cabin of the ship.

mizu watches as you go, letting out a breath. she turned back to watch the waves, the sight of the waves calming her.

she would have loved to have someone like you when she was a teen, always encouraging her to be.. her.

maybe if she had someone like you when she was young she wouldn’t be her now.

but then.. maybe she wouldn’t have met you.

she loved you, she loved you with all her heart. no matter where she was— london, japan. no matter where, no matter what.

she was yours, and you were hers. through and through.

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[elsinoreechoes]

the transphobia surrounding the conversation of mizu being a woman is.. concerning.

speaking as transman, the idea or theory that mizu is transgender in anyway is… not factual whatsoever. but the discourse around it is borderline terf-ish.

please keep in mind that a lot of the fandom of bes contains queer teens, that project on to their favorite characters in hope to see someone like their selves in media. there isn’t a lot of rep for these people, but, let me illiterate the fact that mizu is representation for biracial women. there is next to zero representation for mixed woman in our media

don’t be transphobic. thank you for reading, take care of yourself

ps — tags are just for reach🤓

[olderthannetfic]

Until I read the comments on that one post I had no idea the Bechdel Test was a joke and wasn't supposed to be a serious measuring stick by which you gauged if something was feminist or not. Everywhere I'd ever heard it brought up, it was brought up as a very serious thing, and it was a failure of media if it didn't pass it. I remember the debate about Mako Mori from Pacific Rim and if she was a character you were "allowed" to like as a progressive person despite the fact that Pacific Rim doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, the discourse, the discussion of if the director was sexist for not writing in another woman for her to chat with about non-men related stuff, the camp of people trying to insist that having a fully realized character arc and being as developed as any of the male leads = good writing even if she doesn't talk to another girl...

And I've also had the remark about my writing not passing the test, just not to my face. I searched my fanfic's name once, curious to see if anyone was discussing it outside of tumblr and AO3, and found a Tiktok complaining about it not passing the Bechdel Test. The top comment was "motherfucker YOU don't pass the test but we still watch your ass". I cackled and moved on, but neither the commenter, poster, nor I had any awareness this wasn't Feminist Media Critique 101 theory and was, in fact, a goof.

Right now there's a segment of fandom debating if Blue Eye Samurai is feminist since when Mizu and Akemi talk, they do bring up men, since, y'know. Women aren't considered people with rights in their era in Japan and thus it's something they mention instead of only talking about being cool girlboss badasses who never bring up gender. If something doesn't pass the Bechdel Test, a smug segment of the internet high-fives itself and congratulates one another on being More Feminist Than Thou.

They then get really angry if you disagree, even though by this metric, Sleeping Beauty (the original animated one, where Aurora has only 16 lines of dialogue) is more feminist than Blue Eye Samurai.

--

*DYING*

Okay, so, nonnie....

Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) was a long-running comic and major piece of lesbian media. I grew up buying compiled volumes at the bookstore. To be honest, that kind of 90s-ish lesbian culture isn't really my scene despite me being bi, but it was very nice to have this slice of life-y somewhat realistic, occasionally somewhat parody, look at the queer communities around me. It's up there with Tales of the City for me in terms of being a window into a particular culture and time and place.

If anybody is interested in queer history, in addition to looking up factual info, I think a read of the complete Dykes would give a really good overview of how people were thinking about things and what issues came up a lot. You'll see things like Barnes & Noble increasingly putting feminist bookstores out of business in the 90s, attitudes towards porn in lesbian circles—all kinds of cultural issues of the day.

I drifted away as I got later in my teens and found more genre fiction I cared about, but at one point, this comic was a very welcome antidote to the glurgey coming out stories that made up a lot of the more realistic media.

Anyway, here's the comic itself, reproduced in its entirety because I think it's important to actually understand the context.

This is from 1985, so the era of Rambo, Conan, and Death Wish, each of which you can see being made fun of here. It's based on Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace's actual rule for seeing movies.

That's it. That's the origin of this whole stupid test.

"LOL, fuck 80s action movies". That's it. That's the joke.

The fact that blockbusters still routinely fail to pass in the 2020s is shameful, but that was never the point of the strip.

[onedeadkitty]

Mizus Gender

He/him they/them she/her pronouns for Mizu

I know the writers of the show wrote blue eye samurai with Mizu as a woman disguised as a man in a way similar ish to Mulan but uh

They accidentally made it deeper than that ??

If you removed like 2 lines of dialogue in episode 5 you could even make an argument for trans masc Mizu. Or at the least gender queer.

Being transgender is not a concept in this time period. But trust. People have always wanted to be other genders, probably for the entirety of human history. And how someone would go about being trans in a world with no true understanding of the concept, might be similar to what Mizu IS DOING RIGHT NOW.

Living as a man. PERMANENTLY. Not temporarily to achieve some near goal like Mulan and the many other stories with this concept. Mizu has lived as a man nearly their entire life and no intention to ever live as a woman in the future.

Mizu admires their freshly binded chest in the mirror as a teen.

When alone Mizu refers to himself as a man.

When alone with Ringo, (someone who knows the secret) Ringo also refers to Mizu as a man.

Mizu threatens to straight kill Ringo at the the very use of the word “girl”.

When, and ONLY when seeing 2 MEN kiss does he think of Taigen.

Not to mention madame Kajis indelicate insinuation of gay sex to Mizu, something I believe wasn’t for no reason. OR Madams iconic line “you are more man than ANY come through my door” (I’m convinced she has an idea of Mizus true sex but doesn’t care to accuse or call them out for it)

They HAD lived as a woman in the past. Only for about a year, and they did it to get married for her mothers sake. To save her from a life of prostitution. She was able to be happy, because it IS POSSIBLE to be happy while not presenting how you like. It’s a strain and some can never be happy doing so but it’s possible and people do it all the time to make their lives easier or to keep the peace with family or for many other reasons.

Episode 5 gave HUGE VIBES of going back into the closet when living with your parents or just visiting. And Mizu looked SO uncomfortable and awkward in woman’s clothing and doing “wife things” (partly cause they have never done that before) and maybe it was my own projecting but I felt so uncomfortable FOR Mizu.

These things don’t necessarily mean being a transgender man specifically. Gender is actually really complicated and has ALOT to do with what society deems it.

Mizu is a masculine person. Being what Japan wants women to be isn’t in line with what Mizu is. A violent, practical, stoic, cold, masculine, confident and capable warrior.

dressing up as a woman with the makeup ONLY to try and make her husband happy. She didn’t WANT to. “To soften her husbands heart, the bride… danced” performed femininity FOR HIM. Only for Mikio to betray her for, in his eyes, being more masculine than him, by beating him in a physical fight.

Mizu is both the ronin and the bride. Mizu will be whatever they need to in order to achieve their owed deaths. They HAVE to be a man to get their revenge but that doesn’t mean Mizu WANTS to be a woman. (To be fair who WOULD in that time but I digress) and it doesn’t mean they WANT to be a man. They WANT their revenge. Everything is secondary to that.

Mizu is so different from other characters…

I grew up in a kinda misogynistic place and my mom really didn’t let me “do boy stuff” or dress masculine in any sense until my late teens. I my self don’t know if I can even call myself Trans. But I’m masculine, I like looking like a man and dressing as one but I don’t WANT to be a man necessarily. But I don’t WANT to be a woman. I feel like we as a society put to much distinction between the two and the people who don’t fit either side get left out at times.

Mizu is such a relatable character to me, like no other characters complicated feelings about their own sex and gender have ever come close.

They are for those who don’t have a strong sense of their own gender. Especially those who are biologically female and hesitant to lean into their sex because of the societal baggage.

Once people realize that how you dress, how you act, and what you do in reality have nothing to do with your bio sex and everything with what society has forced people to do based on factors out of our control is the day we can finally stop having these conversations.

Do what you want, gender is fake.

But Mizu is forever 🫶

[andieperrie18]

When the SHEEP bare Fangs

Pairing: Mizu x Reader

Series: Blue Eye Samurai

Prompt: No blade was always made the same. In all of Mizu's life under the apprenticeship, there was only one black blade made in the forge of her swordfather. A special blade made of one particular samurai lineage that said to have ancestors the slayed demons that wreaked blood years ago. Now this blade was in the hands of one of her companion.

(Still haven't finished watching the series but it got me so hyped that its driving me crazy with how few the Mizu x Readers fics are. I'm still working this out. Its corny but this plot has been bugging me for days now everytime i'm watching.)

That blade was familiar.

One that she has seen before, when she was still a budding teen apprentice under an infamous swordsmith hidden in the woods of Kohama. Same dark and shiny blade which had flame like designs on the very edge and the signature of her master close to the very hilt of the blade.

No blade was always the same and even she cannot remember every single one she had smithed but this one, she has only seen it once, and now her second time as it was in the grasp of one of her companions, a shrine maiden who became their healer that she had met back in Horokonai. Ringo had met the girl after winning the sacred festival challenge and she had offered them lodging for the meantime.

Mizu would have assumed that Y/n was playing bait brave as Ringo dragged her wounded stated away from the number of enemies that surrounded them. She looked at the female dressed in a white loose jacket and a red hakama and the said blade black sword with a grip of natural swordwielder.

Her hand wrapping the handle was strong and firm, her feet apart, back full and levelled as it rise and fall. Mizu could see Y/n's growing breath with every gasp, each release going a few minutes slower than the one before. Just like that tenggu-masked client did when her swordfaster asked to know and witness how the client will wield the sword.

"Y-You... Your s-sword..." she trailed as Y/n turned to her before she her lips curved to that usual smile Mizu was so used to seeing.

TO BE CONTINUED...

(THAT'S IT. I CAN FINALLY WATCH IN PEACE. I'mma finish the series first.)

[mahlersgirl]

anyway where are you people keeping the baby mizu content