#the aoba cut

[karokawwo]

yes he cut his hair on his own. why would you even suggest he sees a hairstylist

[nitrokiraru]

good morning today i offer u this genre of dmmd official art. yowie men cut in half anyone

[c13ar]

Happy birthday to my patron saint of divorce 💙

[transmasc-slykinnie]

Actually going

FUCKING

Insane rn

[cpirits]

CHOKEHOLD || sleep token

When we were made It was no accident We were tangled up like branches in a flood I come as a blade A sacred guardian So you keep me sharp and test my worth in blood

[koujaoba]

more ppl should give clear skin tone variation where his skin was replaced in the good end.

[leftpanty]

WIF (work in frogress)

[magiamemoriareview]

The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream

Obtainability: Limited to completing the Summer Swimsuit challenges during the Rainbow Colored Summer event. 

MLB Effect: Guardian [20%] & Damage Cut [15%]

Effect Definitions:

Guardian will cause the equipped character to take an attack in place of an Ally, meaning that the character will physically move to block said attack. The equipped character and the protected Ally will both gain MP from being attacked. It has no effect if both the user and the ally are hit by the same Blast disc.

Damage Cut reduces the damage from incoming attacks onto the equipped character, and its effects are calculated after buffs/debuffs are considered. Damage Cut is generally better than Defense Up.

TLDR: “The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” is a good tanking memoria in a game where tanks aren’t really prioritized. However it’s decent and good for a free reward. You can chuck this into the Memoria Vault Jail unless you’re actively using it.

Review: “The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” is similar to the memoria “Natsu and Suzuka: Painful Break.” Both are event rewards that gives 20% Guardian and 15% Damage Cut in addition to similar stats (“The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” has slightly better stats but not by that much). It’s possible that “Natsu and Suzuka: Painful Break” might be available in the future to purchase in the Support Point shop, but for now “The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” can make do for those without the former.

The two effects of Guardian and Damage Cut synergize well together. Damage Cut is a defensive effect and Guardian will cause your unit to take hits, so being able to protect your equipped unit is helpful. This is best used on tanking units to help assist them in grabbing aggro. 

In addition to the already mentioned “Natsu and Suzuka: Painful Break”, there are other memoria with Guardian already on them:

(Limited Mirrors 4*) “Transparent Feelings Reflected in the Mirror” Guardian [30%] & Damage Cut [15%] & Defense Up [30%]

(Limited Welfare 4*) “The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” Guardian [20%] & Damage Cut [15%]

(4*) “The Sunlight That Shines Into the Complex” Guardian [20%] & Defense Up [30%]

(Limited Welfare 4*) “The Stories (Rumors) Also Know” Guardian [20%] & Regenerate HP [3%]

(Limited Welfare 4*) “Natsu and Suzuka: Painful Break” Guardian [20%] & Damage Cut [15%]

The best memoria in the game with passive Guardian is easily “Transparent Feelings Reflected in the Mirror”. It has a better Guardian percentage and it also comes with 30% Defense Up, making it rather tanky. Notably Guardian will stack as an effect, so if you really feel like it, you could use both “Transparent Feelings Reflected in the Mirror” and “The Decisive Battle of the Clear Stream” if you felt so inclined, though you’re probably better off using a memoria with some MP Gain Up to help your tank reach Magia.

It should be noted that in this game’s current meta, defensive gameplay is not recommended. You are much better off pursing offensive strategies as you won’t need to protect your units if the enemies die before they can even attack you. However Guardian does have it’s uses. For example, it has the benefit over Provoke in that Anti-Provoke exists but Anti-Guardian does not, meaning that you can possibly screw over players in Mirrors with some passive Guardians here or there.

As of writing this, I’m not sure what the new Ranked Mirrors gameplay will look like and what the best strategies for making a defense team will entail. For now keep this memoria in your Memoria Vault Jail.

[7000f1]

"you did it you reached 30 tags" FUCK NO I WAS IN THE GROOVE LET ME WRITE MY FAVES ANYWAY SHOUT OUT TO RADAHNN

reblog and put your favorite character you’ve ever had in the tags (this doesnt necessarily mean your current favorite, just the that have or are loving the most)

[friendofthecrows]

It's Jokul's turn on the gender euphoria and I'm annoyed by his choices :/

[honeystarcamper]

﹙☆﹚Tsumugi Aoba Rentry Graphics request by anon! stills under the cut!

f2u! credit appreciated but not needed + don't forget your daily click!

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

Your kakagai proposal comic has given me brainrot in the best way <3 but I can't help but to think that Gai already had a pair for kakashi. So did Gai already have a set and kakashi beat him to the punch or was Gai still looking for the perfect set?

Oh gai had them made already absolutely but never found the right time

I wanted to show gai's gifts to kks, so here's some extras and then gai's response gift under the cut!

[gai giggling] Kks: I'll see you at home, gotta pick up some things. Gai: Notice anything different? Genma: You got new chucks? Gai: From kakashi. Aoba: You're still not believing that are you? Gai: Papa, no wonder these fools are single Naruto: YOU'RE ENGAGED? Gai: I AM! Narts: You're not moving out of kakashi's are you?? Sakura: ....

Kks: hmm? Hello?...You were the odd smell then. Who- [for my beloved soon to be husband] Kks: Madman. Absolute lunatic [kissing noises] Gai: I heard that.

Kks: Good. you're a menace. You dont have enough dog hair on you yet? A small sacrifice! Kks: Hmm enabler. I can't tackle you so-... Did not expect the engagement puppy

Gai: I couldn't let you out-do me; what kind of rivel do you take me for? I know your heart as well. Plus she reminded me of a certain someone. Kks: You think so? Bull's not the baby anymore. Gai: Don't say that! He is to me!... I knew you'd give her an amazing life full of love and care. Like the rest of us here

Gai: Oh, last thing. Here's your set.[blows dust off box] Kks: Oh thank goodness, I thought you didn't love me. Gai: I KNEW AOBA WAS FULL OF IT Kks: Woah! Gai: You can run lightning through them! Kks: Holy shit, gai

Kks: You'll teach me some moves, right? Gai: I would love to!! Kks: New pack puppy! Ninken: New meat! Puppy?

[cameleonvermillon]

also chopped my hair shorter than its been since the last time i got it professionally cut and i fucked up the back (nothing new i do that every time) but ngl i fuck with it might go shorter

why did discord explode while i was in the shower

[l-0puko]

missing scene

ENG translation under the cut

#1 Clear: *stares* sfx: steps Clear: "Oh! It's here." (he's so light...) #2 Clear: I hope everything is okay now, Master. Aoba: !! Aoba: "The shop?" (sweats) Aoba: The last thing I remember is that rabbit weirdo attacking me in Rhyme... But how did I end up here?

[lizzy06]

Tobio Kageyama x Reader

(Tumblr/AO3/Wattpad)

Haikyuu! Fic Rec Masterlist

Karasuno Fic Rec Masterlist

remeber, forever ✨✨by @saintobio (unplanned pregnancy, angst, cheating, unrequited love)when the boy you’ve loved for years unexpectedly becomes your baby daddy. the catch? he’s in love with someone else. [COMPLETED]

best man✨ by @realcube (oneshot, humor) kageyama’s been with you through highs and the lows, he genuinely loves you unconditionally. so what happens during the lowest of the low, he finally meets your older brother - oikawa tōru. [COMPLETED]

Bruised Ink ✨by @seokiloquy(oneshot, soulmate au, fluff)When you write on your skin it appears in the same spot on your soulmates body.[COMPLETED

]soulmate au by katcchii (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff) When you can hear their heartbeat in close range with them. As soon as you meet them , it stops and their heartbeat is permanently inked into your skin. you meet your soulmate at aoba johsai vs karasuno match [COMPLETED]

UNEXPECTED BLOOM. by @ugh-tsumu (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff) Wherein if your soulmate gets a wound or cut, flowers bloom of the same spot on your body. As the newest manager of Karasuno, you were asked by your senior Kiyoko to escort Kageyama towards the school clinic after getting himself injured in the middle of a practice match.[COMPLETED]

To be your king by @nsfwsportsanimebabes (oneshot, soulmate au) Kageyama’s soulmate is the setter of the female Karasuno volleyball teams rival school. They have the same tattoos[COMPLETED]

numberbuddy ✨by -moontopia (fluff, humor, chat fic at the start) 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧~ [COMPLETED]

 Volleyball on the Brain ✨ by @oreosmama (oneshot, Soulmate AU, fluff) In a world where soulmate’s thoughts are written on their other half’s hand, your soulmate always has the same thing on his mind every day: volleyball and the occasional dumbass ginger. [COMPLETED]

𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 ✨by @rikorene (oneshot, angst, fluff, rebirth) you are living your life in the cold dark shadows inside of the walls of your mansion, never believing in things such as soulmates nor love, even dismissing the simple thought of it. then, you met a pair of lovely navy blue eyes that oddly resembled blueberries, but despite that, they held so much warmth in it. a warm feeling that you didn’t want to ever let go. [COMPLETED]

Handwriting by MrsTanaka (oneshot, soulmate au, fluff)Soulmate AU where you have half a quote on your wrist and upon having physical contact with your soulmate you get the other half on your opposite wrist.[COMPLETED]

Exceptional abilities ✨by GhostiMoth (oneshot, soulmate au, talent sharing) You've never been a huge fan of volleyball. you never thought about joining it in school until one day the coach of your junior high school dragged you to practice after seeing your skill during a friendly match between your friends during P.E. Soulmate au with talent sharing.[COMPLETED]

Finally by @3asahi(oneshot, soulmate au, fluff)[COMPLETED]

liar, liar by XIIILNT(soulmate au, fluff) where the first words your soulmate says to you are engraved/tattooed on your forearm.[COMPLETED]

Flutterby by flying_raijin (strangers to friends to lovers, slice of life, fluff)An academic smartypants meets a volleyball smartypants. Chaos ensues. [COMPLETED]

Photo Booth Strip by hxneekyuu(hxnee) (oneshot, friend to lovers, childhood friends, smut, angst, fluff) Kageyama makes you smile that first day in the sandbox, and he spends the rest of his life learning what it means to make you happy. Or he learns that marriage isn't simple. [COMPLETED]

Petty Competition✨ (oneshot, humor) by @oreosmama After you get a new pet in your home, Kageyama can’t help but feel a little neglected after a while. It’s all Snickers’ fault. [COMPLETED]

a first for both of us by lumippon (fluff, smut, humor)[COMPLETED]

How He Shows You Affection by @jayeray-hq(oneshot, fluff)[COMPLETED]

Stubborn by IppenX (idiots in love, fluff, humor) It's no surprise that it took a shooting star for the volleyball-focused dumbass to realize he's fallen in love with someone who'd probably never see him that way - but knowing that didn't mean he was going to give up. [COMPLETED]

[imadhatt3r]

There's a sort of small personal story arc happening in Koujaku's route that I haven't seen talked about much, and it is one relating to Aoba's struggles with his masculinity and his perception as a man by others.

This story arc heavily deals with cultural gender norms and expectations, and so I will be working with them; This doesn't reflect my personal view on gender roles and expectations in real life. This is also not for or against any headcanons regarding any character's gender- I have no opinions on them or problems with people seeing any character as trans.

Okay, without further ado:

The moment where Koujaku and Aoba canonically meet for the first time happens during their childhood. Aoba was bullied by other children for his long hair and for "looking like a girl". Koujaku stepped in to protect him, thinking that Aoba's a girl, and was allegedly suprised when Aoba turned out to be a boy, but his attitude towards Aoba never changed.

This event clearly had a big influence on Aoba, on how he views himself, Koujaku, and how he thinks Koujaku views him. When we first meet Koujaku in-game, he is seen defending himself from a woman's overly protective boyfriend and being a charmer to her in turn when she apologizes for his behavior. It's established that Koujaku has a lot of female admirers, and a bit later it's revealed that he attracts a lot of men too, but moreso as a kind of role model/aspirational figure- that's why benishigure exists in the first place.

Aoba is shown to be annoyed or downright kinda scared of Koujaku's fans; Of course, it makes sense- Aoba is shown to be a private person that dislikes attention, but I believe that there is a second layer to all that- jealousy.

Aoba identifies as a man in-game and asserts it multiple times. He is aware of his gender. Koujaku is shown to be both flirty and chivalrous towards women around him- he spends time with them, initiates physical contact, compliments them etc. Aoba is always annoyed whenever he sees Koujaku doing that, but his reasons aren't fully clear- it seems like he feels like Koujaku's behavior is, in some way, fake, or that he just dislikes PDA in general. Aoba isn't jealous of the female attention Koujaku gets- he doesn't want to be in his place, because, as we established, he doesn't like being the center of attention. This isn't a dick measuring contest with Aoba being salty that he's coming up short.

Aoba is jealous of the women. He's the one who wants Koujaku to flirt with him, touch him, be chivalrous to him, protect him, but he believes that it will never happen, because Koujaku only acts this way towards women. Men want to be him, women want to be with him, but Aoba is neither; He's not a man who wants to be him, nor is he a woman who wants to be with him- there's not a place he can comfortably occupy, in his mind.

Mind you, I don't believe that he is aware of his feelings- hence his clusterfuck of an attempt to make Koujaku's flirting with women a bad thing. It's not coherent, it doesn't really make any internal sense, because Aoba has no idea he's even trying to lead himself away from something.

In the good ending, Koujaku briefly mentions that he thinks Aoba sleeps in so much because he wants to get his attention, and I can 100% see it as being true- Aoba doesn't know how to get Koujaku to treat him like he does women around him, so he chooses more covert ways to get that desired attention and care.

I also see Aoba's haircut to be symbolic/meaningful of his relation to his masculinity being percieved by others. Aoba's hair was the reason why he and Koujaku met as kids and established their friendship and later relationship. When they were cut, Aoba started to look more conventionally "masculine", and yet the haircut is also, in a way, representative of the beginning of his and Koujaku's relationship. It's because Koujaku doesn't care that Aoba is a man- hell, in the CD drama, he even admits that he's straight up attracted to Aoba's masculinity. If Koujaku liked Aoba BECAUSE he saw him as female-like, wouldn't he want to keep his hair long/feminine?

This is kinda explored in various extra material like the summer side story and valentine's day story- Aoba seems to believe that while Koujaku is with him out of love/attraction, he's being treated more as a novelty, a "girl-boy" that's going to be replaced by an "actual woman" one day. He's afraid that the chocolates he made for Koujaku for valentine's day will be seen as "gross", and he expects to see a mountain of chocolate given to Koujaku by women when he comes to his apartment. In the summer story, he expects Koujaku to deny their relationship when they're being harassed by drunk benishigure, and that he will be left behind when Koujaku is approached by female admirers. This never happens- Koujaku actually reassures Aoba that he's never going anywhere, and that Aoba has nothing to worry about. This is framed as Aoba being simply jealous, but I think that there is enough evidence to imply that his gender has a lot to do with it. We don’t know how would he react if Koujaku was approached by a man, but it's mentioned multiple times that it's seeing and thinking of Koujaku being surrounded by women gets Aoba down especially hard.

I feel like it's also important to look into the bad ending for Koujaku's route too, because if you look at it through that lense, you can see some interesting stuff. First and foremost, Shiroba is dressed in a sexualized version of the miko garb (miko are shinto shrine maidens, and they are exclusively women) that includes stockings, and his hair is just as long, if not longer, than Aoba's. He also has red tassels in his hair, right behind his ears, which sort of look like earrings. In short, it would almost appear like Shiroba is trying to look more "feminine" in order to appeal more to the way he percieved Koujaku's tastes- after all, Shiroba/Desire is all of Aoba's impulses, thoughts, and desires taken to the extreme. Aoba thought that Koujaku likes women and femininity, so Shiroba WILL make himself look as feminine as he can to make Koujaku like him more.

There's also the fact that, compared to their good end sex scene, Shiroba is much more... Placid. In the good end, Aoba speaks, he laughs, he laughs AT Koujaku, he tries to turn his head away but agrees to look at Koujaku in the end; He is an active participant who is willing to laugh at his partner (in a way) and make demands. In contrast, Shiroba mostly goes with what Koujaku wants to do; He participates to a degree, sure, but he allows Koujaku to bite him, lick his blood, and fuck him pretty violently without any sort of resistance. This might be a stretch, but it can be seen as Shiroba trying to play a more "feminine" role- which means being passive, allowing your (male) partner to do whatever he wants to do with you (even when it's painful or uncomfortable), and let him essentially use you as a receptacle of his emotions and bodily fluids.

This is a very narrow understand of conventional gender roles, but given that Shiroba is a being of extremes, it makes sense for him to see his own gender and dynamic with Koujaku as that simple and two-dimensional. This whole ending is all about misunderstood intentions/desires, so Shiroba is doing all he can to embody the most extreme conventional femininity in an attempt to appeal to Koujaku, while not having a clue that Koujaku was actually attracted to Aoba's masculinity.

The funniest part of it all is that Koujaku is actually a pretty feminine man himself; His very design blends masculine and feminine elements, which @asarigg points it out in her excellent essay on Koujaku, (among plenty other things), and the way he acts mixes masculinity and femininity too. However, Aoba either doesn't see it, or he treats Koujaku as a "special case"; It's probably the most clear in the scene in the CD drama where Aoba says that hairpins "usually" look bad on men (after Koujaku asked him if he'd like to wear one), but that Koujaku makes it work. The whole plotline/emotional core of this route centers on Aoba relying on his simplified image of Koujaku when it comes to how he thinks about him, only to be proven dead wrong and forced to confront how multi-layered of a person Koujaku is- to reject the image he made of him in his head as a child and make a new, more nuanced one as an adult.

When Aoba was a kid, he saw Koujaku as his hero, someone who protected him, watched over him; He was kind of his masculine ideal, someone he wanted to be when he'll be older. Now that they're adults, Aoba still sees Koujaku as someone hyper-masculine, whose feminine traits and behaviors are glossed over because Koujaku is "allowed to" be feminine a bit. The sad thing is that a lot of Koujaku's masculinity is kind of a ruse that was taken on as a defense mechanic, learned back when Koujaku was living in an abusive household, when he was a victim of abuse, saw abuse inflicted onto his mother, and was possibly forced to perform violence to some degree as means of "education" (things like learning to fight hand-to-hand or swordfighting).

Koujaku can fight because he tried to fight his abusive father and was trained to kill in the future, once he takes over the criminal empire. He flirts with women to fill the void he feels due to his rock bottom self-esteem and because he doesn't want to see women sad or mistreated after what he saw his mother go through. Koujaku's persona is carefully build and maintained, because all masculinity (or gender in general) is performed- this is what people around him expected him to be, that's what he was taught to be, and so he performs, even if it twists him up inside (we know he bottles up any negative emotions and doesn't share his struggles and trauma with anyone, which is also a part of toxic masculinity). It also seems like he's often out drinking with someone and he's a smoker- that's more of a theory, but people often find brief respite from their stress/unadressed emotions in substances, and while people of all genders do it, there seems to be a bigger social acceptance for men to indulge in order to "deal" with their problems and avoid showing "weakness" for just a bit longer.

The good thing is that Koujaku seems quite comfortable in his femininity. He loves his (stereotypically feminine) job, he remains kind and gentle to those who need it, he respects women around him and treats them well (even if that relationship is far from ideal of course), he's always considerate and caring towards Aoba, etc. It's interesting that despite liking and being attracted to Aoba's masculinity, he encourages him to branch out and seemingly embrace his own femininity more (he tells him he'd look nice in a hairpin, or that he'd love him no matter how he'd look like). I wonder if Koujaku found some kind of respite in his femininity back when he lived in his father's house and was potentially held to strict masculine gender roles enforced through violence.

It feels like one of these things that Aoba needs time to process and accept; In a couple years, he'll be doing deliveries with the most complex braid with flamboyant decorations and the most bitching eyeliner ever performed on Japanese soil.