#unit: akatsuki

[ensemble-stories-archive]

Keito Idol Story:

Episode 2

Characters: Keito, Souma, & Kuro

[Episode 1] [Episode 3]

[madakunn]

souda kanza-cola

[daily-mao-isara]

Day 614 : Food fantasy collab !

[stardvstbby]

thinking about the parallels between Soowon and Zeno.

each of their betrayals are simultaneously selfish and selfless. Soowon wanted to save Kouka with his limited time left, but also wanted to avenge his father. Zeno wanted to find peace in death, but also stop the dragons from experiencing abuse. both of their selfishness concerns death, and their selflessness centers around saving others.

they both want to discard godhood (Soowon because he believes it interferes with humanity, Zeno because he thinks it only causes pain). their connection to godhood is the cause of their relationship to death; the bloodline ends Soowon’s life early, the dragon blood extends Zeno’s.

[tone-of-amaryllis]

I made a template, fill it with your favorite songs of each unit! Reblog would be appreciated ^^

[carnelianwings]

Something I find really funny is how for all the rumors that Seed’s staff/writers don’t like Cagalli, Orb under her leadership just keeps ending up in a better (political) position with each addition - Seed Destiny ends with Logos wiped out, Blue Cosmos severely hampered, and the entire Seiran family wiped out, including Yuna. This leaves Cagalli with almost no political opposition in Orb (since the second Battle of Orb would’ve flushed out a majority of the Blue Cosmos/Logos sympathizers within the government/military), along with giving her a boost in popular and military support thanks to her actions and field leadership during the battle.

(Cutting for me just rambling on a bit about the in-universe politics after Seed Freedom)

You can tell with how much she’s managed to get done in the years between Seed Destiny and Seed Freedom - in that short year and a half to two years, she was able to propose and found COMPASS, secret away and upgrade the Impulse, Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice, arrange for ties between Orb and Terminal to investigate/exchange intel (Athrun and Meyrin), and put into place all the evacuation/defensive protocols in case of another attack on Orb (as seen vs Foundation and Requiem, even if she needed Kira to pull an “I lived, bitch” to Aura 😅).

And it doesn’t end there - thanks to Foundation, Cagalli arguably has an easier time internationally now, because the Eurasian Federation leadership also got hit and the Eurasian Federation, while not necessarily Blue Cosmos sympathizers like the Atlantic Federation, was very staunchly anti-PLANT, which I think would’ve caused some problems for Cagalli, especially post Seed Destiny with Lacus joining her for that broadcast.

I actually think Orb probably has fairly decent diplomatic relations with PLANT (I think Chairman Lament mostly cut off that call after everything went south in Eldore because of the whole nuke situation), especially since Lacus is COMPASS’s inaugural president, plus the time both Dearka and Waltfeld (I’m not sure if he’s in Orb or PLANT as of Seed Freedom since his silent cameo has him helping to stop the coup in PLANT in Seed Freedom) spent there. And we have a very prominent all-Coordinator team with the Yamato Team - truth be told I actually wonder how much the Earth Alliance invested into COMPASS because everything we see on screen is either contributed by Orb (Archangel, Murrue and crew, Kira, Mu, and the Murasame Kais), PLANT/ZAFT (Millenium, Konoe and crew, Heinlein, Shinn, Lunamaria, Agnes, Gelgoog, and Gyan), or arguably both (namely, Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice). Unless I missed a minor crew member along the way. Which is possible.

Also pure speculation on my part on this - but the fact Seed Freedom has Athrun going into intelligence with Terminal (which we first see as having a presence in the PLANTS) from the Orb side and Yzak and Dearka going into intelligence from the PLANT side can’t be a coincidence. I want to think the three of them decided on it together because being in intelligence/covert ops gives them the chance to work together without having to force anyone to change their current loyalties - I don’t think Athrun can be truly loyal to anyone except Cagalli after Seed Destiny, and Yzak was always loyal to PLANT, and if Dearka hadn’t been captured and made to realize how extreme PLANT had become under Patrick Zala he wouldn’t have switched sides to Orb/Three Ships Alliance during Seed either. Which also indirectly feeds into Orb and PLANT having better political relations than Orb and Earth Alliance.

Which brings me to my final point - I would be very surprised if Orb isn’t the primary target for the antagonists in a Seed Freedom sequel. At this point Orb’s capable of doing too much with the limited resources it has as a small nation with too much military strength at its command. And there is room for a sequel (setting-wise) because while Earth Alliance took another major hit with during the Foundation Conflict, the ideologies that led to the First and Second Earth Alliance-PLANT wars still exist - even if Blue Cosmos lost another leader, even if the believers of Coordinator Supremacy lost another leader (in Jagannath) those ideologies still fundamentally exist. All the Foundation Conflict did was serve to take down the military leadership of those ideologies - even if the public on both sides see those views negatively it doesn’t make them go away.

[dorinnn]

ryuseitai-N Akatsuki that's crazy

[enswap]

Next to finally is the graceful beauty illuminated by moonlight, AKATSUKI!

★5 [ Leader of Crimson ] Nagisa Ran ★4 [ Learning Giant ] Adonis Otagari ★4 [ Loving Mascots ] Midori Takamine

"A traditional Japanese-style musical unit led by Nagisa Ran. AKATSUKI is reserved in providing fanservice. As being serious and righteous, AKATSUKI prefers media opportunities including commentators, radio personalities, roles in drama or movie, and other culture-oriented work. AKATSUKI is affiliated with RhythmLink."

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And that is all for Swap RhythLink! We're really close to finishing all the initials and I'm so hyped

NewDi is next, but I will not be releasing DF's initials until I finish ! Era Main Story. Stay tuned for uh my possibly shitty writing LOL (i do have a co author and beta readers to help though. if you wanna be a beta reader, send me a dm!!)

[uchiha-itachi-amaterasu]

[ensemblewives]

@ People that only like Keito for shipping purposes: you're............... (can't think of good insults)........ Big dumb dumbs!

[raelyn-dreams]

Sometimes I feel like people will read one (1) story and base all their perceptions of a unit/character off of that which. Just doesn't really work imo, ESPECIALLY in the Reminisce stories.

Of course you won't like Shu if you only read Marionette. Of course you won't like Keito if you only read Meteor Impact. Of course you won't like Eichi if you only read Three Magicians (or literally any other reminisce story). Because they all play an antagonistic role.

You're seeing the absolute worst parts of them, their lowest points, when they're at their most desperate and ruthless. And that can be a good thing!!! I would not have the same understanding of any of these characters if I had NOT read those stories, and I'm grateful that I can fully know them better now! But I feel like sometimes, people run with it way too far, and refuse to acknowledge any change from them, even when all three of these examples have apologized and genuinely attempted to better themselves.

That's definitely not to say you have to read all the stories for a unit/character before forming any opinion on them (I freely admit that I could tell you almost nothing about Eden or current fine's development). However, be aware that your opinion may be influenced by certain stories, and that it is very likely you are missing some context for why a certain character acts the way they do.

Therefore, please stay open-minded, or at the very least, honest and polite!

[yume-fanfare]

obsessed with all of these queer women npcs as of late. ensemble girls 2.0 but it revolves around the apparently existing all female ES when akira

heres what we are going to do for ES 2 (or 3 i guess its 3). we let miss ideasama open her all-female idol company. she quits rhylin and it Bankrupts. love wins. hashidate amano helps sponsor said company so they will actually have a friendly-enough ? relationship with eichi. maybe even manage a coexistence of sorts (since amano is both friends with eichi and rich enough that he can't overpower her) (idea is already cooler than eichi and has money for it too). AND we bring negi back somehow. please. or at least hitsugi have him as a lead producer.

[queercodedvillains]

Wake up babes, new chapter of mallrats just dropped <3

Mallrats (23114 words) by QueerCodedVillains Chapters: 3/9 Fandom: Naruto, Naruto (Anime & Manga) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Deidara/Sasori (Naruto), background kakuzu/hidan Characters: Sasori (Naruto), Deidara (Naruto), Hidan (Naruto), Kakuzu (Naruto) Additional Tags: SasoDei Week 2023 (Naruto), 90'S, Akatsuki - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Claire's AU, Mafia AU, If You Squint - Freeform, we are taking liberties translating the akatsuki into a modern setting here, Drug Use, Drug Dealing, Blood and Violence, POV Alternating, Bottom Deidara (Naruto), Top Sasori, BDSM, Impact Play, Praise Kink, Edging, Orgasm Control, Overstimulation, Sasori is still a puppet master but only in the loosest terms, if you catch my drift, Shibari, Suspension, Fucking Machines, Porn With Plot, Hurt/Comfort, Bratting, brat taming, Dom/sub Series: Part 1 of Mallrats Cinematic Universe Summary: In which the Akatsuki are 90's mallrats by day, crime syndicate by night. All the best criminals have a day job to launder their rent money, but the real fun only starts once they're off the clock.

[daily-mao-isara]

Day 539 : Anime Countdown illustrations by @/kamiya_paper on twitter !

[supposethismatters]

I just realized how few polyamorous immortals there are in fiction. If you’re centuries old you might have some chance of overlapping soulmates over the years.

It’s probably because society isn’t ready for the concept that dating someone younger than your partner isn’t replacing them with someone “better”.

Then again society isn’t really cool with polyamory but that doesn’t mean I don’t want it better represented anyway.

[squidcandy]

New Years doodle dump