#weak hero webcomic

[anpmalies]

redraw of wolf's iconic panel that took waaay to long smh. tried to replicate the artstyle and gave up in the coloring process LOL

[writergod0]

WEAK-tober | Day 8: Rot

How Late? 6 months, 11 days

(I'll take a break for week, I said, not knowing that it was a fucking lie)

Category: Gen

Pairing: Wolf Keum & Sam Lee

Tags: #Drabble

Words: 387

Current TW: General Creepiness; Implied Violence

Author's notes: This is honestly a practice I made for one of my other works, "Killer Standards." Which I promise the sequel is still being worked on.

“Sam.” Wolf begins as he twirls the cigarette in his hands; the boy he addresses doesn’t look at him, doesn’t see the expression on his face. “Sam Lee, take a good fucking look at this.”

The air is frigid and cold, the illumination of the moon dares not to even try and bless them with any light. Of course the universe wouldn’t want to acknowledge this, but Wolf would like to think that everyone involved, even the night sky which accompanied them before, would at least be able to look at the results.

Sam does not listen.

And Wolf Keum holds no care for it, so he clicks his tongue and rolls his eyes.

Maybe he’s hungry? The boy muses about his companion, knowing full well that it’s most definitely not the case. He just finds it funny, a hilarious situation his imagination came up for him to laugh silently about. Wolf’s lips curl upwards, Maybe it’s the smell?

They just stay there, and that’s alright. He feels rather at ease right now, despite how incredibly silent everything seems to be; the boy could almost imagine he could hear his companion’s own heartbeat despite the distance.

Despite everything.

“Last week… the principal went on for an entire hour about cyber-bullying during assembly. Do you remember the reason why?”

…

“Sam.” Wolf repeats again, without much urgency, lazy coating in the way he speaks. He knows that his companion won't be heading anywhere soon. “Sam, answer when I talk to you.”

But his companion stays silent.

It doesn’t matter, and he continues on.

“I don’t remember why, but there was an assignment that’s supposed to be done… Oh, you damn crybaby.” Wolf sighs, dragging his cigarette as his former annoyance begins build up as Sam fucking Lee starts to sniff like a damn toddler. “Fuck, just stop that already, it’s annoying.”

He really did think that this was a bonding moment full of friendship and all that bullshit, but some people just have to ruin it by being overly emotional.

A slight pause.

Well, at least it isn’t full on sobbing.

So, he forgives it just this once as Wolf stretches his limbs, moving to grab their shovels and get back to work. Yeah, he thinks when he steps over the rot near his feet, It’s definitely the smell.

[impotatoechips]

im back, its only been like a year, i wont ever get over weak heroahahha

IM idk so bored someone needa make like a long fanfic about gray and wolf being friends for me ill draw u anythin 👹👹🥄🥄

[cupiditis]

♡ ! feel you close with wolf keum

note : i'm sorry if it reads a bit awkward, it's my first time writing kissing and all that ..

" can you put these on me ? " he asked, handing you a pair of silver earrings as you sat curled up on the couch. sitting up, you pat the seat beside you, asking him to sit. you move to sit on his lap with both your legs stretched out on top of his thighs, your left arm was thrown over his shoulder and your right was against his chest.

his hands rested on your waist and you could feel the warmth through your clothes. tucking his hair behind his ear you fiddled with the earrings before slipping it into his right ear. you put his hair back into place, your fingers brushing against his ear at your action.

" .. there " you mumbled quietly at your confirmation he diligently moved his head to show you his other ear. a slight frown twitched on your lips, you couldn't reach his other ear. moving to stand with your knees on both sides of his legs you let him rest his head on the back of the couch. his hands moved with you and rested lazily on your hips. his fingers finding their way under your shirt resting against the dip in your waist.

tucking his hair behind his ear you place the earring in place before taking his cheeks in your hand and tilting his head side to side to see your work with a proud smile on your lips that he couldn't help staring at. he leaned towards you, kissing you, his lips molding with yours.

your mind only focusing on the feeling of him against you, his hands holding you against him and his the soft throb in your lips until he lets you go from the dizzying kiss to breathe. your eyes fluttered open to meet his own lidded ones. you move closer to his face, tangling your fingers in his hair and leaving pecks on the edge of his lips, his cheek and moving upto his ear. your kiss the earring before resting your head on his shoulder, a soft smile on your lips as you settled against him. when you look up at him his lips were swollen and a bright blush was settling on his cheeks and the tips of his ears the longer you admired him.

♡ . taglist : @bakerysnake . @alkyn-bs . @avid-idiot . @kiiraes . @rizzmin . @be-my-homodachi . @thesunandmoondreams

[weakheroforever]

[aulupus]

There's a lot to be said about the rushed ending to Weak Hero, but honestly, it was genuinely a great read up until those last few chapters. It's easy to want to rate the series by how it wrapped up, but honestly, I don't want to let how it ended ruin my enjoyment of everything else. I think it would have been preferable that Seopass just put the entire series on indefinite hiatus, instead of ending everything so messily, but I also think that Weak Hero can still stand up as a great read, even after factoring in the unsatisfying conclusion. Part of me does hope that Seopass decides to revisit Weak Hero eventually, possibly write a spin-off sequel that picks up where the main story left off, though even without a better conclusion to each character's arc, it doesn't change or overwrite the reasons why I initially grew to like the cast and story. Essentially, Weak Hero could have been an incredible comic, had Seopass gone all the way and written it to true completion, but as it stands, it's still an enjoyable read, regardless of everything that happened near the end.

[euntael33]

Why didn't the GrayxStephen works increase?

When Weak Hero ended I thought GrayxStephen's works would skyrocket and I'm surprised it didn't,the reunion between Gray and Stephen was more romantic than that of any other canonical couple in Webtoon,Gray's words before meeting Stephen seemed like the speech of someone who can finally see his lover again after being separated by fate,say that it was just a reunion between friends would be lying to yourself.

[pockettao]

I saw a tiktok that said "If beomseok had bought new glasses he would have seen who his real rival was", that person is so right, he was looking at the wrong rival, what did you think?.

[aseceecee]

The Daily Interactions of Wolf Keum

Description: A collection of daily stories featuring Wolf coming across his next victim.

Chapter 1: Running

One thing that most people don't know about Wolf Keum is that he is an avid runner. Not only does it keep him healthy, but it's also one of the main contributing factors in his ability to keep getting back up in fights (that and his masochistic nature), no matter how bloodied up he gets.

Due to his strict routine of getting up at unconventional hours, not many people see him during his runs. Luckily for him, he prefers it that way. Unfortunately, his quiet was interrupted when he decided to stop by the convenience store for a drink.

Once inside, the cashier at the front called him up, already having prepared his drink. The freckled boy knew that Keum always tipped well (one of the luxuries of being with the union), which is why he was one of the few customers the cashier actually tried to please.

Another part of Keum's routine is keeping his earphones on while running. Which is why he didn't see a man walking up behind him when he was only halfway through his drink, "Move the fuck out of the way, four eyes," grumbled a man in his early 20's. His walking was staggered and accompanied by the stench of alcohol. Looking at his spilled drink on the floor, Wolf sighed, took out his earphones, and put away his glasses...

[r3dh0ll0w]

Spoilers for Weak Hero chapter 229!!!

Eunjang's Iron Gate Ben Park and Ganghak's Iron Skull Wolf Keum

The Best Duo i could think off

Both has incredible strength, both has insane durability, both only realies on brute strength and incredible durability or stamina, and both are slow starters in fights.

[anpmalies]

wlw/mlm solidarity

or: the coolest kids in yeungdeungpo

[writergod0]

WEAK-tober | Day 10: Incandescent

How Late? 6 months, 15 days

I'm slowly building up my fanfiction writing prowess, step-by-step, I say.

Category: Gen

Pairing: Juwon Lee & Kenny Ji

Tags: #Canon Universe

Words: 990

Current TW: Author Chose Not To Use Warnings

Author's note: Please be aware that the Warning: "Author Chose Not To Use Warnings" Does not mean that no warnings apply. Rather, it means that I simply chose not to use them. This work may contain scenes or tones that are offensive, triggering, or etc. Thank you.

He pictures himself composed; shapes his expression into one, at it’s worse, of tolerance, and at it’s best, indifference. It shouldn’t be hard, he reasons, when the situation doesn’t actually affect him in anyway that matters.

Yet, it takes an unreasonable amount of effort to keep himself from sneering down in contempt. A form of respect? Maybe. Not that the bastard deserves it.

Juwon Lee keeps himself perfectly civil.

And the motherfucker who had the audacity to contact him, just smiles serenely. It almost makes him throw the fucker out the window, because as much as he thought Manwol was a piece of shit that was going to get thrown out when the time comes, he had respected them.

Well, respected them enough.

It’s one of those things you have when the competition isn’t completely incompetent, and you sometimes work with them for mutual benefit until one side decides to conquer the other side.

Manwol was fine, really, Juwon doesn’t really care for it besides the fact the fucker in front of him was the reason why it fell. It personally offends him, because the motherfucker is a bitch.

He smiles civilly.

“Bastard, who the fuck do you think you are to call me over to you?”

Kenny Ji doesn’t flinch, as expected from the former executive; or was it arrogance? The fuck sure as hell can’t fight now, so it must be the arrogance that keeps him from flinching.

Probably.

Juwon makes himself comfortable on the chair across, assessing Kenny Ji who sits with his head held high for a fucker on a wheelchair, the brother to Jake Ji of the Union, and the single flaw to Manwol.

He had once used Kenny Ji to bait another fucker into fighting him more seriously, and he had lost. So it wasn’t respect, not really, that kept him civil.

But curiosity kept him civil.

And though he didn’t care much for Manwol, the fact that it fell to an insider means something to him. His loyalty to Changhui Han, to the Cheongang, was a bond forged with blood, and the fucker in front of him threw that away for what?

There’s tradition to be followed, and then there’s scum.

“…” Kenny glares back, but otherwise doesn’t jump to the bait, unlike the brother. “… I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the Cheongang still follows the old rules?”

Juwon pauses momentarily, he stares at the other and thinks. There are several ways this conversation could be going, and none of them are good. He straightens, pushing whatever contempt he had down until it’s buried.

If the bastard is asking about that, then it means something at leasty.

“Yes,” He says, “Always.”

Kenny nods.

The bastard accepts it as if it were expected, and it’s knowledge that one doesn’t need to call an executive of the Cheongang to confirm. No, no one ever calls on an executive relating to the rules unless—

“Good.” The bastard says, “Then you’ll be interested what I have to say.”

“Hey fucker.” And contempt and rage comes to him as easily as breathing, it comes at the words written between the lines, at the arrogance, at the audacity. “Why the hell would something like you have anything interesting to say to me?”

Kenny doesn’t flinch back, if anything, the fucker grinds his teeth together and forces himself to stop from making a good right hook to Juwon’s face.

Ah, Juwon thinks rather sardonically, looking down at the loss so apparent that he doesn't understand how he didn’t think of it before. It’s not that he won’t, it’s just that he can’t.

That’s more than enough reason to believe that something like Kenny Ji didn’t just call an executive of Cheongang for something pointless. The bastard may be a traitor to his gang, but he was also Manwol’s downfall.

Kenny Ji is scum, but not a fool.

“Young entertainment.” The bastard says, and—

Juwon sucks in a breath; anger curling into his gut, and it builds itself slowly. As if it were unsure of what to do between the sinking feeling and the feeling the makes him tense his muscles that prepare him for a fight.

“… In Mapo?”

And when the bastard nods his head without a single moment of hesitance, the fury comes in droves without a moment’s notice. It surges to the brink of an explosion, until there’s ringing in his ears and he’s starting to see red.

Because there are rules.

There is tradition.

And then there is scum.

The composure he crafted before is gone, replaced by him shooting out to grab the bastard by the neck and snarling:

“Explain.”

And Kenny Ji explains, after glaring and snarling back: “Let me the fuck go before you regret it.” He explains about how some group of soon to be dead men decided to fuck off from Yeongdeungpo and into Mapo because they couldn’t do their business anymore. The bastard says some names that Juwon recognizes, says some dates, brings out pictures of faces that he knows, solid proof and—

Then the realization hits.

And Juwon just might throw the fucker out the window, or perhaps, something worse. Because this information wasn’t something that could be stumbled upon, because one would have to know who to look at to see what what was—

He’s incandescent with rage, boiling in a fury that cannot stay contained.

“They started coming to Mapo after the downfall of Manwol.”

Kenny stays silent.

“I see.” Juwon says, and the blazing fury turns frigid, into a process he’s much more familiar with. Anger needs to be productive after all, rather than reckless, and there’s an issue that needs to be dealt with. “We’ll take care of it.”

There’s tradition, Juwon knows and thinks of the rules unwritten that every other gang must follow, and then there’s scum.

Perhaps the flaw wasn’t the bastard Kenny Ji, but the rest of Manwol.

[cupiditis]

♡ ! forgive with wolf keum

note : he twirls your hair around his finger

you walked into the empty park with wolfs warm hand in yours as you tugged him along. you walk with purpose towards a bench where you sit him down, you stand between his legs as you push his hair away from his face to see the injuries he got from the fight he just had while you were both on your way to a date you had spent days planning in advance.

he held onto your waist as you tilted his face from side to side making mental notes as to what you would need to help him. " can you move your shirt please ? " you asked, voice soft with disappointment at your date being ruined and anxiousness at your boyfriend being injured.

he wordlessly moved the collar of his shirt to the side and off his shoulder as much as he could. your face twisted seeing the nasty bruise already showing there. you dig around your bag and pull out the first aid kit you carried around just for him.

you worked on his face first, his glasses pushed up and holding back his hair, when you finished you cupped his cheek, and he leaned into the warmth of you as your eyes wandered his face looking for any spots you had missed. satisfied when you saw none you moved onto his shoulder.

you sat on the bench on your knees, lifting yourself on them to treat the greenish bruise on him. with a sigh you rested back on your calves before staring at his face. he was looking at you with a blank face and lidded eyes. you pursed your lips and moved to sit facing the other way on the bench.

you were tired, mind buzzing from the events prior and the need to sleep. as if he noticed wolf tugged your head down onto his lap. your arms curled around his waist as you stuffed your face into his stomach. the slight smell of blood and cigarettes lingered in his shirt yet you didn't move your face away.

wolf had found his way into your hair, twirling bits around his finger and smoothing away the pieces in your face. you felt yourself slowly falling in and out of sleep but before you could completely do so, wolf lifted your head by slotting his hand against your cheek.

your eyes remained closed but you balanced yourself using his knee, you hummed as he kissed you, a sweet kiss that was unlike the ones he usually gave you. your eyes opened slightly and your lips turned up in a smile once he moved away. " what was that for ? " your voice was low, almost a whisper when you asked.

he didn't respond but the way he looked away made you guess it was his way of apologizing to you. you layed back down as you were before, mumbling " i forgive you " into the shirt he wore. a short thanks broke the silence right as you drifted off with your arms still curled around his waist and his fingers in your hair.

♡ . taglist : @bakerysnake . @kiiraes . @avid-idiot . @alkyn-bs . @thesunandmoondreams

[gofancyninjaworld]

Garou in the Manga and Webcomic

So… the differences between Garou in the manga and the webcomic, how they're turning out, and what I make of it? Sure, for a story that seemed to be following the webcomic's tracks, Garou's trajectory sure has gone elsewhere (so far).

This is seriously long, and I make no apologies.

Let me start with the easy part, what I make of it. I think ONE is a DAMN LUCKY WRITER. You can't write something without wondering, at least in passing, how else you might have developed a character, a scene, what might have been. Heck, you can't make a decision in life without glancing occasionally at the path not taken and wondering where it might have led. ONE has gotten to not only wonder how else he might have taken the story of One-Punch Man, but to flesh out and publish TWO VERSIONS, and have audiences enthusiastically read both. Lucky, lucky man. A dog with two tails couldn't be happier and I'm glad for him. I'm also the greedy person double-fisting on story goodness. Mama didn't raise no picky eater! I find a lot to enjoy in both realisations of Garou.

Now for the tough part. I think I'm going to answer this from two perspectives, the in-story (intradiegetic) approach and the out-of-story (extradiegetic) one. I feel both are needed here for a reasonably comprehensive answer.

Rest below the cut.

A: In-Story

Garou's problems There isn't a change in the fundamental character, motivations, or outlook between WC!Garou and Manga!Garou. Same highly-driven, cocky, sarcastic martial arts genius. Same keen observation of the vissitudes of the world, and same soft heart that breaks at how little is done about it. Same issue with heroes as the saviours of the world. Same grandiose plan to make the world safe through terror. Same love of speechifying. The difference lies in what happened.

If I were going to put a finger on the most important difference in how things turned out, I'd put it on the issue of softness. Even if you reject all performances of toxic masculinity, as a young man, it's impossible not to internalise some of its poison. Garou is a soft guy -- and he's ashamed of his softness. When he feels he's being soft, he sees it as weakness and lashes out. Even before Saitama points this out on the battlefield in the WC, we see Garou feel that weakness and choose to lash out by trying to kill Saitama when the latter lets him off for dashing-and-dining. It's a good thing he picked Saitama, no? However, even there, there is a difference: WC!Garou is more focused on the opportunity to hunt a hero, while Manga!Garou is stung by his feeling pathetic at being pitied by even a no-name hero.

Fascinating, the change between hunting and murder attempt

In the WC, ONE doesn't make further use of this afterwards, but he comes to revisit the issue in the manga, in the aftermath of Garou accidentally saving several people and Saitama pointing out that he has a hero's instincts. While Saitama taunted Garou a bit in the webcomic so the latter would give him everything he had, it's nothing compared to the relentlessness with which Saitama keeps pressing Garou's buttons, and that combination made everything much worse.

Garou spells it out for us," I can't let myself forget this anger… not until the entirety of humanity has been made to suffer the same pain and despair I did!" Recalling the people thanking him, he thinks, "It was that simple to make my preparation and resolve waver. That's how pathetic I was…and it fucking pisses me off!" It's that incident that opened the door to how differently things went.

This is it: the point where Manga!Garou resolves to really do evil rather than Evil Lite.

Manga!Garou isn't the only guy to act this way. Even within the same arc, we see two heroes, Flashy Flash and Superalloy Darkshine, also lash out when they feel their egoes threatened. ONE shows how weak, destructive, and self-defeating this is. Fortunately, they tried hitting beings who could hit them back harder. Good!

They both had it coming: let's hope that they eventually improve themselves.

Unfortunately, what usually happens is that a bloke looking to lash out to assuage his internal feelings of weakness meets people he can punch down on, and BOY HOWDY DID GAROU PUNCH DOWN. Besides being literally poison to anyone around, his refusal to leave came from his dark joy at finally being able to provoke the fear and panic he'd hoped to from his mere presence. He targeted and murdered Genos, not just because he wanted to provoke Saitama into showing him all he had, but because he figured (correctly) that this would hurt Saitama as no punch he cared to throw could. And God, did he want to wipe that stupid smile off that bald guy's face.

It is very important to note that WC!Garou also met "God", but all he got out of the deal was a fancier outfit that Saitama quickly punched off him. It's the toxic determination to cause pain that marks the difference with Manga!Garou.

At the end of the day, His Yeastiness is a facilitator, not a controller.

It appalls a lot of readers to think that the lovely Garou, whom we so want to admire and root for as the underdog, can also be the same Garou who is so ugly, but it's the truth: all people are capable of all things.

We can well look some askance at Saitama for taunting Garou to do his worst rather than just beating him down and giving him a good talking-to, but the responsibility for his actions all lies on Garou. Say what you like about Garou, but you can never accuse him of riding on others' coattails: he has slapped away every hand proffered to him, so for him to recognise his limits and humble himself to ask Saitama for help is a huge credit to his strength of character and courage. He taught Saitama how to travel back in time to stop him from making the same mistake, and bravely persisted even though it cost him his life.

The manga explores what Garou could be much more thoroughly than the WC does (this is not a criticism of the WC -- I'll come back to that later), showing us both the heights of how noble he can be and the depths of how toxic he can also be.

Farewell, noble prince.

Who cares? By this, I don't mean this as a slight to the reader, but rather as a way of noting that the comparison is incomplete without also considering who cares about Garou in each version. WC!Garou is really alone. Yes, Bang goes out to stop him, and, notably, the old man finds himself moved to sorrow rather than rage when Garou is finally stopped by Saitama. However, as of yet, there has been no further meeting nor reconciliation between the two.

The contrast with Manga!Bang is fascinating. While Manga!Bang is no angel (indeed, we learn that he is a deeply selfish man… learn? We kinda knew that), he really does give up everything (the regard he enjoyed as a martial artist, his dojo, and his hero career) in an attempt, not to subdue Garou, but to bring him back to the good side, the same way his elder brother did for him so many decades ago. You need a heart of stone not to be moved by his acknowledging how he has failed as a master and all but begging Garou for a chance to start over.

When Garou runs away at the end of the night, Manga!Bang goes to find him and persuades him to turn himself in. When Garou's parents refuse to come and pick up their son -- as an 18-year-old, Garou is a minor -- Manga!Bang steps in as his guardian, goes with him to the police to answer for the one outstanding crime (the dine-and-dashing), accompanies him to apologise to the heroes he hunted, and is very present in Garou's life. Even if I'm giving Bang's tough love regimen the side-eye, the way that Manga!Garou hasn't been abandoned unloved into the world to fend for himself is a welcome development. It's interesting to see some of Bang's former students who left because they didn't trust that Bang would not favour Garou even though the latter beat them up, have started to come back to see if the old man really has changed.

What really matters If you will forgive my diverging a second, one of the fun things ONE comes to frequently is that we don't know what will make us happy. In chapter 85 (86 in print), the panel of Fubuki staring agog at the sight of several heroes stuffed in Saitama's tiny apartment, with Bang, Bomb, and Genos all tending their wounds, really stands out to me. Not 24 hours ago, there is no way Genos would have been comfortable enough to start repairing himself with the other heroes around: this point marked his no longer being 'the weird new guy' and rather being 'one of the guys'. If you had told Genos that he was looking for acceptance, he'd say you were talking nonsense, and yet, acceptance is one of the things he's looking for, even though he doesn't know it.

Garou isn't looking for acceptance, but he is looking to be seen and appreciated. Even as he grumbles about being made to clean the dojo and go to court-mandated jobs, Manga!Garou really is happy to be doing something to build the dojo back up. Just as importantly, working day-by-day to build up rather than tear down has brought WC!Garou a sense of peace and perspective. His work ethic and strength being appreciated can't not have an effect on him, even if he isn't cracking a smile when complimented.

Even if he's being either sarcastic or glum, Garou contributing something valuable and being appreciated for it really is something he was searching for.

What about next time? Finally, I'll point out the differences in what's facing them. Because Saitama solved his internal problems by pointing out that he was a frustrated hero at heart, WC!Garou's ongoing problems are largely external. He's an outlaw who needs a way to be rehabilitated into society. I'm hoping that the Neo Heroes affair offers Garou a way to redeem himself and get outstanding charges dropped. Working under the table, unable to get full working benefits, go to school, own a house and the like on account of unspent criminal convictions gets old fast.

Persisting and building despite all the fools harassing him, WC!Garou is developing some maturity fast.

Manga!Garou has not had to critically examine his beliefs yet, so he's not convinced he's wrong. What he does know is that he absolutely does not want to become a monster and that hunting heroes is a stupid idea. There's an internal struggle that needs to be finished here. He also has external problems: Bang's very helpfulness in getting so many charges against him dropped, means that there are going to be a lot of people out there in the story who feel he hasn't been punished enough. It is going to be exacerbated by the fact that Bang plans to introduce him to the Hero Association as a new hero, and Sicchi fully intends to parachute him into Class S despite knowing that all hell will break loose among the heroes. I don't think Garou's yet been told of this plan -- expect fireworks.

At the moment, Garou's ongoing ambitions are being treated as a joke. But like most things OPM, it won't be a damn bit funny when it comes up again.

B: Out-Of-Story

The art of constraint The differences in the space and time available to the manga and the webcomic really do matter. Just as you can say the same thing in a short poem, a short story, and a novel, the form of the art creates both restrictions and opportunities in how ideas are explored and expressed.

I think ONE is using both the super-compact storytelling of the webcomic and the more expansive saga of the manga well, but they create different possibilities. The webcomic is compact, and interestingly, ONE has usually preferred to focus on the characters sequentially: when it's a character's turn to get their fish fried, we see their fish thoroughly scaled, gutted, filleted, dredged in flour, fried to a crisp and served with a garnish. Their problems are pulled out, they face their crisis, it gets resolved with Saitama's help, and they're kicked out into the cold to make room for the next character. We don't mind seeing them again, but they've had their anagnorisis, they've had their peripeteia, they've had their denouement, and all they have to do is go and implement what they've learned. It's very satisfying, very compact.

However, the manga has a lot more space -- it's after all, the paid jobs of ONE, the workaholic artist Murata, Murata's assistants, and the staff at Shueisha -- and so, it's got more bandwidth. The manga tends to do character development in parallel: we see a lot of characters facing challenges and developing in tandem. Very little needs to be finished at a given time, and so ONE is happy to leave characters with further work still to do.

WC!Garou got his answer all neatly tied up. He was in a position to swallow that bitter pill, and so when we see him, he's working out how to live and has renounced his old beliefs. Manga!Garou has not had any neat answers. On the one hand, it's less satisfying to us as readers, but on the other hand, it gives Manga!Garou much more scope to develop over time to become someone WC!Garou can't imagine being.

Swings and roundabouts: ONE does not believe in giving characters what they haven't worked for, and so where there's less space for characters to work things out, there's also limits to what can be explored. However, he doesn't shortchange the webcomic characters: they get the right amount of development for the space in the webcomic.

No nuclear-powered truths for Garou in the manga; instead, a deliberately more open observation that leaves him more to work out.

A colder world Without a doubt, I'd rather live in the webcomic version of the OPM universe than the manga one. For a given timepoint, the manga universe is so much more dangerous it's not even funny. However, if you ask most readers, without thinking, they'd say the webcomic is the darker place. It isn't, but what it is, is bleaker feeling. A major part of that is that there is less interaction between characters. Not a lot less, just sufficiently less to start to matter, and that compounds. I'm not going to belabour this point: I've already written about it elsewhere.

Since one of ONE's wheelhouses is that we need others in order to be fully ourselves, with even the negative interactions having value, the webcomic becomes an increasingly bleak reflection of the manga for the characters, as we see how many opportunities they've lost. And I'm sure that part of the reason WC!Garou appears so subdued is that he's having to face the reality that he really is all alone in the world -- and he's got no one to blame but himself. It's funny, even when we say that we don't give a fuck about others, we sure hope that at least a few others will give a fuck about us.

If you want me to sum up where they are in their respective stories, WC!Garou has hit rock bottom and is rebuilding his life one brick at a time, while Manga!Garou has been spared hitting rock bottom (for now: the rock bottom he was heading for was 100% fatal). The latter's day of reckoning is yet to come but come it surely will.

Summary

In short, chaos theory rules here: small changes to initial conditions lead to large changes in outcome, all while being quasi-deterministic. I think both are good explorations of the character in context.

[ottokallenhonkai3rd]

⚜ ℐ𝓈 𝒪𝓉𝓉ℴ ℴ𝒷𝓈ℯ𝓈𝓈ℯ𝒹 ⚜

Antis describe Otto as obsessive or simp, who is after Kallen and doesn't respect her love for Sakura. ~*~ To answer the question... Yes. Otto is obsessed. But not for Kallen's love, but for Kallen's life.

He says that himself and is aware of it. And this “obsession” can be traced back to a profound fear of loss that runs throughout “Elan Palatinus”.

Otto's view of the world underlines why he desperately wants to bring Kallen back to life:

When you truly want to change the world, you will discover how pitiable your own strength is. The Holy Maid gave her all to the people, and was repaid with merciless shackles und nooses. The world is at chaos. It´s neither fair nor sensible. It wrongs heroes and breeds scum. It is rife with ugliness without a trace of beauty. The malice of the world shal be sundered- by the villain. - Thus spoke Apocalypse Here he clearly denounces, how the people Kallen wanted to protect are repaying her. This makes it clear that he perceives Kallen as a good person, even a heroine, and most of humanity as crude and ugly. And Kallen is very important to him. This may be due to his childhood, in which he was not treated well by his family and Kallen was the first person who showed him anything like appreciation. Yes. Otto definitely has feelings for Kallen. This was mentioned in "Honkai Chonicles - Otto Apocalypse", as well as in game. But Sanka Saga shows that these don't play a role.

This event recreates an alternate version in which Kallen follows the path that Otto did out of love for Sakura. In this event, Otto intentionally binds Kallen to Sakura and Yae Village so that she does not return to Schicksal and be executed. If Otto only cared about Kallen's love, he would have accepted this risk rather than leaving her with her bElOvEd Sakura. ~*~ And if we're already talking about Sakura and Antis mostly prefer SakuKallen, I'll say something to the lady now.

If the worn-out fake version of your passionate love tells you that you're a little obsessive, then there's something to it. You might not get it that way because Kallen's story is a shambles. But Kallen intended to return to Schicksal. It's being teased in Sanka Saga...

As well as in "The Gratitude Arc" and also in "Dark Sakura Tales". This webcomic only exists on the Chinese HI3 site and appears in "The Gratitute Arc", "Divine Key" and "Elan Palatinus".

In this webcomic you also get to see a completely different side of Sakura. You can tell that she can't cope with Kallen leaving her and would prefer to keep her with her. "In many dreams she had dreamt of making you belong only to her. She thought, she had found her own beacon of light. But that Light chose to shine on otheers instead." By the way. In "Dark Sakura Tales" Kallen never left Yae Village, she just wanted to prevent the human sacrifices. I would have understood it, if Kallen had actually left Yae Village to seal the box, as initially assumed. But no. She was never gone. And Higokumaru can only manipulate. Manipulation involves taking advantage of doubts, fears and weaknesses. He cannot implant thoughts that are not there. In that case, I wonder how obsessed one can actually be? I can only feel sorry for Sakura. But in my opinion, that's only the case in this manga. As shown above, there are several indications that Kallen left Yae Village in HI3, if only to complete her mission. In Gun Girls Z there is an alternate story in which, under the Herrscher's influence, she actually forces Kallen to stay with her.

Happy Birthday "Kallen..." "..." "Kallen..." "..." Why don't you answer me...? Obviously or "Your" pupils will no longer reflect other people's figures "Your" body temperature will no longer be passed to other people. "You" already belong to me alone … It doesn't matter……. It doesn't matter. That's enough. "Sakura...don't..." ——As long as I can still see "your" smile "Don't want……" ——As long as I can still feel the presence of "you" "Don't want……" ——As long as "you" are still by my side I will be very happy I turned you into this soulless doll. This is the best birthday gift. Thank you, love. Source ~*~ But let´s make a Checklist:

A constant need for validation from the person you are in love with Otto: Could be. Sakura: No.

Obsessively keeping in contact with the subject of your affection  Otto: No. Sakura: I see this problem with Sakura. "But that light chose t shine on others instead" and the fact that she consciously decided to stay in the stigma world with a fake Kallen.

Ignoring the personal boundaries of the subject of your affection  Otto: No. Sakura: No.

Behaving in a controlling manner with the person you love  Otto: No. Sakura: Under the control of the Herrscher, yes. Bullet point soulless doll.

Feeling extreme jealousy of other relationships the person you love might have with other people   Otto: No. Sakura: "BuT tHaT lIgHt ChOsE tO sHiNe On OtHeRs InStEaD.

Feeling overly protective of the person you love  Otto: Yes. Look the secound screenshot. Sakura: No.

Becoming so overwhelmed with emotions about a person that it disrupts your daily functioning Otto: No. Sakura: No.

Feelings of low self-esteem, especially when it seems like your love isn’t being reciprocated  Otto: Low-selfesteem, yes. With regard of Kallens reciprocated, no. Sakura: No.

Refusal to engage in social activities that don’t involve the subject of your affection  Otto: No. Sakura: Yes. Because she chose to stay in the stigma world with fake balls instead of returning to life.

Feeling extremely possessive of the other person’s time, space, and attention  Otto: No. Sakura: No.

Feeling a need to control the actions and behaviors of the person you supposedly love  Otto: Already a little. Even if it was out of his fear of loss. Sakura: Under the controll of the Herrscher, yes.

Experiencing anxiety over your relationship with this person Otto: No Sakura: No.

I gave one point for each “maybe” or “other circumstances.” Therefore, Sakura and Otto would be on equal terms when it comes to obsessive behavior. ~*~ Still, I think Sakura is much more obsessive and her obsession, unlike Otto's obsession, is really about Kallen's love. Strange that he is still basically the simp and Sakura is completely innocent.

[pockettao]

-Hey, are you crazy? You shouldn't have gone after him alone.

-You came.