#yyh rui

[fruiteggsaladit]

general consensus may or may not b that hiei doesn't and cannot cook but consider this: What if he Could and he Does.

Not because of Kurama, gtf out of here with that, I want a PROPER KOORIME ARC that isn't just "he lost the one precious thing he had and decided he'd go back to Hyouga for genocide; nvm once he heard the details he decided not to" Nobody talks abt Rui and so my mind is in two camps: mary-sue her by removing her suicidality and make her the Perfect Parental Figure, or have her be a deeply flawed character so deep she should have had her own manga.

I want her to fulfill the role Mukuro kind of fulfilled with Hiei but that she does the very dadly thing of Never Talking About Her Feelings unless through a very Traumatic Lens- wait no Mukuro does that too, anyways, I want her to parallel Hiei's belief that he needs to do something to make up for his existence. Except in Rui's case, it's not her own existence, but her actions that have made her irredeemable in her own eyes, and so "making up for it" is not the matter here, but making reparations instead, with the vague hope/expectation that her loved one(s) will abandon her after she's paid her debts.

Togashi being burnt out likely contributed to the very weak "the only way I can make up for Hina dying is making way for her cursed child (dude) to return here and kill us, starting with me", and her not even being able to kill herself on her own, instead begging 13/14-years-old-coded Hiei to do that for her. And prior to that, she had raised Yukina and eventually told her the truth about Hina and Hiei.

Also I'm sorry but the misogyny shines through in the story there too, with Hiei wanting to kill an entire race of female-coded beings he's never really known, but apparently doing nothing towards the bandits that adopted him? Not a canonical word is given about him retaliating at them for it, even though they abandoned him similarly as the Koorime did, because this time Hiei had actually known them. Its stated (by Mukuro, who as we all know is a reliable narrator and Togashi has never employed an unreliable narrator ever (lying)) that he is vengeful enough to desire death to those who abandoned him! Why make a point about genociding the Koorime and say nothing about the bandits...

RIGHT BUT THIS WAS ABOUT

_C O O K I N G_

I'm formerly big fan of Hiei-ifying Yukina to make her more interesting and less of a "perfect bean who's done nothing wrong", I've been coming around lately to Yukina-ifying Hiei?

Like, Hiei getting attached a very strongly once he's attached to someone; Going out of his way to do something for someone, even when they tell him he's being excessive (murder yes But nope that's the whole sentence; is this not equivalent to a shoujo protag exhausting herself to exhausting cleaning the house and doing the cleaning and the cooking, bc how else will she make up for the room she's taking in someone's life and home?); over-thinking himself into circles about whether or not his twin really wants him in her life...

Long concept short! Rui doesn't immediately trauma-dump Hiei and Hiei is entranced/angry with her bc HE remembers HER throwing him away and her being related to his mother in some way, but SHE doesn't? And they journey together in some way. And while Rui is choosing to stay alive, she's also not letting herself experience joys in life, especially with Yukina's absence. I'm fascinated by the concept that she embodies the journey Hiei is taking for himself, the whole-- preparing himself for saving Yukina, and once that is done, die? Wither away? -- very neat if she is doing the same, and Hiei is not introspective or reflective enough to clock that the idealised suicidality is something he intends once he leaves Hyouga. It's the hearing about a lost sister throws a wrench into that plan.

Fascinated w the idea of Hiei trying to endear her to open up by learning to cook from her and cooking for them both. Rui doesn't teach him, he watches her make it and learns from there.

Just, the preparation of food and the sharing of it. Learning how much spice someone likes and how that differs from your own, and how that isn't a matter of morals, it just is. And comparing that to how Hiei is never shown eating on-screen, or eating at all.

Hiei comparing this kind of service to what he considered a service to the bandits. But here it was through being methodical, previously it was almost reactionary. "I'm being helpful, why aren't you glad?" versus "She isn't opening up to me, I'm doing something not-right". Particularly the new state of no longer having the power levels he had prior to the Evil Eye surgery, would probably be a large reason why he becomes more introspective and careful, bc he can't afford not to be.

I just like the idea that Hiei can cook, but has an aversion to people knowing about it, esp. bc of something that happened in the past with Rui. That they did get close, but it wasn't enough for Rui to understand Hiei. Worse, that once she realised who he was, that it overrides what she's learned of him in their journey, and that her reaction to this is what makes Hiei eventually revert to the violence and the carelessness he exhibits with Kurama, until he is again betrayed in some respect, and finds yet again that he's overestimated how well the one he's begun to trust, trusts in him in return.

[workbyrui]

happy holidays!☃️

Happy holidays everyone!☃️💜🎁

Just dropping by because of two things:

1. I've been getting notifs that my art was reblogged or liked recently. Wanted to say I appreciate that my stuff is still being spread around💜, even if I've mostly been absent from this platform and... despite me being so bad at replying to comments to reblogs.🥺

2. Because of movement on this blog, I felt like I owed folks some new art.😁

Been hardly drawing these past few months because I was busy with RL work and managing my health (I worked too much, made myself sick, got better, worked too much again, got sick again.... it was quite the cycle 😅). During rare downtime in my schedule, I ended up watching the Netflix adaptation of YYH. After watching it, I realised I missed YYH so, so much that I ended up rewatching the anime (nearing the end of season 3 now, whee! Of course I squealed and got the warm fuzzies when my ultimate YYH crush, Hagiri Kaname, finally made his appearance!😍🎲).

Anyhooey, back when this series first aired on local tv, they dubbed it, so I never really got the chance to appreciate the original VAs work on the characters. But now that I'm watching it subbed, I AM FINDING MYSELF SOOOOOOOOOOO DRAWN TO HIEI'S VOICE!🙉

Soooooooooooo, I drew him for practice.😅

Le sigh.

I drew this with the intention of adding snow falling effects + a YYH soundtrack clip playing but, for whatever reason tumblr won't let me post the video. If anyone wants to view this art the way I wanted it showcased, please check out the IG version (still 'workbyrui' there~😁).🙇‍♀️

That's it for now folks~ Thanks for reading this far!💜💜💜

[skrunksthatwunk]

kinda thinking about how the women who serve as maternal figures/raise kids in yyh are never quite ready for it. genkai's an arguable exception, but like.. atsuko had yusuke at 15, shizuru's basically in charge of kazuma full time in her early 20s/late teens (depending on version) with very very absent parents, and even shiori is given a kid she wasn't expecting, in the form of an old, old demon rather than like. a regular, blank slate ass human baby. and although shiori seems to do quite well with kurama, kurama can never be honest with shiori about who he is, or much of what he's seen. if he was, it'd probably make things far more complicated and overwhelming. atsuko, no matter how much she cares for yusuke, Could Not Have Been and thus wasn't ready to have him at 15. her attempts to make the most of that situation have had middling success at best. shizuru has also been placed into a parental role. we don't really know how long she's been raising kuwabara, but that's.. probably still parentification anyway. she shouldn't have to do that, and she shouldn't have to do that so young. and i think some of her coarseness with kuwa is out of frustration with her own inexperience + inadequacy + uncertainty, his not cooperating, and their parents for putting this on her in the first place. the ones who know the full extent of their situation grow desperate and it squeaks out in unpleasant ways, and the one who seems unbothered by it is the only one who has no idea that she's in way over her head. and i mean. ok. gonna preface this by saying keiko is NOT yusuke's mom in any sense of the word. but she does take care of him in a way atsuko couldn't manage to. she's often looking after him and cleaning up after his messes and stuff. she takes him on as a responsibility, and that is, in a way, a caretaker role. not to say that it SHOULD be her responsibility, but it's how she ends up being.

and when the stress of trying to make someone take care of themselves or be kind or good or Whatever goes awry, again, the violence and arguing and distance and ugliness of caring for someone reveals itself.

and i wonder about that. for a series dedicated to physical fighting as a form of communication, what does it say that this extends to the complicated, quietly desperate situations of so many of the women/girls it depicts, whom our more central characters were shaped and raised by?

hell, even hiei touches on this, because hina loved hiei, but there was no way she was prepared for him, obviously, nor for the pain of losing him. rui (whom i also see as a sort of caretaker figure to hiei, inasmuch as either of them were caretakers) literally throws him off a cliff because she couldn't face down the village elders, and out of some mixture of care for hina and, likely, fear for her own survival. and the guilt and pain of that killed hina and deeply wounded rui.

it's like motherhood, this thing that's so often treated as sacred and beautiful, is a kind of stitched up, painful, eggshell-walking thing that hurts parent and child and it's just. oughh

[natsunoomoi]

Honestly, I think togashi used the term child to emphasis the fact that hiei is around the same age as yusuke and since hiei's character is based on the chuunibyou, I guess he must be around 13 - 14 when he first fought yusuke, in the three kings saga it was mentioned quite a few times that hiei is really young as he didn't knew much about the three kings and thought it was a fairytale. Personally I feel that yukina has the same level of maturity as hiei, I don't think her living with the ice maidens made her better at communicating with people cuz unlike hiei, yukina doesn't really have many close friends besides kuwabara in the manga, while hiei has yusuke, kurama and mukuro. Anyhow, yukina is hiei's twin sister, since togashi already called hiei a child there's no reason for him to call yukina a child too. Like you said hiei's development might have been stunted because of the circumstances but gaining friends made him mature by the end. I know i said too much but i find the idea of hiei and yukina being the same age as the rest of the yyh group really interesting imo it makes the perfect sense, don't you think?

I'm not sure if it's interesting, as much as it just is and people are different.

Also, you don't have to have friends to know how to socialize. Even if everyone around you is hostile and you don't like your hometown, you learn how to socialize and be civil with the people around you. That kind of thing happens normally all the time. LGBT child grows up in the Bible belt countryside of the US with everyone around them, or at least most people around them, spewing hateful things about them. They are a child that is waiting and biding their time for their chance, their opportunity, to leave to go somewhere safer where they are free to be themselves. Even in that kind of a situation, you do learn to communicate better, but in a very specific way. I think you're greatly underestimating how much socialization a person can get from simply being around other people even if those other people suck.

Yukina is a very kind person, but her kindness is probably fostered by Rui who likely cared for her in her mother's absence. While Rui didn't actively act against the wishes of their leader or their people, it's made very clear that she agrees more with Hina and was not happy about throwing Hiei off. Rui very likely raised Yukina in a certain way, that allowed her to grow kindness, but at the same Yukina had to be around to be around everyone else in their home who is cold. She has to survive, so she also knows and learns how to have a certain level of outward politeness even if inside she holds deep resentment. That kind of outward attitude is also very Japanese and a trademark of Japanese customer service. The customer could be the most raving bitch of a Karen, and you still have to smile through it and pick your words precisely to balance what the customer wants and what you want/are able to provide, which can go up to doing things that outwardly seem humiliating, but are designed to bring the others' guard down so that you don't have to do something else more important. It's a game of social chess, and it's a thing that Hiei cannot do because he grew up in wildlands and after early childhood didn't spend that much time with the bandits that took him in.

Hiei in contrast is very blunt and straight and wouldn't have been in any place where people would talk or gossip. Even then for surviving purposes, he would fundamentally be uninterested in people's gossip, so the Three Kings wouldn't be a thing that made sense for him to know about and would logically become a fairytale to him because he spent so much time in the woods among the trees alone. Like he straight up is just not in situations or circles where he would find out actual news about them because he stayed away from everyone at a certain point.

Relatively though, you would know who's the leader of the place you're in, but beyond that it's of little significance to his everyday life. That's also a kind of life that probably people in 2024 now aren't aware of as much because the internet connects us all so much. But before fast communication, the common farmer or regular lay person could not give a shit about who the leader was in the castle or whatever. It's true in every country prior to modern communication and the printing press. Whatever the leader did, did not matter because their big decisions for the country didn't affect their everyday life. It's likely Hiei knew that the Three Kings existed, but it's more that he didn't know or needed to care about whatever issues they had between them because it was irrelevant to what he needed to do to live.

Yukina on the other hand is able to show her caution and able to handle difficult social situations mainly through her conversation with Hiei about "finding her brother". She might be a kind person, but that conversation in particular shows that she does have hidden strength and "darkness" (not the right word, but I can't think of the right one atm) of her own. I recall also, during her time at Tarukane, she tried to be cold to him and not allow him to get gems so easily, but like instead he killed people that helped her, killed her bird friends, etc. Other beings are essentially hostages since she can't be attacked directly to get the gems, and I think I recall Toguro being brought in specifically because they couldn't get gems out of her recently. Yukina shows a number of times she has skills to pivot her reactions to different kinds of people, and that is a social skill and a kind of maturity that Hiei doesn't have. It is also a kind of maturity that adults in Japan have, but kids do not as they are straight and blunt don't know how to "read the room" or observe other kinds of Japanese subtlety. The adults in their life and their parents teach this to them. They fundamentally do not have the same level of maturity as Hiei acts like a child that never learned how to do that, and that's more that what he means. You're taking the "child comment" way too literally to fit what you want and ignoring Yukina's skills and achievements to serve what you want to be true about Hiei.

Other than the above, Yukina's also just more able to join in on activities with Yusuke & Co, while Hiei in contrast is still looking out of a window and largely ignoring what's going on. It's not necessarily that he's completely uninterested, but it's probably really awkward for him so he'd rather be a bit away from the group instead of joining in and maybe looking stupid or whatever. Being able to join in with new people and dive into new experiences is a kind of socialization skill. It can come naturally to some people, but it also takes some practice. Yukina had to survive in her home, but she also befriended animals which are skittish and run away. Being more approachable takes practice and is something Yukina has from not staying away from interactions. Hiei basically focusing on survival for most of his life and was alone is not able to really navigate that kind of situation.

Also, I don't know if it's a translation error on the part of the interpretation from the translator in the English version, but I have the Japanese version of the chapter where Hiei says that he "thought it was just a fairytale" and in Japanese it's ambiguous actually whether or not he thought the Three Kings themselves were a fairytale, or rather the war between them was a fairytale. I've never read any translations. I have the whole series in Japanese and I can read it. He's comments in that page is that he's "heard about the feud between the Three Kings", and then in the next panel says that the thought it was just a fairytale. It doesn't say it was specifically about the Three Kings' existence, but more about their struggle for power. That can be a sign of youth, but only because youkai live for hundreds of years and if you are younger than the last time there was a war or significant conflict, hearing that nations don't get along is like a fairytale. If that nuance was taken out of the English translation, I don't know what to tell you. It's for that reason I don't really rely on translations so much. I've made translations of my own, and there's a lot of compromises made to the text to get the gist of it so that you can get it on screen or in a box readable that I genuinely feel bad for English speaking fans because they are *missing* so much context and nuance that was also there in the same sentence.

For a modern day example, right now we have a number of wars/horrific things happening in the world. For a lot of people who are younger right now, they were not alive when this conflict started and do not understand the history. There's a lot of misinformation going on about who's at fault and why, and it's easy to get misled if you don't know the history of how it started. I had the fortune of having a history teacher in high school that taught me the history and it's a fucked up situation for everyone, and basically everyone sucks. It's also a mess that we as the newer generations in the world inherited because the creators of the original situation were naive and real stupid and tried to solve a "problem" they perceived by ignoring people that exist now for their own agenda. But also because we are a newer generation, there's a lot of people who do not get taught this history and are taught by the adults in their life to blindly support one side or the other hence leading to the clusterfuck screaming match and actual war and war crimes and turbulence we have now. The conflict has been going on so long that people don't remember how it started. Strife and difficulty is just the modern reality, and the start of it and the actual source of the conflict is like a fairytale because it's so far in the past and not talked about.

Back to our source material, Mukuro even asks if he'd heard about their conflict because it'd been 500 years. Like we know Hiei and Yukina are definitely less than 100, so their last conflict was a way long time ago and they were in a stalemate/truce for 500 years. We also don't know how their specific species ages either because they could both be 60 something and we'd never know either, but that'd imply that their trauma and living in strife and difficult situations lasted longer than if they were around the same age as the rest of the crew. That said, their objective reality and lived experience is not one of war and conflict, so hearing that battle is about to break out is like, what? Why? Kurama's comment after Hiei tells him his plan about going to Mukuro's though is that he "wasn't born yet" so "he doesn't know how frightening Mukuro is". There's 500 years of time for him to not know. It's not that he's a literal child or that he's "too young". It's that it literally happened *way* too long ago for him to know about it still being an ongoing grudge and how bad an actual conflict could be.

[rouge-the-bat]

yyh writers going into more detail about hieis tragic past:

[kohakuhoshi-creative]

One of the secondary pairings from my new fanfic, Shizuru and Rui. In this fic Rui leaves the koorime homeland, the floating glacier, and she relocates to the human world. Rui is instantly smitten by the cool Shizuru.

[princeseerow]

hiei also gets to be an exception to this. maybe because from jump his standoffish nature reminds her of herself and the other ice apparitions or maybe bc his red eyes are so similar to hers, but yukina takes one look at hiei, who just slaughtered a room full of humans for her wellbeing, and goes "ah yes now this is a man i can trust"

yyh au where everything is the same except yukina is just a total fucking bitch but only towards men*. like i mean that in the nicest way possible honestly, they shouldve played up her whole ice theme cuz theres no way that yukina, who from birth grew up in a secluded land of all-female ice apparitions and was kidnapped and abused by tarukane and the toguros would ever be nice to a man LMAO

like i would love to see a scene where yukina is talking to like.. keiko and botan and theyre all giggly and having a good time and yusuke shows up like "hey guys whats going on" and yukina immediately is just like "....hi yusuke 😒"

*kuwabara gets a pass bc he drinks his respect women juice hourly

[miscsporadic]

Question for Fox Dad AU bc it's the greatest thing I've ever opened my eyes too---but would be the changes in kurama and hiei's attitudes towards the fact yukina is hiei's sister (I'd love to hear any thoughts on any headcanons for that; like would fox dad kurama adopt her as his own too or?)

Hahah, thank you, I’m glad you like it!! (｀ω´)

And well, the answer to that is going to be reaaalllyyyyy long-winded, sorry! Feel free to skip to the last “actual relevant bit to the question” part!

(Everything under the line is on “read more”)

I picture Youko would figure out what Hiei is from his powers (fire demon) + the wrappings he was in (Imiko) + where they found him (somewhere fairly close to the Yuki-onna’s rumored location), but initially he would have absolutely no interest in returning Hiei there, nor even letting Hiei know what he knows.

Youko always struck me as very self-serving and the sort who would enjoy having information on others, and not caring enough about other people’s traumas to go out of his way to address them (it’s just not a very legendary demon bandit thing to do, imo). I also always got the impression Hiei didn’t tell his gang of bandits about wanting to take revenge on the Ice Maidens, which is a HC I usually carry into this AU.

Basically, Hiei doesn’t share his ultimate goal, and while Youko knows what Hiei is and can correctly guess what he wants to do, he offers no help because it doesn’t particularly benefit him.

That’s not to say he doesn’t grow to be invested in Hiei’s well being, in his own detached demonic way, but Hiei’s proclivity to recklessness and getting in fights just for the fun of it is more pressing than Hiei’s potential identity crisis. Youko focuses on curving Hiei’s thirst for fighting and teaching him relevant survival skills (largely in “deliberately put you in measured danger so you can deal with it on your own” ways, with Youko stepping in to help when necessary but making it look like that wasn’t the main goal).

I think the first time they’d actually talk about Ice Maiden Island would be the moment Hiei loses his tear gem by indulging a risky fight with a demon, and Youko finally calls him out on his recklessness, throwing the fact he’s lost his sole prized possesion in his face (by this point Youko would expect Hiei to have more sense). Gives them a chance to fight it out, and Hiei’s goals can be addressed in a way that can be dressed up as beneficial to both parties: Youko just can’t risk having another right hand man who’s going to risk the bandits’ goals for personal gain, so he’ll help Hiei find Ice Maiden Island.

Before that, though, Youko tries to pull of a heist on spirit world and kicks the bucket, and Hiei shows us that no, he didn’t learn a single thing about recklessness, because he goes right on to Shigure when Youko’s gang disbands to get himself the Jagan. He’s going to find his tear gem, the ice maiden village, and Youko, while he’s at it (because he refuses to believe Youko would really let himself be killed).

So the story flows more or less like canon, largely because I like Fox Dad as a passive AU rather than a strong divergence (though I’m certain heavy divergence would be fun).

ACTUAL RELEVANT BIT TO THE QUESTION:

When Hiei and Kurama meet up again, Hiei has already found and visited the Ice Maidens and learned about Yukina (Hiei learns about Yukina from Rui, and was unaware he had a sister before it was so revealed to him; Youko wouldn’t have had a way to guess Hiei had a twin sister, or at least I see no mention of Imikos necessarily having to be half of a twin pair).

Last time Hiei admitted his goal of looking for something importnat to Youko the bastard went and died, so he doesn’t tell Kurama about having a twin sister he’s trying to find when they meet again in the human realm. Hiei merely lets him believe he’s still only hunting for his tear gem, to which Kurama offers his help (Hiei helpfully offers, “try not to die this time”).

The ruse is up when they have to rescue her from Tarukane, but since Hiei doesn’t want/can’t tell Yukina he’s her brother, there’s not much Kurama can do anyway, except looking after her and teasing Hiei about their relationship.

….Which Kurama already canonically does! ◉‿◉

(Go to 0:50; if you haven’t seen the english dub for YYH I hope this’ll sway you into it.)

Or that time they were all playing cards in the Dark Tournament hotel room and Kurama teased Hiei about why’s he not joining them?

Kurama as he interacts with everyone on Team Urameshi is very doting and thoughtful, and of course for Fox Dad I’d like to see him be extra thoughtful of Yukina, but I think what he canonically acts like towards her would already be pretty accurate. Kind and thoughtful, but not overly cloying or too obvious about considering himself a guardian figure to her just because there’s teasing and then there’s “give away Hiei’s secret without his consent.”

(Have I mentioned how easy it is to re-interpret canon Kurama/Hiei interactions into Fox Dad and how much I love that? Because I do. Kurama’s such a Mom Friend.)

Sorry again for getting so long-winded! And I’ll throw in a reminder of “this is just a silly AU and if you want to grab it and do your own thing with it, feel free”!

Want to picture Youko is more involved in Hiei’s plight, so he takes him to the Ice Maiden Island and adopts Yukina before she has a chance to wander off on her own in search for Hiei? Let that foxy grampa raise himself twins!

Want Kurama to appoint himself Yukina’s guardian to make up for his abandonment of Hiei and be attentive to her (in obviously parental ways which Kuwabara nonetheless perceives as potential rivalry, despite Yukina treating Kurama like a respected elder)? Go for it!

The “transformative” bit of transformative fiction’s where all the fun’s at!! ヽ(o♡o)/

[alolanzubat-moving]

4, 9, 11, 25, 27, 36, 46, and 50 for the Halloween asks!🎃

4. patronus?

If I could choose my patronus, it would probably be no surprise here a fox or a wolf. But, according to the official Pottermore test I just now took, my patronus is...

A peacock~ (Tbh, I was expecting something aquatic, but I really have no complaints.)

9. dream costume if time/money/etc. were no object?

Oh hell, cosplays e’ry day! I’d 100% dress up as my fav muses and OCs, so here’s a (really long) list of them:

Grell Sutcliffe (Kuroshitsuji),

Izuru Kira (Bleach)

male!Carrie Fernandez (Castlevania 64/Legacy of Darkness)

Shin Tsukinami (Diabolik Lovers)

Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth)

Yoosung Kim (MysMe)

Reiji Kotobuki (UtaPri)

Takuma Ichijou, Akatsuki Cain (Vampire Knight)

Kuronue (YYH)

Marionette (Kuroshitsuji, shipped w/ Joker)

Ren (Bleach, shipped w/ Gin)

Mineko Mochizuki (Diabolik Lovers, shipped w/ Kou)

Azriel “Rui” Lapidus (MysMe, shipped with the Choi Bois)

Maasa Fujima (UtaPri, shipped with Ai and Aine)

Sen  (Vampire Knight, shipped with Senri)

Shiro Natsume (YYH, shipped with Shuichi and Youko along with my wife’s OC Miyuki Kotake)

11. any spooky books you like?

It might be cheesy, but I love the Goosebumps series; I know Creepypastas probably don’t count but I’m also hooked on those. ^^

25. how old were you when you stopped dressing up for halloween, if you stopped?

I never stopped babe~ In fact, a few years ago I dressed as a character from a world I made myself (which I will hopefully one day be able to write into a series).

27. do you like being outside in the dark?

Assuming it’s cool out (by this I mean 60 degrees F or below), then sure!

36. could you build a campfire? bonus points if you can do it in the wilderness without newspaper, haha.

Without a starter log, nope. ^^; My dad was never able to teach me properly because he was disabled. BUT I did once start a fire in our back yard with the pages of a ruined encyclopedia. :D

46. favorite candle scent?

Pumpkin/pumpkin spice, honeysuckle, rose, violets... Basically anything floral.

50. do you prefer blue skies or gray skies in october?

Grey skies all the way! I love dreary weather, and I especially love when it storms. Plus, grey skies mean it isn’t as hot or bright outside - hence why my ass is so damn pale.

[dezzydoesthings]

Okay...this is official art and they've given the ice maidens red eyes like Hiei and Yukina...that messes up some stuff I had planned...

Yu Yu Hakusho 〜Makai Touitsu Saikyou Battle〜 ↳ Character Cards: 28/?

[fruiteggsaladit]

The fandom needs more aus so Im adding one I just made#3

cw canon typical violence; murder, minor character death, genocide mention

(Foreshadowing) During the Yukina rescue arc, things are a little bit different to how it goes down in canon, such as Yukina not being the one to stop Hiei from beating Tarukane halfway to death, but perhaps Botan instead.

Beside him, Kurama or Kuwabara notices Yukina watching the scene with some strange expression. Anxious about seeing her captor there, maybe. Curiosity is the really weird part to him. He assumes she was bothered by the murder attempt, and she corrects him: the first clue proper that This Kid is Not Alright.

Everything's the same but while staying with Mukuro in the king arc prologue, Hiei hears that Yukina is about to get executed and so he rushes over to Hyouga, and then we get the backstory reveal that a lot more shit went down in Hyouga than Yukina allowed us to think, and what we were shown in Hiei's flashback, having spoken with a quietly furious Elder instead of a depressed Rui. Turns out he was given the watered-down version of events.

Minor canon divergence: note, minor character death

When Yukina is told the truth about Hina and her lost brother, she petitions for the Elders to allow her to leave bc a Koorime can't physically leave Hyouga without blessing or banishment. It's denied.

Infuriated and renewed with a grief she thought would be unnamed for the entirety of her life, not because of human (Koorime) error, but because of willful deception, Yukina boils over with the desire to inflict the same pain onto the Elder pushing most for Yukina to remain in Hyouga, despite her growing resentment and hatred of her fellow Koorime.

Yukina is in two camps about it: resenting the Elders and not wishing this resentment to colour how she sees all of Hyouga, and the hatred being so flippantly ignored that she feels less and less inclined to feel bad about it. She feels as if she'll do something very drastic, and it scares her as much as it motivates her.

Things coming to a head, the thought that the Elder has a daughter herself, is coming to mind. Coincidentally, this daughter is the same person who tossed Yukina's brother off a cliff, and who raised Yukina and told her the truth unprompted and obviously planned when everyone else was content to never speak of it.

By happenstance, this daughter is Rui, the one who raised Yukina in the absence of Hina.

In the end, Yukina does kill Rui. And sure enough, this does end with a hateful and swift banishment; by the Elder herself, she is dropped from the cliff, as she should have been from the beginning (in her mind).

[zywie]

I liked your last prompt fics a lot! Can I ask, what YYH ships do you like? I notice you do a lot of kurameshi and some kurahi so I’m wondering if I send a prompt with a different one which ones you like writing more (like kuwameshi, or one with any of the girls, etc.).

Thank you so much! Kurahi has been my ride or die ship for a really long time, it was one of my first ships actually lol. Kurameshi is a new ship for me, it just swept in during my rewatch and stole my heart lol. Other yyh ships I’ve written for have been Shizuru/Botan, Keiko/Maya, and Koto/Juri. I’m a big multishipper so I tend to be down for anything. There are a few things I can’t ship. Like I can’t get into Yomi/Kurama. I do really Yoko/Kuronue, Kuwabara/Kurama. I’m not big into Kuwameshi, I prefer them as a brotp tbh, but I do like their potential shippiness. I do like Yusuke/Jin and Kurama/Touya. Jin/Touya.  I love rarepairs even if it’s one I don’t ship myself. I lowkey ship Rui/Hina cus in the au Hiei and Yukina would have the best lesbian moms. They deserve that kind of life. I don’t go into hetero ships too much, but I do really love Yusuke/Keiko cus I’m really weak for childhood friends turned lovers. And I’m really soft for Kuwabara/Yukina cus they’re like the poster children for wholesome fluff. I kind of ship Toguro/Genkai. Kurama/Maya is a pretty cute ship. I like seeing Kurama/Botan content cus they’re both really beautiful characters, though I don’t get too shippy with them. I rambled on way too long about ships lol. I’m pretty much with writing for just about anything. I haven’t finished the series yet which is the saddest thing to say considering how long I’ve loved this series lol. So I can’t really write for anyone that shows up after Chapter Black. Anyway I’m gonna end this here cus it got really long, I’m sorry.

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disregarding canon implying koorime heal away any and all scars and injuries okay-- Yukina growing up with Rui whose hands and lower arms heavily scarred over from what look like fire injuries, at first once she's old enough to know what fire burn scars look like and what they can imply, especially if she hears stories about the last time Hyouga was open to outsiders, and coming to the conclusion that:

Rui must have fought off a fire demon once! - she's very proud of her mom for that, who knows what destruction they could have wrought if Rui hadn't stopped them! No, she won't ask about them, it's painful for Rui to tend to them physically, let alone be reminded of the violence. Of course Yukina wouldn't ask about that. What kind of monster would intentionally bring pain on a loved one like that?

Yukina being sat down finally and being told that it wasn't a monstrous stranger at all: it was the birth of herself and her brother that caused those painful scars and the death of her birth mother.

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Owowowowowow I hurt myself by thinking abt Yukina growing up w Rui in Hyouga and not knowing the details abt her birth mother and Hiei yet, understands the concept of adoption, but thinking abt the fact that Koorime ordinarily look "identical" to their birth mother and (EDIT: me, personally, as the consumer) not knowing how common it is for a koorime to be brought up by a birth or adoptive parent --

Anyway Yukina looking in a mirror and putting snow in her hair to pretend she has white hair, like Rui, and envisioning a world where Rui was her "real" mother.

She either hides the snow from Rui if she comes in, or she keeps the snow where it is, thinking it's the same as dying it and that Rui will be pleased. Rui, having been given no context for this, asks "Why have you put snow in your hair??"

And Yukina just pats it away and feels ashamed and sad that her intention wasn't recognised intuitively.

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Every once in a while I'll despair a little at finding so little Hina and/or Rui or Koorime content in general and then I'll recall how in a post asking "whatever character you're drawing their fate is yours now", a description of mine of Hina (I think I said "had illegal sex and will die in illegal childbirth (allegedly, in the manga, but yes does die) or by suicide after having said illegal childbirth (allegedly, in the anime)") picqued someone's interest and they wondered what that character was from. I told them and then they never asked me any further abt that (fair, it's a heavy description to hear on the Internet from a stranger and the yyh fandom is terrifying and Hina's presence in the story as "tragic female character willing to die in childbirth" and it being not left to much speculation Why She Was Willing To Do That aside from the expectant "well she's a female character and she was written by a man so it must've been the ye old ideal and self-sacrificing mother trope" are all fine reasons that come to mind) but I'm carrying that affirmation in my heart! I know that if a character's story is just told in an interesting way, they can in fact become interesting through that interpretation, even if at first they were expected to be boring.

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A weighing scale. In one bowl, Rui from YYH with accompanying text:

"Rui threw Hiei off a cliff as a baby bc she genuinely believed Hiei was a danger to her society and she let Yukina leave Hyouga twice wo accompanying/following her and then didn't seek her out at all for 5 years while knowing she was likely being tortured; though severely reduced by her extremely few appearances and diminished bc she's made a background character to one of the main character's character arcs, she's a really complicated character for her favoritism, lack of vision, cowardice, and the strong sense that she and the rest of the Koorime should die for how they fail Hina";

in the other bowl, also Rui from yyh, with the text:

"Rui threw Hiei off the cliff to save him actually and she thinks he deserved a chance to kill her and the rest of Hyouga for the harm done to Hina but not before raising Yukina and there were probably circumstances other than "waaah I'm a koorime I can't defend myself" that prevented her from leaving Hyouga and having means to help Yukina; also this is the shonen genre it's allergic to adults who can competentively intervene in the plot so the children can do battle and/or save each other; full disclosure I want Yukina and Hiei to have one reliable adult who though w faults intended the best for them and that they know they can trust her"

The bowls are rapidly vibrating as they struggle to weigh the other one out, stressing the scale (me) like they're an angle and a divel having a jotaro-DIO type of battle including Stands.