Realizing That Reaffirming Each Other With Words Has Always Been Shin Soukoku’s Thing

there is 0 reason for saiki to wear glasses that are green. also, he can shapeshift, so he should be able to change the color of his hair easily. yet he chooses to keep his brilliant hot-pink/neon-green theme, because he secretly loves looking funky, but wishes others would perceive him as average. in this essay i will

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"i'll teach you how to fight."

"we're just....childhood friends.

i taught him how to fight."

i don't know who decided to change the entire baekjin backstory but FUCK YOU i can't stop fucking crying.

DO YOU GET THE PARALLELS YOU JUST CREATED???????? INSANE.

happy birthday to my son 🐯💐

The Mikhaels, I guess?

vnc mikhael was subjected to horrifying abuse, and before the vampire of the blue moon (luna) rescued him, he did not have any idea of what a family was supposed to be. he simply clung to the nearest sane person he could at the time i.e. vanitas. once he did get a taste of "home", it was almost immediately snatched away from him. he is one who desperately wishes to find a place to belong (as seen by his insistence on returning things to how they used to be) and yet one who is forced to wander the world alone.

hsr mikhael, however, feels like someone born for greatness. adopted by legendary seafarers, discovered his passion for watchmaking while working as an apprentice, and ultimately joined the express to roam the world. the one true symbol of freedom. and yet, at the end, he chose to stay back in penacony, chose to bind himself to a planet because he was simply that desperate to save it. one who was destined to wander yet found a place to belong to.

both vnc mikhael and hsr mikhael have a close connection to the word "Father". vnc mikhael is attached to the word as a kid himself, using the term with affection for luna, showcasing that he is still stuck in childhood, still stuck in the early stages of his life unravelling on stage. hsr mikhael has moved from attaching the word to his father, his inspiration, and actually been bestowed the title "Father of Penacony" for himself. it signifies his story has run it's course, he has come full circle.

another thing is, their nicknames. misha. they both hold equally special positions in their own way. vnc mikhael is referred to as misha by luna, a loving nickname that has warmth connected to it. hsr mikhael has a fragment of his memories which form the misha we are familiar with, representing his childhood dreams. though both of them are different, they are also quite similar in the sense that the nicknames and the circumstances in which they are used carry a sweet, sweet innocence.

i dunno, as someone in both fandoms i was delighted by them sharing names and even appearances to a certain extent, and then even more intrigued by the parallels they share. i think they're very neat :)

and what happens if jing yuan succumbs to mara right when he has to fight jingliu/blade again, thus changing the commonly regarded "torturous fate" of being mara-struck to salvation from his personal worst nightmare i.e. killing his old companions with his own hands.

what then.

for a long time i thought voyeurism just meant, like, pirate sex because i confused the word with voyages

csm throws a gazillion horrifying things at you every chapter that have you missing the hayakawa family like nothing else but then two panels later you're face to face with King Yaoi The Fourth Hirofumi Yoshida who is starring in the greatest tentacle sex yaoi manga of his own making by shoving a hand down Denji's throat

shoutout to satoshi kon for always making sure you experience every emotion known to man in less than 90 minutes