Bai He Deserves A Whole Animatic. I Love That Girl

no one asked, but here is my big speech about shinra/izaya friendship

i wanna start with their school selves

i saw a lot of people saying that izaya was normal at school and shinra just made him "bad", but in my view it's not the thing. like, in shool izaya already wasn't "normal", he just tried his best to pretend to be an ordinary student. he didn't make any close relationship, isolating himself from strong connections with people (just like he's doing it now), but still had to be in the society because of his interest in humas

vol 9, ch 4

and this interest was already unhealthy, for example, he liked seeing people hurting each other

vol 9, ch 4

shinra wasn't really different from his current self. he was obsessed with celty and she was the reason he made friends with izaya and he didn't really care about others or anything that surrounds him in general. he stayed in his comfort zone (love to celty) and was alright

as i said, shinra invited izaya to his biology club because celty told him to socialize

then, izaya became interested. because shinra's lifestyle was different and opposite of izaya's, especially because their different opinion on humans: izaya loved them, shinra didn't care but he loved celty who is not human, so izaya was genuinely interested in his personality

vol 9, ch 4

then shinra was the only person who was a mystery to izaya, he couldn't predict shinra's actions and reactions and he was annoyed and facsinated about that at the same time

epitome of eighteen stories, ep 15 (translation by xcaneolupusx)

speaking about shinra, he could understand izaya's nature perfectly

vol 13, ch 11

so, izaya became interested in shinra and finally accepted his invitation to the biology club. everything starts here

izaya started feeling real attachment to shinra. now he was not just an interesting person, he was a friend. izaya felt free with him because they both were weird and shinra accepted izaya with all his strange hobbies and interests. their communication was full of mutual acceptance and they both were happy with it. but izaya's genuine attachment is really strong, as long as shinra preferred keeping distance with everyone except celty. not because he didn't like something about izaya nor he didn't care, it was just comfortable for him like that

the key thing: shinra being stabbed by nakura. i can talk about different aspects of this moment

for shinra it's just another proof of his crazy love for celty — he protected izaya mostly because he thought celty would praise him for such a heroic actions

vol 9, epilogue

for izaya it was a complex thing. at first, he was shocked by being protected for the first time. at second, he felt jealous and that's what i find a really important thing. he felt jealous because shinra wasn't alone even if he's so uninterested in others. he had someone who he loved, he had someone to love him, he had important connections, basically he had things izaya didn't

vol 9, epilogue

but despite everything, he still was a friend to izaya, so izaya wanted revenge. so, to my mind, this whole situation not made him who he is now, just gave him the reason to stop trying to conform and show his true self

eventually he promised to make nakura pay for this. shinra just agreed and gave izaya free reign. and izaya really kept his promise. 12 years passed and nakura is still suffering

izaya calls that nakura moment the turning point of his life and the thing that influenced his current self the most

vol 9, epilogue

i see this part as the starting point for everything happening in the plot, because this was the moment when izaya finally decided what to do

when shinra and izaya finish school, they see each other more rarely. because it's not necessary to meet every day and they both have things to do. shinra happily lives with celty, again, staying in his comfort zone and izaya, who doesn't have any life and friends, is alone with his love for humans and crazy ideas. and still he thinks about shinra as a friend

vol 9, ch 2

and shinra calls him a friend too

but shinra has priorities and celty is the most important of them, so when izaya calls him from the hospital, he just hangs up

shinra lives in his love and keeps distance with everyone else as always and izaya suffers with his attachment alone, because he can't and doesn't want to get rid of it. but he understands that he's the only one to blame in his state (because he chose such a life for himself) so he isn't angry at shinra. maybe just a bit

there is another important moment, when izaya thinks about shinra being mad at him, feels something like guilt and beats the telephone pole

vol 9, epilogue

friendship with shinra is the closest relationship izaya has, but again, i can't blame shinra for his uncaring attitude. he treasures izaya and still accepts him and izaya's problems are not something shinra can solve

their relationship can't be seen through the prism of normal friendship because they both are extraordinary people with their own standards

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The funniest part about people liking my reblog is the fact that I wrote epic wrong, and nobody corrected me. I have lost sleep over this and no one has acknowledged this. It's probably the most important word I misspelled. It literally says ethic. But everyone understood. My dyslexic ass, feels the need to cry. I am home. Where everyone will pretend I didn't misspelle epic i mean Ethic.

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A friend dragged me back to LMK so I offer you all a quick animatic.

Context: Wukong has been gone way to long and with no ruler over flower fruit mountain demons are getting impotent and want the territory for themselves Macaque can't single handedly fight every damn clan. So his compromise is if someone can lift wukongs staff and beat him in a fight. The the territory is there's and he will be their warrior . After Al who wouldn't want someone who can hear the future on their team?

Soulslike AU

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New headcanon. The entire archives crew are aromantic.

Jon: Aromantic/Asexual, when he broke it off with Georgie he thought it went bad because he thought that she was mad he didn’t feel the same way (she was fine with it, but decided she did want a romantic partner) and his feeling for Martin was mostly just because of the situation. ( I talked about it more here)

Martin: Aromantic/Homosexual, he’s never actually dated anyone, when he meets Jon he thinks he’s attractive and then he starts to care about him and is like “this must be romantic love”

Sasha: Aromantic/Pansexual, she and Tim hooked up for a one night stand, and then met at work and it was kinda awkward,and everyone thought they were a couple or exes or something, but then they became friends and make jokes about it.

Tim: Aromantic/Bisexual, great at flirting, doesn’t actually care to have a romantic relationship though. Gets really awkward when someone reads too much into it and tries to have a deep romantic relationship.

Basira: Aromantic/Bisexual, she and Daisy have a very committed relationship, but it’s not romantic. I feel like she might have have one night stands very rarely, but definitely not any time during the podcast.

Daisy: Aromantic/Asexual, cares deeply for Basira, and later Jon, but does not have a romantic bone in her body. She was too busy studying the blade to care about being in romantic or sexual relationships.

Melanie is the only one I think is not Aromantic, she and Georgie are happily in a romantic relationship.

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Do you have any tips for drawing poses? I always try to keep things interesting but everything ends up looking stiff -w-'

Rambling rambling, these are some things that have helped me a bit when I try to push some poses. That and a lot of figure drawing. Hope it helps you a bit ✨

I think about how I want the story to feel and if I want dramatic irony.

Do I want a unreliable narrator?

Or Do I want the audience know that the character doesn't