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My favorite thing to do before executing a risky maneuver is to loudly proclaim to anyone nearby that "I'm young, I'm fantastic, and I'm never gonna die". This is firstly to pump myself up, secondly because if I succeed I'll be proven right in front of an audience, and thirdly because it is the funniest possible thing to say immediately before being horrifically mangled in a completely dumbfuck sort of way
Zipper jams. They can happen to anyone.
Aaaanyone.
I’m not going to finish this but imo they’re pretty cute
Art gallery 🖼️
"this lasting pain"
accidentally, a comic that was supposed to be about Merlin and Arthur turned into a comic about Kay and Merlin and now I’m looking at the rest of my story ideas and you know what. the dynamic compels me enough to overhaul my notes to focus on this
(& before anyone says anything: the spelling shift between Cei to Kay mid scene is intentional)
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app
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bytebun: #'WHO TF IS KAY' you now. damn #thinking abt this as the concept of the fae stealing names. names as in you, as in what people know you by. as in the story of your life. #overwritten... #arthurania #comics
lurkeymclurker: #STORIES EATING PEOPLE YESSSSSS #oh god the way cei is changed to kay #ever more and always now that merlin has said it #arthuriana #king arthur
thebonewitch: #the cei to kay shift... #kay. who? #i don't know who that is. who i am to you. not yet #who? #fuck dude. op holy shit. #by the time arthur pulls the sword cei's already gone #arthur was cei's brother. kay is arthur's. #brb screaming at the top of my lungs
scarletwix: #ooooooooh oioh im going insane #the transition to the anglicized version of his name the moment the legend is solidified makes me want to bite things #'who-' because thats not his NAMMMEEE AND THEN IT IS oh op you have created a lifelong fan in the course of like 4 words holy shit #merlin apologizing. he knows. he knowwwssss and theres no way to stop it. #arthuriana
comicsguy: #arthuriana #oh im connecting the dots now wrt the merlin in a time loop thing #i would SO buy/read this as a graphic novel
oki NEW CONCEPT
so
pidw! liu qingge regresses from the point of death all the way back to the point where he was a disciple
the thing is, shit is Different
he's like, 15, a disciple, and shen jiu has only barely followed yue qingyuan back to the sect
and the thing is, shang qinghua is Different.
it's not that liu qingge was ever like, besties with qinghua. the two of them maybe went on a few escort missions and attended meetings together, but they were never close
but heres the thing:
airplane doesn't have an ooc lock.
why would he? for shen yuan, of course 'shen qingqiu' can't change personalities 100% over night, that's gotta be a gradual shift. and shen jiu was a fairly major antagonist in the original book. he had a prominent role. and his personality was a huge part of fulfilling that role.
shang qinghua on the other hand? his position in the story is so irrelevant that the system would have let him kill mobei jun. he's a one note villain. barely spoken of, barely written about. airplane himself barely knows the guys actual personality, bc literally this character only existed to betray the sect and then die off screen. shang qinghua, in the original pidw, shang qinghua was as irrelevant as qin wanrong. such a pointless character that you, my dear reader, prolly had to go look her up because you forgot she existed.
all of that to say, the system had absolutely no reason to enforce ic behavior onto airplane. only that airplane had to commit to certain missions. even if the system had tried, airplane doesnt even know this dude well enough to pretend to be him.
and what would be the point? no one in this world has ever met the original shang qinghua.
except for the regressed liu qingge.
and heres the other thing.
airplane isnt like... changing the plot as dramatically as shen yuan did, but he IS changing the plot. just literally by existing. by being a strange aberrant person who wasnt there initially. by doing things that airplane would do and not doing things that og!shang qinghua would do. it's a drop in the bucket, change wise, but it does change shit. it does effect the people around him and how they behave.
so liu qingge's first suspicion is that perhaps shang qinghua also regressed backwards in time. it would make sense. it's not like liu qingge is acting like himself. he's not the same person that he was as a teenager.
but.... shang qinghua isn't acting like the adult shang qinghua that he knows either. in fact, his behavior is COMPLETELY different. like that is a whole ass different person. liu qingge isn't the most observant guy on the planet, but he's not BLIND. this shift is as dramatic as the difference in personality between wei wuxian and lan wangji. that is NOT the same fucking person.
so now liu qingge is investigating airplane, because he is absolutely not about to sit there and let some skinner demon wear his shixiong's skin or whatever the fuck is happening
and see heres the second stressor that liu qingge is dealing with:
shen jiu tried to save his life. he failed. he failed spectacularly. but the person he thought was the worst scum ever had tried so desperately to save him from his qi deviation and that's not exactly something you brush off
and even more so: liu qingge is no longer a dumb teenager.
when liu qingge was an actual teenager, he was busy with his training and overall, just a dumb kid. and look, it's not like he grew up to become a super genius or anything, but he's not as wrapped up in his own bullshit as he was as a kid.
so when liu qingge met shen jiu for the first time, the real first time, he didn't see any of the signs. he saw a snappish and angry person who treated yue qingyuan like shit and clearly got a nepotism hire and had no morals and looked down on everyone and just all of shen jiu's actual flaws.
this liu qingge tho? he's been a peak lord for years now. he's seen shit. he's been places. he's no longer a fairly sheltered young master who has no idea what happens in the real world.
and it only takes one good look at shen jiu to make it obvious just how much abuse he's endured. he hasn't had years to learn how to conceal his trauma better. he doesn't have the cultivation level yet to fight for himself. he's just an abused ex-slave with trauma practically roiling off of him in waves and liu qingge, as an adult, is sitting here absolutely baffled as to how his teenage self missed every single sign
so now he's paying more attention to both shen jiu and airplane, because holyfuck he might have been partially wrong about shen jiu literally this whole time, and because that is NOT shang fucking qinghua. and shen jiu hates him just as much as before, because trauma, and he notices the unnatural attention directed at shang qinghua so now shen jiu is paying an unnatural amount of attention to shang qinghua
which would be all great and magical and fine if shang qinghua wasn't currently hiding a recovering ice demon in his leisure house
headcanon that airplane is the biggest liujiu shipper
wrote fanfiction, liked the concept, and when he saw them irl interact he was like "maaannn why'd i have to give them such a tragic ending??"
so initially when liu qingge lived through the caves and liuyuan started to get along, he was like "omg my ship is HAPPENING" but then he found out about cucumber bro and he's like, lowkey upset at shen yuan for sinking his ship x'D it's not the end of the world, but man, cucumber-bro really does suck the fun out of everything
so like, post series, shang qinghua is the middle of his very confusing Will-They-Won't-They courtship with Mobei-Jun. like on one hand, mobei is seRIOUSLY starting to make progress with things and shang qinghua is enjoying his violence-free and noodle-full life, but also mobei is like... fucking confusing.
so he decides, fuckit, im pretty sure i had some mind-reading amulet or someshit in chapter who-even-knows (prolly cucumber-bro, man that dudes memory is like a steel trap) and he's like "aight i'll go find that amulet and then i can figure out if my king is just giving me all the most confusing mixed signals in the world or if he's like, actually into me"
so he goes on the quest, somehow manages to snag the amulet, and all is well and good until he realizes he fucking misremembered the plot-lines. the PENDANT was the one with the mind reading powers, the AMULET gives you the ability to see and touch and communicate with ghosts!!
which is an objectively terrible and cursed thing that shang qinghua decidedly does not wanna bother with. hell no. he does not get paid enough for that shit. so while he's toying with the amulet over on an ding and contemplating what to do with it, he just happens to spot liu qingge being stalked by a ghost...
...a very specific ghost...
so, like any shipper with the opportunity to Make It Canon, airplane shooting toward the sky knows EXACTLY what to do with the amulet >:D
“imagine caring so much about fiction” imagine being so lame that you scoff at the timeless human practice of falling in love with art and stories
Plato didn't insult Aeschylus for his takes over who tops and who bottoms between Achilles and Patroclus centuries ago for us to be normal about fictional characters
this almost has 50,000 notes and this is hands down most unhinged response to this post and the worst part is that you’re right
Manga Spoilers!!
whY does sakura look so over the top fine in sugi's dream??
and wHY does this seem like Sugi got caught crushing on the boy 😭😭
THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME THIS PANEL HAS COME UP.
FOUR OUT OF FIVE WERE SUGI'S MEMORIES I'M–
they're really roleplaying this to their heart's content huh
hiragi to the rescue–
OH NAH HE'S ONTO HIM TOO AKANSJHSHS 😭😭😭
the Proud Dad Face™ is taking me outtttt 😭🙏
Manga Spoilers!!
sugishita taking baby steps in socialising and getting stumped when approached (positively) head on ohmygosh he's so cute
the way he's looking at nirei for guidance in
How To Make Friends 101™
they're so precious to me aaaaaaaa
HIS LITTLE NOD GAWDS 😭😭 he looks like he's about to start a ritual
aww the others are getting so excited at his agreement my heart.
I'm genuinely scared of what's about to happen to sakura soon in windbreaker. It's too good to be true everything and (mostly) everyone is just happy,smiling and fine and in my mind I'm thinking "something bad is about to happen soon" I SWEAR SOMETHING bad is about to happen I have gut feeling. I'm scared
Like bro
Winder breaker chapter 186 spoilers up ahead!
Kotoha :((( making me cry :(((
I'm really glad she found Furin and that Umemiya was able to get through to her on forgiving herself
Also, this manga has so many good messages. You really don't have to forgive everyone and that so often being the moral of a story is bullshit
I also really love how we get the sad backstories at a point where the characters themselves are in a much better place, where you can see that they're alright now even if they had it hard in the past :)
I absolutely love that Wind Breaker is NOT just fight - fight - fight fight - tiny bit of nearly irrelevant character growth - fight -fight. The fact that in the current volumes they’ve covered so many common teenage developmental challenges is amazing. Sakura is the obvious one, coming from a questionable background and potentially abused, he’s SLOWLY learning to open up. It is not normal to instantly flip a switch and suddenly be all rainbows and sunshine. Even if you feel safe, its hard to abandon the mask and defenses you developed to protect yourself. So his personality won’t change, he’ll just find ways to express himself differently! Nirei is slowly gaining confidence and learning to be strong. Suo has yet to reveal his full personality beyond his mask, but what we do see shows he’s fiercely protective of his loved ones! Then there are all the other boys in Furin, each one has a story and a life and a trauma that shapes them! It is so refreshing to see development for the sake of growth instead of getting to the next platform where the next fight is. Absolutely love it!
