Heaven. The Afterlife. Elysium. Etc.
When Kirishima "dreams", she generally finds herself lying in front of a quaint, cozy-looking home where Akatsuki, Makigumo, and a few others preside near a small late that is an offshoot flow of a rapidly flowing river.
Akatsuki can be seen outside tending to the garden or inside the kitchen washing dishes, prepping fish and baking lasagna.
Her hair has been tied up into an elegant bun with several strands of violet hair frizzing off in all directions.
She’s always running up and greeting Kirishima during her sporadic visits to their little corner of paradise.
The ever optimistic Makigumo happily swings her legs by the dockside catching and returning fish without much care in the world.
Most of which she spends conversing with Kirishima-san, praising her and being caught up on recent events. Even in death, the pinkette never lost that shine Kirishima herself hasn’t had for years on end.
It’s this smile that motivates her to ensure Kiyoshimo is content and receives nothing but joy in her life.
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Konan: How’s it going, Sasori?
Sasori: Not too well. I’ve been working on this puppet for four days, now, and I feel as though I’m not making any progress on it. I want to make this one different but am unsure of how to accomplish this.
Sasori: Perhaps I’d better call my muse. Deidara!! Come in here, please!
Deidara: Yes, Danna?
Sasori: *pats his lap* Come sit and tell me all about your latest sculpture, darling.
*Deidara sits and rambles on about clay and bombs for the next hour, while Konan observes quietly*
Sasori: Thank you, love. *kisses him* I’ll come and join you in your room in an hour or so.
Deidara: Okay, hm! *leaves*
Konan: … that helped you? He gave you creative inspiration?
Sasori: God, no. But anytime I start feeling frustrated over my artistry, I have him come in here and talk to me about HIS “art”. It helps me remember that no matter how bad I think I’m doing, it could be much, much worse.
Konan:
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I never post on here anymore because my life has been a hurricane lately, but I have late night thoughts and it is an absolute necessity to share them.
So like, real talk: how did Kakuzu not kill Hidan? And more importantly, why not?
I know, I know, "they were partnered because Hidan is immortal and Kakuzu kills his partners!" Which yeah, sure, whatever, but you're going to tell me that ancient, mean ass Kakuzu didn't IMMEDIATELY realize that he could just cut Hidan up and throw him in a ditch somewhere? Or, if Pein/Zetsu finding his body and "reviving him" was the issue, he could just... toss his head in a large body of water and be done with it. Or burn his body. Or feed him to a lion or something I don't fucking know.
Point is, why did Kakuzu not attempt any of this shit? He could easily do it. If he's strong enough to overpower his other partners he could have definitely incapacitated Hidan for long enough to chop his head off. Especially with Hidan already incapacitating himself during his rituals. Which brings up another interesting idea: Hidan must trust Kakuzu to some degree to be that vulnerable around him.
It's probably just another one of kishimoto's plot holes, but it's interesting to think of nonetheless. It adds a lot of layers to their relationship. Did Kakuzu actually respect Hidan? A bit of a soft spot, maybe? Did pein threaten him to keep him from dismembering Hidan? ....That one's probably the most realistic explanation, actually lol.
But then again, if Pein was THAT upset about Kakuzu killing his partners, he could have put a stop to it at any point. Like, yeah Kakuzu is strong and all, but I'm sure even he doesn't want to fuck around with Pein. I'm sure a simple "Kill this next dude and you're going in the grave right alongside him" would have done the job, immortal or not. Maybe Kakuzu was just really good at making his partners' deaths look like accidents? The filler anime DID show him attacking his one partner in the middle of a battle, so maybe that's how he kept getting away with it?
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Happy 4/13, suckers, I've been mainlining Magical Girls and have an all new collection of psych meds. You know what time it is!
Symphogear Time!!!!
Tachibana Hibiki: Bard of Void
I knew I would have to limit Hibiki to the Void aspect since she specializes in unarmed combat. This was particularly tricky given her overwhelming association with Light, but luckily there are inversion prone classes to work with.
Bard was an ideal fit for someone whose goal of bringing the world together to a place of mutual understanding is so fundamentally at odds with her skill set as a combatant.
Ultimately, Hibiki is at her strongest when she is at her most passive: not fighting, but beseeching. Reaching out with an open fist to every villain and god she encounters, and in so doing insuring the total destruction of their plans.
The whole "haha she sings the song of the apocalypse because she's a bard" thing was a nice bonus!
Kazanari Tsubasa: Rogue of Blood
Ah, the lush irony of Tsubasa and blood. Despite her constant rejection of the constraints of her bloodline, there is no denying that Tsubasa has internalized the ideals of her family and pursues them with relentless fury. If Blood as an aspect represents the indelible effects that the people around us have on our lives and selves, well. Tsubasa certainly captures the complicated pain and glory of that.
However, the thing that truly makes her a rogue of blood, in my opinion, is the way she interacts with other people's family trauma. Consistently, she has the capacity to take on other people's fear of vulnerability and intimacy, cracking through their walls to allow those deeper bonds to form. Breaking in, but never stealing.
Add to that her association with Breath/Flight/Wings, and Rogue looks even more appealing for its ability to interact with an aspect to the point of its own opposite.
Yukine Chris: Prince of Life
Bang bang big gun go shooty pow boom.
I mean, there are legitimate reasons too, but this one is pretty straight forward. Chris is a very rich character, but uhhhhh. Not a super deep one.
In more serious terms, Chris is very much defined by her relationship to death. She is a killer, yes, but she doesn't want to be. The immense value she places on life, whether her own or others' suggests that she is not a Doom player, but a Life one.
Her willingness to sacrifice her own life to achieve the Biggest Bang also comes to mind. Whether she is using her life as a weapon, or using her weapons to protect lives, she's very much a Weapon of Life. And thus, a Prince of it too.
Maria Cadenzavna Eve: Seer of Hope
I feel like this is another relatively self-evident one. Maria always sees the best in people, even in her abusers. Whether it's the brain maze for the Linker recipe, or pretending to be Finé, Maria always sees the possibility for success.
Where light is the best possible turnout, hope is the impossible made manifest.
Also, her weapon is not designed for direct combat, but rather for redirection of immense amounts of energy. That screams "hopey bullshit" to me, as well as being a more passive style of combat overall.
Akatsuki Kirika: Knight of Mind
Okay, so, the underlying logic here basically comes down to "beep boop this bitch gay." Can you believe they legit named her 'eclipsed sunlight reflecting off the moon'? I love how obnoxious the names in this show are.
That in mind, why not heart? I actually waffled on this one a lot. Heart seems so obvious for the genki girl desperately in love with the moon. Right? But...
The thing is,
Tsukuyomi Shirabe: Maid of Heart
Drafty draft moon bunny boing boing
Girl has 0 impulse control. I almost said 0 chill but that's not true. If anything she has too much chill. She is so unhingedly chill about following all her most insane and self-destructive impulses. Every heart player ever does this, whether it's Dirk's beheading or Nepeta confronting Gamzee.
Bonus: Fraymotif (Light and Heart): Total Eclipse. If you're thinking this has IMMENSE deja vu, it's because I've definitely covered this before, here.
Anyway, imagine a cool fun total eclipse of the heart reference here
More personalized than Collective Effervescence, Total Eclipse is a pretty simple 1-to-1 translation of Kirika and Shirabe's various duet superpowers. I imagine it would functionally involve Kirika identifying strategic decision their enemy could make in her own and Shirabe's favour, and Shirabe forces the enemy into an emotional state conducive to making those bad choices. Like I said, it's basically 1-to-1 with how their duets function.
Kohinata Miku: Lord of Space
I have not watched Season 5, but if Miku doesn't get back her Symphogear by the end of it, I will be BURNING SOCIETY TO THE GROUND.
Anyway, as the Great Unmaker whose power was so immense that she unmade the concept of Original Sin, I think we can go ahead and give her a master title.
And when it comes to "able to destroy anything, anywhere, right down to the very concept of it" well. That's gotta be space.
Elfnein: Muse of Time.
This one was so easy that I kind of feel like it must be wrong. Too easy!
But I mean, she's literally the most passive person in the show, whose primary skill set is in giving other people enough time. That's muse of time behaviours!!
ETA: I've now watched enough of S5 to get to That Part now, and I'm more sure than ever. Even in the moment of utmost need, Elfnein's special ability is to summon previously killed allies for a cameo fight. I cannot think of anything more "too passive to live, too powerful to die."
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These are my opinions, not declarations of fact. I am always interested in hearing your opinions in turn.
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Bonus round: Genjuro ends up in Hibiki's sprite after being killed by SGAME. Tsubasa's cool politician dad voluntarily puts himself in Tsubasa's sprite to act as an ally to the kids. Ogawa is unkillable, Gamzee style, and this is never addressed.
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