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takakurilla · 9 months
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i made this one a while back but forgot to post. i need to archive them somewhere. here you go
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nawemichi · 6 months
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Kung fu baby
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zhongrin · 27 days
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every time i run my script to repopulate my queue i'm reminded of how much i've posted and i give myself a pat on the back
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churro-on-a-unicycle · 8 months
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came here to bother you again /lh. which raimon and inajapan first year do you think max would be close to the most?
Ooh! this is a fun one! I had to think about it for a bit bc I honestly didn't pay much attention to them, half of the first years got like no screentime and the other half were in all 3 seasons and still ended up doing nothing (lookin at you Kabeyama). I also think Max wouldn't be extremely close to any of them considering he seems to be more of an observing type of person rather than someone who easily makes close connection. That being said I think he'd like Shishido the most out of the raimon first years, this is mostly based on how you have to recruit Max in inazuma eleven Go before you can recruit Shishido but also just?? Vibes ig?? This is hard I barely know anything about these characters they didn't give any of the first years distinct enough personalities 🥲
For inazuma japan it is much easier bc Kogure exists and Kogure torments everyone around him at every chance he gets. Max would Not Be Phased by most of his pranks which would piss that little kid off sooo much. Unlike Gouenji Max would find a lot of amusement in just watching him fail to prank him over and over again. This, to me, is peak comedy and yet another reason I think Max should've been in inajapan.
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shourin · 2 years
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madly in ̵l̷ov̸?̶e¿
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after losing people whom they hold dear, their hearts have become weary and scarred... yet they're powerless to your charms and can't help but fall in love with you. so obviously, they make it their duty to protect you at all costs. they can't lose you too or they might just go insane.
aether, diluc, venti, kazuha
they know very well that the world is a bad, bad place. but you... you are too good for this world. you are a light - their light, in this dark world. and they'll do whatever is necessary to make sure you remain safe, pure, untainted. even if it means they have to fall into the abyss itself.
kaeya, albedo, childe, scaramouche, ayato, heizou
they have been in love with you for hundreds and thousands of years. they've watched you come and go, but they always manage to seek your soul in the end. every time you're reborn, they love you a little more. every time your body goes cold in his arms, a piece of them dies with you. and every single time, they will not allow you to stray away from them.
zhongli, xiao, dainsleif
you two just work so well together, like a match made in heaven. you compliment him so well, and you treat him so so well. surely you're meant to be? surely you love him just as much as he does? surely you wouldn't mind him keeping you to himself? head empty, just [name] <3
itto, thoma, gorou
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raiberryz · 8 days
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Ya sé que Endo y Kazemaru ganaron el segundo lugar en las votaciones de personajes que son almas gemelas, pero sigo pensando que este dúo es muy especial 🙈. Nunca le había prestado mucha atención además de disfrutar su amistad. No comenzaron bien, pero después vemos esto y...
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Y ni siquiera eran amigos, solo compañeros de clases que se hablaron tres veces. Pero Gouenji y Endo se influenciaron el uno a otro desde el primer momento en el que se vieron y creo que a las malas se atrajeron como un imán.
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(Shourin xd)
Volviendo a ver la serie original, me di cuenta de que lo mira así no porque le desagrade su actitud, sino porque Endo es tan dado a halagar y emocionarse con la gente que Gouenji —siendo un chico reservado y todavía en proceso de conocer a Endo— tiene que recibir esos halagos con calma sin sentirse agobiado.
En el juego se avergüenza bastante cuando Endo le dice que lo ha estado esperando, y al final del juego ambos se sonríen mientras los une un abrazo y le dice que han comenzado su propia leyenda. Sumando a HonoSuto, se les ve tan cercanos que en ocasiones Gouenji puede consentir a Endo como si fuera un niño y ese detalle es bastante adorable para mi corazón de pollo. Quizás sea su lado de «hermano mayor» que sale a relucir con él, pero lo cierto es que eso no lo hace ni con Kidou.
Los quiero mucho 🥺
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genshrineimpact · 2 years
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Brainrot number two, let's go
Reader who is traveling teyvat a few months before traveler, but instead of fighting monsters, they are a pacifist. Like in Undertale slightly, they just dodge attacks and talk it out with the enemies (or if they are of lower intelligence, they pet them or give them snacks or anything to avoid a fight). And it works on boss enemies, like they ventured into azhdahas lair and just talked with him, or petted abyss mages, slightly chaotic but well meaning reader. They then start to accompany the traveler and leave them astonished at how good we are at avoiding a fight and making friends
Like during first encounter with ei, as thoma and traveler were escaping, we stayed behind and just offered rather baffled ei some sweets lol
ohhhh interesting!!
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you who know about hilichurlian language (a penpal of ella musk from mondstadt, perhaps?), who befriended the traveler on their journey and decided to tag along with them in exploring teyvat. you who smacked the traveler across their head when they see a hilichurl camp and an unclaimed treasure and reflexively pulled out their sword, scolding them and telling them it’s not nice to rob people.
traveler and paimon who watches with concern and awe, when you saunter up to one of the humanoid monsters that’s guarding the post, speaking fluent hilichurlian and showing them some sort of charm on your necklace... and suddenly they find themselves sitting on a bonfire surrounded by dancing hilichurls, roasted meat in hand, watching you trade tips about controlling your elemental energy with an abyss mage. oh, and they ended up giving him the materials he needed to upgrade their weapons, along with some artifacts they found, too.
well, now the traveler feels like the scum of teyvat for killing all those hilichurls.
they continue to see weirder and weirder things as you continue tagging along with them. although you weren’t able to make them avoid fighting all of the enemies throwing themselves at your friend, having you around certainly does make it easier for them.
“hi bud, yeah, it’s me again, listen- remember my friend kazuha? yeaaah, he needs more marionette cores… can we trouble you to hand over a few more of those? how many? oh, you know, like... twenty of them… haha, i know i know, but look, we found these really nice strings that you could use! the ones you have now looks pretty worn, after all! hehe, thanks, we really owe you one!”
yep, traveler loves having you in their party.
(i imagine if you were a character in-game, you would be always available to pull in the standard banner, but your probability of coming home decreases with the more enemies you kill lol you would be a nightmare for us programmers to code and writers, because of all the branching you add into the story sldkfjlsdf)
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soccerpunching · 9 months
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headcanons about tachimukai during ie go? its always good to see your posts on my timeline!!
WAAAHHHH OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH!! And of course, I love him sm and I have a lot!!
I'm also adding this picture here because i really love how soft Shinsuke remembers Tachimukai, makes me emotional. He genuinely wants to help him. (I'll keep using this picture forever, methinks)
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(some of these are during the 10-year timeskip; putting it under the cut)
Headcanons:
Almost everybody comments on how is it possible to have one of the most vicious goalkeeper in existence be so polite in interviews. He's so loved by people across Japan and has a really strong fanbase. And it's bcs he looks so focused and vicious in the field that most ppl cant recognized him outside of it (like how Shinsuke didnt).
Much like Kazemaru, Fubuki, Gouenji, and Kabeyama, he's also one of the few from the cast who stayed in Japan soccer leagues. All of the teams he belonged in lost the least goals in the leagues they've joined!! He's a monster goalkeeper in their eyes! (Another reason why Shinsuke didnt recognize him is bcs he doesnt believe someone as legendary as tachimukai would casually teach a goalkeeper-beginner like him.)
I genuinely think he's good at studying and has good grades in IT-related subjects and is above average in most sciences, he just chose to not go to college. He did go to a vocational school as a backup plan. In case he gets severly injured or sumthn since goalkeepers are known to retire for injuries more than the field players.
More than anything, he wants to teach goalkeeping so he has that as a consideration for his future also. He's still thinking abt in what way can he accomplish this but that time with Shinsuke did make him realize that it's something he wants to do. But maybe not right now, he thinks he needs more experience!
He gets tons of modeling offers that he keeps on declining bcs it's never been his interest. He once jokingly told Tsunami that maybe he should try it after his retirement, he didnt realize Tsunami took it seriously and he's very excited for this modeling career (Tsunami is in fact considering modeling too bcs of that joke)
He makes a lot of effort to stay connected with old friends and likes traveling a lot even if it takes time! He likes taking the scenic route too and just takes life slowly.
Some of the things he does when the league season is over are riding sleeper trains and hotel-buses!! (It's so cool that japan has those!!) Sometimes with friends or family, but he also likes going alone and making conversations with people (who most often does not recognize him at all).
He's timid as an adult still but he overcomes this by telling himself that being with people is part of the great experience of life however corny that sounds. It's one of the things he learned from being with the cast who gave him the courage to step out of his comfort zone.
Speaking of his traveling! His inagram is full of traveling pictures!! And all the food he gets to eat! He also travels outside the country and taste as many spicy food as he can. He's famous in inagram actually even if he barely has any pictures with his face in them but he's really cool with it.
He is also demiromantic ace in my heart <3
He casually enjoys surfing too (in the drama cd, he asked if tsunami can teach him how to surf to which i think he enjoyed) and competitively with tsunami (bcs tsunami makes everything a contest)
He goes trekking, mountain climbing, and skydiving with his old pals from Yokato a lot.
He goes to camping trips with the first year gang too (kabeyama, kurimatsu, kogure, haruna and they also invite shourin, shishido!!). Kogure plans these trips.
I have some more that's in my hissatsu techniques hc of him regarding how he is in the field but that's yet to be posted (bcs descriptions are so hard 😣). These are the ones that I can remember outside of that for now!
And really thank you for the ask, they really motivate me to share them!!
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xdaiji · 5 months
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Heute war der Tag meiner Kyoto Herbst Tour! Aufgestanden bin ich ganz entspannt um 7, sodass ich gegen 8 los kam und viertel vor 10 beim Daigo-ji ankam. Da hatte ich auch tatsächlich ziemlich Glück, denn scheinbar war ich noch gerade so vor dem Touristen-Ansturm da, sodass ich dort recht entspannt lang schlendern und Fotos machen konnte.
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Als einer der Tempel, der am längsten auf meiner Liste steht, war ich darüber tatsächlich sehr froh. Noch glücklicher hat mich gemacht, dass ich einen echt guten Tag erwischt hatte, das gelbe und rote Laub war überall wirklich schön 🥰
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Weiter ging es dann zum Nanzen-ji, den ich mir zusammen mit den ebenfalls dort gelegenen Tenju-an Gärten anschaute. Am coolsten fand ich dort letztes Mal die riesigen Torbögen, aber leider hat das mit dem Laub nur so semi gute Fotos ergeben, die Bäume sind dort strategisch ungünstig gepflanzt 😂
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War aber trotzdem echt hübsch und auch in den Gärten hab ich einiges an Zeit verbracht.
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Da ging es tatsächlich auch deutlich weiter nach hinten als ich dachte. Der erste Teil war ein Steingarten, aber von dort aus konnte man weiter zu einem kleinen See mit ganz vielen Koi spazieren.
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Als nächstes auf meiner Liste stand der Higashiyama Jisho-ji, was - wie ich heute herausfand - nur der andere Name für Ginkakuji ist 😅 Aber da wir den silbernen Pavillon bei unserem letzten Besuch in Kyoto übersprungen haben, dachte ich mir, heute könne ich ihn mir ja dann doch mal ansehen. Das hab ich auch nicht bereut, man konnte eine recht nette Route entlanggehen und mehr bunte Bäume bestaunen. Insgesamt war ich den ganzen Tag über echt glücklich, alles sah so schön aus und jedes Mal, wenn ich irgendwo lang lief, tauchte eine neue tolle Aussicht vor mir auf 🥰
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Als nächstes bin ich zum Ruriko-in gefahren. Der ist tatsächlich nur so 4 Monate im Jahr geöffnet (im Frühling und Herbst) und ich hatte echt tolle Bilder im Internet gesehen. Leider durfte man aber nur mit Reservierung rein und die war schon seit mindestens einer Woche (vermutlich eher länger) für die gesamte Öffnungsdauer bis Anfang Dezember ausgebucht. Ursprünglich hatte ich vermutet, dass die Reservierungen nur für ein Lichter-Event gelten, daher hatte ich letzte Woche reingeschaut und mit Bedauern festgestellt, dass das wohl nichts wird, aber ich dachte, zumindest normal kommt man auch so rein… Naja, falsch gedacht, das ließ sich nicht ändern.
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Die nächsten drei Tempel (Tofuku-ji, Shourin-ji/Bishamon-dou und Sokujo-in) werde ich mal flott überspringen, weil ich mich dort echt nicht lange aufgehalten habe - trotzdem akquirierte ich bei mittlerem ein sehr cooles Goshuin - und das sonst irgendwie ausartet. Entsprechend geht es also weiter zum Kiyomizu-dera.
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Ich habe keinen Tempel so oft besucht wie den (irgenwie wollte den immer jemand sehen, mit dem ich reiste), was bedeutet, dass ich Eintrittskarten mit Design für jede Jahreszeit gesammelt habe und jetzt nie wieder Eintritt zahlen muss, weil dort kein Datum draufsteht 😂 Hier fand heute ein Lichter-Event kostenlos - mit Ausnahme des Eintrittspreises - statt. Vordergründig hat das bedeutet, dass es so voll war, dass man kaum umfallen konnte, aber tatsächlich erwischte ich einen nicht allzu schlechten Platz.
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Nun hat es sich leider so zugetragen, dass mein Handyakku gestorben ist und meine Powerbank leider leer war, entsprechend konnte ich nur am Anfang Fotos machen, aber es sah wirklich toll aus! ☺️
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Die eigentliche Schwierigkeit bestand dann aber darin, ohne Handy bzw. Internet nach Hause zu kommen… Zum Glück habe ich bei einem Convenience Store sehr hilfreiche Touris angesprochen, die den Weg einmal für mich googleten. Den musste ich mir dann zwar merken, aber das hat gerade so funktioniert. War aber schon eine Herausforderung, den Weg zu finden und dann auch noch die richtigen Bahnen zu nehmen 😅
Muss nicht wieder sein - ist mir auch tatsächlich noch nie passiert - also werde ich nächstes Mal besser aufpassen, aber insgesamt hatte ich einen tollen Tag :D
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gachapulls · 1 year
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whatever fuck being sad . shourin is literally straight yaoi
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takakurilla · 10 months
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i cannot and will not apologize for this
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el-pollo-gigantes · 1 year
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阿弥陀如来座像 Amitābha at Shourin-ji Temple in Ohara by Patrick Vierthaler (using albums) 京都の大原の少林院にて https://flic.kr/p/BXJErm
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zhongrin · 2 years
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i had my queue all set up until 11 oct but had to pull all of them back to the drafts bc of the shadowban. i don't have the energy and motivation to port them over temporarily to @shourin right now. we'll see. anyway, worst case scenario i'll start posting again only after my vacation's over (3 oct). hopefully by then tumblr support already fixed the 'gLiTcH' on this account.
ngl this whole shadowbanning thing (three!!! times!!!!) is very demotivating lol
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miximax-hell · 4 years
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Happy Goku Day, everyone!!
I checked and, miraculously, I still have followers on this blog. In fact, I’ve gained some since the last time I posted, for some reason! I’m not going to question it, though. Just... bless. But, hey, long time no see! As usual!
This time, I’m going back to my roots. The first drawings I posted on this blog were meant to show my love towards original Raimon, and it’s never a bad time to remind you all that I still adore these kids. Especially now that my friend @dust-monsters-under-my-bed​ has reminded me of them. Go check her art, btw! She’s not very active on Tumblr, but you can find her art on Twitter right here: https://twitter.com/rachelmonart
Anyway, she’s watching Inazuma Eleven for the first time and she’s made me think again about how much love these kids deserve, BECAUSE THEY SURE GOT NONE FROM HINO. DAMN YOU, HINO. So, today, let’s talk about the one and only IE character whose feet are classified as mass destruction weapons, who decided to borrow power from someone who will make you all question me, my logic and my tastes: Yamhan (or, as he is known in the west, Tiencha), THE FUSION OF YAMCHA AND TENSHINHAN FROM DRAGON BALL.
Introducing ShoYamHan! More on him under the cut.
So, first of all, how have you all been? I suppose many of you, like myself, are being told to stay at home to fight this situation. I salute all of you who do your best to stay safe and not help spread anything. It’s a very necessary fight, even if it can be boring at times. Many of us have friends or relatives fighting on the frontline, though (unless you yourself are the doctor or nurse friend!), and we hopefully know that staying at home is a small price to pay.
As for me, I got a job in December and lost it last month, so... yeah. It’s not been great. Still, something I’ve been working hard on for a while should be released soon and that’s so exciting! MY NAME WILL FINALLY BE ON SOMETHING’S CREDITS AND I CAN’T WAIT FOR IT TO BE UP.
But, anyway, back to business!
Rachel suggested I talk about the reasons behind this particular miximax, and considering it makes for a perfect parallel with my first posts, where I talked about the reasons behind Max’s and Kageno’s miximaxes, I’m all up for it! But, this time, I will have to do something new: explain WHO THE HECK YAMHAN IS. So let’s start with a picture of this handsome devil.
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As most of you hopefully know, this project is about miximaxing Inazuma characters with video game characters. No anime, movies or anything else. Only and exclusively video games. Dragon Ball has probably spawned all those things, but it started as a manga, so you’d be right to think it most definitely does not qualify for this project. And, indeed, Dragon Ball doesn't. What DOES qualify, however, are Dragon Ball characters exclusive, or first introduced, in a video game. And that’s exactly the case we’re dealing with here!
Growing up, I loved Dragon Ball games. Even before I watched the show properly, in fact! I would go to my friend’s house, who was a fan of the show, and we'd play the Dragon Ball Budokai games nonstop with absolutely zero regrets. Those were some great times. And once I came to know the source material, the game that blew my mind the most was Dragon Ball Budokai 2. Was it the best one? Not necessarily. Is it my favourite? Not by a long shot. Still, it was the most creative! Most games follow the story of DBZ, which, obviously, is always the same. But Budokai 2 wasn’t afraid to do new things. Its story mode resembled a tabletop game and it was more than happy to deviate from the source material in some really fun ways; most notably, with exclusive fusions.
Budokai 2 introduced us all to Yamhan, the fusion of Yamcha and Tenshinhan, two long forgotten characters in the series, as they (and especially poor Yamcha) didn’t do anything especially relevant past... well, past the original Dragon Ball. As a champion of the unloved, that blew my mind. There were other fun things in Budokai 2, but what fascinated me and stayed in my thoughts for years to come was Yamhan. It was just such a cool concept. Two underdogs who had fallen into obscurity fusing to create a much greater warrior!
Of course, Yamhan isn’t the only videogame exclusive characters in Dragon Ball. He isn’t the first, nor the last. Yamhan isn’t the strongest, nor the weakest. But I haven’t played FighterZ nor Fusions (yet), nor pretty much any game that wasn’t on PS2 or GBA. And even if I had, I doubt Android 21 or any of the HUNDREDS of combinations available in Fusions would captivate me and my imagination as much as Yamhan did back in the day. Yamhan was a fusion, which is something that has always fascinated me to begin with. I MEAN, THIS ENTIRE BLOG IS ABOUT FUSING CHARACTERS, SO I THINK IT’S PRETTY OBVIOUS LMAO But he wasn’t just one among hundreds. He was this very specific, never-seen-before, cool as heck and usable fusion. Like, wow. That was wild for me. Sign me up, man.
But, you know, I try not to let that sway me too much. Of course, I wouldn’t likely pick a character I hate for a miximax, but, still, my preferences aren’t everything. And choosing Yamhan begs a question that I have already alluded to: if Yamhan isn’t the strongest game-exclusive DB character out there, then, why him? Well, the answer to that is related to the biggest problem posed by the sheer concept of miximaxing with a Dragon Ball character:
Power escalation.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Goku is, pretty much, the strongest character that has ever played the lead in any manga, and one of the strongest fictional characters ever, period. By the end of the Dragon Ball Super anime, he has EXCEEDED THE POWER OF MANY LITERAL GODS AND IS (or has been) A CANDIDATE TO BECOME ONE. You may prefer One Piece, or Naruto, or anything else, but few things reach the astronomical, reality-bending scope of Dragon Ball. Not to say DB is the best series--I’m just saying that it’s so out of control at this point (and I love it). But, of course, the stronger Goku is, the stronger the villains need to be, and Goku ends up becoming EVEN stronger than said villains. Rinse and repeat dozens of times until you can make an entire universe disappear by raising your hand.
Now, imagine applying that out-of-this-world power escalation to a context where the power balance isn’t so outrageous. For example, Inazuma Eleven.
Goku wriggling in his sleep is more powerful than Zeus, and an accidental sneeze would smash all of Ixal Fleet to smithereens. Do you see what this would do to the balance? It would ruin it completely, as anyone who miximaxed with Goku would be immediately a one-person army able to defeat ANY opponent--and if the opponent were to be EVEN GREATER than Goku, well, the rest simply wouldn’t stand a chance. Ever. Remember: the point of this project isn’t to create perfect and unbeatable players, and I’m not trying to prioritize anyone or make them noticeably stronger than anyone else just because I happen to like X more than Y. That completely ruins the tension and the fun (and my attempts to create justice in this unfair universe). The point is to come up with a balanced team full of players with strong points, but with flaws, too, that complement each other when they play together against stronger enemies.
So, if we go with Dragon Ball, and I love Dragon Ball WAY too much to not include it in this project in some way, we have to be careful and avoid overdoing it. Balance is key. And now that you know why I didn’t just choose the fusion between Beerus and Whis or something crazy like that, I’ll move on to explain what makes Yamhan a very interesting option. I SWEAR THERE ARE SOME ACTUAL REASONS.
First of all, the very concept. You know, Yamcha and Tenshinhan fused to created Yamhan, and now, Shourin is fusing with a fusion. That’s just... hecking cool. I won’t lie--my preferences towards Yamhan didn’t tip the scales towards making this happen, but my preferences towards FUSIONCEPTION totally did. XD But there’s more, thankfully.
From the very beginning, I knew I wanted a fighting game character to miximax with Shourin because it fits his theme best. I’m not big on fighting games, though, so it was quite tough. Especially because just any fighting game wouldn’t do it. Shourin is a martial artist. As I mentioned at the very beginning of this post, his feet are his weapons. His entire body is a weapon, really. If I were to suddenly miximax him with some character who wields a sword or an axe, for example, it would be a complete disservice to Shourin. Original Raimon members don’t have much going on for themselves, and I’m going to cut or ignore the ONE thing that makes one of them special? Not in a zillion years. Shourin needs to fight with his body. That, of course, cuts many characters already: pretty much the entire roster of Soul Calibur, many members of Mortal Kombat, many from games like Skullgirls (which I still want to try to represent here in the future, because @lumaga worked on it and it makes me happy just because of that), etc. For a very long time, I considered someone like Ryu, from Street Fighter, but then it hit me: I have never played Street Fighter and I don’t want to include him just because I know what a Hadouken is. It’d be... cheap. And fake. Thankfully, as I also mentioned earlier, I played LOTS of Budokai back in the day and I am an actual fan, so I don’t have to pretend to know what the heck I’m talking about. XD And, thankfully, most of the characters in DB games fight with their bare fists and legs, so they perfectly fit my needs. Yamhan is, of course, no exception.
Now comes my favourite reason to choose Yamhan and not, well, literally any other DB game-exclusive character. And that reason is style.
Remember that power escalation thing I mentioned earlier? Well, it’s epic, but it comes with a big disadvantage: power ends up becoming much more important than skill. Early Dragon Ball was very focused on fighting styles. There was an ongoing feud between the Turtle School and the Crane School, who taught different martial arts to fight in different ways, and there was a big plot involving which one was superior. It wasn’t just about who was strongest, but about who fought better. With time, that disappeared, though. Even though battles became flashier, aerial and more spectacular, they were much more indistinct. Sure, there were gimmicks like “heh, I have a tail and I will sometimes hit you with it,” or “I will try to hit your face with the palm of my hand instead of my fist for some unspecified reason,” but that isn’t... much. You just see very fast people avoiding equally as fast punches to the face. And Goku, the main character, only shows some style when he adopts a fighting pose BEFORE fighting. Once the punches start flying, it’s all a race to see who can hit the other the hardest in the gut to make them spit blood. Cool nonetheless, but still.
Ironically, though, it’s two of the least relevant characters who never really lost those styles that made them unique when they were first introduced to the series. And those are, of course, Yamcha and Tenshinhan.
Yamcha joins the Turtle School and learns techniques as classic as the Kamehameha, but he had his own style way before that, based on attacking and tearing enemies apart like a wolf would. This is best represented by his signature move, the Rougafuufuuken or Wolf Fang Fist. He never drops this style, but instead builds up on it through his training to make it even fiercer.
Tenshinhan has different things going for himself. First of all, he is a hybrid between a human being and a civilization known as the Three-Eyed People, which grants him powers such as growing extra arms from his back or dividing in 4. Not just moving so fast that it looks like there’s four of him, but ACTUALLY dividing into 4 separate bodies. In terms of skills, he was a Crane School student, but when he realised the wrong of his master’s doings, he decided to start training and developing on his own. Basically, a path that mirrors Yamcha’s, but both lead to unique fighting styles unlike anyone else’s in this universe. And, most importantly, none of them depend on appendixes that are always there, like the aforementioned tail, so they totally work for us here!
Shourin is a proper martial artist. He wouldn’t want to make himself crazy strong as much as he would like to refine his technique and learn new moves and tricks. Martial arts are about discipline, self-control, skill and protection. He would take a cool-ass combo based on a wolf’s moves over earth-shattering strength any day of the week, hence why the fact that these two have so many techniques to offer is so appealing.
Finally, and probably least, is the design idea that immediately came to my mind when I thought of a miximax between Shourin and Yamhan. Historically, I have had to work with characters like Fudou, who are usually mostly bald and they miximax with someone with hair, thus making for some very... difficult things to figure out. But the idea of miximaxing Shourin, who is mostly bald, with Yamhan, who is ALSO mostly bald, was just golden and too good to ignore. And the fact that Yamhan has three eyes GIVES ME AN EXCUSE TO ADD A THIRD CROSS-SHAPED EYE ON SHOURIN’S FOREHEAD. IF A MIXIMAX BETWEEN BALD PEOPLE WAS GOLDEN, THIS IS OUTRIGHT PLATINUM.
Shourin would've probably looked a lot less like a joke if he had had hair covering his entire head or if I had at least given him proper eyes... but that would no longer be the Shourin I love. Not to mention that it’s very likely that Shourin willingly shaves his head to begin with (even if the ponytail ain’t doing him any favours--but that’s just Inazuma logic, so let’s not look too much into it), just like Tenshinhan or Krillin do, so he would probably be happier to keep that, uh, advantage. Relative advantage, but still.
As a side note, though, we can’t forget the balance. When Yamcha and Tenshinhan fuse, they undoubtedly become the strongest human being in the DB universe, overcoming the one who is usually strongest: Krillin. A fusion is always greater than its parts individually, and Yamcha and Tenshinhan aren’t so far away from Krillin to begin with, so that’s not even a question. Regardless, they still don’t have that overwhelming and surreal strength from other characters, so we still don’t get into absolutely OP territory. Yamhan is strong enough to provide Shourin with a power that can make a real difference without completely putting him above everyone else.
Sadly, Yamhan doesn’t really have a backstory, as he’s a game-exclusive character that, honestly, was probably only there for a laugh. That means there is no deep connection between them. We can, however, make obvious connections between Shourin, an aspiring martial artist whose dream, as stated in IE2, was to study at Manyuuji (Kogure’s school) for their focus on martial arts, and is now trying to become stronger to protect what he loves, and two skilled warriors who have been training nonstop under different masters and on their own for basically their entire lives to keep becoming stronger and more skilled in order to defend what’s precious to them and, simply, to be the best version of themselves they can be. Upon seeing such dedicated warriors and artists, Shourin would undoubtedly want to learn from them and, if necessary, borrow their strength too.
Or he might just fanboy and ask for their autographs, honestly. I sure as heck want Yamcha’s. And his baseball card.
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shourin · 2 years
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◇ tags ◇ yandere, word vomit, not proofread, head empty just zhongli™️
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thinking of —
yandere!zhongli who is basically him fighting his erosion, his mind slowly deteriorating as his consciousness shifts back and forth between his mortal identity and his younger, ruthless self.
he rarely dreams, if not ever, and yet now he's plagued with nightmares of all the souls he reaped in the past, moments of when his friends lost their lives, and the sight of you and your gruesome death - over and over and over again, in thousands of ways, each new vision worse than the last.
he wakes and internally panics when your arms aren't around him, when he can't feel your warmth or presence nearby. though in the end, he finds you pouring a glass of water for yourself in the kitchen, for once, your smile fails to ease his corroded heart.
he's a lot more silent, now, which is worrying. no longer does he talk about the beautiful sceneries of liyue - in his head, he sees the devastating scene of the battlefield of the archon war, of the blood staining his spear, and the bloodlust of the other gods.
he does not comment when you tell him about your day anymore - mind ringing, screaming, spiraling, alarm bells clamoring like a loud battle horn amidst the warzones when you remark about how someone was kind enough to give out flowers today on the street.
he fails to register the fact that they haven't just given it to you, but to everyone who passes by. all he heard was someone giving you a gift, you seem happy about it, and that won't do at all. someone is threatening his position, sniffing around his territory, eyeing his most treasured possession, and he does not appreciate it. the only way they'll manage to touch even just one strand of your hair is when liyue harbor has burnt down to ashes, when your soul has left your body, when he will surely follow right after to join you in celestia.
he doesn't seem happy when you confront him about how he has forgotten your birthday this year - he always had this bittersweet smile as he congratulated you whenever this occasion comes around... but for some reason, this year, the dark look that consumes his usually warm amber eyes strikes a chilling sensation in your chest.
he's silent as he steps forward steadily, eerily stoic with his eyes seemingly staring through you, despite your soft pleas and calls of his name. he corners you between his arms and the wall of what's supposed to be the safest place you could be - were those geo markings along his limbs always this dim? and was it your imagination or did it occasionally flicker to abyss black?
̷zhongli̷? looms over you, toweringly tall, suffocating, commanding, imposing—
"i have had enough of people leaving."
 — even bedrock can be turned to dust.
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Inazuma Eleven EP 24
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