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Kou's Earrings
tbhk chapter 120 as a kou fan:
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kiryu appreciation post cause we love him.
Still defending my delusions about Togame being Vashwood's lovechild
eepy girls should be legally allowed to skip all obligations so they can cuddle each other instead
Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?
Currently thinking about fence but what if Robert sees Nick training before he attends Kings Row and just decides to mentor him and brings him to Exton
(Both possibilities of Robert and Jesse figuring it out and keeping it under wraps until Nick makes a name for himself and not knowing that Nick is related to them are living rent free in the head)
PLEASK make this scenario a fic anyoneðŸ˜
I really want a fence fic where nick needs to get surgery or blood transfusion for whatever reason but has a rare blood type and nobody but jesse can help him and then boom family reveal, theres a fight in the hospital and shit and then uh oh roberte coste arrives and has a heart to heart with nicholas and theres crying and ahhhhhhhhhh
- Nicholas has two blush settings. One is a cute dusting of pink across the cheeks, the other is an intense flushed shade of red not unlike that of a ripe strawberry (…now I need to write a 4+1 or 5+1 of Nicholas blushing).
- Nicholas can perfectly wrap any package because he worked a part time job as a gift wrapper at the mall one Christmas season. Even Seiji is impressed when Nicholas wraps his present for Coach Williams’ birthday.
- Nicholas knows how to sew and do minor alterations. You remember that duvet on Nicholas’ bed in volume one? Yeah, that’s all him. Hand-sewn patches and everything (I can definitely see a fic being born from this… Seiji noticing Nicholas fixing his ripped backpack strap during lunch or re-sewing a button that came off Eugene’s uniform before fencing practice).
Honestly what shook me is not even the fact that Kou is dead, like I assume we will get him back eventually, him and Mitsuba are part of the main cast after all and I don't think they would be killed off permanently like that - Kou's death is there to probably move Teru's character a lil bit and to make a lasting impression on him - if he knows that Hanako killed his brother in another timeline, how will he treat him once they're back? How will he react to Kou being back to life? Teru and Kou haven't really resolved their conflicts properly yet I think, and now that Teru witnessed his younger brother dead I'm sure it'll leave a lasting impression and will push the plot forward in interesting ways.
But... That's not what terrified me and made me shaken to my core.
It's the fact that AidaIro weren't scared to go full blown horror mode okay. Like the way this chapter is drawn is so clever? And so HORRIFYING once you realize some things.
(trigger warning bc it's grim as hell but I have to talk about this, I've been thinking about this all day)
We don't really see what Teru and Akane see but we can safely assume that the corpses of our two freshly deceased characters are in a horrible shape because Akane straight up gags a little.
Of course we can assume that it's because they see their friends' dead corpses (well in Teru's case it's literally his younger brother's corpse which is traumatizing as heck), but one of the pictures on the previous pages makes me think that these corpses may be in ... A horrible condition.
Remember when Kou was telling Nene about how Amane is killing people?
He has an axe that seems to be covered in a little bit of blood.
There's a high chance that he killed them with that weapon and chopped them into pieces. Like. That's so grim okay. If their bodies were intact then I think they would have shown us because they weren't scared to show us corpses before (like when Nene had her time moved forward or the zombie ladies in that one chapter). Obviously he also has these tentacles, but then why hold an axe? And judging by Akane's reaction Kou and Mitsuba have to be really, really messed up.
I don't know I genuinely didn't expect this level of horror from this comic - it's all so subtle but the horror is there. And it works so well too - we don't REALLY know what state they're in, but we see the reaction of other characters to it - and that's way more scary than anything AidaIro could've ever drawn, because our mind is filling in the gaps.
It's a fantastic chapter, but it's also deeply, deeply disturbing. Great job, AidaIro. Did not expect that at all.