Memos

chuuya!! ok i need to stop spamming my art on here

Went to bed with a good fic at 10pm yesterday and was reminded what life is all about

a reward

🌟

Okay. Denji’s Pov in “All circuits are busy” and why it’s written like that. Let’s talk about it:

I’ve gotten a (small but significant) amount of comments/ asks, telling me how refreshing it is to have Denji’s pov be very fast paced and wordy because it is a show of perceptiveness, if not intelligence.

And while it makes me incredibly happy that people appreciate it, it also makes me sad that not more characterisations of Denji are like that.

Because listen. Characterisation is a free real estate in fandoms you can do whatever you please, always. But when you have a character who is canonically illiterate and you decide to make them dumber than a door….it’s telling. And it’s not telling nice things.

I’m not saying Denji is an underrated genius, but he doesn’t have to be. Most of the characters in chainsaw man are of simply average intelligence, and that’s the point. At their core, they are your average run of the mill human that’s struggling to find the place in the world. Not every character has to either be a genius or downright worm-brained. There’s a middle ground. Step on it I beg of you

Yes, Denji is gullible and a bad liar and can’t read/write. He is also the fastest learner in the manga, incredibly perceptive, has the most emotional intelligence out of all the cast, and could fucking do advanced math to calculate his debt at age 10.

One of the main points of Chainsaw Man is “don’t underestimate the illiterate teenager.” Did we not read the same story? Characters fall into this trap time and time and time again, and Denji makes them eat dirt for it. So why, pray tell, do people keep underestimating the illiterate teenager???

Also I like my povs to reek of a bit of autism.

Thank you if you read through this garbage fire of frustration.

something something despite the all horrors and tragedies of the world, love was there and that's all that matters

(´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

on love being a twisted curse (and other such nonsense)

"I can make like 10 of these" pleeeease do (if you want and have the time to of course!)

Sure!

Here’s some thematic details I caught when watching Arcane (both seasons) :

- In the alternate universe, Powder is wearing Vi’s necklace from act 1 season 1.

- Jayce’s hammer is designed to resemble a butterfly when cracked open (a symbol of transformation and rebirth)

- He and Viktor break opposite legs :)) (plus Jayce’s whole journey in episode 7 is climbing to Piltover from the undercity with only one leg. Basically what Viktor did, metaphorically. Only then is he able to understand him)

- In the document Cait is checking at the end that outlines the vents, only Jayce is written as an inventor. Viktor’s name is nowhere

- In the intro, Ekko has two shadows that tick like a clock.

- Most scenes of Mel from Jayce’s eyes can be directly paralleled to earlier scenes of Viktor, frame by frame.

- There’s also this brilliant scene from s1 where Jayce is about to go on stage and sets his coffee mug directly in the viewer’s line of sight, hiding Viktor in the background. The mug has Jayce’s face on it (symbolic of Jayce overshadowing him)

- In the alternate reality, it’s shown that Powder draws Ekko on her notebook and he lets him draw on it too.

- In the final battle, they painted each other. There’s Ekkos designs all over Jinx’s body and she’s wearing his jacket in the beginning. (Plus i think she cropped his top lmao)

- The rune embedded on Jayce’s skin is right over his pulse point. // when he operates on Viktor he basically makes the hexcore his heart (which becomes a metaphor for him losing his humanity both figuratively and literally later)

- They say the rune of inspiration is what was missing from the equation all this time,, and a little before Sky dies she’s about to tell Viktor about independent research she has been doing that might be useful. She had probably found it.

- It’s possible that Cait died along with Vi in the alternate universe, since she was the one that caught them breaking in. String of fate and whatnot.

Bonus LoL fact: Jayce calls Viktor “Vee” in their canon interactions, when he gets way too enthusiastic about blasting people

Double whammy