Falin, Oil On Paper And Digital

Little rant:

I hate hate hate hate detest the AIB show changing Chishiya’s backstory so much. I saw someone saying it was probably to make him more sympathetic. I find it very annoying. Let him be hated. He wasn’t a good person, he didn’t do good things and his backstory does not excuse that. It is merely an explanation to his actions and thought process.

TLDR: apathetic Chishiya shouldn’t be excused and I love his character in the manga (the 4 story deluxe cake of analyzing I get to chow down on)

Alice in Borderland: Shuntarō Chishiya (INTJ 5w4 549 sx/sp)

MBTI

Dominant Ni

His Ni is apparent many times in the manga. He chose to stay in one spot during the tag game to observe his enemies first (Ni prefering prediction over Se action). His dominant Ni is also very apparent when he set Arisu up. When he saw Aguni's confusion when he opened the black envelope he concluded that the content of the envelope is most likely empty. After setting Arisu up, he picked information again when Aguni looked into one spot because he felt uneasy that Arisu tried to break the fake safe, hence he was looking at the location of the real safe. He used his Ni briefly in blackjack too, guessing that one of the players is a magician because of how he looks.

He used his Ni a lot during the Beauty Contest game. He thought that the success rate for the King (Kuzuruyu) and tried to infer the meaning behind it and considered the success rate to be fair. He knows that Kuzuruyu is a lawyer, that the game venue is a court with gigantic scales as the decoration. He also mentioned that the value of all life is equal is the ideals of a lawyer. As the game progressed, all of the players' choice are nearing the number zero, which is an equilibrium (there will be no exchange of points cause rationally everyone will choose zero in the end), which is in line with Kuzuruyu's ideals. He then understood what Kuzuruyu is trying to weigh (he is trying to find the meaning behind the game). After implementing his strategy for the game he saw Kuzuruyu keeping up with his new strategy which means that he already predicted that this could happen and he concluded that Kuzuruyu is trying to weigh the value of life from the game. Then as they conversed more he found that Kuzuruyu is unable to choose the worth of a life and he inferred that he became the citizen to let the game decide the worth for him and hoped that he'll eventually become numb to it (before that he asked Kuzuruyu if he kept participating in these games and becomes the citizen himself and losing his human emotions would it increase the pain and Kuzuruyu said it's possible).

He also kept his eye on Daimon and inferred that she is a frank person because she kept asking things that she doesn't know to other people. Because of her personality he predicted that she would choose a random number. He narrowed down her number of choice and associated some of the numbers that he eliminated with the numbers that are usually seen a lot in daily life (64 with a ding from a video game console commercial and so on).

Auxiliary Te

He used his Te too in the tag game. He chose a spot where he can observe everything from above and he thought that it doesn't make sense to wander around when you don't know where the it will emerge with limited visibility in the apartment. He also used Arisu to bait the real safe from Aguni (knowing that Hatter is a cautious person, so the safe must be hidden) when the militants are celebrating his coronation as the King of the beach (finding the safe without bait during an opportunity like this wouldn't be as effective and could get you caught or you wouldn't find the safe at all when they're going back).

He also used his Te in the blackjack game. He knows that if he knows how many cards are left then he will know which cards are left since all of the decks are the same, then he categorised which cards are advantageous to the players and which ones are advantageous to the dealers and counted the ratio of the said cards from the deck and from this formula he can decide how much he should bet. During the last few rounds of blackjack he knows that the old lady despised one of the players, a trick master, because it reminded her of her husband (that player has used his gun to kill another player, so he can't use his gun again), so he cheated again to trigger the game system to allow the lady to use the gun and of course that lady killed the trick master.

During the Beauty Contest game he decided to break the equilibrium by choosing the number 100, knowing that Daimon is a frank person and because of his choice Daimon won the round and repaid him by choosing 100 in the next round.

Tertiary Fi

He sometimes evaluates his personal values like in the tag game when he said that as long as he survives, he doesn't care how many people will die and he reflected on this value, whether or not it's human to have that mindset. He also justified his wrongdoing after he set Arisu up by saying that there isn't anything that someone shouldn't do in order to survive.

When Daimon died during the Beauty Contest he said that her sacrifice is not worth the exchange of his own life and he realized that his emptiness is there even before the Borderlands. During the last round of the Beauty Contest, he said to Kuzuruyu that equality is impossible since there will always be one side that will be sacrificed to reach "equality" or to implement "justice" (black and white Fi judgment due to auxiliary Te). After figuring out Kuzuruyu's personal values, he played with it, forcing him to make a choice with his value and slightly mocking him that if he doesn't like to make decisions (since Kuzuruyu can't decide the worth of a life), he can just kill him off since the rules of the game is impartial. After Kuzuruyu died he realized that he thought Kuzuruyu as an interesting person because he envied his interest in life, which he doesn't have.

After he was shot, he told Arisu that he used to view the human beings as stupid beings. He said that he despised the sincere ones, he berated people who put in their effort, hurt a lot of people, and shunned a lot of people who have good will and intentions. He realised that he was probably jealous cause those are the things that he doesn't have. He felt like he has no purpose and his mere existence is just to show how empty a human can be and deep down he just wanted to be understood. After he went back to the real world he decided to live an honest life.

Inferior Se

His Se inferior showed up during the tag game because he prefers to know the prediction first instead of acting in the now. He also used the things around him during the Witch Hunt to make a flamethrower.

Shadow Functions

Opposing Ne

During the game of Tag when he saw Karube suggesting the players to work together he doubted that his idea will work out easily. He considered the possibilities of the other players risking themselves to go to the walkways to find the base, risking themselves to reveal their locations to the it, and risking themselves to trust the intel from another player. His assumptions are later proved to be wrong cause Usagi risked herself to work together with everyone else.

Critical Parent Ti

During the Beauty Contest game he quietly criticized the old man for using his own logical deduction, using his own intelligence as his basis and he thought that if he kept doing that he won't win the game and won't understand the workings of an "idiot". He also called out Kuzuruyu's obsession with equality is illogical since he is the one who is trying to assign superiority or inferiority to human lives by creating the game.

Trickster Fe

During the Witch Hunt he said to Mira that he never wanted to understand the hearts of others. During the battle royale he said to Arisu that he despised sincere people and he couldn't help but to shun people's good will and intentions.

Demon Si

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Enneagram

5w4 549 sx/sp

*this includes my own interpretation of his character

As you can see in the manga he values information and deem it important. He keeps collecting things after the games too. Since 5s are afraid of being deprived of their resources, he told Karube that his information is not for free.

As you can see in the manga him being neglected by his parents form his 5 core. As the result of the neglect he becomes empty and apathetic (one of 5 traits). He was never taught how to love and he has to conquer the world on his own since he was a kid and depended on himself, making himself competent (hence the 5 fear of being incompetent, making them hoard a lot of information and knowledge for themselves). His 4 wing makes him envy what people have that he doesn't have. He threw a letter of a father who wanted to redeem himself because he envied him as he doesn't have a father who really cared for him. As 5w4 he is jealous of other people who are seemingly not empty and have a purpose. Because of his emptiness he feels that he has no purpose, that life is meaningless. The result of his jealousy is his antagonistic behavior to people. He tried to fulfill that emptiness with some random knowledge (you can see that when he quotes some random knowledge about utopia or monalisa in the manga) and pursued medicine to see if he could care about life. As 5w4 he felt that he came to the world being neglected and not being accepted as who he is by his parents and he assumed that they had him just to look normal and just to be a good hospital director. Since the void of his 5 is endless, he might view that to give is to deprive himself, so he becomes selfish.

Even though he has no interest in the concept of life, his 4 wing makes him intrigued to find what's missing in himself, his sense of purpose and he just want people to understand him and to see him as who he is.

From the explanation above you can conclude that he has 5 and 4 in his tritype. His gut type is a 9 since he doesn't provoke people that much and tried to be peaceful even though he is frustrated. Because his 4 his higher in the tritype stack than his 9, he doesn't really mind to tell how stupid people are.

His Sx instinctual variant makes him want to find a person that he finds to be interesting in Borderland (that's like his sole purpose there) and he finally met Kuzuruyu. His Sp second makes him consider his own survival, but not at the expense of his Sx since he is willing to take risks to find that one-on-one connection and turns out what makes Kuzuruyu interesting to him is him being the opposite of himself, valuing life even when his life is the cost.

WHY COULDNT THEY HAVE JUST SAID KEEP HIM WHOLE??! IN ONE PIECE 😭😭😭

I’m grieving so I blame “Gege take his top off” Gojo stans. This is YOUR fault

Finally!

Sigh...with a very heavy heart i must announce that last night due to unforeseen circumstances Azul Ashengrotto passed away....in his place his long lost twin brother Rojo Brightditch has come to help further the main story in twst I hope you all will understand and continue to play the game..

Damm this is written so well.

It’s been a while, but now it’s SnK fic time!

Shared Sorrow

Nikolo walked mechanically ahead, knowing the route to his destination from the heart by now. The grave yard wasn’t devoid of other people, but this time, none of them paid him any mind, fortunately. No wonder there; with most of the older military police officers gone due to the poisoned wine, hardly anyone knew his face. As much as he regretted his past actions, he was grateful for the safety they brought him now. If it wasn’t for his sorrowful destination, this peaceful and beautiful day would certainly be a good one.

“Who’s that?” he wondered as he saw someone sitting at the grave he was heading to, not that he had to wonder for long. That particular deep shade of black combined with that other shade of red would give the person away to anyone who knew her “Mikasa?”

The woman turned her head, and Nikolo could see the bags under her tired eyes. Not that he could blame her; he was sure lots of people had had sleepless nights recently due to-

He stopped in his tracks. The rumbling… if Mikasa was here, then that meant it must be over, regardless of the outcome.

Nikolo looked around quickly, but while there were other people around, he knew none of them. He saw no Levi Squad, no Commander Hanji, no Onyankopon or Yelena, nor the warriors or…

…Or Eren Yeager.

What did all that mean? Why only Mikasa? If they managed to stop the rumbling, surely there’d be at least some other survivors alongside her. And if not, even if Eren had won, surely at least one or two people along with the younger Ackerman would’ve escaped, right? Where was everyone else?!

“Hello, Nikolo” the woman said, and then, like she didn’t have anything more to say, turned back to face the grave. Nikolo stood there in silence for quite a while, his grip hard on the flowers he’d brought, not sure what to ask, where to start. In the end, he went straight to the point: “Where are Jean and the others?”

He wanted to ask how was the rest of the world, but that felt too insensitive. Friends first.

“Most likely still in Marley; they’re trying to clear the air there, I think”

That answered both what he had asked and what he hadn’t asked. If air needed to be cleared, that meant there were still people left out there who to clear with it. They’d managed to stop the rumbling before it destroyed the whole world. It was happy news and, briefly, Nikolo wondered if any of his family or friends outside the island had survived. He knew he shouldn’t get his hopes up, but surely, there was a chance-

“We lost Commander Hanji, though” Mikasa spoke “She fought to buy us time to chase after Eren and fell in battle.”

“Oh” unlike Onyankopon, Nikolo had not been close with the woman, in fact she kind of creeped him out, but her passing did hit him “I’m sorry to hear that…”

He had to ask, just in case.

“What about everyone else? Are they alright?”

“Eren is dead”

The words came immediately, just a stone-cold fact. Nikolo’s first reaction was the feeling of relief, but remembering who the information came from, it was followed by the feeling of guilt. He didn’t know Mikasa and Eren well, hadn’t known Eren well, and wasn’t close with them, but he wasn’t blind. It had quicky become clear to him just how close to each other the two were.

“I’m sorry to hear that” and he was, though he felt far sorrier for Mikasa than Eren himself. He felt sorry for Armin, too, wherever he was, knowing he’d been close with the guy, too. And he felt sorry for Jean; as much as the man complained about Eren, Nikolo would’ve have to have been a fool to not notice how fond his friend had been of the man.

Mikasa didn’t say anything to that, didn’t even show any sign that she heard him. Nikolo fiddled with the flowers in his hands, not sure if it’d be proper of him to approach Sasha’s grave now with Mikasa there. Should he come back later?

“Does it get easier?”

The question is sudden, and it takes a while for Nikolo to realize that it’s directed at him. He’s about to ask Mikasa what she means, but as his gaze meets hers, she’s looking at him over her shoulder again, he realizes that, somehow, he understands.

“…I don’t know” he replies honestly. Now, it feels natural to approach to lay down the flowers, so he does just that, crouching down in front of the grave “Maybe it will, eventually. Life keeps going, as will we along with it.”

Or at least, so Nikolo hoped. Mikasa had not lost her will to live along with Eren, had she?

…If she had, she probably wouldn’t have come all the way here.

“When Trost fell, Armin saw Eren get eaten. We thought he was dead” Mikasa broke the silence that threatened to fall. Nikolo recalled hearing about this from Sasha before, but he didn’t comment on it. He waited to hear what Mikasa had to say “For a moment, I lost myself for it. I couldn’t think straight during battle and gave others trouble. I ran out of gas, fell off the roofs and hit the ground. A titan was approaching, and I was ready to give up. And yet…”

Mikasa quieted down. Patiently, not in a hurry to go anywhere, Nikolo waited for her to continue.

“Had I died there, I wouldn’t have been able to relive through the memories of him” she finally says “He lives on in my memories. As long as he’s not forgotten, he’s not really gone.”

It was a comforting thought.

“I see” Nikolo said “Perhaps that is why people mark graves and visit them.”

“Maybe”

They stay there for a long time, ignoring the world around them, neither speaking a word. At one point, Nikolo sits down instead of crouching, but aside from that, they don’t move. The sun is already setting by the time Nikolo decides to speak up again.

“I should head back; I told the others I’d visit Sasha’s grave, but it’s getting late”

“Are you staying with her family?”

“Yeah”

It’s not like he had anywhere else to go.

Nor did he have anywhere else where he’d want to be, either.

“Where will you go now?”

“…I hadn’t thought about it” Mikasa confesses “Perhaps I’ll search for Historia and inform her of what has happened.”

That was probably wise; the queen should know the situation. But-

“Do you know where to look?”

Silence. Nikolo takes that as a no.

“It’s getting late” he says, standing up “You must be tired as well. Let’s head to Dauper, and after some rest, we can figure out how you’ll find the queen.”

Nikolo held out his hand for Mikasa to take, wondering if he was overstepping a line in telling her what to do, but she seemed just so… lost. And he knew a lot about that, about not having any direction in life.

He was surprised when the woman actually did take his hand.

“Right” Mikasa agreed. Nikolo pulled her up and, wordlessly, they were on their way.

Nikolo couldn’t help but wonder what Sasha would have done, what she would have said, to comfort Mikasa. Perhaps it’d take years before he stopped wondering what Sasha would’ve done in any situation, or perhaps he’d never stop. But then again, maybe that was a part of keeping her memory alive. That, at least, was something he could do.

After watching the second season this is even funnier

Normal sleepover at the Einherjar's

From that on, Brunhilde makes sure that they all have blankets during sleepovers.

if you're cold, he's cold. let him in, it's valentines day.

Party

Hoping praying blood sacrificing for a proper full AIB anime adaptation. Will it ever happen most unlikely. Is there hope? Always!

"Chishiya is so unbothered💀" "LMAO UNBOTHERED KINGGG"

he's apathetic, not unbothered. things still bother him but he just cant bring himself to care enough for an appropriate reaction. and thats on him being neglected for his entire life and never learning how to feel/deal with emotions--but the adap just left that part out

My new Roman Empire is now the hunchback of Notre Dame. I’ll give it a good two weeks.