Number One Use I've Found For The New Phoenix And Edgeworth Figures So Far

Really?

Ok. How's about a hypothetical scenario.

Someone kidnaps your brother, and says that you have to stop drinking Orange Joe forever if you don't want him to die. Which is more important to you?

Is Orange Joe REALLY the most important thing?

this is like asking me if it's nerf or nothing

The sillies!!!

looking at someone who's not looking back 👽🎥🎙️

Finally get to post my full spread piece for @dadworthzine !! I did this in collaboration with @franzvska and she wrote a GORGEOUS accompanying fic 🥺

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Omikuji are random fortunes written on strips of paper at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples in Japan. Literally "sacred lot", these are usually received by making a small offering (generally a five-yen coin as it is considered good luck) and randomly choosing one from a box, hoping for the resulting fortune to be good. Getting an omikuji is a common part of visiting a shrine or temple, but New Year is the time when they’re most in demand.

Happy New Year!

(You can tie your bad fortunes onto a pine tree at the shrine to keep away the bad luck, by the way. You don't have to try and fight the gods!)

I don't think people are able to comprehend how grateful I am to Beast Odasaku.

No, 'cuz he really is the only person who prioritized Akutagawa since he met him, and I'm so, so, so grateful to him for that. When he stood up for what B! Dazai did to him at the bar, I felt floored. Taken aback. I was like "Finally...finally someone sees this."

Finally someone who will take his side.

I find myself thinking about them two so often. The way Oda was so ready to help him in everything just- I can't handle it.

Not only did Oda take him in and give him like 15 siblings to look after (he wouldn't be lonely anymore), but the way he is quietly supporting Akutagawa in every move??

He sent him to the Agency to get a job that might allow him to find his sister. He then took a three day mission to find the person who took his sister, with next to no information whatsoever.

And the scene at the café!! Kunikida and the others are freaking out over Akutagawa attacking Oda, but Oda is so calm, not even bothered in the slightest, the way a parent wouldn't be bothered if their child started throwing stuff around. He doesn't berate him, or discourage him, or make him think he's weak when he inevitably loses. He just lets Akutagawa quench his curiosity and then quiets him down when he thinks it's enough.

His condition to Akutagawa joining the Agency is basically "go babysit the orphans," which in reality was more like "hey guys, i got you a new big brother, this is Akutagawa," introducing him to his little family. In addition, have you guys seen that one official art where Atsushi is playing with the orphans and Akutagawa?? Like, they're riding on top of him, and Akutagawa is sorta supervising as he does– whose idea was that?? Did Akutagawa walk up to him and be like, "Yeah, you know Mafia's top killer?? The guy who wears a spiked collar so he doesn't lose control and kill people?? You might remember him, he almost bit my head off? Anyways, can he come over?"

And, and!! Speaking of Oda never saying no to him!! He never told Akutagawa to give up on his revenge!! All he did was like "don't let your emotions control you" because they might as well get him killed.

And then you have the training that showed Akutagawa his weak spots, what could happen when he didn't think things through (the bullet through the cieling), making sure Akutagawa understood what he needed to improve, then he praised his strategy?? Took him out for lunch??

Oda literally gave him unconditional love and support, and it makes me fucking sob, because I love them both so goddamn much.

Isn't it ten kinds of insane how similar Oda and Akutagawa truly are? Like, I could make a whole list, but they're actually so alike and it sorta kills me inside.

Described as emotionless killers in their youth?? Taken children under their care, only to watch them die in front of them and then gone on a suicide mission for revenge?? Needed a clear-cut reason to live?? Both recruited in the mafia by Dazai?? Mafia members who don't kill??? The only two main characters to have actually died / have death be a big part of their arc??

Yes, their personalities are different, but I also totally see Akutagawa growing older and maturing out of his anger toward the world (once he finds a reason to live that's not Dazai) and becoming quieter, gentler, maybe picking up writing–

I'm so normal about them, obviously.

Because some people need to understand it

I'm posting this because I'm bored of seeing people (including some part of KmHn shippers) saying that KomaHina is "problematic".

KomaHina isn't a "problematic ship". Unlike some people are stating (probably due to their headcanons, misunderstanding or in result of completely ignoring Komaeda), Hinata and Komaeda's canon relationship wasn't abusive. Their canon relationship is complicated but not abusive. You're allowed to headcanon them as having an abusive relationship but stop pushing it down other shippers' throats because according to canon they had lots of misunderstandings towards each other AND they wanted to understand each other better. They both cared about each other. Seriously, a complicated relationship of two (or more) characters doesn't make it problematic in any way. Problematic is one thing and complicated is another (both can overlap but not always and their relationship is an example for a complicated but not problematic one).

KOMAEDA

Komaeda wasn't a yandere or dorodere. He didn't want Hinata exclusively for himself. He didn't hurt anyone Hinata was close to (oh, wait, he didn't have any friends, everyone was remembering Hinata when they wanted something from him or just were some programmed AI but still it doesn't change the fact he didn't try to separate Hinata from the rest). On the contrary. He asked Hinata to kill him so he would get a chance to escape. He never tried to make Hinata believe the same way as him. He wasn't selfish. Do you remember Komaeda telling Hinata that he's in love with him? Before the fourth class trial he tells Hinata: "why do I care about you?" what is sort of a continuation to his last FTE. I could say that everything from the fourth investigation is an extension to this scene but that's just my interpretation (remember: FTEs are canon what is explicitly showed in the case of locking Imposter's last FTE until Island Mode and locking Komaeda's scenes if Hinata didn't spend time with him during the first day).

HINATA

Do you want Hinata's side? Here you are: Hinata never hated Komaeda. He even wanted to forgive him after learning about him being terminally ill (I'll go back to this part later in the post) and just was confused like everyone else but unlike the rest he knew the real Komaeda – that traumatized, terminally ill guy and the thing Hinata wanted was to understand him. In chapter 4 when Komaeda tells Hinata that he "played" Russian Roulette Hinata openly shows his worry by saying: "you could die!" Later, in chapter 5 after they force-opened the doors Hinata was scared to the point he couldn't move and later he was refusing to accept the fact Komaeda was dead. During the investigation when Hinata for the first and only time enters Komaeda's cottage, "All Star Apologies" is playing in the background when Hinata wonders what Komaeda was thinking and doing when he was still alive. In the morning after the trial when he's informed about Komaeda's last will he's full of determination what is seen only if you interact with Komaeda's cottage. In chapter 6 when Hinata is reading about hope he says to himself that Komaeda's hope was the real hope. He wouldn't think it if he hated Komaeda. The ultimate confirmation of Hinata not hating Komaeda is SDR2.5 that was written by Kodaka (I'm mentioning it because DR3 wasn't) and you can see Hinata doing everything to wake Komaeda up of comatose. In the ending they were standing together away of the group.

ISLAND MODE

It's also interesting to take a look at Island Mode that is an alternative plot. It's full of Hinata caring about Komaeda and shows him being interested in him in a romantic way. Just see Komaeda's ending. Hinata is kind of disappointed when Komaeda stops and asks: "will you be my friend?" but later they're holding hands and it's not the only time they were doing that. They were also hand-holding two times in SDR2.5 and in UTDP once.

WHICH "DERE" KOMAEDA IS?

Going back to the part about Komaeda being ill. He's the perfect example of byoukidere – a character who's usually sweet but suffers of an illness. Komaeda was very sweet to Hinata but there were moments when symptoms of him being sick were appearing, "twisting" him (do you remember when Komaeda started "rambling about hope" and when he snapped out he was making no idea what was going on?) There was also a very important moment during chapter 3 where he almost died of despair disease. Without following his FTE you have no idea why was his condition so bad. It was also the moment when Hinata was openly worried about Komaeda. Komaeda is also an utsudere. He was traumatized, suicidal and was initially masking it (he was taking the mask off while talking to Hinata).

"IT'S NOT CANON WAAAAAH"

I'm not about to say that "KomaHina is canon" because it's not. Them being a couple is heavily implied by canon but it doesn't make them a canon ship. Yet, there's something that IS canon. They were attracted to each other in a romantic way and seriously, you don't need them to kiss on screen. Look at the scene above. If there was nothing between them, they wouldn't spend time separating themselves from the rest of the group (what a funny detail that they're mirroring each other, I mean Komaeda is holding food in the right hand while Hinata is holding it in his left).

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