give me two characters who are each other’s home. two characters who feel completely safe, warm and protected in each other’s presence, and who are completely respected by the other. two people who, on some level or another, were missing that little extra spark they needed to feel fully confident and accepted as their whole selves until the other came along. they don’t “fix each other” or “make each other better”–they give the other the support they need to build on what was already inside them. sure they might kiss, or make goo-goo eyes, but they can also just…talk, and make each other laugh and smile, because for once they feel comfortable enough in themselves and with each other to be vulnerable in that way. two complete people who finally find someone to share all of themselves with. and no matter what they do or how far they go, they’ll always have each other to come back home to.
- lost and found
Wakes up insanely early but also free day so. Honestly don’t know about you but I’m suffering from brain rot but and this blog’s beginning and continuation of having Tumblr completely ..... not make things work right. Will that stop me? Probably not but it’s a bit frustrating! It’s just one of those things that it inevitably when you think it never will, will probably sort itself out.
Honestly my first meta will be about Kenshin’s red gi but I also just want to talk about one of my favorite fights / that one time Kenshin roasted someone so bad they were almost Shishio 2.0 aka the second battle with Shinomori Aoshi and just how Kenshin gives so much wisdom and inner, unshakable strength of will against empty physical strength and how he calls him out on it as using it to do awful things.
It’s a great example that while Kenshin is the strongest warrior of the Bakumatsu / Revolution in this canon, that’s literally stated in the opening pages starting our story, and just how I feel again, Kenshin hones in on what matters. Is it cool that you can single-handedly deal from 14-19 against adult men of the Shinsengumi on your own at once without breaking a sweat greats like Okita Souji and Saito Hajime and make them consider if it’s smart to touch you? Much less be the very person to make them break back or break their stance, again, at once? Yes, it’s very impressive and quite scary and very telling that at that young he’s so strong, in that way.
Is it perhaps even more compelling to me that such a legendary swordsman has a soul, even when it’s ultimately tested and broken, restores itself at the end of the story simply by listening to an innocent girl weeping for his protection to save an innocent life and finds even when he wants to give up, his own will won’t let him? In a way, yes. Both aren’t exclusive. But it gives Kenshin’s title of strongest in battle new meaning when you realize that out of every character in Ruroken, Kenshin’s willpower / will to live is the highest and “off the charts “ , canonly in one of the many info books that...I don’t have my hands on.
Me: And most of the series he didn’t even care if he lived or died! GROWTH.
Also me: That is chapters and volumes away / a season away. One thing at a time!
BTS Rurouni Kenshin: Saishusho The Final and Rurouni Kenshin: Saishusho The Beginning, with Kenshin and Kaoru.
A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. That is the truth. What Miss Kaoru says is sweet and innocent talk that only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of men can believe. But, to tell you the truth, I much prefer Miss Kaoru’s sweet and innocent talk over the truth, indeed I do!.
Strength Of A Thousand Men - Two Steps From Hell
[bottles up feelings and lets them age for 10 years like a fine wine]
@miburoni when miss sunny and i go back into the bakumatsu to meiji restoration times .... ishin shishi and shinsengumi bonding . . . . wholesome..... kenshin and hijikata bonding imminent, a walking mass of talent if i do say so myself. guess i’m making a fate verse and working harder than ever on my research / reviewing! people like her are worth following. this is a polite promo.
𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄'𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙚; 𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮; 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙖𝙬𝙣.
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