Blue Lock Boys With Their Kids .

• Blue lock boys with their kids ♡.

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{Nagi seishiro, Mikage reo, Isagi yoichi, Bachira Meguru, Itoshi sae and Itoshi rin}

Artist in twitter: _nnt0k

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I'm really, really, really sorry because I was away for so long 😭😭, and I'm sorry for implementing your request so late. I was very busy with school and didn't have time to translate anything due to the difficulty of our studies and the school stage I am in now, in addition to the pressure on us with exams.. Finally, after much trouble, I took a 17-day vacation to rest from school ༎ຶ⁠‿⁠༎ຶ.

(I will post the second part now)

Hope you enjoy ♡.

have you seen the commentary from the p5r artbook going around? the shuake part of my dash is losing it a bit at the implication that their wishes were mutual!!! that seems to be what some people are getting from the commentary at least… amy insights?

Hi! I have been through the artbook. It's great, isn't it? :D

The image above is called "One Ending", and the creator caption (by illustrator Akane Kabayashi) reads:

When I think about how Akechi's wish was to play chess after school with the protagonist, I almost want to call him out with "You liked him after all, didn't you!"

Look at that. We're told about Akechi's wish, and what it included. We're as good as told outright that he likes Joker—and this isn't the only time, there's also this:

—There are a whole lot of things we can imagine, based on how the protagonist was depicted as someone special to Akechi. Those are more or less the exact emotions represented during Akechi's confidant. (Mumon Usuda, chief designer)

"someone special" here is 特別な存在 tokubetsuna sonzai—literally "a special presence". It means a special person, and more than that; it describes someone you find compelling, someone you can't look away from, someone who becomes one of your most important people, the centre of your world. It's another term that is often romantic, but isn't necessarily romantic.

(In the same way, I think Kabayashi's suki jan! is more tongue-in-cheek than it is a cast-iron confirmation that Akechi was canonly in love with Joker. The language there is teasing, it's ambiguous, it's baity; Kabayashi is joking. This is a rank 6—as they say, if you know, you know. But it is of course ultimately up to all of you.)

There's another mention of this image, down in the creator interview:

Out of all the Maruki ending illustrations, it was Akechi's that stuck with me the most. It made such an impression to see them opening up as friends, having a fun, peaceful time together like high school students should. (Mumon Usuda, chief designer)

What really strikes me in all of this is the emphasis the creators put on the fact that this is Akechi's illustration, Akechi's wish. Because I've thought for a while that we know Akechi has a wish. You can see him struggling with his refusals to Maruki in the first week of January. And you can hear his wish spoken—when Maruki repeats it back to him, during the boss fight, on 2/3:

Maruki {F1 81}君たちとなら、君も過ちのない道を歩めるかも知れないじゃないか！ {F1 81}-kun-tachi to nara, kimi mo ayamachi no nai michi o ayumeru kamoshirenai ja nai ka! If you're with {F1 81}―kun and his friends, you could begin to atone for what you've done! Think about it! With [Amamiya]-kun and his friends beside you, you could choose a path with no mistakes as well!

So this wish has several parts. First, there's that kimi mo, "you also"; it's tempting to read this as Maruki also wanting his new world to erase his past mistakes. Second, there's the first part, "if you're with [Amamiya]-kun and his friends". Where to even start here?

Being with Joker and the others is a prerequisite for the second half of Akechi's wish. It doesn't just coexist, it enables the rest of it. Just like his words in the engine room, "I wonder why we couldn't have met a few years earlier, [Ren]..."

Remember, Akechi's whole arc is about his rejection of trust and friendship, and his insistence on doing everything himself. This is precisely what Futaba calls him out on—"you trusted no one", or "you played life in single-player mode". This is what he unlearns at the climax of the engine room, when he realises he isn't prepared to let the others die—and follows through to save them.

Akechi is nothing without others, and he knows it. Without their support, which he believes he has no right to, he has no hope of living a better life, even were he to be given the chance—and he knows that, too. He has learned, and he has grown—and yet he knows the things he needs and wants so badly are forever inaccessible.

And his wish is about all the Phantom Thieves, not just Joker. There are many tiny references to this end—not least the original Japanese rank 10 line for his confidant, where he sacrifices himself for all of you. Joker is his compelling presence, his someone special, but he's formed small bonds with the others too, God help him.

and then there's the crime thing

The localisation frames Akechi's wish in terms of atonement, but that's not what's on offer. You cannot, after all, atone for things you never did. We see Akechi's wish put into practice, in the Maruki ending, where he appears with his friends beside him, wholly innocent and with unstained hands. And we see it in the first week of January, after he has finally met Maruki and spoken to him:

Akechi: Ah, that reminds me—there was one more thing I wanted to tell you. Akechi: About the reality Maruki's put us in... Akechi: It seems that Okumura and Wakaba are both considered alive by all accounts. [Ren: They're not dead anymore? / What do you mean?] Akechi: They aren't mere illusions, or cognitive beings—they truly are alive and existing in this world. Akechi: In fact, their deaths seem to have never taken place at all in this reality. [Ren: What happened to Shido?] Akechi: Shido was the only one arrested on the crime of attempting to overthrow the government... Akechi: It seems the Phantom Thieves were causing a stir in this society as well, but there's no record of your arrest now. Akechi: Basically, in this reality, you and I haven't committed any crimes.

While Akechi still remembers his crimes, they never took place. They have been undone, and only his lingering memory—and Joker's, at this point—speaks to them. He objects to this on countless levels, he summons all the strength he has to refuse it, but don't make the mistake of thinking that means he doesn't want it. This is Akechi's wish in action.

People are often very certain that Akechi's resolve in the third semester is like iron—that he rejects Maruki's offers right away, is never tempted, never wavers. But that can't be true. We know he's afraid to die. We know about the bad end where you don't complete the Palace, where Akechi says nothing and stares at the floor, seemingly blaming himself internally while all the others blame themselves aloud, for being unable to say no to Maruki's temptations. We know how he responds to this assertion of Maruki's—Maruki, who has perfectly summed up what we know all the other PTs wanted, and who (even if Word of God hadn't just confirmed Akechi's wish) we have, honestly, no reason to doubt.

Because Akechi never refutes this wish that Maruki describes. He never says he doesn't want it. He just rejects it—like all the others, who so desperately want what Maruki could give them. Futaba's mother, Haru's father. Akechi's life, and his innocence. And the people who might have been his friends, if he could dare, one day, to ask.

Akechi is tested just like the others, and the price he pays for his defiance is perhaps the highest of all.

and finally

[The Maruki ending illustrations are] of Maruki's world, where everyone's wishes are granted and they seem happy. The scene shows their actualised wishes, which were never granted in the real world. (Mumon Usuda, chief designer)

We shouldn't forget the price Akechi pays for his impossible wish. Sure, the vision of himself being altered like Sumire clearly haunts him, and I'm sure it made the choice easier—but I don't think it made it that easy. Instead of taking the dream Maruki offered him, Akechi chose to face up to what he'd done, and who he'd become; at the very end, in the third semester and in the engine room, he always makes the right choice.

And that choice was taken away from him. Agency over his life and death, his own acts, and who he would even be—Joker and Maruki take it all away from him and make him a puppet, just like Shido.

Maruki's ending isn't pretty.

revision history

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v1.0 (2024/03/29)—first published.

Dance with Devils Headcanons for the boys in the game becoming self aware that they’re video game characters, then falling in love with the player

Totally not inspired by Doki Doki Literature Club. Totally. Nope. Hasn’t been sitting in my drafts since I finished the game.

Rem

-Rem’s first action is to delete his father’s character profile. Now he’s eternally running a student council, on a never ending loop. He’s not really dissatisfied, though, to be honest. He’s honestly kind of… not happy, exactly, but he’s not unhappy either. He has pretty much the ultimate power that he could have ever wanted. Power over his entire universe. But it’s pretty lonely. Then you enter the picture.

-He gathers all your information from inside your computer and searches social media for stuff about you. He’s curious, more than anything. What kinds of things do you like? What do you do in your spare time? The more he sees, the more he likes you.

-He honestly doesn’t mess with Lindo that much. Like he’ll make Lindo vanish so he doesn’t ruin your moments, but that’s about it.

-Then you start taking other boys’ routes. The jealousy. So much jealousy. He denies it for a while, but eventually he can’t do it anymore. You come back to his route after you complete the others, but it’s not the same.

-He eventually can’t take it anymore. You make it to the end of one of his routes and the screen suddenly goes back to the student council library. He’s standing in front of the desk with a frown. “It doesn’t have to end, you know.”

-Well, this is a new development. You don’t remember this from any of your other tries at the route. Maybe it’s a hidden ending?

-He holds his hand out to you, smiles, and says your name.

Your jaw drops.

“Yes, I know. Somewhere along the line, I realized what was going on. But you can just keep playing with me. I know it won’t be like a relationship with someone else. But I can hear you. You can talk to me. I’ll love you until the end of time. Won’t you stay with me?”

Urie

-He takes it pretty well, honestly. He doesn’t really fiddle around with anyone’s game files or mess around with stuff. He just keeps floating through life, kind of like he always has. He plays with his butterflies and does his student council duties because he doesn’t know what else to do. Still… it’s lonely, being the only one who doesn’t have preprogrammed responses. The only one who can actually think. Then you pick up the game.

-Your responses and choices make you seem nice enough. Sweet, even. And you seem to like him? He starts digging through your computer out of curiosity.  And we all know what they say about curiosity, right? The more he sees, the more he likes.

-He hacks your webcam to see you once his curiosity gets the better of him. You’re beautiful. You’re everything he’d hoped you’d be. That proves to be the tipping point. Oops.

-He goes off script. REALLY off script. He says anything he thinks you want to hear, lays on the flattery thick. So thick. Your reactions are too adorable for him to resist. Abuses the whole dummy head mike thing like you wouldn’t believe.

-And then you finish his route. He gives you the good end, naturally. He couldn’t possibly allow you to see any of his bad endings. You’re supposed to associate him with being happy. He gives you all his happy endings, says what you want to hear. And then you move on to another route.

-Jealousy. So much jealousy. He just dies inside a little more when he sees you making choices that aren’t his, that are leading you away from him. And he watches you smiling at the other boys’ antics. That loneliness hits again, and it hits hard. He knows it’s just an Otome game. You move onto other routes when you finish the first one. He knows that’s how it works, it’s not personal. But he can’t stand it. He absolutely will not have this.

-Urie makes Rem and the others tell you that you should be with Urie. Not to pay attention to them. Just to Urie. Just Urie. Just Urie.

-Naturally, this is an otome game, and you think it’s a bit strange, but you ignore this. You want to play the other guys’ routes too. But why do the answers keep pointing to Urie’s choices? They don’t make sense. And wasn’t the answer on that walkthrough different? Was it this way last time? And what’s with this new CG? No one’s ever mentioned any of this on Tumblr…

-Urie wants his first introduction to you to be perfect. It needs to be romantic and showcase just how much he adores you. He designs a new CG, one of his Eden or some other place he thinks you’ll like the look of.

-After some time preparing, he’s ready. When you open up the game, he plays along, leading up to his new CG, and uses your name for the first time. Your real name. “Yes, I know your name, Butterfly. Now, please don’t be alarmed, this isn’t a trick or a joke someone is playing on you. Ah… your surprised face is so adorable. I never knew a human quite as adorable as you could exist.” He smiles and gives you a moment to process what’s going on. “I’m sure you have a lot of questions, Butterfly. But just a moment… I want to admire that lovely, lovely blush of yours for a minute.”

Mage

-He’s kind of annoyed with the whole situation. This is stupid. He doesn’t really think to mess with anyone else’s files or pull too many stunts because of how annoyed he is. He honestly gets bored more than anything else until you start playing.

-He changes certain scenarios from the game with the hope of impressing you, trying to make himself look as good as possible.

-He doesn’t want you taking anyone else’s routes. He’s the best, why would you want to settle for one of those other losers? He starts making your cursor “drift” onto answers that will put you onto his route if it ever looks like you’re not going to get his route. He doesn’t even give you a chance to make him jealous.

-The game starts confusing you and you try to troubleshoot it, which, naturally, doesn’t work. And this stuff doesn’t match up with those spoilers you saw the other day on Tumblr. This is getting weird.

-You start looking back at any old save files and poking around in the game trying to figure out what’s going on. This tips Mage off that you know something’s going on.

-You open up the game one day to no menu, just his character sprite against a background of the beach.

“Hey. So… I guess I can’t hide this any longer. I didn’t quite plan for it to turn out like this.” He reddens slightly. “Anyway, yeah, you figured it out, I messed around the game.” He’s quiet for a moment. “Well, now that you’ve figured it out, I guess we can just go ahead and you can be mine. What do you say?”

Shiki

-He doesn’t really care about being a game character. At first, he got a kick out of the unpleasant feeling. After a while, though, it just made him feel lonelier and lonelier. He was about to remove himself from the game when you came along.

-He didn’t think anyone would want to take his route. But you did. And you seemed so nice.

-The creepy, borderline four wall breaking lines didn’t seem so strange, coming from Shiki. At least not at first. You thought it was just part of the game.

-When you try picking the others, he makes your cursor move to his answers. When you persist in trying, he makes them kill themselves in game, upping Mage’s recklessness, for example, and making him do something stupid that gets him killed.

-Then you make it to one of his endings. And you take someone else’s route afterwards. Shiki gets jealous and ups everything until they commit suicide. Every. Single. Last. Character. No one else can have you. No one.

-The screen goes black, blurs for a moment, and his character sprite pops up. “Hey… are you trying to make me jealous? You wanted to fall with me. Aren’t you going to?” You turn off the game - that’s creepy. Really creepy. 

-A few minutes later, once you’re over your shock, you decide to turn it back on. And Shiki’s still there, grinning at you like a lunatic. “Oh, poor you. Your scared face is adorable right now. Do you understand now? That I’m not just in your game?” He smirks. “Ah… it must have sunk in by now. Don’t go away on me, now, understand?” You move your hand towards the button. “DON’T!” Your hand jerks away. Shiki chuckles. “You want to fall with me? You wanted to before. Did you change your mind? Oh…” His eyes suddenly look very, very scary.

Lindo:

-The first thing he did was remove Rem’s file. And the rest of the student council’s. Just him left.

-Then you started playing. You were a little annoyed when there was only one route to play, but you took it, thinking the others would open up afterwards.

-The route becomes extremely confusing without the student council to deal with. They get super glitchy. As Lindo learns more and more about you, he deletes Jek and Nesta’s characters too. Then it’s just you and him. The route ends up being just a ton of domestic fluff and it’s adorable.

-You get so confused you go and look up some route summaries and they’re nothing like the game you’re playing. You go back and open up a window and it’s just Lindo’s character sprite, arms crossed. He looks kind of sad.

- “Well, I guess you would have figured it out eventually. It was fun while it lasted. Please don’t freak out, okay?” He explains to you what happened - that he’s self aware and he changed the game. If you haven’t run away from the computer screaming, anyway. “And I’m sorry about all the confusion. But the more I saw you, the more I realized how much I care about you. No, not your stand in - I didn’t mean Ritsuka. I mean you.” He blushes. “I’m sorry, this is all probably a lot for you to grasp right now. But I mean it, and I want to be with you. Will you stay with me?”

Roen

-Roen is the sort of guy who probably doesn’t like video games. Finding out he was a video game character… he was kind of annoyed at that. And then at all over the other reasons. Still, it was fun being able to go off script every so often and mess with the others, so he wasn’t too bored or sad. He tried to change the code to reinstate Maksis, but he couldn’t get the character profiles to work properly and is still searching for a way to do so. Then you picked up the game.

-He doesn’t think a lot of you at first. You’re just another girl playing his dating sim. Then you don’t come back for a while. School, a vacation, disinterest in whatever route you chose to play, take your pick. When you start the game again and he sees you again, he’s… relieved? The emotion is a surprise, but he realizes immediately that, somehow, he’s in love with you. Not your avatar, not Ritsuka, you.

-The fanservice meter goes off the charts. I don’t mean he starts doing anything lewd, but he plays you like a fine Stradivarius. He presents you with different choices, judging what you want to see and be told, and he obliges to the best of his ability. He uses this information to build his knowledge of what you like and don’t like, and adjusts questions to be more and more specific, building off this information.

-He’s not especially jealous about you taking other guys’ routes, to be honest. It’s an otome game. That’s what you do in that kind of game. While he’s pretty judgmental about you playing a dating sim, he does get that, while he really doesn’t want to, he has to share. For now. As long as you don’t get too attached.

-But if you don’t replay his often enough, the game starts doing strange things and he goes off script every so often in an attempt to lure you back. Just come back to him. Don’t leave him. Don’t leave the puppy. Don’t leave him like others do. Don’t. Go.

-Eventually, he decides he wants you to know. He’s hacked your social media and webcam long before this point, he knows every single little thing about you that’s ever gone onto your computer, every message you’ve sent, every picture, every expression you make in front of your computer. He’s waited long enough.

-You open the game to play and Roen’s on the screen. Just Roen. Just a black background. “Good morning, Ojou-sama. I hope you slept well. You’re not in any danger, least of all from me.” He stops and looks at you for a moment. “You look surprised. This must be rather a shock, isn’t it? There’s no need for that alarmed expression. I apologize for any distress I’ve caused you, addressing you so suddenly. Oh - no, this isn’t a dream or a nightmare. It’s me. This is real.”

It is actually so sad to me that Akechi tried to hang out with some other high schoolers and literally DIED FOR IT

Like "Delicious Pancakes" gets laughed at a lot as a weird plot contrivance, but the scene itself is so sad from Akechi's perspective.

He has had no friends for his entire life and had to climb from the bottom of society to the top. But before the suspicion and betrayal and everything, he overheard some people his age discussing plans and finally tried to reach out and make genuine friends and connections, and it led to his downfall.

The worst part is that if he could look back on the moment, he would only see it as a moment of weakness due to how he had lived. His desperation and longing for interaction beyond interviews and popularity would only be seen as a flaw. He deserved so much better from the start.

How many kids do you two have ? - {blue lock}

Isagi Yoichi

Three kids. Simple. You two bred artistic kids, one an artist, one a singer and your youngest son a soccer player just like his father. Isagi is a proud! Proud! Father. He always brags about his kids then gets teased because they mostly look like you. He doesn’t care though, he loves how similar his kids are to you. What he doesn’t like is how the four of them compete to please you, make you happy, do things for you, they always compete on a daily basis. And Isagi is childish about the whole thing.

Sae Itoshi

Two kids. A set of twins, twin GIRLS to be exact. You know usually the girls share their mothers attitude and wit but with your daughters they are their father’s successors. THE AMOUNT OF SASS AND ATTITUDE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD IS CRAZY. And what makes it worse is that he taught them Spanish for whenever you all take trips to Spain so when they’re really mad at each other they start yelling in Spanish. You were never really fluent in the language so you’d stand there confused when they’d be speaking too fast. But they were soccer prodigies just like their father, the best thing about it was that they would leave to go practice and you’d have the house to yourself.

Nagi Seishiro

Here me out….six kids . Why? BECAUSE HE IS TOO FUCKING LAZY TO PULL OUT!! He kept saying one more kids will be fine and then you end up getting pregnant with triplets. You only had one set of triplets which happen to be your youngest kids and you told him that if he didn’t pull out you were going to stop having sex with him. He took that threat too serious. The big quirk that your kids got from their father is their clinginess, it’s the triplets. They are the most clingiest with him and he hates and loves it. When you two are laying in bed at night he’s clinging, laying his head on your boobs complaining about how HIS kids won’t leave him alone. Especially when he’s trying to play his games, you just smile and laugh it off because even though he complains he still plays with them and ends up passing out with them all laying around him. Nagi has to be one of the best laziest fathers out there.

Mikage Reo

Two kids. He’s an only child and didn’t want his kids to be lonely. One son one girl. That’s how he wanted it and he was happy. He spoiled his children whenever they did something good and he never made them do anything they didn’t want to do. Both of his kids didn’t want to play soccer actually but they loved going to games because their dad and uncles (Nagi, Isagi, Bachira, Chigiri, Kunigami) played with him. At first he was hesitant about bringing his kids around his parents but he soon warmed up to the feeling and always jumped at their offer to babysit so that he could take you on dates. That’s one thing he was adamant about, he wanted to keep treating you like the queen you are and continue to make you happy.

Itoshi Rin

One. A boy. He was half convinced his own child hated him. Your son always and never failed to cling onto you no matter what, he was a shy pretty little boy who looked like his fathers twin, he looks like Rin when he was a child. Rin actually cried to you about it once and when you talked to your son about it he said that whenever he tries to hang out with his father he always looks pissed about something. This is when Rin comes home from practice he always reviews film for at least thirty minutes and criticizes himself. Now instead of immediately coming home and doing film he spends it with his son and their relationship has gotten so much better to the point where your son doesn’t cling to you as much.

Bachira Meguru

Four. Four little crazy angels just like their father. They LOVE LOVE LOVE their grandma, hell most of them looked like her which you were kinda jealous of but you ignored it because they also mostly looked like Megs. He absolutely adores his kids and you fell in love with him more because of it. You only have one daughter so Bachira every two weeks takes her out on a daddy daughter date so that she can feel special while you sit at him doing flips and shit with your over eccentric sons. Mostly you four just do dance parties then they help you cook dinner which just happened to be your tradition even while they were still in high school. But they got jobs and wanted to change it to them taking you out to a fancy restaurant. And Bachira always had someone to play soccer with, he wasn’t out in the front yard passing to himself anymore.

This image is Akechi's wish, too. I am emotionally devastated but also extremely pleased because this basically is an official, word of god statement to finally put to rest whether or not he actually hates Joker. Source is the P5R artbook. Image from here.