Thought I Forgot About This Au Didn't Ya

thought i forgot about this au didn't ya

what a pleasure to be reborn again

why is teruko sexist? I don't see it

(*On why the Teruko scene is sexist, not Teruko herself)

Imagine being a female character in a seinen manga.

You've got near zero character elaboration or growth or expansion. Readers literally know nothing about you. You don't have a backstory. Your only role so far has seemed to be moving the plot forward. And now there's just been two intensely homoerotic chapters between two main male characters, and at the resolution of those, you're required to enter the stage. However, it's not of your own volition; it's to solve the command of what one of the two male character had previously ordered you. The command, specifically, is to kill him. That brings you immense pain, because apparently your love for him was deep and true (and not an ignorable irrelevant side gag as some readers hoped). By the way, you're killing him to spare that PRECISE feeling of pain born from having to kill a loved one to the other male character, because of course your commander wouldn't put him through that, but making you suffer the same is fine apparently.

So now you've killed him, right? I mean you impaled the man with your own hands, and yeah maybe he ordered you to do that so it wasn't your decision and you don't have free will or freedom of choice and never will in this franchise, and yeah maybe you're being used again as nothing but a plot device, and yeah maybe you're only making nothing more than a four pages appearance again despite the last two chapters having been nothing but male spotlight, and yeah maybe you were once again delegated to the role of love interest to a man who doesn't requite your feelings– but at least you can claim to have done that, right? You can say you killed him! Maybe, if the author feels merciful, they'll even spare a few panels to elaborate on how doing that effected you.

Wrong. You didn't kill him. The cool action doesn't belong to you. You can't own it. The honour of doing that, the courage, the pain, the determination and moral conflict it required, it's not yours to retain, to posses, to show off. You're now submitting your sword – your sword!! The symbol of your role and of your power and a great motif for your character! – to the other male character. You're screaming, “You killed him! You are the one who cut down the captain! Any other story, and I'll make you regret it!”. That is the story. The story is his, it's theirs, not yours. There was no space for you in it since the beginning. There's tears in your eyes.

Imagine being a female character in a seinen manga.

Hiii I'm back (I'm "Grace", I came here on anon before) and God.

The «All for me? All for you.» art has this chokehold on me ohmyGod.

Fukuchi looks pretty, conflicted, but still stern. He knows what he did was wrong, but it's all for the ''greater good''; he needs to stop this war from happening.

Jōnō you ominous mf ily.

Tecchō's next sentence is probably going to be “And I don't regret doing it for you.” (he might regret going to look for an already dead Jōnō instead of staying to help Teruko and the rest with the fight vs Fyodor, but he'll never regret working to save the people.)

TERUKO MY BABY, MY DAUGHTER, MY EVERYTHING YOU DESERVED A RELIABLE FATHER FIGURE, AND A HUG.

Your art is so pretty jddjdjdb

hello gracee!! <3 yes i've seen your first ask, i'm still doodling for it i'm afraid,,

ALSO THANK YOU HEHE... i didn't intend for it to be a meaningful piece to be honest! but i thought it'd be cool to give it a little concept given the expressions i chose for the close-ups

absolutely in love with your reactions to each close-up... ALSO YEAH PLEASE GOD,,, THE TECCHOU ONE? good drawing idea. i'll have to yoink that.

TERUKO MY LITTLE BABY I MISS HER

thank you so much!! looking forward to hear from u again <3

elise

sometimes you look at someone’s art and you know EXACTLY what’s going on and you’re like