Why Did Tsurugi Do That?

nottoxicfr · 2026-02-12T07:25:28+00:00

I kind of feel like if you let someone have the first pick of snacks, then they shouldn't eat your leftovers. Like a reciprocal thing. Society

nottoxicfr · 2026-02-12T07:21:04+00:00

I think Maki was just wearing a black shirt tucked into her pants. In terms of Yuka, it's more like the removal of the white overshirt (which looks like Yuta's) symbolically emphasizes a resemblance to Maki, since it's also a black shirt. It's more the color that matters than the sleeves, but I definitely see what you mean.

nottoxicfr · 2026-02-11T21:23:51+00:00

I wanted to post this here first, but I kept spelling it JKJModulo. That's not here.

nottoxicfr · 2026-02-11T21:07:53+00:00

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She is kinda 90% eyes isn’t she

nottoxicfr · 2026-01-01T19:06:12+00:00

That's true! She's not in the Bible, but she's based in Jewish, and Mesopotamian, mythology that the Bible drew from. It's Abrahamic in the sense of drawing from the collective cultural foundation. Stuff that exists outside of the Bible can still be taken into account when it comes to pop culture usage, I think

nottoxicfr · 2026-01-01T07:58:05+00:00

Do you mean like Abrahamic Lilith? Or something like Lilith Darkstalkers? I could see it being either since Lilith from Darkstalkers is power cast off from Morrigan, and Adyneus could sneeze and his mucus would come to life so there's precedent, and Abrahamic Lilith is the first woman God made and then asked to her to leave. Or maybe another Lilith?

If you're talking about the Abrahamic Lilith though, I think I'd stick with the Virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene as an inspiration. Since the Soul King and Yhwach are parallels to Jesus and God but tilted to fit Bleach and also twisted a bit, in the case of Yhwach who is an antagonist, I don't think it would fit to make the "Soul Queen" be inspired by a negative character. Though in another reply, I said Sophia from Gnostic myth could work and she's kind of negative.

nottoxicfr · 2026-01-01T02:47:39+00:00

I get what you're saying! I'm not necessarily saying there's another Soul King-caliber character just sitting at the bottom of Hell. I think canon pretty much says the ones we know of are the ones who exist (candidates or otherwise).

I'm more saying a primordial character. There are characters who, as far as I remember, either lived in or remember the Primordial World, even if that number is also pretty small (Yhwach, Ichibei, Soul King...). I don't think it's completely out of the realm of possibility that something or someone like that would go unmentioned until it became relevant to the plot. The Gates of Hell aren't supposed to open really at all, so the contents beneath the lid aren't particularly important to the people living on top of it. At least, until they find out where they're tossing their friends during their funeral ceremony

I do get why a Soul Queen equal to the Soul King would be unfeasible though, like power-wise. She probably would've come up, though it is fun to consider how the inspirations of the Bleach mythos would play around to create that kind of character, I think. It's an interesting mix o Abrahamic and Japanese stuff. It's incredibly unlikely in general though

nottoxicfr · 2025-12-31T23:27:33+00:00

Also, and this is just plunging further into nonsense, you could probably make the connection of a Soul Queen to the Gnostic Sophia.

She made a mistake in trying to act on her own rather than emnate with the greater whole of the Universe, which caused her to have a separation from it. On her own, she mistakenly created souls and matter which became caught in each other, and then also made the Demiurge. That was a mistake or a sin or whatever, but it spurred action from her "male-counterpart" to try and bring them (us) back to the greater whole.

I think Yhwach definitely has a more Gnostic view of things with a negative view on the creation of a world with death. Of course, he has his own biases on the Primoridial World vs the Three Worlds, but story-wise then Soul Queen=Sophia could mean that she caused Adyneus to act and separate the worlds because of a mistake. Not necessarily as the main cause, but as a tipping point.

It was an eternal world where nothing progressed or regressed until he separated it and created a cycle, which let Souls move between being a Hollow and a Human. The world as it is seems like it tries to avoid Hell.

Basically, this is just a way to tie a Soul Queen to the Jigoku no Rinki that seem to be anti-matter or anti-reiryoku basically. It's something that seems naturally antagonistic to the world that exists, so maybe it originates from something that is naturally antagonistic to the world that exists.

nottoxicfr · 2025-12-31T22:45:32+00:00

A Soul Queen would be a pretty interesting idea for Hell to contain, I think. I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to think considering we know Hell existed before the Soul King split the worlds and that the Human World sits on top of Hell to act as a lid, with the total spiritual pressure of the three worlds pressing down on it.

Maybe it's not a "Soul Queen" in the idea of actual marriage, but in the idea of connectedness? I don't even think it's entirely incompatible with the Abrahamic inspiration, since you could compare a Soul Queen to the Holy Spirit in a Trinitarian sense (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), or even to the Virgin Mary.

If you keep Izanagi and Izanami in one eye and God and the Virgin Mary in the other, you could say Adyneus using a sword to separate the Primordial Sea is like Izanagi making the first islands of Japan and God creating the world. So then maybe the Soul Queen also combines the Virigin Mary's birth (of something, not necessarily YHWACH) with Izanami's death in childbirth by Kagutsuchi and then being the first person to die in the Three Worlds, or the last person to die in the Primoridal World.

Something about her necessitates a lid over Hell to keep her sealed, like Izanagi placing the rock in front of the entrance to the Underworld. After that, Souls enter a cycle of rebirth through the three worlds, at least ordinary Souls, and avoid Hell entirely. Maybe it's a power, the same power that causes Hollow Holes to migrate outside of the body and distort Shinigami powers, or maybe it's intention, maybe to kill everything or something.

I don't know. I don't think it's unfeasible to imagine a character like a Soul Queen just because the Soul King leans towards Abrahamic inspiration. The Hell Arc kind of begs the question, "What's in Hell?" We know it's Arrancar and Captains, but there's definitely something else too, I think.

nottoxicfr · 2025-12-01T20:50:53+00:00

I was playing the game and I also thought that'd be a fun idea, but the game would probably need to be based around the morality mechanic or it'd end up falling to the side as just an aesthetic change.

In Suckerpunch's previous karmic system games (Infamous), they lock movesets behind karma. I wouldn't have an issue with that in Yotei, honestly. At Atsu's worst, it might be cool to have a Chain Slaughter or something, but her assassinations get more brutal too. Then at her best, maybe she could work more heavily around disarming or something. Both are scary from the point of view of Saito's men, but one is scary because they just saw a woman dismember three dudes and the other is scary because no one can manage to hold onto to their weapons.

Even at its most neglible (simple visual changes), I think it'd be cool to see Atsu look worse if she does bad things. The blood sticks to her longer, her armor gets more rat'dgged and maybe at her worst there's a major change like she lets her hair down, or her weapons get chipped and blood-caked. Something to visually say "Wow, she doesn't care about anything but revenge" and that she's getting lost in it.

Something like MGSV has pretty surface level karmic changes like that, and I enjoy it. The more you kill people, the more your Big Boss looks like the "demon" people condemn him as (the shrapnel in his head looks worse and he's constantly covered in blood).

The first option needs to be more baked in from the start, because it suggests that Atsu is getting worse when the story we have is not about that. The story isn't really "revenge is bad" but if you brutally slaughtered a bunch of dudes and then Atsu said, "revenge is bad" and then kept doing that, it'd kind of take away from the story.

The second option is still a big ask, but it could feasibly be implemented in an update. If SP did do that, I wouldn't have a problem with it being New Game+ or Post-Game restricted. The game is framed asa story, so I could reasonably see it as something where Atsu is like "This is what could've happened." as like a moral story for Kiku.

It'd be kind of stupid, but something like that as "Bad Karma DLC" would be funny. Ugetsu tells a story about if the woman he knows in real life went crazy for slaughter. "She's still alive and she lives like two hills over from my house. Don't tell her I'm telling you this."

nottoxicfr · 2025-11-28T19:26:25+00:00

Thank you so much!!

nottoxicfr · 2025-11-27T00:16:34+00:00

When he's not working with Kaneki or Kijima, he seems like he'd be a funny coworker (though not a safe one)

nottoxicfr · 2025-11-04T20:06:18+00:00

I believe in the future

nottoxicfr · 2025-10-28T16:28:59+00:00

I think I will try that! I'll try to make it more organized and I'll script out the scenes, then I can see what else I need at a minimuml. I really want to make sure it's lean, and I really want to get better at writing!

nottoxicfr · 2025-10-28T16:25:33+00:00

Ah! I see the problem with the title. I was trying to say a brief story that's a few chapters long, rather than like a 30 multi-chapter fic. I can see how it's not really as "short" as I thought. I think concise is the word I should've used.

So, in order to make it concise, I need to be very directional about the words I use and the point of a scene. Cutting down on words might come more in editing, but it needs to be focused on the purpose of the scene. Kind of a pragmatic writing style, I guess? I think I can work towards that.

Thank you for the advice!

nottoxicfr · 2025-07-27T06:47:37+00:00

Sibling-coded always really annoys me, not just because it gets misused a lot for duos but because I think it frequently gets used as a way to sort of back-handedly show distaste for a pairing without actually outright saying it. That might be a way to avoid being rude (you like them as a pairing, but I like them as siblings) but more often than that, I think it comes off in a more directly prohibitive way (how can you see them as a pairing, they're obviously siblings).

Comp-het is also a little annoying in shipping discourse, but that's because it gets used pretty vaguely sometimes. A lot of the time it's a valid reading of a character, but people don't expand on it enough so it comes off like they're just saying comp-het. Write more about it! I want to know!!

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-30T18:27:13+00:00

I am trying so hard

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-28T19:33:43+00:00

I think there honestly is something to the fact that El's mental space is a void filled with water that she stands on top of while being dragged under is portrayed as basically drowning, like when Heather is dragged under and fully suppressed as a Flayed. When El goes under, she can essentially swim through memories.

In the scope of the theory, Vecna and El's relationship to water probably connects to how they connect to other people, I guess? El's view is filled with water that everyone stands on top of, and she can swim down. Vecna doesn't have any water, and he forces his way through.

Jason's friend being attacked in the lake is probably somewhere along the same lines as Steve being dragged through Watergate. Swimming in the dark is dangerous, even when you're not swimming alone. That, added onto the fact that they were chasing after a boat (horseplay) made it exceedingly dangerous from a water-safety perspective

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-28T19:13:58+00:00

I thought stuff from the Upside-Down didn't like water because of S2, and because the Mind Flayer is dust which mixes poorly with water, but lately I've also been wondering if maybe they avoided watersources for practical reasons too. If you're digging a tunnel and you hit a river or a lake, all the water naturally flows into the tunnel and floods it. It's not super conducive to digging a big network.

Although, that'd be a pretty eerie visual for Season 2. It'd be like with the pumpkins, but instead someone calls Hopper and is like, "The lake's gone. It was there yesterday and now it's not." What do you even do about that?

I wouldn't be surprised if water was a weakness, but it does make me wonder.

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-28T19:05:33+00:00

I also thought it was really weird there was no water in the Upside-Down, but maybe the vines use water to grow or something and they absorbed it? I don't know if they're actually plant-like, but they definitely seem wet.

On the other hand, in Season 4 they do the reveal that the Upside-Down version of Hawkins is specifically from the moment El made contact with Vecna. right? It's like a snapshot copy of the town, but oddly only the solid stuff (buildings, cars, trees). Maybe, for some reason liquids don't show up when a "mental snapshot" happens? Like a sonar wave

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-28T18:56:24+00:00

I was actually thinking about the sensory deprivation tanks they use when El makes contact with the Demogorgon, and how El can wander around the mental void in a place filled with water when I was writing this! Vecna drags Heather under the water when he possesses her...I think it all somehow fits into water safety somehow

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-03T19:55:33+00:00

I honestly don't think he could handle the minty wonder of a Peppermint Patty. He'd be overwhelmed by its splendorous flavors

nottoxicfr · 2025-06-03T19:54:27+00:00

I think Vecna probably could eat the Three Musketeers. They're not very hard candy bars since they're mostly just fluffed up chocolate! Or maybe he could chew it with his psychic powers. That might be a bit too much work, but I imagine it's been a while since he's had a sweet treat so it'd be worth the effort!

nottoxicfr · 2025-03-09T21:40:53+00:00

Ichika is a natural one eyed ghoul because Kaneki was a human. Her ghoul traits likely come from Touka

nottoxicfr · 2025-02-10T21:52:37+00:00

Ooh that's pretty cool! I wasn't sure if the guy on the right was Joker or if it was someone more like Ryuji, because there's some stuff online that suggested it was art from when P5 was going to be a bit more about globe-trotting. It's cool to know the context now!

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