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nonnydog · 2 years

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Thats not as bad of a cliffhanger as I thought it would be, actually. Dgm Hallow reflection (+spoilers!) below. Long post!

(I wrote this right after I finished Hallow a week ago but Ive been ditzying it up so its late. May expand kn some points later)

(That screenshot is technically relevant bc its during Tykis speech which is a super important scene, but also I just. Really like how Hallow portrays Allen. Its all just very very pretty.)

Everything seems to be trying to set up complexity—obviously, thats obvious, agh.

Kanda views the Order as an enemy but works with them for Alma and to make up for awakening Allen/Nea. Tyki speaks to Allen about the duality (trinity?) of possessing innocence and being an exorcist and being a noah and being hunted by Apocryphos (who is innocence) and etcetcetcetc. Allen himself feels it, as he is confined and beat by the Order. An akuma lives (remains unsaved as well) because Link, representing the Order, confines him. His “Noahness” provokes his home, while his “Exorcistness” prevents him from allying with the Noah.

[is Link actually dead?]

A point I find interesting is that Allen wouldve probably went with Apocryphos if he hadnt killed Cross. He talks about how he can seperate Allen and 14, something which Allen definitely wants at that point because it would solve all his problems. When they first meet, Allen only hits Apocryphos and saves him from Tyki because he saw the memory of him murdering Cross.

[is Cross actually dead?]

The Alma Karma and Kanda arc SLAPPED. I read it several years ago, but…its just very well done. Tragic. I love it.

[Kandas not dead! Yo]

[Ill stop now.]

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I actually really like Tykis speech to Allen and Allens choice to leave everything behind to figure out what the fuck he wants and what he is, on his own. Its… weirdly fitting. I wouldnt have thought of it, but I cannot think of a better direction for this story to go.

Its almost coming-of-age-esq. Everything is against Allen right now, even his own head. Im really excited to continue the manga from where Hallow left off. I know its still ongoing (and I dont have the money to buy more than a few volumes right now), but I heard Hallow ends at around vol22-23. Theres currently 27 volumes, I think. I really like this story and where its going.

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Im sad at how little Lavi was in Hallow. He probably wouldve taken up too much time—they only had 13 episodes and it was mainly focused on Kanda and Allen (which I love!).

I also wanted more. Nea. Noah. Mana. I want to know all of the things about them. Allen was just about to speak with Nea, just try to understand him and talk a little, when Apocryphos came in and interrupted. Maybe we get a scene like that in the manga… though, its also difficult to tell. Nea is trying to possess Allen, he may not want to “chat.” I just want to know more about them.

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Id like to talk a bit about Nea, Mana, Allen, Cross, and the Earl now… theyre a complicated bunch.

From what Ive heard online and from the 2006 anime+Hallow, heres what Ive figured out:

Cross knew Nea and Mana before Nea died. Nea died 20yrs before Allen was born. Mana and Nea are brothers (twin?), though I think Nea was the older one(?).

Mana went a bit bonkers after Nea died. Cross says he may have not even really remembered everything while he was raising Allen.

Allen is conflicted about Mana. Hes unsure if Mana loved “Allen” because he would be Nea or because he was Allen. (Points to dream where Allen is following Mana who keeps calling him the wrong name.)

Cross promised Nea he would look after Mana because Nea would rewaken near Mana eventually.

Nea is 14 and hes attempting to take over Allens mind. He wants to destroy the Earl and take over as the Earl (or at least thats what he told Earl).

The Earl, despite being the one to kill Nea when he betrayed him, still loves Nea very much. He desperately wants Nea back at his side. The other Noah, notably Sheril, are… uncomfortable with accepting the traitor.

Now, lets get into more sussy territory.

Mana is the Earl. Big “maybe.” They both wear top hats is my main evidence lol. Also Ive heard some things about it online.

Other notable things I saw in Hallow:

Allen was a little shit before Mana died. Cross notes this in the last episode of Hallow and we see some of it firsthand in earlier eps. Apparently, he adopted a lot of Manas traits (politeness and formal speech, notably) to deal with his grief.

Cross has dad energy for Allen. You cant take care of a child for that long and that intensely without some paternal instinct kicking in.

Similarly, Allen definitely felt some affection for Cross. Though their relationship is often joked as being terrible (and it certainly wasnt good, especially considering that Cross took in Allen so he could foster 14), Allen is hella pissed at Apocryphos for killing Cross.

The name thing—Cross says before Apocryphos kills him, something along the lines of “He didnt tell me his name was Allen when I met him.” Was this meant to imply his observation of Mana, or that Allen was never really Allen? Sighs.

Also, the whole Walker thing. Just very sweet in general.

Interesting that Tyki is the one to give Allen the “come to jesus” speech. Tyki is established to be a Noah who still really values and holds onto whats left of his human life, so he (to some extent) can sympathize with Allen more than other Noah. He tells Allen to leave every side and figure shit out himself, something which doesn’t immediately benefit Tyki, but will benefit Allen.

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Theres an overwhelming sense of resisting/being uncomfortable with ones life being on a predetermined path. This is an fitting theme to introduce in a story that focuses heavily on religious aspects. God in dgm and hallow is an… odd figure.

#i wrote this!#dgm hallow spoilers #analysis #somewhat #2868

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cetaceans-pls · 4 years

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What Comes After

DGM post-canon LaviYuu, for @this-is-i-am-zan bc she left a nice comment when I was having a crap week. Thank you Zan!

The End of the World has come and gone, the Noah destroyed along with two-thirds of the human population. Innocence have crumbled into dust, which is deeply unpleasant for the Parasitic types, but things have sucked for the Parasitic types for years, so at least they're well-adjusted.

The same cannot be said for Lavi the now part-time Bookman, because there's not a heck of a lot to record when most of the world's gone, and Kanda 'I can die when I'm dead' Yuu, who is not handling a fully-mortal body very well.

This is their story.

The final battle had been a hell of a showdown, probably. Lavi wouldn't know; the Bookman had decided that they needed to cover as much ground as possible, so while he kept an eye on Allen and Lenalee trying to all-out murder the Earl in Britannia somewhere, Lavi had been somewhere in North Africa trying to stop Tyki Mikk from coming in as reinforcement with a literal horde of Akuma. It's a lot of sand in a lot of places, and it's a lot of trying to stop being bit because collectively Tyki and the gang had decided that Lavi had been so annoying he deserved to die by the Akuma virus, even if a couple of Level 4s could have blasted him to Macedonia without much effort.

That's the good (?) and reliable thing about the Noahs, that whole-hearted determination to be as deeply unpleasant as they can be. Lavi hadn't slept for 3 days by that point, in constant flux as he tried to avoid dying while being aggressive enough that Tyki couldn't in good faith just leave him. His record for sleeplessness is 9 days, at which point his organs would start shutting down at a hell of a rapid rate, and Lavi had been ready to go the whole hog.

Luckily for him, 3 days was about all Allen and Lenalee needed to..... address the Earl, somehow, because at around noontime one day in February, while Mikk was floating around on a Level 5 (god) to enjoy the sea view, there had been an awful pulse of some terrible power, like being hit in the head by an invisible, immaterial hammer, and Lavi had fallen to his knees to throw up.

The Akuma had fallen to the ground and turned to dust, and Mikk had fallen to the ground and gotten up fully human.

(It's not difficult for Lavi to permanently deal with another human being, even if his Innocence had shattered in his hands and he's covered in sick and blood. It's a good thing that the Bookman code doesn't teach much about compassion for your fellow man, better still that Lavi is, by this point, extremely used to death on his hands.)

The Battle to end all battles came and went in an alarmingly short amount of time, and in those few days most of the world was wiped out; there were only so many active Exorcists, and there were so, so many Akuma.

Lavi had passed out as soon as he had staggered far enough from the devastation that he stopped smelling the dust and death of it all, and he had remained passed out for what felt like weeks. When he finally woke up in this arid wasteland stinking of destruction and despair, feeling a little out of his head, Lavi had decided to just.... settle down here, and fish for food and dig a well for irrigation and he'll rebuild humanity all by himself right where he is, yes. Sanity eventually returned with the advent of the wet season a few weeks later, rain leaden and heavy with Akuma remains, acidic on the skin.

Heralding the arrival of the stormclouds had been Yuu, resplendent somehow on a shaggy Bactrian camel, more resplendent still when he had slapped Lavi awake and bundled him up and away, on a long, slow trek to England.

(Later, Lavi discovers that several kingdoms in Asia are fighting over the right to rename themselves Kanda, after the man single-handedly protected the largest swathe of human civilization from a literal plague of Akuma. He also finds out that when Mugen had dissolved back to blood in his hands, Yuu had nearly died from bleeding out because he thought with enough blood he could make another sword. Both things are so exclusively, exhaustingly Yuu it had made his head spin.)

There is no Black Order, because there aren't any Exorcists, because there isn't any Innocence. The Ark is down and out, so there's no quick travel, and there are not a lot of people of any sort left, so they couldn't just get on a rickety plane or questionable ship heading up-and-to-the-left. It's just them and this singular camel who seems extremely fine traveling from the blazing heat of Northern Africa into a Europe still struggling to come out of winter. The camel walks, and Lavi tries to understand both their circuitous, meandering route, and how Yuu had appeared unto him like a dream of rescue. Yuu is taciturn at the best of times and downright churlish for the rest of it, but two men and a camel do not good speed make, and over the months of travel, he pries little bits of truth out.

Yuu was at the Asia branch, and took it into his head to protect as much of Asia as he could. He was as successful as he was because he had taken to it like a suicide mission, and hadn't been planning to keep his regeneration abilities for an 'after' that might not come.

The tattoo on his chest is a complete circle, and the halo around the Om stretches across most of his chest; Lavi gets to see it when they're crawling up the Balkans and he had ground Yuu down enough to give him a show. It's.... a sight. "This mean you're just as prone t'breakin' down as the rest of us now, Yuu?"

The pebbles crunch softly under Takla's padded feet; it's frigid here by the waterside, but Yuu navigates more by mood than geography, and shows a dramatic preference for traveling close to rivers and oceans. It probably means something, but Lavi broke both ankles during the last battle and neither of them are healing quite right, so he's grown to give less of a damn about metaphors in his miserable older age.

It's fine.

"Probably," Yuu had answered. "Idiot," he had tacked on, because just because he was going soft, didn't mean he had to admit to going soft.

(Being close to the water did have the advantage of a healthy supply of food and drink, though it came with the disadvantage of Yuu refusing to accept his bodily limitations and going for a swim in the death of winter like he's waiting for the water to take over his lungs and drag him down.)

(Lavi's ankles aren't the only things that Are Not Okay.)

It's Spring in maximum swing, pollen heavy in the air and birds and insects delighting in the absence of Man, when they reach Bucharest. There are very few people about, because there are very few people at all, but everyone seems to have been struck with a bout of nihilism today; rebuilding works are set aside for this one warm, sunny day, and they spot at least 3 children splashing in a river while adults lay on whatever grass they can find, face upturned to the sun.

Takla garners a lot of attention, because she is a massive camel with two strange-looking men on her back, but Yuu rides imperviously one, a professional jockey stopping his camel from stampeding over thin crowds. Lavi has an idea of why they're in Romania, and has less of one on how in a post-apocalyptic world Yuu somehow ran into the perfect all-terrain vehicle (who loves him).

Black leather and beaten-up faces are enough to have the locals to ping them as Exorcists, which bodes well for Crowley being here, or having been here, and leaving a good taste in people's mouths. The proprietor of one of the only restaurants running in the entire city harkens them over, and they have beef tripe while Takla carouses with the youths in the park, cheered on as she placidly munches on shrubs and bushes.

It's nice to taste iron in his mouth after all that fish, Lavi thinks, and it's somehow also nice to see that people survived, and continue.... surviving. The restaurant doesn't charge money for its wares, because what's the point of money in the collapse of civilization, and instead an elderly lady gets a meal of meatloaf when she drops by with one (1) loaf of bread she made using ground-up seeds of varying origins. Lavi insists on paying for their meal, and worn down by a steady one-eyed stare, the restaurant man agrees to the price of one silver button from Lavi's uniform.

In turn, they are loaded up with cured meats and bricks of polenta, and a vague direction to head towards the last known location of Crowley, the protector of the entirety of Eastern Europe. Lavi asks if Yuu's pick-up service had extended to different regions before he'd come upon Lavi; did he swim across oceans to hunt down General Tiedoll in New Zealand, somewhere? Did he try to meet up with Marie in India? Any word from anybody else in Asia or Africa?

They are few and they are spread so thin, and Takla is just the one camel that Yuu tamed while crossing the desert in a bloody haze. Yuu admits to meeting General Klaud somewhere between where Yuu had murdered Sheril and where he'd found Lavi, and with the loss of her Innocence, Klaud had seemed coldly sane up until the point she began talking to her companion (a non-Innocence goat).

Tiedoll is probably alive but he is out of reach; Marie's fight had moved from the Indian subcontinent to somewhere in the Andaman sea. Yuu had seen the remains of the twins but not of his brother, so hope.... remains. Anyone in the Americas is beyond his purview, and Miranda was at the site of the final battle because there's no pinch hitter more reliable than one that could turn time back pre-pinch.

Yuu tells Lavi, in fits and bursts, of what he'd seen as he'd travelled 'round and 'round while Lavi had tried to set up his own homestead and farm somewhere in Maghreb. It's an odd reversal of fates, Lavi stagnant while Yuu gathered as much as he could with his two bare hands.

He'd gathered Lavi up, and now he's trying to find Crowley. It's bizarre to imagine that Yuu's the one picking up the pieces, that he's the one of all of them with the strength but also the will to collect them one by one.

(It's dumb to think that Yuu lets things go easily, when the whole thing with Alma is taken into consideration, but Bookman training did not completely preserve one from complete idiocy sometimes, so.

Oh, god, he wonders how his crops are doing in Algeria.)

They come upon a crumbling castle pockmarked with gouges from Akuma bombs. Takla draws to a halt at the entrance, and Yuu dismounts and swiftly, scarily scales up the walls until he can gain entry through a blown-up wall on the third floor.

Lavi was not invited on this adventure, so he pokes around the front, looking for clues. By the time Yuu's prowled through enough of the castle to tell that nobody is living here, Lavi is back on Takla with an envelope he'd found nailed into the arm of a stone cherub with a missing head, tucked under some bushes.

It's a grim messenger for someone so fundamentally wholesome as Crowley, but then again it's plenty sweet of him to have left a message via a messenger of love, and maybe the head had been on when they'd started.

It's a short note, written neatly on heavy paper.

Headed to England; A. should be in Liverpool.

Looking forward to meeting you soon.

Best regards,

A. Crowley

He had even oh-so-politely dated the letter, and they just need to play catch up.

(Crowley's alive!)

They're somewhere in France, and it's warm warm now. In a meadow somewhere to the south, Yuu contemplates one of his many swords as he looks at Takla and her heavy coat. She's in moult, it's clear, but it's gotten hotter faster than they had anticipated, and Yuu doesn't have a brush to comb her down with.

He could give her a trim. He's the reason Lavi and he are still neat and clean-shaven, and how different is a human haircut to a camel's?

Lavi, meanwhile, is foraging for food, hoping for some rabbit but happy to make do with whatever he can rummage. They are so close to where they want to be, and there hasn't been a secret resurgence in monsters, and the biggest problem they've had to deal with has been marauding gangs of bandits and looters. It had been such a pleasant experience, the first time they were held at gunpoint by six men with handkerchiefs covering their faces. What an honour and a privilege to face a fight where death is actually less likely than survival!

They might not have their weapons, but years and years as active Exorcists means that they functionally are weapons themselves. The only thing either of them had been worried about was Takla, who got skittish when surrounded by people she didn’t know, but the gang leader with the communal gun had stepped just a hair to close to Yuu, and that was all it took.

Yuu had disarmed and knocked three men unconscious before the gun hit the ground, and Lavi blew through the remaining men in just slightly more time. The biggest hassle with looters is how they tend to startle Takla into running, which means Lavi and Yuu then have to run after her after the threats have been dispatched.

The main positive is that they are never short of food and drink thieved from thieves, and the world's made a little safer a bit at a time as they use their judgment to dole out some form of justice.

(It extremely does not pay to be trigger-happy or fond of violence in front of them, and word spreads about the dangers of accosting two men and their lumpy not-horse as they journey to the west.)

Lavi spots a pheasant and downs it with a home-made bow and arrow, which means a good meal will be had all around, and comes back to camp to find Takla neatly trimmed.

Yuu is laid out by her side, scowling at the sky.

The scowling's pretty common, but the inactivity is not. Putting his prize away, Lavi leans over to block the sun, and looks down into the face of a usually indomitable man. "Everythin' all right, Yuu-chan?"

Yuu just blinks at him angrily, before sitting up. "There's a rabbit burrow next to the rocks," he growls out.

O.....kay. "D'you want me to catch some rabbits?"

Despite all the violence that comes part and parcel with being reborn to fight things that killed you before, Lavi's discovered that Yuu is strangely, sweetly averse to taking lives, and is happier with a vegetarian diet with just the slightest hint of fish at the side. He doesn't turn down food, because he isn't an idiot, but Lavi's happy to take over butchery from the man with half a dozen swords.

If it were possible, Yuu's sour look turns even sourer. "I didn't see it," he's snarling now, like that's all that needs to be said.

Oh, dear, Lavi's supposed to be good at observation. Yuu has one of his boots off, trouser leg tugged up to almost his knee, and where Lavi’s first thought had been Yuu was just enjoying some sun, the swollen ankle and the hideous blue-black bruising coming in paint a markedly different picture.

It looks like a terrible sprain, Lavi thinks to himself as he searches around him for some sturdy branches. The tattered remains of his scarf will make for decent bandages, and they need to immobilise the joint. "Gotcha, lover. You feelin' all right?"

All he gets is stony silence, and Lavi just laughs it off as he carries out triage. It doesn't seem broken, though the pain can't be pleasant. Lavi grabs his pack of assorted acquired bits and bobs and props Yuu's foot atop it for some elevation, and feels a little manically amused that now they've only got 1 good ankle between them, gosh.

Yuu doesn't get chattier after his foot's been attended to, so Lavi busies himself cleaning the pheasant and setting up a fire. Riding Takla is a pretty comfortable feat, but they should probably still take a couple of days to let Yuu rest before they get moving again. So close to where they want to be, a couple of days won't make much of a difference.

It's long after dinner, long after the sun's set and they're trying to sleep in prickly grass and the glow of embers, that Yuu finally speaks again. "How long.... How long does it take people to heal from this shit?"

And it comes with a bang!, the realisation that in the entire time he's been alive, this is quite possibly the longest that Yuu's ever had a minor injury for.

A minute for a busted ankle to fully recover in return for 3 months off the end of your life doesn't seem like the worst deal, now that Lavi thinks about it, but that's not an option anymore.

They really are only men now, which Lavi finds hysterical.

"Depends, Yuu," he says into the night sky. "Could be days, could be never. Welcome, yeah, to the human condition."

Yuu's groan of abject disgust is quickly drowned out by Takla's worried honking, and Lavi lies there and laughs with a belly full of bird.

By the time they cross the wasteland of what used to be the industrial centre of Northwestern England, Takla's heavier coat is starting to grow in again. She's plusher and rougher to the touch, and Lavi doesn't think he'll ever love anything as much as he loves her hypnotic stride carrying them on and on and on. England's decimated, having been the epicentre of the fight, and the pads of her feet leave an indent in the ash like it's a beach of the finest black sand. Her charms and months and months on her back have given Lavi a strange, new perspective on Yuu and life, in a way that a fight to the death and a functional apocalypse had failed to bring to bear.

In the hazy distance, probably still a day's long trot away, is a tall structure that looks like black glass, like the ground had been struck by lightning and rose up petrified. They can't be sure that they'll find anyone there, but before they'd left to defend their assigned regions Lenalee had made them promise to try and meet up where the Earl was defeated. Without golems and without radios, a tall tower of burnt glass seems like the most obvious place to make a meeting place.

Lavi wonders where they'll go from here. He's kept tally of the number of people they've run into, counting out proportions in his head to estimate what the living population is, and if there are enough people to make some more, and the answer does feel like there just won't be enough people to warrant the continued employment of a junior Bookman. And what about Yuu? New to long-term physical suffering, incapable of meeting a sword that'll last longer than a week in his hands. Not a people person, not trained in anything but killing but curiously far too reticent to go into trade at an abattoir. Will he help rebuild this turned-over world?

Would he want to?

Takla continues plodding on, taking them closer and closer to What Happens Next.

It doesn't feel as appealing as it had in the months leading up to it. He wants to meet up with everyone, of course. Hell, Lavi suspects he might even have tears to shed once they hear their losses (because there must be, there will be, heavy losses), but after? Does he want to settle back into a new organisation that decides what gets his time and what doesn't? Does he want to put the most dishonest mask of all and try and pretend that he is in any way invested in humanity's continued survival?

Trying to imagine what his ideal would be in this new world, all Lavi can think of are meadows with burrows lying in wait, and restaurants that take in acorn-bread and convert them into sausages through communal alchemy. He thinks of Yuu, and Takla, and the way high ground drops off into the sea in the lands of blood and honey.

It's a radical departure from his original intentions, but maybe his 50th persona is all that he is, and all that he is is a man apathetic to the charms of everything except for an idiot currently struggling with the concept of non-instantaneous healing and the first Bactrian camel he's ever had the pleasure of meeting.

The structure gleams in the hazy setting sun, and Lavi reaches over a hump to tap Yuu very politely on the side (avoiding the shoulder Yuu dislocated when he tried to carry Takla over a steep creek, because he's an idiot currently struggling with the concept of non-instantaneous healing) to voice his concerns.

"Hey, Yuu, d'you wanna rejoin the Black Order? If Allen 'nd them start somethin', will you throw your lot in with them?"

It turns out that this topic's important enough to garner Yuu's attention, because he actually turns to look at Lavi and measure whatever he sees. It's a long moment of blatant staring, before he rolls his eyes and clicks his tongue. "Of course not. I was made to fight, and I fucking fought. Now I'm going to go in there and see who made it and who didn't, and then I'm going to go."

The world really lucked out that in spite of all that the Order had done to Yuu, his greatest act of rebellion is to stave off the complete destruction of mankind, crawl across the world trying to pick up stray Exorcists, check in on comrades and family, and then leave. Lavi really lucked out to have been the stray that did get picked up by this marvelous man and his marvelous camel.

All things considered, there's really just the one way forward, so long as he gets the okay. It takes a bit of finagling, and Takla makes an irritated sound as Lavi maneuvers over one of her humps to rest his chin on Yuu's good shoulder, certain by this point in their relationship that this is something he's allowed, and oh, isn't that amazing. "Yuu, d'you think you'd mind if I tagged along with you? After I check that the old man's all right, I honest t'god can't think of anything I want t'do more than keepin' on moving on th'back of a camel with th'world's most amazing man."

Yuu doesn't answer him, and it's not a 'no', which is already a bit of win. Lavi digs his pointy chin in deeper into meat and muscle, and sighs. "You picked me up once already, darlin', and whisked me the hell away. Why not a repeat performance, hey?"

Lavi wonders what Yuu thinks of when he thinks of an ideal new world. Surely Takla is there, and probably a revival of soba-makers. A green and quiet place close the sea, hard to get to but within reach of Tiedoll and his brood. Medical services nearby, maybe, to prepare for the first glorious stubbing of the toe.

Lavi wonders if he figures in it at all, wonders what he can do to worm his way in.

(Turns out, he's done enough.)

Yuu turns to face Lavi so quickly Lavi gets whipped by his hair, which was likely entirely intentional. This close up, the blue of Yuu's eyes is startling, and for a moment Lavi forgets that they're not Exorcists with weapons from god anymore, because he can almost hear the snap-crackle of barely-leashed electricity.

(A bad sprain might take actual time to heal now, but Lavi is such a fool to think that that renders Yuu anything approximating normal, god.)

"If I had to choose a life to save, it's always going to be Takla over you," Yuu says with utmost seriousness.

He might as well have kissed Lavi full on the lips, if he was going to be so forthright!

Lavi pulls himself back just with enough time to avoid bursting into delighted laughter in Yuu's ears. "Of course, Yuu-chan, I wouldn't expect anything less from you!"

It seems that the Universe is feeling generous, because Yuu carries on as though Lavi isn't having a bit of a break in the head from pleasant surprise. "I want to go find Marie, and take Takla on a beach holiday. As long as you're not dead weight, you can come."

You can come! A direct actual invitation! From Kanda Yuu, the man with 7 kingdoms to his name!

Lavi settles back in his seat, and tries really hard to avoid crowing with delight. "Darlin', would it be bad t'say that I'm probably gonna try harder t'stay in your good graces than I did fightin' the forces of evil for the sake of mankind?"

"No," Yuu says with utmost confidence. "I'm a hell of a lot better than mankind, after all."

And that, after months and months riding across a billion types of wasteland, is the first time Lavi actually falls of Takla, laughing so hard that he chokes on a mouthful of ash from the destruction of millions.

(Things are looking up).

A/N: God help me I love 1. camels 2. travel fics 3. aged-up AUs

Camels can carry up to 270 kilos, move as fast as horses, and can survive a temperature range of -29 C to 49 C, so everything allegedly checks out. Takla is named after the Taklamakan desert where Yuu found her, and I love her. It’s been so long since I wrote anything even vaguely canonical it’s wild oAo

Hope y’all enjoyed it!

Masterlist + Commission Info

#dgm #dgm hallow #laviyuu #lavi #kanda yuu #dgm fanfic #fanfic #this was 100% inspired by recent events #that had me staring at the inherent fragility of being human #and how tf that would feel #for some dumbass that's been invincible for most of his life #i like the thought of #yuu being used to intense pain #but also a short-terminess of suffering #that's on par w the short-terminess of #his existence #damn b #whale writing

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icharchivist · 7 years

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@tsubasayorukage submitted:

So, I am fairly new to the D, Gray Man series. I’ve watched a couple of episodes and some clip compilations…I discovered it because I needed a faceclaim for a character with black hair and blue eyes and I settled on Kanda. XD Actually, a friend of mine uses a picture of Tyki for one of HIS characters…XD So when I saw the fight between the two all I could think of was our characters duking it out, ha ha.

I found the characters to be really interesting! I love the way the Noahs interact with each other; there are some really funny moments there, and apparently they live “human” lives, too?

Though the villains seem to always be going after Lenalee from what I saw; is there a reason for that?

But anyway, while I was watching some clips today, I felt really sorry for that little guy in the cage that wails, “Aaaaaallen Waaaalker.” XD I have to wonder if the only way for it to get out is if Allen dies, though Tyki seemed to indicate that it could be let out before then…

Like I said, I don’t know much about the series, though I tried reading the Wiki once and got a bit lost. ^^;

I don’t understand why people are badmouthing the author and the series. I like that the main character doesn’t seem like the typical shounen hero. Heck, I didn’t even know it was considered to be a shounen series…

Ooooh Heya, welcome there! :D

Kanda is an amazing faceclaim omg, i’m glad it had you be able to discover dgm! (and also A++ for your friend’s faceclaim, and no wonder, it must have been funny once they fought in the manga :’D)

I’m glad you find the characters interesting and yes, i completely agree, the Noah are amazing. I honestly had a huge Noah-obsessed phase when I was younger, and I just adore the family dynamic between them. It’s refreshing to see, i love them.

Aah as for Lenalee, there’s two things about it: if you watched the anime, you likely mostly saw the fillers episodes. In the begining of the series, she handles herself a lot, the anime somehow added a lot of fillers of her being a damsell in distress and having the guys rescue her. (it’s to notice that, once they meet Lavi, they immetialy go on the track of Cross and barely stop on the way. They meet Krory on the travel, but I think that’s the only detour they make before meeting Anita. Everything you see is fillers otherwise - hell if Kanda is here, it’s filler, because Kanda isn’t supposed to come back until far later)

The other thing might be a little spoilery, but by some point in the manga (after the Attack on the Boat), some… strange things happen to Lenalee, which makes the Noah suspect she may have the Heart of Innocence. From that point, and especially because of Lenalee’s physical issues, she ends up hunted down by the Noah, because they try to get to her. If they can destroy the Heart of Innocence, all Innocences will be destroyed, and they will be the definitive winner of the war.

(I personally don’t believe Lenalee is the Heart, but that’s another debate - it still means that after the Boat attack, the enemies are trying to reach her)

But before the Boat attack, aside from Road using her as a doll, everytime Lenalee is in trouble is because of Fillers.

Usually I mention that the manga is far better than the anime, mostly because of that - timeline issues, since the anime squeezed a lot of fillers in a time where they should be rushing to get somewhere, and that the anime decided to develop it… a little ooc.

Lenalee is especially the one who suffered the most from it since apparently the anime studio didn’t know what to do with her and mostly made her a damsell in distress. It’s especially a problem imo because then Lenalee’s arc is about her feeling Helpless, and that people already are upset because of her arc in that part of the manga, and I think the anime makes it even more frustrating because it makes you think from the start that she is always helpless anyway, which is a real disservice to her character.

(I could legit talk for hours about the character arcs, especially in the ark’s arc, but when i start mentioning the innocence i’m biased af because of my theories about the Heart, so i’m. Not the best to talk about it either.)

And omg!! ye that little guy in a cage :’D I always felt so bad for him! but we never see him back again, so i don’t know if he could ever be free. It seems to me like it was probably something the Earl created, hopefully without any sentient being… Hopefully.

But also, the little being in the card acts like a list - he has the name of multiple people, not just Allen, inside his cage, and if Tyki says he’ll be free, it will be once all the names will be erased - and the names won’t be erased until the person dies. (which is a cool gimmick and also some more “Names are important” kind of things). so unless Tyki kills everyone in that list, the little thing will stay trapped :’D

But ye, the manga can be a little hard to follow, i can understand, especially with just the wikipedia entry. (also god knows what was put on the wiki, i don’t trust it). But i’m glad you still find the plot interesting kjdhfdkjhf!!

As for people, people are just mean. I agree with you, the fact it’s not a traditional shounen is what driven me to that story, and i find it unfair people try to hold it to that standart. I don’t even really see how they could expect that from it, and honestly it reassures me that, even by having seen the anime (which for me already made the manga more Shounen-y), you can tell it’s not really a traditional shounen.

It’s considered a Shounen because it was published in the Shounen Jump back when it started. It was in the same magazine as N.aruto, B.leach, O.ne P.iece and the likes. So people expected it to have a Shounen structure which is… unfair.

idk if it’s how it works in Japan either, but in France, we used to refer about “Shounen that don’t respect Shounen structure” as “Dark Shounen”. Manga like Fma and dgm fell into this category, because while it targetted a young audience, the themes were more heavy.

But honestly I don’t even know if this characterization exist outside of France so….

But ye I truly don’t get what people are expecting, especially by chapter 226, about the rest of the manga. It just makes me sad bc the author put so much work into her story, especially since she had to struggle all that time with terrible editors who belittled her, with how much she had to fight for her plotlines to happen, and how much she has to fight against her health. That’s so unfair for her, and especially when you see how gorgeous the manga is and how much thoughts was put in the narrative, it’s just so unfair people bashes her for that.

I would rather people to leave dgm alone rather than people being rude af about it :/

but anyway ;;-;;

Thank you for your sweet message though!! it makes me happy that you still enjoy the story from the little you’ve seen!

Take care!!! ❤❤❤

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