Songs that make me think of the Ikemen Princes
Jin Grandet:
House on a Hill ~ The Pretty Reckless
I WIll Be Back One Day ~ Lord Huron
I'll Fight ~ Daughtry
Chevalier Michel:
Awake My Soul ~ Mumford & Sons
Meet Me on the Battlefield ~ SVRCINA
Clavis Lelouch:
Dance with the Devil ~ Breaking Benjamin
Carry You ~ Ruelle feat. Fleurie
Elastic Heart ~ Sia
Leon Dompteur:
King ~ Lauren Aquilina
Far From Home (The Raven) ~ Sam Tinnesz
Battleships ~ Daughtry
Yves Kloss:
Rise Up ~ Andra Day
Unwell ~ Matchbox Twenty
Licht Klein:
The Dark of You ~ Breaking Benjamin
Soldier ~ Fleurie
Nokto Klein:
I Will Follow You into the Dark ~ Death Cab for Cutie
I'll Follow You ~ Shinedown
Luke Randolph:
I'll Be Good ~ Jaymes Young
Uknown Soldier ~ Breaking Benjamin
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Ikemen Prince Songs
Some songs that make me think of the Ikemen Prince characters. A few songs taken from this post because I really liked the fit. :)
Jin Grandet:ย
I'll Fight - Daughtryย
The Only Exception - Paramore
Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars
Chevalier Michel:ย
You Should See Me in a Crown - Billie Eilishย
If I Didn't Care - The Inkspotsย
Perfect Isn't Easy - Bette Midler
Clavis Lelouch:ย
Stand Out - Tevin Campbell
Anti-Hero - Taylor Swiftย
Tubthumping - Chumbawambaย
Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
Leon Dompteur:ย
Enchanted - Taylor Swiftย
Be Somebody - Thousand Foot Krutchย
Far From Home - Sam Tinnesz
Yves Kloss:ย
Go The Distance - Roger Bart
911 - Lady Gaga
Licht Klein:ย
What I've Done - Linkin Parkย
Carry On My Wayward Son - Zoe Fuller
Nokto Klein:ย
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
I'll Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
Luke Randolph:ย
Teddy Bear - Melanie Martinezย
Unknown Soldier - Breaking Benjaminย
Family Line - Conan Grayย
I'm Afraid I'll Go to Heaven - Moon Walker
Rio Ortiz:ย
Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartneyย
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Sariel Noir:ย
The Boogie Man - Todd Rollinsย
Lions and Tigers and Bears - Todrick Hall
Silvio Ricci:ย
Buy the Stars - MARINAย
Nice Guys - Chester Seeย
Expensive - Todrick Hall
Keith Howell:ย
Painting Flowers - All Time Lowย
Plant Life - Owl Cityย
In the Woods Somewhere - Hozier
Gilbert von Obsidian:ย
Arsonist's Lullabye - Hozierย
Control - Halsey
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I love my problematic parents
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So I make a playlist of music that's Ikรฉmen Prince coded. It's lovely. And I love it. And I hope y'all do, too.
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BRETAHING HEAVILY
I FINISHE DIT
LITERALLY SHUT UP I DONT WNAT TO HEAR IT THIS TOOK ME TWO DAYS IM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN /J
anyways pls appreciate this sobbging rn i didnt realize i dont listen to soft romantic songs until This. crying rn. this was a terrible idea. i dont even think it was worth it. please help me. im so sad rigth now.
it was for rio. its fine. this was worth it. im so godo at rationalizing thingss omg
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๐๐ค๐๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ท๐ฌ๐ฎ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ.
๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ซ: ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ข๐ค๐๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐๐: ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฒ ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ง๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ. ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ . ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ.
๐. ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ โบ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ข๐ข.
๐. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ถ๐ โบ ๐ญ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐.
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
, ๐น๐ ๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ธโ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ ๐๐โ๐พ๐๐ ๐น๐พ๐๐๐๐
๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ, ๐โ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ช๐ฎ๐จ๐ข ๐ญ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ
๐ถ ๐๐๐พ ๐๐ถ ๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐, ๐ธโ๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ ๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ถ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐พ, ๐ฝ๐๐พ๐?
๐โ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐จ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฎ ๐งโ๐ ๐ช๐ฎโ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐
๐. ๐๐พ๐ธ๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ โบ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐.
๐ข๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐, ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ง'๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐
๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐น ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐ ๐๐พ๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ
๐๐ ๐พ ๐
๐๐๐ฝ ๐พ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐๐น ๐พ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐. ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ โบ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐.
๐ข ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ง
๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐
๐ถ๐๐น ๐พ ๐ป๐๐๐๐น ๐๐๐๐๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐น๐๐น
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐ ๐ป๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐. ๐๐๐๐ฝ๐ถ โบ ๐๐จ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.
๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐ถ ๐
๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐๐๐ ๐
๐๐ถ๐?
๐ข ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐
๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐, ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐, ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ ๐ถ ๐ท๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐
๐. ๐๐
๐๐ถ๐ฝ๐ โบ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐.
๐๐๐๐๐๐ท๐๐น๐ ๐พ๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐
๐ถ๐๐๐'๐ ๐ป๐๐ธ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ป๐ถ๐๐
๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐๐ฆ ๐, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐. ๐๐ถ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐พ๐ป๐ โบ ๐ข ๐๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.
๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ , "๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ"
๐๐ฝ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐, ๐ถ๐๐น ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐พ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ถ๐ฝ
๐๐ง๐ ๐ข ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
๐ถ๐๐น ๐พ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐น ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐น๐น๐พ๐ธ๐๐พ๐๐
๐. ๐ฝ๐ ๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐.
๐ฆ๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ
๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ญ
๐๐ฝ๐ ๐น๐ ๐๐๐ ๐น๐ ๐๐ฝ๐พ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐?
๐๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ ๐ถ๐
๐ถ๐๐
๐. ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐ท๐ถ๐ โบ ๐๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐.
๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐ง๐จ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐ซ
๐ท๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐น ๐๐พ๐ป๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐พ๐๐ฝ ๐ถ๐ท๐๐๐
๐๐. ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โบ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐๐ก (๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ).
๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข'๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐
๐ข ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข'๐ฏ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ค๐๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ซ
๐พ ๐๐๐๐น ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ป๐๐๐ ๐พ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ
๐๐ง๐ ๐ข'๐ฏ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ก
๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ถ ๐๐พ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ธ๐ฝ
๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐๐ก
๐๐. ๐๐๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐พ๐๐๐ โบ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ.
๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐
๐ท๐๐น๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ธ๐ฝ๐พ๐๐, ๐๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐
๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ท๐๐๐๐น ๐พ๐ ๐
๐๐๐
๐พ๐๐
๐ป๐๐๐๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฝ๐พ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐
๐๐. ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐ธ๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐๐๐ โบ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ.
๐จ๐ก ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฌ, ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ผ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐๐น ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฝ
๐จ๐จ๐ก, ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ
๐๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ ๐๐๐๐ธ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป ๐๐
๐๐. ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐น + ๐๐ฝ๐ ๐ป๐๐ (๐ป๐. ๐๐ถ๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐พ๐) โบ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ .
๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐
๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐
๐๐ฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐๐๐๐ฝ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐พ๐ป๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐น ๐น๐๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐๐
๐พ'๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฝ ๐พ๐๐๐พ๐น๐ ๐๐
lace headersย byย saradika.
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OST Tracks for the IkePri Men
Nokto
Tristan & Isolde: My Face in Thine Eye
I wanted to choose a track that was romantic and poignant; something pining and a little sad. The soundtrack for this film is like that, and I think it fits Noktoโs character. He can be sensual and romantic, but heโs also hiding a lot of sadness.
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anyway sleep token = gil
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Hi, I'm back from the dead!
Just jumping in to say that I made a NSFW playlist for Nokto Klein! ๐
Feel free to listen to it and/or give me song suggestions! Keep in mind that I'm mainly looking for songs of the thirsty kind!
Enjoy~
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local lion-type guy is too chivalrous and gallant for this world
and he knows it
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Mayday! Heyday OC Gift Exchange is here and ready to bloom! All we need is a bunch of gardeners to join us in our greenhouse for some idea harvest ;)
As the name suggests, Mayday! Heyday! OC Gift Exchange is an event aimed at OC creators. Celebrate the creativity that goes into creating your own characters to insert into canon โ with gifts! >:)ย
Who can join the event?
Fandoms: IkeSen, IkeVamp, IkePri
Must have an OC.
Additionally, you must have Tumblr DMs enabled or provide us with alternative means of communication.ย
What are the submission requirements?ย
FanFic: 1-1.5k words
FanArt: sketch or flat colour; no full rendering
SFW only
We are also open to other types of submissions, such as moodboard sets, playlists, doodle sets, shorter drabbles or a mix of those. In case of doubt, please, contact @lorei-writes or @olivermorningstar โ we will approach every single case individually.ย
What about scheduling?
Sign-ups close on March 17th, 11PM CET.
Giftees should be assigned between March 21st and March 24th.ย
You will have at least a month and a half to complete your project. Any further details will be communicated later during check-ins.ย
Check-ins?
We expect to check-in with you three weeks into the event and then a week before the end of it. The first check-in is to see whether everything is working out, whether you donโt need some extra information if youโve already started working on your project, etc. Weโd like to hear about your progress during the second check-in.
Obviously, you can reach out to us anytime on your own! :) Weโd be happy to help with anything.ย
How do I sign-up?!
Step #1: Prepare your OC(s) form(s)! (Can be compiled in a single google doc)
Name:
Universe:
Pairing / Ship:
Personal Details (likes, dislikes, any information you consider necessary, etc.):
Appearance (possibly with visual reference):
Personality:
Backstory (summary):
Doโs / Donโts (crucial details that must not be omitted, anything you'd never want to see your OC doing, etc.):
Reference (links to works featuring them, moodboards, etc.):ย
Step #2: Fill out our Sign-Ups Survey [Link].
Weโll be waiting for you >:) Again, do not hesitate to contact us in case of any doubts.
~ @olivermorningstar & @lorei-writes
Boosting would be appreciated. <;3ย
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As someone who has never liked Jin since I first started ikepri, I recently was convinced to attempt to make my way through his romantic route after reading @randonauticrapโs wonderful and very compelling fanfic about him and now, as I finish his story, I wanted to take a very long minute to talk about it. Iโd like to start with a bit of context before really getting into things, though.ย (Major spoilers for Luke and Jinโs routes below the cut.)
A few months ago, I saw a post somewhere on here that mentioned what, for me at the time, was a massive spoiler, that Jin killed Lukeโs sister. At the time, I was in the middle of another route so I immediately took to YouTube to find a playlist of Jinโs route because my thought at the time was that I wanted to read it. However, I very quickly decided that I hated it, and then I kind of just flipped through some of the following chapters, kind of scanning for the stuff with Lukeโs sister and not finding it, so then I just ended up skipping to the last 8 chapters and slogging through those. It is also worth mentioning that the only ending on YouTube was his dramatic ending.
Now, that whole experience sucked beyond belief and I came out of it deeply, passionately hating Jin because really all I saw was his awful, disrespectful behavior at the very beginning and that horrid shit he pulls both in ch 19 and then in the actual ending. A while after this whole ordeal, I did get around to reading Lukeโs route, which made me hate Jin even more because, in the part where Jin is finally explaining what happened on Bloodstained Rose Day and we get his own flashback, thereโs no dialogue, like he pulls this injured little girl from the rubble and then just slices her throat without her ever saying anything. Between that and what sure seemed like sexism from what bits and pieces of Jinโs route Iโd seen, it gave me this idea that Leyla was straight up unconscious and he just decided to slice her throat like that because, in truth, he just wanted her out of the way and didnโt want to have to deal with her during the fighting but obviously heโd tell himself that it was for her sake or some shit. Thereโs still a bunch Iโm missing with that but Iโm about to get way more into this shit so Iโm not concerned, but tldr I fucking hated this guy and I thought he was the worst kind of scum coming out of Lukeโs route, especially since so many other people in the fandom have talked about how much he gives them the ick.
So now, at the end of his romantic route, I still donโt like him and I really think I was just bewitched by the beautiful things that @randonauticrap has written about him, but I donโt truly hate him anymore. I think Iโm going to just list off my issues with his character as quickly as possible to just really show how much there is that I take issue with here without going on about it for an eternity.
First is the way he talks about women (i.e. comments about how heโs never seen such an impressive โrackโ before.) More importantly, thereโs how heโs sexualizing women in totally inappropriate contexts where there really arenโt any women present, like when heโs training his troops or when he goes to deal with that issue on the border and is addressing those kids from Obsidian. This particularly is disturbing to me because thereโs already a longstanding history of men conflating sexual violence with the violence of war and for Jin to, however unintentionally, draw that direct of a connection between fighting in war and having sex with women is something I cannot abide by.
Also with his lack of respect of women is how he demands and abuses Emmaโs time at the start of his route. Itโs bad enough to put her in that god-awful position in the first place with Sariel and all that, but to then drag her away from the hard work she has to put in because of him just to make her spend an entire day watching him go around hitting on other women is beyond disrespectful. The other thing that really irks me is how he continues to hit on Emma after sheโs made it super clear that, unlike the women he has relations with, she truly believes that such relations exclusively accompany real feelings. He acknowledges that sheโs a true romantic and then is out here like โwhereโs my hugโ and it makes me feel violent. I originally wasnโt totally against how he talks to women, since in canon all those faceless nameless side characters he fucks seem to be into it and I thought he was a consent king who stops if the woman clearly isnโt interested and only ever pursues women who are really into what heโs offering but apparently not.
Then thereโs everything with Clause 99. First off, him putting in the clause basically reflects that his biggest fear is history repeating itself with his parentsโ relationship and Clause 99 puts ALL of that responsibility on the women who will serve as Belle in the future. Secondly, this is backed by his hypocritical behavior throughout the different routes. In Lukeโs route, he outright encourages Luke to pursue Emma in spite of making this clause and he easily yields to his other brothers when, in their own routes, they decide they want to revoke the clause, and yet Emma herself gets Clause 99 looming over her head throughout all of the routes. The conclusion which I believe is actually meant to be canon with this is that women are fragile little flowers who need extra special protection from the big, bad men and they need a fucking man to provide that protection. Rather than putting in any amount of effort at all whatsoever to make himself and his brothers and future generations of their family better, heโs putting all this serious, overwhelming pressure on the women. Also, the clause does jack shit to help mitigate the development of such emotions, so it literally just serves to put pressure and responsibility on women about things beyond their control while accomplishing nothing other than turning them into scapegoats.
Okay so then I really need to talk about Lukeโs sister. So, as I started to talk about before, I now know that the flashback in Lukeโs route was incomplete and that Leyla did actually beg for death, but even with that being the case there are still some major ethical issues here. For example, can a ~8 year old child have the bodily autonomy to actually request assisted suicide and should they? Does said child have enough knowledge of pain and injury to know when theyโre actually about to die or not? Should a grown ass man actually heed a childโs request for death without even so much as having a doctor spare said child a glance first? But then after he killed her, he went and stole her body to go bury her in the woods, clearly just deciding that her dead body should go to him to use to try and make himself feel better. Those graves that are hidden where only he can find them do nothing for Leyla or for Luke; they exclusively exist for Jin. They are there solely for him to use to try and alleviate his guilt over time, like props.ย
Then, thereโs the part in Lukeโs route where he discovers the truth about Jin, so Jin takes him on a walk to those graves and tells the story of how he killed Leyla before he then tries to get Luke to kill him. Once again, this has nothing at all to do with trying to give Luke justice or closure and it has everything to do with Jin making everything about himself. Thereโs even a bit in there where Jin basically phrases it like heโs asking Luke to do him a favor and hear him out, making it clear that this is not at all for Lukeโs benefit. Likewise, if he really cared about Luke getting real, meaningful justice and closure, he wouldnโt be trying to get Luke to murder him, putting all that blood directly on his hands, giving him further pain and trauma, and also ensuring that Chevalier would then kill Luke because of course he would.
Another thing I want to add, going off of that, is how very badly Jin sucks at conflict resolution, which we see multiple times between his route and Lukeโs, whether itโs his conflict with Luke or how he handles shit so utterly fucking terribly with Emma or even that bullshit at the border with Obsidian at the end of his route. This man isnโt just shit at conflict resolution, heโs thoroughly proven that all attempts he makes at it are just variations of the same shit: self sacrifice fueled by ego dressed up to look like itโs heroic and really meant for the benefit of others that only actually harms those itโs supposedly meant to protect.
So I think my final takeaway with his character is that he is inherently very selfish but he has no self awareness about that selfishness and genuinely believes everything heโs doing is for other people. Another thing I want to talk about is that I saw a video the other day that also has softened my overall feelings about Jin, and that video was talking about the lack of self awareness of male feminists. This video talke about how some of these men who are out here making online content around โeducatingโ other men about feminism and respecting women will sometimes share this sentiment like โwomen have all been traumatized by the bad men out there so you just need to be patient with themโ and how condescending it is. The issue here is that, when men say this, they are refusing to acknowledge that even as a good ol feminist ally, their own behavior can come across as sexist and they themselves can give us the ick or make us feel unsafe.ย
I bring this up because, with Jin, I originally thought he was a sexist dick hiding behind a very thin facade of โbut I love women,โ but now I think it really is just a complete lack of self awareness where, like the men that video talked about, he sees himself as a feminist who loves women, so he doesnโt see how his words and actions can make it seem as though heโs violently sexist. So, to sum everything up, when I first found @randonauticrapโs stuff and then subsequently decided to read Jinโs story, I genuinely hated him because I saw him as dangerously sexist and selfish but now, as I finish his route, I donโt like him but I no longer hate him the way I did. Now I see him as capable of change and I think that like after the end of the story, a good person like the one heโs in a relationship with could successfully help him grow and change into a better person.
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ikepri modern au thoughts
if they lived in todayโs era what kind of music would they like?
jin would have the best taste in music, although the songs are a bit older. still great taste in music guaranteed to have the whole car vibing every time he got the aux. doesnโt listen to just one genre but he doesnโt listen to everything.
chevalier idk bro seems like he would listen to classical music like mozart and beethoven and shit
clavis would just listen to tiktok sounds
leon listens to anything and everything. if you like it, then heโll listen to it. he tries to follow along to rap and heโs cringey when sings along to country songs. probably listens to songs in different languages too
yves i think would also listen to classical music but also has some pop faves also i think heโs the type to make playlists for literally everything
licht idk maybe some lofi stuff? he chill frfr or he might be into indie bands because heโs not like other guys
i donโt know nokto well enough so i think he would also listen to tiktok stuff
luke probably listens to nature asmr. maybe like animal asmr? idk thatโs kinda weird nvm but like if itโs not raining and he wants to pretend heโs in an emotional movie, heโll listen to rain/thunderstorm sounds. or maybe he wants to be at the ocean so he listens to waves crashing.
gilbert listens to girlfriend asmr because he wants to pretend like heโs in a relationship (me fr) i think he also watches/listens to asmr mukbangs
silvio doesnโt listen to music. he canโt because of all his jangling. just kidding (actually not really because i donโt know him that well too) so iโm just gonna say he listens to rap or aggressive metal songs. and then thereโs like hoe anthem songs sprinkled in there because it makes him feel like the hottest mf out there
keith idk he probably also listens to girlfriend asmr because gilbert suggested it to him. and he secretly likes it?
sariel is too stressed to listen to music. oh maybe he should so he can relieve stress. maybe some calming meditation music? edit: he listens to podcasts and audiobooks
rio listens to whatever emma listens to.
idk yโall can hc whatever this is what i came up with on the spot
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