#miraculous introvert power

[shylittlefrogg]

I'm not going to have an opinion on the special of Shadybug and Claws Noir until it passes.

but that won't stop me from doing the versions of Sabrina and Nathaniel 😈

#miraculous ladybug #introvert power au! #I find it hilarious that Marinette and Adrien look emos #but I decided to go for a semi punk aesthetic for Sabrina and a metal one for Nathaniel #sabrina raincomprix #nathaniel kurtzberg

[naive-daydreamer]

Miraculous the movie is a fanservice and in that essay I will point:

LADYNOIR.

Adrien with headphones cause he's introvert at some point. Do not dare to contradict me.

Marinette being a liiiiiitle more confident.

Chat Noir being really really more unhinged than the series. Plus, THE WATERMELON.

The whole power of Nooroo.

Plagg being way disgusting, as expected jsjs.

Adrien being depressed and listening to THAT SONG OF ALL.

THE OLD FANARTS CAME TO REAL AHHHHHHH.

That little marichat scene where Marinette lauched herself to save Chat.

Gabriel doing what he did mostly for his son.

MARINETTE'S DRESS.

Alya and Nino 🤩

THE REVEAL.

Conclusion: ✨👄✨/10

#spilled feelings #miraculous ladybug #miraculous movie #chat noir #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #ladybug and chat noir #ladynoir #adrienette #marichat #I LOVED THE SONGS #MOSTLY THE ONE WHERE THEY DANCE #tikki #plagg

[starssoblue]

miraculous: ladybug & chat noir, the movie | a(n in-depth) review

prefacing this to say that i recognize a lot of feelings about this movie are related to a frustration with experiencing the tv series for five seasons since 2015. i, however, went into this as a brand new fan, having finally tried the series just since april of this year. so those feelings of frustration aren't going to be present in this review and it's coming more from a (somewhat) objective place, considering the film as its own entity. (spoilers abound.)

marinette:

so i'm a marinette dupain-cheng shooter, i'll fight for this girl forever because of how targeted the hate is for her (and leading female characters in general). but i have to say, even though the movie did a good job not having her be the completely messy pre-teenager she is in the show (especially around her crush), i found that the character change was a little strange.

i think, despite how flustered she gets, marinette in the show is a very strong character. she's a child who spent three years being relentlessly bullied by a politician's daughter (chloe) that people she was generally (she has no good friends but she has an amicable relationship with her peers because they all grew up together) friendly with stayed away from her, for the fear of becoming that girl's next target. she tries her best to stay out of this girl's way because of this bullying, and her defense is to keep quiet and not draw attention to herself so she can get through the school day without being harassed. this harassment leads to marinette having intense anxiety and a lack of confidence in herself, despite having strong opinions and being an otherwise passionate person. meeting her new friend alya, who is very self assured, inspires marinette to not allow her bully to walk over her anymore, and when she gets her first win as ladybug she finds the strength to finally stand up for herself. though she remains a target of that bully, this newfound strength helps her not allow that experience to reign over her life and this gives her bully less power.

in the movie, marinette (there was one trailer that implied she was "the new girl" but the movie itself does not really give us this impression—her scared meekness would make more sense to me if she actually were a new girl in school but more on this later) still grew up in paris with those same peers, but has so much crippling anxiety she has no baseline relationship with anyone. instead of it being mere general awkwardness, the film decides to make her especially clumsy to the point of insane catastrophes constantly happening around her (i guess for her entire life?), and this chaos makes the entire school laugh at her and spread rumors about her, so she has no friends at all. (would make a lot of sense if she's the new girl unless the point is the entire school has been making fun of the wasian girl since maternelle that she's still infamous in lycée for it and spent her entire life without a friend until alya filmed chloe harassing her and saved her, which is... concerning. or wait, is it because they've just entered lycée so they're all technically "new" even though she's lived in paris her whole life because they're starting grade 10 together? but what are the chances that no one she knew from collége are in this school with her now? so she enters lycée, is so clumsy and catastrophes happen around her that she develops a reputation for herself and people like chloe know her by name because she's become that infamous that quickly? but in the song 'reaching out,' marinette sings that she always dreamed of calling paris home, which seems to suggest that maybe she's new in paris. but their bakery seems too established to be new... i don't know. tbh this is information we shouldn't have to guess, and this lack of clarity is something i struggled with for this film.)

as an introverted person, marinette's anxiety and fear of leaving her comfort zone resonate with me, but i feel like while this is explained in the show as a result of years of bullying, it's portrayed here in the extreme. i understand that she's afraid at school because of all the rumors and the disasters that follow her, but even on the streets when she was singing to herself, random people would wave to her and she'd (sing) to herself, "i can't show my face!" even though nothing embarrassing or disastrous had even happened. she's just deathly afraid of people. i don't think this in and of itself is an issue, but it definitely needed more explanation or build up. is marinette this terrified and timid because something (worse than what happened in the series?) happened to her here? is it because she's (new to paris? again, they don't really say but it would fit better if it were true) wasian and she feels out of place in largely white paris? is it more about her biracial identity rather than clumsiness? who knows. so i feel just more background and character development would elevate the movie. arguably, she could just be an anxious and introverted person, but the portrayal of these characteristics just seemed a lot more surface level than they are in the show. i guess this is an example of a limitation a creator has with a film—they can accomplish so much more with years of subtle hints in a series and lay the foundation for certain backgrounds and traits, but in a movie they have to figure out what to tell us, what to show us, and how to develop it in under two hours. sadly, i feel with marinette, as a result of this time crunch, some of the film's portrayals ended up being weak.

(there's this scene all over twitter celebrating marinette standing up to chloe after her newfound confidence as ladybug—i am actually very confused why this was pointed out as a difference from the series. once marinette realized through alya and her first success as ladybug that she didn't need to be afraid of chloe anymore, she stopped. she constantly argues with her, doesn't put up with her bullshit, and even is sometimes mean to her (i'm not going to judge her for it—that girl bullied her badly for three years straight sooo...). i like the scene in the movie too, but my point was that it's consistent with the show and not an actual change.)

people love to attack marinette for some instances where the character in the show was used for absurd comic relief, and i appreciate that the movie doesn't do this with her much. i do think the female characters in miraculous, series and film, would all be better written if written by women, but i digress.

i like that while film marinette tries to reject the earrings just like series marinette, she fails because the magic that has chosen her won’t just let her throw the earrings away or give it to someone else. though she doesn’t randomly decide to give the earrings to alya here, she does try to throw them out a window and they kept coming back to her because she was the chosen one. this was a nice change. i never thought it should be that easy for her to just re-gift them to any random person when they chose her specifically for a reason. 

adrien:

adrien agreste in the series is outgoing, full of energy, lonely but eager to make friends, kind of optimistic. his mother has only been missing for six months at the start of the show, while he's in the public eye, working almost full time as a teen model and the face of his father's massively successful high fashion brand. his circumstances, his public image, the fact that not much time has passed and he's still a 13 year old child all lead him to resist being too affected by his grief (he's obviously still affected but it's not a crippling part of his life, and though he experiences loneliness and has moments of being withdrawn and sad, he retains a relatively optimistic and outgoing nature that influences his outlook on life and his interactions with his peers. he's socially inept through lack of interaction with kids his own age and homeschooling, but he's willing to learn and this, as well as his pure heart, are what define this character.

adrien in the movie is different, but in a way that is realistic and understandable given the changes the film made to his background. he's more quiet, withdrawn, lonely but chooses to stay that way and intentionally pushes people away as a coping mechanism for grief. though in both universes his father's role in his life decreases once his mother vanishes, and he essentially loses both parents rather than one, in the show, being a model and the face of his father's brand allows him to continue having a place in his dad's life even though his father treats him like dirt. in the movie, the time period in which his mother has been missing in his life seems to be much longer, and there has been no indication that adrien has anything to do with his father's work. with his grief affecting him for a greater length of time, his age being older, and his dad being an absentee parent for several years rather than a few months, it's no wonder that the adrien we meet in the movie chooses to pull away from people, allows the sad feelings to dominate, and just overall lacks the energy and optimism show adrien possesses. (i'm also not sure if it's even his first day of school or if he was homeschooled his whole life—chloe claimed she wanted to show him around, but nino interacts with him like they've been friends for more than just a day and he's known him for at least a little while).

honestly, i really like the changes here, despite being tv adrien agreste's #1 fan. this insight into his feelings about his parents, his resignation about his constantly deteriorating relationship with his father, his fixation on the piano which was an interest he shared with his mom, how palpable his feelings of nostalgia and longing are for his mother... the way he was a child when she disappeared and now he's a teenager still thinking about her, always missing her... it was such a natural portrayal of love and grief and though you can see which circumstances prevent show adrien from turning out this way, movie adrien is such an understandable and empathetic character. you really feel for him the whole movie. i think his (possible) lack of fame adds to this too (he doesn't seem to be a model in this, he has no schedules and isn't driven around everywhere, there are loads of photos of him at home but they could just be photos parents put up of their only son). at the end of the day he's a teenager with a father who neglects him constantly for his business and his own grief that he feels very alone, and these feelings keep him from wanting to get close to anyone else, either because he's sad or just afraid of further abandonment. i found the character so incredibly relatable and it was interesting seeing a more vulnerable side to this character, a vulnerability show adrien only occasionally demonstrates, a vulnerability more hinted at in the show through chat noir (but this is an essay for another day).

most importantly, show and movie adrien are both total dorks. the essence of this character is portrayed well in the movie, i really didn't mind the changes because in the end he was still recognizable as my sad sunshine adrien agreste, and i hope people look past the surface differences to recognize and appreciate him for who he is.

plagg plays a bigger role in adrien’s life in the series than in the movie. i love their relationship so i missed that here, but i also feel like maybe they didn’t need him to be looking out for adrien and essentially taking care of him (gorilla does this in the series too, and he wasn’t needed in the movie as adrien has the freedom to largely come and go as he wants and use public transport, something series adrien could never do) because of how much less restrictive his life is in this iteration. 

ladynoir:

the film introduces ladybug and chat noir as "two rival heroes." plagg and tikki themselves are called rivals. eventually ladybug redubs them as "partners" after she and chat noir find a rhythm and master fu also tells them they're stronger together, so i am puzzled why they even tried introducing them that way. in the show, ladynoir aren't rivals at al—they've always been a team. and in this movie, despite those initial comments, it's no different. there's banter and flirtation for sure, but the most "rival" these two get are when they first meet and are goading each other into an argument over which hero is better and who is the sidekick (before they've done anything lmao) and that one fun volkswagon ad when they race each other. i love the flirty competitive sparring, the way they tease each other, when they're just messing around and being playful in the 'stronger together' sequence. you really watch these two become best friends, and like the series, chat noir falls in love with ladybug like a thunderbolt (a coup de foudre!) while for her, you see her affection for him grow the longer they work together and get to know each other. i don't think this is as much of a departure from the series as stan twitter would have you believe, but it does spend more time on their dynamic in one setting than any episode ever does (ladynoir is developed over time in the series, little by little, and their cute flirty dynamic is very reminiscent of how they're portrayed in the first two seasons before the guardianship and other miraculous holders complicated their relationship. at their core they've always had great chemistry and a strong connection). i like both developments tbh, but that one scene of them training together and having fun for a significant amount of time was so lovely to see. don't get me wrong—there are some great moments these two share outside of battle in the series too, but it's been a while since we've seen this dynamic there with everything else going on that it felt so nice to return to this, and in such a huge way too.

the one thing i miss is chat noir calling ladybug "milady." it's such a cute thing he does in the series, and though i enjoyed that "insane!" / "watermelon!" banter, i do miss this being what he calls her all the time. (there is a song called 'my lady' that chat noir sings to himself after he falls in love with ladybug, and in the very last line of the song he calls her this, but otherwise it's just not a thing in the movie.) it really doesn't matter, but i still mourned its absence.

adrienette/adrinette:

the first time i watched this film, i did not like the first adrien/marinette meet-cute at all. to be honest, i wasn't being fair. the first miraculous scene in the series that had me completely enchanted was that umbrella scene in origins, and it is the foundation for this ship and why i love them so much. every bit of the original scene is perfection, with the careful finger brush, the soft smiles, the way their eyes meet and marinette hears a thunder clap (an actual coup de foudre) in the distance as the instrumental 'in the rain' plays in the background... that scene was so spectacularly constructed, it was always obvious nothing this movie did was ever going to match that.

and that's okay.

watching the film a second time, i found that while the umbrella scene still is incomparable, there are things i did like about marinette and adrien's first meeting. the way marinette asks for "a little luck" and she follows the light through the bookshelves to see adrien, who approaches her himself because he thinks she might be in need of help, asking her if she's okay or seeing the distressed look upon her face and wondering if she's crying. it's different from origins, but in some ways it's the same—marinette was distressed, adrien approached her first, she's thrown by his kindness and flustered by his beauty. they have some kind of moment and in the end, he offers her an awkward but gentle smile.

but in origins, they already had history. she didn't care and barely realized he was famous or even connected to her dream of becoming a fashion designer. his looks don't register to her until she's already fallen in love with him. and it's his initiative to correct the misunderstanding between them and show her kindness despite her being harsh and unfair to him that makes her take a second glance, and once she does, she falls in love fast. though i do see the essence of that moment—the being drawn to adrien's kindness aspect—in the movie's library scene, it's less impactful. she doesn't know adrien, so there is barely a conversation between them, and other than his concern over her and his offer of a helping hand when she falls, i don't really see what he does that makes her fall strongly in love with him. if it's still his kindness, it just feels weaker. one could argue that her instant attraction to him is because of his cuteness, and this is what flusters her, and his kindness (less impact than the series, but in this new universe, barely anyone in this school has ever shown marinette kindness rather than gossiping and laughing about her clumsiness so maybe to her this is a real moment of kindness) is only secondary. it's not all that clear. either way, marinette is fascinated by him to keep looking at him before she even falls and he offers to help her up, so the meeting feels a lot more shallow (he had noticed her distress and asked if she was crying before, but i don't know... is just asking about her enough kindness to get that reaction from her? it makes sense after he helps her up but the fascination before.. maybe i'm just longing for the impact of the umbrella scene and this was actually fine...?). the scene ends with adrien's confused, soft smile when he says "she's so weird" to himself (they barely interacted, so i don't know if i'd call it a "fond smile" but it's not the malicious thing some people on social media have been making it out to be. in this iteration adrien tries not to interact with many people, so it's a big deal he was kind enough to still reach out to her. this meeting probably stuck out to him as something unordinary and the comment felt more like he was curious about her more than anything else. it ends up being important to marinette because her clumsiness makes people usually mock her, but he didn't do that, so her instinct then is to try to talk to him (and ask him out, probably?). not the big momentous falling in love scene from the series, but it is still a nice moment for these characters as they're established in this universe.

i think one of the reasons this ship feels weak to me in the film is that outside of this moment, adrien and marinette's friendship development is reduced to a musical montage.

if the movie had used this moment to develop their relationship further, i probably would have actually liked the romance here. while ladynoir had scenes of interactions and ladybug and chat noir getting to know each other and becoming comfortable with each other and literally becoming bffs who trust each other as only two people in the world who share a singular unique experience can, all the development adrien and marinette have is shown through one musical montage in the middle of the movie. (they do have a small interaction at the fair, but this is around the time adrien is first coming out of his shell so it’s very brief.) in the montage, you see many shots of adrien and marinette hanging out with alya and nino in picnics and at the movies, and he looks more at ease with each outing. and you also see adrien opening up to marinette specifically about his mom, sharing photos of her, and finally working through his grief rather than withdrawing from everyone. but because this is a five second scene in the midst of a musical montage illustrating the passage of time, we never get the words exchanged, the scene is glossed over and the impact is only felt by fans of the series who know what this means to him. (fun fact: the film has adrien trusting marinette enough to feel so close to her he talks about his mom with her before he talks to ladybug about her and how in his grief he pushed people away before he met her. though ladybug was the catalyst to him opening up to people, i do find it meaningful that he opened up to marinette first. but this is still a crumb and you have to be looking to make those connections in order to see them. the film should have shown adrien falling in love to some extent outside of the mask as well, he’s supposed to have some kind of inner conflict and it’s hard to believe that he does here with all the missing pieces.) i’m not sure if casual viewers would even notice it in the midst of all the other scenes happening as the theme song plays in the background. had we seen more of stuff like this, gotten some kind of explanation that over time adrien had started to feel for marinette too and this montage is proof of it (it shows that they’re friends and he trusts her now to some extent, but it’s so fast it barely registers. you can’t deduce he’s in love with marinette here, whereas in the scenes with chat noir you see ladybug actively struggle with her feelings, develop affectionate feelings for chat noir, and feel bad for rejecting him because of that, not just because it sucks to have to turn someone down), then that would have been fine. but that’s not what happens. after this montage we barely see adrien and marinette together at all until she tries asking him to he ball and he says he’s sorry but there’s someone else. though his rejection was soft, and you do see him look upset he had to reject her, there was no doubt he was going to reject her here. the core conflict—that they’re in love with two people, one they fall in love with like thunder and another that slowly builds in their heart—is so badly illustrated in this movie. you can see the intention is there if you’re looking for it, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. 

though i appreciate that marinette didn't struggle to find her words around adrien in this film, and appeared more realistically flustered and anxious rather than the over the top thing they do in the series, i still feel like the adrinette in the series is overall written and developed better as a ship. in the tv series, you see this initial conflict —chat noir falls fast for ladybug, who turns him down because marinette fell just as fast in love with adrien agreste—turn into marinette forming a friendship with chat noir, whom she then starts to get close to outside and in the mask, as adrien starts to fall in love with marinette. the series is now at a point where adrien and marinette are actually in love, despite never actually falling out of love with their superhero counterparts, so that if it finally leads to a reveal (which it hasn’t yet), it would be incredibly moving.

my issue is, without this adrinette relationship development, the reveal feels less impactful. if you’re frustrated the series hasn’t given you this moment yet, you feel satisfaction seeing it in the conclusion of this film solely because of the progression of the series. without it, looking at the moments in this film alone, it feels halfhearted. though marinette is ladybug, it’s an idealized version of herself she’s created to take on the challenge of being a hero. these characteristics are still hers, but it feels like someone falling in love with a celebrity. though this isn’t wholly true—chat gets to know ladybug’s vulnerabilities too as they get closer—it’s still not fully her the way marinette, as a normal person who now has the confidence being ladybug provides her echoing in her daily life too, is. so her struggling with her feelings, turning chat noir down reluctantly before adrien rejects her, but still reaching out to him once discovering they’re the same person—you just see that she falls in love with all sides of him. but it’s less clear for adrien. you can analyze that montage and make a deduction, but it’s not as explicit. instead, it just feels like he rejects who she actually is for her heroic persona, and that makes the reveal feel one-sided (unless you carry over your feelings of frustration from the series never giving us this moment).

it sucks that adrinette was underdeveloped because as far as scenes go, the reveal is actually quite beautiful. adrien has tears in his eyes when she introduces herself as ladybug and he realizes she liked him all along, but if we knew why those tears of relief and happiness appeared upon realizing the girl of his dreams was marinette, it would mean more. [he’s also at this ball wearing the bow tie marinette made for him that she threw into the trash after he rejected her, and i’d love to believe that this isn’t a continuity error, but it probably is. it’s hard to imagine adrien felt so torn up about rejecting marinette (after ladybug already rejected him??! like it really felt like he’d like to go to this ball that he never asked ladybug to go to alone rather than with marinette, which is…not great ) that he went by the trash, saw his name on a box and opened it up, realizing she made him a gift, and then chose to wear it. he literally doesn’t think about marinette once in this film after he rejects her so this feels like a reach… unless it was intentional, in which case they should have written so much more to make this (and this ship) clear.]

gabriel agreste:

i can't remember if origins explained how long gabriel agreste had the butterfly miraculous and if he used it right away upon acquiring it, but what i liked in the film was that it was clearly explained that he had had that artifact for a while, done research on its capabilities, considered the risks and rewards, and then after a long time of deliberation finally made the active choice to do what he knew was wrong just because he loved his wife so much he would never be able to live without her. ("if chaos is the way, i will burn the world and lose myself to do so!") each time he misuses the miraculous to hurt people, it takes a toll on his physical and mental health, making him look haggard and act more crazy and reckless (this happens in the series as well—season 1 gabriel isn't season 5 gabriel but he becomes more villainous over time).

one thing that confuses me though is that gabriel got a sense of the chaos and terror committed with the butterfly miraculous upon just touching the item, but the series and later on in the film, it's explicitly stated that this miraculous isn't inherently evil. in the show there are many reasons why ladybug and chat noir historically were called to fight, but in the movie it seems to be implied that it's this one miraculous alone that summons them through creating chaos in the world. but it's also allegedly 'good'—this contradiction is confusing (and my friend who had no knowledge of mlb was so lost watching this movie). i don't think the show does much for romanticizing this decision the way the film does, and it certainly doesn't make us believe that gabriel agreste felt forced to make this decision and had doubts he overlooked because he was that desperate. i mean, his desperation comes across in the series in other ways but not in a sad lonely man who is struggling to live without his wife way. the film humanizes this stupid, terrible man in a way the series fails to do so (which makes sense given some of the atrocities he goes onto commit that film gabriel doesn't come close to doing). this softer portrayal works for the movie as many of the things i dislike about m. agreste are never portrayed, leaving him a bit more of a sympathetic villain even as he terrorizes all of paris. he still sucks though, just on a lesser scale. 

when gabriel tells the story about how much adrien's mother meant to him, and how difficult it was for him to face the sadness in adrien's eyes upon losing a parent (tbh he's so dumb. his son finds it hard to cope with one parent leaving him so his solution is to make him lose the second parent too just because it was hard to deal with his son's grief on top of his own...dumbass), he says it was only after she was gone that he learned about the miraculous. does this mean that in this universe adrien actually wasn't conceived using the peacock miraculous and the coma emilie is in at the end is caused by something else? gabriel and adrien both speak about his mom like she's dead. and at the end it's revealed that like in the series, emilie is still alive but in a magical coma. did he just mean that they already knew about the peacock miraculous and what he learned about was the butterfly miraculous and then the wish the ladybug and black cat miraculous combined make? i'm lost. (maybe it's just really huge a continuity error?

i saw a lot of people wonder why adrien in the show doesn't argue with his father or blow up at him the way adrien does in the film. aside from the fact that gabriel agreste in the movie is a lot less criminal than the abusive doucheface he is in the series, it doesn't look like adrien is being controlled by his father if he's a sentibeing here too and the worst thing gabriel has done is be an absentee parent (bad, but it's not the locking your kid up, forcing him to work since he was a child, controlling his every second of every day, having your employees follow him around and spy on him for you, trying to control who he interacts with on a daily basis, forbidding him from hanging out with friends, trying to akumatize him or exploit him in other ways, being emotionally abusive, etc etc). adrien in the series being younger, experiencing his father being an ass only since his mother disappeared six months ago and taking nearly a year to realize his treatment isn't normal and he physically can't resist his dad's orders even if he wanted to... they're in such different predicaments. older adrien with less manipulation and abuse would have an easier time yelling at his father. tv adrien also eventually argues with his dad in season 5, but it takes a lot to build up to that and then the series quickly destroys all this character development because of a hole they wrote themselves into, but that's an essay for another time... i don't think these can be fairly compared. (that said, i clapped hard when adrien told his father he lost his dad a long time ago. his father made a decision not to act like a parent once he lost his wife and it's been a long while since then, he's essentially raising himself at this point.)

it's this change in adrien and gabriel's relationship that allows the end of the final battle to make sense in the movie in a way they wouldn't make sense in the show. tv gabriel agreste doesn't care to hurt his son—you see this constantly explored in different timelines. there is a reason why there's so much fanfiction guessing gabriel would exploit adrien if he learned he was chat noir, or actively try to trade him for his wife. movie gabriel, however, stops right away the second he realizes that the teenager he was ready to hurt was actually his son. hell, even earlier, he called adrien to leave the fair before sending akumas there because he didn't want him to get caught in the crossfire. tv gabriel would never. (i guess show gabriel also does this mid-series sometimes but it's so inconsistent...granted show gabriel doesn't know what his son is even doing most days unless he's leaving the city—the one very aware of his schedule is nathalie sooo maybe it's an issue of knowledge. either way, by season 5, gabriel tries to deliberately put his son into harm's way and even akumatize him sooooo....) so that heart to heart they have that helps gabriel deal with his grief and talks him down from being a supervillain any longer is a beautiful moment (the scene itself has the prettiest animation of those two embracing as purified butterflies surround them), but one that the series would not be able to replicate (that character is really not redeemable there even though they kind of tried).

chloe:

to be honest i don't really care for her in any iteration of this, but i did find it interesting that while she said she offered to show him around (as she does in the show too), we never see adrien with chloe in this movie ever. he doesn't talk about her, he doesn't acknowledge her. i always see their friendship as one created by circumstance—when you're kids and your parents' friends only have the one child you're left to interact with so you become "friends" but that friendship isn't anything deep despite it being one of your first. not going to analyze their relationship in the show because while it's not the best friendship some people in fandom fictionalize, it does have some complexity, but in the movie, i'd honestly argue they barely know each other. chloe mentions adrien on multiple occasions. but he doesn't once talk or think about her. he's already friends with nino (is he new in this? chloe said she wants to show him around, but he's already hanging out in a library when we first see him and he already is friends with nino enough for nino to try to invite him out—is it that he's new but this time it's not his first day we're seeing? i don't know, it's unclear), and they make plans to hang out. you see a montage of him hanging out with nino, alya and marinette later, but nothing on chloe. if she wasn't so extremely anxious, i'd wonder why marinette believes chloe at all when she suddenly claims to be the girl adrien likes. i saw some people say chloe in the film is more redeemable than chloe in the series, and while this is true (because of things chloe does to aid a supervillain in seasons 4 and 5 that can't really be undone) i don't see much of a difference in her relationship with marinette. she's not a "rival" (rival suggests a largely harmless competitiveness—marinette isn't competing with her. she's trying to stay out of her way so chloe doesn't hurt her). the degree of bullying is possibly different (we don't really know. movie chloe threatens to strangle marinette with her own hair, so while she's probably not the sole reason marinette has no friends this time, she's still pretty much an actual bully, though a little more aware of being shamed via the internet for her crimes, though not so much at school in front of people... probably because irl people she can control but on the internet, as a politician's daughter as well as a famous hotel heiress, she is bound to face backlash for herself and her family...?) but it's still not great enough to be claiming this character deserves serious spotlight or a redemption arc (honestly she's hardly in the movie). like the series, i get the impression that there is some racism at work here too, but it's not as strong as it is in the show (marinette being this white girl's main target for no reason, her talking to her like she's inhuman, the way the entire school is so quick to dismiss her whenever she's targeted by lila or chloe without ever investigating anything because a white girl cried wolf, and then chloe's actual comments to marinette's uncle, the way she stresses the 'cheng' part of her surname when she's addressing her, etc. etc. the film doesn't do any of this).

there's a scene where chloe is ordering sabrina to locate marinette so she can harass her, and sabrina finds marinette but chooses to lie and pretend she couldn't find her. though sabrina in the series slowly evolves and learns to listen to her own conscience, i like that outside of chloe's line of sight, she knows what's wrong or right. though this is true of series sabrina too, she doesn't act on this sense of morality. i like the change that she does in the film, at least away from chloe. it's the bare minimum but at least it's something.

the music:

it took me a whileeee to care about the music here, but i still find a lot of the music just largely forgettable. (honestly i was hoping for disney classic level music in this animated film, so i guess i have no one to blame but myself there. it doesn't help that i'm obsessed with the actual instrumental music in the series—'in the rain' is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard. also i was hoping for ce mur qui nous sépare, but i guess that was a hopeless dream. i was hoping, if they were excluding it, the song wouldn't apply in the movie because there were less "walls between [them]" than in the series, since it was ending in a reveal, but the film doesn't actually go that route... more on that later.) despite the fact that the music wasn't my favorite part, and i really think the movie would improve if there had been a better balance between story development and music (the film really suffers from too much unneeded music in favor of less story development), i did really enjoy some of the songs and the usage of series throwback musical motifs was excellent. also really enjoyed the usage of 'careless whisper' in this movie lmfaoooooo, comedic excellence.

(unpopular opinion: i really didn't mind that lou sings for christina. it doesn't fit well at all, but i heard about it long before i watched the movie and was just expecting it. it's not the best because their voices are so different, but it didn't really take me out like i thought it would, and i got used to it really fast.)

in the first song marinette sings about believing in herself. the visuals are gorgeous. the film brought to life her sketchbook, evolving the mundane to the most elegant of clothes. honestly would love to see and hear more about marinette's passion for design and her dream of becoming a designer. the film barely touched upon it (the show could go into this more too! they do sometimes but i want moreee), but it would be nice to hear where marinette's inspirations come from, why this dream is so meaningful to her. what i found interesting was, in the show marinette exclaims that gabriel agreste is her favorite fashion designer. but movie marinette doesn't mention him ever. does she know about him? is he less influential to her here? she walks by his showroom on her way to school but that's the extent we see of anything in this vein. curious.

though i don't think the 'you are ladybug' song was a necessity (adrien didn't get a song about becoming chat noir, but i guess he didn't need the extra encouragement, since he was ready to go instantly), i did actually enjoy it. lyrically it isn't strong, but it's a fun back and forth between marinette and tikki, and the way the song pays homage to the miraculous ladybug theme song is beautiful (the entire "i have one job / i'm good at it / i've been doing it for so many years" follows the tune to "another day / i'm back at school / i look at him, he's so cool" in the series theme song, and i especially loved "but why me? / i'm nothing special, bug / wait and see / what you're capable of" sung to the melody of "oh oh oh / he's got me spinning 'round / oh oh oh / my feet are off the ground." just TOO GOOD). the rap where tikki channels lin manuel miranda made me die of laughter, but also i really can't get over her going, "we'll come THISCLOSE to dying and then we'll do it all again!" as a selling point to convince this teenager to put her life on the line for all of paris. the other part of this song i really loved was the polyphony at the end when marinette and tikki sang their own melodies at the same time—not just because it sounded nice but because i died over tikki saying, "i'm about to kick your butt if you don't start to listen" lmao.

my entire theater laughed at hawk moth’s song (the song was okay, but the concept of hawk moth singing took me out lmao). it did have the feel of a classic villain song in movies like anastasia or the lion king, but it wasn’t as memorable. i do think it expressed gabriel agreste’s mental state really well though. 

reiterating that i really don’t think marinette needed 3.5 different songs about the same theme, but the best song lyrically/musically/vocally is definitely ‘courage in me,’ hands down.

maybe it’s because i adore the fuck out of the music drew ryan scott sings as ’christopher wilde’ in the disney channel movie starstruck, but i love the song chat noir sings after being lovestruck by ladybug after their first meeting (sung by the same man). the visuals of him literally singing with his head in the clouds were excellent, the character song fit him so well, and i think the melody had such a dreamscape feel of falling in love. i actually really like the lyrics in this song too (“it’s been a while since i smiled and meant it” adrichat my bb ;A; ) and my favorite part is “then she appears like a dream in a dream!” i think this song also does what music is meant to do in a musical—add to the story so that part of it can be told in song. so we get adrien basically saying he’s been withdrawing from people for sooo long, and this encounter with ladybug in which he almost died is the first time he’s felt something in a long time. this musical interlude leads to him hanging out with his friend nino at the fair (he said ‘whatever’ when nino first asked him to go, but the difference in his expression and the fact that he seems more smiley and enthusiastic in this encounter, and even hopeful enough to ask his dad to actually come to the fair and hang out with him already demonstrates a change in his demeanor), actually having a conversation with marinette, and then a montage of him no longer choosing to deal with his grief alone and finally reaching out to others, so you can see how that moment with ladybug (and all the other moments of them getting to know each other afterward while fighting or training) really did impact his life.

the miraculous title musical montage around the middle of the movie was too excellent and showed the passage of time really well, both as ladybug and chat noir, and as adrien and marinette. this was a great way to develop parts of the story (it also depicted marinette’s character evolution, making her more self confident in her daily life and no longer being an anxious messy creator of catastrophes). it was also nice to just hear a familiar song. (chat noir smiling goofily to himself after seeing ladybug smile at “and when i see her smile, that’s when she becomes miraculous” is my fave—it's just so well done, i love.)

‘stronger together’ is one of those songs that i love the first half of but find the second half too messy. the sequence is gorgeous, the scene is one of my favorites in terms of relationship development and animation in the entire movie. and i am weirdly in love with the part of the song where it pauses before he sings “take my hand!” and the music picks up. it’s so playful and flirty and the essence of how ladynoir are depicted in this movie, and i love that. the vocals are lovely. there’s a musical motif throwing back to one of my favorite instrumentals in the tv series—'the last dance' which serves as the background of so many touching ladybug and chat noir moments in the show—at the end of the song where she ponders the mixed feelings inside her heart before ultimately rejecting chat noir (“what is this feeling now? i cannot fall for him…” / “we could be great, i know / i’m falling for you.”). as a song, this back and forth dialogue feels so random tacked on here but it is a musical so i guess that fits, i just found the whole thing kind of messy. but i love that they did this dialogue to the melody of ‘the last dance’ because it’s such a gorgeous melody and a sentimental throwback. honestly even if i only like half the song, the scene itself is a film highlight and i fucking cry over the cheesy cute “you save the world every day with your mask, but the girl behind it saved my heart” he says to her that causes her to gasp (same).

film additions that are just better:

the animation, obviously. (THE HAIR TEXTURE! THE SCENERY! THEIR EYES? I CRY I CRY.)

i am fond of the fact that their miraculous lights up (flickers? glows? there's light of some kind) when the city is in need of ladybug or chat noir to save the day, and just kind of guides adrien and marinette to where they need to go. this is a big difference from the series where they have to physically encounter the danger themselves (and they do! because in the show, most of the people akumatized are people they know, random adults in their lives or the kids in their class). and at least one of them has to be present to call the other one to appear. this is not necessary in the universe of the movie. it's also more realistic because hawk moth isn't specifically targeting the kids in his son's class, but is akumatizing people at random all over the city.

i also really loved the fact that tikki and plagg use magic to choose their own chosen holders, rather than master fu doing a random test in the middle of nowhere and hoping to attract people of pure heart out on the street. it helps add to the lore that they're actually chosen, and that they're fated and compatible, and i love that a lot. (there is a scene where he, while trying to chase tikki, ends up in the middle of the street in front of oncoming traffic, and marinette risks her life to save him. but this wasn't used as a means for him to choose her for the ladybug role, but rather as a means for identifying that she was destined to be ladybug and tikki had chosen her. i will add that while i love the concept, the scene itself made me laugh because he sounded crazy interacting with her, no wonder she ended up being scared and running away from him.) the fact that adrien spots a black cat that leads him to the black cat ring and marinette spots a ladybug that guides her to the ladybug earrings... *chef's kiss* i'll confess, i wasn't a fan of every single person they choose throughout history being called ladybug and chat noir (in the series, they choose their own names. ladybug is self explanatory but the fact that adrien's mom used to read him a bedtime story about a hero named chat noir and this resonated with him so much he chose to name himself that immediately upon discovering he has powers means so much to me), but this really wasn't a significant change and i only care because i love adrichat so much.

it was a cool detail in the scene where marinette meets tikki that she awakens like the genie in aladdin (she even calls herself a genie in this one rather than a god. it doesn't matter, but i prefer kwamis being called gods. tikki then goes on to talk about how she can't grant wishes, when we know the black cat and ladybug miraculous can grant a wish in exchange for an equal price which is the entire plot of the movie, but this terminology preference is unimportant). the way she noted all the societal changes and how much time has spent since she's been needed to reawaken was very fun.

in the tv series, gabriel agreste akumatizes himself when he thinks ladybug and chat noir might guess his identity as hawk moth, hoping that if he appeared as a victim they'd be off his trail. while this serves its purpose in the show, i thought it was really cool that film gabriel agreste decided his dark heart would be stronger than the people he's been akumatizing, and instead of continuing to sit back and use innocent civilians for his means, he chooses to akumatize those negative feelings he always carries with him and turn into the ultimate villain himself. and he succeeds, becoming a villain that is so strong, he gets the earrings himself and nearly gets the ring. though i liked that he did this, something about this battle still felt really anticlimactic. it's probably a pacing issue because i really did love that final scene between gabriel and adrien, but everything happened so fast it didn't feel as epic as it seemed they were going for. additionally, i know that the point was ladybug and chat noir are only unbeatable if they work together and they were not at all united this final battle because their feelings got in the way, i was still really troubled that the only reason they won against hawk moth is because he backed off. had chat noir's mask never gotten torn, he would not have stopped...

(i also have to ask, since his identity gets revealed on a large scale and the newscasters even announce that it was him the whole time, does he actually get consequences? like he did back off, but he was still terrorizing the whole city for months... if he's exposed, shouldn't there be ramifications? i can't tell if he went to prison. the movie did not say.)

where the series shines more:

to someone who has never seen the series (i watched this initially with a friend who knew absolutely nothing about mlb), the powers are confusing. in the series, origins explains really well what cataclysm and lucky charm do, how they can only use them once before given five minutes before detransforming and needing to re-transform to use the power again. the series makes use of this, creating tension with the five minute rule (which is explained to only apply to them while they're children, so once they "mature" the time limit will disappear and they'd be able to use their powers over and over without fear of exposing their identities). while the movie does not need to stress over the time limitation (as the film aged up the characters from 13 to 15/16, so i guess they've already hit 'maturity'), it spends no time on explaining what a cataclysm is (a power chat noir doesn't even use until the final battle, and NO EXPLANATION IS GIVEN. WE'RE JUST SUPPOSED TO KNOW HE ALWAYS HAD THIS ABILITY HE NEVER NEEDED TO USE UNTIL HAWK MOTH WAS READY TO KILL HIM) and there are no lucky charms.

actually, the entire battle format makes little sense. in the show, ladybug and chat noir have to figure out what object hawk moth akumatized to turn civilians into his supernatural army, break the akumatized object, free the butterfly, and then purify it. in the movie, all they're really told is that they're meant to fight these beings, and after they win, ladybug can purify the butterfly. there isn't an explanation for when the butterfly leaves the akuma—no objects are being broken; they're literally just fighting until the monster can exist no more. this is strange to me because these fights have no rules. it's just, literally physically defeating a creature until the magic can no longer hold it.

i don't know how i feel about this, but i liked how the series does it. because it's an emphasis on physical strength, the movie lacking lucky charms makes sense, but what i always liked about that was 1) it called back on ladybug being the embodiment of good luck that her power would be chance, and 2) it was specifically marinette's time to shine. her strength in the series is her creativity, her creative approach to problem solving and use of her clever mind is what sets her apart and makes her the best ladybug in the series no matter who else has worn the ladybug miraculous. without this, i felt like a big essence of the character was missing. (the film does call upon her intelligence and creative mind in some scenes, like in the first battle where she uses her yoyo somewhat strategically to stumble her way through traffic and save chat noir, but it wasn't enough for me. i guess it was supposed to be implied that she planned the gargoyle to get hit by the train and the collision released the akuma, but the film is so unclear about this. it looked more like a happy accident rather than marinette using her brain to save the day.)

in the show, ladybug also has the ability to undo akuma damage when she throws her lucky charm into the air and shouts "miraculous ladybug" at the end of each battle. since lucky charms are absent in this iteration, it makes sense this isn't a thing either. (i guess it could also be tedious to show this in the movie after every single attack whereas once an episode is fine, but they could have just shown it once and implied it always happened. instead, what they implied was that after every battle, the damage to the city was actual damage and the city had to deal with the infrastructure hawk moth damaged until after the final battle, when ladybug gave master fu the butterfly miraculous. upon reclamation of that miraculous, fu told her that she, as the holder of the miraculous of creation, could (now, i guess?) use her power to rebuild the city. instead of it being a lucky charm thrown into the air with an incantation that creates a swarm of butterflies spreading over the city for an immediate cure, it's marinette directing her power slowly to every corner of the city and actually creating to undo the damage. this made for a very pretty scene that i really liked, but imagine how awful paris would look if in the series, none of that damage was ever fixed and it would have taken til the end of season 5, ten months after hawk moth started terrorizing the city, for anything to get restored (actually this wouldn't even happe if the show universe worked the same way because they don't reclaim that miraculous at the end of season 5).

so one of my main issues with this film is that a lot of the major themes and didactic messages are just constantly shoved in your face rather than learned by the characters. i think the series—because it has the time—does this better than the film because it allows characters to fail and learn things on their own, rather than having the message delivered in big "life lesson" quotes to the characters all the time that it doesn't at all feel natural. (so the film constantly tells rather than shows.) for example, on her way out of the bakery, marinette randomly asks her mom, "how do you make your dreams come true?" this conversation comes out of nowhere (they were talking about her embarrassment from her dad's antics and her lack of friends right before), and it's followed up with a lesson in believing in herself. it might have made sense had her mom encouraged her to embrace who she is and related that to her reaching out of her comfort zone to consider befriending some of her peers, but that doesn't happen. (it does lead to a song about believing in herself and how if she did so she'd reach her true potential, which is nice, but feels so disjointed from the conversation that happened before it, it was a bit jarring.) when marinette meets master fu on the street, he randomly says to her "who saves a life saves the world" and scares her. but then moments after, she ends up somewhere a ladybug leads her to the same words written on stone. we really didn't need master fu saying this to her when she was going to encounter the message anyway (especially as it comes into play significantly at the end of the movie in the final battle when fu reiterates the quote).

i cringed so hard in that scene after their first fight where master fu appeared out of nowhere just to say “before you discover who i am, you must first discover who you are.” like... okay?

similarly, this is how i felt about the "stronger together" theme. i love that this message is important to the plot—chat noir and ladybug literally are stronger together. but this is constantly being stated rather than the movie trusting the audience to realize it on their own. in the show, ladybug and chat noir work best as partners. their teamwork and trust in each other makes the entire show. here, they work best together also, and their powers even amplify during the moments of teamwork rather than when either of them try to take on a fight alone. i thought this was an interesting change (i love both), but i really like the two of them discovering this on their own through trial and error rather than having master fu mention it to them once and they just spend the entire movie constantly thinking about it.

the one “life lesson” that i thought was more naturally expressed was when chat noir, before being a cute goofball and teasing her, realized ladybug was a little hesitant to accept the mission, and he said, “i understand you’re afraid, but failure is not your enemy—your fears are.” though his delivery was lighthearted, the message stayed with her and she even parrots it back to him later. this is how a film expressing such “life lessons” should do it—through natural progression rather than a bunch of fortune cookie quotes thrown at you over and over again. (though the scene is different, it was reminiscent of the scene in origins when ladybug panics because of how they messed up their first fight, and chat noir reassures and encourages her, inspiring her to continue being a hero despite her being afraid of making more mistakes. this is another example of the film having corresponding but distinctive scenes that i still really enjoyed even though they were different from the series.)

actually, that scene towards the end of the film when tikki reminds marinette that she's ladybug even outside of the mask was really well done too (as well as its reference to the earlier "you save the world every day with your mask, but the girl behind it saved my heart" scene). i loved seeing marinette muster up all the strength she has to try to free chat noir from hawk moth's grip. that one shot of her tackling him out of the way of hawk moth's attack as herself untransformed is so beautifully animated.

overall:

honestly, ignoring all those tweets arguing the movie is better than the series (they're incomparable—there are things the film does better, but overall the development of the series spread out over a hundred episodes is way better than a movie limited under two hours with way too much music), i found that the movie was fun if it wasn't taken seriously. as much as we all hate astruc i don't think it can replace the series even with the things it did better, but i don't think it was meant to (despite what tons of great marketing tweets by fans have claimed). it's just another way to enjoy these characters that mean a lot to us, another iteration of a story we cherish. i do hope the writing improves and the lessons come more naturally in the sequel, but even if it's just a continuation of this i'll eat it up every time (especially now that the movie approaches territory the series has never come close to: marinette and adrien know their feelings for each other and their identities, a fanfiction reader's dream! and maybe they can retcon the adrienette and explore whatever was meant to be conveyed via that montage so that the relationship works on both sides of the mask). i hope anyone familiar with miraculous (and those even curious about it) go and enjoy this film on netflix because it's still a fun ride, and i'm really glad i had the opportunity to experience it at the cinema and laugh and cry all the way through.

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous movie #miraculous awakening #ml movie spoilers #miraculous the movie #miraculous ladybug the movie #ml awakening #mlb movie #miraculous le film #awakening spoilers #mlb movie spoilers #ml awakening spoilers #chat noir #miraculous spoilers #mlb spoilers #ladybug and chat noir #miraculous #review #the gist is: it does some things better than the show and some things worse but overall i had fun anyway and i'm excited for the sequels

[artzychic27]

Hi, I'm the anonymous who suggested the AU of Favoritism, and I had another idea for a while in my head and season 5 and you fixed it even more, what if Marc and Zoe were Ladybug and Chat Noir, Zoe with the miracle cat and Marc with the ladybug …. in this AU they would already be in school at the beginning of the year, they would not be akuma, and I think they would not make the same mistakes as the original duo (half of Paris' problems with akuma is because of the love square, and them not being in love would save a lot of headache), what do you think?

Did someone fancy Fancy Heroes au?! Let’s just pretend you did

Keep in mind, there’s gonna be some out of order episodes, so… Yeah, it’s an au. Not everything’s gonna match up, you guys

It’s Zoé’s first day at DuPont… And she’s terrified. Cue dramatic inner monologue giving a vague hint on what went down back at her old school and explains her slight trust issues and why she left New York

Fortunately, she’s got her half sister (Who’s not a complete mythic bitch because they’ve been DMing each other ever since Chloé took a dna test when she was thirteen) to show her around and occasionally translate if needed

While they walk to school, Zoé runs into an old Asian man about to get run over by a car, and quickly pulls him out of the way

After checking up on him, they leave, and fail to notice his hand slipping into their backpack

Zoé meets her classmates and keeps her guard up when they try to converse with her

Marc who was assigned as Zoé’s guide, meets up with her, and while they’re both sort of introverts, Zoé attempts and succeeds in getting a few words out of him, and even learns about his crush on a certain someone when she catches him eyeing a redheaded guy walking past their classroom

The first day of school is pretty normal. Mme. Mendeleive welcomes Zoé, goes over the lesson plan, the students go to study hall, and Cosette saves Zoé from tripping over some asshole’s leg and embarrassing herself on her first day

Cue lesbian crush becuase this pretty girl so much prettier up close, and is holding their hand!

While Zoé is busy chatting them up, trying not to be a disaster, Stoneheart suddenly appears and starts destroying everything on sight

Ismael: Nope! Nope! Nope, nope, nope, nope! *Speedwalks away* I’m out! Peace be with y’all!

The students evacuate and head home while Stoneheart hunts for Kim, and that’s where Zoé finds the box in her bag. And in them she finds a ring, and… A tiny cat

Introductions go as canon, with Plagg explaining her new role, talking about the misuse of the Butterfly miraculous, asking for cheese, and of course… She’s freaking out becuase she’s a teenager with the world on her shoulders!

But after a much needed confidence boost, he transforms into Apex Predator, and their outfit is just so distinguished lesbian punk

They head out to track down Stoneheart, and meet another hero named Mariquita. They communicate with each other as to what their power sets are, helping them to come up with a plan, easily turn Stoneheart back into Ivan, and purify the Akuma

Crisis. Averted. Boom.

Oh, but the cops try to arrest Ivan until Apex Predator fucking lays into them and gives them all a verbal lashing

Apex Predator: He’s clearly disoriented and has no idea what just happened! He was possessed by some maniac who preyed on his emotions! That’s the guy you should be arresting! So, leave this sort of work to us until you can get your shit together!

Mariquita: If I weren’t gay, I’d be all over you.

Apex Predator: Yo, same!

The next day, Apex Predator and Mariquita are all anyone can talk about, and Zoé is trying so hard not to blush when girls call her hero persona hot

She notices that Ivan isn’t around and makes a note to ask Mariquita to help her make a public statement when she hears people still blaming Ivan for something that was not his fault

And she may not have to wait long becuase another Akuma appears! And it’s Stoneheart again, becuase some assholes just wanna blame him

This time, Mariquita slaps a few police officers across the face with his glove for shooting at Stoneheart while he has captives, becuase that’s dangerous as hell!

Anyway, they save Ivan, Myléne, and Chloé, Miraculous Ladybug, all is well… Then Hawkmoth makes his appearance and blames them for the destruction

Apex Predator: Fuck you, you human condom!

Mariquita: At least we’re not preying on the emotions of hormonal teenagers, you creep!

Apex Predator: CREEP!

They’re turned into memes instantly

Apex Predator and Mariquita are an impressive team- No romance gets in the way, they communicate, and Mariquita doesn’t throw Apex Predator into danger without warning

Zoé and Marc get pretty close as friends, and this makes Marc friends with Chloé by association and the enemy of one Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Who despises anyone who’s friends with Chloé because of a childhood grudge)

One day during another Akuma… Let’s say Mime, Mariquita protects Nathaniel from getting hit by the invisible arrows (Cue Nath’s celebrity crush)

When the Akuma’s all taken care of, Mariquita and Apex Predator head off to transform back, but unknowingly go in the same directions and transform right next to each

Zoé: MARC?!

Marc: ZOÉ?!

Marc/Zoé: …

Zoé: … Wanna… Catch a movie, sit in comfortable silence and then talk when it’s over?

Marc: Yeah, alright.

I take you back a few weeks ago to the start of the school year!

Marc is a shy boy who prefers to keep his face in books, when all of a sudden!… He has to show the new student around and bear social interaction!

He dreads the walk to school, but is actually relieved he left when he did, because there is just this old man reaching for his cane, and no one is helping him. Because he’s not an asshole, Marc helps him up and heads to school, not noticing the extra weight in his bag

Stoneheart happens, he meets Tikki, freaks out, and to the present!

After getting some explaining out of the way, Marc and Zoé figure they can make this work. Besides, it’s not like the world will end if they know each other’s identities… Yeah, no it won’t… They’re fine

Anyway, school’s normal, no akumas in about two weeks now, Nathaniel’s drawing Mariquita, Marc notices and blushes because a pretty artist is drawing his hero self

Of course, Zoé has to tease him, and in retaliation, he teases her about her crush on Cosette

Zoé: It’s funny how we’re both gay punks in love with short artistic bisexuals.

Marc: Life is odd that way.

Let’s see… Oh, on the weekend, during the fencing team’s practice, and during the episode, Copycat, Lacey, a friend and classmate of Marc and Zoé spies Marinette sneaking into the locker room and follows her

There, she spies Marinette breaking into Adrien’s locker and swiping his phone

She snaps a picture of this, becuase this is highly disturbing!

Then on Monday~

Ismael: Whoa! That’s creepy!

Denise: And highly disturbing.

Simon: Amazing video quality, but yeah, I agree with Ismael and Denise.

Reshma: I have always had my suspicions about her. I’ve seen the way she’s stared at Adrien, but I assumed it was an innocent crush.

Aurore: I saw her drool over him. It was gross.

Cosette: So… What shall we do with this video?

Jean: Blackmail!

Denise: Jean!

Jean: I want free clothes.

Aurore: Okay, but let’s hold off on showing that video. Technically, Lacey broke a law.

Lacey: She broke it first.

Aurore: True, but let’s go through all the right channels, and get this bitch red handed.

Mireille: That’s my girl.

So, on top of superhero work, Zoé and Marc are working up the nerve to ask their crushes out, doing schoolwork, and exposing Marinette’s steadily growing list of felonies because her behavior is just becoming disturbing

When Lila arrives, the Science Kids can already tell she’s lying, but figure she’s only trying to fit in. It’s Marinette who’s got the real problem with her

Marinette: You all know she’s lying?!

Cosette: Could you not scream in my fucking ear? Yes, we know she’s lying, and we don’t care. Why? Becuase this does not concern us. She’s not in our class, and she’s just telling us about her “connections.”

Simon: Yeah, and if your friends believe everything she’s saying, I fear the day they come across a cult leader, but so far, Lila’s just telling tales of an extravagant life. No need to bite our heads off.

Marinette: B-but she-

Mireille: Has a crush on Adrien?… She’s become infatuated with the object of your obsession? Hm?… Yes?… I have hit the nail?… She’s somehow stolen the boy you cannot speak three words to?… Has she?… Yes?

Marinette: I didn’t not come here to be mocked-

Marc: What did you expect, then?

Marinette: Oh, you and Zoé are probably laughing with Chloé all about Lila humiliating me!

Zoé: No, just about how tacky glitter is. Oh, and Chloé doesn’t believe her, either. I laid down some facts.

Marinette: … UGH! *Storms off*

Zoé: You’re welcome! Can you believe that girl?

Denise: Uh, guys? She’s following Lila.

Lacey: She’s gonna murder her! I knew someone from this shit hole would turn out to be a murderer!

Ismael: We gotta stop her!… After lunch.

Mariquita and Apex Predator battle Volpina, and learn from an Akuma with no filter just how she got Akumatized

Mariquita: Why would you pretend to be a superhero, first of all and then go telling some random guy? That’s dangerous with Hawkmoth going around.

Apex Predator: Second, Marinette was in the wrong for how she reacted.

Volpina: That’s not all! She followed me to the park!

Apex Predator: … If you give up your Akuma, you can help some… associates with a sting operation to get Marinette of your back.

Volpina: DEAL! *Breaks her necklace*

So Lila’s not the antagonist, but Marinette still hates her even though she stopped lying… About certain things

She apologizes to the class for lying, and they (Except Marinette) allow themselves to give her a second chance

Really, this is all so Lila can be a spy for the Girl Squad’s Adrinette plans and report back to the Science Kids, and then use her powers of manipulation to slowly get in the girls heads on how Marinette’s behavior is disturbing and quite frankly, toxic. It doesn’t take long to bring Alix over to her side

Hmm… What else?… Oh, yeah, remember when Lila tossed the Grimoire in the trash? Well, Marinette found it and discovered a little something about the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous. With the Wish, she can make Adrien all her’s!

She just has to get Akumatized and win

So, anytime there’s an Akuma near her, she makes a grab for it, but is real discreet about it and doesn’t go for one every day

Nothing can go wrong!

… Then Jean catches her reaching for an Akuma one day in Season 3. Fortunately, it got to Ikari Gozen first.

Reshma: This keeps getting better. Add it to the crimes list.

Simon: *Typing on his laptop* ‘Grabbing Akumas’. Okay, we’ve got breaking and entering, stealing, stalking, putting up an illegal ‘no parking’ sign, reading people’s private letters-

Lacey: Uh, guys? I caught Marinette making out with a wax statue of Adrien and then taking a strand of its hair… Then it turned out to be the real Adrien, and now I am going to have nightmares.

Simon: … I’ll add that to the ‘Disturbing Behavior’ list.

Mariquita and Apex Predator make sure to keep a nice close eye on Marinette from now on, but don’t account for her intentionally upsetting people so she can take their Akumas and look like the hero for keeping innocent people from getting Akumatized

Her latest victim? Nathaniel, already self conscious about being socially invisible and anxious after his classmates unintentionally left him behind during five Akuma attacks. She puts it in his head that it’s survival of the fittest and he’d just slow his friends down and put everyone in danger because he can’t keep up

Nathaniel: What the fuck?

Marinette: Or, and this is just a theory… Maybe it’s just that, they never liked you in the first place? Come on, you’re quiet, and it freaks people out. Sure, Juleka’s quiet, too, but Rose helps balance her out, you know, Nath?… Nath?

Nathaniel: …

Marinette: Yeah, good talk. *Leaves, but keeps an eye out for akumas*

Cue Akuma, but the next day, much to Marinette’s annoyance. Nathaniel is turned into Ultraviolet, an Akuma who can make himself invisible, and causes all sorts of chaos in his classroom- Flipping desks, scratching the chalkboard, breaking windows, and punching holes in the wall

When Alix realizes that the Akuma is Nathaniel, the students try to talk him down, but he refuses to listen and accuses them all of never caring about him, making them wonder where he got that idea from

Since they can’t just separate themselves from the group to go transform, Marc and Zoé attempt to talk to him and successfully assure him that his classmates do care about him

Doing so calms him down and allows Ultraviolet to reject the Akuma on his own while Tikki does the Miracle Cure

The first thing Nathaniel sees when he regains consciousness is a pretty boy looking concerned over him

When Alix goes to ask how he got Akumatized and where he got the idea that none of them cared about him, Nathaniel shuts down when he notices Marinette out of the corner of his eye

… Let’s skip

Okay, Marc and Nathaniel are slowly building their relationship, Cosette got tired of waiting an asked Zoé out since he’s obviously into them, and their list of Marinette’s crimes is slowly getting longer. Soon, they’ll turn it into the police and have the conduct an investigation. Oh, and they call new holders to help with Akumas (The Science Kids)

Marinette’s classmates, meanwhile, are becoming wary of her when they realize her “cute school girl crush” on Adrien is more of an obsession after Lila brings up the creepiness of the schedule

It’s late at night when suddenly, Marc and Zoé face their worst nightmares- Rejection, and Audrey

When they escape from their respective fears and run outside, they discover that this is the work of an Akuma, who just so happens to be Marc’s little brother!

To combat the nightmares being brought to life, they call in Jean to use the Pig Miraculous

Hamlet during his debut:

(I just wanted an excuse to use this gif, now let’s get back to the story)

Marinette is becoming more frantic with each passing day. Adrien still isn’t hers’, her friends aren’t doing anything to help her with her plans, there are rumors going around that she caused Nathaniel to get akumatized because someone overheard their conversation, and the Science Kids have been spreading rumors around that she supposedly committed several crimes! Fortunately for her, Alya is sticking around (Only to keep her grounded)

When Alya tells her that maybe it’s time to move on, Marinette becomes angry and yells at her to leave

While Marinette’s alone, an Akuma makes its way into her room, and she grabs it. She tells Hawkmoth (Yeah, he’s Hawkmoth because I ain’t calling him Shadow Bitch) what powers she wants, and cue Princess Justice

Her power allows her to bring back every Akuma Hawkmoth’s ever made, and they’re all under her control, and by extension, Hawkmoth’s. Only he won’t get tired from having so many Akumas active, so that’s a win for him

A swarm of Akumas invades Paris and brings back many of the past Akumas. And while they’re spreading chaos, she’s hunting down the Science Kids and by extension, Chloé, Lila, Nathaniel, and Adrien

The Science Kids take refuge in a seemingly normal massage shop and watch live footage of the Akumapocalypse on their phones

Ismael: This is how we all die. I-I always thought I’d die long after I turn sixty, or something!

Cosette: That crazy bitch is gonna kill us all. We are fucking dead. So, I suggest we all pray for the cool hand of death to take us before she does!

Zoé: Babe, that’s dark.

Cosette: Because I’m scared as hell right now! She’s got a big ass sword, and I saw her pierce it through someone’s chest!

Master Fu: Can you all keep it down?

Science Kids: …

Jean: … Are we all seeing the same short Asian man?

Marc and Zoé realize they have no choice but to reveal themselves as Mariquita and Apex Predator.

Mireille: Knew it.

And Master Fu starts handing out the Miraculous for each of them to use. Jean gets the Pig, Denise gets the Turtle, Ismael gets the Snake, Reshma gets the Bee, Mireille gets the Mouse, Simon gets the Horse, Aurore gets the Rabbit, Cosette gets the Dragon, and Lacey gets the Fox

Their mission? Rip that Akuma from Princess Justice’s cold, dead hands!

Leonardo traps multiple Akumas in a massive Shell-ter, Lemon Bee freezes Dark Cupid so he can’t fire any arrows, Wyvern gathers up some lingering akumas using Wind Dragon, Bronco teleports those Princess Justice hasn’t slaughtered to safety, Minnie clones herself to break multiple Akuma-infected objects, Foxtrot distracts the Akumas with illusions of herself and the other heroes, and King Cobra stops many… Many horrible incidents

While battling some Akumas, Mariquita gets struck across the face by an unseen force and realizes that it’s Ultraviolet. He attempts to talk him out of it, but that only makes him angrier, so Mariquita says something to him that only Marc knows, momentarily distracting Ultraviolet enough for him to de-akumatize him

Nathaniel is just staring at him before Mariquita carries him bridal style to somewhere safe

Meanwhile, Princess Justice has found and kidnapped Adrien. Lapin’s not letting that happen, and goes back in time to whack Princess Justice over the head before yelling at her past self to get Adrien to safety and then leaving

Princess Justice is seething, and sends out more Akumas to akumatize more people while she goes to hunt down all those who betrayed her and put her sword to use

Eventually, Mariquita and Apex Predator corner her and give everything they’ve got against her attacks. However, when it looks like she’s about to win and cut their heads off, Hamlet swoops in and uses Gift on her. While she’s distracted by an image of Adrien being her devoted husband and having three planned kids, Apex Predator cataclysms her sword, and Mariquita purifies the Akuma, finally ending the madness

King Cobra: We lived, fuckers!

Lemon Bee: Oh, to hell with it. *Kisses Foxtrot*

Foxtrot: … Damn.

And while they’re celebrating, the police arrest Marinette because an unnamed someone emailed them a long list of her crimes, which include intentionally trying to get people Akumatized so she could take their Akumas

After Marinette is found guilty in a court of law, it’s a nice cozy jail cell countries away for her

Meanwhile~

Cosette: So… What now?

Marc: I guess we keep looking for Hawkmoth. I hear he’s got a new partner, now, and… Zoé and I could use more teammates if you-

Jean: Yes! For Daizzi and the outfit alone!

Cosette: Same, honestly.

Mireille: Is this happening? Are we doing this?

Zoé: We’re creating a superhero team! Fuck Fu’s shitty rules! And I’m gonna tell you guys so many fucking secrets about the Miraculous that Marc wasn’t allowed to tell me!

Marc: But then I told her! Fuck rules!

All I’ve got at the moment, but how am I just turning your prompts into pure Marinette Salt? Gimme another one, let’s see what else I can do

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #fancy heroes au #mlb ocs #Marinette salt #Marc anciel #Zoé Lee #aurore beaureal #mireille caquet #Jean Duparc #science kids #akuma class #mlb au

[abittersweetraisin]

Things I don't understand.

This post has spoilers for the Confrontation, Migration, Intuition and Representation episodes. Don't continue reading if for some reason you haven't watched them.

-Confrontation. Juleka's speech impediment.

Ummm... Since when? I thought she was an extremely introverted person. That's not the same as having speech impediment. I don't remember having seen her stuttering like this before. In Reflekdoll she struggled with expressing her emotions, not struggling with speaking. And if she has this problem, which is a serious thing, then why did Luka left her the responsibility of the band? One thing is to trust in someone, but when you have a problem like this then suddenly receiving such a responsibility will only make your problem worsen.

-Migration. Luka has to leave because he knows the identity of Chat Noir and Ladybug. Aren't we forgetting something?

No hate intended to Alya, but why didn't she leave too? I mean, Gabriel knows Ladybug trusted her with the Fox miraculous once, then pretended not to, but later he found she still was using it. And then she handed her the Ladybug miraculous. Doesn't that scream "she knows the secret"? Am i forgetting an episode where Hawk Moth tried to find Ladybug's identity through Alya? Like he tried to akumatize her to try to squeeze the truth out of her? Even if Alya only knows Ladybug's identity, that's still a huge risk. In Intuition, Gabriel supposedly couldn't win because he couldn't defeat the two of them. But if he learned the identity of Ladybug he could attack by surprise, leave Chat Noir alone and win.

-Confrontation. The magical shield. (Is this a tribute to Agent's of Shield? Reminds me a lot of Coulson's shield.)

I really don't understand this one. First because, isn't this like affecting Ladybug directly? Her yo-yo is now not that important since now anyone can purify an akuma. Happy thoughts and that's it. Second. Ladybug came up with the talismans and then Gabriel couldn't akumatize people. No more people for Gabriel to use his power on, so the writers patched that with the mega akuma. So, now what? He's gonna create super mega akumas that will be stronger than the shield? What's the point in all this? And how come nobody noticed the glowing before? She's been handing the talismans since season 4, right?

-Representation. Mega akumas in a jar? They can be contained by mere glass? Seriously?

Why didn't they tell people to simply lock themselves in a room and just not to touch the door or window so they wouldn't get akumatized?

-Representation/Gabriel Agreste/Risk. In Representation we saw Felix telling the story of his creation, but then back in season 4, the Gabriel Agreste episode, did he really need confirmation that Gabriel was Shadow Moth? I mean, all along he knew Gabriel had the Peacock miraculous. He knew Shadow Moth could create sentimonsters, so... Also, i wonder if they changed something in the backstory. I mean, Felix's reaction when he saw Emily was kind of weird, wasn't it?

Finding out the body of someone you thought death would definitely be a shock, but he was terrified of her. Why? His father created him. His father was the abusive person in his daily life, so i don't get why he'd be so terrified of Emily.

#mlb representation #mlb confrontation #mlb intuition #mlb migration #mlb analysis #mlb salt

[toodumbtosayontwitter]

Toxic parents bark orders at their adult children like they're their own personal stress ball. "I'm unhappy and insecure in my own life and lack of accomplishments, so I'm going to yell and nitpick at every little thing you do, squeezing your emotions until you're a crying quivering stressed-out mess because only then will I feel a little better about myself. And nothing you do can or will ever be good enough to make me stop treating you this way." [Because the problem is inside the parents, not their children.]

Personally, anytime I'm visibly happy, their reaction is consistently... *yell, nitpick, backhanded "compliment", insult, order, threaten, order, order, gaslight, threaten*

Rinse. Repeat.

Anytime I'm having a bad day, am visibly depressed or hiding in my room... *laugh, insult, threaten, order, order, threaten, order, threaten*

And, miraculously, parents always seem happier and less stressed after doing this. Like they've just barged into their adult child's life to put a psychological squeeze on the child so the parents can relieve themselves of their own stress by transferring it to someone else.

I am not your stress ball. F*** you.

Somehow, they understand that training animals is always more efficient with a mix of positive and negative reinforcement. But when it comes to human beings, the only acceptable form of communication they believe works is hateful authoritarianism.

Like, it sucks you got bullied in highschool and now you're looking to have that power over someone else, but that doesn't make you a good parent. It makes you just as bad as the people who hurt you. It makes you an absolutely abhorrent parent, a bully, and a narcissist. Stop. Grow up. Get therapy like the rest of us. Stop making your child's anxiety and depression worse by burdening them with your own. Jfc

I can be as polite and sweet and obedient as a robot around them, but they will still find any tiny little thing to flip out about. And if there is nothing to get angry about, they will get mad over something they assume I will do wrong in the future. Nothing is ever good enough. Nothing ever will be. And any expression of emotion that is "too positive" or "too negative" will be taken as a personal attack on them and met with threats, insults, barked orders, and more threats.

It's no wonder I'm an introvert with social anxiety when the people closest to me are an absolute nightmare to interact with anytime they are not silently watching TV or literally asleep.

Trying to not let those monsters live in my head rent free more than absolutely necessary, so cutting off the rant here. Anyway, I deserve better. And to anybody else who has experienced this: you deserve better too. Sending love and strength.

#toxic mother #toxic parents

[imsparky2002]

The Miraculous Beatles

Ok, so I love the Beatles, and I like the characters of Miraculous Ladybug (not the canon show). I decided to make an alternate universe where the 4 boys who in canon had a crush on Marinette are instead the Beatles of their universe. Actually, it'll be 5 soon enough, as Marc is their fifth Beatle and joins later. So they are all from Liverpool (except Marc who is from London) and they formed the group in 1956 at the age of 14. Also they are all middle class. Don't worry, nobody's gonna die and they don't break up after seven years. Also unlike John, Luka doesn't beat his wife or ignore his kid.

Luke Lennon (Luka Couffaine/John Lennon)

Birthday - October 9, 1942

Instruments played in the band - Vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica.

Personality - Luke's a mellow guy who has a bit of a rebellious streak in him. Luke is the heartthrob of the group. With his tousled, jet-black hair, he exudes an effortlessly cool and mysterious aura. Luke's soulful and raspy voice captivates audiences, and his lyrics often delve into deep, introspective themes. He and his twin sister Jules (Juleka) like to make weird songs together.

Adrian McCartney (Adrien Agreste/Paul McCartney)

Birthday - June 18, 1942

Instruments played in the band - Vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards and drums.

Personality - The babyfaced charmer of the group. With his striking green eyes and perfectly styled blonde hair, he's the poster boy of the band. Adrian's bass playing is both melodic and solid, providing the foundation for the band's sound. He's known for his upbeat and friendly personality, which draws fans in. While he may be the face of the band, he's also known for his humility and willingness to connect with their supporters. He and Luke form a killer writing duo, even though Adrian's showtunes and more upbeat material is sometimes referred to by Luke as "granny shit".

Nathaniel Harrison (Nathaniel Kurtzberg/George Harrison)

Birthday - February 25, 1942

Instruments played in the band - Guitars, vocals, sitar, keyboards and bass

Personality - Nathaniel is the creative genius of the group. With ginger bangs and a constant look of curiosity in his eyes, he's the band's secret weapon. Nathaniel's guitar skills are unmatched aside from his boyfriend Mark, and his songwriting is often spiritual and introspective. He's the quiet, introverted member, often lost in thought or doodling in his journal. Fans admire his ability to weave stories through his music, creating a unique and enchanting atmosphere during their performances. Nathaniel is gay and dating Marc, and the boys and their loved ones kept it a secret so that they didn't get arrested, since this is the 1960s in UK. It wasn't until 1967 that the two came out after getting married in 1966.

Nino Starr (Nino Lahiffe/Ringo Starr)

Birthday - July 7, 1942

Instuments played in the band - Drums, percussion, keyboards and vocals

Personality - Nino is the powerhouse behind the band's rhythm. His infectious energy and perpetual smile make him the life of the party. Nino's drumming is dynamic and energetic, providing a pulsating beat that keeps the audience moving. He's the joker of the group, always ready with a witty remark or a lighthearted joke to break the tension. Nino's charismatic stage presence and love for improvisation injects a sense of spontaneity into the band's live shows. It should also be noted that Nino is the only POC member of the group, with his mother being a Black Liverpudlian and his father coming from Morocco. He wears his background with pride, being one of the first artists to support the Black Power movement.

Mark Clapton (Marc Anciel/Eric Clapton)

Birthday - March 30, 1942

Instruments played in the band - Guitars, keyboards and vocals.

Personality - An tall anxious boy from London with a cockney accent who moved to Liverpool as a kid and befriended the other Beatles, who were his classmates. He soon fell in love with Nathaniel and they began dating. Mark is an absolute maestro with the guitar. His solos are legendary, evoking a range of emotions from raw, bluesy laments to electrifying rock anthems. His fingers dance effortlessly on the fretboard, and his mastery of the instrument is unparalleled. He is also a master songwriter, forming a lovely writing duo with Nathaniel and also providing songs with his other bandmates. The group had wanted him to join when they first started in 1956, but Mark had a huge fear of crowd's, and said he'd be fine as the unofficial "fifth beatle" until he got over his fear. This meant he would only go on stage if one of the other guitarists got sick, and for albums he would help write songs, provide guitar or background vocals, but never lead vocals. It wasn't until 1969 where he officially became a Beatle.

Well, that's the first part done. Next we'll look at how these guys are a lot more harmonious than the IRL Beatles. Then we will look at their manager and producer, their families, partners (For everyone except Mark and Nathaniel) and more along the way. See ya soon! Lemme know what you think in the comments and reblogs. @artzychic27 @msweebyness

#luka couffaine #luka #adrien agreste #adrien #nathaniel kurtzberg #nathaniel #nino lahiffe #nino #marc anciel #marc #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #eric clapton #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #the beatles #beatles #beatles au #miraculous beatles #music #rock band au #band au #nathmarc #marcnath #marc x nathaniel #nathaniel x marc

[luckyashesart]

Do you have any OCs other than your Splatoon ones? I'd love to learn about them!

WAAA ‼️‼️ I do actually !! Though I have . quite a lot of them 💀💀

Other than Splatoon OCs I got uhh-- primarily D&D OCs/Characters, Homestuck OCs, and a few actual original characters JDHSFSD some of which I've doodled and posted about before !

I'll stick a few of em down in the read more so the post isn't immediately unbearably long 🗣️‼️

Hmm let's start off with some original characters

Evix (they/them) is one that I've actually been working a lot more on lately !! They're kinda like an undead creature and live on essentially a post-apocalyptic Earth centuries later (might make a whole separate post on all that eventually because they're a part of an original species I wanna make)

Uhh then some original humans (w/ powers ofc) would include Anthony (he/him, one of my oldest OCs creation wise, in short a traumatized young adult with horrible anxiety and is struggling to get thru life 🗣️), Raymond and his niece Raven ( he/him & she/her, victims of loss of a brother and father (respectively), and they live in a world where ppl have elemental-based abilities !), and uhh Kacey (they/she/he, specifically with a c-- they're a cyborg (lost an arm) with no recollection of who they were (calls themself Kacey because of initials "K.C" branded on their robo arm (it stands for their actual name, Katya Cameron)))💥

[unfortunately not gonna doodle any of my other OCs so Evix can have special treatment LMAO]

Next up we got uhh some D&D characters !! [Who actually I have Hero Forge figures of so I'll add those]

Starting off with the first legit D&D character I've made, Glow of the Sun (aka "Sun" - she/her) 😼 Tabaxi Druid (Circle of the Shepard)!! After escaping the massacre of her tribe in the forest, Sun was taken in and mentored by a human druid named Sage (they/them)

Another one I got would be Gale (he/they), who's more-so inspired by my first attempt at a D&D character (who then got scrapped). But basically he's an Air Genasi Warlock (Pact of the Tome) that was raised only by his father until he managed to contact his mother (who was a djinn (an air genie) !! so yea, his patron's his mom LMAO [His Hero Forge is outdated so please keep that in mind ☹️ ]

Lets see ermm I also got !! A Dragonborn Artificer (Battle Smith) named Kai (real name Kazys) Tempest (she/her). Paralyzed from the waist down upon . hatching? She was left to be raised by her mother, which left the little dragonborn spiteful to show that she isn't useless. So she learned and became someone who creates things like prosthetics and kinds of aids to help others who may need it :D

I'll then drop off a last D&D character for now (cuz I rlly do have a lot), but this one's a personal favorite !! Meet Bone (she/he/they/it [does not care]), my funny lil Goblin Barbarian (Path of the Beast) !! Abandoned by her tribe and miraculously raised by a pack of wolves, this feral lil goblin spends her days living a free and wild life while causing problems for adventurers and the like who cross her path :3

Anddd onto the final stretch, we got some Homestuck OCs !! [Which btw I have models made by Xamag's Fantroll Creator (which I also edited a lil) so ermm]

Starting off with my personal fav, here's Arvenii Traket (she/her, Sign: Gemun, Derse + Breath). Goldblood with telekinetic psiionics, this smart(-ish) lil gamer is a hot-headed, anti-social introvert that enjoys things like cosplaying and programming 💥💥

Obviously then gotta follow up with her moirail, Teikai Dregut (he/him, Sign: Lenius, Prospit + Hope) !? A very idiotic yet excitable Oliveblood that loves to run, talk, play tricks, and hang out with his bestie (they tend to take care of each other otherwise they'd constantly not do things like eat or shower 💀)

What else uuuhhhh . How 'bout I drop Raiiko Ekneer (she/her, Sign: Scoriborn, Derse + Rage) !? A laidback, prideful brute of a Ceruleanbloodthat enjoys FLARPing and taking people's treasure/valuables 💥💥 Fun fact tho !! She used to FLARP with Teikai back in the day (he doesn't play anymore). Anyway she doesn't really have many braincells yet she managed to score a kismesis and moirail LMAO

And then I think I'll drop off her kismesis cuz ngl I rlly wanted to show them together 😩but meet Valeri Krovet (she/her, Sign: Sagigo, Prospit + Space) !! This Indigoblood is yet another blue business woman who specializes and takes pride in creating custom weapons of high quality. Can be a little snappy, mainly due to agitation of being on high alert 24/7 (had a gnarly, violent experience when she was younger), but yea :3

What if I was also silly tho and dropped the rest of my main HS OCs' lil models (i would talk abt all of them in more detail but thats A LOT of text ,) 🥴🥴

I do also wanna mention that I have. Ancestors and Dancestors for these guys as well . AS WELL AS OCS THAT ARENT APART OF THE MAIN 12-- Thats a whole other thing tho

BUT YEAH THAT'S JUST. SOME OF WHAT I GOT-- TY ANON FOR THE ASK-

This took so long to type LMAO but I enjoyed it !!

#holding your hand anon (if thats ok) #I HAVE SO MANY OCS AAAAAAAAAAAAA #ask #original character #dungeons & dragons #d&d oc #homestuck #homestuck fantroll

[randomfoggytiger]

MELISSA, The Soulful ISFP

Melissa Scully was a bit of a surprise-- I was expecting her to have high Extroverted Feeling (feeling and interpersonal connection expressed outwardly); but that was undercut by her strong, personal, moral system. Everything about her revolves around her beliefs; and how she helps and guides others with those beliefs. So, I tried to do her justice here with her strengths and weaknesses.

**Note**: This is likely filled with typos-- pardon my very tired editing brain~

MELISSA

The Hero Function: This function is the most effortless of the stack of eight, the “superhero” if you will; and serves as a Type's primary source. Introverted Feeling (Fi for short) leads with mood-based personal morals, values, beliefs, principles, and worth. ISFPs guide their lives with what they believe to be "right" rather than what is the "true" or "correct" way;

and are very proud about what they believe, integrating their morals into every fiber of their lives-- from personal expression to how they enact their principles upon the world. Because Fi is the source of independent morals, it draws others who lack or doubt their own to an ISFPs unflinching beliefs. This gives them ample opportunity to suggest or nudge others toward what they think is the right path-- whether that is true or not changes with each circumstance and set of variables.

The Parent Function: A Type's 2nd function is the responsible but slightly pessimistic "parent" of the hero function, helping it to fulfill necessary duties and develop maturity. Extroverted Sensing (Se for short) is "in the moment" personified. ISFPs live fully in the present, creating experiences to responsibly get other types out of ruts and comfort zones. They master creative pursuits (crafting or planting or hiking or sporting) to improve their loved one's life with hands-on, one-on-one bonding activities. They are most effective with Types that have high amounts of Introverted Sensing-- Scully, for instance (see here)-- serving as their healthy boundary-pusher and getting them to tune with just "being."

The Child Function: This function is the most idealistic of all the functions and causes the deepest wounds if “bullied.” Introverted Intuition (Ni for short) centers around personal destiny, desires, goals, willpower, and choice. ISFPs are ruled by their freedom of choice, following its guide in every area of their life. If this is stripped from them, they will be extinguished.

In a sense, Ni child serves as "lady luck" for an ISFP, allowing them to always land on their feet after a possibly deadly situation. They, somehow, usually come out on top, saving themselves and others in powerful and miraculous ways.

Ni Child also teams up with an ISFP's Fi Hero to make them very mood-based creators-- too often laziness is prescribed to them because they have yet to finish a project that has been "in progress" for years; when, in reality, ISFPs just aren't in an inspired mood or are slowly chipping away until, finally, it fall folds into completion.

The Inferior Function: The 4th function is the most important of the 8 functions, as it serves as the simultaneous zone for their fears, insecurities, and aspirations as well as their launching pad to the most powerful function (the Demon Function, see below.) Extroverted Thinking (Te for short) is rationale: inductions, metrics, rules, achievements, labels, standards, and reputations. While they are intensely soulful people, ISFPs are highly sensitive about their reputations: they are easily crushed by others' ridicule of their beliefs or ways of life.

These types strive for academic achievements or "book learning" not for learning's sake, but to increase their popularity and "clout" through cultural or historical knowledge. ISFPs are afraid of what others think of them-- they don't have to be good themselves as long as others think they are good-- and would rather quietly walk away from someone who has hurt them than confront them.

The Nemesis Function: This function is not only the 5th in a list of 8, but it is also the source of a Type's worry. Extroverted Feeling (Fe for short) deals with interpersonal ethics, acceptance, bonding, culture, mutual support, and balance. ISFPs are worried that they do not care enough: they put their own needs before others naturally (usually in a healthily selfish way); and hoard their own time and resources as well. In order to do away with their nagging doubts, these types need to reach out to others empathetically by donating themselves in a sense-- volunteering their time, energy, resources, or company to others and their pursuits. This soothes their concerns; and leaves their own personal touch on others' lives forever.

The Critic Function: The 6th function is a Type's most cynical aspect, greatest possibility for wisdom, and also the easiest place to rationalize a person out of their bad behavior. Introverted Sensing (Si for short) is focused on duty, honor, responsibility, habit, and security; but ISFPs don't like to commit while expecting it from others. They hate being obligated, leaving obligations behind to pursue whatever has caught their interest or passion.

They also have terrible memory; but can't seem to grasp how faulty it is. shrugging it off with a laissez-faire attitude of "it wasn't meant to be remembered." They will accept reproof if given proof they've been incorrect; but shrug off others' frustrations off with a laissez-faire attitude of "it wasn't meant to be remembered."

The Trickster Function: A Type's weakest function is their Extroverted Intuition (Ne for short): metaphysics and widespread consequences for society as a whole. Ne Trickster blinds ISFPs to the intentions of others-- leaving them vulnerable to plotting or manipulation-- and handicapping them to the potential consequences of their actions. To ISFPs, a possible problem doesn't exist until it smacks them in the face. Melissa always motivated Scully to ditch the conventional expectations of her life and go with what her "heart" told her to do (and pushing her to regain her repressed memories); but she was blinded to the harm it might (and did) cause her sister.

This led her and Scully down unnecessary paths of pain; but, while Missy would have seen it as a necessary part of life to fall into the same pit over and over, Scully was frightened further away from her intuition by repeated traumas, clinging tighter and tighter to provable, rational science. Her Trickster also grated on Mulder's nerves: his Ne Parent (see post here) saw all the disastrous consequences of her decisions, the Scully family decisions, their enemies' decisions, and his own decisions that led them to Scully's coma; and it infuriated Mulder that Melissa seemingly hand-waved it away as "entirely human."

The Demon Function:  And lastly, the strongest function of an ISFP's stack is their Introverted Thinking (Ti for short), which is unfiltered logical deduction based in facts rather than external opinions or sources. For ISFPs, no one else's opinions matter: they must have their say and be allowed to believe it. If no one takes the time to listen to their input or scoffs away their insight, ISFPs will wash their hands from guiding others, letting the fools implode in their own stupid decisions.

(In extreme cases, these Types will quietly craft a destructive Goldberg Variation machine-- either with words or social embarrassments or life-threatening traps-- and spring a doom suddenly upon their unsuspecting victim.) In Melissa's case, she warned Mulder one last time that his vengeful defeat would disappoint Scully and himself; then washed her hands of any guilt and left him to destroy or salvage his own life.

Summary

Melissa is a gentle soul, actively helping others lead a more present life while attempting to guide them with her own morals and beliefs. If they ignore her or try to silence her voice, she will retreat into the darkness and let them die by their own self-inflicted injuries.

Thank you for reading~

Enjoy!

Disclaimers: This is a self-assessed analysis. This information is not based on the abominable MBTI system (which has been butchered from its original Jungian typology since ~WWII); instead, it’s a combination between the works of Jung’s type psychology, Dr. Linda Berens’ Communication styles, Dr. Dario Nardi’s EEG brain scan compiled research, and others’ data and practices as compiled and simplified by CSJoseph. This system is based only on the Nature side of Nature/Nurture; and each “type” is not a “box” to fit everyone into– simply a tool to help understand the basics of the human mind that science has only begun to fathom in its limited scope.

#txf #Types #MELISSA The Soulful ISFP #Melissa Scully #x-files #the x files #xf meta #ISFP #MBTI #but not #Typing #analysis #meta #mine

[shylittlefrogg]

"I didn't say anything…" was the first thing Chloe said when she caught her. Feeling her breath catch as she watched Tabby's silhouette being outlined by the sunlight giving her an ethereal appearance.

She amazed how someone came to her rescue at the last minute.

#miraculous ladybug #introvert power au! #sabrina raincomprix #chloe bourgeois #*adds new tags to the fic* And I'm a drama lover- #Frogg art

[aidendh]

BSD! OC! Ayato Satoshi |P1

Rework of my RAU! Fyodor Hinata

Ayato Satoshi | Fyodor Hinata

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Kanji: 日向 • フョードル

Romanji: Hinata Fyōdoru

Also Known As:

Fyodor Dostoevsky (birth name),

Fyodor Hinata (real name),

Ayato Satoshi (Alias),

Brazhnik (Butterfly Miraculous)

Namesake: Ayato Satoshi (short story writer)

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-:Personal Information:-

Status: Reincarnated

Gender: Male (he/him)

Sexuality: Asexual Gay-Aromantic

Birthday: 11th November

Age: 34 (Gifted War Arc), 26 (Tower/Casino Arc), 25 (Persona Arc), 20 (Meeting the Tsushimas), 14-15 (Assassin School), 12 (Russia)

Height: 189cm (6'2")

Weight: Unknown

Blood Type: Unknown

Likes: Tea, cooking, his children, psychological torture, fruit cake

Dislikes: Yozo Tsushima, needles, getting wet, boredom

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-:Professional Information:-

Ability: Crime and Punishment

Reference: Tales of Crimes and Punishment (Рассказы о Преступлениях и Наказаниях, Rasskazy o Prestupleniyakh i Nakazaniyakh)

Occupation: Informant, Founder/Leader of The Rats House of the Dead

Affiliation: The Spider Lilly, The Rats House of the Dead, Kunugigaoka Junior High (former), Russian Military (former)

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-:Metaverse Information:-

Name: Fyodor Hinata

(formerly, Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Location: Japan

(Formerly, Krysa Orphanage)

Distortion: Empire

Treasure: Amethyst/Silver Butterfly Neckless

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-:Relationships:-

Family:

Unnamed Parents

Anya Dostoevsky✝ (younger sister)

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Atsushi Hinata (adopted son)

Nagisa Hinata (adopted daughter)

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Akira Kurusu (former foster son)

Sayuri Kitagawa (former foster daughter)

Goro Hinata (adopted son)

Naoto Mori (honorary brother)

Karma Hinata (adopted son)

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Ember Hinata (adopted son)

Shoto Hinata (adopted son)

Neito Hinata (adopted son)

Galina Hinata (adopted daughter)

Aoi Hinata (adopted son)

Hazel Hinata (adopted son)

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Karma Akabane (son-in-law)

Kyo Akabane (adopted grandson)

Cho Akiko (honorary sister)

Radio/Mirabella Schmidt (honorary sister)

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Takeo Kagami (honorary sister)

Chuuya Kagami (honorary nephew)

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Archi Akabane (adopted grandson)

Juleka Hinata (adopted granddaughter)

Goro Akechi (adopted grandson)

Hinata Hua (adopted granddaughter)

Victor Hinata (adopted grandson)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (book/younger brother)

Pets: Zvezda (male Chinchilla)

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-:Appearances:-

Manga Debut: Lost Souls, Prologue

Anime Debut: Bungou Stray Dogs: Lost Souls, Prologue

Light Novel Debut: The Hinata Family

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-:Portrayal:-

Japanese Voice: Akira Ishida

English Voice: Ray Chase

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Fyodor Hinata (日向 • フョードル,, Hinata Fyōdoru, Original: Фёдор 日向, Fyódor Hinata) was the founder and leader of The Rats House of the Dead and as Ayato Satoshi, an Informant of The Spider Lilly. His Ability is named Crime and Punishment

Personality: Manipulative, Caring, Polite, Clever, Sadistic, Introvert, Calm, Confidant, Honest

Confidant/Arcana: Judgment

[Continued in P2]

Ayato Satoshi (Casual/Formal/PJs)

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A Loving Father with a passion for cooking

Ability: Crime and Punishment* Astral Projection, Death Inducement

Confidant: Judgment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (Work/Formal)

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Founder of the RHD and owner of Krysa Orphanage

Ability: Crime and Punishment* Death Inducement

Confidant: Judgment

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Fyodor Hinata (Work/Formal)

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An Incarnate and Loving Father of the Hinata family

Ability: Crime and Punishment* Astral Projection, Death Inducement

Confidant: Judgment

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Brazhnik (Butterfly! Fyodor)

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A Miraculous Villain who takes good care of Nooroo

Power: Metamorphosis* Gives the target superpowers

Miraculous: Broach (under shirt)

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Punishment (Dostoevsky/Hinata)

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A Wondering Soul who is one with their user

User: Fyodor Hinata

Ability: Crime and Punishment

Confidant: Judgment

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#aiden's aus #rau #oc #bungou stray dogs #persona 5 #miraculous ladybug #ml #fyodor dostoevsky #dostoevsky fyodor #fyodor hinata #tales of crimes and punishment #ayato satoshi #butterfly miraculous #brazhnik #bungou stray dogs: lost souls #assassination classroom

[cartoonfangirl1218]

Thinking over my time in the EoA fandom, I remember how sad I was that it was ending. Not just because it was the grand finale and there’d be no more episodes but I think tha part of my sadness (besides mourning the characters I adore) was missing fandom friends and losing touch with them. I’m sure it will happen eventually because life is life and we all move on while treasuring the past, but I guess I was preemptively mourning. It all came with the escapism of Elena, something to look forward to and talk about. This may be getting a bit deep, but I’m just so introverted in real life. I’m not outgoing, I like to observe. I get along better with adults and kids younger than me than people who are my age. I always have this weird very irrational feeling that I’ll say the wrong thing and be shunned. Or else be super enthusiastic and outgoing lest being called forgettable.

So the fandom was a wonderful place to sorta belong without having to be “on” all the time to make a good first impression. I think I showed the EoA fandom more of my writing than anyone else in my real life. To be fair, I’ve invested a lot more writing in EoA than original stories😅 So I guess I didn’t want to loose those connections to everyone as people move on to other shows now Elena is finished. (Aside. I sound suspiciously like Esteban. Am I esteban? I thought I only liked him for his complex backstory and amazing voice, not because I relate to him😱)

But there was nothing to mourn actually. I managed to stay in touch with most, and made some new ones. So I’d just like to thank the EoA fandom in general for adding some extra fun and friendship in my life. Long live Elena!

Though who knows, maybe EoA shall return and the fandom will rejoice. Picture it, years from now, I miraculously get a dream job and enough power to call the shots at Disney. Me: Now the first show I’m producing is an Elena of Avalor spinoff sequel and/or prequel. Disney: Elena of Avalor? But the show has been off for 20 years, who would watch a spin off? Me: Ohh people will watch. There’s an audience for it. Trust me.😏

#elena of avalor #random musings #fandom

[princess-of-the-corner]

I mean, Luka with the Fox is mostly because I realized that he'd probably figure out that Juleka is Coccinelle Rouge Sang pretty quickly, given that they live together, so it makes sense to have him be the first extra hero recruited.

Plus, he's the easiest to pick out as someone close to Juleka on account of being her older brother.

Although that does raise the question of how close she was to the others precanon.

Turtle or Bee Marinette?

(I was debating Bee!Kagami by simple virtue of "Juleka loses the Miraculous and someone she has never met before picks it up" is kinda funny too imagine.)

Oh my gosh, I just had a thought: Tiger!Sabrina.

Imagine her with it's canon power.

Sabrina: "I have mixed feelings on this".

Bee!Kagami is fucking hilarious because it's just. No fukcing clue who she is.

Re: Juleka being close to the others: She does seem on the general 'I think of you all as friends' thing but she is quite introverted so she probably has the smaller group more oftehn.

[argyrocratie]

“Intelligent people no longer believe that men are possessed by demons (although the exorcism of devils is occasionally  practised, and the daimonic has reappeared in the writings of psychotherapists), but human behaviour is still commonly attributed to indwelling agents. A juvenile delinquent is said, for example, to be suffering from a disturbed personality. There would be no point in saying it  if the personality were not somehow distinct from the  body which has got itself into trouble.

(...)

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behaviour to a person we cannot see, whose behaviour we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions. We probably adopt this strategy not so much because of any lack of interest or power but because of a long-standing conviction that for much of human behaviour there are no relevant antecedents. The function of the inner man is to provide an explanation which will not be explained in turn. Explanation stops with him. He is not a mediator between past history and current behaviour, he is a centre from which behaviour emanates. He initiates, originates, and creates, and in doing so he remains, as he was for the Greeks, divine. We say that he is autonomous - and, so far as a science of behaviour is concerned, that means miraculous.

(...)

We do, indeed, feel things inside our own skin,  but we do not feel the things which have been invented to explain behaviour. The possessed man does not feel the possessing demon and may even deny that one exists. The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. (In fact, these dimensions of mind or character are said to be observable only through complex statistical procedures.) The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules. The respondent to a questionnaire does not feel the attitudes or opinions which lead him to check items in particular ways. We do feel certain states of our bodies associated with behaviour, but as Freud pointed out we behave in the same way when we do not feel them; they are by-products and not to be mistaken for causes.

(...)

The effect of the environment on behaviour remained obscure for an even longer time. We can see what organisms do to the world around them, as they take from it what they need and ward off its dangers, but it is much harder to see what the world does to them. It was Descartes who first suggested that the environment might play an active role in the determination of behaviour, and he was apparently able to do so only because he was given a strong hint. He knew about certain automata in the Royal Gardens of France which were operated hydraulically by concealed valves. As Descartes described it, people entering the gardens ‘necessarily tread on certain tiles or plates, which are so disposed that if they approach a bathing Diana, they cause her to hide in the rosebushes, and if they try to follow her, they cause a Neptune to come forward to meet them, threatening them with his trident’. The figures were entertaining just because they behaved like people, and it appeared, therefore, that something very much like human behaviour could be explained mechanically. Descartes took the hint: living organisms might move for similar reasons. (He excluded the human organism, presumably to avoid religious controversy.)”

- B F Skinner, "Beyond Freedom & Dignity" (1971)

#BF Skinner

[toemuncher666]

Vixen Hunters

Season 1:

On the eve of her 18th birthday, Keiko is finally eligible to apply to Bellatrix’s School for Vixen Hunters. Having been told her parents were slaughtered by the foul creatures, Keiko planned her entire life to leave her orphanage to become the best Vixen Hunter. In order to be accepted into the school, Keiko has to participate in a real life Vixen Hunting simulation entry exam. During the exam, Keiko met a girl named Aimi who could summon a scythe that gave her supernatural abilities. The two teamed up as they had to fight a teacher pretending to be a vixen. After the exams…Keiko miraculously just settled the lowest possible score to be eligible to join the school. As she settled into the school…Bellatrix, the principal and best professional Mage, had Keiko transfer to The Shadow XIII (the best class in the school) due to her innate drive to protect people…which the other students lacked. Training swiftly kicked in where Keiko learned what it takes to be a Mage. She honed her sword skills to perfectly strike a Vixen in the heart. She trained in hand to hand combat…utilizing mana to create powerful punches and attacks. She trained with her classmates as hard as she possibly could to quickly achieve her goal of becoming the best Vixen Hunter. All the while she befriended her classmates Aimi (the girl from entry exams who’s extremely sweet and capable), Shun (a hardheaded but determined girl), Rin (an introverted but nice boy), and Luna (an anthropomorphic cat who’s very prideful and hotheaded).

After being able to get a better hang of her Inherited Spell, Keiko and the rest of The Shadow XIII were sent on their first mission. There’s been rumblings of children and students going missing after hearing singing from the woods. Suspecting one of the students is a mole, Bellatrix has The Shadow XIII help snuff out the mole. As more students mysteriously disappear, Rin suspects the culprit is a student named Sara…an upper class student who’s proficient with musical instruments. After Keiko and Luna are investigating Rin’s claims, they discover evidence in Sara’s room that she’s a Vixen belonging to something called The Hex. Rin, Aimi, and Shadow XIII classmate Rōnin (a docile and very kind boy) discover Sara attempting to lure a student into the woods. They budge in to stop Sara…all while Keiko and Luna bring the evidence to Bellatrix who gathers the remaining members of The Shadow XIII. After being told where Rin, Aimi, and Rōnin had gone, The Shadow XIII head to the woods only to find Rin and them fighting Sara…who revealed herself to be the Vixen Yama-Uba who has the power to entice people with music. Facing their first real challenge, The Shadow XIII face all out battle as Bellatrix fends off Yama-Uba’s slaves. They get close to defeating Yama-Uba but she overpowers them…however Bellatrix quickly comes in and strikes the Vixen through her heart relatively easily. Her easy defeat reveals she wasn’t a member of The Hex…as Bellatrix explains that The Hex are Lilith’s strongest most powerful Vixens.

Season 2:

After a month of pondering how a Vixen was able to slip into her school, Bellatrix gets her students ready for the yearly Tournament. The tournament is held to determine which students are actually fit for Vixen Hunting…as well as allowing professional Vixen Hunters to choose who they might wanna tutor. The students of The Shadow XIII train relentlessly yet a bit carelessly…all while wondering why Bellatrix is constantly getting harsher towards her students. As the day comes, The Shadow XIII enter the colosseum and Bellatrix introduces them to Giichi. Giichi is revealed to be the head of the Government of Witches…the most important witch in the world…and he’s surrounded by his followers, bodyguards, and fellow government members. It’s revealed he comes to watch the tournaments every year to scout out who might wanna join the Royal Guard. The students of the school are then told about the tournament…phase 1 is an obstacle course that requires students to use magic and their inherited spells to avoid “Vixens” on the battlefield. Phase 2 involves the remaining students who didn’t fail the obstacle course to team up in small groups and wander an arena filled with traps in search of three survivors. Each team can only rescue one survivor…and the first teams to bring the three survivors back to the start win. And finally…Phase 3 has the remaining teams fight in one on ones in a bracket style…defeat is determined by whose vest with a heart trigger is triggered first.

The obstacle course begins and The Shadow XIII quickly take the lead along with other schoolmates from The Shadow XI…Kuroneko (a girl who can turn into a werecat), Hanzo (a boy who can clone himself), and Ryu (a boy who can breathe the elements fire and ice). Aimi and Akimitsu (a dim witted but nice boy) eventually tie in first place having avoided multiple traps, Rin in second, Shun in third, Himiko (a rude and cold girl) in fourth, Mai (an introverted and cold girl) in fifth, Kaito and Rōnin tie in sixth, The Shadow XI members take 8 and 9, and Keiko finishes in last place possible to move on to the next round in thirtieth. That leaves Luna and Harley (a sweet and lighthearted girl) the only ones to not pass the obstacle course. During the Survivor Hunt…Keiko, Aimi, and Shun team up…Rin, Rōnin, and Himiko team up…and Kuroneko, Hanzo, and Akimitsu team up. After utilizing Keiko’s fire arm ability as a farce…Aimi and Shun were able to rescue a survivor and rush her back to start. Having sabotaged teams around them by utilizing Himiko’s mana blocker ability, Rin’s ability to freeze people, and Rōnin being able to launch surprise attacks…the group rescue a survivor. After Kuroneko fended off attackers and Hanzo utilized his clones to confuse enemy teams…Akimitsu was able to zap him and the survivor back to the start. Before Phase 3…Bellatrix receives news from Giichi that multiple students from her school have gone missing searching for a vixen at the foot of Mt. Yukionna…and he wishes for her to send the Shadow XIII.

Phase 3 then begins with Kuroneko vs. Mai. Kuroneko is quickly taken out by Mai’s long range blood attacks…but she’s not discouraged after her classmates say she was really cool being able to fight against a Shadow XIII. Next is Aimi vs. Rōnin which proved to be a long struggle…but ultimately Aimi won after Rōnin was rendered useless at overuse of his power. Akimitsu vs. Hayate resulted in Akimitsu winning due to his incomprehensible speed. Shun vs. Himiko resulted in Himiko winning because she was faster…being able to shut down Shun’s Inherited Spell before she could copy hers. Hanzo vs. Kaito resulted in Kaito winning due to creating relentless water limbs that Hanzo couldn’t account for. Keiko vs. Rin was extremely close…but Keiko’s relative carelessness resulted in her losing to a small ice shard. The Next part of phase 3 commenced with the rules that all three pairs fight at the same time…and their top three placement would be decided by who defeats their opponent fastest. Aimi quickly beat Kaito with her Scythe granting unnatural speed…resulting in first place. Rin was able to make quick way through Mai’s blood attacks…resulting in second place. Akimitsu had more trouble with Himiko due to her Inherited spell but still won…resulting in third. After congratulating their teammates…The Shadow XIII didn’t have much time to rest as Bellatrix approached them solemnly…revealing that they have a new mission that may reveal what being a Vixen Hunter is actually like.

After the tournament, The Shadow XIII make the treacherous journey to the foot of Mt. Yukionna. Quickly, Bellatrix takes note of the eerie silence emanating from the mountain…no birds, no bugs, not even the rustling of leaves…just silence. Hayate and Kaito quickly take notice of what seem to be the torn bloodied uniform of Bellatrix’s school scattered through the trees. As the kids enter the forest, Akimitsu, Mai, Himiko, and Luna take quick notice of the over abundance of cobwebs. Keiko, Aimi, and Shun take notice of the trails of torn bloodied uniforms belonging to the freshman of the Shadow I. Rin and Rōnin quickly notice the cocoons stuffed up in the trees. As the group wanders further into the forest…Bellatrix has a suspicion of who the Vixen might be. The group come onto a three path split on the road…and believing it to be safer to travel in groups…she sent Keiko, Aimi, Luna, and Shun down path one…Mai, Himiko, Hayate, and Harley down path two…and herself, Akimitsu, Kaito, Rin, and Rōnin down path three. Keiko’s group stumble upon a horrid sight…slaughtered children from the Shadow I. Luckily…the freshman boy Sanosuke was able to survive but not without injury. He told them a little girl swooped from the trees and began eating his classmates. Bellatrix’s group stumble upon an old family home that seemed to be abandoned…but upon entering the building, they found the freshly eaten corpses of the freshman of the Shadow I. Mai’s group found themselves discovering a trail of their slaughtered classmates leading down to a river.

As Keiko’s group searches further through the woods…Keiko hears a voice…”You’d make a perfect sister”. Sanosuke stops in fear…realizing who the voice is…Keiko then turns to find a little girl in a black kimono peering from behind a tree. The girl reveals herself as “Nini”…and Keiko’s group think that she’s the Vixen behind everything that happened in the woods. As Bellatrix’s group wander around the house sensing the presence of a Vixen…they hear rustling from the basement. Opening it to find a giant cavern filled with more child corpses, they eventually discover an unnaturally tall and lanky pale man who refers to himself as “Bubba”. Bellatrix begins suspecting that her initial suspicion was incorrect and believes Bubba to be the Vixen behind the child deaths on Mt. Yukionna. Mai’s group then find an unnaturally tall and pale woman with long black hair who calls herself “Sweetie”…believing her to be responsible for the deaths on the mountain. As Keiko’s group fights Nini…it’s revealed she has the ability to jump like a spider and create Mandibles to bite with. Bubba is revealed to be able to grow eight sets of arms and contort his body. Sweetie is revealed to be able to detach her hands…which grow mouths that have acidic bites. Even though all three vixens were tough…each group managed to beat their respective Vixen…but as each Vixen died…they screamed out about “Mother” being “disappointed” which reignites Bellatrix’s initial suspicion. As Keiko’s group find a path…they head back to find the others and tell them about their strange Vixen…which culminates in Bellatrix inquiring her class to explore the path Keiko found.

The Shadow XIII and Sanosuke then head up the path to find the real Vixen behind the slaughter…but notice the path gets increasingly foggier. As they reach an opening in the forest…Sanosuke is swiftly abducted by something large into the mist. As the mist clears…the Shadow XIII come face to face with the horrified face of Sanosuke as he’s being eaten alive by a geisha woman with the bottom half of a spider. The woman drops the 14 year old’s half eaten torso as Keiko stares into her schoolmates dead eyes. The grotesque spider woman apologizes for her “bad manners”…Bellatrix then confirms her suspicion was right���the Vixen they’ve been sent to hunt is Lesser Hex 13 Jorogumo…an actual Hex member who can create Miasma that forces people to kill themselves. As the Shadow XIII come face to face with the actual reality of Vixen Hunting…Jorogumo’s children appear from the woods. Bellatrix, Keiko, Aimi, Shun, Luna, Rin, and Rōnin have to help fight Jorogumo while the others fend off her children. A grueling fight commences that results in Hayate losing an arm to venom…and multiple deep and serious injuries to Keiko, Rōnin, and Bellatrix…as well as Akimitsu almost dying. However the group succeeds and is able to overcome Jorogumo and her children…but as Jorogumo slowly disintegrates…Keiko mysteriously receives visions of Jorogumo’s last thoughts. It’s revealed that Jorogumo was once a living person…She was an abused housewife named Aiya who was raped and impregnated by her husband who was a samurai. He had her taken away from her job as a geisha by forcing her into an arranged marriage. She escaped him while still pregnant but he tracked her footsteps up the snowy mountain. He stabbed her and left her for dead…but before she died, a mysterious woman appeared…promising her immense power to exact her revenge upon her husband as long as she served the woman. Keiko then watched as Jorogumo’s thoughts filled with sudden remorse over the hundreds of people she forcefully impregnated with her spider eggs…turning them into her children…and she felt remorse over the innocent children she forced to kill themselves.

As the vision ended…Keiko inquired about the mysterious woman she saw. Bellatrix then revealed the full story of Dianna and Lilith. Dianna was the first goddess and Lilith the first demon. They both inhabited Earth but Dianna damned Lilith to Apocalypse after she began corrupting living people in a lust for power. Lilith’s influence was still able to carry on after banishment however…she would entice witches at their lowest point into becoming her Vixens. Bellatrix revealed that the ultimate goal was to stop Lilith from infiltrating the world by killing her mortal form…resulting in the destruction of Vixens. We then watch as Kuroneko, Hanzo, Ryu and the rest of the Shadow XI enjoy their lunch with smiles on their faces. But that changes when the Shadow XIII enter school…traumatized by the events they just witnessed…traumatized by the reality of Vixen Hunting. The Shadow XI try to cheer them up by reminding them of the Kappa Festival the town is throwing tomorrow.

Season 3:

As the night passes, The Shadow XIII actually try to overcome what they just experienced with fighting a real Hex member. But Keiko cannot bring herself to forget the look of Sanosuke’s dead face being eaten by Jorogumo. The day finally comes and the Shadow XIII are able to get to the festival where they meet up with other schoolmates. Keiko, Rin, Rōnin, Shun, Aimi, and Luna split off as they go for the fair grounds and enjoy rides. Himiko, Mai, and Harley go to one of the concerts and the others go off to play games and eat food. Rin and Rōnin split off from Keiko and friends to go through a haunted maze, where it’s revealed they might have feelings for each other as they hold hands the entire maze. As Bellatrix searches the fair ground for other teachers, she notices a little girl asking if anyone's seen her brother. As night quickly approaches, all Shadow XIII members notice people asking for their missing friends and relatives. Bellatrix quickly suspects a vixen is at play and gathers her students. They all talk about the disappearances they’ve heard reported. Bellatrix entrusts her students to wander the fairground to scout out if a vixen is at play.

As Keiko investigates, she becomes suspicious when Shadow XII members mention the Shadow XI is throwing the festival…when the Shadow XI said the school as a whole was. Himiko, Mai, and Harley become suspicious when they can no longer find the people who were missing family and friends. Hayate, Kaito, Akimitsu, and Luna then begin suspecting another student of being a vixen after noticing the people reported to be missing were fellow students. Rin and Rōnin then notice a strange looking shrine in the forests behind the festival. They investigate after grouping up with Aimi and Shun…only to discover countless corpses in the shrine…many belonging to freshman…only of the age 13. They leave to tell Bellatrix who regathers her students…who theorize the vixens are covert Shadow XI students. The Shadow XIII leave the festival to tell the other teachers in the school…but when the group reach town…they’re split up by two vixens…the Slime Vixen (a male vixen with blue hair, no eyes, and gray skin who creates acidic slime) and the Kappa Vixen (a female Vixen with green skin, long blond hair, and bird like features who can use a staff to launch attacks made of shadow). Keiko, Luna, Mai, Hayate, Kaito, and Rin split off to the East of their town to fight the Slime Vixen on the streets. Bellatrix, Aimi, Shun, Himiko, Harley, Akimitsu, and Rōnin fight the Kappa Vixen on the west side of town atop roofs. As the fights rage on…Bellatrix and Keiko realize just how strong their Vixens are…with unnatural speed, strength, and healing rates for just normal vixens. But eventually their respective Vixens fall at their blades…however…Keiko receives her strange visions upon each vixen's death. The visions reveal the same mysterious woman Bellatrix identified as Lillith…as well as Giichi's horrified face…but most importantly…the Slime vixen is revealed to be Hanzo and the Kappa Vixen was Kuroneko. Bellatrix begins to wonder how more students were able to hide as Vixens, but no matter how hard she thinks…she’s unable to fit the pieces together. Why are her students vixens? How is Lillith infiltrating her school? In what way is Giichi involved?

A month goes by without incident…and Bellatrix is able to start training her class for the upcoming Vixen Hunter License Exams so they can officially go under the wings of professionals to hopefully become professionals themselves. Eventually, Bellatrix receives the letters from the tournament to explain which students were scouted and by which professional Vixen Hunters. Surprisingly, this year…all of her students were scouted at the tournaments…and even more surprising…by members of the Shinobi Hunters (the 20 best professional Vixen Hunters). Aimi was scouted by Sakura Nishiya: the Nature Hunter who can manipulate plants. Shun was scouted by Amaya Gima: the Poison Hunter who can secrete extremely deadly poisons from her skin. Luna was scouted by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi: the Monster Hunter who could transform into a Chimera. Mai was scouted by Chisuke Kan: the Blood Hunter who could harden his blood to create extremely powerful armor. Himiko was scouted by Kaneki Usagiyama: the Psychic Hunter who could use extremely powerful telekinesis. Harley was scouted by Hoshi Bushida: the Matter Hunter who could disassemble and reassemble the matter of things she touches. Akimitsu was scouted by Kana Ryujin: the Electric Hunter who could spout extreme amounts of electricity from her arms. Hayate was scouted by Daichi Bushida: the Wind Hunter who is the brother to Hoshi and who could create and manipulate storms. Kaito was scouted by Chinami Aikawa: the Water Hunter who could have total water manipulation. Rin was scouted by Arakan Ahane: the Future Hunter who could temporarily jump into his own future and past. Rōnin was scouted by Uno Tatsuma: the Luck Hunter who could cause people bad luck to varying degrees. And lastly…Keiko was scouted by Bellatrix Kana (principal and teacher in Keiko's own school): the Power Hunter who’s able to create psionic energy.

The Shadow XIII eventually arrive to The Vixen Hunter License Exam Arena where they will have to compete with two other schools to get their licenses. The Exam instructor then tells the schools what they will be doing. The first phase has all three schools' students participate in an open arena fight that includes multiple biomes. Students can only fight students from a different school…a student wins a fight by hitting the heart trigger of another student. The first two schools to reach over two hundred “dead vixens” wins and can move on to the next phase. Phase 2 has the two schools left to compete over who can be the first to effectively save over 100 survivors. The last phase has the sole remaining school face off by protecting “survivors” from Shinobi Hunters creating the aftermath of Vixen Hunts (such as earthquakes, intense storms etc). The students who can defend their survivors will be the students to get their licenses. Sakura's school is the first to win phase 1, whereas Bellatrix’s also succeeds, leaving Chisuke's as the first school to lose…however, Ryu of the Shadow XI loses in phase 1. But during Phase 1, Sakura mentions to Bellatrix how her freshman class is yet to return from a mission in the Gifu Prefecture. Phase 2 commences and Bellatrix's school passes with flying colors due to firsthand experiences with powerful vixens including one of the 13 Hexes. However, Bellatrix agrees to help Sakura recover her missing students…but both agree that the circumstances are fishy at best. Phase 3 ends with all 12 Shadow XIII students succeeding and receiving their licenses. As each student enjoys their freshly acquired license, Bellatrix explains that they have a new and urgent mission.

Bellatrix prepares her class to head out to the Gifu Prefecture of Japan…said to be a hotspot of Vixen activity. The class arrives and meet with Aimi's VH trainer…Sakura Nishiya the Nature Hunter who explains that they’re searching for her missing freshman class. As night descends…the Shadow XIII split up and scatter all across the prefecture searching for hints as to the whereabouts of Sakura’s students. Sakura, Keiko, Aimi, and Shun stumble upon a young woman who explains that her husband went missing. After resolving to help her, she thanks them for being the only people to help her…the locals believe it to be fraught…believing he’s been eaten by the Night Vixen. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Luna discover a man in a bar…begging them to find his daughters who disappeared from his house two months ago. The four agree to help him, but they’re laughed at by the locals who say that there’s no point in finding them cause they've been eaten by the Mistress Vixen. Rin and Rōnin hear people laughing at a beggar. When they intervene, he asks them to help find his nephew who he lost one night…but the locals say he killed him. The two agree to help him while the locals scoff, believing it to be in vain.

Bellatrix, Akimitsu, Hayate, and Kaito inquire through the night about Sakura's missing students. Believing they’ll leave empty handed, Bellatrix remembers seeing a store they neglected to enter. After entering the store, they find Sakura's students…all slaughtered however…but the brutalized corpses seemingly reanimate at their presence. Sakura, Keiko, Aimi, and Shun investigate the wife’s house…only to find a tunnel in her basement. After they all enter the tunnel…they realize it leads into an open area where they encounter the woman's husband who warns them to stay away or “she’ll get them”…he then raises his arms in agony and lunges at them. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Luna investigate for the father until they find a tunnel behind his shed. The group enter the long treacherous tunnel only to come across the basement to an old abandoned theater. They encounter the father's two daughters who are nothing but lifeless corpses…that seemingly reanimate to attack Himiko's group. The daughters use their extremely powerful inherited spells but eventually fall to Harley’s tricks and Himiko's mana blocker ability. The group eventually find strange strings attached to the limbs of the daughters. Rin and Rōnin follow the beggar to the street his nephew went missing on…only to discover a tunnel leading underground into a vast chasm. On top of a stone laid the cannibalized corpse of the uncle's nephew. He then turns around and says “sorry” as he begins to attack Rin and Rōnin. They eventually beat him, only to find strings attached to his limbs.

Bellatrix’s group fight off the dead students only to discover they’re being controlled by puppet strings. They eventually get further into the abandoned store…only to find an entrance to the run down theater that Himiko's group is in. Sakura’s group beat the father who manages to survive after they find his strings and cut them off. But the wife is missing, so Sakura’s group head down a further tunnel way that leads to the theater. Rin and Rōnin wander further down the tunnel, only to enter the theater as well. As everyone regroups, they talk about their discoveries…including Sakura’s slaughtered students. As Hayate leads the group out of the theater, the door opens to the wife from Sakura’s group. But as Bellatrix begins to sense an overwhelming presence of a vixen…she tries to stop Hayate from leaving as the wife uses her inherited spell to constrict Hayate above the group…suspended in air…by sharp, constricting puppet strings.

The wife reveals herself as Harionna, Lesser Hex 12 of the 13 Hexes. She coldly tells no one to take another step, but as Bellatrix rushes towards her in a bout of emotion…Harionna pulls her strings constricting Hayate…slicing him into nothing but chunks of meat. The Shadow XIII watch in horror as their classmate's body parts rain down in front of them…the horror of the realities of Vixen Hunting fully returning to them since the Jorogumo incident. In pure rage, Keiko's arms ignite in a strange purple flame and she begins to attack Harionna with strength and speed not normal to an average Vixen Hunter. Bellatrix, Sakura, Shun, Rin, and Aimi join the fight while the others fend off the townsfolk revealed to be puppets under Harionna's control. The fight heads into the rooftops…as both sides are desperate to win. The resulting fight causes the destruction of multiple buildings. Keiko’s fire attacks seem more powerful and she was way more concentrated…while Bellatrix and Sakura attacked with a fury uncommon to most vixen hunters…leaving Harionna to wonder if they were even human. But eventually Lesser Hex 12 crumbled under the sheer power of the witches fighting her and she was bested by Shun’s sword. But as she died, Keiko received another strange vision…seemingly of Harionna's last memories.

Having grown up on the streets after their parents were killed by Vixens in front of them, Ito learned to use her gift of puppetry to raise money to protect her and her little brother Kage. However, when attacked by a group of belligerent drunkards…Ito realized Kage was mangled and near death. Wandering the streets for hours searching for help but not receiving it…Ito stumbled upon a woman who promised to take care of her and her brother…and she would grant them immense powers to exact revenge on the drunkards and bystanders as long as her and her brother treated the woman like their mother. After coming back from the vision, Keiko realized just how young Ito/Harionna was when she was taken by Lillith. But after connecting the dots of “The Night Vixen” (not Harionna) who supposedly attacked the husband of the “wife” according to some of the townsfolk…and Ito's little brother Kage also being turned into a vixen. Keiko realized that there’s another Vixen within the Gifu prefecture who they have to hunt…another Hex.

Season 4:

After scouring what was left of the village they traveled to in the Gifu Prefecture, The Shadow XIII and Sakura head for the city. After settling for the night in a hotel willing to host them, The Shadow XIII eventually fall asleep. However…Keiko begins having horrible nightmares involving Giichi torturing Kuroneko and Hanzo. Lilith’s face then interrupts the dream and the scene switches to their hometown interrupted by vixens fighting to the death. In the morning, the group wake up and Keiko relates her dream…believing it to be an omen of the days coming. The group ponder on what the dream could mean as Bellatrix and Sakura send the students off to help investigate the city. Rin and Rōnin head off to have breakfast together, however…they overhear an old man talking about a dream he had of “The Night Vixen” stalking him at night. Rin and Rōnin decide to entertain his story and the man leads them to a street where his dream supposedly took place…Himitsu Road. The boys laugh it off at first, until they both sense an ever present feeling of a vixen.

Mai, Himiko, and Harley go shopping all while asking customers of the stores about any vixen attacks. Most customers relate urban legends of a man in a red suit who wanders the streets at night. But only one woman’s story seemed relevant…the owner of a beauty store told how she was closing one night and walked home a few yards behind a couple. As they neared her house, the couple took a left turn as the woman headed straight home. But she heard a scream before she entered her house…the woman went to look down the dark street to see what happened…only to find no one. Mai, Himiko, and Harley asked the woman to take them to the road…only for it to be revealed to be the same road Rin and Rōnin discovered…Himitsu Road. Keiko, Aimi, Shun, and Luna spent the day at the library…only to uncover two hundred years worth of missing people records…all on one street…Himitsu Road. Akimitsu, Kaito, Bellatrix, and Sakura are unable to find anything but vague urban legends. After they all group up…they start realizing something…the old man Rin and Rōnin found seemed to have no memory and only recounted what he believed to be a dream. The store owner Mai’s group found…was unable to recall the appearance of the woman who disappeared. Aimi recounted how the missing people reports they found ended up in dead ends due to the families being unable to recount how their loved ones went missing. Bellatrix combines these with the fact that all of the urban legends were vague at best…and theorizes the vixen masks his kills by forcing people to forget key aspects of what they witnessed.

As night falls, Keiko notices a woman with a strange man…but after looking away…she forgot all the details of the people she just witnessed. Realizing this, she gathers her classmates and Bellatrix and Sakura…suspecting the man of being The Night Vixen. The group watch as the man leads the woman to Himitsu Road…but before he can attack, they stop the couple in their tracks. The woman turns around, revealing herself to be the store owner…who’s actually The Night Vixen named Kimi who has the ability to make people forget things. She reveals that she’s been working with Lesser Hex 11 Enenra to lure people to their death. Knowing what’s about to happen next, Shun, Aimi, Luna, Kaito, Akimitsu, and Sakura preemptively agree to take on Kimi…while Bellatrix, Mai, Himiko, Harley, Rin, Rōnin, and Keiko take on Enenra. The fights commence and Kimi proves to be extremely powerful, constantly causing the Shadow XIII to completely forget why they’re fighting. Kimi proves to be way stronger than she initially appeared, explaining that she was given more Darkness from Apocalypse by Enenra to participate in the Blood Wars. Enenra also proves to be way stronger than Harionna…being able to attack with ungodly strength and speed…even rivaling that of Bellatrix…and he hasn’t even used his inherited spell yet. Eventually Kimi is taken down by Sakura's blade…but before she disintegrates…she unleashed all of her inherited spell…causing mass bouts of amnesia and confusion to those fighting. As The Shadow XIII take on Enenra, he beats them one by one with relative ease…until Sakura, Bellatrix, Himiko, Mai, and Keiko are left. He then reveals his inherited spell, summoning the remaining Shadow XIII to his pocket dimension where he can manipulate the shadows to his whim. The fight then rages on as the Shadow XIII grow increasingly worried at an inevitable defeat…but as all hope seemed to be gone…Enenra's head was completely split open by Rōnin's surprise attack. Realizing Enenra never fought or accounted for Rōnin…the Shadow XIII regained hope and beat the seemingly impossible to kill Enenra as he was unable to regenerate his head due to Rōnin’s relentless attacks. But as they were returned to the real world and Enenra began to disintegrate…Keiko received a vision…Lilith’s face…and Bellatrix with not only the black and red eyes of a vixen…but the slit snake pupils of a Hex member. Keiko comes back from the vision as Enenra screams “Bellatrix! I remember you now! I re m e m b-“…Bellatrix stares at his disintegrating body with fear.

The days go by and The Shadow XIII have all finally recuperated enough from their wounds to make the trek back to Tokyo. As the Shadow XIII reach their part of Tokyo, they’re all dumbfounded as it seems to be in absolute shambles…as if destroyed by a natural disaster. Bellatrix and The Shadow XIII rush back to her school to figure out what happened. However, they find hundreds of Tokyo citizens being sheltered in the living quarters by Giichi and Chisuke. They explain that last night…Vixens began not only attacking and destroying Tokyo…but they seemed to be fighting each other out of all things. The Shadow XIII are demanded by Giichi to help Chisuke fight off the threat…despite the fact that they’re not entirely capable of fighting yet due to their injuries. Chisuke convinced them to help though, since no one else is around to be able to do it. The group then head out as Sakura stays to help tend to the survivors of the wreckage.

The Shadow XIII travel to downtown Tokyo where they encounter a sight never before seen…eight very powerful Vixens fighting it out all throughout the streets at night. A feminine male vixen (The Pin-Cushion Vixen who’s able to hurt himself to cause harm to others) with shoulder length black hair is seen fighting another male vixen with a muscular build and gray skin (The Flame Vixen who’s able to turn his body into flame). The two rage on, destroying buildings as Chisuke and Mai join the fight. They both fight the warring Vixens…causing collateral damage…until the Flame Vixen is killed by Mai…Chisuke’s able to subdue the Pin-Cushion Vixen. He asks the Vixen what’s happening…only for the Vixen to laugh in his face and reveal they’re fighting in the Blood Wars. The Blood Wars are when Lilith allows some of her higher ranking Vixens to fight each other and consume each others hearts until they’re eligible to fill a role as one of the 13 Hexes. Chisuke and Mai are knocked off the roof as more vixens begin fighting…specifically The Cement Vixen (a gray male Vixen who’s able to manipulate Concrete) and The Frog Vixen (a purplish female vixen who can utilize her tongue like a frog can). The two wage on as The Pin-Cushion Vixen joins the fight. As more Vixens show up fighting…the Shadow XIII is forced to intervene. Chisuke, Kaito, and Mai take on the first three vixens. Keiko and Aimi then take on The Boneblade Vixen (a white-skinned male vixen who can grow bone blades from his body) and The Screeching Vixen (a young female Vixen who has a Sonic scream). The two engage in bloody battle with the Vixens, but Keiko wonders why she’s unable to tap into her purple flame power like she could against Harionna…all while Aimi seems to outmatch the Vixens in her pure strength and speed. Himiko, Harley, Luna, and Akimitsu take on The Centipede Vixen (a female vixen with a centipede protruding from her right arm) who’s been fighting The Blood Sickle Vixen (a grayish male Vixen who’s able to launch poisoned blood sickles from his arms). Rin and Rōnin are able to take on The Frog Vixen by herself.

The fights wage on in bloody war that destroys half of the city as vixens try to kill each other and fend off the vixen hunters. After brutal difficult battles…all but one falls to the blade of the Vixen Hunters…The Pin-Cushion Vixen. He managed to kill the Cement Vixen and eat his heart…turning into Lesser Hex 13…but with the combined forces of the Shadow XIII, he eventually falls to Mai's blade. But before he dies…Chisuke mentions finally killing all of the Vixens…The Pin-Cushion Vixen begins smiling as he says “No, not all of us” as he stares deeply into Bellatrix’s eyes…making her nervous. But eventually he disintegrates…and the Shadow XIII are able to rest easy.

After three days go by…The Shadow XIII are then thrust into a new mission as suspicions of a deadly vixen begin bubbling in the Kyoto district. Making the tired trek to the Kyoto district…they meet up with Giichi and Shinobi Hunter Amaya Gima: The Poison Hunter. The Shadow XIII and Bellatrix are told that girls have gone missing all throughout the Pleasure Quarters. Giichi normally would’ve considered it girls running away, or simple Murder…but the styles of the attacks had Vixen written all over them. The Shadow XIII are to investigate the Kyoto District to find the culprit of the missing girls. All of the girls (Keiko, Aimi, Shun, Himiko, Harley, and Mai) are to hide as new geisha hires to the Pleasure Quarters whereas the boys (Rin, Rōnin, Luna, Akimitsu, Kaito, and Shadow XI recruit…Ryu) are to pretend to be customers at the Pleasure Quarters…both are to gather as much information as possible.

The two groups begin to investigate not only the Pleasure Quarters…but the nearby Kyoto district as a whole…and they uncover some disturbing secrets. Kaito is responsible for getting one of the girls of House Shimamiya to reveal the backstory of House Ito. She said the legend goes that a little girl was fed up with being sold to men…she snapped and murdered everyone…causing the entire Kyoto Prefecture to be haunted. Himiko, Mai, and Harley investigate House Ito only to uncover that four of their most looked after geishas recently disappeared over the span of three months. Keiko, Aimi, and Shun meet up with the Geishas Suzuka, Hirai, Rina, and Sola…who all reveal that they believe a Geisha they performed with was secretly a vixen. Bellatrix and Amaya begin seeing a suspicious Geisha who Bellatrix swears looks familiar. Himiko, Harley, and Mai begin suspecting the Vixen is within their respective Houses/Pleasure Quarters…so they begin talking to and interrogating the workers and performers. Ultimately revealing House Ito of supposedly being haunted by the vengeful spirit of a young girl. Believing it to be a hint as to what the vixen is capable of…the girls all group together to stay in House Ito. During their stay, more girls and geishas go missing from the house…ultimately resulting in the girls believing Geisha Michiko to possibly be the Vixen. The boys all begin suspecting the majority of geishas who perform for the houses to be Vixens.

During the night, Keiko begins suspecting the house is actually haunted…as she believes she hears footsteps in her room when no one’s there. The next morning, everyone regroups to talk about their discoveries…except Keiko who’s nowhere to be found. Kaito mentions remembering seeing the Geishas carry someone off to the attic of House Ito. During the night, The Shadow XIII and Amaya investigate…only to find Keiko tied up, gagged, and asleep. As they go to untie her…they’re confronted by the four geishas…Suzuka, Hirai, Rina, and Sola…revealing themselves to be Vixens…. A fight then breaks out in House Ito…Geisha Suzuka is revealed to be able to manipulate wind with traditional fans, Geisha Hirai is revealed to be able to attack enemies with her shadow…utilizing shadow puppets for deadly combat, Geisha Rina is revealed to be able to cause people to hallucinate at the scent of her blood, and Geisha Sola is revealed to be able to turn umbrellas into sentient saws. The deadly fights with the Geishas result in Sola murdering Ryu right in front of everyone…and the destruction of House Ito. But as the Vixens are almost beat by the Shadow XIII, Suzuka accidentally mentions her mistress’ name…resulting in an arm bursting through her chest as the other vixens cower in fear and bow. As Suzuka horrifically melts to death in front of everyone, the arm is revealed to belong to Geisha Michiko…Lesser Hex 10 Onryō. Onryō then announces herself and scoffs at the Shadow XIII. Keiko, Kaito, Bellatrix, Aimi, and Amaya agree to fight Onryō while the others take care of the other Vixens.

A grueling and intense fight then commences that reveals Onryō's power…she’s able to manipulate fabric strands. The fight is taken to the outside of the Pleasure Quarters where Onryō completely overpowers her opponents due to her sheer strength and speed…that which outmatched even Bellatrix and Amaya. Her sheer destructive force left multiple buildings destroyed under her feet. She then scoffs at Keiko standing with her sword drawn and Kaito standing behind her. Keiko then yells to her as Onryō scales a building and nonchalantly sits on its roof…”I’m not gonna let you hurt anymore people!”. Onryō literally and metaphorically looks down at her and calls her cute…she then unraveled the fabric in her sleeves and unleashed complete chaos around Keiko. Keiko looks down to reveal her arms have been completely severed…she then enters complete shock as she hears screams of hundreds of people behind her. She turns around in complete shock as she sees destroyed building after destroyed building…hundreds of slaughtered people…and screaming children and women. But worst of all…Kaito's dead headless body lying on the ground…as his head slowly rolls away with a horrified look on his face…he was only 17. As she revels in her victory and in the terrified screams of Keiko, Onryō begins to cackle as she stands up and begins to threaten to eat the other Shadow XIII…all revealed to be defeated by Onryō’s vixens. But just as she goes to jump down to eat them, something fast and unbelievably strong punches her from behind…causing a green explosion with such force Onryō gets sent across the entire nearby District…destroying multiple buildings the whole way. She then hears another fiery explosion…only to see Keiko standing before her…with her arms completely regenerated while ignited in a green flame…and her eyes not only the black and red of a vixen…but with the same slit pupils of a Hex member.

Keiko begins to fight Onryō again…this time, the two cause unbelievable damage to the pleasure quarters and Kyoto district with Onryō causing mass destruction with her fabric and pure rage…and Keiko brutalizing Onryō with extremely deadly and powerful explosions of her green fire and extreme strength and speed. No matter how much damage Onryō does to Keiko…no matter how much she severs her limbs…Keiko regenerates them as fast as a Greater Hex. The fight continues across the rooftops as both vixens beat each other into bloody regenerating pulps, carelessly wrecking everything around them to kill each other. Eventually Keiko beats Onryō down till she's nearly powerless…Keiko continues to punch and kick Onryō…and rip her limbs off…stomp her face in…rip her hair out…but all in pure glee. As she continues to brutalize Onryō, she begins salivating at the thought of cannibalizing Onryō. Bellatrix begins dreaming of Lilith screaming at her “YOU NEED TO SAVE HER BEFORE SHE CHANGES FOREVER! WAKE UP BELLATRIX!”. We then watch as Bellatrix pulls Keiko away from cannibalizing Onryō’s face…kicking and screaming. Bellatrix then fights the Vixen Keiko, revealing Bellatrix as having the same eyes. The fight is brutal as Bellatrix ruthlessly beats down her newly twisted and demented student. Eventually, Keiko is able to calm down…and her and Bellatrix gather the remaining Shadow XIII members…as well as Ryu and Kaito's corpses…also revealing the other vixens to have been killed by Keiko. But before they can leave, they hear a shrill voice from behind them…”You’re just gonna leave me like that? We just started having fun!”. The group turn around to find a permanently disfigured Onryō. Another grueling intense fight ensues that results in Bellatrix going full Vixen as well as Keiko…the fight destroying the majority of the nearby district. The fighters brutally beat Onryō and she returns the favor, all while chasing after the beastly Vixen across the rooftops at an ungodly speed. But due to Amaya poisoning Onryō who was empowered by pure rage…they were finally able to kill her.

As Onryō died…Keiko received a vision from Onryō's life. Ever since she was a young girl, Michiko was considered unnaturally beautiful and she had a gift for sewing. But she was abducted from her village and forced into the life of a geisha. Throughout her career, she was beaten and abused by her superiors for fear that her beauty would let her surpass them. And after years of being treated like a slave, a beautiful woman entered the geisha house and slaughtered all but Michiko. She promised Michiko immense powers to rule the Kyoto district to earn the respect she deserved, as long as Michiko served her. Keiko returned from the vision…and The Shadow XIII were finally able to return to school. Bellatrix then had to explain to her students that she in fact is a vixen as well as an ex-Hex member…but was able to break away from the darkness that caused Lilith's Vixens to be evil…and she came clean about actually being Keiko's mother…but explained that that’s all she’s able to tell until further events happen.

Season 5:

Not even allowed two days to grieve or fully recover from their wounds, the Royal Guard is already forcing the remaining Shadow XIII on a mission. The mission will have them travel to a kingdom to the North within the Fukushima prefecture. The Royal Guard believe the Kingdom to have rampant Vixen activity and also believe that Lesser Hex 9 resides within the kingdom. This new mission has The Shadow XIII begin to resent the Royal Guard, with Akimitsu claiming that after the mission…he no longer wishes to be a Vixen Hunter due to the Royal Guard's inhumane treatment. The Shadow XIII then travel on horseback to the kingdom in the north. As they do, they come upon the kingdom which is guarded by one giant wall surrounding the whole kingdom. Viewing it as suspicious, the Shadow XIII still decide to enter. Upon their arrival, they’re greeted by two nameless hosts. The hosts guide them all around the kingdom, showing them everything they need to know. The hosts then show the Shadow XIII the luxurious mansion they’ll be staying in. As the Shadow XIII talk about their plans to investigate for a Vixen within the kingdom, the girl host bursts into the room with a terrified look and says “I wouldn’t say that out loud…she’s everywhere, the Vixen might hear you”. The man host then barges in with a smile on his face and coldly whispers to the woman host “Now, we both know…there’s no such thing as a vixen. Didn’t they teach you that in the palace?”. He then carries her off into the night kicking and screaming.

The Shadow XIII are tasked with interrogating the locals about a potential Vixen the next morning all while Keiko, Bellatrix, and Aimi search for their hosts. Shun, Luna, Rin, and Rōnin travel to a local pub to inquire about a potential Vixen…but they’re met with nothing but confused looks from the locals. Himiko, Mai, Harley, and Akimitsu inquire with the guards of the city…but each guard tells them off with a threatening tone “Vixens don’t exist”. Bellatrix, Keiko, and Aimi traverse the same ground their hosts left on. They eventually lead themselves to the Palace of the kingdom. Thinking the woman host was arrested, they plan to break her out of jail…only to discover all the jail cells have been emptied. Viewing this as incredibly suspicious, they leave while theorizing one of the guards or jail keepers is the vixen. Shun begins to discover thrown away wanted and missing persons posters…while Himiko starts to become suspicious after learning from an old woman…that her daughter was arrested 40 years ago for believing someone important was a vixen. The old woman explained that she hasn’t seen her daughter since and that the people of the kingdom don’t believe in Vixens, but remains vigilant that they exist and took her daughter and the other missing people. Akimitsu meets up with Shun’s group as they look for Bellatrix, Keiko, and Aimi. They eventually find them back at the mansion as Bellatrix and them prepare for something. As Himiko, Mai, and Harley enter the mansion…they all ask what’s going on…only for Bellatrix to reveal her suspicion that the vixen is somewhere within the court. The rest of The Shadow XIII reveal their findings of a kingdom who refuses to believe in Vixens.

Bellatrix and her students then travel to the palace’s jail and break in again. She instructs her students to help investigate for the whereabouts of the hosts and the vixen. As the group investigate the jails, Akimitsu comes across a torture chamber with the woman host tied up. They all rescue her and ask her about what happened…but she’s unable to speak due to her tongue being completely ripped out. She then leads them to a different part of the jail, the empty guards barracks. Lying upon a table…is an old book Bellatrix remembers as being one of the three Black Books. The Black Books were Lilith’s Grimoires filled with unknowable knowledge only Lilith could interpret. But as Keiko approached the Black Book…she began receiving a vision…a strange series of vignettes that seemed like past memories. The visions involved what looked like members of the royal guard, Lilith’s horrified and distraught face, Dianna disappearing…and Lilith casting a spell that cured someone of illness. Keiko tries to interpret the vision but is interrupted by guards arresting her and The Shadow XIII. They’re held in prison for days on end…but they take notice of the prisoners who arrive and then mysteriously disappear during the night. Eventually, they’re released to have an audience with King and Queen Kon who eventually release The Shadow XIII from their sentence.

But Queen Kon decides to keep them around to learn what they were doing. Queen Kon completely pardons them after learning of their hunt and informs them that her kingdom doesn’t believe in Vixens because she didn’t want false accusations or hysteria to run rampant. But she heavily thanks them for helping with the Vixen pest in her kingdom. The King then allows them to stay in the Palace until the vixen has been slaughtered. During their stay, Keiko learns about the history and Mythology of the Kon kingdom who believe in Inari…the goddess of fertility and the harvest. But more importantly, Keiko uncovers aspects of Lilith’s story. Lilith had corrupted Dianna’s people in a lust for power…and Dianna’s cultists convinced her to banish Lilith into Apocalypse…which is essentially hell. Dianna then would mysteriously disappear but her Cultists would enforce her rule and law and create the Royal Guard which operates under the law of Dianna.

The Shadow XIII continue their investigation into the Kon Kingdom. The investigation led to multiple dead ends however…as none of the guards or jailers were revealed as Vixens, the hosts are nowhere to be seen again, and the locals being completely unable to help. However, Himiko and Mai notice the disappearance of the old lady who revealed she believed in Vixens. Akimitsu eventually helps Keiko, Bellatrix, and Aimi uncover an underground resistance of civilians who conspire that Vixens live within their midst. Bellatrix and Akimitsu gather the others, and inquire with the resistance who believe a vixen is in the palace and pulling strings behind the king and Queen’s back. As the investigation continues…the group feel like they’re wandering in the dark, unable to discover the Vixen. But all that changes when Akimitsu believes he hears someone yelling for help at night. As he goes to investigate the cries, he’s quickly surrounded by shadowed figures. Keiko wakes up and notices Akimitsu's gone, so she gathers the other Shadow XIII members. But as they go to leave the palace, Akimitsu’s dismembered corpse is thrown through the window. The group stare in horror but all of them are quickly taken out themselves. Eventually they’re awoken by the king’s booming yell…but as they look up…both rulers have the eyes of a vixen…even worse, Queen Kon’s is that of a 13 Hex’s. She eventually reveals herself as Lesser Hex 9 Inari. She reveals The Shadow XIII her plan…to eat them all and be promoted to Greater Hex status. But it’s soon revealed that Rōnin was able to escape due to his ability and travelled to the resistance…who all started gathering civilians who turned out to be believers of Vixens. As Inari prepares to eat the Shadow XIII like a delicacy, she’s interrupted by her guards barging in and telling how the civilians have turned against them and started an uprising. Inari then realizes Rōnin is missing…which gives the Shadow XIII enough hope, and they break from their chains and all begin fighting Inari and her King. The fights wage on where it’s revealed Inari has the ability to manipulate her body (create extra limbs, elongate her limbs, control her hair etc). As the fight continues, it becomes increasingly more desperate as Inari rages on destroying her Palace. All but Keiko, Bellatrix and Aimi are unable to fight Inari. Inari manages to strike multiple lucky hits against the Shadow XIII…leaving Bellatrix and Aimi unconscious and Keiko severely injured. But as Inari came to behead Keiko…Inari’s palace walls crumbled as the Civilians, Resistance, and Rōnin defeated her guards. Seeing her time to strike right in front of her…Keiko became filled with rage, turning her into a vixen. The fight against Inari continued as her and Keiko took blow after blow from each other…each becoming more enraged. Inari grew even more enraged at the insubordination of her prey, and she began malforming her body with her spell to eventually become an eldritch beast made of countless limbs and clones. But Keiko, now consumed with darkness and unbridled rage…struck the killing blow with glee. Finally coming back to humanity…Keiko received a vision from Inari’s death.

When Asami was a little girl, she was deemed the black sheep of her family for being relatively unattractive. Her poor family couldn’t sell her off for riches and would berate and belittle her for her appearance. Instead they forced her to work menial tasks for them until they eventually couldn’t afford to feed her anymore. As they planned to do an honor killing, a beautiful woman appeared in Asami’s room…promising her the beauty, power and respect she desired her whole pitiful life…as well as abilities to exact revenge on her abusive family…as long as she served the mysterious woman. But at the end of the vision…Asami said to Keiko…”Remember who the real enemy is”. Keiko then helps Bellatrix to her feet…and inquired about what Asami/Inari could’ve meant…but all Bellatrix could do was cry from frustration.

The remaining Shadow XIII members head back to Tokyo with the Black Book now in their possession. Bellatrix then reveals she’s not just not telling Keiko the truth…she’s physically unable to because she simply cannot remember anything. But she reveals to Keiko…that there’s a chance they could do something to reveal the truth from Bellatrix’s lost memory. But it requires them to travel to the Royal City in Tokyo…the city of the Royal Guard who The Shadow XIII have grown disdain for. As Bellatrix and Keiko leave for the Royal City…she assigns her remaining students to train with their Shinobi Hunters. The training commenced with the students and Shinobi Hunters…each going on a mission to kill certain vixens giving the locals trouble all while Bellatrix and Keiko arrive in the Royal City. Bellatrix takes Keiko to a priesthood where they meet the Nun who raised Keiko as a kid…Sister Amaterasu. Sister Amaterasu reveals she knows Bellatrix’s situation and they’ve known each other for many years. She reveals to Keiko that Keiko must go through purification lest she risk becoming a Vixen permanently…and this purification will hopefully reveal the secrets Keiko and Bellatrix are looking for.

Bellatrix’s students and their Shinobi Hunters eventually take down their vixens…but notice weird levels of strength that’s not normal for average vixens. Bellatrix and Keiko then settle for the purification where Sister Amaterasu recites chants from The Book of Dianna but Keiko can’t escape the feeling that the chants felt similar to the Spell Lilith casted to cleanse people of disease. As the purification commenced, Keiko was thrust into a deep sleep where she dreamed of all the events she witnessed since she became a Vixen Hunter but the scenery switched to Kingdom Kon…and the Black Book. Keiko touched the Black Book which revealed Lesser Hex 7 Komainu guarding the entrance to a strange looking castle. Keiko eventually woke up and revealed what her dream was about. Sister Amaterasu then recognized the castle after Keiko described it…Infinite Apocalypse…a building of myth said to hold Lilith’s mortal form. They then knew what they had to do…traverse Infinite Apocalypse to discover their truths and finally defeat Lilith. Sister Amaterasu then revealed that it exists atop Mount Fuji…and it’s actually an infinite pocket dimension that won’t be easy to traverse. Keiko and Bellatrix start heading back to Tokyo…all the while Keiko kept thinking about Inari’s words…”Remember who the real enemy is”.

As Bellatrix and Keiko return days later, they finally hold a funeral for Hayate, Kaito, and Akimitsu. Days later, Bellatrix gathers her students to traverse to Mount Fuji. We then see as the remaining 13 Hexes are summoned to an infinite building that defies the laws of physics. They’re all forced on their knees and bow before HER…Lilith…a beautiful woman in a long black floral Kimono. She then commands her Hexes to slaughter “the traitor Bellatrix”. As the group stops in Kanagawa…they learn of a town in Kyoto that requires their help. They eventually decide to stop in Kyoto first, and help its civilians with what is inevitably a Vixen. The Shadow XIII begin their investigation to discover the Vixen behind the struggling town. The investigation turns up the same on everyone’s part…Himiko, Mai, and Harley find people indulging in sinful behavior (stealing, murder, gambling etc)…Shun, Aimi, Keiko, and Bellatrix discover the exact same…and so do Rin, Rōnin, and Luna.

Each group eventually splits off into mostly individual investigations. Luna & Mai find a man named Kodaka who seems to be in love with himself. Rin believes a man named Tomiju is the Vixen as he seems to horde wealth. Keiko & Aimi presume the angry town drunk named Go is the Vixen as he seems to be the cause of a lot of intense negative energy. Himiko believes an old woman named Naomi is the vixen after many townsfolk relate how she drags everyone down due to her jealousy. Rōnin and Harley believe the town flirt Aiko is the Vixen as men seem to disappear after she flirts with them. Shun believes the town glutton Daiki is the Vixen after hearing rumors that he’s resorted to cannibalism. And Bellatrix believes the lazy town ruler Taida is the vixen due to his apathy of people. Each investigation results in The Shadow XIII figuring out their subject is actually a vixen with each each member starting a fight with their respective vixens. This results in town wide destruction as Kodaka is revealed to be able to create perfect clones of him from any mirrored surface. Tomiju is revealed to be able to manipulate coins as weapons. Go is revealed to grow endless amounts of muscle mass to increase his physical strength. Naomi is revealed to be able to steal other witch’s mana…making her attacks flashier and stronger. Aiko is revealed to be able to entice people with her beauty. Daiki is revealed to be able to eat anything and literally inhale things into his gaping mouth. And Taida is revealed to be able to cause people to fall asleep.

Each Vixen fight results in the Vixens being defeated but running away in cowardice before the final blow can be struck. Each Vixen runs into the town church…and each Shadow XIII member quickly follows…only to uncover a scene of cannibalized townsfolk and a sickly looking teenage boy…Lesser Hex 8 Akuma. Instead of fighting however…Akuma tempts Keiko with fresh corpses…ready to be cannibalized. Keiko begins drooling as her eyes start turning. She begins lurching forward no matter how much Bellatrix tries to convince her to stop. But Akuma’s temptation proves too strong…as Keiko begins eating away. The Shadow XIII then begin fighting Akuma as Bellatrix and Aimi take him to the rooftops and the others deal with his disciples. The resulting fights are grueling and ever destructive…causing mass chaos in the town at night with the destruction of multiple buildings. Eventually The Shadow XIII fall to Akuma’s ability…he’s able to force people to indulge in their ultimate sin until death…revealing he is all sin and has his disciple’s abilities. But just before he can begin cannibalizing The Shadow XIII…Keiko stops eating the heart of a child and begins crying as she receives visions from Inari “What are you doing Lilith? YOU NEED TO SAVE US”. Akuma looks around for his disciples…but is unable to find them.

He eventually spots Keiko, holding the disintegrating heads of his disciples. She then kicks him so hard, he’s launched through multiple buildings. The two begin an absolutely destructive fight of Vixen against Vixen…as they punch, kick, and demolish each other into nothing but regenerating pulps. The fight continues on as Akuma’s rage induces multiple kicks and punches that destroy half the town and Keiko’s fire ignites the rest of it…but neither can get the upper hand. Until Keiko’s Black Book opens inside her bag. Before she knows it…Keiko was able to create extra limbs…like Inari…she was able to manipulate her fabric like Onryō, she was able to create Miasma like Jorogumo…she controlled his limbs like Harionna…and she manipulated the shadows like Enenra. But as she powered up, so did he…creating massive amounts of armor made from muscle and utilizing his disciples immense abilities. But Keiko eventually was able to rip him in half and began eating his heart. But as she did, Keiko began receiving a vision. A young, abandoned, and nameless child wandered the streets and was taken in by a church who named him Akuma due to the church believing he was filled with sin. Akuma was abused for months on end in an attempt to reverse his “sinful” nature. Suffering the abuse of the church, he prayed to Dianna to let him die in peace. But in came a mysterious woman…who promised the child immense powers to kill those who did him wrong…as long as he served her.

Keiko returned from the vision and returned back to humanity…unable to make sense of what just happened. The others awakened to the destruction and Akuma’s disintegrating corpse. Keiko then revealed that she was able to use the abilities of the Dead Hexes. Bellatrix and Keiko then began theorizing that the visions she’s been receiving were actually her absorbing the Vixens’ souls and powers. The Shadow XIII stay in Kyoto as sin has left the town after Akuma’s demise. They begin helping rebuild the town in apology for the damage they created…but on one night…Mai decided to walk to a store by herself. But as she made the trek back to the house The Shadow XIII were staying at…she heard something behind her. As she turned around…a tall psychotic man stared down at her with a smile while he held the bisected corpse of a cannibalized woman. The man then kneeled down to stare her in the eyes…revealing himself as Greater Hex 5 Omoikane. He then gently giggled “Don’t worry Mai…I’m not gonna hurt you”. He then stuck his finger entirely through her forehead and painfully infected her with Darkness. He stared at her writhing body and said “Finally, one of you will survive the transformation”.

Season 6:

Spending the last few hours before they head for Mt. Fuji help clean up, the Shadow XIII inquire as to the whereabouts of Mai. The group spend half the day searching for her only to turn up nothing. All until they ask a woman if she’s seen someone who looks like Mai…and she described seeing a girl with a similar look traveling with a man outside the town. The group instantly suspect something incredibly fishy, but end up theorizing maybe for whatever reason Giichi is escorting her to Mt. Fuji. The group then begin their treacherous trek to Mt. Fuji to strike the heart of the Vixen plague. As they near Mt. Fuji…they run into the Shinobi Hunters Sakura, Chisuke, Kazuhiko, Kaneki, Hoshi, Arakan, Uno, and Amaya. They all reveal that Giichi has instructed them to journey with the Shadow XIII into Infinite Apocalypse. After making the treacherous climb, they eventually stumble upon a decrepit run-down looking shrine…that Keiko recognizes as an altered version of the palace she saw in her vision in the Royal City. All the Shinobi Hunters (including Bellatrix) utilize their mana to reveal Infinite Apocalypse and then enter the palace with the Shadow XIII.

The group then step through the entrance only to reveal the infinite pocket dimension filled with impossible architecture. Bellatrix then reveals that they’re looking for Lesser Hex 7 Komainu, the guard of Infinite Apocalypse. But as they step further into the impossible pocket dimension, it begins to shift, they then hear the striking of a gong…and everyone is transported away from the entrance. Keiko wakes up at home, with her mom Bellatrix and her dad…Akio. She then realizes that she’s only dreamt up Vixens, they no longer exist and she can finally be at peace with her family. Aimi wakes up at home with her family and little brother…she hugs him and begins to cry. Shun wakes up in High School…with Harley…and the two begin to hold hands as if they were lovers. Rin wakes up in Bellatrix’s school where all his friends are still alive. Rōnin wakes up at his home…married to Rin. Luna wakes up as a normal looking human being, and begins making genuine friendships with his classmates. Harley wakes up at the circus where she’s a world renowned circus performer with her own comic book series. Himiko wakes up as the head of the Government of Witches where everyone worships her very being. And the Shinobi Hunters all wake up at their homes with their families.

As each Shadow XIII member revels in these idealistic worlds, each begin to notice something strange. Keiko keeps seeing glitches in her world that shatter her reality. Aimi notices that her little brother has missing details in his appearance. Luna begins to notice the words “Wake Up” everywhere in his reality. Rin begins to hear distant voices that sound like him screaming “YOU NEED TO WAKE UP!”. Himiko begins to question her ability to be head of the Government of Witches…and begins having visions she realizes are actually memories of the real world. Rōnin begins noticing strange differences in Rin’s personality. Harley begins seeing people in her audience that she realizes are her classmates. Shun keeps noticing Harley casually say “Wake Up!”. But before they know it, each member is violently woken up by a Shinobi Hunter…only for it to be revealed a long-Haired Vixen was forcing them to see what they desired most. Each group fought and killed their respective Vixen…who mysteriously all looked the exact same.

As each Vixen is killed, the rooms they’re in begin to crumble. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters make a break for the doors at the end of each room. But as each escaped their room, they heard a striking of a gong…they stumble into a house to see the other Shadow XIII members. Everyone, realizing they’re trapped in the house, begin to desperately search for an exit. Keiko begins to see her classmates blame her for everything, including the existence of Vixens, the death of her classmates, and the failure to save Lilith. Luna begins seeing his classmates degrade him and cause him to be an outcast. Rin begins seeing Rōnin die in front of him. Aimi sees a memory from her past haunt her…when her inherited spell developed and she accidentally killed her brother…resulting in the abusive training her parents forced her through for years. Himiko watches as her classmates praise Keiko for being greater than her. Rōnin sees Rin degrade him and say he’ll never love him. Harley sees as her classmates call her useless for not helping fight the 13 Hexes. Shun watches as Harley calls her unlovable. And the Shinobi Hunters watch their students all die in front of them.

Everyone begins realizing that this is yet another visual trick and hallucination caused by a vixen, but they fail to understand how to break from the nightmares. As Keiko realizes she’s just in a nightmare…she begins ignoring her classmates and reminds herself that she’s worthy of the title Vixen Hunter. Luna begins arguing about how useful he is as a friend and classmate. Rin freezes Rōnin’s dying body, preventing his body from degrading and erasing from his memory. Aimi begins contrasting her memories with thoughts about how she endured her family’s abuse and the death of her little brother…and became a respectable Vixen Hunter. Himiko reminds herself that other people’s opinions don’t matter and Himiko is completely worthy of being a Vixen Hunter…and even admits that Keiko grew to be respectable. Rōnin begins remembering Rin’s previous kind words and ignores the doubts he clearly has and confesses to the fake Rin that he loves him. Harley, instead of beating herself up, promises to herself to be instrumental in the defeat of every Vixen going forwards. Shun reminds herself that unrequited love isn’t the end of the world, and promises to move on. And the Shinobi Hunters refuse to believe their students are dead…and instead begin seeing them as still living.

This causes all of them to wake up from the nightmares…only to find the same Vixen from before removing her eyeballs from their foreheads. Her eyes travel from her hands and into their sockets. Each member hears the banging of a gong and are transported outside the house. The house then begins malforming until it’s evidently alive. The house begins to attack The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters with powerful Mana-Imbued attacks…but the group were eventually able to break in and easily strike the Vixen in her heart…revealing her as the new Lesser Hex 9 Baku. As they recover from the attacks, Keiko begins wondering why her nightmares said she caused Vixens. Unable to think of an answer, the Shadow XIII assume the answer will be in Lilith’s Black Book that’s being guarded by Komainu.

As they talk, they all hear a booming laughter come from above them. They all look up to see Lesser Hex 7 Komainu…a tall and handsome man in a black suit with a long tail and teeth of a dog. He calls them cute as he drops the head of the real Baku revealed to be still alive yet unable to regenerate her body leaving her in painful agony. He drops off the platform, and begins fighting each member. He out-speeds even Hoshi and Bellatrix…the fastest Shinobi Hunters…and punches with strength yet unseen from a Vixen. As each side fights on…destroying everything in their path, Komainu stops fighting and says “Let’s spice up our little Soirée”. He then reveals his ability to manipulate architecture to his whim and sends all the Vixen Hunters down multiple paths in the infinite pocket dimension…disregarding the laws of physics and creating new architecture that transports each hunter through infinite separate pocket dimensions of Infinite Apocalypse…eventually losing them in the Vixen-Infested Infinity.

Keiko and Bellatrix begin traversing their part of Infinity, only to discover The Phasing Vixen…a male Vixen who’s able to cause things that touch his body to appear from a different part of his body. Aimi and Sakura traverse incredibly dark and long hallways…only to discover the Color Vixen…a female Vixen who can telekinetically control items the same color of her changing skin. Shun and Amaya eventually uncover the Arm Blade Vixen…a female Vixen who’s able to grow multiple types of blades from her forearms. Rin and Arakan discover The Magnet Vixen…a male vixen who can cause two things to be magnetically attracted to each other if he touches them. Rōnin and Uno uncover the Clap Vixen…a male vixen who can cause fiery explosions when he claps his hands. Luna and Kazuhiko uncover The Plush Vixen…a female Vixen who’s able to bring puppets, dolls, and plushes to life. Himiko and Kaneki discover The Invisible Vixen…a female Vixen who can simply just make herself invisible not visually but in all sense…she's invisible to reality making it so her hits aren’t even felt, her steps unheard, her scent unsmelled. Harley and Hoshi eventually discover The Sand Vixen…a male vixen who’s able to telekinetically manipulate sand. All groups engage in grueling and difficult fights…but eventually best their vixens…and miraculously find each other.

Giichi and his followers find Infinite Apocalypse atop Mt. Fuji. As they enter, Giichi talks to a mysterious black cat affectionately perched atop his shoulder. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters eventually find a giggling and gleeful Komainu who mockingly remarks about how resilient they are. He happily hops up and engages in battle. A grueling fight then commences as the Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters risk everything to grab Komainu’s Black Book. The fight results in multiple injuries as architecture after architecture is destroyed. Komainu’s ability causes the disregard of physics as architecture is created and destroyed centering gravity all over Infinity…keeping the fight aerial. Hallway after hallway, impossible house after impossible house, pointless wall after pointless wall, floating architecture after floating architecture are all destroyed…all until Keiko, Harley, and Aimi are left standing. The grueling fight continues as all four give it their everything. Komainu shifts and twists the inside reality of Infinite Apocalypse in complete disregard as to the laws of physics…but his power is proven useless under Harley’s determination to help. She relentlessly attacks him with her circus balls she turned back into demolition balls…constantly shattering Komainu into nothing but regenerating pulp leaving him open to Keiko and Aimi’s swords.

As Komainu dies, Keiko receives the mysterious vision she gets after each Hex dies. Hiraku was born into a strict family. After showing signs of mental illness, his family locked him in a disappointments room in the basement. For years on end he slowly wasted away, forgotten by his family…wishing to see what’s beyond his walls. Until a mysterious woman released him…and promised him powers to expand his territory and take revenge on his family…as long as he served her. Coming back from the vision, Keiko hoped the Black Book would bring insight into her visions and nightmare. But as she opened it…she received a vision of each of the 13 Hexes fusing into her…as well as Lilith traversing Infinite Apocalypse until she came across The NeverEnding Library where she left her third Black Book…she then looks Keiko in the eyes and gently whispers “this is for you”. As Keiko came back from the vision, she noticed a black cat rub up against her leg. She then felt a sword pressed to her back as Giichi coldly said “Keiko! I know exactly what you are!”.

Season 7:

Keiko turns around to find Giichi and his henchmen…who remark about how they know she’s a Vixen. As Keiko looks on in confusion, Giichi mentions how instrumental Keiko was in leading them to Lilith…and he has no more use of a Vixen. The Shadow XIII step in to confront Giichi…and a fight breaks out. Keiko's friends begin fighting Giichi’s cohorts, and Keiko and Bellatrix take on Giichi himself. Giichi proves to be extremely strong as his Inherited Spell makes him impervious to damage. The fights continue on as Giichi's mysterious black cat blankly stares off into the distance. Strike after strike, blow after blow, attack after attack…but nothing seems to break past Giichi’s Inherited Spell. The grueling fight continues…but Bellatrix falls, and as Giichi readies his blade to strike her through the heart…Keiko begins feeling complete and utter anguish. But before she even knows it, she hears a gong…and everyone is transported around Infinite Apocalypse. Keiko and Giichi are transported to the same room…and as Keiko becomes a Vixen, they begin fighting to the death. Shun and Himiko are transported to a part of Infinite Apocalypse defined by countless religious shrines continuously stacked atop each other. Everyone else is transported to an endless library. Giichi’s disciples are transported to a strange garden.

Shun and Himiko begin wandering around the eerily lit shrines…but all they can find are the undying yet cannibalized corpses of Vixens. They continue wandering down the darkly lit crimson hallways of the shrines but continue to discover cannibalized vixen after cannibalized vixen as gasping in pleas of help. They continue down the shrines, and after entering each room…they find talismans warning about “The Demon of Kyoto”. They eventually stumble out of one shrine and onto a giant religious platform lined with mummified Vixens meditating…still living but cannibalized Vixens…and flies whiffing around the scent of rot. But right in the middle of the platform sat a priest cannibalizing the screaming remains of a Vixen desperately yelling at the girls to help him…the priest nonchalantly gets up and turns around with a devilish grin plastered across his face…revealing himself as Greater Hex 6 Oni…The Demon of Kyoto. Oni begins to speak with the girls…about what he loves most…feeling powerful…exerting dominance over other vixens by cannibalizing them…the joy of killing and suffering runs through his skin each time. The girls begin to erroneously fight him in vain…each move they make, he strikes them down with glee. But he refuses to kill them instantly…instead wishing to see the suffering and desperation on their faces as they realize they can’t kill him. But despite this, the girls keep getting back up to fight him…realizing that if they don’t kill him, he will kill them…and they don’t have a Shinobi Hunter to save them.

Oni begins to laugh at their pitiful attempts to strike his heart and punches them with an ungodly force. But both girls remained prescient…because they had a plan that Oni didn’t know about. Using herself as bait, Himiko did a clumsy stumble at Oni…who quickly violently struck her down. Knowing he’d have something to say, she grabbed his arm as he bent down to boast to her. He viewed it as a last ditch attempt to kill him so he struck her hand away and laughed…but what he didn’t know, is Himiko removed 50% of his power in one touch…after Shun copied his inherited Spell. Cause while both girls pretended to be weaklings to lower his expectations…they both picked up that he was getting stronger each passing minute of the fight…and they made a devastating plan to beat him. Shun would copy his Inherited Spell that seemed to slowly make him stronger and stronger, Himiko would then feign weakness in order to grab him to then remove at least half of his magic…leveling the playing field. The real fight then commenced as Shun punched him with so much devastating force his head exploded…but he almost instantaneously regenerated it and began to laugh, realizing the actual potency of the Vixen Hunters he was fighting. A new fight commenced as Oni refused to hold back…Shun and him began devastating each other with blow after blow. Shun then began to realize that his Inherited Spell affected more than just his strength…but also his speed, agility, physical endurance…and after he shattered her arm so hard it severed from her body…she realized that her healing rate is exponential as her arm completely regenerated within a matter of a few seconds.

Knowing she’s almost limitless…Shun began fighting in a reckless yet powerful style. She punched Oni over and over…obliterating his body…only for him to regenerate and return the favor. Their speed began racking up so fast that Shun saw everything around her except Oni in slow motion. Their punches grew so strong in strength that the mere wind power would destroy the nearby shrines and architecture. The intense and difficult fight raged on as they both destroyed each others bodies. But eventually, Oni began mutating…he grew even bigger, he began growing horns, his skin turned red, and his teeth protruding from his mouth. But Shun noticed something wrong with her as well…an intense desire to kill…having copied a Greater Hex's Inherited Spell for so long resulted in her turning into a Vixen. They both began fighting stronger and faster…each punch destroying their surrounding area and each other…each punch echoing through Infinite Apocalypse as the sound of Thunder. But Himiko continued draining Oni’s power while Shun continued to grow and grow…and after Oni's pride and fury caused him to make one misstep…Shun's singular punch destroyed his entire body. His lone heart was then pierced by Himiko's sword…Greater Hex 6 was finally beaten…and Shun returned to normal as Oni's body disappeared…along with his Inherited Spell.

As Keiko continued fighting Giichi, she received another vision. Katashi was born with a severe chronic illness. Having devoted his life to priesthood, he quickly lost all hope in Dianna to save him. As he lied in his lonely hospital bed…forgotten by his friends and family, consumed by grief and hatred, and on the verge of death…a beautiful woman entered the room…promising him everlasting life and strength that he lacked…with one price, he must serve her forever. Despite not having even fought Oni…she still somehow recognized him in her vision. She then felt a burst of power course through her body…but Giichi's cat appeared in their room and hopped on his shoulder. Keiko couldn’t understand what, but she saw him talk to the cat, and then vanish…into thin air. Giichi then ran out of Infinite Apocalypse and made his way back to the Royal City.

Keiko then begins feeling overly emotional as she realizes her rash decision to utilize Komainu's magic sent her friends to what could’ve been their death at Greater Hex 6 Oni. She then utilizes the same architectural power to summon her, her friends, and the Shinobi Hunters to a different part of Infinite Apocalypse. The group then realize that if they head forwards, they’ll come across the same endless library most of them were at. They continue the trek through Infinite Apocalypse until they come across what Keiko recognizes as The NeverEnding Library. The group continue through the endless and ever-changing library…as they get deeper, the bigger and more otherworldly it becomes as its sky begins turning bright blue and the architecture begins corrupting into eldritch shapes. They eventually start finding eldritch tentacled fish creatures searching through the books for lost knowledge not meant to be seen by any living creature. The beings don’t seem to be Vixen…or even human in nature…they’re completely otherworldly. But they finally come across the main section of The NeverEnding Library…in the middle…being read by a strange shirtless, red haired, light-blue skinned man (the same one who transformed and took Mai) with two sets of eyes and one cyclopian eye on his forehead…is the Third Black Book.

The man only has his one pair of eyes open, and looks up at the group in Dead seriousness. He then immediately starts fighting The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters. He quickly dodges all of their attacks and starts launching immense unbridled Mana attacks from the Black Book. He’s then revealed to be Greater Hex 5 Omoikane…the God of Knowledge. The fight rages on as Omoikane dodges every single attack thrown at him…and then he wakes up. His forehead eye and second set of eyes awaken with a grin plastered across his face…he then comments with glee “IM FINALLY AWAKE! I FORGOT HOW GREAT IT FEELS TO BE ME!”. Bellatrix and Keiko attempt to fight him but he moves with speed and agility never before seen and attacks with furious joy as he dodges all of their attacks. The Shinobi Hunters and rest of The Shadow XIII join in to fight but not a single attack touches Omoikane as he blocks or dodges all of them. He begins fighting faster and so low to the ground with unrivaled agility…so much so, that it becomes nigh impossible to even be able to reach his heart if their attacks can even land. He then strikes down every single Shinobi Hunter and punches Sakura right through the heart. He looks at her with a joyful gleam and comments how she doesn’t need to die, he perfected his ability to create Hex level Vixens. She refuses the offer and he joyfully rips her heart out…he then turns to the Shadow XIII and gestures behind them. They look to see Lesser Hex 8 Mai, she begins attacking The Shadow XIII. Omoikane then dodges Luna's pumpkin bombs and strikes him down…fatally…he then dies in Bellatrix's arms.

Himiko then begins hiding in the corner of the library and motions to Shun. Shun then copies Himiko's Inherited Spell, and begins using it on Mai to weaken her. Himiko then uses her Inherited Spell on Omoikane, and she begins to engage in a sword fight. Surprised at her surprisingly fast and unpredictable yet precise slices, he begins to fully engage with her fight. He laughs as he strikes her down easily defeating her…but as he stomps his foot on her head, she grabs his ankle. He looks on in confusion…then begins to realize…he neglected to fight Himiko because he didn’t think of her as a threat…when she was the first to realize his Inherited Spell…he can see into the future allowing him to see what their attacks are gonna be. She then devised a plan to severely lessen the effect of his Inherited Spell…he then begins to become overwrought with anxiety as he can now barely see the future. Himiko begins to smile…as Omoikane looks down at her, he’s bombarded by vicious attacks from Keiko and Bellatrix who have entered their Vixen states.

Another intense fight begins as Omoikane is struck again and again by Keiko and Bellatrix’s relentless attacks…unable to see the future and dodge them. They continue to blast him through The NeverEnding Library…but he can still see just enough to know when they’ll strike his heart. He begins to panic and summons Lilith's Black Book. As Shun and Chisuke fight Mai, Shun accesses her Vixen form that she gained from Oni. Their fight commenced as the NeverEnding Library gets destroyed with relentless blood attacks and Shun being able to destroy Mai's body with her Greater Hex strength. And Chisuke is eventually forced to strike his disciple through the heart…and watch as she begins to cry…realizing her humanity as she fades away. Omoikane continues to fight Keiko and Bellatrix with Lilith’s Black Book…but Keiko and Bellatrix prove to be too fast to hit in their Vixen forms. Omoikane unleashes attack after attack that results in his Library being destroyed even further. Bellatrix is eventually able to strike Omoikane down, but before Keiko could strike him through the heart…he launched a mana attack that sent him flying through the NeverEnding Library. Keiko and Bellatrix relentlessly follow after him, but as he comes across a fork in the path of the Library…Rōnin materializes with Harley who launches her circus ball down the hallway at Omoikane. The ball reverts back into a demolition ball and destroys Omoikane's body, leaving Keiko an opening to strike his heart and finally kill him.

Keiko then receives her vision of Omoikane's life. Kei was a dull boy born into a family that valued intelligence the most. Having been a disappointment, he was continuously abused by his father for his perceived lack of intelligence and responsibility. Disowned by his family and forced to wander the streets, he stumbled upon a beautiful woman who promised everything he desired…intelligence…but at the cost of serving her forever. Keiko began feeling a strange and unrecognizable remorse for the Hexes that she couldn’t explain. She then grabbed the final Black Book that has the answers she seeks. She opened the book…but she was not prepared for the revelations that would be dumped onto her. The book revealed in visions…that Dianna was convinced by the head of her cult (who had the same mysterious Black Cat) to banish Lilith to Apocalypse. But the Cult of Dianna was only seeking to commit an act of genocide against Lilith and her people…who were nothing but innocent people that they viewed as lesser than. Lilith herself wasn’t a demon…but Dianna’s sister…a goddess…and was never on a power hungry quest to rule the world. The cult new this would banish Dianna, and allow the cult to create the Government of Witches to rule over them all. But they didn’t account for Lilith still being able to create more of her people…who would eventually be corrupted by the darkness of Apocalypse…and turn into the creatures who inhabited Apocalypse…Vixens. Its then revealed that Giichi has been creating Vixens from people who originated from Lilith’s bloodline…so they’d have an excuse to kill them and continue genocide against Lilith’s people…this then explains Yama-Uba, Kuroneko, and Hanzo. It’s revealed that Lilith didn’t intend to ever create monsters…but to create her people who would birth her reincarnation that she could be reborn through to create balance on earth again. This reincarnation…is Keiko. Keiko's then shown Panacea…the spell that can cure a vixen of their darkness and revert them to humanity…the same spell Keiko saw in the first Black Book. Lilith then appears in the vision and tells Keiko that if she wants the world to be free of Vixens…she has to use Panacea on Lilith and sacrifice herself to allow Lilith to regain her powers in the mortal world…and deal with Giichi. Keiko has to enter the Garden of Sinners and the Garden of Sin to reach the Tower of Sin to use Panacea on Greater Hex 2 Nue…to summon Greater Hex 1 Lilith.

Now knowing the reality of what they’ve been doing…helping in acts of genocide…The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters vow to rebirth Lilith and cure her with Panacea to stop Giichi. They leave The NeverEnding Library in search of the Garden of Sinners. They wander for hours on end in Infinite Apocalypse but are unable to find the Garden of Sinners…until they reach a certain point of Infinite Apocalypse which they’re unable to traverse past. Realizing this is where they’re supposed to be…Keiko is able to tap into Omoikane's future sight…where she completely rejects reality…allowing her and the others Entrance to the Garden. They then enter the vast garden only to find Giichi's disciples slaughtered across the flower beds. Standing before them is Greater Hex 4 Kyunshii…she coldly stares them down as she starts manipulating the flesh of the dead corpses to create a scythe.

Kyunshii rushes towards the Shadow XIII and slaughters Amaya and Chisuke before everyone. A fight commences between the remaining Shadow XIII/Shinobi Hunters and Kyunshii who proves to be unbelievably strong. The Greater Hex attacks with speed, precision, and strength…ultimately downing everyone but Keiko, Rin, and Rōnin. The fight commences again as Kyunshii just immediately regenerates all the damage she takes and for whatever reason…Keiko is unable to enact Panacea. The fight wages on, and Rōnin is eventually almost able to strike Kyunshii in the heart. Realizing her opponents might actually be worthy, Kyunshii reveals the full extent of her power…being able to manipulate the blood, flesh, and bone of dead creatures…including herself. She turns her arms into flesh cannons that launch explosive acidic blood…she creates bone weapons from her body…she uses the dead Royal Guard as explosive corpses. The fight continues as the flower beds are laced with blood under the moonlight. But eventually Kyunshii is almost able to kill Keiko…as Kyunshii attempts to stick a bone blade through Keiko's heart…she screams in her head “YOU NEED TO SURVIVE!”. She then feels a hand on her shoulder…she looks to see Jorogumo when she was human…and behind her, every other Hex member solemnly yet reassuringly staring at her. Keiko then goes full Vixen and is able to brutally beat down Kyunshii…and she’s finally successful in utilizing Panacea. The spell hurts Kyunshii as it forcefully rips the darkness from her soul and Keiko absorbs it into her heart.

Keiko then receives the vision of Kyunshii's life. Akane and Midori were two sisters who lived a normal life…until they came home one day to find a vixen feeding on their parents. Being forced to stay in multiple girls houses where they were pimped out to abusive men much older…they pleaded for help to escape their circumstances. Their cries for help were heard but not by Dianna…but by a beautiful woman who promised to grant them the strength and power to escape their predicament…and take revenge on the men who did them wrong…under the condition that they serve her. Keiko then finally realized what the visions actually were…a way of Lilith repenting for her sins, the visions are the darkness that separates from the Hexes allowing them to move on from their suffering and sin…allowing them to move on to a better place in the afterlife. Keiko comes back from the vision…and sees Kyunshii revert back into 15 year old Akane. Akane then begins crying and hugging Keiko, thanking her for getting rid of her pain. As the other Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters recuperate…Akane reveals that Midori has become Greater Hex 3 Orochi…and is in the Garden of Sin just past the exit gates. Giichi then finally arrives to his palace and enters his empty room with his cat…Giichi can then be heard crying and pleading with someone. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters arrive at the gates of the Garden of Sin…and enter.

Season 8:

As the Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters enter The Garden of Sin, they’re immediately set off by an overwhelming presence of regret. That regret is soon taken over by fear, sadness, anger, and then happiness. Akane then reveals that The Garden of Sin is a place that brings back the memories of your life so you can reflect on your sin and mistakes. She mentions that Midori/Orochi lives in the Garden not to protect it like Lilith wanted, but to find her memories from when she wasn’t a vixen. But Akane is interrupted by Yamata no Orochi, Midori's eight headed guard snake. A fight then breaks out as The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters fight Yamata no Orochi. The giant snake takes them on bite after bite, but it doesn’t stand a chance against the hardened Vixen Hunters…but as it dies, it seems to scream out in pain while shedding a tear. The group then begin traversing the Garden of Sin in search of Midori/Orochi. But as they trek through the Red Spider Lillies, Akane starts mentioning more aspects of the garden. If you pluck the flowers and close your eyes with the flowers in your hand, you get to relive your most cherished memories. Each member plucks a flower and lives through their memories. Bellatrix remembers being home, pregnant with Keiko, as her husband Akio held her hand. Keiko remembered as she watched Himiko from her orphanage train with swords to be a vixen hunter in the Royal Guard Training School…inspiring her with awe. Aimi remembered befriending Keiko, Shun, and Luna when they first met. Rōnin remembered the Kappa Festival where him and Rin first held hands. Rin remembered first seeing Rōnin and befriending him. Shun remembered her dying mother whose last wish to 10 year old Shun was that she would become a world renowned Vixen Hunter. Himiko remembered the School Tournament when she realized that Keiko could truly become her rival. Harley remembered her circus family teaching her gymnastics while she befriended the other circus kids. Akane remembered the sweet moments her and her sister would share when they were humans. And the Shinobi Hunters Kazuhiko, Kaneki, Hoshi, Arakan, and Uno all remembered seeing their students succeed and achieve their dreams.

As everyone returned from their memories, they began to wander further into the Garden. Each step they took, each Red Spider Lily they passed…they dreaded the fight they were gonna have with Midori. But as they trekked up a small hill, they found Midori, Greater Hex 3 Orochi…weeping over a Red Spider Lily shrouded under the cold light of the Moon. Akane then screamed out in tears “MIDORI!”. Orochi then shed a tear in frustration and crushed the flower in her hand. She stood up and stared the group down with tears in her eyes. Akane then shouted “Keiko can help you! She can take your pain away!”. Orochi shouted back “I know! But no matter how much she tries, she can’t erase what I’ve done! I’ve killed people, Midori's dead, Akane!…Midori is a memory, this is unfortunately what I am now!”. Orochi began to fight the Shadow XIII and her pure rage of what Lilith turned her into allowed her to strike everyone down with ease. Even Keiko and Bellatrix's Vixen forms were no match for Greater Hex 3, as they were knocked off their feet time and time again as Orochi continuously shed tears. But Akane refused to let her new friends fall to Orochi, and she refused to let Orochi fall to her own grief. Seeing her determination to change someone for the better, Aimi continued to stand and fight with Akane. This angered Orochi who believed that there’s no changing the things she’s done as a Vixen…but as Aimi and Akane fought with each other to show Orochi that there is change…she became so angered that she unleashed her Inherited Spell…the ability to grow poisonous snakes from her body. Keiko, Rin, and Harley stood to their feet and began helping again…making sure that Orochi’s snakes can’t prove Orochi right, that she’s a heartless killer who can’t be redeemed. As Keiko smashed snake after snake, Rin froze snake head after snake head, and Harley crushed snake after snake…Aimi and Orochi got into an argument. Orochi screamed “THERE'S NO POINT IN SAVING ME! I KILLED TOO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE TO BE SAVED! JUST LET ME DIE HERE IN PEACE!”. Aimi began to scream “I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL MIDORI! BUT YOU HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT YOU CAN RIGHT YOUR WRONGS!”. Orochi shouted in frustration “YOU HAVE NO CLUE WHAT ITS LIKE! YOU'VE NEVER BEEN BRANDED A MONSTER!”. Aimi began crying as she shrieked “I DO KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE! MIDORI! I KILLED MY OWN LITTLE BROTHER! BUT I DIDN'T WALLOW IN SELF PITY, I PROMISED TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AND NEVER LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN!”.

Akane then came up behind Orochi and hugged her. She then said to Orochi “Midori, I know you can change…I just need you to know that you can change too”. As a tear of realization ran down Orochi's cheek, Keiko held Orochi's hand. Orochi looked down to Keiko as she gently smiled and used Panacea to take away Orochi's pain. As the darkness ripped from Orochi's heart in anguish…Keiko absorbed it and watched as Orochi reverted back into 15 year old Midori…who began to wail at her pain being lifted from her shoulders. She thanked everyone and began to hug Akane. Midori then revealed that she trapped herself in The Garden of Sin after she held a Red Spider Lily and realized she used to be human. She would continuously pick the flowers to relive her memories of being human, and promised to repent for her sins as a Vixen by killing herself after she lived her last memory. Akane then asked how many flowers Midori had left until she killed herself…and Midori replied with “One”. Midori then picked her last flower, and revealed the memory of Akane, Aimi, and Keiko saving her. As she came back, she cried out “I don’t wanna die anymore” and embraced her sister. Midori then took the group to her cabin that she lived in while she stayed in the garden, the group had dinner and reveled in their victory…then revealed to Midori that they plan to take on Greater Hex 2 Nue next. Midori then promised to help in the fight as a favor for them saving her.

As a week goes by to recuperate from their fights, Midori and Akane lead the group to The Tower of Sin. As they enter the tower, they all begin to wander around in search of Nue…except Akane and Midori. Both reveal that Nue isn’t actually within The Tower of Sin…but he lives on the Moon within Infinite Apocalypse that hovers above the tower. They then reveal that in order to be summoned to Nue's moon, they have to light three candles of chaos that can be found within the pocket dimensions behind each of the doors in the tower. Each pocket dimension is kept alive by a Candle of Chaos still burning…and when the candles are extinguished, it erases the pocket dimension while weakening Nue. Keiko, Aimi, Rin, Shun, and Shinobi Hunter Uno volunteer to be the ones to grab the candles. The first room throws them into a dimension of only the color white but everyone's shadow is a random color…they easily find the candle and extinguish it. The second room opens a pocket dimension that is a bleak forest with the exception of a good version of Nue having brunch with historical figures when they were children…Nue points them to the candle. And the third room releases them into a dream world that’s influenced by every living being's dreams…while one part of the world is made of chocolate and cookies…other parts of the world are made up of fascistic post-Apocalyptic chaos. After traversing a fifty-foot tower of books…they finally find the candle.

After they return from the third room, the group lights all three candles. The moon begins to shine bright and then disappear. The tower's walls begin to crumble around the group, revealing that they’ve been summoned to Nue's moon. As they walk out, they see him…the skeletal jester in red and black as he sits on his throne. Before they can begin the fight, Nue changes the look of his moon to that of a circus. Nue then announces to the audience his opponents…then as the roaring crowd cheers him on, he begins to fight. Nue plays dirty as he reveals his Inherited Spell…the ability to perfectly shapeshift into someone else. But as the others grow scared of Greater Hex 2 Nue…Harley respects his whole getup…and feels completely at home fighting in his arena. She then begins to fantasize about her being the hero of her own comic book and him being her own arch-nemesis. Harley tells the others to back off because she wants to fight Nue herself. Nue begins to love Harley's chaotic nature and agrees to fight solo. The two begin to fight, and we see the real efforts Harley’s actually been putting in since she lost in the school tournament as she mimicked Aimi and Himiko’s perfect sword skills, Keiko and Rōnin's agility, and Shun and Rin's smarts. She also put to use her acrobatic and gymnastic skills as she combined them with what she learned from fighting Omoikane…effortlessly dodging Nue’s chaotic attacks. As Nue begins to feel excitement for his worthy opponent, he ecstatically asked her if she would consider becoming a vixen so they can be unkillable sparring partners. She refused and said “Nue, as cool as I think your getup is…I’m never gonna settle for being Number 2's sparring partner! Unlike you, I aim for the top…that’s why I learn from my fights! It’s been how many years…and you still haven’t reached Lilith’s level? I’d never spar with someone who can’t learn and grow with me!”. Harley then began using her inherited spell to transform her katana into a comically large hammer she used to beat Nue into nothing but a pulp. Enraged by her insult, Nue transformed into past Hex members and used their immense powers. But just like him…she used their skills as well. She effortlessly dodged his attacks and fought so low to the ground like Omoikane, she fought with the unbridled unpredictability of Nue, and fought with the determination of her classmates and Bellatrix…ultimately beating Nue til he couldn’t move.

Keiko then stepped in to use panacea on the heavily weakened Nue. Keiko prepared for her vision. Ichirō was young when he was ran over by a carriage…leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Forced to live his life stuck in his room…left to his books and stories, Ichirō dreamed of exploring the outside world. His hope for a new life was granted when a beautiful and kind woman appeared in his room and promised him the ability to walk…and much more…enticing him to be her experiment…creating the first Vixen. But he was never intended to be evil, Lilith only merely intended to help him achieve his dreams of being like the heroes in the stories he read. Keiko then came back from the vision to watch Nue revert to the young and healthy Ichirō. He began to cry…because he knew that Lilith would still kill him after he was saved. He cried out “SHE'S GONNA KILL ME! AND THEN SHE'S GONNA KILL YOU!”. Infinite Apocalypse began to disappear and the group and Ichirō appeared on top of Mt. Fuji. As the moon in the night sky glowed crimson red and lit up the sky with the color of blood…Ichirō began disintegrating in front of everyone. Keiko and Bellatrix then heard ritual chimes and looked up…on the far side of the same plateau in the mountain…floated a beautiful woman in a black floral kimono with long flowing black hair…Greater Hex 1 Lilith.

Lilith stared at them blankly and spoke with a cold chill “So…you killed my hexes”. She then scoffed and began laughing “AND NOW YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO KILL ME…cute”. The Shadow XIII and Shinobi Hunters readied their blades…knowing that this might very well be their very last battle. Keiko, Bellatrix, and Shun then entered their Vixen forms. Everyone rushed at Lilith…she coldly stared them in the eyes…and with the swipe of one hand…sent them all flying without having even touched them. Uno of the Shinobi Hunters then devised a plan to utilize everyone’s inherited spells and cast his luck curse on Lilith to make her unlucky. This then allowed for Himiko to get close enough to touch Lilith as Lilith missed her attack…Himiko drained Lilith of 99% of her power right after Shun copied her Inherited Spell that allows her to create inherited spells to use. Kaneki would then use his telekinesis to slow Lilith's movement and Rin would freeze parts of her body for the same reason. Bellatrix, Kazuhiko, Hoshi, Harley, Aimi, and Shun would use their pure fighting abilities to distract Lilith. Rōnin would also distract Lilith by appearing and disappearing around her. All in an effort to get Arakan to be able to teleport Keiko behind Lilith to enact Panacea. But before they could, Lilith scoffed and turned around…telekinetically stopping Keiko and punching her straight down into the mountain ground.

Seeing as how their plan completely failed even with Lilith at 1% of her power, Himiko being in complete pain as Lilith’s darkness she holds inside her rips at her insides, and Shun becoming sick and incapacitated from the sheer strength of Lilith’s Inherited Spell…Aimi knew what she had to do as she saw Bellatrix get back up to attack. Aimi rushed at Bellatrix, and just as Bellatrix launched her powerful psionic energy in an uppercut…Aimi got in the way and took the punch instead. Miraculously surviving and being launched upwards…she threw her scythe into the sky. Aimi then summoned her scythe again as she began falling back to the ground right above Lilith. Lilith jumped back and grabbed Aimi…then snapped her neck in front of Bellatrix and Keiko. Lilith began to laugh as she punched Bellatrix to the ground, and incapacitated everyone else. As Lilith began to walk nonchalantly to Keiko to kill her…Keiko began crying in frustration at the death of Aimi and that she couldn’t do anything about her death. But as Lilith stood mere inches away from Keiko, Keiko looked up…and saw something gleaming in the sky. And before they knew it, Aimi's scythe pierced Lilith's heart as it fell from the sky. Keiko and Lilith both realized that Aimi never Re-summoned her scythe…she only pretended to so Lilith wouldn’t suspect Aimi's actual plan. But Keiko realized…the scythe isn’t killing Lilith…merely severely weakening her. Lilith removed the scythe but couldn’t heal the severe damage…she then severely kicked Keiko…launching her yards away. As Keiko watched Lilith trudge over to kill her, Keiko saw Aimi’s dead body and her friends and allies lying on the ground defeated. She began to scream in her head “DO SOMETHING! YOU NEED TO SURVIVE!”. As she did, she felt the world go numb and everything turn white…she then felt a small hand hold her hand…she looked up to see Asami (Lesser Hex 9 Inari) when she was a little girl. Asami then said “Keiko…we believe in you”. Keiko then began to cry as she saw all the Hexes when they were human grab each other’s hands…all connecting back to Keiko. Keiko then awakened as her arms ignited in a vicious blue flame and fury poured from her eyes as tears…now having the strength and will and power of the hexes she helped reach a better place…she accessed the form of Greater Hex 1 Keiko.

Keiko then stood in a calm rage as Lilith began approaching her in trepidation. But in no time, Keiko threw her first punch…that shattered half the mountain in a blinding blue explosion as the surrounding towns and cities heard the thunderous punch. Lilith withstood the singular punch…and began throwing her punches and kicks in a similar vigorous rage with blindingly powerful effects. The two threw immense punch after immense punch with the sounds and flashes of power being heard and seen even hundreds of miles away. As the two fought, their godly powers destroyed the mountain in bursts of flame and rage as their fight broke into the sky. Each punch ripping holes in the atmosphere, each kick causing an earthquake on the ground below, each attack breaking the sound barrier. Bellatrix woke up and saw nothing but raging auras of energy destroying the sky around them in a battle of life or death. The fight became a world bending mess as both vixens' punches were strong enough to rip holes through reality and launch the fighters through wholly different dimensions and planes of existence. But as Keiko heard the pleas of Jorogumo, Inari, and the others…and as she saw Midori and Akane lying helpless on the ground…she threw one last punch at Lilith. The punch was informed by rage and compassion…and packed so much power…when Lilith's unconscious body blasted into Mt. Fuji…it sunk the whole mountain down to nothing but a crater and rubble. Keiko fell back down to earth as Lilith awoke…but before she could do anything…Keiko punched her right through the heart…and as she screamed in pain…Keiko unleashed the strongest blast of panacea she possibly could. Lilith's darkness ripped from her skin and began lashing out to Keiko as she absorbed it painfully into her own heart. Keiko returned to normal…and she looked up to see the 15 year old goddess Lilith. Her hair having turned from black to white…but with one black streak…mirroring Keiko's black hair with one white streak. Lilith began to cry with fury as the others got up. Keiko stared into her eyes and began to hug her, saying “It's ok”. Lilith got up and ran to Bellatrix and hugged her, thanking her for never giving up on her even after the darkness took her. Lilith then touched Bellatrix's forehead…which brought back all of Bellatrix's memories. She was a Lilithian…somebody of Lilith’s bloodline…named Chitose Kana. Lilith gave her powers of a god before lilith became corrupted by Apocalypse's Darkness. This power would allow Chitose to reincarnate Lilith after she was corrupted to save her people from genocide. Chitose met another Lilithian named Akio hundreds of years later…but as they had a child, Giichi and his men attempted to slaughter the family for being “Vixens”. Akio used his Curse ability which would cause everyone to forget the events of that night within a few hours. Chitose escaped Giichi's men and fled to an orphanage where she dropped off Keiko. After Akio was killed but before his curse enacted, Chitose took up the pseudonym Bellatrix and months later began teaching Vixen Hunting.

After she came back from her memories, Lilith then stood to her weak feet and explained that Giichi is the only thing standing in their way now. They have to kill Giichi and the Royal Guard in order to end the era of Vixens. Lilith explained that through the years of his father's and grandfathers’ research…Giichi found a brutal way of turning people into Vixens…and he will continue his ancestors' attack on Lilith’s people. The group then made the trek back to Tokyo with Lilith to gather all their plans to kill Giichi and his disciples. As the group reach Tokyo and get to Bellatrix's school, they gather the rest of the Shinobi Hunters and reveal the reality of what they’ve been fighting for. They then unite Bellatrix's school, Sakura's school, Uno's school…and the schools of the other Shinobi Hunters. They reveal to their students the reality of everything that’s actually been happening under their noses. Bellatrix then makes a plan, on Giichi's Royal Birthday in three days, they infiltrate the Royal City and slaughter the Royal Guard all there like they did to Lilithians. They’ll have Vixen Hunters approach the city from the ground on horseback and wipe out the guards of the outer wall. They will then have multiple airships of Kazuhiko's where they will infiltrate the city from above. Giichi will most likely hide like a coward in the Royal Palace, the Shadow XIII, Bellatrix, Lilith, Akane, and Midori will infiltrate it and cut down Giichi where he stands.

The next day, Keiko mourns the death of her best friend Aimi while helping in preparing the airships. She notices Himiko closely studying everyone but doesn’t pay much mind. Keiko helps escort the airships back to Bellatrix's school. She finally feels some sort of freedom that she relishes, knowing that in the days to come…she’ll have to die in order to stop the reign of the Royal Guard and the Vixen Era. Keiko continued to help in escorting the horses to Bellatrix’s school. Bellatrix then laid out the full plan…Keiko and Shun are to lead the attack outside the walls of the Royal City, Bellatrix and Harley will lead the attack within the city…and Rin and Rōnin will escort Lilith to the Royal Palace to kill Giichi and they’re all to meet in the Royal Palace. Bellatrix then explains to her students to prepare for war…and to prepare to never see some of their friends ever again. The war against the Royal Guard won’t be easy and there will be many casualties. That night…all the Shadow XIII but Himiko group up together before war the next day. They all start playing party games…knowing many of their loved ones are gonna die the next day. The day eventually comes…and Keiko and Shun set out with their squad of other students on horseback to the Royal City. The others begin taking the airships and lining up for battle. Keiko and Shun's group eventually reach the forest outside the Royal City…but as they get further into the forest…they realize that they’re surrounded by countless members of the Royal Guard who begin attacking them. As the airships approach the Royal City, they begin being attacked by canon fire and magic of the Royal Mages. Bellatrix then begins suspecting one of the students or Shinobi Hunters of being a mole for the Royal Guard. Keiko and Shun quickly devise a strategy to lose the Royal Guard as they leave the forest…only to be met with barrages of arrows that Keiko is miraculously able to fend off.

After wondering how the Royal Guard figured out their plan, Himiko stepped forth and revealed herself to Bellatrix as a Royal Spy. Himiko drew her sword and began to spar with Bellatrix, the two’s sword fight was cut short as Bellatrix's airship was hit by a bomb that knocked Himiko off. As Himiko fell to the ground, she used Mana to soften the impact of her fall. Keiko then discovered Himiko and took her aboard her horse, not knowing Himiko's true intentions. The airships finally arrived over the Royal City, Bellatrix then gathers her warriors to recite Bellatrix's school mantra “Even if we die in the field of battle, our sacrifices will never be in vain!”. Giichi is shown publicly celebrating his birthday with hundreds of thousands of citizens…confident that Himiko's spying will save him from assassination. The airships then launch their zip wires down into the city and the Vixen Hunters start descending from the sky. Shun then wakes Keiko up who’s groggy and feeling hazy…she then learns that Himiko hijacked her horse and ran into the Royal City unphased. Keiko climbed onto Shun's horse and the two United their militia to attack the Royal Guard defending the walls of the Royal City. Rin and Rōnin take the zip lines down onto the walls of the Royal City with Lilith, Akane, and Midori. Lilith carried with her the flag of the Lilithians as they ran atop the walls and to the Royal Palace.

Seeing Himiko ride into the city with Airships still in tact hovering above the city, Giichi and his disciples took Himiko and ran into the Royal Palace. Giichi scolded Himiko who cowered in fear…and it’s revealed that Giichi is her father. As Harley and Bellatrix as well as thousands of other Vixen Hunters descended from the airships…they ripped through the city slaughtering any and all Royal Guard members they could find. The civilians began to fight back against the Vixen Hunters who began fighting with the restless civilians. Rin, Rōnin, Lilith, Akane, Midori, and countless other Vixen Hunters began fighting the Royal Guards as they neared the entrances to the Royal Palace. They grabbed their battering rams and began to smash the doors in. As the Vixen Hunters fought with the civilians…Keiko and Shun met up with Harley and Bellatrix who were heading for the Royal Palace. As Uno of the Shinobi Hunters struck citizen after citizen down…Sister Amaterasu revealed herself from her church. Due to the citizens respecting her as much if not more than Giichi…she utilized her ability to show events in the smoke of fire to show the civilians the truth behind their beloved ruler. As the civilians realized that their children were being sent to their deaths for virtually no reason, they began to turn against the Royal Guard and began helping the Vixen Hunters.

As Bellatrix, Harley, Keiko, and Shun reached the Royal Palace, they burst through the door. But they didn't expect Giichi's surprise attack which left Bellatrix mortally wounded. Giichi descended further into his palace…but Bellatrix began to slip away…as she laid dying in Keiko's arms…she whispered “I believe in you…Keiko. Finish this for me. Finish this…for us!”. As Bellatrix died, Keiko shed a single tear and promised to fulfill her role in life. They eventually reached Giichi's courtroom along with everyone else. Keiko began fighting a scared Giichi in a blind rage…but her emotional exhaustion left her movement sloppy. Giichi knocked her to her knees…but as he thrust his sword to Pierce her heart…Himiko took his attack instead and returned the favor with her own sword through his heart. She then coldly stared into his eyes with her hand grasping his shoulder. She then said “I might not like living in a world where Vixens were the good guys…but I’d hate living in a world knowing my dad lied to me in order to kill innocent people!”. She then revealed in her dying breath that she absorbed all of his mana…he was out of any way to attack. Realizing the upper hand Himiko gave them…Keiko rushed towards Giichi…but he pulled out a syringe. He injected himself and turned himself into a powerful Vixen that could grow into a 60 foot giant. Everyone then threw everything they had at him…the fight destroyed the palace and took to the streets of the city…revealing to the citizens the true monster Giichi is. Giichi began swiping at buildings in an effort to catch the Vixen Hunters swarming his body…but he ultimately fell to Keiko's fist as she struck him through the chest and burst from his back.

As the monster finally fell…his heart finally being fatally pierced by the chapel, the Vixen Hunters slaughtered the remaining Royal Guard that cowered in the Royal City. We then watch as the thousands of Vixen Hunters help fix up the fallen city over the course of a few weeks while also holding funerals for the thousands of fallen soldiers. Lilith then takes the remaining Shadow XIII to the newly rebuilt Royal Palace. Lilith promises with her whole heart to Keiko that she will utilize her new status as the High Queen to right her sins as a vixen…and she promises to make Keiko proud. Keiko tearfully looks her friends in the eyes and hugs them…Lilith and Keiko then commence Panacea on Keiko. The Spell drains Keiko of all the darkness she absorbed and cures it into pure energy that Lilith absorbs into her heart. The enactment of panacea was too much for Keiko's body to handle as was told in the black books…and she began to fall unconscious…and eventually slip from life. As Lilith, Rin, Rōnin, Harley, Shun, Akane, and Midori begin to grieve…Keiko feels a small hand gently hold her hand…and she wakes up in a pure white world. She looks down to see Inari who says “I told you, I believed in you! We believed in you!”. Keiko then saw the other Hexes when they were human approach her…Omoikane began to cry as he apologized to Keiko for being a “bad person”. Keiko began to embrace all 12 of them and promised that everything was going to be ok, they were all safe now. Keiko then mentioned how she missed her friends and wanted to see them. She then heard a sweet voice “What do you mean? We're right here!”. Keiko looked up to see Aimi holding her little brother's hand…she saw Akimitsu gently smiling…she saw Luna happily approach her…she saw Hayate and Kaito goofing off as they approached her…and she saw Himiko and Mai gently approach. And then she felt a hand on her shoulder and heard a deep voice “I’m really proud of you, Keiko”…she then looked up to see her father Akio…and her mother Chitose…Bellatrix. Her parents embraced her as she began to cry…she then looked back…and saw through her dying eyes Lilith, Rin, Harley, Rōnin, Shun, Akane, and Midori…she teared up even more as she whispered “I’m gonna miss you all”. Keiko then walked off into the light…and the series ends. The post credits show Harley asking “So, Lilith…what’s next?”…Lilith then says “Now…we find my sister, Dianna”. Sister Amaterasu then gets home…but she hears a small pounding at her window as well as a child's voice “Can I come in?”…she opens the window only to find Giichi’s blankly staring mysterious black cat.

[araingirl]

Headcanons: Dew-chan

Although this original character of me doesn’t have any specific surname (In my stories, though she’s Hilary’s sister at most of the times, there are/will be some instances where she’ll be Kai’s sister or not biologically related to Kai or Hilary), her surname after marriage will always be “Granger”. I have specially portrayed this character based on my youngest cousin whom I love to no end as she has also a huge crush on Tyson Granger, the three-peat world champion of Beyblade. So...let’s have a look about her. 

1. Features: Dew’s complexion is dusky, eyes are bubbly and turquoise-colored. She has a pretty good length of violet hair which is straight. Her figure is admirable though it doesn’t have so many curves and she is quite light-weighted, shorter than Hilary. 

2. Unlike her sister in most of the fics, she’s a pure girly girl, very gentle, soft-spoken and obedient. Her manners are very perfect although she is quite shy and kind of introvert. In short, she has the personality of portrait of the perfect girl pictured by the society (Keyword: “Defined” by the society because I strongly believe that every girl is perfect :) ) 

3. I have mentioned that she’s such a babieee...right? Nah, just speak a word against Tyson Granger in front of her, then you’ll see how polite and good girl she is xD. In these cases, she doesn’t even spare Hilary too. 

4. She is a very talented dancer. When you will watch her dance, you won’t be able to believe that an introvert and quiet girl like her can dance with such grace and beauty (Again, one’s talents should never be judged by his/her external features). She is also expert in household chores, specially, in cooking. Although Hilary is her elder sister, she learns cooking from Dew-chan and takes tips from her. Dew-chan also wholeheartedly teaches her big sis. 

5. She is quite average in her academics unlike Hilary, yet, English and Drawing are her favorite courses. 

6. She is very emotional and cannot hold her tears when she’s hurt by something/someone. For Tyson Granger, God knows how many beads of tears she has shed. Being quite sensitive, she has to be dealt with very carefully. (Although why would someone misbehave with her or hurt her? She’s such a cutie!!! 🥺🥺). 

7. In most of the times when she’s engaged into a conversation with Tyson, she remains silent and listens to the blader very carefully. Sometimes, Tyson has to ask her, “Are you okay, Dew?” or “Have you got my words?” and she simply nods. 

8. One of her favorite tasks is to maintain a diary where she writes about Tyson, Tyson and only Tyson. How much she loves him and cares for him, what she likes about him, how she imagines them to be, etc etc... 

9. She always remains a little worried for her closest people-specially Tyson and Hilary. 

10. But sometimes, she can be very brave too. She is always very cool-tempered and when she adds her bravery with it (Only sometimes), she does such tasks that nobody can imagine ever. 

11. In my supernatural/fantasy/spiritual fics, she is blessed with a miraculous power: To heal different types of poisons. 

So...how’s Dew-chan? Did you like her? 

#Beyblade #OCs #Dew-chan #TysonXDew #Tysew