#names in CLAMP

[gabriulio]

Short Sonic comic by manga/doujin group CLAMP from 1994

This short comic was featured in the anthology doujin "CLAMP in Wonderland 1994." This doujin is mostly known for the infamous short story where Kakyoin from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure lays an egg.

If you're in the Jojo fandom and always wondered why Sonic is on the cover of that doujin, this is why.

(Translation done by me)

#sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #sonic #amy rose #technically since this was back when her name was rosy the rascal #clamp manga #sega

[crystal-lillies]

me, every time I watch Cardcaptor Sakura: the inherent intimacy of the [no honorific] with Toya and Yukito is so palpable from the very beginning. so very few characters have the [no honorific] intimacy. but they do. from the very!!! beginning!! of the anime!!! (screams)

#flowerspeak #ccs #cardcaptor sakura #clamp #toya kinomoto #touya kinomoto #yukito tsukishiro #toyuki #touyuki #they're in love your honor!!! from the very!!! beginning!!!! #honorable mention to syaoran who only ever uses [no honorific] whether he's using surname or first name. #and it makes it all the sweeter when he starts calling sakura by her name #it just really drives how much he loves her from that point onward in that subtle way gdhhd and it gets me every time

[completeoveranalysis]

[1]

*appreciative gay sounds*

Ooooooh!

See now this fucks. 

It’s a bit of a treat to get a cover like this that’s so BEAUTIFUL and DELICATE and actually include characters not directly involved in the plot anymore. It’s like BONUS ART: Fai and Kamui in a tender and deadly gothic vampire embrace for no particular reason :D 

And we LOVE to see it!

I love the fragile looking archway behind them. It looks very Art Nouveau (I say, guessing. Please correct me) and the pose between Fai and Kamui could EASILY be on a romance novel. And in fact it SHOULD be!

We get some stunning visual contrasts, like the dark sweep of Kamui’s cape looking demonic in nature, like bat wings - which, like, vampire - but the thin white arch behind him ALSO spreads out behind him like it could be wings. Or even better, it forms more of a halo - a complete circle above his head in thin white lines. The contrast in the angelic and the demonic really speak to his role in the narrative a couple of times over; he protected Acid Tokyo but purely out of self interest; he's a dick to everyone, which is frowned upon, but he does it to protect Subaru, which is understandable; he killed Syaoran but he saved Fai; even the act of saving Fai was technically a bad thing, turning him into a vampire, but it was the only way he would stay alive, which was what we wanted! 

That contrast continues into Fai’s pose here as well. He’s within the circle of Kamui’s arms, which is traditionally a place of affection or protection, but here it’s almost predatory with Fai as the prey. There's a clear indication of danger laced throughout every inch of it. Kamui’s nails stretch out in front of Fai in a way that COULD be protective, but also form a cage he will never be able to escape from, and the nail of his index finger trails SO CLOSE to Fai’s throat it could kill him with a slight twitch. The nails of his left hand also trail across the wing of his coat, becoming the traditional veins that you would see in bat wings and completing the metaphor of the monstrous. Fai, too, plays with this dichotomy - his head is tilted upwards towards Kamui, neck exposed, in a pose natural for a lover, or for someone giving access to their neck, like the vampire’s victim he is. The clear shadow across his neck (The ONLY shadow in the cover) shows just how close he is to harm, indicates the exact danger this pose puts him in, and yet we can also see him clutching at Kamui’s arm - not hard but gently, coaxing, guiding. Then again the closer I look I think the line of Kamui’s arm is actually a little bit further to the left, which might indicate that Fai is actually holding his waist, which is even more intimate again. 

All in all it’s FANTASTIC, it’s GORGEOUS, I want this as a gothic creepy tapestry I hang in a castle somewhere while lightning strikes somewhere in the distance.

Oh and the splash text, where is that.

The flowing blood whispered

even if you'll defy your own destiny

protect that person --

Which slams home the theme on BOTH of these two - how much of their own intended fate they sacrifice for the people they choose to devote themselves to. But, when combined with the art, just how much this devotion and protection can actually add it's own inherent form of danger, even if they aren't aware. Kamui's protectiveness of Subaru is HARDLY balanced after all, and Fai's devotion to Sakura leads his curse to killing her. Then again, you could easily say the same thing for Sakura, who chose to put herself INTO that danger DELIBERATELY to save the people she cared for.

And so the complicated feelings and consequences that come from "protecting" someone continue to swirl around in the moral grey.

#Oooh I love the CLAMP sensibilities #What would the name of this romance novel be #I need to know #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 187 #Fai #Hey look its kamui #CLAMP out here producing the most extreme gender envy for free #CLAMP also out here giving the most egregious ship bait unprompted #CLAMP really woke up and chose sexy vampire gothic romance novel cover and then SERVED #We don’t deserve CLAMP

[iwaasfairy]

big bro iwa fingering you under the table at dinner 🥴

“shush, baby. don’t want mom and dad to hear you, do you? then big brother can’t fuck this sweet cunnie anymore.”

yAAAA dBVGftyedfteg! („ಡωಡ„) lOve it :)))

big brother hajime nuzzling your neck all the time bc he "just loves his little sister" and because it's "funny to see you squirm" but really it's because he can spew filth into your ear without anyone saying a thing about it <333 what i wouldn't give to have his hand in my hair and have him pressing me down in the bed as he praises you for being such a good little sister aAAAHHHHGfgsfud

#feral. rabid. want him panting out my name with his hand clamped over my mouth to get me to stfu #wANT IT WANT IT WANTTTTT IT anon your brain #honey mail #tw.incest

[yaminerua]

💙❤️Couldn’t resist lmfao 💙❤️

#Clamp #Duklyon #clamp school defenders #Kentarou higashikunimaru #takeshi shukaido #Kentarou was always going to be Ken. It’s in his name. It was meant to be lmao #Nerua doodles

[qc-wiggles]

some tma ocs made with @mpekamitzii :3c

#mine: a chemistry/physics student that recently became affiliated with the vast & uses a clamp stand as a weapon #i haven’t chosen a name for them yet but i’ll think about it before i go to bed for maximum gender #wiggly pen #doodle #tma oc #blorbos with mitzi

[noa-ciharu]

Some things never change

#clamp #cardcaptor sakura #tsubasa chronicles #plus both fai and kaito have d in names

[youreaclownnow]

There's something really funny about inouva being a gift to zagato by emeraude. Like you'd think she'd give him something cute or sweet but no. Here my high priest please have this giant and dangerous elemental btw he's also a faggot

#inouva/zagato goes crazyyyyy ngl #i like lafarga/zagato as well but who doesnt love beefcake swordsman x morally grey bishie #literally any zagato ship goes hard though. by nature of rayearth being a clamp series the shipping is kino #honestly its impossible to name a truly bad rayearth ship in general #at least in s1 i can see ones i wouldnt gaf about of get into in s2 #but despite that theres even more options in s2 that ARE good

[probablygayattorneys]

My brother said out loud to my dad and I "Long shot, but do either of you know where a clamp is?"

And I only had time to turn around and open my mouth to make a joke about Grosky before he looked up, looked me dead in the eye and said "Not that one."

#professor layton #clamp grosky #inspector grosky #that man does have the stupidest name i've ever heard of #and that's a really high bar for someone who played all of the ace attorney seriws #queue takumi defense squad

[the-corvus-luna]

I have been redrawing the character sheet in vectors so, it will look nicer when scaled up. That also includes the cute little blowfish mascot... whatever it's name is.

Here's some background if you don't know about the CLAMP TRPG hidden in the Clamp School Detectives Guidebook. The Guidebook contains not only information about Clamp School Detectives but also contains CLAMP TRPG and a documented session of this game played by CLAMP and Takeshi Okazaki known as Clamp School Paranormal Investigators.

The purpose of these polls are to gauge what would be the preferred "technical terms" in the game and character sheet. Since kanji can be read in a few different ways, there's room for interpretation.

The first technical term is for "A special skill your character has talent in". Some of these skills could be Hypnosis, Mathematics, even Gambling but, you only get to chose one of them in most cases. The term that is used in the original Japanese is 特殊技 (SA), which does translate more cleanly to Special Technique but the abbreviation works better for Special Ability.

#clamp trpg #clamp paranormal investigations #clamp school detectives #clamp #clamp in wonderland #does anyone know the name of this cute little blowfish?

[mokocharm]

You know what?

Relatable.

#charmpost #CLAMP #trc #tsubasa reservoir chronicle #syaoran #syaoran li #tsubasa li #there are several tags wth is his real name here??? lol #i understand syaoran #same kid. same

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

CHILD OF SYAORAN AND SAKURA

Confirmed: NOT Li Syaoran from ccs, as expected. 

SO: the child of the CCS Syaoran and CCS Sakura? 

Or??? Another Sakura and Syaoran pair???

And time travel IS on the table so pretty much any Sakura and Syaoran pair is possible, but it can’t be Lava Lamp himself, and it couldn’t be his clone… right? 

… I guess it could? 

Time travel means that you kind of COULD be the son of your own clone BUT WOULD THEY DO THAT? 

Which other pairs of Sakura and Syaoran are there? 

I don’t know of any! 

ARE WE LOCKING IN CHILD OF THE CARDCAPTORS AS CONFIRMED CANON????

#It COULD be a pair we haven’t met yet #But that’s no fun! #Give me The confusion!! #Make it BONKERS clamp! #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 189 #Lava Lamp Guy #Yuuko Ichihara #Sakura #Syaoran #And parent options! #Isn’t it wild that Yuuko Ichihara #Can look us in the eye #And say the names of his parents #And it DOESNT NARROW IT DOWN ENOUGH TO BE COMPLETELY CERTAIN?

[dullahandyke]

fuck this lad im appealing my english paper, theyre marking me down on shit thats not even wrong..... h1 for eimear h1 for eimear!!!!

#< hes angry that they marked him down for saying 'vise-like grip' instead of (presumably) 'vice-like grip' #EVEN THOUGH 'VICE' MEANS BAD HABIT OR SIN #AND 'VISE' IS THE ONE THAT MEANS 'CLAMP USED IN WOODWORKING' #THUS MEANING THAT VISE-LIKE GRIP MAKES SENSE WHERE VICE-LIKE GRIP ONLY DOES IN A METAPHORICAL POETIC SENSE!!!!!! #listen itd be rlly funny and awesome if i got a h1 on my english paper #when i wrote One page for my prescribed poetry answer #and that one page featured three poems and three quotes #and i only named two of the poems #i deserve it. for the horrors i have undergone #'bile isnt an adjective you cant say the water was acrid and bile' i know more than you

[yaminerua]

A Duklyon poster promoting the drama CD

#Duklyon #clamp school defenders #clamp #They’ve written yamaguchi’s name in the cast list as katsupey and not kappei #I have this poster irl;; every time I can get my hands on what little exists for duklyon it sparks so much joy;;;

[crystal-lillies]

I spent the last hours of CLAMP day streaming the 2022 live action xxxHolic movie with a friend who only has a bit of the anime as a point of reference.

it was certainly a wild ride and not at all what I was expecting. I have to say they really spent their budget on Yuko.

#flowerspeak #xxxholic #clamp #xxxholic 2022 #jorogumo and her simp man knew nothing of consent #but also rip jorogumo this was in name only. hardly a spider queen here #i was losing it at all the gay douwata moments though fghjk #and how it just. ended. #but we got the douwata ending so.....win for the gays?? #at what cost #at least live action watanuki stopped being an emo boy by the end

[robotslenderman]

providing my parents enrichment by asking them DIY related questions

#my parents may have trashed this house with their DIY shenanigans but they HAVE picked up a thing or two that's not entirely destructive #anyway TIL that if I'm drilling through two sheets of metal with a hole saw #drill through them both with a normal bit and clamps #but do the actual hole saw on each sheet separately #Dusty talks #(they have been trying hard with the new name so I'll give them points for that too)