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marahuyos · 2 years

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anon asked: If you don't mind, thoughts on Henry or Yuri with a childhood friend reader (I don't recall if you said any limits on fe games or if you cover the Ashen wolves dlc)

henry (fea) x gn!reader

yuri (fe3h) x gn!reader

mara’s words: deadass i forgot who henry was until i looked it up and i was like “oh, that guy.”

tw: henry (but to be more specific: human dismemberment, arson), possessiveness (yuri)

✧ Henry

• You two were part of the magic institution that your parents’ ‘lovingly’ enrolled you in. It was personal hell for you, the grown-ups always dogging on the kids as if they were worth less than dirt and giving absolute no empathy at all. The magic classes were fine and all but with the abuse going on inside, you could only keep your rage-filled magic within.

• And so you meet Henry, another poor unfortunate soul who he managed to set himself on fire and yet no one bothered to help him (lest they be punished). It was only by the dead of night that you snuck towards his bedside and gave him a small portion of a tangerine.

“It’s the only thing I managed to pilfer.” You said to him softly, in the dead of night. “I... I hope this makes you feel better.”

• If only you knew how far your kindness went. When you awoke to the stench of blood and rotting flesh, it was the white-haired boy who had a tangerine in his (bloody) hand. When he extended it to you, a manic smile was on his face as his eyes closed.

• Your abusers were dead. And as a child, with no other guide in their life, you took the tangerine and bit into it.

• It wasn’t long that you and Henry became travel partners. Well, ‘partners’ is more of an understatement. It felt as though you were the only one who truly understood Henry. You didn’t bat an eye at the mayhem he caused, rather letting him do as he please all the while reeling him in when need be.

• Even when assigned into the Plegian army, you two are always together. At least, always within what Henry wants. Validar himself doesn’t even want to step in between whatever Henry wants in fear of invoking what hidden horrors that Henry hides from the world. If Validar fears going between you and Henry, then it comes as to no surprise that the rest of the Plegian army avoids going between you two.

• Despite the gore that Henry would always surround himself, he would never bring himself to taint you with this mess. After all, you did save him from going hungry that night after all, and he always remembers who he’s indebted to.

• At least that’s what he says. When he grasps your hand a little too warmly just to swing it around as if you two were kids frolicking about a garden of deteriorating Risen bodies, you wonder if the smile on his face was anything but manic glee.

✧ Yuri

• Street rats growing up, you, your family, and Yuri’s mother, were very well-acquainted. After all, rats stick together to see what slim hope of living they have under all of this grime. Resources were scarce but you were surviving.

• You and Yuri, even though you were young, grew too soon too fast as you pilfered money and precious objects from unsuspecting nobles and rich folk and always splitting the money 50/50. At some point it grew to 60/40, with you pushing the 60 towards Yuri because you knew that he and his mother needed it more than you. Normally, Yuri would take it with no qualms but with you, he still insists on the 50/50.

• After all, he would be remiss to take more of the keep from his partner in crime.

• As the years go by, you and Yuri are attached to the hip as practical underground crime lords (at least in the Abyss). Him as the Savage Mockingbird, always getting what he wants, and you as his partner who works with him in his shadow. None would dare to try and outsmart the mockingbird lest they deal with his shadow instead.

• Yuri doesn’t trust anyone, not even the rest of the Ashen Wolves, but to you, there was a smidgen of humanity left within this rat-turned-bird. When he would willingly betray his allies trust on the whim (as long as the end justifies the means), he would never betray your trust. Anyone who even suggest to sacrifice you or use you as bait will be thrown into the deeper bowels of the Abyss.

“I am not one for romantics. But I will not let anyone toy with your life.”

• Even after being exposed in Garreg Mach, he never let’s you out of his sight. He nearly begs Byleth to make sure you and him were always in the same classes and making sure you two were fighting in the same battalions. Other students wondered if there was something else beyond your “childhood friendship” because of how... for a lack of a better word, fruity, behavior that Yuri shows to you but they could never get a straight answer from him.

• Let them talk, he thinks to himself as he counts you and your pilfered treasures (hey, old habits die hard). After all, you were far more important to be kept in a notebook. He’s kept your name in a scrap of paper, inside a locket, tucked closely beneath his clothes and close to his heart.

#fe #fire emblem #fire emblem awakening #fea imagines #fire emblem three houses #fe3h imagines #henry #henry x reader #henry imagines #yuri #yuri x reader #yuri imagines

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deltaengineering · 3 years

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What remains of Fall Anime 2020

You might have noticed that I haven’t been keeping up with my season impressions, mostly (but not exclusively) because it’s really boring to come up with new ways to say “it’s isekai, which means it’s garbage for stupids”. So here’s what I ended up finishing, in ascending order of goodinosity.

Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima

Ostentatious rap battles in an insanely stupid universe are very fun. The thing is that this doesn’t want to be a good anime, it wants to sell us on these characters, and the characters are pretty terrible on account of all of them being one-word gimmicks. So, let’s give them three rounds of introductions and have them solve lame, generic crimes for 8 episodes instead of setting up the rivalries that everyone suddenly has later, when the show gets good - because it does start delivering towards the end, and becomes really all I wanted. So I can’t even say I’m disappointed, but the first half of the show is almost entirely worthless. 4/10

Assault Lily Bouquet

I don’t want to be the guy that’s all “I’m mad at this show not catering to what I want”, but I do have to say that Salt Bucket is much better at being a goofy, lighthearted yuri comedy than it is at action (though there are a few choice cuts) and at having an engaging storyline. This is again just an ad for some game or other, so it’s no surprise it has about two dozen characters too many, but it also has quite a lot of superfluous plot - so much so that I suspect it was initially planned to be twice as long. Apart from that, it’s cool and all that some Gainax old hand got to make his own Gunbuster-like, but it’s just not very good at that and all I wanted was Kaede antics and bath scenes, of which 1 per episode is clearly too few. 5/10

The King's Avatar 2

King’s Avatar got a sequel and overall I have to say, I kinda like it more than the first season even though it looks much less ambitious and even the character designs were changed towards the bland. But I honestly don’t care much about the esports aspect of this and much of S2, especially in the back half, is more about schemes and social engineering - as close to an Eve Online anime as we’re ever going to get, I guess. It’s still very chinajank (why the hell does every episode come with a redundant chibi summary of itself, etc), and while I can’t call that “good” it does remind me of a time when I wasn’t filled with useless knowledge of anime tropes and was just enjoying the weirdness. Also, Ye God’s antics is as close to “looking for anime with OP MC” as I’m comfortable with getting. 6/10

Heaven Official's Blessing

Now how about some Chinimation that isn’t very janky? I only became aware of Heaven Official’s Blessing when it suddenly rocketed to the top of the MAL charts, so I gave it a looksie and oh boy. The first few episodes of this show are flat out gorgeous, quite funny and very very gay. So I was ready to agree with MAL for once, except it then launches into an arc that mostly consists of our dudes sitting in a dark pit telling each other stories that aren’t very interesting and seem barely related to the setup. Yeah, the back half of this just isn’t very good at all. And the subs are hot garbage. Still, the beginning is so impressive that I would recommend this show despite the middling rating it’s about to get. 6/10

Ochikobore Fruit Tart

You know the problem that these 5girls4koma stories have, where one of the characters is an annoying pervert, yeah? Well, in Fruit Tart every character is that character, and they’re rather cultured as well. Yes, it’s often of questionable taste and it has a terminal case of 4koma storytelling but dammit if I didn’t enjoy it. It certainly helps that this show’s greatest asset by far is Broko and it seems to be aware of this, because there’s a lot of Broko material. It would have probably have gotten a 6 but the last episode is just so... maximum Fruit Tart. I’m down for some trash if it’s as well made as this, and I do like my kiraralikes spicy, so thumbs up over here. YMM definitely V on this one. 7/10

Majo no Tabitabi

Speaking of things that are hard to recommend despite me liking them a lot, Elaina here challenges the very notion of what a TV show even is supposed to be. I assume most people tune in every week expecting to get something roughly similar. Not so with this one, you could get everything from slice of life antics to Higurashi-style gore, or reasonably deep character study to pervert comedy. I would say that the only unifying thread is the presence of Elaina, who is a very fun character, but there’s an episode she’s not in, so there you go. But I’m a connoisseur of the weird and I also have to say that I enjoyed every episode in its own way. Also, each episode stays remarkably consistent by itself, and in the end it wraps it all up with a sort of neat “life is like a box of chocolates” thematic bow, which isn’t earthshatteringly profound but hey, it’s there. Just don’t go in with expectations, especially not expectations based on the first episode. 7/10

Love Live! Nijigasaki

It’s Love Live. Good old reliable Love Live. Really not much to say about this one, any discussion of what makes this different from previous iterations is going to end up in minutiae only people who already watched this could possibly care about. I do have to say that while the musical numbers are as good as Sunshine’s were towards the end and there’s also a lot more of them, “looking budget deficient outside the CG” is the one thing I didn’t expect from something that’s ostensibly a Sunrise premium product. So boo on that one, apart from that it’s idols (an anagram of solid). 7/10

Garupa Pico Oomori

The chibi SD shorts based off Bang Dream are still better than the main show. Even if S3 was actually quite good, this is just the best thing you can do with 30+ characters that aren’t that deep. Garupa Pico specializes in absurd humor setpieces that at points is better at being Pop Team Epic than Pop Team Epic itself was. Take that, memelords. 7/10

Fire Force S2

Fire Force is just weird, man, and it’s sort of great. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a property of this magnitude show this much of the ol idgaf spirit. How about an episode where the A plot is the most evenhanded exploration of religion i’ve seen in anime, and the B plot is about blowing up a tryhard edgelord by exposing him to panties? How about a subplot where Batman and Thor infiltrate the vatican to kill the pope, only for that to lead into a gay rape backstory, only for that to be resolved by dank weed and dismemberment? It really is quite a thing, as they say. Now, Fire Force certainly delivers hard at points, but it’s also very scattershot, even if S2 is somewhat more consistent than S1. The weakest parts are unsurprisingly still the ones where it’s remembering its fighting shounen template, and that’s not only because I don’t like that, it’s also because it’s particularly and consistently bad at scheduling these huge, simultaneous multifight setpieces it often crescendoes with. But hey, at least these tend to look super cool. In short, Fire Force is a land of contrasts and still the only fighting shounen I give a damn about. 7/10

IDOLiSH7 Second Beat

Did you know that I think Idolshi7 is the best one of all of these huge-ass commercial idol franchises? Yeah, I think it’s better than Love Live, and as of Fall 2020 also the better looking one because Troyca still delivers where Sunrise apparently can’t. I guess still don’t like the music much, thankfully there isn’t a lot of that. It also still specializes in gigantic drama, and to its credit S2 is now much better at either getting to the point or at least making it silly and fun. You show that door who’s boss, Sou. Still fantastic Tsumugis all over the place as well, in fact I think I like all the characters now. Even Banri gets his big moment in this season! Yeah, this stuff is pretty cool. 8/10

Adachi and Shimamura

So here’s the AOTS, and it’s the lovechild of Bloom Into You and Tsuki ga Kirei. While it definitely isn’t as good as either of these two, because it lacks the “about more than just teenagers being hyperbolic about a crush” part from Bloom and the part where it has an actual ending from TgK, it carves out its own niche with its loopy, almost stoned tone that’s full of side weirdos and yuri hyperspace. It’s also uniquely focused, with a tiny core cast and even Shimamura doesn’t really matter all that much. This is all about Adachi, and thankfully Adachi is amazing. Amazingly awkward, that is. It’s very cute. So yeah, this is a bit too lacking in substance to aspire to classic status, but it’s a great time nonetheless. 8/10

#anime #review #fall2020 #Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- Rhyme Anima #Assault Lily Bouquet #The King's Avatar #Heaven Official's Blessing #Ochikobore Fruit Tart #Majo no Tabitabi #Love Live! Nijigasaki #Garupa Pico Oomori #Fire Force S2 #IDOLiSH7 #Adachi to Shimamura

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