#sao gif

[approximateknowledge]

beater syndrome or: "why people misunderstand vriska and kirito for the same reason"

so a little while ago i made a random shitpost that ended me up with this image

^cursed entity

and it's come back to haunt me with ungogly revelations which i will now share because i have to it feels important

context: originally i was just gonna make a post about kirito, explaining how people misunderstand the character and *why* (and why it's completely understandable); but then i realised there was a real pattern here and the subconscious connection that led to the above cursed image suddenly made sense in my mind

so here it is:

the reason kirito gets mischaracterised so often has entirely to do with the combination of:

a) most people only having watched the aincrad arc (<;keyword watched),

and

b) the fact the anime gives a twisted image of the characters due to the fact the internal dialogues from the light novel get cut out completely

the end result of this is that when most people talk about "kirito", they're actually talking about "the beater", and those are crucially *not the same*!

the "beater" is a *role*, and a very specific one at that; it's what happens when you try to "own up" to accusations and unreasonable expectations (internal or external) to such an extent you're always playing the same self-destructive part, and because it's fundamentally a defense mechanism you just get stuck in it until things change drastically enough it finally feels safe to stop playing that horrible role and try to remember who you really are, after everything's over

that's what's happening here; when people say a character is "a kirito" they're actually referring to the beater, and the reason those characters suck ass is because they unironically use what's actually a coping mechanism in a horrible situation for a character's actual personality; of course it sucks! because they're doing it wrong!

it's about trying to convince yourself being a loner destructive scapegoat is "cool" despite always having a nagging insecurity it might just not be, but given the circumstances you're in too deep and so the sunk cost fallacy compels you to keep going

it's not *actually* cool; if anything it's depressing

now i think it's becoming obvious how all of this applies to vriska as well, but there's one crucial difference: the death game never actually *ends* for vriska serket; even now in post-canon she's arguably the *only* character who seems to still be playing sgrub, or maybe she never even stopped flarping

except for one version of her. for (vriska) the game did finally end. and they're the same

the beater dies when the game ends, and we see it happen to both of them

(also they're both transfem i didn't know how to fit that in but they are and that's a fact)

#ak goes insane #sao #homestuck #long post #metaposting #beater theory #yes im giving it a name #this isn't a shitpost btw im dead serious #vriska serket #kirito #transfem kirito

[transboykirito]

#every lesbian needs her transmasc best friend

#sword art online #sao #sinon #kirito #god i hate the camera angles but this line was so fucking funny #kirito you can say the word lesbian it's okay buddy i believe in you #saogifs #mine* #mine*gifs #also. oh sinon. beloved. you sweet summer child. i wish it worked that way. #they had to make the entire ggo alternative spinoff to make up for this scene btw this is the real reason they did ggo alternative

[jnhatea]

so there's this one ship...

#sugushino #i used to run a daily acc for them on twitter but im way too lazy for that... #the 10 pictures limit is killing me rn #no one saw that last post btw #i accidentally posted a draft *crying emoji* #leafa #sinon #sao

[goodwhump-temp]

Sword Art Online: Kirito Whump

===SAO Season 1=== 1x02 Beater - Sliced by boss, weak, low HP 1x03 Red Nosed Reindeer - Ambushed, watches friends die, traumatized, cries 1x06 Illusionary Avenger - Watches someone die 1x07 The Temperature of the Heart - Falls from great height twice, low HP 1x09 The Blue Eyed Demon - Intense boss battle, sliced multiple times, punched, sweating, extremely low HP, collapses, makes Asuna cry 1x10 Crimson Killing Intent - Duel, stabbed, talks about trauma, depressed/angry, paralyzed, stabbed multiple times, slowly impaled by psychopath, life flashes before his eyes, intense pain, extremely low HP, arm sliced off, collapses, emotional 1x12 Yui's Heart - Knocked down, unconscious, weak, angry 1x13 Edge of Hell's Abyss - Scared 1x14 The End of the World - Exhausted, intense confrontation, duel, sliced, sobbing, collapse, impaled, emotional, weak, depressed 1x15 Return - Nightmares, crying, depressed, difficulty adjusting, hit in the head, stumbles, shares PTSD with sister, sobs 1x16 Land of the Fairies - Logout PTSD 1x20 General of the Blazing Flame - Intense 1v1, sliced multiple times 1x22 Grand Quest - Outnumbered, died, emotional 1x23 Bonds - Intense battle 1x24 Gilded Hero - Emotional, paralyzed, straining, kicked around, impaled/tortured, pain absorber decreased, intense pain, emotional 1x25 The World Seed - Ambushed, stabbed irl, bleeding, falls, kicked multiple times

===SAO Season 2 (Gun Gale Online)=== 2x01 The World of Guns - Death gun/SAO PTSD 2x05 Guns and Swords - Grazed, exhausted, confrontation, PTSD 2x06 Showdown in the Wilderness - Intense laughing coffin battle, PTSD, panic attack, grazed multiple times 2x07 Crimson Memories - Guilt, emotional conversations about PTSD, sobs 2x12 Bullet of a Phantom - Death Gun confrentation, stabbed multiple times, heart racing/panic 2x13 Phantom Bullet - Risk of dehydration, faster heart rate (bp: 160), sliced multiple times, hug-grenade bomb, irl fight 2x14 One Little Step - Choked, punched multiple times irl, stabbed with poison syringe, panic, almost dies, bandaged 2x16 King of the Giants - Knocked down from blast, low HP, its a trap! or not? it is! help 2x17 Excalibur - Intense fight, punched to the ground 2x18 Forest House - Exhausted, died in a duel

===Sword Art Online: Alicization=== 3x01 Underworld - Shot in the chest, falls down, tackled 3x02 The Demon Tree - Amnesia, exhausted 3x04 Departure - Sliced, intense pain, kicked to the ground 3x05 Ocean Turtle - Attacked irl, injected with serum from GGO, unconscious, heart stopped, emergency surgery, possible brain damage 3x11 Central Cathedral - Imprisoned 3x15 The Relentless Knight - Literally back-stabbed, collapse, unconscious, dragged, thrown, 1v4, shot multiple times, falls, bleeding 3x16 The Osmanthus Knight - Bleeding, collapse, unconscious, falls down building 3x17 Truce - Hanging, pancaked 3x21 The 32nd Knight - Sliced multiple times, bleeding 3x22 Titan of the Sword - Intense fight, impaled, bleeding profusely, cries 3x23 Administrator - Emotional damage, collapse, emotionally paralyzed 3x24 My Hero - Sliced multiple times, arm cut off, bleeding, intense emotional heartbreak, crying, brain breakdown

===Sword Art Online: War of Underworld=== 4x01 In The Far North - Wheelchair, braindead, depressed, knocked unconscious (flashback), carried, bullied, falls out of wheelchair, panic 4x02 Raids - Panic, crawling/struggling, brain shortcircuted already damaged brain, therefore: deactivating brain/no self-concept (5head stuff) 4x05 The Night Before Battle - Willpower tested/dagger launched at him 4x07 Stigma of the Disqualified - Tries to protect friends 4x10 Stacia, the Goddess of Creation - Asuna reunion, twitches, tries to talk, cries 4x13 The War of Underworld - SAO friends reunion, tries to speak 4x16 Code 871 - Tense standoff 4x17 Prince of Hell - Bullied, kicked out of wheelchair, unconscious 4x18 Memories - Fighting mental blockage, faces trauma, intense emotional pain, mental breakdown, intense sobbing, tears open chest, self damage, becomes ultimate form GIGACHAD 4x19 Awakening - Sliced neck, bleeding, cries 4x20 The Night-Sky Blade - Sliced in half, impaled, intense fight, sobs in loneliness, trapped in the world 4x22 Alice - Awakens, weak, was alive the last 200 years, memories erased, obviously depressed, hospitalized, sobbing, PTSD, emotional damage, comforted by sister 4x23 New World - Headbutted, headache

#kirito #sao #kirigaya kazuto #sword art online #sword art online ii #gun gale online #whump #whumplist #whump list #emotional whump #kirito whump #sword art online: alicization #sao alicization #war of underworld #sao war of underworld #anime whump #sao whump #sword art online whump

[ianime0]

If we ever get separated again, I swear I'll find you, and come to your rescue. Because, Asuna, you're my partner, all right? Yes.

#sword art online #sword art online progressive #kirito kirigaya #asuna yuuki #saoedit #sao #kuraki yuuyami no scherzo #my gifs #my post

[yuzuna123]

You know a straight ship is good when the gays support it

#tekken #kazuya mishima #jun kazama #kazujun #kazjun #danganronpa #makoto naegi #kyoko kirigiri #naegiri #avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #katara #sao #sword art online #kazuto kirigaya #kirito #asuna yuuki #kirisuna #kiriasu #pjo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth

[gayanimebitches]

▷ Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet

#sao #sword art online #gifset #my gifs #asada shino #sinon #phantom bullet #cw guns #gifs #my works

[thegifmakersapprentice]

Kirito saving Asuna

#Sword Art Online #SAO #Sword Art Online Progressive #Kirito #Asuna #Kirito x Asuna #Asuna Yuuki #Kazuto Kirigaya #Sword Art Online gifs #SAO gifs #Anime #Anime gifs

[baltharino]

@animangacreators ♡ Challenge 3

Alphabet Challenge - P - Pitohui

#pitohui #sword art online alternative: gun gale online #gun gale online #sword art online #anime #fyanimegifs #anisource #dailyanime #dailyanimatedgifs #animangaladies #gif #alphabetchallenge #gifset #animangacreators challenge #elsa kanzaki #sao

[first-interplanar-bank]

Had a helluva time finding a gif version of this scene, so I went and did it myself.

#sao #sao abridged #gif

[heyyallitsbeth]

this too is yuri

toxic, transfem t4t, trauma induced yuri

(ignore Kirito's short hair in the bottom pic, she's just butch)

#sao #sword art online #sao sinon #kirito #sinon #trans kirito

[at129600]

"Mỗi người đều có một bông hoa của riêng mình, một ngôi sao cho riêng mình, và chẳng có ai giống ai. Người cậu yêu là độc nhất, bởi cậu yêu người ấy, vậy thôi. Người ấy quan trọng vì người ấy là tình yêu của cậu".

-Hoàng Tử Bé- Antoine de Saint - Exupéry

#quote #quotes #yêu #tình yêu #love quotes #trích dẫn #trích dẫn hay #sưu tầm #ngôn tình #Hoàng Tử Bé #🤴 #lunar new year #hoa #flower #sao #lover

[transboykirito]

all of the little things that you did, they got me through the hardest days

#sword art online #sao #kirisuna #kirito #asuna #sao gif #mine* #mine*gifs #song of all time. to me. #(the song is don’t go home without me by lights. it is an integral piece of my soul at this point.) #happy new year. or belated merry christmas. please for the love of god be gentle i am (literally) barely alive right now.

[graciousred]

Happy

Release Date

Sword Art Online

November 6th, 2022

#my stuff #sword art online #happy release date #sao #kirito #asuna #sao kirito #sao asuna #kazuto kirigaya #asuna yuuki #man I have mixed feelings about this show #on one hand it was one of my first animes and really me into the genre #on the other hand #it absolutely fucking sucks #like it’s really really bad #alicization was good #until you know they killed eugeo #then it was bad again #but anyway #happy release #i can’t believe we are already here #thanks I guess #sao season 1 #november 6 #gif

[sapphicgoblinblog]

I took a weeb quiz and it said the waifu most like me is "Yuuki Asuna" from SAO. I have no clue who that is tbh. I'm not a weeb, I'm an otaku. I watch good anime not SAO.

#thoughts #anime #anime gif #SAO #Sword Art Online #weeb #hot take #I was bored #asuna yuuki

[ianime0]

SAO: Progressive | I have one last warning for you. This may be a game, but it's not something you play. This is my reality. I can't choose how I'm going to live anymore. But I can at least choose how I'm going to die. So that I can still be me.

#sao progressive #sword art online progressive #saoedit #asuna yuuki #sao #sword art online #my gifs #my post