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Yu-Gi-Oh GX and Alchemy: The Nigredo

So Yu-Gi-Oh GX is the first successful Yu-Gi-Oh spinoff after the original manga and anime ended, and it began two trends, one a long line of anime spinoffs that would continue to make anime original stories revolving around the trading card game and two that each new anime would focus on a new method of special summoning.

When creating an all new Yu-Gi-Oh story with only some input from the original mangaka, Hikokubo Masashiro stated GX focusing on fusion summons was an idea the staff came up with. Hikokubo felt that polymerization and fusion summoning were rarely used during the duel monsters era, and felt that it was a very underutilized but incredibly interesting mechanic that was unique to Yu-Gi-Oh! When he proposed the idea to have the new summoning be fusion focused, Takahashi loved the idea and was extremely enthused by it.

Now the question before we even begin is why am I analyzing Yu-Gi-Oh? It's because it's a shonen anime and this is the blog where we overanalyze shonen.

Yu-Gi-Oh is literally no different from any anime with a power system, it's like Hunter x Hunter except instead of using an ovceromplicated nen system with a lot of rules, the characters instead play an overcomplicated card game with a lot of rules. The same way a character's nen is thematic and telling of their character in Hunter x Hunter, their cards and dueling style is thematic to them in Yu-Gi-Oh! If you can just get over the fact that it's kind of silly everyone's using cards to fight, it's the same as any other shonen anime. They're all using magic cards to fight each other with magic, the cards are a power system, and the power system means something in regards to the characters in a shonen anime.

By Yu-Gi-Oh GX using fusion as its focus summoning method (combining two or more monsters to summon one) it's also thematically about alchemy - specifically physical alchemy solve et Cogaula. Latin for dissolve and coagulate, the process in which through four elemental stage silver is refined into gold and a philosopher stone is created.

The main character of Yu-Gi-Oh GX is also on a journey to become an alchemist, and create the philosopher's stone / the elixirof life. He is also a duelist who uses an archetype known as the "elemental heroes" that fuses heroes based off the four elements (fire, earth, water, air) and also yin and yang (light and darkness) into different combinations to create stronger monster. A character who's strongest card at the end of the first season is called "Elemental HERO Elixir" and requires featherman (wind), burst lady (fire), clayman (earth), and bubbleman (water) to fuse together in order to summon. A character who's art depicts a man wearing gold armor surrounded by the four elements of the Yu-Gi-Oh cardgame in the background.

However, that's only in season 1 and Judai's journey stretches for four seasons. I only used elixir as an example to show that fusion and the elemental hero archetypes are both things that connect Judai to alchemy, and why his journey is to complete the four stages of alchemy and the creation of the philosopher's stone.

I'm also making this post for Kate who is the only person that will read it that Yu Gi Oh GX incorporates Alchemy research as well as A Song of Ice and Fire and RWBY. Because just as with those shows the formula of "Solve et coagula" is stuck to, though Yu Gi Oh GX uses "Fusion" as its main metaphor for dissolve et coagula.

Anyway, Yu Gi Oh GX has four seasons, with four main story arcs which follow the four stages of Alchemy to a T.

The Seven Star Saga: Nigredo

Society of Light Saga: Albedo

Dimmension World Saga (Citrinitas)

Darkness Saga: Rubedo (Red)

These four stages also proceed in order of four elements, which as I said is the same as the four elements of monster cards in Yu Gi Oh.

Fire

Water

Earth

Air

They also all correspond to four colors as long as we're getting the basics out of the way, because color symbolism is important to aclhemy too. These are:

Nigredo / Black

Abledo / White

Cintrinitas / Yellow

Rubedo / Red

For more proof that Alchemy is baked into the DNA of this show, here's a group shot of what are basically the main characters for opening two, and look what colors they are wearing.

Judai - Red / Black

Fubuki Tenjoin and Asuka Tenjoin - White

Manjoume - Black

Sho, Misawa, Kenzan - Yellow

There's also three main dorms Osiris red, Ra Yellow, Obelisk Blue and yes Obelisk Blue is Blue but the uniforms are Blue and White and they're even replaced by the white dorm in the second season. Characters even change what colors they are wearing to indicate progression in their arc, Fubuki is introduced to us as Darkness possessed by his inner darkness and then switches to an all-white uniform by season 2 nigredo -> albedo. Manjoume sheds his blue uniform for Black and stays in the Osiris Red dorm for three seasons after losing his elitism -> entering the nigerdo stage.

Most importanly though Judai our alchemist is the only character to wear red and black, as Red is the color of the philosopher's stone which is Judai's main goal but Judai like Manjoume also wears black underneath to signifiy he too is going through the nigredo stage. Judai is an alchemist attempting the great work of self, and he must start at stage one - Nigredo.

So, to begin with what is Nigredo?

The Alchemy of Darkness - Nigredo

In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness means putrefacation or decomposition. Many alchemist believe that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone all alehmical ingredients need to be cleansed and cooked into a uniform black mater. This is sometimes called "blacker than the blackest black>" Nigredo means putrefecation and decomposition.

It's ruled by the planet Saturn and connected to lead, which is ocnsidered to be the basest and most impure metal. Metaphysically, it is tied to the dragon and the destruction of the dragon, symbolized by decapitation and the skull of the raven.

This is an unpleasant and often violent process, because one must face one's darkest flaws. Because one 'reaps what ones sows" and noen gains likel only to what one loses accoring to the Laws of Isis spoken by the Angel Amnael, to change into a final nature one must destroy its flaws - and thus its whole property - so that it might be remade again. In a lab one must cook all components down to a uniform black matter, which takes no less than fourty days - or one year of high school.

Judai begins his journey wearing inverted colors, black school uniform on the outside and red on the inside. He also is marked in the first episode and season 2 as the Fool. Saio a character with the ability to see the future who plays a tarot themed deck, sees Judai as the fool, the wildcard in which fate can change.

The fool's journey, and the process of alchemy are similiar, they're both things Jung references for the development of the self. Tarot is season 2 territory so all you need to know right now is Judai is the fool in both senses of the word, he is at once innocent and ignorant. His innocence inspires people, and his ignorance causes problems, though that won't be highlighted until season 3. The fool is on a journey to gain wisdom, which is why Judai's first action in the anime is meeting up with a magician (Yugi, who's ace card is the black magician) who gives him guidance by giving him winged kuriboh.

The story of the Tarot is actually a paralel to the alchemist's journey, and the Fool--who begins his trek untouched by the world around him because he sees and understands nothing--is the fledgling alchemist, with his powers and potentials all untapped and unknown. This is a childlike figure in many ways, and the symbolism here is capable of being both that of innocent oblivion and the callous disregard that children (and Judai) are also so capable of. In fact Judai's entire character revolves around the dual faces of the fool, that innocence and ignorance can be the same thing, and that jUdai may not mean harm in his ignorance but that doesn't mean it's not harmful and his ignorance is why he needs to go on a quest for knowledge in the first place.

And Yu-Gi-Oh GX is primarily about Judai's journey. There are other characters who grow up besides Judai, but it is primarily about Judai going on a journey from childhood into adulthood. I will be mentioning other characters here, but when they change it's usually meant to reflect Judai in a way too.

Either way, Judai's role as the alchemist is indicated right away in his first duel, as he uses flame wingman - his favorite card a fusion monster that is specifically a fusion between man (featherman) and woman (burst lady) in order to cook crowler's antique gear soldier which is made of metal. This not only sets up the formula for how he'll win every major duel in the show, fuse weaker monsters into stronger mosnters. It also serves as some early, early foreshadowing for the appearance of the Rebis the fusion of man and woman that happens in the final stage of alchemy. The Rebis in this case being Yubel but that's season 3 territory.

Flame Wingmna's appearance is foreshadowing for Yubel, it's also pretty clearly a Rebis, it's a fusion of a featherman and burst lady, and it also has a dragon head appearaing on one of its arms. It's also the first succesful fusion / attempt at alchemy we see Judai perform in the show and it's what lets him win his first duel. It even appears in front of the moon because Judai played Skyscraper, switching the time in the duel from night to day.

However, alchemy doesn't just happen once. It's a process of continual refinement where the alchemist dissolves and coagulates over and over again in order to purify himself, the same way that Judai's entire sidedeck is countless different attempted fusions of his elemental hero monsters, each fusion serving a purpose in a different situation.

Chemical weddings, the union of opposite elements don't happen once in this show but over and over again. This is important to point out for all three seasons to show how much alchemy symbolism happens in this show and how much alchemy is a continual process.

The Stages of Alchemy

However, before continuing forward I need to say Yu Gi Oh GX is a pretty weirdly paced show, the first 100 episodes or so are setup for a dark deconstruction that happens in the next 90 after that. So Season 1 and Season 2 are both a lot of set up for both changes and alchemical processes that will happen mainly in Seasons 3 and 4. Which as I said, chemical weddings happen multiple times not just once and alchemy may have stages but it's not necessarily a strictly linear process. The series however does still follow the 4-part structure of alchemy and even makes specific references to medieval paintings which describe the alchemical processes.

There are also several allusions to the Splendor Solis - 22 illustrated plates which describe the alchemical process [source]

Which are divided into 4 groups like this:

4 introductory plates - they present the protagonists of the alchemical journey.

7 Parables - they describe the alchemical death and rebirth

7 flaks plates - they describe the alchemical process from a practical point of view

4 final plates - they describe the alchemical process from a spiritual point of view.

Seasons 1 and 2 being one long introduction for the second half of the anime, both include references to the four introductory plates. We'll be covering references to those two as we continue our journey into season 1.

I bring this up now because in episode 3 we are already at our first reference to Splendor Solis, Plate 4 the meeting of the king and the queen, the male and female, the yin and yang, the sun and the moon. The opposition of two equally matched forces, what most call the chemical wedding.

Judai and Asuka in the third episode duel each other over water with both of thme standing on boats. Asuka is the queen of the obelisk blues called that by several characters, and Judai not only quickly becomes the best male duelist in the school he's also on his journey to being a king in season 3. Judai's flame wingman (fire) actually clashes with her Cyber Blader (ice) during the duel atop the water.

Asuka primarily wears white, which is associated with Abledo. She is also associated with water and ice (she uses an ice deck when brainwashed by sartorius in season 2). In Jungian symbolism, the Albedo stage of alchemy is also tied to the union of anima and animus. There will be more time to cover this in my season 2 meta, but just as a starter Asuka in this episode is basically set up to be a female Judai, something compounded upon later in the season.

The basic premise of this episode is that Cronos puts a fake love note from Asuka to Judai in order to try luring Judai into a trap to visit the girl's dorm at night. When Sho gets lured by the trap, Asuka thinking very much like Judai does, doesn't see a potential romantic partner but a potential duel rival.

Asuka's true love isn't boys, but dueling itself much like Judai who for the first two seasons seems either oblivious or weirded out by women showing affection for him and who's primary method of making friends and connecting to people is by dueling others.

Judai and Asuka's first meeting isn't necessarily a romantic chemical wedding, because one happens in season 3 and it's with someone who's not Asuka - but it is still a union of opposites. Anima and Animus is something I plan to cover more in season 2 but basically Jung divides the psyche into two part, the feminine aspects of personality and the masculine aspects and makes the observation that most men aren't accustomed to their feminine side and vice versa. Men must therefore come into touch with their feminine side and integrate their feminine traits into their everyday life in order to become fully realized people.

Judai is basically dueling with the female version of himself, another person who loves dueling above everything else and uses it as a way of conencting with other,s and Asuka even pulls a Judai-like move, she threatens to get Judai and Sho expelled to extort a duel out of Judai because she wanted to size him up as a potential dueling rival.

Asuka also plays the role of the high priestess in the fool's journey, to Yugi's magician. As it's through his encounter with Asuka that Judai gains passive guidance for what his role will be in season 1 - as she's the one actively looking for her brother Fubuki which will lead Judai to the seven stars plotline. In fact, while Judai came to the anbadoned dorm because him and Sho were sharing scary stories, he sticks around and explores it deeper specifically because he heard Asuka make a mention that her brother went missing there.

This leads to the introduction of shadow duels - duels where characters bet their souls on the line and the consequence for losing is being consumed by darkness, otherwords a failure in alchemy.

The entirety of season one is basically one long pattern of Judai who only duels for fun and to connect to other people learning that there are darker sides to dueling (shadow games) and going through one long process of realizing that not everything is for fun and there are times you duel with your life on the line. Or at least, that's what he should be doing but a lot of Judai's development is stalled until season 3. However, that stage is still set up here.

Judai does not really grow a lot in season one, but we have other characters going through their own mini-alchemeical journeys in order to reflect Judai. For instance, each season Judai has a rival / foil that contests with him for the hero role. In season 1 it's Manjoume who thinks he's the one more set up to inherit the next king of games.

Manjoume goes through a pretty common arc for shonen characters. He's suddenly defeated by the appearance of a new rival, he loses all confidence in himself, he goes off somewhere else to train and then returns to defeat the rival that knocked him off his pedestal.

However, that usually happens to protagonists. Manjoume, a rival character, goes through more of a journey than the main character of his own show at least in season 1. Manjoume follows the nigredo formula pretty much to a T.

We see Manjoume break down completely. He loses to Judai even after getting cards from Crowler (his Dragon card is even killed by Judai) he then has a mental breakdown and tries to cheat against Misawa only to lose again and leave the school entirely. Even his deck goes through the process of dissolve and coagulate, as he has to get rid of his old deck and then find 40 new cards in the northern tundra and put together a new deck from scratch. He even returns to Duel Academy wearing black and purple after having gone through the process of breaking down entirely and reforming to signify his change in the nigredo stage.

This is the kind of arc and internal struggles you give your main character so we find their growth and journey compelling, but Judai's basically already a dueling prodigy he doesn't need to become stronger as a duelist. In fact Manojoume's internal insecurities are more at focus in this arc than the main character's too.

Judai is usually the character who duels the main boss, but in season 1 and 2 he rarely if ever feels the pressure to win the same way that Manjoume does in just this one duel with relatively little stakes. In fact if alchemy especially nigredo requires boiling and pressure in order to change the chemical composition of the metal that they're currently boiling, Manjoume is more emblematic of that chemical change -> heat and pressure allowing him to metamorphosize into a new person.

In fact Judai purposefully doesn't talk to Manjoume during this scene because he doesn't feel like there's anything he could say on an emotional level that would help him b/c Judai isn't really mature enough to understand that feeling of responsibility and pressure Manjoume is struggling under - he just tries to work it out in a duel instead.

Season 1 is all about Nigredo, about plunging into darkness but Manjoume who plunges into darkness to find himself and to an extent Asuka who journeys into the darkness to find her brother are the oens who actually experience a change while Judai remains a mostly static character. He is the impetus of change for both of these characters, but he doesn't really change himself just yet.

So Asuka has an exernal objective -> find Fubuki, and Manjoume has an internal flaw -> His insecurity and inferiority complex and both of them need to plunge into darkness in order to remedy these things. Judai doesn't have any objective at all, but because he comes into contact with Asuka and Manjoume he helps Asuka with her quest and Manjoume with his internal insecurity.

From early on Judai despite literaly fighting with a deck called the "Elemental Heroes" is more of a designated hero, then an actual hero. As I pointed out above other characters struggle with the kind of insecurities that protagonists usually struggle with. Judai doesn't need to learn to believe in himself or be a better duelist, he's already a dueling prodigy, that's Sho, and Manjoume's struggles. Asuka is the one who has a personal motivation to save someone because she wants to save her brother, Judai only helps because he wants to help Asuka. Judai is picked to fight once the seven stars start appearing not because he is the most heroic character, but because he is the best duelist.

It's not that Judai doesn't help when someone asks him for a helping hand. He always gives his help when asked for it, but otherwise he's an incredibly passive character who continually "only duels for fun" even when the stakes get higher. He only feels the pressure to win that Manjoume did for one episode after the gauntlet of Darkness Camula and even then it's immediately resolved with a duel against Kaibaman.

However, despite not having the things usual main character have, an outward objective, or an obvious internal flaw that he needs to fix or boil away in the alchemy sense he's still the central character of the show. Fubuki is Asuka's brother, and yet when he appears again it's Judai who duels him.

Yami no Game - Versus Darkness

The first instance of actual plot in this show happens in episode 29 (Yu Gi Oh is a well paced show / sarcasm) when Fubuki / Darkness appears as a member of the seven stars, to challenge Judai for his key, kidnapping his friends and holding them hostage in a volcano for an ante. This entire duel is steeped with alchemy symbolism and is to be honest one of my favorite in the series. It's also Judai's first real "yami no game" if one counts the duel at the dorm and the duel against Jinzo as warmups.

To recap from above, Nigredo is the first step of alchemy, it's usually associated with fire, the color black, and the death of a dragon. This duel takes place in a volcano. A volcano where dragons made of flame rise up from the lava, and Judai's opponent Darkness walks right out of the fire to face him.

Darkness not only hits all the symbols for the first stage of alchemy, his deck also corresponds to this stage. He's running a red eyes black dragon deck, a deck who's ace monster "Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon" gets stronger for every single monster in your graveyard. If Nigredo is initiated by the death of a dragon. They fight on what is basically a graveyard of dragons with dragon spirits constantly jumping out of the lava, the dead spirits empowering Red Eyes Darkness Dragon even further.

Red Eyes Darkness Dragon - Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 1 "Red-Eyes Black Dragon". Gains 300 ATK for each Dragon monster in your GY.

Fubuki arrives in practically a storm of fire, promising to melt everything away if Judai doesn't take things seriously. He even calls Judai half-hearted for not realizing what is at stake here. Once again he's applying heat and pressure to try to force a transformation inside of Judai.

It is the first and last time for awhile someone challenges Judai seriously on this level (as most of the seven star matches bar Camula get kind of silly after this) but it also incorporates the Nigredo and the Work of Self, 'if you cannot overcome the blackness and despair of your own self, you will be burned away'. The volcano, the dragon graveyard, red eyes darkness dragon all incorporate the image of the skull, the dragon and the fire which reduces one to black matter.

In a normal narrative this is where Judai would succumb to the pressure like Manjoume did and start to take things seriously, but once again Yu Gi Oh Gx is building up a three season long-con. The one who changes isn't Judai, but rather Fubuki who's internal darkness is purified by the end and we see him return to his usual self, though he'll call upon the darkness again in season 2 and then season 4 because purification isn't' a one and done process.

We're shown other characters around Judai changing, and Judai often being the impetus for that change, but we're not shown exactly why until all the way in episode 45 when Amnael decides to play his hand, because Yu-Gi-Oh Gx is a well paced show (sarcasm).

If we focus on the duels that develop Judai as a character it goes a little something like:

1st duel against crowler establishes his use of fusion

1st duel against asuka - chemical wedding / anima + animus

1st duel against zane - establishes relationship with sho

3 duels against Manjoume - Manjoume's arc

Judai vs Misawa - More for Misawa's arc because it teaches him that isntinct can win against obsessive thinking over strategy.

Judai's 3 shadow duels (vs Titan, vs. Jinzo, vs. the Gravekeepers)

Finally, vs. Darkness / Fubuki

The only duels that really are about Judai as a character are Yami no Games, the ones where Judai is forced to bet his life on the line in a duel because those are the duels that challenge his philosophy that dueling is just for fun and his desire to duel purely for his own entertainment. Basically every other duel that Judai gets into up until this point is for other characters not him, only the Yami no Games int true Nigredo fashion push Judai's arc along as he slowly realizes there are times where he needs to carry responsibility and weight on his shoulders and keep going.

When the pressure of dueling becomes too much for him after Darkness and Camula he does receive an alchemcial bath, in the form of a hotsprings episode where he gets to fight Kaibaman in a low stakes duel which relieves him of the pressure temporarily. Kaibaman is also dressed in white, and plays the blue eyes white dargon the counterpart to the red eyes black dragon.

The impetus for this episode is a dream where Judai sees himself losing against an unknown shadowy dragon, which causes both of his friends to burn away in fire while he's consumed by the darkness as a price for losing the yami no game.

In those last minutes too Judai's more concerned with his friends who are crying out for his help then he is for the fact that he himself is being consumed by the darkness. Something which will come back in season 3, because Seasons 1 and 2 are excellent at setup and foreshadowing if nothing else.

Foreshadowing because there is a scene where Judai's friends do burn away and he does sink into darkness, his nigrido and all his anxieties reflected in this dream here prove true but once again it happens in season 3.

Things that seem like they are neatly resolved in seasons 1 and 2 will always be called back to in Season 3. Judai goes through several mini arcs of "I need to take dueling more seriously" only to revert back to his usual carefree irresponsible attitude, because in seasons 1 and 2 the consequences for Judai not taking thing seriously and messing up aren't as severe as they'll eventually be.

Judai is called to in his Yami no Games plunge the depths of his own personal darkness, Daitokuji leads him to three shadow games to make him realize there are games where real life people can get hurt - Fubuki yells at the top of his lungs not to half-ass this duel or his friends will burn away into nothing. Judai is called to explore those depths of darkness... he just doesn't. Manjoume does, Fubuki does, Asuka does, even Sho and Ryo have an honest conversation about their relationship as brothers when Camula holds Sho hostage so Ryo will lose the duel.

I'd argue there are hints that Judai does have an inner darkness that he's refusing to examine all the way back in season 1 too, because the foreshadowing in this show is excellent. In episode 5 when they're all sharing ghost stories, Judai shares a story about how he thought he could hear the voices of his duel monsters when he was asleep.

Only for Judai to jokingly end the horror story by declaring that he didn't see a thing.

Those who have watched season 3 know that this is a bald-faced lie, because it was right around that age that Judai was given a haunted card by his father that put all of his friends into comas and made it so no one wanted to duel with him let alone be around him. Judai used to be able to see card spirits, until the traumatic incident of one dark card spirit made him cut off his ability to see them entirely. Judai tells Sho half the story, and then blows the rest off as a joke.

This scene is pretty clear season 3 foreshadowing, but also in a sense of alchemy, Judai is failing to confront the darkness here because he remains ignorant of his repressed childhood memory. He muses for a second on the fact that he can remember hearing card spirits when he was younger, but doesn't reflect on why he stopped hearing them because he's coping poorly with that traumatic childhood incident still. Which is why he is so stagnant because even when he's given opportunities too - he doesn't reflect on his past, or even reflect on who he is whatsoever.

This small detail of his backstory doesn't come until season 3 so technically I'm spoiling you, we're given no information at all in season 1 why Judai loves dueling so much and why it seems to be the only thing he cares about not because the writing is bad but because Judai himself never reflects on those things.

As Judai plunged into the world of Yami no Games, he could have reflected more seriously on these things, but he didn't because Judai is also more concerned with other people, and forced to duel to save other people first before himself.

Judai fails to commit nigredo, and this normally would result in reverse alchemy or even character stagnation but that doesn't happen until season 3 - mainly because in season 1 Judai has a mentor to sweep in and kind of fix his mistakes for him.

There's a whole bunch of duels in between this, but really Judai's next plot relevant duel is episode 44 the Seventh Shadow. When Daitokuji goes missing the gang goes out searching for him, only to find that he's facing Daitokuji as the alchemist Amnael and the sevenths star.

There's a billion alchemy references in this duel, because as I said Judai has only three really plot important alchemy duels this season the first being darkness, the second amnael, and the third Kagemaru and so all the symbolism is frontloaded into this one.

First off, Daitokuji carries around an emerald tablet for a millenium item gifted to him by Kagemaru and he also uses this symbol - which resembles the alchemy symbol for the sun, but also a traditional depiction of an ouroboros a snake eating itself.

The ouroboros a symbol that appeared in alcehmy in Graeco-roman egypt, the same era that the Amneal Story appears from. A symbol which ties to the sun, mercurius (hermes) and his caducous staff which contained a male and female snake interlaced.

In Egypt the sun went on a journey to the underworld every night, only to come back to the world of the living every morning. In the duel itself, Daitokuji is long dead, and Judai must in a way kill his mentor as apprentice in order to replace him as alchemist. Daitokuji also comes right back immediately as a ghost, because life and death are an eternal cycle like the ouroboros itself.

Daitokuji goes by the name of Amnael an angel who appeared before Isis to reveal the great mystery to her. Amnael becomes a lover to Isis and reveals the secret to her, but first makes her swear a mighty oath by "fire and water, like and darkness, by fire, water, air, and earth" and a variety of Greek and Egyptian Deities.

The great secret in question:

“So go then, my child, to a certain laborer named Achaab, and ask him what he has sown and what he has harvested, and you will learn from him that the man who sows wheat also harvests wheat, and the man who sows barley also harvests barley. For a nature rejoices another nature, and a nature conquers another nature.”

In other words the great secret of alchemy is that you reap what you sew. In other words alchemy, like chemical reactions is all about actions and consequences.

This also ties to the phrase "as above, so below" which is chanted constantly in the two episode duel against Daitokuji. A phrase which is on the emerald tablet, (borrowing this from Kate). The emerald tablet is also wielded by hermes, so once again, greco-roman / egyptian alchemy lore.

"That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above."

Things in the macrocrosm are mirrored in the microcosm, or in other words BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO BE IN THE WORLD. You have to change yourself before you can change others. The personal change that an alchemist goes through in acquiring the philosopher's stone and finishing a chemical wedding will radiate out to the rest of the world.

This is the role that the master alchemist gives to his apprentice.

Amnael and Judai's duel is basically a crash course of alchemy for dummies. Amnael's card archetype the Alchemy Beasts uses a distillation to summon seven different alchemy beasts which resembles the seven step process of alchemy.

Aretos the time

Ekanos the Mercury

Leon the Lead

Moonface the Silver

Ouoroboros the Bronze

Salamandra the Steel

Golden Homonculus

Coincidentally the number seven shows up a lot this season. The seven stars are the duelists that the main characters have to face in yami no games, probably a reference to the fact that there are seven heavenly bodies in the ancient medieval world, saturn, jupite,r mars, venus, mercury, moon, and sun which also correspond with the seven steps of refining metal into gold listed above. Sun being gold, and again sun being associated with Judai.

While also using support spell cards that reference the nigrido, albedo and rubedo. Before finally using the Macro-cosmos card... which is again covered above changes on the microscale effect the macroscale.

All in the world originates from a single substance altered in various ways to form heaven and earth. Even the world of man known as the microcosmos and the world of the heavens known as the macrocosmos. So, humans and outerspace are connected?

Amnael then procees to push the sun through three phases, helios - the primordial sun, Helios - Duo Megistus, and Helios - tris magestius. The second stage being a reference to this.

Outside the building where this standard is housed are two men. Their body postures might suggest they are teacher and initiate. The master points to the standard, separated from them by swirling and overflowing waters. There is also a three-step platform leading up to the standard, possibly reflective of the tria prima which all alchemical substances are made from; Paracelsus defined these as Mercury (Spirit), Salt (Body), and Sulfur (Soul)

The master is teaching the student - there are two men, two suns, ad even two babboons in this piece. Sharing and art. Giving and taking. The teacher shares, and the student takes, indicative of the fact this is Daitokuji's final lesson.

In alchemy three suns also appear to show the three stages of aclehmy, the blakckun, white, sun and red sun. The black sun is considered important for the dissolution stage of alchemy. The man holding the flask contianing the golden liquid, made from the four elementsor rather Plate 2 is also referenced in this duel.

Daitokuji is the old man with the flask, the duel also concludes with an elixir created from the four elements of nature. Judai creates elemetal hero elixir by fusing four elemental heroes of different elements in his graveyard. After her reflects upon what he's gained in the past year at Duel Acamdey compared to what he didn't have before - friends.

At which finally Daitokuji elucidates why he chose Judai of all people as his chosen pupil.

"Alchemy 's ability to change all into gold is merely a superficial phenomenon. It's true aim is to change the hearts of people into purer, nobler things."

Judai as we'll find out in season 3 started out the story as a friendless loser, and his desire to connect to others through dueling, causes him to purify the people around him by enduring many trials and tribulations for their sakes.

Amnael is also the first to notice the potential of Judai, and that this potential lies within Judai's darkness. Though, even though Judai is pushed to do a little self reflection in this duel (admitting to himself that he was lonely before he came to duel academy and this is the first time in his life he's had friends) he doesn't actually look inside that darkness towards those repressed childhood memories we were looking at earlier.

If anything while Daitokuji's lesson is a short-term fix, like a bandage over Judai, it doesn't actually help him in the long-run. This is because the reason why Judai is succesful in this season is not really anything of Judai's doing, but because Daitokuji the master rigs it for him. Daitokuji is the one who prepares challenges to increase Judai's strength at dueling, Daitokuji is the one who hands Judai the emerald tablet that lets him make a philosopher's stone during his duel with Kagemaru, Daitokuji is the architect of most of the plot in season 1 and Judai just kind of passively follow his script. Judai is not the alchemist in the first season, he's the apprentice and basically he only makes his first step in his journey by consuming his master and that's in episode 45, when the season is 4/5ths of the way over.

Judai is the alchemist, he's supposed to change others by forming relationships with them the same way that he can fuse two monsters together to form a stronger monster. However, he also has to change himself in order for that to happen and Judai doesn't change through seasons 1 and 2 - he gets by in the short term but it costs him long term development.

Because the duels Judai gets into are always about other people and not about himself. Even the climactic duel of the season against Kagemaru, Judai barely knows who this guy is. Judai's not there by choice, Judai is there because Daitokuji set things up so that his student Judai would defeat Kagemaru the main villain.

Judai's not dueling for himself so we barely learn anything from these duels, and Judai still doesn't really take this duel seriously. The one small thing we get from him is this:

"I feel sorry for you, you can control all the powerful monsters you want, but if you're the one wiping out duel monsters... no one is going to see you as a friend. And that'd make you lonely right? Live as long as you want, but without friends around, it'd just be boring right?"

Which sounds like a pretty shallow statement, but is telling of Judai. Judai had no friends before coming to Duel Academy. Judai gained friends because he was a strong duelist, Sho looks up to him because he's a dueling prodigy like Ryo, Asuka befriended him as a duel rival first, Manjoume only views him as a rival, Ryo sees Judai as someone who's potential for growth surpasses him because Ryo being a perfectionist feels like his perfectionism is stagnant. Judai's only way to connect with people is through duel monsters, and the reason most of these people have an interest in him is because he's a dueling prodigy. Thus, Judai equates dueling with making friends, and believes he has to keep getting into duels like this for the sake of his friends rather than himself.

Judai only wants to duel for fun, but is put into situations where he has to duel with high stakes, because everyone relies on him as the best duelist around, and because he thinks the only reason he made friends in the first place is his skill as a duelist.

Thus, Judai even when forced into these stressful duels, will fall back on his whole "I'm just trying to have fun" thing in order to cope because he's not really here because he wants to but because other people have put him into this situation. Therefore, he doubles down on his own personal enjoyment to convince himself he's here because he wants to and so the pressure doesn't get to him the way he's seen it get to other people like Manjoume.

Judai goes through several trials that seem like Nigredo in season 1. He goes through yami no duels where his life are on the line, challenging his philosophy of only dueling thrilling opponents for fun. He's put through literal trial by fire twice, first by Darkness, then by Daitokuji, situations where he will literally burn away into ash if he doesn't perform. He even duels a Yami no Game with Kagemaru where he forges a philoopsher's stone to create 3 custom cards to win the duel - but once again that's not really Judai who forged it because Daitokuji did it for him.

Daitokuji argues that the true alchemy changes the hearts of other people into nobler, purer things which Judai has arguably done for his friends - but what about his own heart?

Other people around Judai change, and are changed by Judai, but Judai himself for the first two seasons does not change. Even in incredibly plot important duels, and I'm including season 2 as well, because in both cases Kagemaru and Saio Judai wasn't really facing himslf or even a reflection of himself. Kagemaru is Daitokuji's enemy and mess to clean up he passed onto Judai, and Saio is Edo's chilhood best friend who became a victim to the light of destruciton. In both cases Judai swept in to fix things because that's what Judai does, he fights others battles for them because he himself lacks either an internal or external reason to duel - and he doubts his abiltiy to make friends if he didn't go around fixing everyone's problems.

As Above, So Below

It is other characters who go through a Nigrido phase in Season 1. However - their Nigrido phases will be reflected in Season 3. These characters experiencing their own inner turmoils mirror the obstacles that Judai has to face ahead of him.

Asuka

Season 1: Judai helps Asuka searching for her brother who's disappeared into the darkness.

vs. Season 3: Judai travels into another dimmension to find Johan after he disappears from this world, only to find he's possessed the same way Fubuki is. Judai also blames himself for Johan's disappearance and takes on the burden to save him entrely by himself, like how Asuka leads the search for her brother.

Manjoume

Season 1: Manjoume is completely crushed by his responsibility to always win that his brother's force onto his shoulders.

vs.

Season 3: Judai being told to his face he wont' be able to win because he doesn't carry any burdens or serious responsibilities, because that's what drives people to try hard when they're pushed into a corner. Only for Johan to tell Judai that much like Manjoume is being pressured by both of his brothers, Judai has always had to carry everyone's hopes on his shoulders. When he cant carry them anymore, he has a breakdown that pretty much mirrors Manjoume's season one breakdown word for word.

But, even then I won. The others hope their hopes on me, and I won! But still...!! They're all gone. There really was something missing within me. But what is it? What was missing?

Sho

In season one: Judai basically becomes the replacement for Sho's brother, who he has a poor relationship with and Sho has to face his inferiority complex towards his brother head on.

vs.

In season three: Shoe becomes the trigger for Judai's growth when he rejects Judai entirely and stops calling him "aniki" being the last one to abandon him in the dark world when just about everything goes wrong.

But, I guess I thought wrong. Big bro you've just been dueling to satisfiy yourself. You're not my big bro (aniki). You're not my big bro (aniki).

Fubuki

Judai even becomes lost and faces his inner darkness like Fubuki does, the first person to appear before Judai and challenge him to a Yami no Game. Fubuki who was possessed by a dark version of himself who valued power above everything else and then got lost in that darkness.

Judai has no arc in season one, and instead helps other characters along in their arcs. However, Judai's inability to change himself or confront his own inner darkness bites him when two seasons later.

Judai's arc then reflects aspects of all of their arcs. Sho's afraid that his brother doesn't love or respect him because he's an inferior duelist to Ryo. Judai loses Sho's love and respect. Asuka has to go on a journey into a darkness to find her loved one and fears Fubuki may never return. Judai repeats that same journey for Johan. Manjoume's cracks under the pressure his brothers put onto him to always win because his family's love is very conditional. Judai finally cracks when he realizes a lot of his friendship was built on the very conditional fact that he had to always win duels for them and fight for other people's hopes and dreams and not his own. In season one Judai cleanses Fubuki's inner darkness, in season 3 Judai sinks into his own inner darkness that's been there and ignored all along, and so on.

The nigredo phase is about cleansing your own impurities, and Judai is presented to us like a pure shonen hero who doesn't need to be cleansed so he spends his entire time cleansing other people - only for it to turn out his heart turned out to be darker and more selfish than anyone expected.

#ygo gx #yu gi oh gx #yu gi oh #judai yuki #alchemy #this took all day #and i still have like another one to write #ygx meta #ygo meta

[chasani]

Kirby Copy Ability Fusions I think would make really cute/cool designs and powers

As we know, Kirby Star Allies introduces the ability to almost fuse powers with the friend abilities, but it's really limited in it's options.

These are some fusions I think would make really good ideas and be worth it for a possible future appearance

1. Artist x YoYo, Splatter Skate

I mainly had this idea because paint Kirby is cute, yoyo Kirby is cute, so why not combine them? + Going into Kirby: Right Back at 'ya! paint Kirby has skates. So a painter Kirby with the paint rush, + a yoyo with paint on it, with SKATES! An adorable, messy, and decently powerful design.

Normal attack would be the paintbrush and the up attack could switch to the yoyo, still able to paint things to "life" and the dashing would be on skates. Flying would take the spear like ability to spin the spear and fly, except spinning the yoyo.

2. Ice x Fire, Steam?

Not sure about everything with this one, but essentially ice and fire combined. It would have the ice skating, fire burst, water dashing. + In the case where it breathes out ice it's replaced with an almost smoke or fog.

Not to sure about the properties for this one.

3. Bomb x Artist, Paint Bomb

Another one with paint, mainly because of this one idea I had, which is quite literally explained in the title. Roller skates and Kirby holds unlit bombs in each hand. Don't ask hot they're lit.

Normal attack is one bomb, dash is on roller skates. And an aimed or held/charged attack is a paint bomb. Or they're all paintbombs. Regardless, the bomb explodes into a decent range of paint and lasts for a couple of seconds. That's it. That's the idea. And I love it.

4. Festival x Mike, Party?

Loud, Colorful, and Chaotic. A fancy outfit and a speakerphone. 3 time use, but deals massive damage. Slightly stronger each time. Also really colorful and a different festive dance each time.

5. Poison x Whip

A poisonous whip

That's it

6. Magic x Mirror

Wow, this one is taking some older abilities isn't it. Magic x Mirror would result in mirror-like magic tricks. Such as creating "mirror images" as one self or essentially creating an almost clone. Or illusions, to make it look like something happened where it didn't.

The other side of this would be making it look like they went through something. In this case those PESKY LITTLE GLASS BOARDERS. But I don't really have that many ideas for this ability.

7. Mirror x Beam

Now I know what you're thinking- "but didn't they already take some of mirrors abilities and fuse them with beam?" No no, now hear me out.

More mirror, show more of mirror's abilities. Beam out glass shards, sparks, run dash jump and shoot a lightning beam with glass shards shooting out of the floor afterwards. Or cast a lightning beam just where you're standing and have glass shards shoot out of the ground around you. I know it's not much, but it'd make me happy.

8. Circus x Whip

I have nothing to say about this one

And that’s 8 copy abilities/fusions I think should exist

#chasani #🔹 losing my mind 🔹 #kirby

[thermic-edge-blog]

The 6 Best Things About Vacuum Heater

Introduction

Vacuum heaters are an effective and affordable way to heat your home. They are light in weight and easy to carry wherever you want. Vacuum heaters come in a variety of design types, including high-efficiency models that don't use propane or natural gas but instead run on electricity or other fuels such as oil or propane.

The vacuum heater is safe

It is safe to use. Vacuum heaters are made of excellent kinds of stuff and are designed to withstand any type of weather condition. They come in different colors, shapes, and sizes so you can find one that fits your home’s decor perfectly!

It is safe to touch. A vacuum heater will not cause any kind of burns on your skin when you accidentally touch it while operating it or cleaning around it because they have been tested by professionals who know how hot they can get before causing injuries such as burns or scalding hot water leaking onto someone's hands or feet (or worse).

External heating element

The external heating element is a key feature that makes the vacuum heater so effective. It's safer, more efficient, and easier to clean than other types of heaters. The vacuum stays longer without any damage or overheating and you do not worry more about it.

In addition to being safer and more efficient than other types of heaters, an external heating element is also more compact thanks to its design—it doesn't need any space inside the unit itself as it does with other types of electric appliances like hair dryers or curling irons! An external heating element also tends not to have any moving parts like some other types do which means they're less likely to break down over time

Energy efficient

The vacuum heater is an energy-efficient device. It has a low operating cost and reduces CO2 emissions.

The 1-liter capacity of one vacuum heater can heat up to 100 liters of water in about 20 minutes, which means that you can save time for other activities like cooking, washing dishes, or doing housework!

You don't have to worry about burning yourself on hot steam coming from this unit because there are no open flames inside it (unlike traditional furnaces).

Quick heat-up time

You can’t beat the quick heat-up time. If you have a large home, or your house is made of old brick and stone, then it will take longer to heat up than if your house was made of wood and glass or even plastic. The reason for this is that oxygen tries to burn you up when it gets inside the heater. This means that if there is any debris in the heater (like leaves), then they could cause an explosion when they burn away at high temperatures.

To prevent this from happening, all vacuums have spark protection built into them so that when something sparks inside—and sometimes even just touching another object like another piece of metal—the chances of an explosion occurring are very small indeed!

Furthermore, all modern vacuums also have external heating elements mounted on top of their lid which allows them to quickly heat up without having anything else around them burning down too quickly; thus making sure no one gets hurt during setup time!

No oxygen trying to burn you up

You might have heard the term "oxygen" used in reference to fires. But what exactly is oxygen? Oxygen does not hold color or scent but helps the generation of air. It's found everywhere on Earth—in our atmosphere and oceans, as well as on land (as plants struggle for it). Every animal requires gas for survival through breathing and photosynthesis for Plant for making their food. But what happens when we burn things like paper or wood? The answer: They release lots of carbon dioxide (CO2) into their surroundings; this causes them to deteriorate faster than they normally would over time due to oxidation—the combination process where oxygen reacts with some compounds such as proteins inside organisms' cells causing damage over time until they die off completely leaving behind bones instead!

Spark protection

No oxygen to burn you up

No sparks

No fire or smoke

Conclusion

The vacuum heater is a good choice for you if you want to save money, but it's also important to consider how the heater will be used. If your goal is to keep warm rooms from freezing up during cold weather, then using a vacuum heater may not be needed. However, if you want to stay warm during cold months and save energy by heating up your house faster than other alternatives, then this might just be what you're looking for!

Find Best Vaccum Components at thermic-edge at the best price.

#vaccum #Custom Heater #Vacuum Chamber Heater #Vacuum Furnaces

[tarotwitchy]

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�� Moon 🌙 Edition; pt. 1 •

Disclaimer: These aspects' accuracy still vary depending on the signs (and its elements), and the houses they're in. As we all know, the general consensus between signs is that the combinations of Earth and Water, and Fire and Air are in harmonious relationships. Nonetheless, the descriptions below are depictions for generalized Lunar aspects only; and therefore, other conditions in a birth chart should be taken into consideration.

❌ Please do not plagiarize my work, or post this elsewhere without credits or my permission. Thank you! ❌

🌙 Moon-Sun aspects

Read here.

🌙 Moon-Mercury aspects

The label that immediately comes to mind when someone has this aspect in their chart is Emotional Intelligence. Somehow, this is the type of person who just knows what to say to anyone who comes to them regardless of the nature of the problem or dilemma at hand. These people can literally read a room — without even talking or speaking yet. They just... know. The ability to gauge people, environment, situations, and timing are the gifts they received at birth.

They're also the ones that know what to say, and when to say it; which is rare nowadays. It's as if others look up to them when it comes to the "final say" of things and situations. These natives let others speak out all they want. They allow other people to express what's going on inside their minds. But when all has been said, these natives can compartmentalize all the emotions and information that has been said around them, and be able to come to a cohesive conclusion to the conversation that just feels and sounds right for everyone involved.

🌙 Moon-Venus aspects

Beauty incarnate. It doesn't matter what kinds or types of physical features people with this aspect have. It doesn't matter if their physical appearances fit the mold of society or not. They are beautiful — one way or another. They have something about them that's wholly unique to them that other people find so beautiful, captivating, and endearing. These natives might have complexes that pertain to their physical features, especially if these two planets are badly aspected. They may hate how their nose looks like, or the unevenness of their legs, or the shape of their hips, etc. But other people around them can't see those "imperfections."

However, you can count on these people to see the beauty that life has to offer. Yes, they may fall into bouts of melancholy from time to time. But even those moments of sadness can appear beautiful to these natives. They're the ones that other's look up to when it comes to bringing beauty into one's life. They can romanticize mundane activities and routines that others have trouble fulfilling. A word of caution to these natives, however. Be careful not to romanticize things that needed to be seen in its true colors, such as toxicity and abuse.

🌙 Moon-Mars aspects

One of the more underrated aspects that are not being talked about properly. And I suppose I understand the difficulties in trying to define this placement. People with this aspect in their natal chart are one of two things; those that wear their hearts on their sleeves with so much vigor and courage, or those who hide their innermost feelings and thoughts under lock and key. Depending on the type of aspect, these natives have a sense of "all or nothing" when it comes to defining their emotions and their allegiances. They don't do lukewarm.

The intensifying powers of Mars amplify the emotional domain of the Moon. This way, these natives can either be the most convicted and ride-or-die individuals, or those that can skillfully conceal their intentions and thoughts (the latter applies to those with conflicted aspects such as square and inconjunction). Furthermore, these are one of those aspects wherein others should be wary of lying to, or deceiving these natives. While this aspect is more susceptible to being tricked and deceived, people with this aspect in their natal charts don't take issues like these lightly. They will bring justice to themselves, especially when they feel personally wronged by someone or something. Just don't mess with these natives lest you want your secret issues and problematic past be exposed for everyone to see.

🌙 Moon-Jupiter aspects

While I don't play favorites with astrological placements and aspects, I can say this is one of the exception. Others might disagree with how I'll define this aspect, and I respect that. But the way I see this, natives of this aspect are those blessed with an extra oomph in the lunar realm. As we all know, Jupiter expands. Given this, these people experience the full-scale of the Moon's gifts. They're the ones who can both unleash and reign in their emotions with so much ease, in comparison to others without this aspect.

To understand this better, these are the natives with the ability to shift from one emotion to another easily. Now, this isn't to confuse my point with moodiness (or a form of mental health issues, that need to be addressed by professionals). The point is that they can traverse the emotionality of their surroundings while maintaining their own emotional equilibrium. They can jibe with others' feelings and moods, but the emotional state of these natives are not affected whatsoever. It's a really impressive thing. They can compartmentalize people's emotions without breaking a sweat, or stressing about it internally.

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[doodlebloo]

Hello everybody I'm thinking abt Michael_B again so you all get to be subject to my thoughts (all /rp)

Ranboo loves to dress Michael up in like little sweater vests and collared shirts and such, like not outfits that are uncomfortable just little stylish ones cause he thinks it's cute; Tubbo also thinks it's cute but he is Not putting in the effort of wrestling a toddler into the clothes so Ranboo will dress Michael in a very nice outfit then leave for the Arctic then come back 3 days later to Michael in a stained oversized t-shirt and two different socks (he looks happy though so that's all that matters)

Michael can't drown in water but also can't drown in lava (though fire does hurt him somehow?) so temperature is weird for him. He likes REALLY hot baths (bc y'know Nether Child) but Michael will literally sit in the bath till the water is like cold begging for five more minutes to play w all the bubbles and/or his toys

(When Michael becomes old enough to understand the concept of fertilized vs unfertilized eggs they do explain it so they can be allowed to eat eggs around him without him freaking out thinking they're eating a chick, Michael is a bit upset that his two beloved hens did not have a baby Together but he is cheered up by the photos of Ranboo with torn clothes and fucked up hair and an angry rooster behind him)

Michael gets so excited every time his chickens lay an egg and eventually Michael is able to communicate that the reason he's so excited is bc he wants them to have a chick, but both his chickens are hens & Ranboo and Tubbo both feel so bad... so they end up picking a weekend where Tubbo takes Michael to stay w Tommy while Ranboo finds a rooster, and it's a very cartoonish Ranboo vs A Rooster struggle to get it in the same room as Michael's hens like Ranboo gets beaten up by this bird several times In A Row but it does end up working and neither of them have ever seen Michael as happy as he is when he screams for them to come look at the new baby bird in his room

If Michael isn't a shapeshifter I think he dyes his hair at a fairly young age. Ranboo just comes home one night and Tubbo has Michael sat on the counter w tinfoil on his now red hair and Ranboo is like ok... I left for. An hour but ok. And six year old Michael is sooo excited bc the red will make him look so cool but also kind of like his chickens but also kind of like Uncle Tommy! And Ranboo is like ... You know what that's great. You look awesome. & He doesn't even chew Tubbo out abt it later bc Michael is just so happy abt it and so excited to get to choose his very own hair color!

Ranboo LOVES reading to Michael like so much, he always gives 110% and like does all these voices and adds in jokes that only Tubbo who is half dozed off on his shoulder will get. And Michael loves it a lot too, he laughs at the voices and interrupts with his own nonsense jokes and reacts in an overdramatic way even though he knows the ending. As Michael ages and outgrows the children's books Ranboo starts making stories up, and sometimes Tubbo will join too and they'll just roleplay back and forth to build a story. Michael is around eight when Tommy decides he can tell a better fuckin' story than Ranboo, surely, and starts weaving some adventure tale about two best friends and a couple of music discs, and how badass and cool they both were. (It's the first story Michael has heard in a long time where neither are the hero and neither are the sidekick.)

I think Michael is a weird mix of low maintenance and spoiled, like it feels like he's very polite and doesn't ask for a ton and is super laid back but also I reckon he needs a fairly consistent stream of attention (combination of being abandoned at a young age and being around other ppl who need attention.) Which yeah could be a problem at times, but mostly Tubbo will just ruffle his hair and call him Clingy and drop what he's doing to spend a few hours with him (Because maybe Tubbo eventually revels in the fact that he has Time, that no one is going anywhere or starting any wars or getting themselves killed; that his building project can wait a few hours while he touches up Michael's roots and they watch Michael's favorite movie)

#sorry!!! but i think about him a lot!!!!!!!! #living up to my blog title #doodle.txt

[chasingpj]

𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫

pairing: leo valdez x child of iris!reader

requested?: yes!

translation: full of color

warnings: uhh, mentions of mental health and ?? maybe some typos lmao

category: headcanons, fluff, best friends to lovers

pre-relationship

though, leo saw you around camp often, you caught interest in him before he caught interest in you

i mean, he literally couldn't miss you because your outfits were always bright, whether it was a combination of colors or monochromatic

you and your siblings actually look like a rainbow threw up on you guys, and it's honestly iconic

no one at camp can not notice the children of iris, especially when they're in a herd

one day, you were sitting alone at a picnic table near the lake, and you found yourself drawing him in your sketchbook

you sketched a portrait of him while he spoke to piper at a table nearby

you've always found the floppy curls and how his brightest smiles always look a little manic to be adorable

when you sketched his portrait in your notebook, you didn’t intend for him ever to see it

until a couple of weeks later in the arts and crafts center, leo passed by and caught sight of a new project you were working on

he stopped in his tracks to compliment your drawing

since you were nowhere near done with it, you couldn’t admire the piece as much as he was

but his enthusiasm was so endearing

he politely asked if he could see more, and you didn’t hesitate to slide over your sketchbook

he noticed a lot of your drawings were scenery and people at camp; especially your siblings

he stumbled across a detailed sketch of a woman and her child sitting in a bus

“wow… who’s this?”

“oh, I don’t know. It was just a little girl I saw on the train with her mother.”

“so you just drew her?”

you never realized how weird your habit of drawing random people was until he had asked

you giggled nervously, quick to explain yourself, “I tend to draw people or things that I find beautiful. I wanted to capture how calm and happy she was with her child ‘cause at the time, I was stressed and angry. Watching and drawing her made me calm.”

leo nodded, a faint smile on his lips before looking back down at the drawing. “that’s really cool,” he complimented, and you shifted in your seat, suddenly shy.

And then it hit you

you were so willing to show leo all your works that you had completely forgotten that his portrait was in that book

your pulse thumped loud in your ears, mind racing to figure out a way to take away your sketchbook before he could see it

you ended up spending so long thinking of what to do that he arrived on the page in no time

right before he could see the drawing in its entirety, you slammed the book closed and snatched it

leo’s startled expression turned into a mischievous smirk

“was that me?”

you froze in your place; a squeaky sound escaped your throat in your embarrassment

leo’s brown eyes sparkled as he leaned into you, your gaze fixed on his, “y/n, you think I’m beautiful?”

AHHHH!

^^ that was you in your head btw

leo laughed, amused at your attempt to deny it

“then why did you snatch it away?” he raises an eyebrow before reaching over quickly to grab the sketchbook back

you didn't pull it out of his reach fast enough, leo getting a grip on one side

the two of you pull it back and forth, leo laughing at you as you continued to deny what he saw

though you were incredibly embarrassed, you couldn't contain the laughter bubbling in your chest

gods, of course, this would happen to me, you thought

he got it out of your grip, and you sighed in defeat, watching him flip to the page of him and piper

he was quiet, studying the picture for a second before giving you that playful smirk

“you think I’m beautiful?” he asked again

you playfully rolled your eyes, “it was more piper than you.”

your tone was sarcastic, only fueling leo’s banter with you

“oh really?” he chuckled to himself, “but i’m the only one colored in.”

you were silent at his observation before scoffing, “whatever.”

leo only laughed as you take the book away from him

“don’t you have somewhere to be, fire boy?” you asked and nudged his shoulder

the glint in your eyes made him smile, and he shrugged, “i guess i do. i'll see you around."

you nodded, too shy to do anything else, and he walked off

after that, leo took it upon himself to talk to you every day

leo teased you about the drawing all the time, and he found the way you would play along to be funny

before you both fell in love, you were close friends

you had such an optimistic point of view about life, and it was pretty contagious

somehow when leo was in the dumps about something, you always knew what to say

you were just so easy to talk to, and because of this, your friendship just grew naturally

your first kiss was towards the end of summer

leo invited you to hang out with him in bunker nine at, specifically, 6 pm

you teasingly asked if it was a date, and you remember the way he tensed up a bit

with a mumble, he asked, "what if it is?"

from the tone in his voice, you knew he wasn’t joking

in fact, his tone was hesitant, a part of him was expecting you to reject him

then the heavy pit in his stomach turned light when you smiled and said, "then I'm down."

the grin leo gave you made your heart flutter like crazy

your first date consisted of eating snacks and watching a movie on one of those portable DVD players

You picked up on the tension between you and him, and noticed the opportunities for a kiss kept passing

it was until Leo walked you to your cabin that night did you have a moment of boldness and asked, "so are you going to kiss me or?"

leo's eyes widen in surprise before his face broke out in the familiar smirk he gives when he flirts with you

you rolled your eyes playfully and grabbed the front of his shirt, pulling him into you

your first kiss was sweet and soft; a little awkward

his hands hovered over your sides for a second, not sure what to do with them until he decided to rest them on your waist

it was the perfect way to mark the beginning of your relationship

relationship

since you guys are both broke teenagers, you got creative with date nights

you came up with the idea of paint splattering with him

you guys got canvases, covered the walls and floors with plastic to make sure you didn't dirty them

then you filled water balloons with paint and just threw them

despite you guys singing and dancing around in the midst of it, the canvases came out so good

and to commemorate the beginning of your relationship, you hung them up side by side in bunker nine, and when you guys get a place together, you hang them up in the hallway of your apartment

leo is a huge gift giver; as i’ve said before in my “how he shows he loves you” headcanons

he’s made you a lot of things; canvases, jewelry, little trinkets with scrap metal

one of your favorite gifts from him is a suncatcher with rainbow quartz

you fell in love with it and when you move in together, you make sure to hang it up in the kitchen with the bunch of other suncatchers that he’s made you

i love the idea that you would attempt to bring more color in his wardrobe

a lot of his clothes are muted in color; you don’t mind it but you were interested to see what he’d look like in a colorful outfit like yours

To say the least, he was not that enthusiastic and maybe, you shouldn’t have put him in a monochromatic orange outfit but… you still thought he looked cute

leo thought he looked like a traffic cone though so it didn’t stick

it’s okay because you like him the way he is anyways

another thing is that you guys are super supportive of each other and leo loves just how you manage to lift his mood

once leo was having a bad mental health week

you guys were sitting under a tree, looking out at the water

his head laid on your shoulder and small sniffles came from the other

it hurt to see him like this and you wished you could do more to make him feel better

then you had the greatest idea to make a rainbow for him

so you did

leo was so stunned when he saw the rainbow form over the lake

he looked at you surprised and when you admitted to making the rainbow for him, the emotion on his face was indescribable

and then you laughed and held him when he started crying because he said it was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for him

another time, you insisted that meditation would be good for him

he literally sat down for like 3 minutes with his eyes closed before he was itching to get up and do something

even when he was sitting down, he was still bouncing his legs and fidgeting

so that fell through too but you still helped him in other ways and he’s so grateful for your optimism and bubbly personality

leo always says that you bring color to everything; literally and figuratively

one of the things you bring color to is his life

and he’s constantly reminding you of this; that his world just feels brighter now that you’re around

and it’s literal too

since you painted the walls of bunker nine a bright orange

he asked you why orange, and you told him because orange encourages productivity, creativity, and most importantly, optimism

it may have also reminded you of the orange outfit you put him into

anyways, you told him that it hurt you to see him get down in the dumps, and you insisted there was no way he could be sad in a bright orange room

needless to say, you were kinda right

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[princess-of-the-corner]

okay so in khr the lore is that there are this other earth-native species of sentients that are older than humans and very long lived and also, crucially, have magic fire powers. the idea is, everyone has a soul. souls also have this energy to it, powered by Will. the other species can manifest this energy, which is reffered to as Dying Will Flames, or just flames, as magic fire- there's a spectrum of colors and attributes that can show up. by modern times literally only one is alive. so for most people this doesn't really effect their lives at all. why would it. but this other species actually could interbreed with humans, so for the maybe 1-3% of the population that has one as an ancestor, there's a chance that they might unlock these powers. as you might guess from the name, dying will, the usual way to unlock it is to truly believe that you are in mortal danger, and to not want to die. to reject death, with your dying will. the sheer force of willpower will activate your flames, whatever type you have.

due to a guy in the italian feudal period unlocking his flames and making a vigilante group that ended up becoming organized crime, these powers are now an organized crime thing, especially in the italian mafia. the mob keeps their magic powers secret from 'civillians' on pain of terrible consequences. any kind of snitch is frowned upon like in regular organized crime but if you specifically try to expose the magic fire horrible eldrtich abominations will be sent after you.

the plot is this random clumsy japanese teenager finds out his great×10 or so grandpa was this historical italian guy who moved to japan after retired from the mafia, even though timeline wise this had to have been when japan was completely closed off so like what? how was he allowed in? but we are IGNORING that anyway. and he's the only eligable living heir to the most powerful mafia family in the world. he finds this out because a hitman shows up to tutor him in being a mafia boss. he does not want to do this. unfortunately for him over the course of the series his found family ends up dragging him into it anyway. the hitman looks like a baby because he is under a curse. there are so many shenanigans and dads i want to beat up.

to be clear we dont know most of the stuff about the not-aliens at the start of the series this kid just gets a hitman on his doorstep who shoots him with a magic bullet that turns his flames on. it started out as a gag manga the plot formed later. theres time travel also. i just think youd like it even if you dont add it to the crossover. the flames come in a rainbow of colors- storm flames are red and their property is disintegration, sun flames are yellow and theirs is activation, lightning flames are green and involve hardening/reinforcement (and also have electric properties), rain flames are blue and their property is tranquility (and also have water properties), mist flames are indigo and do construction/illusion, cloud flames are violet and multiply. all the flames also have literal fire properties and general enhancement. orange is sky and the rarest and what the protagonist has, and it's property is harmony. what this actually does is a little hand-wavy, skies can do all sorts of shit. canonically harmony allows you to meld two different flame types together- later in the series at one point the protag combines sky and shiny!sky (earth) to make oath flames, and one of the antagonists-turned-allies has 'wrath flames' which is implied to be a combo of storm and sky. in fanon harmony also allows you to 'harmonize' with other flame types, giving you magical friendship bonds. to what extent and how this works is up to the author, of course. which flame you might activate if you can mostly has to do with a mixture of heritage and your personality- storms tend to be agressive, lightnings impulsive, etc. skies don't necessarily have a particular attitude but it's generally accepted that they're leaders, which is why all the dons in the series are usually skies. you can have more than one flame type but it's probaby like one in ten you know. another aspect of it is that skies are expected to kind of... collect one of each of the other flame types as 'guardians' to fight with them, which is part of where the harmonization fanon comes from, though some authors have it be that a sky can have more than one per. as a treat.

anyway sorry if this is long and kind of rambly i just really love khr. one of my favorite things to do when i get into a new series is to be like 'okay what are their flame types tho' and speculate about that. funnily enough since there are 7 flame types it kind of lines up pretty well in most parts with the main seven miraculous powers- mist fox, lightning turtle, rain bee, storm cat, sun ladybug, sky butterfly. cloud peacock is a liiittle more of a stretch than the others but it still works. marinette is totally a sky tho.

Honestly sounds dope I'll add it to the list of things to check out.

[ask-those-dumbasses]

Mob Masterpost

I’ve gotten many asks about the mobs in this world, and I figured I might as well list them since there are a good chunk I removed, as well as custom lore for some. These will probably be paired with pictures one day, we’ll see. 

Passive Mobs  

Bat 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Cat

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Axolotl 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Chicken 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Fox

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

All the fish (and more) 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Turtle

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Cows 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Horses / Donkeys 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Skeleton Horses (not zombie ones they freak me out)

- Literally just the skeleton of a horse nothing interesting here 

Pig

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Parrot 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Sheep 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Rabbit

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Mooshroom / Moobloom 

- Mooshroom exist as they do in game

- Mooshroom are found around massive dead trees in damp forests. They can also be found in mushroom biomes 

- In flower fields are a subspecies of Mooshroom, the Moobloom - which have many different varieties depending on the flower (but there are mainly yellow ones) 

- Mooblooms co-regulate with bees 

- Mooshrooms just need to break down dead plants for nutrients.  

- Mooblooms just need sunlight and water 

Striders 

- Co-regulate with Piglins, who keep them safe. In return Striders are a popular form of transportation (very big) to get around the large lava lakes in the Nether. 

- Eats the mushrooms and plant life of the nether (the plant’s spores stick of their bodies and travel to grow and shit).

- They can easily swim through lava using their big, duck-like webbed feet.  

- They get too cold and freeze up if they’re outside of lava for too long.  

- Strider babies like to ride on their parents backs. 

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Neutral Mobs 

Goat

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Dolphin

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Piglin

- Already done 

Panda 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Polar Bear 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Wolf 

- exist as they do in real life (no art needed) 

Bee 

- Most are just normal bees like in real life  

- There are, however, rare large square bees-like creatures that roam around the world. These creatures only attack when attacked, and can be tamed to ride on by people (think like Appa from Avatar).

- They can mentally control other, smaller bees if they desire (think like the Alphas in HTTYD2) 

- Every 10 years; there is a small chance of seeing The Elegant White Beefly/ The Queen bee and other rare bees flying around. 

(CONCEPT ART PROVIDED BY LLEN_BEE)

Endermen 

- These are void creatures that are made by the Enderdragon 

- They have no real thoughts or will of their own and are not considered to be fully conscious or aware. 

- They are a collective hivemind under the command of the Enderdragon 

- It’s rumored that the Enderdragon sees through their eyes. When Endermen fly into rages due to making eye contact with people, it’s said that’s the Enderdragon, trying to exact her revenge on humanity.

Iron Golem

- Iron Golems are man-made guardians/ machines built to protect villages and trader outposts from monsters at night. 

- They’re considered to be gentle giants, only attacked when they’re provoked. They’ve even been known to pick flowers to give to children as a gift.

- They are, however, extremely powerful and bulky, and are not to be casually messed with. 

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Hostile Mobs 

Zombies & Skeletons (They're basically the same thing)

- Literally just dead people idk what to tell you 

Drowned 

- Literally just Water Dead People™  

Spider (only cave ones) 

- Literally just extra big spiders that live in caves congratulations

Creeper

- They’re a conscious mass of moss / plant life.  

- They spread their spores by exploding near living things and attaching the seeds to those things. The seeds grow from these. This is why it is important to clean your clothes well after encountering one. 

Elder Guardian + Guardians

- These are ancient magical sea creatures that were made by the gods. They were made to guard Sea Temples from outsiders. 

- Guardians watch over the outside and most of the inside under the Elder Guardian’s command. 

- The Elder Guardian's eye can cause time to slow for the person whose gaze it lands on. After tests it has been confirmed that it simply feels this way to the victim, time does not actually slow.

Ghast 

- An eternally crying spirit of the nether. They are extremely dangerous and hostile if they spot you, since they are able to spit liquid fire from their mouths. 

- Their tears are made of liquid silver and are extremely valuable if you can manage to collect them. 

Blaze

- These creatures are created inside nether fortresses by odd objects called “spawners.”

- They’re made of fire, smoke, and bright, eternally hot metal they can use to swing around to harm their opponents. This metal is commonly referred to as “Blaze Rods”  

- They guard nether fortresses with their lives, willing to sacrifice anything to protect them. 

Hoglin 

- They’re considered the elephants of the nether; very strong, very destructive, and potentially deadly. 

- Warped fungi are a tasty treat for Striders, but are extremely toxic to Hoglins. Because of this, they have developed a fear to the signature pattern of the warped fungus. 

- They eat / scrape against wood and plants for food as well as to sharpen their tusks. 

Phantom

- They’re small nocturnal creatures who live up in the trees . 

- They make nests out of bones they find, and mostly eat bugs 

- They’re very shy, and only come out to try and “help” other creatures get sleep at night. 

Shulker

- Very tiny, almost pixie like creatures that live in the ancient ender cities. They build themselves purple shells to hide away from danger. 

- Their shells are made from a mixture of sticky saliva and mucus, and plant matter from chorus tree plants. 

- They are able to spit out a sticky magic chemical that cause people to start floating into the air. The only way to get out of this is to wait for it to wear off.

Slime

- They’re mutant creatures made of a translucent ooze. The color can change depending on where they originated. 

- The lighter, outside ooze is very sticky, but also has bouncing properties. The inside, darker layer of ooze is very toxic and can dissolve metal. 

- While smaller ones are basically harmless, bigger Slimes can be very deadly. They trap it’s prey inside it’s body to immobilize it, and digest it alive.

Wither Skeleton

- These are skeletons that have had prolonged exposure to soul sand, turning black and “withered.” They also have a small blue fire in their chest. 

- They’re faster, stronger, more deadly and more hostile then regular skeletons, and are known for pursuing their targets over long distances. However, their bones are slowly withering away.

- Only fresh wither skeletons are fully intact. This is why it’s so hard to get fully intact wither skulls. 

The Wither

- When three wither skulls are combined with a great amount of soul sand, and is lit with soul fire, a Wither is born. 

- It’s an ancient creature built for only one purpose, to destroy and kill all life it sees

- Long ago, all the Piglin tribes came together to defeat a Wither that was rampaging across the Nether. Ancient writings of how it came to be were drawn along the walls of Nether Fortresses. 

- The tears of a Wither makes Wither Roses - an apology to the lives it has taken. 

- Nether stars, which appear once a Wither is defeated, can be used to make beacons. They can also be used to make Totems of Undying, when it’s combined with god-blessed liquid gold, and an emerald pure of corruption.

#not an ask #lore dump

[the-formerone]

if you're taking prompts would you be interested in writing something where sakura travels back in time and macks on a young orochimaru who is a woman? i literally am asking for a friend they're too shy to ask you directly lol

well i mcfuckin love this concept and honestly tell ur friend to send any sakura rare pair my way and i will make it mcfreakin happen also i’m a lil tipsy so i hope y’all don’t mind have a pleasant evening and here’s some nonsense below the cut

She doesn’t smell quite right. That’s the first thing Orochimaru notices. 

She’s all copper and sage, like blood and yet not like blood. She smells like a wound in the middle of the healing process, clean but with the barest breath of decay. The slightest hint of death. The kind that warns you that if you were just a few days too late, you might not have made it. 

There is no medicine like that in the world. Tsunade was trying for it, Orochimaru knew, but her friend was sorely lacking in the chakra control required for such an effort. She was the Shodaime’s granddaughter, sure, and she was Uzumaki, but with that much vitality came the need for precision so fine, you could split a hair on it. Orochimaru knew her teammate was well on her way to achieving as much, but she hadn’t quite made it yet. 

Which meant of course, that there was no reason for a woman like this one to smell so clearly of the wounds Tsunade was still figuring out how to heal. Still developing methods for. 

“Hello,” she says, her mouth wrapped around the little black straw in her cocktail, and that is another thing that reminds Orochimaru of Tsunade. 

Her drinking habit was reasonably small. She was still at the place where she could be called an ‘aficionado’ rather than an ‘alcoholic’.

Orochimaru inclines her head in reply. She’s only in this bar for recon. Sarutobi-sensei had sent her out for intel because she was typically the best for it. Tsunade attracted too much attention and Jiraiya attracted the wrong kind. 

But a pale skinned, odd eyed beauty? That brought in just the right kind of idiot. 

It also apparently brought in pink haired women that smelled like they were a split second away from keeling over dead. 

“Are you drinking alone?” the woman asks. 

Orochimaru runs the tip of her finger around the rim of her glass. She’s having a sparkling water, very well dressed up with a lime so any idiot that passes by will think she’s drinking. From the way the woman beside her looks from the drink back up to her, it’s clear the ruse is only working on those that aren’t looking too closely. 

The woman cracks a smile and takes a long pull of her drink. 

“It’s a shame to drink alone,” she says, “especially when you’re so far from home.”

Orochimaru wraps her lips around her straw. She watches from the corner of her eye as the strange woman’s throat bobs while she takes another drink. 

Her accent is wrong for this part of Fire Country. Wrong for every part of Fire Country really. The dialect is strange, her words slurring into each other in a way that makes Orochimaru want to narrow her eyes. She’s not from around here, but this stranger holds herself like this dive bar is where she was born. 

“I’m far from home,” the woman says, tossing a few locks of pink hair behind her ear. “Which is why I say it.”

Orochimaru nods and crosses her ankles beneath the bar. It was peculiar to find someone so willing to offer so much information about themselves, regardless of whether or not the information was true. 

“Are you very far from home?” she asks. 

Her mark isn’t around here. She’s looking for Kumo shinobi, scouting for them. They had the kind of information that was crucial in these days with war on the horizon. And she had a better temperament than Tsunade, when it came to tricking them out of it. 

“No,” the woman replies, nibbling on her straw. “I’m very close, actually. I’ve been gone on a very long journey, and I’m coming home today.”

Orochimaru nods. Useless, then. A waste of her time, despite her odd scent. 

“I’m Sakura,” the woman offers. 

Her coloring is all wrong for Kumo anyway. The pink hair was much more Konoha or Uzushio, and the green eyes had Fire or Earth Country written all over them. The combination and the ridiculous name screamed Flower or even Hot Springs. 

Useless either way. 

“Oroko,” Orochimaru replies blithely. 

She drums her fingers on the counter and wonders how long it might take for her mark to arrive. Kumo shinobi were known to slip into dives this far into the crevices of Fire Country for information or a cheap lay. 

Then, there is a shoulder pressing against hers, and breath against her ear. The only thing that keeps her from spitting a viper onto the table is the recognition that she is supposed to be playing a dumb civilian woman, and not a shinobi born of the Grass Country Snake clan. 

Her self control has always been impeccable.

“You’ll want a man with white hair and yellow eyes,” Sakura says, her lips brushing against Orochimaru’s ear. “He likes western drinks. Pretend there’s whiskey in your next false flag, and you’ll have him.”

She stays there, perhaps a little too long than she has to, and the sweet smell of vodka on her breath reminds Orochimaru of her adolescent crush on Tsunade, only recently blossomed and stamped out now that they were jounin.

She turns her head and watches Sakura give her a pretty smile. She jerks her head back towards a booth on the other side of the bar, her eyes bright with mischief. 

“If I’m wrong,” she says, “your next round’s on me.”

‘Sucker’s bet,’ she wants to reply, but Orochimaru doesn’t. After suffering through Tsunade’s newest bad coping mechanism, she knows better than to take anyone up on a bet. 

Instead, she lets her mouth off the straw, runs her tongue over her lower lip. She tastes decay and dew on fresh leaves. She watches Sakura sashay away, the battle axe at her hip no easy feat to maneuver around. 

 Suddenly, she is stricken with the kind of want she hasn’t so much as thought about since she was fifteen and first realized that Jiraiya could look the way he did. 

Sakura smiles at her, slow and easy, and lifts a hand to wave her pretty black gloved fingers. Orochimaru -who smells the distinct ozone and rain stench of a Kumo shinobi entering the bar- waves back.

What was it about death and life that grabbed her by the belly and pulled her forward?

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