Sekai: Taiki is always overly eager, but I guess even you have things you’re bad at.
Taiki: I’m totally doing just fine, though?!
Taiki -> Sekai
Taiki: Sekai-san can you fetch me my grater right there?
Sekai: What? Which one? You prepared too many tools, how am I supposed to know which one it is?
Sekai + Taiki
Taiki: Whether it’s dancing or cooking, we’ll clear it! As Fantastics’-
Taiki+Sekai: Yggdrasill!
TL note: In Fantastic9, Sekai dub his pair name with Taiki as Yggdrasill (world tree in Norse cosmology) because thats what you get when you combine their names together 世界樹 (world tree)
The gacha gods fucking smiled on me tonight. When I saw the rainbow cloche, I had my fingers crossed for the Riku, but I got the Riku, the Itsuki AND the Shogo? In ONE ten pull?
Hey there to all the weird and wonderful people who are my tribe! Welcome to 2024 when all your resolutions comes true! (Until you break them 15 minutes later 😂)
oh my god I can't believe how good this turned out and how quickly I finished it ahhhh!!
Fully rendered Zuko study! Expression study of my favorite guy in traditional clothing from different nations (ooh I wonder who gave him that water tribe betrothal necklace)
I'm honestly a little embarrassed it took me this long to get to this topic! As always, credit goes to @atla-lore-archive for saving all the neat ATLA tidbits and concept art from the old Nick website.
Pai Sho (牌數), meaning "several game pieces" in Chinese, takes inspiration from a few different table games:
Its most obvious influence is the German game Sternhalma, known in the English-speaking world as Chinese Checkers. Like Chinese Checkers, the game is played on a circular board.
The lines on the board and the circular tiles are reminiscent of Xiàngqí (象棋), known in the English-speaking world as Chinese Chess. The pieces often being positioned on the intersection of lines is also very similar to Chinese Chess.
The game's four player limit and visually creative tiles are reminiscent of Mahjong (麻将), China's most famous tile game. In particular, the iconic white lotus tile appears to draw heavily from the classic Mahjong one-dot tile.
Finally, the name Pai Sho was likely inspired by Pai Gow (牌九), meaning "nine game pieces" in Cantonese--- which is both a domino game and a style of poker.
Just like ATLA's animals, it seems that Pai Sho is a fusion of different real life sources. In the next posts, I'll be covering the symbolism and cultural significance behind each Pai Sho tile shown in ATLA.
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