surely, look forward and walk, dream fighter

Nana: that looks terrible, why do you watch it?

Me: lots of reasons.

In this post I will argue that

And also,

Furthermore, I would like to point out that

And of course,

And let's not forget that

In conclusion,

Sometimes even way cuter like this stud muffin here

But it turns out that these guys here are way more bird-like than the original chocobo design. The chocobo first appeared in Final Fantasy II (1988) on the NES. Its original render looked like this:

That’s the world map. Originally, the idea was that the whole party of four would ride on the back of one chocobo (unlike the later chocobos designed to be ridden by a single rider). And so Yoshitaka Amano designed for the official artwork gigantic two-legged reptilian bird that could travel around the world with multiple riders. The first official chocobo artwork looked nothing like the chicken-thing we now know:

Fucking awesome right? One more thing: it was possible to summon a chocobo into battle in Final Fantasy III using “Chocobo Rage.” The game manual featured artwork for moves and items and featured this one for Chocobo Rage:

This interpretation of a chocobo quickly fell out of fashion. The concept art for Final Fantasy IV (1991) had already moved on to the chicken design we’re more familiar with:

tagged by: @latristereina thank you!

not ranked

1. Okita Souji - Hakuouki (sorry Saito and Kaoru)

2. Son Hak and Jae-Ha - Akatsuki no Yona (sorry all the other dragons)

3. Captain Flint - Black Sails

4. Dimitri and Felix - Fire Emblem Three Houses

5. Jorg Ancrath - The Broken Empire trilogy

2. Jon Snow - Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire

3. Liu Kang - Mortal Kombat

4. Finn - Star Wars

5. Jin Kazama - Tekken

Tagging:

In no particular order…

1. Keisuke Sannan- Hakuoki

2. Nobuchika Ginoza- Psycho-Pass

3. Yu Kanda- D Gray-man

4. Spock- Star Trek: The Original Series

5. Abel Nightroad- Trinity Blood

I’ll tag @nospringonions @melodramatic-butterfly @victoriasfreespace @white-queen-lacus

1. Hakuouki’s Sanosuke Harada ~

2. London Detective Mysteria’s Jack Millers ~

3. Seduce Me’s Erik ~

4. Amnesia’s Ukyo ~

5. Ozmafia’s Soh ~

1. Saito Hajime, Hakuoki

2. Nakahara Chuuya, Bungou Stray Dogs

3. Victor Frankenstein, Code:Realize

(Here’s where my list gets messy lol)

4. Louis Howard, Midnight Cinderella

5. Luka Clemence, Ikemen Revolution

1. Okita Souji (Hakuoki)

Also 1. Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs)

3. Saeyoung Choi (Mystic Messenger)

4. Alyn Crawford (Midnight Cinderella)

5. Impey Barbicane (Code:Realize)

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