#he didn't even do anything!!

#because genderbending abronsius means 15 hours of research to come up with a plausible backstory for an old female professor in the 1900s

#i actually don't know if it was even socially acceptable back then for a young unmarried female student to accompany her old male professor#on a trip like this

#but whatever im just gonna make alfreda his distance relative or whatever and that'd be a socially acceptable enough reason. hopefully

#tried to genderbend sarah but like#the whole creepily protective father guarding his daughter like shes his property is a whole trope on its own

#which i don't think would make much sense if we swap the genders#like historically and socially because we live under the patriarchy

#so she gets to stay a girl for bonus wlw potential

Magda pushing Chagal down the stairs

Krolock generally looking like the most stereotypical mafia godfather ever

Rebecca's walking stick (???)

A giant garlic (???) on a table that got pushed around every now and then

Abronsius being an eccentric middle-aged guy rather than a senile old man

Magda still replying "[I'm] sewing." to Chagal while very obviously not-sewing

Chagal sealing Sarah's door up with a hammer and a drill

Krolock striking random sexymen poses on the resort(?)'s rooftop and kicking and spreading his legs and all

Abronsius pretending to be furniture after getting hit in the head

Krolock's dramatic piano entrance

Koukol being just a regular guy. And also being present at the resort (?) when Chagal's corpse was brought back

Keeping "Sie haben gefühle, wie wir!" (this one is based actually)

Sarah actually getting to hang around in the lounge area instead of getting locked up 24/7

The fucking stationary bicycles.

Whatever the Black Vampire in Carpe Noctem is

Herbert's bare ass

Krolock wrapping Sarah up in his fur coat. While she's still soaking wet with water and foam. The Dramatics

The blood exchange vampire-turning being canon apparently

Krolock's ridiculous old-fashioned red outfit for the ball

Thomas Borchert being soooo mad about fumbling the 1813 pageboy than he was about the 1617 and 1730 ladies ajksdnasjnka

Krolock casually looking through Alfred's suitcase at Vor dem Schloss apprently under the impression that if he Did Not talk about it he could gaslight Alfred into thinking he didn't do it

#mixed feelings about making abronsius much more comical but the furniture one was funny so I forgive them#i do find him. on the nicer end of abronsiuses. kind of

#and alfred practically looking like a golden retriever <3

#krolock's ball outfit was diabolical though#zero cunt zero slay at all#also. i don't like too much red on him

#now this is more of a very personal preference but just let that old man be cladded in black

#i do like their take on koukol. refreshing and nice#i don't remember if he died at the end of st. gallen or not. gotta recheck it

#i named TB specifically because i feel like That's his Trademark#like I don't think any other krolock ever sounded that mad at 'kann ich mi nicht verzeiehen'

SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 21 GO READ IT DONT STAY HERE GO LOOK AT IT

TW: canon-typical gore

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

Smh Becky…

STRIKE HIM DOWN LIKE THE WEEB HE IS!!! /silly

It’s been said before how flowersteel’s appeal is so quintessentially trans, how the pilots’ relationships with their bodies and their robots can represent so many weird nuances of transition. I think part of what hits hard is that so many of us have had a Hana show us that there is something worth loving in ourselves. Someone that shows us the kind of person we want to become—someone kind, fierce …someone beautiful—who sees those same traits in us, and encourages us to reach for that future. I remember growing up that sometimes I’d get asked about role models, but I could never really think of one until I saw another trans woman. Someone like me in so many ways, being the kind of person I had never realized I yearned to be.

It’s weird, years later, being a Hana for a new generation of freshly hatched transfems. It’s wonderful and I love watching them grow, but it feels weird in a lot of ways! I know I’ve grown, and I can see it in the reflections of my past these beautiful budding girls show me, but I’m still figuring stuff out! I’m not perfect. I’m just a messed up person with a little more time and just enough support to get this far. So when I see Hana, I can’t help but wonder if she feels the same way when she looks at K28. The desire to help her, to show her that there is SO MUCH love and joy in her future, and yet despite her jolly nature she’s still so, so scared and horrified at what she sees and doesn’t know how to help other than just being there for her.

I wonder if Hana knows how much she means to K28, who’s never known anything greater than what she was forced into. Did Hana have a Hana of her own? Will K28 eventually become that same presence for her teammates once she’s gotten free and started to heal?

I like to think that Hana’s self-love is rubbing off on K28 in little ways. Hana is showing off little trinkets from home between missions and gives K28 a cute little cartoon puppy sticker. Next mission, Granbury’s sensors catch that same sticker on Orchid’s hull. I can imagine so vividly how Hana might feel in that moment. That despite everything, she’s gotten through. The light of their hope shines extra bright that day.

I wonder what colors K28 might paint Orchid when all’s said and done. Whatever she chooses, I know it’ll be beautiful.

Thank you for the lovely art 💙

That's my post you're talking about!

This is a marvelous take. I focused a lot on K28s perspective in my post. Thank you for the lovely addition of Hana's point of view.

I absolutely empathize with your experience of guiding in a new generation of transfems. I'm over 3 years on HRT now, with a lot of growth, healing, and therapy under my belt. There is definitely a pain in seeing how hard a lot of newer transfems are on themselves. How could I do anything other than try to help?

...And yet I still have to balance that with my own limits and needs. I can't set myself on fire to keep others warm.

The difference between Hana and K28 is that K28 would do anything for Hana. Hana, on the other hand, has a sense of self worth and by extension boundaries.

The secret that Hana knows is that setting yourself on fire for others has diminishing returns. Eventually your brain, body, and soul will burn to ash, and your capacity to continue caring for someone else will dry up. Not your desire or willingness, mind you. Your actual ability to take care of others.

Hana knows she's playing a long game. She needs to care for herself if she has any hope of helping K28 and the other K-units.

K28 wants to prove herself worthy of the love of others, and is willing to die for it.

I have to know more about Tall Redhead Thousand Yard Stare k-unit, please!!!