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IY: Of course

KG: Even if I have all those pregnancy scars?

IT: You look even more beautiful with them 💕

InuKag Week Day 4: Scars.

Some late, I know, but I can't omit this little draw. I think that not all scars are gross, so I draw some marks on Kag's belly.

Thanks for share and like it 🥰 See you soon for day 5 everyone 💖

Happy Solstice Inufandom! No matter where you live on this green Earth of ours, I wish you and yours joy on the longest day or night.

So, I was paired with @calloftherunningtide for the Solstice @inu-spiration Event, and we put our heads together for a little bit of Inuyasha and Kagome. You can see my full artwork, which was inspired by Klimt's The Kiss, and read her amazing inukag fanfic

From Heaven to Earth, From Earth to Heaven

Hi! Thank you so much! This means a lot because I do love writing meta. Unfortunatelly, I don’t think I made the post you’re looking for.

I’m still in the process of reading the manga and even though I use a panel here and there to make my points across, I refrain from going into deep, side by side comparisons because I feel like smarter people than me have already done it to exhaustion. And with a level of coherence I can only dream to achieve.

One of these people is definitely @inukag so maybe you’ll have more luck asking her? If Cynthia didn’t wrote it, she’s still your best shot at figuring out who did.

And for whatever is worth, I think your interpretation of manga Inukik is actually pretty spot on. In fact, I’d go even further and say that anime Inukik was almost just as distant. The difference is that at least Sunrise tried to give them some substance, which in my opinion didn’t work at all, since it butchered their characterization (Inuyasha’s especially) by omitting very important scenes and adding meaningless fillers that in my opinion only made more obvious how superficial their relationship really was.

To me, love is something you build and trust is the foundation in which you’re building on. To trust — and consequently to truly love — takes time. On top of that, a strong relationship requires efffort, honesty and fully acceptance from both parts, none of which I believe Takahashi or Sunrise showed us.

Boat dates under the sunset and passionate kisses are just bells and whistles. Yes, it looks great on screen, but it doesn’t necessarily equal to real love. Infatuation, sure. But love? It’s easy to make you characters go on boat dates under the sunset. It’s easy to make them kiss passionately. It’s even easier for the writers, for the audience and for characters themselves to confuse it for love.

What’s hard is to actually take the time to create, develop, test and expand a romantic connection. To show how deep it runs instead of just telling. To make it unfold and progress and grow stronger before our eyes. To make it dynamic rather than stagnant. Inuyasha and Kikyo didn’t have that at all, be it in the manga, be it in the anime.

Their relationship was based on mutual loneliness, on seeing each other through rose colered glasses and of the fundamentally wrong idealization of the life they thought they’d have together.

That being said, here’s my unsolicited advice: if you’re anything like me, I can totally understand why you’d feel the need to try and defend your point of view, especially if the person asked you to explain it in good faith.

However, even if your interpretation of the Inukik relationship was way off — which, again, I don’t believe it is — remember that you don’t owe anyone an explanation for your writing choices, but you do owe it to yourself to write what feels right. It’s your story to tell and you can tell it any way you see fit.

I know our takes on this matter aren’t particularly popular within the fandom, but they are just as valid. I lost count of how many Inukag fanfics I’ve read where Inukik was written to be a much bigger thing than I personally believe it originally was, but even though I disagree with that interpretation, I’m also not entitled to an explanation other than… that’s the author’s vision. And that’s okay.

The important thing was that people had fun and were proud of what they wrote. As they should, because it takes courage to post your stories online. And if I’m bothered by an specific story to the point of not being able to enjoy it, that’s my problem and I should probably search for something closer to my own interests to read.

As for inukik, I think their backstory is really where most of the differences are and where manga and anime fans have a very different perspective on what their “relationship” was like. 

Here are all the canon interactions between Inuyasha and Kikyo before the betrayal, in chronological order, taken from chapters 47-49 (read from right to left): 

No boat dates, no kisses or hugs, no Kikyo deciding not to give him the subjugation beads, no Inuyasha giving her his mother’s rouge, no almost declaration of love, no passing of seasons to imply they spent a year together, etc. Their “relationship” was basically just them sitting 5ft apart while Kikyo talks about herself, makes assumptions about Inuyasha and tells him he should test the jewel on himself. There wasn’t really any “romance” between them besides the promise that they’d be together if the jewel disappears and Kikyo is free of her duty. 

This is why in chapter 76 Kikyo says she “longed to do this when she was alive” after kissing him post-resurrection, because she never got the chance to be close to him before. 

This is why Kikyo said Inuyasha was guarded around her when she was alive, and she can tell (after only 78 chapters) that Kagome has made more progress in her relationship with Inuyasha than she ever did:

This is also why the only other depiction of Inuyasha & Kikyo pre-betrayal has Inuyasha sitting in a tree watching Kikyo from a distance with a frown on his face:

(this is from chapter 465, the chapter of Kikyo’s death, and I know it’s a redraw from an earlier chapter but I can’t find it right now)

I think the anime royalty fucked up if it made people believe that Inuyasha had this long, deep relationship with Kikyo and he’s just “settling” for someone who reminds him of her when the canon story is that Kikyo failed her relationship with Inuyasha before it even started and her reincarnation was literally born to accomplish what she failed to do. Why? Because Kikyo was too prideful to take time to get to know Inuyasha and understand what he really needed. She thought she had him all figured out and had found a quick, easy way to “fix” him, when really all she was doing was projecting herself onto him. She assumed that the solution to her problem (which is getting rid of the part of herself that prevents her from being normal, which is her job) would work for Inuyasha, but it doesn’t work because her solution for him means getting rid of half of his identity and heritage. She also failed because she convinced him to use the jewel (a magical artifact that she did not fully understand), and as we learn at the end of the series the jewel doesn’t actually grant your wish and instead manipulates you into doing what it wants to do. This means their relationship would have had a tragic ending even without Naraku’s existence, 

My only contribution to sesskagu week this year 🥲 between my laptop breaking down and working on a massive installation project at work it's the only thing I managed to churn out 😵😵😵 Trying out a new colouring style did not help make me work faster jfhskdjdjs (what do y'all think of this different style btw? I lowkey like it quite well so far!)

Sweetie pea

"Sometimes a family is: a grumpy babysitter, a powerful demon dad, and his adorable human daughter"

Hogoshamaru Week - Day 5: Family

constantly stands up for the weak and oppressed 

befriended inuyasha after he tried to kill her

befriends and stands up for jeneji

constantly runs to her friends’ aid when they get hurt, even though she’s an easy target to begin with and doesn’t think about it for a second

obviously practiced to make herself a better marksman/priestess 

gained her strength because of her empathy

is empathetic to all living things

risked her own life to save inuyasha from miroku’s wind tunnel 

held no malice to kikyo, only jealousy bc she was 15

was 15 when dragged to the past and sacrificed her safety to save a village who was going to kill her bc they thought she was a demon

was literally a city girl who tried to adapt to the wilderness/was in the past - no modern technology other than what she carried on her back

was generous to strangers of all kind

nearly killed naraku bc of what he did to kohaku

WAS 15

CONSTANTLY SACRIFICED HER SAFETY

TO MAKE SURE OTHERS WERE SAFE