long, beautiful shadows

hiiiiii congrats on sending an ask off anon genuinely!! ☺️ i deliberately don't turn on anon so that people can be notified when their asks have been answered rather than having to wait and check the blog 💞

i'm so delighted that you think about flowering aku randomly, he seems to have made an impression on here despite not wanting to be looked at 🙂‍↕️✨ for anybody just reading, the art being referred to is this

when i make fanworks about aku i am always thinking about his two selves. there's his public (canon) self, master of masters, a gleefully dominant force of destruction, delighted to be evillest of evils, proud to be a horror and a stain. then there's his private (fanon) self, who was told to die the moment he came into being, who was shown that he could never be anything but a vile corruption to be eradicated. he never wants to be good, but perhaps he feels constrained by all those titles, by the weight of his horned crown. perhaps he wishes he could grow.

twenty years have passed, samurai, and yet you do not age. what hermit gave you a potion, hmm? ~