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Ah yes, my favorite ship trope.
Business partners.
I was having fun drawing all of them
And close up
My favorite part of Blue Eye Samurai is the revival of fucked up homoeroticism. Stories used to contain plenty of guys who aren't explicitly gay but do gay things. Some of this was intentional queer coding and some of it was the logical conclusion of writing fucked up men who are close and weird about it. This fell out of fashion as gay representation became mainstream and acceptable. I'd thought it was a lost art.
Not the case with Abijah Fowler and Heiji Shindo. These men have sex with only women and somehow manage to make their relationship gayer than some actually gay couples in other shows. They have dinner together every night. Heiji wanted to hang Abijah's painting in his bedroom. Abijah called Heiji his "right hand and two feet on land, fondest heart" while threatining him. They got sucked off while sitting next to each other. Heiji wanted Abijah dead. Heiji sat fully clothed next to Abijah and talked business while Abijah was being pegged, all while watching a woman be groped by an octopus. Abijah pinned a flower to Heiji's clothes and Heiji canonically kept it on for three days. These two are moving in such a way that I have no choice but to give them my respect.
Damn like if I were in their shoes I would have done all that too
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just realized something really fucking sad about mizu and how she parallels/contrasts fowler.
one of the things that makes abijah fowler such a fantastic villian is that he isn’t uniquely evil when compared to other people in the show, right?
he’s racist? so is nearly every other character.
he’s abusive to women? so was boss hamata, hachiman the flesh trader, heiji shindo, and plenty of other men because their society was disgustingly misogynistic.
he killed his bastard children? society didn’t even consider them human in the first place.
he overthrew the shogunate? he didn’t work alone.
he’s a sadist? madame kaji says it herself- “if you killed every man i’ve seen who couldn’t cum til someone bled, you’d wear your blade to a stump.”
he murders, he abuses, he lies and manipulates, he gets off on seeing others suffer. the only uniquely awful thing about him is that he doesn’t hide it. we can find all of his abhorrent behavior in the words or actions of other characters. which, tragically, includes mizu for one specific reason.
if you remember during fowler and mizu’s fight in episode 8, fowler tells mizu that her “bones break like a woman’s”, which carries the terrifying implication that fowler has killed so many people with his bare hands that he knows the difference between the feeling/sound of men’s and women’s bones snapping.
and i realized what makes this line worse is that mizu is the only other character we know of who has killed a women with her bare hands- when she snapped kinuyo’s neck. of course the difference is that abijah is just evil while mizu did it as a mercy killing on madame kaji’s behalf, but it’s still so tragic to me that kinuyo’s death unintentionally brought mizu closer to abijah in a way.
they are the only ones who know how it feels to break an innocent woman’s bones.
Remmick from Sinners and Fowler from Blue Eye Samurai both occupy the extremely specific niche of "Irish bad guys who suffered greatly from British colonialism but instead of doing anything remotely healthy about it, recreate their trauma by colonizing a group of POCs and destroying their culture".
The main difference between the two (besides the obvious fact that one is a hive mind vampire and the other is just a guy) is that Fowler has significantly more self awareness then Remmick.
