#bonto

(adultBonto)

(“Love? A strong word with so many different interpretations. Im familiar with some of them, though not all.

The first person that comes to my mind at this question is the one I first met. She gave me my little friend here. I called her NANA. She was my caretaker and very old. Every Shinjin kid has a personal caretaker before we enter our educational route. NANA was mine and was so nice and lovely. Whenever I was sad, she knew exactly how to cheer me up. Her smile is what I remember the most of her and associate the most with the word “family”

… I ran away a lot when I was little. At a certain age we Shinjin have to move away from our caretaker to a dorm of the school. I missed her so much and felt so lonely. The teachers didn’t like it and after a while even NANA got mad at me for coming back. One day she was so angry at me, I got terrified and cried. After that I stayed put in the dorm. I didn’t want to disappoint her more. It took me so long to ever visit her again. I think I was a teenager when I finally decided to pay a visit. But she wasn’t there anymore. NANA was gone.

I still have the books she wrote. Little journals about taking care of a Shinjin kid with a disability. And this little guy here…

After her I found new people to love. A different kind of love, of course. Deep friendship, like with MINA, MUSHU, HUSHEN or Sureme Kai ROH. Some of these friends became more over time, but … they helped me to realize that romantic love isn’t really what fits me. Or that I would miss it. And Im really grateful for my friends and their support in my life.

Because in the end, they also helped me to find more important love. The love for myself.”)

I had some issues with the new lore depending Kais/Glinds and their birth trees in DB Daima.

Disclaimer: This is just my little headcanon I wanna use for my stories with my OCs. If you don’t agree with me, it’s totally fine and I’m happy you enjoy it.

At first, I was very little concerned about actually seeing a Kai/Shinjin Baby on the tree in the show. The way it hangs was unexpected, but ok.

But then I gave it some thought. My medical brain had questions for that weird anatomy. How would the flow of nutrients happen to the baby? They need lots of them to grow, but also will develop everything into a bipedal humanlike body. So, they should have a spine, right?

((say Hi to baby Bonto!))

I’m not really happy about the thought that their umbilical cord is attached to their back and therefore will leave a mark (next to the fact that I really wanna keep Shins and Bontos belly button in my future art). So, yeah. This retcon got a big NO from me.

Since the lore about the Shinjin and their trees has been around for a while now, I really wanna combine the new and the old for my stories (and sanity). For me there is not really a difference in turning the baby around, so the cord still is on the baby’s belly. It’s not that much of work for a child to stay in a fetal position and grow like that. Next, I wanna cover the child with thin petals, similar to a physalis fruit. These can protect the little one from outside harm while it takes its time to grow.

These petals can come in a big variety of colors. One of them is yellow / gold. And that’s where I wanna stick to the old lore now. I prefer the Kais alive and thriving on a very small planet outside of all the universes. Let’s just say that one tree survived the emigration from the Demon Realm in Daima (maybe Lord Rymus helped out? Maybe one of the old Kais/Glinds transformed into one? No one knows what really happened). And on this tree, there are fruits from time to time. Small Kai children get nursed and attend a small school to prepare themselves for the important work they will have later. But since there are only a few supreme Kais allowed in each universe and their life span is so long, the Kais needed a way to find out which one of them would be fitting for the most important job of an universe. So, pretty early after their emigration they started to give roles and education depending on the rarity of the petal color. Since golden is pretty rare, the “golden fruit children” became the higher class on their planet and future supreme Kai candidates. Other colors became somewhat of a lower class and have to work harder to get into the supreme Kai position.