#devilbats

Our fourth (& my personal favourite 😻) pin reveal of the campaign…Devilbat Cat! This pin will be a 2” hard enamel pin with METALLIC BLACK METAL PLATING 🖤👀 designed by the lovely @violetcascade , this pin will come for free if you pledge for a hellfire club / tiefling #itabag on our catsanddevilbats kickstarter ! Or, you can pledge just $10 to get just a pin :)

Our Kickstarter is almost 50%!! Our wish is to hit 50%/$5k before the end of the night. Have you adopted your space kitty yet?!

@blaka-smoko hey! if youre still looking for the scans from the es21 notebook/journal, here’s some. not exactly high quality, but unfortunately the only full + textless version(s) of this image that ive found thus far

Kurita: [trying to stop him]

Sena, The Ha-Ha Brothers, Taki: [cheering him on]

Hiruma: [making bets with people on whether or not Monta will hurt himself]

Cue Hiruma sees Sena running. Sena, a guy who definitely does not look like a high schooler (his eyes hold the exhaustion of an adult) but his tiny height can pass him off as a teenager.

Like imagine how much WILDER es21 would be if Sena weren't even a student in Deimon. Sena's still enrolled in college, and though he's set to graduate in the next few months, he has no more subjects or requirements to fulfill (except graduation requirements like grad pics and shit).

Eyeshield 21's identity would be even harder to figure out bcs Sena isn't even a student in Deimon. And Sena would get fucking terrified of players who are definitely younger than him, but BIGGER AND BUFFER than him.

Hiruma & the Devilbats take on the Death March, and after everyone finds out Sena is Eyeshield, the common joke floating around is that Sena's their adult supervision (at least until Doburoku joins them).

And it would be completely jarring to see Sena and Hiruma side by side. It would be all too easy to compare Sena to Hiruma. Sena is biologically older, but Hiruma acts more like an adult. Sena is older but Hiruma's taller. Imagine Sena's insecurities bubbling and frothing just under the surface.

Sena would give his teammates advice on Adulting 101 (what HE'S experienced, at least) and about college entrance exams, and which colleges might suit his team members. The Devilbats may joke about Sena's height and shit, but he'd garner even more respect BOTH because he's Eyeshield, AND because he helps guide these kouhais of his in navigating adolescence and high school life.

This older version of Sena would just as easily fit in with the second-years because he himself is a senpai. (The senpai-est out of all of them.)

And imagine how much WORSE the consequences would be if anyone found out Eyeshield 21's true identity. Sena would NOT BE ALLOWED to play for Deimon, it would be against regulations for a college student to play in the highschool level.

And what would Hiruma do to prevent that? He may be cruel but he definitely would not erase Sena's own highschool and college records just to enroll him into Deimon. That would nullify and invalidate YEARS of Sena's effort, and that shit is too cruel even for Hiruma. And he would be even LESS inclined to do it after he sees how embarassed and ashamed Sena is that his graduation got delayed.

Would Hiruma craft a fake identity for Sena? That would be the easiest thing to do: "Oh, this guy? He's Yamada Sena from class 1-C!" That would go downhill FAST when Sena gets famous after his identity is revealed. And it's much more of a "when" than an "if" because Hiruma knows that Sena's speed will only propel him to fame.