#isho

oh don't get even get me STARTED.

tabiori as the masses will scream. you can trust that my whole world shifted and i was reborn as a kinder and gentler soul when chapter 335, 336 came out. i mean hiori's light novel is basically a fanfic about the two of them because huh. what. what do you mean karasu thawed your frozen heart. what to you mean the orange sunset bathed his back in a gentle aura. huh? i truly believe they complement each other so well i love myself an amazing childhood friends to lovers. hiori was struggling so hard back in the bambi osaka days and then karasu popped up and i cannot emphasize enough how necessary karasu was to hiori at that time, for him to finally branch out through him and find a real friend under his parent's suffocating pressure. i have them on my wall. i will have them tattooed on the small space right above my heart. don't play about tabiori with me.

hiorin, genuinely such a good pairing it makes those little worms in my head bite down a bit harder. i know it started out as a rarepair and it's honestly amazing how good of a ship it is even with lack of canon content. but they work soooo good together!! hiori being the only person rin would let touch him gently because he knows that whatever hiori does its not to hurt him, hiori being strangely possessive over him as well would work really well. hmmm.

hiogiri. hiori and chigiri. please everybody please get on the hiogiri agenda it works it workss pls. they're almost always paired together in official arts and merch. they're always celebrating each other's wins and converses really well off match and always pictured together!!! chigiri's knee and him getting rid of that limitation himself and pursuing his goals once more in blue lock at the start is literally parallel to hiori trying his hardest to score in ubers x bm, didn't get it, but still found a new reason to keep on playing soccer and also broke through his chains!! i'm totally not pairing two of my fav characters together and i'm also a heavy kunigiri-ist as well. but it works, i promise.

Hours after her first encounter with the crowned prince of Garlemald, Zenos yae Galvus, Kiri is asked to take a break once it was discovered she had been injured in the fight. While she recovers, Isho does his best to lighten her spirits.

kaigo was maaaade when i was 10 so he’s like, 18 this year! ; A ; all grown up...

but anyways

back when i was Certain i was going to be a novelist as a career i was writing his story specifically ‘n i never really got a full title for it but it was a doozy of a plot and frankly i never figured out what happened in the middle

anyways... kaigo is a Mekkai which is one of my own lil races i made up - they’re basically demigods and sort of embody different Elements on their home planet, Isho. Kaigo’s element is Earth, specifically plants/healing. he’s of course Special because he was a protagonist bc where he was born, Earth Mekkai are pretty dang uncommon. The landmasses on Isho are designated different Elements, he was born in the one associated with Wind. There are four of ‘em, Wind, Earth, Fire, and Water.

Kaigo is a direct descendant of the Very First Mekkai Ever, whose origin story i haven’t lost i just... haven’t posted it bc its Long and i’m not sure if it would be good to post on tumblr for that reason @ u @;;; but-

Isho is split up into different Realms, they’re kind of like layers of reality but its all on the same planet. Every Realm has the same landmasses etc., the only difference is what living things you might find on them. They’re basically named after the dominant race in that particular Realm, so you have your Mekkai Realm, your Human (i never came up with a clever name to call humans) Realm, and your Daeban Realm. there is a fourth but i never got around to really fleshing it out so i’m constantly debating on whether or not it should exist...

BUT ANYWAY- when Kaigo was a wee bab he was taken and abandoned in the Human Realm. Mekkai avoid the Human Realm as much as possible bc Humans think Mekkai are mindless killers - that’s... a whole other thing... sort of covered in the story i haven’t posted...

Mekkai babies look human for their first 6mo, though. So the humans that found Kaigo thought he was just an unfortunate baby that survived an attack - bc he was found in a merchant’s cart after the caravan had been wiped out, leaving no other survivors. They ended up taking him back to their village and raising him.

since he’s a Mekkai he doesn’t really have a super good time until the villagers get used to him being y’know. not human. he grows up very shy and eager to please others the moment they show signs of anger or distrust to prove he’s a Good Mekkai, the Exception to the Rule. despite Taki (his guardian and the village head) trying to give him the best upbringing he could there’s not a lot he could do to shelter Kaigo from the negative reputation Mekkai have.

Aside from that he grew up never meeting anyone else of his kind, or knowing how to get to where they live, so he’s always felt very out of place. He’s got a weak spot for other ppl that feel similarly, and is incredibly patient with people... but that’s mostly because he worries that if he were ever to actually express anger he’d be labeled as Just Like The Other Mekkai.

Since Kaigo’s Element is Earth he has a strong bond with plant life, he can feel it when something is wrong in the plant ecosystem, and while he can’t like hold conversations with plants he’s much more in tune with them than other races that have ties to elements, like Daeban. Mekkai are meant to sort of... facilitate nature? repair it balance is broken, essentially. Kaigo’s presence in an area just naturally makes the plant life there healthier over time as a passive thing, or he can actively choose to make it better. he’s capable of manipulating plant life as well.

other Mekkai do the same with their own Elements, etc.

the basic story line for Kaigo’s thing was that he was going to start the push back against the Humans that were tampering with the balance of the world by killing off Mekkai - i never got around to working out what it was they were doing that was so awful but it was bad enough that it was causing Elemental disturbances everywhere in the Human realm, and if left unchecked would affect the other Realms as well. The source would be Mekkai Hunters, a specific branch of Humans that underwent a sort of like.. ritual... to enable them to sense the presence of Mekkai, and also see their weak points - aka the only way to really kill a Mekkai.

Oh, I used to love this song so much!

Well, I still enjoy it now :) But I can’t relate to it in any way.

by Lucas Henry Ezekiel Anderson