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Ah, thank you so much for your kind words! I’ve missed K, and I’ve missed people talking to me about K. And I always miss Captain Glasses. <3

So, I wrote a little bit about this. You can search the tags for “K Meta” and “Munakata Reisi” to find the relevant posts. To summarize what I’ve written there, I think that Reisi likes power but that he doesn’t like power for power’s sake. 

One thing that’s clear throughout the series is that Munakata Reisi was always destined to be something great, and that he himself has been aware of this destiny and accepts it with little insecurity or hesitation. In Countdown and Case Files, Reisi’s family is pretty clear that he’s unusually brilliant. And in R:B, when Reisi is first crowned, the Gold King remarks on how easily Reisi accepted the mantle of the Blue King. It’s like he’s always expected to be in power. 

I also think Reisi likes being in power. He enjoyed that little exchange with the Prime Minister in ROK when he takes over the duties of the Gold King. He enjoys bending things to his will. He’s fucking good at it, in fact. 

But let me be clear: I don’t think Reisi is selfish. In fact, I *do* think he’s just as selfless as someone like Suoh Mikoto. The reason Reisi wants to maintain power is because he thinks he needs it to keep order. Now, you can disagree with him on that point (I do), but I don’t think that he’s just some power-hungry tyrant. It’s that he trusts himself to be just and fair and maintain order, and he doesn’t really trust others. And after thinking about this, I honestly can’t blame him for not trusting other people, and other Kings in particular. Since he’s been crowned, the following things have happened:

(1) The Gold King allowed someone to challenge his Blue Throne (detailed in Case Files).

(2) The Red King seems more interested in burning himself out than helping to keep the peace (detailed in S1). Don’t @ me, either, Suoh stans. I love Suoh Mikoto so fucking much, but let’s be clear - he did cause more trouble for Reisi and for the Gold King. Let’s not forget that the Blue and Gold Clans are responsible for running the whole of Japan. So the fact that Reisi not only has S4 to manage, but must also worry about Suoh’s Weissman Levels so he doesn’t *literally* go nuclear might make Reisi feel like not *everyone* should be trusted with power. 

(3) The Silver King abdicating his responsibility. Twice. Not only that, let’s not forget that Shiro brought the Colorless King to be killed by Suoh - the *one* thing Reisi was trying to prevent because Reisi was trying to prevent *hundreds of thousands* of people being killed. Shiro absolutely knew what would happen if Mikoto killed Colorless and proceeded anyway. Again, one might argue that Shiro made the right decision because letting the Colorless King go on is worse than Mikoto going Damocles down. I don’t agree, but I don’t always get things right. The point is that Shiro expected to die after that and Reisi was the one who would have to clean up the mess.

(4) The Colorless King trying to devour everyone and gain more power for the sake of power. 

(5) The Green King trying to give everyone power, which as we saw in ROK led to widespread chaos. 

And this is in addition to everyday Strains and human nuisances. Since Reisi was crowned, he’s been dealing with one high-powered nuisance after another. And so he *doesn’t* trust others to wield power, because they haven’t wielded it responsibly. He also *never* forgets what happened to the previous Red and Blue Kings. He knows he’s one mistake from going nuclear - this is the moral of S:B, where he tells Zenjou that he’s willing to put himself under “heaven’s decree,” and when he brings Zenjou out from the file room in ROK. 

So I think Reisi likes having power, but I don’t think he likes having power just because he gets off on being powerful. I think he doesn’t trust anyone other than him to be responsible about how they use their power. Is this incredibly arrogant and short-sighted? Yes. History is littered with people with good intentions who pursue power at great cost to everyone around them. But let’s be real: Apart from the Gold King (who dies before ROK), there doesn’t seem to be anyone other than Reisi who is capable of maintaining order in *all of Japan.* Remember that Japan is prosperous and peaceful because of the Slate System. Reisi wants to maintain that order at any cost. 

To maintain that order, I think he can be incredibly selfless - just as selfless as Mikoto, in fact. One of the points of ROK is to show that Reisi and Mikoto are more alike than either wants to admit. There are things both of them are willing to die for. Mikoto will die for his Clan, his family. Reisi will die to maintain order. His Sword was already damaged from killing Mikoto in S1 (which totally fucked him up, BTW). He further damaged it by taking over the Gold King’s job and keeping the Slate in check, at great personal cost. He’s so exhausted in ROK that Awashima notices. And the *one* thing that *everyone* agrees about with respect to Reisi is that no one knows what’s up with him. The fact that Awashima gets a glimpse behind the mask is especially telling. He’s fucking wiped. And yet he continues to do his job. 

Oh my god. I’ve literally been thinking about this ask since last night because like of course, duh, we know they’re living in the modern world and all so they should be familiar with these things but like they’re also so detached from the real world and modern technology like it’s sort of really trippy to consider? 

Like does that house have a TV? They have a game room, is there a television? Shu has some sort of musical device, and we know he has classical music/porn on there but like. Is there the occasional Lady Gaga on there or something??

I’m so sorry I actually don’t know anything about DBZ (I got into anime very late in my life and still have only seen about 10 different ones) but I feel like the boys should be familiar with those big name characters? Even if they don’t watch the shows like Japan uses anime to promote lots of different products and stuff so I’m assuming yes???

There are children in the manga (during one of the first missions of Shinoa's squad, If I remember well). It is only that the plot focusses on wars and internal struggles for power. If the Jida wants to rebuild the humanity, then they need people who work as farmers to feed the population, tailors to make their uniforms, builders who work on buildings and furtiture , people who work on technologies, education and administratives issues

yeah. population already down to 1/3 and they keep killing people with the war by JIDA, even though these people are important for repopulation purpose since adults are already so much less than actual children (the virus kills most population over the age 13 or something after all).

I don’t. remember this hdfshgdjgh

Shin not getting endzeit reminds me of "stupid people can't catch colds"