#spritepipis

reference photo: meeting on the turret stairs, frederick william burton.

robe pattern credit to: loni_capri. that saved my sanity lol

Heyo!

Okay so i’ve checked again to make sure and actually now i’m confused, i don’t know how/where i got this information but there’s actually no mention of that exactly that i can find in canon. I suppose i must have read a meta that i took for canon

It’s not to be excluded, though, i’m re-reading, but the idea came from a conclusion that, considering there were 129 people in the Kurta clan, but only 37 pairs of red eyes being in the world, sold by the Troupe, that there must have been lesser “Kurta eyes” that we think in the clan. The manga mentions “pureblood Kurta” being the one with the eyes - in opposition to “those of the outside world who married to the clan”. I suppose the mention of “pureblood Kurta” arose the theory that children of Kurta & Non-Kurta wouldn’t be “pureblood” anymore, but now that i’m reading it i can see it being a stretch. As for the number of collected eyes, I wouldn’t be surprised the Troupe killed some pureblood Kurta before realizing their eyes would turn red, and would have probably tortured some to death before their eyes turned, especially considering it is said they did multiple experiments with tortures - that said ye i can see how therefore still getting only 28% of the Kurta’s eyes could raise the question of whenever the eyes can pass down to a child born with somene outside the clan.

So I apologize, I took those conclusion for canon and forgot it was mostly conjectures of some facts, we don’t have actual answers about it and the manga doesn’t elaborate to confirm or disprove it completely. Sorry for encouraging the confusion.

That said - i personally think it’s likely? It would explain even more of their isolation yes (although they did accept people from outside the clan, who married in the clan, and some people were allowed to leave from time to time, so probably came back with lovers and such) but yes, especially it would be really tragic for Kurapika - it would also exclude him being able in any way to continue the bloodline, so indeed he can only focus on revenge because there’s nothing else he could do?

There’s something so sad and fatalistic to me at the idea that Kurapika is really the Last One, and that he could be aware of that, that he’s holding the end of a legacy that people demonized and objectified all those years. It holds so much tragedy and adds even more to how little he cares about his own life since he has “nothing to pass down”. idk it makes me really sad.

But ye, I shouldn’t have worded it like it was confirmed by canon - it’s a theory, and however we decide to interpret it can add whatever level of sadness we want to Kurapika’s story.

Sorry again for the assumption, i should check up my sources again before making statements dkfjhdkjf

is this true? from what i’ve seen, the dub uses he/him pronouns. can anybody else confirm?

HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT LONG HAIR KURAPIKA IS MY SECRET FETISH??

Thank you!

Tbh, I share your ideas but in reverse, in that, I think Leorio is not idealistic but naive. He’s gonna shed that naivety eventually; right now his life is dangerous but also bright and full of possibilities and I honestly don’t blame him for thinking he can take on the world.

For why I don’t think of him as an idealist is that he’s very much openly contrasted to Kurapika who’s the actual idealist (I’ve written a little about that contrast before). Like, Leorio isn’t above being dirty and sketchy sometimes to get things done (and it doesn’t take a moral toll on him the way it does Kurapika) and I think his willingness to be that and do that will only increase as he wades deeper into the path he’s chosen.

You’re right that he sees evil in the world but he’s also not out to eradicate it. Leorio is very much concerned with the individual and the subjective, and that’s why I said before that he’s probably not really aware of how political his goal is, cause he is first and foremost driven by guilt, not altruism or a revolutionary ideology. He’s also driven by desires for significance and acknowledgement and importance, and those are other things that I think the fandom ignores about him.

And yeah his position of power is simultaneously one that’s gonna help him and complicate matters. Ultimately I do see him causing good change but not without costs to his person.

for this WIP ask thing game thing

2: Post a line from your WIP with no context.I’m currently suffering a bout of “everything I write is terrible”, so, here’s two lines to mutually apologize for each other until some day when I have the guts to reread what I’ve written for the fic so far.

“A Hunter manages beyond human limits. That’s why I haven’t doubted for a second the choice to send [Kurapika] there or anywhere else equally inhospitable. I knew he could manage it. And he has. A Hunter against nature is in his element, regardless of how perilous that nature can be.”

“Damn, 2.9 billion jenny? You know, you never expect the proverb ‘he who finds a friend finds a treasure’ to take such a literal turn.”

8: What is your biggest challenge?I’m a stickler for a touch more verisimilitude (thank you @sabre-fish for reminding me that word exists) than is truly necessary, which means I sink a lot of hours into researching topics backwards and forwards for the sake of a single scene. I need to accept that sometimes the truth can be fudged. While maybe not too evident in my fanfics, this tendency holds me way way back in writing original work. It’s rearing its head in the solaris fic, though, so I’ve been using the experience of writing the solaris fic to try out strategies to overcome this issue. With a fanfic, I won’t end up judging the end result too harshly.

17: Does your WIP have any themes or motifs?How you perceive things is never an accurate version of what they are.  People, places, your own life’s memories…. All of it.

Open-season on the rumored last Kurta alive might could be the inevitable result of taking all other Scarlet Eyes off the market?

I dunno…manipulation of public feeling, “the system ain’t exactly broken, but I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to work like this, though”, and related axes to grind.