#tenkai

Happy pride!! My friend Raja got me to redraw fan art of the ship that awakened me to drawing gay fan art!!

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name a more iconic duo

(easy task)

The sacred grounds of Kan’eiji Temple (寛永寺) in present-day Tokyo as seen in “The Illustrated Legends of Jigen Daishi” (慈眼大師縁起絵巻 “Jigen Daishi Engi Emaki”) of 1680, a handscroll narrating the biography of the Tendai monk Tenkai (天海) (1536-1643) by his disciple Inkai (胤海) and the artist Sumiyoshi Gukei (住吉具慶)

Aotabou & Shoukera

Ao is a monk who gave up his humanity to protect orphans and is compared to the raging god Shoumen Kongou, while Shoukera is a creature supposedly sent from heaven to report the sins of those on earth, with the only way to avoid this being to pray to the aforementioned Shoumen Kongou. Whether the heaven thing is literal or metaphorical isn’t entirely expanded upon, but it seems they have a sort of chaotic good vs. lawful evil dynamic going on.

Kurotabou & Yanagida

The only two members of the Hyaku Monogatari Clan who weren’t created by Sanmoto’s stories or wrought from his flesh, with one arising naturally from children’s folktales about a spirit who would protect them, and the other originally being Sanmoto’s human assistant. Kuro had to be brainwashed into joining the clan, but during his time there was a favorite of Sanmoto’s, while Yanagida was his most avid supporter for centuries yet still wasn’t recognized, not even being re-absorbed into his second demon form like the others. At least, that’s how Yanagida sees it for most of the series, it’s implied at the end that Sanmoto did this not as an act of disrespect but as wanting Yanagida to stick around as his most reliable supporter in case the second revival went south, which it did. The Nose on the other hand is implied to be a traitor who never showed up to this fight, whose power Sanmoto absorbed and then gave to Yanagida.

Kubinashi & Yuiyui

Kubinashi’s arc centers around the idea that true strength comes not in having nothing to lose and being free from obligation, but in protecting what one cares truly about, that being his clan. Yuiyui’s main battle tactic is an ability that causes allies to attack and kill each other, thus defiling the nature of what he stands for. Also, she destroyed Jorogumo’s clan who is implied to be one of his closest confidantes, who (along with Kejourou) helped weave his strings.

Ryuji & Tenkai

Both are considered untalented onmyouji who have to employ extra measures to get ahead, with Ryuji being a shrewd trickster who wins through deceit, and Tenkai being a rigorous scholar who with enough time was able to surpass a prodigy like Hidemoto. Tenkai is also someone Ryuji greatly admired in his youth, and was kind of disappointed that he ended being on the wrong side of history… but also glad to get the catharsis of finally surpassing him.

Kiyotsugu & Enchou

They both love youkai and ghost stories, but the way they express this passion is completely different. Kiyotsugu is initially just infatuated and mystified by Night Rikuo like the other human characters, but later comes to understand his ideals of creating a harmonious world and uses his own influence to help carry that out. Enchou is just kind of an agent of chaos who goes anywhere and does whatever so long as it’ll make an interesting tale. You think he’s with the Hyaki Monogatari Clan, but nah, he doesn’t really give a fuck, he’s just using them to create Ao Andon so… he and Rikuo can fight, I guess? His actions are pretty evil, but they’re not even evil in a normal villain sort of way, he has very little attachment to anything besides the thrill of ghost stories and in a weird way that’s respectable. Kinda like Big News Morgans.

Setsura & “The Nura Brides” (including her own daughter)

I have no idea how to caption this so uhhhh

So, as most people know Oda Nobunaga was killed by his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide. Mitsuhide was only Shogun for a few days before he was killed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. However, what if Mitsuhide wasn't killed?

 In the service of Tokugawa Ieyasu was a mysterious monk named Tenkai. Tenkai was a very mysterious person with several strange occurrences. 1. It is said he greeted some people who knew Mitsuhide well not as "its a pleasure meeting you" but "its good to see you again."

2. After YEARS of neglect and being forgotten about Tenkai donated quite a bit of money to a family shrine that was connected to the Akechi clan. Something that given Mitsuhide's actions would have been quite taboo. Just imagine a Shimazu suddenly donating to an Uesugi family shrine. It doesn’t make sense if you aren’t family. If you want to donate to a temple or shrine Japan has plenty of them that wouldn’t be nearly as controversial to donate too.

3. It was said he and Mitsuhide looked very similar.