Certified Freak

Look, I'll definitely be drawing my favourite scene, which is the classic kiss scene 🤭, but I needed to figure out how they would look in my style first...

I've now seen Wild Force and I must say Jindrax and Toxica stole The show for me.

This AU has me in a chokehold like you don't understand

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Been wanting to practise drawing fully-rendered scenes, so naturally im subjecting Senku to even more torture and drawing his depression workshop HJFDSGHJK

post-it notes talking to himself everywhere - even on why man - and like, god knows how many mugs, my boy is suffering bro

Kobayashi thought that Xeno would have a deep, dark, intimidating voice, but Nojima's performance was quieter and emphasized more of Xeno's cleverness.

Nojima notes that Xeno does have a sense of purity to him that stems from his childhood attachment to science, but is also lonely because he's a genius. Deep down, he loves people; since he loves people, he doesn't want to be hurt by them.

Even though Xeno has Stanley (the host describes Stan as understanding Xeno, and Nojima describes Stan as an important and trustworthy friend), Xeno wants everyone to know him, understand him, and be mutually understood. Because he's a genius, it's hard to find someone he can communicate with on the same level. Nojima thinks that Xeno wants people to know him better, but because he's a difficult person to comprehend, he's very lonely.

Compared to Senku (who always had Taiju and Yuzuriha by his side, and unconditional support from Byakuya), in science, Xeno does everything by himself. Stanley and the others can only execute his science.

(Unlike Xeno (deeply implied)) Kobayashi notes that Senku thinks of science as an accumulation of thousands of years of knowledge, so he doesn't want to keep it all for himself. Senku's thirst for knowledge and desire to find entertaining things keeps him going.

When Senku and Xeno work together, Nojima thinks that it feels like they're unburdened by everything else, and are just having a fun and peaceful time together.

The host notes that between two geniuses on the same level, there's no need to stop and explain things, so they can talk freely knowing the other person will understand them. The anime showed them in that moment in a chibi-style because they were feeling pure enjoyment, just like when they were kids.

Kobayashi says that when Senku works with Chrome, Chrome's different perspective opens Senku's eyes to other possibilities, but with Xeno, they're equals.