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Older sketch from 2023
- I’m not the child you once knew.
- No. That child would see you and run.
“There may be a demon in you… but there is more…” 🥲🩵💙
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MIZU & AKEMI Blue Eye Samurai S1
I am back on my fan art . I wanted to redraw a screenshot of my beloved mizu . Honestly I am hungry for any content of this bitch .
Mizu - blue eye samurai.
Mizu from blue eye samurai!! UGH I LOVE HET SM
in snow
GUESS WHAT
@writingandwritten
Drew my beloved but I hate how I colored it lol 😒
I didn’t know how to title this lol
I didnt know if I liked the colored or not colored better so I posted them both ok bye
can we pretty please with a cherry on top bring back blue eye samurai :’(
i miss my baby mizu
Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows
In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.
If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.
So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.
I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?
However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.
Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)
And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.
Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.
It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.
Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?
While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:
She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.
You see where I'm going with this.
When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:
And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD
When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.
MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS
No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.
And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:
Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!
The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.
And, uh
Yeah.
I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.
But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.
Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:
But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.
There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.
After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:
"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.
Kind of like another bird in this show:
lil mizu doodles :D
bonus ekko and jinx -
yayyyy :DDD
Mizu's Hand 😁😁
"even her hands is beautiful"
Women with swords. You agree. Reblog.
A new emotion..!
did I draw an old over-used meme? yes. template under the cut
Blue Eyed Samurai + text posts and stuff
Still on the timebomb bus and I'll be on it forever.
Blue Eye Samurai
Credit: @ yekkttaa_ via instagram
Sorry, not good at drawing but I love Mizu (not good at english either)
She’s gonna dismantle the patriarchy.
"Akemi, I don't need to be great, I just want to be happy."
"I want to be great."
eye study
ive been low on energy and inspiration, but i managed to draw again :D
I love how expressive Mizu is.
It shows she isn’t just the “hateful monster” that the people see her as, or as we were led to believe in the first scene with her, but she is more. She is Mizu.
She’s the type of character that the writers could’ve easily made a cold and unforgiving killer, but she’s a very fleshed out and complicated character with a soft heart, but hardened by the life she was forced to live.
Honestly I could write an entire essay about how much I adore the writing, art, and characters.
Mizu sketchdump
Couldn’t decide between these two
Nothing fleshed out or polished. Just... Mizu in my sketchpad because Mizu is an amazing character.
Mizu X Hikari
They r in love i tink