Hotaru And Havik: Parallel

JJBA Headcanons

Yukako Yamagishi - People often think her to be related to Josuke and she doesn't understand why. She refuses to believe there are any facial similarities. If not Josuke then Tomoko. Her stand is Bruford reincarnated.

Holly Joestar Kujo - Holly was a rebellious teenager: She was going around crashing cars, and dated a foreigner just to spite Joseph, only to actually fall in love with him. Holly has Hamon, but just like George 2nd she doesn't really use it. She has an overwhelming amount of physical strength, so she never needs help with shopping.

Tomoko Higashikata - Has a thing for older men, not interested in men her own age. Bonus if the guy is foreign. Her rage reminds the Morioh residents of Yukako. (I just really love the twins au). She's the hottest woman at her workplace.

Shizuka Joestar - She grows up having the same personality as Suzy Q, but has the wit and quick thinking of Joseph. She's been taught how to use hamon since Joseph had to halt his own ageing process when raising her.

Santana - He was a teenager when he woke up from him slumber. He finds a way to escape the Speedwagon foundation. He has a lot of internalised inferiority due to the treatment he experienced under Kars and Esidisi, and the constant comparison to Wamuu. He gets annoyed easily.

Narciso Anasui - He's also on the spectrum. Has a tendency to take things apart, and his intentions are often misread, which puts him in a sticky limelight. He has a hard time understanding why certain things are wrong (like creepy behaviour that was intended as romantic gestures). Picks and chooses when he wants to feel the weather. Doesn't like the rain's wetness, so he'll wear a hat. Definitely explains his fashion sense.

The boys giving a little show to the camera. Jeff doing a little dance. Much to see. Kind of looks like the beginning of an old porn tape.

I am in absolute shock that I found the dojo video. Here is the famous tit grab clip we’ve all been searching for

Aztec Havik

Chaos Reigns was ass, but I'm still digging the Ancient Mexican vibe Titan Havik has. (I don't want to incorrectly assume that it's Mayan or Aztec).

I never really thought of Havik's Midway design, and I've heard others say they don't like it. The only thing that really struck me about him was his face, and I've always liked his hoodie. But Titan Havik being introduced with an Aztec or Mayan looking appearance really caught my attention.

If they were going for that vibe, then the Chaos costumes should've been that as well.

I know that the whole point of Chaosrealm is that there's no law to it, that it's not supposed to look like a functioning world, or anything really, but the whole Native Mexico could've been something.

Kotal Kahn already has an Aztec-ness to him, and we know that Havik's abilities are blood based, so it could add another element to the whole blood magic thing, like introducing possible similarities or something. Like blood sacrifices were influenced by Chaosrealmers, or that there are temples that tell history of Chaos worship that was honoured with blood sacrifices.

"The Aztecs thought you were Bullock." - Nightwolf mk11

"A mistake I embraced, Nightwolf." - Kotal Kahn mk11

"What did it get you, playing god?" - Nightwolf mk11

Maybe that's too tacky, and just hvae this thing where Chaos once had a cult following, and Havik (Dairou) wants to bring that back and does a bunch of stuff. And then he works alongside Titan Havik to restore chaos, but then they both realise that they have different agendas and interests, as well as a different idea to what chaos means.

Dairou's chaos is about freedom and resistance against oppressors, though a twisted form of it. While Titan Havik is about dominance, open mindedness, and just doing the sillies. Maybe that's the same thing.

Think of them as Gyaru and Punk, both started out as a protest against society, with both of them under different pretences. Gyaru was against beauty standards, but Punk was about being against societal norms and conformity, but was also a fashion trend.

Now that I think about it, Titan Havik is 70s punk, but Dairou Havik is modern punk. Or maybe it's the other way around.

Dairou is political, Titan is fashion.

Why do you only have one post on your blog? Did you just join tumblr?

Yes. After deleting my last account months ago I succumbed back into the wormhole that is tumblr.

Black Eyed Kalluto & Alluka

I saw a video on tiktok where someone edited Kalluto with black eyes, so I decided to attempt it + Alluka. My editing is mid. I changed the contrast and lighting.

I really like the 3rd one!

I don't wanna say it, but my poor girl looks soulless. I'm crying.

BONUS: 1999 Kalluto

Despite what I said about Alluka, they look cute.

Edenian supremacism probably comes with the Sindel retcon. They were originally allies of Earthrealm and as much victims of Shao Kahn as anyone else - Kitana and Jade were actually freedom fighters for Edenia. Why they're now apparently all soulless pieces of shit (and why the narrative turns against Kitana beginning with Aftermath, seriously listen to how Spawn just dunks on her), I think, has to do with a change in society as a whole.

As more and more previously unheard people speak up and tell their stories, more and more narratives are getting flipped, and rightly so - those we've been told to admire all our lives are turning out to be bigots at best and greedy, power-hungry butchers or heartless religious zealots at worst. Conversely, the people society whose voices society wishes it could silence - BIPOC, LGBTIA+, workers, those with disabilities (ND included), really anyone who's suffered at the hands of the powerful and privileged - are finally starting to be vindicated, to have their complaints validated, and their stories heard.

In other words, our heroes are turning out to be way worse people than our villains ever were, and fiction is starting to reflect this; The Boys would be a textbook example, nobody with superpowers in that franchise is anywhere near heroic, and honestly I'm a little disturbed that anyone would want to play Homelander in MK. The Edenians were presented as the most virtuous in the original universe, so they were the obvious choice to be the rotten bastards in MK11 (not a choice I exactly agree with, or even the Sindel retcon at all, but if I got to make every choice cheese curds would grow on trees, so)

Having made that observation, I still consider having villains more sympathetic than your heroes to be an immense failure on the part of the author. Let's be real, "princess" is part of Kitana's identity, and that implies she's up to her eyeballs in some sort of privilege. The thing is, free will exists, and privilege does not (or should not) hard-lock you into being an asshole. Even Kitana could have chosen integrity and real compassion, to do what's best for the people even when it came at expense to herself, but nope, she chose to play footsie with Kotal's buddies and attack people for not meeting her sky-high standards.

This is not the Kitana Outworld deserves, and this is not the Kitana the MK community deserves.

I'm falling asleep at my laptop rn, so good night and thank you for pointing out that Sonya is trash.

Goodnight.

Not gonna lie, I always saw Sindel as an evil character even with the whole mind control thing. If their own queen was willing to kill her own husband, an Edenian, to have a stronger one (Outworld-ian) then they shouldn't be flabbering about supremacy.

I've been meaning to vent out about Sonya but didn't know when.

"I'm a little disturbed that anyone would want to play Homelander in MK" I thought this was a joke when I first heard it, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone actually meant it.

When it comes to villainising the heroes I think it's more of a Severus Snape situation, where we the viewers find out there's more to the villains and the heroes. I think NRS figured we were tired of goody two shoes and wanted to see those goody two shoes be more humanised, if humanised means less decent. And then proceeded to butcher some beloved characters, I guess. Harry's been told his parents were good people only to find out they did terrible things. When shown that Mileena just wanted a family we can hold some kind of sympathy for her, even though it doesn't excuse the fact that she's a blood thirsty killer.

One thing to be noted is that there's a lack of consistency when it comes to the games, and not just designs, so when you're talking about "those we've been told to admire all our lives are turning out to be bigots at best and greedy, power-hungry butchers or heartless religious zealots at worst." I think it's the writers changing their minds to fit the mindset of current audiences, acknowledging that it's not just kids playing the games nowadays and it's their way of making things more realistic.

As a Johnny Cage stan, I can very much tell you that there's a lot of things wrong with him, but he's an angel in comparison to the other heroes. (even if he was sexist and mouthy in the past, he is the most relatable) He is a good example when making a flawed character in my opinion, or maybe I'm being too soft on the guy.

I don't think Scorpion was held accountable for screwing everyone over, either. Or killing Bi Han. Poor Bi Han.