Some Days I Think About Aaron Minyard And About The Fact That The Aftg Fandom Gives Him So Much Shit

Roxas fractured Riku's left wrist during their fight in Days, when Riku sought to capture him and wake Sora from his sleep. This is why in KH2 and DDD he wears the wrap around it. Roxas fractures it with Oblivion, which is ironic, since Oblivion represents Sora's forgotten memories of Riku. [I'm pretty convinced it represents the forgotten memory of his death, and a promise they made as children, specifically]

During the DDD intro rendition of Riku and Sora's fight with Xemnas, you can see it is clearly bothering him. He looks at it and flexes it, before Xemnas punts him. This blow appears to be across the face/left shoulder, but it's not really clear. Probably also hurt super bad.

After this, when Xemnas is about to finish off Sora, Riku deflects the blow and pushes Sora to safety, leaving him open to this blow from Xemnas.

Which I believe also fractured the left side of his hip. This is why he had so much trouble walking after the battle, and had to be helped by Sora.

I find Riku's walk very stiff, especially compared to other characters. And I might be imagining it, but I feel like he has an ever so slight limp, barely there at all. Fractures around joints can cause stiffness and arthritis when they don't set properly.

When Riku stands to protect Sora, he presents the left side of his body foremost. His most damaged side.

When the darkness begins consuming his body, the camera again intentionally focuses on his left leg and left hand, and you can see them falter slightly. Especially his hand, you can see it contort. Riku is actually in a shit ton of pain here. That's why Sora gasped and reached out to him, he could see it hurting him.

Riku has physical handicaps, his left wrist and left hip, that both originated from him protecting Sora. Not to mention how he stood there and literally let the darkness eat him alive trying to protect him.

So I want to point out the significance of this scene at the end of KH2.

Upon seeing Kairi, in his joy Sora immediately seems to forget about Riku's injuries, which came from... Riku protecting him. Riku is shown growing distant in the background, walking slowly, struggling, being left behind by Sora. But he's happy that Sora is happy, and safe, because that's what's most important to him. I imagine however, that he was also incredibly sad watching Sora run to Kairi, knowing that Sora wanted to be next to her at that moment rather than him, even though Riku had suffered so much for his sake.

The way the shot is framed, as Sora runs toward Kairi, he blocks out the sun completely.

If he had stopped, turned around, and looked at Riku, he would have been looking directly at the light.

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The amount of content the jatp cast is posting is v exciting! Im curious what exactly they’re building up to

*plays slipping through my fingers by ABBA*

This was made for this tumblr post I made a while ago.

Petition to rename Animorphs books more accurately, so they’re called things like “first named character gets eaten alive”, “first suicide attempt”, and “oh my god even more genocide are you kidding me”

i did a thing yall!

full disclosure i started this project back in like? march??? i think? i drew almost all the panels entirely out of order over the course of a year, which is why the quality varies wildly, but i refuse to spend any more time on this so here take it

Happy 5 years TXT 💕💕💕

Park Seonghwa

“She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.”

Fic

animorphs is funny because the kids spend almost the entire series turning into birds of prey to fly in virtually every scenario while complaining about how they have to space themselves out so it doesn't look suspicious that all these rare raptors are grouped together, about how birds of prey often have to do a lot of hard flapping work to fly in some situations they're not meant for, about tiring out easily, etc. to the point where it starts getting weird and confusing that they literally always use those bird morphs instead of thinking to turn into e.g. migratory geese for certain situations as per their general capacity for pragmatism. and then in literally one of the last books in the series some of them turn into geese to fly long distance and spend the entire time going "wtf this is great why the fuck didnt we do this earlier holy shit." and also the answer to that question is at least in part "one of the animorphs is just literally on all levels including physical a hawk that gets snooty about bird species he thinks suck and would have been really annoying about it"

Do you ever forget you have superpowers? Kon does often.

It’s still a sweet gesture.

You have no idea the demons I fought to not turn this little comic angsty. I might still do it, I haven’t decided yet.

TW:Blood & Injuries

“A dull blade laced with venom.” | Red & Blue Spider Lilies.

Jay decides to pick up a dull edged katana, pouring what little of venom he had left, before picking his aching body back up onto his feet and dragging it back to battle. His right eye began to blur as blood continued to coat his eye, he lost his eye patch somewhere, but he didn't have the time to remember where and how. But that didn't matter right now. What mattered was for him to ram his blade through that bastard no matter what. It'll certainly not be a clean cut, but it'll certainly make it more painful. Was it a poor decision out of his hatred for the Djinn to feel every inch of the blade to pull and rip through his chest? Most likely. Well… it'll only be a poor decision if he doesn't succeed in stabbing the venom through him. But he won't. The bullet might've missed its shot… but his blade will certainly not… He'll make sure of it.

Not much of a writer ik (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠) but I kinda wanted to write something with this drawing so write I shall to satisfy my brain.

And can I just say, one of my Vivid memories back then when I was kid watching Skybound I just kept screaming to the TV “Jump on him and stab him already!” While my parents would glance back at me with concern for my well being, which was valid lmao