Thats Just Perfect

No need to apologize. It’s great ur the first one to make the first art of the two. It’s great💖 Do u have any MKx Red Son Headcanons?

i'm not the first one!! there are also my two russian friends who draw them, so we have some kind of little redmk organization 👊💗 i can send our arts in the DM if you want to

and about the headcanons - gosh, with huge pleasure, but my english is poor and i don't really know how to combine all my thoughts into something... normal?

i've read your headcanons about red son's family and stuff and i absolutely agree with these, so there is only little cute stuff left (most of them are on drawings, haha)

also thank you for supporting my ship feelings 🤧💗 it's good to know there's someone else interested

🚦❤️‍🔥 💛 💚

credit for base: mcnuggyy

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:

fucking idiot. i love you so much i think about you everyday

Well you see it was mostly 'WHAT THE FUCK' mixed with 'damn this bangs', 'aww that's nice' and 'ooh that's cool' mixed together and sucker punched directly into our eyeballs with the force of a punch from every Meursault identity all at once, hope that helps!

yeah seems about right (not playing LoR was a mistake now i feel absolutely demolished)

KSIAPSOWPDJSKSHKDHDKSHDKSHSK IM CRYING

THESE IDIOTS.... THEY ARE SO PRECIOUS AND.... I CANT......... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

t h a n k y o u . . .

hey!! i saw your hcs for mk and red son and i love them but now i wanted to know if you have any mk x red son headcanons?!?!?

I do have a few in mind, I just can't resist a couple of precious dorks when I see one 😚

Favorite date? Karaoke, 100%

Red Son is... not good. Or he is, but he chooses songs with a lot of high pitches and screams and it's hard to say if there's a nice voice under all that throat-destructive shouting 😅

Waiters have witnessed the son of the Demon Bull King screaming at a microphone with a noodle boy just looking lovingly at him with heart eyes 💕💕

Nobody believes them

MK is... also not good. At least he's not actively trying to make his vocal cords explode 🤷‍♀️ He likes catchy song and chill rhythms, and loves to move kinda like a popstar while he's at it, with little moves and... winks 😏

Waiters have witnessed the successor of the Monkey King going scarely out of beat, while there's a flamey boy passed out on the table with hearts in the air 😳😳

Again, nobody believes them

One time MK was feeling cold and Red Son, as the soft tsundere he is, threw his jacket at him right on his face. Dooming his existence, since MK realized then that all Red Son's clothes are warm

So warm 😍

You can often see MK trying to steal stuff from Red Son only to find flamey boy igniting and chasing him (this one kinda connect with @dnpanimationstudio's post, which is absolutely adorable 😆)

MK is a bit shy sometimes about showing affection, especially in public or around his friends, but he does like to steal kisses and hugs every once in a while

Sometimes he actually plans surprise attacks with Mei as a distraction... always work. Mei in a certainty like that ✌

Red Son never really shows much... in public, or front of others. When it's just the two of them my world he is the clingest of all. Once he's got his hug he rarely lets go unless he really has to

As "really has to" usually means MK needs to use the bathroom 🤷‍♀️

They are each other's comfort person when they feel sad or conflicted

Red Son's despises and loves all the attention at the same time and MK just goes along with it

Red Son(full blanket burrito): it's not like I'm afraid that my father only wants me for my powers and my inventions! And that my mother thinks of me as a failure or something!

MK(puts a pillow behind him, a bowl of noodles in front and headphones on his head with soft music): of course not, now let's relax a bit and breath out

Red Son(sniffing): it's... it's not like nobody takes care of me and all of this is overwhelming but nice

MK(hugs him): whatever you say, RS

MK rarely hides when something is making him feel bad, but still doesn't want to annoy others because of him and his problems. While Red Son...

MK(sighs):... what if I'm not good enough?

Red Son(gets in by the window with chips, sodas, the latest movie adaptation of The Monkey King and lots of Monkey King plushies): NOW LISTEN HERE YOU BEAUTIFUL IDIOT-

MK: oh, I didn't mean to bother-

Red Son(tackles him): YOU'RE GONNA FEEL APPRECIATED WHENEVER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU PUNY MORTAL

MK:... 💕

Their first kiss was, mm what is the term? I'm trying to think about the right word for it, maybe- Oh, I know, a DISASTER

Between an awkward noodle boy completely inexperienced about romance and the son of a demon that has always focused on nothing but his father's return (without including his tsundere sideTM), let's just say things got hot

... yeah, Red Son accidentally burnt MK's lips. Couldn't smile for an entire week 😅

After finally getting better Red Son presented himself at his door with a bunch of white peonies. Apologizing, because when he's with him it gets harder to control himsel. Because he likes him that much.

MK smiled, took his hand and kissed it. Saying that they were going to work on it, one step at the time.

After many trials and errors, getting closer and closer to each other, they managed to share their first proper kiss

According to Red Son it was "fine"... said with a very embarrassing grin and the eyes of a lovesick puppy

According to MK, it was warm. Warm, in every possible way 😊

These two sounds like quite the chaotic couple, I can only imagine disasters with them 😂 But they are cute and have great potential, I hope we'll have plenty of interactions between them in the series 👌👌

Me: o yea I’m gonna draw this!!

My art skills:

Oh wait you had birthday? In that case HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY! Wish you to have a lot of good in your life!

yeah, i had it on january 2nd

thank you!!

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then you don't deserve me at my

They're right, your art is very cute and you deserve the world ùwú

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