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SoC AU again, long ramble about how i imagine Vasily's character in this

Vasily being the groups Fjerdan would mean that something needs to push him to defect. Just like with Matthias at the beginning who is willing to give up secrets in exchange for killing Nina, that's basically why he joins. He just sees this as an opportunity to get payback and kill Ogata at some point. He would probably enter the story already having been shot, which could be interesting in him drawing the Ice Court himself instead of verbally explaining. But he also would be somewhat duty bound to not letting parem be weaponized. I don't know how snipers work with the Fjerdans or if they are just marksman in general, but I imagine they aren't seen as the most respectable of warriors since they don't get up close to kill grisha. This and the fact that his sniper pride was greater than his patriotism (during their first duel Ogata remarks on how a sniper is motivated by just the cold ability to kill not the hatred to dive headfirst into battle, which is kinda your average Fjerdan fighting style against grisha specifically) is what lead him to defect in the original so i think that would be enough for him to leave. I also think he would have never gotten a wolf, he wasn't 'chosen' by one and he didn't really want one either which really didn't help people's opinions of him. It actually might be interesting if he never passed the bridge to become a full Drüskelle, since Matthias said your told by a superior if they liked you how to pass, and he might have not been told. But I'm not sure if that would work, and maybe he was seen as not honorable but necessary so they just let him through.

He can bond over this with Ogata when he starts complaining about how if there were more sniper groups in the war there would be less causalities.

Overtime I feel he would become closer to the crew. Friends even. He might find a reason to live that isn't killing Ogata in actually making friends and having a ride or die group. Before all he had was the Fjerdan military, but now he has actual friends. Very flawed and kinda awful friends but still. The Vasily-Ogata dynamic is like Matthias and Kaz but instead of a duo with Nina or Inej they just have eachother. And they don't make each other better, only worse. That might change eventually but definitely not at the start. Vasily might slowly put killing Ogata behind in priority while Ogata has kinda the opposite development as he distances himself more and more from the crew. I always thought it was funny how they were written so passionate when they really wanted to kill each other. So Vasily would eventually 'let go' of (killing) Ogata. Also it would be funny if he became the go to marksman of the group just because you don't have to do mind games to get him to do something and isn't an asshole about everything. Ogata will totally not take this personally.

Endgame for him would be mostly the same in that he becomes a famous painter somewhere because this Fjerdan is actually surviving.

And I also think whatever prejudice is left against grisha would be destroyed by Inkarmat by explaining the fear they hold for eachother, she also wasn't ever in the Second Army. I think they could become friends. I love found family.

Respect to Halo artists cause wtf. Did not help that I decided to add some perspective.

Usami as an ODST, I thought it fit

Thinking about how when Sugimoto's group catches up to Ogata and Kiroranke, Kiroranke dies satisfied with Asirpas help knowing it was all worth something, meanwhile just before that Ogata tried to also die with satisfaction with Asirpa in the form of her killing him and proving him right. But he survives and instead dies making her get blood on her hands like he wanted but it comes with the opposite realization to Kiroranke, that it was all for nothing and basically his entire life was a waste. Does this make sense

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"THE TAXIDERMIST"

I made this in early 2023. Sadly, I do not have the drawing with me anymore to take a better photo of it(my brother liked it so much and I gave it to him). I hope u don't mind :)

We should all appreciate Sugimoto more. He wanted to kill Ogata so so bad because he shot him and shot Wilk and separated him from Asirpa. Like he was fueled by rage just to rip him to shreds. But when he finally catches up, he saves Ogata's life instead because of how much he cares for Asirpa. He is willing to put all his anger away in an instant for Asirpa's sake. Him pulling out his knife not to kill Ogata but save him and literally sucking the poison out??? He didn't even hesitate because Asirpa means so much more to him then his anger. It also shows development in how close he has gotten to Asirpa, and how she has given him reasons to not just kill on sight out of anger, but to care for someone else's sake. He still wants to kill him, but on his own terms, not the terms of making Asirpa help in killing someone. Its honestly a breath of fresh air for a main character like Sugimoto to be such a genuinely thoughtful guy.

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FRACTURE: ALPHABET SOUP, 2570

64-06-40303 "CATO" & 64-06-40411 "SAGE"

Cato and Sage are a pair of "mid-generation" corporate Spartans; they were orphaned by the Human-Covenant War, "adopted" by Lethbridge Industrial, and funneled into their illegal Spartan program when they were 9 years old.

Cato and Sage represent a somewhat special case among corporate Spartans, due to the fact that they've been friends since before they even started training. Their corporate foster families lived basically right next to each other, so they had a few years to grow up together before they began training.

It's not uncommon for pairs, even trios of trainees in these programs to gel with one another and stick together until "graduation", but Cato and Sage were already friends when they started, and were joined at the hip all the way through. They were/are mirror images of one another, alike or complimenting each other in almost every way.

By all metrics, Cato and Sage are a bonded, effectively symbiotic pair whose personalities, strengths, and weaknesses developed around one another. They're uncommonly good friends who are able to read each other perfectly, which is a very, very valuable thing to have in a pair of Spartan trainees; Spartans are fantastically lethal on their own, but a pair (or a group) of them that know each other intimately well and flow together as a team are worth far more than the sum of their parts.

In late 2565, after about a year of working together, a clerical error during the reshuffling of Lethbridge's permanent Spartan roster saw Cato and Sage contracted out to different teams. Lethbridge realized the mistake far too late, their most profitable supersoldiers poached by separate PMCs.

Cato and Sage have bounced from team to team since, proving promising but difficult to work with individually to a variety of other private Spartan teams. As of 2570, neither have been kept on any single team for more than a fiscal year. They manage to communicate occasionally, and only very rarely get to actually see each other. Despite the distance, they remain the mirror images of one another they always were, even as they grow and change separately from one another.

Currently, Cato is working with Wellgulf Limited's "Team Fulcrum", and Sage has been folded into Nyotatu-Lanhu Conglomerate's newly formed "Alphabet Team".

Being truly reunited remains unlikely.

i don't have a cool culture to draw her in for the trend but uhh. hatsu-knight miku

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Also think it's interesting that both series have a common theme in showing affection, in soc it's touch and in Gk it's food but both appear in either series

I made the au post as a joke but it's genuinely taken over my brain as I realized a lot of common things with both series, which are both some of my fav.

The main soc au group would be Tsukishima, Koito, Inkarmat, Tanigaki, Vasily, and Ogata. They are a part of a larger gang which is the 7th with Tsurumi as their leader. They would get in a bunch of side quests probably but would still break into the Ice Court for Jurda Parem secrets. Instead they are finding Wilk though and Asirpa would be the Kuwei who has information everyone wants after their father is killed.

None of the characters are really directly correlates to the crows though

Koito is official leader of the crew, kinda Jespers comedy but also the crews spider

Tsukishima is the right hand man and advices a lot of leadership decisions with Koito, the least like a crow I feel since Igogusa would be his Inej but shes long gone when the story starts

Inkarmat is a heart render who is the Nina of the crew, does fortune readings

Tanigaki is the Matthias I'd say except he's not fjerdan, the big one plus knows how to traverse the wilderness

Vasily would be the group fjerdan bent on getting back at someone else on the crew. I'm not sure how fjerdans would treat snipers but I think he'd defect on his own to hunt down Ogata

Ogata is the marksman of course and I would relate him to Kaz but he's honestly so much worse, funnily enough they both lost their brothers in very different ways

Also Ienaga is a healer who's also learned some tailoring that runs a hotel and Edogai is a durast taxidermist that is given skins in exchange for helping the 7th

I have so many more thoughts on them so I'm probably gonna post about this more but I haven't read shadow and bone yet