Please Save What's Left Of My Family

Happy Holidays! Anything with Zagreus, please?

a continuation of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Zagreus has spent years imagining the moment he faced Demeter head on. He always imagined he'd be calm, but he'd never imagined her attacking one of his priestesses. Not Eliana, who first spread his name amongst the mortals, who created his first orchard, who's spent decades faithfully serving him.

"What's your problem?" he snaps. "If you wanted to talk to me that badly, you just had to ask."

Her shock is giving way to fury.

He feels a hand tugging insistently on his tunic and looks down to see Eliana half kneeling, keeping half an eye on Demeter even as she whispers, "Prince, what are you-"

"Go inside," he commands, softening his voice just slightly in the face of her fear. He knows that fear is for him. "That's an order, Eliana."

She presses her lips together but lets go, giving him a shallow bow and retreating to the safety of the temple.

"You liar," Demeter snarls, ice swirling around her in her rage. "You said you couldn't leave the underworld!"

"I can't move unencumbered," he says, his own anger burning as hot as anything in his father's domain. "But among my people and on my land, I move freely."

This earth is soaked in blood. The plants growing around them have been carefully cultivated for almost as long as he's been coming to the surface. His power is inside of him and all around him and he feels it itching under his skin, begging to be used, to return blood for blood.

"You are not a goddess of winter, Demeter. It's time you stopped acting like it."

I SAW A VIDEO ABOUT THIS THEORY OF SHIDOU'S PAST AND IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE TO ME THAT IT MAKES ME WANT TO SHARE IT HERE. Credits of the theory to Manga lords on tktk

We all know that shidou is tanned, right? Also, he has great fighting skills, great reflexes, good space notion and is known for his acrobatics. Also, he does a lot of bycicle kicks. Do you guys know which place puts all of those together?

THE BEACH. Shidou comes from Tokyo, and even though there aren't beaches there, there are some close. Beach soccer is a common sport here in Brazil, so I can say confidently that he could come from a beach soccer team, that's why he didn't play in a team in hs like all the other players. Also, he probably also played street football with strangers, that's why he openly praises other players' plays, since it's very common during this games.

I just wanted to know if yall think this makes sense.

I actually legitimately think the only reason the creator of Blue Lock has the gayest characters imaginable is because he hates women that much.

Like no joke.

With the way he treats female characters as walking fanservice/ sex machines, and that creepy ass sexual assault manga he's working on, it just seems like he's Light Yagami.

You know. You're gay because you love men. I'm gay because I hate women. We are not the same.

I mean the only reason I can tolerate it is because Blue Lock by definition has very few female characters for him to victimize. And I am compelled by deranged gay soccer.

But I know the gay love stems purely from the misogyny.

After I finished the Skypiea, I realized the book "Liar Noland" was most likely brought by Sanji, because he is the only one who read the book as a kid. And it just makes the whole scene funnier😂 Sanji literally brings a children's book to the Straw Hats😂 Mommy Sanji confirmed💛

The last one is the unused design for Sanji's duck cookies, but I still like it. So I drew a Duck Sanji doodle based on that design🦆

Quick question for the blue lock community on Tumblr, is anyone interested in my interpretation of femlock?

I have some designs that I sketch and I want to share you, plus getting some feedback to improve on some aspect of the design (I think for some of you may find it boring, but I swear to you I have a reason to why I did it).

As the number one ness glazer, IDGF IF HE RIDING KASIER I STILL LOVE HIM^_^

He so cute I just want to bite him!!

Hold up, let her cook 🤨

blue lock manga chapter 271 spoilers, mentions, and analysis (this is an absolute word vomit)

my drabbles, understanding, and analysis on the itoshi family goes something like: when the itoshi parents didn’t know how to properly deal with rin’s behavior when he was little but sae seemed to be the only one that can ‘understand’ and ‘get along’ with rin—they unintentionally gave the responsibility to sae.

i suspect that their thinking is something along the lines of “sae seems like he’s got an understanding of rin that we don’t, maybe it’s better that way, he’s rin’s big brother, after all.”

and honestly, i think that’s why we as the readers find the itoshi parents “distant” from the brothers’ lives.

but do i think they’re bad parents? not necessarily, although i also do think that they could’ve done more. but given certain circumstances…it’s kind of subjective.

let’s talk about itoshi mom first

evidently, itoshi mom is a very concerned mother: she doubts herself, she’s worries for rin (and sae), and she’s generally lost.

and how could she not feel all those things?

i perceive this as she’s a mother who doesn’t distance herself from her children, but because she doesn’t know what to do at all, she seems hopeless and doesn’t have any solution to fix things. naturally, she has the instinct to do what a parent should in times like scolding, etc—however, this is blue lock, everyone has their own ‘ego’, yet some of those inner desires are just cultivated beyond rationality at this point.

(which strengthens my suspicion about the itoshi parents unconsciously putting the responsibility of rin’s behavior onto sae…)

now, itoshi dad

honestly, i don’t have much to say about him, he’s pretty hands off with what’s happening with their children.

as seen, he does seem more composed and lax about everything, and sae definitely got that from him. i wonder if it’s because of itoshi dad’s ‘talks’ (?) with sae that somewhat developed sae to be the big brother he was to rin back when they were little.

i believe the narrative is just implying that he doesn’t think much of the behavioral differences that rin and sae show, even when rin gets injured and gets in trouble, which is a little yikes on his end but that’s just what i understood.

most definitely, the siblings got the trait of being closed off from their dad, lol.

overall, i still don’t believe they’re bad parents whatsoever. however, i do want to talk about my recurring theory that the itoshi parents gradually placed the responsibility of rin’s behavior (and his whole development) onto sae.

let’s discuss the impact of itoshi sae

when sae was around 13-14, he went to spain, and during the pre-teen/teenage years of the itoshi brothers, their family seems rather peaceful.

the itoshi parents—aside from the pride and joy they felt about sae’s success as a rising soccer player—seem rather refreshed, anew, and just happier. they don’t carry the gloom of being worried for their children’s behavior anymore.

but why?

it’s because of rin and sae’s bond over soccer. from a young age, rin has joined his big brother’s soccer team as they both relished the games they could never play with anyone else aside from each other. basically, the itoshi brothers found what they were for. and they definitely got occupied over it.

though i’m only connecting the dots for my own analysis, i firmly believe that the moment rin played soccer with sae, he found a way for his destructive mindset to be utilized. through soccer—the only thing rin has been focusing on—rin was able to effectively let out his desire to break, destroy, and kill what’s “amazing/perfect”.

and who was the only one there by his side, every pass after pass and goal after goal? of course, it’s his big brother. the one to only truly understand and see rin from the very beginning.

honestly, it all makes me wonder if they ever talked to him one-on-one with sae about rin’s behavior. (which honestly makes sense, because sae seems like a pretty obedient kid). but at the same time, what are the chances it made sae extremely analytical, too?

i mean, sae was deemed a prodigy at what 7 years old? that’s seriously insane. so it shouldn’t be a surprise that all of what’s leading up to the ego of the itoshi siblings plays a big part. i’m leaning on the possibility that sae was somehow influenced by the itoshi parents to be more keen or observant on rin—that or sae was only doing what he did out of pure instinct, that’s entirely plausible.

however, whatever the course may be, the outcome that sae noticed something with rin (even before their ego in soccer) will not change.

from this point onwards is just my random babbles about the itoshi family’s relationship (kind of…)

“but when sae left for spain the itoshi parents didn’t appear to care about rin-” i am not hearing that. we should remember that blue lock is (honestly borderline but whatever) about SOCCER.

i believe the first ever backstory we got of the itoshi siblings was only soccer-centered, and in rin’s perspective/narration. why would his parents be included in his soccer career when they most definitely weren’t?

again, i don’t believe that they’re bad parents.

also, i doubt that itoshi mom would ever just stop worrying about rin, even when he’s grown up! in fact, i think that with sae leaving for spain, she probably felt even worried because their children are separated. yet at the same time, i do see her not knowing what to really do again. perhaps they had no cameo after the airport scene because rin found it irrelevant in regards to soccer and his ego.

but, then again, i’m very certain that the itoshi parents do care for their children, and are still connected to them somehow…just not when it comes to the field.

aside from the second backstory (the most recent one) they look out for them (i assume this goes for rin too). in the character book the egoist bible, sae mentioned how his parents send him salted kelp from home to go with his rice when he asks. additionally, we saw itoshi dad say in their first back story for sae to “take care of your health!” as he leaves for spain. the itoshi parents do seem to care for rin and sae as supportive parents of athletes, however, only in the sidelines, because i personally don’t think it goes deeper than that.

honestly, everything for me is pointing that the itoshi parents aren’t active and present in the itoshi brothers’ soccer careers. not necessarily implied, but in the ‘another blue lock: episode omotesando’, rin is the only one seen that has a ticket to sae’s japan triumphant match. a ticket sae sent—of which i assume—only to him.

although this is all still just my speculation, i am still leaning on that the itoshi parents aren’t really relevant in the itoshi siblings’ soccer life, but rather, they play a role in how they ended up developing.

that’s all!

again, this is just my own thoughts about this chapter. this is not canon by any means and i am not forcefully saying what i am discussing is right and should be deemed the only theory/ies out there.

i’d love to talk more about theories and analyses on blue lock, let’s chat!