this is a rant about how they completely fucked up chishiya’s character
major spoilers for season 2 and the manga
first of all, i’m not entirely upset about how they put chishiya in the jack of hearts game even though no main character’s were supposed to be in there. it makes sense that the writers would do that because having a game consist of all new characters, even though they are interesting characters, it may not have come across very well.
it was fun to see how chishiya’s brain worked for that game and i loved that it gave him a lot more screen time, which was desperately needed.
now, i’ve always been a little peeved about how they made chishiya more in tune with his emotions, in the manga he is apathetic and he has no positive feelings towards any of the characters. in the show he was caring towards kuina and kuina even asked about him numerous times, but in the manga she very much disliked him because of him selfish and manipulative ways.
it would have been fine if that was the only thing they changed about his character, but they completely made up a backstory for him, it made me so angry that they left out the most important part of him.
his original backstory started off with showing the lack of parental love that he grew up with and that he never understood the human heart and that he had no plans to do so. his father worked in the medical field which is why chishiya became A MEDICAL STUDENT, not an actual doctor or whatever the fuck they made him in the show. manga chishiya was working in the hospital on what i assume was an internship, and the best scene was when a dying old man gave him a letter to give to a family member and chishiya said that he would but when chishiya left the room he threw the letter away because he doesn’t care for other people.
the backstory change was completely unnecessary and the new one didn’t really add anything of value. i assume they did it because it made him relate to kuzuryu which resulted in a change of heart in chishiya, but in the manga chishiya still had a change in heart with his original backstory.
also they didn’t make him smile that big’ol smile he had when he got shot. the only reason that chishiya went to talk to arisu was because the words of kuzuryu made him rethink himself and he actually wanted to talk to someone for a change.
i am really happy that they didn’t change the confrontation between him, arisu, and niragi, i’m also glad that they still put chishiya and niragi in the same hosptial room because that shit’s hilarious.
over all i did enjoy the season and i understand that following the manga exactly is boring. in fact i enjoyed some of the switch ups that did happen, but i just don’t understand why they felt the need to change the most important aspects of chishiya.
Detective arisu detective arisu detective arisu.
Annoyed grumpy partner detectives arisu and chishiya assigned to work a case together and eventually fall in love vire the power of friendship
Head empty just arisu getting fucjing smashed at a bar and being an annoying person who climbs on a table but it being one of those sticky shitty bar tables so it fucjing topples over and arisu crashes to the floor in pain covered in beer.
Kuina and usagi by the bar recording him cuss they know it’s gonna be fucking helarious tomorrow and chishiya and pissed screaming at arisu for spilling his drink again
Kuina: Toes would make a cute necklace :)
Last boss: so true want me to get you some?
Arisu: I fucking hate this friendship and wished they stayed in that weird dance battle
Arisu woukd be adicted to true crime podcasts to the point they’d take over his life and he’d spend hours joining face book groups about either old cold case files or missing ppl cases and shit and he was a damn well known acount on these things and was like featured on a couple podcasts and shit.
Arisu and Usagi Carrousel date where they sit on like the ponies next to each other and hold hands and laugh as their hands are stretched apart where one horse goes up and the other comes down. Maybe Usagi steps off for the next turn and leaves a reluctant Arisu to stay sat on the horse and she takes photos of him on a polaroid camera and laughs because he's sorta grumpy at being left alone buy then carrousels are SUPER fun so he's still smiling and shit.
Lowkey wanna write a fic where like Chishiya knows magic tricks and either uses them to flirt continuously with Arisu OR uses them to like trick people into giving him their cards (including hatter and or Aguni). except I don't write so this shall forever stay a forgotten thought never expanded upon lmao
Chishiya flirting: ya know from all the games you’ve won your brain must be extra wrinkly. Wink
Arisu:…. Thank you. Your brain would also be wrinkly and most likely a fantastic display in a jar
Kuina: this bitch is never gonna get laid Jesus fuck
Usagi: hang on I think Arisu is actually catching on that it’s flirting holy shit
Arisus: talking to a random guy who imagines it’s you and him in fury porn ain’t that bad right? Right?
Usagi: love we’ve talked about this. Stop talking to weird men on the internet
Chishiya: unless your getting money for feet pics
Usagi: not helping you stupid mother fucker
So I remembered frozen exists and now can only picture Arisu passionately singing love is an open door with chishiya (arisu is clearly Anna and chishiya is…. Hans? What the fuck is that ginger bastards name). Oh and kuina is clearly going to be forced (and low-key enjoy) singing let it go. Usagi sung all of christoffs lines (low-key forgot the boys names ) and then idk hatter sung Olaf’s summer cuss honestly in a frozen au hatter would be olaf.
Last boss seems like the kinda guy to be obsessed with smoking meat. Dude probably spends his time either gathering meat and wood and seeing how different wood affect the taste and shit.
Sometimes I guess he hands them out for others to taste. And so I propose: kuina and last boss bonding over meat and sometimes they invite Arisus and chishiya to taste it but both have the taste pallets of a Labrador. That is to say they couldn’t give a crap if it’s the most fine dining food ever made or actual crap, they will wolf it down in 10 seconds flat
I’m up at way to early and I hate it so here
Usagi on the first day of her and Arisu working together tried to wake him up and this dude most definitely punched her, shot up looked at her, muttered a soft “sorry” before promptly flopping back down and sleeping.
I like to believe that the stars in borderland are diffrent to the normal world. Like yeah the most obvious difference is all the people gone, but if you look close enough the stars are different to. Kinda creapy considering there’s always one constant in life for me and that’s the stars (even if they change you know next year you’ll see the same stars in the same position).
But it also means that contestants can create their own story’s and constellations. And this time it will be personal story’s. And so Arisus like lays on the pool chairs with a usagi one day at the beach and stare up at the sky. Slowly talking and joking about what they see. And Arisus finding two shapes that vaguely relate to karube and chouta so he starts telling her about a random thing they did together back in the normal world.
And then he like cries or whatever and she holds him becuse she’s really kind to him and he’s a big baby and yeah. Or maybe I’m the one crying but either way someone is crying
Usagi painting stars across Arisus cheeks, some bigger than others, becuse he wants to remember all those that died in games with him and wants them on his skin (but tattoos hurrrrrrt and low-key probs arnt great to get in borderland) so paintitn them on in white face paint is what he has to do.
Just her softly holding his chin in one hand as she slowly angles his head to the side to get a better view. Chewing on her lip slightly as she concentrates on getting the lines right. The well used brush like ticking Arisus nose because yall have you ever been face painted??? Fucjing tickle hell.
drag queen Arisu. drag queen Arisu. drag queen Arisu drag. queen. Arisu
what types on fandoms characters write fanfics for except I take it off fandoms ive written for within my life. Arisu: Final fantasy Usagi: Voltron Kuina: Disney channel movies (specifically camp rock and lemonade mouth) Chishiya: paradise lost Aguni: hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. man likes his Shakespeare Hatter: mlp and paradise lost Niragi: mlp but the brony kind (I have not written this however it fits him) Karube: the illiad. oh and stardew valley chouta: pokemon
you know the cats vs dogs movie from like 2001? the one where the cats/dogs are in a super high tech war without their owners knowing and there's one REALLY fluffy white cat that gave me nightmares that I was gonna wake up with it suffocating me? yeah anyway all I can think about is a Chishiya (the cats duh) vs Arisu (the dogs. duh) war with like Hatter (Arisus side) and Aguni ( chishiyas side) as their owners (not kinky it just sounds weird but I swear context please context). honestly idk if this post makes sense I just wanted to talk about this movie because I rembered it from having a nightmare of that one stupid fucking murderous evil cat again. that, that cat is MY enemy.
I want one scene where the group gets right proper startled the fuck outa their skin. and all you have is Arisu jumping into Chishiyas arms. Who obviously jumped into Kuinas arms. Who obviously jumped into Usagis arms. So now you have a wabbly kneed Usagi awkwardly holding up the three of them up as the thing that scared them stares shocked because last it checked this wasn't fucking scooby doo
Arisu: so yeah in ancient greece and Rome they’d read the entrails of thier blood sacrifice to predict the future
Usagi: facinating
Chishiya: I wonder what my guts would predict Arisu: I would prefer not to see your guts? please and thank you<3
Chishiya: just for that heart Kuina come chop me open your gonna read the future
I haven't read the series nor learnt anything about the rest of it as I’m waiting till their either translated to English or the show comes out so I can have my heart ripped to shreds completely virgin to what the series holds but I’m just so interested in the cards. I mean there's 52 normal playing cards but there's also 2 jokers building it up to 54 cards. Now I know logically the show isn't going to use the joker cards but they are rather interesting I mean when they were first written into the rule book (although they had existed long before that) their status was actually above all the cards. obviously now its used in other contexts depending on the game you play (example it may be used to skip a players turn, it may also be the lowest ranking card or some other ability.). Its main purpose throughout is to be a wild card. obviously all the important characters relate to a Alice in wonderland character- which ones are somewhat up to interpretation since how one reads Alice in wonderland and also how one interprets the characters motives of Alice in borderland varies vastly. But I mean come on the cards are such an integral part of the series- as well as Alice in borderland- so it only makes sense for the characters to relate to the cards as well. I could probably rant about the characters and their cards, how perhaps their card are the ones we first meet them in, or the ones they die in, maybe the ones they held the most impact on. But then there's certain characters that we meet that do hold enough purpose in the show to be memorable yet either don't fit any of those descriptions or meet multiple. Perhaps its only the face cards- the jack, queen, king and ace- that hold characters dear to them. I mean Mira is the red queen herself no? in both characterisation and card references and yet that seems to easy. For it to only be the face cards when we meet so many influential characters. I mean heck playing cards I’d find myself winning ( or rather losing since I always guessed wrong and would win to many games) on something as stupid as the 2 of trumps. So its not like the normal cards are something to scoff at- used correctly and their more useful then the ace for crying out loud. But I'm getting off track, the most obvious character for the Joker would be hatter, I mean dudes insane and basically made for the role. But I mean, come on, the even more obvious choice is Arisu. Dudes build to be a wild card. From a nothing in the real world, a shut in who plays games all day. Yet he seems to be one of the best game players in the series for things like hearts and Diamonds. his innocents, ability to make characters love him or feel sympathy, quick wit and much more make him stupidly good at the two heart games we’ve seen in the show so far. He’s a wild card within the universe. A trump card. but I mean theres two jokers in most decks. A red and a black one. balance and all that. If we go with Hatter being the joker then obviously its Aguni. but then I didnt go for hatter so fuck that. I think Chishiya would be the other joker. Their both working for the same thing, both playing off each other in diffrent ways and both great at the same games ( although both will deny being good at heart games). In the end I could only ever see those two ‘beating’ borderland. how they’d do it would be diffrent but they’d do it together or not.
their the trump cards in the deck that is borderland. or maybe I’m really fucking sleepdeprived and lowkey havent had a coherent thought in like 2 weeks and am trying not to post about Hatter being a furry. its probally that one. eitehr way I want a joker game and I want it to be heart breaking.
I like the idea that Chishiya, Kuina , Usagi and Arisu all travelled together after the destruction of the beach and they met in like the weird control room. and obviously their going to be on the move a lot, either trying to out run old beach members who are pissed because Chisiya was like a high raking member and Arisu was probably seen with the official people ( I forgot their names shhh). Also having to find new food/medical supplies and also just following games and shit. now most transports don't work (other than really old bikes and stuff as we know from that one lowkey dull running game but the odds of finding enough shit for that is hard) so their probably going to use bikes. but oh no there's a problem. Chishiya and Arisu cant ride a bike. they just never learnt because, and I mean really, look at the two of them. do they look like the kind of people that have the physical prowess to ride a bike? no. no they don't. so now they have to sit on the back on Kuina and Usagi's bikes when ever they go, either sitting in one of those little toddler baby seat things OR standing on the like back wheel axle thing.
death note au where Light is chishiya and L is Arisu except I never finished Death note and so believe they like idk paired up and took over the world or what ever.
wait wait wait this has been said ( if I'm even correct in rembering) but didn't Karube legit like call for Arisu to look at him in his last moments before his head just went BOOM?? like???? that's kinda fucked??? and like they knew at the very least their gonna be killed AND YET YOU CHOOSE TO HAVE YOUR LOVER BEST FRIEND WATCH YOUR DEATH AND BE FORCED TO LOOK AT YOUR DEAD BODY FOR LIKE WHAT REASONS??? AS A LAST PRANK? like yo sorry dude for making you see my neck get lowkey exploded and watch as my dead body just flops to the ground but dude calm down it was just a prank bro no need to get all sad over it. LIKE ITS KIDNA WHACK ???? but like idk get it you dramatic homo do your thing
Arisu: honestly sucking toes just isn't fun. Unless its your own obviously Chishiya: not in normal circumstances no Usagi: yeah guys suck some other body part instead Arisu: like the ankle? Chishiya: no idiot the di-
I just realised McDonalds wont be like a thing in borderland cuss obviously everyone's like gone. How am I meant to fulfil my brain for its need to picture Arisu surrounded by a mcflurry, a bunch of napkins, a large drink and a box of 20 chicken nuggets that he's frantically shoving in his mouth as his sobs whilst watching mlp now???
Alice in borderland au where everything's the same but Arisu is wearing the same dress that Alice does in Alice in wonderland. Why is he wearing it? no one knows. How is it magically fixed/cleaned whenever it gets dirty or ripped? no one knows that either all anyone knows is that it exists and Arisu cant get rid of it.
Here’s like a 2 minute sketch tjag I did of the top of my head cuss I’m lazy but??? I think it conveys my point
Arisu is the type of lover who goes through the motions of being overly clingy and then almost not clingy enough. He’d go from spoiling his lover, texting and msging them any second he can, making playlists and writing fanfics of his lovers Favorite couples ( not that either are very good). then randomly he’d start pulling away, the play lists would stop, the writing would run dry and the gifts would stop ( not his choice, money is hard to get). he still texts everyday but the goodnight texts fade as his sleeping schedule falls into a whack thing. And he knows it happens, he's sobbed to himself on the kitchen floor enough to know it happens. He’s been broken up with and broken up with people over it for not being a good enough lover. and yet he just cant stop because it comes and goes with the seasons, an unchangeable force of nature .
So its currently like 12am for me rn when I'm typing this idk when I'll post it but I had a thought. Arisu is the type of person to spam his friends a picture of spam 50 times over a minor joke about him not being their fave friend. specifically this photo
In other news I just spammed my friend this photo 50 times because he sides with his boyfriend over me in a minor debate
Arisu: so uhh apparently asking your boyfriend to watch porn with you, create an excel sheet to collect data on things we liked about the videos and things we didn't, finally work out what creates the perfect video in our eyes and then film it isn't a good date? News to me. Arisu:anyway I'm now single someone bring me chocolate and a big hug
occult club girls.
wanting to draw them because they're so underrated and I love them.