🌟a Bake-Kujira (or Ghost Whale) 🌟

has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet

can you paypal me one ancient rusting coin

no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

*grabbing you by the hair while you are blindfolded and kneeling* no damnit, thats the phillips-head screwdriver, you can tell because its vibrational aura is two waves, the yin being a half cycle out of phase. try again. place your fingers into the toolbox again, but this time feel with the spirit, not the body

Nukani Cafe Translations

At the Nukani Animate Cafe, if you spent 2000 yen, you'd get a random character card. These cards have emails to Eiden from the characters (or Eiden to his boys). Below is my translation of all of them!

Date 06/17

From: Eiden

Subject: Wrap Party!!!!

Good job, everyone! I'd like to throw a party for everyone, now that finals are done.

I know you're still busy regardless, so make sure you make time to stop by! It'll be at...hmm...How about we borrow an empty classroom and do karaoke? Bring any sort of snacks or board games you like!

I want to talk about a lot of stuff, so let's meet at our usual place after class tomorrow!

Date 11/12

From: Aster

Subject: Big News ☆☆☆

Master, did you know? The bread store received a new batch of super flashy hot dogs!

They'll sell out if you wait too long. I'm going to go get some soon, so you should come with me. (◡‿◡)♡

I have to update my socials if I get it!

So you should take pictures of me, because I'm soooooo cute! (@•̀ᴗ-)✧

Date 04/13

From: Morvay

Subject: Purchased Bread

Hey, have you eaten the new bread that came in? I just randomly lined up to buy one when I was going out with that shitty vampire, but it's surprisingly good! It's shape is amazing, and it's delicious too!

...Except, there was a crowd jostling me around, so the hot dog got all over the inside of my bag (;Ɐ;) Either way, you should definitely try it if you get the chance, Master!

Date 12/08

From: Yakumo

Subject: Today's Lunch U-Umm, thank you very much for helping me carry the club supplies today!

I made you a bento box as thanks. I hope you'll like it...

Umm, if it's okay, could we eat lunch together today? I look forward to your response. Date 03/21

From: Edmond

Subject: Recommended Food

You told me before that you wanted me to eat properly, even though I'm so busy with extracurricular activities, so...

I've lately been eating that simple sandwich you made for me the other day. It could be sweeter, but it's both healthy and delicious. I give you my thanks.

The tournament will be soon, so I'd like you to...no, never mind. Let us both work as hard as we can. I will correspond with you again.

Date 10/03

From: Olivine

Subject: Milk Pudding

Thank you for helping me with the choir the other day. By the way, you've been busy lately...are you sleeping okay?

Oh, right! I bought some milk from the store. It's delicious! Milk contributes to sound sleep, so you should drink it to properly relax.

I was thinking I'd make milk pudding at home...but, if you're up for it, I'd love your company.

Date 09/14

From: Quincy

Subject: I was asleep...

I heard you were looking for me.

The sunlight filtering through the trees feels nice, so I fell asleep behind the gym. It is really green there. Topper likes it.

Want to come with me, Eiden? I'll wait for you while I eat my lunch, onigiri.

But I might just fall asleep again...

Date 05/22

From: Kuya

Subject: URGENT -- Supplementary Lessons After School

Supplementary Lessons After School

Time: 6:00 PM (end time TBD)

Place: Classroom A10

Required Items: Writing utensils, previous test

Goodness, how did you manage to score 9 on this test? Quite embarrassing.

Please come to the chemistry classroom after school. I will give you a special one-on-one lesson.

By the way, you must get a perfect score to pass.

Date 11/28

From: Garu

Subject: Let's Eat Together!

Sorry about earlier!!!

I didn't bring my lunch so I sprinted to get it...I wasn't paying attention and knocked you over...

My latest favorite food is a stamina bowl that's sold at the cafeteria. It's really good when paired with a sports drink! After I'm done running, let's go eat together!

--

I-I don't really want to eat with you. Don't get it twisted!

Date 02/02

From: Blade

Subject: I drew something cute!!

Hey, hey! Darling, let me tell you something!!

I was painting on the ground the other day and I knocked over a whole can of paint. The paint spread all over and made a really great painting! (@>‿<)

I'll come to your classroom after school tomorrow to show you, so wait for me, okay?

Date 08/09

From: Dante

Subject: Finals

Are you studying for finals? I heard that you did well on the last quiz. Surely that was because we studied together. If you do well on your finals, I will take you to the cafe we went to last time as a reward. They have superb spiced naan there.

The most important thing is that you do your best and don't laze about.

Date 07/11

From: Rei

Subject: You came again?

Hey, you used the doctor's office's bed again to rest, right? Father told me. Oh well, it's good you're not injured, at least...I'm glad you like to keep yourself rested, but I'm a busy man. Don't give me more work to do.

...Since you have so much energy, how about joining me for some experiments? If you agree to that, you can come use the bed as often as you'd like.

Date ??/??

From: Rin

Subject: I'm always here.

Brother...

The people around you are so loud lately...

I know you're popular, but that can get you into trouble, you know? Your school life needs to be quieter...

Let me know if you get depressed. I'll make any problems disappear for you, brother...

watched a porno where the two guys just kind of noncommittally jerked each other off for what felt like forever and when one of them eventually shot his load the other went "oh shit wtf!" and pogged like he didn't know something like that could even happen but thought it was kind of cool in a scary way

i would love this as a chatfic highkey

AU where the clan are MMO raiders

✨let the show begin!🎪

(tags from @toptop-fuwafuwa-star) ooooo!! yeah that's v fitting for garukaru... and it def works considering their relative good health! it seems like his original pack is doing well in misty vale, so he'd be pretty much off the hook! plus, he did protect gramps/cashel to the best of his ability until the very end. to my knowledge, everyone who has a gemstone and wasn't an original clan member was born with it. yakumo was born with his, for example. so i lean pretty heavily towards the idea that the gemstone can only be transferred once the previous gemholder has died and 'transferred' the contract via bloodline. going in that direction, it was probably his grandpa (or other relative) who died before he was born that passed his gem onto him.

ok ive been thinking about this since like chapter 12 and chapter 16 is just around the corner so:

here’s my theory about how clan member contracts work + the contract powerscale 📝

so huey signs a contract with someone and they each have to fulfill it. simple enough. in return for fulfilling the contract, huey gives them a fraction of his essence (which culminates in a gemstone on their body) and they go on a roadtrip to fix the altars every once in a while

each original clan member signed their contract for a reason. we have pretty good guesses for some of them quincy: to protect the tribe/tribe’s land (pretty much confirmed as of razor’s edge) olivine’s ancestor: to assist(?) the church dante’s ancestor: to protect the solaria yakumo’s ancestor: to protect his loved ones (see: misty vale) what happens when someone doesn’t fulfill their contract? based on rei’s flashback in ch. 12, i’m guessing that the body part their gemstone is connected to + their essence begins to go haywire. rei mentions he ‘never chose to enter any damn contract’ while his gem huey also mentions that rei must learn to ‘harness the power’ he was given. it seems like part of that ‘harnessing’ is using huey’s power in service to the original contract.

rei, it seems, was not doing that. this is in contrast to someone like quincy who spends a great deal of time protecting and aiding the forest tribe and, likewise, possesses an incredible amount of power.

i think olivine is in a similar position (though he doesn’t know it). he’s got a lot of control and power and, unlike yakumo and edmond, his gem wasn’t cloudy when eiden met him (although, his sr also covers his gem with a decorative gem so?) (at any rate, iirc, eiden doesn't notice anything wrong with his gem). (EDIT: i have been informed that eiden does comment on olivine's gem in his h-story room when he sees his real gem. so olivine was also Not Doing so Hot.) olivine's ancestor (likely) asked for power to care for/protect the church and olivine has been doing that (monster semen not withstanding. we’ll get to that.📌) + regulating with the altar. the more a clan member ‘fulfills the purpose of their contract’, the more power they reap from it. it’s hard to say this definitively because some of the original contracts are very ambiguous.

this puts quincy + olivine + kuya(?) in the upper tiers edmond + yakumo + g/karu(?) are in mid tier

the familiars + blade are N/A (never signed a contract)

and then bottom tier are rei and dante. who also happen to be the only main clan members who have been conspicuously sick as part of their character rei, we know spent an ample amount of time doing something outside of klein (i.e. not fulfilling his ancestor’s contract). so, we know where his dysregulation came from and it likely didn’t occur based on the few childhood flashbacks we get from him. but what about dante? how did he fail his contract as infant, straight from the womb??? (assuming that was the cause of his sickness)

well. when he was born, solaria wasn’t doing very well. and, honestly, his parents weren’t doing a great job running the show. it also probably didn’t help that he was stopped from doing anything that could help solaria since he was isolated to palace grounds.

that is until the night of the riot when he ran and sought out the elemental spirit of fire's trial.

we don’t know exactly when dante ‘stopped being sick’ but i’d hazard a guess that it was after his trial with the elemental spirit of fire. the essence + power he gained from the contract with the elemental spirit of fire (i.e. his agreement to protect the fire territory) stabilized his essence and thus, his health. his newfound health (plus a lot of training) gave him the strength to improve solaria and become what he is today. (as an aside, similar to how kuya provides a lot of insight on huey, dante provides a lot of insight on contracts and communication with the elemental spirits. his contract is directly compared to the contract scrolls used by huey (by blade in chapter 10 part 1). in that chapter we learn that failure to fulfill his contract will result in his death. otherwise, we see that he gains power and favor from the spirits.)

even though solaria has improved a lot, i think dante's essence from huey might be permanently effected given that in sunburst fever, he can’t use magic w/o the elemental spirits. in general, he seems to struggle with outputting essence compared to other clan members.

tl;dr: huey’s contracts make you more powerful if you do what you said you’d do (or your ancestor said that they’d do) and, if you don’t, wuh oh… 📌 so olivine and the monster semen. yes, he did try to sabotage the church, so why didn’t he face a huge backlash? well… he also protected the church and, despite trying to harm it, he did his best to maintain it as well. so, what might seem like a huge breach of contract, is actually alright. the church didn’t face any major harm and it was protected. bada-bing-badaboom also, a possible question might be ‘so what about the mid-tier guys?’. so, yakumo and edmond don’t appear(?) to be actively fulfilling their contracts (though yakumo is well on his way).

what’s important is that they aren’t violating their contract. from when we meet them, it seems like ‘neglect of a contract’ does lead to degradation of one’s gem (cloudiness of the gem, poor condition in general) and would eventually lead to illness (like rei), but it’s a much slower process. it’s a good thing eiden regulated with them when he did.

i could survive my own autopsy