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PART 2 OF SHIP CHARTS I MADEEEE !!!(mostly rarepairs this time)

Also everyone must get on the sigkuni hypetrain right now they make so much sense that it's baffling how unknown they are. /nf

Part 1 !! (has SKK, SSKK, Atuslucy, Fyolai, Suegiku & Ranpoe and the blank ship chart)

Headcannons for them! (I mean not really hcs? Cause I made the au? so uh just canons in a way):

- They all went to the same highschool and thats where they met

- Higuchi had an big crush/friend crush/mild obsession w Akutagawa back in highschool (still kind of does) and actually only learned how to play guitar bc she found out he did and she wanted to simultaenuoesly be more like him and impress him (but she did grow to enjoy the activity personally)

- Akutagawa's vocals can get pretty deep and rough in the songs and its a little bit jarring to go from only hearing the music to actually seeing him because you got this gravelly ass voice coming from this cunty twink.

- Hirotsu taught the Akutagawa siblings guitar and music stuff, he also wanted to make his own music when he was younger but he didn't have the resources to produce it at the time.

- Tachihara has a bent nose it happened a long time ago (for unspecified reasons) but he puts on a bandaid when he's in his band persona bc he thinks its cool (its so corny is circles back around to being kinda cool)

Introducing:

BLACK LIZARD

They're finally here !!!

Band Profile:

BLACK LIZARD

Genre(s):

Hard rock, alt/indie rock, punk rock

Members:

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

Lead vocalist/Front man, rhythm guitarist, lyricist

Ichiyou Higuchi

Backing vocalist, lead guitar, lyricist

Michizou Tachihara

Backing vocalist, keyboardist

Gin Akutagawa

Backing vocalist, bassist, composer

Ryuro Hirotsu

Drummer/Percussionist

Not really a composer but he's Gin's go to for when she needs advice for her compositions

Sound:

Fun facts:

Theyre signed under bPM Records, managed to get the resources to do it relatively easily bc Hirotsu knows Mori personally and Mori is a bleeding heart for young, passionate musicians

Akutagawa's guitar is called Rashomon

Gin and Tachihara run all the band's official socials

Hirotsu is the Akutagawas' uncle

I almost gave Akutagawa red laces but then I remembered what that generally means in lace code and I know its not always a mandatory coding rule but I changed it to purple (for lgbtq pride) to make myself feel better.

Introducing:

BLACK LIZARD

They're finally here !!!

Band Profile:

BLACK LIZARD

Genre(s):

Hard rock, alt/indie rock, punk rock

Members:

Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

Lead vocalist/Front man, rhythm guitarist, lyricist

Ichiyou Higuchi

Backing vocalist, lead guitar, lyricist

Michizou Tachihara

Backing vocalist, keyboardist

Gin Akutagawa

Backing vocalist, bassist, composer

Ryuro Hirotsu

Drummer/Percussionist

Not really a composer but he's Gin's go to for when she needs advice for her compositions

Sound:

Fun facts:

Theyre signed under bPM Records, managed to get the resources to do it relatively easily bc Hirotsu knows Mori personally and Mori is a bleeding heart for young, passionate musicians

Akutagawa's guitar is called Rashomon

Gin and Tachihara run all the band's official socials

Hirotsu is the Akutagawas' uncle

I almost gave Akutagawa red laces but then I remembered what that generally means in lace code and I know its not always a mandatory coding rule but I changed it to purple (for lgbtq pride) to make myself feel better.

Extra yap:

I tried to make references using the sheet music choices

The art is honestly barely connected to the themes...it was more like me trying to capture the feeling I get when listening to the climax of the song

The primarily monochrome color scheme is a reference to the White Noise music video

Hopefully Fyodor doesn't come off as creepy or scheming or anything guys he's actually just a silly guy

He also looks like such a fucking rat here I love him

Also the all white outfit is an unintentional reference to the Mersault uniform lmao

holy shit...no way...is that? BSD BAND AU CONTENT !??! explodes

Thinking of doing a series of little arts with each member of the DoA band in the AU as a Will Wood song because they are Will Wood adjacent to me (blame Fyolai for excreting neurodivergence and non-conformity all over their songwriting /aff)

Anywayyssss first installment in the series we have Fyodor as White Noise!

Reasons for picking this song:

The song is generally agreed to have themes of meaning, specifically feeling things are meaningless and finding meaning for yourself in inherently meaningless things

Some people interpret the song to also be how capitalism and consumer culture strips art of meaning or waters down what is considered art and why

The last verse gives me inexplicable Fyodor energy (" you fill your head with thoughts you find you can't even feel. Try to make room in your skull but it's full them. All of the things that you think about think about thinking. I know it's hard, but they're not who you are: They're white noise. ")

Bonus: As far as I'm aware, this is the only Will Wood song that uses cello, so. :3

I just found out recently that Will said the song is actually about suicide and depression...but also as the extension its about not being able to find meaning even in the things you create yourself so it still works.

If anyone cares enough to theorise I would love to hear it <3

holy shit...no way...is that? BSD BAND AU CONTENT !??! explodes

Thinking of doing a series of little arts with each member of the DoA band in the AU as a Will Wood song because they are Will Wood adjacent to me (blame Fyolai for excreting neurodivergence and non-conformity all over their songwriting /aff)

Anywayyssss first installment in the series we have Fyodor as White Noise!

Reasons for picking this song:

The song is generally agreed to have themes of meaning, specifically feeling things are meaningless and finding meaning for yourself in inherently meaningless things

Some people interpret the song to also be how capitalism and consumer culture strips art of meaning or waters down what is considered art and why

The last verse gives me inexplicable Fyodor energy (" you fill your head with thoughts you find you can't even feel. Try to make room in your skull but it's full them. All of the things that you think about think about thinking. I know it's hard, but they're not who you are: They're white noise. ")

Bonus: As far as I'm aware, this is the only Will Wood song that uses cello, so. :3

I just found out recently that Will said the song is actually about suicide and depression...but also as the extension its about not being able to find meaning even in the things you create yourself so it still works.

If anyone cares enough to theorise I would love to hear it <3

I especially hate when people say Lucy's only personality is liking Atsushi, bc it literally isn't. She's actually was already fleshed out during the guild arc and the reason it seems like her only personality is liking Atsushi is bc the fandom only seems to care abt her in the context of Atsushi. Also regarding canon itself Atsushi IS essential to Lucy's character development, their relationship is the turning point for Lucy's character. Lucy would not have turned away from the Guild if not for Atsushi.

The one point I'll give the haters is we don't know much abt Lucy's relationships outside of Atsushi which I admit is unfortunate but that kind of applies to most of the Guild, since there hasnt been like, any extra Guild centric content and most of the members only get screentime/relationship development with one specific other character (Steinbeck and Lovecraft, Hawthorn and Margaret, Louisa and Fitzgerald, Poe and Ranpo).

Also even if you step into the haters shoes, Poe is arguably more centered around Ranpo than Lucy is around Atsushi (seriously even his backstory was facilitated by Ranpo's presence) but a good portion of the fandom adores him regardless.

(also disclaimer this isn't to say I think Poe is badly written)

ranting part three

why do some (not all) bsd fans hate the female characters so much? i don’t get it. like, everybody hates teruko for just DOING HER JOB because she was fighting sigma. then people say, ‘oh, i don’t like her because her childish personality is annoying not because she’s a woman just TRYING TO DO HER JOB’ and then their favorite character is ranpo. or, people will hate a female character because she ‘gets in the way of their favorite ship’. if you haven’t seen this before i’m happy for you, but an example is ‘lucy gets in the way of sskk!!’ seriously? like, seriously? that is so fucking stupid. (saying this as a sskk/taniatsu shipper) just ship whatever you want and let that character exist. and to those who deny this, if lucy was a man and akutagawa was a woman you’d hate akutagawa because she ‘gets in the way of atsulucy’ there’s also the ‘oh, her only personality is liking a man!!’ when we were first introduced to katai his only personality trait was liking a woman and the fandom still loved him. i don’t like that in any character, but i’m willing to put up with it if the author fleshes out the character’s personality later. i absolutely despise the way this fandom treats female characters, yeah, some of their writing isn’t the best but they’re still necessary to the plot. this has been lou. i’m sorry for all the rants i’ve been doing recently, but i’m pissed about a lot of things. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Ship charts I've made! (Blank chart bneath cut, I did not make the base chart)

Part 2 is here!! (has Sigchuu, Jouzai, Souheki, Sigkuni and Sigmatsu)

Also to clarify Suegiku in my headcannon is unrequited, Jouno is very much romance repulsed aromantic