kasa joining knights is hilarious in hindsight cause izunaruritsu just found this random red head who absolutely adored them and likely had no idol experience and went, “ok welcome to the unit, our leader is Gone and everything is in shambles, good luck”
the new knights specialties are cute innocent things like leos camping and izumis cooking and tsukasa’s here like ‘oh i can shoot a gun now’ like ok sure, the king can shoot guns now, i guess we’re doing this
ALRIGHT ITS TIME
so so, -for even a moment- is the instrumental in the middle of the album, right before we’ll be knights
and if you listen to that instrumental
you hear an, eerily familiar melody
decided to go read engstars euthanasia instead, gotta say, something i really like abt the beginning is that while arashi and izumi disagree with tsukasa, they make sure to remind him that theyre just being honest and they dont hate him
oh wait are people actually mad at each other? ok so, can we not, knightsps can be excited about knights, edenps can be excited abt eden, you dont need to compete over attention and stuff
ever wonder how quick tsukasa had to learn knights performances to a presentable (and izumi’s) standard with likely no experience in dance or performance
@BPDknights
I love her interesting complicated relationship with love, how growing up in a loveless family affected her, as well as how losing someone she loved affected her. Its why she’s so intent on loving herself, or at least saying she does, as well as likely why shes so supportive.
meowsketeers tsukasa except i made the ears and tails how they should be and not that fleshy cream colour they used in the original card for some reason
@crownandfaiths
hes also always been at least a bit like this, hes not in knights for no reason
(its also so funny to imagine tsumugi desperately trying to hold him back like ‘suoukun no we cant duel the other agencies Please we’re not That strong)
not enough ppl r pointing out that tsukasa has checkmate merch this basically confirms theyve animated the epilogue because why else would they make him a 3d model
everyone saying ritsu is Wrong because while he is absent most of the time he’s not stupid, he’s actually pretty clever, hes like the guy who never comes to class, doesnt study, only goes in and does the test and gets a 97
i love the knights collab stories its proof that even if they got transported to another world with no way home and been attacked by monsters theyre still going to be silly and weird
Izumi - summer afternoon 5
"I cannot /believe/ this! Kuma-kun was out there having a nap under the blazing sun! Doesn't he care about getting heatstroke?!"
@cootpancake
YES AND I HATE THAT PEOPLE KEEP FORGETTING IT!! naru is so important here because she decided that tsukasa was a better fit to be leader even if she once dreamed of it herself aidh whausjf
(its also just, very fitting for the queen to crown the king)
New year Mika Dragon 🐉 gacha spoilers
Mika is reading a popular fanfic and complains because he doesn’t understand why on it he is ruling the world along Nagisa when he would rather prefer it was him and Shu instead
requiem anniiiii, i jus want to say leos card here is probably my favourite card in the entirety of ensemble stars, its just the emotion thats in it,,,,
i know that not many polyknights shippers follow me but ive had, like a silly fic idea (with some old written chapters) in mind thats essentially 'polyknights but tsukasa is oblivious and doesn't realise he's had 3 boyfriends and a girlfriend for months'
ritsu is an interesting character with many facets of his personality but also its not my fault ritsu spent half of this checkmate episode asleep and dreaming about maakun
@theuglyfairy
naru just on her own just got one chapter, ritsu got two, but they have no chapters actually with eachother,,, this feels like a slightly more fancy trickstar event then a full cast graduation,,,
i was wondering one day which knight is the most, dog, but like, all 5 of them r cat people, they r just so cat, so so cat, i cant imagine any of them being a dog person in the slightest
i think my ritsup oomfs need to be studied
i think they also need, a warm blanket, its ok, shhhhh dont worry, yes i know ritsu is super pretty and dances well and you wanna squish her with a hydraulic press, me too, but its ok,,,,
i find it so so interesting that the two pieces leo uses to show kasa hes won during their chess game are the knight (ritsu) and the rook (leo), and considering what happens during gambit,,,
soooo i may or may not have been working on a piece for the
@EnstarsBigBang
!! heres one of the pieces i've made for "When Life Gives You Lemons, Time Travel" by Elaine_Spain on ao3 in which absolutely nothing goes wrong and all is well and good :)
see the TRUE reason why izumi is associated with water is not because he's really pretty and his name means water spring but instead because hes a pathetic wet cat who cries all the time
ritsu absolutely fell asleep at the photoshoot, they took the photo and all went to look at how it looks while ritsu just plops against izumis back, asleep
@BPDknights
Which is ironic cause, thats what, Arashi would want, of could she doesnt want people to see that part of her, shes meant to be everyones supportive big sister, people are supposed to rely on Her, not the other way around,,,
@BPDknights
Not to mention one of my favourite moments with her, the fact that for a brief moment, she wondered if she should’ve disbanded Knights right then at there when winning requiem,
@crownandfaiths
duel is such a fun story its so cute to see suo being mischievous and declaring duels without telling anyone hes so battle hungry sometimes
one of my fav idol stories is him threatening to purge some of the newbies out and narus like “nooooo ok so dont do that-“
@BPDknights
i assume it’s because she keeps sending important things and reminders (for like, practice n stuff) to knights but also i think tsukasa messages a bit too much for just that i think shes clingy
@cootpancake
my best guess is knights is very popular meaning theres lots of knights badge sets around? it doesn’t mean naru is unpopular its more that theres alr so many naru badges due to the general popularity of knights
but also idk much abt jp fandom maybe she is unpopular after all.