Yashahime - Blog Posts

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Tho’ Much Is Taken, Much Abides

New beginnings need new rules.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - That Untravell’d World

A mental exercise to purge concern.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - The Thunder and the Sunshine

How to cross a burnt bridge.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - There Gloom the Dark, Broad Seas

When yelling on the scaffold, choose your words with extra care.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Seek a Newer World

You well would you hide if you didn't expect to be sought?

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - A Bringer of New Things

People from your past don't always stay there.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Always Roaming with a Hungry Heart

The most bitter tears are those that none can see.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Made Weak by Time and Fate

Some things cannot be forgiven.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - The Long Day Wanes

Some nights are very long, and not for good reasons.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Subdue Them to the Useful and the Good

Finding a traitor for beginners.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - That Which We Are, We Are

Some things, once lost, are hard to recover.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Make Mild a Rugged People

The night will keep your secrets when you lay your heart bare.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Men That Strove with Gods

How unpredictable do you like your friends, and why is the answer, 'Yes'?

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - I Am a Part of All That I Have Met

How wary should one be of a stranger offering passage on their ship?

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - By This Still Hearth

Sometimes you have to settle down for a bit in order to proceed.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Offices Of Tenderness

... And sometimes the answers are the people we left behind.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood - Unequal Laws Unto a Savage Race

Sometimes, the biggest questions have to wait.

Dye Their Flowers With My Blood

A solar eclipse, a curse, and the age-old question: Why are we here? Having died twice already adds a certain urgency to that one.

(I have reached the half-way mark in my YOI project, and I needed a moment to collect myself. This one has been a long time coming.)

This won’t go over well with a lot of you, but you all are gonna rant than so am I!

It’s gonna be a long one, so buckle up. A number of people really don’t like Yashahime. I see so many people who are upset and saying the story is poorly done fan fiction. Saying such things because the writers are using stories from the manga and replacing the characters. Saying the characters, like Setsuna and Towa, are flat. That they are Mary Sue type characters. That Moroha is just a jester. Someone to poke fun at. That she doesn’t care about her parents or who they are.

ARE THEY FUCKING BLIND?!

They want the show to display a fairytale happy ending for the characters they love. WELL I HAVE NEWS FOR THESE PEOPLE!! FAIRYTALE ENDINGS DON’T MAKE GOOD STORIES! Not even FAIRYTALES are written that way. They want Sunrise to start the series off with the whole gang dancing around singing kumbaFUCKINGya! This is a ridiculous notion to have. A naive and simple minded one at best. They cry because they don’t get to see their beloved characters. They whine because the story doesn’t match what they had envisioned. NEWS FLASH! Many of the people writing, animating, and voicing this series are the ones who were apart of the original. This is what THEY envisioned. This is their dream. HOW DARE YOU DEFILE THEIR ART WITH SUCH PREPOSTEROUS ACCUSATIONS!

This is how good stories start. You throw the characters into the fire, watch them crawl through it, and emerge from the other side with resolve. Our characters got their happy ending. We saw it. However, life continues on. The OG gang lives during a time of demons and that world did not end with Naraku’s death. He was not the end all, be all of demons. He was not a LORD. He was not a ruler of lands. He was a pitiful HUMAN man with hate in his heart that sold his soul for power and the love of a woman he would never be able to grasp. Just because we did not see the good times, does not mean they were not there. We saw the start of it. As I have been told by someone, that is what imagination is for. We use our imagination to develop stories of how they lived their lives afterwards. Up until the point it all went to shit again. We are thrown into the story when it begins to unfold. That is why we see the story of the girls. We see the world through their eyes just as we did with Kagome and the others. It appears patchy and inconsistent because that’s how they see it! They don’t know the full story, so why should we. As an audience, we already know so much more than they do.

This story has just begun, do these ignorant twits really expect to be spoon feed every damn detail. I get the frustration of wanting to see the OG characters happy. I want nothing more than see the beautiful family life of Sesshomaru and Rin. I want nothing more than to see the loving and chaotic relationship between Inuyasha, Kagome, and Moroha. I want nothing more than to see Sango and Miroku raising their children. I WANT THAT TOO! However, this story is NOT ABOUT THAT! It is about the hellfire that rained down on them. It is about the hardships that both the old and new cast had to suffer through. It is about what happened after the fairytale ended. We don’t have answers, because it just started! It took 193 EPISODES of Inuyasha for the story to be completed. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE! We are on episode 11, going on 12, of Yashahime! I for one believe there will be more than 1 season. These artists are not known for short and sweet stories. If they end the story abruptly, IT’S BECAUSE OF THE TOXIC DISCOURSE THAT IS FLOODING THE STREETS! Believe in the writing and have faith that our questions will be answered. This is a story across time and it will take time to tell it.

Moroha will have her spotlight. We will see her rise to the occasion. She does care about her parents and who they are. I know this, in my heart, to be true.

Setsuna and Towa will regain their memory and be reunited with their family. Even if it is not how we pictured it.

Hisui and Kohaku are rebuilding their family business. They are following in the footsteps of their ancestors. We will see that story as well.

We will see what happened to the others, we just have to show patience and faith. Even if it does not align with our fandom’s dreams. Our dreams are ones of happiness, delusions, and self insertions. We are not the authors of this story. We are the fans. We are not going to like every single facet of this story. So many of us have changed the story with fan fictions. Our minds have warped and manipulated this story into something that is not aligned with the story that is being published. AND WE NEED TO GET OVER IT. Stop harping on these childish fantasies and understand that it is a story. Not a story of your life, but a story of characters that you did not create. So in the end, you do not get to decide their fates.

Come at me if you want. However, I will not entertain your delusions.

Sesshomaru Sucks (Mainly Sesshomaru x Rin)

Yeah. I said it. Fight me. Sesshomaru from Inuyasha freaking sucks and I'm tired of people on the internet acting like he doesn't just because he's married, conventionally attractive, and has kids. I don't even have a problem with the fact people like him. I have a problem with the fact people like him so they try to act like he's not a crappy person. I don't care for any so-called nuance this guy could have. I don't care what 'redemption' he was given. I don't care for any of that. I know for a fact that if this guy was uglier than a toad, you'd all hate him. Ain't no way in heck I'm gonna back down just because y'all are okay with the pairing of this eight year old girl with an adult freaking man.

On top of being a self-centered and careless jerk, he's also a major hypocrite and his (now romantic) relationship with Rin is so off-putting to me. "He isn't abusive to her----" Congratulations, he does the utter bare minimum---is he supposed to win a consolation prize for not being the scum of the Earth? "Oh, but Inuyasha and Kagome have a large age ga---" Inuyasha was mentally & physically (meaning both qualities should be present SIMULTANEOUSLY) the same age as Kagome when they first met. Ironically enough, before the whole Kikyo situation, he was 150 (which alludes to the fact he was a teenager within the realm of his species). The only reason why Inuyasha is chronologically older than he is---is because Kikyo shot an arrow into him that kept him in a state of limbo and being unchanged. Even regarding the overly complicated realm of when and how long it takes for supernatural beings like Inuyasha to age, one thing is for sure----Sesshomaru met Rin when she was LITTLE. "Oh, but he went away for a long time and met her as an adult---" I don't care. Let's really put this into perspective and think of what that fully entails. You're a fully grown adult who knew this person from the time they were eight years old. You then move away for a long time, then return---all for personal reasons. You see the person you knew as a child and meet with them. Would it NOT be considered weird at LEAST if you were to be in that situation and then think, "Hmm, I wanna get with that." In what universe would that context NOT be gross? Who in their right mind would willingly marry someone they used to know as a child while they were an ADULT? At least Inuyasha was mentally and physically a TEENAGER when he first met Kagome. Sesshomaru has known Rin as an adult from the time her age was a SINGLE DIGIT. The fact I even have to explain any of this makes me wonder if I'm in a simulation waiting for Morpheus to wake me up. If it wouldn't be okay for Kagome to wait until Shippo was an adult to have kids with him, why is it okay for Sesshomaru to do that with Rin? It makes no sense. "That's how it was back then---" Still doesn't make it any less gross, bro :) Though, let's say somehow that I am wrong----and that there's nothing wrong with Sesshomaru's relationship with Rin---

NOPE, never mind, he's still a major freaking hypocrite. He gave Inuyasha so much crap for having Kagome with him, hated his own mother for being human, hated his father for being WITH a human----only for him to then turn around, marry a human girl, and then have KIDS WITH HER. So even if everything else that I said before this aspect of the topic is incorrect (which I really don't think it is or will be convinced it's not), you gotta admit that Sesshomaru's behavior + hypocrisy is very slimy. Heck, even if they had her first encounter him as an adult or if he was ALSO kid when they first met---I most likely would've been a lot more receptive to them being a couple. "Oh you must've not watched the show/you have poor reading comprehension---" What else is there to comprehend? A guy married a girl who he knew as an adult when he had first met her when she was EIGHT. He practically raised this girl before letting her go with Kaede. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO ANALYZE?! "Sesshomaru didn't raise Rin---" Okay, so what the heck was he doing the whole time she was around, then? Because he was protecting her, taking care of her, making sure she had stuff----that sounds like raising a child to me. Pretty sure Rumiko (the creator) even describes him as Rin's hogosha (which means protector). Even if not, the so-called romantic feelings Sesshomaru could've had are never mentioned of when they started forming. But no matter when or how it started, it's still VERY weird because he knew her when she a----say it with me----A SINGLE DIGIT. He still knew her as an adult when she was kid, so even if those 'feelings' were to have only begun when she was (let's say) 18, it's still off. I understand that both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were previously morally corrupt/murderous beings before undergoing the general direction their stories went in. So as the audience, we tend to forgive things from them we normally wouldn't---especially considering the overall nature of their plot. But if a character is going to be a murderous piece of crap, don't have them be a hypocritical murderous piece of crap and act like we're supposed to forget it afterward. As much as I love the addition of Yashahime (because duh, it's more content that involves characters I like), the romantic relationship between Rin and Sesshomaru felt so unnecessary to me (if not downright disgusting---which it is). Don't get me wrong, Kagome and Inuyasha's relationship is not in any way perfect either, but at least Kagome wasn't freaking EIGHT YEARS OLD.

He really should've just stayed her father figure/caretaker/platonic mentor or something like that. A cold-blooded fiend like Sesshomaru reforming upon learning to care through adopting a child would've made a MUCH better and cuter arc for him than whatever the [BLEEP] this is.

Insult me all you want, but it's the truth. Sesshomaru x Rin is freaking disgusting.