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An analysis of SafuKashi
By: Vox Date: November 26, 2014, 5:09 pm
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You asked for a Safu board. Here is your Safu board.
With a side of everybody's favourite Dogkeeper!
Yep, this is a board about SafuKashi. [s]Nezushi gets too much
time in the limelight anyway[/s]
So... when I first joined this fandom, and I saw posts of people
shipping Safu with Inukashi, I was like... why?
Now I'm like... aww, it's cute, I guess. But at the same time,
I'm not really sure how it came about. I wanna hear you guys's
reasons why you ship this pairing. Convince me!
Some things SafuKashi has going for it (in my opinion):
-Inukashi is a very genuine person who isn't afraid to let their
feelings show. Hopefully they'd help encourage Safu to do the
same, just by being themself.
-At the same time, they have very good intuition about what
others are thinking and feeling. Maybe they'd be able to
understand Safu better than other people because of it. (Safu is
pretty reserved, or at least has a reserved demeanor, unless
she's really worked up about something.)
-Safu has sh*t tonnes of guts, whereas Inukashi... well, they're
a bit of a coward in certain situations. But I bet they'd do
scary things on her behalf, if they really cared about her,
which I'm sure they do. (Oh, how romantic!)
Yep, that's what I got.
P.S. Use whatever pronouns you want for Inukashi. If anyone
gripes about the ones you picked, I'll bark at them. Woof woof.
>:[
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Re: An analysis of SafuKashi
By: lawlya Date: November 26, 2014, 5:43 pm
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I'm not sure if Inukashi's really someone who isn't afraid to
show their honest feelings ... I mean, they live in the West
Block and in the end, showing your true feelings - especially
feelings of kindness or love or even that you care for somebody
more than for others - gets you exploited. I'd say they would be
really reluctant and very careful to show their true feelings in
the beginning; I can't shake of the picture of a dog that isn't
sure if you're going to pet it or hit it until your hand is too
close to avoid it.
But well ... I agree that Safu's directness would lead Inukashi
to like her. And Safu speaks very freely about her feelings when
they're strong enough and she has guts, like you said. That
would probably lead Inukashi to open up considerably when they
see that there's no hidden meaning (or threat) behind her words.
[s]So yeah, I never shipped SafuKashi actively because of the
whole building a world around them that you would have to do but
I'm always happy when it shows up and ship it in the
background.[/s]
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Re: An analysis of SafuKashi
By: Vox Date: November 26, 2014, 6:23 pm
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So I wrote a response to this and AmtrakConnect ate it. What the
f*ck, man.
Let me try and rewrite it:
I'm going to explain what I meant about showing one's emotions
openly. Because you're right, Inukashi didn't have the complete
freedom to show his emotions that Shion had. But I think that
when he does show an emotion, he does it in much healthier ways
than Nezumi and Safu do.
You see, Nezumi is completely repressing his emotions. Whatever
he's feeling, he wants to deny it. If he has to express an
emotion, it usually comes out as some kind of action, an action
which usually brings bodily harm to other people. No matter what
the real emotion was in the first place, someone ends up getting
stabbed.
Safu, on the other hand, doesn't really use facial expressions
when she's expressing herself. I mean, she does, but she relies
a lot more on words. Very blunt words, too. To me, it always
seemed a bit like she put her scientific side between herself
and the world. She doesn't seem very spontaneous.
Inukashi, though. When they're happy, they laugh. (See: Shion
getting tricked by their assassin's ring.) When they're in pain,
they cry. (See: Inukashi getting their toe sewed up by Shion in
the beyond). When they're annoyed by Rikiga, they argue with
him. I think that their emotions are very spontaneous and
natural, when they choose to express them.
I think you're right and that Safu being direct is a good thing,
because it will make Inukashi feel free to express themself all
the time, instead of only some of the time. On the other hand,
Safu needs to suspend that scientist self that intermediates
between her emotions and the world.
Hope that made sense. Also, hope it was accurate, because I
can't check the anime until I get off this train!
Oh, and I like your metaphor of the dog that is afraid of being
hit... (But a dog would growl, or alternately wag its tail,
right? They'd let Safu know they were afraid...)
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Re: An analysis of SafuKashi
By: lawlya Date: November 27, 2014, 7:24 am
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I see :) Yeah, I totally agree with this. I really like how you
put that.
Inukashi is much more healthy in expressing their feelings and
Safu really seems to - I don't know - shield herself from her
feelings and the world with her scientific side. Though she's
very emotional when she meets Shion in the Correctional Facility
so I think she can be truly emotional if her feelings are strong
enough.
I don't know. Yeah, I think a dog feeling like that would growl.
But only if the hand would come too close. I mean, it's better
to reject a friendly gesture than getting hit, right? So it's
denying the contact altogether but waiting long enough to
eventually get a sign of the true intent. At least some dogs. If
I imagine a dog with human understanding (which Inukashi is,
somehow) - because you wouldn't let go a chance of friendly
contact either, right?
Well, you could see it as Inukashi having a kind of ... wary
expression but altogether they wouldn't threaten Safu just for
trying to get closer to them. Uhm ... yeah, I got too caught up
in explaining this metaphor xD
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