You’d expect the stern, analytical people-reader character to be cold and aloof, so Impostor authentically being a responsible and caring person is fun to me. Lookadisguy lovedisguy
one thing people don’t talk about much concerning shirou (but bless you if you have) is how when he analyzes and projects a tool or a weapon he is internalizing all its history. he is taking within himself every use, every strike, every clash, and every emotion poured into what he’s holding by its wielder. to understand the tool, he must understand the person it belonged to. for a single moment, he experiences what it was like to be someone else. in unlimited blade works he can accomplish this by virtue of being “no one” to easily displace into the silhouette of “someone”, but in heaven’s feel it is a compassionate recognition of the other through the undeniable self. when muramasa picks up the hammer of the dwarf smith who raised caster artoria, he can instantly tell this was the tool of a person who gave his all to his task. this was something used by someone who cared, someone who would treat his tools with the same love he’d treat a person. the blows delivered by this hammer are the expression of a hard, disciplined, kind soul. the man this hammer belonged to didn’t just forge good instruments. he forged a good person. the look in muramasa’s eye tells you the emotion he’s experiencing is “fondness”, both fondness directed at this man by artoria and the fondness this man had for her in turn.
why did this man make? well, for what other reason? for love, of course. wouldn’t that blossom a smile on your face, too?
having literally my second original tumblr post hit 3500+ notes is so fucking funny to me. feels like waking up from a coma in the middle of a packed football stadium. where am i. who are you people. why are you clapping for me.
I’ve said this like 10 different ways already, but I just want to say it again. I want Knives to Understand how much he has harmed Vash. I don’t want him to be Told how much he hurt Vash. I don’t want him to just See it in front of him. I need him to Understand in his heart of hearts, at the very core of his being, that what he’s done to Vash is worse than everything the entirety of humanity has done to him in their 150 years on this planet. I need him to understand it like he understands gravity or the concept of cause and effect- instinctively and without doubt. I want the mask of delusion ripped from off his face, I want him to understand himself as the sinner he truly is
