THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER EVER AND YALL ALL HAVE TO GO WATCH IT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

You all, fools: Kaiman keeping his face at the end of Dorohedoro is him accepting who he is!

Me, an intellectual: This is avoidance coping. This man has accepted nothing about himself, ever.

Here COTL fandom, have a shitty narilamb doodle as my first offering

Some of my favorite words and phrases to describe a character in pain

coiling (up in a ball, in on themselves, against something, etc)

panting (there’s a slew of adjectives you can put after this, my favorites are shakily, weakly, etc)

keeling over (synonyms are words like collapsing, which is equally as good but overused in media)

trembling/shivering (additional adjectives could be violently, uncontrollably, etc)

sobbing (weeping is a synonym but i’ve never liked that word. also love using sob by itself, as a noun, like “he let out a quiet sob”)

whimpering (love hitting the wips with this word when a character is weak, especially when the pain is subsiding. also love using it for nightmares/attacks and things like that)

clinging (to someone or something, maybe even to themselves or their own clothes)

writhing/thrashing (maybe someone’s holding them down, or maybe they’re in bed alone)

crying (not actual tears. cry as in a shrill, sudden shout)

dazed (usually after the pain has subsided, or when adrenaline is still flowing)

wincing (probably overused but i love this word. synonym could be grimacing)

doubling-over (kinda close to keeling over but they don’t actually hit the ground, just kinda fold in on themselves)

heaving (i like to use it for describing the way someone’s breathing, ex. “heaving breaths” but can also be used for the nasty stuff like dry heaving or vomiting)

gasping/sucking/drawing in a breath (or any other words and phrases that mean a sharp intake of breath, that shite is gold)

murmuring/muttering/whispering (or other quiet forms of speaking after enduring intense pain)

hiccuping/spluttering/sniffling (words that generally imply crying without saying crying. the word crying is used so much it kinda loses its appeal, that’s why i like to mix other words like these in)

stuttering (or other general terms that show an impaired ability to speak — when someone’s in intense pain, it gets hard to talk)

staggering/stumbling (there is a difference between pain that makes you not want to stand, and pain that makes it impossible to stand. explore that!)

recoiling/shrinking away (from either the threat or someone trying to help)

pleading/begging (again, to the threat, someone trying to help, or just begging the pain to stop)

Feel free to add your favorites or most used in the comments/reblogs!

All my nd peeps

Me, explaining disassociation to my neurotypical mother:

Her: what?? That’s a thing you do? Are you okay????

Two days later…

Me, explaining disassociation to an ADHD friend:

Her: Oh fuck, there’s a name for that??? Cool

you know?? That feeling like ah, so I’m not the only one, great lmao

want to write this at some point, no time rn

“How could you?” “I can expla-“ “No, I don’t mean morally. Logistically how could you even pull something like this off?”

fake relationship but its a king and his concubine that was once an amazing soldier but he couldn’t go up the ranks for whatever reason so the king was like listen. hear me out. you can be my strategy dude. u just gotta be okay w walking around shirtless a lot. and soldier dude is like man that’s an UPSIDE and yknow they end up falling in love

Why are they so hard to draw what the hell

also what the Fuck is photo quality

Dorohedoro Headcanons

[Since Tumblr is janky I'm making stuff that was under a readmore and making separate posts]

Kaiman

Keeps a jar of his shed teeth

Owns his house, probably killed the land lord and good for him

Does eventually find a therapist. It’s pretty damn helpful. 10/10 would recommend to his friends.

Having headaches becomes a serious trigger for him. He does try working on it.

Is aware that he should probably talk to his grandpa and Dokuga and Tetsujo but like… no. He’s not ready for serious talks with family. (Are the Crosseye elites family? Kinda? He/Kai did take care of them for awhile?)

100% doesn’t know what the fuck he actually is anymore and neither does anyone else.

Doesn’t actually excrete, all bodily waste joins the sludge. Managed to accidentally give off the illusion of being a normal person b/c he regularly goes to the bathroom to wash his hands, brush his teeth, and shower.

Is aware that the Hole entity continues to exist but is also aware that it probably won’t be strong enough to start shit again for a few millennia. And since all the people he gives a fuck about probably won’t live that long he is unbothered by that fact, the sorcerers will reap what they sow.

Also bad at foresight

Doesn’t want to die but believes anyone wanting revenge on him for Kai’s bullshit is perfectly valid.

Took an apology gift basket to Tanba’s restaurant.

Has referred to Shin as a manlet once, nearly died but it was worth it

Definitely gonna get fat when he hits his 40s/50s but he is a-ok with that

Tends to feel self conscious about his age when people remind him that he’s actually nearly thirty.

Legitimately tripped over Kawajiri once b/c he didn’t see his short ass

Has eaten at least one of his sheds out of curiosity. Tasted like dirt.

Once saw Ebisu use her magic and was kinda disappointed that he didn’t get a tail. Not that he wants a tail but like a tail would be useful.

Thinks Kikurage is ugly as sin

Does not understand why people think he and Nikaido are dating.

Does not care for Thirteen. Feels that Thirteen does not drink enough respecting women juice

He and Nikaido disagree on economics

Thinks cannibalism is gross as hell. Would be offended at the insinuation that he eats people. (Even if he did eat people when he was Kai/Hole-kun)

Before he started regaining his memories he was vaguely aware that he probably wasn’t a good person

Since learning how to make gyoza he’s branched out into learning how to make other kinds of dumplings.

The gyoza fairy low key freaks him out.

The gyoza fairy is not the only human world magical/spirit being he ends up meeting

When Natsuki, Ton, Saji, and Ushishimada got resurrected they all gave at least one go at kicking his ass. Just on principal. Then they, and Dokuga and Tetsujo, worked together with Nikaido and Risu to make Kaiman take a family photo with them.

!!!!!!!!!! I love dai dark and Damemaru specifically i am so excited to see where this goes

damemaru = chidaruma post doroheodoro truthers we're fucking winning!!!!!

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