ryu gets pretty insulted! ryu is more than the sum of what he looks like and even if he does have some snake like behaviors, outright calling him a snake is pretty rude even removed from the context of betrayal. hes not a lizard either tho none of my au ra are. they're people first

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last resort vessel for a false goddess manages to narrowly escape fate only to develop anxiety instead

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generally yes! ryu is polite and amicable, so i imagine he's tolerable at surface level if nothing else

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ryu is so polite hyur male but with whatever combos say "milord". he just talks like this normally ! hanami very independent elezen female...

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ryu is max vanilla male au ra height (7'0") so i think this is fairly common? his older brother and father are tall while his oldest brother and mother are short... ryu's not in love with his height but it's not keeping him up at night. i.e. he still wears heels. he grew up in limsa hes ok

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ryu is doomed to immortality and his husband doesn't actually have that much time left as-is... it'd go pretty poorly at first but ryu still has reasons to keep going so he does. but he's going to be utterly miserable for a very long time

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there's only one answer. two guys who saved each other and keep choosing love and each other over and over again

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so many. so so many. ryu kept his long hair until he cut it on a whim and the man who would be his husband told him he preferred it that way - i think canonically it's shoulder length at the longest right now but anything else i show him with is an alt but he slays regardless #mybarbie

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ryu tends to eat a lot of hearty simple cooking because its what he's used to! lots of bread and a lot of eggs or meals that use them (he keeps chickens) ! hanami eats mostly fish and kelp but she also doesn't know how to cook genuinely and expects to be fed

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thinking about ryu encountering the worst timeline version of himself again and remembering there are several games w the same visual concept which is why it looks how it does. what if you were trying to live a normal life and were shown a world where you became this

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yes kind of. i think ryu has a difficult time defining his ideals and needs somebody to build his life around - he can't just do things for himself, its always for others (or what he tells himself is for others). sometimes it ends up being something like this too lol

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ryu looks the most like his ancient, ananke! lapis (9th shard) looks the most like ryu, then it starts to break down from there. rather than looking similar, ananke's shards all have similar temperaments, destinies, and manipulation of fate and/or time

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ryu has been fundamentally the same over the years, with small changes facilitated by his story!
he has more scales on his body, larger horns, incandescent eyes, a longer tail, and the scales on his back are blue in the "wing zone" - magical
hair shorter, other physical changes by choice

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live his best happy life as normally as he can! the not getting involved in Plot™️ isnt really going well but he is happy

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ryu will answer truthfully and say that he doesn't know! hanami will call you rude for asking, but if you assume she's in her early 40s she'll be pretty happy and wont confirm or deny anything else

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lrp related but the worst thing that happened to ryu was when he was really young and was so traumatizing for him it was the only thing in his life on shore he forgot. then he remembered it 🫠 i dont want to get into the details but it does involve the death of a child

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original post linked below 👇

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i am so excited to share this custom character theme for ryu done by @xccentriq.bsky.social - thank you so much for creating a piece that encapsulates ryu's character so well!!

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youtu.be/ppA4nNg8Q1E

shisui of the violet tides i genuinely forget is not part of the msq its so crucial for kikuchi lore 😂

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