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chomiji ([personal profile] chomiji) wrote2008-07-03 06:28 pm
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Iconic Decision

I've long wanted an "I can kill you with my brain!" icon, but couldn't find artwork I really wanted to use. Predictably, I recently found 2 pieces:

 

Bereznoff or Zakuro? Zakuro or Bereznoff?

Zakuro is a much better piece of art and far more of a character, but there's something beautifully loopy about using Bereznoff for this purpose ... .

(For those not familiar with Ouran High School Host Club ... Bereznoff looks like a hand puppet because that's exactly what he is! He's not quite as weird and spooky as the sock puppet in Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, but he's not quite the innocent toy one would think, either ... .)

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[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-07-03 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Bereznoff looks more eeeeeeeevil and plotting and diabolical and ready to kill you with his brain!

Zakuro is more "Woo! I'm a badass! Aren't I a badass? Aren't you scared of me? You think i'm a badass, right?" (He and Grimmjow should bond!)
Edited 2008-07-03 22:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-07-04 04:53 am (UTC)(link)

The Young Lady thought Bereznoff'd work better, too.

God, I can just see Zakuro spouting off to Grimmjow, towering above him, and Grimmjow thinking, "Who is this terribly amusing little insect?"

[identity profile] meganbmoore.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
My comparison had a very entertaining little crack scenario going on in my head for a while there.

I wonder, though...would they ever stop going "Rawr! I am a serious business badass!" long enough to actually fight?

[identity profile] avierra.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno, Zakuro... I mean LORD ZAKURO-SAMA, GOD AMONGST MORTALS ZAKURO-SAMA... is pretty loopy also. ;D
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-07-04 05:10 am (UTC)(link)

Oh, Zakuro is definitely loopy. But see, he actually could kill someone with his brain - Gojyo had a close call there, remember? Whereas Bereznoff - a hand puppet controlled by pitifully loopy Black Magic Club president Umehito Nekozawa - can't do much of anything, despite the fact that Nekozawa has managed to traumatize some of his more impressionable fellow students with the silly thing. That's why it's funny. Decisions, decisions ... .

Interestingly, I'm having a heck of a problem finding a good picture of Nekozawa with Bereznoff, either from the manga or the anime - but I was able to find a good couple of dozen photos of people cosplaying him. I guess it's just an easy costume, and it allows you to run around going "Bwa-ha-ha!" and threatening people with your creepy hand puppet.

[identity profile] kispexi2.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I can kill you with my brain" always makes me think of River. For whom [livejournal.com profile] emeraldsedai has a good icon.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-07-05 02:31 am (UTC)(link)

Umm ... River who? Not sure I recognize the reference there.

[identity profile] kispexi2.livejournal.com 2008-07-05 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
River Tam? Firefly?

"Also ... I can kill you with my brain."
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-07-06 01:57 am (UTC)(link)

See, I am Ms. Deficient in Television ... I manage not to watch even things I would like. It's rather sad. So I know what Firefly is but I have never seen it ... . telophase has an icon with picture of the character Abe no Seimei from the movie Onmyoji with that caption, so I'd picked it up from there ... now I feel pretty silly!

[identity profile] kispexi2.livejournal.com 2008-07-06 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all! I don't know who the guy in the icon is either. :-)

Firefly is seriously wonderful. Everytime we rewatch we're amazed to find that, yes, it really was that good and no, we weren't imagining it. It also has loads of parallels with Saiyuki, IMO.
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[personal profile] chomiji 2008-07-07 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)

> adds it to list of things to watch, should she ever start watching TV again <

[identity profile] kispexi2.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
100% worth it. So slashable!
Edited 2008-07-07 14:10 (UTC)
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