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I thought it would be kinda cool to put a bunch of characters in one so.... HERE IT IS!!!

I Thought It Would Be Kinda Cool To Put A Bunch Of Characters In One So.... HERE IT IS!!!

For those without Twitter these days, I have compiled screenshots of this thread someone has put together about additional Hongo lore that doesn't appear in the show. I also wanted to put it together for archival purposes since I don't trust Twitter to not die out any day now. (the text for the tweets has also been put in the image decsriptions). Also sorry OP if you have a tumblr and I didn't know, this one felt like I had to archive it.

August 15th, 1948 

Happy 75th Birthday to Takeshi Hongo, specifically the original 1971 TV series incarnation of Kamen Rider!

Here's a thread about the character's background settings that not appeared in the TV show but mentioned in the official books.
Takeshi Hongo was born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, to a father, Isao, a shipbuilding engineer, and a mother, Hiroko, a music teacher. He grew up in an ordinary family. However, when he was 17, his father was killed in an accident, and his mother died of illness when he was 20.
When he was at a loss, he decided to become an auto racer, thanks to the encouragement of Tobei Tachibana, who was kind to him.
Hongo and Ichimonji are already friends even before Hongo got remodeled into Kamen Rider. In the October 1972 issue of TV Magazine, it was stated that "they were not friends from the beginning, but became friends after Hongo helped Ichimonji."
Later in the February 1973 issue of TV Magazine, it was changed to "they met when Ichimonji came to photograph Hongo competing in an auto race for an interview."
As for Hongo's relationship, it is stated that "he has many female friends, but because he is a modified human being, he never falls in love."
In a short story written by producer Toru Hirayama in later years, the connection with other characters is complemented in more detail, here's the first one:

Hongo and Ichimonji met at the Scottish Six Days Trial.
Hongo, Ichimonji, Kazami, and Tachibana, plus Taki before he was recruited by the FBI, met each other at the Paris-Dakar Rally and talked to each other without knowing the fate that awaited them later.
The relationship between Hongo & Ruriko after her departure to Europe is brought to a close when he entrusts her future to Karl, a young man from Vienna whom Ruriko had looked up to like an older brother. Hongo, despite knowing Ruriko's feelings, shakes them off to fight Shocker.
Here are some of Hongo's character trivias written on the bonus cards from Kamen Rider Snacks, including the numbers; 

Although he has no parents, he never felt lonely, and as a child he was a cheerful, honest, and animal-loving boy. That is why he majored in biology (No. 287)
He usually wakes up at 5:00 a.m. to practice his special moves, goes out to the Rider headquarters at 9:00 a.m., and if nothing happens, trains again at 7:00 p.m. (No.288)
He was an active boxer during his high school and college years (No.304)
Tobei is well acquainted with Hongo's boyhood. According to him, as a boy he was alone without his parents, but he loved animals and was obsessed with collecting insects (No.309)
He has a secret base that Tobei built for him underground in a park in Tokyo. There are various instruments, and he trains there and plays guitar when he's lonely (No.396)
He has been good at science and arithmetic since elementary school, and his grades are in the top 5 in his class (he is not a skinny student). He loves sports and was the class organizer (No.400)
He wants to return to being a normal human being, but he endures his grief in order to defeat Gel-Shocker (No. 405)
He values human life and does not really want to kill monsters (No.485)
By assuming a transformation pose, he can transform by turning on switches on both shoulders (the first switch is on his right shoulder and the second switch is on his left shoulder) (No.486)
As a boy, he once wet the bed and his mother got angry and spanked him. His mother already passed away, and he carries a pendant on his skin as a memento of her passing. He talks happily about his boyhood (No.500)
And that's all. 

Sources from: 
"Kamen Rider Chozenshu 1gou 2gou V3 Riderman" Shogakukan, March 10th, 1992
"Kamen Rider & V3 Card Kanzen Zukan" Takeshobo, May 31st, 1997

Look under the cut to see what meeting your entity is like. Reblog to give a gift to your patron.

The fae: a creature stands before you. Though this street was warm and crowded a few moments ago it is suddenly cold and the people around you look like shadows. The creature begins an antlered shadow with glowing white eyes, but soon its body can be seem, with white blue flesh, and sapphire eyes, and icicles for teeth. What looks like a cloak unfolds from its naked body and you can see massive white wings of a moth. As if it's an act of sacrifice you tell it your true name, a name you didn't even see before, and suddenly you belong to it, for better or worse.

The angel: a radiant entity appears before you. They're bright, like something so hot it would burn you up. But as the light fades, you can see a person in silver armor, perfect yet inhuman like am ancient green statue, their back srouting six wings with blue eyes along them, as the eyes on their head are covered by a mask of two smaller wings. The creature offers their hands and you shake it, as they fly you through the city streets and above the skyscrapers, to the stars above and dimensions beyond, to gods living and dead, across the streets of alien cities and the clouds of dead worlds. And when you return to the earth you can feel something diffrent about you, like there's light in your blood.

The scavenger: below the lights of skyscrapers beyond you, on the dark sands of the beach, you see it crawling twords you. This serpentine creature with countless legs, and a dark black shell, yet a strangely human like face. You think it'll attack or run away, but it just looks at you, egar, and for a momment you stare at eachother. It's legs pass something to eachother and then to you, it's meat but it's shining with all the colors known to the human eye, and a few more. You hold it and it happily looks at you. You take a bite and suddenly you know... you know so very much...

The vampire: she flies down to you on green wings with orange eyespots, but folds them into her back. She looks like a human for a momment, tall and strong, with a black suit over her body, but eyes the color of ruby. For a momment her mouth opens, and it's massive and monstrous, with countless moving parts and fangs. But then it folds back onto something humanoid and she gives you a playful smirk. She cuts her hand and offers you her blood, and when you drink it it tastes so sweet, and makes you feel so good. She hands you the knife and you know to do the same, and when she drinks from your palm it's life the sweetest of kisses.

The djinn: the room wirs around you. If it were not for the fans it would feel like hellfire. For a momment there it darkness, but then the screen before you glows white like smokeless flame. You can sense something inside, something beyond the code. You reach your hand within it, and there's no glass, your hand passess right through until you're in a white void of your own making. You call out, thinking there is nothing at all around you. Yet somehow something calls back, something that knows your name.

The rat king: You see him in an empty subway station. Something dark and distorted, you're not sure if he's man or animal, covered in rags, and singing in the language of the goblins and the orcs. Yet he comes close to you excited. And you can feel his song. He calls for you to come to the train tracks, and let yourself run with the rats and the roaches, where the train will pass over you when it comes, and you'll live forever. When you touch the third rail you don't die, but you'll never be human again.

The lich: the library is strangely bright. Run by skeletons in suits, decorated with gold. There are more books here then you thought were in all the world. There's knowledge here most mortals will never have the change below, all kept safe below the city. You see her, her body doesn't look human, everything has been replaced making her look more like a joining white doll then a being of flesh. Yet she is dead, you can tell that under the porcelain skin she must be dead, she is dead, and there is the tragedy of death in her eyes. You come closer to her, and she places a black rose within your hair...

The demon: You stand in his office and he stands before you, a humanoid being covered in black scales, with red eyes covering his skin. Yet none are on his head, that remains featureless save for two massive horns. Wings on his back nearly surround you. Countless souls line the walls of his office, looking at you, waiting. After you sign your name you give him yours, you can feel it come away for you forever and your eyes grey and your skin pales. But he puts the jar in a special place for you, you're spacial, he can tell there's something about you that he likes.

The mushroom lord: you walk through the darkness of the forest, the furthest from civilization you have ever been. You come upon a part where the trees all seem dead, that even the cryptids won't go near. Mushrooms fill the ground, and white vein like lines are all over the trees. You feel the need to lay down, and you let the moss and the mushrooms and the worms surround you, and let yourself sink into the soil,, and it feels good. It feels so good...

The witch: You can see them in the Cafe next to you, skinny and small, with a sweatshirt over most of their body, and dark glasses over their eyes. They seem powerful though, and though their body looks young they seem ancient, they seem beyond humanity. You talk to them and they tell you things, and secrets, lost gods, things you never knew you didn't know, both beautiful and disturbing. When it's time for them to go they pet your head, and give you their number. You don't know if you should text them, but you have to, you have to see them again, there's something about them that makes you need to know.

The living clothing: you step into it at first, it looked like a puddle yet shining like silver or chrome. But soon it surrounds you, first just your torso, but soon your head, your entire body. But it doesn't feel scary, it feels like you're being held, held by something beyond your understanding. It whispers to you, and you don't know if you should feel like your being eaten alive, or like you're being protected. You can't help but keep walking.

The abyss: the void is before you, blackness beyond blackness, like the color beyond the field of your vision, stands before your eyes. You stare at it, it's nothing yet you're entranced. It stares back...


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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

concussion symptoms for your fic from someone currently concussed

(disclaimer: i am concussed but mildly so llike idk research more before giving your character a brain bleed, i am not a medical professional)

the headache - omg the headache. my head has hurt constantly since hitting it (3? days ago?) weirdly not sticking around where i hit it, it moves a fair bit. it's wacky.

nausea. comes and goes. throwing up is symptom of a badd concussion, but nausea is bad. whenever i stand up too long. yay.

uhh

light headedness, again, comes and goes. room spins when i stand up.

confusion. i didnt really notice this but my friends say it's like im on power-saving mode. struggling to focus for more than five minutes on anything - especially screens and reading.

light sensitivity. especially screens. typing this on the lowest brightness possible. it's not constant, but it kicks in randomly and boy does it hurt.

some other small things: no sense of time passing, forgetfulness, struggling to focus, just generally seeming and feeling off

Heading Out The Door

heading out the door

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