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[ambientlight]

so this is, like, one of the lamest ways to reappear on livejournal, especially given that it is about five years too late for anyone to care, but:

i was finally reading the second volume of the new maloki manga, and baldr appears. as in, gets a character design.

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[xsmoonshine]

Your feelings on his character design? :)

(I confess I never gave what he might look like any serious thought...)

[ambientlight]

too fuwafuwa and young-looking, i guess? i like that he has silly long hair too, though. :D

(i think i wrote fic in which he appeared in baldr-form, so i had to picture him for that...)

[xsmoonshine]

There's definite family resemblance, there, with the silly hair. And he has lots of room to grow. :) Probably would still end up looking a bit Odin.

[ambientlight]

yes, agreed on the family resemblance. i think i was just expecting someone older. ._. but actually, looking at it now in the cruel light of... 2 a.m., it kind of fits -- petulant little prince, kind of thing.

[lesstraveled]

........ there's a second volume? what is it about?

(hello! i have missed your internet presence. hope all is well.)

[ambientlight]

i'm still working my way through it, but apparently thor's kids and odin's kids and hoenir are trying to complete the incomplete ragnarok so the world can be renewed a la actual norse myth? i think this is more likely to end in disappointment than actual bloodshed, though... ...

(hello ♥ all is well, thanks, i've just been very bad at being properly online.)

[lesstraveled]

oh, so it is one of those sequels where the original characters don't appear at all?

[ambientlight]

oh, no, sorry -- so like, in the first volume there was some kind of setting reset (thanks to said younger gods above, iirc) and loki&co. are kind of back to where they were main series, in a mansion with a human yamino and mayura hanging around, etc. narugami returns too, and freyr appeared briefly in the second volume? it's sort of first series gods vs second generation gods, i guess.

also part of the younger gods' plans include getting valkyries, which... involves helping young japanese girls (sometimes with powers) die... or something...

[ambientlight]

No worries! And yeah, for some reason the comment is screened or moderated or something. :|

I've read volume 3, eheh. Volume 2 is... rather weird. Always nice to meet someone else who likes Maloki, though. :)