Higuchi Ichiyo - Blog Posts

wish there were more ppl who shipped them 💔💔

i have to use the relationship headcanon generator instead

Higuchi is literally my favorite. She’s like, what if a woman was a badass mafioso but simultaneously so pathetic. Like the wet cat energy is so strong in her. Asagiri was really onto something. Let women be pathetic. Thank you.

Me too Higuchi, me too

Drawing process

I LOVE CODE GEASS

Notice how Higuchi has the most detail

Lelouch = Akutagawa's outfit

Higuchi= Kallen's outfit

Atsushi= Suzaku's outfit

Akutagawa =lelouch's outfit

akutagawa from bungou stray dogs is using his food as a shooting range target

Doodles to my bsd bar au X2

It's fofor (im gonna cry, i just watched the yellow incident on yt)

this is probably not a cannon talk between the two but let me imagine this with my au 🙏

i accidentally spilt a little water on Fyodor, its fine since he looks uglier. uhm, spoilers?? Tecchou's/Tetchō's/bgg's design

merrow, i already have Margaret done, just gotta think of some quotes that might fit her.

Guys, thats my girl kickin' ass yo (platonic) background info for Higuchi: Meowzers. i used the content page thingy (for volume 4!!!) as inspo. I need more Higuchi-related things.

- I made her a guard because LOOK AT HER SKILLS omg, she's fit for the job. She's skilled with firearms, what a boss.

- I stand by with the location tracking ability theory for her so uh in this AU, she has a location tracking ability. I'll go more in detail when i finally get the AU fully planned out.

- She might be an undercover agent for another organization... lets hope she doesn't get the Taichihara treatment 🙏 but nobody would expect her to be traitor so the stakes are low. (Are they?)

Higuchi: I sleep with a gun under my pillow. Gin: I sleep with a knife. Dazai: You two are pathetic. Gin: Oh, yeah? What do you sleep with? Dazai: Chuuya

What's with bsd fans and rituals nowadays?

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Higuchi, injured post-mission 😔

Bsd doodles

I realized I was stressing too much over making my art "perfect" and stuff so I decided to just doodle characters from memory to relax

Tbh it's fun to just randomly scribble whatever comes to mind before going back to a serious canvas

(and I couldn't resist with catzai)

Higuchi’s Unrevealed Ability

my theory on what it could be…

i think that Higuchi’s ability will be called “Takekurabe” (Growing Up/Child’s Play) after her most famous work, and i believe it might have something to do with reincarnation. here’s why…

in this official art she is featured with red spider lilies, which are symbolic of death, but are also thought of as a bridge between heaven & earth…a reminder of the “cyclical nature of life & death”

Takekurabe also explores themes such as how life is fleeting. & also abt being forced into a role that you didn’t want, or wouldn’t have chosen for yourself

(plus potential foreshadowing: in this official art, Higuchi is surrounded by pinwheels— which symbolize childhood, but also the cycle of life, & the buddhist teaching of reincarnation)

back to reincarnation…

after being told that Akutagawa may never wake up, she reached out to him & a glow appeared around her hand— like she was activating an ability— before pulling away bc she remembered that he didn’t want her (or anyone’s) help

but this means that she’s able to give help in this sort of situation

additionally, the fact that she almost always appears in official arts w Akutagawa indicates that she will probably use her ability on him at some point, which makes sense considering his terminal condition

(note the pulse in the background, his bright eyes, & her white suit)

because we have yet to see her use her ability, i’m assuming that she can only use it once, so she’d be giving up her life for Akutagawa’s (a life for a life— his reincarnation)

this would imitate irl Higuchi’s unfortunately short life— with her having died at only 25 years old. it also makes sense to give her such a powerful ability since irl Higuchi is such an important figure in japanese history— japan’s first professional woman writer of modern literature

now for a less likely, but fun theory…

i wonder if Higuchi’s sister has anything to do with her ability (in bsd she’s unnamed, but her irl sister’s name was Kuniko so that’s what we’ll call her)

according to Higuchi’s bungo episode, despite her literary genius, irl Higuchi was practically useless without her sister

Kuniko was the one who made what Higuchi did possible & kept things functional behind the scenes

so i think it’d be super interesting (& a cool irl reference) if Kuniko was involved in some way with Higuchi’s ability (i also just want to see more of her bc this sister duo is so cute :’))

bonus: when i watched this anime adaptation of Takekurabe, this was the ending scene & i wonder if it was harukawa’s inspiration for this official art 🥹

white lilies represent purity, & since they were off by the side of the road, they might have represented the character’s fleeting purity. white lilies are also used at funerals to represent a soul’s return to purity & its journey to the afterlife… which circles back to the reincarnation theme 👀

lovely women of bsd ♥♥♥♥♥

Concept:

It’s been speculated for a while that Higuchi has an ability. I’m not sure if it was ever confirmed but I find the possibility very interesting.

For me it’s less so what her ability could be and more why she’s hiding it.

Ability users in Bungou Stray Dogs are inherently dehumanised. We’ve seen countless characters suffer at the hands of others for having an ability.

And yet we’ve never seen anyone expressly hide their ability.

I don’t count Atsushi because he lost his memories. Nor any of the spies in the story, Ango and Tachihara. As they were hiding their true identifies and that includes their abilities.

I feel if anyone does know about Higuchi’s ability it would be Mori and maybe Akutugawa.

I say maybe because while I don’t see a reality where Higuchi wouldn’t tell Akutagawa. Whether or not he cares to listen is a lot more debatable.

Especially if he believes her ability is lesser than his in some way. And thus just dismisses any talk of it on principle.

I do like the idea of Higuchi not having an ability that fits what you’d expect of a Port Mafia member. It would tie in to the conversation she and Mori had about her fitting this kind of role.

And it would further play into this parallel with the Agency.

As they have Ranpo, someone who doesn’t have an ability but acts as if they do. And has one that’s deemed so great and amazing the Agency thrives with it.

While the Port Mafia would have Higuchi, someone who has an ability but acts as if they don’t. And serves her organisation well even if her ability doesn’t fit with them.

But it may be turn out to be exactly what they need.

Dropping this Higugin au before my next lesson 👁️👁️

Two things to know about me:

1- I love women

2- I'm a fucking cinephile

So I decided to mix these two things and BOOM! Bsd girls x Horror movies ✌️

Ok, I have a higugin picture too! 💖

Cute little higugin schetches