#kuwana gou
6 days left until shonichi.
Crossover ship commission! This was a nice piece to work on. I’m just queuing a bunch of art I’ve done the past few months even though my Tumblr isn’t as active anymore, but I thought it’d be a shame not to put something on here.
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Yay! There was finally a Tonbokiri & Kuwana-kun duet~!!! Father-son duet get~!! They sang ‘Timeline’ during the afternoon performance in Chiba on 16 June 2022.
My friend showed it to me today, though she ended up having to buy all three Chiba streams to find the one with the Tonbo-Kuwa duet… orz
We saw people on Twitter talking about the duet but they didn’t say during which performance, so we assumed it would be in all the Chiba performances like how Tonbo’s 'Blackout’ solo was in all the Osaka performances but… turns out 'Timeline’ was sung by different pairings in all three Chiba performances! orz
Tonbo and Kuwa’s 'Timeline’ is love though~! I love the way Kuwa looks up at the Tonbokiri-sama he so admires in the beginning. He also sounded a little nervous at the start which could be IC! XD (Though his actor was probably just nervous to be singing with Spi, who is basically recognized by his peers as one of the best singers~ :3) The lyrics are kind of sad though… about two people who just miss each other due to being in different timelines.
I saw someone mention that Tonbo and Kuwa weren’t actually in the Honda household at the same time. (Though also seen others mention that they were.) I guess there’s a possibility that they weren’t as Tonbo was supposed to have been passed down to Tadakatsu’s second son (who was supposedly the favourite but unfortunately died young on the battlefield), while Kuwa belonged to Tadakatsu’s eldest son and heir, Tadamasa. Tadamasa is said to have found Kuwa on a farm shrine while out falconing one day. Kuwa was an unknown sword that Tadamasa suspected might be a lost Gou since Gou no Yoshihiro’s signature was on its tang, but there were also a lot of fake Gou swords going around. So, he had the sword authenticated by a highly respected sword authenticator who confirmed that the sword he’d found was indeed a real Gou! Tadamasa then named the Gou he’d found Kuwana after the domain he’d inherited from Tadakatsu and signed his name in gold on the other side of Kuwana’s tang.
Real Gou swords are supposed to be extremely rare since their smith died young, and this led to the saying 'you can never see a ghost or a Gou’.
Anyway, if we go with Tonbo and Kuwa not being in the Honda household at the same time, 'Timeline’ makes a lot of sense~! And their timelines now finally overlap in Honmaru thanks to the Saniwa~!!
