u/fearismymindkiller

my biggest issue is that he keeps reiterating that “mizu is strong because shes half white and fowler is strong because he’s full white” which is just dumb?? mizu and fowler are main characters obviously theyre gonna be the strongest ones in the series🤦🏾 somehow hes just managed to completely misunderstand everything about the show, but i guess it’s ragebait? like obviously mizu lost her fight with fowler the first time around she literally got shot?? hello??😭

like wow omg the designers genuinely transcended the game with her design. like she passes so easily as a guy even with a relatively high voice for male standards, and even as a girl even with her being forced to present as male as a child she’s genuinely a shapeshifter. it reminds me of jinx in arcane and how the animators have slightly different facial models for her sometimes getting sharper or softer depending on the context, except mizus face never actually changes like that’s literally just her face she’s just that good at being whatever the moment calls for. i think her name being water really suits the way she adapts to any situation. even being in madame kaji’s and telling kaji she’s an assassin for hire when that’s just not the case, but she still played that role so well! and the whole being a wife thing when traditional femininity is so foreign to her, she did great at that until the fight scene of course. which lowkey she was kinda od in that fight but i think she was having fun as opposed to genuinely trying to kill mikio.

okay i know it’s a popular ship, but hear me out here okay. taigen spent his childhood terrorizing mizu, then in adulthood abandoned his fiancé to go terrorize mizu AGAIN. during their sparring match in the woods, not only does taigen deliberately strike mizu where she’d already been injured, he also brings up the awful things they used to do to her as kids. and maybe i could get behind taigen bullying mizu as a child if taigen didn’t make it a point to essentially tell mizu he still thinks she isn’t shit😭 i also just don’t like how taigen left akemi to go chase mizu around, like god i get youve got a bald spot now but tie that thing in a top knot and marry your fiancé bro😭 akemi was out of his league socially, financially, and looks wise and she still showed more dedication to him than he did to her. i wouldn’t even dislike him as much if he married akemi before going off to chase mizu around. all that being said, this is just my opinion and i respect anyone who does like the ship, because i think taigen and mizu had some good moments but never ever would i want them to be a couple 😅

So Mizu obviously represents water, it’s literally her namesake. Fowler represents fire, which I’m not sure if it was intentional or not but Fowler is big and imposing like fire, his hair is bright orange and I think that the way Mizu burned down Edo was a visual representation of how insane the process of tracking down Fowler has made her. Throughout the show, everything she does is contribution to her quest of revenge on Fowler, she does nothing for herself and when she does it is quickly ruined. I think the scene of her forging a new sword and failing represents her first attempt at killing Fowler, and how she failed like really badly. So all things considered, Mizu is seen as crazy within the show for the things she does, but a really great example than the great fire. Not just the fact that she burned down the largest city in the country to stop one man, but the fact that that man has consumed her mind like the fire consumed the city. She’s literally driven herself mad to kill this man. And Fowler is unfazed, like a giant wall of fire, a small bit of water can’t ruin him.