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my wife’s love nourishes me after i’ve fought in the trenches of online arguments. it refills my heart with kindness. she sends me a citrus gif and it feels like the familar, homely scent of a lemon pie

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love you so much. wife

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Yeah, it’s just so easy. It’s so easy to perceive Jimmy as an amalgamation of everything evil in the world, this ultimate hateable guy who’s evil because he’s evil. His actions are not to be examined, his thoughts and motivations are not to be looked into, because he doesn’t have them. He’s worse than pure evil — he’s pure unlikeability. That one special person who’s been created in a lab specifically to be evil, bad and wrong.

And we — all of us — are fundamentally different. We’re good just by the virtue of being Good People, not being Evil (an inherent quality of some people and not others). Even when we wish death to others over fictional characters, even when we insult and police others.

I think the true genius of Jimmy’s character lies in making people afraid. I’m hardly new to fandom spaces, but it’s difficult to name another main character hated so universally, so much that any attempt to think about him in depth is considered a crime. It’s because he’s a painful reminder of your own capability for evil, the danger of convincing yourself that you’re good, and others are in the wrong. Of course, most people’s misdeeds are not nearly as grave as Jimmy’s, but it’s a scary thought: what if you yourself may have done something evil, thinking it’s no big deal or convinced you’re in the right? And this fear gives birth to vehement denial of anything even remotely human in Jimmy. Because if you give him some thought, you may discover something deeply unpleasant about yourself.

So yeah, he has to be completely unlikeable. No one should like him. Picking him apart, looking for why he does what he does, is equivalent to being an apologist for him. Bad and wrong.

But for some reason I keep thinking that the people who admit to kinning him are not exactly talking about rape and murder. Don’t even know why is that. Not a single guess.

I've seen some "I low key like Jimmy like I hate what he did but I like his character" posts already and.

If that's you, this game is a commentary on people like you, and you don't even realise it. It's about how he and his actions can't be separated. If you really think he's well written or whatever the hell, appreciate the amazing job the devs did by hating him.

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the true 20th century boys experience is finishing the manga, having a good old laugh at fukubei’s expense, chatting a bit with your friends about how he is a foil, of sorts, to johan liebert — a very ordinary, very human, everyday evil hidden beneath layers of pompous mystery and specialness, — then re-reading the beginning and having another laugh at his pathetic multi-level marketing cult, then re-reading his flashback and musing, bittersweetly, on the way he is even more of an ephemeral existence than sadakiyo and he needed to take on the identity of such a seemingly invisible person as him just to hold on to life, saying “damn. what a sad evil man. no wrongdoing he’s ever committed could make him happy and content” and then fearfully realizing, for the first time, that you kind of sort of like him. a lot.

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the guy

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nine persons

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My gorgeous pookie Tearer drawn by the amazing @vikab ! In love with the brush and shading here, his hat looks amazing!

Speedpaint under the cut!

Some flashing lights warning!

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gonna be honest i think we don’t need a franchise reboot for demonbane. we need an actual good anime, i need a nero figure, and all of us need the right to hunt powerscalers for sport. anything else is way too much.

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🎶 Polle says:

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i like her a normal amount

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i’m not into making ocs at all, never have enough imagination or self-confidence to come up with my very own little guy, but i’ve thought up an insanely fun antagonist for kuzaku who started out as a silly fan child for people who shouldn’t be having children at all, and i love him so much.

he’s just a guy who is a walking nuclear weapon. it’s the second worst thing that’s ever happened to him.

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Magicians and their lovely assistant

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tokyo necro is so underrated for a game with such a batshit insane cast of characters. like. my faves are necromancer jesus, his two not-quite-humans who want to suck his dick so bad, the kibanohara family (has single-handedly proven the existence of the homosexuality gene), kong taoluo on estrogen and the straight guy who loved his wife so much that he personally kick-started the chain of events leading up to the events of the vn (not to be confused with the straight guy who loved his wife so much that he managed to keep the entirety of his emotions as a living dead). damn.