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my laptop literally did not let me finish this

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“i could fix him” well i could watch him spiral into bloodlust and madness instead. it would be significantly more fun

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brothers togo roleswap :) duo is the hypercompetent and yet incredibly lame older brother, and shuichi is the eerie baby baby bro :) I'm sleepy

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zhuzi saves this game one AR at a time

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crying sobbing

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Been waiting for this for YEARS this is not a fucking drill Shinya content is finally REAL

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who’s a character that you would take personally if someone didn’t like them?, to start I would literally block & unfollow if I saw kevin or garth hate

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Manifesting them so hard for you rn 🙏🙏🙏

Been waiting for this for YEARS this is not a fucking drill Shinya content is finally REAL

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Been waiting for this for YEARS this is not a fucking drill Shinya content is finally REAL

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haha wow mr kresnik your bobbies 😳

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i didn't touch the event but every day i think about halloween toji's stupid hat and that awful face he makes

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Sorry but the other day you were talking abt the protagonist and their relatioship with violence and idk it seemed very interesting, what are your thoughts on it?

i channel most of my thoughts on anything relating to the protag into writing my own mcs so answering this is kinda foahdugjasd but just as it's handled in canon, the gist of my thoughts here are that

^ this, is gravely underutilized. the protag is meant to be a vessel for the rule of Severance and, of all its iterations, the one they are most directly connected to is Rending. the thing about Rending that tends to get highlighted is its primary function of severing authority, but with boundless tail's previous wielder having been a hell-raiser and, frankly, the connotations of the word rending alone, violence is- or atleast should be- a crucial, fundamental element, moreso than should already be inherent in a Severance rule. and if the protag is One With Boundless Tail, ie metaphysically connected to Rending itself, they should have a proclivity towards ripping tearing blood kill violence, and a conspicuous one at that. and on top of that/as an aside, the fact that violence genuinely is the solution for a lot of their problems should noticeably influence them, especially considering they're an amnesiac. naturally the protag gets done dirty here, so for the most part the most we get that could be construed as their connection to Rending influencing who they are as a person is like. they're conveniently unaffected by things that should deeply impact them, and they're kind of stubborn sometimes. they're not even resistant to authority, really, they just sometimes are generic shonen protagonist Stubborn. the amount of wasted potential w the protag is mindboggling.

but, one moment i LOVELOVELOVELOVED re: their relationship with violence was the flashback in chapter 8, where mononobe witnesses (what we are initially led to believe is) the aftermath of one of the protag's fights, and is so disturbed by what he sees they are capable of that he stages an intervention the very next day, specifically accusing them of enjoying violence (which they can admit to!!). the conversation mostly focuses on the Enclosed Space themes more than anything, but it's so fucking good wrt the protag relationship to violence, if i were feeling charitable i might say that its previous lack of focus on/any acknowledgement whatsoever could almost be viewed as buildup god that scene is so good. like!! that fight was a perfectly normal, everyday thing for the protag, and at this point likely for the player as well! mononobe, more or less an outsider to the world of SUMMONS, takes one look at what you have accepted as normal and-- like any halfway responsible guardian-- Strongly Urges You To Perhaps Reevaluate Everything, a response so jarringly grounded it honestly does make you (or atleast me) reevaluate how you view the events of the game, how often these children!! endure and inflict and are exposed to ludicrous amounts of violence and suffering. fighting those guys at the park was the right thing to do, they had real-world weapons, they could have hurt someone! mononobe recognizes this, and thanks them for saving his life... and then highlights that they left those guys afraid for their lives, which not only potentially paints all previous fights in a very different light, it's acknowledged as genuinely disturbing, Immediate Warning Sign Behaviour. goddddd this is such a good fucking scene. i can't believe it's in the same chapter as Even if you had killed all my friends, I wouldn't hate you!

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Ok so the valentine banner huh

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ARC GUN OH GOD OH FUCK YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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They made him cuter.

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Arc is relevant