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Gavv, Faith, and Trust

A nice detail I noticed from today’s episode of Gavv.

Once Shouma and Hanto talk things out, they start calling each other by their given names while transformed. Before, they would only refer to each other as “Gavv” and “Valen” respectively, implying there was some kind of unconscious mistrust between them, even when their identities were revealed (see Christmas episode). It’s nice to see actual communication in a tokusatsu (cough Inoue cough). Though Shouma was still keeping secrets, to be fair.

And I doubt Hanto’s hatred of Granutes would be that easy to break, so it’d make sense he’d still call Lakia “Vram” going forwards. It reminds me of Gou’s whole beef with Chase back in Drive. At least he’s starting to see that the conflict isn’t a matter of “us vs them” anymore.

An underlying theme of Reiwa Rider is trust: who can you put your trust in, who you should mistrust, how trust can be broken and rebuilt.

Aruto and Fuwa trust Yua to come to her senses and escape from Gai’s grasp, despite her betraying them. Fuwa learns to trust in Humagears despite the memories that were written into his brain.

Touma’s trust with the Sword of Logos is tested when he’s branded a traitor, and he slowly gains the trust of the rest of the swordsmen over the course of the series. Rintaro learns to not blindly trust authority figures and to believe in his friends.

With Revice, Daiji has no faith in himself after Ikki becomes a Rider, leading to Kagerou coming out. And when Kagerou is erased, Daiji can’t even trust himself because he’s imbalanced, leading to him to try and sacrifice himself to Giff. Hana and Tamaki are betrayed by the Deadmans’ cult, and they slowly learn to trust themselves, the Igarashis, and each other as friends, not as master and subordinate.

Geats is chock full of trust and betrayal. Michinaga on principle doesn’t trust anyone because he thinks everyone’s selfish desires outweigh that trust (or at least, that’s how it would be before his character was retconned to be an “anti-hero”). Keiwa and Neon, as new participants of the DPG, have to learn that blind trust is an obstacle when plunged into a battle royale. And Ace himself pushes the concept of where trust can be placed. Lying is as easy as breathing for him. After all, can you trust the words he says?

Houtaro is established to absolutely believe and trust his friends no matter what, and the story shows the gradual trust he earns back from them, especially with Rinne, who has absolute confidence in him and herself (mostly) by the end of the series, and Spanner, who’s jackass attitude and pride make him feel he’s entitled to respect, already above earning the trust of his underclassmen until it’s too late (RIP Lachesis you were the best).

Side note, it was also nice to see that Sachika immediately believed that Shouma and Dark Shouma were completely separate to begin with. She believes in her employee with 100% faith.

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Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

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He's never happy

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Grunkle Stan is WHAT

I don’t know where the original meme is even from but it GETS ME EVERY TIME

[damnfool-of-a-took]

What it says on the tin, plus some simple explanations of who has the power to do what.

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mama a Body behind you 😰 // pt1/pt2/pt3

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Little turtle duck :)

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watching/rewatching a show when you already have an established favorite character is great because every time they come on screen it's like

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[manzanamarim]

These attorneys sure are ace or smth idk

[salparadiselost]

Every couple years or so, the Bats are required to take a group photo to update the JL website (idk why, they are required to take a vigilante group picture), and Jason consistently refuses to show up. So this year, Tim just draws the lines of the Red Hood helmet on a bright red balloon and then floats it between him and Nightwing. They absolutely refuse to acknowledge that it isn't Jason. They put it up on a billboard instead.

Jason finds out about it when he drives back into Gotham and the highway going into the city has a 'Keeping Gotham Safe' billboard and it's a picture of the Bats looking extremely serious with the Red Hood Balloon floating behind them.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

The Chasm (1910) - Kay Nielsen

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I had a vision in shades of sacrifice.