#3rd Place Game

[cakeandfrostingthursdays]

Could someone gif the moment when Musovic and Bjorn hug around the 81st/82nd minute after Musovic makes the save? It was such a cute moment!

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)

[scoringeffects]

connor and leon same points per playoff games btw. in case u were ever under the impression they do anything without eachother

[lythecreatorart]

Curse au concept for me and me only-

As I am an inniter first and Martyn lore enjoyer second

Curse in as if c!Tom join third life and join Dogwarts kind of curse-

I don’t think c!Tubbo, c!Ranboo, or c!Techno will get their appear, but I just want to draw how much ridiculous of height difference is-

[channnel]

Idk who that guy is, nor how Jules managed to snatch him, all I know is that he is hot.

[randomthoughtsbytc]

I don't know if anyone saw, but Haku, Jin, and Sho made it to 2024's top 100 Yume rankings! 5th, 38th, and 56th respectively.

[rockcattomato]

Omg. Flower husbands reference?

[ruvviks]

we would sell anything just to buy who we're not // we kill our way to heaven

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[itsbebebe]

Love how capcom are advertising the SHIT out of the aai ports. I keep seeing streamers who are sponsored to play it and i dont think they even did that for the aj trilogy. Not to mention the among us collab. I'm not sure if its because aai originally did poorly on release so theyre giving it an extra push so it actually sells this time along or if its part of the general increase in ace attorney marketing this year but either way I'm happy to see it. These games deserve it.

[cinamun]

Went through 3 game crashes before I realized it was a gotdamn refillable water bottle and that thirst mod.

..... I really wanted to use that too (and the cute recolors).

[applepixls]

theres something to be said about the accidental symbolism of the horns in double life

grian got ponder originally which is a doo doo dudooooo kinda pattern and then got seek which is the same pattern but with a scratchier sound and offered it to scott

their stories then mirror in both having previously done a series with their partner and this time (somewhat) rejecting them (and later being tortured by them) only scott fully rejected pearl to live across from cleo while grian still kept scar around but tried to be secret soulmates with bigb. and ultimately scott and pearl did the whole sacrifice for the other person to win thing, reprising grian and scar's 3rd life ending same pattern, different sound.

(theres also something to be said here about how they are similar people, you can see it in the quiet agreement to stand around and get butted at by goats and in the bit where scott punches scar, sees grian take damage and "*he knows" and he knows he knows he knows and scott realizes what grian realized, that grian is once again trailing reluctantly after scar to keep him safe but also knows he shouldn't tell scar cause grian hasn't. they're both very intelligent in similar ways and it shows)

later on grian got another ponder (which he offered to scar instead of the seek he initially gave him) and mentioned how there was a reply to it (sing, du dudoooo) that he really wanted (and later jimmy and tango got)

so more narrative comparisons. the two soulmate pairs at that point have matching horns, grian and scar are ponder and jimmy and tango are sing. notoriously jimmy and scar are the two that everyone was scared of being partnered with because they die and take damage a lot. the thing i find interesting is how different their narratives are grian and scar had already been partnered and worked together previously, meanwhile, jimmy and tango had barely spoken prior. you'd expect that the two who were already friends and found out they were partnered (or at least grian found out) in a more or less positive way would choose to be friends, no? and you'd think that the two who didn't know each other and met by dying would have an awkward stumbling dynamic and possibly resent (in character) each other, right? but turned out it was the opposite way around (because of personalities blah blah blah). its not super related to the horn patterns I'll admit but something about the way.. its almost as if grian's horn says this is how it is (this being like rejecting scar because of their past) and the ranchers horn being like what if it doesn't have to be (something about clean slates, seeing people in new light, reintroducing yourself, taking all the best of a person despite a bad circumstance like yknow. killing them when you first meet. don't know anyone else whos accidentally blown up someone when they first met cough cough 3rd life cough)

please feel free to add your thoughts

[seth-burroughs]

I don't think that the reason why Number One's homunculus came out perfect and everyone else's was defective is that No1 had a ""Superior"" extra wrinkly guinness record brain or whatever the fuck. It's most likely because, you know, the UG facility's research was probably way better funded and carefully, well, researched, and picked out just one individual to focus on cloning -- on the other hand, KW's Project: Homunculus was unbelievably fucking rushed because Huesca wanted so bad to have one over the unified government he just started raw dogging the experiments and collected the DNA of almost every single person in that city because even if their homunculi do come out a bit undercooked at least they've got the numbers babyyyyy take that unified fuck. I think more thought and care went into building all these damn clone pods we saw for all of them than their actual creation. "something unexpected occured in our efforts to find suitable DNA" -> "i will die in approx. 20 seconds and STILL I won't admit I any% blind speedran playing god and failed due to the easily foreseeable consequences of my abysmal choices. It's actually a dna skill issue on those defects fuck them pinkies my final message. goodbye"

[pirateprincessjess]

Arcade games are one of my biggest hyper fixations ever. I love working on and repairing arcade games. I’ve decided to document this project while I get Biohazard Gun Survivor 2 working

[armysantiny]

Considering the fact LnDs has 4/5 separate dubs, I like the headcanon that all 5 (mc included) can speak each of those languages + each of the LIs names in each dub is their given name for the language

Like, Rafayel is pretty much canon established as a polyglot, Sylus would likely have learnt a bunch of languages for business requirements, Xavier's been around for 2 centuries and Zayne has definitely had to work on foreign patients at least a few times and MC's work as a hunter could lead to international missions, meaning knowing a few foreign languages would be a basic skill

Please tell me this makes sense 😭

[hemingway-papers]

I am always saying this

[the-blue-wraith]

I finished FF8 and I gotta say that's one of the breathtaking endings I ever watched. 🥹 I hope someday it could have a remake. I thought this was just a typical romance story but I was wrong, the buildup of Squall and Rinoa's relationship was so good.