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“You’re a soldier, not a damn poet,”
Oh boy oh boy
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Chapter two of Time’s Arrow is out! I’m so tired. Please read the warnings carefully! As always, here are the fun extras!
Chapter two:
- The lyrics for this chapter’s title are from “Mt. Washington” by Local Natives. Both literally relevant and thematically relevant! I am too tired to dive in here. I plan on maybe doing a deepdive on a bunch of the songs for LoopJuice at a later date, if anyone is interested.
- “It was only when she told him that secret phrase that he finally seemed to accept it all. During one of their many repeats of the same discussion during that year they were in the loop, Lydia had asked him for a code, for something she could say that would convince him without question.” - PRO TIP; always have a time loop code! It’ll save you a lot of trouble. Me and my coworkers have one.
- “Of all of the business majors I’ve met in my time, you have to be, by far, the least fashionable. But you’re also the cutest.” - She was a goth English major. He was a business major. Can I make it anymore obvious? /ref. My own little version for how Emily and Charles met! There may be more on it later.
- “Explaining over and over about the time loop, the Netherworld, Juno, Beetlejuice. What he was, what happened, what it all meant.” - To clarify, they did not spill all of Beetlejuice’s beans! They left quite a few things up to him to decide if he wanted to share.
- “Something tugged deep inside her in a particular direction. She wasn’t sure what it was, but she trusted it. She had to.” … “(Somehow, some way, deep down inside, a voice whispered in her ear. An invisible thread tugged in a particular direction. She would pull at that thread later. More important matters were at hand.)” - Hmmmm! I wonder if this will come back and/or be important.
- “Of course, the moment he’d woken up, he’d jumped out a window and gone God/Satan knows where.” - Like with Beetlejuice, Lydia is having her BFFF’s lingo rub off on her as well!
- “Careful when you lift your eyes, for you may just be met with the edge of the blade that swings over your head.” - TO CLARIFY: the bold is Beetlejuice’s thoughts. He’s still kinda fuzzy from his long sleep, so he’s still being weirdly poetic. He is referencing the sword of Damocles here.
- “Her suspicions were further confirmed when she could hear the demon’s absentminded humming as she drew closer. (What was it now? It had been some pop song Barbara had sung while they cooked together for months now. It was a different melody.)” - Barbara was singing “California Girls” by Katy Perry while cooking with Beetlejuice one time, and it got stuck in his head. One of his stims is repeatedly humming certain tunes to himself! It won’t be mentioned, but here he is humming “You Always Hurt The One You Love” like Ruby Lane in the “Fear Street” trilogy.
- “The demon let out a loud ‘mrrrp’” - Yes, once again, Beetlejuice makes a cat activation noise on occasion!
- “(His fingertips and ears still had that horrible dull purple-blue shading to them. Would that ever go away? She was worried it wouldn’t.)” - Yes, this piece of fanart called it! Some of the coloration from the Frost is permanent. I’m still impressed! <3
- “Oh, how horrendous it would’ve been to lose you. How much joy and light the world would’ve lost. It would’ve been a tragedy unlike any other.” - This is from both Beej and Lydia at once, since they both almost lost the other to suicide.
- “But oh, the words were so hard. Especially as they chewed their lip and stared into his confused, glowing yellow eyes. Why was it so hard?” - TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS IS HARD… Lydia is no expert and neither am I!
- “… it’s… y’know. Moss!” - Moss! Yeah, he was avoiding confronting emotions and his loved ones, but also… moss!
- “Pluto. Her name is Pluto.” …“… really? That’s a little on the nose.” - This is a bit of a callout on myself. It is a bit too on the nose.
- “Pluto’s purr is nice and smooth, like a car engine. Yours sounds like a fifty-year old lawn mower that’s fueled by sugar water as it’s driving over the wettest, muddiest lawn in the world.” - Beetlejuice’s purr is all fucked up like his voice, of course.
- “(She already had a list of name ideas. Gomez, Lisa, Wybie, Lenore, etc.)” - of course, these are all ideas from some of Lydia’s favorite stories. Gomez from “The Addams Family”, Lisa from “Lisa Frankenstein”, Wybie from “Coraline”, and Lenore from Edgar Allen Poe’s “Lenore”.
- “Idiots.” - Yeah, Lyds. That’s how we all feel, bestie.
- “(Lydia could swear she felt her arm burning under the bandages, under her sleeve.)” - I WONDER IF THIS WILL BE IMPORTANT LATER
- “ “Teeth grow back. (Lydia caught sight of a doubtful look on Adam’s face.) …” - While, yes, human teeth does not come back, Beetlejuice’s teeth do!
- “Lydia tightened her grip on Pluto, staring at the ghost intensely in a way she hoped was encouraging.” - Autism to autism communication… I will simply stare at you and hope you feel the good vibes I am attempting to send
- “ “I’m serious. You stood up to your abuser for us, Beetlejuice. That must’ve been very hard.” The demon sat very still, aside from his eyes gently flicking between Barbara’s own. Slowly, the pink washed away to a navy blue. ” - This is the first time someone has ever acknowledged to Beetlejuice, out loud, that his mother is an abuser. It causes a lot of emotions, of course.
- “It’s real late, and I know you three are probably bushed, so I’ll just head down to-” - Beetlejuice wanted to back down to the basement to hide from all of the humans.
- “I… don’t know. I guess I… thought she might have meant well, at some point.” - this is a sentiment a lot of people abused by their parents express, me included. It’s hard to let go of all of the things they have said to you, because they must have meant well, right? They’re your parent. Unfortunately, that often isn’t true.
- “ “It doesn’t change the fact that she does and says things that hurt you, and continues to hurt you. That… discredits most things she says.” The demon bit their lip with a light nod, their eyes darting about. “Y-yeah,” they eventually mumbled. “Th-… that’s… true, I guess.” ” - I HAVE THIS REACTION TO PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGING MY PAIN. What the heck. Why are brains so awkward?? ‘Okay i guess that’s true thanks’ is a real sentence I’ve said to my therapist so many times. Ugh.
- “Sucks to suck, buddy.” - this is a phrase I say often. I’ve had people be confused about it, so I suppose it’s not that common?
- Beetlejuice and food - this is a bit of a warning now, BJ’s relationship with food is not very healthy and it will continue to decline from here. Food aversion is an unfortunate possible side effect of burnout, stress, overstimulation, etc.
- Barbara’s explanation - If you look back, you can see how suspicious Barbara was of Beetlejuice’s plan from the moment they brought it up. She was doing some plotting of her own!
- Call of the void - this is a genuine phenomenon some people experience, although this is obviously not the only cause of Lydia’s attempt. Just a fitting name for it.
- “Lydia could tell, then, that she certainly had a heart.” - this is a reference to Penelope Scott’s “Feel Better”, which is a song that fits both Lydia and Beetlejuice imo!
- Oop the poem
- This poem is sort of… non-diegetic. Like stated before, the bold is Beetlejuice, the italics is Lydia. It is meant to reflect their thoughts in this scene and chapter in general, it is meant to be read both as a conversation and as disconnected thoughts they are separately having. Do you ever have such good emotional development that you psychically write a poem with your bestie?
- “Just for a moment, your life could be just what you wanted.” … “Just for once, just for a moment.” - this is a reference to the song “Just for Once” from “Nerdy Prudes Must Die”, because that song goes SO HARD and is very thematically relevant here.
- “You give your all, and you get so much given back.” - this is a reference to “When He Sees Me” from “Waitress”, because, again, it goes so hard and is so relevant.
- “At the end of everything, hold on to anything.” - This is a reference to “Night in the Woods”. I’ve said it before, Beetlejuice and Mae Borowski have a lot in common.
- “The things you do for love come back to you one by one.” - this is a reference to “Love Love Love” by The Mountain Goats. It is one of the gentler songs on the LoopJuice playlists, and reflects more feelings of acceptance and uneasy peace.
- “… it burns out bright and blinding like a dying star.” - Hmm. Perhaps this is foreshadowing? Nah, that’d be crazy.
- “No one is gone, the love they felt and received does not fade. It is simply held in those they loved, or redistributed once more.” - Lydia is, of course, talking about her mother. I know it’s obvious, I just wanted to make sure it is highlighted. Since this story is mostly from Beetlejuice’s POV, we don’t get to really see the other characters’ emotional developments clearly, so I try to highlight them as often as I can.
- “She.. understood? I know less about Barbara than I thought.” - Barbara lore hints! Put a pin in this.
- All the little reasons for Beetlejuice to stick around - it’s one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. Make it to your next sunset, make it to this new movie premiere. You have to taste this new food, see this sight. Start with little things, little reasons to stick around and enjoy life.
- “(Lydia felt like perhaps she shouldn’t be seeing this.)” … “I definitely feel like I shouldn’t be here for this.” - you ever witness your ghost parents and your demon brother having a romantically charged moment? Lydia certainly wishes she didn’t.
- “Oh! Don’t forget all the skirts and dresses I wanted to go through with you in the basement!” - I PROMISE WE WILL GET SKIRT AND DRESS FITS FOR BEEJ LATER
- “… will you?” ... “Will I what?” … “Give yourself a chance. Stick around.” - this is another reference to Stephen King’s “Laurie”. I love it to bits.
- “Well, except for his tail. It was quivering. (Lydia had only seen it do that a handful of times, when Beetlejuice was really excited, like when he was waiting to leap out at an unsuspecting Mormon knocking at the door.)” - sometimes, when cats are very excited, their tails quiver like this! It happens when they’re playful, like about to chomp on the arm of a door-to-door solicitor, or when they’re very happy, like when they receive a little forehead kiss.
- “Barbara and Adam exchanged a look then. They seemed… amused, excited, and - eugh. Those three better sort that shit out soon. It’s basically torture to have to witness it.” - Lydia is with y’all. Do not worry.
- “… I’m not.. the most graceful with exits, you guys know this-” - this is another reference to the failed smoke bomb trick he does in the show!
- “Thank you, love you too, kiddo.” - Adam sounds a little dismissive here because he is concentrating, but Lydia knows that!
- “Adam is switching on the “electric blanket”, Barbara is making some sort of joke as she once more plants a kiss on his forehead. He thinks he hears the word ‘hot’.” - Beetlejuice has no idea what some things are, including electric blankets. He is so lost in the sauce he didn’t hear Barbara call him hot.
- “Who could ever really want you? You wear out your purpose eventually. You overstay your welcome. Sharp, sudden pain washes over him from the old scar in his side. Honestly, Betelgeuse, I don’t know why I’m disappointed. Everyone knows how pathetic you are.” - Callback! And more dialogue/context to this hinted scene. Maybe we will see more of it later!
- “His heart, his own personal heart is broken over and over and over again.” - yet another “Asteroid City” reference! Also reflects a bit how I feel writing at times.
- “He has been emptied out. He is so tired, so drained. His whole body aches, and his mind still thrums.” - All my burnt out besties say… eughhhhh…. Emotional conversations are super draining!
- “It isn’t the start of something. Isn’t it? It isn’t. It isn’t.” - What’s that? By god, it’s “Asteroid City” once again! The context of this scene is two characters discussing whether or not they’re at the start of a new relationship, like how Beej is arguing about the same thing with himself.
- “You are a fox being allowed to stay in the henhouse.” - in a way, he still views himself as an intruder, as something harmful. It takes a while to get rid of harmful thinking, even after coming to the realization that it’s wrong.
- “The sword still swings. The thread is thin.” - another sword of Damocles shout out!
- “The perfect visage of a reformed villain, of a tamed demon.” - He feels a pressure to be good right away, to fit the stereotype of a reformed villain. A lot of those characters are depicted in unrealistic ways! Except Zuko. Zuko is perfect.
- “Don’t be too much. Heavy is the cost.” - this is a partial reference to “Personal” by Stars!
- “Parts of you are already gone.” - This is a partial reference to “Please Eat” by Nichole Dollanganger.
- “If you are not a jester, you are The Fool. Wear the bells well.” - The Fool is capitalized because he is specifically thinking of the tarot card. Also, Fizzaroli reference! That little guy is a strong contender for favorite Alex Brightman character.
- “It’s like they said; don’t stop dancing until the curtain’s down.” - Yet another “BoJack Horseman” reference, and a very poignant one! Beej is, in his mind, a performer on a stage, and he cannot let the audience see him falter.
#beetlejuice fanfic#loopjuice#beetlejuice#beetlejuice the musical#lawrence beetlejuice shoggoth#time’s arrow#lydia deetz#adam maitland#barbara maitland#pluto the cat#LoopJuice extras#LoopJuice chapter
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bwahahaha asking more asks!! hehe
writing or drawing???
favourite weird flavour combo (very sorry if I just asked that memroies sift out my head like sand in hands T-T)
what saying or quote do you live by?
lemonade or tea?
what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names?
strange habits?
favourite place to write (ie post it notes, sketchbook, note book, on your laptop etc)!
heheheeeeeeeeeee yay more asks
writing or drawing - OUGH HOW COULD I PICK pretty easily actually, drawing. i like writing too but drawing is ACTUALLY NO I CHANGE MY MIND if i had to forgo one forever, i'd rather keep doing writing than drawing because where drawing fails me i can always write but drawing is a lot harder for me even though i do more of it. so. i pick writing actually hehe
weird flavour combo - idk about combo but i've started eating a lot pf pickles recently. no particular reason i've just been like hmm i think this dish could use a pickle and i havent been wrong so far
saying or quote to live by? - 'you can do what you want forever' is one that's really stuck with me like. hell yeah. i can do what i want forever!!
lemonade or tea - lemonade!! i love lemonade esp. the really lemony stuff. like sprite is kinda bad but Lemonade is good.
kickass outift - big black baggy jeans band tshirt and black leather jacket and white converse. the big jeans and jacket just feel very cool to me n the converse are my tenth doctor shoes which i do very confidently feel like i could physically do anything in.
strange habits - i CANNOT STAND STILL i think it's stimming. neurotypical stimming. just fidgeting?? like i just cannot stand still i end up bouncing around and stuff. not really a habit though hmmmm. OH in like yr 5 me n my friend decided we would miss the bottom step of every staircase and i still do it.
favourite place to write - NOTEBOOK I LOVE NOTEBOOk its A5 & has a yellow cover and blue lined pages and its just a nice repository for everything i think of & doodles and song lyrics and thoughts and just writing down whatever. yay
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ley I need writing advice, how do you write out your stories? Do you just start writing and whatever comes to mind just gets put in or do you write a writing plan beforehand like a summary of what u want to happen
Hmmmm my writing process is like...super erratic tbh. It's a mixture of both honestly. Sometimes I get ideas when I'm out doing stuff and I'll quickly jot down a summary or dialogue for it in my notes to put later in a doc.
IDK if it'll make sense but I've written Paychecks as if I was writing a screenplay or like...episodes for a long running tv show. Every chapter is intended to feel like an "episode" and I usually start thinking of things with dialogue first. A lot of them are just conversations I'd want to have between characters or what I'd think they say.
More below the cut because I have a bad habit of rambling
My process has definitely changed like when I first started writing the story I'd write out entire scenes which were mainly derived from my own experiences, just tweaked a bit. I didn't outline or anything I kinda just....wrote. (I was drafting paychecks for a couple months before I posted the first chapter). I think it was easier for me to sporadically write instead of outline because at the time I was really craving just...going to places? Like travelling and stuff, and I was SO bored at work I'd just start daydreaming 😭 and then my coworkers started talking about sugar daddies (one of them had some experience in that stuff)
I had a lot of stuff just written out of order randomly on this doc (it's got around 90k words on a single doc, never doing that again LOL) but then after a while I started to actually think of a plot and move some scenes around. But for the first several chapters I kinda just rewrote a lot of what I had drafted. Butttt I don't have anything drafted after a certain point anymore so it's more difficult for me to write. It's a big reason why it takes me so long to update now.
But noooow I actually put a very vague outline at the top of my doc for the chapter. I have an idea of what I want to happen for the story as a whole, but there's also a bunch of stuff I add in that I think of while writing. Here's the outline for chapter 16. (Granted some things are changed when I wrote the final draft)
And then I'll usually write out the scenes in that order. Sometimes I have dialogue already for it so I'll start out with that. Dialogue is the easiest way for me to determine how the scene will go (I'm basically talking to myself in my head thinking of them lol). Then I'll add things after that, like what they're doing when they're talking. If I have a thought about some inner monologue or introspection I'll add that too.
If I'm feeling stuck on a particular scene, I may write a summary of it and come back to it later when I have an idea.
Another thing is I have this story planned out in arcs. So there's the beginning arc where Levi and Reader first meet, then the Vegas arc where some sort of connection is established, the Eren arc which is what we're in right now, and then I have another one planned. I found thinking of it in arcs broadens it when I get stuck and helps me see the story and how it's flowing as a whole.
I will say that listening to playlists has helped a lot too. I’ve been listening to the first few songs that I added to my playlist and as weird as it sounds it gave me a lot of...nostalgia of when I first wrote it. It brought back a lot of feelings I had last year when I was writing ;; That and I have a pinterest board for Paychecks Levi and Eren for inspo too and I liked to look through/add to it when I’m not sure on what to write.
Good god this got very long I hope there's an answer to your question in there somewhere lol feel free to ask for clarity on anything! Hope this helped ❤️
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AIGHT Y’ALL I wasn’t tagged but I’m doing this anyways because f u c k i t
It's the year 2021 and you're obsessed with The Karate Kid. How are you feeling?
Deadasss weird as fuck, my dude. Like...out of all the things I could’ve predicted happening in our lord’s year 2021, it definitely was NOT getting hyperfixated on a hammy gay ship with a punk and a nerd from a goddamn karate soap opera. And yet...here we are??? I will never understand hyperfixations, my guy. But I’ve met a lot of really cool people in this fandom, so I can’t really complain.
Did you grow up with TKK or are you new to the series?
I have never seen a single Karate Kid movie in my entire life. When I was a kid, it looked kinda dumb so I never got into it XD But then I saw my roommate watching Cobra Kai on Youtube Red one day (he has every streaming service known to man) and I was hooked. And...here I am!
We gotta do the basics. Favorite character:
Literally EVERYONE except for Kreese, Yasmine, Kyler, and Tory, sorry stans
Okay but if we gotta pick, Johnny Lawrence is my Problematic Fave. Also I love my boy Daniel, he’s trying his best!!! And Amanda LaRusso, we stan a queen!!!
Among the kids, definitely Miguel, with Demetri as a close second. I also love Sam, Aisha, Moon, and Hawk (pre- and post-Bastardization Arc, anyways XD)!
Favorite ship:
Take a look at my username and take a WILD FUCKING GUESS lmao Yes it’s Eli/Demetri because DUH, every interaction they have is so fucking gay and Eli fucking saved him!!! And came back to him!!! And betrayed the world’s most terrifying dojo with a WAR CRIMINAL SENSEI all for Demetri!!! And how Demetri was willing to forgive him for everything at the drop of a hat because he always had faith there was still good in his best friend??? That’s TRUE LOVE motherfuckers. Please let them kiss in Season 4. I will sell you all of my limbs. Sam/Miguel is a close second because they’re cute as shit and it’s just so lovely to see two people so unapologetically smitten with each other. They are in LOVE, and I will RIOT if they break up again!!! Keep Sam and Miguel together 2k21!!!
Underrated character:
SAMANTHA LARUSSO!!! The amount of hate my girl gets for acting like a normal teenager and fucking up occasionally JUST like the rest of the cast makes me want to start punching things. She cares SO MUCH about her friends!!! And she loves the shit out of Miguel!!! She hasn’t always been the best friend but you know what??? Neither has Hawk, and we still forgave his ass!!! Also LET HER BE FEMININE but also kick utter ass, my god!!! Femininity should not be synonymous with being weak, y’all! ALSO DEMETRI, like yes, he likes to complain and occasionally run his mouth, but guess what else he likes to do??? Never give up on the love of his life his best friend Eli Moskowitz and refuse to lose faith in him no matter how much of a little shit he’s become, and I for one think that’s very badass of him. Also the way he takes care of Eli pre-Cobra Kai in his own snarky bastard way makes me absolutely Weak and needs more appreciation. Like the dude has charisma and COULD have probably made other friends and left Eli behind if he wanted, but did he??? No, he wants the weepy loser with the lip scar in the polo shirts and dorky sweaters and will protect him as much as his wimpy ass is able!!!
Underrated ship (don’t say therapy, lol):
Among the adults, Daniel/Amanda!!! Like maybe I just don’t watch that much tv, but it seems kinda rare to me to see a happily married hetero couple, and it’s just nice to see a married couple who genuinely love each other and where there’s not like...lingering resentment or some shit. I feel like this ship gets overshadowed by Lawrusso a lot (which like--okay, fair!!! Daniel and Johnny do have a ridiculous amount of chemistry, and the gay undertones are undeniable, so I get it), and it makes me kinda sad. I do love Lawrusso, but I don’t like when Amanda has to get her heart broke for it to happen, you feel? Among the kids, honestly YasMoon. Like I really love the idea of Yasmine trying to better herself because of Moon’s influence on her and because Moon like...inspires her to be a better person, I guess? With their pretty strong friendship, it just makes more sense to me for Yasmine to get a redemption arc through Moon than through Demetri. ALSO girls DO often pull the whole “mean girl” shtick to cover up being closeted lesbians, and Moon IS canonically bi, so it could work!!! I just think this one could be a really interesting Friends to Lovers take, and could make a really nice coming-out arc for Yas. And MoonPiper too, honestly!!! Like they only got 5 seconds of screentime so I understand WHY it’s underrated, but I still love what we DID get and loved that there was a canon gay ship (even if only for 1 scene lmao). I’m really excited to potentially see more of them in Season 4!!! Please, I’m begging!!!
Wax On, Wax Off or Sweep the Leg?
Sweep the Leg because it will always be deeply hilarious to me how Demetri took note of the first move Eli ever used on him and spent presumably weeks perfecting it OUT OF SPITE just to get him back with it at the soccer game MONTHS later. Just goes to show how OBSESSED Demetri is with Eli and their little karate rivalry which is just NOT straight, I’m sorry
Which of Daniel’s dumb little outfits is your favorite?
There’s something so funny about this pretentious little fuck walking around in fancy suits once he becomes a #SuccessfulBusinessman, and still occasionally trying to do karate in a full-ass suit (take THAT, Tom Cole’s boba!!!) I’m also a big fan of how he looks in his gi with his little headband. Still killing that look as a 40-50-something!!!
Character from the films you most want to return, who’s not Terry Silver:
Tbh I have still never seen a single Karate Kid movie (they took them off of Netflix, RIP), so...I don’t really care if they bring anyone else back??? I’m invested in the characters we already have in the show, I don’t need some rando from the movies to make a cameo to have a good time XD The only character I really wanted them to bring back was Ali, and they already did, so like...I’m good??? That’s all I really needed, I can die in peace now XD
Scene that lives in your head rent-free:
Basically any fluffy Elimetri scene, but 5 in particular: ~Miguel first meeting Eli and Demetri at the lunch table, and Eli looking at Demetri like he hung every goddamn star in the sky ~Demetri going off at a terrifying, “unhinged” karate sensei on the first day of Cobra Kai because he made fun of Eli’s lip and Demetri is not about that shit ~ELI STEALING DEMETRI’S NACHO AND SMIRKING AT HIM, LIKE EXCUSE ME SIR PLEASE BE A LITTLE LESS HOMOSEXUAL IN FRONT OF YOUR GIRLFRIEND ~Eli yanking Demetri onstage during Valley Fest to hold a board, and Demetri being visibly like...extremely turned on when Eli breaks said board ~ELI SAVING DEMETRI DURING THE CHRISTMAS FIGHT, ELI APOLOGIZING, DEMETRI AND ELI KICKING COBRA ASS TOGETHER AKSBDCUWYVCBU
Will Anthony LaRusso ever be relevant?
I hope not! He’s kind of a funny meme character to pop up now and again but I don’t think he deserves a serious plotline when there are so many more interesting characters to follow.
You live in The Valley and are forced into the karate gang war. Which dojo do you join?
Miyagi-Do because Cobra Kai would eat me alive. Also I’d probably straight up get stuck and die in that cement mixer, if I even made it that far XD Besides, being salty that your friend who you have a crush on likes martial arts better than you and starting martial arts to impress them but also being too lazy to join anything TOO intense is a Big Mood and I am certainly not speaking from personal experience here, no sirree
What’s your training montage song?
"Shut Up and Drive” by Rihanna for a weight-training and bicep-flexing montage, “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine Dragons for a more intense punching-and-kicking-shit montage. I don’t know why this is, I just feel it in my heart.
It’s the crossover event of the century! Which TV show are you combining with Cobra Kai for an hour-long Saturday night special?
*Briefly panics because I don’t actually watch that much TV and most of the stuff I do watch is fantasy/sci fi shit that absolutely would not work for a CK crossover*
Hmmmm okay but ACTUALLY
You know what would be fucking funny as hell would be an It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia crossover. Allow me to elaborate: ~The Gang goes to LA on vacation during the height of the Karate Dojo Wars. They literally can get barely anything done without all these goddamn karate-fighting teenagers getting in the way. ~They are all very annoyed by this. Even the most obscure of tourist attractions is eventually intercepted by karate fights. ~Mac tries to join Cobra Kai because he sees all this karate fighting on, and wants to unquestionably prove both his badassery and masculinity. Both Johnny and Kreese are like “Wtf are you doing here? Aren’t you like 30?” ~Mac gets a planet-sized crush on Johnny after all of 5 minutes and endlessly gushes to the gang about him. The gang mercilessly roast him about this and about how much of a pathetic loser with his life together in no way whatsoever Johnny sounds like. They proceed to have exactly 0 self awareness about this. ~The Waitress is in town visiting family or something, and Charlie is stalking her, as per usual. However, every time he’s about to go up and talk to her, a pack of battling Miyagi-Dos and Cobra Kais throwing punches and kicks everywhere blocks his path. One times, Mac is among one of these packs and Charlie is like “???? He didn’t get kicked out of that teen karate dojo yet???” ~Seeing how much the Kids These Days seem to like fighting, Charlie drops by a local high school to try and sell Fight Milk to the kids doing karate. Only Kyler and Brucks buy into it, and subsequently get the entire West Valley High wrestling team sick. Charlie is inevitably arrested, as Counselor Blatt thinks he’s selling the kids drugs. ~Dennis makes a plan to have sex with every hot chick he can in Los Angeles. He meets Ali on a dating app post-divorce, and inevitably tries to bang her. It doesn’t work. ~Frank crashes the rental car, and inevitably the gang ends up at one of Daniel’s dealerships. Dee quickly takes a liking to Daniel and is like “Watch, assholes--Imma homewreck this guy’s marriage.” She starts frequenting the dealerships to attempt to flirt with Daniel, until one day she walks in on him having sex with Johnny in a back room and she’s like “Is that the guy from Mac’s goddamn dojo?!?!” ~Dennis, of course, tries to sleep with Amanda. Amanda is not having it, and rebukes him in the most snarky, Amanda-esque way possible. Dennis is just like “Oh not AGAIN--the women in this goddamn diva city have too high of standards!” ~Later on, the gang is at the beach and Dennis spots the blonde lady he went out on an ill-fate date with, and decides to give it another shot--that is, until he sees her go up and kiss another woman and he’s like “IS THAT THE LADY FROM THE CAR DEALERSHIP??? STUPID-KARATE-KICK-COMMERCIAL’S WIFE?!? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME.” ~Dee complains to Dennis about her lack of luck getting laid, and Dennis is just like “Oh come ON, is everyone in Los Angeles gay???” Smash cut to Hawk and Demetri having sex, Moon and Piper making out, Bert and Nate holding hands, Chris and Mitch doing oral, and Amanda, Ali, and Carmen having a threesome. ~Frank tries to scam Kreese into buying cheaply-made karate equipment for his dojo. The gang ends up having to leave LA because Kreese is quite literally plotting all of their murders.
For tagging, uuuuhhhhhh @jackonthelongwalk @soe-leo @max-eagle-fang @cc-tinslebee @backawayfromthegay @asphodel-storm do the thing, if y’all haven’t yet!
#cobra kai#cobra kai season 1#cobra kai season 2#cobra kai season 3#ck#tag game#binary boyfriends#daniel larusso#johnny lawrence#it's always sunny in philadelphia#iasip
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Dating Klaus Hargreeves
Fandom: Umbrella Academy
Pairing: Klaus Hargreeves x Reader
Word count: 891
Warning/s: Mentions of harmful substance
Summary: What’s it like dating Klaus Hargreeves
Trying to help him from his addiction
“Klaus, we talk about this” you said sternly as you snatch away the harmful substance from him and stuff it on your pockets to throw away later.
“but I need it...” he whined on the floor, hands grabbing your ankles to prevent you from walking away “...please, they won’t shut up” he cried, hands blocking his ears as he curls up on the floor, eyes shut with tears.
watching him breaks your heart, you can’t even begin to imagine how hard it was for him. deep down you wanted to give him the drugs back to help ease his pain, but you knew it will only worsen his state.
it's at times like this that you wished you had super powers to help him. you kneeled down on the floor and cradled Klaus on your arms, your hands helping him block his ears.
“it’s okay, they won’t do anything to you” you softly mumbled as you pulled him towards you "you’re safe, just listen to my voice okay?”
“hmmmm” Klaus hummed as he visibly calmed down, your presence, warmth and voice keeping his attention away from the ghost.
Getting used to having his brother Ben around
“Klaus? what do you want for breakfast?” you shouted from the kitchen while Klaus was on the other room, doing whatever it was he was doing.
“shut up, you're so annoying!” he shouted causing you to raise an eyebrow at him as you storm off to where he was.
“excuse me?!”
“oh sorry not you, Ben” he explained, pointing to the empty space on the chair. you blinked at least thrice before you calmed down and realized what he meant.
“...well what does he like to have?” you asked, Klaus turned to his brother for a split second probably to hear his answer before he turned his head back at you.
“he said waffles” he grinned, happy that you don't found it the least weird that he can talk to the dead.
“coming right up!”
Having Random Dances
Klaus is a happy go lucky guy, whenever he hears a song he particularly likes he would pull you with him and dance with you, wherever you guys are.
you and Klaus were grocery shopping or more like Klaus was pushing the cart while you take the things you guys need. when a particular and familiar song played throughout the mall.
Klaus slowly move to the song before he let go of the cart and pulled you towards him, his hands wrapping around your waist as he enthusiastically dance.
Chuckling you let yourself get lost to the music as you and Klaus dance in the middle of the aisle of a grocery store, not minding the questioning looks people give you.
The moment was however interrupted as a loud bang went off, apparently the cart Klaus let go crashed to the tower of canned goods, it was a disaster.
"oh no" you mumbled watching the cans roll on the ground.
"run!" Klaus giggled as he took your hand and pulled you along with him out of the grocery store, both of you laughing your heads off.
Borrowing of Clothes
"is that my robe?" You asked Klaus who was dancing on the bathroom with nothing but your silk robe. How he looks way better on it than you? You'll never know.
"yeah, feels more comfortable" he breath as he shakes his butt at you to prove his point, causing you to chuckle.
"oh and is that my coat?" He asked after noticing his long coat perfectly fitting your body.
"yes, what are gonna do about it?" You tease, before he grinned walked towards you.
"I love it but I think I like it better off you"
Baths together
"this feels nice" you hummed in content as you lean your head against bath tub. The warm water soothing all your aching muscles. While Klaus was on the other side also humming a sigh of content.
Everything was calm until Klaus decided to splash some water towards you, right on your face.
"you're so dead" you grinned before you splash back some water towards him. Soon it was a battlefield, both of you splashing each other like kids, until you got tired and the bath tub now half full.
"I think it's a sign to get out now"
Late night talks
It was one of those nights that you and Klaus find it hard to sleep, both of you laying on the bed, eyes fixated on the ceiling.
"why did you choose me?" He suddenly asked, interrupting the silent night.
"what do you mean?" You reply back, glancing at the clock that read 3:04.
"you can do so much better than me" he whispered softly, his eyes never leaving the ceiling.
"are you kidding me?" You Huff in disbelief as you prop yourself up the bed with your elbow and faced Klaus.
"if I'll have to choose then I'll choose you over and over again" you honestly said, eyes boring into his "you're stuck with me mister, forever"
"you're weird" he mumbled after a couple of silence but the soft smile on his lips tells otherwise.
"I know" you then leaned down and stole a quick peck on his lips.
"want to get some food?" He asked
" I thought you'll never asked"
#TUA#the umbrella academy#umbrella academy x reader#klaus hargreeves x reader#Tua Klaus x reader#umbrella academy x reader oneshot#Umbrella academy x reader fanfic#umbrella academy klaus x reader
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rules: tag people you want to get to know better! tagged by @lacunafiction 💙 (omg tysm?? i'm fangirling a little lol i love your story so far 🥺)
favorite color: right now i’m really digging mauve but it changes a lot 😁
last song: slip - elliot moss (linking the dance video that got it stuck in my head bc it’s amazing and everyone should go watch it <3)
last movie: wow i don’t actually know 👀 which is weird for me but i genuinely can’t remember!
last series: currently catching up on killing eve 🔪🩸 xoxo
sweet, savory or spicy: sweet or savory depending on my mood! i’m an absolute baby about spice though and i deserve to be clowned for it 🙈
craving: hmmmm i wasn’t craving anything in particular until i thought about it but now i’m really craving sushi lol
tea or coffee: either/both
currently working on: editing my partner’s latest podcast episode + a video project that is trying to kill me 🙃🥴
gonna taggg @dusksweets @liamcowles @kyrassantana @lazy-queen-irl @trislovescats @crowsintheisland @chaoticwolph + @nickeymouse but as always, no pressure! 💕
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THES HI HIYA :D!!!! sorry this took so long T_T however i finally listened through to all the bauhaus you recommended :D i listened to the full of mask and in the flat field, i actually wore my bauhaus hoodie to school last thursday and i felt like the coolest #girl. In the world
IN ANY CASE THOUGH; my favorite songs (in no particular order) are probably kick in the eye, in the flat field, and telegram sam. i think bauhaus's music caught me so off guard at first because their music truly just does not sound like anything else i've ever heard — most of their songs took me a few listens to even get in to, actually, their sound is just so affectionally bizarre and hollow and. well. Goth. BUT I DO REALLY REALLY LIKE IT A LOT......... thank you very much for the recommendations cause i enjoyed them so much and cannot wait to listen to more :'D my favorite song overall is probably mask's title track.. it makes me feel like i'm in a different Dimension. i love it so much
do you have any other music you'd like to share :O if you still want c!dream songs i'd like to suggest pet by a perfect circle, another apc song i know BUT I JUST. I PROMISE!! THIS ONE IS LITERALLY PERFECT I SWEAR
HELLO CALLIZINC MY ESTEEMED MUTUAL CALLIZINC!!!!!!!! HELL YES NO #Poser BEHAVIOR HERE
VERY BASED FAVORITES!! kick in the eye is just. an Absolute banger. i love the guitar in it especially id love to learn how to play it. and his voice is fucking perfect. 1000% one of the best bauhaus songs ever made. and in the flat field is def one of my tops too if not my #1 song.. it's just. so fucking cool, always gets stuck in my head. my name is dropped in it AND it reminds me of blorbo from my shows.. Has to be my fav <3 When he yells "I DO GET BORED!!!!" Like if you agree❤ personally im never bored listening to bauhaus tho Like you said i really hadnt heard anything like that song Ever before, it was my first bauhaus song and still stands out to me. Its unique they're just such pioneers of goth music it all holds up so well!!!! and Yas telegram sam luv when he howls in it........ think im just a huge fan of howling and wailing
and YAYYY i am always looking for more canon accurate c!dream songs‼️‼️‼️ YOURE SO RIGHT TOO PET IS PERFECT IMMEDIATELY ADDED TO MY PLAYLIST FOR CDREAM.. "THEY DONT CARE ABOUT YOU LIKE I DO" the way he whispered it genuinely gave me goosebumps. Can anyone hear me This is just like discduo for real. Also my favorite APC song you've sent me so far this one is sooooo fucking good..
putting my personal reccomendations below the cut so this ask doesn't get too long :]
hm hmmmm... if you're looking for more older goth rock music i like siouxsie and the banshees. they're similar in style to bauhaus for sure !!! this one especially is comparable, and it reminds me of post death c!q. obsession is my favorite by them (both the one with vocals and just the instrumenal), its a c!dream song I Love It. haven't listened to a full album by them yet but i rlly want to listen to all of A Kiss In The Dreamhouse because cascade is another rlly good one.
and if you're looking for something more like modest mouse/chasing around men with a garden house/indie rock which. i have been absolutely MESMERIZED by the beauty of indie rock lately calli. its kinda ridiculous how into this genre i am but. i've been listening to this band called Wolf Parade and I'm In Love with their album Apologies to the Queen Mary. if i could make a two part pmv!!! to Dear sons and daughters of hungry ghosts and I'll believe in anything that's c!wilbur centric... well. Im giving storyboarding a shot because those two songs are AMAZING and the way the transition is between them is on the album is SO SO SO rot inducing. something in my brain changed when i listened to this album all the way through i think. out of all the reccomendations i've handed you please place this one very gently in your pocket bcause there is just something So special about this album
#sorry this ask took me a bit to respond to i saw it and Immediately had to leave for work 😔#and then proceeded to listen to bauhaus for most of my shift#BUT THANK U FOR SENDING THIS..#these r always my favorite asks to answer#slash gen. it's so fun to ramble abt music#and if you end up listening to more b/auhaus shoot me an ask#i'm curious about their other albums too#have a wonderful night calli !!!!!!#thes answers#🎵
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- New Moots Tag !!
rules: answer 10 questions and tag 10 people you want to know better. (feel free to skip any that you’re not comfortable with!)
tagged by: @nct-aria thanks bub 🥺🥰 my dms are open always to talk aksjdhf✊🏻🤧
relationship status: single
favourite colour: teal, silver, and black!
3 favourite foods: hmmmm cookies, anything chocolate, and apples! (green apples in particular)
song stuck in my head: 8 letters by why don’t we (im ok i swear im not hurt 😭)
last song i listened to: im not sure if it was kind by shinee or be in love by itzy aksjfh
last thing i googled: mots persona poster versions (im selling my posters bc my sister and i don’t use them akddnjf i needed to label them somehow)
time: 9:28am
dream trip: honestly? going to korea and japan with my cousins without our parents and playing games (like splitting into teams to see who gets to the airbnb first and stuff like that) this is something we’ve been talking about for two or three years(?) now
something i want: 맛(hot sauce) ✊🏻😭 AKSJDHD but anyway to dye my hair pink
something i’m excited for: the week to end bc honestly i need sleep also BANGBANGCON!! 🥰
tagging: alskdjfj im shy so anyone who sees this, feel free to try! (whether you’re a moot or you just see me on your feed) 💖💖💖
#i thought abt my favorite food for so long bc after cookies my mind blanked aksjdh#c.tagged#wisteria💖#cassia
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30 Questions
Rule: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you want to get to know better
G’day mates! Welcome to my 30 questions post! This one tagged me to do this. So yeah blame her for filling up your dashboard....jk love you Laura 💜
Question 1: Name/Nickname
Melissa is my full name but my nickname I’ve gone by since I was like 14 is ‘Melo’ (pronounced ‘Me-low’. So many people pronounce it as ‘Mello’ lmao). Mel is also a common nickname I get at work and such.
Question 2: Gender
Female She/Her
Question 3: Star sign
Ok I’m a nerd for Star signs so I’ll give a more detailed answer than necessary
Virgo ♍️ || 150-180 degree || The element associated with Virgo is Earth || The type of Earth I am is mutable || The planet associated with Virgo is Mercury || I’m most romantically compatible with a Taurus, Capricorn and Scorpio || I’m least romantically compatable with a Gemini, Aquarius and Sagittarius || My opposite star sign is Pisces || Traits of Virgos, they are Kind, Reliable, Patient, Loyal, Idealistic, Overthinking, Shy, Critical and sometimes Stubborn
Obviously this isn’t all Virgos so take this with a grain of salt but yeah just a little in-depth analysis.
Question 4: Height
168cm | 5’6 feet
Question 5: Time
My Timezone is AEDT. Right now as I’m posting this it’s 10PM 23rd December 2020
Question 6: Birthday
31st August 1999
Question 7: Favorite bands
Imagine Dragons, OneRepublic, Major Lazor, Fall Out Boy, X Ambassadors, Galantis, The Chainsmokers, The Script and Coldplay
Question 8: Favorite Solo Artists
Ellie Goulding, Ariana Grande, Khalid, Logic, Nicki Minaj, Sia, Marshmello, David Guetta, Lauv, Eminem, Dj Snake, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone
Question 9: Current song stuck in my head
Hmmmm atm it’s definitely ‘fire meets gasoline’ by sia cause our boi Pedro is in the music video 👀
Question 10: Last Movie watched
The Santa Clause Trilogy lmao
Question 11: Last show
The Mandalorian to absolutely no ones surprise
Question 12: When did I create this blog
Oh jeez idek sometime in 2018 I think. I only really started to blog since watching S2 of the Mandalorian though. Needed to vent somehow lmao
Question 13: When Do I post
Same reason as above when I need to vent or when I feel strongly about something and feel confident enough to vocalise it which is very rare.
Question 14: Last Google
Ok for this I’m going to bend it a bit cause my recent searches is to do with Christmas gift buying and that’s boring. So I’m going to go with ‘Triple Frontier’. Cause a certain someone is in this movie 👀
Question 15: Other blogs
Nope this is my one and only!
Question 16: Do I get asks
Oh god no I’m not that cool lolllll
Question 17: Why I chose my url
It’s a combination of my nickname ‘Melo’ and my last name ‘Beesley’.
Question 18: Following Count
36
Question 19: Follower Count
43
Question 20: Average hours of sleep
Sleep? Wtf is sleep? I do not know of this sleep. As an insomniac and a night owl (I know double whammy) I don’t get much sleep at all maybe 5-6 hours if I’m lucky. My sleep is very broken, so I usually wake up like 2-3 times during the night. I try to go to bed at 11 and I usually wake up at 7 which I absolutely hate. I’m NOT a morning person at all. It’s worse cause it’s daylight savings rn so the sun is up at 5am. I swear I don’t know how I function sometimes.
Question 21: Lucky number
I don’t really have one???? I guess if I had to pick it would be.....54! thank you random number generator
Question 22: Instruments
Not really sure what this is referring to. If it’s referring to instruments I’ve played then the only one I can say is I played to recorder when I was like 7 and it was forced by my teacher so it doesn’t really count.
If it’s referring to my favourite instrument then probably an acoustic guitar. I love me some acoustic covers. Plus there’s so much variety with this instrument it can be both upbeat and happy or really slow and somber. It’s all around a just a great instrument.
Question 23: What I’m wearing
It’s night and it’s summer so just some shorts and a singlet. Anything more and I’ll die from drowning my own sweat.
Question 24: Dream Job
My dream job is to be a voice actor. Key word dream. My realistic dream job however is to become a pathologist.
Question 25: Dream Trip
Ohhhhhh boy I have so many places I wanna go to! My first priority would be the UK (England and Ireland specifically). Nearly all of my heritage is from there so I think it would be really cool to go back to my roots amd explore the culture my family is from.
Second on my list is America not too sure about all the states I want to go to but I know for a fact that California, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Texas (cause of N.A.S.A) and New York is a must!
Third is literally any Spanish speaking country whether it be Spain, Mexico, Colombia or Chile. Just anywhere that Spanish is the primary language.
Paris and Italy would be a solid fourth
Norway, Sweden and Finland would be fifth
Japan is 6th
I’m not really interested in visiting Africa, Indonesia the Middle East or Asia (except for Japan) and I wasn’t interested in South America either until recently.
Question 26: Favorite Food
I’m a sucker for pasta and Italian food! Ravioli in particular. It’s been my favourite since I was little. Chocolate is another big one. Any chocolate with caramel in it I will swipe from you.
I can’t do spicy foods I’m so intolerant to it like even the mild stuff makes my face go red and my tongue go numb it’s ridiculous.
Question 27: Nationality
Australian
My ancestry however is British/Irish/Ashkenazi Jewish. 75% Irish, 18% British, and 7% Jewish with less than 1% French and German.
Question 28: Favorite Songs
I get too personally invested in my music SMH
1800-273-8255 | Logic, Alessia Cara and Khaild
First Time | Kygo, Ellie Goulding
Treat You Better | RÜFÜS DU SOL
All the stars | Kendrick Lamar, SZA
Runaway | Galantis
breathin | Ariana Grande
Ocean Drive | Duke Dumont
Powerful | Major Lazor
lovely | Billie Eilish, Khalid
Let you down | NF
Elastic Heart, Fire meets gasoline, Big girls cry amd chandelier | Sia
Capsize | FRENSHIP, Emily Warren
Question 29: Last Book
Like physical book??? Oh lord I legit have no clue. I think the last time I read a physical book was in high school for English don’t ask what it was cause I have no idea lollll
Question 30: Top 3 Fictional Universes I want to live in
Miraculous, Star Wars, Assassins Creed
Annnnnnnd that’s it I’m done I guess! As for the 20 people I’m supposed to tag that’s just too high of a number there’s no way I have that many friends 😂. So I’ll only tag a few and if you don’t want to do this, just ignore 💜 See ya later!
@littlemisspascal @razordest @thisisthe-wayson
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30 questions
tagged by: @just-a-kj-blog (thanks!)
Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you want to get to know better
Name/Nickname: Morphy (my online nickname)
Gender: nonbinary
Star sign: Leo
Height: 5 ft. 3 in.
Time: currently 6:30 a.m.
Birthday: August 2
Favorite bands: a lot, but in particular - Steam Powered Giraffe, A Tribe Called Red, Bloodywood
Favorite solo artists: also a lot, but in particular - Dr. Steel, Orville Peck, Thomas B. Wild Esq, Keala Settle
Song stuck in your head: at the moment, none in particular??
Last movie: ‘National Treasure’ lmao, cause it was on TV
Last show: ‘Cells At Work’
When did I create this blog: back in like 2011-ish i think
What I post: stuff i like, stuff i think is important, art/writing refs sometimes
Last thing I googled: “saskatchewan”
Other blogs: they’re all RP blogs and idk if i wanna out how many i have lmaooo
Do I get asks: once in a blue moon
Why I chose my url: it’s just the same as my Steam name, which i picked at random cause i like dieselpunk and i like oranges lol
Following: 52
Followers: 301
Average hours of sleep: it depends, but usually around 9 hours
Lucky number: i don’t really have one
Instruments: used to play piano and french horn, but fell way out of practicing them in college and haven’t picked them up since ^^;;;;
What I’m wearing: t-shirt and socks that were 2 of my xmas gifts, and lounge pants
Dream job: maybe something in the novel editing sphere???
Dream trip: oh god, soooo many places; New Zealand, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, just to name a few
Favorite food: again, SO many, good lordy; pizza, curries of various kinds, ham, caesar salad, all kinds of pasta, and a lot more
Nationality: American
Favorite song(s): i’d end up listing way too many lol
Last book: ‘Warlock Holmes: The Finality Problem’
Top 3 fictional universes I wanna live in: hmmmm..... maybe BNHA, ATLA/Korra, and Transformers
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Take My Hand
Summary: Kuroo has a song stuck in his head. Or to be more precise, Daichi seems to have a song stuck in his head and Kuroo finds himself absolutely addicted to it. What does it mean? And what could it lead to?
A/n: This is for Kurodai Mid-Birthday Week 2019! I went with the song inspired prompt and it took me almost til the end of the fic to figure out which song I wanted, haha!
It is ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love With You- by Elvis Presley’. It’s an oldie but a goodie! :D
You can also read on AO3 at: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21741760
Enjoy! :D
Word Count: 2227
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“Hmm… hmmmm… hmmmmmmmm…,”
“Daichi?”
“Hmmhmm… hmmmhmmmm… hmmmmm…,”
“Sa’amura?”
Kuroo peeked his head around the corner of their shared apartment, glancing at his roommate who seemed to be lost in his own little world. He had to bite back a smile as he saw the way the former Karasuno captain continued to hum from his spot in front of the kitchen counter. Swaying back and forth as he mixed together something for dinner he seemed to have lost himself completely to a song in his head.
They had been living off campus for awhile now. It had seemed like a good idea. Both were still getting their feet under them and renting an apartment together and sharing expenses would definitely make things easier. Not to mention they knew one another from high school and a friendship had definitely grown from their rivalry all those years ago. Daichi was a bit more serious than Kuroo and helped to ground him a bit. Kuroo was bit more outgoing and helped to pull Sawamura from his shell. Their cohabitation was definitely beneficial to both parties, but Kuroo did wish that he’d had an inkling of what was going to happen so he could’ve prepared himself a bit more.
In their time living together they had grown used to each others little idiosyncrasies. This one in particular was one of Kuroo’s favorites not that he would ever say anything to Daichi. If he did, the man might stop altogether. There was just something so… endearing about catching the other man in these moments. He never sang… always just a little hummed song and only when he thought he was alone or he got caught up in a task.
However, it was always the same song.
It had started just a few weeks into them living together. Kuroo had been hidden away in his room attempting to get in some extra studying and before he’d known it the clock had read somewhere near one. Groaning he’d leaned back from his small desk, feeling his spine pop pleasantly and had decided to head into the kitchen to find a snack.
That was the first time he’d heard it.
Making his way quietly down the hallway he’d heard a quiet mumbling. No… not a mumble. A rumble? No. They hadn’t quite fit the sound either. As he drew closer to the little kitchen he’d noticed that a light had been left on and his brow furrowed. Quietly he’d glanced around the corner and seen Sawamura standing over by their small stove. He was stirring something in a saucepan that smelled suspiciously of chocolate, but what caught Kuroo’s attention more was that he finally registered the noise.
The man was humming.
It was quiet and soft, but a song nonetheless.
Kuroo felt something in his heart flutter as he heard it and he’d had to take a moment to find the breath he’d lost. Why had it effecting him so? He’d actually had to compose himself against the hallway wall before working up the nerve to make his entrance. Not wanting to startle the other he’d taken a deep breath and made his footsteps a little louder as he entered into the kitchen. As expected, the humming had instantly stopped, but Daichi didn’t look startled or embarrassed. Actually he’d turned his head and given Kuroo a little smile, making Kuroo wonder if he’d even known he’d been doing it in the first place.
“So… couldn’t sleep either?” Daichi had asked, opening one of their cupboards and pulling out another mug.
“No… studying got away from me… a bit… by three hours,” Kuroo had answered honestly, scratching the back of his neck with a sheepish grin, still feeling the way his heart beat a little faster in his chest.
“Well… lucky for you that I made a bit too much cocoa to help with my own sleeplessness. Here… I’ll pour you a cup as well.”
The warm feeling that infiltrated Kuroo’s chest upon hearing the soft humming only grew at the gesture. He’d happily accepted the drink and they’d spent another half hour chatting in the kitchen before they’d finally called it an evening when Daichi had almost nodded off at their kitchen table.
After that one evening, there had been a few more instances of Kuroo being caught off guard by that humming and each time his heart felt like it was going to flutter out of his chest.
It was around the fifth time that he realized that perhaps… possibly… he may be harboring a bit of a flame for the other man. There was no denying that when they were younger he’d had a crush on the guy. Who didn’t?! Or to be more specific… who couldn’t? He was strong, smart, charming… you’d have to be an idiot to not have had a crush on one Sawamura Daichi. However, Kuroo had simply pushed back his feelings. It was supposed to have been a highschool crush, nothing more. They were all getting ready to start their university careers and who would have time for something trivial like that? He’d been completely content to just continue a friendship nothing more.
But…
But….
Then he’d had to hear that soft, gentle humming that made his heart flutter, his stomach feel like there were butterflies inside and his knees feel like jelly… and now all those old feelings came rushing back like a tsunami.
And that had only been the start of his troubles. Ever since the realization had struck he’d found himself falling harder and harder for the man with each passing day. Did Daichi even realize what he was doing to him?!
Probably not. But every teasing comment, every home cooked meal, every time they shared a moment together only seemed to make the fondness in his heart grow for the former captain.
So… here he was, standing in the hallway, listening to Daichi humming that same song like always, his heart beating a mile a minute and savoring every second. He would happily stand there and listen to this song over and over again and to be fair… hadn’t he already been doing that? The only thing that ever bothered him… was that he had yet to be able to figure out what the song was.
How many times had he secretly heard it now? Fifteen? Fifty? Maybe somewhere in the middle, but each time he would go through the list of songs he knew and not once was he ever able to come up with the right tune or melody to match.
He’d even gone so far as to ask Bokuto and Kenma for help, but he himself had never really been able to carry a tune. When he’d tried to hum the song or sing it a bit, he’d gotten two different reactions.
Kenma had asked if he was being serious or if he was trying to purposefully sing off key.
Bokuto had laughed so hard he had literally cried, claiming that Kuroo sounded exactly like a cat yowling in an alleyway.
Needless to say he’d given up asking others for help after that.
Still, there was something kind of thrilling about it. A little mystery that Kuroo hoped to one day figure out or… that maybe one day Daichi would be willing to confide in him? But honestly, what were the chances of that? He didn’t know that Kuroo was harboring these feelings. Daichi probably had no idea that he hoped to one day have more than this friendship, but
“Wise men say… only fools rush in… But I can’t help… falling in love… with… you,”
Kuroo’s smile faltered as he heard the humming shift into Daichi’s smooth voice, though the other still kept his words soft. In an instant, the former Nekoma captains entire world focused completely onto that melody.
“Shall I stay? Would it be a sin? If I can’t help… falling in love… with… you.”
The words were so gentle that it made Kuroo’s heart ache as he listened to it. This was far more… personal than when he’d simply heard the melody hummed along in Daichi’s timbre. This… this was a song the man honestly felt.
But for who?
“Like a river flows, surely to the sea… darling so it goes… some things are meant to be.”
With every word, Kuroo found himself drawn more and more to Daichi. He needed to know just who was it that was making this… amazing man sing so openly from the heart? There was no way a song like this just gets stuck in a person’s head for weeks without there being a catalyst for it.
“Take my hand… take my whole life too. For I… can’t… help… falling in love… with… K-KUROO?!”
The spell was immediately broken as Kuroo realized that he hadn’t just been drawn to Daichi’s words on an emotional level. Apparently, much like a bed-headed moth to a flame, he’d made his way from his spot in the hallway to stand directly behind Daichi… managing to scare the hell out of the man and almost getting a wooden spoon to the face.
“Do I have to get a bell for you?! Oh my heart….,” Daichi panted, clutching his chest and trying to get his breath back. “Wh-what… are you doing sneaking up on me like that?”
Kuroo felt his ears heating up as he realized that he really, really didn’t have a good enough reason to be there. His original reason for even being in the hallway to begin with was completely lost to him so his mouth decided to try and help as his brain slowly short circuited.
“Who are you singing about?” he asked quietly, his brain finally kicking in to remind him that his mouth said stupid, stupid things when left to its own devices.
Daichi’s entire face turned a slightly unhealthy shade of crimson and he cleared his throat. “Oh… I… it was… I heard it on the radio today,” he said with a shrug, turning back to the food he’d been working on.
However, Kuroo found he really couldn’t let this go. Not now.
“If you just heard it today, Sa’amura… then why have you been humming it for weeks?” he asked, stepping a little closer to the man, enough to see that the crimson color was now moving to his ears.
“No I haven’t.”
“Yes you have.”
“Prove it.”
“What are you, five?”
“What are you, five?”
Kuroo actually snorted as his own question was mimicked back at him in a very non-Daichi way. Apparently he’d already had an effect on the man from them living together… and he was starting to wonder if perhaps in more ways than he’d dared to hope if the blush was anything to go by.
“Actually. I can prove it,” he said with a wider smile, watching as Daichi turned to him with a narrowed expression.
“Is that right?” he asked, folding his arms over his broad chest and all but daring Kuroo to continue.
This only made Kuroo grin and he nodded. “I can prove it because I’ve been trying to figure out what this song is for just as long. Since I first heard you humming it when making cocoa. I’ve asked Kenma… hell I’ve even asked Bo! I can name each and every time I’ve heard it because… each time it has always made me stop… and made my heart feel like it was going to flutter out of my chest,” he admitted, watching the way Daichi’s eyes widened before he quickly ducked his head to look at the floor.
Kuroo’s own expression softened and he stepped closer, carefully reaching forward and taking Daichi’s hand in his.
“Y-You don’t have to… you don’t… if you don’t feel the same I understand… I…,” Daichi seemed to be floundering for words now, as if his darkest secret was finally being exposed and Kuroo would take it and crush it in his hands before him.
Kuroo couldn’t take that. Couldn’t take seeing and hearing that worry and fear and knew he had to make sure Daichi understood… really understood.
“T-Take… my hand. Take my whole life too…,” he began, his words slow and careful and the notes a little offkey. “For I… can’t… help. Falling in love… with… you.”
Daichi’s eyes instantly glanced up as he sang, his eyes wide as if trying to decide if this was real or not. But just as Kuroo was beginning to wonder if he’d misstepped he watched as a smile began to spread over Daichi’s face and the shorter man brought his free hand up to stifle a laugh.
It was Kuroo’s turn to feel his cheeks going red and he cleared his throat. “S-Sorry. I… I’m not very good at singing. Ask Bo! He almost passed out he laughed so hard when I tried to get his help figuring it ou-,” His words were cut off as soft lips pressed against his own.
He remained frozen in that moment as Daichi leaned back, a warm smile on his face that Kuroo vowed he’d always work to keep there.
“I don’t know what Bo’s talking about,” Daichi murmured softly, giving Kuroo’s fingers a soft squeeze in his own as the former Nekoma captain realized that this man held his heart utterly and completely. “You sounded perfect to me.”
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Dragon Ball Z Movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon
Kind of wild that I made it to Movie 13. I want to call it the last movie, but it’s not. “Path to Power” was released several months later, and while Movie 13 used to be the final film under the Dragon Ball Z branding, it was eventually followed by “Battle of Gods” and “Resurrection F” in the 2010′s. Kind of wild how the 2010′s are nearly over. I was just getting used to it being the 2010′s.
I’m tempted to think of this movie as a finale in some sense, because it’s set after the Kid Buu fight, but DBZ doesn’t end there. There’s a three-episode epilogue set ten years after Kid Buu. Really, this movie is just the first in what became a long list of Dragon Ball projects set during that ten-year period.
This was, I think, the last DBZ material released by Funimation before they started re-dubbing things for the Orange Brick Sets and Dragon Ball Kai. I remember attending a Funimation panel at a 2006 comic convention where they talked about this movie, and some of the voice actors were kind of sad that this would be the last time they would portray these characters. At the time, it certainly seemed that way.
So this movie premiered in Japanese theaters on July 15, 1995, after Episode 270 of the anime, and before 271. So if you were a fan in Japan, you could watch Vegito and Super Buu in hot vore action, then go see this movie a few days later, and then watch Super Buu turn Vegito into candy, which strangely isn’t hot vore action.
The release chronology kind of surprises me, because I just got so used to thinking of this movie as an epilogue to Dragon Ball Z. It kind of is, in a way, because the Dragon Ball manga had already finished up in May 1995, which is probably why this movie lines up so well with post-Buu continuity. Everyone who’s supposed to be dead is dead, and everyone who’s supposed to be alive is alive.
This one is my second favorite movie after Fusion Reborn, so I kind of wanted to consider what makes it the second best. I mean, it’s a matter of taste, really, but I think it’s a question worth asking.
So let’s get down to business. This one opens with a kid holding a sword. He had an ocarina, but he dropped it, and he looks like he’s in some trouble.
Then a giant monster steps on him, and he’s dead. A mysterious voice declares that Earth is next. Ominous!
Unlike every other DBZ movie, this one doesn’t feature the opening theme music, just a title card, which looks bad-ass by the way.
And here’s the title of the movie, which in Japanese was “Dragon Fist Explosion!! If Goku Can't Do It, Who Will?”
In lieu of a theme song, the credits roll over the next couple minutes of the movie, which I’ve always found to be a really nice touch. All along, I’ve been admiring the looming sense of finality in DBZ, and this is a good example of what I’m talking about. It’s July 1995. The manga is over, which means the anime will be over soon, and as far as anyone knew, this would be the last movie, and it just sort of quietly proceeds with its business. Z stands for the end.
This scene is mostly just to establish the Gohan and Videl are fighting crime as a team now, with Gohan as Great Saiyaman and Videl as Great Saiyaman Mark 2. Not sure why Gohan stopped wearing a cape, or why he still has that bandana and sunglasses. He only switched to that because his Saiyaman helmet was illegal in the Tenkaichi Budokai, but that’s long over. Videl got a helmet, so why can’t he wear one to match?
The weird thing is that Videl’s costumed identity is public knowledge, but Gohan’s isn’t? They go back to class, and everyone just seems to know that Videl is still fighting crime like always, but as Great Saiyaman 2, or Great Saiyawoman, or whatever. But Gohan pretends he just went to the restroom, like he used to do in the Great Saiyaman Saga.
Weirder still, everyone knows Gohan is the Great Saiyaman. He unmasked at the tournament, after all. I thought this movie might have forgotten about that, except Sharpner even points it out when Gohan returns to class.
Incidentally, I’m not sure it makes sense for Gohan and Videl to still be in high school in this movie. It’s set after the Kid Buu fight, but they use the Dragon Balls in this movie, which means it must take place one year after they wish for Shenron to erase everyone’s knowledge of Majin Buu. So wouldn’t Gohan and Videl have graduated by this point? They’d both be about 18, wouldn’t they?
Then Videl gets another call on her radio watch, and the cops want the Saiyaman duo to deal with a strange old man who climbed Raenzel Tower. Videl seems to think that sort of job is beneath the Saiyamen, but they hang up on her, so she’s stuck.
So Gohan has to ask to use the restroom again, after he just got back. He says he ate bad frog meat, like that does anything but raise further questions. Erasa seems really confused, like she doesn’t know what’s going on. Also, it kind of looks like Sharpner, Erasa, Gohan, and Videl are all sitting apart from each other in this movie. Maybe there was some falling out?
So here’s Raenzel Tower. I don’t know that the scenery in this movie necessarily resembles any particular real world city, but this all feels a lot more like Japan than the world of DBZ. That’s been kind of a gradual trend since DBZ began. You’d see fewer and fewer animal-people in crowd shots, and by the Majin Buu arc you almost see none at all. Now that I think of it, Satan City looks and feels a lot more like a “real” city than West City ever used to. That car at the start of the movie had wheels, for example.
Anyway, this red dude has climbed up the tower and he’s threatening to jump, because he’s so despondent. Gohan tries to talk him down, but he won’t cooperate, and Videl gets fed up and dares him to jump.
So he does, much to Videl’s surprise, and then the guy complains that they almost didn’t save him in time.
For some reason, Videl is just irritated with this whole segment of the movie. I guess she really didn’t like getting called out for this mission, and she probably doesn’t appreciate this guy pretending to be a suicide jumper just to get their attention. Also, she really wants to get back to school for some reason. Maybe she just really digs whatever book they’re reading in English Lit.
Aw, look at that dog!
So this red dude is named Hoi, or Hoy, I forget which spelling Funimation went with, but the subs call him Hoi. Climbing the tower was just a ruse to get Gohan’s attention so that he could enlist his aid in freeing Tapion, the great hero who saved Planet Conuts in the South Galaxy 1000 years ago.
Gohan wants to meet the guy, but he’s stuck inside a music box and can’t get out. Hoi wants to release Tapion, because he claims that there’s going to be a terrible crisis on Earth. That’s why he’s spent the past thirty years searching for this music box, because he thinks it’s the only way to save the Earth.
To open the box, you just have to turn the handle to play its song, but the handle won’t turn, no matter how hard Gohan tries to force it. Tapion then explains that he wants to make a wish to Shenron to open the music box, and that’s why he came to Gohan, because he found out that Gohan’s circle has had dealings with the Dragon.
So Gohan takes the box to Bulma’s house, where she scans it with her... whatever all this stuff is. This kind of looks like the bridge of the Enterprise, now that I think about it. Anyway, she can’t make heads or tails of it, and Goku can’t force the handle either, so they decide to gather the Dragon Balls.
As they head out to search for the Balls, Hoi expresses gratitude for finding this kind of help on Earth, which prompts Goku to ask him if he’s not from this planet, and he kind of backpedals and acts like he lived here his whole life. Seems to me that if he already knows about the Planet Counuts in the South Galaxy, then he must not be from Earth at all. And even if he is an alien, why would he feel the need to hide that from Goku? He’s an alien too, after all, so I don’t think that would make him suspicious.
For some reason, Videl is now really excited to see Tapion now, becase she’s “so interested in heroes.” Did she decide Hoi’s story is on the level, or is she just warming up to the idea?
Krillin searches for a Dragon Ball in a carnival haunted house. This is his only real contribution to the film.
So in no, time, the gang finds a bunch of Dragon Balls. I’m not sure how they could split up like this, though, unless Bulma made multiple Dragon Radars.
The seventh ball is in a lion cage at the zoo, so Goku just jumps in and takes it, because Goku does whatever he wants. That lion’s lucky Bulma promised him shish kebabs later, or otherwise Goku would have just eaten this guy raw right in front of everyone.
I can’t figure out Videl’s outfit in this movie. From the back, it looks like shorts, but from the front it looks like a skirt.
Anyway, Shenron grants the wish and zaps the music box so hard that it shocks Hoi.
At first, it doesn’t seem to have had any effect, but then the handle starts to turn and it plays its song.
Okay, so this is a weird place to bring up continuity, but isn’t it odd how Shenron only granted the one wish? Dende upgraded him to grant two or three, depending on the wishes, so he should have at least asked if the gang wanted something else before he split.
Anyway, there’s a big light and sound spectacular while the box opens, but Hoi’s eyes glow red and he has this extra-sinister look on his face. Hmmmm...
Then Tapion comes out, and he’s kind of pissed that they released him. He draws his sword and demands to be put back in the box, but the box fell apart when it opened, so it’s impossible.
What I don’t understand is that, later in the movie, Tapion acts like he knows Hoi, which implies that he recognizes him on sight. If so, why doesn’t he just kill him here, while he has the chance? Or would killing him not accomplish anything?
Then he leaves in a huff. Trunks thinks Tapion is awesome, but everyone else is kind of puzzled, because he didn’t even thank them for getting him out of the box.
Later, Trunks and Goten track Tapion down to... a junkyard I guess? Goten isn’t sure this is a great idea, but Trunks wants to meet this guy and hear all his hero stories.
You know, this is really a beautiful shot. Watching this again, I guess the main difference between this and Fusion Reborn is that this movie is much more grounded. There were colorful shots like this in Movie 12, but they were mostly fantasy scenes of heaven or hell, or those extra-cartoony shots of the city. Movie 13 achieves similar beauty in the mundane. Instead of a mountain of needles surrounded by crystal jellybeans, we have a crane looming over a rusty storage tank.
Inside, Tapion’s just sort of brooding and freaking out. When Trunks peeks in on him, he’s kind of taken aback by what he sees. Maybe this isn’t a tank. I’m not sure what this place is. Maybe a derelict factory?
Hey, it’s a barbecue! Goku was a good boy for not eating those lions, so he gets shish kebab. Or whatever this is called. There’s like a cocktail weenie and a shrimp and a pickle on the thing.
Everyone wonders where Hoi went off to, and Master Roshi starts drunkenly blathering about how he’s harassing women, just like he’s about to start doing. Why are Roshi and Oolong even in this scene?
Gohan knows which way the wind is blowing, so he heroically puts himself in front of Videl so Roshi has to go through him to molest her. It looks like Roshi’s poking Gohan in the dick, though. Master Roshi belongs in jail.
He gets fresh with Bulma, so she smacks the shit out of him. Why does she keep inviting him to these things?
There’s a cute moment here where Goku notices the boys trying to swipe food off the grill, so he scoots some closer so they can reach it. Again, this is down-to-earth stuff you can’t get in Movie 12.
Okay, maybe this is a junkyard, what with all the wrecked cars here. In any case, Goten and Trunks are taking food to Tapion’s lair.
Tapion keeps telling everyone to get away from him, so Trunks leaves the food behind and promises to come back tomorrow with more.
So then there’s a monster attack, and wow, these are some great scenes. Again, very real-life-y, compared to early Dragon Ball material. The only distinct Dragon Ball imagery here are the Royal Military uniforms on the soliders. Otherwise, it would be very easy to mistake these for some other anime.
That’s not a bad thing, by any means, because I’d say all these realistic city scenes help make the characters stand out more.
So it’s not actually a monster, but half of a monster. The lower half, to be specific. Gohan wonders if this was the terrible crisis Hoi warned about earlier in the movie. I guess when you’ve lived Gohan’s life, you really can’t be sure if a creature like this is related to Hoi’s warning or not. It could be some completely different crisis starting up.
Videl wants to do their usual routine on the creature, but it attacks them during their pose. For some reason, Videl is super into the poses in this movie. Other than one episode of the TV series, this is the only time we see Great Saiyaman 2 in action, but I guess it makes sense she’d dive into the role. If she was eager to wear the costume, she must be up for the whole nine yards.
So Gohan fights this thing for a bit, and he discovers that it’s intangible most of the time, and it’s only solid during the moment when it’s attacking something else. I don’t think I ever noticed before that Gohan figures this out so early in the film.
So Gohan seems to do pretty well against the creature...
And Videl thinks he’s won, but Gohan’s not convinced.
The monster has a knack for vanishing and reappearing, kind of like Janemba, but without the pixelation effect. It’s more of a fog kind of thing. But then it seems to disappear for good, and when Gohan and Videl search for it, they find Tapion playing his ocarina.
They also spot Hoi lurking nearby, but I doubt they’d recognize him in his ninja getup.
Later, Trunks brings more food to Tapion’s hideout, but he hasn’t eaten the last meal he left, and Tapion still won’t talk to him. Later that night, Tapion falls asleep and drops his ocarina, and then he’s attacked by the top half of a monster...
It nearly kills him, but he manages to pick up his ocarina and play it, and this makes the monster fade away.
The next morning, Trunks finds the place shredded from the monster attack, but he’s relieved to see Tapion is still okay, so he leaves breakfast for him.
Then we get this scene where Videl and Bulma are washing dishes together, and she tells Videl how Trunks is sneaking food to Tapion, because he looks up to the guy like a big brother figure. Trunks is an only child, you see, and he envies Goten���s relationship with Gohan. Videl’s an only child herself, so she can relate.
What I don’t get here is when Bulma replies “But you’ve been so keyed up lately”, and Videl seems unnerved by this and says “It’s Trunks’ power that is keyed up!” I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Videl’s reaction almost resembles how she acted when Chi-Chi asked her if she had thought about marriage in Movie 12. Was Bulma trying to imply that Videl has a thing for Tapion, and it got mistranslated? I dunno.
On Trunks’ next visit to Tapion’s place, Hoi intrudes and tries to steal Tapion’s ocarina, but Trunks manages to get it instead. Hoi unmasks and asks Trunks to give him the flute, because Tapion is the danger he had been warning about earlier on. He claims that Tapion is connected to the monster that Gohan fought the other night.
You know, one thing that never really gets clarified in this movie is where all of this is happening. I would assume Tapion’s lair is in West City, since that’s where he escaped the music box, and why would he go to another town to find a junkyard? But Gohan and Videl always did their superhero stuff in Satan City, so I assume that’s where they fought the monster.
Anyway, I never understood why Hoi expected Trunks to trust him in this scene. Initially he told them all that Tapion was supposed to save them from a crisis, and now he’s accusing Tapion of being part of the problem.
Then again, I guess Trunks might be somewhat conflicted, since Tapion’s been acting very mysterious and moody this whole time. But Tapion asks Trunks to trust him, and after a tense moment, Trunks does. He gives Tapion the flute and Hoi leaves empty-handed. I guess you could say that Trunks went with his gut. From the beginning, Trunks saw something he liked about Tapion, and he decided to trust that first impression over Hoi’s exaggerated warnings.
Trunks prepares to leave before Tapion chews him out again, but instead Tapion invites him to stick around and join him for dinner. Awwww.
Later, Bulma informs Videl that Trunks has invited Tapion to spend the night at their home. Speaking of which, doesn’t Videl have her own home? Why is she spending all her time at Capsule Corp. these days?
So Trunks shows Tapion all of his toys, but a toy robot catches Tapion’s attention. It separates into two halves, sort of like that monster. Hmmmm...
Later, Tapion tells Trunks about his little brother, Minotia, but Trunks falls asleep during his story.
As he watches Trunks sleep, he can’t help but be reminded of Minotia, and just so there’s no misunderstanding, that was the kid we saw die in the opening scene of the movie.
So Tapion leaves Trunks to sleep, only to run into Bulma in the hallway. She’s wearing this shawl, or maybe it’s a blanket or something. It looks cute, is my point. It also looks very different from what we usually see Bulma wear.
She just looks a lot more like a regular person instead of some genius billionaire inventor. She kind of reminds me of the older Chi-Chi from the History of Trunks special. Anyway, she invites Tapion to stay at Capsule Corp. all the time, but he’s afraid of what might happen if he does.
She wants to know what he’s talking about, but it’s a long story, so she puts on a pot of coffee. I always thought it was tea, but that looks like a coffee pot to me. Also, there’s an entire fruit basket just in case anyone gets hungry in the middle of the night. Speaking of Vegeta, imagine if he’s in this room, just out of the frame, sullenly chewing on an orange while Tapion tells his gloomy origin story. Vegeta eats oranges with the peel because no one ever told him not to. Bulma can’t tell him now because it would be awkward after all this time.
All right, so here’s the deal. One thousand years ago, on the planet Conuts, they had this totem that absorbed all the evil will on the planet. I don’t know if that’s legit, or some kind of superstition, but the totem was this big stone sculpture. One day, this “sect of warlocks” from some other place showed up and turned the totem into “phantasm” named Hildegarn, or Hirudegarn. Then they turned it loose on Conuts’ population. Hoi was one of the warlocks.
Man, I love this shot of Bulma. This is really the difference between Movies 12 and 13. 13 has it’s share of fantasy stuff going on, but there’s a certain distance to it. In Movie 12, the characters are right in the thick of it all, but here, it’s an ancient tale being told to a regular lady over coffee. There’s a certain weight to all of this that none of the other movies really achieve. For one thing, Bulma now realizes that she was deceived by Hoi, and their fun afternoon of summoning Shenron to meet a hero was actually part of Hoi’s plot to destroy their world. So if things go badly from here, she’s at least partly responsible for whatever happens next. You don’t get that complexity in the earlier movies.
Conuts was able to defeat Hirudegarn eventually, thanks to a pair of swords and flutes that were empowered by “God” to control the totem. I think the idea is that the Kami of Planet Conuts was in charge of this, sort of like how Dende, the Kami of Earth, oversees the Dragon Balls. But they might actually mean a higher power besides a DBZ-style Kami.
Anyway, Tapion and Miotia played the ocarinas, which had the ability to immboilize Hirudegarn, and while they did that, a priest cut the monster in half with one of the swords. The subs suggest that there’s only one special sword involved here, but Tapion and Minotia are both equipped with them, so I think that means there are two. Maybe Minotia’s is just a regular sword.
Here’s the priest, by the way. I kind of like his design better than Tapions? Anyway.
So that put an end to Hirudegarn, right? Well, not quite. I guess they couldn’t just kill the thing, so they did the next best thing and sealed each half of the phantasm in Tapion and Minotia. Tapion got the top half, and Minotia got the legs. But even that wasn’t good enough, because the warlocks kept trying to attack the brothers to take back Hirudegarn.
So they ended up getting sealed inside music boxes. I think that may be the Kami of Conuts there in the background. The one with the multicolored halo. As we’ve seen, these must be special music boxes, since Goku couldn’t even turn the handle on one.
Then they shot the music boxes into space, just to make sure they would be as far apart from one another as possible. And that’s how Tapion ended up on Earth, and why Hoi came to Earth. He told Dragon Team that he wanted to free Tapion to save the universe, but he actually wanted to get Tapion out of the box so that he could get the top half of Hirudegarn out of Tapion.
Aw, man this shot from the aquarium is awesome. This really is a great movie. I think it’s a matter of taste. Critics would probably complain that the battle at the end is kind of short and disconnected from the rest of the story, but this movie is telling a quieter, more emotional story. I think Movie 12 is better, because I prefer the louder, goofier tone it has, but it really is a matter of personal taste.
Anyway, it’s a safe bet what happened to Minotia. At some point, Hoi tracked him down, managed to release the lower half of Hirudegarn, and used that to kill Minotia, as we saw in the beginning.
So it’s up to Tapion now to make certain Hoi can’t gain control of both halves, or else Hirudegarn will destroy everything. And as we’ve seen, he can’t go to sleep, or the monster will emerge from his body. That worries Bulma a great deal, so she offers to build him a chamber to serve as a replacement for the music box. At least, she thinks she can do it, since she still has the pieces from before, and she believes if she analyzes them that she can whip up a substitute.
I like that about this movie. Bulma hears out this poor kid’s story, and she’s like “Well, I’ll build you a box that’ll let you sleep!” and it won’t even take her very long. Tapion’s supposed to be this magical hero, but Bulma has a bit of that same aura herself.
All she asks in return is that he spend some quality time with her son, and he’s happy to do that. Also, Majin Buu’s dog is here for some reason. At least, I think that’s Bee.
Then she steps outside to tell them it’s ready, and she’s still in her pajamas, so I think this means she was up all night working on this thing. Bulma’s awesome.
So this thing looks ridiculous, and I have no idea how it’s supposed to work, but I guess the idea is that she reverse engineered whatever mojo the original music box had, minus the part where a grown man could fit inside it. Why did she bother adding the gold trim to the sides? Because Bulma, that’s why.
Meanwhile, the lower half of Hirudegarn is attacking somewhere else, and I guess his tail can open up to reveal dozens of tentacles.
I guess this is how Hirudegarn feeds? It’s pretty gross. It suddenly occurred to me to search for Hirudegarn fics on AO3, but I’m pretty sure I don’t wanna know.
Then Tapion gets some sort of psychic feedback, maybe? I’m not clear on what’s going on, exactly, but it blows up the bedroom Bulma built for him. So did it just never work to begin with, or is Hirudegarn becoming powerful enough to overload it somehow?
So Bulma calls in Goku, Gohan, and Goten. Goku acts like he’s searching for clues, but let’s be real here, he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He only picked up that gear because he thought it was made of chocolate.
Then Tapion stumbles back into the house, and he explains that the upper half got loose again, and he’s having more trouble controlling it. He somehow got it back inside his body, but he asks the others to kill him before it gets out again. Bulma offers to build a sturdier room for him, but he seems to think we’re past that.
Then Hoi shows up with the lower half of Hirudegarn, and they attack. Trunks gives Tapion the ocarina, but it doesn’t work this time.
I don’t think this ever really gets explained properly. Is Hirudgarn getting too strong to contain, or is Tapion’s power over him weakening? Or is this because Hoi is doing something to help get Hirudegarn loose? Or is it because Minotia is dead?
Anyway, now Hirudegarn is finally reunited, and Hoi is convinced that he’s now become invincible. In the dub, Hoi explains that he’s the sole survivor of a species called the Kashvar, who believe themselves superior to all other forms of life. The subs never get into this, but it’s a bit of lore that I enjoy.
Hoi’s a pretty cool bad guy. I like how he suckered all the good guys. I like how he resembles Babidi but not too closely. And I like his naughty red color.
So there’s not much Tapion can do from here, so Trunks moves him to a safe distance an tells him to let them handle things from here. Magic ocarinas and music boxes worked pretty well for a while, but now it’s time to do this the DBZ way, which means throwing down, mang.
There’s a trailer for Movie 13 that was included in the video file I downloaded when I first watched the fansub of this movie. In it, Masako Nozawa as Goku explains the premise of the movie, and how there’s this monster who’s going to wreck the world, and then she screams “I WON’T LET ANYONE DESTROY THE EARTH!” It’s awesome.
So there’s a couple of issues with this fight. First, the elephant in the room is that Gohan’s the strongest guy in the movie, but Goku’s the one who makes the big save at the end. The movie does a decent job working around this, but that leads into the second problem....
Which is that nobody can actually touch Hirudegarn now that he’s reunited. I guess he’s stronger and faster than he was when Gohan fought the legs, so even though Gohan knows he can only hit him while Hirudegarn is attacking, it’s a lot harder to pull that off this time. But what you end up with is a lot of footage of the Saiyans punching trails of mist, then getting clobbered. It’s good for building suspense, but it’s not very inspired compared to some other movie fights. Movie 8 was pretty one-sided, but at least the gang could hit Broly. It just never hurt him, which indicated how tough he is.
At one point, Hirudegarn turns solid so he can grab Gohan, but this sets him up for an attack by Vegeta, who finally shows up in this scene to bawl out Hirudegarn for attacking his house.
But he gets the same treatment as everyone else. Hirudegarn flings him into a nearby office building, and Vegeta expends the rest of his power just shielding himself and the bystanders from Hirudegarn’s fiery breath.
Goku tries to help him, and he just gets clobbered for his trouble.
So Goten and Trunks try to turn the tide with fusion, and for a hot minute, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks seems to have an edge.
After a volley of ki blasts, it looks like Hirudegarn just keels over and dies. Oh, hey, that’s the same tower Hoi was climbing on when he first showed up. So I guess this whole movie takes place in West City? Only we saw Gohan and Videl in Orange Star High. Ah well.
So it looks like Hirudegarn is dead or dying, but...
It turns out he was just molting. Did Tapion have any idea that he could do this? I wonder.
So Gotenks is the first to fall. One swat from Big H knocks him down to the ground so hard that he de-fuses on the first bounce.
Gohan and Videl are next. I’m not sure why this thing keeps trying to crush Gohan, unless it’s because he’s the strongest one in the group. Maybe that was their way of acknowledging this.
So that leaves Goku to hold the line on his own, but he doesn’t last much longer. Just when it looks like there’s no one to defend West City...
Tapion returns with his ocarina. He hasn’t exactly had a winning track record with this lately, but it’s the only card he has to play, so he’s giving it all he’s got.
With a herculean effort, Tapion manages to seal all of Hirudegarn into his own body. Trunks runs over to congratulate him...
... but this was only a temporary measure. Tapion hasn’t beaten Hirudegarn. He’s just holding him for a moment, long enough for someone to kill him before Hirudegarn can escape again. And since Trunks is the only one on his feet, its up to him.
It’s an impossible choice. Trunks is just a boy. This is too much for a kid like him, but there’s no other way. If he doesn’t act now, Hirudegarn will escape, and there’ll be no way to stop him. That’d be hard enough, but he loves Tapion like the older brother he never had. It’s too cruel that he should have to do this. And yet, what else can he do?
But before Trunks can decide, Hirudegarn busts loose, and the ocarina breaks. So Tapion won’t be able to try that stunt again. I’m not sure he’d be able to stand the strain even if he could try again. Hirudegarn is just too powerful like this.
So yeah, it looks like a total shut-out for Hoi. Yessir, looking pretty rosy for the last Kashvar...
OH SHI--
HAHAHAHAHA HOI’S DEAD! I love this part! Did Hoi ever really have any control over Hirudegarn? I mean, he wasn’t exactly telling him to do anything he wouldn’t have been doing anyway. Nice knowin’ ya, you sorry bastard.
But everyone else is still screed. Hoi couldn’t conrol Hirudegarn and Tapion can’t contain him and the Z-Fighters can’t beat him, so what does that leave. Yeah, Trunks didn’t have to kill Tapion, but it looks like he’s going to die here no matter what. Z stands for the end.
But not yet.
Yeah, now I see why I had so much trouble telling what city this was. It’s not West City or Satan City. Hirudegarn needs to update his GPS, because he somehow ended up taking I-65 straight into Goku Town, population: get wrecked, son.
Hirudegarn goes to attack Goku, but before he can do that, Trunks jumps in and chops off his tail with Tapion’s sword. Yeah!
That got him good, but Goku wants Trunks to stay out of this one. Gohan tries to tell Goku that Hirudegarn has a weakness, but Goku’s already figured it out. He needs to goad Hirudegarn into attacking, and then use that moment to hit him with everything he’s got.
Fortunately, Hirudegarn is happy to oblige, and he starts punching Goku, while Goku doesn’t do much about it. He just no-sells each blow, taunting Hirudegarn to try again.
Maybe this fight’s better than I gave it credit for. The mistake the Z-Fighters made earlier was that they kept trying to strike Hirudegarn, which only left them wide open to his counterattacks. The key here is to stay on the defensive, and lull Hirudegarn into remaining solid.
Of course, you’ve still got to be sturdy enough to weather this kind of storm, but that’s why Goku’s using Super Saiyan 3. Gohan could have done this himself, but he got beaten up before he could come up with this strategy. Goku can make it work, but he can’t stay in this form for very long, so he probably only has one shot at this.
But if he doesn’t do it, who will?!
Hirudegarn goes for one more punch...
But this time Goku jumps over his fist and...
DRAGON FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST!
AAAAAAAGH! His punch exploded!
And it turned into Shenron this is nuts!
Hirudegarn knows he’s done fucked up now!
Yeah, say goodbye to your kidneys, asshole! You thought you could just step on Capsule Corp.! That’s where Goku gets his shish kebab, idiot! There’s gonna be hell to pay now.
OH YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DONE? Guess what, now the ki dragon that shot through you is gonna wrap around you and strangle you to death!
Also, it explodes again, so yeah, that’s the end of Hirudegarn.
Victory for Goku! And the moral of the story is, don’t send a flute to do an exploding punch dragon fist’s job.
Later, the good guys reassure Tapion that they’ll wish all of Hirudegarn’s victims back with the Dragon Balls. Well yeah, but it’ll be months before they can make another wish, so that’s kind of awkward.
As for Tapion, Bulma has apparently built her own version of the time machine used by Future Trunks in the Androids Saga. Either that, or she refurbished the duplicate time machine Cell used to arrive in this timeline. This movie doesn’t play too well with Dragon Ball Super continuity, but fuck the Zamasu arc, it was stupid and this movie rules.
So I guess Tapion’s going to go back in time to when everyone he knew and loved was still alive on Conuts. I think the dub indicated that he was going to prevent Minotia’s death somehow, but I’m not sure how that would work. Anyway, Trunks is sorry to see him go, but Bulma says they can just use the time machine to visit him. Wait, so does she mean she has a second time machine? Becase I don’t think they’re getting this one back.
Before he departs, Tapion gives Trunks his sword, saying he won’t be needing it anymore. So that’s pretty cool.
And as the time machine fades away, Trunks watches it go with his new sword on his back, and the credits roll...
... with scenes of Future Trunks in action. Clearly, Toei wanted to connect these two versions of Trunks. I think a lot of fans have mistakenly assumed that this movie is trying to suggest that this is the origin story for Future Trunks’ sword. Maybe Future Trunks met some alternate version of Tapion, but I think this story was just making the point that Kid Trunks would admire a hero who resembled Future Trunks in a lot of ways, including the sword and the stoic, selfless personality.
But yeah, that’s Movie 13. It’s not as flashy as Movie 12, but it never comes close to being dull, and the Super Dragon Fist at the end is the cherry on top.
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Plus, you’ve got the excellent ending theme, “Ore Ga Yaranakya Dare Ga Yaru” by Hironobu Kageyama.
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21 Questions
I was tagged by: @bts-poetry, @hobisgorgeousass, and @bloodpotato
I’m sorry I’m late with this.
1) Nicknames?: UwU, Miss UwU, Liv, Miss Liv, Livvy, ... Mom, Liz, Yolonda (don’t ask, theres a super long and awkward story behind this), Golden Retriever
2) Zodiac?: Virgo
3) Height?: ... 5′1″ ... on a good day
4) Hogwarts House?: Ravenclaw
5) Last Thing You Googled?: “Gamma Function” I’m throwing this in for pazzazz and fun, but this is what I last searched for on Pinterest: “Yeontan”
6) Favorite Musicians?: VIXX, BTS, Dreamcatcher, Trans Siberian Orchestra, ONE OK ROCK, Jethro Tull, Kim Junsu, RED, MCR, Adele, 2CELLO, Pentatonix, Skillet, Poets of the Fall... I like a lot and this isn’t even half of it. It’s just what immediately came to mind.
7) Song Stuck in Your Head?:... Bang Bang Bang by Big Bang I have a mini crisis everytime I hear T.O.P. rap in that some for some reason.
8) Following?: 83
9) Followers?: 1000 +
10) Do You Get Asks?: Sometimes. Though not a whole lot. A lot of them are personal so more times than not I reply privately.
11) Amount of Sleep?: Fam this is always changing. Probably average though about 6 hours?
12) What Are You Wearing?: Dark grey capris, light grey knit shirt. I just really like grey ok.
13) Dream Job?: A mom. Though ironically that’s more out of reach than not for me. So, I’ll settle for statistician at a video game company.
14) Dream Trip?: Ooof. I just want to travel the world, man. I was to go back to Japan, go to Korea, China, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, Morocco, Norway, Scotland, Germany, Romania, Portugal, Austria, Canada, Peru, Antartica, all 50 states of the US. This was just stream of thought, there’s probably more than this.
15) Instruments?: Sorry, no instrumental ability what so ever.
16) Languages?: English, Mathematics, learning Python and Korean (I can read Hangul pretty well, though and have a basic understanding of grammar, its more of a matter of practice that I’m missing.)
17) 10 Favorite Songs as of Right Now?: No particular order, there’s way more, but here’s the most relevant.
Light Up the Darkness/Light Me Up by VIXX
This is Me from The Greatest Showman
Under Cover by A.C.E.
Deja Vu by Dreamcatcher
With Me by VIXX (this is something to listen alone, fair warning)
Boys by the amazing Lizzo
Boy In Luv by BTS
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo by Trans Siberian Orchestra
Silent Night by Pentatonix
Der Letzte Tanz/The Last Dance performed by Kim Junsu in Elisabeth (Don’t judge I was raised on German musicals)
18) If You Were an Animal, What Would You Be?: Red Panda
19) Favorite Food?: Hmmmm... I guess peppermint ice cream? Or soft boiled eggs and toast.
20) Random Fact?: My dog is a skye terrier. They are one of the rarest dog breeds in the world at just a few thousand.
21) What is Your Aesthetic?: Fam... I don’t got one. It’s different for everything. Like for school, everything is just highlighter color coordinated. For clothes, I got hobo or vintage. It really just depends.
I know some of y'all have probably already been tagged but I’m tagging you again: @countrysundae @ropeseok @darknytemare @bangtans-salty-sac-snacc @writing-in-ivory @btsracket @abangtanfangirl @minyoonkeeks
I’ve probably forgotten someone, but this is opened up to everyone!
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tag game - answer these 17 questions, tag 21(ish) blogs!
I was tagged by @practicalacademia
name: Mira!
star sign: i’m the least Scorpio-Scorpio that you’ll ever meet
height: 5'7" and a half (i’m still growing tho lol)
last film i watched: uhhhh idk i don’t watch movies very often
favorite musicians: Radical face, the oh hellos, lights , mother mother
song stuck in my head at the moment: this is one of the very rare moments there isn’t a song stuck in my head
other blogs: n/a
do i get asks: i’ve gotten like one ask, which considering I made this blog last week is pretty good
blogs following: i have six (6) whole followers and i follow 40 blogs (like i said, I made this blog last week lol)
wearing: I’m currently wearing a horizontaly strippped rainbow sweater with a black skirt and black leggings!
dream job: uh idk what i want to do in terms of what i actually want to do, but in terms of having a fun time i’d like to run a candy store
dream trip: nowhere in particular, but I’d like to travel somewhere with good hiking trails and good little cafes and restaurants. Wherever I went, i’d want it to be with friends.
play instruments: hmmmm nope haha
languages: I can barely get by with English some days, huge respect for people who speak more than one!
favorite food: any form of Latin American food!
favorite song: oooh tough one. I’d have to say “Times are hard for dreamers” from the amelie musical is my current fave.
random fact: I’m partially deaf and wear hearing aids!
tags: I don’t really know enough people well so far, so anyone who sees this feel free to consider this me tagging you lol
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Answer some questions and tag some people.
Tagged by: @distant-rose, @onceuponaprincessworld, and @welllpthisishappening. Thanks for your patience, ladies - sorry to leave you waiting!
Nickname: My parents call me Devonshire, or Shire, or Shireness (thus the blog name!), but really, my name doesn’t lend itself well to nicknames. Pity, that.
Last movie I saw: A friend and I went to see Aquaman last week!
Favorite musicians: The Struts, Ingrid Michaelson, Frank Turner, The Killers, Fitz and the Tantrums, the Dixie Chicks... I’m probably forgetting something.
Song stuck in my head: Ugh, whatever the hell that is playing in the background of the Peloton commercial. It’s driving me fucking crazy.
Do I get asks: Not a lot? Every so often I get a sweet nonnie who drops by to say sweet things, and I love those, but that’s not a regular thing. Also @katie-dub dropping by to say nice things.
Other blogs: I’ve got my library stories blog, but now that I’m not working there, it’s kind of dropped off to just random things I remember every so often. Still, message me if you want the name.
Amount of sleep: Preferably 7 hours. That’s my cranky threshold.
Lucky number: 8
What I’m wearing: Blue pajama pants, blue pajama shirt, purple fleece jacket.
Dream job: I’d love to be working in collections management for a museum in a big city somewhere. I honestly don’t have my heart set on any particular one.
Dream trip: Venice or Egypt. Or back to Amsterdam. I’ve been really lucky to travel a lot, so my remaining list is pretty short.
Favorite food: It would be a pasta dish of some kind, but I honestly can’t pick just one. I made spaghetti carbonara the other night; that was pretty good.
Play any instruments: I can play the piano and the flute, but haven’t played either in several years.
Favorite song: Hmmmm..... “Sort Of”, by Ingrid Michaelson. “My love’s too big for you my love...”
Random fact: Drunk!Devon likes to teach people how to dance. Like, how to waltz. And polka. Especially if there’s cute guys at the party. It’s my terrible version of flirting. I like to think I’ve gotten pretty good at it... “So you like baseball, right? Ok, so like, when you want to catch a ground ball and you kinda shuffle over to where it’s going? We’re going to do that, but upright. Shuffle twice to the left, and twice to the right...”
Describe yourself as aesthetic things: the old card catalog cabinets, homemade bread, red high heels, gallery walls, stacks of yellow legal pads, piles of yarn balls, city skyline shots, rows of theater seats, and a square in the middle that says UFFDA in block letters.
Tagging: @snidgetsafan, @thejollyroger-writer, @courtorderedcake, @mythologicalmango, @aerica13, @captainsjedi, @let-it-raines, @profdanglaisstuff, @revanmeetra87
#questions meme#thanks for tagging me!#those instructions were for the polka btw#my waltz instructions involve telling them that our toes are connected by strings#this goes exactly as well as you'd imagine
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