#AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FIRST EPISODE IS HIS FUCKING BACKSTORY
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god I hate how brutal pipe murder is actually becoming funny to me now. ā¦iāve hit rock bottom. or ascended. I donāt knowā¦
#tma#the magnus archives#mag 80#needless to say i have still yet to get over the season 2 finale#if i ever have to do a scene analysis of my choice for school again#brutal pipe murder will definitely be it#because memes aside itās genuinely a masterclass of storytelling#oh godā¦iām so not ready for season 3#i listened to the trailer and read the description for mag 81ā¦.WHAT?!#DAISYāS MORE IMPORTANT#JONāS ON THE RUN AND NOT HEAD ARCHIVIST ANYMORE#THE FUCKING CALLIOPE?! THE STRANGER?!#ELIAS ACTUALLY WON#AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FIRST EPISODE IS HIS FUCKING BACKSTORY#I CANāT HANDLE THAT RIGHT NOW PLEASE#anyways time to mark february 16th on my calendar#also elias would be best friends with hatsune miku#if you know you know
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ok so i watched the new avatar show (yes obviously thats what my post earlier was about, duh,i wanted to watch it before sharing my thoughts) and it was. iight.
#spoilers ig#there were things i liked that it did vs the show. theres things i didn't like that they removed#like. aang doesnt actually learn waterbending at all#so the climax of the first chapter feels really unearned?#and i am getting barely any passion from kataras character#sokkas fine ig- not nearly as fun and sarcastic as i'd want and i rly wish they didn't take out his sexism arc bc part of what makes his#character funny is him doing something sexist and immediately getting fucked over for it lol. but ig they could always do that in other way#like with the whole 'the universe loves proving me wrong doesnt it' things hes got going on sdhbfshvg#otherwise i didn't mind the fusing of episodes much- aside from skipping aang and katara bending with eachother which i think is#part of their relationship developing. so any romance later on is gonna feel a bit unearned too.......#i dont like the whole koh thing? idk that was weird. but it was cool he saw gyatzo in the spirit world.#i also didn't mind the backstories happening in the beginning very much. though ig it would be better to have them show up later#but the problem is i think everyones expecting this to be beat for beat the same thing as the cartoon. which makes no sense i mean#if you want the cartoon. watch the cartoon. lmao. either way it felt kinda like a play version of the movie- like a good play but def#a play the way they fused stories to cut down on time. i think ppl want the avatar world to be expanded but this isnt what this is gonna#be. ya gotta read the comics for that. this is clearly gonna be more or less a bit more of a dramatic remake. and i can tell the characters#really get more comfortable in their roles as the episodes go on. i do wish that they'd stretched the episodes out more tbh.#also they never really concluded the whole thing with hai bei??? which made me :/#but i liked zukos character and i like aangs character. zhao is unhinged even more some how#i didn't like iroh as much in the beginning bc he wasnt as warm and welcoming as he was in the show#but since they seem to be going for a slightly more serious tone i think they wanted to make zukos family even more uptight#and strict n all.#also sidenote but jeez azula's actor has such a lil baby face. not that there's anything wrong with that i think it's cute but its#not how I imagine azulas live action character looking idk. i think the girl playing ty lee looks more like azula personally :0#not a huge fan of the cgi for appa and momo but it could be way worse. yue's hair is stupidly obviously a wig-#im saying it was literally just a play version of the series. cut down and more dramatic. but they added their own original tweaks#to it too which was nice.#the whole thing with suki and sokka though was. hmm. she's really thirsty abt him huh#i also cant get over how much sokkas character just like. looks like a cartoon character vs everyone else who look like real ppl sdjhbfgshf#i like how zuko and aang talked more. i think everyones lines were a bit flat but im blaming that on them being children mostly
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Haha yeahhhhh no so it exploded. Because what else would you expect. Not the worst situation for the Draxums though, they still managed to get the oozesquitos, and they were gonna release them anyway. Still, gonna be annoying to clean up the mess....
And also everyone managed to remain unharmed from the blast..... hold on though are we not forgetting anyone?
In all the chaos Donnie, April and Mayhem managed to regroup and they understandibly teleport out of there as soon as possible because fuck this whole situation. So YAY they managed to escape! :D But also aw man Long Lost Little Brother ran off... :(
(and don't worry about Huginn and Muninn they're alive!..... probably)
And GODDAM that's the final part! Finally got episode one of the AU over and done with yippee! :D
Of course, we do still have some plotpoints left we need to adress. For example, dunno if anyone has thought about this, but Donnie never got to explore Draxum's fancy mystic weapon room in this version fo events, which means he never got that mystic crystal! And if he doesn't get that crystal, then how is he gonna get the ability to detect mystic energy, I wonder š¤š¤š¤
Also, Donnie's only gotten one side of his Secret Backstory and he's gotta go get some answers from Splinter, but either way we'll get to all of that in future updates!
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Family Secrets part 1 (follow up comic) ->
Mini epilogue lol:
#girl this has taken like 3 months lmaooo#don't get me wrong i had fun with this comic but also FREEDOM#tiz sep au#tizel art#my art#digital art#teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#rottmnt#rottmnt au#rottmnt fanart#donnie#raph#leo#mikey#baron draxum#april o'neil#rottmnt huginn#rottmnt muninn#rottmnt splinter#rottmnt mayhem
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dear future husband (m) | lee heeseung.
i can't say i do without you.
PREVIEW. you always get what you want, spoiled with the love of everyone around you. and it's all innocent love, at least that's what everyone thinks. it comes with much surprise therefore, when heeseung makes a move on you. thirteen long years of being in the brother zone having made him utterly clueless that if heās going to date you he has to pass through your actual brothers first. and he knows how scary they can be. especially since they are known to have a sister complex and heās been the third scary one with them, numerous times before.
OR WHERE, bimbo heeseung has no idea what the fuck to do with his feelings for you who are oblivious as fuck and your brothers who are overprotective as fuck.
MEET THE CAST. insanely love struck lee heeseung with his spoiled rich girl!reader ft. yeonjun, soobin, the rest of txt and the rest of enhypen. NSFW VERSION: BRAT TAMER heeseung with his BRAT girl.
GENRE & WARNING(S). social media!au + written chapters, SMUT MDNI!!! in the form of written chapters later on in the series, fluff, humor & crack, minimal angst, lots and i mean lots and lots of swearing and dirty jokes and everything nsfw. college!au, nonidol!au, neighbors to lovers!au, childhood friends to lovers!au. heavy on sister complex! rest other warnings will be stated in respective chapters.
UPDATE SCHEDULE. discontinued.
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ź¢¾ź£ profiles, character introductions & the groupchats. ( PLAYLIST ) theme song, code blue!
YEONIE NOTES. incase someone wonders if this is incest, no itās not, they are not related by blood. sister complex. a state of strong attachment and obsession to sisters, always having them as their first priority. FIC ASKS: ask about the characters!
EPISODES rolling ..
000. prologue: the backstory.
001. arranged date gone wrong
002. it's a shame yn wants you
003. all good when all delusional
004. can you afford her a McLaren? TWT + WRITTEN ( 2.4k )
005. heeseung finallyā [REDACTED]!
006. you went as my arm candy
DISCONTINUED!
i think its obvious enough why, the lack of response and enthusiasm from readers has made lose all motivation to continue this any further. i was so excited to revamp it but it seems it isn't the case for the other side. feedbacks are what keep most if not all writers going and absence of it for this one has just rid me of all interest i had to share it with you all. thank you to those who read it, and i apologize those who were looking forward to read it. this is it. over and done, with this kind of support i'm never doing a series on here again.
FIRST TAGLIST @s00buwu @lilyuwon @pockyyasii @nctislifue @shawnyle @enhastolemyheart @aaa-sia @criminalyun @oddracha @satan-223 @diorsyun @hooniehon @fakeuwus @caramelcandescence @intromortal @kookify @yutasberryy @sumzysworld @nikiswifiee @shuichi-sama @primroselover @rayofsunshineeee @aishigrey @yjwluvs @soraokkotsu @nyfwyeonjun @srhnyx @trashx678 @wondipity @winuvs @hoondiors @niniissus @firstclassjaylee @biancaness @enhaz1 @sophi-ee @un06 @heelariously @d-earlog @pharaways @ethelia @eneiyri @secretbarbariangardener @seochangbinnnnnnnnnnn @microwavedstrawberr1es @randomanothercreature @thatsoraya @graythecoffeebean @rikibun @jaeyungxrl @mxxnintheskyreblogs
#( š ) šššš« šš®šš®š«š š”š®š¬ššš§š!#enhypen imagines#enhypen smut#PROFILES WILL BE OUT TOMORROW!!#k-labels#enhypen smau#enhypen heeseung smut#heeseung smut#enhypen social media au#enhypen heeseung imagines#heeseung imagines#enhypen social au#enhypen socmed au#enhypen hard hours#enhypen hard thoughts
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Iām not sure if this is a hot take or not but oh my god in terms of character depth the show has completely eclipsed the original books. obviously lestat was always an insanely fleshed out character because anne rice was obsessed with him but tbh armand, daniel and louis have been given more depth in this 5 episode run then in what 14 books of the vampire chronicles? i mean armand was already a fascinating character to begin with and assad takes what heās given from the source material and just creates a whole new being with his performance!! plus the additions to his backstory and relationship with louis add a lot i think. but daniel and louis in the source material? they had none of the original armand potential! louis was a white plantation owner.! plus he was incredibly whiney and i always found him flat and kind of two dimensional in the books. how the writers and jacob anderson managed to create the perfect horrific anomaly that is our louis from thatā¦? fucking astounding to me. and daniel??? book daniel is a fine character, sure. but the layers the show added by letting daniel move on from his first encounter and grow into eric! daniel add so much to his charcter!! ITS THE WAY OLD AND YOUNG DANIEL CONTRAST EACHOTHER COMPLETELY AS INTERVIEWERS YET ARE STILL COMPLETE EMOTIONAL MIRRORS OF EACHOTHER. ITS THE WAY THE DYNAMIC BETWEEN THE VAMPIRES AND 70ās AND PRESENT DANIEL SEEM LIKE OPPOSITES AT FIRST BUT GRADUALLY WE SEE ITS BEEN THE SAME BETWEEN THEM THE WHOLE TIMS. DANIEL IS STILL TERRIFIED AND DANIEL IS STILL BRAVE DESPITE IT. HEāS STILL FUCKING SIMULTANEOUSLY ļæ¼PRISONER AND JUDGE. heās the idealistic boy high off his mind and heās the cynical dying old man and heās both and heās neither. (can you tell daniel molloy is the most fascinating and tragic character in this show) ITS SUCH A FUCKING FANTASTIC PARALLEL. anyway i love you amc iwtv. you are doing such a good fucking job. also thank you eric. i love you eric. your performance both haunts and captivates me eric.
#can you tell i wrote this drunk as a skunk#no beta we die like men#ive been telking strangers at the club about devils minion and they say ok#interview with the vampire#iwtv#iwtv s2#louis de pointe du lac#lestat de lioncourt#armand#daniel molloy#amc iwtv
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Do you ever just sit there, thinking about Logan and Wade and them together and what it means?
Thinking about why they're so big right now. Why it took THIS version of them to finally get that formula right?
Because it wasn't like they hadn't interacted in previous universes. It wasn't like they hadn't had crossover comics or episodes where they interacted in animated series of other Marvel characters. It wasn't like this was the FIRST time they'd been together, like it was a new concept.
They'd interacted before. They have a whole backstory together, both Weapon X experiments gone wrong (and right, in a fucked up way). They both had similarities. They both put on a metaphorical mask to hide their emotions, to keep others from seeing how desperately they needed to feel human connection. They both have low self-esteem and low expectations. They both were the ones people turned to when they needed to get the gritty, morally grey, dirty work done that nobody needed to do.
They always had a kinship. In some of the comics, it caused them to become friends. To reach a sort of mutual understanding.
But now?
It took THIS version of Loganāexhausted and grieving and borderline suicidal, closed off from the worldāand THIS Wadeādesperate and aching to matter like it'd eat him wholeāfor them to finally come together into something greater. Into not just Deadpool and Wolverine, teaming up for a one-off, but Deadpool and Wolverine, where they're a set. Where Wade takes him home and makes a place for him in his family and Logan accepts it. Relishes in it, even.
They'd always had similarities. But in a fucked-up, high-stakes situation, they were finally able to let down their masks and see them. They finally saw the void reflected in each other's eyes and realized they were one and the same. And they fight over it, sure, but they understand each other and it's so evident in the way they interact. In the way Logan knew just the weak points to hit to piss Wade off. In the way Wade understood why Logan would want to sacrifice himself but refused to let it happen.
It took two men at the end of their ropes, reeling from loss, to see each other at rock bottom and yank each other up and climb together.
And isn't that beautiful?
To meet someone who sees you at your worst, at your lowest, and still decides you're worth it. Who easily shoves past your facade and sees the real youāthe grief-ridden, terrified, clawing animal that begs to not be aloneāand welcomes it.
Who agrees to make a home with you, in the aftermath of it all, even when one of you gets back what you'd had before. Because you realize that you found what you'd been working so hard all along to save: a home.
And you wouldn't have this without them. You can't go back to your life before, even if you love the people in it. Because you can't imagine going back to feeling cosmically alone, to feeling like people care but don't get it. To going back to starving after finally getting used to eating well.
There's something special about this Wade and this Logan. Something that their other versions wanted, yearned for, but never quite achieved. They were their own individual people with their own lives and friends, but were they ever more than content? Were they ever truly happy with themselves in the way we see these two at the end of the movie?
It's like meeting your soulmate.
You were destined to cross paths in different universes, temporarily entering each other's orbit, but always left unsatiated. Until, finally, finally, you get the push you need. To reach out. To take that outstretched hand.
To latch onto each other and let your orbits shift to accommodate. To push past Wade's cheerful, crass mask and Logan's gruff, closed-off exterior to finally let each other in. Let them be seen.
A relationship is a series of choices. Regardless of your chemistry, regardless of the similarities in other Logans and Wades, it's the choices that matter. You can want for something and still not have it, you can realize you relate to someone without reaching out.
That's why this Logan and Wade are so special.
Because they chose this. Wade chose this Logan, out of all of them, and stuck with him. Logan chose to believe Wade, to not abandon him even after realizing he'd lied. Wade chose to be emotionally vulnerable and reveal his history with Vanessa. Logan chose to break free from Cassandra to help save Wade's World, even if she could silence the voices in his head. Because Wade was more important. Wade chose to show Logan his family, instead of just claiming that he was being noble and saving the world. He chose to be honest, to show Logan who he was. Logan chose to sacrifice himself and Wade chose to do it in turn. Wade chose to call out after him, to not let him go, and Logan chose to turn around, to listen, and to come with him. To come home with him.
They finally chose each other.
#deadclaws#deadpool 3#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool movie#logan howlett#poolverine#wade wilson#wade x logan#wade/logan#kitkat#i love these 2#i think about them constantly
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so stuff Iāve not liked about the finale and S2 more generallyā¦. unfortunately itās a lot and i'm thinking i might need to say this in several parts but first and foremost: the pacing really was shit and i don't just mean there weren't enough action scenes i mean the whole season they've had almost nothing to say about these characters and have just been making us think they do by having them repeat the same ham-fisted monologues about power and peace and the cost of war and whatever whilst moving at a glacial pace from one minor plot point to another and by the end of it most of these characters STILL haven't changed, and where they have it feels undeserved, and yes they really are at roughly the place they started so what have they even got to show for these eight hours of TV?? like damn
and I do get that the writer's strike has really effected them here and HBO hacking two eps off their season affected them too and that really can't be helped. but the pacing has been pretty poor from kick off and I can't just put it down to this being a more 'internal' season. i do not care about big battles. it's fine to have a season of a show thatās more about the charactersā interiority rather than plot action. thatās the exact reason why I like AFFC so much.
but these characters barely have interiority like idk what to say. some like Rhaenyra, Jace and Alicent have been spouting the same monologues every episode about wanting peace/wanting agency/wanting peace again etc etc, and the more interesting moments like Alicent's apparent suicide attempts, Rhaenyra's butchering of the dragonseeds etc... I mean where IS the interiority here?? unless they are spelling out a character's thoughts in the most literal way they can (as per Jace's diatribes about the dragonseeds), they leave their audience to do absolutely all the work by showing us nothing, and just leaving us to figure that the characters must be having some kind of thoughts but y'all can decide what they are.
and even Daemon, whose entire ARC was about his interiority.... like look I was so so ready to love this arc. i love fucked up little dream sequences. i love harrenhal. i was really enjoying the angle they took with alys. i was here for it. but now we've seen the whole of his S2 arc, im going to say yes, it was intended as a redemption adjacent kind of arc, and it isn't a very good one. Daemon has a handful of weird dreams, gets shouted at by some Riverlands folk, and he's a changed man.
consider the character everyone compares Daemon to (and who I'm always more than happy to talk about) and that's Jaime. and look at the sheer ground covered in ASOS: Jaime breaks out of a dungeon, Jaime meets a younger version of himself, Jaime gets his hand hacked off, Jaime reveals his anime villain backstory in the bath, Jaime deals with Roose Bolton, Jaime has a weird weirwood dream, Jaime fights a fucking bear - and at this point we're still only about halfway through.
now in contrast, what have they actually managed to do with Daemon this season. where has that finale moment with Rhaenyra been earned. this is not slow pacing for the sake of powerful character development, it's slow because they don't have anything else to say.
and also look at the state of characters like Aemond who seemed really promising in S1, yet in this season he barely reflects on the fact that he hadn't meant to kill Luke, and this war is an accident that he started, etc etc - he's just a killing machine lol. there were some nice touches in there, like i say i enjoyed Helaena telling Aemond how he'll die in the finale. but I no longer trust these writers to do anything with their more inspired ideas because they just consistently fail to do so.
look at Baela!!! like my god, has Baela had the opportunity to do anything except A) what she's told and B) counsel men on their feelings. she has like one moment looking at Daemon and you feel like the series is going to explore how complex it is to be Daemon Targaryen's daughter.... but my god they never do!! so where IS this interiority we've spent eight episodes on! what have they got to show for it!!
and i talked more weeks back about how frustrating i've found the writing of women more generally in this series and as of the finale I am finding it so egregious and so condescending. women want peace. women want to protect their children. women are tired of men. women are tired of war. women are trying to end this war peacefully. women are pacifists. women hate violence. and so on and so on and so on like jesus christ who am i even talking about here. even i don't know. it's so boring. it's so dry. and it requires female characters to always be the paragons of virtue, never do anything truly condemnable, never be unlikeable, never fucking anything except stand around saying how much they hate this. im bored of it and it makes me angry that they would do this in a series that specifically seeks to make everyone grey and everyone complex - they keep suggesting that might extend to the women before abruptly shutting it down again. see Alicent and Rhaenyra even STILL, after EVERYTHING, trying to peacefully shut down the war for the sake of love and friendship in the goddamn finale. I don't believe it anymore!! it's not cute! it's just dull!!!
and finally that just kind of brings me to how shortsighted a lot of the plot developments seem, when you see how the characters fail to reckon with their pasts or shit that just happened. Rhaenyra and Mysaria make out, and then that's never mentioned again and the tone never changes between them. Rhaenyra is done thinking about Luke. Helaena is done thinking about Jaehaerys. Aegon actually didn't mention Jaehaerys in the list of things he's 'lost' in that finale. Alicent's relationship w Viserys was just now condensed to 'we were fond of each other but he always liked your mum better'
like idk it's just. if this season's pacing is all about giving characters the chance to change and grow into the people they'll be when this war REALLY kicks off.... do it. write it. do not just write the same monologue a dozen times and hope it'll hit harder with each. doesn't work like that. sorry.
#hotd negativity#house of the dragon#I make an exception for aegon and maybe larys here btw. just barely#they were more interesting but even there they absolutely couldāve pushed the boat out further#sorry im just so unimpressed w whatever that was#i want the d&e show now lol#and i acknowledge their limitations i really do but i still think this was shoddy
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DRDT Chapter 2 Episode 13: First Impressions
Woo! DRDT! It is time! Time for despair! Letās go! My excitement has not faded in the slightest from last week; if anything, itās stronger than before. Here are my first impressions of this weekās episode!!!
Spoilers for CH2 EP13
CW Suicide, violent murder, mafia mention, suicide, hanging, self-harm.
Itās starting! Leviās got some explaining to do. Will someone (say, Eden) have an interesting reaction?
Alright, Jās not the one I expected to have first reaction, but cool.
āYouā¦ā Is Ace okay?Ā
āAh. I didnāt expect that.ā Roseās legendary reaction.
YOU CANNOT āTHATāS WACKā THIS SITUATION WHIT
Oh, so people know, but the court struck it. Interesting.
Ah, thereās the Ace reaction. Also, āno way Hopeās Peak scouted a murdererā but you have a poisoner on another secret and an art forger, at least. Not the same level maybe, but still.Ā
āDonāt make the mistake of switching cause and effect.ā Of course Hopeās Peak is responsible, that was my first gut instinct. God, itās so shady in this universe.
Woo, Levi backstory! Three āold enemies?ā
ā¦ Bro??? I donāt think any of us actually expected more than one murder, but I might be wrong on that. Self-defense, then two first degrees, huh?
āWere you in the mafia or something?ā Thanks J.
āI donāt think I need to elaborateā No, you do. You really should elaborate. Please? For me?
āWho did you even kill?ā Andā¦ Levi!Accomplice is looking rougher by the second. Then again, maybe she didnāt know.
Levi tracked two of them down, but doesnāt know who they were? How?
āThat car I blew up once?ā HUH???
āThatāsā¦ kind of a lot to admit all of the sudden.ā True, Rose. Iām trying to see what heās cooking, but I canāt tell.
How do you forget this? Jeez.
āHow could you forget?ā You know, Arturo, I was kinda irrationally worried Charles was about to throw in his secret phrase, but itās cool that you avoided that. Thanks.
[For the uninformed; itās theorized the characters will, at some point in the series, say the quotes hidden in the source code of their dedicated pages out loud, since Min and Arei both said theirs, and Xanderās could be in a flashback. That means that if a character says their secret quotes, their chances of dying go up drastically.]
āIf you donāt care about murder, you could be the murderer.ā (Paraphrased) Yes thanks Veronika not the point.Ā
āAlmost as if you donāt careā¦ā Great. I didnāt know where Levi was going with this, now I donāt know where Veronika is going with her schtick.
Iām surprised Ace is taking it relatively well [as in, not outwardly terrified]. I guess near death does that to someone.
Woo! Time frame! Junior high school!Ā
Interesting, so he didnāt start fashion because of the murder. Thatās kinda what I was thinking, but I was wrong.
Weāre getting our first crumbs of Hopeās Peak being ultra shady in main series! After Roseās backstory ig. Unfortunately the āpretentious revolutionariesā arenāt here to āhand out tickets of leadā ā LGI brainrot
āIt could also refer to the time I murdered my father.ā
ā¦Ā
???????????????????????????
You didnāt lead with that?! Also, what?! I laughed out loud at the fucking absurdity of the statement, but what?!
āItās a bit of a bother.ā The bothersome part is that theyāre phrased vaguely and not that they reveal youāre a murderer, got it.
āGo back!ā Thank you J.
What do you mean I think. Bro how many people have you killed? What in the name of Kirisaki Shidou [/ref]?
āNot even the police cared about a man like him.ā ??? Also, wasnāt your dad a bad influence? Youāve mentioned him before, it didnāt sound that bad- Wait, is he lying? No way heās lying. Hold on, let me watch more.
[In retrospect, I doubt heās lying, but his story is certainly weird]
āI see no reason to remain hung up-ā Then why are you bringing it up. I still canāt fucking tell what youāre trying to accomplish here.
Edenās reaction isā¦ neutral, I guess? Makes sense either way?
Eden!Culprit has always been hard to maintain during the trial, huhā¦ Still took the tape though. And I guess itās potentially interesting sheās getting this much dialogue about Leviās thing. Terukoās yet to speak this episode.
āI wonder if I should really tell the truthā¦ā Bro what do you mean thereās more truth to tell?
Oh, hey, speaking of Teruko. And it seems she and I share a mind.
āI donāt care about people at all.ā Ooooh, I like this. Some kind of condition?
I feel a little bit like Veronika, interested in hearing his experience with this. Feeling like Veronika is probably a bad thing.
āYouāre still a stranger to me.ā Leviās quickly climbing the ranks of fave characters, btw. This is super interesting.
āBut youāre a good person-ā DO NOT āgood personā right now, Eden! Thatās a point to Levi!Accomplice, maybe? Maybe not? I donāt know whatās happening. And I still donāt get what Levi is trying to do here.
Double āgood person?ā Bro what is happening.
āI donāt personally care what happens to Ace.ā Mood (thatās a joke I like Ace).
PFT- Aceās reaction lol.
āBut it is āgoodā to make sure someone else doesnāt die-ā Goodbye Levi!Accomplice! I liked you, but Iām probably gonna go try to find other theories after this episode :p (This is a joke, btw; if I didnāt discount theories like Hu!Culprit when the new alibis came up, Iām not going to completely abandon Levi!Accomplice over this. But, just saying, there might be a few revisions to be made)
āHaha. Youā¦ā Ace breakdown! Breakdown! (I'm absolutely acting like Veronika now).
āI was right all along.ā Yeah, Ace ācan tell a hawk from a handsawā Markey, nice one. (Does anyone even know/remember why Iām referencing that line or is LGI too far in the past for that?)
New Ace sprite! Cool one too. Clutching his heart, Acevi shippers eating ig.Ā
āGood thing I didnāt fall for it. Not one bit.ā Oh theyāre eating GOOD good!
āThereās only one person in my whole life who Iāve ever been able to call my friend-ā IS THAT A FUCKING TAYLOR REFERENCE?!?!?! Holy shit, I donāt know how many people are even gonna remember we have a canon name for that dude. I hope someone still has the screenshot of the deleted answer from the CH2 Part 1 Q&A.Ā
āI really hope you fucking die.ā We are active in Trial 2 Part 2, huh? Between Arturo telling him to āshut his whore mouthā and this, Leviās getting verbally jumped!
āYouāre quite the interesting person, Leviā Please Veronika, give me the psychoanalysis.
Dude, thatās three āgood personā drops all on Levi. Chat the importance of this phrase may have been slightly overexaggerated by me (then again, the list of āgood personā people has yet to grow from last chapter).
āYou act like a big pushover because-ā This is the psychoanalysis I came to see!
I donāt know if Iād call it āintuitive understandingā but I guess Leviās not fully wrong about Veronika.
Four āgood person.ā And thatās not counting Veronikaās āgood people.ā
Five. Also, this continues to be interesting. Why did Levi bring this up again?
āAfter looking at David, I thought being honest-ā Okay thatās hilarious.
āTry looking in a mirrorā¦ā First David line of the episode, right? And itās a nice one of course.
Thatās six cases of āgood personā in this chapter alone holy shit. At least itās David, who still had counts.
āI apologize for this tangentā Then can you please explain why the tangent exists in the first place? Or is it really just because being honest is "good"?
[Spoilers. It really was because of that. What]
āI canāt believe there was a time I liked you.ā Yeah Acevi is still eating good. I doubt the hostility is gonna drive the shippers away; thatās what theyāre here for, right?
And of course Whitās first line makes him look suspicious. Bro you have an alibi for the time of disappearance of fish and you didnāt take the tape from the gym, stop pretending to be the killer.
āLetās not jump to conclusions.ā Thank you Hu, but let me jump to a conclusion. Is Levi not gonna explain why he revealed his secret beyond the honesty thing?
Okay Jās response is good too.
āNo, [Arei] didnāt [talk to Levi about the secret]ā Bro what the fuck are we even talking about anymore.
āI donāt have a defenseā (Paraphrased) No but seriously what. Iām this close to ripping out my hair. What is he doing.
āWe donāt have evidence [Levi is the murderer]ā Thank you Teruko Tawaki for being one of three competent people in the building. This is affectionate, one of my favorite parts of the DRDT cast is that they all suck at class trials lol :p
Bro Whit is trying REALLY HARD to look like the murderer rn. Iām still not letting him convince me. Yet.
āI realized that motives alone are not concrete evidence.ā Yayyyy! Progress!
āI feel a sneeze coming onā¦ā Dude David and Teruko need to get into comedy, theyāre fucking hilarious.
āOne second please.ā Hu I trusted you. Why. Youāre revealing your secret, right?
ā...I didnāt want you all to think less of me.ā Aww, poor Hu. No oneās gonna think less of you, youāre doing awesome (I am assuming she has hopeless child btw).
āI wanted to believe the past never happenedā Butterfly motif and āwater as rebirthā symbolism go brrr.Ā
āIāve always been a selfish person, havenāt I?ā Hu please, youāre really nice, even if you go overboard at times.
āI will share my secret if you promise to immediately move on.ā (Paraphrased) Good idea. It would probably be good to talk about it if she wants, but this is kinda not the time.
āI have Veronikaās secret, and she has mine.ā Okay I did NOT expect her to reveal she had Veronikaās, but alright! Thatās two more on the board, and two more most of us got right! At least the theorists are doing well on the secrets.
[Veronika agreeing to the pact] Bro what pact, how did you communicate that? Also, āI have such little interest in both of our secretsā is wild, but it makes sense given her personality. Recap foils go brr, Iāll sit down and think about this later.
āMy own so-called secret isnāt even the worst thing Iāve done.ā Uhā¦??? Itās just bombshell after bombshell, these episodes!
Oh, we are questioning the pact. I kinda thought theyād managed to do that in the trial, now Iām really curious. Please tell me we arenāt gonna have to ignore that question because of what Hu asked of them.
Shit.
āWeāre not gonna talk about me?ā Oh, Vero, I would love for them to talk about you, but I donāt think itās gonna happen.
āAreiā Achoo!ā WHEN I TELL YOU I CACKLED LIKE A MADPERSON HOLY SHIT
āBless me! Also, excuse me! Wow, thank you for your support everyone!ā WAIT IT GOT FUNNIER.
āI have another interruptionāā Either it just got even funnier or heās about to reveal Terukoās secret and shit got serious, letās see.
Oh, right. But, dude, Iām relatively sure the last two unclaimed secrets canāt be hers. Maybe the survivorās guilt one, even though that felt like Xanderās? Are you absolutely certain you donāt have her secret?
āMy family.ā Figured sheād try that one. [She probably feels it's true to some extent].
Oh, now THATāS a David sprite alright. Pretty sure that settles it, the most common theories for secrets during hiatus were all correct.
Iām guessing Davidās still not gonna reveal it. We still need to see a Teruko teacher CG, and I donāt think weāre gonna have time for that if he brings it up.
āWe did it!ā Yeah he aināt revealing shit.Ā
āSir Light Pollutionā is actually crazy. Do his eyes really emit light like a flashlight? Thatād be really fucking funny actually.
Oh, it was actually funny because Whit is a boyfailure. Alright, joke understood. I smiled.
āI am truly impressedā¦ by how bad that was.ā And there I laughed!
āIāve started to detect this trial isnāt about me.ā Iconic of you, Sir Attention Whore /affectionate
Thank you J.
Eden bro can we please let Teruko speak. Also you are not helping the culprit allegations miss Tobisa.
āWhat happened between you and Arei?ā Jesus, we really cannot get to the fucking murder, huh? Fair, though, Iām really curious about this too, though I feel weāre gonna skip past it without an answer or Davidās just not gonna respond seriously.
āI know that sheās dead and that sheās never coming back.ā Weāre getting worryingly close to your secret quote wording here, Eden. You sure you wanna go this route?
What are we, on seven āgood personās now?
Oh shit are we actually getting an answer?
YES! YES! YES! LETāS GO! I wasnāt expecting this!
Eight. Though I think this oneās repeated, though I might be wrong.
Yeah, this is old dialogue.
Man, Areiās and Edenās VAs did amazing work this episode!
āThat makes me feel really relieved.ā Lie. She didnāt say that. Thatās my gut reaction, anyways, I could be wrong.
āI was pissed at you for a bit.ā Oh shit chat Davidās not getting cut off. This might actually be true. What the fuck?
Oh, also. Nine. David again.
āThereās not even anything positiveā¦ā Okay this hurts a fucking ton. If Davidās lying, I want him dead. If this is true, holy shit this is sad.
āA metamorphosis like thatā¦ā Jeez this is actually getting sad sad. Auch.
āIāll never be a good person.ā Ten, and the tenth hurts a LOT. I donāt think Davidās lying, members of the jury. Holy shit this is sad.Ā
āIt turns out that you might be a total piece of shitā¦ā Holy shit I miss Arei already.
Eleven.
āLike Santa Clausā¦ā Didnāt Charles bring up something like that talking with Teruko in the computer room? Interesting connection. I guess not āall that glitters,ā yeah.
āItās okay that Iāll never be a good person, because no one else can be either.ā Okay, first; twelve. Second, ouch.
[I know my commentary's not exactly thrilling. Forgive me, I'm suffering]
āEven Eden.ā And what does that mean?
[Eden with blood on her hands CG]
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HUH????????????????????????????????????????
I canāt- Words- Not working. Hold on, I gotta see what the fuck is happening here.
[Pan to fork]
IāM EVEN MORE CONFUSED THAN BEFORE! WHAT THE FUCK?!
It has four prongs, which matches the Xander one. Did Eden take out Xanderās eye? How in the actual fuck? No chance, right? Iām just going insane?
āIām sure even Eden has hurt someoneā (Paraphrased). Brain is still not working. Sorry.
āEven someone like her must have made a mistake she couldnāt take backā WE ARE GETTING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO SECRET QUOTE WORDING!
Weāre just moving on? That shit didnāt happen? Iām fucking sorry?
I canāt even- Does this imply fucking MM!Eden? I donāt think so, she doesnāt look like she wanted to- WAS it Xander she stabbed? Again, how? What? Iām so confused. YOU CANāT DO THIS TO US DEV! I NEED ANSWERS!!!
āSecond ever friendā¦ā Ouch ouch ouch-
Another āgood peopleā btw.
[Arei CG] Thatās the fucking- THAT LOOKS LIKE THE FUCKING GIRL FROM LGI?!?!?!
Like, obviously they look different, but thatās the same pose, with the hand and everything- WHAT?!
Is Arei/David a ship? Itāll probably be one after this.Ā
āNothing-ā You absolute piece of shit. Holy shit David, when I get my hands on you Davidā¦
āNothing else happened between us, I promise.ā Wow. Who wouldāve thunk this is how I come to fucking despise a man so much while he simultaneously rises in my fave characters ranking, huh? Holy hell.
āOne hundred percent promise-ā I get more mad every line. Thatās good character writing, folks. Jesus.
I canāt read Eden this episode. Still think sheās the culprit lol.
āFinally.ā Yeah, Teruko. Same.
[By the way, the next section has a lot of me rambling about my own theories, so if you don't know them, here's a link to the latest, now likely outdated version]
āFrom that low of heightā¦ā I like where weāre going.
āIām starting to realize how long it's taken to get here.ā (Paraphrased) Yeah, Whit. Yeah.
āSome people had to wait one year and five months-ā PFFFT- Also Whitās reaction means heās not fully fourth wall aware, which is cool.
NON-STOP DEBATE! LETāS DO IT!Ā
[Sees truth bullet] Yes! The jugs were used as weights! Tell me Iām right about this!
YEAH! I GOT IT RIGHT! Also Veronikaās āconsentā animation isā¦ uuhā¦ very āRonika if you catch my drift. I love it!
āThose jugs ended up breakingā¦ā You know it! I wonder if maybe they didnāt have time to clean the fish? But they could have gotten water literally elsewhere, so they clearly did use them for alibi.
āThe jugs alone arenāt enoughā¦ā (Paraphrased). Yeah, we gotta go higher. Like, the girders at the topā¦?
ā... rafters on the ceiling.ā Yeah!!! Wrong name but I also got this right!
āIt must have been one long ropeā¦ā Or two, because you need the stopper.
āOh, wait, youāre agreeing with me. Yes.ā Funny, laughed.
āThe rafters were way too highā¦ā Ball of clothes, come on.
ā...something like a pulleyā¦ā Yeah, Whit knows what Iām talking about! The fact heās being helpful makes him less suspicious. Finally, he managed to open his mouth without incriminating himself of something!
āHigh locationā¦ā Are we actually doing stopper rope? My guess is that thatās when weāll get teacher Teruko.
āIn drop hangingā¦ā Okay, first, love the monologue. Second, is there a reason you know so much about drop hanging? Did your motherā¦? I guess itās not necessary. I also came to the same conclusions and I donāt have any history with the stuff.Ā
āWe also know she didnāt hit the ground-ā Does anyone have a counter of tasteless Whit jokes? Just checking.
āArenāt I so smartā¦ā And weāre back to kinda incriminating ourselves, because you're denying pulley method. Fantastic.
WOO! ANOTHER NON-STOP! Let me guess, āspinny thingā is the truth bullet?
āTape on carousel.ā Close enough. Although, hold on, are we actually gonna go āstopped with hands?ā No chance, right?
Also am I stupid or does Arturoās VA sound different in the debates?
Yeah btw Levi!Accomplice is dead and buried, I need to find other ways for Eden to have done this.
I like that Teruko still calls it a spinny thing :p
Wow, everyoneās correcting her, huh? I guess Iām the only one that appreciates her smh.
ā...when I need to correct the killerās grammar.ā Funny comeback, but you know, the letter does actually have quite a few spelling errors.
Yay! Teacher Teruko! She looks so cute with glasses!
Also I cannot believe it. These Microsoft-Paint ass diagrams remind me of when I did them too lol.
Oh, shit, under the seesaw! Thatās a good one, Teruko! I didnāt catch that. (Then again, I always thought the seesaw was in a different place, but oh well).
Is that dog ears Whit? My guy, you know Charles dislikes dogs, right? Then again, you do canonically have negative rizz, so :p
Oh, tying the rope! Not quite a stopper rope, but same concept. Yeah, would work. Good one Teruko!
āThe carousel is made of smooth metal.ā THATāS WHAT THE TAPE WAS FOR! Clutch.
Oh shit, is the cliffhanger going to be the tapeās origin?
āIāve seen this murder method before.ā Okay, wait. One, no origin of tape. Thatās big for Eden!Culprit: My current guess is that someone (ie Veronika) will want to discuss the Ace-Nico thing, which will lead to them discovering Eden took the tape. Two, what the fuck do you mean youāve seen this before?!
āYou have?ā Looking kinda worried there, Edenā¦
āAnd so have you.ā Okay am I forgetting something? Minās execution wasnāt like this, what the hellā¦
āMe?ā Eden, honey, the allegationsā¦
āWeāre going to talk about a different caseā¦ā Oh shit Terukoās got the Ace method figured out? I would really love to hear that because I have no idea what the hell was happening with that one. Also, I called it! Didnāt expect it to be Teruko who brought us back to the Ace case, but still.Ā
āExplain yourself, Nico.ā YEAH!!!! Iām actually really excited. Iām gonna look into revising my theory on that case before the next episode, see if I can figure it out, since I think the old methods Iāve discussed with others donāt quite line up with what Teruās describing.Ā
What an episode!
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General Thoughts:
Holy shit. Just. So much happened. Itās too much peak.
The Eden CG is the first thing on my mind; thatās crazy. Did she really take out Xanderās eye? I have zero idea what else I would be looking at. Certainly not MM!Eden, too obvious, but I donāt know whatās happening there. No fucking idea. I might make a more detailed post when I get my thoughts in order, but all Iām saying; the possibility the girl she kissed was Mai? That Mai told her about Teruko, and Eden attacked Xander in the pre-prologue killing game to protect Teruko? Hmmā¦
The secrets are huge, too. Nothing wild, given like 75% of the fandom had assumed these secrets anyways, but still nice to get them all. The Levi explanation was fascinating, but I donāt know what the fuck it has to do with the trial. Was it really a pointless aside? I donāt knowā¦
The Arei scene was fucking insane even outside the Eden CG. Stabbed through the heart, havenāt felt that sad since Minās death, and, yeahā¦
Not to mention, the fucking āIdeal Country Woman from LGIā looking ass frame. At least I finally got my answer; it was a wrist bend, not a glove.Ā
And David. David. Why are you like this. I genuinely canāt tell why he does anything anymore.
Finally, I love the Taylor mention, thatās insane. And Veronika has a darker secret? She really wants those MM allegations, huh? Jokes aside, Iām really curious about both those things. I kinda wonder if somehow the students will see the motive videos from Trial 1, since weāre hearing about Taylor and Iām hoping Alyssa later.
Justā¦ Holy shit this episode was awesome. Cannot wait for next week.
First Impression Murder Theory Updates
Itās looking like Levi!Accomplice will end up being a nice AU and nothing more, although Iām not 100% ruling it out. That said, Iām still pretty confident in Eden!Culprit, especially with how we mentioned the tape on the spinny thing was easy to grip, but no oneās made the connection to the gym yet.Ā
The big thing to solve in the Arei case, then, is how Eden got the fish. Thereās a few other accomplices she could have, but those are looking rough unless she somehow got Arei to do it. That said, Iām considering the possibility that she took the minnows ultra early, before Nico started feeding them. That would explain how they didnāt notice there were a few missing the night before; they just never counted the ones in the jugs in the first place. That has issues too, but Iāll see about it.Ā
That said, Iām pretty happy with myself! I got a lot of the major points of the pulley system right. The only thing is the āstopper rope vs tie a knotā thing, but the principle is similar enough. Weāll see about things like the ball of clothes to put the rope over the rafters. Thereās still plenty of murder to discuss.Ā
As for the Ace caseā¦ Itāll need a full review later. If itās supposed to be similar to Areiās case, I really have no clue what the hell was happening there. Though I guess the ridiculous wire circuit I made might actually have some merit, given we're doing some kind of pulley?
... Maybe not :p
I have no further insight; I just need to look at it again.
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Anyways, hope you enjoyed! Watching this episode took me like two hours and a half while writing thisā¦ this almost 4k word postā¦ soā¦ yeah. Gods save me if there actually is an hour long episode left. See yaā!
#drdt#danganronpa despair time#drdt spoilers#eden tobisa#teruko tawaki#levi fontana#arei nageishi#ace markey
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CH2-12 thoughts (spoilers, I guess. You probably shouldn't be in the tag if you haven't finished the episode though.)
So! DRDT is officially back, and wow what a way to begin the rollercoaster we'll be put through the next few weeks. This episode was amazing, and I wanted to discuss my thoughts on it in a more detailed form. This episode gave us a lot of character moments that I want to at least mention, so let's get into it? Before we do though, I want to say that through these posts, I will be updating two things and showing them at the beginning and end First one being the swear statistics! It became a thing after my previous rewatch that every time a character swears, I count it, and I want to continue doing that for the rest of the series if I can so manage it.
^ current swear statistics as of CH2-11
And the second being...drumroll please!
My own personal DRDT CH2-Part 2 bingo card! If something on this list happens in CH2-Part 2, I'll check it off. Hopefully I can get a bingo or two in here, especially since, spoilers, two of the boxes have already been checked. But with all of that preamble out of the way, let's begin shall we? Iām going to cover the character moments we got in separate categories of the wellā¦characters, rather than in order, for the sake of being concise.
Arturo
First and foremost, āShut your whore mouthā made me scream at the top of my lungs. God I wish that was voiced. But more importantly, the thing about Arturo being very young for a plastic surgeon actually being addressed was not something I expected, especially so early. But I definitely appreciate the nuggets of Arturo backstory. Funny enough, his situation sounds very similar to Minās in some regard, especially this line
(x) Arturo: I was only able to get this far in such a short amount of time because I specialized in plastic surgery, and nothing else. I neglected everything that wasn't immediately relevant to my goals.
This absolutely plays a factor into his relationship with his little sister. It more than likely was not just him leaving that made her commit suicide, but perhaps also years of neglect. And if she really felt like she couldn't live a life without Arturo in it, it's safe to say that their parents probably weren't the best either. The more I learn about Arturo and his homelife the more worried I am for him and especially his sister.
Veronika
Veronika didn't get much besides being her usual self, but I gave her a category because I wanted to point out two things One, Veronika calling Arturo cute. That just made me smile
And secondly, this line right here
(x) Veronika: Oh, and don't say something as boring as "I want to kill myself." I have no interest in such mundane reasons.
This is so fucked up and awful and gross and I absolutely love her for it. I just know she's going to get worse, I hope she does.
And also the fact that she apparently finds suicide to be inherently boring is very interesting, given the fact that she more than likely has the self-harm secret.
Whit
I know he didn't have much, if any major role in this episode but...listen I missed him. So much. You have actually zero idea how much I missed him and his goofiness... But also I can't believe that was the explanation for the dent in the computer lab that's been bugging me for months. Well played DT-Dev... (though the fact that Whit got away with breaking a rule solely because MonoTV thought it was funny is a bit fishy...it's almost like he's the MASTERMIND-- /hj)
We also in general got a lot of Charles and Whit moments, which I always like to see I don't think there's anything else to cover when it comes to Wh--
(x) David: Ugh! Goddamn it, Whit, does everything you say have to be made into some shitty dumb joke?! You're actually really fucking annoying! Shut the fuck up!!
...Well, when I said I wanted more Whitvid interactions I guess this can serve as a reward. ...guys dont worry this is how we can still wi--
Levi
...I mean, what else is there to say really?
No but actually I'll talk. This is what we've been theorizing for a year, and I actually had it in my predictions that Levi's secret was going to be the one revealed in this episode. But I did not expect it right at the end, nor did I expect it to be so sudden. And I don't think Levi has any reason to lie either, so I think this is his actual secret. Seeing him lose confidence and apologize for his unhelpfulness kind of stung to me, honestly. Levi has been trying to help the group since the very beginning, and that has only amplified since the start of Chapter 2. So seeing him...basically give up was very upsetting He is definitely going to be in the hot seat next week's episode and I am very excited for it, hopefully we get some insight on his past as well and...maybe a levi and nico interaction? please dt-dev? please? :>
Hu
FishyFried, as always, knocked it out of the fucking park with Hu's voice acting, and her monologue towards David was just as amazing...if not a bit terrifying, as it directly parallels with her hidden quote
I want to pay for what Iāve done. But even then, I still want to live.
I think I've said this before, but I adore David and Hu's dynamic and how both of them tackle the themes of change in their own ways, how both of them project onto the people around them to fulfill their own desires due to being stagnant in their own growth as people, it's so much fun, and I can't wait to see how this continues to develop in the later chapters I am sincerely a ch5victim!david + ch5killer!hu believer at the end of the day.
Teruko
Oh Teruko, quite a bit to discuss with you today.
For starters, her genuinely feeling embarrassed and upset upon realizing what she did wrong, apologizing for it, and (how I interpreted it anyway) beginning to realize that working alone and not accepting help from others is starting to bite her in the ass? That was not what I expected. I really did think that Teruko was going to get worse before she got better, but maybe she's improving a lot quicker than I thought (...let's hope she doesn't backslide again though, especially if the culprit is who I think it is) Also.
If I have to live with this knowledge, so the-fuck do you. And then there's her argument with David, which I already made a post about, but I want to add onto it by saying that the performances from Swords and LuucarIi here are absolutely phenomenal. One of my favorite voice acted scenes in the entire series. I have replayed Teruko's "Hah! Based on what?!" probably around 20 times and I will repeat it 20 times more because the delivery gives me actual chills. This fangan has such an amazing voice cast oh my god it's insane.
David
Oh. You are such a broken, broken man, and you are absolutely going to go down the Simon Laurent route. I actually don't have a lot to add when it comes to David's actual motivations for his actions, I think a lot of us theorized that he was trying to kill everyone and himself. But the main thing I want to talk about is the Xander shit because oh my god this man is Down Fucking Horrendous. I mentioned all the way back in this post that David idolizes Xander just as much as Xander idolizes him. What I didn't expect was for him to still be clinging onto the hope Xander gave him and trying to follow in his footsteps, and being borderline possessive over the damn dead man. Xander may have idolized David, but David is obsessed with Xander and what he represents to him. And he is willing to ruin his reputation, reliability, and dignity in pursuit of what he thinks is right. Not to mention, it puts the Tally5 image in a whole new light.
Though I still think these words apply to the very possible revolution that David, Xander, and Mai enacted towards Hope's Peak, a theory that has become even more credible after this episode, I also think these lines portray David's thought process during his actions in CH2-11 and his motivation for doing the things that he does. David calling Xander "the only good person he's ever known" is very, very telling when you consider what he personally thinks makes someone a bad person (lazy, useless, stupid). And that makes me upset. Xander and David's relationship will never not be absolutely fascinating to me. ...alSO DAVID APPARENTLY HAS MEMORIES FROM HOPE'S PEAK??? APPARENTLY??? Like am I reading that right or do I just have bad media literacy. How...How does he??? WHY does he??? Why did he say he didn't know who Xander was in the prologue???? I am very confused and I'm sure it will all be answered. Extra Thoughts !! - we got 7:30 AM confirmation, woohoo!! And the bonus of Arei swinging when she was first found was such a good detail and Iām surprised none of us noticed it, honestly. With that confirmation, that leaves basically everyone else (minus J, David, Veronika, Hu, and Nico) in the hot-seat. - the multitude of new sprites we got were so amazing, especially David's - Apparently everything that happened in the second half of CH2-11 was in the span of two hours?! Sheesh, the editing crew on the TV show must be working overtime. Hopefully they get a paycheck and its not just MonoTV who gets paid. - If I had any doubt in my brain that Eden was the culprit it has basically dissipated with this episode. I really do not know who else it could be other than her. three of the five main suspects other than her have basically been cleared up, either through alibi (J and Hu) or though plot (Levi) David and Nico are also cleared from suspicion Though there isn't really any plot or evidence reason to necessarily exclude Rose, given her moment in CH2-8 and, let's be honest, this murder being way too physically complicated for someone as lethargic as her to commit, I'm inclined to believe she is not And every other character has something that's clearly being set up to be further explored in Chapter 3 (Charles, Whit, Ace, Arturo, and Veronika) Like... even if you don't think Eden is the culprit, you can't deny that she's the odd one out here. I still think Accomplice!Levi is true, but I also truthfully think the culprit can't be anyone other than Eden - If I were to give one I-guess critique though, not just on this episode but on the trial as a whole, it's that we are four trial episodes in and there has been very, very little focus on the actual murder mystery itself. We have barely even covered 80% of the evidence. This isn't like, a huge problem for me specifically because I very much watch DRDT for the astounding character writing over the murder mysteries, and I definitely think that the lack of focus on the case is worth the amazing character moments we got in this episode. But I can see it really bothering some people, and there's a part of me that can't help but be a bit afraid that the actual solving of the murder case is going to hit the audience with a bunch of information at once and come across as a bit rushed due to the lack of focus it's had so far. I trust that DT-Dev is cooking though, and it'll probably be a lot more cohesive once we have the full trial to look through.
Predictions for CH2-13 - Like I said before, Levi is going to become the main suspect easily thanks to his secret reveal. I know Ace is going to be on his ass especially, because in his mind it would basically confirm the image he has already conjured up of Levi in his mind as a violent brute who is going to snap his neck any second. J is also going to jump to conclusions because that's just what she does, and she was already concerned about the murderer secret to begin with. - Furthermore, I think most of this episode is going to entail Teruko trying to disprove that Levi could've been the culprit. Considering the fact that there, well, isn't much evidence to suggest he didn't, maybe this episode will feature this chapter's Random Guess minigame. - I highly doubt we're getting an AM VS PM scrum debate now, but maybe we'll get one on whether or not Levi is the culprit? Maybe? - On the topic of trial minigames, I hope we get another nonstop debate, it's been like three episodes since we've had one lmao - Nico is either going to defend Levi, or reiterate the speech that J gave them in CH2-9. Either way, I hope this reveal causes them to interact it would be so interesting - We are on a track-record of having at least one person's secret exposed every trial episode. Considering the fact that Xander and Min are dead, and I do not think Teruko's secret will come out until the end of the chapter, that really only leaves Hu and Veronika...which is interesting, as they are both in the clear for being the culprit. Hu has already had multiple moments to shine in this trial, so I think its more likely that Veronika's secret will be the one getting revealed. How that happens, I am unsure. But I think Veronika will be the next person to have her secret revealed.
Conclusion Overall, I think this episode was amazing and a great way to kick off the end of the hiatus. I can already tell that these next few weeks are going to be a wild ride for us DRDT fans, but we're all in this together, so I think everything's going to be fine (nothing is going to be fine.)
UPDATED SWEAR STATISTICS: CH2-12
UPDATED BINGO CARD
#I don't think I need to tag the tally5 image cause its been a year but if anyone wants me to I will#also because I feel like someone's gonna ask#furuya is the track used in arei and arturo's secret reveals and its my favorite track so far in drdt if it is used again I will go insane#danganronpa despair time#drdt
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Dead Friend Forever is a Marvel of Mystery Writing
I havenāt been watching Dead Friend Forever live, because I am not always that into the slasher genre and I figured I would wait to hear whether it holds up before jumping in. I admit, I was a bit dubious about a drama sustaining a slasher narrative for 12 entire weeks and didnāt want to spend time on something that might be too shallow to sustain and would end up falling apart. I basically told bestie @wen-kexing-apologist to vet it for me and holler if I needed to start paying attention. And a few weeks ago, they started poking me with increasing intensity, along with a few other friends, because the writing was holding up better than they could believe. I started asking questions, and once @ginnymoonbeam mentioned that Sammon was the writer, it all started to click and I dove into a binge to catch up.
And they were right! This show is excellent, and its strength is sourced in an incredibly strong script from a writer who knows how to construct a longform mystery. Because it turns out, thatās what this show actually is. How do you sustain a slasher for 12 weeks? By embedding a deeper mystery within the slasher framework and pacing your story so that the entire middle delivers a backstory narrative that is even more compelling than the current events. This show is expertly structured to grab your attention and then get you deeply emotionally invested in the coming bloodbath, which is crucial for a slasher to feel like it has any stakes. Let me also note that the excellent writing here is supported by extremely smart direction and editing and some standout performances from young actors. I am going to focus on the writing here because thatās what I do, but it should be said that this whole production is all around excellent.Ā
So letās talk about why the writing in Dead Friend Forever works so well! Great drama mysteries should support two kinds of engagement from the viewer:Ā
no thoughts head empty engagement from the people who just want to be pulled along for the ride and be constantly surprised
red string board theory engagement for the people who enjoy finding clues and trying to solve the mystery in advance.Ā
Itās actually really fucking hard to thread this needle as a writer, because it requires seeding strong enough clues that attentive viewers could reasonably guess some of the big reveals, but not giving away so much that you are unable to surprise them. A reveal in a good mystery should have you saying āoh my god WHATā and āof course, that makes perfect senseā at the same time. And the best mysteries support the viewer being able to go back and rewatch, find new meaning they missed the first time, and realize every single thing that happened adds up. A tight mystery has no loose ends and no false steps; it never lies to the viewer, it only works to draw your attention where it wants it at any given point in the story.
Dead Friend Forever does this masterfully with several of its reveals, but I will highlight the biggest example: the reveal of Phee and Nonās relationship in episode 7. In the first four episodes of the show, the story lets us in on a few crucial facts: Phee is newer to this friend group (along with Tan and White), he was not present for whatever went down with Non three years ago, he has some kind of fucked up not!friends with benefits relationship with Jin that involves lots of sexual tension and dick biting, and he seems interested in figuring out what the hell happened once all these dudes start acting crazy about the videos. The string board theorists had enough to go on there to reasonably guess that he was intentionally trying to uncover the truthābut not whyāand the no thoughts head empty crowd could just vibe, enjoying his scenes with Jin and wondering how exactly he ended up hooking up with him and getting involved with this group of people he doesnāt even seem to like.
Once we get to the backstory and see Nonās narrative, additional clues emerge, like the existence of both an older brother and a mysterious sweetheart that is only saved as [heart emoji] in Nonās phone. No thoughts head empty is over here going huh I wonder who theyāre gonna be and hey when are the rest of the characters going to show up; string board theorists now have two clear options for how Phee could tie in to Nonās story and why he might care enough to investigate, but no one knows for sure. So when the show ended episode 6 with Phee running into Nonās room and began episode 7 with The Most Effective Five Minute BL Of All Time, everything clicked into place. No thoughts head empty got to experience a very pleasant shock moment, the string board theorists got to feel satisfied that they figured out at least part of the reveal, everyone got to enjoy an unexpected shot of romance in the middle of this stressful narrative, and there were still parts of Pheeās motives and involvement with this group that we didnāt understand and would require additional reveals. That is great mystery writing in a nutshell.
And itās not only the mystery construction that makes the writing here so smart. Itās also the way Sammon is weaving in tons of social commentary, embedding Thai cultural and religious values, incorporating complicated crimes with lots of players in the mix that somehow donāt get confusing, and drawing complex and nuanced characters whose choices and behavior you understand even if you find them abhorrent. Itās not easy to make a viewer both despise a character and still care what happens to them; when you write a story about despicable people you run the risk of inspiring apathy in the audience, which is a death knell for a mystery. We have to be invested for this story to work. We have to feel deep empathy for Non to the point that we fully support axe murdering his bullies, but we also have to be interested enough in the bullies and why they behave the way they do to watch 12 weeks of them running around being awful to each other and harming everyone in their paths. And Non, too, gets to have real complexity. He is not a perfect little Mary Sue who never does anything wrong. He makes big impulsive mistakes, and seeks attention and affection from the wrong people, and lies to the ones he loves, and doesnāt always ask for help when he needs it. He is a flawed human being and thatās so important, because he is the center of this story and we need him to feel real.
In conclusion: holy shit. I tip my hat to you, Dr. Sammon, and I am very excited to be on this ride for the final four episodes.Ā
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Things in TDP that surprised me but I'm not mad about
The title is a bit misleading because I could never be mad at The Dragon Prince but I'm specifically talking about season 6 because I think Aaron, Justin, and everyone that worked on this show infused this season with drugs because this is so fire they fucking cooked with this one.
Soucering: most of the gifs used in this post are from this postĀ by celestialowlryx unless stated otherwise! (I am not in the business of stealing people's shit)
SPOILERS AHEAD
The Blood on the Beach!
There was a lot of blood on that beach like the blood that you could tell was blood on that beach in the first episode, and I know this show doesn't shadow away from death but THAT'S A LOT OF FUCKING BLOOD IN THE SAND! Not to mention, CLAUDE IS COVER IN BLOOD! Plus the whole Claude amputated her own leg, and her fucking voice actor during that scene, oof my heart!
The Bathing Scene
I'm very surprised that this was allowed dispute knowing nothing about TV rating (I mean obviously it was allowed it's in the fucking show!) But that scene is silence, besides a backing track, and you have a Terry bathing Claude in the ocean! That scene is so fucking intimate, especially for what is supposed to be a children's show and it makes me go insane!
Rayla and Callum's Bed Sharing Scene
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I'm looking at this in part from the eyes of a parent dispute not being a parent and just being a 23-year-old fucker that watches children's cartoons they have a weird obsession with, But this is another scene I'm a little surprised was allowed. Although I love that it was allowed! I can see from the eyes of a parent this scene be too "raunchy" because "What happens when two be people share a bed... sex!" but Fuck you this scene was great!
Viren and His Wife's Backstory
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Okay fucking attack me in the internet town square if I'm wrong, but Viren described abuse... right!? Like that was Spousal Abuse right!? Because if it wasn't it was so fucking close! And where the scene wasn't animated in the traditional sense respective to The Dragon Prince, that whole sequence is insane!
All the Kissing Scenes
Damn, there was a shit ton of PDA this season, Specially thinking about the one scene with Rayla and Callum on top of the Starscraper, THINGS ARE GETTING FUCKING INIMATE FOR KIDS SHOW! I fucking love it! I love when we can do Romance like this so no complaining here there was just a lot, or many in the scope of the series as a whole this seems like a lot, I don't know, but regardless a win for romantics everywhere!
Viren's Sacrifice*
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This one is more of an honorable mention, was it surprising, fuck yeah, but it didn't surprise me in the way everything else did. I did think Soren was going to be murdered for a hot second, which was shocking but fuck this scene had been balling like a God damn baby!
Janai and Amaya's Wedding*
Another Honorable mention because it's not shocking that it happened The Dragon Prince has not strayed from representation and the longer it continues the more representation we seem to get, although queer representation is still always shocking to get especially in children's cartoons, so it's going on this list for all the creators that have wanted to give us queer rep but couldn't and to those that have paved the way for us to get here!
Allen
Couldn't find a picture of Allen lol
Okay, you may not get this if you haven't read the graphic novel Through the Moon but Allen is a minor character way back from season one that Lujanne couples up with and I was surprised to see especially because the day before the season came out. I had read the graphic novel and cackled at his presence! So I freaked the fuck out when he was just there, at the moon nexus!
Rayla and Her Parents*
I'm adding this because it was another scene that had me balling (I think mostly because I have a good relationship with my parents and I couldn't imagine losing them) Knowing Rayla's character it wasn't surprising but I respect everyone who made that scene possible because, brother, that's emotional!
Finally Leola
*sigh* Leola's existence in general is a shock, and to me changes Aaravos completely! That purple motherfucker created the Sea of the Castout with his own tears, then got imprisoned in a pearl in a calm in his daughter's bones in the same sea he made with his own tears of grief! In addition, THEY FUCKING ANIMATED CHILD DEATH! THE ANIMATORS ANIMATED A CHILD DYING ON SCREEN! I don't give a fuck if there wasn't blood, THERE WAS CHILD DEATH ON SCREEN IN A CHILDREN'S SHOW! HOW HEAVY METAL IS THAT?!
Honorable of the honorable mentions: Big Aarvaos
Fuck he's huge.
Alright, I'm done.
#the dragon prince#tdp#tdp spoilers#tdp season 6#the dragon prince season 6#The Dragon Prince Spoilers#Raylum#Janaya#Media#cartoons#animation#elfboyeros
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Implying stolas is the only one BlitzĆø wants, feels off because weāve had three episodes in a row showing he very much wants fizz and would do anything for him. The scene in AT where Verosika tells that BlitzĆø has to be happy for others so he can start to change, feels weird because we had a show donāt tell moment of that exact thing, where he says āIām happy for you fizzā when he clearly still loves him. That was a big moment. But the writers choose ātellā over āshow donāt tellā because the audience blatantly ignores it unless being told. Other characters dont have to tell him to put Fizz first, he just does it. Same with apologising, stolas isnāt the first of many, fizz is. This is the difference between natural and forced.
Itās just weird. It feels like whenever they want to develop stoliz they start recycling Fizzs personality traits and backstory with BlitzĆø.
And if fizz is the ānucleusā of all the romantic relationships going wrong, the icebreaker to make him change, the catalyst of his progress (all things Brandon and Viv said) something deeper with him than the others, whys he being shipped with the owl? I mean what story reason. Not what commercial one. Iāve never heard Viv or Brandon say anything deep or meaningful like that about stoliz, itās just āThey fuckā
"Pay no attention to this character who's Blitzo's first love, his catalyst for progress that brings out the best in him. His real soul mate is this other character who brings out nothing but the worst."
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s7 spoilers āØāØ
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ok
"death alive" fucking snipe me the insane death motif that seems to be present here is killing me pun intended
GRAAAHAHAHHGROWLS IM SO EXCITED I CAN TEVEN
"i don't want to be separated again"
"i don't want to be separated again"
stop it right tf now bc this is literally what i have been wanting one of them to say so badly. also smooch. dear christ
the fact that terry wants so badly for him and claudia to be free that he is pleading with fucking archmage aaravos himself. like ik they're partners in crime atp but still my guy has balls. the dedication. poor thing š
aaravos fucking leading claudia on with even more hope of viren being saved - his own backstory making the way he's manipulating her grief 10x more twisted - and terry seeing right through his bullshit..... im foaming at the mouth
fuckin.g- FOR ME?!?!?!?!?!?
CALLUM SOBBING OVER EZRAN??? (dreamer's nightmare was prepping us for this huh)
SOREN APOLOGIZING TO CALLUM?? (for what i do not know) EMOTIONAL CALLUM/SOREN HUG DEAR GOD ALL IVE EVER WANTED
the making of a primal stone, more moon magic, a quest for an ingredient, insane biblical imagery... once again, FOR ME??!?!?!?!??!
"AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!!"
NECROMANCY!! just what this show needed omg
astrid my love. i was a little worried post-s6/pre-date announcement that we really wouldn't see that much, if any, of the celestial elves, but oh ho ho i can't believe i ever doubted you tdp. like you're telling me that astrid is tired of watching, of being the wise observers (especially now that her own brother has been so far removed from, well, being a non-all-seeing prophet), and that all she wants is to, for once, do something about all the tragedy she knows is coming and hasn't been able to do anything about? christmas fucking morning i tell you
goddamn the true extent and emphasized tragedy of katolis has been brought up enough that you just know they're not messing around
NO STOP SEEING SARAI AND HARROW NEXT TO GROWN AND CURRENTLY FCUKED UP EZRAN IS GOING TO FUCKING DEMOLISH ME
obviously ez being angry is just wow omg teehee but just. immediately being so vengeful and wanting to "destroy him" with zero hang-ups is.......... yeah wow omg teehee
"it's great!" i genuinely trust that with my life
ok hello this will most certainly be the most incredible visual to ever exist holy shit. also this is making me realize that we've never actual seen ez on the throne in arc 2 and i mean that's insane enough
this is incredible what can i say. i can see it now: rayla shoving worms in his face like "JUST EAT THE FUCKING WORMS ITS GOOD FOR YOU ASSHOLE" and runaan fighting her like a toddler refusing to eat his vegetables (except it's the opposite bc it's a vegetarian father refusing to eat his grubs)
i love how out of touch aaravos is (makes sense after centuries underneath inside of a rock) bc in what world is this normal. i highly doubt they have snow white or the bible but still it's just human nature to be weirded tf out by that. also yes @zuppizup ur so right his affinity for fruit being played on is amazing
also corvus: yeah yeah uh huh right and what exactly is your name, sir? aaravos: ah yes my name! it's uh uhh i mean it's uhhhhhhhhhhh. jofus
TWO IN THE FIRST EPISODE (which worries me but anyhow) IN THE FORM OF A GOODBYE AND A REUNION AND IN FRONT OF EVERYONE TOO???? AS A TREAT??????????
i'm all for ezran ripping runaan to shreds but i can't exactly say i see the correlation here. although that is kinda funny. it's like when i can't find my phone or smth so i just look at my dog and go "whiskey did you eat it" (she's been asleep this whole time and also she has never eaten/chewed on an object in her life)
also help inigo montoya ahh
ok 1) i, much like everyone else, kinda presumed that the tension would mostly be between ezran and callum and he wouldn't really hold anything against rayla, but the act of straight up arresting him really makes me wonder how rayla's gonna react 2) i really need to see callum's reaction (mainly out of defending rayla, but also because i can see him kinda being like "HEY i JUST freed him bro fuck you") and 3) the way that it is emphasized that soren is the one to arrest him..... idk i just figured that between his love for rayla, his own daddy issues (+the fact that viren was the one to imprison him so it would kinda be like righting his wrong), and that harrow was in fact not his father so compared to ezran he'd have a lot less resentment (he was of course still his king and soren had to actually watch it so still some but like. comparatively) i didn't think he'd be this combative but i'm certainly not complaining. the more angst the merrier
AW YEAH BOYS SHES COMING TO KATOLIS!!!!!
this has been your incoherent, feral mars commentary.* thank you
#*āāācommentaryāāā#tdp spoilers#tdp s7#tdp#the dragon prince#tdp s7 spoilers#continuethesaga#giveusthesaga#nycc 2024
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Character Dynamics: Kakyoin & Polnareff
In a previous post, I mentioned that one of the personal gripes I had with Stardust Crusaders was the missed opportunity to expand the main cast's character further, either individually or through interaction with one another.
And what canon reference will I base all my yapping on? Look no further than the episode where the Crusaders are fighting "High Priestess"- The submarine scene right before they go swimming and get eaten.
You know that scene where Polnareff does a series of big vague arm movements and Kakyoin somehow knows what that means, and then they ensue the "Serious Bro Code Handshake" no one knows about but them.
And some quick special mentions of them fighting as a unit during that scene where Kakyoin and Polnareff fight against the man with two right hands, or Enyaba the Hag's son to put it simply, and that time where they had to get rid of The Lovers from Joseph's head.
In this post, I'll talk about a dynamic that's not too appreciated and should've been more consistent (though that's what I think from what I've seen online) is that between Noriaki Kakyoin and Jean Pierre Polnareff.
Disclaimer: I'll talk about them in a platonic way (because we can appreciate two dudes being great buddies without automatically making them suck each other's lip and cock), but if you think otherwise, then kudos! You do you.
These 2 are, what I feel, would've been a duo with almost a similar dynamic to the one we see with Josuke and Okuyasu, being the difference is that unlike the 2 latter duo consisting of the typical "Dumb-and-Dumber" dynamic, KakPol is more "Nerd-Himbo".
So what makes this duo work exactly? Why am I compelled to write this post?
Well, to simply put, I love an interaction between a typically introverted person and an extroverted person. It's fun to watch Person X dragging Person Y into shenanigans, the latter being too not-cool with it at first, only for said person to go "Fuck it, we ball."
That's why I like writing them as this duo in my stories (namely in Only You, Playing Cupid, and Volleyball).
Kakyoin is not a social person. We know that from his quick backstory. However, despite his lack of social connection, he's polite with the way he interacts with others. He's also an amalgamation of a nerd and a geek: A person filled with ideas and thoughts, capable of providing reasonable logical strategies that benefit the group, and who also has interests in fun stuff like sumo wrestling and video games.
On the other hand, Polnareff will be Polnareff. He's a Frenchman who wears his emotions on his sleeve. He's a little out there with the folks, will get all buddy-buddy with strangers, will flirt with the ladies, and is generally a loud-and-proud kind of dude. But beneath all that social energy, he's also righteous in his own way, wanting to live up to what he deems the right thing to do.
If you put them together, then you get a dynamic that would spill this type of dialogue:
"Aren't you gonna eat your sausages?" "No." "Why?" "Sausage is made with sodium glutamate and sodium nitrate, which are carcinogens." "ā¦ So why don't you eat them?" "ā¦ Why would you eat carcinogens on purpose?" "Then I'll take them." "But-" "ā¦" "Fine."
The lines above are from a movie named "Midnight Runners". You can swap the main duo of the film with KakPol and there wouldn't be many differences. Both of them behave and speak the way Kakyoin and Polnareff do personality-wise.
Kakyoin is the brain of the two, and Polnareff is the muscle. While Kak's the one offering out things to do, Pol makes sure he lives up to that by making him do said things with him. Polnareff is the type of guy who likes to venture out and have fun, while Kakyoin is someone who wants to do said fun things but feels awkward initiating them, often finding it more comfortable envisioning it rather than actually doing it.
They'd be the type where Pol, the man from France itself, would play bachelor, attempt to swoon some girls, and drag Kakyoin to his antics. He'd share some cheesy Casanova techniques with the poor boy, Kak eventually warms up to the idea having nothing better to do and listens, they attempt trying them out, only to eventually fail at the end of the day. Cue Kak who suggests they play video games instead to which Pol agrees to it.
Pol: And no Jotaro, you're not joining. You attract ladies just by breathing. You don't count.
Jotaro: middle finger
If there's an exam and the question is "List the 3 sources of investigation", Kakyoin would answer "Examine victim, evidence, and crime scene" (emphasizes Logic), while Polnareff would answer "Passion, tenacity, and a big heart" (emphasizes Values). And, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they also share some squabble and banter from time to time.
That's why there's a difference in dynamics with "Polnareff and Kakyoin" compared to "Polnareff and Jotaro".
Jotaro is more hands-on and nonchalant about the way he lives his life. He lets events play out and has no problem joining in and exploring as he goes along the way.
Kakyoin is more hesitant and wants to think about it more, pondering whether or not said activity is worth it or not. Pol and Joot can hang out and smoke all they want almost immediately, but Pol must convince Kak before doing anything outside Cherry Boy's comfort zone.
There's that satisfaction in having Kakyoin feel less alone and be brought of his shell thanks to Polnareff's interventions. He gets to share his more geeky side with someone who's like "Sounds cool!"
It also works in the battlefield as well. As I mentioned, Kakyoin is the strategist. He comes up with the ideas- they can be half-baked or fool-proofed, either way, the second a plan is suggested, Polnareff will agree to it and execute any of them if it sounds good enough.
I don't know how to end this. It's rather abrupt, but yeah! In my opinion, Kakyoin and Polnareff are just a couple of bros who needed more screen time as a duo.
Let me know if yall want more stuff like this!
#i don't know if this is gonna be a series or not but we'll see#jojos bizarre adventure#jjba#noriaki kakyoin#jean pierre polnareff#kakpol#also oh my god? A non-jotaro-centered post?? from this blog???
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Weekly thoughts!
Hooboy, the big episode! First off, I think everyone knows by now that you probably shouldn't read these if you haven't read the latest episode, but I ESPECIALLY mean that this week! Talking about some way bigger than usual spoilers.
Phew, this was a big one, both from a writing and drawing perspective. I actually spent a full day on that last panel alone, but writing it took way longer than usual too. Going back and forth between Bell's speech and Jericho's backstory played perfectly like a movie in my head, but it was really hard to portray it as a comic and it was one of the few times I was struggling with the limitations of the format. I think I pulled it off though, since everyone seemed to follow along fine! So while it was probably just a neat scene to everyone else, I'm rather proud of that haha.
As for the actual contents of the episode, I'm also glad everything hit w/ the majority of the audience for the most part. I know a handful were confused about if that was Bell or Jericho who did that, but to those people, I remind you it's been loooong established Jericho can control his extensions (Bell, Charlie, and Claude. Remember, they all took injections of Jericho's blank space?). Also on that note, Bell does not have her own scion... Only Rex and Jericho do. Bell, Charlie and Claude all took injections of Jericho's blank space, thus get to borrow some of his power. I recommend re-reading ep 80 if you need a refresher.
I do consider this ep kind of a big reveal of Jericho's true colors. I mean, you guys have known he's the main villain for ages now, but this is the ep that reveals his "better world for blanks" act is kind of a faƧade and what he's really seeking is a worse world for humans. The fall of humans benefitting blanks is just kind of a bonus. I'm glad a few people caught onto this with the fact that one of the worst horrors he experienced was having his autonomy taken away from him, then he proceeds to do just that to Bell.
And speaking of Jericho's horrors- Before this season launched, I dropped a bunch of hints about upcoming things. One of them was that the most disturbing scene (in my opinion) was coming up. I was actually referring to what happened to Kallie. I'm not sure if it was as disturbing to everyone else (I totally get like if Claude's leg thing fucked people up more), but being evaporated into nothingness but not dying was an existential dread that really fucks me up haha. If it fucked even a couple of other people up, then I did my job.
I don't have too much else to say about the contents of the episode. It was so hard to bite my tongue for weeks as everyone predicted pretty much every character but Desmond was gonna get it. I'm sorry I don't have too much else to say about him right now given what happened, but I definitely will in the upcoming weeks.
I guess the only other note I have is I might as well address something that bugs me slightly- It's definitely a minority but there's a handful of people who seem done with the series because "too many things go wrong." To which... I'm not sure what to tell ya. I'm fine with critique and criticism to be clear, but honestly, this is one thing I'm actually really confident I'm good at balancing. I'm not sure where people are coming from with "nothing good ever happens in this series" when this season alone has had probably the cutest and fluffiest scenes. Rex has a canon girlfriend, he had his first kiss with her, Desmond was reunited with his sister and learned to accept himself, Lyss learned to move past her trauma and accept blanks, Rex was reunited with Shnee, Rex's scion turns out to be a puppy dog w/ a crush. I'm aware a lot of these got kind of crushed with this latest ep...but that's.. kind of. the. point??? That's how you write tragedy and impactful scenes??
I dunno, maybe this is personal to me because it's ALWAYS bugged me when someone tells me they think a show is bad because it's "too dark." Like no... It's not *bad* because it's too dark, you just don't like dark themes, and that's okay. I TOTALLY get if CoB has gotten too dark for some people- it's definitely hit some hard themes and subjects, but I don't like to accept that as a critique. It just means it's not for you and that's okay. There's a ton of other great comics that are more light-hearted! I think the TLDR of this is it will always annoy me when people say something is bad just because it's not their taste.
Now. That said... everyone is completely valid in their hate of Jericho. I, however, still love him.
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iām gonna be obnoxious about this and people are just going to have to be cool about that. yes? good.
happy birthday to what would you do (if they ever found us out) (affectionately known as wwyd)!!! a year ago today, i posted chapter one and (iām not being dramatic here) i think it changed my life?
little backstory: iām a dyke with eyes and a type, so when i watched fran drescher making impassioned speeches about labour rights, i was both smitten and reminded that iād been meaning to watch the nanny. i was also (mostly unbeknownst to me) about as mentally ill as iāve ever been in my life. i was halfway through a phd which i loved but it was making me so, so unwell. anyway, i started watching the nanny as some kind of escapism and one night, i was likeā¦has anyone thought of fran and cc kissing on the mouth? and they had (obviously) and so i started thinking about that and how whine cellar is a deeply disappointing episode in so many ways and then i was like āi can fix that! with a one shot!ā.
fast fwd to april 2024. iām in my favourite city in the world. iām posting the 11th chapter of that one shot far too late at night (sorry sara). itās ended up about 85k words long. iām no longer a phd candidate. iām significantly less mentally ill. and iāve spent the last 8 or so months being held by a group of people i would never have met if i had never started writing again.
i didn't quit my phd to write fan fiction, obviously. but writing fic helped me realise how unhappy i was because it was something that gave me joy in a time that was so fucking bleak. i don't really like thinking about it too much but it wasn't great. and then i had this lifeline. these two idiots (affectionate) falling in love with one another, not only in wwyd but all the other fics i was writing. and talking about with people who were commenting and finding me on tumblr. and then, eventually, we weren't just talking about fran and cc, we were talking about our lives! because we were friends!
people will tell you before you start a phd that it's a lonely experience. i was the only history student in my cohort. i only met one of my supervisors in person at his leaving drinks. i have two friends i met at my uni, one of whom was the first person i told that i had to quit. i had other friends and an incredible, loving, patient partner, and they were amazing. but still, it was lonely.
and then i just fucking wasn't.
january ā24, the squad evolved from being my stupid tumblr tag to being the most chaotic group chat i have ever been part of (until nic got us nicely organised). a week or so later, i quit the phd. and i told a bunch of people iād never met that i was dropping out of grad school and they were so fucking kind. i will never forget that. the squad, in all its iterations, will have my heart for my whole life. i will not rest until i have annoyed you all in person. my dream is winning the lottery and flying you all to a villa in spain for a week so i can cook you dinner (and cass can make bread) every night and drink wine and splash about in the sun (or in saraās case, hide in the shade and probably yell at us to put sun screen on). when i say i love you, i mean it so wholly and truly.
anyway, back to wwyd. itās not my first fic. iāve been writing on and off for 15 long, long years. but i hadn't written a ton for a while (other than my aloto fic bc gretson my beloved) and i really kind of expected to get a couple of comments and a few kudos. i just had a story that wanted to get out so i published the first few chapters in really rather quick succession (iām sorry to anyone who reads my stuff, my adhd is too bad for a posting schedule) and peopleā¦loved it? like, really loved it. which was so nice because iām gonna be honest, there was not an adoring audience for my academic work (perils of being a genocide scholar). and i know it's become quite a few peopleās comfort fic. i know people have reread it, more than once in some cases, which feels wild. people have left the most wonderful comments, said the kindest things, drawn gorgeous art, made a fanmix (which is fucking amazing), followed along on this journey which i did not expect them to do.
i don't have favourite children (b&w fans, i promise you, the next chapter is in the works) but if i did, wwyd might be one. sure, she's my difficult eldest child. but she got me into a fandom for the first time in years, sheās given me friends i know I will hold onto for the rest of my life, she reminded me how much fun writing can be. and sheās spawned so much more because she made me so much more confident as a writer.
so i don't think iām being overdramatic when i say it changed my life. if youād told me all of this when i hit publish on chapter one last year, i would have told you to fuck off. relatively vehemently. but iām better now. and iām so fucking grateful for this fic for being part of what gave me that.
anyway, thanks for letting me be a bit self indulgent - promise you don't have to sit through this ever again (maybe for won't you when i finally get it done. iām sorry. iām verbose). and once again, to everyone who has read wwyd, given it kudos, commented, reblogged a chapter on tumblr, all of it, my eternal thanks. i couldn't have done it without you.
finally, because i cannot say it enough, to the squad, you have my whole heart. itās actually mad to me that this time last year, i had no idea who any of you were. your stamp on the last few chapters of wwyd is indelible. your stamp on my life is somehow more permanent than that. thank you. ilsym š«¶š»
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