#Anyways i just got to them meeting toey in my fic and I went ohhh. angst potential

[almayver]

Hey you guys know how Fang and Phum considered Toey like another brother

And you remember how they assumed he had left to study abroad, and then they didn't have much contact with him

I bet that wasn't painful or brought any sad memories at all

[sailor-cresselia]

Zi-O 16: Plot advancement Time!

FYI: I am watching subbed this time. Hurrah! I got to it before Thursday!

(Massive thanks go to Over-Time subs, I love those guys and hope they are okay, because this ep came out a lot faster than their Zi-O releases have been lately.)

O.O The clock that Woz has been doing the previews by for, like, the entire show thus far? Oma Zi-O’s chair is right next to it now.

Woz, where the heck is this room?

“That’s all that is written as of this point.”

History is told by the winners… and apparently nobody has won yet.

So. That attack from Oma Zi-O, with the golden orb? Brutal. That thing’s tossing the kid around inside it. Ow.

“Prove you’re willing to change your future,” is basically the point of what Oma Zi-O is saying, right? “Show me if you’re really that certain you won’t be me.”

‘They activated a few months after they arrived,’ huh? But that version of history doesn’t take into account that, according to the Time Jackers in 15, they’re early.

Wait, when’d Geiz get Ex-Aid? I thought he was holding onto Genm, and Sougo had Ex-Aid.

They actually destroyed his first belt. I say first, because he’s blatantly going to get another, that’s just how this show works, but. Wow.

That act shut down Kasshin, who apparently is, in fact, mechanical. And Oma Zi-O and his chair were rewritten. But the depression that his chair left is still there… and he was laughing in an ‘all according to plan’ manner.

(The end of the opening is the jets of fire variant again.)

Okay. All three of you are heartbroken over this, kiddos. Sougo wanted to be king to save the world… and now he’s done that, for the threat he knows about, at least. And now he’s telling them to go home, you don’t need to be here anymore. This is goodbye.

“You could never beat me,” though. … True enough. Neither of them is well equipped to fight actual Riders, we’ve seen that whenever they go up against one – admittedly, it’s mostly been each other, but the main reason Sougo won in OOO and Genm part 1 was that he wasn’t quite fighting – the Build Armor tanked the hits, and most of what he did was dodge. Weak, but skilled, maybe? What attacks he did make against Geiz were damaging, yeah, but Geiz wasn’t being strategic at all. That’s the only time they fought each other seriously, since they first met, anyway.

I expected Tsukuyomi to be more clearly heartbroken at the separation, but. They’re both stoic. Tsukuyomi questions whether this is what Sougo really wants, but Geiz? ‘Fine. Have it your way.’ He’s pausing a lot in there, he’s tense – I think that’s partly a “did this actually work?” stress, and partly a “wait, no, I think I’m actually going to miss this guy” stress.

Tsukasa. What plan? What are you doing? We really are dealing with a bad-ending Decade here, aren’t we?

Shwartz, please. Please stop jabbing into people like that. It’s disturbing, and I don’t like your ‘kill the spare’ attitude in the slightest.

Hey, uh, Uncle Tokiwa? I’m starting to think you might be a different future Sougo. Too many suspicious foreshadowings, which has not helped me trust you, but add in your clear distress at Sougo giving up being a king… Sir. Are you a Sougo who gave up on being a king, and came back to get your smaller self to try again?

Because this is getting odd.

(I’m really glad that Zi-O’s started to get good.)

(‘Happy’ holidays from Toei. You know. For certain values of ‘happy.’)

(oh geez I’m only ten minutes into the show, and I’ve been watching for a half hour.)

Ohhh, without a belt, Sougo’s lost most of his resistance to the time stop.

(Heure, don’t bite into a bell pepper! Ew! At least wash it first!)

o.o Woz, where did you get that second belt? Actually, where did you get the first belt? But kudos to Sougo for sticking to his decision, and not taking it.

(Destiny. Destiny. No escaping destiny.)

Meanwhile, as Sougo is being thrown around and running, Geiz is reluctant to leave. He’s not saying it, but that expression. Good thing Tsukuyomi apparently wanted to keep tabs on Sougo until they left.

I can’t really comment on this first part of the fight – Kamen Rider Decade and Kasshin versus Kamen Rider Geiz and Sougo. Almost nothing I say will do the battle justice. This is beautiful.

Geiz, sweetie… “I thought you were going to become a good overlord?!” He’s using Sougo’s old determination to bring him back. And he gives him his own belt to fight. Geiz knows he’s not able to stand up to Kasshin, let alone Decade, to say nothing of the two at once. But he thinks Sougo can.

That is faith. That is trust. That is… now this is Kamen Rider.

(Woz, where did you get that ladder?)

Me, when Woz is doing his standard announcement: “Oh, cool background music, we’re getting a new track!”

Me: when Sougo dons the armor once again: “LYRICS?!”

I don’t know what they are singing but I like it and I already can’t wait for the release.

(Parka ghost summons: Billy the Kid and… (checks wiki) Goemon)

Best use of Parka ghosts thus far in Zi-O? Getting what was intended to be Sougo’s replacement driver to be Geiz’s replacement.

Seriously though, why do you have Ex-Aid?

Although… I wrote that ‘prove you can change your future’ line specifically thinking of Emu and Parad and the whole ‘show me you have the power to change your fate’ thing that the brothers have going on. Looks like whoever wrote this episode might have been thinking about that, too.

(I’ve been writing a lot of Ex-Aid stuff on the side, when I haven’t been working on Re-Build and The Takeru Fic. So they’re on my mind a lot lately. … okay, they’re almost always on my mind because there is so much to unwrap there.)

SOUGO HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT MIGHTY BROTHERS XX?!?!

HOWWW?!

(My boys.)

Mighty Brothers!Armor giving Zi-O both of his swords is the best.

The Orange!Armor is still the more aggressive, ‘fight me one-on-one’ side~! Blue!Armor is the ‘work as a team’ side~!

(I have so many Ex-Aid wips you guys)

These mech fights are so beautiful you have no idea how much I love this. I’m not even a Sentai fan. This is… this is amazing – the boys are a team and they’re actually acknowledging it now, aren’t they?

Woz smiles as the – holy snap. Holy snap. The gears on his book started turning. That’s new.

It’s still all going according to Oma Zi-O’s plan, though, isn’t it?

Ohh no the Dai-Mazine didn’t collapse, it just went underground and is biding it’s time.

Pfft- hahaha! So that’s the deal with Kamen Rider Woz’s color scheme!

It’s got that awful neon green because it’s referencing retro glow in the dark clock designs. I love it.

(Woz, please make up your mind with regards to your stance on ‘meeting yourself,’ because this is getting ridiculous.)

(Good night, everyone, I’ve got to go on a trip tomorrow. Wish me luck.)