Toony and ASHTE!Bendy being a duo because they’re my AUs and i said so. Bendy has a… prickly personality but Toony can soften just about anyone’s heart :)
I binged the whole of LMK's newest season and I'll say it was good! To recover from that heart wrenching season I coped by making silly doodles of my favorite characters. Nothing wrong here!
I put my last toonie in the bubble machine at the grocery store like the adult I am and look at this:
It’s fate, it’s fucking fate, my dudes:
Mr. Tibbs! It’s Mr. Tibbs!! I’m gonna take this as a good omen for season 16, or a further sign of my rapidly declining sanity due to Sunny, bit of both. Either way, may Mr. Tibbs smile upon us.
I wanna talk about Flip Turner (Tokunosuke Omoteura)/Tokunosuke Hyori
Maybe I'm reading into his character far too much, but hes such a comically tragic character. Sure, Yu-Gi-Oh is nothing but tragic characters. Alot of whom are presented as comedic and/or kind. Just look at the protags.
Yuma himself is no stranger to difficulties and I think thats part of what makes him so likable.
But this is about Flip/Tokunosuke
A majority of people are willing to write him off as simply annoying. By design hes likely meant to be. However Flip is still a tragic character.
In both the Manga and the Anime Flip blatantly admits that his behavior is a direct result of being taken advantage of by older children, ones that he trusted and even considered friends. And in the Manga the backstory includes overhearing his own Mother speak ill of him to his older brother. She doesn't care what he does so long as he's not bothering his brother who she considers more clever.
These events ruined him and changed him as a person.
Flip, is a boy whos mindset is hinged on the paranoid belief that everyone has ulterior motives. He is reluctant to take people at their word. His actions are a way to take back power over his situation. If he lies and cheats no one can take advantage of him again because hes already ensured his success.
The sentiment that Flip is like this 'just because' is canonically wrong. Flip may come off as an unreliable narrator. He even plays into that in some scenarios. But he admits to his past while under the influence of Number Cards. I genuinely do not believe Flip would have if he wasnt.
Flip has trust issues, seemingly even within his own friend group. Old habits die hard and with a kid like Flip expecting him to 100% switch on a dime into fully trusting people is unfathomable. He pushed others away in the past likely out of paranoia of getting hurt again. Yuma is probably the first person he let himself open up too since the events that caused him to shut others out.
Thats not to say Flip doesn't care about his friends. He does. Especially Yuma who he considers his best friend. He wants to be involved with them. He feels indignant when he isnt. (Seen below - taken from S1 EP25). However Flip is a complicated kid mentally and emotionally because if how he was treated in the past.
At the end of the day Flip is played off for laughs. He's a small impish boy who lies and cheats and has a goofy voice. So its easy to forget that he's the way he is because hes been hurt.
I adore him greatly, I see myself in him. Trusting people is hard when you've been hurt by the people you trusted.
Hes 13, hes acting out. Luckily hes found a group that embraces him, he could have easily fallen further if not for Yuma. I wished the series had of focused on his growth (and by extention some of yumas friends) more. I feel like he (and the others) had a lot of unused potential.