Wait, I just noticed... is your Chibiusa lefthanded?
Good catch! She is indeed left-handed.
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So, has anyone talked about the "Ninja Mind Meld" ability from "Insane in the Mama Train"? The one where the brothers (at least Leo and Raph) actually have telepathy powers? It doesn't seem to be a taught ninja art, since Leo seemed confused upon first using it.
Also, is it just a coincidence that this Mind Melding ability shares the same name as one of the prior episodes called "Mind Meld"? Where Donnie alters their brains in the "Mental Intelligence Reprogramulator"? It's possible he used samples of his own brain since the brothers grew to behave almost exactly like him, to the point of favoring the color purple and sharing his same fear of beach balls (characteristics unrelated to IQ).
What if Donnie's reprogramulator, mixed with the unknown capabilities of the Dragon's Tooth, did something to strengthen the shared connection between all four of their minds?
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I think Lyle has a much easier time (seemingly) expressing "small" emotions in a normal way, like just day to day feelings, but he's more repressed when it comes to bigger, more severe things. He's probably been trained to keep calm during emergencies and to internalise anything that might get in the way of his job, but that seems to result in him not really expressing any emotional reaction that rocks the boat too much, aside from occasionally resorting to very controlled moments of anger/violence.
Meanwhile Querl doesn't exactly know how to regulate, ah, any emotions. He's distant to a degree and sure tries to seem like he's very detached, but he generally reacts quite strongly in all situations and seems to have a hard time actually repressing most things (except for really traumatic stuff). Though it does seem like he's good at reframing every emotion as anger or annoyance rather than facing it head on.
Which is to say that Lyle comes of as the more emotionally well-regulated person at first, but Querl is more emotionally expressive overall.
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Honestly, big fan of how fucking Weird™ Neuvillette is
He can't do small talk for shit, his idea of a pastime is standing soaking wet in the rain with no umbrella, he'll infodump cool water facts at you given half the opportunity. He's the adoptive father of several dozen(?) immortal kids. He's a lawyer. He's inexplicably talented at making pottery.
He's somehow simultaneously the coolest and the lamest person in Fontaine
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I think its very funny that throughout most of Marcel’s trial, Childe was just sat there in the audience probably bored out of his fucking mind
All he probably wanted was a fight LMAOO
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actually I do want to talk about Sally Jackson a tad more because one criticism I've been hearing about her book counterpart more recently is "book Sally is one-dimensional: the perfect mother with no flaws" and that just has me biting my cheek because one part of her book counterpart that I always thought was ripe with discussion and didn't make it to the show is that Sally states that it was selfish of her to keep Percy close. It's one of the last things she says to him before she's "killed" by the minotaur.
And there's so much that we don't know about Sally because we view her from Percy's eyes. From his perspective we know that she's exceedingly kind, she never raises her voice to him or even Gabe, and she endured a horrible and abusive relationship to protect her son from monsters (of a different kind).
But there are things we can piece together from the text: Sally has known about CHB for a long time, apparently since before Percy was even born because Poseidon told her he wanted to send Percy there; she was told that it was a mistake for her to keep Percy close - who told her that, we're not sure, she only uses the phrase they; she's been in contact with Grover through out the school year; she knows that she can't cross the camp boundary line, which means either Grover or someone else (Chiron? Poseidon?) told her that, and that she understood that there was place that Percy would be safe from monsters.
And all of these little details are so interesting because it does make you wonder just how much she did or didn't know. Was her self assessment right? Was it selfish of her to keep Percy close?
On one hand, she kept him close because she loved him, alongside the fear that if she sent him to camp, she would be saying goodbye for good -- so is it even fair to call the act of keeping him close selfish? Or perhaps, much like Chiron, she assumed keeping Percy in the dark would be safer?
But on the other hand, Percy had been attracting monsters all his childhood, she understood camp was a safe place from monsters, and she had apparently been told explicitly that it was a mistake for her to keep him close.
And then adding in the factors of: Percy is her only family in the entire world, she's been suffering with Gabe for years, sacrificing so much in order to keep Percy safe when he's at home... but even that has a touch of sad irony because when we meet Percy in tlt, its at point when he's not really home at all -- he's been regularly sent off to boarding schools, so much so that he's internalized it as his own short-coming.
And all of this isn't to say "Omg Sally is actually horrible" or to assert definitely that she is selfish... but more to speak to the fact that in the books, she's not an all-perfect 2-dimensional mother. And her self-assessment of selfishness is something that is really interesting to explore and debate given the implications of what she apparently did (or did not) know about the godly world. I feel there's even an argument to be made that Sally being "selfish" could be a reflection of Percy's fatal flaw.
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