#Its something that I thought about a lot during trial 5

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Very quick Mastermind Kaito because there's something about him that's always on my mind..

[googledetective]

I wanted to give my thoughts on the new episode, even if nobody really cares.

Spoilers, of course.

1. I love the new sprites, especially the Teruko ones.

3. I think Arturo's breakdown was very justified, and I'm glad that it happened. (also "shut your whore mouth" was the funniest shit I've heard all day!)

2. I think it's good information to know that the cast thinks they're 18 years old (inference), and Rose said that its likely been a few years. It gives us an age range now :)

2.5 (edit) Whit is looking really suspicious. I get the whole bond between him and Charles, but why would he say that Charles has no alibi if he wasn't out and about.

4. I think the fact that Teruko did not notice that Arei was swinging initially when she died, means she at least cared a bit and was surprised by her death.

5. I love the banter between Teruko and David about Xander. It's just so interesting to see such polarized and opposite opinions.

6. David really raises the question of is something out there worth more than the lives of 16 people, something I've never seen anyone consider yet or really much in Danganronpa before. I think this may end up being a justified kill.

7. David knows who Xander is... I hope that comes up again. I'm very curious as to who he really is and why David has memories. My theory is that David knew of him during or before the age of 18, so that memory wouldn't have been erased. Also why did he only say a year's worth of memories?

8. This is a bit of a leap, but I think it's safe to say David has Teruko's secret.

8.5 (edit) I'm starting to get sick of J accusing Arturo and Ace accusing Nico constantly. J is a huge fucking hypocrite, and honestly, as much as I love her, both her and Ace need to shut their goddamn mouths before I shut it for them.

9. I'm glad Hu had her moment. I talked to so many people who were starting to agree with David, so it was nice to see a different opinion. And I think she's right: that David shouldn't make the choice to die for them.

10. I'm glad David told Whit to shut up and called him out. I think that might help Whit have character development in the future, if he survives this trial.

11. My heart fucking sank when Levi confessed his secret.

12. I'm a huge Teruvid fan after this episode. I already was a fan, but holy shit.

13 (edit) David dropped the "good person" term on Xander. That's huge, considering the hidden text in the chapter card.

14. I could see Levi's reveal going one of three ways:

a. He's the killer as well and he's going to come clean

b. He's lying and he's the killer

c. He's telling the truth but he isn't the killer

Here's my opinions of the cast after this episode:

(Hu and David went up by a lot.)

[the-quiet-youve-been-longing-for]

Okay time for another small (I hope) analysis on IWTV, mainly the way it's written and its place on current television. I'll try my best to format this so it's not ramblings all over, I promise.

IWTV and plot points

I watched a good amount of television in my time, and one thing I noticed here is the fact that it doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't tell you "hey, this thing x is important, now we will tell again why x is important, now here see x being used, the important thing we talked about so far, did you remember, audience?".

Let's take as an example the "don't drink the blood of the living" thing. It's said to a young Louis (telling also to the audience in the 2nd episode how vampirism in this setting works) and then every time it's brought up it's indirectly (Lestat spitting out the sick man's blood, we see Claudia buying Laudanum and we know what it will be used for, but they don't tell us "Hey, Claudia is planning to poison someone so that Lestat drinks it, because remember audience, dead blood kills them"). Sometimes not only it doesn't hold your hand, but shoves you in a different direction, especially in S2. It contradicts himself, backtracks and then it's up to you to spot it.

For example, attentive viewers may have noticed that Sam was in 2 places at once in the trial, one episode before the actual reveal. It isn't a gotcha they came up with in the finale to give more gravitas to the revelation. When they tell us Lestat mass manipulated the audience, it makes sense for the storyline too because we already saw him do that with the soldiers, we have a previous example to refer to, Armand never used that particular power.

In a time where we see so many social media adopt the "short videos" gimmick, like reels and shorts etc, having a piece of media that references back in this way is super refreshing.

2. Character complexity

Complex characters are the backbone of this show. It's easy to place a character in a box and leave them there. You see it with the stereotype of the villain, the best friend, the hero. Some tv shows may have the character shift into a different box, but it's almost never permanent (think of the times where a hero gets corrupted by the Evil Power, but then reverts back to their hero status after Defeating the Evil Power because they remembered the Power of Friendship).

We have Louis, well meaning vampire who is capable of horrible deeds when pushed to the brink. Lestat, who feels so much to the point it hurts the people around him. Armand, whose trauma and fear bring out the need to control, but at the same time he needs to do that without actually controlling. They are all these things at the same time, and it's impossible to see them in a black and white perspective.

3. Details

A line almost always has its parallels to another line in the show, gazes always mean something, props are detailed and shown (I made a post looking at Daniel's notes in 2x05, which were shown for a second only, but you can also think about Claudia's diaries, all handwritten, or the astonishing amount of folders that were in Daniels computer from the Talamasca. That is all prop work done to be shown for a few seconds at most).

4. Analysis

This is more of a fandom thing than the show itself, but I was suprised by the amount of deep analysis that people here on Tumblr did (but also on other social media). Long essays on the meaning of a scene, or on the many many topics the show brings to light (the fallacy of memory, the impact of trauma, the meaning of free will and agency).

Similarly lots of people said that the show brought them back the urge to start creating, whether it's gifs, video essays, edits, fanart, fics, what have you. I started going back to Tumblr after years (last time I was here was during S4 of Sherlock).

And I feel like this is only possible if you give your audience something to work with, something to talk about and to dissect, rather than simple "entertainment".

5. Final thoughts

Of course, this isn't to say IWTV is error free, all perfect, without flaws. Nor is it the only one that has had this amount of labor and impact. But it's still miles ahead from most media we have available at the moment in my opinion, and I really hope its success brings other showrunners or directors to want to try and dare, to trust in their audience, to avoid shortcuts and to pour love in their creation.

If you got this far, I just want to thank you for taking the time to read my ramblings again! Have a cute Louis as a reward, and see you next time :)

[faeruy]

Agatha All Along - Episode 6 "Familiar By Thy Side"

The Tower Reversed - Our first explicit mention of a Reverse reading, this one's triggered as Lilia reads Billy Kaplan's palm during his Bar Mitzvah. As I've said in past tarot posts, I'm an amateur, so I could be misinterpreting/missing things in my analysis. I do my best.

LET'S F'ING GO.

So starting with the obvious. The Tower is a notoriously scary card, and Reversed readings are often thought to be more negative, but it's not true in this case. The Tower Reversed is mostly about a personal transformation, a HUGE one. Like the upright reading, upheaval and change is a huge part of it, but Reverse is mostly internal. Billy Kaplan is about to become something more; he becomes Billy Maximoff. The upheaval in his life is so great, he doesn't really know WHO he is. Tower Reversed can also indicate an existential crisis, which is Billy in spades.

The thing about ANY reading of the Tower, is that the change is inevitable. There will be upheaval, whether one likes it or not, but the Reversed reading suggests that disaster can be avoided. In this case, Billy Kaplan is going to die in a car crash, Billy Maximoff is going to be unmade, but true disaster is avoided when the two events happen simultaneously. Neither of them is truly gone-gone. There's a reason both Billy Kaplan and Billy Maximoff are names protected by the sigil.

The thing that's clear to me is while Lilia was spooked by what she read in his palm at first, the Tower Reversed (and whatever else his palm said) was enough to tell her that he was going to survive in some fashion and would need protection from people like her. (Or Agatha, or Wanda even; who knows?) I hope we get to see what she sees when we get to her trial.

The thing I also want to talk about, is why she specified Reversed, when Upright could just as easily applied to the situation at hand. After all, Billy Kaplan didn't cause the car accident that killed him, Wanda was the one who undid the spell that had brought Billy Maximoff into existence in the first place. So one could definitely argue that those fall under more of an Upright reading; destruction, chaos, upheaval. Especially given Wanda's magic was explicitly labeled as Chaos Magic. I think its because the writers of the show are trying to tell us something; that the death and destruction that make up HOW Billy came to be is far less important than WHO he is; which is simply a boy becoming a man, and trying to figure out who he is and what he wants in the world. The whole Billy Kaplan/Billy Maximoff thing is a metaphor for a coming-of-age, and calling out the Tower Reversed is as much of a tell as setting the whole thing the day of his Bar Mitzvah.

One last note; I'm so pleased that The Tower came into play again, after it showed up in a promo poster which has Lilia holding the card Upright. My guess is that it's there to indicate a couple of things; 1)Lilia's the Divination Witch (and Tarot's a big part of that), 2)We can expect some form of chaos and destruction, 3)Definitely a nod to the fake "Coven of Chaos" Title. But I think the poster was a nod to the usage in episode 6, and the connection Lilia has to Billy, only with a slight misdirect by having it Upright instead of Reversed. And while I think that probably has more to do with readability and clarity than anything else, I wonder if some of that was to throw people off the track. IMO Tower Upright invites a pretty shallow, general take when thrown onto something like a Marvel promo poster. Tower Reversed, because it indicates that someone making these posters knows more than the bare minimum about Tarot and is using it to plant clues about the show, invites a LOT more speculation.

This post went a lot longer than I thought, but I hope you all enjoyed it, and if you want to check out my analysis of the Tarot cards from past episodes:

Episodes 1-3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 7 part 1

[mybutcheredtongue]

I'll Love You 'til the Grass Around My Gravestone is Deceased

harry potter timeline Sirius Black x fem!reader

You lived out your years at Hogwarts with the company of your best friends, Lily Evans and Alice Fortescue. You fell in love with one of the infamous Marauders, Sirius Black. After school, you married and became Mrs Black, living in a home full of love and life with your faithful husband. Your happy life is cut short when Sirius is wrongfully convicted of the murder of Peter Pettigrew and several muggles, and sent straight to Azkaban without trial. The Ministry thinks you must be connected, but after several days of investigation and questioning, litres of veritaserum thrown down your throat, you're proven innocent. You have maintained his innocence ever since, knowing Sirius would never do something like that. The only person who'll hire you is Albus Dumbledore, and with his help your name is reverted to its maiden and your past is buried deep.

This story follows your life during your time as a professor at Hogwarts when Harry Potter joins the school and everything changes.

FULL of angst but has a happy ending.

No use of Y/N

This fic is mostly a collection of moments and scenes! So a lot of time skips.

p.s. title is from the song "I Love You" by Fontaines D.C. — one of my favourite bands!! would so so recommend checking them out :)

CHAPTER ONE (see full series list here)

1991

You glance at your watch, the hand ticking slowly as it moves to show 9:03 p.m.

Finally, the large wooden door opens and a scrawny young boy pushes forward, huffing tiredly, and less than 20 odd first-year students filter into the astronomy tower.

"Evening, everyone!" You say cheerfully. The Gryffindors and Ravenclaws stand awkwardly as they gaze around the room in wonderment.

You feel proud of it. The last astronomy professor had left this room a little...boring, so when you came into employment you spruced it up a little bit. Though there aren't many to write on, each wall is plastered in hand-painted constellations with their names in 5 languages written underneath. You had cast a spell on the floor to conjure up a moon, one that matched the real one's lunar phases. Today, a waxing gibbous.

Telescopes line the edges of the circular room, each pointing high into the sky. You eye your favourite for a moment, the same telescope you'd used during your own years as a student at Hogwarts.

It feels like home in this room.

"Welcome to the Astronomy Tower," you say with a smile. "Here, you'll learn all about the wonders of our universe and its planets, galaxies, stars...everything. Please, find a telescope and stand behind it. We'll start with charting some simple constellations today."

The students obediently line behind a telescope each. Your eyes immediately focus on a young boy, with jet black hair and circular glasses. You lose your train of thought for a moment, feeling as though you're looking at a ghost.

He's the very image of James Potter.

Then, he turns to look at you and his eyes strike you. Green and vibrant, full of youth and gentleness.

Lily.

You feel your breath catch in your throat, but quickly shake your head of the grief and clap you hands, smiling at the students again.

"Astronomy is one of the very few subjects that is present in both the wizarding and the muggle world. That means that there are millions of resources out there for all of you to use, whether it be from a wizarding standpoint or a muggle one! Interesting stuff," you continue. "Now, I want you all to do a small task for me. Look through your telescope — please don't change any lenses just yet — and try and see if you can spot a constellation. Then, using the first page of your book, see if you can figure out which constellation it is. Call me over when you think you have one!"

The students immediately start rooting through their bags for their Astronomy textbooks and you sigh gently, content with your introduction. First-years are always well interested and curious about everything, so Astronomy is a pretty easy subject for them to get into. After all, lots of the first year curriculum is just looking at pretty stars and constellations.

"Professor, I think I have one!" A young Gryffindor girl with bushy brown hair and an excited face says to you, throwing her hand in the air enthusiastically.

You smile, walking over to her. "What's your name, dear?"

"Hermione Granger, professor."

"And what constellation do you think you've found?"

"Aquila, professor," she beams, pointing a finger to the small, 'T' shaped constellation in her book.

You close one eye and look through her telescope, noticing it immediately.

You grin at her. "Well spotted, Miss Granger! Excellent work." You glance at her scarlet and gold tie. "5 points to Gryffindor for being the first one!"

Her face lights up proudly.

"Now, let's see if you can find any of the stars present in it. Any at all, though you may find it difficult to differentiate — "

"The star of Altair, professor!"

Your eyes widen and you chuckle in surprise. "Well, aren't you just making my job a whole lot easier for me? Well done, Miss Granger. Please chart that constellation down on some parchment and continue looking."

In the next few minutes, many students find constellations and are charting them down. One boy seems to be having a particularly difficult time.

"Neville Longbottom, isn't it?" You say as you wander up to him. He jumps at the sound of your voice, knocking his forehead against the edge of his telescope and letting out a small yelp of pain. "Oh, sorry..." You wave your wand gently and his eyebrows raise, bringing a hand to his forehead in surprise.

"Just a small healing spell. For minor, minor injuries," you tell him. "How is your charting going?"

The boy's cheeks go red and his eyes focus on the floor beneath him. "I...haven't been able to find one, professor. I — I thought I had one ages ago, but there were too many stars in it..."

"Let me have a look, Mr Longbottom," you say kindly, bringing your eye up to the lens and grinning. "Well, you most definitely have found one. One I didn't think anyone would find!"

You glance at Neville's face, and he's the picture of shock.

"Pisces, Mr Longbottom. Trust your judgement! Excellent work."

Neville grins, and you step aside, but not before he says something else.

"Uh, professor..."

"Yes?"

"How do...how do you know my name?"

You study his face and smile again. The very picture of Frank Longbottom. With Alice Fortescue's mousy hair.

"I went to school with your parents, Mr Longbottom. You're the spitting image of your father."

Next, the young boy with jet black hair and glasses calls you over. Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived.

"What one have you found, Mr Potter?"

As he looks at you, green eyes connecting with your own, you try your hardest not to see Lily staring back at you. You try your hardest not to picture your best friend, your honourary sister, a woman of true light in a world full of darkness.

Your heart has felt lonely since her absence. Since James. Since Alice. Since Frank. Since Peter.

You blink.

"Uh, Canis Major, I think?"

You swallow hard. Of course.

"Let me have a look see..." He's right of course, you don't even need to look. You can spot that constellation any night without a telescope. You know it like the back of your hand. "You're dead right, Mr Potter. Brilliant constellation, that is. Canis Major means 'the Great Dog', and it actually contains the brightest star in the night sky visible to our naked eye, Si — "

"Oh, wait, hold on..." Harry says, flicking through his book to find the page on Canis Major. He pauses, eyes skimming down the page. "Uh, Sirius, right?"

You bite your lip, feeling your heart speed up. You take a deep breath, forcing a smile. "Yes, Mr Potter. Sirius."

Your favourite star.

Your favourite person.

Your heart has been broken since his absence.

"Good work." You promptly spin on your heel, heading for your desk as you glance down at your watch. "Alright, everyone. Excellent work today! Now, I won't set anyone any written homework...but if you're truly interested and find you have a little free time, try and see if you can chart any other constellations! Night, everyone."

The students chat animatedly amongst themselves and exit down the spiral stairs, leaving you alone in the room. You sit down at your desk, sighing as you slip a key from your pocket and open one of the drawers. You pull out a small photograph, eyes wandering over the young, elated faces of James Potter, Lily Evans, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Alice Fortescue, Frank Longbottom, and yourself.

Graduation day.

One the left, you're standing in the middle of Alice and Lily, arms around them and laughing wholeheartedly. James stands beside Lily, arms around her and Sirius beside him, who's connected with Remus, Peter, and Frank.

You smile weakly. You remember that day, all full of hope and joy. There was some sadness too, sadness to be leaving Hogwarts and ultimately leaving childhood.

Your fingers gently skim over Sirius' face, feeling your heart ache.

What you wouldn't give to go back to that day.

⁠✧⁠*⁠。✧⁠*⁠。

Dear Moony,

I hope you're well! School's started back up again. Been a bit crazy lately, sorry that I haven't written since your last letter. Someone let a troll into the dungeon. Quirrell went mad, fainted in the middle of dinner and set all the students into a panic. It was torture.

Harry's started here. It's hard to look at him sometimes. He's the image of James. It's uncanny. He has Lily's eyes, too. Sometimes I start to feel like I can talk to them through him, even though I know that's mad of me. Neville Longbottom's here too. He's just like his parents. Both in Gryffindor, you'll be happy to know.

Dumbledore's gave me strict instructions not to say a word to Harry about it all. Says it'll be too much for him. He won't be able to understand why I couldn't have raised him instead of the Dursleys. He says that Harry will only start digging around for more information on me if he finds out I'm his godmother. He'd ask about his godfather then. It's too much for a young boy to know that his godfather is in Azkaban.

I wanted to talk to him so bad, Remus. I want to tell him about his parents, show him the photos. I want him to be able to feel at home here, feel like he's got someone here. A part of his family. I know exactly what those Dursleys are like. Petunia always hated James, you know that well enough. I hate that I have to keep this secret for even longer.

I talked to young Neville though. Merlin, he has Alice's clumsiness, that's for sure. Such a sweet lad. He was more than happy to see photos of the two and hear stories about them. I feel like a little bit of the weight that's been hanging over me has been lifted. I even showed him that photo of Alice falling into the Black Lake in 5th Year. If she was of sound mind she'd surely throttle me for that.

I think I need to get out of the castle for a bit. Wanna get a coffee? It's been a while.

I've omitted a few details of the past few weeks so I have something interesting to tell you about next weekend, if you're up for it.

all my love,

You sign the letter, folding up the parchment gently and dropping it in an envelope. You grab your bland wax stamper and press a small circle of black wax over the envelope's seal. You slip it into your pocket and stand up from your bed. Beside you, your black cat, Dubh*, stirs from her sleep and meowls at you.

You give her a loving scratch behind the ears. "Just popping down to the owlery. I'll be back."

On your way down to the owlery, you pass two lanky, identical students with heads full of ginger hair. They haven't noticed you yet. They're peering around the corner at Filch, a suspicious-looking bag in one of their hands.

"Bit late for the two of you to be out, isn't it?" You whisper behind them. They wheel around immediately and their eyes widen in shock.

"Professor! We — uh, we weren't doing anything!" George blurts out.

"Don't you look just lovely tonight, Professor? There is such a...healthy glow about you," Fred remarks suavely and you raise an unamused eyebrow at him.

"I sincerely hope you don't think I'm that thick, Mr Weasley."

"Never, Professor!"

You sigh, shaking your head. "Off to bed, both of you. Quickly, before Filch can catch you. I advise you to keep your pranks within the time you're actually allowed out of bed."

Fred's shoulders slump in disappointment, his want for a good prank evident on his face. George however, is staring at you in surprise.

"No detention?"

Fred immediately smacks his hand over the back of George's head, scowling at him. "Don't give her any ideas!"

"Get going, you two."

They take it this time, quickly scampering down the hallway. You step out from it, into the same one as Filch, who's eyeing you suspiciously.

"Is someone there?"

"Only me, Mr Filch," you answer.

"I thought I heard voices."

"Just me. I was trying to remember a poem I heard recently, it's three pages long. Would you like to hear it?"

Filch's face contorts immediately. "No."

You shrug. "Suit yourself."

You walk past him and out into the cold night air, trying to suppress the smile on your face.

⁠✧⁠*⁠。✧⁠*⁠。

->-> read chapter two here!

*Dubh: pronounced 'duv'. Irish word for 'black'.

→ all types of interaction appreciated ♡

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Episode 5 Theory: Agatha's Trial is not what it seems (Part 3)

Lilia’s Vision of Agatha’s Official Trial was disrupted by Teen.

Originally when writing this I was going to claim the trial was a mix of Agatha, Lilia, and Teen’s trials but after some thought and the evidence I gathered— that’s not the case.

(At this point you’re probably wondering why I haven’t addressed Rio and Alice yet— I was saving them for this). 

The reason this isn’t Teen’s trial: 

 “familiar’s don’t get a vote”

In the coven he is seen as their familiar and therefore isn’t an official member of the coven. Especially in episode four where Alice’s curse dealt with him differently than the other witches. By this logic Teen doesn’t get an official trial. However, because of the reveal that Teen is Billy Maximoff — we can conclude he was personally involved in Agatha’s trial whether intentionally or unintentionally. 

Right when they entered, the first thing that Teen says is that he lost his spell book. The previous trials he had his spell book so right from there things are off. It may not seem important but this is the perfect time to remember that Teen is a Maximoff and like his mother he does have telepathy, telekinesis, and mental manipulation as his abilities. And based off WandaVision it is possible to lose control of those powers from extreme emotions if Wanda taking over Westview proved anything.

Hypothetically if we go down the line of Teen (Billy) unintentionally being involved in the trial— here’s why:

episode 4: Teen/Billy is injured and according to Agatha there was a LOT of blood. 

He surprisingly made a fast recovery but if we are claiming he lost a lot of blood, he could still be reeling from it. Losing lots of blood can lower blood pressure and cause potential brain damage, dizziness and a couple other symptoms. Generally it takes about several weeks to recover from losing 1 liter of blood. So yes I’m saying he wasn’t fully okay walking into that trial. In short, he probably wasn’t fully in control of his powers since bleeding out. 

So maybe his powers ran a little rampant and he affected Lilia’s vision (we saw he could manipulate her at the end of s1e5) so who’s to say he didn’t affect her vision and in turn changed the layout of Agatha’s (unofficial) trial?

Teen grew up in the 90s Halloween in WandaVision episode 6. I’m not sure if the layout of the third trial is supposed to be 80s or 90s but it may or may not be relatively close. Agatha was also around during the Halloween episode in WandaVision so maybe Teen’s still recovering mind just went back to something close to his childhood in order to make sense of Lilia’s vision and Agatha Harkness herself. 

Also friend of mine pointed out the ouija board for the trial was a generic one that teenagers typically use to fool around and it’s not the one that real witches use. 

The blood moon as I previously mentioned represents:  “When the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. “ which could mean the people Agatha has killed but with Teen disrupting the trial it could be representing his position as a creation of the Scarlet Witch and then disappearing when Wanda took down Westview… or part of Lilia’s vision trying to make sense of Teen’s (future) involvement. 

Another point I wanted to mention:

What if I said Teen’s worst nightmare was actually becoming like his mother and him squabbling with Agatha proved it— leading to the ending shot with him wearing a similar crown like his mother? 

The mind does crazy things when it’s sleeping (because he’s recovering from blood loss) and to have this happen or infiltrate Lilia’s vision by accident. Teen could be processing some issues he has not yet voiced about his mother and Agatha could be an unintentional stand in that reminds him of that — within the context of Agatha’s trial which is a vision that Lilia is having. (I know I might not be explaining this well but bear with me). 

He wanted to be with the coven but immediately turned when he realized how little they treated Alice’s death

^ this part was off to me and you could write it off as Teen’s insecurity of his place in the coven and losing the connections (Alice and Agatha) that currently connect them together. 

(Look at that I got to Alice now.) 

We see he forms a bond with Alice throughout the episodes and we also see him and Agatha fall into a mother son relationship. The reason I’m still saying this is Teen disrupting the vision of the trial is because of one (okay two crucial things):

Alice’s Death and Rio’s lack of appearance. 

Queue to the beginning of episode 4 where Agatha is nonchalant and trying to get everyone to move on from Sharon’s death (which I think most of us are clear is because Agatha wants to avoid seeing Rio who is Death incarnate). 

Lilia says, “a woman is dead” when Agatha tries to get everyone to move as they try to properly bury Sharon. This scene here indicates a sense of respect for the fallen.

They took the time to bury Sharon… so why didn’t we see Alice’s burial? 

Next part here:

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Agatha All Along Ep. 5 First Impressions

I'm kinda disappointed.

Agatha All Along has been working really well as a solo project. The practical effects and episodic writing make it feel really different than a lot of the MCU. There are a lot of non-MCU fans watching this. So I was worried that

...Teen's identity just doesn't flow with not just the plot of this show, but its emotional core. What does "Teen is actually Wanda's kid" mean to the story of Agatha's coven and their journey down the Witch's Road?

What I was hoping was that after the Witch's Road, they'd take some time to bring Wanda's legacy back into the show organically so Teen's identity had some emotional weight to it. After all, there's a lot of potential for drama there once Agatha realized her "familiar" was the child of the woman who took her freedom for three years.

So when Wanda's crown appeared on Teen's head, I didn't have much of an emotional reaction to the reveal itself. It was certainly a cool way to do it, especially with the perfect song, but it happened too soon, too fast. I am definitely interested in how Agatha immediately turned Teen's words against him and projected Wanda's misdeeds onto him, especially since he immediately proved her right by taking control of Lilia and Jen and threw them all into the muck. I'm just a little confused as to why he would do that. Guess we have to wait and see.

The episode in general just felt...rushed, maybe? I don't know, I felt like bits of motivation or bits of reasoning were missing here and there. Everyone turned against Agatha during her trial really quickly, and they should know that past trials were supposed to be group efforts. Evanora kept repeating that Agatha was evil, she was born evil, but never offered any details about what she did. And nobody asked.

And then out of nowhere in the last minute of the "trial", Teen suddenly contacted Nicholas Scratch on the Ouija Board (didn't he say specifically it needed more than one person??) and a ghost's voice that I guess is Scratch pleads for Agatha to stop killing Alice, because he wants his mom to be a good person. Okay...? Then Nicholas Scratch was apparently a child when he either died or was sacrificed.

Why was that the way to finish the trial? What exactly was this trial? If last week's trial was anything to go by, you'd expect the coven to learn something, or find closure somehow. The fact that Teen randomly contacts a whole different ghost and apparently finishes the trial for all of them because the coven is in complete chaos and did NOT reach any understanding with Evanora - if that was the point of the trial - ? - kind of goes against the spirit of what we've seen so far. Maybe the writing was over-edited and messed up because Marvel had to oversee the Billy reveal.

This episode might still grow on me. That's why I'm calling this "first impressions". Because I literally just watched it, and I'm still digesting it. Stuff like Nicholas Scratch's appearance as a ghostly voice and Teen's reveal as Billy might make more sense with future episodes, so I'm not saying it's ruined or anything. Overall Agatha All Along is one of the best Marvel shows, exceeding it's predecessor Wandavision in emotional intelligence and drama.

Also at some point one of the witches called Billy Agatha's "familiar" and I just realized that's why she kept calling him her "pet". Though, considering she called her actual familiar "Senor Scratchy" and she thought Billy was her son for a while, that makes it a lot sadder. And I do like that Agatha only needed to know that he wasn't her son to suspect that he was Billy Kaplan. (Billy Maximoff? Billyvision? Whatever Marvel goes with.) But what really confirmed it for her was when he got righteous with her, and it reminded her of Wanda trying to excuse her actions in Westview. That was good.

[mediocre-noodle]

recent reblog: tell about q!slime 👀 (i havent watched qsmp but i know crumbs)

HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHA yippee!! im very bad at character analysis and articulating my words but its ok i got this

1. feelings: ohhhhhhhh my god. he literally has been my favorite character of all time for the past year or so? i cant get him out of my brain 😭 i think hes such an incredibly tragic character that deserved so much better than the shitty hand he was dealt :( i feel ill about this freaking guy.

2. romantic pairings: main romantic ship is definitely him and mariana! at first they were the definition of a toxic, loveless marriage (still pretty much are LMAO) but i think, especially after their conversation in purgatory, they were genuinely really good together. like, them joking around and being really sweet was so, like, augghhhh 😭😭😭 but like. the toxic marriage was so fucking funny to watch 😭 i laughed so hard i started crying during the trial of juanaflippa LMAOO

2.5: another romantic pairing is him and cellbit because. dude. their conversation during the dia de los muertos stream was SOOOOOOOOOOO omg. it lives in my head rent free 😭 i think they would only serve to make each other SO MUCH WORSE and i am here for it (yeah cellbit is married but like. slime had a mega crush on that man theres no denying it, and me personally i think their relationship (romantic or not) is SOOOOOO fascinating, especially during slime’s code arc)

3. non-romantic otp: slime and baghera!!!!!! they are the definition of friendship soulmates to me LMAO. baghera trying so hard to be there for him even when NO ONE ELSE WAS and the infection was getting so bad……. ough……! but also, their funny moments are EVERYTHINGGGG to me. the fish joke and the karaoke and all their silly little conversations… gah…….. AND PURGATORYYYYY!!! i cant articulate thoughts about them beyond OOOOGH🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍 (platonic)

4. unpopular opinion: idk how unpopular this is but like. i wish purgatory never happened 😭 like it was SO MUCH FUN while it lasted, but the overall impact it had, especially on qslime, was DEFINITELY not worth it lmao. like, it completely shoved all of his lore and buildup out of the way in favor of the event, and then????? he wasnt ever told to log back on???????? (context xi: the admins on the qsmp handled a lot of lore for the players, and slime’s lore really started to pick up just before the purgatory event. when the event was over, multiple players were told to not log on for “lore”, but slime and one other guy (pol) were never let back onto the server 😭 like, they straight up forgot about him even though he was SUPPOSED to have made it out of purgatory) i dont really have much more to that. bolas was fun, wasnt worth my cubito never getting anymore lore tho

5. something i wish happened: i wish we got an ending… or closure……… or something………

because!!!!! like!!!!!!! his story was going SO WELL (in a pacing and interest sense, the character was SUFFERING lmao) and it was really coming together!!! the pacing and buildup were AMAZING and it really looked like it was going to reach its peak after purgatory!! but, alas. he was forgotten. and so was his lore. because we NEVER saw codeflippa again. or him. or his code infection. and im never going to be over it.

i really need to go back and rewatch the streams to brush up on my qslime brain but. yeah!! thank you for indulging me :333 (if any of this was confusing or smth lemme know and i can clear it up!!)

[adeapamela]

₊‧.°.⋆ Blog Entry: THREE ₊‧.°.⋆

THE ODYSSEY OF

MANGO CRÊPE ๑༄ ‧₊˚

"Third time is a charm," they said, but this wasn't the case in this project. I'm curious about what kind of dessert I should make today, but one thing's for sure is that mango should be present since it's its season. As an indecisive person, I was torn between mango sticky rice and mango crepe, but the crepe won, obviously. I didn't make any fuss about it cause I believed that it was easy. I've made tons of crepe before, and I have this confidence and familiarity inside me. But who am I kidding? The last time I made this was 2 years ago.

I gathered up all the equipment and ingredients and started pouring the first candidate of mother of crepes. I scattered the butter all over the pan and ran the mixture in, and boy, I knew I had already messed up. I put way too much on the pan, and the consistency of the batter itself was too thick. The moment I was about to flip the ⋆⁺₊ crepe ₊⁺⋆ it kept sticking on the pan and in the spatula. Take note that I am using a nonstick pan in this.

Nevertheless, I always believed that "the first crepe is always the ugliest" to cheer myself up. I then switched pans; I replaced them with a pan with four circles divider. I said, "Maybe I should make mini crepes instead; it would be easier to flip." There again, my intuition failed me because the crepe that I was making had turned into some kind of horrible-looking pale omelet. My hopes were slowly crashing because after how many times I tried, it always resulted in the same until the doors of heaven sent me mercy. I JUST DID MY FIRST SUCCESSFUL PIECE OF CREPE ʚ(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )ɞBelow are the ingredients and the procedures:

It wasn't an easy journey; there were many trials, errors, and frustrations. I have realized these mistakes and learned lessons during the process.

1. On my first crepe, I put too much butter on the pan, considering that it is a nonstick pan, so the crepe suddenly learned to skate because the pan's surface was too slippery.

So, I got myself a paper towel to remove the excess butter from the pan. This is also helpful in applying the butter evenly without burning it.

2. The batter I made was too thick and dense to glide smoothly through the pan's surface.

So, I adjusted some measurements and ingredients to have a runny consistency. This resulted in a light mixture, leaving a smooth, thin crepe.

3. I am too excited to pour the mixture without realizing the pan needs to be hot enough.

So, I waited for the pan to be hot and left the crepe alone. Yes, the crepe has social anxiety and needs to have its own space for a while. Once I saw that the top surface had dried out, that was my queue to flip it.

4. I was so impatient that I wanted to flip the crepe too quickly, so it kept sticking in the spatula and turning into a hideous omelet.

So, I realized that the spatula was only the sidekick here because my fingers were the real heroes on this journey. It burns my pointer and thumb a little (A LOT), but it's the only way to flip it without ripping the crepe.

5. I poured too much of the mixture into the pan, which resulted a pancake, and I was already rethinking my life choices here.

So, I got a small ladle to scoop the batter, similar to half a cup. This made the perfect decent-looking and uniform crepe.

Crepe ｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ˎˊ˗

Mix together the instant pancake mix (flour, egg, salt, and oil/butter) and the water (milk). Make sure that your batter is runny before pouring it into the pan. The pan should be on low heat to avoid having a burnt lumpiang shanghai wrapper. Filling ｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ˎˊ˗ Whisk or whip together the cream and sweetener for the filling, and then you're done.

I almost quit making this and thought I should've created something less complex. But that's the point of being alive. Having to feel pain, sadness, and happiness. Sometimes we have to face hardships to get better. It will not be easy, the process might hurt, but you will eventually learn to endure and find ways to improve it because that's the pain of learning.

[drgairyuki]

My 1st Randomly Generated Marine Chapter

This was my first attempt at creating a Space Marine Chapter randomly.

So I decide to randomly create and generate a Space Marine chapter by using and messing around with 1d6chan(rip 1d4chan)'s Space Marine Chapter Creation Table and Roll A Die to get the results. Why? Because I thought it would be fun. Note; I did for fun, and there is going to be a lot of interpretation and speculation on my part, but I guess that's the part of the fun.

So here are the results of this me messing around;

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Chapter Origins: Why Was The Chapter Founded? (d10) 10: Crusade - "We need people running around and hitting the Imperium's enemies. Found a Chapter!"

When Was The Chapter Founded? (d100) 97: M41/M42; Ultima Founding consisting of Primaris Marines. Actually in two waves (+ intermittents in-between), first in 999.M41 and 000.M42, intermittent foundings during the intervening years to replace destroyed chapters or garrison key areas, and the second in 012.M42 after the first phase of the Indomitus Crusade ended with victory at the Battle of Raukos from the last core of Unnumbered Sons veterans, capping off the largest founding in history.

Who was the Chapter's Progenitor? (d100) 71: Dark Angels

Chapter Properties and Flaws: Gene-seed purity (d10) 10: Flawed - Chapter's gene-seed is flawed and sets them apart from their progenitor - roll on Chapter Flaws table

Chapter Demeanour (d10) 10*: Uphold the Honour of the Emperor - Performing unheroic acts? *BLAM* NO or alternatively, since I'd already rolled 10 once for above, I decide to roll again and I got... 1: Swift As The Wind - Going slowly and thinking things out? BLAM NO

Based on the Chapter's Progenitor, how likely are they to suffer gene-seed mutation? (d100/d20) Dark Angels - 10% (1-2) d100; 44/d20; 12

If they have a new mutation, what is it? (d10) 7: Lost zygote - Something's gone. One of the silly EMPRAH-BLESSED things like the Betcher's Gland or Melanchromic Organ, not something critical like the Black Carapace

Progenitor-specific mutation Dark Angels Lost zygote

Lost Zygotes (d100) 60: Oolitic Kidney Since I got really confused and didn't know really about interpreted them above as I didn't know if it there only need to be one lost zygotes or two, I decide to roll again 100: Roll twice on this Chart 68: Neuroglottis 59: Oolitic Kidney* I'd already rolled for Oolitic Kidney, so either the above is good enough or I reroll again 27: Occulobe

If one exists, what is the Chapter's Flaw? (d10) 4: Pride in the Colours - The Chapter hates doing anything that covers their livery, including wearing Deathwatch black.

Chapter Legends: Figure of Legend (d100) 96: Battle-Brother (roll d10 twice to determine company and squad). I decided to roll both 2d10 once and roll 1d10 twice 6 & 7: 7th squad of 6th Company or alternatively, 5: 5th Company 4: 4th squad

Deeds of Legend (d100) 69: The figure led an action against an Eldar craftworld, boarding it and inflicting grievous casualties before withdrawing. He and his Chapter are especially hated by the pernicious Eldar, for whom the event is still fresh and raw.

Chapter Homeworld and its Properties Chapter homeworld (d100) 35: Feral World

Fleets 10+d10 vessels: 8

Homeworld terrain (d100) 29: Desert

Rule of homeworld (d10) 3: Stewardship - "Hi, Planetary Governor? It's me, the Chapter Master. Just calling you to remind you that I outrank you, even if I don't do anything."

Not Fleet-Based, so I can ignored that

Tactical and Strategic Organization d10 Result - Chapter organisation and Variant Base Chapter 10: Unique organisation/Unique(Codex)

Combat doctrine (d10) 6: Drop Pod

Characteristic Chapter Training (d100 Result) 44: Endure Anything: Training in this chapter emphasizes the need for any squad to be ready to endure any trials they find themselves in. They produce tough, durable brothers with diverse specialties.

Chapter Specialities Specialty restrictions (units the chapter cannot field) - Only roll if Unique Organisation was selected (d100) 15: Apothecary (someone still needs to collect the progenoids)

Special equipment- Roll once if Divergent was selected, twice if Unique Organisation was selected (d100) Rolling 2d100 81: Preferred Fighting Style: The Chapter has a specific way in which it prefers to go about killing the enemy in the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind. Examples: Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, dual Power Swords, special Bolter pattern or ammunition 99: Modified Weaponry: When the Chapter’s forges produce a weapon, they produce them in a style that is specific to their Chapter. Examples: Power Sabre, Bolt Pistol with weighted butt for clubbing. or alternatively, Rolling 1d100 twice 58: Blessed Wargear: It is common for members of this Chapter to have their Wargear blessed by a Chaplain before battle. Doing so puts the Battle-Brother’s mind at ease and more focused on the task at hand. 81: Preferred Fighting Style: The Chapter has a specific way in which it prefers to go about killing the enemy in the name of the God-Emperor of Mankind. Examples: Bolt Pistol and Chainsword, dual Power Swords, special Bolter pattern or ammunition

Chapter Beliefs What form do the Chapters' beliefs take? (d100) 84: Totem Creature - "You know how we've got an animal as our Chapter symbol? Yeah, we're going to stick that everywhere."

Chapter Strength At what strength is the Chapter? (d10) 2: Under Strength: The Chapter is recovering from a defeat or accident that occurred several decades ago, or has recently suffered heavy, but not irrecoverable losses. It is probably at a minimum of half strength, and should return to nominal strength within a decade.

Chapter Relations Who are your Chapter friendly with? (d100) 24: Another Chapter (choose one) Hhhmmmm… Maybe either the White Scars or the Space Wolves, depending on how your interpreted it.

Who are the Chapter's enemies?(d100) 27: The Tau Empire (alternatively, you may select a particular Sept, Commander, or Ethereal)

Ooooooo, the Tau Empire, my favorite faction in 40k (mostly due to the battle suit, so sue me :P), but I think I'll go with selecting a particular Sept, Commander, or Ethereal option. But i'll most probably do that in one of the reblog of this post.

[caffeiiine]

OK HI SODA HI HI HI I HAD IDEAS FOR THE V3 REWRITE THAT I WANT TO SHARE (IDK IF U WANTED TO SEE THE GENIUS IDEA FOR THE REWRITE WITH THE OC BUT ILL SEND THIS AND THEN IF U WANNA SEE JUS TELL ME) ANYWAY !!!

ok i dont acgtually have too much but!! but but but i do have some ideas right

as of rn ive got two survivors (korekiyo, kokichi), a potential mastermind (miu?), chapter 3's first victim (kirumi), chapter 3's second blackened (korekiyo), and chapter 5's victim (rantaro). idk if this is good or not biut like !!!! ebehebh !!!!

miu being the mastermind is something i had for my own rewrite like with my oc but also i really like the idea, we could also have her do something with kiibo at some point like install a virus on him or wtvr that would make him kill someone? because she operates on him in the game anyway so having her do so and then have that fall into place later but like not give him time to say somethingabout it is really fun to me

kirumi i dont really have a reason for her being the first victim other than im a sucker for kirukiyo and i think he'd be pretty distressed that she died (im being very self indulgent here but we can change this if u want to, idk ur opinions on kirukiyo so !!! its up to u), we could also do something where the murders happened at almost the exact same time so he could have saved her if he had just been somewhere instead of trying to kill someone for his sister to have another "friend" in the afterlife

kokichi i want to live because i love him. end of explanation

rantaro i wanted to die at some point but not at the start, in part bc i love him but also because i think itd be really interesting if he was killed in ch 5 instead of kokichi because he has a lot of importance too, right? so i think a killing with him could be just as good, he could have helped the killer because he wanted them to try to find out the mastermind during his trial or something idk. still in speculation but i think it would be cool

as for like, protagonists and stuff, i have zero idea, but !!!!!! i think it would be super mega awesome to have both kaede and shuichi survive but also that is like not possible because kaede's death made shuichi actually be able to be good and smart at things and not feel bad IDK WE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT AT SOME POINT BUT HERES MY IDEAS SORRY THIS IS A LOT OF PARAGRAPHS

starting out i’m gonna be all over the place with this <33

first off: THE KIRUKIYO ISEA IS SO COOL THO honestly i never thought of that ship, and im not a huge shipper myself outside of bsd so im super neutral about most ships <33 so yeah!!!! we can ahve kirukiyo!!!! i like that!!!! :3 <- since you asked about my opinion on it

ALSO ARE YOU IN MY HEAD OR SOMETHING. MIU MASTERMIND!!! MIU MASTERMIND!!! or if not a mastermind, then in the very least a killer. i can’t tell you how many times i’ve ranted to my rl friends about how miu should’ve gotten to kill somebody. like ik in canon she was supposed to be the killer for 4 but that got swapped last minute but SHE SHOULDVE BEEN ALLOWED TO KILL SOMEBDIY and yes yes yes yes yes she should do something with kiibo that’d be very fun

YOURE SO CORRDCT ON RANTARO BTW his character generally suffers from the fact he was killed off way at the beginning, and ugshdh he could have done. so much. if he was left alive a little longer. i’ve said this before but that’s a common issue just in general with the type of game danganronpa is especially with the writers not adjusting the arcs for their allotted time which causes me PAIN. yeah leave him alive for longer for sure. and oooo i like rantaro, i think he could go either way being a killer or victim. especially if at the end of it all no matter how it goes down, hes wrong. whether he kills the wrong person, or if he’s caught in the middle of a planned murder and happens to be collateral damage/the mistaken victim while he’s trying to go after the mastermind and either way their only lead to the mastermind is now just gone

one of the things i do really like about v3 despite all my criticisms against it, is the fake-out protagonist. i’m not saying we have kaede die again or shuichi goes in her place, but i think it’d be cool to include something like that with one of the cast members? maybe kaito? idk im throwing things at the wall rn but basically im trying to figure out a way to have a character haunt the narrative like kaede did

yeah i ahev no clue about protags either yet, we can always just figure that out down the line sometime🎉🎉🎉

also side note but i propose to throw out the real fiction plotline or whatever it was called that v3 went down in the game, thoughts?

also also second unrelated side note: do we have to keep the 3 survivors? not like the literal characters, just the number. like obviously we wont have everyone survive, but idk let’s not confine ourselves to a number yet

for my input regarding cases: in no particular order/killer - ryoma -> victim/survivor ; himiko -> killer/victim [i think it’d be cool to have her as a killer but i’m not sure how she’d even go about it or even why] ; tenko -> victim ; tsumugi -> killer [i think her execution would be super interesting] aaaand i ahve yet to think about the rest

inout regarding survivors: idk i really want angie to survive and i am shooting you with shinounaga found family propaganda

anyways!!! give your opinion!!! sorry this took me forever to type!!!!!

[yjano]

Never The Same.

Part 5.

Pairings: Jake x Mc.

Warnings: Swearing, violence, angst, smut, other pairings;), traumatic experiences.

Words: 6.2k

Author's note: Honestly, this story is going to be a big piece of work and a lot of angst. It's not connected to the game at all. Because I always want to try something new and newer. Read it only if you're into angst stories, please. Thank you and let's go!

Nervous, that was the only way I could describe the feeling inside my chest. I tightly grasped the handle of the black bag I was holding. Today was finally the day of Jake's trial. I had spent weeks trying to come up with a strategy for my client's case and was pleased with the one I had come up with. If everything went exactly as planned, Jake would be walking out of the doors of the courthouse as a free man today.

A smile made its way onto my face, if everything went according to plan I would be without a doubt considered one of the best lawyers in the country.

The smile on my quickly faded away however and the nervous feeling inside my chest became even worse once I realized I would be sitting next to the most feared inmate in the country in less than an hour. Jake had attacked me once before, and I wasn't excited about a situation like that happening again.

Jake had proven himself to be dangerous and unpredictable, and I had underestimated my client during our second meeting. Slowly I shook my head a little, that was a mistake I wouldn't repeat.

As soon as I came near the courthouse I could already see a lot of interviewers with microphones and camera's waiting for everyone who was involved in the case. The case had quickly become national news once it was everyone knew Jake had been captured. His capture had been a hot topic ever since. Everyone was dying to know if Duskwood's most feared leader would be put on death row.

A smile made its way onto my face, and a sudden rush of confidence filled up my chest. Ikari and I had gone over the whole case multiple times, and by now her alibi was as solid as a rock. No way the opposite party would see this coming. Ikari was my joker, and I would make sure to use her when the opposite party wouldn't expect it.

Quickly I made my way toward the big beige building and as soon as the reporters saw me, multiple questions were immediately fired my way.

"Miss Estrada, what is your strategy for Mr. Dalton's case?" A woman with short hair asked and a fake smile immediately made its way onto my face.

Like hell I would give my strategy away, that would be the same as signing Jake's death sentence right here, right now.

"I'll use the plan me and my client have been through together." I lied, and after answering a few other questions about the case I quickly made my way toward the entrance of the big building. Multiple questions were still fired at me, but I decided to just ignore them.

I didn't have a lot of time. A nervous feeling suddenly filled my chest. Jake and I hadn't gone over my strategy together, and knowing how unpredictable the leader boss was, I could only pray Jake would just stay quiet and not say anything which could be used against him.

Once I walked into the courtroom a feeling of familiarity overwhelmed me. I had been standing in this exact courtroom many times before, and even though most of the cases I had been here for were small innocent things like a parking ticket or shoplifting, the room didn't give a different feeling now that I was here for the case of my lifetime.

A nervous feeling started to make its way into my chest once again while I thought of who the prosecutor of this case would be. Dante Hiller was known by many lawyers as fierce and hard to beat and the thought of having to go up against someone like him was terrifying to me.

This man was surely going to be a pain in the ass for me, of course, they would put someone like him on a case like this. The man I am defending is being accused of numerous horrible things. Of course, they wouldn't assign someone to this case who would be easy to defeat.

I shook my head to get rid of the negative thoughts in my mind and walked a bit further into the courtroom. Once I looked around, I noticed a lot of people already sitting down in the audience seats and I decided to quickly make my way down.

The sooner I would be able to go through my plan again the better. Once I looked around however I immediately spotted a few familiar faces.

The first person I locked eyes with was Ikari. She was sitting in the first row on the left side and wore an extremely nervous look on her face. She had never been in a courtroom before, and I guessed that the fact that Ikari had to testify didn't help her at all with her nerves.

Ikari nervously smiled at me once she noticed me and I quickly gave her a thumbs up. Without that girl, the case would surely be lost, so I was glad to see that she hadn't decided to back out last minute.

The second person I noticed was a pretty woman sitting on the right side of the room with a small girl sitting next to her. The woman was wearing an expensive-looking dress and had a blank expression on her face, and it looked like this person hadn't felt any emotion in a long time. The girl sitting next to her was around six years old and wore a cute dress. She was innocently playing with the woman's phone while a cute smile decorated her face.

I swallowed deeply once I recognized the two as Leah Silvano and her daughter, Eric Silvano's family. While the little girl probably didn't understand what was happening here at all, Leah surely did. The rich girl had come here for one thing only, to see the man who had killed the love of her life being sentenced to death.

Quickly I looked the other way and gripped the handle of the bag I was holding a little tighter. This wasn't the time to think about all the hurt Jake had brought upon people. I was here for one thing and one thing only. Win this case.

Soon I reached the table I would be sitting at together with Jake and quickly put down my bag. I quickly opened the zipper of the black bag I always used for work-related stuff and got out a few papers and a pen. I gripped the papers and read through them carefully. This was it, my whole strategy. I completely distanced myself from all my surroundings.

However, the doors to the courtroom opened with a loud bang, and four officers came inside. All of them were covering one side of the man walking in the middle, who was trapped in between them like a bird trapped inside its cage. The man was wearing an orange prison suit and metal handcuffs were decorating his wrists and ankles.

A ringing sound sounded through the courtroom with every step the prisoner made and soon he had reached the table I was sitting at.

I looked nervously to my left once Jake was placed on the wooden stool beside me. Jake Dalton gave off a scary aura and even though there were multiple officers present in the room now that he had arrived, I didn't like being this close to him. He was unpredictable, and I didn't like the fact that I couldn't foresee any of the moves Jake would make.

Jake, however, didn't even take a glance at me instead, he slowly started to scan the room he was sitting in as if he was looking for something and slowly I narrowed my eyes a bit. What the hell was he looking for?

I looked at him. Even though Jake was labeled as the biggest crimes boss in the whole country the guy wouldn't be much older than 26. The orange suit the prison had provided him was a bit too big around his waist and the black eye he had had the last time I had visited him had turned into a painful yellow color.

A sad look formed on my face, in a way I felt sorry for everything Jake had gone through. He had barely seen anything of what life could bring, yet almost everyone would love to see life being taken away from him already. So young, yet closer to death than ever.

Even though Jake had been nothing but a horrible person towards me, I decided to try one last time to tell Jake about the strategy I had come up with. Jake didn't have much of a choice anyway, because his future would be decided in the next couple of hours. Slowly I picked up my papers and put them in front of him.

"So, I would..." I started with confidence in my voice, excitement about my plan lacing my voice, but I was quickly cut off by Jake.

"Shut up pretty face, I'm not in the mood for your bullshit." He said, annoyance lacing his voice. Slowly I grew a fake smile on my face and retrieved my papers again. Jake truly was an idiot...

"Please stand up for the judge," One of the members of the jury said and Quickly I got up from my seat.

A few minutes ago the jury had entered the room, along with the prosecutor. The only person who was left to arrive was the judge, and once he would be in the room Jake's trial would officially start. The case would not only determine the future of him, but also my future.

If I would manage to win this case surely my life would never be the same. I quickly looked to my left, only to see Jake still sitting as comfortably as ever, and by the looks of it, he wasn't planning on standing up anytime soon.

Soon a tall man entered the room and took a seat behind the judge's desk. The man was wearing a typical judge robe, and a serious expression was visible on his face. He looked like he had been through a lot of important cases in his life.

Once the man had taken place behind the desk everyone sat down and the judge picked up some papers laying in front of him.

"I want to thank you all for coming today." The judge started in a serious tone and quickly continued.

"We've gathered here together for the case of the national government against mister Jake Dalton." The judge continued, while silence filled the room. Everyone was listening carefully to the words the judge was speaking, everyone except Jake. He still looked around the room and slowly an annoyed look took over his face.

"Mister Dalton is being accused of the following crimes..." The judge started and I was listening to everything the man had to say carefully until Jake softly started to tick against my shoulder. An annoyed look started to form on my face.

Maybe if I would just ignore him, he would stop. Jake however kept on ticking against my shoulder and I found myself completely unable to concentrate on the judge's words as long as Jake kept on irritating me. I shook my shoulder a little in an attempt to get him to stop.

Jake, however, wasn't planning on stopping until he got what he wanted, and after almost two minutes of his constant ticking against my shoulder, I had finally had enough.

"What?!" I whisper shouted while an even more annoyed expression quickly formed on my face.

"Do you know what time it is?" Jake softly whispered to me and a confused look quickly formed on my face. Seriously? This was what Jake was getting me out of my concentration. With a questioning look, I locked eyes with Jake who gave me a challenging look back.

"There isn't a clock here anywhere." He continued once he noticed I was not answering his question. A soft sigh left my mouth and I slowly turned my wrist in Jake's direction so that he could see my watch.

An evil smirk started to form on his face once he had looked at my watch and he softly whispered.

"Only one hour left..."

I simply decided to ignore my client and focus on the case again.

"Now I would like to hear the opening statement of mister Dante Hiller." The judge said and I quickly looked to my right, only to see Dante standing up from the wooden chair he had been sitting on and walking in front of the jury.

"Mister Dalton has committed a lot of horrible crimes, and therefore we ask that mister Dalton will be charged with the death penalty as he is considered a great danger to society," Dante said before slowly walking back and sitting down on the wooden chair he was sitting on again.

"Thank you, Mister Hiller, now I would like to give the word to Miss Mc Estrada, who speaks on behalf of mister Jake Dalton." The judge said while locking eyes with me. In return, I immediately stood up from my chair.

"Thank you, your honor," I said, trying my best to hide my nerves. It would be highly unprofessional of me to show everyone how nervous I was, and I was trying my best to hide the fact that I was nervous as hell.

"Mister Dalton has not committed any of the crimes he is being accused of, and therefore we ask for him to be released from all charges," I said, confidence lacing my voice. A small smile made its way onto my face, I didn't sound nervous at all, even though I was nervous. I had done an excellent job at hiding that fact.

"Thank you, Miss Estrada. Now Mister Hiller I would like for you to call your first witness to the front." The judge said and a smug smile made its way onto the prosecutor's face. The man slowly turned around and locked eyes with a certain black-haired tall girl.

"I would like to call Luca Perez to the front your honor," Dante said and the tall girl immediately made her way to the front, while a serious expression was clearly visible on her face.

A smirk slowly made its way onto my face, I had hoped for Dante to call Luca to the front. I had found a few holes in her story which could benefit Jake, and I would make sure to use them. Everything was going exactly how I had expected it to go.

"Please put up your right hand and answer the question," The judge said once Luca was seated beside him in the booth meant for the witness and the tall-haired girl quickly did as she was asked.

"Luca Perez, do you promise to speak the truth and nothing else but the truth?" The judge asked Luca and the girl immediately answered with a confident yes. A hint of hate was found inside the tall girl's eyes once she locked eyes with Jake, who in return did nothing but smirk back at the girl.

"Now Luca, can you please tell me exactly what happened on september 14th?" Dante asked while looking his witness in the eyes, a questioning tone lacing his voice. The girl softly nodded her head and turned to look at me.

"I was working like I always do when the bank I'm working at suddenly got filled with loud noises." The girl started, and I scoffed a little when she softly started to sob. She was being overdramatic on purpose, and it annoyed me a lot.

"Everything happened so fast, before I knew it two of my colleagues were lying dead on the floor, and I got a gun pressed against my temple." The girl said while a few tears escaped her eyes. She kept on telling me about the day of the bank robbery and slowly I got annoyed.

Even though what had happened that day was horrible, the black-haired girl was acting like her life had been over ever since. I had met the girl before, and when we had met Luca surely hadn't described that day as horrible as she was describing it now. This girl was faking her emotions to make it look worse, and I didn't like it one bit.

"You see ladies and gentlemen, this man is nothing more than a monster and therefore he should be sentenced to death," Dante said once Luca was done with her story. I quickly stood up once my opponent was done, finally getting my chance at asking Luca some questions.

I wasn't gonna lose this case.

"Miss Perez, can you exactly describe what the robber who put the gun against your head looked like?" I asked once Dante sat down. A nervous look overtook Luca's sad expression and she quickly started to play with her fingers. She knew what answer I was looking for.

"They were dressed completely in black and were wearing masks." She answered softly, but loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Ladies and gentlemen, how could miss Perez have recognized my client if the robbers were wearing masks?" I asked while a smirk started to make its way onto my face. Slowly I started to hear whispers all around me and a satisfied feeling took over my whole body.

I had succeeded in making the jury question Luca's story, and I saw that as a small win. Jake was still sitting in the same position as before, and he didn't seem to pay attention to the trial at all, something I thought was strange. How could you not pay attention to the case which would determine the rest of your life?

Soon the judge thanked Luca for testifying and told her to go back to her seat.

"Miss Estrada, can you please ask your witness to come to the front?" The old man asked me and I smiled politely at him. Finally, it was my turn to shine.

"Your honor I would like to ask Ikari to come to the front," I said and as soon as I dropped her name Jake immediately looked up. He was quickly looking around himself and an annoyed expression made its way onto the prisoner's face once he spotted the brown-haired girl he had been looking for.

"For god's sake can that whore never leave me alone?" Jake murmured, clearly annoyed by the fact that Ikari was here. A surprised look grew on my face, these two had been lovers, right? Why did Jake act like he didn't like seeing her?

"Ikari please put your right hand up and answer the question," The judge said while looking the brown-haired girl in her eyes. The pretty girl nervously nodded and did as she was told.

"Ikari do you promise to speak the truth and nothing else but the truth?" The judge asked my witness and she quickly answered with a yes. Slowly I stood up from my seat and walked closer to her.

"Ikari, what were you doing on the 31st of February at around 09.00 p.m.?" I asked a certain tone of curiosity in my voice. Of course, I knew exactly what the answer to this question was going to be. Eric Silvano had been murdered in his office on the 31st of February this year, and I was going to prove that Jake wasn't his murderer, with the help of Ikari.

"I was in my home, together with Jake," Ikari said a bit shy. Jake was staring intensely at Ikari and I was sure it must've made her feel weird. She probably hadn't seen her ex-boyfriend for a long time, yet here he suddenly was, creepily staring at her.

"And what were the two of you doing in your house?" I asked, trying to distract her from the intense stare she was getting from Jake. It didn't matter to me what these two had done together in the past, the only thing that mattered to me was the next words Ikari was going to say.

"We had sex all night, Jake didn't leave my house until the morning after," She said while a blush started to form on her cheeks. A feeling of pity started to form inside my chest, it must've been embarrassing for Ikari to say something like that in front of a lot of people.

"This is fucking bullshit, I haven't seen you in 3 years." Jake suddenly said, slowly standing up. As soon as the words left his mouth, my eyes became as big as saucers. What the fuck was he doing? The inmate was ruining my whole plan. Slowly he walked up to me and went to stand right next to me.

"I killed Eric Silvano." He suddenly said and a shocked expression made its way onto my face. What the fuck was happening right now? Why was Jake confessing to the crimes he committed?

"I did rob that bank, and I did kill all those people inside of it." Jake continued and I looked at him with disbelief in my eyes.

Everything I had done had been for nothing, Jake had decided to sign his death sentence and there was nothing I could do against it.

Suddenly everything went so quickly, one moment Jake was standing next to me, and the next he had pressed the metal chain of his handcuffs painfully hard against my throat. However before anyone could do anything the whole room was filled with a loud booming sound, followed by gunshots.

A scared feeling quickly started to build up inside my chest and I quickly closed my eyes. I tried to fill my lungs with air but found myself unable to do so because of the metal chain Jake was pressing against my throat. This surely must be a nightmare right?

My worst nightmare had always been not being able to breathe. The feeling of not being able to fill my lungs with air anymore absolutely terrified me, yet that was exactly what I was unable to do at the moment.

A ringing noise was filling my ears as a result of the explosion on the right side of the building. My vision was filled with black spots because of the lack of air in my system and the enormous amount of dust that filled the room as a result of the explosion.

Slowly the prisoner behind me was releasing the pressure on my throat a bit and immediately I gasped for air.

"You'll do exactly as I say, or Sina will pay for it."

I suddenly heard the deep voice of the prisoner whisper inside my ear and tears immediately filled my eyes. How the hell did Jake know my sister's name?

Quickly multiple tears escaped my eyes and were rolling down my cheeks. I couldn't risk anything if my sister was involved. It was me who decided to be the leader's lawyer, not my innocent little sister.

My vision became somewhat clear again and I looked with a terrified look at the scene happening in front of me. The complete right side of the courtroom had been blown up as it had never been there in the first place. There were pieces of the wall scattered around the whole courtroom and multiple people could be seen laying on the floor. A horrified look quickly made its way onto my face once I realized all the people on the floor were either passed out or dead.

Multiple people with black masks and dark clothes were standing too close to Jake and me. Those people were here for one thing and one thing only. Get Jake out of here and kill anyone who tries to prevent that. All the men and girls were standing in a circle around me and Jake, and they were holding pretty big guns.

"Release the girl!" One of the guards who had been standing next to the entrance of the courtroom screamed while he pointed his gun at the black-masked man standing in front of Jake.

More tears started to roll down my cheeks and a small sob made its way out of my mouth. I was scared as hell and I could only hope that the crime boss would do what the guard told him.

As soon as Jake started to laugh a little and shake his head, I knew that wasn't going to happen anytime soon.

"How about you just give me the keys to these handcuffs," Jake answered the guard and even though I couldn't see my former client's face. I just knew that Jake would have a smirk on his face. He had been fearless back in prison, who knows what he would be capable of outside of it?

"You won't get them!" The guard screamed back and quickly Jake increased the pressure on my throat again. The suffocating feeling from before quickly returned and I instantly started to panic. My body was screaming for air and I was desperately tugging at the metal chain of Jake's handcuffs.

"I wasn't asking," Jake spoke while a hint of amusement could be detected in his voice. He was enjoying all of this and I started to panic even more. If I wouldn't able to get some air in my lungs. I would pass out soon.

"Kill him," Jake said and immediately after his words a booming sound sounded through the room. I immediately stopped tugging at the metal chain and slowly pressed myself a bit further against Jake's chest to decrease the pressure he was putting on my throat.

A few tears escaped my eyes once I saw the man who had tried to save my life fall lifelessly to the ground. A big red spot quickly formed on his chest and the smell of gunpowder soon filled my nostrils.

An evil laugh made its way out of Jake's mouth and the scared feeling inside my chest increased a lot. The man who was standing behind me was no human, he was a monster.

Quickly one of the girls dressed in black ran towards the lifeless guard and started to search his body for the keys. A few more tears escaped my eyes when I dared to look into the guard's open eyes only to find death and a scared look in them.

This man had died trying to save ignorant me who had thought I could get the biggest criminal in the country to cooperate with me. Why did I have to be so stupid?

Soon the girl found what she was looking for and quickly returned to Jake before starting to get the handcuffs off her boss. As the girl stood in front of me, I couldn't help but somehow recognize her eyes. Her eyes were the only part of her face that was visible, yet I was sure it wasn't my first time looking into this girl's eyes.

The black-dressed girl quickly looked away the moment she caught me staring at her and a confused look quickly formed on my face.

The moment both handcuffs were removed from Jake's hands. I immediately gasped for air, only to start coughing right after. Slowly I lifted my fingers to the spot on my neck where Jake had been painfully pressing the metal string of his handcuffs into my skin. A burning feeling immediately formed once I touched my skin and I softly hissed, this would hurt for a long time.

"Let's go." One of the other men said and Jake nodded before demanding a gun. I couldn't help but feel even more terrified now that Jake had both hands free. Even though he had been suffocating me non-stop when he was still handcuffed there was so much worse Jake could do now that he could move his arms freely. Hell, he even had a gun now.

"Hands behind your back," Jake said before pressing his gun against my temple. I quickly obeyed and a big lump started to form inside my throat. This would be it, Jake didn't need me anymore and would kill me now. I quickly squeezed my eyes shut and swallowed deeply.

However, instead of the deafening sound of Jake firing the gun, I felt a cold metal thing press against both my wrists. I slowly dared to open my eyes and a surprised look made its way onto my face.

Jake was putting his handcuffs around my wrists and a feeling of hope started to rise in my chest. Maybe they would just handcuff me and leave. However, the feeling of hope soon faded away once Jake spoke the following words.

"Let's head for the roof, Lexis you're in charge of my new toy."

Tears immediately started to stream out of my eyes non-stop once he had said those words. My life was over, once I would end up in the world where Jake belonged. I would be as good as dead. Why did he have to take me, why couldn't he just let me be?

The girl named 'Lexis' quickly went to stand behind me and gave me a soft push in the direction of the exit of the room once the rest of the group started to go in that direction. The group of them quickly made their way out of the courtroom, and I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach at the sight of the countless bodies we passed when we made our way out of the room.

Did these people have no remorse at all?

All of them were walking at a fast pace, while they held their guns tightly in their hands. Soon we reached the stairs and quickly made our way upstairs, as soon as we reached the first set of stairs however I couldn't help but lose my balance.

Because my hands were cuffed behind my back, I didn't have any chance to catch myself and thus I fell onto the stairs with a hard smack.

Immediately a sharp pain shot through my left knee and a pained sob made its way out of my mouth. Immediately all of them looked at me, something which made me even more scared than I already was. All of them with guns were looking at me and I desperately tried to hold in my sobs.

"Stand up," Jake said once he kneeled to be at eye level with me. A demanding tone was lacing in his voice and out of fear I immediately tried to do so. Tears were streaming out of my eyes non-stop now and a terrified look was displayed across my face. Never in my life had I been this scared before.

Quickly I tried to do exactly as Jake told me to but immediately failed once a sharp pain shot through my knee again once I tried to put some pressure on it. I quickly lost my balance and closed my eyes, waiting for the impact of falling again. A surprised look made its way onto my face however once I felt two big hands grab my waist preventing me from hitting the ground.

I opened my eyes again, only to see the big hands of Jake surrounding my waist. He quickly moved closer to me and picked me up bridal style.

"Let's go, we can't waste any more time here," Jake said, a serious tone lacing his voice. All the people quickly nodded and began climbing the stairs again.

Every move Jake made felt like a sharp knife was piercing through my knee, and while I did my best to prevent myself from sobbing some of them still made their way out of my mouth.

Jake however didn't pay any attention to the sounds that came out of my mouth and were still quickly climbing the stairs.

Soon we reached the top of the stairs and one of the men with masks quickly opened the door outside. I squeezed my eyes a little once the bright light from outside hit my face and soon the group was standing on the roof of the courthouse. Immediately the loud noise of ambulances and police cars filled my ears and a spark of hope rushed up my spine. Maybe they would still be able to save me.

Suddenly loud noises from inside sounded through the door and all people quickly pulled their guns towards the door on the roof, except for Jake who was still holding me. These footsteps were surely those of the policemen and I hopefully looked at the entrance of the roof. They would be here any minute now.

"How much longer for the smoker to arrive?" Jake asked while he was looking around himself, almost as if he was searching for something. The sky had a bright blue color yet it was cold. Soon I started to shake softly while my lips slowly turned a bit blue. I had never been a fan of the cold weather and I was kind of thankful for the heat radiating from Jake's body.

Even though I didn't like the situation I was in one bit, I was thankful for the small amount of warmth I was able to get from

"Surrender or die!"

I suddenly heard someone scream nearby and a soft laugh erupted from Jake's mouth.

"They never learn, do they?" Jake asked and he quickly put me on the ground. A smirk was visible on his face once he put me down and I was scared to death about what would happen next.

"I'll teach them not to fuck with me," Jake said and immediately got a nod from the smallest girl of the group, the one I swore I had seen before. Jake quickly loaded the gun and tossed it around a bit as if it wasn't some deadly object he was holding. A serious look suddenly covered the former prisoner's face and he immediately pointed the gun toward the door the sounds were coming from.

"Surrender yourselves!" One of the guards screamed but was immediately put to silence once Jake planted a bullet right between his eyes. Slowly tears started to escape from my eyes again as I watched in horror how yet another lifeless body hit the ground with a thump.

The scene I was watching was like something straight out of a horror movie and I wanted nothing more than to just turn the tv off and go to bed. Unfortunately, this was my life right now and there was nothing I could do about it except hope one of the guards would hit their target.

After a few minutes of the police and the men in black firing bullets at each other, an unfamiliar sound was sounding in the distance and I slowly looked around myself. In the far distance, a black helicopter could be seen, and by the look of it, it was approaching fast.

"Fucking finally." Jake softly whispered as he quickly walked towards me again while his people were still shooting at everyone trying to come near him. Quickly the ex-prisoner put his arms around me again and swiftly lifted me from the ground.

Even though I was scared as hell of Jake who was holding me right now I couldn't help but snuggle a bit closer to him. The ground had been cold and I would do anything to get a bit of warmth in my system at the moment.

Soon the black helicopter was flying directly above the courthouse and it quickly started its landing, the helicopter was the biggest I had ever seen and the scared feeling in my chest started to get worse again. Once everyone would enter that helicopter it would be over. There was no way the police would be able to capture Jake and he would be a free man walking again.

But even worse, once we would enter that helicopter I would be considered a lost case. I would never be able to see my family or friends again.

And who knows what Jake would decide to do with me? Tears quickly started to stream down my face when visions of me being tortured and killed filled my mind. Whatever it was that Jake had in mind for me, it sure wouldn't be anything nice. Jake didn't seem like the type to have mercy on someone.

As soon as the black helicopter was standing on top of the courthouse Jake immediately made his way over toward it. A guy with long brown hair opened the door of the helicopter and a bright smile was plastered on his face.

"Hackerboy, finally done playing around?" The unknown guy asked while happiness lacing his voice.

"You bet I am, can you take her from me?" Jake answered his friend and the guy immediately started to nod. Carefully Jake handed me over to his friend and within no time I was sitting in a black leather seat. Within a few moments, the gang quickly got in the helicopter and once the long-haired bearded guy gave the signal to the pilot to take off we were gone. I was sure of it now. My life was over.

[kreideprinz69]

Something that really grates on me about a lot of anti-Koma people is the complete lack of empathy for Nagito in regards to his actions from the Dead Room to the Chapter 5 Trial. Treating it as if it's the single most reprehensible thing any culprit has done over the course of the entire series. When it is pretty much the exact same shit that Asahina was pulling in the first game's fourth trial. But with a far less petty motive. We see how the remaining five survivors react when they discover the truth of the NWP in Chapter 6. They are all on the verge of a breakdown as it all starts to become too much for them, and they only narrowly pull themselves back together to initiate the shutdown. Now imagine how they would react if: 1. All those survivors were isolated from each other when they learned the truth. 2. They were not made aware of the fact that their apparent turn to evil wasn't actually voluntary, and that they too are victims. 3. They did not have the three DR1 survivors and AI Chiaki to offer moral support during these revelations. 4. They were not made aware that any person who dies in the simulation will actually be possessed by Junko's AI in the real world. Because those were the circumstances of Nagito learning the "truth" in Chapter 4! His antis get so worked up over his bitchiness towards Hajime and the others, that they refuse to see just how tragic and pitiable the situation really is. What at first seems like a bizarre and vicious betrayal is actually a young man finally having his spirit broken after a life of endless traumas. Becoming so ashamed and disgusted with himself that the only thing he can think of as a small act of penance is to torture himself to death and get his classmates executed for their crimes. While not realizing that he's inadvertently aiding the same Ultimate Despair he's trying to stop. And it pisses me off when it bleeds over into fanfics too, with most of the cast ostracizing him for it. Because come the fuck on. Characters like Teruteru, Fuyuhiko, and Peko really don't much have a leg to stand on with that, considering their actions would have had essentially the same result if the class trials went their way. Me personally I like to think they'd keep a careful watch on him. But also make clear to him that while they don't condone his actions and think he made a terrible mistake, they're not going to condemn him either. Acknowledging that if they'd been in his position, they don't know what they might have been capable of. Considering how his character grew, I like to think Fuyuhiko would be one of the first people to admit that he'd probably have reacted just the way Monokuma wanted him to if he'd been given that special "prize".

YESS this! this right here omg, i love talking about this.

i think it's really easy for people to treat nagito with a total lack of empathy because of just how far removed nagito is from his own humanity. so a lot of people just put the insane label on him and don't take much of a further look at his actions. but the reality is that every action he's taking holds so much meaning and has never not had a well thought out reason. doesn't make them justifiable, but does offer so much more depth into his character than just being "crazy."

also i agree on the aoi part, i really don't get how people hate nagito for chapter 5 but don't say anything about aoi trying to get her classmates killed in the trial. dont get me wrong, thats not me ragging on her, because i adore aoi. its just the inconsistencies in how people treat characters for their actions that bother me. i think people forget just how much of a stressful situation the cast is in. suddenly waking up where you're not supposed to be, missing memories, knowing your friend or you might die at any moment, not to mention the investigations and trials; thats all pretty fucked up.

and like you said, nagito was ENTIRELY on his own when he learned the truth about everything happening. he was already in a lot of mental distress when the killings started, so the whole "truth" would have just completely broken him. he's been so violently traumatized his entire life, literally everything has been taken for him and supposedly he's going to die from his illness soon since there's nothing left for his luck to take. the only thing he's been able to do is cope through his obsession with hope, (and if we remove the obsession with hope and just focus on the fact that they're inside a simulation and caused the world to end, that's already stressful enough. the main cast BARELY coped even with all the help) so when you take that into account AND that he was actively working against the one thing that could never leave him (hope)- that's pretty fucking destroying! the only way for him to not lose the last thing he had, was to commit suicide in the way he did. which he full heartedly believed was for the greater good.

the sheer mental distress you would have to be under to be totally okay with torturing yourself before committing suicide is, KIND OF A LOT lol. also, props to him for coming up with such an elaborate plan despite the stress he was under. i honestly feel like his death was heavily foreshadowed. the entire game he talks about wanting to be a stepping stone for hope and that he's okay with being killed for it. his entire life has all just been one big tragedy too. the way he died, his motives behind it, and goal to become the ultimate hope; it was honestly a great ending for him. but im not gonna go into depth on that because im already probably getting off topic here whoops

but lets talk about his bitch arc for a second (chapter 4.) people blow it SO out of proportion. nagito was an asshole for one afternoon and was bullying hajime because he's angry he's in love with some loser. its just funny to me how some people make it a huge deal and use it to say nagito hates hajime. in chapter 5 before he dies, he literally shows remorse for his actions and barely anyone talks about it!. i can talk about that a bit more on a different post if someone is curious but im trying not to let this get ungodly long lmao

also yes, the way characters in fanon will be overly critical with nagito. while i do believe they were a littleee bit harsh with him in the game (another thing i could rant about but i'll spare you) i really don't think they would hate him after the simulation. on the final trial with junko, they almost let her win. and when they learn about being remnants and they all wake up, i think they would have come to understand nagito at least a LITTLE bit better. literally none of them are inoccent, so they probably came to realize they weren't all that much better than nagito. while we don't really see nagito interact with the other characters much in the danganronpa 3 hope arc; he looks to be on good terms with the rest of the cast. and just judging by how they all agreed to just live for the future and put the past behind them, i do think they would try their best to give nagito a chance, even if they're a bit weirded out by him. also i totally agree with the fuyuhiko bit! i think he's a very reasonable person that understand morally grey areas, so i like to think he was one of the first to start giving nagito a chance.

okay sorry that this was SO long oh my god. i cannot make myself stop talking sometimes, especially if it's nagito related sdhjfbsdfkhjb. but thanks for the ask because i find discussing this stuff super interesting!!! <3

[semper-legens]

189. Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys

Owned: No, library Page count: 378 My summary: Emilia. Florian. Joana. Alfred. Four young people from different lands, all thrown together in the chaos of the Second World War. East Prussia is being evacuated. Desperate people are fleeing the country to the ships promised to take them far away. But disaster is lurking on the horizon. When it's every person for themselves, who will live and who will die? My rating: 3/5 My commentary:

I thought I'd never read this book before. And yet, when I got about 50 pages in, it started to seem familiar - strangely familiar. I've read a couple of Ruta Sepetys' books before, namely I Must Betray You and Out of the Easy, which I haven't covered here. The former I didn't like, the latter I actually enjoyed. This is one of her earlier works, though not the earliest - it's apparently something of a sequel to a book called Between Shades of Gray, which I'm 90% sure that I haven't read. To its credit, I don't think not having read the earlier book hampered my engagement with this one. But less charitably…I wasn't all too keen on this one, it has to be said. While it wasn't bad in and of itself, I found it to be sensationalist and simplistic, and overall didn't quite live up to my expectations.

This story is about the Wilhelm Gustoff, a ship that was meant to be evacuating refugees from East Prussia during World War Two, but was sunk by Russian torpedoes, killing roughly nine thousand of the ten thousand people aboard. The story follows four teenagers - pregnant Polish girl Emilia, Lithuanian nurse Joana, Prussian boy Florian, and Nazi recruit Alfred. More on them later. The story follows the refugees as they travel to the ship, and the trials they face along the way, then ends with the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustoff. There's a lot of promise here - the chaos towards the end of the Second World War, the point of view of civilians from Eastern Europe which isn't so often told, an eye on a historical tragedy which the average reader might not have heard about.

But everything here was just a little bit too simplistic. Alfred's parts of the story kept hammering in how cowardly and weaselly and pathetic he is, Emilia's chapters made her seem like a saint, Florian's angst and brooding over how he's totally gonna be killed if he gets found out really doesn't fit the crime he's committing, and Joana's past is ill-defined and her story focuses more on her relationship with Florian. It's obvious that Florian and Joana are going to be the survivors. Emilia is too innocent, and Alfred is too bad. Even factoring in the extended cast - blind Ingrid is the first to go, then rude giantess Eva, then the sympathetic Shoe Poet. The child survives, because he's an innocent in a much purer way than Emilia. It's basic storytelling, and once that who's-going-to-make-it tension is gone, there really isn't that much left in the narrative to write home about.

And the narrative style is just too overblown for me. Every chapter is screaming look I've got secrets am I not the most mysterious thing to you, to the point where it just gets annoying. And the secrets themselves aren't all that shocking. It doesn't take a genius to guess that Emilia is a fantasist and the child she's carrying was concieved after an assault, or that Alfred's apparent sweetheart Hannelore isn't actually his sweetheart, and that he turned her in to the Nazis. Florian's whole thing, that he's carrying a small part of the Amber Room in defiance of Nazi Gauleiter Erich Koch, isn't all that compelling either. I was assuming he was involved in some anti-Nazi action - while this is technically anti-Nazi, it's hardly lifesaving revolutionary work. Joana, meanwhile, the audience is expected to be familiar with, which means I couldn't get much of a read on her. It's so disappointing, this could have been really good, but I was just taken out of it at every turn.

Next, three brave girls escape captivity in Australia.

[sanslover6969]

OKAY SO I MADE AN AU WHICH IS MOSTLY JUST SNAS CUZ HES A SURVIVIR💥💥💥

so i havent thought of a name yet for the au BUT,

[description]

basically the sans in this au doesn't have a papyrus, this is because he was the original and successful creation, he still doesn't have a bunch hp (5hp) because of his magic being unstable and can cause him harm, his magic is consisted of blood, so whenever hes fighting the magic he uses is from his blood and others blood he can manipulate, he still has all the same original magic, but everything is made out of blood, his or not. he can still teleport yadda yadda, but his specialty is in blood manipulation, the vial around his neck is a type of magical blood that gaster (creator) gave to him a long time ago [barely uses it due to aftereffects]. everyone either calls him "B" or "vamp" mostly a pun because of his blood manipulation, this is due to also being able to intake blood by eating it [he will never admit it but he likes the taste].

[origin]

during his early adolesence, gaster taught him about science and physics, as well as biology and cells, he took to it like a fish to water, during these periodic moments, sans didnt notice that his creator was slowly planning something for him, on his 12th birthday [june 25th] gaster taught him about blood manipulation, sans did not understand why but studied it anyway, 5 days after gaster started to start doing small tests that gradually over time turned more intense. at first he would inject blood into sans during trials, then started adding dt into the blood mixture, the process was agonizing, gaster slowly built up his magic, while sans deceasingly lost his mind, the trials abruptly stopped when he was 22, he had almost full control over his ability, gaster was working on the core but during one of his experiments crashed the magical levels of the core and it self destructed, sans and only a few other monsters survived, sans was devastated, he never loved his father/creator but felt absolitely horrible for the other monsters.

[nightmares squad]

all the negative energy that came off the survivors led nightmare and his crew to their au, sans in his delusional state met them, at first he was paranoid but over time eased and healed, making jokes with killer, annoyimg nightmare until he thwapped his with his magic, and harrassing fell whenever he was near their headquarters, nightmare offered him a position in the squad over time but sans refused stating "you guys are cool and all but im "bloody" tired", nightmare and the crew understood but always offered a way in if he decided later on,

[omega timeline]

after that escapade echo firisk met up with him/popped out of no where and scared the crap out of him, brought him to the omega timeline where other au's lost their home, classic usually visited, and as they shared puns they quickly befriended eachother, he mostly hangs out there but also enjoys watching undernovela with error.

[error/undernovela]

one day when sans/B was messing around with his magic, due to uts unstability he was able to cross into different au's and voids, this is where he discovered the white void where he saw a glitchy monster twin that was freaking out over undernovela, B sat next to him and started watching it, quickly freaking out as well over the ~drama~ . most days he will randomly poke error [error doesn't really freak out unless its too much] or watching undernovela, he also likes to pop up behind him and scare him, they pretty chill

erm... so that was alot. i'll probably add more on later but this is what i got so far, PLEASE IF YALL HAVE ANY IDEAS OR QUESTIONS COMMENT THEM I AM HORRIBLE WITH STORY MAKING.

also theres prob a lot of typos because i cant type for shit

THANK YOH FOR READING HAVE A GOOD DAYYYY [or night]

[foxymoxynoona]

🐋Hi miss foxy, it is I: whaleAnon... while I haven't been sending many asks, I HAVE been reading right along with everything you've been updating. HOWEVER I'm finally sitting down to share some of my thoughts on recent things you've written (and by recent I mean the last 4 months😳)

First things first: I hope you're doing okay. Everything going on with your family is insane and I don't know how you're juggling it all. Sending you and your family lots of love.

Starting with the ending chapters of Flux: These were some of my favorite Flux chapters you've written because we can see so much of Sasha's growth in her relationship and mental health. The way she would get nervous about something and then lean on Jungkook instead of running or sabotaging made my heart so happy. AND HER LETTING JK BUY HER A LAPTOP. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT BIG OF A DEAL TO OUTSIDERS BUT ITS A BIG DEAL. Honestly chef's kiss can't wait to see what journey you take us on with them (and the motorcycle drabble with...domesticity and special guest Bam?! I can't wait for that part of their story)

NEXT: TMWC I'm a sucker for Bam so again I love that you wrote him in. But some of my favorite parts... the proposal in the epilogue was so cute and so very on brand for alex and jk i literally cant. Next the "is it in?" during the spicy scene had me DYING there so many more but this ask is already so long and I still need to talk about one of my new faves

AFTER THE APPLAUSE: dilf jimin just does something to my ovaries especially since you can tell he's just such a good dad and really trult loves his daughter it just makes my heart so happy. I love that there's some drama in his parenting choices though. This is something I love in your writing which is that when you have the members as parents their kids aren't just side characters. Idk how to explain but I feel like some dilf stories are like "he looks hot holding a baby, but the baby never causes issues" I love watching your characters navigate the trials and tribulations of parenting while still looking hot holding babies its just *chef's kiss*

The last one I'm going to mention: Over the Falls. I'm already in love with this stories. Like I've reread the first chapter 4 or 5 times because I love how we get to see JK's inner monologue. And I think it's going to be a very interesting story

Honorable mentions: Meadow JK's rut drabble and Amended JK and Kai swim class and wisdom teeth drabbles. AMAZING. BEAUTIFUL. FUNNY. (cover your ears kai) SEXY.

there's way more that's been updated, and it's all amazing. I'm in love with your writing and I can't wait to see what you do next. Please take care of yourself through all the tough times you're going through, and whenever you update, I'll be here :)

(Also I'm not proofreading this I'm just sending it so... yeah)

This beautiful long comment made me feel so accomplished and good about myself, so thank you!!!! Especially right now when I haven't been able to write for several weeks, it's really heart-warming to see such a positive response to so many things. Honestly once I post something it's like gone from my mind, and this lined things up so nicely that I've been working on. I'm so glad you enjoyed all the different stories I'd been posting and I hope things are going well with you, and I hope too that I will be well enoguh t owrite again very soon even if it's just drabbles for your amusement! <3