#Nexus arc

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

What is your opinion about the Nexus arc?

Was honestly wondering when I’d get asked this haha /lh

The whole arc is a giant headache for me.

Both sides—Nexus and the family—are right and wrong, and no side is more right or wrong than the other. The situation is complex and complicated for a reason.

A lot of the frustration comes from the audience having more information than the characters do, and then getting upset when those characters act or say or do the opposite of what we hope for. “They should have done this, they should have said that,” etc etc. It’s easy for us to see where they were wrong, but it’s impossible for the characters to know what we know or else it becomes meta.

I understand how Nexus got to where he is now, I understand his thought process somewhat, but I don’t feel much sympathy for him. Whether or not that changes depends on his actions. He’s very aware of his choices and knows what he’s doing. Nexus can stop at any time and chooses not to.

This maybe could have been prevented if the family learned to communicate better. It’s always communication. Which Nexus failed to do when asked if he was okay, and lied instead of being honest.

Idk how it will end. He needs to be stopped, but I don’t think he will die. Death and killing, as we have seen in the past, isn’t always the answer. I honestly hope he comes to his senses, with Sun’s help, and willingly goes with the astrals to be imprisoned for his crimes and perhaps even rehabilitated.

But he will never be part of the family again.

(as stated in the ask, this is just my opinion and my stance on the situation, so plz no arguments or debates in the tags)

[cutely-inserts-my-opinion]

I need the next episode to be Solar punches Moon's teeth in (in vr) cause girl what the fuck do you mean Moon did not once acknowledge that Sun was having a borderline panic attack right next to him. Solar was doing everything he could to make sure everyone was okay after having watched his closest friend die and Moon could not have given less of a fuck. Everyone's emotions are nothing but an inconvenience to him and him only it seems. I need him to get hit by a car in the rain and end up in a coma deeper than Solar's Sun like he's in an angsty 2016 Wattpad fanfic because sweet Jesus, I despise him.

THAT WAS SUCH A FUCKING INSULT/THREAT DJHRHDDH real tho

[that-starry-freak]

Okay chat yknow what? Fuck this im going to rewrite the Nexus arc

So uh- while I'm doodling some stuff for Z, tell me all the things you don't like about the nexus arc, and the things you do if you want. In my inbox or rebligs idc, just everything. Yap as much as you want, I need to feedback!!

[lednet-sorrow-au-blog]

"Maybe til stars reunite of the losted highlights"

"I want to cry on you right now,in a stream of waterfalls of how much I longed you in the fog when you went deep under pressure....When sides of no oxygen...I wan- need to shown how we cared for you Moon- Nex....Please come back....please come to the house...the home we were taken in...."

(NOT A SHIP!!!)

??? and Nexus

I was lazy to make Solar in gc,so I made her.

I think you can guess who is that figure if seen one of my posts of the OP au-

[raayllum]

2x02 / 6x09

[cimicherrychanga]

do NOT approach this guy at the pub they WILL talk about ninja turtles for two hours

[yittiko]

Time for forgotten Leo au #4 that popped into my head

Child soldier vs sibling dynamic who will win

Also here's the full page with the space but idk how to render yet so it'll be interesting 🤔

[alex-finechi-is-back]

DADCODE MEMES FROM THE NEXUS REDEMPTION ARC AUUUUUU

[eliasdrid]

doodles of main ultras from shows we've watched so far!

disclaimer(s): (1) we watched Ultraseven X not Ultraseven (2) Zero is there because I love him

[basilbots]

Bro if you think New Moon, before the Nexus arc where they were doing everything in their power to write him off as evil because they knew he was going to be killed off and replaced, was a worse brother than Old Moon or even anywhere close you are just straight up incorrect sorry.

First off very serious, stop downplaying Old Moon's abuse, you may not be meaning to but you are, you cannot be obtuse about why NM jokingly threatening Sun like normal siblings do all the time is okay but OM threatening the same thing when he would actually physically abuse Sun isn't okay. There is an obvious difference there and it's gross to say otherwise. Secondly more silly I am bapping you like an annoyed cat NM was around for a year and I guarantee you he was not played with Nexus in mind for the majority of it they were not in fact dropping hints that he would be evil this whole time. This is not to say New Moon was perfect, he wasn't, but literally none of the characters are. If you picked at every mistake or ruder comment a character made then they're all secretly evil and toxic (which some people actually believe looks at the Solar is evil theories). But I think it's insulting to go to people upset that their fav character was butchered and say "um actually New Moon was NEVER good" because you're biased against Nexus and want to rewrite what New Moon was actually like. Which is something that the show doesn't even support btw. Earth recently talked about how sweet New Moon was, Sun during the turning point of NM's grief arc turning into the Nexus arc admitted that New Moon up until that point was a better brother than Moon, the bulk of Nexus' horrible actions were not of him being a toxic brother it's him being an EX-brother turned villain. Which for reference is like how the og Eclipse was a toxic brother to Lunar but you would not say he was a toxic brother to Sun and Moon because the role and circumstances around how he hurt them were very different. New Moon was a very good brother that the story left turned into trying very hard to justify getting rid of so we could have our current story (Old Moon as our Moon, Dark Sun successfully having Sun kill a Moon, the dimensional discrepancy, etc).

[friendlyloveaffair]

My edit of Ultraman barriers (or shields) from Showa to Reiwa era. They're all defensive barriers (rather than containment barriers).

I like the barrier cos it's a classic technique. These barriers resist, reflect, absorb, or charge against incoming enemy attacks or, rarely, against "friendly fires" (from the defense teams).

Basic as they are in principle, it's interesting how these Ultras form their barriers. (My favorite so far is Arc's - and as the series goes on currently, I await what else he can do with his barrier as his imagination enables it).

I feature at least one form of barrier per Ultra - there are so many of them that I can't include them all, especially from the Heisei era onwards (Ultraman Cosmos has, like, 6 forms of barriers).

Not all Ultras have this barrier technique but if I missed something, let me know!

All credits go to Tsuburaya Productions.

[lakesbian]

That left Brian to sit in the empty space between Alec and me. I felt painfully conscious of where his calf and arm were touching my leg and shoulder. I’d been running and sparring, I was probably sweaty. Did I smell? Would that gross him out?

taylor he dreams of watching you sweatily strangle someone to death under the moonlight

[cutely-inserts-my-opinion]

The way the conclusion to the Nexus arc so anticlimactically went against EVERYTHING THEY WERE SETTING UP and all the morality stuff they’ve been preaching over the last 7 months makes me want to scream

So NewMoon wanting to kill BloodMoon (a serial killer) and Ruin (a person who has committed multiple genocides) was so morally wrong he had to be imprisoned and shocked repeatedly before he “got any worse” …but then the CONCLUSION of his arc 7 months later is just for Sun at the last second to straight up murder him (without any other character so much as batting an eye)?? Wow. Okay.

I honestly wouldn't have hated if he died IF HE HAD JUST FUCKING BEGGED FOR IT AND WANTED TO DIE

It would have tied off his arc so nicely. The use of star power corrupting his body? The pain is why he wants to die. The hinting towards how he cares about hsi family secretly? He does, he really done. Thats why Sun please kill him

God i- i hate how they just set up so many interesting aspects of his character and then killed him off so fucking boringly

[sunforgrace]

dean in season 13: if someone stole my car i would kill them dead.

dean the season prior when cas stole the colt hidden under dean’s pillow in his room and is passenger to kelly peeling tf out of there in the impala because he asked dean for the keys and dean gave them to him: he’s been having a rough time sam.

[starheirxero]

Nexus is actually a pretty damn baller character....... To get so lost in the sauce of being a New Person that you immediately dive head-first into slowly killing yourself because at least its a choice entirely of your own........ that rocks

[tsbs-shipfessions]

Ship confessions?

S..Safe place to share rants?

Oh dear how should I say this...

(Warning for anyone not supporting SolarNexus I guess..)

As much as I like the story of how New Moon went deranged from grief and self deterioration: as in finally realising he can never satisfy this "family's" need of him to be thee og Moon himself. A carbon copy replacement with unrealistic expectations set at full high. (Even though factually thanks to Eclipses V1-4 transitions it's shown that it can't possibly be 100% accurate.) Failing again and again over and over till the event of Solar's death finally snapping him. Derailing himself to push everyone away to the point of losing himself entirely as Nexus.

And Solar valuing New Moon so much that he was in absolute distraught when the first thing he hears upon waking was that his best friend, HIS REASON OF HOME, lost himself so far in the name of lone desperation. A desperation he knows all too well thanks to his past Moon's ungracious reaction to unfortunate loss.

Solar knows what it's like to be alone and afraid. He can't possibly leave Nexus like the others like the flip of the switch! Because just as he gave mercy to Eclipse and Ruin, he'd give mercy to Nexus too.

The canon doesn't make any sense!

And, well, being a silent (yet intimidated from this fandom) supporter of SolarNexus...

The angst writer side of me wishes that this story didn't clap off to the cliche "power hungry" complex.

Why not have Solar continue to drive himself to find some cure or solution? In the name of friendship; to justify himself that he can fix it all before it's too late. To not lose another from his (falsely blamed and uncontrolled) faults. To be the reassurance of comfort Nexus so desperately needed.

Why not have Nexus secretly die inside whenever he speaks the words he does not mean; unwillingly pushing himself to the edge every time he starts to believe hope can be retrieved. Falling in the spiral that nothing is real and he has no right to feel and express. The moment Nexus felt like grasping on light is when strings of dark pull him to a choke to remind just exactly who he's working with. Why he even decided to make a deal with DarkSun. That no matter how Nexus puts it, he technically is a husk for dark star power. An element. Like a living battery for some bigger project he may not be entirely aware of. (And my best guess: a tragic death to Dark Sun's intricate plans.)

A reminder so cruel and twisted that Nexus can't possibly see a way out without Solar's guidance and safety.

Life was never fair for the both of them. They both suffered at being blamed and antagonised for things they had no proper control over. They both had self doubts and a sense that they were never home.

(For f--k's sake! Nexus was LOSING HIS MIND!! CRITICAL DANGER OF WELL BEING, and the "family" decided: Hey! Instead of actually getting him proper treatment, lets just lock him in a cell and keep calling him a villain for insulting people! An action he had no say over because HAHA he LoSt hIs mInD. Wha- eH- HUUEUUH???? NnNO???)

But ey! They were Home for each other.

That's why Solar and NM/Nexus's friendship worked so well! They had a sense of comfort to speak and express openly, to have negativity or concerns spill out without backlash. To actually live freely knowing they have each others back!

And I'd like to believe they'd still ache to have this connection again. That Solar would do whatever it takes to have Nexus free from his chains.

Not to be welcomed by the "family", but to be welcomed by Solar's own loving arms. To get proper care, proper help, proper recognition of all parts of Nexus. Both good and bad.

I really think there's tragedy love potential here. I wished to see them fight whatever forces against them to be together again. To get at least that ounce of safety within the chaos.

Whether it's fighting mental illness or dark star power. Who cares! They gonna be together again dAhM iT! Even if it's just a minute before tragic death from DarkSun or somethin! T-T

*COUGH* oUgh man.. what a doozy of a topic..

Thank you so much for reading! And for making this confessions blog! I appreciate it! Was really good to have this off my chest. Wish you and everyone reading a wonderful day/evenin! :)

I admire the hell out of your passion. This was a good read, and has a lot of neat points. Nice going, Anon.