#Or if there is a deeper reason

[rbvcdeluxe]

something something max's main color being red with blue highlights something something grace's main color being blue with red highlights something something motivations something something alive and dead something something

[childrenofthesun77]

We didn't get to spend much time with iori in the main story, but I love the three old idiots in the extra comics and the tanakabox events.

They are so dysfunctional as a "friend" group.

Iori wants touma and tooru to see him as their friend, but touma hates everyone and with tooru I feel there is some tension because he's technically his boss. This distance between them all seems to sadden iori.

Tooru always wanted to help touma, even after everything touma did (touma got his sister pregnant, broke his nephew's arm and tried to kill mahiru, I would really love to get a better explanation why tooru is still so protective of him. He got mad at iori for suggesting to pin all the blame on touma when they thought he had died and seemed worried about touma when he called him at the hospital. Is it because he doesn't want to think too badly of his nephew's father?), but touma rather openly hates him and thinks tooru is looking down on him.

Touma only claims to be iori's friend if he thinks it'll be to his advantage, like when he introduced himself to mikuni, and he openly hates tooru, yet despite claiming to kill people he dislikes tooru is still alive. Also they all three go out to eat ramen sometimes?

Unlike the new three idiots that are actually friends the old three idiots are three people that are to each other probably the closest thing to friends they all have, but they don't really get along. It would be cool to see them united once more now that touma seems to have stopped being the grinch.

So ummm...

Does Iori really dead or y'know... he would go back to the battle field or sumthin? Coz Touma is back and Tooru is also back, I need Iori to complete the "C3's three idiots first edition" on the battle field.

But Iori is really dea-- I know but what IF right???! No one is ever really dead on Servamp... this is just my trust issue speaking

[mysticwastelandkitten]

Replaying inquisition with the knowledge of who Solas really is is such a wild ride. Look at this smug bastard slouching when you first meet him. Look at that stupid little smirk he's got on like he's getting away with something- WHICH HE IS. Acting all cute and demure. I can't believe this little shit fooled me! 😭

[sweetbunanarchy]

I hate that whenever I think of doing more fan art/redesigns/edits I automatically remember this fuck ass shit that happened to me back in 2020 and then all that motivation goes right back to OC stuff lol.

[anqelbean]

The "Binghe fell in love with Shen Qingqiu because he was an authority figure and he has abandonment issues" jokes are funny and all, but my GOD if I see another person actually believing that's the whole reason Luo Binghe fell in love with SQQ I will go insane.

[scribz-ag24]

i saw some posts about grovyle and dusknoir and possession and it got out of hand.

[jq37]

Just to throw my two cents on the Rat Grinder discourse: They weren't worth the Intrepid Heroes' time. We didn't get the full picture of what's going on with the Grinders until the last quarter of the season. Before that they were just this other clique that hate the main characters, so in-character why would the Bad Kids bother giving them so much attention when they've got so much of their own crap going on. Kristens quest to get Cassandra back and her presidential campaign, Gorgugs courseload, Riz's million and one plates that he's been spinning all season, Adaines financial problems, Figs curse and her doubts about what she wants to do with her life. Fabian's the only one who might have had the time, but he had to be Maximum Legend. There genuinely was no time or even an incentive on the IH's side to develop the Rat Grinders characters.

I still think it's fucked up that these teenagers got taken advantage of by adults they trusted, but we didn't learn any of that until we only had two roleplay episodes left. Too little too late to even try anything diplomatic even if they didn't spend all their time after the Last Stand in hiding.

And a thing about Ivy that no one is roasting her about and really should: An elven archer? Really? Wow, never seen that before.

Yeah totally. Like, from a meta level, I see where the players themselves could have been more curious about the Rat Grinders. There are obvious plot threads that could have been teased out there (though, in fairness to the cast, the adult manipulation aspect didn't become clear until way later in the season--the rivalry and foil aspects were more obvious). This final confrontation could look really different if they'd played that all the way out all season.

But in character? The Bad Kids really didn't have a good reason to waste time on the Rat Grinders. They came into this school year already burnt out from their Night Yorb quest and wanting a break. But they don't get that because they immediately are beset by problems they have to deal with--Kristen's god is on death's door from neglect and she's on the brink of expulsion, Riz is running himself ragged trying to boost his resume for college, Fig is having a whole ass existential crisis, Adaine is struggling with money issues she doesn't want to talk about, Gorgug is taking FOUR YEARS of school at the same time, and Fabian is multiclassing and dealing with his empty house/not having parental support (or Cathilda's support) for the first time. They are dealing with SO MUCH high stakes, personal stuff before the plot even kicks in. And, mechanics-wise, this is represented with the downtime system that means that any time they spend on the RG's is time they can't spend on something that matters more to them. IMO, not prioritizing your haters is actually pretty mature. Like, they weren't proactively using their free time to bully them or anything (except for arguably Fig). They were snippy with them when they crossed their paths and that was it. As opposed to the Rat Grinders who literally had to be told by Jace to stop antagonizing the Bad Kids (though they must have been pretty ineffectual at it because the Bad Kids hardly noticed, which I bet stung considering they were so obsessed).

And also, it's not like they didn't try at all with the Rat Grinders. Early Insight checks on Kipperlilly just got, "This is a polished steel orb of a personality" which doesn't sound very worth interacting with in a sympathetic way if at all and then the next big thing they learn is that she had hated Riz since Freshman Year and that she wants Riz and Kristen dead. And that's AFTER we saw her smile and kill her party cleric. In their position I'm not spending further time trying to empathize with this person, I have made my judgement and it's up to the Jawbones of the world to find if there's something in there to be rehabilitated.

And that's not the only case. Adaine straight up saved Ruben from disintegration during the Frosty Folk battle when she easily could have saved the spell slot, but that didn't soften him towards the Bad Kids any. Adaine also was really keen to Scry on the Rat Grinders to find out what was happening at their meetings. But, in scene at least, she was never able to do that so we never got a scene of them, huddled together, clearly unsure about the path they're on but not feeling like they can walk it back or say no to the authority figures in their lives. She didn't get anything humanizing that would cause her to rethink their position on them the way that she did with Aelwyn for instance. So why would they think they're anything but gleeful co-conspirators?

Hell, the one RG Adaine was even slightly curious about was Oisin and now we know that he was feigning interest in her which, man, can you imagine how much worse that would have felt if she'd actually taken the bait and pursued him beyond just thinking he was cute? Of course, it's possible that her interacting with him more along with some good charm rolls could have changed the narrative in some way but we can only go off of what we know to be true in canon and those facts are (1) He tried to get closer to Adaine while actively planning the downfall of her and her friends, (2) he (along with Ivy) was mean to Buddy behind his back while tricking him into a plan that would force him to go against his religious beliefs, and (3) he called his KVX related dragon ancestors to try to kill the Bad Kids and endanger the entire student body population. Three strikes, you're out. If I'm a Bad Kid I'm not super interested in whatever else is going on with him. And again, literally all of Adaine's friends (except Riz) gave her help to do an Insight check on him during their confrontation in the hallway so she was looking for something there worth engaging with, but she didn't get much.

Fig was fully doing CIA, MKUltra, Fantasy Geneva Convention violations on Ruben to try see if she could get information or flip him. I think she did it in an objectively insane way so I'm not entirely shocked that it didn't yield the exact results she was looking for. But she never found the smoking gun (or whatever the opposite of that is) in his head that would absolve him/show the Rat Grinders were being controlled and her messing with his dreams never flared his conscience enough to make him try to break free (as far as we know) which is what I assume she was going for. If I was Ruben looking for a way out but scared of the repercussions, I might go to Adaine who saved me from certain death earlier the same year and has helped saved the world 3 times with her party and their friends in high (and low) places. Maybe that's what Fig thought might happen but it didn't so from Fig's POV? Gave him a chance. Time to start blasting. And again, at that age, if I walked in to the first day of class and the first thing this random boy does is sneer at me and flaunt his musical success, I'm popping up on his Nemesis Alert at that moment. Doubly so after he tries to trick me and my friends into doing drugs so we get expelled. I'm surprised she tried at all with him.

Fabian absolutely tried to interact with Ivy--in large part for self interested reasons of course, but that doesn't change that he did it. And she came across as callous and unkind from the jump. Their final conversation before the latest episode is the one where she talks about wearing Mazey like a sweater and then says that Fabian missed his chance with her before stalking off. That's a pretty open and shut interaction. No way 17 year old me is like, "Hmm, but why is she acting so mean? Perhaps I should examine that more closely to further understand her." Nah, I've decided she sucks.

And Kristen has tried with Buddy literally up until the last moment. She rolled an Insight check on him right before the fight started and she got a 1. She got nothing from him.

Mary Ann is actually the only Rat Grinder who hasn't done anything to make a bad impression on the Bad Kids--the only thing she did was have a really good Bloodrush tryout. So no reason to hate her specifically (and, in fact, she is also the only Rat Grinder that at least half of them are positively obsessed with), but no reason to explore her further. And Kristen still tried giving her a stuffed animal and her response was that she already had that one and that she was going to give it away. What are they supposed to do with that?

Even when they tried, they didn't get information that was worth chasing when they were so busy and had to manage their free time. Gorgug didn't even slot in downtime to talk to his bio parents when they visited. Why would he spend any time on Mary Ann to figure out her deal? Maybe if they were given more explicit opportunities to interact with them in passing. If Mary Ann was shown at Bloodrush Games. If during class time Oisin tried to interact with Adaine. If Kristen ran into Buddy and Bucky talking. If any of their forays into talking to them or looking into them yielded anything actionable or that piqued their interest--they opened the door for Brennan to give them something more than once. But they never got anything that was worth investing more of their limited time into.

(And also, they didn't learn that Porter was involved until WAY into the last quarter of the episodes. Which absolutely could have changed things since, as far as they knew the RG's were working alone to raise this god which isn't crazy for them to think because Kristen literally did that last year and it was of her own free will. If they knew early that the RG's were smaller players in Porter's plot then maybe they would have been in more of a rescue mindset--especially since Fig has always mistrusted him--but that's not information they had and by the time they got it, the RG's were in deep hiding, like you said.)

And so, coming into the last few episodes, that's who the Rat Grinders are to the Bad Kids. A group of kids who they first heard about in the context of, "they famously hate you," even though they'd never interacted before. A group of kids who they already thought sucked even before they tried to kill the entire study body an hour ago. A group of kids who are trying to doom all of Elmville to eternal rage and who are willing and ready to kill them to do it.

With that context, yeah I think their actions are pretty understandable.

(Also, lmao. Yeah, I think calling Ivy basic would probably hurt her more than most things you could say to her.)

[princesssunderworld]

I wonder why they are Lemon and Tangerine. 🍋🍊

And not Lemon and Lime 🍋‍🟩?

There has to be a reason right?

[katerinaaqu]

Thinking about Eurymachus said that Odysseus used to place him on his knees, feeding him roasted meat and wine makes it for one even more apparent how young the suitors were plus makes his and their betrayal strike deep

Imagine Odysseus hearing that these children he was so close with grew up and now are in his palace harassing his wife and plotting to kill his son! No wonder he tried to warn them till the last moment

Let that sink in!

[a-star-that-burns-brightly]

I'm going to sound like such a smartass but I'm glad I'm seeing more people express that "Huh, maybe this girl who has an entire song repeating to herself over and over again that her murder was not her fault meanwhile she-

portrays herself as a giant grotesque bug in her headspace with her victim, who she clearly still holds a high opinion of, being the only human in said headspace looking at her with visible disgust and fear,

Making this expression upon realizing what she just did

These being the lyrics that follow right after, having a moment of reconsideration

Before jumping back to trying to convince herself that she was in the right, because she put her trust in us to tell her if what she did was right or not, and the answer that came out was yes... That maybe, just maybe. She thinks that what she did...

Might have been her fault."

[silverthelovebug]

We never really got to see them hang out one on one during the events of Camp Cretaceous (except once, and they were competing to see who’s lack of a childhood gave them the better skill set so) Idk, we only get a snippet of their dynamic in Chaos Theory, I just think their friendship (especially as adults) would be pretty interesting :3

(Yes, some of these are headcanons ^^)

(Look, you don’t just sprain/break your ankle on concrete and not have lasting consequences without the proper treatment. Yaz was running on that foot on the daily !! And you can see it still affected her all the way through Season 3 !!! So, yeah, Hits her with the chronic pain beam)

( ‼️Also Major Chaos Theory Spoilers ‼️)

[annabelle--cane]

sometimes I go scrolling back through my old playlists to try and get out of my current repetition loop and end up listening to some angst mix I put together when I was sixteen and it's just like

"wow you were THAT mentally ill"

[wafflesrisa]

McLaren’s pit wall disasterclass

What really gets me about this McLaren pit wall disasterclass is that it was 99% salvageable even AFTER the mistake was made

Andrea Stella could have gone on Lando’s radio on lap 48 and said these exact words:

“Lando, this is Andrea. Let Oscar through please. One lap hold position. Then you are free to race. Race to the end.”

Now if I was Lando. Knowing there’s 22 laps to the end of the race and he has comparable tyres to Oscar - he’d grumble but he’d comply. Because he’d know that he has 22 laps to chase and overtake Oscar on his own merit

But no McLaren spent the next 20 laps “👉👈 uwu pls”. Until both Lando and Oscar felt sour.

You’re a formula one team pull your trousers up and give the team order. Then let your drivers race

[wizzard890]

there's a scene in Barbie where one of the Barbies walks in on a Ken watching the Godfather and then she says she's never seen the movie and asks him to talk about it, and then he starts to passionately contextualize it within the history of New Hollywood and we're meant to eyeroll at this as an example of mansplaining and like. girl you asked. god forbid a man have interests.

[transbutchblues]

I think The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse should be required reading for anyone who wants to say anything about Hera, her dynamic with Zeus, or her actions towards mortal women and heroes

[8um8le]

Does Eclipse ever find smo he’s interested in?

Honestly Eclipse is actually somewhere on the aroace spectrum, he’s not really interested in romantic + sexual relationships

He kinda takes this from his father, plus he’s really happy with the platonic bonds he has with his subordinates :-))) (cyber-crew, jet n mustang, comet etc)

(But I dont mind when ppl ship themselves/ ocs with eclipse though!!💕)

Also lil fun fact, Jet’s android and overall system used to work as a hotel receptionist, yet Eclipse was her first ever friend despite working with countless humans

Mustang use to guard her dead master’s house in the woods despite it being trashed by looters, the house was falling apart but she still stayed doing the same routine as if her master was still living, until Eclipse found her