#SAOA

[mogamuncher]

The saoa fandom has a PhD in media literacy, actually

[angry-brony]

God watching the new episode of sword art online was so great till we got to that inevitable cliffhanger...not as mean as that last one but fuck me that went by fast.

[causalityparadoxes]

SAOA's new ep about two siblings with a hella toxic relationship realising they had never really hated each other and instead were driven apart by decisions made by their family (seexist grandpa and mom worried about her son's asthma respectively), then componded by their respective personalities causing miscommunication, and exacerbated by minimal parental oversight, that is so entrenched in their psychs that both assume them other is out to get them at every point, yet they both WANT to make it better but at every turn taking those first steps seems impossible,,, was really neat!

Unfortunately it has also harrowingly reminded me that the original plot was about the sister's insest crush 💀

[teleportationmagic]

Kazuto and Suguha

[in-the-words-of-the-hellaverse]

During one of I.M.P's job's someone witnessing their dealings and Blitzø is trying to calm them down.

Blitzø: Hey, I get it. You had a really bad day, you're stressed out, 7 people died- Witness: 12 people! Blitzø: Not the point. Look, they're dead now... And really? Who's fault is that? Witness: YOURS! Blitzø: That's right! No one's...

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Me waiting patiently for SAO:Abridged Episode 18 to be let out of Youtube jail (colorized)

[knght0wl]

heres to hoping SWE makes the reason kirito chose a girl avatar in GGO because he's just rolling with already sounding like a girl- might as well

that or it was a misclick the game locks you into and he didnt want to create a new account to start over

[devi-nova]

sword art online abridged honestly has better writing than any currently airing tv show anywhere i will die on this fucking hill, watch it right now, do it instantly, the newest episode stabbed me 87 times in the stomach, why do episodes take a year to make please god this cliffhanger is insane

[sausage-rolll]

Thinking about how Kayaba and Kirito's character arcs mirror each other really well in SAOA.

Kayaba, despite trying his best to help the people he trapped in the game and to be a good person, eventually fell into nihilism and hatred for humanity, spiralling to the point where he’ll directly murder innocent people for no reason other than feeling like it.

While Kirito tries his absolute best to be a cold, nihilistic horrible person but eventually breaks when his genuinely good qualities get forced to the surface by the people around him. Despite his best efforts he is, deep down, a good person who wants to do the right thing.

They both start and end the series on opposite sides of the same spectrum.

[mogamuncher]

I just realized that the team behind Sword Art Online Abridged said that they were going to try and do the entire series, which means that eventually we'll get to the arc with Alice and Eugeo right?

So now I'm losing my mind thinking about what Abridged!Eugeo would be like, because holy shit is there so much to be done there

Would he be like Recon, an adorable universal punching bag that is still very loyal, brave and just the specialest little guy ever? Would he be like Balls, a best friend that truly believed in Kirito despite Kirito being. . . Well, himself? Or would he be like Tiffany and Liz, doing their own thing but still having Kirito as a friend that he cares about, though he's still acknowledging that Kirito is insufferable?

Because like, all of these sound great, but hear me out here:

What if Abridged Eugeo is actually more like Asuna and Suguha?

It'd make sense, like character and story wise, since he's supposed to directly parallel Kirito and match with him on a lot of things. Canonically, Eugeo and Kirito should have the energy of two friends that can spend years not seeing each other, but when they do, they immediately snap right back into how they usually acted together, like no time passed at all. They are really close friends, and we all know that Abridged Kirito cannot be that close to people unless they are either willing to put up with a lot of shit (read: Balls) or are a lot like him but in a different font (read: Asuna and Suguha, also arguably Kayaba)

Now I use Asuna and Suguha as examples, because I they, along with Kirito, use a fake persona to mask how they really are, soft and squishy (Suguha and Kirito) or a complete fucking freak (Asuna). And I think Eugeo could be similar

Picture with me, Eugeo seemingly being similar to a Recon sort of character with a touch of Silica, he's nice, soft spoken, a bit pathetic, naive and the world's punching bag. Kirito sees himself on the poor guy, much like how he did Recon, so he acts a lot how he does with Recon "Don't talk to him like that, how dare you" "No one tell him", with the added character development of having the initiative to essentially drag Eugeo into a friendship (we're friends now, we're having soft tacos later style)

Then as the episodes go along, he shows signs of not being quite right, things he says are a little mean spirited or he plays along with one of Kirito's cruel jokes, but he always does it smiling or seemingly by accident, so it slides on by unnoticed

Until one big moment happens and it all comes crashing down, and the real Eugeo is revealed, and that Eugeo is actually just a fucking asshole with no empathy, a-la Asuna. You can even foreshadow it by not telling exactly why Eugeo killed those two noble dudes (assuming they cut out the rape scenes) only to reveal later that he did it not because they were being awful to someone else, but because of something comically inconsequential or personal (hell, it could even be because they fucked with Kirito's flowers)

Idk, I just think it would be funny. And if they go ham on the religious implications of this arc, they could even throw in a backstory of Eugeo being afraid that his real self would break the rules and get him Alice'd. You could even go the "We Happy Few" route with it!

But that's all just my ideas ig, i'd be happy to hear what everyone else has in mind

[approximateknowledge]

sao abridged did a lot of things and one of those is making me completely lose my shit every time i see or hear anyone ever use the word "sport" to address someone (like you'd say "pal" or "kid")

[tachvintlogic]

In Sword Art Online Abridged episode 17 at the time 17:04, there's a moment where there are two people and one of them says "I don't mean to brag but... I'm deathly allergic to the latex~~"

Which is just a bizarre line for some random background character to say, but it goes deeper than that. In the post-mortem stream for the episode at the time 2:28:32, they mention that the second person was supposed to have a line in response, but they never got someone to voice the other character so they just cut it even though it was a great line.

What was the other person supposed to say in response?

"Oh, how exotic."

And that line has been bouncing around in my head ever since because it's fucking amazing and it should've been in the episode because— just— what?! How is that a brag? Why are you saying it so flirtatiously? Why is the other person into it? How is that hot?????? How is being allergic to latex exotic????????

[susie-dreemurr]

By the way “Enjoy this while you can, it’s the deepest you’ll ever be in a woman” being your final words after you got stabbed in the throat is honestly the best way to go. SAO Abridged Parody Rosalia, my beloved.

[teleportationmagic]

To SAOA:

What the fuck. what the everliving fuck. I am literally sobbing I cannot stop this - this was the funny series! You can't do this to me!

Like just ughhhhhhhh - Suguha and Kazuto becoming unaligned for just a moment, just a second of him going faster, farther than her - and her sticking in out! Trying so hard to reach out! And him not doing the same because he doesn't even notice, and that abandonment twisting under years and years and years, of feeling unwanted and unloved, and feeling safer when she's unbearable, because she cannot afford that vulnerability again. And then Kirito coming back, older and wiser and more willing to spend time on the people he loves because of SAO where he got so close to losing them, and her not being able to fix these two versions of him together because they aren't! They aren't the same person! But he can't tell her, can't show her how he's changed because she cannot let either one of them be soft around one another.

And from Kirito's side, all he sees is his relationship with his baby sister grow strained under the weight of years, of her slowly turning into something awful that he thinks hates him, because what else could there be? Literally what else?

And her still dragging him to the kendo mat years later, despite the fact that he hates it. That being literally the first scene of them together.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[dragoninatrenchcoat]

I am once again thinking about SAOA

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

The only time I am made to engage with the artist known as Taylor Swift is when someone I follow reblogs a post by someone with he/him in their bio trying way to hard to be #sassy about her in an unnecessarily gendered way

and I just gotta ask- Who made you feel comfortable assigning vapidness to her gender out loud "but I said she's a WHITE woman-" that doesn't matter Brent. That is not a free pass. Brent my boy you just made the same "blonde=woman stupid" joke that your conservative dad used to make repackaged slightly to the left. Do you understand me Brent? Do you see why this is a problem? You're not even non-white Brent. Sometimes our inside thoughts should stay inside thoughts. Please revaluate your internal biases and come back later