#Seven Walls Arc

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(Chapter 127 | Chapter 141 | x)

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#AKZJDKDKSNDJDNSBSJNANSODNZKWKAJDKSNSJKWNAJDKSBSLANSJ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #Holy this is SO GOOD oh my God #I'm going to pass out #Holy really be out there inducing Stendhal syndrome into people smh #For real tho every single piece you create you reach new levels of beauty still unknown to humanity #Holy creates new art and humanity's score counter suddenly beeps and says “congratulations! You've unlocked art level 100000” #This is so beautiful gorgeous and mesmerizing on so many levels I don't even know where to start #I LOVE the golden tears!!!!! I love how more than tears they look like waterfalls of gold!!!!! #I love the tiny little Norman Norman's holding I'm his hands!!!! He's everything he's burying inside of himself!!!!!!!! #He's the innocence and happiness he's burying and slowly killing and I love this symbolism!!!!!!!!! #Where do you even take these concept from Holy like. What do you eat in the morning tell me I wanna have your brain #I sure as hell hope you put this in your portfolio so anyone who sees this has to hire you immediately #THE SPARKLES!!!!!! The little glimmering stars!!!!!!!!!! Sis I love them so much they're always such a great addition to your art #I'm really in love with the halo... I'm probably mistaken here- #but this thorn-like diamonds it has makes me think about Jesus' crown of thorns #And there's a lot to unpack with the Norman/Jesus parallels you know? Norman somehow “coming back from death” / Norman being a savior etc #But I'm digressing. The shadow on his chest is SO FREAKING COOL #Is it blood? Is it Norman's blood? Is it the blood of the demons he's killed? #Is it the blood of all the cattle children that were slaughtered and that he feels such a deep connection with? Is it his illness spreading #Is it a way to make the whole piece feel like an early Renaissance oil painting even more than it already does? #All I know is that it's freaking mesmerizing #The light coming from his feet like a fire burning him... How it makes his head the darkest point of his figure... His mourning expression. #I'm just. Wow.

Happy birthday, Norman!

The boy who cried inside

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this is a deliberate visual callback to arlong park TO ME okay

despite all their differences and silly little bickering the way they all come together and lock the fuck in when one of them needs help... it's so good

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Stealing @just-like-playing-tag's ship chart with a few tweaks but my general leanings for the trio

[bibannana]

Tup *watching Fives stick Rex's entire office to the ceiling*: Did you just wake up one day and choose violence?

Fives *standing back to admire his handy work*: No, no, it's a conscious everyday decision.

Echo *who helped but will deny it*: This isn't violence, this is anarchy.

Jesse *making sure nothing will fall off the roof*: No, this is controlled chaos.

Dogma *starting to understand that following the Domino Twins around is a bad idea*: This is a one way ticket to the medbay if he finds us.

Hardcase *stuck to a wall*: Ha! Like he'll know it was us!

Rex *opening the door*:.......

Fives *smug*: He won't know it was us Dogma, the security tapes aren't even recording at the mo- what's with those faces?

Echo *look of dread*: Well-

Fives *hangs his head*: He's right behind me isn't he?

Rex *wishing he had given them to Cody*: He is.

Kix *in the corridor wheezing into his comm*: I'm going to need six stretches at the Captain's office as soon as possible.

Taglist: @sexy-rex @soliloquy-of-nemo @jiabeewrites @staycalmandhugaclone @nekotaetae

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Reading these popularity polls and feeling like I'm going lowkey insane

(WSJ Chapter 102 Popularity Poll, released September 7, 2018)

(Official Anime Site's 4th Anniversary Popularity Poll, conducted in August 2020)

(VIZ February 2021 Popularity Poll)

Anna being more popular in fanon that Don illustrates the phenomon of a fandom being willing to do one of their least favorite things (appreciate a female character) in order to avoid doing another one of their least favorite things (appreciate a character of color)

[chidoroki]

August 1, 2023 - TPN’s 7th year anniversary - ft: Emma & Ray at the Seven Walls

[wibben]

Perfectly Imperfect

🎃 My actual plan for Halloween is, unsurprisingly, not finished. But I couldn't just let Halloween come and go without a little something! So here's a little fluffy Nanami Kento, struggling with being a perfectionist. 🎃

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You were beginning to suspect Nanami took pumpkin carving more seriously than most.

The first time you leaned over to see his progress, he’d swiveled his pumpkin out of sight, his brows knitting in concentration. “Not yet. It’s not ready.”

You’d laughed, shrugged, and let him be, thinking it was cute he wanted it to be a surprise. After all, that was so very Kento – everything he did had that meticulous touch. But after your own pumpkin was proudly propped up (and, admittedly, a little wobbly in its smile), Kento still wouldn’t let you peek. His shoulders were a little tense, jaw set as he sliced each angle of his pumpkin with the same exacting precision he used to analyze your taxes. 

“Come on,” you teased, nudging his shoulder. “Let me see.”

But he only huffed, eyes glued to the uneven surface of the pumpkin, moving his knife in slow, perfectly straight lines. “It’s not ready,” he repeated, sounding… a little deflated.

You tried to give him space, focusing on arranging the remaining seeds into tiny, wobbly hearts and stars. But every so often you’d catch him glancing at your pumpkin, a small wrinkle of irritation tugging at his brow. It’d been nearly an hour now, and he still hadn’t carved anything more than a few long, straight slices, some lines coming out so exact they didn’t even look… pumpkin-y. At all. But the lines did look familiar…

After the third time he swiveled the pumpkin away from your eyes, muttering something about the lines not coming out right, you pressed a hand to his to halt his knife. “Kento,” you said, struggling not to smile, “are you… using your technique on the pumpkin?”

His mouth twitched, a flush creeping up to his cheeks. “That would be ridiculous,” he muttered, though his fingers tightened around the carving tool with even more grim resolve. You’d seen that look before – it was his getting shit done as neatly as possible look.

“What if… just for tonight,” you whispered, stifling a laugh, “you forget about perfect lines and… you know, let it be a little wonky?” 

He exhaled, slow and resigned, and turned his pumpkin just slightly so you could see what he’d carved so far: a series of perfectly measured slashes, each one a little too sharp, too straight, all at perfect angles of seven to three, creating what looked more like a spreadsheet than a face.

“I’ve carved one eye,” he said, and he sounded almost ashamed. “The mouth keeps looking like a bar graph.”

You had to bite back a laugh. You reached over, flicking a bit of pumpkin goop in his direction. “You can’t make a jack-o'-lantern with ratios, Kento.” 

He leveled you with a scandalized look, brushing a seed from his hair where it had landed. “Yes I absolutely can and you know it,” he said, tone dead serious. “This pumpkin just has no symmetry.”

You couldn’t help but burst out laughing, pressing a hand to your mouth. “Symmetry? It’s a pumpkin!” 

He scowled – though the corners of his mouth betrayed him, just a little, tugging up as you reached over, guiding his knife in a jagged, uneven arc to make a cartoonishly crooked smile on the pumpkin’s lopsided face.

He watched your shaky line, a look of pure horror crossing his face. “The angles aren’t even close, my love—” he groaned, but he couldn’t stop a smile from creeping up, finally, when you added a few goofy teeth.

“There,” you said, wiping your hands on your jeans. “See? It’s you, Kento.”

He looked down at the wobbly, crooked-faced pumpkin, then back at you in mock accusation, embittered with disbelief. “Cruel woman… I look nothing like that.” He grumbled, disgruntled as he fingered at the eyehole, picking out a stray seed stuck to the inner wall.

You watched. Shamelessly. With a grin slowly growing on your face and a suggestive waggle of your eyebrows to accompany, which was promptly met with that same seed being flicked straight between your eyes.

“Incorrigible,” he accused.

He sighed, surrendering with a slump to his shoulders at having been thoroughly bested by a gourd. “Unbelievable.” But his tone softened as he shook his head, eyes lingering on your pumpkin which proudly supported your elbow, all wobbly lines and clumsy knife strokes and you couldn’t possibly look more pleased… and then his own, half him and half you, perfection to a fault but made better by your added touch and enthusiasm. 

“You did make it adorable,” he admitted, reaching out to flick a little pumpkin goop back at you.

You grinned, unable to resist scooping a handful of seeds to toss at him. “Yeah, see? Like you!”

Before you could blink, he’d ducked away, laughing, rounding the orange-guts-covered table with one quick stride to lift you right off your feet, your gleeful squeal swallowed by his low chuckle as he tossed you over his shoulder. He held you there easily, despite your wiggling, his free hand swatting playfully at the back of your thigh to chastise your squirming. 

"Behave," he chuckled, a thick arm keeping you secured while he scooped up the pumpkins with his other hand, tucking them in the crook of his arm.

By the time he set you down and proudly displayed the two pumpkins on your front steps, they looked… well, they looked a little lopsided. But the way he looked at them, and then looked at you – all smiles and pride as you hung on his arm with matted orange hair up to his elbows – he thought that was exactly how they should be.

They may not be masterpieces, but they were perfectly imperfect.

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#this is just what middle schoolers do when theyre left to their own devices your honor (via @midnight-sloth)

March 21st - Happy Birthday Norman - ft: his tvtropes

[lover-of-mine]

Hi!

Happy 8x06 day :D

I recently got into 9-1-1 (read: binged all seven seasons and five episodes in two weeks) and I can honestly say no other fandom drew me in this quickly - that being said I love the color theories surrounding our boys, however I am still a bit unclear on what the significance of Eddie's yellow / Buck's blue is and how do they play into eachother?

Hi!! Welcome to the madness. I will link my main posts about the blue and yellow but a lot happened this season already, so I'll do an overview here too (x x x x x)

Basically, Buck's coming out arc is blue and yellow coded and Buck is dressed in shades of blue through the whole thing.

The culmination of Buck's coming out arc is the coming out scene in 705 because it is the only moment Buck chooses to come out. So this is Buck's blue.

While Buck was doing all that, Eddie was in the sun, or surrounded by gold/yellow.

So in the coming out scene, we have Buck settled into his blue and Eddie in front of his yellow.

But the blue and yellow coding of Buck and Eddie actually started in 201. Down to the way that "Practice rounds have blue caps. Gold caps are live." with the blue and yellow lights on the ambulance ceiling. If you pay attention while watching they have a lot of scenes with blue and yellow elements.

Some more blue and yellow coding.

But the main thing here is the will reveal.

For all intents and purposes, this is an aborted love confession, and Buck is in yellow, Eddie is in blue. But more importantly, Buck is in the yellow that we have behind Eddie for the coming-out scene.

And interestingly enough, the blue of the wall, is the blue of Buck's hoodie in the hospital when he comes out to everyone. So they are switched.

Also, during the 601 dinner, when they establish the couch thing, they are blue and yellow, like, Buck's grey is blue in the same way Eddie's beige is yellow.

So the idea is that Eddie will be sandy yellow beige the same way Buck was navy blue while figuring himself out. One example of that is the sandy shirt Eddie is wearing while talking to Bobby on 804. Also the general blue and yellow coding of Eddie's arc that episode.

Something else that happened is that Eddie was wearing Buck's blue at the hospital in 805.

Which leads us to today's clip. I color-corrected the clip because @stagefoureddiediaz thought that it might be the same shirt, which would put Eddie firmly in the yellow category while talking to the priest, and tie things to that conversation in 601.

This puts more into the theory that Eddie find his way to his shade of yellow the same way Buck found his shade of blue. I think since Buck worked through darker shades of blue to find his color, Eddie will do the opposite and will be lighter shades of yellow, working up to something in this real of yellow.

And that the buddie canon will be with Buck in his blue and Eddie finally in his yellow. So I'm on high alert for them in blue and anything that could be categorized as yellow.

And this got longer than I planned oajksoaksoaks if you read this I love you 🫶

I will taglist this one (interact with this post if you wanna get tagged)

@sparkedblaze @caw-salem @dreamofsomepiphany @100ceruleaneyes @linus-lucy @chaosqueery @gina-spike @chimchiminie98 @elvensorceress @singitforthegirls @dangerpronebuddie @182daysof @steadfastsaturnsrings @sparklespiff @inell @miles--to--go @jesuisici33 @wolfdeans @lunarsolar1 @joshwritesfics @glasscities @kejfeblintz @stagefoureddiediaz @mosaicstardust @eddiedisasterdiaz @hermioneindisguise @queerprincesseddiediaz @lookforanewangle @becausebuckley @lemotmo @thenainitaldisaster

@dingdongfries @angelcamael

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HEADCANON TIME

Hi! Time for my headcanon shenanigans, featuring art to make it easier to digest lol

This headcanon is HEAVILY inspired by the lil electric zap smooch from Wall-E, and I wanted to share it with the fandom so here we go! It's a lot so it's gonna be buried under a read more so it doesn't swarm the dash lol

This electric jolt is something that occurs when two iterators that are close to one another just. Touch. For no particular reason or purpose, they just touch each other because they enjoy one another's company that much. While this could typically be seen within romantic pairings, this can also easily occur with friends and/or family that share a similar close bond!

The shock is enough to feel something similar to a small static shock, enough to surprise you without feeling hurt by anything.

The in general shocks aren't anything special, but they can have variety in regards to the following four categories: Magnetism, sound, lights, and shape. I shall provide some examples down below!

Magnetism

Starting with magnetism, this is a pull that draws iterators towards one another when they touch. It makes it harder for iterators to pull away from one another, whether out of draining the desire to part or functioning like an actual magnetic force between the two. Most sparks have some level of magnetism, but there are iterators who can have their sparks classified as 'high magnetism' as well

Iterators of note that fit that classification would be Five Pebbles and Chasing Wind

Sound

Sound is a very rare occurrence in these sparks, as the touch will often be accompanied by a sound such as a bell chime, or enhanced volume output of one's internal sensors or processes. This is not like the others on this list that come with variety, you either have this variation of spark or you don't. Because of this, you classify iterators with sound with simply sound and nothing else.

Iterators of note that fit that classification would be Looks to the Moon and Unparalleled Innocence

Lights

Lights are something that are entirely visible whenever this spark is occurring, with a variety on how bright or what color they can be. While most iterators have a default spark color of whitish-green that is barely visible, there is enough variety that this isn't a hard set rule for ALL iterators. However, iterators that have a bright or distinctively colored spark are still classified by their color.

Iterators of note that fit that classification would be Seven Red Suns and Sliver of Straw.

Shape

Iterator sparks tend to have very specific arc shapes, with little variation to be seen from iterator to iterator. Size more often than not fluctuates more, but shape changes are less likely to occur. The most common spark shape is a simple upwards arc of varying sizes. Most who have variations of spark shapes have them rather unique, enough so that they can be classified by shape entirely.

Iterator of note that fits that classification would be No Significant Harassment

That's it for the classifications! And, of course, because each iterator has a unique classification that is unique to them, these also result in unique combinations between two iterators who grow close to each other. I tried my best to express those possibilities through the art I drew as examples, as the limitless combinations are something that excite me!

Anyways! Hope yall enjoyed my silly little headcanon and cute art to go along with it!

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#i am shooting laser eyes directly at shonen jump with their barbaric working conditions and crunch times. they are the true enemy

Say this on discord repeatedly but so viscerally real

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 5 | "Tracks to the Neverland" December 2020 Exhibition Interview)

(TPN Wiki Page on Chapter 134 | @TPNManga's translation of WSJ's Editorial Department Note)

(October 2020 Series Completion Commemorative Interview)

(Discussion of Dragonball author Akira Toriyama's and One Piece author Eiichiro Oda's work schedules | Sample Schedule of an Anonymous Weekly Mangaka | Naruto author Masashi Kishimoto's typical schedule)

(Notes by @1000sunnygo on this post)

This is why I personally can't fault Shirai for ending the series when he did while trying to maintain his sense of artistic integrity, even with my complaints about the back half of the series.

escape arc is easily the best tpn arc and there are critiques to be had about the pacing in later arcs but if you say everything post-escape is unoquivocally bad you are simply wrong and dumb i'm so sorry

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(Chapter 32 | TPN Light Novel 1: A Letter from Norman - "The Ghost Incidents at Grace Field House" | Shirai's Highlights for Volume 4 | Chapter 140 Post)

The most common route I see is he regains his love for it after he's out of the oppressive environment of Grace Field (myself included), but I've also seen some people opt for him to focus more on cooking, photography, machines, or archery.

(Chapter 4 | Questionnaire Translation Source | Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Q&A)

[nubuckleather]

sketching out an au in my mind. okay, so tommy’s move to harbor doesn’t pan out so he’s still with the 118 when buck joins up. and initially their dynamic is largely similar to hen and chim’s dynamic with buck 1.0–he’s equally aggravated and endeared by him, but over time they become good friends and a formidable pair of partners in the field. tommy’s s1-era arc is building up the courage to come out to the rest of a-shift, which ultimately goes over quite well. everyone’s very accepting and happy for him; buck loudly proclaims that he’s an ally.

then eddie gets hired. and eddie and tommy immediately click because of all their commonalities—shared interests, military service, struggles with internalized homophobia—and it drives buck up a wall because not only is he scared he’s going to be replaced as tommy’s partner but also he knows that tommy’s gay and eddie’s objectively attractive (not that that matters because, like, abby’s definitely coming back) so he’s doing his peeing in circles around eddie thing and finally snaps and snaps eddie’s ankle at a basketball game and is immediately horrified to learn he injured the single father of a seven year old. and tommy drops by his house to be like, “what’s going on, evan? my friendship with eddie has nothing to do with my friendship with you,” and this is significant because up till that point he’s been calling him “buck” like everybody else at the station. anyway things play out a little differently but the moment gets charged and they kiss. except tommy’s insistent he can’t be buck’s queer awakening because they can’t risk what they have working together and buck tamps down his abandonment issues to pretend like he gets it.

after that buck warms up to eddie quickly (and especially chris) and then they’re all a terrible trio but they’re also clearly mutually attracted to each other, but it’s just simmering at the edges through shannon’s accident and the tsunami and the well collapse and the shooting until buck and tommy can’t deny anymore how much they want each other and eddie. and eddie wants them back

[northlt03]

Rick is known to mirror myths a lot (Silena-Clarisse and Patroclus-Achilles, Polyphemus' cave, Hercules' labors, etc) He could and SHOULD have mirrored the Trojan war in HOO.

Let me set the scene. Gaea doesn't pop up until the last couple books. It's easy to be scared of something that is mentioned but not seen, which in my opinion, is why Gaea in the HOO books just wasn't scary enough.

So the antagonists in the first few books are the Giants working under Gaea's orders. Percy is kidnapped by them and given to the Romans in the hope that the Greeks and the Romans will go batshit crazy in a fight and forget all about the prophecy of the seven and destroying Gaea or whatever.

Camp Halfblood is fully ready for war. As soon as they find out (through an oracle or smth idk) that the Romans exist and they have Percy, not even Chiron can stop them. Percy is the hero of the Battle of Manhattan, of course, and the hero mentioned in the last great prophecy. He's like their modern Aristos Achaion.

Meanwhile, the Romans have no clue what's going on. There's this guy he's funny, he has no memories, he just shows up at their wolf goddess and trains and gets sent to them. Cool.

Juno can't stand to see New Rome be attacked. Whether or not they would win is a whole different story. So she plucks Jason from CJ and brings them to the Greeks just for some sort of a balance.

This mirrors the Trojan war in the sense that Troy was a fortified city, so is New Rome with tons of forts and walls. Aeneas' lineage went on to be Remus and Romulus, the founders of Rome. And Helen of Troy was stolen from the Greeks.

Anyway so there's that conflict, but at the same time Camp Halfblood is getting ready to attack, Jason, Piper and Leo get sent on a quest to rescue Hera who has been captured by Porphyrion and Enceladus.

On the way, Jason starts to regain his memory a little bit, though he doesn't know everything yet. He's still super conflicted with everything. A pretty girl thinks they were dating, Leo says they were best friends, Annabeth says the Romans are enemies. But whom should he really believe?

Piper's whole arc through the first book could be about how she's the daughter of the goddess of beauty, she wrongly assumes her fake crush on Jason was her mom's fault. And she's learned so much bad stuff about her mom from myths, she outright rejects feminity and anything remotely girly at first but then slowly she gets to know Aphrodite isn't as bad as some myths make her out to be. Bonding and shit bc why should Poseidon be the only present godly parent?

Leo, meanwhile, has no idea he can essentially fire bend in the first book. His arc could be about discovering his mother's death was his fault, slightly and coming to terms with it with the help of his friends.

Reyna on the Roman's side is freaking out bc Octavian wants to go to war with the Greeks who are close to attacking them, there's a strange dude who keeps trying to pick fights with gods, a horse girl and not to mention monsters won't fucking DIE.

SON trio go on their quest to Alaska to kill Alcyoneus/ release Thanatos and things are getting clearer to them as well. Just when the Greeks are about to attack on CJ, Polybotes and the monsters attack as well. Somehow, both sides end up fighting the monsters together.

They're not friends, but they're not enemies either, bc Percy is reunited with his gf and Jason is returned to his home.

The Roman senate and the Greeks somehow come to the same conclusions- that a quest needs to go to their ancient lands. Over the next few months the work of the Argo II commences.

Things seem smooth for a while. But Gaea grows restless. She poisons Octavian and manipulates him through dreams and stuff like Kronos did to Luke. As is the nature of most Roman emperors, Octavian overthrows Reyna and declares himself the leader of New Rome like his namesake Octavius Caesar. (HAHA! HISTORY PARALLEL BITCHES)

This puts the actual quest on hold bc the seven now need to find the Athena Parthenos to bring together the Greeks and the Romans and to stop Octavian's plan of trying to fuck as much shit up as possible.

Reyna, Nico and say idk, Grover, are the ones to deviate from the quest and bring the statue to USA again. But the Seven are still very much in Europe after rescuing Nico.

Percy and Annabeth fall into Tartarus which helps close the Doors of Death, except this time since Nico isn't there, Hazel has to take on control over ghosts and the dead in the House of Hades and leading up to it. The powers of mist, in my opinion, should have gone to Piper since charmspeaking is a lot like bending the mist verbally.

Piper's arc through the third and fourth book is starting to discover herself and with the help of her mother, figuring out she doesn't like Jason romantically like she thought she did.

Hazel's arc is gaining control over what she once was (dead). She's jealous her dad was there more for Nico than her, but she pushes past it and never lets her anger and grudges get the better of her which is like breaking boundaries for children of Hades/Pluto.

Frank's arc in HOH was really cool, I like that. So no change to that.

Jason, poor guy is still very much confused about everything really. He's used to being the leader, he feels lost in the large group. He has his moments to shine ofc (please take away his excess amounts of head injuries), but he starts to feel inferior, which is where Leo helps him bc the guy knows what that's like.

Anyway, in the absence of Percy and Annabeth, Jason has to take charge. He discovers he doesn't really like it. That's not what he was meant for even though he had greatness thrust upon him at a very young age.

His BOO arc is earlier this time and takes place throughout HOH and BOO. He's content with himself, even if he isn't with anyone. HE'S THE ONE THAT GETS SENT TO OGYGIA!!!

And Calypso eventually does fall for him bc he's smart, nice, and just an overall swell guy. But he helps her to realize that she can be content in herself as well. And he promises her that he'll help her.

Show me Leo, Jason and Percy trying to think of ways of helping the goddess.

In any case. BOO could have been like Iliad pt 2 also known as the Odyssey. It takes them the whole book just to get to Athens. Meanwhile, they've understood that Gaea is the main main villain. She's even raised some of the other primordials against them.

Percy and Annabeth already saw Tartarus, and then there's Oceanus who makes their travel much harder than necessary. Something something about how they get tossed all over the place and somehow manage to gather all the correct ingredients for the potion (i forgot the name lol) on their small adventures in the different places. In the end they finally make it to Athens. Except this time, there's only a few giants there bc they killed the rest before.

Annabeth and Percy are taken hostage, like it happens in the books, but PERCY WILLINGLY GIVES UP HIS BLOOD TO RAISE GAEA RATHER THAN LETTING ANNABETH GET HURT BC OF HIS FATAL FLAW LIKE ATHENA TOLD HIM WOULD HAPPEN EVENTUALLY!!

The Gods DON'T SHOW UP PLEASE!! That was so lameee. Why even do the whole quest if their mommies and daddies were going to show up to help them????

So while Percy and Annabeth are battling the remaining few Giants, Leo, Piper, Hazel and Frank go up against Gaia herself. In the old myths four titans held Ouranos down while Kronos chopped his essence up. In the same way, they battle Gaia away from her turf in the air, keeping her distracted enough. All these demigods are needed because she's a primordial dammit!

Jason, my guy, comes in a clutch, chops her to pieces and sends her essence to Tartarus!!

The world is saved, the end!

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Regarding the demon god being the originator of all demons, Shirai touched upon this in the mystic code book/volume 0, a book containing information from Shirai and Demizu about the series production as well as the pair answering questions from readers:

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 6 Q&A)

While he was around long enough to become the object of reverence for modern-day demon society, being the one to forge the promise between two worlds a thousand years ago, he was not among the original gods (plural) Sonju's religion worshiped for some time prior to the forging of the promise or whom he refers to when teaching Emma the gupna ceremony.

(Chapter 49)

under the bacteria-like demons are these bipedal, horned, almost human-like demons. i'm less sure about what these are and i think this is more up for debate but i'm guessing these are a slightly evolved form of the first demons from eating lots of small things and slowly working their way a little up the food chain. with slight variations probably from slightly different diets.

This matches up with Mujika's musings to herself during her conversation with Emma in chapter 50:

Back when access to humans was unregulated by the demon monarchy as a means of maintaining their power and opulence, earlier demons did appear more uniformly humanoid.

The chart in the temple from chapter 103 (featured again in the chapter cover art of chapter 130)

is also interesting because we have seen snake-like demons in the series

(Chapter 7 | Chapter 120)

albeit they haven't become fully wild like the demons we see out in the forests, still maintaining some humanoid characteristics.

It's never directly addressed in the series why the snake path of horizontal gene transmission isn't seen as viable, but Kei Toda speculates about it in the second chapter of her book, Reading The Promised Neverland with a British/American Literature Scholar:

Granted, the book doesn't represent the views and interpretations of the series creators, but it is published by Shounen Jump's parent company, Shueisha, and the series does take inspiration from other Western ideas that Shirai details in the mystic code book, so it's something to chew on if nothing else.

For further reference if you're interested, the second chapter of the book can be found here (translated by @thathilomgirl and @0hana0fubuki0) and the third chapter exploring gender in the series can be found here (translated by @1000sunnygo).

I also highly recommend @puff-poff's posts on demon culture if you haven't already seen them, found here and here. Outside Toda's book, it's the most comprehensive analysis of the subject I've come across so far.

i want to see people to be talking about this panel in the promised neverland

tpn theory type stuff below cut

google search and stuff has gotten pretty bad so that might be why i'm struggling so much to find theories on this but omg it's a little frustrating because this is the coolest panel.

for anyone that doesn't remember, this was at the demon temple that showed them how to reach the seven walls.

there's one specific thing here that interests me the most, and it's the main reason i think this panel is so interesting, but there's so many other significant things to discuss here so i'll just get through some quickly.

at the top we see what i think is almost definitely the night and day, and the demon god. there're then lines pointing to the beginning of the evolution tree with the small bacteria-like first demons. i think this is telling us that the demon god is the originator of all of the demons. that's pretty huge?? i haven't heard anyone ever talk about that. i don't think this is far-fetched at all too. i strongly believe in this theory.

under the bacteria-like demons are these bipedal, horned, almost human-like demons. i'm less sure about what these are and i think this is more up for debate but i'm guessing these are a slightly evolved form of the first demons from eating lots of small things and slowly working their way a little up the food chain. with slight variations probably from slightly different diets.

under that, we see the demon evolution that we are familiar with.

they eat a fish, they become a fish-like demon. they eat a human, they become the familiar human-like demon. they eat bugs or other small wild creatures, they become the also familiar wild demon. (side note: we know humanoid demons also eat bugs alongside humans which is interesting. what unique affect to bugs have on them?)

it's showing us what the demons will evolve into after eating certain organisms. it all seems to align with what we know from normans research so far.

except for one thing. this is the thing that interests me more than anything else.

UNDER THE SNAKE CREATURE THERE'S JUST AN X.

WHY TF CANT THEY EAT SNAKES.

i don't think we ever get even a hint towards what this could mean in the manga.

gonna be real, i think even if i tried to look for patterns myself, i wouldn't know enough about biology to find much. i don't know much of anything about biology. i think the only thing i take away from this is that for some reason they can't eat snakes.

this stuff intrigues me so much and i just wish i could find more theories out there on this. rahhhh it's so cool. i just want an answer.

oh wait also what is this thing i dunno

honestly i can't make it out

anyway thanks for reading, i don't post about TPN but i just finished rereading all 20 volumes. i probably won't post about it again i just want to get this out