#Sorry Will but that was kind of sad-funny

[merv606]

Oh sorry should have clarified I meant his expression

All their transactions to me have always been who gets the upper hand now at that very moment.

I think his you have no more power over me was season five complete with him physically defeating him to really cement that.

But that didn’t last long.

Daniel is his weakness - not Kreese (that was so dumb) and then Daniel always walks right into Terry’s traps.

Although in season six he knows not to trust Terry’s story - still probably doubts it even after Terry says pick the refs and venue and I’ll foot the bill.

Despite his reservations and thinking Terry had an angle, he still managed to get Daniel to consider agreeing to it.

I think though, at the end, that look he gives Terry after Axel takes out Robby was sadness mixed with disappointment - so maybe he was hoping Terry had actually told the truth this time IDK.

To be honest, I don’t think he would have been able to predict Terry’s willingness to kidnap a baby though.

Each time they “defeat” each other they keep coming back for more - it’s like they can’t pass up an opportunity to antagonize each other.

Although some see the above scene as Daniel extending an olive branch of sorts.

But, that’s why I don’t feel like we were cheated out of closure.

With them I don’t think it’s possible.

And I don’t think it was the point.

One exchange is one coming out on top and the next is the other.

Like a wound that festers - even when it scabs over it doesn’t heal because they keep picking at it.

His look as he watches Terry walk away, to me, it almost seems like he may have genuinely forgotten and remembered after the fact - that Terry was sick and as was pointed out, Daniel is not a cruel person.

Sort of some remorse mixed in with everything else.

Funny thing is that Terry is kind of right - and I think it does peeve Daniel off - the circumstances (and that is mainly fuelled by Ralph’s response to it TBH) and we know he did it out of necessity and to help Johnny - and he loves to help people - but it wasn’t a true want of his own.

But it seems he literally had to make peace with it - that if it’s Johnny he can live with it.

I think it was how Daniel justified it to himself.

So I’m not sure if I buy his it doesn’t hurt at all - I think it was a pill he had to learn to swallow.

Kind of like how Ralph said okay but I have to wear my hachimaki 🤣 which bless baby - never let them take that from you

He wasn’t about to let Terry know that - and maybe that’s the whole can’t manipulate him - because he was wise to it THIS time anyway - but there was truth to his words even if this time he didn’t rise to the bait.

I don’t equate that to the look he gives him while walking away though.

It is still cobra Kai and I mean Johnny goes right back to insulting a kid for wearing glasses 🙄

Side note - I also find it funny that his kids still ended up wrapped in cobra Kai GIs 😏

Someone do a parallel of that!!!!

I do agree 1000% that it was not fair and that we were 💯 robbed.

It is too bad we were cheated out of Terry’s reaction to Daniel in his GI.

It would have rivalled Amanda’s 😆

Why is no one talking about the size difference in this scene 🤩

Terry totally eclipses Daniel when he walks past - you can’t even see him 😭

(Which I have written into many a fic just in a different context 😏)

Also, there is something about Daniel’s expression as he watches Terry leave.

It’s like the smile fades and his victory of winning that verbal sparring match (although Terry had a point) was hollow. He is clearly not as happy as he was seconds before - like it wasn’t as satisfying as it should have been.

Not quite pity, not quite sad, but that look it is hard to describe.

[justcameheretobyler]

You know what is ironic about the rink-o mania scene?

Will warning El that Mike didn't deserve her lying to him and he's gonna be so mad, cuz ofc she's his girlfriend and he's gonna snap at her.

But Mike gets mad at Will for not telling him (ahem for not contacting him at least to tell him that)

And snaps at HIM

Will was hella confused like: what tf did I do?

[canisalbus]

So i remember an ask mentioning your mortal enemy, Felis Atra and their cats, and i thought it'd be fun to draw what Felis Atra's version of your italian dogs would be.

I think they would be called Butter Knife and Flamengo! Butter Knife is not his real name, it's an nickname given by his peers because of how harmless he is. I choose Flamengo because that's the name of Vasco's rival football team here in Brazil, so i thought that was the perfect name :)

Cat Machete was slightly inspired by the Oriental Shorthair cat because of their long noses and thin head shape.

Cat Vasco was inspired by the Scottish Fold cat, because FLOPPY EARS. I gave Flamengo longer ears and orange fur to make him more like his look-alike.

The last doodle is a reference to this ask (https://canisalbus.tumblr.com/post/728923918314946560/me-i-am-machete-ear-fan-number-1-those-ears) and contains the tumblr ask stand-in dog, whose cat version was inspired by the American Curl cat! They have round ears that are slightly floppy outwards.

Final notes: I know cardinal clothes don't come in vibrant blue, but i was ADAMANT on switching Machete's and Vasco's clothing color patterns. I would draw the rest of Butter Knife's and Flamengo's clothes, but i suck at designing cool outfits.

Speaking of outfits, for Machete's iconic void outfit, i figured it would be fun to make it more baggy for Butter Knife, in contrast to Machete's, that looks very tight-fitted. I think it's cute, it kinda looks like a sweater. Also i can't imagine a Machete doppelganger without high heels boots, so those HAD to stay.

Oh, and just to be clear, i'm not like, claiming ownership of these guys or anything. I just thought it would be a fun exercise. Hope you like them!! I love your art and your characters.

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[dootznbootz]

Menelaus rambles a lot about not only Helen, but also Hermione. About how she used to say Olive like "Olifs". How she lost her first tooth running too fast and running into a low branch while out with Helen. How he'd sometimes wake up to Hermione leaning over him and poking his face to say, "Dad, can we go see the horses?" even though it was barely daylight. How she was much nicer waking Helen and how he thinks Hermione did that on purpose because she found "dad's face funny". How her favorite color was every color.

And Odysseus listens.

And he thinks about how his son only had a few teeth coming in when he left, teething on everything. How he could only say one syllable with his babbles. How his son needed balance to stand but Odysseus was so proud that Telemachus was very good at rolling over. How his son loved pulling at his and Penelope's hair.

How his son would be talking, walking, maybe even lost his first tooth by now. And he doesn't even know if he'll ever know his son's favorite color.

[randomlilblog]

for all the pucca fans who found out about the ip being sold to some crypto bros, please dont stop loving the memory of her, dont let the elon fanboys convince you shes just a memecoin now, if you dont make fanart or read any fics or even watch the show anymore then thats fine, but please keep loving the memory of her for what she was made to be, a symbol of undying love and affection

EDIT: NEVERMIIIIND ON THE MEMECOIN THING, TURNS OUT SHE MAY HAVE NOT BEEN SOLD AFTERALL!!!!!

[lesbiangiratina]

Uugh looking atthe next anthology volume i want to scan for its epic testament chapter and i forgot it also has a testament chapter i dont like as much but admittedly they are still devilishly cute in some of these panels

[lopposting]

I have the feeling that originally, earlier in development, P was supposed to die at the end.

(Or, About more than a year after the official release,

the headcanon that changed everything for me.)

So the ending I'm talking about is this, the Rise of P ending.

But what really made me think this is this event in 2022. (people back then correctly guessed might be one of the endings or the ending of the game. Taking from this post here)

At G-Star Neowiz booth in 2022, there was a promotional statue of the Saintess statue in the game, except the figurine of the puppet is strangely suspended, as if it's literally ascending to heaven. The post writer also notes even then that the figurine looks like P. (The literal Rise of P)

There's also some footage of the figure here: (around 1:16)

The symbolism seems very very apparent, as though Neowiz were spoiling their own game two years before release. Not only is the figure literally ascending to a higher plane (imagery often associated with death), the statue itself is an inference to a famous statue of Mary mourning the death of her son. The writer of an article covering Neowiz's section at the event also notes that the ascending figure looks like P, and that it has a feeling of melancholy.

Beginning and End

Around the time of the release I think what was going around was that Rise was being considered as the "true" ending. It's interpretably the best possible outcome of the game, but I feel like it's also because it made the most sense thematically (the puppet -> Human ending, and the saintess statue being foreshadowed earlier). But P's collapse at the end was also widely (mis)interpreted as his death. And I think that's also because, in a way, it makes the most sense thematically. Puppet awakens in the train, goes on an adventure, and then sacrifices himself for who woke him up in the first place, it's just narratively a very classic and might I say standard thing to do in that very traditional, circular sort of storytelling sensibility.

However, we know that the truth is that P has fallen asleep (a human act). It is still his death in some sorts - but he's leaving a past behind and it's his "rebirth" that is being emphasized now.

And then it hit me.

I don't know if P knows that he will survive reviving Sophia.

Keeping in mind that if P was originally supposed to die - I think the entire end sequence of ROP and the overall tone of it makes SO MUCH sense to me now.

Sophia brings a lone puppet to life in the train, he is animated, listening, fighting. At the end of his journey, so much has changed - but to return her favour perhaps, truly human at heart, he returns her life to her, and then - returns to back to stillness. It’s just a narratively very tight and circular thing to do in a traditional storytelling sense, especially when you consider a kind of tragic korean media sensibility that might have influenced the country in which this studio is based out of. (Film critic Roger Ebert once suggested that he had not yet seen a happy korean film.)

I am not an expert on the Korean cinema, which is considered in critical circles as one of the most creative in the world (“Oldboy” won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes 2004). I can say that of the Korean films I’ve seen, only one (“The YMCA Baseball Club”) did not contain extraordinary sadomasochism.  "Oldboy" review (2005)

Not to mention... Since release, I've always felt like there was this strange feeling of sadness, of melancholy, permeating throughout the entire game. Of course, we're walking through a destroyed city, but still. And I was glad that that didn't seem lost on other people:

We know that Sophia is able to turn back the clock for our main character, but turning back time is Sophia's ability, and it's possible that she can't just revive anyone once that part of her that animated him was returned back to her. Okay, maybe it's a little contrived - but that hardly matters when audiences can often overlook these things for the sake of a story making a statement. Besides, remembering that P could not even wake up without Sophia's help in the first place, it's possible that for whatever reason, he cannot sustain life on his own. In his POV this might very well be his final act.

Another thing to keep in mind is that P has just lost his father. He's witnessed Polendina's death, Antonia's death, etc., in a string of major losses throughout the game's final arc. We see him mourn over his dad but in the ROP ending it will then cut straightaway to the balcony scene. Regardless of how much time has actually passed, Geppetto's death is the scene right before this one. I don't mean to suggest that this act was one of pure self-destruction, but it is something that we as the audience can't help but feel affects him and the decision we are seeing now.

There's a certain gravitas to the way he's walking towards her that in the released version isn't unjustified, but the tone of the entire sequence has so much conviction and sombreness that it came across as a little odd to me in retrospect. And I also think this is why others might have (mis)interpreted the ending as "he died", because of the tone of this scene. But in line with the game's themes - I remember that often, it's the intent that matters. And if he doesn't know that he's going to survive this, and this is what he chooses is his final act, for all intents and purposes, it IS him sacrificing himself to save Sophia.

Re-contextualizing it this way, I think the balcony scene was maybe originally meant to be him choosing to look at Krat one last time. I definitely think that was the implication now.

P's blue butterfly flying away (his spirit leaving him). I used to think this blue butterfly represented Sophia, but now I feel like it represents P ? as I don't think we ever see this specific blue butterfly anywhere else in the game. [maybe a reach I dunno]

To be honest - when LOP first came out, up until about a week, I really did think he was dead. I was honestly pretty sad about it, but in equal parts I was sort of really impressed that Neowiz would have the guts to kill off their breadwinner straight away [I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT THIS TOO AHH]

So if this ending was originally written to be P's demise, I wonder why the powers that be would have rolled that back. Presumably they need him alive for some sort of future franchise instalment? Maybe they genuinely thought it was just too sad? But there is one thing that doesn't change, and it's what P doesn't know.

The truth is what you make it, I suppose.

Who are you? Are you a puppet or a human being?

[todayisafridaynight]

[beanghostprincess]

what type of op sibling issues do you have?

the: "depressed older sibling who still manages to look after the younger one despite thinking of themselves as unlovable and is thankful for their sibling's love because they were each other's only support for a long time / younger sibling that feels guilty for all the burden the other had to carry and blames themselves for everything and ended up being too mature at a young age" ace and luffy type?

or the: "caring but emotionless distant older sibling under an abusive household that did what they could do to protect the younger one but it was never enough out of fear of being targeted too / younger sibling that holds grudges against family and understands that the other tried their best but it was never enough and chose to only save them whenever it was safe for them and wants to run away from the family line" reiju and sanji type?

[suffarustuffaru]

hello everyone i made a quick summary of main route ottosuba. hope this helps.

[kimtaegis]

friends how does a personal text post get over 100 notes but a comp that took hours to make doesn’t reach 200 reblogs within two days. this is a bit silly isn’t it

[fisherrprince]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

[melverie]

on a scale of 1 to satan how bbg is mephisto

Satan has had far more time to establish his place as the ultimate babygirl (to me at least), so I can't give Mephisto the honor of being anywhere near his level but man the devs are making sure that he's at least getting close

I mean he

is the local horsegirl

apparently has a massive sweet tooth

stakes his entire self-worth on being useful to the future ruler of the land

seems to be great with kids

is super diligent. Just look at how much effort he is putting into journalism despite absolutely having no interest in pursuing that field in the future

is an honorary member of the Anti-Lucifer League, yet refuses to spread any false information about him in the school newspaper and mostly ends up singing his praises instead

runs said newspaper (and as someone who did the same for a year, I respect that a lot)

isn't really all that interested in MC, which is a nice change of pace

and finally, seems to dye his hair purple which makes him look like an eggplant <3

Also when he saved MC from falling on the ground and then brushed it off afterwards because he "only did what anyone would have done" back in season 4? That part was so good

ALSO Solmare could easily give him the perfect blushing face. Just look at him

[notedchampagne]

ok i just finished midnight mass. great show im really depressed. most notably as someone born and raised so so very catholic i found it really funny how it took me a full minute longer to understand specifically *what* was fucked up in some scenes, because the music beats and the reactions clearly implied something was going downhill but i had to reflect a good moment to remember oh right thats bad. always needing someone to blame and doing things that make you feel terrible, to be relieved of the guilt since you are enacting a will outside you, all for the promise of salvation, not your typical line of ordinary thinking, right rightrightrightright

[otome-dissection]

You know logically I know the Yakuza Kiwami pier scene was just a really awkward retcon rgg shoved into the story to accommodate for the majima everywhere system and the literal One (1) model change that Majima had in the entire original game, but after playing later games and seeing how their relationship plays out . Hm. Something something foreshadowing

[serenhob]

😭😭😭😭

Gonna sleep now but its taken me 3 HOURS to do this

Btw these are my progress photos in order (I'm sorry they are so ugly)

There's something off about him but I'm not fixing it now