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redglassesgirl-maruma · 4 years ago

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Intro (aka my random blablabla)

I’ve been thinking about this post all week. I knew I would only have time every Sunday to do my entries for the event (personal stuff, I pretty much have a single free day ha) but that doesn’t stop me of over-thinking about maruMA xD

In the end, I came back to the same scene over and over, and strangely is not one of my favorite and cute “pairing scenes” between Yuu and Wolf but a random fight. But thinking a little bit more about it, it’s a perfect choice. Also, I knew I would be able to read other analysis from other fans about Wolf and Yuu xDDD ♥

This scene was a key moment for myself as a fan of this series because the first time I read the novels I found Yuuri to be very different compared to the anime version. For me both versions were like the day and night, its not a secret I’m not a hiuge fan of the adaptation the animated did of the characters and at the time I search the source material to patch up things I didn’t like about the last season I was watching. Since the first paragraphs of novel 1 I thought to myself “this is a protagonist I can really enjoy, he feels like a real teenager in another world”. The jokes and pop culture reference were great, but I started to completely fall for him when he showed his dark side and human flaws.

And that’s what I bring you today, one of the dark moments of Yuuri I love. The interesting thing is he has many more, even in previous novels, but this one is so natural that makes you rethink about any impression you had about him if you’re still convinced he’s so naive-good that you can take advantage of him easily.

Novel Quote

I’ll quote Novel 8, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, the Dai Shimaron tournament, Yuuri vs. Adalbert.

Brief context about the story up to this point: Wolfram and Josak already fought their matches, it’s Yuuri’s turn and when he goes on stage he meets Conrart again for the first time after his “death”, he was the 3rd contestant of Dai Shimaron and his supposed match at the tournament, but Adalbert complaints he has the right to fight again since he won his match against Josak. Conrart, Josak, Murata and Wolfram try to make Yuuri forfeit because Adalbert clearly can and will try to kill him for real, but in the end he decides to fight.

Novel 8 Chapter 2

I struck the metal bat at the legs of my opponent, and he fell. My first goal today. Leaning on his hands he tried to bounce back. Now I only needed to smack my weapon down on him, and the battle would be decided. Only two and a half steps forward and a hard hit on his head, then it would all be over, and I would win! Maybe some of his brain would splatter a bit, but it would be easy enough to change my clothes - so that should be fine. That is the problem with using bat as weapon, there is no middle ground to negotiate. I should have listened to Wolfram's advice and chosen a sword. If only I could point my sword at him, I might be able to force him to surrender.

Even though all those thoughts were rushing through my head, in that split of second, I simply took my stance in front of Adalbert, preparing to swing my bat. Just one strike and it would be over with. No, I did not need to smash his skull, I only needed to stop at the right time to knock him out, and the referee would still declare me the winner. I only needed to stop at the right time...

"Ouch!"

Adalbert had noticed my hesitation and, with his free foot, kicked me with all his might at my fingers. I screamed under my breath, and lurched forward. Adalbert quickly grabbed me by my neck and I felt cold metal pressed against my throat.

"Thanks, kid. You saved me the trouble of chasing after you in this whole revolving shop."

"Ah... Ouch! "

"Does that hurt, huh? You're bleeding even, you poor thing!" Adalbert said sarcastically.

All the muscles in my body tensed up. The blade was just under my chin. How would it feel to have your throat slit open? Which death would be more pleasant? A severed carotid artery or a severed windpipe?

So, Yuuri wasn’t actually able to hit him but just the fact this kid thought about splitting this man skull open was a really big change in the way I understood his character back in the day. Let’s remember a lot of fans who never read the novels do think Yuuri is all love and peace, with a borderline idiotic attitude that made the anime Saralegi able to do to him whatever the hell he wanted.

I still remember that chapter where Yuuri’s saying no matter what I’ll believe in everyone, vs. Novel Yuuri saying no matter what I’m not a moron and I’ll trust anyone because evidently I’m the king and a lot of people want me dead. That’s later in the novels and not related to the extract I put here, but it was triggered by novel Sara in contrast with the anime example I just gave.

Back to the scene about Adalbert’s fight. I just love this tournament match, Yuuri’s POV remains as humoristic as ever but then we have some dark thougths mixed in, and then he turns Ue-sama in the next chapter and we have an awesome fight with magic and all the special effects we want. Also, Ue-sama mode goes crazy and angry as we never saw him, even cursing Adalbert’s whole family promising he’ll kill them all and wipe out an entire noble house from the map.

Novel 8 Chapter 3

“… So you defy my judgment?”

His jet black eyes glitter coldheartedly. So much so that if someone who knew the usual Yuuri saw him they would think it was a different person.

“Very well, von Grantz Adalbert. You and your relatives have moved to the top of my list of people to purge. In the name of the 27th Maou, I declare that all descendants of the Grantz family shall be eliminated.”

“Wait! My relatives have nothing to do with this.”

“A family that resents the king will only be a hindrance to my reign. Ah, but von Grantz, this is nothing for you to be worried about. You should simply wait on the other side. Here on this snowy stage, you’ll be the first of those with Grantz blood to be sent to hell.”

“Hey hey, isn’t your personality a bit different? I feel like I’ve been beat at my own game.”

Normal Yuuri’s not that cute and Ue-sama is even less cuter xD But that’s what made me fall in love completely with this guy. I remember the manga did a nice adaptation of this scene too, but the novel version will remain my most favorite.

What I love about this is the author doesn’t try to paint a perfect person but a realistic scene of a guy who has to consider killing to avoid being killed. And T-sensei does an awesome job to reinforce how good is Yuuri as a person when he doubts, which is normal because he comes from one of the safest countries in the planet and is not accustomed to confrontational or dangerous encounters at all. This is also why I say Yuuri here is dark, his life context is different than let’s say, a person from a 3rd world country who has survived many robbery attacks and is slightly pissed off about these situations and ready to fight and fuck all over the other party. Yuuri’s a young guy from a super pacifist country, but it’s been a long time since he landed in Shin Makoku for the first time and he already saw and experienced many really twisted things. He’s not naive anymore.

His development is hidden in details like this one, and he’ll progress more and more, starting to think and act like a real king.

I couldn’t help myself and use this as an example/excuse and try to catch the attention of curious fans that never read the awesome novel!Yuuri yet. If this picked your interest, please pleaseeee do yourself a favor and read the light novel version.

Also, Adalbert is a cutie pie with a sweet love story and his development as a character in the latest novels gives me life and lots of headcanons xD

Happy 20th year anniversary of this awesome series!

#kkm #kyou kara maou #kyo kara maoh #maruma #MAnniversary 2020 #ma event

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ericmhe · 3 years ago

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Godzilla Singular Point

I'm not much of a “binger” for the most part but I got the whole series Godzilla: Singular Point watched in about 4 days I think. Let's start positive: I think the 3D models for the monsters work a lot better than most anime 3D models, they're still fairly apparent but it seems like they blend with the rest of the art alright. The designs are mostly fairly good too, there's some ugly ones in there but I kind of don't mind them? Monsters can be ugly sometimes and not just cool looking, a few here and there in the cast doesn't hurt anything. It's nice to see some nods to the more obscure kaiju too, there's a lot of interesting and fun monsters from Toho's old movies and it gets a little tiring to be hit with nonstop Godzilla-Mothra-Ghidorah-MechaGodzilla incarnations every single time there's a new take on Godzilla. I like a lot about the premise, the apocalyptic rise of kaiju around the world as they bring their habitat/environment with them into our world, terraforming it into a world of monsters. It's not new by any means, but it's usually not the approach taken witht the Toho monsters and it's a good excuse to fit a lot of them into a setting quickly. The end credit sequence is pretty great, I hit 'watch credits' every time on my watch. Heck, the whole series might be better if it was more like its own end credits.

I think Godzilla: Singular Point could have been better, but we've also seen worse recently. I've only dabbled in storytelling but I suspect a lot of its problems come from overcompensating, specifically: “Godzilla movies/media are dumb” being met with “Oh yeah, well how about one based on theoretical quantum physics” just didn't work out. I actually think what they use in the series is a fine technobabble excuse for the monsters having powers and durability beyond science, but I also don't feel like kaiju media really needs that excuse. It's fine though, I think the sheer quantity of the technobabble is the biggest problem with it. I've been listening to discussions of theoretical multi-dimensional physics for a while now, so I think I might have been better prepared than average but it's still a chore to get my head around so I know it's going to lose a majority of the general population. One big question I have is why did they give the main characters the wrong interests? Yun, who is into future predictions deals with the monsters, and Mei who is studying theoretical impossible animals deals with the future predicting technology end of the plot... I could get that if the idea was to raise tension by making the wrong people have to work outside their field of expertise, but that's not what happens, they're both pretty good “omnidisciplinary scientist” sorts who don't have much problem learning a whole new field. Honestly they really should have been assigned the other interests though, Yun studying fantastical creature ideas and Mei the future stuff.

While I like the premise and some of the stuff they do with the monsters, there's also a lot that's disappointing – The Kumonga-Megalon-Hedorah hybrids really need some explaining. Why are there three monsters in one species? Just to reference as much old material as possible at once? As far as I'm concerned Anguirus is the stand out star of the series and they kill him far too quickly. The series could also be called a fairly cozy catastrophe too, for the most part the worst thing happening for most people is losing their internet connection, kind of seems like a monster apocalypse should have a bit more than that going on. That said it's not nearly the disappointment that the Polygon Pictures trilogy is, which managed to take the most interesting and unique premise the Godzilla franchise has ever had and do basically nothing with it.

I might give Singular Point something like 6 out of 10, and I think a second season might have enough room for improvement that I'm not against it.

For the heck of it:

Shin Godzilla: The most common criticisms are right (dull, Godzilla has no personality, the humans are more random bureaucrats than characters), but so are most the common praise (topical in its way, punchy with its political critique, holy hell that weapons upgrade on Godzilla). Which one outweighs the other is a simple matter of personal preference. I don't have super strong feelings about it and it will be one of my least re-watched Godzilla movies ever, up with Godzilla's Revenge.

Polygon Trilogy: AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRG. The only things worth watching are Godzilla Earth avenging Godzilla filius and Ghidorah's destruction of the spaceship (wasn't it Atrium or something? I'm feeling too lazy to look it up) but unfortunately there's an awful lot of crap around those bits. Ok, I exaggerate a little but not much. I kind of appreciate how they tried to subvert the classic “your life goals or your love interest” kind of scenario, but she wasn't much of a character so it didn't have much impact to kill her off and the main character is an unlikable jerk too.

Legendary's Monsterverse: Godzilla 2014: Too much of its run time is boring for me to recommend it but the monster stuff is too well done for me to ever dismiss it outright.

Godzilla King of the Monsters: I get why people have a problem with it, but I appreciate the story between Godzilla, Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra enough to forgive it and it's my favorite of the Monsterverse. I don't have as much problem seeing the monsters through the weather effects as some people seem to, the only one I really can't follow is when Godzilla drags Ghidorah into the Gulf of Mexico. It does cut to the humans too much during the monster fights, but it's also trying to connect the stories. The goal of the human characters lines up with Godzilla's well enough that they can be considered to be on the same side, and that's why we see things like Godzilla charge Ghidorah, then cut away to humans where Ghidorah's heads slam into the earth somewhere in the background. It's fairly flawed, but...

Godzilla vs Kong: Holy shit over-correction much? I think it might actually work better as a stand alone movie than a continuation of King of the Monsters, yet it actually can't because of some elements like the Ghidorah heads. Notice how they say one skull holds the pilot, there's another skull in Mecha Godzilla? - clearly supposed to be the side heads incinerated by Burning Godzilla not the one Godzilla tore off in the Gulf of Mexico – not sure why everyone misses that. ANYWAY, it's a fun movie that gets to the main event as fast as it feels like it can and the monster action is solid. With the one exception that I really hate Godzilla being portrayed as defenseless against Mecha Godzilla – outmatched and needing help is fine, but utterly unable to do anything but get stomped is just not enjoyable to me. As soon as Kong comes to help double team Mecha G it gets a lot better though. - Quick note, why did “Team Kong” see any reason to sic Kong on Mecha G? We the audience know that since the robot is possessed by Ghidorah that once it kills Godzilla it'll go on to wipe out all humanity and anything else it comes across, but does “Team Kong” know it? If Kong knows it, would he care beyond Jia? I mean, it doesn't matter but it does nag me a little bit.

I honestly thing the basic story teased at the end of King of the Monsters in the news reel stuff sounds like a better movie than Godzilla vs Kong turned out to be but I'm fine with what we got for the most part. Except why did they dump all the other monsters? They've come up with all these interesting new monsters and they have Rodan and what-not and they just say they all haven't been seen? It's the most disappointing part of the Monsterverse so far if you ask me.

#Godzilla #Kaiju #Godzilla Singular Point #Singular Point #Godzilla vs Kong #Godzilla King of the Monsters

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cami-chats · 5 years ago

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Lovin’ Me Good

Fandom: Marvel

Pairings: Bucky Barnes/Natasha Stark (fem!Tony Stark)

Summary: Bucky loves Natasha Stark so much he forgets that people have shit ideas about her.

Author’s Note: Commission for someone that wanted fem!Tony but still older than Bucky :D Starring: Natasha Stark as middle aged, trans, and gorgeous, Bucky as super in love, and a random asshole who exists to get the story kicking. (PWP)

Link to AO3

They were at an event when Bucky heard it. It wasn't rare for them to be at an event together, practically a bimonthly occurrence for him and Natasha. Right after they started dating, paparazzi got a picture of them at a restaurant, and it was plastered everywhere for weeks. So called 'news stations' were doing pieces about them, speculating on how long ago this had started, if the Winter Soldier killed the Stark parents had been motivated by possessive jealousy, if she had stolen him from Steve, that sort of bullshit.

Bucky had expected all of that. He'd been given the run down on modern media when he became part of the Avengers, and Natasha had told him again when they got together. The problem was that Bucky had never heard someone that wasn't a paparazzi or trashy journalist saying those things. He was at the event, expecting the usual snide comments and backhanded compliments. What he got was someone saying, to his face while Natasha was in the ladies' room and he was grabbing some water, "So how much does she pay you?"

Bucky looked at the man-- suit nice, but the way he was attempting to lounge in it made the material look unfitted-- bewildered. "Excuse me?"

"Relax Bucky, I'm just joking." Uh, yeah he was clearly joking, but not in a way that would have made Bucky forgive him. Also, Bucky had never met this man before, so him calling him by his first name wasn't going to earn him any points. People just decided they could do that every now and then though, called him by his first name like they were old friends instead of strangers. "I'm sure Stark has other assets that make her fun to be with even if the MILF look never did it for me."

Bucky just stared at him. Was he actually saying these words? "What the hell is wrong with you?"

The man spluttered a bit, trying to save face since he finally figured out that he wasn't making a very good impression. The bartender slid Bucky's drink in front of him, so he grabbed it and left without another word. Natasha found him a minute later, looking absolutely gorgeous in her dress. Red and slinky, the blue light of the arc reactor not detracting from the overall look. Her hair was pinned up with a blue clasp that Bucky knew had pieces of an old arc reactor in it. She had little crows feet at the corner of her eyes, laugh lines curving against the inside of her cheeks, and the natural maturity to her face that came with aging. Her long hair didn't show any grey yet, but he knew it was going to happen soon. He hoped it happened soon, because she would look incredible with little streaks of silver through her otherwise dark hair. Bucky was tempted to find that guy just to punch him in the teeth, but it was a much better use of his time to wrap an arm around her waist and press a kiss to her cheek.

"Hey darlin'."

Natasha, of course, knew that something was off right away. She put her arm around him in kind automatically, leaning into him. "What happened?"

"Nothin'," he said automatically. She raised an eyebrow, and Bucky sighed. "Someone just... talking shit about you. Us."

Natasha's expression turned sympathetic. "People are always going to do that, Bucky. You can't let it bother you."

"Yeah, so you and everyone else on the team keeps reminding me."

"If there's a dumb opinion, someone out there has it and they're going to yell it like an edict from god."

Bucky chuckled, kissing her cheek again. "I guess."

"Besides, it's not like they don't have half a leg to stand on with us."

"Huh?"

"Nothing personal babe," she said, patting his chest absently as she looked into the crowd, "but I am sorta rocking the cougar dream here."

"I'm older than you," Bucky said, frowning.

"True, but you don't look it. As far as everyone else is concerned, I'm another rich person with a partner twenty years younger than me."

"You're a billionaire, not 'another rich person'. You're better than them." He paused, then added, "I'm much hotter than any of their trophy wives, so they can suck it."

Natasha grinned, giving him a quick squeeze. "That's why I love you."

Bucky tried to forget about it like Natasha suggested, but for the rest of the night he couldn't get it out of his head. Any time he wasn't talking, he wondered if that was really how Natasha thought about their relationship. She cared about him, no question, but did she know how much she meant to him? Natasha was a goddamn miracle, and perfect besides. She was strong and smart, and even though she hid it behind a curtain of snark, she was one of the kindest people he'd ever met. He never would have made it a month without her help, and while he could stand here trying to wax poetic about her all day, that didn't really help her know how much he loved her. He was supposed to shake it off when people talked shit about her, and he didn't know how the hell he was supposed to manage that when she was so ridiculously incredible.

When the night came to an end, they climbed in the backseat of the car. Happy rolled the partition up out of habit, then started driving. All of Natasha's cars drove smoothly, and Happy was so familiar with them that it didn't feel like they were moving at all. The party had been on the far side of Brooklyn, so it was going to take them a while to get back to the mansion. "God," she groaned, taking her shoes off and rubbing at her feet. "Those things don't get any more comfortable the longer you wear them."

"C'mere," Bucky said.

Natasha turned, setting her feet in his lap. When he pressed his thumb into the arch of her foot, she moaned, relaxing back against the car door. "This is the real reason I keep you around, my god."

"Stop wearing heels, doll. Your feet will thank you for it."

"Yeah but I like them. I look so pretty in them," Natasha joked, but she went absolutely boneless when Bucky rubbed deeper into her foot. It was like every future ache she would have was already gone. "If you ever decide to give up superheroing, find a job as a massage therapist; I guarantee you will never go hungry, sweet jesus."

Bucky felt interest, hot and molten, sliding into place in his abdomen. It was hardly the first time Natasha had given him a compliment, and if the trend held, it wouldn't be the last. He curved one hand around her ankle, stroking the skin up her shin with short motions of his thumb.

"So correct me if I'm wrong," Natasha said, not bothering to open her eyes, "but is this your way of saying you want to get it on in the car right now? Because I am all for that."

"Yeah?"

"Definitely," she said, bringing up the foot that wasn't currently in Bucky's hand to pat against his leg.

Bucky grinned, sliding her dress easily to the top of her legs. It's not like the dress had taken up a lot of space in the first place since Natasha liked to go for the slinky look, and it puddled along her hips like water. He slid as far away as he could get, bumping into the car door, and spreading her legs wider but taking his sweet time. They were getting started in the car, but they weren't finishing here; Bucky had too many plans for this night for it to end so quickly. Her ankle bone jutted out just above her foot, and Bucky pressed a kiss there. He skimmed his lips up her calf, kissing at the thick bound of muscle there. She did so much work as Iron Man on top of wearing heels every few days that her legs were nice. Bucky thought it might be his favorite part about her, but he did this every time. His favorite part of her was whatever he kissed first, and it changed with every new place he touched. A kiss right on top of her knee, and he smiled to himself, kissing it again just to feel the rough skin against his lips. "You're so goddamn gorgeous, y'know that?"

"I think you've said it once or twice." She nudged his shoulder with the side of her knee. "Car sex is supposed to quick and dirty, baby. Make a mess of my hair and rip my dress."

"Tempting," Bucky murmured, considering for a moment to change his plan. But no, this was to help show Natasha how much he loved being with her, not to get off. Although, getting off was going to be a definite plus, one he was going to make sure she enjoyed. "But I've got plans for you, so your dress gets to survive the car ride."

"Not the whole night?" Natasha asked with a knowing smirk.

"Nah." He moved his way up her thigh, lazily sucking a mark on the inside.

"You," Natasha said, eyes fixed on him, "are a menace."

"Am I?" He kissed his way higher. "Mm, good thing you're takin' care of me then. Saving all those other women from gettin' their feelings hurt."

"Oh yeah? You think you'd be a heartbreaker without me around?"

"I wouldn't say that." Bucky rubbed his cheek against her underwear, silky smooth against his skin but just a tease to her. "More like I'd keep gettin' tired of all the people that aren't half as amazing as you."

"Flattery will get you everywhere."

"Only one place I wanna be, and I don't think you'd kick me out of it now." He licked a broad stripe up her length through the underwear, smugly satisfied when her hips twitched up for more. He pulled the elastic band down, wrapping his lips around the head and slowly sucking down as he pulled her underwear further and further down.

"Fuck." She knocked her head back against the door, fisting a hand in his hair. She wasn't forcing him down or anything, but she liked tugging on his hair-- and even better, he liked it when she pulled on his hair.

He slurped as he made his way back up, holding the base in his hand and licking at the head like a lollipop.

"You are evil," she whined, but she didn't make any move to take matters into her own hands. "C'mon baby, don't tease."

"I ain't teasing, I'm just takin' my time."

"Well take my time and get a move on, fuck's sake," she fake-complained, ending with a gasp as he took her in suddenly. "Shit, Bucky!"

He inched his way down her length. The tip nudged the back of his throat and he eased off for a moment, then went down slowly, his throat tightening around her.

Natasha's mouth dropped open, and her throat worked, trying to say something, anything to let Bucky know how much she loved this, loved him, but the words got stuck. Bucky swallowed, and she let out a ragged breath. God his mouth was so hot and wet it was like living in fucking ecstasy. New rule: heaven had to be like this and nothing else. "F-fuck," she stuttered out, feeling entirely too warm. Her cheeks were flushed hot, and from her toes to the tips of her fingers there was a warm tingle-- like that time she'd taken a bath with a fancy bath bomb before she realized she was allergic to lavender only this was a hundred times better. "Bucky baby, you're killing me."

He didn't move, and Natasha was vividly reminded of that time he'd tested how long he could hold his breath. Surely he wouldn't do it now, right? Before the thought could take root, Bucky slowly pulled off, looking smug as all hell. "Nah, I wouldn't do that to ya." He gave quick little licks up her shaft before kissing her stomach. "I love you so much, y'know that?"

"You never let me forget," she said, looking down at him fondly.

"You sure about that?" he asked, continuing to kiss along her stomach.

"What do you mean?"

He skimmed his nose across the edge of her hipbone, enjoying the closeness. "Earlier, you called yourself a cougar. Made it sound like I was with you f'r the money or somethin'. There ain't any truth to that darlin', and I wanted to make sure you knew that."

"Of course I know that," Natasha said softly. "I was only teasing, Bucky. If you were with me for the money, you'd actually spend it every once in a while."

"Or how 'bout I'm with you cause I love you? I ain't ignoring your money or your age or anything, I'm here for you."

Her expression softened even more. "I know."

"Then lay back and let me love you a little, yeah?" He pushed her dress further up, the fabric in a bunch under her breasts. "I don't need a reason to make you feel good, but I actually have one tonight so let's enjoy it."

"I always enjoy it."

"That's the aim," Bucky said, shooting her a grin. Natasha's dress either could be pulled up over her head, or it could be unzipped on the back. The car was nice and big, but it wasn't exactly a limo. They could finagle around so he could reach the back zipper, but this wasn't fucking in the car, this was making out like horny teenagers with no supervision until they got home and could make it inside. He slid the strap off her shoulder and pulled the fabric down to expose one of her breasts, covering the newly exposed skin with his mouth. She wasn't too sensitive, but she could feel the warmth from his tongue as he swiped it across her nipple before covering as much of her with his mouth as he could.

Natasha arched her back without meaning to, pushing further into him. "Oh fuck," she breathed. The handle on the side of the door was poking uncomfortably along her shoulders, her neck was craned at a steep angle, and she was half falling off the seat because it didn't matter how big her back seat was, there wasn't enough space for her to spread her legs this wide and stay centered on the cushion. None of that mattered right now because Bucky's mouth on her felt divine, but it was going to matter soon unless she changed how she was laying. She didn't say anything for the moment because she didn't feel like moving. She just threaded her fingers in Bucky's hair and held him close as he left a hickey on the bottom curve of her breast and kissed his way up her shoulder. "You are- mm- too good to me honey."

"No such thing," he muttered, lips not leaving her skin. "You deserve the best."

"Then you wanna help me sit up so I don't get a crick in my back?"

He slid one hand under her back and lifted, tilting her to a more comfortable position immediately.

"Thanks babe."

"Mmhmm," he hummed, hiding his face in her neck and mouthing at the sensitive skin there. She tilted her head to encourage him, and he scraped his teeth over the extended tendon, making her shiver.

"I love you. Have I mentioned that recently?"

"Once or twice," he said with a small smirk. She dressed up too often for him to leave a hickey that high, but he toyed with the idea for a minute, biting down lightly and licking at her skin to soothe it. "I wouldn't mind hearing it again though."

"So needy," she teased. She turned her head and kissed the top of his head. He looked up, catching her in a kiss. It was familiar, but never boring. His stubble scratched around her mouth, and she leaned into him more fully, moaning when he gripped her hip and pushed himself up so they weren't having to reach as far. Even so, the angle wasn't quite right, and again: back seat of a car. Space was at a premium, so Bucky broke off the kiss after a minute and dropped to the floor mats.

He winced at how carelessly he'd landed, adjusting himself through his trousers.

"You know," Natasha said, "if you'd come back up here I could take care of you."

Bucky shook his head as she readjusted to face him. "We ain't goin' anywhere yet, no need to rush."

"Rush? Nothing rushing about it baby," she said, hooking one of her legs on his shoulder so he was in close. His eyes darkened, and one of his hands creeped over her thigh like he didn't notice what he was doing. "We went through a fucking horrible party to get to the nice fucking part of our evening, didn't we?"

"Yeah honey," he breathed.

"So I don't think it's asking that much for you to plow me through the back seat, do you?"

Bucky hummed, licking along the length of her clit as he considered. He ran the flat of his tongue on her slit, loving the way her hips jerked and she moaned like it was all she wanted in the world. "I'd love to Natasha, but I'm gonna spread you out on our bed and do you right, this time."

"Ah- but, car sex is so much fun."

"Fun, but it ain't sweet."

"Aw c'mon, who needs sweet when I can be reminded of how big your cock is in my ass."

"You'll get that when we get home just as well as you would in here."

"It's not the same," Natasha mock-complained, but even that was gone when Bucky rubbed a finger against her perineum. "Fuck Bucky, come on, come on, I want you."

"Want you too sweetheart, but we can make it."

"You're such an ass," she groaned, knocking her head back as he kept licking and toying his fingers along the spots where she was sensitive. "You keep throwing around this 'we' word," she said, rolling her hips towards him in a futile attempt to convince him to touch her more, "but I'm the only one suffering."

"You think it's not killin' me to not touch you the way I want to?" he murmured, hugging one of her legs to him as he continued. "Nothin' about this is easy for me honey." Wanting Natasha was like a low flame in his gut, always there. Sometimes it flared or spit sparks, but it was a constant companion, something he'd gotten used to handling otherwise they'd never leave their home. It wasn't easy to not press her down and fuck her slow and smooth, but it was familiar.

"Then throw a girl a bone." She paused, shooting him a shit-eating grin that was in no way diminished by the makeup that was smudged all over her face. "Get it? Bone?"

Bucky chuckled. "I have an idea."

"Great!"

"You're not gonna like it."

"Aw Bucky, come on," she said, pouting. It was a tits out look, and Bucky loved her that much more for it. She heaved a put-upon sigh and flicked her fingers, gesturing for him to come back on the seat. He did, and she picked up handfuls of her skirt so she could slide onto his lap. "See? Much better," she grinned. Then, because she wanted to tease him a little too, she positioned her ass over his cock, rubbing herself on top of his trousers.

"God honey." His hands went to her hips, and they moved together for a while, kissing leisurely. Bucky didn't mean to, but he started gripping her tighter. By the time they stopped, he had to relax his hand enough that he knew she'd have a bruise in the morning. He smoothed his fingers over the skin like it might heal her. He licked his lips, glancing out the darkened window. No street lights or lit up signs, just the even lighting of Natasha's garage beneath the Tower. "I guess we're home now."

"Looks that way," she said, sucking on the hinge of his jaw. "Let's get upstairs." She rolled off to be sitting next to him and pulled the straps of her dress back onto her shoulders.

"Good idea." Bucky gingerly adjusted himself through his trousers, following Natasha as she opened the car door and stepped outside, letting her dress fall down to cover herself. He grabbed the discarded underwear and shoved it in his pocket so Happy wouldn't have to pick it up later. As they were walking, he slung an arm around her hips, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. "Love you."

"You're about to love me more, remember?" she said with a grin, dropping her hand down to grope his ass.

"Course I do. I can't forget a damn thing about you, and I like it that way." Bucky scooped her up, relishing the surprised squeak she gave. He grinned as he hurried to the elevator, and she halfheartedly swat at his shoulder.

"A little warning wouldn't kill you."

"Yeah but that's not as much fun." He jabbed at the up button, stepping inside when they opened a second later. "Does this count as a warning?"

"Huh?"

He dropped her back to her feet, crowding her against the wall in an instant, before she really had the time to be indignant with him. The elevator ride was a hell of a lot shorter than he remembered, but maybe he'd lost himself in kissing her-- which had been known to happen. He moved to walk out of the elevator, pulling up short when Natasha grabbed his sleeve.

"Not going to carry me to our room?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well if you insist, honey," he grinned, picking her up again. She gave a delighted laugh, striking a pose with her foot in a point. Bucky hurried to their room, kicking the door closed. He set her down long enough to push the straps of the dress down and shimmy the rest off and over her hips so it fell to the ground in a puddle. He leaned down to put an arm under her ass and lifted, taking the few steps to get closer to the bed, and tossed her on. She gave a comical little bounce, bits of her wiggling in a way that should have made him laugh but instead made him more desperate to touch her.

Bucky started pulling at his clothes, in such a hurry that he was pretty sure he ripped a few seams on his criminally expensive suit that Natasha had bought him. The second he was naked, he climbed on the bed, hovering over her.

Natasha moaned as he licked into her mouth, putting her hands on his back and yanking him down so that he was covering all of her. They rubbed together and she moaned louder, thrusting her hips up for more friction. "If you don't grab the lube and fuck me, I'm going to do it myself."

"Shouldn't you have learned patience when you've been alive this long?"

"Fuck you," she gasped.

"Guess not," Bucky said, equally breathless. He pressed another searing kiss to her mouth before reaching into the nightstand. They only had lube and condoms in there, but every fucking time he tried to grab them it's like they vanished. "You've got to be fuckin' kidding me," he growled, rolling off of her so he'd be closer to the drawer and could see inside. Now that he had eyes on it, it was right underneath his hand. "Of fucking course." He threw the lube on the bed and grabbed a condom from the box, slapping it on the tabletop so he wouldn't lose it in the blanket.

"Seeing you all hot and bothered is always the best," Natasha teased.

Bucky went to say something in reply-- hopefully witty but the more turned on he got, the less likely that was-- but his mouth went dry. She had her legs bent at the knee and spread, pressing a dry finger at her entrance. It wasn't much, just a flutter to get her to relax a little quicker. One of her legs was angled close to him, so he curved a hand around the inside of her thigh and pressed a kiss to her knee before moving back into place between her legs.

He grabbed the lube and poured some into his right hand, coating the first two fingers on his left hand. He pressed in slowly, knowing that she could take it so long as he took his time. He nibbled at her hipbone as she loosened up, sucking a hickey into the skin. He moved his fingers out and back in leisurely, moving his mouth up and making another mark.

"That's good," she breathed, chest heaving. "Add another."

He took his fingers out and spread more lube on them, adding a third finger.

All of Natasha's breath left her like a punch to the gut, and she started rocking her hips before her body was truly ready for it. "Fuck. God, Bucky."

He dipped his tongue in her belly button and kissed his way higher until she fisted a hand in his hair and yanked him up for a proper kiss. Bucky moaned, opening his mouth wider as she kissed him filthily-- all tongue and teeth and sharp desire. He twisted his fingers and she whimpered, her hips thrusting down involuntarily as she held him tighter. Bucky's hand grabbed at her leg, forgetting about the lube on his hand and smearing it all over.

Natasha broke off with a laugh, glancing down at her leg. "You do know how to make a mess baby."

"I'll clean it up," he promised kissing her again. He curved his fingers inside of her, waiting until she gave a jerk and gasped as he massaged her prostate. Maybe he was a little evil, because he didn't stop until her face was flushed completely red and she was shaking underneath him. He pulled his fingers out gently and headed to the bathroom, grabbing a handful of washcloths. He gave a haphazard wipe to his hands and threw it in the laundry bin, then brought the rest out. Bucky wiped her leg as clean as he could, but they both knew the only thing that would get her clean was a shower.

"Fuck you and your niceties," Natasha mumbled, licking her lips and trying to put more feeling back in her limbs.

"Nah honey, you love it as much as I love you."

"Sap."

"Yep." He grabbed the condom from the top of the nightstand and opened the foil packet, rolling it on. He spread some lube over his cock and wiped off his hand on one of the clean washcloths. Natasha hooked a hand under one of her knees and pulled it higher in clear invitation. Bucky pressed the head of his cock at her entrance and rolled his hips, sliding inside.

"Bucky," she groaned, throwing her head back. "Fuck fuck fuck, now is not the time to tease once you bottom out you better make me forget my name."

"You got it darlin'," he said. His eyes were dark as he looked down at her, thrusting in an inch at a time until he was close enough to bend down and kiss her again.

"For fuck's sake, move."

Bucky rolled his hips, then pulled out a little and thrust back in. Rolled his hips, leaned down and kissed her. He leaned up, grabbed her legs for leverage then did as she asked and started fucking her in earnest. When Bucky thrust in, he pulled her back against him. Natasha put an arm up to brace against the headboard and started moving with him.

The room filled with the sound of skinning hitting skin, Natasha's higher pitched moans like a harmony with Bucky's lower ones. He started moving faster, pounding into her. He didn't realize how keyed up he'd been because he was so focused on her, but he could already feel his orgasm in reach, molten heat pooling in his abdomen.

"Bucky," Natasha whimpered, reaching one hand to start jacking herself off. "God, Bucky." The blue glow of the arc reactor was lighting up her face, not hiding how red her cheeks had gotten. Her makeup was a goddamn mess and Bucky wanted to remember how she looked like this forever. She stiffened and clenched around him like a vise, biting her lip hard as she came all over her stomach.

"Fuck," Bucky bit out, slamming into her and grinding his hips against her ass as he came, filling the condom. He kept rolling his hips against hers as he rode both of them through it, panting. That was a hell of a lot more intense than he'd gotten used to. It was always good, but it usually wasn't like that.

By the time Bucky caught his breath, Natasha was grinning at him. "I must have done something great to deserve that."

"Oh yeah," Bucky said, easing out. He carefully took off the condom and tied it, stumbling over to the bathroom to toss it in the trash. She wiped herself off lazily and threw back the covers-- laundry was a problem for tomorrow or possibly later tonight depending on much a mess they'd really made. He got back to bed and collapsed next to her, throwing an arm over her stomach and pulling her closer.

Natasha hummed and wiggled around until she found a comfortable position, pulling the blanket up to their chests.

"I love you so fuckin' much," Bucky murmured, kissing the top of her head.

"I know," she said, smiling softly as she returned the kiss to his shoulder. "I love you too." She yawned, stretching then settling to where she was more on top of him. "And not just for the sex, though that's good too."

Bucky was walking back from a trip to buy chips, and he saw a tabloid. Plastered to the cover was a grainy photo of him and Natasha, and the headline screamed that they were breaking up because she was done with her boy-toy. Bucky rolled his eyes and kept walking. "Bullshit," he couldn't help but mutter, even though it wasn't getting under his skin anymore.

He'd started saying "I love you," to Natasha all the time, and she'd started saying it just as often. It was hard to feel insecure about their relationship when less than an hour ago, she was looking at him with little hearts and sparkles in her eyes as she told him that she loved him.

He switched the bag from one hand to the other and continued on home. He had one incredibly gorgeous girlfriend waiting for him, and he wasn't going to spend extra time away from her.

#winteriron #marvel #fanfic #lemon #bucky barnes #tony stark #my writing #commissions

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lunawings · 5 years ago

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King of Prism SSS episode 8 commentary (Yu)

So, in my opinion, I think the episodes we’ve seen up until now could be more or less enjoyed to the fullest by newcomers and/or people who haven’t seen Rainbow Live.

But from here on out, there is a notable change. And I really mean from here on out: Episodes 8 - 12 basically require having seen Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live to be fully understood I think.

So if you watched this episode and thought wait.... why did they just skip over Yu’s backstory like that!?!

Two words: Rainbow Live.

Anyway let’s get started.

I’m surprised the subber knew the correct spelling to ViviC Heart Session. That takes.... research!? ....Wait, it’s in the credits. Still, that’s some non-linear translation.

Also I kinda wonder when and where ViviC Heart Session came from in canon. Yeah it’s the Pride the Hero ending, but there is a whole story on how they made and performed Dramatic Love for the Christmas concert, but nothing on ViviC Heart Session as far as I know.

If you’re wondering why they’re all acting so weird, there have already been not one but TWO different story arcs in the Prism Rush Main Story about Yu ambitiously deciding to write songs and biting off way more than he could chew ahah....

They know.

So this kinda dates this episode? Sort of? Despite the way it seems in episode 1, clearly the Prism One doesn’t take place right after it was announced ahah.

The way Yu says this line makes me think it’s probably been a month or so already.

So maybe it was announced in July-August (episode 1 takes place in “summer”), and happened in September-October, something like that?

So like literally JUST as I was thinking to myself “wow the subs have really gotten better in this episode....” THIS had to happen... How dare you translate Taiga’s “IT’S A FESTIVAL” as “party time”................

Oh well. Honestly though, aside from this, this episode has the best subs so far, BY FAR.

Been wondering for months how they would sub MUGEN HABUUUUUU because I had no idea how I would do it myself ahah.

Although they don’t state it explicitly, it’s pretty clear this episode takes place in Okinawa. Among many other things, I think it’s the only place in Japan with habu.

I may or may not have thought way too hard for too long about how Taiga and Kakeru ended up in this boat together.

I mean I would like to think Taiga chose Kakeru as his partner in good faith that they could work well together.

BUT KAKERU ISN’T EVEN ROWING COME ON

HE’S JUST ENJOYING THE VIEW

THE VIEW BEING TAIGA IF YOU DIDN’T GET MY DRIFT

I suppose it could have been random pairs, but Shin and Leo also ended up together and that seems not random ahah. Speaking of which...

When I saw this episode for the first time I saw it as a 3-pack with Leo’s episode coming right before (the theatrical Part 3). So I had just gone though Leo’s episode for the first time and all the baggage that came with it less than 10 minutes earlier.

And needless to say I was VERY MUCH NOT OVER IT AND EXPERIENCING VERY HIGH EMOTIONS ABOUT LEO

So during this scene I was like like

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MY SONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

SAVE HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It actually took me until at least my second or third viewing to catch Kakeru trying to take a selfie with Taiga in the background there and I lost my shit.

BTW I just want to mention that ViviC Heart Session was made for this episode. Well yes I know it wasn’t literally made for this episode, but it’s always sounded tropical for me and it just could not be more perfect.

I have been wondering for months what Taiga says here and I’m still not sure. (Not that I think this subtitle is wrong, but I mean I can’t make out the Japanese he uses. I just know folks in the theater laugh about it. Or they could just be laughing at Taiga’s method of escaping from Yu.)

Me at cheering: “IT’S SHIN. PICK UP.”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

I wonder if like, they all got together and tried to figure out who Yu was least likely to hang up on.

But seriously though

WHO COULD EVER HANG UP ON SHIN

YOU MONSTER

I said once that Jin was the best voicework in SSS, but Taiga man I dunno. Taiga is up there too. This scream is just so..... BRILLIANT..........

My reaction here changes from “OMG TAIGA ARE YOU OK” to just laughing hysterically. Sometimes in the same showing. Taiga I’m sorry.

My new desktop background.

Seriously this episode is just SO BEAUTIFUL.

Such a simple plot, but such amazing atmosphere and visuals that really take it SO MUCH FURTHER.

If I stopped to take screenshots of everything I thought looked amazing this post would never end. So just know I’m definitely thinking it. Just goddamn.

For a long time I wondered how and why Minato found about about this.

But then I realized it actually makes a lot of sense.

So remember in my last post when I talked about my theory that Minato and Yu probably joined Edel Rose at the same time? Well, when Yu met Leo, basically the first thing he did was brag about knowing Over the Rainbow. So he probably did the same to Minato, and/or Minato just noticed him being way too friendly with Kouji.

Considering Minato entered Edel Rose FOR KOUJI there is no way he wouldn’t notice that and wonder about it.

So one day he probably worked up the courage to ask Kouji about it, and.....

Oh boy.

BTW if you’re thinking huh? Yu’s family was separated? What?

See: The Ito/Kouji plot in Rainbow Live. (And bring tissues.)

Just the comparison of how fast he picks up here. Even though the first thing he does is complain to her it’s like.... HALF A SECOND from when he sees it’s Ito to when he answers omg.....

So I kinda questioned this subtitle here. Because the literal Japanese is just him saying “IT’S LATE!”

So I always thought he meant it like “Do you know what time it is!?”

But then I thought about it some more. And I remembered the Rose Party 2018 event, where the voice actors played a game where they all decided new aspects of the characters. And one of the things that were tasked with deciding (at the afternoon performance I believe) was what Yu does every night before he goes to bed. And one of the answers was “discusses life problems with Ito”.

So, maybe Ito does call Yu every night so he had been waiting on a call from her for a while....

And if so, in that context this subtitle is spot on.

You win, Crunchyroll.

Cheering audience: “THAT WAY”

Yu was so impressive Kakeru stopped taking pictures of Taiga for a full minute.

DID I MENTION THIS EPISODE IS FUCKING BEAUTIFUL

But so like. As soon as they started heading up the hill. Like practically from when they called his name, I was like..... Yu’s gonna cry.

So then it was many long, long seconds of anticipation.....

until finally this.....

And I was not disappointed.

Of all the beautiful things in this episode, I think the most beautiful thing may just be Yu’s crying animation here. He’s such a beautiful crier.

I love this scene so much. It brings me so much joy. Because he’s not crying because he’s hurt or sad.

He’s crying because he realized he has friends.

HE’S CRYING BECAUSE HE HAS FRIENDS

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

You know, I didn’t even realize Taiga was hiding behind Kakeru until someone in the stream pointed it out.

Am I an asshole because this is Yu’s episode but most of my favorite moments involve Taiga/Kakeru.

HUG HIM

HUG HIMMMMMM

OH MY GAWD I have NEVER so desperately wanted to reach through the screen and hug an anime character

Also Leo always cries when anyone else is crying.

I spent so much time looking at Kakeru and Minato that I didn’t even realize Taiga too..... They’re BOTH sleeping on top of Minato omg.....

Also I can’t help but laugh that Leo is the big spoon on Shin. But it doesn’t surprise me. If you read Prism Rush stuff, Leo aggressively cuddling Shin in his sleep is nothing new.

Damn but. Okay so like, another way in which seeing this episode right after Leo’s influenced me is, during Leo’s episode I kept thinking about what PriPara coords were closest to the outfits that the boys were wearing and how I was totally gonna record arcade videos with them.

And then we get to this and I was like OH MAN I can’t wait until that outfit comes out so I can put it on my character.... then I was like.... WAIT.....

And I realized this is basically the only idol anime I watch currently where I can’t have the clothes and I was like......... ahhhh.... not fair..........

Seriously though it is kind of odd. For me anyhow.

But also because they don’t have to worry about an arcade game for King of Prism, they have a lot more freedom. Like in a show like this, usually all the important coords that season will all uniformly have wings or holograms or otherwise follow some kind of a theme.

But with this it’s like... WHATEVER. Give Yu a huge floaty cross?? SURE WHY NOT!!!! ahah......

PRISM LIIIIVE

Okay so I know this animation is straight from Rainbow Live.

But this lightning guitar here, it’s a recolor of Sara’s guitar from PriChan isn’t it?

And if it is, this’s the first/only specifically PriChan (not PriPara) reference I know of in SSS.

So I guess the Prism System doesn’t score Prism Lives for boys yet, huh....?

So one Prism Live + one jump = this.

But I suppose you could also argue that although Yu’s show was super personal and meaningful to him, he really didn’t do much for the audience did he? (The in-universe audience I mean, as it did plenty for me haha.) It was a rather street-style show in that aspect when you think about it.

Oh well, I guess no matter what someone has to be last................................

Ah man anyway this episode.

So when I saw it for the first time, it actually didn’t leave that much of an impression on me. But that’s because it was a bit overshadowed by how EXTREMELY EMOTIONALLY DISTRAUGHT I was from Leo’s episode, and then I ended up leaving the theater thinking about the um, surprise that’s gonna happen next week in Alexander’s episode. So this episode kinda fell by the wayside.

I was actually kinda jealous of how much you guys in the stream were freaking out about it. It really made me wish I had the chance to see it independently without the influence of Leo and Alexander. There are definitely advantages to watching these week-to-week instead of in odd bunches.

Because the more I watched it, the more I really REALLY liked it, and now I think it’s probably my third favorite character episode after Taiga’s and Leo’s. (Or maybe even second. I keep flip-flopping.)

I was also a bit blindsided by how this episode didn’t really follow the normal formula. Since they skipped over Yu’s backstory, they had time for other things. They had time for, dare I say it... “filler”? By that I mean, time to focus on just the boys being boys. Although it’s something we get a lot of on Prism Rush, I realized it’s something we have been severely lacking in the movies and anime. Another big difference between this series and typical Pretty Series/Aikatsu-type anime (other than not being able to have the coords......) is the lack of filler, and I realized how truly valuable it can be. This episode is just such a jewel.

So in between last week and this week I picked up a magazine (spoon 2Di vol. 50) with director commentary, and this was the last episode he commented on.

He said this episode is about Yu going through his “rebellious phase”, which he never had the chance to have when he was younger since his family split up during such an important part of his childhood and he felt he had to be strong for his mom and all that.

So instead he goes through it with his Edel Rose family.

GAAAAAH

Probably my favorite thing about Yu is how we’re able to see him gradually grow and change more than any other character I think.

Who would have though that little boy we met in Hokkaido would get this far......

So next up is Alexander’s episode and um....

You may have noticed me talking significantly less about that episode that I have about others. And there’s a reason for that. And it’s not because I have nothing to say about it......

The events in Alexander’s episode basically set off a continuity train until the end of the series. IMHO it doesn’t matter what order you watch episodes 2-8 in, but from here on out it’s definitely all connected.

So basically what I’m trying to get at is.... um.... g..... get emotionally ready for some future cliffhangers. I’m sorry.

Also, your last chance to properly prepare by watching Rainbow Live.... you won’t be disappointed, I promise.......

#king of prism #kinpri #yu suzuno #king of prism sss #king of prism shiny seven stars

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diabolikpersonals · 7 years ago

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Like, what do you think of them generally?

alright alright alright alright alright thank u for the opportunity to talk about diaboys!!! I appreciate it ! under a read more bc I ranted forever

LAITO:

My first exposure to dialovers was the anime so my first impression towards Laito was like “oh, he’s the flirty one - oh shit he’s banging her in a church, you cant do that, thats nuts lol” but as I got more into the games, Laito became SO IMPORTANT TO ME??? especially like his relationships, w/ ALL the characters like his brothers and yui and the other families and everything! I especially love learning more about his relationship with Ayato and Kanato because it’s so dang complex. His feelings towards his triplet bros is really complicated because he loves them and you know he loves them but his trauma w/ his mom sort of fucks it all up so he’s got like this genuinely nice and kind and loving personality fighting against this trauma and warped view of the concepts of love and family that Cordelia gave him, and what you get is, “I love my family and I hope they die” and throughout the games u learn more about the reasons why he has those world views and it’s SO GOOD Laito is such a well thought-out character!?! As a writer Laito delights me but as a fan, his whole deal makes me so dang sad djhfghjdkdfd

That’s why I was so fucking satisfied w/ Laito in the Laito vs Shin cd because you got a bunch of the darker stuff surrounding him (his tendency to push people off of buildings, that FUCKING VOICE DROP he does when he’s genuinely mad) and Laito was like...he was SCARY. And he was scaring YUI and he was scaring HIMSELF, too, which made me so sad!! Laito was like crying and punching walls and being like “why am I acting like this??” and it fuckin broke my heart dude. He’s a genuinely good person, he’s so wonderful, but he’s recovering from some really really nasty stuff. So that cd really gave me a sense of like, “Man, Laito hates this just as much as I do.” It makes me want to...idk...it makes me want to give him more opportunities to be good. He really is good!!!

KANATO:

As for my first impression, I think Kanato turned me off right away because I could instantly recognize all the tropes they were gonna use when they were designing him. You can look at him and tell that he’s gonna be the ~yandere~ character (I hate using that word but u know what tropes I’m talking about). As soon as they showed him eating a bunch of sweets I was like “yep.” When they showed us his room full of wax dolls, I was like “uh huh, that seems about right.” And then he yelled a lot and tried to stab Yui for making him french toast or whatever and I was like “ok.........I’ll go start ayato’s route” u know??? just super not my type, and the Kanato vs Azusa cd was torture because Azusa’s so soft-spoken but Kanato’s always yelling at the top of his lungs. I had to keep messing with the volume and it bugged me.

I think I would like Kanato a lot more if he...had a...friend. I think rejet kinda realized that he needed one and they had that in mind when they were introducing Azusa, but that ended up being a pretty bad failure I think. Kanato doesn’t really get along with anyone and he’s pretty open about admitting that he doesn’t like anyone particularly well. I’m glad to see him starting to love Yui genuinely but...idk I feel like every other diaboy has another diaboy(s) that he gets along with really well and it’s always nice to see them acting friendly and even encouraging each other sometimes! Kanato doesn’t really have that kind of relationship with anyone. When Ayato tried to reach out and apologize in LE, Kanato was like “lol kill yourself” and I was actually so fuckin mad at him, I was like “boy if you don’t fix that attitude of yours-”..........I guess I just wish that he had more character development by this point. That scene really hurt.

RUKI:

Basically the WORST first impression ever...my first Ruki scene that I ever saw was when he broke the cat’s neck and I was so pissed. I was like “immediately fuck this guy” and he became my least favorite character right away. And on top of that he was really elitist and one of those jerk intellectuals “ohhh solve this puzzle or STAY OUT THERE IN THE COLD you big dumb idiot. im smart and you’re not” and I was like FUCK this guy, how does yuma put up with him with HIS backstory?

But I hella warmed up to him during MB, like especially during Reiji’s route where Ruki was like “...uh...okay” the whole time jhdghdj that shit was hilarious. Ruki started feeling really real. And I think that like...hm...like if Laito is a genuinely good person surrounded by bad influence, Ruki is the opposite - he’s a bad personality surrounded by good influence. Ruki’s a jerk and he’s been a jerk his whole life but he has these wonderful brothers who love him so much and this lovely angel Yui and he’s just got all these good people who look up to him and he has to be good. This little asshole kid who treated all his servants like shit is now cooking dinner for his three adoptive brothers every day and they love him so much and they love him so much. It’s so fucking satisfying. I love seeing him supporting his brothers even though it conflicts with his personality and his main drive, like letting Kou run away with Yui even though Kou couldn’t become Adam. Ruki’s most important thing in MB was making one of the Mukamis become Adam but he gave that up to let Kou be happy. That shit is so important. Ruki was such a fuckin turnaround for me, I hated him at first but now I love the hell out of him and what he represents for the Mukamis.

KOU:

Kou is great!! I think he’s affected lots of characters in really positive ways, and he’s been affected in positive ways by different characters and it’s really nice to see. For sure he’s still got that trauma from his past but I really appreciate that Kou is in an environment that doesn’t have a lot of reminders of the bad stuff from his childhood. Like, how Kou was sought after for being such a beautiful child, and how he was trapped in a dark place for such a long time. There’s none of that shit when he lives with the Mukamis. Rejet could’ve easily put in tons of haunting reminders about Kou’s whole “too beautiful for his own good” thing but whenever he gets complimented, it’s usually for something different. Azusa will talk about how talented and amazing he is, and Kino’ll be like “idol clothes are pretty nuts huh? lol” and Ruki will be like “you’re working properly after all” and I fuckin love that shit...They could’ve made it so dang hard for Kou, but no, he’s in a much happier place now. He’s nice and comfortable being with these people. That makes me feel relieved lol

I already talked about how he helped Ruki but I think the most important relationship with a diaboy that he has is SUBARUUUUU cuz like, when you look at Subaru’s route you’re like “oh he definitely needs a friend, I’m glad he has a gf but he was so dang lonely and self-deprecating that he DEFINITELY just needs a genuine good friend” and then Kou showed up and he was like “guess what subaru? we’re gonna be friends, I’ve decided” and subaru was like “???” and MB happened and by the end of it Subaru was like “I took everything you said really seriously and I do want to be friends with you..............im not gonna say it out loud tho. let’s just shake hands ok” and I was like AW HECK YEAH!!!!! And then you keep seeing nice little reminders that they’re friends in other games, like in either LP or VC (Im sorry I literally cannot tell these two games apart) they were picking out hair accessories together for Yui, and in the Subaru vs Kou cd, Kou asks Subaru at the end if he had fun, and in LE Kou gave Subaru that pep talk and made Subaru laugh, and Subaru was like “Kou if I’m gonna die then I want you to kill me” and Kou was like “But I don’t want you to die!” and Subaru was like “you dont??? you actually care? about ME???” ITS SO FUCKING GOOD DUDE Subaru needed Kou so badly. Thank god for Kou honestly

KINO:

It was weird like...I was so mad at him during certain routes but I could never actually dislike him. It’s because he’s so dang funny tbh. He literally killed some of my favorite characters but then he would say a funny line and I’d be like “haha, I’m glad kino is here!” like it’s almost scary how charismatic he is towards both the other characters and to me, the player. He asked nicely if he could kill Shu and Shu was like “ok, sure.” Kino is hands down my fav villain because of this. Especially because you can really tell that deep down he wants to be a real member of the Sakamaki family and like he genuinely wants to be friends with people like Yuma and Kou, and he’s got the whole villain-turned-awkward-family-member trope which I LOVE. Like especially in that drama cd where he was like “I never get to go to school so I want to do home ec with you guys! Let’s make donuts!” and Kou was like “ok!!!” and kou tries to be super positive and encouraging the whole time even though Kino was actually secretly plotting to blow the place up. Kino looks like an idiot but he’s a genius tbh

and and and and and and I want him to kiss yuri. I think yuri is super in love w/ kino too, despite the fact that he’s. annoying. thats all I got dhgfdjskj...I love the childhood-friends-to-lovers trope so fuckin much

CARLA:

hey carla fuck you

I was really mad at him for his actions in DF mostly ^^; And tbh it’s really hypocritical because it was a group effort between both of the Tsukinamis, but I ended up loving Shin and hating Carla. Kino also did similar bad stuff to Carla, but I ended up loving him while hating Carla. So, why?

Well here’s fuckin why. Shin and Kino are cute & funny. They have their nice little payoff moments - maybe Shin hurt one of my favorite characters, but then you get to see how bubbly and energetic he gets around his big brother. He was walking one of his wolves around christmas time while wearing a red jacket and a random kid approached him thinking he was santa claus. That’s adorable! For a long time, Carla didn’t have anything like that. And he was a jerk to absolutely everyone, including Shin, who was so dang devoted to him!! Like remember in the DF cds where he was like “hey shin, the plan is we suck her blood until she’s purified from the vampires” and shins like “ok nii-san got it” and he started sucking her blood, exactly like he was ordered to, and then carla came in and STABBED HIM and was like “hey dont touch my property” like SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK CARLA U TOLD HIM TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! IT WAS THE PLAN

And he fucked Ayato up real bad in DF so I was so mad...;; I only recently started forgiving him once diatwitter and LE started up. Diatwitter let us see his cute old grandpa side where he fuckin wanders around amusement parks by himself like some kind of cryptid and kou keeps being like “wait was that carla? what the heck??” and LE gave us some pretty nice stuff like carla being like “ur definitely my brother, shin” so...carla is ok I guess...but then again LE also gave us some bad carla moments like “if ur not actually a founder then u lied to me and im gonna kill u” so basically uh?? carla’s just a jerk I think. I’m warming up to him at a snail’s pace but he’s still a jerk. sucks about the endzeit tho, I hope he’s like permanently ok now

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King of Prism Stage Show: Over the Sunshine

Last week I got to attend the King of Prism Stage show and, with MUCH thanks to NicoNico, I got to rewatch it as well. This gave me a chance to both compare two versions of the show and confirm some things so this post isn’t just from memory.

I mentioned before that there were Pride the Hero “spoilers.” Basically what they did was take a few particular scenes and rework them into the plot of the first movie. But they wouldn’t be spoilers unless you knew they were, and seeing them as part of this show instead would still be legit. So I am going to include some of them without calling attention to them and it’s up to you if you want to read this/watch the play.

I am going to be mostly talking about what was different between this show and the first movie, assuming you know the movie scene-by-scene in the way that I do. (If you don’t haha I don’t care why are you reading this go watch it.)

First of all, I admit the actors playing Shin and Hiro weren’t quite as bad the second time around because I was prepared for it. Same with the singing. For the record, when I was complaining about the singing before it was because it was different, not “bad.” A lot of it actually did sound bad in the recording. But I imagine it was because it was taken directly from their mics - it did not sound that bad in the actual theater with the acoustics there and such.

Also I have to explain how cheering worked. So basically everyone had cyalumes and stuff, but we were only allowed to cheer when these blue lights on the side were on. So that’s why you can only hear voices at certain parts while the audience is oddly polite in others. We are all yelling the stuff we would usually yell in the movie theater, which I could basically do in my sleep at this point haha. It was a reasonable system, but towards the end I wondered what the point was since the lights seemed to be on a lot more often than off. They lights were also off in a few key scenes with notorious callouts, for example when Alexander challenges Kazuki. We were all screaming in our heads like mad trust me.

So the show opened with a performance of the usual “Boy Meets Girl”, this time including all the characters even Hijiri and Scwartz Rose.

Then it went right into the scene where Shin gets the pendant from Louis. They decided to do it chronologically (and honestly it works better this way). The scene ends with Louis seemingly kissing Shin (although the actor blocked it with his hand).

During the Over the Rainbow concert you first get to see that all of the characters have heelys so they can “skate” around the stage. They did during in random scenes when they weren’t performing as well. (This was the one thing they couldn’t do at the MRS live concert and I really appreciated it.)

So, like in the original movie, they let you know what kind of show this is right away when Shin is literally brought up on stage before all his clothes are ripped off by stagehands revealing rainbow heart underwear. (Interesting choice Shin.)

In the scene where he meets Hijiri, the bike crash is done in super slow motion as Shin “falls” down the stairs while the stagehands move his bike. Of course I wouldn’t want the actor to hurt himself, but man it was cheesy ahahah. Also instead of a mysterious shadow in the background, the Louis appearance is obvious.

While in the original movie Shin doesn’t meet Kakeru until almost the very end, in this version he meets him right away at the same time as the other boys. Similarly to how he thought Leo/Yukinojo were girls and Yu was an elementary school student, Shin looks at Kakeru and is like “a businessman?!?” (Lit: Salaryman. Love it.)

Yamada-san’s character was cut and Shin is introduced to Edel Rose via song instead.

The church scene with June and the Over the Rainbow flashback were both cut of course.

Instead of the flashback where Shin gets the pendant which was done earlier, we have a scene where Louis teaches Shin how to do a Prism Jump (instead of Kouji). I think this works way better as well. They still make a big deal over Shin and Louis hugging though, which is strange in this version because it was like wait, but didn’t they already kiss oh well.

I had imagined they would probably cut the onsen scene due to limitations of what they can do on stage with real actors?

But no.

They EXPANDED it.

Shin exposes himself to Leo and Yukinojo as always, showing the audience his entire ass in the process (but you can see a peach band around his waist so you know he does have something on in the front).

And then instead of Leo and Yukinojo just leaving like they do in the movie, ALL the other boys come IN including Over the Rainbow AND they do a song wearing towels. Basically the continuation of the welcome to Edel Rose song.

At one point they put a plastic sheet up as they all take off their towels and swing them over their heads. (All except for Leo who, wearing a full body towel, looks on somewhat horrified from the side.) In the recording it really looks like they are naked but…. in the theater it was obvious they were all wearing peach underwear. Haha sorry?

Although, that being said, seeing this live was…. something….. At one point I was just like.. I am literally watching a real life King of Prism striptease. I… am not going to think about it too had.

It also wasn’t as obvious in the recording, but in the theater they made it obvious Shin was trying to hide an awkward teenage boy erection after his debacle with Leo and Yukinojo. (….after he already knew they were boys.)

So anyway. Next we go to Scwartz Rose and it’s a totally new, original scene. Joji comes in and and just starts going fucking crazy. While I was watching this I kept thinking… was Joji always this kind of character? But then I remembered we barely even know him haha. He’s in the stage show like 200% more than he’s in Pride the Hero (and yet he still does basically nothing). At one point he leaves and comes back connected to four puppets representing the members of the Shuffle, which we are supposed to think are real. and it is pretty hilarious.

So Joji introduces the audience to Scwartz Rose in song joined by Louis, Alexander, and Jin in the same way that Minato introduced Edel Rose. In this version you find out Louis is at Scwartz Rose way earlier, as Jin’s line about Louis being like a younger version of him is in this scene.

There is a part in this scene which I didn’t know was improvised until seeing the recording later. When I saw it in the theater Jin asked to speak with Kokoro alone (but Kokoro was a puppet who could not be separated from Joji, resulting in hilarity). In the recording, Jin asked Joji to do a Prism Jump on his own (which he could not do because he was connected to the puppets, also resulting in hilarity).

Also during this scene Kakeru comes up with a gadget which he can use to scan Prism Stars and find out their power. He sees Joji is nothing much but is quite impressed by Alec. Scanning Louis gives him an error.

After everything that happened in the onsen scene, when Kazuki and Alexander came out in battle outfits my first thought was “Ok how are they gonna come off” but they didn’t haha. I guess they filled their naked quota already.

In the first version I saw, Alexander dropped the watch when Kakeru threw it to him, but his “Hmph I don’t need this” reaction was so good I thought it might have been scripted. Also they didn’t show it in the recording, but he doesn’t actually stomp on the watch at the end. (After all, it is expensive.)

The Kouji/Shin battle was my favorite anime -> real life translation IT WAS BRILLIANT. Shin being wrapped up in literal red string. Kouji leaning down and shaking his ass for the audience while stage hands made honey pots fly around him O.M.G. I have various opinions on the actors but I will say this, KOUJI. WAS. PERFECT. Whatever technology they used to extract DNA from an anime character and clone him needs to be shared with the world.

Also, another notable change, Shin is able to perform Mugen Hug because Louis suddenly appears and encourages him (and then disappears again). Plus, Shin hears directly from Kouji to use the song Over the Sunshine to make everyone smile if Edel Rose is ever in a pinch (instead of via Hijiri). I liked that.

After the battle with Alexander, Kazuki tells Taiga to take care of street style at Edel Rose, making it more apparent that it was specifically this battle which made him decide to quit.

Now we go to the dinner scene, where Shin learns about the magic of celery in a more direct way: Celery falls from the ceiling onto Shin and he has to catch it. (Everyone clapped when he did. He caught it both times. Honestly I thought it would be more entertaining if be dropped it and had to scamble around the stage to get it though haha.) This scene is also apparently complete improv. In the first version I saw Minato threw the celery to Yu and told him to make a song about it. He nervously sang… something while the audience clapped along. I wondered if it was improv at the time and this was confirmed in the recording when they tossed around the celery and talked to it instead. Taiga was the only one who didn’t say anything, so they teased him endlessly.

The TV scene was cut since once again Yamada-san was cut. It goes straight to Over the Rainbow’s performance at the Rose Party.

Now here’s where the most dramatic change is: Shin does not perform Over the Sunshine at the Rose Party. Instead they are just like “Edel Rose is dead” and the scene ends.

The next scene Hijiri is telling the boys they are going to perform at a Christmas party at Dear Crown. Shin doesn’t know what Dear Crown is, causing comic fainting and mentions of Naru and June in the explanation!!

But everyone’s excitement about the party is quickly dashed because Scwartz Rose will be there and they don’t think they can do it without Over the Rainbow.

The boys try to convince Yu to write them a song but he resists, prompting a long series of taunting him by threatening to call Ito instead. “Kouji said if Yu ever refuses to write a song we can just call Ito!” “OKAY I’ll write the damn song!!” “Aww darn I thought we were gonna meet Happy Rain….!” They talked about Ito so much for a moment I wondered if she was actually going to come out (but no haha).

After agreeing to write the song Yu then sits in the same position for days without eating or writing one note. He avoids his writers block by telling the others they should be working on their Prism Jumps. Likewise, they have no idea what to do. So Leo suggests they make a Prism Jump together by working in everything they like. So they all call out random things they like (Yukinojo likes fall leaves, Kakeru likes the “like” button on Facebook/Twitter…). Taiga’s not saying anything, so Kakeru goes up to him and says “You like Kazuki right?” Taiga denies it and in his flustered frustration admits he likes “pudding a la mode.” Needless to say they tease him endlessly. Did I mentioned Taiga was also PERFECT.

Their Prism Jump is a jumbled mess.

But anyway too late, time for the show!!! Jin is there, which is a surprise for some reason. (Didn’t they know Scwartz Rose was coming?)

Joji performs with “the Shuffle” except this time the puppets were operated by stage hands who actually sang the parts.

Everyone had their performance outfits from Prism Rush in this scene (even Alexander) so I imagine they are their official performance outfits. Neat.

Taiga tries to take revenge on Alexander during his show. It’s not clear who wins. Everyone stops it and Jin brings out Louis who does an original song. Next it’s the Edel Rose boys turn but they are all terrified. Remembering Kouji’s words, and with encouragement from Louis as well, THIS is what finally prompts Shin to do Over the Sunshine.

Seeing everyone pile on Shin afterwards was much more satisfying in realtime heheh.

Even Joji was impressed by Shin, but Jin of course leaves in a huff.

Now that their spirits are lifted the Edel Rose boys finally perform. But the song they do was described by Yu as being a song by a legendary idol group. (I guess Yu didn’t write them a song after all? I did not get the reference. All I heard was a random Christmas song.) Their jump was called “Edel Rose Christmas Party for You!”

So yeah, Jin swears revenge at the Prism King Cup, Louis comes out and says he loves Shin for no reason, and this is where the recording ends.

There were actually many more encore performances we saw in the theater but I don’t remember them all. I think the Edel Rose boys got one more song, the Scwartz Rose boys got one more song, Over the Rainbow got one more song, and even Hijiri and Jin got a song?! All original. There will be a CD out in spring as well as the DVD!

The end.

#king of prism #kinpri #king of prism stage show #butakin

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