#YnN Yuugo

[flower-blossoms654]

Each time I think about how they took out the Goldy Pond arc, I get so angry. Cause like not only was it a good ass arc, getting rid of it takes out something integral to the story as a whole, that I just don’t think they realized/cared about:

The validation of Emma’s beliefs.

Emma is established to be this happy-go-lucky character right? And as the children are still in Grace Field, you see that she still keeps this demeanor while juggling the new graveness of the situation she is in. While losing some of her naivety, she still shows herself capable of being someone hopeful for the future who will not let her circumstances get the better of her. The most important part of what makes this WORK for her character (instead of making it annoying and unrealistic) is the fact that she both acknowledged and experiences the tragedy of the world she is trying to be hopeful in. It’s not some little girl being like “I believe everything’s gonna be fine! Sparkles and rainbows!” while being shielded from the darker parts of the world. It’s a little girl who looks in the face of the darkness and that terrible world and is in the MIDST of it. It’s a little girl who found the dead body of her younger sibling and was faced with the reality that her whole life was a lie. It’s a little girl who realized her whole family was going to die and fought to grab onto her hope despite how overwhelmingly bleak their situation was. She knew and yet she didn’t hesitate to believe that they could escape. She knew and still wanted to yell to the world that she was going to save EVERYONE. Seeing someone so unwaveringly hopeful even after being hit with devastating loss and despair is like a beacon for anyone else struggling to keep surviving. Emma is lovable for how she loves—how her hope and determination stands fast in the face of adversity and still goes forward even as more events threaten to shake and bend it.

For whatever reason season 2 was changed the way it was (I’ve heard many things)(if it was because of the guns then WHY pick up the anime in the first place bc you derail EVERYTHING) it could never stand completely without Goldy Pond.

Goldy Pond is in plain terms Emma’s defining arc. It seems to be pushing forward a question whose answer will define the rest of the series.

“Who is Emma?”

Not as she is with her siblings. Not as she is when there is her family there to keep her going. Who is Emma, and how will she grow from here on out?

Goldy Pond is the first time Emma is “alone”. She has none of her siblings around her and she is in an unfamiliar environment, with people she does not know. People by all means unconnected to her when she has a family to get back to and protect.

But Emma doesn’t treat them that way. She cares for each stranger she meets, jeopardizing her safety by using herself as bait—by charging forward into battle to protect them and change the demons’ focus. As the arc progresses and she meshes herself into the other children’s ranks, treating them as family as well, it seems to be clear what the answer is. As she serves as a distraction in this main fight. As she reminds them of details of HOW they can win this fight even when there seems to be no hope left. When she gets empaled and STILL takes a shot to kill Duke Leuvis.

Emma is hopeful and kind and self-sacrificing. She treats strangers as she would treat her family, and cares for all lives the same. She is so overwhelmingly forthright and sincere in her emotions and love, that you can’t help but want to support and follow her. That is who Emma is. She is not naive. She has seen death and battle and bleak circumstances but still rises to the challenge EVERY time — and most importantly this time was the bleakest so far. This time she was “ALONE”.

She has the experience behind her to make her care for all things “valid”. This is not a silly, childish little girl not knowing all the different aspects of her declarations. She says they will survive and you can take her for her word because she knows what it’s like to be near death. But specifically and more crucially for Goldy Pond (and therefore the rest of the series): Emma says that she wants to save demons. And with Goldy Pond, you can take her word for it.

When Norman declares that his way of saving everyone is to have a demon genocide, the most important part of this is that we as the readers support Emma and her viewpoint (that the demons should not be killed.) Her viewpoint is valid in the manga because of what she has gone through. Emma says she wants to save demons and we can take her for her word because she has experience at the hands of some of the worst cruelty from demons possible. She and other children were hunted for sport. She was placed in a mockery of a sanctuary and hunted down for demons entertainment—not for the demon’s hunger or survival but for FUN. And she still turns around and says that she believes there are GOOD demons.

Without this, Emma has nothing in her experience for her to stand toe to toe with Norman’s beliefs. She looks like a naive, silly child trying to justify a foolish dream when she has experienced nothing of the world. It’s practically an insult to Norman and his experiences and it doesn’t give off what it should to the watcher. How are we supposed to believe in Emma (and go against a GENOCIDE) when it seems as if the writers want to paint that the genocide is the reasonable answer (when it fucking ISNT). And this is all because without Goldy Pond, Emma doesn’t have the experience to be meaningfully hopeful. She can’t properly value her positive experience with Mujika because she doesn’t not have a big enough negative experience to weight it against (and gracefield isn’t good enough bc Norman has gone through more than that). For Emma to have weight, she needs to be able to weight the good and the bad and STILL choose good. To still choose to be hopeful and caring.

Getting rid of Goldy Pond got rid of such an important foundation of Emma as a character and I can never forgive them for that.

[officersnickers]

boredom grows... whatever this is 🍵

[rayofsunshyne]

Missing Yuugo hours 😔

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The saga continues…

[graphx]

THE DOTS ARE CONNECTING BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW

I DON'T KNOW HOW IT CONNECTS BUT THERE IS SYMBOLISM SOMEWHERE

I'm not smart enough to put this into words I'll just be babbling like a raccoon with rabies in the corner

[catkettle]

doodled my kids

[itszygoart]

TPN ART IN 2023?? 😭 these babies will be available mid-late October :))))

[juxl25]

Re arranged my The Promised Neverland shrine

Now I have more room to get more merch :> soon I’m going to start on my ITA bag soon >.<

[tree-lizard]

I've known this man only for ten chapters, really hope this poor bunker bastard is doing alright

[evthesoup]

yuugo and lucas!! (and a silly little manga doodle of yuugo and chris)

[papoochu]

I wish we could've seen them interact Note: Tumblr was acting weird, so I had to delete my old account and create a new blog under the same name. I'll be reposting a couple of my old artworks here (including this piece)!

[yzur02]

Cus I can: TPN incorrect quotes

Ray: So, are you two dating now?

Norman & Emma: Yes.

Ray: Why?

Norman: I happen to find Emma very appealing.

Ray: Yeah, I can understand that. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with Emma.

Norman: Due to personal reasons, I will be fucking sinking to the bottom of the ocean in a large metal box.

Ray: Did Emma say 'I love you' and you said 'Thanks'?

Norman: THE REASONS ARE PERSONAL–

Emma: *heading out to see Norman*

Ray: Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!

Emma: I think I crossed that line when I got a date.

Ray: I dare you to kiss the next person who walks into this room.

Norman: Screw that, I’m not kissing any of you.

*Emma walks in*

Norman: Fine, I’ll do it. Rules are rules you know.

Emma : Two years ago, I married my best friend.

Emma : Norman is still mad about it, but me and Ray were drunk and thought it was funny.

Norman: How long do you reckon it’ll be until Ray finally snaps and commits murder?

Emma : I’ve been going through life assuming it’s already happened at some point and it’s just that no one was ever able to trace it back to him.

Norman: Ray got into a fight.

Emma : That’s bad.

Emma :

Emma : Did he win?

Emma: Look at the buns on that guy!

Norman: *lying on the floor, covered in hamburger buns*

Ray: This is the comedy police! The joke's too funny!

Emma: I'm not going back to jail!

Yuugo: Hey, Emma?

Emma : Yeah?

Yuugo: Can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on?

Emma :

Emma : Where’s Ray?

Norman: I asked Emma out.

Ray: Oh, I’m sorry.

Norman: Why?

Ray: Well, I assume she said no.

Norman: No, she said yes.

Ray: Really? Then I’m sorry for her.

Ray: Is this your plan B?

Norman: Technically, this is plan P.

Ray: Plan P? Is there a plan M?

Norman: Yes, but I marry Emma in plan M.

Emma : I like plan M.

Norman: Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, Ray?

Ray: No.

Emma : I do!

Norman: I know, Emma .

Emma : I’m sad.

Norman: I know, Emma .

Norman, texting Emma : Emma ! Help I'm being kidnapped!

Emma : Where are you?

Norman: I'm with some strange person. In a car. Help.

Emma : I'll call Ray.

Ray, answering their cell: Y'ello?

Emma : Where's Norman? They texted me that they were being kidnapped.

Ray: Norman? Whaddya mean, they're right next to me-

Ray:

Ray: I'll call you back. *Hangs up*

Ray: THE NEW HAIRCUT ISN'T THAT BAD!

Norman: WHO ARE YOU!?

Ray: Emma annoyed me today so I told her that I can’t wait to see what she has planned for our special day tomorrow.

Norman: There is nothing special about tomorrow.

Ray: But there is something special about watching the color leave her face as panic takes over.

Norman: In your opinion, what is the height of stupidity?

Ray, turning to Emma: How tall are you?

Norman: I am your king, long may I reign!

Emma : Well I didn’t vote for you!

Norman: You don’t vote for kings.

Emma : Well how’d you become king then?

Norman: Ray of the Lake, their arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Norman, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.

Emma : Listen. Strange people lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Norman: *pretending to joke* So when are you going to go out with me?

Emma: I don't know. When are you going to ask me to?

Ray: And you just ran away?!

Norman: I didn't expect her to flirt back!

[darklight-owl]

Idk if I've posted this idea yet but slice of life AU where Emma's adoptive dad is Yuugo, she and Oliver (whose adoptive dad is Lucas) meet in high school and while going through the yearbook they realize their parents dated so now they're hatching an elaborate plan to bring them back together. All the other kids are there and they're in on it too. It becomes like the mind games in the series except this time instead of surviving demons it's about Parent Trapping Yuugo and Lucas.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

You know what shave his eyebrows too. Give him the doctor eggman.

I mean, how much worse can it be. The bunker has to have seen all tpes of bad hair decisions

[graphx]

tpn redrawn as memes I forgot I had on my phone (part 4)

Alicia go NOM

proud of how the undisguised anguish of babysitting came thru in yuugo's expression honestly

I was originally debating doing this with emma but the other gracefield kids need some more appreciation tbh

(I flipped a coin between mark, alicia and dominic don't ask me why they have the most biting energy they just do.

Then i considered phil and just got sad they never met but I do have an angsty fic idea for his birthday now! hopefully i'll actually write that on time lol)

[crowchelmist]

“Stars.”

Ray looked to Yuugo who was still on the floor, waiting for a confirmation on his assumption; although there wasn’t anything else the lights could be. The man just smiled softly at the ceiling, scooching over a little and patting the space to his right.

“They look better from down here.”

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Awake late at night, what's new? (Well that old guy who was trying to get you killed like a month ago is new.)