#and i cant really warn for it properly cuz it's something that was only vaguely implied in my writing

[brutal-nemesis]

Flameo, Hotman

Some people wanted to see the “Castys trapped in an incinerator” that I drew here, so enjoy! I more put him in a crematory (like for burning corpses) but same effect (●'◡'●)

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Ingredients: immolation/burns, minor gore associated with that (including some implied eye gore)

How come he always ended up getting kidnapped? He hadn’t done anything to piss anyone off recently, as far as he could remember, and yet he’d been yanked into a shady back alley and knocked out before he had a chance to figure out what the hell was even happening. He was coming back to now, blindfolded with his wrists tied behind his back. But hey, he wasn’t gagged.

“Hello? You there, asshole?” Castys called. Fuck, wherever he was, it smelled like smoke and burned shit, like his face was right in the remains of a campfire. But it didn’t feel like he was laying on the ground outside...he sat up, promptly banging his head on something metal above him. He cursed, curling up on his side as his head throbbed. Once it died down a bit, he felt around with his feet. It seemed like he was in some sort of box, like, like...a coffin. H-he’d never heard of a metal coffin, though, and-

“Looks like you’re awake, huh?” Someone spoke somewhere above him-well, behind him...above his head? He could hear them clearly, so this box must have a hole in it somewhere. 

“Yeah good morning what do you want from me?” Castys asked flatly, hoping it was something he didn’t actually care about.

They huffed. “Straight to the point. I can respect that. Well, you see,” he heard a faint rustling, “I don’t really want you, per se, but a certain…friend of yours.” Castys stiffened, and he heard a faint laugh. “I think you know who I’m talking about.”

“I really don’t. I’ve got a lot of friends, you know, and-” something slammed into the metal above him, cutting him off.

“Don’t play dumb with me; you know exactly who I’m talking about, and you’d better tell me where I can find him or I’ll make you regret it.”

“Please, do your worst. I already regret so many damn things so I don’t think another one on the pile will do much to me, to be honest,” Castys mused, wiggling against his bonds slightly.

“Your choice,” the person said, and Castys heard something metal slam, like a door being closed. If he hadn’t been trapped before, he was now, but it’s not like it was a huge deal, they weren’t going to just leave him for forever or bury him alive or something, they wanted results, right?

Yes, yes they did.

Castys screamed as he was suddenly engulfed in flames, his whole body burning as he writhed in pain, his vision filling with white as the blindfold burned away, but soon enough he couldn’t see at all, couldn’t hear, couldn’t feel, and then…

It was still warm, no, hot, he was already burning again, no no no-he flailed around desperately, but there was nothing but solid, burning metal all around him, even though he was free of the ropes now he was still trapped, still-

The door above the top of his head swung open, his captor staring at him through a metal grate. He craned his neck to try and see them, but it was difficult given how he couldn’t exactly position himself to face the opening. “Well,” they mused, “are you going to tell me where he is, or do you want to be burned to death again?”

“He lives on the corner of You Can Get Fucked Avenu-”

The door slammed shut again, and the fire returned, burning so much hotter than the metal surrounding him had been. Castys howled and thrashed, hoping that if he could hold out long enough they’d just give up, or maybe that-that he’d come-he’d come save him again-just...just this once...please…

“Tell me how to find him.”

“Have you checked up that huge asshole of yours-”

He didn’t know how many more times he could watch his skin blacken and peel away.

“Got anything to say?”

“You should come in here and join me, it’s fun.”

He couldn’t fucking breathe-

“Well?”

“I wish I had a well. Full of water.”

The smell was almost as unbearable as the agony-

“How many more times am I going to have to do this, I wonder?”

“S-six. Sixty nine.”

No no the agony was everything- 

“Is he really worth this much to you?”

“Y-yes.”

The only thing he was getting used to was the sound of his screams- 

“Ready to talk?”

“P-please...just...let me rest a moment-don’t-”

He was cracking he was cracking his skin was cracking or was it just- 

“I could do this all day, you know.”

“I-no. No I can’t-I can’t tell-” 

T-there was something wet on his face and it wasn’t tears-

“Will you tell me now?”

“N-Wait!” he cried as the door started to close once more. He-he didn’t want to betray him, no, no, he was...it was the closest he’d been to someone in centuries, but-but he couldn’t do this anymore...he’d understand, right? He...even if he didn’t…anything was better than this. With shaking hands, he wiped some of the gore from his face.

“I-I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you just, please, no more.”

After he’d talked, they dragged him out of that box, really just a hole in the wall, chaining him up in a cell before leaving him alone in the blissful cold. Castys curled up, shivering, the minor burns he’d gotten from the hot metal still throbbing. H-he was fucking pathetic he shouldn’t have broken down so quickly he shouldn’t have but it was too late and now he was going to see hurt in those eyes because he’d betrayed him he’d sold out his best friend all because he couldn’t handle a little fire-

And then he was there, next to him, chains on his wrists and a slave collar around his neck, and those eyes were just as sad as he’d thought they’d be.

“C-Castys, you-what did they do to you why did you-” he was shaking his head as he looked him over, taking in the grimy layers of burned fat that coated his skin, the awful smell, the sludge on his cheeks from-from-

“I-it doesn’t matter I shouldn’t have-I-I couldn’t do it anymore I’m sorry I’m so sorry!” Castys wailed, not daring to touch his friend with his filthy, traitorous-

“You have nothing to be sorry for, Castys, please, just-” he grabbed him and pulled him close before Castys could protest. “Did...did they burn you?” he whispered in horror. Castys couldn’t bring himself to say it, nodding into his friend’s shoulder. He shook his head in disbelief. “You...I’m not worth that, Castys.”

“You’re right,” Castys hesitantly hugged him back, “you’re worth more.”

But I couldn’t even give you that much.

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[banana-milk-enthusiast]

Finally got around to watching the Ni No Kuni movie and whew boy it was...... Something

I didn't hate it per se but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again. Gonna point this nonsense cuz there was so much I want to complain about

SPOILER WARNING

Just saying this off the bat but if you’re gonna imitate the ghibli feel in your movie at least have the budget, alot of it just looked bad at times and so many scenes could've looked better if they added some shading/coloring/lighting or hell some details. soundtrack was bomb af tho

So first thing I was a bit disappointed it was a modern take I liked the old timey theme of the first game

It was obvious to me that the old man in the beginning was Oliver but I assumed he lived in fictional industrial America land not japan

My girl Kotona could run how many blocks in the span of Yu driving near but she couldn't run to a populated area???

The fuck was Haru's damage he immediately goes to move around Kotona who has a terrible stab wound, leave his collapsed paralyzed friend who was responsibly calling an ambulance AND THEN run out into open traffic with her body in an attempt to get a taxi. He's dumb

Also trucks can transport people now?? The fuck is this an isekai? I know Level-5 has an unhealthy obsession with truck accidents and car safety but really how!?!?

And Yu could suddenly walk in this world but we just go okay then, also they're magically capable of badass swordplay and in Yu's case also magic

how did they transport back after jumping through the fire? was it just chance??

I don't wanna bitch about Haru but I just found him really annoying in general. After they save the princess and all he goes on and on about it being a dream and he doesn't care (I thought they were gonna address his jealousy and how he obviously felt inferior to Yu in this world but they just didn't) he claims all of Yu's theories are just fantasies but the minute shit goes south for Kotona he immediately goes apeshit and goes welp guess I gotta kill the princess like an absolute idiot. Would have liked to see him kill her and Yu only to return to their world and see her dead. Hmmm that got dark. Then he changes his mind so quick after someone else is in danger like he wasn't massacring the innocent in Evermore.

Also Morningstar is a sword now?? I know it changes shape but...

Also also on that point a king used the Morningstar to murder people!? The Morningstar. THE MORNINGSTAR, I'm surprised it didn't nope outta there the minute the king was about to act on it (it's been a while since I've played nnk but I swear it only chilled with those who were worthy and noped out frequently)

I smelt the Chancellor's bitchiness a mile away, I know a snake when I see one.

They threw in so many plot things at once during the Chancellor's reveal and whew idk whatever that mess was. Couldn't even bother to care (but I've yet to play nnk2 so maybe I'm missing something)

Also my dude chancellor gnauss turning into some bootleg devilman reject sure was something, not a good something

Haru having the last hit in after they boosted up my boy Yu so hard in the final fight just killed the moment for me I didn't think he deserved it.

Actually my biggest gripe with this movie was that I was constantly waiting for them to do something with the characters/plot and they just didn’t???

like the Morningstar is in the form of a walking cane and given to Yu a disabled character, but it just goes sword mode and he shanks the villain up

I thought they were gonna address Haru’s jealousy of the things Yu can accomplish in this world that he cant, but nope

thought Yu was gonna talk about how he preferred this world because he could walk and felt capable and was with the woman he loved, but absolutely no convo is had

we don’t even properly address how Haru’s rashness has caused those around him to have problems/be hurt; whether he’s rushing into traffic with his injured girlfriend, joining an evil legion and hurting/murdering others in a misguided attempt to save his gf and just constantly undermining Yu’s ideas and things he says

what the actual frick frack was that plot twist at the end, Yu was Haru’s linked soul along??? I mean I did think maybe he was from that world, but Haru’s link, really???? It just seemed so cheap and rushed, after all that they just went oh we were linked souls that’s why we liked the same person and got along so well

when the movie trailer first came out I thought we were gonna get a coming of age adventure. I thought they were all gonna get transported, Kotona would go missing and theyd adventure to find her. Yu would be amazing and Haru would begin to feel inferior. Haru would see Yu getting close to the princess who looks exactly like his gf and get upset/uncomfortable and argue on Yu getting distracted, they’d argue and part maybe even fight but after time reunite for the final battle to save Kokona. But shit not even one of those things happened and even one would’ve been vaguely more interesting than the actual movie