#and sometimes they do the exact opposite of that

[thanossssss]

everyone’s traumatized asses except 001 and 456 regressing at once in between games fic/hcs?

i just think it’d be neat 😌.

Thanos and Nam Gyu and definitely either breaking down or breaking something/someone else.

In between games AgeRe Headcanons

(Characters written about include: Thanos, Nam-gyu, Min-su, Dae-ho, Young-mi, and Hyun-ju. In that order.)

(Mentions of drug usage with Thanos and Nam-gyu. Mentions of death as well.)

Some characters don’t have as many headcanons as others do, since I had trouble with not making this super repetitive, which I do hope it’s not.

Thanos

•If his high hasn’t worn off yet, he’s probably very happy and giggly after the games, despite everything that happens during them.

•If his high has worn off, then he’s the exact opposite. He gets very quiet and just curls up in his bed, trying not to think of all the deaths he saw.

•After Red Light, Green light, Thanos was terrified out of his mind, which ultimately caused him to regress. He was in too much shock that he couldn’t really do anything, besides quietly cry.

•Was in and out of his regression during the Mingle game and then fully regressed right after.

Nam-gyu

•He was also regressed during the Mingle game, but definitely a lot more than Thanos was, and stayed regressed for a little while longer afterwards.

•Once his high wears off, he’ll just sleep for a while. The games and deaths don’t seem to affect him as much as they do Thanos, but they obviously do still affect him, he just tries to hide it.

•After the fight at night was over, Nam-gyu hid in Thanos’s bed, underneath the blanket while clutching onto his necklace. The pills had worn off by then, so his rage and violent behavior was gone and the reality of what happened was starting to set in.

•It’s not super, super obvious to the others that he’s regressed, but they do think his behavior is a bit odd at times. Nam-gyu will sometimes walk around while being wrapped up in a blanket or just carrying it around with him. He’ll also sometimes start giggling and jumping around the place, mostly staying near his bed area.

•If he sees someone giving him a dirty look for the way he’s acting, he’ll look at them with a very evil and scary glare, to show he’s tougher than they are. (Or what he thinks is in evil glare. In reality, he’s really just pouting at them.)

Min-su

•He’s extremely timid and will cling to Se-mi when he regresses after the game.

•However, after the Mingle game, he was going to hide in his bed, but Thanos made him come out and stayed with him the entire time, along with Nam-gyu, but he wasn’t nearly as caring as Thanos. (Min-su couldn’t tell if he actually cared for him, or if it was another manipulation tactic.)

•Definitely was regressed during and after the fight in the middle of the night..

Dae-ho

•Stays with Jung-bae constantly and follows him around everywhere he goes. He’ll also hide behind him as well, which doesn’t work out too well, considering he’s taller.

•The rest of the group (Jun-hee, Gi-hun, and In-ho) will also try to help and comfort him, but Jung-bae is usually the one to have the most success.

•Definitely not as talker or energetic right after going through one of the games. He just stays quiet, unless someone speaks to him. He’ll only respond to people in the group. He won’t talk to anyone else.

Young-mi

•She stays around Hyun-ju and Geum-ja at all times.

•She’s extremely quiet, but she almost always looks like she’s about to cry. She’s often really teary eyed.

Hyun-ju

•She also tends to stay around Geum-ja as well.

•She’s not as scared or anxious as the others, but she’s obviously still upset over the situation and what happened.

•However, she was a total wreck after Young-mi’s death. Geum-ja tried to provide her comfort and care, but it didn’t calm the poor girl down at all.

•Gyeong-seok was the only one who was able to help her calm down after a lot of time and patience.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

sometimes the thing you think you have written is way less interesting than the thing you have actually written.

[lgbtlunaverse]

You know sometimes I think about that whole narrative tragedy around Huaisang where to get revenge for his brother on jgy he has to become more and more like jgy and turn into a person that his brother would hate. And yes the scheming and the lying and the making other people do your dirty work so you'll never get caught and have to face consequences for your actions is all very foils. Very tragedy. Love it.

But then I think back to nieyao in the fire palace and how it's not the spy thing Nie Mingjue is mad about, not really. He didn't know about it and changes his mind on trying to kill meng yao when xichen tells him but he's still mad and it's not the spy thing. However many cultivators he killed and tortured under Wen Ruohan's orders because he couldn't lose his cover are a factor but the crux of it? It's those last few. And specifically that Meng Yao had an out. A way for them to survive. And he used it. But only for Nie Mingjue. All the others got killed on the spot but Nie Mingjue got the out, got to live. And maybe (likely) if he'd tried to save the others Nie Mingjue would have needed to die but Nie Mingjue has been ready to die for his sect since he was 14 and if it meant defeating Wen Ruohan he'd be happy to. The fact is that those last deaths weren't to defeat Wen Ruohan but to keep Nie Mingjue alive and that is what he can't forgive. It's that after everything the thing he is so angry at Meng Yao for is choosing to value his life over that of his men.

And then I look back at Nie Huaisang who lied and schemed, yes, but who, most importantly, committed so hard to his headshaker persona that the Nie clan declined by the year, a shadow of its former self after only a decade of leadership.

And I realize that both Meng Yao and Nie Huaisang at one point looked at Nie Mingjue, and then looked at multitudes of Nie sect cultivators, and decided that Nie Mingjue was more important. And that's what he'd hate the most.

[being-of-rain]

Something that really gives Doctor Who some cognitive dissonance is that it champions science, but it also, of course, loves to make sci-fi stories out of ideas in popular culture. Like conspiracy theories, cryptids, all the stuff you'd see on the X-Files. Lots of stuff that in our world goes against science, and is even dangerous or bigoted.

So the Doctor will be like "science leads," but also all of human history has been masterminded by extraterrestrials, psychic powers are real, magic is real, there's a species of lizard men who rode dinosaurs and now sleep beneath the earth, the loch ness monster is from outer space, every tenth planet ever invented is out there somewhere, aliens built the pyramids and Atlanteans built the sphinx.

[sadlynotthevoid]

Something I really love about Wind Breaker is that not only you see how Sakura grows as person, but it also shows you important life lessons. Things that you may already have heard, but now you have a story as example to help you interiorize it. And shounen mangas target audience generally are teens and children, so that's great.

For example, Suzuri's arc.

He and his teammates start as the villains, but when the story advances, its revealed that they're not bad. They're desperated, they're trying to survive. They were in the wrong but that doesn't mean they're bad nor evil. This teaches the reader, if they didn't already know, that people who do wrong are not necessarily bad. That someone who hurts you could be someone who is also extremely kind to others. That recognizing this is important but not all what there's to it.

Suzuri's arc also teaches you that— ironically for a manga where almost every character is a fighter— violence doesn't solve everything. Sometimes you need to think a little on how can you help others and sometimes the people you're trying to help must want the help. Because it wasn't just the Roppo-Ichiza's job offers what ended the conflict, it was also Suzuri's planning and determination.

Other character that teaches you a lot is Tsubaki. And I don't mean just his backstory (which does, I can't convey in words how beautiful his story is and how meaningful it is).

There's a line when he's fighting that discount Tintin guy where he says something on the lines of "I like who I am when I'm in love with Umemiya" (probably not the exact words, but I don't have the panel at hand). This line is so important because it's not only such a Tsubaki thing to say, but is also something you never consider about romantic love: liking someone can change you into a better or worse person, and that's important to take in account when you're deciding what to do about it.

This also applies to other forms of love and bonds, but I've never seen it applied to romantic love out of fanfiction or movies and that was always in a negative way only.

I just think it's an important lesson, that loving and liking doesn't have to be about what the other person has, but how it affects you. Tsubaki likes himself better when he likes Umemiya because is a version of himself he can be proud of, whether it is because the him who likes Ume is a braver version of himself or because he has grown as a person since then.

I'm not saying he wasn't brave or he couldn't be proud before, because he could, all his character is about being brave to be himself, proud to be himself, and loving yourself. It's just that he has someone holding his back now (besides the old couple, bless their souls). I mean, I think Ume is the first person of his age to accept him for who he is, if I'm not mistaken.

(We also have an example of the opposite— how liking someone can make you worse— later in Endo.)

Lastly, something that Wind Breaker shows you that many adults fail on learning is this: the importance of communication skills.

I'm talking about Sako. Sako, who spent years being mad at someone who he looked up to because of a misunderstanding. That Sako.

His problem was not just "you didn't say what I wanted to hear", it was also that he never voiced his problem with Hiiragi's decision until a lot of time had passed.

Later on, on the post-noroshi war festival, Nii Satoru makes them have a conversation. Because, yes, they weren't enemies anymore, but they still needed to clear things up.

I think a lot of people could beneficiate from learning two things of this two: 1) communication is important to keep any kind of relationship, and it has to be clear from both parts, and 2) others can make decisions by you.

The second is pointed out by Kaji when he tells Sako that Hiiragi said the same to him, but he followed him anyways because it was his decision.

(I'm never going to stop laughing at them)

And you could say "yeah, i guess it's good for your mind, but what about the story in itself?" Well, I think learning all of this along Sakura helps you connect deeply with him. You're developing your empathy right along with him. It still applies if you already knew all of the stuff above.

It's not just some boy with issues on his way to be the strongest. It's a boy, who aims to be the strongest, learning to be a person and live as he connects with others. Wind Breaker is not about the end of the journey but about the journey itself.

on the topic of this post I made I also wanna talk about how nii satoru utilizes giving us, the readers, characters' backgrounds as a whole.

So far the characters we've seen flashbacks of/gotten backstories of have been Umemiya, Choji and Togame, Tsubaki, Hiragi and Sako and Kaji, Endo and Takishii, suzuri, and Sugishita (give or take a few more characters).

This might seem like a lot of characters, but the thing is, we're always given these flashbacks and backstories because we need them, or because they parallel to Sakura in one way or another.

Us getting Umemiya's backstory gives us a very big opening into learning WHY he is the way he is and why he does everything the way he does. It reveals to us why he focuses so much on eating with people and gardening, when it wasn't something we might've been wondering in the first place. As such a monumental guide and positive role model for Sakura, learning about Umemiya's past and how those key moments have effected him today allows us to realize just how much growing up Sakura still needs; while Umemiya's seemed to have completed his own journey in a way, Sakura is still leaps and bounds away from completing his own.

Choji and Togame and their history together with Shishitoren gives us more perspectives. With Togame, it gives us reasoning behind why he'd been choosing to act the way he'd been when we first met him, and creates depth by having us learn that he's not just some crazy evil guy who wants to stomp on people just for fun, he's been in agony for years. With Choji, it gives us another perspective on what it might look like for someone to find their way to the top with no further purpose, which is what Sakura's original goal was. He didn't want to be at the top so he could be a leader, he wanted at the top to prove himself and nothing more. With no further goal in mind, he could easily fall into a similar path as what Choji was walking down before the duel with Umemiya.

Tsubaki gives us hindsight and details on his own past and why he's so loyal to Furin and Umemiya, and why he is the way he is, which is important due to the themes surrounding his character involving self-acceptance and identifying with something outside of the norm. Both of those things are important to Sakura, with his unique looks and his overarching story revolving around the acceptance of others and himself. It was a backstory he, as well as us, needed to hear.

Suzuri's story rings similar to Sakura: both had upbrings that scarred them and let them down (as it's implied a LOT that Sakura's own past hasn't been nice to him in the slightest, and has given him below the bare minimum), but while Sakura ultimately chose to join Makochi, and later Furin, Suzuri did not have that grace of choice and instead could only choose what he could, which was leading his own gang through desperate measures. Like Choji, Suzuri's story can be real as a possible parallel to what Sakura could have been, but it also shows as a way to humanize Suzuri, who up until that point we saw as nothing but a mindless enemy.

Kaji's backstory and his mentorship to Sakura is important to us too, because we learn how far Kaji has come himself with the guidance of Hiragi that he uses to then help guide Sakura. It establishes a connection and bond between more of the Wind Breaker characters that makes them feel more fleshed-out and three-dimensional, and gives more depth to the world they live in.

etc etc... I'd add more but this post is getting too long. The point is, we're getting the backstories to our supporting cast and enemies because they build an increased depth to the overall story or increase our perspectives on characters that would otherwise remain flat or just simple. And we only get it when it matters, such as keep moments in the middle of an arc, or at the beginning to help. nii satoru isn't just throwing out information to us all willy-nilly, there's thought and care behind all of this.

This all comes to a head with the question, "why haven't we gotten a certain someone's backstory yet?" and that answer is very, sweetly simple. Because we don't need it. Because Wind Breaker is about him. We're getting backstories of other characters because Wind Breaker ISN'T ABOUT THEM, not as its core. We need backstories from other characters as a way to learn about them and their reasonings/motivations so we have complex and well-rounded characters, but without them needing a novel each, so we get stories that they relay or flashbacks to give us that information without taking a hit to the flow of the plot.

Plus, the series is ongoing. Who's to say we won't get an arc down the line that'll reveal a certain someone's backstory in a very important, key moment that'll make the entire wait worth it?

[houseswife]

yeah your boyfriend peeled you an orange but would he fake his death to make you his afterlife? would black flowers blossom, fearless on his breath?

[thegreatyin]

9. worst part of canon 10. worst part of fanon

for whatever fandom(s) you want but xiv and fl are two we immediately recall we're both into

9. worst part of canon

for ffxiv: the way heavensward handles the infamous "bloody banquet" sequence from the end of ARR is like. GENUINELY atrocious. like a complete failure in every conceivable way. it's dragged down the entire expansion for me, that's how unbelievably bad it is. it's by far the worst piece of writing in the entire game bar none, i hate it, every day i wish they had just had the balls to murder nanamo in cold blood and be done with it

for fallen london: Why Is The Third City Written Like That.

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10. worst part of fanon

for ffxiv: ehhhhhhhh.... i may get a few tomatoes for saying this, but maybe the hype over haurchefant??? i feel like ysayle's death was infinitely more impactful and it's honestly really lame that everyone tends to overlook her in favor of Some Guy that- while he did die tragically and excellently- tends to be heralded as just. the gold standard sole standout example of characters that have died over the course of the story. i just wish my girl iceheart got some more love, y'know. she deserves it. she deserves it mayhaps even more than that elf does. what i'm saying is stop giving your WoLs passionate tragic flings with haurchefant and swap him out for ysayle to create the doomed yuri i KNOW that girl deserves

for fallen london: this one is hard, because i honestly feel like there's not much about fanon stuff in FL that really irritates me personally...? and it's such a small fandom that saying anything specific feels weirdly mean on behalf of the guys that actually like that particular fanon trend. like. the ffxiv fandom is so large and so spread out that i feel comfortable more intensely bullying it, but FL is like a small town where everybody knows everybody else and idk maybe i'm overthinking this single question way too much. um. people occasionally blatantly ignoring themes and subtext is kind of annoying, i guess. like all of the liberation of night discourse threads on reddit that are just full to the brim of guys saying the judgements are, if not strictly good, at minimum correct in enforcing laws and light and just generally being little dictator god bitches? it's like. Bestie. Bestie That's What The Scoundrel Would Say. Bestie. Bestie For The Love Of God You Do Not Want To Have The Same Opinions As The Scoundrel

[astrolionking]

John Dory: Wait wait look in this bag.

Clay: Wha—

John Dory: [takes out his hand and does 👌]

Clay: … STOP IT. YOURE NOT A 13-YR-OLD BOY! IF I WANTED TO DEAL WITH THAT SHIT, I’D HAVE A TEENAGER OF MY OWN! KNOCK IT OFF!!

[sovonight]

why is so much of sewing just tracing and cutting and tracing again q_q i see why people get projectors and use adobe illustrator now

[naggingatlas]

i love how before i got diagnosed i was convinced i had autism for the longest time even tho im kinda like. the exact opposite of an autistic individual in so many ways.

[featherymainffins]

Me when I have plans but my head looks like a trashcan on fire and like 3 separate "mes" are arguing with me about said plans

[hylianengineer]

What's the most evil lab equipment in your opinion 😂

In my very subjective opinion? Ion chromatographs are on my shit list. It's not really their fault - the one I have to work with is old, hasn't been maintained properly, and no one else knows how to use it so I have to figure out everything myself, which is NOT FUN! It's finicky, frustrating, and it requires working with sulfuric acid, which I do not enjoy. It's very very sensitive and if you accidentally contaminate it with ions, you will be troubleshooting for weeks trying to figure out what happened. Ions are everywhere, in everything. In dust, in tap water (and nearly all filtered water, we have a special machine that makes Ultra Pure water with no ions or anything in it), on your skin, on virtually every surface that hasn't been specially cleaned. So if you have extra ions that shouldn't be there, it's a guessing game - are they from the sample? The eluent? Sample vials? Glassware? Is the water filter malfunctioning? Are the ions even there at all or is the detector messed up? You just have to keep trying stuff until it sorts itself out. The one I work with has NOT sorted itself out yet and I've been at this for over two weeks. I'm at my wit's end here.

And bonus answer for non-instrument equipment: drying tins. They're these little aluminum trays to put soil or whatever in when you stick them in the drying oven but they make Bad Noises when they scrape together. Also they bend easily, so if you stack them and then they get knocked around, sometimes it becomes very very difficult to get them apart.

In contrast, the best instrument is the Gas Chromatograph and the best other equipment is micropippettes. The GC is straightforward, easy to use, really hard to contaminate, and rarely has technical problems (plus when it does, they're not my problem - I am not the designated GC expert). Micropippettes are just fun because it's satisfying to click the button to release the pipette tip and launch it into the trash can.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

How did I deal with the stress of this week today so I didn't explode?

Simple!

I wrote 6k worth of pure glitra filth, like a very normal person does! :)

[townofcrosshollow]

AAAAAAND IT'S HEADACHE WITH THE STEEL CHAIR

[cluster-b-culture-is]

(Questioning) cluster b culture is being so so annoyed at certain ways people act because "i KNOW you're doing that for attention i can TELL. I dont act like you at least, im wayy more natural and subtle with it" even if that might not be true, and the way they act is also completely harmless and lighthearted. Can't help but feel bitter that they're seemingly acting so blatantly obvious and DO get the attention, while you (the cooler daniel) tried learning to be less obvious and dont.

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[tewwor]

😶