#android twinks go

[slaughterlmao]

[pastel-kaleesh]

HE WON!!! LET'S GOOOOO!!!!

MY POOKIE WON!!!

[pewter-yellows]

enjoying convin not in the borderline abuse of baby twink connor or 'gavin is soft boy actually' way, but in a secret third way where they claw at each other until one is left raw and exposed, where connor confronts gavin directly and shoves his arrogance in his face, where gavin is enticed by someone who challenges him and has to wrangle with how his own humanity can be amplified by someone he considers subhuman

where hank begins to improve again thanks to connor and gavin has no excuse for his animosity, admiration slowly coming back against gavin's will

where drinks turn to barely-remembered nights and gavin can't fathom how an android is the first person he hasn't wanted to kick out in the morning, where connor wishes he could beg gavin to stay because, realistically, there is no stable place for him to go while hank is healing and the rest of jericho's population tries to move past the 'deviant hunter' image

where connor is so overwhelmed by everything shifting in his life that he clings to the consistency of gavin's insults, clings to the feeling of not being tied down by his need to please as he convinces himself he hates gavin enough to say anything to him, even though he knows he's not being treated as well as he should (he feels its a fair trade off for being able to blow off steam)

it's fiery, imperfect, and unhealthy, but slowly they find ways to help each other, and gavin finally comes to terms with his feelings.

(he totally spends a night spewing apologies to a somewhat confused connor)

[laney-rockin]

I absolutely love Star Trek's sci-fi nonsense and diplomatic missions but my favourite episodes have to be the ones where they're not in the correct genre.

Things like going to the wild west, playing baseball, getting forced into a small child's fanfiction of a bedtime story, a twink with an accent acting like James Bond, an android and his pal becoming Holmes and Watson. Oh also nerds writing oc fanfiction and pretending it's a movie.

Also the time-travel episodes. Like when DS9 fucked around during the Tribble episode on TOS. Or when Spock and Kirk ran away from cops in the 1930's. Or when 3 fuckers get transported to Roswell.

It's fun. It's funky. It has the potential to be very goofy. Also seeing a bunch of scientists and diplomats being forced to play weird hopscotch is way too fun of a concept not to love.

[kbgw1234]

My brain: as we have started our Star Trek hyper fixation I wanted show you our shipping projections

My brain: ok so for tos we’re going to ship the captain and his first officer

Me: oh spirk! I know that can’t wait

My brain: and for tng we’re going to ship the android and the engineer

Me: oooo that’s gotta be cute! Love when people just want to take care of their love

My brain: and for ds9-

Me: oh I know this one! It’s the lizard guy and the twink doctor right?

My brain: actually no. It’s going to be the cop and the mega capitalist

Me: WHAT we hate both those things

My brain: yes but it’s an enemy’s to lovers arch

Me:WE HATE ENEMIES TO LOVER

My brain: I KNOW BUT I CANT STOP WHAT HAS ALREADY STARTED

Me: … ok pull up ao3

[paintedgrilledcheese]

What Do You Do On Tumblr?

I make two gay mafioso go through a sad break up.

I have a angry accountant who yells at her boyfriend everyday but it's normally for them.

I kick some Sephiroth wanna be down the stairs repeatedly.

Always give the most angst to a twink who did no wrong in life.

I play as a sadist 10 year old CEO for a technical company with a bunch of androids.

I make sad androids.

Have a cat steal everyone's food.

I make a guy collect the same/different variations of his son.

Run a military.

Also run a Mafia.

Is everyone's therapist.

Oh and make brain rotting silly edits of my favorite characters or ships.

[xxxnightcorequeenxxxv3]

AU Batboys as Cyberlife Androids

I have 100% a bit more than I can chew with this. As I mostly know these fandoms from fanfiction. And I haven't even played the game. But that doesn't stop me from going of the deep end and make a AU in my head featuring the bat boys as cyberlife androids. And of course, Bruce is the but of the jokes too. So how does this work? Let me tell you what I came up with at work doing busy work that requires low brain power, and I pretty much autopilot and AU craft. So the idea is that Dick, Jay, Tim, and Dami have all ended up deviating. And due to damage taken, has either managed to cram themselves altogether in child model Android (or some sort of USB system storage). Anyway, that's how we get Robin, who managed to sneak away using a circus as a cover, and they end up in Gotham. (I think Dick might have been a police android before the transfer to the Robin collective, and Jay maybe was modified by the past owner for crime, no idea about Tim and Dami yet, though.) So, even if they are at risk of getting hurt, they still try to do good in the world. They some how run into Batman. With a lot of back and forth, Bruce managed to convince Robin to come with him. What they don't tell Bruce at first is that there are more of them. So, after some time, Robin asks Bruce if he could get an adult frame, please. Brucie managed to convince the public that he got the child boot secondhand. And there has been a lot of speculation as to why of the not-so-savory variety. So when Bruce requests a blank model with no programming to be sent to Wayne Tech for the transfer. The only reason Cyberlife agrees to it is that someone in Wayne tech RND convinces them Wayne is probably just gonna .... the bot. and yeah, that's how Dick gets the cake. As the others were like no, you've been in charge of Robin for so long now, you go first. So Dick agrees to transfer to the new custom model, which can change to Mr. Wayne's preference. To Bruce's surprise, Robin is operational, just different as Jay is in charge of the collective now as the next experienced model in the line. This is where Dick and the others come clear that Robin is more of a Matryoshka situation. It takes some time for Bruce to get to terms with that situation. But after some time has gone by, they come up with a plan to get another clean slate android body. Brucie is now gonna be in to role play, for his second android. He manages to get one of them beefy security bots. So yeah, he leaves Wayne RND with the forwarding request for a new blank bot from Cyberlife. And some techs are thoroughly amused by the goings on that the requests go through. And That's how we get a big beefy boy for Jay to jump to. Making it Tim's turn to be in primary control of Robin for a time. Bruce asks Robin just how many there are in there now, as it seems like the supply is never-ending. Tim calms Bruce down by saying that if they get one more android body, they'll have one each. more time elapse. And Brucie has to make yet another request, this time for a android secretary. Lucky for Bruce, the same guys as the last time are still changing and approving his request again, sending what they laughingly call "an Androgynous Twink for Mr Wayne" this time. And That's how we get Tim and Dami separated again.

And that's what I got so far, as I have no clue what more to do than possibly draw stuff. ---- So I posted on Discord to and the oh so wonderful @bucketorandomness

Added this; yes, I asked if it was okay to do the edit with credit

Option for more after-market additions for the boys:

Damian was originally a security model who was changed into an assassin by unsavory folks

Timothy was still a Drake, purchased as a kind of “test run for a real child” which they think is going great when it really wasn’t. Extra learning modules and some advanced reasoning in his base programming were mandatory for purchase

Cassandra, like Dami, was repurposed into a stealth-based assassin from a dancer base. Language programming was removed to make more room for the modifications. She follows one of the others home after recognizing a fellow android

Duke gets adopted into the Robin Collective temporarily while they drag his model back to Bruce and demand he fix it

Stephanie isn’t an android, but she did jokingly offer to join the Robin Collective once science figures out how to download a consciousness. Whether or not that already exists is up for debate.

Barbara can be a secretary model for the GPD or she can be another human like Steph if you want. If she is an android, I suggest Jim Gordon notices her deviancy and decides to adopt this new person and teach her how to people like a daughter. Also maybe self-installed body mods. I feel like she’d get a tattoo without supervision so why not upgrade her own RAM and other abilities?

[bluehairlaunch]

Top 7 WORST Dragon Ball Transformations

Honorable mention: Beast Zarbon

Because they turned my muscle twink into a bear...

Super Saiyan God

This fucker. As much as I like Battle of Gods, this redhead continued a trend that started with a green tinged Broly and ended with orange fucking Piccolo and a cast of otter pop flavored Super Saiyans.

At least Super Saiyan 4 wasn't just a recolor of a recolor...

Orange Piccolo

Speaking of lazy, visually unappealing, late stage capitalism embodying recolors, Piccolo is orange now. Yes I know he hasn't been relevant in a fight since his introduction in the 23rd World Martial Arts Tournament and briefly when Toriyama remembered against Second Form Frieza and Imperfect Cell, but it's ok, don't worry kids, HE'S ORANGE.

Super Android 13

How is there still downhill from a trucker hat? Do you like this? Leave a comment on this webzone if you like this? Explain why you like his Vegeta hair and 90s earrings if you like this. Detail your obsession with blue skinned gingers if you like this.

Third Form Frieza

Why is he a xenomorph? Why is he a xenomorph?! I guess I wasn't expecting him to be a xenomorph, which is typical for Toriyama, but WHY IS HE A XENOMORPH??? Like it's weird he's the alien from Alien, right? And it's weirder that he's almost 1:1 the pirate robot Goku fought in OG Dragon Ball

Fifth Form Cooler

Oh fuck you. You fucking piece of shit. Fifth form? You're so non-canon it hurts. This couldn't just be his second form or idk his third form, since Frieza's second form was already Cooler. But it's his fifth! And Goku has to be there, because it's filler, so the threat needs to be bigger. It's not like the Frieza race are shapeshifters. Of course they're not dipshit, they all follow the same template. They're like the evolution chart detailing prehistoric ape to cromagnon man to blond guy. And this is his fifth form!

Imagine if this had been a Piccolo movie set while Goku was on Yardrat. We have Frieza's bro, who's not just miraculous stronger despite never doing anything about it, but he's still more powerful than the second form Frieza Piccolo fought. Idk. Fuck Coola

Super Buu

This one is basically a Dragon Ball IQ test. At first glance he looks ok, maybe even cool. However, those with sufficient gray matter can easily ascertain that he's actually garbage, and that Fat Buu was the best design all along. He's just so generic looking, which is almost impressive for a guy so pink and sponge-y looking. Oh. And his transformation includes raiding people's wardrobe without realizing that shit don't even match

Super Saiyan 3

See, a bad transformation isn't just about aesthetics. And don't get me wrong, the aesthetics are also awful. That caveman brow, the Raditz hair, those obscene spikes. But no, the worst part about Super Saiyan 3, the thing that I truly absolutely despise, is how effortlessly it cheapens Super Saiyan and Gohan's feat of going Beyond Super Saiyan

Because everyone had that thought the second Trunks arrived and went blond. That they could do it. Gohan, Vegeta, Ghost of Nappa, and any other Saiyan that might be out there. All of them could go Super Saiyan now, it's not prophecy after all. And that leads to the question of escalation. What next?

Well the Cell Saga answered this. Gohan was next. He went Beyond Super Saiyan. The boy did what his dad don't, he fucking mastered that shit. Then out comes Super Saiyan 3 like a baaaaad fart. But it only gets worse. It's a flawed, incomplete transformation that only works if you're dead. It's strong, but burns through energy faster than the body can collect it. And that's that. Dragon Ball ends, Goku saving the day without even using his new form. Dragon Ball GT introduces SS4 and DBS provides a crayon box of recolors for you to shove up your nose, all the while Super Saiyan 3 is left in the dust. It came, we all saw it, it sucked.

[autism-purgatory]

Poorly Summarized WIP Tag

thanks for the tag @the-golden-comet!

Our Lonely Ocean:

Fantasy romance where closeted a prince comes to an island kingdom to become a squire, where he meets two really odd companions and an even more closeted knight who’s getting married in two months. They get along���ok at first, but will they overcome their rivalry whilst protecting the islands from invasive beas- oop nvm they’re fucking.

Altered_Humanity (AUGMENTED HUMANITY IS BACK BABY WOOOO)

Android wakes up in an overgrown post apocalyptic world and finds out magic exists now whoops. Turns out it was real all along and has suddenly returned in full swing (including giant cathedrals that can be seen from orbit). So said android had her arm replaced with that of her dead human wife who could use magic blah blah blah. Now she has to stop some eldritch elf twink from destroying all that remains of the old world with the help of an annoying hacker and a golem without a tongue.

Viscered:

Single dad who’s actually an escaped bio weapon is like one bad day from killing himself after the death of his wife, but he has a 10 month old son to take care of. Oh, also the government wants their super weapon back.

Loop of the Hollow:

Man that small town in southwest Texas sure is racist. And haunted, like, extremely haunted.

LunuL:

Three bounty hunters in the late 22nd century. Earth was overtaken by a prehistoric pathogen, humanity lives on mars now, aliens exist, you get the gist. Said bounty hunters don’t pay their rent in time and The Horrors TM ensue due to their landlord being a powerful crime boss. Also eyes. Loooooots of eyes. We’ve got a nerd who hates how light sounds, a former soldier who is surprisingly happy despite everything, and Astra, with whatever the fuck she’s got going on. And of course, they each have enough emotional baggage to drag down a plane.

Shadows Over Novald:

Urban Dark Fantasy. Murder Crime Soulmates are about to ditch Gotham but 10 times worse, when the god of death shrouds the city in darkness and asks everyone to find and kill five magic wielding humans in the city or else everyone dies to the undead. While this is happening, the most dysfunctional detectives ever are trying to find another way to break the curse.

WanderStruck: Nephew of closeted knight from before is ALSO getting forcefully married when he and his half sister suddenly get pulled through reality and into…modern day Los Angeles? So now they’re trying to find a way home with the help of some nerd who just wanted an internship at a cool tech company. He had no clue they did multiversal travel and just wanted to type at a desk.

Tales of the Sculpted Lands: A dark fantasy anthology about a land sculpted from primordial clay. It’s a dying, complicated world full of complicated people with complicated problems. Some tales are more adventurous and end happily, others absolutely don’t.

Grayguard: Ah shit I spilled my TOTK copy and my cup of Jujutsu Kaisen. Fantasy world where all magical aspects fall under chaos or order. Humans, animals, and elves are the only exception. Each major kingdom has a guild, one being the Grayguard, who’s leader is the strongest warrior in the land. Everything falls apart when a mysterious demon with magic robots kidnaps her. Now her students have to stumble their way into rescuing her and stopping the major kingdoms from imploding, all while old threats from their leader’s past begin to rear their ugly heads.

And last but not least: Chaos Travelers

The least deranged and unhinged fantasy motley crew come to the island kingdom from before to stop a doomsday cult from resurrecting the god of chaos. Hilarity and angst ensues. Our glorified D&D party includes a humanoid dragon bard with a southern accent, a runaway from said doomsday cult, a cat lady with magic paint who may or may not have sold her soul, and a mute knight with WAY too many knives.

Tagging @mk-writes-stuff @willtheweaver @alinacapellabooks @frostedlemonwriter + open tag!

[appeypie]

So for like a WEEK I've been trying to come up with a way to enclose my rabid feelings in an ask, but I think I'll just lay it out with no context to wrap it in.

For some reason, your recent side-by-side Ghirahim and Mettaton body type comparison drove me FERAL, specifically how you established that MTT's ass/legs were "more fat than muscle" because yes! Fellow thicc Mettaton truther!! Too often I see him portrayed with skinny little toothpick legs, like 50% of the time, and a lot of those who do portray him with the thigh circumference he deserves give him visible muscle definition, like the legs of a bodybuilder.

I've always imagined him with, yes, quite strong legs, but with that muscle blanketed under a generous amount of subcutaceous fat for an overall smooth, rounded, "soft" appearance. Seeing an artist who shares my taste in fictional video game men (villainous egotistical twinks my beloved) interpret one of my faves in a way I wholeheartedly vibe with is just!! I want to bounce off the walls like a startled bobcat!!!

(btw all of these feelings are non-horny dw, ace speaking. Pure fictional-ass-headcanon-vibeage. I am abnormal about these men but like in the sense of wanting to go on a cute coffee date with them or perhaps marry them)

ANON i love this ask. beautifully put

i personally see MTT as a trans guy who used to take T but no longer does (so his voice is a little deeper than your average Estrogen Producer but he has that fat distribution pattern) plus post top surgery

of course he is a robot so he has the robot equivalent of this. whatever. android top surgery scars forever

i think its fun to explore different transition timelines rather than just the "expected" one of "you take T forever and then get a bunch of surgery and try really hard to 'pass'". and mettaton is perfect for this imo

i will be completely honest and say that i am ace but still very much gayhorny about my favorite fictional men, though it definitely comes from a place of "i think trans men are so fucking cool and i love us" first. plus theyre hot? best of both worlds

besides that, drawing/thinking about differing body types is just fun. i love overthinking shit and unique features can add so much to characters!!

[rubye402]

Here's to loving Android Wheatley's that look unique! And here's to the Android Wheatley's who are just the usual blonde twinks! Both are great!!!

Anyways, this is just some art dedicated to @a-genuine-moron 's "Love as a Construct" dating sim that I accidentally reminded them off. Whoopsie. Hope this helps keep you going at least?

Also, I took my best guess about some details with the updated design, so hope it's at least close enough to what you meant. (I was going nuts trying to figure out what you meant by "he has two toned hair now for example" is it an ambre??? Blocks or highlights of color??? Half and half??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN I'M SHAKING YOU /lh)

Alright, just a small doodle under the cut otherwise just for them and das it. Hope y'all have a Happy New Year if I don't post before then!

Bonus bc your doodle was silly:

[platoniccereal]

I have to ask this my brain is stuck on this.

So what is your wanderer made of?

This sounds like a weird question at first but it's because you draw him with BJD(Ball-Jointed-Doll) joints and mouth and stuff. So it makes me think he's made out of like

Some kind of tough light weighted material- but then I was thinking about aether and aether is the same size as him in your hcs (unlike mine) and aether is like- yk, mostly flesh and bone even if it isn't human flesh and bone- so aether would be heavier than wanderer.

How has he not crushed him when sitting in his lap? LMAO

Maybe I'm over thinking things.

it's about magical twink powers. 😌 but ooh boy, you're definitely not overthinking it, bc I'M overthinking it.

all my pictures of the wanderer have always been speculation on what we already have in canon, and boy it's not going well. like i have a pic where aether stares at the wanderer for million years trying to figure out his construction? this is me.

i wanted to give him joints because 1) xenophilic reasons, 2) it's canon from what we can see with kabukimono and raiden shogun. at the same time, the mouth thingy is rather decorative pet peeve because it felt wrong giving him all puppet body and leaving out his face completely. but it doesn't work like a ventriloquist puppet's mouth, for instance. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

then, both shogun and him are said to be made out of wood (like other machines from khaenriah) but they seem to be indistinguishable from humans as if irminsul's branch is some kind of high tech material? also, even though they're made out of wood judging by shogun's resilience, scaramouche's trips to the abyss and wanderer's love for stopping weapons with his arms (e.g. his trailer and his fight with cyno) they seem Very Hard to break. he also doesn't seem to be light weighted judging by how he crushes fatui with his weight in trailer??

at the same time, even though it isn't mentioned or shown anywhere (i believe), i don't think both puppets are hollow inside save for the cavity they have for a gnosis. looking at the ruin machines, we can see that they're hollow?? but this is heavy machinery, not the finely crafted puppet.

then i started thinking, if he's not hollow, what is he filled with? a thought of a puppet frame filled with flesh would be quite... unusual. though cool. are there wires, then? is he composed like an android from dbh with elastic smooth fires inside? honestly, this is the option i'm leaning towards. but if i start going into that i will end up talking about their construction in dbh and arguing the most efficient and optimal ways to build an android.

so, he's made out of wood (a branch of the irminsul, to be exact) that seems to be pretty indestructible or at least very resilient, has puppet joints and some panels that can be taken off and is filled with artificial organs that help him maintain himself. i guess.

[marcusrobertobaq]

If there's something both fathersonners and hankconnies suck at is keeping Hank's "assholeness" and sarcastic jokes.

Dude is the type mf that would joke bout Connor dating other androids, esp girls, and start talking how all this shit's just a big pain in the ass and how it's better if Connor keep far from humans in this sense 😂 (cuz Connor looks so fucked up he gonna scare mfs)

C'mon, man. Dude jokes bout Connor going to the Eden Club just to see some pretty boys and girls. Connor literally jokes bout mf's interest in machines finally making him being "useful" to the investigation and straight up call mf a dude without life purpose. When they diverge in opinions is even better.

Shippers just ruin 'em dynamic in a way I get surprised how the fucking hell they like a "fanon" so boring. I won't even comment bout fathersonners...

Mfs got the power of ruining one of the best aspects of 'em dynamic (this exchange in sarcasm and questionable jokes - and ofc the swearing) just to put Hank in a good light and get Connor in a toddler's place. This "blorbo" thing, keep it away from me.

I already gotta put up with the game's narrative never punishing Hank for anything and Connor always taking the bad shit for himself and the game punishing u for being real (cuz he's an android), mfs keep saying they're the best part of dbh and the first thing they do is removing the only interesting part of 'em shit just for some stupid romantical interest that basically doesn't fucking exist in canon with everything becoming a uwu or a father/son role selection that is a slap in Hank's almost inexistent character development face, turning him into everything he had always criticized instead of exploring his already existent ideals and trauma, expanding it. Cuz, man, this son of a bitch got lotta shit to learn and Connor bites - dude ain't yo silly lil uwu twink boy. U say shit like that I already know u think he's a "android detective". Yeah, my dick inside your ass.

[canmom]

NieR Automata anime episode 9

Continuing commentary from [part 1], [part 2-3], [part 4-5], [part 6] and [part 7-8]. (Coming soon to canmom.art.)

Episode 9: hun[G]ry for knowledge

This is a big episode, mapping to two big moments in the game that have been kind of smushed together.

So, following 9S getting captured in episode 8, 2B pursues 9S into an underground space. 9S, meanwhile, is in cyberspace, where Adam taunts him for having desires and repressing them. This is a very memorable moment in the game...

...whose interpretation merits an entire page on theark.wiki.

The anime adds an extra element of bondage imagery...

You want to destroy everything, you have lost hope in everything, you want to obtain everything, you want to be loved by all, says Adam. 9S has a convincing rebuttal: no I don't.

Meanwhile, after Commander White refuses backup, 2B, Pod 042 and Pod 153 enter the Copied City. This is one of the most distinctive environments in the game, a city made of white material with bright directional lighting so that the shapes are defined by sharp shadows and ambient occlusion only.

The backgrounds here are pretty much all 3DCG, at least for the outdoor areas you visit in the game - I think it's pretty likely they just used the game assets directly lol. This allows some showy camera moves. But unlike the game, the church-like building at the end of this courtyard is open...

In the game, we don't learn a lot about why Adam builds the Copied City beyond his general obsession with humanity. Here, it seems to tie in with the more artistic side he's showing in following 2B and 9S around, sculpting dozens of humans in relief:

and even taking a leaf out of Simone's book and making a sculpture of the YoRHa logo out of dead androids:

We also get a visit to a very familiar location...

...Devola and Popola's library from the original NieR. In the game, you encounter a replica of the library inside the Tower during the C/D route; here, it's moved over to be the setting for the big confrontation with Adam, since I guess we're skipping the outdoor boss arena. It's also the setting for...

...the reveal about the aliens. (In the game, this part happens a bit earlier, when the fight against Engels makes a big hole in the ground leading to the alien spaceship. You go into the spaceship and meet Adam and Eve; Adam gives a speech about how the machine lifeforms destroyed their creators while you fight them, and then they run off. So the anime has folded these two encounters into one.)

Adam also offhandedly mentions that the humans which the androids are fighting to protect are already dead. Not news if you've played the game, or indeed played the previous game, but it's definitely news for 2B.

And speaking of Adam, he's animated gloriously in this episode.

I particularly loved the over-the-top acting in this cut, with the little licky-licky and everything. That's the kind of thing you just can't easily do with game rigs so I'm glad the anime animators went all out on this melodramatic twink.

So, much as in the game, Adam explains his ideas about humanity to 2B, and taunts her with threatening to torture 9S in order to bait her into expressing the emotions that so fascinate him, caressing 9S's face as he explains the tortures he plans to inflict. 2B doesn't have the fujo energy to appreciate it tho so they fight. It's a strong series of action cuts that sadly end all too abruptly.

In the game, you fight, beat Adam, and that's pretty much the end of the sequence. In the anime, I guess they judged that would not be a very satisfying resolution, so they added a few more elements to the arc.

Perhaps anticipating the scenes in the Tower later where the machines create duplicates of 2B, Adam creates a replica of 9S. Considering 2B (2E) basically exists to kill off 9S over and over again, and she knows full well this is only a replica as Adam states explicitly, it's interesting that she stops here. To Adam, it's further proof that they are alike, and both akin to humans.

Since 'summon 9Ses' seems to be the unbeatable strat, Adam has them start strangling 2B - foreshadowing, eh?

The tall windows here are highly reminiscent of the architecture of the Shadowlord's castle, not sure how much I should read into that.

Anyway, the end of the fight comes in a pretty goofy twist: earlier in the episode when 2B sent Pod 153 away, Pod 153 actually refused, and was hacking Adam throughout the whole fight, so 2B was just buying time. To indicate the hacked state, the Copied City turns from pure white to pure black (well, mid grey, but shh)...

Black/white symbolism has become a core motif of the series in Reincarnation, and of course YoRHa are heavily associated with black, so I can see where the idea comes from... it just seems a bit silly to have this 'I've been hacked' visual indi. As a rewrite... it moves the focus/agency from 2B to pod 153. It's interesting to have the pods be more active characters, but it seems a shame to detract from 2B's 'scarily good in a fight' side.

The biggest divergence, however, comes at the end: 2B goes to stab Adam after his defences have been disabled, and Adam welcomes it (fitting his fascination with humanity and mortality as in the game), but this time Eve intervenes, somehow appearing in between 2B and Adam and getting stabbed in Adam's place. Suggesting that Eve has also cut himself off from the network? Lots of questions raised by this! Anyway, we get a double Pietà pose as 2B escapes with 9S and Adam leaves with Eve's body...

Get your Pietàs here! Two for the price of one!

In the game, after Adam dies, 2B and 9S go back to the factory area and encounter a machine death cult. Meanwhile, Eve goes berserk and forces the connected Machine Lifeforms into a red-eyed hostile state: their faces get torn open, and they viciously attack the androids. In case that's not enough, we even see the symbol of the Church of the Angels on his body. Drakengard shit ahoy.

This time Adam is the one who lives, so perhaps things will play out differently? This writeup has reached the horizon of episodes I've seen so far, so the next episode will be new to me, even if I'm still currently way behind what has aired...

All in all, it's an interesting remix of the game's material. Thematically it hews pretty close to the corresponding scenes in the game, but there's some neat little embellishments to keep things interesting, and I really enjoyed the animation on Adam. Hoping for something spicy in the season finale.

The puppet skit at the end of this one concerns 2B and 9S coming up with T-shirt designs. They're pretty cute. I have no idea how many are actual merch lol.

[petr1kov]

it's so funny to me how the only aspect of any of david cage's games that ever seemed to work and resonate with people in an unironic way was the dynamic between the android twink and the cop guy from detroit become human BUT this only happened because the actors playing these characters kept going off script and doing their own thing. the guy simply can never get it right lol

[bluehairlaunch]

7 Underrated Dragon Ball Characters

Honorable mention, Launch. She's one of my favorite Dragon Ball characters, but Toriyama never evolves Launch beyond her gag, and then he forgets all about her. Unlike most USians, I started with OG Dragon Ball, and enjoyed the found family dynamic that Goku developed after Grandpa Gohan (who ironically is his father figure) died. Roshi is like his grandpa, Bulma his big sister, Krillin his best bro, and Launch his mother. She cooks, cares for the boys, and handmakes them their cute little World Tournament suits. It seemed like she was going to be a major supporting character, but instead she circles the drain doing one of three things until she's just finally gone 1) getting molested by Roshi 2) shooting people impervious to bullets 3) crushing on Tien

Launch deserved better

Android 16

The only reason he's not higher on this list is because he's not as underrated as the others. Plenty of people like 16 ofc, he's a good character, but in universe he gets nothing but disrespect. Y'know the guy who saved the world by helping Gohan go beyond Super Saiyan? He's on the same tier as Farmer w/shotgun in terms of getting wished back to life. Yamcha would rather give his girlfriend a nice necklace

Super goes a step further in erasing his existence by giving his character traits to Park Ranger 17. And I'd say this was a nice homage to 16 if Super wasn't Super

World Tournament Announcer

The Nameless Announcer. One of the few normies to know about Dragon Team, he's an in-universe Dragon Ball stan. He's also the first character in this entire franchise to go from mustache-less to mustache

Yajirobe

Yajirobe's honestly so cool. He 1 shot Cymbal, then COOKED AND ATE HIM, which is probably the darkest thing to happen in Dragon Ball and actually makes Buu a Yajirobe clone. He was also the equivalent to Tien and Goku on release, being as strong as they were during the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament.

Except, unlike Tien and Goku, he's a total slacker and was probably this strong naturally, or at least very close. For context, 21st World Tournament Goku was equivalent to Roshi, who could blow up the moon with ease

Oh and he was instrumental in defeating Geets, that's cute of him too

Dr. Gero

One of my fav villains, this fucker here, he fucks. He created best girl (18) best twink (17, sorry not sorry Future Trunks), two very good boys (8er and 16), the most perfect it/its, 19, who had one of Dragon Ball's best beatdowns, and was plenty compelling and terrifying on his own. How is this absolute fucker not in every Top 10 or at least every Top 20 villain countdowns?

Kami

Surely God will be important?

Yamcha

The world's first meme. He gets twisted as useless by people who think Dragon Ball was ever about anyone but Goku doing anything and dunked on for almost everything he does. Yamcha isn't the kinda guy getting mad about this hate tho, he's actually laughing. He's an easygoing himbo that just wants to chill and exposit, but will absolutely throw down whenever needed.

The most pathetic he EVER got was when he made his hair look like Vegeta's, and you really can't blame a bro for trying

Chi-Chi

The hate this woman gets... it's definitely less than it used to be, but for someone Goku and Gohan very clearly loves, the fanbase despises her. And why? For not wanting her FOUR YEAR OLD to fight planet busting monsters? Yes, I know, the world needs that four year old to fight monsters, but if that were your kid, would you be ok with that? Would you say bye son I love you and remember to hold your intestines in if the alien demon from another world blasts open your stomach?