#bobby splot

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Bobby Splot fans.

[gunmeister]

something about bobby splot being the first character we ever hear dialogue from in baccano does not sit right with me

[esperanzacboronial]

B! ask game: 3 and 13?

Favorite character? Least favorite?

Niki is my blorbo and I can't even explain why. I just think she's neat. Esperanza and Luchino are very close joint second because I love pathetic fail boys.

My least favourite character is Bobby Splot. I just do not care about him even a little bit.

Least favorite canon pairing? Least favorite non-canon pairing?

I honestly think Baccano! has so many Ws when it comes to canon pairings, I'm struggling with this. Even Niki and Fermet are narratively interesting. I guess I would say Denkuro's one-sided crush on Sylvie if that counts because I think they both have better things to do.

Least favourite non-canon pairing uhhh... anything that involves Czes in any way. For obvious reasons.

[baccano-gauntlet]

ROUND 1 PART 1 MASTERPOST.

Benjamin v. Lana

Frank v. Cal Muybridge

Fred v. Mary Beriam

Fil v. Leeza Laforet

Sham v. Gregoire

Pamela v. Dune

Samantha v. Rachel

Isaac Dian v. Elean Duga

The Poet v. Dallas Genoard

Szilard Quates v. Charon Walken

Illness v. Huey Laforet

Chané Laforet v. Keith Gandor

Sickle v. Czeslaw Meyer

Bartolo Runorata v. Nader Schasschule

Gretto Avaro v. Zank Rowan

Esperanza C. Boroñal v. Fang Lin-Shan

Donatello v. Dalton Strauss

Carla Alvarez Santoña v. Sylvie Lumiere

Seina v. The President of the Daily Days

Gabriel v. Roy Maddock

Berga Gandor v. Jean-Pierre Accardo

Manfred Beriam v. Carlotta

Chaini v. Alkins

Claire Stanfield v. Henry

Pezzo v. Christopher Shaldred

Eve Genoard v. Rosetta

Archangelo v. Angelo

Kanshichirou Yaguruma v. Victor Talbot

Kate Gandor v. Who

Ladd Russo v. Miria Harvent

Sarges v. Feldt Nibiru

Laz Smith v. Rubik

Melvi Dormentaire v. Bobby Splot

Gustav St. Germain v. Ennis

[empiriical]

i just remembered bobby splot exists && was filled with rage

[closedcoffins]

last post on the topic but something i didn't realize earlier is that this now puts bobby splot on the level of characters who are 1 degree of separation from fermet. since he didn't meet czes, his previous closest connections from my pov were either carnea > angelo > fermet or any of his friends > czes > fermet. but charon smuggled bobby into the "gear" suit and charon was also later chased out of the maintenance floor by fermet with a machine gun, so bobby's closest connection is now charon > fermet.

edit: wait, i lied. if we're counting characters chasing eachother as a connection, illness tried to capture bobby and carnea earlier. so there's also illness > fermet as a bobby-fermet degree of separation.

[brbarou]

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Favorite character? Least favorite?

huey my beautiful son❤ not sure about least favourite. baccano is full of detestable characters who you're supposed to hate so i don't think that counts. apart from those i guess i hate bobby splot lmao. gretto and dallas i don't care about. and you know what crucify me for this but post 1931 jacuzzi gets on my damn nerves. not sorry

[agallimaufryofoddments]

strange question but on the B! wiki it lists Nice as Bobby's great grandmother. Was this ever confirmed in the novel or just an informed guess?

Right at the beginning of Volume 12′s third prologue, we read the following from Bobby’s perspective:

Dad and Mom, Grandpa and Grandma, and even my great-grandma with the eye patch told us not to mess with the Martillos, but what did they know about me and my guys?

At this point, the only male Splot with whom the reader is familiar happened to be in a relationship with an eyepatch-wearing woman in the same decade Claudia and Charon’s great-grandparents were courting. The reader can  safely infer this great-grandma is Nice.

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Now, anon, you've asked this question because Bobby and Nice's articles, like most of the wiki’s articles, lack any citations. I may reblog this to talk more about the citation situation, but know that I know this is a problem—unfortunately, the celerity of its solution requires that other people help substantially edit the wiki, and, as it stands, the dearth of citations perhaps reflects the dearth of volunteers.

[llycaons]

baccano for the ask game? or if you've answered one like this before hmm lof?

ohh I'll do both, thanks!

baccano (light novel version! the anime's fun but it doesn't get the depth of the characters)

Favorite character: so many but I'll say for this one chane and jacuzzi splot my beloveds

Second favorite character: special shoutout to ennis, nile, rail, carla, nice, luchino, and graham, phil

Least favorite character: with the sheer volume, there are so many unlikeable or boring characters or characters who are just villainized in a really poorly-written and overdone way...I'm going to say raz smith because he's annoying and pretentious even though I actually do get the appeal

The character I’m most like: uhh carol. everyone in this show is off the rails bonkers I'm just along for the ride. also ennis! god I love ennis

Favorite pairing: despite him only writing straight relationships and having a strong need to pair up almost all of the women with men, I actually love a lot of narita's couples. claire and chane, jacuzzi and nice, keith and kate, and huey and monica all stand out to me. they're all so fun but all for different reasons :)

Least favorite pairing: on the flipside, when he messes up it's...bad...one of my most hated pairings ever is in the books. bobby and carnea (turns to retch). all of the other couples, even if I have issues with them for one reason or another (ladd and lua, firo and ennis), don't inspire the amount of loathing I have towards this couple. you shame your great-grandparents, boy

Favorite moment: like tgcf, this series is long and rich and I could name many scenes in every book. for now I'm going to say the finale of the grand punk railroad with jacuzzi standing up to face the rail tracer is fucking phenomenal (in both show and novel) and it blows me away every time.

Rating out of 10: 9/10. there's a lot of juvenile writing choices that I was less able to pick up on when I was younger, one of the books is incredibly racist, a lot of the plots boild down to "and then everyone meets up and fights and there's a lot of chaos" and some of the villains are written in such a shallow and over-the-top way it's painful. but to me the story and characters (and their interactions) are just mesmerizing, the structure keeps things fresh and interesting, the fantastical concepts introduced and followed through on are unlike any I've seen before, and the fight scenes are magnificent. I do think the good outweighs the bad, but I haven't read them in years so take this with a grain of salt

EDIT: I FORGOT LOF kahdsahdksaf

legend of fei

Favorite character: zhou fei herself is a delight even if strangely underdeveloped

Second favorite character: her little cousin!! Ii yan (had to google her name but I adore her)

Least favorite character: yin pei. FUCKING yin pei. why did he have so many arcs why couldn't he have just died nobody wanted him around and he contributed nothing that made bearing his presence worth it. also li zheng he was so annoying and he never seemed to grow into the role I think he was supposed to

The character I’m most like: hard to say. chuchu maybe except if I lost my younger brother I would literally have torn that town apart. love her though it's not her fault the writers dropped the ball

Favorite pairing: xy and zf are cute! tere are definitely issues I had with them early on and stuff I disliked later but overall I really enjoyed their relationship

Least favorite pairing: LI ZHENG LEAVE CHUCHU ALONE. goodddd that's the WORST she literally likes zf better...zf has two hands!!

Favorite moment: oh that battle scene in 25 fucking spectacular. the one where xy releases the bonds on himself and then spends like the next 20 episodes dying bc of it

Rating out of 10: hmmm 6/10. it was fun and full of sexy old people and the main characters had a great dynamic and the side characters were pretty fun and the figh scenes were awesome but the plot was kind of a mess and the camerawork was dreadful and the finale was just a tad underwhelming and there didn't seem to be any deeper messages or themes within the work. but it was fun! I'm glad I saw it

thank you!!

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

heyo! i hope this is ok to ask, but i just read all your baccano fics and i was curious about whether or not you were still into it! and if so, i also wanted to ask if you have any headcanons about the backstories of any characters you like, like for example jacuzzi+nice, isaac+miria, or ennis? i really like your characterization and the author is deliberately vague a lot, so i was wondering if you had something and were in the mood to share with us. thank you for reading my message!

Oh my gosh, I was NOT notified by tumblr about this message! I’m so sorry I took so long to respond! Thank you so much, I’m really happy you like what I’ve written!

I’m still into Baccano in the sense that I enjoy it, but it’s been a solid couple of years since I made anything for it. It was a major hyperfixation for me between 2015-2018, and now I’ll still reblog stuff and bring my Jacuzzi cosplay to cons, but I think I’ve lost a lot of the creative drive for it. Part of it is that I’m in grad school now, and things are busy. And if you saw my disclaimer on Ashes In My Wake - it’s been so long since I’ve read the books that everything I had planned turned nebulous and I just couldn’t bring it back once I lost my planning doc. I don’t have much in the way of headcanons for Ennis or Isaac and Miria that I haven’t already written, but...

Well here’s something, I can talk a little about some of the headcanons I was going to scatter into the Bobby fic! 

(2002 spoilers ahead! If you haven’t read it yet… go read it!)

My main headcanon is that, after everything, after Prohibition lifted and one by one they left to get jobs or get married or whatever, Jacuzzi’s gang stayed together. They kept their weird found-family dynamic as a multi-generational support net, they raised their kids together, and by the time they were having grandkids, everyone had a very motley collection of “aunts” and “uncles”. In the 2002 arc, we saw that the Martillos and Gandors and Walkens stayed together exactly like that, even as some of them were generations down the line. Chane and Felix were just as close with Jacuzzi’s gang as anyone else, so it struck me as so bizarre that, even though Claudia and Charon were still so close with the other families, they had no clue who Bobby Splot was, and vice-versa. 

I’d planned for it to have been a decision by his parents to distance themselves from “the in-laws” in order to keep their kid safe, and I’d hoped to do a better job of fleshing out his redemption and relationships than Narita did. I also had rough ideas for the personalities of his parents, and rough ideas for what I wanted to happen - some parts were going to be Nice inviting over her old friends, the ones who were still alive at least, to meet Bobby and help set him straight. 

If you want to know more, let me know! The more I write this out the more I remember bits I was going to try to add, but this post is already long enough and I don’t want to turn it into any more of a wall of text.. If you come off anon you’re welcome to just send me a message, or you can keep going through asks! And thank you again!

[recentanimenews]

Baccano!: 2002 [Side A]: Bullet Garden

By Ryohgo Narita and Katsumi Enami. Released in Japan by Dengeki Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Taylor Engel.

The first volume of this two-parter reminds me very much of the fist volume of the last two-parter we had, The Slash. It’s very short, almost all setup, and seems to be saving all its tricks for the back half. It also features a new character I don’t care for, and once again brings up Firo’s paralyzing fear of sexuality, which is not a plotline I like either. Adding this all together makes it one of the more “average” volumes in the series, and it feels sort of like the first volume in a DRRR!! arc as well – you’re reading along waiting for fun, only to be told the fun is four months from now. Fortunately, there is a BIT of fun to be had here – Claudia and Charon *are* new characters I like, being genderswapped carbon copies of their great-grandparents, Czes gets a lot to do an an ominous foreboding about what’s going to happen, and Illness is a treat, though her terrifying backstory reminds me of Huey and Elmer – deliberately, of course.

Firo and Ennis, we are told, married somewhere around 1980, fifty years after they first met, but have never had a honeymoon – or indeed consummated their relationship. On finding out about this, the Camorra bosses pay for him and Ennis to travel on an ocean liner’s maiden voyage – and, Firo still being extremely wary of what comes with a honeymoon, he invites Czes to come as well, much to Czes’s frustration. The cruise also features Claudia and Charon, great-grandkids to Claire and Chane (who, while not immortal, are both still alive and active in their nineties), who are in the film industry; Angelo, a sniper who is out for revenge on the terrorists who wiped out his South American gang; said terrorists, the Mask Makers, whose name seems awfully familiar to Firo and who have a love of modern cinema; and Bobby Splot and his gang, who stow away on the boat to get revenge on people because… well, because Bobby is terrible. He’s a disgrace to his great-grandfather Jacuzzi.

I am aware that Bobby will likely improve in the next book, but, like Maria in the first Slash volume, I have to rate him based on this book alone, and boy, he grates. To be fair, this is deliberate, as the book wants to have him NOT be his great-grandfather, in contrast to Claudia, but still. The plotline going on here seems complex, and you get the sense that we’ve barely seen the start of it. Someone seems to want to recreate the 1931 train incident, only without Isaac and Miria (who briefly appear, but are not on the boat). The Mask Makers are clearly a reference to the same group we saw in the 1705 novel, which makes you wonder what they’re doing here almost 300 years later. And, to make things even more interesting, the terrorists’ plan involves meeting up with the SISTER ship of this huge luxury liner, which is going in the other direction and scheduled to pass them.

We briefly hear what’s happening on the other liner, and honestly it sounds a lot more interesting than events here. As such, I suspect that the 2nd and final book in this 2002 arc will be far more exciting and interesting. Till then, enjoy Claudia, Charon and Illness, who are a lot of fun.

By: Sean Gaffney

[cherself]

Also: spotted a Splotling!

[gunmeister]

if even bobby splot can be useful to the narrative importance of baccano i think it really speaks to the level of mastery in baccano's writing. sometimes i remember this idea when i consume other media and weep

[baccano-gauntlet]

ROUND 1.

[incorrectbaccanoquotes]

Jacuzzi: You can’t give Bobby that! It’s not safe!

Nice: It’s a sword.They’re not meant to be safe.

Jacuzzi: He’s a child!

Nice: It’s educational.

Jacuzzi: What if he cuts himself?

Nice: That will be an important lesson.

[closedcoffins]

i love the unexpected connections in baccano! novels. they used the name bobby for a delinquent leader in 2002 far before the 2002 novels featured bobby splot. molsa couldn’t find any pepper because isaac and miria were stealing all the pepper at that time. i love baccano!