#but this is a series where a lot of civilians/defense force members die after getting smacked around like a pet's chew toy

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Alright so I decided I was gonna talk a little about Heroes Rising since I just saw it in theaters. I actually debated going because I don’t like certain directions the manga is taking, but that’s besides the point. Spoilers under the cut.

I want to start off by saying I absolutely adored certain parts of this movie. The fight scenes? Awe inspiring. The camaraderie between all the members of class 1-A? Fantastic.

The premise? Eh... Here’s where my disbelief started to poke through. The idea that UA would send an entire class out onto an island- yes, even one with little to no crime- alone and without any sort of hero supervision is ridiculous. Perhaps with another class in a previous year I could get behind it but this is the class that has had multiple attempts made on their lives. UA is already in hot water with how they’ve handled certain things in the past and whether or not you think they should be, I doubt that the school would want to risk another PR nightmare.

I mean, on top of that the people who work in and run the school obviously want what’s best for the kids and they never want to see them get hurt so why the hell wouldn’t they send at least Aizawa, their homeroom teacher, along with them? Provisional License or not, you have a bunch of students, literal children, on a remote island alone to deal with whatever happens while they’re there.

Alright, so that was a bit jarring but I could ignore it because well, it’s a movie! This is how plot progresses! And to be fair the premise was perfectly fine, I just didn’t find it very believable. It didn’t hurt my immersion in the theater and I was totally enthralled when they got to the island and started doing small heroic tasks like helping people get to the doctor, fixing things, etc. All of these little tasks that showed how well they worked together and how far along they’ve come.

I loved that part. I was grinning the whole time.

Before I get to the villains arriving at the island I want to go over what I thought of them real quick, and I’ll make it fast because we haven’t even gotten to the part I want to rant about yet.

Nine - A watered down AFO. I didn’t mind him, and I actually kind of pitied him? I feel like his character was done well but I wish we knew more about his backstory. There has to be a reason he wants to remake society the way he does. On top of that it is painfully obvious (more so for those up to date on the manga) that he is being taken advantage of. I have no doubt that he was never meant to succeed in his goals and that the Doctor was basically experimenting on him to see what would happen.

Mummy - I loved the music that played in the background whenever he fought. His quirk was super cool and I just found him refreshing since most quirks in this series are physical things? I wish he could’ve stuck around longer like the others but...

Chimera - HIS DESIGN. I LOVED HIS DESIGN. A lot of people from what I’m seeing claim that he is over-powered but honestly given his name I think they did him really well. A being made up of various animals that can breathe fire is what a chimera is, and naturally that means he will be very strong. I will say that they dragged it on a bit long, to the point where him growing in size bordered on ridiculous, but again I loved it. It’s a world full of quirks, some are going to be OP. I can also fully see where he’s coming from with his motivations and I like how he believes in his little group.

Slice - The quirk was something we’ve basically seen before but I love how it was implemented. Her design was top notch and her personality was fun to watch as she handled certain situations. I also love how protective she specifically was over Nine, and I wonder if they have more of a relationship than the movie explored given that they seemed closer to one another than the others.

So moving on to when the villains actually make it to the island. I appreciated that the class split up into teams to deal with each of the villains and I thought the fights were great. I like that we were shown that they were clearly on the defensive as they moved the civilians out of harms way and stood their ground to keep them safe during the evacuation.

The fight with Mummy, however... I didn’t like it. Bakugou seemed to have some kind of plot armor that prevented Kaminari and Kirishima from being able to save him from basically being held hostage and used against them. How? Yeah I’m not sure. Mummy’s quirk works on inanimate objects, and if he wraps his bandages around them he can control them as if they were living beings. Controlling Bakugou’s armor and clothing in order to encase him in this type of ‘minion being’ was a clever idea even if it’s something we kind of saw with the Sludge Monster at the start of the series. One could argue it is with his growth that he was able to escape this similar situation, but I argue that’s completely different. I’m not even sure how he managed to escape Mummy’s hold. I think he might have activated one of his gauntlets but it wasn’t really clear. At least to me.

Lightning Round:

- Mahoro using her quirk to draw attention to their location and the fact that Midoriya needed help was wonderful and honestly the giant Deku was adorable.

- These kids should be dead. I get why they’re not but the amount of damage that they all take throughout the entirety of this movie is ridiculous! If that’s the amount of damage that a teenager can take and still survive, how do heroes end up dying in the field? (I’m just being picky ignore me, I get why they did it and I loved all of the fighting. They all have come so far and it really showcases that.)

- The amount of times someone tells Mahoro and Katsuma to run only for them to stand frozen is... Something else. They are scared kids, yes, but these teenagers are literally almost dying to give you a chance to run so please move!

- Katsuma’s quirk is unique and very interesting so I’m glad it got the spotlight! We haven’t seen many healing quirks!

- Midoriya’s plan was brilliant and I’m glad he got the chance to show off his ability to think things through. His intelligence is certainly something I love about his character and it makes him very formidable as an opponent.

- Todoroki. Killed. Chimera. I know, I know, we have him showing up at the end being led off the island in chains with the others, and Todoroki says “hibernate for awhile” to apply he is asleep, but no. He killed him. There is no way that Chimera could be speared internally with ice while also being frozen over and not die.

- All Might parachuting into what could still potentially be a dangerous situation to make sure his son was okay gave me so many FEELINGS. I actually cried when he cradled Midoriya and they talked.

RANT TIME. I preface this bit by saying: ship whatever you want, like whoever you want in the manga or anime, these are my personal opinions regarding things.

What the absolute fuck was the whole transferring of OFA thing? The minute I saw what Midoriya was about to do my enjoyment of the movie took a sharp nose-dive. Anyone else. Anyone else being given OFA in that situation would’ve been better then Bakugou. I know that Horikoshi has been trying to shoehorn in a bond between the two of them in the manga but in my opinion the whole thing has been poorly handled and feels completely fake and forced.

Bakugou has bullied Midoriya physically and mentally from the get-go. We know it’s been happening since Midoriya was at least five years old and though it can now be very loosely classified as ‘teasing’ for people who really squint, he still does it. He told him to jump off a roof. During their first training exercise in UA, Bakugou severely injures Midoriya despite being explicitly told not to carry through with his attack because it might kill him but he carries through with it anyway because it wouldn’t kill him if he didn’t hit him dead on. That’s quite the gamble to take with someone’s life, especially considering you’re supposedly trying to become a hero.

This is the type of person that Bakugou has been, and the type of person that Midoriya has been dealing with. Midoriya finally, finally, begins to get real friends and realize that he doesn’t have to keep chasing after this one person from his past in an attempt to make things work that will only end up hurting him.

Likewise Bakugou finally began to grow and see his past mistakes and learn from them. He also got friends who he cares about and treats relatively well, and they are so happy to be his friend too.

Both parties became involved in relationships that weren’t toxic and subsequently began to grow and change in ways that made them better people.

...And then Kamino Ward happened. ...And then Midoriya told Bakugou about OFA.

And now they are involved again.

I get that it’s fiction, really, I do, but I don’t think it’s right to have someone who was abused for so long simply... Forgive and forget regarding their abuser. It’s just something that rubs me the wrong way because so many people who have suffered at someone else’s hands are often told they have to forgive to move on which is utter bullshit. These characters were doing just fine as people who recognized their shared past and were learning to deal with each other in situations where they had to be together but would otherwise seek out healthier relationships, and I was all for that! Growth! Growth is good! But for some reason they’re friends again? What?

I wanted to explain my personal beliefs regarding their relationship in order to explain why I think that anyone else getting OFA in Bakugou’s place would’ve been better. For the narrative, for the characters, for everything. Because what you had in the movie was a kid who had been horribly bullied by Bakugou for being quirkless willingly handing his quirk over to him without any regard for himself once again, and then you had that former bully be able to use it instantly.

Showing the audience, showing Midoriya, that everything he has been through in his efforts to cultivate this power, all the things he’s learned and done, have been pointless. If Bakugou can take OFA and wield it at 100% immediately with only his arms breaking with no training whatsoever, what does that mean for Midoriya? That he’s weak? What about his story? And now we have Midoriya seeing his childhood bully take his quirk and use it so much better then he was able to at first and he finds himself back at the question that has haunted him from the very beginning, but even more so after what happened with Sir and Mirio.

Is he a worthy successor?

I didn’t like it. I couldn’t enjoy it. The fight was a beautiful piece of animation, but what had happened just took me out of it. And... I don’t think Bakugou was going to give OFA back. It wasn’t mentioned at all and both of them acted like it was a final thing. Even though the Vestiges said“fuck this” and forced OFA back into Midoriya after the fight (how? magic? who knows) it doesn’t change what happened.

The others are shown to be receiving medical attention and care as reinforcements have finally arrived and we get to see Endeavor hugging a very over it Shoto Todoroki.

...Why? Just why? Like we didn’t need that. It’s just a reminder of another relationship that is being forced into this forgive and forget mold and it just honestly makes me feel sick because of all the things Endeavor has done to his family. I fully believe that he hasn’t changed at all. Instead he looked around once he hit the height of his career, said “oh, I’m alone and everyone hates me and I’m lonely now that I have nothing to work toward” and decided to try and fix things (and I use that term loosely) for his own selfish benefit.

Overall the movie was great. I would totally watch it again, but certain things in the movie just rubbed me the wrong way. Again, this is all my personal opinion, I don’t care if you love Bakugou or BakuDeku or Endeavor, or whatever, you do you, but I just don’t. Oh and to make it clear, if you like any of those characters or things and you support Endeavor trying to get back in his family’s good graces, that’s perfectly fine! I’m not trying to call anyone out or call someone an abuse apologist or some shit, it’s all fiction, I’m just stating my own views.

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Give Me A Fandom Meme: Ace Combat

Oh my god Smash! Really have to make me work for this one! I hope you’re ready for a lot of pictures and gifs as my responses.

Btw, I’ll only be specifying non-player characters, as Ace Combat is a type of game that makes you the main character of sorts (no info past call sign and maybe gender from dialogue). Also gonna put it under a Keep Reading because this is gonna be loooonnnggg.

Favourite Male Character:

Outside of the player character Aces from all of the titles, I have to give this to AWACS Ghost Eye from AC6: Fires of Liberation. An AWACS controller who legitimately cares for the forces under his command, is willing to crack a joke with them, yet also doesn’t hesitate to pull them up when they’ve fucked up.

Favourite Female Character:

Sadly, there aren’t that many female characters in the series as a whole, both as pilots and background characters, compared to the male cast. This is probably because there just aren’t that many female fighter pilots in the real world, and the game reflects this as well.

That said, the female characters that do exist aren’t pushovers in any way, shape, or form. Húxiān (AC7) is a fiercesome and aggressive pilot, both in the skies and on the ground. Melissa (AC6) goes through hell and back to reunite with her daughter in the midst of an invasion of her homeland.

My favourite has to go to Kei “Edge” Nagase, of AC5: The Unsung War, though. Loyal, dedicated, fierce, yet still retains that idealistic nature often lost in veteran pilots. I could go on and on as to why I love this character, but I’d run out of space.

Least Favourite Character:

I don’t exactly have a least favourite character, because I developed a sympathy towards the majority of “enemy” characters despite the fact that they are fighting against you.

If I had to pick, though, I would have to go towards Col Orson Perrault (AC5), the base command of Sand Island AFB. Dude’s a pompous asshole who shouldn’t be an Officer, let alone the OADF.

Favourite Ship:

There’s not much to ship in this game (at least for me), because there’s no real premise for shipping. The most common that I’ve seen are Blaze x Edge (AC5 pairing between the player character Blaze and Edge, mentioned above), Talisman x Melissa (AC6, between the player’s wingman and the civilian Melissa Hermann, though that ship is born out of tragedy mostly), and Count x Húxiān (two wingmen of the player who start out as hostile to each other and across the game grow to see each other as good friends).

I’d have to pick the Blaze x Edge ship, because I just like the dynamic of the two pilots growing close to each other after fighting a long and hard war, only able to really depend on themselves and nobody else.

Favourite Friendship:

Count x Húxiān. They did not like each other when Trigger and Count transferred from Spare into the LRSSG’s Strider and Cyclops Squadrons. The pair traded barbs with each other in almost every mission at the start but they slowly grew to appreciate each other, befriend each other. It’s the non-romantic “enemies to lovers” trope, which I am a sucker for.

Favorite Quote:

I think what Ghost Eye says at the end of AC6 is one of my favourite quotes from the series. I’ll let the pictures do the talking:

Worst Character Death:

This is a tie, between Chopper’s sacrifice in AC5 and Brownie’s death in AC7, for different reasons.

Brownie is an NPC wingman introduced in the first mission of AC7 as a member of the friendly Golem Squadron. At the end of Mission 3, “Operation Dual Wielder”, Mage, Golem, and Gargoyle SQN’s retreat from the first Arsenal Bird after the entirety of Skeleton SQN was shot down.

By this point in the mission, she’d already taken a missile hit and was being escorted back by Gargoyle 1, but the pair were engaged by a then-unidentified Sol 1. Gargoyle 1 was quickly shot down, but Sol 1 toyed with Brownie, driving her to a near-mental breakdown before downing her and escaping...

Just hearing her voice and composure falter with every radio call... it broke my heart...

As for Chopper...

After a long string of successful defensive and offensive missions, Wardog SQN are tasked with a ceremonial flight for a pro-war rally deep within your home territory (although your aircraft remain armed due to wartime).

After the flight, the stadium that the rally is being held in comes under enemy air attack, and Wardog snaps into defensive posture and pushes back the waves of enemy aircraft. However, radios become jammed and another squadron radios in to say “hell of a drill they’re running, return to base”.

While your AWACS tries to reorganise the reinforcement aircraft, Chopper takes a hit from an enemy aircraft. He continues to fight and fly, trying to keep his jet from crashing into the homes below. However, once the airspace is cleared and everything seems okay, Chopper announces that the damage to his aircraft has worsened to the point where he cannot eject...

Despite everyone’s pleas, Chopper simply says:

And then:

And then more enemy aircraft arrive! You play through the final wave listening to nothing but the choked sobs of your other wingmen before the enemy opt to finally give up the attack and retreat.

The mission ends with this:

... and this...

(The F-16′s fly a ‘missing man’ flypast, reserved for funeral flypasts. The one aircraft breaking away from the others signifies the ‘departure’ of the person being laid to rest...)

I still get emotional from this sequence, even after playing through the game countless times. I think it’s because you aren’t expecting this kind of gut punch, especially this late into the game. By this point, you’ve flown sixteen missions in the campaign, each between ten to fifteen minutes a piece, plus cutscenes. I grew really attached to the entire squadron, and for one of them to die like this? It nearly broke me.

“This made me so happy you have no idea!” Moment:

Twelve years after the latest numbered release to the series (AC6: Fires Of Liberation was released in 2007), I sat down the night of the 18 of Janurary, 2019.

It took me a lot of effort not to cry when this sequence started up...

Saddest Moment:

See ‘Worst Character Death’, sub-section ‘Chopper’.

Favorite Location:

This is really hard, as a lot of the terrains and maps in the PS2 games aren’t excessively detailed or picturesque. It wasn’t until AC6 (Xbox 360) that we got higher quality terrains, and then with AC7 we’ve got top of the line terrains.

Though, out of pure sentimentality, I’d have to go with Sand Island Air Force Base from AC5. The home base for the 108th Tactical Fighter Squadron “Wardog”, 5th Air Wing, Osean Air Defense Force, off the western peninsula of the Osean continent.

It’s a remote airfield out in the Ceres Ocean, and the field is primarily used for pilot training due to the wide open space it provides, as well as serving as a ‘last stop’ for military flights headed eastbound to Yuktobania.

The island and it’s layout takes inspiration from the real world Midway Atoll and the airfields that were established there during WW2, which is a cool little fact too...

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'Let's move on': Hillary's blithe response after devastating Congress report reveals she lied and lied again about what caused US Ambassador to die in Bengazi Long-awaited report goes into detail over 800 pages on the causes and aftermath of 2012 Benghazi, Libya terror attack on a State Dept. compound Slams the Obama administration for pretending publicly that the attack was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islam video made in the U.S. Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state, told her family members and foreign leaders that the administration knew it was a planned terror attack Pentagon didn't send any military forces to help, leaving the victims to be rescued by a militia loyal to the deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi Detailed timelines offers no explanation on why and says committee has 'questions left in the aftermath' of massive investigation Now Republican committee members say Obama's political considerations just eight weeks before an election trumped safety concerns in Libya Clinton said Tuesday that it was time to move on and said the report held a 'partisan tinge' By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR and FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 13:44, 28 June 2016 | UPDATED: 22:13, 29 June 2016 e-mail 4.8k shares 958 View comments Hillary Clinton dismissed a Republican broadside on her and President Obama over the Benghazi attacks today saying: 'Move on.' The Republican members of the House Benghazi committee issued their 800 page report with excoriating words for her and the president, accusing her of 'shameful' conduct over her secret email account, and the White House of lying about what caused the attacks. Her 'homebrew' server was only revealed because of the investigation into the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The blistering 800-page report excoriates the Obama administration, finding that it lied about what caused the attacks which claimed the lives. It says what went wrong may never be fully known because of a 'shameful' decision by Hillary Clinton not to turn over the contents of her secret 'homebrew' server, whose existence only came to light because of the investigation. But her response was curt. 'I think it is pretty clear it is time to move on,' she said. Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee claimed Tuesday that the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton lied repeatedly to the American people about the nature of and reasons for the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, even as they privately acknowledged what caused them. The report offers no explanation for why it took 18 hours for military assets to reach the Libyan city - many hours after the president ordered every possible measure to be taken, and the then defense secretary testified that he ordered deployment. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO  +11 BENGHAZI NIGHTMARE: Hillary Clinton faces a new round of public scrutiny as she runs for president following the release of a scathing report about how the Obama administration handled the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya terror attack  +11 DEVASTATION: The Islamist terror group Ansar al Sharia attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi. Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, just 8 weeks before Barack Obama stood for re-election Republicans release scathing report into Benghazi attacks Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00 Previous Play Skip Mute Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 2:37 Fullscreen Need Text 'SHAMEFUL' - VERDICT ON CLINTON The report reserves its strongest words for the conduct of the Democratic presumptive nominee for the White House. It says that her decision to keep her emails on a secret 'homebrew' server and then to select which ones to hand over stopped them knowing the full truth about Benghazi. Her email arrangements only came to light because of the investigation into the deaths. It says Clinton's attorney deflected demands to turn over emails by referring it to the State Department, and accused the department and Clinton of being involved in an attempt at obfuscation. 'This "who’s on first" routine orchestrated between the Secretary’s private counsel and the State Department, which is ostensibly an apolitical governmental diplomatic entity, is shameful. 'It was not merely Congress and the people it represents who were misled and manipulated, the State Department and the Secretary’s email arrangement undoubtedly delayed access to information on what happened to four brave Americans in Benghazi and the government’s response before, during and after the attacks,' the report says. 'The manner in which the Secretary communicated during her tenure, the manner in which those records were housed during and after her tenure and the manner in which the public record was self-scrutinized and self-selected makes it impossible to ever represent to the families of those killed in Benghazi that the record is whole.' A scathing report provides new ammunition against Clinton, then the secretary of state, and turn the assault on an under-protected U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA facility into the election-year issue it was always destined to be. Republicans' central argument is that the Obama White House chose to deceive Americans rather than risk the public relations nightmare of admitting terrorists had struck Americans overseas, less than two months before Obama's re-election day. 'They misled the American people and said, "We can't tell the truth. We can't talk about how bad the security situation was. 'We can't talk about the fact that, that this was a terrorist attack. we have to mislead the American people because we are just eight weeks before an election",' Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, one of the committee's Republican members, claimed Monday morning on CNN. The panel's chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, and other Republicans also accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses. Democrats say the panel's main goal is to undermine Clinton's presidential hopes. The former secretary of state said Tuesday in Denver, where she held a campaign event, that she would 'leave it to others to characterize this report but I think it is pretty clear it is time to move on.' 'I have said from the very beginning nothing is more important than the security of our diplomats and our development officials to go into dangerous places around the world pursuing American values, interests and our security,' she said.' 'While this unfortunately took on a partisan tinge, I want us to stay focused on what I've always wanted us to stay focused on and that is the important work of diplomacy and development,' she added. 'We cannot withdraw or retreat from the world. America needs a presence for a lot of reasons,' Clinton continued. 'And the best way to honor the commitment and sacrifice of those we lost is to redouble our efforts to provide the resources and support that our diplomats and our development experts deserve.' Mystery of the missing military  +11 Ambassador Chris Stevens fell unconscious and Libyan civilians got him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead The report provides an extraordinarily detailed insight into the military assets which could have been sent to try to save American lives. But it does not find a reason why it took 18 hours for help to arrive - by which time the ambassador had been rescued by locals, ironically former members of the Gadaffi regime which the U.S. had helped to overthrow. It says that AFRICOM - the Pentagon's African command division, which is based in Germany - could have made use of Marine FAST (Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team) platoons, based in Spain, F-16s, based in Aviano, in northern Italy, a special diplomatic assistance team known as CIF (Commander's In-extremis Force), based in Germany but then training nearer Libya, in Croatia, and US-based special operations forces . But in a painstaking timelines it discloses how it took 13 hours after the attack for the first force to be deployed. The attack started at 9.42pm local time - 3.42pm in Washington. It was brutal, and prolonged. Calls for assistance began immediately and the first notice of the attack was distributed in Washinton atr 4.05pm, with the White House situation room among those involved. But it says, it took hours for the White House to convene a meeting to decide what to do - by which time it was 7.30pm in Washington. 'In the four hours since the initial attack on the Benghazi Mission compound, the Diplomatic Security Agents in Benghazi, with help from the team from the Annex, survived the initial onslaught, located the remains of their fallen colleague Smith, franticly searched for Stevens, escaped under heavy gunfire from the Mission compound to the Annex, avoided an ambush along the route, and arrived at the Annex only to withstand and repel additional attacks there,' the report says. 'By stark contrast, in those same four hours, principals in Washington had merely managed to identify forces that could potentially deploy to Libya and convened a meeting to discuss those forces.' The meeting include Hillary Clinton's State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills. It should have included the then vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral James 'Sandy' Winnefeld, but he said he could not attend because there was an official dinner at his residence. Leon Panetta, the defense secretary, had ordered deployment two hours after the attack began, but the people taking part in the White House meeting 'felt the need to "work through" the assets'. What happened next, the report, says, depends on whether you believe Panetta - who was adamant he had ordered deployment - or a series of other witness and minutes, who spoke about '"getting forces ready to deploy" in a future tense'. 'Another summary described the deployment of assets in response to Benghazi as "likely" and "possibly" that evening,' the report says. One senior military official testified that forces had not been ordered to deploy but to prepare to deploy. The report calls the cause of the failure to get properly-equipped forces to Benghazi in time a 'lingering question' and says the failure '—at best illustrates a rusty bureaucratic process not in keeping with the gravity and urgency of the events happening on the ground'. THE BENGHAZI REPORT: THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAYS The final report from the Republican majority in Congress about the 2012 Benghazi terror attack focuses on five major conclusions:  THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FOCUSED ON POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS AS THE ATTACK WAS STILL GOING ON. A meeting convened with cabinet secretaries' deputies during the attack largely concerned how to frame the terrorists as protesters inspired by an anti-Islam YouTube video. And in a subsequent memo, a White House national security aide identified one 'goal': 'to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.' THE U.S. MILITARY NEVER SENT ANY ARMED FORCES TO FIGHT OR MOUNT A RESCUE AS THE BENGHAZI COMPOUND BURNED. No Pentagon assets were headed to Benghazi at any point in the attack, other than two unarmed observation drones and a detachment of armed men who 'self-deployed' to help, without orders to do so. One of those volunteers was killed within minutes of arriving. The report states: 'The first asset to arrive in Libya – a Marine ‘FAST’ platoon – did not arrive until nearly 24 hours after the attack began. What is troubling is that the administration never set in motion a plan to go to Benghazi in the first place. It is one thing to try and fail; it is yet another not to try at all.' THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION HAS ARRESTED JUST ONE TERRORIST WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE BENGHAZI ATTACK. Despite the arrest of the filmmaker behind the red-herring YouTube video, only a single person has been captured among the dozens who fired guns and mortars at American personnel.  +11 THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TOSSED UP ROADBLOCKS TO IMPEDE THE INVESTIGATION BY REFUSING TO LET KEY WITNESSES TESTIFY. The White House 'stonewalled at virtually every turn,' the report declares. Still, the revelation of Hillary Clinton's secret email account was one product of the investigation. Perhaps as a result, the administration refused Congress any access to people who were in the Situation Room on the night of the attack, and refused to let investigators see any emails between White House aides. THE BENGHAZI COMPOUND WAS VULNERABLE BECAUSE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DIDN'T WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE WEAKNESSES IN WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ITS CROWNING DIPLOMATIC ACHIEVEMENT BY BEEFING UP SECURITY. While every other Western country abandoned Libya, America's diplomatic mission remained, and stayed largely unprotected because the State Department designated it 'temporary,' removing the requirement that it have military security at all times. 'Secretary Clinton pushed for the U.S. to intervene in Libya, which at the time represented one of her signature achievements,' the report concludes. 'To leave Benghazi would have been viewed as her failure and prompted unwelcome scrutiny of her choices.' White House chose to focus on the YouTube video Almost immediately, the White House went into spin mode, publicly blaming the carnage on local protests over an anti-Islam YouTube video that was made in America. That turned out not to be the case, and Monday's report includes emails and testimony showing the administration knew it at the time. Clinton said publicly as her Benghazi facilities were still smoldering that 'some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.' But in a phone call with Libyan president Mohammed al Magariaf, Clinton correctly fingered Ansar al Sharia, al Qaeda’s affiliate on the Arabian Peninsula, as the cause. '[O]ur diplomatic mission was attacked[.] . . . [T]here is a gun battle ongoing, which I understand Ansar as-Sharia [sic] is claiming responsibility for,' a note-taker recorded Clinton telling al Magariaf.  Donald Trump piled on Clinton after the report was released Tuesday  +11 PLAN TO FAIL: The Benghazi facility was overlooked and under-protected, leading to a nightmare scenario where four Americans died. Someone very powerful who thinks that she is COMPLETELY ABOVE THE LAW. She planed created & waited to make her move to kill murder. She tells the relative's one story. Then she tells America media a different story. Above the law & walking the streets & has never spent one day in jail. Acting like she's pure. PURE AS DIRTY SLUSH. Take a life. Prison for life. Do the crime. Do the time. Take a life. Technically u lose your own life. How many others has gone missing brown bread when around Hillary Clinton. An eye for an eye. Tooth for a tooth.

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Oh my god the whump possibilities that this opens up.

Yes, people could have died… maybe people close to him. Or gotten hurt. Maybe not here because I don’t have all the context for this point yet in the manga, but that also sounds like a “what if HE got hurt or died because of the special move” type thing.

Gosh I need to catch up and get all the context! ALL OF IT!