#but while hes a civ idk

[mellohiizz]

Eggbu and my life is yours 🙏🙏

egg and his protective attack dog

[djevelbl]

This is PVP!Evbo to me btw — when I say he's kind and naive and determined, trusting and loving and caring and all he wants is affection, all he needs is affection, companionship, etc etc. this is what I mean by that. It's just this image, I see PVP!Evbo and I'm INSTANTLY reminded of this tweet

[reasonsforhope]

Note: I super don't like the framing of this headline. "Here's why it matters" idk it's almost like there's an entire country's worth of people who get to keep their democracy! Clearly! But there are few good articles on this in English, so we're going with this one anyway.

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2024 is the biggest global election year in history and the future of democracy is on every ballot. But amid an international backsliding in democratic norms, including in countries with a longer history of democracy like India, Senegal’s election last week was a major win for democracy. It’s also an indication that a new political class is coming of age in Africa, exemplified by Senegal’s new 44-year-old president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye.

The West African nation managed to pull off a free and fair election on March 24 despite significant obstacles, including efforts by former President Macky Sall to delay the elections and imprison or disqualify opposition candidates. Add those challenges to the fact that many neighboring countries in West Africa — most prominently Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, but other nations across the region too — have been repeatedly undermined by military coups since 2020.

Sall had been in power since 2012, serving two terms. He declined to seek a third term following years of speculation that he would do so despite a constitutional two-term limit. But he attempted to extend his term, announcing in February that elections (originally to be held that month) would be pushed off until the end of the year in defiance of the electoral schedule.

Sall’s allies in the National Assembly approved the measure, but only after security forces removed opposition politicians, who vociferously protested the delay. Senegalese society came out in droves to protest Sall’s attempted self-coup, and the Constitutional Council ruled in late February that Sall’s attempt to stay in power could not stand.

That itself was a win for democracy. Still, opposition candidates, including Faye, though legally able to run, remained imprisoned until just days before the election — while others were barred from running at all. The future of Senegal’s democracy seemed uncertain at best.

Cut to Tuesday [April 2, 2024], when Sall stepped down and handed power to Faye, a former tax examiner who won on a campaign of combating corruption, as well as greater sovereignty and economic opportunity for the Senegalese. And it was young voters who carried Faye to victory...

“This election showed the resilience of the democracy in Senegal that resisted the shock of an unexpected postponement,” Adele Ravidà, Senegal country director at the lnternational Foundation for Electoral Systems, told Vox via email. “... after a couple of years of unprecedented episodes of violence [the Senegalese people] turned the page smoothly, allowing a peaceful transfer of power.”

And though Faye’s aims won’t be easy to achieve, his win can tell us not only about how Senegal managed to establish its young democracy, but also about the positive trend of democratic entrenchment and international cooperation in African nations, and the power of young Africans...

Senegal and Democracy in Africa

Since it gained independence from France in 1960, Senegal has never had a coup — military or civilian. Increasingly strong and competitive democracy has been the norm for Senegal, and the country’s civil society went out in great force over the past three years of Sall’s term to enforce those norms.

“I think that it is really the victory of the democratic institutions — the government, but also civil society organization,” Sany said. “They were mobilized, from the unions, teacher unions, workers, NGOs. The civil society in Senegal is one of the most experienced, well-organized democratic institutions on the continent.” Senegalese civil society also pushed back against former President Abdoulaye Wade’s attempt to cling to power back in 2012, and the Senegalese people voted him out...

Faye will still have his work cut out for him accomplishing the goals he campaigned on, including economic prosperity, transparency, food security, increased sovereignty, and the strengthening of democratic institutions. This will be important, especially for Senegal’s young people, who are at the forefront of another major trend.

Young Africans will play an increasingly key role in the coming decades, both on the continent and on the global stage; Africa’s youth population (people aged 15 to 24) will make up approximately 35 percent of the world’s youth population by 2050, and Africa’s population is expected to grow from 1.5 billion to 2.5 billion during that time. In Senegal, people aged 10 to 24 make up 32 percent of the population, according to the UN.

“These young people have connected to the rest of the world,” Sany said. “They see what’s happening. They are interested. They are smart. They are more educated.” And they have high expectations not only for their economic future but also for their civil rights and autonomy.

The reality of government is always different from the promise of campaigning, but Faye’s election is part of a promising trend of democratic entrenchment in Africa, exemplified by successful transitions of power in Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone over the past year. To be sure, those elections were not without challenges, but on the whole, they provide an important counterweight to democratic backsliding.

Senegalese people, especially the younger generation, have high expectations for what democracy can and should deliver for them. It’s up to Faye and his government to follow."

-via Vox, April 4, 2024

[unstableverse-headcanons]

idk if this counts as a hc or analysis, but season 1 is all about finding who you are and going on a self discovery journey- spoke finding who he is after losing jamato through the help of mapicc, minute, planet, quackenstein, becky, and rose (companionship); wemmbu finding herself with egg, zam, and all of the civs she was apart of (experience); and parrot sort of finds him through the deaths of luigi, dean, and wifies and also having been abandoned by district 13 (loss). while season 2 is more about desire? and not getting it- spoke wants the dragon egg/to be rich/leverage (idk anymore okay) but it always slips right out from under his fingers; wemmbu wants to settle down and live a life of peace, yet she's forced to go into battle once more and become a soldier, whether she wants to or not; and parrot WANTS companionship, but its taken away from him still in the form of nufuli dying, almost losing BAT, and finding out that his best friend who he thought was dead the whole time was manipulating his (parrot's) desires almost against him. flame is harder to explain, but i'd say he desires to uphold his image- he cant team with lomedy because he (lom) is weak, he fights this group of toxic players over and over again just because they insult his image as "the immortal demon". so far, that hasn't been stripped from him- i dont believe there's any character that is on par with flame's skill level yet holds that level of disrespect towards him- but its been spat on enough that its almost a given that he'll be weakened to a state where starts to doubt that himself, me thinks?

anyways, none of this makes sense. signing off!! -🌀🌸

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[squiglwigl]

Park civ but about a year after returning from the warrior layer god Evbo retrieves Seawatt’s spirit (he wouldn’t do this but life feels unbalanced, empty even, without him. He doesn’t know why he did it especially because he hates him so much, but he did it nonetheless) and curses him to watch over the parkour underworld and look after the dead (he needed someone to do it anyway and he needed to be punished even after death. as well as an excuse to keep coming back to seawatt…), but it’s not so bad because Evbo comes every once in a while to check up on him. Every time Evbo comes to visit, Seawatt’s blood is on fire, but every time Evbo’s gone he finds himself wishing for him to visit again. Evbo is satisfied seeing Seawatt’s rage, but every time he leaves, he almost feels regret, which always pulls him back to check up on Seawatt, but the satisfaction is still just enough for him to keep Seawatt there. Idk something like that. Something about the contrast and harmony of Evbo watching over the living and Seawatt watching over the dead. Something about the magnet of fate always inevitably bringing them back together in some way. Something about them being equal and opposite to each other. I am so normal about them

Lmk if i should flesh this out more i would add more details but it’s already looking too cluttered

Alternatively, Evbo uses his god power to see where seawatt’s soul ended up and finds that cookie gods last action as god was to send seawatt to become death/ whatever he’s doing/ watching over the dead but i feel like this one’s less interesting than evbo doing it

[pineconnie]

TWO MOOTS ASKED FOR SOGGY DUO(/dead wife polycule) AU YAY MORNING GUYS (ranting under cut cause idk if itll be long LMAO)

ok so i THINK this takes place like in between s1 and s2, not just a s2 rewrite ^_^ EUGH im tired this is gonna be in dot points i fear

after s1 parrot spends a good amount of time at their snow house, bc its the last thing they have of him, except it feels wrong to be in a warm house without wifies there so a LOT of this time is spent just sitting at wifies' grave lost-dog style

ken and wato are the only other people who come to wifies grave (or you can add other people to the dead wife polycule if u want idk), the first few times are just ken, she tries to ignore parrot as MUCH as possible cause this aint about them (kenrrot still constantly get pulled together by the wifies string of fate but. for now ken is trying to not acknowledge that pull as much as possible. they have their doom later maybe)

^ parrot does try to talk to her a few times, but they get shut down immediately (ken also tries to visit a few times when parrot isn't there bc she cant talk to wifies grave properly with someone else there)

after maybe like. a week? idk, wato visits by herself !! (idk what kenwato is doing atm but it feels like theyre in a breakup in s2 and its KILLING ME- wato also self isolated after wifies' death so idk)

soggy duo interactions r a lot less rage fueled - wato says she can leave if they need (she has not talked to anyone since wifies atp) parrot makes a very poor attempt at pretending theyre not desperate for her to stay

their conversation is the first thing that makes parrot feel like wifies is there, wato is the only person whos talked about wifies without it being laced with "you did this to him, this is what YOU and everyone else lost" (wato and parrot both denial/nostalgia-stage maxxing)

wato leaves, it feels empty again, so parrot finds her the next day and tries to convince wato to let them stay in the least soggy way possible (its soggy duo though you KNOW they failed) ((wato lets them stay though))

parrot starts asking them about farming civ, pre-uu etc. in a poorly-veiled attempt to ask about wifies that wato sees right through and gets pissed at them for it like "youre not the only one mourning him" (this is the scene i tried writing dialogue for and failed LMAO) and parrot fairly quickly folds, apologises, and they sit in very tense silence for a little bit

then, wato does end up talking about wifies (in farland civ) , except its just about how much he defended and worried about parrot, how much parrot hurt him, how sometimes it felt like wato was hurting from it more than wifies bc of how much he tried to hide it

parrot talks ab how they meant to apologise but they thought they had more time, wato understands but they dont give them absolution or anything

they DO help each other get through the grief a little i think. parrot stops wato from isolating herself, wato lets parrot be able to talk about their grief while also being able to tell them off for doing Parrot Things, they are slightly SLIGHTLY healthy trust!!!

they get doomed with it though (maybe qpr-ful who knows) and eventually seperate again ILL FIGURE OUT HOW ok those r all my thoughts i think (except this kinda goes with the watfies au for wato's experience in this but watfies au is. so long im not posting it again) SORRY THIS IS SO LONG

@pancake-x2 @mangocurist HAI MOOTS :DD

[communistcatboi]

Hi zero people asked but here are some of my (very random) headcanons for PvP Evbo:D

1: he has dark hair naturally, the iron swords cut off his bleached hair to be cruel so now he has a black buzzcut

2: I think PvP Evbo would like Hello kitty and also Penelope Scott's music idk he just kinda gives me that vibe..

3: it did stop hurting after a while. He can only really tell he's been stabbed because the blood feels warm and sticky and his vision gets blurry. Everything feels very far away otherwise. Bro just has really bad dissociation I guess

4: here have my PvP Evbo Spotify playlist!!!

[mistydeyes]

HI😽 kind of hard to explain, but what about like civ!gn!reader x gaz and it’s pretty early in their relationship and the reader meets 141 or his friends or are at some sort of outing with other people or something and like it’s so obvious how smitten reader is with him and it’s noticeable to everyone whereas kyle doesn’t notice much or at all, and is pretty much oblivious to it? like they’re pretty much enchanted by him yk?

like for example; kyle is casually talking about something with the group, reader is sat next to him and he isn’t looking at her as much (bc he’s engaged w what he’s saying and the conversation) but reader is just totally admiring him, starstruck by him. an enamored, infatuated look on their face. just staring at him, not listening much just because they’re just so captivated by him? idk i hope this makes sense!!

maybe during or afterwards, someone lets him know their observations (i can totally imagine it being soap or alex lol, or price in a fatherly kind of way [if it’s 141])

feel free to ignore this especially if it doesn’t make sense! i wasn’t sure how to explain or if it did correctly but i hope i did! THANKS!❤️❤️💕 (sorry if this is long😭😭)

thank you so much for requesting this anon! i feel like this it totally possible for him because while he may be a genius on the field, he gives a lil clueless vibe w relationships

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summary: Despite being such an intelligent and observant soldier, Kyle can be a bit dense. After a chance meeting, you two have been dating casually but you are left wanting more. You think it’s a big step when you meet the 141 but the night goes for the worst. Can someone talk some sense into him?

pairing: Kyle "Gaz" Garrick x civilian!gn!Reader

warnings: swearing

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“Are you sure this is okay, Kyle?” you asked as you adjusted your jeans and black shirt. “Mhmm” he replied, without giving you a second look. You tried to hide your nervousness behind a smile but your hands gave it away. You were meeting Kyle’s teammates for the first time and wanted to make a good impression. Despite him reassuring you it would be alright, you still had butterflies in your stomach at the thought. What if you weren’t good enough? You were meeting his captain for god's sake! As you scanned the crowded pub behind him, you hoped you would make it out of this date alive.

“They should be here somewhere,” he reassured, taking a look above the conversing heads and cheers of drinks. “Ah there they are!” he said finally locating the high top at the corner of the busy bar. Without a second look, he maneuvered to the table and you attempted to follow his long stride. You managed to dodge the splash of beer as you reached behind Kyle. “Took us a minute to find you,” he said breathlessly, “Like I said last week this is Y/N.” He gestured to you and you gave a small wave to the group.

“Y/N, our person of the hour!” one of his friends remarked, you assumed it was Johnny based on his thick accent. “Nice to meet you all,” you smiled and you took a free seat beside Kyle. “Mind reminding me of your names again?” you asked politely, It’s not like you didn’t know who they were but you appreciated the clarification. In fact, once you differentiated Simon and Johnny, the entire group and the stories Kyle had told you fell into place. “Gaz, you want to do the honors?” one of them asked but he was already diving head first into the drinks menu.

“Ah I guess I’ll do it,” Johnny said as he cleared his throat. You crossed your hands, preparing for this presentation. “Well here we have Simon,” he said as he gestured to the quiet man who took up a majority of the corner with his broad frame, “doesn’t say much so don’t be bothered.” You nodded as he pointed to the older man who sat drinking a scotch that looked more than your paycheck, “I’m sure you’ve heard of our Captain Price.” Again you nodded and Price stuck out a hand for you. “You can call me John.” “And finally,” Johnny said bringing the attention back to him, “I’m Johnny Mactavish.” You gave a round of applause to his fantastic introductions.

“Well I think you deserve a round for that,” you smiled and Johnny’s eyes lit up, “plus I’m sure Kyle knows what he wants by now.” You smiled at him but his gaze was plastered to the decorations on the wall. “Yeah, and you?” he asked and you smiled at the brief acknowledgement. “Just a rum and coke, my typical order.” You gestured the bartender over and ordered everyone a round of drinks. Your ears rang from their jeers and words of gratitude. “Anything for those who keep Kyle safe,” you smiled as you looked back at him but once again, his eyes were looking somewhere else.

Sensing the lull in silence, Soap spoke up. “So uh did Kyle ever tell you why we call him Gaz?” You shook your head as the bartender returned with your drinks. “He hasn’t actually,” you smiled, “heard he had a fun nickname.” “It’s more of a call sign for us but ever since he joined he’s been Gaz to us,” Simon spoke up as he sipped his chilled bourbon. “Well it all started when I finished basic,” Kyle began and you looked at him. You loved when he spoke about something, especially when he talked to an attentive group. He was a natural storyteller and captivated his audience.

He took a sip of his pint before he started his story. “A buddy of mine said that it was a tradition, something your platoon decides on and he threw a few out there,” he continued and laughed at the memory. He could tell you the most mundane instruction and you loved the way his lips curved into a smile after every statement and how he held eye contact with those who were listening. You could completely drown out all the other extraneous noise and just tune in to the Kyle Garrick radio. “Anyways what started as Garrick turned into Gar and eventually a Lieutenant passed by and just said to call me Gaz,” he concluded and Johnny laughed at the ending.

“And we thought it was more than that,” he joked and everyone joined in. Kyle’s laugh was infectious to you and you suppressed your giggles with your hand. He smiled at the slight jab, sipping out of his glass that was collecting condensation. “Not everyone can be called something like ‘Soap’” he shrugged. You noted to yourself to remember all of these silly little names that were such a foreign concept to you. You’d have to circle back to Simon and John. As the two continued to trade insults and laugh, you finished your drink. You were happy because Kyle was happy. You hoped this wouldn’t be the last time you would be meeting such an interesting group.

Eventually, Simon put an end to their banter and the conversation moved on. “So are you two a couple?” John asked and before you could reply, Kyle beat you to it. “Just have been dating a month or so, nothing official yet,” he replied casually. “Five months,” you mumbled and under the roar of the bar, only Simon heard you. Maybe that was the best way to put it but you wanted something more permanent. Something less fleeting and unemotional. You tried to suppress your disappointment but the tension in the air was evident. You tried to think of an escape route. “I’m gonna go get another drink, I’ll go to the other end of the bar,” you said as you glanced at the swamped counter, “they look busy.” You grabbed your wallet and hopped off the stool, mingling through the crowd.

When you left, Johnny immediately attacked Kyle. “Okay Gaz,” he said calling the attention to himself. “What the fuck are you doing?” he asked suddenly and Kyle turned to him, surprised. “What do you mean?” “That ray of sunshine is clearly into ya and you’re like a sheet of cardboard,” he boasted and the rest of the table nodded. Kyle turned to see you trying to make your way to the bar amongst the crowded room of patrons. “We’ve been dating for a month, I don’t want to make things too serious,” he replied as he turned back to the group. “You should see how they look at you,” Price began, “it’s like you created the stars in the sky.” Despite his efforts on the field and in recon, Gaz strained to remember those recent moments. “I’m just saying,” Price lectured, putting a hand on Kyle’s shoulder, “they’re someone worth putting the effort into.”

As Price loosened his grip, Kyle turned to see you struggling to get the bartender’s attention. “Listen to us, a table of a bunch of single blokes,” Johnny said with a laugh. Kyle laughed along nervously but got up from the table. “I’ll be right back,” he said and his departure was met with hollers from Johnny. As you sighed in defeat as the bartender helped another patron, you felt Kyle hold your waist from behind. “Over here!” he called and in a few moments, the bartender returned to take your order. “They’ll have a rum and coke,” he ordered and you couldn’t help but smile a little wider at his good memory. “This one’s on me, love,” he said as you looked up at him.

“Thanks, Kyle, I appreciate it,” you replied with a slight smile. Before you could turn to get your drink, Kyle placed a hand on your cheek. “Hey uh would you want to be something more permanent?” he questioned and you couldn’t help but be surprised. “Oh Kyle, if this is something your buddies said then–“Before you could finish, he interjected. “No,” he said with a smile, “actually I’m glad you get along with them, they’re a bit of a mixed bag.” You looked over to the group and let out a laugh as Johnny tried to get Simon to take a shot with him. “They’re great, real good people you work with,” you pursed your lips before replying, “but I think I’d like that.” He kissed you softly and you swear you could hear your table cheer. “I really like you, Kyle,” you giggled, almost as if this was a school crush confession. “Good, I don’t know what I’d say if the person I fancied said no,” you both shared a laugh as you returned.

As Kyle checked his phone quickly, Johnny shot you a quick wink. You didn’t know what happened when you left but you were glad that this group looked out for Kyle– not just on the field. As Simon and John held a drunken Johnny up and helped him into an Uber, you felt Kyle interlace his fingers with yours. “Not too early for some PDA?” he questioned and you shook your head. “Never.”

[confessioncivilization]

ok so, the new episode was cool. did a lot happen? not really. did it set up the rest of chapter 2 well? yes. so i am very excited for the next episodes!!!

heres some random things that stood out to me i suppose?? (not in order probably because my brain cant remember the sequence of events)

- um hello seawatt you arent... you arent supposed to be here.... my guy....... uhhh..... get out.....

- cool animated scene goes hard as always. the tabi part at end was very sad. please come back and give my boy a fist bump. :(

- not that much of the other diamond swords, but its nice... i like when they help evbo buy his shit. very nice. they are bonding!!!!

- retail therapy mention

- parrot and zam !?!?!? i am intrigued. tell me more. please?

- evbo going completely overkill the first try with the flint and steel. and it not working. and it being a sword not a bow. and then when he actually gets it he has to be super modest w the amount of fire cuz he used all of the durability.

- the bow civ looks very different. i think thats neat

- imagining seawatt just standing there for like ever while evbo yaps. like "bro please stfu. please stop so i can kill you. oh my god does this guy ever shut up. please." i need to draw this actually

- why is seawatt here why is seawatt here why is seawatt here why is seawatt here

- clownpierce is ACTUALLY here?!?!???? deadliest diamond axe in the deadliest pvp civilization ahh character

- i need to know what happens next. cool fight scene? somebody run away? seawatt lore drop? they gay kiss?

uhh yeah im happy cuz i got to watch it when it got posted since i don't have school today yayyyy

i might do a predictions/hopes/dreams or hcs thing later... idk...

-pvp civ lunch person

I feel like the fanart for this episode is boutta go so hard. Already plotting one out in my head. Bowwatt honestly is kinda a w but lets be real, hes only here to appeal to the seavbo yaoi agenda and thats really based of him. Clown and tabi is gonna be such an insane duo omg hehehe

[nonsensical-pixels]

hey everyone,

my grandpa passed away earlier today, after a three month battle with cancer. it was a long time coming and he's been deteriorating fast but i just feel so numb whenever i think about it. i guess it's shock.

he was the father figure i looked up to most in my life and was the person that got me into the sims, and gaming in general--i'm crying right now just thinking of my childhood spent playing with my ipad on his lap while he he played civ 5 on his gaming PC.

i'm sorry but i just can't continue looking at this blog without him around. the sims isn't the same without him, nothing is, all of my computers, phones, anything electronic in this house is his. everything's changed all of a sudden and i just can't deal with it right now.

i'm sorry to leave this blog again when i've just gotten back to posting more regularly, but it's all too much. i have school, my siblings, and a funeral to worry about. i can't barrel through everything playing sims anymore like i used to do. i have to face this head on.

there's still some stuff in the queue to keep you guys occupied i guess, for a couple more weeks. i won't be adding any more or fixing it for... idk how long after this post. it's just, all too much

goodbye, - ky

[freakinator]

question about uu if that’s okay! I saw your post on how to get into the content and figured you’d be pretty knowledgeable, since you had talked about stuff about the character’s inner story and stuff like that. Hopefully this doesn’t sound too demanding—so answer only if you want! I appreciate it a ton!!

I know it’s heinous to read a wiki instead of watching the source material, but dude I simply do not have time to sit through 20+ hours of content just to find characterization references for my fic writing. (And even then, the UU wiki doesn’t have much yet.) Though I’m almost caught up with the second arc—kill me, I know—I still can’t seem to place Wemmbu’s motives. He clearly wants to get stronger, and doesn’t particularly care about mafia dealings, but why? Why does he do any of the things he does? What on earth is going on with this guy 😭

I know the answer is in the previous episodes, but I have adhd and I cannot stay present long enough to pick out the details I need lol

its okay dw! i have. very low standards as to who i answer cause i dont like ignoring ppl unless im taking a long time to answer lol

i havent caught up with any episode beyond wemmbus sky civ one so if this is in regard to anything past that then idk but wemmbus motivations for eps 1 & 2 was to catch and kill spoke because wemmbu thinks hes an existential threat after listening in on a conversation he had with jamatoP

for ep 3 it was to return a favor to zam cause he thought he owed her at least until he figured out for sure that zam was planning to betray him

for eps 4 & 5 he wanted to get richer and stronger so he can destroy zam's life just as she destroyed his even if it meant destroying his own in the process as well which he managed to do at the end of ep 5 but then he and zam both got captured by clown

in ep 6 he went back and forth between wanting to be friendly and hostile to zam (and pangi somewhat) while they tried to escape clowns prison, they ended on a hostile note and everyone who got imprisoned, including egg, got taken by the invis mafia (tho at this point wemmbu had No idea who the invis mafia actually were as he did not have any real direct contact with them before this and they were essentially framed as just regular guards who happened to be invis)

in ep 7 for some reason wemmbu and zam became buddy-buddy and also got captured together so his motivation was to get out of the escape room together with him so that he can go find egg, at the end of it clown threatened wemmbu by threatening egg

in ep 8 wemmbu was actually planning to retire at a lil skyblock island at spawn before some invis mafia members accosted him, this was the first time he ever made direct contact with invis mafia members and was naturally confused about what they were up to so he decided to follow them. unfortunately for him he found sky civ instead, at the end of it is when he actually had any real idea what an actual threat the invis mafia really were although he still didnt get to witness it

so yeah ep 8 was when he started really figuring out what a threat the invis mafia actually were so naturally he didnt really care about them until that point, well that plus he doesnt really care about the server in general that much -- thats not to say he Only cares about his direct interests, he isnt really appreciative of things he deems overly cruel for example even if he tolerates them at first (disapproving of zam preferring prisons over executions, stepping in when ro fighting for his civilization even if he knows it would kill him when it became overtly clear he was gonna die, keeping jarons secret despite the fact he despises him), but if it doesnt concern him or his interests (the prison breakers going missing, spokes wherabouts after he started hard focusing on zam, what the treasure hunters do for a living) generally speaking he doesnt care about it but if it does then he'll take action to solve it even if it kills him (revenge against zam, going against clown) and he will Always prioritize his direct interests (was supposed to blow up rek's tree in ep 4 for a job that would get him a fuckton of money and didnt care about the fact that rek was missing or any of parrot and wifies' reasonings and pleas until parrot pointed out that doing so will make him just like zam, switched his plan of attack on the pze after egg got captured, works with ppl he hates and tries to get on their good side for as long as he needs them, has stated that he has a history of betraying ppl if its in his best interest)

tldr:

his motivation boils down to 4 things: revenge, safety, the ppl he cares about, and his own principles

while hes not Completely self-interested he does tend to value his own priorities over everything else and the reason he didnt really care about the invis mafia until way later in the show is cause they just straight up werent relevant to him until after the princezam arc aka the first 7 eps

[mellohiizz]

To me, parrot is so 'free bird that doesn't want to be chained down' coded

If you think abt it, every option that he had that any form of 'safe' restrained him from living his life

-the obsidian box that Leo gave him, when he was first chased down by clown

-the jungle house that he had, refraining himself from indirectly hurting other people and also to keep himself safe

-proton prison, where he was somewhat safe (according to ken) but a place where he couldn't do anything

-maybe end civ, if you really think abt it, a place of supposed safety, millions block away from society (kinda similar to jaron's now that I think abt it and we all know how that went lol)

-and wifies, who was willing to do anything to keep parrot safe, even if it meant restraining him from doing his righteous shit, a partial chain from him being a free bird

Side note :

I love parrot's allay, iirc he said that the allay was a symbol of hope and friendship, maybe he meant it in a sense that he thinks, that no matter how much they separated, no matter how much they lost each other, they will always come back

Also side note :P :

If you think abt it, that allay is the only thing that has that he can keep for himself, wifies and dean are their own people, the emerald and the book were and always will be Luigi's, parrot has lost so much in his episodes

Wifies, his safety, the end civ, maybe partially his savior thing when he lost Luigi

Maybe the reason that he had when he tried to save his allay, was bcs he didn't have anything else, that the allay was the only meaningful thing that he could have for himself, that could maybe keep safe

Idk if this is a good take or not, I just has this I my head for a while :P

ohhhh, actually, a really good take, i completely agree with everything. parrot is a very free bird, pun intended.

he always refused to let people put him into restrictions and openly defied every possible rule that kept him from doing something he wanted to do. even if it put him in danger, he always stood his own ground, especially in the latest videos.

he doesn't let anything hold him back, seemingly even when it comes to someone like wifies, who's the closest person to him. that seems to be both his biggest strength and his fatal flaw.

because yes, it helps him get out of the situations a lot, but it also causes him to put himself and others into said situations in the first place, and it also causes him to tunnel vision on things and overlook anything else that's important. like how he tunnel visioned on avenging luigi's death, or whatever his driving point right now is, and completely ignore what was in the background. (dean and wifies conflict, dean's reasoning for what he did, wifies' concern over him)

also. the allay. GOD that stupid little thing. i've seen a few takes on what the allay might represent and honestly, i most agree with either the allay being a representation of hope—as stated earlier in the series, the only thing that they always had, that parrot always had. or it could be a representation of luigi's lingering spirit, because that also seemed to be a theme the whole episode. i, personally, like to think that it's a mix of both.

[aipurjopa]

ive deemed you to be very fucking silly do you wanna yap about anything? (go wild. literally anything.)

HIHIHIHIIHIHII okay so i don't have muchhh to yap about buuuut i did wanna say hi and yes, i'm SO fucking silly i hope i'm the silliest guy you've ever met

ummm i guess i'll rant about that new unstable vid from parrot then (heh)

BIG SPOILERS FOR UNSTABLE !!!!

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THE PART WITH WIFIED KEN AND PARROT ON THE FLYING MACHINE MADE ME CACKLE. I have so many questions. it's all staged so why did parrot actually have them stay up all night. or at least it sounds like they did because of wifies reaction to being woken up. how tf did ken mistake an enderman for a person (probably cause he was half asleep). how did parrot pitch this part of the recording: "hey guys you wanna stay up all night to move these villagers. for the bit."

Also idk if anyone else but me noticed (i'm crazy) but in the scene where uu!parrot meets up with uu!ken before they do the villager thing the track that plays is the same track from the proton escape vid during the end screen. I think it's cool cause it's like picking back up from where things left off last video (pulling uu!ken's stasis and the viewer not seeing if it worked to now confirmation that yes, uu!ken is alright).

Also I think it's cool how uu!ken and uu!parrot always seem to oppose each other in recent videos. uu!ken who at the end of everything still has a home, still has a stasis in the overworld, still has a way to be free vs uu!parrot who doesn't have that. uu!parrot who has no place to call home, who can't return to the overworld, who can't be free when he's trapped in the end.

it's cool because it's almost like a reverse on what they wanted during the proton escape. uu!ken who wants a place to be safe and if locking himself into a prison is the way to do it, then so be it (uu!parrot being locked in the end and "at least it's okay because i'm making a safe nation.") and uu!parrot who wants to get everyone free (uu!ken who now is one of the few who is able to freely go between every dimension as he pleases). i think it's really cool who their characters sort of oppose each other in this sense.

also uu!dean was really cool lol. i really liked having a guy who is sorta bad at the game and needs a place to go that the main character ends up doing everything for a lot. that and the whole "i'll remember it" quote at the end of the episode. parrot and wifies have seen nations be leveled to the ground, they both are probably numb to it. the new folks (emphasized by dean's character specifically) haven't ever experienced this sort of rise and fall before. to them this civilization was special, it's what saved them, how could they forget it?

sorry uu!dean for thinking you'd betray parrot in the civ vid and sorry uu!ken for thinking you'd betray parrot in the proton escape.

other random stuff from the video: ken has green and yellow fireworks and also the shield #branding, parrot constantly trying to go through the portal (it won't work), the update to cross dimension pearls being revealed by ken who has NO idea why this could be bad (everyone else in the call panicked), and also how while parrot is losing his mind about the mole wifies and ken are just having a silly little chat in the sewer lol

[airysthinkingbox]

OH ALMOST FORGOT. i've been also thinking. Wifies became Director to protect Parrot, because Parrot keeps putting himself into dangerous situations for no real reasons and he doesn't believe in Parrot's ability to keep himself safe. it Would still make sense if it's about Wemmbu, it would even make MORE sense, because from some point Wemmbu starts straight-up not caring about himself (as in: staying alive or gaining anything for himself other than proof that he's strong enough or revenge). but the thing is. he gets much more self-destructive after Rejoice's death, so he would become much more self-destructive because of Wifies' fake death too. and while Wifies keeps an eye on him like he did with Parrot, it should be devastating to him too, to see Wemmbu like this

and. idk. would Egg exist in this AU? would he be with Wemmbu or some other protagonist? but. if Wemmbu is literally left completely alone after Wifies' fake death. then the only leverage Wifies could have on him is himself

FALLS DOWN A STAIRS AND DIES?????? 😭😭😭😭😭

wifies would honestly have such a much more valid reason to become the director if he were with wemmbu honestly simply because of how self sacrificing she is. just in canon, before the finale, wemmbu had saved egg on multiple occasions when she didn't have to and moreso burdened her (my favorite examples being after the pze war and the flame fight in the training episode), fought for a nation that literally kept her as a slave, kept making excuses for zam (emotionally self sacrificing), and let others get out of fights while she stayed on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS.

i can imagine it would be a little better with wifies? he, unlike egg (no shade tho), has more knowledge of the game and especially of how people work. i'd imagine wemmbu's self destructive habits wouldn't exactly "fly" under wifies' authority, but it would still happen, like with pze and sky civ. i can imagine that he's thinking "this is to protect her" and then has to watch as wemmbu further deteriorated after his "death". if wemmbu was careless in fights after the death of someone she knew for barely a week tops? she's probably initiating the fights if someone she knew from basically the START OF THE SERVER and has been with her for the longest time, died.

[angeldeviloshi]

Thoughts on AsaYoru protagonism somewhat shared in Kenzou's protagonism in Buddy Stories.

(Buddy Stories spoilers under cut.)

Tbh it's a shame we don't actually get to see how Yoru's confrontation w Falling went, but this is also in line with the skips on Asa's work at the Church which still plays into my protagonism thoughts.

In a way I think the detective story of Buddy Stories functions as a nice comparison point in terms of AsaYoru and Denji's protagonism wrt perspective and their respective value systems that drive it as weird as it probably sounds... (Buddy Stories liveblog excerpt listed under cut)

The way the narration provides the civillians' persp. of what PS devil hunters handle and their reaction/awe to hearing Makima's name and just the fact that Denji and Power are from PS, adds a nice layer of exposition not just in the gap between PS/civs but also to the reader if this is their entry to CSM. In a way the reader is put in Kenzou's shoes here as he experiences DenPawa for the first time, but this could also be new info introduced to you about csm's world if this is your first piece of media about csm somehow. So on the one hand, you have manga/anime fans who know the personal stories of the main cast and this is supplementary material in a slightly different lens as a treat. And you have people potentially reading this knowing nothing about the main cast past what the story lays out for you for the premise of the short story and get fed info about the greater setting and there being more to these characters you can check out from the source material. Either way it builds context to play with.

The narration emulates Power's ego when it shifts into her side of the story by playing into her genius detective roleplay and Kenzou is now playing along with her to monitor what her and Denji are really sent here for.

The thing that sticks out to me more as mentioned before is the way Kenzou and his lens is presented in framing the narrative. And it reaches the point where he pretty much became the main character by the end of it while also being a story about Power's day in the limelight. And it playing into the parallels in the shared role with Aki as the tsukkomi, the "normal" one in Aki's absence while being a civillian devil hunter, trying to align himself with how he thinks PS operates down to being a young adult wielding the same weapon and the group's voice of reason. Esp. with the context that this took place after Eternity Arc where that dichotomy of normal/screws loose presented in Himeno, Kishibe, Aki was first introduced. And before Katana Arc where it's cemented in the reader with Kishibe's training and Himeno's death as its applied and passed on to Denji as well in his bond with Aki. Kenzou's actions mirror Aki's in Eternity while ultimately also not being Aki in the way he lacks Aki's disciplined coldness that he ingrains in himself under PS. And this difference between them highlighted in Kenzou's failure of getting into PS is noteworthy along w Aki's absence as his stand-in. Esp in Kenzou's dynamic with Power where the tsukkomi/boke routine is as straightforward as you get. He's the normal guy amongst the normal guys framing the narrative inside the hotel while Power has her own detective thing going on. Similarly to how Aki himself also frames much of early part 1 to the reader as the "normal guy" which circles back in the way Aki and MAKIMA discussed the truth of the hotel and the case. Yet they're also caught in their own delusions/projections as unreliable narrators despite positioned as more level-headed and reasonable than someone like Power, presented as the utter illogical chaos that Kishibe touts as the devil hunter ideal that PS devil hunters should aspire to be. And Kenzou's rejection of that as he sees what it entails in Power, Denji, Makima and Aki amongst the gruesome corpses of the people he came with, he talked to, he worked with. Idk if I'm making sense here with this lol. I guess what I'm trying to say is Kenzou is very much this outsider looking in both as a non-PS guy given narrative status to show us his side and a character in this side story to the main cast, but also as a sort of cautionary tale of the lens early part 1 presents us with through Aki's narrative status and his connection/influence with Himeno and Kishibe (PS) that leads into Denji's Chainsaw Man legacy & cycle.

[ladytauria]

This but jaytim https://www.tumblr.com/cemeterything/739420982161326080/and-needless-to-say-the-mask-stays-on-during-sex

ohhhhh 👀

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secret identities / identity porn is one of my favorite tropes and this is SUCH a good take on it.

my brain goes two places with this—

the first is to civilian tim & red hood, working together for [ insert reason ] and tim being viciously protective of jason’s identity, even from himself <3 they start to fall for each other, but jason isn’t… ready to reveal. maybe for insecurity reasons, maybe because he doesn’t know how to explain everything, maybe it’s trust issues, maybe it’s all of the above.

at the same time, he has feelings, and acting on them with tim not knowing who he is feels wrong. tim doesn’t feel the same way, though—it’s fine if jason isn’t ready, tim still likes him, still wants him. he doesn’t mind waiting, and he doesn’t want jason to deny himself something he wants especially after all the ways he’s protected people <3

besides, he knows jason. he doesn’t need to see his face / all of his face. (“and the [mask/hood] is hot.”)

(EDIT: RIP, i hit post too soon!!! pls ignore for now EDIT 2: fixed)

however, the SECOND place my brain goes is a prompt i was given a while ago—although. the first does make me think of another prompt i have…—as well as some (non jaytim) fics i’ve read recently.

but thinking about jason, who works as a prostitute while trying to get his GED / save up for college, and red robin!tim. i cant decide what i like better though; the slow build of feelings as red robin shows up, using jason as an informant, or that + an adding complication of red robin being hit by sex pollen, and their trysts continuing after. (especially since jason didn’t even TRY to look under the cowl/mask~ he never does)

lots of angst, too—jason not feeling worthy of seeing whose behind the mask, and/or “knowing” he doesn’t mean that much to red robin. meanwhile tim afraid to tell jason who he is bc his civ identity is so many of the things that jason hates <3 afraid that he’ll lose all of jason’s affection and trust…

idk.

thank u for sending this nonny, i will be turning it over in my head~ (& you may see it incorporated into one of those, esp the second, since that concept has already been rotating in my mind a while)