#ch194

[nagirambles]

Rambling about Fairies - Manga Chapter 174

First of all, I love that Gajeel is the one making this call. I want more Gajeel acting like the oldest of the dragons slayers, as he is.

So, this scene implies a few things that we don't ever go into depth about in the story-- about mixing magics. Unison raids, basically, but we don't explore unison raids much either! Maybe there are consequences to recklessly fusing them, like going out of control, cancelling each other out, self-destructing, etc. And for Dragon Slayers, the most direct way of making a unison raid would be mixing breaths. I've gone down the list of how all their breaths differ, and that's why all of these are so facinating to mix. Gajeel and Natsu mixing makes molten steel shards. I wish we could've seen mixtures like Wendy and Laxus making a thunderstorm, or Wendy and Cobra making a poisonous epidemic. Would Natsu and Rogue mix to make invisible fires, like ethanol fire?

It would be a fun way to explore the limitations of this. For example, we never see the implications of opposing elements mixing. What if Sting and Rogue's unison raid would be revolutionary in magic history?

[uwusayssnake]

Snake in ch.193, 194 & 195

[catcas22]

Prince of Death ch194

Prince of Death - Chapter 194 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

[bidokja]

as much as i complain and will continue to complain about the orv webtoon...credit where credit is due ch194 fucking hits

[abybweisse]

Ch196 (p3), Enter Theodore

Theodore shows up and changes the whole mood. As I said in an earlier post, the Gerbera daisies have the hanakotoba meaning of "optimism", while what appear to be hawthorn haws carry the meaning of "hope".

Everyone stops and stares at him, even when he's walking in silence.

He's got a way with horses, too. It's as if he creates a sense of tranquility in his wake.

He gets her to feed a carrot to the horse, and now she's not so afraid. She's even willing to ride again.

We did see him earlier, back in ch194, I think. But we didn't know his name. We just knew he was in Pomeranian class... and very much looking the part. Fenian Cycle and Latin Dictionary and all.

Ok, so what's with his name? Theodore means "God's gift" or "gift of god". Looks like some kind of horse -- or child -- whisperer.

Editor K tweeted that Theo's holding the key to this story. I assume he means this assignment. But what does Theo know? I'll get into that a bit more in a later post.

Let's hope Finny and Snake end up considering him to be a gift....

[midnightfire830]

Forgive me if this has been asked before but with your ghost!AU how differently did cupheads encounter with the night terror go in CH194? Considering he's technically already dead?

Ok big spoilers for the Labyrinth first

It hasn’t been asked yet but I’ve already thought about it and had something fleshed out, but I’m gonna be honest I completely forgot what I had decided. (I have the bad habit of just talking about my AUs in discord with my friends but never recording anything) But I believe I have three ideas figured out that might work?

1. Night terror surprised him and didn’t give him the chance to phase/turn into a ghost to avoid getting hurt.

2. Like the Night terror can eat shadows I guess the same rule can apply to ghosts? Or maybe the Night Terror can touch ghosts or maybe just Cup’s soul? I dunno??

3. Idk? Salt??

I’m not sure which one is more viable but those are my thoughts. TWT

And yes, while I guess he’s technically dead he CAN get hurt and die. He just can’t really be injured when he’s a ghost because he can phase through objects. Unless if there is somethign magic involved in which case that is an exception. But if he’s injured in his normal form, he could very well die from the wound. But usually if he does get hurt enough to possibly kill him he’ll just turn into a ghost. It stops the bleeding (bc there is no blood) and buys himself some time. It doesn’t work permanently because eventually he’d have to turn back into his normal form at some point.

And yes he could have turned into a ghost AFTER the night terror ate his heart to avoid dying but I’m chalking it up to either, “he died before he could do that” or “shock” XD

Anyway, thanks for the ask! Regardless of how shaky of a response that was!!!

[maramiri]

OA C1 author's notes

welcome to the new home for these stinky notes. man i can tell i was just so excited to share things with ppl smh.

anyway on with the show

Officially AU from 184, and of course, some events have been shuffled around so I could shoehorn them in (detailed notes at the bottom).

Mostly Tanjirō-centric with some Muzan sprinkled in every so often. Occasional Demon Slayer(s) POV; I’mma be real with you, they can probably be skipped if you don’t give a shit about the DS goons.

First arc’s song: Valky — Any Time

Astral projection: I am a very literal/gullible reader and I accept everything I read at face value, so there might be other people like me, heh. When Muzan talks about tethers, paths, lines, astral projection, etc, he is not literally doing any of that. It’s just visuals to help him (and readers) logic his way around as he uses his telepathy to bad-touch Tanjirō’s brain.

Notes regarding going AU from CH. 184:

Deaths: Nearly everyone should have survived, albeit with varying amounts of serious and non-serious injuries. I just can’t handle the death(s) of major characters ;w; Shinobu does NOT live (I wish I could have her live, ‘cos I hecking love her, but her death was a little too hard to come back from haha. I could think of a few scenarios where she manages to scrape by, but she ultimately doesn’t add anything to the plot so I have chosen to let her death have meaning). Oh, yeah, and Tamayo is officially dead but I mean… she died this chapter.

Sequence of events (in canon): I believe Yushirō’s cat delivering the remaining Tamayo drugs, her explanation of them, and Muzan searching through her cells to find the answer, all happen around CH. 191-ish. Since I couldn’t quite clearly tell if Muzan had drugs 1-3 inside of him already and needed 4, or if he only had 1-2 inside of him and needed 3-4 from the demon cat, I decided to have him be afflicted by all four when he was first initially poisoned, and then he learns everything about them from searching Tamayo’s cells while in the forest. While some side effects do remain from a plot standpoint, I don’t think the nuances of this particular scenario will affect my plot overall. Muzan will still definitely suffer side effects as a result of these poisons, but not to their full extent. [FUTURE HILDA HERE: pretty sure I misremembered and the cat actually injected healy-boopies into the good kids, but it still doesn't matter XD]

[Humanification] Well, he obviously doesn’t become human, and he canonically neutralizes it on his own so that’s out. Added bonus: he now knows how to reverse-reverse engineer what Tamayo did, meaning he could probably humanify anyone he wants? Because that’s something Muzan would do?

[Rapid Ageing] Yep, Muzan is now a 10,000 year old vampire loli daddy. The explanation takes place later after CH184, so therefore he wouldn’t have been 10,000 until that point, but that nuance is too much for my poor brain to figure out. Sure, I could use cues from the time announcements to figure out his proper age but…

[Cannot split apart] Well, he better not get caught like that ever again in the future kek

[Cell destruction at weak points inflicted by Yoriichi] This should still affect Muzan as well, but there isn’t really anyone available with the knowledge to take advantage of this weakness. Yushirō would know and would have told the other Slayers, but Tanjirō wouldn’t know, as this knowledge becomes known in like CH194-ish. Since Muzan knows about the drugs’ effects and/or is more careful, he will likely synthesize a ‘cure’ for the drugs in due time. As of now, his body is simply regenerating the damage. So I suppose he would treat them as permanent handicaps to his ‘energy reservoirs.’ In essence, his battle power has decreased (as he has stated in the manga). For the purpose of the fic, I would say his body has ‘naturally’ fought off the second stage of the drug and is attempting to autonomously decompose the third and then fourth stage. Muzan even considered dedicating his mental capacities to dealing with it, but obviously didn’t because he judged it to not be worth his effort and is fully confident his superior god-like body will take care of it—and if it doesn’t, I mean, he has all the time in the world (again) to deal with it later. Plus, like, he needs a lab and he’s currently shacking up with Tanjirō in a hole he dug up.

THE FOREST AND CAVE: I had to flip back and forth through so many chapters to make sure I wasn’t having a fever dream. (In the manga). There is a scene where Nezuko runs through a field of rice paddies towards the city, and in the distance are some spare forests and mountains. So… [roughly applies artistic license juice into your eyes] for my nefarious purposes, it is now a dense forest with a lot of random caves.

[cielsama14]

I saw this and wanted to know ITP for Doll

favorite thing about them

My favorite quality of Doll is her kindness in spite of her complicity with the kidnapping of children, how she’s the softie of the group and genuinely cared for “Smile” despite barely knowing him. The ambiguity with Doll’s gender is interesting too.

least favorite thing about them

I can’t think of anything I particularly dislike about Doll, but I guess it would be the scene of her trying to rip off Our!Ciel’s shirt to bathe him despite his protests.

favorite line

My favorite line from Doll is when she tells Bravat to stop hesitating.

This line was one of the reasons I expected Doll to be Canopus and I love how it hints at the change in character of the vengeful BD!Doll who would have presumably regretted being soft to Our!Ciel from her kinder human self.

brOTP

For bROTP, I guess Joker? I wish we could have seen more interactions between them but he really did mean a lot to her. There’s also the what could have been with Our!Ciel were it not for their circumstances.

OTP

I don’t ship Doll with anyone.

nOTP

The only Doll pairing I’ve ever really seen people ship is with Our!Ciel and I wouldn’t really say I’m against it so I guess I don’t have a nOTP for her.

random headcanon

I really only have headcanons for Real!Ciel and maybe a couple other characters but for Doll, I guess that Doll might have gotten involved with kidnapping the children a bit later than the rest of the circus troupe because of her age and softer nature.

unpopular opinion

I don’t really know what the popular and unpopular opinions about Doll are but in regards to Doll’s actions as a bizarre doll in the current arc, I think it would be best to wait and get a better idea of how the bizarre doll state works before judging her (since it’s not entirely clear how much agency she has). 

song i associate with them

I’ll just be boring and say the BoC opening Enamel lol

favorite picture of them

My favorite picture of Doll has to be the one on the Ch194 cover.

I love how Doll’s ability to walk on the tightrope is used to represent the tense gap between life and death of the bizarre doll state and how this cover parallels Real!Ciel’s chapter cover with Undertaker from Ch64.

[nonolullaby]

For the poor orphans to offer 'souls fit for Rciel's dead body', do they have to answer that they like 'strawberry cake', 'dogs' and 'killing with knives' best in a weird psychological test at the orphanage? LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

He is really lucky to have the INSANE reaper on his side :) 💀🎂🍰🍓🩸

[nanamispto]

Cw for mention of rape and incest

It’s weird to see ppl deny that Naoya might have made a rape joke and implied he assaulted Mai bc “it’s too dark for jjk/people are reading too much into it” like. There are already rapists in the cast of characters?? The abuse of women and misogyny of the jj system is a major element of the story??

[mqfx]

Just then, within the darkness of the hall, there seemed to be a touch of white flashing by. It was a curious appearance, and Xie Lian turned to look, but when he saw clearly what that touch of white was, the pupils underneath the mask shrank.

He snatched that thing and demanded, “What…What is this flower doing here?”

It was a fresh, tender, and weak little white flower, placed upon the left hand of that burnt black divine statue with missing limbs. The contrast made it appear particularly pure like snow, but also particularly bleak. It looked as if this divine statue had landed all those injuries in order to protect this little flower.

Xie Lian didn’t know why seeing this picture enraged him, and he shouted, “GHOST! COME OUT!”

Soon after, that black-clad warrior carrying a sabre appeared as expected. He hadn’t yet spoken before Xie Lian demanded, “What’s with this flower? Who did this? You did this?”

Wuming bowed his head slightly, and his gaze stopped for a moment on the flower that seemed to be crushed to suffocation in Xie Lian’s hand before finally, he said quietly, “It wasn’t me.”

“Then who could’ve done it??” Xie Lian exclaimed.

“Why does Your Highness become so irritated when seeing this flower?” Wuming asked.

Xie Lian’s face darkened, and he threw that flower onto the ground. “...A prank like this disgusts me.”

Wuming, however, said, “Why does Your Highness think it’s a prank? Perhaps, there truly are believers here who worship Your Highness.”

[nagirambles]

Rambling about Fairies - Manga Chapter 194

This scene is even cooler when we get told the dragons were inside them the whole time.

Honestly, I feel Fairy Tail is really damn strong among shounen for the true 'working together to defeat the enemy' type fights. Most shounen leave it all up to the main character-- yeah, even Fairy Tail does that a lot-- but when Fairy Tail has everyone work together, everyone is truly working together. Everyone is essential in the battle to earn our victory, no matter how big or small the contribution is.

It truly makes some fights feel like an intensive group effort, and that's so satisfying.

[opbackgrounds]

Zoro you have a building on top of you

[every-sanji]

I have to believe he's the one hanging onto the mast

[abybweisse]

@seekers-who-are-lovers informs me that Bianca Pistillo does the lettering and that Tomo Kimura still does the translation. Just weird to mention the author and the lettering person instead of the translator for ch195 when ch194 was listed by author and translator. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ch195, New translator?

Looks like ch195 has a new translator at Yen Press. Used to be Tomo Kimura. Now it says "Yana Toboso, Bianca Pistillo"....

I did point out some translation errors in ch194 to Yen Press, and a few from older chapters, long ago, but hmm 🤔. Lol I doubt that had much, if anything, to do with the change.

I sure hope there are fewer errors....

Well, I've preordered it now, through Kobo.

[iiloffy]

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