#didnt think so. checkmate

[odegoob]

okay but does city have THIS??

[trans-estinien]

whenever people dont like a thing (stormblood, dawntrail) that i like sometimes i feel stupid for liking it. but then its like. actually no i just dont have the haters spirit. i enjoy things even if theyre bad. im having fun and chilling and doing what i want. im not stupid.

[anglerflsh]

"the way you interacted with your peers gave you access to the gendered world" good thing I didn't do that then

[sunfudge]

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You're SO RIGHT let's hold hands and chant together and everything will be fine HE'S FINE

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

love chess metaphors in media but if i see a chessboard i will have to pause whatever im doing to set it up and try and solve it and get distracted

[skeletonmaster69]

now i wanna rewarch princess nd the frog...............

[vamptastic]

a lot of people are being lied to by their parents and teachers and pastors and a lot of people don't want to ever confront that fact. doesn't matter how much access to information has improved, i think the core of the issue is still primarily that people don't feel comfortable with changing their minds, whether it's because it'd isolate them from family, or because they'd have to confront that they were wrong or did something wrong. ive spoken to so many people my age where ive spent hours digging into their misfounded belief, figuring out what misinfo they were told and why, used the internet to firsthand show them exactly what lie they were told and empirical evidence of the truth, and then had them go, yeah, well, i still disagree. i mean, dont automatically assume someone is wrong because they have the same access to info as you and are just stupid, but willful ignorance is definitely still a thing.

[octopiys]

Some incorrect quotes and scenes for the pies

Roach: *Screams*

Ghost: *Screams louder to establish dominance*

Capt. MacTavish: Should we do something?

Capt. Price: No, I want to see who wins.

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Alejandro: You lying, cheating, piece of shit!

Valeria: Oh yeah? You’re the idiot who thinks you can get away with everything you do. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

Alejandro: I’m leaving you, and I’M TAKING RODOLFO WITH ME

Rodolfo, picking up the monopoly board: I think we’re gonna stop playing now.

Price: You know, not every problem can be solved with a knife.

Ghost: That's why I carry two knives.

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Soap: I made tea.

Ghost: I don’t want tea.

Soap: ....I did not make tea for you. This is my tea.

Ghost: Then why are you telling me?

Soap: It is a conversation starter.

Ghost: That’s a lousy conversation starter.

Soap: Oh, is it? We are conversing. Checkmate.

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Gaz: Is letting someone win at chess sapiosexual bottoming

Price, putting his head in his hands: Does anyone in this goddamn team ever think before they speak-

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Graves: Must be hard not being able to laugh

Alejandro: I do have a sense of humor you know

Graves: I’ve never heard you laugh before

Alejandro: I’ve never heard you say anything funny

Graves:

Graves: fuck you

Alejandro: fuck you

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Soap, motioning to a Halloween display: All these ghosts! All these ghosts! I still can’t find a boo.

Ghost:

Ghost: is it because I said I didn't want your tea-

Soap: YES ITS BECAUSE YOU SAID YOU DIDNT WANT MY TEA

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Ghost: Schrödinger’s cat is overrated. If you wanna see something that’s both dead and alive you can talk to me any time of the day.

Gaz, just finding out that Ghost is legally dead:

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Gaz: Why isn’t the statue smirking at me?

Price: It isn’t smirking at anyone, they’re all just imagining it.

Soap: Three of us saw it, Cap. How do you explain that?

Price: *points at Soap* Sleep deprivation. *points at König* Paranoia. *points at Ghost* Delusional personality disorder.

Gaz:

Gaz: damn.

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Roze: What’s something you guys are better than Horangi at?

Hutch: Mario Kart.

O'Conor: Yeah, video games.

König: Emotional vulnerability

-

Graves: *Gets down on one knee*

Alejandro: Oh my god, it’s finally happening.

Graves: *Falls over*

Alejandro: The poison is kicking in.

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Gaz, after falling out of a heli for the third time: Do you take constructive criticism?

Nikolai: I only take cash or credit.

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Soap: Can you keep a secret?

Ghost: Do you know anything about my life?

Soap: No I do not. Good point.

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Gaz: Hey heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you'll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this haha-

Roach: What did you-?

Gaz: A MISTAKE WAS MADE

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I just wanna say thank you all sm for 300 followers! You all r loved and I'm not good with responses but I appreciate them all so muck, thank u again :DDDDD

[faela404]

i saw your requests were open, and i really liked your dazai with a sibling piece so i offer you this, pm dazai with a little sibling? i wonder what he’d act like

ahhh i’m glad you liked it! i added tachihara, i hope that’s okay! <3

pm! dazai & tachihara x gn! younger sibling! reader (platonic !)

☆ checkmate ☆

☆ pm! osamu dazai ☆

☆ honestly, dazai would be more of a distant yet still protective older brother

☆ he wouldn’t go out of his way to make sure you two have a good relationship, in fact he’d push you away

☆ while you two wouldn’t have much communication with each other, you’d still feel safe telling him about any problems in your life

☆ in fact there was one time, a few months before dazai parted from the port mafia, you had just started college/ university

☆ your roommates have all been pretty cool aside from one, he acts extremely inappropriately towards you and no matter what he won’t stop

☆ so in need of a chance to rant about this to someone, you text your brother

☆ you don’t expect much of a response from him, if any at all

☆ and you really don’t get much, just a simple “that sucks” or “i’m busy y/n tell me about it later” (though he still wouldn’t listen later)

☆ your just happy to have finally got it off of your chest

☆ what a coincidence though, only a day later the guy apologises and doesn’t even look at you again!

☆ why does he look so scared though? and oh! is that a bruise around his throat?? it almost looks like someone strangled him.. how peculiar

☆ all in all, pm! dazai wouldn’t be the best when it comes to communication but, he does care and would do anything for you

☆ tachihara michizō ☆

☆ tachihara would definitely want to be a part of your life, in fact he’d probably be more of your best friend than your brother!

☆ he’d come over whenever he could to check on you, whether it be in the morning before he goes to work, or the middle of the night after a particularly hard mission

☆ he just wants to make sure you’re safe, he knows that with his line of work he’s bound to make enemies with some really dangerous people, people who could easily target you to get to him

☆ so because of this he will run background checks on anyone in your life, friends, classmates, partners, the people you walk past on the street, you name them and he can tell you everything about them and their life

☆ he just wants to make sure you’re being as safe as possible, it’s the most important thing to him

☆ luckily no one has targeted you yet, he’s done a pretty damn good job at making sure no one even knows you exist

☆ however, these extensive background checks do come in handy when someone in your life does try to hurt you

☆ recently you had been getting harassed by this shop vendor on your way to the gym in the morning, at first you thought she was being friendly but, over time the comments she made to you started getting way out of hand

☆ she’d make lewd comments about your body or refer to you as “baby” or “darling” it was starting to make you extremely uncomfortable

☆ one day tachihara had come to check on you in the morning like usual, however he had caught you right before you was about to go to the gym so he figured, “hey i’ll walk ya! it’ll be nice”

☆ so thats what he did, he began walking you to the gym, you had hoped that since tachihara was with you, she wouldn’t say anything today

☆ you was completely wrong

☆ she continued her verbal harassment right infront of tachihara

☆ saying he was pissed would be an understatement

☆ i don’t know just how much she appreciated having her entire life story read back to her by a man she didn’t know

☆ but it didnt matter, because after that moment, she never spoke to you again, in fact she had moved her stall to a whole different street

☆ tachihara is definitely a protective brother but, it’s very much appreciated in those kinda moments

a/n - ahhh this was fun! thanks for the request! i was gonna add chuuya too but tbh i couldn’t think of him as an older brother yk-

anyway i hope you enjoyed this and remember to take care of yourself! <3

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

i thought bc of mel that it was meant to add to the 7 coded vibes.

the spoon thing - is that gallifrey then??? Cus twelve and the iconic soup scene????

[pinkheart22]

Why I think Taylor Swift will sing So It Goes... the night she announces Reputation Taylors Version

As far as I know on this European Leg of The Eras Tour Taylor hasnt sang So it goes...

She sang I did something bad tonight, knowing she hasnt sang it the entirety of the tour and that all the swifties are clowning that she would sing that and then announce reputation taylors version.

i did something bad was a red herring, and the precursor to her vanishing from the tour ( there is no tour date August 18 ) just like she vanished August 18 2017 with a full social media black out, before she resurfaced with a reputation announcement August 21. (But it's been two thousand one hundred and 90 days of our love blackout - glitch) she did something "bad", because she didnt announce anything and she let us think that, that would be the song she announced with

she will sing So it goes... because of the lyrics:

All Eyes on me I'm your illusionist - an illusionist is someone who performs tricks that deceive the eye; a magician.

All our eyes are on Taylor but she has been deceiving us - eg. the i did something bad performance

You make everyone disappear - Taylor is going to disappear August 18th

Who's counting? 1,2,3 - Taylor has been doing countdowns, holding up 3, 2, and 1 fingers during the reputation era at the eras tour, and using exclamation points in her instagram posts.

Cause baby, I know what you know, we can feel it - Taylor and the swifties know that reputation taylors version is coming

Gold Cage, hostage to my feelings - There is a gold cage in the look what you made me do music video. Reputation is hostage. And possibly a lost album is hostage.

And all the pieces fall, right into place - when she announces reputation taylors version all the pieces will be in place.

I'm yours to keep and I'm yours to lose - We can keep reputation taylors version, but we will also lose reputation

You know, I'm not a bad girl, but i do bad things with you - She's not bad, but she did something bad, hence why she sang it at Wembley night 6. She wants to experience reputation taylors version with us

Come here dressed in black now - I'm assuming Taylor will be dressed in black, and also come here to her new reputation taylor's version album, which is the black heart emoji album

ALSO, she sang my boy only breaks his favorite toys x coney island on Wembley night 6

in my boy only breaks his favorite toys she sings:

Puzzle pieces in the dead of night compare that to....

And all the pieces fall, right into place - So it goes..

New mastermind stars body suit the night before (wembley night 5)

wearing a full stars and crescent moon (all the stars aligned)

Checkmate, I couldn't lose - mastermind

All of this is like pieces of a board game, puzzles, and dominoes.

It's all going to cascade in a line when she announces reputation taylors version

@taylorswift @taylornation

[guns-blazing]

my roman empire is the pinkstone

like this is SUCH a strange thing to say and makes you think the gems'll be lore relevant. and sure the swelterstones + glacialstones are small lore in the background the whole game, and the aromaticstones are just a gag i appreciate, you see them in waterfall and the g. cactus cave and maybe somewhere else i dont feel like checking, thats it and thats fine, haha they smell like apples. but the pinkstones? nothing. this weird text is just never brought up again.

we can say with certainty that the pink gems that appear in waterfall are pinkstones. the pink gems here look identical to those we can confirm are glacial/swelterstones except they're pink, so yeah pinkstones are a waterfall thing. but that isn't GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

maybe these are pinkstones. yes it looks different than the ones poking out of the walls but 1. those are embedded in the walls, these aren't, and 2. big swelterstone. checkmate.

so maybe the pinkstones' historical use just isnt mentioned in Gemstone Fever, or maybe the monsters used all kinds of gemstones to navigate. i guess maybe glowing isn't a notable thing for the pinkstones? but still, what about that mysterious lack of trait.

oh wait, you know what else is pink?

the entire steamworks

"oh but cerulean," you say, "not everything pink is the pinkstone. and that isnt even rocks thats pepto bismol acid antifreeze" and to that i say look

there is a pink gem floating in the steamworks lake. i didnt even knkow this when i started writing but this makes it seem so obvious. there it is, the pink stone.

so! i think the pinkstones are in the steamworks. then what do pinkstones do, exactly?

i dont.........know???

they dont make energy, steamworks does steam and it does flowers for its energy. steamworks did more, they produced and shipped and engineered and stuff but we don't see the pinkness in the context of any one thing there!! it's just lighting everywhere!!!

regardless i think the steamworks could have found a use for them and didnt tell anyone... like they didnt tell people about the robotics project after it failed, maybe they didnt tell anyone they found a use for the pinkstones either, and that's why the book doesn't know but they were still used in the steamworks.

but. that pinkstone in the lake in the last photo? that's the only crystal visible in the steamworks. theres 4 in this room here,

which is cool and great and also an unused room! in the game itself there's just that one crystal!

there is a goodanm ??gemstone extraction machine?? in the steamworks and every stone except pinkstones there. like maybe thats cause they got them from somewehere with no pinkstones. but . how are there no other pinkstones in the steamworks im losing my mind what else could they be

am i being baited? do the devs hate me specifically? is this why axis gives EXP? will i ever get a life? am i... wrong? no... i could never be wrong. pinkstones are connected to the steamworks. it's just vague.

[imkillerbae]

Enemies to Lovers Part 7 (Valorant Yoru x GN!Reader

Part 6 Here

Aaaaand the Finale!!! Didnt wanna keep you guys waiting for this one. IDC. THanks again @swiftyangx12 for requesting!!! Hope you enjoy this! Tagging: @sv03 @gyros-cum-sock

“Oh, uh. I didn’t think you’d come here,” Cypher scratches the back of his head. He miscalculated. So much for playing cupid.

Yoru’s brows knit and his eyes narrow. He grits his teeth before speaking again. “I was late.” He says, walking closer with longer strides, hands on either side of his body, dripping with blue viscous fluid. He stretches his fingers to keep them occupied.

Seeing that, Cypher took his cue to leave. “Well, it was a pleasure helping you with your aim Y/N. But I must take my leave now. Yoru,” he nods to Yoru, and his death stare remains ever potent.

Hopefully he planted the seed well. Now they will be alone to discuss.

Yoru’s eyes followed Cypher as he walked out of the room, closing the door behind him. He then snaps his eyes back to you.

You gave him a blank stare, frowning slightly, unamused. He raises a brow at you before he takes Cypher’s place, grabbing the operator and calibrating the sight on it.

You stare at him weirdly as he pretended like nothing happened.

What the hell.

“What happened to hello? How are you? Sorry I was late?” You cross your arms, mimicking him. It was a habit you picked up from him.

He gives you a side-eye glance, then feigns focus on the gun. “As if I need to say sorry. If anything, you should be thankful I still came. My gun is finally finished. This is the last day I’m using it here.” He lifts his eyes from the sight and hands it back to you. He didn’t look at you as he spoke.

He was lying through his teeth, and you knew it.

“Although it seems that my absence will hardly make a difference in your little routine. Found someone new have you? You think he’s better than me at this?” He questions, pulling out his comb and flipping it between his fingers before combing back his hair. He asks it with a calm voice, but he was fuming on the inside.

Really? He’s late and you ask for someone else to help you? Did you think he was inadequate at this?

And Cypher of all people?

And now your eyebrows furrow. Was he seriously holding that against you? He was late, and Cypher happened to be right by!

“Uhuh? Since when have I ever said that? You didn’t show up, and Cypher did. I thought you’d be thrilled to have me off your hands since you’re so busy tinkering with that gun of yours,” you retort, gesturing to the gun strapped on his shoulder.

“Oh right, the gun was finished weeks ago. You’re just going here because you want to teach me. Is that why you’re so upset about Cypher? Think I’ll replace you?” You smirk, tilting your head to the side smugly.

He snaps his eyes back at you, wide and surprised. He shakes his head in disbelief.

“It wasn’t finished until today—”

“Chamber doesn’t multitask between jobs. That thing’s been in use since last week. Checkmate Kiritani.”

He doesn’t reply and instead stands there in silence, staring at your face. He was a bit red from embarrassment. Even with the cool lights, you could tell the warmness in his cheeks. He opens his mouth to protest, but nothing comes out. You smile, blushing as well.

“You’re here because you want to be. You wanted to teach me. Stop lying to yourself and just admit that, and I might just admit something to you.” You squeeze your arm, fidgeting.

With that proposal, you caught his attention. You raise a brow at him as he waited expectantly for what you were about to say next.

“I said admit it first, dummy. Say you want to be here. With me.” You smiled widely, teasing him to say it. It was a joke of course. You knew he was too full of pride to admit that.

Or was he?

He clears his throat, sighing heavily before confessing. “Fine. You’re right. The gun was finished ages ago. I’ve been using it as an excuse to meet you here. Ever since you yelled at me, I kinda… had to reflect on things.

“Conveniently you were new and an easy target for my anger with Brim for recruiting ill prepared people for the protocol. I misplaced anger onto you when I was in reality just angry with the circumstances.

“I…I admit that it was wrong of me to treat you that way. Sumanai, Y/N,” he apologizes, staring at the floor.

It was your turn to stand there, shocked. You didn’t think he’d say anything, let alone apologize. You bit your lip from speaking too early.

“And yes, as much as I hate to say it, you’re quite… tolerable. I don’t take back what I said before; you used to have shit aim. But admittedly, anytime I come here, I always look forward to seeing you improve from said shit aim. Seeing you get better every time makes my day a little less mundane.” A little less lonely, he says in his head. But you didn’t need to hear that.

After that confession, your smile was wide. He glances at you and scoffs. “Well? Aren’t you supposed to tell me something now?” He asks expectantly, tapping his foot impatiently on the floor.

“Right. Well, I just wanted to say that I also enjoyed your company. Seeing you everyday has been the highlight of my day. Whenever I don’t meet you here, something feels off. Feels like something is missing, and nothing else can distract me from it,” you say, laughing at yourself a little bit.

Your heartstrings tug, and as you look into his eyes, everything seems clearer. He softens his gaze, feeling his heartbeat quicken.

“I know we started off on the wrong foot but honestly, I’ve grown to like you, Yoru. I like you a lot. It seems that my feelings for you have changed drastically since we’ve met,” you confessed, fidgeting with your shirt.

His heart skips a beat, and blood rushes from his neck to his head and ears.

What the hell did they say?! Yoru screams at himself in disbelief. But from your point of view, he only stares at you with wide eyes, stiff as a rock. He then scratches his chin with his index finger, too shocked to say anything initially.

You also stand there, simmering in your own feelings. You didn’t know what you meant by ‘I like you a lot,’ but it meant something.

Something along the lines of I wanna keep seeing you, even after target practice.

He opens his mouth to speak and it almost comes out as a whisper. “I guess… I like you too.” He manages to reply shyly, blushing madly.

God fucking damn it, he was bad at this. His brain was swirling around. Somehow he lost all his machismo after the words left his mouth. But as his eyes met with yours again, all if that slowly went away.

His heart eased, but he was still sweating in his palms. You also suppressed your smile.

The cat was out of the bag. And it feels nice to clear out the misunderstandings. You both stared at each other in silence as the world pulled you closer to each other bit by bit.

You hold his arm and he your waist, and you both close your eyes.

Cutting through the silence was an alarm clock. It was from your bag.

“Oh shit, it’s late already. It’s my dinner time,” you pull away and scramble to your bag, trying to shut it off.

“You have an alarm for dinner?” he questions, eyebrow raised. You look back at him and roll your eyes. “Yeah? I forget to eat sometimes so I set alarms for it.” You explained, tucking the phone back in your bag.

He didn’t know that about you. It seems that he has a lot to know.

“Dinner then? I haven’t eaten too.” He suggests, looking at his own phone. “What did you have in mind?” You asked.

“Feeling homesick lately. I want cold soba.”

“I have never had those. Let’s get them!”

“Fine.”

Somehow, the two of you ended up eating takeout in the common room where you both initially fought in. But this time, you sat side by side, eating cold soba, karaage and sushi. It was a heavy dinner.

“This would be better for lunch but I like it,” you nod happily, bouncing on the sofa. He glares at you to stop, and you just smile.

“I’ll have you know that I’ve beaten him by a mile in target practice. For someone who has so many cameras lying around and claiming to ‘see everything,’ he has the aim of that beluga from ‘Finding Dory’” he jokes, and you giggle.

“Did you really think I’d replace you with him? I haven’t leeched out all of your tricks yet,” you then pull out a haircomb similar to his, but in your favorite color. You try to flip it around but fail to do the tricks.

He sneers in response. “Mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery.”

He grabs it from you and taps you in the head with it. You pout, and he only smirks. He then does a few tricks before handing it back to you.

“There’s a lot for you to learn from me. But learn slowly, otherwise our truce would end as soon as it started,” he chuckles.

“I don’t intend to make it easy for you to teach me, Master,” you teased. He almost choked.

And ever since then, you never had to worry about your day being incomplete. And ever since then, he never felt as lonely as he did before. You had each other.

Bonus:

It took him 3 more months of lowkey dating to make you both official. He was still trying to make sense of what he felt, but he got there eventually.

You always wear thin clothing just so you could have an excuse to wear his jacket.

He begrudgingly obliges you with your request.

He always tries to make you laugh with his dry and sarcastic humor. You laugh even if some of his jokes aren’t funny and are just mean.

You both went to his home in Japan and he showed you the relics he collected of his ancestors.

You put on his eyeliner sometimes. He teaches you how to do it on yourself too.

Calling him master outside makes him blush. But it turns him on if you use it in bed.

Despite being so broody, he was very sweet with you in his own way. Like suddenly just handing you food or kissing your arm.

Phoenix complains a lot because he barely gets to spend time with Yoru now.

He keeps your picture in his wallet.

It takes him a long time to warm up and say ‘I love you’ back, but when he does, know that he means it.

[natsmagi]

Do you mind explaining the war in great detail for me? It confuses me a lot and I feel like I can never fully understand it

OH MAN. THE ENTIRE WAR ?? IN GREAT DETAIL ???? ME ?????? omg the war has like. So many moving parts and theres so many characters involevd all of which doing what they do for their own unique reasons (which tended to lean selfish) and i am just a mere switchP i do not know the inner-workings of all these guys (plus if i had to sit down and try to psychoanalyze wataru and truly understand what was going on inside that mans head i feel like id evaporate) BUT!!!!! there is actually a section of the enstars wiki COMPLETELY dedicated to the war that you can read! https://ensemble-stars.fandom.com/wiki/The_War

but, to summarize; eichi had always loved idols his whole life and naturally wanted to become one. but when he had enrolled at the esteemed yumenosaki he noticed none of these students took being an idol seriously, which really got to him as eichi could die at any moment, and now he sees no one taking what he had always dreamed of seriously? so he crafted a plan with the help of keito (who has ties to the student council) and tsumugi (who is on good terms with practically everyone) to make the students feel like they could be the heroes rising from the ashes by "defeating the villain" that put yumenosaki in such disarray (even though this was of their own making). And who would be more suitable to play the antagonist against people who are selfish and lazy and dont care to put in effort themselves? why, the newly established Five Eccentrics formed completely against the members will of course! the five eccentrics who are naturally gifted and perfect in every way, unlike the other students who have now become "the underdog." and, since eichi is aware of how lazy these students are, he created a protagonist, Fine, to defeat the five eccentrics. fine was meant to represent the underdogs, hence why eichi made tsumugi officially considered the unit leader since he was the only one who was actually fitting of the title "underdog who came from nothing," and could thus set a greater example than the likes of eichi or hiyori who were born into wealth

the war was eichis meticulous plan to basically save the idol industry? or at least yumenosakis reputation, and eichi needed this done FAST because again; he could die at any minute, and he NEEDED to see it out til the end. and because he needed this plan executed in such a short amount of time he didnt care about spilling blood, ruining relationships, or making himself the villain in the end. eichi is a very self-loathing person, and during the war he had failed to realize that some people might actually genuinely like him as a friend. that part would lead to eichi unintentionally hurting those he held close too such as tsumugi, but his plan also ended up hurting the likes of leo, who he never even wanted to be part of the war to begin with because itd feel like kicking a lost puppy. only for the war to then affect leo probably the greatest of them all, as the events of Checkmate made him a depressed shut-in for half a year or so. once the war was over, the regret eichi felt was so great he didnt think he deserved to live, only for wataru to then show himself to eichi and express a desire for them to join forces and plan a second revolution, where they will be the villains and "defeated" by the shining new idols who will set a better example than they ever couldve

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

Hypothetical: Cadebra becomes the "Excuse me, he asked for no pickles" Meme for Sane!Minteppi whenever he visits Wizard City. Also Sane!Minteppi begins researching ways to extend someone's lifespan, both magic & scientific (perhaps even going to Dr Gross (contemporary human obsessed with cybernetics) out of desparation). He doesn't want his friends dying at all.

(Also, Grandmaster Wizard looks like this.)

WHENEVER HE VISITS WIZARD CITY... I CANT. HES GOIGN HOME

simon knows allllll about this shit hes read books. hes WROTE books. pb probably heard about it once during a very boring wizard/candy kingdom meeting where she accidentally got set up with a couple of ancient cultists who were like, telling her all about how their god was going to come back from the dead and possess a worthy host and make waste to the world of normies surrounding them, while pb nodded and played on her phone and somehow continued to stay in good standing in the wizard community. im obssesed with pb's relationship with the wizard community. anyways pep outside wizard city looking like that is almost funnier than pep INSIDE the city looking like that. MORE people (who arent in jail for murder crimes) probably recognize him out there lmaooo

('super secret school that he didnt want to tell bonnie about' well bonnie gets weird about wizards. shed accept pep for BEING a wizard but shed make a funny face when he mentions being like. TAUGHT magic. at a school. like?? shes trying to be nice but she would just kinda smile tight and let him do it. ignore it politely, the parts she cant accept. but he knows. how she feels.) <- guy who will never forgive pb for how she treated lemongrab

anyways no youre right about deb

he asked for no pickles!!!! he doesnt want to tell you himself cuz you people always get scared that hes gonna turn you inside out or something. he would NEVERRRR.

ALSO YOU THINK BLAINE WOULD LET PEP TRY TO DO THAT the funniest thing about their entire friend group is that literally all of them are always at odds all the time. pep would be like hgnngnfn so uh, guys while you were practicing How To Make Your Laundry Fold Itself i went looking for How To Make You Live Forever. and blaine my poor little guy who just wants to be a normal kid and is now caught up in this for life is like YOU DID WHAT. DONT DO THAT TO ME. how are they ever gonna go to the dead worlds and see spader again if pep makes them live forever? checkmate. they fight about this like an old married couple for the next fifty years

(CYBORGIFICATION???? IT'S AN AFFRONT TO NATURE AND THEY ARE NOT GOING T--oh oh. ohboy ohgkay. that is tempting.)

[narwhalandchill]

i have to say of all the things people were speculating before 4.2 the fontaine AQ "theory" (if you could even call it that) im the most glad just. aged like complete milk and died silently in a ditch as it should was the way people were just. genuinely thinking the shadow dude in the narwhals stomach was childe 💀 and not even in the "ohhh what if" but actually soo convinced i just????

like hello what the fuck. i cannot believe that was a real thing like it was so widespread bc everyone went all. well the narwhal has to be bad and evil with terrible designs in mind for some nefarious plot relating to ajax so it has to be corrupting him and using his body as a puppet. and then pointing at the absolute most superficial "similarities" between the shadow and foul legacy when literally none of the actual core design aspects of FL were present at all whatsoever 😭 the shadow shares more in common with the fucking husks or even like. those hsr antimatter legion bitches what are you guys talking about. arguing oh the reason it looks nothing like childe or FL is bc hes already been gigasigma corrupted for a billion years in abyss time like WHAT

it got so bad i started fucking. double guessing my own (factually correct. as always. its like dawei wants to feed my ego) assessment of. yeah no fucking way thats ajax. theres some similarities in certain combat moves and some armor traits but like. he didnt invent his fighting style with FL he was literally taught it 💀 and 4.0 already told us skirk taking him in as a disciple had Something to do with his encounter with the narwhal. not at all unusual there would be some parallel (and i do find it plausible that the shadow v much has to do with surtalogi).

the other side of it was also like. yes sure im less reliable on that argument front leading up to 4.2 bc im way too narwhalpilled and obsessed with destined bonds between a mortal and an eldritch cosmic being in general so i was always hoping for it to like him in that based gourmet incomprehensible alien way. BUT. the way ppl fucking trashed my beloved acting all oh the narwhal calling for ajax must involve wanting to do something terrible to the uhhhhhh (checks notes) kid that.... freed it? woke it up? after an indeterminate time spent in some sort of stasis and imprisonment??? especially when its a creature meant to be freely traversing the cosmos?? Huh? 😭 tf would the narwhal have against him im crying. stop assuming the worst of this lovely friend shaped cetacean that is literally so rude.

(And like. i mean this with the utmost respect to his clear power boost regarding mastery over FL and am by no means trying to flatten or dismiss his development but also. 45+ days brawling. when the narwhal was already more or less fully primordial sea juice boosted. and when it went DIRECTLY for the kill against all those shrimp civilians in the cutscene. ajax. ajax. ajax. you did a great job but no way in fucking hell am i believing the narwhal was at any point trying to kill you fr im sorry 💀💀💀 you got the VIP treatment bc it likes you and i am Not believing otherwise unless dawei himself smites me and rebukes this directly. edit: and like he fell back in passed out & near death. well why the fuck wouldnt it finish the job right there and then???? checkmate atheists)

ultimately it just made no sense and while theories are fair game for everyone and all i just really hated this one its literally so petty but i cant help it im so glad it was instakilled on spot by the 4.2 trailer SKSKSKDKSKSDSJK i saw my man true and real in all his foul legacy drip and i knew i won.

also when the narwhal attack animations leaked and people were all oh my god its destroying childes constellation this is super bad and evil and i just. you mean the constellations that serve as the direct physical manifestations of celestias hold over destiny and fate. those. you mean the guy whose boss archive entry builds him up as the one who will "overturn this world" having his constellation busted through by a 874679 gigaton star-devouring whale pal could like. in no way shape or form be perhaps a visual metaphor for some. other development. after multiple lore drops and talks of wills capable of rivaling the world and not being chained by celestias ever present gaze. dont you maybe think the visuals of a constellation falling from the sky could also imply a different kind of thing. icant 😭 same for his vision malfunctioning if the narwhals behind that one too. like you mean the device we used to literally spy on his memories and that are all but confirmed to be not quite the quirky divine gift all perks no fine print you might assume. that thing. surely the vision malfunctioning is awful for ajax. (this take was sponsored by sustainer!!!)

it was literally just all these weird assumptions that abyss bad so narwhal from abyss (that aged well lmao) also bad ajax is a helpless baby fish being lured by the seductive calls of his narwhal to the dark side. and so on

and then turns out hes the one attacking the narwhal on sight 💀💀 if only we couldve foreseen his desire to fight the being he encountered during his time in the abyss once they meet again from something like idk his own voicelines that have been there since 1.1..... but alas 😔