#eri talks

[eriexplosion]

Okay so something that comes up a lot in discussions of season 3 is that it's rushed or that they had a fourth season cut from production and... I do see where it comes from given how many things just Stop rather than end. But when you look at what does get resolved vs what doesn't, I just don't see it being an issue of having to cut things for time.

When writers find themselves with suddenly much less time to tell a story in, the first thing to go is the extras: the minor subplots, the story and character garnishes, the secondary character arcs. These kind of things get cut in order to focus on the main characters and resolving the primary plot.

TBB season 3 meanwhile INTRODUCES new subplots with the extended journey to get to Tantiss, the force kids, Rampart coming back and resolving his story. It finishes Emerie's subplot to the point that we get her telling us everything she plans to do from here. It takes the time to show us the Durands, the clone kids from season one, putting in Fennec and Ventress. These are the things that get cut when you're running short on time, they're not going to cut a Tech reveal, a resolution to Crosshair's guilt, wrapping up Echo and Rex's story, in favor of a bunch of tiny subplots. That just isn't how cutting things for time works. You start with the small stuff and then work up.

So it leaves us with two paths here, knowing what we did resolve versus what we didn't - 1. This was always the plan and they didn't consider what they produced to be dropping anything, or 2. The series is finished but the story isn't.

I think I've talked about it enough to be clear that I'm leaning heavily towards 2. The interesting thing about tbb season 3 is it's actually not rushed - if anything it's stalling. Getting to Tantiss was as simple as letting Omega's plan work, doing a Tech reveal is as simple as replacing saving the force kids with saving the CXs. Instead we get to drag getting to the facility an extra 3 episodes while Omega deals with this new plot point we only find out about at all in episode 10. We get a whole Fennec episode that serves only to introduce an also unnecessary Ventress episode. We have an entire episode of Crosshair and Omega on the run shenanigans.

So we have plenty of side stuff that works to support the characters but isn't strictly required for the primary plot, and we have a solid handful of main plots (Tech's death being full of holes big enough to sail through, what happens to Echo next, does Crosshair still feel guilty enough to be a death seeker, Wrecker's reaction to anything that happened, most of project necromancer) that go unfinished. In fact the only main series long plot to get resolved is Hunter and Omega's relationship.

That leisurely pace, along with several comments from Jennifer Corbett and Brad Rau about this being the end of a "chapter," is what makes me think that what ended was just Omega's POV being the primary one we experience the story from. The story of trying to find a place within the batch maybe - because regardless of anything else, she's found her place, Crosshair has at least started to find his. Echo is separate from the team but knows that they're always going to be accepted back and will always come when needed. Tech, if he's alive, still has his place on the team - its shown repeatedly that no one can do what he does, his spot is simply not fillable.

A story has resolved. But not ALL of the story. There's more that can be told, and I do think it's very likely they still have plans to tell it. Even if they don't, just going by how season 3 progressed, I think that it's very likely that the biggest change in season 3 was just squishing the original episodes 15 & 16 together into one long episode 15. I don't think that they had to make major last minute cuts for time, because the things that are missing are NOT the things that get cut when trying to cram in too much story. A cut season 4 is the one thing I don't think happened.

What did happen, that's harder to be sure of, but I'm still crossing my fingers for the rest of their story to be told with Rex and Echo's and the rest of the clones. There's a lot more possibility out there.

[eri-talks]

Hey. It's me again. Crawling in a Yuuma filled hole... /////

[yuriko-mukami]

All Mine

with @ruki-mukami-dl

Art made by @eri-talks as a gift. Thank you so much! 🩵 Full version available on Yuriko’s X account. ⚠️ Please note that the account is meant for adult audiences. ⚠️

[yuuto-tsukino]

Do you agree, @nalia-tsukino?

Art made by @eri-talks. Thank you, it looks amazing! Do not repost. Reblogs are allowed and welcomed.

[eriboook]

Hello everyone! How is it going? Twitter is a mess right now, so Tumblr is again an option! ^^;;

[wind-goddess-eri]

I’ve noticed out of the 5 Havik fics I have, one of them is doing so good. 49 notes for The Engagement. I’m very happy and surprised. Makes me happy. The least popular one is I’m Yours with just 5 notes. I love writing for Havik. Just randomly looking at my fics ^_^

[tapintomymind]

putting every single picture of dieter i find on the internet into the dieter folder (86 pictures and more on the way)

[leave-her-a-tome]

[freenos]

Rotating them in my mind

[cakesbabylon]

life would be much easier if i had a fat ass

[kalofi]

found out that my bnha interest never actually left it just bided its time then activated randomly this month like a sleeper agent so. here’s these

[eriexplosion]

My controversial AI opinion is that AO3 shouldn't have turned data scraping off because having millions of words of pornography dumped into the common crawl dataset was great for reducing the market value of anything trained on it. The best way to preserve the jobs of writers is to have the other option be a bot that not only knows what omegaverse is but will segue into writing about it at a moments notice and thinks the best word to come after Steve is automatically "Rogers". Nothing crushes marketability like porn and copyright law violations.

[eri-talks]

Happy birthday Yuuma!

[yuriko-mukami]

Shopping Tour

The mall was buzzing as always. It all hit me when we walked in: the noises and smells, foreign faces everywhere. I yearned to sneak into a quiet bookstore corner but it would have been rude to slip from the company right from the start.

"Kou, can you take our photo before we hit the shops?" Christine's voice heckled my thoughts. I turned around. A photo?

"Eh? So demanding, Kujaku-chan!" Kou-kun frowned. "I already brought you all here and haven't been compensated for that~"

Well... Kou-kun wasn't wrong. But actually taking a photo wasn't that big of a task. Sometimes he seemed a bit unreasonable. Yet, I didn't voice out my thoughts. No one needed to hear something like that.

To my surprise, Christine broke into a smile. "I will cook for you later. It's a promise. Brother Ruki said I can use the kitchen."

Oh! That was sneaky! Christine had been prepared for Kou-kun's give-and-take attitude beforehand, hadn't she?

"Better be Vongole then~"

Of course, Kou-kun wanted that... I shifted in place, glancing at the others. None of them raised any complaints, but the mere thought of the said dish made me nauseous. It had been like this ever since... autumn.

I stepped closer. I had to say something... "Umh... the smell makes me..."

Suddenly, Eri took my arm and shook her head, making me blink.

"Maybe you can eat something else, Yuriko." Eri smiled. "We can have another dish. You and I haven't been hanging out alone for a while, so we could make something for ourselves before Christine prepares the Vongole."

I could feel how relaxation swam through my body. "Thank you, Eri. Let's do that after this shopping tour. I probably need to eat by then anyway."

Kou-kun seemed to be happy with that. "That's settles it. Gimme your phone, Kujaku-chan."

"There you go, Kou." Christine handled her phone. Just like that! I wouldn't have dared to do that. You never knew what others would...

"Okay, everyone, get ready~" Kou-kun swayed his hand but then his eyes wandered. "Nice home screen, Kujaku-chan~"

Just what I had feared! But Christine didn't seem bothered.

"Hurry up," Kou-kun demanded again.

Kazemi, who had been rather silent for the whole drive to the mall, now shifted right next to me. "Why do I have to...?"

"Kujira-chan... come on. Just move closer to Yuriko-chan. And try to smile, at least." It seemed that Kou-kun was rather used to giving these kinds of instructions. "And Usagi-chan, take off those sunglasses. Why are you wearing them anyway?"

Eri sighed but lifted her sunglasses on her hair. To be honest, I had been wondering why she wore them sometimes even inside buildings but it had never occurred to me to pry about it.

On my other side, Christine was changing her posture. Hastily, I tried to follow her example.

But my movements only made Kou-kun shake his head. "...Yuriko-chan, what are you even doing?"

I looked down at my body. Ruki never complained when he took my photos — though sometimes I ended up looking a little funny in those.

"Hmph. Just hurry up, Kou." Kazemi gave the Vampire a glare.

"Mean, Kujira-chan~" Kou-kun chuckled. "And you can fix that posture, can you?"

"I didn't ask—"

This was getting awkward. Yet, once again, I swallowed my opinion but met Eri's gaze behind Kazemi's back. Somehow, I felt like Eri silently agreed with me.

"Look at Kujaku-chan. She knows how to strike a pose."

Eh? Kou-kun's words made me blink. That had been exactly what I had tried to do. It hadn't worked out for me. So would it work for Kazemi either? Christine was just another level with something like this.

Again, Eri met my gaze and then turned to look at Kou-kun. "Can you be done with the photo, Kou? I want to head for the art supply store."

"Haa... fine. But don't blame me if it doesn't turn out nice."

I hurried to take a pose at the same moment as Kou-kun lifted Christine's phone.

"Everyone, say cheese~"

Character bases purchased from nukababe/Etsy. The background is official art from Rejet.

OCs belong to...

Christine - @seaoflove07

Eri - @eri-talks

Kazemi - @mermaid--bride

Yuriko - me

I hope I didn't misinterpret anyone's character too badly. 🙈

[sarahjtv]

This is the best thing Horikoshi could've done for Overhaul's fate:

Doesn't let him off the hook for what he did to Eri especially.

Forces him to feel guilty and apologize to Eri for the rest of his life.

Makes sure that he never forgets Eri and what he did to her.

Let's his old boss (Eri's grandfather who was forced into a coma by Overhaul prior to her being abused if I remember correctly), basically haunt him for the rest of his fucking life to make sure he's pays for his sins.

Absolutely 100% fucking deserved 👏

[washmchineheart]

eris vanserra they will never make me hate you. In fact, I liked you more when I found out the IC hates you. it makes you sexier.