#evulz ask

[tristarnova]

Now you guys can send stuff to the characters of yokel godneu now, but they are some rules for it, all other stuff will be moved to core!tami’s dumb ask disposal service.

Rule number 1: don’t send anything that will harm them.

Rule number 2: you can not send trolls or anything useless.

Rule number 3: treats and gifts that aren’t that larger are allowed.

Rule number 4: if it’s a character’s birthday, Halloween, and Christmas, it will be a special day where you can give bigger gifts, but on Halloween, you cant give them gifts but instead, give them gifts, unless it’s their birthday.

Rule number 5: you can ask for birthdays to know the exact date of their birthday

Rule number 6: only a certain number of gifts can be given out a day, and only a certain number for each individual

Rule number 7: you can ignore these rules in case of the rule of funny, but don’t push it

Also here are some rules about the magic anons.

Rule 1: magic anons can not be repeated on the same character.

Rule 2: magic anons can not harm them physically or get rid of them.

Rule 3: magic anons aren’t permanent, and can only last for around 20 asks maximum.

Rule 4: you can add characters with the magic anon, but they will stay around for as long asked.

Rule 5: as long as the magic anons last for, you can not use a magic anon, and once the magic anon is over, you will have to wait for a couple of asks to do it.

Rule 6: you can ignore all but the time limit rule, if you want, but only if it’s funny.

[interdimensionalhellscapeportal]

[immaturityofthomasastruc]

I can see the inconsistency of Felix character is because he actually a character for there "Fans demand" :

Sooo you prefer 2D-Catnoir/Felix rather than our angel Adrien ? Here Felix ! He official debut in "Felix" ! He is Adrien cousin and a big jerk ! Hate him just like how I hate him too !

Wh- What ? You like him ? Fuck ! So you feel he is more competent that our pure evulz bitch teenagers ? Fine ! Here's Felix who manage to trick Gabriel in "Gabriel Agreste" ! Now He is as dangerous as Gabe

Oh Fuck ! You still like him and feel he is more "relevant" than our angel Adrien and my sweetie Marinette ? Here's I present YOU Felix join Miracuclass as "Dog Hero" and then sell all the Miraclouses to Gabe ! He is Evil ! EVil ! EVIIIIL !

What ? You asking me why he want Peacock Miraculous so much ?! Here I present you Felix as Argos ! He wiped humanity out-of-spite and try to create the Utopia for his own freedom ! He is misanthrope !

What A second ? Why... You... STILL.... EXPECTED... CHLOE... TO BE REDEEMED.... why she already... has many traits... to be put in "Complete Monster" territory ? Why YOU keep want her to be redeem like Zuzu and Pacifica just because having shitty parents ? FINE ! Here's Felix to be our Zuzu ! He is tragic little peacock... has tragic backstory.... shitty dad... and a handsome teenager.... pretty much like Zuzu right ? Now shut up and Go simp on him and Feligami already !

Proper redemption arc ? Who hell need redemption arc as long as he is "tragic and handsome" ? Don't worry... we will make Kagami as "senti" out-of-nowhere aside she wear different ring as excuse and a "horny possessive girl" who still can't move on from Adrien and make her Simp felix because he smell and looks like Adrien RIIIIIIIIIIIGHHT LOL

Honestly, it is pretty hilarious that Felix was meant to be seen as the actual character who went through a serious redemption arc compared to Chloe, when the writers pretty much speedran through every major part of it in time for the finale.

Like, say what you will about Chloe and whether or not you think she deserved to be redeemed, but at least the arc leading to her betrayal was spread across three seasons. Felix's redemption arc only lasted three episodes.

Because of the poor pacing, this is the character journey Felix goes through during the latter half of Season 5.

Emotion: "I'm going to wipe out all of humanity and create a better world! Wait, you think I'm insane for erasing your friends and family from existance while essentially committing mass genocide? WHAT HAVE I DONE?!"

Pretension: "Even though I've spent almost no time with you, I think I'm falling in love with you because you may be a Sentimonster person with strict parents like me. Of course, I don't love you enough to break my new moral code against using Sentimonsters or even answering for my betrayal of Ladybug."

Representation: "I'm finally going to do something to help Ladybug because her arch-enemy is getting in the way with my week-old relationship, and that moral code against Sentimonsters? I don't want to use Sentimonsters to fight, but using Sentimonsters to put on a play to convey information I could easily tell Ladybug myself, since my new girlfriend conviently learned her identity over ten episodes ago? Perfectly okay. And since I have a personal stake by wanting to protect both my cousin and girlfriend, surely, this means I'll get to play a big part in the season finale instead of just letting Ladybug do all the work, right?"

Conformation and Re-Creation:

[jennycinco-5]

You know what, I would accept Chloe Face-heel turn IF she actually wrote like this character :

He is Adu Du, former Antagonist from BoBoiBoy Series. Before landed on Earth, he was a loser on his own homeplanet, get bullied and being disowned. Adu Du decide to go to earth to find a Cocoa. So he can hailed as a hero of his planet.

He start as main Antagonist in Season 1 until Season 2, an effective threat for BoBoiBoy and his friend. Then in Season 3, he start to have his redemption arc for sake to rebuild his only friend, Probe, after being destroyed and defeated by Ejo Jo. During his redemption arc, Adu Du has lot of trouble to control his anger or be better person. But this is how Redemption arc works, show the character has an actual struggle to be change because we can't be a new leaf in instant.

Unfortunately, he went back become bad due to his mother manipulation. When he back as bad guy, he still competent villain and fully embrace his proud of being bad guys. Until the end of Season 3, he decide to help BoBoiBoy to fight against Ejo Jo and help them to reach Kaizo spaceship to saved Fang.

Despite no longer being good guy, he and Probe ended being neutral character, no longer being the main threat. In Galaxy, especially Gentar Arc, he become main focused character to saved Probe from Roksasa, making him has no other choice to send a SOS signal to get help. Eventually, BoBoiBoy, Gopal and Qually working together with Adu Du to saved Probe and Ochobot. In the end of Gentar Arc, when Qually asked BoBoiBoy if Adu Du is evil or not, BoBoiBoy believe that Adu Du is not that evil.

Now, why I compare him with S4/S5 Chloe ? Because his character is complex even after he went back to be bad guy. Thanks to his mother manipulation and support, Adu Du become lot resourceful than he was in past season. And of course he manage his privilege from his mother and thinking about his evil plan perfectly. He openly proud of it. UNLIKE SEASON 4-5 CHLOE, this make his character still engaging, memorable and watchable. He is missed by the viewer since he no longer has much screentime. He is written not by writers out-of-spite.

Adu Du return as bad guy never painted as "irredeemable" despite he has done lot of worse and is MORE active antagonist than Chloe. (Adu Du takes advantages of BoBoiBoy stress of unable to manage his time as student and superhero, then seeing him being controlled by his own Elemental Form (BoBoiBoy Fire). Which make him to manipulate the citizen by make them seeing BoBoiBoy as too dangerous as hero then build a robot imitation of the hero. Then after his plan successful, he begin to put a high donation and threaten to destroy everything. ) Heck, he still has genuine humorous moment which is not forced humor at all.

Chloe, however, to make her "irredeemable", make her "abuse" her father and Sabrina, then make her 24 hours call herself as "I'm Sooo Evulz" despite being a minion for Gabriel and Miss-3-different-faces and acting as "dumb-blonde bitch" stereotype. Resulting viewer tired of seeing her instead of hating her. Because she is written out-of-spite by the fat beared bastard

[drill-teeth-art]

I love how you flesh out the Decepticons, I mean they do things for the evulz sometimes but also probably have actual motivation, especially rumble and hook

also your hook design rocks. he slays all of his enemies

Rumble’s motivations/development in my continuity be like: What do you mean my desire to help my loved ones and good intentions to get us back home have turned sour because I started to believe I knew what was best for everyone else and that trying to force my solutions onto the lives of others without considering or asking what they want or even giving them a chance to try to do things their own way has kind of made me a raging asshole micro-manager of my own loved ones and I actually have to stop doing that and let the ones I love make their own decisions even if they fail and be there for them because I need to care more what they want for themselves instead of what I think they should want?

Hook’s motivations/development in my fan continuity be like: What do you mean I can’t just rely on other people entirely to save me and make me into a better person and that endlessly trying to appease others and help their problems while pretending I don’t have any is not a sustainable way to live my life and that I actually have to tell people that I’m hurting if I want them to help me and that I have to tell people no when I think they’re wrong and that being in a good relationship actually means that I should speak up and feel comfortable doing so when I think someone is wrong instead of letting them continue to be wrong because it spares their feelings in the moment and that I can only really heal if I also let myself be exposed and vulnerable and bleeding to the people I love most which is also my greatest fear because I have tied my self worth to being someone who never causes problems for my loved ones?

Also, thank you so much! Omg! I appreciate the kind words on my writing and Hooky design hell yeah!

[zedecksiew]

SPY IN THE HOUSE OF ETH

So this week I was hit with a pang of sentimentality for an older work:

"Spy In The House Of Eth".

"Spy" was published by Soulmuppet Publishing for their Best Left Buried horror-fantasy TTRPG, back in 2020; it was part of a slate of adventures, commissioned and funded as part of Zinequest 2.

A mangrove- and plantation-themed hexcrawl. A landscape changed (and changing) because of colonial-capitalist agro-industry. Displaced locals fomenting rebellion. A tycoon recycling the souls of his labour-force. Said tycoon engineering a hostile takeover of hell, so hell is made worse, and merges with the waking world.

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When I flip through it now I mainly see its faults. The text feels underwritten. It is cramped, and rushed. It is sorely in need of a better intro, to orientate players:

A summary of factions; and outline of events and possible outcomes; overarching design elements like the everspreading-hell-haze mechanic needs to go at the front of the book, not the back; etc.

Ultimately---even though for quite a while "Spy" was the longest TTRPG text I'd ever written---I tried to do too much in too small a space. This is a full adventure campaign. I should've have shoved it into 60 pages. I should've saved it for a 200-page book, let it breathe. That's an editorial decision, entirely my fault.

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Nova was kind enough to take a look at it, recently. Her review was very good, very insightful.

I think she correctly diagnoses the fact that I buried the lede in terms of What This Book Is About:

"this is set in a colonised land, features hellish pollutions destroying the environment caused by the invaders, features slaves in an uprising against their owners, and that the players are asked to pick sides ... [but] that isn’t well stated outside the text itself ... probably needs to be summarised for the sake of selling to the table and for ease of play."

I have no defense for this, except a vague notion that it feels a little gauche to bang on the: "THIS IS AN ADVENTURE ABOUT THE EVULZ OF COLONIALISM AND CAPITALISM ERRYBODY!" drum.

The work should speak for itself!

But, then again, people can't hear the work properly if not enough context was built around it.

Again: this is on me.

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Still:

I think the reason why I put so much into "Spy"; why I resisted explaining it so much; why it is still one of the favourite things I've made, despite its faults---

Is that it was kind of my first TTRPG thing. It predates Lorn Song, even though that came out first.

The mansion in "Spy" was the first TTRPG dungeon I ever drafted. A sheets-on-the-furniture, closed-up ancestral pile; with the current owners absconded to some big city with most of the money; adventurers picking over faded wealth.

It was inspired by the huge mansions of Malacca and Penang, and context mirrors the kind of thing those tycoon family did---suck a land dry, then leave for London or New York or wherever.

More generally, a lot in "Spy" is basically a fantastic version of my day-to-day reality.

The beacon is the refinery gas flare I see from my house:

The bougainvillea monsters is because I have this monstrous bougainvillea in my yard:

The monkeys and the kingfishers. The oil-palm monoculture, the oil-palm refinery we drive past every time we head north to Kuala Lumpur. The fact we travel southeast from the city to where we live, mirrored in the orientation and order of the hexcrawl.

The mangroves:

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All this to say: I feel warmly about "Spy In The House Of Eth", and I feel like talking about it. If you've read it or you've played it: I would love to hear from you.

(It's available via the Soulmuppet store and Itch and Drivethru, among other places. Thank you, Zach, for publishing this.

It was published as a batch with four other adventures, all good---though my personal favourite of them is Luke Gearing's "Behind Closed Doors". I believe he is rewriting it???)

[langernameohnebedeutung]

See, here is where we're at re 'is Nisha Lawful Evil'

Out of these three, Nisha is most definitely closest to the second Type. She's definitely not "Lawful over Evil". I'd say even Jack is closer to that. Jack is the one who has lofty ideas about creating a better world, purging Pandora of bandits and creating is capitalist utopia. When Nisha talks about the Hyperion agenda in Borderlands 2, it is mostly in a slightly amused way. And while she supports it by guarding the Eridium shipments, she's not directly an enforcer for Jack the way Wilhelm is. Mostly she just wants to run Lynchwood - which she also isn't really trying all that hard to turn it into a "peaceful", hyper-controlled place, she even states as much:

"Rumours that Lynchwood might become as civilised as Opportunity are not to be believed. Let Jack have his ivory towers. I came to Pandora for action."

So she's not really trying to build any kind of society - she's trying to create a scenario where she can commit atrocities unbothered (and realised that the best profession to do that is to be a cop lmao). The only aspect that fits here is that she specifically likes to go after bandits. Or, anyone she considers a bandit. But we also know from TPS that she's perfectly fine with a) killing pretty much anyone or anything else and b) being considered a bandit herself. And I think it's important to point out that in the society we encounter in Borderlands, killing and hunting bandits for fun and sport or whatever is perfectly normalised - obviously, self-defence is another big reason - but if you have power, money or are just really good with a gun, you're actively encouraged to go out and murder as many bandits as you like and the more you kill, the bigger the hero you are. And Nisha, much like Jack, is perfectly content to label people bandits the moment they piss her off or inconvenience her if she has a chip on her shoulder.

She's also not really the Type 3. Something that does apply, at least occasionally, is the idea of 'honour' - like the fact that she challenges the Vault Hunters for a duel. But we also see her go back on her word when she feels like it, like in the Pre-Sequel when that one Lost Legion soldier asks for his life to be spared: All the other characters let him go, except Nisha. She first says 'yes', then decides to hunt him down and strangle him when he least expects it. Yes, she creates a set of laws in Lynchwood that allow her to hang anyone she feels like - but somehow I doubt that if someone not breaking any of her laws would stop her from killing them if she felt like it.

Also, she isn't evil until she clocks out, then goes home and acts like a different person. She's always Like This. Yes, she can be friendly and jovial and chill when she feels like it, but a) her cruelty and blood-thirst usually show, she's just funny about it and b) it's not like she's disconnecting from the evil she does or rationalises it. She simply doesn't care. The reason she can be cordial and polite or even close with people despite of all the murders isn't because there is a distinction between those two sides of her - but because there isn't: She's pretty open about who she is. She doesn't normalise it, she doesn't think 'oh, I'm following orders / it is my job to do this' or 'other people are doing it too' - she didn't slip into this line of 'work', she doesn't really have any values or beliefs bigger than herself (sure, she supports Hyperion but she's also announcing the fact that she considers it all a bit silly over the loudspeakers to the entire town of Lynchwood).

The closest thing to apply is "Evil over Lawful" - creating Lynchwood and creating the laws of Lynchwood is mostly a set-up to allow her to do things 'for the Evulz' - luring people to Lynchwood to torment them is basically her mouse-trap for endless fun.

But if we look at -

Chaotic Evil - some of these ironically fit her a lot more.

And ironically even here, I wouldn't put her into "Evil over Chaos". Now, this might be controversial because being 'evil' is a very, very big aspect of Nisha's character. In fact, she arguably might be more evil than Jack (she arguably might be the most evil character in the Borderlands-universe)(even if they're both extremely cruel people, Jack's motives are also ambition, revenge, arrogance, his idea of bringing 'peace', etc. Nisha's sadism is a lot more undiluted. She really, really just wants to hurt people. This, ironically, also makes her kill fewer people than Jack - because Jack is that 'million is a statistic' kind of villain, even if he genuinely enjoys killing. He has a mission. Nisha doesn't. Sitting in a space station and sending soldiers and moonshots to kill her enemies just wouldn't be enough to keep her entertained. We see that in her lines at Wilhelm:

"That's lame. I like my kills more personal." "An unmanned drone? Can't even watch them die that way!" "Boring!"

She doesn't care about Pandora or the Warrior or Hyperion - she cares about hanging around Lynchwood, killing bandits like they're ants and she's got a magnifying glass. And the fact that she's also perfectly fine with Pandora potentially being fried to a crisp if Jack manages to raise the Warrior indicates that she's also fine going somewhere else, if Lynchwood doesn't work out. But...she's also not really a card-carrying villain. She wouldn't ally with someone just because they're evil if that meant that they would ask her to do stuff she doesn't feel like doing - we see that in her interactions with Tassiter. So yeah, for her it seems to be Chaos (freedom) over Evil.

And since she likes to use her freedom to hunt bandits and for her western larping shtick - the whole Sheriff thing seems to be a pretty sweet deal for her interests. Not because she care about the law, but because she cares about fun and impunity.

And that's how you end up being so Chaotic, you're turning Lawful again.

(She also definitely has traits of 'Intelligent Monster' - she really, really likes killing people/beings just to prove she can (which is a common trait among Vault Hunters but it is also what makes Nisha become a Vault Hunter.))

[yanderehsr]

Do you have a name or nickname you like to go by? Also what are your pronouns if you don’t mind me asking!

Remember to take care of yourself! ❤️

Hmmm, a nickname. I ususally go by DrEvulz as my gamertag so let's go with that. You peasants may call me Evulz

(Note: Please don't take it to heart, you aren't peasants)

On the subject of my pronouns, I don't really care if others call me a he, she or a they, but if it makes things easier I am biologically male so let's go with He/Him for me

[sonntam]

I found it! Here is the orignal text and here is the translation. This quote comes from "Fragment of a Saga about Certain Early Kings in Denmark and Sweden" (aka "Sögubrot" or "Fornkonunga saga").

The context is that a foster-father is grumpy and does not want to interpret the dream of his son, the king... and due to Hord gives asshole answers:

The king asks, “Who was Hroerek among the Aesir?”

Hord replies, “He was Hoenir who was the most scared of the Aesir, though he was bad to you.”

“Who was Helgi the Bold among the Aesir,” says he king.

Hord replies, “He was Hermod who had the best of courage, and no good to you.”

The king asked, “Who was Gudrod among the Aesir?”

Hord replies, “He was Heimdall, who was the most foolish of the Aesir, though he was bad to you.”

The information on other gods and giants checks out: Hoenir was known for his indecisiveness, while Hermod was brave (and Baldur was dead and the Midgard serpent is evulz).

So, what's the conclusion? The conclusion is, as always in Norse myths, you can find support for absolutely anything, if you look hard enough.

Here we got material, that would contradict Heimdall being clever, but if you squint you could take it as proof that he is "unexperienced" (ergo = young).

Benjamin Thorpe in “Norse Mythology” defines Heimdall as a great and holy god. He was born at the beginning of time from nine giants (sisters). So I’ve always imagined him sort of like an old bogatyr… GOWR version was shocking at this point, bc developers refer to him as one of the youngest gods in GOWR (as far as I know).

Bonus, Atreus asks Loki about Angrboda:

— Hmm… You see… Eh, how do I tell you?..

[tristarnova]

They are currently three right now, being emperor evulz, tamishiko Tamirumare, and himika precas, but there will be more, so I want to know how many there should be, also I should mention they are 9 areas, welcome island, 7 inbetween areas, and gofurias’s hideout.

[yellowocaballero]

im so glad the universal attitude is that fox deserves to kill palpatine. on that note. im sure u can see where this is going. how do u picture the fox-palpatine dynamic? like, is palpatine explicitly using him as a punching bag? is he swirling foxs brain like a latte? or is it just a weekly monologue session that fox remembers absolutely none of. The possibilities are endless and theyre all bad. btw lov all your sw opinions u never miss

On a narrative level, purely the most satisfying result. Intensely satisfying. If I saw it on screen I would punch the air and scream.

Fox and Palpatine? I have a bad habit of thinking about any evil mastermind villains absolutely last (people here from TMA can attest to this). I like Palpatine's villainy in TCW because it was almost never on screen - it was just in the sheer way that absolutely everything that happened was designed to make Anakin and Obi-Wan as miserable as physically possible. Just plot after plot of terrible things designed to specifically target their miseries. Fox's life is awful and it's entirely due to Palpatine. What's, like, a guy sitting on a chair and cackling next to that?

That being said, I feel like the Emperor doesn't give a shit about Fox. Probably likes the guy! He's very competent. Intelligent, but not too intelligent. Quiet. Doesn't have any motivations or ambitions outside of just doing what he says. Literally, the perfect minion. You ever have a new gadget that is just so convenient? Fox is the Apple Watch of evil.

The man literally never passes up the opportunity to monologue, but all of his evil monologues to Fox are really him talking to himself, and any questions he asks are slightly rhetorical. He makes enough digs at Fox that it makes him feel a little bad, but since Fox doesn't really remember them, it is genuinely a bit pointless. Everything he does to Fox is absolutely terrible for him physically, psychologically, and spiritually, but I do think it's absolutely incidental. It's like being a sadist to a computer. Sure, you could, but it's not that rewarding and there's very little point.

Fox barely registers or understands his own suffering. Fox has no concept of how bad his life is and he doesn't process most of the terrible things happening to him. There's no point in giving somebody (or something) like that a hard time.

Siths, obviously, do everything For The Evulz and just to be as unpleasant as physically possible at all times, suffering always a plus, all of that. But that evil can take lots of different forms, and there's many varieties of human suffering...when I use Palpatine metaphorically as fascism, then I like to use Fox to highlight the banality of institutionalized fascism. Fascism isn't a cackling supervillain or exclusively within dystopian dictatorships. Sometimes fascism looks like the White House, and it looks like the police station, and it looks like the stock market, and it looks like us. And fascism begins when you start treating people like things, and the greatest evil is when you start treating people like things. That's the notes I like to hit on for Fox & Palpatine - that the worst possible thing you can do to somebody isn't to torture them, but it's to take away who they are.

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

Will we ever get to see LB and Felix hash it out in odnlb? Like not a physical fight but kinda just talk (or yell lol) things out. As wrong as Felix’s actions were, I’d like it if LB could be enlightened as to just how untrustworthy she may have seemed at the time, considering she was nonchalantly wiping a senti out of existence every week or so. I’d like it if she understood Felix’s betrayal in Risk was more nuanced than just being for the evulz. Feel free to not answer if this ask is too spoilery tho!

it's not too spoilery! yes, lb and felix will get a scene or two >:D

[tristarnova]

Check out @ask-tami-and-their-friends to ask any questions you want about yokei godneu, or you could ask here too.

Hi there, everybody, allow me to introduce myself, my name is tamishiko Tamirumare, but you can call me tami, and I am here to answer questions you need or want to ask about me.

But how did this happen, well it’s a long story, you see I found this strange laptop in a ruined area on welcome island, so I repaired it, and now, I am connected to this website, not sure, how it got here.

But, yet, despite the fact that I am 18, I am still way too young for anything, well you know, so no nsfw, and I won’t give any spoilers for yokei godneu, you’ll have to figure them out on your own.

But with that out of the way, it’s time for us to begin, ask away, you want, and, i will make sure to get anyone I can, that you want to ask questions.

Also if this blog gets enough asks, I can show you something very special that tristarnova has been waiting to show off that will appear in yokei godneu; to be a hero, but you’ll have to get to the ask number 1st, before I will reveal it.

See character profiles for how you can ask

[miraculouscontent]

Anonymous asked:

I know you hate her too, but what are your thoughts on the fan theory that Thomas based Chloe off someone he knew just to spite them?

I mean, I’m still convinced that he based Luka off someone he lost a girlfriend too in high school, so it wouldn’t surprise me.

Anonymous asked:

I thought "Ship LS is a proven way to make you "good guys" " was just a joke....but now I can see That Guy takes this joke in a serious route by doing "If you are good guys, you need to ship LS even if you are anonymous adult...if you don't you just as evulz as Lila and Chloe " like how many episode in season 4 contain ship-bait LS for fanservice which is nothing but a filler and pandering the fans to shout about  them as "SOULMATES UWU~" on twitter 🙄

To insult the love square is to insult the universe itself, and it will pay you back in spades for it... I guess.

smartlanceisreal asked:

Sometimes I wonder why That Guy created this show when he clearly hates the protagonist. My first thought is sadism which makes sense. Then it went to creepier direction because of those butt shots of minors, skin tight costumes for the heroines, and that infamous comic. Now I both really don't want to know or I do just to know why.

Yeaaah, we don’t want to think about the questionable shots.

I’m reminded of those anime where there’s that one female character who isn’t taken seriously by anyone, usually bullied/mocked a lot, and trips and falls all over the place as an excuse by whatever male storyboarder to show off her underwear.

This is just the G-rated version.

[goldenkamuyhunting]

I am still really enjoying Ogata’s scenes recently but I wanted to ask: do you also think that Noda should just reveal Ogata’s true motive in this hunt already? It annoys me a bit since we still don’t know what he meant with Vasily (who is supposedly dead) and also because I feel like we’re leaning too much towards the « he just likes chaos » explanations.

Well...

...this is kind of a tricky question.

Of course I've been longing to know why Ogata is in this mess by... a lifetime really, but in a story revelations aren’t done after a fixed time period but when it’s more convenient for the plot and, since I don’t know what will happen, I can’t tell if this is the most convenient moment for such revelation.

However, considering the manga is about to end and Tsurumi and Ogata are likely going to have a face off, this feels like a moment in which a revelation could be convenient for the plot.

Of course, part of the problem might be that the story underwent changes along the way. Vasily’s addition for exemple ultimately led to no story development, with Vasily’s character going largely underdeveloped to the point I feel either Noda scrapped his plot development or his addition was a last minute idea without a strong plan behind it and, if Vasily is really dead and the wound he inflicted to Ogata will reveal itself of no importance whatsoever, ultimately we could have done without him.

And no, I don’t have something against Vasily. As I said many times he had a lot of petential but was underused and underdeveloped as a character which was a pity.

Back to Ogata, since changes along the way were done, it's extremely hard to predict what will be of him and how his own arc will develop because I don’t know anymore what Noda will keep of his past development and what he will discharge. We’ll see.

Said so, I never bought Sugimoto’s theory that Ogata was in this mess for the fun of it.

Sugimoto’s copying mechanism is to view his antagonists as bad people who don’t have a human heart and therefore don’t feel pain nearly as much as a regular person so one doesn’t have to feel sorry when they die.

Sugimoto wants to kill Ogata, he can’t bother thinking he might have a valid reason for doing what he does, Ogata has to be just ‘a bad person’ and bad people do thing for the evulz, nothing more.

In fact, when Asirpa forced Sugimoto to talk about it again, Sugimoto had to revise his theory so as to make it ‘no, actually he wanted the gold but since he couldn’t get it now he’s taking revenge by stopping us from getting it’.

Noda went out of his way to show us that Ogata was involved with Central...

...which was something Tsurumi suspected from the start.

If anything his motive should be more complicate than Ueji (who was in that mess to disappoint everyone) and it’s hinted it might be the exact the opposite, he might be trying to please someone.

Note how no one in the 7th division think Ogata is there for the evulz. They know him by longer than Sugimoto but neither of them think that’s the way Ogata amuses himself.

On another side WHY OGATA IS IN THIS MESS has been something all the characters has wondered at one point or another, giving their own theories, and this is possibly the last secret Noda will reveal, making this a mistery bigger than where was the gold hidden since it’s apparently THE ULTIMATE MISTERY.

We’ll see how things will go though. When something like this is kept hidden for too long in a story, there’s a huge risk the revelation will end up being unsatisfying so, even if I really want to know, I’m trying to not get my hopes up.

We’ll see. Thank you for your ask!

[dreamsmp-au-ideas]

The final confrontation of the archetype au, everyone's cornered XD and is about to banish him or whatever, and someone asks XD why he did all this, what he thought he'd gain, and he just. He just goes "For George. And also because it was really funny. LOL XD"

DreamXD is the fanfic writer in us and also the trope “For the Evulz” at the same time. I don’t know why but that comes to mind for this au.