#fenix is in a lot of these he's kinda iconic

[akalimist]

(4 years pre-canon)

Mina, learning how to drive: ya girl managed to normally park a car and a k-turn is easy. parallel parking is causing issues bc kaedan doesn't know how to actually teach me and just says "you just. do it." Fenix: can you Z-turn though? Mina: that sounds like it involves me having a panic attack while turning so yes i can.

[tsuki-sennin]

Ok, there's a winter storm happening in my area, so I'm not exactly enthusiastic for the ice side of this deal, but fuck it, It's Revice so I'm hyped anyway!

Spoilers, I guess...

-WHAT OLTECA CAN JUST DO THAT

-GODDAMN

-Somebody get this man to a hospital!

-Nooooo, Viiiiiice!

-Yeah, you feel real bad, don'tcha Julio? ...ah, no, I'm calling you Tamaki Go-san now.

-No intro, ok.

-Good morning, Ikki! We got fucked last week, so...

-I can't imagine what it'd be like to just... be so close to saving somebody's life and failing to rescue them.

-Ohhhhhh, fuck, Tamaki's here!

-Ohhh, nooooo, don't die yet man! You were one of my favorites!

-Yep, we definitely meetin' Yosuke.

-Holy shit, George... feeling responsible and apologizing? He's truly the autistic icon we all deserve. ...as someone on the spectrum myself, this is some tasty representation.

-Y'know, when Rider's got some evil bastards, they really go all in.

-Even if George thinks separation is a pointless endeavor, Ikki's reckless behavior ultimately convinced him that it's worth at least trying to fine tune his strategy. That's some good character moment right there.

-Ah, there he is. Poor bastard.

-Noooo, Tamaki, take the card!

-YOUUU MOTHERFUCKER-

-Hayata Seki, good job man, really, but... Oooooogh, you bastard!

-BRUH

-Ok, I need to calm down for a second. I actually have a thought I've about Olteca that isn't "Ohhhhh, that bad man, kick his ass Ikki-nii!". Considering just how unwaveringly invested he is in Gifu's resurrection compared to every other named Giftex we've seen so far, I think that he might actually be Gifu somehow. Like a vessel or an avatar. This is just speculation, but Toei's done this before with characters like the Overlord of Darkness or Arch Orphenoch or the Joker Undead. and it'd explain why he'd be powerful enough to set Ikki on fire without even touching him in his human form.

-Kick his ass Tamaki!

-Oh fuuuuuuuck, that's not good!

-Oh c'mon Ikki, Vice is you. If he was mad at you for doing what you wanted to do after all you've been through, I think he'd have plenty of opportunity to call you out.

-Oh wow, they... actually said that.

-I am thou, thou art I and all that funny Persona acid jazz fusion rock.

-In case you're wondering, I headcanon Ikki's Arcana as being the Chariot. Sakura's the Priestess and Daiji's the Moon. Idk what Hiromi would be, but he gives off big Hanged Man energy.

-Yeahhhh boiiiiii, let's go! It's demon time!

-Let's fucking do it.

-I'm not gonna tell you to chill, but like... that's the girl who tried to help you fix your friendship with your friend and her brother you're beating the snot out of.

-See, that's it! It's Olteca you're after!

-It's buddy combi time~!

-Aibou~! They said it!

-Mmmmm, this is the real debut!

-OUGH TASTY FIRE EFFECTS

-I love it.

-TOGETHER!

-NO ONE CAN EVER KNOW!

-Ohhhhh, those crackles!

-GOOOOOO

-OHhhhhhhhh, that's the GOOD SHIT RIGHT THERE

-Sweet serotonin.

-DOUBLE SLASH

-THAT'S IT BABY HIT 'EM WITH A RIDER DOUBLE KICK!

-BUST THAT SHIT

-WE GOT THIS!

-SMILE!

-3! 2! 1!

-MAAAAARVELOUS!

-Oh yeah, Ikki was kinda injured there.

-Yeah, you got a lot to think about man.

-NONONO GODDAMMIT

-OHHHHHH IT'S HER

-THE GIRLBOSS

-Oh c'mon, don't do that.

-Tamaki-san... :(

-Yeah, let him go. He's having a very bad day.

-Oh, Director Man. He's evil as fuck.

-80???? What the hell, Hiromi? Did you individually cut out each organ and put them in a dehydrator?

-You did kinda carry this episode Vice, but goddamn, you don't gotta symbolically represent that by literally carrying Ikki.

-Ohhhhh, boy! Looks like evil Fenix is confirmed next episode!

-God, I'm gonna miss Hiromi when his death flags inevitably lead him to the big spider web in the sky. ...somebody get me some copium, stat.

[wodenscild]

OMG I SAW YE ANSWERED AND I HAD TO KEEP REMINDING MYSELF NOT MAKE A VELOCIRAPTOR SCREECH CAUSE I GOT SO EXCITED and dont worry about answering matey !! I won't forget ye if you do not answer, it goes both ways ye know :)

Wut- wut is Cavetown? And wdym out of context messages?? Srry my brain is a bit soggy rn am not too smart with a soggy brain.

I WILL NOT SHUSH >:3 ye deserve such nice things and sometimes ye need a daily reminder that ye really earned yer place and that ye are so so sweet ! Dare i say it- sweeter then sugar 😌

LORE LORE LORE LORE LOREEEEE :D Hhhg am so glad ye wanted to hear it lmao- SO this also connects to the yard time thing ! I am in the void and i get yard time !! In the yard time i come out of the void and can send asks. Sometimes i spent too long out of the void and don't want to go back and then get dragged back in T^T The void is kinda like a black space where there is no gravity, but i can create anything i want out of pure matter! I am quite like a lil' ghost lol.

THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA !!! Yes house near the yard, (in a forest cause i think of forests and nature when i think of you). and in that house ye shall live! >:] You really are like a small bean who thought it was a good idea to befriend a ghost and now your friends are trying to figure out how to- mmh... Revive me? Figure out who i was before i died?

But i have a more specific vision of "the yard", if you come from the void there is a tunnel where ancient creatures dug a hole in the bedrock (cause i play Minecraft) with a little stream of water running through it... Really pretty cause nature pretty. And bunch of mushrooms cause it's a cave :D that eventually leads to a almost perfect open place in the shape of a circle ! That's where galaxy once was and i followed them to the house 👀 then found you, Fenix, birb etc etc.

My autocorrect keeps correcting when i say "birb" and i keep having to type it over and over till it stops it's so annoying. Welp this was a bit of a longer ramble then it was supposed to be? Doesn't matter you can skip it if you want :]

Really hoping uni goes well for you- it sounds so complicated ToT i try to understand but it's hard.

Also you- what did ye do to me?! i am taking ye'r e vulcubary (vocalbary? Vulcubary? Why words so hard??) Like saying ToT a lot and new icons WHAT KIND OF MIND MANIPULATION DO YE HAVEE. Also saw that birb (autocorrect let me be please) showed me yer favorite reaction thingy? I can't remember correctly :-; but it was a pretty gremlin looking thing with the text "ehehehe" above it and i have to say- i stole it as my lockscreen lol. Now anyone who tries to steal my phone will just be staring at a gremlin saying "ehehehe" while they fail to guess my password :D

Ugh last day of vacation... btw MA2 went to Paris !! I guess i will see you later today? \o

-The one and not so only mystery anon ✨

ALDLSLDLSKDKSKD AWWWW DEAR HEART HI I HAVE MISSED YOU A TONNE!!!!

KSKDKSS umm Cavetown is just a trans artist I like listening to. He comforts me a lot & gels well with the sorta folkish music I have floating around on my playlist ^~^ (tho in the same music I also have power rock & orchestral rock & alt rock so- THERE IS A LIL BIT OF TONAL WHIPLASH BUT SHHHHH IT IS FINE)

& wier ty 🥺 it is nice to be reminded every now & again thst being alive is enough sometimes & I don’t need to do anything more. & the same goes for you too btw :] sometimes life sucks & you don’t wanna get out of bed- but you know what that is completely valid. You are still just awesome & loved ^~^

Gods I love that world building! But I hate how while reading that I thought about The Boy in Striped Pyjamas D: I can’t be having that- I am already crying now /hj

IT FOLLOWS IT FOLLOWS GALAXY HAS AWOKEN AN UNWIELDY BEAST OF LOVE & AFFECTION HELP DKFKAKDKSKKSKS it followed them home & now we are made to suffer with our hearts melting in our chests T^T

& yeah uni SUCKS- the next 3-4 weeks are gonna be a BITCH- with both a sociology & psychology report I need to do- but dw with enough chocolate milk & spicy jerky anything is possible >:3 my only worry is that I get too far into it & I won’t actually end up having time to study Noongar & that would be really sucky >:// Mesabzu Wodenscild, child of all knowing Abzu & Wōden, needs their language studies to stay sane ToT

& YES PERFECT MY PLAN TO SLOWLY INFECT EVERYONE WITH “ToT” IS WORKING >:] Language is wonderfully sticky isnt it darling?~ & OMGS YES THIS ONE

I am in love with it it captures my energy whenever I get a new idea. Actually I couldn’t find it at all online so I asked Birb to send it to me & well-

AND OH POOR MA2 D: WHAT CRIMES DID THEY COMMIT TO END IP IN A PLACE SO HORRIBLE???

[tsuki-sennin]

Lemme ask ya something real quick... Do you have the courage to ride with the devil?

Hoo-hoo, boy~! Revice already hitting us with the good shit!

I'll say this right now, I love this cast already. All great performances, all great characters.

The action's all consistently great, all the forms and attacks have great visual design. I love how every kid in the Igarashi fam's a badass. They also lean into Ikki's soccer player past by having him kick around big-ass rocks, it reminds me a lot of how Haruto/Wizard used to be a pro soccer player. ...I get a lot of Wizard vibes from Revice, actually. Forming a contract with a naughty inner demon to beat up an evil cult, the kicks, the extra catchy transformation jingles, he even has an axe! ...we got the Ouin Buster way earlier than we did the Wizardragon's Axcalibur, but hey!

Our homegirl Sakura putting in work! I don't expect her karate skills to be super relevant to the plot ("ladies" and "combat" usually aren't allowed to mix in Kamen Rider), but goddamn! First episode and she's already throwing down against the Deadmans! ...I'm foolishly hoping for the unlikely event that it lasts and she ends up being our Secondary Rider, but hey! I'm also a big fan of Daiji so far, he reminds me a lot of Akito from Ultraman Trigger. I wonder if we'll get a similar character arc?

The comedy's admittedly been very hit or miss so far though. Y'know Deadpool? Yeah, that's what I assume they're going for with Vice. I'd rather they play more into his viciousness and his sitcom/manzai dynamic with Ikki, now those are funny character traits. But at least we're not getting assaulted with fart jokes like in the Saber epilogue. ...yet.

Do you think Fenix runs into jurisdiction problems with AIMS? Is there some kind of inter-agency rivalry between Yaiba and Karizaki? Because MetsubouJinrai and the Deadmans seem to have very similar MOs of forcing out evil, and Yaiba and Karizaki don't seem like the kind of people who'd willingly be friendly with each other. I'd personally love to be Karizaki's secretary though, I love how his reaction to his bodyguard awakening another demon is basically "What did I tell you?"

Speaking of which, our antagonists this season all lookin' fresh. Going all in on the Mexican influence feels like a call back to how the Shocker Combatmen stuck with their iconic luchador designs after they introduced the Mexican branch of Shocker. You could argue that Olteca and Julio look a bit too silly, and you're probably not wrong, but it seems as though everyone's in agreement that Aguilera... hoo! It's weird how we haven't seen our new all-powerful queen of evil transform yet, buuuuuut I wouldn't be against the idea of a main villainess as our Big Bad Rider, wink wink nudge nudge. Perhaps she forms a direct contract with their god using a variant on the Revice Driver? They did steal the stamps from Fenix. I... don't really appreciate the name of their god though. Gifu? Do you think they get mad if the English speakers in the cult call him "Jifu?" I like how the Deadmans' contracts fold into origiami monsters, that's a clever effect.

I also love the idea that they're a cult situated in the middle of a night club and they drum up hype for demonic subjugation by handing out free hits of the Vistamps, that's perfect use of your set design. They probably even have an entire city to themselves the way MetsubouJinrai did, and in their case it's likely an unholy combination of Vegas, Kabuki-cho, Miami, Ibiza, and Monaco. I'd love to see Ikki and Vice fuck shit up on the dance floor with the eventual full version of liveDevil playing in the background. And to segue... Da-iCE, my dudes! Every time I listen to this theme, I love it more! It's decadent, it's powerful, it's loud, it's proud, it's bangin'! It's the kind of club banger that feels like it should be accompanied by big booty bad bitches, bourgeois booze, and back-of-the-bar brawling. I really appreciate this bold new direction; it kinda reminds me of Defspiral's Dive into the Mirror, the theme for the Japanese dub of Dragon Knight, which has a similar energy despite the difference in genre.

Looking forward to how the rest of Revice plays out. Alright, I'm done for today, bye.