#godddd why did she go thru all that it's like an “if you know you know” thing but

[blitz0hno]

*tries to talk about Amane and the significance of her trauma* Aaaaaand English language is a fuck all of a sudden

[loveydive]

okay thoughts on stone ocean

i just wanna say that i feel like im in a unique position reading this since some common complaints abt opinions of stone ocean being negative is that ppl rushed thru it to get to sbr too quickly. which just does not apply to me bc i read sbr and jjl first before reading stone ocean teehee x so ya

likes

I LOVE JOLYNE SO MUCH THIS CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED. I LOVE. HER. SO. MUCH. THERE IS NOT ONE THING THAT I DONT LIKE ABT HER I LOVEHER SO MUCH. I LOVE HER DUMBASSNESS, I LOVE HER RECKLESS BEHAVIOUR TO SAVE HER FRIENDS THAT IS TYPICAL FOR A SHOUNEN PROTAGONIST BUT NEVER SHOWN THRU A FEMALE SHOUNEN PROTAG I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE HER. i love her development. i love her. and shes liKE GENUINELY SMART IN BATTLES AS WELL. AND NOT LIKE GIORNO WHO HAS A WIKIPEDIA EMBEDDED IN HIS FRONT CORTAL OR SMTH. BUT LIKE PROPER BATTLE SMART THAT MAKES YOU GO OKAY I DID NOT THINK OF THAT. i love her flaws. i love how she has daddy issues and is complex abt loving her dad or not. i love that she loves her mum. love love love.

fights dont feel like villain of the week format. progresses nicely and logically imo. overall, there were some fights that just seemed to drag foreverrrr, but only 1 or 2 that i outright hated (unlike jjl lmao). fave arcs were white snake: pursuer, ff intro, bohemian rhapsody, heavy weather, c-moon, made in heaven just off top of head

versus was esp interesting as a minor villain. i felt his motivations were justified and it made him interesting. i esp liked the little tension btwn him and pucci and wish it had been expanded more.

perhaps unpopular opinion but i actually liked pucci as a villain. lots of ppl say that hes just another part 3 villain but More. and hes just a lamer version of dio which i just disagree with. i felt that his back story lended a lot to making him his own person, with dio being a mentor and kind of like the like shaping for why he believes what he does when he was dealing with his grief and guilt. like his backstory in particular i loved. the idea of coincidences, fate, tragedy. he obviously frequently questions it when we read his backstory (why did those two have to meet? why did the lady tell him about switching the babies? why did her baby die?) its like a series of events that all reached to a peak with the tragedy of his sister's death and weather's lynching. and AH im going crazy. and ofc he feels guilty over his but at the same time, he wonders why it all happened. because of fate? why was it fate for his sister to die? and he just feels powerlessness over this. CUHRAZYY. and how his stand abilities manifest in direct response to losing his sister?? LOVE THAT. oh my godddd and his relationship with weather and that quote 'you're the ultimate image of evil, but you dont realize that you're evil. this is what makes you the worst kind of evil.' SCREAM. ANW THATS HOW I INTERPRETTED HIM AND I LIKE HIM. TOP 3 JOJO VILLAINS EASY.

i REALLY REALLY liked weather report's backstory and relationship to pucci. LIKE THE DRAMA OF IT ALL. THROUGHOUT READING IT I WAS LIKE GIRLLLL WHY ARE YOU DOING THATTTT. IT FELT LIKE READING A TRAGEDY YK? LIKE SHAKESPEARE. LITERALLY SHAKESPEARE. romeo and juliet but incestuous (rip). even has themes of senseless hatred!!! (side not i cannot believe araki actually put the kkk in there and also weather being a BLACK MAN I WAS LIKE WAIT ARE WE DOING THIS FR?). anw really liked it. made pucci feel wayy more human and made the stakes feel more personal

i liked the character designs just in general. and even tho annasui looks like a diavolo ripoff, i think hes looks very pretty. found myself looking at him sometimes even if i dont rlly like him dgsauids

aside from jolyne, i feel like i REALLY liked f.f. perhaps a tad more than hermes. ff was so bubbly and unique to the story. she was absolutely hilarious and i wish she hadnt died so early in the story but i feel like araki just didnt know what to do with her anymore esp since she didnt have a stand.

i generally overall like the characters individually. they are all interesting to look at/ have interesting personalities, motivations and stands etc etc

i like the little exploration of jotaros weakness being his own daughter buttttt - will explain more in dislikes

dislikes

(dragon dreams arc) kenzo fight is bs - hate fights that are basically just like. im winning… just just bc i am!!! liek you could explain this whole new concept to me that describes how hes winning but if its just some astrology bs that essentially says ‘just bc’ then im calling bs. this fight is bs.

jailhouse rock was. hm. it was an interesting stand in CONCEPT. but execution was like not fun to read at all imo.

im gonna be honest. like compared to the other jojo gangs, this part felt the least like they were friends. EVEN COMPARED TO PART 5 - whose relationships i thought were like eh (prolly cause we’re watching it from giorno pov and giorno has only known them for like. a week LMAO) ANW i think its bc so many times, the gang had to split up to like fight. and i dont think there was a single fight where all of them just like fought tgt. it was always in pairs and one or so was always out of commission. like mannnn. like jolynes individual relationship with each of them was good. but the trio of girls only really felt like real friends and that doesnt last long since hermes gets put out of commission after her revenge and ff dies shortly after like WTF sadface. so like when weather dies and hermes is crying. im like girl why are you crying did you even interact with him 😭 AND i feel like the fact that the gang arent really friends makes itself REALLY obvious when in the c-moon arc. hermes gets hit and knocked away from everyone and. everybody just kinda. continues without her anw??? like THINK ABOUT IT WOULD ANY OTHER JOJO GANG LET THAT HAPPEN IN THE OTHER PARTS?? THEY JUST LEAVE HER?? HUH??

maybe im eheh, more boring, but i prefer my um stories to be a bit more grounded (says the girl reading literal jojo). but yeah the story in general was like super okay good. but the ending battle hm. was a bit too lets say. out there for me teehee. like guess im not a big fan of like space and all that and alternate realities on a grander scale. it was just like a LOT.

moving onto the most controversial thing i think. the ending. a lot of ppl hate it. some ppl love it. imo i had stronger (negative) feelings with the jojolion ending. the stone ocean ending was. eh. like i didnt vehemently hate it, nor did i love it persay. i felt that it was indeed a bit rushed. like araki was like oh shit! i need to end this in the next few chapters and did that dhasuiodasd. like the gang died so quickly i didnt even realise that they actually died i was like no way right.

ANW BACK TO THEMES OF THE ENDING. i wish it was more. like. if youre gonna rewrite the entire universe, at least have it mean something yk? bc even though the ending was technically happy, very happy. i dont think there was a justifiable reason for it i think? like it could have just as easily been an unhappy ending and i get how ppl are like its symbolism!! the joestars dont have to fight evil anymore and its meaningful bc an outsider ended it. (side note, i do think this story was a better way to start off the way jjl started ‘this is a story about breaking a curse’ can you imagine that at the start of stone ocean? ooo goosebumps) but anw, imo i just do not feel that it was set up properly or justified. emporio did not deserve to be the last one standing imo, there just wasnt enough reason or set up for him to be. the use of weather’s stand was satisfying but not the fact that is was emporio. i wish it had been jolyne i think idkk

like even tho it technically is a happier ending for the gang, it doesnt feel deserved in my opinion. like not bc theyre bad ppl and they dont deserve it or that they didnt work hard, like i LOVE THE CHARACTERS. but. hm. it doesnt make sense thematically is what im saying. the characters dont meaningfully engage with puccis notion that he should create a universe where everyone knows their fate and is happy. they kinda are just like. oh hes killed ppl and is evil so therefore, we must stop him!! and im just rlly? like dont you wanna hear him out a bit GDIASUDHASD but yeah i just feel like weather had stronger motivations in this regard. the gang just dont have really strong reasons to fight pucci. including jolyne who already got her father’s disc back

SPEAKING OF WHICH, UM. CAN WE HAVE MORE PAYOFF FOR JOTARO COMING BACK TO LIFE PWEEAASSEEE. like he comes back and its pretty badass ngl but i want MORE btwn him and jolyne. like how abt an apology old man? why does ANNASUI AND JOTARO TALK MORE THAN JOTARO AND HIS OWN DAUGHTER IM GONNA KILL MYSELFFFF like he tells jolyne that shes grown (which, sweet) but can he PLEASE JUTS SAY THAT HES PROUD OF HER OR SMTH?? PLEASE? YOURE JUST STATING A FACT THATS SHES GROWN HDUIASDHASD OLD MAN SAY SMTH MORE USEFUL IM GONNA BASH YOUR HEAD INNN. IF JOLYNE FORGIVES HIM SHE IS DOING ALL THE FUCKING LEGWORK HERE

THAT BEING SAID. even tho jolyne is meant to be the PROTAGONIST of this part, her role in the final final battle is HEAVILY DIMINISHED. AND IM LIKE HUH. LIKE THIS IS THE PART WHERE WE GET A FEMALE JOJO AND THE THREE MVPS IN THE END TURN OUT TO BE THE GUYS LIKE 😐 OKAY. at least in the other parts, their respective jojos actually FEEL like the protag. jonathan kills dio, joseph kills kars, jotaro kills dio, josuke heavily has a whole badass fight with kira, giorno oneshots diavolo, and jolyne... what DOES SHE DO IN THE FINAL FIGHT AGAIN? 😭 like annasui has diverdown and stuff, jotaro stops time which stops pucci a fair bit, and emporio literally kILLS pucci. EVEN THE STAND USED TO KILL PUCCI WAS WAETHERS LIKEEE PUHLEASEE. and im reading this and itS LIKE SORRY WASNT JOLYNE THE PROTAGONIST? literally after the c-moon arc, i cant really recall like anything SIGNIFICANT that she does despite having just read it yesterday. and it makes me sad bc um. i rlly like her

overall - 6/10 - top 3 protag and antag. the concepts are THERE but the execution was off. definitely more experimental but thematically, it just wasnt satisfying.

[icharchivist]

first: WAHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭 I got so emotional!!! so emotional!!!! so much that I can’t even do this first second pattern bc I have SO MANY thoughts!!!!!!! I’m writing this in my notes instead of straight into the askbox so u know it’s serious business™

ok so debut night!!! I was like ahah yeah it’s a tragedy whatever it’ll be fun to start out with and then the voice acting was SO good that it knocked me out of the park and I almost cried haha. it’s crazy how good the voice acting in a3 is like I love how the dialogue and voice acting works well together bc like it’s limited but so effective!! u can so very clearly see and understand the style they’re going for. especially like tsumugi’s death scene... the Talent jumped out it really did... uh and ok so. I think I may be a littleeee confused abt the play bc I had always interpreted tasukus last lines as raphael to be like abt his being secretly in love with michael. but now that I’m actually reading the line that’s like oh don’t fall for a human it only ends in misery I know that all too well or whatever... ig the implication is that raphael was in love with another human / the same lady michael was in love with in the play. side note I had to go back and edit the proper names in instead of tasuku and tsumugi lol... but speaking of!! speaking of the voice acting and the play itself I 1) love how blatantly obvious it is when tsumugi goes for that grander, tasuku like style of delivery!! like u could just so easily feel the difference it was wild... and 2) tsuzuru is once again spot on with his writing, lol... I felt that like raphaels inability to save or help michael really parallels how tasuku feels abt tsumugi so well, and it’s wonderful that they r able to resolve things and tasuku can properly compliment him on his acting where the angels fail to do so. it’s very good. and I think the play rly highlights (for me at least) that like. to tasuku, it was tsumugi who was sort of an unreachable existence. like were he to idolize and respect someone’s acting, it would be tsumugi. and I think that like caring carries over into their roles really well, because I think in michael’s love for a human tasuku sees like... tsumugi’s style of acting. the heart that he’d lost while within the god troupe. mb I’m losing my mind a little but ah. the play rly works with their relationship so well!! im very excited to see the other winter ppl get main roles tho—same for all the troupes!!! now this ask is too long so I’ll have to do another part lol

going to start off this second part of the ask abt hisoka bc oh my GOD. hisoka. like I was just thinking “hm where r the winter troupe cgs anyways” and then BAM. hisoka CRYING???? especially since he doesn’t seem that emotional it was a really hard hit!!! and who tf is august.... ok well actually theory time!! skipping ahead to the end theres that note that like mentions December and April and. not to expose my friend but very many years ago (a couple years before a3 was launched, at the very least) she wrote this story where there were like 12 orphan assassins and they were all named after months. I remember the main dude was named dec lol. coupled with my “hisoka is capable of murder” bit? listen.... I’m not saying anything but I’m also not not saying anything if u feel me. also I feel like assassin / thief with mysterious background is a common trope!! that was silver from the pokémon adventures manga too... why is this my reference point lmao. anyways I’m unclear if assassins would make it into a3 but like.... if the yakuza and supernatural stuff makes it in...

okay moving away from conspiracy theories and into emotions!!! the quotes from like EVERY mankai actor before the final production made me SO emo... and yay!!! they won!!!! (though admittedly I almost had a heart attack when no one clapped) but they won!!!! that ending cg!!!! and I adore how sakyo immediately goes after god troupe man (I know his name is reni I just don’t feel like calling him that) for the money lol it’s just so sakyo-like. also I love the lil mixed troupe interactions!! I found the game night ch so fun.... ahh, now I wanna reread that ch since it was so good lol

all in all I was super satisfied ahh!! I am SO excited to start up spring troupe again (HELLO character development!!! and chikage) and I’m even MORE excited to get thru all the act 1 events!!!! as a final note, is there any way to reread or replay the flair conversations? I didn’t want any spoilers for the plays while I was doing the practices for them so I kinda sped thru the first time ahah...

HELLO FRIEND IM SO HAPPY TO GET SUCH A LENGHTY ASK ABOUT WINTER IM LKDJFLKDJFLKFD  Winter makes me feel shrimps emotions (i know the whole “shrimps can see more colors than humans can’t comprehend” thing has been disproved but i’m not letting go of that expression, i REALLY feel emotions humans can’t comprehend anymore and i’m going to make it everyone else’s problem)

1) First about the voice acting, rIGHT this is just so fascinating to me!!! I remember after act 2 i came back to reread the main act 1 chapter and i was so thrown out by how GOOD the voice acting was, especially for the first few troupes having to convince you they’re not comfortable or good at acting yet. Winter whole thing is that they’re more subtle and mature and you really feel that with their voice acting, Tsumugi’s voice especially knock it off the park anytime he’s on screen. 

2) Second: what does it say about me that i’ve never, ever considered your reading a possibility because i was so set on “oh Raphael you’re in love with Michael sooooo bad you see it as a tragedy already because you can see him throw his life away” i didn’t even consider “maybe Raphael went through that too”. Though i guess if we’re going with that reading i can totally see “The Woman” they let themselves consumed by easily be a representation of acting or even more the God Troupe, with Raphael/Tasuku knowing to step away before it consumes him completely while Michael/Tsumugi, by his love and passion, pushed himself until he broke, which fits and it hurtsssss god Winter plays hits so hard.

3) Third: oh god yeah when Tsumugi goes for Tasuku’s acting it’s just. It makes me SO uncomfortable, i’ve experienced this scene like three times by now and the third time i was just “can i skip it i can’t go through this again i can’t Tsumugi i love you i can’t do this”. It doesn’t match the play at all and it just throws everyone off balance, and Tsumu you could have told theM YOU WANTED TO DO THAT.... god

4) Fourth: I LOVE YOUR READING SO MUCH I LOVE IT I LOVE IT YES YOU’RE RIGHT!!! Just as we follow Tsumugi let his passion consumes him until he breaks, Tasuku’s character arc really jumps out in Raphael, like, everything you say!!!  The way Tasuku/Raphael knew how the feelings Tsumugi/Michael felt would hurt him on the long run but he didn’t know what to do about it until it was too late, the regrets and the way Raphael voices his frustrations.... Tasuku struggles to be honest without acting (Tasuku pls i love you) but having such a role really help him expressing all he feels about Tsumugi and i’m HHHH this is so good so so good!!! but yeah i also love that Tasuku finally manages to actually compliment Tsumugi naturally, that he understands he can’t let him destroys himself again and it’s just gnhhhhh Tasuku is so kind and considerate and i care about him so much....!!!

5) Fifth: “i’m losing my mind a little” winter mood, winter mood winter mood- (though every troupe’s mood tbh but Winter is gnhhhhh kdhd hdhjf??? you feel me) (i am BIASED i can’t help it TwT) but yeaH i’m looking forward to see how you react to the others plays because the roller coaster juST BEGUN!!!

Onto part 2... Winter Troupe Chapter Feels... 2!

6) Sixth: DLFJDFKLDF HISOKAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE HIM SO MUCHHHHH. Hisoka crying fucked me up so bad!! so so bad!! Like on my first read i didn’t know what to think of him as he starts out very apathic to his troupe and then the more it goes on the more you can feel he starts to open up and i’m soft for this sort of slow burn, but then this whole scene happened and it HIT ME IN THE FACE, he was crying, i was crying, we were all crying, the Unopening Door opened a flood of emotions i can’t cope with. He sounds SO VULNERABLE during that scene and i know all of the Winter Troupe united on “taking care of him” but that’s really the moment i went “i care you and i will keep taking care of you” and look at me now. Thanks funky little scene for ruining my life. I’m glad you liked it i’m aldhjflkjdfkd Hisokaaaaa.....

7) Seventh: I am not commenting on the theory but 👀 that’s so highly specific your friend has a galaxy brain i love it. and i love the idea of “well we have yakuza and supernatural entity what’s an assassin adding himself to it” dLKFJDLKF i know everyone in Mankai calls Izumi out everytime someone joins but that’d be peak. I’m not going further about what December and August and April are all about but i love this plotline sO much, the few mentions of August when Hisoka regained his memories for a minute still haunts me, the guilt he seems to feel and this pain i’m just... godddd such a good set up. I love this plotline.

8) Eigth: EMOTIONS!!  Oh GOD YEAH THE ENDING WITH ALL THE OTHER ACTORS... I cried so hard it’s just. It really shows you it’s not just the culmination of the Winter chapter but of all the act 1 main plot and it really makes you feel how much of a journey you’ve been onto!! A3 is so good at showing you the growth of its characters that especially by the end of Winter you really saw how all of them grew in their respective chapters and how cozy they felt in their new home in the remaining chapters, and the fact this chap has those defining character arc’s lines really drive home “oh my god that was a journey” i love them sO MUCH.... 

9) Ninth: wE WOOOON!!! They’re all so good i just. i’m gonna cry just thinking about it dlfdjlfk i know like, the game has so many content so you know it can’t end at the end of Winter but the suspense really was there. BUT YEAH LMAO I LOVE SAKYO DOING THAT IMMEDIATLY, man sure has the eyes on the prize and we love him for that.  AND THE GAME NIGHT SCENE they are all sO CUTE and sWEET and they’re a family now and i’m hHHHHH i love a3 a normal healthy amount that isn’t just making me cry thinking about how all of them grew so close even through mixed troupes.

10) Tenth: I am SO happy you were satisfied with the plot so far!! I’m genuinely so happy that you decided to take that journey with us and that you shared all of this with me, and i’m so so happy you liked it!! There is still so much content and all of it is so worth it! 

11) Eleventh: Yes!! The flair conversations are all readable on the Mini-Chat tab! So they’re easily accessible and they’re sorted in a way that’s easy to read so you can feel comfortable skipping the flairs if you want until you have seen the stories the flairs are all about. They’re all kinda set during the rehearsals (except for some crosstroupe conversation that wouldn’t make sense if they were like how the Summer Troupe talks with the Spring Troupe in their Flairs DKLFJDF but it’s okay what is a timeline anyway) so some of them are set pre-development and it’s wild to get back to them. I love rereading Flairs i get emotional everytime.

ANND That’s it for this ask! i had a blast reading through your thoughts and i’m so happy and excited!! i’ll send you the drive now so you can start digging through it whenever you feel like it :3c good luck grinding for act 2, meanwhile i hope you’ll have fun with all the act 1 events i compiled for you!!

(side note i need to update the drive too but it’s mostly act 2 content anyway, the only two act 1 things i need to update on it is Sakuya’s birthday card i think?? i think Itaru’s is already in act 2 so i’ll try to get around to it eventually but it’s so far away anyway) (edit: i forgot that the three cards i got for the latest revival are from act 1 DLKJFD okay so i’m missing three cards -)

The drive has backstages and event stories and it may be a lot and overwhelming ahah. Focus on the event stories for the plot and go back to the backstages whenever you feel like it, no need to read them at the same time, unless you want to in which case everything is set up for you :3c and there’s a file with cards that aren’t associated to events too so... lots of goodies hanging around. I’ll send it to you in DM ;O 

Take care and thank you so much for all your thoughts! my inbox remains wide opened for any others thoughts you may have as you go further into it :3c

[lumiereswig]

hey all so i just saw ‘hadestown’ and feel duty bound to tell you fools everything about it because i, too, remember what it is to be lonely and on the internet and too poor to see some snazzy broadway shit

there’s no fanfare or anything. the show opens with all the cast coming on—and obviously the audience is going buckwild, especially with amber gray. (u can tell there’s a lot of great comet fans in the audience.) only once everybody is settled does hermes really TAKE THE STAGE.

and boy does he take it. sassy lil shit knows he owns it and just stands there taking in his audience, before flipping his jacket back with dramatic flare (to show his SNAZZY-ASS SILVER THREADED VEST) and starting to sing. (cue noisy wah-wah trombone.)

the setting is p. clearly a bar; orpheus p. clearly works there. he’s like being artsy with the napkins and shit, blossoming them into roses. eurydice is a traveler; she carries with her, wrapped in brown silk, an alter candle that she lights. (after sassing hermes into giving her a match to light it with.) eurydice balances her candle with the paper rose orpheus later makes and gives to her.

orpheus is pretty childlike and dreaming in this version. (not the cocky boy from the off broadway production.) he comes off as kind of lanky and awkward and not quite there; naive is definitely a defining adjective for him. everything about him is soft and gentle and in a dreaming world.

eurydice is kind of a classic tough girl but she’s got a strand of helplessness to her. she puts on a show of not being impressed by orpheus until he sings her the song he’s working on, and manages to bring a rose into his palm.

environmental collapse is a HUGE theme thru this—bigger than i thought it would be. eurydice’s first lines are about how there’s no spring or autumn anymore; everything is winter or summer, too hot or cold to live. the fates sing of the winds—the fates sort of torment her throughout this—but climate change looms as a dread through the show. orpheus hopes his song will bring back summer, put the seasons back in tune.

anyway, everyone’s hanging out at a new orleans style bar. even hades and persephone are there, though above it all in a balcony of their own

did i mention bradley king is a god among lighting designers?

because that will come back a lot

anyway hermes is sort of an uncle figure to orpheus; he was friends with orpheus’s mother, a muse. as soon as orpheus sees eurydice he wants to talk to her, and hermes advices him not to ‘come on too strong’—

and well that plan goes immediately out the window : ‘come home with me!’ [eurydice: ’what?’]

orpheus is just intensely awkward. skinny pale child doesn’t know how to interact with the world

they have kind of an argumentative relationship from the start—they don’t face each other very often; there’s a push and pull as he longs for her and she, kneejerk tough girl, tries not to go for this. but the rose from his palm enchants her, and she holds on to it. ‘you have to finish your song.’

GODDDD AMBER GRAY IS JUST LIIIIIIIFE. her persephone is a total lush and frequently staggers through act 1. she also has a fabulous white coat that gradients to green at the sleeves. when she dances you can’t tell if she’s about to pass out or float up to the ceiling.

when orpheus gives the toast he’s just so awkward it’s appalling

(and everyone toasts except eurydice)

hades wears sunglasses when he comes to the world above to bring persephone back to the world below. he descends from his balcony to get her, and brings her to the center of the stage—and then, oh, SHIT, there’s a fucking perfect round trap door right where they’re standing, and they descend below. (amber gray looking up to the slowly disappearing sky with the face of a martyr who’s used to the gig.)

winter’s hard. eurydice has to bust back out her old ass coat (instead of the winsome black slip thing and brown vest thing she was wearing), and the Fates, bitches as they be, try to fuckin rip it off her. (and succeed. the choreography looks like wind! also chairs and tables looked like they were floating earlier but i forgot to mention that.)

eurydice is trying to get ORPHEUS’S FUCKIN ATTENTION bout the fact they got no food and, uh, three bitchy old ladies dressed all in gray just took her coat, but he’s submerged in writing his song to bring back the weather. and while this is all going on, hades and persephone are having their age-old argument about how hell is too hot and too loud and IT AIN’T RIGHT, IT AIN’T NATURAL.

because, get this, after descending to hell they descended /back up/ into it, and u can tell cuz the lighting is fuckin genius. i’ll explain later except i won’t.

orpheus is just OUT OF IT and not hearing anything at all eurydice is tryin to fuckin say. (the tune keeps going wrong.) hades is sick of persephone not being with his electric shiny no-good shittiness and lays his eyes on eurydice as easy prey.

he puts on his sunglasses again and u know it’s bad news.

he talks her over and gives her her ‘ticket’—two silver coins that she momentarily holds up over her eyes as she looks at us, letting us know that this is some death imagery. she holds both hades’ coins and orpheus’s flower—and, making up her mind, calls out orpheus’s name one last time and descends into the underworld through that same miraculous trap.

and then, fuck me, the trap comes back up but just the red flower is on it. fuuuuuck meeeeeeee i may have wept.

orpheus finishes his damn song and hermes lets him know that hE FUCKED UP HIS WHOLE DAMN LIFE SHE GONE, BITCH, and orpheus sees the flower on the trap door and then he’s weeping, too.

and then we get to ‘wait for me’ and holy shit, y’all, i never been so fully into something in my life? it was so physically intoxicating i almost wanted to throw up. like, wonder as a liquid beverage. tHE LIGHTING? ? i fuckin felt awe on this earth today, i saw god and he’s lit by bradley king.

because! hades’ workers bring on these industrial metal lamps, and they hook them to the wires in the ceiling, and they SEND THEM SWINGING OUT INTO THE FUCKIGN AUDIENCE. they fuckin—they—they they they!—they fucking did! that! sent them swinging out in perfect rhythm and time, fully lit, swinging around orpheus and into the audience. and tHEN! THE FUCKIN SET! BEGINS TO GROW!!!

remember the first time u saw the nutcracker as a child and the growing christmas tree fuckin ripped ur world apart? it’s like that except times ten thousand

like it felt like. like the fuckin world was coming apart. the bar set is slowly ripping open and golden light is just searing into your eyeballs and the golden lamps are still swinging around orpheus and it literally felt like god had opened up a cold one and was just singing something horrible into being. it was wonder. i want to see it again.

like. stagecraft, babyyy

and u think act 1 will end on that because why would it nOT but no, we get ‘why we build the wall,’ which is a sort of chilling propoganda thing where everybody is facing forward and just telling back to hades whatever he’s yelling about, and persephone is there and i’m not sure why (like does she believe this? is she the unwilling consort? what’s the deal?)

and at the end eurydice comes in, and sort of picks up on the gestures everybody is doing—in that way everyone does when they come into a room and they want to vaguely pass as with it so they try to sync in to the general vibe. ‘uhh sure everyone’s waving their hands and talkin about walls so i guess i will too’, that kind of thing

hades shows her up to his office (the balcony door) to sign the papers. as soon as he’s gone, amber gray whips round to face the audience. ‘anybody want a drink?’

it’s intermission and i’m still trying to catch up on all the gasp-crying i started during ‘wait for me’

we also get an overpriced hadestown cup cuz get while the getting’s good, right?

back in act 2 and it’s our lady of the underground, ie amber gray in her exact outfit from above except instead of lurid green it’s savage black. (and instead of a bouncy curly brown wig it’s a black sparkly snood.) she dances and pivots and rivets her way through it, introducing the band, being winsome savage bite-your-face-off-and-offer-to-share-it-with-you amber gray. she’s got a neat little ring-shaped silver flask that hangs from her hand like a purse, and i want one.

eurydice emerges from the office dressed in the same overalls as the other workers—though she looks sexy af in them, ngl—and sings ‘flowers,’ and talks about how nobody down here looks at her, and how it’s like they don’t even see her. the underworld is not what she thought it would be. she wants to go home but can’t. she can’t remember orpheus’s name.

uNTIL HE SHOWS UP! Punk ass bitch made it, somehow, and stumbles onto the stage with guitar in hand. she knows his name immediately. but she can’t leave, because she signed her soul away.

u knew all this. it’s classic myth. did i mention patrick page as hades sounds like the combined harmonics of every rumbling truck on the george washington bridge every time he decides to sing?

orpheus has A Moment™ where it’s like, if this is what the world is, if people sign their names up for shit and i can’t save them, i guess i’ll just go home. but he talks himself out of it (apparently his magic vocal cords work on him, too), and actually talks himself (and the stone workers of the underworld!) into activism.

amber gray and patrick page share a duet i’ve never heard before, and it’s fine, and i think it still needs fine tuning cuz im not sure exactly how persephone feels about hades in this bit. it’s fine. what matters is that at the end of it, hades is FUCKED because rebellion is brewing.

he gets orpheus to sing his song. and holy shit, is it a doozy. holy shit, but were we all crying. hooooolyyy shiiiiiit.

holy shit.

when hades sings the refrain at the end, amber gray looks like she’s experiencing the most visceral, exquisite, heartfelt, heartbroken pain of her life. she literally bends as if she’s felt this pain in her stomach—this pain, this anguish over the song she hasn’t heard for so long from this one man she loved so well.

and when a rose blossoms from hades’s palm, persephone is both crying and laughing. it’s like the old times have bloomed again.

and then they dance.

also, should have mentioned earlier, it’s implied it’s not an og song orpheus is singing; he’s actually stumbled on an ancient one, perhaps one hades used to sing, and THAT’S why it’s so devastating—not just his talent and voice, but the memory of it, the memories it brings back. it’s an ancient song, almost a spell, that can heal the seasons.

hades and persephone hold each other close, nuzzling almost, and eurydice faces orpheus, and for a second u think it’s going to be ok because eurydice is so joyful and persephone and hades have healed. o & e  think they’re gonna leave. they think everybody can leave.

but nope, hades can’t have that. damned if he does, damned if he don’t—so he sets the test for orpheus, but u really get the sense that he’s not doing it from a sense of cruelty any more. it almost pains him to do this shit. but the rivet of steel in his character won’t let himself become king of nothing.

hermes presents the challenge: ‘ive got good news, and bad.’ orpheus keeps asking hermes if it’s a trick; hermes keeps saying it’s a test, a trial. (it’s really a TRAGEDY.)

persephone is wooed by the fact that hades even let them try.

ugh, doubt comes in is. devastating. every single person in the audience audibly gasped—u FELT the air leave the room—when he turned around. we all genuinely believed it would end differently this time. we thought it would. i knew it was coming and i still was DEVASTATED.

eurydice is, too. she started as the doubter, and she had so much BELIEF they were gonna get out of this. ‘it’s you—it’s me—’ she says. she’s already sinking through the trap. fuckin hell, they were on the last few steps. i’m still fuckin emotional about it

orpheus just crashes to the edge of the trap, staring down into the abyss. hermes is singing, softly, about how it’s an old song—it’s an old tale—it’s a tragedy. and then he roars—in a way that cheers me up—WE’RE GONNA SING IT AGAIN.

because that’s the power of it! it happened, it was horrible, but we’re going to SING about it—and maybe change the ending this time—the way orpheus tried to, when he sang his way to hades and sang his way to the stones. it’s the singing of the event that matters, that might matter.

and eurydice is back at the bar, wanting matches—orpheus is back at the bar, seeing her for the first time across the room—and the story goes on, like the seasons .fuckin incredible. everybody in the auditiorium now is tear-stained.

APPLAUSE APPLAUSE APPLAUSE

lasted for like.....seven minutes?? it took ages and the actors were just soaking it up, looking exhausted, because DAMN it is exhausting to chart anguish and joy and victory and determination and love in two hours and 25 minutes

and then hermes shushes the house—because of course he does—and amber gray leads the final toast. it’s acoustic—it sounded to me like she wasn’t even using her microphone? it wasn’t brash at all, just raw—and a simple, honest, kind of homespun way to end the show. and it finally ended, and we cheered one last time, and then we went home sobbing and shaking and wanting to do the whole damn thing again

it was great and the stagecraft was some of the best i’ve ever seen and i’ve literally felt maybe only 3 productions like this, where this emotional shit is actually sitting in your lungs, and u should go, the end

[mingi-bubu]

Watch “Flower of Evil” with Me!

Episode 10

yeah im dispensing of things bc im too eyes emoi

etc etc mark lee says lezgeddit

208

and a ring?

oh

is thatSHE PASSED

SHE CALLED HIP OPPA I

SHUT UP SHES SO HAPPY

HE SMILE

I AM EMOIONALY FUCKED OVER BY THEM

an hour

hhhhhh jiwon unnieeee

she said bogoshipO FUCK

idc if i spelled the romanization correctly bc we all knowt he romanization is bs anyways

damn joongi

you just did that

yeah thats not gonna happen

computer man has been?  recording the conversation?

leg

i s2g if its eunha im gonna kill a man

what did he seeee

ok reporternim is really

fuck fine okay he doesnt seem like a total ass

oooh thats a nice fucking lamp huh

oh fuck

fuck

noona

..okay revised

he is a man

i also dont understand how she has a lil house-partment ontop of that building

i really hate this

wow

men be staying men

god im over itttt

i hate this

hmmmm

awehhh noonaa...

someone get her a weighted blanket and some hot chocolate PLEAES

OH OF COURSE WE CUT TO COMMERCIAL RIGHT WHEN JIWON IS AT THE BENCH

hehehe she was sitting on the bench

oh my god noona is calling jiwon

when the time is right

when she does what she needs to do???

noona??!!!!

god im so concerned

ugh the romantic music and him running to her with the soft lighting PLEAE

JOONGI ROMCOM 2021 FUCK

WHY IS HE SO CUTE

I AM EMOITONAL

HES SO PRTTY FUCK

JIWON IS CRYING

FUCK IM CRYING TOO

FFUCK THE MUSIC AND THE HUG I HATE IT HERE

SHUT UP WITH THE LOOK

IM

WE IS ALL SOBBING

FUCK CAN WE JUST HAVE THE REST OF THE SHOW BE HIS FAMILY

PLSESE

I HATE IT HERE

yes

team leader is correct

i love how hojoon dresses like hes from the 90s

its personally very sexy of him

dect choi needs a break alkdfjal;sdkj

oh dear

the ahjumma from before

OH NO

what is jiwon talking about

jiwon doesnt look like her picture shes so cute

theres a whiplash of emotionas that joongi must be going thru bc of jiwon

adn vice versa

aweh eunhaaaa

shes so tinie and adoralbe

OH MY GOD HER TINIE HAND FUCK

I REALLY GO THROUGH IT WHEN I SEE THEM INTERACT

a flip phone

like a genuine old flip phone

one million in cash

jesus

what the fuck

oh m y god inseo

what the FUCK GOD

I HATE IT HERE

commercias..

oh he recognized inseo

i like understand that this is a lot in korean oh nevermind joongi upped it

i was gonna say the original statement was roughly my tuition alkdjf;lskjd

fuck

FUCKi hate this a lot the human trafficking

which like, damn i sure hope i would a;ldkfj;s

oh theyre showing og heesong whats happened in the past ~20 ish years

thats a good question

pretend to be long lost brother?  cousin?

filial sons in the baek family i see

oh yikes bud.....you uh

you arent getting that back

wow he has no

OH FUCK HES INVOLVING THE DAD

ITS HIM

HES THE ACCOMPLICE ISNT HE

FUCK THE DAD IS THE ACCOMPLICE

for a man whos been in a coma for over a decade hes looking not like that

does this guy ever close his mouth

wehhh her lil sockies

ke’ai ke’aiiiiii

shut up the domesticisty of it allSNAFASJDF AND HER WEDDING RING IS BACK ONOH MY GOD

OH MY GODDDD

ME AND JOONGI GOING THRU IT RN

fuck is he okay

joongi yah

panic attack?

silk pajamas?

heart attack?

panic attack?

fuck is he okay?

oh shit the lady died

its nice to see some of the old jiwon back

i swear to god we just went through commercials

i want to see that one twinsies cvs commercial reenacted with joongi and eunha

bc you just know he would do that for her after a flu shot or something

the hoop thingy on the back of the front door is fun

what

no

hands

what

joongi what are you doing

oh that press conference was not fun

oh jaerimdong

girl

shes gon investigate

a;ldskj;faklsdj just stare at the phone why dont you

who is on the phone

oh my god

i guess we skipped the commercial on that break

god fuck

he

FUCK WITH THE GLASES FUCK

hojoon in that lighting

hhhh

dude

dect choi

;alksdfjalskdfjaskd;lj no wonder he and dect choi argued so much love it

oh wowowow

god this is so tense

ohhhhhhh  GOD FUCK HE

AAAAHHHHH IM GOING CRAZYY

god and jiwon knows who he is too so shes so worried

FUCK THE TENSIONS

dect choi i understand where youre coming from

aldkfjasldkjf hojoon best boy

his lil mole im in love

i love the hairstyle that the team leader has

its very smart

fuck

jiwon is so pissed and worried and i am too

FUCKING COMMERCIALS WHAT THAT FUCK

god we’re bakc okay

oh jiwon wants to go on a date with him

but he can’t

bc he has to do things

fuck

this is

shut

SSHTU

FUCK HE

HE WANTS TO BE A DECENT AND GOOD PERSON FOR HER

IF UCKGIN

GOD ME AND JIWON ARE CRYING

GOD

I

I HATE IT HERE I KNOW I SAY THIS ALOT ESP WITH THE PAST EPISODE AND THIS ONE BUT I HATE IT

oh og geesong and jg mom are outside

idk who that woman is but i love her

oh

is he

*eyes emoji*

:(

who did he have to meet?

oh good me and the mom have the same braincell

a lady *eyes emoji but intensified*

who???

god i hope we find out bc that would be so interesting

oh reporternims team leader

alsdfkjasldkj OH SHIT

DAMN

THROWING HER WORDS BACK IN HER FACE LADJSFA;LKSDJF

that looks like a comfy chair

oh this is very interesingt

ew gross

cut to the quick practically

who is ittttt

FUCKIGN

WEEHHHHHH NOONA

NOOO NOONA PLEAES

dude the human trafficking guy started with arson

hehehe talk about

talk about a burning start hehe

anyesya commercials i swear to god we keep hitting commercials so fast what the uvkc

wherwe

oh shit

of course it is

dect choi alksdfjl;askdj

not at how i might hae just rolled my eyes seeing reporternim

alskfjs the way she literally changed his name infront of him

yeah

heS NOT

wait gotta pause for a sec so i can type this and not miss aythign

does soukor not have laws like in the us where a criminal can like be protected by helping the police in an investigation?  like...fuck theres like a word for it but like is that just not a thing there?

which would be understandable i guess its just wild to me to find out how different some laws are in other countries since i live in a hell country

anyways back to dect choi trying to destroy jiwonnie’s marriage :D

oh god

i hate it here

HATE IT HEREEEE

alskjfasdlk YEAH JOONGI HAVE YOU GONE CRAZY

joongi lonnnnggg leggies

you always need his help

waell yeha

stay out of it

yep

nope

why

oh damn

i mean like yeah hes not wrong but

stop talking like hes not there

god why is the vibration of that phone so loud fuck

what

the flip pohone has a touch screen

thats a STARIGHT UP LIE MR CHOI

damn

she said i will not participate in this nonsense

damn

he said lmao acab babeiy

ooh round ice

oh.  commercial.

jhhhhhhh i DONCT CAREA BOU THE NO HOLDING DRIVING I THINK THAT SINCREADBILY DANGEROUS FUCK

ugh this guy again

and by that i mean the human trafficker

yikes

you disrespect the dead like that sir

smh

akdjfalsdj

BOAT

god who is itttt

its the dad isnt it!!!!  god

if what

dudeeee

we already went through this clown car before

damn joongi

obvously not very highly

i am eyes emoji

im sure it is sir e.e

joongi is so handsome i iterally cannot wrap my mind around it

farewell

bro wath the fuck

fuck i am finding the team leader kinda hot????

perhaps

its like

im attracted to everyone on jiwon’s team except dect choi

askdjf;alksdjf hojoon iconic KING i love him

oh god the recording device

aish

i dont like thissss

god is this what people meant by e12???

FUCK THERES ONLY 12 MINUTES OF THE EPISODE LEFT WHAT THE FUCK

the tape that joongi had

his mami right

I FUCKIGN

adn she fuckign burned it

the way jiwon is like “oh fuck shit and goddamn”

god the backstory

i hate it here so mcuh

god does he know that she knows who he is now???

please

FUCKING ARE YOU SERIUOS THE COMMECAL

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

oh my god is it 10

SHE KNOWS AND NOW HE KNOWS SHE KNOWS

the small stumble backwards fUCK

yeah i mean going throught childhood trauma like that

damn jiwon

and she burned it

oh no jiwon

shes going to be exposed

alfjasldkj this guy tho is iconic

oh god hes gonna find out

but only like

half or a quarter of the truth

oh shit

fuck

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

we are is all confusiong and worry

oh god

oh fuck

somethings gonna get fucked up because of this

iDONT LIKE IT HERE

YAH I HATE THIS

and reporter nim

kasjdflks bc youre adkasf;l dummyyyy

again. boys be stupid

IALKFDKJAFJAOWEI HE DRAGGED HIM FOR FILTH I LOVE IT

i love thiis

and i plan on doing it in the future

lmao

the way i deadass forgot i was on epoisdoe ten

THE HOSPITAL OH MY GOD

I FUCKIGN CALLLED IT

ITS HIM

TITHE SKJTAWEKJFPIWHGRGHAEPFQOJ

FUCK

oh god

dect choi

oh fuck

in front of the whole office

fuck

jiwon

g o d

jiwon

my heart hurts

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THATS THE END OF THE EPISODE WHAT

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS YOURE GONNA LEAVE IT LIKE THAT

WITH JIWON AND CHOI CONFRONTATION

OH FUCK EPOAPOI THE PREVIEWS FOR THE NEXT EPISODE WHAT THE fUCK

okay thats the end of this episode hhhhhhhhhhhh

i am still screaming

thank you for reading!!!

everyone who warned me about this episdoe were right

stay safe and stay healthy <333

[kyunsies]

Hi mädch!!! It’s been awhile since we’ve talked, I feel like so much has happened! First of all, I just want to say that I’m sorry you’ve been having such a crummy time recently, i wish i could give you a big hug 🥺🥺 Great job on your exam today though, I’m sure that’s a huge weight off your shoulders, you’re doing so well!! I’ve also been feeling pretty burnt out recently, I feel so exhausted all the time… i’ve taken a nap every day this week, and I usually hate napping. I’m trying to be more social to combat that though, and I’m excited because a bunch of my friends are planning to have friendsgiving on friday! I’m making sugar cookies and we’re going to decorate them together, it’s going to be so fun 🥰 Also I talked to my best friend today for the first time in like a year and he told me he missed me and we made plans to maybe meet up in january after I graduate 🤩 ALSO I’m LOVING all the comeback photos so far, I can’t wait for the song to actually come out! I don’t like listening to teasers or album previews beforehand bc I like to be surprised so I don’t have a fav yet, but I’ll be sure to come gush about it as soon as I hear the full album!!! Stay healthy okay? I love you so much

-💜💜💜

hello angel !!!!! i've missed you so much and i've been thinking about u lately ;_____; !!!! it's always nice to hear from you okay? pls don't worry about the time passing !!!! you're graduating so soon !!!! and finals are coming up, so i understand <3 sldfjs recently it's just been very stressful as always, i'm just worried about every little thing bc i just want to finally graduate and get out there with no hiccups you know? you feel the same way i'm sure :( we're so close babe!!! you closer than me :P ALSO I'M GIVING U THE BIGGEST VIRTUAL HUG PLSSS :( i wish i had the opportunity to meet u in real life hun, i just have a feeling we'd be close and care for each other idk ;_____;

anyways LDKFJ thank you so much about my exam!!!!! honestly, i really need the good grade,,,, not like i'm failing the class or anything, but any cushion before the final is greatly appreciated godDDD why is everything so stressful huh? omg burnout is ,,,,,,, so real right now i totally understand :( just keep on pushing thru bub i know it's a lot but we are SOOOO close, just hang on a little bit longer for me okay !!! you are so capable just remember that !!!

FRIENDSGIVING !!!!! i haven't had one since freshman year aww, that sounds so nice !! i'm sure your sugar cookies will taste super delicious <3 AND LSDKFJ i hope u get to see your best friend :( i'm glad you still keep in touch, i've lost all connections with pretty much everyone from hs bc i don't go to uni in michigan as u know slkfsl but i have a really good friend up here who has already graduated but she's a nurse at the hospital near school and literally love her so much, i wish we were friends as children ya know?

AND ANYWAYS OMG YES THE CONCEPTS AND THE ALBUM !!!!! i'm honestly so excited !!!! i know some ppl were a little :/ about some of the concepts but like, mx always ALWAYS delivers regardless of the concepts like you KNOW they're going to produce amazing music <3 i did listen to the previews bc i couldnt help myself LDKFJS and ofc changkyun's song has me FEELING the feels but we'll just have to wait and see !!! can't wait to gush about it with u bub!!!!! stay happy healthy and positive for the next couple weeks okay? we lean on each other <3 have a wonderful rest of the week and i'll be here to scream about the album when it comes out okay !!! LOVE YOU MISSED U <3

[oflgtfol]

oh my godddd so another person walked into the death tower and IM GETTING INVOLVED WITH ALL THIS DRAMA

HELP I DIDNT ASK TO GET INVOVLED I CAME HERE FOR NICE PICS OF THE DEATH TOWER AND NOW IM TRYING TO CONSOLE SOME GIRL OH MY GODD I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

so it was a couple im like 99% sure they were in a relationship and the girl was giving the guy a piece of her mind, i was minding my business keeping to the sides of the room and taking pics of the light streaming in thru the windows, then all the sudden the girl was like “what are you doing here? i see you. dont act.” and i thought she was yelling at ME so i turn around and i see another girl who’s like :o and then the girls like “port to my house right now mr” and then she leaves and the guys like “look at what youre doing” and then followed her

and then the other girl, the one who got yelled at, was like “idk what i did wrong” and she seemed so down so i was like “im just here for pics man. you didnt do anything wrong you just walked in wrong place wrong time” BUT IT TURNS OUT. IT TURNS OUT SHE’S THE GUY’S EX?????????? I DONT KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IM TRYING TO PIECE THE STORY TOGETHER WHY CONSOLING HER, LIKE IDK HOW TO COMFORT HER WHEN IDK WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED, I DIDNT WANT THIS MAN. I JUST WANTED TO TAKE SOME NICE FUCKIN PICS EROIHDGJPOSDGPDOS

[dewprisms]

later SwSh stuff so spoilers ig?

I find it funny and kinda sad that they don’t even bother showing Hop’s opponent in the semifinals...

What is......with the music in Rose Tower...it never stops???

“Can ya’ll let me switch my Pokemon first!? Damn.” >Nobody’s moving “....oh i can now.”

Oh this is a banger

....She really has a Froslass with no Ice moves huh

also I’ll admit this is a weird turn of events, like yeah it was pretty obvious Yell wasn’t gonna be shit but there was like no buildup to Rose being the villain aside from....being rich?

She thought she could attract my Grapploct, little did she know Grapploct is Always ready to throw hands

She has a bunch of humanoid and feminine Pokemon and her main is....Garbordor? Also weirdly no Gardevoir to be seen

...they’re just...at the edge of the room....somehow not listening to our giant Pokemon fight......ok...

the fuck is going on

..oh no, Galarian Mr. Mime are kinda adorable???? They just wanna entertain! And I’m murdering them all for quick EXP before the finals

YOU CAN GIVE A HANDSHAKE TO A 3 YEAR OLD BOY

Ayy there’s Bede. The moment I saw the colors and then realized Opal wasn’t in the waiting room, I knew it was him. RIP his Psychic team tho.

Ugh, the constant cheering kinda ruins the songs. Hard to listen to them when they don’t ever stop cheering.

The Gym Leader Match order felt...predictable. Wish they’d have gone for RNG so you can’t guess who you’d fight (Raihan was so freakin obvious...)

Leon: “We’ll use all of our knowledge and experience to crush you!” Me:

Rose: “I’m gonna televise my destruction of the world because it’s what’s best for us. I’ll be fiiiiiiine.”

I forgot to Dynamax against Rose’s last Pokemon and I still OHKO’d it anyway before it could attack

The....victory music kills the serious mood...

Leon......try using an Ultra Ball or something actually good. And maybe don’t give up if you fail after 1 throw....

This fight is pretty cool ngl, at least Zamazenta is smart enough to use Screens to buff the team from Eternatus’ attacks

They uh, they really expected you to fight Rose with his barely-60 team and then fight Leon with his lvl 62-65 team huh. Thank god I had all these EXP candies >_>

well that was easy

Leon’s got a nice but tho

Aw a band consisting of Pokemon! What’s their band name?

credits are kinda boring tho :/

Oh wow, the game intro chances to you and your team after you beat the game, that’s p cool. It’s empty before.

what the fuck. who are these clowns. and why do they show themselves with such godawful hair

Can I get some uhhhh scissors real quick

oh my godddd why is Hop’s AI so bad, literally every fight we’ve teamed up in, he does dumb shit like spamming Scary Face or killing the opponent I was gonna attack cause the other one is immune to it

The sudden new assistant was a spy? WhO wOuLd HaVe GuEsSeD????

w-why does this random merchant have a Beast Ball???

I can’t tell if Bede humbled or not, his animations don’t match what he’s saying at ALL, his words imply he’s still a stuck-up bitch but his animations show otherwise >_>

.....betcha people ship raihan/piers

.....they uh, didn’t think the cutscene thru if you choose to do Hammerlocke last. Sonia, you’re like 10 feet away...

“Our opponent is a Legendary Pokemon. If you’re thnkin’ about catchin’ it, think again.” Piers, I already caught a Legendary, tf you think happened to Eternatus?

.....oh. oh. So. the Player is Leon and Hop is Sonia....they didn’t really resolve the mention early in the game about Sonia being upset with Leon...

EH WOT?

well that was fun. time to tvtropes