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[g0kud0ll]

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& XTRA;; a photo of agents 8 + 4 im 99.9% certain captain 3 keeps in their wallet くコ:彡

[innerbeast]

SOMETHING.. ANGSTY!

THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS OWN RECKLESSNESS FINALLY BEING REALIZED IN HEARTWRENCHING BRUTALITY!!!

[fuutaprotectionsquad]

voting mikoto innocent because i too know what its like to be an overworked, overachiever art school student and have the urge to kill strangers on the street with a baseball bat. /hj

[wideminded-dreamer]

This is fine

[thatoneluckybee]

ooh mmy gosh i just popped the crap ooutta my leg ohmg…. yall sounded liek a rtree branch breakign omhl

[the-bearer-of-bad-ideas]

hi guys welcome back to another episode of me being dense on todays episode we see decide Is She Flirting Or Is She Just Being Nice

[maggyboywrath]

They call me the cramper. They call me the bleeder. They call me the cryer. They call me the eeper

[choccy-milky]

exploring together 🔦

[stormbreaker-290]

Seems like a certain little moth got caught up in the "web" of a certain virus <3

Merry Christmas Eve/silly

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[mercymaker]

itching to go for a tactician run but then mods but then the achievement but then the mods but then the mod to allow achievements but then new save but then little satisfaction from achievement because mods but also mods cosmetic so maybe mods ok but then i need to get a mod but then i turn off my computer because overwhelmed

[shaydh]

Butches are also really attractive aughh okay I’m having a time

[bumble-the-sun-bee]

that moment when your healing cuts start itching but you know you can't scratch them or you'll start the whole process over and can result in scars

[jt1674]

[nagareboshiko]

Ooc; calling out @tosxah for showing me her drafts and she has more than 80 from like- 8 months ago, and all half completed, this is commitment??

tagging @wcyfarer just to give her attention

[thatoneluckybee]

theatre is so fun until you have to start working on a backing track for an audition in an hour and still don't have a song because the teachers dIDNT SAY YOU NEEDED ONE UNTIL LAST MINUTE

[amanesknife]

The Perks of Being a Deus Ex Machina

So I recently binged The Perks of Being An S-class Heroine/ A Transmigrator's Privilege and I need to talk about it or I'll implode.

I apologize in advance because this is gonna be a long post as I can't stop hyperfocusing on it and I need to scream into the void ([tumblr]).

This series honestly has one of my favorite uses of an overpowered MC in a while. I've also seen a lot of people complain about Ailette being too powerful and how much it hurts the story. I've only read until ch170 in the webnovel so I could be wrong but I don't think that's really the story they're trying to tell.

Ai is our main character but she's not the correct main character. She's so strong and gets so much help from the system that nothing poses a real threat to her. I can see how that could be boring for some people. But she was never supposed to be in this story. It's heavily implied that if Tesilid dies in her timeline, the whole world resets again without her ¹ (under spoilers) and it'll be like her version of Ai never existed (Manhwa ch31). It's not just about how well she can survive, it's also about how well she can protect Tesilid. Suddenly this story becomes an escort mission. She's Resident Evil 4 Leon and it's game over when Ashley dies. Or more aptly, she's Gandalf, trying to protect the self-sacrificing Frodo as he journeys to Mordor. It doesn't matter how powerful she is, if Tesilid dies anyways. She can't just leave him alone to kill the big bad on her own, either - Tez dies from like 500 different causes in the original story.

!! Webnovel spoilers under the cut !!

In my opinion, the story doesn't really start until Tesilid's regressions start (which probably won't be until s3 in the manhwa). For some people this is understandably too long. But it's really only a power fantasy during the tutorial period; when she finally gets to meet with (1)17th Tesilid, she turns into a walking Deus Ex Machina. It makes for an interesting dynamic imo, since Tez's powers are so restrictive and he has little choice but to be a self-sacrificing pushover. He even goes so far as to tank for her when he thinks she's about to take a killing blow. On the other hand, she’s all-powerful with a questionable sense of morality. It's like if Ai was Saitama (another Deus Ex!) but he dies if Mumen Rider dies. You know it'll all work out when they arrive, but it's incredibly tense if they're separated. It's cool to read a story from the protector's point of view for once- to see things from their perspective as they try to keep alive the main characters always running around trying to get themselves killed. Especially since we basically already know that there's virtually no way for Tesilid to succeed alone. Ailette has virtually all the power to help Tez and she thinks she knows how, but the farther we get into the story the more we learn that she probably doesn't understand as much as she thinks. Does she know how to end the loops? Or that Tesilid can loop again to a previous iteration? It's a mystery wrapped in power-fantasy skin.

¹ When Reed repeatedly kills Tez before the end of the tutorial, the whole world resets. This suggests that time in this universe revolves around Tesilid and it doesn’t flow for others if he’s dead.