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Ok so I normally don't do these types of post but it's been bothering me a bit so imma yap/rant(?) lol (I do wanna also say this is not hate nor shade to anyone else, it's just my opinions and I'm totally up for discussion too! Either way if you read through it all thanks and I hope you have a nice day even if you dont❤️)
Spoilers for date everything: scandalabras route
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Ok so I wanna start this off by saying that I love both scandalabra and Jon wick!(there is a bit of a preference due to personal experiences tied to it but overall I like both sides of him, do not take this as me disliking one or the other lol) he's one of my favorite dataables in game because of his personality, route and(ofc~) ray chases voice acting❤️.
Recently I've seen a lot of discussion with Scandalabra vs Jon wick, as in "oh if you don't like scandalabra but like Jon you don't deserve him"(which btw fair I get it, shadowlord is my fav in the game so far and I don't particularly like it when some people trash on his true form in favor of his first form in game. I will come back to this soon though) which is a fair sentiment but I'm seeing the reverse a lot too and that's kinda "more accepted"(from what *I've* seen ofc) and I find it a bit weird?
Btw I don't mean preferring scandalabra or Jon, that's perfectly fine and I respect that!(that's why if people like/prefer shadowlord over his true form that's fine, i love both of his sides! As long as they don't trash either one i don't really care lol, same applies here as you'll see) I mean more so people calling others a fake fan for preferring jon(or vice versa). Like some people say "you should like both sides of him"(I agree preferences aside) but then turn around to say "actually this side of him is actually bad therefore I'll only acknowledge one of his sides"(which again preferences are fine but why knock the other side of him down to lift up the part you love?) So this is me giving my thoughts on the other part of him i don't see people "defending" as much:
IN DEFENSE OF JON WICK:
I think its perfectly fine to dislike him/prefer scandalabra/not care for or hate the plot twist. When I first found out about i loved it because I thought it was a fun and hilarious twist(when I was younger I used to be a big danganronpa fan, dreadful ik, and one of my favorite characters in the franchise was Celestia Ludenberg so ofc I was gonna love a character that was similar to her) and i liked the rest of it and his ending. Do I think its perfect? No. Do I think it needs work? Yes lol(I'm happy that he has two endings where he can be either side of himself! Again whoever prefers either side or loves both can just go for the ending they want. That being said I do wish we got to see his opinion on himself rather than "yea I'm a fraud, i made shit up and it was fun but now the jigs up so ig I'm bummed out" to then being John Wick but for like silverware😭. Like there could have been more set up i mean)
That being said I can't hate it because I relate to him in certain aspects(with both sides of him). All my life I've felt(and kinda am😭) like an antisocial outcast, this is definitely due to the fact that I'm neurodivergent but even then my few friends who were the same, would still be more popular and thriving more than me lol(which good for them! Cool people so they deserve it~) so the concept of this man being a regular(counterfeit object) guy making up a whole personality to feel unique and feel loved made me like him(aside from the fact that it was annoyingly funny /said affectionately). Aside from the obvious joke he's referencing i always thought it was supposed to be a route where he sees that people can also like him for who he really is just as much as his fake persona he also likes(unfortunately no one except the player likes him much less tolerate him, partly for good reasons at times but that's not the point rn😭).
LIKE THIS IS HIS REACTION WHEN YOU SAY YOU LIKE HIM EVEN AFTER THE REVEAL IN MAGGIES ROUTE(which btw he is just as surprised when you choose him as scandalabra albeit a little differently, as far as I can see he just wants you to like one part of him at least😭):

LIKE IDK I RELATE TO THIS, LIKE YOU LIKE ME FOR WHO I AM HUH???. (Also sorry for the quality of the pics💔) also will say that I'm not the biggest fan of the dialogue option you say after this( you cant get jon without dissing scandalabra and I don't like that😭, especially since when you say you prefer his exaggerated persona you don't get an option to diss/say something negative about jon in favor for scandalabra. Could have gone without or we should have had an option to say you like both imo.
Love the differences between scandalabra and jon when they get realized btw... scandalabra being excited and surprised at the moisture (ohoho😭🤭) contrasted to Jon's slow acceptance of his new human body in a way where he's not immediately sure what this means for him


And now that were here with endings:
I totally respect the opinions of others who prefer one ending or the other(for whatever reason) they can dislike one of them too that's fine. Me personally I actually can't choose lol, each ending in my opinion are good for him for his respective personality/side. Some say he's happier in one or in the other its because he's cooler. But I see it in a way that it represents that either way he can find happiness/fulfillment because there will always be things he'll do that other people will appreciate (and ofc we the Mc love him regardless so there's that too❤️).

In the scandalabra route even though he fails to integrate to high society he still finds happiness by being able to do people's hair and get the juicy gossip he's always looked for! In the house no one(except us ofc) liked him at all but here they love him for his charms!(love the detail about him reserving his best skills only for us btw💖)

Meanwhile in the Jon Wick he kicks(and maybe kills?😭) counterfeiters asses for justice and for what he went through(and yk beating the crap out of people always helps ease ones issues lol). For him to go from just some guy, who the literal narrator says that he was destined to be a nobody, become someone who makes a mark where he's known for the good he does is freaking amazing!! Also will say that i think the reason why he's not a diva(as much! Idc he will always be one to me no matter the change) is because his goals have changed in the sense that he doesn't need the attention of others to be fulfilled(and again this isn't a diss to scandalabra, he actually does the same in the other ending because instead of doing it in a house where people hate him he's doing it in a place where people *love* him for that! That's why it works there).
My point is I think he's just as happy/fulfilled/"complete" in either route for different reasons! One(imo ofc) isn't inherently better than the other because overall he gets to accomplish what he sets out to do and is *appreciated* for it. So that's why i think are both important too(and maybe this is just me being delusional or thinking about it too much lol, but idc since I'm happy for him either way)
IN CONCLUSION:
Damn I yapped a lot lol, I don't even expect this to get much traction but if even one person reads through this and gets where I'm coming from or wants to discuss with me that's enough for me lol. Point is you can have a preference, just don't put down scandalabra or jon(or both?) In favor of the other. Well whoever read this all thanks for listening to my ramblings about this character! For better or for worse I've been thinking about him and I'd love to discuss more. To finish here's this Pic that perfectly encapsulates my thoughts on the matter (totally agree with op and they were based as hell for this), have a nice day y'all and remember to take care❤️

#date everything#scandalabra#jon wick#remember that these are just my thoughts#you don't have to agree lol#if you think otherwise I'd be down to discuss as long as your respectful~
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rant about your drafts!
YOU JUST UNLOCKED A BEAST (i will be yapping non-stop about the upcoming fics)








1) so first up is matilda, which i actually started writing two days ago. i can’t lie, i’m really excited but also super nervous for this one because it is absolutely stacked with angst. like, the warnings alone say everything.
one major headcanon i’m working with is that when regulus is being abused, he downplays it and rewrites it in his head as just his parents’ way of showing love. and while i know the fic is going to need even more tags later on, i’d always rather over tag than risk missing something important.
writing two characters who are both going through abuse is a lot, and i haven’t gotten to those scenes yet, but the entire concept is inspired by the harry styles song matilda.
it centers around both reader and regulus coming from horrible households and sharing a lot of that same pain, except the reader is more rebellious and refuses to romanticize any of it—she despises her family and wants out, basically think sirius but in girl form. regulus, on the other hand, clings to the idea that his parents love him, even if it’s hurting him, and refuses to let go or even call it what it is.
it’s really just a fic about learning how to let go of what hurts you and stop living in denial, especially for regulus. it will 100% have a happy ending, but it’s going to be long, heavy, and very real, so i know it won’t be for everyone
2) next is lacy, oh lacy, which is probably the most self-indulgent thing i’ve ever written in my life. it’s soft and aching and insecure in the exact way i think a lot of us have felt at one point or another </3 it’s rooted in that feeling of not being enough, but worse—of feeling like you could’ve been, if only someone else didn’t exist.
and for the reader, that someone is lily. she’s smart, beautiful, kind, magnetic in that effortless way that makes everyone love her, including the reader. and that’s where the pain starts, because it’s not even real hate. it’s admiration that twists into comparison and then curdles into something bitter and quiet.
she’s the one james used to like. she had a thing with remus for a while. she’s friends with everyone, even the reader. and it makes the reader feel like she’ll always be second-best, even when no one says it out loud.
it’s not about jealousy, it’s about feeling invisible in someone else’s light, and pretending that doesn’t hurt. so yes, it’s another angst-heavy one, because of course it is. but it’s also very human, and very personal.
3) no name bec i actually don’t know okay. smth about flicker 😔
4) uhh as for share your girl, the title says it all…that one has been in my drafts for a while because of how terrified i am of posting it (literally 1k plot and 7k filthy smut)
5) OMG the pickle theory was SOO cute to write ☹️ i am a sucker for jegulus tooth-rotting fluff. i cannot wait to post that one very soon <33
6) that time of the month is genuinely one of the most fun and soft fics to work on, because it’s all about reader being on her period and remus dealing with the pain right before a full moon.
they’re both miserable in different ways, and sirius is just absolutely losing his mind trying to take care of them. like, he’s torn between heating up water bottles, making tea, offering snacks, and trying not to say anything that might get him killed.
the best part is how remus and reader both try to downplay their pain so the other can get more attention and care. they’re hurting, but all they can think about is making sure the other one is okay. remus 🤝 girls when it’s that time of the month
7) OMG OMG OMG OKAY so cinnamon oat latte, please? i am actually so excited for this one i could scream. barista!remus has completely taken over my brain and i just know it’s going to be the softest, fluffiest thing ever.
it’s the kind of fic that feels like warm drinks and stolen glances and falling in love in a quiet little café. i haven’t started writing it yet because i’m still brainstorming and figuring out the details, but i really want it to be a longer fic, definitely 6k+ if not more. it deserves time and care and a full week of romantic pining energy.
the whole vibe is just built on every perfect cliché: shy smiles, lingering touches, way too much overthinking, and all the yearning in the world. i want it to be cozy and sweet and maybe a little achy in the best way. honestly, i can’t wait to get started.
8) trash friends is pure chaos in the best way. it’s just barty and flicker being absolute magnets for trouble and somehow getting themselves dragged into the muggle world, where they end up befriending actual animals living in a trash can. like full feral energy, zero shame, and they’re thriving. except they’re not, because regulus finds out and quite literally hunts them down like they’re horcruxes (see what i did there)
they’re on the verge of being single, honestly, and it’s entirely their fault. i’ve been delaying writing this one though, because it might end up being the last real appearance of flicker and barty together (I AM SO SORRY GUYS PLEASE DON’T BLOCK ME ☹️☹️)
i just really want to start exploring flicker in other dynamics too, like with lily, snickers, and maybe even other animagi. it’s gonna be a sendoff, but hopefully a very unhinged, hilarious, and iconic one <\33
AND THAT'S ALL!! thank you for reading my long rambles
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it looks and sounds just like you, but,
#That. is not my grandson. who are you. Who are you. What are you. What did you do to him. What did you do. What did you do.#yugioh#yami yugi#yugi mutou#asterisk.#my art <3#eye strain#no but seriously did i just like somehow miss a whole plot point or does sugoroku literally never question wtf is up with yugi??#in his defense it would make sense seeing as yugi definitely takes after him in that regard. huge This Is Fine :) energy#maybe he just knew it would happen and was secretly laughing his ass off the whole time yugi was working on the puzzle. like Lmao Gottem#nonetheless giving yami the Thing treatment because it's what he deserves ^w^#listen. LISTEN. all yami has to work with at first is yugi's memories; yugi's emotions; yugi's thoughts and interests and habits and body#yami himself doesn't seem to realize for a while that he's Not Yugi.#so anyway! an ominous spirit possesses your kid and has the ability to inflict hallucinations and curses and what have you.#how do you know that's still him? that he's still in there? that this being hasn't outright erased him and replaced him in his entirety?#like the ship of theseus except mind body and soul?#how do you know that this Thing isn't just bending your perception of reality? to convince you that everything is fine and normal?#maybe it doesn't know any better. maybe it feels guilty but stubbornly hides it because that's what He would do and He is all it knows.#would you still love ''him''? care for it as you would your son because all you see when you look at it is your pride and joy; usurped?#idk i just think there could have been More to it. in general. if you catch my drift#stream of consciousness lookin ass tags down here. as you can see i am badly afflicted with The Character(s)
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tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.
he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.
except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.
and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.
or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)
they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.
and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.
optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.
and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.
#i talk a lot <3#transformers#transformers one#optimus prime#orion pax#baby prime orion au#this is mostly an excuse for me to draw the primes and baby OP later on. just to be clear.#i WILL be drawing this at some point lmao#tbh i'm a little uncertain how i want things to progress#because on one hand it would be very tasty and tense if sentinel recognized optimus during the race#but that means a lot of changes very early on in the plot and i would have to do a lot of Thinking on how to justify getting the gang#to still pick up bee and elita. cause i love them <3#i do think it'd be very funny if the high guard's plan worked like a charm except for the very tiny fact that they didn't count#on orion being an absolute hellion. like. this kid is Not Going Unnoticed and it's completely his own fault lmao#in this version maybe a member of the high guard stayed behind to keep an eye on orion and is able to get them out before they're killed#but instead of taking them to where the primes fell they take them directly to the high guard#which is very awkward because it's a very moving and emotional moment for the high guard who are finally reunited with their little prime#all grown up and healthy and blessedly *alive*. except orion doesn't fucking remember any of them and is very confused as to why#the legendary warriors of cybertron are getting all weepy over him. they finally explain the truth to him which is a Fucking Bomb#to drop on anyone but especially a group of kids who almost got killed by the person they all thought the world of just hours ago#they also return orion's t-cog to him which would create some tension between him and the rest of the gang because this time#he's the only one getting his cog back. add to it that they were just told he's the equivalent of a demi-god and... well.#there's a gap between him and them that wasn't there before#on the other version of events that follows canon more closely everything goes the same up until the gang finds the primes in the cave#and wake up alpha trion who now not only has to deal with the fact the rest of his siblings are dead but that he missed fifty cycles#of his baby brother's life. that the only sibling he has left does not remember him or his true identity at all.#he has to choose between telling him the truth which has the risk of unbalancing him in a critical moment where he cannot afford to#be distracted because they're being hunted down. or let him remain unaware. let him forget their family and the love they had for him#but letting him remain free of the knowledge of what he lost and the heartbreak it would bring.
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another post for @bttfjanaury! this one's @itsthemorph's mermarty au and very predictably i got carried away with it LMAO.
yap session and bonus stuff below the cut:
once again i came up with an entire backstory for this au, and if i were a fanfiction writer i would genuinely consider writing it since it's a lot less visually comedic than the weredoc au (and comedic in general, it's played a little straighter than "man turns into dog and is thoroughly inconvenienced by it") (unfortunate [in reference to visuals] bc i enjoy drawing mermarty a great deal more than weredoc GBJKGJ) bc i really like the premise but i'm pretty bad at fleshing out a narrative in enough detail to last the whole story so bullet points it is:
doc has decided to take a break from his time-travel-related research and go on vacation! the fresh coastal air might jostle a couple ideas into place, and while he is a nuclear physicist and not a marine biologist he wouldn't mind checking out some of the local aquatic life
and by local aquatic life he meant like normal fish and stuff. a nice mollusk or two even. so when he ends up fishing an entire boy out of the water instead he's understandably very shocked
before doc can move past the "where did he come from??" thought to register his more fish-like qualities, the boy makes a run (a swim?) for it. fortunately or unfortunately for doc, he ends up being able to register the fish-like qualities after all since he gets dragged into the water along with him. the moment doesn't last too long, though, and the fish-boy is gone as soon as doc realizes the guy has a fish tail instead of legs
doc gets back on the dock (haha), thinks about the whole ordeal for a bit, and decides that the best course of action is just to assume he hallucinated the whole thing in a fit of heatstroke or something like that. he's here to relax and get his thoughts in order so he can continue working on his time machine! there's no time to investigate fairy-tale creatures or whatever supposedly living off the coast of california!
it's not shown in the comic but i imagine doc has a little portable radio next to him as he was fishing, so some time passes before he catches a glimpse of something shining in the water underneath the dock
he looks through the cracks in the dock and lo and behold, it's the same boy from earlier! doc greets him, and the boy immediately disappears under the water. doc thinks he's scared him off until a few minutes later where he pokes his head out and says hi back
they get to chatting and doc learns a couple things:
1. his name is marty!
2. he was trying to get doc to realize that he forgot to put bait on his hook but got his hand caught on it, and was trying to get his hand unstuck from the hook without ripping it open before doc ever had the chance to see him, which he obviously failed at
3. both the being seen and ripping his hand open, because in his haste to get away after being seen by doc he ended up doing that anyways. so there's like a lot of blood coming out of his hand now? but like don't worry about it. it'll be fine. he thinks.
4. he really likes whatever it is that's playing on the radio
doc insists on patching up his hand and initially marty refuses but lets him do it eventually, and marty tells doc that for a land dweller he's actually surprisingly nice. doc says nah anyone would want to help out someone hurt, especially if they're the one's who caused it. and marty's kind of confused by that because his family's always warned him of how dangerous humans are, which he kind of never thought too hard about until now where his time off this particular coast has really proven them correct, because he's encountered a bunch of humans over the past couple weeks and they've all tried to kill him or catch him. doc's the only one who's actually bothered to say hi!
after learning that particular not-at-all-concerning tidbit, doc asks him to elaborate because there's a lot to unpack over there, but someone else walks onto the dock before marty can get a word in and he takes off
marty does not return, even once the other guy leaves, and when doc packs it up to return to the place he rented out for the vacation he overhears a conversation among a group of men about spotting something weird in the water earlier and that it kind of looked like a mermaid? and that if any of them manage to catch it they'll all be rich as thieves. and another guy in the convo goes no you're thinking of rich as kings, you're mixing it up with a different analogy. and the first guy goes no i'm not i said what i said
so now this vacation is doing anything but clearing doc's mind. he's really worried about that little fish guy
there's a couple more ideas i had but halfway through writing out this bullet list i've realized that if i were to actually write this as a fanfiction, i'd probably want to keep those a surprise. so what i just wrote out is kind of the equivalent of one chapter
edit after thinking about it a bit more: since most humans have been trying to kill him, marty really has no incentive to let a guy know that he's wasting his time fishing with a baitless hook. so a. he's still pretty optimistic that most humans aren't out to get him, even if his experience off this particular coast says otherwise, so he was trying to be nice anyway or b. (which i think is a lot funnier) he has started to pull on people's lines as a way to fuck with them. i think if i wrote this i'd change it to this one
i based mermarty off of a guppy fish! specifically this kind of guppy fish:

i was searching up kinds of fish and he just had the vibe of this thing. although now i think i should've made him a flying fish instead. for the pun
alternate ending to the mini comic:
the other one makes a little more sense since just approaching a guy whose species doesn't know about your existence unprompted is pretty stupid even for marty (and also i thought it was funny that the hook didn't have anything but doc ends up catching something anyways) but i still think this one's funny too
#back to the future#bttf#bttf fanart#marty mcfly#doc brown#emmett brown#mermarty au#kit does an art#kit yap session#what's with me and animal related bttf au's this is like the third/fourth time#first being weredoc second being the penguin picture and third being this bit we came up with on discord where everything was the same#except doc was a horse LMAO#i spent so long coloring mermarty and i have no regrets. very fun to draw the fish. 10/10 would reccommend#scratching my brain thinking of how i can make the plot of bttf still happen if marty's a fish#“and then back to the future happens” is my favorite bit about these kinds of aus gbkjgbjkg#maybe doc builds the flux capacitor into a speedboat or something#the mcflys are all fish but biff and jennifer are human in this version of the au. just to let you know#needles is a pufferfish. not like this will come up at all ever but i felt the need to share that#“his ass is not binding properly” could refer to most versions of marty i think#i can't believe that a mermaid au of bttf being my first piece of written fanfiction is more plausible than not at this point#such is life i guess.#tag as ship and i feed you to the sharks. they don't normally eat people but there's exceptions to be made i think
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it’s wild that raphael never found out that the “prophet” he was protecting was actually god. like he was the highest ranking angel that was in favour of destroying humanity, he’s the one who was certain god was dead bc why else would he have abandoned them, and after michael and lucifer are trapped in the cage, it’s raphael who leads the civil war to try and restart the apocalypse
he is the most outwardly hurt, the most humanly hurt, by god’s abandonment despite seemingly having the least connection with him - and his creation - of all the archangels. yet it’s raphael god either assigns to himself as his protector, his one son who he would conceivably interact with again, or it’s some divine irony that raphael, the one who feels god’s abandonment the most, was actually within reach the entire time and chuck never cared enough to tell him
#i think theres a Thing about how many archangels there actually is so if you take the idea that its just the core four#micheal; raphael; gabriel; and the fallen lucifer#then it becomes a default thing#gabriel is missing so raphael is the only archangel left to protect chuck#but ive seen theres actually seven in some beliefs?#and also just within the show cas says theres multiple prophets and an archangel is attached to each of them#so that implies each prophet gets their own specific protecter which means theres definitely more than just raphael#raphael is so angry at gods abadonment to the point that he doesnt care that hes committing the same sin that caused lucifer to fall#hes actually worse#he doesnt just love god more than humanity; he actively hates humans and plots to destroy them#he doesnt just want the apocalypse to happen bc its The Great Plan like michael; he wants to wipe out humanity#hes so certain hes dead bc why else would heaven have been allowed to do everything theyve done to bring about the apocalypse?#its the only way he can rationalise it and hes still angry about it; angry that theyve - hes - been left alone with no word#and after all that he dies and never finds out his father abandoned him for nothing except selfishness#and he actually made him guard him without his knowledge that he was with his father who he hasnt seen in millennia#fuck chuck#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#carry on my wayward son#talk meta to me#spn#supernatural#raphael#raphael spn#raphael supernatural#chuck shurley#chuck supernatural#chuck spn#castiel#supernatural meta
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As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.
These two turned out to be... not the best choices.
The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.
To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.
#my art#tf reconstruction#transformers#bumblebee movie#tf shatter#tf dropkick#maccadam#transformers au#semi-introduction to my idea for antagonists in tf:r - specifically being movie villains slotted into my au#bc if the main crux of the main reconstruction story in autobot city is about hot rod and her rise to becoming rodimus prime#which comes from the First movie - why not loosely adapt other movies too??#ive got ideas for most of them already - kinda jumping back and forth between the modern day story and my pre-war ''downfall'' story#which gives my brain a break from thinking about one to think about another#anyway - i imagine the first ''episode'' of tf:r would be like. hot rod shows up in autobot city on her first day > meets the team#> gets assigned arcee as her partner > arcee hates it > they over hear shatter talking to someone they don't recognise because rod's nosey#> huh that's weird > they intercept it next time by accident > its a communication to starscream about the city's defenses#> they take it to ultra magnus but they break the pad on the way because they were arguing about it#> ''hot rod i know you're new here. and you're intrigued about the war and everything. but we shouldn't be suspicious of everyone wearing a#purple badge. give them a chance.'' > arcee drops it bc she doesn't wanna start trouble + ''magnus will handle it. he always does somehow.'#> rod does not drop it and makes blaster monitor shatter's messages for anything unusual > blaster indulges her bc he's endeared to her#> he does end up intercepting an encrypted message > rod immediately acts and chases after shatter and dropkick on an outside-city mission#> arcee goes after her to stop her from fucking up really bad > blaster unencrypts the message. it's a rendezvous point to start an invasio#> magnus kup blaster and perceptor all head out to help the two young'uns before they get in over their heads#> rod and arcee meet and fight starscream and barely make it out by the skin of the teeth thanks to the more experienced autobots arrival#> starscream shatter dropkick and whoever else is there are driven off#> day is saved - magnus commends rod's gut instincts but rod goes back to what magnus said about not trusting bots with purple badges#> she was right this time but its an exception not a rule and most other decepticons in the city want to live in peace#> magnus also commends that attitude and the team head back > starscream starts plotting his Next Big Plan#''post credits'' scene of magnus putting the request in for springer and blurr + robot dinosaur opening its eye in the dark👀👀#longwinded but ya thats like the Clearest idea for Specific Events so far other things are Stuff I Want To Happen
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i know the red queen tv show is now less likely to happen than katy perry going to space BUT if it DOES happen i think they should pull a rhaenicent and make elara and coriane have a failed tragic homoerotic friendship before becoming "rivals". nevermind what actually happens in the books. i think that would save me actually
#i've been rewatching hotd recently and imagining many rhaenicent scenes with them and oh. OH.#the idea of them becoming friends bc of Elara approaching Coriane first like she does in canon and growing v close to each other throughout#the years. and maybe Elara can be close to Julian and Sarah at first too bc Coriane wants her to meet her brother/bsf. idgaf#and then Tiberias starts showing interest in Coriane and it's kinda awkward bc Coriane already has a homoerotic friendship with Elara :/#and for a reallyyy short time Elara (who i imagine falls for Coriane first and harder. kinda like Alicent for Rhaenyra lol) pretends to be#okay with Coriane and Tiberias being together. for the sake of her friend's happiness (and bc of comphet too tbh)#and i imagine the three of them being friends for a really short while (like Mare and Cal and Maven were in RQ1 before the romance)#BUT then Tiberias proposes to Coriane and everything changes. and Elara and Coriane have the biggest fallout (Coriane thinks it's because#Elara was after Tiberias as well. and because she too wants to marry the Calore heir (which to some extent is true- i imagine Elara's famil#has been pressuring her to get closer to Tiberias/intefere between her and Coriane for a long while. and Coriane marrying him has spoiled#their plan). and that's what we see in Queen's Song. Coriane being worried about Elara after marrying Tiberias. except Coriane was never#really angry at Elara. she is as wary about her as we see in QS bc of Elara being more and more distant towards her/pushing Coriane away#over time. and despite what's “canon” i like to imagine Elara as a character similar to Alicent - forced to push her only friend away in#hopes to marry the man her family wants her to marry. so much so that Elara (like Maven. like every Merandus before her) gives in to what#she thinks is her duty to her House. and does exactly as they wish. “killing” Coriane and marrying Tiberias.#can you imagine how much more tragic hers (and Coriane's) character would be. burning her best friend's old diary. plotting against her bes#friend's brother and torturing Sarah as well. resenting her best friend's son - her stepson -. turning her own son against Coriane and neve#letting him know about hoe close they once were. regretting what she did every day of her life but not willing to give up her crown - the#one thing she sacrificed her entire life for. the one thing she sacrificed her best friend for#do you even CONCEIVE the level of angst. do you even GET it#i know the rq tv show probably will never happen but if it happens can VA please do this ^ . for me. for my sanity#IN FACT. idk whete i was it but I read somewhere that IF they did make the show Elara's character would be changed a bit (confirmed by VA)#i live in delusion but idgaf. a boy can hope🙏🙏#red queen series#red queen#elara merandus#coriane jacos#coriara#🫀
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dont ask me why i made this, its all my hand felt like producing
#w359#wolf 359#doug eiffel#douglas eiffel#for anyone who cares about context:#basically i have this pet fic idea in my brain#because i feel like we never properly got to deal with the trauma of. yknow. U.S.S. Horrible Unending Nightmare#and i was like ok then well its super easy to break things in the haephestus for plot reasons#lets break the heating for a bit :)#yknow like in pan-pan#and the idea is eiffel is the one who goes out and reboots the heating this time#cuz hes getting antsy in there and he wants to do it himself thanks#except. when he goes and does the thing#it kinda. jitters everything unpleasantly#and it causes that section of the ship to lose power momentarily#but ofc all eiffel can think as he shouts for hera or minkowski or ANYONE#is that. oh god no hes trapped again and alone and hes going to die slowly here and he can feel himself freezing all over again and and and#anyway the gang has to go get their boy and try and calm him out of the panic attack of a century#there we go context enjoy
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I am liking Jujutsu Kaisen, way more than I imagined I would, but I foresee it will let me down and it's keeping me from enjoying this as much as I could haha
I think the characters and dynamics are well set, and I think many of them have an incredibly good and deep potential, but I would be willing to bet they'll not get a proper development, enough for them to really hit. A well assembled set of gears is not enough to make the movement go, you have to wind the clockwork.
I think Gojo and Megumi have a fascinating and very complex dynamic, but I doubt it will be given the time and care that imo it needs to actually work. And it is going well enough for now! One could see the intimacy between them was deeper than the one Gojo had with, say, Yuji and Nobara ever since the very first few episodes despite the fact Fushiguro too was a first year. But the pieces forming what they have are extremely complex, and it just wouldn't be realistic if it doesn't show, even if in a not showing way, or if it doesn't have consequences or implications.
It's one of those dynamics that shape one's life, the way one regards the world, the way one establishes or not relationships with other people. It's one of those dynamics that could be full of fondness, gratitude, resentment, admiration, trust, and that imply intimacy, the good kind or the bad, even if in just the knowledge of someone who's been a constant through your life. It could, and would, imply a myriad of feelings, and probably in such a mix it could imply contradictory feelings too. Even the nothingness would weight, even the nothingness would be significant and meaningful.
Gojo took Megumi and his sister under his wing, the son of a man who murdered him, because of both selfish and selfless reasons. Megumi looks like Toji. What does Gojo feel about this? How does Gojo deal with this? How does Gojo go about taking care of Megumi? Would he walk him to school? Make him breakfast? Celebrate his birthdays making him blow candles? Did he take him to the zoo? Does the relationship between them feel professional or is it something more? Gojo appreciates his students, but is Megumi to him just another student? When Gojo faces Sukuna in Megumi's body, did he see the kid he raised, or does he just see Sukuna in one of his students' body? Did he have one faint wavering instant? And how does Megumi feel about this? Is he resentful of him? Resentful of the situation? Of the selfishness behind his actions? Does he feel like a pawn? Is he grateful? Does he resent feeling grateful? Would he rather not? Does he love Gojo? Does he feel nothing about him other than what he could feel about a teacher that sort of annoys him but knows he's reliable in his strength? Does he think it unfair, cruel or unfeeling that Gojo is close, closer perhaps, with Yuuji or Yuta, considering their story? When Sukuna slices Gojo in two, does the remnants of Megumi's soul tremble?
And not just Megumi and Gojo. Yuuji and Nanami, Gojo and Nanami, Yuuji and Fushiguro, Nobara and the boys, or Nobara and Maki, Todo and Yuuji or Yuta, Gojo and Yuta, Megumi and his sister. Gojo and Geto, even! If the pieces are well set, the dynamics are intriguing, interesting, and have potential to be deep, but then the characters have like two plot relevant scenes that punch you hard, but little more, it's not nearly enough. Especially not nearly enough for the enormity that is shonen dynamics and situations. And the potential existing at all, and then not delivering, makes it all the more frustrating when you're left with something mediocre that could have been so good.
The development of dynamics through not only a few plot relevant gut wrenching moving scenes, but also the smallness of life, is important. The friend who recommended this to me said that those things were just unnecessary filler, but I disagree. I think there's a big difference between a large amount of anime-only filler episodes whose existence is based on the fact they had run out of manga chapters to animate, and moments of quietness. The low stakes character-driven moments of quietness can be so telling and so insightful, and they are so satisfactory when brought back later in higher stakes situations. My friend teased me there was no scene of Gojo making breakfast to Megumi, that it would be an idiotic idea, but it would be so telling. How he makes breakfast, what they eat, if he tries hard or if it's all mechanised, if they have personal bowls or if they use whatever, if he just buys them some pastry on the way to school, if the way they have breakfast changes through the years, or if he doesn't make them breakfast at all! All that would be very insightful on their dynamic and its evolution. All that would give a glimpse on how they regard each other and why, even in the present. All that could become meaningful in tense situations and high stakes scenes.
These moments also let the plot breath; if a lot is happening all the time, if every character is always experiencing trauma after trauma, the entire story is so emotionally draining that at some point you don't even care all that much. Besides, these nothing moments or low stakes plot arcs, besides deepening and developing dynamics, also let some in-world time pass, which would make the intimacy and bond between characters more believable imo; between Yuuji eating Sukuna's finger and their last confrontation in December how much time has passed? A few months? Am I truly to believe these characters are so everything to each other in only a few months?
Without some smallness, some repetition, some daily life, some low stakes not plot-centric development, the dynamics don't hit, they don't truly feel fleshed out, and dynamics as complex as the ones Megumi and Gojo have, or as supposedly meaningful as the one Megumi has with Yuuji or his sister, should be fleshed out if they're going to exist at all. Otherwise they'd risk making the writing feel awkward and fake. Besides, if the dynamics felt well fleshed out and realistic, they would shape the way the characters interact and act, and how they deal with situations, thus being plot relevant.
The shonen genre has so much happening all the time, the stakes are so high, the dynamics are so rooted in big events and the relationships carry enormous weight and implications. Yet they barely get developed, and it feels so stupid, so plain, the absence of something so important noticeable like a constant void, a shapeless nothingness present in every scene. It makes the characters feel like cardboard figures. Jujutsu Kaisen is already getting a better job than many, but I doubt it will do enough for what I've heard, and I fear I am bound to feel let down, and bound to feel unmoved.
After all, if not enough time and care has been given to develop a dynamic, I am not going to feel pressured by the high stakes; if not enough time and care has been given to develop the dynamic between Megumi and Yuuji, as good potential as it has I am bound to feel little for this last confrontation between Sukuna and Itadori, and his effort in getting Megumi back.
#It's not that I think everything has to be character driven or take a lot of care about dynamics#Death Note for instance works well without it. There's juice in the dynamic between Light and his father and the role of Matsuda there#and it works well with Light's views and their evolution and the whole Kira situation. It isn't much. It doesn't need more#But Death Note doesn't truly drop something as big as Gojo and Megumi to then do barely nothing about it#('But L and Watari' not the same at all. That was deepened in the anime and besides Watari is not one of the main characters)#Or Megumi and his sister. If we see barely nothing of Megumi and his sister other than shiny flashbacks of her#how am I to feel moved by it all beyond superficial emotions? I don't know. It just feels so like cardboard to me#And it annoys me! It annoys me a lot! Because Jujutsu Kaisen has amazing potential! The dynamics and characters could be amazing!#But I don't trust they'll live to their full potential and the potential existing for nothing is ruining this for me xD#Jujutsu Kaisen#Sorry this time I'm tagging it. I want to find this and see if I was right when I'm finished. I think I'll read the manga too#The condescending filler breakfast comment by my friend was ironic considering the Kramer vs. Kramer breakfast scenes exist#Breakfast can be so telling. And besides he loves the Chainsaw Man coffee scene so I don't get why not breakfast#But truly some small daily life moments can tell us a lot about a character that we could recognise later on in high stakes scenes#such as how they deal in tense situations‚ what makes them snap#how they go about dealing with a problem.#Sometimes it could be smaller moments or conversations what makes characters reconsider things‚ not just having Sukuna rip their heart out#In Pandora Hearts the conversation between Elliot and Oz about the book series they love and their favourite characters becomes key#Oz's development and how he regards things‚ his own person‚ and how he deals with situations will be shaped later on by this conversation#till the very end. The entire main character's development is shaped by a 'filler' conversation.It's not filler. It's just not a fight scen#Shonen manga readers find everything filler except for fights which is ironic considering that many fights in shonen feel unnecessary#Breakfast is unnecessary. Just filler. Fighting thirty seven secondary monsters or chapter after chapter of physical training is not. Okay#Things can be small but plot relevant. If it shapes and fleshes out and deepens a character or a relationship it is not filler#And mainly MAINLY for the love of everything good if you're going to make a fucked up or Meaningful Beyond Everything dynamic#give it time and care. Actually write it. Don't give me two panels and one conversation after some life and death situation. It's not enoug#Especially if I'm to believe they are important. Make me believe they actually are#I don't know... This issue with not trusting the development of very well set potential in Jujutsu Kaisen#has not only been keeping me from thoroughly enjoying the series‚ but actively keeping me from watching for weeks#It makes me doubt if I want to spend my time in this at all since after all time is limited and we can but spend it in a handful of things#A pity. I really love some things and I really think Megumi and Gojo could be everything to me haha the Heathcliff/Hareton vibe gets me
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I’m luk a little kid with the narratives recently in that every time a suspense mechanism occurs I start grinning like a maniac
#Suspense is such a tailored device and when it is in your face is its like a joke?!#You slap it on the table before me and I squeal in delight <- this is how I feel#I can’t explain it. Up until recently this sort of mediocrity would annoy me.#Or even when implemented well just become immersive.#I am growing steadily less susceptible to fiction I think. I don’t enjoy stories as much as non fiction now#Or rather it is best to observe them in pieces which has always been my affliction.#I’m like a movie empath because I like the bones better than the plot#Except for ingenious artists who craft perfect stories you have to be pick and choosy.#if you want to enjoy yourself at all.#This is my stance recently more so than ever.#Like somehow my suspension of disbelief has been lost and I am the worthless viewer who enjoys nothing#I lack any creative spirit if you call that intrinsic. I do not. Waves hand.#I tend neither to play computer games nor listen often to music (maybe once a week if even) so as you can imagine#I am a grinning snickering fool and never do I challenge myself.#Just nabbing these awful textbooks from the half priced books shop and surfing da web#I already read all of my favorite (fiction) books in the world. ^ there’re more?#When my curiosity returns to me I’ll discover my new favorite fictitious telling willingly.#Ahhh…No. It’s disingenuous claims. I’ve been actually reading plays and watching ballets recently. Outside of NF.#But: It is because I never cared for the medium before and I want to learn all about it.#Ties into knowledge even when I hate the story the lines#Or kmow nothing enough to appreciate the choreography costumes etc.#Neumeier’s Little Mermaid is my favorite for telling reasons. Remind self to gifset if later.#I’ve been watching movies every day but mostly revisiting because: I see differently than I did when I first enjoyed them!#Wholly new mindset. Again more with the bones and retrospective comparison. Everything i see at the cinema is shit. Always:#Noo.. The Brutalist was so good. Even more perfect on the second watch in theaters.#All other prominent titles lately you could ask me about; My response will be: It was Ok.#Yes sinners included but I saw it thrice for once perfect scene. The_bones#Or it was good maybe great and I just don’t care for supernatural genre on the whole.#Wosaku was so incredibly beautiful however. Everytime I’ve seen her face I think of how the eyes are magnetic.#HAHAH can you tell I have nobody to talk to?
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it’s with depression that i fear i have to say, i think for a long time (too long really), zuko doesn’t reach out to his uncle during his retirement in ba sing se, not even for the much needed guidance he could use, because he considers it part of the exhaustive list of reparations the fire nation (and he himself) owes
#zuko: he deserves peace too that’s what this is all for#and you zuko? your peace? (he doesn’t know the meaning of the word in relation to himself)#i’m sure iroh reaches out often. lots of letters#but for one zuko’s swamped and pushing himself past his own limits with his responsibilities besides#and for two he’s just as guilty about his treatment of his uncle as his treatment of the gaang if not probably moreso really#it is of course horribly misguided and i expect iroh would eventually show up on his doorstep like you IDIOT boy of mine—!#but until then. zuko is in fact being a self sacrificing and self hating idiot#i also think this is largely true to his character because he has no idea how to uphold normal and healthy relationships#obvi particularly familial#and zuko always deals in extremes when it comes to everything he does#so rather than outright cruelty and insults….he swings in the opposite direction and overcompensates….#by shutting iroh out completely#and justifying it as ‘he deserves peace and i do not’#which is completely incorrect of course on all levels#but he’s still learning and his development arc doesn’t end at the finale of book 3#ebb and flow. like water one might even say teehee#idk if this is canon to the comics i’m not super familiar with them except for a few plot points and quotes#it just breaks my heart that zuko still doesn’t understand that it is harmful to withhold himself from people who care about him#than it is to supposedly protect them from knowing him and being close to him#he makes me so emo hes so emo i love him so much
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Ep 4 :)
#I LIKE Dostoyevsky. I like how mysterious and unreadable he is. What is his goal!!!! Why does he do what he does!!!!!!! He's very cool#I think knowing his ability now REALLY adds to his character. Him being so smart so manipulative so disruptive in the way he–#seemingly kills people on touch! Only added to this impression of him being “demon” and “inhuman”#But now that we know his ability you realize... That's all his doing; no ability.#His ability in a way does help humanize him by reaffirming that except for the moment he dies– he's got no superpower at all!!!#It's just him.#And yet at the same time also solves the exact opposite role of dehumanizing him because if it's not his ability that makes him like *that*#then he's even different than other ability users!!! Then‚ if not an ability user‚ if not a non ability user: what is //he//?#It's all SO compelling!!! Also makes for an extremely insightful narrative parallel with Dazai#Not an ability user not a non ability user. Not good not evil. (I feel like Dostoyevsky does exceed the definitions of good and evil as–#much as Dazai does. If he causes evil‚ yet does so with the intention of bringing salvation to humans– is he really *simply* evil?)#Both have these borderline superpowers that make them extraordinary beings (we can call it super intelligence‚ but it goes from controlling#their own heartbit to everything else) but are unrelated to their respective abilities! Once again making them neither this or that#I find Karma's words at the end to be extremely insightful.“Ace was evil for sure‚ but this man isn't even evil.#He's a being from the beyond. A being that exceeds human limits.” Like!!! That's all that there is to it!!!!!!#Back to this chapter / episode. There's some themes / worldvies once again I don't agree with but narrative wise I think it's extraordinary#I feel like after the Guild arc the writing really matured a lot and this is a kind of preview of what the doa arc is going to be like#(aka very very well written especially if compared to the previous arcs)#The plot twists of this episode are all so unpredictable and exciting!!! I think it's remarkably witty how it takes advantages of previous–#clichés - villains always revealing details about their own ability in a way that is quite baffling - to actually surprise the audience.#It's so effective. How skillfully unpredictable Dostoyevsky is to the point you can never guess what he will do next!!!#Him killing Karma is... Idk so so soooooooo interesting. I could talk about this forever but I'm being very dispersive in the rable and–#running out of tags. The whole episode you're sorta rooting for Dostoyevsky. He's very cool and comes out charming in the way he keeps–#surprising the audience. He looks bothered by Ace's disregard of other people's lives and that makes him sympathetic too.#But then he kills Karma out of nowhere and it's an “Ah! You fell for his lies too– remember he's nothing but evil. He cares just as little#about life as Ace does”. And then??? Karma in his last words is himself so generous in his words to Dostoyevsky. It's baffling.#And it almost feels like thenarrative is once again turning around and telling you you should root for Dostoyevsky.#It's endlessly fascinating.#I have more to say about the worldviews I don't share and the art style Dostoyevsky was portrayed with this episode (love it!!)#But alas ran out of tags
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I feel like I've been seeing a lot more time loop posts lately but tbh I don't really mind. You know what they say about time loops and all...
#chit chat#they were right#it does get repetitive but it never gets old lol#oh i just realized something#i need to put more time travel jokes in all of the stories im working on rn#and i need to put so many ghost jokes into the last few chapters of 3 jedi once i get back to writing it#but i think everything im working on except one is time travel based#i have like one plot lol#one thing im good at#it's like a time loop it gets repetitive but---
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augh who up feeling like they should be humanely euthanised for liking media the wrong way... sorry for fandomising certain characters but not fandomising others enough in the right way.
#ive noticed the wbg fandom has a very different way of interacting w the source media than like. dndads#both are similar in some of the fandomising of characters#specifically like funny characterisation stuff#but when it comes to more complex stuff like angst it feels like the wbg fandom approaches from a different layer#eg in dndads just a characters death is seen is sad but for wbg a lot of the time theres more to it...#an extra layer. a more complex flavour. the horrors are not just those experienced but the entire surrounding situation.#like edgars death isnt sad#i mean. its not sad in the way that referencing it in art will get any attention#but TJ's death is devastating!#with notable exceptions of course. eg innocent hunter and like everything about him#i find that i tend to approach media more stylistically and appreciating the DRAMA which i can mine for visuals#and then in my art i try to challenge myself to translate those vibes#like picking at a thread that is already present. an angst or dynamic already present and explored briefly#but wbg fandom tends to lean more towards analysis? which makes the way i engage feel a bit surface level#like in wbg fandom i dont think i can do the eqiuvalent of all my angsty glenn close art#also i just noticed. the characters in wbg are really interesting because you THINK they#wouldn't be very fandomised. that theyd be treated within the show as more like characters that exist to push the plot forward#but then certain characters act as very fandomised versions of themselves in canon#and are treated as their one trait in the qnas too!!#its like theyre almost dndads characters in this way. but without even that extra layer#the second heat that even like henry oak has! like henry's a hippie but he's also stinky and cringe and is repressing so much shit#but marissa is just explosions girl#i guess that's maybe cuz many characters in wbg arent main characters but in dndads they all are#BUT EVEN NPC HERMIE. HIS LAYERS.#very interesting
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stares at you. korka you like kny......?
I loooove kny so much i livetweeted about the final arc as it was going bc i got into it like just after s1 aired. I just never posted ab it bc i watched everything until infinity train, and then nothing bc i tend to lose interest for things if i have to wait too long for them. I restarted with it bc i suggested my bf to watch it with me, and he likes it so it was like "well might as well watch everything that came out til now" so now i've got someone to make sure i watch the final arc's adaptation when it comes out too🫡
But yeag. Kny. ♡ i actually really enjoyed it and the epilogue was very sweet. Cried too many times. Shed a tear again for Zenitsu a moment ago too.
#altho it's fun to say i forgor everything except the major plot points#so while we were watching the season finale i was commenting like ''oh no they're not gonna kill muzan yet i mean i think they still need#a bit more to get to the final arc-'' and i was like mid-sentence when he opened the doors to the infinite castle#so it was just me going ''oh. oh. oh never mind.'' grabbing his collar and going ''this is it this is the final arc''#altho i guess technically the final fight arc is split into two lil sub-arcs so yknow i was still correct#asks
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