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About the lavi/Allen ship after resent development do you think it actually has a chance with how it’s looking like soulmates like do you think it can be taken as romantic now what kind of development do you see happening now do you think their relationship can grow in a good way from here I saw in past posts you think it be one sided do you still think that

oh boy HI!

Well you got me i genuinely don't know.

And i rambled again

I don't actually expect ships going canon in shounen in general, but Past!Laven really went straight into reproducing Current!Yulma and we know Yulma is canon, so this is definitely Something.

I did always say that i thought if romantic, it was fully one sided from Lavi's side. Lavi's changes around Allen are more extreme and obvious, while Allen's behavior around Lavi doesn't really sound so different from his behavior around everyone else except that, i would argue, he looked more comfortable around him to be doing childish things. Something i already thought was me pulling at straws until recent developments.

While i'm totally thrilled about the confirmation they're soulmates (in a neutral sense of the term, not every soulmates are romantic in nature, but their souls are clearly intertwined by the way Past!Allen and Past!Lavi merged and it's safe to say that it involves platonic affection at least.) i genuinely don't know where to go on from that point. I'm still on that high a little to be honest.

I don't even know if Past!Laven is really "canon" by romantic metric considering we know Past!Lavi stuck around also due to his promise to Nea, but it's clear, imo, that there's meant to be a parallel between Past!Lavi and Current!Lavi about "we started staying with Allen because of our sworn duties but our affection for him grew to the point of being torn between duty and caring for him". After all Past!Laven traveled together for a long time, as evidenced by the fact their first interaction has Allen with short hair and that Apocryphos attacks him after they've been travelling together when Allen has waaaay longer hair.

It will depend on how Allen will take the reveals imo and i can't predict the kid when it comes to unveiling his identities. I think there's potential for him to feel extremely emotional about it since one of the only things he remembered in his present life, that Apocryphos couldn't take away from him, was how Past!Lavi held him so warmly. And like. the whole reason he took the potion that would kill him so readily was specifically to "take back what was taken away from him" when he realized the only thing he remembered was this precious.

I think this could push Allen to really want to at least clear things up with Lavi, and perhaps even properly lower his walls around him.

However.

The situation IS different from Yulma. Kanda and Alma both remembered enough their past lives, AND spend a whole lot of time ALSO developing feelings because fully remembering them, to know once the reveal was out that they were meant to find each others over and over and be in love in the past and the future.

but with Laven, while Allen is learning about it, Lavi knows absolutely fuck-all.

The dynamic is going to be SO different because what Lavi feels for Allen (platonic, romantic, whatever you want to call it) is due to who Allen is now, while Allen is going to learn a lot more about Past!Lavi to influence his opinion. On top of that Lavi also is somewhat "guided" by this vision of Past!Lavi that drive him to Allen.

There's a gap in knowledge and one that i think may be too nebulous for feelings to return just on the idea that now there is more knowledge.

One that will only be made worse by the others elements of the main plot right about now:

-Allen is going to learn that Mana's corpse isn't in its grave and its likely going to derail his feelings.. or on the contrary, amplify them realizing that even the one person who raised him and loved him didn't even die (and he carried this guilt his whole life and all the horrors that happened after that) so it could make him want to seek out this "past warmth" again. Or it will destroy him first and we'll have to deal with that.

-Lavi is still being tortured and it's been months in universe. Fiddle draws Lavi with a broken heart in a doodle he made in a recent chapter which implies Lavi' condition is pretty bad.. I think when we will find Lavi back he will be in no condition to process the whole soulmate situation

... That said he IS being tortured because the Noah want to learn about what happened to Past!JR (and i'm just realizing the fucking irony right here on Allen, being called "Mister Host" atm by the Bookman Clan, aka being held because of his condition as an Honorary Noah, being put into a deadly situation to recover information about Past!JR, while Lavi is being tortured by the Noah because they want Bookman information on Past!JR and Nea. The parallels never stop paralleling.). So Lavi wanting to learn more about Past!JR is on the table, and i wonder what plotline could come off from realizing he spent 3 months tortured because of the very figure that saved his life when he was 7.

And actually now i'm thinking about how Allen and Lavi were separated during the Alma arc and following it, were both held captive, before being hurt by a shadow of their common past lives: the Noah on Lavi while Allen is hunted by Apocryphos. Almost as if Apo had to wait until Lavi was far away from Allen to hope to attack him in case the Bookman JR meddles with his plans again. I mean i don't think it's exactly the reason but imagine if this is true?!

So actually maybe Lavi will want to learn about JR but this will probably be more confusing for them to process. I think it will be harder for them to understand how intertwined they are.

When compared to Kanda for instance he knew he had to be looking for his soulmate his whole life, he knew he had someone he loved and wanted back at all cost, so when Alma was revealed to be just that it was just a question of "finally, my lifelong quest, finishing where it started".

but neither Lavi nor Allen were really looking for this past connection so i think it'd take them a while to really process how intertwined they are and they may return to their normal dynamic afterward.

However i do think they will behave a bit differently realizing just how much they share.

As a romantic, my favorite option would be for them to not actually let their past lives dictate how they should feel about each others, but as they are working together to unravel the past and realize they have to do it together because both are concerned, they are lowering their walls in ways they haven't around others people because it just feels right, and it's where something more natural can bloom.

As a realist, I honestly don't even believe it would take a romantic turn because usually Shounen rarely do this type of things. But Hoshino is unpredictable so maybe things could take a turn. I just can't dare to hope.

(would i even want it? I don't know. I never considered it a possibility. Again i thought it was one sided. I also always have thought "Dear Gray Man" could be because it's Lavi keeping records of Allen's life because Allen isn't going to make it but Lavi will, so the one-sided-ness added to the tragedy, but now i'm so distraught on what that could mean. Hell now i also have thoughts about how this can be also reminiscent of Past!Lavi's approach. I mean i have many different ideas on what the title is about but it is one of them yaknow.)

So i genuinely have no idea where this could possibly be taken. I didn't even think it was ever possible that my "fav ship but it's probably one sided" would ever just reveal they were soulmates all along. I don't know how to process this information and how much romance i can interpret out of it exactly.

So i do what i do best instead and look for Narrative Parallels and Foils because at least there i have content.

but as to predict the future and especially a romantic relationship in a Shounen?

I have no clue where we're going.

My only hope is that it will be the story Hoshino really wants to tell.

thanks for the ask! <3

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Oh man I had no idea there was so much drama surrounding the Belial cosplayer

There was this whole thing a few fes back about his agency specifically forbidding him to continue playing Belial because he got so popular from the cosplay shows his agency thought it would overshadow his actual work as an idol/actor, so the agency had to put up a disclaimer online that Kazuya would never play Belial again.

this was the situation a few months ago!

but now there's full on conspiracy theory because there was a new Belial last show, no one knows who is the cosplayer aside that he looks a lot like Kazuya (but like, fair right? they're cosplaying the same character) and now apparently Kazuya's agency throwing a fit because Kazuya might have gone to the Fes as an actor without being allowed to

so obviously, all of us, confused, trying to make sense of what the fuck that means.

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Solas 🤝 Belial

this is very difficult for me to admit, but, well, if the shoe fits, well.

there are Similarities. this is a problem. with me.

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Noro here! As some people may remember, I used to translate interviews and side-material for dgm here on tumblr (do check it out, it still exists and it's fun information!). Anyway, the matter at hand. As Icha here knows (and people who read us at the time may remember), I was always bothered by the wording on the lore dump at the very first page of the manga. It goes like this "エクソシスト・・・それは神に魅入られた者達." The problem here? That 魅入られた there has two main meanings: "to be charmed by" (which doesn't quite make sense, as it would mean "people charmed by God") and... "to be possessed" as in demonic possession. "People (demonically) possessed by God." Let's say it all makes sense now, you're welcome.

HEY EVERYONE, @norowareshimono here in my inbox!!! (she lost access to her account but we're still in contact and she wanted to make sure those new infos fell through)

AND. YEAH. YEAH!!!!

the innocence is said to possess people (demonically) in the manga in early chapters, which made very little sense at the time, but now take a whole lot of sense in light of the latest chapters.

thank you so much for bringing it to our attention Noro! i think we'll still be insane over this because wow.

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No price is too great for daddy, so jot that down

Also it's only 10 k yen, that's manageable compared to his figurine

Ohmygod

The opposite of a sugar daddy. You spend money to spend time with daddy.

But the perspective does help. He is cheaper than the figurine so, worth it?

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I FAIL TO SEE HOW THE WETNESS IS RELEVANT????

are you sure?

are you SURE?

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Hello!

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Please treat yourself kindly in that meantime, and i truly hope every little things can help a little.

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in the meantime i wish you all the best and hope for your safety

take care

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all this talk I've read through of anon talking about how horrified Orologia would be of Danchou dating Siete has made me curious how horrified would they be about the idea of dating Lobelia.

Clearly Siete is terrifying because of the whole Boundary stuff and how much tinkering it took to make him a "decent to questionable guy" but Lobelia..... That's just. "He's a serial killer but he Promised Not To Anymore because i asked him very nicely after kicking his ass." I think they'd just faint on the spot.

And You not covering Evokers is really funny considering the preview had Threat Levels on a lot of characters but at Least Lobelia and Nier would be pretty high up there too out of the evokers!

HELPP

hi hey welcome to my humble house (and the anons', mostly the anons,)

We discuss Seofon a lot because some of the anons have big crushes on him so he becomes our topic of interest most of the time, thus why we mostly discussed the "dating them would be so painful for Orologia" angle with him.

but you're 100% correct. Orologia would totally have an attack if MC ended up dating Lobelia i mean. Their baby D:

It was mentioned Logia can't really influence things that are reliant on the Astrals and the Primal Beasts and it's why they had to let things play out in some way, and i would imagine the Evokers for instance fall in this category because of how linked to their summons they are -- especially Lobelia who often tortures people into the Tower after all. so it's likely why they weren't included with "And You" compared to others mortals who have direct impact on others mortals, and Seofon who keeps killing the others dragons.

So maybe Lobelia doesn't have the scope of nearly as bad in mind (or the fact Seofon was a threat on a world destroying basis is more important to him than people being menaces to specific groups) but, regardless to that Orologia would freak out learning that MC trusts him, somewhat, yknow.

At least i could imagine Logia meeting the Evokers and having this moment the gears start turning in their head going "i made a mistake i didn't consider them turn back i need some more simulations--" and the only way to stop them is to have one of the dragons forcefully having to carry them out of the ship

god poor Logia. we really make their lives even more difficult.

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BELIAL MASSAGE

YEAP. YEAPPPP.

everyone who wanted him to put his hands on you, congratulation! are you still alive.

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Megane 😳

DLFKJDFLKJFDLKDF welcome to how we're losing our mind, we haven't recovered. (character has been teased for a long while and just now we're learning more about him)

he's so. god. we're so fucked.

glad it fits your fancy ;D

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th.the jump SQ previews. ICha. ICHA.

We're. We're in past Laven territory. ICha hold me I'm losing my SHIT. With this being Nea cover volume too!!! Past Lavenea is a stupidly high possibility right now, assuming Lavi as a name is not fakeout and given how it's very unlikely to be Cross, unless Hoshino pulls a got you with it being him anyway, we are in. We are in past Laven(ea) territory. what the fuck. wath the fukc

NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY

OH MY GOD????

WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT THE FUCK???? WHAT TH FUCK??????

We never believed him to be Cross so that's cool but WTF???

tho remember they mentioned "Lavi" is the name of the records of this specific war. Is /it/ Lavi or is it just because the two Bookmen were recording this specific war after all?

BUT EITHER WAY THIS IS FREAKING ME OUT WHY THE FUCK IS HE NAMED LAVI

glad to see Lavi is joining Allen on "there's going to be multiple characters sharing my name on the wiki now"

ALSO E'S GORGEOUS WHAT THE HELLLLLLL GHAAAAAAAA

we're so fucked what the fuck. what THE FUCK

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Solas only to be washed by Vhenan makes me think about those shirts that sometimes have "give it to your mom" on the label instead of washing instructions (my mom would roll her eyes at this. in a good natured way)

He obviously has a similar thing

Give him to his Vhenan

DDLFKDFLDJFMFDK THAT'S KIND OF HILARIOUS

YEAH

Give him to his Vhenan this is the only person who can treat him tenderly!!!

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https://x.com/gbvs_official/status/1891767358852825296

Sandy concept art! He is roughly 50% leg

(link)

oughh he's so good. he is indeed mostly legs.

love his expression looking at his coffee. what a cutie.

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Talking about Siete Granblue on this blog for months has done legitimate damage to me btw

I fully forgot that his name is a number

A few days ago I tried to count in Spanish and could not for the life of me remember what the number seven is called in that language

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO

NO WAY NO WAY THIS IS SO FUNNY

"how do we say seven in spanish again? gosh i dont know, unrelated i wonder how Siete is doing today"

tbh i have almost the same problem, i see the number 7 in the wild and my first thought is "what did Seofon do again" before really realizing it's bc it's talking about a number

this man is a disease in our brains.

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One fear: Valentine's Lobelia

do NOT manifest it do NOT utter those words do NOT speak it into existence

if it happens i WILL cry. I WILL blame you.

Please. Save us from pain.

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We're never getting a naked V-Day Belial with nothing but chocolate covering his private bits at this rate

IT'S NOT FAULT FOR TRYING!!!

we manifested that and his body pillow nonstop those last two years. One out of two isnt that bad!!!