#it's a bit back to what we were talking about when comparing Belial to Ferdinand a few days ago

[icharchivist]

not to mention Benjamin is probably the only character in gbf that has explicitly almost definitely said a slur onscreen (if it's what it looks like judging from the censor stars he can reclaim it. but still--) and not even Belial can say that--

HE DID??????

I completely forgot about that wtf :sob:

i suppose it would be some linked to mental health of the sort??? bc i GUESS he could be reclaiming those but STILL.

can't believe i have to dust out this reaction image again

Anyway yeah, when Aoidos indulge back into his past self, things get messy considering the amount of fucked up going on with Benjamin to start with. He's already a similar-to-Lobelia type of character with the whole "loving murders because of the Sounds" and stuff.

and i shall remind also that back in the type of the original band, the Vicious Three, the whole thing was them making snuff representation by hiring a wanted criminal to do their gig with them on stage and then murder them in such a way that there would be a blood shower on the crowd.

Like now that Aoidos is more stable as he joined our crew and he's not as murder happy (though he has regained his memories again and he does slip back into being a sadist when he talks with Justin and Valentin), we're still speaking about people who were doing blood showers for fun and because they loved the sounds killing people would make in addition to their music (which, again, really makes them considering Lobelia to join their bands in recent years ominous as shit)

So just. The idea of the DossSS walking this line while Lobelia AND Belial would be there to influence it could turn really easy back into "actually let's revive the Vicious Three", especially since Aoidos is just mostly not doing murders anyone because he feels loved by the crew and doesn't want us to see him badly and stuff, so idk about the idea of telling him "murder is okay!" by having him connect with those menaces.

.... That or we can hope Aoidos' recovery is enough that he has an iron will not to return to murders no matter what.

we gotta hope for the best, but yeah, this is. really the gang we want Belial to recover with......... i'm not even sure they can help themselves recover........ 😭😭