#kr build blood stark

[starburr]

Some doodles again

[pandorasbugs]

ohhh u want to kill me so bad *^-^*

[firebirdsdaughter]

Okay. So. Build 4...

... (spoilers below)

I know we’re all panicking (or, some of us are, anyhoo). But it’s episode four, so either they’re fucking w/ us, or the writers need to go back to class on pacing.

My money is that it’s something vaguely similar to Banno and Krim (key word in that sentence is vaguely)--a friend who went off the deep end or something; maybe Souichi got roped into it or something, but he’s not actually supportive of the ideals. To me, this is reenforced by the look of embarrassment and shame on his face when Sento confronts him. He can’t look the kid in the eye, instead looking down. That’s not an ‘oh my plan is foiled face,’ that’s a ‘i was trying to hide this out of shame’ face. Combined w/ what he said before about focusing on the present, though that was clearly a deflection method, also makes me think he’s trying to escape from some sort of darkness in his past, either something he did or let others do.

I don’t want him to be Blood Stark. I know some people do, but I think it’s a little too early to be revealing that one of the main crew is an enemy Rider. Even Ex-Aid waited on that one. Plus, I really love Souichi and really, really don’t want him to follow the long line of shitty fathers KR has had (dance on their graves, Director Kagami, dance on their graves you wonderful dad you!).

We now know he was one of the astronauts who brought the Box back; we know there was at least one other, and I highly doubt a mission to Mars had only two people, so the whole crew is now suspect. Obviously, this means whatever else they found up there will be important. I’m curious if they’re going to find out the other members of the crew in order to investigate this.

Another thing--Misora’s reaction. Her actress kept it pretty vague: either she’s uncomfortable because she knows something, or because she doesn’t, and she doesn’t want her father to be related to the people creating monsters. (also, knew random crack theory--Misora’s bracelet, the fact that she never goes outside... could she be the Kengo of this season? Souichi’s never mentioned a wife... is he even wearing a ring?)

I guess the big question in the end would be, who is creating the bottles for Faust? Could it be Misora’s mother who I just said hasn’t been mentions? Someone else completely?

And when is Ryuuga actually gonna transform?

[backtornado]

i was talking about foreshadowing and twists with some people about KR today and some interesting things that we determined from it:

M wasn’t actually Parad to begin with - he was the trauma caused by Parad leaving Emu, which is why Parad wasn’t actually M to begin with and why MBXX could be used against him in a fight. Parad only became M once they rejoined.

They foreshadowed Parad being connected to Emu so fucking far in advance but in so many subtle ways.

As much as we love Build, none of its plot twists have felt really like... surprises? The closest it’s had has been the Blood Stark identity, but that still didn’t even feel like much of a shock. A lot of the mysteries feel like we know the answer already, but they won’t tell us.

Ex-Aid managed to string us on by letting us know that they definitely were connected, but teased us along with the details extremely well.

The rewrites in Ex-Aid weren’t as extensive as I thought by far, although the shortened number of episodes really obviously put a squeeze on plotting.

The only one of these that’s a real surprise to me is the Parad-M-Emu thing, cause it closes up a plot hole pretty neatly.

Anyhow, I’m enjoying Build a lot, but just some food for thought really.