#liveblogging!legacies

[tubbytarchia]

Just saw this Jimmy skin for the first time from back when he could still experience joy and whimsy and uh yeah I can't blame anyone for having any parental instincts towards him (looks at myself and my moots and Doc)

[icy-watch]

Wait? You can't? Well there go my Saturday morning plans...

[machoestofmen]

About to have a go at Harrow the Ninth now; when I was reading Gideon the Ninth, one thing I noticed really helped set the mood for me was to have some of the Legacy of Kain series' soundtracks going, especially from Soul Reaver and Defiance. Some tracks of note:

There are a few others as well, but this should be enough for now. Alright, time to read.

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Just realized how many times Maxo's ass has been lore relevant

[freakinator]

oh my god minute and zam dying together and now zam watching through mapiccs eyes

[r0semultiverse]

“Tape recorders & Manila folders” LMAOO now that was a reference (or she’s related to someone who worked at the Magnus institute)

Skin turned into butterflies?? Insect phobia? Also curious about the zombies one vaguely mentioned earlier in passing too.

“Every case about being buried alive or meat or whatever” WHO ARE YOU RELATED TO FROM 20+ YEARS AGO CELIA CMON NOW!

oxfordpeoplestrust.org is also not a real web site that I could find anyway

HILLTOP?!?!

Hilltop center branch sure is a name, wonder what happened during the 6 months! 👀

Wtf happened to Derek Chambers??

That’s one suspicious walk-in applicant... wonder who that is. Knows the hilltop center better than anyone.

A pot with a shouting human face??? Weird.

A friend who wants to volunteer? Also damn, C Clayton is either incompetent or dead! 👀

​Why are these 2 so cheerful?? That is very strange. I don’t think he’s on sabbatical. Lmao

Just bringing in all the creepy cryptid people now, aren’t ya? Though I’d also do that shit if I was understaffed so eh. 🤷‍♀️

“All for a good cause,” it sounds like they’re a hive mind collective of some sort to me.

Oh, they are bringing these items in to sell?? Ahh okay. Also, I feel like C Clayton is definitely dead & these creatures took his keys.

They’re like lemmings or something, holy shit. Also is this a pawn shop I just realized?? Oh a charity shop! Someone just merked a bunch of these guys, holy fuck!! 👀 These are some secret cryptid hunters, gods damn!

Celia: “The voice threw me.” “Do you know who voices Chester?” “Just thought I recognized it for a moment.”

CELIA HOW DO YOU KNOW HIS VOICE?!?! HELLO?? WHO EXACTLY ARE YOU??

AN EMAIL FROM JON?!?! WHAT?!?!!!!

CLAUS?? WHO? GWEN HAS EYES EVERYWHERE HUH?? REALLY LIVING UP TO THE BOUCHARD NAME!

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

And Tomoyo just whips it out immediately, because she knew he was going to bring it up in this conversation. Not even as a seer, because she can't do that anymore - just because she knows him so well.

AND OH THAT FINAL PANEL, WITH KUROGANE REFLECTED IN TOMOYO’S EYES. AMAZING. BEAUTIFUL. 

Also the SECOND funniest way to tie the theme of doubles into Kurogane’s plot - there are just… two of him when reflected in someone’s eyes. 

I WILL TAKE IT. THANK YOU CLAMP.

The fact that Kurogane is surprised to see it is SUCH a nice touch. Even though he had a copy of it for such a long time, this is the ACTUAL link to his family. This is the ACTUAL symbol of his past and everything his family legacy means. It's not just a memory anymore - it's sitting right here in front of him, carefully wrapped up and cared for all this time.

It's the final stage in Kurogane's backstory coming back around. It's the continuation of the exact conversation they had in this exact room about this exact sword all those years ago. It's Kurogane finally returning home, not to be with Tomoyo as he once thought, but to continue the promise he made to his family all those years ago, and to take down the man who slaughtered everyone he loved.

It's, once again, everything coming full circle.

Proof that Tomoyo is the best: SHE EVEN PROVIDED THE FLASHBACKS TO THE EXACT SCENE I WENT LOOKING FOR.

THANK YOU TOMOYO, MY BELOVED. If I did not just hunt this down moments ago this would have been the EXACT context I needed.

That aside, Tomoyo pulling a “So I kept it” is infinitely funny to me and this is such a good turn of events. 

It turns out that Kurogane’s mother foresaw certain future events and ALSO prepared for them ahead of time. 

Or at least that would fit the pattern of every other seer we have in the series. It’s possible she didn’t foresee anything at all and she just talked to Tomoyo as a general precaution, but either way! Here we are!

[magpie-trinkets]

my ass legitimately read this as "¿por qué no te casas CON Romieta?" (why don't you marry Romieta?) and I thought omg emmy lesbian suggestion????? but of course not. my hopes crushed and my day ruine etc. i hope next layton installment has more yuri in it.

JULIETO Y ROMIETA?????? I LOVE THAT!!!! AWESOME NAMES also what do you mean miseria. i thought YOU were the groom

MONSTERFUCKING?????? (/JOKING)

oh buddy. do you have some sort of unresolved trauma and have found yet no closure? this is VERY funny after miracle mask because that game literally revolves around a person lost coming back (in the worst way possible but eh).

[agnesandhilda]

shounen mangakas love making their protagonists child soldiers employed by an institution that is supposed to be at least kind of correct even though they're using child soldiers

[front-facing-pokemon]

[snoopyliker]

sofia came she served cunt and she died

[linh-song]

GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE TRAINING TOGETHER GRADY AND KEEFE-

[icy-watch]

Cole Jr!

[daydreamsonacloudyday]

A little snippet from what I'm currently working on...

[bloodpen-to-paper]

NOT PHIL GIVING EM A TRES LECHES CAKE

[lonepower]

oh come on annie you gotta admit that was kinda funny