#looking forward to his backstory

[jounosparticles]

i feel like there is something very sinister going on with the hunting dogs.

the vice commander is twelve years old; she has been a soldier since a few months after she was born. why wouldn’t they get her out of the military so she could be a child? why was she put in a position of power instead of freed from her traumatic life?

tachihara is a teenager. we don’t know how long he’s been on the team but it’s likely been a decent while, meaning he was also quite young when he joined. why wouldn’t they try to rehabilitate him for his crimes before putting him into this job?

jouno was an crime ring executive; and we know that high up mafioso are punished with the death penalty. i speculate he was given the choice to be executed or to give his life to the hunting dogs.

and with this all in mind, they’re bound with their lives? they can’t leave unless they’re willing to rot to death due to their surgeries. it’s incredibly warped that the government would do this to these people, especially considering one of them is a child.

it just feels off to me

[moongothic]

The worst part about trying to figure out what Crocodile's deal is that because he's so fucking irredeemably evil in Alabasta... Like... Yeah he's just irredeemably evil. Like I love him but he did cause countless casualties, a ton of pain and suffering and literally attempted to blow up a million people

Like no amount of theoretical "trying to do it to save his son from the Government" or "trying to stop the Government from hurting anyone else" or just "doing it for the greater good" is going to make him any less of a mass murderer

But also Robin absolutely 100% helped with all of that shit simply because she wanted to read the Poneglyph for herself.

No amount of her intending to betray Crocodile from the begining and sabotaging his plans erases the fact that Robin also caused countless people to starve to death and die in the civil war. Her sabotages only succeeded out of sheer luck, and only spared the lives of the people at the final battle. She has the blood of countless innocents on her hands. Because she wanted to read history.

But her crimes were swept under the rug because she has a sad backstory and her sabotages worked out just at the nick of time by sheer dumb luck

So Croc??? Just??? Is there a chance??? At all???

But also he did literally intend to sell Buggy into slavery

Like, fuck Buggy, but jesus

What's also killing me is that we like. Don't know what Luffy thinks of Crocodile right now. Which really is like. The thing that will decide how we, as the readers, are supposed to feel about Crocodile. Luffy is our POV

Like we don't know what Luffy's opinion of Crocodile is after he helped save Luffy (and spared Ace once) during the Summit War. Like Luffy clearly fucking hated the man in Impel Down and the two interactions they had during the War weren't like positive (in the sense that Luffy himself didn't think of the interactions as particularly positive. Defending Whitebeard from being attacked once and then being like "wait what HIM?!" when Crocodile defended Ace. To be fair, in the midst of the chaos, there wasn't much time to spend on Pondering On Such Things because Ace needed to be saved, and Oda goes out of his way to not show us what's going on inside Luffy's head, because it's all meant to be out in the open anyways. Regardless, these weren't like "yay it's Crocodile! :)" moments for Luffy is what I mean)

But also Luffy was very grateful of Law for saving his life and was willing to put his trust into Law for their alliance- of course, they weren't explicitly enemies to begin with, rivals at most, but still. Luffy respects those who help him.

But also Luffy grew during the timeskip. Like he's not that clueless anymore (like he finally understands Hancock is in love with him etc), and similarly Luffy gets that Buggy is an absolute loser now. But also Buggy did also help save Luffy's life (even if it was by accident), and while IDK if Luffy is aware of that, I don't think that helped improve Luffy's impression of Buggy

So like. The fuck does Luffy think of Crocodile, at this moment? Even with the Cross Guild reveal, he didn't even really comment on Croc and just focused his energy on being confused about Buggy being "the leader" of CG. IDK it feels almost intentional or something, that we don't know what Luffy thinks?? Especially since we did get Zoro's opinion on Mihawk in the situation?? Or am I delulu?? (Sidenote. I'd love to know what Robin would have to say about Crocodile helping save Luffy's life. What Jinbei might think of the final words Crocodile left him with before blasting them out of Akainu's reach. But mainly just Robin's thoughts)

Like IDK my best guess would be that Luffy still hates Crocodile just the same but is like grossed out by technically owing him one??? In the classic

-kinda way, you know? And that he'd be just kinda confused about it?

Because I can't fucking imagine Luffy being like "oh we're cool now" with Crocodile, let alone "Yay Crocodile :) He saved my life!". But also like. Luffy does kind of owe Croc one. Kind of. And Luffy is usually very respectful of that kind of thing. Aaaaaaaa???

(Also does. Does Luffy even know it was Crocodile who yeeted him and Jinbei out of Akainu's reach to begin with. 'Cause he was unconcious. Knocked the fuck out. Does. Does Luffy even know. Did anybody tell him???)

I just.

There's the reasonable part of me that knows Crocodile is an irredeemable evil dickbag and everything he has ever said and done up to the most recent chapters support that. He is too far gone.

And then there's the absolutely delulu part that loves a tragic villian who gets a heartwrenching redemption that's looking for any fucking sign that could indicate Crocodile could maybe be one

[protagonist-art]

"Uh- I'm Arnold. Bennett. It's profoundly difficult to get your lifes works and studies accepted if your name isn't... yes, oh! Are you a fan of moths, sir?"

NEW RDR2 OC!! a reclusive, clumsy entomologist and bug collector; cooped up in his study of uniformed clutter

[clownsnake]

k so I’m getting the sense that Kim Dokja’s mom is a bad person (literally had frames of her standing over a dead body) but what I’m reading rn is pretty ambiguous in a v interesting way wrt if she cares abt her son or not

m: you don’t seem pleased to see me when it’s been so long

kd: do you really want something like that?

m: a little.

>lie detection skill has confirmed that was a lie.

like…. Maybe I’m too hopeful but also itd be tragically sweet if she lied bc she cares A LOT but doesn’t want to admit it. as opposed to what dokja’s thinking which is that she doesn’t even care a little.

idk I think I’m gonna believe dokja’s view & look out for hints until I learn more concrete information

[rayjayoo]

here be my lmk sona/oc, based off of the black handed spider monkey!

currently, he goes by “ray” :))

[foxytonic]

Hey, hi, hello, how are y’all? I’m tired! And in pain, but that’s neither here nor there.

What I wanna know is

Who the FUCK is saying that ✨Wyll Fucking Ravengard✨ is boring?

C’mere.

I just

I just wanna talk.

[mikuyuuss]

I am reminded once again how I wish that we were shown more of Giyuu's backstory. I would understand it better if he was a normal guy whose parents are alive, but Giyuu's the opposite of that, his backstory is actually really sad in hindsight too.

From what I remember, the fanbook tells us how he lost his parents to an illness when he was young, leaving only him and his sister Tsutako. Their parents left some money for them to be able to survive, but surely, that still can't be easy. Tsutako must have had a lot on her shoulders while taking care of Giyuu.

and I wonder how Giyuu must have felt during those times, was he too young to process all of it, or did he feel like a burden to his sister? Is that one of the underlying reasons why he felt guilty for what happened to Sabito and Tsutak? Some of these stuff were definitely implied in the main story, but I just wish they showed us more of it!

And just when Tsutako is finally about to get married, she lost her life to a demon because she chose to protect Giyuu, and Giyuu tried to tell the townspeople about what happened but they didn't believe him. His distant relatives instead planned to take him away because they believe he is mentally ill. So without any choice, Giyuu ran away, nearly diied in the mountains but was founded by a hunter and later taken in by Urokodaki. The rest is history.

Considering how training takes about two years, and Giyuu was 13 years old when he took the final selection. I would guess that he’s probably around 11 yrs old when all of that happened to him.

Like that was a lot of stuff. Giyuu clearly had a rough childhood, but that wasn't shown in the main story at all and was just summarized in one taisho secret. :(

I wanted to see more of his relationship with Sabito and especially Tsutako. I really really hope we get a spin off or a light novel chapter that can help further flesh out the rest of his backstory, because it's just way too interesting not to.

[crossbackpoke-check]

about to be sooo nosy so. my apologies. but. morgan frost? girlfriend? do share (or don’t! again this is so nosy i’m sorry)

for legal purposes i can neither confirm nor deny anything about morgan and his girlfriend but afaik i think he’s single right now? at one point (within the past four years 😭) he did for sure have a girlfriend and that is the extent of my wag knowledge

[volfoss]

Actually the crumbs of Armand in this book have given me the strength I'll need to finish this shit show tomorrow

[emrys-rusts]

I have so many thoughts about pre-mechanised brian and I finally have time to draw again tehehehehe

[asterroses]

the watcher 🍀✨️

[lionblaze03-2]

Saw spiderverse tonight and it was sooo good

[edwardslostalchemy]

I am finally watching season 5 lmfao. I didn't want to because the first half is boring to me. I really don't care about class B. I only care about a handful of the class A kids and Shinsou is cool, he's part of 1A to me since i started watching the series. Anyway, reading the class 1A vs class 1B battles is a different experience from watching them animated. It should be more exciting because it's in motion, but I think because I read the chapters wayyy back in like ??? 2019, after season 5 hit 2 years later, I was like okay. My best friend had to SIT ME DOWN to watch the first 7 episodes because I couldn't commit to the series. So now I have committed myself to watch an episode a day and I'm finally on season 5. So I'm watching each episode slowly and I'm enjoying them because they're 24 minutes long and then it's over. The thing I love about this season is the OP, we get Izuku and Shouto having a full conversation while everyone else is just stretching or whatever. Nobody else matters except these 2 angels. No little glances from other characters compare to the full conversation they are having LMFAO. Best thing in that part of the season. I am watching for black whip and Izuku and Shouto talking after the battles. And both their battles. But that's really it. One of the things that bothers me is that none of the recommendation students won their battles. They either lost or ended with a draw (?) I think, which is so stupid because they're supposed to be better than the others yet they don't win. Bullshit. Horikoshi just hates women and doesn't want Shouto to win. Momo and Setsuna should have won. I can handle Mud man losing, he's not my favorite. Like you can't have Shouto hype up Momo and have her LOSE. Horikoshi what's that even about??? What was the POINT? Hype her up to WIN. Prove Shouto's point that she's excellent. And then he has Shouto reaching these insane temperatures ....for his battle to be a draw. WOW. AMAZING. That's so anticlimactic. He could have 3 class 1A groups win in a row, and then have Bakugou lose, that would have been interesting. Humble him more. And then have Izuku win, that was good. No complaints about him. He even got black whip. I'm ignoring everything else that happened in that fight, but black whip was cool (I love that quirk, leave me ALONE). Idc if his favoritism for class 1A would have shown, I wanted my kids to win. They got hyped and did not get rewarded. Don't hype them up then! Or put them in the same team so they can ALL win at the same time IDK. He could have taken so many directions with this arc. I just think it sucks. It's salvaged, in my opinion, by the individual characters and what they bring to the table, Shinsou does a great job, the OP giving me crumbs, Momo, Shouto, and Izuku looking really cool, black whip, and the talk between my favorite boys. I'm not hate watching, I'm honestly watching because I want to know what's going on, since it's been YEARS after I read the manga and also years since I watched the 7 episodes I watched with my bestie before I went to do my master's. I really am interested. I just think the arc, to me, is boring.

[fallenwingzero]

The importance of Wufei training Milou in Frozen Teardrop just dawned on me.

Noin entrusting her own son to Wufei, who was responsible for the death of the cadets that she trained back at the Victorian base, to be raised and trained by him for 3 years really shows how far the two of them have come and how must trust Noin has in Wufei and his abilities.

It well and truly shows that, at least with these two, the cycle of revenge has ended.

[miscmagpie]

Theory.

Erin wasn't born the Elemental Magus.

Erin oiginally went through all the effort and danger of learning magic specifically so he could try and Spark Tess.

Why become the Magus, though?

Well, could be because he's Erin and hubris is his personality.

Or it could be the excuse he needed to get them to agree in the first place.

[the-nysh]

I feel sympathy for Sonic. This ruthless ninja isn’t the most righteous person on the block but his ideology regarding heroes has validity to it. The ninja village incident must have scared him and permanently affected his ability to be vulnerable with others. He lives by himself in an old apartment in a desolate city with no one to call a “friend” or family member. No wonder Saitama felt empathy for this dude too. His tragic backstory reminds me of Sasuke lol.

The biggest thing was how Sonic's backstory changed him from being perceived mostly as a gag character, into one whom we could take seriously. That the starkness of his backstory, one we'd waited years to finally see, unexpected Like That, came as quite the shock. The fact he could endure his village's harsh training and brainwashing alongside Flash and keep a fine dream for the future, but then Blast's attack and Flash's subsequent betrayal clearly broke something within Sonic... Emotionally scarring him for life with negativity even more than his village's conditioning, it seems. :')) I can't comment on any resemblance to Sasuke, but if even Saitama could see parts of Sonic in a new light, then that's quite something.