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[devilgcd]

The joy of tumblr suggesting me people to follow. Hello folks, if I have followed you ~waves~ .

[your-pal-smoochins]

I'm normally a very passive person. I don't like going out of my way to interact with serious topics. But this has genuinely gone way beyond the realm of serious. The situation hurts me, but that is no excuse to not talk about it. To spread the word.

I have seen people refuse to acknowledge the events entirely. I have seen others try to justify Is-a-rael-piece-of-shit's actions. There is no justification for promising a safe location for the people to evacuate to, only to bomb them the moment people are distracted by the big stupid fucking football event. Especially not when you consider all the children that are now dead.

This needs to be seen. All of it needs to be seen. Every last thing. The people with any level of empathy will be on the side of Palestine. The others will be outnumbered. If you fear being seen as controversial for this, I can only see it as selfish.

Find every way you can to help. Spread the word, donate to causes, protest, do every single thing in your power to bring an end to this.

Or else there may be nothing left to save.

My activity here will probably increase as I continue talking about this, but obviously I won't know everything. Find information on your own as well, and spread it around to the best of your ability. I trust you'll all make the right decision.

do not just sit and read what I reblog and/or retweet. Do more than just like and walk off. Share it. "Oh they did a spongebob super bowl showing"

millions of Palestinian people were murdered on the night of the super bowl. Men, women, and children.

Children. Under 18 and even further, not even one year old.

When will you decide its "gone too far"? When will you start sharing and helping and taking boycotting seriously. When will your eyes open and when will YOU see that what isnotrael is doing is wrong. Genocide is happening. Nothing is getting better and I see NOBODY talking about it. None of you who I follow have said a word and that disappoints me.

What is happening to innocent people is wrong. Palestinians do not deserve what is happening and it makes me sick.

A child's legs were reduced to gory ribbon and she was hanging off the side of her home. Literal babies are dead. Parents have lost their children, and many children have been left orphaned. I refuse to trigger tag or soften or censor these words. This is serious. This is a harsh and painful reality.

Palestinian children do not know anything beyond trauma at this point, Palestinian adults have lost their families and their statuses as human beings, and i will do everything within my power to help.

When will you do your part. When will YOU also assist.

[heaven-said]

{{ i follow gabe's tag right so it shows up on my dash and there's two fanarts i could reblog, its the gorgeous dramatic death scene or the one about not putting rosary beads in your ass }}

[revclver-jesus]

How do you feel when people say that Takaya is just using Jin and Chidori?

{{ You mean like that one hot take that drove me up the wall? lmao I am going to give you the full blown dissertation here i go-- let's call this essay

The Most Commonly Misunderstood Thing About Takaya's Character: or Why Team Strega Is Not Literally A Cult lol

When people say that Takaya is just 'using" Jin and Chidori, what they're implying in most contexts is that Takaya is incapable of forming attachments and his motivations are fairly shallow-- essentially Takaya is not a complex villain and should be dismissed as purely selfishly motivated and malicious. He's a "simple" villain.

Now I realize....... that I might be biased as that girly that's written him on a dedicated blog for multiple years now, but purely objectively speaking, removing all my own headcanons, using only the information provided to use in canon? It's just thoroughly false, tbh!

First I'll go into why he isn't purely selfishly motivated and then I'll explain his relationship with Strega because I can prove the motivation with just Reload as an example, let alone the novel. Takaya, in Reload especially but even in the original game, I would argue has a full blown character arc off screen. At the start of the game he does appear to be more selfish, he has no real motivation and is just living out the last of his life doing underhanded assassin work-- nothing's really challenging him. But as the story progresses, Takaya begins to express a meaningful ideology-- he develops a greater concern for the world around him and expresses a full blown motivation. He says, in protest to the choices of the protagonist in one of his social events, and I quote: " Choosing to turn a blind eye towards your own power, to the grief of the fallen, to the unchosen and the unloved." Its clear he is not talking about himself here, as he mentions grief for the fallen. Takaya is expressing that he feels grief for something-- he is sorry about something that has happened to someone else, and it bothers him enough to nearly scream about it.

I think, often times, people dismiss what Takaya says as insincere almost automatically without any indication that he doesn't mean the words he's saying besides perhaps being vain and dishonest in other scenes, but these social event scenes are clearly meant to be interpreted as him being unusually earnest. By the end, Takaya is not just trying to keep his own power, but, as he says " this is not just my will but the will of all people. " which all culminates into Takaya's final character arc moment, where, in his final boss, he says the line " I will throw away my pride! " before using an evoker instead of trying to summon without help, implying that he is finally sacrificing his ego to better fight for what he believes in. If he was fighting for a positive cause, this would be a heroic moment, but it is still concrete evidence that his motivation is no longer meant to be seen as purely selfish. He is now fighting for " the will of all people ". He cares about the " the fallen, the unchosen and the unloved."

So what about Jin and Chidori? To put it simply, Takaya is not some puppet master that breaks them down emotionally and treats them like tools. They're his friends, and he happens to have a leader's personality, so they follow him, much like the protagonist he is designed to mirror. Its a lot easier to guess how he feels about them when you don't assume the worst and look at all his canon interactions with them. And even easier to tell if you can manage to read any english translated pages of their strega-focused novel ( which we can assume is fairly canon since Reload references it with the child turned into a large shadow ).

In the novel, as far as I've seen ( its only partially translated ), team Strega is extremely informal and lighthearted around each other. There is no sign that they fear Takaya, as they are willing to tease each other and disagree. The opening scenes of the book quickly establish a sort of family-like dynamic, with Takaya having an older brother-like role. He teases Chidori ( in a bit of heavy handed foreshadowing ) that she will understand why people fall in love when she's older-- of which Chidori sort of says gross and "as if" and rolls her eyes at him. Jin, being the narrator perspective, shows no sign of intimidation when around Takaya, something that would bleed through into their every interaction-- especially the establishing scene introducing the cast-- if that were the case. I feel, even if the novel is not canon, the writer would be instructed not to write Takaya so friendly if he was meant to be a heartless manipulator regardless.

In the game, the most manipulative thing he ever does to either is when Chidori is pulled back into Strega. Takaya tells her that there is nowhere else she can go and reminds her that death is not to be feared in a way that sounds like he's repeated this mantra often enough he knows she can guess it. This seems spooky, but the tension is immediately alleviated by the flippant and kind of sassy way that Chidori assures them she remembers Takaya's advice. This is not how you talk to your cult leader and this is not a cult, this is something closer to a gang or a club-- at worst, a coven of witches ( considering their team name is "witch" in italian.). They simply have an in-group and out-group sort of mentality, a shared since of identity, and a shared view of the world to go with it, which is to be expected when you've been openly shunned and mocked by the average person ( as seen at the start of the first scene with Shinji ) But this scene, when compared to all their mundane and lighthearted interactions, doesn't imply anything more severe than the leader of your misfit club reminding you why we don't hang out with the normies. You're "one of us" and a level of loyalty and commitment is expected when you otherwise always act as a group.

Yes, he is very cold and indifferent to the sight of his team members getting hurt-- or hurting themselves, for that matter, but the reason for this is obvious. In Reload, Takaya plainly expresses that he is feeling attachment ( for the protag at the moment ) but is avoiding his own capability for attachment intentionally. That scene was meant to establish that he can feel attachment, that he isn't as cold as he pretends to be, to encourage the viewer to see him with a little more nuance. What causes a man to force himself to be colder than he really is? What can cause an avoidance toward emotional attachment? Maybe...... watching 100 children die after being orphaned and stolen away to live underground for years? lmao

And so, when Takaya watches Chidori do self harm or literally sacrifice her life, for one-- he's not going to parent her, they don't have that kind of relationship, and he would be a hypocrite if he tried to encourage her not to do what she wants to to her dying body-- and two, of course he doesn't mind if Chidori dies, he's expecting that to happen anyways. His one greatest gift is his uncanny ability to accept death and the death of others. Mourning you openly is not how he expresses emotion. Especially when he sincerely believes death is a blessing. Its just the way she died that he's a little annoyed by. ( And why shouldn't he be honestly-- the girl threw her life away on the first nice guy she met at the mall just to make his work harder from his perspective, lmao ) BUT. In the comic version of that scene, Takaya does let himself be cut across the chest purely because he hesitated to shoot when he saw Chidori's spirit protecting Junpei. So... that might imply something.

However, if there is any greater evidence against any who claim that Takaya does not care about Jin especially... Takaya's final words, in multiple renditions of the story including the movies and Reload, are to say that he wishes Jin was with him as he died. If there is anyone that Takaya cared for, at least one single character in the entire game, it is above all Jin Shirato.

In the movies its very obvious, with the sad closeup shot of him looking beaten and washed up as he wishes Jin could be here to see it all end with him. I have the scene as an icon ! Look at how emotional the framing is !

So yeah, that's how I feel, it just drives me crazy when people remember Takaya as just Some Asshole lmao-- he IS an asshole! But he's no Chairman Ikutsuki, he has a lot of complexity to him beyond being the guy who killed Shinji, and not everything he does is black and white. There is highly plausible reason to believe Takaya cared for both of them in his own way, but the ever loyal, best friend, Jin Shirato, especially so. }}

[alicesought]

{{ Hello I'm scrubbing through clips today and I always love this part lmao I also think its the one time he curses pfft }}

[phasmascript]

Idk if I’ll be on tonight, not only because of all that- just works got me down in the dumps

[omegamascot]

[[ I will be sleeping soon, but Imagine with me........ Mr. Omega getting attached to a customer that comes in to talk to him enough. worrying events may happen the second he's pulled off his customer service mode

I kinda write this blog like the store itself so far, his first layer is all business! He is just doing what he's made for! Have an Omega Day !!

But then beneath that there's so many layers of The Horrors™ for both you and him too tbqh lol ]]

[sunrisc-slcycr]

Psssh, Hey. Like this for a Plotting / Starter Call!

[principle-blood]

I LOVE that you have a blog for brother blood, weird question tho…Do you accept request about any (within reason) headcanon questions?

[[ HI BTW this ask is literally a year old, but I just wanted to answer this to vaguely gesture at everyone that yes!! You are !! Welcome to send headcanons asks or asks for him to answer in character at any time !

Ask him about his students, ask him about the teen titans, his weird past, whatever !

I have not been active but I've honestly been silently lurking and poking my head in on this blog for months, sorry for the lack of posting though :') ]]

[winguhiro]

tags!

[devilgcd]

So I had to deal with IRL crap. It always rears its ugly head when I am not prepared. Though it did allow me to catch up to current episodes of the drama with my character in it.

Usually I have love for the female lead but the story so far has me rather cold towards the main female lead. Which is strange for me.

[mikko-lyn]

i drew angel... :)

[heaven-said]

{{ SO I know I said I was sick but I am um.... Very sick now I am Dying now of... Some kind of illness. So I will have to only do whatever my brain lets me do,,, threads that require a lot of thought-- you don't even want me doing them ok. They will not be any good. I literally couldn't remember my birthday earlier ahgksdkhgsd }}

[revclver-jesus]

{{ me quietly chuckling in a dark corner every time someone says they have a verse just for being on team strega }}

[alicesought]

{{ It was actually this little lighthearted moment when you first spy on him with his pawns that made me like his character so quickly in the first place dsgkdsk }}

[phasmascript]

Like for some Halloween themed asks! Maybe kiddos trick or treating