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my favourite writing device is having an un-Rei-liable narrator
#rei#volo#cheren#// tikposting#// character meta#the crowd booes me off the stage#forgive the pun XDDD his name is too easy to pun on#the way i write it it's not a conscious choice. it's just how the pov character (rei) experiences and contextualises the world#revealing backstory and personality and mindset through narration !!!!#not necessarily out of malice it's just. how he views things#interpreting new and foreign experiences through the lens of what came before...#conversations which read differently to different people.#in the context of rei that's stuff like unease around authority figures#always choosing his words carefully to project an image of competence (he has to be needed)#distrust and not taking things at face value but also paradoxically a fragile and nurtured sense of almost blind optimism#when it comes to friendships. like volo. (everyone turned on me when the sky turned red but it all resolved itself in the end didn't it?)#(what makes this different? / a lot of things. / i choose to believe)#volo [directly]: “i won't be stopped from my goal” rei thoughts: we can work with this!!!!#and everything with Arceus too and his divine blessings and a plan that will work out in the end#if Rei can just... figure out what part he's meant to play. interpreting events as a narrative hurtling towards some unknown conclusion#i am talking about rei here specifically but this writing device is so good in general#would be fun to try get inside volo's head. there's so much going on there i don't understand yet#quite fond of that one analysis post about how volo lacks emotional intelligence and sees relationships as transactions#not necessarily out of malice it's just how he views things. whether because of past experience or brain chemistry#also need to give a shout to cheren my guy who is an outsider pov who projects his own experiences onto new things so that he Understands#(an outsider to Hilbert and N's clash of truth and ideals. life changing experience and knowledge but felt just a little off to the left)#(the narrative repeated again with new heroes. all he can do is help them but it falls on their shoulders in the end)#(no wonder he tries to insert himself into Situations)#anyway tag ramble over feel free to also ramble to me about your takes XD#rei pokemon
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okay guys im gonna need some input because i think about this everytime i go to listen to any Shadow theme song and it drives me insane
Shadow has a lot of songs that could be 'his theme song' but no one (SEGA) can decide which... so im putting it to the fandom.
Little do you all know i have a very strong opinion about this and i will be judging your choices /hj
also drop your opinions in the reblogs or comments im genuinely curious
I was gonna add Throw it All Away but these two are the ones everyone loves to use to its out of these ones lol
#shadow the hedgehog#sonic x shadow generations#sonic prime#sonic the hedgehog#sonadow#trying to tag all of the shadow things for reach lmao#heres my opinion: All Hail Shadow IS NOT SHADOWS SONG.#I Am All of Me is RIGHT THERE. and so is like ... literally any of the other songs that came from Shad05..#like oh idk... The Chosen One... literally one of the best songs to come from this franchise....#yeah yeah we all worship Shadow because hes amazing but THATS JUST NOT HIM ANYMORE... or dare i say ever.#HES NOT AN ASSHOLE HES MISUNDERSTOOD AND SUFFERING#also dude the lyrics of All Hail Shadow pisses me offfffff aaaaaaughh#when used outside of its original context it just doesn't do Shadow's character justice#all hail shadow heroes rise again... sure but obliterating everything thats not your friend??? shut the fuck up#sorry okay this is long im gonna post this now fnjsdaghjf
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He's not someone who is trusted. Not as Batman, and not even as Bruce Wayne. Day Two - Identity Porn.
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics) Pairing(s): Justice League & Bruce Wayne Words: 4,678 Chapters: 1/1
( for @brucewayneweek )
#brucewayneweek2023#batman#bruce wayne#dc comics#my stuff#bruce get therapy challenge honestly#honestly most 'identity porn' stuff in my drafts is more along the lines of 'batfam meets justice league'#because it's really funny to imagine other heroes dealing with them with no outside context#(imagine watching a storyline like under the red hood unfold with no background information or supplemental reading)#(just this teenage crime lord beating up on the gotham bat demon who is currently going through a full crisis about it)#(that would be whack to deal with)#so i just made something more bruce centric that turned into a realization that this man has ISSUES#which we already know he does but goddamn his head is a messy place to be
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begging people to learn the difference between “other characters disagreed with this decision” and “the writers disagreed with this decision”
#or if you’re going to make claims like this. provide examples#i’m not going to pretend the writers don’t have bias but god. people really like to read author intention into everything#i don’t hate anders but man the way some people talk about him is insane#‘the writers are so mean to him :(‘ yes because thats how the story moves forward. it’s called character motivation. hope that helps#and the idea that he’s punished for it goes around a lot but like. it’s totally possible to let him run away scot free#that is an option the game provides. i think if the writers rly thought he was irredeemable it wouldn’t be there. you can’t spare meredith#are you upset that there is the Option to punish him. or that other characters disagree with him. what exactly are we pointing to#you can’t just say shit#i have my own disagreements abt how the mage templar conflict doesn’t work as well outside the context of kirkwall#but because of that. because the scope is broader and stakes are different. i don’t see why they owe him anything tbh#because realistically it’s the annullment that causes the other circles to rebel? the fact that innocents were punished for it??#like i’m not saying the writing is perfect but#is he ‘punished’ because he’s not universally hailed as a hero#for doing something extremely controversial. come on man#other characters will have opinions on that too#that doesn’t reflect on the writers’ own opinions. not everything is a self insert#yknow what i’m feeling brave lol. send poast.#mine
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The fattest origami crane Alvi has ever seen will fall in front of him. It’s made of a stack of papers as Artem sent a lengthy letter about their Recent Life events
At first, Alvi finds themself excited to receive such a detailed letter. This soon changes as he reads the contents. He is glad and guilty over the results staining his hands. They are concerned over the abandoned boy Artem and Bugboi are looking after, and, though they resist the feeling at first, end up lamenting over all these changes.
Alvi learns in this moment that one can be glad for a friend while also being jealous. It feels like a sickness that almost matches how he fell ill after his first murder. The crane carries the changing scent of Artem's home that they will soon leave behind, and he fears being left behind too. They have watched their friend open their home to a lover and children, and cannot help but wish that they had a place in it(or, at least, in some family's crowded, loving life).
His mind wanders to future Artem, how they cared for him but didn't seem to count him as family, and how they discussed moving his friends and the children to the future for safe keeping. He notes that he wasn't invited, and accepts that their lives are bigger than him. They remind himself that they expected something like this might happen when coming to grips with their aromantisicm anyway. It would have been easier to take if he didn't realize he wanted to be a part of their family the same moment they understood that he likely never would be.
Wiping a face wet from crying, Alvi composes themself enough to write a congratulatory note, thanking both their friend for the update and the stars that Artem's nose was too weak to pick up on the scent of both cinnamon and tears. He sents the message, grabbing Tank and placing him in bed with a book. As Alvi joins him, he pointedly ignores the letter he was going to send to Art and resolves to try to expand his heart in the morning.
#(What morning alvi? there is no outside)#artem#future artem#(part of this is bad communication but also frankly one needs to be invited to have that kind of place in someone's life)#(tank is a cool lil guy though he'll keep alvi company until they are ready to meet new people tomorrow)#anon#(for context alvi had been starting to get closer to art but views art as a confirmation that not much changes)#(his second self hadn't transpired much yet and art likes to be coy)#(oops! feelings got hurt. friends feel isolated. alvi now figures he has done his job by keeping the family safe and should give them space)#(to thrive while he looks for a family of his own)#(you gotta remember he lives in a pocket dimension. if he gets hurt there no one can find him or hear him cry for help)#(he is acutely aware of this anytime he even looks at a kitchen knife)#(alvi doesn't want to be a byronic hero anymore)
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The Megaman Battle Network experience is thinking you are going through the main plot of the story, beating up a bunch of really tough enemies and gathering some good chips…
Only to realize you are not in fact following the main story and have instead just went through a bunch of optional areas and your chips are kind of op for where you’re at.
#megaman#mega man#mmbn#mmbn1#megaman battle network#for context i didn’t know you had to talk to a bunch of people to gather all of the w3 codes#i only talked to Higsby and basically grabbed the knight sword and hero sword and got stuck#i then had to look up where to go only to realize the story needed me to find 3 people outside#ive been trying to play this game blind but i literally had to cave bECAUSE THEY REALLY DON’T MAKE IT CLEAR ON WHERE TO GO#bassforte ramblings
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on one hand i really wanna see surge and kit calm down and get better because theyve been through so much and they deserve a break but on the other theyre some of the only villains in this comic i actively enjoy reading about and am not just indifferent to and if they ever switch sides i will have to go back to being bored as hell with a lot of the stuff that focuses on the villains
#the thing about new characters in idw sonic is that i love all the like. hero characters#like tangle and whisper and belle#but i just dont really care for the new villains that much. starline is kinda neat i guess but#i dont really care about him that much outside of the context of the surge and kit stuff#and i dont care about mimic at all and i always forget that rough tumble and clutch exist at all#and theyre not FROM the comics but they were the main villains of a certain arc but i dont care for the deadly six either#also eggman is a fun villain of course but he doesnt really count in this discussion hes in everything#i only mentioned the deadly six because they were in like one game and were brought back in idw sonic
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Today in "I think I'm funny"...
Before I share, 2 important points of context:
In British parlance, a fag is a cigarette
In the Haven's Ember AU, Baurus is gay and American
Tears slid down Aderyn's face, splotching her jeans dark blue. Her shoulders shivered. Her chin shook. "God, I need a fag," she said, voice wavering as she swiped at her face. Baurus held his arms open. "I'm right here." "T-that's a f–fucking awful p-pun," Aderyn said, as she curled into his embrace.
#writing#hero of kvatch#oc aderyn griffiths#Baurus#modern oblivion au#wip 'the ruby falls'#haven's ember series#tes oblivion#TESFic#oblivion fanfiction#oblivion fanfic#The Elder Scrolls#oblivion#wandering words#Housemate also laughed when she read it so I'm at least a little vindicated 😅️#further context if needed - Aderyn is finally getting to have her breakdown about blowing up the Mythic Dawn command center outside Kvatch#so Baurus is trying to make her laugh a little
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Who is the Tails Polycule favorite sonic?
So as far as the Prime Polycule au goes, the only Sonic they've met is Prime!Sonic (who in this au is sort of combined with Modern!Sonic and IDW!Sonic). This kind of means that despite being in a polycule there is some lowkey background fighting over Prime Sonic that's inevitable😂😅
As for an version of the au where Sonic variants exist, sadly I haven't yet done too much thinking for potential Sonic variants. But for what I have so far, I'd say just about everyone in the polycule would prefer their own Sonic/Sonic variant
Except for Nine (lol). He prefers Prime!Sonic over the two versions of New Yoke!Sonic that exist in my head (one is a take from an au I've been working on with someone else, and that Sonic is a major dick. the other is from @phantom-fleetways's au, where New Yoke Sonic is basically just a paycheck to paycheck disabled guy living in a bachelor pad)
#prime polycule au#prime polycule#tailscest#sonic the hedgehog#sonic prime#saitaininegy#tails the fox#miles tails prower#miles nine prower#nine sonic prime#nine the fox#mangey the fox#miles mangey prower#mangey sonic prime#sails the fox#sails sonic prime#miles sails prower#anon interview#i just be ramblin#to clarify a bit further without really spoiling any au stuff#AU version A of New Yoke Sonic is a bit of a menace. He's pretty much a state (chaos council) funded 'hero' who gets a kick out of fighting#Nine (the only person he considers interesting enough to fight)#So even though he and Nine would have a lil somethin it's more of a enemies who are obsessed with each other deal. So Nine wouldn't prefer#him as a fun Sonic or comforting Sonic to be around or have a future with#AU version B of New Yoke Sonic is aggressively normal and deals with depression/anxiety (I want to say). He self medicates for undiagnosed#neurodivergency in his bachelor pad and outside the context of the au he was made for would have been unlikely to cross paths with Nine#And even if he had he'd probably have to do some work and be genuinely nice to impress Nine#Just in case since they haven't talked about it yet#I did ask phantom-fleetways before talking about their au#au musings
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JD kin mood of the day is wondering why NONE of the superheroes/supervillains wear masks in their routines.
Panini and Kaboom Pow had masks. Fix and thatPower Ex had masks. Hairman's crew had masks. Why? (Keep Your Head Down) had a mask. They had full face masks to hide their identities. UBISOFT WHERE ARE THEIR MASKS.
#ratmans lunacy#Like... Okay for context: Panini + Kaboom Pow + Fix + thatPower Ex all knew each other outside of hero/villain stuff#They kept their identities hidden so well that the sad truth didnt come out until Fix and thatPower were finally defeated#THEY ALL WENT TO RASPUTIN AND THE BRIDE'S WEDDING AND DIDNT FIGURE IT OUT
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#poetry#Letting it stand alone#Isn't it weird how pictures of text do way bettter than text alone?#Yes it is weird#I think this is less true on Tumblr#but it's true everywhere#I've measured#Other weird stuff like a follow-on comment exclaiming how much they like it also helps but I hate including those#I like letting it stand alone#and then typing a million tags but that's more something I have to do sometimes#Kind of wish I could hide the tags behind a cut but hey most of them are so that's cool#this was posted in the context of voting and otherwise trying to unfuck things being ungently reamed by the political climate worldwide#which maybe was always this bad I wouldn't know#I saw a post the other day about a plug-in that would filter things on multiple (not Tumblr) websites to help cut out politics#and some were mad about it because politics are important#and others were frustrated because USA-centricism means they're innundated with stuff about Ohio and they're in Bacharach#and probably their voter registration being yanked from under their feet a week ago isn't a thing that happened if they're in Germany#we're all just microbes inhabiting forests of mold on the outside of a dessicated tangerine#and we should make the most of it and help our fellow living things do the same#so that means I think we shouldn't just remember the children#but also the cats and the beetles and the coral reefs and even#perhaps#our neighbors#whom it's hard to love sometimes but so many of them have lovable aspects#and they're each the hero of their own story and they're each unreliable narrators and it's not something we can overcome easily#hang in there neighbor#I'll put out as much of the fire as I can
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what the FUCK Adrien?
ok so let’s start here with this gif. We all like to laugh about this, right? How Adrien climbs his fucking rock wall to tackle Plagg out of the air? Shout out the small badass Adrien moment since he does this hard part of the wall like a goddamn spider monkey w/o any harnesses and shit?
well I was looking at a photo of Adrien’s room for reference and I noticed…something.
See how he’s climbing up? Directly up? Look at the angle of his body, he’s going directly up. But look at this from a different angle. See what’s directly below him?
That’s right it’s the fucking scoreboard. This kid HAD TO FIRST GET ACROSS HIS WALL, CLIMB ON THE SCORE BOARD, THEN UP ON tHE WALL. EXCEPT THERE AREN’T REALLY ANY FOOT HOLDS THERE.
what the fuck Adrien????
oh but wait. there’s more.
The purple arrow points to where he disappeared at. The green arrow is Plagg’s line of sight. Adrien somehow turned around up there (and the wall seems to be pretty flat against the wall) and fucking POUNCED on Plagg.
what the fuck, Adrien? You cat.
WAIT. IT GETS BETTER.
After pouncing on Plagg like a goddamn lion or some shit….he landed on the couch.
And casually as you fucking please. No bounce, no roll, no pain. Just plop.
EXCEPT HE WAS ON TOP OF THE RED PART OF THE ROCK WALL. WHICH MEANS….
in conclusion:
WHAT THE FUCK ADRIEN!?
#miraculous ladybug#adrien agreste#plagg#gif#meta#god there's a fic i can't remember#where someone does the math on this and just goes 'what the fuck'#'for a guy obsessed with his son's safety why would this be a feature in that bedroom'#...#right#it was#tony stark#fanfic rec#(tangenting this is a good fic that notably avoids the 'outside context hero swans in and solves everything with their series')#(common sense' problem while still being curious abt the hypothetical physics and metaphysics involved)#(but anyway)#i think adrien and marinette off to the side of their epic romance vibe so strongly by way of being just.#completely nuts#staggeringly competent#tremendously lonely#which might be a prerequisite for the taijitu miraculi come to think of it
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Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:
A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika
Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard
The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes
We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded
A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room
A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men
An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted
Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article
The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires
Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines
A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs
A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help
Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"
Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules
A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen
A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds
A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn
Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.
A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it
Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.
The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery
Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.
A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat
Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion
A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing
Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it
A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."
A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies
A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass
Dracula makes a bed
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Eliot Spencer. Listen to me i am obsessed with the man. He is so incredibly stereotypically masculine, and hardcore so, yet at the same time really isn't in ways that would be damning for the 2000s and early 2010s. Long hair, not unusually tall, the most emotionally aware one and most in tune with his emotions on the whole team. (Not that the others don't also have points in that area, but they're all terrible at it in some way and Eliot scores by far the most points.) He has a hobby that's not James Bond like (cooking), and he gets to be goofy while being unquestioned as the most badass guy in the room. And yes he makes inappropriate jokes about lesbians and goes all no homo at physical affection from other men, and younger people probably don't find him quite as monumental as i do in terms of masculinity. But his behaviour never reflects those jokes or the no homo, and he was the red blooded american former military guy character on a big network tv show in the year 2009. For which he was a severely mild case. He treats the other characters as people and not stereotypes, in the way the whole show does, and he has long hair he puts up in ponytails and half buns that have his side bangs falling out (you need to understand what big of a deal the manbun was in like 2013, so much so that they had to invent a word). He's emotional and doesn't actually mean his gruffness most of the time, and doesn't thinks himself above certain tasks or people. He wears ridiculous little outfits without putting up a show about his threatened masculinity, and he's the most emotionally intelligent one outside of cons. He wears little jewellery in his hair sometimes, and little braids even (yes braided hair was a no go), he plays guitar and sings earnest love songs not just to try to get laid (love songs would only be permissible in the immediate context of romance), and whenever they have a young woman as a client, that reminds him of home i presume, he works with so much effort and respect for them as the one he's in service to, and respects their opinion strongly. He wears glasses, and reads books and is way too nerdy for an action hero type of the 2010s. He is great with kids, and unironically so (there were multiple big shows and movies about the topic of "men needing to deal with children on their own" with the entire premise of that being ridiculous and them being naturally bad at it). He's the most stereotypically action hero type masculine guy on the show, and he does get strive or posture for power or dominance in their team, is content with a contributing role and trusting on the expertise of the others, and he is not portrayed as the most valuable one or as that behaviour being beneath him. He undresses so he and the woman he's fighting with are on equal ground reading undress. He is shorter than the others and continuously portrayed as the most dangerous one in any room, and height differences afe never deemphasised via cinematography (seriously, to be regarded as sufficiently masculine in western films they either get really tall actors or employ a variety of camera angles and boxes to give that impression. But just think of Eliot in the pilot when rescuing Hardison in the first break in, standing behind the group of security guys who all look way taller than him and more physically impressive with weapons and all. And then Eliot just in a t-shirt with no weapon but himself.) He has long hair (again, mainstream sufficiently masculine guys didn't do that back then, or now if we think of it (not that long at least)).
The show and all it's characters were a goddamn marvel back in 2009, and sadly in many ways still are today, 15 years later.
And he heals my little broken heart regarding gender stereotypes and masculinity, my heart that grew up in the 2000s and has so much difficulty accepting that my gender is valid. Bless him for it.
#own post#eliot spencer#leverage#trans man#i seriously wouldn't wish the rigid gender roles of back then on anyone#like the saying goes they would call you gay and revoke your masculinity card if you used lotion on cracked skin#not that it isn't often an issue today still
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You Will Stop the Wedding! - Idia Shroud
SUMMARY: YOU were the one being kidnapped by Princess Eliza to marry her. How would he react and how would he save you? With the aggravation of he already having a crush on you.
CHARACTERS: Idia Shroud x Reader
TAGS: Fluff; GN Reader; Declaration
WORD COUNT: 1.710 words
Riddle Rosehearts / Leona Kingscholar / Azul Ashengrotto / Jamil Viper / Vil Schoenheit / Idia Shroud / Malleus Draconia
Rescuing You - Deuce Spade; Jack Howl; Floyd Leech; Kalim Al-Asim
COMMENTS: What have I done? Why did I commit to writing this? And why did I write so much? Why was I so inspired? There were seven of them! Why do I do this to myself? So yeah, this took me a long time. But I hope it was worth it, for me and for you.
CONTEXT: Someone was kidnapped to marry some ghost princess and might end up turning into a ghost too. And he just found out that someone was you.
Idia’s tablet was present at the Housewardens meeting. He didn’t really care about that kidnapping story. He even commented that he was just glad it wasn't him. It was because of things like this that he didn't leave Ignihyde, or his room.
So he asks, just out of curiosity, who was the poor person who was kidnapped anyways? He probably didn't know but he could later look at the students' profiles or something, if he was curious. When the Headmage says it was the prefect and your name, the sound of someone spitting out a drink can be heard through the tablet. And then a "Hep!" Idia had spat out the soda he was casually drinking. And then he was afraid he had spat near a cable or something.
When they asked if he was okay, he said yes, everything was fine, it was just... Ortho scared him or something... Since they couldn't see him, he began to silently panic.
When they decide on the rescue plan and are choosing candidates for the groups, he doesn't say anything, he is petrified by the amount of negative thoughts in his head. So, Ortho is the one who offers Idia to be part of the last group. Idia comes back to reality in panic and babbles very quickly. Ortho asks permission from the people on the other side of the tablet and mute the call for a momento.
Then he turns Idia's chair so that he is facing him and he looks at his older brother very seriously. He knows that Idia likes you and that's why he has to be part of the rescue teams. Being part of the last one is perfect because if any of the others manage to save you, he might just be relieved. But if they fail, he can study the failed attempts to create the best strategy to save you.
Idia ends up saying that Ortho is right and that he will be on the last team. But in his head, he's praying it doesn't come to that. He doesn't trust himself to save you.
But unfortunately for him, that's what ends up happening. And when they are preparing the last team, he tries to dodge it. Ortho gets confused and mutes the tablet to talk to Idia.
Ortho says this is his chance to save you, like a true hero. But that's when Idia says he's no hero. That if it depends on him, things will most likely turn out even worse than humanly possible, and because of him you will end up dying even faster. And this is where Ortho asks him a heartbreaking question: "Are you going to at least try to save (Y/N) while you can, or are you just going to skip into designing a new robot?" Idia looks at him with wide eyes. “There is still time. There is still hope. Don't waste it.”
During the way to the ceremony room, Idia tries to stay behind and offers to stall the ghost guards, but whoever his team-mates were, they either offered to stall the guards first or said that he was the one who should get to the wedding and save you. Again, to an outsider it might seem like he didn't want to save you, but the truth is that he didn't trust himself to save you.
Despite everything, he is the only one who arrives at the ceremony room. And when everyone looks at the person who just entered, he petrifies. The princess asks who he is and what he is doing there. He puts his fists to his chest like he normally does when he's scared.
“I I I I... um... a-am here to... s-stop... the w-wedding?” The princess asks, confused, if that was a question. “W-well... more or less... I mean, my main objective is to stop the marriage, yes, but as I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it, on the contrary, my biggest chances are of ruining everything, so it ends up being just an attempt, so it was indeed a question instead of an affirmation.” He ended up speaking so quickly that the ghosts barely understood half of what he said. He sighs.
“So you're here to stop the wedding.” The princess says. "Why?"
He starts to stumble over the words to respond, then, somehow, the ghosts understand that he is trying to find an excuse to deceive the princess and attack him.
He turns out to reveal himself to be quite capable of defeating the guards with magic. Getting to the point where he started to see it as a game and the smug Idia took the place of the shy Idia. He even says a few lines like "Do you really think you can stop me with those weak attacks?" or “Even smaller enemies on easy mode are harder to defeat than this.” and “Aw, are the gwosts taied aweady?” But all his smugness disappears when one of the guards turns into a giant ghost. Against this one, Idia ends up losing.
The princess approaches him and slaps Idia. “I'm not going to say I didn't deserve it.” he says. “Wait... wasn't I supposed to be petrified? I'm still moving, aren't I? Or was the slap so hard that I passed out and I'm dreaming that I'm moving?”
Everyone gasps, including the princess. When the guards ask what's going on, the princess says it can only mean one thing. Her slap is capable of petrifying anyone, except those who have already found their true love. The reaction from all NRC students is like "What the F-?!" And Idia's reaction is to, involuntarily, turn his hair almost completely pink.
“Wow wow wow! True love is a very strong pair of words.” he says “Besides I don't even believe in that.”
The princess is shocked, a little like the guards, and like a delusional person obsessed with finding true love, she asks Idia why he said that.
Idia starts talking about the brain chemicals that are released to make us feel what people call love. Which is nothing more than a chemical reaction in our body. But the princess doesn't understand anything and says she will prove to him that true love exists by marrying you and taking you to “live” happily ever after with her.
“WAIT! NO!” he screams, scared “Fine, fine. It is true love, whatever, just don't take them.” The princess asks why not? “Because I don't want to lose anyone else! I can't lose one of the only people I care about again! Take me then! I don't care. Just let (Y/N) go!”
Sacrificing yourself to save the person you love? What a true act of love the princess says that is! The greatest proof of love anyone could give. How she wished she had someone like that for herself too. And this was the opportunity that the guard who was in love with her found to declare himself and say that he would give his life for her, after all, technically, he had already done so. And that whole ending of the princess realizing that she loved him too happens, they get married and happily ever after.
After all that problem is over, you don't find Idia. But Ortho appears and hugs you, happy that you're okay. And then takes your hand to take you to his brother. He takes you outside, where Idia was waiting for him, but not for you. When he sees you, the ends of his hair turn pink. Ortho leaves you with his brother, wishes you good luck, says he's meeting Idia in Ignihyde, turns on the turbo at his feet and disappears.
He turned his back to you when Ortho left. “Oh yeah, um, it's getting late, I have to go back to Ignihyde...” You'll have to be the one to stop him if you want to talk to him about what happened. The moment he turns around and looks at you, the ends of his hair will turn pink again. “W-w-what?”
If you start talking to him about how he saved you, or at least how he was probably the most important part of your rescue, he'll tell you not to be ridiculous, that he didn't do anything. The ghosts just started having a strange conversation about love and somehow the princess decided to exchange you for that guard. “An abrupt and sudden drop in standards, let me tell you that.”
He will try his best not to talk too much about what happened, unless you find a way to get him to talk. And the way you found to do this, in a way that wouldn't force him to do it, was to being the first to be honest about the matter.
You tell him how you felt when you saw him enter the ceremony room, how much you were rooting for him to be able to save you, how cool you thought he was while fighting the ghosts and, most importantly, how scared you were when he told the princess to take him instead of you. This boosted his confidence.
“Oh, that... I... Honestly, I didn't want to save you.” Before you could react, he continued speaking. “I was too scared of making everything worse. I couldn't be responsible for another...” he interrupts himself, to take a deep breath and speak quickly “Okay, fine, I admit it, I like you, and that's why I was so afraid of ruining everything. But I ended up having no other choice and I couldn't lose another person I love. Happy now? Was this what you wanted? A cliché declaration of love after a life threatening situation? Congratulations, you've unlocked one of the most old fashioned achievements in the game.” and seeing that you were smiling, he adds with the confidence he has suddenly switch on “Well, I hope you like the route you just got for yourself, because now there are no more saves to change your choices.”
Unfortunately for you, he's not the type to go in for a kiss after this. Unless... you’re the one doing it for him. A kiss that he will return with pleasure and confidence. And you will feel a new warmth coming from him, from his hair.
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The park flashback/scene where Tenko plays with Mikkun and Tomo-chan in Chapter 418 first takes place in early afternoon, as evidenced by the clock reading almost 2:00 PM.
The art in the scene confirms this: clear bright skies, and the shadows under the children are short.
However, the time in the scene changes after Mikkun and Tomo-chan tells Tenko he should be All Might (the moment Tenko decides he wants to be a Hero, as he tells his mom in Chapter 235). Suddenly it's evening: the clock shows 6:13 PM, and the sky darkening because it's nearing sunset.
When Shigaraki/Tenko thinks of the League, he and the League (and Deku) all have long shadows, the kind you see when the sun is low in the sky.
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The context:
Sunset is the time to go home. Children who have been playing outside, in playgrounds, at the park, are supposed to go home, to get back in time for dinner, back to their families.
In Japan, many cities and towns have a bell/chime/song that plays from public loudspeakers at around 5:00 PM. It's a daily test of an emergency broadcast system, but it has also come to be seen as the evening bell, a 'go home' signal, especially for children, telling them to go home before it gets dark.
In manga and anime, all these elements have become common imagery and symbolism, associated with each other: red-orangey colors, sunset, long shadows, the chime, children saying goodbye to their playmates for the day, the idea of home and return.
(from Mushishi)
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Putting it all together:
When the park scene first shows up, it's Tenko memory of playing with Mikkun and Tomo-chan, likely exactly how it had occurred in real life: it's early afternoon, the sun is shining bright, their shadows are short, they're at the park, they're playing Heroes, and when the kids tell Tenko that he should be All Might, Tenko is overjoyed.
But this isn't the scene 15-16 years ago; this is a memory. Tenko is also Shigaraki here. He has just had his core pried open by Deku, and given relief. The Crying Child has been symbolically saved, but the past, the massacre, the Walk still all happened.
So it's suddenly 6:13 PM, it's sunset now, because it's way past proper time (5:00 PM) to go home - because Shigaraki/Tenko can't go home to the Shimura house. It's too late. It's been long over.
Shigaraki/Tenko then looks away from Mikkun and Tomo-chan, to the side, and say, 'Nah' to their suggestion, because besides it being late, he also no longer wants to be All Might. He's deciding he's a Villain, he still holds malice and he still destroys.
So, the scene changes again to contains the League now, all six of them (plus Deku). They exist in this sunset time, hence their long shadows. They exist with current Shigaraki/Tenko, they exist in the now - and arguably, the League would be the home he would return to at sunset.
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Up to interpretation, of course, but the sunset/going home context is real.
Japanese tweets about it (translated):
[When Tenko got the words he wanted, his eyes lit up, but it was past time to go home so I'm guessing that means "it's too late."]
[It is just heartening that the League members are the place where Tomura would return to when it was "time to go home." I'm sobbing]
[In the scene where Tenko is at the park, the clock is already past 6:00 PM, the time when good kids go home, so if he had met Deku a little earlier, Deku might have been able to stop him, but this seems to show that they're past that stage now, which is good.]
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