#plot tag: pacing

[fujii-draws]

Thinking about a future arc pipeline with these two.

[hyakunana]

The Former Most Miserable Man That Ever Stepped in DGP is found saving the future with a shield and FIVE CHAINSAWS

[ask-the-roommate-au]

Keeping the killcode a secret until you loose control and end up hurting Sun… You really do take after Moon, Eclipse.

Shut up.

[agendratum]

mixtape: oh leave skzflix 🎥

[thegreatyin]

And thus, with the passing of 24 hours, Caeru's ambition truly comes to an end. Major Nemesis spoilers below the cut- we're talking endgame ambition business here. Mostly on a character RP front.

The Doomed Scientist made quite a few... choice decisions, in the end. Killing Cups once and for all, recording his story as one of grief-

And sparing what little remained of Mr Mirrors, leaving it free to roam Parabola as it sees fit.

Some of them, he can explain. Others, he's still left to feel... discontent.

Cups needed to die. That much was certain from the start. It was a tyrant, as all Masters are, and complicit in the bargaining and eventual destruction of four (potentially five) cities, as all Masters are. It was an obstacle. A murderer. A petty monster that felt no remorse even on its deathbed, and it went out of its way to ruin multiple lives just because it felt owed its own sick and twisted idea of revenge.

It killed his first love. It looked him in the eyes and he knew what it had done and he knew from the start it was going to die.

Perhaps, in the end, it knew too. And yet it still pleaded, and wanted to live, and-

It made a bargain.

A bargain Caeru didn't take.

Not because he didn't want to. Gods, he wanted to. He wanted it. He wanted it more than anything else in the world. To have Greylu back, to give him the gift of life, of love, to show him the wonders of the Neath and the beauty of the correspondence and all of the people Caeru has met and loved and found home with along the way-

But. He couldn't.

Because Cups was a monster. And no matter what, it deserved to die. And he could not, in good conscience, allow it to live.

Even if sparing it meant everything he's ever wanted.

So he's left here, now. With a bloodied traveling coat, and a bloodsoaked knife, and a favor finally fulfilled.

And nothing to live for. No resurrected lover, no charming visits to Helicon, no slow dances in the living room, no memories to rebuild and lives to live and he won't live again-

Nothing. All he has is a coat born of obligation, not to his love, but to people he's never even met. To lives he's never even touched. To a paramour, still alive, with hair of rose-pink, who doesn't even remember her own brother's existence.

Cups didn't die for Caeru's sake. Cups died for the sake of all who wanted it dead. For the revenger's court, and the ghost screaming in his ear, and the reckoning that will not be postponed indefinitely.

And Caeru, who acted as a tool to carry out their wills? Who all but betrayed his own lover, just to satisfy a cause he never knew existed?

All Caeru is left with, is regret. Regret-

-And grief.

[iinryer]

ok taking it out of tags bc i keep seeing “WHY would they cut that!!” — honestly? it’s more than likely just a contracted screen time thing. because i guarantee no one looked at that scene and was like “hmmm. not important enough” and tossed it on the chopping block. it’s a good scene! clearly they think it’s a good scene if they released it anyway!

sorry to bring a production perspective to the storytelling zone, but it was only a ten episode run. they haven’t done one that short since the pilot season, and there are so many more characters now, FULLY established characters. plus, at the end of the day: it’s a job. certain actors are contracted for certain types and amounts of screen time and, no matter what they film, that has to be fulfilled in the final cut 🤷

i also desperately wish they could have kept it in the show, it was such a great moment! but i promise it is sooooo not that serious. and tbh im glad to be getting the bonus scenes that they obviously wished they’d been able to include!

[zara-renata]

Taking out my utter frustration with having to negotiate with a shitty American company that completely disregards the etiquette of redlining drafts and isn't even funding our full costs by working away at the next part of the Sylus series while I wait for their no-doubt rude response, and it's almost at 10k now. If I end it here, it will end on a sad note that i did not set out to write at the beginning, but apparently this is where we are now. I can't decide if I should really end it here and start on a fully wrought higher note in the next part, or provide relief at the end of this part but flesh out the relief in more exposition at the beginning of the next part. I don't want each part to be so big that they feel like they drag.

[sir-dahlia]

no but like. listen. i know a lot of people have made points about Jimmy not seeing Anya at all and giving her zero respect but like. what drives me absolutely bonkers is the fact that we don't even see Anya die. not in like a literal sense because obviously she locked herself Medical but metaphorically. Jimmy doesn't see her. he REFUSES to see her. Daisuke goes into the vent and we hear him discover Anya's body but Jimmy doesn't even comment on it. when Jimmy is searching for mouthwash to "disinfect" Daisuke's wounds and he walks into Medical, her body is covered up with static. he doesn't linger on it for a single moment and it's just like. URGRHSHGHAGIUGUGUHHH

AND THE NEXT TIME WE SEE HER she's gone. she's dead she overdosed there's nothing more about it her life ended she's gone. that's it. we're forced to move on because Jimmy moves on before her death is even revealed. i'm LITERALLY nauseous what the FUCK he did not CARE JIMMY I'M PUNCHING YOU DIRECTLY IN THE FACE

[whirlwindofcomplications]

putting my f1 pride and prejudice au out in the world bc at some point i was like jenson button?? jenson BINGLEY??? they're both blond. clearly this is fate. and then never looked back

so jenson as bingley, and then mark as darcy of course. this makes sebastian elizabeth, and then nico jane. to me this meant that all their siblings had to be blondes, and either german or finnish (their parents are michael and mika, mika being mrs bennet for. reasons).

kimi's kitty, valterri's mary (now valerie) and mick is lydia (now marceline). these are their 'formal' names - for the ease of understanding for the f1 fan, the sisters will, in informal settings, be referred to as kimi, val, and mick, respectively.

georgiana is george simply for naming reasons, and i have not yet figured out who bingley's sister should be.

the one guy cringe enough to be mr collins? fernando. (vettonso snark my beloved) also mr collins falling over backwards bc of darcy's connections to de bourgh? webbonso... and mr collins basically aiming to take over mr bingley's estate? michael vs fernando let's go!

so lady catherine de bourgh? lady flavia de bourgh. unfortunately sir lewis de bourgh IS lewis my man is literally not in the narrative but he's still suffering because i married him off to flavio briatore of all people. i'm not sorry.

I decided to just. not have the lydia and wickham plot because the only person i could actually decide on being wickham was. DC. on account of wickham once being friends with darcy and then the betrayal and all. and him and mick? no. so if anyone has any other suggestions please!! i do not know david coulthard like that i have no idea how im going to write him TT currently wickham’s dastardliness is exposed through other means and sweet micolas is safe <3

but marceline seems to be awfully close to her friend caelia... (callum illott) she elopes to london with her, and threatens michael to run away to america if they make her marry some guy instead of letting her be with the love of her life. sico convince their parents that since they're marrying darcy and bingley, marceline’s future is secured, so pas de problem. homophobia who?

still not decided on how im going to incorporate the whole 'the sisters need to get married bc #society and #inheritance' (omegaverse? genderbend? suspense of belief?) i did come up with the rest of the sisters names so at this point i do want to use them...

[allgremlinart]

just remembered that s2 of natla wont have any more Jee Cut 😔

[doerot]

Many such cases of adding a third fucked up guy into the mix to make me actually interested in a ship

[eliasdrid]

I thought I'd need two but turns out you can fit one of Kamen Rider 1's henshins from Kamen Rider The First in one GIF

[plusultraetc]

426

guys don’t worry dabi will be fine when shigaraki returns somehow with both aspects of overhaul instead of just decay he can use it to heal him and spinner and toga and be the league’s hero also kurogiri is fine

[samuelroukin]

20 pages of notes/rambling to myself for tdhmt lmao why did this get so complicated 💀

[daphnalia]

tori was fucking awesome but giving hermie/anthony/the literal joker a 4 is factually incorrect

[fuzzydreamin]

Y'know, when they cut that guys head off in the show I really thought he would be ending up as a robobrain or something. I thought the McGuffin was him; his brain. That he had knowledge from his time working with the Enclave that he wanted to turn over to help regular wastelanders. I thought the thing he injected in himself was to help keep his brain alive if the rest of his body got destroyed by something in the wastes.

Instead he was just... a purse. A purse to carry a pre-war bit of technology/McGuffin that could have been gotten from anywhere else, because there's no real info on how he/the Enclave actually got that... They just... had it. And no info on why he would defect and want to hand it to Moldaver, or how he even knows her in the first place... (Sure, she was pre-war and Vault-tec bought out the technology... that doesn't actually explain anything and just raises more questions.)

Anyway... this is just leading into how the entire plot of this show and everything around Moldaver (IE, the entire show again) does not make one lick of sense. It all just... happens without cause. People just know each other. People just have shit. No explanations or backgrounds. No why or how. Just. Things happen.

Man, is my disappointment in this show immeasurable.

Not even touching on the guy's name. Don't need to. You all know.