#though the depressing side of this

[ridiasfangirlings]

Aw that theory of Munakata making himself Fushimi's legal guardian so Fushimi can work in s4. Imagine fushimi didn't know this was the case and finds out in a surprising way that legally, Munakata is his guardian/parent of sort.

I’m just imagining Munakata happily filling out all the forms to officially adopt Fushimi and Fushimi has absolutely no idea. Like imagine when Fushimi joins the force Munakata realizes that there may be some issue due to Fushimi’s age, while Munakata can get special dispensation as far as things like work hours go it could be troublesome if Fushimi ends up in the hospital, for example. He didn’t have these issues with Doumyouji because Doumyouji’s dad is former S4 and gave Munakata all required permissions but Munakata obviously has no contact with Kisa and should something come up he’s aware that this has the potential to be a problem. Therefore he decides the easier course of action is to have himself named as Fushimi’s official guardian, just in case. Since Fushimi’s underage (and Munakata has Connections) he doesn’t need to mention this to Fushimi, he simply handles the forms and that’s that.

So then one day imagine Fushimi is on a solo mission and gets injured, people nearby call an ambulance while he’s unconscious and he ends up in the hospital before he can object. Once he’s awake he’s arguing with the doctors about how he’s fine and he can get back to S4 by himself, the doctor tells him that they have to wait for his guardian to come pick him up. Fushimi gets this cold look as he says that won’t ever happen, ‘that woman’ wouldn’t come to get him even if he was dying. That’s when the nurse lets the doctor know that Fushimi’s guardian has arrived, the doctor gives this relieved sigh because he can finally get this kid to calm down. Fushimi is highly confused and his confusion is not relieved in the slightest when Munakata walks into his hospital room.

Munakata doesn’t answer anything about the guardian bit, just talks with the doctors and signs Fushimi out and leads him to a S4 van, telling him he’ll need to be on light duty for a few days and Munakata wants their own infirmary to look him over too. Fushimi finally can’t keep it in and blurts out ‘since when are you my guardian.’ Munakata smiles widely and says that as Fushimi is a minor of course he would need a guardian’s permission to do his work, so this was the simplest way around that. Fushimi gives him a look like when were you going to tell me this exactly and Munakata laughs, it must have slipped his mind. However as Fushimi’s official guardian he does hope Fushimi will take it easy for a few days, Fushimi clicks his tongue and claims Munakata is bad enough as his boss, he doesn’t need a parent too. 

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[moeblob]

My children are so stupid and I love them. The fact Right uses nicknames that are indeed Just Like That makes it even harder to differentiate which one needs to be eliminated. (Brent is pretty sure it's his head on the chopping block.)

[plein-air-on-gorkhon]

art vs the artist and a year in review (sort of) it's a 2for

2024! wow!! i actually finished about twice as much art as i thought i could but half as much as i wanted, well, small steps. amazingly, if you set clear and manageable goals, you can get things done, (previously thought to be) inconceivable! and i only gave myself tendonitis about five times. that's called progress

goals for 2025? continuing to try new things, finish some wips especially the 'vibrant autumn' mod and the amv, more character art, and if anyone out there wants to collaborate on a project that would be super welcomed :)

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[flying-cat]

I can't imagine being anywhere near as insane as Trump supporters because my dad told me that he, earlier, drove past a guy putting a "Harris Walz 2024" sign outside his house and decided to yell out at him "TRUMP 2024 YOU COCKSUCKER" and flip him off. And he laughed when he told me because he thinks that yelling at a man (emphasized man because he thinks men should be "better" than women, and "better" would be voting for Trump in this case) who is voting for a "whore who slept her way to the top" (his exact words) is funny. And expected me to laugh with him. And got angry when I didn't and just stared at him in disbelief. Even though he already knows that I don't like Donald Trump. These people fully expect others to find their weird ass derogatory words and behavior FUNNY. Donald Trump is leading a cult of old people who he brainwashed into being delusional with him.

[genericpuff]

yeah i don't think this is the kind of advertising rachel needs right now-

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

sits up in bed. so lana and ema definitely thought they were responsible for edgeworth "choosing death", right?

(the rest of this post was supposed to go in the tags, because it's not very well organised or written, but it got too long so. here are the slightly edited tags for your reading pleasure (or otherwise)):

i was going to make this solely about ema because she's the obvious one with her open adoration of edgeworth, but the thing about rfta is that it goes to great lengths to emphasise the connection between lana and edgeworth as well.

the sl-9 incident showed that lana grows attached to people deeply, hence angel starr's comment on how, when neil marshall died, 'she (lana) felt like her own brother had died.' with edgeworth, i think it was similar but worse. because he's not just a coworker or subordinate who's dear to her. he saved her life. and it cost him his own.

at the beginning of the case, edgeworth says he was mistaken for thinking that lana was always looking out for him post sl-9 (a statement interesting on its own because that's when everyone else says she grew distant), and, later on, he brings ema fingerprinting powder because lana asked him to. then, of course, there's the 'lady luck' comment he makes.

similarly, on lana's side, you obviously have the end of the trial when she says he did well, but there's also that additional moment post-trial where she's the only one to notice — in a group comprising her, ema, phoenix and gumshoe — that he's 'hiding', listening to their conversation. point is, there's enough to suggest that she might have been the nearest thing edgeworth had to a mia; his 'chief prosecutor' to phoenix's plain 'chief'. they're as close as two people can be in a relationship where one of them is constantly lying and the other is von karma's star pupil.

rfta is pretty straightforwardly depicted as the case which solidified edgeworth's resolve to do what he did; i don't think i have to prove that. rumours about him have reached new heights, his car and knife were involved in goodman's murder, he makes an unprecedented mistake in court by failing to connect the evidence room and carpark incidents, thus forcing the chief of police to enter the trial to do so himself, and he's publicly revealed to have relied on falsified evidence to secure a conviction in the sl-9 case, all of which only happened because of lana. jake marshall even claims that from the beginning — that if you trace edgeworth's rumours back to their source, you end up meeting one person: lana skye.

and it gets worse because at the end of rfta, she thinks he's fine!! she literally says, 'i was afraid the pressure would break you, but you rose above it,' and reminds him he's nothing like gant because he's not alone. she leaves the case thinking he will be okay. and then, what, like a week passes, and she finds out that he wasn't, and that he's gone, and it's her fault. even after she was freed from gant's control, even after she had finally stopped lying, she couldn't prevent herself from claiming another life. so much for 'lady luck', i suppose.

and the game reiterates this multiple times. gumshoe states at the start that edgeworth's ties to those higher up in the department have made him the subject of constant rumours, and phoenix says (in front of ema) that he shouldn't be held responsible for the forged evidence because that was all lana's doing, which then leads to edgeworth commenting (again in front of ema) that he feels as though 'something inside him has died.' it all goes back to lana. we can argue and say that it was technically gant's doing that caused all of this, but lana still took actions that led to it. even her complicated friendship with edgeworth isn't spared; it's that closeness between them that exacerbated those rumours. how could she not feel responsible in some way?

and with ema, it's rather obvious, isn't it? if she hadn't gone poking her nose into things, none of this would have happened or come to light. and, of course, she'd never choose anyone over her sister, not for anything in the world — it's simply not a question, but that's the problem, isn't it? it's not a question. it's not some hypothetical moral dilemma. it just is. she may not have killed neil marshall, but she still has one king of prosecutor's blood on her hands. and now she has to live with that. she just. has. to live with it. no matter if he chose otherwise.

moving on from that a little, i think it's actually wild how much of ema's journey to becoming a forensics investigator is paved with bad memories. neil marshall's death and her subsequent inability to testify are what drives her to begin pursuing it, her first proper investigation results in her idol's "death" and when she finally graduates, the person who saved her sister has been disbarred, and she can't even help because she isn't allowed to. all that pain and constant pursuit of her goals, and she's still the same ema skye, still that girl shrouded in darkness, always one step behind the truth, one step a little too late. no wonder she was angry in aa:aj. i would be furious.

[exx-bee]

he has the biggest doe eyes in the entire world and no one ever knows because he has no work life balance

[vinegar-n-salt]

SO niche but I love the idea of a yandere4yandere relationship where both the people in the relationship are insane about each other and one more person/other people (fuck it, polycule time) who very much does love both of them back, but that other person is very much aware how crazy (and morally gray/actually evil) they are to people that threaten their relationship so they just pretend that they don’t feel anything so they don’t get murdered. The two actively in the relationship are very much unaware that the other person/people are scared to their wit’s end of them finding out about their hidden feelings

[meangreennunseen]

I know vastness of Primarch lore is cool, but my first ever loves in Wh40k always were your semi ordinary Astartes.

Nothing like taking a child, brainwashing them, stuffing them with extra organs and various implants and growing them into human supersoldier in few years.

Also them just mercilessly murdering shit up always brightens my day.

[barfville]

sketchbook dyump of a few lil comics.

anyone elses father make them insane even though you've never even had much contact with the bastard

[h20milk]

ignore how much i look like when i'm yearning for your touch, how are you? how have you been? i missed you.

[cringefaecompilation]

orym: the gods can and should have the final authority on things because they are the final authority, and if you're in charge it means you are wholly good and you should not be questioned. those are the facts.

also orym: um sorry i know you asked and are trusting me to do it but actually i can't kill all my friends even if they're trying to murder me. sorry tempest. oops i """""accidentally""""" stabbed myself in the chest now i can't stop laudna from eating me ha ha funny how that works

[tetraandtheapples]

Experimenting with pixel art, colours and skull shape...... This was originally a tiny doodle that got way out of hand gehahaha.

Your honour, I love them

Extra sketch under the cut

[itspileofgoodthings]

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