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The Winchesters 1.03, You’re Lost Little Girl

Rewatch notes, mostly for my own reference purposes. not entirely in chrono order of the episode, with many tangents and references to spn canon...

Poor little Twinkle Star, Carrie, having to grow up too quick and be a big girl. And her 12-year-old brother as her main caretaker (and as we’ll learn, Mary next door checking in on them when she can). At least she had the CB radio to talk to her momma while she was on the road. More than Sam and Dean ever got, from what we’ve seen.

(btw, love the anachronistic reference to Star Wars with the names Carrie and Ford, when Star Wars won’t come out for another five years...)

So her stuffed bunny Bernice is missing, and right when she wishes for it most, a weird sack appears on her floor, and she finds the bunny. But a truly horrific monster climbs out of the sack behind her and snatches her up.

So. This monster. Is it stealing these items to start with so that people will miss them, or is it truly opportunistically creating items (or otherwise magically manifesting them in response to people wishing for their lost items?), or does the mechanics of it even really matter? It’s got its whole creepy storage unit inside some sack pocket dimension. It reminds me of the Soul Eater from 11.16 in some ways, with its little pocket dimension where it pulls people’s souls to drain/feed on them until they disappear entirely. At least that part is a near identical concept, even if the mechanics are slightly different.

Dean’s narration is an attempt to murder me personally, about ending up lost without friends and family to help guide you. Like... Dean... baby... can I get you a hug...

FINALLY we learn what happened to Mary’s mom. Apparently Deanna has been out of touch, off on her own working with other hunters in... Minnesota... for at least a few months. And even that seems connected to the mysterious Maggie who died, whose death caused so many fractures for seemingly everyone they know. WHO IS MAGGIE?! WHAT HAPPENED THERE?! That feels... very important to the larger story of what’s going on here.

But I find it wild that Deanna has been completely out of touch with the family, almost like SHE IS MISSING TOO?!, and yet Mary is solely focused on finding Samuel. Which I think is something else to pay attention to. WHERE IS DEANNA?! If her other hunting friends haven’t seen her in several months either, I’m marking her down on the MISSING list, as well.

We have another incident of the SILENT TREATMENT. The whole gang does have a history of using it as a weapon, but heck. Mary wondering if Samuel is deliberately keeping her in the dark about his current hunt as a variation on the silent treatment, as a sort of punishment for their argument over her wanting to quit hunting. Lata tries to reframe it for Mary into something more positive, Mary considers it and dismisses it.

Lata suggests they go see a movie to take a break, john jumps at the offer, and mary’s like nah go see the omega man I got work to do. When I first watched, I wondered if there was an element of lata hoping John would go with her instead, but... I didn’t see it this time. I do think they would be cute together, though :’D

Ada is working through all her demon spell freewriting notes, and has a lead on maybe getting info about fixing the demon trap box. Obviously it can’t become a kill anything all the time device, so I still wonder if that thing has a cooldown period, or other limitations. Otherwise you don’t have a show, just feed every monster to the box and be done with it.

Carlos arrives with info about Mary’s missing neighbor, and she and John go to investigate while Mary makes Carlos go with Ada to track down the demon. Teamwork makes the dream work, etc. “Don’t go alone” is always good advice on this show, too.

Betty’s last name is Donelon. Missed that before. :”D John... is the absolute worst liar. We know he’s been dodging Betty since he got back, but you’d think he’d at least have thought up a better lie than “study group” and “community college” for what he’s been up to. I mean, even “dealing with family stuff” is a stronger lie than making up stuff that can be so easily disproven. Which makes me think about original canon, knowing the history of “the story became the story” and things John forced Dean to invent, or lies he demanded Dean convince Sam of for his own protection. Does John get to be a better liar with practice, or does he just pass off the creation of those stories to Dean to handle? John’s abject failure to lie smoothly here makes me think it’s the latter.

Betty is a good person, genuinely a good person, and she deserves better than his awful lies. But very much like Sam’s strategy later in life, John wants to keep her out of the Supernatural entirely, and will not tell her the truth about any of it. She better not end up dead because of that...

Ford tells Mary the truth of what he saw, things he didn’t tell the police, and Mary believes him (of course). She goes exploring in Carrie’s room with John, and he finds her CB. Mary has one too, but she used hers for different reasons-- on Samuel’s orders, listening for Hunter Code Words. I presume that’s the sort of scanning John used it for when Dean recalled him using one in 13.11. But Mary just liked listening to the truckers and imaging having “a normal life.” Like... long haul truckers was her exposure to “normal.” LOL at that, poor mary.

Mary, raised into hunting, never allowing HERSELF (though she blames her parents for it) to imagine a different life for herself outside of hunting, is only... sorta like Dean? We watched Dean HAVE a very different life from hunting, taking a year off at Sam’s dying wish, and then finally deciding that life wasn’t for him. Even in his supposed “living the dream” scenario of owning Rocky’s Bar, HE WAS STILL HUNTING. A big part of that recurring sequence was the fight scene. Like he could never be truly content completely out of the life either. “Settling down with someone, someone in the life” was the option we understood was Dean’s idea of happiness for a very long time. And I suspect Mary would be happy with that sort of balanced happiness in her life too, even if it becomes “I just want out, period.” I feel like she wants out from under Samuel’s rather authoritarian thumb more than she wants out of hunting, you know? Just like her friends expressed to her about her leadership style last week...

John’s the one who presses her to make a new list, of things she might like to do “when she quits hunting for good.” I don’t think he really understands... definitely not yet. He’s the one who was allowed to have other dreams as a kid (like Sam was...) and who’s just really learning about hunting now... about Saving People, etc.

Mary finds a bit of the sack, and we see inside, Carrie hidden beneath a mountain of stuffed animals, the monster closing in on her, and then backing off. Like it knows she’s there, and letting her be afraid for a while is part of its plans for her. Lata confirms this later, that it traps victims in a maze, then “plays with its food,” taunting them until it finally eats them.

Mary explains hex bags to John, and John explains to Ford that they’re for “luck,” rather than “to ward off malicious spirits” like mary told him. So he CAN lie effectively, but I guess only to kids? LOL.

Ford demands he be allowed to help find his sister, because he blames himself for losing her. Mary tells him he can help by staying safe, and Ford proves he’s not dumb, insisting the thing he saw take Carrie was real. Mary doesn’t even attempt to lie to him, just tells him what they know, but in 12-year-old kid terms. There’s shades of Dean attempting to tell a kid version of the truth to Jesse the Antichrist back in 5.06.

On their stakeout, Ada is intently focused on a bonsai tree and some sort of spellcraft, trimming the tree like her life depended on it, Carlos is in raptures over Rockin Roxy and her pirate radio station. In his boredom, they both somehow missed the demon sneaking up on them. I still love Carlos’ holy water pistol :’D And it’s good to know this demon is powerful enough that he’s not really bothered by it. Ada wants to keep him trapped so they can chat before they report back to the others. And I’m thinking this is why she rolled her eyes when Mary insisted Carlos go with her. She was hoping to do this on the DL.

Mary and her suspicion about two Wayward Monsters in two weeks... obscure hag from Columbia, now obscure North Indian bag freak... and suddenly this feels like the plot to the first 2/3 of s6. Where ARE all these obscure monsters coming from. Kinda wondering if we’re gonna see a lamia or an okami next... Is this a side effect of the Akrida? Possibly connected to the weird pink energy she’s pulling from all the vanquished monsters? And her “siren” pirate radio persona of Rockin Roxy? Is that the beacon drawing the monsters in somehow?

We learn Lata’s parents are both dead, a long time ago. She contacts other people “back home” to ask what they might know about escaping and/or destroying the monster. So at least she’s got a lead.

And Ford is also listening to Rockin Roxy when the monster comes for him at Mary’s house. I sense a theme here... But poor Ford, nobody bothered to explain to him that even the porch is beyond the protective zone of the magic spells. He could’ve called Mary for help here, but there’s also a little Dean-esque guilt infusing this boy, and personal responsibility to save his little sister he was charged with protecting. The sack spits out his sister’s Twinkle Star barrette, Ford can’t resist picking it up, and he’s snatched too.

Mary and John arrive back with cheeseburgers (!). So they search the house to no avail. Betty arrives to check up on Ford, and she’s let her hair down. But she’s surprised to find John there, and he gets to prove just how bad a liar he is... Mary finds the open back door, and another scrap of sack.

John in roundabout way basically tells Betty that it’s over between them. She’d been expecting to “talk” about their relationship when he got back, and John’s just... moved on, which kinda surprises Betty, but she handles it like a champ. She’s such a good person I need to reiterate nothing bad better happen to her.

Also, John’s jacket sleeves. He’s like Sam, needs to find a tall dude shop so he can get his wrists covered lolololol.

But that distraction was just long enough for Mary to make her choice to throw herself at the monster, too. She’s next door where John can’t stop her in time, calling him over the radio. She tells him her plan, and he begs her not to. It’s clear how attached he’s become to her, if not as a True Love situation, at least as a redemption symbol for himself. He’s hitched his wagon to her mission as a way to redeem his personal lost legacy too, but he can help her save HER father even when he was unable to save his own, as well. He has a LOT riding on her, not even counting the whole Destiny™ nonsense they get wrapped up in from SPN canon.

She pushes John to take care of business, to find a way to get her back out again, and she’ll handle the rest. There’s a lot of tangled emotion here. She’s pulling a Classic Dean Move, but she’s also latched on to John as Someone Who Finds Things™. And he DOES. But finding her SPECIFICALLY?! What better person to have gone on the insane revenge mission John takes upon himself after Mary’s death. He can’t find her anymore, but he’s driven to find the thing that killed her, right? This feels like the seeds of that mission.

John figures out where she is, runs next door and arrives just in time to catch the bag writhing on the floor. He has a mission, though. Mary will protect the kids until John can figure how to save them. But she’s got her Dad’s Indiana Jones hat, and runs off to protect at the sound of a scream.

(what’s with the weird jensen ackles face in the room mary wakes up, which looks a lot like a weird closet filled with dress up clothes... my “the bunker has a secret wardrobe room that Dean has fully stocked” headcanon rides again)

Back to Ada and Carlos, and the demon now trapped in a salt circle. She taunts the demon as she prepares a spell, and he taunts her back that she couldn’t pull it off, reminder that she was possessed by his “buddy” for a while and they apparently had chats about Ada... but Ada has the upper hand (the one about to bleed the one drop of blood and trap him in a bonsai tree forever). He breaks.

He doesn’t really know very much, escaped hell, made a deal with the Akrida who’s possessing a human, but there are too many of them to be stopped. And he doesn’t know anything else, so Ada traps him in the bonsai so he can’t go back to hell and tell the rest of the demons what they’re up to, and they’ll have him contained in case they need to ask him anything else. Smart, honestly.

John pleads with Lata. He wants to go after mary, into the sack. She tells him no. He tells her that Hunting, the life he’s just learning about now, is the first thing that’s ever made sense to him, and none of that works without Mary. Lata agrees to take one more shot, contacting a mystery person who might not even want to talk to her... what deep backstory lurks in there, Lata? She contacts the mystery person who DOES give her helpful info, but she ends the call with something like “Tell Mom I’m safe, that’s all she needs to know.” So is her mother NOT dead? Are her parents in hiding? Are they hunters, too? Is she referring to an adoptive mother and not her actual mom? WHO ARE YOU, LATA?!

Carrie and Ford run for their lives from the monster still in Torment His Food Mode, when Mary finds them and chops it to bits. They run for it when the monster reconstitutes, and hide in a storage room filled with zippo lighters-- such an important item for hunters everywhere!

They know how to defeat the thing, but the only way to save people inside the sack already is for them to willingly let go of their beloved item that’s holding them there. Which is nine kinds of awful thinking about 15.18, isn’t it?

John realizes he doesn’t even have to go into the sack to get this info to Mary, though. If the monster has a CB radio in its collection, she might hear him through that. She does. But the radio is in another cubicle filled with sound equipment. John tells them how to get out, and Mary thinks she’s in for an ordeal getting Carrie to give up her beloved bunny, but she’s already pulling it apart when Mary turns back to her. Ford follows suit, snapping the barrette in half. They zap out, leaving Mary to deal with letting go of Samuel’s hat.

Mary can’t get the hat to burn. The fire just curves around the brim, like it’s her will controling the flame. Like humans control our own destiny (hur hur hur). She isn’t willingly letting go of what the hat represents-- not just her missing father, but what comes next for her once she does find him. John frames at as her being willing to let go of hunting, and her identity as a hunter, but again, I think it’s a lot more complex than that.

She’s committed to quitting hunting once she finds her dad, but also says, “Hunting is all I have.” And like.. that’s not even remotely true. She has her family, her friends, everything she’s learned, too. But it’s about her identity, the fact she doesn’t know who she is if she’s not hunting (which is something I don’t think she even figured out after her return in s12, either... but I think we’re gonna learn who she is right alongside her now).

John spent his entire life looking for his dad (going as far as enlisting in the marines to fight in Vietnam before coming home to find a lead from a mysterious vanishing stranger and a key that literally led him right to Mary...). And he WANTS to keep hunting, he’s identifying with it! Thinks it’s his future, even if Mary wants out! John tells her she doesn’t have to figure it all out right now, but just to be open to figuring it out. As the monster crawls under the door and closes in on Mary, she lets go. Almost like she’s surrendering CONTROL over her life just a little bit, and the hat burns.

The monster crawls out of the sack in reality, Lata shoves it, John kills it, and Carrie stomps it with “STUPID MONSTER.”

The kids are reunited with their mom, Betty is back to close the case, with her hair back up again. She returns an engagement ring he’d given her a long time ago, when they were too young. They won’t get a happy ending together, but she wants to be friends. She cares about John. PROTECT HER.

Mary tries to thank John for helping her, but he won’t hear it. “You did the hard part.” Mary says she’s taking a break, at least for a night, and then... punches John in the shoulder like a good pal and goes off to the movies alone. To see The Omega Man (which Dean referenced in 2.09 Croatoan). She’s a dime short at the ticket window, and a man behind her offers to cover it. For a second, I thought it was John, but it’s just Random Guy Who Likes Seeing Movies Alone, and offers to see this one “alone, together.” So Mary has a weird date with Not-John.

Meanwhile, John is back at Monster Clubhouse having a drink with Lata, and he’s being just as supportive of her as he was of Mary. <3 Lata reminds him of the two rare monsters in a row, that it must be connected. When Carlos and Ada return and tell them yes, through the Akrida, who’s impersonating a human woman and is powerful enough to terrify demons.

Who is she? We cut to Rockin Roxy, guaranteed to bring the rarest hellraisers from near and far... lolol anvils much? The spooky sound? Percy Sledge.

MONTAGE!

John starts to burn the monster bag, but walks away before it’s done and an akrida comes in and takes it. Mary leaves the theater with her new friend and there are SO many lens flares. So many.

I do not claim to be good at screenshots.

We see Ada angrily pulling a bit off her bonsai demon while Carlos watches from the other room, concerned. Lata looks at the old timey phone, like she’s upset about something.

And we see the Akrida buglet deliver the bag to Roxy, who pulls another flask worth of shiny red/pink energy from it, like she did from last week’s monster. I think she’s luring the monsters to Lawrence, using the Monster Club to take care of them for her, and then harvesting their energy for her own purposes. But what are her purposes? Building a weapon, integrating herself into this world, other magical purposes? To be determined...

#the winchesters #spnwin s1 spoilers #spnwin 1.03 #spnwin s1 rewatch notes

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zuffer-weird-girl · 5 years

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Uh can you do a request for me were overhaul has to deal with the gross aspects of father hood because his s/o is away on a trip and won’t be back for a week and he has to like change diapers clean out the babies boogers which is always hard to do and stuff like the thank you

SORRY! IT TOOK TWO DAYS I HAD A MIND BLOCK JESUS CHRIST IM SO SORRY

Loved the idea btw. Honestly I had so much fun writing these XD

"This is going to be a disaster. I'm warning you." Chisaki said while you checked your bags one last time for the trip that your parents suddenly demanded you on it.

And the worst part... you couldn't bring your babies...

"Is not going to be a disaster Kai." You giggled as you watched your husband on the door frame, already looking apprehensive at the tiny baby beaming happily at you from his crib.

"You're his father." You scooped Kaito in your arms coing at him when he nuzzled in your neck "Kaito never gave us too much work. So I trust my handsome devil to take care of our child." You smiled sweetly at your husband, offering for him to hold Kaito.

He glared at the infant for a while before picking him up. The baby already trying to play with his piercings.

"No Kaito." Chisaki swat the tiny hand away from his ear before receiving a tiny slap on his cheek while his son made a noise of possibly protest at his order.

You bite the inside of your cheek to contain your laugh at seing your husband frowing down at the baby as he pinched his tiny nose to make him stop tryingto reach his ear.

A honk broke you out of your thoughts as Chisaki sighed in annoyance.

"Your family is rather impatient, aren't they?" He mumbled while accompaning you to the gates.

"Sorry." You smiled embarrassingly, only stopping in your tracks to nuzzle your son's chubby face and give him a kiss of goodbye.

Chisaki smiled at the scene, seing his beautiful angel treat something that came from him with such adoration... you were always like this...

You sighed sadly before bringing Chisaki's black mask down to his chin to give him a deep kiss, which he hummed in appreciation.

"I will be back in at least five or six days my knight." You said while carresing his cheek lovingly before putting his black mask on again. "Take care of our little deviant..."

"As if I wouldn't. Be safe." He picked Kaito hands and waved slightly "Say goodbye to your mother brat." The baby giggled up at his father before barbling something to you.

"We need to work on your speaking..." you laughed at Chisaki's serious comment and gave your baby a last kiss waving at them as you entered the car.

Chisaki sighed and returned inside the house with Kaito in his arms still.

"Alright. Sounds like is only mans on the house apparently..." he placed Kaito on the baby chair as he placed a bottle right in front of him.

"Let's see... your mother left some things separately for you to eat..." he looked inside the fridge before jerking away at the sudden jet of milk almost hitting the back of his head.

Thank god he had good reflexes.

He looked at the baby whose was giggling at his father surprised face while he tried to put his open mouth on the wrong side of the bottle.

"...Kaito I swear if you weren't an infant you would be cleaning this with a toothbrush..." he groaned picking something to clean the mess. Before he could even do that he heard a little groan coming from his son while he still tried to reach the liquid on the wrong side of the bottle.

"Kaito. Wrong side." He smirked placing the napkin down before picking his son and the bottle up and thankfully handing it to him.

"You're not much smart, are you?" He asked while holding him up.

Just when Kaito finished, he scrunched his face, seeming like he was in discomfort as Chisaki only stared for a while.

Oh, right, burping...

He reluctantly put Kaito on his shoulder and patted his back slightly... already cringing when he felt something wet and warm on his shoulder...

"Of course you would do that..." the baby laughed making Chisaki even more irritaded.

"Its going to be a long week..."

Shit.. Literally shit.

"I can't do this."

"Well, too bad because he is your son." Chrono sayed to Chisaki already providing any orders for him to do it.

"PLeASe JuST SOMEOnE CLeAn his ShiT! The SMeLL IS FUcKInG TerRiBle." Begged Mimic.

Even with their masks on, the three man were suffering... were babies supposed to have that much of a power?

"Kai come on. Don't tell me you never changed your son's diaper even once..." Chisaki stayed quiet for a moment before answering his friend.

"(Y/N) did this part..." Chrono looked at his childhood friend, definitely not amused as Mimic snickered.

"How the hell you two still together? Poor chick has to deal with this shit everday?" Asked the man sarcastically, already regreting when he saw the death glare of Overhaul.

"If you are so smart with words Irinaka, please teach me how to change the diaper of my own son which I made it with my wife differently from your lonely self who apparentlyits only good with money and nothing else." Mimic shivered at the dark tone of voice of Chisaki and immediately apologized.

Even marrying you and had a son, Overhaul could be scary as fuck when he wanted without any efforts...

"Chisaki the entire place is getting infected by the smell. Please, I'm actually begging in here." Pleaded Chrono as he putted closer his mask.

Chisaki send daggers at the two man before adjusting his gloves and oppening the bomb. Thankfully he had holded his breath and quickly changed the boy.

He immediately left out a long puff of breath as soon as he throwed the used diaper on a near trash... Getting a spray shortly after and desperately trying to erase the smell of the room.

His son laughed at his father's desperation, earning a glare from Chisaki.

"You're enjoying this aren't you little rascal?" He picked his son up "I have to give your mother more credit. Honestly, dont you feel ashamed of making your mother suffer?" The baby poked his tongue out at him which he only scoffed.

He was surprised to turn his back and saw Chrono and Mimic passed out on the ground.

"...Weaklings." he simply said.

They didn't had the same stragy that you did honey because if you smelled that shit you would be knocked out too.

Chisaki was tired already and was pleading to whoever was listening that you came back home earlier than expected.

"Two days Kai Chisaki... Two days..." he growled as he dodged again from a jerk of baby food coming right at his face.

"Kaito I swear to god... just please eat this." He tried carefully feed his son the apple sauce but Kaito swatted his hand away.

"You little..." he contained his urge to swear as he breath in slowly.

When he oppened his eyes again he saw his son... eating the damn apple sauce with his bare hands... making a complete mess on his chubby face and dark brow hair.

"You must be joking...." just when he sayed that the baby burbed and a little of vomit landed on his clothes.

Chisaki's eye twitched... he swears that he was doing on purpose at this point.

"Have anything else?" Asked sarcastically the tired man, shortly after regreting when he heard a faint fart.

"Kaito for the love of-" he almost shouted if he wasn't so good at self control.

The worst part is that every time he almost losed his pacience his son only laughed harder and even sometimes made more messes for him to clean up later.

You came back one day earlier; can't standing the longing for your two favorite boys; and started to look for Chisaki.

You find your husband, sitting on the couch as he sometimes rocked the crib he placed on the living room.

You sitted by his side and greeted him as you enveloped your arms around his arms. Chisaki sighed in relief and leaned his head against yours for a bit.

"How did it go?" You whispered before Chisaki looked you dead on the eye.

"Babies are disgusting... Especially this one." He pointed with his covered chin at the sleeping boy in front of you.

You giggled quietly as you kissed his cheek lovingly.

"I swear, this brat was enjoying my frustation." He rested his chin on the top of your head "Your a warior my angel... you deserved this break from Kaito honestly, but don't go out again..." he closed his eyes, smelling your sweet scent.

He missed this... 6 days were too much for him... He wanted his angel...

"My poor knight, he really tired you out huh?" You kissed under one of his eyes, before he took of his mask to kiss you properly.

"Well, at least it wasn't a complete disaster like I imagined." He said nuzzling your nose with his.

You two were interrupted by a loud yelp, Kaito happily making grabby hands at you as he pronounced some incoherents words.

Chisaki groaned as he buried his face on the crook of your neck as you eargly bringed Kaito into your lap.

"Hi my baby! Did yoi have fun with daddy?" The baby gargled a response as he tried to reach your nose "Really? Tell me more about it!" You poked his nose emiting a cute giggled from the little boy.

He honestly have no fucking idea how vould you understand what Kaito said, but that didn't stop him from smiling in your neck and oppening one eye to watch at his son playing with you.

Looking at him right there it didn't seemed like he was a ball of dirt and filth... But somehow his son looked so bright, almost reaching the light that he saw on you... but still not enough.

"What? All of that? Geez daddy is super cool right?" The baby giggled as Chisaki rolled his eyes scoffing, lifting his face from your neck.

"He did not say that."

"Of course he did!"

"No, knowing this brat, he probably just sayed something about me being a fool or how he enjoyed seing my suffering."

You burst in laughter when your baby giggled and Chisaki pinched his nose as a revenge.

The little devil had seemed to just nod at comfirmation of his father comment....

#overhaul x reader #overhaul scenario #fanfic overhaul #kai chisaki x reader #chisaki kai imagine scenario #chisaki kai x reader #bnha imagine #bnha characters #bnha villains #bnha #bnha x reader #bnha villains x reader #kaito baby boi #my writing #zuffer writings

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randomnameless · 6 years

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Chapter 10 - Chronos to Miletos!

Welp in the last post i said Seliph ended up in Chronos, but no, he rekt’d Morrigan in Rados (even if i think you’re supposed to seize Chronos last?).

Anyways, after destroying evil people, Seliph meets his half-bro who’s playing the latest trendy game around.

But first, Seliph’s stepdad tries to do something.

Oldvis hasn’t seen Ishtar in ages! Naturally he asks how she’s doing.

kill that, it was just small talk. And, oh, surprise, Oldvis doesn’t care about the child hunts. So yes Amalda, your emperor hasn’t agreed with those things, you were right to trust him!

“i’ll tell him to go to his room and we’ll be over with this”

Oldvis uses the authority card. It’s never a good thing when one uses this card, because it means that, basically, you’re useless.

Daw, Oldvis didn’t want to bang her Julius! What do you mean by “is mine” btw? Your fiancée, your plaything, your tool?

Lil’ dastard. Oldvis pretends to be able to do something, or tries to use his big voice but Julius doesn’t care anymore.

This - Oldvis tried to banish his son, but it didn’t work. The Loptyr Sect prevented Julius from being banished? And banished where? The Empire is everywhere, unless Arvis wanted to send him to Travant. Maybe he wanted to send him to Archanea??

Oldvis looks so feeble here, it hurts. And Julius treats his dad like crap, bad Julius, bad!

:’(

That’s not a way to talk to your dad! Granted, Young!Arvis might also have been as dastardly as that to, say, Reptor so... I can’t say he earned this, but it’s also ironic.

I wonder what must happen in Oldvis’ head, is he really that beaten/broken? later we see that he is not, but here... what happened during those 7 years when Julius turned into Loptyr?

Of course you laugh, Arvis treated you like crap in chapter 5 so now you have your revenge!

Julius doesn’t join Manfroy in his Oldvis bashing. Maybe he doesn’t see the point. and OMG WHY IS HE MENTIONING JULIA???

OMFG NO DO YOU MEAN THIS USELESS CHARACTER WAS ACTUALLY THE PRINCESS OF GRANVALLE??? HOW COME NO ONE RECOGNISED HER??

I guess it was surprising, she only knew her kind and gentle brother and now he wants to kill her!

Finally we learn what happened to Deedee! Granted, Julius’ words here always make me sour.

Deedee accepted her death “to save Julia”?? It’s not like we have a kind of similar scenario in FE5, where a mother has to fight against one of children to protect another, but thanks for Nanna, Eyvel didn’t “accept her death” - and even if she had been able to use a rewarp staff to put her to safety, I doubt she’d have “accepted her death” without trying to help Mareeta. But Jugdral’s best mom has no peers in this world.

Ghoul yourself!

Yep! Do it now, we must do it now before you turn senile and decided to send her against the others, or some other shit plan like that.

Keeping this book under “the strictest lock” is a good plan indeed, if you didn’t knew where she was.

Julius/Loptyr takes no chances, the Book is locked, yes, but without anyone to wield it then he’s sure he’s going to be fine.

Note how Julius speaks about the avatars of Naga; Seliph isn’t a major blooded Naga peep so he doesn’t count? what about linoan?

Too bad Julius, he failed you. And by sundown, really? Talk about rushing things! Besides, Julius “supposes” he is needed?

Why? He just told you getting rid of Julia is the highest priority!

Julius doesnt’ like peasants, but he doesn’t care much about Seliph. And he is right, Seliph can’t do a thing to him without Julia, the worse he can do is breed with Linoan to bring another major Naga, but bar that he is as relevant as Duke Scipio. Peasants are going to revolt because Seliph is supposedly the true heir of Granvalle, but if he can’t kill Julius, then what?

Julius doesn’t believe Seliph is his older bro - it’s nothing but superstitious nonsense! He cares more about Julia, and dragon-wise/plot-wise, we should do the same but we’re following the adventures of Seliph.

I wonder if a Ced narrative would focus more on recovering Julia if he were to learn that his dad went missing because he had to protect the only person on the continent able to get rid of Loptyr.

A threat? No, he doesn’t. And seriously Julius, I know we’re in a game where sword emblem is broken, and theoretically Seliph could kill you with the Tyrfing, but even with the Tyrfing, and lore-wise, no, he can’t possibly be much a threat.

It’s pretty darn funny that Manfroy’s master plan fails because he believes Seliph is a real treat disregarding Julia completely. Manfroy breaks the 4th wall? Seliph is the Lord thus he must die, Julia is nothing.

Yep. The greater plot, regardless of what F!Lewyn tries to hammer, doesn’t give a fig about Seliph. Loptyr only cares about Julia.

Poor Manfroy.

Go Loptyr goons , defend Miletos!

You have a better idea than the one you just ordered? Oh Julius...

Yay! Kill a rebel!

Yippie!

I know this sounds odd in regards to FE5!Ishtar who’s more nuanced, but bear in mind that her mom escaped death a few turns ago so she’d be more than likely to want to kill some rebels. But sounding so happy about it? A bit Meh.

You have good eyes OIfey!

Poor OIfey has been the one living in exile for 17 years, he was just supposed to assist Sigurd and then he was thrown in this mess. I feel bad for him.

ARDEN WHO??? But note how Oifey mentions his peers, and the young knights of Chalphy so maybe Arden wasn’t a noble to begin with? He had just been a commoner who enrolled?

every last Chalphy face was a firendly one or you had other friends who weren’t from Chalphy?

Seliph comes from everywhere, save from the land he is supposed to inherit.

Oh :’(

Don’t be like that Seliph, do you think Prince Ulster of Verdane has any right, bar his blood, to rule over the barbarians there?

I’m sure some pious citizens would prefer Major Naga Empress on the throne of Granvalle, but this is only food for an AU.

Who? The citizens of Chalpy or the citizens of Granvalle? Because the Granvalle peeps were happy until Julius became mad, hell, some of them don’t even know about the child hunts etc. So you’re actually saying a lot of crap, unless you’re talking about the people of Chalphy, and if Palmark is any indication, they weren’t put to the noose as soon as Siggy kicked the bucket.

Again, we don’t see the common folk of Granvalle in FE5, but if we can compare with the randoms of Thracia, they’re not praying for the second coming of Quan, they just want to get on with their shitty lives without risking to be killed by random brigands etc. But maybe the people of Chalphy believe in Siggy the 2nd, even if, and i never stress it enough, when Siggy and pals died, they died as traitors.

Saying Siggy is a hero means saying Arvis is a dastard, and in the beginning or the Empire, Arvis was well loved, even now, in FE5, Arvis is still loved.

So really meh about this line.

I don’t know if this “fairy tale” is made up by OIfey to cheer Seliph up, or if some diehard Chalpy loyalists really think that, or if Oifey himself sees Seliph as the 2nd coming of Siggy who will avenge his dad and save the world.

Mmh. I’m not convinced.

Granted, everyone hates the child hunts, and they want them to stop. Are they all suddenly calling to the son of a traitor to help them?

Seliph has had enough of the propaganda described by OIfey, and asks about the greater plot. Maybe all the randoms don’t like Arvis, maybe some think he is Loptyr...

maybe those randoms forgot how their dark god instaured a relatively peaceful land for 10 years, or they just slander Oldvis because he is the Emperor and the Empire has turned into a shitty place.

Or maybe the people we liberated couldn’t go all Amalda like “i had faith in Arvis what happened to him” because we’re the LA and Seliph’s n°1 objective is to rekt him, so no one should express sympathy for the man?

“don’t worry, i have a pony now!”

Hahaha - the only one who can rekt the dark God isn’t even a Lord in this damn game

He looks scary?

Mmh... like what? You look into his eyes and you’re charmed or something?

Julius had a group of fangirls! How cute! Granted, i don’t know if what happened to them next could be called cute...

Fig off

What if i sacrifice you?!

Welp, Julius tries to kill the useless man his useless sister married. Kinslaying, again. Hopefully, Ulster dodged.

Seliph wanted to say hello to his brother.

Larcei cut their discussion and Julius grew bored.

what? an useless characted inheriting an useless land married to an useless woman? Ulster’s pretty happy with this life.

He won’t.

Fee finally talks to her trash dad. But trash dad has some kind of draconic circumstances to explain his behaviour.

If i were Fee i’d slap him because she had been the only one to be at her mom’s side when she died

Maybe she really slapped him then! GG Fee!

You were happy seeing him? He who abandonned you all? And returned with another child? you’re a nice person Fee.

:’(

He has never been the kindest person around, but ignoring her completely...

He knows what it is to get shunned by his own Mother though! I miss you Rahna

Constructive behaviour here, but Fee isn’t the adult so i can let it slide.

I had the same reaction. F!Lewyn is really... despicable, regardless of his nature.

Many playthoughs of FE4 came to the same conclusion, so no Fee, even if your mom married Arden, she’d still be dead.

At least he acknowldges it.

To this day, I still don’t understand his outburst. Did Erin met F!Lewyn and told him it was A-OK to go and do whatever with Julia to save the world, she wouldn’t tell her kids about it? Or did she know F!Lewyn wasn’t her husband anymore?

He is trying to push her away, because he knows he can’t be her dad anymore or something else? Or because he is just that awful?

The kids? What about the most important one? The one with Major Naga blood? She doesn’t even deserve a mention?

“damn those foot units”

At least we managed to be on time for those repairs to be done.

Onwards to victory

I mean - Onwards to Chalphy!

#fe4 run #FE4 #Seliph no #Julia no #Julius is adorable #fig you random old man #kill a rebel yay #Manfroy no #damn it stop believing the Chalphyian propaganda #listen to your prince gfdi #julia is the major threat not seliph #poor oifey though #maybe he is the one really believing those things #heck if Finn managed to make people Leif's was acclaimed as hero by his peope #when we saw that it wasn't the case #maybe Oifey thought he could do the same?#a good lie never hurt right?#if F!Lewyn's plan since the beginning was to mold Seliph into a hero-bait to hide the Julia then it'd have been great #everyone's focusing on Seliph meanwhile major naga gets her weapon and it's over #but nope #I feel bad for Oldvis though #no matter how much crap he did before he doesn't deserve to be treated like dirt #watch me say the contrary when i type the next post

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DSOE: MON; ７-Memory of the God

The Muzzle of Nemesis chapter content summary under the cut

New character names untranslated: Urado, Marii, Seiramu, Hadzuki (Hazuki)

Scene 1

The chapter opens with a snippet from the Levin Bible, detailing how the gods had a paradise, lost it, found a new one, lost it to "Malice", and then went searching for another one to create a new paradise there (the Third Period).

Scene 2

This is what Levia's memories entail.

Unable to avert the destruction of their world, Levia and the others could only flee the Earth (the actual word for Earth, chikyuu). 72 people were selected as the crew of the Climb One (Crime One? "kuraimuwan", it appears to be a reference to some sort of Japanese travel service/store), an enormous space ship. Famous scientists and researchers and their assistants. Levia rode on that ship with her mother and brother.

Don't know a lot of the kanji in this sentence but the gist seems to be that they are already aware of several inhabitable planets, and the purpose of the Climb One was to find one to repopulate on. Apparently there were also other spaceships sent out with the same purpose. Although as time went on, they stopped receiving messages from these other ships. They're not sure why, but Levia suspects it's because there were deviants--"HER"s, which were the cause of the Earth's destruction--hidden onboard those other crews.

In the end it seemed likely that the crew on the Climb One were the only remaining inhabitants of Earth.

With that in mind, they revised their goal. They wouldn't just make a new home--they would make a new species (one that's made in the image of the earthlings).

Just as a note--there are a lot of technical words I don't know in this info-dump. I am reasonably certain that the point of the information is coming across, but I don't know exactly I'm getting the specific words, as I do not wish to have to look up every single unfamiliar kanji if I'm just reading and not translating it. So bear that in mind.

It says something about the crew's genes having gone rogue (?) so they couldn't simply clone in a new generation of earthlings (the gods in this are consistently referred to as that, btw. "Earthlings"/earth people). Levia was appointed the task of making the new mankind's souls. They needed to make it so their civilization could play out in a shorter time period than the one on Earth, but closely resemble it. A PC gamer (does not use the actual term) in the crew compared it to a "New Game +" (specifically as a "Chrono Trigger" reference).

As the name suggests, Climb One became a cornerstone in humanity "creeping up" from the tragedy of Earth's destruction (?).

Eventually the crew both found a new world to inhabit, and succeeded in creating a new race. But they had a problem--there were still HERs on the Climb One.

Seth Twiright was not supposed to be on the ship. Shortly before he would have been selected, he supposedly discovered he was an HER and killed himself. But in actuality, he secretly swapped places with another crew member and came onboard. It was a while before anyone knew.

As a result of that(?), much of the crew perished, and it somewhat warped the Third Period like it did the Second.

The 62 crew members who died had their spirit data preserved by Levia. Professor Held made it so that they would be in the forest and watch over the new world (they're Held's forest spirits, basically).

Because of Seth, there was a chance that there would be HERs in the Third Period. So the remaining members talked about it, and came to a decision. Levia, Behemo, Rahab, Gilles, Lich, Vlad, Salem, and Marie would incarnate their spirit data as gods to manage the Third Period and make sure it went smoothly.

But Professor Held and Hazuki rejected that, insisting that they should quietly die inside the ship and let the new humanity figure things out for themselves. Of course, Levia and the others didn't agree. In the end, their argument turned to physically trying to kill each other (it's the Black Box that they used to manipulate spirit data with, and they couldn't use it without permission from all living crewmembers, I think?).

The Climb One crashed.

Their bodies were destroyed, but their spirit data remained inside the ship. Without any living crew members, they couldn't use the Black Box. Even if they could, they would need something to transfer the souls to. They could try to incarnate in one of the new human's bodies, but she didn't think that would go well(?).

Inside Climb One, alongside the Black Box there was also a sample of failed work in cold storage. A living thing that Behemo, who had been in charge of creating their new race's bodies, had made, which resembled a dragon from fantasy. They planned to incarnate into it for the time being and then wait for new human bodies. Though Behemo wasn't very enthusiastic about it.

Before the ship fell, Hazuki and Held had Levia and Behemo injected with certain liquid medicine. It was a drug that caused humans to turn into this "dragon" (? I mean I think this is right but I'm a little confused on what exactly is meant by this). They both felt the fear of the crash and fear of their bodies becoming monsters (again this whole thing with the dragon feels a little incomprehensible to me, but the end result is that they have to stay inside the ship).

But then, they still had to fix the problem with the Black Box anyway.

They decided to wait. Once the civilization of the new world advanced enough, somebody would come along who would be able to use the Black Box.

During that time she realized the reason for Held and Hazuki's refusal. Due to Seth, Levia had been infected with "malice"--she was an HER. And as time passed, her spirit data grew corrupted. Eventually, she came to desire only destruction and purification. She began to believe that they didn't need a world without the Earthlings' interference, and so wanted to destroy it and start over.

Eventually their chance arrived. Unbeknownst to anyone, before they killed him Seth sent his spirit data off the ship. He had a body in cold storage waiting for him, lying dormant amidst the new race of humans. The cold storage was ended with a timer, and he opened his eyes in a lab called "Lunaca Labora".

Though a stowaway, Seth was a member of Climb One's crew. He could use the Black Box. Sealed in the ship, the others couldn't do anything about him.

The new world's culture advanced as well. Using technology from the crashed ship, they created a highly advanced country, the Magic Kingdom Levianta. Alice Merry-Go-Round ruled it. She had the power to contact them, there in the ship. Levia doesn't know how.

Levia and Behemo spoke to her, pretending to be "gods". But then, they technically were. They created the world, after all. By her orders, Seth began to work as a scientist in Levianta. The "Sin" ark is what they called the Climb One. He managed it.

They told him to use the Black Box for them, but of course he refused because they tried to kill him.

They had another chance though. As one of the members of the team creating the new humans, he was able to use his knowledge to create the artificial humans called "ghoul children". They were clones of Seth, so they could also use the Black Box.

Once more Levia and Behemo sought to get new bodies for themselves. Because Behemo said that he didn't want a dragon body, but a proper one.

Due to "Project MA"--the new humanity's artificial impregnation project--they tried to have their new bodies born into the world as the "Twins of God". But it didn't work out very well. The first mother miscarried. The next ones were born, but the mother ran off with them. All the ones afterwards had various problems with them.

There were various "ghoul children" around at this point, and some of them lived in Levianta. Two were Kiril and Irina, brother and sister. Irina was chosen as candidate for the seventh Project Ma. But Levia didn't want to wait any longer--she figured it would probably be another failure like the last one. So she decided they would have to make do with the dragon body.

During the battle to become the MA candidate, a certain woman was murdered. Elluka Chirclatia--Kiril's girlfriend. Kiril's heart was weakened by his loss, so Levia reached out to him from the ark. She made him use the device.

It mentions justifications for why the box exploded (I think because Kiril was a clone and not a real crewmember, and because the box was damaged in the crash, and because it hadn't been used in a while, or something like that). Before they could transfer into the dragon it grew violent and destroyed the ark.

The Black Box acted of its own accord and sent Levia and Behemo's bodies into Elluka's corpse. There is a rule in this world that those souls who reincarnate have their memories of before the reincarnation sealed. "Swapping" into a body that hadn't been prepared for it (I think?), Levia lost her memories.

There were a lot of questions about what happened to everyone else. Professor Held and Hazuki's spirit data wasn't on the ark. But, there was the god "Held", the great tree in the forest. Though she has no idea when he sent his spirit there, if it is him. Especially considering he hadn't wanted to interfere in the new world. She figures the "sun god", the bat, is Hazuki, but that has the same problems as Held.

There's also the issue of the other six still in the ark. She thought they were destroyed when the ship was, but, like Seth, they ended up being inside the vessels of sin. Except Lich, whose spirit ended up going to the forest with the rest of the former crew.

Of course, with her memories lost, none of this occurred to her until later.

She lived in the new world as the sorceress Elluka Clockworker. Possibly due to something to do with the new humankind's bodies, she was able to move her spirit data without the Black Box. She was able to live a long life, sometimes swapping bodies.

She met Karchess, Platonic, Leonhart, Mariam, Michaela, Gumillia, Allen, Ayn (from Pierrot), and many others. She had to part with them, too. But her life changed about 600 years later. She wasn't the only one living a long life. There was also Irina, whose spirit data had been put in a red cat plushy by Seth.

She started a duel with her. The fight at Merrigod Plateau sent Behemo up to the heavenly yard, and drew Levia, Irina, and Eve, one of the demons, into the being that became known as "Ma".

Scene 3

Levia was one of the people who made the world. But she also had lived a long time as one of its inhabitants. She was unable to grasp the structure of the world as it continued to go rogue (?). But Ma could.

Ma foresaw that the world would be destroyed one day. And she thought that if she became a "pure being", she would be able to survive it. Levia isn't sure what a "pure being" is, but at any rate such a being would be extremely powerful.

To become a "pure being", Ma had to expel Irina and Levia, both of whom were HERs. But at the same time, they were part of the fusion that made her up. Without them, she would no longer exist. She wouldn't make it very long with just Eve. So she decided to absorb the other six demons.

The first one she absorbed was Rahab, the demon of Envy. However, she wouldn't obey Ma even after being taken in (?). The next one was Salem, the demon of Greed, who yielded to her, as a British gentleman himself.

With the power of Eve and Salem, Ma was able to safely cast out Levia and Irina. But she needed people who could serve as "receptacles" for their souls. Hanma's daughter was her first subject. To use someone as a receptacle, they needed to have magical ability. But at that time, there wasn't a whole lot of people like that left. Hanma was one such person she found.

But there was another problem. The receptacle had to be the same gender as the souls. So instead she took Hanma's daughter, and tried to use the "body swap" to insert Levia's soul in her. But Levia's soul returned back to her. Postman wasn't good enough of a vessel.

She tried to find someone else, but to no avail. It seemed Ma was the only person suitable in that day and age. But she didn't give up. If she couldn't find one, she would make one. She had a baby with her lover, Gandolf Marlon, who was descended from Keel Freezis. Unfortunately, this child was a boy.

She waited for Gallerian to have a child of his own. He had Michelle, the girl she was after. But she needed one more to get rid of both Irina and Levia (I don't know if she ended up using Michelle though because it doesn't make mention of that, so I'm not sure exactly what's going on there). Disgustingly, she decided to have an affair with Gallerian to get another child.

She used some technology in Lunaca Labora to check to make sure the fetus was female, and then swapped a soul into it before it could develop one of its own.

She did not choose Irina for this, but rather Levia. Levia was reborn as Ma's daughter.

Levia thinks on it and understands why the rule of sealing a reincarnated person's memories exists. Hazuki and Held hadn't wanted her or any of the others to become managers over the new world. Even if they were gods, they would become normal people, with all their memories lost.

Levia was born into the world as a baby. Ma named her "Nemesis" and then left soon after.

Scene 4

The Irregular system is over.

Scene 5

She is standing in the middle of a great field, a world with nothing in it. Allen is right next to her, and he welcomes her back. She realizes that this is the real world, the one she destroyed.

Allen told her that the facility and everything in it had been a delusion, but that’s not really true. It used to be real. It was scenes from the world she used to live in, before it got destroyed.

She asks Allen why he's there, despite having died centuries ago. He explains that all the dead souls are here--that's what happened after she destroyed the world. All their souls ended up down on the world's surface. She says there's no one left alive in the world.

Allen says that she is still alive. She's the only one.

She tells him that there was a "malice" inside Nemesis' spirit that sought to destroy the world. The fragment of a god that was originally sealed in the ark. The voice of her other self that spoke to her.

She'd desired the destruction of the world while inside the ark. But now that she's achieved it, she isn't really all that pleased with herself. She asks why she's still alive, and Allen says it's because she's a demon contractor.

She was able to survive, but it still left damage on her, mentally. Her body and spirit were separated. So Nemesis wandered the ruined world, and Levia was trapped in an illusion. She asks why Allen came to see her, and he explains that without her soul, Nemesis kept repeating her previous actions--that is, trying to destroy the world again. Though "Punishment" no longer exists, the "boy" still does, the lifeform that carries destruction. Seth made many things, like Grim the End, and Ghoul Children. The "boy" also got caught up in the world's destruction--but he has no soul of his own. So he remained in the depths of Lunaca Labora--the "graveyard".

Nemesis' soulless body sought him out and tried to use him to destroy the world again. She asks if there's even anything left to destroy, and Allen points out that as it is right now, the "boy" could destroy all of the souls left wandering the planet. So they had to stop it.

The souls refers to the "spirit data".

They couldn't stop Nemesis' body forever, as they didn't have any bodies themselves. So they went to meet with Nemesis' spirit to get her to stop. Of course, they had certain things they needed to do to enter the delusion--one of them was to come in as someone that existed in Nemesis' memories. Hence his masquerading as Postman. He couldn't go as Allen--Elluka knew him, but Nemesis didn't.

But Allen wasn't the only one who came in, she remembers. There had been other intruders. And that's not the only thing. She asks what the "Irregular System" was. He responds it was a last ditch effort to get her to remember everything--it was difficult to do by himself so he had some help. At this, he points to some other figures nearby. Elluka Clockworker's apprentices.

Michaela and Gumillia. They had been watching over her the entire time she was Nemesis. She speaks to Michaela first, realizing she was the will of the forest that spoke to her back then. Michaela asks how it went with Lich, but Nemesis never met him. Though, she's finally remembered Michaela's connection to him (and to be a little wary of him).

Then she goes to speak to Gumillia, who is wearing the Demon of Wrath mask on her face. She has realized that Gumillia sent Seth to watch over her. Gumillia explains that she couldn't leave the Hellish Yard. Though in the end Seth didn't really do what he was supposed to. Seth then pipes up from the mask, asserting he did as he promised--he made sure Nemesis didn't die. Which is true. She agrees, thanking him.

He says he has a connection to her from long ago. But with this, the two of them are even. She says that she should be the one who says that, and suggests they stop their quarreling now.

Michaela starts laughing. When asked what's so funny, she hands over a mirror.

[Here is a spread of Nemesis looking back to see Allen, Michaela, and Gumillia in her Master of the Hellish Yard outfit, looking over to her.]

Michaela says she and Gumillia look like they're twins. Looking in the mirror, she realizes that she looks like Nemesis. Her body and soul have become one once more.

Nemesis asks why she and Gumillia look alike, and Allen responds that lots of things like that were happening in the world before it was destroyed. If they want an answer, their best bet is to ask the one who made the rules of the world himself. Sickle.

Sickle is in the heavenly yard. They can go up there, but Allen isn't sure if they'll be able to come down again. And for the time being there are things he wants to do yet in the world. There are mysteries left that he wants to solve, and someone he wants to see. First though, he suggests they go to Evils Theater.

It's still standing even after the world burned. He asks if she's coming along, before briefly wondering what they should call her now. She says she doesn't care which--Levia, Elluka, or Nemesis, all of them are her. Michaela thinks Levia, Gumillia says Elluka, and Seth argues that right now she's Nemesis.

She tells Allen she'll go. As long as it kills time.

She asks him what his final goal is, with the world destroyed.

He says it's to save the world.

#just the epilogue left #ec activity feed #evillious chronicles

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