#van chatting

[kimspears]

✨️My boy, Van loves to have the last word.🦋🐈

[scalytunster]

Doodles :D

Ghost Trick Manfred

Manfred Manfred 👍

not Manfred, x2

[basement-bird-girl]

*leaves this and runs*

[local-hyena]

SO I'VE JUST WATCHED THIS AND I AM GOING TO GIVE MY THOUGHTS ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING

First of all, here's the synopsis.

We got a lot of details here !! Tube's Tube. I don't really understand why, but it sounds funny. 12M viens and 12,000,000 likes. Why 12 ? Is it a hint towards à 12th game ? There are currently 11 Ace Attorney games. This vidéo recaps pretty much everything (except the prof Layton crossover...), so it MIGHT point towards a new game :). On the right of "Likes" and "Share" there is "DL|6" :). We cannot see how many subscribers Nick has, but since the video has lots of likes, I think it's safe to assume that he has a good amount of subscribers and that he is possibly a youtuber (in this version of the AA universe at least). On the right we can see 3 other videos : MUST WATCH - Top 3 Bedtime Picture Books by Laurice Deauxnim-Scented Adventures with 3.8K views uploaded 2 weeks ago. We don't know when Nick's video was uploaded (most likely more recently than two weeks) but maybe Larry is a more successful youtuber than Nick ?? Also, I'm pretty sure that Franzy's Whippity-Whip Trip is in this video :). Then we have Her Benevolence dances the Panic Dance by Kingdom of Kura'in Embassy with 3.15M likes and uploaded 1 (idk) ago. Idk who this character is so uh, idk what to say. But "Panic Dance" sounds fun heh. Then we have No Objections Judge's gourmet courthouse specials by His Honor Eats with 2 views uploaded 21 years ago. Poor old Judge :(. Also, Capcom is plastered everywhere. I mean, this video is part of marketing so of course.

Now, let's move on to the actual content of the video !

You. That's you, Phoenix

Wording, Phoenix. Wording.

So Klavier can canonically produce guitar sounds out of thin air ?? I thought it was extradiegetic. Well I guess that's handful when he has to do a concert but forgot his guitar, heh !

This is peak comedy right there. Man I love Ace Attorney.

ACE ATTORNEY AND GHOST TRICK CROSSOVER WHEN ??? (Still gotta play Ghost Trick and finish AA lmao)

This image is cool.

Oh, Nick, honey... that's the kind of reference that I like heheh

I WOULD LIKE TO DISAGREE. ALTHOUGH YOU *COULD* START AT THE APOLLO JUSTICE TRILOGY (I'vo only played the first of this trilogy) WITHOUT BEING TOO LOST, YOU WOULD MISS A LOT OF CHATACTER DEVELOPMENT AND WOULD NOT QUITE UNDERSTAND HOW THE CHATACTERS GOT THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

YES PLEASE MILES TELL US ABOUT THE STEEL SAMURAI <3 <3 <3

ALSO ! Turns out that ERIC VALE did Phoenix's voice. ERIC VALE the anime voice actor !!! Thatcis so cool. I didn't recongize Edgeworth's VA (cuz i've only watched the first anime episode + the bloopers) so... idk do your own research I don't care that much honestly. How about the "Objection!" Voiceline actors tho. Who are they. They're the closest to their official voice actors.

Anyways, tl;dr : this is a recap of all of Ace Attorney (minus the Layton crossover) + Ghost Trick. There is the number 12 at the beginning and Ghost Trick is mentionned, so my theory is that they're planning a 12th game which is a Ghost Trick crossover :)

[kimspears]

"Is Timmy in the well?"....he's a talker in the mornings.🧶🌞

[mizuans]

back from the void. bringing gifts

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

I see and thank ye for the Wylan nightmare fics, they are good soup 🤌🏼

I propose a Wylan nightmare fic that casually takes place on the farm in Novyi Zem.

Wylan wakes with a fright loud enough to not only wake Jesper but Colm too. Or perhaps he cant breathe properly and its Jespers desperate shouts for him to wake up that wakes Colm

Either option paves the way for a good Wylan/Colm and Jesper/Colm chat

[acekindaneat]

worms on a string 👍👍

[ilovesadiesink]

six of crows groupchat (part 2)

nina: guys

jesper: wassup

wylan: what?

inej: yes?

kaz: ?

nina: before tomorrows heist we should all thank beyoncé

jesper: OMG YES

jesper: THANK YOU QUEEN BEYONCÉ

inej: ty beyoncé

wylan: thanks beyoncé ig?

matthias: what

nina: ffs you ALL gotta do it otherwise we WILL die

matthias: this is stupid

inej: just do it

matthias: ok thank you beyoncé

kaz: who the fuck is beyoncé

nina: oh god

jesper: bye

jesper: rip in advance

kaz: ??

[carebooks]

i know the whole reason for Chloe (in the show) to not have any real good!aligned character growth was because the creators said that not every person you meet will become a better person or grow to be a better person, and that’s part of reality, Chloe will always be a villain.

and yeah, ok, true, some people just never change, for better or worse,

but this is also a kid’s show, and while it’s good to show kids “hey, this person won’t change, but you dont have to be like them.” why not show them the person changing for the better? actually developing? is doesn’t have to be a full Amity from TOH development, where she went from mean girl to good person aligned with our heroes to one of the heroes. And it also doesn’t have to end the same way it did with Amity, it could end with Chloe just being a better person to only those she cares about, she could still despise Marinette and Alya but be nicer to Sabrina or Zoe in her own weird Chloe-way.

Maddie from Every Witch Way started out in a very Chloe way, but she wasn’t the main villain, ever, just for a few episodes in the first season because she was also a bully to the main character. After that however, she was still shown to be spoiled, vain, material-obsessed, and driven by popularity. But that didn’t stop her from caring about her friends, from only helping the mains bc her friends were in trouble. She got a boyfriend in s2 (a very nice one at that) and he helped her develop into a better person as well. Maddie wasn’t about to start doing things for the goodness of her heart or other people, she did good things for people she cared about which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If anything she was more like an anti-hero.

This show wasn’t even a huge hitter on Nickelodeon (though we did get it to four seasons). So, why can’t they just do a similar thing to Chloe rather than keep her at this cartoon-level villain? I know it’s a cartoon but that’s never stopped ATLA, TLOK, SVFOE, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, or The Owl House to have nuanced, genuine, developed characters that don’t all have to be 100% aligned with good or start out that way.

[clonehigh-takes]

i absolutely adore how van gogh was just living his best life this season. i like to think he’s like a half bleacher creature. he’s friends with them but he’s not as socially rejected so he still goes to parties and stuff sometimes. also he’s the only sane one of the group and thinks they’re a lil weird but he doesn’t have the heart to tell them how weird they are (the others are fully aware of this btw but they ignore it because they actually love their little chihuahua of a man)

TRUE!

[ccghastly]

Ooh! I’d love to hear about your head canon of Arthur speaking French if you don’t mind sharing!

For Sure! Thank you for asking!!

My headcanon is that Arthur's maternal grandparents were french immigrants and while Arthur's maman Beatrice is fluent in English she grew up primarily speaking French, so French is her first language and the one she has more confidence in speaking.

(Yes, Beatrice was totally the poor belaboured kid that had to act as a translator for her parents whose English skills were much worse than hers)

So, since Arthur's dad Lyle didn't have much of anything to do with Arthur while Arthur was in his formative years, Arthur's first language is also French because Beatrice preferred to use her mother-tongue when speaking with her baby.

This also, of course, means that Arthur did have a french accent when he was young, but after his maman's death Lyle didn't approve of Arthur not speaking 'plain English' and he worked hard to get rid of it.

Thus Arthur is fully fluent in conversational French.

This is also why Dutch and Hosea had to teach him to read after they met. Arthur learned to read from his maman, who learned to read from her parents, who only read and wrote in French. Arthur of course didn't tell the Odd Couple that he was already fully literate, just not literate in English. First because he'd learned that letting people think you're dumber than you are is never a bad thing, and then later because he was too deep into the lie to correct it.

Hosea did catch him in the act one day when he was sweet talking the horses (because he knew far more sweet pet-names in french) and Hosea cut him a deal. Hosea could mostly hold up his end of a conversation in french, but he was by no means fluent and lack of use only made him more rusty, so if Arthur would agree to talk with him in french once in a while when asked Hosea wouldn't tell Dutch.

Arthur agreed and Hosea kept his promise. No doubt saving Arthur from the innumerable hijinks Dutch would think up to take advantage of Arthur's polyglossal ways.

Arthur leaves notes for Hosea in French if he doesn't want Dutch or John (especially john) reading them. Dutch nearly caught on once because he knows Hosea speaks french and thus did assume that Hosea wrote the note, but the note didn't quite look like Hosea's writing. Hosea said that he'd just written it in a hurry, and Arthur took it upon himself to master mimicing Hosea's handwriting.

Hosea still finds it both funny and disconcerting to find notes that look exactly like he wrote them when he most definitely didn't. It's given him quite a few memory-loss scares when the notes are too vague or about common things that he could feasibly have wanted to note down to remember later.

Whoops that ran far longer than I meant it to, but it does hit all the highnotes of my Arthur speaks French headcanon. Thank you again for asking, I adore getting to rant about my unfounded brainchildren.

The fact that John is canonically learning to write in French has only solidified this particular idea, it's also a really fun coincidence.

[allieisacrybaby]

we moved on from this a little too quickly

[universalcontact]

okay wrap it up everyone i have to go

[candieduranium]

[sseanettles]

okay so spinning off some thoughts that came up while I was word vomiting my other arthur/lucy appreciation post was to rant a bit about van helsing and some rancid takes I saw about how the way he treated lucy on her deathbed was "creepy" with the hair brushing and stuff bc hoooooOOOO BOY

"van helsing infantilizes lucy"--okay setting aside the fact that this is a victorian novel written by a victorian man and gee water is wet, please expect some of this it's tragically a feature and not a bug, van helsing specifically infantilizes and underestimates...everyone to varying degrees???? it's a function of the plot lmao, it takes us so long to talk about vampires straight-up because he constantly looks down on others/doubts their capacity, that's not a women-talk-only problem he has. it's just a central character flaw. like. my deranged professor of a man is a master of personal and intellectual negging. everyone is "my child" and "my boy" and "my girl" and "good boy/good girl" all the time (and he calls himself an old man repeatedly). when he beckons arthur to come say goodbye to lucy he calls him "my child" and anyway now that we've established that van helsing is just like this with everyone it's just more jarring when it's a woman because we're understandably sensitized to that today....can we talk about the deathbed behavior???

van helsing brushing lucy's hair is not fuckin' creepy, jesus. tell me you've never tended to a dying person before without telling me, bc as a nurse who has tended many dying folks, tidying a patient???? giving them back their dignity???? at the end of all things???? giving them that tenderness, that act of service, for both the patient and their family???????? calling them my child, my boy, my girl????? my god, it's all one of the easiest and biggest gestures of humanity you can give someone. one of the attendings I love working with described hospice once as "we move through life in symmetry." as we near death, we become childlike again, just as we emerged into life.

to be cared for like a child is one of the greatest comforts I have seen given, time and time again. every time I hear seward say that when they entered the room to say goodbye, they found that van helsing had even brushed lucy's hair so that it lay like sunshine upon her pillow and had made her comfortable, my heart fucking aches and I start sobbing. that is not treating her like a doll. that is one of the most basic acts of compassion and decency you can do for someone departing us all forever, especially after prolonged suffering and pain and fear like she endured. treat them as a human who deserves comfort, who deserves dignity, who deserves decency. return them back to days when (if you had good parents) you always knew you were safe, you always knew you were cared for, and the world was gentle and kind and soft.

ALSO SHE IS FUCKING NINETEEN, SHE IS A FUCKING TEENAGER, THAT IS A FUCKING BABE ON THE COSMIC SCALE OF THINGS, she is nineteen, she is nineteen and her mom died on top of her and she doesn't understand what is happening to her, just that she is dying, no one can save her, they tried, they tried so hard and she is still dying, she is alone and she is dying, she is dying, she is nineteen goddamn years old and she is dying.

let someone be gentle with her. let someone brush her hair.