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ironunderstands Ā· 2 months ago
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Sundayā€™s worldview sucks, his outlook and perception of himself and others sucksā€¦ and thatā€™s why heā€™s so interesting
In honor of his drip marketing releasing tonight (or maybe yesterday for you depending on when I get this out), Iā€™d like to talk about why I think Sundayā€™s beliefs and perspective is very, very flawed and how his own biases rather than the actions of those who oppose him are what led to his downfall.
Sunday is entirely responsible for his own failure, and thatā€™s exactly why heā€™s incredible.
This contains mentions of leaks and spoilers for the Penacony quest lineā€¦ you have been warned
To start with, oh my lord do Sundayā€™s preconceived notions kick him in the ass.Ā 
I think the best example of this is his conversation with Dr. Ratio in which Ratio pretends to betray Aventurine, selling out his plan to Sunday. Now, whatā€™s incredibly interesting about this exchange is that Ratio doesnā€™t fully lie to Sunday once in this exchange, rather he says half truths and makes vague statements which Sunday himself interprets as being in support of him.Ā 
Take what Ratio said the whole, ā€œA scholar knows their position and wouldnā€™t forsake it for the sake of petty pride.ā€ In retrospect, we know this line is actually referring to Aventurine- aka Ratio is saying heā€™s not just going to sell him out to Sunday for the sake of information about the Stellaron (which he would get anyways if the IPC attained Penacony, plus Mr. Incredibly Dedicated Knowledge Spreader probably has other means of gaining it then through The Family).Ā 
However, since Ratio answered the invitation Sunday gave him, Sunday assumes that Ratio is on his side, believes his cause is righteous, and that he won Ratio over with offering him information about the Stellaron, therefore making that previous statement of Ratioā€™s null, because Sunday interpreted it as, ā€œconvince me this is worth my time + prove to me youā€™re correct,ā€ when it really meant, ā€œthere is no way in hell Iā€™m about to sacrifice my friend to you, and there is nothing you could offer me to make me do so you crazed lunatic.ā€
But why did Sunday not weigh the options? Why did he unquestioningly believe his perception of the situation was the correct one?
Well- partly itā€™s because Ratio and Aventurine were doing their damndest to make it seem like they hate each other and that their plan was going off the rails.
But the more important part is that even without Ratio saying a word or even accepting the invitation, Sunday already believes heā€™d be on his side.Ā 
Let me demonstrate this through Sunday's perspective:
I am a righteous person, I am doing the correct things, my worldview is the correct one. Dr. Ratio is also a righteous person who seems to be doing the correct things. Therefore, since we are both on the side of good, and Aventurine is clearly not on that side considering his status as Stoneheart and his negative relationship to Ratio, then Ratio will naturally want to be on my side. After all, the good guys work together, do they not?- and together will vanquish this evil villain.
This perspective is a simple one, but Sundayā€™s unshaking belief (up until the end of 2.2) that he is 100% in correct and in the right, that any and everyone who he also perceives to be in the right (like Ratio) would believe/side with him without truly needing to be convinced. Sunday doesnā€™t come out the gate offering the Stellaron information- he only keeps it as a backup just in case.Ā 
However, this is complicated because Sunday is also not an idiot, and heā€™s extremely paranoid, so heā€™s going to make sure that the way he views the world is 100% correct on the off chance heā€™s wrong which could foil his plans- which is why he invited Ratio in the first place. Nevertheless, this isnā€™t him hunting for new perspectives, but rather him desiring to prove himself right again, which is a bad thing because Sunday is very much not right.Ā 
A perfect world is a perfect pris- *gets shot*
Reference that approximately 2 Ā½ people will get beside, Sundayā€™s ideology that he is fully confident in.. sucks. It sucks ass, itā€™s terrible, and let me explain.
Iā€™m not going to try going over all the little intricacies to how the dreamscape works because I a) donā€™t know and b) donā€™t particularly care because they arenā€™t relevant to the argument I will be making- which is that Sundayā€™s ideology is inherently flawed and immediately falls apart under scrutiny.
Essentially, he desires to create the perfect fake reality, enveloping the whole galaxy in Enaā€™s dream and fulfilling their every desire and whim within it, with himself as the sacrifice to allow it to exist. The seven rest days, no illness, no pain, no challenge, you get the idea.Ā 
And, this perfect world paradoxically sucks ass because of its perfectness.
Improving society is great, eliminating hardship is great, increasing quality of life is great.
But declawing reality itself- absolutely not.
Iā€™m going to try to explain this through my favorite strangely specific anecdote- the process of obtaining diamonds in Minecraft.
Stay with me now.
You essentially have two options- go out and mine them yourselves the hard way, which takes hours, gives you less diamonds per the amount of time spent on it, and likely with you exhausting some of your resources like food, torches, and tools which you will need to replenish.
Or.
You can just.. get them from creative mode or commands, and you can get as many as your heart desires.
However, despite the fact that option one is harder, gives you less diamonds and takes significantly more time, I, as well as hopefully you, would pick it every time (at least in a survival world, although honestly idk why you would even need pure diamonds in creative).
And thatā€™s because the first option is rewarding.Ā 
You did not earn the diamonds you easily and magically summoned into your inventory, there is no struggle, no journey, no challenge to it, therefore it feels entirely unremarkable, as compared to the feeling you (hopefully) get from mining diamonds, which makes you happy because you earned it. Yeah, it was harder, but the process itself is fun- the anticipation of not knowing when youā€™re going to find them, if at all, the danger, the fighting and digging and mauvering you will have to do in the process.
And with this unconventional example, the fatal flaw with Sundayā€™s ideology is revealed- itā€™s boring.Ā 
Itā€™s boring as shit.
Yeah, for the first few months or even years it might be enjoyable- having everything you could ever want served on a silver platter. However, humans are a) inherently a bit greedy and b) desire challenge, and this scenario fulfilles neither of those things. Naturally having everything means your desire for more can never be fulfilled, leaving the wanter forever unsatisfied, whereas in the real world, things are truly out of your reach, meaning that even if you never end up getting them, they are still a tangible thing just out of reachā€¦ as strange at it sounds, we like being tantalilus-ed more than you think. After all, if what you want is so easy to get, you will never run out of things to want, and eventually that gets draining.Ā 
Continually, if everything is easy, if everything is just right there whenever you want it- existence itself no longer has stakes.Ā 
And thatā€™s the problem, because much like how a story with no stakes is extremely hard to find compelling, a life with no stakes feels boring at best and downright pointless and meaningless at worst.
Iā€™m just saying, there is a reason why the Nihility was such a strong presence and problem in Penacony.
Anyways, like with the diamond problem, a lack of stakes means that nothing you do feels rewarding, because you didnā€™t truly earn it.Ā 
Which is where the Sundayā€™s idea of a ā€œperfectā€ reality falls apart, because the most enjoyable reality for humans to live in is not one literally devoid of any possible flaw.
So why does he believe in it? When itā€™s so clearly flawed?
Well, itā€™s because Sunday doesnā€™t think a better alternative exists.
The world made you this way.. and you chose to continue what it started.
Iā€™m sure I donā€™t need to repeat the story of the Charmony Dove all over again because trust me, weā€™ve all heard it before. Nonetheless, it reveals something important both about Sundayā€™s personality and his ideology- heā€™s fundamentally a defeatist.
He doesnā€™t believe that there is any alternative for the dove, that it could ever be able to fly again with its deformed nature, so instead of being ā€œcruelā€ and letting it ā€œinevitably fall to its death,ā€ heā€™d rather keep it in a cage all its life where it has no freedom, but at least it would he alive and ā€œhappyā€.
And this is where his defeatism reveals itself- Sunday doesnā€™t believe reality itself can get better because improving it when there are so many factors and things out of your control is hard at best and impossible at worst. Therefore, he resorts to creating an escapist, false version of it- a perfect golden cage, because constructing that is far, far easier than trying to help the dove fly again.Ā 
The universe has endless possibilities, if Robin and Sunday had tried hard enough, they probably could have found a solution. Sure, they were both children, so the capabilities necessary to even attempt that were likely far out of their reach. However, it was still possible, but Sunday doesnā€™t believe in possibilities- he believes heā€™s right above all else, which is where that stubbornness and arrogance comes into play again.
Sunday doesnā€™t think better solutions than his exists, and he believes everyone would could possibly stand in his noble way are either villains, or horribly misguided; so itā€™s his job to show them the light.
This is why he lets the Express Crew + Firefly try to change his mind- Sunday wasnā€™t actually interesting in shifting his perspective, or really what they wanted to say. Rather, he just wanted to let them say there peace, because well, Sundayā€™s a good, righteous person (at least from his perspective), and good, righteous people listen to others. Good, righteous people will let these poor, ignorant souls offer their foolish words before exposing them to the harsh truth- or at least thatā€™s how Sunday sees it.Ā 
Moreover, this also explains his arrogance. If he believes his worldview is the sole correct one, then why listen to anyone else? Heā€™s this world's savior, or at least heā€™s been raised to believe that- so why not relish in it? He enjoys punishing Aventurine, enjoys the bastard who stood in the way of Sundayā€™s plans, shrinks away in ā€œdefeatā€ and get what he ā€œdeserves.ā€ Despite how miserable it sounds, Sunday also takes pride in having to be a martyr to bring about his beautiful dream. The belief that he is a selfless, good person is a selfish desire of his, even if a genuine one, and itā€™s what leads to his downfall.
Sunday could have actually listened. He could have reevaluated his loss to Aventurine and realized it was not through the others clever deception, but through his own biases. He could have actually taken the Expressā€™s and Fireflyā€™s advice. He could have looked for other avenues to help the people he truly does care about.Ā 
Despite Gopher Woodā€™s manipulation- Sundayā€™s decision to go forward with the pain is entirely his own, because he truly believes- even with all the evidence for the contrary- that he is correct.
And thatā€™s why he fails. Not because of the Express. Not because of Ratio. Not because of Aventurine. Not because of Gopher, or even the rest of The Family.
No, Sunday fails because he is flawed, and he is wrong, and he is the arrogant, selfish and biased one, and his worldview is wrong.
So what now?
This might have seemed like I think Sunday is pure evil and irredeemable, but I think itā€™s quite the opposite.
He has very good intentions, and he does genuinely care about it the well being of other people around him. He gives Aventurine a chance to prove his innocence, even if he never intended on changing, he does listen to what the Express + Firefly have to say. He pauses when Robin shows up, as sheā€™s the one person (until the very end) heā€™s actually willing to accept the perspective of. The whole reason he ended up here in the first place is because Gopher Wood twisted Sundayā€™s good intentions into a fatal arrogance and utmost belief in a flawed worldview.Ā 
However, what really sells me on Sundayā€™s goodness is when eyes widen at that final moment, the light draining from him as he realizes he is wrong.Ā 
And once Sunday realizes he is wrong, those flaws that bind him can finally be examined and improved upon, as they all stem from that worldview he no longer believes in.Ā 
His whole life, Sunday has been enacting out someone elseā€™s plan for him, even if heā€™s come to internalize it over time, at the end of the day- it was never his, and without it, heā€™s empty.
Which is exactly why the only place he can go now is the Express, and the only thing left for him is redemption and growth.
Dan Heng is right- Sunday has a noble soul, and now that he has stopped believing in himself, heā€™s no longer shackled by the past either. Improvement or utter demise (in a likely nihility-flavored manner) are his only options remaining.
I understand a lot of people want to see him become a Stellaron Hunter, but imo, that just does nothing for him. Heā€™d still be following someone elseā€™s path/script, and Mr. I Will Sacrifice My Whole Existence To Become The Sun To Illuminate These Wandering Souls probably wouldnā€™t be so on board with the whole.. terrorism part of being a SH. Like yeah, they are our friends (kinda), but they absolutely kill innocent people and cause millions of dollars in property damage to people who donā€™t deserve it.Ā 
Also, being on the Express Just Makes Sense. This is a game about choices, a game about accepting the mistakes of your past, but not letting them define you in order to move on and forge a better future for yourself and others- with the Astral Express + Trailblaze as a concept being the literal embodiment of it. Thereā€™s a reason when you switch to the Trailblazerā€™s POV in stories, it includes Kafkaā€™s most important words to us- ā€œWhen you have the chance to make a choice, make one you wonā€™t regret.ā€
Therefore, I hope the choices Sunday will make in 2.7 are ones heā€™s proud of, and I canā€™t wait to see how exactly they get him on board with the crew, because there still is a LOT of development he needs to do before then.Ā 
Anyways, thank you so much for reading, and if you have any thoughts Iā€™d love to hear them. This was a stream of consciousness mess, but I hope it was still valuable nonetheless! Also if you are reading this on the day it was written, I hope we donā€™t get disappointed by his drip marketing!
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kristiliqua Ā· 10 months ago
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CHUNSIK MY BELOVEDDDDDD
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skitskatdacat63 Ā· 6 months ago
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Vettonso complaining about each other not respecting schrondinger's track limits on the radio compilation + Seb's commentary that made me a bit feral
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Must include these sexy ass pics okay, it makes me feral how hard they race each other.
Also SO upset that we got this vid and there's also pictures(and presumably a vid out there somewhere) of Fernando, back then, ALSO debriefing this race. And yet we never got them together?????? Evil. Fucked up.
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Imagine seeing them complaining about each other but also having to (begrudgingly if you're Fernando) compliment each other IN FRONT of each other. Maybe its a good thing it doesn't exist, bcs then I'd have a heart attack.
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fromtheseventhhell Ā· 25 days ago
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I love how people are only ever interested in defending Arya's right to be weird-looking. It's never defending her intelligence from people who claim she's incapable of thinking for herself, highlighting her importance to the plot and refusing to see her as just a prop, acknowledging how much of her story gets stolen and given to other characters, talking about her trauma or how often it gets erased and overlooked, seeing her as more than just an attack dog/bodyguard, etc. Nope. It's just a "why can't people let Arya be ugly/unconventional looking? :(" post every other week because people are, for whatever reason, obsessed with how Arya is visually perceived. One of the most misinterpreted characters yet the issue is only ever with her being portrayed as "too pretty" or the wrong "type" of pretty. This fandom will entirely rewrite a character's motivations, values, and role in the story to the point that they consider references to canon "hate" but! The true injustice to canon is we acknowledge that she is described as pretty several times. Arya simply existing as her pretty, important, and non-conforming self is too complex and confusing for people to comprehend šŸ˜”.
#arya stark#asoiaf#fandom nonsense#how can Arya be considered pretty?! she's literally non-conforming?? being pretty belongs to /feminine/ female characters...right? šŸ˜±#I feel like these people tell on themselves with how much they value beauty because they make it /such/ a big deal#when her self-esteem issues regarding being a lady are infinitely more relevant to her story (and more interesting to discuss)#her being mocked for having the Stark look is a supporting story element that also reinforces her being an outcast considering#her mother + all of her trueborn siblings have a southern look and she was raised with southern standards#not to mention her non-conformity and often messy appearance heavily impacted how her looks were perceived#George writes Arya's non-conformity as parallel to traditional femininity so it makes sense that beauty is one of those aspects he subverts#(also why it makes sense that her future includes accepting her identity as a Lady while redefining the role but that's off topic)#this is why you need to look at the writing instead of judging based on the /type/ of character you think Arya is#and! it's truly not that serious šŸ˜­ I'm sure it will be a plot point eventually but it's not 98% of her story like these people pretend#Arya is such an interesting + well-written character but we constantly get people rewriting her and nonsense discourse around her looks#such rich material and all you can say is that she's an /odd-looking feral gremlin/ and I'm supposed to take your opinion seriously#at this point the obsession with Arya being /weird/ looking has to be some projection of personal self-esteem issues#there's no way /this/ is the hill you're willing to die on with all the terrible takes about Arya from this fandom#wish people who didn't care about her would just stop bringing her up so we could have our discussions about her in peace
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fairyofshampgyu Ā· 11 months ago
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A bit random but canā€™t stop thinking of tying beomie up with pretty pink silk bow ribbons <33 sjdjfuhh%%>ā‚¬)Ā£ā‚¬%% tying up his dainty wrists with a bow, maybe one gagged around his mouth too or tying his legs to the bed just bondage with gyu and ribbons tied tight enough to leave pretty marks on his pretty bodyšŸŽ€ šŸŽ€ heā€™s such a pretty boy all tied up just having to take whatever you do to him, all yours to use as you please, whimpering and moaning softly underneath you but canā€™t move, your pretty doll <33
LIKE IS HE NOT MADE TO BE TIED UP W RIBBONS AND FUCKED LIKE THE PRETTY BOY HE IS ?!!>ā‚¬ā‚¬>>{ā‚¬
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sometimes-rendog Ā· 11 days ago
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are you watching wild life at all? got any favorite bits from it?
I've been trying, but honestly I haven't had much time to catch up šŸ’” However, I do have some favorites from what I've watched!
Beyond the obvious treebark moments ("wife swap", Ren saying "I'm here to soften this man.", Ren asking Martyn to hold him, etc.) I really loved how Ren was just absolutely losing it in session 3, jumping and screaming everytime his (or anyone else's) snail got even a BIT close to him. It's so funny šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ’™
Like. where is the dignity??? /silly
pt. 2 ->
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sparkmoth Ā· 6 months ago
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(spoilers for cyno's second story quest ahead!)
okay this is kind of a red-string insane connect the dots theory, but bear with me here. i was going through collei's voicelines today, and in her "about kaveh" line, she says, "The General Mahamatra once brought him to our place for a meal. From the moment the fruit arrived on the table, he ranted non-stop about his difficult and stubborn roommate for the entire meal. We didn't get a single word in the whole time. We just nodded along and tried to stifle our laughter. It took a lot of effort."
i've heard that line before, but i was thinking about it through a kavetham lense, so it only now occurred to me- why did cyno bring kaveh to tighnari's for a meal?
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i've marked both tighnari's house and haikaveh's in red, plus the yellow line to demonstrate the route between their houses. i've done that walk manually at walking speed for fic purposes, and it's about fifteen and a half hours in-game- 6 am to 9:30 pm.
so, with this information, this raises the question: why on earth would cyno bring kaveh to tighnari's house, when it's a goodly distance away, when presumably he has a house of his own?
admittedly, he's not home much since he's off doing general mahamatra-ey stuff, but it's established in his second story quest that he doesn't live with cyrus anymore, so he lives somewhere when he's not busy, and it'd be logical to assume that he has an akademiya-regulated house yknow, nearby the akademiya, but if that was the case he'd just bring kaveh there?
and if he didn't have a house at all to bring guests to, they'd probably go to kaveh's place, or if they really needed to avoid alhaitham, they could go to lambad's or another local resturant?
which brings me to my conclusion- cyno does have a house- he just lives with tighnari.
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poisonousquinzel Ā· 1 year ago
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idk yall, something about members of the Batfam calling her Dr. Quinzel while she's in recovery just gets me
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Batman: Gotham Adventures #10
Writer: Ty Templeton Pencils: Rick Burchett Inks: Terry Beatty Letters: Tim Harkins Colors: Lee Loughridge Editor: Darren Vincenzo
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kyan4everxd Ā· 3 months ago
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THIS WHOLE SCENE IS SO FUNNY
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jkpng Ā· 7 months ago
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day 135/547 of missing jungkook
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spinnysocks Ā· 30 days ago
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kiburi is such an unapologetic asshole in Let Sleeping Crocs Lie i love him. he really just does not give a single fuck about simba lmao
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dead-salmon Ā· 3 months ago
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this is me ranting about season's of blossom/hamin's flower, so TW SUICIDE, but anyways i don't know what's worse:
->hamin sacrificing his freedom so that jaemin could live freely, yet that freedom making jaemin feel like he's suffocating years down the line
-> somang's speech on how it's because of everyone that hamin killed himself, yet how it's none of their faults, especially not hamin's own
-> them using the phrase "disappeared from this world" to describe his suicide, not outright saying he killed himself
-> the theme of radiance. hamin feeling like somang was the radiant one and he was drenched in darkness, thus trying to distance himself from her. yet somang describing the summer with hamin her most radiant time, only because of his presence in her life, because he shined the brightest to her
-> jaemin who loved the rain because good things always happen to him then just for hamin to kill himself on a day where it rained non-stop. hamin who hated the rain but learnt to love it compared to jaemin who loved it but now dislikes it
-> hamin's suicide indirectly preventing gaeul's and dongchae's attempts. somang being unknowingly destined to lose a loved one either way
-> jaemin's parents not knowing how to handle hamin's suicide, his mother depending on him to be happy and his father being distant and too lax on everything. driving him further into his own abyss. hamin having sacrificed his happiness and acting too grown up for his age to protect jaemin from their parents strictness. jaemin ending up doing the same for his mother, faking a smile and comforting her about the pain of hamin's suicide
-> hamin not having heard the latter part of jaemin telling seonhui that while he resents hamin a little, he still loves hamin most of all. hamin having died thinking jaemin hates him, somang's last words to him calling him a coward
-> jaemin being lowkey passively suicidal and even trying a form of self-harm to understand hamin and deal with the pain of losing hamin
-> the fact that we start hamin's story already knowing how it ends
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my-quirk-is-fred Ā· 7 months ago
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Bruuuuuh I got targeted by a known pedophile šŸ˜­
Back tf up, this ass ainā€™t underaged lmao
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my-fancy-hat Ā· 4 months ago
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HE DEADASS CONFESSED BRO
#and laios swearing he will come back and share a meal with him at a restaurant together stfušŸ˜­#i had this lowkey spoiled but only mentioned in memes#fr this was so INTENSE kabru didn't let go of laios' arm any moment he was so scared of losing him???#his tsundere ass got so embarrased when laios exposed him he had to punch him lmao#while laios didn't understand how someone could go so far for his friendship like every friendship he has had have ended in rejection+#(except marcille chillchuck and senshi but they'r more like family at this point)(love when kabru called laios' party his family as whole)#so kabru coming so openly in saying he would love to learn more about him and be by his side hits all the right spots#kabru is finally invited to the family mealss so cute#the classic ā€œi promise i will come backā€ -> ā€œyou'd better keep your promise. i will waitā€ OKAY HI WHAT R WE DOING#i better see them eating and sharing meals together and hanging out together and laughing and#dungeon meshi#reading#giving a second though it's understandable u could at first say wow kabru so down bad for laios he did all of that for one man#but in a simplified way we could say the same for laios and marcille as well. they have endured a lot for falin#but it's smth greater than that. it's the seek of knowledge too. laios for monsters biology. marcille for magic and kabru for people+#(el chisme i mean. humanism. kabru would def be an anthropologist or politician)#in the dungeon they found smth they could never have achieved in the surface#strong desires
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justanartistiguess Ā· 4 months ago
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Fear during Inside Out 2
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skitskatdacat63 Ā· 1 year ago
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Catie i need to know in the famous interview w ron dennis DID FERNANDO EAT AN APPLE OR A PEACH??????? This is important information and im getting conflicting data. It looks like an apple but in my head its always been a peach
Okay so I don't know how to find that interview itself but I did remember that they showed it in Nando's doc, so here:
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The peach thing is a seperate thing. I understand why you'd be inclined to think it's a peach in this interview, bcs the peach thing is so iconic but this is def an apple. I like to think that this is just an extension of the peach thing. Because wasn't it that Ron Dennis hated any messy fruit eating? An apple is also messy honestly, so I like to think Fernando is particularly trying to be a bastard here as well, but a peach is perhaps too obscene to eat in a public interview SJFKVLV
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