#what a cartoonishly awful goon though

[a-concert-just-for-me]

I cannot stand Trump okay but listening to him talking right now and hearing him say “waooooh 🥰” made me cackle

[yuukei-yikes]

care for my kagepro au inspired by phineas and ferb across the 2nd dimension where they hang out in a dark undisclosed location and they all have knives

this is extremely over the top and supposed to be funny btw. ayano's plot hole plan that makes no sense doesn't work but from another angle. she gets spit back from the daze in the same way it doesn't make sense for her to stay in there and she's still in THE AIR FROM JUMPING so erm she shatters a leg and maybe her spine too. fun times. she walks with a limp now

ayano in the daze's like. but i wanted this -> i deserved this -> im guilty i got what i wanted though -> i deserve punishment -> this IS punishment -> but i wanted this (restart) SO in this scenario where she survived she's still struggling with guilt because she DARED try to take the easy way out when she knew her siblings needed her. so now she's edgelord I must protect my siblings i dont deserve my cape (edgily puts scarf away) also the eyepatch is for extra edgelord vibes but i think it'd be cool if she can't control favoring because she's so all over the place so it's always active, and since she feels so much regret she can only project that one memory of her jumping to ppl. sad. so she covers it for the sake of everyone.

because of ayano's survival it's evident kenjirou is posessed so ayano+mekatrio move out immediately and are in actual hiding from him. that's why they're at undisclosed location. seto brings mary with them. so ayano's like ok, saeru wants all the snakes together, they're all gonna gather anyway it's better to have them all in one place and have eyes on them. so she starts the gathering process herself. in this saeru is extremely just Out There cartoonishly taking over the city style i told you this is based on phineas and ferb. i told you. btw the joke is that it's insanely over the top. i just find it episodic and joyful.

also ayano's cold to shintaro because she can't afford to have her feelings for him distract her, she has no right to normal teenage girl feelings like a CRUSH. but shintaro still believes kano as ayano saying IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT was the real ayano which matches with her new behaviour towards him so he's extremely pathetic about it. he's with her through her entire recovery and becomes her right hand man which the trio HAAATE bc ayano doesn't let them do anything but shintaro can always come<3 their missions go from buying groceries to saving haruka and takane from the evil lab to kidnapping hibiya and hiyori. shit like that.

they get hibiya and hiyori and it's their BIGGEST PRIORITY to protect them because they're saeru's next target and if they can avoid having all snakes out it's by making sure these 2 stay alive. erm they don't wanna be there though. it's dark in here and you're all weird as hell. momo is tasked with babysitting them. she's not happy about it.

momo never gets her money controlled, dropped out from school since day 1 and the fame got to her head so she's kinda awful. she's the only one allowed out of wherever the fuck they are because of work she's literally the one paying 4 everything. toxic yuri situation with kido who has one side of their head shaved. you know how it goes. also kido acts rly tough like they're out there killing thugs and goons but mostly they just make food

takane is the medic in the same way barbers used to be surgeons in the middle age which means everyone tries really hard not to get hurt so they don't have to go to her. also saeru's whole Experiments on haruka and takane thing is a lot more evil and ermmm she has one less leg and she's permanently connected to a reactor thing of sorts so she's also the team's tech! woohoo!! it's unknown whether she got opening eyes or not because she has no idea how to activate it which makes ayano rly frustrated. same goes for haruka who has not woken up since aug 15. which is the main reason takane started watching youtube tutorials on medicine. get you a girl who will take care of you if you're in a coma and there is no access to a hospital.

seto and mary wield weapons for one reason or another. kano is extremely guilty about shintaro's guilt but also hates him more than ever bc ayano won't trust him anymore and now shintaro's the one knowing everything. probably some doomed yaoi in there somewhere. this is my evil kagepro au

[mariyekos]

Normally I don't dream about fictional characters, but the other day I had a dream about some of the characters from DMC5 and I can't stop thinking about it. There was more to the dream (including some bits I've forgotten) but there's one specific image that really struck me and that I really wish I had the skill to draw.

Below is me rambling about my dream. It probably makes no sense but it was so intense and I don't want to forget any more of it so I'm just going to write down what I can still remember.

The premise of the dream was that there was a sort of...race/competition going on, I'm which several people competed to get some unspecified grand prize. It was all very fun and very silly. The dream started out with the focus being on this one female character who the others were trying to sabotage, that was clearly much smarter and more capable than the rest of the goons who were cartoonishly dumb/incompetent. The goons were kind of implied to be Griffon and others, but they were pretty vague. Partway through the race (and I mean multiple scenes in so this had a lot of setup), the goons rigged a barn to collapse/dump a bunch of hay and stuff on the female character so they could steal whatever important thing was inside, but they ended up being trapped in it instead, while the female character walked away unharmed and with a silver orb which was the prize/important thing they were supposed to get in the barn. She said something about how they were dumb for underestimating her just because she was a woman, and then walked out of the barn toward wherever the next destination was. (Brief side note, I, the "viewer" distinctly remember being upset because the female character's main personality trait seemed to be that she was a female character, which I found incredibly shallow.)

Now, this may seem completely unrelated to DMC5, because at this point it totally was. Other than one of the goons kind of resembling Griffon in personality, it wasn't DMC5ish at all. The tone was also very light. Think sitcom.

V pulled himself out of the hay and then walked until he found a grain silo, then, after making sure no one was following him, he entered it. He found a secret door and then ducked into a very tall, blue-tinted, dimly lit room. Once inside, the camera panned up and revealed Dante suspended from the ceiling, unconscious, bloody, and hung by wires. After I woke up I realized this was probably my brain combining the scene in the OG FFVII where Sephiroth rips away the mechanical Jenova with V and co. finding Dante on the mini throne, but at the time I was just in awe. V reached up to Dante, who was basically DMC5 Dante sans jacket and with a lot more exposed inner flesh, and promised he'd save him. It was honestly really tender. Dante was probably hanging a good fifteen or twenty feet up so V couldn't reach him, but V did reach a hand up as he promised to fix things. For a little more detail, the inside of the silo seemed like a completely different genre than the wacky modern western of the barn and rest of the dream; it was more like a sci-fi cathedral, made of stone and metal and wire and light coming in from an off-camera window that filtered in like moonlight through (mostly blue, some red) stained glass. This is the image I can't get out of my head. Dante, suspended from the ceiling by wires, bloody and falling apart (and with V so gently reaching up toward him, trying to cradle his cheek to comfort him even though he's too far to reach)

But as the female character walked away...instead of the "camera"/view following her as it had for the rest of the trials up until this point...the camera stayed on the hay pile. And once she was gone, V emerged from the hay pile, holding a silver orb similar to the one Nameless Female Character had. Because as it turns out...he'd used some of the goons to distract her (now it made sense why Griffon was there, thoigh only Griffon was loyal to V and the rest of the goons were just random entrants) so she wouldn't realize he was secretly in the race. He'd swapped the orbs; unbenownst to her, she'd been duped. While she walked away with the fake, V pocketed the real orb. He needed the prize. Or rather, he needed all the little bits they were finding, which were powerful relics in their own right.

After that, V went through another door. He descended down a narrow staircase, again with cold stone walls and stone steps, until he reached an abandoned subway. Again, everything had a cool blue tone. The subway looked a bit like the one you see in DMC5 Chapter 7. Think the bit before the escalators with all the purple things shooting down at you, where it's running down and you have to go against it to get up. But this was also sort of mixed with FFVII's Nibelheim Reactor room, right before you get to Jenova's chamber. The important part is that despite having had to go down a staircase to get here, V was at the bottom of the room, and he had to go forward to ascend and get to his destination. As opposed to Dante's lonely cathedral in the silo that had seemed forever untouched save for whoever put him there, the subway instead felt like a relic of another age. A place that had once been populated. A place that was once full of life. Here, I felt like V was looking at something that had been lost to remind himself of what he was fighting for and what there was to gain.

He ascended the steps. (Again, think DMC5 subway, facing the escalator, but the escalators is much shorter, probably only half the length, and has steps). At the top was a chamber. Inside the chamber, which was pretty small, about the size of a bedroom, was a coffin like pod made of metal and with a window at the top that was completely fogged up/opaque in the way of frosted glass). V released the seal on the pod and it opened, releasing a bunch of fog/smoke. Then the camera zoomed on what was inside: Vergil.

Unlike Dante, who was completely unresponsive and stayed unconscious and limp with his eyes closed as V spoke to him, Vergil opened his eyes and looked at V. Dante had seemed dead, suspended in the air like that, but Vergil was alive. Yet how "alive" he was was questionable; there wasn't true awareness there, no consciousnes or thought besides eyes opening. Vergil was "awake" but not really. It was robotic, or automatic, in that even though the flesh was awake the true mind wasn't. And so V promised to fix him too. Because what Vergil was wasn't really Vergil, and V was sorry to see him like this, but he needed to be reminded of what he was fighting for, and he wanted to show Vergil the orb in case that would spur something in him and revive him a bit. It didn't. He remained unreactive, even if "awake." But it was something. V would keep going on his journey to save the both of them, no matter what it took.

I woke up after that. I think the idea was that Dante had been captured and V couldn't free him, so he needed to get Vergil to free Dante. But Vergil himself had had something terrible done to him, so V was trying to collect the artifacts to restore Vergil to himself so that he would 1) be Vergil again and not just an emotionless, unthinking body, and 2) save Dante, who V knew was important to Vergil and wanted to save. I kind of said it abide but there were a lot of religious undertones to this. V felt like he was worshipping Dante as he reached to him, as if Dante were some sort of god. With Vergil, it was more like V was trying to fix an...agent of that god? Something that wasn't as inherently Holy, but had gained some measure of Divinity through V's devotion to him. The pod made me think that Vergil WAS worshipped at one time, but had been forgotten, to the point that V was the only one left to pray to him. V was the last follower. The last devotee. And he'd give his all to save them, even as the world itself tried to move on past them, full of yellow and light and laughter and wood and silliness that heavily contrasted the blues and darkness and silence and stone and seriousness of the world Dante and Vergil existed in. A man trying to revive old gods because he did not believe they deserved what had happened to them. A man so desperate to save them he'd break the genre for it.

It was just. Man the atmosphere of it. The insane contrast of this silly adventure western race thing with V coming out of the hay and then going into Dante's chamber. Dante, strung from the ceiling, and V staring up at the chamber in which Vergil rested, pausing at the steps as if so awed by the world he had entered and so affected by the loss of what once was that he needed to take a moment before proceeding and reaching for his salvation. Awakening Vergil felt like blasphemy. V was working to save him, yes, but seeing Vergil was very much a self serving indulgence. Vergil wouldn't want to be seen in a state where he was a blank slate, empty and unaware, but V had to see him, to present the orb and proof that he was working towards saving them both. The orb helped wake Vergil, but the ritual was incomplete, and the Awakening was really only for V to motive himself to continue on his perilous quest.

Sorry if this sounds like insane rambling but I NEVER dream about fictional characters and I don't remember the last time I had a dream that felt like it had so much symbolism and such string emotions and that I remembered 3 days later. It was just. So much. I wish I could capture the images better because I feel insane about this. Ahhhh!!! V. Dante. Vergil. The devotion. The genre swap. Ahhhh!!!!!