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“The Choice To Be Kind” - A Thematic Analysis

(ft. Eden, David, Teruko, & Arei)

For me, Eden is the heart of this chapter that the cast is revolving around, all serving to contrast her uniquely genuine sentiment.

“I chose to be this way.”

“I’ll still make the choice to be kind.”

Her intentions are very blatantly stated. This is a decision she actively makes everyday. It’s not a naïve default, it’s a continuous effort.

This is a very important distinction to establish going forward in examining other characters’ perspectives of kindness. Kindness was not something she was born with; it doesn’t run in her blood or her genes. It is not intrinsic to her existence.

Kindness is autonomous.

This alone is in conflict with how Arei, David, and Teruko, all address “goodness” as a trait instead of an acquired skill.

So there’s this constant reiteration of “you are good or you are bad”

This is countered by Eden saying “you can be good or you can be bad”

But then, most poignantly, it is Arei who concludes with the most self-realized perspective of “you are not good, nor are you capable of becoming good, just as you are not bad, nor capable of becoming bad, because there is no Good or Bad to become”

And this is by far the healthiest way to conceptualize self-improvement.

All we can do is hold ourselves accountable for bad actions and acknowledge that they will never render future acts of kindness futile.

None of this is to disparage the idea of change itself — it is to say that David, Teruko, and Eden have a much different understanding of what “change” implies here. For them, change is a means to be made from Bad to Good. We see this sentiment reflected in Teruko’s exchange with Whit.

And there in lies the issue: these concepts of concrete morality are unattainable! They’re not real.

But what can be changed is your behavior.

Just as Eden established, kindness is an effort, and you can make it continuously. But unlike Eden’s implied sentiment, Arei has realized that there’s no threshold of Good to be met through these efforts. The effort to be kind is simply that: an effort. No one is barred from making it, nor is anyone required to. The effort means something, just as a lack of it does, but there’s no permanence to it all. It’s simply a consistency of effort that credits you reliable or kind in the eyes of others.

But everyone wakes up a blank slate, capable of starting or losing that consistency just as easily as the next person. And because of that-

-no one is too far gone.

No one is too far behind, because there’s no finish line to be reached.

Everyone can wake up and try to be a little less shitty.

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Recently awakened to the sheer potential of this ship

(hi drdt fandom)

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Charwhit keeping each other company after finding out their secrets

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so is this just the yaoi trial now or

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drdt ch2 episode 15 spoilers

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GODDDD THEY MAKE ME SICK

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a colored version:

I find it funny that the time when Whit had the biggest emotional fluctuation was actually only because of Ace’s crappy dirty joke (a slip of the tongue).

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Flowers of Fate and Company (Short Comic)

(Orignal fanfic by : @dre4mimi )

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Teruko is so drawable i love her!!!!!

whenever i am sad i draw teruko

teruko is therapy

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That one Oshi no Ko meme except it's Ulysses

you look so stupid,,, i love you

More versions under the cut:

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Getting into Project: Eden’s Garden is funny because the protagonist hates pretty much everyone but also has undeniable chemistry with all of them. Wolfgang? His narratively opposite antagonist with that underlying appeal of “if we weren’t on opposing sides, we could be a power duo” due to their similar talents. Diana? An even more narratively opposite antagonist that he canonically has a soft spot for because she showed him kindness. Eva? The only person he trusted and he said she looked good when she smiled, and just internally gushed about in general.

You think that’s it?? Nope, not even the side characters are safe. Kai? The unexpected option who he becomes roommates with, and who he SHARES THE BED WITH and just so happens to oversleep for the first time in the game when they do?? Desmond, who Damon is so uncharacteristically flustered around it’s not even funny- I don’t think I’ve ever seen Damon give out so many casual compliments about someone.

Genuinely you could make a legit case for almost every student in this game to romance Damon and I’d just be like yeah bro cheers I see it good on ya.

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What did Wolfgang do, bro? 😭😭😭😭

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paperman 💋

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Do you guys ever wonder WHERE randall got the outfit for the masked gentleman??

Obviously he didn’t own them, which suggests that they were supplied by Descole, which is even more cursed because IMAGINE THIS BITCH sending the letter to randall about how he could take his revenge on Henry and then going Ahah. Eeyup. My job is done. Now i need to create the most cuntiest villain outfit ever and send it over. DO YOU THINK DESCOLE MANUALLY CREATED IT HIMSELF imagine descole running on like 2 hours of sleep with the most fucked up messy hair ever hunched over a sewing machine and theres like 6000 strait pins on the floor, fabric everywhere, thread is in tangles just absolute insanity. No wait imagine Descole paying someone else to make it. Imagine you’re opening up your small clothing designing business and this masked fuck walks in like Eeyup. I need you to make me the cuntiest villain outfit ever. Dont ask questions.

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Hello Layton Nation. I am creating an AU based on those freight-hopper stories set in a time based on the Great Depression.

Major PL spoilers!

This is my first ever AU I am making public! The first chapter is already in the works while I plan out the major plot points of the story.

To summarize, Professor Layton's life has been almost completely destroyed in this 1930s-esque England, amidst a economic depression. Severe economic crisis has rippled across the globe, and Layton has been unable to get back on his feet since his attack shortly after Claire's death, losing his job and his money. He's left his city life behind and now lives wherever the tracks take him, staying out of the way of his previous loved ones in order to spare them of his problems and to relieve them of his burden.

Luke Triton is much the same as he would be pre-Last Specter, but everyone was effected by the depression. His family had to juggle treading financial waters and taking care of issues within the village until a greedy, desperate-for-money, immoral organization, Targent, destroys Misthallery in search of the Golden Garden. He runs away in order to save his own life after everything he knows is destroyed. He hops into a nearby freight, and meets a sleepy and free-roaming gentleman.

They ride the tracks together until Targent, which was also hired by the government to snuff Layton out, destroys the freight while it's still moving along the rail, propelling Luke and Layton off the familiar track and into the main story;

Phantom Railway.

After escaping from Targent at last with the notion that a mysterious assassin is on their tails, Layton and Luke learn of a strange railway that supposedly suddenly appeared one day. There are many myths and legends that surround the tracks, saying that those who manage to board the train that rides them are taken to the afterlife, and any who try to follow the tracks to the end disappear, never to be seen again.

With his interest piqued and his money nonexistent, Layton figures he wants to go explore this mysterious railway. Luke, of course, with nowhere else to go, insists on going with the man, and the two set off.

Phantom Railway I hope will do at least a little bit of justice to the types of stories on which it is based, and I hope those who read it will enjoy it. It will be less of a mystery-type and more of an adventure, but I'll try my best to incorporate both aspects into the storyline as much as I can.

I came up with this idea while driving past an abandoned railway in my town, and figured it looked eerie enough to make a cool story. I then found myself thinking about one of the scenes from a movie where a group of chain-gang prisoners escape to hop into the boxcar of a moving freight train, which has always been one of my favorite scenes in cinema.

This is my first time writing a project like this, so I'm hoping it does decently.

I'm still working things out, and if anyone has any questions, please ask! Honestly, it will help me understand my own lore so I can build and write it a little more fluidly.

This is still heavily WIP, and so many things stated in this post may change!

If anyone has any sort of objections, tell me those too! Correct me on anything, talk to me, ask questions, I'm open!

THANKS! -ARCHIE ☻

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happy 18th birthday professor layton! my favorite image is now canon

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left behind again

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Happy Hershel Haturday! Wrong Hershel tho-

*Blasts him with the bisexual beam*