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Nancy voiced Mike's feelings about Will in S4

More Jancy parallels!

or something...

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Six weeks after Cas' death, Dean buys a wedding ring.

It's not a conscious decision. He's been on autopilot since Chuck's defeat, going through the motions of living while feeling completely hollow inside. The last thing Cas did was die so Dean could live, so Dean's gonna pretend until it's true, because he can't let Cas have died for nothing.

The enormity of his grief is overbearing and he can't even put into words everything he's lost. How can he explain what they were to each other when they never spoke it out loud, not until Cas' last, awful speech that didn't even allow Dean time to respond?

The silence is swallowing him up, everything he didn't get to say.

And then Dean sees the ring.

It's a battered thing, shining dully in the glass counter at a pawnbroker's just outside of Topeka. It's one of a pair, and Dean snatches both of them, stuffing one far into his pocket and the other on his left hand.

The weight of it settles something in his chest.

People start treating him differently. Well-meaning strangers will start conversations in friendly, cheerful tones, catch a glimpse of his ring and the flatness of his eyes and put two and two together. Their voices will go soft, their whole demeanor shifting to a gentle carefulness. Like Dean has a terminal illness.

Good, Dean thinks. He doesn't want to be pitied but it brings him some type of satisfaction, knowing that the grief gnawing at him from the inside has become visible.

If his love couldn't be acknowledged while Cas was alive, at least it is now.

And later, when Cas finally returns to him, Dean doesn't say a word. He just reaches into his pocket, pulls out the ring still resting there. It's warm, and Cas' breath catches when Dean takes his hand and slides it onto his finger.

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Thank you for coming for me, Henry. You're a great friend, the best I could wish for.

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hey man everyone loved how convenient and easily forgettable you were on earth. u were the least inconvenient person out there. my buddy told me you were super helpful and nice and didn't take up any space and just slid away from their mind as soon as they stopped looking at you. it was really impressive how little of an impression you made on anyone. sucks that it didn't save you man.

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*spelling words out so my knight doesn’t get too excited* I’ve been thinking of sending him on a Q-U-E-S-T to save a M-A-I-D-E-N from a D-R-A-G-O-N. He’s been a very good boy lately.

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I’m sorry but the comments are taking me tf out I can’t-

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me [coming to terms with a truth about myself]: hm..................................................... unfortunate

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I miss louis in his rich auntie era

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I BET.

I BET . ☝️

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Oh. It's that affectionate little smile that he has only for Lestat. 🥹♥️

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apple art trend on tiktok before everyone forgets

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Hansry storytelling through nicknames in the Czech version

One of my most favorite things about Hansry is the way they call each other (in Czech because I'm biased sorry) evolves both overtime and depending on what emotion they're feeling at the moment.

The ways Henry calls Hans

In the first game, Henry calls Hans "pan Ptáček" (Lord Capon) most often, even when he's being sassy to him at the tavern.

Later, Henry evolves to "pan Jan" (pronounced [yan]) (Sir/Lord Hans). Or to just "Ptáček" (Capon). Never once does he call him just simply "Jan" in KCD1.

In the second game, Henry still calls Hans "Ptáček" (pronounced [p'taah-check]) most of the game, but it's veeery rarely lord/sir in front of that. The only few times I can remember is at the very beginning at the lake and then when talking to Hans in front of Brabant but not even that is consistent because he drops the lord/sir once.

But the best part about this word vomit is that Henry calls him very familiarly and fondly sometimes. The thing is that he calls him like that only when the situation is very intense and dangerous. The first time in the franchise (iirc) Henry calls Hans "Jan" without any "pan" (Sir/Lord) is when Henry is being hauled away from the cell in Trosky. He calls out for Hans with a "Jane! Jane!! Neboj! Já to nějak--!" ("Hans! Hans!! Don't be afraid! I'll somehow--!") And yes, Jan with an -e at the end because the Czech language uses vocative as one of their declension cases and as such, the endings of names look different when directly addressing someone.

Another case like this, is the ambush near Nebákov. There, in all that chaos, almost the second you lose sight of Hans in your gameplay or are too far away from him, Czech Henry calls out to him with a "Jendo! Sakra, [I have to go after him]!" where Jenda (yes with an -a in nominative) is a very cute nickname from Jan. That's the only time in the entire franchise he calls him like that. I would personally compare Jenda to calling someone Johnny instead of John or Jonathan.

Not long after, when Hans gets bonked, Henry tries to shake him awake and there is the absolutely legendary "Jane! Ptáčku! Podívej se na mně! Honzo!!" (imagine it as something like "Johannes! Capon! Look at me! Johnny!") because honestly the nicknames Honza/Jenda/Honzík aren't that alien to English. It's just that Hans is a bad name for having any nicknames. A good parallel would be William. You have Will or Billy there after all. Or Thomas and Tom and Tommy.

Here is a clip of the moment I just talked about:

The ways Hans calls Henry

Hans on the other hand, is very consistent throughout the two games with how he calls Henry.

Yes, he started their relationship by calling him shit shoveller and Jindřich in a very mocking voice but very quickly he settled into a tradition where he calls him Jindra almost all the time but calls him Jindřich when he's either angry at him or when he's being a sarcastic little shit. Jindra is a casual and friendly nickname, very common. Something like calling your friend Tom instead of Thomas.

He also once or twice sarcastically calls him Jindříšek which is a super baby boy way to say Jindřich.

But when he's being normal or friendly or tender, he always uses Jindra. Even during their romance scenes, Hans says that nickname but with how much of an amazing actor Czech Hans' VA is, the tone always varies throughout the game.

As I cannot post more than one video on a tumblr post, I cannot provide some Czech Hans clips but I do plan to make a video edit soon with all the ways Hans calls Henry in Czech!

Anyway, my conclusion is...

That I am absolutely feral from how much the evolution of their nicknames mean. The Czech version of this game takes awesome advantage of the nickname conventions in Czechia (and Slavic nations overall tbh) and in a very time and space efficient way uses them to show the players how far these two have become and how their fondness of each other surfaces!