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random question but how did javier's village (was it even a village??) get decimated again? I remembered reading somewhere that they burned to death but can't find it again so maybe I misremembered

the webcomic teased us with lloyd asking him about his parents only for javier not to answer 😭😭😭

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no one told me the webtoon is back today 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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idk op this might be your next calling...if you decided to do it lmk how it goes 💀💀💀💀

The name lloyd Frontera is spreading in my class. Yk why? Because of me. I write his name everywhere and mention him whenever I can. How do I know it's working, you ask? I heard them asking each other and I quote "who's lloyd Frontera? Let's look it up. "

So like, if you also still go to school, whether it be grade school, highschool, college, graduate school, or etc. Please do the same. Thank yew~

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I wonder how the characters' names are pronounced in korean...if it's like japanese then there's an entire different alphabet dedicated to foreign language....point is, I need a TGED anime.

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OMFG I'M SO DUMB LMAOOOO one of Cannavaro's goons is the same dark enchanter guy who protected Tordes 😭😭😭😭😭 can't believe I'm noticing this just now

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I'm not korean so don't quote me on this but aren't these guys literally making kimchi? it's episode 83 btw. the frontera diet is western based (sausages, bread, cheese, soup,...) and I'm not sure where Namaran is but why are they making kimchi lol is there a lore reason that went over my head

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modern au tkobai live action actor javier runs a food review/travel vlog youtuber channel on the side and hire kim suho as his 24/7 cameraman/editor

cue them traveling nonstop at tourist destinations & cool hotels & fancy restaurant reservations & feeding fan content and Suho will have a living wage and bf 24/7

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unrelated to the post but I only realized just now the adaptation team drew Arcos and Marbella sitting on the same side of the table in pic 5. Like. Why??

There's being equal partners and being considerate and there's drowning because someone who can't swim help someone drowning. Why would they drew them sitting on that cramp table with two dishes like that? Couldn't he have Marbella sit on the long side but move Scheherazade's chair down so Marbella be closer to him and is comfortable eating?

It was supposed to be an emotional scene and now I'm just like "whut is the logic behind this???" 😭😭😭

Scheherazade and Julian: Magnetic attraction

Magnetic attraction = force that draws two magnets together, typically occurring between opposite poles (north and south) of the magnets. <- (I'm soo clever for thinking of it 👏)

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Javier said he believed he could befriend an elf until he was six years old. Og Lloyd broke Javier's sword when he was six, so he was already at Frontera by then. What are the odds og lloyd also broke his dream of befriending an elf?? It'd be like a 'santa isn't real' moment—unless something drastic happened like him praying for an elf to come and help put out the fire burning his house then no one came, six is an awfully young age to stop believing in fantasy fairy tale.

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I took a two-hour nap and somehow dreamed up an entire post-canon where Hellkaros killed Suho in the final battle so Javier pestered Verkis to send him to hell for a rematch. Verkis refused, so Javier badgered to send him to the day Kim Suho arrived in this world which Verkis did out of obligation. Then, for some entirely unprovoked reason, future Javier proceeded to murder his past self and incinerated the body w/ mana blast before going to greet Suho just so that the protagonist died and now there's no more restoration phenomenon because og javier is fucking dead 😭😭😭 because if the phenomenon can't recognize suho in his own body why would it care if future javier is still javier??

bonus if future javier speedrun his courtship with suho by getting handsy whenever possible while og lloyd and dead javier seethingly watch them go at it as ghosts unable to interfere

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If Alicia and Javier are in Seoul someone should show them Iron-Blooded/Tyrant twitter feed. Or Javier/Lupellan arts. Maybe og!lloyd/javier. Or one of those sold off to one direction at a young age self ship. Or better yet arranged marriage AU where the Frontera sold Javier to the queen to get rid of their debt and he gets revenge on them after he became prince consort. I want to see how fast heads would start rolling between them raging *get timer out*

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I need a minimum 10k chapter of how Javier died three years before Lloyd did...what were his last moments like? Does Javier and Lloyd live in the castle? What of his wife and children and grandchildren? Were he present at Lloyd and his grandchildren's marriage? What was Lloyd's reaction when Javier died? Atp did he know they'll see each other again or is death the final end and they'll just reincarnate somewhere? I. Need. To. KNOW.

Better yet how did tkobai Javier died? The webtoon made it sounds like the last battle in the novel is against the gigatitan, but atp he's already a six circle grandmaster right? Unless Verkis or Tyrannus or Archangel or King of Hell decided to murk him how did he die? From old age? So that's like another 50 years of living alone? Please say no 🥺

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This fandom have 500 fics and all of them are about Javier/Lloyd. I kid you not if you block both javier and lloyd from the ao3 filter then nothing show up lol

Honestly I'm not sure how to feel about this...there are characters implied to be equal to them (at least in tged) like Raphael or stronger like Verkis but we rarely hear about them in fanworks. This series is hard carried by the shippers and while that means there are many delicious llojavi fics to read, it really speaks to a problem the webtoon has by making everything so comedy-centric. Lloyd's character is boiled down to 'looneytoon face' and the other characters' shining moments took a backseat to the comedic value they can provide. Most people only read the webtoon and not the novel, so they're missing out on the serious characterization.

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I feel so dumb for only realizing this just now; Javier's dad works late into the night so the only time he can see Javier is at night where he pat his son on the back before he goes to sleep. Javier doesn't sleep in Lloyd's room in the novel, Lloyd always makes sure to come to his room every night to lullaby Javier to sleep before going right back to work.

Javier's father had soil-soaked hands. Guess what Lloyd works with every day? Lloyd even sort of looks like the baron who is basically the second father to Javier. I also ship Javilloyd romantically but sibling-coded javier & lloyd is also precious 🥹🥹🥹

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Do you think tkobai Javier go back to the dead frontera estate every year to clean their graves? Or were the graves destroyed by people who had a grudge against him and now he really had nowhere to go?

Would be hilarious if Javier was so lonely that he kept a grave cleaning log to fill out each year and used it like a one-way exchange diary. If Suho bursted out of Lloyd's grave and saw the heavy emotional journal the hero worship would die so fast he'd be speedialing this child to give him a home 🥲

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We as a fandom doesn't talk enough about the relationship between Sir Bayern and Javier. Yeah it's thanks to the baron for taking Javier in and all but Arcos have his own family to take care of, so who's gonna take care of this kid who also happens to want to be a knight? Neumann? Yeah no.

In the webtoon Bayern was also there when the baron found Javier. In webtoon chapter 159 Javier should be around 23 years old, and Bayern's children, who just returned from higher education from the capital, should be a little younger than Javier. Just imagine these two bonding. Bayern being there for Javier's first sword swing, taking him to get his official knight uniform tailored, giving him a haircut, and being an overall mentor to Javier. Don't even get me started in TKOBAI where Bayern is loyal until the end and never got mentioned again. We know the baron and baroness died → javier offed the loan shark + goes on the run → og lloyd died → javier buried him and leave. Where does Bayern fit in this? I need to know. Did Bayern attend the funeral to say goodbye and leave before the loan sharks arrived? Or did he want to stay and Javier convinced him he'll stick with Lloyd to repay the baron but Bayern still have his children's futures to think of so he should go and find his fortune elsewhere? How would a dutiful man like him react when news reach him that the young master of the family he served died because no one was available to stop him and the boy his lord picked up went on a murder spree and is now running from the law while he packed up and moved away in a manner completely undeserving of his senior knight title?

As you can see I have a lot of opinion about this

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Sometimes I wonder how many years Alicia's tyranny sets womens' rights back in the world of tkobai. On one hand no sane nobles would publicly denounce her on the basis of gender but the starving peasants definitely had Thoughts fueled by fear and uncertainty. We don't know how long it's been since there's an empress regnant but seeing how she only got the throne after all male heirs died it's probably not that common.

Actually now that I think about it her brothers tried to kill her because they can't marry her off since she's likely to be a sword master and no way they're gonna hand over one of two sword masters like that (but then Julian and Scherazade...ugh idk anymore). If she finds out her bros murdered her parents she'll kill them so that's why they tried to kill her at the same time to clean up loose ends?