#or say are out of character

[lyxchen]

Spoilers for Squid Game season 3. Please don't read if you haven't watched the full season yet!!

"Does Gi-hun still have faith in humanity?" YES!! He does!!! And he didn't even have to tell us that he does. Squid Game in general is a show where characters don't talk that much. They are not defined by what they say but they are very much defined by what they do. And Gi-hun still had faith in humanity and it's shown to us so clearly through his actions. I'm so so sure about this and let me tell you why. It's because he saved Jun-hee's baby. A baby that is not a fully formed person yet. This is a baby. She doesn't really have a personality yet and she can't form any opinions. So why is Gi-hun saving this baby so obviously confirmation that he still has faith in humanity? Because he trusts that this baby can grow up to be a good person. I mean it's such a widely talked about thing. Are humans inherintly evil? Can they be born a bad person? And Gi-hun's answer is no. He believes that a baby born into the most horrific situation, a baby treated like an object, like a source of entertainment, a baby that was seen as expendable by multiple people.. Gi-hun believes that that baby is worth dying for because he believes in the good that exists within that baby. The humanity of it. A baby that is only a few days old and Gi-hun trusts that it will have the chance to grow up into a good person. Gi-hun's faith in humanity is still there. Hell, it's even shown when he doesn't kill the other players at night. It's not that he couldn't do it because he is incapable of killing people who he thinks deserve it (we know he is capable of that because of Dae-ho). It's that he doesn't kill them because in his eyes they still don't deserve death!! Because he sees the humanity in them!!! He sees Sae-byeok who tells him "You are not that kind of person." And he realizes that she's right. He isn't the kind of person who ignores the humanity in people because they've done bad things. This moment is when he sees humanity in himself again. So I think this show actually makes it perfectly clear that Gi-hun still has faith in humanity. In-ho cries when he sees that Gi-hun doesn't kill the other players for multiple reasons (I'll make a post about that too at some point) but I do believe that one of those reasons is that he just got his answer. And then that answer just gets reinforced when Gi-hun trusts in the humanity of a new born child so much that he sacrifices himself for it in hopes that this child will one day make the world a better place

(Btw just to clarify I don't think Gi-hun actually killed Dae-ho because in his eyes Dae-ho deserved it. I think Gi-hun projected his own guilt and shame onto Dae-ho so much that he killed him in place of killing himself. Gi-hun thinks that he himself deserves to die and when he finds out what happened with Dae-ho he projects that feeling onto Dae-ho. Gi-hun thinks by killing Dae-ho he can kill the part of himself that feels guilty for Jung-bae and everybody else's death. But when he does kill him and it doesn't change anything for him, that's when he tries to kill himself because he realizes that instead of his own guilt he has just killed part of his own humanity)

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[morganmnemonic]

I'm thinking of kris repeating berdly's name in shock when you try to tell ralsei that you are going to the festival with berdly of all people. Thinking about the conversations we only get to hear half of, where kris presumably tells ralsei and susie that ralsei and asriel don't look that much alike. Thinking about all the times where kris changes the prompt we give them into something that they'd prefer to say.

Kris talks. They chatter, even, but we as the player don't get to hear it. They don't get a text box. We only ever know that they spoke at all from the reactions of other characters, and even then, we rarely know exactly what was said.

And part of this is that whoever the deltarune narrator is seems intent to pretending like kris doesn't exist. You check the mirror, and it says, "it's only you". Kris plays the piano and it says, "your hands begin moving on their own." If kris speaks without your permission, the narration doesn't acknowledge it at all, committed to the lie that kris doesn't exist beyond their role as our vessel. But that's not what this post is about.

This post is about how it's entirely possible that kris has tried to talk to us when no one else is around. They could have tried to tell us their plan, or begged us not to make certain decisions, or explained that we don't actually need to steal asriel's 5 dollars because they have a piggy bank buried in the front yard. Kris could be asking us questions, or asking us not to look for the bunker password because they have a plan and we should trust them, or asking us to let them sleep a bit longer, and we the soul just carry on the same regardless, their one-sided monologue falling on deaf ears. We would never even know, because of how thoroughly the narrative of deltarune has denied kris a voice.

[chloesimaginationthings]

This goes out to poppy playtime pianosaurus enjoyers

[cronchy-baguette]

double posting this comic bc tbh it deserves its own post.... thinking about how elphie was definitely crying after she runs off to hide somewhere following popular... what do the two of them think about afterwards....

[justalittleguest]

[egophiliac]

get 'em before they melt!

(the flavors are 99% vibes + first thought only thought, don't take them too seriously)

[meo-eiru]

I tried drawing without lineart!

If I had the guts I'd make this my home screen wallpaper, too bad I don't have the guts

[all-my-ocs-are-evil]

[insert poetic title here]

fun fact: this did not start out as isat fanart

(rambling in tags)

[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au

[tendersugars]

seen too much queen hate around lately so i gotta make one thing clear

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lines drawn, teeth bared.

[Ko-fi members can check out the behind-the-scenes thumbnails for this comic!]

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[zorangezest]

thanks for listening

[katanahime]

Okay so since my Tim & Damian "Tim definitely thinks of Damian as his little brother" post has gone over so well and people have responded to my "don’t give me any shit for Tim still calling Damian “bratty”, the sequence of panels that’s from is probably the most Siblings they’ve ever been" comment with a lot of "yeah that's really mild / are you even siblings if you don't call each other names", let me just fully share these three panels for everyone that hasn't actively read Batman 148:

Because this is absolute Peak Brother Behavior

10/10, They Are Siblings, No Notes

[egophiliac]

A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?

Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?

anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.

and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.

also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away 😔) the best character in the whole story:

[bedupolker]

maybe I'll get killed with rocks for saying this but idk I dont really like equating kindness or some kind of inherent moral goodness with the ability to find a romantic connection