#the next post will be the depths ..

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Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

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searching for a star that's still unknown to anyone!

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"My beautiful star."

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Chapter 4 part 33! Mini flash back featuring the goat, the old man ❤️

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Old man: Oh, hello there young one!

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Old man: Don't be afraid. Please, come sit.

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Old man: Are you all on your lonesome? You know, it's dangerous to go alone!

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For the Spirits —Chapter XI: Into the Depths

Read here!

Like that man

I looked down into the depths when I met you

I couldn't measure it

—Through Me (The Flood) by Hozier

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Before, Zuko had seen the endless blue of his dream on Amarok's eyes and thought he had found purpose. He had found fate. 

Now, as Zuko's gaze was held coldly by eyes even brighter than those he had dreamed of, he learned he truly knew nothing.  . “Who are you?”

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WATCH THE WHEEL OF TIME I AM NO LONGER ASKING‼️‼️‼️

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So katara has jiang, toph had yaling, suki had biyu, and june had fan.

I know ppl are hoping that the upcoming comic is a maiko reunion but considering it's mai focused I hope she get a new female friend or rival or something. And I hope it's not just kiyi

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Some Things I Screenshotted From W2H2 Part 1 While Watching Frame By Frame

Spoilers below

Fucking Somic

I thought Jonathan was the one with the nice ass.

nice. (1312 = ACAB)

Love the chords chart in the background and the book that read "Weeds, Invasive Plants of The Midwest" but what caught me off guard about this scene is that Jonathan just has like, a scalpel??? In his pencil holder??? Facing sharp side up!??? I mean like, I cant judge, I also have a scalpel but i store it in a fucking sterilized box!? I dissect mushrooms with it what is he doing with it??? Dissecting flowers????

I think this is meant to be a 3 leaf clover but it could also be a sticky hand?

I saw it earlier but this is a better pic of those little dinosaur or maybe monster finger puppets you'd get from arcade display cases.

Dolphin.

Yesssssssssssss- wait what is that?

Oh my god funckin Sonic 2

The end.

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Forever Young SSR Cards: Summary and Thoughts

If you are a f2p player like me and are perhaps still deciding on which card to pull for the event (if any) here are the plot summaries and my thoughts on all the cards that could perhaps help you decide :)

Spoilers below!!

Artem

Plot Summary: To thank her for coming to his auditions, Artem asks Rosa to spend the day with him, but their plans are delayed when the Drama Club has an urgent task. While working on it together and searching for props, Artem places a bracelet prop on Rosa's wrist, though it gets stuck and he has to help her get it off later. In the evening, after Rosa mentions her wanting a similar bracelet when she grows up, they make matching paper bracelets to wear. As night falls, they meet on the rooftop to watch the meteor shower, where Artem confesses a secret, though it gets interrupted by a firework. Years later, at a festival, Rosa reminiscences on that night as she waits for her now boyfriend Artem.

My Thoughts: THIS ONE HAS THE CUTEST ART OF THE FOUR. if you get cards for art you're probably getting this one its just so so sweet!! i tend to like Artem AU cards a lot since i'm interested in how they take the more Ordinary character (affectionate) and put him in different settings, but the high school AU shares many things with Artem's actual past which provides a lot of insight to his character. This story also is the only one that has an "epilogue" where the two are shown years into the future, and the idea of High School Sweethearts ArtemRosa honestly has me weak. it also doesn't really hint towards whether he decided to pursue acting as a career or not, and i think leaving it open ended is nice. its a very cute card! very endearing to see this version of Artem.

Vyn

Plot Summary: With Vyn's return to his home on the horizon, Vyn and Rosa making memories together gets interrupted when they are told they must not return to the abandoned infirmary, as the building is set to be demolished. After reflecting on the past they cherish, Rosa leads Vyn further off campus where they decide to board a bus to the seaside, though they miss the sunset. The next day, Vyn presents a donation contract to the counselor for the renovation of the abandoned building, revealing to Rosa that he is part of the Haspran family. A little time passes, and Vyn finds the goodbye letter she started for him, though she tells him she's decided to tell him in person as she knows they will meet again in the future. A year later, Rosa leaves her graduation ceremony and finds Vyn, here to take her to the seaside again.

My Thoughts: this+the revisiting youth card=AOUUAUGHGHGHG okay, admittedly, i find his illustrations the most boring of the four, but what the art lacks is made up for in the story. Artem and Vyn, being the older ones of the group, have the advantage of giving us almost completely new sides to them when reverted to high school. High School Vyn is a very interesting character, especially in how he navigates his family and breaking away from it in ways different than how he can as an independent adult. the revisiting youth card for Vyn was the most compelling for me, and i think this card satisfies a lot of what can be imagined from then. There's just a lot of tenderness in this card, and their eventual parting leaves a lot of bittersweetness for a good chunk of it, but i do really enjoy this different side of Vyn and his relationship with Rosa.

Marius

Plot Summary: The two have been busy with their respective studies and really only communicate on weekends, but when Rosa needs a break from studying, Marius takes her on an adventure. He reveals a bit about his past to her, as well as sharing his his fear of his family finding out his desire to attend Florence. With the aim that he pass the early admission exam and for both of them to reach the top ranks of the school, the two study together often. Marius asks Rosa to stay with him as he calls his family to tell them of his plans, and he gets support from all of them in return. After the exam season passes, the two go to the studio to see their results, and Rosa learns of her success first, which they celebrate with paper airplanes. After expressing how much they mean to each other, a paper airplane lands to show Marius has been admitted.

My Thoughts: hey this one almost made me cry. why? BECAUSE CARENINA IS ALIVE. GIANN IS SAFE. MARIUS HAS HIS FAMILY SUPPORT UUUEEEEEEEAAA. truly what a welcome surprise. it's an interesting change they did with Marius' backstory here, as the pressure he feels isn't from the family business, but rather the sacrifices they made and how he feels guilty of the support he would get from them. its a cool spin on the themes of freedom present in his stories, though so much of his circumstances have changed. the card art for this story is cute, and pre-relationship MariRosa is one of my favorites, so you definitely get that dynamic here. its very fluffy, with Marius' relationship with his family being an emotional core to the story, despite not really being in it that much.

Luke

Plot Summary: With last year's crisis averted, Rosa wants another chance to work together with Luke. She learns about a competition in which two students from each school compete in a physical and written exam in hopes to win funding for their campus activities. Luke beats her to it in asking that they join together, and they begin their training. Luke encourages her when she begins be pressured and lose sight of her original goal. After participating and qualifying for the next stage, the two have a private medal ceremony, where they learn they both wanted a chance to work together again and promise to stick together.

My Thoughts: this might win second place in card illustrations, as that evol art is absolutely beautiful. i will be honest though...imo Luke got the short end of the stick story wise. it's not bad by any means, but i think he has the opposite situation to Artem in AU cards where Luke's stories are a bit less interesting (which i guess is balance given his important plot cards can get super heavy). we do get some nice moments in the card, like the sweet anecdotes he shares about his childhood with his parents. this specific AU i think doesn't work for him given the dynamic with Rosa. they're not childhood friends or reuniting, so any "what if" scenarios about Luke staying instead of attending NCU early aren't explored. the moments they share retread a lot of what we already know from their past in middle school, so there's not a lot of insight to gain about his character. unfortunate, but i know its what they could do with the restraints of this AU.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: if High School AUs are not something you're that drawn to, then this is arguably a pretty skippable event. For Artem and Vyn, it can bring some insight into their younger characterizations. For Marius and Luke, it gives you some lighthearted fluff in which you know they are happy and their families are alive. They are cute school romances in which the stakes aren't that high and end on positive notes. I really liked the event overall!! now to decide who to pull for....

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oh yeah: Tank Rescape!

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Thoughts and more thoughts about the potential of Rob Lucci after chapter 1111 - spoilers and theory

(disclaimer: this might be totally implausible and not at all what could happen, but it's something that's been on my mind since last chapter, so here are my thoughts on this. again, very long post ahead, I don't know how it keeps happening)

The way Oda allowed Lucci to feel during chapter 1111, is something I didn't expect to find so intriguing, and it points to how much depth really has each character in this story.

There is a subtle change of certain aspects of Rob Lucci's personality since the start of Egghead, and in the chapter 1111 even a bigger focus is on his reaction to meeting Mars Gorosei and asking for Kaku to be spared.

Given this swept away answer with seeing whom he's been serving all this time, there could come a realization that'd sort of wake him up. There's a potential to somewhat turn power of Cipher Pol agents from blindlessly following the World Government. To stop being the WG's shield.

It's very probable the story might deal with the reform or even collapse as a whole of the World Government - especially since the Gorosei are currently Luffy's main enemies. With that, the Cipher Poll intelligence could play a significant part of it as well, along with other moving pieces like the Revolutionary Army, Shanks, Luffy's fleet or even Morgans and his newspapers, and, of course, the Strawhats.

There's been comments of readers who only saw Lucci and Zoro's fight as one dimensional - one has to win, the other has to lose, and comparing points and skills without really diving into their respective characters - thankfully Oda knows those characters and knows how to make the story interesting and compelling. Where before I hoped we would get a follow up about the words directed at Zoro, instead Lucci was given more space for this chapter.

Where one would hope for Zoro to win and move to other parts of the island with the Strawhats, we instead stayed with Lucci and him witnessing Mars in his full on demon form - something that even Lucci was shocked to see.

Those two pages were such incredible moments for Lucci as a character who serves fully the Gorosei and the World Government in first place, yet! Yet! In the last part he's on the page, he's allowed and shown to be worried and caring for someone else than himself- after arcs and arcs where he appeared here and there just carrying out on orders and missions without seemingly caring about anyone to much depth before, he's given space to actually express the concern regarding Kaku.

Of course he's still this same of bloodthirsty killer, just like in Enies Lobby, (ch. 382),

both his immediate fight upon seeing Luffy on Egghead, and later against Zoro paints it clear what he's capable of.

Rob Lucci is regarded as one of the strongest assassin's in the Cipher Pol agency CP9 (and later with higher rank of CP0). Just reading his wikia to remember more moments, the section about his personality is mostly compiled of traits like cold-hearted, agressive, and especially taking the Wold Governments meaning of Justice into brutal heights, thinking all is allowed to accomplish his goals/missions/orders.

There's his past and how he has been trained by WG to do as they told him, or even go to length which he wasn't even ask to do, but knowing his position as assassin he did as he wanted.

By the end of Water 7 and leaving to Enies Lobby, where he preteded to be friends with Iceberg, Paulie and other shipwrights for 5 years, he didn't show any regrets leaving the place (contrary to Kaku, who seemed to really enjoy his work as shipwright and is sometimes shown really excited about new places and such)

Up until the chapter 1111 I mostly took him as someone really dutiful to follow orders through and through and not gave it much more thought beside that, but it's true that this already started to shift around chapter 1062, when we see Lucci, Kaku and Stussy on their way to Egghead Island:

"They want us to eliminate the most useful man in the world..."

"The last thing a man as keenly perceptive as you should be doing is looking for answers." (says Stussy, a double agent working for Vegapunk, lol).

I wouldn't call it distrust in WG, yet. At this point he was still adamant about following the mission to kill Vegapunk. But maybe it's more visible that he's thinking more about such orders and their consequences.

He fights Luffy immediately after setting foot on Egghead, calls it as it is in wanting to defeat Luffy and destroy his whole crew without any pretense (and maybe that honesty was why Luffy took his word for their brief cooperation in fighting Seraphim). ch. 1076

He says this honestly, yet after the Strawhats and Vegapunks are healing later on, Lucci still tries to attack Vegapunk, ch.1091

Once knowing Kizaru appeared too, Lucci returnes back to finish his mission, he strikes at Vegapunk again - unsuccessfuly because Stussy takes that attack, and Zoro pushes him from the lab and then keep him occupied until the latest chapter 1111.

And that is a big part of him, eyes always on the mission - get information to his bosses, to Navy/Saturn/Gorosei/Kizaru, and keep his enemies occupied or better yet - dead. This thinking was always present with him to this point in ch. 1111, and that is from where it could lead to even more nuance in his future decisions:

The first time seeing Mars in his demon form there's that blink-and-you-miss it expression of pure horror, hinting that even the highest ranking agents probably had no idea just what the true nature of the Gorosei looks like, and that a sight like that can pull this expression from Lucci:

After that brief shocked state, he goes back to immediately report all informations he has on Vegapunks, Strawhats, even their plan of escape, as well as mentioning the other Cipher Pol agents, trapped in the Lab:

then there's this panel, "well done. no further questions.":

which reminded me of very similar words Lucci said to Robin in Water 7, ch. 348: "you've fulfilled your role. good work."

Maybe it's not intended as parallel, but just that similarity of something he's been clearly hearing from his higher ups, that he added it to his own vocabulary.

But then there's this more surprising part of ch. 1111:

After his shock of seeing that monster in front of him, and after giving Mars all the informations, he still finds the strength to ask him to spare his partner's life, to save Kaku:

What he gets as an answer is along the lines of: "it might be difficult when everyone to us is like ants" and that's the last of Rob Lucci for this chapter.

Mars seem to share this same thinking like Saturn expressed before, while the navy guy heard that even the life of an CP0 agents isn't something Saturn (and Gorosei) would really be troubled over, if lost.

and hearing that from Mars could be an eyeopening moment for Lucci.

They're assassins and an intelligence agency of almost the highest standing among the World Governement, but even the lives of Kaku and such seem to mean nothing to the Gorosei.

The point of the current anime episode 1098 where Lucci & CP0 were just arriving on Egghead reminded me how he was asking Vegapunk about the missing Cipher Pol agents and their disappearances, ch. 1068:

It's not that he was only concerned about Kaku in the latest chapter, but since the end of Water 7 - and seeing how his crew cared for him to pay for his medical bills (cover story chapters 491 - 528, manga only, which is very interesting that the anime didn't adapt that cover story), I think he started to care more about "his own people" - the Cipher Pol agents in general - even to visit to their "hometown" while he was healing and defended that place (and the new young trainees) from the Marines who were sent to attack CP9 after their failure at Enies Lobby:

So the question is.. once Lucci saw just who he was serving all those years, the World Government and the Gorosei - and now seeing Mars in his bird monster form disregarding any care for any lives, even their own agents - will that be a tipping point for him?

He asked Mars to spare Kaku but got an answer that all of them, Cipher Pol agents even on the highest places, are still the same as insects in the eyes of the Gorosei

Could that be something that will help him make a certain change?

My possible theory of what he might do/what might happen (given that he still has the strength to walk after his fight with Zoro):

Find Kaku himself - he was trapped in the bubble like the other Seraphim - we don't know if anyone else un-trapped him in the meantime, and Lucci himself doesn't know about the bubble prison, given his flashback to Kaku is just him laying down, as he last remembers that from the Lab.

Sanji said to Kaku that Lucci abandoned him - something that Lucci kept taunting Zoro with during their fight - about the inability to sacrifice one from their team for the greater good. (It could mean that Kaku either wouldn't count on Lucci coming back, but it would work even better if it was shown Lucci actually coming back for Kaku

and they could go finish their side mission of rescuing the other Cipher Pol agents -

and that's another thing -

even during that brief panel of their rescue -they were thankful to Luffy! Despite their positions of agents of Government, which puts them always directly opposing pirates/Strawhats/Luffy, they appreciated and thanked Luffy for giving them food and saving them, ch. 1090

This together I feel could become a moment of all these agents realizing that Luffy isn't their real enemy - or wake up from their WG brainwashed thinking once they see just who is outside fighting: Gorosei in their monster forms vs. Luffy

I think that Rob Lucci stands there now as one of the few who could sway the Governments power to a tipping point from the inside.

Not precisely helping Luffy or Strawhats, but taking that power of the intelligence agency away from the WG and Marines.

It was shown in multiple pages how the Gorosei care more about the rank and position than any lives of their trained assassins, and think of them as something to be disgarded left and right.

Their intelligence agency and assassins act as a Shield to the WG, and the CP0 even carries that in their name: AEGIS, (a powerful shield from greek mythology).

If the other agents would follow Lucci in a different direction, he could be the one to take away that shield from the Gorosei, uncover one of the layers that act as their security, leaving them more exposed and vulnerable to future attacks (possibly from people like Dragon and Revolutionary army when the time comes for them to strike).

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Panel edits. Trickster shenanigans and turning your situationship/server player into a vampire

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Spoilers for Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor's Gambit

So, I just completed part 1 of AAI2-5 (and good lord, it took me 3 hours, I didn't think it would take this long!). And during the Mind Chess with Eustace / Sebastian (protecc this poor boy omg 😭), I came across this conversation between Miles and him, and the little difference with how he calls Phoenix is interesting between french and english.

Little side notes : English name = French name Miles Edgeworth = Benjamin Hunter Eustace Winner / Sebastian Debeste = Eustache Victor

[French translation]

Hunter : Vous savez… parler de tout cela avec vous, cela m'aide aussi. Pendant un temps, je ne voulais pas faire face non plus à certaines vérités. Mais quelqu'un qui m'est cher m'a montré que je faisais erreur.

You know... Talking about all this with you, it helps me too. For a while, I didn't want to face certain truths either. But someone dear to me showed me I was mistaken.

Eustache : C'est… une belle histoire… *sniff* mais… je n'ai… personne pour m'aider… *sanglot*

It's... a beautiful story... *sniff* but... I have... no one to help me... *sob*

***** [Official English translation]

Edgeworth : Listen -- talking with you like this. It's helpful for me, too. There was a time where there were thruths I didn't want to face up to, either. But a good friend taught me the error of my ways.

Eustace : That's… nice… But I don't have… anybody like that… *sob*

*****

If (as I think) it's about Phoenix here, well this is not the first time in the french version where he talks about him so highly compare to the english version sometimes. There was another moment (during AAI2-2 iirc) where he calls him "a renowned / illustrious defense attorney" in french. HMMMM (≖_≖ )

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A funny thing about some romhacks is that you'll play through them and the units have fairly normal growth rates and then you reach like,, chapter 9 and run into an entirely unhinged unit.

This post is about Agnes TMGC.

(Also go play TMGC)

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[itadooori]

its gi-hun angst hours again i fear