#unless i do it on the main blog

[unbelenting]

(Spoilers for The Off-Season)

Obsessed with the fact that Jacob kisses Angel (after a long pause) following her stupid joke. Not a heat-of-the-moment desperate kiss, not a particularly romantic one on account of her silly "food for thought" he just goes....... Wow, Okay. This is the one. I don't know what a McDonald's is but she's so right. Come here.

This is nonsense and I'm obsessed. They've completely taken over my brain. 99% of it is just Angel but still. Man. Lord. Dude. Gosh

[lavatory-sealed-hanako-kun]

Words on Chapter 120

“You became what you hated most.”

Point Nr. 1: When Teru attacked Kou with spirit lightning to save Nene, Kou was already a ghost.

I am going to throw out a seemingly controversial take here immediately: Teru did NOT KILL Kou and additionally, there are NO PARALLELS between him and Hanako/Amane within the current events and arguably most of the entire manga. Especially not in relation to his hate of Hanako for having killed his twin brother.

This is going to be a very detailed and long one, so have fun.

In chapter 118, Sousuke and Kou are dragged into the exact same door, next to which Aoi later finds Nene's hair clip laying around. We know from the current chapter that this door leads to the basement of the Red House and the opening of the well. We also already know what purpose this well had, since it was established in chapters 68 and 80, that this is the well leading into the pit to which the Kannagi were sacrificed as offerings to a god.

It's a pit of sacrificial corpses, which due to the events of chapter 118 where Sousuke and Kou were dragged into that door and down to that basement, as well as this current one where Kou's possessed spirit tries dragging Nene into it, is clearly a spot still piled up with sacrificial bodies, nowadays the victims of the Red House. And those two boys were both thrown in already.

So now back to the scene where Teru attacks Kou!

Teru specifically uses his spirit lightning to slash at Kou’s hand gripping onto Nene. His sword blade never comes anywhere near Kou's body and we know for a fact that, while spirit lightning can hurt humans who are to some degree supernatural-

It has never been shown to go so far as to chop off limbs or leave very long lasting damages. (Which again, Kou’s hand being chopped off wasn't from Teru's blade either, it never came anywhere near Kou or Nene.)

After the attack, Kou's entirely blood and gore-free wound is shown and he suddenly starts crumbling into mist, exactly like most of the supernaturals did throughout the manga, showing us that this is exactly what a supernatural looks like when they’re exorcised!

Point Nr. 2: Teru knew Kou was already dead.

Alright, buckle in.

When we see Amane kill Tsukasa in flashbacks, it is bloody. He's got him pinned to the floor, using a knife to stab him in the torso, clearly spaced out in some way but committing a very real murder on a very real, living person beneath him.

Without even fully getting into just how completely different Teru's and Kou's dynamics are with each other, in comparison to the situation Amane/Hanako and Tsukasa have going on, you can't just claim that two characters are “parallels” to one another simply because they both happen to have siblings? Tsukasa and Amane were twins, Teru and Kou are not, they’re not even each other's only siblings, they have Tiara there too. Amane was never the one to sacrifice his childhood and future for Tsukasa's wellbeing, he killed him. Teru didn’t take his brother's life, the Red House did.

Tsukasa and Amane always had a very strange dynamic, glued by the hip and overly dependent on one another, Tsukasa even sacrifices animals and later himself to the wishing entity to grant Amane a chance at life without constant pain and illness. For several reasons Amane wants less and less to do with his brother as time goes on, they're still close, but Amane’s keeping his secrets from Tsukasa, and he in turn even accuses Amane of wanting him gone again. Amane immediately refutes that, yet still through a series of still somewhat unclear events, Amane later ends up brutally killing his own brother with what looks to be a kitchen knife (so very likely at home) on the floor, very dazed, but clearly intending to hurt Tsukasa.

Now back to a member of the “I professionally catch strays from the fandom” trio.

I’m going to remind everyone of the fact that this isn't the first time Teru has attacked Kou with his spirit lightning within the last few chapters. A couple chapters prior, when Sousuke invites Kou to search the school for his missing upperclassmen, they encounter the Red House. Aka Tsukasa's possessed soul most likely, since it only seems to take on the appearance of victims it already devoured and we know from the Yugi family photo in chapter 119 that Tsukasa must have died either before or after he went into the red house as a 4 year old, since he doesn't show up in the photo even when he would've still been very young. (This is a bit of a timeline discrepancy, considering the clock keepers went back to 1968 and not 1959 when Tsukasa first goes into the Red House, but I won't get into that right now.)

After this encounter, Kou gets possessed from chasing the entity around and right as he's about to seriously hurt Sousuke, Teru interrupts them by blasting Kou with spirit lighting, a thing he acts VERY CALM about (keep that in mind!). His stance is measured, he's clearly using a lot of force here too despite not using his preferred weapon, it even leaves Kou knocked out and a bit charred on the ground, but clearly not severely hurt in any way.

When even Akane points out how this was a bit overboard, Teru basically assures him that this wouldn't actually hurt Kou, he consistently has a ton of confidence in his brother's toughness.

This also shows he has experience with also using spirit lightning on possessed people and that it proves severely damaging or even fatal on supernaturals, but seemingly never on living humans.

And yet, attention back to the moment it all goes down: Teru is clearly screaming Kou's name in distress, moving to slice the space BETWEEN him and Nene, intending likely to merely free Nene from Kou's grip. If his intention was to just exorcise the entity possessing Kou’s body like he did earlier (in a very calm manner), why didn’t he just blast Kou with spirit lightning again? Why was he screaming his name with a face of agony before even making his attack?

It's because he already knew by this point, that wasn't Kou's living body, that was his ghost. Kou was already dead. He was too late to save him and now all he can do is stop him from dragging another victim down into the well.

Point Nr. 3: But how did he notice?

We can guess Teru has almost completely different senses from anyone else in the cast. He feels and notices things even Kou, Nene and Akane, all of whom can see supernaturals, don't notice. He mentioned seeing literal cracks between the near and far shores in chapter 73, he saw Hanako looking like that on the rooftop, he was the only one to immediately react to Nr. 6’s ambush attack and he is the ONLY ONE in the red house to feel a cold dread and fear of something powerful overcome him, a sensation neither Kou, Akane or Nene felt at all in the house. And again they can all see supernaturals, but they're not attuned to them like he is.

He could see down that well in complete darkness, immediately knowing that what he was looking at were the corpses of Kou, Sousuke and countless other victims. Akane needed a flashlight to get even a glimpse of what had made Teru collapse at the sight, he couldn't see it immediately, no one's eyes are as sharp as Teru's.

He knows supernaturals, he knows the clear difference between a ghost and living human, even when others can't see those. He knew from the moment he laid eyes on his little brother standing on the edge of that well, that he was already dead, a spirit walking without a living body.

He never “killed” Kou, there is no parallel between him and Hanako. He exorcised the shackled spirit of his beloved brother, possessed and puppeteered around by the red house to lure in more victims, because it knew they'd let their guards down around the sunshine boy Kou. He was one of Nene's best friends after all. 

Kou didn't want this, he would have never wanted to hurt Nene or lure anyone else to the same fate he and Sousuke endured here. In his very last moments, there was no anger, no blame towards Teru for attacking him to stop him from dragging Nene down. And none of the morbid fascination and happiness Tsukasa felt at being killed by his own brother.

All he felt was glad that Nene was safe now, hoping he'd get to see her again when the world turned back to how it once was. 

Endword!

So there you have it. Usually I don't make these kinds of commentaries for things I read, because quite frankly I don't care and I’m too busy to make these, thank you for sticking with me through this because huuhhh it took hours to make dear god. Props to everyone who makes these more often, solid troopers fr. I’ll make an exception for TBHK this time (and maybe if I’m asked to again)- solely because I see so many takes that I find are just very strange or completely wrong and that last chapter had me actually super interested in this series again.

I will take this is due in part to the very young average age of readers for this series and the fact it is often (as much as I enjoy reading this hot garbage, find its worldbuilding super fun and love the characters in it), just genuinely not a very well written series. It has an immense amount of plot holes, inconsistent character writing, situations for the sake of it with no proper set up and lets down on a lot of mysteries it builds up because it never resolves them, even several arcs later.

Anyways, if you disagree with my points and/or want to add something to this, feel free to comment, reblog or send in an ask about it. I think discussing stories does the best job at letting people realise things they never noticed before, so I highly encourage doing that lol. Also you made it to the end of this, you get a cookie. If I could bake cookies..

[starry-sophrosyne]

Attention all pc rpf blogs! hopefully, i'm not being too intrusive by taking the lead on this but.. i have decided to create a little private tumblr community for us! a big thanks to @the-tcclique for bringing this up, and i thought it was be a great idea, so yeah! ꒰ঌ(˶ˆᗜˆ˵)໒꒱

i do want need a name and tagline for the community, and i think calling us just the pc rpf bloggers would be a little basic, so.. if anyone (including anons) have any creative names, please lmk! ٩(ˊᗜˋ)و

i will probably dm the invites once we have decided on a name, and i understand that most of the pc rpf blogs here are side blogs, so if u want me to send the invite to a different acc, then pls lmk! (ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ)

Side note: i do think that our title should be less directly referencing the party crashers, lest we reference the boys as ourselves, which has some other implications considering the amount of aroace pc rpf bloggers here lmao… (ˊᗜˋ;)

@crashingstar69 @sopping-wet-cat-wizard @the-tcclique @second-best-daisy @sussybaka42069 @vernnationembassadors

[front-facing-pokemon]

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i don’t believe in making blogs easily accessible or curate-able …. the right ones will find u if u are unabashed in all that you do .

[oceanmojis]

nobody asked but i can not begin to explain to you guys how little our emoji style looks like our actual art

like im sorry what the fuck happened here

[the-way-astray]

I saw strieefe mentioned again and I just want to say that if the people demand it I shall write more never change, but sorry I stopped existing for a while, I was busy.

-NC anon

aka, Lisa. 🩵

that one anon totally clocked you . . . okay now i need to know. was that food post you made really for the sake of writing strieefe fic . . . the commitment to the bit is insane. anyway. i personally did not clock you . . . sadness

funniest part i think is that you made your entire personality being obsessed with applesauce in chapter three . . . seems a very shallow interpretation of your character lol. like someone who just took a quick look at your url and maybe your bio and went "yep, this is gonna be lisa's only personality trait because i don't know anything else about her and don't want to risk mischaracterizing her". nice job on that one. threw me off for sure

girl who wants to be kissed by keefe writing keefe-kisses-other-girl fanfic is absolutely the funniest plot twist ever . . . and yes you should totally keep writing if you can. the plot seems intriguing and i need to know what stupid thing keefe did this time and what other keepblr members will be involved next (please be quil, please be quil, please be quil, please be quil-) (quil has a cat. this can be incorporated into the lore. trust.)

[pink-strawberry-kissess]

so uh

any of yall lads girlies or

[trickstersaint]

hey hi hello! first of all i'd like to say i took your patron saint uquiz and it. Changed my life unironically it's so good. i follow you now because every line in that quiz was a gut punch and i loved it. top tier hurt honestly

my question is this - i am a fanauthor. on the side i also write my own original fiction but i specialize in fanfic. Am I allowed to use your poetry for a reference folder? I wouldn't use your poetry in a fic without explicit permission and without linking back here of course, and I'd never use it for commercial work outside of maybe taking inspiration without copying, but I wanna have a ref folder of Things That Made Me Feel Things about a character. It's not planned to be public as of yet, it's just supposed to be a bunch of screenshots in my drafts, but I'd like to maybe one day make it public once the fic was complete. (I already have your blog linked in my drafts actually, so if it goes public I'm not gonna forget.) I just want to make sure you're comfortable with me using your poetry for fanfic of all things

It's cool if not and have a great day! I still think your poetry is great and evocative and all

hi, anon! you're all good, i prommy. so glad you like the quiz + the poetry, and i would always prefer people come and ask questions if they're uncertain! no trouble at all.

my general stance is that as long as it's clearly credited, i am totally cool with my work being used in personal projects. like you said, i've got a tag for the things that people make! i love to see what people create. if it's for a noncommercial creative project then i would say there's no need to ask beforehand (unless it would make you more comfortable to ask, in which case go ahead and i'll almost certainly say yes <3). my only thing is that if you post it, please tag me in it/send it to me so that i can reblog it here for people to see!

if there are any questions about using my work that anyone has, feel free to ask. i don't think i've got anything particular going on outside of common practice! same way you'd treat, like, a richard siken poem or smth: you wanna credit it so that people can find the source material, and make sure you're not using it for profit unless you have an understanding with that author. i trust you all to be decent about it <3 kiss kiss go out and make your cool little things so that i can be delighted and amazed with them

[yellowjeans]

Will eventually come back to this but fnaf sb/ruin deltarune au

More so inspired so its Gregory or Vanessa taking Kris's place as the mc because I think having Rab/Vanny take the place of Kris's soul/the player would be cool

[arielluva]

i have got to kill the panopticon in my brain. (continues feeling embarrassed over stuff anyways)

[brokenrefraction]

i keep thinking i need to draw something for crimis but i realise i should probably just chill and celebrate so ill probably do it another day

[cavswife]

had a migraine-fueled fever dream last night about elliott for the first time in almost two years. I haven't been able to shake the warmth of it all off at all today and am genuinely considering re-installing apex over it kjghghj.... my original pathetic, precious prey boyfriend <3

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

I feel like I should maybe make a side blog for horny posting at this point but also I cannot fathom making another url I’m so bad at names this one is the best I’ve ever come up with

[sarahlancashire]

mass effect is mass-effect-ively discounted atm so i decided to give it ago!! i tried to make my shepard pretty close to her default look but without the annoying hair in her face & with some of my own flair 💖

[todayisafridaynight]

shikanoko nokonoko koshitantan! Its infected my brain as well (<- predictable deerposter behavior)

oh that one :) ive at least seen the deer girl floatin bout my tl ...

hearin only good things bout GK is always a good sign ... can only hope ill have someone drag me by the ankles to watch/read it someday