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(in front of a stunned crowd, overly cocky & smug, painted bloody, standing in a pool of viscera & gore) go ahead, bring a bigger camel, i dont give a fuck, i'll fit it through the eye of this needle too

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let’s see if there really is someone out there for every pokemon.  reblog and tag your favorite unpopular/cringe/whatever pokemon that for whatever reason no one but you seems to like or even talk about really.  mine’s qwilfish 🐡

❌ UNPOPULAR POKEMON LIKERS ONLY. GET OUT OF HERE IF YOU’RE GOING TO SAY MIMIKYU/EEVEE/ETC.  ❌

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「月姫」三澤羽居と月姫蒼香。

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I feel like something happened in Nasu's new interview.

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Thoughts on Servant Olga profile, lines, etc..?

More feelings than thoughts for the most part. Her lines for Nemo and Wak Chan in particular made me tremendously emotional. Making the 10th anniversary Servant someone who recaps on the Apostles, the Lostbelts, and the Chaldea crew is also really clever. Shame Koyanskaya got forgotten along the way, though.

Besides, since we're this late into the game, her profile brings way more answers than new mysteries. The Planet Olga-Marie NP description is the final key that makes Marisbury's entire plan click, and the description of Olga's best spell as a fortuity buff also explains so much.

But overall my favorite part of the profile is the explanation of how her constant lack of recognition shaped her personality but making her always assume she was doing something wrong that she could never figure out what. It's something that could be intuited from her usual behavior, but it always feels good to have a single quote that perfectly summarizes a character.

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So what exact flaw Olga was talking about that Douman couldn't overcome? His fixation on Seimei, inability to love?

If I had to summarize it to a single word, I guess it'd be flippancy. That encompasses his inability to love, his lack of desires he can call his own, his taste for pointless cruelty, and his negligence to think through the details of his own plan until it's too late. Loyal and devoted as Douman is, nothing is ever serious for him. It's not easy to relearn how to care.

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How does Hiruko refer to everyone else in the JP Script? My guesses are First Name no Honorifics or Last Name no Honorifics.

Last name with no honorifics. Her only exceptions are the same as pretty much everyone else's: first name with no honorifics for the twins.

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Does this mean Seimei has a chance of becoming a boss for grand caster fight?!

I'd keep my bets at Solomon.

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Does Olga and Indra confirm that other remaining grand duels have of chance of releasing new servants with the grand duels?

Yes, that's how the concept of precedent works.

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So does Olga's lines about Douman changes your perspective on their relationship you once wrote about?

Not really. I don't see how it could. Neither of these characters is self-aware enough to recognize what they share.

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i've always said that the logical conclusion to fgo's main story would be rescuing olga marie from the tragic destiny that was thrust upon her, and i've always thought they would find some way to justify making her playable, but it really tickles me that they cement your role as the hand reaching out to her even on the metanarrative level

like yeah we're giving you 1000 saint quartz so that you can basically guarantee getting your very own copy of our special girl in her special new class! what's that? you don't feel like it? well you're only getting that quartz if you actually complete the story - if you complete her story. you're going to save her, whether you want to or not. and rest assured, you will want to. we're making sure of it.

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I really need a bigger image of summer Tezca already so I can read his jorts. It's already visible here that his right side says FUCK THE WORLD, but on his left side I can only read that the last word is RULES.

also its pretty funny that they have the two most normal blokes ever and then this gay whore tezcatlipoca

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Liberator Eto

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I think it’s really interesting to talk about characters, their backstories, and their past relationships, and how that affects them. And, as the resident Tenko lover, as well as the resident Tenko deserved better believer, I have a theory, a Tenko theory.

I wasn’t going to talk about Tenko by herself again but I was going to write a comment under a mutuals post but since I can’t talk about Tenko like a normal person I created an entire rant instead so yeah enjoy my spiral.

But. Disclaimer this one’s a reach.

This is a Shuichi reaching for Kaede as she’s being dragged to her execution type of reach.

Tenko Has a Rose-Tinted View of Her Childhood

This theory is basically that Tenko if we’re talking in psychology terms idealizes her childhood or at least the vigilante part of it. And I don’t say that to insult her, or say she’s wrong or dumb. I think it’s a defense mechanism. A very human, very understandable one.

It’s hard to explain or justify sometimes, because of how Tenko is written. She’s treated more like a comic relief character. Even when she talks about her backstory, it’s rarely taken seriously either by herself or by the narrative. It’s written off as quirky or funny, not as something we should emotionally invest in.

But if we strip all that away and just look at what Tenko actually says, and how she talks about her past, I think it all starts to come together.

In one of her Free Time Events with Shuichi she talks about her and her master being “heroes of justice.” When Shuichi asks what that means, she says: during the day they help old ladies cross the street and rescue cats from trees, but at night they punish thieves and beat up gropers on trains. Shuichi compares it to superheroes, and Tenko is like We wore masks and went out into the streets to fight crime. My master’s ideas are always so cool.

And she says it with so much enthusiasm, so much pride.

But in my opinion the best way to analyze Danganronpa characters is to compare them to their narrative foils. And today that’s Maki Harukawa.

Both were abandoned by their parents at a young age. Were trained in violence from that young age. Both were raised with a sense of moral duty or obligation fight. Both had their entire identities shaped around their talents But the key difference? When Maki talks about her past, she does so with sadness. Bitterness. Trauma. When Tenko talks about hers, she’s smiling.

Now, you might say, “Of course Maki would be bitter she was killing people while Tenko was saving them.”

Yeah. But I still think there’s something important there. If we take Tenko at her word if she really was out there fighting crime at night, beating up predators and street criminals, using her neo-Aikido skills as a child then that’s not “cute” or “quirky.” That’s traumatic.

And yet, she talks about it like it was fun. Like it's one of those stories you tell at parties.

I’m not saying Tenko’s being dishonest. I’m saying she might not be fully aware of how abnormal it was. She still sees it through the lens of childhood innocence like she’s still a kid who believes in Santa Claus. She talks about vigilantism like it was dress-up. Like it was an video game.

And I think the real reason she sees it this way could be a combination of her personality her trusting nature, and her gullibility sure. But also, she needs to believe in it. She doesn’t want to question her beliefs. She doesn’t want to question her master. She doesn’t want to confront the idea that everything she was taught might have been twisted.

Her vigilantism, like Maki’s role as an assassin, is her sense of purpose and duty. (Doesn’t mean Maki likes being an assassin like Tenko likes being a vigilante just means she feels like she has to)

Her identity is built around this idea that she’s a protector. A fighter. A hero.

If she questions that, if she really looks at it too hard then what is she left with?

She’s not a hero.

She’s just a kid who saw things no kid her age should ever have to see.

So she clings to the narrative. She believes. And she believes. And she believes.

In her eyes, she’s a hero.

And in the eyes of the women she saved, she probably was as well.

But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t still a form of childhood trauma.

It just means she hasn’t let herself look at it that way yet.

Final Thoughts:

I think Tenko’s backstory leaves more questions than answers. And I think a lot of her character is like that.

We get these little pieces of information dots, basically but they’re never fully connected. You have to draw the lines yourself. And even when you do, you’re left with this weird, disformed shape that doesn’t quite make sense.

And honestly? I think that’s part of why Tenko’s character feels so complicated.

She was written to play a certain role a comic relief character, a bit of a stereotype. But some of the pieces we do get from her paint a different picture but it’s hard to view in her in that light because of the way she was portrayed.

But I’m not going to get into how Tenko was written and NIS America and all that stuff today.

Also clarification I'm not saying Tenko isn't a hero in the literal sense i'm more so talking about the doubt that might come when that bubble of being a hero is burst.

In conclusion Tenko deserves better Tenko and Maki should've had more interactions and I will die on this hill.

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girl help they're taking my fave's extremely thin veneer of swaggering overconfidence at face value