magicantidote

[magicantidote]

Someone said Lin Ling is Xia Qing and Shang Chao's child in spirit... I think that person was dead serious guys

Pomelo 🤝 Xia Qing 🤝 Shang Chao

haunting Yang Cheng through Lin Ling

[magicantidote]

“I am perfection”

Ghetsis is very sexy btw

Not a million percent proud of this tbh lol

[magicantidote]

thank you for 5 seconds of screentime king

[magicantidote]

I love tbhx giving each hero their own song/theme which tells us something about the heroes, either their personality, dreams, arc, or overall mood.

It remind me in how amazing it is for a character have a dedicated song for them. Some even sung by the actual Voice actors.

Anyways, back to why I created this post. I just found out the that TBHX opening is written from X' pov, while the visuals reflects his power. I'll be focusing on the song. I'll put my thoughts below the cut

Okay, so based on the director's (translated) tweet, the opening "Inertia" is written in X' pov. 

Here's the link of the tweet:

So..... basically, X has two themes.

The first one, New Type of Hero, showcases his confidence, carefree attitude, and hints his power. And a flex as well.

Link of the translation of the Director's comment about "New Type of Hero":

Then the second one, which the opening "Inertia", tells us probably what he thinks, believes, and strives for.

I think it is kinda cool how it reflects or is in the same situation with his double life as a hero and civilian.

One has the carefree, confident, and an in your face aura-farming flex energy that he exudes in hero form. Then the other has the dreams, thoughts, hopes, and beliefs, sung in a more quieter and personal way that fits his more mundane, but still very confident self. 

"Inertia" being the main opening fits,since the thought behind the song can represent anyone and not just X, which fits his civilian form of everyday man. It also resonates with the other top 10 hereos and not just his if you interpreted it or didn't know it is from X' pov. (Like how someone interpreted each verse/line to a specific character within the show)

"New Type of Hero" on the other hand just screams, "I'm the top/best", which you would think of someone with the title X. It's also very distinctly about his Hero form/personality. From the attitude and lyrics, which can not be applied to an everyday person or other heroes.

Two distinct sounds, both about being a hero (the grand and the mundane), just like how X has two distinct appearance (Hero and Civilian) but one goal.

[magicantidote]

Xia Qing!!!!

set 1

set 2

set 3

Xia while Shang was driving:

[magicantidote]

TBHX HeroSquad!AU: Meet the Soul Chargers

[magicantidote]

im cryign😭😭😭episode 11😭😭 THE FIGHT DIDNT EVEN HAPPEN BETWEEN HER AND X LMAOO

i drew the meme

[magicantidote]

I also think it's hilarious that we see Queen melting at the sight of the cat and then next shot is X doing cat :3 face. Brother pulled out his best move out there

[magicantidote]

My first thoughts after ep 11

[magicantidote]

Team plasma slop compilation

[magicantidote]

Team Plasma’s king

[magicantidote]

Can't wait for the next episode

[magicantidote]

Lin Ling, your interest is creating PPT materials? 😭

I'm just going to put these together here because I'm mildly annoyed they're only visible in the Japanese version of the website (mostly their hobbies)

[magicantidote]

Not Queen getting overshadowed by X in her own arc 😭🤣

[magicantidote]

some tbhx speculation post ep 10

/throwing stuff at the wall after post ep 10. spoilers obviously. also for ep 11 preview. about Trust and where our heroes get it, villains, X.

point 1:

we have to talk about lucky cyan's trust value. the people on the plane gave her trust to survive/ her luck powers. so the elephant in the room:

CAN DEAD PEOPLE STILL GIVE YOU TRUST?

it's really unclear. the main point in favor of this is that Cyan still has luck at the orphanage, and says her TV has always been high as long as she can remember which wouldn't be possible if trust vanishes when your believers die.

"but Cyan loses all her trust in episode 9!" well. actually it looks like a zero at first glance but it could actually be a really fucked up number nine. when put next to other "zeroes" in the show's sadistic special font it looks notably different. like a Nice's tower floor situation from episode one where that was somehow a 15.

The main thing AGAINST this: there were definitely more than nine people on that plane! maybe Lucky Cyan's trust vanished as the plane crash victims died, but by then they were already on the ground? but that seems jank.

anyways, what I really wanted to say: If dead people's Trust stays after they die, then...

wouldn't the best way to guarantee your power be to gain a ton of trust and then kill all of your followers?

this could be the reason for the plane crash; maybe a hero had a lot of followers on this plane and wanted to keep that trust forever.

this could be Zero's motivation. this is what I immediately thought of.

what the fuck this could even be X's motivation. idk we don't know anything about him. maybe he killed nice for this idk

point 2:

if Fear has only been discovered in year 36, that means that either the powers of villains like Magic Shadow or whoever the hell rat king is (esoul eps) come from Trust, or have unknown sources of fear that nobody discovered was fear.

The only consistent characteristics we've seen of fear is that it is black and makes you act weird and irrational.

so, L0's old boss: black goop, confirmed fear. the orphanage: zombies, black growths, confirmed fear.

Wreck...black sword slivers/beams? maybe fear? who knows? maybe only fear after he learns about Nice's death. in fact, it could be Lin Ling's fear that triggers it! the power of a nemesis might at least initially be from trust, funnily enough.

a little ghostblade what if - we've heard mentions of the "Aether laboratory" along with the idea of Fear. Ghostblade seems to have been experimented on. What if Ghostblade is an attempt to make a Hero that is immune to Fear?

point 3:

circling back to OG Nice's death: it's becoming apparent a question we need to ask is where does trust go after death and what happens to it?

Lin Ling "inherited" trust value from Nice. two ways I think of it: 1. scooped Nice's trust off his corpse, like e-soul. how does that work. 2. redirected all of nice's fans at himself, quickly replacing Nice.

E-soul's Trust merged due to there being two e-souls and one died. please note that this merge happened naturally without the consent of fans.

so where does lucky cyan's trust come from, again.

maybe the series will explore different ways of gaining trust for each hero? a bit crack but maybe even in layers of absurdity. like X is the most jank way so he's the finale (btw thank you @elowhinn for pointing out he keeps the tie clip. maybe he just hacked being X by cosplaying as X and having no name lmao), Ahu being the next jankiest way since he's a dog so he gets the second to last ep...

IF nice is alive somehow...what's up with his trust value now? it's not like people stopped believing Nice had powers. there are still Nice fans. they're just also lin ling fans now. bringing up this due to the theory that the hand in kontinuum is nice's hand. and cope.

[magicantidote]

bon appetit

[magicantidote]

more assorted xes