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“Or perhaps you have skipped past all of them? Has your end goal always been me?”

..........yes.

Heat Death

White noise. A plethora of nothing. Steadily spilled into this world of dreams. Lulling others into a false sense of security. Broken by a few chosen ones. The distortion formally known as the Space-Time began to disappear. Inverted colours of white and black-green faded. Turning black as the night. Until it flashed white.

Mellowing out, the mass of white shattered into thousands, no, millions of tiny pieces. Glowing and twinkling like stars. Filling the void with the chaos of life. Moving. Twirling around you like dancers attending a ball. Similar to planets forced into an orbit around their mother star. Comparable to the arms of a spiral galaxy.

As if colliding with the gravitational force of a different galaxy of its kind, the stars were pulled from their natural course. Following their path, you were drawn along. The feeling of weightlessness hit you. An endless void stretched out below you. To all sides. Unable to control your road, you moved with the twinkling stars.

The end of the tunnel formed by the light ahead of you was dark. A circle with no end. Like the time altering black hole, escape was impossible. Then, it changed. Something took shape inside the blackness. At first it was the crystal of bright blue. Shortly after the stone of gold. Painted with red. A figure dressed in white stared at the closed doors. Slowly turning toward your approaching form. Smiling.

On cue, the speed of the stars slowed down and so did you. Accumulating between the object and behind the man. Unlike you, who only halted shortly in front of the person, who seemingly had asked for your presence. Only then did the rectangular appearance of the stars strike you as odd. Those were no stars, but cards forming orderly rows. Cards formerly known as people. People you had known. Names and faces. Now reduced to a two dimensional space.

“And so, the player, having experienced five different roads appears before their final suitor!” Spreading out his arms as if to embrace you, his smile never faltered. “What kinds of relationships have you envisioned with those lost to the narrative? Or perhaps you have skipped past all of them? Has your end goal always been me?”

A chuckle rippled through the nothingness. Green eyes fully fixating onto you as he held out his hands. Light spread out from a singular centre. Blue and purple circled it like the cards had you earlier. “No matter how you ended here with me.” He said with Andromeda and Milky Way reflecting in his eyes. “By supporting those who came before, you supported me in turning them into cards. But playing a game for two alone beneath the stars seem unfitting to me now. Would you not say the same?”

Yes

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Bro really took what he said literal

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For the ask meme :3 I wonder :33 who I am an authority on :333

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KUAIDUL LMAO XD

Okami has learned well it seems. XD

Okami is doing well in school

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drew @artclari her baby boy hehe tkm bella!!

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I know what answers I'll get if I do this.

i love having mutuals who are the authority on a specific fictional character

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So I guess technically I've hit a new quote unquote "low" with a fictional crush with literally the devil himself:

Too bad I don't give a flying fuck about "morality" in fictional characters because I know the characters I like only say as much about me as I allow them to :P

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Try to post my art here!

Kuaidul supremacy🛐

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You know I know he's fictional and all but... I already had "Christmas depression" that impacted my functionality for years and now thanks to Go Rush, Christmas and the Christmas season for me is now intrinsically tied to someone's death. Someone I saw a lot of myself in, and someone who, albeit after his death, shaped my beliefs and outlook on the world.

I... don't know how I'm going to handle Christmas this year in all honesty. The thought makes me uneasy.

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No, but I came pretty damn close to doing so when Go Rush's saviour died on Christmas Eve:

Im curious.

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I had to draw this, I had to-

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I look back and I hate that I gave into fear and went silent on certain opinions. I had a right to that opinion and wasn't attacking anyone, but I can't exactly blame myself for being afraid.

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Yeah I like this approach of only reviewing a new episode if I have a lot to say about it, which I didn't the past two weeks but did this week. That could still include negative reviews if a bad episode comes up and I really want to talk about it but. Eh. We'll see. I do prefer to focus on the positives.

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Episode 105 was pretty good

I liked it and stuff. I don't know if I'd quite call it a return to form though. Let me explain.

Let me start off by saying that Manabu was much MUCH better in this episode. He was actually enjoyable, felt like a "brains of the group" again as he made a ton of valid points, and he was bullied significantly less than in previous episodes where he duelled. Yuna vs Manabu round 2 was an episode I enjoyed despite Manabu's character in it. This episode however I enjoyed because of Manabu, something I haven't been able to say about an episode since season 1. HOWEVER. The key words there were "significantly less." The Manabuse problem as I call it did not 100% magically go away in this episode. The slapstick is forgiveable enough for me, that happens to a lot of characters in just cartoons in general. What bothers me are the moments of the others bullying him and lines that implied he would or could abuse the power he was seeking as Valvelgear's captain. And yes, it's just small moments, lines here and there nudging in that direction, but they are there. They are forgiveable and this is still a massive improvement over how he was treated in season 2, but it's something that can spiral out of control again if left unchecked. This episode treated Manabu overall well and I enjoyed his role in an episode for the first time in a long time but the rest of this season needs to follow suit for me to consider the Manabuse problem fixed.

Still, Manabu WAS treated well. He was consistently the voice of reason like he used to be in season 1, he gave Epoch solid advice, he won the duel, he got a new fusion, he graciously gave the captain position to Epoch and offered to help her. All of that is great and stuff I can see myself appreciating even more with time. Manabu is a good character in this episode and I'm very glad about that.

As for the other character who got a chance to shine, Epoch was pretty good this episode too. The cheating issue has finally been fully addressed and even resolved, definitely took way too long but I'm glad it did finally get addressed. And she also came out of the box! No complaints there, her design has grown on me and this is a good show of her character development the past season.

What I do have a complaint about, which might be a little petty so stick with me, is Epoch and by extension her descendant, Tiger, having a superpower. It just... this is one of those Go Rush things that for me, undermines Sevens in retrospect just a little. Tiger having a super loud booming voice that intimidated people did not register to me as a supernatural ability. In my mind, watching those scenes, the voice booming and everyone's reactions to it was a cartoony gag used to illustrate and magnify how intimidating Tiger was despite being a normal elementary school kid. Maybe that's not what the writers intended even back then, maybe it was always intended to be a superpower or maybe she doesn't have the power in full, she just inherited a bit of it from her ancestor. Who knows. But for me, Tiger seemingly having this magical superpower took away more than it added. It's not a deal breaker though. I'll reserve judgement on how it affects Epoch's character though since we haven't seen much of that yet.

Overall good episode even if I have some minor admittedly kind of nitpicky gripes with it. Still don't have much faith in the next episode but hey, I didn't with this one either before it came out and it managed to surprise me.

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Wow okay. That's the second new chibi in three episodes. I wonder who else will get a chibi before the season ends......

........

Please.

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Wasn't expecting Epoch to be given the captain role at the end like that. Huh...

Well I will say the episode was pretty good, best of the season so far for sure. I might review to expand on my thoughts?

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.......guessing this is a pun because before I read the subtitles, I thought she was saying "daisuki" here.