On to the second scene where Sousuke overreacts to a threat that doesn't exist and damn, Full Metal Panic is a psychological horror from his perspective, huh?
An unknown threat that could make their move at any time, and an innocent young girl's life and happiness rests on your shoulders, but she resists at every turn, because you're forbidden to tell her about the threat. A culture completely alien to everything you know, and your tools and comfort objects are constantly confiscated because the authorities around you can't fathom you needing them; after all, this country isn't at war...! Except you know better.
Unlike any other story where my sense of empathy turns a scene that's supposed to be comedic into something heart wrenching, I can still see where it's supposed to be funny. Like Sousuke just grabbed what he thought was a remote weapon and, while scrambling to figure out what to do with it, got hit by a truck and got flung into a bike rack. And then the dude's like, oh thank God, my briefcase full of spaghetti--! It's incredibly slapstick.
I’m really enamored with the dynamic of two characters who work perfectly in tandem, like pacific rim drift compatible level, but they don’t like each other. It’s not even as strong an emotion as hate it’s just a very neutral-negative dislike, but they still act in perfect concert and their individual abilities are fully complementary
grian explaining how joel works to xb knowing from the life series is enough to make me want to collapse to my knees and start wailing. god i fucking love gribeans so much holy shit "he's just going to get more desperate xb" "hes so IMPATIENT WHY DID HE RUSH IN" "JOEL YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T TRAP PEOPLE THAT'S WHY I NEED TO BE THERE" this is such a huge fucking win for gribeans enjoyers. if im honest
all critrole roads lead to smut shop. except if u are yussa. if u are yussa all roads lead to whatever current existential threat that would LOVE to ensnare and devour a curious lil wizard. all the other ones lead to smut shops tho.
so demise and the life series are two different things, obviously, and to a large extent the rules of demise are a lot more incidental to everyone's episodes and plotlines than the rules of the life series is to that, and also, you know, demise started in hermitcraft as its own thing and is now once more in hermitcraft as its own thing, and also the no direct pvp rules.
THAT SAID. watching joe hills earlier this stream bugs bunny his way through joel and pearl trying to kill him IS making me go "god he would be so so so funny on the life series though",
????? LITERALLY TOXIC MARRIED STRAIGHT COUPLE "you should apologize for cheating on me in my dream >:(!!" ENERGY???? HELLO????????? THIS IS SO FUNNY I FELT LIKE HE OR KAI WAS GONNA SHOUT "THATS IT IM GETTING A DIVORCE" EVERY 2 SECONDS OF THIS SCENE
i love grian's captions so much man (also there is no way for me to convey over textpost just how funny the [frustrated noises] actually sounded in the video)
the actual takeaway from this story is that if you beg real pretty the guy who's been happy to psychologically torture u for months will give you what you want