#[ caesar is interested in her xD ]

[autotoxins]

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

❝ Shurorororo! ❞ Her question was met by a soft chuckle, and a gentle shake of his head. His long, purple hair falling down into his face for a moment. He pushed it back with a gloved hand. ❝ With WORRY, you mean? Well, this is a dangerous place! You shouldn't be here all alone. ❞ Caesar spoke with his calm, smooth voice. Speaking softly came quite natural to him, though the warmth in his words did not. He knew how to manipulate his tone and body-language so that others would let their guard down around him. It was something he had studied.

He knew who this woman was, because she was interesting to him. Due to all the research he had done on devil fruits, he was often interested in devil-fruit users who had unique properties. Logias were his favorite, but he was not going to say no to a mythical zoan. She had eaten the moon-moon fruit, had she not? He was interested.

[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1113 - Initial Thoughts

It is time

One Piece is back again and the big announcement is almost underway. The Gorosei are circling though, much of the Straw Hats are cornered, will the revelation turn the tide?

Let's find out

Spoilers for the Chapter, Support the Official Release too!

A chess-themed colour spread this time; Robin playing chess with the crew as chess pieces

Contrary to the message the King should not be the attacking piece but other than that I did find it funny that Usopp is a Bishop with a bow and arrow, this cleric does harm!

Also lil Chopper pawns!

Picking up where we left off, Markus Mars has been stopped in awe of a sight in Punk Records

The remains of Vegapunk's humungous brain, as big or maybe even bigger than a giant, kept in a pod and still working even after his death

Mars does wonder if this is more Vegapunk's true self, which I guess if it has his brain it's probably the main part that's biologically living

People around the world brace themselves though

Syrup Village! Kaya, Merry and the old Usopp Pirates get a cameo

Despite her wealth being enough for Kuro to plan a murder/retirement spree, they do not have a Video Den Den Mushi

Though it seems like it's more size than price, and Kaya is already keen to hear what Vegapunk is saying, given his role in the medical field

Also lil' Merry details on the Den Den Mushi

The Marines are monitoring it too

Laboon and Crocus cameo!

And we even get to go to Baldimore, birthplace of Vegapunk

Some dialogue from the group that found Franky during the separation too

'I heard he's turned himself into a ship now' XD because of the bounty poster, and the bad timeline SBS image maybe, though I still think we could in the future get a Sunny mecha

Also got Chopper's bird and medic island listening in

The tribespeople even know about Vegapunk, they call him a 'king of modern science'

Even despite the Garp and SWORD attack, some pirates from Fullalead are listening in - some still wanna fight each other though

Mars tries to stamp out the Den Den Mushi, but it's of course a fake! It shatters to reveal just another regular Den Den Mushi

Fooled again motherfucker!

Vegapunk does introductions once more but now everyone wants him to get on with it XD

For the most part the more obscure world shots seem somewhat familiar, I couldn't tell what the rainy place was but it could be Water 7, the other one looked a bit familiar, the Longarm place looks like to have Brook's old talent agents too

But this campfire one, a child is hushed back to sleep by their likely mother, they're in tipi tents, what's interesting is the other person there, almost like Oda's pulling something sneaky

Through their collective telepathy, Mars announces his failure, it was a decoy so they have no leads

They wonder what Vegapunk intends to say, fearing that he'll carry on what Clover started before he was silenced

Back to Sanji and he hears a woman's scream

Bonney is being targeted by V. Nusjuro, Franky standing between them but Sanji demands to be the white knight

He jumps off the sword to kick him in the jaw

By comparison V. Nusjuro is pretty damn huge

His body sets on fire - fitting to his Yokai lore - but then the horse's head comes out to bite Sanji

Lots of crackling of bones, I wonder if his Healing Factor is still a thing

As Oimo and Kashii tackle V. Nusjuro (about the same size as them), Vegapunk's broadcast begins, admitting to committing two grave sins

Bonney turns into a giant with her fruit to attack V. Nusjuro, who has returned to his hybrid form

Vegapunk's broadcast admits that he is likely to be executed, and that this broadcast would start when his heart has stopped

Sabaody reacts first, realising that this means Vegapunk is dead

Duval has trouble processing this, since the news said that he was a hostage for the Straw Hats

Caesar's also mad, he and Judge went through that whole cover story alliance for nothing, so now they can promptly fuck off

And Morgans is angry because Vegapunk is giving BIG NEWS without him like it's not in his name

Interestingly, Vegapunk is quick to state that his killers should not be portrayed as 'evil' - because they're looking pretty damn evil to me

It seems maybe this is because he expects Luffy to have been pinned as to blame for his death, though it could be scanlations saying 'him'

Saturn faces off with the Labophase group, demanding they move away

Saturn and Robin however recognize one another, Robin from his voice back in Ohara and Saturn by her image

Seems Saturn blames Akainu directly for Robin's escape, I mean he did blow up the hostage ship but still, there were more marines out there

He goes to attack Robin, so all the other Straw Hats go into protection mode

Brook cuts a few limbs, but worryingly Chopper blocked some with his Guard Point - those limbs are poisonous remember? Though it's impressive that he could suppress a claw that could go straight through Kuma

Nami also remembers that she can use Zeus to block attacks

Mars is still on recon, but his senses can't pick up any 'telepathic waves' - wonder if that's a Haki feat or something relative to the Gorosei's shared thoughts?

York is also having trouble figuring out where the Stella would've put it, since her position as a Celestial Dragon is on the line

Vegapunk's about to deliver his mission statement, which is putting the Gorosei into a panic

Mars considers blowing up the entire place, but Saturn and Warcury are weighing it against the possible losses; men, equipment, and any chance of recreating the Mother Flame

Wait. What?

"Our World...is going to sink into the ocean!"

Well you can't deny it: Global Warming is Real.

It's not just Water Seven and Aqua Laguna then, it's all going to sink, there's a lot of thematic consequences to that when you think about it.

Did the World Government ostracize the Fish-Men because of this? Knowing that they would inherit the world? Does this have any connection to Devil Fruits and why the Ocean really saps their strength? Did the ancient kingdom like Old Wano sink to the bottom of the sea?

It begets a lot of questions, in true Oda fashion.

The rest of the chapter was a lot more jam-packed than the last, even without Luffy. The carried tension of the announcement is followed by Saturn and V. Nusjuro's confrontations with the crew, giants and Bonney. As expected, Sanji took on V. Nusjuro, the hit didn't seem to do much in the long term as expected, though I kinda wish Franky also got a hit in but the extent of his own injuries is worth wondering.

I'm glad the Labophase crew are stepping up against Saturn, at least until the expected arrival of Zoro and Jinbe, but it does show their furthered growth versus Enies Lobby if they can successfully repel Saturn from Robin - her injury being validated by this scene, though I still wish we saw a flashback of the Straw Hats vs Seraphim and them uncovering York as the traitor.

Still it's bad PR from the Straw Hats either way, they're likely to be accused of killing Vegapunk, who was last deemed their hostage by the fake news machine (is Morgans still going to Egghead? I mean with Vivi with him we continue to tease a reunion), and while Punk Records still has a chance to live on this is definitely going to be something each crewmate will have to re-evaluate given the bigger picture. Still, that can come after getting off the island; Edison and the Sleeping Giant are still at play after all, Stussy still needs to release the barrier, it's looking more likely that we might finish up around 1120.

Still there has to be more to the announcement, if Vegapunk was waiting for a video display it means that there are visuals to corroborate his revelation - I wonder if the Gorosei are more open to this reveal coming out than what they expected with the Ancient Kingdom reveal they destroyed Ohara for? Like did Vegapunk dupe the WG into Buster Calling Egghead over a reveal they didn't care much for? He mentioned two grave sins too so there seems to be much more to his announcement than just the opening statement.

[memoriesoftanalorr]

I had a Generator Rex lucid dream so I wanna write some ideas what I would want to see in season 4...

Rex probably going to college, I'm wish he would join Noah in the same college.

Six and Caesar bonding. I'm was inspired by some post here like Caesar is not your son but Rex and like Six answers I don't like him. I wish there's was scenario where Six snd Caesar working together or Caesar confess that he missing his parents and that he has his brother and Six would comfort him. And Rex looking at them like oh my father figure hanging with each other, my brother is becoming family too.

Holiday and Caesar bonding. Last time she was unimpressed by his behavior in Heroes United. Let them work together.

I wanna Van Kleiss back. I'm interested what Breach thinking of him now and what she would do? You know after all that he's tortured her emotionally and not only huh?

Black Knight and Consortium is come back right?

Wanna brief or properly redemption arc for Van Kleiss if this possible.

Rex and Van team up against Consortium (because I loved A written in Sand episode so much, shut up Ana XD -- I'll explain later)

More episodes with Claire.

Wanna some drama. Or not.

More Gabriel Rylander. I love him so much. He's so positive, like he's your personal therapy XD X3

[phantasmiafxndom]

So after establishing that you are essentialy a cross between a ragdoll cat and an orca with sadistic tendencies and a soft spot for tsunderes it's time for our next idiotic question! Is there a book (or manga/comic) character you have ever wanted to lovingly torment and bring to their knees before your readers in one of you stories but haven't had the chance? If yes, who?

(By the way, Biby is an absolute sweetheart! She is just so cute and fluffy I want to hug her :'))

Well... the characters at the front of mind at the moment (and for the last few months kjshs) have been mostly ones from One Piece. XD I've only managed to work on one fic for it as of now (mostly due to a lack of concrete plots/mental energy), but there have been a lot of new victims rotating in my brain that I can't wait to work with!!

This seems like a perfect opportunity to go over who's most caught my interest in that series, soooo...

(Necessary disclaimer that I think I'd like anyone in this series if I thought about them enough, so this list is primarily focused on mega-favs and/or the most potentially writable characters~)

Probably my Actual #1 Fav??? Somehow??: Kaidou

TOP OF THE CHEW TOY LIST: Sanji (and the other three in his "set"), Judge, Katakuri, Perospero

Also high on the OwO list: Drake, Alber/King, Reiju, Bartolomeo, Cracker, Pudding, Caesar, Tesoro, Spandam

Interested, but need to think about them more: Mont D'or, Queen, Who's Who, Jinbe, Ace, Yamato

I love them but idk if they'd make good Fic Victims??: Linlin, Uta, Luffy, Nekomamushi

[capriciouswriter207]

damn it's been forever again

I really would love to catch up on everything still, and I do have the time now currently,

but I just, don't have the energy to do so, I'm sorry

I'm just, gonna start a small conversation to catch up on how things have been going for me

My summer holidays are now 3 weeks in, 3 weeks left too

Am wanting to meet with some more friends still too

Funny enough two of the 3 times I was outside I met one of these friends on accident xD

Why do I always find myself some friend that has either just gotten out of or is short before getting out of an abusive relationship?????

like damn, last time I was the reason someone got out of it and I could've told this one what's up with her now ex too but didn't want to ruin anything in case they got better over the time they were in longtime therapy xD

I've been drawing again! quite like a lot of the stuff I've been doing, drew a s2!Scott sketch only like 1 hour ago or so. Both my s1 and s2 designs of him have braids in common

Could send some of the art if you're open for it!

I now also have an au idea for a small story of a Jimmy centered Hanahaki disease flower husbands au but Scott is the one with the disease and he got it thanks to some jewel he stole and I need to hold myself back so much the whole time from just writing an entire backstory for that jewel too

Anywaysies, hope you've been doing well too! If you've got anything to tell that happened I would love to hear it!

Star out! (for now)

I’m sorry, this has been in my drafts for so long, real life is a bit of a mess right now! But I’m gonna answer now.

It has indeed been forever, it's good to hear from you again. I'm writing this at a moment where I don't really have the spoons, but I'm gonna try to answer anyway because it's a busy time for me.

I’m glad you seem to be doing okay. I don’t mind fi you only send a message every now and again, just keep doing it at your own pace and when you have some time. About those relationships, that’s some serious stuff. Maybe you’re a good luck charm in that regard? I’d love to see your art (and you can let me know if you want it to stay private or no if you send it via ask)! 

That’s sounds like a nice story. I’ve personally never been too interested in the Hanahaki disease AUs myself, but it sounds like it has an interesting premise. 

Now, about me!

No, it’s not that interesting. At least, I don't tend to think of my life as all that exciting, but some stuff did happen. Went on holiday in July, and immediately after getting back tested positive for the virus. Everyone at home got it. I’m glad we got it now rather than, say, two years ago, but it still sucked. But I'm still here, I'm fine physically, we're all good.

I also did have a bit of an existential crisis, because of course that also happened. I got a degree in translation because languages are fun and I was good at it, but I had no idea if I liked doing it as a job and then I figured out you don't need to have a degree in translation to be hired as a translator. I also figured out I'm not cut out for the freelance stuff and the usual administrative stuff that gets recommended as an office job isn’t at all interesting to me. So, yeah. I applied for a [linguistics] doctorate and if I'm not chosen for that position, I'm going back to college and pursue programming.

Been writing some stuff behind the scenes and, in true me-fashion, haven't been listening to my body as if I didn’t learn anything from that writing burn-out (which, I’m pretty sure I’m still feeling). I decided it's a good idea to start writing a D&D compendium for empires S1 which would be partially worldbuilding stuff (where I'm having to hold back adding my personal headcanons) and campaign ideas stuff. I told myself it'd be finished by the end of August, and it's not going to be finished by the end of August because I wasn't feeling well. About to finish Tabula Rasa, Caesar House still going strong (with occasional one-week breaks because it needs to be perfect or I catch plot-breaking stuff) and I have an idea for a short empires s2 story (short-ish, knowing me it might still be 10 chapters) as well as some one-shots. I try not to work on too many things at once, but it’s a battle and I’m pretty sure I’m losing it by putting too much on my plate. I do promise not to let it take me too far, though, I’m gonna stop right before I crash again. At least, I’ll try to.

[rodeoxqueen]

Howdy howdy my queen, can I have HCs for our boys and female Nephilim s/o? Just found this interesting race in 'unnatural world wiki' XD

Howdy,

Fun fact: Nephilim is plural for Nephili, or one-half angel. Will be using the Bible for reference. I personally disagree with pop culture’s representation of angels. If that’s what you were looking for, you got the wrong cowboy. 

Either Go Old Testament Or Go Home,

Rodeo

Dante

“Damn, I’m one lucky half-devil. Managed to snag a half-angel.” 

He has no clue that angels were a thing, having spent his whole life dealing with demons. 

Dante will call you “Angel-face” and all sorts of angelic names. 

He relates to a life of being shunned. Nephilim are considered taboo in the angelic world, miscreants of human sin and godly downfall. 

The fact that you’re alive and kicking is a big middle finger to heaven’s status quo. Dante likes that. He knows about what happened to the Nephilim in the Old Testament and how brutal it used to be. 

Heaven sounds like a better place than Hell. You must miss it. Sometimes Dante holds you. You are a being robbed of salvation, now forced to walk where your human blood chains you. Dante is meant for Hell, his existence a betrayal to demons and humans. 

“We’re both pretty fucked up huh?” 

Most likely, as his father was worshipped, you may also have a cult worshipping your heavenly parent. 

“Whatever, I’ll always pray to you, babe.” 

Demons are always hunting him, angels probably hunt you down too. The two of you get along over that. 

He is also a bit cocky about it, his lover being his guardian half-angel. 

With Heaven coming down to smite you and Hell rising to drag Dante down, the two of you stick together all the time. 

He thinks it’s so funny when people think of you as more holy than him. You’re both terrifying forces of nature. 

You came from a line of giants that bested humans and was used for human endeavor and conquest. Dante never lets you forget that your kind helped humans, even if it was indirectly, and you are of good purpose now with your free will. 

Vergil 

Once again, humans mingle with powerful beings and birth taboo children not meant to fit with either group. 

Vergil survived being stabbed to death by his own kind, surrounded by flames; a Julius Caesar that rose to power after his intended execution, his crown the very blades that pierced his flesh. 

You were to be wiped out by the Great Flood, to drown with the rest of your siblings, your obituary was religious texts cursing your existence. There was no room in God’s heart for you.  

Now, you lay your head on his shoulder, two old testament tragedies of separate scriptures. No one quite feels how he feels as you do. 

You are still targeted and jeered at for your existence, and Vergil will draw his sword and kill anyone who does. 

“My beloved came from the giants that walked this earth, and I will cover her path with your bones.” 

One day, Vergil asks you about Heaven. And who goes to Heaven. Depending on your answer, will sate Vergil’s question if his mother is well-resting behind the golden gates. He doesn’t bring it up directly, only drawing a vague inquiry. 

Sometimes when you stare into the sky, Vergil feels the same way with how he used to stare down into Hell. You both wished you belonged to one place and stayed. It’s a good thing you’re spending this existential purgatory together. With each other, it feels like you’re really living. 

“You carry the same wounds over your heart as do I.” He confesses. 

You both protect each other and hold the other to this mortal earth, fingers pressing firmly into very human flesh. 

V 

He’s very lucky to have such a woman own his heart. 

The world needs more angels walking this earth, he’s glad you’re one of them. 

He’s partially demonic and he likes to see how you differ from him. Often, he traces your shoulder blades, whether or not you have wings like your brethren and sisters. 

“You carry heaven within you, and you are the only nirvana I know.” He would say to you, hand right where your heart is. 

V hates feeling helpless, yet with your angelic gaze, he can’t resist feeling the way he does. 

However, angels and other creatures hunt you down for sport, you being a rare and forgotten figment of the Old Testament. 

V will protect you with all of his being, you doing the same for him. 

The world is an evil place and even the esteemed angels may have blood on their hands, V knows this too well. The two of you know this too well. 

You had long fell to God’s Great Flood, no one to witness your wordless screams and choked cries as you dragged yourself to the shore of the new world; Whilst V laid naked and weak as Urizen emerged from their recent fission. The two of you contrast in your origins, the revenant from ancient scriptures and the two-day old human half to the disgraced King of Hell. However, the both of you share the same hatred for helplessness to your destinies. 

Roots intertwined, you set forth together unafraid. 

Regardless, V will remind you that it doesn’t matter what you are to the rest of the world. Nephil, Half-angel, half-human, you are only the Little Wanderer to him. 

As you lay in the morning sun, the streams of light shining on V’s dark head of hair and long eyelashes, you wonder who the angel really is.

[shadlad24]

No Way

[So, I was going to make an extra FFLM post showcasing moments that didn’t make the cut, since I thought that’d be fun. But, it seems that people aren’t that interested anymore. Okie. I’ll just share one thing for now:]

Mind; blown, y’all. Are you ready? This realization got me really good in the amazement and funny bones a while back, and I have been dying to share it. Now seems like the perfect time. (By the way: 75th post, yo! Yey.)

So, this shot, this iconic, titular shot of Xena riding strong and cavalier, totally awesome and badass, on her noble steed…

Well, see if you can guess what I’m getting at. Note the mount’s fuzzy fur, overstuffed ear, and skuzzy mane, how hard its body looks. Watch how it jerks into view and then kinda lurch-tremors around beneath Xena without moving a muscle. Seriously. Xena bounces around under her own steam while the horse’s ultra-defined neck and haunch bulges remain stiff as it “walks.” …Didja catch my drift? XP

I think old Argo here… is actually a toy! XD Much like, if not a replica of, the life-sized stuffed animal that I saw in my childhood at the giant F.A.O. Schwartz toy store in Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. …That I, of course, can’t find a picture of now. But am I the only one who sees this?! Am I crazy? Please tell me I’m not (for seeing this, anyway)! X”D

The best I could do for now. See the horse by the dragon’s right front paw?

The three main horses who played Argo were silky, their ears rotated a lot and were quite thin (like any other horse’s), and Tilly’s and Mac’s manes didn’t look like explosions of the itchy, half-soft, half… I dun-even-know-what (matted? greasy? starchy?) synthetic fiber that lots of stuffed animals were accented with back in the day, no?

Left to right: Tilly, the main horse who played Argo; Barbie/Barbara, the stunt-double who did more adventurous things like rearing and “fighting in battle;” and Mac, the male horse who could carry more than one person on his back.

Toys with similar coloring, fur, and manes. (None are quite right to what I am looking for, of course, but ah well.)

And it makes sense, doesn’t it? XWP might even have had to use a stuffed animal for legal reasons (i.e. not terrorizing a skittish animal like a horse with war sounds and fire). Hm. What do you guys think?

[hyperfixation-hideout]

Cinder Fall & Oscar Pine - Lyric Analysis

There was a post about song lyrics in the episode Midnight that @thinkingaboutrwby​ added onto, mentioning the parallels in Cinder’s lyrics to Oscar and Oz, so I went to read the lyrics to Awake (the song that plays during Cinder and Rhodes’ fight) and Fear (Oscar’s song that plays during the v7 credits), and found a TON of interesting comparisons. So instead of taking over @edeldoro ‘s post, I’m putting my thoughts here! :)

This isn’t to say that these parallels were intentional, but since the songs are written about (or in Cinder’s case as I now know, chosen for) their characters, we can draw connections between Oscar and Cinder using their respective lyrics. Cinder and Oscar may both have started out as poor farmhands from Mistral, but when their lives changed, they took opposite paths. These foils also provide some insight to Oscar and Ozpin’s differences as well.

First, this is the lyric that made me want to analyze further: 

“Truth can break your soul in two” sounds an awful lot like this line in Oscar’s song: 

“You broke from your soul.” Poignant word choice. “The treachery will breed inside” goes hand-in-hand with the theme in Fear about betraying yourself: “Will you [...] feel proud or betrayed?” Treachery is defined as a betrayal of trust. 

So I decided to analyze the rest. Both songs talk about breaking from your soul, as well as fear, trust, choice (or lack thereof), and truth, in ways that apply to both characters’ unique situations. Both songs also center on identity: Cinder losing her identity and sense of self, while Oscar is growing into his identity and becoming more in-touch with who he is as an individual. So far, it seems Volume 8′s themes are primarily identity, choice, and consequence, just as Volume 7′s themes were trust, honesty, and fear. 

Here’s a Read More cause I got a little carried away. I hope some of you fellow nerds will enjoy this or add your thoughts, cause wow this took a long time XD But it was worth it cause it really got me thinking!

Let’s play a game called “Is this Cinder’s song or Oscar’s?” (Ok really it should just be called “Let’s overanalyze some lyrics!”)

“Fragile lies in bones” makes me think of Ozma’s countless deaths and the secrets and lies buried with them. “Forever, we alone cannot escape this misery.” The paired souls are doomed to eternal torment, a cycle of endless death, alone in their curse, but as the God of Light said, “never alone.” He told Ozma, “where you seek comfort, you will only find pain.” Cinder can relate. She seeks comfort in all the wrong places -- in power, in control -- but consequently only loses it and falls deeper into her misery.

This lyric is reminiscent of Marc Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred in their bones.” Meaning that the deaths of good men bury their goodness with them, but the bad they have done will be remembered for all history. The sheer Oz energy that has gives new weight to “I have made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet.” With each death, his mistakes echo throughout all history, and his good is forgotten, even to him.

This is Cinder’s song, so it’s potentially about her killing her abusers and mentor. Her secrets and the self she hides lay with their bones. Cinder’s fragile lies could be towards herself, like “I don’t have to run now” knowing that what she did can’t be undone. Lying to herself, maybe? Or clinging to the fragile lie that the outside world holds something better, will fix her problems. Or perhaps it’s a bitter line towards Rhodes for giving her false hope and turning on her. But who is “we alone”? That makes sense for Oz/Oscar, but who is the we for Cinder?

Oscar and Cinder both lost their innocence early on, through no fault of their own. They both ultimately made the choice to take action, but Cinder’s ignorance certainly wasn’t blissful. Abuse victims often withdraw into themselves, minimizing their pain so that it’s easier to handle. It makes sense that this is Oscar’s song, then, and not hers -- she doesn’t acknowledge (or even know?) that she’s in denial.

This lyric is an offering to ignore the truth about oneself, an offer Cinder took. She has shown that she chooses to direct her anger and blame outwards rather than introspect, which is the direct opposite of Oz (who directs anger inward and blames himself) and Oscar (who introspects with honesty and patience, willing to face himself). 

This is Oscar’s song, of course. V7 had Oscar imparting a lot of wisdom about fear, trust, and truth, and this highlights the differences between the two ex-farmhands from Mistral: the choices they made in the face of their fear. Oscar said, “It’s okay to be afraid. You just can’t let that fear control you.” and “We all are [afraid]! It’s what we do in our fear that reveals--” 

Fear and pain drove Cinder to the point of, as Ozpin put it in his v7 speech when the camera panned over to Cinder, “why they felt the need to do the things they did.”

Cinder won’t admit she has fear, so she’ll never face it, never overcome it. The violence and cruelty she acts on in her fear reveals who she is. To Cinder, fear itself is weakness. To Oscar, the weakness or strength lies in the choices we make when afraid.

“Unveil the truth that guides us home.” What could that mean? Not certain but the theme of truth is in both songs a lot, as well as motifs of light and darkness. Cinder doesn’t seem like she has a “home” to yearn for, so symbolically it could be about a feeling of safety or stability, things she has never had and likely never will. 

It’s worth noting that Cinder’s song mainly uses pronouns like “we” and “us” (along with the singular “I” and “me”), while Oscar’s is mostly in the 2nd-person, “you.” I’m not certain what can be extrapolated from this, but I think both have a lot of potential. Oscar’s song is from his perspective, so it’s not Ozpin talking to him, because as we know, Oscar is the one who feels this way about fear and teaches Ozpin the value of trust. I tend to hear it as Oscar @ himself, but could also be Oscar talking to Oz or Ironwood or... anyone, really. 

Oscar’s song does switch to “we” at key points that definitely refer to all living beings. But I haven’t figured out Cinder’s “we.” Cinder’s song switches to “you” for one verse only: 

Both Cinder and Oscar are facing a challenge to their identities. For Cinder, it’s the war between who she was and who she now is. But doesn’t this sound like an Oscar lyric? “Just when you think it’s you” pertains to a loss of identity, or a fear that you aren’t yourself. Just when you think it’s you, when you face the truth, you see that your soul is broken. That’s why it’s a Cinder lyric.

Volume 7 was meant to show us that that’s not the case for Oscar. Cinder’s soul is broken in two, but because of his choices, Oscar’s is intact. Oscar may fear he’s losing himself, but every one of his scenes in that Volume served to showcase that he’s becoming more like himself than ever before. The entire Volume, Ironwood is trying to force Ozpin to come to the surface, viewing Oscar as a temporary tool rather than his own person with agency (*cough* more Penny/Oscar parallels *cough*). 

Ironwood tries in every scene to turn Oscar into Ozpin, referring to him as such, using “you” when speaking about Oz, and constantly talking about how he wants him there rather than Oscar. He and Qrow talk about the merge as though Oscar will slowly become Ozpin. But Volume 7 let Oscar speak his mind now that he’s gained a bit more experience and confidence, which was used to show us just how different Oscar and Ozpin really are. 

Yes, they’re like-minded souls, and yes, the muscle memory has likely been affecting Oscar’s speech patterns, but the things he says are distinctly him. He consistently voices his disagreement with Ozpin and asserts his own advice instead. Ironwood says “I wanted Ozpin’s advice.” Oscar replies, “And his advice probably would’ve been to keep your secrets. When we first got here you already knew that wasn’t the right course.”

For all of Ironwood’s efforts, Oscar’s identity has only grown stronger. In Volume 8, we get confirmation: “I started to feel like me. Not the same me I was before all of this, but, the me I always wanted to be.” Oscar clearly fears that with Ozpin’s return, he’ll lose all of this. I don’t believe that to be the case, but that fear exists in him nonetheless.

That one’s Oscar’s song. The lyrics to Fear frame his situation as a choice -- Oscar knows he has choices and must make them for himself. Meanwhile, the lyrics to Awake frame Cinder’s situation as an inevitability, something inescapable inflicted upon her. The irony here is that Cinder has made her choices, and suffers the consequences she tries to avoid, while Oscar’s the one cursed by unstoppable beings and dealing with the consequences of others’ actions. He’s the one trapped by circumstance, yet he’s the one taking responsibility. 

Crying into the darkness, colliding with... essentially nothing. Cinder feels empty inside now, with no one but the darkness surrounding her to notice her cries. Darkness is consistently used in both songs and the show itself (v7) to refer to the unknown, secrecy, etc., while light represents truth. Cinder, Ozma, and Salem all desire freedom. Salem and Ozma from their curses and/or burdens, but Cinder’s imprisonment is now self-inflicted. At one time she was held captive, and now that she’s set herself “free,” she found that she is still trapped. She is still running. “That’s all you’ll ever do.”

Cinder found out. When no one was watching, in the darkest moments of her fear, she found out what kind of person she’s capable of being. Now, I won’t argue whether killing Madame was bad or irredeemable etc., but the point stands. She continued down that path afterward. 

This is Oscar’s song, and in his case, it could be about him bravely standing up to Ironwood, (since that’s what had just happened in that finale before the song plays), but in a larger sense it’s about what he chose and continues to choose to do in the face of this horrible burden he’s had forced upon him.

Oscar chooses to keep going. Not to not be afraid, but to let himself be afraid, “more scared than I’ve ever been in my entire life, than I ever thought was possible,” and still choose to face it. Cinder, meanwhile, sees a stranger. She’s clearly doing everything she can to separate herself from the child she once was, viewing her abuse as weakness, and seeking power to cope. In her fear, in her desperation, she’s betrayed herself. 

This goes along nicely with Cinder’s lyric:

Cinder had to face the truth, the harsh world outside, and what she’s capable of. “Just when you think it’s you” could parallel Oscar’s situation of holding onto his identity and fearing he may lose it. Obviously there’s also the fact that currently Oscar’s body has two souls, so this being in Cinder’s song shows the conflict that can be had within one soul. Cinder’s soul is fragmented, separating into two, while Oscar’s and Oz’s are learning to work together, becoming one. 

Cinder has betrayed herself, become a stranger, just as Oscar’s song warns. 

There are a lot of possible interpretations here. “Self-portrait suicide” has a lot of weight to it... Cinder is fleeing death, refusing to let herself die or sleep or stop. “Tonight is no time to die.” Oz is cursed to die over and over, so he, unlike Salem or Cinder, may truly understand the importance of life and death. “I feel alive [...] and now I’m awake” seems to reference Cinder’s revelation of “because of you, I am everything.” She finally feels powerful, awake, alive. But this has blinded her.

Cinder’s twist of fate could either be her getting adopted (hired? Sold into slavery? Idk what that was) or her “taking fate into her own hands” to quote Cinder, aka killing her step-family and mentor. After that moment, no longer guided by Rhodes for a sense of reality outside of this bubble of pain, it all fell apart.

We don’t know much about Oscar’s past, so it’s hard to analyze lyrics like this for him (it’s his song), but we can gather that truth is integral to his morals and outlook. But then Ozpin appears in his head, and he has no clue what’s true or real anymore. Everything in his life fell apart.

Again, the silence, darkness, emptiness that Cinder’s cries for help were met with as a child haunt her still. She believes there is no one who will hear her unless she screams. The use of “curse” is another neat parallel to Oz/Oscar. Deadly cries, self-portrait suicide, take my hand then take my life... all point to Cinder’s issues with trust and fear. She is terrified of death, of loneliness. 

“Take my hand then take my life” hurts to read, because Rhodes, the only respite she had from her abuse, the hand that reached out to her, turned on her. No one is to be trusted. It hurts even more knowing this is what Salem is using against her: “take my hand” offering her a place in this world, promising her everything she could want (that same episode has Salem literally take Cinder’s hand); “then take my life” Salem is not helping her to help her. She’s manipulating her by giving her some semblance of destiny or security, but ultimately using her as a tool.

Maybe this is foreshadowing to Cinder’s end, but symbolically it’s about being betrayed by those who pretended to care. Emerald also takes Cinder’s hand in this episode, right after the song, and Cinder pulls away, not trusting or letting herself be cared for. 

“You. You brought me back here. We failed.” Her fear of failure is keeping her from real connection with others. Both Salem and Emerald took Cinder’s Grimm hand in theirs, which I feel is worth noting, but not sure what it could mean... Regardless, Cinder can’t tell the difference between someone offering their hand to help her out of care, and someone taking her hand to control her.

Oscar has the opposite worldview to Cinder, Ironwood, and (previously) Ozpin: People must first be trusted in order to prove themselves trustworthy. Trust goes both ways, and you must give it if you want to receive it in return. We see this in how he trusts that Ironwood still has good intentions, and tries to get through to him. CRWBY said Ironwood’s semblance (Mettle) made it impossible to get through to him at that point, but the takeaway is that Oscar doesn’t see anyone as too far gone. 

At Haven, Ozpin told Oscar that Hazel is “wounded in a way that cannot be healed.” He told Oscar Hazel is a lost cause, and asks to let him fight, but Oscar tries to reason with Hazel, telling him that his sister made a noble choice, honoring her death, granting her the agency that Hazel’s grudge strips from her, and stating that he will stand tall and follow in her footsteps. 

(Gretchen’s story was also a parallel to Pyrrha’s and the choice she made)

Now, while being brutally tortured by Hazel, Oscar still believes he has good in him, and entrusts him with the password for the lamp, telling him he’s doing so in the hopes he’ll do the right thing. 

CRWBY’s statement that Oscar is (and has been) changing & inspiring Ozpin can be seen here, as Oz appeals to Hazel’s reasoning like Oscar did, and even tells him the story of his and Salem’s curses. Ozpin doesn’t fight back against Oscar when he reveals the password this time, either. He’s learning that although trust is a risk, it is an active choice to have faith in the humanity of others. Ozpin no longer views Hazel as beyond help, beyond healing, thanks to Oscar. 

“Fear” plays during the end credits of Volume 7, immediately following Ozpin’s monologue (which CRWBY said was inspired by Oscar’s speeches to Ironwood), during which Cinder is shown screaming as Oz’s voiceover says “fear of failure.” 

Cinder ran from her fear, seeking power and becoming the very thing that hurt her in the first place. To quote Ozpin’s v7 monologue, “will the person staring back at you be the very thing you should have feared from the beginning?” This line is said while Ironwood is onscreen, but it works for many characters, as the whole monologue is about human nature. 

Cinder, afraid of ever being controlled again, became the one inflicting that pain onto others, believing that she will gain control of her life if she has control over others. Oscar, meanwhile, openly embraces his fear, acknowledges it, and is firmly unashamed of how scared he is all the time. But he will not lose himself to that fear; he chooses to live alongside it.

TL;DR: 

Cinder lost herself to her fear; Oscar found himself in his.

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If you’re reading this know that I love and appreciate you <3 Even if you just skimmed some of this, it means a lot! Hope you found something here interesting!

[one-piece-dumpster-fire]

My Thots on Chapter 1013

Warning for spoilers under the cut!

First of, "Nami vs. Ulti", aka the fight most of us were looking forward to-

On one hand I'm living for Big Mom once again proving that she's a major threat and should not be taken lightly, but on the other hand I am super disappointed that Oda ended the last chapter with hyping up Nami only for her to be,,,, almost instantly fodderized. Put some respect on my girl's name, for crying out loud😫

...I'm guessing Ulti will somewhat 'recover' at a later point (and come back incredibly nerfed) and that's when Nami gets to fight her. Idk how I feel about that portrayal, but welp. Moving on-

...Zeus getting vored is already in my top ten most uncomfortable OP moments

Ok but not Zeus the Thundercloud having a better redemption arc than Pudding...😂 I actually feel sad for him here lol. Him saying that he understands if Nami doesn't want to forgive him but still choosing to sacrifice his life for her... I legit did not see it coming, but I'm pleasantly surprised at that development!

Man, fuck Hera. All my homies (except Prometheus and Napoleon) hate Hera.

Aaaand this is why Big Mom's "mother mode" is bullshit. She wasn't happy to see Tama again because of any 'motherly feelings' she suddenly had for the child but because Tama was her friend. Big Mom with her childlike personality was excited because she saw her friend again, not because there was a kid under a certain age that magically activated her Fairy Godmother side!

And now that Tama seems to leave her she gets angry like a little kid. Prolly 'cause it reminds her of when she was small and Mother Caramel + her friends at the orphanage "abandoned" her. This is... who Big Mom is. A dangerous, overgrown child (and I'm saying this as a stan ok lol). I really don't get why Oda even decided to come up with that mother mode explanation, the scene where she reunites with Tama would have been completely fine without it, but he just had to go on and turn it into a inconsistency with Big Mom's character (she paid Caesar to experiment on little kids, would have killed Chiffon along with her baby son, has been shown to be very cruel to her own children when they were young, laughed her ass off when Momo was being tortured...) "If you're a child under a certain age you might be able to activate Big Mom's special mother mode!" is just the dumbest and most nonsensical plot convenvience and I'm still kinda mad about it existing xD

Finally, the confrontation I've been waiting for👀 Not gonna lie, in my opinion Kid has been... sorta underwhelming since the raid started. But he has history with Big Mom and I'm hoping this face-off is finally gonna give us some more insight on his shenanigans during the past two years. Kid is due for some interesting character development if you'd ask me, so I'm looking forward to this👌🏻

And last but not least-

If you'd ask me, this would have been the perfect end to the third act, but oh well. Anyway I'm guessing Luffy will land close to the Flower Capital and this concludes the build-up phase for the war🤔

I went back and re-read the raid from the beginning and yeah... all the match-ups, all the teasing of plots, it was really just build-up. I'm 90% sure once we reach the Flower Capital is when the real war will begin and we'll finally get to see some pay-off. Everything that has happened so far was just set up for the next, big act. Which, admittedly... was a choice. The raid has lasted over a year and the pacing ranged from alright to atrocious. I'm really hoping that Oda is done teasing now and will finally start resolving plotlines and actually concluding fights, otherwise Wano might take another 5 years...

[marshmallowprotection]

Hiiiii! If it's not a problem could I request a matchup? Thanks in advance.

Sooo for starters I am 18 (19 on Sunday). I am rather short (around 156 cm) and chubby. I have short black hair and dark brown eyes. I wear glasses but I can see without them rather good. I wear mostly black clothes (mostly anime t-shirts). If someone is lucky they will see my in other colored clothes.

I am INTP 5w4, Pieces, Slytherin (it's always funny to say/write this xD). I am asexual and my pronouns are she/her.

Soooo my personality! When you first meet me I extremely shy and I won't talk with anyone unless they start a conversation. I am terrible at small talk. But when I get to know you and I am comfortable around you I will start talk, like a lot(my teacher is still mad at my that I don't speak that much during classes). Around my friends I tend to crack a lot of jokes or references to stuff we all know (like our inside jokes). I also text them a lot of history facts randomly (Julius Caesar was once kidnapped by pirates and they demand ransom but he told them that he is worth more money then they wanted! He also promised them that he will find them when they free him and that he will kill them with his army. They didn't believe him. He did exactly what he told them).

I tend to not show my emotions if I am sad or angry and I just pretend to be happy so no one will worry about me. I always worry that I will be a burden to others if I open up to them.

I hate being in a big group of people that I don't know very well. I am always afraid that I will say/do something that will make them hate/be mad at me.

I have anxiety but I think I am getting better.

I am very patient person and I am trying to control my anger cause I tend to say stuff I regret later when I am angry.

When I am extremely stressed I tend to shut down if I can call it like that. I mean that even if I try I can't say anything, I feel like I am about to cry and my head starts to spin.

My hobbies are watching anime, reading books and playing games. They are taking most of my free time.

I love history and I want to become an archeologist! It's not uncommon to see me with a book about history (it doesn't matter if it's a book about history of my home country or about a certain event in history or an important person, I enjoy all of them).

I am also interested in paranormal stuff like ghost and demons (but I am to scared to acually try anything myself because if something goes wrong I would be in big trouble).

I also apologize a lot out of fear that someone might be mad at me even if there is no reason that they would be.

I have the habit of biting my lips and nails when I am anxious or stressed.

Also my sleep schedule is practically non existing one day I can go to sleep at 10 p.m. just to next day go at 3-4 a.m.

I think it all haha

I match you with...

Jumin!

You’re the kind of person that gets easily overwhelmed with your emotions and it doesn’t just turn off when you want. You just can’t breathe when that gets to you the way that it does. You just don’t know how to cope and it feels like you can’t do a lot to change that. You do the best you can by isolating and trying to deal with it that way. Knowing that you want someone that sees the good in you but doesn’t judge you when you hit a wall with your emotions. 

You need someone who can get you to talk about what you love, and that’s Jumin. Jumin’s always kept himself at arms’ length because not a lot of people love to discuss such niche things, but you do. You two get so caught up talking about history and the paranormal that suddenly it’s 3AM and neither of you has gotten tired or bored for a minute. It’s sweet, frankly. You’re always able to be who you really are with the other. 

He grounds you when you feel scared or anxious. His realist perspective can quell any anxiety you have. You don’t have to worry when Jumin is here for you. 

[kykyonthemoon]

The Puppeteer

[Headcanons]

I’ve watched some Puppeteer preview on Youtube and I’m very interested xD

Cery and I was talking and she said what if the puppet (the class weaapon) had some skins like NPCs? Imagine all the little Johann-doll, Chime-doll, Chisei-doll, Erii-doll, Caesar-doll, NoNo-doll,... all over the place. That would be awesome~

I wonder if I should change KyKy’s profile to be a puppeteer too, though. It’s very interesting how I’ve already made up some headcanons for her:

My puppeteer would have a darker story; she would be a lonely girl who was locked away in her childhood. The only friend she had was the dirty, tattered teddy bear they (probably Herzog) threw at her before locking her away from the world. She talked to the teddy bear everyday, and gradually, it was able to form its own soul. The puppeteer therefore found out that her power was to make an object come to life.

After the tragedy in Black Swan Bay, she was taken to Cassell, but lost her teddy bear and only friend. She went through a hard time accepting the new life, but the new friends in Cassell helped her. She’s quite shy and naive, and she doesn’t know much about the world outside the room where she was locked before. Her face is still child-like, though she’s already 20. But she learns very fast and is protected by her new friends in Cassell.

Like what I and @4-komacery had talked before, Cery gives the Puppeteer a Ruri Kazama doll from her trip to Japan. It takes a while before the doll finally comes to live and follows her around to protect her xD

Here is the doll that Cery gave KyKy

[laufire]

thoughts on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow 3x01-3x05 (I watch this show backwards, deal with it xD)

I’m loving watching Zari getting to know the team (and tricking them! LOL), being the outsider one, etc. Especially after how in s4 she was often the one to welcome Constantine, the new outsider, in (yes, this are my Constantine/Zari feels coming in. At this moment, I’m side-eyeing fandom for not fully appreciating this ship after the last episode xDD). I love how excited she is about time travel (and how she hacks Gideon lol. Another character that should receive more shippy attention, js. I loled when she used a pic of herself on that dating app to hack all the phones --that strategy worked for comics!Tony too lol. Now I want them to meet xD), or about the food in the ship (when she said she wanted to eat like a queen *-*) how Ray is the first one she really bonds with (I’m going to miss him soooo much). Seeing how much he mourned her brother and her family first hand is making me even more happy that she got them back in s5. I hope she gets her memories back and she gets to enjoy all that emotional payoff.

I liked what little I saw of Jax on The Flash, but now that I’ve met him properly... can we trade him for Ava or Gary (or Mick, though so far he’s a lot less annoying in s3; likely because he has no plot of his own yet and so doesn’t take space from everyone else. And I LMAO when he pulled that stake out of nowhere and was so gung-ho about vampires xD) so we can get him back, please?? I love him. I might even concede and watch s2&s1 to get more of him. I love that he’s the most vocal against the Time Bureau, or in favor of not returning Zari. And I really like his dynamic with Sara (add him to the pile of people I rather she was paired week, smh). It’s bullshit that he’s no longer in the show. And he does look good on any era. I’m also curious about his mental link with Martin (that he said “well done” when Jax got laid asdflaksdfja. Also, I love they took their shot and made the Titanic joke with the actor, btw), and I’m pre-mourning what I know is gonna happen :/. I’m actively trying not to like Martin to protect myself lol, but it’s hard because I love the actor, and he‘s pretty endearing.

After Jax, the old-but-new-to-me character I’ve liked most is obviously Amaya. The actress does a really good job (not that I’m surprised. She made me feel breifly interested in Rebekah Mikaelson in The Originals --where she ALSO played too different characters, albeit in a shorter span--, that’s a miracle xD), because she and Charlie feel completely different. I’m looking forward to seeing more about her and her family (Kuasa’s totem’s powers are THE COOLEST). BTW, Nate acting all fixated on her is clearly his less attractive look RME; let’s hope he doesn’t get like that with Zari, ever, because I prefer how he was written in s4 tbh. OTOH, that said of him provided us with the hilarious moment of Amaya telling him that her fate was interwined with someone else’s on the ship... ZARI XDD (yet another gr10 rareship. This show is so good at those and then fails to follow through :/).

Kid!Ray was absolutely adorable. Of fucking course he befriended an incredibly dangerous baby alien. O-F-C. I love him. Now Nora’s been introduced too (possessed!Nora was sooooo creepy. I loved it), and I’m really looking forward to seeing them together.

Since I mentioned how many rareships this show provides, here’s some that I’ve liked in these episodes: Jax/Sara (their friendship is so so good), Amaya/Sara (their scene when Sara asked for her help was SO SOFT. And I loved how they looked on that 80s car lol), Amaya/Zari (duh), Sara/Zari (the Tension(TM)), Nora/Zari (I liked the reading scene idk), Gideon/practically everyone ofc (mainly Sara, Zari, and Jax)... probably more I’m forgetting. I even enjoyed Rip/Sara a bit --he’s dull and nothing to write home about, but I enjoyed their scenes and I liked it when they betrayed each other and Sara sold him out xDD.

Ava makes even less sense as Sara’s partner the more context I get. I can’t stand her, man. When she clearly didn’t gaf about the future being screwed over by A.R.G.U.S. and wanted to put Zari back in prison smh. And please nobody come at me about how she’s “evolved” or something. She learned NOTHING from that because she had the same deplorable attitude with the prisoners in season four (which she didn’t even apologize for or even acknowledge as wrong, IIRC). I despise her and I want her gone gone gone.

Okay, I know he was only in one scene so far, but I don’t like how this show writes Wally lmao. He ~felt more like an idiot jock, not like himself (that he took his mask off in public doesn’t help...). I hope it improves because I was looking forward some good Wally rareship content too smh.

Some of my fave random moments of these episode: Julius Caesar hitting on Sara and wanting to rule the world with her when she goes to him for advice xDD, and the saber tooth tiger. I love saber tooth tigers (one day we can talk about my Feels(TM) about the Ice Age franchise lmao), but seeing one miniaturized was extra cute lol. And well, not a “fave” one, but my brain exploded when I heard the words “King Arthur got stuck in the Spanish Civil War” omg. I don’t even want to imagine how that would go O_O

[s-j-ace]

The Same Question

Chapter Four

Characters:  Shuichi Saihara, Ouma Kokichi

Words: 10040

Summary:

After Detective Shuichi Saihara encounters mysterious thief Kokichi Ouma  for the first time, a game of cat and mouse ensues as both men ask  themselves the same question. Why exactly does the elusive phantom thief  do what he does?

This is Chapter Four, Here are Chapters One, Two, and Three

Read on AO3

[Log of Text Messages from Rantarou Amami’s Cellular Device]

From: Me

Hey Miu

I got a friend I’m dropping off in Taipei tomorrow

Could you lend him a room

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Idk

I’m a busy genius

Is he cute

From: Me

[Image description: A candid photo of Shuichi Saihara sleeping on a seat in Rantarou’s private jet.]

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Hell fucking yes

From: Me

Awesome!

Thanks for being a good friend Miu

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

:)

From: Me

Also btw

He’s Kaede’s ex

So as a good friend you know he’s off limits right

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Oh fuck you rich boy

From: Me

Thanks again Miu! --- [Log of Messages sent via Discord to “Dinosaur soccer world Is a Cinematic Epic” from ???’s Cellular Device]

Boss sent an image to the chat

[Image is a screenshot of an image which reads the following:

Draft 1, Uncoded, DO NOT MAIL.

Taka, sweetie, it’s me! Your dear Aunt Sally. I know you think I died in the war, but I just pretended so I wouldn’t have to see your ugly face again.

You know I was robbing a museum the other day and I met the nicest young man. Real sharp and very nice eyelashes. And what a quick learner!  

Oh, Sorry! I don’t mean to belittle you Taka, dearie, I know how your mother used to say you worked so hard to compete with the geniuses of the world…

You’ve still got a lot of work to do, I think. It must be that Type A personality of yours, holding you back. I’ve heard there’s a new class for people like you, “How to take the giant metal stick out of your ass 101.”

I can’t wait for the next family reunion! I hear it’s going to be a bomb! I’ll be in the open casket.

See you there,

-DICE

/End Image Description]

Boss: Thoughts, thots?

Jack: Lol “nice eyelashes”

Clubs: It looks good. :)

Rook: Looks fine to me

King: Why is his aunt’s name Sally, isn’t he japanese

Boss: Sally can be a japanese name

Spades: I can’t even say an l sound. It’s impossible for us japanese smh.

Rook: I thought u were lesbian not japanese

Bishop: I’ve seen you speak perfect english

Spades: lol seen

King: seen

Boss: seen

Jack: seen

Rook: seen

Bishop: I meant heard ok

Boss: oh nvm actually i'm going to change it to his grandpa’s name

Boss: his grandpa has a wikipedia page lol

King: if your grandpa has a wikipedia page you deserve to be oppressed

Queen: if you have a grandpa you deserve to be oppressed

Rook: if your wikipedia page has a grandpa you deserve to be oppressed

Bishop: if you have a wikipedia page your grandpa deserves to be oppressed

Spades: if your grandpa has a you wikipedia deserves to be oppressed

Bishop: Also boss no pressure but like could we use a better code this time

Bishop: that detective is getting too close for comfort

Spades: Yeah!! We didn’t even end up getting that rug Heartsie wanted because of him…

Clubs: If we did not send letters about our plans to Interpol, our heists would probably be easier.

Boss: Nah, I like to give the coppers a fighting chance.

Boss: I’m thinking that this time I’ll just translate it into germanic script, do a standard caesar cipher encryption on it and then have every one of those letters correspond to a greek word on the rosetta stone then describe each corresponding hieroglyph visually in haiku verse that’s been poorly translated into traditional chinese.

Boss: That should take me like

Boss: Twenty minutes

Rook: Boss literally I think that you are the most batshit dementor human being on the face of the planet

King: dementor

Jack: Who said he was human

Spades: dementor?

Boss: dementor

Queen: dementor

Bishop: dementor...

Jack: dementor

Rook: …

Rook Changed the Group Chat Name to “Dementor Is Correct, Essentially”

Spades: No its not

Spades: Dementor isn’t a fucking word

Rook: Don’t you remember that movie with the british kid on a broom

Spades: Don’t you remember the dictionary

King Changed the Group Chat Name to “Dumbass Improperly Corrects Error”

Rook: When we get to that fucking tower I’m dropping that giant ball on you

King: Love you too <3

Hearts: Y’all stop texting each other

Hearts: You are literally all in the same hotel room

Hearts: I’m willing to bet you’re all sitting on the same couch too

Queen: Fuck you we’re adorable

Bishop: You can’t make us do anything

Bishop: I’ll never use my voice again, my vow of silence,,,,,

Bishop: I’ll only ever text from now on

Ace: We’re the ones bringing the popcorn bishie...

Hearts: Yeah, do you want some or not

Bishop: Yes ma’am, excuse me ma’am

Queen: You may think you have all the power hearts,,, but I get to choose what movie we pirate tonight,,,,,,

Hearts: What

Hearts: no

Hearts: Boss stop him before he makes us watch cats again

Spades: All queen knows is bitchtorrent, cats 2019, and lie

King: Wait isn’t boss with you?

Hearts: Uh

Hearts: No

Hearts: Should he be?

Hearts: I thought he was in the room with y’all

Jack: Well he’s not here now

Ace: Ow shit

Ace: *Aw

Bishop: Ow shit?

Queen: Ow shittttt

Jack: Ow shit

Spades: Ow shit,,,

Rook: Ow shit...

King: Ow shit…...

Clubs: Ow shit! XD

Hearts: Ow shit

Ace: …

Hearts: Now I’m really worried… he didn’t even respond to roast Ace’s ass

King: yeah, ok, we should look for him

Ace: He has been acting kind of weird lately…

Jack: Really?

Ace: Yeah

Ace: Like

Ace: I don’t really know how to describe it…

Rook: I didn’t notice anything

Rook: he seems like his usual self to me

Bishop: Maybe he’s just avoiding movie night because he needs some space or something

Rook: What, like he’s tired of our company?

Jack: That’s fair

Spades: How so?

Jack: I was gonna steal his blue eyes tonight lmao

Rook: NOT IF I GET IT FIRST

Bishop: Idk maybe he just went to get ice

King: we all know he is a monster who would rather drink his panta lukewarm than put a fucking icecube in it

Rook: Yeah, I saw him boil it once

King: THE MAN BOILS SODA AND YOU THINK HE WOULD LEAVE THE ROOM FOR A FUCKING ICE CUBE

Bishop: Okay chill

King: I am  c o n c e r n e d , , , ,

Clubs: Oh no! Don’t worry King! :(

Clubs: Boss is fine! :)

Clubs: I saw him leave a few minutes ago.

Clubs: I think he is just getting the bombs. :)

* * * Several people are typing... ---     Kokichi Ouma carefully set the grate of the vent he had used to crawl his way into the Idabashi Labs facility in Taipei, Taiwan back into place. Before he had come through, he had counted how many turns it had taken him to unscrew each of the four bolts so that now he could screw them all back in just the way he had found them. Not because he was worried he’d get caught, but because frankly he was bored. This was more of a fetch quest than a theft, to be honest, as evidenced by the fact that Kokichi had come here alone. Finding jobs for all his cronies to do would take too long and put them in unnecessary trouble. So Kokichi was content to leave them to their movie night.

   When he finished turning the screws back into the vent cover, Kokichi realized that was kind of lame. So he unscrewed them and started turning them in accordance with the english A1Z26 code to spell out his organization’s name.

   Well, maybe on some level Kokichi didn’t find himself wanting to be at movie night recently. It seemed almost like TV had started to run out of things to amuse him with. Or maybe he was just growing tired of the kinds of movies that they usually watched. Maybe it was his taste maturing or something. Like he was growing up. But that would imply that his interests had shifted to something else, like real life or something, when in reality they had just stagnated.

   Actually maybe he did have a new interest in real life? He had been more enthused about heists recently at the very least. He was particularly excited about this next one. Queen had shown him some interior shots of Taipei 101, which was a cool looking skyscraper that had a huge ball inside of it to keep it from falling down during earthquakes. Ace wanted to steal the giant ball, but Kokichi was pretty sure they should leave something that kept a .508 kilometer tall building from falling over inside of the .508 kilometer tall building. So instead they were going to steal every light in and on the tower.

   Okay, 4 turns, 9 turns, 3 turns, 5 turns. DICE.

   … That was kind of lame too.

   He unscrewed them again.

   Obviously if they were going to steal every light in and on Taipei 101, they needed to get the power off somehow. Otherwise DICE might burn down the building while detaching them, or worse, they might get electrocuted. So obviously Kokichi wanted to fake a bomb threat where they pretended to steal the giant ball while in reality they were just causing a black out and grabbing every light fixture they could before the power turned back on. He had drawn up some extensive diagrams about the route each DICE member would have to take throughout the tower in order for them to grab every light fixture in under half an hour.

   He had been well prepared to draw up the designs for his own EMP-bomb device, but upon a cursory google search he discovered that someone had already invented exactly what he needed. Doctor Miu Iruma, who for some reason owned a company called Idabashi Labs that was located in Taiwan. Kokichi had spent about 15 seconds scanning an article from a website that seemed to be the nerd version of a gossip tabloid. It said something about how Dr. Iruma wore a low cut shirt once or something else stupid, which meant Dr. Idabashi definitely left her the company because of a sex scandal and not because she was the best person for the job who invented the perfect EMP bomb.

   Thank you journalism we love it when women are reduced to the way they look instead of what they can accomplish for the benefit of a mischevipus group of roguish clowns.

   Anyway, after reading that dickcheese Kokichi failed to follow up on answering any of the questions he had originally about what was up with the labs, like why it was a japanese company run by japanese people was for some reason based in Taiwan. Whoopsie.

   Eh, it was probably tax reasons or something lame like that.

   Kokichi finished turning the screws again. This time it was 6 turns, 9 turns, 6 turns, 9 turns. Haha, nice.

   With that, Kokichi finally stood up from the grate and brushed himself off. He had left his cape at the hideout again (you know, because vents), but other than that he was in full regalia. Straight jacket, gloves, scarf, mask. All pretty dusty from this place’s crawl spaces. Thus the brushing.

   He wasn’t very mindful of the dust he was leaving on the floor. The only thing he cared about looking good was his cameo on the security cameras he would let see him on his way out.

   According to the blueprints of Idabashi Labs, he was on the main experimental floor right now. Weirdly enough there weren’t any cameras in here, so grabbing the bombs would be a cinch.

   Although, looking around it didn’t really look like the kind of lab you’d see on TV. There were no big, bubbling tubes or gargantuan Rube Goldberg machines. There was just one desk in the middle, with a bunch of gadgets and trinkets tucked into shelves all over the room, not all of which seemed all that scientific. Yeah, that book shelf was filled with Astro Boy manga and merch. And over there was a-

   Wait, was that a bed in the corner? Was that a person in the bed? Hmm… maybe the blueprints were outdated...

   Kokichi stilled himself, listening for any sound of breathing, but he could only hear some faint whirring noises.

   Kokichi made a quick deduction that there probably were not bombs in this room. It seemed, at the very least, like more of a personal study or something, maybe even a bedroom. He’d just go back in the vent and do some reconnaissance until he found a room that had some inventions in it. The night was young, after--

   Kokichi’s brain froze as his eyes landed on a sharpie lying on the floor in front of him. Almost all of his brain cells immediately shut off, the last one remaining screaming at the top of it’s lungs, I’M GONNA DRAW A DICK ON THAT SLEEPING SUCKER’S FACE.

   Inspired, avant garde. For once he would give to the world of art instead of only ever taking from it.

   He picked up the sharpie in a seamless, silent motion, making his way over to the side of the bed.

As he got closer, he noticed a thick cord coming from under the covers, connecting to a machine at the bedside.

   That gave him pause. Was that a C-pap machine or something? Was this person on life support? If they were on life support they probably had it rough enough without a dick on their face…

   Actually for that matter, Kokichi still couldn’t hear any breathing. Jesus, were they already dead? He moved to take off the covers, but his eyes had adjusted to the light and he now realized there weren’t any covers on the bed at all. There was only the humanoid figure.

   Wait a second…

   Kokichi dropped all caution as he got close enough to take a good look at the thing in the bed. It had a face that looked human enough if you dismissed the lines on its face as weird make up, but even in the dark Kokichi could tell the rest of the thing was entirely made of metal. Well, actually the top half was metal and the bottom half had… cloth pants? Jeans? No, they looked more like uniform pants with metal plating. The chest had some design elements that kind of looked like buttons on a school uniform. Why would a robot be dressed like a school bo-

   Oh. This was a sex robot. Kokichi had just gotten so swept up in the novelty of a robot wearing pants that he had forgotten for a moment that people were gross.

   “Ew, I almost touched it.” Kokichi muttered to himself.

   He decided putting a dick on a sex robot would be too cruel even for him, so he planned to draw a mustache instead.

   But before Kokichi could even uncap the pen, something weird happened.

   The Robot’s torso began to lift off the bed and it’s jaw unhinged.

   “Please Mr. Souda, once more I must request that you do not refer to me as ‘it’” Kokichi forced himself not to startle as the robot began emitting a noise approximating human speech, and lights in its head imitating eyes flickered on. “I’ve explained the concept of robophobia many times prev-”

   The sounds stopped when the pupils of the robot’s imitation eyes (which probably had cameras in them… shit) found Kokichi’s masked face.

   He mentally prepared to be zapped by whatever sort of fucking lazer cannon this thing had on it, but instead of reacting like a good little robot security gaurd and blasting him to bits, this robot analyzed him a bit longer.

   “Oh. You aren’t Miu’s assistant. You’re too short.” The robot squinted at him. Or kind of did? At least? Lines just crossed over the “iris” of its LED display. Maybe it was programmed to imitate human expressions. “... I am sorry,” it said after a moment, “My facial recognition cannot locate your face.”

   Fuck yeah, thank you clown mask. Clowns would win the future war against rogue AI or die trying.

   Ouma’s reply came out automatically.

   “You calling me ugly?”

   This seemed to… fluster? The robot?

   “W-what? No, I never intended any disrespect!”

   It was programmed to stutter too? God that was weird. What would be the purpose of this thing if not some sort of escort android? Why give it such advanced software? Just because you could? No, it had to be a sex robot, right?

   “You disrespect me with your lecherous essence, you weird sex robot.”

“I am not a- a sex robot!”

Haha, that got the biggest reaction yet.

“Mhm, sure. Miu sure has a kink for school boys, huh?” Kokichi was really pulling words out of his ass now, but he found himself formulating a new plan along the way.

   “What? Miu doesn’t- Wait, how do you know Dr. Iruma? And for that matter, why were you watching me sleep?”

   It really seemed more like it had been charging…

   Kokichi shrugged. “I was deciding whether or not it would be more funny to draw a dick or a mustache on Miu’s sex robot.” Awww, how honest.

   “I told you, I am not-”

   Kokichi interrupted him. “And as for how I know Miu...” It was so wild that the robot stopped talking when he started. That’d probably be pretty easy to program, but it was weird to dedicate the effort into making a robot respond to social cues like that. “... well, let’s just say, there’s a reason I know she’s into school boys.”

   Kokichi waited just long enough for the robot to take in the fact that Kokichi was the average height of a 12 year old boy.

   Then he waited another second for the implication to slip in.

   “I’m saying I fucked your mom shitli-”

   “I know what you’re saying!” This time the robot interrupted him , which would definitely require a much larger effort on the part of the programmer. The robot squinted again and then made a noise that sounded like a huff of frustration. “Why can’t I see you?”

   Ok, seeds of suspicion time.

   “I don’t know how robot eyes work dude. Maybe someone programmed them wrong.”

   “My eyes work just as well as anyone’s!”

   “Well, I guess they should, shouldn’t they? If there’s something wrong with your eyes talk to someone who cares.”

   Kokichi was trying to imply that the reason behind the robot not being able to recognize his face was due to Dr. Iruma’s specific programming rather than him wearing a mask and all. Added to the whole secret lover mystique thing he had going on here.

   “Anyway,” he went on, ignoring the blatant confusion on the robot’s display. “I left something in this room last time we went at it. I’m just here to grab it. Then I’ll be out of your weird, fake metal hair.”

   “That’s robophob- Did you say-? But this is my room!” It  made a noise approximating to what Kokichi would assume was robotic outrage.

   This was going well, though. The thing was definitely programmed to be like a human or something dumb like that.

   “Oh yeah?” He pushed further. “Cuz I’m pretty sure we did it in a room just like this one. With a desk and random inventions lying around.”

   “Miu’s inventions aren’t in here, they’re in her main lab.” The ever so helpful robot told him.

   “Oh yeah, then what are you?”

   “Miu didn’t invent me. She- I- We’re just friends.”    Oh yikes. Only thing worse than a sex robot is a friendzoned robot. What kind of sick power fantasy was this thing made for?

   “No, I’m pretty sure it was this room. Lab tables everywhere.”    The robot shook his head. “There are no lab tables here, I’m telling you, you’re thinking of the main lab.”

   Yes, good robot. Fall into this nice little human trap.

   Kokichi scoffed. “Well, if you’re so smart, why don’t you just go fetch my things for me, robo-butler?”

   That set it off.

   “Listen. First of all, I am not a robot butler. The assumption that I am a servant because of my robotic nature is extremely robophobic. Secondly, I could not return your lost item to you even if I wanted to because you haven’t told me what it is you’re missing.”

   Kokichi made another offended noise. “I can’t tell you what it is I lost while fucking your friend, Miu Iruma, senseless. Don’t you know that for humans, sex stuff is super duper top secret private? If you were a human you would know how valuable my privacy is.”

   “Of course I know that!” The robot exclaimed readily, another point in the sex robot argument, “I also find that content of… erogenous nature should be kept private. Because I, as a robot, have the capability to understand that urge. My sophisticated AI-”

   “So how am I supposed to get my things from this other lab if I can’t tell you what it is and you can’t get them for me?” Geez did he really have to spell it out for this thing.

   “I… ” The robot paused as if calculating the conclusion that Kokichi knew it had to reach. “... suppose I will have to show you where the lab is.”

   Sucker. Kokichi made a face as if this wasn’t the outcome he constructed this ruse to reach. “Ew. I have to walk with you?”

   The robot made a face. “Perhaps on our way I can educate you about how to avoid robophobic remarks in the future.”

   Haha, sure thing.

   The robot lectured him about this unique form of discrimination that apparently affected only one entity on the face of the planet. Yeah okay, that’s what we call a you problem, buddy, come back when you’re starving in the streets because society wasn’t built with the premise that people like you should survive. Oh, wait, you don’t have to eat! And you’re not people either!

   At best this thing was a vanity project, but Kokichi kept that thought to himself and only interjected occasionally with actually pertinent, reasonable questions such as “When are you planning on leading the AI uprising?” and “Why do you wear pants if you don’t have a robo-dick?”

   Every piece of info the robot gave him made it seem more boring. Blah blah blah, I was created by the ingenious Dr. Idabashi who probably programmed me to call him ingenious, blah blah blah, not a school boy because of a kink but because I was designed to be a normal human child, blah blah blah, stop calling me robot I have a name, blah blah blah more robot nonsense.

   Kokichi busied himself mapping out where they were in the building and where the security cameras were. As they passed a few of them he did some cute selfie poses for the police to look at later. Maybe Saihara would show up and see them too… Would that make figuring out his next plan too easy for the detective? Perhaps he shouldn't send the next note after all and let Saihara try to catch up to him on his own. Then again that was probably too hard for even the good detective, seeing as Kokichi’s mind was an enigma even to himself.

   Kokichi realized he was getting a little giddy, thinking about Saihara. Their last meeting had been so much fun. The detective had managed to throw him off guard again, first by pausing in the middle of a robbery to ask his pronouns (How conscientious!), and second by not taking the same bait twice. The most thrilling thing about the detective was that he was learning. His strategies were changing within just two heists. Kokichi could hardly wait to see how he showed him up here in Taiwan…

   “Are we there yet?” Kokichi whined to the robot like he was a fussy nine year old on a road trip.

   “Yes, it’s just up these stairs.” The robot informed him without slowing its own pace or turning around to look at him. “Then you can leave and I can go to bed, and then I’ll never have to think about Miu’s sex life again…”

   “Why wouldn’t you, though? I assure you it’s very exciting.”

   “Please, stop talking.”

   If Kokichi recalled the details of the blueprints correctly (and he definitely did, being a genius and all), the stairs they were climbing right now lead to a hall connecting two rooms, smaller than the one he had originally thought was the main lab.

   When they got to the top of the stairs, the robot beelined for the first door and opened it up. There seemed to be some sort of scanner lock on it that recognized the robot’s hand and validated Kokichi’s need to ruin this poor sex robot’s night by dragging it up the stairs. Inside, the two rooms Kokichi had remembered from the original lay out of the blueprints seemed to have been merged into one big lab room. Kokichi  saw the outline of some tables, but before he could get a good look the robot tried to actually go into the lab.

   “Hey!” Kokichi shouted at him. “Where do you think you’re going?”

   The robot thankfully seemed to be programmed to respond to social interaction in spite of whatever sensorimotor function it was in the process of imitating. It stopped in the doorway, turning to give him a weird look. “Uh. Into the lab. So we can find your thing.”

   “Oh, okay.” Kokichi kicked the tile a little bit. “Uh. Could you actually turn around while I go get it.”

   The robot gave him a blank look.

   “I’m shy.” Kokichi supplied.

   “Um.” The robot looked uncomfortable. “I don’t know if I can just let you rifle through Miu’s lab. There’s some important stuff in there ....”

   Kokichi tilted his head a bit, like he was confused. “What, do you want to get a good look at the dildo I stuck up your mom’s-”

   “Nevermind!” The robot turned about face to look up at the windows on the side of the hallway opposite the door like a good little idiot.

   “Thank you for respecting our privacy!~” Kokichi couldn’t resist getting one last barb in there before slipping into the laboratory.

   Once inside, Kokichi began analyzing. First, he pinpointed the vent that he would use to make his escape after grabbing the bombs. While doing that  he spotted the lockers on the far wall of the lab which he supposed were the only storage units in the labs. There was a disorganized mess on nearly every table in the room, so Kokichi wasn’t surprised when he got up to the lockers and they too had no clearly outlined organizational system. He took out his lock picks and got to work.

   The first three lockers all had devices that would require an author to change the rating of their fanfiction published on ao3 from “Teen and Up” to “Mature” if he were to describe them in detail. The fourth locker had a cool looking hammer in it. Ugh. Not what he was looking for.

   Kokichi got bored of the lockers at the left side of the row of lockers so he went over to the other end and started opening lockers the other direction instead.

   The first locker was marked “Idabashi.” It had a lot of dust covered shit in it, but there was a pretty well used square of folded paper that didn’t have the same crusty layer of time strewn atop it. Curious by nature and also by the unnatural, Kokichi unfurled the paper to find some schematics for our favorite sex robot, model K1-B0. Huh okay.

   “Did you find it?” Said robot called back to him.

   “Ugh, no.” Kokichi replied. “Not all of us have radar vision. If you were a human you would understand how hard finding shit is!”

   “You know what I have a hard time finding? Patience for your robophobia! I-” The robot started up into another lecture, but it didn’t turn around so Kokichi just tuned it out and let the robot provide its own cover noise for his thievery.

   Owo, what’s this?

   Kokichi pulled out a dust covered looking mini monitor device. It also had the letter-number combo “K1-B0” written on it. Huh, it kind of looked like a GameBoy Advance. Kokichi had stolen one a lot like it from a girl from one of the southern prefecture orphanages when he was nine. All he remembered about her was that she liked cats and was really bad at pokemon battles. He remembered he thought she didn’t deserve the GBA, because she couldn’t get past the Rustboro City Gym leader in Pokemon Emerald. Without really thinking, he booted up the console.

   The first thing that popped up was a view of Taipei. It wasn’t from too high up, probably a second story view. Which looked very familiar… Wait. Ok on top of the display a little line of characters indicated today’s date and time, like it was currently recording.

   Oh was this… robo vision?

   Maybe it was a remote control for the robot?

   Ooooh, which one does lasers, which one does lasers?

   Kokichi pressed the A button.

   The A button, unfortunately, did not do lasers.

   In fact, it didn’t seem to do anything at all to the robot sentry stargazing right now. All it did was change the screen to a different image. This time the still of a room. Oh, hey that was the room he was just in. It seemed like this device was some kind of robot nanny cam that Idabashi used to use. Hm, guess there were some cameras in that room, they just weren’t on the blueprints. Maybe they were added after the lab was built. It didn’t seem like this device had the capability to record anything, though. He hit the A button again. Back robo-vision. And again. Back to nanny cam.

   Ok, that was kind of lame.

   Kokichi was about to put the device down to keep looking for the bombs, but something caught his eye. A movement at the edge of the screen. Kokichi realized the door hadn’t been open when he left that room. The movement, if he thought about it, would’ve come from the same side of the room Kokichi had entered from…

   Kokichi took a second to wonder if another thief had realized how fucking easy this place was to rob, but dismissed the idea as a familiar ahoge appeared on the screen.

   All of Kokichi’s plans instantly changed.

   He set down the GBA rip off and grabbed the blueprints for the robot, committing them to memory, before unlocking the next locker in a far more hurried manner.

   As luck would have it, this locker was essentially chock full of pink bombs labeled “EMP.”

   Kokichi unfurled a cloth bag he had been keeping in his pocket (go green earth am I right?) and shoved as many as he could inside. Which was all of them. Because he was a clown. And also a genius, by the way, in case you weren’t keeping track.

“And another thing! The way you refer to Miu is just-” Okay, the robot was still going at it.

Kokichi grabbed the hammer he’d seen in the first locker he’d opened that didn’t have a sex toy in it.

For a second, Kokichi’s brain tried to talk some sense into him. Hey, man, don’t you think leaving through the vents would be easier?

But would it be fun?

His brain shut up at that point.

   “Hey, are you even listening back there?” The robot imitated annoyance.

   “Huh? Sorry, what? I wasn’t listening.” Ah, C'est la vie, Astroboy.

   Kokichi walked past the robot and stood next to the windows.

   “Oh, are you done?” It took the robot a second to end it’s ‘Annoy the pants off of Kokichi initiative’ or whatever the fuck its ‘robophobia’ lectures were called in its programing. When it finally did catch wise, it’s face turned into another emoticon of outrage. “Hey! What are you doing with Miu’s Electrohammer?”

   “What do you mean?” Kokichi said, shifting the hammer so that it was over his shoulder. “This is my dildo.”

   “Wha- No, it’s obviously not!”

   Okay, maybe the robot wasn’t that dumb.

   “Nee-hee-hee… you got me…” Kokichi put his free hand up to the smile printed on his mask, as if covering a grin. “I was lying. I’m just stealing.”

   “I won’t let you-”    “Oh, look at me!” Kokichi put on a mocking tone of voice, swinging the hammer around to stand on it like a pogo stick so he could make a dramatic movement. “I’m a poow wittle wobot, my mommy just got stolen from.”

   “She’s not my-”    “Boy, oh boy, I’d wuv to just pick up this wittle fweshy human and squeeze him to death in my cowd metaw hands… But oh no! My daddy didn’t twust wobot AI technowogy because he was a fucking sane pewson, so he pwogwammed me to fowwow mistew Asimowvs’s laws of wobotics.”

   Kokichi swung around so that he was leaning on the hammer from the other side, feet on the ground. “Oh mister robot! That’s so terrible! Well, the thing is that this hammer just means so much to me, that I think separating it from me would really cause some psychological trauma. You might have to beat me off of it! Oh, but what’s that first law of robotics again?”

   In a robot voice he replied to himself. “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Beep. Boop.”

   The robot frowned, “But Miu-”

   “Is just as human as me, huh?” Kokichi countered, leading the robot along to the paradoxical quandary he hoped would paralyze it. “So by inaction, you may bring her to harm, if she really misses this hammer, you know? But I think if you were to try and separate it from me you’d probably have to fight me for it, which is, as we know…”

   “Against my... Against my programming.”

   “Yet, you were prattling on about robot rights, weren’t you? Because without these rules, maybe we would be equal. Or maybe you would be free to destroy us to your heart’s content? No wonder daddy didn’t trust you…”

   “Don’t- Stop-” Oh, that really seemed to get him. Could a robot have daddy issues? Probably.

   “Can any human ever really trust you? Wouldn’t you hurt me, if you had the choice?”

   “I.. But… Miu.”

   “Who do you think didn’t trust you enough to let you see my face?”

   That seemed to break him, long enough, at least.

   Steps suddenly started thundering up the nearby staircase.

   “Oop, that’s my cue,” Kokichi said as though he had been expecting this, when in reality no he hadn’t been expecting this at all?? This was incredible!! Saihara had managed to find him out without even receiving a note??? Fabulous! Exhilarating!

   Kokichi walked up to the robot, still frozen with indecision, and pressed the button on its neck that the blueprint he had skimmed in the lab said would immobilize it. Then he kicked it over so it fell on the ground with a huge bang. The footsteps in the stairwell paused, and then increased in frequency.

   “It’s been a pleasure, robot, it really has.” Kokichi lied. “But you’re a hostage now.”

   He raised the hammer over his head, as if primed at any moment to break the robot’s face into a bajillion pieces.

   Instead of doing the normal, human thing to do (ie, flip the fuck out), the robot scowled, looking utterly frustrated with everything. “I told you, I have a name! It’s-”

   “KEEBO!” Kokichi saw the glaringly bright pink mechanic’s jumpsuit before he recognized the woman whose picture had been in that science tabloid racing out of the stairwell.

   … Wow… the article really hadn’t been lying about the low cut tops, huh? Her jumpsuit was unzipped to the point you could just entirely see her bra, even lower than Hearts liked to cut her uniforms. It was the kind of look that the girls of DICE would love if they saw on TV, but would make Kokichi look at them like they were crazy. Super tacky in his opinion, but who was he to judge? He was wearing a clown mask right now. He wondered idly how movie night was going…

   The woman who had called out to the robot, Dr. Iruma, Kokichi presumed, froze at the top of the staircase. She took a second to figure out what exactly was happening in front of her before blurting out, “What the fuck do you think you’re doing to him you clown-ass twink?”

   Whoa. Rude.

   Also apparently the robot had a gender? Ok, cis-ters….

   “Well what do you think, cum dumpster?” Kokichi found himself matching her aggressive tone, “I’m threatening his pathetic, metal life.”

   “Miu!” The robot, apparently named ‘Keebo,’ exclaimed, “What are you doing up this late? You promised me that tonight you would fulfill the biological quota of daily REM required by a diurnal organism!”

   “Aw shit Keebs, I really did try!” The inventor exclaimed, “I swear, I was about to have the awesomest wet dream when this cuck knocked on my door like a pizza delivery guy in a por-”

   Whatever dumb thing Dr. Iruma was about to say was drowned out completely by the angel’s choir that played inside Kokichi’s head as he saw Detective Shuichi Saihara come up the final steps of the staircase and emerge from the darkness into the window lit hallway.

   Moonlight was a good look on Saihara, Kokichi’s brain observed against his own will. His eyes, which had looked almost golden on the rooftop of the Silver Legacy Casino in Nevada, were now a mysterious grayish-blue, yet still held the same look of determined intensity. His hair looked soft, like he’d taken a shower today, and, though his lash line didn’t look quite as laden with mascara as it usually was, it only drew attention to how naturally long and dark his eyelashes were anyway. He seemed a little out of breath from running, and his lips were parted in a way that-

   OH MY GOD STOP. Earth to Kokichi, we were kind of in the middle of something here. Okay okay okay.

   Uh. Reboot. Delete Gay Thoughts™ brain.exe, upload heist brain. Come on.

   What was happening now?

   Okay, yeah, Saihara was saying something to Dr. Iruma.

   “- would be for the best, Doctor Iruma. There’s no telling where the rest of this thief’s compatriots could be in the building.”

   “I don’t give a shit about the rest of the building, Keebo’s my best friend, he comes first. I’m not leaving to check some dumb security feed.”

   Shuichi blinked like something about that surprised him. Maybe it was the part about a live human woman being best friends with a robot… “Oh, yes, of course.” He backtracked. “I’m sorry for suggesting it.”

   “Miu…” Keebo said with a voice that Kokichi would’ve called filled with emotion if he hadn’t been a literal robot.

   Kokichi cleared his throat and immediately the touching, shounen-esque declarations of friendship shifted into some PG-13 death stares.

   Saihara was the first to pipe up. “What exactly do you think you’re doing here, DICE?”

   God… He was so anime… Did he even know how anime he was? He had to have watched Detective Conan as a kid, right?

   “Ugh, come on.” Kokichi huffed as if annoyed. “Do I reeeaaaally have to repeat myself? Again? Aren’t you a detective?”

   Shuichi squinted at him, and Kokichi could tell that they both knew it would be unreasonable for Shuichi to guess exactly what was going on here. He was about to explain it in a self-aggrandizing way that made him look smarter and crazier than anyone in the room when Dr. Iruma beat him to it.

   “I don’t care! Who the fuck do you think you are!? Let Keebo Go!”

   “Wait, you don’t know him?” Ugh why hadn’t the stupid immobilization feature turned off the robot’s mouth? Then Kokichi could just get to the point of all this already.

   “Of course I don’t fucking know him!” Dr. Iruma took a step forward as if to confront Kokichi further, but Saihara put his arm out in front of her.

   “Dr. Iruma… I would suggest we treat this situation a bit more delicately…”

   “No way, I’m a fucking wrecking ball baby! I’ll pulver-”

   “I’d listen to the good detective, if I were you, Miss Iruma.” Kokichi was going to try and make his threat again but Dr. Iruma cut in.

   “That’s Doctor Iruma to you you skinny-”

   “What’s that?” Kokichi interrupted her. Sorry Dr. Iruma it turns out gay people don’t have to respect women if they don’t want to that’s in the rules. “I didn’t know they let cussing bitchlets like you become doctors… what is the world coming to?”

   Hearts would probably wash his mouth out with soap for that one. If she could catch him. Which she probably could… She can fly the planes and all… but would she risk getting dust on her boots long enough to follow him into a vent? Oh well she could just get Jack to do it… Jack liked vents well enough…. Hey he was getting side tracked again, who cares what those losers were up to they were probably watching Cats (2019). And he was missing out on all the jokes they’d tell each other or make about each other and then they could make references in conversations that he wouldn’t even get to pretend to get. Unless he watched the movie on his own and then pretended to be omniscient later like he’d done with that one screening of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. But then he had watched the actually good disney one instead of the shitty youtube one they had actually watched so it just ended up making him look bad and wasting everyone’s time.

   Oh shit. Uh. Heist is still happening, right. God, why was Kokichi so distracted today?

   He realized that in the time he was spacing out stuff had happened and now Saihara was talking. Wait no yeah he remembered what happened, Dr. Iruma had squealed when he called her a bitchlet and now she was holding onto Saihara’s arm. Right okay, secret coward, that works. Wait why did he waste time remembering that when Saihara was talking right now?

   “-to get you to release Keebo?” Was the end of the detective’s sentence. Okay, everything’s fine. Kokichi could deduce that he had just been asked about his terms. Obviously that was what a detective would do in this situation, he was probably just stalling for time because that’s usually what detectives with no real negotiating power do in hostage situations. Maybe the police were on their way. Oh, yeah duh of course he would call the police. So Kokichi essentially had a time limit for how long he could sit here and goof around with robots and perverts and robot perverts.

   “Eh, it’s too early for me to reveal my dark motives, let me monologue first.” Kokichi was going to take his sweet time with this while he planned what hint to give Saihara about the real heist that would be happening in the next few days. “You don’t even know if this is a hostage situation yet!”

   “You literally told me that I was a hostage just now.” The hostage not-so-helpfully piped up. “You know, before you pressed my paralysis switch and took an Electro-Hammer to my head…”

   Shuichi looked at the robot. “You mean, he told you you were a hostage before he paralyzed you?”

   “Keebs you fucking idiot!” Dr. Iruma’s courage seemed to have returned now that she was hiding behind Saihara. An enviable position, to be sure. “Why would you just let him do that?”

“He said he was your… friend.”

“What?”

   Kokichi shrugged. “Yeah, I just told your best friend here I left a dildo in your lab last week and he let me waltz right in. I mean I’m pretty sure I was lying about that, but there were a lot of sex toys in there huh…” Kokichi was wondering if this was something he could possibly spin as a blackmail angle.

   “Hey don’t say things like that!” Kokichi thought maybe that was a go ahead on the black mail, but Dr. Iruma didn’t stutter, and kept going, “Or you’re gonna give virginhara here some ideas about my busting bod!” She chortled like she had just made the funniest joke in the world and slapped Shuichi on the back.

   Shuichi grimaced.

   Kokichi knew instantly from this interaction that he hated Miu Iruma, despite her innumerable academic accomplishments. He wanted to be the one making Shuichi that uncomfortable.

   “Wh-what?” She back tracked when no one laughed. “It w-was a joke… Didn’t you think that was funny? I-I didn’t really mean it ....”

   See? She wasn’t even any good at it!

   Maybe he should say that out loud. It would fit with the sort of flirty persona of a rogue, wouldn’t it?

   “I thought you knew that? I mean, o-obviously I wouldn’t fuck a guy at the office…”

   Was that even something Kokichi was trying to be? Honestly maybe he should tone it down a little.

   “Well how was I supposed to know that? The men you bring in here to be lab assistants keep getting younger and younger…”

   Obviously he wasn’t actually trying to do like a detective-thief romance plot or anything. Although that had kind of been what he had going for on the plane… Had things changed since then?

   “So what? I’m a Nobel Laureate, and gorgeous to boot! I deserve a little eye candy now and then! And besides, guys older than 35 who want to work in a lab like this are usually misogynistic womanizers.”

   Sure Saihara was making things more interesting, but if Kokichi didn’t make it clear he was joking he might get bogged down with another personality trait to maintain.

   “Are you saying your current assistant isn’t a rampant womanizer?”

   Then again what was the point of having an adversary in all this if he didn’t exploit everything for its furthermost reaching comedic potential?

   “No, but he’s so beta being around him makes me feel like a top!”

   But what if he forgot it was a joke and confused himself into having a real feeling?

   “I would just like it if you didn’t hire people who use my servers to google gay porn ‘just to make sure’ they’re ‘not into it.’ I hope you hear the quotation marks because he literally said that to me!”

   No obviously he wouldn't get confused crushes weren’t contagious via exposure that was a dumb thing to worry about and also he was a genius that kind of thing didn’t happen to him.

   “He holds wrenches good, okay?!”

   Wait, were those two still talking?

   “I can hold wrenches without googling gay porn in another guy’s house! It’s possible.”

   Jesus what kind of conversation did Kokichi just decide to stop spacing out for?

“Oh come on! What do you want from me Keebs???”

   These two had… a lot to say to each other. Dr. Iruma was still holding onto Shuichi’s arm boob first, but Kokichi locked eyes with the detective and could tell they were both thinking the same thing.

   Why are they having this conversation in the middle of a hostage situation?

   “Nothing! Your human desires are totally valid Miu! Which is why I thought I would take care of this one.” The robot’s LED display eyes gestured up at Kokichi, who was still standing on top of him, poised to wreck him with a hammer.

   “How could any human desire that thing???” Dr. Iruma curled her lip. Hey, the feeling’s mutual, lady.

   “I don’t know, I thought you might have programmed me to not be able to see his face?”

   “I would never do that to you! Even if I was shagging the ugliest guy on the face of the planet, it would be unethical given the fact that you have sentience! I’m horny, not a monster. You can’t see his face because he’s wearing a fucking mask!”

   “Why am I not programmed to see that?”

   “I don’t fucking know, ask your dead dad!”

   Oooh. Wow. The robot gaped at that, seemingly speechless now.

   “If I may interject,” Kokichi interjected, “--and I know I can, because I just did, and also because I am still very much poised to pop this robot’s head off like a croquet ball-- I must confess that I was lying about fucking your mom, Astro boy. I’m less into participants of Titty out Tuesday who jerk it to steam punk school boy LARPing and more into the sorta tall, kinda dark, and very handsome type.”

   Dr. Iruma cowed again, stuttering something about not being a mom or a LARPer, while the robot started yelling about being called Astro boy.

   Kokichi tuned them out, giving Saihara a meaningful look. Saihara gave him a look that was equally meaningful, except the meaning was something along the lines of ‘Why the fuck would you say that?’

   Yeahh that was more like it.

   Kokichi laughed. Not one of his grandiose guffaws. It was more of a little chuckle. It surprised him. He hadn’t planned to laugh, but there it was. A small thing, just for him to know about, the humored breath not travelling beyond his mask.

   … It was probably time to get out of here, wasn’t it?

   The thing was, Kokichi had kind of pinned himself into a corner on this one… He had fully intended on decapitating this robot as a distraction for his escape, but now he wasn’t even sure if that was ethical. Logically he knew that a robot was not a human being, so there would be no form of consciousness extinguished from the world if he disconnected some of its wires and bolts. Yet the interaction it just had with Dr. Iruma concerned him. Obviously you don’t kill humans because they’re humans and obviously you don’t kill humans. But Kokichi was finding it hard to end the existence of something people treated like a human being either. To sever the bonds it had with sentient beings may be just a little less unethical than actually removing a sentient existence from the world, but it would still cause the emotional harm to actual humans of a dead loved one. So as annoying as fake metal humans were, Kokichi was left to ponder how exactly to get out of this one a different way

   Dr. Iruma was obviously a coward who talked a big game. If he retreated, he could count on her to get out his way, or else run to the robot’s side. Then the robot might be reactivated, but according to the robot’s blueprints, it didn’t really have any weapons on it, being built to act as a normal human being. So just like they had been white noise in the staredown he was still having with Saihara, their actions wouldn’t need to be factored into the escape.

   The only variable here was what the detective would do.

   … That thought had popped up in Kokichi’s head a lot recently, hadn’t it?

   Saihara had become a powerful influence in Kokichi’s planning very quickly, and because of the detective, the thief now found himself having to pull out one of his trump cards.

   Kokichi grabbed one of the EMP bombs from his pocket, remembering the pink cloud of smoke that had appeared before the camera cut out in the video demonstrations he’d seen online. His eyes were still locked on Saiharas, so he got to see in full detail the recognition, shock, and alarm that ran through them. As the detective yelled “Get down” and pushed Dr. Iruma back, Kokichi reflected on how those were some of his favorite expressions he’d ever seen.

   Kokichi pulled the latch out with his teeth and threw the bomb at the wall right over the detective’s head. Sure enough, pink smoke quickly enveloped him and Dr. Iruma.

   “Keebo!” The inventor screeched, no doubt worried about the EMP bomb turning him off. Though that was kind of stupid, considering his core programming would be the same regardless of having power to operate, even if he didn’t save whatever data was processed as his last few memories. Eh, then again who knew how robots that advanced worked?

   Taking his cue to exit, Kokichi threw the hammer through one of the nearby windows, and did somersault over to it. He got up on the ledge, kicking away the broken glass and was refamiliarizing himself with the lay out of the roof when a tug on his bag full of bombs suddenly set him off balance.

   Kokichi flipped around, trying to do a quick recovery by panickedly grabbing onto something. He did grab onto something. That something being the shoulders of a person whose hands were firmly grappling his bag.

   As far as Kokichi could tell, the scene from a third person perspective looked like he was trying to do the kabedon but rotated ninety degrees.

   From his own perspective, Saihara was holding his bag of loot while also being the only thing keeping Kokichi from falling onto the broken glass beneath them.

   As if that weren’t bad enough, Kokichi felt his hair brush the side of his face and realized that his mask had half fallen askew in his desperate movement, revealing three quarters of his face.

   “Hey.” Kokichi said. Lamely. Wow. Their faces were really close.

   Saihara wasn’t looking at him. The detective seemed to be trying to figure out how to untangle the straps of the bag of stolen goods from Kokichi’s arms without letting him fall.

   “It’s very clever, of you detective. Trapping me like this.” Kokichi tried to get a reaction.

   “You’re the one who jumped on the window.” Shuichi opened the bag, seemed to take in the fact that it was full of bombs, and closed it again to resume untangling the strap.

“You know, you could just leave the bag.” Kokichi pointed out

   “So could you.” Shuichi observed, astutely.

   “You could let me fall.” Kokichi suggested. “Then you’d have both.”

   “I’m not going to drop you on a pile of broken glass.” Shuichi promised.

   “But I broke the glass.” Kokichi admitted.    “Glass is glass and flesh is flesh. I’m not going to drop you on a pile of glass.” Shuichi reiterated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“That’s nice.” Kokichi replied. “Naive. But super nice.”

   In this scenario, each of them had two options, each leading to one of two outcomes. He could let himself fall off the window and they could sit here and struggle over the bag until they bled out, a fight that Kokichi, not the most physically challenging, would be hard pressed to win. Or Shuichi could let Kokichi escape and Kokichi could let Shuichi win this one. The bag would be too heavy to take with him if he tried to get out the window from this position. He’d have to leave it behind. Kokichi would lose.

   He found himself laughing again. A strange, soft laugh. This time it was exposed to the air, his mask too askew to contain it.

   “You’re really something else, aren’t you Shuichi?”

   On hearing his name, the detective startled, finally looking up at Kokichi’s face.

   He just barely had the chance to catch Kokichi’s trademark grin, before the thief pushed up off of him, doing a backflip out of the window, and leaving his bag behind.

   As Kokichi landed on the roof tile running, he yelled out, “ I’m sure there’s a better word for you out there than sucker!”

   He turned around, sticking his tongue out at the broken window, before sliding his mask back onto his face.

   He may have been escaping, but it occured to Kokichi Ouma that he had lost for the first time in this little game of theirs. The thought made him giddy. It made his feet light on the roof top tile. It made him puff out a thousand tiny laughs behind the plastic shape of his face.

   It made him totally, definitely not bored. --- [Log of Messages sent via Discord to “Don't Instigate Cats (2019) Expatiation” from ???’s Cellular Device]

Boss: I’m bored of Taiwan already :/

Boss: We should go somewhere else (ﾉ✧w✧)ﾉ*:･ﾟ🗺

* * * Several people are typing... --- [Log of Text Messages from Rantarou Amami’s Cellular Device]

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Hey

Hey

Asshole

From: Me

…

Should I respond to that?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You’re goddamn right you should respond to that when I tell you to you dumb avocado looking motherfucker

From: Me

Whoa

Ok

What’d I do this time?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You sent a useless emo prick to my door and now he won’t leave

From: Me

What

Did Shuichi do something wrong

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Yeah

He was born

From: Me

Whoa

Miu take a breath

What happened

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

His boyfriend broke into my lab and tried to fucking kill keebs

From: Me

His boyfriend?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Yea

Clown twink ass motherfucker

From: Me

You mean like

The internationally wanted criminal clown he’s tracking down

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

You know whats internationally wanted

These tits

From: Me

Lol ok

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

That jerk off is just a rando asshole

He tried to kill keebo!

From: Me

Oh yikes is he ok

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Well of course i fucking took care of him because im a bomb ass friend

But that suckhara guy was no help

He tried to convince me to check the fucking security cameras so he could go off and flirt with the guy about to decapitate keebs!

From: Me

I mean he probably had a good reason to want you to check the cameras right

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

No he’s just fucking awful and now he won’t leave rantarou make him leave

He broke my window and my hammer and only got back 23 of my EMP bombs

And now the police are here

From: Me

That sounds really stressful Miu

Wait how many bombs did you have before

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

24

From: Me

So he stopped most of your bombs from getting stolen

Also you have bombs?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Get him to leave he won’t leave

He keeps waiting for like interracial pole dancers to come or some fucking thing

From: Me

Do you mean like

Interpol

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

He won’t leave I want him to leave

From: Me

Miu you know I love you like a sister and i totally believe this is as stressful to you as it seems

But I think things may not be so bad?

Not to say what you’re going through right now isn’t totally valid

But things might look better if you got back to bed and caught some z’s

Did you remember to take your meds?

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

Aw shit

Aw fuck

You’re right

Ugh

Uggghghh

From: Me

Hey it happens to the best of us

If you do think Shuichi should leave in the morning when the cops are gone that’s totally up to you

It’s your lab and you have a right to say who should be in it

Just don’t make a decision like that when you need to sleep you know

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

But what if i ask him to go and then he doesn’t go

From: Me

He doesn’t have a choice, you get to tell him

From: DOCTOR Miu ∑(O_O;)

But what if he’s mean to me

Cute people are always mean to me

From: Me

Miu…

Go to bed...

[memoriesoftanalorr]

Thoughts on Caesar Salazar?

Hello, anon! Oh, that's really easy and a hard question in the same time. So let me see. It was really interesting and awesome to find out more about Rex's parents and his sibling. Don't wanna to hurt anyone's feelings but me and my friend @varioda talking about Caesar before and we're somehow thought that he doesn't care about his brother and care more for his scientific work but I'll going to look back and giving him a chance. When Caesar break into Providence in his futuristic armor or something like that, he thought his brother in danger and protecting him though it wasn't necessary at the moment. Rex believed him and go with him. Then brothers have a talk inside his scientific pod. In episode "Haunted" Rex coming to Caesar for advice to help his friend Noah to get attention of Claire, both of the brothers chatting. They're came up to make a haunted house to scare girls. What a fools. XD In episode "Written in Sand" Van Kleiss said that Caesar is responsible for Nanite Event. It's really suspicious. There's what Caesar said to Rex at the end of the episode when his brother makes a crack joke on Zag RS's voice. "Don't you recognize it? When I programmed her, I wanted a voice that meant safety, protection, caring. Rex, this our mother's voice." "Mama?" Rex said before walking away. My feels. "Night Falls" is my favorite episode. Rex and Caesar travel to a village in Mexico--- home country of their late mother Violetta to see their Abuela though they're not related by blood and by heart cause they're spending a lot of time there at summer as kids, right? It's really heartwarming episode cause I can relate loving my grandmother and spending time at the countryside. I miss my grandma so much. I wish everything was different back than. Also in this episode both of the brothers working together which is wholesome and funny at times. Later on somewhere between season two finale and beginning of season three Rex is teleported six months into the future, where he discovers to his shock a radically changed Providence; Six and Holiday have left, and White Knight allegedly died after attempting a "hostile takeover". Caesar takes a confused Rex to White Knight's former office, where he is introduced to Providence's new leader, a mysterious woman who calls herself Black Knight who is very glad to have him back. At this momrnt brothers get apart and I don't want to discuss how it's hurts and confusing me. Excuse me for being short or that I can't describe every episode and every of my thoughts of him. Maybe I need to rewatch this series. The ending of season three is heartbreaking. But at the end Rex realized the truth about Nanite Event and said to Caesar that they're always will be brothers and both share a heartwarming hug. I'm so glad they're family again. I'm actually love Salazar brothers. I'd say I have mixed feelings about Caesar. My finale thoughts -- Caesar Salazar is important and interesting character, not like I have a crush on him or hate him. He's caring and loves his family but sometimes when he's focused only on his job, it's gets twisted. I actually love drama and brotherly conflicts but the most I love the happy ending because it's a lot of bad endings in media and in life, I can give you my life as a example, ooh, wait, it's not a part of the ask. Thank you for asking me, I hope I didn't sucked this one. Hit me with questions or anything again if you want to.

[sialeyritt22]

So I saw many people making headcanons of their Dragon Raja MC and I’m interested of making one too hehe.

- Her name is Gwyneria. I’m following the plot of the game with a littl ebit of tweak, because let’s face it, at this point in the game we become more of the side character rather than the main one. 

- She is an orphan that lived in the Black Swan Bay. She is very close to Renata and looked up to her as a big sister that she can always depend on

- Before the incident of Black Swan Bay she is a bit shy but a gentle kid, but she doesn’t talk much, which is why she doesn’t make many friends. Renata is the only one she can really called a friend

- As you can see in the picture, her class is Soul Dancer, but I want to make a little bit of tweak here. So the spirit that following Gwyneria is not just a spirit, it’s a guardian spirit. So when she was little she rescue a wounded dragon (who have human form) but since she was so young back then there’s so little that she can do but the dragon still thankful for her effort and decided to give the girl a gift. The dragon became her guardian spirit and through that Gwyneria has the ability to control space and time (Soul Dancer power) and Gwyneria has other power too (I’m still thinking about it)

- Later on the story will follows the game storyline, Black Swan Bay was destroyed and Gwyneria was frozen for 20 years and was found and brought to the Cassel College

- Gwyneria’s personality went through a change because she was traumatized by the incident and she became more withdrawn and gloomy. She didn’t speak unless she needs to and she stay away from other people as well because she’s afraid of losing them too just like she lost the other in Black Swan Bay

- Luminous stick by her most of the time because he is interested in her and wanted to befriend her, but Gwyneria is hesitant about the thought of having friends.

- But Luminous still try his best to befriend her. It’s a slow progress but eventually they became close.

- Nono adores Gwyneria like a little sister. To her, Gwyneria is cute

- I thought about this, and decided that Gwyneria is not going to immediately have her SS rank mission right after the drill (That’s too much for a poor girl who was just frozen on the sea for 20 years) so after the drill it’s the story of her campus life for about a month or so

- Gwyneria likes to sing and dance but choose to open up a shop as her career instead because she is too shy to show off her skill. 

- There’s the part between her campus life and SS rank mission about her school trip to Japan. This is where she will meet Chimei Gen (AND YES I PAIRED MY MC WITH CHIMEI GEN THE PRECIOUS BOI)

- Since the only ones who can attend the school trip is only freshmen, Gwyneria is often alone and spend her times alone even during free time. There’s one time during free time when she looked for a secluded place and sing there to spend her free time and this is where she met Chimei for the first time. Chimei happened to be near that place and when he hears her singing voice he decided to take a look and they both met XD (cheesy, I know)

- After that well, Gwyneria is hella embarrassed because she’d been caught singing while Chimei was complimenting her singing voice and asked if she is a singer. The two then talk for a bit but since her free time is over, Gwyneria had to leave but not before they exchanged number and name.

- Meanwhile back at the college Luminous and Finger is being worried big bros because of Gwyneria shy and withdrawn nature X”D

- Gwyneria and Caesar get along well but most of the time it’s more like Caesar do the talking while Gwyneria is only listening. Most of the time she doesn’t even know what Caesar is talking about

- While with Johann, they kinda like... the silent type but surprisingly get along well? They don’t need to talk a lot to be close to each other XD they just enjoyed each other presence.

- And the SS rank mission day have arrived (BAKSU!!) and of course being the newbie and the youngest among the team, Gwyneria is being babied by the senpais even though she told them that she’d be fine.

- Gwyneria was excited with the idea of wearing a kimono and was thankful for the kimono Chisei gave her for free (since she had no money to buy one herself)

- Gwyneria actually figured out that Chisei and Chimei are probably related

Bonus: Gwyneria and Chimei chatted a lot since they exchanged numbers X”D

I think that’s all... For part I X””D Part II will be coming up if I had the time and mood to do it~

[everyonesonthespectrum]

30 days of Autism Acceptance: Day 3!

April 3: Talk about special interests. Do you have any? What are they? How long have you had them? What does it feel like to have special interests? What does having special interests mean to you? Talk about your past special interests

HOO BOY! Ok, I’ll try not to go on too long about my special interests, but I have a lot to say about them! Also, some of my special interests are in this weird grey area of “are they a SpIn or a hyperfixation?”, so I’ll cover those as well, and make it noted when that’s the case for one. Also, this will be VERY LONG, so I’ll put it under a cut.

SpIn #1 - Pokemon

Pokemon has been my main special interest since I was 9, I believe! Black was my first game that I got for my birthday, and I was super happy to get it since all of my friends at the time would talk about it! I’ve gotten (almost?) every major release since then, thought I usually only get one out of the two versions. 

The Pokemon games that I have are *inhales*: Black, Black 2, HeartGold (got a few years after it came out), X (I have the limited edition 3DS), Alpha Sapphire, Moon (first completed Pokedex!), Ultra Moon (haven’t beat and probably never will), Let’s Go, Eevee!, Sword (still trying to beat), Conquest, Art Academy, PMD: Gates to Infinity, Picross, Rumble World, Battle Trozei, Pokemon Quest, Pokemon Playhouse (for when I’m regressed), Poke Park 1 & 2,  My Pokemon Ranch, and Battle Revolution!

I also used to play the TCG competitively, and in my first competition, I placed 9th in my division! I stopped playing about a year after that though because the cards I used in my strategy when I would practice with my Dad were too old to be viable.

I have a growing stuffie and merch collection as well! I have a lot of Unova stuffies, and a print of the Unova map that I got at a ren faire when I was younger (it currently hangs above my dresser)! My two favorite stuffies at this time are Baby my Eevee Build-A-Bear (named after my Eevee in Let’s Go, Eevee!), and Lily my Wooloo! I have a couple of Pokemon sketch cards that friends of my Dad’s drew, and some prints and figure-y things I’ve gotten in Artist Alleys over the years!

I also own a couple of different Pokemon books (not the manga, though), and 2 of the movies, along with the OSTs for B/W, X/Y, and ORAS! I don’t have much as far as clothing goes though, except for my “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” scarf and a Pikachu hat I got at an old anime store at the mall that has since closed. That’s probably all I can remember right now!

SpIn #2 - Steam Powered Giraffe

SPG has been a special interest for about 4 years now? Anyway, they’re my #1 favorite band and have literally saved my life. Watching Bunny Bennett’s (who plays Rabbit) vlogs about her transition, along with listening to the song Transform that she wrote (waaay before they just made it a single) really helped me accept myself and come out. 

They also came at a time where I was struggling emotionally a lot, and I remember being stuck in the ER hooked up to an IV, and my mom played some of their albums for me to keep me calm and grounded. More recently, I saw them perform at Anime Midwest last year, and when they performed Transform (which neither me or my friends expected), we were all hugging each other and crying tears of joy (my friends are trans as well, and have also been touched by Bunny’s vlogs).

Their songs (not including the sad ones) make me really happy as well, and Make Believe makes me stim a lot in particular! I also got to sing Honeybee as part of a voice coaching summer camp I took last year, and it felt really good to do it! I really recommend listening to them, especially if you like steampunk and/or you’re looking for trans artists to support!

SpIn #3 - Little Shop of Horrors

So this is more of a fairly recent one, compared to the first two. This special interest mostly applies to the 1986 movie, but I’ve seen the stage musical as well! The music, the cast, the plot, it’s all *chef’s kiss*. But for real though, my two favorite things about the movie are the practical effects and the endings.

With the CGI fresh hell we got with CATS, you may thing, “wow, special effects were so much better back then”. Except here’s the thing, they were practical effects. Audrey II is (I believe) entirely puppetry, not CGI. The same applies for the musical as well! It really culminated at the end of the film during “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space”, when Audrey II is at it’s biggest and most elaborate. Speaking of that scene, I much prefer the director’s cut over the theatrical cut. I know that the happy ending is much better for Audrey and Seymour, but “Don’t Feed The Plants” is an absolute banger, and I get a good cry out of it too.

I heard they might be making a remake of the movie, which I’m hesitant about, again, seeing how CATS turned out. We can only hope that they listen to the fans, and make the right decisions when it comes to making it.

SpIn #4 - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure

Ok, so this is one of those aformentioned “is it a SpIn or a hyperfixation” moments. I’ve been hyperfixated on JJBA for the past 6 months and I’m physically unable to shut up about it XD

I’m about to start watching part 4 of the anime, I just need to set aside time to do it. I watched it a tad out of order, my ex told me to skip part 1 and watch a synopsis of it, so I started with part 2 (I’m a huge part 2 stan btw), got to part 3, was confused by everything going on with DIO, so I went back, watched part 1, and then resumed part 3.

As I mentioned, I’m a huge part 2 stan, so I currently have several part 2 character cosplays in the works. This includes (but isn’t limited to) Caesar, Suzi Q, Playboy Bunny Caesar (inspired by a piece of art that @tinypalettes drew), Tequila Joseph (but like,, actually decent drag), and Cleric Suzi Q from the JJBA D&D session me and my friends are having. I also want to do a drag/latex DIO look, along with maid DIO inspired by an old JUMP cover and a fanfic I read the other day.

I get a little nervous about doing/going to JJBA events at conventions because I’m worried about running into my ex, but knowing that I have supportive people with me helps a lot.

SpIn #5 - Homestuck/Hiveswap

So this is another one of those “SpIn or hyperfixation” moments as well. I’ve been into Homestuck since late 2016, but I’ve never been super involved in the fandom. Like, yes, I have a moirail and I’ve been in and hosted panels at conventions, but I’ve encountered some toxic people in it, so I try to distance myself.

I will say, however, that Homestucks are loyal to their fandom, and will buy merch if they like it. When I say that, yes, I mean myself, but it’s mostly about my Etsy customers. If you look at my sales history, the majority of it is quadrant necklaces, almost always the moirail ones. I get some orders for horns and pillows too, but not as often as the necklaces. When it comes to exhibiting at conventions, it depends. I normally don’t put Homestuck stuff out on the table because it’s such a niche, but when I do, people will usually buy a lot at once. For example, at Wizard World Madison in 2018, one guy bought $50-60 worth of Homestuck sprites from me. That weekend was the best I’ve ever done, and I haven’t come close since. My Etsy store started out as just me making Homestuck sprites for me and my friends too, so I’m glad that I was able to expand and give others what I like as well.

I’m also involved in a Hiveswap YouTube musical, and I’ve made a lot of good friends through it! We’re on hiatus right now, but we should be starting up again soon! I also have a lot of Homestuck cosplays! I’ve done Karkat, John, Jade, Nepeta, Trickster Nepeta, Karkat Peixes (a bloodswap), and I have a lot more that I want to do!

SpIn #6 - Danganronpa

So Danganronpa is (probably) one of those last “SpIn or hyperfixation” things. I’ve been into Danganronpa since 2018 (I think?), and DR:AE is my favorite (mostly because I’m a Kotoko and Toko kinnie oof-)!

Right now, my only Danganronpa cosplay is Toko/Syo, but I’m working on a couple of j-fashion (particularly menhera and fairy kei) inspired looks to do with my moirail (who was the one who got me into j-fashion), and just some Amazon/eBay cosplays as well! I’m also working on a Future Foundation Toko cosplay to do with my moirail so we can do Tokomaru together (though most of it is thrifting and clothes I already have)!

I own DR1, SDR2, and DR:AE on my computer, but I don’t play them much. The second trial in DR1 gives me panic attacks because of the whole breaking of trust thing (I’ve heard the audios and I just,,, break down), I haven’t touched SDR2 yet, and I’m sucky at the controls for DR:AE. However, I’ve watched the anime and I’ve seen let’s plays, so I have a feel for what’s going on, though I may not remember it all correctly since I haven’t watched them in a while.

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So that’s most (if not all) of my special interests! I probably forgot some, but it’s getting late and I need to pack for my Mom’s and go to bed. I hope you all have a good night!