#(and the rest probably did so too they just aren't as vocal about it as far as i know)

[aliceramblez]

Dating the Hazbin Hotel Residents 😈

Tags: GN!Reader, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Mentioned Mature Topics (ie. Suicidal Thoughts, Alcohol Abuse, SA, etc), Spoilers For The Show, etc.

A/N: Ahhh yes, more brainriot for the pile 😌 I was more of a Helluva gal before the show aired, but now I gotta say these blorbos are a dear part of my heart! Hopefully y'all enjoy these as much as I did writing them!

Consider following my main blog @taruchinator for more solid content & feel free to leave a request here for future HCs~

Charlie 🌈

When the Happy Hotel first opened its doors and all of Hell started making a mockery of it, you were probably the only one who took it as a sign to try and improve from the low life that you were. It's not like you had anything else to live for, anyway.

As soon as you enter the building, you're immediately greeted by the bubbly Princess of Hell herself (along with a reluctant Angel Dust) who is more than happy to show you around and welcomes you with open arms.

You've never been shown this much kindness and sympathy for your situation before, so it naturally takes you aback and makes you wonder what the catch is. Turns out there's none and the Princess is probably the only sweet soul to live in this shithole.

As you grow closer, she asks you to drop the title and just call her Charlie. She also shares a bit about her situation and how her mother wanted to save sinners from the extermination each year, and now Charlie felt like it was her duty to continue this legacy until her dreams came true.

You can't help but feel touched over how much she cares, so you silently vow to yourself to help her in any way you can, just like she's done for you.

It doesn't take long before the two of you grow even closer and feelings begin to blossom, but you decide to ignore them since why would a Princess ever like someone like you?

But Charlie proves you wrong yet again, since one day she comes to you a blushing mess and confesses her own feelings, asking if you'd like to go out with her. You can't help but vocalize your shock since she could do so much better than a random sinner. She deserved better, too.

She looks at you with fondness in her eyes. “You've been by my side for so long and supported me every step of the way. Who wouldn't fall for someone like that?”

And thus, you are the luckiest person in Hell because you scored Charlotte Morningstar, and whoever says otherwise can get a knife to their throat.

She's the perfect definition of a sweet and patient girlfriend, never pushing you to do anything you aren't comfortable with (since you really aren't used to such adoration in a romantic relationship), but as soon as you give her the get-go, she'll be sure to shower you with as much affection as she can until the doubts in your mind disappear completely.

You aren't that far behind either. Albeit not as good as her, you do your best to be a comforting partner whenever she needs you. This is especially necessary after an extermination happens, which always leaves Charlie devastated and in need of a hug or words of encouragement because she doubts herself sometimes and wonders if the hotel is even working at all.

You remind her how it brought the two of you together, to which she smiles and agrees that at least something good has come out of it so far.

Vaggie 🎀

Both you and Vaggie used to work in the same legion under Adam with the rest of his exorcists. You knew of each other's existence, but didn't really talk much aside from whatever was needed in the midst of battle.

The day she spares a demon child's life, you're doing your rounds nearby and witness the whole exchange, including Lute coming over and ripping both an eye and Vaggie's wings for showing mercy. You don't know why, but it makes your blood boil.

“HEY! What are you doing?! It was just a kid, why not let it slide?”

And just like that, you become a target of Lute's rage as well, being ripped from your angelic status along with receiving a few nasty cuts, yet surprisingly not as bad as Vaggie herself.

Once the two of you are left to die, you immediately try to tend the girl's wounds with whatever you can. Vaggie can only stare in disbelief at what you'd done and questions why you even did so in the first place—now you were stuck just like she was.

“Guess I just don't like seeing injustice... Who knew Heaven could be so fuckin' shitty?”

You both laugh at the irony of it all, and that's when luck is finally on your side as Charlie finds you in the dirty alley and brings you back to the hotel to heal properly.

For the next three years you two stay at the Hazbin Hotel, helping Charlie in any way you can to try and make her dream a reality since deep down you hope that despite Heaven's corrupt system, there can be a small chance that souls can be redeemed. You hide the fact that you're ex-Anges though, since you don't wanna cause unnecessary drama.

During this time period, the two of you become better friends, having your own inside jokes regarding things you didn't particularly enjoy from your time as Angels, as well as learning more about one another.

You're the one to come to terms with your feelings first and decide to lay them on the table for Vaggie to see—she's always been a straight-to-the-point kind of gal, so if you're about to be rejected, might as well have it be done quick. But of course, she replies with her own declaration and desire to give a relationship a shot, which you're ecstatic about!

It's a bit hard at first since you never got to see much of romantic relationships in Heaven while training for murder every year, but you try and make it work. Both you and Vaggie work endlessly to try and make the other happy, and it only makes you fall for each other even more.

Also Charlie is your go-to wingwoman who will be there to give you the best advice to try and woo your girlfriend. She ships you two so hard.

Angel Dust 🕸

Working at a porn studio under an Overlord who owns your soul can be exhausting. You know this better than anyone since everyone who works under Valentino has contracts that won't let you get far with a leash. This is especially true with your friend Angel Dust.

You know about the things Valentino does to the spider demon—hell, everyone in the studio probably knows, but know better than to say anything about it. You're always there for Angel after particularly rough shoots, doing your best to comfort him in any way you can, though there isn't much you can do given you're in the same spot.

When he tells you he's moving to Princess Charlie's Hazbin Hotel, you're so happy for him! At least that will give him some distance from Valentino and his disgustingly filthy hands when he's not working.

This unsurprisingly doesn't bode well with the Overlord, causing him to throw fits of rage around the studio when Angel leaves for the day. You can't help but make a snarky comment that you definitely regret moments later.

“Can one blame him for wanting space from such an overbearing asshole?”

Without his favorite stress toy around, you end up paying the price for such comments. The kind of pain and suffering he puts you through is completely different from what you're used to. Is this the stuff he does to Angel? He leaves you naked, bruised and bloody in your room, and all you can do is muster what little strenght you have left to head for the Hazbin Hotel.

As soon as the door opens, you immediately tumble forward and start losing consciousness. The last thing you remember is Angel's horrified expression before it all fades to black.

Once you wake up and have been patched up, you explain what happened at the studio, and you could've sworn you saw fire in Angel's eyes as he holds on to you, fearing you might disappear at any moment. He begs you to stay in the hotel with him, and you agree without hesitation.

And so, your new routine of heading to work and then coming back to the hotel becomes blissful, not having to deal with that lunatic mothman more than necessary. You also get to spend time off with your best friend, which is always a plus.

Well, ‘best friend’ might not be the best way to describe it. You'd developed a crush on the spider demon even before this whole incident occurred, and now that you were spending more time with him, it only continued to grow.

With the line of work you two had, romantic relationships didn't seem to be a thing that crossed anybody's mind since why have a permanent partner when you could just go around fucking the hottest people in Hell? But you knew your feelings were far beyond from sexual, but didn't wanna ruin what you already had going for you.

One heartfelt drunken conversation after work however, makes you do a double take—Angel likes you back. And that both scares and excites you. But with both of you going over the pros and cons with each other, you decide to give it a chance.

You make sure to always have Angel's consent when it comes to physical intimacy—anything from holding his hand, to kissing to just cuddling. He jokes about not being a porcelain doll, but deep down you know he appreciates it.

You're also there for the rough nights, when he comes home wanting nothing more than to die again and let the earth swallow him whole. Words of reassurance are spoken and you can only hold him and let him cry as you vow to do anything in your power to stop this from happening again.

Husker 🍺

As one of the first guests of the hotel, like any wayward sinner, you find yourself in the bar more often than you'd like. Alcohol killed you in the first place, yet not even in the afterlife could you seem to pull yourself from its grasp.

It's a somewhat welcome surprise to find out that the bartender is going through a similar struggle. He still serves you drinks and lends and ear whenever he's not busy, but will occasionally drop the words of wisdom to watch your fill.

Eventually you two find yourselves doing this little back and forth and aid each other when you're in your dark places—Husk won't let you near the bottle if he sees you're about to knock yourself out, meanwhile you're there to look after him when he has one too many drinks and can't take care of himself.

Not to say he isn't a good drinking buddy—you've found out most of the gossip around the hotel thanks to this sneaky little cat demon and there's never a dull moment with him around.

You learn about his deal with Alastor during a particularly bad night, when Husk's had one too many and isn't thinking straight. You don't bring it up, but now have an eye open for whenever the Radio Demon drags your friend away.

Angel's the one who brings up your questionable relationship to the surface.

“So... you two like, fuckin' each other, or what?”

Your entire face goes red, and if it weren't for the dark fur you could swear you see Husk looking the same. He's quick to get rid of Angel's nosy ass, but now the seed has been planted in your brain—do you like Husk that way?

After careful consideration, you come to the conclusion that yes, you do. And it's honestly kinda terrifying considering how relationships don't usually work out in Hell, at least from what you've seen. Besides, even if you did try and confess, there was always the possibility of him not feeling the same and just being embarrassed by Angel's comment.

So in an attempt to make your feelings disappear, you stop frequenting the bar. Who knew the best way to stop drinking habits was trying to avoid spending time with your unrequited crush?

But of course, Husk isn't stupid. He sees the change in your behavior and let's it slide for a while, until he eventually corners you and asks what's wrong. You decide to get it all out of the way and tell him how you feel.

To the embarrassment of both of you, he holds your hand firmly between his and darts his eyes toward the corner of the room. “Next time you should ask before going off assuming things, ya got it?”

And so, your glass may have been empty that day, but your heart had never felt fuller.

Sir Pentious 🐍

You meet Sir Pentious when you sign into the hotel, and your immediate thought is just how can this snake man be so adorkable, it should be illegal.

As you greet the other residents and staff, you're quick to strike a conversation with him, which based on his body language he was not expecting. He starts telling you a bit about his weaponry and other contraptions, and you can't help but be fascinated by it.

You're a bit of a tinkerer yourself, albeit you've only dabbled in small scale projects—nothing compared to the massive canons and aircrafts that Pentious seems to be familiar with.

He acts like a kid opening gifts on Sinmas when he talks to you about his inventions, clearly never having anyone show interest before. Eventually he'll even ask for your input on certain smaller projects he wants to work on to help around the hotel, all to thank Charlie for being so kind to him and giving him a second chance. You're obviously eager to help!

You two start spending so much time together that the egg boys have started calling you ‘Boss #2’, much to Pentious' embarrassment and your amusement.

One afternoon once exercises are done for the day, the snake demon seems much more fidgety than usual as he invites you over to his room to continue working on his security system prototype. He's a blabbering mess once he has you sitting down and your heart just can't help but swell at each little syllable.

“Dearest (y/n)... you've, um, well... you are a huge inspiration for my work! A-And I wouldn't have been able to create any of this... without your help. You are kind, and smart and very talented.... and w-well, um I-”

You gotta silence the man with a kiss otherwise you two would be here all day. He's puddy in your hands and you can only giggle in return. “I really like you too, Pen.”

Everyone is either saying they called it or groaning in annoyance because fucking FINALLY, you two were just dancing around each other like idiots. The egg boys are just so happy to have someone else besides Pentious to be in their lives, and will do their best to look out for you just like with their own boss.

So yeah, prepare yourself for some sickeningly sweet gestures from this guy cause he will go above and beyond to get you what you need/want even if it kills him (again). And you can confidently say that you'd do the same in return.

Alastor 📻

After running in the same circles when you were alive, it's no surprise to you to end up in Hell, although you never would've suspected that you'd find yourself in the same place as him. It was honestly a huge relief not having to go through this all by yourself.

As Alastor exerted his dominance over Hell as the Radio Demon, you were powerful enough to be an Overlord yes, but rather liked keeping it on the down low instead of making a spectacle of yourself (Alastor was the one for theatrics anyway). Because of this, only select few knew of your true power and what you were capable of.

Instead, if there was one thing you were known for, it was being the only soul allowed to be close to the Radio Demon without the risk of death.

Yes, Alastor was a sadistic, cold-blooded and egotistical mastermind, but he wasn't a monster. You knew that better than anyone. Although the reactions he had to other demons treating you like a joke or calling you the ‘Radio Demon's Pet’ were not helping his case.

“ł₣ ɎØɄ V₳ⱠɄɆ ɎØɄⱤ ₴ØɄⱠ, ɎØɄ ₩łⱠⱠ ₩₳Ⱡ₭ ₳₩₳Ɏ Ɽł₲Ⱨ₮ ₦Ø₩ ฿Ɇ₣ØⱤɆ ł Ɽł₱ ł₮ ₳₱₳Ɽ₮ ฿ł₮ ฿Ɏ ฿ł₮...”

“Al, chill. You're gonna make them shit their pants.”

After his seven year absence, you immediately noticed something was wrong with him, and wouldn't stop pestering until he told you the truth—A deal he made and how his soul was now bound to someone much more powerful than he was.

You were obviously mortified and started looking into ways to try and find a loophole to this, but alas the Radio Demon would just give you his signature grin and tell you not to worry about it. It was his battle to face.

But of course you're quick to remind him that you've stuck together through thick and thin even in life, so there was no way you were letting him handle this by himself. You work as a team—always have and always will. You engulf him in a hug.

“We're gonna figure this out, Al. I promise...”

The grin remains, but his eyes widen slightly in surprise. He hesitantly returns the embrace, patting your back and wiping the tears you didn't even know you were shedding.

“There there~ To think such a sweet and innocent soul wound up in a gutter like this. I cannot say I complain as long as I have your delightful company beside me.”

And so when he says he has a plan that involves Princess Charlie Morningstar and her new Happy Hotel, you follow along. Whatever fate has in store for you two, you'll be ready.

Also Charlie is a sweetheart who could do no harm. Knowing Alastor, he'll probably do whatever he can here and there to help around for the cause. You also offer your services as an undercover Overlord, much to everyone's surprise when you reveal your status.

The Radio Demon may have a plan, but something tells you it won't involve bloody murder (unless extremely necessary or if someone really pissed him off).

Like you said—he's not a monster.

Lucifer 🍎

You and Lucifer were good friends at the beginning of Creation. While you were stuck with the tedious task of designing blueprints for the new ‘Human Project’ that headquarters had in store, Lucifer's Seraphim status allowed him to bring creations to life with the flick of a wrist, much to your delight and wonder.

His ideas and pitches for Earth were always so entertaining to listen to, and you would do your best to encourage him to show them to the higher ups to get them approved—His mind was just filled with joy and love and wonder that you'd never seen before.

Which was why it was always so disappointing whenever he'd come back and say that he was shut down and even mocked at. How could Heaven shut down such an imaginative mind in the creation of their biggest project yet?

To say you were devastated when you heard about his fall would be an understatement. You mourned the loss of your friend, knowing that he'd done nothing wrong and thinking it wasn't fair to him to receive such punishment just because he cared for the future of humanity.

Thousands of years later, you overhear the plan for Extermination of Hell kind. You didn't mean to walk by, yet here you were, under the direct eye of the Head Seraphims about to be downcast for something you had no control over—just like Lucifer.

“You're all self-entitled pricks! You think you can do whatever you want just because it doesn't follow what you define as good!”

You get a few good arguments before being cast downwards, leaving you in bad shape in a random alley with no wings and no means of escape. That is of course, until destiny seems to be on your side and Lucifer finds you, completely perplexed to see you here at all.

After getting treated, you tell him about the Extermination so he and Hell can prepare. The conversation of you getting cast down by Heaven gets glossed over, but he can feel the fury building up inside him. You were always doing things by the book—how could they do this to you?

Once the slaughter is over, Lucifer gets a meeting with Heaven and secures protection for both his daughter Charlie and you, to which they begrudgingly agree to keep him outta their hair. You can't help but feel touched by this gesture.

He's also quick to offer you a room to stay in, but you compromise by living in a seperate building from him and Charlie so you aren't a bother even though he says you aren't. In fact, ever since Lilith left, he's had to take care of his young daughter all by himself, so he's more than happy when you offer to help.

It doesn't take long for your feelings to start coming into the surface from all those years ago, and you gotta push them away because he's both married and has a child to look after! Besides, why would the King of Hell ever look in your direction?

Eventually though, he brings up the question with nothing but sweaty palms and a customized rubber ducky that says ‘I love you’ whenever you squeeze it. You blush furiously, but can't help but bring up your concerns, not wanting to replace Lilith in his heart. He looks into your eyes and says that he hasn't been as happy as he is now in the past thousand years.

Cue baby Charlie walking in on everything, and she just smiles and goes innocently. “Daddy! Is (y/n) staying home with us now?”

You two can only chuckle at the cuteness of it and you immediately go to hug her. You couldn't believe that you were blessed with such a wonderful family.

[pixelmensupremacy]

DBH boys with a gamer s/o

A/N: This has probably been done before. But not by me.

Warnings: GN!reader, just fluff, not proof read

Connor

being his analytical and curios self, he has the habit of studying you

so, he will silently observe you every time you get to play on your console/pc

he will note what type of games you like to play

if you spend a lot of time in front of the screen he will tell you the side effects of too much screentime

it is both adorable how much he cares about your health and yet annoying how he basically scolds you as if you are a child

if you happen to have any multiplayer games he will want to play with you, though he wouldn't know how to approach the topic

so instead he will sit beside you and watch

It was one of those nights; calm rain tapped at the windows of your apartment. Inside it was gloomy with the only light source being your screen; the room was relatively quiet aside from the sound of your fingers hitting the buttons and your vocalized reactions. Connor stood by the door with his side resting against it as he observed you; his head was slightly tilted to the side, and his soft brown eyes were glued on you, yet you didn't sense it. Nor did you sense as he silently crept into the room only to sit next to you, for you were too focused on the game.

"Hi, love." Your eyes peeled off the screen for a split second to glance at him.

"You are playing (favorite game) again?" He rested his head atop your shoulder as he noted. In response, you hummed.

"You know what?" You spoke up as you exited to the main menu and glanced at him, who was already looking at you.

"You wanna give it a try?"

if you ask him to join in he will be happier than ever

at first, it will take him a couple of minutes to get an idea of how the controls work

you will most likely beat him in the first round but then you wouldn't have the same success

he's a natural

whether or not it has to do with him being an advanced prototype he's great

though he will intentionally let you win so he wouldn't hurt your pride

if you prefer story-centered games he would cuddle up to you with his arms loosely wrapped around your waist as his head rests on your lap and your armrests atop his head occasionally stroking his hair

he would discuss with you what the best choice is and will go on and explain why he roots for certain characters

once you get too tired he will urge you to go to sleep

he will turn your console/pc off and gently carry you to bed

Gavin

secretly, he would be excited to hear you share yet another interest with him

"You are shitting me." He rolled his eyes at you, his crossed arms resting in front of his chest.

"I'm for real I love that game."

despite trying to be cool about it he will come off as a total nerd when talking about his favorite games

it will take all his willpower to resist the urge to kiss you right then and there when he finds out you love the same games as him

he will be eager to play with you

I don't know why but I feel like he's into old-school games

he will definitely take to an arcade as a date

Gavin hates to loose

but if he loses to you maybe he will try not to be such a dick about it

he will pout a bit and will want a revanche but he wouldn't directly admit you beat him

"Just admit it, Reed. You lost." You teasingly pushed his shoulder as the smug grin didn't leave your face even for a second. In return he scoffed ad looked away, silently cursing himself for being so bad at the damn game all of a sudden.

"You were just lucky..... As always." He spoke under his breath.

"Nah it's just talent."

if you two live together it wouldn't be a rare occurrence for you to have a night in; take out sitting on the coffee table as you two play your favorite multiplayer game in ungodly hours of the night until you can't keep your eyes open

Markus

having taken care of humans, Markus tends to keep track of your habits and make sure they aren't affecting your health

so be prepared for him to advise you to not spend that much time in front of the screen

other than that he's a total sweetheart

I doubt he would want to join you in a game since he prefers other activities such as going for a walk or playing the piano/ painting

though he would occasionally ask you about your favorite games

as mentioned earlier he's a care giver

he will make sure you are hydrated and your nutrition is taken care of

it wouldn't be a rare occurance for him to come into the room with a glass of water and a table of healthy snacks

"You're the best you know that." You smile at him as you take a grape and swallow it whole, which in return causes him to smile back.

"Don't forget to drink water." he reminded you as he headed out, the smile on his face still curling the corners of his lips.

[bellastay99]

STRAY KIDS WHEN...

You deny his kiss request

(fem!reader x SKZ)

MAKNAE LINE

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HAN

He would probably apologize

It's ok for him, you may just not be on the mood

Sometimes he gets a little too sensitive

He knows that you would never be mean to him

-🐿️-

*I'm a two kids room, he's telling the story when you rejected his kiss for the first time with Minho*

Minho- Oh! Is y/n, ok? I haven't seen her in at least a week.

Han- I think she's fine...*look at him*

Minho- ... You think she's fine? She's your girlfriend! *Laughs* Did you guys fight? Discussed?

Han- Nooo...*talking softly looking a little nervous but wanting to laugh* I think it is my fault...

Minho- Why?

Han- I was ready to invite her to the performance on Monday, but...she wasn't in the mood... *Holding laugh* I asked her for a kiss...she rejected it.

Minho- And...what did you do?

Han- I apologize...?*laughs*

Minho- Ok, but...what happened?

Han- I think I got too sensitive and didn't talk to her this week yet? *Laughing nervously*

Minho- *serious face* Hannie... Are you dumb?

Han- No...maybe? I think she's angry with me, hyuung! What do I do?!

Minho- SHE MAY BE THINKING THE SAME!!

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FELIX

He would beg if he notices that you're playing with him

Or ask if you're ok if he notices that you're down

If you're playing, what you make it obvious

He would beg the whole day, steal and run after you begging for a little peck on his lips

-🐥-

*at the waiting room after he performed, waiting for you guys to go home. Felix was very clingy, a needy boy with you, so you decided to test him a little bit*

Felix- Baby...*You were laying on the couch watching videos* Baaaaby...*he approached*

You- Whaaat?

Felix- *stop in front of the couch looking down to you* I'm needy...

You- *laughs* I know that~

Felix- I need your attention...*make a sad puppy face*

You- What kind of attention? *Loom at him smiling*

Felix- I need a kiss ... Just one~

You- ... Naaah *go back to the phone smirking* I don't want.

Felix- ...*processing* Please!

*he threw himself in you and hugged, you laughed out loud and you couldn't escape his kisses in your face. Not this time...you wouldn't run away easily*

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SEUNGMIN

He'll make sure that you'll regret that

Would tease you the rest of the day

Pretend being sad

Manipulates just for a kiss, yes

Silent treatment sometimes

He'll play your game too lol

-🐶-

*At the practice vocal room, you both were singing for fun and he was teaching one a little piano too*

*Suddenly he stopped and kept staring at you. You looked at him*

You- What...? I made something wrong?

Seungmin- I want to kiss you...just one *he showed it with his finger* Just once~

You- *blush and laugh* Aah Minnie, now?

Seungmin- I promise, is just one.

You- What triggered you?

Seungmin- Watching you playing piano is just too beautiful *blushes*

You- Later...I...want to finish this song. I'm gonna lose focus.

Seungmin: Alright...

You- ...*worried* Are you really sad?

Seungmin- Noo...*lies* I'm fine, it's just a silly kiss anyway.

You- Is not silly! Oh come on! *Laughs*

Seungmin- I'm ok...

You- No, you're not.

Seungmin- What you wanna do about it?

You- Kiss.

Seungmin- *fastly recompense himself* Yes!~

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JEONGIN

He is in SHOCK

How could you not kiss him?!

Every time you do that, he'll hunt you for a kiss

Run, run for your life

-🦊-

*Having a good time with the boys*

*You're playing with Jisung Overwatch on Xbox*

Jisung- What are you doooing?! *Laughing* YOU'RE DYING!

You- I'm trying! *Laughing* Orisa don't die! IMMORTAL!

Jisung- Oh no! You gonna lose! No no no! THE CAR! THE CAR! *You lost the game* Holy moly, that support was shit!

Jeongin- Love? *Approached* You're done?

You- Yeah...come play together, baby *look at him*

Jeongin- Naah, I'd rather stay with you in the room...aren't we going to what the movie?

You- Yeah. Just one more.

Jeongin- Ok, at least, a kiss.

You- It found a match already, later.

Jeongin:

Jisung- You can't reject our Maknae! *Laughs*

You- He can deal with that~

Jeongin- Hyung...grab the console.

You- What? Why? *Look at him while Jisung takes it from you*

Jeongin- You better run...

You- Aw shit! *Laughs in desperate running away*

Jeongin- YOU OWN ME A KISS!! *run after*

Jisung- Oh my...love is... weird ~

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[tobiasdrake]

Digimon Adventure 01x05 - Lightning! Kabuterimon! / Kabuterimon's Electro Shocker

Previously on Digimon: We found drinking water, ate birdseed, and poured gasoline on a fire until it caused an integer overflow error and rolled over into zero. Also discovered that the true birdseed was the friends we made along the way. It was a good day.

But now it's time to leave the Pyocomon behind and get back on the road to... whatever might help us go home. File Island is no fun.

We join our cast at the end of a long hike. The younger kids are too exhausted to keep going, so we need to stop and take a break. We don't see Koushiro in this shot at all but he's resting with Mimi and Takeru in the next so we can probably assume which side he's on.

The dub adds context that we're going in circles, which is why everyone's so tired. In the original, they've just been walking for a long time.

Koushiro takes this as an opportunity to once again get his laptop up and running, but no dice. None of his electronics work on File Island. Taichi tries to help, but has a particular approach to IT... and about as much respect for other people's things as Haruhi Suzumiya.

Naturally, this gets him yelled at not only by Koushiro, but Sora also joins in to chew him out.

(Not okay, Taichi. What if you broke something? Where are we supposed to get replacement parts out here, the internet!?

...don't answer that.)

Suddenly, Taichi notices smoke on the horizon. Explaining nothing beyond the words "What's that?" Taichi suddenly runs off. The others shrug it off and decide he went to the bathroom or something.

Dub Tai is much more explicit in his communication. He explains that he sees smoke and is going to investigate. They still blow him off, with Joe claiming he has "the attention span of a gnat".

Unexpectedly, Koushiro's computer turns on. This is unexpected for two reasons; First, because there's no clear indication of why it suddenly works now. Second, as Koushiro quickly discovers, the battery is completely drained. There's no power to turn it on, and yet it runs.

The meaning of the blinking dead battery symbol is changed in the dub. The original plays this as eerie; The laptop has no battery so how is it running? The dub plays this as disappointing; The laptop has low battery so Izzy won't be able to use it. This sets Izzy on a quest to power on his laptop.

Before he has time to think about that, Taichi finds what he's looking for and calls them over.

Those smoke pillars meant exactly what he thought they did: A sprawling factory is laid out before them. Naturally, the kids descend into the factory to explore.

They find no people, but an assembly line of machines constructing... something. Jou, however, insists there must be people here somewhere; A factory like this can't be completely unmanned so we need to keep looking.

Like usual, Jou's determination to find other humans on File Island doesn't make it into the dub. Instead, Joe wants to find a cafeteria in the factory to get food from.

The kids split up; Taichi, Sora, and Jou head off one way while Yamato stays with Takeru, Koushiro, and Mimi and go another. As Taichi's group searches for human presence, they suddenly hear something.

They aren't sure where it's coming from but somebody's here. They can hear some kind of mechanical whirr and some sort of deep, echoing vocal noise. Taichi wonders aloud if that might be a person!

The dub flubs this just a bit; To fill dialogue space used for Jou insisting there must be people here, Biyomon instead calls out to the others, "Don't go any further in this direction!" That indicates that she knows the presence is over that way, making it odd when they all start looking around for it - and Biyomon specifically checks back the way they came.

We also don't hear the echoing voice in the dub; Instead, we hear metal clattering against metal. Tai announces with alarm, "Doesn't sound good!" Once again the dub team are quicker on the uptake and recognize the peril they're in, while the original kids are still holding out hope.

Meanwhile, Yamato's group finds the power supply room and discovers what's running this factory.

It's a super-sized battery plugged into the factory as if it were a TV remote or video game controller.

(It would be hell to change those out. Can you even imagine?)

While Koushiro's surprised to see that the factory runs on this weird system, Dub Izzy is more interested in using it for himself. He wonders aloud if there's a way he can hook it up to his laptop.

Still investigating, Tai's group comes upon this 'mon caught up in the gears of the factory. Gomamon ID's him as Andromon, and informs the others that he's highly evolved. Taichi asks if he's more evolved than Greymon, to which Gomamon answers yes, without a doubt.

(He's right, too. Andromon is a Perfect-stage Digimon, the stage beyond Adult. The kids aren't anywhere near that yet.)

Jou's disappointed that Andromon isn't human, but the kids still agree to help him anyway.

The dub cuts the discussion around Andromon being evolved beyond Adult-stage, though Agumon does say he's "very much advanced" which is open to interpretation. The rest of the conversation is spent agreeing that they should pull Andromon out of the gears.

They also, of course, cut Jou's disappointment about this being another Digimon; Joe complains, "My mom really doesn't want me moving any heavy objects; I've got bad knees," so Sora volunteers herself and Tai to do it without him.

Brief cut to Koushiro, who tells Yamato, Mimi, and Takeru to go on without him; He wants to stay here and investigate the battery further.

Meanwhile, Dub Izzy is still thinking about plugging his computer into the battery; He explains that if he can get it up and running, they can use his computer to call for help.

Meanwhile, Taichi's group begins pulling Andromon out.

(What happened to those bad knees, Dub Joe?)

Taichi loses his grip and falls back against that lever behind him, activating the machines he's stuck in. Unbeknownst to anyone, the machines insert one of those Black Gears from last episode into Andromon's fleshy cyborg leg, just before he comes loose.

Taichi attempts to apply some percussive maintenance, like he did for Koushiro's laptop, but Jou and Sora grab and restrain him. Taking cues from Taichi, Agumon smacks Andromon's head to bring him online.

It does not go well.

The narrator cuts in here to formally introduce Andromon. He's a Perfect-stage Data-type Cyborg Digimon, said to be the strongest among Digimon.

(I assume "on File Island" is a qualifier there because there are absolutely Digimon way more powerful than Andromon.)

Piyomon hits Andromon with Magical Fire to make him release Sora. He shrugs off her attack, then he lobs Sora into Taichi and Agumon, who catch her.

Taichi notices a bunch of metal beams being stored on the ceiling for some reason and has Agumon cut them down with a Baby Flame.

(I want to feel bad for him but he brought this OSHA violation on himself. If he stored his beams properly, this wouldn't have happened to him. Slacking off on safety protocols is how you end up caught in gears.)

Taichi's group takes this opportunity to run for it.

Back with Yamato's group, they've left Koushiro to investigate the power supply room and gone on without him, as requested. Mimi offers some wild speculation as to what the devices being assembled actually do.

Dub Mimi's similarly confused, but offers no speculation. Instead, she complains that there should be a tour guide to explain this stuff. "Ooh, maybe in a plaid outfit with a bullhorn!"

Meanwhile, Koushiro continues investigating the battery. He finds something most unexpected: A door? Why would a battery have a door? Dub Izzy is less confused by this, assertively calling it an "access panel to the interior operations!"

Opening it up, he enters and... it's wild.

Koushiro identifies the writing on these walls as computer code. He doesn't offer any particular programming language, just that it is one he recognizes. He runs his hand along one of the symbols, wiping away part of a letter as if it were fresh paint.

Instantly, the machines throughout the factory shut down in response to Koushiro disrupting their code.

Unfortunately, Taichi's group is still fleeing from Andromon when the lights suddenly go out. Taichi speculates that Andromon might not be able to find them in the dark if they creep away quietly. He's wrong; Andromon finds them immediately and we see from his perspective that he can see fine.

Andromon's signature move, Spiral Sword, spins his hand so fast it turns into a drill before slashing suddenly and creating a blade of pressured air. The dub calls this Lightning Blade.

While the kids narrowly avoid being cut apart by Andromon's Spiral Sword, we cut back to Koushiro and Tentomon. Koushiro laments that he broke the wrong part of the code. At Tentomon's suggestion, he takes out a sharpie and repairs the code, bringing the power back online.

As the machines come back online, Dub Mimi speculates that the factory didn't pay its power bill. XD Valid theory from her perspective.

Koushiro lays out for Tentomon why this is so bothersome. This is not how batteries work. The programming inside the battery is itself what's supplying power to the factory. Koushiro breaks out his laptop to further analyze the program.

(It's like a Sim City power plant. It looks like a power plant. It satisfies the electricity needs of the other programmed structures you lay down. But it's not a real power plant. It's just coded to look like one and to satisfy the coded electricity needs of the coded world. Koushiro and Tentomon are inside the code of this "battery" right now and seeing the true nature of its artifice.)

Meanwhile, dub Izzy is looking for a way out of the factory. "If I can decode this particular program, then I can trace its base functions and figure a way out of here!" This is peculiar because they aren't trapped here to begin with, but it's the beginning of what will be a plot point throughout this episode.

We cut briefly back to Taichi's group still dodging Spiral Swords from Andromon, and then return to Koushiro. Tentomon asks him about how happy he looks doing this; He's more motivated than he's been since Tentomon met him, in fact. Koushiro confirms that he's having a blast.

Tentomon doesn't get it. He asks what Koushiro gets out of this, and Koushiro explains that he gets knowledge. He wants to understand the secrets of this place and what the Digimon are. Tentomon isn't swayed by that; He doesn't really care about who or what he is, and he turns it around on Koushiro: Is he trying to solve the mystery of who he is?

Tentomon doesn't realize it, but that question triggers Koushiro. He flashes back on something he doesn't want to remember.

Though it's not explicitly stated, the subtext of this conversation he overhears from his parents is fairly obvious. Koushiro is adopted, and his parents haven't found the courage to break it to him yet. His parents agree to put it off a little longer; It'd be too much of a shock for him now. They don't know that they've already revealed it. And it is.

Dub Tentomon captures the spirit of the conversation, but with a lot more passive-aggression. He peppers Izzy in sassy backhanded remarks like "I admire the way you keep working while your friends are out having fun!" and "So you would rather spend your time with puzzles than with people?"

He also suggests that they're "trapped in a small room with no exit". I don't know where he got that idea from; There's a door. They came through the door. We occasionally see the door and it's still open like they left it. We're in here by choice 'cause Koushiro/Izzy wants to learn. But aside from that one line, this all works really well. Even the adoption conversation is adapted perfectly.

Back in the present, Tentomon snaps Koushiro out of his disassociation to let him know that some weird shit is happening to his computer screen.

The lines of code he'd been analyzed begin freely floating around the screen, and the light on his Digivice begins to blink.

Here, Dub Tentomon goes off-script to start ranting at Izzy that he's being irresponsible, playing around on his computer while his friends are in danger. This is not a thing they know, but Tentomon insists he can "feel it in [my] bones".

While Koushiro is learning, Mimi lets out an angry shriek from another part of the factory as she finally discovers what the place does with those machines it's assembling.

It sends them to conveyor belt which disassembles them for parts. Nobody offers any commentary beyond Mimi's angry shriek but honestly that's valid commentary in and of itself.

(The assembly and disassembly lines are my favorite part of this episode. It was not meant to be but it's such a scathing metaphor for the military-industrial complex when you think about it. We give hundreds of billions of dollars to defense contractors each year to do exactly this, and that makes me want to angry shriek when I think about it too.)

Back inside the battery's source code, the data moving around on Koushiro's screen begins to form into what appears to be a map of File Island. Dub Izzy's so excited, he officially abandons his alien theory.

However, before it can fully process, Tentomon begins overheating, crying out in pain. Koushiro checks his Digivice and sees that the little bar that rises and falls on it is filled to capacity and blinking.

He's forced to shut down the laptop for the sake of Tentomon's wellbeing. Once the laptop turns off, Tentomon stops glowing and burning, and his Digivice's meter returns to empty.

Meanwhile, Taichi's group escapes Andromon once again after Taichi makes an unbelievably brave leap from a scaffolding suspended dozens of feet in the air to a crane, and hooks Andromon with it.

Of note, Dub Andromon keeps demanding vengeance, presumably for Agumon banging on his head. This is not in the original, where he's a mostly-silent stalker except when he's firing his Spiral Sword or analyzing the kids. His Gear-corrupted systems label them intruders when we see things from his perspective, so he's trying to kill them based on that.

Dubs back in the day would often add dialogue just to fill space, on the assumption that kids would get bored if they go too long without hearing spoken words. So instead of a silent Terminator type marching through halls, we get cries of "ANDROMON WILL HAVE HIS VENGEANCE" whenever the camera's not on his face so you don't notice his lips aren't moving.

Up on the roof, Yamato, Mimi, and Takeru discuss what they've learned. Yamato lays it all out: The factory is a perpetual machine, disassembling the thing whatever it is for parts it can use to assemble the thing which it then disassembles for parts. Nothing is actually produced. This entire complex exists to make nothing.

The dub kids get the gist of this, though Matt's less confident than Yamato in his assessment. They also again suggest that they're trapped here which... is based on nothing? T.K. nervously says, "I hope there's a door," but Matt firmly states that there's no door because nothing ever leaves this place.

(Matt. My guy. There's a door. It's the one you came in through. We are not trapped in the factory; We're voluntarily poking around at stuff to learn what's what. Nobody is in any peril that they know of except Taichi's group.)

While Koushiro rejoins Yamato's group, we get a brief cut of Andromon cutting himself loose with a Spiral Sword air blade, curved around to hit the crane wire holding him.

Koushiro explains his findings: The factory is powered by a computer program; It's coded to have energy so it does. Extrapolating outwards, this means we presently exist in a world where data and programs become real, tangible things.

In the dub, we've already been calling this Digi-World since episode 1 so Izzy ratchets up the revelation: "In Digi-World, basic data and simple information are a living, viable substance; IT'S ALIVE!!!"

Before Koushiro can explain what he means, Taichi's group arrives and screams warnings to everyone. They're too late, though; Andromon erupts through the floor, turning on Yamato's group.

He wastes absolutely no time firing up his other signature attack to kill them with: Gatling Missiles. Yeah, Perfect-stage Digimon get two. That's not fair. This is Baby-stage Bubbles at Kuwagamon all over again.

As the group scatters, Yamato miserably fails his Big Brother check and leaves Takeru behind, frozen in terror. He realizes his mistake too late, but Gabumon evolves to Garurumon to shield Takeru from the blast. As he's evolving, the camera calls special attention to Koushiro noticing the data being output by Yamato's Digivice.

Garurumon swipes the Missiles away, destroying one of them. But the other recovers in the air and comes back for Taichi's group, revealing what exactly makes these Gatling Missiles.

With another shot of Koushiro noticing Taichi's Digivice glowing, Agumon evolves to Greymon to defend them from the gatling bullets. He smashes the missile with his tail. Their victory is short-lived, however, as Andromon proceeds to demonstrate the difference between Adult- and Perfect-stage Digimon.

This is not a winnable fight. They are all fucked beyond measure.

(Even if the whole team could evolve, this would still be a very hard fight. Remember that time the entire team of Child-stage Digimon tried to fight Kuwagamon and lost? Yeah. You really gotta party up if you want to take on a higher-stage Digimon.)

The kids watch in horror as Andromon easily takes Greymon and Garurumon apart. Yamato and Sora both chime in, acknowledging that they get what the whole "evolved at a stage beyond Greymon" thing from earlier means. He's so much stronger and faster than their guys; This fight is hopeless.

The dub didn't have that conversation earlier, so Sora has to offer this up as speculation. Dub Sora pegs his strength to being all-machine but adds, "It's almost like he's Digivolved far beyond the other Digimon!" Yeah. Almost like.

Out of desperation, Tentomon asks Koushiro to fire up that program he was looking at earlier. Koushiro acquiesces, firing it up and filling Tentomon with a surge of energy just like last time. But this time they let it go and don't resist it.

Tentomon SHINKAAAAAA!!!

Tentomon evolves into Kabuterimon, named for kabutomushi, the rhinoceros beetle. His arrival does little to change the tide of battle. Perfect-stage gonna Perfect, y'all.

Jou frantically wonders aloud if Andromon has any weaknesses, which gets Koushiro thinking. Scrutinizing Andromon carefully, he notices energy sparking out of his organic right leg and yells at Kabuterimon to focus fire on that.

The dub seems a little confused on this note; Izzy yells at Kabuterimon to "Cut his power! Demobilize his right leg and we'll interrupt his energy source!" which is making a lot of (wrong) assumptions about why we're shooting at his leg. Koushiro just says to shoot the leg and doesn't explain why.

Kabuterimon opens fire with his signature move, Mega Blaster. The dub calls this Electro Shocker.

Kabuterimon's shot hits home. It does jack shit to Andromon but it obliterates the Black Gear inside his leg, which forcibly emerges and flies into the air to explode like with Meramon. Instead of bursting into a cloud of smoke, however, we get to watch it disintegrate like a Final Fantasy monster.

With Andromon now liberated from the Black Gear, he unpacks what happened. He found the Gear stuck in the machinery of the factory and was trying to get it out when he got trapped like that. He doesn't actually know what it is or what happened any more than the kids do.

He's apologetic for what he did under its corruption and wishes he had more information for them, but he doesn't. He does, however, have a suggestion for how they should leave the factory, which may be where the dub got the idea that they're trapped here. He advises them to go through the sewers.

Dub Andromon skips the explanation and goes straight to apologizing. Though he still says he has little information for them and suggests using the "underground waterway" to "escape" from here. He also calls it a "labyrinth", which the original does not.

Andromon wishes them luck in returning to their world, which is now officially what we're calling it. Dub Tai promises to never forget Andromon. Then the kids make their way into the sewers.

As they're walking, Takeru strikes up conversation with Koushiro. He wants to know if the program Koushiro used to evolve Tentomon would work for Patamon as well. Dub T.K. has the same question but refers to evolving as "becoming a superhero".

Koushiro agrees to give it a try, but as he's typing, his laptop suddenly loses power. Taichi and Agumon both want to hit it, forcing Koushiro to comically protect his laptop from these two lunkheads.

As Taichi and Agumon comically hit each other, we close the episode on the group laughing at them. The narrator chimes in to foreshadow that Koushiro's laptop will be the key to solving the secrets of the world.

The dub's been having the characters narrate instead, but they don't even bother with this line. They just cut it outright. That's fair; It's kind of unnecessary.

Assessment: As a character-focus episode, this one works really well for Koushiro. The emphasis of the episode is on learning and information-gathering. We found something interesting so we start poking around to figure out what we can about File Island.

So far, each episode has focused on a particular trait of a character that's going to become important later down the road. For Koushiro, it's his intelligence and curiosity that not only drives his discoveries but fuels his Digimon's evolution.

This is a big episode for discovering the lore and understanding the mechanics of the Digital World, as befits a Koushiro episode. I particularly like the choice of a Perfect-stage Digimon for their adversary, forcing them into a situation where Koushiro has to solve the puzzle rather than defeat the bad guy.

The dub quality here is... serviceable. There's some lateral changes that just come across as different presentation choices, such as having Tai announce himself to the others more directly when he leaves the group. Also, some of the tension-relieving jokes they added got me, especially Mimi's "didn't pay the power bill" crack.

But there's definitely some changes I wouldn't have made. Cutting out the explanation that Andromon's evolved beyond the levels of Greymon and Garurumon confuses the matter of why they can't beat him. As a kid, I remember legitimately thinking that metal Digimon are just automatically the strongest because of this episode.

Also, they're still erasing Jou's character direction: To find humans so they can take us in and get us home. This leaves him with little to do but provide comic relief.

Nonetheless, the main character arc between Izzy and Tentomon mostly lands, even if they go a little too hard on Tentomon's disagreement with Izzy's way of life.

The dub version is a little lesser for the choices that they made, but not by too much, I think. It still hits most of the important beats and delivers the story it needed to tell, and that's what matters most.

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I love 'born to suffer and love' ♡♡♡♡ do u have any headcanons abt how donnie and the family are dealing with the aftermath ?

-cracks my knuckles- aight who wants a long ass essay :)

They are not handling it very well, I can tell you that much.

Donnie's like twice his normal size so he's almost completely uncoordinated. He still has his genius but it's...muddied. He's panicking and scared and in pain and it's hard to focus. His instincts are all messed up, he's in a body that's like twice his usual size and far bulkier than before, his shell his stiffer and covered in spikes, and he's suddenly got this big long tail that he has no idea how to control. Poor kid's a wreck.

So he tends to stay in one spot, I'm thinking a sort of pile of blankets and pillows in an easily accessible room where he doesn't have to worry to much about breaking stuff or crashing into things. If he has to move, he probably shuffles on all fours for the most part, moves rather slow because his center of balance is out of whack. He can stand on two legs but it makes him super tall and he stumbles a lot, doesn't really know how to move like that. But mostly he tends not to move because his body hurts; the rapid double mutation strained his body pretty bad so he's kind of dealing with on and off aches and pains and muscle spasms and just being really uncomfy.

Additionally, the double mutation has fucked with his inner biology. The two species of turtle DNA slamming into each other aren't mixing well, which is causing the pain, and it's messed with his organs too. He's having difficulty eating processed foods and has kinda been forced to eat fresh veggies, fruits, and nearly raw meat. He is not having good mouth feels. He gets stomach cramps and nausea sometimes too. Worse still is that it did something to his ability to speak. A combination of his vocal chords being twisted, the new shape of his face, his jaw, his teeth and tongue, it's all messed him up pretty bad. He speaks more in turtle than he does in English because it's easier. If he does talk, it's very choppy, lots of stuttering and difficulty pronouncing words correctly.

But to Donnie, the worst part is that he can't access his lab. Well, he can he just...can't use it. He's too big, too clumsy and uncoordinated. He's stronger and doesn't know how to control that strength to keep himself from breaking things. He can have his genius mind all he wants, but he can't even use it. He doesn't have his usual coping mechanism, his usual escape. He's trapped.

Donnie is miserable, in pain, and super self-conscious.

And then there's poor Raph.

He's definitely still Raphael Hamato. You can take away his body and mutagen, but his soul is still in there. The problem is, his little turtle body...wasn't built to process intelligent thought. So it gets a little complicated...

He knows he's...well he's pretty sure he's...he knows his bale. He knows them, even if he can't quite process who they are or understand that he loves them, they are his family and he knows that much at least. He knows the Hard-to-Open-Shell one that is smallest who holds him a lot, and he knows the Red-Marked one that smells sad sometimes, and he knows Mouthful-of-Fur is protector-guardian-strongest, and he knows Not-Turtle-Sister who does not look the same but is still bale. He gets a little confused by Soft-Fast-Swimmer because that one also smells like Ones-Who-Bite-Strongest and that doesn't...sit right in his mind and he can't figure out why. But he knows them all and he chirps and clicks at them all the same.

And he knows the Sound-That-They-Call-Him.

He looks up when they use the Sound-That-They-Call-Him. Not because he knows what they're say, he doesn't, he can't process their language, but he knows the sound. That's his sound, that's the one his bale chose for him.

So from the family's perspective, Raph appears to recognize his name. When they call it, he looks up at them. Unfortunately, the rest of the communication is nearly impossible. Raph's turtle brain thinks and processes things differently than a human's or even a mutant turtle's. So Leo, Mikey, and Donnie and kind of understand Raph's noises, but it's very confusing and they don't often know what Raph is trying to say to them. It took them a while to figure out that Raph was referring to them by their species rather than by names. And that....kinda hurt. It sucked. He didn't even know their names.

He doesn't seem to mind being picked up, as long as it's by his family. He even seems to enjoy being carried around with them and he likes snuggling up to them for naps. He can tell how distressed everyone is and he churrs and does his best to try and offer them comfort.

He's confused by Draxum and can't seem to decide whether to try and bite him or not. To him, Draxum feels dangerous but also almost seems like bale? He's very confused and thinking is too hard so he will just bite, thank you very much.

Speaking of, Draxum is working himself to the bone trying to figure out how to safely reverse the double mutation process. It's not impossible, but he's afraid of hurting Donnie and Raph even more. But he's also desperately afraid of failing them again. Drax is pretty messed up about what happened and he fully blames himself for it and he will do whatever it takes to fix things. His biggest problem is that he doesn't have access to a lot of the tools and equipment that would make fixing this easier. Donnie's letting Draxum use his lab, but there's only so much Drax can do at the moment.

Splinter, Leo, Mikey, and April are basically left to try and take care of Raph and Donnie.

I can see them setting up a kind of kiddie pool or something with water and a beach sort of thing and a heat lamp for Raph. They probably keep it in the same room as Donnie just so they can keep an eye on the both of them at the same time.

Leo's stressed as hell, especially about the state Donnie's in. He and Mikey work together to try and find food that Donnie's okay with eating. Leo wants to try and help with the pain relief, but he's wary about actually administering anything so he mostly sticks to hot pads and ice packs. Donnie appreciates it anyway. Leo's also assisting Draxum where he can. Donnie might be the tech genius, but Leo's got biology down pretty well. Mikey is fully upset and spends a day being nearly inconsolable before he pulls himself together. He, April, and Splinter are usually the ones keeping an eye on Donnie and Raph. Mikey tries to act like nothing's changed and tries not to treat Donnie any differently than before. But he's just a kid and he still slips up and asks questions and gets curious.

Things are rough for the family. Splinter probably considers going to Big Mama for help. It's an option that's not completely off the table, even if nobody likes it.

No one's completely happy, but they're not wallowing in misery. Or at least, they're trying not to. Donnie is very prone to slipping into a bout of self-loathing and depression and just laying miserably on the floor, not trying to do anything. Mikey and April try to keep his mind busy and entertained with movies, puzzles, board games, whatever they can get their hands on.

It's really tough for everyone.

Sure hope they figure out how to fix it.

(the joke is that i still don't have a resolution lol)

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Hades and Lost readers son from that one ask end up getting lost so badly he end up in the past before his parents even think of having kids together.

So imagine them all sitting down at a shared table for the gods and some humans having brunch together when this teenager that looks like how Hades did when he was younger and sits between Hades and lost reader saying good morning to everyone before ending with a good morning father to hades and a good morning mother/father/parent to lost reader before he starts eating with manners oblivious to the shooed looks he’s getting.

What's up with this lost, sassy child?

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LMFAOOOOOOO and Lost Y/N just accepts it cause they did dimensional travel before

God's and humans will be seperate since the post will be too long

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It was a fine day, everyone was chill and doing whatever they do, then in comes a teenage demigod that's the spitting image of Hades. He sits down and just casually says "Hello father, parent". Everyone is confused, except for you who already went through dimensional travel and have no thoughts in your mind.

One of the more chill ones, he sees the resemblance and immediately thinks "well if he's also Y/N's kid then he probably got lost and ended up in the past".

He acted as if everything was normal, after all he's bound to get lost and end up in his actual timeline

Hades obviously doesn't know his name so he just refers to his future son as "my boy", seems like that was the right choice since the teen himself just responded with " yes?" "hm?" "Do you need something father?"

He's pretty happy to see him, it guarantees that you two will be together long into the future.

Even though he's a teen, Hades still finds him so so adorable.

Acts as if nothing is wrong.

In reality his brain is restarting like windows xp.

Poseidon will ignore the teen for a while, apparently it's not so different from his future self since the kid doesn't seem to mind.

However afterwards he'll spar with him and teach him more defense.

He'll definitely take at least a little pride that after the fight over "who was the favorite person" he just whispered to Poseidon.

"It's you....and by a lot"

Pfft of course he's the favorite, he's perfect, no he's not smug it was bound to happen. The rest are obviously inferior.

The first one who vocally said "what's up with this child?"

Will NOT take an actual excuse.

Don't worry, he's just panicked, give him sometime (15 minutes).

After that he'll act completely normal, he'll actually want to know more about the kid and get along with him for the time he'll be here.

No he's not getting soft! It's a normal thing to do for your future cousin, right?

Even though he's a teen Ares will treat him like a kid, picking him up and shit.

He's actually a pretty protective cousin.

He wants the teen to find a way home ASAP, his parents have to be panicked no?

Also pretty calm.

Hermes will definitely mess with the teen a little, he's only being a nice cousin.

He actually tries to help him get back to his timeline, interacting with the past can have devastating effects on the present.

Will get his unofficial partner in crime involved in messing with his shit.

At least he feeds that rat. Sometimes.

Will actively try to keep the teen away from the others.

Be stupid together, he was a little confused, but he's not completely brain dead, he figured out pretty quickly where the teen was from.

He tries so hard to act as he thinks he'll act like in the future, the teen gets suspicious it's not Heracles.

When he acts like himself, then the teen stops suspecting, some people never change.

He'll have an eating competition with the teen, the teen may be skinny but he won.

Surprisingly he's extremely calm.

He'll be helping Hades take the teen back to his timeline, meanwhile he's still the upbeat and playful uncle.

Zeus will watch over the teen and sneak him snacks when Hades and Lost! Y/N aren't looking.

He easily takes the cake for best uncle, if Poseidon didn't exist that is.

Zeus is actually the main babysitter for the teen, even though he always escapes and goes straight to Poseidon-

[beautifulpersonpeach]

Hi, I know you're resting now, I wanted to share my opinion about the album. I noticed that there are five tracks in Face and they are so similar to the 5 stages of acceptance. What do you think about it? Perhaps my question is incoherent, I am writing it through a google translate.

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Ask 2: FACCE IS SAURRR GOOODD!! 😭😭😭 WHEN IS THE REVIEW BPP?

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Ask 3: Which remix is your fav?? I think beans and toast won this won

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Ask 4: Bpp Imma need to go to SK and hold Jm hostage…I need him to make more music…Im going crazy Hes not my bias or my bias wrecker but hes wrecked me…I cant believe that he made my soty my aoty…I just wish the album had more songs…Like crazy is crazy good!!!!

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Ask 5: BPP, hi!

I was hoping JM would show us a bit of his true self in his new album. And did he, huh? That MV and song reeks of homosexuality. I know it's simething ARMYs do not talk about. But... What do you think?

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Ask 6: So did Jimin really end kpop for you BPP? Which song is you’re favourite? ☺️ He’s blown my mind at least. It’s Instant AOTY for me!!!!!! I hope Like Crazy is promoted really harf because I think it has really good potential It’s my favorite in the album ☺️

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Hi Anon(s),

Before we get into it...

...I have a bone to pick with Jimin.

I don’t understand what Jimin thinks he’s doing not putting Letter on Apple Music or Spotify. Like, why does he think that’s a good idea? Does anybody know? This song is so perfect - Jimin's lush vocals harmonizing with Jung Kook's is beautiful - Letter needs to be available on as many platforms as possible. See, these are the kind of choices the tannies make that just causes me to laugh because yeah these hidden songs are 'gifts to fans' but it's also a crime against all that is good and honest in this world to keep it off channels those fans will gladly pay for? The fact Ddaeng is still stuck in Soundcloud purgatory is reason enough to kidnap Bang PD's nephew and sell him to the mafia, far as I'm concerned. The only reasons I haven't done it yet because kidnapping is illegal in my country, the Cosa Nostra require a blood oath, and Jin wouldn't like delays to his game update.

Letter is Promise all grown up, a little wiser and more developed, and I hope in every subsequent album Jimin releases for the rest of his career, that there is a version of Promise, a song that feels like Jimin - comforting, easy, warm, simple, and beautiful. Listening to it I'm so thankful Jimin exists. (Yes Jimin, I'm that fan who is simply happy you're alive - Pixid reference, so for anyone who hasn't watched it yet I've linked it here).

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FACE is a solid 8.1 / 10.

(Are you streaming?)

It's a great thing Jimin has been so forthcoming in talking about the process and his reasons for making the album, the songs on it, as well as how he had key input on the choreography. I strongly suggest everyone watch his live (linked here - I should probably also mention the English subs aren't up yet, just FYI). Jimin has been very clear about what he's communicating in FACE so I won't tarry on it.

My favourite songs in order of least to most:

5) Like Crazy

4) Face Off

3) Letter

2) Alone

1) Set Me Free Pt 2

Something about each song in reverse order with the exception of Letter - for Letter, see mafia case above.

Set Me Free Pt 2

This is the best song on the album.

Alone

There are two reasons why SMF Pt 2 comes out on top over Alone though Alone in many ways is the superior song. (1) The production (including the use of autotune) in SMF Pt 2 is incredible, and (2) because Alone ends on too disturbing a note for me to dwell on, knowing that it has come from Jimin.

Everything about Alone is perfect. The way the song begins with piano, then guitar, and then drums. Jimin’s voice. That man’s voice seriously fucks with my head. It’s the way I feel every time Yoongi twitches his voice when he’s being particularly nasty. Or anytime I hear Joon’s adlibs in a song. Or what happens in my head every time Hoseok slathers his vocal inflections with grit. I don’t know if I’m making sense, but what I mean to say is that Jimin’s voice during the entire song feels like a gift. It draws you in. And then you hear what he’s singing about...

It’s heartbreaking.

I can’t abide the thought that this is something Jimin went through recently, and that I relate in a very personal way. The emotions expressed in Alone feel too raw, too scary, and too real, and while that could point to a worrying state of mind in its author, I think Jimin’s idiosyncratic bluntness and clarity of speech in Alone shows the state of someone who still reflects often, is self-aware and also resilient.

Still, it’s a sad song to hear, an even sadder one to sing, but it is one of the most powerful and beautiful songs I’ve ever heard.

(He's a problem)

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Face Off

I appreciate the vision Jimin had for this song. Starting with the gag of him playing the Flea Waltz in the intro - the song the members have teased Jimin with repeatedly by saying it's the only song Jimin knows how to play on the piano - Jimin used that common (good-natured) taunt and then weaponized it in a song putting those who have crossed him in their place. It's clear by the second verse when Jimin raps that he's pushing himself to express what he means in as many ways as possible. He's challenging himself and sending a message, and that I can respect.

Anon in ask 1 who talked about the album showing the five stages of grief, I agree sort of. If we were to assign a response to each song, I'd say...

Face Off is Anger

Like Crazy - Denial (though bargaining works too)

Alone - Depression

Letter - Acceptance

(PJM2 will be madness)

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Like Crazy

This is my least favourite song on the album because it never really develops, but it's also not supposed to. Jimin has said he wanted to express a dreamlike state in Like Crazy, and he does that impeccably well. The song leans into its 80s groove, heavy padded synths, something reminiscent of if Foster The People and The Weeknd made a song together. The thing about dreamlike states is that they lull your mind, and one easy way to create that effect is repetition and monotony. Think about why someone trying to hypnotize someone else tries to keep their voice steady, calm, and monotone. So, many times listening to Like Crazy I wanted the song to go somewhere, to become fuller or less predictable, but that would kill the trance so it didn't. While it's not my preference, I can appreciate Jimin's commitment to the idea of the song.

It's a great track even then. I sometimes listen to it right after Big Man, Little Dignity by Paramore.

Speaking of Like Crazy, there's been much ado about about Jimin's sexuality, queer-coding, etc in the song and so Anon in ask 5, I see where you're coming from.

Jimin is queer. I don't know what else there is to say about it or why even the mere possibility of Jimin being queer should generate the amount of fuss/discourse it does. It's possible I'm wrong of course, but like you Anon I don't think I saw Jimin even stand straight once during the entire MV. There’s not a single straight thing about this guy.

For the sticklers, perhaps the more diplomatic way of saying it is, 'many of us strongly suspect Jimin is queer.'

(What a stunner)

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Jimin seems very pleased with his first album and this is my favourite thing about the last few weeks. Watching him for the last nine years, it's gratifying to see how he has fully embraced himself, his limitations, his pride, his vices, his virtues... Jimin is a strong tenacious person and in making this album, he turned that intensity inwards, towards learning to love himself. The result is five great tracks, and I'm eager to see what more he will show us in the future.

[sparkylurkdragon]

This has been A Week. tl;dr car wreck at work that I was involved in as a passenger, don't worry we're all fine but have to deal with The Shitty Supervisors, more behind the cut. Take that as a content warning for vehicular accidents and ableism.

As a review, one of my jobs is on a cardboard recycling crew for a local charity that has a job-training program which employs disabled people. I'm on recycling because I have mobility and stamina issues.

On Monday, we were driving around and I was vibing with my earbuds in, dozing, when I felt a jolt and got thrown forward against my seatbelt. I woke up and went "what did we hit?!" then looked around and saw: We had been hit.

Some dude in a pickup had smashed into our trailer. We don't know what was up with him yet, but it was very clearly his fault. Our supervisor swerved so he hit the unoccupied trailer and not the fucking full van of people and probably saved our lives.

So. One police report, fire ambulance that thankfully had no injuries to treat, and the supervisor going home to take the week off later (he is as far as I know physically fine but obviously pretty fucked up mentally about the whole thing), and those of us on recycling crew were given the option to go home without pay or join the landscaping crew for the rest of the day. Given that I can't physically do the landscaping work, home I went.

So! Upon our return the next day, they did find stuff for us to do around the mill, but we had to deal with The Landscaping Supervisors. They range from Mildly Annoying (the one who worked with us directly) to Smarmy Jackass.

You know the voice. The very special "I'm not disabled so I'm a superior being" voice. The kind where you know if they thought they wouldn't get in trouble they'd say "now run along little [r-slur]." This is how Smarmy Jackass sounds. I know that it's a charity employing disabled folks and some of us do need things broken down more than others, but there's a way to do that and not talk to us like we're fucking toddlers.

What fucking blows my mind is that, again, a lot of the recycling crew have mobility problems. Landscaping crew was using their van to do recycle's work, but only took one of the recycle team?? The rest of us stayed behind and sorted wood in the mill or did janitorial work?? The latter of which is actively dangerous for me because I'm immune compromised?!

I had to put my foot down and say "look I'm not trying to avoid doing my fair share but I Kind Of Can't Do The Bathrooms and I Kind of Can't Stay Standing Long Enough To Vacuum Or Do Much Sweeping Or Mopping," and even that got a Hiding Exasperation kind of look and a "well... we'll figure something out". To her credit, Mildly Annoying did figure it out and gave me stuff I could do, but.

Why not. Why not let the landscaping crew 'rest.' And take us recycling guys. Out on our route. Why is this hard.

One of the recycling guys did ask Smarmy Jackass this, and got a whole Lecture about how aren't we lucky the Big Boss let us work at all this week, we could've just been sent home with no pay, that van is Landscaping's Van and we are doing recycle a favour by doing your work for you.

(I did bring up Smarmy Jackass' behaviour to Mildly Annoying today, but it was in the context of me getting pulled aside for yelling over the din of the landscaping crew in the mornings to tell a dude who got up in my face to point at my shirt that no I'm not wearing a Marvel shirt, and being told "well tell him you can't hear him next time". He??? Couldn't hear me??? Because I was masked??? And landscaping is loud as fuck in the mornings???

Uuuuugh why is there no polite way to tell people to leave you alooooone I'm confident I would've got talked to if I'd said that, too.)

Being around the guys vocal stimming with fart jokes and competitive posturing all day does get annoying sometimes in a conflicting access needs way, but at least I can put my headphones in about it. This was unbearable.

...So. That's my week. Still have work at the retail place tomorrow but shit, man, at least I've mostly got the ableism to my face trained out of those folks.

[traegorn]

I have a question, if you don't mind. I saw you're a Wiccan but you don't really talk like the Wiccans I've experienced in the past.

So, I wanted to ask: how do you go about being Wiccan and deconstructing appropriative, sexist and transphobic concepts that are so popular in Wicca, or have just been around since the founding of Wicca? What makes it Wicca when you take those concepts away?

I mean, there are over a million Wiccans in the US alone by current estimates, and so there's actually quite a bit of diversity in the faith.

But yeah, I'm probably not typical? Over the years I've met quite a few Wiccans like myself - so I'm not special or anything, but you're right -- folks like me are probably not anywhere near the majority. I mean... probably. It's hard to say, because the folks like me are also far less likely to be vocal or online about their witchcraft.

Additionally, I haven't always been like this. I'm in my forties. I've been a Wiccan for like twenty-five years. You have no idea how annoying I was in like 1998. It was bad.

But to answer your actual question...

So the first thing you have to understand is that a lot of the issues in Wicca don't necessarily come down to the actual theology of the faith, but the rituals. And Wicca's founders (Gardner and Valiente) weren't special, right? They were just other witches like the rest of us, and don't come with any authority above the rest of us. Even Gardner was pretty open that he modified rituals to suit his practice (while pretending these things were ancient). So, with that, if a ritual doesn't fit, change it.

You have permission.

And when you get to the core, the faith of Wicca comes down to a handful of things -- worship of the God and Goddess, observance of the wheel of the year, the rede, etc. Those are the bits that make it "Wicca." Everything else is tradition specific window dressing.

Like when you hear someone accuse a Wiccan of cultural appropriation, it's almost always something that isn't actually a core "Wicca" thing, but something they tacked on from somewhere else. Some practice they incorporated from elsewhere. And the easy answer is, when that happens, you can just sort of stop doing it?

I mean, a lot of them won't stop doing the thing -- but that's more of a "White Suburbanites don't react well to you pointing out problematic things they're doing" problem than a Wiccan specific problem.

And with all theology, there's a debate within members of the faith about what means what. Issues with gender essentialism and the transphobic elements you'll see with some interpretations aren't present in others. As a nonbinary person, you can probably guess that I have a lot of thoughts on this part of things, and did a whole episode of my podcast about it that would be far too much to repeat here. You can just, like, listen to it if you want though.

And, like, deconstruction is an ongoing process. Like I said, I wasn't always where I am now.

And none of us are where we're going to be tomorrow.

[struggle-but-its-all-ocean-floor]

recently i came across your post where you wrote that you are pretty sure jikook can date each other. I'm curious, has your opinion changed or are you still sticking to it?

Hmm... I'm not sure what side of this argument you're on. Are you an insecure Jikooker or an anti-shipper? A Taekook/Vmin/Yoonmin-er? You're asking if I'm still "sticking" to my opinion, so you're probably not a Jikooker (calling myself a Jikooker is a bit weird though).

Well, I still can't picture Jikook with anyone else. You saw Jungkook's face watching Jimin's videos? He had the same soft, worshiping face he made during the Dynamite comeback (if you're a Jikooker, yk). He sings Jimin's songs (he sang Vibe 3! times because he wanted to do it justice!, and also sang Jimin's songs with VHope), said he misses Jimin, watched multiple Jimin videos with us, did vocals for Letter, called himself Jimin's fan, saw Jimin rehearse SMF (did you count the amount of times they held hands? Do you see Jimin doing that, and also speaking so softly, with other members?), engages with Jimin the most during lives (ie. he doesn't always comment when the other members are live, but he's been commenting a lot on pretty much all of Jimin's recent lives), still has favorite movies, songs and hobbies in common with Jimin (coach Tommy seems to know Jimin better than he does the other members except Jungkook), etc. But if you want current, hard "proof" of their bond, you won't get it. We won't have regular OT7 Bangtan Bombs, episodes, Memories, and concert DVDs for a long time. You won't get recent "loud" moments between Jimin and Jungkook, such as an almost kiss or a suspicious bite mark. You won't get many friendship scenes between the members in general.

Still, V and Jungkook, and J-Hope as well, have been hanging out a lot lately, and Jimin has been spending time with J-Hope and Suga. I understand some fans see that as confirmation that Jikook aren't as close anymore - they've been seen in public, but not together. Well, Jimin was working on Face and practically lived in PDogg's house for 10 months. He, Suga and J-Hope were all preparing content so their schedules probably overlapped and they ran into each other a lot at Hybe (it also made sense for them to shoot some content together). V and Jungkook were both resting (more or less, and not presently in Jungkook's case, I guess) so they were more free to hang out (which was only a handful of times anyway from what we saw, and not even every week or super regularly). Hobi has always been the most social and active member, and he's leaving soon, so he probably wanted to spend as much time with Bangtan as possible. He even played online games with Jimin! He's not a gamer so maybe he just wanted to do something with Jimin? They played together in ITS 2 as well, so it's probably a Jihope thing. Why didn't Jikook play games together, you might ask? I just answered that, and also, do they have to? Jungkook doesn't seem to play much anymore and maybe he doesn't like that game? We know his sleeping schedule is pretty fucked too, so I wouldn't be surprised if he can be hard to reach. But he gamed with V, you argue! Yeah, but that was a hang out at V's house with more people, and their gaming skills are much more comparable anyway. We haven't heard of J-Hope hanging out with RM, for example, yet I haven't heard fans say they aren't close anymore.

Jungkook and Jimin have hang out many times with us only finding out about it later through second hand accounts or in official content. A lot of Jikook droughts have become floods out of nowhere. Jimin and Jungkook have slightly different friend groups - for example, RM and Jimin are close to Taeyang, but Jungkook doesn't seem to be, so Jikook wouldn't go to G-Dragon's event together. There are millions of explanations as to why Jikook don't seem to be hanging out as much or why other members seem to be hanging out a lot. We don't know how often Jikook chat, if they call each other, if they meet up privately, etc. Jimin is pretty private and doesn't share much of his private life, and Jungkook's pretty inconsistent with what he divulges - historically though, Jikook rarely talk about the times they hang out, which is why we learn about convenience store runs and dinners with friends through second hand accounts. We have a tendency to take things at face value. I love Jinkook but haven't seen good content of them since 2021. It's easy to assume they aren't close now because Jungkook didn't visit Jin with Jihope and doesn't seem to talk to him much. But that's also just Jungkook's personality. He's touchy yet a bit distant. He doesn't like texting or talking on the phone, and seems to be the type that can go a really long time without seeing someone. RM said during one of the recordings of a Proof comeback show that Jinkook couldn't live without each other but many fans say Jungkook has "outgrown" Jin. Every relationship is different. Jungkook's openly affectionate with Hobi and RM, and very verbal in his appreciation of them, yet he's always shown his affection for Jin through teasing, play fighting and back hugs. Also, Jungkook doesn't overly praise Jimin most of the time and is more tactile with other members, but shows he loves Jimin so much in so many different ways.

Anyway, I don't know what to tell you. BTS are never going to be what they used to be. We won't get hours of content of the members' interactions to judge their closeness. All we'll get for the foreseeable future are IG photos of some members hanging out (but Jungkook doesn't have IG and Jimin rarely posts so they wouldn't be the ones posting pics of themselves), and whatever they choose to share during lives. And with all of them having different schedules and levels of privacy we can't take anything at face value. RM hasn't been seen with the members in ages (except at the Harry Styles concert and dinner with Jimin), yet no one is assuming he isn't close to his members anymore. This is just a weird phase for BTS and Army. If I believed Jikook were together before I can't not believe that now, because doubting them would mean they were either never together (or interested in each other) or are having a very amicable breakup.

This got looooong. Ooof.

[raytorosaurus]

i feel like people forget about desert song a lot. im probably biased cuz it's my favorite mcr song, but i haven't seen much of anyone bring it up recently (and even then i feel like people focus more on the desperation in "from the earth to the morgue" than the rest of the song, which is just. so wrong to me). the vocals feel like a knife twisting in my chest throughout the whole thing and nobody seems to notice how gut-wrenching "did you come to stare or wash away the blood" really is, especially in the context of the song itself and the album it was for

oh fr??? that's interesting bc i feel like when they played it this tour that was all my dash talked about for a while, and i feel like it's one of the more widely-discussed/appreciated deep cuts. it definitely deserves all of that because it is an insanely emotive song and performance but at least in my circle idk if i'd say people forget about it...so yes i agree it totally deserves the hype, including parts that aren't "from the earth to the morgue," but like to compare it to my other recent ask about another slow-paced emotional-breakdown song, i feel like it gets more appreciation than early sunsets when both are pretty equally deserving imo. i know desert song also has ~lore attached to it but i reckon the stories from the studio abt early sunsets hold their own against that too, yk? so i'll give you underrated but idk if i'd consider it a contender for most underrated

[hunterrated]

Akaza Headcanons Part 2

Here's the second part! I had some trouble publishing the first part, sadly my post won't show in all the tags, and I don't understand why. This inconvenience was pretty upsetting for me, that's why it took me so long to publish this secon part, even if it was ready.

Stay tuned for the 3rd part! That being said, enjoy!

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First Encounters

I'll start with an unpopular opinion: Akaza does not respect women.

Lemme be more clear on that. It's not respect, it's nostalgia. The reason why he can't kill women is because there's probably this small fragment of his mind that recalls the love he once had for Koyuki.

It's most likely the memory of his past lover that stops him from killing women, so respect is not necessarily involved.

Does this mean I don't believe he would be respectful towards a new lover?

No, he definitely would

He's best boi :)

All this preamble so I could introduce first ecounters with Akaza, so let's go!

As a Demon Slayer: canonically he would not harm Demon Slayers if they were women.

So just enojoy some chit-chat, if he plays his cards right he may also get some interesting informations?

Should he be intimidating or charming? Maybe both.

But wait, you're a woman of honor, maybe you still wanna fight him?

That's bothersome, but admirable! He sure is up for some game.

Just try to not get too mad when you'll notice he's just avoiding your attacks. Sure, he's swinging his fist at you, but if you pay really close attention, you can see his attacks perfectly missing you.

You yell at him to stop playing with you. And he does listen and start trying to land some hits on you.

Just to knock you out.

Duh, what did you expect?

He may not be vocal about his unwillingness about hurting and eating women, but he's willing to let you off as nicely as possible.

You keep your honor intact, he keeps his morals intact. Win-win situation, hurray!

Or maybe he finds you, and you're already injured.

He thinks long and hard about what to do with you.

But in the end he just can't let you be, you'll die for sure.

If you're the sole survivor he'll pick you up and bring you to the closest city or village.

Doesn't matter how much you complain or scream in his ears, he decided he's gonna bring you in a safe place and he will complete this mission.

But if you're not cooperative, he may start screaming at you back. He has a pretty short fuse afterall. But it will happend only if you're aggressive towards him first.

If you got separated from the rest of your team after a demon's attack, he just brings you back to other Demon Slayer.

He also probably scared the demon off when he arrived.

If you get worried of the possibility that he's tracing your team back just so that he can kill them in front of you, he reassure you with few words and just keeps walking.

"I'll just bring you back. If you want to die so bad look find a real opponent."

He leaves you close enough so the other Demon Slayer can hear you calling for them and leaves.

Actually checks if you're getting rescued and then leaves.

In either case, he may come check on you every now and then. If you survived, you won't waste the possibility he gave you to get stronger, right?

As a Civilian: he actually doesn't have any business with you.

But at some points he finds out the men of the house aren't doing their job, but actually the opposite.

You're being mistreated? He'll remove all of your trouble by eating whoever is being mean to you. Two birds with one stone.

Since he doesn't actually know you, he's not interested in hearing any complains from you, or worse, hearing you cry about what he did.

But in case you're grateful for what he did, he's not looking for recognition either. If you thank him you can hear him whisper under his breath "Fool" as he indulges few seconds more before launching himself outisde of the window, disappearing.

Is this case too he may decide to come check on you, just to make sure his intervention was not in vain.

As a Demon: you're most likely many ranks below him.

I think it's very unlikely he'd approach a weaker demon without a proper reasons. So if one of you two approaches the other maybe it's for sharing informations.

Or you want to ask him to train you? Mind, I think Akaza would train you regardless of what you are, be that a human, a demon or a worm (I may talk about the matter in more details in another post).

So if your battle spirit is strong enough, and you're really convinced you wanna ask an Upper Moon to train you, so be it.

If you're worth it and good company, he'll be back.

Maybe he'll even take you under his wing.

[bengiyo]

The Eclipse Ep 10 Stray Thoughts

There's so much BL happening that I don't exactly remember where we are. I know we're waiting on a phishing attempt, there's a protest coming, Neo and Khaotung gave the gayest lovesick expressions I've seen in a while, and Akk almost had a swimming mishap last episode before shivering through an underwater kiss.

Mes is here. This must be the past.

Smash cut to the burning effigy and then don't play the whole intro? Shit's going down today!

This headmaster just did the shoulder touch to Chadok and promised some nebulous reward. Just how far up the chain does this go?

It's interesting seeing how the adults are navigating this. Some demand the students conform for the sake of the majority, whereas Sani tries to deflect and defer the matter.

Finally. Some of the other students have had enough and are siding with the World Remembers.

A terrified Thua was able to vocalize his fear directly to Kan, and Kan is finally able to offer him comfort at school.

I love how Thua suspects that Kan is using Bruce Wayne to talk to him and leans into that illusion to push Kan. Admitting he has feelings for Bruce Wayne has me leaning all the way in. Kan gives an encouraging response, but we'll see if he can give Thua what he's asking for.

Ayan and Akk have a great dynamic when they aren't picking at each other.

Aw yes, we're pulling out the earbuds for shared listening. This is one of my favorite tropes.

I also like Ayan teasing him for stealing glances. It's time to play the entirety of the I See You album by the xx I think

I am just floored by Khaotung and First every week. The way he shifts as Ayan says, "I get you. When I first found out, it was difficult, too," sent me through the roof. Akk's response of, "You can't like a bad person like me," broke me. How many queers who've had to closet themselves and act as agents of the oppressors feel like this? How do we help them? I went to a school not dissimilar from these boys. I've been Akk.

Akk's smile when he finally agrees to the relationship with Ayan is absolutely incredible. First is just SO GOOD.

Oh, Ayan. He let Akk rest for a moment before pulling him in to cuddle.

Ooh a seme wall lean. Interesting that we're using this after Ayan has gotten Akk to agree that they're dating, and is getting him more comfortable admitting that he likes Ayan and misses his presence. I do worry about them getting caught at school though. Akk believes he needs this scholarship if he's going to succeed and make his family proud.

Interesting use of queer gender politics to tease Akk into kissing him. Ayan completely tickled at getting the response he hoped for is fantastic. My circle and I always play around like this as well.

Kan's smirk at this lame explanation for their clandestine getaway is the kind of queer friend group content BL has been missing.

Thailand loves basketball if BL is to be believed. I'm okay with this show using basketball to flirt.

Ayan pulling Akk away from the protest is good for him, but I wonder where Ayan's feelings lie when it comes to the gang and their protest. He seems friendly with them, but he's clearly more concerned with his own beef with Suppalo than there's.

I'm very proud of Kan and Thua for coming to support the protest. It matters for both of them stepping up as students invested in the school structures to side with the queer people who don't fit in and are being bullied.

Oh my goodness this beach scene with Kan and Thua is everything. Kan asking if Thua can be with someone as messed up as him. Thua wanting clarity on the kiss. It's giving, "If you had ever stolen a kiss from someone, how would you give it back?"

Oh that was actually perfect for them as a confirmation kiss. They're both still awkward, so the quick kiss into an offered hug is a good choice.

Ah, public shaming of an individual. The favored tool of terrible educators. Calling on his relationship with Mrs was a gross move.

Akk is breaking, and this probably looks too similar to what happened to Dika.

I haven't been this relieved that someone responded to a hug in a long time. I hope Akk can hold on to Ayan and pull himself out of this spiral.

I think it's time Ayan told Akk his full story.

Oh good. I was worried Akk would run from Ayan. Breaking down and realizing he'd been misled to hate his favorite teacher is heartbreaking.

Passing on the necklace is a big deal. I just finished 180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us, so I'm definitely not okay about significant momentos being passed along.

Ayan is still so smart. Akk asked how Dika died, clearly asking about grim particulars. Ayan diverted that right away towards the lead enforcement agents of this harsh system.

Oh boy I am excited about next week. Looks like we might be setting up for an Episode 12 denouement!

[twdmusicboxmystery]

I remember after Glenn’s fakeout death (which was actually Nicholas’s), he became the 2nd person in our TD besides Beth who we believe is still alive and not actually dead which was so very true for Beth. I remember very clearly that you and rest of TD were so right; Glenn was still alive after his fakeout death and we defended the Glenn fans but what we got in return was nothing but hate and criticism about where we stand with Beth. It’s such a shame that some people can be so unappreciative. Where’s the “Thank You” we were supposed to get from them?

Well, keep in mind that the fans who are the most vocal online also, unfortunately, can be the most vitriolic. It's the same with various ships. I've actually talked to some Caryl fans who are actually very kind, generous people, and hate the way most of their ship acts toward others online.

I think the same is probably true of all fans. There are wonderful Glenn fans out there, but the ones online aren't always the ones you can count on for decency.

I don't worry about that sort of thing. The biggest thing I take away from Glenn's death fakeout is, as you said, that we were right about it. And why were we so sure Glenn would survive? Because he had the same symbolism, the same dialogue, and the same themes around him as Beth.

Back then, I literally said, "if Glenn is really dead, then TD is screwed; it will mean Beth is too, because they have all the same symbolism around them." But low and behold, Glenn survived.

Beth did too. We just haven't been shown it, yet. But we will be in the Daryl spinoff. And it's almost here. *squee*

Thanks Nonny! Xoxo! 🍁🍂💖

[rydenisreal]

Okay so I listened to Local God. My first thoughts were that this man is singing way too high for way too long with no prep. He's putting too much on his voice. I couldn't make out anything except for "local god, you'll be remembered for the things you're not".

The backtracks were okay-ish, sounded a lot like the last song. The guitar solo(?) was interesting i guess.

I went and watched a couple of reviews by more experienced vocal analysts and across the board there was the consensus that he was straining his voice.

One part I did make out though was the mention of 2021 probably indicating this was written last year. Wondering why he didn't change that?

Still couldn't understand the lyrics so I went and searched them up.

"In 1998, You bought a b.c. rich. You were a master shredder from the jump. Blew them all away with the ritalin kids. While i was shedding through my sophomore slump. You had so many chances to become a star. But you never really cared about that." Is he talking about Ryan? The you had so many chances to be a star but you never really cared about really implys it is especially since Ryan was the one that left and partly faded into obscurity while Brendon stayed on, got famous but lost the sound of the band.

"You'll live forever as a local god. You'll be remembered for the thing you're not." Okay this has to be about Ryan cause while Ryan is really talented in his own right he's always talked and thought about as the guy who left. As the guy who's not there any more. This could also apply to Jon and Dallon too.

"We signed a record deal at seventeen. Hated by every local band. They say we never paid our dues." Pre split panic. It just is.

"It's 2021 and i'm almost famous. You never really cared about that." Almost famous? Dude your top song was played on radio on repeat for weeks. If I could physically kill it I would. What more are you looking for? (I'm not shaming him for being ambitious, I'm just like, ???? what's the endgame here?) Also why 2021?

"Are you melting face at the bellagio? Woah! Oh! Oh! Or are you teaching little kids how to rock 'n' roll?" Is he wondering where Ryan is?

"Did you get weighed-Down by your heart of gold? 'cos you really only cared about that" I'm certain this is about Ryan. "Creative differences" is just a pr friendly way to say that one person wanted to stick to what the band stood for and another to change completely to make bank. And Ryan was the one that left and stuck to his sound.

"Did you ever get your money back? Did you ever kiss the devil?" What does this mean? When you kiss the devil I'm assuming it's make a deal with the devil. And people often do that for money, fame, success. I'm wondering if Brendon is asking (Ryan directly I'm not sure) if he's caved and given in to to the music industry and changing to gain fame.

Anyway what do you think?

ok you're so so SO correct about Brendons voice being shot, I almost feel bad for him honestly.

second. I just listened to it for the first time and I felt like I got stabbed. like genuinely he needs to leave some room for me to tin hat in he can't just write the lyrics to LITERALLY COME RIGHT OUT AND TELL ME it's about Ryan.

that first line. honestly. you're incredibly correct about it being ryan considering they literally met in high school

I did look up the lyrics, and the ones I found said "it's even better than the thing you're not", which screams to me that Brendon is saying being remembered as a local god is better than being a star, as well as "you'll be remembered as the thing you're not", which also kind of has the energy of saying "you'll be remembered as the best band member, even though you left me and aren't even a band member anymore"

I wonder whether the rest of VLV could outline his plan for going forward, considering modern panic! albums seem to almost have a "one step forward, two steps back" kind of thing (from DOAB being a look back, to HIGH HIGH HOPES, to VLV looking back AGAIN), but "it's 2021 and I'm almost famous" gives me brainworms that I'll probably spend the rest of this century working out

I think just in general Brendon is wondering if he went the right route with his life, it kind of reminds me of the interview when he said that he doesn't think theres any jealousy between them, even if this song is kinda the opposite of no jealousy.

[deep-hearts-core]

2008 - semifinal 1

originally posted 7/13/20

Iceland  Love the vocals here - especially the male singer's voice. This is typical eurosynth, but I think the performance was done really well - the dance routine wasn't bad and it wasn't over the top, the singers stayed strong throughout the entire thing, and everything was just the right amount of energetic. Sweden In terms of song, I really love this entry. The lighting at the beginning sucked though - maybe it was intentional, but I didn't like it - and the dance routine felt kind of off for most of the song. Everything really locks in by the key change though - it's a really well done key change and the choreography worked there too. Charlotte also is a strong vocalist which helps.

Turkey This is good. Not usually my style but I think the song is done well - and I do also think it benefits from being in Turkish, if I knew what they were singing about I might not like it as much. Lead singer sounds really good. Ukraine Unpopular opinion time: I hate Ani Lorak's voice. I've hated it even since before we found out she's a shitty person. It just doesn't do it for me. Ani aside, the rest of this performance is STELLAR. The choreography is so good and Shady Lady's a fun song. This staging... like, this was the prototype for Sergey Lazarev right here. Lithuania Camerawork here is good and I like the simple staging, but Jeronimas' voice is... idk I hate it. Like he's hitting all his notes and whatever but I just don't like how it sounds. This song also puts me right tf to sleep. Albania I don't think Olta's voice is the best fit for the song, but otherwise it's beautiful! The song is great, I think it's probably one of my favorite Albanian entries. Switzerland In many ways this performance is very modern, especially at the beginning - it sounds like a ballad that could be from 2013 or even later. I wonder how well this could have done on a modern stage. The vocals here aren't stellar but I do think they add an honest quality to the song. Czechia Weak vocals, clumsy staging, and the vocal line doesn't match up to the instrumental at all. This is bad. Not the worst but... bad.

Belarus Mediocre song with mediocre vocals, but this was absolutely elevated by that staging. I liked the set pieces, they were visually interesting and used well, and appreciated the fireworks at the end. Latvia The chorus is catchy, but idk. Yall know how I feel about joke entries, and, well... this is one. Croatia This is a song on the better side of okay for the most part, but every time the angry old man comes onscreen yelling or scratching the gramophone it just kills the vibe. Like what is this even supposed to be? Bulgaria Well, this is something. Vocals are good but beyond that I really have no idea how to feel about this. It's far too repetitive for me to like it. Denmark I feel like I should like this more than I do. Yeah, Simon's a good singer, but the song is just... idk, I don't like it, I don't like the staging, I don't like the vibes that this is giving off. Georgia Not a favorite, but the costume change was cool, and I think Diana's voice works well with the song. Hungary While I'm not wild about this entry, I don't think it deserved to place dead last. The background and set were cool and the song was nice.

Malta I love this??? Like yes it's a dumb song about vodka and spies but also it's performed really well, the song is SUPER catchy and Morena has a good voice for it that's serving her well here. The performance was fun to watch too! The hook with the "na zdorovie!" bits is just... like, I'm jamming out here at my desk. Cyprus I like this insofar as I like the whole Disney villain thing she's got going on, but Kadi didn't seem very comfortable in the choreography, so as cool as it was it never quite locked in. She did have good vocals, though. Also, the song kept moving around in terms of tempo and form which was weird. North Macedonia This is alright... it seems on the verge of falling apart for much of the song in terms of staging and structure but it manages to hold itself together. Tamara's vocals here aren't nearly as good as they were in Proud, so... I do like the "let's go let's go let's go" section." Portugal I don't get why everyone likes this so much. I mean, it's okay. Vania has great vocals here and the staging is good but it's not anything that makes me excited. I kept sitting here expecting to like the song and then I just... never did.

My personal qualifiers Sweden Iceland Ukraine Albania Switzerland Malta Turkey Belarus Georgia North Macedonia Miscellaneous thoughts I love how Lys Assia came back to so many Eurovisions. I miss knowing that she's, like, out there in the world existing... I also wonder what she thought of the way Eurovision had evolved. She must have liked it, if she kept coming back to visit...