#21 lessons

[very-grownup]

Sports series and their lessons

SLAM DUNK: Ball is life.

HAPPY!: Ball is life and sex workers are great babysitters.

PRINCE OF TENNIS: Ball is life but a big responsibility because you might accidentally cause a mass extinction event.

KUROKO NO BASUKE: Ball is life and fistbumps are dangerously powerful.

FREE!: Water in large quantities destroys lives and the battle between a well-done coming of age story and capitalism and fanservice will give a director no choice but to seek solace in emotional devastation and violent action scenes.

HAIKYUU: Ball is life and volleyball is made up.

REAL: Ball is life and legs are optional.

ROBOTXLASERBEAM: Ball is life and it's important to teach this lesson to robots before their uprising so we have common ground.

YURI ON ICE: Getting shitfaced to meet your idols will only benefit your personal and professional life.

ALL OUT!: Ball is life and if you embrace this you can overcome your physical insecurities.

SK8 THE INFINITY: You don't have to be the best at something if you're enjoying it with someone you love and if there had been skateboarding in England in the 1880s JoJo's Bizarre Adventure would have been much shorter.

OOKIKU FURIKABUTTE/BIG WINDUP: Ball is life and your pitcher's health is paramount because if he is injured you have to take him to the outfield and shoot him like a horse with a broken leg.

TEPPU: There is no point in sports if you don't draw blood and excessive Jean Claude van Damme movies will permanently alter your sexuality.

EYESHIELD 21: Ball is life and Satan rules.

MEGALOBOX: No matter how dystopian the future, people will always want to gamble on the outcome of two men punching each other.

HIKARU NO GO: Ghosts are real.

[icy-watch]

Jay's out here asking the real questions.

[melverie]

Wait does that mean Solomon's cooking will eventually become edible if we don't return

[misc-obeyme]

I have a qustion regarding the new lesson did asmo charm work on mc ? If you refuse to help them with magic?

Hello, anon!

Yes, I think that’s exactly what happened. I didn’t talk about it in my post on this lesson, but it was definitely something I noticed, too.

The exchange is pretty brief but it seems like Asmo used his charm power and that it worked on MC.

I think this is supposed to be another indication of MC losing their power.

Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me because iirc in the OG they just had some kind of immunity that wasn’t necessarily tied to their magic.

So this could be a retcon situation. They’re implying that MC’s immunity to Asmo’s charm is related to the strength of their magical power, which is currently dwindling.

I suppose it’s possible that MC is only pretending to be charmed since this version of Asmo doesn’t know about their immunity. But I kind of think they would indicate that in some way?

It’s also possible that it could mean something else entirely that I just haven’t thought of. But the most likely scenario to me is that due to MC’s magic weakening, they are no longer immune.

[nocreativityfornames]

"..." - Lucifer, for the majority of lesson 21.

[hallowxiu]

me

[impish-ivy]

Obey Me NB Lesson 21 Hard Mode

[dragonpigeons]

Scene from Chapter 1

[Story takes place after the events of Part 3]

Jotaro throws a China cup at Shizuka during their first encounter. The actual scene is more serious than I make it sound here. Shizuka is asked by her homeroom teacher to visit Jotaro after he's been skipping school for a month to tutor him on all the missed lessons. She goes over there, comes across the photo of the Crusaders in the desert and Jotaro throws the cup at her so she doesn't touch it. Since Shizuka knows nothing about what this photo means, she runs out of there thinking Jotaro is crazy, because who throws a cup at someone for seemingly no reason?

It's not the best first impression, but Shizuka never had a good opinion of him to begin with, so this encounter just made things worse. In her mind, this act of aggression consolidates his reputation as a violent brute; this good-for-nothing delinquent known as Jotaro Kujo is simply a danger to society. And since he's not the type to bother explaining himself, nor does he care what others think of him, it's easy for misunderstandings to grow between them.

Poor Shizuka, she deserves better. And Jotaro needs a timeout in a bathtub of ice.

[ivefallenfordemonsandicantgetup]

*We fell on Satan?????*

This is funny if we're assuming we're a sheep like in the comic. It's horrible if we're assuming we're in human form. And even worse when I picture it with my middle age male dad bodied MC, Jack. My Female MC is less problematic. But Jack would break him.

Either way, poor babe.

[emmys-grimoire]

Okay...

Well, that lesson came out of nowhere. No promotion, no buzz, nothing.

Because of that, I'm tempering my expectations. It might just be the last leg of the story they should have included in the previous season, but they couldn't justify squeezing it in for some reason. We're still focused on the pacts to get back home, but now we have a two-month window within which we must do it (before the official founding of RAD), or else MC/Solomon will lose their magic and it'll all be for naught.

Interestingly enough, I think we could simply ask them for the pacts right off the bat and be done with it. Therefore, they're going to have to create conflicts to prevent that from happening right away. Mammon's acting out by being overly greedy, so that might set the trend... Levi becomes super envious, Asmo super lustful, Beel super gluttonous, etc. If it's all tied to them being avatars now, I'd like to have some clarification on what that entails, finally.

I also want Nightbringer to be involved and resurface (he's been absent for a while now), but it doesn't make sense for him to create these obstacles for us to overcome and become closer to the brothers anymore. A good portion of them have all but declared their love for us already. If anything, he should probably be helping us overcome these problems so his plan can get off the ground more quickly.

Mind you, I don't think we're returning to our timeline. There's no way they're going to make us bond with these versions of the brothers and then just cast them aside. I'm fully expecting another timeline merge at the end, like what we got at the end of S1.

Hopefully, the journey to that conclusion is at least interesting.

[icy-watch]

*Icy sharpens knife on a whetstone*

[rattataenjoyer]

Did you know a rattata is exactly one foot tall???? We should just replace feet with rattata!!! Maybe then I'd even listen to my BORING math lessons!!!!!!!

[misc-obeyme]

I had all these plans to finish a bunch of writing and then BAM Season 2 started with Lesson 21 and I got supremely distracted. I wasn't expecting it to come out so soon?!? I really thought there would be more time in between seasons. But I am not complaining!

At this point, I feel weird if I don't write a post about the lesson, so here I am. I swear I'll get back to writing fics after this lol.

Spoilers and screenshots below:

Okay so we've got the founding of RAD, MC and Solomon losing their magic, and characters acting weird.

The loss of MC's magic is pretty obvious and easy to understand. Like it works sometimes, but it doesn't at other times. (Though I have to say here that if the brothers asked me to open a jar with magic, I would laugh at them. I've never met a jar I couldn't open. It's called hot water. BUT ANYWAY) And obviously when they do use their magic, it's not as strong as it used to be. Solomon says he's having the same issue. He obviously notices it when he banishes the hellfire salamander, though if you ask him about it, he just says it's nothing. Which is funny because then he tells you all about his problem with it later when you're making dinner. I swear I lose my mind every time they use that clown music in the story.

Anyway, the most interesting part of this to me was when Solomon said these things:

At first I was like, is that what's happening? They're making it so that MC can't go back? Isn't that what we are all dreading?!

But then if you say you don't think you'll do it in time he says this:

Okay?? So should I be concerned or not?! I don't want to get stuck in the past, I want them to bring us back to the present or maybe merge the timelines or something?! I dunno, but I really can't figure out how they're going to wrap this up in a way that works. Unless they do what happened last time MC went to the past and erase everyone's memories. Which was something Michael did...

But overall, this situation seems pretty cut and dry. Gotta get those pacts, yo.

Mammon, on the other hand...

He seems to be going through something, huh? The thing is I can't figure out what it is. Something is definitely up, but what? Also it kinda seems like Simeon might be involved in this somehow?

MC is hurt. Mammon wants them to pay for the ointment that will heal them. Simeon shows up and just does it himself.

MC finds the coin and gives it to Simeon. Mammon takes it for himself and Simeon's just like yeah okay that's fine.

Then in the HARD LESSON (SPOILERS) Simeon actually blesses Mammon with good luck before he goes out to look for the lost coin. Not to mention their whole conversation about the Celestial Realm and the hot cocoa... (END SPOILERS)

And MC is aware that Mammon is not acting normally. But Simeon seems to be his usual self? I'm just wondering if whatever is going on with Mammon, Simeon might be the one to help him somehow? It kinda seemed to me like Mammon was being more greedy than usual, like something going on with his sin?

But MC isn't the only one who's noticed something is up with Mammon.

May I present: Lucifer, Avatar of Ellipses -

...

What is going on with this guy? I mean, okay, not all of these were about Mammon, but I'm pretty sure most of them were.

Anyway, Lucifer does this thing where it's obvious he's thinking about something or he's worried about something, but he just doesn't say anything about it. It drives me crazy. I'm like listen here MC is right there! Talk to them!

Okay that's all I really had to say about the lesson and story stuff, but there are a few other things that I just loved.

SIMEON oh my gosh the way he swoops in and heals MC I was like yes, please heal me forever thank you.

His precious look of concern...

... and then this confident smile!? I just love him.

Also going grocery shopping with Lucifer and Beel in 21-A was just so sweet and domestic?! Neither of them could remember what any of their brothers wanted, they would have been totally useless without MC there rattling everything off. It was adorable, but also just soft times with Lucifer are always my favorite thing.

Yeah. Concerned about how you can bottle all your feelings and still be so hot.

Anyway!

Wherever they're going with this magic weakening thing better not result in MC stuck in the past forever. But I do hope we're getting some Mammon story now because I love him, too.

[i-am-totally-not-a-lizard]

I just don't really vibe with going to bed at a reasonable hour. She's just not my type. In fact I find her mildly repulsive.

[hallowxiu]

he’s a stan

[impish-ivy]

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