I've seen alot of ideas on what Kazui means by being "loved like a cat", from him being promiscuous to being violent to being submissive, so I thought I'd give my thoughts on it- specifically in comparison to how he has been 'loved' in the past. Kazui, since birth, has been raised more like a dog rather than an actual person. He's never been expected to have his own wants and needs outside of the norm, outside of what his father wants him to have. Dogs are expected to perform constantly, to obey the every command of their owner without hesitation, to be loving to the right people and aggressive to others, to never act out of line. If a dog can't do this, they're scolded and punished and retrained until they're perfect, and if a dog continues to be unruly, they're disowned and replaced. Doesn't this sound kind of familiar?
Luckily for dogs, they very much enjoy being trained to perfection and are usually very unhappy when they're not. Unluckily for Kazui, he is not one. Cats on the other hand? Good luck trying to train one to obey. It's not impossible, but it's extremely hard, it's just not in their nature. Cats are free to do almost whatever they want, they're not expected to listen or perform at all. There's basically no pressures on a cat, and they'll be loved no matter what they do for their owner in return. To be loved as a cat is to be loved without expectation, without fear of punishment, to be loved unconditionally.
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favourite twdg villain?
I'm a fond enjoyer of the St. John's as villains. I don't know if they're my favorite just because they're only in one episode, but I love the concept of this family almost immediately jumping into cannibalism toward the start of the outbreak, dealing in human flesh to bandits, and casually feeding this group their friend's legs.
Like... what the hell was this family like before the outbreak that all three of them were like, "Hey now listen... nothing should go to waste, the dead are eating people so why shouldn't we? We gotta survive and in our defense, we only target those who were gonna die anyway... like y'all."
Dude, Mark was shot in this shoulder with an arrow. He wasn't going to die from that injury. It's so fucked that these seemingly friendly people took the group into their home and then fed them Mark's legs.
If we take the idea that everyone is infected and have the capacity within themselves to become walkers, to become monsters, then the St. John's were infected long before the outbreak, y'know? Not literally, but something was wrong with them and the outbreak just further spread that infection and changed them.
But again, are they my favorite? I dunno if I can say that since I have a lot more appreciation for Lily now. Yeah, some of her writing gets a little wonky in ep3 of TFS when she goes on her monologues and shit, but y'know what? I'm into it.
You have to remember who we're talking about and the fact that she's the antagonist; Lily isn't some anti-hero in TFS who secretly has a heart of gold that's brought to light because she reunited with Clementine... she's a fucked up woman who did fucked up things in the name of survival. She's full of rot now. She sees kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers to protect her home as a means to an end, but she doesn't actually give a shit about the people she's taking. They aren't people to her, they're as the episode title suggests, toys in her game. The only one she sees as a person is Clementine, and while that makes her hesitate at first, she sees Clementine's a prize to bring back.
She remembers what happened in S1; her father had a heart attack and as she tried to save him, Kenny smashed his face in with a saltlick and then expected Lily to just stand up and help him get back to his family because "he did what he had to, he made the hard choice." Yes, Larry was a piece of shit. No one liked him, and you can even question Lily on him and she'll tell you that he has a lot of pain. Yes, it makes him an asshole, but he's still her dad and he's all she has. I mean... the simplification is daddy issues, but in all seriousness, I don't doubt for a second that many of Lily's issues stem from Larry being a shitty father to her.
Then everyone thought she was losing it when she insisted there was a traitor in the group, which she was right about, but she was unstable. She was unwell, but how do you help someone like that when you don't have training to go about it? Then Lily ends up killing either Carley or Doug and the group turns on her, and either she's left behind or she steals the van and runs away.
Then we don't know what the hell happened to her until we see her again in TFS, but like... a lone woman with decay festering inside of her joining the delta? Exposing her to their methods? I mean, what else did she have to lose? She had nothing, she lost everything, and she has a lot of issues. Survival is easy when you're numb, when you don't care about the individual; they're all just cogs churning to make the system run, and if a piece doesn't cooperate, you get rid of it and find a new one.
Plus I think there's something to say about Lily not wanting to be perceived as weak again. That whole display she put on in the cells? Telling the story of what happened to Minerva and Sophie? I get the criticism that it feels like Lily did a 180 between episodes but like... yeah dude, because it's a performance. It's not just her and Clementine anymore. It's a display of power and authority. She's playing the part and thriving in it as she ensures everyone else is terrified of her.
But then when Clementine and AJ get the upper hand? Again, she's not afraid to play up the pleading to earn enough sympathy to spare her- hell, just to let their guard down enough to strike and get the upper hand again. I mean, she's got nothing else to lose, right? If she doesn't go for it, she'll be killed and sure, you can kill her anyway but at least she tried.
Honestly, I look at Lily in TFS and still see that scared little girl playing the tough bitch, just like Carley said in S1. It's just now escalated from "tough bitch" to a downright vile person. She's so... lost? I suppose? Lost within herself and the monstrous means she's taken to survive.
I get the criticisms of how she was used in TFS, but for me, it's like when people complain about Minerva not getting the redemption arc she supposedly should've gotten, y'know? There's no saving her. Lily was never on our side, and there was no getting her on our side. She wasn't ever going to redeem herself. Even if you spare her and she drifts away on her raft, can someone like her actually find redemption? Or will she just find another group that'll feed into her rot?
Truly, I say let her be horrid. Let her be the piece of shit villain with a few fleeting moments of humanity. Let her drown in the blood she's spilled.
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How can people say that house doesn't care when that's what his entire character is built around!!!! Not letting himself get close to people because he cares about them too much to let them fall into his self-destructive spirals and habits!!!!! </3 !!!! ! !
He's an asshole!! a miserable piece of shit bastard but he does care!! he does love!!!!
Why else would he spend an entire episode worrying himself sick asking all of his friends about the right thing to say to an SA victim!!!!!! Why else would he not visit patients!! Why else would he metaphorically kill himself for wilson!!!!!!!!
The way he loves is so unhealthy and fucked up and not good for everyone involved but he does care!!!!!!!! He does care and he does have empathy!!! Ok!!!!!!!!!
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I do wonder how that one scene is gonna go down in the anime where in one of the few places in the series it happens Laios expresses how damn deeply upset he's been about the whole situation with Falin and the party nearly dying to dragon.
Since the anime has been skipping or shortening a bunch of the character-building, relationship-building, worldbuilding, moments from the manga especially if they're more dialogue heavy.
I still think it wasn't great idea to cut the part of the dragon fight right after Laios kills the dragon and is not doing great between the blood loss and shock where he tries to stand on the leg that got bitten off and falling but not really noticing while he's muttering about what he *needs to do* (check on everyone, search the dragon's guts for Falin's body, learn healing magic...). Cause like yeah letting folks be fucked up for a little bit longer would show better how dire the situation was. And just lil character stuff.
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Okay, but like
Husk.
So dude used to (presumably, based on his lyrics in loser baby) be a pretty powerful overlord. Like mf had casinos and seems to have gambled with souls.
And then the old ass radio fucker show up, wins over Husk in what is essentially his specialty, and is like "Nah bitch your soul is mine now"
And suddenly, the Gambling Overlord gets treated like a pet by the radio fucker, and then the radio fucker just dissappear for seven years.
Husk seems to go back to gambling and living okayish, and then the radio fucker is back, and is like "Lmao, so I'm running this hotel and for the low low price of alcohol, you are now forced to be a bartender!"
So Husk gets forced to run a bar, at a shitty hotel with only one resident, not being paid properly, his soul owned by someone else, having lost his status as an overlord, and his boundaries are constantly ignored by the sole resident.
Then he keeps getting dragged into scenarios that has nothing to do with him. Like mf just wants to go home.
Basically, if I was Husk, I'd also be a pissy, grumpy bartender who'd rather just be left alone than be involved in a hotel that has nothing to do w me.
Dude is just having a shitty time
(Until he and Angel become friends :) )
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