#SANS COCKBLOCKS THE KING AND THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT

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One person asked to see this compromised Deviantart Flash animation from 2015, and when one person asks me something, I apparently do it. This storyboard was the second piece of Undertale "fanart" I created at the time, explaining why Asgore's ears are wrong. I never finalized it in any way, I never intended to, but it is the predecessor to this video here.

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[Review] Dance with Devils Lindo Tachibana’s route

Ritsuka’s onii-san who is actually her cousin but somehow, cousins aren’t blood related from what knowledge Lindo has of Biology :)))  He’s been training all his life as an exorcist to protect his imouto so his universe basically revolves around her in its own orbit. He’s actually a dhampir cause his mother fucked a Vampire so he constantly has the urge to suck Ritsuka’s blood 24/7 but he tries to suppress it. Because of this, his route is filled with angst yet it all boils down to nothing cause turns out, it was just him having a vampire boner because he wants to fuck his imouto. I’ll be honest, I never really saw the point of Lindo being a love interest for Ritsuka and his route only made me dislike it more. The angst is pretty much equivalent to the angst of having a freshly bought ice-cream drop onto the ground right under your feet -- it leaves you in grief for a moment until you realize just how unnecessary it was to cry over it when you could’ve just bought a new one. (Salty? read my concluding thoughts lol) 

[Spoilers under the cut , this is a summary of his whole route, including some CGs] 

Left Door routes:      Rem    Roen

Right Door Routes:  Mage    Urie    Shiki

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At the start of his route, Lindo reveals his dhampir side to Ritsuka during a fight with Roen and she brings him back to himself by saying ‘It’s all daijobu Nii-san!” .He then tells her that when he was a Shouta,his grandfather would train him to suppress his blood lust by keeping him in a dark cave from time to time and Ritsuka was always the one that opened the door to the cave to “save” him. He also reveals to her that he isn’t her お兄ちゃん but her 従兄弟 (Itouko/ cousin) instead as he was the son of Ritsuka’s aunt, Marta.

 After finding out about this, Ritsuka starts getting self conscious around him because what do you know, now that nii-san is not really her nii-san , she starts getting dokidokis whenever he gets close to her as she now sees him as a man. Since school was on break, they mostly spend their time at home and during this period, Lindo would often get an urge to drink Ritsuka’s blood because of the Grimoire’s powers awakening inside of her and when that happens, he coops up in his room. One day, Ritsuka hears a rough rustling inside his room and goes in despite his protests for her not to. She finds him thirsting for blood but he is eventually able to suppress it by hugging her,

They head to school the next day and Ritsuka ends up bumping into Rem. Rem warns her about the vampires and tells her to pay close attention to Lindo. You know, that ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer’ talk or something like that. Lindo sees this and of course freaks out. He demands Ritsuka tell him what Rem told her, assuming that Rem told her to stay away from him because of his blood lust. Ritsuka denies it and he starts going crazy and yandere on her, saying that he can’t see anyone else but her and only wants her. He almost drinks her blood but snaps out of his trance and starts staying away from her. 

The day of the festival arrives and Ritsuka is still sad that Nii-san is avoiding her. Lindo watches her from a distance and comes across Rem doing his check ups for the festival. He tells Rem to not go to Ritsuka’s stall and Rem’s like “Bitch, I have a job to do and you’re not one to tell me where I can walk”  but ends up giving Lindo a piece of his mind that him sacrificing himself for Ritsuka is not making her happy at all as he’s her brother but Lindo tells him to shut the fuck up so he leaves.

At the dance,Ritsuka is a little jealous seeing a girl trying to ask Lindo to be her dance partner whereas Lindo bluntly rejects all of his pursuers. Azuna can’t stand them being wishy washy with each other so she just pushes Ritsuka towards Lindo. They dance but aren’t used to the attention Lindo’s fangirls are giving them so they head to the garden. There, they settle their lack of communication for the past few days and just as Lindo was about to confess, Jek crashes the party with his hoard of vampires. Azuna comes to the rescue and tells Lindo to escape with Ritsuka as she fends Jek off. So Lindo and Ritsuka get into an argument where Ritsuka wants to go back and help Azuna but Lindo says that they have to run instead.

While they’re at it, Azuna ends up getting killed by Jek and this triggers Ritsuka’s powers. Lindo has no choice but to carry her all the way to the Exorcist Society. After settling Ritsuka down, Lindo has an urge to suck her blood again so he requests the head priest to burn him with holy oil as that somehow suppresses it. Taking this opportunity, the exorcists managed to capture Ritsuka and plan to execute her, Tokyo Ghoul style. Lindo comes running into the hall and tells them to let go of his beloved imouto. The exorcists reveal their true colours and how they’ve always viewed Lindo as a monster knowing that he’s a dhampir. Lindo and Ritsuka manage to escape and before the exorcists could catch them, the trio show up to take care of the exorcists.

Human route:

Ritsuka and Lindo escape to a nearby Shrine. There he tells her about his biological mother, Marta, Ritsuka’s aunt and how she denied him when he was little. He also tells Ritsuka that she had always been the light to his darkness.  His Vampiric urges kick in again and Ritsuka tries to calm him down by confessing that she loves him not as her onii-san but a man and that if it hurts so much, she’s willing to let him drink her blood. As you might guess, Lindo is able to suppress his blood thirst because he broke out from the brother zone ^A^. He tells her to call him Lindo one more time and she’s all 恥ずかしい but calls his name and this lights a fire under their asses and as they attempt to kiss ,they get cockblocked by zombies. They run out to find a zombie apocalypse who all want their blood but Azuna and Rem come to the rescue as Rem was able to save her during her dying moments. The four of them head to Vampire HQ and Rem and Azuna offer to buy time for them to rescue Maria by fending off the hoard of vampires.  Though on their way to the throne room, Lindo asks Ritsuka to call him by his name again because he needs confirmation that he’s free from the brother zone or else he can’t fight ＼| ￣ヘ￣|／

Human end 2 (bad end):

They reach where Nestle is and Lindo fights him. Maria awakens but Ritsuka’s hope is crushed because her mother’s now a vampire and even strangled her. Lindo tries to calm her down saying that they still have Rem and Azuna backing them up. Maria calls them to have their ‘meal’ and to their horror, it’s the dead bodies of Rem and Azuna. Jek comes in and tells them that Rem sacrificed himself to save Azuna but she ended up dying as well cause she was no match for Jek. Maria starts sucking the blood from their bloody bodies so Lindo escapes with a mortified Ritsuka back to school in hopes that the trio can help them. They find them all dead. They decide to hide from the zombies in a classroom but Ritsuka is already pushed to the brink of insanity so she says goodbye to Lindo and throws herself out of the window, committing suicide. In the epilogue, Lindo still keeps her dead corpse in their house and even talks to and feeds her while the zombies banged on their door for blood.

Human end 1 (Good end):

Nestle reveals that Lindo is actually his son and tries to control his blood thirst, making him go crazy. Ritsuka bites her wrist and takes some blood in her mouth, feeding it to Lindo through a kiss and apparently that shit worked in helping him control his dhampir powers. He gets a power boost and defeats Nestle once and for all.  Rem and Azuna come running into the room, having defeated Jek too.  Ritsuka and Lindo reunite with Maria and they all head back home.  In the epilogue,  Rem and Co. went back to the demon realm and Azuna is well and alive. Lindo and Ritsuka are now a thing and after they both graduate high school,  they got married even though Ritsuka still has to be reminded to call him Lindo and not a car brand ^^;; 

Devil route:

Lindo ends up taking Ritsuka to their grandfather's old house in Nagano. Settling down there, Lindo constantly goes out to parol any possible ambush from the exorcists or the vampires while Ritsuka stays in the house. She comes across a book about vampires and Lindo gets upset about it and tells her to put it away. Later, he confesses to her that he had always loved her more than a sister but Ritsuka brother zones him, saying that she wants to remain as family. Lindo can’t get imouto’s love so he turns into his dhampir self and pins her onto her bed at night. Ritsuka's like ‘Please go back to yourself nii-san!’ and tries pushing him away but Lindo's like ‘I’m not your nii-san , WHY WON’T YOU LOVE ME?’ He says that this is the monster he truly is but Ritsuka says that he isn’t and he tells her that only she doesn’t call him a monster because Imouto’s love is the only love that matters and every other person is a bitch to him 😒 The Exorcists manage to track them down so Lindo ends up killing all of them with his Dhampir powers. He drinks blood from their dead bodies but says that only imouto’s blood can satisfy him. Ritsuka sees all this and is mortified at what he has become.

Devil end 1 (Good end):

Lindo spots her and ends up drinking her blood right when the time for the Grimoire comes to pass. Jek appears out of the bushes and declares a fight with him but Lindo beats the crap out of him now that he’s OP . Jek pleads Lindo to spare him and in exchange for that, Lindo tells him to bring him to the Vampire’s Castle. He kills Nestle and becomes the New Vampire King. In the epilogue, Maria is still unconscious and Ritsuka goes to visit her regularly. She and Lindo now live in the Castle and he treats her like his blood bag waifu. Ritsuka also stops caring about anything happening outside of the castle and just lets Lindo suck her blood. (I am disgusted that this is actually a good end)

Devil end 2 ( Bad end):

Jek appears out of the bushes attempting to kidnap Ritsuka so Lindo kills him. Horrified, Ritsuka runs away from Lindo to the cave in the forest. He manages to catch up with her and just as he was about to suck her blood, he stabs himself in the heart, saying that he’d protect her from anything, even himself. Before he dies, he tells her that he wished she saw him beyond a brother and vanishes into ash. In the epilogue,Ritsuka is going through the procedures for her transfer to study abroad with the help of Rem. Turns out, the devils lost the battle to the vampires and also failed to bring back Maria. Rem congratulates her on her freedom and expresses his condolences for the loss of her family before he leaves back to the demon realm. (I get why people are salty about this ending but keep in mind that things are most likely not going to end well for Rem either :/)

Concluding Thoughts:

Ok first off, I know some of my opinions about Lindo might be harsh considering what he went through during a young age and the thing with his vampire powers as well but the message this route tried to convey wasn’t a good one. After having quite a debate with my salt mate @remthebombshell, she does have an interesting explanation as to why Lindo acted the way he did and why he was desperate for Ritsuka to see him beyond a brother. It doesn’t justify what he did to Ritsuka but it does give some sort of explanation as to why he’s obsessed with her . Though I still stand on my point that Ritsuka loving him beyond a brother is not a good solution to what Lindo’s going through. According to her, Lindo being a dhampir has drastically affected his self esteem and he is unable to see the good in himself and sees himself as a monster. Even though he’s surrounded by people who love him,he refuses to believe that they loved him out of choice but because they’re family, which means they’re obligated to love him and this leads him to subconsciously seek for love that is not out of obligation -- that is a romantic one. This is where his feelings for Ritsuka come into play, Lindo consciously knows that Ritsuka and him aren’t siblings from a young age and thus whatever affection she shows to him is received as something romantic from his point of view. Because of this, after he told her about them being cousins, he starts to have expectations that Ritsuka would eventually develop feelings for him too and when she doesn’t, he’s convinced that no one else was able to see the good in him and that’s why he turned into his dhampir self.  Now the reason I say having Ritsuka love him romantically won’t solve anything is because that will only deepen the mindset that only she is capable of seeing the good in him when in truth, she’s not the only one who’s capable of that. The only thing that’s stopping me from accepting the explanation completely is the fact that Maria was willing to take him in as her own when Marta denied him as her son. She could’ve just left him completely to his grandfather and take no responsibility for Lindo, but she didn’t. Doesn’t that mean anything to Lindo? When he thought he was alone after Marta died, it was Maria who came up to him while holding Ritsuka and told him that he wasn’t alone because he has the both of them. Isn’t that a choice enough? Romantic love isn’t the greatest love the world has to offer, I believe what Lindo needs is for someone to open his eyes and look around him just like what Rem did with Ritsuka when she was doubting Lindo’s intentions. I believe Azuna would’ve been the perfect person to do that considering just how much she cares for Lindo.  But alas, this wouldn’t have been a standard Rejet Onii-chan route if that were to happen *sigh*. (Still screaming at them in the right door common route, especially Shiki’s route) 

Left Door routes:      Rem    Roen

Right Door Routes:  Mage    Urie    Shiki

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