#and again why are we doing this? bc of one crypting sound? and bc someone specifically sent us to the wild dreamscape?

[nomohmoss]

please don't tell me i had to read dozens of "and why would i do that?" jokes in quests to just randomly get in other people's business for no reason on penacony..........

[asotin]

what're your thoughts on castlevania (the netflix show, not the game, ive never played the game) what do you like, what don't you like? make it as long as you want. i don't care if i have to scroll for 5 minutes. go feral (personally trevor is extremely hot and i would like to date sypha. i'm not really into alucard's whole sickly victorian child aesthetic, yknow?)

oh god this is way too long, but you did say to make it as long as i want, and i have a lot of thoughts that i need to inflict on the world

i played two castlevania games, both from the nintendo gameboy era, so please don’t get mad at me, gamers

details below the cut, but since i’ll be talking about season three, i need to preface this with content warnings for mentions of: graphic violence, rape and sexual violence, racism, and the holocaust

before i get into it, i usually don’t go for alucard-type characters either, but knowing that he was redesigned to be bishounen sexy specifically because the boring, middle aged man look he originally had in the games wasn’t appealing makes me enjoy him. and he’s fun with trevor and sypha

do like:

the voice acting

it’s all good. i can’t think of any characters whose voices were awkward or fit poorly. they don't make sypha’s va use the standard flat affect or false high voice women tend to be assigned, trevor sounds suitably worn out but not monotone, and alucard sounds exhausted but in a sexy way

and the spanish dub is killer, arguably superior

the animation & design

it isn’t full-on artsy, but it’s definitely got a distinctive style that’s easy to look at. the color use and effects are gorgeous. it’s a story set in the medieval era, and the mixture of desaturated and oversaturated elements works so well with that

dracula’s castle and the belmont bunker aren't revolutionary in design, but they didn't need to be. they're suitably creepy and empty, and i enjoyed them

the monsters were unique enough to have obvious different types, and the scene where a monster commits blasphemy in a church by accusing a priest of committing blasphemy was good writing

lisa

she shows up to a stranger’s spooky home and scolds him for being rude. she really looked an ancient vampire in the face, told him he had no manners, then had a kid with him. what a phenomenal woman. 11/10, no notes

“start with me, and i’ll start with you.” you know what? i’d fall in love, too

dracula

this ancient, unfriendly vampire let a human woman walk into his home and tell him he’s got no manners. and that made him fall in love with her. just like that. lisa walked in and handed him his ass, and dracula thought “oh i love her”. and when she was killed (more on this in the bad section), he raised literal hell to destroy the world for doing it

speaking of lisa being killed, it fucks me up that it happened because she convinced him to leave the castle and experience the world. he left her alone to see what she loved so much, only to come back and find that the people he’d come to like- the people lisa had loved so much it drove her to help in a way that got her killed- had burned her at the stake. i love a good tragedy, and that’s good tragedy

the way he weeps when he has to fight alucard?? during a showdown in their home?? the “i must already be dead” moment in alucard’s childhood bedroom??? when he speaks to lisa about killing their boy, her greatest gift to him??? poetic cinema.

the trio’s dynamic

three bisexuals with two total brain cells and only alucard bothers using them. incredible

i went so hard for this ot3. it's right there and so good

sypha

she initially seems to be assigned the role of the adult™️ ie she's the only woman and gets stuck being responsible, but surprise! she’s just as annoying and dumb as alucard and trevor. she dropped a castle she didn’t understand on the ground and didn’t think too hard about it. then she argued about breaking it. i love her

if we don’t get an ot3, then she needs to have a dumb gf

alucard

he's got a stupidly low neckline and lower pants. they really leaned into ayami kojima’s redesign, as they should have. his little curl annoys me, though. why the fuck does he have a random section of hair that’s like three inches long when the rest is shoulder length or longer? love that he really looks like lisa

if you say he's canonically bisexual and polyamorous, no he isn't. yes he is. no he isn't :)

trevor

disgusting. a nasty man whose appearance mirrors his state of mind. he's 50 mental illnesses in a dirty jacket and his coping mechanism is… alcohol? maybe? he’s a mess, and i dig it

him trying his trick of kneeing alucard in the balls during their fight? and finding out it doesn't work? (which…… why doesn't it……?) juvenile but suitable

hector

his love of animals makes him my favorite. normally, i won’t touch anything with this much animal death, but i’m willing to set that aside because hector loves them so much. he’s so sweet and kind, and he loves his monster pets

yes he sided with dracula and has some really fucked up ideas about what constitutes humane treatment of people, and yet i love him. 11/10, but i have a lot of notes

isaac

i support him, including his murdering and his decision to support dracula. dracula throwing him out of the castle to save him was so cruel in that it was an attempt at kindness from a man who hated the whole world, but it was against isaac’s wishes

his time with the captain was great

idk enough about islam to know if he's portrayed correctly and haven’t seen any complaints, but given the show’s track record……… i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not great

the forging

very cool. fresh and interesting! hector creating pet friends is cute and heartbreaking. love isaac for his dedication to reducing, reusing, and recycling

season 2’s big battle with all those vampires

the new version of “bloody tears” is phenomenal

this goes back to the animation, but listen……. it's so good. i loved the smoke vampire, and alucard’s fluid wolf transformations. his flying sword looked really good, and incorporating them together? super good to watch. and trevor’s whip?

the type and level of violence are suitable for what it is. it would be weird for a gritty show like this to be bloodless, but i don't think it would work if it were bloody to the extent of a slasher. it's also more clean violence, if that makes sense. you don’t linger just to look at gore; you see it because stabbing someone spills blood. the games weren't about extended, gritty scenes of realistic murder, so the show sticking with quick, slice and dice type fights fit with what i remembered of them

please watch this fight if you don’t remember it or haven’t seen it (part 1, part 2)

trevor’s whips

trevor’s weapons don’t follow the physics of normal whips, and they shouldn't. they’re heavily stylized and clearly a fantasy weapon, but they still have rules that they (mostly) have to obey. his morning star-whip hybrid in particular is so good 

it’s easy to follow, too. a lot of times, speedy weapons disappear, which is an understandable effect but one i find boring because there’s nothing for me to do. i’m just sitting on my ass with nothing to do

trevor’s whips don’t disappear. they’re fast, but you can always see them. and they have weight! you can see them slow down and gain speed. i don’t need physics to be real; i want movement to be pleasing, and that’s exactly what i get with the whips

don’t like:

fridging lisa

she could have been kidnapped (possibly make dracula think she was dead bc people want to lure out her scary demon husband, idk), then s2 could have ended with her and dracula reuniting as he died. she and alucard go on a trip together to attempt to make amends for the pain dracula wrought in lisa’s name. orrrr she dies a tragic death with him and we’re left to hope that they find each other in the afterlife. do vampires get to go to the afterlife? can alucard reintegrate? can he be happy with his new friends? or will he go back to his crypt and sleep again? will he ever be rediscovered? if so, what will he do? deep questions. i would prefer to cogitate on these instead of experiencing the shitshow that is s3

season 3

they should have ended it with dracula’s death. the quality of storytelling goes down immediately. just plummets. i’m sure there were problems in the first two seasons, but this one is so bad, i genuinely can’t remember

but i may as well get specific, so here we go:

abandoning alucard

trevor and sypha leave their friend alone in his childhood home where he just killed his father. where they helped him kill his father who, as i’ve said too many times, raised literal hell to get revenge for people burning alucard’s mother to death

yt they don’t talk about alucard. they don’t make any plans to touch base ever again. trevor’s entire family got killed. sypha’s culture, from which she’s now estranged, is family-centric. if ever two people should give a shit about alucard and know why alucard shouldn’t be left on his own, it's them

so what the hell is going on?

trevor and sypha’s relationship

look. it could be good. it would be better with alucard but they could be together and it could work fine

but this……….

trevor hates what they're doing. he hates traveling around and fighting. he's clearly tired and deeply depressed

sypha not only doesn't care enough to address it (did they forget the first two seasons?? sypha is annoying partly because she doesn't stop poking people) she might not even notice? yes, she's having fun, but trevor is basically dead on his feet in front of her

racism

hector, sumi, and taka all got done dirty 

sumi and taka

i hate the way they died. i hate that i’m certain that the plot won’t bring japan back into the narrative (or if it does, i don’t trust it not to be shitty). i hate the fact that by killing them off, i’m not going to get any more of them. they were interesting!!

speaking of the japanese vampire: the biphobia, arguably, given what happens with alucard

the addition of sexual violence

i don’t need or want lenore. if all she’d done was manipulate hector, i could have lived with that. she’s a villain, so she does bad things. that’s the point. but what she did was a massive escalation. we hadn’t had any sexual violence, and then the last few episodes gave us 

tumblr feminists who love her for how she treated hector need to be quarantined until their brain worms have been cured

everything that happens to hector

what was this shit? why did i open my netflix app and tap castlevania and find them making this man walk around naked in the cold to torture him? and starving him? he got manipulated, degraded, chained up, collared like an animal, and raped. and why? to show us how bad lenore is? that the other vampires are bad because they let her do it? i didn’t sign up for this

the holocaust reference

the imagery at the end of s3 when it’s revealed that the judge has been killing people he’s decided are undeserving to live and collecting their shoes in that barn was chillingly close to images of shoes taken from victims of the holocaust. there's no reason to invoke the holocaust here. it’s unnecessary and in bad taste

[hinasho]

The Long Night episode……. was smthg. it has both its positives and its negatives imo.

positives:

arya being the one to kill the night king was interesting. i didn’t know how i felt abt it at first, but after reading this comment on reddit i think it’s fine:

stealth being the only way to kill the night king is fine. bc it’s true he never engages in open combat. anytime someone has tried to fight him in this way, he always just raises his army up and lets them do the job. he even does it in the very episode i’m talking about when jon charges at him with a sword. so arya being the one to kill him is fine.

melisandre and theon’s deaths were great. i’m glad in their final moments they were with ser davos and bran respectively, two people who played immense roles in their character arcs.

the army of the dead being just a mass of darkness in the beginning was terrifying. seeing the dothraki charge with blazing weapons and then seeing them all go out one by one and leave nothing but darkness was anxiety-inducing as heck, and i think fit the “this army is coming to swallow you whole” theme pretty well.

it was cool to see everyone fighting together. almost all of the major characters were for the first time on the same side and that was an interesting dynamic.

the stuff that happened in the crypts was interesting. huge angst material bc like that’s all the stark ancestors. i wonder if that’s gonna be addressed in the next episode bc imagine your late relatives coming back to kill you.

arya’s scene trying to escape the wights in the castle. it felt like a horror movie at first and we got to see her well crafted stealth skills come into play effectively. then it turned into her running through these tight cramped hallways away from a horde and it reminded us that, while yes she’s come a long way and has done so much, that she’s still just a child. her running in terror away from the wights had me practically yelling at my screen for someone to help her.

lyanna mormont killing a giant was cool and was a good way to go out.

the dragon fights were intense and really fun to watch. especially the sequence of jon + rhaegal fighting visieron + the NK.

negatives:

as i said, arya being the one to kill the night king was fine, but jon should’ve at least engaged with him somehow. their dynamic has had way too much build up only for jon to see the NK for like 0.5 seconds and then never again. he didn’t have to be the one to kill the NK, but they definitely still should’ve interacted more and in a more meaningful way.

way more people should’ve died. 8.02 had so much anticipation i was losing my mind, and The Long Night, as talked about throughout the show, sounded terrifying so i expected much worse to happen. i went in just knowing “omg a lot of characters are about to die here :(” and then was disappointed when that?? didn’t happen??? it made it seem less threatening. it’s the final season i’m halfway through and yet barely any major players have died when this was the perfect time for them to do so! (it feels very weird to be disappointed at the lack of deaths in an episode btw lol)

the lighting was absolutely atrocious. it being dark at first was fine. but it being pitch black for like the entire episode was awful. so much was happening but i could barely see any of it.

and then the camera work was so awkward ugh. it worked best in the hallway scene but other than that it was weird. i couldn’t even tell how jorah was really dying bc we were just all over the place! and then in the beginning when the AOTD attacked the unsullied i was so confused on what was actually happening. the camera work, lighting, and directing were just….. terrible. the absolute worst part of the episode. the duality of miguel sapochnik directing battle of the bastards vs directing the long night just what the fuck.

the slow motions were too much and lasted too long. when using slow motion it’s vital you know when and where to put it and TLN was swallowed in it. that and the soft twinkling music. those things are fine for a moment in the battle, but for half the episode?!??!? i found myself wondering when things were going to speed up or the intense music was gonna come back bc it definitely took me out of my anxiety-filled terror and left me a little bored. arya killing the night king in slow motion was perfect. everything else being SM was not.

and the thing abt the episode’s placement. i’ve seen people argue whether it should’ve come before the fight for the iron throne or after and i can see the points for both sides. but personally i think it should’ve come after and i’ll explain why in a separate post.

so all in all, the episode itself wasn’t bad and i wouldn’t say was the “worst episode in the entire series”. idk what would take that title, but the episode wasn’t horrendous and there were a lot of things i liked about it. that said, there were also numerous things that made it bad. the directing being as awful as it was played a HUGE role on what made it really awkward and irritating imo.

[wuhkie]

voltron season 3 thoughts under the cut!

OK SO FIRST OF ALL this is season 3.1 like lauren and joaquin literally said it’s one season they were made to split into two. in oct it’s season 3.2 if you say season 4 ur blockd

Allura?? ALLURA? SHE DID THAT. SHE DID THAT

WANTS TO PILOT RED SO SHE CAN CONTINUE HER FATHER’S LEGACY

felt like she wasn’t doing enough when she was just piloting the castle….insecurity/feeling useless conversations w/ lance?? brother sister bonding moments

allura bonding/flirting with blue is my SHIT

allura’s bayard being WONDER WOMAN’S LASSO IS MY SHIT

srsly that One Scene of her battle with it was the coolest shit ive ever seen

give me a scene where allura walks across a galra v. marmora no mans land

klance moments? more like Klance Season 3  ft. moments of other ppl

“pls don’t leave the team im gay for you”

“hey man. ur cute”

lance being keith’s right hand man and the one who keith listens to and giving keith advice like FUCK ME UP

blade of marmora is apparently on vacation after ep1 i guess

PINK PALADIN ALLURA BC IT’S THE MOURNING COLOR IS GOD TIER PALADIN ALLURA

if pink means mourning did allura shapeshift her face markings to be pink after the old paladins died but before alfor put her to sleep

does her dress have pink elements bc mourning is constantly remembered in altean culture

why is Mom Allura’s dress pink? did allura’s grandparents just die when she was born?

is Mom Allura a hot topic stan

is allura magic tho. what happened to that

hunk and pidge speaking Math to each other w/o a single food joke is this a dream

haggy and zarkon woke up and saw alfor had just death star’d their planet like. they had no memory of before. they didn’t know they were married for 10,000 years. 

dead emperor zarkon: *walks out of crypt* look alive boyo we about to fuck some shit up

galra employee: this seems fine

“my love!” i never thought i would feel sympathy for straights

u know, u KNOW that someone’s gonna be hurt and someone’s gonna take him to be healed in the quintessence rift just like before. im not saying it’s gonna be keith carrying lance but it’s gonna be keith carrying lance into the quintessence while allura watches history repeat

how is lotor their son?? was he in a sleeping pod? was allura born before him? he doesn’t seem like he’s a quintessance zombie like his parents so? when was he born? can zombies do the nasty?

blue paladin job requirements: u cant be straight lol

why did the lions paint job look like shit when they were new @alfor did you even go to art school

what if the comet is like…a guardian spirit of the universe that comes in times of trouble. like. “guardian spirit of the sky, ect” is a thing already. and when this is passed and voltron is no longer needed it’s gonna leave again. 

voltron isnt the hero the universe deserves, but its the one it needs rn

conclusion: voltron is batman

alternate reality Amity Faction Alteans are scary as shit but the pink haired lady is a lesbian it’s canon 

that entire storyline is batshit crazy also it’s like Dust from his dark materials…quinetessance IS the space bt realities. it’s dust flowing into reality from the subtle knife’s cuts the comets

sven took a bullet for lance like 30 seconds after meeting him like. me too, sven, me too

Im A Real Boy™ Shiro

shiro: *moonwalks onto the bridge* “hey team im back. good work. let’s go fight evil!” *eye twitch*

rest of the team: this seems fine

that convo he had with keith was just Factory Settings Shiro™ shit again. if you look keith isn’t happy even after that convo is finished. like yeah it *seems* like shiro but it sounds like what Pinochio Shiro thinks Real Shiro is supposed to sound like

was Our Shiro a shiro clone? bc escaping to earth is like the exact same Project Kuron scenario

was Texas Keith a shiro clone who escaped the program loop with keith’s mom’s help? ultimate sheith found dead in miami 

acxa (you fucking know Lauren “Laith” Montgomery came up w/ that name spelling) is keith’s sister right

acxa and ezor are one hundo percent getting a redemption arc im calling it rn

why the fuck does narti have haggy’s cat

srsly are we gonna solve teh evil alteans thing are does that reality just have to figure out their own shit

are lotor and Murder Squad the voltron paladins in that reality

no but did sven actually happen or did i just fucking dream that ep

[zaxal]

ok so to sum up the red city dipshits so far:

we’re all broke af and show up looking for a job bc of some money

big ol man named wolf introduces us to tevye, a sweet gentleboy who is gonna give us money but we have to work together

giulia (meaghan) rolls seduction, fails. he’s either oblivious or mildly uncomfortable. this is our diplomat, a minor southern noblewoman whose funds are not what they used to be.

we have two mediums, ziyad (chris) and arina (anna) who are on opposite ends of the ghostfucking spectrum. ziyad is very pro ghostfuck. arina fuckin hates all these dead things and wants them to Die Again But Like More Permanently

we have an assassin, zhatka (petra), who is the oldest among us and now babysitting all these fucking children (giulia’s in her 30s and the rest of us in our 20s except arina who is a Baby)

and we have USELESS FUCKING MAGICIAN SUAH RHA (me)

we are sent to find an old map of the catacombs beneath the city being held by haeckle hock (or, as he’s more commonly known, jarl hropken)

hock worked for tevye then absconded with the map for reasons unknown to players. this is our initiation job to make sure that we won’t die and also that we will actually come back once we do what we’re told

we track him down to the daisy district which is now full of dead people and we start harassing them. we are looking for a fence named butter with whom hock is known to work

everyone has varying amounts of success. zhatka stabs a dead lady for not knowing who or where butter is. giulia can’t get a dead person to snitch bc dat luck roll. suah finds a nice man and they talk and she thanks him for his time.

then suah has A PLAN

giulia has something valuable (pocket watch), so suah is gonna pretend to have stolen it, roll up with half the crew (leaving arina and giulia outside), ascertain butter’s identity, then find out where the FUCK hock is.

suah then rolls the worst performance check i’ve ever seen in my life.

butter is Not Impressed, he’s not gonna move these stolen goods, fuck you

zhatka shows off her badge from the assassin’s guild and this dude wants NO TROUBLE FROM THEM so he lets us wait for hock to come pick up his illicit SIX BARRELS OF FUCKENING GUNPOWDER

zhatka takes a nap and most of the rest of the crew plays cards as a Team Building Exercise(tm)

giulia cheats

no one catches her

giulia wins

the door busts open and there’s a handsome man with long flowing golden hair and a fucking gun pointed at us

his name is haeckle hock, and he’s gonna blow us all to kingdom come if we don’t tell him why we’re here, what we want with him, and how we’re going to get out of his way.

we have a reasonable conversation with him that goes fairly nowhere because he has a gun and seems fairly certain that he’s going to use it.

giulia tries to seduce him, gods of the wheels bless her, but he’s not that interested

a few of us make perception checks to see if this guy is really the type of guy who would kill himself JUST to kill us

i believe it was giulia’s roll that discovered that no, no he is not.

we didn’t actually rp this out but i’m imagining giulia had a Look of doubt that she either shared with the group or something

so suah, who keeps some of her magician shit at hand at all times, lights some ghost powder on fire discreetly and blinds him with Dazzle

so he’s blinded temporarily

he fires his gun off by mistake

he fucking hits arina

WE DISCOVER THAT ARINA HAS 80 MILLION HIT POINTS HOLY SHIT

also we have no healer. none. none healer. and arina is the only person (at the time) with points in Mend aka our heal skill. arina tries to patch herself up.

giulia takes his gun. suah frisks him and finds the map that tevye sent them to look for. ziyad takes a nice leather wristband that increases his dex stat.

we mock him for being a fucking idiot for a good 10-20 minutes and zhatka finally wakes up from her nap

we have a nice old-fashioned argument about the BOMBS hock has set up in the catacombs to “kill the ghosts” ????

ok the actual plan is to explode the corpses in the catacombs/crypts so that the ghosts don’t have anywhere to go and will presumably fuck off

several problems with this: the ghosts have been known to kill people for their bodies, the city is literally built on the catacombs so it might fucking collapse and kill all of us if this plan succeeds, the ghosts are just gonna go somewhere else even if they leave vanyiv

zhatka ties him up, and we go outside

butter isn’t around anymore

but there are three other people, with a cart with which to carry the barrels, strapped to a mule.

ROLL FOR INITIATIVE

we get into a rowdy tussle that involves some swords, giulia missing with hock’s pistol, SUAH NOT BEING ABLE TO FUCKING HIT ANYTHING WITH A SWORD and the guy who attacks her not being able to hurt her so they’re just fucking locked in this prison of incompetence.

arina gets out her walking stick and successfully! hits a man!

for -1 damage

SHE HEALED HIM. HE GOT BETTER BC SHE HIT HIM.

(how this happened: weapon was 1d4+strength mod. arina’s strength mod is -3. she rolled a 2-3 for -1.)

ziyad confuses one of the guys to try and make him hit his teammates, but he stays out of the rough and tumble

then giulia

with a fucking 22 (i think. it may have been higher.)

rips off her shirt to show off her perfect titties

everyone we’re fighting, and arina, drop their weapons

zhatka kills the woman she’s been tussling with

suah, in a fit of rage from not being able to hurt the man who came at her first, continues to roll to stab him.

i rolled literally 6 times in a row but one finally landed.

we’re back in combat.

ziyad confuses the other boy and lounges back bc everyone else has this already

arina tends her bullet wound

zhatka and suah clean up and kill the last two guys

haeckle hock has, in this time, slipped his ropes and fucking RUN OFF.

we don’t FUCKING think so

arina is on autopilot now bc SOMEONE is at anime boston

ziyad channels his sight through the bracelet he took from him; he’s down in the catacombs

we take off, suah leading the pack because zhatka is carrying ziyad while he channels, and there’s a bit of a pileup at the door as zhatka and giulia fall.

suah runs into guards downstairs

she fucking sprints past them

2 of the 3 guards follow her

with her best performance check to date, she uses Spotlight to convince them that there’s something running down the other fork in the road from the one she’s going; and then it’s dark and she has to slow considerably to feel her way around the walls

giulia, ziyad, and zhatka get into a fight with the last guard only for ziyad to cast Calm on him and they catch up to suah

ziyad has the lamp so we can actually see

the building hock went into has trip wires set up, so zhatka disables those

there are the sounds of an argument inside, and suah sneaks in

there’s a 70 y/o man (otto), a middle-aged woman (marion), and a 12 y/o boy (BLADE)

marion and blade are arguing about hock

suah makes another performance check to take marion’s side of the argument as if she’s been there the entire time

OTTO IS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICES THAT SHE’S NEW AND HE DOESN’T SAY SHIT

i LOVE otto

suah says her name is giulia

they can’t put a curse on you if they don’t know your real name

giulia is standing in the fucking doorway to this room just Staring at suah

here’s where a problem comes in

suah’s supposed to be charismatic

I AM SOCIAL ANXIETY MAN 1989

so every question otto asks, i have to like. think really hard about before i answer which slows us down considerably and feels really awkward and it was a bad time

i made An Mistake that there’s no coming back from bc i love my horrible daughter

eventually otto gets suah to tell the truth (some of it) about the bombs, their intentions, what they want with haeckle, who she is, what her friends are doing here

FRIENDS?!?!?!?!

blade runs over and threatens giulia with a knife

she politely asks him to stop doing that and he does

haeckle’s not here. we advise the hobos to move out in case we’re unsuccessful and leave with more information than when we came in

we follow ziyad as he channels him again, find a bomb, don’t know what the FUCK to do with this, and eventually cross paths with hock again.

suah, giulia, and hock tie in the run fight

suah and hock tie in the luck fight to see who wins the run fight

giulia OBLITERATES THEM BOTH and comes screaming out of the fucking darkness, tackles him to the ground, and sits on him until zhatka can knock him out

BLADE COMES OUT OF NOWHERE SCREAMING WITH HIS KNIFE

ziyad casts Calm on him

we tell him to go back to his friends and that we’re gonna make sure haeckle doesn’t hurt anyone : ) but we’re gonna take care of the ghosts too, you’ll see!

we take hock back to tevye who was worried SICK about us, get ye money, lie about our involvement in the deaths over in the other district, determine that tevye’s not living anymore and is a ghost puppeting the dead body of a reclusive noble but his manservant is very much alive and very protective

wolf throws haeckle into the vault, and we establish a trust bond with tevye (or, well, giulia and suah do)

we tell him about the bombs and hock’s plan and tevye is like YOU GOTTA GO AND FIX THAT IMMEDIATELY PLEASE I’M BEGGING YOU

however some damage was done and we got #paid so we went to the market first to buy better shit before we go back down into the catacombs

i feel like i’m not doing anyone’s character but mine justice bc i promise you suah is not the star of the story, i’m just thinking about her a lot and why she is the way she is, and i know that’s not fair so PLEASE if someone wants to talk about their children, do it, i’m begging you. i love them all but it’s 3:30 am and i’m forgetful even when it’s not.

i’m just trying to get all of this down while it’s fresh in my head bc, again, someone is at anime boston.