#and theyre just an adorable lil mischief machine

[pumaskulls]

Updated refs for all of the more important characters in TOTLR! Who's your favorite and why is it Angeles? 🥺

[mikiruma]

im gonna talk abt tf2 and pokemon again bc i can.

scout of course would dig fast pokémon!!! he's probably got a jolteon he loves dearly, maybe even a crobat he was given (as a zubat) in childhood. from who? eyes emoji there are faster pokémon, sure, but a lot are legendaries or bugs- and he's still trying to warm up to bugs. when/if he did, you KNOW he'd be all over ninjask or accelgor. he usually fawns over pokémon he thinks would make him look cool or fit his fight style (ie hit ur opponents the hardest first & dont get touched) but has a weak spot for some of the "cuter" ones. probably tried to lick a vanillish. as staunch a believer i am he'd be from castelia city, i like the idea that he used to be a rocket grunt, or someone who wanted to join team rocket at one point. i was trying to decide if he'd have a type preference but i like to think he's a mixed bag, mostly because every pokémon is cool and exciting to him! if you did ask & he did have to pick, it'd definitely be electric. wait, dragon, obviously... nah, fighting is good. no wa

soldier's partner is obvious! zigzagoon! mostly bc its a raccoon-like lil dude... he probably gives nicknames to every pokémon he sees, not necessarily just the ones he tries to catch. because lets face it, his zigzagoon is the ONLY pokémon that matters to him. well, that and any that catches zhanna's eye. his zigzagoon carries an everstone and is probably stupid high levelled but nobody really keeps track. soldier does initiate a lot of battles, but they're more fun when zhanna's with him too! theyre an inseperable group who probably wreak enough havoc to be considered their own team of hooligans, but who's to stop a happy couple with their adorable op pokémon? also i kinda wrote all that down super quick buuuut zigzagoon also works as a support pokémon for him when his stability gets extra rough, laying on his lap and helping to keep him grounded. he doesnt have any desire to keep more pokémon since he's fine with just 1, but if he had more i think he might get along with loudred or chatot. (chatot would DEFINITELY take some warming up to on his end but i LOVE THE THOUGHT)

pyro loves fire types of course!!! theyre probably the only one brave enough to pet their hotter ones. engineer probably made em special gloves just so they could play with their slugma... its hard to pick favorites, but the ones theyre closest to are slugma and monferno. they also have a solosis who just loves to play! unlike other people who usually just have one pokémon walking with em at all times, pyro tends to keep all three of theirs out of their pokéballs. they worry about them getting cramped or bored, and while its good exercise, sometimes its difficult to wrangle them when solosis has someones hat and slugmas melting through the furniture and monferno found spy's disguise kit.. theyre a big happy family though!! i think pyro would also like fairy types a lot, but if they got a fourth pokémon, theyd probably keep it at a daycare for the sake of themselves and the rest of the team. just in case, they might really want a sylveon or snubbull.

demoman and any pokémon knowing any explosive moves is an obvious fit! i initially liked him and electrode for this, but since part of their biology is exploding unpredictably... maybe that ones saved for battling. or at least not kept at any of the bases. i like the idea of him keeping his battle partners & normal team separate. when he's not drunk, he's a very skilled trainer and actually took a handful of gym challenges when he was younger. of course it started getting tough to balance work and training, but he never intended to get far in gyms anyway- to him it was just a fun challenge where he got to bond with his pokémon. other than his electrode, he's probably also got a charmeleon (whos either causing mischief with pyro's monferno or keeping demo company while he works/naps) and a honedge (who he will spar with sometimes). he used to have several other pokémon, but he eventually didn't like keeping them all abandoned in pc boxes, and ended up rehoming a lot of them. scout probably has a meowth from him, but he wont tell you.

heavy never cared too much about setting up huge teams or amassing a large collection. he never carries pokéballs, but his party is made up of some impressive pokémon. unlike most of the team who catch their pokémon through normal means (trade/gift, fishing, etc), he befriended his naturally. its easy to say one is ursaring, so of course im going to say it. he wont share how they met, but i wanna say he found its egg abandoned and raised it from there. they probably wrestle a lot but theyre always careful not to seriously injure each other. he befriended his mamoswine (then swinub) shortly after, then his abomasnow much later, in between him busting his family out of the gulag & leaving to find work. he left all three in siberia in the care of his family, but has a teddiursa from his ursaring to think of them all by. probably spoils the crap out of em all every chance he gets though, he loves his pokémon as much as his human family and saves recipes for poképuffs & poffins.

engineer wasn't always on board w the idea of a partner pokémon, mainly because he was always into engineering and was sure he'd be too caught up in it to focus on.. well, anything else. sure, when he was younger, he was like most kids and dreamt of being a league champion, but it always seemed to fall through.. until he discovered steel types. he started his journey later than most, but more than anything he's thankful because they help immensely with his work and lighten the load. he has a magneton who.. isn't that bright, but he's cute and thats what matters. he's also got a rotom who occasionally helps experiment with new machines, but mostly just possesses dispensers and rubs itself on everyone and everything. yum, static cling! engie didn't get into battling as much as he thought he would, but he's essentially working his dream job with his best friends (and 8 other dorks) so things are pretty good. this doesnt mean he wont go for human help when hes stumped or burnt out, though! other partner thoughts i had were torkoal, raichu and porygon2.

sniper is probably the biggest pokémon expert out of everyone on the team (well, aside from medic probably.) he's basically a walking pokédex and can tell you all about type matchups. he's also way closer to his pokémon than people realize, and especially closer than any real people. this is especially noticeable with his baby kangaskhan- although with a heavier origin than simply "abandoned", he ended up bonding with heavy over the ordeal. even with more technical aspects memorized, raising this baby was a completely new venture- not one he hated though! he also collects bug pokémon (that he lets scout get close to,when he tries to get over his fear) & has a slakoth that just kinda.. fell asleep on him one time and just never went away. other choices include koamala or krokorok.

medic is like a pokémon professor but fucked up. while he was primarily a human doctor, after losing his medical license, he started to dedicate time to studying pokémon. he doesnt run inhumane experiments on them because i said so. he's working on filling up his pokédex more than anything, and loves listening to others talk about their partners or other species theyve seen. he has his own pokémon too of course! as the team healer its only natural he has healing pokémon like audino and blissey, but he has a soft spot for flying types, specifically the birds. he has way too many pidove. he probably has a massive aviary separate from his medical lab where he keeps more birds, namely pidgeotto, fearow and some starly. he used to travel a lot (especially after being chased out of his hometown), but he saw it as more chances to discover new pokémon. probably has a very illegal form of the pokémon boxes with no storage limit. also probably heard the stories about mew and mewtwo and actually got inspired. probably owns the most pokémon merc, specifically stationery- hey, if ur getting some unethical experiment performed on you by the german guy you tried to rob earlier that night, are you going to pay more attention to his shit eating smirk or his cool ass holographic pikachu pencils??? or perhaps the cutesy eeveelutions stickers on the back of his clipboard???? thats what i thought.

spy looks like the guy who would probably be the least into pokémon, but that couldn't be further from the truth. he's not as wild as scout or medic by any means, but back in his day he was "pretty decent" (a gym leader.) i like the idea of zoroark being his partner, but you know who else is cool??? cofagrigus. gengar. banette. probably the only one on the team to actually get into mega evolving. and the only one with a shiny, but its gengar so we dont talk about that. i wont imply he loves his pokémon over his own family, he's just had a lot on his plate. remember scouts crobat? while hes got a more methodical approach to battling, he doesnt do it nearly as often as he used to. he still keeps his gym team, and though they tend to be more serious than the other pokémon in the base, they do on occasion get into trouble with others, namely pyro's solosis and scout's jolteon. not misbehaving on purpose, just being curious :0 probably uses luxury balls to catch all his pokémon and has an unused love ball with scouts moms name engraved on the bottom. (either for the novelty, or maybe hes trying to find the right one to catch for her??)

[mingi-bubu]

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Episode 8 Part 1

alright alright alright we are back with episode 8!!

i think this episode is going to be an eliminations one so thats gonna be so fun (:

i have my water, i have my m&ms, my phone is plugged in

OH WAIT IS THIS WHEN ONE OF THEM LEAVES DURING TRAINING???

F U C K  THIS’LL HURT LADS

i s2g if that was mingze who was briefly shown leaving i will riot

chen tao is adorable fight me

why is youwei going to make me cry before the show even officially begins hhhh

yao chi’s writing is literally incomprehensible to me even without me being illiterate in chinese

oh so theyre just going to throw in mr. tyger like that as if im going to be emotionally okay

oh fuck dont show me the hot pot moments

alkdsjfsld huaiwei and guan yue are so cute together

i am literally tearing up right now i hate this so much

yixing stunting on them hoes

YIXING LLIASLKDFJASDKJFPAWOIE BITCH IM SCREAMING

HE JUST SAID THAT THEY ALL REMIND HIM OF KINDERGARTNERS BECAUSE THEYRE ALL IN WHITE LORD I AM BEING  S E N T

ok i mightve misunderstood what he said or it was mistranslated???

i must hit that mf rewind button

ok so the subs say “each of you is basically younger five to ten years old” ???

im trying to think about how that would work in english hold on

god it would be helpful if i recognized anything lkasdfjlskd

maybe something like “it makes me think of you all as five to ten years younger”?

someone who knows chinese please help

shenshen looks really good and so does huaiwei *heart emojis*

ok something is deffo off with the translator machine they use

bc jiayi said he wouldnt be born yet

and hes a 98 liner

god i wish tiana was watching unine’s run so i could ask kajdfklasdj

his hair is RED?????

SIR

yixing is having fun tho

he has the joy of a mischief maker in his eyes

dork

tfw you make fun of the trainees and they start talking amongst themselves about how old they would be and you hear someone shout he wouldnt even be born yet

i have literally no idea why the camera quality looks like it was taken with a videocorder rather than an actual filming camera but it certainly is interesting

guan yue for the first time for me

*john mulaney could be a nursery voice* looks kinda sorta hot

MINGMING IS CUUUUTEEEEE

HIS LIL UNEVEN SMILE IM IN LOVE *buries my head in my hoodie*

mommmm immm innnn llloooovvvvvveeee

linmo dark hair again *eyes emoji*

omg six of my boyyysss

hanhan what the fck is that headband im screamign

akdsjflkas why was chen sijian clapping like that afkasjd

ok: fourth task time

theme evaluation

literally guan yue popped off and all hes doing is sitting there wearing white

ugh

MINGMING RED HIGHLIGHTS OH MY GOD UGH THE STYLISTS’ MINDS

@ YMM PLEASE BRING THIS BACK

i hate that whenever yixing does something he smiles like this:   :3c

kjfadsf;lkasd hanhan says something quietly to yangyang and IMMEDIATELY yixing says his name adkjfslkd

i love to see it

aldkfjasd called him out im deceased

HUAIWEI BEST BOY AKDSJFSLKAD

“A COLD AND COOL MAN” I SAID BITCH WHERE

HUAIWEI’S LAUGH 

I AM FORCIBLY REMINDED THAT THEY ARE ROOMMATES ALDFALSKDJFKEW

YOUWEI DRAGGING HIMMMMM

ME  *HANDSHAKE EMOJI*  YOUWEI

ASKING WENHAN IF HE KNOWS WHAT A “COLD AND COOL MAN” IS

wenhan: *glares for 0.003 seconds*

also wenhan: *ears and face red and immediately cracks into a smile*

yixing is having too much fun with this akldfk

shiyuan hello :D

anyway back to business

five different songs in five different styles

mingze red highlights too...? *eyes emoji*

yixing was expecting more of a reaction probably and the boys just sit there like “hmmm interesting,,,five songs”

MINGZE KDJSFALKDSJFALKSDJ HIS REACTION IS SO OVERRR IM

someone said “too many” fuudsfoijajdsoiffuck man

yixing cutiepie!~

im seeing more exo lay than zhang yixing pd right now

*flashes back to the crabs*

definitely more exo lay than yixing pd right now

JALKDSJF HUAIWEI “WAOOOH!”

akdjfkdsl he’s telling hanyu to change his respoin

hold on hanyu dimples???  what the fFICK

SHENSHEN SMILEY BOYYYY IM NOT CRYING

not to be all i love lian huaiwei and his nose and 3/4 profile is so cute but i love lian huaiwei and his nose and 3/4 profile is so cute

MINMGING CROOKED SMILE I WOULD DIE FOR YOU

i love how hanyu is showing his surprise and shock by simply yeeting his head up and trying to stretch out his neck adkfjlsdk

wenxuan said HELL YEAH BABY

god lhw is so pretty i would give him all the stars if i could

awww guan yue is so embarrassed at huaiwei saying he’s perfect for <maze>

ok but literally guan yue wakes up and looks like that everyday????  jealous

shi zhan: oh so im not cute then?

shi mingze: no youre naughty and the theme doesnt fit you

shi zhan:   >:’(

awww guan yue is so cuteeee

hes like i pretty please want this song  >:3c

shenshen deadass said that this other song that was being shown is an “improved version of <retreat>”

jiayi *pleading emoji*

HELL YEAH FUCK GUYS ITS THE REBUILD STAGE IM SCREAMING

MINGMING LOOKED SO GOOD IN THIS STAGE I TALK ABOIUT IT ALL THE TIME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

MINGZE’S FACE AT SEEING REBIUOLDAJFDLKAJDSFJ

SORRY IM JSUT SO EXCITED ITS LIKE IN MY TOP 5 STAGES AKSDLFJLSKD

MR LI WENHAN I AM LOOKING RESPECTFULLY

MINGMING IS DEFFO HERE FOR HIS MOMENT IN THIS SONG AND I KNOW IT UGHH

MR YAO MINGMING PUT THAT TONGUE BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP ME

also while i was watching this yixing’s mv for <莲 lit> came out and it was a fucking cinematic experience go watch it now if you havent yet please

YAO CHI !!!  APPEARED!!!

and wang jiayi in bucket hat T.T

jiayi has orangey hair

they really arent going to translate wjy’s name in to english huh

gonna keep it as the characters eh?

i really hope that huaiwei and guan yue can share a stage together

damn yixing really do be pausing dont he

ahhhh the youth pd have decided for them much like with the girls

why does hu wenxuan literally have the best facial expressions ever

alkdfjalks yixing sweetie you didnt have to drag the poor trainee when introducing him

not to be all hanhan’s lil rabbit teef but hanhan’s lil rabbit teef

alksdjfalskdjfaklsdjf hes so prettyyy

he opened the envelope the wrong way around im

everyone is laughing

why am i always fucking sucked into weiwei’s eyes

hes so dumb i love him adklfjaslkdj

yangyang,,,,sweetie,,,wh...why did you need to run

asdfkaksdjflk;asdjfkasd

im so dead at hanhan’s face when yangyang knocks on the door

i deadass forgot that yangyang is in the rebuild stage

damn hanhan is really hoping for his tarzan lineup again

XIXI!!! I LOVE HIM IN THIS STAGE OH M Y GOD IVE HAD MANY THOTS ABOUT HIS OUTFIT AND HIS STAGE PRESENCE

chen tao, jiayi, and weiwei are all in the same stage i love

xixi literally dropped hanhan to the ground like a bag of rocks goddamn

the rituals are intimate i know they’re intimate

why do they put xixi in foundation thats like several shades lighter than what he actually is

wenhan: this is the first time for me and jiayi to be in different stages :’(

changxi: *thinking back to their very first public stage when he asked him not to separate him and jiayi* hmmm unfortunate

xixi also has good faces adlkfjals

MINGMING <33333

WANG ZHE I

longhanniieeeee

oh so yixing really is going there back to the beginning eh??

longhan: o.o’

i love that he looks over to the directors and cameramen like “plz help me”

adjklfajsdlkfj longhan is literally just saying anything that will get him out of the situation as fast as possible

he keeps bowing im innnn loovvvveee

he apologized at the end im *smooches him on the cheek*

i dont need a man with braincells he just needs to be pretty

*slurps*

i love huaiwei lil squeaky laugh

HUAIWEI IS WITH JIAYI AND WEIWEI AND WENXUANNIE???  I AM ASCENDING

shenshen!!

he’s such a trickster i love him so much

boyfriends~

aww him and mingming sharing gum

WHAT

WHY WAS THAT SIJIAN’S FIRST GO TO POSE IM SCREAMING

xu longhan is noodle boy im deeply in love with my little dragon

shi zhan’s glasses make him look like a grandmother i

weiwei is having too much fun with this

AAAHHHHH HE REALLY DO BE SAYING THINGS WHEN HE DOESNT HTINK ANYONE IS THER

E

CHEN YOUWEI KING OF FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

HAHADKJFLASKDJ;A

i know ive said it before but i love that the commercials are in chinese like its really fun bc they used to be in english

seeing huaiwei try to act tough as if he is not baby

alksdfjalskd everyone is bullying him esp weiwei

wenxuan is just sitting back, enjoying the show

wh

xu longhan has the only braincell in that room

aksdfjlaksd they really are going to have that funny pose

i take it back there are no braincells

longhan is bullying them akdlfjasdlkj

yao chiiii

he run :D

PINK SHIRTS

top 35 get to stay this round and the others leave halfway through training

hmm i hate to see it

i really want to give yao chi a hug hes really stressing about this one :(

HE HAS AN ELMO STICKER IM T.T

yao chi really do be practicing a lot

they played like a clip from my fsoat (favorite stage of all time) and i still got shivers hanyu really do have that power

junjie reminds me of sb19 sejun

why does minghao look like a construction worker

oh wang jiayi is here too!

hanyu was v nervous :(((

rebiulda dflkasjdfiwe

mingze is so pretty

mingming complaining about other members???  who arent listening to him about choreography??  ugh i love to see it when he looks upset

damn if looks could kill bo yuan and shenshen wouldve been dead on the floor instantly

tongue

:((( invisible mingming sweetieee

adkjfa;lsdkaaaaahhhhhhhhh kou cong really is confused he really didnt hear it

mingze is That Best Friend i LOVE to see it

boyfriends~

god i really hate how obvious the product sponsorship is like it pulls me out of the moment hhhh

c’est la vie

adfjalskdjf yangyang’s laugh is sending meeee

GUI ZE

aksdlfjals;dkjf xixi jsut got his revenge for the fire stage

“angel han”???  this is the first time im seeing him be called that wtf

oh my god i keep pausing to talk about yixings new mv and we’re only 33 minutes in hhhhhhhh

YAAAAASSS MC JIN AND AFTER JOURNY MY FAVORITE DUO

longhannie!!!

im love his smileee

SHAO HAOFAN OOOHHHHH

oops ye ziming in fake glasses makes me UwU

like he looks like a professor but like a hot one you know??  like the history prof that everyone wants to take a class with not bc its interesting but bc he rolls his sleeves up and wears dark slacks

that was highly specific do not look at me

wasn’t he in the last alliance thing that was formed???  mans needs to chill

oh

arm

i am looking respectfully mr ye

li you looks like he gives good hugs like he just gives off that vibe

i say as he talks about how three of the higher ranking group members can’t dance for shit

i only really care for 2, maybe 3/4 of the dachang out man alliance

shf reminds me of a puppy

arms

jiayi’s hair looks SO GOOD

HUAIWEI BALCK AHARI I

NEED AMINUTE IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE HE’S HAD IT

i-a smooch him on the-a face

LKFJASLKDFJASDK

THEY’RE MEME-ING

someone on the editing team had vine i swear to god

wenxuan’s hair literally looks like he stepped out of 2008 

no thoughts head empty

sure do wonder what the colorful script on the other 2/5 of the screen are saying (:

damn my man is on every little detail o.o’

love to see it ;)

youwei literally losing his shit i

huaiwei freckles???

jiayi really just goes around looking like that daily and we all unanimously decided that no other man exists didnt we

wenxuan looks really good even with the bucket hat on

WEIWEI NEW HARI

also its very sweet that lrh treated them to food 

ofc the remaining mr. tyger group members would stand next to each other T.T

jolin is so pretty

why does minghao give off scuh fuckboy energy right now

awww guan yue!!!

he’s so cuteee

minghao is not good at hiding his amusement

awww their ending poses are adorable

i just wanna pinch all of their cheeks

alkfdjasldkjf jolin correcting minghao i love to see it

i like that jolin wants to talk with them about the pressure they’re feeling given the whole leaving mid-training thing

hmm perhaps i will cry during this part

the urge to give all of these boys a hug is stronger than ever

wow their talk really brought the vibe down fast

yao bolan is pretty tho even when talking about something this sad

oh????  we really are just gonna leap into the rankings right now??bitch they thought

its midnight thirty and im tired so im going to end it here before the rankings

i will pick up tomorrow with the rest of the episode!

thank you for reading!!!!

stay safe and stay healthy <3333