neuvillette's lore is actually insane. we all took one look at him and went "haha dragon🫵" but i significantly underestimated how big of a role he would play. he's the incarnation of the original hydro sovereign. he took back his rule right under the heavenly principles' nose. he's the one handing out hydro visions now (not even because he has to, he doesn't, he just grew so fond of humanity that he chooses to). he gave away the hydro gnosis bc he straight up doesn't need it. he's planning to DETHRONE ALL OF THE ARCHONS (in a few hundred years, when the traveler's not around to see it, so it won't be awkward for them). he's kind and soft-spoken. he's full of vengeful rage. he's a father to hundreds. he found his purpose after feeling lost for 500 years. skirk pulled him aside for a super-secret convo and when he saw us again he immediately spilled the tea. as far as i can tell, he spawned into existence fully formed. no other character can fucking compare
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It speaks to the depths of Beckett Mariner's trauma and the self worth issues that have stemmed from the events in her life, that her entire arc on the show has pretty much been Boimler's one episode plot in "In the Cradle of Vexilion".
Because at a base line, they're having the same crisis at these moments. It's just that Boimler is having that crisis without any of Mariner's trauma or past experience, and so T'Lynn's logical explanation of the situation was free to sink in without being too personal, too horrifying, too cold. It's not too hard for him, he gets to have distance from this that Mariner cannot, distance that's she's genuinely not capable of.
Her backstory isn't surprising, the fandom had mostly guessed way before they confirmed it that she'd served in the war, but it still hits.
All of her walking contradictions make sense. She is sabotaging herself to remain an ensign because she doesn't feel she's worth much more if Sito wasn't. It's a punishment. But it's also genuinely the comfort zone that she wants, if she's the proverbial metaphorical red shirt of the starfleet pecking order then there's no way her decisions can kill other people she's in charge of. She has lived in a space of simultaneous comfort and self distain as an ensign for a while now, and that's not something that you just drop.
I like that this all started to fall apart for her in the second half of the season, she managed to deal with it for a while before it all got just too much and she went Too far to the point that everybody who cares about her was deeply worried.
It's also fun that both Boimler and Mariner had this crisis this season, but they never could have helped each other through it. They both had other people talk them through it/knock some sense into them. They are besties, but in this situation they'd have only fed each other's fears.
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cant stop thinking about how akechi’s confidant is so fucking funny this guy literally can’t shut up about “oohhhh akira you’re so hot and cool and funny and smart and sexy and amazing and badass and tall and successful oooohhh i wanna ~~kiss~~ kill you so bad” … like I genuinely thought yall were joking until I got to that part of the game and had to take a break I was laughing so hard 😭
I KNOW RIGHT I KNOW RIGHT
the "honey im home" "youre back awfully late" scene sold it for me like i was staring at the screen like huh. am i reading this right. are they actually doing this
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when people ship shusumi do they gravitate to the bubbly "kasumi" front during the 1st/2nd semester or do they not count that and portray sumire's character for who she is during the last few hours of the game. do they have both coexisting at the same time but then what's the middle sweet-spot for it? their entire dynamic changes fundamentally as a result of the third semester.
and wouldnt joker feel a bit lied to since the girl he met in the beginning who was so, so nice to him essentially a fake? would this girl still approach him with kindness if she was her true self? how does he want her? is it cruel to miss the "her" when she was parading as a corpse? because after the third semester nothing will ever be the same between them. we as a shusumi society should entertain the idea of their divorce more. in this essay i will
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