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LOOK AT MY SON!! Even though he's scared, he's still willing to protect Yuu...

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Look idc what's actually happening in Book 7. Malleus is writing fanfiction with all his classmates where he's everyone's bestie, and I love that for him. It's like a harem anime but with friendship.

He's just doing what every fandom does when canon events don't go their way. Just write self-interest fanfiction and it'll all be better.

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I wanna talk about the scene in the museum with Azul...

(SPOILERS FOR BOOK 3 AHEAD. ALSO LOTS OF RAMBLING! :D)

During Ch. 38 of Book 3, Azul and Yuu have a short conversation post-overblot in the underwater museum place. I always felt that this bit of dialogue was weirdly charged? The whole scene felt very intimate to me (and the soft music in the background doesn't help lmao), but I never knew WHY since nothing said was inherently romantic.

So, I went back and re-read through every post-overblot and realized that Azul is the only who who has a one-on-one conversation with Yuu after their overblot??

It's rare enough to have one-on-one conversations between Yuu and another character, but then Azul goes a step further. He's the only one to open up to Yuu about his problems:

Some of the other overblot boys talk about their problems, but not to Yuu specifically. It's more of a declaration than confiding in someone, you know? (E.g. Riddle talking about how he prefers milk tea even though the rules stipulate lemon tea)

We, the players, are shown flashbacks of the overblot boys to explain how they reached this point but I can't recall if Yuu is privy to this information as well. (It's theoretically possible since Yuu already has visions / dreams of the Great Seven, but no one ever mentions it so who knows. I'm personally on the side of Yuu NOT knowing because it feels a bit invasive that they'd have this knowledge of people who weren't ready to share it.)

Regardless of whether Yuu can or cannot see those flashbacks, Azul is the only one to willingly talk about his motivations to Yuu. For Azul, this is especially important as he's so protective of his image as a clever and upstanding housewarden, and yet here he openly admits to Yuu that he was a bit of a loser as a kid (his words not mine!).

I guess you could argue that he felt there was no reason to hide it anymore since Yuu already saw him as a chubby octopus baby, but he didn't have to talk about it at all if he didn't want to. But he did. On his own. With no prompting. (Really, though. Yuu can either say they want to make sure he puts the photo back or that they're worried about him, and either way he drops his lore on them lol) And then Yuu tries to help him feel better??

To my knowledge, Yuu doesn't do this with any of the other overblot boys, either. I could have missed it during my research, but if they did it wasn't nearly to the same extent as with Azul.

I still don't know why Azul felt like opening up to Yuu. He didn't have to, but maybe he wanted to? Maybe he wanted to try his hand at being genuine for once and felt Yuu was the least intimidating person to do it with (the magicless human that they are). Who knows? I wish there were more scenes like this. It makes Yuu feel more included in the story. I also think it shows a lot of growth on Azul's end to open up about his problems to Yuu of his own volition.

I'm not sure what I wanted to say with this post, only that I wanted to get my thoughts out there about this scene because it always stood out to me. I felt there was always an undercurrent of something and I think it's because this was the only post-overblot private conversation we got with Yuu and an overblot boy, plus the added encouragement from Yuu at the end.

I'm curious to know if anyone felt the same way about this scene or if I'm just imagining things. I'm also interested in hearing any theories why Azul suddenly felt the urge to open up to Yuu, if you've got them!

Thanks for enduring my rambling!

Bonus!

Azul's so funny for trying to play it off all cool like he isn't doing flips and princess twirls in his head rn. Yuu laid it on THICK. We all know he's freaking out internally.

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I'll go ahead and admit that Leona? Not my favorite.

HOWEVER

The way he smiles in the background of Ruggies groovies is adorable.

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Was... was Jamil Azul's childhood bully because he has done nothing but pick on him for this entire event lmao

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I know we all harp on Ace for trying to share a bed with Yuu (TWICE) but I think we've let Riddle get away with trying to dance with Yuu (TWICE) for far too long.

Halloween Riddle (SSR) Line - Tap Screen Groovification

Masquerade Riddle (R) Line - Groovification

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Everyone's icons slowly becoming Vil and his cleavage is sending me-

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I relate to Yuu on such a personal level.

I, too, would run off to a secret lab in the middle of the ocean to rescue my cat.

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Yo is it just me or is Ruggie looking a little different?

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I noticed that in some of the art in that artbook I bought, Cater and Leona had different eye colors.

Ig Yana decided there needed to be more people with green eyes or something.

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Thats right I unironically set Grim as my favorite. Because he is. Ik there's lots of Grim haters out there but I love my gremlin child and will never let anyone slander his name.

I figured not many people have seen his birthday message so here y'all go. He and Erin are gonna go enjoy a cake together <3

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TWST Ask Game!!

General

1. Who's hand did you first grab? Why? Would you choose someone else if you could do it over again?

2. Who is on your homescreen?

3. What does your guest room look like?

4. Who is on your main team?

5. If you could have any unique magic / signature spell in the game, which would you choose and why?

6. First SSR? Most recent SSR?

7. Is there an SSR you really wanted but never got?

8. Is there any character who seems to follow you (i.e. they always seem to pop up when you're trying to summon someone else)?

9. What changes would you like to see implemented in the game?

Favorites and Least Favorites

10. Top five favorite characters?

11. Favorite character from each dorm?

12. Least favorite character from each dorm? 13. Favorite NRC staff member? 14. Favorite non-NRC character? 15. Favorite dorm?

16. Favorite character design?

17. Favorite overblot design?

18. Favorite dorm uniform?

19. Favorite event?

20. Favorite book from the main story?

21. Favorite R card that you own? Favorite SR? Favorite SSR?

22. Favorite relationships? (Romantic or platonic!!)

Personal

23. Which dorm would you be sorted into? 24. Which character(s) would you get along with the most? 25. Which character(s) would you actively avoid? 26. When did you start playing TWST? 27. What drew you into TWST? What made you stay? 28. What is the TWST related content that you've produced that you are most proud of?

Wild Card

29. What is your opinion on [any character you like!] 30. Make up your own question!

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Do yall think Crowley uses Yuu as like a tax write off? The government thinks all the money he spends on Yuu (a whopping 2 madol) goes to a charity fund.

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Trying to beat the Riddle favoritism allegations but I've got an entire corner of my dorm set up just for him 🥰

Glad he didn't ask why Yuu has a giant framed portrait of him hanging up on the wall

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Poll time!

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My selection of characters for this training camp amuses me - the father, the son, and the weird uncle who pops by somtimes to drop lore on you.

You can decide who is who.