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Soulshipping rambling: Just how does Judai relate to his past life? How does that affect his relationship with Yubel?

Bunch of musing below, now updated with screenshots while I'm reposting stuff that never made it to tags because Tumblr is a functional website. I think this is the last repost but it's gonna be me yelling a lot about these two.

(Also, happy anniversary to these guys! GX episode 155 aired October 3, 2007.)

In their original lives Judai promised Yubel he’d only love them, after Yubel had already voluntarily become a monster dedicated to protecting him. In the present Judai remembers their past lives while Yubel is trying to destroy the universe, tortured into insanity by a combination of his mistake and the Light of Destruction’s corruption.

Before Judai remembers, he only sees Yubel as his mess that he has to clean up - if any emotional attachment remains, it's buried within his memory twice over. But once he remembers, he instantly flips from "you’re evil and deluded and I will stop you at any cost" to "I accept your love (metaphorically), you need healing and I will risk my entire existence to help you."

(Episode 153, after Yubel explains Spell Chronicle)

(Episode 155, Judai chooses to do that. I haven't stopped thinking about this moment since my rewatch)

What exactly is he thinking at that moment when he flips? The decision to fuse with Yubel is about taking responsibility (growing up and redeeming himself for his mistakes) as well as - or even more than - a matter of love (acting on his feelings about Yubel). But also, there’s so many angles to what he’s feeling about those two things, and how much of each factors into exactly why he chooses to fuse their souls.

The flashback to their past lives is brief, less than three minutes of mostly exposition, and you don’t really get a full sense of just how much Judai connects with his past life beyond the line "I remember… They’re me and Yubel in our past lives" (paraphrased) before he watches his past self make that defining promise.

How much does he remember? Does he feel like a continuation of his past life in that moment, or like the next version of the young prince? I feel the answer to that question changes the meaning of his decision to fuse their souls together, in essence ensuring they can’t be separated again as a gesture of love and/or responsibility.

If he feels a sense of continuity with his past self, then that decision is a continuation of that promise to love Yubel, and an as-it-should-be reunion between guardian and guarded.

If he views his past self as someone connected to but separate from himself, then continuing that promise is more of a decision he takes upon himself to stay connected to someone he still feels tied to.

...Or maybe not. Maybe it’s simply a sense of duty to someone he’s hurt, someone he promised to love in another life and feels obligated to love in the present.

(Judai's smile when remembering his friends transitions into a determined expression just before he declares a fusion of his and Yubel's souls. Also, get rekt Amon.)

How much responsibility does he feel to uphold the vows of his past self? How much responsibility does he feel to heal someone who’s been hurt badly because of his mistakes (which, to be fair, were made because Yubel was attacking his neighbors to begin with)? Complicating this question is the massive sacrifice Yubel made to become what they are, a transformation that persists through lifetimes all for Judai's protection.

Yubel is tied to the past in a way that Judai doesn't have to be. Does this change the nature of what Judai feels toward Yubel? Is loving Yubel Judai's obligation, his nature, or his choice? Can it be multiple of these things, or all three?

You could argue it's none of those things, really; you could say Judai owes Yubel nothing and doesn't care about Yubel at all, but simply fused with them to save his friends and the world. I think that interpretation ignores how Judai's attitude towards Yubel visibly changes once he remembers the true depth of their connection, though, and what that says about how he views them.

But without direct word about what Judai was thinking during this moment, in the end the exact feelings Judai has about Yubel and the fusion are a matter of interpretation and/or headcanon. Regardless, it leaves room for a lot of fascinating questions about how their past bears upon the present...which are never revisited for some reason.

Well, that's what fandom is for I guess. The only value I have to contribute to the GX fandom is yelling about Soulshipping so here I am.

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[christronomy]

I'm going on channie's room marathon these days because I miss him insanely and I'm currently on ep155

Can I just say that I want to piss him off so badly because he's so cute when agitated. on my knees just thinking about how hot he looked while saying that he's getting agitated/pissed off at the beginning of the episode cause things didn't go his way. I really REALLY badly want to be bratty towards him🫠

coming from someone who is 100% a brat, ME TOO ANONNIE! me too. just searched up the live and watched the beginning. you're so right. him groaning and mumbling to himself? i hear sumn purrin’... growling, even.

like you can't tell me he's not the type to fuck you just to teach you a lesson. he's Thee Brat Tamer ™. he's not gonna let that shit slide, and if he has to shut off the live to fuck you right in this studio he will, don't test his patience like that. imagine he's on live and you keep moving your foot up to tease the bulge in his pants under the desk, or like during the live you keep trying to get his attention for the simplest things that he knows that you know you can handle yourself. like he knows you're doing it on purpose but he can't help but get even more agitated, so he ends the live a lot quicker than usual so he can bend you over the sofa in the studio and fuck you hard just to make sure you'll cut it tf out. that sweet, soft version of channie that you saw during the live is gone as soon as he does so, and he's whispering the filthiest shit into your ear.

"you knew i was having a bad day and you still wanna act like a lil slut, hmm? in front of stays too?" he'd say, giving you a harsh slap on your ass and scoffing at how it makes you yelp and push yourself back into the bulge in his pants needily. "'m gonna fuck you like the shameless lil whore you are, then."

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EP155. Weekly Box Office Talk: Ant-Man Debuts Atop Despite Bad Buzz - Plus: Raymond’s Movie Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Our Weekly Box Office Talk: Mike, Richard, and Raymond offer their thoughts on the big winners and losers at this past weekend box office. Raymond also offer his review of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania." Plus, recent movie news.

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Coffee with the Dog EP155 - singer/songwriter Robert Andrew Wagner

Coffee with the Dog EP155 – singer/songwriter Robert Andrew Wagner

Summary https://littlewretches.com/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/minddogtv Sponsors: KOA Coffee https://koacoffee.com/?sscid=21k6_79g17  Pittsburgh based singer/songwrwiter Robert Andrew Wagner joins us. ROBERT ANDREW WAGNER – THE LITTLEST WRETCH My songs are mirrors, and I often begin or end my performances by playing a version of The Velvet Underground’s “I’ll Be Your Mirror” extended…