#except they had a perfect season in 72

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Wait so in "Only Want to be With You" by Hootie and the Blowfish, people really didn't know the "I'm such a baby, the Dolphins make me cry" line is about the Maimi Dolphins? Really?

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The Pigeon Feather Thing

Every time I see someone mention Adrien's allergy and call it a brilliant bit of foreshadowing for the senti twist I have to physically restrain myself from going into a lecture on how good foreshadowing works because I don't think the feather thing was foreshadowing at all. If it was, then it's terribly done and the writers need to relearn the basics of story telling. But I don't think that's the case. They used foreshadowing perfectly fine with the wedding rings once they either committed to or came up with the senti plot at the end of season four. When we consider that vs the feather thing, it becomes obvious that the feather thing was never meant to be anything more than a joke.

For starters, an allergy to pigeons is not good foreshadowing of association with a peacock!

Yes, as best I can tell, it's specifically a pigeon allergy. It wasn't initially called that, but it IS mentioned multiple times in Mr. Pigeon 72 where Adrien was fine with filming around birds until the species was mentioned:

Mr. Ramier: You can count on Edgar! No animal's more obedient than this sweet little pigeon. Bob Roth: Dove! They're doves! Adrien: Hang on, I'm allergic to pigeons. If they get too close- Bob Roth: Nothing is gonna happen because they're doves! Bob Roth: Your pigeon isn't up for the job! He's not supposed to come back with the rose! Mr. Ramier: The sneeze frightened him. Adrien: I told you, I'm allergic to pigeons! Plagg: Happy to see you again, Adrien. So still allergic to pigeons?

If anything, this reads like them hammering home that this isn't a general feather allergy when it previously might have been. Almost as if they were telling sentitruthers "hey, pigeons, not peacocks, let the theory go!"

I don't think that was the goal here, btw, it's just interesting that this episode is right at the start of season four and does everything that it can to separate the allergy from the senti stuff instead of leaning into it to better setup the reveal later in the season. That's normally how this type of foreshadowing works! You have the initial hint (Mr. Pigeon), the reminder (Mr. Pigeon 72), and the payoff (the reveal). But the allergy plays no part in the reveal and Mr. Pigeon 72 separated the allergy from peacocks, so in what way is it actually foreshadowing?

This is extra true because other sentimonsters were never shown to have the same allergy and good foreshadowing would have absolutely done that! Mr. Pigeon should have had a sentimonster who couldn't go near his pigeons or Sentibug should have sneezed around them or Kagami and Felix could have mentioned having the same allergies. Anything to imply that it was a standard issue for sentimonsters! They had four seasons (and most of season five) to give us those moments and they never did.

As-is, the feather thing is more of a point against the sentiplot being planned because why would anyone make their designer child allergic to pigeons? Sentikids are supposed to be "perfect" after all and we've been given nothing to indicate that the one exception to this rule is a pigeon feather allergy. Did Gabe and Emilie just have a really messed up sense of humor or a weird desire to make sure that Adrien stayed away from pigeons? What's the logic here?

Imo, the feather thing is what I like to call "forced foreshadowing." It's when the audience is so desperate to justify bad writing that they try to force connections that aren't actually there instead of accepting that the thing was a retcon or just poorly set up. At first glance, the feather thing sounds like a really cool way to foreshadow the twist and - to be fair - it would have been if it did. But since there's nothing in the text that actually treats it as foreshadowing it's stupid to call it that. The fact that it associates Adrien with a bird means nothing unless you think that Marinette's constant association with flowers would justify a twist that she's secretly a tree.

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Merry Christmas, everyone! I’m sorry this chapter took so long. But here it finally is!

This is the first chapter where a cycle from the previous chapter gets continued. And since the last one was set in an AU made by @animemoonprincess, this one is as well! I’m sure you’ll be able to figure out which one it is pretty quickly!

Get cozy, as this chapter is feature length at 24 Thousand words! Drink water, take breaks, eat a snack! But above all else, please enjoy it and let me know what you think once you’re finished! (Also this chapter is split in two due to Tumblr not allowing more than 1,000 blocks of text per post. If you want to read the whole thing uninterrupted, click the AO3 Link below.)

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Scattered Cicadas - Chapter Twenty One: Shining With Joy (Part 1)

The changes in Tang’s life never seem to stop. Luckily there are moments that shine bright enough to make them worth it.

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Tang took a deep breath of the crisp, early Autumn air. It had been the middle of Summer when he had first awoken in this cycle. Having so much time pass without his notice while dealing with his memory problems was both surprising and somewhat disorienting. Not only had he awoken at what would have normally been the end of a cycle, but it had progressed well past that point. The gift from his timeline’s Sandy was certainly working as intended, and Tang was extremely grateful.

Grinning as the leaves crunched underneath his boots, Tang moved with a bounce in his step. Autumn was one of the best seasons. The bright colors of the changing leaves. The refreshing chill in the air. The delicious seasonal foods. It was the perfect time of year to find a cozy spot to read both indoors and out. 

“Here’s a good spot,” Wukong said, pulling Tang from his musing. He sat under the tree he had picked and gestured for Tang to join him.

Tang looked around as he joined Wukong on the ground. It was a nice location. Trees surrounded the pair as leaves occasionally fell around them. They were just outside the clearing the ship had landed in, but still well within the perimeter of the protective wards that hid them from Lady Bone Demon’s forces.

Her behavior this cycle was very different from what Tang was used to. From what little news they were able to get from Megapolis, not much had changed despite the city being under her control. No oppression, no cruelty, no violence. Other than declaring herself ruler, most of her focus seemed to be turned outside the city by trying to capture their little group.

He supposed this was another effect of Sandy’s gift, enforcing peaceful cycles every now and then. Well that suited Tang just fine. He wasn’t quite ready to face her at her normal level of depravity so close after being freed from her.

Tang shivered at the thought of facing her at all.

“Tang? Are you still with me?”

“Huh? Oh, yes, sorry about that.” Tang shook his head to clear his thoughts. “I was lost in thought for a moment. Nothing to worry about.”

“Right,” Wukong said skeptically. “We can do this another time if you aren’t feeling up to it.”

“No, I’m fine, really.” Tang sighed as Wukong raised an eyebrow in disbelief. “I was just thinking about how different She is this time around. It’s… strange is all, but I don’t want to think about that right now. I’d much rather get to work on this.”

“Alright, alright.” Wukong sat up straight. “So. The 72 Transformations. It’s a bit of a misnomer as it can let you transform into literally anything you can imagine, but we won’t get into that.

“Learning how to do it normally takes years of study and practice, myself as an exception. Properly getting this technique down usually means that any of the practitioner's transformations are already permanent. However, you and MK inherited this power from me, so it works a bit differently for you. While you can still transform into whatever you want, I’m sure you noticed that it takes focus to maintain the form you’re in and a decent blow can knock you from it.”

“Sort of?” Tang scratched at the fur on his face. “I've been in my monkey form for a few months now and don’t feel like I’m focusing much on it. But when I flew away from the ship as a cicada I clipped a branch and that did startle me back into my monkey form.”

“Hmm… That’s strange. I can tell you that your form currently isn’t permanent as I can see your human self underneath it with my Gold Vision,” Wukong said as he rubbed his chin. “A hard enough shock, you running out of energy, or being knocked unconscious could probably revert you right now.”

Tang’s breath caught.

“W-what?”

“Hey, don’t panic! You aren’t going to revert any time soon. I mean, you don’t feel low on energy right now, right?”

“Well…” Tang took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a moment. “No more than usual I guess.”

“Wait,” Wukong tilted his head. “Are you usually tired?”

“Just a little bit,” Tang admitted. “I assumed it was just stress from dealing with remembering everything.”

“That probably isn’t helping, but I think it might be something else.” Wukong activated his Gold Vision and examined Tang closely. “Yeah, you’re definitely channeling your powers to maintain that form.”

“But I’m not focusing on it,” Tang protested. “Plus, wouldn’t I revert whenever I sleep? Pigsy hasn’t mentioned me changing in the middle of the night.”

“It’s possible that you’re doing it subconsciously then,” Wukong said as he deactivated his Gold Vision. “It’s probably a trauma response and your mind is just trying to keep you safe by maintaining this form for you.”

“That… makes sense.” Tang blinked and raised an eyebrow at Wukong. “You’ve been reading Sandy’s mental health books?”

“Maybe?” Wukong grinned nervously. “But anyway! Back to the transformations! So while you’re not likely to revert to your human form due to your mind subconsciously supplying the transformation with your powers, it’s not sustainable in the long term. You’ve already noticed that you’re tired all the time. The longer you maintain this form, the more energy it will require. We’ve been lucky so far but we don’t want you passing out from over exertion.”

“So I need to learn how to make my transformations permanent so it doesn’t continuously draw on my powers.”

“Exactly!”

“You said it takes years of study and practice to learn. My timeline’s Sandy may have extended the cycles but I don’t think we have that long.”

“To learn the full technique, yes,” Wukong said with a smirk. “But you don’t need the full 72 Transformations. You only need to learn a single form. Luckily for us, Teacher taught me the shortcut he would use for his students that didn’t feel like they should be human.”

“Huh.” Tang blinked. “There were people who didn't feel like they should be human even that long ago?”

“Yup! I think the modern term is Species Dysphoria, but back then we just referred to it as a soul being born in the wrong body.” Wukong looked up at the falling leaves with a fond smile. “Teacher may have been a strict and harsh taskmaster, but he did care about his students. Of course he said he only helped because he couldn’t have students who were distracted by such frivolous things as appearances. But he always did help with the change instead of dismissing them.”

“Reminds me of one of my college professors.” Tang said with a chuckle. He hummed in thought. “Species Dysphoria… I’m not quite sure that’s what I’m experiencing.”

“Well the main symptom is a displeasure or discomfort with your body, specifically your species, which fits you. It doesn’t have to be from birth either. Some cases have been brought on later in life by traumatic experiences, apparently.”

“Okay, you have to have been reading about this with Sandy.”

“Big guy likes to read out loud when researching,” Wukong said with an embarrassed shrug. “Kinda hard to not absorb some of the stuff when relaxing with his therapy cats.”

“Well at least you’re finally taking your own mental health seriously,” Tang drawled.

“Let’s get back on track,” Wukong said, shifting in discomfort. “Learning a single form for a permanent transformation is still a pretty involved process despite it not taking as long. We will have to memorize a lot about the anatomy of both your base human body and that of your chosen form.”

“We?”

“Yes, we. Before you attempt the transformation yourself I will occasionally be guiding your magic through the process for transforming individual body parts. This to get you accustomed to the flow of the magic as it’s much slower and precise than the usual instant form shifting. It will also let you test out how certain parts feel so you can make changes before you try the final transformation. I’ll need to know what I’m doing before we can do that, though.”

“I’m assuming that guiding my transformation won’t make it permanent, otherwise you would have already helped me do it,” Tang said.

“Right. Something about how you subconsciously resist changes that you didn’t make yourself. The transformation would eventually revert over time if I did it for you.”

“If I’m understanding this all correctly, I’ll need to know the anatomy of my chosen form as well as know how it feels to change my body into that form in a precise way in order to make it permanent?”

“Pretty much.”

“How are we going to be studying the anatomy part?” Tang folded his arms in thought. “I don’t think Sandy has a book on rabbit demons in his self help library.”

“Did you know MK has a membership at The Cloud?” Wukong pulled out a couple of computer tablets. “Apparently, that makes his phone something called a ‘hotspot’ that allows any device he authenticates to access it. He helped me download a bunch of books onto these earlier. They even have audio versions!”

“Well that’s convenient,” Tang said as he accepted one of the tablets. “I suppose we should get started then.”

“That’s the plan,” Wukong said, plugging in some earbuds into the audio port of his tablet.

“Tang! Monkey King!”

“Or not,” Wukong sighed at Mei’s shout.

“We’re over here, Mei,” Tang called back.

“Something weird is happening to MK!” Mei’s voice sounded somewhat panicked. “Come quick!”

The pair shared a worried glance before rushing back towards the clearing. They followed Mei to the other side of the airship where they found some of the others.

MK was examining his hands, waving them around as he looked at them. Red Son was likewise scrutinizing MK, circling him and occasionally prodding at him. Pigsy was nearby, tapping his foot in agitation; a sure sign he was nervous about something.

It took a moment for Tang to remember that Sandy was inside the ship working on some component or another and that Macaque was on patrol looking out for any of the search parties hunting them.

“MK! Are you okay? What’s going on?” Tang looked over the young man. Outside of some leaves in his hair he seemed perfectly fine.

“I think so? I don’t feel strange,” MK said, slapping Red Son’s hand away as the demon poked at his shoulder.

“What happened,” Wukong asked.

“Well, Mei and I were throwing leaves at each other when Red Son snuck up and shoved some down the back of Mei’s jacket.” MK smiled. “It was really funny the way she squealed and-” MK snickered.

As he did, he began to faintly glow with a yellow-orange light.

“And then that happened,” Pigsy finished, gesturing at the young man as MK tried to get his mirth under control. “Except much brighter.”

“Is that all? I thought this would be something serious,” Wukong said as the tension eased from him. “Don’t worry, nothing’s wrong with him.”

“Then what’s happening to me?”

“Congrats, bud! Your powers are finally starting to recharge!”

“Really?! Yes!” MK let out a whoop and jumped up and down in celebration, his glow increasing in intensity as he laughed.

“Awesome! But what does his powers recharging have to do with the glowing,” Mei asked.

“The glowing technically is one of his powers,” Wukong explained. “Every time he laughs he’ll glow like this. I’m honestly surprised it took this long for it to show up.”

“So… Is this permanent or just a side effect of his powers returning,” Red Son asked.

“Permanent. It’s unfortunately not something he’ll be able to turn off. It’s just going to happen from now on. It’ll even happen when he’s under the effect of a glamor.”

“Well as long as it’s not hurting him it should be fine,” Tang said. He blinked as something occurred to him. “Wait, does that mean you glow when you laugh, Wukong?”

The Monkey King froze.

“Uh…”

“No way.” Tang felt a grin creeping up on his face. “You do, don’t you?”

“I- Uh- Well-”

“But Monkey King’s laughed in front of us before,” MK said. “Or at least, he’s laughed in front of me and he’s never glowed. If I can’t turn it off that means neither can you, right?”

“That’s… Yes that’s right.”

“Then what gives?” Pigsy was eyeing Wukong with suspicion. “You just said glamors won’t hide it so why haven’t we seen you glowing?”

“Well… It has to be real, genuine laughter or joy that sets it off…” Wukong chuckled nervously, noticeably not glowing as he did.

“But that means…” Tang frowned in concern. “Wukong? Have you been suppressing your emotions just so you would avoid glowing in front of us?”

Monkey King just shuffled in place as an awkward silence fell.

“What’s all the commotion about,” Macaque asked suddenly as he joined the group by stepping out of a nearby shadow.

“Oh look! Macaque’s back from his patrol! I guess someone should replace him! I volunteer! See you later!”

“Oh no you don’t!” Tang grabbed Wukong by the back of his shirt before he could slip away. “We need to talk about-” 

Wukong quickly twisted and ducked down before he could finish, shrugging the shirt off and darting towards the treeline.

“Macaque glows when he laughs but hides it too!” With that last shout over his shoulder he escaped into the trees.

“What?!” Macaque stepped back as all eyes turned to him. "Traitorous bastard,” he growled before sinking into the shadows cast by the airship and vanishing.

“So… Now what?” MK looked a bit lost as he glanced between the spots the two monkeys had disappeared into.

“We get those two to laugh as much as possible, is what,” Mei said with a devious determination. “I need to get me some videos of them glowing like nightlights!”

“While I don’t really approve of your motivation, you’re probably right,” Tang said with a sigh as he folded up Wukong’s abandoned shirt. “What they’re doing is not healthy. We should get Sandy to talk to them about it as well.”

“Do we even know what they will laugh at,” Red Son asked.

“We’ll just have to try a bunch of different things,” MK said, perking back up at the idea.

“So long as you don’t make any messes, especially in the kitchen,” Pigsy huffed. “I ain’t the best at telling jokes so don’t come to me for ideas.”

“All right!” Mei pumped her fist in the air in excitement. “Let’s get some brainstorming done for Operation: Giggle Glow!”

“Giggle Glow?”

“What? They giggle, they glow! Watch.” Mei poked MK in the side where he was ticklish. True to her word he giggled and started to glow.

“Fair enough,” Tang said with his own snicker as MK poked her right back, initiating a tickle fight. “I'll help out after I let Sandy know what’s going on.”

Tang hummed to himself as he made his way back onto the ship. It was nice to have something to keep busy with. Between studying rabbit demon anatomy and attempting to get two old monkeys to laugh, the next few weeks were not going to be boring.

He paused and chuckled at a humorous thought. Yes, the next few weeks were certainly going to be enlightening.

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“I know you said we would be trying out various transformations by having you guide them but… I wasn’t expecting it to happen so soon,” Tang said, fidgeting with his sleeves and doing his best not to tremble. If the concerned looks from Wukong and Pigsy were any indication, he wasn’t doing a very good job.

Barely two weeks had passed since they had started studying rabbit demon anatomy. Tang felt he had made some decent progress in his own research. His scholarly background was certainly a boon as much of the reading was rather dry. And if he decided to speed things along by applying a few retention and memorization spells he learned back during that disastrous training cycle? Well, no one but him had to know.

Wukong, however, was proving that his title as the Intelligent Stone Monkey wasn’t just for show. Even with a speed reading charm, the Monkey King surpassed Tang’s learning pace by a wide margin. By the end of the first week he had half of the chosen books memorized. He was attempting the transformation on himself halfway through the second. Yesterday he perfected it, which led them to now.

“It would’ve been sooner if I wasn’t constantly distracted by MK and Mei trying to get me to laugh,” Wukong half joked.

“Really?” Tang’s eyes widened at that.

Operation: Giggle Glow had gone into full swing a few days following the revelation in the clearing. After a talk with Sandy, both monkeys had reluctantly agreed to try and not hold back their laughter just because they found the glowing to be embarrassing. MK and Mei had taken full advantage of this. Jokes, slapstick, harmless yet humorous pranks, and various other attempts at comedy were thrown around with mixed success.

Tang had already found Wukong’s ability to learn at such a fast pace incredible. But if a few jokes a day were considered to be a distraction that prevented him from finishing sooner… 

“I knew you could learn impossibly fast, and I’ve seen you do it before a few times,” Tang admitted with an awed shake of his head. “Every time it’s both impressive and somewhat intimidating. I’m not going to have to worry about my role as scholarly nerd being taken, am I?”

“As if,” Wukong snorted. “Learning for learning’s sake isn’t my thing. I only put this much effort into stuff I find interesting, if the fate of the world is at stake, or as a favor for a friend.”

“I… I appreciate all of this,” Tang said, lowering his head in a small bow. “I really do.”

“Don’t sweat it.”

“It couldn’t have been fun with how tedious some of these books are.”

“That’s medical texts for you,” Wukong said with a shrug. “Can’t really add too much prose to wade through if someone’s life might be on the line.”

“Focus, you two,” Pigsy chided. “Tang, are you sure you want to go through with this? We can hold off until you’re ready.”

“I-” Tang swallowed and clenched his paws to keep them from shaking. “Do… Do I really have to revert to my… My other form to do this?”

“I’m afraid so,” Wukong said gently. “Layering a transformation on top of another can get… messy. The safest and easiest way to do this is if you’re in your hum- er- base form.”

“Okay.” Tang took a deep breath. In and out. “Okay.” Another breath. He could do this.

“Tang?” Pigsy reached out, taking a hold of one of his paws and giving it a reassuring squeeze. “It’s alright if you want to wait for a bit.”

“No. No it’s… I want to do this. I just…” Tang took another breath before meeting Wukong’s eyes. “It… It’ll only be for a few minutes, right?”

“Five minutes, at most.”

“And… And we’re starting with my head today? So I won’t see Her in my reflections?”

“That’s the plan.”

“I won’t need to keep my eyes open for this, will I?”

“Nope.”

“Okay.” Tang breathed deeply once more before checking over his clothes. He had to make sure the gloves and boots were secured. It would only be his head that was transformed today after all. As long as he couldn’t see any other part of himself that would remain human, he could ignore it. At least, he hoped he could.

“Alright. Okay. I’m ready,” he said, doing his best to ignore his hammering heart. “Should I stand or sit?”

“Whichever is more comfortable for you,” Wukong said.

“How about we sit,” Pigsy suggested, grunting a bit as he lowered himself to the floor.

Tang nodded stiffly and moved to sit down across from him. This was it. While he was looking forward to completing this first step towards a full transformation, the thought of reverting from his monkey form was terrifying. Damn, the trembling had started again.

“Hey, you’re okay,” Pigsy said as he reached over and grabbed Tang’s paws and held them in his hands. “I’m here. Monkey King is here. We’re not going to let anything bad happen to you, promise.”

“O-okay.” Tang tensed a little as he felt Wukong kneel behind him and place his paws on his shoulders. He took a shuddering breath. “S-sorry. Just… Just give me a second.”

“Take your time.” Wukong said, patting him on the shoulder. “We’re in no rush.”

“Right.” In and out. Deep breaths. He could do this. “On… On three?”

“If that will help.”

“Okay.” He looked up at Pigsy and squeezed his hands. “Count down for me?”

“Alright.” Pigsy took his own breath and straightened up. “Ready?”

“Ready.”

“One…”

Tang took one final fortifying gulp of air.

“Two…”

He clenched his eyes shut and gripped Pigsy’s hands like a lifeline.

“Three.”

Tang reached into his well of powers. He had transformed dozens of times before. He had taken to the ability rather quickly back during the cycle when he was the Monkie Kid. It should be easy to just… revert.

His mind screamed at him as he focused.

What are you doing?! You’re safe like this! Stop! She can’t get to you right now! Stop Stop STOP!

It was hard to push past such visceral fear, but Tang grit his teeth and pulled at the thread keeping him in his monkey form.

It would be worth it! Please let this work! He could have a new base form of his own! One that She hasn’t tainted! Please Please PLEASE!

He felt the surge of energy flow through him. And then…

A draft on his bare face. His clothes rubbing against his skin instead of fur. The lack of a comforting weight at the end of his spine.

It worked!

Oh. 

Oh God, it worked.

“Good job,” Pigsy praised softly as Tang’s breath hitched. “You’re doing great. Take a breath. That’s it. Keep your eyes closed.” 

“I’m going to start now, okay,” Wukong said once Tang got his breathing under control.

“Pl-please hurry.”

“Try to relax.” Wukong moved his paws from Tang’s shoulders to cup his face from behind. “Let me guide your magic. I’ll be gentle, I promise.”

“O-okay.”

Tang could feel Wukong’s magic mixing with his as the Monkey King coaxed it to follow his will. Wukong gently pulled his paws up and over Tang’s ears, behind his nape, up and over his crown, down over his face, under his jaw, and back to his starting position. He repeated the motions several times, Tang’s magic following along like a current.

He could feel the transformation start to take effect after a minute or so. It was much different than his usual way of doing it. Instead of an instant surge, the magic flowed slowly and steadily. Thankfully, this didn’t make the change painful. It was… tingly. Almost like the sensation of that rock candy that fizzled and popped in your mouth. Which was not how he thought having his skull elongated to allow for a proper rabbit snout was going to feel.

Wukong’s soft, repetitive touches were soothing as more changes occurred. His teeth and jaw began to itch as they rearranged themselves alongside his skull. The sound of all their breathing seemed to become clearer as what felt like two loose flaps of skin grew down on either side of his head. Those must be his new ears then. Tang wrinkled his nose as a strange new sensation sprouted out around it. Whiskers, if he had to guess.

Tang let out a sigh of relief as he felt the fur start to grow in. He hadn’t realized how uncomfortable he would be with a naked face. Luckily the thick clothing he was wearing seemed to be doing their job as well. The fact they hid bare skin instead of fur was hardly noticeable anymore. He finally began to relax.

Wukong’s paws began to slow moments later. The gentle circulation of magic stilled with them. Tang felt Wukong’s magic carefully detach itself from his own as the sage removed his paws and took a step back.

“Done. Four minutes and thirty seven seconds, exactly.”

Tang took a deep breath in through his nose, marveling a bit at how different it felt. The amount of new scents he could pick up on was not unsurprising based on what he read, but still a slight shock. Luckily it wasn’t completely overwhelming at the moment. He’d have to be careful the next time dinner was being prepared or whenever they next visited a city, but he felt confident he could adjust to his heightened sense of smell rather quickly.

He opened his eyes. His vision wasn’t too different from his monkey form. Perhaps it was a bit better. Tang couldn’t really tell just yet. It was still an improvement from his base form’s poor sight at least. It was still incredible to be able to see so clearly without his glasses. His snout was very prominent, however. He wondered if his mind would eventually block it out like humans did with their own short noses.

Tang focused to look past his snout and frowned at what he was seeing in front of him. Pigsy was looking at him with a somewhat shaken expression.

“Is everything okay, Pigsy?” He reached up to feel his face. He could talk just fine, but the new mouth shape was somewhat odd.

“Yeah, I just…” Pigsy shuddered a bit. “Ugh. Perhaps I should have closed my eyes as well.”

“Huh?”

“Yeah, this method of transformation isn’t exactly pleasant to watch with how slow it is,” Wukong said, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly. “Probably should have given you a warning.”

“Now he tells me,” Pigsy grumbled.

“Oh.” Tang winced as a memory from his time as Her prisoner popped up unbidden. “Ugh, yeah, I get that.”

“Tang?”

“Just… just a bad memory. I’ll be fine.” Tang took a breath to reset his thoughts. He twisted around so he could see both Pigsy and Wukong at the same time. “So, how do I look?”

 “Oh. My. God,” Wukong gasped, his eyes wide as he clutched his paws to his cheeks.

“What?” Tang’s stomach flipped. Had something gone wrong?

“You’re adorable!” Wukong’ tail formed a heart shape behind him as he squealed. “I knew I looked cute when I transformed, but that was a given. You’re just so… so…! Eee!” Wukong began stepping in place as words failed him and his excitement grew. 

“Ah.” Tang could feel the skin under his fur begin to heat up. “That’s- uh- good to know? I honestly thought something was wrong at first.”

“Sorry, sorry! I just… really like small, cuddly animals,” Wukong said, doing his best to calm himself.

“I… I’m not sure how I feel about being called ‘small and cuddly’,” Tang said with a slight frown. 

“Right! Sorry!” Wukong shook his head, but tentatively reached his paw out. “I’ll stop but… Can I ruffle your fur real quick first?”

“Uh…”

“Okay, that’s enough!” Pigsy slapped Wukong’s paw out the air. “You’ve already felt him up enough as it is, what with you caressing his face earlier! Don’t think I didn’t notice that!”

“What?” Wukong blinked in what looked like genuine confusion.

“Don’t play dumb! You said you and the other furball were going to work out whatever is going on between you two first, and yet here you are making some moves!”

“Uh, guys,” Tang began to interject, but was quickly spoken over.

“Firstly, what’s going on between Macaque and I is none of your business. Secondly, what  in the world are you talking about?”

“You were flirting with Tang just now!” Pigsy seemed ready to blow steam from his ears. “Calling him cute and cuddly and trying to pet him even though it was making him uncomfortable!”

“Guys,” Tang tried again.

“That was not flirting!” Wukong was scowling now as well. “I just think rabbits are really cute! I’ll admit to getting a bit over excited, but I wasn’t trying to flirt!”

“Oh, sure! Do you go up to every rabbit demon you meet and tell them how adorable they are to their faces? I bet treating them like an animal instead of a person goes over well.”

“Guys!”

Tang’s shout startled them out of their arguing. He took a deep breath and clenched his fists as they turned to look at him.

“You… You both are supposed to be making sure this whole process remains as stress free as possible,” he gritted out, resisting the urge to start yelling as well. “I’m relying on you two to help me through this. You… You promised you wouldn’t fight.”

They began trying to defend themselves, raising their voices to be heard over the other. Tang made a frustrated scream and abruptly pushed past them. He turned to glare at them from the doorway to his bathroom.

“Excuse me. I need a moment to myself.”

As much as he wanted to, he did not slam the door shut. The very audible click as he locked it was satisfying however.

Tang leaned back against the door, sliding down it to sit on the floor. He buried his face in his arms and did his best to keep his breathing under control. He loved his family dearly, but dammit all they made him want to rip his fur out sometimes!

He winced as he heard them shout at each other through the door. Clasping his hands over his ears, Tang did his best to drown out their voices.

Pigsy and Wukong fighting wasn’t an uncommon occurrence. Even in cycles where they were friendly with each other they bickered over the smallest things. The fact they were fighting about him wasn’t even something new to Tang. Both could be rather possessive and prone to jealousy. Pigsy being the jealous one this time was just another normal variable that he had come to expect from the cycles.

Tang tightened his grasp on his ears as he felt tears well up in his eyes.

This wasn’t a surprise. He shouldn’t be this upset. This had happened hundreds, if not thousands, of times before. Tang was technically the oldest and most responsible between the three of them. He should have mediated and made them talk through this misunderstanding like he usually did.

And yet…

Tang did his best to keep his sobs quiet.

He had thought by sharing his story with his family that it would help. For the most part, it had. Everyone had been fairly accommodating to him. So was it selfish to have hoped they would continue to hold back for him? That they would put his need for their support above their seemingly instinctual need to argue?

Maybe it was. After all, from their point of view, it had been like the Tang they knew had changed overnight. Transforming into an emotional, needy wreck with impossible knowledge and some rather presumptuous notions on his relationship with them all. They were probably just as stressed and anxious as he was. Of course they would be fighting. He had managed to screw everything up just by existing.

Tang sniffed and removed his hands from his ears to wipe his nose. Pigsy’s and Wukong’s voices were muffled now. So they had stopped shouting. That was good, he supposed. He wasn’t needed to help mediate then. Which made sense. It was his fault they had been fighting in the first place. His presence wouldn’t have helped. He was completely useless.

That… that wasn’t really being fair to himself.

Tang blinked at that thought. It sounded like something Sandy would say.

What would Sandy say about all this?

Tang closed his eyes and attempted to calm his breathing as he tried to imagine what his large blue friend would think about this.

He would probably tell Tang that he wasn’t being selfish. That he had only just recently escaped from a pretty traumatic situation. That it was normal to rely heavily on others while he recovered. That it was okay to be upset with them when they didn’t take his feelings into consideration.

But… but he also couldn’t expect them to always put him first. They were people too, with their own emotions and needs. That repressing those negative feelings was just as bad as repressing the positive ones. How that didn’t mean they should take it out on each other. That fighting wasn’t a healthy outlet. How it wasn’t his fault if they did fight and how it wasn’t his job to stop them.

Tang’s breathing evened out. It likely wasn’t the exact advice Sandy would give, but it was close enough to help clear his thoughts. He was still upset. But now that he had calmed down a bit he could start to think more rationally. There were things he would need to discuss with Pigsy and Wukong and he wouldn’t be able to communicate them properly if let just his emotions guide his words.

Tang listened for a moment but could no longer hear the others’ voices through the door. Either they were silently waiting for him or had left to cool down. That was fine by him. He could use the time to plan out what he wanted to say.

Before he could do that however, he probably should clean up a bit. Tang wrinkled his nose at the sensation of his tears drying and matting his fur. It seemed the fur on his face was ever so slightly longer and thicker as a rabbit as opposed to a monkey. Just something he would have to adjust to.

Tang picked himself up off the floor and stood at the sink in preparation to wash his face. He glanced up into the mirror reflexively and froze. His reflection stared back at him, wearing the expression of surprise he was feeling. Knowing that he had been partially transformed into a rabbit was one thing. Seeing it for himself for the first time was… Well. It almost didn’t feel real. 

The dark, chocolate brown rabbit in the mirror was certainly real enough to mimic his movements as he examined himself. His snout was narrower than his dragon form, but still just as expressive. He ran a hand through the fur on the top of his head, which was long enough to resemble his usual hairstyle in his base form. Tang gently lifted one of his drooping ears, the proper term was lop if he remembered correctly, to get a look at the inner side. The fur on this side, while incredibly thin, was just as dark as the rest.

Tang frowned a bit at how… uniform he looked. He did like the chocolate brown, but perhaps he could add a secondary color to break things up?

Deciding to worry about that later, he let his ear fall back into place before opening his mouth to examine his teeth. The increased size of his front incisors was expected. The extra set of canines replacing a set of his premolars was not. He pulled at his cheek to get a better look. They seemed… rather sharp. Well, he was a rabbit demon, at least partially. Demons, despite being omnivores, did tend to have a preference for meat. It seemed biting was now a viable form of self defense for him if it came down to it.

Closing his mouth, Tang took his whole reflection in and smiled. It wasn’t quite exactly what he was expecting. There were a few things he might decide to change. But he could see himself, and only himself in it. The color of his eyes. The style of his head fur. Even his expressions were things that he could still recognize from his base form, but were completely untouched by Her influence.

Humming to himself, he turned on the faucet and began scrubbing his face clean. It felt a bit awkward with the gloves. He looked forward to when Wukong would help him transform his hands. Although he wasn’t sure how he would react if he wasn’t able to hold onto Pigsy’s hands for support.

He paused for a moment as he dried his face with a towel. Oh right. Wukong and Pigsy. He still needed to deal with them. Hopefully they had managed to talk through their issues and he didn’t need to go looking for them to get them to communicate.

Tang sighed as he turned and leaned back against the sink. He closed his eyes as he thought. Even if they had apologized to each other, there were things Tang needed to talk to them about. He wasn’t completely blameless for why the argument happened in the first place. He would have to clarify a few things between them all if these transformation sessions were to continue.

He stood there for several minutes, going over how he wanted to word what he wanted to say. A soft knock on the door pulled him from his thoughts.

“Tang?” Pigsy’s voice sounded uncertain. “Can… Can we talk?”

Tang took a step towards the door.

“Is Wukong with you?” he called out. He didn’t want to have to repeat himself more than once if he had to.

“Yes, he is. There’s some things we’d like to say.”

Tang took a deep breath. Looks like his time to rehearse was up. Hopefully he’d be able to say what he wanted in a way that was understandable.

“Okay.”

Tang unlocked the door and stepped back into his bedroom. Pigsy and Wukong were standing there with contrite expressions. They shared a glance before Wukong took a step forward.

“I’m sorry for how I acted earlier,” he began, looking Tang in the eye and remaining serious. “Treating you like a cute animal was demeaning and inappropriate. You’re a fully aware person and should be treated as such. I promise I won’t let myself get carried away like that again.

“I also apologize for not warning either of you over how… intimate the process of helping you transform would appear. I promise you there wasn't any alternative meaning behind it. It’s simply how it’s done.”

“I’m sorry I blew up at you about that,” Pigsy said as he stepped forward. “I didn’t know I could get so jealous or possessive like that. I know you didn’t mean anything by it.

“I’m sorry for starting a fight even though I promised you I wouldn’t, Tang. I was supposed to help with your stress, not add to it. I’ll do my best to keep my temper in check. But I… I’ll understand if you don’t want me to come to these sessions anymore.”

Tang let out a breath. He was glad they had managed to work through their grievances for the most part. Now it was his turn.

“I appreciate and accept your apologies. However, I need to apologize as well.” Tang held up a hand to stop Pigsy and Wukong as they began to protest. “Please, just listen.

“I’m… I’m extremely grateful for you, for all of you, for being so accommodating. You’ve been nothing but kind and supportive as I recover from my… ordeal. I honestly don’t know if I’d be managing as well if you weren’t all here.

“But I’m worried that you may be repressing some of your own feelings while trying to be mindful of mine.”

“Huh?” Pigsy frowned in confusion. “What do you mean?”

“Pigsy, I’m going to need you to be completely honest with me.” Tang took a deep breath as Pigsy agreed hesitantly. “Pigsy, did you agree to the idea of Wukong and Macaque potentially entering into a relationship with us in the future because you were actually okay with it, or because you thought it was something I wanted and didn’t want to upset me?”

“I-” Pigsy’s eyes went wide and he floundered for a moment. “I don’t- I mean I- I can get used to the idea-”

“That’s not what I asked.” Tang shook his head. This was what he had been afraid of. “I… I can’t be okay with anyone trying to help me by doing things that will make them unhappy. It’s not good for either of us and will only lead to more pain in the end.

“So I’ll ask once more. Pigsy, are you okay with us possibly entering into a relationship with Wukong and Macaque in the future, yes or no?”

“I-” Pigsy swallowed. He clenched his fists and turned away. “No. No, I'm not okay with the idea.”

“Okay.”

“Okay?” Pigsy looked back up in shock.

“Okay,” Tang nodded. “I’m not going to make you do something you aren’t comfortable with. You are my partner right now, so if you say you don’t want to have others join in, we won’t.”

“Just like that?”

“Just like that. I may ask for your reasoning later in private, but your wants are just as important as mine. I refuse to make you feel obligated to do something you don’t want just for my sake, and I’m sorry if you felt like you had to.”

“Oh. That’s…” Pigsy’s shoulders slumped as an unseen tension bled out of him. “That’s a bit of a relief actually.”

“Honestly? Same here,” Wukong said. “I’m fine with the idea, but Macaque isn’t. It’s, uh, one of the main things we’re still fighting about. Having the pressure taken off of us is going to be a big help while we figure things out. Although I should probably take your example and let him know what he wants is important too.”

“I’m sorry,” Tang sighed. “I didn’t mean to make you feel like you all had to join into a relationship together.”

“It’s not your fault. I’m sorry I wasn’t honest about how I was feeling,” Pigsy said, rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. “Could have probably avoided this whole argument if I spoke up earlier.”

“Well, we live and we learn, right?” Wukong said. “Now that we’ve cleared all this up we’ll be able to be more careful about it going forward.”

“Right,” Tang agreed with a nod. He staggered a bit and grabbed onto the door frame of the bathroom as he felt a slight wave of dizziness. “Whoa.”

“Tang?” Pigsy quickly moved over to help steady his partner. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah. Just dizzy for a moment.”

“Oh right!” Wukong turned and picked up a serving tray that Tang had failed to notice. “I almost forgot! Even though I was the one guiding the process, it was your magic and energy fueling the transformation. You’re going to need to replenish yourself, so Pigsy and I went to get you some snacks after we talked things through.”

Wukong carefully placed the tray on the ground and motioned for the two to join him on the floor. Once they had situated themselves, he removed the cover of the tray.

“Help yourselves,” Wukong said as he snatched a bag of marshmallows and popped them open. 

Tang looked over the selection of snacks and blinked in surprise. 

“Chocolate wafers and orange juice?”

“Well, they’re your favorite,” Pigsy said as he grabbed an apple for himself. “I picked some up at the last city we visited. I, uh, was going to save them as a surprise but thought you would need some cheering up after the argument.”

“That’s very sweet of you,” Tang said. He leaned over and tried to give Pigsy a kiss on the cheek, but he wasn’t quite used to the shape of his snout. So he settled on a quick nuzzle instead before turning back to the prepared food.

“Be careful,” Wukong warned in between marshmallows. “A rabbit’s sense of taste is way stronger than what you’re used to.”

Tang nodded and dipped one of the wafers into the orange juice. Once it had absorbed enough to be slightly soft, he took a bite. Tang’s eyes widened and he started to cough at the explosion of flavor. He swallowed quickly to avoid spraying food everywhere and continued to cough into his arm.

“Tang!”

“I warned him.”

“I’m fine,” Tang gasped as his eyes watered. “Damn, I wasn't prepared. That was… incredible.”

He quickly dipped another wafer into his drink and took another bite, much to the disbelief of his companions. The flavors were still extremely strong, but he was ready this time. He moaned a bit as subtle tones he hadn’t been able to pick up on before danced across his tongue. It was like heaven in his mouth. If this was just what a simple snack could taste like, he couldn’t wait to try Pigsy’s cooking like this.

“Figures he’d adjust quickly when there’s food involved,” Pigsy snorted. He paused just before he took a bite of his apple and frowned. “Wait… isn’t chocolate bad for rabbits?”

“For normal rabbits, yes,” Wukong answered. “Some rabbit demons do have to follow the same dietary restrictions as their animal counterparts, but that’s less than four percent of them. As we’re the ones in control of how Tang transforms, we also control whether he has to adhere to it or not.”

“Obviously, we decided to not go with the restricted diet,” Tang said as he swallowed another wafer. “There’s too much good food out there for me to give up on it all.”

He glanced at Pigsy who had laughed and returned to his apple. Well… almost all foods. There was one he wouldn’t be touching for the rest of his existence.

Tang shook his head to clear his thoughts and avoid thinking about that.

“Ack!”

Tang’s lop ears had been sent flopping around as he shook his head and were currently resting across his snout and eyes, blocking his vision. He didn’t need to see to hear Wukong’s snickers. He reached up to untangle his ears, only for one of them to droop into the glass of orange juice he was still holding, getting it soaked

There was a stunned silence for a moment before Tang, quickly followed by Wukong and Pigsy, started to laugh at the absurdity of it all. The stress from earlier had completely melted away. And if being a bit clumsy with his new ears was all that was needed to get Wukong shining gold with mirth, well Tang could live with that for now.

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Tang sighed as he rubbed his left ear in an attempt to quell the ticklish sensation in his ear canal. The past few days had been somewhat tiring. Each morning Wukong would guide his magic through transforming his head into a rabbit’s and each evening he would guide it back. It was taking a bit of a toll on Tang if he was to be honest. Perhaps they should take a break for a few days.

He frowned and began to rub a bit harder. The tickling wouldn’t go away. It started just after breakfast. He had ignored it at first, more preoccupied with how warm he had been feeling. He had thought it was just him not being used to the thickness of his new fur. But going out to stand in the fresh air on deck hadn’t helped much, especially once it started raining shortly afterwards.

Tang scowled as the sensation changed from ticklish to itchy. There was a building pressure that he had barely noticed but realized he had been feeling all day. That certainly wasn’t helping with his headache.

He shoved his hand under his ear in an attempt to reach directly into the ear canal and scratch the itch. Before he could wiggle a finger too far down someone grabbed his wrist and pulled it away.

“Tang!” Pigsy scolded. “Don’t do that! You can hurt yourself by shoving things in your ear.”

“But it itches,” Tang whined. He pulled his hand free and went back to furiously rubbing over the top of his ear in vain.

“Tang, are you alright?” Sandy asked.

“I…” Tang looked around the living room as he thought about it. Everyone was staring at him with expressions of curiosity or concern. “I don’t know.”

“What do you mean?” Pigsy reached out and gently pulled his hand away from his ear again.

“My inner ear itches. There’s a pressure building up there and I have a headache. I thought I was just overheating earlier but I might also have a fever?”

“That doesn’t sound good,” Wukong said as he made his way over. “Lift your ear for a second and I’ll take a look inside.”

Tang did as instructed, squirming a bit as he resisted the urge to stick a finger down it again. Wukong leaned down closely and activated his Gold Vision.

“Damn,” he said with a scowl after a minute of inspection. “Ear infection.”

“How did that happen?” MK wondered in concern.

“Rabbits with lop ears have a harder time cleaning them out and thus are more prone to infection,” Wukong explained as he straightened up. “Though it might have been the orange juice…”

“Orange juice?”

“Not important. The problem is that we don’t have the medicine to treat it on the ship right now. We’re nowhere near a town or city to buy some, but until we do get it treated I won’t be able to transform him back. Internal injuries and transformations don’t mix well unless you’ve mastered the full technique.”

“Isn’t he going to revert back after a while anyway?” Red Son reminded them all. “That means we’re on a time limit.”

“We could try transferring him some magic and hope it holds until we find a town,” Macaque suggested.

“I might have something that we can use,” Tang said, getting their attention. “I’ll need a bowl though.”

Once a bowl had been obtained, Tang held his hands out over it. He took a breath and focused. His hands began to glow with a golden-yellow light. As he continued to channel his magic, the light seemed to thicken. Before long it began to drip from his hands, coalescing in the bowl as a shining liquid.

“There,” Tang sighed, stopping the flow once the bowl was half full and leaning back into his seat.

“What is it?” Mei asked.

“An all-purpose general healing elixir,” Tang answered with a yawn. “It won’t automatically cure anything, but it acts as a disinfectant, antibiotic, stomach soother, and fever reducer. A few drops of this every few hours and my ear should be better in a day or two.” He yawned again. “Learned how to make it back when I was obsessively training to keep you all safe. Takes a lot out of you though.”

“We just said that reverting back would be bad for you,” Wukong said with a scowl. “Please don’t expend your energy like that again or it will happen before we get you healed up.”

“Sorry.” Tang shook his head to try and chase the tiredness away, but scowled as his ears went flopping over his face again. “Stupid ears. I’m starting to think they’re more trouble than they’re worth.”

“I thought you liked them?” Sandy said as he prepared a dropper for the elixir.

“I like how they look,” Tang clarified. “But they get in the way whenever I shake my head or lean over something. I’ve also noticed that while I can hear things in front of or behind me a lot better, things directly to my side are actually muffled. Now there’s the possibility of them getting infected more often than not.

“I… I think I’m probably going to switch them to the erect style.”

“You sure?” Pigsy asked, taking Tang’s hand and squeezing it in reassurance. “I know you were pretty excited about them being this way.”

“That was before I knew how much a hassle they were,” Tang sighed, wincing as the itchiness in his ear grew. “I’d rather not have to deal with them getting infected again if I don’t have to.”

“Well, it’s your choice.”

“Right. Wukong?”

“Yeah?” The Monkey King blinked. “Wait, you mean right now?”

“If you think it won’t use up too much of my energy,” Tang said. “I can wait if you think it will, but I would prefer to get it done as soon as possible.”

“Well… It shouldn’t,” Wukong admitted reluctantly. “It’s only a few small muscles that will need to be adjusted. Since it’s all external it won’t mess with your infection. If you're sure, I can do it, but only if you promise to do nothing but rest for the remainder of the day.”

“I can certainly do that,” Tang agreed with a yawn. “Might even take a nap out here once you’re through.”

“Ooh! Living room sleepover!” MK jumped up in excitement. “I’ll go get blankets and pillows!”

“I’ll make some soothing tea,” Sandy said enthusiastically.

“I’ll find some relaxing tunes!” Mei began typing away at her phone.

“I’ll wait here, like a sane person,” Red Son huffed.

“Might as well transform my ears now while we wait,” Tang said with a smile.

The transformation didn’t take long. Tang marveled at how he could now move his ears around freely. The muffled noises were no longer a problem and he could hear everything around him with a sharp clarity.

As MK set up the bedding, Pigsy helped apply the elixir with the dropper. Tang shivered a bit at the sensation of liquid flowing into his ear, but sighed in relief as the itching finally faded.

“Ooh, here's a good playlist,” Mei said. “Chill LO-FI Beats to Relax and Recover From an Ear Infection To!”

“Of course,” Red Son groaned with a roll of his eyes.

Tang snickered as Mei began streaming the genuinely relaxing music to the sound system. He leaned against Pigsy’s shoulder and pulled one of the blankets up around them. The others all made themselves comfortable in various ways as well.

Tang hummed to himself in satisfaction. The gentle music. The rain pattering against the windows. MK’s soft snickers and glowing as Mei showed him funny things on her phone. The smell of Sandy’s tea. It all combined into a wonderfully warm and cozy atmosphere. Before long he drifted into a peaceful sleep.

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Tang focused as he did his best to mold the clay into the shape he was imagining with his paws. It had taken two full week's rest after recovering from his ear infection before Wukong had been comfortable enough to start the transformations again. Once he was, Tang had picked for his hands to be next so he could get rid of the confining gloves.

It was taking some time to adjust to his paws. The fingers were shorter for one, with only two segments instead of three. The same was true for his thumbs having only a single segment, but were still fully opposable. Instead he had a set of claws growing out of each of his digits. They were decently sharp, as Tang had discovered after nearly drawing blood by scratching his face. He’d have to be a bit more careful and relearn the proper pressure to apply.

He had paw pads now as well. They certainly made gripping things easier than if they were completely covered in fur. His fingers were wider than he was used to to accommodate the pads. It was a bit frustrating for Tang for the first few days. He kept misjudging when he went to grab things. Being used to the normal length of his fingers, he would snag objects by his claws and send them falling to the ground.

After being banished from the kitchen for breaking a third glass, Tang dragged out the giant basin of clay he still had. He couldn’t break the material no matter how clumsy he was and set about messing with it to get a feel for how his new fingers moved. He grew bored of his stuffy room after the first hour and relocated to the living room where the light was better.

He was rather pleased with his progress so far. Three of the simplified zodiac animals he had decided to make were finished and he was near completion on the fourth. They weren’t his best work as he wasn’t using his earth shaping, but he could live with that. Tang was happy to discover that his new claws were very handy when it came to some of the more intricate details.

Tang’s ears twitched and rotated back as he heard hurried footsteps from down the hall. He looked up in time to see Macaque dash in followed closely by MK and Mei who were holding… feather dusters?

“Stay away from me!” Macaque was rather breathless as he jumped over the couch and landed opposite of the coffee table Tang was working at.

“You’re trapped now!” Mei declared victoriously. “Prepare for a tickling of your lifetime!”

“Stay back!” Macaque reached down into Tang’s basin and scooped up a glob of clay. “I’m armed!”

“Hey!” Tang’s protest was ignored as Macaque threw the clay at the approaching menaces.

“Eep!”

MK and Mei managed to duck down in time. The clay went flying and-

SPLAT!

-hit Wukong, who had appeared in the doorway, square in the face.

There was a stunned silence for a moment as they all froze. Wukong slowly wiped the clay from his face and just stared at it with a stupefied expression.

“Pfft… Bwahahahaha!” Macaque began to cackle. He glowed a bright purple while his six ears glowed blue, pink, and green.

WHAP!

Macaque’s laughter cut off as he was struck by the clay. Wukong smirked from where he had thrown it and laughed at Macaque’s look of shock. The black furred monkey growled as he reached once more into Tang’s basin.

“Uh oh…” MK said.

Soon clay was flying all over the living room. Tang quickly cast a dome of protection over his figurines to save them from the line of fire. It wasn’t a moment too soon as a wad of clay hit him in the back of the head. He turned and glared at a guilty looking Mei.

“I was aiming for Macaque!”

“Oh, I bet you were.” Tang raised his hands and they began to glow golden-yellow. Three spheres of clay rose from the basin and began orbiting him as he smirked. “Doesn’t mean I can’t get my revenge!”

“That’s cheating!”

Tang responded to her objection with a clay ball to the face.

Cries of success, shouts of surprise, and peals of laughter filled the air as the clay was flung back and forth. It quickly turned in everyone against Tang as he used his earth shaping to gain the upper hand. He stood in the middle of the room, dodging or catching the projectiles as they came at him. He did his best to redirect the clay towards their hiding spots, but mostly hit the furniture they were taking shelter behind.

By the time the basin was empty, both the combatants and the room were caked with clay. As the laughter faded and the adrenaline died down from the lack of ammunition, the realization of what they had done slowly crept in.

“Oooh, Sandy’s gonna kill us,” Mei bemoaned as she tried to scrape some clay off the wall.

“At least it looks like we didn’t break anything,” Macaque said and he uprighted a fallen chair.

“No, but I’m not sure this is going to come out,” MK sighed as he held up a stained couch cushion.

“Don’t worry, I can fix this,” Tang reassured.

“You can?”

“Trust me. Just try to stand somewhere there’s not a lot of clay and hold your arms out.”

“If you say so,” Wukong said with a shrug.

Once they had all found a spot to stand, Tang closed his eyes and focused. He began to use his earth shaping to sense the room around him. Lifting his hands, he began to turn slowly in place. He gently pulled any clay he could feel from the surface it was stuck to and collected it in the center of the room. After a few minutes he opened his eyes and lowered the giant ball of clay back into the basin.

“That was awesome!” MK looked around the room in awe. “You got almost all of it! The rest shouldn’t take too long to clean up now.”

“I’m surprised you even managed to get it off our clothes,” Mei said, examining her jacket.

“Wish the same could be said about our fur,” Macaque grumbled as he pulled out a tiny piece of clay.

“I could probably get it out if you let me run my paws through your fur,” Tang suggested.

“Please.”

Macaque sat on the ground in front of Tang while the others began cleaning up the few remaining bits he had missed. He reactivated his earth shaping and gently ran his paws through his fur. Being mindful of his claws, he carefully combed the fur with his fingers, allowing whatever clay he found to stick to his paws.

“Hmmm… You’re pretty good at this.” Macaque had relaxed into Tang’s touch as he worked. A soft purr began to emanate from him as he closed his eyes.

“Alright, I think I got it all,” Tang said a few minutes later. He blinked in surprise as Macaque’s purrs trailed off into gentle snores.

“Did you just put him to sleep?” MK asked slack jawed.

“I… I guess I did.” He looked up as he absently flicked the collected clay into the basin. “Do you want to go next, Wukong?”

“Sure,” Wukong said. “Don’t think you’ll catch me falling asleep like a newborn though.”

Unfortunately for the Monkey King, Tang’s ministrations were apparently extremely relaxing and he too succumbed to slumber.

“This is great,” Mei whispered as she snapped pictures of the two monkeys leaning against each other as they slept.

“Did either of you two want me to get the clay out of your hair as well?”

“And get put to sleep by your chloroform hands? No way!” Mei put her phone away and made to leave. “I’ll just take a shower, thank you very much.”

“Suit yourself,” Tang shrugged. He dismissed the protective dome around the coffee table and picked up the figurine he had been working on.

“Uh…”

Tang looked up and found MK standing there. He was shuffling from side to side and didn’t seem to know where to put his hands.

“Yes, MK?”

“I… I wouldn’t mind you getting the clay out of my hair.”

“Oh.” Tang smiled as he put the figure back down. “Well then come over here and we’ll get started.”

Some hours later, Tang dimmed the lights of the living room as he left so it wouldn’t disturb its three sleeping occupants. On the coffee table rested a full set of the twelve zodiac animals.

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Tang examined himself in the mirror and frowned. It only took one week this time for Wukong to agree to move on from transforming just his hands. Now his entire torso was transformed. Outside of being covered in the same chocolate brown fur, he didn’t feel much different. Wukong mentioned something about a flexible spine and sturdier arms for running. Tang hadn’t made it that far in his own studies to really understand what he meant.

He probably should have asked some clarifying questions. However, with more of his body being transformed at once came the price of having to spend more energy to do so. Tang had needed some food and a nap right after they had finished. He had only woken up a few minutes ago in fact. This was his first chance to see how he looked.

Tang didn’t consider himself exceedingly vain. Yet as he looked at how uniform his fur was in his reflection, he couldn’t help but feel a bit dissatisfied. Being the same color all over felt… Bland. Boring. Maybe even unimpressive. Not that he wanted to stand out in a crowd like a flashing neon sign. He just wanted something to break up his silhouette.

Luckily he had time to figure out what he wanted. He could even experiment a bit with a spell that changed the color of one’s hair. It should work just as well on fur and since it was completely cosmetic it wouldn’t mess with his transformation.

First he would need to figure out what pattern his secondary coat color would be. Using a bright neon green to mark it out, he began to play around with some options.

Just his chest? A good start but not enough.

Chest and abdomen? Better. Perhaps it could extend past his waist once fully transformed.

Ears? Unlike the lop ears his erect ears didn’t have fur on the inner side and had exposed pink skin. They were rimmed with fur however. Something to think about.

Arms? Hmm… Maybe just the undersides?

Tang sighed as more and more options seemed to come to mind. This was trickier than he thought. He should probably pick a color first before he decides on a pattern anyway. That way he would know if where he was deciding to change his fur would look good with it. The bright neon green wasn’t really helping.

Sticking with just changing his chest and abdomen for now, Tang started to cycle through various colors.

Red? Very striking. But also very noticeable. It looked a bit too much like he was bleeding all over.

Yellow? It matched the brown very well. But he was honestly sick of the color. That was a no.

Cream? Nope nope nope nope nope nope! That had been way too close to white for his tastes. That was one color he hoped his fur never became.

Tan? Better than cream at least. But it was still somewhat bland.

Pink? Probably a softer shade than that. Yes, that was nice. It reminded him of Neapolitan ice cream though.

Purple? It didn’t look bad. It just didn’t grab him that much either.

“Tang?” Pigsy called as he knocked on the bathroom door.

“Come in,” Tang answered absently. What if it was lavender instead?

“It’s almost time for lunch,” Pigsy said as he opened the door. He blinked as he watched the fur on Tang’s front change from lavender to deep violet. “Uh, what’s up with your fur?”

“Hmm? Oh, sorry.” Tang canceled the color changing spell, reverting to chocolate brown. “I just think being a single color all over is a bit boring,” he said with a sigh. “I was testing to see what secondary color I might want to try.”

“Not having much luck?”

“Not yet.”

“Well I ain’t good at this kind of stuff,” Pigsy admitted. “I’m not artsy like MK.”

“That’s alright,” Tang reassured his partner as he stretched. “I’ll figure it out.”

“Why don’t you look at some actual rabbit breeds?” Pigsy suggested as he stepped aside to let Tang exit the bathroom. “Maybe you’ll get inspired.”

“Not a bad idea, actually,” Tang said as he pulled on a shirt. “But that can wait until after lunch. I’m starving!”

“Ha! Never known a time when you weren’t!”

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Tang carefully walked around the clearing on his new legs. It had been a bit hard to convince Wukong to skip the plantigrade shaped feet and jump straight to digitigrade. He had tried convincing the scholar that it would take too long to adjust to them, but Tang had insisted. He had already given up on one of his preferred traits with the lop ears. He wanted to at least try before dismissing another.

The next month had been rather laborious. Standing was actually a little painful at the start as he wasn’t used to balancing all of his weight on just his toes. Walking was out of the question. He had spent most of the first week sitting in bed stretching and massaging his feet to get a feel for them. Luckily he had his studies on anatomy to keep him occupied.

Sandy, the wonderful friend that he was, had come through and constructed a water tank with a treadmill that was commonly used in physiotherapy. The first few sessions had been utterly exhausting. Wukong had nearly put his foot down and called the whole thing off after Tang almost passed out while still in the tank. He had managed to convince the Monkey King to let him keep going, but just barely. After a week and a half of consistent practice, and some rather liberal application of recovery spells, he was able to last a full three hours with no pain.

He began moving around the ship on his own after that. It was more difficult without the water to help hold his weight, but he managed to hobble around without needing too much assistance. He still grew tired if he stood too long, but that also improved over time. After another week he didn’t even need to hold onto the walls for support.

Tang breathed in the crisp air and smiled. It was unseasonably pleasant. Just slightly chilly instead of the usual cold at the start of late Fall. He was glad they had picked today to park the ship for maintenance as it would probably be the last nice day outside as Winter loomed closer.

“Hey, Tang!”

Tang looked up and waved as MK and Mei approached. He had to actually look down a bit as they came near, thanks to the slight increase in height provided by the shape of his feet. It was a bit strange being the second tallest after Sandy.

“Mei and I are going to race to see who can cross the clearing faster,” MK explained in breathless excitement once they reached the scholar. “Wanna join in?”

“I don’t know…” Tang hummed in thought as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other. “I haven’t really tried anything faster than a power walk just yet.”

“It’s only about twenty meters,” Mei said. “A short sprint might be good for you.”

“Perhaps.” Tang stretched his legs. He had been feeling a bit restless just walking around. “Oh, alright. But we should get Wukong to watch just in case something goes wrong.”

“This is a bad idea,” Wukong grumbled later as he stood to the side of the three participants. “You haven’t even tried jogging yet. You’re going to hurt yourself.”

“I’m going to have to try running eventually,” Tang said as he stepped in place. “Might as well get it out of the way now with you on hand in case something does go wrong.” He stretched his arms up over his head and glanced over at the sulking monkey with a raised eyebrow. “Or would you rather I have to figure it out in the middle of a dangerous situation?”

“Yeah, yeah, I get it. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

“Come on!” MK was practically bursting with energy. “Let’s do this!”

“Alright, alright,” Wukong sighed. He raised an arm in preparation to signal the start of the race. “On your marks.”

The three of them all took their positions.

“Get set.”

Tang tensed.

“Go!”

Tang shot forward as Wukong swiped his arm down. He kept his whole focus on staying upright as he ran. He was moving quite fast, to his surprise. He had known rabbits were built for running, but feeling the wind racing past his ears was an exhilarating experience.

Something told him he could be going even faster. That he could outrun anything if he just crouched down and used all four limbs. Lost in the rush of adrenaline, he decided to do just that. With a short leap he tried straightening his back to be parallel with the ground and reached out in front of him with his arms. A moment of sharp clarity hit Tang just before his hands hit the dirt and two thoughts blared in his mind.

The first was the realization that his arms and torso weren’t transformed right now.

The second was that this was probably going to hurt a lot.

Tang barely heard Wukong’s shout of alarm as his arms gave out under him and he went tumbling across the ground. He rolled for a few feet before coming to a halt in an undignified heap. Groaning at the new bruises he felt, he straightened out to lie on his back. He stared up at the sky as he tried to get his breathing back under control.

For some reason, he found the situation amusing and giggled. Probably a side effect of the adrenaline still coursing through his system. He laughed a bit harder when Wukong’s unimpressed expression passed into his vision as the monkey leaned over him.

“Well you can’t be too hurt if you find eating shit like that to be funny,” he deadpanned. His brow creased a little in concern. “Unless you’re concussed.”

“I-I’m fine,” Tang snickered. “Just… just a little bruised.” He accepted Wukong’s outstretched paw and pulled himself up. “That was quite the rush!” He leaned slightly against Wukong, still feeling bubbly. “I’m definitely keeping my legs this way. I can’t wait to try that again with the full transformation!”

“I was afraid you’d say that,” Wukong groaned. “Let’s stick to light jogging for now until that happens.”

“Can do,” Tang agreed with a chuckle. He waved over to a concerned looking MK and Mei to let them know he was alright. He hadn’t seen who had finished first, but he felt that he had won something himself.

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Tang panted a bit as he snuggled into Pigsy’s embrace. He felt quite content at the moment and basked in his partner’s presence. He giggled a bit as he felt one of Pigsy’s hands sliding down and began gently playing with his fluffy tail.

“Enjoying yourself?” He teased.

“Mmhmm,” Pigsy hummed in agreement.

“Well, I’m glad you had fun helping me test out my last few bits.”

“Is that what we’re calling it?” Pigsy chuckled. “I’d be more than willing to help ‘test your bits’ anytime.”

“You… you didn’t find it weird?” Tang asked in a sudden wave of self-consciousness. “It’s not like what you’re used to…”

“Yeah, it was different. But it was still good.” Pigsy kissed Tang’s forehead in reassurance. “You were good. Don’t really care what it’s like as long as it’s with you.”

Tang smiled and nuzzled against Pigsy’s chest. They lay there for a bit, enjoying the closeness of the other.

“Wukong says I should be ready to try the full transformation myself soon,” Tang said softly.

“Really?”

“Yeah.” Tang swallowed a bit, suddenly nervous. “He’s been quizzing me on my anatomy studies and says I should only need a few more weeks of review.”

“That’s great,” Pigsy praised as he pulled Tang into a tighter embrace. “You’ve been working so hard on this.”

“What if I mess up?”

“You won’t.”

“But what if?”

“Then Monkey King will help fix it and I’ll be there to support you.”

“But-”

“Shh. Don’t think about it too much. Just relax.”

Tang sighed as Pigsy began purring, unconsciously doing as instructed.

“Cheater.”

“Is it working?”

“You know it is.”

“Then that’s all that matters.”

Tang closed his eyes as he let the vibrations from his partner’s chest soothe him. He had always had a weakness for purring. He couldn’t wait until he could reciprocate with his own.

“Feeling better?” Pigsy whispered into his ear.

“Mmhmm.”

“Good.” His voice became a bit more playful. “Then how about we start test number two with those bits of yours?”

Tang responded with enthusiastic agreement.

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Tang took a deep breath as he stood alone in his room while in his monkey form. It was time.

The others weren’t very happy that he had insisted that he attempt the transformation by himself. Tang had reasoned that he needed to be sure he could do it alone, as he wouldn't have their support at the beginning of the next cycle. They had reluctantly agreed. As a precaution, they were all currently waiting just outside in the hall, ready to burst in at the first sound of Tang’s distress.

Tang shook his head and refocused. There wasn’t much point in putting it off any longer. Quickly disrobing, he sat in the center of the room and began to meditate.

He breathed slowly and evenly. He kept everything he had learned over the past few months at the forefront of his mind. He remembered the flowing sensation of his magic as Wukong had guided it. He recalled how each and every part of his body was supposed to feel from his experiences from the test transformations.

Once he was ready, he cut the magic keeping him in his monkey form and reverted to his base form. 

His human form. 

Shivering a bit at the draft against his suddenly bare body, Tang pressed down on the rising urge to panic and began to circulate his magic as Wukong had taught him. He warmed as it began to form a current through him. Keeping his eyes closed, he brought forth everything he had studied and felt over the past few months. He gently took hold of the swirling flow of magic within and pushed.

The sensation of having his whole body transform at the same time was very disorientating. The tingling all over was much stronger, almost to the point of distraction. Tang resisted the desire to grit his teeth as they were currently rearranging themselves in his jaw and willed himself to stay focused.

His skull elongated and whiskers grew from his snout. His ears lengthened and re-positioned themselves further up his head. His fingers lost a segment and grew claws. His spine grew slightly as a tail sprouted from its base. His feet creaked as the bones rearranged themselves so he would stand on his toes. All of this happened simultaneously and Tang struggled a bit to keep track of it all.

What felt like hours but could have only been minutes passed. Tang did his best to keep his breathing steady and nearly sighed in relief as he felt his fur start to grow in. He redoubled his concentration as he focused on the knowledge of how genes worked to determine the color and pattern of a rabbit’s coat.

The fur stopped growing. His bones stopped shifting. His skin stopped stretching. The tingling began to fade.

Tang kept the circulation of his magic up for a few moments more. Once he double and triple checked that there didn’t seem to be anything else left to shift, he let it go. Taking a steadying breath, Tang opened his eyes just as his magic settled.

He did his best to examine himself from his seated position. His paws and feet looked and felt right. It seemed he got the secondary color he had picked out correct. He could hear and smell things with the expected sharp clarity. His bits were all in order.

He shook his head at how ineffective it was to just stare down at himself. What he needed was to look at his entire body all at once. Tang picked himself up off the floor, breathing a sigh of relief as he was able to stand on his digitigrade feet just fine. He pulled out a strand of fur and blew on it, looking away from the bright flash as it transformed into a full length mirror.

Trembling, Tang stepped in front of the mirror.

He stared.

The rabbit demon in his reflection stared back.

Tang swallowed thickly as he examined the figure in the mirror.

He had managed his fur color correctly. While his face, paws, feet, and he assumed most of his back were the dark chocolate brown he liked, his front was a vibrant reddish brown that blended beautifully together with the darker color. It even rimmed his eyes and inner ears, providing a wonderful contrast.

His breath caught as he looked over the traits that he recognized from his human form. The style of his head fur. The color and shape of his eyes. His expressions. All of it combined together with the rabbit traits and the fur color to make…

Himself.

He slapped a paw over his mouth as his eyes watered.

Tang was looking at himself. That rabbit demon was him. And it was only him.

Overwhelming emotions rushed through him as he reached out and touched the mirror, the reflection that was him copying his movements perfectly.

Incredulity.

Relief.

Hope.

Peace.

Joy.

Euphoria.

Tang couldn’t hold back any longer and began to sob.

The door to his room burst open.

“Tang!” Pigsy rushed over and began looking him over, the others all close behind. “What happened? Are you hurt? Did something go wrong?”

“Pigsy!” Tang hiccuped as he grabbed his partner’s arm and pulled him in front of the mirror. “Look! It’s me!” He laughed through his tears as spread his arms out to fully present himself. “It’s me!”

“It’s… It worked?”

“It worked!” Tang threw his arms around Pigsy’s shoulders and laughed and cried in equal measure. “It worked! It’s me! It’s me! It’s me…”

“Well, uh, congrats and all that,” Wukong coughed, grabbing their attention while he stared up at the ceiling. The others were likewise averting their gazes. “We’ll all just, uh, wait outside for you two then.”

“Huh,” Pigsy blinked as they made a hasty retreat and closed the door behind them. “What was that about? You’d think they’d want to stick around and celebrate.”

“Pigsy,” Tang giggled, finding the whole thing hilarious. “Pigsy, they left because I’m naked.”

“You are?” Pigsy looked down. “Oh. You are.”

Tang couldn’t help it. He laughed. The euphoria of his transformation combined with the hilarity of his oblivious partner just filled him to the brim with joy. It felt like it could burst out of him at any moment.

He started to glow a bright golden-yellow.

“Tang, you’re glowing,” Pigsy said. “Literally.”

“Thanks, I didn’t notice,” Tang snorted. “Guess I- pfft- guess I caught the Giggle Glow. Let me just- hahaha- let me catch my breath.”

The glow dimmed as he got his mirth under control, but occasionally brightened as he continued to giggle.

“Okay. I’m okay. Let me clean up and get dressed then we’ll go celebrate with the others.”

“I mean, it sounded like they would be willing to wait a bit,” Pigsy said. He looked Tang up and down with an appreciative smile. “We could celebrate ourselves first.”

“Later,” Tang promised. “I want to show off my new self to everyone.”

“When you say show off…”

“Don’t worry,” Tang said with a smirk. “You’re the only one who’ll get to see the whole thing.” He shamelessly stretched his arms up over his head. “Once we’ve had our fill of the party, we can come back and I’ll share all of myself with you.”

“Sounds, uh, sounds good,” Pigsy swallowed as he stared at Tang’s form.

Tang snickered, glowing slightly as he moved over to the dresser to pull out some clothes.

Once dressed, he and Pigsy made their way to the living room where they were met with enthusiastic congratulations. The celebratory mood only grew once Wukong confirmed that he could no longer see Tang’s human form with his Gold Vision. The transformation was indeed permanent.

The revelation that Tang had somehow developed the Giggle Glow as well was met with some confusion. They had scratched their heads over it for a few minutes before they all shrugged and moved on with celebrating.

Tang could not remember a time when he felt so happy. Both before and during the cycles. A weight inside him had seemed to have been completely lifted.

He thoroughly enjoyed the party that lasted for most of the day. 

He enjoyed the after party with Pigsy even more.

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As Tumblr only allows for 1,000 blocks of text per post, this chapter has been split into two. The read the rest of this chapter and see my closing notes check out Part 2 Here or scroll back up to click Next. If you prefer a completely uninterrupted experience, click the AO3 Link above.

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[still-a-morosexual-help]

Surely the whole being descended from Lilith couldn't be known by purgatory hall residents??? Because it's very much canon that Simeon is reporting to Michael/Celestial Realm about the goings on in the Devildom. And finding out that hey, Lilith actually lived, courtesy of the prince of the Devildom... I mean we don't know exactly how fraught devildom and celestial relations are but that seems like something that would have Big Consequences.

Celestial Realm just doesn't give me vibes of hearing that and going Well What's Done Is Done, Forgive Forget. The Lilith thing fully seems like something you want the least amount of people knowing, especially when the end goal is to try and negotiate peace between Devildom and Celestial yknow?

Yeah, I completely agree with this. I think one of the main reasons Diavolo banned Lucifer from seeing her as a human and Lucifer decided not to tell his brothers for so long was to keep it as quiet as possible.

Not to mention, in S3 it's revealed that Luke and probably all the newer angels don't know the reason behind the brothers' rebellion or even that Lilith existed. He also says that as remembrance of the 7 brothers there are 7 stars in the Celestial Realm known as the "Seven Brothers". Except that very same season confirms that Satan had (obviously) never stepped foot in the Celestial Realm and despite his existence within Lucifer being formed even before Asmo was created, no one knew about him. Meaning the "seven brothers" constellation is Bullshit, and the seventh star probably represents Lilith. The fact that they're trying to pass it off as Satan though means, that the Celestial Realm is actively trying to hide the existence of Lilith and that the Rebellion was kickstarted because they wanted to execute (?) an angel for constantly sneaking off into the human world and eventually healing a dying human.

So yeah, after everything I don't think they'd be happy about the whole Lilith situation. I mean, if he could change things I don't think Michael would have wanted Lilith executed (?) in the first place for what she did because I do think he loved her the same way he loved the brothers. I think at the time, Michael was - in his mind - making a "hard decision" and choosing the secrecy and lives of the entire Celestial Realm over the life of one angel who was willing to potentially endanger them all for a human. This fits with how the angels seem to see themselves as being extremely righteous while actually being extremely morally grey (see the Devilgram where Lucifer & Diavolo first meet).

Luke also said that Michael still loved and missed the brothers and probably wanted them back. Except Michael within the main story still refers to angels as being "evil & wicked" despite that not being true. Except Luke who looks up so much to Michael sees them in a similar way because even when the two realms are at "peace" that's what Luke was raised to believe. Except in that angel event Michael sent them bracelets to turn them into angels but instead of becoming what they were really like back in the Celestial Realm they turned into these Perfect Angels™. Which was something that even Solomon, who has done some pretty shady & questionable things (getting Asmo drunk so that he could make a pact with him, nearly killing himself in order to summon Barbatos, seeing all his 72 pact demons as pawns and playthings) also finds it disturbing and cruel.

What I was trying to get at is that, though I think it's best for the relations between the Devildom & Celestial Realm that Lilith being reincarnated as a human never got back to the Celestial Realm, I also think that given what he knows now and given the chance, Michael would have done anything to have the 6 brothers and Lilith back in the Celestial Realm but as Perfect Angels™, who didn't use the Celestial Realm's armies as their own personal chess set or sneak out to go fuck humans.

All that being said, while I do think Simeon doesn't know about the Lilith-MC connection I think if it comes down to it, he might choose MC and the brothers over the Celestial Realm? Here me out?

1.) Something happened during the Rebellion that got Simeon demoted from a Seraphim (the highest ranking of angels) to an archangel (A warrior class angel and according to Simeon one of lowest rankings)

2.) Simeon's greatest fear is someone in the Celestial Realm, given that it's shown as a bright light. It could be God but in OM! Michael is always shown as a bright light when he speaks with MC, so it could more possibly be Michael.

3.) Simeon has already lied and gone against Michael for MC and the brothers - when he stole Lucifer's ring from Michael's Lucifer Shrine in S2.

[winterstaroffical]

Mob Psycho 100 2022 Winter Star event (SIGN UPS CLOSED!)

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Artists ASSEMBLE!

This is an event you may be interested in!

Who's excited for Mob Psycho season 3?

In celebration, we have an exciting event!

What is Winter Star?

(It's like Secret Santa! Except this goes into the new year, during winter.)

In this event an artist will gift you a wonderful piece of art, but in return you will have to draw another member a wonderful art piece as well. You will receive art of your favorite Mob Psycho character specifically made for you! Isn't that exciting? And in return you can feel the magic of gifting someone their favorite character in an art piece that you've worked hard on. In my opinion, I love the feeling of joy from another over something I've created.

Now, you're probably wondering, how is this all going to work out? In this post it will teach you step by step how to join. Once you join there's no going back! So be sure to read and re-read everything carefully so that things will go as planned!

Gifting Schedule

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You will have to fill out this template by answering these questions. An easy copy and paste of this questions will be at the end of this post.

•Name

(The name you go by, not your username, unless that's the name go by. Some artists may include your name in your gifted art piece.)

•Favorite characters (Top 3)

(Your top 3 favorite Mob Psycho Characters! The artist, drawing your gift, will choose one of your favorite three.)

•A note to your artist

(You could ask for a pastel colored theme or suggest a crossover with demon slayer, but be aware that these wishes don't have to be followed. Please be very open minded to the gift you receive! They worked really hard on it and we will not accept any disrespect.)

•Characters you prefer drawing (Top 3)

(Which Mob Psycho Characters do you enjoy drawing the most? This will help us assign you to a more comfortable challenge, but it's not guaranteed we'll find the perfect person for you.)

•Your specialties and weaknesses

(What are you great at drawing? Let's say you do well with cute pink themes, or maybe you're a horror artist. Maybe you can't draw muscles or a specific character. This also might help us assign you to a more comfortable challenge but again, it's not guaranteed.)

•Amino or Tumblr?

(This celebration will also be held on our Mob Psycho 100 Amino. If you have an active Amino account, please put both your Mob Psycho Amino username and your Tumblr Username. You may be paired up with a Amino member. If you don't have Amino, that's okay, please just give us your Tumblr username.)

•Second Contact

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•Please send 2 or more pieces of your previous artwork.

(To prove that you are an artist of course. Any level of art is allowed. We just wouldn't want to accidentally accept an imposter.)

When you fully answer these questions you will PRIVATE MESSAGE me these question responses. DO NOT COMMENT your responses on this post. Remember, you are not supposed to know your artist, it's a surprise! You should receive an "Approved 👍" message from me. If you don't get a response within 72 hours, your message may not have been sent. Resend it, or comment on this post "My message did not get approved." When approved, the following steps will proceed in our chat.

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Kyle Mcarley

Favorite characters (Top 3)

Mob, Ritsu, and Reigen

A Note to your artist

I love when Ritsu had the red dimples.

Characters you prefer drawing (Top3)

I'm really good at drawing Mob and Ritsu.

Your specialties and weaknesses

I'm not good at drawing older characters like Reigen, and not totally good at hands. I design more and I draw abstractly.

Amino or Tumblr?

Amino :King Kuso

Tumblr: KingdomKal

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Instagram: KingdomKAL

Please send two of your favorite art pieces.

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If you know any artists that love Mob Psycho please share this post with them. The more people, the better

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After being approved, we will wait until the "Assigning Stars" dates. Only then will I assign you to the person you will be drawing for. If you feel like pulling out of the event, it's better that you tell me BEFORE we assign you to somebody. You can start your art piece immediately once you are assigned the person you are drawing for.

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>>Chris Edwin

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A Note from your Winter Star:

>>Reigen is my favorite and I would like him to be happy and smiling! Thank you for your hard work!

Please enjoy your challenge and remember not to contact your Winter Star, and do NOT post the finishing art piece until the "Posting Period" dates, Which is Jan 20th to Feb 1st. We will also be contacting you in the chat on the dates Dec 27th and Jan 10th to check on progress, and to check to see if you are responsive.

Anything life changing can happen any day and we understand.

Just let us know as soon as possible so we can quickly find a back up artist for you. If you don't respond to the first reminder, we will contact your 'second contact' listed, and if you don't respond, we will try again on the second date. If no response, we will immediately look for another artist.

If you have any very important messages for the person you are drawing for, I will pass them along to your Winter Star and give you their answer. You will not contact the person you are assigned to. Remember, it's a lot like "Secret Santa".

❄Step 3❄

This is the "Drawing Period" and "Posting Period"

Now that you're all ready to go, we've given you 37+ days to go all out for your art piece. Remember we will be messaging you on Dec. 27th and Jan. 10th to check in on your progress. Please respond as soon as you can. Once the "Posting Period" comes along, you will then be allowed to post your well worked on art piece for your Winter Star! Remember not to post the final result until the "Posting Period" Jan. 20th through Feb. 1st. This date may change if EVERY artist gets done earlier. If that happens, you will be told that you can post early. Otherwise, do not post until those dates!! Don't forget to wish them a happy New Year! I also will be messaging all participants a link to their gift post! So don't worry about trying to search for it. Remember to be kind and open minded to the gift you may receive! They worked really hard on it and it's a special gift made just for you!

THE TAG THE TAG THE TAG

PLEASE don't forget to TAG

#MP100WS

This will make it a lot easier to find your posts.

Gifting Schedule

Again

Gathering Stars

Nov. 23rd -- Dec. 12th

Assigning Stars

Dec. 12th -- Dec. 15th

Drawing Period

Dec. 15th -- Jan. 20th

Check In dates:

Dec. 27th and Jan. 10th

Posting Period

Jan. 20th -- Feb. 1st

Tag: #MP100WS

BUT BEFORE MOVING ON

We have specific Guidelines for this Event:

❄Event Regulations❄

Must follow Dates (Gifting Schedule) accordingly.

Posting early is not acceptable unless messaged to do so.

Please be thankful for the gift you may receive.

Be open minded, disrespect will not be tolerated.

Do not contact the person you have been assigned to.

Remember, it's a lot like "Secret Santa". Keep it a surprise and stay anonymous.

No gore, avoid using bloody or violent themes.

If you are ever unsure, ask me beforehand. Or, I can ask your Star if they are comfortable with those themes, but you will not contact them. I will do the messaging, you stay anonymous.

Some ships and Sexual themes are not allowed.

Age gap ships are not allowed, we won't even let you request it. Explicit content is not allowed at all, and nudity isn't allowed either. Drawing an adult character shirtless varies. In short, flirty poses may not be allowed, but in a beach setting it might. Please ask us before going with it.

Your final piece can not just be line art.

You can do black and White shading, manga style or full color. We wouldn't want to give a person an unfinished gift, make it with love as you will receive a gift made with love too.

❄The Yahs and Nahs❄

❌No, your art doesn't have to be related to Christmas or New Years.

It's simply a fun piece of artwork of the character you've been assigned to draw.

✅Yes, you can post your final piece on this Amino AND on Tumblr.

We actually suggest this if you use Amino too. Just don't forget to post only during Jan. 20th through Feb. 1st and don't forget to Tag: #MP100WS

✅Yes, you can draw all 3 of your Star's favorite characters.

This is completely optional as it may be more challenging. Remember, you have 37 days to do it.

If you know any artists that love Mob Psycho please share this post with them, the more people the better!

This marks the end of this post for all regular participants. We suggest reading the entire post one more time to make sure everything will be followed accordingly, I know it's a lot of information but we must keep things organized. Stay tuned if you're interested in being a back up artist.

If you have ANY kinds of questions, message me or comment them.

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CALLING FOR BACK UP ARTISTS

Every event usually has a member that will pull out of the event. It's our job to make sure every Star gets a gift, and nobody gets left behind! You can help out too, here's how:

Message me answering these questions:

Back Up Artist Questions

●Name

(Any name to call you by.)

●Number of art pieces you are willing to draw.

(Be very honest and sure on how many you are willing to complete. Remember you may have to complete it very quickly.)

●Amino or Tumblr

(Do you use this Amino or Tumblr. Not required to have a Tumblr.)

●Second Contact

(Any other contact like Instagram or email.)

●•●•●•●

Yes, you can JUST be a back up artist! You don't have to participate in the entire Winter Star event. You can choose to only help out by being a back up artist.

❗Back up artists do have to be quick. Back up artists may be expected to finish a full piece within 4 days at least, it depends on how soon or late someone decides to pull out of the event.

❗If you are already apart of the Winter Stars event, and we're past the "Gathering Stars" period before deciding to pull out of the event, you can't be a back up artist. If you quit, you quit.

There may be a special group chat with all Back up Artists so that it will be easier for artists to choose what replacement they want to do.

Thank you so much for reading! It means a lot! I've been working very hard on this event and if could help share this with your friends that would mean the world to me! -KAL

Easy Copy and Paste Questions

Winter Star Event Questions:

•Name

•Favorite characters (Top 3)

•A note to your artist

•Characters you prefer drawing (Top 3)

•Your specialties and weaknesses

•Amino or Tumblr?

•Second Contact

•Please send 2 or more pieces of your previous artwork.

Back Up Artist Questions:

●Name

●Number of art pieces you are willing to draw.

●Amino or Tumblr

●Second Contact

Yes, you have to answer all questions even if you're being both a back up artist and normal Winter Star.

[spork-guitar]

I have a Theory™

but first, a disclaimer: this theory is not meant to imply that I think Marinette is abusive and manipulative like Gabriel. I’m only trying to compare their personalities as far as the way they see the world and approach situations, especially involving their respective love interests. please let me know if the way I phrase something at any point seems like I’m justifying and/or condemning something or someone I shouldn’t be, but also know in advance it is not my intent.

okay okay but hear me out here

what if Marinette and Adrien’s relationship was meant to parallel Gabriel and Emilie’s?? like I don’t know enough to have much of a basis for this theory but just listen okay 

we have:

the creative one/(aspiring) fashion designer who:

- is a very talented designer

- is afraid of failure/making mistakes

- has trouble balancing their civilian life with their alter ego

- would do anything to keep their Miraculous identity a secret/to protect themselves and their identity

          - ex: Gabriel letting Simon Says capture him (Simon Says); Gabriel akumatizing himself so his identity won’t be discovered (The Collector)

          - ex: Marinette stealing phones from Adrien (Copycat), Alya (The Mime), and Chloe (Reflekta) for various, mainly self-serving reasons; Marinette (as Ladybug) outing Lila as a liar so Adrien won’t fall for her (Volpina)

- is known for making impulsive decisions and snap judgements that affect other people without considering how those people might be affected

          - ex: Gabriel banning Nino from coming back to the Agreste mansion (Bubbler); Gabriel becoming Hawk Moth under the assumption that Adrien would side with him if he knew what Gabriel was trying to do (Style Queen: “If only I could tell Adrien why I’m doing this. He would understand.”)

          - ex: Marinette shifting blame away from herself and onto the rest of her class when Chloe’s bracelet went missing (Rogercop); Ladybug keeping information from Chat Noir (mainly throughout season 4)

- is intelligent and curious, often coming close to a big revelation only to be dissuaded by a single piece of evidence; interestingly, while they are easily thrown off a trail of otherwise solid evidence, they tend to overcomplicate matters in order to draw suspicion away from themselves

          - ex: Gabriel suspecting Adrien may be Chat Noir, only to drop this theory when he believes he is seeing the two in the same place (Gorizilla)

          - ex: Marinette suspecting Gabriel may be Hawk Moth, only to drop this theory when Gabriel is akumatized (The Collector); Marinette suspecting Chat Noir may also be a student at her school, only to drop this theory when he mistakenly refers to it as an elementary school, while Marinette herself creates a very convoluted plan to cover her tracks (Kwami Buster)

- has a rational-minded “assistant” of sorts who is trusted with their identity

- is connected closely with at least one member of the Bourgeois and Tsurugi families

- is borderline obsessed with their love interest and would do literally anything for them, even if it endangers their identity

          - ex: Gabriel putting the entire city in danger for Emilie many times throughout the course of the series

          - ex: Marinette nearly giving up her Miraculous/revealing her identity to save Adrien (Volpina)

the one in the public eye/model/actor who:

- had blond hair and green eyes, is conventionally attractive

- is associated with birds/feathers

          - ex: Emilie was a previous holder of the Peacock Miraculous

          - ex: while Adrien is allergic to pigeon feathers, there are feathers seen in the background of the famous “Adrien the Fragrance” ad (Gorizilla), and he is also accompanied by birds during a photo shoot (Mr. Pigeon 72)

- is associated with purity/perfection

          - ex: Emilie is pictured surrounded by gold in the mosaic in Gabriel’s office; she is also currently kept in a repository with a transparent case, reminiscent of Snow White’s glass coffin

          - ex: Adrien is referred to throughout the series as “flawless”, “the image of perfection” (Simon Says), and “perfection personified” (Oni-Chan), among other things

- is musically gifted and enjoys music

          - ex: Emilie was a pianist; she also had an extensive collection of records that are currently kept in Adrien’s room (Party Crasher)

          - ex: Adrien is a pianist; Adrien enjoys playing piano duets with other people, including Gabriel (Captain Hardrock), Plagg, and Emilie (Puppeteer 2)

- is associated, however coincidentally, with solitude

          - ex: Emilie’s only known acting role was the lead in a film titled Solitude (Gorizilla)

          - ex: Adrien is often depicted alone or “behind bars” (examples include, Sandboy, Queen Banana, etc.)

- is known to be kind-hearted and generally a nice person, except when the safety of their loved ones is threatened

          - ex: Gabriel compares Adrien and Emilie, calling them “way too overly dramatic” with “quite a temper” when Adrien tells Gabriel to leave in order to avoid capture by Simon Says (Simon Says)

- has damaged a Miraculous

          - this is assuming Emilie is at least partially responsible for the Peacock Miraculous being damaged, as she has canonically used it

          - ex: Adrien was revealed to have damaged the Rabbit Miraculous with a Cataclysm (Timetagger)

- has an off-kilter, lookalike relative

- is connected with at least one member of the Bourgeois and Tsurugi families

          - this is assuming that Emilie knew both families, as it is more than likely she did due to the fact that Gabriel has done business with the Tsurugis in the past and Chloe was a childhood friend of Adrien’s)

- has a job that places them in the public eye, as opposed to their love interests’ more “behind-the-scenes” careers

          - ex: Emilie was an actress, while Gabriel is a reclusive fashion designer who is not known for his public appearances

          - ex: Adrien is a model, among other things, and while Marinette has created pieces for others to model, she herself has never been on the runway

now, we don’t really know much about what Emilie was like as a person or how she behaved relationship-wise (although I may have a similarly long post about that coming soon if I have the motivation to post it), so this is just based off the bits and pieces we do know

so, in conclusion...

age-swap AU where Marinette uses the Butterfly Miraculous to bring Adrien back while Gabe and Emilie have a cute high school romance

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[hellisheuphoria]

Chapter 2: Silence

The MC has a rough day, and finds comfort in a certain individual.

[Nothing much to say here, except thank you for reading, and don’t hesitate writing any constructive criticism to me or pointing out mistakes, ily all <3]

Morning arrives, and your eyes still barely open from the exhaustion of last night. You wished you had never woken up, far too tired for the day ahead.

You can tell it is early in the morning- just before 6 am. There is no sun in the Devildom, and so you have had to adjust your internal clock to the eternal darkness of this world.

No light creeps into your room to remind you that there is a new start to another day. That the past belongs in the past- yet your mind just can not correspond with that. It feels like everyday is the same.

It is eternal and infinite, yet you are mortal and weak. Despite possessing pacts with the most strongest rulers of the Devildom, you wield no strength. You possess no magical power. You’re useless.

If a demon wished to devour you right this very second, you would be gone. There is no power within you to perform any spells, and so you are defenceless.

Already in a depressive state, you will your weary bones to move. In order to avoid your housemates, you would need an extremely early start to the day. Meaning, now.

You freshen up in the bathroom, noticing your horrible features on your face. Your skin is pale and hollow, dark circles have comfortably edged themselves under your eyes, your eyes are hollow and lifeless and your hair thin and dead. You look like a zombie.

Your RAD uniform is crumpled and messy from having thrown it on the floor the day before, not giving a single care for it in the world.

You quietly walk to the kitchen, with your school necessities and belongings in your bag that has been slumped over your shoulder. You grab a small carton of yoghurt to eat and walked to the door, making sure to be quiet so as to not wake any of them up or alert them.

There are barely any students by the time you get to school, but they are almost always the nicer demons, the over achievers of the school. As they say, the early bird catches the worm.

You walked to the courtyard, where many beautiful plants and wildflowers resided, making it a truly wonderful and bright place in RAD. You sat down on one of the benches and took out your yoghurt, peeling the plastic off.

Someone tapped your shoulder from next to you. The white hair gave it away immediately; Solomon.

”Hello, MC. You’re quite early, today.” He greeted you with a lovely smile, but you could tell something was going on if you looked deeper into his eyes. He held onto a secret of some sorts.

”Hey.” You responded, nervous and flustered at the same time. You two didn’t talk often, despite being the only two human exchange students in the Devildom. He was very handsome and you would find yourself staring at him during class, enraptured.

He was also a very powerful sorcerer, having made pacts with more than 72 demons- Asmodeus included.

But he was nice, and hadn’t hurt you at all. Well, yet. You hoped he wouldn’t, you actually liked him.

”You look tired today. Had a rough night?” He observed you closely, his eyes still looking around your face as you slowly went red.

”I-uh, you could say that. I woke up sort of early and couldn’t sleep.” It wasn’t a total lie, but it wasn’t the entire truth either.

”Huh, alright.” He was still smiling at you, his lips perfectly complimenting his beautifully sinister face.

Your cheeks reddened and you turned away, choking the rest of the yoghurt down. You were feeling way too nervous for your liking- you felt as though you were supposed to act a certain way around him.

You breathed in slowly. “Uh, I need to get to class now.” You adjusted your bag on your shoulders and stood up to walk away, when he called out behind you.

”Have a nice day, MC.” You didn’t look back, but responded. “You too.”

For the rest of the day, you spent your time avoiding everyone, especially Mammon. You knew he would be extremely pissed at you, but you didn’t care. Today was not a good day.

As cute and clingy as he was, you just needed to get away from everyone- you really did. You could understand why Lucifer was frustrated at them half the time- they can be quite a handful.

As the day ended, you were in your last class, the Devildom history. You only had Satan, Asmo and Solomon with you in this class. They sat away from you, but you could hear Asmo’s whispering from miles away. He was being seriously loud.

“You know what happened today? I tried talking to MC, and they literally ghosted me! I think there’s something up!”

Satan agreed with him, “You’re right. Mammon wouldn’t stop complaining today about how he couldn’t find MC.”

Solomon didn’t talk, but you could feel his stare from your spot in the class. You could almost hear his thoughts from how hard he was staring at you.

When the class ended, you packed up as fast as you could and almost ran from how fast you were, you didn’t want to talk to anyone at all.

You could hear Asmo and Satan yelling behind you, but you ignored them and ran away. You didn’t want to answer any of their questions, you don’t want to talk to them.

Your outburst yesterday with Belphegor made you wary of everyone else. You were worried if he had told them what happened, and then they would want to talk to you about it.

You didn’t want to talk about your feelings, you would break if you did. It scared you witless, it terrified you. You didn’t wanna ruin their relationship with Belphegor or you. You didn’t want to be selfish and hurt them with your stupid fear.

The minute you ran into the house, you could tell it was empty. There were no shoes lying around, and nobody was arguing. Perfect, you were by yourself, and there would be no one to bother you.

You kicked off your shoes and got to your room. You locked your door, put away your bag and slithered onto your bed, not having taken off your uniform. God, you were tired.

You wrapped the blankets around you and eased into the mattress. This way, you would feel better. You wouldn’t feel as bad as you usually did, you would feel great when asleep, you were able to finally escape from your wretched world. The world soon became indecipherable, indifferent.

You zoned out and fell asleep.

You woke up to the sound of chattering, laughter and arguing close by. The light creeped in from under your door and ended right at your face. Your room was extremely dark, a change from when you first got home.

You were still groggy and tired, but if you slept any longer then you wouldn’t be able to sleep for the rest of the night.

You were feeling pretty lonely, but to be honest? It may just be better this way. You wouldn’t feel hurt when the program ended and you had to go home, and you wouldn’t ruin a relationship that could last for thousand of more years.

You didn’t leave your room, but you kept your door locked and turned on the light. You decided you would pass the time playing Mononoke Land, a game that Levi introduced to you a while back.

It was quite interesting, and the time passed by quickly, but only by an hour. It was about 6 pm, so you still had a lot of time before you would need to sleep.

You felt jealous of everyone sitting in the living room, enjoying their evening. Asmo was probably painting his nails, Satan could be trying to read a book despite Mammon’s blabbering.

You snickered a bit at the thought of Mammon being yelled at by Satan while Beel ate in the background, and Belphegor-

Oh. Belphegor would be napping, like always. You were jealous of that, as scared you were of him. You wanted the ability to sleep at any time you wanted to, despite the setting or time. It would be really convenient for right about now.

You could feel yourself getting sadder by the moment, but you didn’t know how to deal with it. You were lonely and scared, but you didn’t know where to turn to.

A ping from your DDD shook you from your thoughts.

Solomon- Hello, MC, do you have a minute?

MC- Uh, yeah. Why?

Solomon- You left something behind at school and I forgot about it until now. I have your notebook with me, you forgot it at history.

MC - OH, shoot. Should I wait for you tomorrow or come now? It’s only 6 pm.

Solomon - The Devildom can be quite deceiving when it comes to the seasons, but it’s winter right now, and it’s dark. Don’t worry, I’ll be at the house of Lamentation soon. I wouldn’t want you to have your soul eaten.

You felt your cheeks turn red, he didn’t want you to get hurt.

MC - Thank you, Solomon, I’ll be waiting. Text me first, don’t ring the doorbell.

Solomon - Got it.

You shut off your phone and stared up at the ceiling for a few seconds, wondering about Solomon. Maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all, not that you thought he was. After all, he cared for you enough to not risk you getting hurt. How sweet of him.

You messed around on your phone for a bit while waiting for Solomon. You hanged around in your room idly, doing nothing in particular. You then got a notification from your phone. As it turned out, that new feature where you can look at other group chats that you’re not in got activated again.

In the group chat, there was a picture of Mammon on the front page news of Majolish, a fashion magazine. He was modelling again.

Asmo rambled on about him, surprised that his ‘scummy’ older brother got into the first page of Majolish. Honestly, snooping on them was kind of fun. You’ve probably got more than dozens of blackmail from this feature.

Solomon- MC, I’m here.

MC - I’ll be out soon.

You wrapped yourself in a jacket, still in your uniform. You would have to wash that soon, you probably sweat a lot in it.

You tried your best to avoid everyone, making yourself as quiet as a mouse, you hoped. The floors creaked slightly, but they were all probably too preoccupied to notice.

You got to the front door and silently opened it, seeing Solomon outside. He was wearing his casual clothes, but still had that same look on his face. Handsome, too.

”Hello, MC.” He took your notebook out of his pocket and held it in front of you, with his arm stretched. You reached out to grab it, but he snatched it away and looked at you smugly.

”Let’s have a little chat, first. You owe me, don’t you?”

You dumbly stood there, gaping at him. Of course- this was Solomon we were falling about. He’s as sketchy as it could get.

”Oh- fine!” You said, trying your best not to sound pissed.

You put on your school shoes and walked out the door, making sure to close it quietly. Solomon walked with you, not saying a word but you could guess your notebook was still in his pocket.

You sighed, “Look, Solomon, if you’re not going to give it back to me, then can I just go back home? I’m tired.”

He looked at you with a side glance. “I could tell. You’re still in your uniform.” Pausing for a second, he continued. “Why were you acting weird today? I wouldn’t have expected our dear MC to run off like that. So I assumed that something must be up.”

You looked at the ground, clenching your hands in your pockets and keeping your eyes off him. “What’s it to you?”

He stopped walking, and so did you. He chucked, “As a fellow human exchange student, I only want the best for you.” He took your notebook out of his pocket, placing it in your hands. “If you ever find yourself in need, I will be there, no matter the scenario.”

He pat your head, then walked off, calling behind him. “Good evening, MC.”

You stared at his back, confused. He has never been this close to you, why now? You glanced down at your notebook, where he seemed to have placed a little ripped note on it.

Tear-rible mistake on your behalf, leaving your notes behind.

-Solomon :)

It was a horrible pun, really, but that didn’t stop you from laughing out loud in the middle of the street, facepalming yourself. You turned and walked back to the House of Lamentation, trying to contain yourself.

Seeing the house in your view calmed you down a little, and you knew you had to be quiet to avoid Lucifer’s wrath. He could have probably heard you laughing from miles away if he tried hard enough.

You walked up the door and slowly opened it, wincing a little when your shoes scraped the carpet, leaving a little scuff mark. But he was an extreme perfectionist. He would notice that right away.

Panicking, you half ran to your room and locked it, sliding down the door in disbelief and relief. You really needed to find a better way to sneak out.

Your phone buzzed at the same time you thought it, almost as if in agreement.

[bolintheturtleduck]

Song Ranking

So I did that song ranking thing and it took HOURS. literal HOURS. Don’t ever do it, I won’t even link it. I hated doing it. But here is my list. And dare I say my Top 130 is immaculate hjgkhg

Some of this is not really accurate though. Could be me or the generator. Like ‘Cold Hearted’ being 500 something???? Not in my house. 

Also don’t go looking for christmas songs. They are all somewhere down there lmao

Anyways! Let’s go!

1 Nasty / Rhythm Nation

1 Rumour Has It / Someone Like You

3 Be Okay

4 Love You Like A Love Song

4 Seasons Of Love

6 Mustang Sally

7 So Emotional

8 Tightrope

9 Barely Breathing

10 Cough Syrup

11 Shake It Out

11 The Boy Is Mine

13 Back To Black

14 Valerie

15 Paradise By The Dashboard Light

16 River Deep, Mountain High

17 Problem

18 Faithfully

19 Gloria

20 I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You

21 How Will I Know

22 We Are Young

23 How To Be A Heartbreaker

24 Hand In My Pocket / I Feel The Earth Move

25 If I Die Young

26 I Feel Pretty / Unpretty

27 Bust Your Windows

28 Candyman

29 American Boy

30 I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) / You Make My Dreams

31 If I Can't Have You

32 It's All Coming Back To Me Now

33 Crazy / U Drive Me Crazy

34 ABC

35 Bad Romance

36 It's Too Late

37 Hungry Like The Wolf / Rio

38 I Wish

39 Need You Now

40 Landslide

41 Start Me Up / Livin' On A Prayer

42 Thriller / Heads Will Roll

43 What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)

44 There Are Worse Things I Could Do

45 Losing My Religion

46 The Edge Of Glory

47 Teenage Dream (Acoustic Version)

48 Make You Feel My Love

49 My Prerogative

50 Singing In The Rain / Umbrella

51 Songbird

52 Spotlight

53 Mine

54 Take Me Or Leave Me

55 Take Me To Church

56 No Surrender

57 Never Say Never

58 Constant Craving

59 Brave

60 Born This Way

61 Pumpin' Blood

62 Blame It (On The Alcohol)

63 Glad You Came

64 Give Your Heart A Break

65 It's All Over

66 It's Not Right, But It's Okay

67 Everybody Talks

68 Here Comes The Sun

69 Into The Groove

70 In Your Eyes

71 I Don't Want To Know

72 I Lived

73 I Kissed A Girl

74 Halo / Walking On Sunshine

75 You Can't Stop The Beat

76 She's Not There

77 Nutbush City Limits

78 True Colors

79 Can't Fight This Feeling

80 Breakaway

81 Dancing Queen

82 Don't Stop Me Now

83 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

84 Empire State Of Mind

85 Doo Wop (That Thing)

86 Arthur's Theme

87 Happy Days Are Here Again / Get Happy

88 Toxic

89 This Is The New Year

90 Last Name

91 3

92 A Change Would Do You Good

93 Got To Get You Into My Life

94 Tongue Tied

95 Smooth Criminal

96 Papa Don't Preach

97 Animal

97 Another One Bites The Dust

99 Don't Speak

100 Don't You Want Me

101 A Hard Day's Night

102 Some Nights

103 Somebody That I Used To Know

104 Superstition

105 Survivor / I Will Survive

106 My Life Would Suck Without You

107 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

108 Misery

109 My Love Is Your Love

110 Somewhere Only We Know

111 Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

112 Me Against The Music

113 I Follow Rivers

114 Mean

115 Here's To Us

116 Stronger

117 Summer Nights

118 Make No Mistake, She's Mine

119 Love Song

120 Waiting For A Girl Like You

121 We Got The Beat

122 We Found Love

123 We've Got Tonite

124 Love Shack

125 The Scientist

126 Love Is A Battlefield

127 Run Joey Run

128 Wings

129 When I Get You Alone

130 Uptown Girl

131 Roots Before Branches

132 I'm The Only One

132 I've Gotta Be Me

134 Hopelessly Devoted To You

135 Hit Me With Your Best Shot / One Way Or Another

136 Dinosaur

137 Dog Days Are Over

138 Hung Up

139 Everytime

140 Go Your Own Way

141 Every Breath You Take

142 Fire And Rain

143 Fighter

144 Not While I'm Around

145 Not The Boy Next Door

146 Fly / I Believe I Can Fly

147 Girl On Fire

148 Oops!... I Did It Again

149 Stop! In The Name Of Love / Free Your Mind

150 Stereo Hearts

151 Bills, Bills, Bills

152 Somebody Loves You

153 Hold It Against Me

154 Turning Tables

155 Wide Awake

156 You May Be Right

157 Cell Block Tango

158 A Boy Like That

159 All Out Of Love

160 Alfie

161 Jessie's Girl

162 I'm A Slave 4 U

163 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

164 I'll Stand By You (Amber)

165 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

166 Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)

167 Lovefool

168 Just Can't Get Enough

169 Just Give Me A Reason

170 Keep Holding On

171 Like A Virgin

172 New York State Of Mind

173 My Dark Side

174 More Than A Feeling

174 My Cup

176 I Want To Hold Your Hand

177 I Want To Break Free

178 I Want To Know What Love Is

179 I Want You Back

180 Teenage Dream

181 Take My Breath Away

182 America

183 Glory Days

184 I Say A Little Prayer

184 I Wanna Sex You Up

186 I Will Always Love You

187 A Thousand Years

188 Like A Prayer

189 Don't Rain On My Parade

190 Disco Inferno

191 Don't Stop Believin' (Regionals)

192 Dream On

193 Get It Right

194 Gold Digger

195 Telephone

196 Without You

197 You're The One That I Want

198 Tell Him

199 Let Me Love You

200 Good Vibrations

200 Raise Your Glass

202 Run The World (Girls)

203 Gimme More

204 Hey Jude

204 How Deep Is Your Love

206 Higher Ground

207 Vogue

208 Something's Coming

209 Footloose

210 Forget You

211 Gives You Hell

212 Everybody Wants To Rule The World

213 Far From Over

214 Fat Bottomed Girls

215 Hair / Crazy In Love

216 Hall Of Fame

216 Hello

216 Hello, I Love You

216 Somebody To Love

216 Time Warp

216 To Love You More

222 Last Friday Night

223 Hate On Me

224 Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'

225 Locked Out Of Heaven

226 Rose's Turn

227 Everybody Hurts

227 Express Yourself

227 Loser

227 Shout It Out Loud

231 Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours

232 Pompeii

233 Party All The Time

234 Our Day Will Come

235 Perfect

236 Old Time Rock & Roll / Danger Zone

237 Greased Lightning

237 Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

237 Live While We're Young

240 Firework

240 Love Child

242 Fire

243 You're All I Need To Get By

244 The Scientist (Acapella)

245 Afternoon Delight

246 Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)

247 Listen To Your Heart

248 Tik Tok

249 You Keep Me Hangin' On

250 The Rose

251 You Can't Always Get What You

Want

252 Let's Have A Kiki

252 Listen

254 Pretending

255 More Than A Woman

256 More Than Words

257 Hot For Teacher

257 No One Is Alone

257 Not The End

257 Nowadays / Hot Honey Rag 257 O Christmas Tree

257 One Hand, One Heart

257 One

257 Only Child

257 Proud Mary

266 Heroes

267 Hey Ya!

268 Getting Married Today

268 Happy

270 Hell To The No

271 Night Fever

271 Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club

Band

273 The Music Of The Night

273 The Only Exception 273 The Rain In Spain 273 The Safety Dance 273 Thousand Miles 278 Billionaire

278 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 278 The Happening

278 The Lady Is A Tramp

282 Borderline / Open Your Heart 282 Born To Hand Jive

284 Control

284 The Longest Time

286 Give Up The Funk

287 Chasing Pavements

288 Man In The Mirror

288 Say

288 Sexy And I Know It 288 Shout

292 Marry The Night

293 Mamma Mia

294 Loser Like Me

295 Don't Stop Believin' (Season 1)

296 Colorblind

297 Diva

297 Don't Cry For Me Argentina

299 Don't Dream It's Over

300 Let It Be

301 Don't Stop

302 Highway To Hell

302 Hold On

302 Holding Out For A Hero 302 We Will Rock You

302 What I Did For Love

302 What It Feels Like For A Girl

308 Take On Me

309 For Once In My Life

309 Good Riddance (Time Of Your

Life)

309 Hello Goodbye

309 Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love

309 Home

309 Homeward Bound / Home 309 Honesty

309 Human Nature

317 Drive My Car

317 For Good

317 I'll Remember

320 I'll Stand By You (Cory)

321 On My Own

321 Taking Chances

321 The Bitch Is Back / Dress You Up 321 Werewolves Of London

325 My Man

326 My Life

327 My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

327 Never Going Back Again 327 No Scrubs

330 Creep

331 Come What May

332 Never Can Say Goodbye

333 Who Are You Now?

334 You Give Love A Bad Name

335 Womanizer

336 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

337 Come See About Me

337 P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 337 People

337 Popular

337 River

337 Roar

337 Rolling In The Deep 337 Santa Baby

345 Boogie Shoes

346 At Last

347 I'm The Greatest Star

348 Jar Of Hearts

349 It's Time

350 It's My Life / Confessions Part II

351 It's Not Unusual

352 I'm So Excited

352 I'm Still Here

354 Don't Stop Believin' (Season 5) 354 Don't You (Forget About Me) 354 Dreams

354 Unchained Melody

354 Uptown Funk

359 Bohemian Rhapsody

359 Don't Stop Believin' (Rachel) 359 Lucky

362 Don't Stand So Close To Me /

Young Girl

363 Bridge Over Troubled Water

363 Bust A Move

365 Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee

366 Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee

(Reprise)

367 Longest Time

368 Applause

369 All Of Me

370 Any Way You Want It

370 Anything Could Happen

372 Red Solo Cup

372 Rock Lobster

372 Rockin' Around The Christmas

Tree 372 Rockstar

376 Saving All My Love For You

377 (I've Had) The Time Of My Life

377 Piano Man 377 Poison 377 Poker Face

381 A House Is Not A Home

382 4 Minutes

383 Black Or White

384 Blackbird

385 All By Myself

385 Smile

385 You Make Me Feel So Young

388 Wrecking Ball

389 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural

Woman

389 (You're) Having My Baby

391 Superman

392 Ain't No Way

392 Stayin' Alive

394 Still Got Tonight

394 The Most Wonderful Day Of The

Year

394 The Way You Look Tonight / You're Never Fully Dressed Without A

Smile 394 This Time

394 Whatever Happened To Saturday Night?

399 They Long To Be Close To You

400 All About That Bass 400 Sing!

400 So Far Away

400 Some People

404 Addicted To Love

404 Moves Like Jagger / Jumpin' Jack Flash

404 Sing

404 Someday We'll Be Together 404 Somethin' Stupid

404 Something

404 Somewhere

404 Stand

412 Scream

413 Rather Be

414 Next To Me

414 No Air

414 Papa Can You Hear Me? 414 Physical

414 Piece Of My Heart

414 Pinball Wizard

414 Pony

414 Rehab

422 La Isla Bonita

422 Lean On Me

422 Let's Wait Awhile

422 Little Drummer Boy

422 Little Girls

427 Light Up The World

428 Science Fiction Double Feature

428 Silent Night 428 Silly Love Songs

431 Le Jazz Hot

432 Out Here On My Own

432 Pure Imagination

434 School's Out

435 Hey, Soul Sister

435 I Kissed A Girl (Season Six) 435 Sway

438 I Believe In A Thing Called Love

439 I Have Nothing

440 I Am Changing

441 I Saw Her Standing There

441 I Was Here

441 I Won't Give Up

441 I'll Be Home For Christmas 441 I'll Never Fall In Love Again 446 Funny Girl

446 I Look To You

446 I Only Have Eyes For You 446 I Still Believe / Super Bass 446 Story Of My Life

451 I Love New York / New York, New

York

452 What Makes You Beautiful

453 What The World Needs Now

454 An Innocent Man

454 Bad

454 Because You Loved Me

454 Bein' Green

454 ByeByeBye/IWantItThatWay 454 IfIWereABoy

454 Take A Bow

454 Take Me Home Tonight

462 Barracuda

463 Beauty School Drop Out

464 Chandelier

465 Baby It's You

466 It Must Have Been Love

467 At The Ballet

468 Baby One More Time

469 Beautiful

469 Being Alive

469 We Built This City

472 Being Good Isn't Good Enough 472 I Just Can't Stop Loving You 472 I Love It

472 Isn't She Lovely

476 All That Jazz

476 Blurred Lines

476 Bootylicious

476 Extraordinary Merry Christmas 476 Father Figure

476 Fight For Your Right (To Party)

476 Flashdance... What A Feeling

483 I Don't Know How To Love Him

484 Fix You

484 I Could Have Danced All Night 486 Push It

486 Rainbow Connection 486 Rise

489 Promises, Promises

490 Oh Chanukah

490 Ohio

490 One Love (People Get Ready) 490 Only The Good Die Young 494 Baby

494 Dancing With Myself

494 Defying Gravity

497 Baby, It's Cold Outside

498 Cherish / Cherish

498 Christmas Wrapping 498 Closer

498 Downtown

498 Endless Love

498 Forever Young

498 Friday I'm In Love 498 Friday

498 Gangnam Style

498 Get Back

498 Safety Dance

509 Cold Hearted

510 Clarity

511 Centerfold / Hot In Herre

511 Just The Way You Are 513 Jumpin', Jumpin'

513 Kiss

515 Juke Box Hero

515 L-O-V-E

517 Jolene

518 Jump

518 La Cucaracha

520 Dream A Little Dream

521 A Little Less Conversation

521 Beth

521 Bitch

521 Don't Sleep In The Subway 521 Girls Just Want To Have Fun 521 Have Yourself A Merry Little

Christmas 521 Help!

521 I Dreamed A Dream 521 I'm His Child

521 I'm Still Standing 521 Ice Ice Baby

521 Imagine

521 In My Life

521 It's A Man's Man's Man's World 521 Lose My Breath

521 Memory

521 Outcast

521 Over The Rainbow

521 Same Love

521 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 521 Teach Your Children

521 Tell Me Something Good

521 The Final Countdown

521 Uptight (Everything's Alright) 545 Big Ass Heart

545 I Love L.A.

545 I Melt With You

548 Big Girls Don't Cry

548 Mary's Boy Child

548 O Holy Night

548 On Our Way

548 One Bourbon, One Scotch, One

Beer

548 One Less Bell To Answer

554 Maybe This Time 554 My Favourite Things 554 My Sharona

557 Marry You

558 Cool

559 Cool Kids

560 Celebrity Skin

560 Cheek To Cheek

560 Dance The Night Away

560 Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend / Material Girl

560 Don't Go Breaking My Heart 560 Don't Wanna Lose You

560 Feliz Navidad

560 Here Comes Santa Claus 560 I Know What Boys Like

560 I Know Where I've Been 560 Trouty Mouth

571 Total Eclipse Of The Heart

572 Don't Make Me Over

573 Call Me Maybe

574 We Are The Champions

575 Time After Time

576 Bring Him Home

576 Broadway Baby 576 Buenos Aires 576 Burning Up 576 Yesterday

581 Boys / Boyfriend

582 Mercy

582 You Get What You Give

582 You Have More Friends Than You

Know

582 You Learn / You've Got A Friend

582 You Should Be Dancing

582 You're All The World To Me 582 You're My Best Friend

582 You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' 590 Break Free

590 Jingle Bell Rock 590 Jingle Bells

590 Joy To The World 590 One Of Us

590 Tonight

590 You're The Top

590 You've Got To Hide Your Love

Away

590 Your Song

599 To Sir, With Love

600 Torn

601 Wake Me Up

601 Wannabe

601 Wedding Bell Blues

604 Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me

604 UpUpUp

606 All Or Nothing

606 Alone

606 Cry

606 Leaving On A Jet Plane

606 Let It Go

606 Mickey

606 Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) 606 Mr. Roboto / Counting Stars 606 Try A Little Tenderness

606 U Can't Touch This

606 Uninvited

606 Vacation

606 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 606 What Kind Of Fool

606 Whistle

606 Will You Love Me Tomorrow /

Head Over Feet 606 Wishin' And Hoping

606 YouAndI/YouAndI

624 Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

624 Do You Hear What I Hear? 624 Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh

Yeah)

624 Lucky Star

624 Merry Christmas Darling 629 Damn It, Janet

629 Danny's Song

629 Daydream Believer

629 Deck The Rooftop

629 Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead 634 All I Want For Christmas Is You 634 Angels We Have Heard On High 634 Anything Goes / Anything You Can

Do

634 As If We Never Said Goodbye

634 As Long As You're There 634 Bamboleo / Hero

634 Bella Notte

634 Copacabana

634 Do They Know It's Christmas? 634 Last Christmas

634 Let It Snow

634 We Need A Little Christmas

634 Welcome Christmas

634 Whenever I Call You Friend

634 Whip It

634 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

650 All You Need Is Love

651 Americano / Dance Again

652 Crush

653 Big Spender

653 Make 'Em Laugh

653 White Christmas

653 Yeah!

657 (Charlie Chaplin song)

657 (originally by Michael Bublé) 657 Away In A Manger

657 Baby Got Back

657 Christmas Eve With You 657 Come Sail Away

657 You Are Woman, I Am Man 657 You Spin Me Round (Like A

Record)

665 You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

666 Starlight Express

666 The Trolley Song

666 The Winner Takes It All

666 There's A Light (Over At The

Frankenstein Place) 670 Take Care Of Yourself

671 Sweet Caroline

672 Ben

672 Best Day Of My Life 672 Blue Christmas

672 Candles

676 Starships

676 Suddenly Seymour 676 Sweet Transvestite

679 Thong Song

680 The Fox (What Does The Fox

Say?)

680 The Living Years

682 The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)

682 The First Noël

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Glee Soundtrack Rating Project Results: newrachels

@newrachels

Favourite character: Kurt Hummel

Least favourite character: Noah Puckerman

Favourite season: Undecided

Least favourite season: Season 6

Mean song rating: 5.92

Mean song rating for favourite character's songs: 7.03

Mean song rating for favourite character's solos: 7.23

Mean song rating season 1: 5.65

Mean song rating season 2: 5.68

Mean song rating season 3: 5.7

Mean song rating season 4: 6.39

Mean song rating season 5: 6.05

Mean song rating season 6: 8.13

Songs rated: 470

[ID: A bar chart titled Number of songs assigned each rating by newrachels , illustrating the number of times each score was assigned to a song by newrachels . 10 was assigned 53 times, 9 was assigned 26 times, 8 was assigned 57 times, 7 was assigned 73 times, 6 was assigned 67 times, 5 was assigned 63 times, 4 was assigned 40 times, 3 was assigned 26 times, 2 was assigned 32 times, 1 was assigned 33 times, and 232 songs were not rated.]

About the Project | Results Masterpost

Ranking:

1. (10) - S1x05 - Maybe This Time

2. (10) - S1x07 - You Keep Me Hanging On

3. (10) - S1x13 - Don't Rain on My Parade

4. (10) - S1x14 - Hello, I Love You

5. (10) - S1x14 - Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love

6. (10) - S1x15 - 4 Minutes

7. (10) - S1x15 - Borderline/Open Your Heart

8. (10) - S1x18 - Rose's Turn

9. (10) - S1x19 - Dream a Little Dream

10. (10) - S1x22 - To Sir, With Love

11. (10) - S2x04 - Le Jazz Hot

12. (10) - S2x04 - River Deep, Mountain High

13. (10) - S2x04 - Sing!

14. (10) - S2x05 - There's a Light (Over at the Frankenstein Place)

15. (10) - S2x05 - Damn It, Janet

16. (10) - S2x06 - Teenage Dream

17. (10) - S2x09 - Valerie

18. (10) - S2x10 - Baby, It's Cold Outside

19. (10) - S2x12 - Silly Love Songs

20. (10) - S2x20 - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You

21. (10) - S2x21 - My Man

22. (10) - S3x01 - It's Not Unusual

23. (10) - S3x02 - Something's Coming

24. (10) - S3x03 - It's All Over

25. (10) - S3x05 - One Hand, One Heart

26. (10) - S3x08 - Control

27. (10) - S3x13 - Love Shack

28. (10) - S3x16 - More Than a Woman

29. (10) - S3x16 - If I Can't Have You

30. (10) - S3x21 - Paradise By the Dashboard Light

31. (10) - S4x05 - Hopelessly Devoted to You

32. (10) - S4x06 - Beauty School Dropout

33. (10) - S4x06 - You're the One That I Want

34. (10) - S4x06 - There Are Worse Things I Could Do

35. (10) - S4x07 - Heroes

36. (10) - S4x09 - Being Alive

37. (10) - S4x11 - I Only Have Eyes for You

38. (10) - S4x15 - Shout

39. (10) - S4x15 - You're All the World to Me

40. (10) - S4x18 - More Than Words

41. (10) - S4x21 - For Once in My Life

42. (10) - S5x06 - Just the Way You Are

43. (10) - S5x07 - Into the Groove

44. (10) - S5x10 - The Happening

45. (10) - S5x15 - I'm Still Here

46. (10) - S5x15 - Broadway Baby

47. (10) - S5x17 - Lovefool

48. (10) - S5x20 - American Boy

49. (10) - S6x03 - It's Too Late

50. (10) - S6x06 - Wishin' And Hoping

51. (10) - S6x06 - Promises, Promises

52. (10) - S6x06 - I'll Never Fall in Love Again

53. (10) - S6x08 - Our Day Will Come

54. (9) - S1x11 - Papa Don't Preach

55. (9) - S1x12 - Smile (Lily Allen)

56. (9) - S1x15 - Like a Virgin

57. (9) - S1x15 - Like a Prayer

58. (9) - S2x01 - What I Did for Love

59. (9) - S2x04 - Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy

60. (9) - S2x07 - Nowadays/Hot Honey rag

61. (9) - S2x12 - When I Get You Alone

62. (9) - S2x16 - Blackbird

63. (9) - S3x01 - You Can't Stop the Beat

64. (9) - S3x06 - Rumour Has It/Someone Like You

65. (9) - S3x07 - Constant Craving

66. (9) - S3x09 - Christmas Wrapping

67. (9) - S3x11 - Never Can Say Goodbye

68. (9) - S3x19 - Big Girls Don't Cry

69. (9) - S4x04 - Teenage Dream (Acoustic)

70. (9) - S4x09 - Something Stupid

71. (9) - S4x11 - I Don't Know How to Love Him

72. (9) - S4x17 - Mamma Mia

73. (9) - S5x05 - You Are Woman, I Am Man

74. (9) - S5x06 - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)

75. (9) - S5x10 - Gloria

76. (9) - S5x14 - You Make Me Feel So Young

77. (9) - S6x05 - Father Figure

78. (9) - S6x05 - My Sharona

79. (9) - S6x06 - They Long to Be Close to You

80. (8) - S1x02 - I Say a Little Prayer

81. (8) - S1x07 - Ride Wit Me

82. (8) - S1x10 - Don't Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl

83. (8) - S1x13 - You Can't Always Get What You Want

84. (8) - S1x15 - Burning Up

85. (8) - S1x17 - Total Eclipse of the Heart

86. (8) - S1x17 - Run Joey Run

87. (8) - S1x18 - Lady Is a Tramp

88. (8) - S1x19 - I Dreamed a Dream

89. (8) - S1x20 - Bad Romance

90. (8) - S1x21 - Loser

91. (8) - S2x05 - Touch a Touch a Touch a Touch Me

92. (8) - S2x05 - Time Warp

93. (8) - S2x08 - Marry You

94. (8) - S2x09 - Dog Days Are Over

95. (8) - S2x10 - The Most Wonderful Day of the Year

96. (8) - S2x11 - Bills, Bills, Bills

97. (8) - S2x12 - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

98. (8) - S2x13 - Take Me or Leave Me

99. (8) - S2x14 - Don't You Want Me

100. (8) - S2x17 - I Follow Rivers

101. (8) - S2x19 - I Don't Want to Know

102. (8) - S2x21 - Try a Little Tenderness

103. (8) - S3x01 - Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead

104. (8) - S3x04 - Take Care of Yourself

105. (8) - S3x05 - A Boy Like That/I Have a Love

106. (8) - S3x10 - Wedding Bell Blues (Bill)

107. (8) - S3x11 - Bad

108. (8) - S3x11 - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'

109. (8) - S3x13 - Cherish/Cherish

110. (8) - S3x13 - L-O-V-E

111. (8) - S3x17 - It's Not Right But It's Okay

112. (8) - S3x18 - Not the Boy Next Door

113. (8) - S3x19 - Take My Breath Away

114. (8) - S3x22 - In My Life

115. (8) - S4x01 - Call Me Maybe

116. (8) - S4x02 - 3

117. (8) - S4x04 - Don't Speak

118. (8) - S4x08 - Come See About Me

119. (8) - S4x10 - White Christmas

120. (8) - S4x11 - Tell Him

121. (8) - S4x12 - Centerfold/Hot in Herre

122. (8) - S4x14 - Getting Married Today

123. (8) - S4x15 - Footloose

124. (8) - S4x16 - I Still Believe/Super Bass

125. (8) - S4x21 - Superstition

126. (8) - S5x01 - All You Need Is Love

127. (8) - S5x02 - Something

128. (8) - S5x05 - Blurred Lines

129. (8) - S5x07 - You're My Best Friend

130. (8) - S5x10 - Jumpin' Jumpin'

131. (8) - S5x10 - Don't You (Forget About Me)

132. (8) - S5x11 - More Than a Feeling

133. (8) - S5x14 - Don't Sleep in the Subway

134. (8) - S5x15 - Not While I'm Around

135. (8) - S6x02 - Home

136. (8) - S6x12 - Popular

137. (7) - S1x02 - Gold Digger

138. (7) - S1x04 - Tonight

139. (7) - S1x08 - I Could Have Danced All Night

140. (7) - S1x08 - Sweet Caroline

141. (7) - S1x11 - Imagine

142. (7) - S1x12 - Smile (Charlie Chaplin)

143. (7) - S1x13 - My Life Would Suck Without You

144. (7) - S1x15 - Express Yourself

145. (7) - S1x15 - Vogue

146. (7) - S1x16 - A House Is Not a Home

147. (7) - S1x21 - Give Up the Funk

148. (7) - S2x02 - I'm a Slave 4 U

149. (7) - S2x02 - Me Against the Music

150. (7) - S2x03 - I Want to Hold Your Hand

151. (7) - S2x04 - Don't Go Breaking My Heart

152. (7) - S2x04 - Lucky

153. (7) - S2x05 - Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?

154. (7) - S2x05 - Science Fiction Double Feature

155. (7) - S2x08 - Sway

156. (7) - S2x09 - (I've Had) The Time of My Life

157. (7) - S2x10 - We Need a Little Christmas

158. (7) - S2x13 - Somebody to Love

159. (7) - S2x16 - Big Ass Heart

160. (7) - S2x16 - Trouty Mouth

161. (7) - S2x17 - Ain't No Way

162. (7) - S2x20 - Dancing Queen

163. (7) - S2x20 - Jar of Hearts

164. (7) - S2x21 - Some People

165. (7) - S2x21 - Pure Imagination

166. (7) - S2x21 - Back to Black

167. (7) - S2x22 - Bella Notte

168. (7) - S3x01 - Anything Goes/Anything You Can Do

169. (7) - S3x02 - I'm the Greatest Star

170. (7) - S3x04 - Candyman

171. (7) - S3x05 - Tonight

172. (7) - S3x05 - Uptown Girl

173. (7) - S3x07 - Jolene

174. (7) - S3x07 - Perfect

175. (7) - S3x08 - Buenos Aires

176. (7) - S3x10 - Summer Nights

177. (7) - S3x14 - Cough Syrup

178. (7) - S3x15 - I'm Still Standing

179. (7) - S3x15 - Rio/Hungry Like the Wolf

180. (7) - S3x16 - How Deep Is Your Love

181. (7) - S3x19 - Love You Like a Love Song

182. (7) - S3x21 - Tongue Tied

183. (7) - S4x03 - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

184. (7) - S4x05 - Born to Hand Jive

185. (7) - S4x06 - Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee

186. (7) - S4x07 - Superman

187. (7) - S4x08 - Let's Have a Kiki/Turkey Lurkey Time

188. (7) - S4x13 - Don't Stop Me Now

189. (7) - S4x13 - Diva

190. (7) - S4x14 - Just Can't Get Enough

191. (7) - S4x15 - Come What May

192. (7) - S4x15 - Old Time Rock & Roll/Danger Zone

193. (7) - S4x17 - Creep

194. (7) - S4x17 - Copacabana

195. (7) - S4x20 - Longest Time

196. (7) - S4x20 - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

197. (7) - S4x20 - At the Ballet

198. (7) - S4x21 - You Are the Sunshine of My Life

199. (7) - S5x01 - Drive My Car

200. (7) - S5x01 - Got to Get You Into My Life

201. (7) - S5x01 - I Saw Her Standing There

202. (7) - S5x02 - Here Comes the Sun

203. (7) - S5x03 - Make You Feel My Love

204. (7) - S5x06 - Piano Man

205. (7) - S5x07 - Cheek to Cheek

206. (7) - S5x13 - Don't Stop Believin' (Season Five)

207. (7) - S5x15 - No One Is Alone

208. (7) - S5x20 - Girls on Film

209. (7) - S6x06 - Baby It's You

210. (6) - S1x01 - Respect

211. (6) - S1x01 - I Kissed a Girl

212. (6) - S1x02 - Push It

213. (6) - S1x03 - Bust Your Windows

214. (6) - S1x05 - Cabaret

215. (6) - S1x06 - It's My Life/Confessions Part II

216. (6) - S1x09 - Dancing With Myself

217. (6) - S1x11 - Don't Make Me Over

218. (6) - S1x13 - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

219. (6) - S1x15 - What It Feels Like for a Girl

220. (6) - S1x16 - One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home

221. (6) - S1x16 - Beautiful

222. (6) - S1x17 - U Can't Touch This

223. (6) - S1x17 - Physical

224. (6) - S1x18 - Jessie's Girl

225. (6) - S1x18 - One

226. (6) - S1x20 - Poker Face

227. (6) - S1x20 - Funny Girl

228. (6) - S1x21 - Another One Bites the Dust

229. (6) - S1x22 - Don't Stop Believing (Regionals)

230. (6) - S2x01 - Telephone

231. (6) - S2x01 - Billionaire

232. (6) - S2x02 - Baby One More Time

233. (6) - S2x02 - The Only Exception

234. (6) - S2x05 - Sweet Transvestite

235. (6) - S2x06 - Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind

236. (6) - S2x10 - Last Christmas

237. (6) - S2x11 - She's Not There

238. (6) - S2x12 - My Funny Valentine

239. (6) - S2x13 - Baby

240. (6) - S2x14 - Blame It (On the Alcohol)

241. (6) - S2x16 - Misery

242. (6) - S2x18 - I've Gotta Be Me

243. (6) - S2x18 - As If We Never Said Goodbye

244. (6) - S2x19 - Don't Stop

245. (6) - S2x20 - Rolling in the Deep

246. (6) - S3x01 - We Got the Beat

247. (6) - S3x03 - Cool

248. (6) - S3x04 - Last Friday Night

249. (6) - S3x05 - America

250. (6) - S3x06 - I Can't Go for That/You Make My Dreams Come True

251. (6) - S3x06 - Hit Me with Your Best Shot/One Way or Another

252. (6) - S3x08 - ABC

253. (6) - S3x09 - My Favorite Things

254. (6) - S3x13 - You're the Top

255. (6) - S3x15 - Somebody That I Used to Know

256. (6) - S3x16 - Stayin' Alive

257. (6) - S3x16 - Night Fever

258. (6) - S3x17 - I Have Nothing

259. (6) - S3x17 - So Emotional

260. (6) - S3x21 - Edge of Glory

261. (6) - S4x02 - Boys/Boyfriend

262. (6) - S4x03 - A Change Would Do You Good

263. (6) - S4x07 - My Dark Side

264. (6) - S4x16 - The Bitch Is Back/Dress You Up

265. (6) - S4x16 - Cold Hearted

266. (6) - S4x17 - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

267. (6) - S4x17 - Wannabe

268. (6) - S5x03 - If I Die Young

269. (6) - S5x04 - Applause

270. (6) - S5x06 - My Life

271. (6) - S5x09 - Don't Rain On My Parade

272. (6) - S5x12 - Defying Gravity

273. (6) - S5x16 - Love Is a Battlefield

274. (6) - S5x17 - NYC

275. (6) - S6x02 - Tightrope

276. (6) - S6x07 - Somebody Loves You

277. (5) - S1x01 - Sit Down You're Rockin the Boat

278. (5) - S1x01 - Mr. Cellophane

279. (5) - S1x06 - Halo/Walking On Sunshine

280. (5) - S1x07 - Hate On Me

281. (5) - S1x07 - Keep Holding On

282. (5) - S1x09 - Defying Gravity

283. (5) - S1x14 - Hello, Goodbye

284. (5) - S1x17 - Ice Ice Baby

285. (5) - S1x18 - The Boy Is Mine

286. (5) - S1x22 - Over the Rainbow

287. (5) - S2x02 - Stronger

288. (5) - S2x02 - Toxic

289. (5) - S2x03 - Losing My Religion

290. (5) - S2x04 - With You I'm Born Again

291. (5) - S2x07 - Forget You

292. (5) - S2x07 - Make 'Em Laugh

293. (5) - S2x08 - Just the Way You Are

294. (5) - S2x09 - Hey, Soul Sister

295. (5) - S2x10 - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch

296. (5) - S2x12 - Firework

297. (5) - S2x15 - Animal

298. (5) - S2x15 - Landslide

299. (5) - S2x18 - Somewhere Only We Know

300. (5) - S2x18 - Born This Way

301. (5) - S3x03 - Run the World (Girls)

302. (5) - S3x08 - Survivor/I Will Survive

303. (5) - S3x08 - We Are Young

304. (5) - S3x09 - Let It Snow

305. (5) - S3x09 - All I Want for Christmas Is You

306. (5) - S3x10 - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

307. (5) - S3x11 - Smooth Criminal

308. (5) - S3x13 - I Will Always Love You

309. (5) - S3x15 - Up Up Up

310. (5) - S3x16 - You Should Be Dancing

311. (5) - S3x16 - Disco Inferno

312. (5) - S3x16 - Boogie Shoes

313. (5) - S3x17 - Saving All My Love For You

314. (5) - S3x17 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

315. (5) - S3x18 - Cell Block Tango

316. (5) - S3x18 - The Music of the Night

317. (5) - S3x18 - Shake It Out

318. (5) - S3x19 - What Makes You Beautiful

319. (5) - S4x01 - Americano/Dance Again

320. (5) - S4x05 - Everybody Talks

321. (5) - S4x05 - Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

322. (5) - S4x12 - A Thousand Years

323. (5) - S4x12 - This Is the New Year

324. (5) - S4x13 - Hung Up

325. (5) - S4x15 - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend/Material Girl

326. (5) - S4x16 - Closer

327. (5) - S4x21 - Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours

328. (5) - S5x01 - Help!

329. (5) - S5x01 - A Hard Day's Night

330. (5) - S5x02 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

331. (5) - S5x02 - Hey Jude

332. (5) - S5x02 - Revolution

333. (5) - S5x03 - Seasons of Love

334. (5) - S5x06 - An Innocent Man

335. (5) - S5x08 - Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)

336. (5) - S5x12 - Valerie

337. (5) - S5x16 - Let's Wait Awhile

338. (5) - S6x02 - Take On Me

339. (5) - S6x03 - Hand in My Pocket/I Feel the Earth Move

340. (4) - S1x01 - You're the One That I Want (ver. 1)

341. (4) - S1x01 - On My Own

342. (4) - S1x01 - Don't Stop Believing (Pilot)

343. (4) - S1x03 - I Wanna Sex You Up

344. (4) - S1x05 - Somebody to Love

345. (4) - S1x09 - Proud Mary

346. (4) - S1x11 - True Colors

347. (4) - S1x12 - Jump

348. (4) - S1x14 - Gives You Hell

349. (4) - S1x22 - Bohemian Rhapsody

350. (4) - S2x01 - Empire State of Mind

351. (4) - S2x09 - Don't Cry for Me Argentina

352. (4) - S2x14 - Tik Tok

353. (4) - S2x16 - Hell to the No

354. (4) - S3x01 - Big Spender

355. (4) - S3x03 - Fix You

356. (4) - S3x07 - I Kissed a Girl

357. (4) - S3x09 - Do They Know It's Christmas?

358. (4) - S3x09 - River

359. (4) - S3x10 - We Found Love

360. (4) - S3x13 - Stereo Hearts

361. (4) - S3x14 - Glad You Came

362. (4) - S3x15 - Fighter

363. (4) - S3x17 - How Will I Know

364. (4) - S3x21 - We Are the Champions

365. (4) - S4x01 - It's Time

366. (4) - S4x01 - New York State of Mind

367. (4) - S4x02 - Gimme More

368. (4) - S4x07 - Some Nights

369. (4) - S4x10 - Feliz Navidad

370. (4) - S4x13 - Bring Him Home

371. (4) - S4x13 - Nutbush City Limits

372. (4) - S4x17 - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)

373. (4) - S4x20 - Little Girls

374. (4) - S5x01 - Yesterday

375. (4) - S5x04 - Marry the Night

376. (4) - S5x04 - Wide Awake

377. (4) - S5x05 - Wrecking Ball

378. (4) - S5x12 - Keep Holding On

379. (4) - S5x17 - I'm the Greatest Star

380. (3) - S1x01 - Can't Fight This Feeling

381. (3) - S1x01 - Rehab

382. (3) - S1x07 - No Air

383. (3) - S1x08 - Thong Song

384. (3) - S1x10 - I'll Stand By You

385. (3) - S1x11 - Hair/Crazy In Love

386. (3) - S1x14 - Highway to Hell

387. (3) - S2x07 - Singing In the Rain/Umbrella

388. (3) - S2x15 - Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)

389. (3) - S2x16 - Candles

390. (3) - S2x18 - I Feel Pretty/Unpretty

391. (3) - S2x20 - Isn't She Lovely

392. (3) - S2x22 - My Cup

393. (3) - S2x22 - I Love New York/New York, New York

394. (3) - S3x10 - Moves Like Jagger/Jumpin' Jack Flash

395. (3) - S3x14 - Fly/I Believe I Can Fly

396. (3) - S3x14 - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)

397. (3) - S3x21 - Starships

398. (3) - S4x02 - Oops!...I Did It Again

399. (3) - S4x12 - Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)

400. (3) - S4x13 - Girl On Fire

401. (3) - S4x16 - How to Be a Heartbreaker

402. (3) - S5x02 - Let It Be

403. (3) - S5x04 - Roar

404. (3) - S5x09 - Brave

405. (3) - S5x18 - Story of My Life

406. (2) - S1x02 - Take a Bow

407. (2) - S1x08 - What A Girl Wants

408. (2) - S1x16 - Fire

409. (2) - S1x18 - Pink Houses

410. (2) - S1x19 - Dream On

411. (2) - S1x21 - Tell Me Something Good

412. (2) - S1x22 - Any Way You Want It/Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'

413. (2) - S2x03 - I Look to You

414. (2) - S2x03 - Only the Good Die Young

415. (2) - S2x05 - Planet, Schmanet, Janet

416. (2) - S2x06 - Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer

417. (2) - S2x07 - Conjunction Junction

418. (2) - S2x08 - Ohio

419. (2) - S2x11 - Thriller/Heads Will Roll

420. (2) - S2x13 - I Know What Boys Like

421. (2) - S2x14 - My Headband

422. (2) - S2x14 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

423. (2) - S2x15 - Afternoon Delight

424. (2) - S2x16 - Raise Your Glass

425. (2) - S2x19 - Go Your Own Way

426. (2) - S2x20 - Friday

427. (2) - S3x04 - Bein' Green

428. (2) - S3x09 - Extraordinary Merry Christmas

429. (2) - S4x08 - Whistle

430. (2) - S4x08 - Gangnam Style

431. (2) - S4x09 - O Holy Night

432. (2) - S4x16 - Bye Bye Bye/I Want It That Way

433. (2) - S4x20 - We Will Rock You

434. (2) - S5x01 - You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

435. (2) - S5x12 - Raise Your Glass

436. (2) - S5x12 - Toxic

437. (2) - S5x17 - Pumpin Blood

438. (1) - S1x01 - Leaving On a Jet Plane

439. (1) - S1x10 - (You're Having My Baby)

440. (1) - S1x10 - Endless Love

441. (1) - S1x19 - Safety Dance

442. (1) - S1x20 - Shout It Out Loud

443. (1) - S1x20 - Beth

444. (1) - S1x21 - Good Vibrations

445. (1) - S1x21 - It's a Man's Man's Man's World

446. (1) - S2x03 - Papa, Can You Hear Me?

447. (1) - S2x12 - Fat Bottomed Girls

448. (1) - S2x13 - Sing

449. (1) - S2x13 - This Little Light of Mine

450. (1) - S2x16 - Jesus Is My Friend

451. (1) - S2x16 - Only Child

452. (1) - S2x16 - Get It Right

453. (1) - S2x16 - Loser Like Me

454. (1) - S3x06 - Hot for Teacher

455. (1) - S3x07 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

456. (1) - S3x08 - Man in the Mirror

457. (1) - S3x08 - Red Solo Cup

458. (1) - S3x11 - Scream

459. (1) - S3x11 - Black or White

460. (1) - S3x11 - Ben

461. (1) - S3x11 - I Want You Back

462. (1) - S3x12 - Sexy and I Know It

463. (1) - S3x12 - A Little Less Conversation

464. (1) - S3x18 - School's Out

465. (1) - S3x18 - The Rain in Spain

466. (1) - S3x19 - Dinosaur

467. (1) - S4x19 - Fight for Your Right (to Party)

468. (1) - S5x07 - The Fox

469. (1) - S5x08 - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)

470. (1) - S5x13 - Loser Like Me

471. (NA) - S1x03 - Mercy

472. (NA) - S1x04 - Taking Chances

473. (NA) - S1x05 - Last Name

474. (NA) - S1x05 - Alone

475. (NA) - S1x08 - Bust A Move

476. (NA) - S1x10 - Lean On Me

477. (NA) - S1x10 - Crush

478. (NA) - S1x11 - Bootylicious

479. (NA) - S1x14 - Hello

480. (NA) - S1x16 - Home

481. (NA) - S1x22 - Faithfully

482. (NA) - S2x01 - Listen

483. (NA) - S2x01 - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

484. (NA) - S2x01 - Getting to Know You

485. (NA) - S2x03 - Bridge Over Troubled Water

486. (NA) - S2x03 - One of Us

487. (NA) - S2x06 - One Love (People Get Ready)

488. (NA) - S2x09 - The Living Years

489. (NA) - S2x10 - Welcome Christmas

490. (NA) - S2x10 - Merry Christmas, Darling

491. (NA) - S2x11 - Need You Now

492. (NA) - S2x15 - Kiss

493. (NA) - S2x17 - Turning Tables

494. (NA) - S2x17 - All By Myself

495. (NA) - S2x19 - Dreams

496. (NA) - S2x19 - Never Going Back Again

497. (NA) - S2x19 - Songbird

498. (NA) - S2x19 - Nice to Meet You, Have I Slept with You?

499. (NA) - S2x22 - Yeah!

500. (NA) - S2x22 - For Good

501. (NA) - S2x22 - Light Up the World

502. (NA) - S2x22 - Pretending

503. (NA) - S2x22 - As Long as You're There

504. (NA) - S2x22 - Still Got Tonight

505. (NA) - S3x02 - Somewhere

506. (NA) - S3x03 - Spotlight

507. (NA) - S3x03 - Out Here On My Own

508. (NA) - S3x04 - Waiting for a Girl Like You

509. (NA) - S3x06 - You and I/You and I

510. (NA) - S3x07 - I'm the Only One

511. (NA) - S3x09 - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

512. (NA) - S3x09 - Blue Christmas

513. (NA) - S3x10 - Without You

514. (NA) - S3x11 - I Just Can't Stop Loving You

515. (NA) - S3x11 - Human Nature

516. (NA) - S3x12 - Don't Wanna Lose You

517. (NA) - S3x12 - La Isla Bonita

518. (NA) - S3x12 - Bamboleo/Hero

519. (NA) - S3x13 - Let Me Love You

520. (NA) - S3x13 - Chapel of Love

521. (NA) - S3x13 - Home

522. (NA) - S3x14 - Here's to Us

523. (NA) - S3x14 - Stand

524. (NA) - S3x17 - My Love Is Your Love

525. (NA) - S3x18 - Cry

526. (NA) - S3x20 - Mean

527. (NA) - S3x20 - I Won't Give Up

528. (NA) - S3x20 - Flashdance...What a Feeling

529. (NA) - S3x20 - Because You Loved Me

530. (NA) - S3x21 - It's All Coming Back to Me Now

531. (NA) - S3x21 - Pinball Wizard

532. (NA) - S3x22 - I'll Remember

533. (NA) - S3x22 - You Get What You Give

534. (NA) - S3x22 - Glory Days

535. (NA) - S3x22 - Roots Before Branches

536. (NA) - S3x22 - Forever Young

537. (NA) - S4x01 - Sister Christian

538. (NA) - S4x01 - Never Say Never

539. (NA) - S4x01 - Chasing Pavements

540. (NA) - S4x02 - Hold It Against Me

541. (NA) - S4x02 - Everytime

542. (NA) - S4x02 - Crazy/U Drive Me Crazy

543. (NA) - S4x02 - Womanizer

544. (NA) - S4x03 - Celebrity Skin

545. (NA) - S4x03 - The Way You Look Tonight/You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile

546. (NA) - S4x04 - Barely Breathing

547. (NA) - S4x04 - Give Your Heart a Break

548. (NA) - S4x04 - The Scientist

549. (NA) - S4x04 - Mine

550. (NA) - S4x05 - Juke Box Hero

551. (NA) - S4x06 - Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)

552. (NA) - S4x06 - Greased Lightning

553. (NA) - S4x07 - Holding Out for a Hero

554. (NA) - S4x08 - Home/Homeward Bound

555. (NA) - S4x08 - Live While We're Young

556. (NA) - S4x09 - Don't Dream It's Over

557. (NA) - S4x09 - Being Good Isn't Good Enough

558. (NA) - S4x09 - All That Jazz

559. (NA) - S4x10 - Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah

560. (NA) - S4x10 - The First Noel

561. (NA) - S4x10 - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

562. (NA) - S4x10 - Jingle Bell Rock

563. (NA) - S4x11 - Baby Got Back

564. (NA) - S4x11 - No Scrubs

565. (NA) - S4x11 - Locked Out of Heaven

566. (NA) - S4x12 - Torn

567. (NA) - S4x12 - Love Song

568. (NA) - S4x13 - Make No Mistake (She's Mine)

569. (NA) - S4x14 - You're All I Need to Get By

570. (NA) - S4x14 - Anything Could Happen

571. (NA) - S4x14 - We've Got Tonite

572. (NA) - S4x15 - Unchained Melody

573. (NA) - S4x15 - In Your Eyes

574. (NA) - S4x17 - My Prerogative

575. (NA) - S4x18 - Say

576. (NA) - S4x18 - Your Song

577. (NA) - S4x19 - You Have More Friends Than You Know

578. (NA) - S4x19 - Outcast

579. (NA) - S4x19 - Don't Stop Believin' (Rachel)

580. (NA) - S4x19 - Next to Me

581. (NA) - S4x20 - Everybody Hurts

582. (NA) - S4x21 - Uptight (Everything's Alright)

583. (NA) - S4x21 - I Wish

584. (NA) - S4x21 - Higher Ground

585. (NA) - S4x22 - Hall of Fame

586. (NA) - S4x22 - Clarity

587. (NA) - S4x22 - Wings

588. (NA) - S4x22 - I Love It

589. (NA) - S4x22 - All or Nothing

590. (NA) - S4x22 - To Love You More

591. (NA) - S4x22 - Rainbow Connection

592. (NA) - S5x02 - Get Back

593. (NA) - S5x03 - Fire and Rain

594. (NA) - S5x03 - I'll Stand By You

595. (NA) - S5x03 - No Surrender

596. (NA) - S5x05 - On Our Way

597. (NA) - S5x05 - If I Were a Boy

598. (NA) - S5x06 - Honesty

599. (NA) - S5x06 - You May Be Right

600. (NA) - S5x07 - Nasty/Rhythm Nation

601. (NA) - S5x08 - Mary's Little Boy Child

602. (NA) - S5x08 - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

603. (NA) - S5x08 - Away in a Manger

604. (NA) - S5x08 - Love Child

605. (NA) - S5x08 - O Christmas Tree

606. (NA) - S5x09 - Whenever I Call You Friend

607. (NA) - S5x09 - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

608. (NA) - S5x09 - I Believe in a Thing Called Love

609. (NA) - S5x09 - Every Breath You Take

610. (NA) - S5x09 - Breakaway

611. (NA) - S5x10 - Hold On

612. (NA) - S5x10 - Barracuda

613. (NA) - S5x10 - Danny's Song

614. (NA) - S5x11 - Vacation

615. (NA) - S5x11 - America

616. (NA) - S5x11 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

617. (NA) - S5x11 - Mr. Roboto/Counting Stars

618. (NA) - S5x11 - I Love LA

619. (NA) - S5x12 - Happy

620. (NA) - S5x13 - Party All the Time

621. (NA) - S5x13 - I Am Changing

622. (NA) - S5x13 - Just Give Me a Reason

623. (NA) - S5x13 - Be Okay

624. (NA) - S5x14 - Best Day of My Life

625. (NA) - S5x14 - Rockstar

626. (NA) - S5x14 - Downtown

627. (NA) - S5x14 - People

628. (NA) - S5x15 - You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman

629. (NA) - S5x15 - Colorblind

630. (NA) - S5x16 - Addicted to Love

631. (NA) - S5x16 - I Want to Know What Love Is

632. (NA) - S5x17 - Who Are You Now

633. (NA) - S5x18 - Piece of My Heart

634. (NA) - S5x18 - Wake Me Up

635. (NA) - S5x18 - The Rose

636. (NA) - S5x18 - Doo Wop (That Thing)

637. (NA) - S5x19 - Werewolves of London

638. (NA) - S5x19 - Memory

639. (NA) - S5x19 - Lucky Star

640. (NA) - S5x19 - Take Me Home Tonight

641. (NA) - S5x19 - I Melt with You

642. (NA) - S5x20 - All of Me

643. (NA) - S5x20 - No Time At All

644. (NA) - S5x20 - Shakin' My Head

645. (NA) - S5x20 - Pompeii

646. (NA) - S5x20 - Glitter in the Air

647. (NA) - S6x01 - Sing

648. (NA) - S6x01 - Dance the Night Away

649. (NA) - S6x01 - Uninvited

650. (NA) - S6x01 - Let It Go

651. (NA) - S6x01 - Suddenly Seymour

652. (NA) - S6x02 - Problem

653. (NA) - S6x02 - Mustang Sally

654. (NA) - S6x02 - Viva Voce

655. (NA) - S6x03 - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow/Head Over Feet

656. (NA) - S6x03 - You Learn/You've Got a Friend

657. (NA) - S6x03 - So Far Away

658. (NA) - S6x04 - Rock Lobster

659. (NA) - S6x04 - Whip It

660. (NA) - S6x04 - Thousand Miles

661. (NA) - S6x04 - Bitch

662. (NA) - S6x05 - It Must Have Been Love

663. (NA) - S6x05 - All Out of Love

664. (NA) - S6x05 - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

665. (NA) - S6x06 - Arthur's Theme

666. (NA) - S6x06 - What the World Needs Now

667. (NA) - S6x06 - Alfie

668. (NA) - S6x07 - You Give Love a Bad Name

669. (NA) - S6x07 - All About That Bass

670. (NA) - S6x07 - Time After Time

671. (NA) - S6x07 - I Know Where I've Been

672. (NA) - S6x07 - Same Love

673. (NA) - S6x08 - Hey Ya!

674. (NA) - S6x08 - I'm So Excited

675. (NA) - S6x08 - At Last

676. (NA) - S6x09 - Uptown Funk

677. (NA) - S6x09 - I Want to Break Free

678. (NA) - S6x09 - Break Free

679. (NA) - S6x09 - Lose My Breath

680. (NA) - S6x09 - Cool Kids

681. (NA) - S6x09 - Friday I'm in Love

682. (NA) - S6x10 - Far From Over

683. (NA) - S6x10 - Rather Be

684. (NA) - S6x10 - Rise

685. (NA) - S6x10 - The Trolley Song

686. (NA) - S6x10 - The Final Countdown

687. (NA) - S6x11 - We Built This City

688. (NA) - S6x11 - Mickey

689. (NA) - S6x11 - Chandelier

690. (NA) - S6x11 - Come Sail Away

691. (NA) - S6x11 - Listen to Your Heart

692. (NA) - S6x11 - Take Me to Church

693. (NA) - S6x12 - Pony

694. (NA) - S6x12 - Don't Stop Believing (Pilot/2009)

695. (NA) - S6x12 - I'm His Child

696. (NA) - S6x12 - I Kissed a Girl

697. (NA) - S6x13 - Daydream Believer

698. (NA) - S6x13 - Someday We'll Be Together

699. (NA) - S6x13 - I Lived

700. (NA) - S6x13 - This Time

701. (NA) - S6x13 - Teach Your Children

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[em-neko]

KISSED BY THE BADDEST BIDDER MAIN ROUTE REVIEW

hey! so i just finished watching kaylaslovely on youtube’s review of the main five (+ rhion) bidders routes and so i thought i would make my own review, because i felt like it. so here you go!

i will be reviewing all nine main routes, or main stories. each story will be rated using these five categories: plot, pace, romance, mc (since she’s different in every story) and love interest. at the end, i’ll give the story its final rating and i’ll let you know whether i recommend it or not.

i will try not to include any spoilers, but just in case, consider this your spoiler warning!

remember, these are my personal opinions.

summary: you are a maid at a hotel called the tres spade hotel, owned by the ichinomiya group. one day, you get dragged into the ivc (an exclusive party for the elite, held inside the hotel) and you basically get lost. while you’re wandering around the area, you enter a storage room where a lot of expensive items are held. little did you know, those items belonged to a blackmarket auction, the ivc was only a cover for said auction. being the clumsy queen that you are, you manage to bump into the statue of venus and knock it over. when the men responsible for the expensive items find you, they throw you into a giant birdcage and put you up for auction instead of the statue.

from here, you can pick one of the main five love interest (eisuke, soryu, mitsunari, mamoru and ota) to buy you. the other love interest (except for rhion) only appear in the second/third season, they purchase you from eisuke (presuming eisuke bought you but you never fell in love). rhion is part of an “au”, but his story technically takes place in season one. does that make sense? okay, perfect. now, on to the review!

EISUKE ICHINOMIYA: THE ARROGANT CEO

plot: 8/10, the plot is a cliche and fairly overused trope... but i love it. it’s well executed and feels unique and original, even though the core of the plot really isn’t.

pace: 8/10, in my opinion, i think the pace was very good. it wasn’t too slow or too fast (although it leaned on the slower side) and i feel like mc fell in love with eisuke at an appropriate time in the story. the ending felt slightly rushed but i feel like that’s a common theme with love 365 stories.

romance: 7/10, not as romantic as other routes (i mean, it’s eisuke we’re talking about), especially at the beginning, but there were moments that made me smile.

mc: 6/10, she’s definitely a bit of a pushover in this route. i wish she stood up to eisuke more, i wish she was sassier, it would’ve made the story sooo much funnier!

love interest: 7/10, eisuke’s kind of a jerk in this story, but hey at least he’s entertaining? (he has his cute moments tho)

final score: 72% (b-)

recommendation: sure? to be honest, it was pretty okay, a little boring compared to the other routes but for the low low price of literally 0$ (his main route is free), it’s not bad.

SORYU OH: THE COLD MOBSTER

plot: 9/10, i really liked his plot! i’ll admit, i’m not a fan of gang related stories, in fact, i usually hate them, but soryu’s story genuinely surprised me! i especially loved the fact that mc made a female friend along the way, usually other females in stories are seen as rivals (as in eisuke’s case), but it wasn’t the case here and that made me really happy. we support women in his household <3

pace: 7/10, the ending was really rushed in my opinion, like way more rushed than the usual rushed love 365 ending. when it ended i was like, “are you serious?” it just felt abrupt. the rest was fine tho.

romance: 8/10, the romance was subtle (due to soryu’s cold and mysterious demeanor), but you could definitely feel it. there was sooo much chemistry between the characters, so it felt really romantic.

mc: 8/10, she’s a little boring, but at least she’s relatable, like her actions/choices make sense in this story.

love interest: 9/10, c’mon, who doesn’t love soryu? there’s a reason why the whole fandom simps for this man. he’s the perfect mix of cold and innocent, and his reaction to regular people things (like going to the supermarket) is hilarious! he’s really sweet too and you can tell that he really cares for mc.

final score: 82% (a-)

recommendation: yes! even if you don’t like gang related stories, i’d still give his route a chance.

MITSUNARI BABA: THE WOMANIZING THIEF

plot: 9/10, i really loved the plot. it’s basically a romcom with action and criminal activity, it’s gold.

pace: 8/10, there were some parts that felt rushed, but overall i think the pace was fine.

romance: 10/10, the most romantic story of them all (i don’t expect any less from baba). their interactions are so cute and i loved watching them get closer and more comfortable with each other.

mc: 8/10, even though she’s kind of dumb, it works because this story is more comedic, her naivety and trusting nature helped the plot advance rather than disrupting it. she’s also really sassy in this story, i loved watching her shoot down baba!

love interest: 9/10, i love baba! i love the womanizer character trope, i know it’s an unpopular opinion but i still love it. he’s actually a total dork and he has the best lines, i smiled throughout the whole story!

final score: 88% (a)

recommendation: it’s one of my favorite main stories, so i definitely recommend it! however, if you don’t like romcoms or womanizers, you’ll probably hate this story lol

MAMORU KISHI: THE SLACKER DETECTIVE

plot: 8/10, his plot is intense. it’s action packed, there’s twists and turns and it definitely kept me on my toes. however, it is a little hard to keep up with at times, i definitely had moments where i got lost.

pace: 8/10, like mitsunari’s story, the pace was a little inconsistent, there were times when scenes felt rushed, idk if it was on purpose because it was a more “action-y” story, but even some of the “romantic” moments felt rushed.. which was a shame because there weren’t many.

romance: 7/10, it wasn’t very romantic, honestly. they had their cute moments, but they were rare. they have good chemistry, like the best friends you hardcore ship, but there just wasn’t much actual romance. i would compare their relationship to judy and nick in zootopia, like friends but a little more.

mc: 5/10, the mc actually bites back in this story, which is refreshing. however, she nags mamoru a lot, and i got sick of it really fast, to the point where i’d roll my eyes whenever she opened her mouth towards the end of the story. she acts like mamoru is a child incapable of taking care of himself, yet she gets angry when he calls her “kid” or treats her like one? wtf? ALSO, one third of the story is her being jealous of a dead person, which is literally so unreasonable and illogical. i could rant about her all day i swear.

love interest: 9/10, mamoru is so relatable, it’s not even funny. i love the way he speaks and i love the way he reacts in situations. he acts like he doesn’t care, but you know damn well the man cares more about mc than anyone else. he’s also surprisingly patient (which, few bidders are), as i said, the mc is really immature in this story, and even tho he acts annoyed, he never actually gets angry at her. there’s something really cozy about him.

final score: 74% (b)

recommendation: if you like action packed stories, i would recommend this story! with that being said, the mc really ruined it for me.

OTA KISAKI: THE DECEPTIVE ARTIST

plot: 5/10, it was too predictable. literally three chapters in i was like, “oh, i see where this is going” and sadly i was right! it was really dramatic, which i actually enjoyed, but the overly predictable plot ruined it for me.

pace: 7/10, the pace was fine, however i feel like mc realized she was in love with ota at the wrong time. i wished they would’ve picked a different moment (maybe later) in the story to make her realize she’s in love with him, or just change the scene completely. because it was like one moment she just saw him as her buyer and at the snap of a finger she’s in love with him, like what?

romance: 5/10, there was literally one romantic scene in the whole story. there were some other cute moments but they were completely overshadowed by ota’s attitude. also, the whole dog fetish really turned me off, especially because the mc was clearly uncomfortable with it.

mc: 7/10, i feel bad for her. she’s really submissive and shy in this story, but like it makes sense (i would act the same as her tbh, i’d be too weirded out to give any sass), so she gets a pass.

love interest: 4/10, ota is so unlikeable in the first season omg i’d almost forgotten how much i used to hate him. however, he becomes really sweet after season 3, you just have to suffer through the first seasons lmao

final score: 56% (d)

recommendation: i really like ota but that story was not it. i wouldn’t waste my coins, honestly. if you really wanna read ota, read one of his substories or any story after season 3, don’t bother with his main route. however, his cg’s were one of the prettiest, so hooray?

SHUICHI HISHIKURA: THE ALOOF POLITICIAN

plot: 8/10, i liked this plot. it felt more serious than the other stories, but that wasn’t a bad thing.

pace: 7/10, same problem as soryu’s story, the last chapters were hella rushed and it made the falling action pretty confusing.

romance: 7/10, it wasn’t very “romantic”, but there were definitely scenes were you could really feel the attraction between the two. i find they compliment each other well.

mc: 8/10, this story was not meant to be a comedy, but the mc made it one. she’s so stupid that it’s actually hilarious, i honestly couldn’t stop laughing at her cluelessness. usually i’d find stupidity annoying, but in this story, i loved it. it made the heavy storyline easier to digest.

love interest: 9/10, shuichi’s a vengeful bitch, which makes his soft moments that much cuter. i like how he has his quirks, and how he has a professional stoic side as well as a soft caring side.

final score: 78% (b+)

recommendation: yeah, for sure. however, if you don’t enjoy the stoic stern hard-to-read type, you might not enjoy this story.

HIKARU AIHARA: THE MYSTERIOUS HITMAN

plot: 9/10, i really enjoyed this plot. it was like a romcom mixed with a dark-ish drama, it was really unique.

pace: 8/10, the pace of the story was good, however i felt like there was a bit of repetition in the story, in scenes and in dialogue.

romance: 7/10, i absolutely love hikaru and mc’s bantering! i think they’re so cute and it’s just really funny to read. it’s subtlety romantic and you can definitely tell that they like each other. with that being said, hikaru’s treatment of mc at the beginning of the story really ticked me off.

mc: 9/10, okay, she had her annoying moments like she always does, but the mc is so funny in this story! she reminds me of the mc from our private homeroom. i really liked her.

love interest: 9/10, here’s the thing, if you don’t like tsundere’s... you’ll fucking hate hikaru, because he’s a tsundere to the max. i love tsundere’s sooo, yeah i loved him hihi. he’s fucking adorable and his dishonesty towards his feelings is really cute. he’s also a sad boy, which made me have a soft spot for him.

final score: 84% (a-)

recommendation: honestly, i did not enjoy this story the first time i read it. i think it was because i didn’t understand hikaru’s sense of humor at the beginning, so i thought he was just a dick and mc was an idiot for liking him, but when i reread it after reading a couple of hikaru’s substories, i actually liked it. so, if you like tsundere’s i’d definitely recommend this story, if not, steer clear.

LUKE FOSTER: THE GOOD DOCTOR

plot: 9/10, i liked it! it felt a lot sadder/darker than the other plots, but it wasn’t overly depressing. there were lighthearted moments throughout and i like how luke gave mc a job instead of using her for personal gain or pushing her around all day. it was also surprisingly intense, with a few steamier scenes here and there.

pace: 8/10, the pace was pretty good, but like hikaru’s route there were scenes that made me go “i feel like i’ve read this before...” there was a rhythm to the story, or at least that’s what it felt like.

romance: 8/10, this story was definitely more intense than romantic. they still had their cute moments though, especially towards the end.

mc: 6/10, the mc is so nosy, impatient and short tempered in this story omg. she’s so quick to judgement and she has no sympathy towards luke for like the first 11 episodes of the story which really bothered me. also, she didn’t seem to understand luke’s way of showing affection and it got a little frustrating. she’s just exceptionally bad at reading people.

love interest: 8/10. if you love sad sweet boys who are surprisingly hot, you’ll love him. his collarbone obsession might weird some people out, but i found it hilarious and it was the perfect way to balance such a sad story.

final score: 78% (b+)

recommendation: if you like sad yet cute stories, i think you’ll really like this one.

RHION HATTER: THE MAD AUCTIONEER

plot: 10/10, his plot is amazing! it’s so adorable, innocent and unique, all while somehow managing to make me a little emo. rhion’s also the only bidder (besides luke) who didn’t use mc for personal gain, he actually bought her for some sort of companionship which was really refreshing (wow, the bar is set low yikes).

pace: 9/10, the pace was really great, it’s a slow burn too, which i love, but the last couple of episodes felt a little rushed.

romance: 10/10, it’s probably as (or maybe even more) romantic than baba’s story. there are so many cute moments, even when mc and rhion don’t really know each other yet. the romance is really sweet and pure, but it feels so real.

mc: 9/10, i love how she interacts with rhion! she’s relatable in this story and her actions are sensible, she has a mind of her own and she isn’t afraid to speak it.

love interest: 9/10, it’s rhion. he’s so precious! his shy and sweet nature is such a nice change from the other bidders and i really love how he slowly opens up to mc. also i think his alter ego of the mad hatter is really cool!

final score: 94% (a+)

recommendation: it’s my favorite story on the app for a reason. i definitely recommend it, even if you’re more into the sexy stories, i still think you should give rhion’s main route a chance! i made my friend who isn’t even into otome games play it and she really liked it.

FINAL RATING: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

i’ll admit, trying to look past the human trafficking bs was really difficult at first, but if you can manage to turn a blind eye to it and try to remember that it’s just a video game and everything’s fictional, it’s pretty good. the love interests are great, there’s some action, there’s a some drama and there’s a lot of humor. the sub stories are really good too!

[well-shit-im-a-morosexual-now]

Ah! I forgot to ask what you think of the Angel event. In my opinion, it's not a bad event, but god was it weird. Maybe I'm just weird and I think people being super nice is too suspicious (considering I am STILL sus of Simeon). I think I would have liked it more if the ending wasn't the party but instead them turning back and we get to tell them that we like them just the way they are

I have pretty mixed feelings about this. I didn’t like the actual content of the event but I did like the potential hints of a backstory that you can dig outta it. Hear me out;

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE:

How they were lied to and forced into the clothes and into their roles during this event

How uncomfortable, angry and scared they initially all were

How this was more or less rather cruelly making them live through their past trauma (for a party?????) not to mention digging up Satan’s identity issues

How this was essentially brainwashing because the brothers’ personalities did a complete 180 and didn’t even seem to notice it when in reality, we were previously told there weren’t any major personality changes between their time as angels and demons (for example as angels, Lucifer was still arrogant and prideful, Mammon was still a troublemaker, Asmo was still vain and Belphie was still lazy)

It casts a very black and white image on what angels and demons are like when om! has proven countless times before that it isn’t like that.

WHAT I DID LIKE:

So on the surface level this event was messed up, but like what if it was supposed to be messed up? Maybe I’m looking into it too much but this event gives a beautiful view on what the actual angels and celestial realm is like. This event, to me, states three points:

1.     The event itself is meant to be perceived as messed up:

The devs went to the extra trouble of adding scenes where Solomon and Luke are distinctly uncomfortable with what is happening and Solomon even calls the magic used ‘scary’, they didn’t have to waste time doing this if the event was supposed to come off as endearing and lighthearted. It’s also distinct that it’s Solomon saying this given that he’s ancient, has pacts with 72 demons, and the game hints at his meeting with Asmo being similar to Asmodeus and Solomon’s biblical meeting which was messed up and dark af. So I think it’s safe to say whatever he sees as wrong and scary would not be an exaggeration

2.     The Celestial Realm has a set black and white view of what demons and angels are like, and the bangles are supposed to make the wearer act opposite to the Celestial Realm’s view of demons, even if the wearer’s actual personality is not actually like that view

One main storyline hint for this is from lesson 40, where the voice in the light (presumably Michael) says that given how much the brothers like MC he would have expected them to be wicked, EXCEPT while yeah the brothers do heavily show their sins none of them are outright evil?? Like if they are pissed they’d attack but overall in general they’re all just kinda…chill? If anything given their personalities it would make more sense for them to be attracted towards someone who accepts and loves them for who they are than they would be towards someone who was wicked. But Michael just assumed ‘demons = evil so someone they like would also be evil’

The biggest hint at this within the event is MC’s interaction with ‘angelic’ Mammon cause he says a bunch of things that go directly against what has been established so far.

a.)   Mammon apologizes for the way he treats MC EXCEPT he’s being by MC’s side since like a week after meeting them? He makes a pact with them even though he just as easily could have just grabbed Goldie from them given that he’s the fastest. He never steals from them and later actually starts working legit jobs to earn money when he wants to buy them something, which is apparently fairly often. He bandages their wrist even though he told them he wouldn’t go out of his way to help them. He agrees to their stupid plans even though he knows he’ll get in trouble. He goes against and stands up to Lucifer for them despite being scared of Lucifer. He forgives them almost instantly after they lie about Belphie and all of this is just from season 1 cause the man’s even softer for MC in season 2

b.)   Mammon talks about selling his things to provide for human kids EXCEPT this is something he already does? One of the main reasons he’s always in debt is cause the Witches take advantage of him and the fact that through them he’s providing for a homeless orphan human child.  

3.     It paints a picture of the Celestial Realm as a controlling, ‘this and only this is the right way’, ‘we’d do anything for our notion of peace and order’ kind of world and it’s something the game has hinted at before:

The Celestial Realm decided to execute Lilith for loving and healing a human, while the Devildom (Diavolo) just reincarnated her and let her live amongst the humans

While in Celestial Realm the twins and Lilith had to sneak off to the human world while Diavolo straight up just brought two humans to the Devildom so he could bring about peace between the realms

The angels seem to be raised to view the demons as evil without any evidence to support it (Lucifer as an angel refusing to even look at Diavolo, Luke’s whole initial attitude towards demons) while as far as we know demons don’t really do this (Diavolo’s pov of his meeting with angel lucifer, lots of the background demons seem to just view Luke as a cute puppy)

Lucifer’s obsession with needing to follow the rules, needing to bend over backwards for Diavolo, being strict with his brothers, being this calm and collected, perfect always in control being. We learnt in the Celestial Realm that Lucifer was more callous and outspoken, and given that he rebelled against his father and started a war probably had less regard for rules and authority figures. The reason why Lucifer is the way he is in the Devildom could be due to him blaming himself for Lilith’s death because not only did he let her break the rules but he broke them himself which then led to the war

The celestial Realm was willing to do this whole magic bangle with which is highly amoral for a party? That’s like peak control freak, and as someone who is very much 100% a control freak I feel like I have the right to judge

So yeah, overall while I don’t like the actual event I like all its implications and the irony that the event with the angels is one of the darker events

Hated the ending though, I’ve more or less made an outline for a personally more satisfying ending for this event based around the magic ending almost immediately after the last chapter and a lot of hurt/comfort, angst and talking through feelings, their sense of self and their actual life in the celestial realm between all the characters but my work ethic is shit rn so :/

Obviously this is just my interpretation but I’d be more than willing to talk about this with you guys!

[princeescaluswords]

Fandom really did lose their minds over that "Thanks, son I should've had" line to the point they wrote a fic in the vain of 13 reasons why that... utterly takes it out of context and I have to laugh because fandom is fine with Stiles making remarks like that ("Mom would've believed me") but now this line is "further proof" Sheriff "abused" Stiles

I’m going to answer this instead of checking the election results for every five minutes because anything is better than that.  Right Stiles?

One of my most radical ideas is that the privileged position which the fandom and the production gave Stiles actually hurt the character in terms of writing.  As internally consistent as Stiles was and as brilliantly as Dylan O’Brien acted him, the character ended up, ironically, being the power fantasy.  He was super popular, but then again, power fantasies usually are.

This fantasy was could be summarized by his famous line:  “I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, okay? Sarcasm is my only defense.”

Except that it was almost never defense.  It was a tool to control his environment.  The fandom loves the idea that Stiles can judge and insult and manipulate others with his words, yet they never wanted to address the consequences of that behavior.  They pretend that somehow the audience and the other characters were required to love him for it.  

In my opinion, the greatest weakness in the writing of Teen Wolf was the writers’ idea that they didn’t have to show why anyone put up with Stiles.  It’s obvious that they wanted Scott and Stiles to be a ride-or-die friendship, but they never bothered to portray what Scott gets out of the deal.  Stiles insults, abandons, crosses the boundaries of, and physically assaults Scott for 90 episodes, and we’re supposed to assume that somewhere in that selfish, seething, resentful mass between “It’s good to have dreams, even pathetically unrealistic ones” and “Not all of us can be True Alphas” is why Scott wants Stiles in his life beyond Jeff Davis working out his family trauma in public.

Even the famous scene in Motel California is entirely centered on Stiles’s reaction to the event.  If you read it closely, his response doesn’t even acknowledge or grapple with what Scott is talking about.   Honestly, Scott wouldn’t even have had to say anything at all. 

But, says the fandom, Stiles was loyal! And he was, except for when he wasn’t,  from 17 missed texts to Chris Argent scolding him for having no faith to “We need a real alpha,” to “Oh you’ll heal.”  

But, says the fandom, Stiles cared! And he did, except for when he didn’t -- by episode three Stiles was trying to turn the nightmare Scott was living into something about him, worrying about not being Robin all the time. Or by episode 72 when Stiles sees that Scott is bleeding and not healing but pushes him to go looking for a monster in a tunnel because he needed to redeem himself in his own eyes and Scott’s medical condition was completely irrelevant.

And  these are good!   Stiles doesn’t need to be perfect for us to relate to him, and no one ever said he had to be.  He doesn’t need to be the genius detective-slash-mastermind.  He doesn’t need to even be strong in the face of violence and horror.  That’s not the problem.

The problem is that, as it has always been, that the behavior from the production and the fandom isn’t reciprocal.   This is why catering to the fans’ power fantasy of the sassy white sad boi derailed the show.  Because Stiles, as a protagonist of the story, is entitled to do things that the other characters aren’t.  

He’s allowed to dump his emotional trauma on Lydia and the next time they’re together, they’re buddies!   He’s allowed to physically take out frustrations on his best friend, and it’s never to be spoken of again, but he’s allowed to throw Scott’s initial difficulty controlling a werewolf bite against him four seasons and seventy episodes later   And above all, he’s allowed to lie, lie, torture, hit people, lie, betray, lie again, cross boundaries, lie, and lie one more time, and still be the best thing that’s ever happened to them.

But no one is allowed to do it to him.

Scott thinks that perhaps a violent, paranoid Stiles, whom Scott once watched attack a merged super-alpha with a baseball bat to save his dad, might have actually killed someone, and not only does the fandom seek his head on a platter, condemning him to bad friend column forever, but the production makes Scott, hours after being resuscitated, listen to his mother tell him he has to kiss Stiles’s ass in apology, and he also gets to walk around with an open chest wound until Stiles decides -- “yeah, I think I’ve punished Scott enough for my inability to tell the truth.”

Lydia gets stalked, manipulated, and yelled at repeatedly, and because he believes in her in one scene, they’re destined to be together.  Welcome to your future as a supernatural metal detector, Lydia!

Malia is forced to make her anger at Stiles lying to her about her parentage about her inability to relate to human social cues rather than Stiles being a lying douchebag and then be portrayed as being irrationally angry because Stiles dumped her for being okay with the fact that he killed someone and hid it.

Natalie gets to call out Stiles mere moments after he did the same to Scott, but the production will spend the rest of the season demonstrating how stupid she is.

And Noah gets to be an abuser because when his son -- absolutely and totally known for having a sharp tongue -- gets a taste of his own medicine.    

You see, emotional power fantasies always end bad writing, because it doesn’t matter how well written or well acted the fantasy of being able to people like dirt yet they love you all the same is done, the lack of reaction requires them to flatten other characters.   

And the power fantasy always applies to certain classes of characters.  Scott is scolded for not wanting to share his horrific attempted murder at the hands of Victoria, has Liam announce that he’s a better leader now they he got murdered by Theo, and told by his mother on her deathbed to throw himself in front of an army of assault-rifle wielding fanatics, but Stiles breaks half-a-dozen laws in one season alone and gets told by two different people that he and only he saved lives and should be a policeman.

What’s the difference?  You know what it is.

[c-is-for-circinate]

One of the things that has always fascinated me about Critical Role, on a meta and structural level, is the idea that as a D&D campaign (and with the way Matt runs his campaigns) the story is to some degree divorced from fate in a way no story I’ve ever read/watched before could be.

Cause and effect work differently in fiction than they do in real life.  In fiction, events happen because they need to in order for other things to happen later.  Sometimes fiction is messy, sometimes it’s disjointed, sometimes it’s badly-written, sometimes it’s a beautiful symphony of chaos, sure, but the end of every novel ever written is to some degree present in its beginning.  Even if the star quits and the costar dies and half the cast goes on strike and the season gets cut short via network interference and the writing team for the final three episodes is completely different than the writers for the first five, each episode has its own goal, its own direction.  Fiction gets written towards things.  That’s how fiction works.

I’ve never in my life seen a story that works like Critical Role does.  We know there isn’t an Ultimate Plan in the CR universe, because Matt is the god of that universe and he tells us so.  Matt knows the whole world and he knows the threads of possibility, but what actually happens is based on free will and dice rolls, on coincidence and randomness.  Matt plans certain challenges and the players rise to meet them, but it’s not because they’re fated to do so, it’s because they choose to.  Sometimes they spend three months playing pirate and choose not to!  The only certainty in this game is that the players intend to keep going to Level 20.  They’re destined as a group to be powerful and important, and to struggle getting there.  As individuals, they’re not even guaranteed to survive doing it.

And to me, that makes Caduceus’s whole fate and faith thing so completely fascinating.

Caduceus looks at this sword hilt he’s been carrying around for months, and at everything that’s just happened, and he sees a thing he stumbled across ages ago specifically in preparation for him to be here.  Here Caduceus is with both pieces of the sword, in this place where the blade was once forged and can be forged again, with a man who just lost the sword tying him to a foul fiend who’s in need of a new one.  Here is the hand of Melora and destiny in absolutely everything.  It’s perfect.  How could anybody doubt that this is fate?

Me.  I doubt that it’s fate, because we found that sword hilt in Episode 31 and none of this was planned.

It’s not even just Fjord-destroying-the-falchion.  It’s everything.  Episode 31 was ages before they ever came to Xhorhas and found the other half of the sword.  Did Matt even know that the sword blade was in Xhorhas yet, at that point?  Nobody knew the team would integrate themselves in there; nobody knew they’d even go there, certainly not this early.  Episode 31 was before the M9 ever even went to Nicodranas.  Fjord was still on good terms with U’kotoa back then.  If you’d told anybody at that table in Episode 31 what would happen in Episode 72, Matt included, they’d be stunned.  God himself didn’t know then what would eventually happen.  It looks like such coincidence--but if it’s not fate, how did everything come together so well like this?

Well, they’re here in this place where the sword was forged and can be fixed on the night that Fjord destroyed the falchion specifically because Caduceus decided that this sword was The Answer To Their Problems and came here to fix it in the first place, aren’t they?  And part of why he’s been so insistent on fixing this sword now is because Caduceus likes broken things, and he likes mending them, and he’s been fixating on Fjord as the broken thing he can mend for ages now.  Would Fjord have even throw the falchion away in the first place if not for Caduceus (and the rest of the team) trying to support him and encouraging him to steer away from U’kotoa to begin with?

Caduceus has got a sword that he’s sure is Somehow Meaningful.  Just like the man with only a hammer who thinks every problem must be a nail, he’s gone looking for problems with possible sword-shaped solutions, and convinced himself that this sword is the only possible solution to those problems, that it was destiny making sure he had the right tool at the right time and nothing else ever could’ve happened in the first place.  Hell, up until last week, he was entirely sure that the sword-shaped problem in question was, ‘how do we kill the Laughing Hand?’.  Now the sword-shaped problem is ‘fjuck, Fjord is weaponless’, and it looks like fate, but not even Caduceus could’ve predicted how that night would go.  

I wonder a lot whether Matt decided Wacoh would have the sword’s blade in reaction to the fact that Caduceus was trying so hard to figure out the sword’s shit and Matt likes to give his players presents.  I wonder whether Caduceus’s choices actually changed the universe on that meta-level.

It’s just so, so fascinating to me, watching Caduceus decide that he Knows How This Is Destined To Go, and then working towards that end he’s decided is fated.  And then all his efforts mean things actually go that way and of course they did, it was fate!  Or else they don’t, and something else was fate.  And you can’t even quite argue against it, not even on a meta level, because maybe each and every die was meant to come down on the number it landed on (except I don’t, can’t believe that about the real world).

This game is such a beautiful microcosm of cause and effect, and how random events can turn into stories with morals and conclusions, just because we decide they are.  Meaningless things become meaningful through coincidence or fate, or because people declare they’re important and the declaration makes it thus.  And Caduceus, who is so ready to ascribe meaning in places it may not have existed before, sits right in the middle of all of it, creating destiny and denying his own agency at every turn.

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SnK Episode 60 Poll Results (for Anime Only Watchers)

The poll closed with 159 responses. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Please note that these are the results for the Anime Only Watchers’ poll. If you wish to see the results for the Manga Readers’ poll, click here. 

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RATE THE EPISODE 130 Responses

And we’re back! An explosive premiere brings the series back. The vast majority seemed to enjoy the episode, with only 2.3% of folks giving it a score below a 3.  

I thought some of the directing in the action scenes was odd and the music didn’t feel as well integrated/utilized as in past seasons.

If this season is consistently as good as this first episode, AOT will indeed end as a perfect masterpiece

ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT THE CHANGE FROM WIT STUDIO TO MAPPA? 127 Responses

The Studio change from WIT Studio to MAPPA was a subject of much scrutiny and debate before the season’s release. With almost 61% showing some form of enthusiasm about a new studio’s take on the series. The opinion is not uniform, of course, with just over 18% stating their preference for WIT studio. Slightly less (17.3%) can’t give an answer yet and the rest don’t seem to care at all.  

I wished MAPPA would make the latter episodes a little more vibrant and lessen the blur

mappa as some of my favorite shows (banana fish, yuri on ice, etc) so it was kinda cool to see they picked up AOT szn 4 ! i’m excitedly waiting to watch the next episode, (and with my ‘watch partner’ aka tumblr friend who discusses with me as we watch LOL).

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE CGI TITANS? 127 Responses

If there’s one thing that’s rather controversial about the series’ animation adaptation, then it’s certainly the use of CGI (particularly when animating Titans). The opinion of the fanbase seems to be rather positive, nonetheless. 72.4% of responders gave the CGI some praise (be it more open or more reserved), while 18.2% were more negative about the use of CGI. At the bottom was 9.4% who stated that they preferred WIT’s style of CGI to the one utilized in the episode.  

cgi wasn't bad but I was disappointed that it wasn't the 2d animation from the trailer

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE NEW OPENING? 128 Responses

When it came to the season’s opening, there was a positive response, with more than 72% expressing a favorable opinion. 21.1% didn’t seem to care for it and about 6% stated that they thoroughly disliked it. 

OP is WAY too overrated, nowhere near as good as the original, too much glorification of the kind of nationalism that led to Nazi germany's rise to power

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE NEW ENDING? 130 Responses

The new ending received very similar scores, with a similar figure of more than 72% expressing a positive view of the ending and a little over a quarter not caring for it. The proportion disliking it was much lower however, with only 2.3% of folks expressing those thoughts.

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE 4 YEAR TIME SKIP? 126 Responses

One of the grandest developments that came about in this episode is the fact that a 4 year time skip has occurred since the defeat of the Warriors in Shiganshina. Although there is a sizable minority expressing negative feelings (13.5%), the definitive majority is coming in with enthusiasm (70.6%). The rest are still thinking this change over. 

wtf is going on? Who are these new people? Why are we supposed to care about them if they're from Marley? Where are the main characters? Yeah, I suppose Reiner and Zeke technically count as MCs, but there is an appalling lack of 104th characters that needs to be fixed asap!

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE SETTING CHANGE? 125 Responses

In a similar vein, a remarkable new development is a change of setting. The majority (almost 61%) see it in a positive light, while 16% seem to dislike it. Just over 19% aren’t certain yet. 

After what Reiner and co. did, I am not at all interested in their side of the story and just want Eren and co. to completely decimate these people

Fun to meet new characters but I'm eager to know whats going on with the characters we know

It feels a little disorienting but it's a logical progression of the story

Strange

Wouldnt mind the change of setting if we at least had it from the 104th's perspective

I wasn’t expecting it to be so focused on new characters, and I was disappointed at first but I’m indifferent now.

Not liking the new perspective. At least for this new batch of kids. If Reiner and Zeke are going to be a major focus for a while, wouldn't a short series of flashbacks for their pasta work better than a completely new spin-off from the main story?

WHICH NEW CHARACTER IS YOUR FAVORITE SO FAR? 125 Responses

As this episode introduced a lot of new characters, we got a colorful pie chart for this one. The plurality of responses (40%) chose the kind-hearted Falco, while 28% went with passionate Gabi. 14.4% chose the caring Colt and 13.6% went with the cool Jaw Titan holder. The last couple of responses picked out the stoic General Magath and the quiet Zofia. Poor Udo didn’t get a single vote!

I loved it. I love the new art style, my favorite scene was Gabi destroying the train, she's awesome. I really love Falco as well and Colt. Galliard's titan design is sick

I literally don't give a shit about these new kids, I don't care about their story, just bring back EMA and the 104th already!

WHO DO YOU THINK WILL INHERIT THE ARMORED TITAN? 125 Responses

Another colorful pie chart! An almost even split for the (possible) future inheritor of the Armored Titan. 37.6% believe Falco will take it, while 27.2% went with Gabi. 33.6% do not see any of the cadets inheriting Reiner’s titan and the last couple of votes went ahead to Zofia instead.

WHO HAD THE BETTER GLOW UP? 127 Responses

When drawing comparison to Reiner and Zeke’s looks in the previous season, there was a clear favorite among the responses - Reiner, with 74%. Zeke had the preference of 15% and those who didn’t feel like either of them “went through a glow up” took 11%. 

can we acknowledge how good zeke, reiner, and [redacted] looked 😌🥰

REINER PLEASE FUCK ME

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE JAW TITAN? 126 Responses

New season, new setting, new titan! The vast majority of viewers seem hyped about the Jaw Titan and find its design really cool. 15.9% aren’t as thrilled about it, and 9.5% haven’t decided yet. Most of the write-in comments implied a connection with the Jaw Titan. But for the purpose of avoiding spoiling those who haven’t drawn the same conclusion, we won’t be publishing them. Just know we see you. ;)

i was lowkey scared lmao

CART TITAN - BETTER WITH ARMOR OR WITHOUT? 127 Responses

We are reunited with the eerie Cart Titan from S3, but this time flexing cool armor and machine guns on its back! The overwhelming majority of respondents prefer it better tricked out in its armor, over a small minority who appreciate its natural creepiness more.

MOST OF THE EPISODE FOCUSES ON GABI. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HER? 124 Responses

Gabi appears to be a point of controversy among anime viewers already, with 38.7% viewing her favorably, 37.9% viewing her less favorably, and 16.9% not sure how to feel about her yet. Some comments feel she is similar to Eren in some ways, while others found her annoying. And yes, she did break international law. :P

Eren, but smol and female xD

I hate her already

I think she’s awesome

She's like Eren was

she passionately creepy but i like her lol

shes annoying

Gabi is SO annoying istfg really hope Falco gets more focus than Gabi, he seems nicer and more relatable

FALCO MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT “FLYING AROUND WITH A SWORD” AND “ATTACKING TITANS.” WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THAT? 126 Responses

Overall, no one seems to know what’s going on, though many are theorizing that this is related to the paths, titan powers/memory transfer, or Eren somehow. What could this mean for the future of Falco’s character?

Dig at anime viewers returning to S4

He saw the memories of a survey corps member

I have a couple theories, regarding the memories that intelligent Titans share back and forth

maybe he had one of those flashback/forward things that erens dad had

WHO DO YOU THINK WAS BUYING THE NEWSPAPER AT THE END? 126 Responses

Nearly 90% of respondents are certain that this mystery character is someone we know, while just a small handful of people believe it’s someone new, and about the same amount not ready to make a call one way or the other yet. Some write-ins on the poll had guessed specifically who the character may be already. But we won’t spoil you just yet. 👀

The end credits guy is definitely someone we know, but I highly doubt it's Eren

The sharp-looking dude at the end just HAS to be someone we know on Paradis, there's no way they'd just throw us in to this new cast of nobodies without some connection to the main characters

WHAT DID YOU THINK OF ELDIANS BEING USED AS WAR FODDER? 126 Responses

The treatment of Eldians on the mainland is something that the majority of respondents see as detestable, with 87.3% finding the use of them as war fodder to be downright cruel. A smaller amount of people either felt it was a necessary evil, or didn’t feel strongly about it one way or the other. 

Literally waiting for the 104th to show up and fuck shit up for these inhumane monsters

That's what happens in the real world. The persecuted minority gets used as war fodder.

i d k 👀

DO YOU THINK IT’S POSSIBLE FOR RELATIONS BETWEEN ELDIANS AND MARLEYANS TO IMPROVE? 123 Responses

Colorful opinions mean more colorful pie charts! Most viewers feel that there is no way for the relations between Eldians and Marleyans to improve (30.1%) or that relations will never improve, with the exception of a rare few who are sympathetic to Eldians (22.8%). A smaller amount (totalling 32.5%) feel that it’s possible for things to improve whether it be due to a change in Marleyan leadership or due to the two sides having to come together for the greater good. 14.6% of respondents stand in the middle ground, unsure of whether relations can improve or not.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE?

Honestly at first it was very confusing but overall I enjoyed it

So when do we get to see the 104th again?

I figured there would be more modern technology involved in the story, but I'm not a fan at all of the direction it's going so far. Makes me worried the ultimate basement reveal was the peak of AoT's greatness.

it was action filled!!! although i was sad so see that there are 16 episodes n not like 24(i think), it means every episode is gonna deliver!!! off to a great start, op and ed are amazing. renier had a nice glow up and JEAN WAS THAT U AT THE END?? yessir!!! beast titan looked ugly asf but when was he not ugly?? LOL

Idk wtf that opening was but I kinda like the ending. Falco seems like a good kid. I just REALLY hope he doesn't end up doing anything to hurt the protagonists (I fully expect Gabi to, she's already a violent ax-crazy kid)

just give me some Armin

WHERE. IS. EREN?

WHERE DO YOU PRIMARILY DISCUSS THE SERIES? 124 Responses

Thanks again everyone for participating in the poll! We look forward to seeing your responses for next week’s episode!

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