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[protagonist-art]

"Uh- I'm Arnold. Bennett. It's profoundly difficult to get your lifes works and studies accepted if your name isn't... yes, oh! Are you a fan of moths, sir?"

NEW RDR2 OC!! a reclusive, clumsy entomologist and bug collector; cooped up in his study of uniformed clutter

[tamamorikun]

I wanted to talk a bit more about the general banter and things that Moe points out in the DLC, especially in Mashita and Daimon's offices, so I took some screenshots of the background cgs ! My other writeup was long enough and I tried to focus on the plot itself so I'm doing these on a separate post. Also any other tidbits that Moe mentions I found were fun or interactions, since I love learning little things about the characters when they're not spirit hunting.

Spoilers under the cut, I suppose, not much about the actual plot of the DLC though!

At the Kujou Mansion:

She mentions that his bed is big enough to fit 3 of her. Also, when she comes in, she mentions the sheets are messy and still warm and she thinks he must have been sleeping there recently... but later you learn that he's been missing for about a week... and that Banshee was in the mansion and had gone to the bathroom when Moe came in so... uh, Banshee was sleeping in Yashiki's bed? yeah.

Not even that relevant but the lightbulb in Yashiki's room is dead and it has been for a while, Banshee says it's because all the furniture and such in the mansion is very old, so it's harder to find replacements. I wonder how long he's just been living in a dark room 😭

Yashiki also just leaves the door of the mansion unlocked all the damn time, apparently. Banshee says that he always forgets to lock it and that's how he comes and goes all the time.

At the park with Tsukasa:

Tsukasa mentions that he's never been to an amusement park in his life before or gone on any sort of rides. Poor kid... all he ever does is study.

Moe doesn't like mint!

No one questions or scolds Moe at home even though she comes back so late. She mentions that it may be because she has many siblings (doesn't specify how many, though) that her family isn't overprotective at all, and also that they probably don't expect much from her in the first place since she has bad grades. She prefers it this way though.

At Mashita's office:

It's in the basement of a building in front of the station.

When checking the rack, Moe does point out the red shirt is kind of flashy for what Mashita usually wears, so she's surprised to see he'd wear something like that too.

Moe is curious about the shelf full of alcohol. Shou tells her that Mashita seems to really enjoy drinking, and that at night he often drinks expensive looking brandy served neat. Moe is still surprised he'd keep alcohol out in the open in his workplace like that.

When checking the table, Shou mentions it's rarely used because customers don't usually come to the office. He explains that since most of his clients come from Yasuoka referring them, they often meet outside instead. Moe wonders if he really needs to have an office then.

Moe asks him what kind of shows Mashita watches when checking the TV, and she's disappointed to learn he only really uses it to check case related tapes. She was hoping he'd be really into something like reality tv or animal shows, something that wouldn't fit his image.

The kamidana on top of the shelf, a mini household shrine, was something Moe insisted he put in his office. Since he works with spirt cases and all, the shrine is meant to protect him and ward them off so they don't curse him. It's cute that Mashita listened to her and actually did...

There's a massive pile of cigarettes and cigarette boxes on his desk. We knew he smoked but it really seems like smokes A LOT.

I did mention the picture of him and his senpai he keeps in the drawer with the alarm, it was taken 5 years ago and he's smiling in it. Moe points out he's wearing a police uniform, the kind that police box officers in small neighborhoods do. So this was way before he became a police detective, he really was just a rookie then (He's 27 now, so he was only 22...)

Shou seems to still feel really guilty about what happened in the Red Riding Hood case, when he was possessed and attacked them, so he also sees this as a chance to help them and repay them for that. He also really wants for Mashita to acknowledge him and make him a proper assistant instead of just having him clean around.

At the park with Shou:

Shou mentions that he started to work part time at an Izakaya because he wants to get his dream motorcycle, a 750 cc one. (I looked that up but I don't know much about motorcycles in any language so I'm not sure what that means lol...). Moe asks him to give her a ride along the Shuto expressway one day since there's a rumor that a giant horse shows up, but he of course tells her no.

They find a rusted battery in the field and Shou mentions that the grass around it isn't growing due to soil contamination, and Moe immediately teases him about it since she didn't expect him to know about that. He explains that the type of battery they picked up is an old kind that would have mercury in it, and he tells her to not lick it. She gets mad but guesses it's payback for trying to tease him.

At Daimon's clinic:

We get a BG for this one too!

According to Moe, Daimon's specialization is surgery. So he's a surgeon! I don't remember if that had ever been mentioned before.

When checking the record player, Moe says that most of them have foreigners on the covers so it's most likely all old western music, though she doesn't know much about it.

When checking the guitar she says that Daimon has mentioned he was in a band before, and she wonders if he ever plays for his patients.

At the park with Daimon:

I did mention this in my summary, but Moe thinks about why Daimon dresses like that, with his shirt unbuttoned and part of his chest exposed, despite him having frail health. She wonders if that's the rockstar style.

Moe is not very good with snakes and freaks out when Daimon seems to pick one up, but it turns out to be just a snake shedding, and she remembers it's apparently good for luck with money and excitedly takes it when Daimon offers it to her.

Daimon is really smart and knows a lot about different subjects but he sure seems to go on tangents about it at the worst moments. He brings up the Monty Hall problem and the first time he just tells Moe to trust him, but later when Moe refers back to it and calls it Monkey Hall problem he proceeds to try to explain the whole thing... while they're still in a dire situation. At least Moe cuts him off before he can.

He also translated the archaic Japanese for Moe because she had no idea what most of it meant and just turned to him for help. Very cute. (And also helpful, because I wasn't familiar with most of it either lol...)

Moe and Daimon overall were such a fun combo! He takes her seriously enough that they openly discuss theories and he's willing to listen to her, but he's very gentle and knows she's a kid and scolds her sometimes. And even though Moe says she feels he's treating her like a child, he's really reasonable. It was great! I just love Daimon in general and I'd love to see him interacting more with the other mark bearers as well...

Also at the end, when she goes to visit the Kujou mansion to see Yashiki after he's recovered, Mashita is also there. Gee. How strange. I wonder why.

Moe getting nervous when Mashita clears his throat and stares directly at her, pausing for a bit... only for him to actually thank her. In a roundabout way. And still being condescending. But that's just how he is.

Also after Yashiki praises her, Mashita says something like 'Don't praise her too much, it'll get to her head and she'll get into something dangerous again." and one of the reply options is for Moe to be like "who was it that saved you again?" and he just clicks his tongue. Moe wins this round! That's about it! This ended up also being long as hell again but... if I had added it to my 'summary'... would've gotten even longer. I hope we get more DLC with little character tidbits like this!

[rmd-writes]

So, I have thoughts about Carlos’ glasses (not those thoughts get your minds out of the gutter for once). I’ve been thinking about whether the glasses are just for computer work/reading.

But I don’t think they are. In 3x13 Carlos is wearing them when TK comes home and he’s prepping food (whoops I didn’t save the pics where you can actually see him doing this, but just go with it).

He wears them when he’s reading again in 3x15 (and once again I have chosen photos where he’s giving good face instead of ones that demonstrate what I’m saying).

And now we see him wearing them at the hospital while being TK’s pillow, when he wasn’t wearing them earlier even though he was using the laptop.

Anyway, I’ve come to the conclusion that much like Rafa, Carlos usually wears contact lenses.

Also, I like his new glasses so much more than the old ones. He strikes me as the kind of person who (unlike me) probably only has one pair of glasses with his current prescription. What happened to the old ones? They probably got broken after TK was very enthusiastic.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[hinotorihime]

you'd think that someone, somewhere on the internet would have posted something about how jewish med students navigate sabbath observance in relation to the hospital schedule UGH am i just not searching the right terms

[eskildit]

hey is it a plot hole that judith was born interstellar. i swear its established that only those born on the nine houses can become necromancers but we know that judith was born off planet. like am i wrong about that being part of lore provided or was that a lie or just simply a plot hole.

[petitsdieu]

𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒆𝒔: unknown designer.

[boneempress]

I never really thought about why we might first see Natalie with a blonde dye job as a teen, beyond that it's just the sort of thing an edgy-cool 90s teenager would do, and that maybe the props department should change out the wig a little more often to show her roots growing in.

But, hear me out...Natalie as the Antler Queen, the chosen leader of their terrible ritual, the favorite of the wilderness. Her roots slowly coming in, as "it" - the wilderness, the darkness, the violence, the trauma, everything they do to survive, whatever "it" is - seeps in. And when we see her as an adult, her hair is fully dark again, because "it" has seeped all the way in. Because they brought "it" back with them.

[sonnengekuesste]

„I‘m like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

[louderfade]

omg what if we get trick or treaters. last year we were literally dead broke and couldn't buy candy but nobody came anyway bc we're the neighborhood haunted house. (it's bc we don't mow our lawn. also i put green lightbulbs in all the lights outside for maximum effect.) when we lived in nevada and had student loan money we gave out full bars to everyone two years in a row and the kids' reactions were beyond worth it. me realizing i have mostly good memories of halloween.

[inaris-mage-of-storms]

So you know how there's three in-game days per real-world hour in Minecraft? For fanfiction purposes, I started making some notes and doing calculations to figure out how that would translate into things like how long was each Hermitcraft season and Life series in in-game time. You know, things normal people think about at 4 am.

And my results probably aren't anywhere near exact, because trying to hold numbers and calculations in my head is ridiculously difficult and I'm sure I've done something wrong somewhere, but they're close enough for my purposes.

But anyway, when you're writing pining and perceived-unrequited love, looking at it in terms of in-game time puts a WILDLY different spin on things, yikes.

[magentagalaxies]

the bad news: scott thompson currently has covid and has been dealing with heavy symptoms since monday :(

the good news: scott thompson chose to use his time off recovering from covid to email me today and oh my god his email was so sweet!!! he also sent a ton of extra buddy cole content i've never seen so just when i run out of paul's stash here's scott coming through. i hope he feels better soon and i hope emailing me possibly made him feel a little better

[thepandalion]

doing my art backup and as usual I'm just uploading everything bc I can't remember what I already drew before the latest backup and uhm.

I'm side-eyeing that 40M file like the doge meme except a lot more regret

[euphor1a]

Aleynaaa!!! I know you don't usually answer to these type of asks, but have no one to share this with saurr your my lucky victim IG🤷‍♀️

Saur me and my sister were eating snacks a while ago, and then her friends called. Of course she answered it and then honestly I wish she didn't cuz.. I heard sloppy sounds😭 to be exact the same sounds you would usually hear when a man is--the worst part of this is my mom entering the room(gosh it was horrible)

... see, the reason “i don’t usually answer these types of asks” is because this is my first time receiving an ask like this and i have no idea how to respond and i have more questions than answers here 😧

like wdym “friends” 🤨, are we talking about one person or more?! and was it just sloppy sounds?? like no one was talking from the other side?? and i assume your unfinished sentence would read “when a man is screwing himself” ... (?)

what’s the tea here 😭 why is that person calling your sis calling in such a state? does your sister have some secrets y’all don’t know?

and. about your mom entering the room. well. is everyone alive? i mean i’d be dead if it was my mother and i was in that situation. but anyway, it sure must have been traumatizing for all of you 😔 my condolences 🫂

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

[talk of CSA, grooming, human trafficking, sex trafficking, victim-blaming and apologism for all of the above cw. i will be on about these books' bullshit @ five until the day i die and it just keeps getting worse lmao]

i hate the narrative's half-assed attempt at giving ethan a retroactive redemption arc for a lot of reasons, and one of them is that like. five is literally, non-metaphorically a survivor of human trafficking. he was just passed on to an alien cult instead of the kind of people he'd have ended up with in the real world. and that is before you add in the blatant, BLATANT thinly veiled metaphor for sex trafficking in specific.

(fun game: go through just about any scene of his that mentions power or importance once ethan comes in, and replace it with sex, sexuality, and being attractive/desirable. bring one bucket to heave into and another full of bleach for your eyeballs. enjoy!)

and like, there's so much to unpack here. so much! but the fact that these books try to make you feel more compassion for--try to get you to absolve of WAY more guilt--a sex trafficker who did it for his own gain, and to save his own skin, than the child we watched him traffic is just utterly, breathtakingly magical

[your-dads-filing-cabinet]

I think that Sips's anger has a lockdown effect on his magic. When he's angry, he has better control. The mechanical dragon, at the campfire before the crossing. Twice is a coincidence, but if it happened again? Well. Three times is a pattern.

[echoesofaheart]

hm. actually what if i ignored everything and wrote another apostasy fic