I think what I don't like about the Makoto cameo is that he incidentally and accidentally saves Kyoko's life through his luck.
He trips her and they both fall and Kyoko subsequently does not get her head smashed in by a shot put that Sakura has thrown like a baseball.
Because I know Makoto is being set up as the person who takes over Yui's spot in Kyoko's life. Who gets her to trust people again and emotions and etc.
So we have Makoto immediately saving Kyoko just like Yui literally just died saving Kyoko.
Except that Makoto. doesn't have a choice here. He does in THH, and he canonically makes that choice, and that parallel is important, that Makoto unintentionally sacrifices himself for Kyoko.
But that's the thing - both of these are unintentional.
In his cameo, Makoto saves Kyoko by accident.
In THH, Makoto intentionally saves Kyoko, but he's not aware that will put his own head on the executioner's block.
Yui walked directly into putting her life on the line for Kyoko full-stop, constantly, not looking back, until she died doing it.
That's not the same.
And the closest parallel we get to it isn't Makoto for Kyoko, it's Kyoko in DR3 saying that if she has to choose between herself and Makoto, she will choose keeping Makoto alive. Full-stop. And then sacrifices herself in that pursuit.
(She gets better because she found an antidote for poison, but she had no certainty that would work or that anyone would even notice she wasn't really dead. Bless Mikan, actually, because none of the others noticed. Kyoko out here literally teaching Makoto how to investigate, and boy has learned NOTHING.)
And this is not, like, anti-Naegiri or anything like that. Clearly, canon sees the appeal here.
But Makoto is not the Yui parallel that canon wants him to be as entirely as it wants him to be.
Kyoko is.
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the world is so fucked up and i can't help but think the damage is irreparable when i see people talking about how unusual and prudish it is to wait six to ten dates before having sex with someone. ten dates??? roughly like twenty five hours of interaction????? ten old timer burgers and mango iced teas from chilis equals sex?????? the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, emotional devastation, lifelong consequences, not to mention just straight up the possibility of getting murdered, with a STRANGER you have hung out with for maybe like two months???? and that's a LONG TIME???? and if you feel weird about that and don't want to do that that makes you NOT HETEROSEXUAL????? THATS AN ORIENTATION???? BECAUSE ITS SO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR ????? i hate all of you i hate you i hate you i hate you every day i hate and I hate and I hate you
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Fun fact: Spotlight Wukong can sing as well! But he still has stage fright, so he never does in front of anyone. Literally no one knowx that he can sing other than Macaque and MAYBE dbk (also feel like ao lie might have heard him at some point during the journey cuz i see them as besties). He's a rlly good singer too. He and Macaque used to do duets when they were alone back on FFM. But, after Macaque died, he just... kinda stopped.
Do what u will with that information <3
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You know what? More stretch mark headcanons.
Wen Qing has pinkish-silvery ones on her hips and thighs she got from growth spurts and puberty, and MianMian has darker, more pigmented ones on her biceps and shoulders from when she realized she puts on muscle really fast. Yanli is surprised but not upset by the one she gets on her belly and boobs when she’s pregnant with Jin Ling.
Xichen has shiny, horizontal ones on his lower back, from a sudden growth spurt. Mingjue has a lot of tiny older, pale ones on his biceps and butt, and bigger, darker, newer ones on his pecs from when he started bulking up during puberty. Huaisang has some purple-ish pink ones on the backs of his arms and old white ones when he went through weight changes as a preteen. Wuxian has a few very faded ones on his belly from when he suddenly started putting on weight from eating so well when he came to live at Lotus Pier, and some darker, hyperpigmented ones on his thighs from when they grew faster than the rest of him and Jiang Cheng called him a crane for several months.
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nothing will ever disappoint me ever than “You can do ANYTHING!!” tagline video games. “The only limit is your imagination!” WRONG!!
Can I have sex in your game? Can I pay for things in game without having to grind or hook up a credit card? Are the cosmetics in your game locked to only your designs and your ingame store or can we design whatever we want to put on our characters? Can I customize the car however I want or is there a set of choices for each part you created that I cannot deviate from? Can I program interactions within the game? Can I make it so my car plays songs for everyone within a 50 foot radius or blinks its headlights whenever someone does a dancing emote in front of it? Can I move around within the car while it’s driving? Can I get into every building in the map? Can I load in a nintendo inspired character or look without getting copyright striked? Can I play other video games within your video game? I’m serious can I play Stardew Valley or Helldivers 2 on a screen in my living room in game? Can I play music ingame through my spotify account? Can I buy pizza in game and have it show up irl at my house? Can I skateboard in your game? Can I ride bikes? Rollerskate? Snowboard? Ski? Do tricks? Are the physics any good? Can I create my own tricks and animations or am I limited to whatever you predecided are the only possible options for a culture designed around doing whatever you want? Can I create art? Can I play music? Can I design my home? Can I design my town? My world? My government? Can my friends play with me? Can we curate our own space without other people? Can
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olivia is so tfw no gf because shes. awkward as fuck Like That and Crazy. every woman she meets within ten minutes shes talking about something like the politics of fuckin bleaching your asshole or psychologically analyzing them as a person or how the entire whole of existence literally everything IS. a circle.
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