#honestly this is the true dystopia

[edsforehead]

I’m watching this Korean tv show on Netflix and in it they mention there’s a water drought that’s also caused food shortages and diseases etc, and because of that owning personal pets is illegal due to the resources they take up. And then there’s news footage of authorities capturing peoples illegal pets to be euthanized 🥲

[sapphogator]

Imagine my surprise living in a time where the government is considering getting rid of roe vs wade.

[jbk405]

Since I re-read The Hunger Games, I decided to read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as well.

I've got to applaud Suzanne Collins' purely technical writing here, because I honestly feel like I would have despised Coriolanus Snow from the beginning even if I didn't know how the story was ultimately going to end. Taking the story at direct face value, where we see him "fall in love" with Lucy Gray and we see him "help" Sejanus, he is still despicable because we are privy to his internal thoughts all along. You never think "How could this good person have turned evil?" because if you remove all of the actual death and despotism of the sci-fi dystopia he would still be the villain of a Disney Channel movie.

You could put Snow in a romantic comedy or a coming-of-age story or a high-school-drama and you would recognize his character type immediately: The popular kid who falls for the unpopular girl, and befriends the nouveau riche kid that all the other blue bloods bully, but who shows his true nature at the Big Dance when he chooses his old friends over their new relationships. You'd call that twist in the first act.

It shows perfectly how evil can start out not "looking" evil, but can just look petty or self-centered, or can even look noble in certain circumstances, before it blossoms.

I'm choosing to believe that Lucy Gray Baird made good her escape at the end. I'm deciding that she made it. She outwitted Snow, saw right through him at the end, and lived the rest of her life free of him. Completely free.

I'm choosing that for her.

[thesnowflake18]

Just out of curiousity honestly!!

Quick explanations for each below~

Flawed Pacifist/Family Ending

Failed Pacifist ending where you failed to date Undyne or Alphys, or dated Alphys and skipped the True Lab segment. None or few monsters killed (for most variants)

Toriel returns to the throne and people accept her policy for peace with humans

If you fail to date Undyne, she blames you for Asgore's death but otherwise seems fine

Undyne is pumped to speak with Frisk if she is befriended, just sad about Asgore

Betrayed Undyne endings here are possible if Papyrus is alive, you befriend Undyne, and killed any monster afterwards.

Alphys speaks with Frisk if befriended and reassures them of the progress to leave the underground

Papyrus joins the Royal Guard (after disbanding) and only waters flowers but is happy. Sans seems relatively happy too

Killing MTT will cause Alphys to disappear and Undyne to be distraught, not even wanting vengeance. Papyrus tries to be encouraging

Exiled Queen Toriel

Many branches!!! Toriel attempts to rule but either resigns peacefully or is banished back to the ruins, either by Undyne or the monsters themselves.

Overall, monsters are unhappy with Toriel's policy due to the killings by us, even more so if Undyne was killed

Sans and Papyrus (if he's alive) will follow her to the ruins and keep her company

Sans will drop the facade with you if you also killed Papyrus, saying your not welcome back in the underground

Killing MTT will cause Alphys's "disappearance" and Undyne to be distraught, sometimes wanting vengeance

Empress Undyne

Sometimes a variant of the Exiled Queen endings where if Papyrus or many monsters are dead (Alphys disappears), Undyne herself leads a revolt against Toriel and becomes Empress of the Underground

She's a tougher leader who takes the idea of war on humans more seriously than Asgore

She also becomes Empress if Toriel is killed as long as 10+ monsters are killed as well

If Papyrus is dead, Sans will drop the facade and reveal he knows you killed Toriel

If Papyrus is alive, he's given a falsely important role by Undyne. Sans just comments on Tori's silence

King Mettaton

Capitalist dystopia led by Mettaton after Toriel and Undyne are both killed.

Sans and Papyrus become MTT's agents

Sans doesn't comment on Papyrus's death in this ending and is still MTT's agent

MTT comments on his regrets with Alphys, and says she's disappeared

People who don't like MTT's show tend to "disappear" (😧)

King Papyrus

All possible leaders are gone; Papyrus becomes ruler by process of elimination

Papyrus tries to be as encouraging as he can, despite losing so many important people. His best encouragement isn't enough

Sans takes over the paperwork, Paps is proud

Sans told him that everyone else went on vacation, though it's implied Paps already knows the truth and just plays along

The most neutral human policy: can't judge them all to be good or bad, it's a case-by-case

Dog Ending (Leaderless variant)

Silly ending; All bosses (Toriel, Paps, Undyne, MTT) killed but NO ONE ELSE

Sans comments how a white dog became president of the underground and sleeps on the throne all day

this seems like the best ending for everyone -Sans

Leaderless

All bosses are killed, as well as some monsters. Small variant if there's 20+ monster kills

Everyone is distraught since no one can step up to become a leader. All hope is gone

Sans darkly jokes that this is what happens when people like him take it easy

If 20+ monsters are killed as well, Sans comments on the emptiness and also for you to "go to hell"

Queen Alphys

Aborted Genocide ending after Undyne the Undying

Alphys is the one who asks for the call, Sans barely comments

Alphys evacuates everyone, making monsters look to her for leadership after

Sans seems to be supporting her for now

Alphys reveals her secrets to the public and it seems to be relieving to her, though now she has regrets with us, saying how she should've killed us when she had the chance (RAW FR)

Dirty Hacker Ending

Technically a secret "impossible" ending. You have to hack the game save file in order to get this ending

Sans comments on how strange this is and to contact the creator, maybe for a "new ending"

Sans breaks the fourth wall by calling out the player as "just a dirty hacker"

NOW PICK YOUR FAVORITE!!

[legends-on-legends]

Where were the princess and the hero when the Sheikah were persecuted? The Sheikah persecution happened shortly after the Calamity’s defeat 10,100 years ago (it was the same king who ruled at the time the Calamity was vanquished), so weren’t the princess and hero still around for that? If so, why didn’t they protect the Sheikah? The Sheikah who retreated into Kakariko Village even prayed to the goddess for deliverance, the same goddess whose descendant/incarnation had just worked alongside the Sheikah to defeat the Calamity.

Where was that princess/goddess in their hour of need? Did she ignore their pleas? Did she approve of her father’s actions? If she had wanted to defy him, she easily could have — she’s the special one, after all. She’s the chosen princess whose sacred power justifies the monarchy’s existence, and she just saved the entire realm from evil. If she wanted to, she should have been able to overthrow her father with popular support. No one cares about the king of Hyrule, lmao. He’s just a placeholder for the true heir.

The narrative goes out of its way to tell us how compassionate and noble the princess is. No matter how bad the monarchy is, Princess Zelda always seems to transcend that. Even if she makes mistakes, her intentions are always good.

How convenient for the goddess’s heir that she rarely has to get blood on her hands. It’s always the king, or the Sheikah, or the chosen hero who commit extreme acts of violence in her name. Zelda herself is either locked out of the war and needing to be rescued, or can only play a supportive role to the real hero/killer, Link.

So maybe, just maybe, when the Sheikah were betrayed, the princess decided to look away. This is how it’s supposed to work, after all. She needs the king just like she needs the hero. To do the unpleasant work of upholding an authoritarian system so that she can maintain her pristine, saintly image for the masses. Zelda is the proverbial carrot used to assuage the populace’s fear and entice them with the promise of salvation; Link/the king of Hyrule are the stick, keeping them in line with the threat of violence, and taking the fall whenever they transgress too far; and Ganon (and other designated villains) are the scapegoats, the bogeymen whom Zelda and her pawns allies valiantly keep at bay.

Either that, or the princess was somehow too weak/cowardly to stand against her father’s unreasonable actions. I don’t know which is worse. Or maybe she died fighting the Calamity lmao

Anyway, Hyrule is a dystopia and Ganondorf’s plan for “eternal darkness” honestly isn’t much worse than Hyrule’s “eternal light.” In Ganondorf’s world of darkness, everyone struggles the same regardless of the circumstances of their birth. In Hyrule’s world of light, your right to exist depends on the whims of a sanctimonious (yet always divine) monarch and his simpering (yet always saintly) daughter.

[charlottan]

ugh not to talk about how good infinite jest is but its resonating so hard with me. the themes of addiction and depression and loneliness and mental illness and entertainment and corporate dystopia are so true with respect to both my life and the whole world. it honestly feels like a book made for me. so true david foster wallace someone get him a juice box. oh no

[goblin-enjoyer]

Vulkan is my favorite primarch and i think he's actually an interesting example of how with even the most heroic characters in the Imperium, you ALWAYS have to put a big honking asterick next to that noted 'by the standards of the horribly malevolent, incredibly stupid and monstrously genocidal dystopia they serve'. its honestly kind of sad that the fact that he felt bad after killing an Eldar child in a moment of rage makes him shockingly, profoundly humane because the standards we got are just, they're so low. that is a low bar and this is a setting meant for war games so everyone kind of has to crawl that ethics limbo as a consequnece

^

Ain’t that true. Who knows maybe if they bring him back they will bring that up and have interesting stories with him having to face the consequences of his actions and compliance in the great crusade. But knowing gw they will have him bring out a new hidden pile of forces and help the imperium grow even stronger. And only maybe start to reconsider the whole “kill all aliens with fire and crush all mutants (that the poor living conditions and poor environment might have caused without chaos interfering)” thing. Maybe.

[a-simple-traveler-anon]

This has spoilers, you've been warned!

So after months of debate I finally watched Nimona and I don't know why I waited so long to travel into this wonderful world, but one thing I'm surprised I've seen such little talk about is that the kingdom this movie takes place in can literally be described as a dystopia. The kingdom was made to try and be this utopia where everyone is safe from monsters, but they failed in making it perfect and made it so controlled and fear run it became a dystopia. I honestly can't believe I've seen no one else talk about this. So, we all know one of the biggest parts of this movie is the wall surrounding the kingdom to "keep the monsters out" and how at the end of the movie it's torn down to reveal nothing was there all along. It's just been acres and acres of untouched land for likely centuries. They literally built a useless wall around the kingdom letting no one out and, if there ever was anyone to get in, get in. They have lived like this in that kingdon for 1000 years, with their strict institute training these children into literal weapons, practically making they themselves see their own bodies as weapons, and the pushed belief that has been implanted in them that they need this system to survive. Lets not forget to mention how basically every common citizen is ignored and mistreated in favor of anyone who is of descent of Gloreths knights or ofc the descendants of Gloreth herself. Gloreth forbid you be a common child trying to talk to the child of a descendant. Not even to mention trying to train along side them. We all saw what happened to little Ballister. The moment it was noticed that some common boy was training alongside these future knights, around 5-7 (if I remember correctly) GROWN ADULTS covered in FULL METAL ARMOR tackled this CHILD who had to have been around 7-8 years old and piled onto him, crushing him. They were TRAINED to do such things, by, you guessed it, the fucking institute. With how everything was run, and with all the Directors little bits in the movie, we could even very well assume she knew all along there was nothing beyond that wall. She was terrified for one reason, the queen let a commoner boy hold a knights sword. That goes against the way they've controlled this kingdom for centuries. If they start breaking the strick rules they've implimented into everyones minds, what's next? She had to do something to keep everything running as horribly as it was. She couldn't let the walls around their dystopia crack, she had to keep control, because if she didn't, everyone, common and noble, would see the one true monster was standing at the head of their institute all along.

[andreablog2]

It’s amazing how much each episode of black mirror varies in quality style and ethos the only common thread is like..technology and the human condition and even then there are very emotionally shallow episodes that are just like “what if technology was like this” often some fictional exaggerated version of a preexisting high tech device is used as an allegory for something else. Very few of them have to do with issues like surveillance or tackle a true dystopia honestly like I think it’s failed as a franchise.

[thewertsearch]

Asks Compilation 31/10

Thanks a ton!!

Yup, the trolls have all simultaneously started talking about their complicated alien relationships. Hussie clearly just woke up one morning with the coolest idea that just had to go in the comic.

It's a little out of the blue, but I've been rather enjoying myself, as I puzzle out what each new term is supposed to mean. It's already one of the more unique things about Alternian culture, and it's a lot of fun.

Plus, it turns Nepeta's shipping wall multidimensional. Does she have a Black Romance section?

True, true. Like I said, he deserves to be read as charitably as Vriska did. These kids are products of the dystopia they grew up in, and like it or not, that's going to have consequences!

God-tier troll, honestly. Kanaya is one of the most consistently entertaining of the cast, and I'm hoping we get to spend a while in her PoV before we have to move on.

I just missed her so much you guys

Thanks!

Nuanced is certainly the word. You have to view each story event on multiple levels, and be aware of how they interact. Hopefully I'm able to keep up!

Sane, linear, and a dead giveaway.

Rosemary is pretty great, as is Pepsi Cola - although there are a lot of red and blue characters. The ship name could equally apply to Karkat/Equius!

And hello again, L.O.S.S. anon! Maybe that could be your post signature?

[asked on the 25th! although I looked it up and I'm not sure what the reference is 🤔 her Hivebent intro was July 31st and first pesterlog was January 1st, must be missing something - C ]

Until proven otherwise, I'm going to assume this is Hussie officially confirming that Kanaya's birthday is October 25th. Thank you, Hussie, for this lore.

Heh, Meowrails. I'm sure Equius just loves that.

anonymous asked: I am horribly sorry if this is already long since decided but there is a fanon class that is basically all about faffing about in SBURB "code" called Waste, and I thought you might be interested in learning more about the fanon classpects later [] yes I know you have mentioned how you feel about fanon but please just trust me on this one I barely know anything about aspects myself, but I think with your writing mannerisms and analysis, you might vibe just enough with Mind? and if you can't be the Waste of Mind anymore, maybe your trollsona can?

As someone who invented countless Pokemon types in her childhood, I like the idea of fan Aspects - or even Classes. I might try my hand at some, after the liveblog ends in early 2038.

There are many who surely would consider this project a Waste of Mind. I shall wear this moniker with pride.

I recall hearing the Lord British thing was an accident - another accidental reference by Hussie?

For once, I actually did know the The Locked Tomb had ties to Homestuck. I believe the author was an extremely popular fic author in the fandom - and having read TLT, I believe it.

It does kind of look like his sign - but that blank, red eye can't be anyone else, can it?

Unless Nepeta somehow knows about Karkat's blood. Now there's a thought.

Ooh, I didn't think about that! Vriska was saying that in a message to Aradia, after all.

Maybe she's a little less apathetic than she lets on. A few of Vriska's words were ringing around in her head - and when Equius mentioned her heart, she already knew what she had to do to get that damn chip out.

[dangermousie]

The advantages of having an obsessed stalker (well, stalker is the wrong word really, but ummm...an obsessed obsessive?) You don't have to worry anything you reveal will turn him off because (a) you shooting him didn't turn him off and (b) he already knows everything about you including probably how many times you turn over at night.

Honestly, the only way it could long-term work for her with someone if he really is obsessive and no-boundary because she is (rightly) so terrified of her power and so (wrongly) worried she'd hurt someone that she just runs runs runs runs always. The thing btw, that I always roll my eyes at, when people rail this OTP is unhealthy is that (a) no duh, it's a woman from an insane asylum who can murder with a touch and split the earth and punch through walls and an empath who was so severely abused from babyhood that he literally has no feeling in his back, both of whom have been repeatedly mind-wiped in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. I don't think the author wrote this as an example to follow or what a healthy relationship between healthy people in a healthy world is supposed to be like and (b) the risk calculus for who is a safe person to date is very different for Jane from Accounting and a woman who is a human nuke who can murder anyone, her boyfriend included, with a pinkie. Not to mention her needs are also somewhat different there.

Exhibit n1 why Warner is a serious introvert. He's in solitary confinement except for her visits and he's finding it glorious. (I think by the end of the series the man acquires one friend, hahaha.)

Girl, you want him soooooo badly. Another Eternal Sunshine attempt by daddy down the drain...

I just really like this line. But also exhibit n2 that he's an introvert.

Man is so so so so so far gone on her, it's kinda delightful. And by kinda, I mean utterly.

This is how you know it's true love, their powers are complimentary - he can be a conduit for hers. Mr and Mrs Human Nuke :P

Very few book series are tailored as hard to my tastes.

[brandwhorestarscream]

I keep imagining the face of ultra magnus and Alpha trion in "de-extinction Au"

Ultra Magnus is having a helluva time. The autobots naturally knew that eventually their energy vault would run dry, but they honestly thought they'd have killed off all the decepticons and retrieved the Allspark far before that happened. Old UM has no one to blame but himself (well, and the rest of the council that voted to yeet the literal soul of their planet into deep space but yk), so he's trying to handle this with grace and dignity. Cleaning up the consequences of his own actions without complaint, though he's certainly not happy about having to rely on the the very people he fought so hard to berid of

As for Alpha Trion 👀 his story's actually gonna take a sharp turn. This is TFA, and as far as I'm concerned, AT is the AT. One of the original 13 Primes, god of knowledge, the whole shebang. But! He's still on Cybertron, not at all bothered by uhhh Literally Everything. TFA Cybertron is a nightmarish dystopia if you peel back the pretty colors and bells and whistles.

So, hear me out 👀 in typical Alpha Trion fashion after the Quintessential War, he was the only one of his siblings still standing. The divine law banning divine intervention was set into place to avoid such a catastrophe again, and though he missed his siblings greatly, he knew he couldn't just abandon the mortal world. Cybertron was in disarray after the fighting, all their mortal creations reeling and society reduced to rubble. He wasn't able to help them with his power as a god as per the new law, so instead, he gave himself a new body. A mortal body, with his immortal spark and memories still in tact but with his abilities sealed away. He helped them rebuild and took care of them as best he could, and tried to steer them in the right direction. But with the Quintessons' cruelty tainting them and with their Primes no longer able to answer their prayers, Cybertron took a turn for the worst. He was helpless to stop them as they started down a dark path of oppression and disenfranchisement, hatred and greed ruling their decisions rather than compassion or love.

By the time the war started he was already on the council, and was vehemently against any violent conflict: fighting only breeds more strife, and killing each other won't solve anything. He had quite a bit of sway, as the eldest on the panel and a beloved public figure to boot. So, in true TFA autobot fashion, the senate made the decision to shut him down in the best way they could.

Alpha Trion traded a lot of things when he took up his mortal body, giving up his power and invulnerability. He became weak to mortal threats, to sickness and injury and even manipulation. The senate knew they couldn't kill him, they needed him and his influence alive, so they turned to shadowplay and mnemosurgery to alter his personality and perception. And because he was a mortal in all but spark, it worked.

When the de-extinction plot comes into play, I'd argue roughly half of the council members are shadowplayed puppets, perfect zombies to rule over the autobot population and keep their pristine machine running at maximum efficiency. One of Megatron's demands for the surrogacy program was a complete ban on such barbaric practices, in addition to the reversal of any shadowplay or empurata to the best of their ability, for every victim. Anyone that had ever gone under the knife to be "fixed" was to have their previous selves restored as well as they could be. There's a heavily encrypted database only the Magnus and the single top surgeon for each field are privy to, a list of everyone they've ever had to edit so they can routinely screen them and make sure they're still functioning properly.

That's how it's revealed that the majority of their senators have been changed, as well as roughly 20% of the active elite guard. It's rampant, 1 in 5 mecha meant to serve and protect and keep the government running aren't even really themselves. It's appalling, honestly, and most of them don't even know they were changed. That's the ugliest truth about mnemosurgery and shadowplay: if a job is done cleanly, the victim will never even be aware that they were hurt in the first place.

When Alpha Trion emerges from anesthesia after his corrective operation, it hits him all at once, all the millions of years he spent under their control and all the atrocities he'd sat back to passively witness, and he's horrified. Furious. Cybertronians have fallen so far from grace he barely recognizes them anymore, and... he doesn't think he wants to dwell amongst them any longer.

[alienssstufff]

(rambling brick of text inbound) Zombie apocalypse anon back again! Just wanna say first off that was the nicest answer I could've asked for lmao. I totally agree that in general the flaws in the genre are a case of missed potential and shallow writing; in fact that can apply to most mainstream dystopian stories imo. (TLOU and many Miyazaki films are strong exceptions to this rule ofc)

For me, the biggest draw of the dystopia/apocalypse genre has always been the human aspect---how humans as *individuals* cope with the worst-case scenarios, how they work together to survive, how they thrive in spite of their situation. Too many stories paint an incredibly pessimistic picture of the apocalypse, for example assuming that people would turn on each other and lose their collective moral compass. I think the opposite is true personally, and more stories should be about the indomitable human spirit (or whatever lol)

Having said that---you also make a great point about the more scientific/worldbuilding potential in zombie (and similar) apocalypses. From a writer's pov, it's so fun to think about HOW these things work and building the scariest possible monster/disease/etc xD And it makes the story so much more immersive!!! I'm glad you brought up the Rat King from tlou2 because holyyyy buckets that thing scared the heck out of me but in the *best* way lmao.

Also thanks for the movie/anime recs! Always hunting for more quality content like this :D

I'm glad you had fun with my question :3 Next time pls get some sleep tho haha /lh

[and rambling wall of text be upon yee] YES YESSS!!! Good apocalypse (&dystopia stories) so freaking difficult to find I usually don’t indulge in them as much cuz of it -w- exceptions that it’s synopsis is unique enough or the thing is written just too good to pass up

I totally agree with you with humanity being the genre’s biggest draw-in, honestly surprised how little of it is in mainstream. And that’s such an interesting take on the apocalypse - bringing out the strongest qualities in people and strengthening the bonds between others even in the worst of situations ,,, I like that :] I’ll keep that in mind when I write. and to vouch more for Gakkou Gurashi without spoiling anything it does a good job being an example of it done right(?)

--Admittedly tho the negative aspect of humanity is also my draw to apocalypse scenarios, seeing how messed up something so despairing can change a person for survival but at the same time too much of it or it written in the wrong way can get jarring very quickly. I like how the weight of one’s principles and emotional baggage extremifies (?) when going into the apocalypse and how it could greatly influence their actions and motives later down the line -  good or bad. Survival and all that..

And likewise! Zombie Apocalypse Anon I trust your judgement and open to media recs from you too :]c

I had so much fun with your question I love talking about stuff like this :3

[dragongutsixofficial]

Do cashiers really get to sit down while they work in Europe?

Receiving this question honestly broke my heart. But it's true, European cashiers do get to sit down ! It's actually the norm and it feels really weird to imagine it any other way- I think there would be a public outrage about it. My country sucks for a lot of reasons, but at least this one isn't. I'm so sorry it's not like that for you over there. =(

The US feel like such a dystopia sometimes from my humble French perspective

[anthropos-metronff]

“Where’s everyone going? Bingo?” is deservedly a meme, but also goes to the heart of I think not just Leon’s characterisation but so much of the characterisation of this series - of a palpable push-and-pull between inoffensive middle-of-the-road American heroes and it being an incredibly dark and gore-filled dystopia of corporate/military industrial complex America run wild.

Which leads me onto my main point: How the fuck did Barry not end up as the main character of this series?

Seriously. In the original game Barry - yes, Barry - has the most character depth. He’s caught in a struggle between his loyalty to his comrades and his basic decency, and Wesker blackmailing him over the safety of his family. He’s basically the only character who clearly has an emotional existence outside of the mansion.

He’s also of course the most memorable character from the original game. Now, people will of course say that it’s for the wrong reasons, but it’s still true. Back in the day, Barry’s lines were the ones we quoted the most often. I mean, shit, they were pretty much the only ones we quoted.

If social media had existed back in the mid-nineties, then Barry would have been easily the most memed-about character. Easily.

And I think in that original struggle between his loyalty to his team and the love of his family, leading him to become a pawn of Wesker - I think that’s closer to the darker aspects of the series than Chris and Jill’s starting positions as Generic Male Hero and Generic Female Hero. It feels more authentic to me. It fits the RE universe better.

There’s that line if you investigate his desk in RE2 that “the owner is probably a member of the NRA”. And I understand we got a little of this in Revelations 2, (Though christ it took twenty years to get that) but it would have been fascinating to have seen Barry’s philosophy about guns, his love for his family, and the reality of the corruption of the American way of life all playing out, and him having to somehow reconcile all that. (It’s been observed a few times that RE protagonists don’t fuck, but unlike Barry they also don’t really have families either, which honestly makes things difficult from a character development perspective)

And I know that Barry didn’t become the main character because Barry has no ass, but please humour me.

[psychopasss4]

Honestly I think the writers have a not only good but great visions for Kougami.Some people might not agree but the same animate spread you showed has an entire section dedicated to Kougami where the writers go in depth about Kougami.How he’s so capable that he’s a place in the Sybil’s society despite not knowing it’s true identity being a rare and unique existence.How he’s so capable he ends up leading the pack and people will follow him.How he hates genocide and war crimes with a passion.Shiotani also said that Kougami is figuring out how to start his second life at the moment and he’s looking forward to his future with great interest.I have read through most interviews and I can tell all the writers and director find him a very interesting person.

Just because I want akane and Kougami together doesn’t mean I have trouble understanding the concept of psycho pass just to clarify.I understand Kougami has his own charecter arc to go through that has nothing to with Akane.Part of the charm of their dynamic is they are fully fleshed out protagonists so their relationship keeps me invested in the backdrop of this cold sci-fi dystopia.

Kougami hasn’t been exactly been flirty with anyone has he?Its just women find him attractive which is only natural because he looks like a model featured on Vogue Japan.He’s just a popular guy among women.

Hanazawa absolutely loves Kougami and has fangirled over him many times over her pp stint.But again that’s her personal opinion.Besides shinkane isn’t the most popular ship in Japan.It most definitely is Kougami x Ginoza(they get a lot of content from official merch and radio dramas as well).Kougami x Maki is fairly popular.But no cast member will directly say they prefer x over y because yk ship tease is a thing.

All this to yes I find psycho pass’s message interesting and both Akane and Kougami as protagonists very well written.I have never said Kougami is secretly in love with Akane but he likes and respects her,would do anything for her.So I think it’s already a good basis for a romance like mulder-skully from x files or Patrick Jane and Lisbon from the mentalist.

Thanks for the great discussion🥹The fanbase is kinda inactive right now.Loved talking to you.

Hi, Anon 🤗

...nice input. And that leads me back to my first comment of "Let's wait for the next Season 😀"

Thank you too 😘❤️‍🔥 you know what, of all the Anon who'd sent me (hate) ask 🤣 you're the kindest. I hope to know your actual name soon 😂