listen. i love el and i think she's a fascinating character. we all know this. i am very clear about this. but like. it really is SO crazy how she really came in and, like... fucked will's life up so fucking bad lmao. i know that it wasn't her fault, and i'm not saying it is, but that's just... such an excruciating writing choice.
it was a choice to have her be the one that opened the gate & essentially sliced will's life into an ugly before and after. it was a choice to have her replace him as mike's number one as soon as she came back into their lives. it was a choice to make her the party's mage and then "change" will from being their wizard to their cleric. it was a choice to make her his sister. it was a choice to purposely have her wear his clothes and have the same bangs. it was a choice to have her ignore him on mike's first day in lenora, despite the fact that he was mike's friend, too, and first. it was a choice to make her oblivious to his feelings.
it was a choice to make them love and genuinely care about each other. it was a choice to make her feel like a monster for everything that'd happened and kept happening. it was a choice to make will not resent her. it was a choice to make him support her enough that he's willing to uphold her lies to mike (!!!) of all people with his inaction.
it was a choice to have him spill his heart out to mike and gift him his painting all in her name. to have him be the one to unknowingly make mike finally say "i love you" to her in response to his confession. to have him realize too late that he's been needlessly pushing mike towards her this whole time.
it was a choice to place will right beside mike, his first ever friend and keeper of his heart, when he told el that his life started just as will's ended.
it was... a bold fucking choice to replace will with el in mike's eyes due to outside influence. it throws them into chaos and disarray because el and will are not interchangeable, and it shows in how...
mike seeks from el everything that will already gives him.
mike readily gives will everything that el begs him for.
el cannot read or understand mike in the innate, wordless, and familiar way that will does.
mike cannot be vulnerable with el, but he opens up to will without even needing to be asked.
mike always heeds, trusts, and listens to will, even when they're arguing or going through a rough patch.
mike always knows just how to mend things with will, because he knows exactly what he needs and he doesn't ever hesitate to do and give it. nor does he need anyone to help him with their conflicts either. he just knows.
el is always left waiting for him to do things for her that he's currently doing for will.
will visibly hates and feels uncomfortable lying to mike, but el can do it consistently with ease.
will is the one that loves mike how he truly wants (and needs) to be loved.
will hasn't been able to move on in full, because he was cast out of his own story and demoted to a supporting role behind the new lead.
el hasn't been able to find out who she really is, because she's been thrust into roles that were never meant for her to begin with. she has always been contorted into the shape of whatever others need or want her to be, but they don't fit because they aren't her.
and, like... there are so many things in this story, which is to say the show as a whole, that would not have happened had the men in el's life not done that. had they allowed her to just be, it's highly likely that the dominoes would've never fallen the way they have.
thankfully, the narrative is set up in such a way that it appears this disorder will rectify itself, but it's still so... upsetting to think about lol.
it all boils down to choices: who gets to make them, what choices they have, why they made those choices, and what happens after. that's all the show is: a series of choices, or a lack thereof, and their consequences with some monster mumbo-jumbo sprinkled on top.
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chapter 4 of nine lives by machiroads !
(chap 3 here)
⬇️ deserved endeavour hate we love to see it 🤩
GIFTS???
YAYY SCREEN TIME FOR THE BABY 🥳🥳🥳🥳
not gonna post it all since there’s so much of it but i love their dialogue sm … playful scolding to actual scolding but they just care for each other so much man….. 🧎♀️💆♀️🪑
….. i feel asleep……… 🧍♀️back to the business at hand….
if my present mic doesn’t have a coffee problem and isn’t always in the same room as aizawa then i don’t want him 🙅♀️😤
im barely holding it together aizawa cant even banter anymore ☹️
⤵️ to backflip off of this i cant decide if yamada would be the type to wrap up stuff he’s stolen from aizawa and call it a gift, or if aizawa’s possessions are so few and sparse that he’d notice right away if something were to go missing so yamada would just regift the same gift every time😭 hashtag economiser
and that’s ch 4 done 😎! they care about each other soo much 🤭🤭🤭 cant wait for them to actually start doing side quests around the hospital hehe
(chap 5 here)
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no one asked for my waningcrescent opinions but i’m posting them anyway. theyre the saddest women ive ever seen
how sliver’s death, and the others’ refusal to let her rest, was in a way what destroyed moon herself and sent pebbles, her own little brother, to his death too. how sad it is that moon wanted them to leave her alone from the start, but they wouldn’t listen, and she was the one who lost everything because of it.
how she must have helplessly argued - please, friends, don’t desecrate her memory like this, she’s done enough, let her rest - against those who were too caught up in their own desperation to consider it. as if moon was the only one to remember sliver of straw herself, not just the iterator who gave the triple affirmative and vanished. as if she was the only one left who cared about her.
nothing much has come out of it, except tragedy. except the certain death of her and her brother and who knows how many others. all without the closure of peace afterward.
i need someone to understand me here. i’m normal. i’m so normal
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I absolutely agree with you. The natural numbers start at 1. I like to use these functions to do arithmetic:
n +₁ 1 = n
n +₁ S(m) = S(n) +₁ m
n ×₁ 1 = 1
n ×₁ S(m) = n +₁ (n ×₁ m)
Hope that helps!
Huh oh sweet this was what introduced me to the Peano axioms. They’re cool!
Something sad about them though is originally when formulating them Peano defined the axioms using 1 as the first natural number, but then for some reason he got them wrong when writing Formulario mathematico??? Hope someone corrected his mistake, I’d hate for people to get the wrong idea.
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