ive talked in the past about keroro's desire to keep things as they are, static, because it's the only way he can have both keron and earth, but while rewatching ep140b I realized it shows the opposite side of this struggle
that no matter his efforts, it's a futile attempt and nothing is improving because everything is staying exactly the same. he spent a week racking his brain for a solution but the episode ends by showing us that he doesn't find one. could it be because the whole time he was fighting alone?
(his voice breaks in the first screenshot...) this to me feels like the same motivation he would have for invading. wanting to leave a mark, making something of yourself, mattering.
chibikero is in shadow, like the gunpla's shadow. he's not real anymore but he represents all the expectations and lost potential on his shoulders. while the small gunpla is in light like keroro. that's the reality of it. but that's also how he feels. small. he hasn't achieved any of his goals. he hasn't lived up to anything he said he would, everything he based his identity on. he's a "pitiful invader". his desire to matter perfectly encapsulates his abandonment issues too.
this collection will outlive him. it will speak of his greatness when he's gone. it's as much his identity as the invasion. it's also his tomb in the exact same way.
he's so happy for a moment organizing his whole collection on the shelves that he thought were gonna solve everything, enjoying the moment as it was, but in the end nothing changed.
is it because he's expendable? easily replaceable, like by a clone? is it because he doesn't see his own worth, so he has to get some (the keron star, his collection, the invasion)? because if he's not useful, he'll be thrown out? or because he doesn't want to be forgotten and left behind?
and yet
he remains insignificant and his fight is fruitless.
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I need a fic where Dean tells Cas all the stories of the weird hunts he went on before they met
It's just Dean reminiscing about the s1/2/3 hunts and Cas is absolutely drinking them up. Like a recap/clip show episode, except Cas is getting Dean's years-later-a-little-hazy memory of it all and he is being a very biased unreliable narrator, and he's got all these little comments and asides as he talks.
Dean gets so animated and nostalgic and laughs too hard before he can finish the end of some of the stories - even when it's not that funny (yeah, it sure as hell wasn't funny at the time, but I can laugh about it now, Dean says with a fond smile about the times they nearly died fighting ghosts and vampires and sentient scarecrows and accidentally getting cursed by a lucky rabbits foot)
Cas sometimes interjects with a 'what happened then?' or just smiles and listens, hanging onto his every word, and affectionately paints the mental picture of the Dean before they knew each other in his mind
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