#mr cannot goodenough????

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[noodleharp]

Cannot Goodenough - Arknights

[shuuen-no-cimory]

Arknights sketches

[yakourinka]

mr. cannot goodenough’s sprite in action

[meeblo]

A Light Spark in Darkness

(Spoilers for the full story of A Light Spark in Darkness)

As the title alludes to, I finished reading through A Light Spark in Darkness earlier today. It was, as I'd heard it would be, quite good; more than just being good, however, it surprised me in the ways it was good.

I'd heard that Goldenglow was depressed, that she really went through it in the event, but I wasn't expecting the manner in which it happened. I was expecting it to be more narrative suffering, well written but not realistically arbitrary. Seeing her instead have to deal with the indifferent cruelty of circumstance as all that she had managed to carve out was burned away entirely due to a conflict that she was not (yet) involved with at all. I also didn't expect it to happen so early in the event. I expected it to happen halfway, but instead it caps off the first vignette.

This is a good way to segue into the next thing that pleasantly surprised me: the story's structure. Telling it nonlinearly like they did, following different PoVs through fragments of the events and going further in time with each one, was a fascinating way to tell the story that worked very well. Apart from the initial vignette, every other one benefits from the dramatic irony of knowing key events that will happen because you have seen them in the other vignettes.

Back to the story, there were some things that definitely stood out to me. Goldenglow, on the edge of committing suicide, is talked back from the edge by a dying Haze. Neither knew the others' connection to the Green Spark or the fire. Haze saves Susie, and then in turn Susie desperately tries to save Haze. The whole sequence of scenes is an excellent demonstration of both of their characters. Haze knows what it's like to have her dreams destroyed; she lost everything in the witch's forest. She knew what needed to be said to keep Susie from jumping. It's her kindness and care for others that keeps Susie going, and it's her kindness that has her push so hard to try and save Haze.

It was great seeing Grani again. It was very satisfying seeing her push back against the corruption in the local guard. Quercus was likewise interesting. But the real standout I haven't mentioned already was, of course, Red. He was great every time he was on screen.

I was definitely taken off guard by the main story connections and implications the event had, especially in its last vignette. Taking place prior to ep10 but after ep8, we hear about things like the dukes all moving towards Londinium. Reunion remnants have arrived in Victoria, and are making transactions with none other than the man himself, Cannot Goodenough. They score a new method of transportation, and Elba (please Hypergryph I am begging you for an official TL of the op team a1 manga, the fan TL I found only goes up to ch6) catches up with an old friend. It seems like Cannot's partnership with Reunion here is what might lead him to get the prospective investment system tech from Djikstra. Or at least, that's what I headcanon; one of Cannot's lines when the investment system crashes mentions a "Mr. D."

At first Cannot was just the funny suspicious merchant who shows up in roguelike gamemodes and takes a nonsensical currency no one else seems to use, but the more he appears in events like this and Vigilo the more I wonder if he genuinely might be critically plot important in the grand scheme of the story. He clearly has a grand agenda behind the scenes. He works with Rusthammer, Rhodes Island, and Reunion, all for the sake of finding people willing to change the existing world order. He wants the people of terra to stop their petty wars for power, territory, and control, and turn their attention towards the real threats like the seaborn writhing beneath the waves and the demons in the far north, as well as something mentioned to be deep underground. Who is he, really? Are those the blood tentacles of a vampire sarkaz, or something else entirely?

Tangents aside, this event story is very good. Arknights continues to impress me with its story at every turn. Goldenglow out of ten, I will be buying her skin.

[aresmarked]

...KAYYYY why’d you steal Mr. Cannot Goodenough’s biscuits???

[ryo-maybe]

Mr Cannot is making the rounds, but will anybody be able to handle the patriarch of the Goodenough family once he drops on Global...!?

[little-shit-with-zero-control]

I used to want to be railed by a hot 9-foot tall muscular lady with sexy tentacles and wished to the heavens that Hypergryph would give me a 9-foot tall muscular Ægir lady with lots of tentacles that she can cuddle and headpat me with.

Hypergryph would probably never give us a very tall (as in visibly even taller than male characters) lady, or a visibly muscular lady (as in defined muscles and obvious muscle bulges), or a visibly older lady but for now we have Mr. Cannot Goodenough.

but GODDAMN

I WANT MORE STUFF WITH CANNOT GOODENOUGH

I thought I would be satisfied to seeing him suck my ingots dry with that sexy shop music in the background bUT NO

I NEED MORE ART. I have scoured 5 pages of Google only to find less than 15 art of Goodenough and the rest are post about insecurity, being good enough, and other stuff thAT ISN'T MR GOODENOUGH.

I had to go to Twitter and Instagram. TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM. My desperation has made me go to such extreme and disgusting lengths that is akin to diving a fucking dumpster in Manila, Philippines and I STILL FOUND ALMOST NOTHING. well I did found an Insta acc named cannotgoodenough and I sent him a request to follow buT IT'S STILL NOT ENOUGH.

Curse you Hypergryph for making the merchant so hot and giving him a sexy jazz(?) music.

If Hypergryph would give us Mr. Cannot Goodenough some voiced lines though, I would imagine him being voiced by Ben Cura.

I think Mr Goodenough would be one of the things I yearn for and shall never get along with very tall ladies, visibly older ladies, and very muscular ladies.

[shuttershocky]

Mr. Cannot Goodenough makes me feel things (those things are hilarity and distress).

Dude has tentacles in his cloak

[yakourinka]

sampo koski posting

you piece of shit lmao I'm going to kill you so hard in your inevitable boss battle

man I miss mr. cannot goodenough, haven't seen his map yet in IS

[little-shit-with-zero-control]

Why the fuck do I want Mr. Cannot Goodenough to wrap his tentacles around me?

[yakourinka]

growing pile of unplayable ak characters whose designs are way too cool to be unplayable:

1) viviana the candle knight

2) this bloodborne looking fuck by the name of mr. cannot goodenough

3) mlynar nearl, wage slave/knight who brings much needed DILF energy to these barren wastelands of terra

4) ch'en's snake-haired senpai from LGD who became a terrorist

5) villain cute

6) probably the coolest person on the rhodes island ship

7) this bunny groundskeeper. he's inviting you to a round of poker with your favourite childhood toy on the line