#tfw he ain't got time for you

[mdpikachu]

I’d love to hear more about Mephistopheles’s friendship with Sakata Kintoki. I’ve never considered that dynamic before.

borrowing daku's art bc i dont think i've drawn them together but. also i write mephi, daku writes taro.

Friendship summary: Local area man meets a clown and immediately gets the clown's name wrong (and calls him Moose for short). Said clown decides this is hilarious and sticks around to see what other dumb things happen. here's a readmore

Mephi's plan failed within ten minutes. Oops! Shared interests! (golden bear, dozing bombs. machinery. also, safety but that came later) That, and while Mephi intended to just lie to Kintaro constantly about mundane goofy things, this also failed. Mephi has the majority of the brain cells between them (usually), which is funny because you'd think the clown would be the idiot.

Taro's the doof supreme (affectionate) brawn, Moose is the nerd (affectionate) brain. Together they make an actual team bc Mephi's good at strategic planning/traps (witchcraft/bombs) and Kintoki hits like a truck and has an easy escape option (golden bear).

I'll make it a decent format instead of name: dialogue bc that's a slog. Kintaro was initially based on just info from the JP server and tl'd dialogue so he's a lil dumber than canon sorry about that. mephi is never wrong bc im never wrong (<- was violently wrong about a bit of faust lore thats critically important to mephistos character. oopsy. tfw u suggest mephi lying about killing faust and then reread the interlude after introducing ghost faust DERAILED, MOVING ON)

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(Scene opens with Kintaro's Master with his head in the sofa, avoiding human contact. Overstimulated. too many guests. Mephi's Master isn't present at the moment.)

Pointing at this was Mephisto, who had returned to be unnecessarily difficult.

"Wow, it's a wild sofa ostrich! I've never seen one in the wild before!"

"Hey, hey! He's no stupid ostrich, youuuu…. er….." Kintaro trailed off, staring at Mephisto. He wasn't actually sure what he was looking at.

"I'll wait!" Mephisto announced, pulling his legs off the ground to sit cross-legged in midair. His tails wagged slowly as he watched Kintato go through a variety of facial expressions while thinking.

"You trapeze artist!" Kintaro shot back well over a minute later, "That's what that get-up is supposed to be, ain't it?!"

Mephi grins and holds up two fingers. "Nope! Two tries!"

Kintaro "Ehhh"d for a moment, before announcing that he needed a hint. Lancer Elizabeth was standing nearby, rolling her eyes in disbelief. Even she wasn't this stupid! She had no right to judge, though, having attempted to sing on the roof to the new neighbors.

Mephisto gave Kintaro a big grin before tapping one of the horns on his hat as his hint. This man could probably guess a demon, or an oni, or--

"Oh, a deer!" Kintaro guessed confidently, and completely incorrectly.

Mephisto put a finger down. One guess remaining!

"Wait, wait, wait! Wait! I know! I know!"

Mephisto sat back in the air and waited for Kintaro to excitedly make his hypothesis known.

"You're a moose!" Kintaro announced, throwing his hands up, "I love meeses!" ---- (Mephisto broke out laughing before correcting Kintaro with more info than anyone else got. The trust was Instant. kintaro also wants to get piledriven by a moose, takes 10 dmg from mephi giving it an actual shot in the backyard, and then proceeds to get evaded by mephi like 4 times. eventually a bomb blew up, ash-facing both of them. scene ends with this. skipped him giving mephi a helmet and mephi accepting it. we also joked that this was a ship but its a friendship. mephis master does nothing to stop any of this, and neither does taro's.) Kintaro: [he picks up Mephisto] We're going to go on a drive! A drive into your heart! If no one else is going to befriend you, I am, Moose! Our friendship will be golden!! (other dumb shit they did together: clothes shopping (safety on bikes!), use an ouija board (mephi hated every second of it), i know theyve fought together at least twice, i dont remember what else. theres like 25 documents of this nonsense i dont remember shite. im not putting this in the tag i say putting it in the t)

[nanakah]

Kaguya-sama 278 spoilers - Ishigami Yu and Iino Miko's final chapter

tfw you didn't really want to be right

well folks, leak spoilers out for Ishigami and Miko's final chapter and it really was...A LOVE WAR OPEN ENDING.

I quote me and my big mouth:

"If we do get an open ending, it’ll be at least in the vein of a call back to Miyuki and Kaguya in the first chapter: a war of love and brains between Vice-president Ishigami and President Miko to make the other confess. Not gonna lie, this is the sort of ending manga usually have. Not ideal, but if it is the intended one…we’ll cry, but we’ll manage!"

I never really tried writing meta post 246 because it felt like Aka was definitely still toying with what he wanted out of it and was keeping Ishigami's thoughts private, and clearly whatever it was, he choose to drop it and not develop it. He casually pretended the sutera and all his other flags can be dealt with later and pushed it aside with a hint for the future. Ishigami ain't even getting his haircut yet and still has his shield in place, just like Miko has become president but that did not fully solve her arc, thus hair still in pigtails.

Rather than mad I feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders, because turns out I did have a good idea of who they are and like the Ishigami and Miko I saw, they were just shafted by the narrative. And no matter if Aka got cold feet, it doesn't negate he has written them with passion in the past.

So I don't regret my involvement with them at all! I met incredible people through this fandom and got reactions on my art beyond what I thought I was capable of, so I won't forget Ishi and Miko. I'll keep trying to do them justice because they are really neat and do deserve it. Maybe I can actually get skilled enough for a short comic or doujin someday.

AKA YOU GOTTA BE BRAVER MY DUDE. Better luck next time, but I sure won't touch another series of his until it's already over.

[adsofmetal]

Life of Agony

November 1996

[yuhaholic]

i just ascended into the astral plane

[rxdscarf]

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