As I shuffle in shyly I would also like to throw a coin in the well for this series....baby trapping Gaz. Only it's Reader that tries to baby trap him, wanting this sweet, gentleman of a man to turn into a daddy and tries to do it secretly and subtly. But we all gloss over that Gaz learns from Price, has the same brand of feral in his veins that he hides under all that good, and you aren't as subtle as you think you are but it feeds his monster all the same to play the game. Okay, thank you for letting me share my thots, I'm gonna go scream into my pillow now.
ohhhh, yes!! one of my favourite manipulation tropes is when someone discovers a plan/intentions almost immediately but lets the other person continue on, influencing them from the sidelines. it's truly impeccable. i don't know if i'd be able to pull it off fully since this involves a lot of distance to work and i tent to get too introspective/omnipotent for surprising twists, but i really like the idea of Gaz pulling strings behind the scenes. i think this angle works perfectly with a lot of the ideas i have of Gaz.
also. the parallels between him and Price could be super fun to explore especially since Price was sort of bested at his own game. much to think about!!
Know one knows Danny is phantom except for Vlad. So after Danny rejects the fruitloop Vlad still does his whole clone thing.
Only Danielle is the ���successful” halfa clone.
Vlad successfully clones Danny as a full human.
Vlad then accuses the real Danny as being a ghost pretending to be Maddie’s son. Everyone believes Vlad. They have no reason to believe that their son/friend is half ghost.
It’s easy for him convince everyone the ghost stole their sons memories. That’s why poor Danny doesn’t remember anything.
They run Danny out of town. Threatening to kill the ecto scum masquerading as Danny.
Danny meets up with Danielle and they go off exploring and heroing. Running into the teen titans. Ellie instantly vibes with their over all chaotic energy.
Eventually Ellie and Conner connect about being clones. At some point someone asks Danny how he felt when he found out he was cloned.
Danny doesn’t miss a beat.
He loves his first. Like She’s his baby sister. He doesn’t care she originally kidnapped him for her creator. She figured out the man was a fruit loop.
The second clone. That clone he hates. Stole his life and convinced his parents and friends that he wasn’t the original.
Vader can rip ships apart and bend the Force to his every whim, but do you know what I think is better? that Obi-Wan is still outsmarting Anakin a decade later and showing him why he’s the Master.
its really interesting how p5 leans heavily on the rivalry between ren and akechi by having them foil each other in every conceivable way possible ie gentleman thief to famous detective, joker's all black outfit vs crow's all white outfit, society shunning ren because he's a criminal vs akechi who needs to be perfect in every way because all eyes are on him, the begrudging respect and playful flirting between the two of them, the chess motif
and then royal breaks it down by showing that they're not so different after all with them both having all black outfits, now it's holmes and watson investigating a mystery rather than sholmes vs arsene, and still the rivalry is there with the red vs blue motif in their outfits, them being more open with each other in their own fucked up way its done really well. and of course, the very subtle gigantic billboard in their showtime that yells out TWO SIDES SAME COIN in bold 500 point font