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Gabriel a craqué /Brains has Boogied is such an underrated episode man. The airport scene is INSANE

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I think the winning spirit episode (idk what's it called in French) should've been the actual ending for season 3. It was hyped and we actually see tag's dad and the reason why he's "abandoned". I get what they're doing with the last episode, but I think they fumbled it, plus it just ends with Tag doing a voice over... And that's it??? Man, this just reminded me of Fnafhs season 2 ending with everything turning into WHITE or something–WHY DOES THE SHOWS I HYPERFIXATE ON HAVE ENDINGS I DON'T LIKE????

Still extremely emotional about the F2R S3 finale but there’s a point which absolutely kills me even among the amazing amount of things that kill me in those episodes.

In all of his 14 years and from the first time we see Tag, all he wants and all he needs is a father figure to be proud of him. 

And in the 30 minutes after he met his dad, that very dad tells him he’s proud of him. Like, straight up hugs him and says “I’m proud of you, son”.

I am SO happy for Tag you have no idea. He deserves every last bit of happiness and I am glad he found his happy end.

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Holy yaoi....

“Tu te sens mieux là?”

“…Oui, merci Tag…”

Uncut (and less messy).

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I was trying to play around with an orange and blue colour scheme but all I really succeeded in doing was giving Gab horrible orange skin…

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BABIEES.

BABY TAG!

BABY TEK! (or No…?)

omg no wonder the Teknos are so important to Tag… they were like his first friends ever bABIES…

BABY GAB!

babies

Baby Gab was such a nerd!

And baby Tag didn’t even like baby Gab at first BOYS. GET ALONG. (It’s okay they grow up to be bEST FRIENDS.)

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This song is SO RAW. GOD THE FOOT2RUE ALBUM IS COOL. This is my favourite song 🥹

forgive me for so much f2r posting but for context, “J’ai grandi” is the song played when the kids have problem with their parents in s2. They’re all neglected and Tag is an orphan in desperate need for a dad - so the song plays a lot for him and tears my heart apart every time

Here are the translated lyrics:

No date as a memory, No name I can write I was born without a face I am missing your smile (like - it’s missing, lacking from me) Identity crisis, No father I can love But a fraternity, You were the one who gave it to me

Even if I grew up without him  I found my bearings among my friends Warmth and will to one day be  The best for my family

An absence so present I wish she could feel me I wish she could see me Her work always goes before me A mother that doesn’t take the time  To see me grow - but that I love so much I wish so much that she’d hear me So sometimes I run away To find refuge among my friends They are the one to give me the love  That I’m lacking every day So I reach deep inside me All the times that you were here When we’re young anything small can hurt us Raw shame that a wound is

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WTF

Fnafhs mentioned???

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I almost forgot about my son's birthday ✨🥺

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A troop of conspiracy theorists

fun fact

lol

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Too late buddy, there's no going back

🇪🇸: chicos. esta va para la comunidad de habla hispana que tenía acceso al internet tipo en 2015-2018 ,,, porque yo no lo tenía . y Recién Ahora me puse a ver fnafhs por primera vez En Mi Vida, y me obsesioné, sáquenme de acá, este bodrio no debería ser tan entretenido e interesante como lo es

���🇧: guys . this goes out to the hispanics, especially those who were on the internet around 2015-2018 at most. because I wasn't and I am Just Now watching fnafhs for the first time In My Life, and I'm obsessed, please help me, this shouldn't be as entertaining as it is

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I just think these two argue a lot, and even in a relationship, their tension never really goes away. They have cute moments, sure, but overall, it doesn’t click for me. It feels like the writers just default to shipping a boy and girl who are close, as if they can’t imagine them being just friends (same with Samira and Jeremy—they worked, but season 3 ruined them).

I feel a little awkward saying this since you’re a fan of the ship, but I can’t shake the feeling that their dynamic is forced. If they were to break up, I could see it happening when they’re older—one of them realizing, "This isn’t working," and walking away. Maybe they’d stay friends, or maybe they’d just drift apart. Either way, I think their bond makes more sense as a complicated friendship than a romance

yall know my favorite option

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Foot2rue Extrême seems to hint at the fact that the two of them seemed to make their long distance relationship work. Though I like to believe they broke up

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My headcanon is that Eloise is the only one who visits Tag much more often than the other Blues/Rifflers. Which is honestly impressive—since the others can't visit at all, leaving Tag feeling pretty sad and homesick

We could see each other for christmas

Shout out to their very last conversation in season 3.

"Everything's great but... I really miss you."

"I miss you too..."

"Hey New York isn't so far, maybe we could visit during christmas?"

I HC this visit a LOT.

Again, fanart made during the time when I could nerd out with @doonymoon. :3 I will never thank them enough for all the inspo

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And for that story with the horse-ridding, yeah again totally agree. I also want to add that if memory serve me right, it was for a speech to give Inès confidence to try rollers again after her failing and for the love of continuity why ? At first when he started his speech I thought he was gonna talk about his time at the Roller Team which would have both served as a way to tell her to not give up plus how the supports of her friends are important (and a nice reference to a very cool episode). And the I had a made-up story about horse-riding. The disappointment was big 😮‍💨.

The roller team is the biggest wasted potential. And it made more sense than horse riding.

Like I remember an episode used Pablo to tell to children that under an unfair and illegiteme system the best way to resist is to "comply despite it all'' and what the fuck ? First that's an awful message but also how dare they put these words in Pablo's (and Tag's) mouth ?? That's insanely disrespectfull on so many level !

Pablo, the revolutionary who's imprisoned by the dictatorship, the same Pablo SAID THAT!!??!??

@elmaxlys already made #perfect rant posts about F2RX and I agree 100% with everything they said, but I never got to write my rage down myself and so here are my top grievances with Foot 2 rue Extreme in order of pain :

Disrespecting previous canon :

Tag is a mockery of his previous self. Essentially stripping away most of his personality, they also added super random and really improbable things such as : Having learned horse-riding (WHEN?!), suddenly having learned to play the piano, and MOST importantly not being an exceptionnal football player (HIM NOT DOMINATING THE FIELD WHEN PLAYING WITH THE KIDS IS JUST NOT BELIEVABLE). Tag had enough of a story with 3 seasons and a comic, they didn't need to add all the stupid extra stuff as if they were trying to invent him a personality (#his room being full of random shit that has no reference to the previous stuff).

He only met his father when he was 14.... The original story made a point of digging into serious themes and the emotional struggle of the characters, as football gave the catharsis that helped them get through it. There is NO WAY that at 17, Tag's issues have all disappeared and he is now a 100% healthy confident and nurturing adult.

Pablo's name is changed to Ramon, and his whole story seems to have disappeared. His relationship with Tag is as if he'd been around his whole life. The fact that he theoretically has been captured and IMPRISONED is shown nowhere.

They basically didn't want to bother with Foot2Rue and the story it had told, so why add the previous characters at all?

Superficial themes and story :

Foot 2 rue was a kid's show about playing football in the street, right?

WRONG.

It's a story about growing up in an unfair, chaotic society and football helping them bond and find hope.

The whole point is that this childhood pass-time was their resilience against everything around them ;

- where they were unequal in their life, on the playing field everyone was the same, had the same opportunities and rules,

-when they were alone in life, on the playing field they had a family,

-and when their life showed cruelty and malevolence, the game taught them empathy, understanding and respect.

THAT was the "dream" of street football, that's why they call it a dream throughout most of the original show.

The point of the world championship wasn't about winning or being the "coolest" or most athletic player, it was about bringing this shared "dream" to unite all the kids growing up in this world.

Extreme Football has gone completely beside this point.

The only motivation for the team is winning and looking cool. What makes a great player to them is just their athletic ability. They go through regular childhood troubles that have no deeper meaning or demonstration of the world and the society they live in. (and the resolutions for these are pretty shallow and clumsy). They seem to live in a weird utopian/futuristic city that is super polished, and so NO real-world issues can be adressed.

Basically the show is JUST a kid's show about playing football... how sad.

The animation and chara design :

I am not an anti-CGI, only traditional 2D purist. I was pretty excited the new adaptation was going to be CGI, as I had also a good memory of the early CGI in kids shows like code Lyoko, and Galactic football.

but DAMN does it look bad.

The main characters design is bland, but that's ok for the main characters, and the other characters are pretty much as much caricatures as the original Street football characters were, but the animation is INCONSISTENT, the lighting/shading seems unequal from one episode to the next, the environment is BORING and polished to a point where it just looks extremely fake.

I already went on a bit about what they did to Tag, but damn the redesign just doesn't work.... once again, the direction for the character just seems VERY random, as Tag has never been into fashion why the hell would he start wearing a bandana, and live with one side of his joggings rolled up? and like, why would his face become ROUNDER with age?

(This goes the same way for Eloise whose appearance in the last episode both made me a little happy but also hurt my eyes)

The new characters/main characters :

As the world and the narrative doesn't give them much to work with, obviously it is hard to be engaged and learn to like them.

Obviously the main problem is Samy, whose hurtful words/actions are not grounded in any deep story making him just a petty brat. Often his harmful behavior is not challenged, especially with the way he treats Tag which drives me nuts.

The worst part is that there is POTENTIAL for a deep dynamic that could have made for a better story that adresses re-building broken families but... No. He is a brat but in a vacuum so it doesn't evolve into an interesting arc or even make sense really.

(They could have made an interesting parallel between him dealing with his parent's separating and having to accept a new unwanted family member and Tag dealing with the realities of family that he never got to experience, and integrating into a family life that he WANTED but doesn't know. Also there could have been references to Tag's memories of "Pti Dragon"....)

I could go on for longer but this post would never end....

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Yeah, you're right.

Why does Tag resent Eloise so much at the beginning of Foot 2 rue

Tag is mostly neutral/friendly with every other character he meets for the first time, especially if they meet by helping each other out.

But with Eloise, he is already mad with her before their first conversation in the show even takes place.

SO rambling time : WHY is it?

The show lets us know towards the end of the episode that Tag knows who Eloise is because of her family, and essentially pre-judges her for her priviledged situation. BUT, Tag doesn't hold the same kind of anger towards other characters that are better off than him, (maybe because that would be almost everyone in the first season except for the sharks).

He is friendly and understanding with other characters that ARE in a more comfortable situations than him, and generally seems to want people in his surroundings to be better off. Everyone he has issues with are because they actively are trying to stop street football (or being mean or conceited), but when he interacts with famous people such as Fede or the mayor, or even Eloises parents, he is not angry or mad.

Eloise, and ESPECIALLY Eloise, makes him insecure.

my headcannon of course is that of all the people he thinks are from different worlds, Eloise is the one where it bothers him. Her being unattainable to him (in his mind) hurts.

To quote him from early episodes : "She's a countess, I doubt she'd want to hang out with us (me)".

In french he says "se salir les mains avec nous" translated directly as "getting her hands dirty with us", a statement that refers both to the fact that they might be getting in trouble with the police and he doesn't think she would be willing to do that, but also because he sees her hanging out with them as breaking a rule that he had set in his mind, as he believes them (or himself at least) to be unworthy of her time.

which brings me to the headcanon that Tag had noticed Eloise way before they ever meet in season 1, and had been angry-crushing on her, never thinking he would ever get to talk to her, let alone even be friends and in a relationship together.

Exhibit A :

He knew who she was immediatly, but he also noticed her arriving immediatly; I headcannon while trying to secure the count's statue in order to sneak out of the Institute's ceremony, that he stops because he sees her.

He might be watching the director, but he could also be watching HER :

#when you're trying to sneak around but your secret crush has arrived and damn it NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

then, not only does she EXIST in the crowd near him, but she actually tries to interact with him/help him.

At this point Tag is just like "what why, leave me alone, don't " and cannot fathom her helping. He only stabilizes the statue because Gabriel assisted and understood what she was trying to do, and he immediatly tries to IGNORE her and acts as if it was all gabriel's idea.

Ignore her and act cool...

He is so ANGRY whereas he should be relieved, but it just annoys him so much that she's there.

That is the most TRIGGERED kid i've seen just because someone helped him. All I see here is mister "she's too good for me" having to swallow his feelings...

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Now this puts things into perspective. Tag acts cool (and is cool) but he has this deep insecurity within him. Also, this level of anger that I see tag has others that isn't Eloise is Jeremy

Why does Tag resent Eloise so much at the beginning of Foot 2 rue

Tag is mostly neutral/friendly with every other character he meets for the first time, especially if they meet by helping each other out.

But with Eloise, he is already mad with her before their first conversation in the show even takes place.

SO rambling time : WHY is it?

The show lets us know towards the end of the episode that Tag knows who Eloise is because of her family, and essentially pre-judges her for her priviledged situation. BUT, Tag doesn't hold the same kind of anger towards other characters that are better off than him, (maybe because that would be almost everyone in the first season except for the sharks).

He is friendly and understanding with other characters that ARE in a more comfortable situations than him, and generally seems to want people in his surroundings to be better off. Everyone he has issues with are because they actively are trying to stop street football (or being mean or conceited), but when he interacts with famous people such as Fede or the mayor, or even Eloises parents, he is not angry or mad.

Eloise, and ESPECIALLY Eloise, makes him insecure.

my headcannon of course is that of all the people he thinks are from different worlds, Eloise is the one where it bothers him. Her being unattainable to him (in his mind) hurts.

To quote him from early episodes : "She's a countess, I doubt she'd want to hang out with us (me)".

In french he says "se salir les mains avec nous" translated directly as "getting her hands dirty with us", a statement that refers both to the fact that they might be getting in trouble with the police and he doesn't think she would be willing to do that, but also because he sees her hanging out with them as breaking a rule that he had set in his mind, as he believes them (or himself at least) to be unworthy of her time.

which brings me to the headcanon that Tag had noticed Eloise way before they ever meet in season 1, and had been angry-crushing on her, never thinking he would ever get to talk to her, let alone even be friends and in a relationship together.

Exhibit A :

He knew who she was immediatly, but he also noticed her arriving immediatly; I headcannon while trying to secure the count's statue in order to sneak out of the Institute's ceremony, that he stops because he sees her.

He might be watching the director, but he could also be watching HER :

#when you're trying to sneak around but your secret crush has arrived and damn it NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

then, not only does she EXIST in the crowd near him, but she actually tries to interact with him/help him.

At this point Tag is just like "what why, leave me alone, don't " and cannot fathom her helping. He only stabilizes the statue because Gabriel assisted and understood what she was trying to do, and he immediatly tries to IGNORE her and acts as if it was all gabriel's idea.

Ignore her and act cool...

He is so ANGRY whereas he should be relieved, but it just annoys him so much that she's there.

That is the most TRIGGERED kid i've seen just because someone helped him. All I see here is mister "she's too good for me" having to swallow his feelings...

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@elmaxlys, @the-other-way-around, @ladydaenna nothing brings me more joy than seeing yall engage with my stuff, thanks guys.

Yall make me want to post my teloise fanart again ♥