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hero X ☺

コンセプトムービーがめっちゃかっこいい

はやくたくさんみたい👔

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scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

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fascinating thing about sinners is how absolutely doomed the narrative is.

like okay if sammie hadn't gone to the juke joint, remmick probably wouldn't have shown up. but then the klan would have. okay smoke took those assholes out solo, if it was him and stack maybe they could have handled it. well the juke joint would have shut down in a month because no one had any real fucking money because of the sharecropping scrip. not to mention two seperate mobs are on their way to fuck the twins up (what do you MEAN you robbed al capone??). okay maybe they covered their tracks, well they're still in the fucking jim crow south and stack and mary have a cool 35 years until loving v virginia so best case scenario is he's broke and watching the love of his life from afar until he's 70. plus annie implied the twins were on borrowed time anyway since she'd been quietly protecting them the whole time they were gone.

idk it both adds to the horror that there was no way out and just solidifies sammie saying it was the best day of his life, like that one little perfect moment was all they were going to get anyway

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Lowkey want to join the fandom on the hero X frame redraw bandwagon because it's fun but 1. I have to finish this stupid Yang Cheng drawing first 2. There's way too many other things I have to draw first (promised wife gift illustrations. fanzine art)

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caught up with tbhx and joined in on the current tbhx redraw meme because x is coolll

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he’s so goated

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TBHX: episode 22 analysis/theory

I didn't have much time lately so I'll share my thoughts now!

This episode kind of confirmed something I suspected... But ofc, I need it to be shown more explicitly before being 100% sure. I'm referring to the fact that when citizens claim to have seen X, they see something different than what's actually happening. In other words, his fights really can't be seen unless he allows people to see it.

In episode 22, when X snaps his fingers, first we see this:

It's curious that Nice has his eyes shut, while still being pulled in to the illusion X created. I can't really understand why, but maybe because the other people's minds can't understand the shifting process so their brains go "dormant" for milliseconds until they're "fully in". It's just very interesting because in the ED, we clearly see Lin Ling also in this state right after X snaps his fingers:

The others have their eyes open, though, so is it exclusively a Nice/Lin Ling reaction? I won't be diving into it too much now.

What I find pretty interesting is that, although very subtle, the reason why I believe X puts "a veil" over "reality", i.e, creates an illusion to separate reality from whatever it is he is doing, is that in this moment here:

If you zoom in, they look "digital". It's like this is a holographic version of them.

You see these stripes? This is what I'm talking about.

Also, people scream they finally saw X, but it's obvious that the fight was omitted to them. And not only that, look how the sequence happens:

X switches to 2D, but this time, we don't see people cheering in the back(pay attention to the bridge), but they are still there, as we see them cheering and talking about seeing X. Before:

After:

Not only the people aren't there, but the bridge itself looks a bit different, although the angle is the same... This could mean the reality we're seeing is a mirrored version of the original! The show often plays with the idea of mirroring, so it's a possibility.

The lighting change between those scenes makes it look like the second one happened in a different time of the day entirely(maybe not even the same day), as the light over the bridge looks more like sunlight in the distance than the previous scene, where it clearly comes from only the light posts. It looks a bit warmer... but it could be just a stylistic choice, since the buildings do not seem to reflect that yellow light.

Although I wouldn't be surprised at all if the reality he creates does take place in different times, since in every trailer we see X, he has a close relation with time and there always seems to be a time shift from day to night... (fitting his anti overworking personality really well tbh), a time related ability.

Then, right before X making a paper ball out of DB, he snaps his fingers and we're back to 3D:

Now look how interesting...

While in 2D:

Then in 3D:

They're literally under a spotlight! So, that would make the holographic version make sense. We've seen him under the spotlight many times before in the trailers:

Here you can see it again...

When he throws DB in the water still in 3D with light from above, and after he switches back to 2D, there's no more light.

In this moment, the people watching say:

HERE we have them appear in the background at the same time X is on screen:

This 2D scene is not like the first 2D scene when X switches. Mhm.

Of course, it's no surprise that X would be able to create parallel moments in order to keep some things hidden, but I always wondered if that's really what was going on, and now it's basically confirmed that yes! He "layers" realities, or even creates a "digital" illusion, if I may add.

But if the first 2D version already excluded the people from the bridge, why did he turn to 3D to make DB into a paper ball? He didn't really have to switch styles there, right? (that's something worth thinking about) Before ep 22 came out, I believed this theory to be true because of 2 scenes.

X at the office. Notice X standing right in front of two coworkers:

And then, when the camera switch angles:

Where are they? Clearly not there.

And here:

If you watch the sequence, you’ll notice that no one was on the streets and the cars weren’t moving. So when his coworker says, “I saw him destroy Black Soul with my own eyes,” it probably means she witnessed X snapping his fingers, and then Black Soul was gone. Just like the people on the bridge in episode 22 probably saw X snap his fingers, and the next thing they knew, DB had ‘teleported’ into the water.

This is all very, VERY interesting.

Before I used the word "digital" to describe the veil/layer he creates over reality, and that is not only because it looks digital, but because it's suggested that he could even "walk through the billboards".. Or at least that's what the team wanted us to think.

Also because his powers always cause glitching in digital devices or is represented as a glitch.

If you think about it... Isn't it kind of interesting that in episode 1, right before Nice shows up to kill himself, the screen glitches?

Only for us to see X on the billboard directly turned to them in the moment he jumps...

We always kind of knew X was present, but now it finally feels more obvious that we were always right!

Could it all be a coincidence? Of course. Could it be something else entirely? Yes! This is just me trying to connect everything we've seen so far.

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yc doodle

i want to draw him more waaa

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hi im triple AAA game studio. Welcome to our game gunshitters 7. this is a 70$ USD game that is not finished but you can buy the DLC at launch for 50$USD. also theres a seprate in game currency where you can spend 200$USD to get diamonds to buy cosmetics. look at our roadmap. dont you want to pay 30$ for our first season pass? you will unlock special epic gear that will never ever come back so you can get a nice healthy dose of FOMO. the next season pass is next month and is also 30$. also we are locking 40% of the entire game behind our fun new feature 'present mechanics' so you can gift the rest of the game to yourself for the low low price of 40$ and you also get an epic gun skin if you pay for the GOLD season pass for 60$. also you know how the game was unfinished at launch? oh haha were sorry about that. were releasing it now but you need to pay 20$ for it. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.

guy in a duplex living off of nothing but bread with a computer from 2009: hi everyone im so sorry im late to announce this but my game honeydew mayhem where you can conquer the universe as a bee is gonna release a month late because i still need time to work on making sure that everything works properly and i also need to make sure that the free content updates i will release over time for the next 10 years will be on their way. i need to make sure that you can do absolutely everything you can think of in this game and i still need to polish 20 boss fights and finalize 40 more in-game areas to explore. im sorry you guys will have to wait a bit longer. also my game will be 25$ i hope that isnt too much to ask. if it is i promise it will go on sale soon for 9$. i love all of you and hope you are having a good day

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having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

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“Daughter of the Steppes”, Harper’s Bazaar Kazakhstan

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Uncle Rock is getting old

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Bonus:

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Perfection in the reflection

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To be Hero X | Ep22 | Nice! Hang in there! Hang on, Nice! Nice! You can do it!

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snap!

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