Frankie The Fern

"since in our section, you're the only black kid, and I'm the only jewish kid, we have to stick toge-" "I thought you weren't jewish tho??" "shhh"

"and what do we use our mouths for?" "kissing- I mean counting."

"we have to get in the gay line"

*the saxes singing "itsy bitsy spider" instead of counting"

"STOP LETTING PEOPLE USE THEY/THEM PRONOUNS JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE A PEOPLE PLEASER!!"

"ok can everyone put their hand on the leg that they're taking a step with" "SLAP YOUR ASS i mean what who said that"

"*name of band director* did the griddy at US bands" "*name of band director* pooped his pants???"

"look I know you're having fun doing.... that, but I need you stop. stop having fun"

Yeah here he is on a canvas as a render and with magical uhhh lighting!! Yeahhhh

Yeah sorry I haven’t posted any actual art in a while, Art Block has hit me hard, and I’ve mostly just been playing PJSK and some Tomodachi Life: LTD… mostly Project Sekai though, so obviously I must draw Loser cosplaying as Tsukasa because Tsukasa is the best character, change my mind :)

God he’s so fucking stupid I love this man <3

When Knife attempts to inform Microphone about Taco’s past with Pickle, it seems like just what she’s been waiting for, considering she had spent the last two episodes trying to get Taco to discuss the portal. However her reaction doesn’t seem to be an interested one.

When Knife begins to mention Taco’s past with Pickle, Microphone doesn’t look intrigued or questioning. She looks scared. Almost worried.

She turns to Taco. Not in a “what’s he talking about?” sort of way. She looks as if she’s checking for Taco’s reaction. She’s aware that Taco’s past is a soar subject for her and while she doesn’t tell Knife to stop right away, he focus seems to stay on Taco.

She’s paying close attention to Taco’s emotional state and movements, which allows her to quickly act and pull her back when Taco jumps to attack Knife.

she continues looking back and forth between Knife and Taco. Again, her main focus seems to be on the actions of the two of them, not necessarily Knife’s words

But what I find most interesting is how Mic reacts when Knife is done talking.

She looks down at Taco, concerned. Clearly worried (but not scared) by how upset she looks. Before looking to knife, almost angry. At the very least she appears annoyed.

Without a second thought, despite the fact that taco had Never mentioned pickle before, Mic makes it clear that any warning knife has, she doesn’t want to hear it. “Shes changing” Mic says bluntly, absolutely sure of herself. Something that Knife clearly doesn’t expect.

It’s very interesting to me that Mic spends multiple episodes attempting to get taco to discuss the portal, but shows no desire to actually learn about her past.

It’s also important to note that after this point, mic never brings up the portal again.

Let’s discuss.

At first it appears Taco doesn’t really seem to care about Microphone at all. She’s treating her as a pawn and nothing more. She doesn’t value Mic’s input, she gets easily upset with her, and clearly doesn’t trust her to do things on her own.

Now in all fairness- Taco has no reason to trust Microphone at this point. She’s been spying on the show for a while now, and found interest in Microphone because she saw a bit of her season one self in her. But the difference between the two of them, in Taco’s opinion, is that Microphone is incapable. She needs to be controlled or reigned in.

But Microphone changes Taco’s opinion of her quite quickly.

Microphone achieves something that Taco cannot do. Subtle emotional manipulation. She uses the right words in the right way to change the way Balloon thinks and acts to her advantage. Something Taco says she didn’t even know was possible.

This of course leads to Balloon messing up the challenge. And Taco is immediately very impressed.

It’s at This Point that I believe Taco and Microphone go from being a mastermind and a pawn, to genuine partners.

This is where we see a drastic shift in Taco’s behavior towards Microphone. Starting of course with the temporary paralyzer. Microphone somehow managed to convince Taco to return the paralyzer to its rightful owner, and Taco (while clearly not happy about it) actually listens. She allows Microphone to return it without question, which is certainly interesting considering her previous closed off behavior.

Her body language also seems a lot more comfortable in this scene. Shes laid back. Relaxed. As is Microphone.

After everything goes down in the lab, Microphone freaks out at the loss of Lightbulb and TestTube. Instead of yelling at her to snap out of it, as we would expect the often short-tempered Taco to do, she attempts to cheer her up. She compliments her work, plays with the machines in the lab, tries to joke around with her. This is where we begin to see a softer, more dork-y side to Taco that we hadn’t been shown before.

Microphone seems to notice this shift in behavior as she also shows genuine concern for Taco after she reached for the portal. This is a subject Microphone will continue to bring up until their mine cart ride with Knife in episode 13.

By episode 13 the two of them seem to have grown incredibly close. They joke around with each other often and though they still fight sometimes, the fights are not one-sided. No one is on a higher pedestal than the other anymore.

They seem to value each other as partners. And they both show genuine concern for each other when they’re hurt. (Microphone gasps and calls out Taco’s name when she’s hit by the gemory, and Taco gasps when Mic is hit by TestTube’s dart.)

When the subject of Taco’s reliability comes into question, Microphone shows no sign of mistrust. I’ve gone into further analysis on the implications of Taco, Mic and Knife’s mine cart ride (which you can find as the post right under this one on my blog) but long story short, Microphone shows great trust in Taco.

And Taco seems to value that. She’s surprised when Microphone implies that Taco hasn’t been completely honest with her. Which leads to something we’ve never seen Taco do in the past. Apologize.

While begrudgingly, Taco promises to Microphone that she’ll be more open and honest with her in the future. And it’s a promise that she does keep, as she seems to discuss plans and motivations a lot more freely with Microphone after this point. This apology clearly means a lot to Microphone, though her reaction is quickly interrupted by Knife.

It seems the two of them have a strong bond at this point. They’re both smart, cunning, manipulative. Taco is able to control things from the background while Microphone doesn’t struggle to control the people around her inside the game. Together they work as a perfect pair of antagonists.

That is until Taco’s final mistake.

As great as they work together, Taco and Microphone have different limits.

As MePad says so brilliantly:

While Microphone seems to have no issue manipulating and emotionally hurting people, it’s physically injury where she draws the line. This is a line that Taco often attempts to cross, though Microphone has been able to mostly prevent this due to the fact that most of the physical work in game falls on her.

But when Taco kills TestTube and stuns Fan (despite the fact that she technically never promised Mic that she wouldn’t. Saying that promising was “not necessary”) Microphone still feels betrayed.

Which of course leads to the iconic split up scene

Microphone never really felt like she had a voice. She was being pushed to her limits in ways she wasn’t ready for. This wasn’t something Taco was aware of because Microphone never really showed it.

When Microphone leaves, Taco is devastated. Though we’re unsure how badly she’s been effected, her facial expressions are enough to tell us she’s clearly very hurt by Microphone leaving.

CHARACTER OF THE DAY - 186

          ᯓ★ FRANKIE - - CASTOFF

a lot of you voted yes for the poll (yipee!) so ive worked on it a little!

a draft i have now 👀👀

Little something (practically I'm testing more stuff while revenging on qrtfight :])