All Gangsta. All the time

Mika here~!

I’m going to be attending Anime Expo in Los Angeles July 1-4! I’m going mostly for the FMP! panel, but my bread and butter is wandering the dealers’ rooms and finding cool shit! XDD

If any other GANGSTA. lovers want to meet up/hang out/geek out for a bit, shoot me a message and we’ll make it happen! ^--^

I kind of had that thought at some point too, but then Misha was able to talk me out of it XDDD I don’t even remember the conversation, but apparently it worked cause I haven’t thought about that possibility in forever

I *DO* however love the thought that Worick’s mother could be Miss Jessica that he has those two posters of XDDDD I know since he handles things differently, so he’d probly just want them autographed or something, but I just love the image of Worick finding out, staying completely stone-faced, and saying he’s fine...but then calmly setting his eyepatch on fire without flinching and repeating that he’s STILL fine

Hey it’s fine~! ^--^ I think we’re just all so happy the story has started up again

What they did to Erica was torture conditioning and brainwashing. She was abused, from what we see also injected with possibly painful and psychologically affecting drugs, and then most likely put through intense training and conditioning to make her a combatant worthy of their use. During all of this, she was probably lied to so much that she eventually began to believe their words, and this is where the whole ‘family’ thing comes into play.

A wonderful example of the kind of conditioning most likely used on Erica, and possibly Mikhail, actually comes from what I believe to be a little known book series called ‘The Sword of Truth’, which had a TV broadcast under the title of ‘Legend of the Seeker’ back in 2008. In the series, there is a group of female warriors called Mord-Sith, who also go through similar conditioning/training when they are brought in to join. Obviously it’s not exact, but I think it comes pretty close. Taken from the wiki:

Candidates to become Mord-Sith are selected from the gentlest and kindest girls in D'Hara, regardless of rank, wealth or any other factors. The kindest girls always make the best Mord-Sith because they have the farthest to fall. They are kidnapped along with their parents and trained from a young age on three levels. Each time, she must be "broken."

The first breaking is a time during which she is tortured to the point of obedience so strong that she would do absolutely anything her master/mistress tells her, without question or hesitation. The girl is hung from a chain and tortured methodically by with the use of an Agiel until she breaks. This part of the training rids her of her sense of self and personal desires.

During the second breaking, she is forced to watch as her teacher slowly and brutally tortures her mother to the point of being broken, and eventually, death. This is to rid her of compassion.

The third, and arguably the most difficult, breaking is when she is given the instrument of torture and must inflict pain and suffering upon her own father until he breaks as well, and then she must kill him. When she has completed this task, she is a full Mord-Sith.

Hunters have all the abilities of Twilights (strength, speed, heightened senses), but without the need/addiction to Celebrer ^--^

Aww! Yes to both! ^o^ and before I go getting all cutesy, I agree completely that it’s very likely Nina’s a Twilight, or even a ‘hunter’. Of course, hunter as in she doesn’t need to take Celebrer, not that she’d ever hurt any Twilights. Misha and I also think that because some of the things we’ve seen from her, like when she knew Worick was coming with Nic and Doug, or when she told Theo that Worick was badly hurt, that he may have experimented on her and managed to have her ability be something mental rather than physical, and that she may have developed something like imprinting on him. I want Nina to be a hidden badass so much!!

But let’s see... Let’s go with hcs since anything is possible! \(^o^)/

Nicolas and Worick used to help out Theo when Nina was a infant/toddler. Because of this, Nicolas knows how to swaddle, change diapers, and properly hold babies so they aren’t hurt

Nina used to chew on Nic’s thumb when she was teething

Nina learned how to crawl and walk trying to follow Nicolas around when he came in for injuries/treatments, and he was impressed by her determination to catch him, so he turned it into a game

Theo threatened to kill Nic when some of Nina’s first words were ‘asshole’, ‘dammit’, and ‘boring’. It just made him like her more

When Nina was three, Betty was born next to the clinic entrance. At first Nina was afraid, but when she fell asleep on Nic’s knee while he was petting her, Nina wanted to try petting her as Nic did

During one spring, Nina made her and Nic some flower crowns. He didn’t like it, but Nina was so proud he couldn’t say ‘no’ to her

I know~!!! T^T it’s all so SAD right now!!!

Things have been pushed to the point of no return, so the entire city is in transition over power struggles and survival with Monroe basically saying ‘fuck you, deal with it’ for the moment XDD asshole...

Worick is being called ‘Storage’ because of what he can do. Remember he’s hyperthymesic, so he can remember everything about a person from just meeting them once. All he has to do is look at you and he knows every detail, so if there’s someone you wanted dead or just really fucked up, but not sure, you call Worick.

As for what he’s planning with Corsica... well, not sure, but I have my own personal theories. I’m sure a lot of people do. I’m one of those few who’s not quite decided on if he’s turned villain or not because of the kind of person he is, but I have theories on how he could basically just dismantle Corsica AND fuck over Monroe if he plays along long enough to get into the same room as Striker and the rest of the Destroyers. He’d know everything about each of them, and it wouldn’t take much for someone as smart as him to hash out a way to get them all killed and leave him standing.

How Misha and I go from cursing our unobservant selves to coming up with cute feels XDDD