so so happy you watched the recent few vods, here are things/thoughts I noted/remember(only 95% sure its factual)
1. "Please hurt me" was gonna be "Please don't hurt me" but sans was too out of it at the time and signed it as that without double checking (and q brings up the book name to shame him every other day)
2. Whatever kantje knows about silva's mindset is kinda out of date as his last conversation with silva was right before silva confronted q about the first sans IOU, and as seen in stormz's 404 vod some of its thoughts has changed since the confrontation and all the things that happened until then
3. silva's not coming back before uploading but in this q's book vod im pretty sure it just means that q is writing a book to silva that would result in breaking up iris(gilded wyll style) but nothings gonna happen if silva is not on to read the book
4. if i remember correctly, (I think there was more to it but,) when q broke ehonk's gem(q also said mani is one of the reasons in her actually going through with breaking his gem), balance was furious and angry at them for doing so, and since then mani has been lurking around q (like you see her floating in the sky, lurking behind and such), but balance is nowhere to be seen in q's pov except when it floats behind other people(e.g. floating behind sans during one of their convos while mani is behind q). tldr, balance does not go near q anymore and mani kinda stayed(and become more invested in him) and they don't mind her so she just lurk around at times.
5. this kantje convo is genuinely the best and legendary convo out of every convo q has had since his evil reveal like the way he understood everything that q has been implying to everyone else about her two selves and while most other people just tries to brink tulip back, he acknowledges and immediately introduced himself to the new q(and silently mourns tulip in his own way), gives his own support to this one, and pushing him to a new perspective, basically just treating this q as a friend.(I don't have much to say at this bullet point simply because I'm not familiar with kantje, but this talk has really made me want to bite down my pillow with how the entire flow of the convo had shifted, the progression of it being supposedly an attempt of tricking into an IOU to then a heart to heart and a profound conversation)
6. the shaun reveal is kinda awkward(yes this is the only word for it) you may have to see for yourself, on nem's stream (titled bunny buddy) 50min 50sec is where it starts taking a turn but before that was cute teammate bonding(with them betrayal jinxing the entire time) while they plan on making a new base after someone(q) blew up their last one
lmfaooo I'm sure it's his internal wishes actually and he was just trying to save face!!! honestly I don't. remember this talk with silva, because I don't think I've managed to spot him in any stream since then so if he did cameo I missed it :( I could do some digging thru sivla's stuff but I'm lowkey too lazy for that. mmmm so technically iris IS disbanded? considering q is with shaun now and silva's innactive but she's probably learning it whenever he's back. a shame but also I want my child to be free and happy and also it can always cling to stormz. this is a need. I need this. also FINALLY UPLOADDDDDD IT'S BEEN A LITERAL YEAR and I really need to know why tf that fuckass joined the ops!!!!!!!!!!! (says with love in my heart I love my daughter silva silvasaur)
ohhhhh okay I don't even know who ehonk is so that's all news to me. I HAVE seeen a/some screenshots of q talking to sans, with mani with her and balance with him, that was so aura and made me sooooooo intrigued and also shocked but I was not interested enough to vod watch (this is a lie and I was, but I was depression maxxing. I should go looking for that...), good to know a little bit of context now! I wonder how balance reacted to it all because it's been besties with q for quite some time iirc? I haven't reached there in vod watching I believe but I do remember q mentioned it on a positive light once or twice, I think to kantje when explaining the wisps/lore. could be misremembering though . also is taht just a coincidence with him siding with LE now? because I guess q going "unbalanced" (probably wrong word to use Canonically but like. no longer being what a "balance" player seems to act like) is because of her deciding to be his true self, which aligns with the chaos mani prefers, but considerng that mani was always with LE or at least mugm while balance made itself known first to TB/especially silva it gets me wondering if it's really a coincidence or something
BRO I GOT THE SHIVERS SO MANY TIMES.............. q being so raw and cold saying that kantje does Not know q and if he thinks that tulip was him that she has no respect for him and being quite rude/pushing him away but he understood it right in and decided to introduce himself because even though he still has affection to the q who was so kind when he joined bliss, he'll bury her if he has to. that hurt so much, his voice breaking and trying not to cry to his face because he's not really having time to grieve the friend he no longer has, he has to create a new bond from zero with this "new" person. fuck. FUCK. I don't know much of kantje besides bliss BUT he has been my main pov and sometimes I tap in non bliss streams just for the lols and he's very smart guy. he's an english major which gives him a lot of points for lore and roleplay, he notices the words people choose to use a lot which is a great bonus for this conversation because q is also very Aware of wording and every time he tailors his sentence one way, kantje always knows how to untangle it and how to use it in a way that will both make sense to his character but also reading her as an unbiased outsider (which also gets used in lore to some extent). he's very good at analyzing people's words and actions though he has a lot of feelings and opinions that he shoves away because his job asks that of him (+ him wanting to be unimportant for a few reasons). I love him saying that he hates that he has this feeling of being superior to everyone else because of that lmao he's doomed to be a bystander both by his job and because when he didn't shit just went south so he rathers it like that. I need to watch showtime and uh whatever created the central characters because I know he can do so much. I also know he has some project called arcadia but I have no idea how to approach that. sounds complicated
oh? awkward? shit guess I'll have to see it then............. also didn't the last one got blown up by lezy? I thiiiiink it was because q told him by using a contract but technically it was lezy who pulled the trigger and took the blame, no? tbf I only saw bits on twiter and again wasn't really in the mood to dig and even the tweets were too vague for me to understand without Assuming so I may be wrong