Oerbow rights

As long as hatred becomes too great within someone, anyone can BECOME the Demon King. The Demon King is a title, not a being that IS the King of Demons. This is why when you go to kill the "Demon King", Hash yells that that wasn't him, and that he's much more powerful. The Demon King wasn't the demon you fight...at the time of that battle, the Demon King was Straybow.

At first this seems like complete bogus. But then we see Oersted's dream the night he's framed for the King's murder:

The demon king is in the room you fought the fake demon in, and Straybow "died" in (from a cave in). The Demon King is also in front of the statue Straybow was fiddling with after the battle, while Uranus and Oersted mourned the death of Hash. Straybow, when he submitted to his hatred and started his plan to ruin Oersted, became the Demon King right at that moment when he faked the cave in, his death, and saved Alicia himself while sending Oersted on a wild goose chase (and set him up to be hated by the people of the nation!) so he can't Get The Girl.

More foreshadowing is actually at the beginning of the chapter. During the tournament, Oersted stands on the right, Straybow the left. The geography of Lucretia has the Hero Mountain range on the west of the castle, and the Demon Mountain to the east of the castle...

I think this also explains why Alicia... is safe and ultimately chose to die with him rather than stay alive. She sees Oersted as a man who took everything from her lover, probably, assuming that when Straybow rescued her first he told her a sob story (going by her "You'll never understand what it's like to be the loser you main character fuck 😔" shit she says...yeah. she's probably been filled in on Straybow's woes). And I can see how you fall for the one that saves you from...demon central. However, she's still a villain in my eyes though. She's fickle as shit! Does she really think Oersted DIDN'T try at all to save her? Annoying.

I feel like I ship Oersted with HB!Straybow more than I ship him with regular Straybow.

Anyways, Shipvember!

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like have u felt a laptop while its working? its kinda not exactly cold yo

tbh any piece of machinery thats working hard to function is usually not cold, the only time its ever cold is when its turned off

although like i hope they’ve actually improved cooling tech by the time they’re building androids bc my laptop can actually get so hot it makes THE ROOM hot and it’s only the size of a laptop so potentially an android who was thinking very hard would be a veritable furnace 

think too hard, overheat, faint

humans who insist on holding a parasol for their robot friend on sunny days

a robot draping herself over a fainting couch in distress and a bunch of worried humans mobbing up to fuss and fan her and bring her some cool water and pat her hand and gallantly offer to beat up whatever alarmed her

Androids blushing

A human calls their android friend cute and then they look flustered and you hear their cooling fans kick into high gear

A human plants a little kiss on their cheek and they turn red hot (literally) from embarrassment

“Brr, it’s friggin cold in here.”

“Hold on I got this. Hey TX-10 did I tell you you look very pretty today?”

robots attracting cats like catnip every time they stop moving for more than a few minutes

robot sits down for ten minutes, is immediately a cat pillow

he has to wait for a bit for someone and a fuckton of cats start climbing on him