the boy squad.  i loved them in the meeting scene in ep 1 but am cringing knowing how far things will go down.  skam italia made a boy squad that looked like they had been friends for life and i only felt that way about isak and magnus in og.  skam france...there has never been a connection with yaan and now we’re only going to see it all fall apart...but i can’t even imagine yaan sticking to lucas.  i could see yaan doing the confrontations that actually push lucas away...but not being the one to holding onto him. (until regret later)

Notes: BOY do I have some friend/bro HCs for you. I live for family/friend dynamics.

Ft: Kagero, Kaze, Saizo

Pretraining:

• Saizo was the hothead. Kagero’s the mature one. They don’t often get along but then there’s Kaze.

• Kaze has a streak of mischievousness in him and is the glue that really keeps the trio together

• Saizo was incredibly rowdy as a kid and often got into fights. Kaze and Kagero often have to pull him out. Kaze would tend to Saizo’s wounds, Kagero would do the scolding. Which leads to Saizo snapping back, and Kaze trying his best to placate them both.

• Kagero and Saizo are protective of Kaze. They don’t realise but, Kaze’s extremely protective of them too.

• Kaze is not bothered by the fact that he’s the younger twin or that he’ll never inherit the Saizo name. Saizo on the other hand, though he keeps it well hidden, feels conflicted and gets extremely defensive and aggressive if anyone makes fun of Kaze and woe to those foolish enough to call his twin the ‘spare’.

• Although Saizo keeps his conflicts hidden from Kaze, Kagero on the other hand, knows all about it. Saizo rants to Kagero on things he can’t share with Kaze.

• Playing in the fields as kids they’d have frog catching competitions all the time

• On milder forms of entertainment: Kagero paints (badly), Saizo whittles, Kaze weaves flower crowns and folds grasshopper origami for all of them

Training:

• In training to be Saizo the Fifth, his temper mellowed out as he matured quickly. The reckless, hotheadness is still there, mind, he’s just in better control of his emotions. He also starts to become more distant as the pressures of meeting his father’s and the clan’s expectations starts piling.

• Saizo and Kagero begins to butt head more often as they developed different training and tactical opinions. Trips to the castle became less as training took up most of their time.

• As they got further down the line, the twins were separated and given different training. Where Kaze was sent to continue his training with the other ninjas, Saizo’s training intensified and the classes he took doubled.

• By the time they reunited, they have all grown up and the closeness they once shared was nowhere to be found.

Turn AMC Favorite -Broships: General Washington & William “Billy” Lee

Song from Poets of the Fall ~ War 

So I didn’t get to watch the episode until last night and I was actually surprised that it wasn’t as bad as Tumblr made it out to be. I don’t know if I missed something or what but I thought it’d be a whole lot worse. I’ll start with the things I was most worried about and go from there.

Raphael/Izzy: So I was under the impression they were like going to make out since in photos I couldn’t really tell. While a friendship between them seems questionable, Raphael is practically bound by his faith and I’m sure he hates to see anyone in a position he may have previously been in enough to help, even if it compromises some of his own thoughts. HOWEVER, do not take this to mean I’m okay with what Izzy did. Raphael was very reluctant the first time and didn’t want to do it at all the second, but Izzy convinced/forced him to bite her. I think the short heart-to-heart was partially because they were still high off each other and because Raphael wanted her to understand why he wouldn’t do it anymore and why she needed to sweat it out. The slightly flirty banter at the end I think was partially the high and also Izzy being her confident flirty self. Given proper work, I could actually see a broship here. Two incredibly powerful, sassy, well-dressed people who don’t take anyone’s shit including each other’s could be awesome. Just imagine the back and forth, Izzy casually flirting and Raph smiling and rolling his eyes like, “Isabelle I’m asexual. I know you know this. Go flirt with your girlfriend.” Imagine them making snappy comments about people together or teasing each other about their SO’s. Right now though, it is definitely leaning towards toxic. I think it can be salvaged, however. I really hope Raphael can help Izzy get better and also warn any other vampires she might go to that if they bite her they’ll suffer. A lot. I hope they eventually work together to take out Alderdick. I wouldn’t be surprised if Raphael could make the connection that Izzy wouldn’t do this unless someone like Alderdick tricked her. Perhaps with Izzy’s help Simon could even go back to the hotel. That said, the lack of saphael made me sad and I would’ve liked some interaction.

Climon: Ho boy. So it happened. I’m not happy about it, but at least it hasn’t strayed (too much) into the toxic territory I know it’ll be if we look at book canon. I think Clary has some jealousy/boyfriend abandonment issues to work on judging by what Iris’ spell showed and Clary’s reaction to it. Simon though, my precious cinnamon roll, my baby, my Jewish nerd son, he’s just been so good. I’m glad he at least got it out there even though I know how it ends. I’m really hoping this means Simon will have more confidence in himself, which will hopefully lead to enough self-respect to put himself first when Clace inevitably comes back. As for the Climon chemistry… Ew. Ironically, watching them kiss felt like I was watching siblings kiss. There’s no romantic chemistry whatsoever. I kept thinking, “aw they’re such cute friends” only to remember, whoops not friends anymore. They just don’t work and I really hope the lack of chemistry was purposeful. They have great chemistry as friends but that kiss was just… No.

Maryse: I heard Maryse was coming back and I was so sure I’d be screaming at her the whole episode. I kind of was, but by the end I was like, “shit, you are kind of basically grown up Izzy with your whole I’ll deal with it and take whatever I have to in order to get the job done kind of way as long as my family won’t get hurt.” Instead of a bitch, at the end I saw a woman who grew up in prejudiced times, hurting, accepting her mistakes, and trying to protect her family. There was one big crack in her tough woman armor and it broke me. I want to add Maryse to the list of strong women who deserve better in this show. Even though keeping the truth from Izzy could make her continue to hate her mother, she doesn’t want Izzy to hurt. I just. Maryse has earned some real respect from me.

Max: needs to learn some manners, but he still owns my heart. Kids are way too smart sometimes.

Iris: I actually didn’t know she’d be back but when I saw her in the recap I knew there’s be trouble. I can respect her need to protect Madzie though. On that we agree. I’m also glad the blood oath doesn’t have Clary like killing someone or something even though I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing was Valentine’s plan. That was really clever with the cat thing though. The warlock battle was awesome.

Jace living with Magnus: I was afraid this might limit the Malec, but I’m super happy with this and I broship it to high heaven. The bit about Jace knowing they did it was quality. That was just quality television right there. The blossoming bromance is great. I approve 1000000000%.

Malec: I know many people saw what happened last episode as toxic with Alec “forcing” Magnus to have sex with him, and I do think it could’ve used more talking but I think this episode helped alleviate Magnus’ fears of being a hit it and quit it relationship. I think that was Magnus’ main issue with having sex rather than the sex itself, so while they still have work to do I think this was a quality episode for them. “I want to show her that this isn’t going anywhere.” 💯💯💯👍👍👍💯💯💯 good shit I tell ya, good shit.

Clalec bros: Alec has grown on me so much and it hurts so bad to see him want to fucking JUMP OFF A GODDAMN ROOF!! Like, Jesus. I just. Thank fuck for Clary reaffirming that she doesn’t blame him. I really hope that will help Alec move on. Also props to Clary for not blaming him. It can be really easy to blame other people for stuff like that, even if they couldn’t have done anything otherwise. We don’t often see Clary not being destructive (imo), so I think their broship is good for her and I think helps Alec lighten up a bit too.

That's all for today.