Posting this here too because it actually kills me but everytime arakawa draws alphonse doing this my heart breaks 5 million times over. it's just a really nice detail showing his age through body language and I really love it. It's also interesting in my opinion because he can't feel the cloth but he does it anyways because I'm assuming it was a nervous tic of his. Which makes me think more about how his whole situation works in terms of like proprioception and things that carried over from his human body like this nervous tic of his.
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Azriel and Cassian have fought at Rhysand’s side for centuries. If Rhysand was ‘slaughtering on the battlefield’ before Lucien was even born, so were Cass and Az.
To say that Lucien is at the same level as two fae that have centuries on him and that have basically been soldiers since they were children is laughable.
Yes Lucien is trained, and strong, and can fight— but Cassian and Azriel are on a completely different level.
Stop saying that Lucien dominated Cassian, or that he could ‘dominate’ Azriel ‘the same way’.
Guys maybe we are all wrong. The square hole is the REAL villian. It just get total control of our streamers' mind so the only thing they can do is expanding it endlessly…
Post pondering about Masked Shadow's origin reveal, mental state, and self perception.
*Spoilers for Mask Ending*
Thoughts under read more...
Do you think the Masked Shadow has forgotten it used to be a Sam?
As the narration progresses, Shadow seems to refer to and treat past Sam as a whole different person/entity. Which makes sense, since the Masked Shadow is distorted due to space/time, and it no longer resembles its own original form.
It cannot recognize Sam's face as something that used to be its own, Sam's face sprite is blanked out.
Shadow gets a headache when thinking about past encounters with its own self. The narration describes it as feeling overwhelmed, finite, and lost.
It can see the past, present and future, but does it even consider Sam's memories its own anymore? Can it even parse what it is seeing future-wise? It has no context for events that have yet to happen, can it somehow discern what it is witnessing is the past or future?
The poor thing.
I personally still view the Masked Shadow has become its own thing entirely, even with 2.0's update. And I headcanon that by the time Shadow settles on giving Sam the rose, that's when I think it has forgotten who it originally used to be.
All it knows it that it NEEDS Sam, and Sam NEEDS it. An un-cursed/stable Sam keeps the Masked Shadow grounded in a current time more easily. An anchor.
I have so many other thoughts about the Masked Shadow, but I want to hear other people's ideas on whether or not the Masked Shadow KNOWS it used to be Sam or not.
Has the Masked Shadow forgotten? Does it fully know it used to be Sam? Or maybe a mix of the two, flipping between the states of mind.
Here to say Paladin Danse from Fallout 4 is my character now
Bethesda murdered his character after Blind Betrayal and they lost custody of him
Romance with him is just so fan service to me, but my partner made the argument a lot of the romance is. He just loses a lot of depth to his character after the final affinity conversation. I think there should be a follow-up quest to him that goes more in-depth to him. I was really disappointed when I found out there was nothing because there's like still so much going on with him. Like he's still going to be suffering after being banished but there's like no additional dialogue after. I know it's been talked to death, but yeah the no change in general dialogue and acting like he's still in the Brotherhood is just poor writing. I get why he's still has prejudice afterwards (someone did a comic that explains it really well but I can't remember the user, I'll link it if I do), but he should definitely stop acting like he's still in them. It's just so shallow and I wish there was more. I haven't romanced any of the companions but him and Preston so I don't know if it's the same for all of them but it's so weird how he just stops having character development after his final affinity conversation. I also think that there should be a lot more to romance him because I know damn well with everything they gave us he would not instantly agree to be in a relationship with your character. He is the slowest of slow burns. But from a gameplay stand, I get people would be pissed as hell if you had to slow burn. In my little mind palace with my gay ass pirate I ship with him, he gets more fucking character development and it's the slowest of slow burns
I also know Bethesda can do more because they Skyrim and apparently you can marry and have kids with your partner. Why can't I get Danse pregnant :(
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the 18 y.o dean we see in season 4 is so different from the 16 y.o dean we see in season 9 that it makes you wonder what could’ve possibly happened in those 2 years to change him so fundamentally. maybe he realised he couldn’t give up the family business when there were so many to be saved, maybe he realised being by sam’s side was more important than anything else he could’ve had. more important than the cute girl he liked, the school dances he could attend, the stable place he grew to know as a home. maybe it was his 17th birthday, and that hunt he was sent on by john.
we always see dean as this cocky, over confident guy both as an adult and as a teen. but there’s something much more genuine, and child-like in him at 16. when he was in that high school as an 18 year old he already had that “bad boy” womanizer persona established, but just two years prior he was kissing a girl for the first time in that home for boys. we saw him being a genuine kid outside of that cocky exterior for the first time. and he decided to leave that life not because his dad had a job for him, but because he saw sam waiting for him in the impala and he couldn’t bring himself to leave sam. there’s such a contrast between this moment and him in that high school, acting like his whole life revolved only around hunting.
throughout the whole episode in s9, we see dean call the job “boring” and say he doesn’t want to follow in his dad’s footsteps. it’s so weird to hear that because if you look at every single episode prior to this, you would 100% say dean loves the job and wants to be just like his dad. that was the whole point of his character especially in the early seasons. he tried so hard to fill in his dad’s shoes, idolized him to the point of worship, and now you’re telling me that he never wanted this? normally i would chalk it up to inconsistency and bad writing on the writers’ part, but i feel like this couldn’t have been unintentional.
maybe i’m overanalyzing this since i’m writing as i go, and i’m still at the start of s9; either way i can’t stop thinking about how dean chose sam over the life he could’ve had. again.
I like that junaid is shown to be sort of a rebel among exterminators in many different ways. I can already tell this is about to turn into a rant because of how much I think about him and how many examples just immediately came to mind so brace yourself
first of all. the whole "kill every parasite on sight, no matter how conscious they seem" rule? disregarded. He WAS obeying it- he had been about to kill Hirudo- but once he showed his abilities and caught Junaid's personal interest, he forgot all about that rule, and now he's spending a strange amount of time and even forming a bond with parasite that he was supposed to kill. oddity
second, he's the type to work alone. not exactly rebellious in a way that he's directly breaking any rules, but it raises eyebrows, you know what I mean? he doesn't even seem to really speak to or enjoy being around his coworkers much, except for the gas mask guy, who he's shown to be close with (but because of their similar personalities and tastes in the weirder things, it's safe to assume that the gas mask guy is ALSO some sort of rebel/outcast). I also think that him working alone is an excuse to give him more freedom. He can essentially just do whatever he'd like on his missions. Its how he got away with recruiting Hirudo, after all. I'm sure that if he had another exterminator tagging along, then they wouldn't have allowed that to happen
his little unconventional scissor weapon (among all the other surgical tools in his arsenal), and the way that he doesn't wear the uniforms that the rest of the exterminators do. he stands out immediately.
Most exterminators are either shown or assumed to have a distaste for parasites as a whole, but Junaid seems like the type to lean more towards them than regular people. He is rumored to "like leeches more than people," after all.
the hand that feeds by nine inch nails being in his official playlist
the "I'm a good, clean person!" artwork could be percieved as him mocking the exterminator organization, though that wasn't my initial interpretation of it
dirt by zoe ko being in his official playlist. he's the type of exterminator who only became an exterminator because he wanted to see all the filth up close (and also maybe for cash), not because he supported the organizations ideals. to me, at least
