#gide

“Her name is ✨incest girl✨”

“Why is EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW AUTISTIC???”

“…so chuuya tops, yeah?”

“HIS SISTER WIFE JUSR DIED!”

“Theres so much gunfire in this city, rent must be SO CHEAP”

“Man these bitches talk TOO MUCH! I’d be the best mafia person bc i have adhd! Oops, i shot them in their monologue! Anyway-“

And somehow both Oda and Akutagawa died "because" of it. There's something doomed for those mafiosi who cease to kill. It's like they weren't supposed to last long, after keeping the promise of not kill people anymore.

In the Dark Era, Oda saved Akutagawa from the very enemy that then ended up killing him. By fighting and killing Gide, Oda would have broken his own promise. And that's when he met his own end. 4 years later, after stating that he kept his promise not to kill, Akutagawa died in that mission. The goal was to defeat and maybe even kill Fukuchi. He obviously went for it.

The cruel thing is that both Oda and Akutagawa died by the hand of someone who could peek into the future (In Fukuchi's case, he would have known what would have happened in the future and then erase it, changing the past)

Also, I realise that both Oda and Aku were killed by someone who respected them somehow. Gide wanted to fight Oda, because he knew he could be the only one to save him and his people, hence his ability. Fukuchi could understand Akutagawa's reasoning, which was similar to his than Atsushi's. He found Akutagawa slightly harder to defeat, but he also respected his ideals and that's why he wanted him to join the Hunting Dogs. He was also avaiable to mentor him.

I'll always believe that Oda and Aku were linked somehow right from the start.

The visitor’s eyes widened in surprise as Luka proudly placed a small tray filled with colorful, perfect little samples before them. “I… I don’t know what to say,” they whispered, cheeks warming with a shy smile.

“Just try everything! It’s all for you,” Luka grinned, watching the visitor’s expression brighten with each tiny bite. The bittersweet lemon tart made them pucker, the rich chocolate cake brought a happy sigh, and the peppermint stick tickled their nose, sparking a contagious laugh.

From a corner, Ash and Alcina appeared, quietly watching the scene unfold. Ash gave Luka a playful nudge. “Looks like you’ve earned some serious snack points, little guy.”

Alcina laughed and held Ash and Luka's hands, “Maybe we should add a ‘Taste Tester’ day or free sample day?”

Luka just beamed, glad to have made a new friend and helped grant a sweet little wish- one dessert bite at a time.

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Blot: "Oh! Oh! I remember this day! I was the one that saw Luka when I was helping out that day!" he laughs

Bluebird: "Hey! It made their day a little brighter! And we cant really get too mad at a bitty!" he laughs with Blot

Gide: “I remember other bitties trying to do this too, but unfortunately most of them didn’t have an ability to make themselves larger nor had the height to their advantage.” He chuckled lightly, remembering the chaos. “So they involved even more bitties into their ‘heists’ and got chunks of all kinds of foods from different plates to try and over active.” He sighed shaking his skull.

Oak: he chuckles, "Maybe we should have a free sample day or somethin,"

Les troubles civils révèlent les fractures profondes d'une nation.

André Gide

Well, living in Paris is never boring. It's been a wild few days. And who knows what the weekend will bring. Where I live in Paris is untouched (so far). But people are rightfully scared as the unfolding violence and chaos spreads across Paris and beyond.

Nanterre, the suburb of Paris where the murder victim, 17 year old Nahel lived - and died - has once again become the scene of unrest. Hours after a peaceful march in his honour ended violence broke out. Office buildings were vandalised and a bank was set on fire. As the evening drew on police officers arrived in large numbers, in vans and on bikes.

Around five thousand officers were sent to Paris suburbs after some 170 police were injured and 180 people arrested overnight on Wednesday, when Mr Macron was at an Elton John concert - the optics of which have just reinforced the view that this is a President who is very much out of touch with his own country.

At a crisis cabinet meeting on Thursday, Mr Macron called the violence “unjustifiable” as scores of cars were set ablaze and police were attacked with fireworks and in some cases firearms. Shops were looted and state buildings, police stations and schools set on fire.

In Montreuil, in the north, some young people armed with batons have destroyed a pharmacy, McDonalds, ATM and other shops. Police have responded with tear gas. The entrance to the town hall of Clichy-sous-Bois, in the eastern suburbs of Paris, was set alight by protesters, according to videos shared online.

Buses and trams in Paris were stopped at 9pm in and around Paris and a curfew from 9pm to 6am was imposed in the Parisian suburb of Clamart until Monday as authorities struggled to keep control. In Nanterre’s Avenue Pablo Picasso, dozens of vehicles burned as fireworks were fired at police lines, along with stones and Molotov cocktails.

According to text messages sent between officers and seen by BFM TV, police said they were totally swamped, had run out of rubber bullets and were forced to withdraw from various districts after being personally targeted.

Conservative politicians have been screaming at Macron’s government to call a state of emergency and send in the armed forces. But so far both Macron and his Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne have ruled it for fear of escalating the situation.

A state of emergency was called by then-president Jacques Chirac during the 2005 banlieue riots. That was the first time the measure had been taken in 50 years. Ten years later, the French government declared a state of emergency following the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. The measure lasted two years. Thursday night, various government ministers said a state of emergency was not being considered. Whether this is still their position as the unrest persists and intensifies remains to be seen.

I suspect the Macron government is haunted by the possibility of a repeat of the weeks of sustained violent protest sparked by the death of two young boys of African origin during a police chase in 2005. That incident, in Clichy-sous-Bois outside Paris, triggered weeks of unrest with France declaring a state of national emergency as more than 9,000 vehicles and dozens of public buildings and businesses were set on fire.

The government seems to be caught flat footed. The riots have spread way beyond Paris and some its poorer and more multi-cultural suburbs to other cities such as Lille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse, and Marseille. It’s a shit show.

The heart of this civil strife is the age old issue of the role of the police in society. It would be a grave misunderstanding to see the French police and all that ails them through an English or especially an American lens. France is not America. This has nothing to do with race or even systemic racism (whatever the lazy way of thinking that is). The police officers in Paris and other major cities are multi-ethnic and many are married with partners across ethnic lines. To think this is white on black is incredibly dumb.

This isn't even about class. The British Met police are now mostly recruited from university graduate class when before they were blue collar. Unlike the British Met, the police in France is overwhelmingly blue collar and live in the same social locales as they ones they police. It's one reason why they don't take any shit when they stop someone. They can be brusque and yes even borderline brutal. But to wrap this all in a bundle and a bow and call it racism is simplistic bullshit.

As one of my French colleagues - who managed to make it out of the banlieues (poor social housing suburbs of Paris) and managed to get good schooling and make a decent life for herself - put it well: the problem with the police is they are meant to protect citizens but they really serve the state. This is the fracture between state and society.

Some say sending more police in is like pouring gasoline on a fire - but what else can a responsible government do to avert chaos and further civil unrest? They have to be seen to act.

And yet that mistrustful relationship is many have with the police which has prompted the anger. People in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods such as Nanterre say officers aren’t working to protect them - it’s a common refrain one hears. However true it may be it doesn’t absolve the rioters themselves - many of who are just looting for the fun of it or are far left agitators - in these areas who have gone beyond protesting a tragic murder of a young man to openly looting and destroying cars, family owned stores, commercial stores, schools, and businesses.

OUGHH

gide - a headcanon about their clothes - does this count? i think it'd just be fucked up if he did actually have an eye for fashion. not that it would ever matter, in the end

kajii - a headcanon about their love language - he loves going places!! doing things!! he is taking katai out to the opera as we speak!!!

shibusawa - a headcanon about what they’re best at - i bring this up in my shibusawa fic but i think he tried learning lots of different hobbies and stuff before turning to, like.. torturing an orphan lol. the thing he was really best at is pinning insects

margaret - a headcanon about their hobbies - thanks to @that-was-anticlimactic, searching conspiracy theories extremely in depth

nathaniel - an appearance headcanon - his hair grows very fast so he has to cut it often

okay, circling back around to answer these last ones..

gide - a headcanon about their desires/wishes - i think he wanted to see home one last time, but he couldn't exactly do that and die as he wanted.. so that's just one of the things he died regretting. awful homesickness <3