#itsybitsyjoltik

...huh, you’re right! That is super weird. It’s still there, and you can get to it through my about/directory page-- here’s a direct link to the ep ( https://pdaliceliveblogs.tumblr.com/tagged/rgu-18/chrono )-- but I have no idea why it doesn’t pop up when you search.

Maybe he cares about her, but he hasn’t really showed it to us. I haven’t seen him care about anything much but himself and his power... but hey, we’ll see how it goes. I’m so glad you’re enjoying! The comphet stuff feels like a strong theme of the show to me, which is wild when as far as I know that particular term wasn’t in wide use at the time? It’s neat to see how certain experiences persist even as we talk about them and frame them differently. Maybe because of the discussion I exist in, I’m framing it that way, when someone else/in another time wouldn’t have....

Yes yes yes!! I love her so much, it’s really neat to see how completely she’s grown on me and how important she is. The way that she was set up like a comic relief character and has become so deep and important without fully losing the comic absurdity? It’s incredible. I love her. I root for her too!!!

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That’s hilarious and also kind of upsetting xD;;

I’m sure! It’s definitely rich loam for interpretation. (There’s a part of me paranoid that you’re saying this because you think my interpretations are incorrect or bad but I’m aware that’s 95% likely to just be my anxiety)

I do think that he’s been manipulating her to only care for him, to depend on him. It’s bizarre to consider that they were adopted, because I’ve always had the impression Nanami was a bit of an un-favourite child, like their parents paid a lot more attention to Touga than to her and that that fed in to her grasping for affection, but then you expect that if they were adopted the parents wanted them both, right...? Or maybe that’s too optimistic of me.

I’m usually very sympathetic with kids/teens too, but in the case of Touga I just haven’t seen any evidence of him caring for them, you know? He comes off as a conscious manipulator who’s only in it for the End of the World. Like I say, I’m keeping my eyes open, and we’ll see how it goes for the rest of the show.

GOD SAME. It took a sec for that to sink in, but when it did it was an absolute battering ram to the chest.

I used Lin a lot in my first run, when I ended up with a wide spread of all houses for my final team instead of focusing more on my initial house, and then I just did Black Eagles as well, so I’ve like....gotten used to his very very limited movement. And I just don’t think about it anymore, until I got this “flee for your fucking lives” mission and I was just like. Lin. Lin oh my god. Can’t you ride with Hapi or Dimitri on their horses. Can’t Balthus just carry you. I had to leave Dimitri back with Lin for most of it because I was worried someone would catch up to Lin and kill him. 

I wish you could get more than one of those “shoes of the wind” item in the base game. I think I used it on Lysithea my first run because I didn’t know there was only one of it or fully understand what was going on, so then she was running two paces ahead of Linhardt when he was the healer I’d basically dedicated to her, which is very very funny to imagine him being like “Lysithea...please slow down....I need to be next to you to warp you” while she’s just annihilating enemies left and right. (I used it on Hubert in CF because that only made sense and he’s too good at damage for me to have him stuck with the Linhardt Movement Problem.)

it's less overtly stated with edelgard, but it does go a long way to explain her actions and mindset + a couple of her paired endings (primarily lysithea but manuela too to a lesser extent) reference it (oops i missed the last part of the post so i didn't see you mentioned the paired ending, but i still think it...at least leaves plenty of room for argument on that point, plus her ending with manuela talks about manuela helping her maintain her health)

hm, I may have to disagree with you on Manuela’s ending referencing it -- I feel like it’s just saying Manuela helped her live a longer life? (”She became essential to Edelgard, and her skill as a physician kept the emperor in good health for many years.”)

revolutionary girl utena doesn't do bury your gays and i would say it doesn't count as queerbaiting since they wanted to make the main rship explicit but the manga artist wouldn't let them (and it is explicit in the movie version) also there is an explicitly canon lesbian character but also...it has a truckload of trigger warnings...

i've been trying to figure out a way to do that since they changed it and i still haven't found anything :(