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ik it doesnt make sense because of the inconsistant height for GC&aE but whatever

Great news! I will be going back to the NBOS comics thingy! This is a subepisode that i decided to draw because i cant js leave out these things

Now, barn and chris will be posting NBCAFNR(basically another season to this) so ill try to be posting that it wont het in the way of NBCAFNR's schedule

I'm a stickler for canon as a base for almost everything I do. It's in my pinned post. Everything I talk about for Belos is pulled from the show itself before the finale.

How is it "woobifying" if it's canon? I don't shy away from the crap he's done. I am a starch believer that he deserved MUCH worse than he got while also acknowledging that he is a sympathetic villain with a complex literally anyone can adopt and not the stupid "Evil for the sake of evil" excuse the last episode tried to force-feed us despite the lore build-up for him. I'm not turning him into something he isn't. This is all from the show itself. He's an irredeemable manipulative bastard who believes he's in the right due to his upbringing and killed his brother as well as many, MANY other witches. I've harped on this for quite a while. That man deserved to have every fiber of his being destroyed, not just his physical form. In my mind, he's like an IRL serial killer. Most have horrible childhoods you can sympathize with but it doesn't excuse their actions.

Don't mistake my criticism for the show as "woobifying", either. It's less about the characters themselves and more about how the show handles situations. If anything, I've been tearing apart the writing because, like in my last post, IT MAKES NO GODDAMN SENSE WHY LUZ THINKS HE'S AUTOMATICALLY EVIL! There's no way in hell she saw the palisman scene considering in the next shot, you can't see shit from where Luz was standing due to the throne room being massive and the throne being on the other side of the room, she's been told that Belos is a great and powerful witch by her BEST FRIEND, etc., etc. He headed Eda's petrification, yes, but Luz KNOWS that Eda's a criminal. Yet, instead of falling back on her usual methods, she decides to STEAL an artifact from the most powerful witch on the Isles. She deserved to get caught for doing something so brazen without thinking it through.

Why the fuck was she willing to talk to other people about grievances but not Belos? Because the show has a nasty habit to TELL, DON'T SHOW, and couldn't give us a legit reason why Luz didn't do what she usually did. Luz thinks she can change people's minds and the Blight thing happens AFTER the Petrification Ceremony, an episode that could have explained Luz being weary of Belos if she learned that not everyone can be trusted to go to for airing grievances. Rewatching the episode pissed me off because there isn't anything there for her to think that. She's just saying he's evil because Eda doesn't like him at that point. Forget anything Eda's done. Forget that Eda can straight-up lie to her at any point and Luz would never know. Why do we assume her word can be trusted?

It could come off as a case that Luz doesn't understand the world and, by saving Eda, could have put her in a bad light in many BI people's eyes for interrupting "justice".

The show tries to tell you Belos is evil and doesn't do anything in the beginning to prove it, not to Luz anyway. Rule of thumb: If you're going to have a villain, have them DO something to make the main character realize they're evil. Don't just say it. She's not supposed to know he's evil until he DOES something evil in front of her, not just believe it word-of-mouth as those situations in stories tend to show that there's a biased that's not true. There wasn't a history lesson that showed Belos as a bad guy that everyone knew. The show frames Belos as a great Emperor who doesn't take shit while the audience knows what happens behind closed doors.

‼️Disclaimer: Only canon to NBOS(Remastered) i do not know if Barn can canonically do this in NBOS or any series with that(but that depends on @barnabassiu1 to make it canon)+ it can also just really only be applied to the comic so yeah only canon to the Remastered

actual ep:

2018-08-23 東京港 大井コンテナ埠頭

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