#shlub

“Son, I hear there's a Medusa about. Full disclosure, their powers only work on humans. I've had several encounters with them and only one part of me became stone, if you know what I mean.”

I did this to celebrate the S3 premiere

Here’s proof that I can’t make good character relationship characters to save my life.

Here’s the old one from 2024

I started watching Krapopolis a little while ago and even though I'm not done with it yet, I really like what I've seen. Along with it being funny, it makes me happy to see that the characters actually care about one another. That's not necessary for a comedy show like this. I've seen a lot of comedies that focus on families and they hate one another. Here, they actually don't. It seems like they do, but they quickly show how that isn't the case. Heck, I remember one moment where they commented on how their family was actually pretty healthy. I just think that's sweet. Here are some of my favorite examples so far.

You have Shlub who went with Stupendous to find her biological father. He was so upset when the other cyclops didn't want to be there for her. Not condoning the murder which happened, but they are monsters so...I guess things happen sometimes. It was nice seeing Stupendous realize that she had a supportive father in Shlub. Him being her stepdad didn't mean that he couldn't love her as much as he would love as biological daughter.

Tyrannis tried to protect Hippocampus when they went to the science fair type of place. He was really worried that his brother was going to get himself killed by Hephaestus. Of course, he later backed off and pretended like he didn't know him, but at least the first instinct was to keep him out of danger.

Then you have Deliria and Hippocampus. Their relationship is so strange and almost bitter, but at the same time, they were able to find a mutual respect for one another through their intelligence. Hippocampus can now call her "Mom" since it reminds her of how he won and in a weird way, I feel like she enjoys this since it gave her a challenge. I also bet that if he almost died, she'd help him.

Shlub wanted to help Tyrannis when he got his tail so that the demigod wouldn't give into his monstrous side and turn bad. Unlike Shlub's own father, he wanted to be a kind and caring figure in his son's life.

Hippocampus showed his caring for Stupendous and vice versa when she was mourning her friend and almost died in the process since she couldn't let go of that grief. The only reason she left the underworld was because staying there would have cost her brother his life too.

I liked the Shlub and Hippocampus moment too where the dad was so worried that he had become a serial killer. Now, he shouldn't have been supportive of the alleged crimes, but I'm still giving him some monster slack on this. He wanted Hippocampus to accept who he was and know that he's always be cared for.

Deliria was worried about Tyrannis when he started going out with Demeter. This was probably her sweetest moment so far to me. Even though she did interfere a lot, at the end of the day, she seemed like a mom who didn't want her son to get hurt. She even accepted the blame so that he wouldn't think that Demeter just didn't want to be with him anymore.

I also like the relationship between Deliria and Shlub. It's so weird, but they really do care about one another. I liked how Shlub was able to see that he can't always go along with whatever she wants. When she kept making more Medusa problems, they both came to terms with their part of this and seemed stronger for it.