#tk muses

I like to believe there's a national dance that's inspired by the (in)famous guild. Semi-based off of traditional dances from Spain and Northern Italy but imagine if it involved ribbons (or even masks depending on the region.) But anyway, just imagine!

It's a dance and you've the "Crow" partner (symbolized by a silver or black ribbon) and the "Mark" Partner (which is indicated by a red ribbon.)

And basically the dance is the Crow going after the Mark with lots of intimate intertwining fingers, dips, and swishing of ribbons around before finally the Mark is "dead" in the Crow's arms by the end.

Because all he's saying is that MAYBE Susie has feelings for Noelle, which is... Something you can also glean that from like, actually playing the game. But now I'm starting to think that in this fandom that is so obsessed with Noelle's eventual heartbreak or even humiliation that it's important for people to see the near certainty of reciprocation in Toby's own words. God's strongest yuri soldier Tricky Tony didn't write these two characters in such a way for people to treat their relationship potential as just another red herring

Because even if we don't get an onscreen kiss or admission of undying love, Suselle is still important to the story he wants to tell

I'm reminded of a video from before Chapter 3 & 4 came out that was treated as a "debate" between Suselle and Krusie being Endgame (It was anything but). I was astounded by the way Toby was being portrayed as this totally unbiased storyteller only concerned with how the audience would react to things, rather than a human being who might write the kind of things HE LIKES into his stories

They also argued that the story of Noelle lending Susie a pencil was "too specific" and that apparently meant... Susie came up with it on the spot to placate Noelle's curiosity? This is honestly the gravest insult to Toby's romantic writing I've ever heard spoken. I might have to assign you all yuri homework until you understand that the story of a loaned pencil recounted on a heart-covered ferris wheel is nothing short of the equivalent of an open-mouth kiss in a traditional romantic movie!

Like Iroha starts the movie as a top student with multiple skills that could lead a well paying job down the line, so even if she's sleep-deprived & struggling her future prospects still look good. However by the end the story she's begging her brother for money to fund her unpopular research that seemingly only benefits one other person? She's either doing it for love or she's a washout who wasted her potential

Because I've been in the trenches for this ship since 2018 and we couldn't have dreamed their relationship would've progressed this far in so few chapters. Toby wrote a novel's worth of interaction between Susie and Noelle for players to obsess over and this still isn't good enough for some people