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commission I did for @uselessundertalefacts a while ago

I’m finally getting around to posting the commissions I’ve done

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it took a couple of watches for me to actually Get cleanup arc, but i do think clean up arc makes sense. maybe not from a logical point of view, but given ritsu's history of trauma and perfectionism, pressure to never act out or upset his brother for obvious reasons, and desperation for control in his own life, i think ritsu's actions made sense. they were Terrible actions, and they definitely go against the logic and hindsight of an outsider's perspective, but it was all the result of that stress and guilt and secretive hatred toward an aspect of his brother that caused it, and maybe a little bit of grief for a sibling relationship he wishes was still intact

u make a rly interesting point tho, bc Yeah, on your first watch, neither of these guys make sense to you. at least they didn't for me. i understood part of ritsu's reasonings at the beginning, but it sorta delved into... quoting ritsu, "violence for the sake of violence." and honestly??? i don't know Why ritsu's arc is sm more compelling to me than mogami's, bc rly, they're very similar in that way

at least it seems that way? im,,, honestly convinced the exposition for mogami arc was just,, rushed, or incomplete for whatever reason, bc it feels So Close to making sense, but it's just missing a couple of pieces. ritsu's arc has more substance to it, i think. i believe the biggest difference here is that mogami blamed other people for his misfortune, and didn't see anything wrong w what he was doing. ritsu made no such excuses. he Knew what he was doing was wrong, and he kept doing it. and that, to me, is Fascinating

even ritsu's "violence for the sake of violence" motive makes some sort of sense to me. he said it himself: "i was just tired of being myself. maybe i wanted to find out what it would feel like to be a fool." when u break it down, it's him exploring.... other options. until 7th division arc, he's of the mindset that if he had psychic powers he'd be Better, in all aspects, that he's nothing without psychic powers. he puts his entire identity and self-worth on having the abilities of an ESPer

now that he has them, he feels limitless, he feels unstoppable. he's so tired of being himself, of being perfect, of being the well-behaved younger brother w perfect grades and perfect attitude (bc let's face it, he's definitely a gifted kid, and gifted kids tend to develop habits of perfectionism, and eventually become exhausted). so he switches tactics, to find out what it would feel like to be a fool.

i honestly think cutting mogami's messy backstory and making him "evil" for the sake of being "evil" woulda been better. im sure not everyone agrees w me on that, and i can absolutely see why, but sometimes simple is "better" (imo). an underdeveloped villain is better, to Me, than a villain that is trying too hard to have a compelling motive. mogami's character feels like it is trying too hard, and branching out in too many directions, and it ends up just feeling,, stretched thin

i like shimazaki more than mogami. hell, i like shimazaki more than Any of the villains, and we all Know it's not because he has a good backstory (or one at all). he's not even very compelling to me, i just think he's cool, and i'll forever be stoked about how they let a character use teleportation powers right for once. sometimes simple is better

I can’t read the code in the last panel super well but it looks like a combination of the Game Over code (“you cannot give up just yet!”), the Memoryheads code (“It’s a real get together.”), and the code that renders monsters turning to dust (the gibberish-looking text and the binary 1’s and 0’s). Pretty spooky....

A few other folks noticed the dialogue from the “come join the fun” or “it’s a real get together” dialogue from the memoryheads, but you got all of them! Unsurprising, since you’ve done datamining and made posts about all of those yourself ^^

the one last bit of info is that the gibberish/binary code is for the dummy sprite--in other words, it’s dummy code :D

and uhhh just to make sure my dummy code joke actually worked, i typed ‘dummy code’ into wikipedia, and it redirected to

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happily,

er, well, perhaps not happily since he's. pretty tragic a character in dessertrune... :'D

TW: imprisonment and mentions of implied cannibalism

you see, he was once the office jokester around the water cooler everyone loved to spend time with... maybe he wasn't the most productive employee but he was ever cheerful, clever, funny, and perhaps a little annoying but in a way that left you endeared to him... until one day, he turned up acting rather strange... enough so that even the usually detached assistant to the big boss of Halberd Inc., rouxls kaard, grew worried at the behavior that jevil was exhibiting.

alas, any help capable of being given to jevil was proffered too late, as jevil had approached the testy CEO in person with strange babblings of the nature of the world alongside, more importantly, the knowledge of the secret damnable ingredient inside of the trademark sweets Halberd Inc. produces... so, with the fear of jevil's blabbermouth going on to spout off such abhorrent trade secrets to anyone else, rex had him locked away until he could figure out how else to extract whatever more obscene knowledge the office clown managed to gain and how he gained it. rex is growing more paranoid by the second of a mole in his midst, and his sights are set on a certain cagey assistant of his. (whether that assistant is at fault is yet to be known but guilty until proven innocent, no? ...wait-)