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during the scene where they're agreeing to terms, aku outlines their weekly clashes in a way that makes himself look. well. dare i say submissive. it's not 'every week i try to slaughter you & fortune is all that's keeping you from a gruesome demise' it's 'every week we ❤️🔥fight❤️🔥 but you are simply Too Clever & Strong and i am Overpowered & forced to 🫦flee into the night 🫦 but i always promise a next time ~ ' like. aku, babe, ur telling on urself so plainly
YES okay this scene is FASCINATING to me, but—sorry, I've gotta take off the shipping goggles for a second, sorry, this is just one of the things that really interests me about Aku's personality—
Typically society at large acts like anything other than claiming to be the winner is automatically framing yourself as a loser → weak → inferior → inherently submissive to the Strong Superior Winner.
But like. the thing is, Aku is just. factually acknowledging how their battles go. Yes, Jack DOES swing his sword and Aku flies away and says he'll be back as he flutters off over the horizon. To say anything otherwise would be to twist the narrative to make it sound like Aku habitually has the upper hand in their fights, when they both know he doesn't.
By being honest/factual about how he fares against Jack instead of dishonestly pretending he's superior in their fights, it makes it seem like he's portraying himself as inferior. Because WHO would ADMIT to being a LOSER? If Aku has the kind of ego we'd assume/expect a villain like him to have, he certainly wouldn't admit it.
But to me, Aku comes across as so confident in his inherent superiority that the truth—that he always loses—just doesn't make him defensive or threaten his ego. He admits it directly because it doesn't matter to him, and it doesn't matter to him that it might matter to other people.
okay i'm done, pardon my character analysis break, shipping goggles can go back on. even with the above analysis in mind, we must also acknowledge that the first step to being submissive & breedable is not being mortified that admitting your nemesis kicks your ass could make him assume you're submissive & breedable.
yeah there's no heterosexual explanation for that gasp.
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
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A Lily timelapse tonight. I've had a camera on this plant for weeks now, and it has finally decided to bloom. I found it interesting that it actually opened in the dark. These flower timelapses are some of my favorite things to do in the warm season. They are not hard to set up but the plant needs to be sturdy enough to not sway in the wind too much. They reveal all sorts of fun things and are just cool to look at. And yes, I am prepping more 😛
i started writing a long reply to this post and then it got WAY off track so I copy/pasted it all into a separate post. And in fact maybe I'm gonna make a series, because I've been thinking about this a lot!
Fascinating But Underappreciated Ways Aku Violates The Expected Behavior Of All-Powerful Villains
Part 1: Admitting Weakness
The kickoff point for this post was this quote from Jack vs. Aku:
We all know what's gonna happen: you'll swing your sword, I'll fly away, and probably say something like, "l'll be back, Samurai!" And then I'll flutter off over the horizon,
It's true, but here's the interesting bit: he focuses on Jack attacking him, not him attacking Jack; and he admits that when Jack attacks, Aku retreats.
Here's the other interesting bit: like I just said, it's true. He's telling the truth about how their encounters go. In every single battle, EVERY single battle, EVERY LAST ONE—they fight, Jack gets the upper hand against Aku with his sword, Aku is forced to flee. Jack is never the one to retreat. Aku's not downplaying his competence or painting himself as the victim, he's just factually relaying how their battles inevitably go.
What's remarkable is that he doesn't twist the story to downplay Jack's threat or make himself look like more of an even match with Jack than he really is.
This is a pattern in his behavior. Aku is SO WILLING to admit that he's not the one with the upper hand. No hesitation, no shame, no chagrin.
There's only two exceptions where he acts like Jack is no big threat:
one time he got mad he couldn't get 8-year-olds to like his fairy tales and angrily declared "an almighty, all-powerful wizard" destroyed "a pathetic, little samurai" before storming off
one time he told his scientists "he really doesn't care about a pathetic samurai who wanders around like a mad fool" because he's trying to hide that he's been driven into a deep depression over failing to kill Jack for fifty years.
But the rest of the time?
The moment Jack arrives in the future, Aku freely lets everybody know that he considers Jack an actual threat, one so dangerous he offers bounty hunters more money than exists in the universe if THEY kill Jack FOR him.
Aku is infamously immortal and indestructible—and yet he makes no apparent efforts to prevent his citizens (who hate him) from learning that Jack's sword can kill him. We don't know how fast that info spreads, but at least by the 50-year time skip Scaramouche confidently identifies the sword as "the one thing in the entire universe that can destroy Aku."
More than once he claims nothing can harm him and then is immediately harmed by the sword; each time, there's no denial—no "WHAT?! THAT CANNOT BE!!"—and no fumbling to cover up his error. He just starts inspecting the thing that just harmed him.
Demongo says, "You are a powerful foe. Perhaps too powerful for my master… but not for me." It's possible he only claims to be stronger than Aku when he's safely away from him; but, given how long he seems to have worked for Aku (and given that Demongo must know Aku could easily be watching the battle), it seems likely that they both understand that, by summoning Demongo, Aku's saying "I can't take out this guy, maybe you can."
There's never an "I would have defeated you if it wasn't for—"
Never an "I think you've had enough, I'll go easy on you by leaving now."
Never an "I won't fight you because you're beneath me and not worth it."
Instead, he says, "Soon we will fight. But not until I find a way to defeat you and your sword."
He says, "You might have beaten me now, but I will destroy you in the future."
He says, "No, I will not fight you today. Ugh, I don't feel good..."
Over and over, he's not ashamed to admit—to Jack, to his underlings, to the whole world—that Jack is a threat Aku can't currently beat himself.
And that's SO RARE for a villain like Aku! Big powerful dictator who's used to being worshiped, who makes up big fancy titles for himself, who brutally punishes anyone who who doesn't grovel at his roots? Usually villains like that are WILDLY insecure. Most similar villains would never admit vulnerability. Would be INCENSED if someone dare pointed out they typically lose to the hero.
Instead Aku consistently points it out himself!
It's obvious Aku's got a huge ego. Huge enough to think he deserves to be master of the whole planet. And a world-dominatingly huge ego usually means an inflated ego: a villain fooling themself into thinking they're stronger, cleverer, more competent than they are, and getting outraged when that's challenged. Such villains have to believe they're flawless or they crumble.
But Aku instead seems to have a very realistic view of his capabilities, bases his ego on the belief that what he's got is good enough to be worth such an ego, and acknowledges his flaws and failures without considering that they might detract from his superiority.
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I'm in a little local cafe and the women behind the counter started griping to each other, "Oh Christ, Stephen's back again," "It's him, is it? I thought he'd stopped coming," "It's definitely him, look, it's bloody Stephen on a Thursday morning," "Do you want me to get rid of him or are you going to do it?" and so I was peering outside, trying to spot this nightmare customer, this pestilence of a person, this pox upon the cafe trade, and then one of the women from behind the counter ran outside, clapping two trays together loudly and yelling "GET OUT OF IT, STEPHEN!" and it turns out that Stephen is an absolutely gigantic fuck-off seagull who hangs around outside, menacing people for crumbs
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hey white people . if u dont know how to pronounce an ethnic persons name *google it* or if its someone ur talking directly to *ask them*. dont fucking do that "erm i dont know how to pronounce but __" or "im gonna butcher this haha" or "im not even gonna bother trying" . ur not funny. do u know what poc think when they hear u saying that ? u sound like a loser asshole and we dont want to spend time with u . im so fucking tired of watching youtube videos about media from my country and hearing those phrases. im tired of people saying that to my face . i respect someone who clearly looked it up and is tryong but says my name wrong over someone who just goes with whatever bad first guess they had without trying. u have too many resources at ur disposal to keep doing this. for the love of god just Fucking Try. if ur confused Just Try.
I highly recommend Forvo.com, the website where native speakers of a language contribute their time and voices to read words and names in their own language. It is a fantastic way to expand your world, open up your ears, and it's way more likely to nab a hit than just googling.
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