Spy x Family Brainrot

which translates to: "Papa, are you having fun in the hospital bed?"

(137-?)

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I think this arc is going to parallel the tv station arc in terms of Fiona's character development. I also have hopes for this arc (and I'm gonna get there) but my prediction is that Fiona is going to see that Yor is competent—in fact, in some ways, more so than herself, either in protecting Anya or in caring for Loid or both—and will realize that Twilight deserves better than her, and begin to move on.

My reasoning for this is partially timing—we did just see Yuri begin to have this emotional journey—but also her thoughts at the start of the arc, partially foreshadowing that Yor's competence is going to matter soon.

There's also a peak chance in this arc for Fiona to see a different competence from Yor: her ability to care and comfort Loid/Twilight, that Nightfall would never succeed at providing.

And—if this is finally, finally the "Loid/Twilight realizes his feelings" arc, how completely incredible would it be to have Fiona giving him permission, implicitly or explicitly, with something of the form: "For your own good you need to trust someone to carry some of your burdens, and she is a better partner for you than I am."—would this be enough, you think, to get him to reconsider? Or would Sylvia need to weigh in as well?

And this brings me to some hopes for this arc:

Soft twiyor moments I will never apologize for wanting this

Twilight stays helpless, these are the consequences of his failure to trust anyone else

Yor and Fiona are badasses together semi secretly

Fiona getting over Twilight because she sees how good Yor is for him as discussed above

And finally! Really I think Endo has been doing a great job bringing Twilight as low as he can be without being completely incompetent and I am really hoping this is in service of him realizing his feelings and deciding to trust!!

Anya and Yor being in danger while he can do nothing about it is peak on the list of possible triggers here

Twilight realizing how important it is to let people in

And this gets to none of the possible Strix action that could occur but let's just say I'm here for it!!!!

But she’s also really bad at math. She’s bad at cooking too. She makes random, wildly hilarious mistakes. She has no alcohol tolerance. She doesn’t know about common everyday items and activities. She gets flustered to the point where she frequently drop kicks her fake husband, who she is actually in love with now.

Yor: Oh hi Melinda's husband! Nice to meet you! This is my daughter Anya!

*Who I love dearly and would slaughter an entire army to protect. It wouldn't be difficult for me.*

Scission, chapter 26 - Lown

Finally had a bit of energy to do some art for this chapter. I did a doodle before but was so disgusted in it, I deleted it. Cursed.

Scission, chapter 26 - Lown

Finally had a bit of energy to do some art for this chapter. I did a doodle before but was so disgusted in it, I deleted it. Cursed.

This is actually the longest Endo has gone without a short mission or standalone chapter in quite some time. I was counting everything from chapter 128 (the beginning of the TV station hijacking) as the same arc, but now it's more like three arcs back to back: TV station hijacking (128 to 132), SSS house party (133 to 136), and now the start of a possible "hospital symposium" arc with chapter 137! Not that I don't enjoy the more slice-of-life focused chapters, but I'm also happy that Endo is showing us so much juicy character and plot progression lately! But as for the chapter itself, there was a lot to unpack!

Loid's stomach issues are officially canon and not just a throwaway joke 😅

I like how Yor gives Fiona a polite acknowledgment before going back to her business with Loid. If this had happened a long time ago, she would probably feel a lot more embarrassed about doting on Loid in front of his coworker. She'd be second-guessing herself about how to act like a "normal" wife and all that. But instead, she's confident enough now to simply be herself in front of others, even someone she was once jealous of. She even refers to Fiona as "that tennis lady" instead of "Loid's coworker," which makes it even clearer to me that she's moved past the whole jealousy thing and is confident that Loid wouldn't want to replace her as his wife.

Meanwhile Fiona hasn't changed a bit 🤣

The fact that someone related to Sigmund may be at the symposium, which is taking place somewhere within walking distance of where the Forgers currently are, really makes me hope it'll lead to more Anya backstory, even just a bit.

We already know that Sigmund has some connection to Anya/Project Apple. And now we have a situation where someone connected to Sigmund (Director Surjay) is potentially in close proximity to Anya at the current moment. The excuse with Sigmund is that he has amnesia, which is why Anya can't get more information from reading his mind. But that may not be the same for Surjay, which makes me wonder if Anya will meet this guy, read his mind, and remember some...not so pleasant things about her past with Project Apple? 😢But even if she doesn't encounter this Surjay guy, we also have Donovan on the scene now, which could definitely lead to something.

There's been a rumor ever since Melinda's "my husband is an alien" chapter that Donovan could have the ability to read minds and was part of the Project Apple experiments along with Sigmund. Even though Donovan's appeared a few times in the series so far, what I always found interesting is that we haven't heard any internal monologuing from him. We've gotten to hear the inner thoughts of pretty much every other prominent character at some point, but not his even though there was a good opportunity for it during his meeting with Loid and at the Desmond family dinner. Why would Endo not want us to know what he's thinking unless it's to keep his ability to read minds a secret? But if Anya encounters him, there would be no way around this...UNLESS he's able to somehow suppress his thoughts in the presence of another mind reader. I wouldn't put it past him to have that ability. And even if he and Anya don't meet, there's also the chance he could meet Yor, Fiona, or Loid again. If he can read minds, he already knows all about Loid from their first encounter, so who knows what he's been plotting since then?

Also anya hard-no mama does indeed have some issues she should accept that loid ain't gonna leave his wife. Clearly Fiona should go find franky and have a ROMANTIC dinner night ❤️