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lvlpin · 2 years
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i have this image in my head where after ingo comes back emmet hugs him massively and he has no idea who the fuck this guy is but he seems happy?? so that's probably a good thing and i kinda want to see it actually existing instead of just rattling around my brain
i cant tell if "he" refers to a. ingo not knowing who emmet is, or b. emmet not knowing who ingo is (and vice versa) so im gonna run with the first
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[ shippers get the FUCK away!! ]
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popculturebuffet · 3 years
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Let’s Make This Precious: A Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Retrospective Part 1: Liars A To D
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Hello all you happy autobots! Pride Month continutes with something that was not a matter of if but when. See on this blog I like covering my faviorite comics of all time, stuff that really changed me as a person and how I think creatively and stuff that is a par tof my soul for better or worse. So far i’ve been covering The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scott Pilgrim (With Volume 6 coming later this week) and New X-Men, the last one currently on hiatus due to a lack of reader. While I’m not above covering bad stuff this blog has always been about reviewing the stuff I TRULY love and really sharing why I love it. And with this being pride month and me having re-read the series recently, it seemed like the perfect time to do this. 
So for you Transformers fans in the audience, a bit of my history with the franchise: I love it, having just started casually collecting some of the toys again via Garage Sales and thrift shops, with half the fun being findnig out who my new buddy is. Otherwise i’ve drifted in and out of the franchise: I grew up with Beast Wars, Beast Machines and Aramada and dropped off with Energon which at the time I thought was a me thing but it turns out no, it just plain sucks especially in the english dub. Ever since i’ve just came back every so often when a work’s pulled me in: I loved the first movie (at the time I haven’t revisited it since), and that got me to watch the 80′s movie on youtube, which has been a treasured film for me ever since, and I watched some of prime (really need to finish that) and all of animated in reruns, and most recently tv and movie wise I saw bumblebee. I do love the franchise I just tend to go in and out nad have let Cyberverse and other series stack up in watching because i’m a procatnating git. But I will always come back to these wonderful talking machines.
So what brought me here? Simple: the first five volumes came on Comixlogy Unlimited a few years back, and it seemed to star one of my faviorite Transformers, Hot Rod, who being a huge fan of the movie and that being as far as i’d gotten with G1 stuff (Since then i’ve read part of the marvel comics which are indeed awesome), that naturally hooked me, as did Cyclonus and Ultra Mags being part of it.  And while I had no idea who half these people were going in, the book instantly grabbed me. It was just my kind of team book  honestly: a rag tag bunch of snarky misfits who may not belong most places but belong here and go through shenanigans, heartbreak and horrors in the grand comic book style. 
James Roberts talent cannot be overstated: a british writer who started with fanfic and worked his way up to being one of the biggest and brighest transformers creators period, Roberts has an unabashed love for the series that shows: you can tell he’s really enjoying getting to play with this worlds, adding tons of lore but doing it in a way tha tfeels warranted and dosen’t feel overwhelming or bogs down the text. It’s just intresting stuff that helps enrich the settnig. But he really shines at character and dialouge: he can bounce from funny to heartbreaking on a pin, and takes a bunch of forgotten characters and an OC or two and makes them into fully fleshed out discuntional, loveable characters. Roberts does what I feel the best comic creators do: take all the best of a property, explain away the worst and use it all to create something beauitful, every bit he can get his hands on. And the result is a comic that I could read a hundred times and most certainly will.  So wether you’ve read the comic, love transformers but haven’t or are neither of those things but like some good sci fi, humor, character work and gay robots, I invite you to come aboard the lost light for me for this year or so long trek into one of the greatest journey’s you’ll ever take. Welcome Aboard under the cut. 
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Previously on The Transformers...:
So when I first read the comics I went in blind without having read the seven years worth of IDW Transformers material that came before this. They aren’t a requirement and this is very much by deisgn: the relaunch of the tranformers books into two ongoing, More Than Meets the Eye and it’s sister book by editor John Barber, Robots in Disguise, is a soft reboot, designed to help reconcile the three eras before it into a cohesive canon and welcome in new readers put off by the previous two runs bad reputation. You can hop right into MTMTE from the Death of Optimus Prime One shot and at most like me you’ll just have questions like why does Bumblebee need a cane, what happened to end the war between the autobots and the deceptions, and why don’t they just throw Prowl on a rocket into the sun? Sadly the last part would never be answered to my liking but I felt if I was going to cover these books properly I had to read what came before and see what any characters with a past were like before under previous writers, reconcile that with how roberts writes them etc. I will get into most of that as we go as my attempts to condense 124 issues worth of comics into a short recap WITH all the character stuff felt clunky. So instead here’s a quick and dirty recap of the first few years of these comics under three diffrent writers and i’ll get into any relevant past stuff as we go. 
Starting with a run by Simon Furman, The Autobots ended up on earth , soon finding the Deciptcons had found an energy source that could tip the war, fighting mostly in the shadows, with ocasional looks at the war in space, with things slowly escalating before suddenly stopping all together because sales were low so Furman was pushed out in favor of a soft-hard reboot as Roberts would later call it, so the autobots fucked off to space to solve some neblous plot about evil energy and left humanity at the mercy of the tyrancial murder machines with only Hot Rod being like “wait we got some unresolved stuff here maybe someone should stay behind.” 
Furman’s run is okay. It has a great hook, having the war really be about robots in disguise, some great ideas such as having the headmasters be drones piloted by humans based on Sunstreaker, and some decent art. It’s not TERRIBLE.. but it has some serious flaws: Furman tries WAY too hard to set up a full universe from scratch and do too many things at once, which backfired horribly given he was forced to rush to finish up his run, the characters who aren’t spotlighted are often dull and lacking in personality, and there’s of course his Spotlight of Arcee. Oh dear fuck Spotlight: Arcee. 
Look i’d heard of this one, I wasn’t going in blind and was dreading it the whole run but it is EVERY BIT as bad as it’s rep. For the short version: Furman’s version of Arcee is a hyperviolent psychopath whose mentally unstable.. because a mad scientest forcibly converted her body from male to female. If you can’t see the problems with that, please kindly get the fuck out.  There are a.. dumptruck load of problems with this. Furman clearly came up with the idea in part because he has a weird hate boner for the idea Transfomers HAVE genders or sex’s to begin with.. despite the bulk of them using masculine pronouns and identifying as men. It’s like with the Gems from Steven Unvierse: they don’t have a sex tehcnically but their all gendered female, though i’m sure some may be non binary or male and simply never expressed it because of how choking the era 2 society was or like many NB”s coming out today, they simply didn’t have the term for what they were.  My point is ESPECAILLY with modern understanding of Gender, his explination is garbage and clinging to it to the point he made a character into a sociopath and an accidentally GHSTLY transphobic metaphor is inexcusable even for the time. The fact he got into a fight with Marghreid Scott, who produced the awesome Windblade and Till All Are ONe comics, over the topic despite her criticsim being 100% accurate. The two DID apparently talk things out and he apparently apologized, but it’s still a huge black mark on the man’s legacy for good reason and something that should never be just casually tossed aside. John Barber tried his best to fix this when he took over, eventually having it retconned that Arcee was indeed legit trans but the asshole who helped her transition made her hate it for kicks, which isn’t perfect but it’s stilll a BIT better. 
So back to the comics: unsuprisingly abandoning Earth instead of leaving some troops there at all outside of a rouge Hot Rod bit them on the ass HARD next run, done by Shane McCarthy: the Deciptcons used the Autobots being distracted by the big evil space thing and used a mentally broken traitor to launch an all out assault on autobots across the galaxy, nearly wiping them all out. They then took over earth, but naturally our heroes eventually rebounded with the help of Kup, the most badass robot who ever lived, his mind cigar, and Drift a former decepticon samurai who fans hated because of overpromtion I wasn’t subjected to and thus objectively enjoyed him. 
McCarthy’s era, the 12 issue mini series All Hail Megatron, ist. It has a great concept, if more subdued than McCarthy wanted and the accompanying  Mini For Drift is truly excellent, tackling some conscious objectors to the war. But AHM itself feels like a missed opprounity with lots of padding from the infighting in both factions to som eof the human stuff. It really didn’t need to be as long as it was, but it also didn’t deserve the hatred it got, as it’s jus OKAY, nothing special but nothing terrible..
Speaking of terrible after that we get to the second most infamous part of this 7 year stretch, next to the transphobia: the Mike Costa Run and the only ongoing of this stretch of the comics: Transformers. This run has our heroes settle on earth to try and help humanity only for humanity to keep trying to murder them, not unfairly mad The Autobots up and abandonned them before the decepticon invasion. 
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So Optimus does the logical thing: Turn himself in and hand the keys to Bumblebee whose barely been a character up to this point because Hasbro told him to. What follows is a lot of infighting, some goverment work, some sterotyping of other countries, the predaaons working for the chinese goverment, the Decipticons mass producing Megatron’s guns as part of a scheme, Jazz killing a dude and being treated badly despite doing so for entirely noble reasons, to save Bumblebee’s life, and in general just a lot of bickering. The run is almost 80% bickering, even worse than one of i’ts succesors Robots in Disguise. 
The important part of the run is after trusting Swindle in a deal that SHOCKINGLY went wrong with a trustworthy name like that, Hot Rod stole Ultra Magnus’ ship and blaste doff into space, eventually finding the matrix, and a new headache for our heroes: Galvatron, who previously allied with the evil evil thing last run, had discovered a new evil evil thing and raised an army, including Cyclonus and an army of clones of (Checks TF Wiki) Scourge called sweeps. 
Naturally Optimus didn’t belivie he had good intentions and in fact later found out they were bad and went to confront him with  most of the autobots, though this time a few stayed behind to you know, not make a bigger mess. On the way we got a fill in arc by Roberts that is vital to this one: Chaos Theory. It’s a flashback arc that shows Megatron’s philosphy, and how it got corrupted, going from a miner and gladiator trying to crush an obviously corrupt system to the corrupted tyrant we know now who belivies peace means everything under his robot boots. This also introduced two key characters: Rung, a psychatrist and Whirl, a highly unstable future autobot who attempted to murder megaton. It’s a good arc and one I might cover at some point and sets up a lot of important stuff about cybertronian society we’ll get into as we go. 
So with that we got the big messy finale, co written by roberts chaos: Our heroes fought the big evil thing, the art was a tad muddy, and justice was had, the end result being Optimus vanishing after using the matrix to stop the thing, megatron being apparently dead, and the war ending with a restored cybertron. 
 Costa’s run sucked. There’s really no way to put that nicely so i’m not going to. It’s not the WORST comic i’ve read.. I mean this is an actual line in an actual published comic someone got paid for...
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But at least America is so bad it’s good. Costa’s run is just a LOT of people arguing, messy art and half baked ideas. While the other two runs are just OKAY this one was a chore to get through excluding Chaos Theory. Again i’ve seen WORSE but it’s not saying this thing is good and it’s really not worth your time. 
Finally we have, during the early days of the ongoing, Last Stand of the Wreckers which brought Roberts into the fold via his friend Nick Roche, who recommended him as the mini was already a lot to ask from an art perspective.  It follows the Autobots special ops crew , the titular Wreckers as they invade a prison for deciptcions taken over by the tyranical, powerful and insane Overlord whose entire motive can be summed up as this but with Megatron:
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That being said he’s still an objectively horrifying psycho who pits autobots against each other in horrifying combat to sate his own boredom, with only a few of The Wreckers making it out alive. Last Stand is a damn fine story, with decent art, wonderful characters and a truly gripping look at the war in a way tha treally coudln’t be told in the cartoons It also sets up Robert’s trademarks of world buildling and leaves some pieces on the board he’d later use for his run: While non of the Wreckers carry over to his run, Fort Max, who ran Garrus 9 before Overlord took it over shows up again during MTMTE as does Overlord. I would recommend this as a lead in as while you can, as I said read the books without contex it does help Overloards apparence cary more weight knowing just how horrfying and powerful this fucker is. 
So now we’re all caught up as you could tell things weren’t looking good, so in 2010, in advance of this reboot, Hasbro gathered a braintrust to write the ship consitting of space guru Dan Abnett, Costa and Roberts, brought in thanks to last stand to write one of the two ongoings and co-write the last arc of the current ongoing. While only Roberts remained by the end, it was thanks to this transformers got a second shot and this books exist and while Roberts was handed the premise he turned it into something TRULY special. So with ALL THAT finally out of the way we can finally dig into MTMTE:
The Death of Optimus Prime:
The Series starts, along side i’ts sister series with a One-Shot, The Death of Optimus Prime. 
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I won’t be covering this one in depth as the MTMTE isues. It’s not that i’ts BAD: it sets up both mainline transformers books, this and Robots in Disguise, fine, it’s just more heavily focused on the latter. Outside of Rodimus and Drift most of the Lost Light related characters aren’t focused on. So not bad, just not a great place to introduce either character:
The issue follows Optimus as he explores Cybertron in the aftermath of Chaos: things aren’t great as the planet has gone primordial, leaving only one working city, and said city is rapidly getting overcrowded as the climax of Chaos sent a massive signal into the either welcoming all cybertronians home. As such all the non-combatants have returned to find the planet wrecked and are blaming the Autobots because their kinda stupid and RiD confuses “Conteious objector” with “asshole”, wasting what could’ve been a better story on a bunch of asshole swhininng at the autobots. 
Optimus eventually reveals to high command the Matrix of Leadership, the cool powerful dohickey he keeps in his chest that makes hi ma prime, has been busted in half. But every cloud has a silver lining and it turns out the Matrix itself is a map.
Drift, a spirtual ninja and former decpeticon who studied at a hidden city of ninja, belivies this is the Map to Cyberutopia, the mythical home of the equally mythical Knights of Cybertron. The Knights were believed to have ushered in a Golden Age of Cybertron and after doing so left to form their own utopia after doing good across the universe. 
Bumblbee, current leader of the Autobots and Prowl, registered asshole both object, but Rodimus, an Autobot with a penchant for running off and into trouble who recently carried the Matrix for a while,  wants to go after it, feeling that since the returning cybertronians don’t WANT autobots there anymore, why should he stay when he can instead find utopia and use it to bring in a new golden age? Suprisingly of all bots Ultra Magnus, space lawman and stick in the mud agrees and while Bumblebee tries to keep him here despite him not wanting to, Optimus ends up giving both of the m half the matrix and exiling himself to give Bee a fair shot at governing with the biggest remaning symbol of the war removed. 
So that’s where we are: An impulsive rouge with a penchant for leaving taking off with a spritual ninja and a grouchy but legendary officer. What could possibly go wrong? Welllll let’s see shall we? Liars A To D Part 1: How To Say Goodbye and Really Mean It We open Rodimus in his element: giving everyone a neat speech:
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While the One Shot got me in the door with the trade this.. this is what hooked me. An epic speech about the wonder of the stars, an epic quest, and a chance at a new life. 
Rodimus here isn’t all that diffrent from the previous three runs: He’s impulsive, has a tendency to dodge difficult issues, and his wanting to run off on some epic quest instead of staying to help people who hate him fits his previouls habit of doing a runner any time he disagreed with what was going on.. and given the times he disagreed were “Let’s leave no one on earth when one of our friends is trapped here and theirs TWO diffrent decipticon factions” and “Let’s stay on earth even though they all hate us and don’t want our help” he may be onto something. 
Roberts simply builds on that adding an ego and a need to be seen. Beneath the flash he’s just someone who wants to be a legend like optimus and sees this big epic quest as a way to do that. 
We’ll get into Drift and Ultra Mags in a bit for now we transition to the RID cast as Wheeljack worries about a max Exodus while Prowl, smug prick that he is assumes that “It will be a strictly non event” because he predicted it... cue hundreds of robots outside the Lost Light, our crew’s ship, the next day because Prowl’s power is THINKING he knows everything  and knows what best when in fact he dosen’t know his robot ass from his robot elbow. I may not like him very much can you tell? And for the record it’s JUST this Prowl. The Animated prowl is fucking awesome. 
So from here we get scenes introducing our cast. First up is Ratchet. Ratchet is the autobot’s chief medical officer, a legend and an old soul. He was most important so far in Furman’s run, being the one to bond with the humans but otherwise not having much personality other than “Doctor Man”. 
Here he’s an old hand, snarky, a bit cranky and 100% awesome and 200% worn out. So in a sense he’s a lot like Animated Ratchet which naturally made me love this one instantly. 
He’s doing an autopsy of a bot who wore out his transformation cog transfomring constantly in protest of autobot high command. Bumblbee is there as he needed a senence and Metalhawk, dickish represnetivie for the returning cybertronians, refused an autopsy from anyone else. So then we get this...
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Okay I gotta hand it to Roberts that is some excellent black comedy, from the fact it happens with the fucking cartoon sound effect (Which Roberts himself said in an interview was hard to get down) to the term “rigor morphis”. But it also speaks to his talent for world building: we learn what happens when a transformer dies. It’s a small detail that has no baring on the plot but it’s something neat to know we really WOUDLN’T see in most cartoons as they’d hav eto downplay the death as much as possible. 
Things quickly turn sad though as Ratchet bemoans the fact he COULD’VE saved the guy once: an overworked T-Cog is something he could easily manage.. but age is catching up with him and his hands are starting to go and without a smooth reactoin time a surgeon’s hands are worthless. 
Naturally he picks this time to tell Bumblbee he’s leaving. Bee tries to get him to stay due to his legacy and what not , having served with every prime since Nominus, but Ratchet counters that’s the point: He’s been at this too long and with Rodimus having promised to pick up some strays along the way, he figures he can help the injured and find someone to train as his succesor along the way. Like many of the Lost LIght it’s not the destination but the journey he’s after. 
Next we meet Cyclonus. Cyclonus is a masterful warrior from a time past who worked with Galvatron in his scheme, but more out of loyalty to the old ways of cybertron. But now all of Old Cybertron has been singed to hell, he’s decided to head off on the ship with Rodimus but first heads to check some life signs. 
Cyclonus here is an old warrior, a hero from the past now considered a villian since he sided with the wrong guy and killed some people. He’s unapologetic, steadfast and deep in his convictoins meaning he has a sense of honor but is also blunt, stuck in his ways and kind of a dick as a result. He’s a throughly fascinating character but really they all are. 
So next up to bat are Chromedome and Rewind, our unambgiously gay duo and the reason this is a Pride Month review, as most of the other relationshpis don’t form for a while. The relationship happened organicly in the writnig: Roberts intially just had them as the best of friends... but soon realized there was a wamrth and tenderness there that was anythin gbut platonic and thought “Well if robots can hate.. why can’t they love?” and Hasbro backed him. So by the time he got to writing the issues and the two stepped into Prowl’s office here, they were a couple. 
Prowl is upset Chromedome is leaving. And here’s where his entitlment really shows: he’s “disapointed in him” for leaving and for “wasting” his talents. Just to jump ahead a bit, his talents are Mnemosurgery, meaning he can read memoreis and in darker days he’s deeply ashamed of, rewrite them. So yeah Prowl clearly wants someone he can use for black ops shit on board at his beck and call and to hell with his clear PTSD and reluctance to do this sort of thing again for his own safety and because his partner asked him to. It’s also telling Prowl calls rewind Chromedome’s “Best Friend” when the two are Conjux Endura, cybertronian form of romantic partners, and he knows it. Oh and just as added icing on this douche cinnamon roll, Prowl is Chromedome’s EX. So yeah if you wondered why I was so hard on Prowl earlier there’s your answer: He’s an entitled prick whose so obbsed with still fighting the war he ignores people’s personal rights and what they want. He’s sometimes effetive sure but it’s all too often at costs down the line. And to top it off he’s having two mystery bots load some cargo onto the ship.... after of course flipping a table like an angry toddler.
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Those of you who hadn’t read this thought I was kidding didn’t you?
So next we turn the clock back a few million years to meet Tailgate an adorable little bot who was trying to reach the original Ark but fell in a cave and is now legless and without the ablility to transform. His internal damage report isn’t helping. 
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Don’t be too down on your self Tailgate my brain tells me that all the time. He prepares to dentonate some charges to escape. 
Back in the present  is Whirl, who is saying some tearful goodbyes to some friends who have been there for him in these trying times... some mutlated corpses of Sweeps, those robot clones I mentioned in the recap. Cyclonus finds him and takes the sight as you’d expect
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Whirl responds like the irrational highly unstable bot he is and attacks Cyclonus for darring to walk in on him and his unhealthy and deranged coping mechanisms. Tellingly Cyclonus ISN’T fighting back: he’s a warrior sure but this is Whirl’s hair trigger temper and not wanting to be caught. There’s no honor in lopping off the head of some crazy asshat you happened to run into. 
At the Lost Light more of our crew show up: Brainstrom, a notorious mad scientest and weapons designer who Rodimus has naturally given a specail dispensation to not reveal what’s in the briefcase he’s handcuffed to himself because that surely won’t’t backfire horribly in Season 2. 
Next up is MY BOY, Swerve. Swerve is a talkative little guy who can’t shut up and is fine with that. Naturally given i’m a talkative big guy who can’t shut up and is fine with that, he’s one of my faviorites. 
Screening both in is Red Alert, paranoid head of security, who next lets in Rung, his former psychologist which given Red dosen’t even remember taking therapy tells you how much that worked out. But I do LOVE the concept of the Autobots having a therapist, someone to hlep with the likely millions of years worth of PTSd and it just smacks of optimus he’d make sure that his troops mental health was a priority as much as how much stabbing or shooting they could do. 
Rung’s also brought a large box of model ships with him he’s kept over the years> This will be important later, for now he just talks about how he usually stays out of danger.. only for Cyclonus rnning from whirl, or rather flying as he’s in alt mode, to knock the poor guy over. As a Therapist he should probably know better than to tempt fate. Don’t know why but he should. 
We get back to our commanding officers for the voyage as Rodimus brags like a teenager about his numbers and telling Bumlbebee to eat that. Granted if he was a teenager he’d tell Bumlbebee to eat a dick, but it’s implied. 
So here we get our sense of Drift and Magnus. Drift is an optimus, trying to help this voyage along for spirtual resons despite his dark past as one of teh decipticons worst murderers. He’s doing so by feeding Rodder’s ego and generally agreeing with him which naturally is the best way to get him to listen. 
Magnus meanwhile is instead a hard ass stickler for rules whose best summed up by this exchange...
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He has a stick shoved so far up whatever the cybertronian version of an ass is you can see it when he talks and is proud of how that stick is regulation. 
It also sets up a ncie power trio Dynamic, Rodders is the id, impulsive and willing to do whatever he wants, Drift is the Ego, being willing to follow rod but pull him back when needed and Magnus is the superego who insists on regulations on top of regulations on top of regulatoins... on top of regulations. 
Magnus isn’t stupid though and does have Rod pegged in his own personal terminatior analysis thing: wants to be a hero and wants to be important. 
Back at the fight, Cyclonus admits that while he dosen’t WANT to fight if Whirl keeps slapping him around like a jackass he WILL kill him in self defense.. but dosen’t want to and wants to know what the hell this is about. Whirl replies it’s about the whole hanging corpses on the walls thing but Cyclonus points out he dosen’t care, he simply thought their signal was Scourge, the bot who was the basis for them, and has no intentions to tell anyone. But Whirl’s already in a murder frenzy and thinks Cyclonus is a deciptcon.. even though Cy is quick to point out he’s not.. he worked with Galvatron, who also wasn’t. Naturally logic dosen’t work on someone in a blood rage and Whirl attacks again. 
Meanwhile while Tailgate struggles to activate the charage having been passnig in and out of conciousness for centuries, we catch up with Chromedome and Rewind, who are with Ratchet as the three prepare to head off with Chromedome complaning on Rewind’s alt mode. It’s a memory stick as Rewind is an archivest, even earlier recording his boyfriend fighting with his ex and recorindg everything. This is a thing they talk about a lot and the dialouge does a great job making it feel like the kind of argument a couple has, you know one of those things that just comes up all the time and isn’t anything important but it’s still a sticking ponit. It’s not a sign of any disfucntion just the petty thing that crops up. 
So whirl crashes in with cyclonus and is ready to blow his head off, blaming him for the corpse thing and Ratchet trying to stop him from shooting a downed combatant. Thankfully the explosion soon happens and poor Tailgate finally escapes and collapses, thinking he’s accidnetly killed Cyclonus. It’s knocked out Whirl too. Thinking he was headed fo the Lost Light, Ratchet suggests bringing Tailgate with them, and brings Whirl and Cyclonus along too because he has to he guesses. Rewind plans to catch up.. but first after lying about saying goodbuy byes some shady discs from a shady vendor, Swindle, aka that guy I will never stop bringing up Rodimus trusting because his name is fucking Swindle what did he expect. 
So while the rest of our heroes get on board, Rodimus prepares to leave and refuses a call from bumblebee so with that the ship heads of but...
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Shockingly Prowl did NOT try and blow up the ship despite everyone rightfully thinking so. The Quantum Engines merely went wrong and being fancy space engines shunted them father into space than intended and sooner than intended sending a godo chunk of the crew hurtling towards a nearbye planet thanks to a hull breach> While they get the ship stable, Rodimus has them park it on the planet both to figure out what happened to the engines and to find the lost crew, though what he says. .is telling
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This is partly a call back to the Furman run: Hot Rod lost a crew under his command thanks to his traitor and his ptsd over that likely has��nt gone away> The other is simply compassion: under the ego and showmanship and glorhounding.. he just wants his people to be okay. He cares about them even if he throws them into danger. 
Sadly his wanting no one to die is foiled immidetly as he spots what he thinks is a metor shower but...
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This really is what makes the series work: unless the situation is at it’s most dire, there’s always room for some humor to help lighten the situation: it’s never stuck in inapproriate places but in places like this it keeps things from being too dour with the scene before and the scene after, which has a mystery message sent to one of teh ships rung had that was knocked off. So while Bumlbebee mourns his actually alive friends we get some ominus foreshadowing to close out issue 1.
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This is naturally all foreshadowing paying off eventually with Delphi being the series second arc, and the rest.. well you’ll have to wait and see but it’s all paid off by the end of Season 2′s first arc. Roberts does belivie in setting things up but is thankfully not a bastard with payoffs and it generally dosen’t take forever for answers. Usually if he brings a question up it’ll be answered by the next season, i.e. about one or two years, at the latest. 
Part 2: Hangars On:
For starters the first issue was done by Roche, who also did most of the character design and would do covers from here on out. But he ended up leaving, though not for any bad blood with Roberts, Roberts simply has incredibly detailed scripts and it was a LOT to ask on a monthly basis, so Alex Miline took over for the remainder of Season 1. Both are awesome though I honestly prefer Miline’s work as it just has a bit more depth to it. 
So we open with Brainstorm. Hot Rod WANTED to here from Perciptor in most continutites both generally the autobot science guy and boring as dirt in a glass, and in the Marvel Comics case a huge asshole who was willing to leave a man to die, So instead we get the good one who fills Rodimus in on what probably caused the generator malfunctoin i.e. one of the Duobots, a duo made up for this comic that consist of Shock and Ore. Good punning. One of them, Brainstorm cannot figure out which, I relate to as i’ve had my own issues figuring out which is which. 
As for the rest of the crew their searching for all the autobots that fell to earth, only having found half of them so far.. along with Cyclonus who is just being druged up from a lake. 
We cut to a new face: Skids. Well new for this continuity and this comic in paticular as he wasn’t part of the Lost Light crew that set off, Skids appears in most continuities including that time Micheal Bay turned him into a black sterotype duo which was somehow okay with the producers, and with Bay himself, and with every one who would’ve had to sign off on this including Hasbro.”SIGH”
This Skids is thankfully not terrible or horribly racist, he’s just got a bad case of amensia, taking a second to realize he’s on the run, he’s trying to hit the mode lock on the ship so he can skydive out of it, and that he’s wearing an inhibitor claw, which true to the name prevents use of transformation and internal weapons. He soon finds out WHAT’S shaping him and i’ts not promising:
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Back at MedBay Ratchet is working on rung. Suprisingly Ratchet never has operated on before but Rung is honored to have seen him work and Ratchet is honored at Rung’s praise.. though ruins the moment by pounding his hand with a mallet because of what comic we’re in. 
Rung does wish Ratchet would focus on the more serious cases he came in with... but Ratchet casually explains he already did Tailgate first thing. But no one knows who he is and Ratchet’s asked Swerve, as metalurgist to carbondate him. We also find out Drift bugs the hell out of Ratchet when Drift coms in. 
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It’s a small bit but it sets up their dynamic.. and evnetually them coming together because oppoisites attract. But that’s a wayyyys off. Point is it’s time to wake Whirl up though Ratchet isn’t happy about it.. granted Ratchet isn’t happy about many things but given Whirl wakes up by grabbing the first person in choking range that just happens to be Rung and nearly killing him soley because he came back online in a poopy mood, MAYBE Ratchet isn’t just being ratchet about this one hmm?
Rung gets him to back off though: As it turns out Rung is down to his last chance and if he does another stupid thing he goes back to prison, setting up his past as an ex con. He apparently tried to murder his old boss from the wreckers Springer who was left in a coma after Last Stand of the Wreckers. We’ll find out why later and it’s suprinslgy not “because Whirl woke up next to him and he happened to be the only chokable machine in a mile. “ 
Meanwhile Tailgate wakes up and Ratchet soon realizes he thinks he’s on the arc. Realizing he needs to tell him he almost does.. but let’s Swerve do it. Swerve proceeds to tell the poor guy he missed millions of years of history with all the tact he can muster. 
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Back with Skids things aren’t better and not realizing he has a gun in his hand, our boy has to improvise and he does so in the most tactful way he can: by throwing a dead transformer at one of the mysterious nightmare bots and then shooting it with a nearbye weapon, causing the corpse and the alive robot that wants to make Skids into one, explode. If you can think of a more bad ass way to dessecrate a corpse i’d love to hear it. 
So back on the ship Rodimus talks to Cyclonus and is straight with him: During Chaos he DID turn on Galvatron at the right moment and give them precious time they badly needed.. but before that he still lead an attack that killed dozens of Autobots, something he can’t easily ignore. Cyclonus is honest in response. 
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Not only that but as I mentioned Galvatron THOUGHT he was stopping the death of all things. As a result so did Cyclonus until he was in the chamber realizing his boss was really unteitonally kickstarting it. While the dozens of death’s aren’t a great thing, the Autobots genuinely can’t say they wouldn’t of killed tons of deciptcons if they had to protect something from falling into their hands.  But despite having valid reasons, Cyclonus dosen’t couch in them: He followed orders and that’s all he did, and that’s all an autobot would’ve done in the same situatoin: follow orders up until the point it’s clear those orders are doing more harm than good. Now Cyclonus is a warrior without a war, and simply wants to find himself and a better cybertron.. and given everyone aboard is in the same or similar boats, Rodimus accepts him on the crew... but if he lets him down, it won’t end well. Ultra Magnus is less obtruse “Screw up and i’ll demolish you”. Magnus brings whirl in to apologize which is about half hearted as you’d expected. Cyclonus responds how you would to a guy who tried to kill you for seeing something you TOLD him you weren’t going to report and then trying to shoot you in a head. 
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And on that lovely note we return plantside where Swerve shows his better side, taking Tailgate for a walk and getting to know him a bit better. Swerve introduces him to Chromedome and Rewind... just as Skids drops in. 
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Skids gets Chromedome to take off the claw and with his weapons systems back online he easily dispatches the bot and gets most of his memories back.. his RECENT past is still gone, but who he is and other important stuff like that has come back. Chromedome invites him on board as they’d found every autobot who was thrown off or what was left of them so it’s time to go. ‘
So on the ship while Swerve tries to find out Tailgate’s alt mode and become a duo with Skids, Rodimus is left with the uneinviable task of “what do I tell everyone”. Ultra Magnus and Dirft are unhelpful, Mags suggesting he be depressingly honest and Drift suggest he sugarcoat the hell out of things. Rodimus does his best to do neither and admits what happened is bad but they need to press on to their first intended stop, The Crystal City, the of ninja-knights that made drift a better person. We get some breif seinfieldien conversation as Whirl brings up an obvious if pretty minor issue: what do they cal lthemselves. Swereve suggests the cursadrecons with Rodders pointing out the obvious problem with that. 
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Sadly we don’t get another page of this as Red Alret calls with some bad news : there’s a spark eater on board... 
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Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things
So we pick up a few minutes before the end of our last issue. The Dead guy turns out to be Shock, the other Duobot whose paying his respects.. and covering for the BLack Ops work they were both doing for Prowl, deleting SHock’s message log and trying to attach a tracer to the ship. We don’t get to find out what their whole goal as in full though as the sparkeater, a zombie like transformer comes by and rips it out of his brain. Yes transformers indeed have those. 
Back at the bridge Rodimus tires to proccess the threat best he can
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Hot Rod has everyone but Chromedome, Ratchet and Trailbreaker, a guy who can create force fields and gets his own spotlight issue soon enough, go find a partner and a hab suite. No reason, nothing dangerous.. totally not going to lock them in there as soon as five minutes are up. Spoilers that’s his exact plan knowing that if it were him locked up he also woudln’t stay put and their already down four. If fire emblem classic mode’s taught us anythin ga few losses seems okay at first but soon your down to ten guys and like only like.. three of them. It’s why I play with no one dying on. 
Rewind naturally goes with Chromedome as if there’s something dangeorus goign on, he wants to be with him, awwww and Tailgate goes after Cyclonus as he’s the only person there he knows. 
So the autopsy begins: Ratchet is less than pleased with everyone calling whatever this thing is that ate Ore Shock a Sparkeater as their a myth and he’s a scientest doctor dammit. As it turns out it removed the Brain Module to get a better shot at the spark as it’s interocnnected, as are both the Spark and Brain with the Transformation Cog, forming what scientests call Rossum’s Trinity. 
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Rodimus wants a second opinon... which is his code for “Chromedome use your horrifying Freddy Kruger claws that pop out of your hand to reach into this dead man’s brain”. As I said Chromedome is a Mnemosurgeon and isn’t fond of doing it, and Rewind even less so. You can even see he’s visably horrified but what he has to do.. which speaks to Alex Miline’s talent as Chromedome has neither eyes nor a mouth. 
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This is the last thing he wants. He knows i’ts a slippery slope to doing this again and again and again.. and knows Rewind hates him doing it for damn good reason. You can also get another clear picture from that anguish on the poor guys face why I fucking can’t stand Prowl. I have way more reasons and those reasons are why you’ll probably never see a retrospective for Robots in Disguise, but just in this series alone he’s pretty monstrous. And we have’nt even seen the worst of it yet. It takes all my self control to to not go into a long, angry rant about the prick every time the thought of him comes up. IDW Prowl is easily one of the most insufferable and unlikeable characters in all of transformers. Fuck him sideways with a rake. 
So moving on from that lovely image we get another lovely image, the horrifying last moments of Shock, which are “sketchy” as in we see them in sketch form. Good pun top notch. 
Meanwhile Cyclonus and Tailgate find a hab suite, though Cyclonus decides to celebrate the occasoin by aburbtly dropping tailgate. IT does say  LOT though that for a deleberate loner his first response to the guy wasn’t to ignore him.. but to agree to room with him, showing that beneath the cold exterior.. lies a cold intereiror but with a tiny beating heart inside at least. 
Next up is the Dawn of Something Glorious: Swerve finds what he thinks is a Hab Suite.. but is in fact a BAR. Now you may be wondering “Wait their robots how do they even have booze”. Well simple: the booze is simply another version of fuel but the fun version. And if your wondering if a robot can get drunk the answer is absolutley. They have, as we’ll learn, safeguards for this, an intake moderator chip, but those can be turned off if the user wishes. 
So while Swereve is utterly overjoyed to have found his dream career, i.e. getting people so hammered they’ll listen to him all night long, Swerve decides to skedaddle up a vent, pointing out that since the last 6 months of his life and something larger from his past are missing he has carte blanche to do whatever he wants and be whoever he wants to be till those gaps are filled. Though we get a nice moment as he tries to get to know Swerve before saying “Skids and Swerve, that does sound pretty cool”. Awwww. 
Back with command, Chromedome is recoling from the experince but points out tha tyeah they have a floating monstrosity.. and what’s worse is Ratchet points out before it was just waking up.. now it’s fed a bit it’s going to want more and it’s belly is full of half digested sparks, meaning if someone lasers it it’ll take up half the ship, and that it’ll go after the brightest spark. Rodimus, being Rodimus, assumes that’s him and sends everyone a huntin while he stays behind to lure it. 
Naturally given the thing is highly explosive, the first person to find the sparkeater is Whirl who, as you’d expect, had locked his new roomate out as a prank, but to his credit the second he realizes something is really wrong goes out ot save the guy.. and when finding his corpse, to avenge him. 
Trailbreaker prevents Whirl from killing them all, while the Sparkeater bounces and goes after the brightest spark.... Rung. 
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For those of you just joining us you probably don’t know why, for those of you who’ve read the entire series your probably kicking yourself realizing there were hints THIS far back. 
Anyway while this is going on Cyclonus bonds with Tailgate pointing out he missed a war, a war Cyclonus missed too as he was in the Dead Unvierse, which is just as plesant as it sounds and rendered him a zombie-like creature that while looking normal could only exist in our plane for a limited time. Quite obviously he got better. SO he gives a rather biased history of the Decipticon Autobot conflict, clearly siding with the former and asks Tailgate who he would’ve chosen. 
Thankfully Skids saves Rung and takes the guy with him, with Rodimus comming into apologize.. and to ask Rung to lure the thing to the engine room as Rodimus has a plan. 
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Love that line. So Skids does what anyone would do and rappels down an elevator shaft with Rung on his back. Downstairs Brainstorm gets cornered but Rodimus lures the creature away with Rung.. by holding him in front of him. Which would be a dick move if Rodimus real plan wans’t so heroicly batshit, to throw rung aside, GRAB THE SPARKEATER AND SLAM IT INTO THE ENGINE, THEN HAVE PERCEIPTOR ACTIVATE THE ENGINES FUSING THE MONSTER INTO IT. 
In the aftermarth Ultra Magnus lectures him on the Rung thing, though Rodimus shuts that down as he’s the captain and all that, and while Ratchet fixes Tailgate’s T-Cog he makes a decision: he wants to be a Decepticon.
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Final Thoughts: 
Liars A To D is a great intro into the series. It gives you a good feel for the cast, has plenty of jokes to lighten the mood but not so many as to smother the work, and sets up most of Season 1′s Arcs and the character arcs for the cast at this point swimingly. It’s no wonder this series drew me in immeditly with this level of writing and it only gets better from here. 
Next Month on Let’s Make This Precious: Ratchet ends up in a remote facility ravaged by a plague spread by touch. Nothing topical there! Meanwhile a new face joins the crew then procedes to cause a Hostage Situation, and we take a break from our heroes to meet an even more ragtag crew with the Scavangers.
Next on this blog: My look at the Danny Phantom Storyline Episodes leading up to Reign Storm continues as a southren douchebag somehow makes Danny’s Life even more difficult. Apparently that is possible. 
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retroknightx · 3 years
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hypmic headcanons
since nobody on my instagram appreciates me, i’m going to put them here, and it’ll be like a master post i can add onto that way anyway (which is convenient for me, because i keep adding on… yeah, it’s bad lmao. my notes document can only take so much) all of it will be under the line so you guys don’t just have a big ass post clogging your feed! to whoever my 4 followers are
starting with fling posse…
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Ramuda Amemura
He’s trans.
He has a superiority complex to hide his inferiority complex.
He also likely has a little bot of a god complex… Just a tiny bit… Not to the point it’d endanger his life, but to the point he can never admit he’s wrong (I suppose this can also count as the superiority complex).
He also has a little bit of a schoolboy crush on Dice… that has lasted far longer than he’d ever like to admit – not that he’d ever admit it in the first place – and he gets jealous over Dice.
He started his whole thing with girls, whatever it is, as a power trip, which also explains why he likes to cause so much chaos.
Since he used to smoke, he started candy as a way to stop smoking and it slowly replaced his smoking habit (as I have yet to see him smoke otherwise, but keep in mind I’m not far into the manga and mostly I’m going off the ARB story).
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Gentaro Yumeno
All writers are perfectionists (I’d know as one).
He’s probably very particular about the details and doesn’t like doing things without a plan.
He’s the lyric write for Fling Posse’s raps and does not enjoy making up lyrics on the spot; however he can if he must – This is also why he carries the book everywhere.
I honest to god don’t feel like he’s of this world and whatever his actual form is (irony in his rap name?), it scared Ramuda enough to create Fling Posse, so here they are.
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now for the dice ones… it’s gonna be long!
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Dice Arisugawa
He is, unfortunately, very oblivious to romantic approaches – especially from close friends such as his division members, for he’s been with them for so long that he can never imagine them falling in love with him.
He has abandonment issues/a fear of abandonment because his mother left him.
Speaking of his mother, Dice likely knows how to do “noble” things because he was raised by a politician; i.e. how to play piano and stuff like that.
Adding on top of that, I feel like Dice has an accumulation of many different skills from being all over the place – He learned how to do card tricks by watching others, and he probably learned bird calls from spending time with Rio.
He undoubtedly has ADHD (as a person with ADHD myself, you cannot tell me I am wrong)!
He’s well aware that’s he a leech, but he can’t stop himself because the addiction is stronger and he feels terrible about it; it’s why he often begs instead of anything else that would fit his character more.
He’s a very talkative person and often rambles to get his thoughts organized.
He doesn’t like being put into awkward situations or forced into silence because he is used the buzz of a casino and a busy city.
Relating to the ADHD canon, Dice puts his life on line not only for the thrill of it, but to keep his mind off of thoughts, and it’s also why he gambles; so he can focus on one thing.
He is numb to change because he’s a gambler.
He is very good at adapting to a new environment.
He doesn’t like being looked down up and that’s why he started gambling; to prove that he’s worth something.
He uses humor to cope if he can’t get his mind off of things with the thrill of gambling.
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Extras (Fling Posse all together)
Dice has weird limbs, so clothing fits him weird, and Ramuda started making clothes for them because of that.
Ramuda chased after Dice after he stole his signature parka and the Fling Posse star was embroidered on later by Ramuda after the formation of Fling Posse.
Ramuda likely pulls whatever strings he has access to to make life easier for his division members (not that it stops them from getting into trouble, that is).
Gentaro spends a lot of time away when writing and likely forgets he’s even alive during those periods, so his division members make sure he’s still taking care of himself when he gets like that.
They all piss each other off, but in a platonic love kind of way.
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moving onto matenrou! my favorite division <3
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Jakurai Jingui
Oh, my poor man’s so tired. He just needs a long break and a spa day; speaking of this, he likely doesn’t ask for help often – it’s the messiah complex he undoubtedly has.
His hair is too long for him to be taking care of it himself, and it definitely looks in fantastic condition, so he definitely takes good care of it – I just don’t think he takes care of it himself; I think he enlists the help of his division members (as I headcanon that Matenrou is in a poly relationship).
Jakurai’s matureness can sometimes get in the way of other things, such as emotional moments, and he can come off as cold or distant when he doesn’t mean to come off that way.
Unlike the other divisions, Jakurai wanted to really separate from his past, and that’s why he named his division Matenrou instead of reusing something from the past. He also probably doesn’t like talking about the past.
His hair is naturally silver, but the lighter shades that are nearly white underneath was caused by stress.
He gets cold quickly, which is why he always keeps the lab coat on, and it’s also why he wears a turtleneck.
Jakurai does live in the same apartment as Doppo and Hifumi, but he’s always so busy that he often can’t get there, so he ends up sleeping at the hospital; he also has a separate apartment of his own that’s closer to the hospital if he has free time, but he’s not off work/off work but still on call.
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Doppo Kannonzaka
Man, the first thing I thought when I saw him was that he has a choking kink. Enough said. He also likely has a praise kink.
If he didn’t have social anxiety and wasn’t so busy, he’d also probably be going over to Rio’s camp a lot. I think it’s because he’s so overworked that he doesn’t care about what’s in the food; as long as he gets it.
He’s probably passed out from exhaustion more than once and just got used to it.
Despite all his problems, he definitely wants to be known and he wants his name out there; he wants to be just like the other two and he definitely looks up to them already, but he aspires to be them.
He is so thankful for his divison members and he’s glad that they accepted him.
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Hifumi Izanami
Hifumi is a classic case of “fake it till you make it”; I really don’t know how he became one of the most popular hosts in Shinjuku, but it’s definitely about the fake confidence and the jacket is a comfort object for him that allows him to have that confidence.
He cooks all the time for his division members and he uses the catches from fish all the time, too. He even brings the lunches to their works for them.
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Extras
Since Hifumi’s always out so late, the others make sure he has everything he needs for whenever he wakes up and sometimes they wait for him.
They’re all in a poly relationship and I refuse to believe anything else; I mean, have you seen those “my room” dialouge in ARB? Fruity.
They probably all love to cuddle whenever they get the chance because they can’t do it often.
They definitely set up one day of the month for all of them to just be together.
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buster bros time!
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Ichiro Yamada
This may just be the Ichiro simp in me, but I think he has a very nice tummy that’d be nice to lay on; like a soft one if that makes any sense to anybody other than me.
He’s a very friendly person and if you’re close friends with him, he’s definitely loyal; he’d be willing to drop anything to help you kind of loyal, like he is to his brothers – all that, except the willing to die part.
I think he gets flustered easily and doesn’t know how to respond to compliments. That’s also probably the Ichiro simp in me.
Although he has to stop his brothers from ripping out each other’s throats all the time, he’s very proud of them and of their achievements, no matter what they are. He’s willing to praise them even for the tiniest things to make up for his absence in their lives.
He probably has a terrible sleeping schedule, but he could probably operate on pretty much anything. Two hours of sleep? That’s not an issue for him; he’s used to it.
He’s likely a cheapskate when it comes to himself, but when it comes to his brothers, he spares no expense if he can.
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Saburo Yamada
He has a superiority complex. I mean, just look at how he acts with Jiro – that’s enough proof right there.
He got into hacking and all of that computer stuff because it was interesting to him; he’s probably pursuing a career in it, considering just how good he is at it. I feel like he’d make a good white hat hacker that tests your website security, like Alma in Va-11 Hall-A.
Call him a library, because he holds grudges for years.
I think he just likes picking arguments because he think it’s funny and there’s nothing better to do when you’re stuck with your brothers (as somebody with a sibling myself, I can attest to that).
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Jiro Yamada
Anger issues. Yep, that’s it. That’s the headcanon.
Man probably goes dumpster diving to see what kind of treasures he can find; his room is probably full of that kind of junk.
He probably has greasy hair. It doesn’t matter how much he cleans it, it’s just greasy (as somebody with the same issue, go clean your pillows Jiro).
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Extras
Ichiro has to hold Jiro back from just punching Saburo all the time.
God, somebody save Ichiro from his siblings; with how much they bicker, he probably has taken so much ibuprofen to stop headaches in his life that he should be considered dead from an overdose.
Despite being assholes to each other, they all help each other out – Saburo helps Jiro with his work, Jiro helps Saburo with whatever he can’t do, and Ichiro takes care of the rest. It’s the only thing keeping their bond together.
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mad trigger crew, my beloved.
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Rio Mason Busujima
Rio’s very stoic and that often doesn’t break, so it’s very rare to see a smile on his face. He has different smiles for different things too – there’s the business one; one so he doesn’t look as intimidating, and the actual genuine smile that’s very rare to see, but it happens when somebody appreciates his food.
Rio’s not good at understanding emotions and it takes him awhile to process emotions; he goes quiet in these moments and it can be confusing for those who don’t know him, but once he’s thought everything out, he’s very smart about responding.
He’ll never fully adjust to a life outside of the navy and military.
Opposite to Dice, he finds the buzz of a city to be too distracting for his thoughts and he enjoys his solitude, but he doesn’t mind company at all.
Due to how his unit was broken up, he refuses to abide by H law and keeps his gun on him. Even Rio can be spiteful. However, he mostly uses it for hunting, which is why he’s so far out in the forest.
He definitely has a lot of scars and that’s why he often wears his fatigues; he doesn’t wana come off as off-putting. His cards without the jacket did him so dirty. Of course he’d have scars from fighting in World War 3.
He can come up with strategies on the spot and is a very quick-thinker when it comes to combat.
Despite how ruthless he is when it comes to rap battles and being an ex-navy, he’s actually a very gentle soul.
I feel like he’s asexual, but homoromantic.
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Samatoki Aohitsugi
He only uses the bad guy persona as a way to be left alone, but he’s actually a very kind person.
Despite being a yakuza, he actually abides to the H law and it’s probably only because of Nemu (however, this is only based off of the anime, so I can’t say for certain, but I haven’t seen anything in the manga disproving otherwise yet).
I just feel like he eats a lot throughout the day. I can’t explain this one, but he has the vibes.
He also knows how to cook quite well himself, and he does it for his division members sometimes.
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Jyuto Iruma
He’s very cocky because he knows he can get away with things; I mean, he’s the authorties, why wouldn’t he get cocky about what he can do? However, it’s somewhat annoying to Samatoki.
If he wasn’t a gay bastard, Samtoki and Rio probably would’ve been arrested long ago. Thankfully for them, he is a gay bastard.
He likes looking good no matter what; it helps his confidence, so he dresses up to go out anywhere.
His glasses are probably just reading glasses.
He likes spending money on expensive things.
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Extras
Samatoki and Jyuto are in a relationship. They’re so fruity that I’m sure I don’t have to explain this one.
Samatoki doesn’t approve of Rio dating Dice at all and it’s only because of Jyuto that Dice is still alive.
Rio is pretty much their marriage counselor; he has to constantly deal with them bickering, so of course he is. He’s pretty much the adopted child to save their marriage.
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Ships
Riodice
Samajyu
Poly Matenrou
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i will likely make a separate post for the ship headcanons because this will be much longer, but i think this covers all of them anyway, so here you go. enjoy.
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enzo-zzz · 3 years
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Does YTTD will ever have happy endings?
Do you believe that? Idk. I cannot say i believe but cant say i doubt either. I keep reexamining old stuff nankidai already made and i believe that nankidai always dropped hints of future chapter from the beginning of chapter 1, but what i will explain is my interpretation. Real stuff might be different. Will explain below. YTTS spoiler
Ah yes, i dont think any hints dropped by nankidai is trivial. Most of the trivial stuff he dropped actually come true in future chapter, just not that obvious/direct.
This is just a sudden reaction, but there is this one ending of YTTS when you can escape with touko and rei with boat.
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If i remember correct, its not a happy end. No happy end in ytts. I cant upload more than 10 pics but it said that they believed that they will reach the harbor, but it never reach, then the text after that really hit me real hard because it said like everyone thinks there will be a happy end, the escape is the happy ending everyone would come up with, but in the end they never reach any harbor. It feels like it was talking about the players or possibly sara. Then this "???" Dialouge come up. I believe the one who said that is sara, she cant bear watching the happy end everyone thinks of, possibly because she is the only one survived. But there is the other person who **sniff** , possibly the other survivor/or maybe their dolls or safalin. In yttd, you can win w/ 2 person but one must become a doll. I wonder why the game set it up like that. In the manga they even make that two person symbol is male and female. Future hints? On the other ytts ending the ??? only said repeat but in this end and the other sara end has special dialogues. It can implies that sara is the only survivor or she survived with someone else. And she is saddened when she see that they can escape altogether (before their hopes crushed) in one of ytts ending. She said she cant see this end and it will only hurt her. It gives her trauma. But when mishima escaped in sara end, she seems more heartless or unreactive? Maybe she already accepted the fact that only 1 can escape that she didnt care and just repeat. Ok but why i suddenly thinks she is the only survivor/or with one more person? There is one sketch of nankidai that only sara wins, and then miley celebrates with the reward for sara to watch video compilations of all the events of the game. Kinda similar with how ytts set up. Sara is watching all of them. Looks like loosely connected but it all match ups with the setting. maybe i will tell other theory that is already hinted from chapter 1/sketch to chapter 2 and 3, maybe when i have free time. So thats why i dont take this lightly. Unless there's actually a plot twists or nankidai already changed the story. I think the last mc of ytts,sara, will have something special that summarize all of the events. Idk how to say this, but hoping nankidai to not kill of more chara in 3-2 is like a pipe dream when he's already merciless with latest chapter, idk if i can even hope that there will be more survivors. I just remembered the other sketch of yttd as machine where there is input and output. The input is someone who are curious about the game and the output is.. that person get out and is having bad mood/miserable/something that are not happy. But it was drawn long time ago when only chapter one is out at the time if i'm not mistaken. I'm not sure if the context is intended on chapter 1-2 or overall game. Thats it........ But then there's someone who still thinks one route will have happy end and discourse other person who play the other route 24/7 just for the personal satisfication to make others feel bad and feels superior for chooshing the "right choice", well if you know how yttd english fandom is like full of minor/kids with superiority complex that have so much time to argue with everyone everyday 👀 idc what is your opinion, what you think of the end or you are right or not, its fine either way, but if you keep tryinh to pick fights with someone else instead of not engaging in something you dont prefer, your life will also rewards you with people trying to pick fights with you, disrespect you or life will be filled with stressful things becuase you keep trying to argue and spend so much time to think and counter every reply of the statement/arguments you made. You get what you give. Sorry for trailing off but tbh yttd fandom is not that safe anymore that it kinda become main issue everytime anyone just wanna made any statement/opinion. So i have to write this to shoo off certain someone
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Family x Hunter: My mini analysis about family relationships in HxH
I am a HUGE sucker for found family troupes and family-oriented stories. There just aren't enough stories to explore the nature of those relationships and how influencial they can be to our development as people. For those of us who's primary relationships are our families, we're left out of the dialouge.
So imagine my surprise when Hunter x Hunter ended up being the anime I can't stop thinking about precisely because of the MULTIPLE family relationships and psudorelationships that happen throughout the plot. Imagine my double surprise when it turns out those family relationships are prioritized and emphasized in the anime over others like the all too popular friendship.
Written for the Carnival of Aro’s Jan 2021 Theme: Stories
Take the premise as a starting point. Gon decides to become a hunter, not because it's cool or because he wants to find some rare cool thing he's never seen before. No, instead, he wants to become a hunter to get closer to his absent father. The ENTIRE show only happens because Gon is driven by a desire to connect with and forge a relationship with his father. I think I can safely say that the family aspect of Hunter x Hunter is embeded into it's core.
Then take a look at the reasons the other main four choose to become hunters. Kurapika is hoping to avenge the massacur of his family clan, a clan that does not interact with the outside world. His entire character arc and development is based on this goal of seeking revenge.
Killua is at the Hunter exam because he heard it was easy. But then we learn, he left home because he wants to REJECT his family obligation to take up the family business.
"Okay, fair," I hear you all say, "but what about Leorio? He just wants money."
Let me help you connect the dots here. First, he claims he wants to become a hunter because of the money. Then we learn he wants to use that money to become a doctor and then provide free medical treatment for those who cannot afford it. THEN we learn that this motivation STEMS from a childhood incident where a best friend of his ended up dying from a treatable illness because he couldn't afford the medical treatment neccessary. Leorio decided then that he did not want anyone else to experience that, tried to go at it the normal way, and realized that it would be nearly impossible for him to afford it. Any average person might end up giving up on this dream, but Leorio was so dedicated to his goal that he ended up training to become a hunter, a physically and mentally strenuous task. JUST so he can get access to more money.
If anything, Leorio's the one who's most motivated by platonic relationships! While Kurapika,Gon, and Killua's motivations are based on obligations to family, Leorio's motivation is only suggested. It isn't like this friend is still alive and Leorio is obligated to save him. No one but Leorio is beholden to the completion of his mission. The strength in that bond has to be strong for him to go to the lengths he did.
AND THIS IS ONLY THE VERY BEGINNING!
Gon's arc goes from becoming a hunter to finding his dad. Kurapika disappears from the story precisely because he is off getting revenge. Killua's development as a character entirely rests in the way he navigates between his family, with entire plots surrounding the Zoldyks. Leorio reenters the narrative JUST to show how deeply he cares for Gon and Killua, and serves as a nice foil to Ging, Gon's father.
I physically cried during Killua's final arc, when he apologized to his youngest sister, asking for her forgiveness after being a "bad big brother." Killua went from essentially running away from home rejecting his family, to asking for forgiveness from a cherished family member. And the nuance inbetween! Freeing himself from his oldest brother's mind control. Finding common ground with his father that, at least in the anime, never gets used against him. Rejecting the family business without rejecting the family. While it still feels incomplete, the joy at seeing him reconnect with a family member and promise to always be together forever made the little shrivelled starved heart of mine swell satisfied.
Killua is a perfect example of the story focusing on his family relationships over his friendships, or at the very least, implying that those family relationships are more important than those with his friend. Does Killua leverage the fact that he made a pact with his dad to never abandon a friend? Yeah. But the fact is that he still went to his family for help.
In the last episode, he tells Gon, his first and only friend, that they have to part ways since he has to protect his little sister. He even says that she comes first before Gon. After struggling to understand if Gon is as committed to him as Killua was to him, he finds closure in his little sister's dedication and wholesome affection. (When he asks Alluka if he was the only one in the whole world that loved her, would that be enough, her response was that she couldn't stop smiling. Because the answer was yes. And perhaps, it was also a question for Killua. Is Alluka's love for him enough?)
And Leorio. LEORIO. As I said, he disappears from the narrative, largely because his mission and Gon's are not the same. But when Gon is out of commission, Leorio comes back into play. The PLOT is affected by this decision and MOVES because if this. Leorio was simply trying to find a way to help his friend, and decides to publically ask his father where he is during such a critical time. Leorio's emotions at Ging's lack thereof ends up putting him in the spotlight, a spotlight he uses every time to seek answers for Gon and to reaffirm his commitment to saving Gon. As much as I HATED the slowmotion, the reunion between Leorio and Gon after Gon's been healed was felt deep in my SOUL. Contrast that QUITE LITERALLY with Ging's reaction and we have the potential for some major character development and storytelling about what a family relationship really is about.
Do we have to earn those familiar relationships? Are we expected to commit to people who are not committed to us simply because they are blood? Can we reject them? Is Killua's reject of his oldest brother over their younger sister a conflict that cannot be solved? Can we form them with strangers? Who is more of a stranger to Gon; his absent dad or the guy he met on a ship headed to an exam? Are we obligated to our family duties like Killua and the family business or Kurapika and his life destroying hunt to avenge his dead family?
Kurapika's story felt a little flat, which is a shame because there is so much potential to explore! The struggle to avenge his clan stems not from his clan, but from his own trauma and pain. His family was ripped right under him, leaving him no one to rely on. Instead of form new relationships, he rots along with his family. In a sense, his disappearance from the narrative represents his character regression, fading from existance like his family.
From a family taken away, to a father who was never there in the first place. Gon's story feels incomplete. Feels a bit like Gon's growth as a character is secondary to the advancement of the plot. Feels like sweeping major issues under the metaphorical rug and calling it a fun show. This man never once visited his son. When leaving a recording for his son, he flat out told Gon he did not want to see him at all. During his time in the hospital, never once did he visit. Sure, we see him remain confident that Gon is alright, but is this confidence misplaced? Is this even true confidence in a person he's never met before? I feel like I am missing a giant piece of the puzzle explaining why Gon, a 12 year old boy who had no male figure in his life, easily accepts Ging.
Let's not forget how Gon didn't even WANT to learn more about his birth mother, a mystery that we will never solve. Just another example of trying to answer what family means. Mito is an aunt, but to Gon, Mito is his mother. (Yet Ging can still be his father? Why not Leorio? A far more deserving man of any affection whatsoever.)
How the story should go. After meeting up with Ging, he continues to go on an adventure with him. As they travel through the far more dangerous continent, Gon faces death multiple times. All this while Ging continues without regard for his safety. Gon reflects, thinking back to his friend Killua, who would attack Gon if it was to protect him. Who called him the sun. Back to Leorio, who hugged Gon like he mattered. Who said he was sorry for not being there for him. As they continue on, he reflects on who really matters. A call for help from his friends. Does he answer the call or remain by his father's side?
What makes a familiar relationship? Blood? Obligation? Depth of affection? Trust? Who makes or breaks those ties? How much do we grow from those relationships?
Hunter x Hunter exceeds my expectations, but also fails to live up to the story it sets itself up to be. I never thought I'd see such an incredible character development that centers on family. I hoped for something on the Ging & Gon front, perhaps as a means of exploring my own thoughts on the matter. Sorely disappointed. I think about this anime often because there is still much left to the imagination. A story unfinished. Perhaps that's what makes it a good story; especially one that decides to kick the standard and focus on a relationship that all of us have dealt with, but many of us overlook.
Is this show good? Debatable. What isn't debatable is how important family is to the plot and character development of the show. Maybe, in an alternative world somewhere, there is a satisfying ending where Gon acknowledges his own family trauma. He realizes how important his friends are, maybe seeing them more as his own family. Kurapika's revenge slowly fizzles out, instead replaced by the need to protect what's still alive. Killua resolves his family issues while remaining true to himself and Leorio adopts Gon.
Maybe the real family is the one we make along the way.
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sweetlydarling · 3 years
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Little Women: The Broadway Musical Sentence Starters
[PART ONE ]
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(Pronouns can be changed!)
[ some also include dialouge in the tracks themselves ]
An Operatic Tragedy
"Keep away from me you wretch!"
"I cannot keep away!"
"Your beauty draws me!"
"Your passion ignites me!"
"I've got to hold you!"
"I defy you!"
"I am your destiny, your bitterest foe!"
"You left me cold, alone and forgotten."
"Now I'm back to settle the score!"
Better
"How can I do better than what's already here?"
"How can what he said to me be true?"
"If I don't succeed, what will I do?"
"It's going to be a dismal Christmas!"
"Or was I better when I was home?"
Our Finest Dreams
"Years from now, people will talk about us!"
[Name], do I die again in this one?"
"Christmas will exceed our finest dreams!"
"Let us begin!"
"I know you're tired."
"I know it's hard."
"Christmas will be thrilling!"
"I've made an important decision today!"
"I will give you all everything you ever dreamed of!"
Here Alone
"I can't tell you what I'm feeling."
"I don't know which part is harder."
"Counting days, praying for news, is this the life we meant to choose?"
"Do you know how much I miss you?"
"How I wish you were the twilight come to take my fears away."
"I'm not certain I know how."
"Will I be there when they need me?"
"Will I fail them even now?"
"Oh, I wish that you were with me."
Could You
"We earn our dreams in this world, [Name]."
"It's foolish of me to think you could ever change your ways!"
"I could change if I wanted to!"
"You'll never change!"
"You could captivate the world."
"Charming, me?"
"That could be hard."
"It isn't very hard for someone full of dreams like you."
"If you work, you'll find there's nothing you can't do."
"I can do it if I try!"
"Yes I could!"
I'd Be Delighted
"What will I do if someone asks me to dance?"
"I'd be delighted!"
"I'm hardly delighted."
"You're dancing like a candle!"
"No, I cannot dance tonight!"
"The music is entrancing!"
"Some of them are glancing!"
"How can I be sure they'll like me when I'm there?"
"I can see you dancing all night!"
Take a Chance on Me
"I've never met a girl like you!"
"This is very nice."
"Such a lovely party!"
"The music sounds so thrilling, it makes a person feel like dancing!"
"I won a medal for dancing at school."
"I don't dance."
"We could fly on golden wings across the seve seas."
"You're a lunatic!"
"Take a chance on me!"
"Friends are never lonely!"
"You make me want to dare to take a chance on you!"
"Is this how you win medals?"
"We could live a million dreams but only if we dare!"
"There's so much we can share!"
"We'll live in our own way!"
"I'll see you every day!"
"We'll be the best of friends!"
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talvenhenki · 3 years
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4: what's your favorite line of dialouge? (I know it says send a work buuuuuuut I wanna know across all your writing if that's okay?)
Oh my, I have so many! I’ll give you some examples :^)
“But what about the shop?” Julian asked, now feeling a lump in his throat. The past few days had been stressful for him, to say the least. “What would you do with your life?”
“Oh, I’d probably start a new business”, Garak said airily, “I’d like to try my hands at building furniture, or perhaps boats. We could start building wooden boats. Bashir and Garak – the best boats in Bangkok, or something like that!”
Julian laughed, sniffling. There was something in his eyes, so he looked down at his lap. “That’s a decent attempt, Garak”, he breathed, “but there isn’t much beach in Bangkok. Most of the city is inland.”
“Well, it doesn’t have to be Bangkok”, Garak decided, “I just thought it sounded fun with the name. We can work on that.”
For Only The Night Skies Will Know (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
“We can support you, if you need us to”, said Athos, still on his laptop, “do you prefer Apple or Android?”
“Thank y – what?”
Athos looked up from the computer screen to see Aramis look at him with an expression of surprise. “I’m buying you a new phone. What manufacturer do you prefer?”
Man on the Bridge (The Musketeers)
“Stay?” Elrond asked softly. “Just for tonight. Please stay until I know I’m alive.”
Of a Friendship Forged Early (The Silmarillion)
“This doesn’t add up, Agnes” Raffi said, “are you sure Cris hates cats? Doesn’t look much like a cat-hater to me.”
“Oh, yes.” Agnes smiled widely. “Terribly. He cannot stand Spot II at all.”
“…you’re messing with me, aren’t you?”
“A little. Did you know that cats can tell when someone isn’t feeling good? They usually sit near the person who isn’t okay and purr to make them heal better. I think Spot II is trying to help Cris in his own way.”
“Aw, isn’t that sweet. So, how long do you reckon Cris is going to keep up that cat-hater façade?”
“I’d say forever. He likes to think he’s very tough and hates everyone, after all.”
“Amen to that.”
The Voyages of The Freighter La Sirena (Star Trek: Picard)
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shade-without-color · 4 years
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FruitsBasketFanClub fanfic appreciation post
Note: As you know, I have been on a Fruits Basket fanfic binge and it was joining the discord that I wanted to share my favourite fics to you. So please support them with likes and comments in A03, as we could grow here.
@thewinterose: Taylor, you are so wonderful for the Kyoru ship in bring the realness of Kyoru and its feelings-it make me happy to see much love. And in fact that is why I am writing them.
My Favourite recommendations from the author
and therefore is winged cupid painted blind: Like OH shit, this fic ruined me, it gave me Ted Hughes Tales of Ovid vibes which I am obsessed (I am seriously going to take pictures of it someday of that book as I think you should read it), the way how you weaved the tales with evocative words, man I cannot believe it. I particularly loved these lines 
Kyo watches her retreating figure from behind the shadows, his eyes following her intently as she disappears into the horizon. //His fingers idly trace the tip of one of his dangerous arrows; the blue-tipped one, the kind that stirs a ravenous, never-ending lust that corrupts the mind and deteriorates the body. //He thinks of Akito’s cruel scheme, her vision for this princess. He thinks of her crying, lying prostrate before some monster, her face flushed and lips parted, moans dripping from her tongue. He thinks of her pretty pink chiffon dress drawn high around her waist, her thighs spread and slick, but not for a husband. Not for a man. Not for him.
'cause i'm lovesick : Gosh this smut piece is so good and it is like your first piece. I tried mine and it can be hard to convey them but you shared the experience so beautifully, it always take my breath away. And oh the solo stuff talk is so adorable I cannot!
Something impulsive and brazen takes ahold of her tongue, and she asks him before her instilled politeness could stop her. “Did you ever think of me?”
His eyes flash, his gaze going predatory again, and he leans in to steal a harsh kiss that leaves her breathless. He pulls away, his grin roguish. “Yeah, but then I felt really shitty afterwards because I’d hear you blasting some God-awful pop music in your room and it would make me realize that you were there.”
She feels her lips pull into a wide grin, something feminine and primal within her becoming awfully pleased by that. “It was good music,” she whispers teasingly.
Kyo kisses her smile, licking the seam of her lips, but he pulls away before she can kiss him back. He grabs the condom he dropped somewhere on the bed and tears it open, slipping it out of the wrapper. Tohru watches him, her heart racing hard against her chest to the point of pain.
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@machi-kuragi: El, you are the reason why I wanted to try to write about Hatori and Mayu with my fic A story which I will tell to you and I , and adding him in my Victorian fic as how you painted his angst is perfection. And you did lovely with Machi and Yuki too. Your dialogues are soooo good
My Favourite recommendations from the author.
Life Is What Happens to You When You're Busy Making Other Plans: Gosh this is so good, and the interaction of Mayu and Hatori are A+ and I chuckled on Shigure giving advice to him.
Life and Love Are the Same: Gosh this is so lovely and I love the naturalness of dialouge and the ending hit me in the feels.
When You Move, I'm Moved : THIS makes me go feral screaming out of cute and the conversations are perfect. The tits one is a++++
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@yunsoh: ABBBY the way you write soft scenes always amaze me that I feel unworthy LOL And how you did Yuki’s character is so goood
My Favourite recommendations from the author.
laughing til our ribs get tough : Ok I am not a big shipper of Yuki and Kakeru but this is so sweet and lovely.
i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right : This is gorgeous and I know you do not do much Kyoru but how you write them is amazingggg 
small voice, dark hall : That fic was the second I read and you are so good in capturing the small moments.
in all fairness : This ohhh man is so wholesome and so beautiful.
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@furubaish: Em your stuff is so good and oh my god Walking on Eggshells is so goooodddd. The way how you bulit Kyo’s pain is perfect y’all I cannot.
@grayteapath It's Not Enough Seriously Tea, your fic with Momiji is wonderfully heartbreaking <3 I mean it is your first fic but you did such an amazing job with words.
@palamig Fellow SEA discord user, your Kyoru fics are the reason why I wanted to write Fruits Basket stuff, the way you convey them is beautiful. Tonight you belong to me is my favourite to read. It is magical.
@deucesmuch: Seriously remedies for when you're feeling weak always slayed me, and the smut is perfection.
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bintangy · 6 years
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RE: Cameron Burke and Faith Seed,
this isn’t really some super insightful look into their characters, just, what interests me about their dynamic is how, at least in the beginning of the game, Faith and Burke are driven by the same motivations.
They like power; they want control over others, and feel better when they have it. 
Somehow i’ve restarted the game like 7 times so i’ve sat through Burke’s dialouge a lot, and exerting authority is a constant that weaves into most of what he says. He asks Whitehorse, with light derision, “you scared, Sheriff?”, implying that he himself is not. And he isn’t. 
He is protected by the U.S. government, while simultaneously an extension of it; it is his sword and his shield, and both very powerful. And for whatever reason (that i cannot begin to extrapolate because, unlike the Seeds, he doesn’t give us any super personal anecdotes about himself), he wanted the job he has, because of what such power entails; people have to do what he tells them (and just like Faith, though he and her are not the makers of these rules, they revel in being the enforcers). 
His subsequent actions after the helicopter lands are,
“Jesus Christ, you’re wearing badges aren’t you?” badges will protect you; people won’t harm people with badges.
“They’ll respect a 9mm,” he says, as if the peggy’s aren’t openly wielding shotguns and AR’s. But their superior firearms shouldn’t intimidate them, shouldn’t matter to police and a marshal; people can’t shoot the police and a marshal without consequences, right? Consequences dire enough that the peggys wouldn’t dare shoot them, so why worry?
His impatient declaration of the warrant, demonstrating he doesn’t care to do it calmly, because it’s an order from the U.S. government, right? Calmly or angrily declared, people have to listen to it.
As you are taking Joseph away, and the cultists are more visibly upset, he is the first one to take his weapon out, far before Hudson or Whitehorse. He wants control over the situation, and is willing to exert what power he can use as soon as possible.
The only one who gets physical with cultists
“I am a federal marshal, I’m ordering you to step back”
Basically all of his actions and dialouge are loaded with the intention of wanting control over the situation, believing he has it and if he does not, that he is owed it because he is a U.S. Marshal. Even as he’s getting dragged away from the shore, he is shouting that he is a United States Federal Marshal, you can’t do this to a marshal why are you doing this to me? 
Burke and Faith go entirely different ways in getting control over people, but that is the ultimate point in what they do. I can’t speak for Burke’s specific motivations behind why he’s sought power like this, but it just sticks out to me that it was Burke who was taken as Faith’s prisoner. Burke, who specifically had these motivations driving him; it is pretty much most of the characterization he is given.
I’m not tryna make any specific point about Burke because... I have no idea of his life prior to fc5. It’s not really about that. It’s that he sought control as comfort, and that despite its falsehood, he found what felt like happiness by pretty much giving that up. Control’s not about feeling happy, it’s about feeling safe, and despite Faith’s front, I’m reminded every time I see and hear Burke, that Faith too isn’t happy, and why she’d rather be safe than happy. Which sounds like a pretty obvious declaration, and it is, it’s just a sad reminder of her character very intentionally paralled with Burke and... yeah.
With Burke’s constant remarks about being a Marshal, he doesn’t feel safe because of who he is, but what he is. It’s the same with Faith - she doesn’t feel comforted by being Rachel, but by being Faith, the very concept being that you have to believe in it regardless of anything that happens, believe in and trust in her simply because she is Faith. It is more like a title than a name, and she wields it like Burke does ‘marshal’.
And I’m not blaming Faith for wanting that. Of course she’d want that. It just sucks that you can’t make either of them genuinely happy in game and they both die.. I dunno where I’m going with this but viola an explanation of previous art post.
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nanshe-of-nina · 6 years
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People of the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years War as dril tweets
Philippe VI de France: Time and time Again. People on here Fuck me over and ruin my life. simply for starting the Dialouge.
Edward III of England: thinking of wrapping my entire body in barbed wire and becoming Sovereign.
Jehan II de France: a teen approached me at the food court and said “I see you wore your clown costume today” and i spent the next 9 hours processing the insult.
Jehanne de Bourgogne: CHILD: Papa.. tell me once more about WIFE’s DUTY. PAPA: it is WIFE’s DUTY to protect her husband from villains, always.
Jitka Lucemburská: Damn. the MomTown forums just started requiring 4 point Mom Verificaiton to be able to post there for some reason..anyone got a work around?
Philippa de Hainaut: my opinion on politics: my opinion on politics is that politidcs is extremely good, but sometimes it is bad.
Ludwig IV, Holy Roman Emperor: bigmouth fake priest telling me to “drink a shitload of holy water and kill yourself” as penance? this has happened at three churches now.
Pope Benedict XII: it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the celebs are at it again.
Jehan III, duc de Bretagne: i just left an enormous pile of vomit behind golds gym for all of you abominable pig clowns to pick at #blackfridaydeals
Robert III d’Artois: (in really quiet, barely audible voice) hope your dick falls of bitch.
Hugues Quiéret: currently employed as Water Guru at the beach. it’s sort of like being a lifeguard except i have no inclination to touch the drowning people.
Geoffroy d’Harcourt: OH im so Fucking sorry “Your Majesty”, i didnt realize that dick rings were banished in this dystopian piss earth. Ur probably a 9gag poster.
Jacob van Artevelde: (in highly rational and cool voice) i have the higher follower count than them. i wiont let them undermine me.
Pope Clement VI: may the wind carry my tweets and soothte the sick, the wounded, the downtrodden of both man & beast, across the savage shit earth of trolls,
Jehanne de Valois, comtesse de Hainaut: startling how im the only person on this site with an actual human soul. you would think the other guys on here have one, but no.
Eudes IV, duc de Bourgogne: myth: making me mad is cool FACT: making me mad is a crap move& people who do it are all sociopathivc criminals with fucked up rotten brains.
Jehan de Montfort: turning my headlights off when driving at night,.. so that my Rivals cannot see me.
Jehanne de Flandre: i just want to find the optimal bra for sniper operations, but everoyne here is so rude, and pieces of shit.
Johann der Blinde of Bohemia: Q: If your post was proven by a counsil of wise men to be racist, or bullshit, would you bar it from the record? A: I do not delete my posts.
Charles II, comte d’Alençon: ((SPILLING BLOOD ALL OVER KEYBOARD) THIS IS WHAT U WANT. THIS IS WHAT U FUCKING BASTARDS WANT RIGHT (1 WEEK LATER) WHY ARE THE KEYS STICKING
Jehanne de Clisson: as far as im concerned the best revenge is ordering wolf piss online & pouring it into soneones car. “living well” is too hard.
Arnaud de Cervole: i will raze every forest and devour each city in blood tribute for the crime of 9/11!! please nbring back blue collar TV
Frank Hennequin: the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit.
William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury: im at the point in my life where i cant relate to any popular fictional characters unless they use massive amounts of hair gel and steriods.
Antonio Doria: my name is Destyn. i build crossbows and sell weed to all your dads and im 15.
Gautier VI de Brienne: MYTH: my posts are for the Pauper REALITY: my posts are for the Prince.
Étienne Marcel: looked at a newspaper today. looks like we’re getting taxed out the wazoo, with this president. anyone else see this shit? tax out the wazoo.
Guillaume Cale: “FEAR IS USED 2 ENSLAVE THE MASSES,” I SAID AS I RIPPED THE FUCKIN DECORATIVE CARDBOARD SKELETON OFF OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERS BULLETIN BOARD
Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu: girls always love to telling people not to“ Mansplain” but they do not care of, “Man's Pain”
Louis Iᵉʳ, comte de Flandre: 1) i do not owe you mother fuckers a damn thing 2) i will not hear any more questions or comments unless they pertain to MetroPCS, or Pepsi.
Philippe III de Navarre: the crusaders fire ballistas into my throbbing diaper- unlesashing a torrent of mustard yellow shit and poisoning the entire village.
Gaston II, comte de Foix: i am going to plunge a sword into our bed and officially end outr 40 yr marriage if you do not stop yelling while i am recording my stream’s.
Henry de Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster: please help my cousin “Bruno_THought_Leader” who just had his account suspended for threatening to “Fuck” brexit.
Robert Le Coq, Bishop of Laon: i have absolutely zero interest in friendship, i have absolutely zero interest in jokes, i am simply here to collect data and earn respect.
Jehan Iᵉʳ, comte d’Armagnac: the joke is on you fuck face. i actually love getting screamed at and publicly shamed for my dumb-assed bull shit . I love apologizing.
Bardi and Peruzzi families: boy oh boy do i love purchasing large amounnts of Fool’s Gold. wait a minute... fools gold fucking sucks. this stuff is no good..!! Fuck !!!
Jehanne II de Navarre: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and NIce manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT.
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton: if you have less than 1000 followers i can guarantee you that me and the boys share your posts in vip chat rooms and call you a "Muthafucka”.
William de la Pole: thinking about getting the dow jones back on track, simply by making a few phonecalls. but certain people have been a bitch to me, so i wont.
Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick: shutting computer down until the shitty moods & attitudes can fuck off., if you need me ill be on my other computer, sititng 60° to my right.
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent: ive heard from a reliable source that people arre putting their lips on to my girl friends avatars and going “muah muah muah.” cut it out.
Raoul II de Brienne, comte d’Eu: hate it when my boss knocks out the front leg of my desk with a baseball bat and funko pop lego shit flies every where.
Karel IV, Holy Roman Emperor: “RESULT You are the Serpant. YOu dislike loud places and people are constantly putting drama in your life. But you’re strong.” This is true.
Charles de Blois-Châtillon: torturing my damn dick with corn cob holders in Penance for the foul tone i took with the subway corporation today.
Jehanne de Penthièvre: i help every body, im not racist, i keep myself nice, and when i ask for a single re-tweet in return i am told to fuck off, fuck myself, etc.
Jacques Iᵉʳ de Bourbon, comte de La Marche: “ah boo hoo hoo i want to post Foul comments to content leaders” Fat Chance, Dimwit. I will annihilate you under bulwark of the Law and God.
John Chandos: DOCTOR: you cant keep doing this to yourself. being The Last True Good Boy online will destroy you. you must stop posting with honor ME: No,
Jehan d’Artos, comte d’Eu: , who had gone missing for 17 years and was presumed dead after failing to return from his ultimate dumpster diving life quest
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas: i get emails. i get emails saying the trolls have won, and that i should bow to them, since i have lost the battle. to this i say FAT-CHANCE.
David II of Scotland: “jail isnt real,” i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram the hallmark gift shop with my shitty bronco.
Charles de La Cerda: i think that turning myself Gay in the summer of 2013 would really impress my overseas investors.
William de Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury: my watch beeps whwich means its time to stand in front of my ex-wife’s house and play “Hit THe Road Jack” while dacning and licking her mail.
Edward the Black Prince: IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
Jehan III de Grailly: its fucked up how there are like 1000 christmas songs but only 1 song aboutr the boys being back in town.
Louis II, comte de Flandre: U Have Forced Me To Take Extreme Measures To Protect My Business And My Lifestyle.
Blanche de Navarre: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke “theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”
Charles II de Navarre: Sovereign Citizens Getting Owned Compilation
Philippe de Navarre: shooting off automatic rifles making horrible diarrhea shit noises as the recoil makes my tiny dick flop around. hell yeah. thats cool to me.
Charles, Dauphin de Viennois: surprise, dad. while you were witnessing the pennsylvania state lottery i tried on all your work gloves and they looked very handsome on me.
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Art, character, and all written properties are owned and created specifically by and for me. ■ Hero Basics Name: LiloVancoover Alias/Callsign: Matrix Age: 29 years Nationality: Mexican (Dorado) Occupation: Covert Operations Spy Affiliation: Vanderwood Industries Relations: Between Vanderwood, she is often hired under Overwatch for missions however she does not hold any solid loyalty to anyone. Base of Operations: Vanderwood Industry Underground HQ located in a rainforest district. Role: Defense, Flanker Health: 200 Shields: none Armor: none Advantages of Using This Hero: Able to get to unreachable areas rather efficiently to gain info on the other team by "tagging" an enemy for their team to see. In addition, her ability to pull out an enemy from battle towards her can be very helpful for a push, if at the sacrifice of her own life. Disadvantages of Using This Hero: Not really damage centered, and while her Neo Bombs can be efficient long range after gaining air, they're rather useless up close. Contributors: none, just myself. ■Weapon Weapon Name: Matrix System Primary Fire: Little "Neo Bombs" that are shot from her left robotic arm. [Type]: Splash area bombs. Damage: 20 short range, 25 mid range, 50 long range. [Ammo]: 10/10 [Reload Time]: 2 seconds [Headshot]: Yes, 60 damage ■Abilities Ability #1: Push Back Ability Voiceline: "Get off me, heathen." Description: 10, pushes back both parties a few meters from each other. Damages both the player and enemies in range [Cooldown]: 7 seconds Ability #2: Clutch Ability Voiceline: "Come to me." Description: latches onto an enemy and brings them to her position. [Cooldown]: 10 seconds Ability #3: Target Shot Ability Voiceline: "Oh my way." Description: Matrix uses her arms and legs to project herself onto a platform she is aiming at. [Cooldown]: 5 seconds Passive Ability: Standing Ground Description: Activates when an enemy is 5 meters at under half health. Is able to see them and allies to see them through walls. Ultimate: Final Stand Friendly Voiceline: "This ends now." Hostile Voiceline: "This ends here." Description: Unleashes five upgraded Neo Bombs that are dropped from around her and explode one by one. Damage: Each bomb deals deals 60 damage to an enemy. ■Character Personality: Lilo is a very reserved and quiet woman who generally tends to keep and lookout solely for herself. While she doesn't consider herself materialistic, she does care about her pay and status in life, believing the higher up she is in status the better. In this way, she does own a bit of a superiority complex in that she believes she is better and smarter than most of the people running the show these days. Lilo loves the quiet and being on her own, finding her missions for Vanderwood even SOOTHING despite the bounty she is placing on people's head and the risk that comes along with it. She is very great under pressure and honestly gets a bit of a thrill from her missions and even getting caught. As weird as that may seem, she sometimes even goes as far as to place herself into compromising the mission at hand just to have a bit of her own sick fun. If someone has the ability to befriend her, she can be very close with them in confidence and even a bit close in the sense that she'll stick near and even lean on them in casual situations. However, if she is around people she does NOT trust or consider her friend, she'll likely only give you a few curt words that are at least kind as opposed to her condescending norm. Appearance: [Casual Wear] Her robotic arms and legs are attached and cannot be taken off. In a way, they are very much apart of her. When off duty, she wears normal, loose fitting, and simple tops that don't interfere with her biocybernetics and Life Support (for comfort). Bottoms generally are always shorts or skirts thst don't fall lower than her knees. She has tanned skin with spattering of darker freckles over her cheeks, shoulders, upper arms, and on her back. Backstory: Lilo grew up normally for the most part, if not with the knowledge of having a brighter mind than most her age on account of her two omnic adoptive parents telling her so as much as they did. She was able to go to a small exclusive school for learning due to her wealthy living early on. However...when the omnic crisis hit she immediately spurned her parents and went into hiding on her own. In this time she set up her own little computer like setup where she did a lot of underground research as a way to get to the root of all of the problems. However, just as she came close to finding an important piece of the puzzle her hideout was found by looters who stole and wrecked her equipment and left her beat up on the streets. On that very day the omnics invaded her town. An explosion caught her as have tried to flee and blew off her arms and legs. When she awoke next she was under the lights of a Vanderwood doctor table light and having her vitals stabilized. Over the next few years she was customized with robotic gear that kept her alive and trained to be what she is now. While she owes her life the agency and her cause, she never really liked picking sides. While she's since abandoned her hunt for knowledge of the behind the scenes of the entire war and the raging of all sides, she does want to someday find out the truth and be apart of the force that vanquishes them...if only for the fame. ■Personal Effects Emotes:  [Default]: Heroic [Default Action]: Matrix stands up straight, shifts her weight to her left leg, and crosses her arms. - [Emote #1]: Sit Emote Action: She sits down with her knees drawn to her chest and arms holding them there. - [Emote #2]: Very Funny Emote Action: Crosses her arms and offers a sarcastic laugh. In-Match Voicelines: [CHATTER]: Hero Intially Selected: "I wonder what this mission has in store for us today..." During Wait Time: "Hmm." Respawn: Thrilled laughter. Healed/ Health Pack Picked Up: "I am better." Damage Boosted: "I feel stronger, now." Nano-boosted: "I cannot be stopped." Discord Orb Received: n/a Resurrected: n/a Enemy Resurrected: n/a [COMMUNICATION WHEEL]: Greetings: "Hello," "Hola," "Greetings." Thanks: "Appreciated." Acknowledge: "Understood." Need Healing: "I'm in need of medical assistance." Group Up: "Come to me." Ultimate Status: [Charging]: "My ultimate is charging." [Almost Ready]: "My Final Stance is almost up." [Ready]: "I am ready for my Final Stand." [CALL OUTS]: Hero Change: "Matrix on call." Sniper Detected: "Careful. There is a sniper afoot." Turret Detected: "A pesky turret is in our way." Turret Destroyed: "Turret has been dealt with." Teleporter Detected: "I believe the enemy has a teleporter." Teleporter Sighted: "Enemy teleporter has been vanquished." Teleporter Destroyed: "Enemy teleporter has been sited." Capturing the Objective: "On the objective. Converge here now." Losing the Objective: "The objective is being taken, rally to defend the point." Escorting the Payload: "I am one with the payload." Stop the Payload: "The payload is moving, stop it." Payload Halted: "Why has the payload stopped?" Time is Running Out (on Attack): "Keep it moving, we're out of time." Time is Running Out (on Defense): "Don't stop, we need to win this." [ELIMINATIONS]: Final Blow: "Careful." Melee Final Blow: A snort and a laugh. Solo Elimination: n/a Kill Streak: "I can't be stopped." Multi-kill: "Hm. What do you know." Witnessed Elimination: n/a Revenge: "Ha ha." [PURCHASABLE VOICELINES]  #1: "You aren't worth the ground you stand on." #2: "You're very funny...on mars." Sarcastic. #3: "Wow...you must be the life of the party." Sarcastic. #4: "How nice." Pre-Match Dialouge: [Sombra]: "Fancy seeing you here, Lilo." [Matrix]: "I'd hold your tongue if I were you." [Matrix]: "Your equipment. It is very nice." [Symmetra]: "And yours works for what it does."
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Yokai Watch 3 Sukiyaki Translation
(Masterpost for my Yokai Watch translations can be found here)
This will contain spoilers for a sidequest from Sukiyaki and version 2.0 of the other Yokai Watch 3 games, so proceed with caution.
This will be a translation of optional dialouge about Ikakamone (McKraken) and the Yōkai World, that you can see after the “ENMA NOTE” sidequests.
After you’ve finished both ENMA NOTE quests you can return to Enma’s place and talk to the various people that are there. Talk to Inumaro and he will tell you a bit about the Yōkai World and Ikakamone’s takeover of the protagonist’s hometown.
There is some interesting stuff in here that explains how the world works a little better, but its a bit hard to explain because of some stuff in the English localization, so bear with me and please read my translation notes.
Also, you may recall me posting an inclomplete version of this before. Since it’s optional dialouge I’ve been having trouble finding it, but finally I saw that twitter user noshibeya seemed to have screencapped all of it, so I can finally translate this bit.
I hope this is all of it, but I don’t know for certain.
Bolded is original Japanese; for reference and in case someone who is better at Japanese than I reads this, and feels like correcting something.
Bolded and italicized is my translation.
(Number) Indicates I got a specific comment to make on that part in the translation notes.
Please keep in mind that I’m a beginner when it comes to Japanese, so it’s possible that I make mistakes, too.
(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Inumaro: おまえは たしか桜町… いや さくらニュータウンに 住んでおったな。 If I'm not mistaken, you live in Sakura-machi... no, Sakura New Town. (1)
Inumaro: かつて イカカモネという妖怪が 人間を支配する事件を起こした場所か…。 The place where that yōkai called Ikakamone once caused an incident by trying to rule humans, huh...? (2)
Inumaro: エンマさまは その事件をきっかけに あの街を 気にかけるようになったのだ。 As a result of that incident, Lord Enma began to care about that town. ()
(I'm assuming a text box along the lines of "Do you want me to tell this story?", like with the other stories, would go here, but wasn't photographed.)
Inumaro: うむ… まずは この妖怪ワールドについて 話をせねばな。 Hmm... First, I should tell you about this Yōkai World. (3)
Inumaro: 妖怪ワールドは 果てしなく広い。 そこには 数多の 「妖魔界」 が存在する。 The Yōkai World is endlessly vast. Within it, numerous "Yōmakai" exist. (3)
Inumaro: そして今のエンマさまは まだまだお若い。 その力がおよばない妖魔界もあったんだ。 And the current Lord Enma is still young. There are Yōmakai which his power cannot reach, too.
Inumaro: 中には エンマさまに従いもせず 身勝手に 各地の妖魔界を 支配するものもいた。 Within them, there are also individuals that selfishly rule over various Yōmakai around the world, without obeying Lord Enma. (4)
Inumaro: さくらニュータウンから通じていた妖魔界も そのうちの ひとつだったのだ。 The Yōmakai that Sakura New Town leads to used to be one of those, too.
Inumaro: イカカモネは その妖魔界を「魔界」 と呼び 魔界の支配者 「魔界議長」 を名乗った。 Ikakamone called this Yōmakai "Makai", and named himself its ruler, "Makai Chairman". (5)
Inumaro: だが さくらニュータウンに古くから住む 妖怪たちが 行動をおこしてな… But, I heard that yōkai, who have lived in Sakura New Town since long ago, took action...
Inumaro: 街を 支配から解き放ったと聞いておる。 「妖怪と人間の絆」をつなぐ者と共に…な。 ...freeing the town from his control. Together with someone who connects "the bonds between humans and yōkai"... yeah.
Inumaro: その後 イカカモネはとらえられ 重い罰を 与えられることになった。 Afterwards, Ikakamone was captured, and given a severe punishment.
Inumaro: エンマさまが 事件を知ったのは すべてが終わったあとのことだった…。 Lord Enma learned of the incident after everything was over...
Inumaro: だが エンマさまは あの街にあふれる 「妖怪と人間の絆」にお気づきになられた。 But, Lord Enma noticed the "bonds between yōkai and humans" that were overflowing in that town.
Inumaro: あの街は 閻魔一族と親交の深かった妖怪も 人間のまざって 暮らしていたからな。 Because in that town, there are also yōkai who are close friends of the Enma Clan, living and associating with humans. (6)
Inumaro: 彼らの生き方を 知ったあとだろう。 エンマさまの想いが より強くなったのは。 I assume it happened after learning of their way of life. The fact that Lord Enma's feelings grew stronger. (7)
Inumaro: 「人間と妖怪が仲良く暮らす世界」への… かつての先代と 同じ想いがな。 Aiming for a "wold where humans and yōkai live together in peace"... The same feelings his predecessor had long ago.
Notes:
1. Sakura New Town is called Springdale in English.
Sakura-machi is what Sakura New Town was called in the past, in the Japanese version. In the English version however, Springdale did not have a differen’t name in the past, and when travelling to the past in YKW2, it’s simply called “Old Springdale”.
2. Ikakamone is called McKraken in English.
3.The phrase I translated as “to care” here is 気にかける/ki ni kakeru which means something like “to care”, but also “to have it on your mind“, and the like.
3. The 妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World that Inumaro mentions here is technically not the same as the place as the one that was called Yo-kai World in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2. More on that in the next note.
4. The term 妖魔界/Yōmakai is what the place that is called Yo-kai World, in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2, is called in the original Japanese version. It doesn’t seem to be a term exclusive to Yokai Watch and has appeared in some other stuff, but not that often from what I can tell.
It is made up of these kanji:
妖/Yō (the same “yō” as in “yōkai”, depending on the context it can mean something like “mysterious” or “bewitching”, among other things),
魔/Ma (in general meaning something like “demonic” and/or “magical”),
and 界/Kai (meaning “world”; it’s not the same “kai” as in “yōkai”, by the way.)
Furthermore, 妖魔/yōma is a word that can mean “demon”, “ghost”, or “monster” and can be considered somewhat synomynous to “yōkai”. And 魔界/Makai is a word that is often translated as “spirit world” or “hell”
(Note that the word used for the Infinite Inferno’s Japanese name, Infinite Hell, is a different word from this one).
Previously, it was thought that 妖魔界/Yōmakai referred to the world the yōkai live in as whole, but with what Inumaro says here, YKW3 has now revealed that it’s just a term that refers to different smaller parts of it, and  妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World is the term that refers to the world as a whole.
Adding to that, the place that got called Yo-kai World in the English versions of YKW1 and YKW2 has been revealed to simply be the 妖魔界/Yōmakai that is connected to Sakura New Town (Springdale), in other words, just a small part of the ACTUAL 妖怪ワールド/Yōkai World.
However, be aware that the term 妖魔界/Yōmakai is still often used to refer to the Yōkai World as a whole, which I know is even more confusing, but the reason for that is likely the fact that in Japanese there is no direct plural or singular with words.
Thus, 妖魔界/Yōmakai as a term can refer to more than one Yōmakai, so it can be used to essentially refer to all of them at once.
I hope this explanation is understandable.
5. Like I mentioned above, 魔界/Makai is a word that is often translated as “spirit world” or “hell”,  made up of the kanji 魔/Ma, and 界/Kai.
I think the idea here might be that he changed it from a word that could easily be translated as “World of Yōma” (again, “yōma” being somewhat synomynous to “yōkai”) to a word that ca come across as more sinister?
6. Because there is no true plural in Japanese, this could technically either refer to multiple, or just a single yōkai being friends with the Enma Clan.
For me, Orochi (Venoct) is a yōkai that comes to mind with this, but, after translating this quest, I feel like it’s also a possibility that this line also refers to the people that Enma meets up with during it.
Therefore I went with plural in this translation.
7. The word I translated as “feelings” here is 想い/omoi  which can also mean emotions, thoughts, or sentiments, among other things.
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theprettiestshit · 7 years
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What we think about dumpster diving for make-up
What are your thoughts on dumpster diving for make-up?
Join the writers on Meetpepperb.com as we have a dialogue on our thoughts about dumpster diving for makeup.
Feel free to join in by meeting us in the comment section:
Pepper:  What drove me to write about dumpster diving is one day while on a work trip. I took a late night walk to Seven11 to get some essentials with a coworker, as we were leaving she mention this pile of food that was being locked up and put in the trash. I mentioned to her during my first high school job at Starbucks I would take all the leftover food and give it to the homeless shelter a few doors down. Thereafter she mentions " Well that I understand and thats amazing because the food just goes to waste and thats horrible" This is a real thing and some people who have lower income and no means to feed there family dumpster diving is something that works for them. I couldn't fault them either If I had no way to feed my family it would consist of whatever it takes. My co worker proceeds " What I don't get is the dumpster diver for make-up" at the this point the weird horror music begin to play. My mouth hit the floor all though I am in beauty Ive never heard of this before. I begin to do what I do best and I start to research deeper and this was best video I could find to describe this action in a nutshell please video right below and proceed for our dialouge
Danyelle 3/13/17
What you have is $6,000 worth of high-risk infection.
Did she say her mom!?! Mami, no!!!! These are not skills we want to be carried from generation to generation! Maybe I’m a snob, but the idea that these girls are going to put conditioner-soaked-dumPSTER-EYEshadow on their EYES just made me sick. Repressing an eyeshadow is NOT CLEANING IT!!!! Please just apply to work at a makeup store so you can enjoy the gratis! Being broke isn’t even a reason. Hi, I’d like to introduce you ELF cosmetics. You can snatch your face for the price of that Tarte palette you ‘cleaned.’
 The lipstick. Jesus.  How could you put something that was in the trash on your face let alone your mouth! You are not trying to keep yourself fed. Makeup is a luxury at all price ranges. I love makeup, but this is not worth the risk! I’m sorry, but the girl is going through the skincare talking about pore cleansing but you about to rub dumpster lipstick on your lips. Where is the sense?
Danyelle 3/13/17
Omg. Never have I ever wanted to be an internet troll in my life. 
“I do plan on doing a giveaway.” No thanks, boo. That’s all you. For you and only you.
I had to scroll through the comment section, and look what found:
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE LIKES!!!! I am all about making friends, but you cannot be bonding over finding trash to put on your face. 
Danyelle 3/13/17
I’m sorry that your circumstances are have led you to dig in the trash so you can find makeup. I do not take for granted how lucky I am to even be able to buy the products I love. But, honey, there are other methods. There are organizations that donate makeup to people in need. Here is one of them called Project Beauty Share.
3/20/2017 @Acevalle 
"Over $6700 worth of dirt and dignity. Excuse me for being overly dramatic but this video left some scars. I’m a germaphobe and I honestly don’t even really like applying the testers at Sephora on my face let alone take something out of a dumpster… not trash can… HUGE Dumpster… that you have to climb in that was combined with other trash. OH THE HORROR.. The Bacteria floating Horror. WHY? What would possess you to dig in a dumpster late at night? Why would you risk infection and life long pink eye? Is it desperation? At this point I’m not only horrified but also incredibly curious. Just because you rubbed a little alcohol and melted that disgusting lipstick palette does not mean it is disinfected, if anything you just blended the melted product and remaining germs together. I’m so incredibly disturbed that this seems like a family activity and you can even hear children in the background in complete awe of the massive amount of items that were found. I understand that there are some products that are pricey and you lust for them but like I grew up very poor but every time I had birthday money or with every little job I could snag, I’d save up for a product I’ve been lusting after. Plus there are a lot of great products out there for less that 5 dollars!!!! this is unnecessary. Not to sound naive but I don’t even think money is the case here, They live in a house and have a car and wifi and a computer and phone to upload to youtube. I’m curious as to why this girl and her fam are doing this? I NEED TO KNOW!! I don’t want to come off as mean or anything like that but I’m just so bothered because this is just so gross and unhealthy to the largest organ of our bodies… our skin! as well as Eyes, and Mouth/Lips also pride. What I find totally shocking is THE FOLLOWING this girl has… almost hitting 10,000 subscribers. They all aspire to dig trough the dumpsters near their local ultras to grab products!!! Lawd!!!!!"  -- @acevalle
Deanna P
Conceptually it sounds like fun.  You jump into a dumpster & rummage around for valuables & when you find some you feel like you hit the Jackpot!  On the other hand you are in a dirty dumpster with garbage, possibly rodents & roaches, & whatever else someone has discarded.  The thought of this outweighs the feeling of finding something valuable.  I would opt out & find a more sure & cleaner way of finding a treasure like getting to the end of a rainbow! 
Comment below & tell us your thoughts!!!!!!!
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