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Ayo I just logged back in to find IT HAS KICKED OFF IN HERE
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SERENDIPITY (teaser)
18+ / mdi
summary: jungkook, god of love and son of venus is given the task by his mother herself to rid the world of you, known as psyche, as your beauty begins to rival her own. unfortunately for all parties involved, jungkook becomes enamored by you upon accidentally pinching himself with his own arrow.
content: cupid!jungkook, psyche!reader, an extremely simplified and smutty version of the og story, afab reader, side character deaths, mentions of attempted suicide, the dialogue is not super fitting of the times, angst(?), fluff, smut, they have sex where she doesnt know who he is multiple times but its consensual, penetrative sex, oral (f receiving), etc.
(^ no actual content warnings in the teaser)
wc: 841 (teaser); 8.6k (full fic)
release date: may 3rd
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"Why did you call for me, again?"
"Jungkook, pay attention!", hissed his mother, holding her fingers to her temples in stress as one of her many servants walked in with the fruit she'd requested, "I need you to use your arrows on someone."
"What? Why? I thought you didn't like me meddling with people's love lives."
"This is different. This one needs a little help," Venus frowned in sheer annoyance, "She is known as Psyche by many, Y/N by her loved ones. She has become quite a figure among the Roman population. Some have begun to worship her beauty. They pray to her, they bring her offerings, they kiss at her feet, completely disregarding the true Goddess of Beauty."
"And where does this concern me?", Jungkook was beyond bored by his mother's ramblings. On a usual day, he would be out and entertaining himself with the many mortal maidens found around Rome, always guaranteeing himself a partner for the day.
Venus shot Cupid a look as her servants fed her by mouth, making him straighten his back and begin paying better attention. Even as the Goddess of Beauty, Venus was known as one of the most menacing Goddesses to exist, holding far too much power among all Gods and Goddesses. Jungkook couldn't help but feel intimidated by her, even as carefree as he was known to be.
"She has far too many admirers. Even Gods are beginning to show interest in her, yet she is lacking in suitors thus far. I need you to shoot your arrow and tie her off to the most hideous creature you can muster. She may seize from being a disturbance this way."
"Okay, so you want me to doom her to an eternity with a monster?", Jungkook tilted his head in curiosity.
Despite being considered the most beautiful entity, Jungkook knew Venus to be one of the least amicable creatures in all of the land. Mortals were blissfully unaware of her cruelty, thinking her to be the most perfect among all Goddesses. However, Cupid, as her son, knew of the misery that awaited anyone who crossed the Goddess of Beauty.
Venus halted her movements in frustration, scaring the servants nearby before turning to Jungkook in annoyance, "Cupid, my son, you will obey my order without question. I gave you those wings, I gave you that bow., and I gave you that arrow. I don't care how cruel you may think me to be, this is an order. You shall not utilize your powers for your own endeavors until you finish your task," she demanded, "Now, go rid me of that wench before I find someone else to do the job."
With a sigh, Jungkook nodded in defeat, fully aware of the type of punishments his mother could deliver should he disobey her orders. Walking over to the window through which he had originally entered, he pulled his bow and arrow from his back, beginning to fly off with his wings as he embarked on a journey to seek out the mighty Psyche that had his mother so worried.
"Y/N, there's another letter from one of your admirers," announced Psyche's mother, placing the letter on the huge pile of gifts provided by the many civilians who came visit their castle with the hope of getting a glimpse of the beautiful girl.
"Mother, what shall I do with all these? There's so many letters yet not a single suitor," you sighed, frustrated at the lack of prospects you'd had so far, "My sisters have both married, yet I am left alone with no one to seek my heart."
"Child, you should be grateful," said your mother, "You are admired through all the land, vied for as if you were a true Goddess. Someone will come for you one day, rest assured," affirmed your mother, petting your hair as she landed a soft kiss on your forehead and took her leave once more.
It was easy for your parents to grow used to the love and admiration you received. Endless people would come and dedicate themselves to their servitude if it meant as much as receiving your blessing – which was absolutely worthless as a mere princess in a land filled with mystical deities.
Your elder sisters had both been married off months back, finding old yet respectable husbands to take them away and care for them as any and all husbands should. You, however, remained alone with your parents, always hoping that a man would be brave enough to court you.
It was unfortunate, really; the way in which your beauty prevented you from receiving any suitors. You had not chosen to be blessed by Venus herself, nor did you ever hope to become her contender in the title of the most beautiful entity in all of creation. Unlike you, she had found a God to sweep her off her feet, gifting her with the fruit of love himself – her son Cupid. Oh, how you wished he'd shoot his arrow and allow you some rest from this endless search for a husband.
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+ for posterity I hope people know how inextricably linked McLaren's passive and active malice is to the erasure of Daniel's credentials in the public domain. he was seldom defended last year. And never this year.
On November 3rd 2020, 58 days before Daniel became a McLaren driver, Ross Brawn, F1's managing director, dedicated part of his last column of the year to Daniel saying “Daniel Ricciardo is a brilliant driver, and one of the very best in Formula1 [...]I hope McLaren can give Daniel a car he deserves next season. He’s a great member of the F1 fraternity.” And reiterated that Daniel is a championship contender whose never been in a contending car
He's tied for second place with Lewis for most wins starting outside the top 3. For reference, first is Alonso and Raikkonen, he's tied with Lewis for second and 3rd is Schumacher. 4th is Jenson Button. All champions while he's never been in a championship contending car
McLaren letting the *Daniel is not a very adaptable driver* narrative run rampant when in his supposed "bad" first year at Renault in 2019, he ran out the incumbent driver and produced unimpressive feats like going from 20th to 4th on two occasions.
Broke Renault's 10 year podium drought. Twice.
People genuinely running with that bizarre conspiracy that Daniel is poor in the technical realm of F1 when Cyril, who had no reason to defend or protect Daniel after he announced his departure said that the technical breakthrough Renault had was solely Daniel's doing and the only reason they were even able to compete for 3rd in the championship + "Daniel will be competing with a stronger team next year thanks to his own efforts"
The first driver in 8 years to score multiple fast laps without being part of a top 3 team, a record previously held by Raikkonen
In 2019 Nico Rosberg revealing that during briefings Mercedes drivers would ask not to be released around Daniel after pitting because if he's in front of you he's not going to let you through and if he's behind you he's overtaking you.
Helmut Marko, known cunt and crackhead, admitting that the only time they've had 2 drivers matched in performance at Red Bull was during the Ricciardo-Verstappen line up.
People saying he was too arrogant and egotistical (¿¿¿) to gel with the team like. When was the last fucking time a driver went to another teams garage to apologise to another driver's mechanics for a racing incident he was NOT penalised for, during a wet session, where Carlos Sainz himself said Daniel couldn't have changed the outcome if he tried.
In his first year in Red Bull, during the most radical regulation change in recent f1 history, he was the only driver besides mercedes to win a race. He won 3 races.
This is Daniel's calibre, and no amount of historical romanticism from McLaren or their paid shills will ever change that.
#I'll get over many things#not this anger though :)#f1#daniel ricciardo#mclaren#formula 1#Japanese gp 2022
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Will Murder Drones get a Season 2?
Alrighty. So, after GLITCH's post yesterday of Digital Circus that also mentioned "We're also working hard on Murder Drones & will be releasing final episodes soon!", which sent a lot of the fandom (including yours truly) into a panic that this meant these are the final episodes for the SERIES and not the 1st season. However, that felt off to me since GLITCH has been promoting MD as Season 1 and not a short series, which, if it had always intended to be only 8 episodes, it would've been. That's just how it goes in the industry for online series. And I believe GLITCH wouldn't make that kind of mistake in marketing. It'd be different too if it was only promoted as Season 1 for the teaser, but it's been that way up until that Digital Circus post. Hell, here are some of the things Kevin and Liam said during GlitchX:
"I remember when we were coming up with the, uh, this is like way before when, you know, Murder Drones was really, like we were really going for a smaller, smaller show-" - Kevin
"The whole oil thing that was getting set up in the pilot, that was gonna be like a MASSIVE sort of plot thread throughout the season." - Kevin
"Because in terms of importance to kind of where I want the story to go, it just ended up being less relevant." - Liam
"We, um, did the opposite of that. I think the series as it progressed, which I think is - it is intentional, I would say. We have gone from, I think, supremely silly to supremely kind of self-serious." - Liam
"There's so many dog easter eggs if you go and watch through the entire season." - Kevin
"We are announcing the finale of the season." - Kevin
With everything they said, none of it sounds like Murder Drones was intended to be a single season series. Now, this leaves two questions myself and I'm sure some of you have, "Why haven't they announced a S2 yet then and why are they barely posting MD?" I decided to enter analyzation mode and went digging through GLITCH's Twitter and YouTube. What I found was that this isn't GLITCH's first time handling their series like this.
Meta Runner Season 1 (Animated Movie Cut) was released on Aug 28, 2020 and in the description Season 2 was immediately announced since they already had it done.
Meta Runner Season 2 - EP 1: Hard Reset released Oct 16, 2020. The final episode for S2, "EP 10: Fatal Error" was released Dec 18, 2020 and there was no mention of the 3rd and final season.
Want to know when they announced it? Not until Nov 29, 2021. Over a YEAR later.
And before that they barely posted anything of MR. At first it was Sunset Paradise, and then once that series was about to conclude they started posting about MD. A lot. Way more than they have for DC. And when they announced S3 for MR they didn't even mention it was the series finale! That wasn't announced until May 6, 2022, 6 months after S3 was even announced.
However, once they did they made it VERY clear it was the final season. 99% of their posts of MR after that mentioned it was the final season.
So, to conclude my thoughts. I don't think we should be worried. I wouldn't suggest getting our hopes up TOO high, because despite GLITCH handling MD the same way they did MR, there's always the chance MD doesn't get a second season. That way we're not deeply disappointed if it doesn't, but after looking into it I personally feel a lot more confident MD will get a S2. Just be prepared that if GLITCH doesn't say anything, it could be up to a year before they do, but if MR fans could hold out for as long as they did, we can too. Don't forget either GLITCH isn't only working on the first season of DC. They're also working on the pilot for Gaslight District.
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The ULTIMATE LSK Thread Of Koincidences
I've decided to piece together all the Koincidences that I could find since fall 2019.
It's easy to not understand LSKs when you haven't seen all the flagging that they've been doing, especially with how the Lover Era went as well as Folkmore.
But once you start to piece all those hints together in a timeline, it paints a pretty clear picture.
I've spent hours in both their social medias pages and searching for Timelines done by other amazing blogs on here.
I'll credit when needed and link to the timelines.
I'm used to doing threads on Twitter and posting everything, not just link. I'll do the same here because I've notice that a lot of posts linked into timelines on here were deleted. This way all the informations are in one place.
If there's things that I missed, don't hesitate to tell me and I'll update the thread!
IMPORTANT: I've linked all the important piece of Kaylor Lore when necessary for you to better understand the references. So when there's a (X) beside something, it's a link to more informations about that subject to help you better understand.
August 2019:
August 3rd:
Karlie's birthday. Taylor posts the famous Bi Hearts Crispies Treats, that will star in the Lover Lyrics Video later too.
August 8th:
Taylor is on the Cover of Vogue.
She is wearing a Cartier Love Ring. Karlie wears one too, she has wore it for a very long time now (years before this article) on her right ring finger.
Right ring finger is used by LGBTQ+ couples for marriage or to indicate that the person is in a serious relationship.
Karlie has been wearing hers a lot more (in almost all her pictures) since summer 2022. (X)
And it's the very definition of Love Locked Down (X)
On the website it says: "Lock in your love forever" (X)
August 16th:
Lover is out as a single exactly 13 days after Karlie's birthday
The lyrics video is completely filled with Kaylor's references. I did a thread on Twitter (X).
Also, Lover lasts 3:41, wich is 143 backwards = I Love You.
August 18:
Karlie was listening to Lover on repeat on Spotify.
It was even reported by Taylor's news accounts on Twitter:
August 22:
Lover MV is out. Taylor uses the You Are In Love lyrics to announced it.
Confirming that it was inspired by those lyrics: "You two are dancing in a snow globe round and round" wich are a reference to VSFS 2013.
I will not do MV analysis in this thread because it will never end if I start. But I'll link them when I have.
Septembre 2019:
Septembre 9th :
Paris City Of Lover Concert.
The mural on the stage is extremely Kaylor Coded.
Here's a post I did about this (X)
Septembre 27th:
Eye theory reference by Karlie on Instagram
Ps: On this thread I'll refer to only the ones I find very clear, because there's so much.
If you don't know about The Eye Theory, it's a piece of lore extremely important. Here's a post I did about it (X).
Septembre 29th:
Karlie does a post leaving Paris and saying "Au Revoir" wich is oddly similar to a post Taylor did in May that year.
Octobre 2019:
Octobre 2nd:
Karlie talks in one of her Klossy video on YouTube about the time she cut her hair short. How at first she was insecure about it.
And she talks about the 2013 VSFS where it was the first time that she walked with her hair short.
And she says that people would come to her to say that they wanted the same haircut.... like Taylor did.
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Octobre 29th:
Taylor posts on her Instagram about the International Cat Day.
Karlie liked the post. (I'm pretty sure it's the last Taylor's post ever that she'd like).
Novembre 2019:
Novembre 13th:
Kaylor meeting anniversary (X)
Taylor:
The Lover Remix with Shawn Mendez is out.
There's the new line written by Taylor : "Look into my eyes they will tell you the truth, the girl in my story has always been you".
The Lover and the heart on her eye are now gold. (X)
The lyrics video is on a snow globe now, throwback to YAIL.
She announces the new remix all over New York's billboards.
Karlie
She releases a Klossy video where she shows what's on her phone.
And you see a sequence where she answers a group chat nammed BFFs, and Taylor is in it. (You see her Lover Instagram pfp of the time).
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Novembre 24th:
Karlie announces on Instagram a new community phone number that you can use to text her.
And if you do... the text you receive says: "all other texts are coming from ME!"...
Also...Eye Theory.
Novembre 25th :
Taylor performs Lover at the AMA.
During the number, there's a ballerina dancing that seems to always want to go toward Taylor but keeps coming back to the man instead.
There's even a moment where she's drawn back to the man and hit him to run back to Taylor, but he brings her back to him.
The Ballerina is Misty Copeland. (and here's the scene described above)
Source of the video: iwanthermidnightz (X)
In April 2017 Karlie said in an interview for Love Magazine with Derek Blasberg that she was fan on Misty Copeland. (X)
Ballet is VERY important for Karlie since she was young.
Misty follows both Karlie and Taylor on Instagram
And in 2021, she wore a "Like a Kloss" shirt on pictures she posted.
Decembre 2019:
Decembre 4th:
Kissgate anniversary (X)
Taylor wears the Victoria Secret Angel Ring.
She wore this ring for the first time on Octobre 23rd 2016, the last time Karlie and Taylor were papped together at an event (Drake's birthday) AKA 2190 days exactly since Midnights release (Glitch).
See my Love Blackout post for more informations (X)
She wore it ever since at important events to signal Karlie.
Decembre 10th:
Taylor post Cats promotion on Instagram with picture of her through a giant door.
The next episode of Project Runway, Karlie walks though a giant door the same way for a Cats promo.
Decembre 11th:
Eye Theory post on Karlie's Instagram
Decembre 17th:
Karlie post a video on Klossy where she mentions falconery, seemingly out of context with what she was saying. And put an accent on it by having a Falcon animation.
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Wich is interesting because back in August, Taylor released the Lover Lyrics Video with a lot of Kaylor references (see the link I put back in august).
But on that video, there's a reference to their Big Sur second trip (X)
With a picture of Taylor holding a falcon.
Decembre 31st:
Karlie post a collection of her Vogue covers on Instagram.
And there's the one that she did with Taylor. (X)
There you have it!
Fall of 2019.
It's pretty loud but honnestly in the Timeline, it's the less loud period of all.
Things gets REALLY interesting toward 2020-2021 and SUPER loud in 2022 and SCREAMS in 2023.
I'll continue this thread tomorrow but rebloging and adding to it years by years.
If there's things I missed don't hesitate to tell me so I'll add it!
I'll probably edit this to add things if there's things I forgot. I'll note everytime something is added.
This Masterpost helped me make this part (X)
The 2020 Part 1 is ready here (X)
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In the banquet hall of a king who famously adores cats and lets dozens of them roam freely about the castle at all times, heedless of how many nobles and courtiers are allergic to them, we have…
👛 The proud noblewoman who simply refuses to sneeze at all more than a muffled stifle into one of her or her husband’s seemingly endless supply of handkerchiefs. No matter how desperately itchy her nose gets, any meaningful relief will have to wait until a moment in private. Similarly, no one at court will ever hear her blow her nose; even at its most runny and clogged she will make do with endlessly wiping it on her handkerchiefs or trying to appease it with the most mild, girlish, barely effective sniffles.
🏏 The tomboyish princess who resents all aspects of nobility and dreams of one day running away with the stablehand to live in a cottage by the distant sea. She boisterously exaggerates her hitching breaths before each sneeze and makes no effort whatsoever to cover them, often pausing afterwards to let a long drip hang audaciously from her nose for a full few seconds before wiping it on her sleeve or just snurfling it back.
⚔️ The stout royal guard stationed by the door, clad in half-armor even during this peaceful meal for the sake of presentation, who fumbles in his steel gauntlets whenever he wants to wipe his generously sized and continuously running nose. Periodically he will let out what by his standards at home is a politely contained sneeze, but in actuality is noticeably boisterous enough to be easily identified even among the clamor of the dining hall.
💎 The foppish young statesman who projects as much of himself as possible into social space under the pretense of polite reservation. Speaking stuffily through the lacily embroidered handkerchief he’s often brandishing daintily to hold underneath the wide nostrils of his nose, he will loudly announce his sneezes and apologize repeatedly for them, frequently with a whining excuse for his frequent interruptions about how he’s just so sneezy.
🛡️ The masc-presenting knight whose reaction isn’t actually all that severe, and so in its own way more annoying. Rarely sneezing, but often sniffling, their otherwise handsome features are constantly twisted with aggravation at a perpetual feeling like hair stuck to the edge of their nostrils, tickly enough to be noticeable and maybe hitch a breath or two but not reliably build into a release.
📜 The advisor whose ambitions and accomplishments drive her to a seat near the king, and therefore the highest concentration of cats, despite her absolutely debilitating allergies. By the end of the 3rd course she will have a completely plugged nose, swelling eyes, a rash creeping up all her exposed skin, and fits of sneezes counting a half-dozen or more. Nevertheless she persists, unwilling to miss any opportunity to be near the royalty during a potential moment of important discourse.
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So, this is it, huh?
I figured the least I could do was write something down before shit goes down because I know after tomorrow I don't think I'll be emotionally available to do or say much about the show and what it and the fanbase means to me.
The last few days, my mind has been a whirlwind of emotions and I don't think I've ever really suspended my disbelief since it was announced that this would be the last season.
I felt like Po honestly, in Kung Fu Panda 2, when he's like "But I just got Kung Fu!" when they're talking about Lord Shen making that weapon that straight-up kills people who practice Kung Fu (I'm going somewhere with this just bear with me-) because I'm fairly new to the animated shows of Star Wars fandom and didn't start hyperfixating on Bad Batch until midway through Season 2 while those episodes were still releasing.
So when they announced that the 3rd season was the final season I was devastated. "What do you mean no more Bad Batch? I just got Bad Batch!" - I didn't want to believe it.
But here we are. Final season. Final episode.
I can't describe how the obsession started. It just did.
When the first season was coming out, I was still on Season 6 of TCW, so I got into it a little late. Then when it was over I immediately jumped into watching Rebels and became utterly obsessed with that show while Bad Batch just stayed, "Oh, neat show I watched."
Then the second season came out. I don't know how or when or why but suddenly something just went off in my brain and I became obsessed. I became attached. I fell in love with Wrecker in a way that I've never once felt or experienced towards any other fictional character, or person for that matter. I grew to understand Crosshair on a deeper level that made my heart ache for him and made me reflect on my own past and choices. Echo became a comfort character and an anchor in my life in where he's the first thing I think of when I'm down to put myself in a better mood. Suddenly I was ready to give Omega the universe and everything good in it. Tech became a lifelife (ironically) a hope that despite how I am and who I am, I'm capable of loving and being loved. And recently I've become so incredibly attached to Hunter because as the oldest child of five as well, I know that crushing weight of responsibility. Of failing your siblings. Of trying to be better.
This squad. This family. Cheesy as it is, I can't describe what they mean to me but Force, I'll try.
Recently I've been wondering why I'm so attached to this show and these characters. Jokingly, part of it is yes, the Bad Batch are lovely to look at and that does play a role in why I enjoy watching the show so much, but that's not completely it.
I think I speak for a lot of us fans when I say that I didn't fit in as a kid. I still don't even as an 'adult.' Look, I'm a biracial guy from two VERY different cultures that don't feel like home to me. On top of that, half of the time I don't know how to identify myself in gender and sexuality because I don't feel either most of the time. I'm introverted. I have anxiety. I probably have autism. I'm a burnt-out former gifted kid. I quite simply don't fit in.
"No, I'll stay. You guys don't fit in here either."
That? Yeah.
This show is for all those kids. Everyone who never fit in. Everyone who was told they were strange or weird, for the kids who ate glue in the back of the classroom, who were told they were too loud, who were put down because they didn't express emotion a certain way, for the kids who sat alone at lunch, who got left behind in their friend groups, for the kids who felt like they had no one so turned to harmful things, for the kids who were told they were special only to be discarded later in life, for the kids who don't know their place, don't know where they fit in and if they even do or ever will.
It's a show that tells those kids you're more than that. You're worth it. You're worth loving. You're worth protecting. You're worth the second chance. You're worth being loyal to. You're worth teaching. You're worth forgiving. You're worth it. You're worth it. You're worth it.
In the end there's hope for us. There's hope for all of us. And I think that's why I cling to tightly to this show. Why it means so much to me. Why I so desperately need these characters to make it out alive.
It's what Star Wars was from the start. About hope. About family. About loving and being loved and learning to love despite your circumstances. It's a show that took a bunch of neurodivergent absolute daddies and packed in so much angst but also feel-good moments with stunning animation, beautiful, moving music, and phenomenal voice acting. It's a show I can't help but love and love immensely because it feels like it was written for me.
For that kid who spent their recesses with their nose buried in an animal encyclopedia or talking to imaginary characters from their favorite books. For that kid who always felt so utterly useless and hopeless whenever they got less than an A- for a grade because they were supposed to be the gifted one. For the kid who struggled so much to be the older sibling they never asked to be. For the kid who just wants to find someone, anyone, who will love them as they are and fight for them. For the kid who valued loyalty above all else, always has, always will, and never gets it in return. For the kid who never fit in.
And well, whatever happens in the finale, I'm so grateful, so blessed, and so honored to have been a part of this journey with all of you.
#i'm not ready#but whatever happens happens#and i'm lucky to have been here for it#love you all#thanks for everything#tbb#the bad batch#tbb s3#tbb season 3#clone force 99#tbb hunter#tbb wrecker#tbb echo#tbb crosshair#tbb tech#tbb omega#max's musings
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thinking about it stresses me out and i can't explain it well but making the world link events take up an entire event slot instead of it running alongside a different event is such a horrible idea imo, especially if it takes this month's lim banner entirely. and i think it's impossible considering vbs's one is in january and there's the new years fes anyways? unless they make new years perm again like in 2021 but it's going to be so fucking annoying and predictable for any fan that's been waiting for a lim for a while, especially vsers because it basically confirms that the devs STILL aren't treating them like the actual characters and putting them in events with the ocs (let alone having to wait until AUGUST for more fucking lims, yea like we need another fucking one-year gap /s). its genuinely irritating for me if they end up deciding that and not making next event lim. plus it makes the next event from now only six days considering this gacha ends October 31st, and with the event gap, the event has to end November 5th or 6th. and this wl event lasts 12 days and no event has lasted either of those lengths in jp (not to mention the weird fucking chapter-by-chapter thing going on?). sorry for acting angry but i really am disappointed if this ends up being the case without any fucking warning it makes no sense!
yeah the WL event just feels like it needs some work. obviously this is the first one so there's gonna be some problems here and there but this feels like it's pretty messily put together, even for a first run. i understand it taking an event slot because otherwise you'd have to tier two separate events at the same time and that'd just be difficult, but just the sheer amount of time it takes up is too much. maybe shorten the chapters to 2 days from 3, 12 days is too long. it's just gonna be really draining and a pain in the ass to tier, plus it makes the event before it really short. like seriously, 7 days for the MMJ event? i mean the current event is only 8 but normally cheerful carnivals last about 10 because of the format. i mean MMJ wouldn't perform as well as a N25 banner anyway so maybe they're just throwing the 7 day event on them for testing purposes.
since VBS is directly after new year colofes+lims I'm guessing WL lims don't count as actual lims. maybe they don't have hairstyles, i mean they said about MR2 unlocking special cut-ins, so maybe they do that instead of hairstyles. i wonder if they'll be like a bday card where they have their own rarity or something because if the game is willing to run them directly after a fes banner they can't be all that rare? maybe they reappear on future WL events like how all fes cards are on every colofes banner.
i get the feeling that the WL event won't have a specific character focus. they didn't announce a song other than the 3rd anniversary campaign one, so unless they're deciding to count that as Kanade's 4th comm then it doesn't look like this has a specific focus. well, apparently each part of the event/story is focused on a different character so that makes sense I guess. also the 3rd anni campaign commissions are meant to release monthly, and these events are getting dragged out until well past when all unit will've gotten their comm.
i think a lot of adjustments are gonna have to be made to the event starting from the VBS one. like the whole thing feels messy right now. and maybe it's because they haven't really told us a whole lot about how it works still, but there's obvious problems from the get-go like the duration and the amount of gacha cards on top of the fact they're now rerunning 3 lim gachas at a time. how badly does this game want our money they earn way more than any other idol game on the market.
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I'm just gonna rant my chest out regarding the recent Watcher's announcement because I'm still trying to process wtf has just happened & it's pretty late at night. (For the record, I'm one of their international viewers from a 3rd world country.)
It sucks that I cannot buy their official merch that is already expensive (due to conversion rates) + not being able to deliver in my country when I've some spare cash. That's fine by me.
It sucks that I cannot go & watch their live shows being available at certain countries that doesn't cost a damn fortune (plane tickets, hotel bookings, converting currency, etc.) + not in a million years they'll stop by SEA to do tours/live shows. That's also fine by me.
However, the way how they hyped up the announcement mentioning big things are coming only to just drop a video saying "Hey, we're leaving Youtube as the money ain't flowing much to cover our 'extravagant' expenses & all future contents will be locked behind a paywall. So if you're unable to watch most of your beloved shows because you can't pay then toodles!" That's NOT fine by me, let alone anyone else in the matter.
Even if I've a fuck ton of money to spare, I'm still not buying their monthly/yearly WatcherTV subscription because it's JUST. NOT. WORTH. IT. Who wants to buy a monthly yet alone yearly subscription just to watch 1-2 episodes of a show I like being put out weekly per season & then waiting for some time before another new season of another show that has a 50-50 chance whether I enjoy it or not pops up to fill the void? Not me, that's for sure. Damn, I rather subscribe to Netflix or buy YouTube premium if I could because the money spent is worth the content I can get on a monthly/yearly basis.
I get putting exclusive contents such as BTS, special interviews/podcasts, early access to episodes, etc. behind a paywall since they're just nice bonuses for fans who're able to support them but locking REGULAR YOUTUBE content that's not being released consistently & have nothing much to offer behind a paywall? I think you're losing your crackers on this one chief.
After watching the announcement video, I feel plainly numb & disappointed that this is the route they're going for. I understand they need the funds to make videos, pay people & also wanting the freedom to make content that you want to make without adhering to the restrictions of advertisers. I get it.
But what I don't get is this mind numbing decision to spit at the faces of people who can't afford to fork out some cash to enjoy their once free favourite shows that helped cheer them up during the tough times. It's even more disgusting what I heard from Coffeezilla's recent video about Watcher mentioning that they don't even give out a free WatcherTV subscription to their Patreon members as a way to say thank you for your patronage is really saying something eh?
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4 years ago, I found Shane & Ryan via Buzzfeed Unsolved just like everyone else randomly being recommended to me on Youtube. I binge watched all seasons of Buzzfeed Unsolved exactly at the same time they're announcing their departure from Buzzfeed to go do their own content at Watcher. What's this? A channel where I can watch the ghoul boys do their own thing? Hell yeah, sign me tf up.
It's really nice to see Watcher growing & trying out new different shows. I'm aware not all the shows they put out matches my taste & that's fine by me. Probably there's an audience out there who enjoy these shows that aren't for me.
I remember the time I was excited when they bring in Ghost Files & Mystery Files which can fill in the Buzzfeed Unsolved void. Are You Scared? & Too Many Spirits are the shows I enjoy listening to them as background noise so that I can focus on my work.
Puppet History & Top 5 Beatdown is where I enjoy the chemistry between the talents & guests. Weird, Wonderful, World & Tourist Trapped is where I enjoy seeing cool places run by passionate people & is like a nice, come hangout with me type of video blogs.
4 years later, this is where I'll be hopping off with the knowledge that I can't no longer be able to enjoy all these shows anymore like I used to just because I can't afford to whip out some measly cash to pay for regular content that I can easily find on Youtube for free.
Even if you leave up the old videos on Youtube (after you've backpedalled your decision to remove all the videos entirely in the first place due to the backlash & gaslighting us into thinking we misunderstood but your Variety article says otherwise), the whole ordeal just makes the experience to re-watch all the content that I used to love & enjoy feels awkward & left a sour, bitter taste in my mouth.
With a very heavy heart, I say thank you for the fun shows you have been putting out these past 4 years & farewell to Team Watcher. I don't know how're you going to recover from this but I wish you a best of luck moving forward.
#watcher#watcher entertainment#honestly feeling very confused & disappointed with the sudden decision overall#even if you manage to recover from this chaos things just don't feel the same way anymore like they used to be
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I know i said that my biases are Jimin and JK but i never said i wasn’t a big fan of 3J which means that if Hobi is being disrespected imma snap your head in half!
Every time i come here to talk about something nice there’s a whole mess going on that at this point my blog is turning to a rant blog ffs. When did this fandom become like this? When did the toxicity became huge to the point where you can’t go a day without something disgusting being spread online?
So by now everybody knows that Hybe posted an announcement about Hobi’s upcoming enlistment that he started the procedure already, we saw that coming but it’s still upsetting of course, we still felt sad knowing how real it’s becoming that Hobi is leaving for MS too. So we’re trying to come to terms with it and another announcement only this time it’s a happier one:
We were also able to see our Sunshine live
(Credits to Dalto on Twitter)
Now i believe you see where this is going right? So Hope on the street is a single set to be released on March 3rd, key word here : SINGLE. One song. But of course dickheads have a thing to say right? Saying how he is interfering with Jimin’s solo if he couldn’t release it before why choose now bla bla bla rat language.
I’ve mentioned in my previous post that even one song can take a while let alone many, some artists spent 2 3 years on one song, it’s called perfectioning it, working on every possible flaw so that the end result is something that lets the artist feel satisfied with the hard work he put in it. So to answer the “why didn’t he release it before?” simply because he couldn’t “why won’t he release it later?” simply because he can’t.
Now saying that he’s interfering with Jimin’s solo.. There are 20 days between March 3rd and March 24th (not including both dates) and again am going back to the key word, it’s a SINGLE it’s only one song how tf is that interfering with Jimin’s solo? There’s enough time to give attention to Hope on the street and also be ready for FACE.
It’s actually funny to see people try to make it a competition between none other than Jihope like.. Be so fr right fucking now! It’s not like y’all are legally blind to not notice how close those two are, they’re besties, and more than anything they are happy for each other so for a bunch of low-life strangers trying to put their 2 useless cents of thoughts on the matter.. y’all just shut the fuck up
Now if Hobi just decided to enlist without dropping anything, people would be saying how he’s not appreciating Army he just left like that or why did he wait all that time to enlist if he doesn’t have more work to do or or or.. Of course there’s always something to complain about, this fandom is never satisfied and would you look at that, the boys still think about this stupid fandom and dedicate their work to them.
Honestly there should be a whole separate new fandom for our boys, a private one that is, Vip or whatever you wanna call it, like you can’t get into that fandom unless you pass the morals test, the personality test, etc.. Army be fighting with that other fandom (not mentioning the name but y’all already know who, no hate to the girlies they’re cool, can’t say the same thing about their fandom tho) when they’re no better, creating shit INSIDE the fandom to begin with.
It’s seriously getting tiring and sickening how people were just allowed to become this hateful, it’s like they forget that they got into this fandom that was started because of BTS like.. THE WHOLE BAND! Yes these 7 men are all different and unique but they’re also part of the same band whether you like it or not and if they wanted to go solo like many of y’all are dying for it to happen they would’ve done it a while ago it’s not the first time idols leave their band to go on a solo journey. If y’all have no respect for these boys as a band at least have respect towards your favs and what they want, what they wish for and the people they love.
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Irene Fray's Wordthings 2023 (And 2022)
I started writing Ruinous Hearts in early 2022 with the promise to leave everything I write available for free somewhere on the internet. (Currently that home is Scribblehub under the username IreneFray)
After seeing another beloved story of mine report on their word count for the year, I wanted to take a step back and see what my output was.
I ended up gushing, so I'll keep the details below the page break for those of you into having a trans girl hyperfixate to you about her passion. <3
2022: 56,437 words for Ruinous Hearts.
2023: 143,413 between Weight of Broken Promise and Deluded Hearts: Inheritance.
It's been a hard year, but I'm really fucking proud of those numbers. So many of those days in 2023 after I burnt out were 50-100 word writing days. (Those are valid and they add up!)
2022
Ruinous Hearts hit a total published word count of 58,667 words, with only the last 2,230 word chapter coming out on January of 2023.
56,437 words in my first year of writing feels pretty good. I still remember how good it felt to put those emotions into words and discover so much more about myself than just exploring my gender.
2023
2,230 words of RH's 19th Chapter - Something that can never Be.
This... chapter released with a feeling that I no longer knew how to tell my own truth and by extension, was letting Verity down.
Weight of Broken Promises by extension had so many false starts.
But on April of 2023 Royal Road, the site I was reading a lot of fiction on, namely Thundamoo's Vigor Mortis and Siilver Lining's Edge Cases, (both of which you should absolutely read.) announced a Writathon.
So I started a clean slate. And for the next grueling month I managed to almost effortlessly keep pace with the daily word count needed to hit the goal of 55,555 words (Almost the entirety of Ruinous Hearts!!!) within one month.
Our plurality's agreed pen/username on Royal Road is ArtoriaFray if you'd like to check the 2023 April Writathon participants list
Needless to say I felt fucking invincible there for a while.
But that kind of writing takes a toll.
Weight of Broken Promises hit a word count of 88,920 before I burnt out. But I never stopped working a full time job, even if I have slowly reigned in how much overtime I've worked. That it is as good as it is still feels like a miracle given the span of time that it was written within.
For the last six months I let myself write as much or as little as I felt like. This time focusing on the parts of Ruinous Hearts that never stopped living rent free in my head.
So while I have kept Deluded Hearts: Inheritance close to my chest with intent to only release completed books, I can only give you Google Drive's word count.
It is currently at 52,263 words. (Even if a lot of this is notes, outlines, and rather raw. That I still wrote all of this in the latter half of this year is wild to me.)
Adding my 2nd and 3rd stories with that last chapter of Ruinous Hearts published in January all together?
143,413 words is so much more than I thought I would ever be capable of despite working a full time job that is causing a visible drain on me.
I'm still not making more than spare change off this passion of mine despite how much it means to me. But that has come secondary to really exploring myself and connecting with new friends + girlthings whom I love and adore and cherish and occasionally nibble on.
And I'm not even counting a little collab project that started earlier this year and my headmates pushing out full chapters of writing projects I haven't committed to.
Or that time one of my newest partners recommended I record a journal of my time with Fear and Hunger 2 Termina, which I treated as a Death Game Diary in order to justify the looping of the game and growing my knowledge of how to play. This is frankly one of the small side projects I am MOST PROUD OF but I'm waiting for a new update and another playthrough on the rumored harder difficulty before I share the Let's Journal.
I want to share the picture proof of that Let's Journal, but it has serious spoilers. So! This is where I sign off.
Thank you for reading any amount of this little recap of mine. (Or making the leap to reading either of my stories!) I just wanted record somewhere that this all happened.
I never expected it to become all that it has.
But I'm so glad it has. Writing is how I found the people that mean the world to me. I literally come alive and out of funks in order to write.
Edit: I forgot the Termina screenshot and tags
#frays monstrous thoughts#my writing#writing#writeblr#2023 writing round up#my stories#transgender#trans#transfemme#queer fantasy#queer fiction#litrpg#ruinous hearts#weight of broken promises litprg#fear and hunger 2: termina
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Let’s breakdown the timeline of these last few weeks or so. (I’m not lazy anon but I am lazy so sorry if I get some dates wrong)
- Sometime the week of the Azerbaijan GP Marina Bay anon and Lens anon show up. This starts a chain of lots of “insider anons” showing up. Some are definitely fake but some seem real
- Kelly posts a video of her and P in New York on the 28th but Steppy finds an ask form the 26th that’s says Kelly’s in New York(days before she ever posted she was there)
- Also on the 28th the Daily Mail released the article and the fake pap pics and are hinting Kelly is attending the Met Gala(Side note: Her bag and shoes are form her friends company and dress from a brand that has affiliate codes with the DM)
- Also sometime around here Deuxmoi posted anon asking if any insiders had anything on Max and Kelly
- Black and White anon makes two appearance on the 28th too. Once to confirm what Marina Bay anon is saying and later to say it was weird how quickly someone wrote into Deuxmoi. (I’m going to be honest I looked through all of Deux’s stories from April and can’t find the actual anon and I don’t remember what it said. Sorry
- I forgot to mention this earlier but a week before the Azerbaijan Gp Kelly was trying to make it seem like her and Max were on a weekend get away but he actually went to Holland for his Heineken sponsorship
- Back to the 29th. Kelly posted her and P in NYC again. This time P is pictured on a faceless man’s shoulder and in a stroller. Lots of discussion about both but K only addresses the stroller thing
- On the 30th an anon is sent saying Victoria unfollowed and re-followed Kelly
- Just Another disappears
- Max comes second in the Azerbaijan GP and Kelly doesn’t make a congrats post
- Max immediately flies back to Monaco after the GP instead of Miami or NYC like people had been speculating
- Black and White anon shows up again this day(Also take these with a gran of salt because who know if it’s the real one. Same of the other one too)
- Lens Anon up again to answer questions.(Lens Anon we need you to come back and give us Miami tea please🙏🏻)
- Yasmin and Nelson Jr both confirm they are going to Miami
- May 1st, Met Monday, lots of discussion on if Kelly is going is she not?
- Sophie comments “💗💗” on Kelly’s post after only 15 minutes
- People say she’s overcompensating for Vic unfollowing Kelly and to shut down rumors
- Kelly goes in a blocking spree after a bunch of comments asking if she cheated on Max
-She deletes all the ones asking if she cheated and if Max broke up with her but leaves the comments asking if she broke up with him(Side note: Steppy also noticed that Kelly had unblocked her but reblocked her even though she never commented or anything)
- Met Gala happens and of course she wasn’t there
- This is where I’m having trouble. I have no clue when Kelly announced the “meet and greet” with PatBo but It seems like it was announced on the 1st(I can’t say for sure)
- On the 2nd Steppy confirms that Marina Bay anon has sent her proof and seems to be real
- Max leaves for Miami and doesn’t land till around 7:00 EST
- Disco Anon shows up and sends proof to confirm that they are real. (Check the #disco anon to see all that was talked about)
- Kelly, Dafne, and Patrica host a PatBo influencers lunch event on the 3rd
- Everyone is talking about how Kelly looks completely different in every picture and how the botox and filters are getting out of hand
- There’s also lots of discussion about how Kelly looks very unhappy and tired and everyone hopes she doing ok
- On the 4th Max gets pap leaving his hotel and it’s the same agency that pap’d him and Kelly in Miami last year and St. Barths the second time
- An anon sends an ask saying they saw Max and Kelly the night before and took pictures with Max but Kelly ignored them. In a later anon they send in two pictures as proof.(Side note: Max and Kelly aren’t interacting in these pictures. The first on is Kelly a few feet in front of him getting in the car and the second is him standing outside of the car and he appears to be talking to a guy I’m pretty sure was Raymond)
- The Kelly meet and greet happened and is seen in a video just awkward standing in the back
- She also only posted 1 or 2 stories from the meet and greet.
- That night the Piquets go out for Sylvia’s birthday and Max isn’t there
- The day after Kelly reportedly ignored a fan multiple people post pictures with them and a “fan” even wrote about how Kelly was really sweet but they say they didn’t want to interrupt her so they waited till she was leaving to ask for pictures but end the message with “and then she went back to get dinner”
- Yesterday the 6th nothing really happened except Kelly went out with Patrica and Dafne and Max wasn’t there again
- Also somewhere in there an anon noticed that Verstappen.com deleted their last post with Kelly
- FINALLY!!! Today the 7th. Max and Kelly didn’t walk in together but Max does walk in with Nelson Jr
- Kelly posts a picture from the RB garage and a weird distorted picture of Max
- Max wins the GP and hugs all of his team and Martin but doesn’t hug Kelly back
-He talks to Martin instead of Kelly and people are saying they’re giving ChaCha in Abu Dhabi vibes
- Kelly posts now 14 stories from the GP when she usually only posts a couple
- Everyone is discussing how it seems like she’s really milking it
Oof Steppy this took me forever. Sorry it’s soooo long and sorry if I messed up any of the dates. I just thought since these last couple of week have been so messy that we need a recap. Imo the vibes for the last few week have been off and the vibes today were off the charts wacky and weird. Definitely still think thinks aren’t right with them and that Kelly is trying to get all she’s can before it’s too late. Anyway have a good night Steppy and Nonnie I’m going to sleep
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No matter how much I love Wakana and how good "Flag" is, it's just too pitiful to see, how she grasping at straws after getting a rare good reaction on her song. I'm just literally sad. She was so eager to try herself in solo and I can't understand what she was doing all that time, while dreaming about her solo. Puts, what are your thoughts on that matter?
Hmm, I couldn't disagree more. I feel like we are not on the same wavelength here. In my opinion, her actions aren't pitiful at all. Why pitiful??
Yes, the reception to "Flag" has been overwhelmingly positive but I don't believe this has ever been a case of Wakana resting on the laurels of her success. And I certainly don't understand how releasing the song digitally could be misinterpreted as "grasping at straws" or a last desperate attempt to milk this success. I would argue that the digital release is something that fans have wanted for a very long time so basically they are doing us a favour. And from what I can tell, most of us are grateful about the announcement.
It honestly makes sense that they waited so long with the release because they had probably always intended to use it as a juicy sampling for the upcoming 3rd album 『そのさきへ (Sono Saki e)』 in May. It's good to have a crowd-puller to promote an album when all other tracks are basically new and unreleased.
As for Wakana's pseudo-"hiatus". Please let's not forget that many artists were hit hard by the pandemic, Wakana being no exception. Concerts and events had to be postponed or cancelled, lots of regular promotional activities had to be completely stopped. Getting together for big productions was made impossible. People were losing their jobs left and right because no one was hiring them. These past few years were definitely no walk in the park. Of course any management or label would hesitate to fund a proper album release in such dire and uncertain times. Wakana is no high-profile name who is sure to bring in a ton of profit so the risk of suffering major losses with an album release like that is pretty big. You may not be aware of this but the production value for Wakana's albums has always been quite high (especially compared to most of the stuff we've gotten from Keiko or Hikaru) so finishing one of those things takes more time and money than you would expect. It's never a good idea to force a release just because you want to stick to a certain schedule. You wanna make sure to dot all your i's and cross your t's before committing to such a big project. The situation with the pandemic is finally calming down and Japan is even loosening all of their mask regulations so this offers a wide range of opportunities for Wakana and her team (e.g. media appearances, release events, tours, etc). Waiting this long for a 3rd album was definitely a struggle for all of us fans but ultimately, it was probably the best decision they could have made in these circumstances.
So yeah, these are my thoughts on the matter. Wakana was holding regular events so it's not like she disappeared from the face of the earth. I am sure she was dying to make more music and share it with us but if not everyone involved in the process is willing to take the necessary steps, there is no way an album is gonna be made - unless of course you want to release something half-assed into the world (however, that sort of quantity-over-quality method is clearly not working for Keiko so why would it work for Wakana?).
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My Rants: Honest Opinions
My Problem With KaSumi|re Yoshizawa/Violet
A/N: If you just love to make hate messages over personal thoughts over what someone thinks and are willing to accept the character that is being written about, who you don’t even know, on their posts just because of it then what’s even the point of having a matter of honest opinions anyways?
Fandom(s): Persona 5: Royal
Summary: Yoshizawa rubbed me off the wrong way since the moment I saw her. I immediately got the sense of ‘Market Seller Waifu For Increase In Sales For Royal’ after seeing her unoriginal thief getup. And I’m unapologetic to admit that she’s my LEAST favourite character despite the amount of positive reviews she’s had after Persona 5 Royal’s release and the hate attacks on anyone who thinks differently. She really does have potential. And I couldn’t stop thinking about it after the Atlus announcement for Xbox and PC. Then I figured, I thought to finally expel these annoying thoughts in order to release my pent up frustration and understanding of her away and my perspective changing, not a lot, but changing somewhat.
So here’s why.
Warnings: Spoilers for Persona 5: Royal.
My Conversations with Others Regarding This Topic (think of it like extensions from this post): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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Or as I call her: the tropey Doormat Kohai.
I know. I put her in my story but things will be different as the chapters progress. I am actually interested in how her character adds to the game’s story, but it really only happens for Third Semester. But how Atlus did her involvement feels like wasted potential. A rewrite would help, I think.
The only time she really does anything in the real world is defend and help Joker when he is arrested, but ALL his confidants do that! They’re supposed to do those things after he deepens his bonds to max level, there is nothing new or unique about it with her!
A side note: I find it humorous that crossovers adding Yoshizawa just have to be emphasized with Royal and not simply Persona 5 even though Royal is Persona 5 in general, or I suppose to emphasize update.
Her very presence is a shoehorn. Her appearances never really feels natural. She just pops in and out whenever she wants. I would’ve honestly forgotten her if it wasn’t for Third Semester.
Her looks are an uncreative and reusable mix of FeMC, Mitsuru, Yuko and from P3.
Overly attached to Joker because he’s pretty much the only person she wants to revolve around in her life. She hardly interacts or befriends anyone else. Her gymnastics club members, classmates, other schoolmates, her parents who barely show relevance to her personally, other honour students (there’s no way in hell she’s the only one), and the thieves. As Kasumi, for someone who acts like an extroverted socialite it doesn’t really make sense as to why she doesn’t. Which might be because any acquaintance feels off about her because of her cognition that they don’t talk to her but I don’t get how pretty much anyone doesn’t even have a simple conversation with her. But it’s probably just a front for her Sumire side. But if she truly wanted to be everything Kasumi was, then having that socialite behaviour would’ve made sense. Kasumi’s extrovert personality is the main point about what it means to imitate her. Her mentality was ALL about her obsession with Kasumi, before and after her death. The way her brain works is weird with Maruki’s mind powers.
And about the thieves; they, for some reason, blindly love her so much after only meeting, like, twice in the real world. They don’t know her as much and have rarely interacted or hung out outside the Metaverse. Not as much or as close to as Joker. She kind of bypasses them.
She does not contribute anything to the main plot except for 3rd Semester. Which is at the end of the game. Her first entrance to “save” Joker in Sae’s Palace was wasteful. He’s, not counting Mona, the most experienced fighter out of all the thieves. Joker did not need her help in any way shape or form. P5 vanilla proves that, he didn’t need any of the other thieves as backup when he was evading the Shadows. He’s the freaking main character! Joker’s supposed to have the spotlight for the player. She even said it herself that she’s not a member of the Phantom Thieves so she has no right to interfere, and interferes anyway. It’s just a lazy introduction to a new character. Why is her All-Out Attack the first we even see?? And that gives the thieves a reason to have her for their “Hey, We Saved The World From Corruption By Taking Down a False God” party? She didn’t even help in the fight with Yaldabaoth. So I could hardly count her as a member.
KaSumi/re’s social link for the first couple of ranks go the SAME route. You do a family friendly activity, she falls into her so called “slump”, you cheer her up, she promises to work harder than ever, and the cycle repeats five times to the point where it’s predictable and easy to gain her rank up. How is that interesting? She phrases her slump like it’s a small thing that she doesn’t know the cause for, hindering her performances and believing that it’s a lack of confidence.
There was nothing off about her being Kasumi in the first place that led to the indication that she wasn’t actually Kasumi. Her attitude stays the same, perky, polite, overly positive, being an airhead (that goes for Sumire too. Seriously, how does one take crappy code names as Appetite and Leotard into actual consideration? How do unused scenes like Akechi suspecting her as the Palace Ruler because of her association with said Palace being about one who craves attention and just let it slip by her?) the foreshadowing monologue could just be something to add for her backstory if a player didn’t think about it much. Nothing really showed that anything was wrong in her happy go lucky world aside from the few interactions she has with Maruki. Which still hardly makes a difference. Their connection feels loose. Though it didn’t matter if her reveal would’ve happened or not, Sumire just goes back to being the SAME person as when she first started in the true ending. What were all those 120 hours of progress for..?!
Morgana wanting to recruit her then changing his mind because of Shido makes me deadpan. The thieves faced a perverted and abusive P.E. teacher, a manipulative and gaslighting artist, the freaking mafia, and a selfish and money-hungry CEO father! Everyone had their own lives on the line each! What makes Yoshizawa’s any different..?! I just don’t get it. Didn’t that cat say that powers in numbers is a good thing after recruiting Ann? That whole conversation after Maruki’s Palace was pointless, because it meant nothing for the main story after she decides to want to join and is turned down.
Her reason for awakening is weak and contradictory. Because, when voices of people who talk poorly of her, her motivation for awakening is that they spoke down on the dream she shares with her sister. That is not a strong and a good enough reason to even summon a Persona. This goes completely against P5’s themes and it doesn’t work. KaSumi/re never even cared about their opinions anyways, she even vocalizes this as a statement and brushes off them off all the time. And her potentially losing her honour student status was her own fault. Even with her second awakening being more meaningful, it still doesn’t justify having a “Spirit of Rebellion”. She could’ve done that without having her “true awakening” and it still would’ve worked. It didn’t make sense for her to even have a Persona when she became a scatterbrain for almost a year. It doesn’t add up, she committed to being Kasumi, that’s against who she actually is. P3 is facing mortality, P4 is facing the truth, P5 is facing against an unjust society, impacting them personally that it becomes a motivation for courage. Everyone in SEES, Investigation team, and the main Phantom thief crew follow these guidelines, I don’t understand why the scenario had to be changed.
Her thief outfit is nothing but a market seller for Royal. Atlus even admits it in their interviews. The only symbolism it has is that she admires Joker so much and sees him as a spitting image of rebellion that she replicates her attire to his, including keeping her Kasumi ponytail. Even Atlus admits this in their interviews that her outfit was just a market seller! The only thing original about it is the leotard because she’s a gymnast. And when she finally awakens as Sumire (though not really), her outfit stays the same, hair the same, Persona the same. There is no visible representation of Sumire showcasing individuality that separates her from Kasumi/re. Not even a small one. Which is a clue to how she goes back to looking the same as when she was in the beginning. Character development what now? Violet is the same way, Kasumi with just a mask on.
She got to have a magical girl/sailor moon transformation for what? Fan service. Which doesn’t fit with the game’s themes and aesthetics whatsoever but her Persona is Cinderella so sure, why the heck not? (sarcasm) Heck, if that were the case then the thieves should’ve gotten the same treatment. The idea of watching Ryuji do a spin is too amusing for me. Yusuke could pull it off given his theatrical eccentric side.
Black just doesn’t seem like Yoshizawa’s colour palette. There’s no reason for wearing black when the only time she does wear it is her Shujin blazer and that’s it.Gymnasts don’t really wear plain black either; it’s usually with a flashy design that comes with dark and light colours, or one with a simpler look. Her leotard being plain black is too… simple? Purple works since she actually wore that for her gymnastics. Everyone somehow loves the inaccuracy of her in a sleeveless leotard that showcase an exaggerated body that isn’t her at all, they seem to like using her just for their perverse entertainment, (then again pretty much every female fictional character is like that so this isn’t anything new or a big deal anymore, I don’t know, I can’t be bothered to give a crap knowing that the media does whatever it wants), when gymnasts always wear sleeves. And the internet loves to debauch her for the most dull and impractical suit in Persona, a great advertisement to promote the game. This is just a notice I have over her costume.
Her showtime is weird. (Plus, why can’t Joker have a showtime that gives him the spotlight?) So she jumps into his arms for a spin as he shoots down enemies, tosses her to make this strange performance with her deceased sister (does that mean she’s actually touching air and Kasumi is all in her head?), and pulls Joker to twirl her into a dip. Just how deprived of his attention are you? Did Nintendo really have to give us the unnecessarily pointless scene of Yoshizawa’s dancing and her showtime as part of P5’s trailer of branching out to other consoles? Akechi’s showtime clip hardly balances that out considering it was short and at the end.
What was the whole point of that ridiculous dance cutscene of her and Joker? A shoehorn by Atlus as ship bait between the true star of the game and an in-and-out character. Why weren’t any of the Shujin students of the thieves there? Or Mishima? We just get a fancy flashy dance animated cutscene purely showing off Sumire. Maybe I missed the reason.
Sumire’s backstory is just a recycle from the other girls’ story arcs. Especially Lavenza, who goes on to have an identity crisis herself where she is split into TWINS. I find that no body that I’ve seen has mentioned this. As a standpoint, we didn’t need another twin story AGAIN.
Her connection to Cendrillon is off and strange. Which is ironic since she’s actually the jealous sister. All the stories of Cinderella have many things in common: she’s a waif, she is looked down on by her household, verbally abused, put into forced labour, shown to be a genuine person, and is saved by a man who solves all her problems. All these bad things in Cinderella’s life happens TO her out of jealousy, spite, and cruelty. Sumire goes through none of that. She has a sister who does care about her, and parents that care about her, too. There is no ill mistreatment anywhere done TO her from when she was Sumire before Shujin. But I guess it’s a minor thing where she’s like Cinderella’s stepsisters. The thing she said about Kasumi making the decisions for her, like her clothes, is because Sumire lets her. She could’ve said anything at anytime and Kasumi would’ve listened. Sure, she is implied to be overbearing who couldn’t read between the lines. But they’re siblings! Twins for crying out loud! They would’ve spent everything together knowing each other’s quirks, habits, and flaws. Yet Sumire puts the image that Kasumi is perfect in every way (Mary Sue) when she’s spent years learning all about her twin. Sumire’s a Mary Sue for the fact that everything she does or doesn’t do is positively received no matter the situation. There’s no consequence or anything. There’s also the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any ground reason as to why Sumire has an inferiority complex over her sister other than that Kasumi is considered the better gymnast. They trained the same but Kasumi came out on top. Perhaps that could be the reason for her lack of confidence as Sumire. Depression can happen to anyone, of course, but her large amount of jealousy of Kasumi feels kinda off in the writing aspect. It’s ALL over her sister more so than herself. And since we only get to see Real Kasumi once, ONCE, we don’t know the dynamics of their relationship. She and Cendrillon share a few things: they go to a ball pretending to be someone else, a chance to have their lives be what they want, and is saved by a man who solves all their problems. Joker saves her by revealing the truth of her identity, and her coming back as Sumire after almost a year of being brainwashed. Though the same can be applied to Maruki as she sort of consented to the identity crisis, and tried to stop Joker from undoing so. That part’s understandable, don’t get me wrong. But what, after a short timespan when the thieves rescue her she figures herself out and then suddenly accepts Kasumi’s death with a big ole speech? Sure, she talks about it with Joker, and while it’s nice to have someone to talk to about these things, that doesn’t magically solve all of a person’s problems in one fell swoop. Sumire should’ve gone back to therapy with an actual therapist, and talked honestly to her parents about her mental problems and sort and heal from the burdens she’s carried. She doesn’t struggle much from being in her own skin again. Joker isn’t the center of her existence! She feels like an imaginary friend from all the times she’s around Joker and no one else. To me, her interactions with the thieves happens more in the Metaverse. Having Cendrillon as her Persona just feels off in some ways, considering that her Persona doesn’t change after reclaiming herself as Sumire.
I’m sorry (not really), but saying Joker is her ‘Prince Charming’ does not really fit. It demeans Joker’s story and his character. He’s a rebel, he’s forced to live in a rough situation out of his control, he’s had to play the role of not standing out, be invisible and blend in, control his own behaviour and actions in public. But we all know Joker does not have a ‘princely’ personality. More so the opposite. He hides his real feelings under a facade in most cases. He’s pictured as her ‘Prince’ because he’s pretty much the only person who interacts with her, who’s there, who basically solved all her problems for her. Which is why she ‘falls in love’ with him. The thing I’ve never liked in the Third Semester is how little everyone cared for Joker when they lived the illusions of perfect lives. It was only because they went through sufferings and hardships that they depended on him so much, but it changes in reverse after everything he did for them. Which is just so damn shallow! What does that say about who they really are? Joker deserved more that! He’s not a crutch! Sumire is no different either. She’s the same circle we’ve always known. Joker is literally depicted as a sort of ‘antihero’, given the whole Phantom Thief role, Arsene, the strive for rebelling, unburdened, helping. But he isn’t prim proper, or a complete empty shell who is flat/static who is Mr. Perfect that saves the day. There’s layers to it all, and it’s a journey getting to where he is. That in spite of his difficult circumstance, he thrives. With friends, supporting himself financially, helping others not just because it’s right but because he knows better than anyone what it means to be helpless. He’s sarcastic, cheeky, quiet, doesn’t always like to follow the rules (like when Sojiro tells him to keep his head down, turn a blind eye, not cause trouble) and it would actually make sense that he isn’t a big fan of hierarchies and the system of society (the cons and darker aspects), especially when abuse, power play, gaslighting, etc are involved. Definitely not the type who does duty and follows the structure he’s surrounded by.
When the game FINALLY reveals what her deal is, I’ve already clocked out, exited, lost interest in her reused backstory that the element of surprise failed. To have to go through the main plot (the important part) of the entire game, we had to reach the end with Third Semester to get her reason for being meaningful, to the end, just leaves everything dry. We could’ve gotten to know more about how Maruki’s powers work and what other patients he might have affected. Because is it really believable that he only inflicted Yoshizawa throughout the time he had gotten his Persona? Wouldn’t he get more Shujin patients outside the main crew? Maybe not Shujin?
Isn’t it part of her wish that she wanted to become Kasumi so much that she found an opportunity to do so deep down? To fill her sister’s dream for her feels kinda off and complicated regarding her cognition is only that of how she sees herself versus how others see her. All this seems to reveal just how obsessed Sumire is about Kasumi. And her relationship with her sister doesn’t show except for the one clip where real Kasumi appears. We can only go off of what Sumire says. For example: Valentine’s Day, White Day, real ending, she goes back to her default Kasumi self. I’ve never seen a character have such a slow burn-to-rushed progress to then digress it all.
Like, isn’t it the fact that she became Kasumi and made herself be the one that died just a cycle of what happened but reverse?? If Sumire is the supposed dead one then that means as Kasumi she didn’t blame herself because she’s happy as her sister and the grief she showed throughout the most part of her social link was fake. She got what she wanted so she didn’t feel guilty or saddened about the death? What the hell? She just puts herself back where she started, how did that dodge anything?! And it’s not even because of Maruki! She’s doing this with full awareness and freely choosing to do so. Absolute ridiculousness.
She’s in loves with Joker no matter what you do. It’s like she doesn’t know what platonic relationships are. It’s like spending time with a guy has to mean romance. Then again, any person but Joker doesn’t exist to her. And who did you love him as exactly, Sumire? Kasumi or you? Because Joker has only ever known Kasumi. To him he’s only just met you. It makes me appreciate Aigis, Rise, and Marie more because they were nothing compared to the level of shoehorning Yoshizawa brings. She’s basically passing her obsession with Kasumi to Joker instead. Though this time with a sort of idealistic infatuation and expectations, but much less extreme to how she is with her twin. For crying out loud Sumire barely hits the peak of actual maturity. She just turned fifteen a month before the actual game starts, a first year who is still growing out of her kid phase. Top that with her fragile mental struggles that she has hardly had time to heal from, her goals which are the only thing she cares about, how was it appropriate to date her? So what if Joker is at least a year older, she doesn’t have full understanding in what it means to be in a romantic relationship with someone, serious and committed with her mentality; much less ready for it. At least Marie interacts with everyone and has that become a factor in her growth.
KaSumi/re seems to have the habit of being an overbearing airhead. Everything flies passed her unless it’s about herself. Makes sense for the 10% amount of times she shows up in the game. Because she’s busy with competitions? So is everyone else, but they make the goddamn time to actually BE important and involved, we can only take her word off it and she’d just be gone for a period of time.
Whether it’s Kasumi or Sumire, they’re stalkers regardless. Her following the thieves into Sae’s Palace because she “felt something big was going to happen” is such a poor excuse. What, does everything Joker does have to apply to you? Just how long did you wait in the Palace? Because you were worried about him and followed even though he’s always respected your boundaries and doesn’t step out of line on your privacy? Did you have anything to eat? Creep. Her stalking the team in the nurse’s office out of no where was weird. How long have you been tailing them, huh? How did you conveniently find out about their meeting? Lavenza’s butterfly form was only a sight Joker picked up on while she was invisible to everyone else. Morgana can’t count because he was created by Igor, so of course he could see her. And Lavenza stays in the nurse’s office while Joker gathers everyone to meet. It’s like the same situation for the other Velvet Room Attendants, they can have this sort of invisibility projected in the outside world where bystanders can’t see them except their guests or be visible and interact with people. Especially the locations of the Velvet Room, where only the guests can see the entrance and the attendant. The thieves or any of the teams can’t see the glowing blue door or them either in the other world like Tartarus and the Metaverse. They only think that the leaders are zoning out in reality. So the idea that she knew to follow Joker because she saw Lavenza is confusing.
Why does her being skinny while eating a lot matter so much to everyone that it has to be brought up all the time? She’s an athlete, we get it. It’s part of her ‘honour student status’. Ryuji is no different! He’s an athlete for track for track and field! This trope is used so much for every time she eats something. Past Persona games didn’t do this and be so absorbed in a side character’s trait.
All Kasumi cares about in this big wide world is gymnastics and nothing else. Sumire’s goal is not too different either. Yet her growth for betterment feels too short for someone who had an identity crisis for almost a year. Was she completely conscious for her cognition? Was acting as Kasumi a recollection as she adjusted back to being herself? Did she forget who she was deep down until the reveal? Did loss hit differently over what she feels between herself and Kasumi? It makes me curious over the fuctions of Maruki’s powers, not enough answers.
KaSumi/re has hardly any stakes as a phantom thief. She doesn’t even have a reason to join their cause! She just joins as a kind gesture and because of Maruki. She didn’t even agree with them that time she met up with Joker and Akechi. It makes sense that she’d be there for Maruki but is a temporary member until they defeat him.
How she got the MetaNav makes no goddamn sense. Because Yaldaboath is the one who gave Joker and Akechi access, and others (such as the Thieves) being in close proximity to either of them would cause them to get the app as well. But KaSumi/re can break that rule? It goes against the very functions the game has made. Like seriously?
Vanadis may be more original and suited to her compared to Cendrillon from what I’ve heard, but it’s amazing how even deep down as Sumire, she still copies from Joker instead of actually being individualistic. Especially for an Ultimate Persona. Like, seriously, black and red colour palette? Bird wings hanging from the lower back? Sounds way too familiar to another Persona we know well. Vanadis is supposed to be a goddess, why the hell does she look like a demon? It says a lot about her either as Kasumi or Sumire. You try so hard, Atlus. You really do. It honestly surprised me to see these shoehorns.
When she said that only the person has to be the one to change their situation, she is literally undermining what happened with the cases of Kamoshida, Madarame, Kaneshiro, Shiro. Their victims were people who couldn’t stand up to them because they were powerless with hardly much choice. Joker, Shiho, Mishima, Ann, Yusuke, etc. There’s nothing wrong with help and inspiration. Sumire gets that herself technically, and that’s fine, but that just makes her a hypocrite. But I guess I’m taking her words as being that change has to be done alone so that might be on me.
Joker, Violet, and Crow are a bizarre team. Her and Crow don’t even have anything in common for their dynamic. Of course Joker and Akechi would know what’s going on, but for Kasumi it just feels different for me. She’s just there for curiosity. Everyone has been affected by Maruki, and she has the longest, so it doesn’t feel right for her to be there.
Thank gods she isn’t in Strikers, all she’d be was an out of place extra. She’s not even mentioned in Strikers, her only appearance in the Persona universe is literally just Royal. Unlike Marie who has made multiple appearances. And as I’ve phrased before, she has no motive to even be one of them. Royal’s true ending proves that when she isn’t in the van with the thieves. Her only concern was Maruki. Her life is back in order and she’s thriving for herself. And that’s fine, I don’t really have a problem with that. It just makes me wonder how much of an afterthought Atlus made her after Royal was finished. Whether or not she’d be in the game wouldn’t have made a difference for the whole plot but her own story. Atlus just seems to fail in fulfilling that entirely.
Out of all the three new additions I felt like Jose had the least amount of time and attention. And for me, personally, I would’ve liked to see more of him and his story, you know? Because he’s so mysterious and gives off similar vibes to the Velvet Room Attendants but we don’t get to know more about his origins. In Royal he’s just there to provide. It’s only a theory that he’s associated with Philemon like the attendants are with Igor but there’s not a whole lot of evidence to link that connection; since Philemon hasn’t made a real appearance in years. It’s a shame we don’t get more Persona 1 and 2 or a new remake or something. But with the age gap in the Persona timeline it’s understandable.
Part of me was disappointed that Persona 5 vanilla wasn’t coming to Switch so that I could avoid the pain of dealing with Yoshizawa for certain moments. But not entirely. At least there’s 3 and 4 to look forward to.
But hey, if you can make reasonable opinions over this then I’ll respect that, and maybe my thoughts of her will be persuaded. Unless you want to be an asshole about free will of opinions and open mindedness then please leave this post now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s not like this post is a matter of life or death that demands bitchy responses. I draw the line on hate over just having an honest opinion different from others. Especially with any fans of any fanbase, that take things unnecessarily too far. Your love for this character doesn’t give you the right to attack me when I’m only pointing out what I’ve noticed about her and how my personal perspective is affected by those points. And as I’ve stated, I am open to seeing her in a different light, given reasonable and understandable viewpoints without the hostility.
I may continue making these points further. I just had to get this off my chest, even if her fans blast me for my personal opinions that have obvious pointers. If you don’t like it, then you don’t have to see it without replying with hateful words and rude comments towards me and my post.
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I’m ready to come up with my final theory. This version is less messier!
A and F broke up at end of Jan/early Feb after that skiing trip in Italy. But F’s PR team or more likely AM’s PR team believed that it is not a good idea to release the news at that time. The season was about to start and they want the public to focus on the car rather than F’s personal life. I also remember people were joking that F changes teams as frequently as gfs at that time. People were wondering how long would he stay at AM before he burnt the bridge again. AM for sure doesn’t want that image of him. PR team prob decided that one month break between AUS and Baku would be a better timing. I think the strategy worked well as the time they announced the break up, everyone was just like oh he must be really focusing on winning 33 and 3rd title. All interactions between A and F starting Feb were PR. This explained that they hugged each other and posted photos together. Even after the break up announcement, they still liked each other’s posts.
But in reality, F already started seeing M( either cheating or simply move on to another journalist very fast. our messy boy).
By the time F and M got caught together in Monaco, A felt she was fooled by F to play the PR game for him. She may think F was using her to hide the new relationship all these days. She may also wonder if F cheated on her, especially it is such short period of time and with another journalist in the paddock. I mean I would feel the same if I were her. I bet there were also gossip in that small paddock going around that people were like oh no wonder I saw F and M being so close in previous races. She got mad and decided to block both of them. Around that time, she made a instagram story saying need to learn how to trust again. I couldn’t remember the exact timing (someone help me with this one plz!). After people found out the block drama, the PR team worked on it again and they followed each other back.
PS: in this theory, the PR team is really working overtime every single day!
I think that regardless of what version we believe, in every single one Andrea has every right to be angry at him lmao
PR teams are the real goats of this sport fr
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A guide to TWS.
TWS is a multinational group of six members under the management of Pledis Entertainment, who made their debut on 22nd January 2024. The members consist of Shinyu, Dohoon, Youngjae, Hanjin, Jihoon, and Kyungmin, ordered from eldest to youngest. Interestingly, the group name TWS stands for "TWENTY FOR SEVEN WITH US".
Their debut mini-album, named Sparkling Blue, showcases the excitement and tension of the beginning of a new semester, where everything starts afresh. The songs in the album feature lyrics about everyday topics and a refreshing concept that can be relatable to the younger generations. Moreover, TWS can also be pronounced as Two Us.
On the 10th November 2022, the sub-label of HYBE, Pledis Entertainment, announced the debut of a new boy group around the year 2023. It was during the Fan Meeting of SEVENTEEN in Carat Land on 12th March 2023 when Hoshi from SEVENTEEN introduced five trainees as the upcoming members of the label's new group. However, their identities remained a mystery. Pledis officially confirmed on 7th November that the group would make their debut in the first quarter of 2024.
On the 21st December 2023, the group launched their official social media account and released their first debut teaser. The following day, Pledis Entertainment announced that the group would consist of six members and would debut on January 2024.
On 27th December 2023, it was announced that the group would release their debut mini-album, Sparkling Blue, on 22nd January. The pre-release single, titled "Oh Mymy: 7s", was released on 2nd January.
The six members were introduced through a group profile video released on 3rd January and individual videos, which followed the next day, on 4th January.
Brief profile of members (from oldest to youngest)
1. Shinyu
Shinyu, whose birth name is Shin Junghwan, is the oldest member and leader of TWS. He was born on 7th November 2003 and claims to be "the father" of the group. Shinyu graduated from Lila Art High School in 2023, a year late due to being a dropout from Yesan High School previously. He has two elder siblings, born in 1997 and 2002, respectively. Shinyu has an INFP personality type based on MBTI classification and represents the visual of the group. He has a mature, trendy, and flower boy appearance with a small face and broad shoulders.
Before joining Pledis Entertainment, Shinyu was a former trainee at both SM Entertainment and Big Hit Music. He began training since his freshman year of high school. Shinyu is known to be friends with actress Lee Chaeyoon, who once participated in Girls Planet 999. They even shot a school activity video together at Lila Art High School. Shinyu has a calm and mature personality, but he also has some randomness that allows him to adapt well to other members.
2. Dohoon
Dohoon, whose birth name is Kim Dohoon, is a member of TWS, born on 30th January 2005. He has an elder brother and completed his schooling at Lila Art High School before transferring to Hanlim Multi Art High School. Dohoon began his trainee journey in 2017 and is the longest trainee among the TWS members, making him a versatile member.
Based on the MBTI personality test, Dohoon's personality type is ISTP. His face is often compared to Nam Joohyuk and EVNNE's Lee Jeonghyeon, and he is known for representing the "strong and fierce" visual in the group. Together with Shinyu, Dohoon is responsible for the rap line in TWS.
During dance performances, Dohoon's movements are clean, precise, and he knows how to control his power and weakness. He is often chosen as the center during the highlights of the song. Additionally, his vocal ability is exceptional, with a wide range and good pitch. Dohoon tends to sing high-pitched tones with a soft voice, and he also features in rap parts.
Despite the group's challenging pre-debut period, Dohoon is known for not crying when all members remain teary-eyed two days before their debut. He was also very popular among his seniors and juniors during his middle school years. Dohoon is a talkative and random member who adds life to the group's chemistry.
3. Youngjae
Youngjae, whose birth name is Choi Youngjae, was born on 31st May 2005 and is a member of TWS. He has a younger sister and completed his schooling at Jamshin High School. Based on the MBTI personality test, Youngjae's personality type is ISFJ. Compared to the other members, Youngjae is relatively calm, but alongside Shinyu, he often speaks more.
Youngjae's position in the group is as the main vocalist. He has the loudest voice among the members that is clear and gentle, optimized for band vocals. He is particularly responsible for delivering high notes and the song's highlight parts. During his dance performances, Youngjae showcases flexible dance lines with big and proportional body movements.
Youngjae's soft and gentle look comes from his double eyelids, round eyes, and slim face. According to his fellow members, he has an organized personality with strong vitality. Additionally, he was discovered by Pledis Entertainment through Instagram DM. He occasionally uses a Gyeongnam accent while speaking.
4. Hanjin
Hanjin, whose birth name is Han Zhen, is a member of TWS. He was born on 5th January 2006 and is originally from Xinxiang, Henan, China. Hanjin completed his schooling at Hanlim Multi Art High School and has the personality type of INFJ based on the MBTI classification.
Hanjin is the only foreign member of the group, who joined Pledis Entertainment through an audition in China in 2022. He worked as a trainee for approximately a year before debuting. Hanjin's position in the group is as the sub-vocal due to his lacking Korean. However, in the b-side song "Unplugged Boy", Hanjin showcased his stable and warm vocal.
Hanjin's dance skills are excellent even though his training period was relatively short. He is also the visual member, who is a handsome Chinese man with large, beautiful eyes, dark double eyelids, and a sharp nose. His small face is filled with attractive features that exude luxury.
Despite Hanjin's limited language skills in Korean, he is actually a talkative and noisy member. His favorite season is autumn because it is not too hot or too cold. Furthermore, Hanjin is an active user of selca and loves photography.
5. Jihoon
Jihoon, whose birth name is Han Jihoon, is a member of TWS. He was born on 28th March 2006 and has an elder sister born in 2002. Jihoon is skilled in guitar playing and dancing, and he is also INFJ based on the MBTI personality test. He attended Hanlim Multi Art High School.
Jihoon became a trainee in the entertainment industry after attending Move Dance Studio in Suwon. He began his training at YG Entertainment in 2017 and subsequently moved to JYP Entertainment. He then joined Big Hit Music (later known as Big Hit Entertainment) in 2020. Jihoon was part of Trainee A and was set to debut next, but the group was canceled. He finally joined Pledis Entertainment in 2023 as a trainee for about seven years before his debut.
Jihoon's position in the group is the main dancer. He is passionate about dancing and has a precise and controlled movement. He has excellent choreography memorization and can create choreography as well. Jihoon likes hip-hop music, and his clear and transparent tone showcased remarkable vocal ability with a comfortable listening experience. He has plump lips, lovely skin, and cheeks that are soft, portraying a cute image when he smiles with a round-opened mouth, revealing his gumline.
Jihoon is an excellent dancer, but he is said to practice too much that resulted in his knee joint inflammation. Monica, who appeared in Street Woman Fighter, is his dance mentor. He attended a dance school called OFD dance studio ran by Monica.
Jihoon is fluent in three languages, Korean, Japanese, and English. He is reportedly more popular than other members, just like Shinyu and Dohoon, but with a wider range of recognition due to his exposure as Trainee A. Jihoon and Kyungmin are known as the loudest and most talkative members of the group.
6. Kyungmin
Kyungmin, whose birth name is Lee Kyungmin, is the youngest member of TWS, born on 2nd October 2007. He is the only member with two younger brothers and attended Hanlim Multi Art High School. Based on the MBTI personality test, Kyungmin's personality type is ISFP.
Kyungmin received training from Mu Doctor Academy, an audition academy, before passing an in-house audition held by Pledis Entertainment and joining the label. He is the main vocalist, with no remarkable contrast between his natural voice and singing voice. Kyungmin's voice is refreshing but somewhat childlike, with a beautiful and unique tone that captivates the ears, particularly at higher notes.
Kyungmin's dance technique is clear and loud. His slightly droopy eyes and plump lips give him a cute look, often compared to a puppy, especially when he smiles with a raised mouth corner and a dimple that appears, making those who look at him smile along.
Kyungmin and Jihoon are known as the loudest and most playful members of the group. He is known for his outstanding academic achievement and excels in mathematics, ranking sixth in his class. Kyungmin is the first HYBE idol to debut in 2007, but based on the RU Next audition program, Wonhee from I'LL-IT was the first to confirm his debut. However, Kyungmin made his debut earlier than Wonhee.
TWS's first mini album: SPARKLING BLUE, released January 22, 2024.
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