QSMPblr, my contribution to the wet cat Missa propaganda community as someone who speaks no Spanish but got really sick and watched all of Quackity's translated Spanish videos consists of this absolute gem: in Minecraft Extremo, a server where each player only has three lives, Missa kept looking Endermen in the eyes and dying, almost dying, or almost getting his teammates killed. Because of this, he was deemed a danger to himself and locked in a cell in the corner of his own base. He then was left with nothing to do but fish for enchantment in the tiny pool of water next to it for six hours. Quackity ASKED Missa if he wanted to leave to which Missa responded no.
The cell was two blocks wide and three blocks long.
He lost his last life in it and hovered over his body while his teammates lamented about how they could still hear his voice.
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okay but I do really like how the revelation/confirmation of how the twins' powers instantly reflects back on shiguang
Passive vs enactor dynamic
Each pair has a passive player (Lu Guang and Li Tianxi) and an enactor (Cheng Xiaoshi and Li Tianchen). The passive player can see/feel for relevant information but is unable to change anything by themselves. By contrast, the enactor can use their power to change things, but without their passive it's much more difficult for them. For CXS, he has to dive blind and risks altering nodes and/or being unable to fish for info without LG's framework. For LTC, he can't possess anyone from a distance and has to both get in close contact and maintain that close contact for the duration of the possession which heavily limits what he can do.
Which leads onto the next point...
Synergy
LG&CXS and LTC<X's powers are massively more useful when used in combination. I don't know if we'll ever find out the origins of the powers, but honestly, it's like they're made specifically for the pairs to complete each other. Any other combination of the powers doesn't seem to be anywhere near as useful and the fact that LG&CXS's are based in the past and LTC<X's in the present is only part of why that is the case.
The synergy in both cases is activated by touch. LG can communicate with CXS when he's in a dive because they activate their powers together. LTC can use LTX to possess and actively control puppets by maintaining touch as she uses her powers.
(Side note: I think the way that LTC possession is more like puppeting than possession is how he was able to make Liu Min commit suicide. If the person actually *in* the body tried to commit suicide like that, as Xiao Li explains to us, the body's defence mechanisms would kick in and it wouldn't work out.)
Disruption
Building on to how shiguang and the tian twins have massive synergy in terms of their powers it also appears that if you try to switch it up they end up disrupting each other.
In CXS's dive into the twins' backstory, he first retains his possession but loses contact with LG and then later when LTX is jumping into Liu Lan and LTC is possibly channeling his power through her's CXS gets a staticky POV from LL and then booted out entirely. I'm unsure of the specifics of which twin is affecting which angle of shiguang's powers, but I think the gist we should be getting from this is that whilst shiguang and the tian twins have a lot of internal synergy they don't have a lot of cross-pair synergy. If anything, it may be difficult or impossible to combine outside of the standard pairs.
Feelings/memories
Anyway, the idea of possession fits with how CXS and LTX are able to feel what their hosts feel and have some degree of memory leakage. CXS is active possession and LTX is passive possession, but they're truly one with their hosts to some degree (which fits with their personalities being the more empathetic of each pair).
We know CXS also carries over some physical aspects when he possesses and LTC by virtue of "puppeting" (rather than possession) is able to override the host's natural ways of working (as exhibited twice by Liu Min, first with his legs, and later with his suicide).
(I'm not entirely sure I'm interpreting the physical aspects of this along with the show's intent but this logic at least follows in terms of it making sense for me)
Photos
This is a bit of an odd one, but it seems that LG, CXS, and LTX all require photos for use of their powers. LTC... doesn't. I don't know that there's any specific reason for why it's like this, but it does stand out when nearly every other trait has an analogue in the opposing pair.
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i’m so sane. so so so very sane. totally fine about this. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
aaaaaAAAAAAA okay no sorry im just. wow. brushing his hand through his hair bcs the locks kept getting in his face? grabbing that bag in whatever way?? thE BICEP IN THE LAST PIC????? 🤠🤠🤠 my life is very good rn
(me? analyzing a 10 sec video like my life depends on it? never 😶 can you tell i’ve been oscar starved for a week? lollll) (also it was so good that i don’t care too much about his nails 😵)
THAT ONE LOCK MADE ME FUCKING LOSE MY MIND 😭😭 EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM IN SOOO APPEALING TO ME....
the neck is necking once again, cute little moles are seen by the world, hand going through his hair like that, biceps bulging, cute little smile, emotionless yeehaw at the end 🤯🤯🤯 why is this video 10 hours long???
(bestie, we're the same 😭 can't escape and don't want to to be fair... gimme more content ffs i've missed him!!! I'M CUTTING AND FILING HIS NAILS TODAY I PROMISE... unacceptable.. Angelina is shaking her head I'm sure 😂)
YK TRIPLE HEADER MEANS DROWNING IN OSCAR CONTENT FOR THREE FULL WEEKS 🥵🥵 life is amazing!!!
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“You know, it’s funny, how after all these long years I finally have a body that resembles the way I feel. My stomach is toned, my neck is thicker, my jaw is sharper, my voice is deeper. And its just a shame that it took me three months of constant fucking pain in order for my body to reflect my mind. Which has now been riddled with trauma and is hardly scraping by. But I ask: do men look like men because they train their feeble minds to express pain in physical holdings? My jaw is sharper and stronger than ever but only because I have been biting my tongue raw, in order to quell my complaints of this body that ungracefully harbours and this mind that can’t swim. But this theory, that men resemble me and I them does not uphold itself upon further expression, as I have never once seen a man bite his tongue. My muscle is not manly, it’s an expression of constant grief. I do not resemble men. I resemble sheer and unparalleled power.”
~Rio Romeo, find the official and beautiful video version here
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okay more ramblings about Dark Marle bc i think about her so much. so her possession is much more indirect than the rest of the possessed characters in Puyo Puyo (Dark Arle & Strange Klug). she has complete free will & autonomy, but her memories and motivations have been distorted to where she's just doing Squares's bidding. she's not doing this all because someone has taken control of her body, she's doing it because they've made her believe that's what she wants to do.
however, Squares is clearly watching over her actions carefully, as whenever she starts questioning if this is really fun, she gets a sudden headache and starts acting weird again- Squares is regaining control of her brain.
which brings me to the point of this rant.
near the end of chapter 2, she says this after she gets a headache.
and this... this is definitely Squares speaking.
even though Marle's brain has been distorted and corrupted by Squares, she's still Marle. even as Dark Marle, she never lashes out like this UNLESS it's just after a headache. at worst she gets a bit miffed at Lemres.
(↑ literally the angriest dark marle getting in a situation not involving a headache (afaik))
Squares HAS the ability to completely control Dark Marle, but only uses it to keep her from breaking out of his control. possibly because it's easier to let her do her own thing, with her already being obsessed with "fun" and all, or it simply takes to much energy to control her constantly (my money's on both).
there might be more examples of Squares talking through Marle (i don't have the energy to comb through the chapter 4 cutscenes rn lol) but i find the example from chapter 2 shown above really sticks out to me. it's really interesting, is it not?
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