Yk what I want? I want a very early stages post canon labrumisu, but from Chilchuck's POV.
Imagine mister 'interparty romance is the devil' visiting court just to see these three circling each other like a pack of uniquely unhinged cats.
And of course he sees it immediately, he's nothing if not perceptive and he's seen this happen so, so many times before. Kabru is hardly subtle in his fascination with Laios, who trusts him in turn more than nearly anybody else. He can see how close Mithrun and Kabru still are, even when there's little reason for the former captain to even stay in Melini. He can see where this is going. And he can see the disaster it's gonna end up in.
So he's just staring at them in horror, trying to figure out what in the world the dynamic here even is and glaring daggers at Kabru all the while for seemingly being the linchpin of this entire bullshit situation.
King, his adviser and a fucking foreign noble?? Who thought THAT was a good idea! Is nobody else seeing this?? (no lol) Why is nobody objecting to this politically unsound love triangle that could literally ruin the kingdom they've only just established??
The anger! The distress! The despair when he first sees Laios getting all giddy when Mithrun so much as talks to him. Because hell, now he can't even blame the entire situation on one pretty boy insisting on having fingers in every possible pie, on political and personal level both!
And then they just. Quietly get together. All three of them. And Chil's just watching from the sidelines in complete bafflement because he's invented infinite worst case scenarios for how this will implode in all of their faces and destroy their friend group and topple the entire country and--
Instead they do. This. He'd be relieved if he wasn't so goddamn mad that he's spent months worrying about this shit just for them to resolve it in the least dramatic way possible.
Fuck this, he's taking a holiday.
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OKAY WHAT WAS THAT (this is code for: ive just finished episode 2 of boss and a babe and now its time for my commentary bc i cant keep my thoughts to myself and i deeply apologise for it)
“three and zo, my gaming teammates, have the same kind of love you have” I FREAKING KNEW IT OMG
and FINALLY OMG IVE WAITED SO LONG TO SEE DRAKE SATTABUT LAEDEKE’S FACE ON MY SCREEN AND THAT DAY IS FINALLY HERE
it’s always so abrupt and weird to hear people speaking english in this show. i dont like english as a language. please stop speaking it. either drake or force (genuinely cant tell because the english is so jarring to hear) literally says “oh my god man” and my brain is very confused
oh how i have missed seeing this man’s absurdly thick eyebrows that i cherish so dearly
THREE AND ZO ARE TOO CUTE
THREE CALLING ZO TINY???
THREE SAYING SO CAN ONLY CARRY ONE THING AND IT’S HIS HEART
ZO FEEDING THREE
THEM FONDING OVER EACH OTHER
THEM BEING UNASHAMED AND ADORABLE EVEN IN FRONT OF FORMAL BOSS MAN
ah shoot theyre becoming soundwin
aoi is so iconic. “since the boss isn’t here, you guys must help me record a tiktok video” i love her
ALSO ALL OF CHER’S ENCOURAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THE EP AND HIS LOVE OF LOVE AND HIS ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA-NESS AND HIS EVERYTHING IS JUST SO GBGHBHTB I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
HE SMILES??? HE KNOWS HOW TO DO THAT???
“i have no friends, im antisocial, and im gay” lmao same. well, actually not same. same about the gay part. not the rest of it
“do you need more than a hug?” sirs we are tWO EPISODES IN--
uM???
AND THEYRE JUST GONNA GO FOR IT AGAIN? ALRIGHT SURE THAT’S FINE I GUESS
you know what, these two really didnt beat around the bush like tinn and gun did. tinngun couldve kissed 67 times and they only did in the last episode. and only twice. and one of those times barely counted. these two just went straight (well, gay) for it and honestly? good for them.
still not entirely sure how to feel about how its not at all a professional relationship and also what exactly is the age gap here and also there’s the problem with that power imbalance they have but im ignoring all of that for now and hoping they resolve it later
but my main takeaway from the episode: THREEZO IS CANON AND IM SO FREAKING HAPPY ABOUT IT
and i didnt at all process anything in that preview of ep3 other than the fact that we’re gonna get a threezo cheek kiss and that thought alone is gonna carry me through this week
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NOOOO RIGHT 'CAUSE LIKE... the way the Arakawa Family specialize in faking deaths already, I'm sure Jo was so on top of everything. And who better to walk Masato through it right... flight's the perfect time to get started if it's gonna take like fourteen hours...
BUT YES. YEAH. Like The Day Of he's just paralyzed with worry and caught between wanting to do something and not wanting to go against Aoki... maybe at most he chances calling Arakawa telling him to be careful, because that's not too conspicuous given his role in the dissolution, but Arakawa just gives him the old I'll Be Fine Worry About Yourself... and, you know, why shouldn't he; they've always had their enemies and he's Arakawa the Assassin, he can handle himself... he can let himself have that fleeting hope, but deep down... and THEN he finds out and has to act like he didn't mean anything to him and has to go back to his duties like nothing happened... OUGH
Can I just say. Literally such an insane fucking series of scenes in Coin Locker Baby. Because you get Jo's despondence when he's saying he might have killed Arakawa--he's being a bitch to provoke Ichiban into a fight, but it's also an admission his inaction played a part, isn't it... and then you get him expressing that he's familiar with Ichiban's need to protect Arakawa... and then you get the sheer desperation and insistence in his voice when he says he could never kill him... and then you get--I'm not totally sure how clear it is in English--but you get him actively saying his feelings go deeper than Ichiban's without really explaining how... and then you get the tinge of fondness when he's thinking back on the old days when Arakawa lived up to his name... Like. Why Did They Do That. Any Of That.
ALSO. GOD. I've gotten so much shit the past couple days because I said I want to lock Jo, Kume, and Tendo in a room for five minutes For My Entertainment. Reading those tags felt like coming home honestly 😭 Like, even Ichi was ready to kill someone over Arakawa, and Jo was out here threatening to disembowel people [in the dub]. And I Think They Should Be Allowed To. As A Treat. So FOR REAL the biggest "I'm so glad we get to talk" 😭😭😭
On that note genuinely so funny that I took an extra ten minutes re-rendering the video because I forgot to put the "flashback" part in Arakawa's subtitles at first but then nobody read it 😭
But it's also something I've been mulling over because I'm delusional. Getting actors as high-profile as Nakai and Takei back for just A Flashback is kinda crazy to me because Arakawa and Jo's screen-time took up a full four percent of the entire game [over ten percent of the cutscenes] originally. But then if it's multiple flashbacks equivalent to that... what exactly is going on here that the past is so intertwined...
And Because My Brain Is Evil there is the fact that technically speaking, Yokoyama only said that line was from a flashback, and specified Arakawa wouldn't be appearing in the main story. Now of course a normal person would interpret that as him reassuring the audience he won't appear in any present-day scenes, but part of me was like. Oh So A Side Story Is On The Table [<- it's not it's fucking not it will not be in a million years]
JUST. WHAT ARE YOU GUYS COOKING WHY IS THE KITCHEN DOOR CLOSED WHY ARE THE WINDOWS BLACKED OUT
ANYWAYS that's enough from me for today I am [as always] glad you enjoyed One Missed Call and Kyouen, ABSOLUTE bangers
YAYA THATS WHAT IM SAYIN YOU GET IT. UNSURPRISINGLY BUT YOU GET IT ಥ▽ಥ
no but thats what i MEAN like i already was jokin with myself like 'jo and arakawa probably had A Thing right lmao' BUT THEN THE WAY JO TALKED BOUT ARAKAWA AND OBVI THE GENERAL FACT HE COULDNT KILL HIM REALLY JUST MADE ME (。・∀・??) AND REAALLLY LOOK AT EM CLOSER THE SECOND TIME AROUND like genuinely for what. it will fuck me up until i'm dead and gone SOOO unnecessary and yet they did it..
wack that people wouldnt want to see kume and tendo stuck in a room with jo like. from what i know everyone is a part of the We Hate Kume gang so. cmon. kume will be shredded into candy floss within five minutes. it'll be fun (๑❛ᴗ❛๑)
OK BUT NAKAI AND TSUTSUMI'S STATUS WAS A BIG REASON WHY I DIDNT THINK ARAKAWA NOR JO WOULD BE BACK FOR LAD8 THAT'S SO VALID TO CONSIDER THAT its that idea that just has me especially wondering what the plan is. im not expecting them to have MAJOR parts (or in arakawa's case too many flashback segments) but they MUST have a SUBSTANTIAL amount to warrant bringing them back right..
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Okay. So ya’ll know how in AoC Terrako just… time travels, abducts the new champions, and tosses them in the past- thus creating a new branching timeline??? Similar to how the “adult” and “child” timelines are a thing???
Imagine Iliana figuring out how to play the Song of Time and Hylia deciding to just yeet her into the past the second she gets the notes right.
She would be so confused.
One second she’s playing by the statue, the next the statue’s gone. Sidon is a baby. Mipha’s alive. Link has no scars and is no longer missing part of an ear. King Dorephan doesn’t recognize her. Zelda hasn’t awakened her powers yet.
Doesn’t take long to figure out what just happened.
But oh BOY she has no idea to get back. How doth one play the Song of Time backwards??? Will Hylia even let it work if she tried??? No idea. Probably not. Iliana has many concerns.
Her biggest one, though, having not met Terrako yet as she appeared in the Zora’s Domain, is how the she’s gonna keep Mipha alive. Also who keeps giving baby!Sidon weapons ten times his size???
Iliana: “What are you holding?”
Baby!Sidon, ready to go hunt a Lynel: “A spear.”
Iliana: “No-!”
Also lowkey Mipha wondering if she’ll ever get to see Iliana in the future and Iliana honestly not knowing because her being there is literally due to divine intervention, and with the champions saved there’s really no reason for Hylia to save her life in a hundred years.
Iliana: “…Okay, so, give it like… ninety-seven, ninety-eight years. Lurelin Village. To be safe. Because in a hundred “I” might be dead.”
Mipha: “What.”
Iliana: “Yeah, no, it’s a whole thing. Pretty sure Bokoblins are the cause. Anyway; go to Lurelin, find a pair of twin boys; they’re “my” little brothers. “I” should be there too. Link won’t be there for me to travel with to get me to go to Zora’s Domain since he’ll be an old man, so ya’ll are gonna have to search for “me”, lol.”
Que Mipha being confused in 98 years after Sidon returns from Lurelin with two tiny twin kiddos and a woman who should be Iliana but is named Iliandra, and they all look like they’ve been through hell- with the exception of Sidon, who appears very angry over something.
And then Mipha raging when Sidon tells her what happened and she just fucking adopts Sarian and Medkah right off the bat because how dare anyone hurt a child, they’re her kids now, she’s healing them and raising them, and no one can tell her otherwise. Grandpa Link is amused.
Iliandra has absolutely no idea why she’s here in Zora’s Domain or why a pair of shark siblings are being very doting and protective towards her and her lil’ twin bros, but anywhere is better than where they were before.
Also they’re very pretty.
Iliandra did not know she had a thing for Zora until ten foot tall gentle giant Sidon showed up in Lurelin and just fucking growled at her parents, showcasing his very pretty and very sharp teeth, before telling her he was here to take her and her brothers somewhere safe and she just went, “y’know what? Sure.” because she was literally debating whether she should try running away soon when he appeared. A shark man can’t be worse than her parents, right???
She just wasn’t expecting him to be a prince.
A prince who is trying very hard to woo her, and is the absolute sweetest to her little bros. Also his sister, the crown princess, is so nice??? Mipha and her super old Hylian husband treat her like she’s an old friend. It’s kinda weird, but also Iliandra doesn’t hate it. Mipha makes sure Iliandra knows how to fight too, in case she ever gets attacked. Sidon teaches the boys how to use tridents.
Iliandra had no idea she was so good with a bow.
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