what I love about chi-yeol with a new assistant is the confirmation that no matter what how much he grows, his wet cat energy is so strong he'll always need someone to sort out his life
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Episode 16 - West of Astrub
Considering Joris doesn't know Keke can ride for free, one can assume this is his first trip outside the city. Considering this is a Bonta-Astrub coach system, I am assuming this might actually be them going on a trip to Bonta, or somewhere in that direction.
NUMERO DE MEMBRE 001 / MEMBER NUMBER 001
Kerubim Crepin
Sexe male / Sex: male
Ne a Astrub / Born in Astrub
While in the past I had assumed that Kerubim was probably born in Amakna, or a village close to it, due to him and Atcham going to an orphanage there after The Horrors happened, I suppose he was canonically born in Astrub!
And this, right here, is exactly why I started this blog. XD
To quickly review the unified Crepin family lore, and how this may change it: I'll be real, this doesn't change it at all. Astrub and Amakna are close, and it's reasonable to assume that the Crepin family might have moved there from Astrub, when they were very little.
It also doesn't change the fact that, growing up in an orphanage just outside the city walls of Amakna, their cultural mindset would be very... Amaknean.
My analysis of the fact that instead of being each other's haters, Atcham and Kerubim should have been baking cakes together, for their mental wellbeing, is very real.
Let's not dwell too much on the cringe depiction of a native person from the USA. Both because I had never even been to an USA in my life and therefore don't really have much to say, and because it is just kind of cringe.
Let's instead talk about why the fuck is Kerubim riding a kids' playground horse.
The western music being diegetic is so fucking funny to me. Easily one of the funniest bits in the whole show.
Rates of orphanhood among Twelvians are staggering. The second you adopt or birth a child it's OVER, you're doomed by the narrative.
This whole scene is Kerubim fighting his two sides:
Being a guy who just loves kids, especially orphan, in part because they're cool and in part because he himself was an orphan.
VS.
Being a FUCKING HATER.
He really has no backbone when it comes to kids. You just know his literal son could be like "papycha!!! I want you to do a pirouette and also then we need to go to the grocery store so I can buy chocolate milk to eat with oranges" and he'd be like "oughughu my Jojo eating oranges with chocolate milk is a bad idea. But who am I to stop you. 😢 one pirouette incoming."
The idea of Kerubim Crepin spanking a child is so funny to me. All bark no bite.
Guy who just threatened to beat up a child just deciding to die instead. Sad!
I love how much of a businessman he's always been, especially considering the dubiously-canon insinuations of it being a general Crepin family thing.
Okay, geographical notes here:
The lake with the tower (the one where Kerubim took Lou's dance boots), is to the west/north-west of Astrub, in the direction of Bonta.
Despite the differences this intro has to the actual geography shown in the show, it is consistent with where this lake appears directionally, in the relation to the city.
And this intro, by itself, is consistent with where the lake appears in-game. (As well as with where the Zaap is.)
I suppose the show's perspective is quite a lot more realistic.
The game's map can't as big as the real world, but the show's medium allows everything to be much bigger, and much more realistic. This, in turn, means that in-universe the lake is probably a bit farther away, than how it appears in-game.
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