OFMD EP2 REACTION
at least stede and co. have clean clothes and bedrolls now...
and of course buttons is sleeping upside down like the Creature he is
stede's lying there thinking about the "you wear fine things well" scene i'm-
ed's stede-barbie is covered in flecks of black paint skfjhdkjfsfjh has he been holding it against his face???
and there's little ed-barbie i am obsessed. maybe he's been making them kiss
HE MADE THEM BOTH JUMP OUT THE WINDOW NOOOOOOO
oh god what if he thinks that stede is dead for real.
BUTTONS X THE SEA 5EVA
zheng's crew calling "good morning!" back to her like a class of children awww... at least that's a step up from stede trying to do flag arts n crafts with his gang of preschoolers
"the sea is restorative, isn't it?" "YES QUEEN!" i love buttons
buttons is getting INTO the tai chi
the swede found his place with jackie... is buttons going to stay with zheng? aw man are we going to lose all the crew? :(
"we're tender as hell"
"there is one other man on board" LUCIUS LUCIUS LUCIUS
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH
PETE TACKLES HIM TO THE FLOOR AND EVERYONE COMES OVER
"men are so fucking emotional"
"i thought you died!" "i think a lot of people did" BRUH
awwww pete and lucius!!!!!!
and the whole gang is watching lmao
"rat boy, what's that about?" "i think it's like a lunar calendar thing..." yeah right it's cause you got scooped up like a drowned rat
"what exactly happened to you, lucius?" ohhhh stede you are not gonna like the answer to that question. and by that i mean you are going to be surprisingly okay with it because you're insane
"...i fell" LUCIUS DON'T COVER FOR HIS ASS
"i'm overqualified for towels!" stede baby i think towels are all you can handle
"sea witch... i have looked for you far and wide..." oh my god? well he can talk to birds...
buttons x zheng's first mate x the sea 5eva?
oh no. seeing the revenge fills me with dread
ed's smiling. this is not a good sign
"no more booze, no more drugs, and more importantly, no more izzy" sdfskdgjhsgkjsh
"you did kill him?" he knows. he knows frenchie fucking wouldn't.
we all thought jim and frenchie would be hiding lucius in the walls. turns out they're hiding izzy. what a turn of events
"KILL ME YOU FUCKING COWARDS" aww it's the most normal izzy's sounded in a while <3
archie gives me big gideon nav energy and i love that
OH GOD JIM AND ARCHIE HAVE TO CUT IZZY'S LEG OFF
"are you even gonna ask how i am?" yeah stede, tighten up mate
"FUCK YOU that's how i am" aaaaaand here we go
"you broke him when you left and then he broke me. everything that's happened since has been YOUR FAULT." watch how fast stede can internalise that
"i see you've adopted the form of a humble man, sea witch"
therianthropy??? BUTTONS SELKIE REAL???????
ed jumpscaring frenchie "heyyyy :)" you know what i'm on board with stede the atrocities ARE okay if a man with big beautiful brown eyes does them actually
"how'd you kill izzy?" HE KNOWS
"you're left-handed. you just used your right." ed and his fucking mind palace as he slowly backs frenchie into a corner with that humorless smile FRENCHIE JUMP OVERBOARD
"do you think i wouldn't know the smell of my rotting former first mate?" WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS THERE ED
the operation was a success...?
why's jim got gauze shoved up their nose. did izzy kick them in the face
"he'll live?" izzy in the background looking like a corpse
jim's still holding the leg
"he seems like a bit of a dick" "he is, but he's our dick" EXACTLY JIM
jim and archie kissing over izzy's severed leg... how touching? at least put it on the floor jim
"our eyes lock as we're holding hands and we can't help but kiss over [izzy's] not once, twice, thrice [fucked-up leg]"
OH FUCK ED'S HERE
"leave me, all of you. ...take the fuckin' leg."
"he was your friend." loyalty is everything to jim
ed staring completely still and emotionless at izzy's presumed dead body... fuck
uh oh. olu seems to have relinquished the brain cell.
...none of the revenge gang knows what china is. why am i even surprised
"you can't file to save your life, and i'm pretty sure you broke the abacus" "yeah i fucked that up" sdjfghsdkjgh olu what did you do to the abacus...
"but you're calm, and you're smart, and... i actually really liked it when you visited the soup stand" SLFGHSKJGHADKJGAH DOES ZHANG HAVE A THING FOR OLU
(listen i'm not freaking out about olu/jim 'cause they don't even know if the other one is still alive or not. they're allowed to kiss other people)
and that was such a cute moment
zheng: this is my boyfriend, and this is my boyfriend's partner, and this is my boyfriend's partner's girlfriend
roach x soup 5eva
lucius and pete are sitting Far Apart now and THAT worries me
"we eat, but how often do we taste?" i'm glad roach gets to have a ratatouille moment
lucius smoking a cigarette and fucking hating stede with all his might... this boy is so fucking traumatised...
"i used to chew the old tobacco leaf when i was young and edgy!" stede for the love of god shut up and also you were never edgy in your fucking life
"my spicy little rat boy" "NEVER FUCKING CALL ME THAT" oh yeah lucius has fucking PTSD
"what happened in towels?"
ed waking izzy up i am not ready for this conversation
please subtitles please cover up the pretend amputated leg i am begging you
"up in Leg Heaven"
"i just popped down to say a proper goodbye" (pulls out pistol) I AM PUTTING ED IN A STRAITJACKET
oh no he's making izzy hold the pistol and point it at him
he wants izzy to kill him sooooo bad he wants izzy to do it
and izzy's laughing humorlessly because he can't fucking kill ed, no matter what ed does to him
"you scared, eddie? too scared to do it yourself?" they are both lunatics please for the love of god get divorced and nobody die!!!
"clean up your own fuckin' mess, i'm not doing it, i've been doing it all my fuckin' life" delivered like a housewife cheerfully telling her husband to pick up his own socks
A GUNSHOT
BUT ED HASN'T BEEN HIT
I KNOW IZZY CAN'T HAVE KILLED HIMSELF. BUT THAT'S CLEARLY WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO
ed, without turning around to look at izzy: "i loved you. best i could"
i'm chewing on the walls there is something soooo wrong with both of them
poor frenchie! "do you wanna do this here, or at the bottom or the ship, 'cause i can just jump over and make it easier" BABY NOOOO
you call that CLOSURE ed??? BRO.
"do me good to be at the wheel for a bit" ed is going to blow this whole fucking ship up and take everyone with him
taika delivers each line SO casually and never before has such a laissez-faire attitude filled me with such horror
"don't keep it bottled in! i get that you're angry, so be angry at me, don't take it out on pete" "oh, stede bonnet's giving me relationship advice?"
"don't be like me" stede... i really can't help but love him...
"one has to do horrible things to survive... there was this rat terrier named pepper... THEY ATE HIM! AND THEN I HAD TO CATCH THE RATS! WITH MY TEETH! THEY WERE WEIRDLY FINICKY ABOUT THAT." dear god "THEY HAD THIS GAME CALLED THE HUMAN PUPPET, THE HAND WENT WHERE YOU'D THINK" thank god zheng rescued lucius from the pet-eating and fisting boat what the fuck
"some maniac got rid of the wheel!" ed you'd have better luck just ASKING someone to kill you instead of doing whatever crazy shit this is
"i want you to fight her to the death!" "that's a bit misogynistic, man" priorities, archie "yeah, probably" add misogyny to ed's wanted poster "ALL LOVE DIES I'M JUST HASTENING THE PROCESS" ED FUCKING JESUS
so love = death to ed. smarter people than me could write so much meta on that. but that's why he wanted izzy to kill him
jim: "leave it man, we're not gonna fight to the death!" archie: (punches jim in the face) ARCHIE!!!!!
HUGE gideon nav energy
love a woman who is also a himbo
stede is still doodling on the wanted posters
"i talked to pete... he got nauseous and kind of started crying" seriously was it calico jack's old boat lucius ended up on???
lucius: look at all of ed's red flags
stede: red's my favourite colour so what it doooo baby
"maybe the time he spent with you is the best it's ever gonna get for him" and stede starts shaking his head OOOOOFFFF
jim refuses to kill archie, who has a remarkable lack of self-preservation (HUGE gideon nav energy seriously if there is ever a locked tomb movie/show... madeleine sami for gideon)
"you were gonna do it anyway!" [drive into the storm and kill all of us] "i was!" STRAITJACKET
someone shot ed to stop him from destroying the mast
IT WAS IZZY
IZZY'S STANDING
HE TOURNIQUE'D HIS LEG AND HAULED HIMSELF ONTO THE DECK AND SHOT ED
OH MY GOD THEY SHOWED HIM PUTTING THE GUN TO HIS OWN HEAD????
HE JUST GRAZED HIMSELF. HIS SKULL WAS TOO THICK. NO BULLET CAN KILL HIM
FANG TACKLES ED, JIM PICKS UP A CANNONBALL TO SMASH ED'S HEAD IN, AND ED JUST SMILES IN RELIEF AND SAYS "FINALLY"
no music just rain over the credits
aww olu being cute with zheng <3
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At least Shouto got his moment without It revolving around Deku. You’re upset that shouto isn’t part of the endgame but at least he was able to have his own endgame that’s not about Deku or revolves around Deku. I would love for Bakugou to have his own solo moments even if he’s not in the endgame. Because bakugou never got that.
Sure, Shouto's moment didn't revolve around Deku, it revolved around his family though. So it's not strictly a Shouto-moment - the entire Todoroki family (plus Iida) gets part of the credit (when it comes to stopping Touya). And then of course there is the undeniable fact how much Shouto's and Touya's conflict is ultimately about Endeavor.
I am upset about Shouto's endgame (if it ends like this), because other than a family hero, Shouto wanted to be freed from Endeavor's legacy. Yet, he spends the entire final arc fighting a battle / putting out the fire that Endeavor created. Even the civilians he saves are in danger because Touya copied his move and escaped Kamino to see Endeavor.
Shouto gets nothing for himself - not even a kind word or acknowledgement of any kind from the family he is supposedly the hero of. He's not recognized by anyone in the public either, except the kids who call him "5-Wienes". It feels like still nobody of the public knows who "Shouto" is - half his hero arc feels simply abandoned
He trained and was abused all his life to get strong, he took much more physical beating and hurt from Enji, Rei and Touya than anyone else, and yet his only role is to use that strength and training to save the people who hurt him.
Enji comparatively took much less beating from Touya and got a cool fight vs AFO. When everyone and their grandmother goes up against AFO, Shouto is locked in a side-plot and even there, he just gets this as ending:
Is this really what he deserves as "story-climax"? Because it sure looks like being treated as less than a footnote.
He doesn't even get the feel-good, crying-kids imagery TogaChako got or an entire chapter post-fight showing his villain think about him. In fact, Touya doesn't even react to Shouto or acknowledge anything Shouto has done or the lengths he has gone to save him. Nor does anyone from the family.
In this entire story, we never got an Origin-Trio combo. Shouto never got a combo with his family either (which Bakugou got with Endeavor btw). Shouto never got a hug from his family (which Bakugou got from Endeavor btw).
Bakugou gets a really cool combo with the MC / childhood friend, he gets to save his childhood hero in front of the world, he gets to right all his own wrongs, he gets public accolades, he gets held up as the Symbol of the new era and All Might's heir on equal footing with Deku in the narrative. He gets 2 amazing quirk awakenings to raise him up.
In contrast, Shouto gets to clean up after his abuser and doesn't get to do the stuff he wants for himself (to join his friends and be recognized to be a hero like All Might). Even after everything that's happened, there is nothing that shows that he's known as anything other that "Endeavor's son, Dabi's brother". He gets no quirk upgrade. Even his "I'm not a masterpiece" statement gets ignored by everyone. And he doesn't even get some family-level acknowledgement, other than a throw-away "sorry" from Endeavor.
And unlike with Bakugou where we had guarantee that he'll be back, with Shouto, we have no clue if we'll see more of him or if he'll be just left with this half-win/half-failure kind of ending as the world celebrates the wonder duo's win.
I love both characters, but man, the way Horikoshi treats Shouto and Bakugou are like night and day. (He didn't even give Shouto a full-page panel for his rising chapter, not to mention a double spread... Bakugou got a full Rising volume dedicated to him. Shouto is the first Rising character not to get a volume).
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