i have too many thoughts and im chewing glass
i just think it would have been cool if soto had stuck with the shady wizard cult fuckery that was being set up in the first update instead of instantly dropping every thread to go play demonland rebellion for eight million years. it feels like.
What's up with the fucking eternal fractal torture islands? What's up with Lyhr and everything that happened in the Skywatch meta? WHAT about the ward member that just straight up fucking left, and left behind a bunch of extremely suspicious letters?! Why is Isgarren..........just why is Isgarren?
I can't help but imagine a SOTO where we stayed with the Ward and like, actually went further into that. Imagine if we actually got to know the characters! Learn more about them, who they are, about the things they've done, maybe got invested in them! And then, if we uncovered some dark secret! Something that destabilized the Ward, splits people - people we now know - up. Maybe set us against Isgarren - or hey, maybe with him! Maybe - even though he's shady and we're kind of morally opposed - things set up so that we are on the same side, ultimately! either could be neat! And then, at the end, Peitha, who's been sneaking in her little comments here and there (and imagine if people finding out we had a demon in our had had any time to have a meaningful effect!!), finally shows up! Maybe gives us some answers to questions raised during this hypothetical what-if. And then we have the lead in to the next expansion, in demonland! Imagine!!!!
IMAGINE IF IT WAS GOOD AUUUUUUUURRRGGHGHGHGHGHGHG!!!!!!!!
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things learned in episode 44:
sonoi paints successfully- wonders how long he has been able to
sonoza cries as he informs haruka her manga is a masterpiece- sonoza says he has nothing else to teach her, but haruka asks him to continue to guide her and he agrees
"miho" wants to go back to work, as she is bored just staying at home, but kijino does not want her to leave the home out of fear that something will happen to her
the team asks inuzuka about the juto- inuzuka can't tell them where the forest of slumber is, but tells them that killing a juto will bring the person they copied back (lie told to inuzuka by sononi)- momoi questions this in his head, as he was told by "miho" that killing a juto will kill the person they copied if the person is not in the human world
inuzuka thinks the team are amateurs, and the team notes that he's the amateur after he leaves
jiro is planning to return to the countryside/his hometown- the team notes that jiro goes there a lot- jiro says rumi gets lonely and that the people he cares about and raised him are there
jiro invites momoi to join him in going to his hometown- momoi agrees, as he wants to repay the one who raised jiro- momoi wants to repay them for helping someone from the don clan
jiro goes to show a picture of rumi and himself to kijino, but jiro is the only person in the photo- kijino thinks about how he knew there was something wrong with him
"miho" returns to work- found by sononi who alerts inuzuka
inuzuka questions if there is another way to bring natsumi back, like returning to the forest as he doesn't know if he can hurt a juto with natsumi's face- sononi tells him it was a one-in-a-million chance that he went to the forest the first time, so this is the only way (lie)
when inuzuka hesitates sononi questions if his love for natsumi is week which gets him determined to see it through
"miho" notes that she likes the inu brother form and finds it cute
inuzuka successfully slashes "miho" in her juto form with murasame
sononi recalls the memories she has of inuzuka describing his love for natsumi and how his love for her will not waver- sononi saves "miho" before she can be finished off by inuzuka- "miho" crawls away while inuzuka checks on sononi
momoi comes across "miho" and asks her about her injuries in a concerned tone- "miho" is dismissive
momoi asks about the information she told him- "miho" says that she doesn't tell lies and that she understands humans more than momoi
when momoi tries to help "miho" she shoves him away, stating that she hates the don clan
"miho" makes it home to a concerned kijino- kijino calls for an ambulance and "miho" tells him that inuzuka caused her injuries
sononi is questioned by inuzuka about why she protected "miho"- sononi admits to lying to inuzuka and apologizes- sononi is unable to explain why as sonoi and sonoza appear and inuzuka leaves
sononi is determined to be like the don clan by sonoi and sonoza- meaning that she loves humans, wishes for peaceful co-existence, and in turn has abandoned ideon- siding with humans means execution under the laws of ideon
neither sonoi nor sonoza can bring themselves to execute sononi- admit that they are the same
sonoi notes that sononi once said that inuzuka would shed blood for his love, but it seems that sononi is the one shedding blood for her love- sononi goes after inuzuka
inuzuka tells kijino that "miho" is a juto- fight insues
before kiji brother can land the final blow on inuzuka, sononi guards inuzuka- sononi has a great number of injuries at this point
kijino snaps out of his anger at inuzuka and helps inuzuka protect sononi from a hitotsuki
all 6 donbrothers transform together- no reaction to inuzuka's inclusion
sononi is on the brink of death in inuzuka's arms when kaito appears- inu brother's points are used to save sononi- inu brother has 2 point left
inuzuka is relieves that sononi is not dead, but quickly leaves her side
inuzuka tells sononi to not talk or look at him again- states that he doesn't ever want to see her again
haruka has a delayed realization that inuzuka is inu brother
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