spyxfam chap 66 spoilers pls scroll if you're not caught up yet
I AM PREPARED FOR THE ANGST, THE SPICE, THE PAIN, AND THE COMEDY THAT WILL FOLLOW THIS
With how successful Garden is, I can imagine that they keep up with the latest intel and have at least some loyal informants keeping them in the loop.
I imagine Shopkeeper has had an extensive background check done on Loid Forger, regular civilian and psychiatrist, when Yor first brought the idea to him and with both Twilight and WISE being aces at espionage, the paperwork would have eased Garden off their tails by preventing them to go deeper.
Now though, this is the sort of information that would make an organization who's very loyal to their code cut through the surface level info and dig deeper.
If Garden even finds a whiff of something off, Twilight and WISE are gonna have a hell of a time and I absolutely am excited for it all to go down.
I'm excited for the dilemma both Yor and Twilight are gonna have if they get faced with this conundrum. I'm excited for confrontation and I'm definitely excited on how Endo-sensei is gonna execute all of this.
You are NOT ALLOWED to be successful by the way!!!! You’re not allowed to be popular on a popular app because that’s not COOL!!!!!!! I find songs by listening to the bugs hum in dirt!!!! IM COOLER THAN YOU!!!! BE MY KIND OF COOL ONLY!!!! POPULAR THINGS ARE FOR LOSERS AND IM A PROFESSIONAL HATER BECAUSE YAY!!!! SUCCESS CAN ONLY BE ON MY TERMS!!!!!!! IF YOU DIDNT BECOME KNOWN BY RANDOM LYRICS ETCHED INTO THE SIDEWALK RIGHT BY AN ABANDONED BUILDING YOURE ILLEGITIMATE!!!!! BE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!
Side note: if we (specifically consumers who don’t even create, themselves, and regard art as only a product) keep making dumb rules about art and creation, no one will ever have fun or want to do what they love anymore.
in other news I’ve been spending my commutes day dreaming up a fic where we just drop s3 Klaus in the middle of s1 and let him run riot please add your own suggestions to this scenario below <3
i think i'll give into the urge and reblog a few memes -- no guarantee that i'll get to them today, ofc, but i'll be working on a few different things since my muse is high, so we'll see! aaaand a reminder that you're welcome to use my responses as starters for threads if you want. that's always the case with any of my meme response, but i figure there's probably more uncertainty when it comes to spicy content :' )
While I never hated Godot you made me like him more!
If you don't mind what is your favorite thing about Godot
I'm so happy to hear that, anon. He's a good boy and if I have made anybody like him more then my dorky efforts have paid off. >:3
In general, I really like how hard they go with making him complex. Nothing about Godot is ever black and white. He's simultaneously noble and twisted, incredibly cool and incredibly lame, deeply tragic and deeply funny (is there another AA character who's so off-the-rails weird and laugh-out-loud funny while also being so intensely sad?)
But my favorite of those contrasts is that no matter how hard he pretends or how wrecked he is as a person, there is still good in him. He has a moral code leftover from his former self that he won't betray, no matter how bad he gets. As misguided and intensely mean as he is to Phoenix, he won't cheat in court and he won't get an innocent person sent to jail even to "stick it" to him (Godot literally just stops arguing his case once it's apparent they have the wrong person.) The coffee moment with Pearl and his interactions with Maya in 3-5 are indications that he still has a good heart under all the bluster. (Someone on my other post's notes described this as "he still has love to give" and that phrasing has stuck me in the brain like a splinter. It's haunting me.)
(3-5 spoilers beyond this point.)
Even his worst actions aren't straightforward. Godot takes somebody's life, but it's incredibly hard to call it a "murder." He was inarguably saving Maya's life in the process. The victim isn't straightforward either- he killed Misty Fey, but he also stopped Dahlia in the act of murdering Maya. And yes, as he admits, he did have a hand in setting up the circumstances around it, but so did Misty, and it's just UGGGH. SO TWISTY. And then he calls himself out for it! He recognizes his own failings and admits he was wrong! There's enough good left in him to realize how far he's fallen and how warped his actions have been. He ends the game on a note of cathartic acceptance and relief, and his ambiguous fate means we can freely think about where he might go and what he might do next. What kind of relationships he might have with other characters once he takes off the proverbial mask and lets them know the real Diego. EVEN MORE complexity on top of the delicious ice cream sundae of "I'm going to be thinking about this character forever" (ugh, that's a Godot-worthy dumb metaphor.)
If Godot was another heartless pure evil antagonist like Manfred von Karma or Matt Engarde, he wouldn't be nearly as interesting. If he had actually lost every shred of the good man he used to be, if there was no hope of redeeming him, or if he ever truly sank to the level of committing evil acts, I wouldn't care about him nearly as much. Godot is great because he's not a villain, he's an antagonist, one specifically designed as a foil/dark mirror to Phoenix, which is the kind of deep storytelling meta shit I absolutely eat up.
Also, he's hot. Hottest prosecutor in the series. Fight me, I'm right.
I come back from vacation and drop in Tim's on my way to work and they've got rid of my beloved carrot muffins AND brought out the whole pumpkin spice lineup