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oldassweeb · 5 months

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YYH LA EP 4 THOUGHTS

!Spoilers Under Cut!

I'm not sure I like how they made the Dark tournament for the Black Black Club more intimate. There was something so charming about thousands of lower class demons coming to watch the blood shed that I liked a lot, but I understand why they made the change for this particular story line. I don't hate it at least.

I'm glad Sakyo is still so self aware of his own insanity. That rulet scene was really good and I kinda wish it was in the sorce material.

Koenma still having the binki even though we never see his toddler form is so funny to me. New HC that LA Koenma has an oral fixation. I wonder if they are going to keep the Mafuukan explanation for season 2.

I've made a decision. I like Koenma'snew office.

Would Yusuke be as upset about Genaki as he was in the original though? He knew her for less than a month. I mean maybe... he doesn't have many people close to him so it stands to reason he would get attached faster once he felt seen and accepted. Especially from someone in a mentor roll

The Kaiko/Yukina bonding is good. Sad we never got to see Kazuma's sister.

Wish we got the babysitting line from Hiei

The beautiful and emotionally maipulative Karasu imminently inviding Kuramas personal space to criticize his hair is so on brand! God, I love this creepy ass dynamic.

Bui looks so good and his giant battle axe feels very realistic in the way it was used.

Wait! Kurama can change at will in this universe! Oh sigh me the fuck up!!!!!!

Yukina's healing is beautiful. I didn't expect it to look like frosty winter air but I love it.

This Karasu hasn't seen the Kurama fight in this series before and yet he still anticipated Kurama's cleverness. Just goes to show how big of a stalker this guy is.

I need to know if Kurama still has the same reservations about his Youko form in the LA that he did in the sorce material. I need to get inside his head. Please creaters let me listen to his thoughts.

The Ojigi looks so fucking good! I still need a tattoo of that vulva looking carnivores plant.

His eyes are green in his Youko form?? Can someone confirm please?

Despite no longer having teal hair Bui is still just as hot

Go Kaiko!!!!! What a bad ass bitch. She is my favorite performance of this episode.

If Kurama can change at will, why does it drain so much of his energy? I need this to be explained more. Is it just because he's not used to it? Or is he still week from the attack that had him hiding in a human egg in the first place?

GOOD FIGHTS THIS EPISODE. I'm very happy.

Kaiko being all "wtf" after watching Kazuma meet Yukina is a fucking mood. And I guess Kazuma knows about Yukina and Hiei's relationship in this version..

The DotDF tattoo is fire. Best anime tattoo ever.

We don't get blong Karasu, but we did get those super gorgeous vampire nail gloves. (I need a pair)

I like how Sakyo is still able to manipulate Tarukane even after telling him he always wins.

The original Kuwabar would have been able to sense that monster so I'm a little sad he had Keiko open that door.

#yyh #yu yu hakusho #yyh la #yu yu hakusho live action #spoilers under cut

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mrsbsmooth · 2 years

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Bruno's family HCs

These HCs are based off what we know in the game plus some of the thoughts I've had previously.

Some of this information is used in my fics, which you can read here

The information in green has been confirmed in game

Personal Info

Full name: Bruno Andrzej Kaminski

Parents: Divorced. Mums name Lila?

Siblings: SisterS plural (probably 2) My thoughts on names: Gabriela and Zuzanna. (Gab & Zanna)

Birth order: Youngest child energy.

Birthday: March 22nd (Aries)

About

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Hetero... ish. Has never... but... might?

Languages: English, Speaks passable Polish but is probably being humble. His Polish is probably very good.

Cooking: Serviceable! Does a few things well, but other things terribly.

Bad habits: Cracks his joints constantly. Interrupts others (he gets too excited about joining in on the conversation 🥺), pours his porridge down the sink. Forgets to do his taxes every single year and has to pay a fine.

Vices: Occasional smoker. High tolerance for alcohol, will drink pretty much anyone under the table. Liquid courage.

Celebrity crush: Sofia Vergara, Mila Kunis, Anna Faris.

Favourites

Colour: Blue & Yellow

Food: Porridge. And his mum's cooking

Animal: Elephants. He likes how smart they are.

Comedians: Russel Howard when he was young, but as he's gotten older, his taste for him has gone, quite possibly Lee Evans, Lee Mack, (thanks @i-boop-you for help with this!!)

Drink: Cheeky pint or six. Likes vodka and has it straight.

Cologne: K by Dolce and Gabbana EDP. Clean, aromatic, woody. It's masculine, but light-hearted and fresh. He knows nothing about cologne, but he was going somewhere nice (a wedding maybe?) and thought he should probably buy one. This one had a K (Oooh, like K for Kaminski!). Also he liked the bottle, it looked cool. Just like most things, he accidentally got it right. It suits him perfectly.

TV show: Comedies, obviously. Brooklyn 99. He's Jake and he's looking for his Amy. Loves Chelsea Peretti. Loves adult cartoons like Bojack Horseman, South Park, Big Mouth, etc. Also loves dancing shows - Strictly, DWTS, etc. Watches lots of comedy on TV- Would I Lie to You?, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Celebrity Juice, Live at the Apollo etc. (again thanks Em for your help!!!!!)

Movies: Grew up watching a lot of 'girl' movies and has a huge soft spot for them. Really liked Magic Mike (Dancing scene for talent show). PS. I love you, The Notebook, Mean Girls, 10 things I hate about you.

Relationships

Type: Not afraid of a strong woman. Wants her to be a bit fiery. Someone who doesn't start fights but will finish them. I also think he has a thing for brunettes.

Pet peeves: Any form of waiting. Lines, traffic, being on hold, slow walkers, slow talkers, seat hogs.

Relationship history: One long term relationship that he thought was endgame, but she thought it was far less serious. He realises now that he loved the thought of her, but she actually wasn't very nice to him. Otherwise, only short term stuff (a few weeks)

Wants kids: Hell fucking yes. Even though they ganged up on him sometimes, he adores his sisters. I can see him properly wanting 3 or 4 kids. Big-ass family.

#I’ll update or add more categories if asks come through but I couldn’t think of what else to add! LITG #love island the game #litg #love island game #litg s4 #litg bruno #fusebox

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tolrais · 3 years

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TGCF Ep 11 - Season Finale

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The wrapping up of the Ban Yue arc, and the end of season 1 - it looks like season 2 has been confirmed though, but no sign of a date yet :’) at least there’s the special in February to come.

I LOVED it. Like the main criticism I have is that is was THE END OF THE SEASON and I’m still not over episode freaking ONE...though now I guess I know why they haven’t released any official Hua Cheng art, if they’re wanting to save that full reveal for season 2 :’). (It’s fine. This is fine.) I was an idiot though, and panicked like 7 minutes in cause I thought the OP was the ED and it was over (I have time blindness ok? don’t @ me 😅😅)

Messy hair dianxia!!! I love him <3

I really enjoyed Xie Lian’s little deductive speech about Xiao Pei/A-Zhao, showing that our boy has brains and beauty, although the fact that Hua Cheng was beating the shit out of Xiao Pei of screen at the same time was a little funny. There was actually a suprising amount of humorous content (for me, anyway), this episode, considering there was also a lot of feels, with such gems as:

Fu Yao: How dare you stay by his side?

Xie Lian: Cuz there’s no snakes here ^-^?

San Lang, internally: Get wrecked Fu Yao 😂😂😂 (Like I know that his official animal mascot is a fox, which also makes sense, but as I’ve said before, San Lang form HC at least, exudes such asshole cat energy, I love it.)

The shade from Pei Su/Xiu to Ke Mo also made me chuckle. (The ‘I’m gonna fight you!!!...Well I killed you last time you tried, but go off I guess’ bit) Like yeah ok it was a really emotionally satisfying season finale, but they still had those little moments of humour, like Nan Feng pretending to get a call on the spiritual array to avoid eating Xie Lian’s food. Fucking dork.

LADY WINDMASTERRRRRRRRR - I literally yelled Shi Qingxuan out loud when I heard her voice (good thing I live alone 😅) I really like the voice they’ve cast for her, it suits really well. And the little nod from Ming Yi to Hua Cheng and back was a really nice touch. FORESHADOWING.

WE GOT THE NAME CONFIRMATION REVEAL!!!!!! Like, obviously I knew it was coming, and for a sec I was really confused as to why they cut it there, but then I remembered that from what I’ve seen, the special is gonna cover the last few bits of wrapping up of the BanYue arc...and the FACE TOUCHING. Wait...does this mean we’re gonna get The Ring in the special??? AHHHHHHH

Overall I was really happy with the ep and I can’t believe I have to wait 6 weeks for the special (: (It’s fine, maybe this way I’ll actually be able to work on my original fiction...orrrr I could just watch legend of fei and catch up on svss and mdzs donghuas, lol)

Future Episodes musings and translation woes under the cut:

I’m gonna have to reread the novel now, cause a lot of the finer details I’ve forgotten, but I finally worked out how to get the e-pub to talk to my phone, yay, so that should make it a lot easier ^-^. Iirc, the next arc is sneaking into Paradise Manor and the GAMBLING scene (how the heck they’ll get THAT past censorship I have no clue) and then the stuff with Qi Rong? If it’s another 11 ep series, I’m hoping we’ll at least get all of book one adapted, since they’ve adapted 30 chapters or so so far, and there’s 57 of book one...which means if we do get a season 3, prepare for PAIN. (That said, a lot of the season 3 stuff is pretty bloody nightmare fuelly, so I’m not sure how they’d get that past censorship, though a lot of it already has been set up as early as like, epsiode 2? ep 3?)

Couple of little translation niggles mainly - is it Pei Su or Pei Xiu? Cause I’m sure an earlier episode (and the translation of the novel I read) had it as Pei Su, but it was definitely Pei Xiu this ep. Also, I know that guanxi doesn’t translate exactly, but leaving it untranslated was really jarring, especially when something like, “She’s very well-connected”, or “she’s got connections” would have got the point across.

#tian guan ci fu donghua #tian guan ci fu #tgcf donghua #tgcf donghua spoilers #tgcf spoilers #heaven official's blessing #tolrais watches TGCF #translator woes

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tendoki · 4 years

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pulling up with a baby with tendou bc of the quarantine and how the team would react pls 🥺 i feel like coach washijo would be happy and would try to convince yall to let the bby go to shiratorizawa 🤣

anon ive been having the worst day but this request made me lose my shit thank u so much GOOD LORD LMFAOO

I did my best to do this request JUSTICE lol. it turned into general baby havin hcs but I hope you like it regardless!! its rlly long so my bad 🥺

Shiratorizawa reacting to Tendou + his s/o leaving lockdown w a mfin BABY

OK. so he was prob at your apartment when the lockdown was announced

so since all his shit was already there, he had clothes and a toothbrush n it was just generally more convenient for him to stay at your place

he did! he messaged his mom to let her know where hed be, she Didnt Mind lol (we dont know much ab tendous family so?? aah)

now. not saying yall spent all ur time fucking. but u 100% did

and since u ran out of birth control and condoms pretty soon into quarentine......... 👀

both of u sorta just went

FUCK IT

both of you were pretty in love anyway, and even if things didnt work out, you guys figured that youd always work together to be the best parents for the kid you could possibly be

which led to were ur at now. a measly week out of quarantine. n ur being rushed to the labour ward.

tendou is RUNNING AFTER U W HIS LONG ASS LEGS

shiratorizawa closed for the rest of the academic year, which meant that as a 3rd year, you guys and a lot of the team wouldnt see eachother in uniform again

but not to worry!! to make up for the missed celebrations theyve organised a prom and a couple days where 3rd years can come in and give proper goodbyes to everyone, including the coaches!!

everyone on the team showed up, because they wanted to say bye to their senpais 🥺🥺

but. that's like 3 months from ur labour

so when u n tendou pull up to the school, with a 3month old CHILD they r. astounded.

they know its u guys' tho

literally theres not even the possibility for a JOKE that u cheated on tendou because the kid has the same fucking hair.

it's only a little tuft (u know what anime babies look like lol) but that nose n that hair? TENDOU SATORIS GENES CAME THRU

the baby has ur eyes. and compared to the rest of its tiny little face?? they're fucking HUGE

you guys let ushijima hold him (I feel like youd have a son?) and ngl ushi cries.

it's a single tear but tendou will INSIST that waka was SOBBING years afterward

everyone is so attached to the kid sorry

USHIJIMA IS THE GODFATHER LMAO DID U EXPECT ANYTHING ELSE???

the baby is so attached to semi tho!!! the second semi reaches forward to hold the kid and poke at its fat lil cheeks, hes giggling and blubbering up at his uncle semi 🥺

JWJDJD GOSHIKI FREEZES WHEN YOU OFFER HIM TO HOLD THE KID. HE JUST GOES PALE AND FREEZES UP

REON IS SO GOOD WITH THE BABY

he offers to help you guys go shopping for more baby stuff 🥺🥺 and when his mom finds out ab the kid (team sleepovers were at reons house n u were ALWAYS invited so she LOVES U sorry I make the rules)

she gives u some of reons old baby clothes!!! n ur LOSING ur mind because WDYM THIS TALL MFER WAS ONCE LIKE A FOOT TALL AND WEARING A BLUE BEAR ONESIE???

she doesnt judge u for being a young mother!! I imagine she was too?? Reon is real respectful n I'll be damned if she isnt just as sweet

the coaches are already on your ass about toddler volleyball. they call up a couple friends and have already organized a group for teaching young Young YOUNG kids how to play despite ur son being. 3 months old.

the whole team is Maybe in love with your son

sorry. it's our son now. shiratorizawa owns ur kid :/

when shirabu is holding your boy. the whole team watches as semi get jealous????? over a kid that's NOT his???

hes petty and tells him that hes holding him wrong (hes not)

washijo is obsessed with ur baby. hes so proud of tendou. insisting that ur son being 'the size of a FAT volleyball' is a great sign for his skills in the court

the whole team. is offering money. they know u 2 are JUST out of highschool and with quarentine, are probably pretty low on cash??

BUT !! I 100% hc that tendou draws!! nd hes been doing a shit load of commissions for like. years LOL

n hes always saved that money!! he only spent it on shounen jump, which dont make too much of a dent in the money pile lol

besides he took emergency comms the second you guys found out ab the pregnancy

if you draw/write/do any work from home that's gets you money, then you do that too!!

he forces u to do less work than him tho because hes WORRIED AB U N THE BABY 🥺

but you guys appreciate the offers from your friends!!! Reon and Ushi's mom both volunteer to baby sit when you guys want a date night, thus ur child creating one hell of a friendship between the ex-captain and his vice's mothers 🥺

I'm not gonna go thru ALL the team members reactions

but they're all really happy!! ofc they scold tendou for not using protection and are MAJORLY GROSSED OUT KNOWING THAT THE TWO OF U HAVE INDEED HAD SEX

even tho the fact that satori is a Horny boy should be universal knowledge by now

the team is there for you guys while the baby grows up!! the second the kid can walk ushi is kneeling down and teaching him to spike

tendou is just as bad and insists that his son is a prodigy and should be a pro volleyball player already

LISTEN

TENDOUS SHIRATORIZAWA NUMBER??? HIS JERSEY

U GUYS GET A TINY VERSION OF THAT MADE

EVEN OF HE ISNT DOING VOLLEYBALL ANYMORE THIS MAN IS SO PROUD TO SEE HIS NUMBER ON HIS BOY 🥺🥺🥺👉🏻👈🏻

ur son is a mamas boy n it breaks tendous heart ngl

u make up for it by having a daughter a year or two down the line 😳 n shes OBSESSED with her dad it's cute but also BABY ur 4 please stop sleeping in mommy n daddies bed 🥺🥺🥺

also ur sons first words

oh boy

u can tell that the whole fuckin team has been teaching ur son volleyball stuff

u came home n ur son is sat in the living room SURROUNDED by ur (other) boys

ur (main) boy starts blubbing and bouncing at the sight of his mama 🥺 (or dada/other parent if ur an afab trans person!!!)

you tell off the team for tryna get ur baby into vball when hes barely 6months at this point

but before the boys all leave 🥺🥺 ur son grabs his favourite uncle semi and just goes

'sehtah!!!' (setter)

SEMI BREAKS DOWN CRYIBG LMAOOO

ngl tendou n u r kinda pissed that ur babies first words werent mama or dada. but then u see how happy semi is n u both just 🥺

semi is soft for your son and as the kid grows up hes still attached to him

he cant get away with being a brat though, boys got a whole mfing TEAM of dads/uncles PLUS grampy Washijo are ready to scold this boy

your son (and future daughter) are both SO loved though

theyve always got SOMEONE they know they can depend on

the team loves tendou and they love u, so OFC they ADORE any kids u guys have EVER.

they stay in contact with both of you even if you split up later on, they care enough about you guys that the y/n tendou powercouple is something every new generation of shiratorizawa volleyboys are taught about and introduced to

and YES ANON. WASHIJO DOES INSIST ON YOUR KID(S) GOIN SHIRATORIZAWA

they're guaranteed a spot!! they dont even have to work for it lmfaooo

mostly because coach threatens to leave the school and work with karasuno if they dont confirm them a place

it's an empty threat but it WORKS

the worldwide lockdown of 2020 is something you and tendou remember fondly forever 🥺

even if it was in bad circumstances the two of you made something so positive

this turned into general baby hcs with tendou MY BAD LOL IM IN LOVE WITH THIS MAN AND ALSO CONSTANTLY GOING THRU BABY FEVER

#tendou satori #tendou satori x reader #tendou satori fluff #hq x reader #haikyuu x reader #yeah i love kids so much #long post

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gemstoneslesbian · 3 years

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I love you Matt hcs so much! So much inspiration for mine too!

Have you got any post-cannon hcs? (Maybe angst/Whump one? But that’s not so important I would love to hear any ^^)

Thank you sm!! :D

All right SO, my main niche in the fandom is fleshing out the Ace Attorney prison, examining the relationships between all the characters there, fleshing everyone out, considering their character arcs, etc. It’s definitely something I put a lot of thought into and get excited about ^^

I imagine there being three main prisons:

Prison A

The canon prison shown in Ace Attorney Investigations: 2. Prisoners are allowed one animal companion, there’s a supplier with influence over the warden (and, imo, the guards as well), it’s overall a prison that can be interpreted as more relaxed--with limited corruption, due to the fact that, in my opinion at least, Sirhan Dogen wouldn’t put up with much BS. Although he can’t control everything, Dogen has a decent amount of power that he uses to make his prison livable.

Prison B

This is the opposite of Prison A. Damon Gant is in charge, but in a different kind of way; after being Chief of Police for so long, he still has a lot of power and connections, and many officers hold respect and / or fear towards him. The prison is a hierarchy of power and control with a lot of corruption, and anyone who doesn’t work for Gant is in danger.

Prison C

The women’s prison. Dee Vasquez has the upper hand here, due to her outside connections with the mafia. She handles things in a more manipulative, underhanded kind of way--isn’t so much focused on the prison at large, but moreso on securing her own matters. She uses protection or exploitation sparingly, and when she does, she deflects attention off of it as much as possible. While the prison isn’t as horrible as Prison B, it’s not as safe as Prison A.

Now that the environment has been established, time to get into the details about Matt:

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Matt Engarde went to Prison A.

In Ace Attorney, fame and riches seem to make little difference when it comes to putting someone behind bars. However, the game does show that it can add complications, and affect things to a certain level. With that said, here’s how I imagine things went over with the arrest:

Things are a whirlwind of chaos and fear and pain at first, but it doesn’t take him long to get a deal set up with the prison. Sometime within the first week of his imprisonment. Thankfully, this is done quickly enough that his assets haven’t been transferred to his parents, yet.

His sentence is 10 years. No death penalty or life sentence, because the deal is that, for each year that Matt Engarde is alive and healthy, the prison receives $500,000. This would give them ample reason to take measures to protect him from De Killer.

Matt doesn’t have an endless amount of money, and he also doesn’t want to be stuck there forever. In his mind, hopefully De Killer would be behind bars or dead by the end of those 10 years, and if not... well, he’ll figure it out when he gets there.

He’s given the cell down the hall from Sirhan Dogen, the infamous assassin. This scares the HELL out of Matt at first, but the guards assure him that it’s for his own safety:

However, since he’s placed in this cell before the deal is made, there was an ulterior motive as well. Due to the fact that Shelly De Killer is another infamous assassin, Warden Roland considered it a possibility that he’s one of Dogen’s outside contacts. If Dogen were to rat out Matt’s location to him, the prison would be prepared to capture and arrest De Killer, and it would be confirmed that they had been contacts.

Obviously, Dogen could rat him out no matter which cell he’s in, but it’s more convenient to place Matt there as bait since the hallway is monitored so heavily--they’ll be prepared to restrain both De Killer and Dogen if/when that time comes.

If the deal were made beforehand, he likely would have been sent to Prison B; even though it’s a harsher atmosphere, no one in there is presumed to be a contact of De Killer’s. While he could have been transferred at this point, it’s decided that they’ll stick to their regular plan, just with added precautions and safety measures.

Matt, although suspicious, never has any sort of confirmation that he’s being used as bait--at least, not until years later.

BUT ANYHOW.

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Interactions and Reputation

I get into it a bit in this fic*, but the gist is this:

There’s no point in continuing to act charming when everyone knows it’s BS, and any chance of Toughness or Good Standing he could have had are kinda... shattered by his frequent (very loud) panic attacks late at night.

For the first year, he doesn’t bother trying to make friends. He doesn’t care about them, they won’t care about him, and he’s not interested in playing a tug-of-war with power dynamics when he knows he won’t always necessarily come out on top. So he’s kind of a loner here. Occasionally entertains himself by picking fights.

*(Spoiler warning for AAI2 in the fic I linked!!)

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Character Arc

From this point, I can see it going in several different directions. I have two different fic AUs where things turn out differently in each one, and I also have an extensive role-play I did with a friend of mine. In terms of imagining his “canon” life and his future, I definitely learn towards the events that transpired in the role-play, so I’ll focus on those.

(My friend and I made a post analyzing his personality and character arc, so most of the things I’ll mention here have been mentioned in this post in greater detail. HOWEVER the post is EXTREMELY long and also contains major spoilers for AAI2. So if you want to avoid spoilers and also want a summed up version, feel completely free to just read the summary below!) (oh also, with relation to the post I just linked, tw for?? a variety of common triggers)

I should mention that this might not be COMPLETELY spoiler-free, but I do avoid saying the spoilery name. It’s hard for me to accurately gauge what is and isn’t revealing, since I already know all the spoilers haha.

And, without further ado:

-Everything about his world has been turned upside-down. Instead of being adored, he’s despised. Instead of being the one with power, he’s the one under the thumb of others. Instead of a life of comfort and privilege, he’s confined to small, uncomfortable areas, and is barely paid anything for his labor. Additionally, he could be killed at any moment at any hour at any location--and this is something he’s forced to endure for years on end. The entire situation is incredibly stressful and traumatic for him.

-About a year after his arrest, a guy moves into his cell with him. Things align in just the right way that a friendship of some sort is formed between them: the guy is friendly, pretty, relatable, into some of the same hobbies he’s into, and he has power within the prison walls. It’s beneficial to form a friendship with him... and the guy isn’t annoyed with him for his (now much less-frequent) panic attacks, but rather, shows sympathy.

-Neither of them particularly trust one another, but they enjoy each other’s company.

-Humans need comfort, and Matt is no exception. Under the intense trauma and stress he’s enduring, it’s all too easy to form some sort of bond with the nice guy who dances with him and pets his hair and holds him.

-It’s important to mention that Matt is rendered unable to do his usual power & control shit. And he especially can’t get away with that kind of stuff when his new cellmate shows up. The guy is Very Alert to underhanded behavior (due to his own underhandedness + the fact that he’s dealt with one too many bastards), and is quick to call Matt out on even minor things. So Matt’s options at this point are either:

a.) try his manipulative shit and lose any small amount of power or comfort he may have had, with an added risk of retribution

b.) resist all forms of connection / interaction with other people, and just be miserable and alone and scared all by himself

c.) be friends with the guy WITHOUT being a shady douche, and getting to enjoy the comfort and benefits that provides

-So... YEAH. Long story short, he makes friends with the guy. And, also, lowkey catches feelings for him.

-Matt also makes friends with Simon Blackquill a couple years later (and that has its own backstory)

-His previous ways of moving through the world do not work at all here. In the end, Matt’s main goal is to get what he wants, and to feel good. With the circumstances, he has to completely change his approaches in order to meet that goal.

-Matt may be cold and uncaring towards other people’s emotions, but it’s clear that he does have very intense emotions. He shows much more vulnerability and pain now than he used to, because doing so makes him more sympathetic to his friends--but he also needs to learn to not be as manipulative about it, and to actually consider the other person’s emotions instead of making it all about himself.

-He does ultimately decide to make the overall changes necessary for healthy interpersonal connections, since it’s in his best interest to do so. It’s not easy, and he hits plenty of road bumps along the way. It definitely dredges up a lot of shit, a lot of painful emotions; he’s extremely self-protective, and genuine vulnerability is hard and frightening.

-The tl;dr is that he’s dragged through a healing arc, kicking and screaming the entire way.

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That’s what his life in like in prison, overall! There’s a ton of aspects and details, but I figured it’d be best to cover the basic storyline ^^

I also have thoughts on how things would go after he’s released from prison.

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...OH SHIT I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO MENTION THE SHELLY THING LMAO

I’m gonna make a post where I detail out what happens, and then link it here when I finish.

Edit: Here it is!

#Matt Engarde #aa post #Matt #thank you for the ask!! and thank you to everyone else who's been asking too aaa #I'm so happy people are interested in my headcanons #aaprison

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indigopurple · 4 years

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I NEED TO SCREAM SOMEWHERE-

Op episode 925 is.....so great omfg. Law and sanji both fucking hating Germa, law is a total nerd, sanjis transformation was so cool literally I am franky and usopp in this scene oh my god

No fucking shit mister dinosaur fuck

DORKY MAN RIGHT HERE

(stupid phone sucks at lining up audio and video even tho I record them at the same time wtf)

Even tho hes being kinda perverted here, omfg hes so cute-

(These screenshots make it seem more like he just wants to hide from ppl for whatever reason and something something Trauma etc etc but it's Not lmao) (I'm sure we could find a way to make it that. But its not.)

I also wanna talk abt a couple more things tho.

Ok law being nerdy and justifying it as "it's not my fault I was born in the sea where ur famous" but he knows absolutely EVERYTHING abt stealth black....is so great. He just keeps such a straight face but hes talking abt a character he loved in a comic he read as a child (btw those little clips of flashbacks were precious, we got more flashbacks than we deserved in this episode).

There was also that one clip we got of luffy waking up in the middle of the night, hungry (god that's just so....him.) and running out of food as soon as he started eating, and then going to yell at kid for some of his food and saying he'll pay him back. Oh and then he accuses kid of hearing him yelling and to stop putting on an act. God the animation here is so great I love this.

I just wanna know, is that part in the manga too or was it just to fill time. I wouldn't be surprised by either tbh.

Just the way it was done really fits my headcanons (which I dont feel like clarifying, shut up, if u want an explanation then send a fucking ask or smth) and I rlly wanna know if that shit actually happened, along w the part from, what, 2? 3 weeks ago (as of 3.29.2020)? Where hes lying awake and thinking abt the attack kaido flattened him with, and raizo comes and visits for I cant remember why.

I'm making a bigger deal out of this than I should, they just fuel my hcs so much aaaa

Last thing? We all know that's big mom laying on the beach. I just watched the episode after 925 so like, I got confirmation, but just saying I dont think we needed the big reveal in the next episode to figure that out lol

I'm that one meme with the screenshot of some anime dude crying and saying "one piece was so good this week" but that's also me like, 90% of the time, so ig ...that image but deep fried

Bonus (ep 926)

Since I've gotten spoilers from the most recent chapters, I must say kudos to this guy hes a fucking TROOPER

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I went in aware of the (possible) retcons and shit but I watched the whole thing anyway. It’s some ungodly hour way past when I should’ve slept and here’s what I thought. I’m trying to be fair here when I give GG Strive’s story a 6.8/10

Visuals: This game is beautiful. 12/10

Voice cast: I enjoyed the dub. Not as much of a corny anime dub like Sign was, but the returning cast improved from that game -- or at least I thought so. 8.75/10

Soundtrack: One word: Incredible. The duo of Naoki and Aisha on vocals for all character themes -- ok they're only a duet on Ramlethal's [Necessary Discrepancy] but you know what I meant -- was a perfect choice. My favorite themes from when I played the second open beta back in mid-May were Giovanna's [Trigger] and Potemkin's [Armor-Clad Faith], but Leo's [Hellfire] really grew on me the most. 15/10

Game itself: Arcade mode was a fun challenge because I’m an idiot who did all 15 but I got really tired of fighting Nago over and over again. I’m not that great so I’m not worrying about getting the “Messiah Will Not Come” trophy where you fight him but he’s got an infinite blood gauge. Survival gives a good chunk of the lifebar back without making it too easy -- and the “mysterious challenger” at stage 10 being a shadowy Sol with neon red was an okay way to signal a checkpoint. 9/10 I’m not doing online any time soon because I don’t have a wired connection but I hear it’s ass and the tower placement is a complete lie.

Anywho, now on to the real post:

For a finale, the story was... slightly below average. But I’ll be honest here, I kinda had high expectations because of the hype from the past two (?) years, five if you count the total time between Rev2 and Strive's release dates.

The last time I was this critical of a sequel’s story was the gap between Borderlands 2 and 3, which was seven years. I'm going off on a tangent here but I'll sum it up so if you're not familiar with Borderlands you'll have an idea of what I'm taking about. In Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel, the Watcher (Eridian? that saved Athena from execution after telling Lilith and company of her adventures on Elpis with Nisha, Wilhelm, Timothy, Aurelia, and Claptrap) warned "Now's not the time for bickering, Vault Hunters. War is coming, and you will need all the Vault Hunters you can get". BL3 rolls around and there was no big war. Instead, we got a poorly delivered dumpster fire of a main campaign that spanned five planets and the main villains were some bratty livestreamer Sirens that run a planet wide cult. Seriously? The cast was poorly handled there too but I'll stop here.

In the case of comparison to another fighting game’s story, the game that comes to mind is Tekken 7 because if they aren’t a Mishima or Kazama or someone else in that fucked up family that’s plot relevant, they were given a shitty one-fight episode. Sure Nina and Claudio were in the main story mode but that's the thing: they were just there. The returning (dlc) series veterans, such as Anna, Lei, Marduk, and all the way to Zafina plus the newcomers Leroy, Lidia, Fahkumram, and Kunimitsu II weren't given much aside from a brief story snippet. Dare I say it but SFV did their new seasons newcomers and returning fighters justice as they all got episodes of their own. You read that right. Street Fighter V was better to its cast than Tekken 7 and Guilty Gear -Strive-.

Unlike the Xrd games, watching the story does not get you any money. The only difference I saw right after was that the Strive correlation chart updated. For what it’s worth, they could’ve done something like DBFZ’s story clearance unlocking a new character, or do an alternate costume where the outfit Frederick wears in the ending (and upon further inspection is the very same one he wore in the flashback) is useable in fights (it’d be hilarious but a good detail added in if you were to select that option but the name plate doesn’t display “Sol” lmao). If Ky has a palette that puts him in an open button white shirt, jeans, and what look like work boots, then let me play in the ending's lab coat, tanktop, and jeans dammit.

I kept track of how many of the playable cast showed up and played some part. Everyone except Ramlethal, May, and Faust appeared in the story -- these three were reduced to credit image cameos >:( Ram’s seen with Elphelt and Sin, while Ky and Dizzy are in the background. May’s with her crew, and Faust is in the desert somewhere or some shit with Chronus.

But even if they did show up, nobody else except like five people did jack shit. Giovanna, bless her heart, was absent for a long period then showed up to fight Nagoriyuki (who eventually sided with the good guys) but got her ass beat after he faked surrender. Potemkin helped but spent most of his time cruising at high speed trying to get to the White House. Ky and Jack-O didn’t arrive until the end either. Axl -- or should I say Will -- finally got to see Megumi again at the cost of I-No’s defeat. The dude got his girlfriend back at the loss of someone he considered a friend but the delivery felt forced as it was confirmed as she was dying -- wasn't part of her character that she has no recollection of a past? Her suddenly remembering a past boyfriend and being able to describe his appearance didn't really make much sense.

Chipp and Anji were in that comical highway chase scene, but then Anji's just wherever while Chipp's in the Pentagon control room. I get that someone had to stay behind and watch from the other side -- this role landing with Leo as he, Millia, and Zato were overseeing commentating on events from the castle’s war room like Brock and Misty during Ash's battles in the OG season of the Pokemon anime, while Daryl was at the G4 conference and Ky was on his way to the fight -- but the pacing and usage of the cast in this story was a mess. Yeah sure it has most of the GG cast in this installment's playable roster present but it didn't feel like a GG story -- really it felt like the live action Resident Evil movies where the source material's characters are sprinkled in, acting more as a "here ya go they're here don't expect much!" type thing.

Honestly, a step down from Rev because at least everyone in that arc were somewhat present with maybe one or two exceptions? Hell, even though they were added as dlc or in Rev2, Dizzy, Haehyun, Baiken, and Answer were in the main story. Being hopeful here when I say that I hope we see more of Goldlewis or get to play as him because his design is badass and so is his coffin flail weapon. On the side of fairness though, I have a feeling this isn’t exactly what Ishiwatari intended (this is unlikely but it's probably Katano's directing? Whatever in any case)? The general reaction I saw from others who’ve watched the story was that the subplots were half baked and the plot as a whole was pretty rushed. Happy Chaos / the Original as the main villain was Calypso Twins from Borderlands 3 level cringe and every time HC appeared on screen I wanted to mute it. There is the bonus story coming later this year, along with the dlc slots, so ehh? The interactions between Colin and Frederick were one of my personal favorite points even if this did turn into “Neon Genesis White House Down”.

“Brown bears don’t give birth to pandas.“

I’m sure like the others who actually paid attention to the story from the end of Xrd to Strive, my main question was this:

After the Justice / Jack-O fusion -- recall the “newly revived” Aria had purely red hair and Jack-O’s halo disappeared. During the mid-credits of Revelator, former friends turned sworn enemies turned frenemies Asuka and Frederick pretty much have one last declaration of war against each other, with Sin, I-No, and Raven as their witnesses -- Asuka even said “take good care of Aria”. Naturally from all of that, she’s not Jack-O anymore, right? Wrong. According to the game, what's inside of Jack-O is only a fragment / shard of Aria mixed in with Jack-O's projected personality (I think). How did they go from "let's do the fusion and guaranteed she'll return" to "yeah nah she ain't comin' back bro"

Xrd Revelator: "Pull this off successfully and Aria will fully revive as a human."

Strive: "Nah bruh. We lied. It just turned Jack-O human and what's inside her is only an unstable shard of Aria -- not the whole thing."

Back to the “final battle”, they don’t fight, rather Asuka removed the Flame of Corruption from Frederick's body (and somehow he got a haircut too). So really what was the fight in Rev2′s [After Story - A] for? Did he get nearly the life beaten out of him from Ky fighting dirty and left that crater in the park for nothing? Seems that way. Asuka lives on the moon and he's got a radio show now because (*bong rip*) that makes sense.

I’ll admit it’s a little cute that the feelings are mutual between Jack-O and Frederick -- he sees her as herself and not just a genetic copy but they expect us to think in the three weeks they've known each other that "oh shit I'm in love with this person" is believable -- and they live in the woods near a presumably 200+ year old space shuttle complete with the launchpad but come on now. That's some Russo Brothers level writing right there -- y'all remember Avengers: Endgame and how when he went across space and time to return the Infinity Stones, Steve Rogers threw everything away just so he could go back to his original era? The now depowered-so-he's-human-again Frederick Bulsara (the ex-gear and world's savior x times over formerly known as Sol Badguy) living in isolation away from his newfound family and friends gives off the same vibe. Especially after that one and only flashback where it's Aria's birthday and he was going to propose but the ring wasn't ready in time so he had that "error" to show instead.

#guilty gear strive #gg strive #don't mind me i'm just being really nitpicky #this isn't the first time i've been down about a sequel's story #and it won't be the last #hell even if it's dated because two seasons worth of cast have been released since then sfv's story was more enjoyable! imagine that #i was writing a fic that i set before strive but now i'm gonna go back and add in some stuff #mostly that flashback because it was cute yet sad

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