#a wild plot has ended

[twinkdemise]

#iasip #mac macdonald #s3e11 dennis looks like a registered sex offender #just rewatched this episode. god it's so good definitely in my top 10 overall in the show #the dinner scene my forever beloved i hold you close to my heart. it's so insanely satisfying from a writing perspective. #the way it all ties together and even though it's a scene about a dinner being fucking ruined and its got these #relatively high emotional stakes its so so. neatly written that it ends up feeling cathartic? in a way #idk what im saying man that scene's just really good #something about mac and charlie's scheme and motivations clashing with their parents' (and franks) #and them being kind of forced to reckon with the fact that their parents are real people with their owns wants and needs #(especially mac charlie ends up using this to his advantage and kind of betraying mac ig) #also a scene that emotional ending with a shot of charlie going Ohh and the seed has been planted is wild. #also mac being so worried about the fact that the vibe might be off... DO YOU WANT FLAT AMBIANCE??? #he just wants things to be normal!! he just wants a normal nice dinner party and normal parents who are together and happy and love eo!! #also there's a motif that shows up repeatedly of him wanting to seem like a good dinner host lol just kind of noticed that idk #maybe reading into this too much but god the theme of him so often being in denial of reality in order to #live up to certain societal standards and achieve normalness. #this is kind of the first (and imo one of the best) episodes with a plot line about mac's relationships with his parents #and their family dynamic in general which i find so so fascinating. #also i think this is the only time (except for the christmas video) where we see mac's parents together. #on a lighter note ig the dinner scene has so many other great quotes... charlies so funny in it #the man doesnt blink mom the man doesnt blink!! #the charmac in this episode was so excellent in general. the car scene where they freak out and become convinced luthers going to kill them. #YOU DONT DO THAT! YOU DONT EAT SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE HEROIN IN THEIR ASS!! #i do rmbr watching this ep with my dad and him going Well that one was just kind of sad. #which.... i mean yeah. real. #thats it im done i think #also i ended up having to type all this in my notes bc tumblr tagging is so painful #what if i said smth and then went Hey i want to say that a bit differently? oh? youre just straight up not gonna let me do that. oh okay. #fuck you

[yamtaroh]

WHYD YOU MAKE RUI SO HOT IN THE LIGHT ACADEMIA THINF

asdjfkldsaj rui is just vibing but his brain is like this the entire time

#rui is v fun to draw i'm glad you like him!!!!! #still my favourite scene with rui has to be the waku waku picnic b plot where he is like. training nene #the part where ena and airi are screaming and tumbling down the hiking trail #and rui is like 'oh don't worry nene those are just the sounds of wild animals' #anyway thank you for sending this anon!! hope you're having a great end of year! #doodles #anon #ask

[the-terrible-theys]

(trans!)zach and aviva were bunkmates at science camp. i know because i was there

#imagine them both at their first year of science camp! young and excited but also nervous and already feelin homesick on the first night #and they take comfort in each other and bond over their shared love of engineering #and become best buds practically overnight #and they keep getting each other as bunkmates every year and they pair up for everything and it’s all GREAT until it isn’t anymore #tfw some kid you met at summer camp becomes your lifelong sworn enemy. oops! #i have SO many thoughts about this concept #look. aviva being able to list out facts abt zach in mystery of the weird looking walrus can’t be just some plot-convenient intuition thing #those were things she learned over YEARS of friendship and staying up late at night trading whispered secrets #you can’t convince me otherwise #these two’s relationship has so much complexity to it actually. idc if canon barely touches on their history i’ll do it myself #hrnsgdhghh just imagine them sitting under a blanket together with flashlights after curfew because zach is afraid of the dark #aviva on her very first night of camp realizing that Uh Oh! she misses her family! and she doesn’t know anyone else here! and what if maybe #science camp isn’t gonna be as fun as she’d thought! only for the oncoming tears to stop in their tracks in order to comfort #this distraught bunkmate of hers. she adopts zach on the spot #them being penpals after camp ends PLEASE #wild kratts #zach varmitech #aviva corcovado #i also imagine that zach conveniently has his “wait i’m a dude” revelation at abt the same time their friendship ends #so they get new bunkmates for the first time that year #and also that their friendship ends at the beginning of their last/one of their last yrs of camp

[unproduciblesmackdown]

eddie bracken as orville wingait in summer stock (1950)

#don't get it wrong abigail whacking orville upside the head is during their comedy backstage 5 sec to Resolution ending rush #literal last minute conclusion crunch in unsurprising formatting lol; i chose a more peaceful gif to end on. note the prior one's [feet Up] #i hope this illustrates There Is Much Material. more clips than this & truly as good or better a role as any others to choose from here #summer stock #conveniently it's apparently wingait in the movie but via that casting news this (2023) role is wingate #tcm fancam life...we've all been there. akd talking abt meet me in st. louis like maybe i should rewatch lol. have to muddle through someho #anyways there's for sure room to like grab a little thread of plot and enhance it in this story. e.g. orville & abigail could talk Thrice #their B-plot / more idiosyncratic romance there is still >>>>>> the main JUDY & GENE one unsurprisingly even w/o a third convo lol #whoops the main guy is an asshole. judy/jane learns she loves show business so just kinda may as well be in love w/the show guy ig #like girl you don't have to be...but ofc already although her & orville's dynamic is pleasant enough she seems somewhat disinterested #while fascinatingly for our purposes though orville is framed a bit like [this NERD] he can't be too dunked on b/c [romantic B-plot] #meanwhile abigail's Undeserving Of Gene/Joe (she is but she's too good for him) qualities being just that she's been too Indulged so like #in her lack of protestant ethic farm work she's so conceited & sensitive that she wants to rest & not be yelled at??? #smash cut to for real judy/jane on Opening Night like asking tentatively like oh romantic interest you're Not gonna yell at me..?? #but she's been Hard Working so she will tolerate the physical AND emotional demands. but she's also more Talented than abigail #so joe need not be mean to her Anyways like. okay wild maybe we could rework that but congrats abigail for NOT ending up w/him fr #meanwhile orville's arc (joe has none to speak of save realizing he wants to make out w/this other woman now) is as clear as anyone's #extricate himself from otherwise only getting to be an extension of his father who is generally interfering / directing / demeaning him als #another ''well i don't know about that'' element in that when orville Does tell him to cut that out his dad actually just rolls with that #and becomes more amicable lol like well that does work out & it's unsurprisingly like cmon orv you can't LET him treat you like that... #and if you didn't? he'd just be like ''oh haha okay''...like is abigail supposed to be ''right'' abt uhh romance there but yet she's just #too sensitive to handle Tell Don't Ask / No Apologies? maybe; but they both end up getting to Not Stand For It lol. i think that that would #ofc still be fun to develop. whereas w/joe it's like uh maybe make him Not a huge asshole in the end / judy p much in love w/Showbiz.... #abigail & orville out here decidedly Not About Nonsense....but still a bit zany ig such that after the [imagine the foley] hit: it's good #like i'm sure it's ''orville's still enough of a NERD to be chill w/that'' & ''abigail's still DIFFICULT enough to put her foot down'' #['50 gender politics] we all know that couple whose flaws & idiosyncrasies allow them to Apologize & Ask & use their inside voices #and be all upset if someone's trying to demean them. unlike True Romance of the man who won't bully his wife if she earns it :') #joe could instead uhh be a harried director who's actually Wrong for being a dick to his gf (if we even include that) w/the various sources #of pressure to make a show Work but there's all this req'd spontaneity / flexibility anyways & he learns that even if he's clenching throug #it he can Not take it out on other people / Make it succeed by Making ppl do anything. & also jane reminds him of Passion for this.

[joyuex]

his heart is a birdly beast, a mass of down and claws. he can feel it, just there, a battering of plumage against his ribs, one careless foot catching on lung. he could stop it – could tear it out and dash it on the cobbles below. his hand is already reaching for it, digging amongst brocade and silk and halfway to his chest before he stops and casts it away. the bird beats on, its frantic energy not killed, but carried. taking shape in the stuttering tread of his feet, the to - and - fro flicker of his gaze. and all of this for what? for who? for him, of course, for him ... he had known him before he had seen him. had felt him in the tugging of his chest, the thrumming transformation in his heart.

a shimmer of gold, the ghost of a herald's horn. and there! his personal god awash in sunlight.

there had been a moment of collision, of two worlds joining – the laughter of children, a heavenly angel's choir. the swirl of a girl's tattered dress, a flash of golden eyes. and here his heart had started it's wild dance, here his feet had started moving despite his will. he is a man made defenseless : sans armor, sans all. naked under heaven's light ... he comes back to himself in starts. the jolt of a hand, the stilling of a foot. original sin at last taking hold : the horrible need to hide from the holy, the fear of his god's gaze. he sequesters himself behind a hovel, settles down amongst earth and stone. his head falls to his chest, his hands raising to hold it, and slowly his heart begins to calm its wild chatter. for a moment that is the end – his world once again made still.

and yet, and yet! he turns almost without feeling it, his eyes flashing out and back. and there, still there, king arthur sits, as radiant as the sun. he watches him with mouth agape : in awe of his easy smiles and gentle manners, in awe of his rightness with the world. a breath escapes him, too small the be a sigh ... and before it is finished arthur's eyes are upon him, pushing all the air from his lungs. for a beat all is silent. the children cease their playing, the birds stop their singing – his very heart stops his beating. all is gold and gold and gold again, a world washed in the color of his king's eyes.

his rises slowly, mechanically, numb fingers wiping the muck from his breaches. his head dips into the slightest of bows, brown eyes still locked on gold – as if this is a fairy's enchantment, both cast and undone by sight alone. ❛❛ your majesty. ❜❜ the words are barely more than a whisper, though he doubts not that arthur will hear them. such is this enchantment, this space shared by them and them alone. ❛❛ i did not expect you here. ❜❜ / @kinsword

#realized while writing this that this amount of wild frantic energy only makes sense for like .. really new to court lancelot #like has met arthur twice lancelot #who needs butterflies in your stomach when you have a bird as your heart scratching up your insides #anyways this is what we plotted it ended up being very .. rambly? who knows! #let me know if it's alright!

[bugsmoocher]

mmaster hcief

#personal! ok idk why but i am in such a bad fucking mood after realizing that yet another year has passed where my father hasnt like. #really ??? cared ??? i dont know man my parents are taking me out to eat but i didnt get a text or a call or anything #like man i know im not the one thats ur blood child but come on i remember yours and wish you every year :( #my mom only really remembered when i showed up and jokingly was like “ey next time you see me ill be a whole year older” #this week has sucked so bad brother i hope it wont set the tone for the next year LKHL:D:FLGHK #happy birthday more like KILL YOURSELF INSTANTLY POTION #god only like my friends and two family members remembered im realizing. fuuuuuuuuuck. not even the people i live with minus my fiance #i only exist to these people when its time to talk behind somebodys back brother #maybe i drive my car into a tree tomorrow ^_^ in theory itd be good for me but at the end of the day if these people didnt care when i went #to the fucking mental ward for plotting to kill myself i doubt theyd care if i bled out in a ditch either #they never called or visited they just picked me up and told me to never do that shit again #maybe i should have Not been born...............! #ermmm #personal #vent #i guess. idk. just so if people have those tags blocked itll get filtered or whatever #i probably shouldnt just throw this out into the wild but i dont want to directly bother anybody i know rn idk.

[thyandrawrites]

I see hori's back to using bakuboi as his favourite punching ball. LoL.

I don't believe this for a second. Come on. It's like he didn't already put a major death flag on him the last war arc, and that was hella more believable than this (even though I didn't buy it back then, either). At least last time it had some kind of emotional buildup. It came right after a flashback that showed off his growth. Now, tho? It's abrupt in the worst possible way. None of his friends are there to mourn or even react. It's clearly a set up for Deku to have stakes... And a bad one too imo... But permanent? No sir, no way I'm gonna believe that when all this ofa magic is already obviously involved

#This is oddly reminiscent of heroes rising tbh. Did hori change his mind about making them dual wield ofa in the end??? #Oh boy the baku is ofa's second user theorists are going to go wild with this one aren't they #Please god. Hori don't make the time travel thing be canon. At that point I might prefer him to kick the bucket instead #Please don't ruin what's left of his character #Spoilers #Bnha #Bnha spoilers #I'm fairly confident this is a kishimoto-style trolling #Cause horikoshi usually makes his deaths meaningful (when the people who die are men. They're only meaningless if the chara is female) #Baku dying here accomplishes nothing #Deku already has personal reasons to resent afo. Gran tomato almost died. #To me this reads as bland... Unless there's a big plot twist around the corner... Which I think is the case here

[childofaura]

Look, I love the opportunities that Forging Bonds presents in giving us more content and character interactions for our favorite characters. I love seeing characters interacting from different installments, it’s great.

But holy crap, I’m starting to see a negative effect from the Forging Bonds giving us the same character depictions over and over without showing the more interesting aspects of a character.

Like look at poor Balthus. He’s got a hefty amount of lore; a man on the run because his mother was exiled for being a commoner and his step-mother is absolutely horrid. Even though his manners are loose, his code of honor is unbreakable and he refuses any kind of compensation for trying to do a good deed from the heart. He’d probably have some really good conversations with characters like Corrin, Saber, Jesse (IF HE EVER GETS ADDED), Joshua, etc. He’s crass and loud and rambunctious but he’s a genuine sweetheart who protects the people he cares about, and he cares about a LOT of people.

Instead all we get is “haha funny gambling man gets slapped around by everyone” (Don’t think I forgot about that Malice Forging Bonds, IS. See if people would still be laughing if a male character grabbed a female character by the ear and twisted their neck in doing so). And it’s not just Balthus, all the subplots with the Heavy Plate Corps and the CHOP stuff (or Team Horny, with everyone like Laslow, Soleil, Gatrie, etc), while I get it’s there for comedy, really end up shoehorning these characters into perpetual comic relief. I’m scared for when characters like Vaike or Jesse (SERIOUSLY IS, I GET THAT YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF VALENTIA CHARACTERS BUT. JESSE.) get added that we won’t see any kind of meaningful dialogue with other characters. It seems like they reserve the best interactions for fan-favorites only.

#FEH #Fire Emblem Heroes #Look yes I DO like a funny Forging Bonds plot every once in a while #In terms of humor one of my favorite events was Gatekeeper trying to get used to all the wild stuff that happens in Askr #But hell even GATEKEEPER got a meaningful Forging Bonds event in Kamui's plot! #And I loved it! He deserved to have a good conversation #But poor Balthus; the guy keeps getting totally flanderized any time he shows up #I actually groaned when I saw him show up at the end of Est's B-Support #And also his appearance in that one made no sense? At the end Hilda shows up and has to drag Balthus away to training #And like... Really? The lazy 'barely-lifts-a-finger' girl who makes excuses as to why she doesn't go to training #Has to drag the six foot beefcake brick-house Adonis to training? The same beefcake who boasts about his muscles and getting a good workout? #It wasn't just Balthus either; I hated Ingrid's Forging Bonds too #Don't you think she could have talked to someone who either lost their loved one to war or left for war themselves? #Like maybe Ingrid could have spoke with Mustafa; who even though he had a wife and child of his own and disagreed with Gangrel's cruelty #Still had it set in his heart to fight for Plegia #The same way Glenn fought for Faerghus

[ariadnesweb]

I have listened to 74 and Skies Forever Blue.

Personally I... don't think either really has much of a connection to Deltarune? I just think sometimes, authors really like exploring certain themes over and over again. Toby seems to enjoy exploring metafiction in video games, and subversions about 'what the people who fill certain 'classic archetypes' 'classic archetypes' in stories. (And I can't blame him, personally. I keep thinking up and writing stories where the 'chosen one' is subverted somehow.)

Could Dess and Kris end up mirroring the Princess and Knight in 74? It's not impossible. I've actually heard the theory that Kris is opening Dark Worlds to search for Dess in isolation from the song 74 before now. I've also always wondered why the creator of the Dark Worlds is called the Knight, and not the Maker or Author or Dreamer or Dragon or something like that. If the person who happened to be creating Dark Worlds was introducing themself as 'the Knight,' that'd be one thing, but it strikes me as kinda strange that the role itself is called the Knight. Furthermore, as I've also theorized in isolation, if Dess is meant to be an Asriel/Flowey parallel, it's possible that she does want to be rescued deep down, but feels she doesn't deserve it and thus lashes out and shoves people away.

So, analyzing themes Toby has done before and a few things about Deltarune. It's not impossible. But we know so incredibly little about Dess that some of us can't even agree on her species, so this seems to be another thing that seems like a big stretch to theorize about. Even if I, personally, like this kind of character and subversion of a lot more than 'what if Dess was a HOOMAN'

...That sad. I'd actually say that Deltarune already seems to have two characters that fit this particular parallel and subverson. Berdly and Noelle on a Snowgrave work as slightly less of a stretch. But really not much of a 1-1 parallel. XD

Mmhmm!

My first thoughts after listening to 74 and Skies Forever Blue was that both of these protagonists have 'Asriel' Vibes - 74 & Asriel are twists on 'Fairytales' - 74 has a perverted Princess & Asriel is secret 'Frog Prince' - while Skies Forever Blue's Girl has a similar tragedy to Asriel - a videogame NPC who has fallen in love with a careless HeroTM - and turns self-destructive because of said love.

(Both Asriel & the Girl also have a moment where in lue of a missing protagonist, they take control of the videogame world around them, making themselves the Protagonist, if only for a moment.)

...Leads one to think that Toby Fox loves deconstructing childhood fairytales. Applies similarly to Toriel, Undyne, Asgore, and Chara - twists on the Witchy Stepmom, the Hero, the Evil Demon King, and the Player Character.

Kris is a 'Hero' - a Knight in Shining Armor - and the twist is in plain sight - they are a Villain too - the fountain creator - and capable of being pushed to hurt Noelle.

(Not a statement on whether Kris WANTS to be the Villain - I don't think they do - which is probably why they let themselves be possessed)

The Most Obvious 'Princess' is Noelle - she's fits the bill for nice, well-born, and extremely passive - and she reminds me a lot of the Princess from 74 - because underneath the role of Princess she hides a decently complex and powerful person - and her own ability to hurt people.

(Susie rounds out the triad by being a Dragon/Villain with the ability to be a Hero - though I think we're missing a good chunk of her story still for me to comment on this - right now I view her as a Shonen Hero (like Naruto) in denial of her role, who would rather give it up to Kris and Ralsei.)

(Ralsei is purposely making himself a Tutorial Tip Fairy - so there's not much going on there until he breaks and grabs protagonistdom by the reins.)

Pretty much on the nose that Berdly is a corrupted Knight with Noelle as his Princess - though I don't think he'll have a similar 'Role' in the future - I think he'll relax in future chapters - and his relationships with the class / his family explored more.

I like to think he has younger/older siblings, and that's why he's so pressured to stand out.

#deltarune #deltarune headcanons #deltarune meta #? #sure #uh I have more thoughts but they're more disconnected so I'm gonna tag ramble #i sometimes imagine that Kriselle will end up as a corrupted version of zelda/link even in the normal route #where kris is too wild of a hero to be a knight and noelle is too manipulative of a princess to be a damsel #i recommend scrolling through @ganymedesclock 's zelda tag to better understand what i'm talking about #uh i've been influenced by your own thoughts on Dess and I also think she's a flowey parallel #as someone who's hurt and angry about it and trying to distance herself from everything to cope #but i also like the theory that she's gaster's scientific apprentice - so i think of her as also an alphys figure #in that she has done Unethical Science to kickstart the main plot and is struggling to take responsibility for said Science #which i think contrasts with some of our only Dess Info in that 'she likes sports' #uh i also have Thoughts on the role of Knight #being akin to being the 'Player Character' #with 'Angel' being a role akin to a Player (ie Us) #but I'm gonna wait until later chapters to comment on THAT - simply because we lack so much info #and also 'Angel' & 'Knight' are symbolic roles independent of video game metaphors #Berdly is a 'Knight' after all #soilai's labyrinth #chatter

[essektheylyss]

Please find me alternatingly running around my apartment screaming or laying facedown in the carpet for the next 7-10 business months

#yeah. it's that fucking long. #it's also nOT DONE THIS IS JUST. A WILD MILESTONE. #probably got 20k left at LEAST and that's just to get to the end of the draft #I know there are several scenes that need to be added #and honestly probably some less plot heavy scenes for flavor #because god has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished #I also hit my 100k milestone for the month which is what I wanted to get to cuz uhhh I am catching up on my yearly goal #not quiiiiite caught up but I can maybe go back to a more sane pace #will I? who fucking knows #anyway covid tried hard to nerf me and it FAILED #tbh in like. any other circumstances I would actually find this way too long but. #here it's actually how long this needs to be #cuz THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO 'yeah I wanna write a melodrama' #like yeah you know what. this is how long soap operas are for a year's time. like yolo #honestly soap operas are a lot longer than this so #anywayyyyy #honestly knowing script lengths this is probably about comparable to a year of a broadcast show #which is yanno pretty much as planned #I will stop muttering now and go back to my work

[sophism]

🎤

in one word: weak

#you know what everyone has been saying about plot holes lack of substance no backstories messy ending… uh yup #too slow in some places too fast in others #in true Olivia Wilde film form: forgotten everything by the next morning #if this is a psychological thriller it needed to be smart and scary to invoke some sense of discomfort and it was neither and it didn’t #Harry’s casting was a mistake. he was good but they obviously catered the role to him and it killed the vibe he needed to be bone-chilling #also I don’t think they knew what an incel is #the thing that annoys me the most is that there was like no context for any character #ESPECIALLY Margaret Kiki layne that was the most undeveloped part of the whole thing #it wasn’t BAD. but people (harries) are lying when they say it’s amazing lol they’re just similarly brainwashed by Harry #it was verrrrrry superficial and it makes me mad because this really could have been a great film #they should’ve kept the original script

[vakarians-babe]

i have a lot of thoughts and feelings about ROP but tbh i will likely not be posting about it much bc for me Tolkien has always been so deeply personal and i want to experience it with as much privacy as i can muster? idk if that sounds weird lmao but i'll summarize some of my early thoughts in the tags and probably promptly not speak about it until it's finished airing.

#it has...promise. it does #am i irritated they teased us with shots of valinor? of the feanorian oath in like majority of promos? #and then ended up showing us like 1 minute of silm content? yea oh my god yea #but i understand its a rights issue #what bothers me MORE though is celeborn not existing and galadriel and elrond being besties #bc it makes me fear a romance plot #and i lived through thinking twilight was good and the bella/jacob to bella/renesmee transition and i will not go through it again #and the reason it bothers me is that celeborn and celebrian are IN lotr. they are included in the rights purchased by amazon. #which is wild to pay millions and not use every scrap #and im honestly deeply concerned by the fact that arondir was the first elf to get called a knife ear #bc why him? #and this just leads me to a larger concern about the way that power relations between races will be handled #bc elves arrived on middle earth first yes and then mostly migrated to valinor before returning to the midst of the humans #and there is a big power imbalance there and it treads the line of colonialism #and i think to tell these stories #the writers should be working closely with sensitivity readers #i already know we'll never really see a redress of the way peter jackson heroicized rohan so completely that everyone forgot the atrocities #that they committed against the dunlendings #whom they colonized #and so im deeply wary of the way these stories will unfold if the writers arent engaging properly with our lived in context #that said! #i love the costumes. i love the world. the soundtrack. the acting. #am i miffed about lore shit? god yea and thats my fuckin cross to bear lmao #but the harfoots <3 #i love arondir and bronwyn to pieces and i hope against hope they'll get a good story #so yeah i love parts of it and im concerned about other parts and irritated by some things and love the ingenuity of other things #you can love and hate ROP we exist aspidfjhgs[diufg #this was super long sorry #rings of power #also one more thing

[livlepretre]

The blood of the start flows in Elena’s veins. She was born to the sea and she shall show no mercy.

I can’t wait to see her again (metaphorically) in chapter 61!

this comment is driving me insane as i work on fe 61 thank you thank you i needed this encouragement

#look i just want to get to the crazy stuff why does fe have such a dense plot why did i do that to myself #like elena has a few more FUCKING WILD cards to play #I am so excited to throw them down on the table #you all have no idea #fairytale ending #ummm we are 10 days from the update y'all #I hope #I hope I'm not wildly overplaying my hand on when I can get this out #anonymous

[pkmngame-fankids]

can you... perhaps... tell us more about kendrick?

Sure thing! Please note that all information in this post is subject to change though!

As I mentioned earlier, he was a member of Team Phoenix. He starts out as... well, he’s not very nice to start out with. He’s cold and uncaring and only wants the best for Team Phoenix. He’ll stomp out any rebellion that he has to and doesn’t really care who gets hurt in the process.

That’s how he meets Zaid, actually. Kendrick is running an operation for Team Phoenix and Zaid is there to try and stop him. They fight, Kendrick messes up the operation, and Zaid has vanished by the time another higher up of Team Phoenix arrives. Of course, this starts a rivalry and by the next time Zaid, Kendrick knows who he is travelling with, who his family is, and what kind of Pokémon he has. 

Despite all this information, Kendrick still ends up failing any task assigned to him whenever Zaid and his group of friends appear.

Of course, eventually, Kendrick and Zaid get into a fight just before a blizzard hits, which separates the both of them from their respective groups and forces them to work together. Kendrick gets injured sometime during this time, and Zaid, instead of abandoning him like he had thought, keeps him safe and as well cared for as one can expect while being trapped in a storm. During this time, they get to talking about why Kendrick joined Team Phoenix and why Zaid is so opposed to it, and come to a sort of understanding and a shaky bond. 

After the storm passes but before Zaid’s travelling group finds them, Zaid makes the offer to Kendrick to join them, which he refuses. And when Zaid’s friends do find them, Zaid makes the offer again, which Kendrick refuses again. After that, Zaid leaves and Kendrick starts slowly making his way back to Team Phoenix. 

At this point, Team Phoenix had given up on the search for Kendrick and assumed that he had died. So when Kendrick does reappear, still injured but breathing, there’s no warm welcome and he’s put back to work after a doctor gave a very brief look at him. And he’s not entirely sure why he’s surprised by this, but he is. Which kind of leads him to re-evaluate where he is in life, because if an enemy showed more care to his well-being than the people who were supposedly on his side, was he really doing the right thing?

His redemption is slow, and his acts of rebellion against Team Phoenix start out as small things, like adding pins on his uniform and breaking curfew, but eventually he starts giving information to Zaid and his friends about Team Phoenix under an alias. When he and Zaid next meet up, he reveals that he’s the double agent and gives him more information to work with. And when Kendrick is found out to be the spy, he is able to send a message to Zaid just before he is captured asking for help.

When Zaid and his friends do rescue him, Kendrick has been beat up quite a bit. He’s probably got a few broken bones at best (at worst, maybe a mix of blunt force trauma, penetrating trauma, and broken bones) and even though he’s pretty badly injured, he still refuses treatment. He knows that a lot more people got hurt (or worse) while he was waiting and hoping for rescue, and he’s quite insistent that those people get medical treatment first. 

It ends up being one of Zaid’s travelling companions, likely Caleb or Shara, that practically drags a doctor to see Kendrick because he wasn’t going to one on his own, no matter how desperately he needed one. It takes months for Kendrick to heal properly, mainly because he's trying to make sure that he doesn't visit the doctor when he thinks he doesn't need to, and when he doesn't visit the doctor, it's Zaid that drags him there. And when Zaid insists that Kendrick actually start taking care of himself, he slowly starts taking his advice seriously.

Kendrick's still cold and distant with strangers, but he's different around Zaid (and his friends, but mostly Zaid). He's warmer, happier, and far kinder with him than he is with most others, and no one really understands why until they start dating years later.

#a queue awaits #anon #kendrick #zaid #asks #answered #a wild plot has appeared #long post #whoops this ended up longer than expected sorry

[acesammy]

it’s actually starting to bother me how many people are saying that TLOU show is inherently better at story telling than the game, bc games in general are a worse medium to tell stories in than TV

#ok so i'm going to preface this by saying i literally need to interact with a fixation while i'm at work or no work will be done #so i listen to reaction podcasts like all day #so thats where i'm getting this reaction from #but its insaaaaane to me to have this take bc they're so deeply different as mediums #like yes if you watch the cutscene movie on youtube and then watch the show #the show is better #but theres such a vast difference to /how/ these mediums tell their stories that i dont even think there needs to be a comparison #with games its about discovery #its about unraveling the story yourself #it scratches a sort of problem solving itch in the brain #where as tv cant really capture that interactiveness #so it by necessity will end up being plot-ier #the show runners seem to deeply get the difference and are super respectful of the mediums #anyways the amount of podcasters who have this take is WILD #and then i've found 2 who are game die hards and refuse to accept that the game HAS to be changed for television #bc like i said tv will never be able to scratch that problem solving itch #and those people are also annoying af #those ones annoy me more tho so i've fully stopped listening to those guys #lea speaks #the last of us

[yume-fanfare]

decided to check the # for the newest hanako chapter on twitter none of you get itttt

#but it's really funny to see so! #cannibalism has been a running theme in the manga guys cmon #person w rhythm game guy pfp like 'i don't know why they thought this would be a good idea' brother this is a horror manga? #its also not the first time something like this happened c'mon #'aidairo wouldn't' have you read the hell of mirrors arc #'they shouldve clarified that this love could not happen or just make it really clear that it wasnt romantic' 😭😭😭 #i don't 'ship' them either lol but if you wanted nice unproblematic stuff you should've dropped this manga on like chapter 3 #like everyone else did #people calling it irredeemable media is already funny on its own but the way the fanbase is also Like This is so wild to me #every time i see some kid on the tag being like omg amane is so handsome 😍 im like i don't know you but you probably can do better #'remember when this was a manga about a girl trying to get her crush to like her back' IM IN TEARSSSS #that was....... literally only in chapter 1........... #in which she realizes she doesn't really like said crush............... #like i'd say it gets Serious as early as chapter 9??? #(funnily enough id say that's where kou's conflict truly starts. a protagonist) #there is a homophobic hate crime in chapter 19??? it shouldn't take you too long to realize this is not a comedy help me #but like yeah help there Is a reason why all the cutesy romance moments that people redraw for aus n stuff happen during chapters 1 to 8 #because the rest is Plot Relevant #ok ending my rant here ♥ #if u read til here ily #i used to think hanako fans should take a reading comprehension test beforehand but at this point ive accepted its a lost cause #jbksh #mar's midnight rambles