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actiaslunaris · 1 year

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Regina ‘live-watches’ Last Man: Zenmou no Sousakan S01E01

First up, discovering who is responsible for a series of bombings around Japan.

- Hiromi Minami (given name first, as that is how the character introduces himself, Fukuyama Masaharu’s character) gives off a vibe of being superficially charming -- not arrogant, but confident and easy-going. I actually like when Masha plays these types of characters, even when I find them fake. (This is not a criticism of his ability to act; I admire that he likes stepping into roles that are a challenge for him, and I also think he has an excellent handle on the motivations and backstories of most of his characters.)

- First time we see him, he’s being interrogated by airline officials because he’s carrying a gun, and once his credentials are verified the first thing he asks for is soba delivery. :D Gotta love a man, who once he returns to home turf, asks for local food.

- I’m not going to comment too much on anything concerning the character’s disability; I simply don’t have the background to know if the writers have done their research. Some of it seems plausible, and some doesn’t. Grain of salt rules apply.

- It’s both hilarious and ridiculous that Minami seems to be casually trolling Godo Shintaro (Oizumi Yo’s character) from the start, saying that they’re going to be good ‘buddies’ and dropping casual English into the conversation.

- Minami is a deductive reasoner, and seems to like disarming people with it. Godo’s first reaction is begrudging assistance.

- Point one for homoerotic subtext: Minami recognizes that Godo has entered the same space he’s in by commenting that he could smell Godo’s bergamot shampoo.

- A press conference is held, Minami arrives with Godo in a helicopter (Minami lampshades that this kind of grand entrance fits with the Japanese expectation of those from America). In helping Minami to the podium, Godo escorts him. Members of the investigative team, watching this on the news, comment that it’s like Godo is escorting Minami ‘down the aisle’ so point two for subtext.

- Oh, ho, ho, Minami is also a good manipulator of logical facts and Godo is less goody-two-shoes than he appears.

- Using his sense of smell, Minami almost apprehends the bomb-maker, but gets beaten for his trouble. Whump!

- A bit of chatter about how things are done in America, as compared to in Japan. I always find this amusing because it does reveal bias, but it’s also very fun to know how that bias leans.

- Oh my gosh. Both Godo and Minami are loose cannons. Already these two are corrupting each other in the best way. (Although Minami appears to be the best at the corrupting.) Timestamp: 36:30.

- Backstory time!

- Yes, definitely a disarming charmer, gaining entrance into someone’s private space.

- Not that it helps all the time.

- The action scenes are for the most part realistic and delightful because of it. No superhero nonsense here, just people doing things within the limit of what the body can handle.

- Love that one of the supporting characters is a young woman providing I.T. assistance. Usually that role goes to a young man.

- Teaser for story arc at the end. Hmm.

#regina watches #last man blind investigator #last man spoilers #lm s01e01

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system-of-a-feather · 2 years

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The Generation of Miracles (including Tetsu) for the character opinion bingo please ^_^

HEHEHEHEHEHEHH BINGO

*SLAMS HAND ON DESK*

ANSWERING THIS ONE FIRST CAUSE I WAS LITERALLY PLANNING ON CONTINUING MY FIRST WATCH OF THE DUB I PUT OFF LIKE A YEAR AGO AND ALSO AN ACTUAL TAB

First TLDR: I fucking love all of them. I'm less severely mentally ill about it, but I was EXTREMELY imprinted and mentally ill over Kuroko no Basket specifically Akashi to the point of literally having a mini-shrine three years ago and me + my fiance having "emergency Akashi content" on our phones to help calm me down from meltdowns since it was a reliable way to bring me back from flashbacks, panic attacks, and OCD spirals. LITERALLY was an essential tool in my coping hand bag until like two years ago. Still very shocked we didn't introject anyone from that anime, but I'm pretty sure thats cause we have too many similar personality types already

Also this was like my favorite anime for years (watched it originally so I could make fun of it but ended up REALLY liking it) and now competes with Banana Fish for that title.

So like, thank you for asking this, I was HOPING someone would give me an excuse to share all my blorbos

Tetsu: BUN PERFECT LITTLE CINNAMON ROLL PERFECT BABY I LOVE HIM HE IS PERFECT HE CAN DO NO WRONG AND HE DESERVES NOTHING BUT GOODNESS

Kise: sdalfkjlajfdl mood man major mood man also I love the fuck out of him, probably the most similar character to me as a part save for the fact Akashi is a general system mood, but me as a part? Im a Kise personality type

Aomine: Dude I love this man, so cool great papa bear, love him perfect human I love him

Midorima: I love this man, he is big OCD mood, big glasses boy, really cool 10/10 perfect character I love him so much he deserves the world

Murasakibara: My LEAST favorite of the GOM but honestly just as pinchable as everyone else. Hes a good boy who likes sweets

Akashi: Literally saved this body's life like 4000 times in mid highschool to mid college and I literally had a period of worshipping him as a coping mechanism so....... Not perfect DID representation, not even necessarily great, but it is better than most and a lot of things hit HARD home; plus I loved watching him dissociate the fuck out in the middle of a game in the Last Game movie and in the final game of S3 huge fucking mood man. ((I also literally have or at least had every one of his lines memorized in english and japanese to the rhythm and cadence cause I had an issue)) ((Also Ill let you know some of our trauma by the fact we looked at that and went OOF MOOD iykyk))

TLDR: I love all these men

Also Orange is if it applies to another alter but not me specifically. Please do note that all these character did not get enough screen time and that none of them did anything wrong in their life, but most of them weren't bullied enough. /j

Also also, I literally studied their art style for a while too when learning to draw as one of them

Also also also, thank you for hitting one of the top bingos

Tetsuya Kuroko

Ryouta Kise

Daiki Aomine

Shintaro Midorima

Atsushi Murasakibara

Seijuro Akashi

#alter: riku #kuroko no basket #ask #ask game #character game #character bingo #character asks #akashi #aomine #kuroko #kise #midorima #murasakibara

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stateofsport211 · 1 year

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Prague 2 Ch QF: Jakub Mensik [WC] def. Akira Santillan 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6) Match Stats

📸 ATP Challenger Livestream (via website)

J. Mensik appeared more solid in the last two sets despite what happened at the start of the third set. By the time he turned it around, he did without hesitation. More sure with his shots and approaches, pressing Santillan more from his serves.

The latter was felt especially at the second set. Although Santillan won 12% more points from his second serves, he double-faulted 10 times, which did not help his causes under pressure (regardless of the pressure applied otherwise). On the other hand, J. Mensik scored two-fold more aces than Santillan (6 to 3), while both players equally won 73% of their points from their first serves.

In terms of their return games, Santillan had his chances by having 12 opportunities to break. They mostly came as a result of bringing J. Mensik further off the balance, but the Czech often came up with an answer to the outslicing bait toward the end of the third set. They often resulted in volleys and winners, where he also capitalized on Santillan’s serves being pressured. As a result, not only this resulted in both players being able to break each others’ serves four times, but also affecting the progress of the tie-breaker.

In the semifinals, J. Mensik will face Alejandro Moro Canas, who defeated Shintaro Mochizuki 6-3, 6-4 earlier. This could be an interesting encounter, especially with how Moro Canas improved in the past year (remember, he also bothered Lorenzo Musetti of all people in last year’s Madrid M1000 qualifying rounds). An interesting clash might be cooking here, but it is worth seeing what is going to happen.

#atp world tour #atp tour #atp challenger #atp challenger tour #tennis updates #match stats #prague 2 challenger #tk sparta prague open #jakub mensik #akira santillan #WatchChallengersFolks #ChallengerMatters

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camshaft22 · 1 year

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I posted 990 times in 2022

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I tagged 601 of my posts in 2022

Only 39% of my posts had no tags

#lupin sansei - 75 posts

#lupin the third - 64 posts

#ishikawa goemon xiii - 34 posts

#jigen daisuke - 32 posts

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Longest Tag: 137 characters

#also today i learned that goemon's name is 'jusan-daime goemon' and not 'goemon jusansei' like i had thought for the past 2 and 1/2 years

My Top Posts in 2022:

Chapters: 11/12 Fandom: Lupin III, Zenigata-Keibu (2017 miniseries) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jigen Daisuke/Zenigata Kouichi Characters: Jigen Daisuke, Zenigata Kouichi, Arsène Lupin III, Ishikawa Goemon XIII, Sakuraba Natsuki, Kunikida Shintaro, Shitara Hiroshi, Jogosaki Hitoshi Additional Tags: Established Relationship, First Time, Relationship Negotiation, Porn with Feelings, Plotty, Enemy Lovers, On the Run, Domestic Fluff, showing up on your eternal rival's doorstep because you didn't know where else to go, Disguise, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Sniper Jigen Daisuke, Showers, Blood and Injury, Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Graphic Violence, Early in Canon, sort of set in mid Green Jacket but with 2017 tech levels, Competent Zenigata Kouichi, Case Fic, Porn With Plot Series: Part 2 of Disreputable Company Summary:

Jigen and Inspector Zenigata don't often get the chance to share quiet moments like this. Unfortunately, things aren't going to stay quiet for long.

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Zenigata faces his future and Jigen shares in his life.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/36342142

A piece with Jigen and Lupin inviting Goemon to join them in bed.

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Chapters: 10/12 Fandom: Lupin III, Zenigata-Keibu (2017 miniseries) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jigen Daisuke/Zenigata Kouichi Characters: Jigen Daisuke, Zenigata Kouichi, Arsène Lupin III, Ishikawa Goemon XIII, Sakuraba Natsuki, Kunikida Shintaro, Shitara Hiroshi, Jogosaki Hitoshi Additional Tags: Established Relationship, First Time, Relationship Negotiation, Porn with Feelings, Plotty, Enemy Lovers, On the Run, Domestic Fluff, showing up on your eternal rival's doorstep because you didn't know where else to go, Disguise, Anal Sex, Blow Jobs, Sniper Jigen Daisuke, Showers, Blood and Injury, Canon-Typical Violence, Non-Graphic Violence, Early in Canon, sort of set in mid Green Jacket but with 2017 tech levels, Competent Zenigata Kouichi, Case Fic, Porn With Plot Series: Part 2 of Disreputable Company Summary:

Jigen and Inspector Zenigata don't often get the chance to share quiet moments like this. Unfortunately, things aren't going to stay quiet for long.

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Part two of three

Lupin arrives to a very strange scene.

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My #1 post of 2022

Part 3 of 3

The finale

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wickedghxst · 5 years

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There are only two external truths in fiction:

twins/brothers will Always fight

All fathers are Bastards.

#these also apply to reality #ESPECIALLY the fathers bit #this post does NOT apply to Kiryu Kazuma or his father Shintaro Kazama

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lostcauses-noregrets · 3 years

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Hey Lost have you seen that new article about how Yams originally wanted Levi to die in the finale but his editor talked him out of it because apparently it wouldn't have been "meaningful"?

Hi Anon, sorry, it's taken me so long to reply that this new article isn't new any more! This info comes from an interview with Shintaro Kawakubo, Isayama's editor, which came out round about the same time as chapter 139. Many thanks to @momtaku for pointing me to the source from @kasumi_kasa on twitter. The gist of it is that Isayama appears to have been undecided whether Levi would live or die at the end of the series. Kawakubo argued that if a character was to die, their death should be meaningful to the plot. As a result, Isayama decided that Levi's death would not have much meaning, so he let Levi live.

My interpretation of this is that I can kinda see where Kawakubo is coming from. In terms of plot, the one thing that Levi could do that would affect the outcome of the story was to kill Zeke and stop the rumbling. After he had accomplished that, whether he lived or died would have no real bearing on the story. Although part of me will always wish that Levi had died and joined Erwin and his fallen comrade in the Pathsterlife (© @momtaku), I have to agree that his death would not have served any real purpose in terms of the plot.

I also argued in the past that there was no real plotworthy reason for Erwin's death, other than to remove his formidable experience and strategic intelligence from the story. Turns out that was only partially true. With the benefit of hindsight, I think the most significant reason for Erwin's death was that it set in motion Levi's pursuit of his vow, which ultimately led to him killing Zeke, and thus playing a critical role in stopping the rumbling.

Sasha is another example of a death that was meaningful to the plot. I was quite fond of Sasha, more so than other members of the 104th, but I initially couldn't understand why Isayama was making such a big deal of her death. Of course it was Sasha's death that ultimately brought about Gabi's epiphany that she had been wrong about the devils of Paradis island, and which ultimately led to her joining the Alliance.

One character it's a bit harder to apply this principle to is Hanji. I know there's been a lot of discussion about whether it was necessary for Hanji to die when they did, with many readers arguing that their death served no real purpose. Although I thought Hanji had a good death; they went out heroically, and were welcomed into the afterlife by their comrades, I still wasn't really sure what impact their death had on the plot at the time. There was a lot of discussion about the nature of the "afterlife" when chapter 132 came out, whether it was real, or just a way to give Hanji a nice send off, and I can't help wondering now if this was one of the ways that Hanji's death was meaningful to the plot. Their death provided a way to introduce the existence of the afterlife and show that their fallen comrades were watching events in the "real" world unfold, thus setting up Levi's moving vision in the final chapter.

Anyway....sorry Anon, I've gone way off piste here, but I hope that somewhere in this ramble you'll find an answer to your question!

#asks #levi ackerman #erwin smith #hanji zoe #sasha braus #levi meta #snk #hajime isayama #shintaro kawakubo

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canmom · 2 years

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art shit, (while two days off ssris and facing an impending move so expect a certain skew). no sympathy needed or expected, i just need to get this out somewhere so i can do something else but wallow in it

consciously i believe the only good reason to create art is to intrinsically fulfil some personal emotional need. i don't want to be too prescriptive about what that might be; but joy, venting, expressing affection, some kind of spiritual drive, a relationship i can't imagine...

unfortunately it seems that my own feelings about my stuff are very much shaped by extrinsic desires which are essentially impossible to fulfil, primarily living up to the example of xyz other person. the writers and visual artists i admire the most are creating the kind of thing that is true to them and their experience of the world; inevitably they will do things that i cannot, and i will inevitably be inspired by them, but it would do none of us any good if i just tried to imitate them, trying to do their thing but not as well. but it almost seems like heresy to imagine that i also have things that are good about what i do (or even have the potential to do) that charity or frog or jackie or seth dickinson or shinya ohira or shintaro kago or weilin zhang or yoko taro or (...) couldn't do.

anyway i end up simultaneously desperate for praise and also unable to appreciate it for long when i receive it. hell it's worse, when i don't get praise (either at all or from xyz person), i end up feeling like i failed somehow and have to try all the more desperately on the next attempt. but i don't let myself feel satisfied when i do get praise because i have this pretty deep seated complex about not being arrogant.

so even when someone who I've spent a third of my life looking up to says i did something good, and evidently seems to like being friends with me, part of my brain says, "well, it's the kind of praise you'd give to a child isn't it, they still don't see you as a peer" - how could they after all, when axiom 1 is they're better than me? i know I'm not on their level yet, and likely won't be for years if ever, but they got where they did not by chasing after the foot of the pedestal where the good artists live, but by pursuing the intrinsic thing that motivated them in creating art through many painful and traumatic years until they reached an undiscovered corner of aesthetic space where they could say what they needed to say. and I'm hamstringing myself by staring at that distant horizon when I've made it instead of just thinking about enjoying the process right now

one of the things you develop over the course of learning visual art is line confidence. a beginner's lines tend to be shaky and hesitant or messy and missing the mark; a more intermediate artist can apply rounds of refinement to get a line that looks cleaner but still feels stiff. an experienced artist can draw a simple expressive line that captures the desired information while still feeling lively. the same is visible in for example prose.

the thing is... i don't feel confident at all, in anything. i have to push through all this anxiety to get anything done; i have no idea how to cultivate confidence except to hope it will just happen by magic if i draw enough pictures or write enough stories, but that just leaves me feeling like everything i make in the meantime is kind of grubby and shameful, which does not exactly lead to a growing sense of confidence.

the artists i admire look supremely confident; even when i see them expressing their own anxieties, i guess my brain can't get over the public performance of confidence and turns it into like, "if you can feel unsatisfied with something so magnificent, which i could not imagine being able to create, the thing you'd think is good must be impossible to imagine for the likes of me". i can see it's irrational, assuming its own conclusion even before i type it out, but it just keeps coming back like an itch

anyway this kind of thought process gets way worse when I'm off my meds so. hopefully i can get back on them and back on the ball soon. i don't know how long it will take to get good and i have to stop caring but i don't know how. i don't know how to make something that's just for me and not compulsively show it to all my friends who will listen. i don't know how to remember the good qualities of my work as well as i do the bad ones. i don't think there's any virtue in shame or honestly even humility, indeed it seems like a severe impediment to the kinds of expression that are most affecting, but it feels like these circuits are worn so deep into my brain that I'm afraid I'll never break out

#introspective nightposting

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ninjago-happens-here · 3 years

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'Bandages come in many ways. There are gauze bandages, treating all kinds of wounds the Ninja may have. There are bandages used to prevent injury in Martial Arts. What P.I.X.A.L. is wondering, is that if mankind has a bandage for the heart.'

@ninjago-angst-week am I late or what? Sorry but I think spewing out 21k words over teh course of 3 days killed my motivation. It took 3 days just to write 6.1k words.

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P.I.X.A.L. notices that the store of bandages is running low. She thinks about all the times she had to use them on one of her teammates, and its purposes.

“Hey Pix! We’re running low on bandages. Can you help us order some before we go to Shintaro?” Nya’s voice came from the medical bay of the Destiny’s Bounty. The Ninja and Master Wu were going on a trip to Shintaro. Unfortunately, Pixal never got an invite, but she has long been used to being left behind. It’s not that it was a bad thing, per se. Pixal knew the importance of having a backup, and having someone watch over Ninjago whilst the Ninja were gone. Still, to distract herself after placing a digital order, she thought about anything that could distract her. That thing just happened to be about bandages.

Bandages. Neat, white little things that wrap around any land or sky creature. According to Wikipedia, a bandage is a piece of material used either to support a medical device such as a dressing or splint, or on its own to provide support to or to restrict the movement of a part of the body. When used with a dressing, the dressing is applied directly to a wound, and a bandage is used to hold the dressing in place. Other bandages are used without dressings, such as elastic bandages that are used to reduce swelling or provide support to a sprained ankle. Tight bandages can be used to slow blood flow to an extremity, such as when a leg or arm is bleeding heavily.

At first, that was all P.I.X.A.L. knew about bandages. Given that she was built with the main purpose of being Cyrus Borg’s assistant, her primary knowledge consisted mostly of the ins and outs of Borg Tower, emergency protocols, customer service skills, and basic first aid, given that her maker was frailer than your average Ninjago citizen.

Of course, the longer she worked under Cyrus Borg, the more she learnt about the medical field. Curious about Mr Borg’s special circumstances, she was permitted to look through the internet for more information. In no time at all, she learnt about surgery, prosthetics, all different kinds of medication, and how to diagnose illnesses. In her given free time, she studied all the information available on the internet about the medical field. Even though the information was useless to her, an android who had no physical weaknesses like the humans do, her system determined that whilst the knowledge was a bit excessive, it only helps to prepare her to care for Mr Borg.

She never really needed to apply all that knowledge about serious and fatal cuts, but when Borg gets even the slightest injury, P.I.X.A.L. was there to offer her assistance.

A year after she had been created, Cyrus Borg had offered her to take a test of the field in medicine. P.I.X.A.L. had immediately felt lighter and better somehow. When asking Borg why she was feeling this way and if robots could get sick, Borg had laughed in surprise and shock.

“That feeling is happiness, P.I.X.A.L.! It’s an emotion that all living creatures feel, you included.”

“But I am not living-“ Mr Borg cut her off.

“Technically, you are right, P.I.X.A.L., but you are intelligence, and intelligence is what defines life. You can adapt, change, and overcome as all living beings do. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise! Because that would be an insult to my intelligence!” Cyrus Borg said encouragingly. “And robots can technically get sick, from a digital virus. But I created you to be strong, stronger than I ever will be. You should not have to worry about them.”

P.I.X.A.L. nodded her head to show her understanding. “Then I will go to the exam.”

P.I.X.A.L. didn’t pass on her first try, but Mr Borg told her that it was alright, given that she still did very well considering that she only had the free internet to look for answers to a test she was unprepared for. It was human for her to have failed.

“So why did you send me there with no preparation?” P.I.X.A.L. asked with a shaking voice.

“To prepare you for failure, my dear!” Cyrus Borg said patronisingly. “Since I’ve built you, you’ve been perfect in many, many ways. And that isn’t a bad thing! But life isn’t that simple. You may fail in one way or another in the future because like humans, the circumstances may not be what you desired and plans can fall apart due to errors. What I want you to know is how failure feels like, and I will help you recover from it.”

P.I.X.A.L. nodded. It won’t be long before she faced her first, real big failure.

- Lloyd - The first time she had to really apply those skills that she learnt was when the team had seen Lloyd in the village. After he was pulled out of the ocean because he had to escape from an exploding plane that the Digilord had trapped him on. The locals had wanted to help, but Lloyd wasn’t feeling like having strangers cut him up, so they offered him some basic and outdated medical supplies.

P.I.X.A.L. could see him trying to treat himself and to stay awake, and she could see him hiss as the alcohol drizzled on his wounds.

“LLOYD!” Kai shouted in a tone that conveyed panic. This made the young ultimate spinjitzu master look up from his handiwork and immediately break into a smile. As the team had rushed forward to greet him, P.I.X.A.L. could see that his shoulders were sagging, probably from relief.

“I’m so sorry that I got caught guys,” Lloyd wheezed with an apologetic smile before keeling over, to which Cole caught him with shaking hands.

“Oh god, Zane, quick, do your thing!” Kai panicked even harder, hands jittery as if he was in an internal debate about whether he should do something or not. “I’m trying Kai! I just- my hands keep shaking for some reason!” Zane gritted his teeth in frustration. “I’m gonna run some diagnostics on him” “Okay, Cole, lie him on a flat surface- medic! Medic!” Nya screamed out.

It was at this moment that P.I.X.A.L. knew that was her chance. To repay Zane for his heart. To prove to the team that she was useful. To finally implement her knowledge. Sometimes, she wonders if she’ll ever have what Zane has with the other humans, but for now, she is glad that she can separate her emotions from her work.

“Let me handle it,” P.I.X.A.L. said authoritatively. Running a scan with her own diagnostics, P.I.X.A.L. isolated the most dangerous injuries before telling the group out loud, staring at her apprehensively.

“Master Lloyd has suffered a concussion, lung damage due to smoke inhalation, and fractured bones in his tibia. He also has a sprained ankle and several bones on his upper chest area have several bruises. Luckily, there is no internal bleeding. He also has some first and second-degree burns, but those look like they have been treated by the ocean water. However, he is at risk of hypothermia should he not change out of those clothes. Other cuts and bruises should not be life-threatening as long as we keep the infection away, and-“

“WE GET IT! Can you just PLEASE start treating Lloyd NOW?” Jay shrieked in frustration. P.I.X.A.L. blinked. Oh right, the ninjas are still panicking.

“Apologies, can I have a look at the medical supplies?” Taking a scalpel out of the medical box, P.I.X.A.L. removed Lloyd Garmadon’s shirt and so multiple bruises as well as the look of someone who’s emancipated. It didn’t really make any sense to her, but she supposed that being drained of his elemental powers must have caused some damage.

“To treat his concussion, he needs peace and to rest. I would like if all of you can speak in whispers from now on,” P.I.X.A.L. began. The soup suddenly looked ashamed and guilty, with Jay whispering a soft ‘sorry’.

“To treat his hypothermia, we would need blankets-“

“Why can’t I just warm him up with fire?” Kai cut across. “Well, the extreme heat can damage the skin or, even worse, cause irregular heartbeats so severe that they can cause the heart to stop. However, starting a campfire some meters away could help a little. using this fire, we can make some warm beverages and some food.”

“Just say what we gotta do doc, we’ll listen!” Nya begged swiftly. P.I.X.A.L. thought for a moment, before choosing to sort people out based on their perceived abilities.

“Kai, Jay, Cole, Sensei Wu, and Sensei Garmadon- please look for blankets in the village and start a campfire over there,” Pointing at a spot a satisfactory distance from Lloyd, P.I.X.A.L. continued with giving instructions. “Start making some sort of soup- not too heavy. Zane, Nya- you’re with me.”

Garmadon, who was silent all this time, started to protest. “I cannot leave my son, Pixal.”

“Fine, you may stay and just keep tending to the campfire,” P.I.X.A.L. conceded, not wanting to waste time arguing. There was the matter of fact that the smoke inhaled by Lloyd Garmadon could be fatal, but there was not much that she could do in his location. All she could hope to do was to treat his minor injuries before ensuring that Lloyd is stable enough to go to a hospital in Ninjago. Which would have been impossible, given that the Digilord had control of the city already. What could she do? Maybe there’s an elemental master of the air who could treat Lloyd?

“Pix, do you not have any ideas on how to treat the smoke inhalation?” Zane looked at her with kind and understanding eyes. Pixal nodded, defeated, before preparing a cast. “We need concentrated oxygen and a nose tube or a tube down his throat. Unfortunately, there is nowhere in Ninjago where we can get to such technology.”

Hearing this, Nya immediately perked up. “But we can make them. Zane, do you have any wires that you can spare for a bit?”

“Redirecting power from the right hand,” Zane replied as he opened up his arm to take out a tube. He’s so self-sacrificing. For some strange reason, P.I.X.A.L. felt her heart beating faster. Maybe Zane was nervous? “Nya, if you could please clean this?”

“Of course. HEY KAI!” “Yeah, sis?” Nya was looking at P.I.X.A.L. expectantly. Oh yes. she was supposed to know this, wasn’t she? “Can you get us 10 cups of potable water and 1 cup of vinegar? Also, get some detergent or soap.” “Okay Pix, not gonna question this at all!”

Meanwhile, Nya was using pure H2O to just start blasting the tubing As much as they wanted Lloyd to not die from smoke inhalation, they also didn’t want him to be infected. Speaking of infections…

“Ow!” Lloyd woke up sleepily as Zane used one hand to dab his cuts. Looking sheepish, Zane immediately offered an apology before Nya cuts in and admitting her mistake.

“Go back to Lloyd,” Nya said, petting his hair. Once Kai had returned with the necessary materials, Nya sanitised her hands before delicately cleaning the tube with 10 parts water and 1 part vinegar.

Tightening the wrappings around Lloyd’s ankle, Pixal studied her handiwork. The splint was holding up nicely against Lloyd’s leg, and all the infections on Lloyd’s legs were taken care of. Seeing as Zane is treating Lloyd well enough, P.I.X.A.L. immediately began to start diagnosing Lloyd’s burns before seeing blood flow from Lloyd’s back.

“Oh, dear.” In her hast, P.I.X.A.L. had forgotten to check Lloyd for injuries from behind. Maybe she wasn’t as professional as she thought. There was no other choice. Looking at Zane firmly, they pushed Lloyd onto his side as he gave a pained groan.

P.I.X.A.L.’s mechanical heart sank. Lloyd had a reason for sitting up without any support. There were several pieces of debris stuck to his back, and they were all pushed in due to them lying Lloyd on the desk. Nya looked up from her task in horror.

“I’m so sorry Lloyd, I didn’t know-“ “Nya, please focus on your task,” P.I.X.A.L. cut her off before she could begin crying. She felt bad, but what’s done was done. Blocking Lloyd from’s Nya’s view, P.I.X.A.L. picked up a pair of tweezers before picking up the small pieces. But the large piece of metal stuck in his shoulder blades- Pixal had to cut Lloyd’s skin to get that out. Eyes narrowing, hardening her resolve- P.I.X.A.L. lightly cut Lloyd’s skin using the scalpel before pulling up a long shard of bloodied glass. Picking up some of the unused water, P.I.X.A.L. quickly cleared Lloyd and the flat-surfaced of their blood. Applying pressure to those wounds would be hard from this angle, so after disinfecting the openings, P.I.X.A.L. took several rolls of bandages before tying them around Lloyd’s chest. Not too tightly, that would further bruise his ribs- but tight enough to ensure a sense of security and staunch the oozing bleeding.

“Zane, do you have an oxygen filter?” Nya asked, having been satisfied by the cleanliness of the tubing. Sanitising her metallic hands, P.I.X.AL. heard Zane sigh before declining.

“I do. Mr Borg wanted us to be at least a little environmentally friendly, given that the Nindroids would be using large amounts of energy every day. So I can filter out excess greenhouse gases in the air and store them in their solid form before giving the raw materials back to Borg Industries,” P.I.X.A.L. offered.

“You’re a lifesaver Pix,” Nya said in relief, handing P.I.X.A.L. the tubing. P.I.X.A.L. smiled. She supposed that she actually was. Opening Lloyd Garmadon’s mouth, P.I.X.A.L. inserted the tubing down his throat with NIndroid precision. Connecting the end to her oxygen filter, P.I.X.A.L. adjusted the settings so that she was inputting air composing of at least 60% oxygen into young Garmadon’s lungs.

As Zane finished applying some frost to Lloyd’s burns, the 3 of them stood there and watched as Lloyd breathed in and out.

“If you guys don’t mind, I’ll go find what the guys have been doing,” Nya informed their group. “I too will go into the village, but to ensure that we have permission to stay here for the night,” Zane stated, giving a nod to P.I.X.A.L., before walking away into the dusk, right hand locked and useless.

P.I.X.A.L., knowing that she can’t really move, sat next to Lloyd Garmadon as she watched the campfire grow as shrieks from the ninja team rose. At the end of today, all P.I.X.A.L. wanted to do was to just shut down and recharge. She knows she doesn’t need to know that she had half of Zane’s heart (which just skipped another beat for some unknown reason), but all she wants was a break.

Too bad that being a ninja means that you don’t really get to choose when to stop. P.I.X.A.L. thought to herself.

But at least today, I’ve proved my usefulness. I can repay Zane for his heart.

- Kai - Having been stuck alone, disassembled and scrapped, P.I.X.A.L. found that she really, really missed the Ninja team. She also missed Zane, though he was in a cell next to hers. He’s been offline for such a long time, P.I.X.A.L. had fears that he would never wake up.

But he did. And the ninja had rescued them from Chen. But along the way, they had lost Sensei Garmadon, and the year apart had caused some major issues.

Kai doesn’t know that they’re here. But he shouldn’t be here either after Zane had ordered that everyone go to rest after this long day. Still, the glint of red from his eyes even scared P.I.X.A.L., but she would never tell anyone that. She watched as Kai shredded the bandages he wrapped around his hands by destroying a metal training dummy, before turning around to wrap some more.

“Why is he doing that?” P.I.X.A.L. wondered from inside Zane’s head. Zane started whispering, “He… has some anger issues.”

“I get that Zane, I mean why’s he wrapping his hands in bandages?” P.I.X.A.L. corrected herself. Zane quirked an eyebrow but continued with answering P.I.X.A.L.’s questions. “Well, martial artists wear hand wraps and bandages because they can prevent injuries and improve the power of their punches. Wraps and bandages also protect the martial artist’s skin and soften the impact on hard surfaces.”

“I see,” P.I.X.A.L. stated whilst both of them cringed, as Kai delivered a particularly hard blow to the metallic dummy that Zane was supposed to fight with.

“KAI, PLEASE SHUT UP!” came Jay’s voice from down the corridor, moving closer towards them. Zane and P.I.X.A.L. watched in apprehension as Kai breathed heavily, staring down the metallic dummy before all the tension from his shoulders sagged.

The Nindroids watched as Kai cleaned up the training room and head out to use the bathroom to wash up.

“He’s being too hard on himself for the death of Lloyd’s father,” P.I.X.AL. commented blandly. Zane shifted from his position. “I’m afraid that that’s not the only reason. Do you remember Jay telling us that Kai had almost killed both Lloyd and Skylor using Chen’s staff?” P.I.X.A.L. stayed silent.

Bandages come in many ways. There are gauze bandages, treating all kinds of wounds the Ninja may have. There are bandages used to prevent injury in Martial Arts. What P.I.X.A.L. is wondering, is that if mankind has a bandage for the heart.

- Jay - It was only a few days after Master Wu had been lost in time. Whilst the Ninja team were recuperating and in shock, Pixal has been remotely using Samurai X to patrol the cities whilst maintaining in the current Ninja’s headquarters- the electronic system of Yang’s temple. P.I.X.AL. had really wanted to go full into Samurai X, but she knew that she could not just desert her teammates at this moment. But there wasn’t much she could do, other than counting reps for Lloyd. (You skipped a number, I know what you’re doing Pix, and I ain’t gonna stop training-) helping Jay prepare breakfast (Jay! The pancakes are burning!) or accompanying Zane as he retrieved bits and pieces from all the fighting. (Someone has to clean up Ninjago city, and I guess that that would be me and Samurai X.)

P.I.X.A.L. knew that she shouldn’t be keeping Samurai X a secret, but she couldn’t help herself. She felt a strange sense of duty, and the ability to finally be on the front lines, fighting the same enemies as Zane. And she wanted some secrets to herself.

Still, it surprised her when Jay had demanded her full attention during one of her free times.

“Hey, umm… Pix? Do you- do you think you could maybe check out my left eye?” Jay stammered whilst twiddling his fingers. Pixal was curious, but she’s already moved to Jay’s laptop. “Why do you ask so? Did your eye get hit sometime recently?”

Jay had flinched at the word ‘hit’, but shook his head at the word ‘recently’. Huh. Maybe it was phantom pains? Still, Pixal had run a diagnostic on it.

“I can’t seem to find any physical abnormalities, but if this is a case of phantom pain, over the counter pain relievers should work.”

Jay nodded whilst his eyes were blank seemingly off to another world or lost in his memories.

“Jay? Jay, can you hear me?” Pixal once again ran a diagnostic scan. It seems that Jay was slipping into dissociation. Dimming the lights in his room as well as all the screens the blue ninja had put into his room. Pixal started playing a calm Ninjago lofi mix from the speaker she was in. She gently called Jay’s name and he slipped back into reality.

“Jay, just take 2 doses of ibuprofen. They’re at the lowest shelf at the kitchen counter. If it hurts again, tell me and we’ll bring you to a professional.”

Jay who was nodding at the instructions froze at the thought of being taken to the hospital. Still, he slid off his bed and made his way downstairs. Pixal filtered through the electronic system of the temple, landing new the smart fridge and watched as Jay swallowed 2 pills dry.

It seemed to create some results because Jay stopped shivering and shaking. Pixal wondered if that was just a placebo or an actual effect. Still, watching Jay’s face relax in bliss, free from whatever pain that was bothering him, Pixal knew that she made the right call.

- Nya - S9, fight with SOG

It had been brutal. Pixal was just treating the training injuries Lloyd had when Skylor came into the noodle house, helping Nya to walk as her left arm dangled without any purpose. Immediately, Pixal stood up and took quick strides, scanning Nya for all her injuries.

“We were getting supplies when a bunch of Harumi’s goons jumped on us, we had to be quick so that none of them could call up for back up, when-“ “When- fuck, when this dude pulled out a fucking gun,” Nya said, pained and heaving as Skylor slowly helped her to sit on the training mat.

“So you were shot?” Lloyd’s voice came from behind Pixal as he took the medkit to the mat. Nya eyes looked everywhere but at him. Gesturing to her limp and bleeding arm, she gave up all her dignity. “Yeah, right here.”

“Okay, Nya, here, take these.” Lloyd handed her 2 tablets of ibuprofen and a cup of water. “W-what? No, I can’t take these!” Nya hissed in pain.

“Yes, you can!” “What if we need them later? What if one of us loses an arm or something happens where we have a worse injury?” “That does not matter, Nya. Look, I’ve been shot in Ninjago city before, I know how it feels.”

Pixal immediately flashes back to the nights where she had to help Lloyd through a computer screen, and her metallic fingers curled up. It was horrible, watching him choking down painkillers before trying to pull the bullet out himself. Never again.

“Nya, it would be alright, just take these- we can always go out to get more,” Pixal tried coaxing Nya to just swallow the pills.

“Take them or I’ll force you to take them, Water Ninja.” Skylor admonished. With the combined strength of their motley crew of 3, Nya hesitantly reached for the medicine, almost choking as she had swallowed too much water at one go.

“Okay, good, now we just need to pull the bullet out,” Lloyd reached into the medkit, pulling out a pair of tweezers. Pixal watched as his hands, fatigued from all the trains, couldn’t stop shaking.

“Wait, Lloyd, let me see if the bullet should be removed at all.” Pixal interrupted, taking a more in-depth scan at Nya’s shoulder. In the meantime, Lloyd started to check through Skylor, who said that he was all clear except for a few knuckle bruises. Of course, Pixal would check on her later, but now she had to make sure that Nya would be alright.

“The bullet has missed your major arteries and it actually isn’t in too deep, possibly because of the protection offered by your suit-“ “Just tell me when you’re gonna remove it!” Nya snapped as her brow furrowed in anticipation. “Well, let’s see… first, we need to remove the clothing around the area of the wound, which-“

“AHH!” Nya shrieked as Pixal twisted and pulled out the bullet without any warning. “Sorry Nya, sometimes fear of a thing could be greater than the actual danger that it poses,” Pixal explained as Nya stared at her with a look that could only scream betrayal.

Dropping the bullet to the ground, Pixal took up some disinfectant and sanitised the area around the entry wound. Nya hissed as Pixal gently presses a cotton gauze to stop the bleeding before finally applying some sort of disinfectant cream. She finished off the wound with a bandage around Nya’s arm, with extra padding using gauze at the point where the wound is at.

“Alright, so now you should not move this arm too much for the next few days, and in the next few weeks, you would not be able to raise it over your shoulder. But in a few months, you can use it again and in a year it would be pretty much healed up so that you may do your weight lifting sessions with- with Cole again…” Pixal said, starting brightly but dropping to a small whisper.

The mood suddenly went from cheery to depressive. “Remember to take lots of rest,” Pixal finished lamely. As Lloyd escorted Nya to the sleeping bags they had gathered, Skylor picked up the bullet Pixal had removed.

“Girl, you were quite mean back there,” Skylor began. “And I think that you’re cool. One problem- the pharmacies have not been able to continue business as normal. All the drugs have to be given to the Sons of Garmadon. In the meantime, all supply chains are disrupted. Over the counter medicine won’t be so easy to find. “

Pixal kept quiet. “Well, I’ll have to keep this bullet as a souvenir for Nya. FSM knows that she deserves this.”

Of course, the bullet would be lost later as they were hunted down throughout the city. But every time Nya changed into her swimsuit, Pixal could see the bullet wound. The scarring left wasn’t pretty, but Pixal thought that the courage Nya showed made her the most beautiful woman she’ll ever have the chance to meet.

- Cole- Cole was alive. Cole was alive!

Pixal watched as the Ninja went into a momentary stop before cheering and becoming more alive. She saw Nya pass the Scythe of Earth to Cole, who promptly swung it into the oncoming Oni. Pixal was trying her best to fend off the Oni herself, but her mind, or rather, motherboard, was spinning really, really fast. How did Cole survive? It should have been impossible!

Pixal heard that Cole justify his survival, stating that the Oni clouds must have broken his fall. He didn’t know how he wasn’t attacked at first, but many tendrils then came to attack him.

Still, this was impossible for Pixal to figure out. Was it because Cole had been a ghost? Maybe it was his elemental power protecting him? Or perhaps it was divine intervention? Either way, Pixal was going o scan him later if there was even a later.

“Watch out!” Pixal saw a blast of green hit the Oni in front of her. I can’t afford to get lost in thought now! Come on Samurai X, focus! She chided to herself.

Yet, as the battle once again turned tides, and the elemental masters got together to do the Tornado of Creation, Pixal watched from her position behind the holding doors to see Lloyd Garmadon get thrown out of the tornado, hitting his head with an earth-shattering crack as he collapsed against the walls of the monastery before debris-covered him.

Frantically approaching him, Pixal saw out of the corner of her eye that the rest of the ninja were left dizzy, exhausted, and possibly some having passed out. That was alright. It was time for her to do her duty anyways.

However, whilst lifting slabs of concrete, Pixal felt her heart drop. The calculated survival rate of the impact sent shivers down Pixal’s circuits as the percentage just kept. Dropping. Lower.

Heaving the last piece of concrete off the young bearer of green power, Pixal heard her teammates rushing into the scene. She could have warned them, said something, said anything. But her joints were frozen in place with something much colder than what her sensors had detected when she went into the Oni cloud.

The motley crew, now only 5, took the last piece of debris off from their teammate.

“Lloyd. Buddy, wake up,” Kai pleaded, desperate. “He-He's not moving!” Nya exclaimed, voice shaking as tears start to form. She looked at Pixal, asking for anything, anything at all. “Someone find Wu. Where’s Wu?” Cole ordered.

In no time, Master Wu arrived and lifted Lloyd’s arm, checking his pulse. He would find nothing there.

“You can do something, right? Right?!” Jay panicked. With a defeated look that Pixal knows is mirrored in her eyes, Wu shook his head and said, “There’s nothing to be done.” Nya finally cries out, sobbing. “Oh, Lloyd!”

PIxal wanted to cry as well, but she never could. When rebuilding her body, she had used the same blueprints that Cyrus Borg had with some upgrades. One thing she didn’t consider adding was the ability to cry because there wasn’t any time. She had to save Lloyd from the vermillion. But what she can’t save Lloyd from, was from an early- early- d… fate.

There’s nothing Pixal could do. And she felt hopeless.

She watched from the corner of her eye as Garmadon backed away from their small group, and in a flash, she felt her wires burning. She couldn’t just let him leave. Not after what he’s done.

Yet, just as she was about to boost straight towards the Oni and tackle him off the mountain, Lloyd started to cough. Lloyd. Started to cough.

Whipping around to see a golden petal float away, she watched the team cheer as Lloyd started to breathe. How- this was impossible! Pixal almost short-circuited from shock. There had been no way! No way! She didn’t even go through all 5 stages of grief yet.

And not too soon, Lloyd woke up from a sleep that she was sure that he never would.

Catching him mumbling something about the First Spinjitzu Master, Pixal smiled. Divine intervention had definitely happened at least once today. The first time being….

“Cole, please come with me to the med bay,” Pixal requested with a smile. Divine intervention or not, five-sixths of the Ninja team knows how to hide a serious injury, and she had to be certain. Cole, who looked shopped, resigned himself and walked with Pixal o the medical centre. For now, she trusted that Zane was doing all the scans that he could to make sure that Lloyd was right in the head, and sought out to take care of her own, albeit selfish, worries.

Scanning Cole on both sides, Pixal noticed a particular bad bruise on Cole’s spine. Yet falling from that height and the fact that Cole isn’t paralysed due to spinal injury made Pixal reaffirm her theories that the First Spinjitsu Master was alive, just in another realm.

“You know, Lloyd might have actually seen the First Spinjitsu Master,” Pixal began, which led Cole to choke on the water he was ordered to drink. “No way, he must have just hit his head hard…”

“I’m sorry Cole, but the injuries you have is comparable to sleeping on a rock hard bed for one night, not falling from a height of 500m, even if your fall was broken by the Oni cloud, you should still have been paralysed,” Pixal explained.

“So God is real and Lloyd’s sharing a fourth of his blood? Neat! Next time tell him to not scare us with a fake-out,” Cole brushed it off.

At this time Pixal was about the shutdown and delve deep into theorising. Lloyd technically had a fourth of his grandfather’s blood and possessed the same power, could he possible have powers that control life and death-

Yet, she watched as a steady stream of Ninja enter the medbay, and resolved her thoughts to her inner GPU. She can think later. For now, she had to make sure that everyone is okay, and everyone will be okay. Even if she threatens Loyd to shave his head so she can get a better look at his skull, to which a chase around the monastery ensued. Her family was alright for now, and the concerning mortality of humans was left deep in the recesses of her mind.

- Zane - Too soon, Pixal had to face her own mortality. Being a Nindroid, her lifespan would naturally be much longer than a Ninja’s. But she still could be erased, dismantled, destroyed, sent to another realm-

The days waiting for the group of 6, not 5, to come back were some of the hardest. Even though all Pixal wanted to do was to shut down, lie on her bed and stare into the picture they had taken on their first date, Pixal knew that the team was entrusting her to keep Ninjago safe. Even if it means recapturing escaped convicts. Even if it means fighting the… undead-dead Preeminent (Pixal still hasn’t figured out how she worked). And they had to find ways to reach the Never Realm, by going through different infusions of travellers tea.

Yet, all the waiting and longing was worth it. Pixal prefers a Zane stuck in another realm for 40 years as to no Zane. There was no other choice. Yet, as she sees her loved ones trudging out of the frosty realm, some of them had worst frost bites than others. Even though all Pixal wanted to do was to smother Zane in a hug, she can see the edges of Lloyd’s skin turning a deep, dark black. From the corner of her eyes, she can see Nya taking care of Cole whilst Jay and Kai attempt to remove the ice from everyone else, including lubricating Zane’s frosted joins. She had not a single moment to lose. This kind of frostbite was not exactly lethal immediately, but losing limbs could mean the end of Lloyd’s ninja career. So calling everyone to attention, she went all in to salvaging Lloyd’s limbs, doing everything she could.

Later that night, Pixal spotted Zane wandering around the outskirts of the monastery whilst the Ninja finish up dinner. She watched as Zane’s hands gripped the staff so tight that the wood would be snapping in 3…2…1.

A harsh crack and splinters flying out later, Pixal could see the shaking in Zane’s hands as he cursed, something that the Zane she knew never would.

For her, it had been a hellish week. But for Zane? It must have been a hellish 40 years.

“…Zane?” Pixal called out from the monastery doors. Zane immediately whipped around before pointing the tip of the staff towards her, to which Pixal reflectively grabbed. Zane, eyes widening in shock and horror, immediately released his grip on the now shorter staff, before turning around, trying to run away. Pixal won’t let that happen.

“Zane,” Pixal said once again, hand now gripping onto the collar of Zane’s Gi. “Please don’t run away from me.”

Zane, froze, hands twitching before dropping them to his side. Pixal released her grip before tapping Zane on the shoulder, asking him to turn around.

“Pixal, I’m- I’m sorry…I just can’t- I can’t trust myself right now,” Zane vented out hands fidgeting with each other. Pixal smiled sadly. She knew that not everything could go back to normal so fast, but still, she had hoped that it would have been easier than this. “If you don’t trust yourself right now, why not spend some time with me?”

“Pixal- I…I could hurt you-“ “Yes you can, but don’t think that I can’t protect myself,” Pixal snapped back whilst carefully reaching to hold Zane’s hands. Once she made contact, Zane flinched back, before slowly reciprocating the action. “C’mon Zane, let’s go back into the monastery-“

“No!” Zane protested, wrenching Pixal back. Pixal clasped her other hand on top of Zane’s. “Not to the dining room. I’m thinking med bay.”

Pixal could see Zane’s processing unit cycle through his thoughts, noticing that it had considerable frost damage. Before long, Zane nodded his head, allowing Pixal to pull him into the light.

Opening the cupboards, Pixal took out a few rolls of bandages before carefully wrapping them around Zane’s hands. The ice ninja watched with curiosity as Pixal carefully finished tying and tightening the strips of cloth.

“Why are you doing this? You and I both know that Nindroids don’t need bandages,” Zane asked. Pixal smiled, looking at Zane’s now steadier hands. “Maybe bandages can’t fix our metal skin, but it still makes us feel better.”

Zane paused, looking down at his hands. “I don’t know how you’re right PIx, but they do make me feel more sure that my powers won’t hurt anyone accidentally. Thank you.”

“You’re welcome. Now let’s get back to dinner, we have some desserts to bring out.”

Bandages. As much as PIxal uses them and finds them efficient, she can’t help but hope that team doesn’t need to use as many. But this time, t’s just a trip to a legendary city full of peace and prosperity. Maybe this time, Pixal doesn’t need to bandage their wounds away.

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yuukei-yikes · 1 year

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hi gang. this is a second manga route (lost days arc) hate post 💖 it's implied in the seventh novel that haruka&takane ending up in the same highschool is all part of saeru's plan being perfected route after route, like placing the mekadan everywhere it needs them to be right?? for haruka, since his dad was a colleague of kenjirou's, it would've been easy for saeru to be like hey u should enroll ur kid in this school!! but for takane's grandpa to suddenly start insisting on that school is a mystery. how the hell did saeru have any influence in that..??

second manga route lost days arc is stupid as shit and i hate it and it doesn't exist to me❤ like if haruka and takane were gonna meet and both die on august 15 and both get an exception of “dying alone but still gets a snake” anyways, without saeru's intervention what's the fucking point lmao.

like it COULD HAVE BEEN that with saeru's intervention, what differs is that instead of one snake per 2 people's deaths, it gets 2 snakes out for each person dead, both haruka and takane. does this make sense? like since the daze needs TWO people to die to get ONE snake out, haruka and takane (and ayano) have always been a ridiculous obvious exception with no justification since they die alone and get their own snakes anyway. second manga route HAD the opportunity to explain WHY exactly saeru needed to intervene with haruka and takane at all. like, if in this initial route both die but only one gets a snake! so saeru can be like OK i can grab these 2 people and, with all the "experimenting" on haruka and takane serving as some inference to how it happens, that’s how saeru gets two snakes out in one day to go according to its plans since it needs as many snakes to come out as soon as possible.

but second manga route STILL ignores this and gives both haruka and takane their own snakes even though they die alone (and ayano but im not talking abt her though it still applies in second manga route when she dies with her parents making it THREE people not two but whatever IM TALKING ABOUT HARUTAKA)(and in main route ayano also has her own bit like this but on the contrary, she just opens the daze by herself and stays. as if she had any jurisdiction over who stays or not in the daze and it doesn’t keep or spit out whoever it chooses)(like this all also applies to ayano but her case is different to haruka and takane’s intertwined cases so she’s a different subject ALSO ayano gets a pass because she gets AN AMAZING arc in second manga route as opposed to haruka and takane’s... WHATEVER THAT IS)

it's SO ridiculous, by all means bad writing with plot holes and i can excuse it in a main route because i know kagepro is the kind of thing that's just written as it goes and it's made by 1 person and to be honest all this nonsense stuff is infinitely charming to me and i love getting annoyed about it and dissecting it because it’s fun. but THIS...!!!! WELL I STILL LOVE DISSECTING IT AND IT’S STILL FUN BUT IT DOES MAKE ME ANGRY TOO.. come on. u didnt plan it at all!?!? and by the time second manga route started coming out kagepro WAS a lot more grounded on what it was yknow!! like come on. it's stupid as all shit also takane is so painfully ooc. maybe that’s the reason i wanna attack this route with hammers but all the other stuff is also true. like i keep saying lol second manga route I HATE YOUUU

like ugh the whole retaining eyes backstory IS SO INTERESTING and I DO LOVE LOVE LOOOVE ayano’s arc and the exploration of her being abandoned by the trio and being such a failgirl, and kagepro getting more meta than ever and having her realise she’s a supporting character. how it goes in depth about saeru’s motivations is so awesome too and oh my god shintaro and ene crying and calling each other a best friend my dude this route has so much going for it but. it still sucks so bad because it does my faves dirty. takane would never fucking kill herself. thank you.

#kagevinnie #takane enomoto #haruka kokonose #kagerou project #kagenalysis #kagepro #kagekagekagekagekage

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summerendroll · 1 year

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wait while im #girlblogging let me share my kagepro theory. or not a theory... a frame i use to look at kagepro with... in which the majority of the cast can be categorized as “Azami”s and “Tsukihiko”s. more and also id of the images full text under the cut because i hate long posts but i love to talk

ID: two images: first is photos of Kagerou Projects in two columns. Column 1 starts with Azami, and continues with Kenjirou, Shintaro, Takane, Hibiya and Marry. Column two starts with Tsukihiko, and continues with Ayaka, Ayano, Hibiya, Momo and Seto. The second is a checklist of Azami versus Tsukihiko criteria. end ID

Checklist ID: for both lists, not all points have to apply exactly so long as the overall concept is shared.

Azami criteria: 1. core desire: to be with their (lost or dying) loved ones (at the expense of self). 2. depressed, lonely, only made worse by self-imposed isolation. 3. have lost faith in a world that has not been kind to them. 4. the survivor in their duo. 5. blinded by own issues and/or seeing the Tsukihiko as being “the one good thing in the world” that they cannot see the Tsukihiko’s own struggles. 6. rude and clever.

Tsukihiko criteria: 1. outwardly cheerful, optimistic personality, a bit of an airhead also. 2. reaches out to the Azami, shows them that there is good in the world, that there is a future worth looking ahead to and people who care. 3. just as lonely/outcast. 4. the one in the duo who dies. 5. incredibly important character to the Azami’s story. This character may have their own story, but the Azami’s could not exist without them (in Manga Route 2, Shintaro did not meet Ayano but Haruka filled her role instead). end ID

anyways my theory is that its a mix of a) Jin cannot stop writing the depressed bitchy loner with no faith in the world or desire to be a part of it meeting a more cheerful character who has just as much reason to feel the same and maybe once did, or does deep down still, but who gives the first one a reason to enjoy life and then usually dies and b) KagePro is about things repeating, and there’s a reason Shinigami Record is told through the songs, manga, anime AND novels despite hardly changing:

Azami cannot accept that her husband (and daughter) will age and die and she does not, so she tries to create a world where they can live happily together, forever. She fails. Saeru takes advantage of her love and twists it to his own advantage. The Kagerou Daze is stuck open, pulling the rest of the cast in one after another. Kenjirou and Ayaka research the story of Azami and the Daze and their work results in Ayaka dying and Kenjirou left behind, unable to accept his wife’s death, and Saeru takes advantage of his love and twists it to his advantage.

Saeru’s manipulation of Kenjirou leads to the Yuukei Quartet’s involvement: Shintaro loses Ayano, Takane loses Haruka. Shintaro shuts himself off from the world, preferring to live in an illusion of the past than accept Ayano’s death. Takane & Hibiya, Hibiya & Momo AND Hiyori actually tbh, and Seto and Marry don’t fit as well but I think you still see parts of that cycle repeating with them. For Marry, after she leaves her cottage in the woods with Seto’s help, all of her friends become so precious to her that every time Saeru orchestrates a new tragedy she resets time to try again, and get them back. In the novel route she and Seto almost switch roles at the end, with her being the one to revive his hope like he did for her.

Azami and Kenjirou couldn’t cheat mortality and get their spouses back, but their children and grandchildren do win eventually.

#i should girlblog more. would u like that. theres like 400 of u here apparently follwiing me #im here because i should be writing a paper :]#kagepro #kagerou project

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jokusatsufics · 4 years

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider W Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gotou Shintarou/Izumi Shingo, Ankh/Gotou Shintarou/Hino Eiji, Satonaka Erika/Shirai Chiyoko Characters: Gotou Shintarou, Izumi Shingo, Ankh (Kamen Rider OOO), Hino Eiji, Izumi Hina, Shiraishi Chiyoko, Satonaka Erika, Philip (Kamen Rider W) Additional Tags: coffee shop AU, Gotou's poor gay heart cannot take all these hot guys, gay pining, there's several plots but Gotou doesn't know that Summary:

Shintaro Gotou has just been promoted to detective.

He's also just realized how unearthly hot his newly assigned partner is. And the new baristas at the cafe they frequent. How much hotness can one man stand?

#Kamen Rider OOO #Kamen Rider #Gotou Shintarou #Izumi Shingo #Hino Eiji

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stateofsport211 · 1 year

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Rome, GA Ch D R1: Daniel Cukierman/Joshua Paris [3] def. Shinji Hazawa/Shintaro Mochizuki 6-1, 6-0 mid-match stats (2nd set)

📸 ATP Challenger Livestream (via website)

A total demolition, and the stats did not bother to admit that. Despite having 2 double faults by the end of the match, Cukierman/J. Paris still managed to stay solid in their service games by scoring 2 aces and relied on their first serves in this dominance, winning 80% of their points from there. On the other hand, Hazawa/Mochizuki's second serves were the most vulnerable with winning only 27% of their points from there despite they did not double-faulting.

The return game supremacy also came from Cukierman/J. Paris as well, especially on how they finished their points with some beautiful winners and drove Hazawa/Mochizuki off the balance. This applied especially at the net, where J. Paris/Cukierman controlled the game and Mochizuki erred the most from, most notably. As a result, they had 11 opportunities to break compared to Hazawa/Mochizuki's 1 chance, signifying an almost flawless match in Cukierman/J. Paris' favor.

A more fun quarterfinal awaits as they will take on Mats Moraing/Aleksandar Vukic, who defeated wild cards Stefan Latinovic/Nick Watson 6-4, 6-4. Should be an exciting match to follow, knowing both pairs!

#atp world tour #atp tour #atp challenger #atp challenger tour #tennis updates #match stats #rome (georgia usa) challenger #georgia's rome tennis challenger #daniel cukierman #joshua paris #shintaro mochizuki #shinji hazawa #WatchChallengersFolks #ChallengerMatters #WatchMoreDOUBLES

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fuckyeahkagepro · 5 years

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ON KAGEPRO AGES “ISSUE”

THE 2014 ERA MAGAZINE ISSUE WITH THE MEKAKUCITY ACTORS CONFLICTING AGES CAME

AND WE WERE ALL GODDAMN RIGHT

GUESS WHO LITERALLY HAS AN AGE LISTED WHO WAS ALWAYS SHOWN AS “ ? ” BEFORE I DON’T HAVE IT SCANNED YET

BUT ENE / TAKANE * [BOTH ARE PICTURED!!] IS LITERALLY SHOWN BEING THE SAME CHRONOLOGICAL AGE AS “KONOHA” ( HARUKA !!!!! ) [HARUKA IS ALSO PICTURED / NAMED IN KONOHA’S INFO BOX] [WHICH ALSO PROVES THE AGE APPLIES TO HIM (HARUKA) MORE THAN IT DOES KONOHA (IMMORTAL)]

[*WE LITERALLY DON’T EVEN KNOW HER CANON BIRTHDAY SO WE HAVE NO WAY OF CONFIRMING THIS FOR SURE BUT]

AND THEN THE MEKATRIO THEY’RE LITERALLY ALL THREE DISPLAYED AS “ 17 ″ !!!!! WHEN THEY CAN’T ALL BE AT THE SAME TIME !!! BECAUSE THEIR BIRTHDAYS ARE: MAY [KANO] -> (AUGUST 15TH LOOPS) -> JANUARY [KIDO] -> MARCH [SETO] (*THE JAPANESE SCHOOL YEAR begins in April and ends in MARCH) [THE SERIES TAKES PLACE. AUGUST 15TH. IT’S NOT MARCH AGAIN YET]

AYANO IS SHOWN (AGAIN!!!) EXACTLY WITH THE CONFLICTING AGE OF “16″ (WHEN SHE DIED) (*THIS ISN’T CHRONOLOGICALLY) (SHE CAN’T BE 16 BECAUSE SHE HASN’T HAD HER LATE NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY YET SO SHE COULD ONLY BE 15 WHEN SHE DIED ALSO HER BIRTHDAY IS AFTER HIBIYA’S (HIS IS NOV 4TH]) SHINTARO IS SHOWN 18 EXACTLY (THE ONLY SEMI-”CORRECT” ONE TBH) (AND AS ASSUMED)

NOTE HOW IF AYANO’S AGE CONFLICTS WHILE BEING DISPLAYED “16 ″ WHO SAYS MOMO’S CAN’T BE BECAUSE MOMO HASN’T HAD HER BIRTHDAY YET (FEB 14TH) EITHER!! [SHE HAS TO MAKE IT PAST AUGUST 15TH TO REACH FEB 14TH] [JUST LIKE AYANO HAS TO IN ORDER TO BE 18 CHRONOLOGICALLY]

ALL THIS IN MIND HIBIYA LITERALLY HAS HIYORI DISPLAYED IN HIS SAME INFO BOX CONSIDERING HIYORI’S BIRTHDAY IS ALSO IN EARLY !! MARCH [3]

I THINK YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE I’M GOING WITH THIS

(*REFRAINING FROM MENITONING HIBIYAS EXACTLY UNTIL I CAN COMPILE LITERALLY ALL OF HIS OLD PROFILES WITH CONFLICTING AGES SO WE CAN FINALLY AND HOPEFULLY PUT THIS ISSUE TO REST THANK YOU VERY MUCH)

ALSO MARY IS STILL DISPLAYED CLEARLY HERE AS “140″ (BC SHE’S PART-IMMORTAL TOO / PART-MEDUSA) NOT “14″ THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVEN MCA ERA 2K14 INFO DIDN’T LIST HER AS “14″ (SO YOU KNOW) (YOU COULD BELIEVE JIN’S 2K15 TWEET ON THE MATTER INSTEAD WHERE SHE CLEARLY CHOOSES “17″ A.K.A “SAME AGE (RANGE) AS THE MEKATRIO”)

SCANS / PHOTOS COMING EVENTUALLY PLEASE STAND BY (I’M GOING TO TRY TO SCAN EVERY INFO BOX AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE)

#kagerou project #kagepro #takane enomoto #momo kisaragi #tsubomi kido #(I'M SCREAMING)#(I'M LITERALLY SCREAMING)#(I THOUGHT THIS THING GOT LOST IN THE MAIL I WAS HALF EXPECTING TO HAVE TO FILE A PAYPAL CLAIM)#(BUT YOU GUYS IT ARRIVED I'M HOLDING IT OH MY GOD)#(WE WERE GODDAMN RIGHT)#(THE JAPANESE TRANSLATOR WAS GODDAMN RIGHT)#(AND NONE OF YOU ALL BELIEVED IT)#(BECAUSE YOU'D RATHER DEBATE ABOUT ANIME CHARACTER AGES AND ATTACK PEOPLE OVER THEM)#(WELL GUESS WHAT)#(I'M GONNA SCAN ALL OF THESE)#(SO YOU CAN'T REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT ANYMORE)#(THANK. YOU. VERY. MUCH)#(AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE AS CLEAR SCANS AS I CAN POSSIBLY MAKE THEM AND MULTIPLE SHOTS)#(BECAUSE I'M TIRED. I'M SO TIRED)#(HIBIYA LITERALLY CAN'T BE NEWLY 11 WHEN MOMO'S 16 BECAUSE MOMO LITERALLY)#(HAS. NOT. HAD. HER. BIRTHDAY. YET. AND HIBIYA'S OLDER . THAN . HIYORI !!!!)#(SO YEAH WE WERE RIGHT)#(AND AFTER THIS I'M SO DONE)#(AND YOU ALL OWE ME $15 THANK YOU)#(EXCEPT NOT REALLY BC THE THINGS I DO FOR THIS FANDOM)#(BUT YEAH THAT $15 COULD HAVE PAID SHIPPING ON OTHER THINGS I WANTED)#(IT COULD HAVE GOTTEN ME STARBUCKS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD)#(I'M SORRY FOR SCREAMING I'M JUST SO TIRED AND HYPED AND DONE I'M LITERALLY FALLING OVER)#(BUT YOU GUYS WE LITERALLY HAD AN '' ''AGE'' '' FOR TAKANE AKA ENE THIS WHOLE FREAKING TIME !!!!!)#(EXCEPT WE DON'T STILL BC WE DON'T KNOW HER CANON BIRTHDAY AND THE AGES ISSUE !!!!!)

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enbykano-archive · 5 years

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some kagepro stuff from the yuukei roadshow

mostly done for myself cause i’m a dummy who likes to have a lot of bulletpoints in one place, all of these were taken from this post!

jin had the ending planned out from the beginning, so while he always wanted to add new characters, he couldn’t

when asked about a spinoff, jin said it’d be called “kagerou quest” or something similar

jin already seems to have ideas on the mkd as adults in terms of how they’re going to act and what jobs they’ll have.

kido would be a caretaker in/running an orphanage

hibiya will become an archaeologist, and might go abroad due to medusa apparently having their roots there

jin reckons that shintaro would be a teacher (or something similar)

he also jokingly said that “shintaro’s wife would be haruka-san”

momo would be an actress (and might also go overseas)

imaginary reload is meant to depict mary’s strength, and how she isn’t just there to be protected

remind blue has parts of summertime record that jin wasn’t able to write about

remind blue also was meant to be shintaro’s song, but it turned into something that applies to everyone (jin also mentioned that seto has his own remind blue, and that kano’s would be similar to his.)

the english version of “Wasurete Shimatta Natsu no Owari ni“ is “Fireworks in the Summer End“

jin wants to introduce new characters (possibly the children of the mkd?)

there’s a lot more but that’s all the stuff i wanted to point out! jin said gay rights

#if i see anyone tag this as a ship involving the mekatrio w each other im gonna :gun emoji:#also h*bim*mos dont interact either #kagepro #vam stop posting

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