#also not entirely sure who derp crew is

[ursifors]

the derp crew is already part of rt, they're like an affiliate iirc

yeah but affiliate isnt official ah member who will go to work in the office when it reopens and be in gtas and gmods and lets rolls and be part of the main roster which is what i want

#also not entirely sure who derp crew is #i only know chilled #ask

[fahcandall]

Fictober 3 (FAHC)

Fictober: "you did this?"

AH Promptober: Skyline

Fandom: Roosterteeth/Achievement Hunter (FAHC), The Derp Crew

Characters: Jeremy Dooley, Geoff Ramsey, Anthony|Chilled Chaos, Michael Jones, Fiona Nova, Gavin Free, Jack Pattillo, Lindsay Jones

Rating: Gen

Warnings: n/a

Part 3 of what has apparently turned into one consecutive storyline so far in these prompts, but I think my introduction of Chilled into this universe is complete at this point, so we’ll see where tomorrow’s prompt takes me. 

"A free man again," Michael said with a sharp grin, stretching his hands over his head. "Finally." 

"You're telling me." Fiona added. "I've literally never been kept in one place for that long in my entire life. What should we do, now that we're out?"

They caught sight of Lindsay, Gavin, and Jack waiting beside a car and took off toward them quickly. Behind them, Geoff and Jeremy stood just outside the doors of the courthouse. 

"So, you did this? Got us out?" Geoff asked. Jeremy shook his head.

"Not really. It was mostly Anthony, all I did was ask him." Jeremy nodded to the lawyer coming through the doors behind them. Geoff turned to face him, fixing him with the same considering look he had aimed at Jeremy. 

"Chaos. Thank you again."

"Oh, don't worry about it, it was fun." Anthony grinned. "Also, just call me Anthony. Chaos is for business."  Geoff raised his eyebrows at that, and Jeremy couldn't help but laugh. Anthony just grinned widely. 

"And if I wanted to talk business with you?" Geoff asked after a second, turning so they started walking as they talked. 

"Not even off the courthouse stairs, Geoff?" Jeremy joked. 

"Well, I'm a free man cleared of all the," Geoff paused for suspense, a small grin on his face. "baseless charges against me, due to your excellent work, Anthony. I think you've proven just how useful having you on my team permanently would be."

"That's certainly a high complement coming from Geoff Ramsey, such a well known figure in the world of totally legitimate business." Anthony said, grinning back. "Unfortunately, I have my own business interests, and I'm not looking to merge into another organization at this time."

Jeremy shook his head beside them. 

"Look, I know you two are having fun here, but your word games are going to give me a headache. Actually go somewhere other than the steps of the courthouse if you want to talk about this? We just got you out, Geoff."

"This isn't an illegal discussion!" Geoff said, way too loudly for where they were standing. Jeremy put his head in his palm. “And, you like word games!”

“Not to the level Anthony does.” Jeremy grumbled.

"You know, technically, Jeremy, we're not on the steps of the courthouse anymore so…"

"Nope! No way! There's the lawyer in you," Jeremy pointed toward Anthony's face. "and this is not the time for it!" Anthony started laughing and even Geoff grinned. 

"Well, if you aren't interested, I won't push you." Geoff said,going back to his discussion with Anthony and holding up his hands. "I know my business isn't for everyone."

"I'm not saying I'm not open to a working relationship, this really has been fun. Expanding my business a bit with the right help might be just as fun." Anthony said. "But I like to do things my own way. And I've got my own people to look after." 

"Hurry up already!" Michael interrupted, yelling from the car, still a ways down the street. 

"Yeah we're gonna go eat junk food up on Chiliad!" Fiona added. "Look at the skyline and feel mushy about not being in jail anymore!" 

"You're welcome to join us if you'd like." Geoff offered Anthony after a second of watching them. "Since you're responsible for releasing us on the public again. Maybe there's something we can do for you in return?"

"Yeah man," Jeremy said. "Come hang out a bit."

Anthony grinned, meeting Jeremy's eyes. 

"Alright then. But you don't have to worry about doing anything for me. Jeremy's already promised me a favor for my help." 

"Ooh." Geoff said with a look between them. 

"Oh, don't tell him that Anthony, now he's just gonna stir up shit."

"Hey, is that any way to speak to your boss? A little time locked in jail and the whole crew starts forgetting who's in charge around here." Geoff grumbled but he had a smile on his face as they reached the others. "Alright, let's go then. Not sure why our first activity is to go sit on a mountain but let's go take a look at our city I guess. Tomorrow we can start reminding it who we really are."

"Didn't I just get that case about who you really are thrown out? And you're already changing your story?" Anthony threw up his hands like he couldn't understand it, but his face said otherwise.

#fictober20 #ah promptober 2020 #ah #achievement hunter #FAHC #fake ah crew #derp crew #rpf #writing #mine

[saanphoenix]

Finally seen Prometheus. Here’s some of my thoughts regarding it:

Very pretty. Very, very pretty. Oh, look, a spaceship. Nana, stop looking at your phone and look at the goddamn spaceship.

You can immediately tell David’s an android and I like that. I like that you’re just like, “This guy watches movies and eats and drinks and dyes his hair and watches movies while the entire crew is at his mercy.”

Despite being at his mercy, they nonstop remind him that he’s a robot. Every time they do, he gets pissed off. He’s disgusted once again by his “creators.” I was waiting for the point where he snapped and went, “I FUCKING KNOW I’M A ROBOT, OKAY?!”

My grandmother squinting suspiciously at David because she knew something was up with him, she just couldn’t quite pinpoint it. Also, her constant comments of, “D’ya think we’ll ever get there? To that level of space travel?” Some new tech is introduced. “But d’ya think--”

Knowing that David is getting orders from somewhere and that’s why he keeps poking shit and ignoring Shaw, because Shaw isn’t his master. Like, even if he had a problem with what he was doing, which he didn’t, because he fucking hates people who shit on him all the time, aka the crew but Shaw, he couldn’t do shit about that because he has to obey Weyland. He just has to.

While David has an excuse for touching literally anything and everything in an attempt to figure out what it is and if it’s useful to Weyland-Yutani, why the piss does the entire crew go, “Herp derp, lemme just poke this snake looking creature. What could go wrong?” Better yet, “Oh, we can breathe this air. Let’s take off our helmets. What are air born viruses, bacteria, pathogens, etc.?” I don’t care if you’re a fuckin’ geologist, Fifield, you should have common sense. But you don’t. And now you’re a zombie.

Halloway was a grade A dick and I’m not surprised David, when told to “try harder” to get results by Weyland, decided to experiment on him out of a crew of 17.

“Oh, no, you have an alien fetus growing inside of you, Shaw. The horror. Whatever shall you do?” *stabs with tranquilzer* “The humanity of it all.” *fucking leaves* David’s just doing his job. He’s as lifeless as beaten down retail workers.

Elizabeth Shaw don’t give no fucks. She’ll smack the fuck outta ya with a fire extinguisher and cut the bastard out of her uterus herself. To hell with all y’all.

My grandmother’s face when the alien was removed from Shaw: Priceless.

And that’s when David starts giving a shit about Shaw. She’s just like, “Fuck this, fuck you, fuck the Engineers,” and David feels that. He feels that hardcore.

Poor David. He was having so much fun learning about space and shit in the pilot’s room of the alien space ship...only for the Engineer to later rip his head off, smack Weyland with it, and attempt to murder Earth. And what’s more hilarious is that, in the extended scene, David goes, “I’m sorry,” to Weyland as he bounces along the floor. I’m so sorry my head was used to bash yours in. Except I’m not, really. I’ve just been stuck in sarcasm mode for so long... Happy trails, you old fart. Elizabeth. Hey, Elizabeth! Mind saving me? Sorry about killing your husband. Weyland made me do it. Orders, y’know? I had to kill somebody and your husband was just a Grade A dick. I had no choice!

Meanwhile, Elizabeth: AAAAAAAH! *runs in a straight line from a rolling spaceship*

My grandmother’s response to David losing his head: “D: He ripped his head off!” Followed by, “His head still works?!”

Vickers also runs in a straight line, only she doesn’t know how to roll to the side, thus she is now a pancake. She won’t be missed. Especially not by Elizabeth, as she’s the one who roasted Ellie’s husband with a flamethrower.

David: No, seriously, Lizzie, I know we’ve had our differences but there’s more ships here. We can leave! I know how to work them. Please put my head back on my body. You’re the only one who laughed at my jokes. Save me.

Shaw: Fuck it. Alright. I have a bone to pick with the Engineers. David: ...I mean, yeah, sure. We could go there, too. Why not? What could go wrong? Alien: Covenant

Overall, I enjoyed it. Don’t know why people bitched about it so much.

#spersonal #long post

[anonymouscrocodilefan]

Leadership Styles and Law (”Law is an INTP” revisited)

Haha what this is a Croco blog, why am I talking about Law after months of silence.

To be honest? Because this past year of developments in the manga has left me feeling REALLY vindicated about my reads on characters again. I am terrible at predicting Oda, but my track record at interpreting and analyzing his subtext ain’t too shabby. My read on Sanji, frex. Also, I actually REALLY regret not talking about Viola in depth before now – I mentioned her in passing in at least one post I published, but really regret relegating my thoughts on her relationship with Doffy to “ah this is crack I’m reading too much into this and no one cares anyway right?” Because one recent SBS more or less confirmed what I’d been thinking about there – and why I found her character very very fascinating in context, despite her being fairly low on my list of “characters I like”. Maybe I should still put together a writeup on that at some point.

But I digress.

Just as this past Year of Sanji has more or less borne out my thoughts on Sanji (despite his intelligence, spy hijinks, and capacity for trickery, he is not a calculating rational type of person as some people kept insisting, but a Myers-Briggs Feeling type who deeply values interpersonal relationships above all else, for better or for worse)... towards the end of Zou there was one particular chapter that made me feel SUPER pleased about my read on Law.

Specifically, my opinion that he is an INTP, despite the fact that he doesn’t fit into any of the cliched, stereotypical images of INTPs. (And the fact that I saw a fair amount of people complaining about the apparent inconsistency between his pre-timeskip personality vs. his post-timeskip personality.)

I wrote about that in this post: http://anonymouscrocodilefan.tumblr.com/post/135651487781/one-piece-mbti-allies-introverted

Mainly in that post I talked in generalities about his relationships and his plotting style and how they related to the cognitive functions (read up on them if you’re not sure what I’m talking about, but the four abbreviated letters aren’t just binary labels).

Chapter 819 though, made me giggle so much, because Law’s behavior through that entire sequence (throughout all of Zou, really) is basically THE ultimate giveaway of his INTP-ness.

Disclaimer: As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’m an INTP myself (if it wasn’t already obvious from all my tl;dr analysis). Whether this fact biases me towards or against this interpretation of Law is up to you – but I will add that I originally only grew confident in my assessment after we saw our first glimpse in text of child!Law.

Preliminary note: throughout the Zou arc, Law very noticeably retreated into the background. He was off-screened for many chapters (for good reason). But hilariously, even when he was ON screen... he was often deliberately blocked out by word bubbles or just a silhouette in the distance. This despite the fact that he is technically the other major leader of the alliance...

Guess what? INTPs hate to lead. We’ll do it if we have to and depending on the individual we might even do a decent job of it. (Yes, introverts can hold leadership positions.) But we’d rather not, all in all. So was I surprised at Law backing off? Nope, not at all. In fact, I’d expected it. (And it’s not like hiding/fading isn’t “normal” behavior for him – he owns a submarine, ya know.)

1. What Law is most definitely NOT:

- an ISTJ. He’s contrasted directly with Drake in his own flashbacks, even. If he were a dutiful ISTJ sort who believed in the system despite everything he’d gone through, Law would’ve been in the perfect position to join the Marines the way Drake did. I mean, kid wasn’t stupid. He knew who Cora really was. He let Cora lie to him because he wanted to believe in the lie, but he clearly wasn’t fooled.

More importantly, an ISTJ leader (they’re one of the more common introvert leader types due to their dutiful nature) tends to be more anchored by a strong sense of responsibility. No ISTJ leader would have EVER run off to pursue their own personal agenda the way Law did (it’s even made explicit that Law never expected to see his crew again). And it’s not like Law doesn’t care, doesn’t love his crew – he very clearly does. But he simply doesn’t feel that sort of obligation toward them. Hell, he can’t even be bothered to introduce them properly. XD

In fact, we need look no further than Jinbe for a classic ISTJ leader, torn between his various conflicting duties and obligations and his own personal desires. Completely different from Law.

- an INTJ. An INTJ is characterized by meticulous long-term planning – which I have already pointed out in the previous post, doesn’t actually characterize Law and his ability to be spontaneous, as well as the specific ways his plans fall short.

Again, it’s also interesting to consider leadership styles. I do believe INTJs & INTPs are closer in that regard (most of us aren’t interested in being “leaders”, but INTJs are more likely to have ambitions that involve being thrust into such positions), but perhaps the best point of comparison is INTJ Croco.

Because you know what more “developed” and/or ambitious INTJs are good at that INTPs definitely aren’t? PR. XD

Croco played up that heroic public persona of his for more than twenty fucking years. And is obviously a man very much concerned with keeping up appearances, even during a fucking prison escape of all things XD. Law? Law has a TERRIBLE public rep, what with his coldblooded heart-swapping and whatnot. He doesn’t care what the public thinks, he doesn’t think it matters (from his experience, it’s all a lie anyway). He doesn’t consider that public perception can be used as a weapon – or rather, he definitely does, but I don’t think he understood the full extent of it. See also: everything he tried to pull off wrt Doflamingo (his goal had not been so much undermining Doffy’s “public” reputation, but Doffy’s position in the underworld – had he taken the former into account, I think he would have perhaps not been so blindsided by what ended up happening).

And then there’s Marineford to consider: time and time again Croco decides to step up to the plate – towards the end, he even briefly takes on the mantle of leadership when all the WB pirates are despairing. INTJs definitely have more of an assertive tendency (compared to INTPs). Law? Even then he was a “wait and see” sort of person. He’s explicitly the one Supernova who delays entry into the New World – a pretty INTP thing to do, btw. We’re perfectly capable of being risktakers and making spur of the moment decisions, but ultimately, passivity (out of a desire to keep gathering more info) is more likely to be our downfall.

- an ISTP: If an INTJ is characterized by too much plotting, I guess it’s arguable that an ISTP is characterized by too little. XD (Zoro is the classic example: ACT FIRST THINK LATER.)

ISTP leaders though... ISTPs are again actually fairly close to INTPs – lone wolf tendencies mean that you rarely actually see them in true leadership positions, although they’re capable of it (Zoro). IMO the main difference though is that an ISTP will tend to lead by example and decisive action. An INTP has ideas about what should be done but isn’t going to go out of their way to make sure those ideas are enforced. See again the same scene I referenced when discussing ISTJs. XD

(Note that he doesn’t actually explicitly forbid them from introducing themselves. XD)

2. Seriously though, having achieved his major life goal, post-Dressrosa Law doesn’t really care that much about leading. He’s perfectly content to cede control to Luffy... and even to Zoro. He speaks up only to clarify what he’ll personally do/contribute to the task at hand or to ask about things he’s interested in (even then he doesn’t always ask, we sometimes see panels where he’s just reacting silently), never to suggest a course of action (it even takes outside prompting for him to remember that he has Bepo’s Vivre Card... yep, that’s an INTP derp moment all right – it’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that our brains don’t prioritize like that).

This is to the extent that he’s even blatantly shocked when Kin’emon includes him in his request for alliance in Chapter 819:

(Who, me?!)

Hahaha, I hadn’t even noticed that on my first readthrough, but when I later went back to read the chapter I found it hilarious (yeah, I know, it’s not THAT funny, fairly normal/subdued reaction, even Luffy had a bit of a surprised look, but still – this IS Law’s freakout face, he has pretty much the exact same expression in the previous chapter when the big reveal about the Kouzuki relationship to poneglyphs* is made and everyone else’s jaw is dropping, and a similar expression when he hears about Kaidou’s direct involvement with Momo & co, and an earlier omgwtf face when Raizou shows off his ninja techs...). I mean, it’s kind of a given that Law should be addressed for a major decision like this as well, but it’s like Law expects everything to just go through Luffy from now on... XD

* For the record, I wonder what else Law knows that he’s not telling anyone. He reacted suspiciously to two things that I recall during this arc: Momo’s ability to hear the voice (chapter 817) and to the poneglyph info... after Dressrosa it had seemed that his knowledge of “D” came solely from Corazon (disappointing everyone still waiting on his pre-timeskip quote to bear fruit), but we’ve been getting hints again that he actually has picked up some more info on his own since then.

3. But wait, you say. Doesn’t Law complain about this exact issue immediately after that???

[… After pretty much everyone else has already agreed to the deal.]

(Some other translations made it more explicit; this one is closer to the more subtle needling of the original text, but the implication given the context is that he’s grouchy over Luffy not bothering to consult him regarding major decisions, like, ever [i.e. “He cares more about an eight-year-old’s opinion than about mine!111”].)

Well, yeah. But see, it’s a semantics thing. XD A matter of principle. And trust me, for INTPs, semantics is Serious Business. Even Kin’emon took the time to acknowledge Law’s ostensible position. Luffy though... Law is WELL aware by now what Luffy’s idea of an “alliance” means, and he still does not approve. XD

That’s what he’s all pissy about. The fact that Luffy just assumes everyone is buddy-buddy and will therefore just go along with everything without question. (“That’s not the way this works!”)

(Luffy’s not wrong though. If Law really had a problem with it, he could have and no doubt would have spoken up much earlier. XD Luffy just instinctively has a good read on Law’s personality, LOL.)

As further proof, just a few pages later we have this:

Yep. Semantics. XD

Does it really bother him that he’s getting no say in any of this? Nah. As long as there’s some sort of plan going on and it’s not completely absurd (… not always a guarantee with Luffy involved), he doesn’t really care. He’ll do his part (while holding his cards close to his chest), and trust that the others will do theirs. Very hands-off, very self-contained. Very much an INTP approach to leadership.

Even so: there’s a difference between alliance and friendship, and IT MATTERS. XD

#one piece #trafalgar law #zou arc #heart pirates #one piece meta #character analysis