#and to be unable to save her!!

[ambrosiagourmet]

I think one of the biggest tragedies of Laios & Falin and their relationship is how much his actions impact her life. But like. Specifically how much they WOULDN’T impact her life as much if they weren’t both stuck in such a shitty abusive situation.

This part of the Falin-tries-makeup daydream hour comic is what got me thinking about it again because truly it just... it seems like such a like an offhand comment that I'm sure Laios didn't mean to be cruel or anything. That's just like. A little kid not thinking about what they are saying. ESPECIALLY when the kid in question is Laios.

But man they depended on each other SO much as kids. Too much. It really feels like they didn't have any other source of positive reinforcement, or anyone else to share themselves with. So of course an offhand comment like that has a huge impact on Falin.

Or this little bit from one of the flashbacks:

This tears me apart. Do you think it tears him apart to think about? I think it does. I think Laios holds every small failure to care for Falin against himself.

And then there's the Bigger stuff. The way that him coping with his own trauma ended up impacting her.

Like his interest in monsters. Like him going to find a ghost, and accidentally revealing Falin's magic to the whole village in the process.

Like him needing to leave. And leaving her behind.

He shaped her life so much, and he carries so much guilt for it. And again, there should have been other people there to help. The same things that made Laios need to leave home are the things that made his leaving so hard on Falin. She ate alone after that. She shouldn't have had to eat alone just because Laios wasn't there.

She was 9 when he left for school, and he was 11.

Nine. And Laios feels like he failed her because he didn't stand by her through this better. As an eleven year old.

Both of these kids deserved so much better from the world.

#dunmeshi analysis #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #falin touden #laios touden #dungeon meshi spoilers #AND this isn't even getting into her leaving the academy & how much it seems like that was directly tied to how poorly he was doing #there's a comic in the adventurer's bible where marcille is like 'yeah she had a job lined up and everything' #and like. do you think he feels bad for that too #like he wrecked her life by leaving #and wrecked her life by showing up #what do you even do at that point. if you feel like a failed protector when you are away & and a burden when you return #unable to make yourself accept. unable to make yourself resist #Laios strongest moment is when he lets himself accept that. the contradiction of his life & his relationship with Falin #that he has to kill her to save her #as a small note this came out a little more focused on Laios' POV with this stuff but Falin's experience of it is v important to me too #didn't mean to sideline her but her feelings about stuff are more speculative and probably need a post of their own

[wavebiders]

The thing that really gets me about Wyll and Karlach is just how their bond is allowed to have the importance in their narratives that it has

I mean, in games like these the cast is always going to be centered around the pc. Sure, the relationships between other companions can be developed through party banter, commentary, or even cinematics, but at the end of the day everyone's most significant relationship is always going to be the player. That's the person who most affects them and where their story is going

With these two, it's not even that Tav isn't vitally important to them both, but it's meeting Karlach that changes Wyll's life one way or another. It's Wyll that's the first person to stick out his neck for Karlach, and sends her reeling. Their bond alone is enough to convince Karlach to go to Avernus and stay alive

It's a very bold choice to risk limiting the player's importance in order to drive home the connection between two characters, and I really appreciate Larian for going there

#and that bond is significant whether you see it as platonic or romantic #but this is very much why I do find myself shipping it despite not really caring about originxorigin ships as a whole #wyll ravengard #karlach cliffgate #wyllach #bg3 #gonna get a lil gushy about my own pt here but #it's fully Wyll who saved Karlach's life there #my Tav's character arc in large part about accepting death #she went from being unable to cope with the loss of her family to processing it and accepting it #she convinced Mayrina to let go of her husband #she didn't argue when Shadowheart let go of her parents and was even relieved at her choice #she was not going to stop Karlach from nlowing up in the end #she and I both accepted that Karlach was going to die #and then at the last moment Wyll comes in and he doesn't accept it #he offers to go to Avernus with her and protect her #and I just realized this wasn't about my Tav #this was about them #*chefs kiss*

[kaurwreck]

I think Dazai, while young, became attached to Natsume when Natsume was lonely and so was he (which is why he calls him Sensei in the Dark Era, like the protagonist in Kokoro); that Natsume brought Dazai to Mori after Dazai attempted suicide (which is why Dazai never touches him in Bar Lupin, why Natsume follows him from the Port Mafia to his meeting with Taneda and then to the Agency, why Dazai knows Natsume well enough to allude to his history to Tanizaki and to recieve the jump drive Natsume brings him in the Cannibalism arc— Dazai knows him); and that Natsume performed a partial skill transfer similar to Kyouka's mother to ensure it could not come that close ever again (and that's why Dazai is one of the few if not only touch/contact-based skill users whose is involuntary).

I think No Longer Human isn't merely nullification, I think (similar to how Bram's skill reverses death but through the framework of vampirism and Atsushi's slices skills and regenerates in addition to his transformations), there is more to Dazai's skill such that it precludes him from dying (which is why he can stand in front of a hail of bullets and be thrown by Chuuya through several buildings in the Port Mafia, why he can't seem to commit suicide successfully, why Kunikida and Chuuya remark on his preternatural inability to die, why Dazai says to both Atsushi and Fyodor with such certainty "you can't kill me," and, cheekily, why Kunikida tells Dazai in 55 Minutes "You're no longer human! You've lost that right!" when Dazai says he finally managed to die, however briefly).

I think Natsume's skill bends reality in the shape of the narrative structure over which he had such mastery and he decided that whoever he failed to snatch from the cyclical jaws of misery and suicide before (again, borrowing from Kokoro), he would not let this boy die; and how cruel that must have felt at first (which is why Dazai hates pain— he's been denied the easiest escape from it that he knows), but how reality bent to weave a narrative such that Dazai could be saved again and again in such a way that might shatter Koroko's inescapable loneliness (this is why, in 55 Minutes, it's implied HG Wells might not have existed, might have been an apparition from an earlier era, as if reality itself rippled space and time to reconjure someone who made sense to protect Dazai when it seemed unlikely anyone else could; why Akutagawa happened to have business there; why Akutagawa and Atsushi happened to cross paths).

It's well known that the titular cat in I Am a Cat is a calico. But, the story was based on Natsume's IRL cat, who was a black, striped cat. And aren't Dazai's bandages a little like stripes?

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bsd dazai #bsd natsume #bsd meta #It's utter nonsense #But it would fracture the cycle presented in Kokoro #the plot is nonsense and the power scaling is silly and the escapes from certain doom are ridiculous because reality bends to save dazai #but while protected #dazai is frozen and unable to move forward #not unlike sleeping beauty preserved in her coffin of glass #and its atsushi's tiger #his relentless tiger that never lets him stop #that drags him forward #and akutagawa whose ability can eat space and who relentlessly strives to progress forward #who will conclusively shatter the cycle of loneliness imprisoning the narrative #anyway #is it anymore ridiculous than the rest of the story #because i dont think it is

[bonefall]

do you have any plans for snaptooth or flywhisker, ever since I saw that fake map I've fallen in love w flywhisker lmao

You know, for the longest time I've been planning to have Snaptooth and Flywhisker be adopted kits of Toadstep and Lionblaze, but I'm writing an SE rework for Nightcloud right now and I have a temptation.

I found a good moment to send off Snapstorm, the best friend of Brushblaze, as a complication of a boar hunt gone wrong. It's right around the time that Brushblaze's kits are being born, and something feels odd about the fact he didn't name any of his kits after someone who was by his side for his entire life. SO I'm thinking about shuffling Snaptooth over to HIS litter.

Which leaves Flywhisker over in ThunderClan.

Lionblaze is the adopted father of Dovewing and Ivypool... and his terrible parenting caused Dovewing to leave ThunderClan, and Ivypool to be permanently traumatized. He breaks up his false mateship with Cinderheart to go be with the cat he really loves, Toadstep, and Flywhisker is adopted after being found abandoned.

Lionblaze's destruction of the ThunderClan family tree has been undone; so now he would only have three children. Ivy, Dove, and Fly. I like it, because Fly is growing up with all the expectations of being Firekin, but also holding the knowledge that her loving father... wasn't always the best, to her older sisters.

It would be cool if Fly was always a little bit of a rebel, and found a really good friend in WindClan. I could work her into the conflict of TBC better too, being accused of being in a HalfClan relationship when the truth is that Snaptooth is more like a brother to her. Then, of course, have them leave the Clans together.

Brushblaze's litter would be Snaptooth, Smokehaze, and Galerunner... and so, Galerunner would be left alone after his brother leaves permanently with Flywhisker.

But I'm still unsure. It's a big change, because I'd been planning for Fly and Snap to remain siblings in BB. But it does seem to work better, thinking about it...

#Especially since I didn't need BOTH Snap and Fly in that role #Fly can do everything with Twig and have all the complicated feelings all on her own #and something seems very painful about the idea that Lion put his heart and soul into spoiling his youngest daughter #desperate to make up for what he did to dove and ivy #...Only for him to be unable to save her from the Impostor's treatment. #Since he himself is a target for being halfclan #For Fly he did nothing wrong. He tried so hard. He thought he had improved and he did #and it wasn't enough... #And TOADSTEP meanwhile is going to be fucking PISSSSEDDDD #Because Thorn is dead. Spiderleg is taking his roles #And SPIDERLEG is who was causing the troubles that ultimately caused Fly to decide that she was going to leave with Snap #Once again his shitty dad is taking everything from him #Something about this feels like it works Better for Fly to be targeted by the imposter and also the only member of her litter #better bones au #BB!TBC #BB!Flywhisker #BB!Snaptooth

[protectoratenova07]

Something something Doctor Mother being the only person in a crowd of bystanders to try and stop a young girl from doing something dangerous. Even when the girl ignored her DM refused to leave the girl alone and followed, being the only one to help her kill the monster. How she believed the girl when she was told of the situation despite how insane it was. How she helped despite also being told how dangerous it was.

And how later, when another young woman puts herself in harms way to stop another monster, Contessa is given the same opprotunity as Doctor Mother. Another young woman who's power is messed up so that she can't find the path out. But this time Contessa can.

#parahumans #worm #contessa #doctor mother #taylor being there when doctor mother died #never knowing that she was once the kind of person she wanted in a teacher #doctor mother saving the world #and how high school is often seen as the whole world for stressed out kids #contessa and taylor at the end of it all #with taylor wanting to die after being unable to see a way out #but contessa wanted her to live and how she can always see the way out #taylor hebert

[imminent-danger-came]

Who you are and letting go!

#''now that I have only 30 days left do I really want to spend all that time chasing?'' Um. Rayla in part 3 of chasing shadows fuck me FUCK #''I've spent my whole life trying to become someone different'' FUCK #FUCK FUCK FUCK #The Viren and Rayla parallels are ruining me rn god dammit #Originally this was a post about Claudia and Callum unable to let go (which it still is) but now I'm like. Oh god #Viren and Rayla #cOinS #BREATHING #FALLING #REACHING #CHASING #WINGS SAVING HER TENDRILS SAVING HIM #Viren trying to save Claudia Rayla trying to save Callum #Don't touch me #tdp parallels #the dragon prince #tdp #tdp callum #tdp claudia #tdp rayla #tdp viren #tdp s3 #tdp s4 #this show is stupid I hate it (loves it so much I'm going to die from a bleeding heart)

[sapphire-weapon]

fucking Obsessed with the dialogue in the RE4make ending showcasing just how layered one sentence can be. when Leon turns down Ashley’s offer to put him on security detail, he’s not actually suggesting that the president’s fucking daughter doesn’t need security detail. there’s so damn much going on in that one line of dialogue alone.

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “I’m not even here under my own free will; there’s no chance in hell they’d transfer me. But even if there is the slightest possibility that you could actually help, I don’t want you to worry about it, so I won’t say anything.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “If I take my eyes off of bioterror for even a second, I’ll never be able to bring myself to go back. And I can’t afford to do that.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “Sherry needed me after we escaped together, and I’m pretty sure I fucked that up. I couldn’t bear to ruin the life of another tiny blonde girl.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “I’m probably fucking worthless outside of a life-and-death bioterror situation.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “The more you feel that you need me in order to cope with what’s happened to us here, the more you actually will need me, and I don’t want that for you.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “I genuinely believe you can heal from this and go on to live a normal life. I couldn’t.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “I wouldn’t have made it out of here without you, either.”

what he says: “You don’t need me.” what he means: “I’m so fucking proud of you.”

#resident evil #resident evil 4 #leon kennedy #ashley graham #meta analysis #*BANGS POTS AND PANS TOGETHER* #WHEN LEON SITS DOWN NEXT TO ASHLEY'S BED AT THE VERY END OF CHAPTER 13 AND CHECKS HIS GUN #HE'S MAKING SURE HE HAS A ROUND CHAMBERED TO KILL HIMSELF WITH IF HE STARTS TO TURN BEFORE SHE WAKES UP #BECAUSE EVEN IF HE CAN'T SAVE HER HE REFUSES TO LET HIMSELF HURT HER #(and some dumbass part of him probably hopes that if he were to kill himself maybe ada might actually do something to help ashley) #(but that's a different post for a different time) #ANYWAY THE POINT IS #if at any point he became unable to save ashley or if she were to have become unsaveable #leon would have eaten a fucking bullet #he was never going to leave without her #he needed her as much as she needed him #and her grit and her courage and her determination was what got him through #but he knows that they can't be together once they get home #because he doesn't want to complicate her life just by virtue of fucking being in it #because he wants her to be independent #and needs her to be Okay #and so they both have to find a way to move forward without the other #FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT LEON COURTED THE IDEA OF SUICIDE IN RE2 AND THOSE THOUGHTS NEVER EXACTLY WENT AWAY #wait that reminder isn't friendly at all #oh well

[grantwilsonenjoyer]

dndads spoilers

btw as of last ep sparrow has now canonically seen both lark AND rebecca 'die' in front of them. i am sure this will have no lasting consequences for her psychologically

#something something sparrow always being just a little too late to save her family #LISTEN i just really adore them i think about them constantly #dndads #dndads s2 spoilers #especially like.. obviously it is different b/c rebecca did seem 'actually' dead #but also if u think about the fight w/ barry / the homunculi it is like. lark and sparrow were 11 or 12 !!!! #you are 12 years old and a carbon copy of your brother (that also contains his soul!) dies in front of you i think there will be some issue #just a few maybe! #and also how sparrow was determined to fight for lark after he got hurt... how they were unable to do anything but watch as rebecca died :( #i am going to explode over this

[cavalier-prime]

So many people on here have like the worst fucking possible takes on tlt 😭😭 like did we read the same books!!!!!

#''ianthe is keeping coronabeth alive to do a huge necromantic act'' ARE YOU READING THE SAME BOOK I AM!!!!!! #like!!!! what the fuck!!!! #are you not seeing the themes?? are tou not understanding the lessons??? #are you not seeing the true horror???? that to love and be loved changes you in ways you cant control?? #that love owns you and ties you to someone irreparably? that touching something is also being touched by it? #WHY WOULD SHE BE SAVING HER FOR ONE HUGE NECTOMANTIC ACT YOU ARE SO STUPIDDDD YOU ARE SO STUPID #READ AND UNDERSTAND THE THEMES AND VALUES OF THE TEXT #MY. FUCKING. GOD THE READING COMPREHENSION ON THIS SITE #shes not saving her for death power. she's utterly unable to kill her you fucking idiot. #dont ever speak to me again #tlt #the locked tomb #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius

[akkivee]

For the next BAT audio drama I kinda hope they put Kuukou through the horrors, I love Kuukou and all but I want to know what the absolute fuck is his problem. I really hope we get to finally find out what happened to Mama Harai. What I think happened to Mama Harai is something involving the ocean, I always found it ironic that Kuukou dislikes the ocean considering where he lives so I thought maybe that has to do with Mama Harai not being around.

all i want is for kuukou to have fun and live life but yeah, we have reached the point where it’ll be straight bizarre if we don’t get his backstory lol. kuukou enjoying nature to the point he takes solace in it but dislikes the ocean is soooo telling

and so i hope it’s mama harai too lol!!!!! whether the drama is she gave kuukou a reason to hate the ocean, or is the reason he hates smoking and alcohol, or is the reason he naturally turns to self sacrifice, or all of the above!!!!! i would like to know lol!!!!!

#vee got an ask #i saw a post that mentioned hypmic likes to make their very obvious soulmates the same age #with rosasa and dohifu being quite literally in your face lol and you look at them with their similar goals and experiences #and turn to ichiro and kuukou who are also the same age and have been called soulmates in the stage and it makes you wonder lol #we just found out mama yamada is still alive and is likely going to be a source of conflict in some capacity for ichiro down the road #with rosasa dual dealing with rei shit and dohifu dual dealing with honobono #it makes me wonder if ichikuu will be dual dealing with mommy drama lol #idk whether to assume she’s alive and left kuukou or she’s dead #and that’s mostly bc nemu is also 19 and her mother died by su*cide after protecting her kids #which is something i’ve been wondering about kuukou’s self sacrifice as a skewed version of su*cide this is a whole thought process lmao #but ichiro being shaken by sacrifice likely bc of his mom and kuukou very willing to stake his life on the line may also stem from his mom #and that tells me she’s probably not alive #which would make sense since the most pivotal people in bat’s lives are also not alive lol 😭😭😭 #like big fear for me is that she couldn’t stand temple life and drowned herself in the ocean #and kuukou with his uncanny ability to be in the right place watched it happen unable to save her and almost died himself trying #i have questions lol!!!!!! it’d be nice if i finally got SOME answers!!!!!!!!!!!

[warningsine]

The girls are fighting

#girls5eva #video #summer being the only one unable to hurl insults @ the others. trying to stop the on air fight and then going 'you're too pretty' angrily. #also saving the tour after everyone shouts at her. <3

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

only thing i want from the centenary is for the doctor to Get Mad. out of her mind. off her last hinge. i want 10 in end of time 2 levels of meltdown and self-pity. 12 in face the raven levels of irrational and desperate.

i want her to become so unrepentantly and shortsightedly selfish shes not even trying to hide that her first priority isnt saving the world anymore. i want the rest of the team to be working around her bc shes not a player anymore. i want them to need all these highly experienced Savers Of The World bc theyre trying to do the work of The Doctor while the doctor clocked out and has no duty of anything anymore. complete loose canon. completely true neutral. only guiding principle left is YAZ. cant be counted on to help save the world and cant be expected not to get in the way.

i want her to Not be able to snap out of it herself (like 10) or herself-via-companion (like 12). i want them to need both the master And yaz in tandem to get her anywhere near able to listen to anyone again. and it will only be them. it will only be yaz and the master she will listen to. because he knows her past and she knows her present.

i want all the humans who learnt from the doctor to save the world and i want the doctor to snap in half like a glowstick and fucking explode. The Doctor to Unbecome.

and then i want to see 14 try to put themselves back together again after they tore themselves apart. 12 reached Peak Doctor. 13 must reach the bottom. how deep can we dig until it’s not the doctor anymore. what is the ground the well springs from.

#i want to see BLOOD #i want her to give up the reins completely #i want her ability to care for herself to plummet so low it takes her ability to care for anyone else with it #i want everyone - but EVERYONE including herself including everyone there including all of us - to be unable to believe inthe façade anymore #for just a moment i want it to shatter completely #i want to feel like there is no ground #i want to feel like 'wait. who is our most beloved show based on? who do we follow?' #i want her identity crisis to be so profound she takes the entire show and us down with it #Doctor Who #and i want yaz with help of the master to save the day - doctor who #thats what i want #thats not what we'll get i expect #but i had a fun half hour imagining it so

[e-vultures]

what's gayer. being gay or the way mina murray writes about lucy westenra

#dracula daily #feeling genuine emotions abt them :'( they're so tender...... #I love romances doomed from the beginning I love ultimately being unable to save the one you love I love pain and suffering and agonyyy y y #lucy westenra #mina harker #creaking #dracula spoilers #not. mostly. but just in case #*MURRAY I forgot her last name T-T

[gayofthefae]

Mike is not going to not reciprocate Will's feelings because that would put him in a position where he is helpless to make Will happy or avoid making him somewhat sad and Mike's arc culminating in helplessness is a betrayal to him too.

No action or event is inconsequential to a character's arc, so Mike not being able to reciprocate would make him helpless. Every new angle I think of "no Byler endgame", I had a shattered happy ending to the pile.

#stranger things #character arcs #byler #byler evidence #mike wheeler #that's like making nancy be unable to save someone #we've been there it's the whole issue her arc is trying to HEAL from #the wheelers and their feelings of helplessness

[comixandco]

i think something people forget about pink diamond is that she had compassion for life long before she went to earth

the pebbles assume steven is pink not because of his gem or aura but just because he says ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ to them, a basic common courtesy that nobody else has given them in thousands of years

in steven’s pink visions, blue is yelling at pink about the little bugs she let loose on homeworld. when one of them is found in her cell, she is quick to check it’s okay before helping it out of the room. even before encountering humans she valued organic life.

even the garden, the setting of pink’s cruellest moment, is proof of her care for organic life. Unlike every other part of homeworld, the garden is teeming with plant-life, which was kept healthy enough that it continued to grow even after pink abandoned it. the only other homeworld structure that tends to organic life is the human zoo. who’s to say the garden wasn’t another attempt by the other diamonds to placate pink after she expressed concern for the life on one of their colonies? or maybe pink picked the plants herself from the many different colonies she visited and grew them there.

pink wasn’t perfect. she had a bad habit of acting on her emotions and impulses without considering the consequences of her actions, and she hurt a lot of people because of it. but she considered all life precious and worth protecting, it just wasn’t until she had a colony of her own that she fully understood that the expansion of homeworld was intrinsically linked to the destruction of life, and the moment she realised that is the moment she stood against it.

#steven universe #su pink diamond #this post is almost 5 years too late lol #like padparadscha by the time my thoughts have found their way from my brain to my mouth the moment is long gone #but a hot take is a hot take even if it’s been in a slow cooker #i just think people are sleeping on the pebbles and the scene with the little rainbow catipillar #there always seemed to be a sentiment that pink was an inherently cruel person and that she didn’t care about anything before earth? #and that her care for life was either superficial or out of left field #but something my brain keeps rotating round is that she was always like this she always cared for other life forms but never took them #seriously. she always cared about them but never really paid close attention to how they were. and it was something she learnt off of the #other diamonds who treated her exactly the same as she treated everybody else. they loved her but they didn’t understand her and they #never made an effort to change that. and they never thought about how their actions made her feel or whether she was responding to their #own outbursts and emotions. and she never considered how her actions would make other people feel. #she didn’t think how her screaming would hurt volleyball until it happened. she didn’t consider how all-encompassing her orders to spinel #and pearl and potentially garnet were. she didn’t think about how spinel would be hurt by being left behind and quite frankly i do think #she completely forgot spinel existed once she became preoccupied with saving earth which is horrible but also makes total sense for her #character who from creation was taught that other gems were worth less than her and that they existed only to serve her or her fellow #diamonds; and as somebody who was used to the concept of being left behind and abandoned whenever the people she cared about got bored #or annoyed with her. it hurts but it’s a part of life to her. what she didn’t consider js that her words are law and she left spinel with #no free-will. she left pearl physically unable to share important information and solve the problems she left behind. #and she doesn’t consider how her death will make others feel - she doesn’t think the diamonds will care that she dies but they do and they #murder all of her friends except for two. she thinks the crystal gems will be fine without her if she says goodbye to become steven but #they aren’t and a good portion of the show is about the gems grief and how it creates an unstable environment for steven to grow up in #consistently pink diamond was taught her feelings didn’t matter and was made to feel nobody cared about her if they weren’t compelled to #and that compiled with the privileged position she was formed into made her an insecure spoiled brat who had no comprehension that her #choices could hurt people around her #did she ever even consider that the diamonds were grieving her? or did she think it was just another action of violence to exert control? #i don’t think i’ll ever be over pink diamond #funnily enough steven has a similar problem e.g. sadie’s talent show and when connie was upset he gave himself up to homeworld #but that’s a discussion for when i’m not at tag limit lol

[darklight-owl]

"How has Layton not snapped from all the trauma" because his story is that of grief and acceptance. He's known pain and has suffered from it but after many years he learned to move on because life will continue whether he wants it to or not so he may as well make the most of it. He carries the painful memories with him but is also capable of seeing the beauty in life. He cries for his loved ones who have died but appreciates the people he has in his life now. Layton is an amazing character BECAUSE he hasn't snapped.

#OH AND THIS DOESN'T MEAN HE DOESN'T MOURN BTW LOOK AT HIS FACE TALKING ABOUT RANDALL IN MM LOOK AT LITERALLY ALL OF UNWOUND FUTURE #he feels his feelings i love him #speaking of UF I think that game rlly drives home the point I'm trying to make here #he's a good parallel to Clive who spent 10 fucking years making an expensive revenge plan #and Dimitri who worked tirelessly to keep Claire in the present despite her telling him like #'bitch if you try this again you're gonna kill even more people let it go' #you can argue Dimitri's case and say all he wanted was to save her life which is fair #but ultimately it's presented as him being unable to move on #and I think if it had been Layton he would have also tried to save her at first but would have listened to Claire when she told him to stop #professor layton #hershel layton #professor layton and the unwound future #professor layton and the lost future #professor layton and the miracle mask #professor layton and the azran legacy #i haven't even touched Azran Legacy btw i'm going off UF and MM