Okay, but I’m thinking about the reader in your poly SatoSugu getting kidnapped and all they say to there captor is “You’re wasting your time. They’re not coming for me as long as they have each other”
and they won’t come, not a chance. just the possibility of them losing each other far outweighs the loss of you. getou would want to come and save you, but depending on the severity of the situation and the strength of whoever kidnapped you, gojo would absolutely refuse to let him go.
and gojo could do it, he’s the strongest after all, but…does he really want to? does he want to keep sharing getou? he had only agreed bc getou had been so enamored with you, and gojo would rather allow you to have a bit of him rather than all, but if you were out of the picture…if he told getou that he had tried to get you back but it was too late…if your captor had already killed you, and nearly killed him, too…
then he could finally have getou all to himself again.
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all of the batkids have put on the Batman suit. all of them have, at one point or another, thrown on the cowl and the tool belt and headed out on patrol. Dick, obviously, has done it the most, followed by Steph when there's a pinch and Duke if Steph's on a different assignment. Tim prefers not to do it but has been known to, under duress. even Damian has, just once, and nobody knows where that tiny suit came from or what he did with it after Alfred dragged his ass home. all of them have posed as Batman in a time when the city needed them.
except Jason.
Jason never puts on the cowl. this is, to everyone in the cave, self explanatory. his relationship with Bruce is too fraught, and even if it wasn't he still wouldn't want to take up the mantle of Batman, even for one night. the memories it holds are too painful for him. some days he can barely stand to look at it. some days it is a raw, open, festering wound. it hurts, and he should probably be going to therapy.
but Jason also loves to be a little shit. and sometimes being a little shit outweighs what could be strictly considered as good for him. mentally or physically.
so when Bruce wakes up from a medically induced two-day coma after being shot several times to a grainy cell phone video clip of the Batman making a your mom joke, he assumes it's a spoof, a viral video from whatever social media platform dictates kids' humor these days. then, as the news station plays the whole video and he watches himself not only make this your mom joke but cuss out the Joker and Lex Luthor, let out a three-second-long burp, and go on a rant about people blocking the aisles in stores, a rant he knows he has given in the manor to whoever happened to be in the room when he got back from holiday shopping, he realizes it's one of his kids.
the lighting in the video is poor and whoever's holding the phone has done a terrible job of keeping it still, perhaps not wanting to be caught videoing the Batman, so he has no idea which kid it is. needless to say, the discussion he has fifteen minutes later, after he's rounded them all up personally and hauled them down to the cave before Alfred notices he's gone, is not a kind one. the words "responsibility" and "decorum" come up a lot, as well as the phrase "respect the cowl." his kids deny involvement, point fingers at each other, and in all other ways try to absolve themselves of guilt, but he can see it in their eyes that they know who the culprit was. he grounds all of them and takes away dessert privileges.
grounds all of them but Jason. when this unfairness is pointed out in the heat of the moment by Tim, who apparently is on one of what Dick likes to call his "gives no shits" benders, Bruce just pins him with a stare until he shrinks and mumbles, "never mind. sorry." even Duke scoffs at him, just a little. the idea is laughable. there's no way in hell Jason would do this, not even to cause chaos.
Jason watches from the corner, valiantly keeping a straight face. yes, he absolutely would do this if it means causing chaos. his siblings have gotten too comfortable recently. somebody's gotta keep them on their toes.
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All jokes and world domination plans aside though it’s legitamately so slimy and just plain mean of Fukuchi to keep playing on as Fukuzawa’s closest friend for decades after the War.
It was unnecessary-he could’ve just politely cut their friendship after the War and carried on establishing the Hunting Dogs in silence but Fukuchi made a deliberate choice in stringing Fukuzawa along, believing that he could still be trusted, then not only stabbing him in the back in the worst way possible but also insinuating that its all Fukuzawa’s fault for not going to war and trusting his ‘friend’ of 20+ years
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Thinking about Seo Dongjae’s arc and how Lee Changjoon factors into it.
Spoilers for both seasons of Stranger under the cut.
Both came from similar backgrounds in that they were ‘disadvantaged’ compared to their peers. Lee Changjoon didn’t come from a family as wealthy as the chaebols and Lee Yeonjae is explicitly said to have married ‘down’ when she married him instead of Kim Byunghyun. Seo Dongjae meanwhile wasn’t an alumni of a prestigious university and so doesn’t have the same connections as many of his colleagues. This pushes them both in different ways. Dongjae towards latching onto the nearest person he thinks he can use to give him a leg up. Changjoon towards the murky business of Hanjo and his father-in-law.
As season 1 progresses, Dongjae and Changjoon become more distant. We’re told that they used to be closer and have been growing apart over the course of the early episodes as Dongjae’s suspicion of his boss grows. Dongjae is still an opportunist though and so he returns back under Changjoon when given the chance. Ultimately, survival is what matters most for him and if it’s playing all sides that keeps him from being arrested that’s just what he’ll do.
Changjoon took Dongjae on to be his employee on the condition he stay away from Hanjo and his father-in-law. In retrospect, I’m inclined to believe this was his way of protecting Dongjae from their influence rather than because of worries Dongjae could ‘expose’ him. After all, Changjoon intended to expose Hanjo himself and so keeping Dongjae away from them doesn’t particularly help with this. If anything, he’s limiting potential information Dongjae can obtain to only the pieces more relevant to himself.
And, of course, Changjoon told Dongjae to not follow his path with his dying breaths. He could see the direction Dongjae was heading (and was already far enough down to have an arrest warrant out in his name) and knew where it had ended for him. Changjoon knew how how hard it is to extricate yourself once you’ve started down the corrupt route. But he also knew it wasn’t too late for Dongjae. Eunsoo proved that Dongjae couldn’t stomach being a killer.
Season two Dongjae, for all he’s still trying to make inroads and build connections in dubious ways, does show signs of growth. The fact he looked further into the Choi Bit and Park Gwangsu when Woo Taeha tried to draw him away from them is evidence of that. Looking further in this case would not endear him to the very person he wants to gain a promotion from. Also, it does seem like he was genuinely invested in his role in juvenile crimes, in even ‘simple’ bullying cases. And that in of itself helped him unlock the beach case. There was also how didn’t particularly socialise with others at his current office and mainly kept to himself which is a far cry from his early season 1 behaviour. Of course, the last point is somewhat weakened by the way he was most definitely networking outside of his station, but it adds to the sense of isolation and desperation present in everyone this season. His motivation skews increasingly towards his family and dissatisfaction with the whole system (though as a prosecutor he aims most of his ire at the police force).
There’s a part in the second season where Dongjae says something about how looking too deeply into places regardless of what everyone else wants can get you in trouble. And at the time the most obvious person it applies to is Simok (and also Eunsoo, but that stays silent) but in a number of ways it applies to Dongjae himself in this season. He’s probably lucky he was taken out by the culprit he was when you look at the other potential suspects. He has a lot of new powerful enemies. And those enemies are still future threats to him (as Lee Yeonjae demonstrates aptly). For a character so focused on survival historically, his choice should be clear when it comes to whether he speaks up or whether he chooses to stay silent. And yet, he’s shown enough growth that it isn’t clear anymore.
In the dream sequence in season 2, the subtext is pretty clear as to why each person appears. They’re all people who quite literally ‘lost their way or lost their life’. Changjoon (life/way - self-explanatory), Kang (strayed his way but chose to leave), Eunsoo (life, and also her way - though not in the corrupt sense, more how her revenge consumed her and she made self-destructive choices), Yoon (way, though importantly *not* his life). And Dongjae being there is partly to raise the potential he won’t make it, but most of all, it’s there to say that Dongjae hasn’t yet chosen his own path.
As of the season two finale, we don’t know which direction he’ll choose to go.
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I have ran out of patience and general okayness today bc of fucking traffic making me 30minutes late and other shit, but oh my god I have such a pet peeve abt how azul is analyzed sometimes.
like people seem to kinda understand the concept of vil (the celebrity) and vil(the guy) but can’t keep that idea up with azul-
like. Idk. People seem to downplay his bullying bc the English translation and context kinda does, but like. He was bullied for genetic parts of his body. Like how he looked, how slow he was, how big he was. Those all are things he couldn’t control-
like he developed an eating disorder bc of kids calling him fat. And he still believes everything they said was true. It’s why he overblots. He’s changed and built a persona he then works to live up to, and finally when he feels like he fills it he’s constantly terrified something is going to reset his progress, and he’ll be right back at square one.
and like, unlike most of the other overblotters. He doesn’t get better afterwards. His new favor system isn’t his way of getting better, it’s his way of coping. He’s putting himself right back on that toothpick pedestal.
but like. Azul (the guy) and Azul (the concept he’s built himself up to) are much more intertwined than Vil’s is, so idk. Like Azul (the guy) is a board game nerd, but Azul (the concept) is the guy who learned how to roll dice perfectly because he hates things being out of his control
Azul is so HEAVILY centered around control. He has to control his image control his diet control the way he’s perceived
Because he has to live up to Azul (the concept). Because if he doesn’t, then he’s just that fat little octopus they bullied.
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@rebirthee asked: ❛ why would i lie to you? ❜ for jade!
why would anyone lie? to hide something of course, something precious. something crucial. something no one ought to know. everyone their reasons-- charlotte would naturally be no exception to this. jade knows she wont tell him everything, that she keeps secrets. and maybe, considering the things he's already seen...it is in his best interest not to know everything. acceptance comes easy, content with what she has given. honored even, to be present in her life at all.
his long, heavy body coils just a little more securely around her. mindful of course not to crush her. " everyone lies, miss charlotte. everyone. " a hand coming to curl loosely beneath her chin. so he can tilt her head, and rest his cheek against her own. his skin cool, and wet in comparison. to say he trusts her isn't entirely true. he has grown to admire her, to care-- but he still keeps an appropriate ( emotional ) distance.
" but i think i could find it in me to forgive you if you were. " his other arm curling around her tightly. " -- lying to me. just this once. " exhaling a small laugh as he nuzzles against her hair.
𝑺𝑰𝑿 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑫 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺
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