I want to talk about this page in particular because the implications here are so riveting.
Lavi is currently 19. Allen is believed to be 16.
Which means that either
The Bookmen are lying
Bookman Jr. did die then and Allen either didn't age the first few years or his age got fucked up multiple times before he met Mana
The first seems highly improbable at this point tbh. If the Bookmen were planning to make Allen take the poison to make him remember his past then lying about when Past!Junior (presumably) died seems counterintuitive and would only make Allen mistrust them more once he was in full possession of his memories.
It doesn't seem like Allen de-aged to an infant. He says his earliest memories are from when he was in the circus. Even if he did age back to an infant, he would've needed caretakers and nothing in the story suggests he had any.
(Note how little Allen doesn't have his Innocence in the last panel. What the fuck does this mean Hoshino.)
Allen looks perhaps 4-5 in both of these panels. If Past!Junior died over 19 years ago and Allen aged linearly since then, then he would have to be 23+ by now. Even considering the possibility that he aged back to an infant, he he should be 19+ by now and he looks barely over 17.
We can assume that he must've aged in a somewhat even fashion once he joined the circus because otherwise the performers would've commented on it at some point of time.
What happened in the years between Junior dying and little Allen getting into the circus? Was he in a child's body till he acquired his Innocence? How did he even acquire his Innocence in the first place?
There's also a final possibility that came to me while I was writing this post— Lavi was born while Past!Junior was still alive. He was born with the 'mark' because Past!Junior was no longer fit to be a Junior. I genuinely have no idea how Hoshino will explain this. Will it be some sort of corruption? Memory loss? Chronic illness?
All of them seem equally unlikely options at this point. But so did the possibility of Allen and Bookman Jr. being different people before this chapter :)
Either ways, this was a very intriguing chapter and I'm looking forward to whatever Hoshino has in store for us.
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So the magic being fucked up is living in my brain and I need to try and figure it out pls help
Here's what's confirmed
Sending doesn't work
Scrying, Augury, contacting other planes, clairvoyance, communing with divine entities all don't work
Teleportation circles have all been dispelled
Curses are stronger
Permanent light enchantments have been dispelled
Specifically 'old magic' enchantments have been dispelled, those thought permanent
Magically bound prisoners escaping
Petrification releasing
Magical items have not been affected by this mass dispel
Possible consequences from that
Trent, the other Cerberus mages and Caleb are no longer bound
The prison under Xhorhas has been fucked up, as has the Vault under the Platinum Sanctum in Vasselheim which includes the horn of Orcus and other terrifying magical artifacts
Hallow and other such protective longstanding enchantments are fucked, ie most temples and the blooming grove?
Ryn is no longer petrified
The binds on ukatoa and other such entities are released or in the process of being weakened? (also the divine gate is being weakened?)
Halas is free from his gem?
The mages in Aeor that were kept in stasis are now free
The binds on Vecna are released?
Is that it? Have I missed anything
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With the mastermind being one of the big mysteries Danganronpa presents we don’t really meet Junko until the end of the game, despite a Junko being in the starting cast.
The danger of introducing an antagonist at the very end of the game is that the lack of time to build them up might lead to an unmemorable or uninteresting character
Junko has three things working for her.
The A Junko we met wasn’t her but Junko did write the script so we know how Junko probably would have acted if she had been among the other students.
She still has a huge voice in the plot through her mascot Monokuma.
And when Junko actually appears in person she gleefully bursts onto the scene and makes a meal of the scenery.
In a game full of memorable quirky characters, she makes a good go at being the most memorable and quirky despite having much less time to make an impression.
She’s a lot. She’s so much.
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I lost track of how many iterations of the let's drown buck in season 7 I have written out here, and I only just started considering the cruise as a location, but I have another idea to still get the elements of the shooting to have that have the same effect for Eddie as the shooting has for Buck but you can read the Buck drowning saving a random person in the cruise here, (please keep in mind that the cruise thing was not confirmed when I wrote this one so in that one I'm speculation the cruise too, I also touch base on the possibility of it happening with them saving Bobby, but I don't elaborate on that one) and Buck drowning saving Bobby here (I feel like this vision could easily be about saving Athena too, but for the sake of drama I like the idea of it being Bobby) but i think at the core they are very similar, it's just about the circumstances around it.
Okay, so, for the past few months, I have been discussing the possibility of the show drowning Buck, but it is something that I've been thinking about for a WHILE (buck drowning tag here). Because most of Buck's traumas involve water or trouble breathing, from the emergency tracheotomy on the date with Abby, to the blood clot in his lung, to the tsunami, to the way he gives his mask to the dude who's trapped and says he will hold his breath and that whole dramatic shot of him screaming with the sprinklers turning on in Buck begins, to getting struck by lightning and getting lung damage from it. Also, the first time we see him he's doing cpr on a kid who drowned, the next call is about a baby who has a blocked airway, the next one is about a woman who was being strangled and he also saves Athena from the robber by hosing him down, so pilot Buck is about breathing and water. There's also the way that water keeps trying to kill people he cares about, Bobby in the plane, Chris in the tsunami, Eddie in the well, Maddie walking into the ocean. So Buck's arcs involve water and breathing. The natural progression here is to have him drown.
Also, I've been discussing the possibility of drowning Buck while creating a moment that would work for Eddie the same way the shooting exists for Buck. That one has various iterations, I go back and forth with how that could happen. But the thing is that basically, the shooting has a few key elements that make it that intense: it happens by chance, Eddie is just in the wrong place at the wrong time, they get called there specifically since Charlie calls Eddie not 911, they're working with another house so they don't have anyone else they trust, being shot brings up a past trauma for Eddie with the army, Buck does the saving alone, Buck faces a past trauma to get to Eddie, by rolling under the truck. And what they went there to do is already done once Eddie gets shot, I keep forgetting this one.
So most of my visions involve Eddie saving Buck in a way that hits as many of those items as possible. At first, I was thinking about the trigger for the situation being Buck trying to save someone who would serve as a surrogate for someone Buck loves, a stranger who gets an extreme reaction from Buck that makes him do something stupid that gets him trapped, then with the cruise possibly being bathena's honeymoon cruise, him saving Bobby or Athena also became plausible.
But after I created this whole thing based around Bobby, my brain wouldn't stop chanting "what if it was Eddie?" because Eddie had the whole "I'm gonna die alone" and "we have time" arc at the end of season 6, and sure, he was trapped in the van alone, but his radio still worked, he had no reason to believe Buck wouldn't get to him, so like many things in season 6 that's not really closed. So I started to think about how Eddie could be the reason Eddie has to save Buck, and all the ways this could be fun for the rest of the season and a possible recovery arc for Buck. Because it's an established fact that Buck goes ballistic when Eddie is in danger and the consequences there could be fun, even more considering the way even though we are supposed to believe Buck is this daredevil type firefighter, none of his brushes with death are because he's being irresponsible, it all happens because of bad luck, so to have something happen to him because he's actively putting himself in danger for someone he loves could be really interesting for his character.
But, the thing is, Eddie is the reckless one, classically when kids are involved, climbing up to the roof of a burning house, cutting his own line, so an element that could go into play here, is Eddie doing something reckless to get to a kid while alone. Fun things that can up the stakes here is the way that considering it's a call on a massive body of water, any equipment that has electric/electronic components could malfunction, so we can get radios out of commission, different pieces of equipment too. So we can have Eddie doing something stupid, ending up trapped with a kid in some sort of room or piece of the wreckage, Buck going ballistic as usual, forcing Eddie to get out first, or maybe shoving Eddie and the kid out of the way, and something going wrong, another explosion, the ship shifting, I like the idea of equipment malfunctioning because it is also something that happens with Buck, equipment not working for him, the ladder breaking under him, the truck trapping him, with this thing that goes wrong blocking the entrance they used, so Buck would be trapped in a space filling with water he can't get out of, it takes a minute for Eddie to notice Buck didn't come out (that bit is mostly over the way Eddie is always last to know, last to look up after the lightning, the last to see Shannon, etc), since I want Eddie to have a clawing at the dirt moment, I think that having Eddie being unable to get to Buck at first would be fun, have him banging at whatever is blocking the entrance trying to break his way in and at the same time let Buck know he's coming (also I think Ryan would have fun punching things lol), then the fun aspects of a drowning scene, Eddie finally breaks back in (maybe even with some hesitation considering Eddie almost died in a small space filling with water before), Buck is submerged, he pulls Buck out, cpr, if we're lucky mouth to mouth, you're not doing this to me again, Buck dropping back into Eddie once he wakes up, I got you, all the cool things of letting Ryan and Oliver's emotional power out for a spin.
I like this vision mostly because I'm lowkey obsessed with the possible consequences of Buck almost dying because of Eddie. Buck wouldn't handle almost dying again well, Eddie wouldn't handle saving Buck again well, this could lead to some fun fights between the two of them, even more with the space they are putting between the two since the cemetery. This could be the mother of all triggers, give Eddie some recovery isn't linear moment, give Buck a full breakdown, make them fight and no one being sure why they're fighting.
And having it happen that way you hit both well and shooting elements, the same way the lightning does. And Buck getting trapped by the ship moving for example creates the happening by chance aspect, them being alone is easy because a situation like this will definitely have multiple houses responding, the nearest one not being the 118 is expected, by consequence Eddie doing the saving alone, water and being pinned under something brings up a previous trauma for Buck, a small space filling with water brings a previous trauma up for Eddie, so we can make it a very nice mirror of the shooting.
You can even have some moments while Buck is alone and the water is rising that could make it clear that Buck is not in the best mental state.
Obviously, everything about this works with them saving literally anyone, from Bobby or Athena to a random child with brown hair and red glasses, so I think I'm set in the general idea here, I think Buck getting trapped somewhere in the ship is the easiest way to make it happen, but how it would happen would depend on the consequences they want to pull from it.
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