#day 2 cooperation

[dats-hq]

Kaito, Aoi, and the Importance of Digimon Survive's Intertexuality Across Routes

Digimon Survive is such a powerful narrative because its core theme is reinforced through its very structure as a visual novel. The game's radical belief in the ability for anyone to blossom into the best versions of themselves given the right circumstances is a powerful concept, but it could easily come off as naive. To avoid coming off as naive, there must be an acknowledgement of the darkest parts of our hearts.

It's like this:

In the Truthful Ending, Kaito has some issues with anger and overprotectiveness, but ultimately develops a slightly healthier relationship with his sister. A fine snapshot of a young boy's life over the course of a few weeks, but is it a snapshot of the young boy's soul? I think not. That snapshot comes in more parts. To see how his relationship with Miu would develop in more dire circumstances, you must see Moral Route. To see how he would cultivate a more strenuous relationship with Miu in light of a heightened sense of danger in the world, you must see Wrathful Route. To see who Kaito would become without Miu's grounding presence, you must see Harmony Route.

By seeing Kaito across four dimensions, you are able to form a picture of the actual Kaito. In composite, Kaito is obviously a good person. He is motivated by a desire to protect. He is brave. He cares for people. Even his friends who he betrayed in Harmony Route could see that deep down, Kaito had the potential to be a good person. This is seen when they all wish to extend an offer of forgiveness to Kaito, even after he resolved to destroy the world. By seeing Kaito at his absolute worst, we actually see a glimmer of his potential.

(I would like to clarify that I do not believe that Kaito "redeemed himself by dying," nor is it my reading of the text that Kaito was made to die as punishment for his misdeeds. I understand how one may come to those readings of the text, but I believe it was an unfortunate and unintended implication at worst.)

Aoi is an overachiever. She's a bright young girl, and that comes with certain expectations. If one were to look at her on a very surface level, you would think that she understands the importance of the responsibilities she's been given, and she doesn't mind the extra work. That is obviously bullshit, but to some extent, this is the image she puts out into the world. Aoi is not forthcoming about her emotions, so prior to meeting Labramon, she allows herself to stoically accept an unfair burden. Her fellow students take advantage of her, and her opinion is rarely respected among the other chosen children when discussing next steps. Without the ability to assert herself, she has all of the responsibility with none of the actual power. She must work hard, but she cannot do good.

This is a shame. Aoi is motivated by a strong sense of justice. The best version of herself is one who has the confidence to set boundaries and stand firm on issues she cares about, but much like Kaito, watching her grow into her best self is merely a snapshot of a few weeks in the life of a child. To truly plunder the depths of Aoi's soul, we must look into Wrathful Route.

In Wrathful Route, we see the most explosive expression of Aoi's convictions. She learns that a sense of justice is worth nothing if you don't have power, and power is worthless if it is not used. While nobody younger than Aoi dies in Moral Route, and Miu's safety in Harmony Route is Kaito's responsibility first and foremost, Saki's safety was squarely Aoi's responsibility.

Aoi's grief over her own failure to uphold her values causes an overcorrection. She is overcome with a desire to wield the maximum possible power and realize a twisted vision of maximum possible justice.

I love the gusto, Aoi, but human instrumentality is not a healthy response to traumatic invalidation.

It's important to stress that while I love Saki and think Saki/Aoi is an adorable ship, Saki's death is not the sole cause of Aoi's mental anguish. Saki's death was the catalyst for Aoi to close herself off from the community who could have helped her. The anguish began developing years prior.

In other routes, Aoi's relationship to her sense of justice, her responsibility, and her assertiveness develop in different ways, but by examining Aoi across four dimensions, we can understand Aoi's actual self. In composite, Aoi is a good person. She has strong convictions. She is protective. She is capable. There are a lot of ways these values can shape a young girl, and Aoi deserves a life where she has a supportive community to allow her to grow into the best version of herself. Don't we all?

At the core of both Kaito and Aoi, we find good people. I like to think you'd find the same at the core of everyone in real life, too. And yet, in real life, we obviously find people who do work to make the world a worse place. In Digimon Survive, we can see the paths not taken, for better and for worse. In doing so, we see the Truth of each character.

(This is not wholly unrelated to the appeal of "the Digimon as a reflection of the human partner's true self." In Dracmon, we see Kaito's protectiveness in a more trusting and easygoing package. In Labramon, we see Aoi's supportiveness in a more assertive package.)

#digimon survive #digimon survive meta #aoi shibuya #shibuya aoi #digimon survive week #but late #day 2 cooperation #very late okay? #hi maq

[7vhs]

#i played the entire campaign in 1 day yesterday #oh my god. WHY is it so short. #hopefully people here still like this game LOL #redraw of my favourite loading screen :-) #my art #titanfall 2 #titanfall #bt 7274 #jack cooper

[kaiserouo]

If you hack it, it takes care of you.

(prev)

#fun fact: spectre don't talk they just emit static sounds #low effort comic because i drew too much lineart in the last 2 days uuugggghhhhh #also because i drew too much valo #also because my idea list is collecting dust #jk this idea's from yesterday my idea list is never getting anything deleted #titanfall 2 #jack cooper #spectre #my art

[sigmabateman]

his fists balled up like kitty paws Oh who said that. mustve been a ghost

#just found this in my drafts from 2 days ago but i was right so im posting it now #intruders 2015 #rory culkin #danny cooper

[swimpies]

expectations vs reality

#titanfall 2 #Titanfall #jack cooper #bt 7274 #gmod #just found out how to made the rag dolls dance #having a field day

[garbagequeer]

every time riverdale had to come up with the worst thing that could happen to betty our beloved serial killer genes dragged by the ankles to get a lobotomy betty they were like. the nuclear family. that's what would really break her. for 6 years they did this. thank you riverdale i love you forever

#riverdale #thing #1 the coopers. big 2 rivervale betty becomes a murderer so she can have a traditional family hashtag no adoption hashtag bear that son #3. 50s betty's problems? family values are killing her with hammers every day every single day #in the end. she is happy she never married. slay

[splatoon-edits]

Transparent Punk Pearl

Free To Use

#i was gonna do the other picture of her dressed like this as well.. but uh yeah that one was not cooperating w canva so its gonna have #to wait until after i get a new phone :( #but i swear i will do it one day #transparents #splatoon #mod shiver #splatoon 2 #pearl #pearl houzuki #pearl splatoon

[apalapucian]

bad day wall ch. 2 snippet:

on her way out, she hears sirius coming up the stairs from the basement, and he emerges — dragging a practically unconscious james, his arm slung over sirius's shoulders, head hung and eyes closed, breathing labored. they're both beaten and bloody, james more so than sirius, and both of them more than she's ever seen them, including those last weeks of sixth year when they were sporting a black eye or some other every other three days. no, this was something serious. their angle shifts a bit and the back of james's shirt is entirely drenched with blood.

"what the fuck happened?" she asks, hurrying to them at once.

"fuck — evans, hi, how are you," sirius breathes out in one go, and she notes the relief in his voice, despite everything. "i — i can explain later, but can you please — can you handle this? i have to go back — "

"where's remus?"

a deep, low growl comes from the basement. it's muffled, but that doesn't make it any less sinister. "you can't go back in there," she says immediately, one hand on james, who's on his side on the floor now, the other reaching out to grasp sirius's arm just as he was about to get up.

"i have to be there for him," says sirius. "it's okay, this isn't new — "

and somehow lily knows, just then, but decides to put off the questions and everything else for later. right now she just needs both of them within her line of vision.

sirius is not going back down there.

— part one here // ao3 // writing tag

#jily #jily* #marauders era #mwpp #apalapucian* #james potter #lily evans #sirius black #remus lupin #there's a section or two that's kicking my ass rn and is not cooperating hence the delay. i apologize #but here's a lil something #i considered making it a 3-parter BUT #nah it's only going to be just the 2 chapters #(and possibly some outtakes) #bad day wall

[theactualsunshinechild]

Let yourself imagine established WrioChi having a winter walk and Childe starts a snowball fight. It gets heated and Wriothesley ends up getting full body tackled into the ice cold water, but, thanks to cryo vision user privilege, Childe is the only one who catches a cold from it all and has to be nursed back to health.

(Wriothesley has to threaten to hand him over to Sigewinne regularly because Childe keeps trying to give him his cold via kisses)

((Childe succeeds))

#he regrets it too because now he's stuck trying to nurse the least cooperative patient in the world #he and Sigewinne are tag teaming this man into recovery and it takes both of them pressuring him to get him to take a proper break #“you have a 40°C fever you need to REST.” #“what I NEED is to get this paperwork done so that rest is an option” #“Fine. I'm giving you 15 minutes. if you aren't done by then I'm dragging you out of this office by force.” #in the end Childe had to manhandle him into bed and coax meds down his throat with honeyed tea #Wriothesley is grumpy that it takes him a full week to recover from a cold that had Childe down for 2 days #genshin impact #wriothesley #childe #wriochi #wriothesley x childe #tartaglia #tarthesley #Wriothesley x Tartaglia #childe ajax tartaglia #Sigewinne #Sigewinne gives them both very long lectures about the contagious nature of the common cold #the look in her huge eyes says they're both on thin fucking ice and they better not do this shit again

[morganhopesmith1996]

Torchwood on DVD 😍 another bbc show that I own ♥️

#torchwood #captain jack harkness #jack harkness #captain jack #captain Hartness #john barrowman #gwen cooper #eve myles #ianto jones #gareth david lloyd #owen harper #burn gorman #toshiko sato #naoko mori #esther drummond #alexa havins #rex matheson #mekhi phifer #series 1 #series 2 #children of earth #miracle day #bbc #bbc one #bbc america #dvd #dvds #dvd boxset #physical media #science fiction

[camellcat]

gwen cooper. gweeeenn cooper. idk who the hell she is or anything about her but I can't stop rotating her around in my brain like a little creature that needs to be examined. I love u freak girl <3

#I can't wait finish dw so I can wake up at 4am every morning and watch 2 eps of torchwood bc that's how I enjoy starting off my days #I want it to fuck me up like dw does but a little differently #I want it to hit 6am and be going through The Horrors as I take my shower and get ready for the day #I seriously don't know shit about this show but I have heard it will emotionally wreck me and I am expecting that #I will be disappointed if it doesn't #and then I'll also be be losing my mind the whole time bc I'll finally get to see gweennnnnnn #I've started recognizing her face in different shows dsjndj #I'll see her and go “GWEN COOPER?!” and hoot and holler even tho I don't know nothin #ferdie this is ur fault I want you to know that #gwen cooper #torchwood

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Unwrapped the rest of my presents finally which amounted to. Six notebooks three books and a record player. 2024 is the year of no bitches once again 🔥🔥🔥

#the books are convenience store women bluets and babel which were all on my list so yayy!!! #i was definitely hoping for dennis cooper but hey my birthday is in like 2 weeks and we're financially stable these days so thoughts+prayers #hollyws

[all54321]

A Vex’s Obsession

This didn’t get posted???? I hit post yet it didn’t?? Late submission because tumblr really didn’t like this post.

An alternate version to “A Watcher Amidst,” where being a vex means Scar is drawn to those with a lot of magic, such as Grian. So less resentful and more enamored here.

Grian still isn’t a good person and is still manipulative. So warning for that and Scar not doing the best at times either.

Summary: Grian silences Scar to keep his secret of being a Watcher a secret. What he didn’t expect was Scar to become so much more interested in Grian then before.

Or: 5 Times Grian was confused/doubtful of Scar’s newfound interests and the 1 time he learns the truth (some of it, at least)

Day 2: Vexes/Watchers

@desert-duo-week

#my writing #tumblr would not cooperate doing this normally #so I’m just gonna link it #desert duo week 2023 #day 2 #vexes #watchers #a watcher and his vex #<— AU tag #Scarian #eventually

[darehearts]

so my surgery is scheduled for the 17th 😵‍💫

#my brain is just not cooperating on what the hell is going on like!! #i am honestly wondering if i should just go on hiatus completely #so i dont have to keep making posts like this freaking out about my #own existence. i dont know babes. the doctor was like youre too #young for this and im like.. bones vc: tell me something i dont know #i'll just try to table this for 10 days... my anxiety is back or maybe #it has been back for a while and i just wasnt in situations to trigger it #but i have been nauseous for 2 days it's been a trip. i'm questioning #everything in my life at this point that led me to this point it's ?? hm #tbd #vent tw #medical tw #anxiety tw

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

Black and White October

Emily in Paris (s2e9, "Scents and Sensibility") / Lily Collins as Emily Cooper

According to "Shop Your TV," this off-the-shoulder minidress is made by Balmain. I really love the bold black buttons on the white half of the dress and the curved line where the white fits over the black. I'm less of a fan of the very visible zipper in back, though; it seems like they could have done a better job of hiding that.

We only get a very quick look at Emily's white ankle boots, but they complement the dress nicely.

#emily in paris #black and white october #lily collins #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #television costumes #tv costumes #2020s style #2020s fashion #emily cooper #balmain #emily in paris season 2 #scents and sensibility #emily in paris s2

[80yearoldmanmoodboard]

My ADHD riddled ass who hasn’t finished a real book since 5th grade somehow managed to sit down and read The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life In Tapes in its entirety yesterday and in my completion of it I’d like to share excerpts of the Sleep Experiment Cooper did on himself in College:

#twin peaks #Dale Cooper #The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life In Tapes #I somehow read an ENTIRE book yesterday #I spent the whole day sat down just READING #it was fucking insane #I read from ~2:20 to 10:14 #I paused twice for short food breaks #but for the majority of that nearly 8 hour period I was READING A BOOK #y’all don’t realize how little I’ve actually read full books #I figured out I can finish a book if I just listen to it but even that doesn’t always work #actually the last time I finished a book was when I read upside down magic in 4th grade #this was like a 195 page book and I FINISHED IT #I’m so bad at finishing things I’m proud of myself