Okay, this is clearly a horrible idea. But if Jake was gonna get a chance to ensure this maniac would stay in one place for a while, it was this.
The leash in question was tied tight around a tree branch on one end and clipped to a collar on the other, and Jake was doing his damn best to sneak up on the pop star before he could get spotted.
Ready… and… Now.
( @the-game-warden )
It's not often that Ji-Woon enjoys the outdoors. Even here in the fog it's... Messy. Not particularly glamorous. The trees tended towards spooky and grim, and he was one much more for the scenic and glamorous. Buuut... He could make exceptions now and then...
Such as for this divine little corner he'd wandered into recently! Goodness what beautiful things! Right here the fog bordered up onto some strange new realm, so trees battled for space against... something! Whatever they were, they were something! That's for sure!
Like this little fine that seemed to have Teeth. Or the bushy, segmented... Cactus??? That had segmented portions and a jaw like a spring trap. Was that a WALL of INTESTINES??
Alas, before he could skip on over to investigate more closely there was a surprise in store for him! A quick patter of footsteps right behind him- far too late to do anything before there was a sudden click right around his neck and a weight that wasn't there before-
Oh! But none of that mattered! Because it was Jake! He immediately got tunnel vision and could focus on nothing else.
"Kiyomi~♡☆♡!!" He gushed, pacing towards the man with a wide smile and arms reaching as if for an embrace. "How sweet of you to come for- hnm???"
End of the chain and his line of thought stopped as quickly as his feet did. "Oh? Oh what an interesting little gift~☆??" The popstar crooned as he ran a hand along the leash "You know, you could have asked, but the surprise is SO much more romantic~♡♡♡"
"I suppose you're right- it has been going for quite a while now hasn't it?"
Montparnasse chuckled, shifting on his feet, shivering for effect. He was already feeling the rainwater soaking into his clothes, though it had only penetrated his outer layers and not yet made its way through to skin. It wouldn't take long until it did, though did not deter the youth from the mission he had been assigned earlier that day. It would be a foolish mistake to come back empty handed.
"You know, I feel rather foolish-" he started, averting his gaze. "You see, I was invited here to see someone and it appears they stood me up and now I am here and- well, you know." Another chuckle. "I really shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.. I always do this!"
It was a cheap, cheap trick- and yet the youth had full belief in the success of the idea. After all, could you imagine standing him up? Dreadful! No, it was foolproof. Montparnasse was certain of it.
hang on one more Nimona thing i realized. I'm so used to movies where the protagonist is inherently talented with no reason and is able to overpower the antagonists. Like, they're always unexplainably powerful and "oh wow, this person is stronger than these other people that have been training for years."
So, on my first watch, I thought that's what it was for Ballister. He fought a bunch of his fellow knights, overpowered them, disarmed the prodigy, Goldenloin.
THEN i rewatched, paid more attention, and holy shit. He's been like this since the beginning.
And then i started to notice the little things that subtly supported this.
He makes his own arm, that must take intellectual skill. He grabs a can that was about the fall off the shelf and make noise, without even looking at it.
And during the fight scene at the institute!! At first, I was like ok, typical protagonist fight scene where they overpower tons of other people. Because Plot.
But no!! the more i think about it, it's reasonable. It's established early on that Ballister is competent, he's skilled. He's very aware of things going on around him. He's able to knock out knights that around coming up behind him without looking, swiftly disable opponents.
Rewatching it always makes me go back and see these characters in a new light. So my view on Ballister went from "ah, mess of a man that's put in a tough situation. Able to do these crazy things because they're necessary to the plot." to "Oh he's competent!! That's the point!! He's still a mess but :0"
I think the reason lwj is so quiet around wwx is because he goes completely fucking stupid when wwx is around. Like full on no thoughts head empty (except for gay thoughts). He can’t open his mouth because he cannot predict what kind of garbled disaster of syllables will spill out if he does. Everything he says in canon has been rehearsed in his head and whispered under his breath fifteen times at minimum before he can even dare to try to say it, lest he accidentally looks into wei ying’s eyes at the wrong moment, causing him to forget everything he was just about to say and also how to walk in a straight line.