#he's such a great character

[himebushou]

When we first see Rei sleeping in the bathtub in Episode 2, he's fully-clothed, garbed in even his hoodie. It makes sense, from Rei's perspective: you can hardly respond to being ambushed if you're scrabbling around for something decent to wear.

Episode 2 presumably takes place on Christmas. Rei's reason for keeping the hoodie on may simply be one of practicality. It is cold, after all.

In Episode 3, when Miri discovers Rei sleeping in the tub, he's wearing the same hoodie. However, he is also partially covered by a blanket:

I'd place Episode 3 as occurring sometime in early January — so the weather continues to be cold. In my view, the blanket is definitely an improvement, but given how we see Rei absolutely cocooned earlier in the same episode...

It's hard to see the way Rei was using the blanket in the bathroom as sufficient.

However.

Rei has a nightmare about his childhood when he's wrapped up and warm and snoozing on the sofa. I therefore feel that Rei perhaps deliberately sleeps in uncomfortable conditions for two reasons: one, so that he can wake up easily if there's an emergency and two, to avoid being so far gone that he runs the risk of dreaming.

We move on to Episode 7. It's hydrangea season, Kazuki's least favourite time of the year. In Japan, hydrangea are associated with June/July. The date in the episode itself might be different, though.

Rei is still sleeping in the bathtub. It's warmer now, so he ditches the hoodie, but he remains dressed in daytime clothing:

Rei wears the t-shirt for the rest of the episode.

We could argue that it's not that odd to have a pyjama day and that Rei was so frantic in Episode 7 that the last thing he would have considered was getting something different to wear.

Having said that:

Rei wears the t-shirt the next day, when he and Miri prepare French toast for Kazuki. To me, it looks like outerwear.

On another note — although though we see Rei exiting his bedroom in Episode 8 (which takes place on 10 August), there's no guarantee that he slept there. He may have just gone into his room to change his clothes.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Rei was still sleeping in the bathtub.

I'm really looking forward to the day when Rei feels secure enough to not only stop sleeping in the bathtub but to also own, and wear, a pair of pyjamas.

Wouldn't PJs be a lovely gift from Miri and Kazuki?

#buddy daddies #buddy daddy spoilers #suwa rei #he's such a great character

[pain-is-too-tired]

One thing that will always kill me about Michael Yew's death and how Rick just... kinda dropped it?

Like yeah he brought it up recently... like twice in one book.

But we get NO closure. After Percy leaves that bridge you have nothing but context clues to piece together how him and others might feel after.

Yes,he was brought in just to die, but unlike with Lee the book prior (who doesn't even get a description) he's semi fleshed out. As much as you can a minor character in half a book.

Him being known for his attitude and his fighting with Clarisse. Yet he's the one who truly gets that things were about to get serious (with little info BTW. Annabeth mentions he hardly explained a thing so all I can think of is Percy just told them where to meet and what to bring.) He stepped back and gave the chariot, and got rightfully upset when she still refused. Yet when he explains it to Percy he doesn't sound angry anymore, the way he talks gives a more "ey, what can we do now" tone.

We see how he is in battle, he's much calmer then he was at camp. He's still got attitude but he's not picking fights with anyone. He's grinning when he runs up, and given their odds in that fight he likely was doing it to not show his siblings or the enemy he was frightened in any way. His siblings were dieing, I always assume this where they took their biggest hit. So Michael, who's been rushed into a leadership role in the middle of war, is in the biggest battle yet and losing his siblings left and right. And he keeps his head.

He's the one who tells Percy they need to retreat. Yet he doesn't question him when Percy tells them they need to hold their ground there. And Percy LITERALLY tells Annabeth she's the only one who can gather MICHAEL'S cabin in a defensive line why Percy fights the minotaur.

And Michael, known for telling Clarisse to kiss his ass in the most ages 10+ book way he can, just does a sarcastic "gee thanks" and doesn't argue.

Boy had to watch Percy flirting with Annabeth that whole first bit in middle of battle gods bless him 😭 I just know he teased Annabeth once Percy left.

But yeah, he's such a good leader for just being there a year. And when they're retreating, and Annabeth gets hurt and whisked away, he definitely saw Percy was the only one standing between Kronos' Army and his siblings + all of Manhattan. If it weren't for his idea to break the bridge (which is brilliant btw we don't see many other campers mentioning Percy's powers.) Then they would've been screwed. Reinforcements didn't come until the next day, and say Silena leaves around the same time for Clarisse,she doesn't return until the day AFTER.

Michael made a calculated decision, and why it's argued whether he could've pieced Percy have dipped in the styx or not(Hestia out right says it in front of everyone. And just watching him fight they had to have tell that he wasn't harmed as he should be) he still knew Percy couldn't hold all of them on his own.

And the reaction when Percy finds out is emotional. Him desperately searching over the bridge,his frustrated scream(which I hope is heart breaking in the show). It's emotional. Then it's intrupted by Annabeth needing help,not say that scene wasn't needed btw, just I find it very unrealistic no one even ASKED Percy about Michael. Even if they saw the end of the fight through the shield, there had to be someone going "is it true about Michael?"

CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE DID FOR BECKENDORF AND SILENA.

I know they were more established characters, but it's just sad that Michael is kinda...forgotten.

And the thing was, his odds were purposely stacked against him.

In a rp server I'm on we were talking about how in a battle usually people take out the strongest and the healers.

Ares cabin is likely the strongest in just brute strength and determination in a fight. He didn't have to do anything for that.

The Apollo cabin ARE the healers(so are hunters but not as good considering none of them could help Annabeth.)

Jake outright states that Kronos went for their weak points, but I don't think he just means by size(after all the Apollo cabin had one the highest amount of members second to Hermes)

The Hunters were the biggest by size, but they were also at their strongest. Kronos attacked by night, Hunters took oath to the goddess of the MOON.

And very few other cabins had limitations based off day and night cycle.

Except for Apollo kids. They were weaker at night with the lack of the sun(not Will in tsats weak, just not at their highest point).

Not only that, but it would take care of the best healers. By the time Percy has to grab a Apollo kid,Will's likely the oldest(and considering Michael personally trained him Percy probably knew him in some way before hand as he likely took up as semi-head medic when Michael was too busy in battle stuff, assuming he was always the second oldest before that battle that is.) And best medic.

Kayla and Austin don't specialize in healing like Will does. We don't even really know what powers they have different to Will's. That and they were like 11, Kayla was maybe 12 but we're not sure. They likely joined camp THAT year and had hardly any medical training. And we don't know the skills of who(if any) were left after that first night.

I stand by the fact that Kronos' decision to push his focus on Williamsburg Bridge was strategically planned,that it makes Michael's death even more tragic.

I hope in the show we 1. See more of him in at least the background. 2. Get shown people actually mourning him. Obviously I'm biased to Jake cause Jake x Michael. But Katie, Silena,Annabeth??

Heck the Stolls? I can see them being close to him.

Show Clarisse(and maybe even Chris too) finding out about his death. Show how it effects Percy and the Apollo cabin. Percy looks at the Apollo cabin a good amount of times throughout the book, Show him looking over at Will rushing about and having a pained look on his face.

Also,I find it completely impossible that there was no kid at that camp who tried to bring up Michael when Percy went missing. Like "oh there goes another missing head counselor."

Then just immediately gets clonked on the head for it fjdydf

Like there was a way to bring him up in tlh, considering he went missing, and then Percy(who was the last one with him) goes missing after the war. Like you're telling me no one was comparing that? In a camp filled with gossiping teens? Mhm sure.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my Ted-Talk

#mine #pain rambles #pjo headcanon #pjo rant #pjo ramble #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo michael #michael yew #pjo series #i love Michael Yew if you can't tell #he's such a great character #i hope they do him and ask the other minor characters justice

[yume-fanfare]

congratulations to ensemble stars for being the only media that has hajime shino

#he's such a great character #no one does it like him #mar's midnight rambles

[iturbide]

Honestly Chrom is such an interesting character. When he faces Gangrel, he admits he could be like him or worse if not for the people standing with him. He's got more in common with his father than he would like. As you said earlier, it seems like he's never forgiven his own people for how they treated Emmeryn when she took over, even with her influence his entire life. Like, all that is so interesting to me and I hate when the fandom reduces him to haha unpeeled oranges. Automarriage. One sleev

EXACTLY THIS on all counts, honestly. Fandom's frequent tendency to make Chrom the butt of the joke (particularly with the orange thing, but going further with the whole 'moronsexual' thing) really doesn't feel fair to me. Don't get me wrong, the jokes can be funny sometimes! But when you see so much of it, eventually it just gets tiresome, especially since Chrom is so interesting as a character.

He freely admits that he has a lot of his father in him, and doesn't seem to have wanted to rule Ylisse -- he speaks about how he fears he won't be able to live up to his sister, because he doesn't feel he could do what she did for the halidom. He openly relies on his allies for support, to help ground him so that he can resist his worst impulses -- and he equally refuses to give them up, insisting that losing any one of them is unacceptable and believing wholeheartedly that even if Robin disappears, they will return based on the strength of their bonds. He has to actively try to take the peaceful route, because his first instincts are to fight -- but he does it, even when facing the despot who conquered Valm and intended to invade Archanea.

Chrom is a great character, one I absolutely adore, and I try to do him justice whenever I write. There's a lot of nuance in him, and a lot of capacity for growth -- he proves it himself over the course of Awakening -- so I hope I do right by him in my stories.

#answered #anonymous #fire emblem: awakening #chrom #he's such a great character #he's so fun to write #and so interesting in general to explore #i have a lot of favorites in awakening #but chrom is definitely up there on the list

[thepaintedhand]

The boy

#phoenix wright ace attorney #ace attorney #dick gumshoe #gummy #mah boy #GUYS WHY ARE WE SLEEPING ON THIS #HE'S SUCH A GREAT CHARACTER #LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE #himbo #underrated character

[impromptu-sketches]

Banana Scandal season 3

#banana scandal #banana scandal season 3 #Banana Scandal is still going strong y'all #I look forward to a chapter every Tuesday #the way I LOVE yeonwu #he's such a great character #they both are #bl manhwa #yaoi

[thefloatingstone]

Seeing you are near the end of act 2, did you meet the drow who wants Astarion to bite her ?

I did!!! Honestly that was the turn around moment for Astarion's friendship with my Tav and what finally clued him into the fact that YES YOU IDIOT I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU!!!

#C-Puff answers #He's such a great character

[letstalkabouttvshows]

Alex Manes survived war, injury and Jesse Manes.

Alex stayed even if he had to watch the love of his life date his best friend.

He didn't have to but went on a year-long mission to make sure Michael and Michael's family were protected.

Alex joined Deep Sky so he could have more information about Oasis.

He encouraged Michael to not be afraid of his past and that got Michael, Dallas.

Even though Alex's fear since season 1 is Michael leaving, he never stood in the way, he always helped when it came to all-things-Oasian.

Alex Manes endured a lot and gave so much to the people he loves.

I hope we actually see from tonight's episodes and on some love for him in return.

#I just love Alex Manes so much #he's such a great character #i want to see some love from all the other character to him #seriously #is overdue already #alex manes #malex #roswell new mexico

[artificialcaracal]

Finally watched that American Psycho movie everyone keeps talking about

and I don’t see what all the hubbub is about with this Patrick Bateman guy.  He’s a complete fuckin loser this dude, an absolute nobody.  Everyone keeps talking about “Aw fuck this dude is a psychopath  and nobody can even tell because society is so shallow and vapid” like shut the fuck up nobody cares about your armchair psychology 101 diagnosis of the least interesting man on the planet.  Congrats, you picked up the DSM-5 and can read we’re all so impressed good for you.  The reason nobody knows that Patrick Bateman is a psychotic serial killer is because nobody is interested in Bateman in the goddamn slightest.  Any idea that Bateman is interesting, significant, or in any way notable comes only from his own internal narration.  The guy is a generic Wall Street failson with delusions of grandeur, that’s it, that’s the character, that’s the American Psycho.  People will really watch a movie where the protagonist is a fragile man who’s routinely mocked, looked down upon, and called a spineless twit and come away thinking “Wow he’s so cool, he’s an edgelord that nobody likes, what a guy.”.  The horror of American Psycho isn’t about the socially stunted serial killer dude that no one respects.  It’s the existential dread that comes from crying out kicking and screaming into a world that just doesn’t care.  It’s the absolute lack of consequence and catharsis that arises when after confessing to all of his various murders in the midst of a mental breakdown, Bateman’s lawyer thinks that it’s a joke, because Patrick Bateman as he sees it, is a guy who has and will never do anything worthy of mention, let alone kill 20 to 40 people.  The horrific climax of the film is Bateman sitting down at a table, and finally realizing that absolutely nothing he has done means anything to anyone.  That he’s completely incapable of changing his own circumstances.  That nothing about how he lives has affected the world at large in any significant way.  Do you think Bateman is cool?  Do you think he’s clever or suave?  Do you think he’s some sort of social chameleon, whatever the hell that means?  Well you’re wrong.  Bateman is none of these things.  Bateman literal tells a drunk coworker, Paul Allen, to his face that he dissects women and is a fucked up dude.  The man is a literal manchild crying out for attention, for someone to give a shit about what he does, and it goes completely unacknowledged as Allen can only think of to ask about his tan, because Allen cares a lot about tanning, so much so that he has a tanning bed at home.  As a matter of fact, the only reason he and Allen are talking is because Allen mistook Bateman for another person because they both wear the same type of suit and go to the same barber.  There is nothing that distinguishes Bateman from any other guy in his office, so much so that not even his own lawyer recognizes him.  Bateman is so petty, unremarkable, shallow, and pathetic that he kills Allen in a jealous rage because he had a better looking business card and could get a reservation at a restaurant that Bateman couldn’t.  His murder of Allen is little more than a violent temper tantrum with “It’s Hip to Be Square” playing in the background.  Bateman doesn’t register that Allen’s prestige might come from doing something people deem important (getting the opportunity to work on the ever elusive Fischer account), and instead spends the film pissing and shitting himself over the fact that Allen can get seats at a restaurant he can’t, Allen has a nicer business card than he does, Allen has a more expensive looking apartment.  Allen has nicer things than Bateman and that just doesn’t gel with his worldview that he’s an important special boy that people should care about simply because he exists. Do you think that Bateman is cool?  Do you think he’s some sort cutthroat businessman who clawed his way to the top through being cunning, savvy, and not caring about who gets in his way?  Is that the impression you get of him as he walks into his office listening to the 80′s hit “Walking on Sunshine”?  Because Bateman isn’t the product of his own abilities.  He’s the Vice President of a company his father owns.  He’s a wealthy guy born into wealth like most other wealthy guys, completely insulated from failure thanks to the power of corporate nepotism.  Bateman never had to try to accomplish anything, so what if he graduated from Harvard Business school?  That’s not a measure of personal merit for him, he has a rich dad who could easily use his vast resources to get him into an ivy league through any number of ways, donations, legacy, straight up paying someone to get good enough test scores for him to get in, and considering that we never, and I mean never, hear about Bateman working on anything, leads me to believe he legitimately does no work ever.  The most we learn about Bateman is his needlessly convoluted morning routine, how many crunches he can do, and whenever he prompts someone to ask him about what he does, and they actually humor him, all he can think to mention is how he kills people.  The only two topics he gives a shit about are geeking out about serial killers and droning on about the music he likes.  There is no more to his personality than that, and he has nothing of value to say.  Everyone will wax lyrical about how the world of American Psycho is shallow, but Bateman is just as, if not more. You can’t possibly think that Bateman is a deep guy can you?  That he’s got some intriguing and engaging view on the world, and isn’t simply a thoroughly detached bozo who cares more about displays of power and dominance than actually engaging with people and the world around him, can you?  Bateman likes the arbitrary social hierarchy that exists, and he wants to be on top of it so bad.  He wants the prestige, the admiration, for other people to submit to his will, but not even the restaurant Dorsia’s will take him seriously, laughing him off the moment he tries to make a reservation, and that upsets him, because he’s Patrick Bateman!  He’s a cool Wall Street guy!  He has lots of money!  He’s the vice president of Perkins & Perkins!  Turns out, none of his other rich pals give a damn, nor do they find him particularly impressive.  In the world of rich socialites, he’s at the absolute bottom.  Bateman is simply a dude who’s obsessed with the attainment and wielding of status.  Violently cutting down anyone he perceives to be above him, and callously stomping on those below.  Yeah he killed a homeless man in an alley.  Was that shocking to you?  Did it make you think “Wow Bateman is a fucked up guy for doing that.  He must be a real psycho™ to be brutalizing the poor.  He’s nothing like the other wealthy characters in the film.  Surely, Bateman must be intrinsically different from them in some way!”?  Yeah sure uh huh, Patrick Bateman is the only rich guy who has ever shown disdain towards the poor and the homeless.  Patrick Bateman is a real outlier of a person for abusing his vast economic power to routinely cause harm to working class people for his own selfish gain.  Patrick Bateman is the American Psycho and thank god every other obscenely rich person is normal and not at all like him.  Bateman is shown to routinely maim and kill sex workers just to get off, and film makes it pretty clear that there are no consequences for him doing this.  Not even when he openly shoots a woman on the street.  The only murder of his that gets investigated is the death of Allen, another rich guy.  Surely this not-at-all subtle imagery has zero subtext relating to the real world in any capacity.   By the way, Bateman’s alibi that lets him get away with Allen’s murder?  A bunch of guys not realizing that he wasn’t actually at a restaurant with them on the night Allen died. I think there’s something to be said about mocking people who idolize Bateman.  Not that they’re in reality nothing like he is, but that chances are, they are just like him.  An aimless edgelord who’s only qualm with the status quo is that he isn’t at the tippity-top of it, and that they, just like him, lack the self-awareness to realize how absurdly idiotic and empty a sentiment like that is.  The sort of person who would come away from watching Bateman’s deluded view of himself come crashing down around as he wishes nothing but pain and suffering on the people around him as state of mind to aspire to.  That somehow his perpetually unfulfilled state is really cool and interesting actually and not at all a product of his wanton inability to grow, engage in introspection, or achieve any level of depth and intimacy.  I’d say I hate the guy, but what is there to hate?  He’s a nothing man living a nothing life where he achieves nothing and gets nothing from the experience.  Watching American Psycho took me on a dizzyingly meandering ride before ending on pure unadulterated emptiness as it explores just what it means to have absolutely nothing going on behind the eyes.  It’s a good movie I refuse to talk to anyone else about because anyone who wants to talk about American Psycho above literally any other film isn’t a person worth talking to.  This movie taught me hatred and caused me to dissociate after I went to bed.  It is excellently executed total depravity and I have no idea what movie everybody else was watching because it’s not that fucking deep.  It’s a movie about a rich guy who has nothing better do with his life killing people, and just how insanely boring that guy would be.

#american psycho #patrick bateman #movies #horror #sigma male #honestly if patrick bateman is a sigma male why the fuck would anyone want to be one #it's real good satire though on god #watching patrick bateman lose his shit over his business card being the worst is so fucking funny #this entire film is a comedy actually #horror movies #they made sequel to this film and it literally starts with patrick bateman getting killed lmao #he's such a great character #go white boy go

[lonelier-version-of-you]

Professor Michael Spence in S23E46

#Holby City #Michael Spence #Dominic Copeland #my edits #my gifs #gif warning #ep: s23e46 #i know i've giffed michael's blink and you'll miss it comeback before #but well it's michael do i really need a reason for giffing him again #one year today since the last appearance of michael spence #i miss him so much #he's such a great character

[rosedawsontyler]

The feeling is mutual. Asshole.

#meg plays persona 5 royal #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #he's such a great character #and I absolutely despise him

[lyledebeast]

I’ve just caught up to where I left off with Anne with an E--due to not having Netflix, not lack of interest in continuing--and I’m so thankful that Cole’s coming out to Jo Barry happens before he comes out to Anne.  Even though they respond in similar ways, the advice carries a lot more weight coming from an old lesbian than from his straight classmate

#anne with an e #cole mackenzie #he's such a great character #i'm so nervous about season 3

[gunpowder-gemini]

Playing through AA Dual Destinies and god I adore Phoenix Wright. One of THE blorbos of all time 🥺❤️

#he's such a great character #one of those characters I simultaneously want to break beyond repair and wrap in bubble wrap so nothing bad ever happens to him again #narumitsu is also such an otp of mine #so many flavors of one ship #only flavor I don't care for is brat/feen #but that's just personal preference #phoenix wright #phoenix wright ace attorney

[eldritchlittleblackdragon]

I still love Yuri Lecleric so much omg it’s not even funny. *blushing and hiding face in hands*

#he's such a great character #i need to play three houses again so i can marry him #like i was going to #before obey me snuck in and took over my entire life #and then the great ace attorney #took over after that #lbd rambles

[lady-corrine]

Thinking again about how Suzanne esentially subverted the "beloved famous man that is actually a horrible person in real life" with Finnick, who is the complete opposite of that.

Finnick has this whole image costructed around him by the people that abused him for years: the Capitol's darling, their golden boy, the sex symbol of Panem, the man that has countless lovers but leaves them constantly and doesn't look back etc. And you would expect, initially, to meet a man that retains at least a part of that persona in his day to day life. But Finnick doesn't, not even one bit.

You see instead a man that is deeply in love and completely devoted to the one woman he quite literally adores, a man that protects Mags, his old mentor and his mother figure, as much as he can, a man that wouldn't leave Johanna behind, a man that gathers whatever strenght he has left to speak publicly about the abuse inflicted upon him at the government's hands; the opposite of what the Capitol's media and reputation made him out to be.

#don't even get me started on beetee's line about how it's a miracle finnick is still with them giving all the abuse he suffered #that line is haunting #i just love him he's such a great character :(( #finnick odair #annie cresta #odesta #mags flanagan #johanna mason #the hunger games #thg

[junodoom]

birthday comic for wen ning 🏹

it’s still april 11th in my time zone. this counts

#he is my favorite character *checks notes* fucking ever #hope he has a great day #every day actually #he deserves good things #wen ning #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mdzs fanart #wen ning fanart #lan sizhui #wen yuan #lan wangji #wei wuxian #mdzs comic #ghost general