ok yknow what i wish we got to see in the finale? flashbacks of eddie and chrissy’s interactions over the years. because you know my boy remembered all of them.
the iconic ‘chrissy, this is for you’ and then we’re whisked into a memory of the two of them talking at the talent show, maybe one giving a pep talk to the other?
the next memory would be eddie’s eighth grade graduation, and we see a sixth grade chrissy sitting with a grin in the audience, she has a front tooth missing and a pink ribbon in her hair and there’s soft music playing over the scene, cut short by a teacher’s voice shouting ‘edward munson!’
this segways into the next memory, eddie sitting in pe class his junior year, staring out the window at the football field, where chrissy is at cheer practice. she’s on top of a pyramid, and as soon as she does a high kick, his attention is snapped to the annoyed looking gym teacher who’s been calling his name for the past five minutes, he shakes his head and joins his class to run laps.
after this a montage of lunch periods cross the screen, focused in on pretty, bright chrissy cunningham as she chats with the other cheerleaders, she’s without her missing teeth and pink ribbon, but just as radiant as he thought she was back then. every day she has a new outfit, matched with the same warm smile as always
chrissy’s voice starts to echo, a cacophony of greetings and goodbyes, with the growing sound of his name coming up behind it before we see chrissy approach him, now a junior, and her clear voice breaks the white noise it seems like his brain created, it’s just a simple ‘hi’ but it clears the noise we’re hearing in his head instantly. she just asks him if he knows what the homework in one of their shared classes was, and he stutters out that he does, trying not to come of as the freak he’s sure she sees him as, though her genuine, kind smile would say otherwise.
after he gives her the synopsis on the homework, jason calls for chrissy and she thanks eddie quickly, offering an apologetic smile before she runs over to him, quick to settle jason’s demands and calm him down about why she was speaking to eddie in the first place. we get a close up of jason’s glare as eddie retreats to the rec room to set up for hellfire, breathing deeply as he watches the door for the blonde boy to appear
in the next scene, chrissy is yet again stopping him in the hall, but now she looks small and scared, eyes darting around her as she slips him a piece of paper, running off shortly after. we get a close up of the note, scrawled in loopy cursive is a note asking to buy weed, along with a request to know where to meet him. he takes a pencil from his jacket pocket and writes the location of his selling spot before sliding it into the locker he knew as chrissy’s.
then memories of chrissy’s last day from eddie’s perspective flash across the screen, ending with a shot of him sobbing over her body before sprinting from the trailer.
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Alright, friends, it is time to dispel yet another 5Ds myth!
Everyone once in a while I hear "the writing in the second half went downhill because all the writers left to work on BBT." Which would be a convenient and understandable excuse -- if it were actually true.
May I present this handy-dandy chart (made by yours truly) as evidence:
The only person credited with writing BBT is Shin Yoshida, whom you will notice was still actively writing for the series at the same time, though less than in the DS arc. You'll also notice that he wrote quite bit of the WRGP arc -- yeah, the arc that gets the second most flack for the writing. Huh. Interesting.
You'll also notice that of the original five writers, two of them worked on the entire series. (It's also worth pointing out that one of them only wrote one single, solitary episode for the entire series, one wrote one episode in the first two arcs and then came back later and wrote more, and another only wrote for the first arc.)
You may also notice that only one episode of the pre-WRGP arc wasn't written by one of the original five or one of three that joined for the DS arc. While it's true that there were more writers for the arc that gets the most flack for its writing, the people responsible were still the exact same ones that brought us the FC and DS arcs.
Additionally, it bears mentioning that the stellar finale was half written by writers who were not present at the start of the series.
Conclusion: it was a choice -- one most of us aren't keen on, but all of those things we dislike were NOT due to staff changes. Love it or hate it, that's just the way it is.
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himeru is haunted by his past and his mistakes and what could have been.
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HiMERU hates mirrors.
Ever since he was a child, he would see ghosts haunting them. His mother would entertain his stories, saying that the people he saw just wanted to say hello before moving on, but once she passed, he began seeing her too.
It wasn’t every mirror that he would see them in. Public bathrooms were safe most days, as were car mirrors and windows, though there were always days where he’d see them anyway. A ghost of a woman in the windows at the bus stop as she pushes what he believes to be her child out of the road, a ghost of a person from the Meiji era in the bathroom at the grocery store, lingering near what was their favorite place to nap.
He couldn’t talk to them, though. He had tried as a child but had always been ignored. Even as a teenager, when he had begun avoiding mirrors in his apartment, he’d sometimes try to say hello.
When he was 24 and watched his half brother brutally beaten on stage, he hadn’t properly looked in a mirror in almost six years. And when he decided to take his brother’s place as an idol, to protect his reputation and maybe have some semblance of a relationship with the kid who called him onii-chan, he knew he’d have to look in the mirror again. It was difficult to do makeup and hair without one.
Still, he tried to keep his exposure short. Ghosts still flickered in the background, though often overtaken by the liveliness of his unit mates. HiMERU would always make a point to be the first one to leave so he didn’t have to deal with seeing the ghosts as the lights dimmed in their dressing room.
The night before they debuted their most recent single, he lingered behind the rest of the group, choosing to confront the ghosts once and for all.
And standing in the reflection where HiMERU should be, he instead saw his brother how he looked just before the crowd swarmed him.
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hi hello its currently 3 am a;most four am but i cant stop thinking about a spicynoodles aladdin au where red son has come of age just as demon season rolls around so all these demons are fighting for his hand in marriage but he obviously rejects all of them. the just like in aladdin he leaves the palace and explores rhe outisde world where oh em gee what does he come across but a quaint little noodle shop and loud gasp whos that its mk of courcese!! anyway fastforward red son cant dtop thinking abt the noodle boy or something, they fall for each other but since mk is just a silly little human who has no idea that demon courting rituals are different than human rituals mk thinks theyre alreading dating but red sons like "can he please just hurry up and kidnap me already???" uhhhh theres like a side plot where macaque is jafar and wukong is the genie and maybe shadkowpeaches or something there idk man im raelly tired ok thx bye bye
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