Toxic Rats: Lightning, Scott, Dawn, B, Dakota, Sam, Staci, Brick (Transferred), Jo (swapped with Scott)
Mutant Maggots: Jo, Brick, Zoey, Mike, Cameron, Anne Maria, Scott (swapped with Jo), Dakota (Joined Later)
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Round 1 Match 4
Propaganda
Topher: his design works perfectly with the context of his character to me, he has a simple outfit that looks like Chris’s but also different enough that it’s his own style, no really bad colors or anything. I’d honest to god wear tophers outfit irl. no other td characters. just tophers.
The Maggot: slay. hard work pay. 24/7 and never an off day.
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Something about Maggot Bone really endears me-probably because in dnd I’m always trying to play undead characters and one of my main dms never lets me be DEAD things.
Maggot is just a GUY. A stinky wizard guy who is full of embalming sauce. He probably likes books a lot and claims he has NO MAGGOTS in him, he is a very MAGGOT FREE zombie, but then you open some of his tupperware he keeps in his fridge at his tomb and you’re like ‘well.....YOU aren’t full of maggots, but your LEFTOVERS sure are.’
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We don’t appreciate how funny the Mutant Maggots’ dynamic is on principle. Mean girlfail lesbian, army bro who pisses his pants every five minutes, 4’10” dude who knows physics and entomology and psychology but hasn’t touched grass before, ride-or-die Jersey Girl whose hair is solid glue and still looks good, tumblr girl with mythic RSD, and the most wet cat boy in the world are forced to be on the same team and rapidly flip between working together to dominate the game and having the craziest beef in the world, and they all come in 8th place or higher. And one of them wins the game and it is the last one of them you’d expect. I love them
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How does the Twelfth Squad work even
For some reason the weird mentor-mentee? Employee-boss? Twisted found family? relationship between Kurotsuchi Mayuri and his third seat Akon (who is, full disclosure, my fave for his long-suffering tolerance for 12th squad and shinigami shenanigans in general) has been sloshing around my brain recently, so I figured I’d write it out for my own reference. There’s not much shown regarding the relationship in canon, but here are the broad strokes.
1. Mayuri probably pulled Akon out of Maggot’s nest soon after he was tapped by Urahara to start the Shinigami Research Institute
Evidence: a) Akon is in Maggot’s nest when Urahara goes to recruit Mayuri, but for whatever reason Urahara doesn’t mention or seem to acknowledge his existence beyond just another prisoner. Also, Akon appears to be disassembling some kind of device and/or dissecting a small creature.
b) Some time after the establishment of the Shinigami Research Institute, Akon joins as Mayuri’s personal lab assistant, despite Akon being a child (or at least child-sized). They appear to have a cordial relationship, as opposed to Akon’s somewhat antagonistic relationship with Hiyori and dismissal of Urahara.
2. Mayuri appears to leave many of the day to day dealings of the 12th squad to Akon.
Evidence: a) Akon is most often seen directing other members of the SRDI when Mayuri is busy. Sometimes even when he’s not.
b) Other SRDI members have a lot of trust in him as a leader, possibly even more than their actual captain, which isn’t that unexpected considering Mayuri’s track record with underlings includes lots of explosions.
c) Akon is the one to give a report on the first Quincy attack in TYBW arc, despite Mayuri standing right there. (In the manga, he sends out a broadcast instead, which isn’t exactly the same, but shows he’s got enough authority for a PSA).
3. Akon shares Mayuri’s dubious morality regarding experimental subjects, but seems to care about the people close to him.
Evidence: a) Akon is present during Mayuri’s study of the Quincies. (I know this is anime only, but he’s not exactly opposed to it in the manga either)
B) he also was involved with the Nemuri project, which I don’t doubt was quite gruesome at times.
4. Akon does not always agree with Mayuri and sometimes takes things into his own hands, which Mayuri seems to tolerate.
a) Akon has cameras in Mayuri’s quarters, which Mayuri either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about
b) Akon makes the executive decision to call Ichigo and Urahara in Hueco Mundo, despite Mayuri saying that it’s unnecessary
In conclusion:
Although Mayuri is the main brainpower of the 12th squad, Akon is the one who keeps the lights on. Akon respects his captain but isn’t afraid to proceed with his own plan of action. Mayuri likely recognizes the usefulness of having someone take over the boring administrative tasks so he can go do his mad science and shit-talk the other captains while someone holds the squad together and remembers to clean out the biohazard trash often enough so that no weird mutant creatures grow out of it.
Besides the purely pragmatic aspects of their relationship, I also think there is mutual respect of each other’s skill. Akon's worked on a lot of Mayuri's big projects, including the Nemuri project, which was Mayuri's greatest dream and ambition. Even Kuna, who has probably been there almost as long as Akon, did not know about the Nemuri project until he brought it up.
On a more emotional level, I think they have a mutual understanding as well. Both were condemned by society and thrown into Maggot's Nest for their interests or their potential. They both have body modifications (Mayuri's ear situation and face paint, and Akon's horns which he definitely didn't have as a kid) that mark them as outsiders, deviant in some way from the rest of society, but proud of it. For them, the twelfth squad, and the SDRI in particular, is a refuge, a place where their ideas are seen as valuable instead of unnatural, where they can be admired instead of shunned and locked away in Maggot's nest.
In conclusion, though they may be dysfunctional and probably a bit too interested in dissection and human experimentation, Akon and Mayuri have tolerated and even respected each other for at least a hundred years. May they continue to do so (with minimal danger to the rest of society) for a hundred more.
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