We need to get kakucho out of the gym before he gets too strong :/
izana is right. despite being the youngest, kakucho had quickly caught up to the rest of them in terms of strength, and if ran wasn't careful, he'd surpass him in speed and stamina as well.
ran is not ready to renounce his crown, now or ever.
' i have a plan. he likes to cook, right? i'll get rindou to teach him how to make certain... difficult recipes. '
— by which he means, of course, that he will tell rindou to make the recipe instructions hard to understand and impossible to follow so kakucho would be too busy trying to make sense of them while it eats away at his time at the gym... all the while ran gets to sample their results. a genius plan, if he does say so himself.
Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that
smth i think ppl get wrong when writing jon is that he has to be a bitch but he cant be cruel. if you take away his bitchyness its not jon anymore, he just becomes a fanon husk of himself. but if you make him too mean, then you're forgetting the awkward politeness and humanity of jonathan sims. remember: he may be a stubborn dickhead, but he let martin stay in the archives without having to be asked, even back in season 1