talking about toh | season two, episode two: “escaping expulsion”
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and i thought episode one was good!! we have a lot to cover, so let's jump right in! spoilers below the cut, like before.
the beginning
at long last, we've met the blight parents! i have to say, i didn't expect them to be entrepreneurs.
why does everyone at the private sale need a cape? is it illegal to be selling these things so they have to hide their identities? who knows?
i already know most everyone is gonna be simping for odalia, but i don't like her. i don't typically let a character's appearance cloud my judgement.
alador, on the other hand, is fantastic. i was hoping that he would be a himbo with a good heart, and i was right.
amity is back!!! i missed her!!!
the way amity and her mom communicate with the necklace was really interesting. i know she had the necklace last season, and in the intro, but i didn't realize it was for more than just decoration.
i thought amity's deadpan delivery of her lines was hilarious. she's such a mood.
amity carries the grom photo around! i thought that was so sweet.
as we all predicted, odalia is a manipulative bitch. damnit.
the way luz talks about the glyphs sounds like an ad. hilarious.
i love how the clawthorne sisters haven't changed since their school days. lilith is a teachers' pet, and eda is a rebel, which is how i imagine them as kids too.
luz, gus, willow, and amity's plot
the hexsquad is back, baby! i missed them so much! (especially a certain mint-chip lesbian)
damn, witch puberty happens fast! it's been, what, two weeks since we saw gus?
i will now forever call gus "goops".
i will bet anything that a fairy pie is some kind of symbol of love. fight me.
blushy amity has returned! i find it interesting how she puts on such a cool facade at school, after we saw her continuously malfunction last time we got to see her.
how does odalia know luz's last name? even eda doesn't know that.
if luz, willow, and gus got expelled, shouldn't amity have gotten expelled too? she was involved in a lot of their shenanigans (the abomination thing, grom, etc). i know the point was to stop amity from getting distracted at school, and hence keeping her there, but still. i wish someone had brought that up.
i didn't realize how much i missed willow and gus until they reappeared. they're so entertaining.
alador is autistic. so is amity. don't @ me.
i love how gus just. eats the business card. chaotic gus is something i didn't know i needed.
poor bump, he's gotten attached to his little chaos children! i swear, luz has at least four parents so far (camilla, eda, bump, and the pirate from last episode).
also, speaking of which, bump is a part of the abomination coven, according to the mark on his wrist. did we know that? i don't remember. don't correct me if we did.
those crow phones are kind of hilarious.
the scene with amity and luz reminded me of that one scene in s1e17. you know the one.
poor, sweet amity really wants to help luz but her shitty mom is in the way. heartbreaking.
this screencap looks like amity rejected luz's marriage proposal.
the way luz made the abomination into a cat was so cute, i love her.
is alador with odalia because he loves her, or because of familial stuff? he doesn't seem to care much for her.
i found it funny that luz says "i've come to appeal to your hearts, blights" since she's already appealed to one of them.
i believe in amity without her cowl supremacy.
it's hilarious to me that amity can tell that luz was at her house solely because of the cat abomination.
willow's dads have voices now!!! and they're so supportive of their daughter! i hope we get more of them.
i love how amity always comes to luz's rescue whenever she needs it. that's real devotion.
more returning characters! the blight twins showed up too, not to mention coming in clutch with the capes.
i love how, as soon as amity sees the abomaton 2.0, immediately rushes to save luz.
odalia was 100% intending on killing luz with the abomaton 2.0. i will not be taking any criticism.
amity being badass in her cape. that is all.
"my luz" made me SCERAM
luz blushed at amity luz blushed at amity luz blushed at amity
sorry, i got excited. anyway, stan amity for sticking up for her friends!!!
i love how amity jumps to protect luz when the abomatron crushes them with the hammer.
as of the end of the end of the episode, i am now an alador stan.
eda and lilith's plot
i love the clawthorne sisters' rivalry. it's so realistic.
lilith and hooty's friendship continues to thrive. i love them.
the way eda reacts when king gets frozen by the glyph thing was kind of sweet. she cares for her little doggo demon so much.
i really like the way lilith learned how to use the glyphs. i never would have thought of that.
ending
again, not much to say. i am happy to see the golden guard again. also, interesting that belos doesn't want the people to have their own army. is it because he doesn't want them to fight back when his army attacks them?
predictions
i have no idea what's going to happen next. i'm hoping for more lumity, and maybe more alador too. fingers crossed!
this was definitely my favorite out of the two so far. catch y'all in two weeks with episode three!
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Hi everyone!! I hope that you're all doing okay and keeping safe😌💜 I know I have been absent recently, it's been really busy for me. I've also realized that I haven't posted any writing or fics in months, so I'd like to apologize for that. Part of the reason being that I haven't had much motivation to continue writing anything lately. Hopefully it comes back to me soon, because I have so much that I want to share with you!! Once things calm down for me, I might be able to get back into the writing groove. I appreciate your patience, I'll come back soon!!💖💖
More under the cut due to length, personal stuff & mention/gushing of another new f/o🤭💞
In the meantime I've been enjoying my little break from tumblr. It's a nice breather. Still, I can't wait to come back and catch up on what I'd missed!!
Besides that however, I've kind of fallen back into a bad state, mentally. I'm not going to get into any further details because I don't want to bum any of you out with my personal issues/problems. Also, mainly because it's rather uncomfortable for me to talk about. But there's no reason to worry for me. I'm working on it.
With that being said, I'd recently found a form of comfort without even looking for it. It just.. came to me. Which, I found this consolation in another character. A character in which I am way beyond past happy to have been brought back to. I might make a post just for him🥺 Not sure about it yet. I only want to express my love and appreciation for him💞💞 Because this character brings me a great deal of comfort. Gradually, is he making me feel better, slowly bringing me back to myself. Oh yeah, and you bet he's a new f/o of mine🤭🥰 (I have too many f/os already, I need to STOP😭😅)
Anyways, this character is a wonderful German gentleman from the movie Django Unchained named Dr. King Schultz❤
Be still my heart🥴🥰🥰❤❤ (these screencaps were taken by me btw)
As I stated before, during the time of my absence, I re-watched the movie. I've seen this film a few times over the years, and he's been a favorite character of mine. He's just so.. warm, gentlemanly, funny, witty and sarcastic.. ugh I could go on and on with him😭 It wasn't until recently which I had viewed the movie again that I realized I have a deeper love for him, rather than him being just another favorite character. I love him as a significant(fictional.. sadly) other❤❤
So this was how it went.. I was watching the movie with my sister at the time. While watching, I paid closer attention to Dr. Schultz- watching his movements, hearing him talk, his smile.. Then it hit me like a damn train, and I started laughing. I remember the EXACT part, and it was still pretty early in the film😅 My sister noticed and asked me what I was laughing about. I kept giggling and running my hand over my forehead, still in shock at the realization of how in love with him I am. My sister asked again, said she wanted to know what was so funny. I continued laughing and saying, "no no.. oh my god.." on repeat. That was basically my way of voicing 'shit, here I go again😭'
She then impatiently said, "what?" And I replied, "I can't tell you because you're gonna hate me." Which of course, I was joking, it's how we joke around. But she kept pushing because she actually wanted to know. So I gave in and told her there was a character in the movie I found attractive. She was surprised and went, "what? Who?" There were only two men on the screen at the time being- Django Freeman and Dr. Schultz. She pointed at Django first, "him?"
I stifled my laughter, not wanting to admit who to her yet. Because, well for one being that Schultz is by far the highest in age of the characters I have fancied(definitely twice my age, maybe pushing closer to three times😳🥴) My sister pressed again, still thinking it was Django, "is it him?" I looked at her, smiled, and shook my head no. She gasped so dang dramatically and pointed to King, "wait- him??" I nodded proudly then proceeded to laugh at her visibly shocked state. It was the best thing ever😂🤣
He's the one that has been occupying my mind recently, and that's been very soothing for me. Physically, I am here in our world. But mentally and emotionally, I am in another universe with him. A whole other dimension and timeline where we are together. Me and my bounty hunter. Me and my gunslinger. Me and my love. Me and my King❤ He makes me feel safe and loved. He makes me feel like I can do it. There are.. so many wonderful things I feel with King. He owns a very special place in my heart🤞🏼❤
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Why do you think Muriel doesn't like Julien? I'm thinking it's just incompatible personalities (since Julian is loud and dramatic and Muriel is,, not) , but it might also be due to the fact that Julian had an initially somewhat friendly (?) relationship with L*cio, presumably at the time that L*cio took control over Vesuvia. Do you have any theories? I love your analysis(plural) of the game
OH TKJNAKJEFNF THANKS!!
I think it’s a combo of a lot of different things including just that Muriel probably finds his personality grating. I think the MAJOR reason he doesn’t like Julian is literally just because of his complicated relationship with Asra.
Muriel is an incredibly lonely (I typo’d as lovely the first time and that is Also true lol) person, and Asra is the only person in his life who’s stuck around long-term and hasn’t hurt him. He sees pretty much anyone who gets close to Asra as a threat to his relationship with him and tends not to like them (e.g. he universally just does Not like MC at all in any of the routes when he meets them).
I think also it has to do with some complicated feelings about Asra’s curse and him hating to see Asra suffer. I think he (similar to Asra) has complicated feelings about Julian because he blames Julian for MC’s death (and consequently, Asra giving up half his heart to bring them back). Obviously Asra’s been unhappy and lovelorn for several years before the start of the plot in the game, and seeing Asra that way would make Muriel unhappy. He likewise doesn’t like MC for being the cause of this pain for Asra - not that they have any control over that.
He also has a valid reason for feeling unhappy by Asra’s fixation on MC too though, I love Asra so much but literally in the scenes after the arena fight in Asra’s route when Muriel ran away and Asra was like “anyway is MC ok?” I was just like. DUDE. Go comfort your best friend smh!!! He just relived his greatest trauma for you! Asra’s relationship with MC comes at a detriment to his one with Muriel at times, and even in Asra’s upright ending when Muriel is a Little bit better off he’s still lonely.
I think he’s aware on some level that his dislike of MC is irrational, which is why he usually helps them despite his mistrust of them, but he doesn’t seem to be able to get over that with Julian.
This could also be because Muriel has feelings for Asra (as we see in Nadia’s route). I think this is also evidenced by how little we see Muriel in Julian’s route. We see him a lot in both Nadia and Asra’s route, but literally only in the Hermit and in the reversed ending briefly for Julian. Asra and Muriel don’t end up together in this route. I think this is because Julian’s route is the second worst for Asra according to the devs for heartbreak (they described like on a scale of 0-100 for each character that Muriel would be -1000, Nadia/Portia would be 0, Lucio would be 1000 and Julian would be 50 in an ask arcana lol), so Muriel would have spent a lot of time comforting Asra if they did interact in this route, and then Asra still ends up close with Julian in this new found family scenario but Muriel is the odd man out. Whether or not it’s a romantic jealousy thing or just him worried about being abandoned, he clearly sees Julian as a reason Asra might leave him (e.g. in HH when Asra and Muriel are both at Mazelinka’s house, Muriel asks Asra why he’s still talking to Julian when Asra doesn’t mention his name).
Also, beyond Julian’s personality, I think there’s a huge cultural difference between Nevivon, Vesuvia and Prakra.
Muriel likes Nadia, but she also directly acknowledges what happened in the arena was wrong. She’s from a very different place with better systems of law and order who was horrified by the treatment Muriel received, and validates him that it was horrible and shouldn’t have happened to him
Vesuvians seem to be fairly mixed in attitudes to the arena; some loved it and some hated it
BUT we see both Portia AND Julian being extremely excited about the prospect of the arena and the red market. Julian gets a kick out of the idea of playing gladiator (as we see in HH on his Colosseum interaction), and Portia also when she meets Muriel at the Colosseum LITERALLY says to him that she bets he was awesome on the sands and she wishes she could have seen it. Needless to say he’s upset, and this is pretty insensitive, but she genuinely doesn’t think that killing people is something to be ashamed of in that context
Also, Julian is pretty insensitive about Muriel’s privacy and trauma when they meet in his route; he calls him Scourge repeatedly. Even in the HH interaction where Muriel and Julian are both in Muriel’s hut, Asra says “Muriel won’t like you being here”, and Julian literally says “What is he going to do, crush me?”
Like Julian. Listen. I love you to pieces and it’s clear you think he’s hot (kjaefnknaf i can’t stop thinking about “You’re a.... big boy.... (blushing)”) but PLEASE curb your horny for 5 minutes and try to be a little more sensitive and not just “oh giant man please crush me” also please Julian you’re both bottoms this would not work
I think generally there’s a lot of stuff there that means Muriel would feel alienated and objectified by the way Julian behaves, but also just in the way Asra’s relationship with him is complicated. Maybe it also has something to do with him helping Lucio, I mean he doesn’t know about the plague beetle thing so maybe that’ll be a uniting factor for them? That’s a good point that I hadn’t thought of!I’m interested to see how they resolve that tension in Muriel’s route, but I really have No idea how they’re gonna go about it
That was way kajefnkae longer than I thought it’d be this is what happens when you hyperfixate folks lmfao I do have screencaps of a lot of the HH stuff if yall need proof kjaefnfae lmk and I can dig them out
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