"hur hur kayaba couldn't even remember why he did it"
WRONG
he knows EXACTLY why he did what he did, just not how to properly explain it
and neither do i
all i can say is that if you've spent enough time reading the light novels the shape of the Castle just naturally and inadvertently forms in your mind and never leaves ever again
and that's when you finally understand
and it's also when you start sounding like a lunatic to anyone who hasn't gotten to that point yet
Side note but I love this guy (whose name I keep forgetting sorry) I love how they make him the right amount of silly and serious. Also it’s cool to get an older male mentor figure who doesn’t act like he belongs on a list.
yk what i hate though. is when i find a meme and im like THIS IS SO [cool intimidating mutual i never talk to] I SHOULD SEND IT TO THEM but then i remember ive never talked to them ever and so i cant just like give them a meme out of the blue and so the meme just withers and rots in my camera roll 😔
My current Zeztz theory is that Baku’s actually dead and all that’s left is a dream of him being sustained by the ExDream Capsum and he’s going to be truly revived in the finale. My alternative to that is that Baku just straight up isn’t a human anymore and not in the ‘merged with a nightmare way’ (though he did do that) but like in a he’s slowly turning into an eldritch monstrosity of dreams.
Also I literally can’t ship Baku without it being a throuple at minimum and even than it’s hard. It’s just hard to ship him for some reason.
Also also I saw this transfem Baku head canon and I can’t get it out of my head.
Card text: Cannot be used as material for an Xyz Summon. except for the Xyz Summon of a FIRE Warrior monster. You can Normal Summon this card without Tributing, but its original ATK becomes 1300. Once per turn: You can make all Level 4 Beast-Warrior monsters you currently control become Level 8 until the End Phase.
I love the dub of this scene. Jim brags that he took an "Archeology on Dueling" class twice at his school. Got an A both times and then insinuates that Kenzan doesn't have good grades~
AU where Subaru is actually from a world where animal people exist and nothing else changes. (LONG)
Usually, people just stay in their human forms, and go half-shift with people they're comfortable with / when they're sleeping. But of course can also go full shift.
Then like. Subaru is just a cute lil bunnygirl. With floppy ears and a fluffy tail. And then she's a lil-er actual bunny. Who's so soft and small and cute.
"Oh wow! You' can shift further, Subaru? Can I see?"
*Puts her in Emilia's lap to for pets*
Oooh, but like. Showing yourself fully shifted wouldn't be something you would see normally in the real world. Like. People just stay normal. And touching someone's animal traits without permission would be the biggest faux pass- like how touching a stranger's hair is creepy.
Which would suck for Subaru because we know that she loves petting fur.
Of course this Subaru would also love getting her fur pet. But she was really depressed pre-canon and so probably would not have had proper time with her family and would end up being really touch-starved when she gets isekaied.
Then all of the touch she gets when she first arrives would be violent. Which would be even worse for her as The Bunny, because rabbits are social creatures!
Meaning that the first proper positive touch she would get would be from Emilia in the final Mansion Loop! Ehe~
Subaru with really soft shiny pretty fur that she's really proud of.
But then she gets mauled by the Wolgarm and the damage carries over. Now its all mottled, except she's usually really covered up so no one knows until she goes bunny and then everyone freaks out.
One of the Wolgarm tearing one of her ears off and it has to be regrown but now it looks weird (to her, but no one else can really tell) and she can't hear as well as she used to which really messes with your sense of balance. Now she's clumsier than before which makes fighting go worse. (Like in the Julius fight, remember how due to the curse damage she wasn't fully healed when that happened)?
And what if after Emilia leaves her in the capital she panics and transforms?
Annnnnd what if she hadn't actually fully transformed since that time in Emilia's lap, because she was scared of what her scarred bunny-form would look like.
Then, someone would come into the room to find her. (Probably either Rem or Ferris). That person of course finding this tiny baby bunny who looks like it was dropped in front of an angry dog to use as a chewtoy. (Well... she did call the Wolgarm distraction plan Operation Chewtoy. Why did she call if that if she didn't want angst written about her? She's literally asking for it)!
For those who don't know, rabbits are some of the most spookable animals ever. If they are not happy they are freaking the fuck out. No in between.
So, Subaru is having the worst panic-shift panic-attack ever. Her skin is pulling weird around her scars; she hasn't transformed to groom herself in too long so her fur is all messy; and in some places the fur is just gone.
So either Rem, who tortured her, or Ferris, who is Ferris, is the one to find her.
Rem of course, would Rem about it. Which (sorry Rem) would not be very useful to a Subaru who (despite loving her) is (canonically) still scared of her. This would probably be pulling Subaru out from under the bed (DO NOT DO THIS TO ANY RABBIT) and trying to sooth Subaru through hugs. (She get's bitten a Lot until Subaru finally passes out from stress).
Meanwhile Ferris... probably wouldn't have been told about Subaru being Bunny. It's not like it related to Subaru's damaged gate or anything. Butttttt Subaru being Bunny would also explain quite a few things in regards to her everything.
Of course Ferris would first have to realise that this fucked up bunny hiding under the bed was Subaru.
Ferris who's trying so hard to not freak out while coaxing the Su-bunny out from under the bed to see all of the messed up fur and scars that Subaru has.
Ferris having a lot of uncomfortable thoughts about how a fucked up baby rabbit who is. Very visibly Baby. Combined with Subaru's general everything. When you add in how some demihumans have wacky aging. Probably is an actual baby. Babies don't know how the world works. (He's not wrong, about how Subaru is (by our standards) a child, and that Subaru doesn't know shit. He's just wrong about Subaru being a literal fucked up baby).
But also its Ferris so he Ferris-es in this situation.
An hour or so later, someone (probably Rem or Crusch) would come into the room to find a very stressed Ferris brushing the fur of a very fucked up Su-bunny while sending in as much pain-killing soothing magic as possible because there is no way that attempting to clear Subaru's mana-pathways while she's in this state could end well.
Either way, even after Subaru calms down from Emilia leaving and passes out and everything. She'd probably end up being stuck in full-shift.
Like. Once she can even process things with her human brain again, she'd still be so stressed out. It would take a few days and a lot of spending safe-time with Ferris for her to be able to go into half-shift so Ferris can work on her mana pathways.
She'd be sooo behind on healing in comparison to her canon counterpart.
Haah, then for the loop where she got all fucked up and traumatised by Betelgeuse, she'd probably go full bunny. No more human thoughts for her no thank you.
It would be so fucked up.
...Ferris explaining to Julius that Subaru doesn't just look like a fucked up child. Subaru is a fucked up demihuman baby. In Lugunica. With Julius being a Royal Knight.
Julius would spend the next week drafting apologies.
Kyah. Lots of angst. Time for a palate cleanser. *pulls on Bunny-baru's little tail to mess with her*
Tucker, the cat behind Lady Normalgirl’s noble eunuch, passed away on Tuesday morning.
From about the time I could talk, I dreamed of having a pet cat — and when I was ten, that dream finally came true. But in all my tiny child dreaming, I don’t think I could have imagined a cat better than Tucker. He’s been my constant companion for the last thirteen years, through all the best and worst bits of my life and as much as I know it’s good he’s no longer in pain, it seems very wrong that I have to do this next worst bit without him.
I’m thankful that we were able to spend so long together (even if it doesn’t feel quite long enough) and I’m so very grateful that over the last year and a bit I was able to share him with all of you. Knowing that he will be remembered so far and wide means more than I can really express. He definitely knew how insanely much I loved him (and I know how much he loved me back), but I’d like to think he knew how much so many of you loved him and how much joy his noble likeness’s comics brought so many people. While I know I will never stop missing him and that my sadness might never truly go away, it will always be a comfort to know my little cat has left behind such a grand legacy of love and happiness.