admiring his daughters' technical and conceptual grasp on magic and contemplating their idea's wider theoretical implications as he is passing the fuck out may be olruggio's most iconic moment honestly. magic nerd of all time
Just me talking about mostly Jujy and also Hiehart in the Leech arc because I love them
this is the funniest possible way he could have said that. I really like the contrast shirahama sets up here of letting us see how serious he actually is about protecting jujy while still having that spark of humour shine through for now, transferring hiehart from the purely comedic character he's been so far into a more dramatic serious light to carry the rest of this scene. also heart wrenched by jujy thinking it was her fault, and I think it speaks well of hiehart that even under these circumstances he takes a moment to stress that it wasn't. we see her take on a lot of responsibility before this, but it's nice to see that when it really comes down to it hiehart steps up.
this is so well observed as to how children experience the world!!! the scariest thing for jujy isn't the horrible leech that has eaten the sky, it's seeing her attachment figure be overwhelmed by the situation and not responding to her as he normally would. she's understandably freaked out before this but this is where I think she starts to get frightened.
agggggggghhhhh.... :'''(
listen I know hiehart is dying (with to his knowledge no recourse) and has no choice but to give an obi-wan speech about it in the hope of giving her the confidence and hope and drive to survive this without him but buddy NO she won't be okay by herself she's literally twelve 😭😭😭
the way she shields him with her own tiny body I'm gonna die actually
the ages in this comic are mostly deliberately vague which I expect is on purpose, but looking at him here you do get the sense that hiehart is also quite young, as masters go. jujy is his first apprentice. her crashing through the stages of grief in this scene is so painful, and the uncertainty that lingers through it -- the promise that there is maybe a way to fix this, but it's not one he wants her to take -- makes it so much worse for all that it turns out to be a salvation.
5000000 points of emotional damage dealt by shirahama's mastery of expressive hands
godddd this got me straight in the heart because it's such a child's cry. she's so smart and capable and has the straight man role in the dynamic with her master but she is just a child, this is so far above anything she should have to think about
before dagda and luluci show up custas pushes jujy away to start in on the counterclock spell, so she just scrambled to get back to her master when what could be a new threat showed up to protect him. I feel normal about this 2. it's SO good what shirahama is doing here with narrative mirrors. coco, custas and jujy are all children who'll do anything, including contemplating committing forbidden magic and breaking the laws and norms of society, to keep their parental figures. because of course they would!!! nothing could be more human than that. and the parent and child relationships are all different -- coco's biological mother, custas' adopted father and jujy's teacher slash parental figure, as the roles of apprentice and master are entrenched in witch society, they're all treated with the same gravitas because it's all love. jujy's arc supports and illuminates custas' and vice versa here.
*through tears* baby girl baby.... I'm so glad she didn't have to lose him like this after all, though their appearances in the new arc are maybe hinting not everything is quite as it should yet. be safe to both of them and hiehart be good to her she's been through the fucking wringer.
anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF
Hey, people in the comments who said I was wrong about the show being dead because I could see the writing on the wall months ago....well, now there's the official announcement. I really hope that no one ever forgets that Doctor Who was cancelled because of anti-Blackness, racism, and corporate greed.
What's great about Faith's "no such animal [as innocent people]" line is probably the show means it as her cynical take on how everyone is corrupted and there is no hope (a perfectly reasonable thing for her to believe given her circumstances, and a great setup for her "redemption") but EYE like to see it as an undercut to the btvs philosophy of "people are good monsters are evil". There are no innocent people because the categories of "innocent" and "people" are actually not as coherent as buffy believes! Which is constantly shown in the show and yet very rarely acknowledged until (sort of) s6 and then FINALLY really addressed in Buffy's speech in selfless! But then pretty quickly dropped again. RIP MORAL RELATIVISM IN BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER YOU BURNED BRIGHT AND QUICK
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