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underrated friendship stage is the "testing the waters to see how much of a freak you are" stage. let me microdose being feral to see how you react. i have one large eye on you at all times waiting for you to give me Secret Permission to be a pervert or a weirdo. when will the shameless whore dam break. The Freak Rituals are sacred and time honoured and their importance cannot be overstated
Alberu: i have an Idea
Cale: i also have an idea
Alberu: as long as it doesn't involve you getting hurt
Cale: ....
Cale: let's go with your idea-
I really wish Choi Han's unworthiness test had been explored further, especially his thoughts on little Kim Rok Soo. It was so interesting to see the shock he felt upon witnessing the abusive childhood his best friend endured, not only uncovering a part of Cale's past but also understanding where some of his motivations came from, especially regarding the children he took in. All the anger and indignation Choi Han felt upon realizing he was meeting the test requirements simply by providing Rok Soo with the basics (food, clean clothes, comfort, safety), because that child had nothing. The realization that the suspicious expression, the alert posture, and the overly mature look for his age were the result of years of abuse by his guardian. And if the content of the test wasn't bad enough on its own, it's made even worse by Choi Han participating in the test the God of Despair created in Endable and seeing the apocalyptic world Kim Rok Soo has lived in since he was twenty. The test of unworthiness showed Choi Han how his friend didn't lead a peaceful life, how he was always struggling in one way or another.
We got very little insight into this test, and we didn't even know how it ended—whether Choi Han simply provided what he could for little Rok Soo or whether he fulfilled our collective desire to give his uncle a good Adin-style beating and put Rok Soo in a place where he would be better cared for. I really wish we had gotten more of Choi Han's perspective during this test. To see what he thought and how he reacted as he witnessed more of his best friend's difficult childhood, realizing that the person who gave so much to him and others had very little, almost nothing, his entire life. I also like to think that after these tests, where he witnessed pieces of Kim Rok Soo's life, combined with Jung Soo's memories, Choi Han began to better understand Cale's tendency to constantly engage in struggles against any potential danger to his family and his desperate desire for a lazy life. Choi Han is one of Cale's most loyal and devoted family members, and he feels most indebted to him after all the help he's received. I really wish I could have experienced the full torrent of emotions he felt while going through that test.
All these posts about Cale-nim I'm seeing are making me think a lot.
Cale-nim never felt like he was a good person. Despite all the good that he did, it never really registered to him that his kindness can truly be seen as kindness.
I think that's why Choi Han likes him, loves him, adores him—idolises him, even.
For someone who had been living in filth in its truest sense, yet still be seen as a "hero" by someone so kind... Maybe that twisted view of kindness that Cale-nim has was what saved Choi Han. It's still saving him now.
To Cale-nim, Choi Han is the protagonist, the hero of the story.
But Cale-nim is Choi Han's hero.
Cale Henituse be like: I'm a very selfish, evil person. Those orphans in the slums? I'll take them to my home, make them eat three meals a day, force them to stay clean and healthy and have them work hard for me to recruit more orphans, for the measly reward of good food and warm home and education. The hurt protagonist who lost his family? I'm going to feed him my personal chef's steak and scam him into believing that I'm a good person. Oh I'll also put him into work so the kingdom is safer for the sake of my slacker life. The crippled noble? I'm going to take away his last ray of hope for my own health and send him to suck up to the crown prince who has a meh healing ancient power, which might or might not be what he needs. The orphan wolf boy? I'll get him and his young siblings to train very hard in my territory because well, why not. The runaway princess? I'll act like I don't know her identity because formalities are annoying, totally not to make her comfortable, also let's rope Choi Han and Lock into helping her get her revenge on the noble who tried to assassinate her. The quarter dark elf crown prince? Oh of course I'm going to give him dead mana so he can keep working harder for the kingdom. Blackmail him? Sure, gotta infiltrate his bedroom with my average eight years olds and eat all his cookies since I know a weakness of his. The assassin Butler who feeds me lemonades? Maybe give him a raise to make him scram off and a new arm so he can serve me better. And blow up the island where he lost his arm, because when was blowing up islands not fun? A necromancer shunned by the world? I'm going to give her the creepy bones in my backyard and make her fight in the Henituse territory so I don't die. Also make her a hero instead of me, for the sake of my slacker life.
Oh well. How evil and empathetic of my part, man I'm such a trash -_- Ohn why are you looking at me like that?
Cale: This body's biological mother will surely hate me. After all, I stole her only son's body.
Jour: You're so cute! Here, take my ancient power and the generational research of my family. Oh, and do you want to be the patriarch of the Thames family?
Cale: ...Huh?
Cale: Surely, the original owner of this body will hate me for taking over his body and giving that disgusting body in return. He might even wish for me to go to hell.
OgCale: I'm grateful to you for taking care of my family and this extremely hot body. May you have a peaceful life ahead of you.
Cale: ...
The Wind Island trial is cruel in so many ways that sometimes I feel like hitting the Sound of the Wind.
Cale is forced to experience a reality where the new chance at life he was given becomes another failure, another life where all he has left are the memories of the people he failed to protect. Where once again he is alone. The vision within the trial was not just a projection of his fear, but a reflection of the past that continued to haunt him, where everything and everyone he dared to love was lost while he remained behind. His parents, his brothers, his friends, his colleagues—everyone, in both lives, dead. Only polished and embellished stories left behind, the truth of who they were when the world wasn't looking remaining exclusive to him alone, in memories he was unable to forget. The super rock village, the place he once saw as the home they would all live in, became the tomb of the memories his family left behind, each room holding its treasure, just as it had ten thousand years ago with its ancestral powers. And even among these memories, many were related to Cale, gifts he gave his family, small tokens of his love for them. Choi Han's sword, Ron's prosthetic arm, Lock's diary, Mary's bones, Basen and Lily's pen and sword, among others. Cale walked through those all-too-empty hallways, in a house that should never have been so silent, that had become too big, too cold, empty of everything it should have had, checking every door, experiencing the pain of every memory, dragging himself deeper into the well of grief, and reached the last room. It was there that Cale experienced a new pain, a kind of loss he had never had to experience before, centered on the three incomplete piggy banks. He also lost his children. The children he'd taken in and sworn to protect, the ones he'd strived to ensure always had everything they wanted, that they would never be cold, hungry, or afraid again, the children he'd come to love and see as his own... they were gone too. A new, unknown failure that shattered a part of his heart whose existence he hadn't even fully acknowledged yet.
A test where no matter how much Cale struggled, persisted, or tried to change the situation he found himself in, his failure could not be reversed. He was left only to face the consequences of his incompetence in protecting his family.
It was at that point that Cale had to acknowledge that he'd failed to stay away and that he'd come to love all these people too much to bear losing them. A test that forced him, in the cruelest, most twisted way, to acknowledge the truth held in his heart that he'd insisted on denying. The point that made Cale even more determined to protect his family and ignore his own health in the process, because he didn't truly care if he got hurt, only that he couldn't allow the illusion he was experiencing to become reality.
“Cumplane” is legit the ultimate ship name. First of all, it combines both of there names and makes a sex joke. Iconic. But second of all, it is a homophone to “complain” which is something they both do an awful a lot of.
Some people say that there are no stupid questions, which is blatantly false. Of course there are stupid questions, and if you have one, you had better ask it, before you go and do make a stupider mistake. Stupid questions are more important than intelligent ones. I’m willing to bet more people die because of stupid mistakes than because of intelligent ones.
The inherent comedy of detective conan is outsiders seeing this elementary kid running around in places children really shouldn't be and getting too curious for his own good meanwhile these bunch of high profile very capable adults are tagging along with him like they are his royal babysitter and he is the son of president or something.
I cannot relate to people who dislike female characters for “being manipulative.” She’s literally creative problem solving before your eyes. She’s literally just using her words. Maybe the other blorbos should be less pawn-like for her beautiful hands hmm
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lowkey becoming a Till hater after this. I hte that guy (Regretted writing this 2 seconds later)
It was established earlier in the series that some of the cast do have parents, some know their parents or remember their face, some don't, I feel like it was important to us to know this fact about Till, because this comic answers more questions about him than I had thought, such as where his sense of humanity originates from entirely.
Starting the comic off with "Lo has always wondered ever since the creation was born whether or not providers also felt the same emotions that they were feeling towards the creation" shows more about the environment of Alien stage than I initially thought, Lo seems to love Till more than any "parental figure" I've seen in alien stage, its real, its affectionate, but Alien stage is so dystopian and detached from our society that Humans have no real solid attachment to morality, social code, etc. Aliens could never relate to humans either, so how can they enforce what they don't understand? This leaves Humans to figure it out on their own because no matter what, they'll still be human and feel inexplicable emotions. Love is one of these major emotions that get confused. and loving someone is normal, but I can imagine "Providers" can't afford to be as attached to their "Creations" as Lo was, they couldn't help forming a special bond with Till. But I love that it's immediately established that Lo loved Till as much as they could, and he wasn't brought into the world without care and familial love.
And it's also made clear that Till's passion for art and music was apparent from the jump.. even as a child, he composed his own song and sang it to his mother, he started showing skill and talent at a young age, he was as much of a prodigy as he's always been said to have been, but Lo's expression upon realizing that is so unmistakably afraid. Lo knew more than anyone in that situation how risky it would be letting Till go on because singing, they were more than familiar with the environment of Alien stage, the elaborate display of talent and entertainment on the big screens, the inauthentic excitement of the performers, Till was almost just like them, and Lo knew that Alien stage was where innocent children like him go to be chewed and spat out by Segyein until they had their fill and moved on to the next talent, Lo feared that fate all the same, humans like them didn't have the right to just sing when they want however loud they want, their voices didn't belong to them. Not anymore, but Till had made it into something of his own, he was too naive to know the truth.
They knew the risk, as a survivor, Lo knew what life, what horrors Till would be subjected to if this was ever found out by the aliens who would only use it to hurt and market him, to put him through a grueling cycle of pain until he too met his end on that stage. Lo's ear notch is a nod to their experience, and they were completely right. But as a mother, they didn't even want to take that innocence away from Till, not when his eyes sparked so brightly and pitifully.
In relationships like these in Alien stage, I always see that there is a choice to make between breaking making reality clear or reveling in obliviousness, it happens with Ivan and Sua, Sua and Mizi, Till and Mizi, etc etc. Something has to give and take.
Sua's sister is my favorite example of this kind of exchange, she told Sua bluntly that she would be doomed on that stage as she is now, that she was pitiful, if only to ensure her safety in some twisted, caring way, it effected Sua a lot as a child, living with such deep seated trauma caused Sua to develop an obsession with safety and security based on the fear her sister instilled in her so deeply, to find that warmth in Mizi, Sua was content living in delusion until she had to face it, continuing the cycle.
Lo made the decision to let Till remain oblivious, they, too, found comfort in such childish carefreeness. Like they had hope, they let Till keep singing despite their unease. They cared so deeply about Till enough to prioritize him being himself rather than making him suppress his spirit. The darkness that shadows over Lo's perspective in contrast to the light that makes Till's shines behind Till shows the difference between living in fear--delusion and living freely, oblivious.
The cruelty of their situation was overshadowed by love for a moment, Lo's one wish for their son-- that he would grow up knowing what it's like to love and be loved and chase after the feeling--if only in his heart he would remember how much they tried to show him that love and actively seek it after they're gone, or give it to someone else. They wanted to teach him to be himself through encouraging his love for music.
I don't believe they failed at all. Till was fully aware of how much he meant to his mother, it was so obvious. He loved making them proud, and making them smile and sing with him every time he tried to replicate those 'good cries', Till loved Lo back equally, and as he grew up he never stopped loving.
One thing about Lo's wish was that they hoped Till would never grow up alone. Till's separation from his mother must have had more of an impact on him than we could ever realize from his perspective, even if we never hear about it again, even if he's forgotten about it, suppressed it, it's a trauma that has deeply plagued his subconscious. He lives with that wariness for the rest of his life.
It was Till's fear that stemmed from the pain and regret of losing his mother that caused him to avoid attachments, emotionally suppressing himself, and he keeps his heart behind restrictive chains because he can never let that vulnerability be used against him again, it explains a lot about his relationship with his friends, how he percieves his own relationship with them after going so long not addressing his feelings. He craves connections but fear, and being in the middle of confusion makes him freeze in place and run back to old habits. Jumping to feelings he can easily rationalize, hatred, anger--or avoiding conflict all together.
Even after Lo and Till were separated, Till did not grow up without love, or without the feeling of loving, even though he was alone in his own self-made bubble distanced from his peers, there is a difference between isolation and loneliness, in his case, he remained distant even with his closest friends, or the girl he loved more than anything, as a way to protect himself. But he was never left alone with 4nakt beside him.
When Till can only realize he's loved when he can recognize it and see it for himself, thats what makes the comic being focused on the whole group rather than just Mizi or Ivan interesting, and telling about his character. It drives home the fact that Till was also a little kid who craved connection just like the others, he expects to be left to himself, and his friends seek him out naturally. He valued and loved all of his friends. rather than a specific person like Sua focuses on Mizi and Ivan focuses on Till this shows that everyone who stayed with Till had an importance to him
(Even Sua looks somewhat fond...)
Till grew up knowing what it was like to be cared about and loved it, sought it out, and inherited that touch from his caretaker, What Till gained from his relationship with his mother shows in the way he treats Mizi, Ivan, even Sua. Mizi's kindness and care were a familiarity, something that instantly attracted him to her, it likely reminded him of his mother in a way and he subtly sought out her attention for that very feeling of love and feeling cared for.
With Ivan, he couldn't help caring about him in little ways, it was only natural, if only because it was part of Till's nature to nurture, letting Ivan be himself around him as a parallel to the way his mother encouraged him to be loud about his interests. And Sua, even if they weren't close at all, Sua was an acquaintance to him, hell even the way he treats a little broken flower with just as much compassion shows us how much Lo impacted Till's growth
To the Segyein, Humans are nothing more than a product, to those who disobey, they are punished, to those who comply, living to sing on stage and feed the aliens is their "prize" for living through it all. Their separation was something Lo saw as a their punishment for having their own little rebellion in making music for themselves, loving it, making it into something the aliens couldn't use against them, it was their own little fun, and they could do it freely. It was an inevitable consequence that they could have prevented as Till's caretaker
In the end, Lo probably never lived to see her son grow up, but they prayed for Till's pursuit of happiness. The traces of them, the evidence of their care that they tried to deeply thread into Till's person stayed with him forever, exactly what kind of trace Lo had left on him...they taught him how to love and be loved, they let him love art, they showed him what living freely with no restraints was like, that's the kind of life he fights for even after he's trapped in this system. her impact keeps him kind-hearted and fighting. It keeps him human despite all of the pain he was burdened with as he grows up
And even when his art is his pain, the creation of art and music reminds him of why he lives, what he lives for, it gives him a vague sense of hope even if for a moment, it brings him that same joy he had when he was a child
"Exactly what kind of trace"
The traces you leave behind is what's important to a human, every human is born to die, what matters most is how you live your life, what impact and memory you leave behind, I love Lo's character, even if we have little context around her background, because she knew that fact and wanted nothing more than to leave a meaningful impact on Till, if they were to one day die they wanted to leave him with a trace of them, a message he would never let go of. and that sentiment became deeply intertwined in his being. Till's emotions, his love, makes him the character he is.
The title of the comic expresses this too. "evidence" or "traces"--this comic is evidence of Lo's impact, evidence that Till was loved and knew how to love in return, Till had relationships. His entire existence was the product of love, it's evidence that he was alive and had humanity, that's what makes this comic even more tragic. It's evidence that he was human at all when we can forget that in the midst of the chaos of all of their lives. Innocence where the aliens don't bother to acknowledge. Till isn't a weapon, or a product. And this perspective of him through his mother's eyes reflects that.
The humanity that he holds within himself even after losing family connects him to more people who prove to care for him as deeply as he cares for them. Till was lonely but never alone with the love he had around him, they always come back, the relationships around him that his mother wished he would have so that he would never sink into a lonely abyss, only a boy and his song, and on that wall is a drawing that draws a picture of a life he's always wanted, a real heavenly garden with real trees and a real sky, and the drawing includes the four of them together, because he had always envisioned a life worth living, free, with all of his friends by his side.
The translation is done by @/WhatfaFruit
The way that Ivan was the kind of love that Io prayed for their son to have. The way he loved freely and without bounds and gave an unconditional love to Till, no matter what happened he would always love Till and be by his side. Io's prayers were answered.
In a way Ivan was like a guardian angel. No matter what, there would always be someone there to make sure Till was loved.
If there was any purpose to Ivan's guardianship it would be, "Never forget that you are adored."
