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daddy longbao just landed in la baby

[mobiuslake]

do u think he’s going for 20 straight chapters this time? the next 10 have been done for a bit.

for the sake of the publishing rate i hope so

[mobiuslake]

https://youtu.be/6goualMmN2g lol

heard about this store already from japanese hxh fandom and wish i could visit to see all the illustrations. i do not have international travel money however.

[mobiuslake]

remaking twice was a mistake because i like having everything in one place and hit my limit for saying the same things i've already said after about two or three years

[mobiuslakes]

help i thought pariston was the one speaking in this panel for more than a year and a half and got real fucking confused abt 

1) why he says “we do think alike” in 345 as if it’s a new insight for him

2) why he suddenly switched to ore and omae

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[mobiuslakes]

we don’t know ging and pariston’s “complicated” history but apparently it’s given ging time to get used to pariston provoking him meanwhile pariston is only just now getting annoyed by ging enough to think he hates him. what happened kings

[quattrovageena]

today's menu, once again: regarding the logistics of hxh duos relationships

so. ging and pariston. paying a little bit of attention to how they interact, we bump into what can be seen as a contradiction, namely their closeness (or lack thereof)

regard:

pariston about ging

his internal monologue seems to imply he is learning/confirming (note the 'do' in 'we do think alike) something for the first time. this isn't the sort of thing you'd expect someone to figure out after having spent a great deal of time together. it sounds a lot like pariston is finding this out as the reader is too, which is peculiar. perhaps the zodiac meetings weren't great for getting to know ging (especially if he's usually absent)

on the other hand, however, ging about pariston...

complicated. note, this translation is unfortunate in that it leaves out a crucial detail (which is that ging is actually referring to pariston as the shortened 'paris') that just furthers this sort of contrasting view they have of their relationship; ging calls him by a nickname, pariston politely and perhaps professionally goes with the distant 'ging-san'. going back to the screenshot, however... this is interesting. if it were just that they were coworkers like any other zodiacs, calling it a complicated history seems a bit much. so what gives?

the type of scenario i can picture is one in which they know of each other a lot longer than they have actually interacted (like a summer friendship, across many years but only ever meet occasionally) which is fascinating. was communication done through netero (who might've enjoyed the idea of these two butting heads -> actually the 'we do think alike' might very likely be a confirmation of something netero himself told pariston), building an image of the other up in their minds. were they constantly throwing a wrench in the others plans without direct contact? potentially, ging and pariston both seem to agree the latter really wanted ging's attention for ages, so was the fact ging is so distant a factor in fueling pariston's strange focus on him? much to ponder.

final sidenote: there might also be a difference in how confident they are of having understood the other. pariston seems to strongly believe in ging's qualities and skills (duh), but be more cautious about making judgements about the man himself too early, meanwhile ging, while having a good grasp on paristons modus operandi...

...might be a bit overconfident...

(also hehe note the smug-fruity pose in ging's mental image of pariston. definitely much to ponder)

[mobiuslake]

my commitment to hxh fast approach approaching The Beato Number is driving me a little insane

[mobiuslakes]

if this bitch is being manipulated by pariston y’all heard it here first

[mobiuslake]

kaiser is not working for benjamin, halkenberg, or morena...it's hard to think of any other prince or queen who wouldn't want to secure the justice bureau, gather intel, or plan hits on rival princes. with beyond being revealed as having a candidate in the succession battle, i'm only more convinced of my years long theory that kaiser is aligned with him. the unknowns of each would fit perfectly into one another.

so who is the prince that kaiser aiding for beyond? it might actually be fugetsu, a fraternal twin who by whatever unorthodox means could be beyond's child while her sister is nasubi's. i was thinking that kaiser has been too careless of her safety (the needle ball, her adventure on the lower tiers, the escape attempt, the unexorcised curses) but i don't see much of a reason for him to attach himself to kacho otherwise. keeping fugetsu's parentage secret is a good enough reason to for kaiser to be under the influence of a manipulative or memory revising ability—beyond doesn't tell things to pawns. not the expedition team members we meet before the voyage, not bill sayird and kurton, not longhi or her siblings.

fugetsu being the prince would also be a good opportunity to cause conflict between longhi and kurapika over a prince who is a child and protected by one of kurapika's trusted allies.

late queen problem don't sink me. i've been thinking about this arc going on six years and i want a fair shot at figuring this out without yet another wild card thrown in.

[mobiuslake]

the baby in unma's room being benjamin's was so obvious i didn't dwell on the possibility. was this child conceived at carnival, thus explaining the timing of morena's backstory? was it scarred? isn't scarring supposed to bar succession? did benjamin leverage his position to keep the child from being scarred? who's the mother? what'll happen to it when benjamin's plan fails?

[mobiuslake]

the juxtaposition between someone playing for the love the game and someone forced into a game for their survival. if borksen is going to understand morena it'll be through the empowerment experienced by leveling up through murder, something more immediate and straightforward than her career as a soldier yet perfectly suited for someone with ambition. morena is not going to understand borksen—she was never listless and free to choose a path until she developed her ability. you can see why she craves this amount of control, and the possibility of winning when she had none before.

[mobiuslake]

モレボク

there needs to be a — between the first two kana of borksen’s name

[mobiuslake]

zero fics for morena/borksen on ao3. get chopping.

[mobiuslake]

I’m hearing Bork cheated by crumpling the card?

by marking the card and then crumpling it to hide the evidence

[mobiuslake]

none of this is me hating on morena/borksen btw. let the fujo understand.

[mobiuslake]

this is so specific. did your ex girlfriend look through your phone morena

[mobiuslake]

morena does not care about borksen’s “right” to show nothing, she’s just incurious about what borksen actually feels or intends as long as she cooperates—i don’t think morena was teasing her about the kiss, she genuinely wasn’t considering her displeasure. just like she was genuinely flattered when bork asked about /herself/. but all morena needs to know about borksen? that she’s a specialist and a soldier of the 4th prince. if bork betrays her later on that’s a risk she accounted for.

even though morena is framing herself as the trespassed person with her example, bork is not here of her own volition. it’s as if she’s lost sight of who holds power in this situation in her eagerness.

[mobiuslake]

I read another translation of it and good translated a bit of a different one in Portuguese and there’s no mention of harassment in either of them, just ‘while I was attending to your little request’. Dunno what the Japanese says but I’ll wait for the officials ig

On a different note, next chapter might end on nen classes since 411 also shows them.

i need to get back in the habit of looking at the raws first. regardless of the wording it’s clear bork didn’t want it or enjoy it and people arguing that she technically agreed to it are defending some highly questionable ethics so they don’t have to feel uncomfortable.