trying...something...

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[danieyells]

dunno if it was asked before but which relationships in tkb youd like to know more about?

I feel like it's hard to answer this question without just saying 'all of them' lmaoooo I WANNA KNOW EVERYTHING I WANNA KNOW ABOUT EVERYONE.

When did Taiga and Romeo meet? I wanna see their pre-Clash relationship when they were so close!! What's with the fsction divide in Sinostra? Romeo says Taiga is the one able to put a stop to it but he doesn't want to--makes sense, Taiga likes to fight, but also he doesn't seem to care much aboht anything y'know?

Romeo and Leo are friends but Leo's only been at DW less than a year--when and how did they get so close??

Shion and Taiga?? What caused Shion to damage the casino? And how?? Does Taiga hate him because he sees himself in him? Does Shion also hate Taiga?? Is Taiga the "obstacle" Shion says is in Sinostra? What is Taiga in the way of???

Romeo and Hyde's relationship is like we know a lot but also there's so much more going on, the secret missions the trying to help taiga THE AUCTIONS WE NEVER GET TO SEE. . . .

Hyde and Sho??? Why does Sho hate him so much? But also respects him enough to think of him as 兄貴??? Is it just because he's so underhanded and secretive?? How much did Sho know about the Institute before coming to DW??? Hyde wasn't supposed to talk about his work but clearly Sho was informed before coming?

SHO AND LEO. We actually know a lot about their relationship. We actually probably know the most sbout their relationship aside from like. Maybe Yuri and Jiro. BUT I STILL WANNA KNOW I WANT FLASHBACKS.

JIRO AND ZENJI AND SABURO??? WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING THERE WHY DOES JIRO HATE ZENJI AND SABURO'S MEMORY SO MUCH??? Like we can infer that Saburo must have been suffering--Jiro saw the little ghost boy crying in pain and threw up--but what about Zenji? Why does he make him feel so much rage it makes him ill?? Did Zenji hurt Saburo? Did Zenji put Saburo out of his misery and Jiro thinks he could have been saved and resents him for it? Did they make their pacts at the same time?? WE DON'T KNIW ANYTHINF WE KEEP GETTING CLOSE TO IT BUT EVEN ZENJI SAYS HE HATES CONFRONTING THE TRUTH. . . .

JIN AND YURI. . .HARU AND SHION. . .JIN AND HIS FAMILY. . .RITSU AND HIS FAMILY. . .TOHMA AND THE INSTITUTE . . .HAKU AND YAMATO. . .DANTE AND HYDE. . .HYDE AND HODGE AND PODGE AND MOBY. . .LUCA AND HIS BROTHER AND THEIR FAMILY. . .SUBARU AND HIS SISTER. . .TOWA AND ED. . .BENKEI AND FEMJO. . .LIKE BENKEI HAS TO KNOW RIGHT BUT ALSO HE'S BENKEI AND HE ACTS LIKE HE'S BEEN DISCLIPLIED FOR SEXUALLY HARASSING STUDENTS BEFORE AND HE'S GOT A THING FOR WOMEN IN BIKINIS AND JO IS SO PRETTY. . . . . . .ALL OF DIONYSIA. . .THE DIONYSIA-SINOSTRA BEEF. . .HAKU AND JIN. . .THE STAFF. . .THE OVERALL RELATIONSHIPS WITH GEN STUDENTS. . . .

EVERYONE. . . .

[kusanagihaku]

I'm so sorry lin my greed sickens me 😔....but......robot mio........

mel u have no idea how much i wanted someone to send this in!!!!!! same brain fr

send me a ghoul + a hirono for a doodle!! [closed!!]

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i always thought it was interesting that people point out the first anomaly that mc interacts with is the "snakes of hera" and focus on the bridal veil aspect of it. hera was a bride, that's for sure, her and zeus' wedding feast lasted 300 years according to some sources. but according to a lot more of the myths, she was an extremely reluctant bride, not to mention she was never really depicted with snakes.

rambles below the cut, spoilers if you haven't finished chapter one i guess lmao

hera is kind of the epitome of an unhappy bride whose union was forced on her, but she was also the goddess who oversaw marriage and fertility. so i can see where people keep looking into the bride thing. but i don't think the focus should be on the veil.

the only place in mythology we really see hera use snakes is when she sent them to kill heracles as an infant, someone her husband had sired out of wedlock. these snakes were sent out of revenge for a wrong being done to her.

i'm slowly getting the idea, especially after writing that post about the houses, that revenge might also become an important theme in this story. the first anomaly we encounter (other than another greek named one, the kyklos) is named after one of the most classic tales of anger and revenge.

the snakes protect the wearer, the bride, against those who would do her harm. hera would like that. anyone who threatened her marriage (and even her to some extent) she went after. if not directly, then by sending creatures to attack. (actually. literally as i typed that, mc never uses her powers directly to fight the anomalies. we're always sending the ghouls.) the snakes certainly tried to go after romeo. and then later, the snakes turned into a ring.

sure, bridal ring. i could see that, i guess, considering it's on the ring finger.

but this doesn't really give wedding ring vibes. the pentacle on the ring is the main reason why. typically, pentacles symbolize a complete balance of the elements, though it seems this ring gives us the ability to enhance the ghouls' stigmas.

there's been a few hints that some of the ghouls have issues with their stigmas being painful, and it doesn't seem like the process of gaining those abilities was any walk in the park. eating part of the demons soul? eurgh. not to mention most people don't survive making a pact. so i'm wondering if this ring is completing some part of the process that bridges the gap enough that it doesn't affect the human parts of them as much, and thereby strengthens them by giving the full gift, not just a taste of the power.

i've also seen the ring of solomon theory being thrown out, but that one is typically depicted as a six pointed star, not five like we have. i'm sticking by my pentacle theory, because you know what else that symbolizes???

damn chimi how come you got so many cycles in your symbolism

anyways i'm sticking with hera. i think the ring balances the power in the stigmas, represents the cycle we're in, and the combo of hera (protector of women during childbirth.) i'm not saying mc is pregnant, but she certainly is carrying something inside of her, huh :)

[shiongenkai]

i like rambles

I agree revenge and anger may be a large part of the story, but I think the idea of revenge is the Bad Ending of it. Or, more specifically, I believe the moral is that Revenge Won't Help. A cycle needs to be broken.

I like the analysis of Hera's Snakes too, but I also think a lot of people focus too heavily on the idea of the snakes being the ones sent for Herakles or something similar. I think the symbolism present in both Hera and the Snakes is far deeper than just 'unhappy with circumstances and wants revenge'.

There's two parts to it though. The first being Hera, and the second being the Snakes.

Hera is... complex. She's a complex figure due to a variety of reasons, but one of them is that despite her age, not muuuchhhh exists of her, whether mythologically or religiously. What we DO have is largely entertainment-based, meaning her personality is different from how the greeks would've seen her. There's also the modern issue of modern interpretations of Hera being.... not great. She is, like you said, a goddess of childbirth and marriage, but she is also the Wife of the King of the Heavens. The idea of her as Queen of the Heavens came later, so while that does end up as a part of her ideology, it wasn't original to Greece (and I believe was Roman?)

Anyway, the veil is incredibly important imo. The childbirth could also be seen as important given the fact that she will turn into Kyklos herself (thereby giving Birth to a new Kyklos, not to mention flower symbolism often equating to Fertility in mythology, and Hera having flowers as an epithet, among other things) but the marriage is what it really is referring to. Maybe not a literal 'shes getting married!', but certainly some type of metaphorical hieros gamos, or a bridge between the Human World and the Anomalous World. She is literally bringing these two worlds together as a human thrust into this world and given a power very similar to a stigma. She's not a ghoul, but she has ghoul traits. She's a human, but she is deeply non-human. The veil, which then becomes a ring, is a solidification of her role as the bridge between these two worlds, and a symbolic marriage of the two of them into one person. It's also probably not a coincidence that there's moon symbolism associated with MC through her name (Luna). The whispers of the new moon is also the ghoul symbolism, and it is, in addition, attributed to Hera.

Therefore they name her Juno (a juvenescendo, the name signifying a thing that is new or grows young) from the nature of the Moon; and they call her Lucina (as it were bright or shining), and they are of opinion that she helps women in their travail-pains. (Plut. Quaes. Rom. 77)

The relationship she has with Darkwick is also very similar to that of Hera and Zeus. While Hera is consulted on things by Zeus that he wouldn't discuss with others, and while she is trusted by him, she has far less power than he does, and can (and does) get into trouble with him. It's to the point where she may be Captured if she disobeys (and she is captured at some point in her mythology).

And all of this doesn't even mention the Trojan War or how she went against Zeus in that, or how she's revered in many different places as a protector of women, or her connection to flowers and cycles and rebirth, or her veil being a big part of her, how five gods are considered by Plutarch to reside over marriage, how she later is given the power of presiding over prophecy, how her epithet for that relates to holding her hand over something..... I could genuinely go on and on and on.

Snake wise, it's very similar. There's so. so much about snakes. so much to say. too much to say in fact. i would die before i could say it all. Snakes are not only associated with evil and revenge, but also healing and protection. They're underworld creatures (with some gods taking on Underworld Forms, like my best friend, Snake Zeus, Zneus, Zeus Melichios) but they're also associated with Olympic gods (Apollo, Asclepius, Athena, etc).

There's also the Ouroboros, which is the most well known cyclical symbol. In my opinion, the reason it's Hera's Snakes specifically is because it, at first glance and through reputation, harms and kills the wearer and those around it, it is actually protecting them in the best way it knows. It keeps those with intent to harm away, which is also what things like Athena's gorgon shield does. It protects MC in order to solidify her union between the human and anomalous worlds.

Anyway, I could ramble forever abt all of this, but this is. Already way too long I'm so so sorry. I'm so sorry.

[tokutaiseichan]

Sun and moon. Fire and water. Light and dark. Yin and yang.

[profectua]

so what's shion x Haru's ship name? HaruShi? ShiHaru? SagaGen??? Ive always interpreted shion wanting to make haru apart of his family as in shion wanting him to be his husband and the circus animals were their kids lmao

[veraberetta]

Scene redraw! bound MC, anyone? ⛓️

Absolutely loved her dress 💘

[mlm-blues]

listen you NEED to borrow that book from the library. i know youve got like 10 other books lined up to be read but you need to go to the library. remind the library that it's loved and cherished

[veraberetta]

Thank you Mayasan for giving us OL!MC AU 🖥🖨📞✉️⏰💸⛓️

[profectua]

need mio lore NOW because wdym you work 24/7 and dont ask for payment, balance vice-captain duties, and babysit shion...all right after just getting out of detainment????? No worldly desires (in Romeo's words)??? Hes so damn selfless but if he truly had no desires then wtf was his wish?????????

I was thinking this and wondered...hmm....makes him sound like a robot....what if HES a clockwork mechanism??? (Remember his dad also does clockwork). But this is easily disproved. Maybe they're gonna pull a classic 'clockwork heart' trope on him or something. IDKKKK IM SO CURIOUS ABOUT HIM

[tokyduffy]

[tokutaiseichan]

Taiga: *breaks the camera*

Game Master: *hastily* New rule一no breaking properties at all time.

Taiga: This flower shit takes too long. Make it five seconds.

Game Master: ......................... Fine.

Taiga: There's not enough food!!!!

Game Master: ...... I'll replenish them semi-permanently. Feel free to use whatever you need.

Taiga: Pass. You guys go play with that Masked Pervert. I'm gonna take a nap.

Elias: Well, he's here and asking for zero feather is technically still participating in the game, so.

Game Master: ..........

Haku: By the way, what counts as being "looked at"? What if someone else is in her field of vision? If there's a risk of someone accidentally turning into stone, your rules don't really work, you know?

Elias: He has a point. Please be more specific with your explanations.

Game Master:

[profectua]

minor spoilers from s2ep5

I love how theyre showing us how dionsysia's return is actually affecting everything in this timeline and causing a butterfly effect lol like wdym because of the heist Maya is still alive and chose a completely different cast where stakes are much higher because of a completely different anomaly??? I wonder what other major things are gonna change compared to the previous timeline going forward...like with dionysia here, would the lockburn castle team also change?? who's gonna die this time???

I also wonder how theyre gonna bring back ultio (or atleast bring back their characters) because would something like that even be something Elias would do

[profectua]

s2 ep5 spoilers

time for me to go ritsu shinjo mode (lots of assumptions and my so called behavioral models)

this whole thing reminded me of like alice in borderland or something lmao esp with the first game...

and this ep def made me like sho and haku a lot more lmao

but I cant wait 30+ days for the next part aurrhghhhhh....

also loved the amount of characters mentioned. shiki! he sounds real af lmao.

anywho, I think the rogue is elias orrrrr theres multiple rogues or none at all.

with the amount of flowers put into the vessel (400) and half of them coming from haku (allegedly), that leaves 200. Based on what sho said, lets assume he put 50, and knowing Alan, lets say he put in all his points (100). That leaves taigas 200 and Elias's 100. Taiga was asleep most probably. and hes a lazy bum so. jitsu had 0 points. so that leaves Elias. obviously this isnt enough to decide who the rogue is (like sho said), but there's that.

another thing that threw me off was what elias said to taiga. to paraphrase, he said that he wasn't nearly as talented as taiga says he is. Honestly Idk who to believe here. It definitely means that taiga is suspicious of Elias in some way, but also, it means Elias has consistently kept up his 'im weak' gimmick. Now I dont really buy that, especially considering jin and shions reactions around Elias, but yeah. but honestly, I expected more bad blood between Elias and taiga or haku and Alan considering the clash, but I guess not.

they kept bringing up hakus powers too. maybe, just MAYBEEE well get more hints on what his stigma is

also him saying 'we were just kids,,or brats' and using we (idk if this is a correct translation or whatever) pretty much confirms some sort of relation with someone else when he was a kid. possibly siblings. COUGH yamato....

also I loved taiga in this episode. hes real af! and shinjo and Alan...its been so long since we saw them...

[vioventures]

[kusanagihaku]

okay also ren and float would be funny

IT ISSSSS YOURE SOOO RIGHT FBSJFJSKKS ur huge huge brain

send me a ghoul + a hirono for a doodle!! [closed!!]

[ikeromantic]

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