#analysis time

[sky-neverending]

it’s so interesting to me to compare Wylan and Jespers relationship in the show vs in the books, because while they are fundamentally different, at their cores they are the same.

like yes, everything about them storyline wise is changed. but you can look at that first on screen kiss and tell me that it doesn’t SCREAM “This was the kiss he’d been waiting for. It was a gunshot. It was prairie fire. It was the spin of Makker’s Wheel. Jesper felt the pounding of his heart—or was it Wylan’s?—like a stampede in his chest, and the only thought in his head was a happy, startled, Oh.” Because you can tell that’s what’s going through Jes’s head. It’s so evidently clear that he’s sooo far gone.

Also show Wylan buying Jesper stroopwaffels is such a book Wylan thing to do.

And we really get to see the development of Wylans personality in the show, same as the book. He goes from this sort of shy kid who doesn’t have a clue what’s going on to this badass motherfucker with an attitude, and it really shows in the way he talks to Jesper at some points. Like in the beginning he’s all shy, but as time goes on he’s all “Well, technically you are older than last time.” and stuff like that. it’s not as prominent as in the books, but you can still feel it.

Also, show Jesper going “my man!” when Wylan throws that bomb is such a thing for him to do. like come on.

so yes, they aren’t the same. but they’re still Wylan and Jesper, and that didn’t change. Because if you could see book Jesper, his smile when he sees Wy would be exactly the same.

[herbalmutt]

(Drops an idea and runs away)

Yandere kinger 💖💖

So Carnival Kinger

[light-koe-pinsky]

Man we need more high budget looney tunes bc I miss bugs and daffy particular comedic body language.

So much of their charm is based on their movement. Daffy is more wacky and energetic and bugs usually has more subtle ademants, therefore in a less careful animation i get that is way easier to save the looneyness for daffy and the calm and collected pose for bugs, but they add so much to his characterization that when you take those details away he feels kinda watered down.

I feel like ive been over this way too much lol but I still don't feel like I get the point across that Bugs IS actually supposed to be funny AND have fun.

He's a clown.

Daffys charm comes from him being a mess up, he's clumsy, accident prone, slapstick is his forte, guy's a living elastic band.

While bugs also posses this quality is not quite as often that this happens so in the meantime his charm comes from his grace, his movements are graceful but silly, because of his TIMING, thats what makes him a good clown.

While I love how these two characters complement eachother, bugs doesn't exist solely for the purpose of making daffy the joke of every sketch (argh looney tunes show I love you but you have your flaws) they're both individual characters that can shine on their own and not one is zanier than the other if you think about it. Like bugs status didn't became a thing just to shit on daffy.

Actually Im not that sure of the historical accuracy of this but the status of bugs is more of a response of the actual public?

Bugs wasnt created to be loved by everyone in the looney tunes universe, lmao if you watch the classic cartoons you realize that bugs is often hated by everyone, he's annoying, loud, an inconvinience where he goes, tex Avery and the other directors before the Chuck Jones era versions were like that.

Bugs just doesn't give a fuck, in fact he craves for more, like that one cartoon where hes trying increase the recompense on rabbits.

Thats where his charm comes from, he doesn't let people tell him who he is, he's this kind of anti hero, who sometimes does good deeds but is a) out of Pitty or b) to inconvinience the bad guy.

What Chuck Jones did was subvert bugs's priotities, suddenly bugs was mostly this hero godlike figure, he took this heroic version of him and just sometimes shows the antihero part in subtle passive agressive outbursts, and it WORKED.

BUT seems like he got encaged into that characterization. And I feel like is because CJ scalated on how untouchable he could be and then didn't know/care how to de-scalate.

But truth is hes not so funny when you don't have the whole picture and THIS is where I think people who write him off as someone boring/always the voice of reason get him wrong, so let me tell you what I mean

Is not just the clothes, this character is so funny:

Because You know deep down he's this character:

I'm often saying how he needs a transformation from hero to villain bc it gives both characters (him and daffy) what they need but he has already gone through an evolution before which just goes to show that the idea can work

Anyways i'm losing the track here, hope i somehow make sense

What i'm trying to say is either through dialogue, body language or the enviroment, bugs is a cunt, i mean clown.

[that-random-outsider]

I finally finished and I have so much to talk about so spoilers ahead. Right now I want to talk about Kenji's "Villain arc" (idk what else to call it) incase you're wondering he didn't exactly turn into a villain more like an antagonist. Firstly, I was at first going to forgive him, in the first season we learn how much he cares about his father's approval and I could understand that. However he progressively got worse (that's literally how villain arcs work lol) and I was trying to figure out why he was being such a horrible person. I mean wanting to gain his father's approval is one thing, but happily controlling a living, breathing, creatures like a toy is another. There are lines that you just don't cross, and he has no excuse. His dad may be a manipulative dick, but forcing Turro to give him a fist bump and calling it teamwork is another. And he literally has no excuse, Darius had a right to stay mad, and if his dad wasn't trying to kill all of them at that moment I would've liked to see him stay mad for a little while longer. You can't say he didn't know what he was doing, because his friends warned him multiple times. And he obviously knew, at least a little bit that it was wrong because he tried to protect Bumpy from it. But let me get this clear, this is not character assassination, Kenji kept all of his character development and still became the bad guy. They were trying to get us to hate him as much as the rest of the team did, while also giving us some type of sympathy for him. However, even with all the things that he did, the one thing that made me absolutely furious with Kenji was his selfishness. Just because Kenji found his family doesn't mean that the rest of them did. They are all trying to go home while Kenji is living his vest life with his father and not even giving any of the things his friends said, a second thought. Even when Mae spelled it out for him, all he had to do was use his brain. The fact of the matter was he didn't want to. He didn't want to think about his father's shady deals. He didn't want to consider the possibility that his friends were right, and he didn't want to think about how messed up everything was in that moment. And I think it made for a good "Villain arc" although I wished the redemption happened a little later but I'll talking about that later.

[iamprometheus]

Did we ever actually get confirmation on whether Chamber is a radiant or just a tech user because

[beneaththemasks]

hey I promised this a long time ago but my depressed ass didn't let me write so

Analyzing Atsushi and Akutagawa pt.2

cw: dazai hate and beast spoilers

previous part here

first of all I want to clarify that this has been sitting in my drafts for nearly a whole year so yeah it's very likely that I might forget some important details but I'll try to get to my initial point anyways.

a few month ago when I decided to reread beast for a second time (after realising I hadn't paid much attention to it the first time) I came up with all these ideas of how and why Dazai decided to pair Akutagawa and Atsushi together.

again, this analysis is going to be a very real-life-based interpretation on the characters and the whole plot probably. so don't really pay much attention if I mix stuff from the light novels with stuff from the main plot bc the point is basically analyse why their relationship was built.

parting from the final scenes of the beast novel that end with Dazai telling Atsushi and Akutagawa that he needed to make them fight each other in order to protect the world he had created for Oda inside the book, I tried to tie a few ends that were hanging lose for a while in my head.

now, you can read this however you like (be it me being just stupid or whatever) but, ever since we got to see part of how Dazai treated Akutagawa back in the Port Mafia I kept finding myself going through the same problem over and over again to try and understand why the hell was he so fucking obsessed with making him physically stronger rather than, you know, actually focusing on training him as a whole good and worthy subordinate.

why did dazai, being as smart and manipulative as he is, made such a rudimentary mistake of only teaching akutagawa how to strengthen his ability if he knew the boy was a killing machine?

I think you can understand then why the part where Dazai makes them fight each other in beast was even MORE confusing to me...

but that's not all there is to it.

Dazai not only failed (?) to train Akutagawa but he did succeed in training Atsushi??

well, as much as we love to see a character growing and as much as you'd like to attribute it to him leaving the mafia, I don't really think that was the reason. after all, as I already said, Dazai is very smart and has always been, he probably already had it all planned back in the port mafia.

and here's where my galaxy brain starts to think.

right from the start, the whole Dazai's subordinates deal felt very strange and inconsistent to me. I never understood why would he loose so much for Akutagawa and obsess so much with pointing out the fact that Atsushi was better than him when he was no longer part of the PM therefore he supposedly shouldn't mind about wether Akutagawa was good bad or whatever.

it started getting very dense to me tbh but that's not important

enter beast, a world where Dazai can literally do almost anything he wants, and what does he do? the boy goes and straight up fucks up akutagawa and atsushi for the second time makes akutagawa and atsushi hate each other and hold the weight of the world in their hands. again.

ok this was getting VERY annoying, plus their fight was so so so painful to read that it literally made me wonder what was the point in forcing them to face their trauma in such a cruel way at a moment like that.

thankfully there was a reason... but it never clarified precisely WHY FIGHT EACH OTHER.

if Dazai never taught Akutagawa how to be a better and sharper person because he didn't really know how, that was not a problem in beast. because Oda was there to do it. Oda could have taught Akutagawa what Dazai lacked as a mentor.

then, if Dazai wanted Atsushi to protect the book, he could've literally ask him without any need to involve Akutagawa.

but then, the whole point of why Dazai took Akutagawa in the first time "in the original world" and the reason behind why he also took Atsushi would've been lost.

Dazai is, indeed, a mastermind.

he knows what's necessary to make a world where people like Oda can live and write. he knows, probably better than anyone, that god doesn't care about things like balance and harmony. that he'd have to create it himself.

after all, coherency is one of the rules of the book.

Akutagawa and Atsushi fail their mission against Fukuchi (probably at Aku's life cost) in the main plot because that happened in the same world where Oda and Gide die after fighting for the same goal. a world where only those who fight and have the talent will prevail.

Dazai knows very well that, in that world, balance and harmony will never exist.

that's why Dazai creates a new world instead, where Atsushi and Akutagawa never team up and try to kill each other instead. a world where they force each other to recognize their flaws and admit their mistakes, a world where they'll have to learn how to live on with it no matter what they want to protect the world.

protect the world by proving that both sides of the same coin can fit, that none is better than the other.

so yeah, basically, the events that take place in "the original world" are proof to Dazai that god doesn't care about good or evil, that the only ones that will prevail are those who fight for their right to live (and this also probably explains why Atsushi and Akutagawa will never win as long as they fight without acknowledging what they have in front of them).

therefore, he decides to create a world where Oda won't have to fight to live because Atsushi and Akutagawa will fight but won't have to kill each other to prove their existence. they'll simply accept that both sides of the coin can exist even if they're weak, afraid or bad and that will be enough to give birth to a new world order.

there's actually more than this. in fact, there are a lot of reasons why Akutagawa and Atsushi are important for each other despite Dazai's plans and the world's destiny. however, since it'd be too confusing to try explaining it all in the same post sooo I'll be leaving that for a 3rd part.

[hamiltorris]

ayşeeee,,,hi! don't you think something is wrong with this story? people who saw lando's post before this story would simply think that lewis shared it on the story because lando congratulated him but on thinking about it, it looks like lewis just dropped it in for the photo, gosh, the caption doesn't even show up. why would someone who has already seen the photo click again on the post to see the caption? i think there is absolutely no logical explanation for what lewis did🤷

SMELXKJD ELLE im literally freakin out just.......it’s their world and we’re just living in it