#ani-mana21

[niuniente]

Because of the size difference, you ever just think about Entrapta and Hordak dancing like Haru and Legosi 8n the Beastars OP? Because I do. A lot.

I have not watched the series yet but I keep my eyes open for the dance when I do :3

[earlgraytay]

ani-mana21 replied to your post “hopefully in new!nier replicant they’ve gotten rid of the repetitive...”

But are muffins cake?

The sad thing is I can 100% hear Nier and Weiss having that conversation 

and then roping Kaine in the way that the boys roped in Peach

[earlgraytay]

ani-mana21 replied to your post “i need a fic (i may need to write the fic)  in which, due to An...”

Light Yagami trying to deal with some twin peaks bullshit is something I'd definitely read.

it’s not just the Twin Peaks bullshit (unless you mean York’s very special flavour of Neurodivergent Detective).  EVERYTHING about York is pretty much handcrafted to piss Light Yagami off. 

First there’s the fact that the Death Note is arguably not gonna work on him. Even setting aside the fact he’s probably using a fake name... it’s hard to say whether the Death Note uses your wallet name, the name you think of as ‘yours’, or the name you use most often, but it’s probably ‘your wallet name’. And York’s body’s wallet name is not Francis York Morgan. 

Added to that, I don’t think York can die of a Death-Note-Induced heart attack from using his name. Special Agent Morgan sure can, but York specifically? He seems to have an existence outside of their shared body, it’s not his body. It’s all very metaphysical and Weird, and doesn’t seem to have clearly defined rules.

Misa takes one look at York and goes “nope. Nuh-uh. No way, there’s two names and numbers and they’re all weird and blurring together and I think I just had a weird vision with creepy baby angels???? I am getting a migraine just looking at this guy, I love you but I can’t even.” 

AND IF YORK BEING, LIKE, ARGUABLY IMMUNE TO LIGHT’S ONLY WEAPON ISN’T ENOUGH. 

L is an asshole. York is an extroverted, unpredictable, kind-hearted asshole. 

York is willing to talk about what he’s thinking. But unlike L, he’s a little harder to understand. He has that bad habit of talking in in-jokes with Zach (calling George the King?) or references to American media that are oblique even to people who’ve seen the thing (Tom and Jerry, anyone?). He also has this habit of coming off as massively condescending.  It’s an unpleasant combination to deal with even if you aren’t a megalomaniacal dipshit who’s trying to understand what your opponent is doing so that you can murder him!

York runs around making friends with everyone. York probably convinces the Yagamis to have him over for dinner. Mrs. Yagami and Light’s little sister love him. The other agents either love him or can’t stand him, no in-between, but he’s perfectly happy to do mundane fetch quests and sokoban puzzles for them all day long. Everyone seems to like the guy, even though he’s crazy and loosey-goosey and disrespectful and everything that Light hates. So Light’s charisma can only go so far to make people dislike York.  

And everything about York’s routine and schedule is slapdash and unpredictable. If we take gameplay as characterization here- which I think we’re supposed to do- York gets sidetracked like no other. York will spend half his day driving up a mountain listening to ska music looking for trading cards or going fishing, rather than doing a time-sensitive important autopsy. York comes back with a bag full of Gamera merch after being missing for 13 hours and skipping an important staff meeting, just as the office is closing, and is all “yeah the receptionist wanted this for her kid???? what do you mean she's gone home for the day?” Then he stands in front of the office smoking ALL NIGHT LONG waiting for her, instead of going home. 

Light: eYETWITCH INTENSIFIES

So yeah, Megalomaniacs Hate Him! Local Man(s) Discovers Weird Trick To Foil Supervillainy. (The weird trick is Being Yourself) 

(Also, existing in the Death Note universe would solve one of the bigger plot holes in Deadly Premonition, IE: “how the hell did York pass the mental health screening to get a security clearance in the first place?!” Like I know he’s supposed to be a little bit of a nepotism hire, but you have a ten minute conversation with York and you just know he’s not neurotypical. 

If York was orphaned at a young age, Wammy could easily have taken him into his School For Autistic Detectives. You know the FBI would be drooling at a chance to get a Wammy’s kid on their roster, considering that whatever the hell Wammy does consistently churns out great detectives. And York is a known quantity. They knew his dad, they know York wants to be an FBI agent right out of the gate, they’re not going to have to give him a king’s ransom in legos to get him to be loyal. They’re willing to put up with some... quirks... for that good good Wammy’s training.) 

[niuniente]

Just wanted to say that the Regency AU is making me change Hordak's voice in my mind into Grimoire Weiss from NieR, and I quite like it!

YOU KNOW I WAS JUST THINKING THE OTHER DAY THAT “OH NO, THIS AU MAKES ME THINK HORDAK HAS A DIFFERENT VOICE THAN HE REALLY HAS, WHAT’S GOING ON?”

Glad I’m not the only one.

Grimoire Weiss has that kind of sing songy tone an old time gentleman would have in my imagination, too :D 

[niuniente]

I like you @ani-mana21

You GET it.

[earlgraytay]

ani-mana21 replied to your post “Okay but petty family drama involving an organist always reminds me of...”

Wasn't the organist played by Tim Curry? Or was that a CG fever dream I had?

you know it might have been???? 

I haven’t seen it since I was six and the entire thing feels like a fever dream I had 

like another movie I rented when I was small- I think it was Voyage of the Unicorn? but I’m not sure

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ani-mana21 replied to your post “I honestly don’t get why David Cage has as good of a reputation as he...”

David Cage doesn't want to make video games. He wants to make movies. He's just not good enough to write a movie

@ani-mana21 - I think David Cage had ambitions of making games at one point. Omikron: The Nomad Soul is trying to be a video game. It’s not a very good video game- matter of fact it’s so bad that the Goblin King himself can’t save it. But it’s a video game, it has actual gameplay and exploration and gunplay and dialogue trees. And it’s trying to be an open-world exploration game before that genre was really A Thing- in 1999, Bioware was making isometric Infinity Engine RPGs and GTA was still top-down. 

For what it’s worth, it’s an ambitious game. It’s got that weird kind of potential that Twilight has, where it’s such a bad story that nothing could salvage it, but if the author/developer kept trying to make stuff in the same vein they could theoretically create something really good. 

...The trouble is, David Cage saw the extremely mixed reviews of Omikron and decided to pare down everything to focus on ~cInEmAtIc sToRyTeLliNg~ because people did praise Omikron’s storytelling and atmosphere at the time. So you’ve got “games” from him with absolutely zero gameplay other than (bad) QTEs, because clearly the “gameplay” gets in the way of the storytelling, right? People like the stories he has to tell, right???????? 

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ani-mana21

It's an interesting theory that I doubt will ever get explored unfortunately, because the games tend to focus more on being funny adventures than exploring their admittedly fascinating lore.

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I wouldn’t expect anything direct, but if they ever went this route in the game I would take scraps and be happy with that. The games have such an interesting story in them and I hope they do explore it more in future games.