#bastertalks

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this panel literally fucks me up because it's only when wolfwood looks at vash that he fears him.

i can't look at you because then i have to face what you are and what you could do to me and everything i know and everything that exists

but when my back is to you i trust you instinctively because i know who you are

because this is all in the same fucking chapter. literally so fucked up and twisted.

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the funniest thing to me about the narumitsu experience of phoenix wright: ace attorney is how gradually it's revealed that both of them are kinda insane for each other? because at first you come to understand that holy shit, edgeworth is into phoenix? with his "unnecessary feelings" and his "wright, wright, wright" and "you in particular i cannot ask to do this" and "i didn't want you to see me. not like this". like okay so he's gay and homophobic towards himself. gotcha. and wright seems kinda cagey about the whole thing, not really answering maya's questions about what's the deal with him and edgeworth, so maybe it's just one-sided? only for wright to come out (ha) swinging with "let me defend you" and "i'm the only one who knows the real edgeworth. i'm the only one who can help him." and "that's why i became a lawyer". and then of course, to top it all off, edgeworth professes his guilt to the court and phoenix just. immediately starts building his case again. because he doesn't think edgeworth even ACCIDENTALLY killed his father. insane gay behavior on both their parts.

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love it when nightow draws vash like he's the oldest, most shriveled man on earth. like yesssss, girl, vacuum seal him

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so the voice who reads all the prologues of excerpts from the herlock sholmes serial is definitely yujin mikotoba's right

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we all poke fun at everyone in ace attorney being some child prodigy of law who became a lawyer at seventeen, hasn't lost a single case yada yada yada, but genuinely the entirety of the ace attorney franchise is what happens when a bunch of mentally ill teenagers with trauma whose hyper fixation is law become adults and have to work together. like i think that's just what happens

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episode 158 of the magnus archives is incredible. imagine you've gradually divorced yourself from all human contact to protect the one you love (who's coming to save you btw but you know it won't work) and you've just discovered that the two people who are fighting to use you as a pawn are clearly divorced and are now getting psychosexual in front of you. what would you do

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love how in trimax you can use vash's hair color as a barometer to figure out where in the story he is and what he's been through. and by love i mean that i am collapsed on the floor beating the ground with my fists

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instead of doing lines of cocaine i've decided to get into jeeves and wooster. basically the same thing if you really get down to it