#even though like

[bakdbfi]

I mean

I'm not surprised

But come on how am I not supposed to think that was racist.

You can't make me feel bad for the angels man. They suck per usual

[angeloncewas]

Like many I will never be over Dan and Phil no matter how much time passes and watching this video is so surreal

[mewnia]

2024 UPDATE: Since my professor is putting our capstone projects in an exhibition show, I figured it would be the perfect time to update my work! I even added sheets for my God & Goddess :3c

THE STEMS, THE CREATOR, THE ENEMY

Full character sheets for my characters! The main four are referred to as the “Stems” in my world. Because their powers stem from the Goddess Eumelia! In my Voice Carries the Music story, these four are long gone. But they left their blessings for each of their countries to benefit from, and they each have decedents we meet in VCtM.

Comparisons of 2023 vs 2024 under cut mostly for me bc I love seeing my own progress and I gotta document it somewhere :P

[completeoveranalysis]

[8]

Ok Evil Wolverine what do you have to say. 

Oh. 

No Evil Wolverine is full of shit. 

But I think you can see an interesting side of him here that I’m not sure has been on display before. Usually he narrates about how great his plan is or how angry he is that his plan isn’t working, but here he’s talking about something entirely different. He’s watching Lava Lamp make these choices and he seems THRILLED that making the decisions he is. 

I don’t know if he has Plans for Lava Lamp (he was originally meant to be killed by Fai after all), but lacking any future knowledge this scene is tacked onto the moment where Lava Lamp FINALLY starts to be a bit less tragically alone by having the Tsubasa Family share his decision and the consequences of it. Evil Wolverine, in turn, is celebrating the fact that Lava Lamp is making the same type of decision that HE might make. 

So we effectively see Evil Wolverine himself ALSO take comfort in the idea that other people are like him. That they’re making the same decisions and facing the same consequences that he’s so focussed on. 

Even though it’s a bit of an evil monologue moment we’re accidentally privy to Evil Wolverine ALSO being so alone and isolated in his ruins and his plans that he’s visibly excited over any perceived similarity he has with someone else. He’s thrilled into monologuing over the PERCEPTION that Lava Lamp can make the same hard choices he does, that he’s willing to cause suffering to get what he wants. 

And it’s clearly not actually the same. Lava Lamp is torn up inside to the point that the Tsubasa Family were finally moved into realising that he ISN’T as calm and collected and unaffected as he pretends to be. Lava Lamp was emotionally devastated by the choice he made here and was willing to let it destroy him before the others saw this and stopped him. 

It’s a far cry from Evil Wolverine who feels nothing as he destroys the lives of thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people - endless worlds tossed into the tragedy pyre far beyond our ability to measure - for his own private goals. 

He’s also missing the Agency factor. Lava Lamp doesn’t REALLY have any choice here. He can’t ACTUALLY choose to stay here in this time loop and never ask any questions that deviate from the plot. The time loop was ending the second they arrived. In reality, they DIDN’T make this choice. It happened around them completely independent of anything they actually did on purpose. In reality, this was a choice that EVIL WOLVERINE made by forcing this reality on the people trapped in the time loop in the first place. NO-ONE ELSE did this. No-one else set this up or chose to be here or chose to end this. It’s all on him - the ENTIRE SERIES is on him. 

It’s all choices that he forced on other people from start to finish. So even though he’s really fond of the idea that "Lava Lamp made a hard choice here and this makes him just as selfish as Evil Wolverine", he is deluding himself. Not a single other person can really take the blame for these lives that he’s destroyed, no matter how much Evil Wolverine tries to convince himself that they might. 

The only real question I have is whether Evil Wolverine is telling himself this because he’s entirely delusional or if it’s out of emotional desperation, and he’s just that eager to have a connection with the people he watches all day every day. 

Evil Wolverine is developing his own little parasocial relationship here, delighting in the percieved brutality in people that doesn't really exist and using it to back up his own warped misinterpretation of reality.

It's all just a bit sad really.

[effervescentluminescence]

To all the friendless 22-year-olds out there, never fear! After a decade, you too may have a bff capable of rounding up enough mutual friends for a respectably-sized surprise birthday party!

[massivemonsters-giantguts]

If it’s easier for folks I’ll!!! Add a “series that I know and love and adore” list to the rules page later this week or tomorrow so that way

Y’all can take advantage of my simp ass nature-

[youve-always-had-me-cas]

Something about seeing that video of Jensen saying "the gay angel" years and years ago in a formative period of my life makes Castiel canonical homosexual declaration of love Winchester hit in a way nothing else could. He is the gay angel. And we are the same 🥰

[yusuke-of-valla]

What do you think will be the PT’s reaction when they find out that Byleth and the lords are not who they think they are? (Betting all my coins that Ren, Haru, Yusuke, Makoto, and Goro will feel the most betrayed)

So the suspicion begins after Futaba joins when she does a quick background check on the Lords and Byleth and finds absolutely nothing. Like it literally looks like they just showed up, paid the school a butt ton of money and then were enrolled and there’s nothing before that.

And. Ok that’s a little weird, but surely there must be some explanation? There might be a reasonable explanation

But then, Kobayakawa dies, and they know it’s because he had some connection to the conspiracy, and like shadowy conspiracies tend to be very rich and they did start at the school right when the Conspiracy moved into the final part of their plan so..

They can’t rule out the possibility that the lords, Yuri, and Byleth have some connection to the conspiracy, especially when they get framed for murder.  And there are definitly many feelings. In particular

Ann, Ryuji, Morgana, and Futaba are suspicious and feel betrayed and Ann and Ryuji are like, the most openly hostile towards the lords and Byleth

Makoto is feeling a lot of things. She and El started out as rivals who were always trying to compete and one up each other, and she thought they’d worked out and were friends, and now it’s very likely El was playing her all along, so she reverts to giving El the cold shoulder and acting more like she did earlier in the year. 

Haru was friends with Dimitri way before she joined the Phantom Thieves and then she joined and they told her to be somewhat wary of the foreign exchange students and Haru didn’t really believe them. Because Dimitri’s so nice and soft and they plant things together. And then Haru’s dad dies. And his to do with the conspiracy who killed Kobayakawa, and they don’t know how he got involved, but a mysteriously large donation and the enrollment of three new students and a new teacher is way to much of a red flag to ignore, and and! Haru became a Phantom Thief to help people! Even if they were on the wrong side of law they helped people, and Dimitri believed in that too! He was always talking about helping the down trodden and protecting the weak! Was that a lie? Was all of their time together just... meaningless? Haru won’t look Dimitri in the eye and actively avoids them.

So, Goro’s the last person to learn that the lords and Byleth and Yuri are sus and like. When he first hears that, he tries to write it off. He knows Yuri isn’t working for the Conspiracy, that’s him. This is good news for him actually, because that means the PT’s attention is elsewhere. Except... if Yuri were part of the conspiracy was he there to keep an eye on Goro too? Does that mean Shido doesn’t trust him? Shido has to trust him, because Goro’s plan is only going to work if Shido trusts him so Goro can pull that out from under him. And for it to be Yuri, who Shido has keep an eye on him, Yuri who is too damn similar to Goro for his own liking sometimes. That stings. Because Goro liked Yuri a little bit. Goro felt like he could open up to him. And it’s ok if he feels a weird connection with Ren because they’re like. Fated Rivals. Yuri is just a guy. A guy who walked into Goro’s life, who Goro likes and finds funny, and should not be able to hurt him this month. So Goro starts avoiding Yuri as well, and the next time he sees him, he’s going to put a cap in his head.

Ren admired Byleth a lot, as a teacher who seemed to like, genuinely care about their students. Maybe it’s because Byleth’s so much younger than the other teachers, but Ren got the impression that they genuinely wanted their students to succeed and didn’t care about their reputation or making the school look good. That they were genuinely angry for Shiho and Mishima and genuinely wanted to help the random highschooler that they met at an art gallery, and was genuinely willing to fight the mafia for their students. Except it was all an act. And Ren just hast to laugh at that because all this time he thought he wore the most masks, but he has absolutely no idea what Byleth is actually thinking, what they actually plan to do. So he puts up his own mask and falls back a bit. He’ll help Byleth with work, but they’re not chatting anymore, he doens’t go to tea time. There’s a distance there now

And last but certainly not least, Yusuke! Yusuke knew what he was getting into with Claude. Literally the reason he asked Claude to model is that Yusuke didn’t really get the craze surrounding the “mystery” of Sayuri (he was always focused on the beauty of her expression) until he saw Claude and sort of got it. Got the appeal of something mysterious and wanting to know what made it tick. And Claude has never been subtle about this either! Claude is always talking about being a schemer so. So Yusuke SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED BY THIS. Literally, he just went through this with Madarame, he knows just because acts kind and sweet that doesn’t mean they are (even though Claude’s kindness was always different than Madarame. Claude never made Yusuke feel like he owed him anything) and he let himself get fooled again. Yusuke does his best to avoid Claude too, which is both easier on the account that they don’t go to the same school, and harder because Claude isn’t going to take them giving the lords the cold shoulder without some sort of explanation