#falcon punch

[sparkirby514]

My favorite Smash copy ability.

[victusinveritas]

The Sedgley OSS. One of the most brutal gloves ever created”. A gun fitted to a heavy leather glove that holds a .38 caliber round that fire when then button compression is charged. Usually in the form of a punch in close combat. Falcon Punch!

[m00nb04rd5]

Captain Falcon (F Zero)

[gobscene]

One of the funniest things that happened to me while playing a game.

[tovarishch-yeongno]

Les Mis AU - "Mga Anakpawis" PART 2

So, I've already discussed Jean Valjean (Juan Valdes), Javert (Javier), and Fantine (Leonor), with a slight mention of Cosette (Hiraya). This is a continuation of Leonor and Hiraya's context, specifically their crossing of paths with Valdes. 4. Fantine & Cosette (PART 2) Once Leonor managed to get enough money to leave the sex trade and never return, she continued working, and ended up in a paper factory where Valdes was working as a union labor relations manager, under an alias - Artemio Mangubat, known to his fellow employees as “Ka Temyo.”

Before we continue address the crossing of Hiraya and Leonor with Valdez a.k.a. Ka Temyo, I should discuss some background details that some people might ask upon doing a close reading, regarding a potential plot hole:

"If Leonor died of syphilis, why is her daughter seemingly alright? Isn't syphilis transmissible via breastfeeding? Wouldn't Hiraya die early, derailing the story completely?"

Syphilis takes 10-30 years to cause death. Leonor unknowingly contracted it in 1955, after the birth of her daughter Hiraya. She had no idea that she was suffering from it due to her being asymptomatic until it was too late, and it finally killed her via heart failure when Hiraya was 8, in 1962. Hiraya was "lucky" to have never contracted it because insufficient glandular tissue (IGT) runs in Leonor's family, which meant that Leonor had to rely on infant formula (from Nestlé, no less) to feed her baby. When Leonor suddenly died of heart failure, Ka Temyo was caught off-guard as to why she never came to work that day. While the morticians found out why she died, they did not know about any other details, which meant that when Ka Temyo took in Hiraya as his adopted daughter, he made it a priority to ensure that she was well (not knowing that she really was).

Leonor was 19 when she gave birth to Hiraya in 1954, meaning she was born in 1935. Her family survived WW2, but chronic malnutrition resulting from the Japanese occupation shortened her parents' life expectancy. Which meant that when Leonor died, she did not have any family to return her body to or attend her funeral.

Because when she was alive, Leonor was largely asymptomatic in regards to her syphilis, and because she was too poor to afford medical treatment, she kept on working for years at the paper factory without stopping because as far as she was concerned, "if she stopped, Hiraya would starve." Meanwhile, Ka Temyo, as union labor relations manager, was currently working tooth and nail to negotiate better conditions for the paper factory's workers to have longer paid sick leave to allow them to recuperate and get treatment, but the administration refused to budge. Eventually, Ka Temyo and his comrades' efforts at collective bargaining gained enough traction to force a concession, but it came too late for Leonor, who died on the same day. When Ka Temyo learned why Leonor had died, he felt guilty and wrongly blamed himself for her demise, for being "unable to save her." His comrades in the union did their best to assure him that it was not his fault, and that they did their best for her and every worker in a similar position. Make no mistake, Ka Temyo and the union were not responsible for Leonor's death, it was the company administration's neglect that killed her. In a way, this is the equivalent of the "Monsieur Madeleine and the foreman" incident, except here, he is, in fact innocent of Fantine’s death.

During Leonor's funeral, Ka Temyo and the other unionized employees came to pay their respects to her as a co-worker.

The boss obliviously showed up to the funeral to formally pay his respects (as if he wasn't complicit) and told a grieving Ka Temyo that he was sorry for his loss, politely offered his condolences, and casually said that Leonor was always "a great asset to the company" to console the crying man.

Ka Temyo really didn't want to be anywhere near the boss or hear anything from his mouth, but he was keeping his composure and doing the polite fake smile people do when they're trying to hide how they really feel. But when the boss said "great asset to the company," it caused him to snap. Almost like he could hear the words echoing in his brain louder and louder like a broken record all while the memory of watching Leonor die and having to explain to little Hiraya na "hindi na magigising ang nanay mo" replayed over and over in his mind. The boss' words following "great asset to the company," mostly empty platitudes that sounded almost like excuses for the delays and whatnot, began to slowly get tuned out in Valdes' mind. While the boss wasn't being openly malicious, he was ultimately oblivious about the harm his inaction led to. He showed through his words that he was all focused on talking about the company and its needs as far as he was concerned rather than anything about the welfare of the workers while delivering empty platitudes about Leonor. As he continued to run his mouth, he could not even notice that Ka Temyo was already subtly trying to tune him out and move away, that his previously polite composure was beginning to break, or that he was talking over the poor man's attempts to softly protest/object to how he (the boss) was still not reading the room ("Asset? Hoy, anong sinasabi mong "asset?" Tao 'yon! May anak siyang ulila ngayon!"), talking about Leonor as if her value lay exclusively in what she did for the company rather than who she was as a person. Then finally, he said the wrong thing, making a passing, fumbled remark to show his condolences wherein he said he hoped that she at least did not suffer for long - at which point, the room began to fall silent as the others began to notice the tension.

To which, Ka Temyo, who was initially crying but was now furious, called him a berdugo (from verdugo, a Spanish word that means "butcher" or "executioner"), said that she would still be around if only he had listened to his employees, and told him to go eat shit. In an outburst of rage, one he hadn't felt since the days when he was still part of the HUKBALAHAP, he punched the boss squarely in the face, causing him to double back in shock and bleed his nose, falling awkwardly into a chair. Ka Temyo was as surprised that he hit him, almost as shocked as the boss was that he was punched in the face, and then he (Ka Temyo) began to break down.

“Gago ka! Ano ba?!”

"LINTIK KANG BERDUGO - PUTANG INA MO! PATAY NGA ANG KASAMA NAMIN - KUNG PINAKINGGAN MO - pinakinggan mo - ANG AMING MGA PANGANGAILANGAN NOONG SIMULA PA, BAKA kasama - KASAMA PA NATIN SIYA AT HINDI sa - SA PUTANGINANG KABAONG! DI MO BA ALAM - DI MO BA SINUBUKANG MALAMAN - kung gaano karami sa amin -

(Fuck you, you goddamned murderer! Our co-worker is dead! If you paid any attention to our needs from the get-go, maybe she'd still be with us and not in that fucking coffin! Did you even know at all?! Did you ever even bother to learn how many of us -)

He couldn’t even finish his words through his tears, choking on his own words, even as his thoughts raced through his head. The other workers (especially the others who also suffered from the policy delay) saw this and took Ka Temyo's side, but pulled him back, and drove the boss out of the funeral home, telling him to get out, amidst jeers of "mamatay-tao," ('killer') "qù sǐ ba," (Chinese: 去死吧, meaning 'go to hell') and "hayop ka!" ('you animal') The boss was completely flabbergasted by all of this, unable to understand why they reacted the way they did - stammering about how he just came here to pay his respects and that they're being unreasonable to him. This resulted in the police being called, including one Constabulary Captain Javier.

This landed both the boss and Ka Temyo in court, where the local court gave the boss a slight reprimand and not much more, but ruled that "Mr. Artemio Mangubat" had to pay a 200 peso fine (nearly 26,000-27,000 pesos in 2022 money if inflation is factored in) for physical assault and stay 24 hours in prison, albeit lessened due to the unique circumstances of the situation.

Unfortunately, this means that Captain Javier, while unable to prove it, noticed a few details about Ka Temyo that led him to suspect that Ka Temyo was not who he seems, like someone he had encountered before, but could not pinpoint where, when, and how (Valdes' unit fought Javier's unit during the Huk rebellion, so they have met before).

While not a 1:1 equivalent, this is the analogue to the cart incident in Montreuil-sur-Mer and the death of Fantine in the hospital. "Mr. Mangubat" took on Hiraya as his adoptive daughter in accordance with Leonor’s dying wish. See, long ago, Valdes was a husband and a father, but his wife and young son were ruthlessly butchered by Japanese soldiers during the war. This happened because his farm in Tarlac was ransacked during an anti-guerrilla campaign after the Japanese forces were tipped off by a collaborationist local landlord to a potential HUK presence in his village that proved to be false. That said, he was rescued and recruited by HUKBALAHAP fighters who found him hiding in a burned-out farmhouse. As such, Hiraya posed the first opportunity in a long time for him to get to be a father that he never thought would arrive and was thus never truly prepared for. Next >>

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[memoriesofachicken]

Let's be honest...Buck deserved to get punched here!

[kply-industries]

Live action Captain Falcon from an old ad.

[robot-carl]

A friend of mine is writing a book about falconry and philosophy (he is a falconer). And I’m doing some of the illustrations for the chapter beginnings! 🦅