#favorite chapter

[booksandberries]

chapter 48 my beloved. culture festival prep. kouhai class bullying miyano. sasaki going all gooey when miyano calls him, freaking out his college mates. ugawa my boy ugawa tell me who you are. comfortable with Events. Otaku Events. miyano's minor stroke. i'm so so with you sasaki don't talk to me he's so cute. ugawa asking about sasaki. what a polite young man you are <- guy who's literally the same age. sasaki revealing his life literally would have been completely different if not for miyano AND HIRANO. ugawa. sasaki my favorite princess please live a long and happy life!!!!!

[totallyhextra]

Finally finished my favorite chapter!! POV: Gigabyte!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Bonus: I usually don't mention songs I listen to while writing, but I'm making an exception:

Not only does it fit this chapter, it's also an excellent extended Hex v Daemon song!

[qhuminj]

[jackoshadows]

One of my favorite Jon Snow chapters. It’s a rather quietly meditative and introspective chapter with Jon reflecting on his childhood and wrestling with Stannis’ offer to be Lord of Winterfell and his own desires and ambitions.

Ygritte wanted me to be a wildling. Stannis wants me to be the Lord of Winterfell. But what do I want?

It’s interesting to note that unlike the other Stark children, Jon doesn’t really consider Winterfell to be his home. There’s the dreams of the old kings of winter telling him that he doesn’t belong and there’s the memories of Catelyn making him feel like he doesn’t belong there.

The chapter starts with Jon remembering Robb telling him that he can’t be Lord of Winterfell because he’s bastard born (A poignant moment because we as readers know that Robb has legitimized him as Jon Stark, KITN and Lord of Winterfell). From here, Jon reflects on marriage, children, family, home, Robb, Ned, love and the future as he walks by the ghosts of his past.

Outside, he found he had no idea where he was going. He walked past the  shell of the Lord Commander's Tower, where once he'd saved the Old Bear  from a dead man; past the spot where Ygritte had died with that sad  smile on her face; past the King's Tower where he and Satin and Deaf  Dick Follard had waited for the Magnar and his Thenns; past the heaped  and charred remains of the great wooden stair. The inner gate was open,  so Jon went down the tunnel, through the Wall. He could feel the cold  around him, the weight of all the ice above his head. He walked past the  place where Donal Noye and Mag the Mighty had fought and died together,  through the new outer gate, and back into the pale cold sunlight.  

Just as Jon finally comes face to face with his desire for Winterfell, Ghost makes an appearance and gives him his answer. Jon is not going to break his oaths, become Lord of Winterfell  and burn down the Godswood as Stannis desires.  

We then get to see the first election in Westeros and all the different players. Here’s where we get the first hints of the likes of Marsh and Othell Yarwyck, with Thorne trying to convince Yarwyck to stand down in favor of Slynt in order to not displease Tywin. And Yarwyck more or less suggesting Jon, taking into consideration that Slynt would displease Stannis. We see how a lot of the NW brothers don’t like Janos Slynt’s bluster and big talk.

And finally, Mormont’s raven. Did Sam place the raven inside the kettle? Did Maester Aemon know? Was it Bloodraven’s doing?

The chapter ends with Jon being elected Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch and starting a whole new story arc for the character.

The Wall was his, the night was dark, and he had a king to face.

[lifeistheebubbles]

· Chapter 48 of A Court of Mist and Fury ·

The one bed trope.

The one bed trope.

[kayla1507]

Hi! I was wondering if you had any favourite / least favourite chapters from DBH?

Personally, having played the game so many times, Jericho and Night of the Soul have grown a little irritating haha

TY :)

Hi, Anon! 

I’ve played through the entire game 20+ times. And I actually looove Night of the Soul! I think it gives some much needed character depth to both Leader!Markus or Leader!North. I especially enjoy visiting Carl back at home, Leo’s apology and the “you are my son, Markus” moment shared between Carl and Markus. The only chapter variation I dislike is Hank’s... for obvious reasons.

Favorite Chapter:

My favorite chapter is *drumroll*, Stormy Night. It's just the right mix between suspense, QTE action and drama for me. It also has so many different outcomes (my favorite one being the gun) and small variations that aren't even in listed the flowchart that the replay value is insane!

I really like Eden Club, too. I enjoy challenges and the tracking sequence is imo the trickiest Connor mission. In fact, I’ve seen quite a lot of players fail tracking Echo in time. There’s also the fact that Echo and Ripple’s story has an emotional impact on both the player and Connor (+ Hank by extension), whereas we don’t learn much to invoke sympathy for Daniel, Rupert or Kitchen Deviant. Echo and Ripple were the ones who made Hank start changing his mind about deviants. They’re also the suspects I personally care most about.

Least favorite chapter:

Well, you asked for it. CyberLife HQ. Not because it's so uneventful like Jericho, but because of its huge amount of plot holes, its deus ex machina whats-my-sons-name conclusion (yeah, Connor looked his name up on the internet offscreen, we get it) and the lack of consequence for the finale of a choice based game. 

A few examples to elaborate on it: 

The chapter opens to Hank being held hostage. Connor has various dialogue options, but nothing he tells RK800-60 matters. 

Connor has the option to shoot 60. But in the shoulder, which does precicely nothing.

If Connor fails every single QTE when fighting 60, nothing happens.

Remembering or not remembering Sumo’s name doesn’t matter. 

You don’t have to remember Cole’s name after seeing his photo, because the game points it out to you with a special effect.

Connor knows all about Cole even if the player never found out about him, deus ex machina per definition.

If 60 wins at Cyberlife Tower... nothing comes from it. He doesn’t show up in the crowd to assasinate Markus on stage. He just goes back to his stasis pod, you know? CyberLife just calls it a day.

It’s supposed to be Connor’s redemption arc, and I mean Connor turning his back on his blood-stained past. He doesn’t. He keeps killing. Killing a handful of humans on his way to the warehouse, killing the other RK800 to gather a massive army and force humanity out of Detroit City – with success. Neither the president nor Pacifist!Markus care. The peaceful demonstration was obviously added after the revolution-deviant route hence the lack of concept art and peaceful deviant options, but still...

RK800-52 to RK800-59 have just disappeared.

Hank executes 60 via headshot just to make sure he’s really, really dead. Then adds “maybe you (androids) really are alive.”

Connor’s LED is calm blue as Hank dies. A tense Hank laments he’ll miss Connor after Connor sacrificed him. 

The famous hug isn’t a reward for befriending Hank, the game will also force it in sheer inappropriate context. CyberLife HQ proves that our relationship to Hank up until this point, doesn’t matter. As long as both make it out alive, their relationship will automatically rise to ‘friend’, even if tense Connor was a murderous and toxic person who bullied Hank. Okay.

Which also hurt the chapter is the lack of a memorable, "boss fight”. RK800-60 is like a cartoon caricature of Machine!Connor, but stripped of all the badass and scary, into a deranged “I am disappointed in you!”-toddler. And like I mentioned, if he wins and walks out alive, then nothing comes from that. Fanfiction tells me that 90% of the fandom doesn’t recall who Connor-60 even was, but does recall Agent Perkins, Gavin Reed, Amanda and RK900. Yes, even RK900. That’s how forgettable he is as a villain.

So. My least favorite chapter because its lack of meaning, despite being the single most important character arc for deviant!Connor.

[zekidork]

What’s your fav vk/vkm chapter?

Hey there! This is going to be a long answer, so bear with me.

For vk, I really like ch.23, when Hanabusa decides to hang out with Zero and Yuuki during the whole chapter while Kaname goes to see the Senate. There are a few reasons for this:

-I love the comfortable setting that Hana, Zero, and Yuuki are in throughout the chapter. It felt like a chill atmosphere, which also contains great character moments. Also, I guess I like the general idea of seeing characters you love do normal "day to day" things: like Zero who's cooking.

-There's some great development for Hana in this chapter too. We get to see him connect with Yuuki on how they feel towards Kaname. But I also love his ever-growing skepticism and how he's in search for answers. I also found it important that Hino shows us that Hanabusa knew for a while that Zero was a vampire. Despite it being a secret that Zero, Yuuki, Kaname, and Kaien had to keep, he eventually figured it out. To me, it shows that Hana is just very perceptive, and to be honest, when I first watched the anime, this was the chapter that made me really like (dare I say fall in love with) Hanabusa as a character (it made me do a 180 on him).

-This chapter also is the one that begins the trend for Hanabusa to become 'involved' (so to speak) with zeki's relationship. He stumbled on their intimate moment for the first time here, and since then will have to deal with them on multiple occasions. (he essentially becomes involved with the two way more afterward, both Zero and Yuuki individually and together)

-Of course, I love this chapter also for the two great Zeki moments. The first coming from Zero, asking Yuuki to "Smile, just a little bit please" after she told him how worried she was over his impending level E transformation (hence why I chose it as the quote of my tumblr account). Afterwards, it's Yuuki who thinks "I want you to smile too, Zero", while also rethinking about Zero's question: "What am I to you". (Not to mention that I'm a sucker for how well done the art is in the bite scene, and the eye contact between the two makes it even better.)

-Finally, I love Kaname's visit to the Senate and how he asks (demands) that they stay out of Cross Academy affairs. The chapter ends with his request and I just find it to be such a good foreshadow for how the Senate aids Rido in causing chaos to Cross Academy, which consequently leads to Kaname taking over. His future authority over the vampire world is shown just through that last panel of the chapter.

So yeah, vk's ch.23 encompasses a lot of good stuff: Hana development, Zeki interaction, and Kaname badasserie and foreshadowing.

For vkm, it would have to be ch.28 that's my fav.

-I love Zero and Yuuki's long talk and the short marriage flashback we see.

-I also really enjoyed Kaname and Ren's interaction.

-But most of all, it feels as though ch.28 began the mystery for what's to come in the future chapters of vkm in human Kaname's timeline (the "Where did Ai go" theory). And I loved the slight return of vampire Kaname's look and overall aesthetic when he became protective over Ai. It's a chapter that established the mystery, and since then (I believe), all that we've been getting is the build-up towards what's going to happen. (both in the Sage Empire timeframe and human Kaname timeframe).

Thanks for the question and I hope this answers it!