#in concept

[9w1ft]

this feels awfully similar to the lavender haze camera

[spltlvlhous]

dan and phil and markiplier should buy tumblr and then make ai against the terms of service .

[somethxng-angel]

just got done with the club! u know what that means! i’m going home (log in to tumblr.com)

[rivangel]

i’ve been avoiding interacting with the mcr community and even music after the announcement of a tour, and i didn’t know why, because i was so hyperfixated on them from the ages of 9-17 that it was legitimately like my obsession with aot (shocking ik). but i think that IS the reason, bc twitter was barely even around back then, tiktok was still musically, and the youtube app still came predownloaded in iphones so there was NO fandom(?) compared to today. frank was on myspace. HIS POEMS. the entire band was on myspace. it was controversial for gerard to wear a skirt on stage. i memorized their birthdays and celebrated them lowkey. interviews were filmed using a potato. the afro jokes. the frank small bean jokes. the ray getting left behind at the rest stop meme. THE GERARD FABULOUS BOA JOKES. the gerard touching himself on stage moments that i’ve seen younger fans don’t even know about??? this was peak entertainment to 13 year old me. MY FRERARD HEART WHENEVER FRANK AND GERARD’S DUET CAME ON ON DESTROYA. RAY GETTING HIS HAND IN RHE CUPCAKE. basement gerard. me and my friends recreating the ‘im not okay’ music vid. my first buy from hot topic being an mcr black parade shirt. THE FANFICTION. the me fantasizing about getting tattooed as fuck like frank when i got older (i wanted my first tattoo to be his symbol). MY OBSESSION WITH DANGER DAYS.

the peak of entertainment for us was those funniest moments compilations, recordings of entire concerts on the earliest iphones that kept buffering on my ipod touch bc my family didn’t know what WIFI was - and ahem, certain youtubers.

so it’s like… i feel like im out of my element even though I KNOW. this band is SO personal to me. like am i the equivalent of a boomer. this band is almost 25 years old and there are 12 year old fans AND IT TAKES ME OUT (not a bad thing ofc but i feel so weird when i think about it). i am an elder emo … ?

i seriously have such a visceral emotional reaction when i think about mcr for 5 seconds that it’s unbearable /pos. ironically some shit i went through rly made me detach from the band and i’m so mad abt it now :/ maybe i can make a fan account and cope

my biggest flex to this day is being born on the exact day and year bullets came out btw

[leafwateraddict]

Everything hurts

[retrokinetics]

Fresh Strawberries

[kakusu-shipping]

Anon back again to harp on my multi-decades love for Luca Blight. Buckle up and hear me out. I'm talking about a character-driven irresistible force paradox.

When you have someone who endures trauma so impactful that their way of 'dealing' with it is to simply decide to burn the entire world down at any cost, what happens when he meets the opposite side of the same coin?

Luca has no remorse, no grand and righteous 'I will destroy this world and rebuild it anew because I'm special' manifesto. No - he just wants to watch the world burn because he hates it. Plus there's speculation that he had an unhealthy symbiotic relationship with the True Beast Rune that may or may not have been magnifying his rage and bloodlust, but that's a whole separate topic entirely.

So what happens when you take someone so volatile and doggedly set on his goals and put them in the path of another character who's just as bullish and focused as he is, but their entire life's purpose is the opposite?

Someone who cares about the world just because they love it. Someone who is *determined* to befriend him instead of destroy him, who spreads sunshine and rainbows. Someone who shows no fear in the face of him and is all stubborn smiles and wholesome gumption? Lovebombing instead of hatebombing because, "didn't your mother ever teach you any better?! Fine then, I'll just do it myself!" (Oof, that'd go over well.)

I'm going somewhere with this, I swear.

Luca is violent and cruel, but he has his values. He has great pride for Highland. He's shown to hold certain qualities in high regard (competence, passion, bravery - "I don't care about breeding. A sword doesn't need a fine lineage, it just needs to be sharp.") In short, much of what he holds in regard are qualities he ascribes by personally, and the things he hates run opposite (cowardice, indecisiveness, incompetence).

What happens when he comes face to face with someone who embodies the *traits* he respects but exercises them in the opposite way he does?

By the way, I'm not talking about your classic, "he's a terrible villain and I can fix him~" scenario, but instead introducing a foil who's just as stubbornly focused and intense about their wholesome love for sunshine and happiness.

I think he'd be frustrated, conflicted, and ultimately torn because it flies in the face of his worldview. At the same time he'd likely find himself harboring some sort of begrudging respect for this individual (while simultaneously conflicted and pissed off).

We talk about Luca for being the crazy 'mad prince' of Highland so what happens if he's in the crosshairs of someone just as 'crazy' as him but in a wholesome and positive way? He'd be annoyed as fuck while also probably winding up enjoying himself in a backward sort of fashion because this individual embodies many of the same qualities he esteems.

And most of all, there's the potential for inner turmoil where he'd have to process how to feel about someone who cares unconditionally in a way that strongly parallels maternal affection. He can't bring himself to kill Jillia because she *looks* like his mother. But what if someone *treated* him in a way reminiscent of a parent's unconditional love? Someone who has the same brave, reckless lack of self-preservation Luca does, bold enough to scold him the shit out of him for tracking mud across the fancy carpet yet in the same breath steamroll him over with sunshine and positivity and rainbows?

I posit that he'd be a mess over it. He'd hate it and at the same time enjoy it. And then hate it even more *because* he enjoys it.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. I thought about this way too much.

I've read this novel of a Luca X Reader pitch so many times anon I hope you're aware I never answered it because I had nothing to add, but I loved every word of it and reading it over and over. You're so correct.

Today seems like a good day to post it was we Finally have Suikoden remake news. So here's to you, your immovable object vs unstoppable force dynamic, and to the potential new fans these remakes may bring who may themselves see the glory of Luca Blight as we do