#japethposting

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Possibly the funniest bit of promo ever for sge. Japeth wtf are you doing. Can you lock in

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I know y’all are probably pretty tired of me talking about the bit character Japeth from hit 2006 movie Hoodwinked, but I wish I was there in the writing room as someone came up with him.

“Alright, so Red needs a way to get to Granny Puckett’s house...”

“How about we introduce a character that’s like, a mountain goat that owns a minetrack that just goes all the way across the mountain?”

“Alright, sounds pretty solid.”

“And he was put under a curse (maybe) where he has to sing everything he says”

“Oh yeah, that would be a cute idea for this kid’s mov-”

“Also his whole song is focused on the idea of being prepared for any situation.”

“Why.....why would that be relevant t-”

“Oh, and he has like 50 different sets of detachable horns”

“Perfect”

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If you ever catch me calling Aric "well written" I want you to know I am NOT talking about anything pre-TCY I am exclusively talking about the Real Thing. Rhian's death chapter being called Rhian And The Real Thing - which is where he's confronted with the fact that his brother will always choose Aric over him - suggests that the Real Thing refers to Aric and Japeth's love, or could just refer to "Aric" as the Real Thing. The chapter title and quote "flesh and blood" also links to that idea of something 'real', or tangible, Japeth only believes it's real if he can physically touch it, instead of being the illusion of Aric he creates briefly earlier in that chapter. But then you have the fact that that last quote isn't actually from Aric at all, it's from Tedros pretending to be Aric, which implies that everything that "Aric" says in F+B isn't real at all; he's "more real than the real thing", more of what Japeth convinced himself was there between the two of them than of Aric's actual feelings towards him.

There's two interpretations you can get from that, one being that there isn't a Real Thing, that what Japeth thinks was real is a delusion - the fake version of Aric being symbolic of that - and the fact that he only realises it's not actually him is because this Aric is willing to kiss him, and the real thing would never do that. So then the other interpretation is that Aric never loved Japeth - Tedros-As-Aric is "more real", more close to Japeth's idea of Aric than the actual guy, and so everything he says is likely exaggerated. It's possible that Tedros just played into Japeth's idea of Aric, rather than recreating what he knew he was like, since that would've definitely been more effective (and I mean. it worked for a while). The only thing we ever see from the real Aric about Japeth in the entirely of TCY is the letter in book 5, which pleads with Japeth to come and find him, but it never mentions love. The entire Real Thing analogy is genuinely one of my favourite parts of TCY (if anyone knows anywhere else where it comes up other than RATRT and F+B, PLEASE tell me) and is the sole reason why Aric is one of the most interesting characters to look at in TCY. Happy year of the snake everyone

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If you think about it the lack of 'real'ness in Flesh And Blood goes both ways. The softened, sanded-down Aric, blunt and emotional. The hardened, unfamiliar Japeth, spinning down in cycles. Neither are 'real'. There's an image being projected on both sides.

This was originally in the tags but I think its actually good enough of a thought: the celestium is a literal and figurative echo chamber for Japeth. Figurative in that it's where he internalised a profoundly incorrect view of Aric, and literally in that it's a chamber of echoes - of various ghosts of Aric (the silhouette in the butterflies, Tedros-As-Aric), the initials, the fact he only has it from his 'wizard's blood', or, from Rafal's lineage. Echoes as a repeat. Echoes as a pattern. yeah????//

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What do you think about the year of snake coming to an end? 😔

oh dude i completely forgot........... i genuinely think Soman acknowledged his existence maybe once this year. next year is apparently year of the horse BUT it doesn't start until mid-February so we technically still have two more months of His Year

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SO funny that the only explanation for why Aric stabbed Rhian is, in Japeth's words, "because [Rhian] said things about [his and Aric's] friendship" (the full actual quote is "because you said things! About him and me! About our friendship!"). Which is such a funny way of phrasing it because that could mean LITERALLY anything. Soman why would you phrase it like that. genuinely

The only other elaboration we get on the stabbing ever is right after the first line and it's vague as to what it's actually talking about, which is where Rhian says "Because he was a monster / a sadist with no soul" (which. yeah lmao), but that could be either "he stabbed me because he was a monster" OR "I said those things because he was a monster", and the rest of the line supports the second interpretation, so we just???? don't know what made aric do it??????? This is the single most influential event in the series it literally doubled the series' length what do you MEAN there's only ever two lines about it????? ? ? ??? arbed prequel when hello

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@red-might-be-dead @liketwoswansinbalance

shes here. she is so incredibly ugly. welcome to the world jigglesaw. awful photo because it was taken of my shitass 2ds

the way mii children work in tomodachi life is that it randomly chooses the facial features, position of the features, colour of the features, skin colour, and hair colour from the parent miis, and i am very very sure that jigglesaw got literally everything that japeth has

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guess my favourite sge chapter challenge (impossible edition). yes i think aric shouldve had long hair he was in that cave for nine whole ass years leave me alone