#lbr though

[damicest]

Robin having a crush on nightwing is funny because they work together and acting close with you work partner is normal BUT when a civilian come to point. Yeah

slkdfj no, no, you're absolutely correct. Of course Robin has a crush on Nightwing. All the little heroes have a crush on Nightwing. But the civilian kid hanging off Dick and looking at him like he hung the moon? That's a whole other thing worth investigating

[moiraimyths]

Does keagan think about our mortality often? We ( as a human) are so short-lived compared to him. How does he deal with that knowledge, if at all?

It's not something he truly takes time to consider the implications of... yet. Of course should he grow closer to you, it will become a more present thought. I don't think he'd be very fond of the idea that your life span is shorter in any capacity, and would definitely research how to extend your time together. If nothing else, you will have the best care TNN can provide, so nothing shortens your time early. Only the best diet, fresh air, and plenty of exercise (tailored to your specific physical form); I hope you enjoy being as healthy as you are capable of! He's very observant, and will notice things about you before you do. Thus, he'd be pretty good at picking out when something should be changed. All that said, as we have mentioned before, time in TNN is strange, and there is not yet enough data to see how it impacts the lifespan of a human. Good luck!

[presumenothing]

imagine, if you will, Yui meeting Koumei for the first time after only hearing stories about him from Kansuke

"so you don't actually eat the childhood friends of your new best frenemy for breakfast" "no. also did kansuke-kun call me his best frenemy? i'm touched" "LIES. DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS"

[stardustlogan]

Two of those screenshots are just Remy

you mean these?

you’re right and you should say it

[randomnameless]

Thinking about Uncle Birdie

Macuil is the misanthropic one who hates the descendants of the 10 Elites and doesn’t give any figs about humans - you have to rekt him to “steal” his weapon, and afterwards he sleeps.

(compare with Indech - he’d rather “prank young humans” but gives them weapons if he deems them worthy enough - sadly his pranks/trial involve  realistic ghosts who can kill “those silly young humans”)

Macuil seems to be the “weakest” of the two uncles we meet, as in, he is the only one the party rekts hard enough to need to sleep (i doubt he’d be faking it) when Indech, per Seteth’s convo, lost much of his power but is still going easy on Leonie’n’pals.

But both seem to be weaker than Rhea when she transforms (granted she’s a boss fight in 50% of the routes); is it because they don’t assume their human forms anymore?

Seteth isn’t surprised to see them under their beast forms, but says that he thought Rhea couldn’t turn anymore and never saw her berserk!form.

which is again to say that the final fight in SS doesn’t make any sense unless Rhea was tampered with during those five years - Birdie has a lot of pent up rage but doesn’t end up berserk + Macuil and Indech spend all of their time in their beast forms

Bar his stats, Uncle Birdie is the only named Reptile not to have blood bonded with a random, as a result no one has his crest (or maybe someone did? Claude recognises the crest of Macuil on his forehead, so he must have seen it somewhere, unless Saint Macuil used his crest as his own personal banner/signature like Seiros does).

Meaning that Macuil really doesn’t like humans, which is weird because I keep on seeing his sister being thrown under a bus for the very same reason when she is the first (?) one who gave her blood to a human to assist her on her Nemesis purging quest, but from the way Rhea talks about Wilhelm I "he supported me” they shared commong goals, the reason why she’s a bit saddened when fighting Edel.

But even if Macuil really doesn’t like humans, he doesn’t rampage around to kill them by dozens every saturday evening.

He wants to live as a recluse, saying he abandoned humans and their wars / world a long time ago - so much that he doesn’t even want to join Seteth’n’co in their “free Rhea” quest.

He’d rather chill in Sreng, roar at humans who try to steal his treasures and be just, there for the rest of his long long days than to join Rhea, Seteth and his niece (the only person he seems fond of) in Garreg Mach or even join uncle Turtle in the lake Teutates.

So back to a certain someone claiming that humans don’t need gods anymore - what are those gods supposed to do now? Live in exile in a desert - ruminating about the bad ol’days and having a grudge on the children of the children of the children etc of the 10 Elites - or live in a Lake to get a good laugh at a blood bath when “foolish young humans” try to get a shiny brave bow?

They can’t live with humans ; maybe it’s because he reached that conclusion that Uncle Birdie doesn’t want to have anything to do with them.

well he’s disgusted with human and remember who is living at the Sreng Border? The Gautiers. Uncle Birdie saw Sylvain, heard him for 20 seconds and deemed humanity disgusting. GG Sylvain.

Seiros tried to build an organisation where she could live with them, good for her, but when she’s betrayed (because they will, they’re humans and Uncle Birdie is very resentful) he’s just “well i told her not to get involved but she did so fig her”. I guess he isn’t fond of Rhea anymore.

He acknowledges Seteth’s human companions but explicitely tells him that he will not assist him ; is it because Seteth hangs out with humans or because he can’t give a fig about Rhea anymore?

if seteth came to him claiming that flayn disappeared, would Macuil have tried to find her? On one hand, he seems fond of her, on the other hand, she disappeared because she was associated with humans so it’s kind of her fault - bird logic but hey you can’t ask for more

Funny thing though, when Rhea burns babies in CW, she does so to hamper Billy’s army’s movement. Which is an unethical strategy, but it ultimately worked. And then I remember that Macuil was Seiros’ tactician, maybe Rhea saw her bro do the same thing “back in the day” and thought about how effective it was? Macuil wouldn’t balk at a few burnt human - Rhea doesn’t by the end of CW.

It irks me to have all of those thoughts about the Reptiles, because we’re not supposed to care about them anymore, and yet they’re here and you can’t really ignore them.

Turnip point though : I discussed with @ohmistakeshiny about how odd it was to have the Indech paralogue available in CW where we try to paint the reptiles as “eww dragons!” which is apparently a reason enough to justify a continental war,  you have this turtle who gives you a bow and isn’t hell bent on world domination!

If Edel saw Indech, she’d have called her nuncle and told him about another relic material or would she have killed him herself? Or what?

And yet, the one who could be qualified as an enemy of humankind only appears in Claude’s route (meh). Is it becaues Macuil could have called her an idiot about what she knows of the 10 Elites and her “Nemesis wasn’t a brigand!” propaganda? or he would have had a good laugh at Rhea - look you trusted that Wilhem human and who is after your head? Wilhem himself!

it’s again the game making sure that Edel can’t be proved wrong in her route or can’t be brought to actually think and act with all of the necessary knowledge - imo, an Edel who stops and thinks 10 minutes about the world, what she’s doing, the Reptiles and Uncle Arry would have been a bajillion times more interesting as a character than the Edel we have in CW!

[fabulaprima]

Somebody send that poem to Steven Knight or Tom hardy or someone, I mean SHIT that's as good as canon.

Wow, that notion is equal parts flattering and terrifying, thank you!

[docholligay]

GOd, I love that she interrupts his fucking speech about how without power you’re nothing by telling him to shut the fuck up SHE IS BUSY, but what I think is REALLY REALLY interesting is that to this point the prince has been twinning Akio in terms of how he’s sitting, though he hasn’t said anything. 

But when Utena screams for Akio to shut up, he gets up and leaves. 

I’m not sure I’m going to come to my own beliefs about the prince at the end of this show. I think I’ll probably have to watch it once or twice more before I hit a real, hard theory on the prince that belongs to me. But I think it’s saying something that when Utena refuses to believe in what Akio’s saying, refuses to listen, suddenly the prince can’t sit by and watch her with Akio. He may not help her, but he can’t watch her either. 

ANd I laughed at Akio shutting up by deep throating his Haruka Tenoh approved super sweet mai tai. 

Please note, I have not seen this episode and am watching spoiler free! To clarify: I know NOTHING about this final episode, the movie, or anything otherwise or after. Please don’t confirm, deny, tell me to pay attention, or explain anything to me! Even if I should be able to figure it out based on past episodes! Even if it’s cultural! Even if there is no answer! It ruins it for everyone when I get spoiled!

[thecoffeetragedy]

Work milestone: 50th project I’ve worked on as manager today! 🥳

(i was joking about popping a bottle of champagne for it, but fiancé is actually taking me out for a celebratory ice cream/sorbet later tonight, gosh I love him)