Grace’s own low opinion of himself making him answer Rocky’s question of “what do you call someone who sacrifices themself for others” with dumb vs his own nature as a teacher making him turn around and input brave because above all he’s still a teacher and he’s committed to giving his students the best of himself and his knowledge is so important to me actually
They give you tiny wings so you can flutter and hover, but not fly properly to keep you close to them.
You'll never age as long as you stay in their realm and the guards have been instructed not to let you leave
Their appearance is closer to flowers, trees and mushrooms than humans. Sometimes you can't tell which of them are fae and which are simply flora.
Your outfits are made of petals and fabric that flows like water. They're the most beautiful and comfortable clothes you've ever owned.
They call you their "little dream" and "sugarplum," while petting your hair, cooing how very pretty you are.
You get to play with the fae children, though only under adult supervision. Even as children, the fae can be tricky, it's in their nature.
Bed created from a living flower, blanket weaved from silk. Somehow they found the childhood plushie you thought you lost years ago.
They feed you only the sweetest of fae foods, to tie you to them further. Once you eat their foods, all other food will taste like ash.
You get to play with dainty teacups and pots. They too look like flowers, though the material resembles porcelain, yet it's not. Even when you fill the cups with tea, they never heat up. A special enchantment so you don't hurt yourself.
They won't let you get hurt, just let your new parents worry about everything. You can just play and frolic, like you wanted.
Something that only came to me while re-reading the manga after the anime came out involves the name of Andy itself and I think it's actually pretty interesting to think about.
Spoilers for the later half of the manga (roughly about up to Chapter 124)!
.
.
.
After the mess with the Union goons, Fuuko asks about Andy's name after calling him "Zombie" for most of the chapter. Andy responds that he doesn't remember and says being called "Undead" is good enough. Fuuko doesn't like that and decides to give him the name "Andy" instead. Andy clearly doesn't like the name very much, but considering he knows he'll have to humor Fuuko to find a way for her Unluck to kill him, he just accepts it.
In fact, I've noticed most people at first tend to call him "Undead", a dehumanizing sort of term, such as Void and the Union goons. Which considering Andy's desire to die is rooted from the guilt and loneliness being immortal brings, serves to further create emotional distances from others and perhaps even himself.
And even "Undead" doesn't quite fully fit him either because Andy is an alter ego of the original Undead Victor, so even that name wouldn't be really unique to him specifically since there are technically two different individuals with the ability.
(On a tangential aside, the first person aside from Fuuko that calls him Andy consistently is actually Shen after hearing Fuuko call him that…and he's essentially the closest thing Andy has to a bro. Make that as you will.)
But I think where Andy starts to view the name differently happens starting in the climax of the Spoil arc, with Fuuko telling him they still have so many more things to do together and then literally risking her life trying to bring him back after Victor takes over the body. And Andy knows and Fuuko also knows he is using her for the sake of finding a way to die.
It's also after this event that Andy calls Fuuko by name for the first time after she wakes up in the hospital after having called her "brat" every time up to this point. Of course, this time, he takes it back, but Fuuko notices the significance of it to want him to call her by name again.
Anyway, both of them get sent to the black market auction and Fuuko picks a dress that needs some bust tailoring. It's something I didn't really pay attention to during my initial reading when it came out, but Andy signs his name as "Andy" on the delivery form. While it might have been for practical reasons, the fact he used that name for the signature is actually pretty significant because it implies Andy is slowly beginning to accept the name Andy as his own and not just something Fuuko calls him.
(Andy has really nice penmenship, as an aside.)
But it's only during the Ragnarok arc that the significance of the name Andy really changes.
In Chapter 99, Lucy asks Andy who is he after he saves her from an UMA. Andy initially introduces himself as "Undead", but then immediately nixes it and re-introduces himself as Andy. And this is actually the first time he's introduced himself as Andy because everyone else who calls him Andy usually only does so because Fuuko calls him that (such as the example with Shen). This leads into what happens in Chapter 124, where Andy finally calls himself "Andy the Undead", accepting consciously that his name is Andy, a member of the Union and Fuuko's partner in slaying God.
In other words, Andy fully accepting Andy as his name is a form of humanization, which is something Fuuko helps him to understand is what he truly wants is to feel human.
Thinking about the OC I had when I was 11 and saw Toonami for the first time. She was a white tiger cat girl with a personality kind of similar to Kotone's but more...childish (she was created by a child after all) and maybe a bit smarter lol
She was from another world full of animal-ear-type-people and Byakuen was also one of them but had lost the ability to change to his human form. Ryo's mom was also from this world and he had an evil half-brother. Fortunately for my mental health, none of the writing or art from those days has survived to today.
The character still exists, but she's got her own thing going on these days. She's a full blown furry character now, and (ironically) uses a sword and lightning versus the old days when she did wind and had an axe. I want to make a game about her and her friends one day. Ironically, they have also become a little color coded, element-wielding squad. :3
(even this art is pretty old....it's been so long since I drew her 😭)
