okay i know that im one of like three people who cares about season 15 onwards, but this bit is genuinely some of my favorite back and forth in the whole show. wash and grif’s lines fucking kill me every time i think about them
now i may not have been in the rvb fandom for very long but i’ve picked up on a few things and i got something i gotta say
i don’t know how people can hate on the shisno paradox arc
yes i understand it may deviate from what the previous few seasons were all about, they were more serious while this concept is just. kinda silly. but in the end you have to remember, rvb is a comedy. it’s not going to be serious all the time and that statement isn’t just confined to the jokes. it’s gonna have funny scenarios that are wacky and seemingly out-of-place. bc that’s how comedy works.
also it really gives us some very good insight into the characters. why they are the way that they are, what drives them toward their goals, how they view themselves and those around them. s17 episodes 11 and 12 are just. *chef’s kiss*. they make me stim so hard because you really get to see what they’re all afraid of, and how they go about comforting one another really tells a lot. the interaction between grif and kai specifically hits the specific part of my brain that makes me lose my shit /pos. ALSO ARE WE LITERALLY JUST GOING TO IGNORE DONUT GETTING MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT??? LIKE????????
and from a storyline standpoint, at least another season after 15 was necessary. 15 ended on a cliffhanger, we were never given a resolution knowing that everyone was going to be okay because we never saw that wash would be. the ending of singularity/s17 is one of the reasons why i refuse to watch rvb zero: it wraps the entire story up so nicely. everyone’s alive and well, the world isn’t in any imminent danger, and the villains are taken care of. the reds and blues can finally rest.
so yeah, s16/17 are good if you ask me. i do understand why people might not like them, and they’re entitled to their own opinions. but like... you can’t ignore the fact that we were really given some very good things in those seasons.
me, my sister, and my gf are watching season 16 finally (we rewatched all of rvb up until now. we havent seen s16 because we stopped when it first came out cuz it looked dumb) and ill be honest. dont like it. its a fucking mess and they really went back on a lot of good character development for no good reason
aka, The Trickster, the God of Deceit
From the web-series Red vs. Blue (2003- present[valid as of mid-November 2019])
Voiced by Ricco Fajardo
First appearance: “The Shisno” S16E01
Many things about the guy make him look like an absolute dick. However, considering the fact that he’s getting a profile, he’s actually much worse than he seems. As both Season 16 and 17 go on, we see just how cruel he really is underneath his comedic demeanor.
[MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW]
For starters, he’s considered the god of deceit, meaning he is adept at manipulating and lying to people. He was working with Chorvos the whole time while the rest of the Cosmic Powers were trying to stop him. He allowed the reality breaking paradox to happen for his since it helped further the plans of Chrovos and was instrumental in causing more paradoxes by taking over different people in the timeline.
He’s also superficially charming. While he still looks like an irreverent dick, it is a much better look than the diabolical schemer who is willing to tear the universe apart. He lays low and keeps himself looking chummy and smarmy even while committing incredibly cruel actions such as sucking Huggins into a black hole. And while working for Chorvos, he convinces them to give him more power, leaving them even weaker inside their prison.
And the original reason he teamed up with Chorvos despite the potential to cause untold destruction?
“Because I’m BOOOOORED!”
Yep. He sells out to Chorvos and assists in breaking reality out of sheer boredom. He was getting bored of the state of the universe. When Chrovos offered him the power to become a real god and not just an A.I., he thinks of the possibilities of creating different universes is more interesting and worth destroying the one they’re in. He shows such sadistic pleasure in tormenting the Reds and Blues along with screwing with the timeline.
Genkins cares about no one other than himself. He wants to obtain power and satiate his own boredom without any regard for the people that could be affected by the destruction caused. He’s also very sadistic as well. The incident with sucking Huggins into a black hole is one notable example, but he also later pulls the Reds and Blues into the Labyrinth - an entity that psychologically torments you into committing suicide by black hole.
And his arrogance leads to low tolerance for frustration. With the Reds and Blues notoriously being the most frustrating people in the galaxy, when they do what they do best and continually dismantle Genkins’ plan, he becomes increasingly volatile and heated with them. Every contingency plan gets torn down right before him and he gets sick of it.
“What is it with you people?! I trap you in your past, you get out, I get the powers of a GOD you skewer me with a golf club, I drop you in custom made nightmares and you make the nightmare fight me with a golf club, HOW ARE YOU LIKE THIS?! HOW DO YOU DO IT?!”
Eventually, when he realizes that Huggins didn’t really die from the black hole, he performs one last act of spite and drops into the black hole to prevent them from ever existing in the first place. Unfortunately for him, it proves to be his downfall as he was Chorvos all along and present Chorvos had forgotten all about being Genkins thanks to the eons spent imprisoned. Essentially, Genkins died after the time spent imprisoned.
Thank you so much. For the longest time, Season 15 was awkwardly grouped in with 14 as "standalone," while 16 awkardly hung out by itself.
This way is much nicer. Even though the Shisno Paradox story arc hadn't been planned out yet, Season 15 ties in very well and deserves to be included. It all just helps divide the show up evenly.
Seeing Season 15, The Shisno Paradox, and Singularity all under the "Shisno Paradox" header is just so much better.
