#*spoiler: They're very good friends

[quietbirdee]

thinking about friends and positive touch ;u;

#the owl house #toh #hunter toh #willow park #gus porter #flapjack toh #viney toh #skara toh #sylphee art #they're friends ;u; #i'm very emotional about them!!!!!!! #the emerald entrails friend group is so!!!!! good!!!!!!!!! #toh spoilers

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok & Seven of Nine should have been overbearing co-parents to the borg children

#non romantic co-parents and they won't even admit they're friends (they don't have* friends! they don't need friends!) #star trek voyager #they are organizing a joint schedule they have a shared space google doc #Seven of Nine #Tuvok #They are both overbearing in different ways <3 #I think Tuvok is an excellent father and also that he would not be able to parent every child effectively - especially non Vulcans #Meanwhile Seven is like 'Children are basically little employees I have to train yes?' #Chakotay: You're not going to be raising this children...alone. will you?? #Seven: Of course not. / Chakotay: Thank G- / Seven: Commander Tuvok will assist me. #Chakotay: -the most forced smile ever- o h h........ #*spoiler: They're very good friends #I think Tuvok would want them to be better behaved than they are but know that children are unpredictable to a degree and they've #been through a lot meanwhile Seven really has no reference for what children are supposed to be do and act like #besides. Seven doesn't need to be a mother. She's like twenty something and newly independent - she should have been at the club instead of #performing femininity so she could be a ''''''real woman'''''' #Stop making female characters mothers.......its enough. #None of the VOY women should have been mothers. Maybe Kes - she seemed like she maybe wanted kids. I could see Kes being a good mom #down the line (not in Elogium I liked that episode and its ending) but none of the rest of them needed #or seemed to particularly want that

[lilaccoffin]

Not even joking when I say if we get HFR2 in about 5-6 years I want Roxanne to join the gang. Like, listen, what I want the most from a sequel is for them to continue to explore the Vandelay family, especially when Macaron mentions how he wants to help mend the messiness between them. I would prefer they keep their word on the joke that we get 0 Chai backstory, 'cause I genuinely like Peppermint and the Vandelay family being the characters that get the most backstory and depth.

PLUS, I think it would be really cool to explore Roxanne's character because, so far, she's idolized by Peppermint, Macaron, Korsica, and even some of the Vandelay robots, and I think it would be great to show the flaws in Roxanne's character, that are very obviously there, through interactions. Her separating her work life and personal life so much that it caused a strain in her relationship with her kids is just...a lot to think about. If Kale's spectra AI self comes back and he ends up, like, getting a new body too, it would be interesting to see what happens between them. I don't think her issues with her kids are 100% solved just 'cause Kale blew up and Peppermint hugged her.

That and Roxanne's wiki mentions her implants and how we don't know what they do quite a bit so like...it would just be real cool if she ends up a part of the gang and lends a hand with whatever neat ability she might have from her implants. Also, I personally really like that Hi Fi Rush has a big cast of older characters...

Our youngest human is Peppermint at 23, and everyone else is in their mid 20s (Chai), early to late 30s(Korsica, Kale, Zanzo),late 40s(Macaron), and maybe 50s-60s for Roxanne and Roquefort. A lot of media focuses on younger characters so I'm grateful for the variety of ages in this game!! So like...LET ROXANNE BE A PART OF THE SQUAD. LET HER FILL THIS SPACE.

#hi fi rush spoilers #rambling to myself sorry fSDJLSD #I just don't think it would be a good idea to give the gang a new friend in a sequel 'cause like... #they're at a nice even number... #but the space in that mission report still feels...intentional. #I think Roxanne being a part of the group to fix whatever wild thing happens in a sequel would be a rlly neat choice thooo #no one can give me the SHE'S TOO OLD TO FIGHT excuse cause ROQUEFORT. #sure he got his body heavily modified for fighting BUT #again...Roxanne's implants are spoken about very vaguely on her wiki so I think she has something neat up her sleeve

[blueish-bird]

Denji must be torn about Chainsaw Man becoming a infamous/feared public figure: on the one hand it really hurts his feelings, but on the other hand it means he can afford to get a bunch of his own merch because it's on clearance

#saving money is a beautiful thing! #scapegoat discount baby! #Nayuta objects to whenever he goes shopping for anything because he ends up coming home with any red-tagged Chainsaw Man stuff he sees #first the dogs now the collectible plushies. it's self-love it's empathizing/projecting onto what has been rejected/abandoned #on a not-very-related note I think Denji would be a staunch ally of (if not a member of) the furry community. Power too. #I just think the connection Denji has to dogs and Power has to cats is Such a strong foundation of who they are as people #Asa would probably fit into that too! Power 🤝Asa -- Cat People #bless you Fujimoto for the representation of love for cats. they're so good. friends. beloveds. #csm #csm spoilers #csm part 2 #csm denji #csm manga #my csm thoughts #meposting #csm 146 #chainsaw man #chainsaw man part 2 #chainsaw man spoilers #sorry im getting off-track #csm nayuta #csm power #csm asa

[irregularbillcipher]

going over old fic notes and outlines and character talks with friends and it's always really funny when i get to the stuff i was developing early-mid 2019 where bill just literally kept kryptos around to rag on, and he genuinely just. did not like the man. like was just completely annoyed with his general existence. boy have things changed

#for anyone curious: i came to the conclusion that no amount of 'this guy sucks but he's fun to bully' would get bill to keep someone around #for like literal eons. bill gets bored of his toys too quickly. he'd break 'em. plus the fact that bill decided he was worth saving to begi #with. there was at first an element of 'i owe the guy' because [FIC SPOILERS] and a grudging 'if i had a gun to my head i'd say he was my #best friend i GUESS but do not tell him that' but no real genuine friendship or anything more #before realizing that with the specific story i was going to tell it just made the most sense to have these assholes still be like. #bad people for sure but to actually care about each other. it also just felt too easy to write bill off as someone whose cruelty is just #a lack of certain emotions. like that doesn't automatically make a bad person and a bad person doesn't automatically lack emotion #(there's a character that'll be introduced sometime soon who is aroace and doesn't make friends easily and she's lovely because...) #(idk man. i'm aroace and why shouldn't she be. a lack of affection doesn't make you bad and the ability to feel it doens't make you good) #so bill can and does love people-- even if actual vulnerability is near impossible to get from him-- and kryptos is included in that #it's just that he still sucks really bad and hurts and even kills people that he loves because again. bad person who has no idea how to #navigate relationships healthily because of his own baggage and the environment he grew up in #(also in canon he usually does not want to navigate relationships healthily because. again. he sucks!) #so the only lasting relationship he's ever had where he isn't trying to hurt someone is still just... messy as hell #(and to be fair kryptos is also a p. bad person by adulthood it's just that they're pretty young at this point in the fic) #(so there's less avenues to show that) #kryptos being desperate for any scrap of attention and bill providing the only attention he's ever gotten was always the vibe #but it really was much more of a 'bully and bulling victim who he lets hang around him because said victim' #'is like the only one willing to talk to him' dynamic which is... very much not the case anymore #as said in the tags of my fic. these awful shapes care about each other as best they can care about anyone #anyway sorry idk how much anyone really cares about these tag essays but theyre helpful for me to get my thought process like... down #and track how different the story used to be

[hydrachea]

This event is delightfully adding to my growing collection of Aether & Paimon being the best duo in all of Teyvat.

#the collection is called 'they're BEST FRIENDS' and the gallery is my heart #every day i am so grateful that hoyo lets them be so expressive #my favorite ever remains their matching smug mugs at the crux clash #but these are also very very good #if the game allowed us to rewatch cutscenes i'd have access to a lot more but alas i only have what i was quick enough to snap #genshin #the second one is so good. she's so happy she's blushing. he's happy for her too. they're besties they own my heart. #for obvious reasons the actual best duo in teyvat is the traveler and paimon but i play aether so i'm biased and i will not apologize #that's my crop top wearing braid sporting most darling boy and i will hype him #genshin spoilers #ray's records

[mariuslepual]

people are out there saying they massacred zahra kashaw's characterisation... did we watch the same c1

#the slayers take episode with vax keyleth tiberius kash and the dwarf whose name i forgot is one of the meanest in the campaign lmao #and zahra is a warlock who's very much suggested to be shady and on the run from Something she's just nice to vm once they're friends #guys you remember them as good people bc that's who they are BY THE END OF CAMPAIGN #old man yells at cloud #critical role #cr spoilers #tlovm spoilers

[tamayokny]

you know what, i don’t care what y’all say...the tokyo revengers ending is good. i will defend it.

#mads makes a text post #tokyo revengers #tokrev spoilers #my main critiques is that--like most mangaka--wakui was likely rushed near the end #so like. #277 left questions for sure since we're missing a lot but #it's still really good #it's still a good time traveling story #and while i would have done things differently myself the story is still strong #and btw this new and final time leap gave everyone in the group something important: #they all had support from others (i.e. friends)! so they're able to live a better life now thanks to takemichi and mikey #also it's sooooo funny because like. honestly i saw this all coming and takemichi has said MULTIPLE TIMES that he wants to save everyone #and now that he did everyone is confused but like...the man did what he wanted to do!! #also it's very interesting that chifuyu remembers things from the past #leaves us to speculate how time leaping can affect people

[valsyr]

yes this is a freya blog .  no y’all are not exempt from me talking abt odin

#ooc. #gow spoilers / #i want 2 dissect his brain .... rattle it in a maraca .... what's going on in there #he is so so interesting 2 me #was talking 2 my friend abt what i think rlly adds salt to the wound is on top of his charisma & smarts ... he can b patient #u cannot give him the room 2 sit & talk to you . if you give him the room (& he wants to take it) he will whittle you down just enough to #where he needs it #it adds more to why freya n mimir were so concerned abt atreus going to asgard. yes the concern for his safety (like w kratos) But they also #know how odin works #'if he tells you snow is white he's lying' & mimir is Right #anywys yeah . going back on the note of how he talks to / abt freya from my last post #it's not too far off from how he talks abt baldur . or anyone really #they are tools & pawns to him . he does not respect them #not... entirely. at least. he might respect what they're useful for. what they're good at. #not them as a person #taking a lot of restraint 4 me not 2 write him #gowr spoilers / #gow ragnarok spoilers / #oh yeah tacking on to that too. i'm sure they all very much felt loved by him at one point #& you can . see why & how #despite all the shit he's done #the writing is so good ...

[cattycaleb]

was suddenly hit with the realization that fcg only just found out that he slaughtered his previous friend group This Morning. good god

#found out they're a killing machine. had to permanently part ways with dancer. #literally the next battle and their friends start dropping like flies #this is just fcg and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day huh #fcg #critical role spoilers #cr3 #willow whispers

[aretheextrovertsokay]

Aro Hunter and Aro Willow...QPR...LISJEIOWJOIJ-

#Listen listen listen. They. Enjoy each other's presence. #Willow starts feeling more and more comfortable around him. Brings him little pots of flower from time to time. #Might even start calling Hunter 'My special plant friend'. #God. Hunter feels his chest go so warm with each plant. He puts them on his shelf and tries to find out every piece of information he can #On it so that he can keep it alive as long as possible. #He's not very good at it so Willow comes over to his room to help him with that. #And afterwards they sit on the couch with some hot chocolates and watch some movies. And Hunter feels so safe around Willow. #She's the captain!! If she can't kick ass then who can? He feels safe to fall sleep around her. And she knows it #And she'll protect him with her life. He falls sleep. They're happy. They're both happy when around each other. #Just. God. #hunter x willow #The Owl House #the owl house spoilers #toh willow #toh hunter #toh #Swearing cw #Caps

[mollusken]

The answer was in front of us the whole time it was LAE'ZEL. She's so crazy intense and loves fighting and makes you prove yourself to her which is of course something that Poni would love. I was trying not to just pick her because she checks all of my personal boxes but now I don't have to change my party comp either so it's a win

#gale was kind of insulting to ponis intellegence and he has weird ex drama so she would sign outta that obe #karlach is excitable and theyre very similar but i think they're good friends #and wyll is too sweet.... she needs some spice #being with laezel means she cant say shit about fen lol bc theyre the same🫢 #bg3 spoilers #poni gate

[willosword]

can't stop thinking about the very real possibility of cloud strife getting kurow okamiden-d at the end of the ff7r trilogy

#the way sephiroth keeps INSISTING cloud has to live is so.................. Worrysome #(for those who don't know kurow essentially used his own body as a vessel to trap the evil spirit #and then made his friends kill him so they would both die for good) #i don't THINK they'd do it cause like. living with survivor's guilt is a very huge part of cloud's character #but i think at the very least they're going to tease it as a possibility #but like.......... if they put zack in the kuni position......... no i shant say it #final fantasy vii spoilers #willow whispers

[prosebushpatch]

See since I can’t draw, a specific type of montage i imagine for ocs and fav songs are actually like, I find a song and instantly think “oh this will be a great ending credits song for this novel that is not yet written and will probs not ever be a film” and then I think nonstop of a clips of my characters living their happily ever after beside scrolling text. Anyway shout out to the dentist for reminding me that come to me by the goo goo dolls exists im totally going to be normal about blorbos from my brain for a while

#rose and rambles #spoiler alert! by normal she means she's crying as she imagines her characters dancing around with each other after #going through such an Ordeal that the very fabric of their lives and their selves have been irrevocably altered #BUT IT'S OKAY BECAUSE they are with their sweetest friend and they're going to start again AND JUST LET ME HAVE THIS #frick #it's just too good #listen i'm always so terrified at the dentist and im like gripping my arm as they clean my teeth #and then i hear the chorus over the terrible sounds of dentist tools and im just like 🥺 omg... it's just like my blorbos.... #i also imagine trailers for my stories but this one is peak credit song material #like the most feel good moment at the end of a movie #you know? those good credit songs that just capture the heart of the story and you're like yeah that's what this is about #real talk one of my fav credit songs of all time is something i want at the end of tangled like that's so bouncy and vibrant #leaves you dancing after a heartfelt movie? that's the stuff #and sticks and stones at the end of how to train your dragon that leaves you with a pure sense of awe and wonder? #fantastic

[eorzeashan]

Blas finally has her Meteia clothing!

#ffxiv #oc: blas #ew spoilers #i'll write up her origin post later but the gist is that she was disconnected from her sisters' consciousness when she was sent #to infiltrate etheirys early but the aetheric barrier of zodiark cut her off and fucked with her dynamis completely #so she crash landed with little memory of the incident #and awakened her individual personality as a new adventurer #people call her Lady Ixal because they think she's an Ixali #which she has tried many times to rectify #thancred calls her his hunting hawk and they're becoming good friends though her mysterious origins intrigues him #i also headcanon meteia turn lighter the further away from each other they are or if they're ill #in which case blas is very injured from zodiark so she's not as dark a blue as meteia okto deka #sorry had to ramble to no one HAHA

[starcurtain]

2.1 Penacony Spoilers!

I know the scene after Ratio's "betrayal" can be read a lot of ways but I am shocked I haven't seen more people interpret it as Ratio being so worried about Aventurine that he couldn't stay away even though he was supposed to.

We know:

1) Ratio absolutely knew Aventurine's plan from start to finish, both his gamble to create "death" in the dream and with the three cornerstones. (Wish people would stop underselling Ratio in their analyses; "Three chips are enough" is a direct enough clue that, genius as he is, Ratio would never miss.)

2) In his own words, Ratio was acting according to Aventurine's instructions while in Dewlight Pavilion and with Sunday and felt that he did a good job not giving them away.

I think most people are on the same page up to there, but then I've seen a lot of people interpreting this scene after Aventurine leaves Sunday's mansion as Aventurine being genuinely angry at Ratio (possibly after having gaslit himself into thinking Ratio was actually betraying him).

But this doesn't make much sense to me because:

1) Ratio actually has nothing to gain by selling Aventurine out to Sunday. They're on the same side in this mission. Information about a Stelleron on Penacony wouldn't be news anyone with a brain like Ratio's and why would he need someone else's research on Stellerons when he already has ties to the Genius Society through Screwllum and Herta, as well as the Astral Express where the Trailblazer is actively housing a Stelleron?

2) One of Aventurine's most notable lines of dialogue is how it's perfectly fine and expected for "friends" to use each other and backstab. This is his default understanding of partners--why would he suddenly be mad about something he expected from the start?

3) If the betrayal wasn't already planned and was just a possibility based on Aventurine's understanding of Ratio, why would he ever have revealed there were "three chips" (aka three cornerstones) in play? If even the betrayal over Topaz's stone wasn't planned, just assumed, why would Aventurine reveal the existence of the third stone? He would gain nothing from doing so.

Instead, I think it makes a lot more sense to interpret Aventurine's frustration with Ratio in this later scene as annoyance over Ratio taking an "unnecessary" risk:

1) As far as Sunday knows, Ratio had just very seriously betrayed Aventurine, completely selling him out and essentially sending him to his execution.

2) In the scene afterward, Aventurine is out in public in the middle of Penacony where The Family's eyes are always watching, yet Ratio walks right up to him to check on him. Why would someone who just sold you out come up to you immediately afterward to check on your health?!

3) It's only natural that Aventurine would pump the brakes and go "Wow, didn't think you'd show yourself after you just betrayed me, remember?" Because that's the act they are supposed to be keeping up! They're still being monitored; it's not safe to break character!

But Ratio is a genius, right, so why would he break character here? From the standpoint of the ploy itself, revealing to the Family that he and Aventurine were still on the same side would only jeopardize the plan, not help it.

The logical explanation, then, is that Ratio went to Aventurine here because he felt like he had to.

He had to check in and make sure the situation was still under Aventurine's control.

(In fact, the entire exchange through the middle of this scene is Aventurine and Ratio confirming the rest of their plot in a veiled manner: Ratio brings up the plan and mentions what's concealed in the gift money bag, Aventurine confirms the cornerstone is good to go; Ratio asks what his next step will be; Aventurine says he's going to do the insane thing of handing out cash while looking pathetic [aka fishing for Sparkle]. Ratio essentially asks if he's crazy enough to take the final gamble with his own life, which Aventurine confirms, and then Ratio sets them up for the finale by gifting him the doctor's note.)

Ratio was willing to risk ruining their entire plan--something Aventurine does seem to be frustrated about at first--just to ensure Aventurine still felt all right about the situation.

He needed to deliver his note demanding Aventurine stay alive.

He needed to tell Aventurine to come to him if the situation got too painful to bear.

In short, Ratio was worried enough that he could not stay away even though, for the sake of their plot, it would have made significantly more sense for him not to appear. The gain of breaking character was worth more to him than the risk of being caught.

You honestly don't even have to take this in a shipping context. The real point here is that Ratio is an incredibly good person who wasn't okay with Aventurine's self-sacrificial plan and who felt morally compelled to check on a person in pain. He's a healer through and through, and ignoring Aventurine in this condition--ignoring someone who was taking so much risk on themselves--simply wasn't possible for him, no matter the danger it posed to the plan.

But for those who do ship Ratio and Aventurine... I hope more people will come to see this scene as another example of Ratio's genuine concern for his mission partner! He did not have to appear here at all; it would have made much more sense for him to leave Aventurine to his own devices to uphold the illusion of their "betrayal." He showed up in this scene--very likely against Aventurine's expectations--because he was concerned for Aventurine's situation and wanted to ensure Aventurine knew he could fall back on Ratio's support at any time if the plan went awry.

tl;dr: I wish people would stop interpreting this scene as the aftermath of a betrayal. Aventurine wasn't ticked off with Ratio in this scene because he felt like he'd genuinely been backstabbed; he was ticked off because Ratio was literally breaking their pre-established "betrayer" character just to be fussy over Aventurine's safety and well-being. (Okay, and to double check on the plan, but let's be real, the first part was definitely more important. 👌)

#honkai star rail #aventurine #dr. ratio #ratiorine #aventio #dr ratio x aventurine #I'M JUST SAYING #when you betray someone you don't check on them five minutes later!! #Dr. Ratio is a genius #he knows this #but he showed up anyway #Aventurine is over here sweating bullets like #'My dude WHY are you here GO AWAY we are acting like ENEMIES today' #and Ratio was just like 'Okay but do you NEED me?' #'Because I am here for you in case that needed to be clarified' #like 'Just want to make sure we're 100% clear' #'I AM HERE FOR YOU IDIOT' #Aventurine being shown a modicum of care: 'Disgusting.' #2.1 spoilers #penacony spoilers