INTRODUCING OUR CONTESTANTS...
Steve Carlsberg (Welcome to Night Vale)
Emperor Belos (The Owl House)
The Onceler (Lorax)
Emperor Palpatine (Star Wars)
Pikaman (Tumblr)
Warren the Eagle (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)
Lord Hater (Wander over Yonder)
Harry Du Bois (Disco Elysium)
Bill Hawks (Professor Layton)
Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Cronus Ampora (Homestuck)
Jerry (Undertale)
Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100)
Dr. N. Brio (Crash Bandicoot)
Elias Bouchard (The Magnus Archives)
Doofenshmirtz (Phineas & Ferb)
Kavinsky (The Raven Cycle)
Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
Lemongrab (Adventure Time)
Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)
Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (Venture Brothers)
Shin Tsumiki (Your Turn to Die)
Zim (Invader Zim)
L Lawliet (Death Note)
Flint Paper (Sam & Max)
BoJack Horseman (BoJack Horseman)
Connecticut Clark (Connecticut)
Fassad (Mother 3)
Baldi (Baldi's Basics)
Tony Stark (MCU)
Wallace (Wallace & Gromit)
Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune)
Logan Roy (Succession)
Grima Wormtongue (Lord of the Rings)
Crux (The Locked Tomb)
Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)
Five Pebble (Rain World)
Tingle (Legend of Zelda)
The Grinch (The Grinch)
Benrey (Half-Life VR But The AI Is Self-Aware)
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
Neighbor (Hello Neighbor)
Tighten (Megamind)
Scout / Jeremy (Team Fortress 2)
Santa Claus (Christmas)
Sans (Undertale)
Ben Chang (Community)
Olaf (Frozen)
Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives)
Pierre (Stardew Valley)
Jesus Christ (The Bible)
Randy Jade (Dialtown)
Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Trip (Facade)
William Murderface (Metalocalypse)
Syndrome (The Incredibles)
Martin Kratt (The Wild Kratts/Zooboomafoo)
Oswald Mandus (Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs)
Naven Nuknuk (Epithet Erased)
Wario (Mario)
Mordecai (Regular Show)
Glenn Quagmire (Family Guy)
Voting will begin as soon as I have a proper image for the bracket :}
(im probably going to end up making my own at this point LOL)
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Can't Fuck Bracket - Group Stage. Group 18: The Only Game They Have Is Gameboy (Nintendo Characters)
Ghetsis (Pokémon) versus Bill Hawks (Professor Layton) versus Toad (Mario)
[ID: The unfuckable pride flag overlaid with the "no bitches" meme. Over it are pictures of the contestants. Ghetsis is a light skinned man with hair that looks like horns; Bill Hawks is a white man with a square nose; Toad is a light skinned person wearing a huge hat that looks like a mushroom. Over them are sparkles and a heart with a butt, and in between them are peach emojis crossed out with the word "vs" in them. End ID]
Ghetsis: "Look at him. Also I think he tried to commit pokemon typical genocide. but also look at him."
Bill Hawks: "British politician"
Toad: "i mean.... come on"
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Some Context
Greetings, everyone. My PR team alerted me of some... unsavory rumors spreading online. I have made an account to reassure you that these RUMORS are not true.
You particularly need to be wary of some "bad actors" online, who make ridiculous claims that I "ruined their lives" or that I'm "responsible for killing their family." My team of very trustworthy, credible investigators has verified that these people are in fact jealous bitch babies who have no friends and cry at night because they lost their parents or whatever. Truly sad, I pity them despite all the slander they've thrown at me these past few years. I suppose even I can be too forgiving at times...
Anyways, if anyone still needs convincing, I'm happy to answer questions. I would also love to see support for my campaign to remain Prime Minister!
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The Time Traveller and the Eternal Queen
If Layton and Janice parallel one another, then so do their partners, Claire and Melina.
In the present of their respective stories, Claire and Melina are both ghosts. Memories. Dead women walking.
One died ten years prior to PL3 in an experiment gone wrong. The other died of illness a year before Eternal Diva.
It’s easy to blame Bill Hawks for Claire’s ‘killing’, but what if they hadn’t run the experiment early, behind Dimitri’s back? What if they have worked through those fatal complications? Travelling through time still would have been a dangerous endeavour, regardless, and I think Claire still would have offered to be the test subject.
There’s no one to blame for Melina’s illness, unless you believe the Azran marked her with the same fate as the Ambrosian queen. (It’s me, I believe that because Azran were awful.) I’m sure Whister and Descole did everything they could to cure Melina. Maybe a Golden Garden with its pure air could have helped…
Although Claire appears in the present, her body shows signs of molecular instability. Dimitri— gripped by heartbreak and guilt and pride— struggles to stabilise Claire’s existence, like Whistler and even Janice fight to stabilise Melina’s existence.
In the Eternal Diva novelisation, after Melina’s death, Melina describes waking up in Janice’s body and communicating with Janice. Melina is determined to ‘disappear’ (much like Claire wanted to disappear) but Janice insists she needs to stay.
“I’ve just found you again… Do you realise how much I missed you? I can’t let you go on like this. This isn’t just for you. This is also for me. Melina, you may not understand, but the grief and suffering of those left behind is so strong… Losing my best friend not once, but twice, would surely break my heart…”
Janice’s determination and desperation here reminds me so much of Dimitri!
Melina champions Janice’s self-sacrifice and her noble, pure heart. If you look at Dimitri in another light, his ten long years of dedication to the time travel and saving Claire could be seen as noble and self-sacrificing… kidnapping scientists aside!
Janice voluntarily buries her personality and persuades Melina to stay, so there’s no problem, right…?
I love how Melina enjoys living life through Janice and it takes Melina a while (Maybe a couple of months?) to realise this is wrong, both for her and for Janice. The two of them need to move on, even if it hurts.
It makes Melina feel more flawed and realistic. It makes me wonder if Claire had similar hopes of surviving when she first landed in the present.
Claire and Melinas’ lives were preserved through scientific means that broke the laws of nature— requiring memories— by grieving loved ones, who were manipulated by a mastermind.
Claire begged Dimitri to quit his work on the time machine and to free the kidnapped scientists. Melina wanted her father to stop stealing the lives with the Detragon so that she could survive.
When Claire and Melina felt they alone couldn’t get through to their misguided ‘saviours’, they turned to Hershel Layton.
‘Celeste’, after helping the gang escape from the research facility, confides to Layton that she knows Claire was quite fond of him. Melina, after her identity is revealed, admits that Janice is very fond of the Professor indeed.
Melina, through Janice, wrote to the professor. Although Janice had assured Melina he would be able to help, Melina kept her identity hidden. Maybe Melina feared her father and Descole would find out, which would have made it difficult for her to slip away.
Claire pretended to be ‘Celeste’, her younger sister. This would have spared Layton, Paul and others from more heartbreak…
Unfortunately, when Layton reveals Melina’s identity, this enables Descole to complete his plan. He whisks Melina away on the Detra-Gigant and orders her to sing A Song of the Sea. Melina— hoping to save her father and friends— complies. Layton and Luke, in turn, fly up to save Melina.
There’s nothing wrong with a character needing to be saved, as long as they’re given time to interact with others and actually… be a character, as Melina is. Layton isn’t there insisting Janice stays in the shed while he and Luke investigate the gothic castle. See Level 5 where was this writing for Flora
Luke convinces Layton that he should be the one to leap onto the giant machine to rescue Melina…
Similarly, Claire convinces Layton to let her go back for Clive on the Mobile Fortress, because Clive isn’t the only one to blame.
Both Claire and Melina take an underserved amount of self-recrimination and regret for the grief that their deaths caused others. Even Claire, knowing the risks of time travel, didn’t ask to die. She didn’t ask Dimitri to build another Time Machine, anymore than Melina asked Whistler to use the Detragon.
It’s not fair how Claire and Melina each lost the futures they were looking forward to - it’s not fair how Layton and Janice were left grieving twice - it’s not fair that Bill and Descole got away with their crimes (Redemption or not, how many of those kidnapped people needed therapy?) - but fate isn’t fair.
At the very least, Claire and Melina live on through everyone’s memories. The time traveller and the eternal diva, immortalised.
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Okay, I just finished playing Unwound Future for myself today. I enjoyed the game, but I have several questions
**Major Spoilers for Unwound Future**
1. Dimitri was literally using the ****very public, tv broadcasted**** demonstration to kidnap the Prime Minister and London's greatest physicists. He even invited the police. ...Why? That was extremely risky.
2. How did he manage to kidnap all those physicists in broad daylight without getting caught?
3. Here's the biggest one: We know how Dimitri got the physicists to work on the time machine: They genuinely believed they were 10 years in the future and that building a time machine to go back 10 years was their only way home. Here's the problem, though: It's revealed that most of them weren't actually working on the time machine, they were working on Clive's mass destruction fortress. How'd Clive get them to do that?
4. So Claire died, 9 other people in nearby apartments died. How did Bill Hawks survive, much less fully recover from his injuries
5. This is much more of an Englishly/literature kind of question than a logical one: Is there any literary/symbolic significance behind Layton taking off his hat after Claire's death, and then in the final scene when he's just working, he also isn't wearing his hat?
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