You always talk about Leo’s relationship with Donnie and Raph since there his big brothers and he has baby brother privileges but what’s his relationship with Mikey like since he’s older than Mikey
Yeah, I would say I'm more focused on the dynamics between Raph, Donnie, and Leo, so Mikey takes a hard backseat in my lore. Oops. 💀
I would say they have a very strong bond. They tend to lean on each other a lot, especially since they both know the feeling of being smothered and constantly treated like a child. It's especially hard for Leo since the huge gap in maturity between him, Raph, and Donnie came out of nowhere. Raph leaves for two years and when he comes back, he's an entirely different person on an entirely different level than Leo.
He looks up to Raph and wants to make him proud, but he feels like nothing he does could ever impress the person Raph is now. But not only is he dealing with that, he now has to come to terms with the growth of Donnie.
He's no longer Donnie's twin; he's Donnie's younger brother. He feels like he has stayed stagnant in his growth and feels left behind when dealing with his older brothers. But when it comes to Mikey, they can see eye to eye, speak to each other without the fear of being talked over, and not have the constant annoyance of being coddled. Mikey doesn't trust Usagi, but he also doesn't completely disregard Leo's opinion on the rabbit.
Umm, to cut the ramblings short, Leo feels like he lives in the shadows of his big brothers now. The constant fear of letting them down by failing as a leader is a drain on him, and he finds comfort in his younger brother. Blah blah.
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Lethal Company is so fun and addicting to play but man it has its terrifying moments-
Exhibit A: One Bracken literally popped out of a vent JUST as I was about to enter the room and stared at me for a good second or two, seeing if I was gonna do something
I didn't know they could travel through those
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related to that last post that's kinda why i think cpsm revealing that javier had died three years earlier than lloyd is poignant in a very understated way.
javier's original fate was to live when everyone he cared about didn't. he was meant to be the protagonist of that world, to face all kind of threats and survive all of them, but with no one at his side.
he's the narrative's favorite but the narrative's love is not gentle and it is not kind and it will hold you close until you suffocate under its themes and parallels. for the world would bend itself for javier to be at it's center but it would not allow him the comfort of sharing that spot with anyone else.
he was always meant to be the last one standing. fate won't kill him but it won't allow him to die either.
and then comes lloyd with his plot breaking meddling saving everyone around them and shoving his way into the protagonist role, sharing the burden javier wasn't even aware he was carrying. and fate tries so hard to correct itself, it tries by all means possible to put things back the way they were meant to be, but in the end the best it can do is to try and make it so there will only be one main character in the world. the way it was always meant to be.
it concedes. it won't take away everything from its favorite anymore. but it won't stand for there to be two of them.
and the thing is. it wins. it gets what it wants. in the end javier can't save lloyd, he can't take his place, he can't keep him alive, he has to stand and watch him sacrifice himself for everyone else. for javier himself. in the end when the battle is over javier is again the last one standing.
when lloyd comes back and the fate restoration doesn't start up all over again, he thinks it's because lloyd frontera's original body disappeared and he came back in his own body. i don't think it was that. i think the reason fate didn't try to restore itself again is because it had already achieved what it wanted.
the narrative won. not completely. not the way it was originally meant to. but in the end javier ended up as the lone protagonist who watched his loved one die before his eyes.
only then was it satisfied and allowed javier to leave its grasp. only then was he allowed to become a person and not just the main character.
a person who could spend a lifetime with all of his loved ones and when the time came, die peacefully in his sleep, knowing at least the person he came to care the most about will outlive him. at least this time, he won't be the one left behind.
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This is a shout out to everyone who feels like they didn't do enough with their dogs this year.
Everyone who didn't reach their official or unofficial training goals.
Everyone who didn't go to a training class or practice as much as they wanted.
Everyone who didn't overcome or make progress on their dog's issues.
Everyone who didn't compete or trial or title.
There's so much pressure to prove yourself as a handler and prove your dog, especially right now when everyone's posting their accomplishments. But it's okay if the only thing you did this year was enjoy your dog.
That's the whole point of having a dog, and that's more than enough.
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man. even after spending a month bracing myself for it, and making sure I was well-informed and prepared to stand my ground if my hunch turned out to be correct, it sure didn't feel great getting confirmation that my mom has been uncritically guzzling all kinds of pro-zionist propaganda like water and has made herself nigh impervious to any and all factual information 💀💀💀
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