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makeste · 6 years

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KHR 068: Literal Food Wars

Stay tuned guys, because this chapter features Bianchi’s one and only fight scene, and it’s about six pages long but it’s one of the strangest things that’s ever gone down in this manga.

But before we get to that, this thing opens with one of my all-time favorite KHR jokes! Let’s appreciate it together.

YOU BET YOUR ASS HE HAD A SPARE. And he just WHIPS IT OUT like an RPG character dumping his massive inventory. And Yamamoto is just like, “oh, thank you!” because PAPAMOTO DONE RAISED HIM RIGHT. And his face. Oh my god just look at it it’s perfect.

All in all, a 10 out of 10. Really, we can go ahead and end the arc right here.

Just kidding, obviously we need to continue. At the very least until we find out just what exactly Mukuro is planning on doing with all those teeth!

So anyway, I skipped over it, but it’s important to note that yet again Tsuna is having feelings of guilt over his freezing up and having to be saved by his friends who then end up getting hurt protecting him.

This is beautiful slow-burn character development, so let’s keep track of it as it continues.

It almost seems too easy, doesn’t it? [counts the number of chapters left in this arc] Something fishy going on here.

At this point, poor Ken, who has now been relegated to comic relief status, severely misapprehends the position he’s currently in, and decides to start some shit.

Honestly, he almost even gave the whole game away with that “you’ll die before you see his face” remark. Mukuro really needs to have a talk with him.

An annoyed Gokudera belligerently sprinkles some sand on him (because making his face very slightly dirty, THAT’LL SHOW HIM). An equally annoyed Bianchi tsks at Hayato’s childishness. Clearly, what this situation calls for instead is some light murder in the first degree.

This chapter is off to an excellent fucking start so far.

Reborn then starts hyping Mukuro up again and to be honest he does a pretty good job. But more importantly, he hands the photograph over to Tsuna, so that we, the audience, can get this next page, and presumably scratch our heads in confusion.

“These two Mukuros who look nothing alike… does a trap lie behind its secret?”

Well, let me think. We know that the person that Tsuna and co. think is Mukuro is not actually Mukuro. We also know that Reborn has only one Dying Will bullet left. One trump card; two Mukuros.

Nah, I think it’s going to be fine.

Anyway. Look who’s awake!

Hey, Mukuro actually bandaged him up! And put him in bed. And was just sitting there watching him. Mukuro, could it be you’re actually a nice guy?!?!?!

The answer is no, not quite, since there’s still all that teeth-harvesting and attempted murder and actual murder and kidnapping and wanting to cleanse the world with darkness (we haven’t even gotten to that yet but yeah) and stuff. But watch this space!

Chikusa and Mukuro catch each other up on recent events. Take a gander there at Chikusa’s little exclamation mark speech bubble when he finds out Ken’s been defeated, which is almost identical to Mukuro’s little exclamation mark when Chikusa fell on his face after stumbling back wounded a few chapters ago! The emotionally challenged apple doesn’t fall far from the emotionally challenged tree.

And then Mukuro introduces some ~reinforcements~, and lo and behold:

It’s a two-page spread of antagonists! Which means it’s time for a round of let’s-analyze-the-two-page-spread-using-bullet-points! Man, I love this. It’s been a while.

BIRDS - A.k.a. the literal worst character in the entire series! 100% no hyperbole or exaggeration! That is the correct use of “literal.” There is in fact no one worse than Birds.

CREEPY TWINS - I kind of love them tbh. They’re SO FUCKING DISTURBING and I feel like we never get anything even close to that kind of creepy again afterwards. Except for the Vindice maybe. Fun fact, this chapter came out roughly around 2005, so these guys predate Slenderman. Godfathers of creepypasta right here.

LANCIA IN A HAT - Hey it’s Lancia wearing a funny hat

M.M. - Pretty much the only one of these guys who actually sticks around in the long run. (Not counting Lancia, since as far as I can recall he only makes the one cameo at the end of the Varia Arc and then disappears from our lives forever.) She actually makes it into Tsuna’s nostalgic montage in the very last chapter of the series! But the rest of this chapter is about her, so I’ll hold off on additional comments for now.

BONUS ROUND:

Well, I guess Birds did manage to do one good thing during his fortunately-brief tenure in KHR! Somehow I always manage to forget the origins of this little guy.

Does he really? Somehow I don’t exactly associate the Kokuyou gang with piles of cash (something to do with them squatting in an abandoned mall and constantly seeming to be on the verge of starving to death). Maybe it’s illusionary money. This would have been funny to see if it had actually worked out.

I hope the other Kokuyous get Mukuro a “World’s Best Grandma” trophy for his next birthday.

We then cut over to the small child that Mukuro kidnapped! I’m gonna get whiplash from going back and forth on how evil he actually is in this arc, goddamn it.

Whatever, Mukuro!!!

Okay, so after all of these villain introductions, we finally return to our intrepid group of heroes.

This little hobbit’s feet are tired and he wants to stop and have second breakfast.

So they sit down at some picnic tables and Bianchi once again recalls how much she fucking despises Yamamoto!

“MOVE OR YOU WILL BE MOVED!!”

He makes the greatest fucking faces every time she does this shit, I swear.

There are some comedic bits involving Bianchi just straight up offering Tsuna literal bug soup to eat (like, not even any sort of pretense this time around as to whether it’s actually edible or not). But then, suddenly…!

Yikes.

And of course, Tsuna naturally just assumes Bianchi’s food did that on its own, which. Yeah, that would normally check out. But Bianchi says it wasn’t her!

I don’t have any of the Viz-translated volumes but I wonder what they turned this “oh shi—” into. I’m feeling like they would have gone with a good old-fashioned, nonsensical “Cowabunga!”

Okay but apparently M.M., just like Ken before her, for whatever reason has decided it’s better to just dick around and not actually go for the kill. Because I have to assume that if she could do that to a lunch box, she could do it to a person instead. So I guess everyone should be thankful that their opponent isn’t quite fucked up enough to be the type of person who just explodes all of her enemies from off-screen before they ever have the chance to mount any kind of defense.

Gokudera hears music coming from somewhere and tries to blow it up! This is notable because of how he somehow then manages to forget, less than two pages later, that he actually has bombs. It’s kind of amazing, actually.

Because Gokudera used the power of forced perspective, and Ken literally just hyaahoed around and did absolutely nothing!

Tsuna, Yamamoto, and Gokudera immediately exchange confused looks.

“How many does this make? [counting on fingers] OH SHIT.”

M.M. then proceeds to mercilessly ridicule the Vongola boys who apparently are not up to her mafia standards. Being a bunch of self-conscious eighth graders, they have absolutely no defense against this kind of shade and are blown the fuck away.

“SHABBY LOOKING??”

M.M. then again inexplicably refers to Mukuro as though he’s some sort of Rich Uncle Pennybags type figure, just making it rain everywhere he goes, and in all seriousness this is really starting to confuse the shit out of me.

Either Mukuro has some stash hidden away that the others never knew about, or he was lying through his teeth. Personally, I absolutely believe it’s some sort of leprechaun situation, and M.M. was going to receive a mountain of cash that then mysteriously vanished two days later, by which time Mukuro was conveniently on the other side of the planet probably.

Anyways, having tired of this conversation, M.M. decides it’s time to take them out, so she aggressively plays her clarinet at them.

Because it’s KHR, this is actually a really effective attack.

Okay, and this is the shit I was talking about earlier. If only one of you lunkheads had a ranged attack that you could use in a situation like this, Gokudera! That would sure help the others out a lot, Gokudera “SMOKING BOMB” Hayato, it’s you, I’M TALKING TO YOU, YOU’RE THE LUNKHEAD.

I DON’T KNOW, MAYBE YOU CAN GO BACK TO WHEREVER KEN IS AND SEE IF HE HAS A FUCKING BRAIN CHANNEL YOU CAN BORROW

So finally Bianchi steps up to bat, because no one else has seemed to register the fact that they’re hiding from a fucking clarinet, and the most intimidating thing it’s done so far is heat up some sushi and a few water bottles.

[WONDER WOMAN THEME MUSIC PLAYS!!]

CAN’T BUY ME LOOOOOOVE

Bianchi then proceeds to lay out a detailed analysis of M.M.’s mysterious clarinet weapon after seeing it in action a grand total of once, and holy shit, I’m starting to think she may actually be even more of a nerd than her so-called genius younger brother (especially given the severe dive his intelligence has apparently taken in this chapter).

M.M. then breaks it down in even more gratuitous detail, and I’m starting to fall asleep here christ

BLAH BLAH TL;DR THIS DEADLY WOODWIND INSTRUMENT MAKES THINGS HEAT UP AND EXPLODE

That’s what I was saying before! Then why didn’t you fucking do that??

So the boys absolutely FREAK THE FUCK OUT, which, I would too if someone could nuke my fucking body just by playing “Rhapsody in Blue.”

Bianchi, however, isn’t fazed in the slightest, and whips up a couple trays of weaponized P.F. Chang’s to counterattack.

Look at poor Gokudera’s face. [p-pats]

M.M. isn’t having it and slings some smooth jazz Bianchi’s way!

Very impressive that she can shout the attack name and still play the instrument at the same time.

I never made it more than one episode into Shokugeki no Soma because I couldn’t get past the foodgasms, but basically this is what I always imagined that show should be like.

Somehow Bianchi manages to fully dodge the microwave music attack using the power of PLATES, and takes a dive toward M.M.!

M.M. is all like “AAAAAHHH” but then suddenly she’s like “JUST KIDDING”

She then announces that close-quarters combat is her specialty, and proves it by CONVERTING THE CLARINET INTO A PAIR OF NUNCHUCKS AND WHAPPING BIANCHI ON THE HEAD.

OKAY

On the surface, this looks bad—but Gokudera Hayato knows better.

That is the face of a kid who has seen some shit.

Holy shit this arc had some fucked up moments didn’t it.

Quick refresher, so this is referring to chapter 51, “June Bride”, during which Bianchi almost married Reborn but then didn’t! Because it wasn’t really Reborn at all, but a robot. Haha this manga is weird.

Anyway. So M.M. falls over dead and this horrifically weird battle comes to an end!

Yes. Actually yes. It’s completely impossible. But that’s KHR for you.

And it turns out the reason Bianchi was fighting so passionately was in order to protect Reborn’s nap time!

Hibari Kyoya should look into hiring this one.

But before anyone has a chance to celebrate, they’re interrupted by a horrible old man holding up a laptop because tablets weren’t a thing yet!

I know I should be properly horrified, but all I can think is how absurd this looks now. Here he is, introducing himself and then holding up his unwieldy Macbook with two open QuickTime windows and what I’m just going to assume is Winamp running down there in the corner. Like, this guy is in the fucking stone age still.

So yeah, next chapter is the CREEPY TWINS chapter where Tsuna almost fucking stabs himself to death! Gonna be wild.

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #yay old chapter #who here knows what winamp is #this is one of those things that really outs me as the dinosaur I am isn't it #actually I'm pretty sure it's still around but you can't tell me anyone still uses it #but I did!#I used it to play my mp3s that I got off of napster and kazaa #yeah that's right #fucking kazaa

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xswestallen · 6 years

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I have a question why do I see you guys complaining about Snowbarry but not of the other ships that are with Barry and other characters? I don’t ship Snowbarry just curious

Oh boy, you’re opening a can of worms. Are you sure you want to pull back the pretty curtain of ignorance to the fandom’s history and see the ugly stuff? There’s a bitter history between WestAllen and SnowBarry. It can mostly be boiled down to racism because Iris is played by a black woman.

Disclaimer: I joined the fandom in season 3, so I missed the worst of the tension, but I’ve learned about the history.

Before the show even aired, some people who didn’t like Candice being cast as Iris, started the ship SnowBarry. They claimed Danielle was better suited to play Iris, claiming it was because Danielle was a more established actor. That was true, but they hadn’t even seen Candice’s performance yet. When the show aired, critics were very positive about Candice as Iris, but the SB shippers continued saying Danielle should be Iris, so it became pretty clear the reason they thought that was because she’s white.

Some SB shippers hoped that The Flash would follow Arrow and go for the non-comic-canon ship of Barry and Caitlin. Others tried to say that Caitlin is actually the true version of Iris from the comics.

Season 1 was a very bad time for the fandom. There was a lot of racism from many SB shippers. They sent hate to Candice on social media and even talked about how they wanted her off the show. A lot of them didn’t like having an interracial couple as the main couple or a black woman as the leading lady. For so many shippers, SnowBarry wasn’t really about liking Barry and Caitlin as a pairing, so much as it was hating Iris and deeming her undeserving of Barry.

The media were also buying into SnowBarry, asking Danielle about it and trying to paint the show as if there was a love triangle between Barry, Iris, and Caitlin.

Iris haters coined the rude nickname “Viris Pest” for her. The false claim of WestAllen being incest lead them to label it and it’s shippers “incestallen”. Basically, filling their social media pages with schoolyard insults directed at Iris, Candice, and WestAllen shippers, sometimes tagging Candice and other cast members in them in the hopes of Candice seeing. A lot of SnowBarry pages are more Iris hate pages than they are a page shipping Barry and Caitlin.

The hate was personal against Candice, who despite it, tried-and still does to this day-to advocate for intersectional feminism. She’s been called racial slurs and threatened with physical violence. A particularly nasty blog, that we’ve been trying to get banned, spreads totally unsubstantiated rumors that Candice slept her way into the role of Iris, that she’s not black and has been lying about her race, and that she’s getting fired.

SB shippers use the scene where Caitlin is sexually assaulted by Hannibal Bates in 1x19 as a romantic kiss in edits, because he looked like Barry at the time. WestAllen shippers called them out for romanticizing assault, they accused WestAllen shippers of supporting incest (even though WestAllen is in no way incest. Not biologically or legally!)

In season 3 many of the SB shippers excitedly talked about Barry getting with Caitlin after Iris was murdered, hoping Iris would be forgotten about after her death. They made edits joking about Iris being murdered and Candice losing her job, which varied in degrees of disgusting ranging from mean to to straight up hate speech.

Some SB shippers have called WestAllen shippers angry black woman, delusion for thinking a white guy would love a black woman, and other ridiculous racist bullshit. Pretty much all of their passionate hatred of Iris and her fans comes back to racism. (That goes for all the Iris haters too, not just the SB shippers.)

That’s not to say all WestAllen shippers are 100% innocent. I know that some have hated on SnowBarry shippers who weren’t being racist and just minding their own business, and some have said rude things about Danielle Panabaker personally. It never got to the extent of hate that SnowBarry had, but it was still wrong. One SB shipper I talked to said she was called an “Uncle Tom” and “token black woman” for shipping SB. Between racism in SB online and the backlash she got from everyone else for shipping it, she deleted her blog.

Something not talked about very often, but that I see as a huge problem, is rampant sexism from many SB shippers. So often they cite their reason for shipping SB as liking Caitlin more than Iris. It’s like they only want Caitlin to be with Barry because he’s the protagonist and they think the only way for a female character on the show to have any value is if they date him. I also don’t think the SB shippers even like Caitlin! They ignored her pain of losing Ronnie twice, actually excited to find out he died after season 1, and ignore how we’ve seen on some many occasions that Barry really doesn’t care about or prioritize Caitlin.

Like, in season 2 when she was kidnapped by Zoom and he didn’t give two shits about saving her. He lost his speed to Zoom, but when giving an option to get his speed back, helping Caitlin wasn’t on his mind. Cisco and Wells were the only ones mentioning her and how it’d be impossible to get her back without Barry’s speed.But, what made Barry want to get his speed back was a cop who was murdered that had a kid the same age Barry was when his mom was killed. Caitlin was still the last thing on Barry’s mind. When he did get his speed back, he didn’t go save her or even talk about a plan to save her in the future. He fought random metas around the city. Caitlin only got away from Zoom because he gave her a chance to escape.

When she turned in Killer Frost and ran away in 3x19, he decided to run to the future, even when Iris pointed out that he should do that later and help look for Caitlin first. He was focused on Iris, not Caitlin, even though Caitlin was objectively in more imminent danger.

Barry and Caitlin are barely even friends! 1x12 seems to be every SB shippers’ favorite episode because it’s the only time in four years that Barry and Caitlin hang out one on one. But, the episode is anything but romantic for Barry and Caitlin. Barry ends up getting a date with another woman! Caitlin was coping with the trauma of what happened to Ronnie by getting drunk. The night ended with her puking in a trash can on the street and Barry having to take care of her, when she could barely walk, not exactly what I’d call a fun night out. I guess it wasn’t for them either, because they have never spent time together without the rest of team since! But somehow, the SB shippers blame that on Iris. Claiming she’s controlling and won’t let Barry have female friends, when there is no canon evidence of that!

It’s canon that Barry and Cisco hang out all the time. Barry even lived with Cisco in season 3. It’s also been mentioned that Cisco and Caitlin hang out one on one, yet never once mention Caitlin is ever there when Barry and Cisco hanging out. They don’t even spend time together when they have one mutual friend around! They are only seen together when several other people are there as well.

If you love Caitlin, why would you want her to be with a guy who she barely spends time with, didn’t do shit to help her when she was kidnapped by Zoom, has always been in love with someone else, didn’t care about finding her for 3 months when he drastically altered the timeline with Flashpoint, got a date with another woman the one time he hung out with Caitlin?????

There is nothing inherently bad about liking Barry and Caitlin as a pairing. It’s the history of what some SnowBarry shippers have done that has lead to such animosity between the fandoms. Barrisco, WesThawne, Olivarry, Barricity, SnoWest, ColdFlash, and all the other ships haven’t had such hateful shippers trying to tear down Candice. So, there is bad blood between WestAllen and SnowBarry shippers.

There has been so much shit from bad SB shippers that now, a lot of WestAllen shippers will immediately block if you they find out a blog ships SB. I saw one person say proudly that they hate everyone who’s ever shipped SB and everyone who doesn’t hate SB.

It would be really great if SnowBarry were like any other ship. You, and a lot of other people who haven’t been engaged in the online fandom for a long, myself included, had no idea there was a problem with SB shippers. I wish we could say it’s a thing of the past, put it behind us, and end the war between SB and WestAllen, but there are a lot of SB shippers who are still being racist.

Just last week, an SB shipper had their Instagram page which claimed to be SB, full of posts hating on Iris and Candice. They made derogatory statements about Iris, Candice, and all WestAllen shippers. They claimed it was Candice Patton’s fault she was suicidal and harassed other users expressing concern for their mental health.

This shit show just keeps going on and on. I’m afraid it’s never going to end. Just posting this makes me anxious. I’m going to have to close my inbox for a while or else it will be flooded with hate.

So, yeah, the ugly history of SB has left a lot of tension to say the least.

#oh god I'm scared to post this #anytime I ever mention snowbarry some bad shit happens #it's like saying voldemort #anti snowbarry #anti snowbarry fandom

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shanedakotamuir · 4 years

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Watchmen wants us to know one thing: We’re all being used by those with power

Looking Glass seems to have a very full life. | HBO

The show delves into Looking Glass’s past — and revisits one of the most memorable moments from the comic.

After playing footsie with the original Watchmen comic for four weeks, the new TV show’s fifth episode — “Little Fear of Lightning” — dumps us straight into one of the comic’s most famous moments: the “interdimensional” squid attack on New York that kills 3 million people and does grave psychic damage to even more.

The event, as those who’ve read the comic know, is a plot cooked up by Ozymandias to avoid nuclear war and maybe bring about world peace. Known to the public as an “attack” by beings from another dimension, it manages to bring the US and USSR closer together, leading to the version of America we see in the series, where the Robert Redford administration is nearing its 30-year anniversary but where the tensions of the Cold War no longer seem relevant to the world at large.

As we learn in “Little Fear of Lightning,” it’s a deep, dark secret, held closely by a very small few, that the squid didn’t come from another dimension but was instead manifested right here on Earth. And among the people who were affected by its arrival are Steven Spielberg (who made a very Schindler’s List-esque movie about the squid) and our own Looking Glass, who narrowly escaped death at the squid’s nasty tentacles as a teen, then saw his life scarred by having been so close to such a devastating occurrence.

Just like Watchmen’s third episode, “Little Fear of Lightning” is a character showcase, following Looking Glass for nearly its entire running time. (We check in on Adrian Veidt briefly, and he does seem to be in space, spelling out a message using all of the corpses he’s been generating. This show!) But “Lightning” tells a darker and sadder story about what it means to live in a world where you survived an experience that’s roughly as rare — and even more likely to kill you — as being struck by lightning. It’s about survivor’s guilt. But it’s also about realizing that the world is built atop a lie.

To dig further into that theme, I (Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff) am joined by Vox associate culture editor Allegra Frank and culture writer Constance Grady to break down “Little Fear of Lightning,” from the Seventh Kavalry to James Wolk’s inherent shiftiness to squids galore.

Times Square: Now with 100 percent more squid

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Looking Glass takes off his mask for a bit.

Emily: In the build-up to director Zack Snyder’s 2009 adaptation of Watchmen for the big screen, all involved agreed to change the ending of the original comic. Despite a slavish faithfulness to the comic’s images (if not exactly its themes) in the rest of the film, it was thought that a giant squid landing in Times Square would be too much for people to process. Instead, the movie suggested that Doctor Manhattan had created some sort of energy pulse that leveled much of Manhattan, thus necessitating his move to Mars.

It honestly wasn’t a bad story shift — it gave Doctor Manhattan a more easily understandable motivation to bail on Earth, at least (if you, for some reason, believe a godlike blue man would have understandable motivations, which I might quibble with). But I’m so, so happy the squid (Squidley? Squidward? Squidbert?) exists in the world of HBO’s Watchmen to destroy this fictional version of New York. True to the spirit of this project, “Little Fear of Lightning” writers Damon Lindelof and Carly Wray (another The Leftovers alum) and director Steph Green pull out resonances with the 9/11 attacks but also the ways we use pop culture to process these sorts of horrors.

What’s most notable, however, is how the opening flashback makes viewers feel the sheer gutting horror of that moment and how it would have reverberated in the decades to come. Allegra: I don’t know how spoiled you are on the comic, but how did you feel about the squid? Was it a bridge too far for you, as the movie’s creative team feared it would be for their 2009 audience? Or are you going to share a recipe for delicious calamari with me, so excited are you by the prospects of a giant cephalopod?

Allegra: I’ve become increasingly “spoiled” on the original Watchmen comic in my weeks-long quest to grasp what’s happening on the TV show. So I was aware of the squid attack — but only in the abstract. This week’s episode visualized what I interpreted as a very bizarre method of mass destruction and proved how terrifying that kind of experience could be.

The cold open rendered a young Looking Glass the equivalent of that classic horror movie trope, the Final Girl: He’s a teenage boy thrust into a situation where he could possibly lose his virginity, but the moment never comes to bear. His sexual anxiety, and the virginal purity that, in horror movies at least, establishes him as a rare moralist, ends up saving his life in the end. Looking Glass finds himself alone after a devastating, sudden, inexplicable mass casualty.

This scene helped to ease me, the sensitive viewer, into the idea of the squid attack because we saw only the aftermath and not the act of the killing itself. It’s still a shocking moment and a horrifying image to see hundreds of dead bodies lying on the ground, but I don’t think the scene veered too far into the ostentatious, as HBO has made no effort to hide how disturbed the show’s version of 2019 Tulsa is.

And on a plausibility level, that all those deaths were the effect of a squid that apparently came from another dimension doesn’t quite phase me — five episodes in, a squid attack feels normal enough for Watchmen, despite its inherent absurdity. It’s the impact of the attack that is meaningful, sculpting Looking Glass into the lonely, sexually repressed man we’ve come to know in the episode’s contemporary storyline.

On the inherent shiftiness of James Wolk

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Yes, we’re aware this is technically Jeremy Irons right beneath a subhead about James Wolk.

Constance: I’m coming into this show pretty unspoiled. All of my knowledge of the comic comes from the time a friend who read it 10 years ago summarized it for me, and I came away with a vague understanding of something something giant squid, something something blue penis. But even with minimal knowledge of the comic, the squid attack still lands; it’s a moment of pure Lovecraftian horror, and I absolutely buy that it would traumatize Looking Glass forever. Which only makes it all the more heartbreaking when he realizes that this horrific event that has shaped his life forever was a lie.

The other big reveal this episode comes when we find out that James Wolk’s affable gentleman senator Joe Keane is the leader of the Seventh Kavalry, and that he apparently saw his leadership as half of a partnership with the now-dead Judd as the chief of the police. For me, that twist wasn’t exactly surprising, but it was immensely satisfying, because it’s such a good use of Wolk’s inherent shiftiness.

Maybe it’s because I’m most familiar with Wolk from his role as Mad Men’s Bob “NOT GREAT” Benson, but anytime I see him onscreen, I feel incapable of trusting him. (Well, I trust him to inspire some truly iconic gifs, but that’s it.) Or maybe it’s because he’s so handsome: it only stands to reason that anyone with a face that symmetrical has to be hiding something. (Incidentally, this is why I think Armie Hammer is going to be great as Maxim De Winter in the forthcoming Rebecca. Obviously he has something to hide, because why else would he be so tall?) Regardless, I’ve been slowly going insane watching him slither around the sidelines of every Watchmen scene with his good ol’ boy accent and his Kennedy-lite posture, so the reveal that he is the man behind the curtains of the Seventh Kavalry is fantastically gratifying.

But the reveal is also thematically compelling, because it gets at an idea that seems fundamental to the Watchmen universe: The state and the terrorists are in on everything together. They are run by the same self-interested billionaires who think of the rest of us as their pawns and turn us against each other for their own purposes. All of the systems are corrupt, and escaping them is nearly impossible. All we’re left with is individuals trying to do their best to survive in a broken world.

Allegra, how did the Seventh Kavalry reveal work for you? Do you think there’s any possibility for hope left in the Watchmen world?

Allegra: Before I answer your question, I have to say your read on James Wolk (and Armie Hammer!) has deeply wounded me. But maybe that’s because you’re right about him — I can’t help but trust a beautiful man like Wolk’s Senator Keene when he wants me to believe he’s on the side of justice. That smile! That perfectly combed hair! Those bright, twinkling eyes! I’m a superficial goon, is what I’m saying, easily manipulated by pretty boys.

As such, Keene’s connection to the Seventh Kavalry gutted me. I yelled at my screen as he and other men and women we’d thought were good guys pulled off their Rorschach masks. How is it that so many of the people we’ve gotten to know in Tulsa deceived Angela, Laurie, and Looking Glass so easily and so totally? Their involvement is evidence that Adrian Veidt’s giant squid attack was not an end-all, be-all, but instead the impetus for decades of selfish behavior on the part of uncaring rich men looking to gain control over an unsuspecting public with dwindling resources.

But I don’t think that necessarily dictates a hopeless situation going forward. For starters, tying the Seventh Kavalry reveal to Looking Glass’s storyline — he being a survivor of this sort of selfish behavior in the truest sense — offers the kind of motivation that should undoubtedly empower those who do remain on the side of good.

This mass destruction via cephalopod, whether or not it was justified in the service of preventing a nuclear war, has all kinds of ramifications — from Looking Glass walking out of that carnival hall of mirrors to find hundreds of dead bodies, to Angela learning that her closest friend and mentor was never supporting her cause in the first place. These are devastating truths, but they’re also ones that I very much expect to embolden our heroes in this otherwise nihilistic world.

What about you, Emily? Do you think Looking Glass will find he power within him to share Veidt’s secret about the squid attack with Angela and company?

Will Looking Glass even survive, tho?

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Laurie and Looking Glass have a chat.

Emily: Before this episode, I wasn’t sure if Looking Glass was one of my favorite characters because he was so inherently compelling, or because Tim Blake Nelson is such a terrific actor. After this episode, I feel comfortable saying: It’s both.

The shattered quality that young Looking Glass carries out of that hall of mirrors moves forward with him into the current Tulsa timeline, and it’s the same shattered quality that is a major part of why he betrays Angela at episode’s end. To be sure, the Seventh Kavalry has revealed to him that much of his life has been based on a lie. But instead of telling his friend about this lie, he betrays her.

Before this episode aired, one of our colleagues was talking about how they didn’t want to see Looking Glass revealed as a secret racist. But what “Little Fear of Lightning” does with the character is almost sadder. Looking Glass isn’t an overt racist. He knows enough to say “woke” things like “He was a white man in Oklahoma” when Angela finds that KKK hood in Judd’s closet. But he’s also bound to something terrible by dint of who he is. In the complicated logistics of Watchmen’s plot, that terrible something is a conspiracy to keep the wool pulled over the world’s eyes.

But on a metaphorical level, the story plays as a muted horror movie about trying to do the right thing and still being roped in with the worst kinds of people because of how structural power works. Which is to say: Watchmen remains a show about whiteness, and Looking Glass is perhaps the most potent example of how you can be a truly kind and compassionate human being and still have a lot to answer for, including stuff that you maybe weren’t even aware of.

That’s what’s so provocative about the Seventh Kavalry being rooted in a truth. One of the details of the original Watchmen that makes me so uncomfortable is that Rorschach — the violent sadist and borderline fascist — is ultimately right about a lot of what he’s saying. It’s just that his methods (secrecy and paranoia) distort the narrative so much that he ceases to be someone worth emulating. He even ceases to be a reliable narrator, despite the fact that he’s often telling the truth.

But this season has revolved around twin secrets buried and kept away from those who most need to know them. The Seventh Kavalry revelation has the most immediate bearing on the plot — in that yes, other characters should probably know who was responsible for that squid attack — but the Tulsa massacre has the most immediate bearing on us in the audience, where words like “massacre” have only recently been applied to what history has often dubbed as a “race riot.” Buried secrets fester and become infected. But we can’t help but bury secrets.

At any rate, maybe Looking Glass won’t have to worry about any of the above much longer. As “Little Fear of Lightning” ends, a whole host of Seventh Kavalry gunmen are entering his house, seemingly to kill him. I hope he makes it through. After all: He’s played by Tim Blake Nelson, and it’s a delight to see him on our screens every week.

Constance: Looking Glass really is a fantastic character because he’s such a good example of how you can be both complicit in oppressive systems, and also the pawn of people with a lot more power than you have.

Looking Glass is obviously being used, and he knows it. He’s been used his whole life, arguably first by the church that sent him out into the world as a teen missionary, then by Adrian Veidt and his squid, then by Judd and the Tulsa police force, and now by Keane and the Seventh Kavalry. He’s a man whose superpower is being able to tell when someone is lying to him, but he has still spent his life being lied to and manipulated by all the people and all the systems that he trusted in.

And by extension, so have most of the other people in the Watchmen universe, including Angela and Laurie. And by further extension, so have we. So the question then becomes: What do we do when we learn that we are being used?

Looking Glass responds by deciding to let Keane and the Seventh Kavalry use him. He doubles down on his complicity. What we have yet to see is how the rest of the characters in this world will react to the idea that the people they trust are using them as pawns — and whether this world allows for the possibility of breaking free of your complicity all together.

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corneliusreignallen · 4 years

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Watchmen wants us to know one thing: We’re all being used by those with power

Looking Glass seems to have a very full life. | HBO

The show delves into Looking Glass’s past — and revisits one of the most memorable moments from the comic.

Times Square: Now with 100 percent more squid

HBO

Looking Glass takes off his mask for a bit.

On the inherent shiftiness of James Wolk

HBO

Yes, we’re aware this is technically Jeremy Irons right beneath a subhead about James Wolk.

Allegra, how did the Seventh Kavalry reveal work for you? Do you think there’s any possibility for hope left in the Watchmen world?

What about you, Emily? Do you think Looking Glass will find he power within him to share Veidt’s secret about the squid attack with Angela and company?

Will Looking Glass even survive, tho?

HBO

Laurie and Looking Glass have a chat.

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timalexanderdollery · 4 years

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Watchmen wants us to know one thing: We’re all being used by those with power

Looking Glass seems to have a very full life. | HBO

The show delves into Looking Glass’s past — and revisits one of the most memorable moments from the comic.

Times Square: Now with 100 percent more squid

HBO

Looking Glass takes off his mask for a bit.

On the inherent shiftiness of James Wolk

HBO

Yes, we’re aware this is technically Jeremy Irons right beneath a subhead about James Wolk.

Allegra, how did the Seventh Kavalry reveal work for you? Do you think there’s any possibility for hope left in the Watchmen world?

What about you, Emily? Do you think Looking Glass will find he power within him to share Veidt’s secret about the squid attack with Angela and company?

Will Looking Glass even survive, tho?

HBO

Laurie and Looking Glass have a chat.

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gracieyvonnehunter · 4 years

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Watchmen wants us to know one thing: We’re all being used by those with power

Looking Glass seems to have a very full life. | HBO

The show delves into Looking Glass’s past — and revisits one of the most memorable moments from the comic.

Times Square: Now with 100 percent more squid

HBO

Looking Glass takes off his mask for a bit.

On the inherent shiftiness of James Wolk

HBO

Yes, we’re aware this is technically Jeremy Irons right beneath a subhead about James Wolk.

Allegra, how did the Seventh Kavalry reveal work for you? Do you think there’s any possibility for hope left in the Watchmen world?

What about you, Emily? Do you think Looking Glass will find he power within him to share Veidt’s secret about the squid attack with Angela and company?

Will Looking Glass even survive, tho?

HBO

Laurie and Looking Glass have a chat.

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i don’t even have an aunt may.

VERSE. superhero (spider-verse) AU SETTING. present day new york, sometime during blaine’s junior year of college MENTIONS. sam evans, tina cohen-chang SUMMARY. real life is nothing like the comics, except for how it totally, 100%, is. WORD COUNT. 1049 WARNINGS/NOTES. no warnings. blaine attends a regular university in this verse, not nyada.

“Sam, for the hundredth time, I’m not—"

Sam just wouldn’t let it go. And really, Blaine probably should have expected this.

To Sam’s credit, despite what people liked to say about him, he was actually pretty observant. Blaine knew this better than anyone. Sam had a penchant for noticing things others didn’t and a passion for conspiracy theories that Blaine found as endearing as it was absolutely frustrating. His best friend’s desire to search out the truth was great when it came to things like exposing their show choir’s competition for doping back in high school (seriously, what the hell was that?) but horrible when it came to things like Blaine’s extremely complicated personal life. Like, come on, can’t a guy save the city in form-fitting spandex without it becoming a thing? Why did it have to become their main topic of conversation for the last three weeks?

“Yeah, yeah. ‘You’re not Spider-Man.’ Sure, yeah, okay. That’s a lie and you know it, and you know I know it. I thought we were best friends, dude. Friends don’t—”

Friends don’t lie.

Blaine knew the instant that line was said during their Stranger Things marathon that it would eventually come back and bite him. Sam was right, of course. He usually was about things like this. Blaine didn’t make a habit of lying, okay? At least not to his friends. He lived by a (mostly) strict “honesty is the best policy” code. It’s just that… In some cases, safety was actually the best policy, which, unfortunately, kicked honesty right out the window. This was one of those cases. If he could, he would explain this to Sam but that would require telling the truth, and, well, do you see his dilemma here?

There was a heavy sigh to his left and Blaine knew Tina was as sick of hearing this conversation as he was of having it. Three weeks they’ve been on this. Three weeks. Three weeks of Sam pushing, his insane knowledge of superhero origin stories granting him the foresight to just know when his best friend had been bitten by a radioactive spider and had received superpowers. And three weeks of Blaine struggling to keep up his lies because his own insane knowledge of superhero origin stories told him that this was exactly how things went in comics and it was no surprise that Sam had figured it out so quickly. The best friend is always the first to know.

“Sam,” Tina started, exasperation heavy in her tone and honestly? Blaine felt that. “Don’t you think that if Blaine had somehow become Spider-Man he would have told us?”

Blaine spread his hands, brows raised in a look that said ‘I told you so.’ Because, really, he’s said this before. She’s said this before. Many, many times. Not that it really seemed to matter at this point.

“And besides,” Tina continued, “I’ve stared at Blaine’s ass enough to know that’s definitely not him in that suit. Spider-Man’s butt is way nicer.” She turned to him, expression earnest and apologetic. “No offense, Blaine.”

And—Okay. Offense very much taken. Not enough for him to defend himself, possibly ruining this ruse he’d been keeping up for nearly a month but, like. Listen. It was the spandex, okay? The suit highlighted his figure in ways that his daily wardrobe just did not—despite how tight he tended to buy his pants. There was no hiding anything in that skintight suit, a fact that had taken some time to get used to. It clung to him and he’d yet to solve the chafing problem, but it made him more aerodynamic, easing his cut through the air as he swung from building to building, saving lives. And, most importantly, it just looked cool. But listen, okay—his ass looked just as great out of it as it did in it.

“Uh, thanks, Tina? I think.” Blaine frowned, setting down his fork and giving up on enjoying his lunch. He always seemed to lose his appetite when they had this discussion, guilt at lying to the two most important people in his life making it difficult to swallow. Unfortunately, Sam knew what guilt did to him and Blaine tried to ignore the pointed look he threw at Blaine’s uneaten salad. Offering his friend a small smile and a shrug, Blaine leaned back in his seat and began gathering his things to leave. “She’s right, Sam. If anything that cool ever happened to me, I’d want to share it with my best friends. You know that.”

This was, technically, not a lie. He did want to share it with them. More than anything. But he’d read too many comics, seen too many movies, where knowing the secret identity of the superhero put a person in more danger than it was worth. And, okay, sure, he knew that, eventually, things worked themselves out, but that was after the super villain kidnaps the best friend/love interest/family member and the superhero goes through all kinds of hell saving them, everyone nearly dying in the process, but somehow coming out on top in the end. Besides, that was all made up. This was real life and Blaine knew real life was not that kind. With his luck, he’d spill the beans, someone he cared about would still get in a situation that required him to save them and that would be the one time that he wouldn’t be able to. His life just kind of worked like that so, really, he’d rather keep the chances of it happening as low as possible. Best to keep his friends in the dark as long as he possibly could. Never mind the fact that comics and television told him that didn’t always work out as intended either.

Time drawing nearer to his history lecture saved Blaine from having to continue the conversation but Sam, ever persistent, still called out to him, even as he stood to leave. “Friends don’t lie, dude!”

“Let it go, Sam.” Blaine responded over his shoulder, hiking his satchel further up on his shoulder and making his way out of the café. He did his best to ignore the way the suit rode up underneath his chinos. He had to figure out something to do about the chafing.

#( para. )#( self para. )

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your-chaotic-prince · 7 years

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The Dust Pans and Otaku Wigs series (A collection of Kirumi/Tsumugi one shots)

Situation: The class learn of their relationship

I never knew that I’d love writing these one-shots as much as I do, this pairing turned from second favourite ship to favourite :D This ties in with my “Is Kirumi Gay Or European” comic I made awhile back. Enjoy! I also reference my second favourite Kirumi ship!

Today was a weird day to say the least, everyone learned about her sexual preference today, but not exactly in the way she was expecting.

She had finally finished her classes and homework, and she was reading a book because for once, the rooms weren’t a mess.

She was in the room alone, she found an interest in the book she was holding.

That was, until nearly everyone entered the room, with the exception of Kaito.

Kirumi sighed, she knew everyone in there would mess up the room. Until she heard whispering, that’s when she noticed Tsumugi watching this.

“What are you guys talking about?” Tsumugi asked.

“We’re trying to work out Kirumi’s sexual orientation, lately, I had a feeling she isn’t straight…” Saihara tried to whisper to her, but Kirumi heard.

“What are you talking about? I am straight! And who are you to judge? You’re dating Ouma! Tsumugi can confirm who my lover is! Tell him!” She told them, and quickly looked at Tsumugi and nodded.

“Yea… she’s dating…. I don’t think I should say this as I’ll get into trouble…” She said, “If it proves my sexuality, it’s okay!” Kirumi told her.

“Fine… she’s… err.. with Korekiyo.”

Everyone was stunned, Korekiyo especially, Kirumi gave him an apologetic look but then looked at Saihara.

“See?” She said, Saihara seemed to been thinking but to his luck, Kaito came in, without a shirt on for some reason.

Saihara couldn’t help but notice that she didn’t even take a glance at him, he whispered to Kaito, “Just walk around Kirumi for a few seconds.” Kaito nodded and did so.

But nothing happened. She didn’t take one glance.

Saihara immediately grew suspicious. He saw Kaede next to him, “Did you see it?”

Kaede was confused, “See what? Kaito walking around with his shirt off? Yes.” Maki immediately gave Kaede the death glare.

“Well, yes, but I meant Kirumi, there is literally no way she could be straight.” Saihara told her.

“And how is that?” She asked.

“She literally had no reaction to Kaito, and neither did Tenko but we established she’s gay. I think Kirumi is too.”

Kirumi pretended to ignore him and just continued with the book until Kaede said, “And how do you know she’s not asexual?”

“But we don’t know if she’s homoromantic, which means she is only attracted to the same sex.” He told Kaede, Kirumi still wasn’t listening, but started to get a bit nervous.

“So you think she’s into girls but you can’t prove it, you know that you’ll appear homophobic if you’re wrong.” Kaede told him.

Saihara immediately responded with, “I know I am…”

Kirumi glared at him, then Saihara began to quote Gay Or European, with lyrics changed so it would suit Kirumi, “There! Right There! Look at that pale and delicate skin, look at the killer shape she’s in, look at her hair, parted so thin… oh please she’s gay, totally gay!”

Kirumi heard Kaede sigh and she said to Saihara, “I’m not about to celebrate, every trait could indicate, a totally straight expatriate, this girls not gay I say not gay.”

Kirumi was now confused, they know I can hear them right?She thought.

Then Kaede brought up a strange point, “Is she gay…. or European?”

At this rate Kirumi started to get the feeling that everyone except Tsumugi was an idiot.

Kirumi continued reading the book, until suddenly she heard Ouma’s voice.

“Hold it right there!” Kirumi froze, Oh shit he’s going to tell everyone! She thought, an incident happened last night where he found out.

“Look at that condescending smirk, seen it on every girl at work, that is a girly girly jerk, she’s not gay I say no way!” Kirumi sighed in relief after hearing Ouma say that, he was trying to help her? Why was he acting out of character? Then she remembered, she bribed him with Panta.

Then she realised what she was being accused of, so she stood up when they started accusing her of being gay, so to attempt to prove she wasn’t, she walked up to Korekiyo and kissed him on the cheek, much to the confusing of Tsumugi and Korekiyo.

Then nearly everyone yelled “Damnit!” At that point. The song started again. This time they began judging her fashion style, she rolled her eyes at them.

At this rate people were getting stressed trying to work out her sexuality until Maki whispered to Kaede and Saihara, “Give me a chance to crack her, I have an idea I’d like to try.” “The floor is yours.”

Maki stood in front of Kirumi, “So Tojo-chan this alleged affair with Shinguuji-Sama has been going on for…?”

“Since last month.” Kirumi answered with, feeling like this could end well.

“And your first name again is?”

Kirumi sighed, “Kirumi, you know that Harukawa-chan.”

Maki gave a small smile, “and your girlfriends name is?”

“Shirogane-chan.” Kirumi answered, then she realised what she said. Tsumugi looked surprised that she had just revealed everything in that one sentence.

“I’m sorry! I misheard you! You had said girlfriend, I thought you had said good friend….” she proclaimed, then she sighed and smiled, “Shirogane-chan is a good friend.” She then curtseyed.

There was silence for a few moments, no one knew what to say, and for awhile Kirumi thought she was safe, until she heard a voice say, “You BITCH!”

It was Tsumugi who said that. Kirumi was shocked.

“YOU LYING BITCH!”

Kirumi tried hard not to hit her girlfriend, but she knew not to, she knew what would happen next.

“That is it! I’m not covering for you anymore! Everyone! Let me just make this clear, Kirumi isn’t asexual or European.” Tsumugi told them.

“What about her sexual preference?” Saihara asked.

“She’s not European Kaede, she’s just gay.” Tsumugi smirked, Kirumi IMMEDIATELY flushed red, Tsumugi turned to Kirumi, “I told you before, it’s okay to like girls, you need to stop being a completely closest case. Kirumi’s lover is me, not Korekiyo, I was trying to cover for her. I promise you, she has no feeling for boys at all, she is 100 percent gay.”

Kirumi tried to go back to her book, but Tsumugi grabbed it from her and smirked, “Kirumi, you know you’re gay, don’t deny it.”

Kirumi flushed harder, “I’m straight.” She said calmly.

“Says the moans from yesterday.” Tsumugi told everyone, Kirumi was silent, shocked, and REALLY embarrassed.

“She is gay everyone, Kirumi, confirm it, it will make everything easier.” She told her, sitting next to her.

Kirumi sighed, “Fine, okay? I’m gay.”

Tsumugi just smiled at the others, “You can all go now, there’s no need for anyone to be here, don’t judge, and I can confirm that me and her are in a relationship.” She purred, as she gently laid her head on Kirumi’s shoulder.

The others did leave, and Kirumi just said to Tsumugi, “I’m glad they aren’t judging. Thanks for telling them for me.” She whispered, Tsumugi smiled at her lover and gently kissed her.

“My pleasure,”

#drv3 #danganronpa v3 #kirumi tojo #tsumugi shirogane #Dust Pans and Otaku Wigs #Danganronpa shipping

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thewisemankey · 7 years

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The Wise Mankey Commission: Part The Sixty First by AlanES

In the next installment of “Alan finally works on his best friend’s commissions,” here’s a little something that is the start of a series of pics I’m doing.

It’s part of an unofficial collection of playlists I got going on of songs that relate to the cast of the timeless webcomic The Rogue’s Gallery, soon to be Rogue Neo in the hopefully not TOO distant future. A small cadre of 8 songs for each one that were either used by Alan before in the past or hand-picked by me that I feel closely relates to each individual character. Why 8? Because it’s my favorite number. And the pics that will accompany each playlist features the character will illustrate how they listen to music. As if they were listening to the playlists themselves, so to speak.

So of course I start off strong with my #1 in all of Alan’s creations, Destiny Rule. What can I say, I’ve been fond of her for ages and that feeling ain’t gonna die. She kinda set a standard for me in what I look for in women, if I’m totally honest. Not that I’m looking for anyone who’s EXACTLY like her, but I’d like to think I’ll find one close enough. ANYWAY, enough fawning. Under the cut I’ll go into detail about why each individual song is included for Des’ playlist...and hopefully other people will give the songs a listen and even recreate them on their own!

1. “Gemini Salsa” by McVaffe

-Hopefully longtime TRG fans like me remember where THIS one came from. But here’s the refresher, a while back in TRG’s prime, (and there was MOST DEFINITELY a prime even if Alan would never admit it. XP) there was an semi-animated flash bio that told more about the cast in-depth. Before it was made, the comic was in the middle of the mini-arc where Helldandy (Belldandy’s evil form) cut off Destiny’s former long hair in an act of revenge. (Wonder how many people remember THAT?) Before Des’ new do was officially done in the comic, the bio flash came out and basically showed it ahead of time.

I never forgot how I felt when I first saw her new look up close and this song hit. If I was carrying a glass, I woulda dropped it. If I had a monocle, it woulda flown off my eye. If I was working at a Nuclear Power Plant and glanced at her, I’d have imagined her recreating the Venus De Milo with my coworkers taking the form of cherubs asking if I’ve never seen a naked chick riding a clam before. (Hey, maybe THAT will be my next commission idea! XD) But you get the point. It symbolized the first time I legit fell for her. And that’s the origins of my Madness for Des. So yeah, that’s what makes the song the tops here.

2. “La Femme d’Argent” by Air

-For those not familiar with the band Air, they’re a French electronica duo who are NOT Daft Punk. (I think they were both under the same record label at one time, tho. If they still aren’t.) My brother introduced me to them when he’d play the album “Moon Safari” in the car and I was basically hooked on how relaxing the songs were. Especially THIS one in particular which I honestly felt was VERY fitting for her. It’s relaxed, but upbeat. It definitely paired together well with that donation desktop image of Destiny lying across the ground with one of her legs upwards. WHEN THE SONG HITS THAT IMAGE JUST RIGHT...

*ahem* So yes, even if you’re not as hardcore a TRG fan as I am, I definitely recommend this particular song at least. It’s good for a nap on a rainy day.

3. “Magnetman Goes West (OC Remix)” by Disco Dan

-Here’s one that predates “Gemini Salsa,” this here’s the song that was played during Destiny’s scene in the TRG Episode 100 flash special. Amazing what Megaman songs do for the TRG cast, eh? But yeah, this song just carries that magical essence for a magical woman. I know it sounds slightly country, (hence the name “Goes West”) but I don’t think that matters, it just adds more to the relaxed/upbeat contrast this playlist is centered around with this gong in particular leaning more towards the upbeat portion of it. Of course if you NEED justification of this being a little country, you can always turn to my pic of Des dressed like Nico Robin. :B

4. “9 P.M. (’Til I Come)” by ATB

-Over a decade ago while I was living in West Palm Beach with my dad, I very often listened to a local techno radio station called “Party 93.1″ which sadly doesn’t exist anymore. But during its’ time I recall hearing this song and it made me think of the previous one “Magnetman Goes West,” It had that familiarity to it, maybe with the essence of slightly being the opposite of said song. Try listening to one and then the other and you’ll probably get what I mean. Either way, it made me think of Des and THAT’S why it’s here.

5. “Electra” by Airstream

-NOT to be confused by Air, this is a different artist altogether. This one goes WAY deep into the relaxation factor. I actually discovered this song a while back when an artist I follow on DA recommended this as a song to be paired up with a VERY NSFW pic they did of Luffy and Nami from One Piece getting it on. Despite the purpose, I easily heard this as a song that Destiny would listen to during her downtime. Maybe trying to take a nap or do some yoga. Definitely helps when I’M napping and/or thinking of Des, that’s for sure.

6. “Ordinary World” by Aurora

-Here’s another song I overheard of Party 93.1 ages ago, a cover of the hit song by the band Duran Duran except more stylish and spiritual, JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT. Hearing this song makes me think of an image of Des standing atop a building on a cloudy day every time. (An image I think Alan SOMEWHAT produced during the chase for Helldandy arc if I recall correctly.)

I er, also might have picked this song because it made me imagine an alternate reality where Jorge Amingo died and Des turned to me for comfort.

GIVE A GUY A BREAK IN REACHING FOR THE LOW HANGING FRUIT. XP

7. “Underneath It All” by No Doubt

Something about the singing styles of Gwen Stefani always put me at ease, especially in THIS song. It was chosen in particular because in my heydays of The Fallout Shelter, I did a bunch of custom wallpapers for both the people of the forums and whatever characters they had. When i did Destiny’s wallpaper, I used this song. Because loathe as I am to admit it, it fit into her unrequited love for Jorge. Seriously, most of the lyrics relate to her. I believe Alan also had some reservations about this song for various reasons once upon a time (assuming he still does) so that’s also why it’s there. =P

8. “Somnias Memorias (Platinum Edition)” by Keiichi Takahashi and Shani Rigsbee

Finally to the meat of the matter, the CURRENT theme song for Des that Alan has assigned her and GOD ALMIGHTY IS IT PURE SEX OR WHAT.

Of course that’s natural, it was used for the game Parasite Eve and Alan has VERY often compares Des to the game’s leading lady Aya Brea. He’s even done a Halloween pic of her dressed like Aya. (I dunno if that’s still visible in his DA gallery these days but IT’S REAL, IT’S DAMN REAL.) It definitely fits her to a T. Or a D for the sake of Yanging it up. HURHUR.

It’s magical, enchanting, smooth, and sultry. I don’t even need to describe it or justify why it’s in the playlist any more than I have to at this point JUST LISTEN TO IT.

So that’s only the first step in this series. THERE WILL BE OTHERS. And anyone who knows me will probably have an idea of who’s next up to bat after this one...

#destiny rule #the rogue's gallery #rogue neo #trg

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