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benisasoftboi · 3 years

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Unorganised thoughts on Trails of Cold Steel I:

So I did like it overall, but I have a lot more criticisms of it than I did of the previous games

Which also means I have way more to say!

Tl;dr - Rean Schwarzer, Estelle Bright you are not

Also, spoiler warning for both this game and the previous ones

So... the pacing in this was weird. Like I loved all the field study segments, they were SO fun, but there’s also the Trista segments between which very boring and felt like filler

I think it’s meant to make the ending feel more important, since you’re defending the school, but it kind of backfired because being forced to run around Thors (which is not a very interestingly designed location, by the way) over and over and over again actually made me kind of resent it. To a point where I low key wanted the ILF to destroy the school. Oops

Like I cared about Liberl and Crossbell because they were interesting, and big, so I never really got tired of them. I got tired of Trista very quickly

Also having everyone in school uniform made their designs less interesting :/

The other places were all super interesting, though! I think if I had to pick a favourite I’d say Bareahard, but they’re all contenders really

Oh also the other issue with the structure was that everyone had to be mad at someone at all times, and it was almost comical how systematic it was - Rean and Alisa don’t get on, that’s resolved, now let’s focus on how Machias and Jusis don’t get on, that’s resolved, IMMEDIATELY we’ll replace that with Fie and Laura, then the moment that’s resolved it’s Jusis and Milliam...

Like, be a little less formulaic in your character conflict

Anyway, characters!

I do not like the thing where the character’s name appears in front of them before they say it. It was irritating

Elliot: The one I would have been in love with when I was eleven. Elliot is good and sweet and did nothing wrong ever. Holy Song is the most useful craft in the whole goddamn game. He also has easily the best S-Craft in a game where most of the S-Crafts are *decidedly* lackluster, aesthetically speaking. I like Elliot. His friendship with Gaius is also very nice

Jusis: The one I would have been in love with when I was fourteen. So, the moment I saw Jusis, my immediate first thought was ‘oh, this guy is one half of a gay ship’. I had no clue who the other guy was going to be, but I knew there was absolutely no way that Anime Draco Malfoy wasn’t getting shipped with a man.

And then Machias opened his mouth, and... every franchise, no matter what, has its gay OTP (its homoTP, if you will) - that one, usually M/M, but sometimes F/F, ship that’s practically got a whole side-fandom just for itself. Up until now, I assumed Trails’ was going to be Olivier/Mueller - but while I haven’t checked, because I don’t want spoilers, I will be shocked if these guys aren’t actually it. They have every making - opposites attract, enemies to lovers, they sing together, other characters make jokes about it...

Like, this was deliberate, surely? Surely?

yes i ship it but like, against my will and resentfully and semi-ironically, because I hate myself for instinctively taking the bait >:(

Something something ‘Turbo-Gehenna’ joke

Anyway, I like Jusis. I think he’s a fun character, easily the most interesting of the boys, and I really enjoyed his development. He has a cute smile

I also thought he had the best voice acting in Class VII, so I looked it up and Ben Diskin! I love Ben Diskin! I couldn’t even tell, I had no idea his range was that great, wow!

I did think it was extremely weird that if you invite him to the Stella Garten, he says he wants to date a woman who is ‘like his mother’. Okay, Jusis.

Machias: The one I would have been in love with when I was seventeen. You ever meet someone who’s like... always right, really, but in such an obnoxious way that you wish they weren’t. Machias. He would have been way more interesting if he was just a really politically minded teen who needed to learn tact, rather than yet another member of the Trails Dead Family Member Club (the fact that it was revealed right after Elliot’s Dead Family Member Club story did not help). Still, he really did grow on me in the end. He’s a little dork

Gaius: The one I would be in love with now, if not for the fact that he’s only seventeen and thus a little baby in my eyes. I do love his design the most. Can he say even one line that’s not about the wind, though? I also like that he’s one of very few characters in this franchise to not have a tragic backstory, was very refreshing.

I can only assume, therefore, that Nord will undergo ethnic cleansing in Cold Steel II

Crow: oh boy Crow hahahahahaha. I don’t know how I feel now. Uhhhh... what did ‘the things I do for love mean’? I am curious

Alisa: I don’t like tsunderes much, and I found her ‘being mad at Rean for something that was absolutely not his fault’ thing very, very stupid and it did not endear me to her at all (also, like, if you had to have that - a better way would have been for him to accidentally injure her, rather than... ugh, look, I am a woman with large breasts - accidents really do happen irl. There’s no point in getting that mad about it. There just isn’t. I have no patience for this kind of plot). It also bothered me how possessive of Rean she got, I swear I picked Towa over her half out of spite. I don’t hate her, though, to be clear - I loved her plot with her mother and that scene in Nord. And her relationship with Ferris! She’s great when she’s not talking about Rean, basically

I don’t buy her as Rean’s love interest, honestly. Rean consistently shows more attraction to Emma, and has more (mandatory/canon) moments with Towa. It only felt one-sided to me

Laura: I like Laura a lot. I don’t really have anything to say about her, just that she was consistently good, and I appreciated her maturity and self awareness, I love her and Rean being sword bros, she’s just great

Fie: I think Fie was designed to appeal to exactly me personally. Tiny snarky badass girl with a great design? That’s everything I love and aspire to be! Best girl in the game (didn’t date her though because she’s fifteen and I refuse to date anyone who is younger than the protagonist when I play games set in high schools. Feels weird enough dating teens the same age as my character. Also she had 0 romantic chemistry with Rean)

Millium: She’s fine, good voice acting, want to know more about Lammy, no strong feelings

Towa: I wasn’t going to date anyone, but changed my mind because I really liked Towa... and then I looked at her, and saw a tiny girl with long, light brown hair and soft voice, and realised I just want to date myself

I checked, and according to Playstation Trophies, at least, she’s the least picked girl? The only characters picked less than her are the non-Crow boys (Machias is the least popular, which... I feel a little mean for finding hilarious lol)

Emma: I like Emma herself just fine. Don’t get me wrong. But she’s infuriating as a mystery character, because she’s the worst kind of mystery - the kind that relies on the other characters to NEVER AT ANY POINT ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT A NORMAL HUMAN WOULD ASK

Estelle would have asked

Rean has multiple opportunities to ask her to explain herself, and he doesn’t! One time, she straight up ASKS HIM TO ASK, and he doesn’t! That’s not mysterious anymore! That’s just incredibly annoying!

Lloyd would have asked

And no one else asks either! Some of them, fine - I can understand say, Elliot or Gaius or Millium - but Jusis!? Jusis, who has been there for pretty much all of her mysterious vague magic, and has repeatedly shown himself to be willing to be kind of rude, and may not be that interested in other people but certainly isn’t stupid - while they’re in the Schoolhouse Depths, Jusis isn’t going to grab Emma by the shoulders and demand she explain what she knows? He’s just going to go with it as she refuses to elaborate on things?

Really?

Kevin would have - actually, no, Kevin would have already known because Kevin Knows All, but he would have told everyone else, so same outcome

Rean: And that brings me to Rean. Rean... is a JRPG Protagonist. He is good, and noble, and he gives Inspiring Speeches, and he can date all the girls (which means we don’t really get any interesting opposite-gender friendships, because oh no, a threat to the harem!), and he is so, so boring. My god

Hey remember how I praised Sky for how great it was to have Estelle be an actual person with flaws and personality? No you don’t, no one’s reading all of these, but yeah - Estelle is just as colourful and full of life as the rest of Sky, while Rean is the least interesting character in Cold Steel no contest

Oh he has a super powered dark side, oh, well, that’s a game changer, never seen that before except in every 2000s shounen anime. Also we never actually learn the Super Rean rules, so that dramatic moment where he’s thinking about transforming to fight Scarlet isn’t actually that dramatic because I had never realised it could kill him until he said so in that moment

Oh except he’s also an awakener and can summon a Persona giant mecha suit! Because he’s the most special boy to be very special? I have never seen that in a JRPG before except in all of them

In Sky, Estelle wasn’t special. Except she was, but it wasn’t because she had super awesome secret awesome powers and all the boys liked her best. It was because she was flawed, but always trying, and because she was incredibly brave and optimistic no matter what, and because she was the kind of person who told a god summoning evil mastermind ‘lol no’ and then beat him with a stick, and because she really, believably loved her friends. She loved them. And they loved her. Not the player she was the avatar of. Estelle herself

Estelle Bright has ruined me for all other JRPG protagonists, is what I’m saying

Oh also Rean has that whole speech about how they can’t cancel the festival to protect people from an unknown threat, that’s not fair to meeeeee, and as someone who has lived through the year 2020 - go to Gehenna, Rean

Olivier is back!!! And yeah I’m going to keep calling him that, that’s who I know him as, and also Olivert is a silly name

Even more importantly, Mueller is back!!! And he and Olivier still have the best comedy dynamic in the series, joyous day! THAT is love and peace, baby!

Sara really, really grew on me :) I want to see her interact with Schera so bad

I didn’t really like Sharon up until I worked out OH SHE’S OUROBOROS, because yessssss more of them! Also, yessss, guessed it!

Angie... predatory lesbian stereotype aside, Angie’s super interesting and I want to see more of her yes please

George is like, the most inoffensive character I’ve ever seen, but apparently he has haters? What!?

What is with these games and naming characters/things French words, and then PRONOUNCING THEM WRONG

I do not care that the official pronunciation is ‘Blue Blanc’. I will continue to pronounce it ‘Bleu Blanc’. Because that’s what you guys actually wrote, Christ alive

I have a French GCSE and I will use it for something, goddamnit

I took Jusis on the bike trip and he looked so adorably goofy in the little sidecar. Best moment of the whole damn game for me

I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to have played this game first, as I know a lot of people did. Specifically in regards to Olivier (or Olivert, I guess)

Like... imagine meeting this guy for the first time as a fairly serious leader of an important faction, participating in vital political machinations. Imagine meeting him here and not knowing about the Grand Chardonnay incident. Imagine not knowing about that time he stopped a riot by riding up in a boat and singing. Imagine not knowing he has a rivalry of aesthetics with a terrorist. Imagine not knowing what I was referring to when I said ‘that’s love and peace, baby’ just now

Incomprehensible

Side note, if you had told me, on one of those warm August days when I was first playing Sky FC, that the silly man in the white coat was actually one of the most important characters in the franchise, I would not have believed you for a second

But on that subject, I was also trying to work out who a first time player would be siding with... like, I’ve played Sky and experienced Zero (currently working way through Azure as well), which means that my immediate reaction to all of Erebonia’s politics was ‘trust whatever Olivier and the bracers say, don’t trust anyone else’. But someone starting with Cold Steel has no reason to have loyalties to those factions, so I’m curious

Side note, having played the previous games also massively impacted how I viewed the ILF - I’m very confident that I would have just taken them being evil for granted if I’d played this first, but considering they hate Osbourne... and Olivier does not like Osbourne... that kind of made me a lot more suspicious of who I was really meant to side with

I really liked most of the NPCs in this. I especially became weirdly fond of Beryl

However, I do now also have characters I actively dislike, a series first! Gwyn (creepy old man), Neithardt (sexist jerk, kick his arse Beatrix), and Dorothee (...could write a whole essay on the myriad reasons I do not like that particular archetype) get in the bin

Good god, every interaction between Rean, Emma and Dorothee made me want to smack the lot of them with my controller, Dorothee for being an absolute creep, and Rean and Emma for overcorrecting into low key homophobia (seriously Rean, you’re friends with a lesbian, the idea of the existence of gay men should not shock you this much)

Re: Elise... I heard the words ‘non-blood related younger sister’ and my eyes rolled so far back in my head I was afraid they wouldn’t come back down

Took me a while to figure out, but ideal team is Elliot, Jusis, Machias, with Laura and Fie as back-up

I would like to find whoever’s idea it was to make the S-Crafts unlock as the game progresses rather than just be there when you get the character, and shake them until they apologise. Have them evolve with the story, sure, but not having them at all wrecks the battle flow so much. Emma was unusable to me until chapter-goddamn-FIVE

I loved the Annabelle subplot, and the punchline that the person her family wanted to marry her off to was a Lakelord... I actually yelled

The concert was so hyped, and then there weren’t even any real songs (aside from the re-use of the end credit song from Sky, which made me very happy. And Olivier singing along made me laugh out loud)

TOVAL IS TOBY!?!?!

Man I’m so mad at myself for not reading Carnelia in/after FC (read it in 3rd), but still - what a reveal!

AND WHAT AN ENDING

I mean. At first

They did such a good job building the tension, and then-

The Crow twist, my GOD, when I tell you I freaked the fuck out... I was totally convinced that it was Claire. Or possibly Campanella on stilts. I completely overlooked that there was another major character with a C name, and honestly I’m glad I did because I have not been this shocked by a reveal in a while

And then I stopped taking it seriously when I saw the robots with heelys

It was all.. we had a very final boss-y final boss, right? Excellent final boss fight, very fun, very satisfying. And then the game just... kept going. I accidentally stayed up until 4 AM because I thought I was at the end and it just didn’t stop

And then it did. Very, very abruptly

(no seriously I was making some snarky comment about how goofy the flying robot suits look and then the game just ENDED, what)

(also worst *actual* final boss I’ve ever seen. the fact that they managed to make a battle between two giant robots, one of which was controlled by a traitorous former friend, feel like an anticlimax... that was impressive, honestly)

So Cold Steel I is... easily my least favourite Trails game so far. Again, I did like it, but like I say... Rean isn’t Estelle Bright. And that’s pretty much my main problem, in the end

Sorry, Class VII

OH MY GOD they never explained why it’s Class VII and not Class VI! My theory is that it’s either something about the Sept-Terrions, or the Seventh Division, since Olivier’s specifically connected to them. Or maybe both

Well - I’m excited to find out!

#long post #trails series #trails of cold steel #trails of cold steel 1 #kiseki series #erebonia arc

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behind-the-screen-of-bangtan · 5 years

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Details in 2019 Festa’s BTS Family portrait

(← Festa 2019 main post)

j-hope has a jar of Bonne Maman Raspberry Preserve.

The red line near Jungkook has “Danger”, “위험” (danger in Korean), and “안전제일” (safety first) written on it.

SUGA’s jacket is the same as V in the WINGS Short Film #3 STIGMA (cr.).

Above RM’s blackboard, you can read:

I’ve waited all my life Looking for something right Than a boy with luv

Which are “Boy With Luv” lyrics.

The blackboard has similar words to what we could see in Persona Comeback trailer:

Who Am I? Who are you?

Dream Love Happiness

Map of the Soul

Persona Shadow Ego

But there are new citations too:

Having a brewing cup for coffee is fine, Facing weather too hot, too much iron. This strong iron is too late in taste, Much of the flavours are inside. The coffee is not tea, not even anything Like the leaves of danger and bread.

The beginning (1) of the poem “Coffee Is Fine” by Naveed Akram.

I am the wind that wavers, You are the certain land; I am the shadow that passes Over the sand.

[...]

You are the light eternal— Like a torch I shall die; You are the surge of deep music, I but a cry!

The first (2) and last (3) verses of “I Am the Wind” by Zoë Akins

down again. His host filled it for him. “To look at,” said the sergeant-major, fumbling in his pocket, “it's just an ordinary little paw, dried to a mummy.” He took something out of his pocket and proffered it. Mrs. White drew back with a grimace, but her son

An extract (4) from The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs.

Several fans also noticed citations on the wall (they’re only visible in the Episode). They’re from Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle:

“We were coming down our road”, the first sentence of the book

“His eyes were closed now as well but the tears were getting out.”

“I loved twirling the dial on the radio.”

“I didn't want [to] go back”

Several books can also be seen around RM:

ФЛОРЕНСКИЙ ПАВЕЛ. ДЕТЯМ МОИМ. ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ ПРОШЛЫХ ДНЕЙ. ГЕНЕАЛОГИЧЕСКОЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ. ИЗ СОЛОВЕЦКИХ ПИСЕМ. ЗАВЕЩАНИЕ by Pavel Florensky (cr.)

The Dogs of War by Lisa Rogak

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb (cr.)

40 Model Essays: a portable anthology by Jane E. Aaron and Ellen Kuhl Repetto

California Angel by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

Hunger Trilogy by Wang Ruowang

Jihad vs McWorld by Benjamin R. Barber

7.5. Was Frauen krank macht by Ingrid Olbricht

Managing Staff Development programs in Human Service agencies by Diane Brannon, Michael J. Austin, and Peter J. Pecora

A passage to India by E. M. Forster (cr.)

Doubly Dead

A McKettrick Christmas by Linda Mael Miller

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen. There’s a “Read it!” written on the side

The Grim Grotto (cr.) (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Daniel Handler

Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella (cr.) (author’s website) 14.5 Eating Well for Optimum Health by Andrew Weil M.D.

The Golden Calf by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Илья Эренбург 4 by Ilya Ehrenburg (it’s the 4th volume of his collected works)

Medical Adviser

Wildcat Moon by Babs Horton

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

To see your face again by Eugenia Price

El Niño Perdido by Dave Pelzer

Tell Me How?: Answers to Hundreds of Questions

The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Daniel Handler

The Dark Hills Divide, the first book of the series The Land of Elyon by Patrick Carman

You can see pages from The New York Times (from both the New York edition and the international edition) and from The Wall Street Journal covering the walls of V’s “Singularity” set.

Here are some of the articles from The Wall Street Journal (src What’s News):

From the 12 October 2018 issue:

1- a U.S. News page (p.4)

2- the article “Expo: Firms Given Assurance on Intellectual Property Rights” (p.26)

3- a Markets page (p.33)

4- From the 30/31 December 2018 issue (the titles tend to differ between the paper and digital version):

“Trade and Yuan Cloud Outlook for Chinese Markets”

“‘Aquaman’ Continues Box-Office Reign as ‘Vice’ Sputters”

From the 24 January 2019 issue:

5- a World News page (p.10, right)

6- a Business & Finance page (p.23)

7- a Technology page (p.25)

Online version of some articles from those pages:

“Inside Google’s Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers”

“Boeing’s Autonomous Taxi Takes Flight”

“Europe’s Political Funk Sets Back Its Economy”

And some articles from The New York Times:

From the 10 January 2018:

8- the article “With Obesity Rising in China, Coke Helps Set Nutrition Policy”, available online here

From the 21 January 2019:

9- the first page of the World section (p.4)

10- the first page of the Sports section (p.12)

11- the first page of the Culture section (p.14)

From the 23 January 2019:

12- the front page (p.1)

13- a culture page (p.19)

#BTS #2019 Festa #Family portrait #Festa

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deadlocker · 5 years

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i’m gonna make a sideblog for alexandria ashe, bc the rpc could always use more sad m/ilfs and i wanna explore the woman who didn’t know how to love her daughter

#° ✶ ⎛ gdi kady ! ⎠#uwu

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britishsass · 2 years

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The Thorney Tower gang?

iYou would not believe how much I ADORE those guys let's GOOO

Here's the reasoning:

I love them x2: Them!!! They mean so much to me!! I care!!!

Romantically x2: I much prefer it being romantic, BUT...

Platonically: I'm okay with it as platonic as well!

*clenches fist* it's about the narratives: Or, rather, it's about the idea that they help each other heal after everything, taking care of each other, understanding each other. They need each other so much in the best way.

FLUFF FLUFF FLUFF FLUFF: I literally gave them a kid to take care of and keep talking about Gloria doing community theatre with her boys, I think I'm pretty biases

[screaming] x4: I can, will, and likely have had to take a step back as I just hold onto them and care about them so much. It's the first big polyamory ship I ever saw being supported by a fandom.

They can fix each other: Literally that's a major part of it for me-- not fixing, say, but helping each other heal at their own pace. Holy frick yeah.

(D/M)ILFs! even better!!: did you know their ages are so confusing at this point-- Also, yet again, I gave them a kid.

aesthetically they're immaculate: They're dressed like a gay friend group going to any event... Completely confused and unrelated to each other. I love it.

ANGST ANGST ANGST ANGST: even though I love fluff, I seriously do also enjoy the darker stuff too. Like, stories about them with nightmares or their bad days and being the only ones who really get it. And just realizing how weird it is for them to suddenly have to adjust to the new things... Dang, man. I care them.

wasted potential tbh: Why weren't they in Psychonauts 2. Add a DLC where these four show up at the Motherlobe please double fine i want to see HD milkman /hj

clark and malfina vibes: More for the "Fred and Boyd as the clarks / Edgar and Gloria as the Malfinas" where you got two completely normal-looking guys who are somehow the weird ones and then two not-so-normal folks who are actually just pretty chill now.

the comedic potential alone is worth it: Seriously imagine any of them trying to describe how they met. "Ah, yeah, we were all in the same insane asylum, got abandoned there, and then met and left together."

I love them so, so, SO much. You don't know how much I love them <3

#ask response #ask game response #ship bingo answered #anon #thorney towers gang

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gleeandshame · 3 years

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Love Victor 2x06 Semi-liveblogging

You know the drill, spoilers, bulleted thoughts. Just for myself, but it's chill if you're here

Oh uh tw, cw religious trauma, homophobia, mental illness, I guess

Rahim!

Lol, no one would right "Dear Victor" at the start of an ig message. Probably... I know it's just in theme with the show

Before anything he says, I hope he's pan or bi. This is just me wanting that. Okay. Time to watch. I'm so slow at watching

Okay, he's gay just closeted.

These children just dancing at work, for social media, lol okay sure that's plausible.

I have not been in that position like, the internet was more chill when i was growing up, lol

Another gay Muslim, we love to see it? Let's see how the writing is. After I watch the season I'll also look at the writers room, methinks

Oh to be a gay mentor

Never been there but, seems nice

Oh... Adrian is there for the church talk, WOOF

Also it sucks his little bro can't know he has a bf? Unless it's gonna happen now

Isa, Kids can be Gay. Anyway they write him as socially conscious, or "woke"

Isa, Come On.

Straight ppl aren't inherently innocent vs Gay ppl, I'm gonna scream

Oh no. Georgina, also that is the perfect stuck up white lady name to me? Also they're in Georgia so a little on the nose

"the girls swing raw" - lol

They would Not Open their homes to someone in that state

But they need to make it obvious she was snooping.

Okay M(to be)ILF, don't call a teen "hot"? Ew. Someone stop the writer's room from being creepy

Mia... I mean fair, she has walls up after feeling left out for so long

Isa is going to be nicer to a random gay than her son because it doesn't affect her life, that's my prediction

Oh, well I guess I'm glad Felix isn't mad.

"I will pay fifty dollars to make this stop"

This Isa speech is supposed to make Victor empathize with her?

Boohoo, you don't know everything about your kid.

My parent new I was a mystery, but they seemed surprised. Haaa...

My dad was f*cking weird tho before and sussed out I was talking to a girl like 24/7 a few months before i came out

Benji, call that sh*t out!!!

Okay, well Mia mentioned the hot thing. Yeah, ya freak

The baby wanted out of that convo, lol

Hello, Felix's family life is making me cry again

Oh... baby attachment and BF walls up parallel a bit awkward, but.... okay

This f*cking Father is talking to Victor, before he starts something can I just punch him in the face?

OH f*ck gay religious trauma, he's out

I've walked out, they were talking the f*cking slippery slope of gayness to b**stiality at my church in my college town, I was so pissed.

Oh to be brought up in a homophobic society, imagine how it is for Victor, Isa

Promises promises... better than nothing I guess

okay the dachshund joke was a good palate cleanser.

I didn't mention Felix's mom earlier but that was predictable and painful

Oh yes, gotta say it once per episode, I love Mia and want good things for her.

Woof. The system is probably not great for mental illness, but also, you'r floundering here Felix... it's... it sucks! I don't know the solution and haven't been in that situation

Yeah, so it did end...

Darn, they're making Benji the bad guy again? I guess he should have been optimistic or kept it to himself though.

This Episode is so Angsty besides Mia

Okay real crying now gosh dang it

wtf, but i guess 6th episode is a good time to hit us with this

#love victor season 2 #love victor spoilers #spoilers #lv spoilers #homophobia #just mention of a certain character

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