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rin-yellow · 11 months
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Shitty Fan Theory Corner: G-Witch is giving me M3 vibes and this makes me very scared for future episodes lmao
SPOILERS FOR GUNDAM: WITCH FROM MERCURY and M3: THE DARK METAL ahead, PROCEED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
Okay I might just be going insane from the fact that they left us with THAT ending before hitting us with a recap episode today I am SEETHING
(for the record, future readers: this was written on the 14th of May, 2023, but depending on your timezone it might already be the 15th)
(AAAANYWAYS , here’s to what might be my first longform post on this blog that’s not totally an art post lmao)
Okay hear me out.
If you’re here, you probably already are a G-Witch fan, if not: WATCH THE FUCKING SHOW, THEN COME BACK HERE. IT’S WORTH IT and also you will understand my pain.
Anyways, this might be surface level shit, but while watching G-Witch, alot of the plot beats have reminded me of one of my old favourite guilty pleasure shows. Specifically, M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane/”The Dark Metal”.
For those unaware, M3 is essentially this randomass mecha show from 2014 that I’ve seen nearly nobody talk about since 2014, probably because alot of people thought it was kind of trash.
While I admit the show is VERY flawed, I have a huge soft spot for it. I actually planned on posting fanart of it here at some point and then promptly forgot like a doofus, so might as well post that here now actually, just for the fun of it.
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(above: Raika Kasumi, one of my personal favourite characters for the sole reason that she’s kind of a girlboss and always pilots the “normal” mech in the show and still somehow manages to kick ass.)
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(above: the “Vess” mecha she pilots. These are OOOLD sketches but yea. Raika is the only straight person that matters)
Anyways, M3 is a story that is like 100% different from G-Witch wherein it follows this world that’s slowly being covered by a place called the “Lightless Realm” and a bunch of fellas who are technically in a school but also a military organization but not have to pilot mechs in order to fight off the monsters that come out of the lightless realm. So like, not even close to G-Witch.
Big takeaway is the fact that it tries super hard to be Gasaraki but it is not Gasaraki and so popular 2014 anime fanblog mcfuckface hated it and so everyone hated it and then it faded into obscurity even though the show went like,,, super hard despite its clunkyass flaws.
‘Coz Gundam’s y’know, it’s Gundam, the mechs fight other mechs, not kaiju. ANYWAYS,, the reason why I found them similar is in their plot, rather than the world and the characters.
See, M3′s mechs, the VESS, have only a very limited effectiveness when piloted into the Lightless Realm, wherein piloting a mech there for too long will kill the pilot, having their bodies get infected with “NecroMetal”, the titular “dark metal”, so to speak. This is a problem until really early in the show when a mech known alternatingly as the “MA-VESS” or “Argento” or “The Shinigami/Reaper” is introduced, who is seemingly immune to the effects of the whole “pilot is slowly being fucking murdered thingy” going down.
I think you see where I’m going here, but if not, let me spell it out for you:
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the “big plot twist” with Argento is the fact that the mech is being essentially powered by the main pilot’s older brother, hence why he’s the only one who can pilot it, and why it’s immune to the “slowly fucking killing you” effects of the lightless realm.
I don’t even gotta say who that reminds me of.
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Yeah.
(I apologize for the edit, I literally found an SD Aerial finally in-stock at my local hobby store and knew what I had to do LMAO)
I’m not fucking done, by the way.
Alongside this, we also have the fact that Emiru, a character who was thought to be a major player early on in the show fucking “dies tragically” in an early episode and then we never actually see her body, only to reveal that she’s actually powering another mech: Sable.
The “early tragic death” part makes me think that maybe El4n might be powering the Pharact (similarly to Eri’s whole deal) due to its dark colour scheme (”Sable” means something along the lines of ‘dark’, iirc) and also the fact that every other insane fan theorist seems to think so too.
Also they experiment on children.
Literally a Belmeria moment.
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(above: seriously, this bitch is just like Bel fr fr)
(operates the fuckin’ child broiler and everything)
(pretty sure we get the main science dude’s assistant and Belmeria both vomiting over the main science character, in Witch’s case Prospera, explaining their evil science things. Which makes me scared. Because the Evil Science Dude dies by being torn apart by the ghosts of the people he wronged and like,,, Prospera is WAAAY too cool and sexy to go out like that. If anyone should do it, fuckin’ Delling should be torn apart by the ghosts of Vanadis, that’d be funky and cool lmao idfk)
Also, later in the show, the Argento gets this cool powerup that has really similar vibes to Aerial Rebuild’s weird EMP thing that killed Sophie, and then just like Suletta, the pilot of Argento basically is expected to use it every episode going forward up until like midway through M3′s second season, shit just STOPPED WORKING midway through the buildup to a super badass scene wherein the protagonist claims he’s gonna “save everyone” or something. And then it turns out that the older brother inside the suit just up and FUCKING DIED because it overstrained him.
While Eri didn’t fucking die, she did do the that thing in the most recent episode when Suletta was building up to deep fry Guel. Yes, that WAS Miorine’s betrayal, but everyone has basically decided before the next ep. even aired that this is Eri leaving Aerial’s body. Which is basically just the upgraded main mech turning “useless”, just like in M3.
And M3 ends with the character the audience assumed was “just a funky guy” who was actually more fucked up than he let on who asserts himself to be “a better fit” for the main love interest fighting a reinvigorated version of the main mech powered entirely by, if I remember correctly, the protagonist empathizing with “the machine itself” or something like that, whilst being haunted by a fucked up guy. If Suletta fights shaddiq again at the climax of the show, and one of her allies is fuckin’ El5n or Guel, or HELL, maybe even fuckin’ Sophie’s ghost,,, I will go even more insane.
Also Mahmu and Emiru have proto-Sulemio vibes and I think at this point that’s just the “I’m going insane from trying to cope” rather than rational thoughts but like I figured y’know. Might as well say that while I can lmao.
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(she does not run and thus gains two: a cool robot AND a girlfriend! I need to publish my 10k word long Mahmu x Emiru M3 fanfiction somewhere before I go FUCKING INSANE,, seriously I am going fuckin’ bonkers these two have such SuleMio vibes with the whole “Sassy Boss Bitch who is actually really emotional but has no clue how to express that x Shutin SoftGirl who WILL FUCKING shank you” dynamic)
(plus there’s the whole thing about Emiru essentially forcing Mahmu to hate her in order to try and get her to open up to people and shit. And Mahmu misunderstanding this and being emotionally devastated every time she sees Emiru up until she realizes it was an act because Emiru actually wanted to be closer to Mahmu. Also having the realization inside of a giant fucking human-powered robot. Plus Emiru throwing essentially her life away because she wanted to be something. If that’s not a SuleMio type vibe, idfk what is.)
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Look at how fucking gay they are even though M3′s producers were COWARDS and didn’t explore their relationship more also the fucking quote about fighting “for happiness [instead of] revenge” AAA I hope that becomes a SuleMio thing too. I am going insane.
Also both M3 and G-Witch have EXTREMELY banger 2nd ED songs that totally give away the “big twist” kept hidden during the first season (”put the big sibling into the fucking robot” lmao)
Y’allready know Red:Birthmark by Aina The END,,,, but give SABLE by Nano a fucking listen, this shit is SUCH A FUCKING BANGER. Ik it’s in english entirely but that just means you can sing along and I fucking LOVE the song it is driving me insane lmao
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This shit goes hard, it goes crazy, fucking hell.
There’s actually more, this is mainly a surface level observation. Anyways someone PLEASE fucking remind me either right before or after the next episode airs to elaborate because either this will be confirmed or I will be totally wrong and if I am wrong I will be very happy because I don’t actually like predicting shows but G-Witch has me going CRAAAZY.
Anyways if you got this far I apologize. I will probably regret this entire post in the morning.
But yeah, what did we learn? G-Witch isn’t just The Tempest and Utena mixed with Gundam, it’s also M3 but with better writers and even gayer. Also I am going insane.
BUT THAT’S JUST A THEORY, A GAY THEO- [i am shot numerous times]
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andmaybegayer · 24 days
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Last Monday of the Week 2024-03-04
The Thicket is finally no longer wet. It's just creepy now.
Listening: Bandcamp Friday was not actually a thing I was going to do this week but it shook out that way. Got Hole In My Head by Laura Jane Grace, A Lunch Between Order And Chaos by String Noise, both of which have been past Mondayposts, and also Covenant of the Blackened Woodlands by Ithilrå, which has not yet so it gets to be here:
Big raw metal sounds.
Reading: Mostly blogs, here's a Hannah Ritchie about people's understandings of Nuclear Power and Bartozs Ciechanowski's incredible interactive article on fluid dynamics and air pressure in the context of explaining the pressure-driven approach to aerofoils.
Watching: Movie night was 2 Fast 2 Furious at the behest of people who had already seen it and wanted to display some subtext. Yet another thing that reminds me that I am actually abnormally into cars.
Also more Gundam. You wanna talk about lost innocence? I lost your mother's innocence last night. No that's mean sorry dude it sucks forever.
Playing: Steam broke for a while and I only just got it back, plus I've been distracted by 3D printing and esp32 stuff. Finally got back into Dark Souls today and I can't tell if I'm eating shit because I'm out of practice or because this is a new hard area.
Making: printed the first endcap for the server case without issue, but ran out of filament to make the second one. Started a print with new PETG to make the other half and came home to a horrible glob of plastic on the hotend, I should really have put in the time to characterize that filament before just punching it but I was impatient, it will happen again. Now I have to fix that which involves replacing several parts of the hotend, so I have to wait for parts.
Also I pulled a Lua implementation into the LED controller, which is a little faster than my interpreter and much flatter, so there's a good chance it'll meet my needs, especially if I'm clever about some presets and multithreading.
Tools and Equipment: Mini power screwdrivers are a thing I've always scoffed at but I got one of those Xiaomi power driver sets as a gift and when breaking down the printer hotend it was very useful not to have to hand-drive extra long m3 screws.
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theshiaxartistwrites · 8 months
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The Forgotten
Fandom: Danny Phantom
Rating: Teen+
Tw: Blood and Violence, Minor Violence, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Verbal Abuse, Physical Abuse, Amnesia, Mental Instability, Manipulation
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Chapter One:
It was one in the morning on a thursday, thankfully the first week of summer, when Danny got a message from Tucker. The tech genius had intercepted an encrypted message from Skulker to Vlad Masters. It had a shopping list of high tech ghost related equipment and a few gruesome details about a ghost Skulker had hunted for Masters to use in a special project. The only details about the project Tucker could decode was the name, the M3 Mark-two. Anything that Vlad and Skulker were working on together was always bad news for Danny and his family, so there was no hesitation when he jumped from his window and headed for Vlad's Wisconsin home.
What had meant to be a quick trip to spy on his nemesis, turned into something worse when he overheard exactly what the machine was. His attempt to sabotage was interrupted and the following brawl ended with an explosive result.
Plasmius let out a low groan, his head pounding as he pushed the rubble that was once his laboratory wall off of his back. The dust had yet to settle, a thick smokescreen and flickering overhead lights making it difficult to see. Part of the laboratory's ceiling had collapsed, slowly trading smoke and dust for moonlight. Even so, Vlad could sense his young rival was still somewhere in the lab.
"Feeling proud of yourself, Daniel?" Vlad called angrily to the open air. "I think blowing yourself up was the smartest thing I've seen you do all week!"
Silence.
Plasmius frowned, slowly pulling himself to his feet and dusting himself off before taking a few cautious steps into the middle of the laboratory. Still, there was no movement, no retort.
"Come on, little badger, you know you can't hide from me." He hissed to the settling dust, glass and bits of metal crunching under his boots. Still, he heard nothing. A weird chill settled in his gut. A cold dread creeping up into his throat.
"Daniel?" He called again, gently reaching out with his ghost sense, searching for him. A weak aura under a small pile of debris from the collapsed roof caught his attention. It wasn't Phantom that he was feeling, though, it was human. Whatever had happened in the blast had been strong enough to revert Daniel back to his human form. Under a pile of rock and metal, it was likely Daniel was actually hurt.
Vlad contemplated letting him stay there, let the idiot boy rescue himself from his own brash decisions, but he could only imagine how quickly Daniel's friends would point the Fenton's in his direction should Daniel be more than a little banged up.
A flick of his wrist was all it took to lift the rubble away with a bubble of ghostly red energy, a few larger chunks taking a bit more oomph than he liked. Spotting the young man under a large chunk of lab equipment, Vlad flinched. Daniel was in his pajamas, a pair of white pajama pants and a dark blue top with the NASA logo on the chest. Had he been in such a rush to see what 'vile plan' Vlad was hatching that he hadn't even taken the time to get properly dressed? He didn't look too bad at a glance, a little singed and dirty, but the fact he had reverted to his human form was very telling.
Daniel's friends were going to kill him if Jasmine didn't get to him first. Vlad had seen that girl angry and it was eerily like her mother. She had a tactical violence to her. Vlad moved quickly to Danny's side, kneeling down and rolling Danny onto his back.
"Butter biscuits…" Vlad muttered, biting his lip. The dark stain on Daniel's left shoulder was less concerning than the blood-soaked hair that clung to his face. Vlad took hold of Danny's face and turned his head, flinching away when he realized Daniel's eyes were open.
"Daniel?" He called, waving a hand in front of the boy's face. No reaction. Not even a blink. That icy feeling in Vlad's throat spread down his back. Vladimir pressed two fingers to the side of Danny's throat, a little adjustment as he hunted for a pulse. There was a sharp twist in Vlad's gut when he felt nothing. The boy was still warm, he just had to convince himself that his own quickened heartbeat was making it difficult to find. Vlad put his ear down close to Danny's nose and mouth, listening intently, filtering out the sounds of hissing air tubes, sparking electronics, and dripping pipes.
A raspy breath caught his notice. A slow, shallow breathing, but steady. Vlad felt relief flood through him, that cold feeling washing away. Daniel was still alive. He could handle that.
Still, he was clearly in bad shape.
Plasmius placed his hands aside Daniel's head once more, this time turning everything but his brain invisible.
No obvious damage or bruising, that was good.
Then he inspected his skull. No cracks or missing pieces, but there was a decent section of bruising just above his right ear.
Showing the veins and muscle, then all the way back to normal, Vlad was able to inspect the large gash that ran from Danny's right cheekbone over his ear and up along the back of his skull. His cheek, eye, and side of his head were swollen and turning a dark blotted purple. It was a shallow cut, already starting to clot, but the location was of major concern. Daniel's eyes being open was honestly unsettling.
"Daniel," Vlad had to restrain himself from patting the boy's cheek. "If you can hear me, I'm going to move you. You're hurt and I need to make sure you're not going to die on my basement floor."
Despite the fact that he was intending to help him, Plasmius couldn't help but sound a little vindictive. It was Daniel's own fault that he had gotten hurt, not Vlad's. If he'd left well enough alone, then maybe he wouldn't have nearly killed himself with his blatant stupidity. Vlad grumbled to himself as he carefully gathered Daniel up in his arms, and started for the stairs. He was surprised by just how thin and light the young man was. It felt like he was holding a skeleton someone had dressed up for Halloween. Were his parents even feeding him? Vlad sneered, trying to ignore Daniel's hollow stare as he marched up the stairs.
Loyal!" He called once he reached the top, waiting a moment for his head butler to appear. The old ghost appeared from the ceiling, an unnaturally lanky creature dressed in a tattered grey suit. Long sparse wisps of silvery hair stuck out of his gaunt blue skull, sunken eyes glowing a pale green color.
"Yes sir?" The old ghost groaned, teeth clacking at the sight of the injured boy in his master's arms.
"Young Daniel is hurt, lacerations and bruising, possible concussion." Vlad carried Daniel past the undead butler, moving to the coffee table where he could lay Danny down without anything in his way. Loyal followed, reaching into his jacket and pulling forth a twin size memory foam mattress from the hammerspace within. He laid it on the table first, only letting Vlad lay Daniel down after.
"Aye sir, it seems you may have gone a bit rough with him this time?" Loyal mused, unfazed by the scathing glare Vlad pointed at him.
"He did it himself, blew the M3 Mark-Two to pieces and dropped the entire laboratory on his own head." Plasmius threw his hands up in anger, Loyal pulling out a pair of sanitary gloves for the man. Vlad snatched them and shifted to his human form to be able to pull the gloves on, frowning at the blood that stained his shirt. Vlad rolled his sleeves up as Loyal fished out everything he needed to care for the wounds, kneeling down on a cushion so he could reach Daniel with a bit more ease. First, he allowed Loyal to numb the boy with a syringe of god knows what, before picking up a towel and razor.
To get to the gash, Vlad had to shave away a good chunk of Danny's hair, allowing himself a snicker for how silly it made Danny look. Then he had to clean it, making sure all dirt and debris was cleared out and no clots would end up in the stitches. Loyal assisted, holding tools and swapping in whatever Vlad needed. By the time they were done, the gash was a nice clean, if jagged, stitched line across the right side of Daniel's head.
Next was Danny's shoulder, his shirt being unbuttoned so Vlad could see the injury. A small chunk of glass had managed to imbed itself deep enough to not rip Danny's shirt when he'd shifted back, but was not big enough to have stabbed all the way through. A bit of work with a scalpel and some tweezers were all it took to get the glass and its broken bits out. A quick cleaning, a few stitches, and some bandages and Daniel was physically fine, all set for his undead healing factor to take over.
For Daniel's sake, and his own petty delight, Vlad took a moment to get rid of the rest of Danny's hair, leaving just a thin layer of black peach fuzz behind. Loyal made no comment as he cleaned up the mess of hair and medical waste. Vlad moved to stand and stepped away to make a phone call, taking off a single glove. After a few short rings, the other side picked up.
"I am Technus! Master of all things technological! Who dares to hack my personal communications line!?" Came the loud, nasally voice of Technus.
"Vladimir Plasmius." Vlad growled in reply, hearing the nervous gulp from the ghost.
"Plasmius! H-Hello! Oh, um, what can I, uh, do for you?" Technus stammered, the sounds of bumping metal echoing through the phone.
"I require your services in removing location tracking off a phone and revising a few already sent messages. The young Halfa destroyed my lab as well, which I need back up and running within the week." Vlad held up his hand for Loyal to peel off his other bloodied glove and take them to discard.
"Text messages or-" Technus started.
"In exchange," Vlad continued. "You will be paid $256,000 and given free access to one of my remote ghost portals to come and go as you like. Deal?"
"Deal!" Technus accepted without hesitation. "I! Technus! Will be there momentarily!"
Vlad hung up when the geeky creature began to cackle to himself. It was surprising how effective cold hard cash worked with ghosts. Skulker was certainly no exception.
“Sir?” Loyal spoke up, Vlad turning to face him. Loyal motioned to Daniel, Vlad followed the motion and froze. Danny had turned his head towards him, but his expression was blank, his eyes barely focused as he stared mutely at him. There was no anger, no panic, not even a hint of a frown.
“Daniel?” Vlad took a step closer. Danny didn’t reply, but blinked slowly, one eye closing and reopening ahead of the other, much like a lizard. Vlad hated it.
“Well, at least he’s not in a coma.” Loyal huffed, floating towards the stairs. “I’ll go open the portal for your guest.”
Vlad wrinkled his nose in distaste, stepping over and kneeling down beside Danny.
“Can you hear me?” He asked, watching Daniel nod slowly. “...Do you know where you are?”
This time it was a slow shake ‘no’.
That was…not great.
“Do you know who I am?” Vlad asked.
Another slow ‘no’.
“Do you know who you are?” Vlad was starting to get annoyed. And mildly concerned.
“D a n i e l?” Danny’s voice was strained, cracking with every forced sound.
“You sound unsure.” Vlad bit his lip anxiously, Daniel either didn’t notice or didn’t care.
“Y..ou call..ed m...e…Dan iel…” Danny turned his head away to look at the room, taking in everything with an empty expression. Vlad stood, crossing his arms so he could cover his mouth and muffle his panicked breathing. There were so many ways this could have gone wrong. While this was far from the worst case scenario, this was not good. Not good at all.
“Who…are you?”
Vlad blinked, looking back down at Danny, who was looking up at him once more. There was an emotion there, something akin to panic knit between the boy’s brows. Vlad was quiet for a long moment. He had to be careful how he handled this. If this was a standard case of amnesia induced by cranial trauma, it could end up blowing up in his face.
But.
If this was as a result of the M3 Mark-Two…
Vlad put on his softest smile and leaned down to place a gentle hand on Daniel’s uninjured shoulder.
“Who else, my boy? I’m your father.”
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darkandlightsides · 2 years
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Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Black blood is smeared on the inside of a concrete box, the pounding of fists and the scratching of claws against the enclosure. It was dark and smelled of her own carbon dioxide and metallic smelling blood.
"Ghh5h...Hhhck...L3t...l3t m3..-"
Her skin bleeds, code writhing with pain. This is the worst fate for someone like Loveletter. To be trapped within her own boredom- a dark enclosure that she cannot escape l. She can't even see her hands, but from the pain she feels in them she knows there's been irreparable damadge.
She can almost hear the party and merriment through the walls. The smell of the brewing and flourishing emotions driving her wild. Like trapping a tiger in a cage and dangling a turkey leg from the ceiling just out of reach.
Thunk.
Thunk.
Crack.
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{As Long As I Don't Need Help}
Chapter 1
"It's so C0LDdd in her3 UGHGG!!-" the voicebox from Marleys chest cried out as he wiggles in his dirty and shredded bed, refusing to get up. He gets a bit of an angry look as he turns his head to a bit of a darker corner from his bedroom, there, stood that darn disturbing looking mannequin, staring at Marley with its single eyeball. Marley grunts as he busts a move towards the thing as if he's trying to scare it, but of course, it doesn't move an inch, and just keeps staring. "Are you g0nna say ANYTH1NG??!?" he yells at it like he always does as if it's an actual person he's talking to...well..that's what he thinks it is since he's seen it randomly move on its own. 
"Your SOO0OOooo annoying to live with you kn0w? I have to do EV3RYTH1NG in this humongous factory and you...just...STAND THERE!!! WHY AR3 YOU SO WEIRD??!! AND CREEPY?? ST0P STARING AT ME STOP IT STOP ST0P STOP STOP" as he's yelling he jumps out of his bed to give the mannequin a good, aggressive, SHAKE. After a few shakes, making the mannequins head almost fall off, he stops and stares at it himself. "HRRrRrr...Wh4t everr...1t's time for m3 t0 go...hehee.." he let's the mannequin go from his grip and leaves the bedroom, only for Marley to burst back in and just to aggressively push the mannequin on the ground, and leaves again, now slamming the door shut.
The tapping of his sharp legs can be heard from afar in the long never ending like hallways, he tries to straighten his hair with the sharp claws of his robotic arms. "Lovely COLD day isn't it Marley?" He mumbles to himself, trying to stay optimistic. As he keeps on walking he taps three times on the ground and in seconds a few sawblades emerge from the dark, he immediately grins WIDELY seeing them "Aaah there you l0vely guys ar3!" He grabs one of them and pets it if it's like a dog, not realizing he's giving himself wounds on the face. He scrapes his claws against the metal of the sawblade, making a god awful irritating noise, but he seems to rather enjoy it. He pushes it away from him as if he’s starting to get annoyed by it. He continued to walk towards his destination, he stops infront of a door with a few scratch marks on it. He opens the door only to almost get a heart attack from what's on the other side, the mannequin, Marley grunts "0h..it's jusszt..you..alm0st scar3d me to death th3re! N0Ww MOVE D4MN 1T!!-" he swings his arms around for a sec before pushing the mannequin aside and walks in like some kind of drunk person, almost falling over like always.
"Someth1ng speci4l to d0 today? I r3ally don't want t0........" he goes quiet for a sec, growls quietly and hits the voicebox as if it's broken, it makes a few static noises "ZzzrrtrzzrrrtrtrzZRRQUUIIEEET-" he hits it again, grunting in pain, he seems to be irritated by the loud static noise "Zzrtt..annoying..Zzr..stup1d old thing...AH! TH3RE WE GO- gosh I just wish I could rip this thing off my chest..." he randomly sits down on the floor in a circle drawn in crayon, waw, he really doesn't do anything. "Oh isn't th1s fun? Sitt1ng in the sam3 circle everyday, every week, every M0NTH....hrrRRHRHHRGRGRHRZZRTT-" he hits his head a few times "Well I can't sleep all day...nor can I do TH1Z either..." he plays with his hair for a bit until....he feels a thought forming in his head, he has an idea! "I KN0W!!¡! I can just...TRY AND F1X THIS DUMB STEWPID VOIC3BOX!!-" he happily stands up and heads to the operation room, that's the place where he has the most fun in!
He struts to the operation room and SLAMS the door shut behind him with his leg, as the old lights slowly turn on from the ceiling he approaches a recording tape and pressed the play button "0PERAT1ON NUM3R...uuh..0H WHAT 3VER LET'S JUST B3G1N ALREADY-" he goes to the operation table and sits down on it "TH1S OPERATION WILL BE STUNN1NG!! ZZZRRtt-" the voice out of his voicebox says loudly for tape to hear and be able to record perfectly. "T0DAY-....I..MARL3Y W1LL OFFICIALLY rrrRRRIP TH1S GOD FORSAKEN VOICE BOX 0UT OF M3-" his voicebox makes a distorted laugh as he pulls out a big tool box from under the table and places it next to him. "N0w...wh4t have w3 here?.." he opens it, revealing a bunch of tools that are just scattered around and not placed properly, he janks a few out and just throws them on the ground until he pulls out a power drill "Th1s will w0rk...TH3 OPERATION BEG1NS...N0W!!" He throws the tool box off the table, it makes a loud slamming noise as it hits the ground. "I repeat....operation voicebox removal...Zzrt-" he examines the drill in his hand as if he has never used one before "1 shall b3gin, t0day th3re will be no t1mers for this operation, I KN0W this w1ll probably take....5 minutes...mayb3 less..zrrt-" a blank expression appears on Marleys face...as if he's hesitant to do it..until he turns the drill on and the unhinged grin immediately reappears on his face. "There's seems to be...zzrt-...no screws..anywh3re..."
he shrugs and immediately jabs the drill in his chest, not too deep yet. He yelps for a sec, not expecting there would be pain, but smiles again, thinking that's a good sign. He makes the drill spin a bit faster as he tries to poke his way under the voicebox, he grunts, as if he's struggling to breath. "THIIZZZRT- W1LL..W0RRKZZRTT-" the voicebox starts to get more and more distorted as he jabs deeper under it, he let's out a small laugh with his actual and weak voice. Not realizing blood is starting to drip from under the voicebox and his mouth, he continues his duty, his grunts and yelps start to get more louder...more painful. As he keeps on drilling he managed to sink a bit deeper under it, which gave him the most "brilliant" idea. He grabs the drill with both of his hands and JANKS the voicebox off his chest....well...not fully, he accidentally throws the bloody power drill across the room and he falls on the ground, hitting his head against the table while doing so. He whines in pain, curled up in a ball, covering up his chest with his arms. He takes a peek and sees the voicebox is...halfly dangling from his chest, he realizes it still works too. Let's out a cry as he stands up "GGGRRZZZTT- OP3CANCEL3DZZ- CCANCELED..STOP ST0P IT STOP RECORDING..PLEAZZEERTTT-" the voice box loudly cries as Marley slams the off button from the tape recorder.
He leaves the operation room, too weak to close the door. He holds the voicebox close to his chest to let it hurt a little less as he leans with the other hand against the hallway wall to keep balance while he's walking, he struggles to stay on his feet almost falling over and bumping into a wall multiple times, zigzagging. He whines as his lips quiver. He finds the door of his bedroom and quickly opens it, he falls over while entering and crawls to a small cupboard that has bandages in it. He desperately tries to open it while blood is dripping on the floor and he's just pathetically coughing. He yanks a few bandages out and poorly wraps it around his chest, preventing the voicebox to fall off. "Oowww...." he whines out as he crawls into his bed, it hurts...so much.."God...maybe I should...try it another time........operation failed..today.." he mumbles, he turns and wiggles multiple times in his bed, unable to find a comfortable position. He tries to sit up, maybe that will help to make the wound feel less painful. As he does so he sees in the corner of his eye that he left his door open, he didn't see it at first but when he took a good look at it he saw that...the mannequin was there, standing, staring back at Marley. His painful expression quickly turns into a more sad one, he reaches his arms out to the mannequin as he tries to stand up to approach it. "Owww.....I'm so sorry I pushed you earlier...hmm.. " he whimpers as he wraps his arms around it, sobbing on it's shoulder. "I guess this is what I deserve for doing that...." he picks the mannequin up and walks back to the bed. Now laying beside it, hugging it tightly. "You know I'll never hate you..." Marley looks at the mannequin, it doesn't answer back. "It's okay that your angry at me, you don't have to say anything...it's all my fault...." the mannequin doesn't say a word, "Oooww I love you so much...can you forgive me?" He sobs as his lips quiver again. Marley waits for an answer...and again, it doesn't respond. His sad and pleading expression turns into a more disgusted and enraged one as he stands up and throws the thing on the ground. The voicebox makes a static noise "AT L3AST YOU C4N SAY S0MTH1NG YOU STUP1D PUPP3T!!- ZZRTGRGRGRGXTZHHRRZZT- ANSWER M3, ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER ANSWER JUST. SAY. SOM3THING.-" the mannequin lays on the floor motionless. Marley gasps, feeling a bit offended and KICKS the mannequin multiple times, and throws it out of his room. "Y0U C4N ONLY COM3 BACK WHEN YOU MADE A G0OD APOLOGY-ZZZRT-" Marleys broken voicebox screams out as blood comes out of his mouth.
 
And he slams the door shut. 
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Best Tesla Model 3 – All Color
The 2022 Tesla Model 3 all-electric vehicle is accessible in 5 outside paint decisions - Dark Blue Metallic, 12 PM Silver Metallic, Pearl White Multi-Coat, Red Multi-Coat and Strong Dark.
Like each Tesla, Tesla Model X Colors Model 3 is designed to join range, execution, security and utility. Brilliant plan amplifies inside space, to fit 5 grown-ups and all of their stuff serenely. Tesla makes quick vehicles, Model 3 is no special case. The high productivity electric engine gives zero to 60 mph speed increase in under six seconds. Also, when furnished with electric all-wheel drive, Tesla Model 3 gives protected and reliable footing in all circumstances.
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animebw · 3 years
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Man, I was on some wild shit when I talked about M3.
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caainhurst · 6 years
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when an anime consistently tells its female characters, old and young, to stay in the kitchen (bc only men fight and something something protect you)
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eulersfeverdream · 3 years
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rules: tag nine people you want to know better.
I was tagged by @inversetwilight (thanks homie, you rule)
favourite colours: Blue. Not 255 blue, something richer, like Interlagos Blue Metallic from the E46 M3 or the color of the ocean once the shallows slip away to unimaginable depths. 
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currently reading: Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
last song: Vince Guaraldi’s original 1964 recording of Linus and Lucy from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
last series: I’m trying to catch up on The Expanse, Westworld, and His Dark Materials while watching S2 of Owl House with my kid
last movie: The last new one I saw was Black Widow, the last one I watched was Birds of Prey last night.
sweet, savoury or spicy: spicy and savory
craving: for my alternator to not be broken, or failing that some chicken xacuti.
tea or coffee: I like both, but I’m drinking black iced tea to deal with the heat today.
currently working on: Pricing out the parts to replace the aforementioned alternator Tagging: @pinkpastels113 @suituuup​ Everyone else that I know of has been tagged or posted already I think lol.
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sneaky-tank-makes · 2 years
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Drafting Toolkit Chest project
Got a wooden box, w/ internal dimensions, looks nice.
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Picture of the chest with the case for the micrometer(open) and Calipers(closed) in front of it for reference of what I'm replacing.
Wanna turn it into a nice tool-chest to hold this list of things:
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150mm Digital Calipers (Mitutuyo, 3yr old)
70mm Iris Circle Tool (Maker's Cabinet, ~1yr old)
0-1in micrometer (Mitutuyo, antique)
12in protractor (Lufkin, antique ~100yr old)
Mechanical Pencil
Mechanical Pencil lead
Eraser
What's required to make this work?
Have to be able to mount inserts to the box. (Handling with metal female threads in the inserts, will add holes for countersunk m3 screws to the outside of the box later for solid hold)
Have to have 2+ layers of inserts in the box (Design it in 2 parts)
Have to have everything held firmly in place for protection (Design the inserts to fit the shape of each tool, reserving space to add thick felt for padding later)
Want the insert between the bottom insert and the door to not shake around itself. (Add places to the design where I can include captive magnets to hold everything together on itself)
Want the lid to stay closed despite there not being a latch (more magnets)
Protractor won't fit at all. (come back to this later I guess)
Figure out how to make everything fit (3D tool Tetris time)
Where I am currently:
Box: Measured
Inserts: Calipers and Micrometer done (space reservations in dark grey)
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Felt: not sourced - future Sneaky's problem
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fatalwa · 3 years
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AMONG US COLOR POST
Hello! I’ve decided to create a post describing colors and their placement in Among Us for more accessibility.
So let’s go!
Disclaimer! For clarity, I assigned each column with a number and each row with a letter in alphabetical order. The alphabet begins anew within every section (for example, Hats, Pets, Skins etc.). Items are listed from left to right, then to the beginning of the next row and left to right again (for example, A1, A2, A3, B1, B2 etc.).
SUIT COLORS
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A1: red. A2: dark blue (ultramarine). A3: dark green.
B1: pink. B2: orange. B3: yellow.
C1: black. C2: white. C3: purple.
D1: brown. D2: light blue (cyan, teal). D3: light green (lime, neon green).
FREE HATS (with Halloween edition)
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A2: birthday hat, yellow and white. A3: cat hat, black with orange eyes. A4: bat wings, black.
B1: Jason’s mask, warm white (creme) with red eyes. B2: demon horns, red. B3: knife, metallic grey with a muted brown handle. B4: mohawk, dark green with muted pink/purple tips.
C1: pirate hat, black with a grey skull. C2: plague doctor’s mask, black. C3: pumpkin or Jack-o-Lantern, orange with a dark green stem. C4: bag, muted brown.
D1: witch’s hat, black. D2: wolf ears, black. D3: round fedora hat, black. D4: scuba mask, black and very light blue.
E1: face mask, white. E2: farm hat, muted brown. E3: banana peel, yellow and dark yellow. E4: beanie, red.
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F1: bear ears, muted brown. F2: cheese, warm yellow and orange. F3: cherry, dark red. F4: fried egg, orange and white.
G1: square fedora hat, very dark green. G2: flamingo rubber ring, pink. G3: flower, pink with a green stem. G4: knight helmet, grey with a yellow plume.
H1: leaves, dark green. H2: toilet paper, white. H3: beret, brown. H4: toilet plunger, red with a light brown handle.
I1: archaeologist’s hat, light yellowish brown. I2: tall cowboy hat with two bumps, light brown. I3: antenna, black. I4: balloon, acquires Player’s suit color.
J1: backward cap, blue. J2: nest with eggs, light brown and white. J3: head tie, black. J4: wet floor sign, yellow.
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K1: cook hat, warm white (creme). K2: cap, blue with a yellow sign. K3: bandana, dark muted red. K4: sticky note, yellow with DUM written on it.
L1: fez hat, red on the top, black on the bottom with a yellow tassel. L2: military hat, dark green with a yellow stripe, badge and a black visor. L3: Elvis Presley’s hair, black. L4: detective hat, red on the back and muted yellow on the front.
M1: decorative round hat, dark green with brown accessories. M2: ski mask, purple and white glasses. M3: ram horns, light brown. M4: snowman, white.
PAID ITEMS
PETS
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A1: orange head, purple legs. A2: muted yellowish brown. A3: green. A4: light blue window shield, light grey metal with red, blue and green dots.
B1: dark cyan. B2: transparent light blue glass, muted yellowish brown hamster. B3: child, acquires Player’s suit color. B4: extremely muted beige, cyan eyes.
C1: white head. C2: white head, red hair.
SKINS
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A1: warm white (creme) uniform with a red collar and a yellow button with a cold green trim, beige shoes. A2: white shirt, black pants and shoes, yellow badge. A3: dark blue suit with brown stains on it, brown shoes. A4: dark green uniform, brown belt with a yellow buckle, brown shoes.
B1: blue uniform, black belt with a yellow buckle, yellow badge. B2: light grey coat, cold green shirt, brown pants, darker brown shoes. B3: black suit, white shirt underneath, red tie, brown shoes. B4: warm white (creme) suit, white shirt underneath, black tie and shoes.
C1: dark grey shirt, black pants and shoes, black belt with a yellow buckle and a muted brown purse, red, orange and yellow badge. C2: bright orange (closer to yellow) suit, creme shirt underneath, black shoes. C3: dark muted blue suit, light blue shirt underneath, black tie and shoes, light blue badge with a red stripe. C4: green and yellow jacket, blue shirt underneath, black pants, brown shoes.
D1: grey shirt, muted brown overalls, darker brown or black shoes. D2: red striped coat with a creme or beige trim, white shirt underneath, dark blue pants, orange shoes. D3: brown coat with a lighter brown collar, white shirt underneath, brown accessory (stripe), lighter brown pants, yellow belt, dark brown shoes.
HATS
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A1: yellow crown. A2: black brows. A3: yellow halo. A4: green elf hat.
B1: fuchsia scuba mask with black belt. B2: a stick figure, white head. B3: fuchsia leg with a white eye. B4: black hat with a yellow plate.
DIVIDE LINE
C1: warm white (creme) space helmet, orange trim at the bottom, dark grey glass. C2: green pet. C3: brown hat. C4: white hat with a yellow trim and a black visor, yellow sign.
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D1: dark grey hat on top of a lighter grey hat. D2: a red flower with a yellow pistil, green stem and leaves, red-brown pot. D3: dark brown or black goggles with lighter brown glass. D4: yellow helmet.
E1: green hat with a darker green visor and a yellow sigh. E2: white paper hat. E3: striped celebration hat, yellow, blue, red, green, yellow, pink trim. E4: blue hat with a darker blue visor and a yellow sign.
F1: black belt with a grey metal plate. F2: dark grey or black hat. F3: blue turban. F4: grey hat with a light grey visor and a yellow sign with a red trim.
G1: muted yellowish brown helmet with lighter parts of the same color, warm white (creme) horns. G2: dark grey or black hat with a red and yellow sign. G3: warm white (creme) hat with a black or dark grey stripe. G4: red headphones with grey and black parts.
H1: yellow/orange gas mask with a red belt and red filters. H2: dark blue (almost black) hat with light blue and red sign, black glasses. H3: brown helmet with a yellow flashlight. H4: dark blue hat with a creme/beige trim.
I1: brown hat with light blue ice. I2: child, acquires Player’s suit color.
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ultraericthered · 4 years
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Anime ranked by tiers, based on this post.
S (God-Tier) - Cowboy Bebop, Digimon Adventure, Digimon Tamers, Dragon Ball Z Kai, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Slayers NEXT, and Vinland Saga
A (Exceptionally Good/Great) - Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, Excel Saga, When They Cry: Higurashi, March Comes In Like A Lion, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Pokemon: The Beginning, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sailor Moon, The Slayers, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Yu Yu Hakusho
B (Good But Falls Short Of Being Fully Solid) - A Place Further Than The Universe, Ace Attorney, Angel Beats!, Assassination Classroom, Clannad/Clannad: After Story, Danganronpa: The Animation, Death Note, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, El Hazard, Eureka Seven, Hellsing Ultimate, Kill La Kill, Love Chunibyo and Other Delusions, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Nadja of Tomorrow, Pokemon: Sun and Moon, Rurouni Kenshin, Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon Crystal: Infinity, School Live!, Star Driver, Toradora, Wolf’s Rain, and Yu-Gi-Oh!
C (Just Good) - Attack on Titan, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Black Cat, Black Lagoon, Black Butler, Blue Exorcist, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Fusion, Digimon Adventure (2020), The Future Diary, Inuyasha, Little Witch Academia, Love Live! School Idol Project, Love Live! Sunshine!!, Magic Knight Rayearth, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, My Bride Is A Mermaid, My Hero Academia, Pokemon: Best Wishes, Pokemon Journeys, Rock Lee And His Ninja Pals, SSSS Gridman, Tenchi Muyo, Trigun, Vision of Escaflowne, WataMote (It’s Not My Fault I’m Not Popular), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster, and Zatch Bell
D (Above Or Below Average) - Akame Ga Kill, Berserk, Blood Plus, Blood -C, Carole & Tuesday, Charlotte, Darling in the FranXX, Date A Live, Digimon Savers, Digimon Universe Appli Monsters, Dragon Ball Super, Duel Masters, Fate Series, Fullmetal Alchemist, Full Metal Panic, My-HIME, My-Otome, Medarot, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Mushrambo, Nanana’s Buried Treasure, Nisekoi, Noragami, One Piece, Ouran High School Host Club, Pokemon: Advanced Generation, Powerpuff Girls Z, Ranma 1/2, Rave Master, Rising of the Shield Hero, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon Super S, Shaman King, Tengen Tonpa Gurren Lagann, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V.
E (Mediocre Or Bad) - Beyblade series, Bleach, Candy Candy, Digimon Frontier, Dragon Ball GT, Elfen Lied, Fairy Tail, Hellsing, Marmalade Boy, Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Naruto, Pokemon XY/XY&Z, Sailor Moon Crystal (S1), When They Cry: Umineko, When They Cry: Higurashi Gou/Sotsu, Your Lie In April, and Yu-Gi-Oh!: 5Ds.
F (Bottom-Of-The-Barrel Abysmal) - All Bakugan Sequels, Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope’s Peak Academy, Digimon Fusion: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time, Digimon Adventure Tri, DN Angel, Eureka 7 AO, The Familiar of Zero, Goblin Slayer, Guilty Crown, Hikaru No Go, M3: The Dark Metal, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Naruto Shippuden, Boruto, Overlord, Pokemon: Diamond and Pearl, The Prince of Tennis, Sailor Moon Stars, SCryED, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXAl, and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.
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M3, N2, and X1 with Dragon Ghoul and Morribel? :3
M3. would they be a good parent?
Dragon Ghoul- Honestly, even though he loves children, he probably wouldn’t be great. Mostly because kindness doesn’t suffice for raising someone properly; he wouldn’t know how to educate a child, and he would have troubles comprehending that they would be completely dependent on him for survival - his reptile side would think it’s ok to leave a child on their own to fend for themselves while he works. He’d be a great and loving uncle however! 
Morribel- She would Not. She doesn’t like children, she’s uncomfortable when they come near her, she’d rather they stay away. On top of that she still has unresolved feelings towards her own upbringing, with her father leading her towards a dark path she only managed to avoid due to unlucky circumstances... So even if she did like kids I don’t think she’d be interested in having any, just out of fear of being a bad influence on someone weak who doesn’t know any better just like how her father was to her.
N2. what have they never done that they want to do?
Dragon Ghoul- He’s curious about travelling. He’s done a lot of it with the band obviously, but he never got to truly enjoy the places they’ve been to, having to stick to the tour buses and backstage to play his role as security. He hears people talk about it excitedly, and even though he doesn’t really understand the appeal of going places just to see them, he wants to try!
Morribel- She’d probably want to learn to cook. Since crashing into the Glade, all she did was survive, eating fruits and grilling fish onto bondfires without any other preparations. Now that she’s officially accepted by the inhabitants, she can finally sloooowly but surely relax, and get out of her survival mindset. Getting to eat food for pleasure will be a nice change of pace.
X1. what is their favorite genre of music?
Dragon Ghoul- He genuinely likes Ghost’s songs! He also really loves classical music.
Morribel- If it existed in the Glade she’d probably be into Black Metal lmao, but anything with loud aggressive guitars is her jam! She plays guitar herself, but she would love to get an electric one to ruin everyone’s eardrums...
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animebw · 4 years
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Binge-Watching: M3: The Dark Metal, Episodes 7-9
In which we dig deeper into the heart of this mess, every character is a fucking asshole, and I examine exactly why this show’s cynicism is so repulsive.
Second Look
It rarely takes a single look for someone to get the full measure of a story. Looking at a piece of fiction at different times, in different environments, even just after a break for a glass of water and some exercise, can lead to drastically different outcomes. That’s why it’s so important for me to keep an open mind while writing for this blog. There’s no telling how my opinion of a show will evolve over the hours and days I spend watching and thinking about it. Something that really amazes me at first might lose its luster as it fails to capitalize on that promise. Something that seems kind of lame might build itself stronger than I ever expected. It’s not until a show’s over that I can be fully confident forming an opinion on how the whole thing works together. So as much as I absolutely fucking despised the first six episodes of M3, I came into this session willing to give it another chance. I put all my preconceptions at the door and gave myself permission to see this show with fresh eyes. Who knows? Maybe with enough distance from my last session, I’d be able to see this show in a new light that changes the way I think about it. So let myself go into these episodes with no expectations, and now that I’ve had a second look, I’ve come to the conclusion that M3... really is kind of terrible, yeah. Turns out, first impressions can be right some of the time. That said, these episodes did give me more to think about in terms of how and why it’s terrible, and with my rage somewhat abated, I feel those aspects are worth discussing in more detail.
The thing is, M3′s badness is the kind of badness that’s so revolting precisely because the show itself isn’t actually all that poorly constructed. Sure, the animation isn’t the best and the designs are kind of ugly, but the overall direction is strong. Scenes flow with natural camera work and editing, the nightmarish design of the Lightless World is pretty cool on its own merits, and I think the soundtrack is genuinely kind of excellent. This isn’t like Shield Hero, where the animation and direction falls completely apart as the show goes on and everything just mushes together into slow-moving slop. It’s not like Fire Force, where shots are so haphazardly thrown together that it’s impossible to get a sense of where anyone is and why. From a production standpoint, this show is basically competent, with effective cinematic storytelling techniques employed on a regular basis. The problem is that all this effective cinematic storytelling is in service of an absolutely atrocious story. The story’s texture is effective in communicating its text, but the actual text so repulsive that it only becomes more agonizing for how well it’s presented. If this were an Arifureta-level disaster, it might be funny watching how incompetently this show flailed about with absolutely nothing working. But because it’s actually capable of getting its point across, it’s like being locked in a room with Ben Shapiro as he sneers at you for hours on end thinking he’s saying something profound when all you want to do is make him shut the fuck up.
You All Suck
And frankly, Ben Shapiro would fit right in with this cast of self-serious assholes. It is astounding to me how unlikable these characters are, how so few of them have a spark of anything that could be considered decent or endearing. And to be fair, the show is well aware of what assholes they are. That’s what I mean about M3 being basically competent; the fact that all its characters are so punchable was exactly the intention. There’s a point where Heito calls out Akashi’s callous dismissal of Emiru, and it very much feels like the show itself calling Akashi out for being such a dickbag. But the fact this admonition is coming from by far the show’s most hateable character suggests that just because we agree with Heito in this moment doesn’t mean we’re supposed to like him. These characters are perceptive enough to call out each other’s assholery, but they need to learn to conquer their own. They’re supposed to be hard-edged and cynical and broken so they can suffer and grow over the course of the show, presumably to become better, more likable people.
And I’m not opposed to a cast of initially unlikable assholes learning how to be good people. But when Every. Single. Person. is this much of a walking shitstain, then I have to ask: why should I care? What’s supposed to make me want to see these people get better? What’s supposed to make me want to root for them, instead of, say, leaving and never dealing with them ever again? None of them are sympathetic enough for me to want to see them get better, because none of them have given me reasons to think they deserve to get better. Consider Kyouko from Sangatsu no Lion: even though we’re shown all the ways her presence is toxic to Rei and given plenty of reason to despise her, we’re also made immediately aware of how vulnerable and broken she is under that harsh exterior. We see the shards of glass and unresolved trauma that turned her into such a monster, and how she’s more dangerous to herself than she is to anyone else. Thus, despite knowing she’s a bad person, part of us still feels sorry for her, and we hope she’ll find away to put her demons to bed for everyone’s sake, including her own. These kinds of characters can be written well; M3 just throws a bunch of assholes on screen and says “Cool, here’s your cast, have fun.” And the fact that the show assumes I’ll have sympathy for them, despite so few of them being worth a single drop, says a lot about how broken its worldview is.
Hidden Agendas
And this brings me back, once again, to the prevailing sense of sexism that pervades this show. The fact of the matter is, cynicism and sexism often go hand in hand when “dark” stories go wrong. If you’re writing what you think is a mature, edgy narrative that deals with Adult Emotions(tm) and you actually have no idea what you’re doing, it’s almost a guarantee that the women are gonna have the worst of it. And thinking about it in more detail, the way M3′s cynicism manifests speaks volumes about the way it treats women. Put simply, this show wants you to get invested in its asshole male characters and not give a shit about its female characters.
To explain what I mean, I present to you the case of Heito the psychpath. In summary: this guy murders his family, escapes from prison by slaughtering a guard, is actively antagonistic and dangerous to his classmates, outright sexually traumatizes and abuses Emiru into self-destructing, gloats about it whatever chance he gets, tries to murder the step-brother of one of the most important scientists behind the project, and leaves enough evidence behind to confirm all these evil deeds. He is the very definition of a walking liability. So how does the show respond to these criminal acts? Is Heito locked back up in prison? Do his classmates turn against him? Does he suffer an ignoble breakdown and pass away in agony? Are any consequences visited upon him at all for actions that should rationally get him sent to the electric chair? Nope. Instead, he’s allowed to roam freely with no supervision. He’s able to run away because nobody put in countermeasures for the very likely possibility of this dangerous man not wanting to play by their rules. After trying to kill Akashi, instead of being locked up, he’s allowed to pilot the second Big Super Robot alongside the guy he just tried to murder. This monstrous, despicable excuse for a human being is elevated to deuteragonist status, made one of the most important characters in the show. And when someone points out, “Hey, maybe this guy’s an asshole and we should just let him die out there,” she’s immediately met with “No, he’s one of us!”
I want you to stop and think about that for a second. Over the course of this show, Heito has done nothing but attack and endanger every single character in his reach. He’s a clearly unstable, violent menace that has irrefutably made the situation worse for everyone involved. But when someone actually tries to point that out? The show shuts that line of thought down by telling the audience directly that he’s Nakama (translator’s note: nakama means friend). It tells you to disbelieve the evidence of your eyes and ears and treat this obvious psychopath who’s caused nothing but harm like he’s a blood brother bound by the sacred bonds of friendship. Now ask yourself the question: why? Why is M3 so insistent on asking you to care about this character on at least a superficial level, to the point it outright ignores everything we’ve seen him do? The answer clearly isn’t based on story logic, because there’s no logic to be found here. Whatever’s going on with Heito is a result of the creators’ attitudes coloring how they wrote this story, however unintentionally.
So think about it. Think how Heito’s allowed to do whatever he wants with no punishment. Think about how he’s allowed to torment Emiru and destroy her life. Think about how he’s rewarded for doing so by getting to side a super-awesome robot that runs on her soul (side note, did we really have to steal the Rei Dummy Plug idea from Eva too?), so he can always be next to her fear just as he wanted. Think about how Emiru is systematically dismantled and turned into a literal prop for this abusive creep’s satisfaction. And now, think about how Emiru herself spend the vast majority of her time alive being slut-shamed by the show and the characters within it. Think about how we’re asked to understand the man who assaulted her far more than we were ever asked to understand her.
I don’t know about you, but to me, that says a lot.
The point is not necessarily that you’re asked to “sympathize” with Heito, because the show still knows he’s an asshole. But you’re asked to understand him. You’re asked to treat him and his struggles as important, while the girl he drove to metaphorical suicide is just a prop in that understanding. Just as you’re asked to treat Akashi’s man-pain as important, how his angst over failing Emiru is given far more explanation than why Emiru was in love with him in the first place. Just as the crazed researcher is the one in charge of the project, driving all the action and chewing the scenery like an impotent manbaby (”No criticism! No criticism!”) while his female assistant can only make horrified expressions in the background. Just as the show lets this same crazy guy test Raika in the Reaper cockpit despite already knowing she’s not compatible just to make her suffer, and the show indulges us in watching her writhe and scream. Just as Sasame’s growing connection to her mysterious other self is entirely framed around her feelings for Akashi and Minashi’s support of her. No matter how cynical or cruel, it’s the male characters in this show that M3 wants you to think about. They’re the ones put on the front lines, driving the plot forward, getting involved in all the important moments. The female characters? They’re just there to make sad expressions in the background, get chewed up and spit out to make the guys’ stories more interesting, or be endlessly shit on by forces outside their control.
That’s the heart of what makes M3 so repulsive. It’s not just that it’s an unfathomably cynical trudge through aggravation. It’s that it cynically asks you to get invested in even its foulest men while encouraging you to think of its women as livestock to be slaughtered for their sake. It lets the guys take all the action while the girls do little but watch trembling from the sidelines until it’s their turn to suffer to make the guys’ stories more interesting. Because when all is said and done, the only thing these kinds of so’called “serious” stories are actually serious about is ugliness and bile. And it deserves to be flayed apart for just how noxious it truly is.
Odds and Ends
-Okay, what the fuck was he trying to say? Akashi abandoned Emiru because... he was obsessed with Kasane? What? Since when?
-It occurs to me we’ve never followed up on Raika and Akashi’s unexpected meeting in the first episode. You’d think her saving him as a civilian would lead to some sort of interesting relationship between them.
-WHY ARE YOU STILL WRITING YOU KNOW HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS ALSO HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK AGAIN
-”That song’s creepy. But for some reason, it calms me down. Can you sing it again?” You know what? That’s a nice moment. I like that moment. Maybe if we can build something off of Akashi learning to process his unresolved feelings towards his brother by piloting his soul, we can find something salvageable in this mess.
God, let this be the longest post I ever write for this show. It doesn’t deserve any more of my time and effort. See you next time!
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