so i was out birdwatching with my dog the other month and an acquaintance nearby spotted me and came over, nodded at my camera and asked “birdwatching eh?” now i really only know her through other people, we’ve never had a conversation, so i was surprised until she said she’d been chatting with someone she really didn’t want to and approached me as an excuse to end the interaction (i know the person she was talking to, too, and yeah that’s not someone you wanna be roped into talking to - she doesn’t shut up for 3 business days and you walk away depressed and knowing more about her life than her kids)
…and now of course i’m imagining a gentlebeard au with this scenario, ed approaching stede who is happily enjoying nature and the birds and ed ducking out of a shitty interaction by approaching stede about it, even though he knows diddly squat about birds and doesn’t much care to. stede just pats the bench next to him and offers him a cup of tea from his flask and they hit it off from there
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Some Legato thoughts:
He hates humanity, that’s pretty obvious, he wants all humans to die.
But there is this really fascinating disconnect that happens with him sometimes, where you can kind of sort of see the person he could have been peak through, but just barely.
The two most obvious examples of this I can think of is when he shares one of his hot dogs with a child that seemingly didn’t have a reliable access to food and when he frees those enslaved girls. Two things that he really did not have to go out of his way to do, and by all means shouldn’t care for at all considering his hatred for humanity.
But he still did.
And by themselves those seem like very good actions, right?
But then you remember that the hotdog had been kept in a bag with a severed head/tongue, and he wanted to use the kid to spook Vash (but then again he didn’t have to give her food to do that, he could have so easily used his powers to control her, we have seen him do it to entire groups of people with ease).
He violently kills over a dozen people with his powers in front of those slave girls, not because he intended to free them but because the slavers picked a fight with him first (but he spares the girls, none of them are physically harmed at all despite the carnage, and he offers them the closest thing he has to reassurances before he leaves, when he could have just ignored them).
It’s like he almost gets there, but not quite.
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hc chuuya and jouno give respectively dazai's and tecchou's phone numbers to annoying guys hitting on them
also suits every adult ada member with dazai
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long rambly annie appreciation post
i love my feral gremlin child annie SO much and i think something really fun about her is how she just... has no Need for relationships besides Dog?
she does seem to benefit from hanging out with charlie, and there's some potential there with irene. but she's stuck it out on her own so long she and dog can take care of themselves. she doesn't need to be nice and polite because she doesn't need anything from anyone else and even if she did she'd more realistically use force to get it lol.
and i mean, i can't even blame her because the first humans she came across in a decade shot at her best friend. besides the fact force is a solution she knows works and the fact she's been alone so long she's never HAD to consider any other solution, how can she trust any of the humans she just got thrown into these situations with?
we did see her actually develop a bit as well when she decided to stay with irene's camp, possibly showing a willingness to be open to relationships (or at least her knowing she and dog can't brave this one alone.) she had irene apologize instead of letting dog maul her. but i like that her personality didn't change all that much in the meantime.
i like that she's didn't feel pressured to start playing nice because like, she doesn't owe that to anyone. she has pretty much no reason to act nice and polite... i don't even think she knows HOW to honestly (see: her immediate "oh my god this coffee?? it's DISGUSTING" reaction in episode 1 instead of trying to pretend she's grateful for their attempt to warm her up j;lkLKJ).
and i particularly love how she didn't fall into the pitfalls of like, in stranger things having el see herself in the mirror and go "pretty o:" because... annie has no concept of society anymore. she has vague memories of a mom, she has a small child's understanding of the world she came from, but the only expectations she feels are 1) to survive and 2) to be dog's best friend.
i also loved that despite forgetting so much and adapting so hard, she DID still care that irene didn't find her for 10 years. she did love her dad. and so i have to wonder if that sense of betrayal, the impending doom of knowing someone you love will just die, is another factor in her being so Annie. she said it herself - any time someone had told her she's safe, they've died. people are weak and fragile and they're going to fail her, but she and dog are strong and invincible and that's Safe (i say, hoping dog survived that finale).
why change that now?
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thinking about wat standing up for akk to an angry kan right after ayan stood up to an angry waree for him... about how the situation escalated to where akk would have to try and support waree to calm her down a little bit because ayan pushed and stood up to her in a way people usually don’t... about how akk seemingly supporting her made kan so angry but also revealed to wat how willing akk was to make himself look like the bad guy... about how akk has always been brave in a way that nobody sees but how he doesn’t even try to defend himself to kan... but also about how pushing the boundaries is revealing more about all of them to each other that they never even knew despite really, genuinely being close supportive friends
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