wait there are actually people out there who think roy would be completely 100% useless in a fight without his alchemy???????
I cannot even begin to express how much I desperately hope any and all posts I've seen that even remotely imply this are joking, because, unfortunately, yeah, some people do genuinely seem to believe that, and it drives me insane.
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Noé’s name
Noé’s name is a pun, something that I initially found quite funny. Noé Archiviste is a reference to Noah’s Ark, which in French is Arche de Noé. Vanitas even establishes this within the story in the first chapter, which was his immediate reaction to hearing the name:
The more we learn about this though, the more (depressingly) apt a name it becomes. The biblical story of Noah’s Ark has everything living being obliterated by The Flood, other than those in the ark.
Other than Noé (and *ahem* let’s just not consider her for now) all the other Archivistes are dead. In fact, rather than just his whole family lineage, like the House d'Apchier, it seems that his people as a whole were deliberately killed through what was presumably a genocide.
Again, it seems to be a really fitting name with the themes presented in vnc- the Archivistes (as explained by [we have no idea what her name is]) are supposed to be recorders of history and knowledge, like the cognate word in English, archivist. However Noé knows nothing about his family or knowledge of what happened to his people on a wider scale, creating a pretty poignant sense of irony. Although he himself is an observer, and again and again is forced to witness horrific events through either his own eyes, or through the memories of others he STILL gets no information for himself about himself.
Noé is ignorant of a lot of wider knowledge about human-vampire society and history- again it’s ironic that his mentor was named ‘The Teacher’ but intentionally withheld a lot of information from Noé, both about himself, his background and the world, leaving him unaware and at a disadvantage in life.
This is especially highlighted with his ignorance towards the discrimination against Dhampires, and he takes the brunt of the backlash once again due to a piece of information willingly kept from him.
It’s quite tragic that Noé’s life/childhood has been continually traumatic but instead of getting any closure to his experiences, he has to experience more and more, bearing witness to the brutal ugliness of both humanity and vampires again and again. Even within the story as a both a dual protagonist and narrator, he is relating the story of Vanitas- and how ultimately he, unwillingly, had to take Vanitas’ life.
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had a very vivid thought of kunikida seeing chuuya at the store carefully reading the list of ingredients on the back of a few dog food bags so he could bring only the best for his dog(s) and after witnessing it kunikida's just
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y’all but. ricky’s and gina’s arcs being the opposite of each other but also being the thing that leads them to each other !! ricky knew stability and didn’t want change and all gina ever knew was change and wanted stability. they started on opposite sides of the spectrum but, at the end of day, they’re walking in the same direction
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What was your first impression of Gojo?
i don’t really have a very concise answer for this, so you’re getting a very long winded response here 💀 so before i actually read and watched jjk myself, and actually committed to it, i had watched the first several episodes of it with my family, and so that was my pure first impressions of him. but the problem with that, is how i have literally no memory of what i was thinking while watching it.. so i think most of my impression of him before genuinely committing to jjk was just: he’s funny, flamboyant, powerful, and sort of like kakashi (but in reality he’s really not..). which was mostly just me being influenced by other peoples thoughts about him, and what i could remember/pick up on second hand lol
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1) Opens up drafts with my head empty, ready to be flooded, not knowing where I'll go.
2) 30 seconds later: Okay but I will go feral any day of my life over Perilous Trail, and the fierce dichotomy of Xiao and Yelan. While they're far from being 'the same', they both view themselves as soldiers in one way or another (it's a very difficult word to use for Yelan, so I'm using it very liberally and very loosely), they have both suffered losses on the 'battlefield' and carry the burden thereof in their own ways. And yet they stand so firmly in opposition throughout the entirety of that questline up until the very end of the 'the end of the line' conclusion of the quest. Yes, I know that she offers him her gratitude in its aftermath and it is genuine, but she still never agrees with him and the decision that he made moments earlier. It simply 'worked out' because of Zhongli's interference, he's the only reason it worked out. And it's because of that, that she doesn't give him a hell of a hard time (obviously she can't go down there, but imagine the inner frustration of severe extents; when you condemn someone who you can't even see anymore). In the same way that she would do to anyone who would sacrifice themselves for others, but in this case, I think it's 'beautiful' that it's to Xiao; the one who seems most adamant to do so (which honestly, fits into the contract that the Yakshas chose to sign with Morax; 'the ultimate sacrifice' to protect for Liyue; 'for Liyue', and Liyue has always centered itself around its people), the one who everyone reveres (and so does she, as she notes in her voiceline, 'if I ever have the honor to fight alongside') and respects for good reason, she stands against him, because in that moment, regardless of his status, he makes a call that she considers wrong. And he doesn't even... fight her on it very fiercely, and that's what actually hurts me the most, it's as if the following line hit the nail directly on the head?
"Besides, if you were really so determined to end it all, you wouldn't have given us the opportunity to share our opinions."
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im definitely happier living in densely populated cities than i am anywhere else, however in the same way i am constantly fighting the urge to board a finishing boat and simply never be seen again i have also always been fighting the urge to move to a cabin in the woods and just never speak a goddamn word to anyone
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