"Siegfried is a great believer in mutual care. If you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. He’s always felt supported by Mrs Hall, and he’s clever enough not to question the fact that she’s really in charge.
“And he’s wise enough to know that that shouldn’t be questioned. And when he took her in… he’s an iconoclast." (x)
He hasn’t seen himself yet, and he doesn’t see himself now. He looks different, a crude copy of himself; bags stick out as bright, purple bruises under his eyes, his hair too long and looking brittle like hay. It feels rough under his fingers as he reaches up and combs his fingers through his hair. Gepard feels and looks like a corpse, his eyes the same blue he knows but dulled somehow. It's a wonder that the Serval and Lynx, let alone the Silvermane Guards, had recognized him at all. He couldn't even recognize himself.
The tram car shudders as it leaves the tunnel, the Underground illuminated with pale, flickering lights and the glow of geomarrow in the cavern's ceiling. His reflection is gone, something he’s glad for, now replaced with the dark and varied cityscape of Boulder Town. Gepard stares out the window and across the wide expanse of the Underworld and clenches his jaw.
“I'll find him,” he whispers low and only to himself as the tram screeches to a halt in the station. He mutters it to himself again and again as he gets to his feet, stumbles a bit before leaning his weight heavily on the crutch. “I’ll find him.” He chews the words between his teeth until he believes them with absolute certainty.
[ID: five panels from Trigun Maximum. The first shows Rem looking angrt, her teeth gritted as she looks down and says, "I will never make that mistake again." The second panel shows Vash yelling furiously, his face mostly hidden under his jagged speech bubble as he screams, "are you so sure?!" He's also partially obscured by Rem yelling, "Yes I am! Don't belittle what I went through!", leading into the third panel of Rem screaming with a furious expression. The fourth panel is a quiet beat, showing Vash lying in bed, one hand clenched into a fist and grimacing as he looks up at Rem, whose expression is unseen from behind. The fifth panel shows Rem looking frustrated, rubbing the top of her own head as she says, "I never want to go through that again... being so powerless..." End ID.]
Perfect Kind Angel Rem is just SUCH a disservice to manga!Rem. She's frantic and messy and yells at her son in a moment of passion! She's grieving and furious at herself and devoted to her own atonement! I also cannot emphasize enough that "Killing Is Always Wrong" is not a thing that comes up from manga!Rem, like, ever. The spider-and-the-butterfly conversation is really good character stuff, but is 98!anime only. In the manga, Rem never really talks about violence, or Christian theology; the only person she asks Vash not to hurt is himself. The idea of the boys purposefully harming a human straight up never crosses her radar, so she never talks to them about it. I think this is a valuable choice because it means Vash's dedicated pacifism is a decision he's come to through his own experiences and values, not because he's parroting a dead woman's words. Also, I 200% believe that manga!Rem would have killed a bitch had anyone discovered the boys who wasn't as friendly as Conrad. She has this much regret over the torture and death of a child she barely got to know; I don't see this Rem as the kind of woman to just stand back and beg if anybody wanted to cut up her sons.
hi 😭 know I haven’t been very chatty or done much art here lately but let me share a wip of my personal mario princess designs ( and their honorary princess toadette ) and waru peach ( along with my personal interpretation) i was planning 🍄⭐️
Margulis "waking up" in the Lotus's headspace must've been the most Batshit Bewildering Thing ever
You're not only alive again, but you're now sharing a body (a Sentient body) with 2 other people (who are both Sentients), one of whom just utterly loathes you (why are you in a Sentient body) and views you as a Human parasite who doesn't belong here and never should have been here, and the other who is apparently mimicking your appearance and is strangely devoted to you and knows so impossibly much about you that you think it's hurting her
And with the sight that your Sentient headmates can lend you, you finally see what present reality is and see what your now dead ex did to the entire system and you see the Tenno you died to protect and see that they have indeed become the child soldiers you didn't want them to be
something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.
“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”
got 12clara on the brain do we all agree the cloisters confession involved them having some sort of time lord psychic exchange
idk if this is something other people have thought about, obviously they said they love each other normal style as well but i feel like there arent gonna be any words that could scratch the surface of the Everything
itd be the most emotionally intense thing either of them had ever experienced like 1000 acid trips at once but all that remains of it in the doctor’s mind is a beautiful song. clara, on the other hand, gets 4.5 billion years worth of suffering beamed into her mind in a matter of seconds and goes absolutely batshit insane (moreso than she already was)
💖: What is your biggest unpopular opinion about the series?
i mean i mean
theres a few but dirk isnt a flawless saint and todd isnt an irredeemable asshole are high on there. dirk can be asshole and todd was shown to be kind even as far back as the first gd episode
kens heelturn didnt come out of nowhere- he was never that good a person to begin with (dont get me wrong it was not as well written as it shouldve been but it def wasnt left field)
idk if this is unpopular but the rowdy 3 are antagonists imo (maybe at the end of 2x10 they are far less so, but also the whole moral grey jackets. like even amanda is embracing the fact she isnt wholly good but she isnt trying to be- i think the fandom kinda just ignores this about her?)