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tangledinink · 1 year

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I'm Sorry, Teenage Mutant What Now? Donatello Ref Sheet!

Yayyy, now he has a proper, actual reference sheet! Also reflects a few tweaks I've made to his design since the first original pass at it. Rest of the gang forthcoming.

(also, just for fun, donnie w/o his twists--)

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beescake · 3 months

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your sollux is singlehandedly dredging up years-old memories of how much i like this guy- keep up the awesome work >:)

im delighted AHH i love seeing ppl returning to hs w/ fresh eyes for sollux!!! he's still as good as ever they literally dont make characters like him anymore

#sollux loyalists only care abt him + his circle for very good reason ok i observe them w binoculars from my karkat tower #for sol i feel no pomp or pity but a secret third thing (<- support + respect)#i 🥺👍 him in a “you may be a set of pixels on my screen but im glad u survived” kind of way #the it boy! the starboy! iv got Plans in the works for him ..#idk how hussie pinned down sollux so good tbh. the execution of character: internet troll (gemini) amuses me so much #ask #anon #homestuck #sollux captor #2024 #also these artists hv been putting out my fave newgen solluxes lately hehe i strongly implore u in their direction 😋😋 ->#eggsploded + hamsterlover38 + dayvan + ga5tro + notaspyyah + lemonlimebitcoin + holidehg #(might have some nsfw/suggestive content pls heed!)

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fferthe · 2 months

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Valentine's Unknown Sender

A couple of people don't find the Valentine sender's speech in tandem with Gaster's, which I completely agree with! However, not everyone can see what we mean, so let me show you. But before we continue, I should clarify that I'm not a fluent Japanese speaker and am just going off of what little I know about the language.

Now, let me show you the two (out of three) Japanese writing systems: hirigana and katakana.

It helps me think of hirigana as 'squiggly' characters and katakana as 'stiff'. The last one, kanji, you'll recognize immediately, as they can be confused with Chinese characters due to their complexity (and, well, origin).

One of the points I've seen is that the style change is simply due to informality of the letter. Someone also said that it was written this way so we couldn't recognize who was speaking. To get the latter possibility out of the way: during the release of DELTARUNE, the name of the account was blurred out, making them appear as a seemingly unknown person (everyone knew it was our lovable silly goober). Though, they still had a recognizable.. style. They spoke in stilted kanji + katakana. No hirigana anywhere, which is a strange mix. Kanji + hirigana? Sure. But excluding katakana instead of hirigana is weird. Katakana is used for names, loan words (and can also be used to show a foreigner speaking Japanese), names for species, emphasis, and also to indicate unnatural speech, often used for robots (which is the case for Queen, by the way).

Now, the Valentine's person? No kanji. They only use hirigana and katakana. Excluding kanji is very weird, too. But JRPGs at the time (which Toby loved deeply, as there are countless references to them in the game) had hardware limitations, so this choice was somewhat of a tribute. This also applies to the Light World in DELTARUNE, which resembles Undertale heavily. However, in the Dark World, kanji is used. This stranger who people believe to be Mike would have to be a Lightner to speak without using kanji. Which makes me doubt that this is Mike at all. He has an affiliation with Spamton, with Tenna. They go a long way, before the fountain opened. And a Lightner can't enter a Dark World without one. More on that later. Back to the letter, the grammar mistake is not accidental. In the Japanese version the sender writes "サラば!" which should be either in full katakana (サラバ) or full hirigana (さらば), not a weird mix. Also, 'goodbye' in Japanese is one word and should not be separated like that. So, same thing with the letter. While we're not told who it is, their speech still has distinct features. 🎉 PRONOUN TIME 🎉🎉 Who uses what? (I've highlighted Gaster in bold where needed.)

I: watashi (わたし) by both You: kimi (キミ) vs anata* (アナタ -> あなた) [* -- kimitachi in Entry 17] We: watashitachi (わたしたち) vs ware-ware (ワレワレ -> 我々)

Watashi is a regular formal first-person pronoun. Kimi (+tachi for plural) is a more casual second-person pronoun, can either be used by a superior to refer to a subordinate or one's equal. Anata is a respectful second-person pronoun. Ware-ware is a first-person plural pronoun used by either ancient beings or just someone old and important. The download page for DELTARUNE in 2018, the SURVEY_PROGRAM itself, the SAVE menu, the GAME OVER screen -- all of them share these same speech quirks, mannerisms. Gaster isn't just "formal", he speaks very slowly, often separating a sentence in two parts by starting off a new line. He uses very peculiar wording and it's as if he's struggling to speak. Picture an alien trying to communicate in our language, or a human that knows this 🤏 much [insert language], trying to form a sentence.

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Gaster's quirks are also present in Japanese, the localization reflects what I just talked about. He's unnaturally stiff. He also never uses commas, and it's not about formality -- it's a distinct feature of his.

(For the Love of God Can You Embed Like a Normal Video)

Also, there have been suggestions that it could be another piece of Gaster. We already got a glimpse of what he was like pre-accident, and it's ENTRY 17. It lines up with the Gaster that accompanies us throughout chapter 1. And that means we are dealing with the most cohesive 'piece' of him. Why would, then, there be such an opposing part of him? It doesn't line up.

Personally, if this was about Gaster, I wholeheartedly agree with carlyraejepsans's take. And the only case which I'd agree on is DR Gaster.

So, here's the "later". The person knowing about the DELTA RUNE could line up with them being a Lightner, since they do have it plastered everywhere in the town, don't they? Only the Angel is ever mentioned in the Light World, but I'm sure that just like in Undertale, it's called DELTA RUNE by the Lightners just as it is by Ralsei. It seems to me that only the contents of the prophecy are different, but the name stays the same throughout worlds.

Though, funny how the prophecy is inverted.. I didn't notice it until now. In Undertale the focus is on the triangles and their salvation, while in DELTARUNE the focus is on the winged orb and its condemnation.

"You free the banished" vs "You banish the freest" hehheeh Anyway, it's not about the game, but the prophecy, so the person doesn't have THAT much knowledge. And I doubt they know about Ralsei's version of the prophecy, because other Darkners besides the prince himself don't seem to be aware of any prophecy. All they know is the Knight, which makes sense, since Asriel's doppelgänger stayed at his castle in wait of the Lightners all alone, without spreading a word about it. Neither Darkners nor Lightners know of it. Though, the phrasing does feel odd. Waiting for what exactly? DELTA RUNE? Also, the Japanese version having the name merged kind of bothers me. So, is it DELTARUNE or DELTA RUNE? The translation team does distinguish the two. Why not here? Was it intentional or not? Well, I'll leave it up to someone else to figure out, right now I'm too tired for that.

tl;dr(?): It's not UT Gaster, nor Mike (it's not a Darkner at all). It's a Lightner and possibly DR Gaster.

#gaster #deltarune #gaster deltarune #utdr #utdr newsletter #oughh i am god's sniffliest soldier.#i am practically melting as i am writing this #writings of the feverish #this doesn't rea;;y have to do with anything i guess but #it always rubbed me the wrong way that in UT we only got to see Gaster speak romanized Japanese.#the ONLY character. that spoke romanized japanese but never used the three systems.#the most mysterious character #mmmmmmmmm.#mmmmystery man #i am glad he stopped being THIS mysterious #there is .#more #food #i am so glad deltarune came out #more reasons to spin this creature in my mind as if im microwaving him #i actually wonder how the japanese side of the fandom wrote his dialogue in fanfics or comics or something #about the ware-ware in katakana.#dear dr wingdings gaster.#why.#did you have to do that #you already use kanji. you could've said it normally #japanese speakers probably struggle with his katakana as much as i do

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employee052 · 11 months

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o shit

(my attempt at @thenamesmobu's free colab template! had a lot of fun with the lineart and lining askjdhaskdj)

(ALSO WHILE DRAWING THIS I SPENT A NORMAL(/j) AMOUNT OF TIME STARING AT DEVIN HES SO FUCKIN COOL I CANTTTT)

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can-of-slorgs · 20 days

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Im dying at your tags on that last anon 😭😂 youre now the dr.sloth pinup artist that neopets needed

Not the title i wanted to craft for myself when i started this blog but hey, it brought us such good memories like

#vin answers #vin memes #neotag #sorry i thought i had answered with this but apparently it didnt save the draft or whatever!! D:#but hey you get a 5-min meme out of it so everyone wins #god the things i put my poor grundo through HJSKDAF #this whole ordeal was one hell of a rollercoaster and I'm glad i was part of it #i don't think i've ever drawn dr sloth that much in such a short time if ever lmao #and don't get me wrong its been great #just not something i had thought to be involved in after just 1 month of starting this blog JHSDJK #specially as when i first got into the neotag i was basically nobody lol #i think everytime i draw the guy he's more and more pissed LFMAOO #hey neopets team hire me i can... draw dr sloth in the most sus way possible without it being pleasurable i guess HJSDF #anyway thanks for the ask and sorry for the late response i swear I thought i answered this!!#the grundo's name is Volks by the way i treat him as a sona but technically he's just some guy #that's it im done

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8rujaa · 18 days

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my therapist really saved me….

#tw abuse // tw sa #i can’t sleep bc i keep thinking about this.#like i probably would’ve not been here if it weren’t for her #i started seeing her january of 2023… my life has changed entirely since then and she was definitely the one who got the ball rolling #literally so much has changed since then and it’s all because of her #i was so dissociated during our first few sessions #thanks to her i was able to get diagnosed and medicated for adhd. i was able to realize i was in an abusive situation and plan a way out #i was able to focus on myself and my healing and she’s helped me reframe so much of my negative thinking #i was able to process a lot of emotions and become a better version of myself with each session #she’s truly incredible.#i remember the first comment she made about the relationship had been ‘’so it’s like there’s an imbalance of control in the relationship’’#i had put my partners on such a high pedestal that i had no idea they could be doing anything wrong #and i asked her what she meant and she said ‘from what you’ve been describing it’s sounds like a strict parents and child type of dynamic’#she told me they didn’t need to understand why i wanted to leave and they didn’t need to make that decision. if that’s what was going to be #best for me the only thing i could do is let them know my reasoning and simply leave. i didn’t need their permission.’’#i remember being so confused at that realization bc like… i had been putting their emotions over mine the whole time i had forgotten simply #doing what’s best for me was an option… l #ever since then i’ve been putting myself first and it’s been a steady uphill from rock bottom… i’ve made an incredible amount of progress #when i first started with her getting out of bed and walking to the kitchen was incredibly difficult and took all my strength.#yesterday i conquered a mountain!!!!!!! i hiked all the way to the top!!!!! :D #me a year ago thought it was going to take me years and years to recover. as soon as i left i made leaps of progress #im incredibly proud of myself and grateful for her. and my reiki lady she’s also been a great great help.#the silver lining is i realized who really matters. and the relationships i cared about deepened.#my sweet virgo friend was the one who was always like ‘THATS A GROWN ASS MAN WHO CANT UNDERSTAND BASIC CONSENT???’#LMFAO i would be like ‘but he has trauma and bla bla bla’ she looked me dead in the eyes and said #’jess you said with your last boyfriend that you would never make excuses for a man who was hurting you again. stop defending him.’#she’s really a gem and i treasure her with my life. i hope she knows i love her. she’s family at this point #she’s also literally saved my life before (like deadass called 911 for help)#im glad i had the support system i had. that was a rough situation with so many layers and im glad i got through it #my 22nd year of life was by far the worst of my life and i don’t ever want to put myself in that situation again. im glad i learned.

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crusaderchinchilla · 22 days

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i'm so sorry, i've been so inactive lately...! this time, the reason is not personal struggle/distress. i have been incredibly incredibly busy with studies, work, and life changes, but they are good changes! i am really doing better now, and i am so so thankful to the Lord; i am so happy that i finally feel myself growing closer to Him, and my love for Him grows every day

i wanted to really sincerely thank everyone who prayed for me or sent me nice messages after that vent i posted a while back, it means so very much to me. the ppl on here are so kind and lovely! <3 (also, i am not ignoring my asks- i'll respond as soon as i have the time to give thoughtful input!)

this blog is not abandoned and i will return to regularly scheduled Christposting sooner or later!

hope you are all doing wonderfully, mutuals, and God bless you all!

#talk tag #i feel like i have a lot to share regarding the developments in my faith (how much stronger it has gotten)#i havent looked at tumblr in a while bc i feel so stretched thin irl #but in a good way #like im convinced things are hard in a “God is putting you in this situation for a reason and you will learn and grow from it” way #i got out of some bad situations i used to be in and things are getting better all by His grace #and i trust Him to guide me to a place where things are less chaotic and more okay!#i am so glad my faith was “tested” for a bit cause i feel like you have to experience that as a Christian at some point in order to #actually notice and appreciate how subtly God works if that makes sense

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bonefall · 1 year

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What if the whole 'infertility WHOOPS nvm' situation was caused by the DF? Maybe all the DF knew was that one of Firestar's children was to birth three warriors who could destroy them, and they obviously thought squilf was the one to do that, so they either tricked her or starclan into thinking she was infertile. What they DIDNT plan for was Leafpool breaking the code and getting pregnant, still fulfilling the mini prophecy.

Also my knowledge on things post first arc is really fuzzy but could mudclaw's death be from the DF? That put Onestar in power who iirc REALLLYYY hates TC bc he doesnt want to seem too friendly with them, thus dividing the clans more. Could work the other way around with them sparking Mudclaw's rebellion, amd Starclan stepping in to send the tree down.

Good suggestions! But I think I've got these two situations down pat already

Squilf's Infertility

I just kinda prefer the idea that sometimes people are infertile, y'know? Especially Squilf. I also don't want the Dark Forest to go away and have to open up the question of, "If they're not cursing her anymore, can she have babies now?"

No biobabies for Squilf. She raises the Three, and is the mentor of Jessy's and Bramble's daughter, Sparkpelt. She's just infertile because that's how things are sometimes.

Mudclaw's Rebellion

For this one, the Dark Forest's only involved insofar as Tigerstar is training Hawkfrost.

I want to make sure that Mudclaw's rebellion stays Mudclaw's idea primarily; I don't want to fall into the trap of canon material where they keep blaming the actions of their villains on Born Evil Cats without whom there would be no problems.

Mudclaw accepts Hawkfrost's reinforcements, and promises him power in exchange for help... but it wasn't the Dark Forest, or Hawkfrost, that suggested killing Onewhisker. Mudclaw did that.

And for that Mudclaw is actually going to the Dark Forest! He will not be in StarClan for my rewrite, likely becoming one of the cats who ends up defending Ashfur's Tunnel post-TBC along with Juniperclaw.

#I also don't think Onewhisker hated ThunderClan from the offset #or even when he first became leader #The way I'm approaching him is as a person who was deeply affected by the fact his Clanmates wanted to KILL him #I see that as the most important moment for how I understand this character #I don't agree with the idea he hated it from the moment he got the power tbh #and I didn't like how Onestar's Concussion was like ''Wow ruling looks hard im so glad im normal and will never be deputy''#He seemed... Fine. With that power. Just using it to be friendly and seeking people to balance him out #Like it's super interesting he picks Mudclaw as deputy even though he ALWAYS fought with him. Even as far back as TPB #It struck me as him wanting to rule with a casual fairness. To not really approach being a -Star as being above others but using power in -#-the way Tallstar assumed he would.#But... Clan culture is at the root of many problems and Onewhisker to OneSTAR is no different #Rejecting Smoke and becoming a hardened Star comes down to how the xenophobic #and brutal battle culture isolates people who live within it #He can't live with disgrace. He's a coward. He wanted to do the right thing his whole life but what IS the right thing in a culture that -#values strength so hard?#I'll tell you; the right thing is becoming hardened. Rejecting your mate and son and becoming the assertive leader that WindClan was expect #ing #Idk. I have thoughts about him #Very different from general fandom consensus tho I think #Bonefall Rewrite

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freebooter4ever · 6 months

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guess who officially is going as a v*i*p with jeff and The Legend to the conference at the end of the month? ;____;

#I might cry #Between this and meeting everybody on monday and the gallery yesterday and then the event next week #Im just half terrified i will wake up and its all a dream #Journal shit #I genuinely consider The Legend to be a friend too #You know when someone is just a natural storyteller that they are just interesting to talk to no matter what they are talking about?#And he's got that sly sense of humor and big easy smile #And he's always wearing a hat always #Thats why he notices my hats and i think why he started remembering me 🤣 it took a few meetings #I am VERY GLAD he doesnt remember the first time he met me i got his autograph and i was shaking so bad i could barely talk #We were hanging out at lghtb*x and a woman came up and was all shy and nervous and wanted a photograph #And i was sympathetic with her but he was all oh dont be nervous im nobody #and i was laughing and told him that i was the same way before i got to know him better #and that was how i found out he had no memory of that first meeting 🤣🤣🤣 good!!!

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todayisafridaynight · 15 days

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did you ever post your thoughts on shishido on here ??

if i did i dont think i said anything major beyond 'hes neat :)'

#snap chats #so funny though i was thinking of drawing shishido over the weekend #obviously i. didnt. but i still very much like his design #i have an outfit based off his white pants one and its one of my faves so needless to say i do think hes drippy at least #it was also really goofy doing set pieces where he was a partner cause he was just as much of a threat as enemies were 💀💀#it was funny tho i was a fan i couldnt even be mad #shishido as a chara tho ..... yeah i still think he was neat #the twist at the end was probably the goofiest thing i ever seen but the series has done goofier #plus if there was any way to reveal a character was going to betray the cast im glad it was cause he was making a tiktok 💀💀#him getting Monster House'd and then coming out the cement pit was also goofy but i respect it #shishido and tsuruno's actors are adorable if anything im a huge fan of those two and seeing posts second hand from twitter lejalkaej #i forgot tsuruno's name for a minute though so idk what that says about how much i like tsuruno #WHICH IS WACK CAUSE I REALLY DO LOVE TSURUNO THO LMAO def my fave alongside akame from gaiden #im sorry king idk how i forgot you my memory's bad though we've established this #funny enough im wearing my outfit inspod by tsuruno's outfit today ... goofy timing all this is ...#oh god i got terribly off topic. point is Shishido Neat idk what the daidoji gon do with him but. fingers crossed #fingers crossed its nothing terrible bros been through enough vlekrjla #him proceeding to give his tragic backstory to kiryu Who Could Not Give One is still top ten funniest moments ever

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be-good-to-bugs · 22 days

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wow my dad dying has turned out to be actual great news. so much of the shit i was stressed abt is just fixed now. damn.

#the bin #i still get to move back!!! and my mom will be receiving money from the government regularly bc of him dying and her having kids #AND. i dont have to live in a tiny little room in the basement because theres suddenly a free room #soo ill probs get the entire basement to myslef and my sister will move into that room #im so glad i got an answer about this so soon bc i have been stressed abt it #and i dont have to go to his funeral. i thoight she would be understanding bc like. ofc i dont wanna go to a funeral. with ppl i dont know #she doesnt need to know the primary reason is i literally do not care at all that he died except being happy about it #him dying really was the best way for things to happen i guess. now i have no reason to be stressed abt moving #well. besides figuring out my cats situation. but theres a few options that im just waiting on answers for #i wont need to stress about rent for so long now. i can just work part time and pay for my food and expenses and thats fine

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the-yearning-astronaut · 5 months

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#☉#tbd #*rubs hands over face*#idk why I bother sometimes #before i left on my trip my mom made sure to remind me more than once to call my dad on his birthday #i put it in my phone calendar and everything #things kept coming up but i DID remember to call #he asks how my trip is going and i start answering #he interrupts me part way to talk about my cat #there's a pause #i try talking about something else #he interrupts #he asks me a question again and im able to answer it #except part way through my answer i can hear him talking to my mom whi just got home #i stop talking #he comes back says he's glad im enjoying my trip and to drive home safe and that he's got to go goodbye #the most complete part of the entire conversation was him bitching about his dinner out tonight #didn't even have a chance to tell him about the national park i went to or what i was up to this week or anything else #im so so tired of being talked over and ignored and interrupted #all #the fucking #time

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leonardburton · 10 months

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the cool thing about getting news about people you got along with in school but didn't keep in touch with is that you'll be shown pictures of them on instagram or smth and they've grown into such beautiful adults like. i haven't really talked in you in ten years and you were such an uncomfortable and sad kid but you have a really nice smile and a cool sense of style and im glad you're studying something you love. nice autism awareness posts btw i knew we had something in common when we were 4 and you bit my arm so hard i had your teeth marks for days. could have been me. sorry my mum threw a fit

#i've kept in touch with 2 (two) people i was friends with in middle and high school #cos we were a trio and barely had any other friends #but one of them has kept in touch with Lots of people who also kept in touch with other people #so this summer i saw people i was friends with in middle school then barely ever talked to in high school and didn't keep in contact with #it was so nice to see them again!#plus one of them brought her bunny to the picnic and it really liked me so. fuck yeah #anyway we all started talking about people we went to school with #and they went from instagram account to instagram account to find people in follower lists #so i saw pictures of lots of people i straight up forgot about #including that guy who bit me when we were 4 #he was visibly and undeniably disabled so everyone was super cruel to him #i was Weird™ but not in an understandable way so people were also mean but like . more low key #anyway he and i talked and hung out a few times in primary but we lost touch completely afterwards #waved hello every other month when we crossed paths in hs #but i didn't have any way to keep in touch after that #he's quite the handsome young man now #good for him #he got his bachelor's degree this year #got a gf and everything #im glad #im still not gonna talk to him because i cant exactly go hii remember the girl you talked to briefly every other month several years ago?#well he's a guy now hi i am autistic also turns out how have you been doinng #i don't do conversations like that #anyway #lots of other people have grown up also #horsegirl who had a crush on my friend when we were 13 is still a horse girl. nurse in training. soo fucking hot like 😳

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orcelito · 11 months

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Bought the memorial plush for Cassy. It's gonna be here on Thursday

It looks pretty similar to Sammy's in style, just with a different pose. I'll see how they look when placed together.

#speculation nation #animal death ment/#fuck dude literally just looking at his Name made me cry again #typing out Cassy made me confront that yes. this is about my boy Cassy. my sweet baby boy who wanted to be a fat cat so bad #and swung his tail as he walked when he was happy. to which i would always comment 'that shit Swangin!'#and who would stuff his entire nose in tally's ass to sniff it. to which i would remark 'oh he's Snuffin!'#and who would always use the most garbled meows when begging for food. so he was my Garble Boy.#i already miss his obnoxious yelling. the way it sounded like a Mraaaaa. the way he would sometimes draw them out super long #i wish id taken videos of it. i dont think i have any. because i didnt think id Need to look back on them like this.#he wasnt even 2 years old yet... i didnt think id have to worry about this for at Least another 5 years...#sometimes life is really unfair. he deserved to live a long and happy life. i wish i couldve given it to him.#negative/#sorry for posting so much about this. it was just super sudden and im kinda wrecked by it lol #this time yesterday i knew something was wrong but i Never thought he'd actually die. he was so young...#im just glad i got him to purr in the end. made him happy one last time at least.

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bangcakes · 4 months

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#ladies.............. i asked him to hang out BDNJDNDJDJDJDJ #i guess..... background info maybe ???#i had asked him if he wanted to keep in touch with me n one of our mutual friends. he said sure.#said mutual friend is gone on a trip all of january #so i was like oh fuck what do i do #so.... i was like oh i can like.... tell him like....#blank is in blank. id still be down to do something or we could wait until she's back. either is good with me!!#and he was like.... (after over AN HOUR) 'i guess we could wait till she gets back'#so im like NDJDJDJDDKS OK. i sent.... okay let me know if you change your mind !!#like brb dying NDJDJJDJSJDMS #like could have been worse. like he could have said no to both. idk the 'i guess' is kind of sending me.#n e way. im just glad he replied. thats more than most ppl get from him JDJDJDJDJJDJDJDJ #hhhhhhhh ya... idk if i was ready to hang out with him by myself anyway. id like to get to know him better first....#like i wanna see if we can even be friends outside of school....... n e way !!!!#so relieved that i just asked !!! its been hanging over my head a few weeks now. i just wanted to have a calm christmas n new years JDJDNDN #personal #ONE OF MY TAGS GOT ERASED. HOLD ON #... GOTTA GO ON DESKTOP TO FIX IT #edit: ok it should be fixed

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scramble-crossing · 1 year

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i don't even get that sho betrayed the wicked twisters. he told them that he was just helping temporarily. and he did that. and then he left. what was the betrayal exactly lol

It's not about him leaving the W.T

This is semantics and I really don't feel like going and picking over neo to double-check, but I don't think Sho ever implies that his help is temporary as much as it is sporadic. He comes and he goes, but from the W.T reactions to his permanent departure it certainly doesn't look like they were expecting him to stop coming back. Nagi is desolate. Rindo says that they're doomed. Heck, this is the moment where Fret's cheerful mask slips for the first time in the game! And anyways, regardless of what Sho did or didn't imply, leaving them when they had just learned that they were playing for their lives, going as far as to say "Now I can finally ditch you zeptograms" is a massively dickish move, if not a betrayal in and of itself. Remember, they relied on him. Rindo and Fret especially, they're just kids, and they clearly depended on Sho a great deal, and would've absolutely felt hurt and betrayed when someone they'd come to see as a sort of mentor or guardian sneered and then turned their backs on them right when they need him most.

But I'm actually talking about when he attacks them in Week 3!

And this is more in the realm of personal interpretation. The way I see it, it's incredibly likely that Sho knew or at least could've guessed that Rindo's Soul Pulvis are dangerous fairly early on. He's whip-smart and has an extremely high imagination. Not to mention the fact that he spent all of Week 1 investigating it (which is a whole other can of worms, with him twice, once with the DRS and once with Susukichi, willingly putting the W.T in harms way in order to test his little hypothesis). He should've known that it was a danger to the city. He probably did! But that didn't stop him from waiting and watching it grow so that he could eventually harness the power himself, almost definitely so that he could make another attempt on the Composer's seat.

We know from the Secret Reports that he attacked the W.T in a mindless frenzy, that it wasn't something he meant to do. I don't think he necessarily meant to hurt anyone other than Joshua. He thought he could control Soul Pulvis. He couldn't. And then afterwards he has to scrape himself up off the pavement and confront the fact that he zetta fucked up and now all of Shibuya's in danger of being Inverted. It's like his Taboo Noise all over again, he makes a gamble for the city and nearly ends up dragging the whole thing under (with some help from the Conductor, of course) in his single-minded pursuit of approaching godhood, the difference this time being that he looks at what he's done and realizes that he doesn't want it to be this way. So he helps the W.T. He becomes an indispensable part of their plans to save Shibuya, which, in the end, works because of his understanding of what Soul Pulvis is and how it can be overwritten.

But back to his fight. The way I see it, Sho was a mentor figure to these kids, someone who they trusted to have their backs (at least when the mood struck him, anyways). He abused that position to test a theory. Then he left them, right when they were at their most vulnerable. Then he came back, to help them, they think, until he absorbs a power that he knows is highly volatile, attacks, and nearly kills them. Beat outright tells them that Sho doesn't care about anyone, but himself. I think this is wrong, I think he does care about the W.T. There are multiple times when he helps or guides them even when there's nothing immediately in it for him, seemingly because he really does want them to have a shot at making it out of this game alive. I just think that he still cares about himself a little bit more.

The Secret Reports outright say that Rindo is terrified of Sho after his fight. Whatever his motives were, whatever he meant to accomplish, it wouldn't really matter that much to Rindo, or any of the other Twisters. They trusted Sho, and he broke that trust. They (or at least Fret) seem to come around to him again a bit later in the week, but they're obviously more standoffish and nervous around him than they were before. If it wasn't a betrayal in a textbook sense, I think the W.T definitely took it as one.

#i love sho and i think he grew a lot as a person between the first game and neo #but he's still got a long way to go #anyways this is just personal interpretation and you can take it any way you want!#i think in general putting the w.t in danger multiple times as someone in a position of mentorship over them counts as a betrayal of sorts #even if it was more out of recklessness than outright maliciousness #with the DRS I'm sure he would've stepped in if he realized he was wrong about Rindo's powers #but with Susukichi? no they were absolutely fucked without him #sho spent all of neo being like 'wow im sure glad time travel means i wont have to face consequences of my actions'#and then there they were. the consequences #hes so funny like that honestly #asks #minamimoto

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