#the horror elements is still gonna be part of the package with him truly

[swanpit]

Could you tell us any more of your thoughts regarding DeathPuss, DeathKitty, and/or DeathPussPaws? Like headcanons, or just random tidbits? Only if you feel like it, of course. I love your art a lot, btw!

from what i got about them so far it turns out to be a slowburn process with kitty being surprisingly more involved than initially thought XD

and hoo boy this is gonna be long ass post too

some potential tidbits is that after the movie, maybe they saw death just talking casually with perrito, i think him and perrito could be besties, probably the quickest. perrito can surprisingly keep up with him and not put off by his morbid interests and of course death greatly respects his view on life, thus perrito shall be the first bridge (i do agree with the HC that death is potentially there when perrito is almost drowning but maybe perrito didnt remember much) puss might still be afraid a bit, kitty is rightfully wary of him and protective of other team friendship, some tidbits i had on them, other than talking about those obvious parallels, maybe kitty tries to sneak attack him or test him or stuff, just to make sure he's not here to harm and mess with any of her newfound family (at first yeah but later on when they got better they enjoy sparring with each other and they can have interesting banter where it seems like they can go toe to toe with each other...puss is definitely impressed and have mixed feelings...side note, perrito noticed their similarities) death and kitty is definitely gonna bond over their similarities, surprised at first, become more unnerving at how so in tune they are sometimes. death had to admit that for a cat, kitty had been very careful with her life unlike puss, and for kitty, death is definitely much sneakier than she thought, and maybe she feels challenged about that (they both can land on their feet but puss still cant XD so there's also that...or even make same expressions sometimes) and yes the similarities? even if they gonna quick to be besties in terms of deeper feelings going on they gonna bottle it up and not addressed it right away, and some point later i can see them having that moment like yondu and rocket in guardian of galaxy. the "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, BOY!! BECAUSE YOU'RE ME!!!"line, especially and the "worst" part is this can go both ways XD as for puss' side, he could be still a bit scared and stuff, make sense but he'll slowly gonna reach out again after several "quests and shenanigans", and also seeing how he interact with others like kitty, perrito and other people who didnt earn his wrath some "quests" that i had in mind so far is the murder mystery at shrek's where his reputation is on the line and death is probably the only murder witness so puss really has to convince him to help them (as this should be happening early on maybe death still hestitates if he should get this involved with mortal affairs, but maybe puss' insistence on protecting shrek and fiona wins him over in the end). the challenge here is, that since death already give them the answer on who the murderer is, their job is now to gather convincing evidence .tho i also have a plan to have the culprit suspecting that they got a help from a witch during this trial (said "witch" is death, i thought will probably be ironic if after advertised as big bad wolf he disguised himself with magic as a seemingly frail, witchy grandma this time, like he's an old castle servant who's always been there since forever, especially since he should've known king harold's final moments) another possible idea after that is them all trapped in a gladiatorial arena and has to perform for the audience if they want to get out from there and another possible thing after that is team friendship ended up in possession of one of death's eye

now i'm still not sure how this could happen maybe he got caught up in battle (not with another mortal, potentially, but with other supernatural creatures, demons, vengeful ghosts, mythical creatures, what have you) so he has to distract this creature but entrust the eye to team friendship. i had in mind that here, they gonna encounter various baddies who are suspecting that team friendship got a hand on a powerful artifact and want it for themselves, or for riches, and one in particular wants the eye to destroy it because they think it's too dangerous for any mortal to possess it. obviously puss just want to protect the eye and return it to its rightful owner. tho the challenge is that they are the only ones who knows whom the eye truly belongs to, so sometimes when they talked with other villains, they dont have the same context death is definitely gonna be slowly more and more actively involved in the team friendships' journey as he started to enjoy and miss their companionship more and more as for the romance side, from puss i think it slowly developed after those several quests where they already relied and trust each other multiple times. some funny moments i had in mind is puss tries to hold his hand but he cant reach XD when flirting with death he flirts back but sometimes cant really tell if this is genuine or just him playing along because he thinks that no way this is gonna go far it will be fun seeing how the more romantic puss deal with....death (which in my HC is the farthest from it, he'd rather infodump you the secrets of the deep than giving you flowers for example) but there's gonna be adjustment as they cats slowly learn how to figure him out the cats will give him flowers later but it kinda started like, puss will wants to write a song about him (with kitty's help) and at some point they want to describe his striking eye color and got a bit stumped on what to compare it with , until puss saw a red poppy during one of their outings (he gave kitty a blue one!)

the thing with puss here probably, if this is the old him, he'd probably gonna brag about dating death, imagine how that would add to his resume! people are gonna hail his name! he will get even more legendary! but post movie puss has another worry that sometimes it's like he was handed this super powerful weapon that he knows now, that he's not strong enough to use it, so he can get overwhelmed at times. this is one of the issue they have to address eventually as for death he might also need some time to reconcile that there's actual people who want him around on their lives, and even those might know a lot of mortal's physical limits, probably need to catch up a lot in terms of their emotional limits here...and sharing vulnerability as well, definitely gonna need adjustment for someone who's too used living alone for too long (tho he's also probably not willing to tell them all possible secrets he think they're not supposed to know so there's also that, mostly to protect them) bonus : possible proposal scene(??) "we...want you to be part of our lives" "oh?..but i already am, i already am part of yours and everyone's lives" "...oh we don't mean it that way" "...what?" some of misc HCs death is sterile, there i said it, puss asked him if he can...reproduce one day (in his defense, he is high on catnip/super drunk) and death has to remind him that his job is to take lives when it ends , not to create them death can surprisingly be the team mom sometimes death associated sound of life with gurgling organs slooshing around in liquid...as for my "life HC"....it's...end up with a surprising connection here since i want my "life" to resides deep in the water...since life begins in the water after all (and maybe not as one particular specific animal either, but as a colony of marine organisms)

Life always make a noise, that's how you know something is out there Death is silent the cats are definitely gonna have opportunity to ask many kind of questions, some he will never answer, either because he's not comfortable for sharing it or it's just not for mortals to know, for their sanity's sake....some that he answered will make them unable to see some things the same way again these are what i have in mind for now, probably will get more later as i get more ideas, but so far, still stuck on the first quest with puss since that will need more than just one or two simple pics to explain

#puss in boots 2 #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots wolf #puss in boots death #kitty softpaws #perrito #deathpuss #pussdeath #deathkitty #deathpusspaws #there's also gonna be a lot of friednshippy shenanigans as well inbetween #those are important since those moments are the ones that can help progress the relationship in more natural way #and death is gonna be a mystery to crack #he'll slowly gonna be more and more open to the cats #but he is still death #the morbid and the macabre #the horror elements is still gonna be part of the package with him truly #the mystery surrounding death is gonna be one of the crux here #pib2 hc

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You are the Duke of NY, A # 1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOjC2n2VVtY John Carpenter's Escape From NY 1981 S. D. Bob Snake Plissken: Kurt Russell Duke of NY: Isaac Hayes 💚💜💙💛❤ Oh that Meatwad and Boxy Brown. My favorites. Was in the mood for this clip after I saw a video for Bambi https://youtu.be/K0Eeju2aiGY And someone said Rick Ross on a live stream. My friend says isn't Rick Ross the one that says... And from there, the search began. I knew the references and all, just couldn't remember it was Isaac Hayes 💙💜💚💛❤ In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Solid Snake names himself "Iroquois Pliskin" upon meeting with Raiden for the first time, Iroquois being a word meaning "Snake." Solid Snake's character was also heavily inspired by Snake Plissken.[10] Kurt Russell was reportedly offered the role of Naked Snake (Solid Snake's genetic progenitor, also known as Big Boss) during the development of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, but Russell apparently declined. 👆👆👆👆 From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Plissken 💀🐍💀🐍💀🐍💀🐍💀🐍💀🐍💀🐍 http://www.metalgearsolid.net/features/hideo-kojima-at-the-movies-escape-from-new-york Hideo Kojima at the Movies: Escape From New York With the third column of the series, Mr. Kojima transitions from World War II adaptations to a John Carpenter sci-fi classic, and it's lead character which laid the foundation for the antihero, Solid Snake. This article was exclusively written for Official PlayStation 2 Magazine by Mr. Hideo Kojima. We are now entering round 3 of this column. I have talked about The Great Escape and The Guns of Navarone - classics of the 60s. Obviously, I did not see them at real time. I saw them on the small TV in the living room instead of on the big screen at the movies. The process was not really an active effort of "watching" but more of a passive experience of "seeing" what happened to be shown on the TV. This was how I encountered many movies in my childhood. But it was these coincidental encounters that created the foundation within myself. I grew up and then became able to experience film "actively" by going to the movies by myself. This time I would like to talk about a film I saw not on TV but at the movies, based on my own will. And the 3rd film turns out to be the movie that influenced me the most in the birth of MGS hero Solid Snake - Escape from New York (the Japanese title was New York 1997). In Spring 1981, I was a high school student. I went to the movies with my friends. Considering myself an avid film fan, I certainly knew of John Carpenter. Although I did have him in mind, I was not a worshipper yet. The lights were turned down, and the film began. Only text is shown on the black screen. A calm melody with a monotone rhythm, analog electric sounds... a simple and even tasteless opening - but I was drawn to it. My skin could feel the unique atmosphere and what was about to happen. Then came a brief description of the setting (Manhattan Island turned into a prison). There is no room for questions for such a wild setting. A computer voice talks emotionlessly about how the future will be in the next 10-20 years. All this time the audience gets no live footage. All the audience can do is imagine based on the data and wire frame (actually models whose edges are colored with fluorescent paint). Various images of the future flood the minds of the audience and cause a mental panic. The next cut shows a panoramic view of Manhattan the prison. "This is gonna be great!" The next hour and a half, I was glued to the innovative idea and punk atmosphere. "How could such a cool movie exist!" It wasn't simply a fun movie. The movie and I shared similar chemistry. The colors, the smell, and the air were things that the director and I shared in taste. There is no logical explanation. I believe everyone has had this kind of experience with music and film. It might not have been a movie popular among the public, but it was definitely the movie I got into the most. I was especially electrified by the hero, Snake Plissken. Being in the midst of my rebellious period, the antihero "Snake" resonated harmoniously! He was a dark hero that separated himself from the orthodox hero who was either part of some organization, enslaved by the system, or was justice personified. Noire novels and stories and movies with evil heroes are common now, but this was quite rare back then. Although he gets used, he ultimately lives by his own ideology. Although confined as a criminal, he was not truly evil. Instead, he was a new type of hero with "justice not bound by others." Snake's words, actions and every move looked so cool. I'm sure that when people came out of the theatre, they were all dragging their right leg just like Snake (who gets injured by an arrow). My friends and I were no exception. (By the way, I had one eye shut like Mel Gibson after seeing "Mad Max 2.") The line "Call me Snake!" became a fad in school. The name 'Snake' in MGS comes from "creeping up on someone silently like a snake." The adjective 'Solid' expresses Snake's strong and blade-sharp image - paradoxical when combined with a snake's litheness. Normally, 'snake' and 'solid' do not get along. It's like talking about hot ice. I came up with this name to express this lack of balance and equilibrium. But when I decided that the codename would be Snake, the character itself was more Plissken than snake-like at the subconscious level. If I used a different name (animal) for Snake in MGS, he probably would have been a totally different character. This movie is another example that contains the very important synopsis element of "infiltration, rescue, and escape". What adds greatly to the suspense is the 24-hour "time limit". What plays a big role as a direction tool is his very obvious watch. You could ask, "Does it really have to be this big?" but showing this watch instead of an on-screen timer works really well. Snake takes a look at his watch at the very moment the audience wishes to take a look. The time is not spoken. The audience has to read the time just like Snake. Towards the end when it is only minutes away from the limit, the watch is no longer shown. Only Snake's facial expression is shown. It is a mean but calculated means of direction. Carpenter is great with such small touches. The device indicating the president's location, the cassette tape necessary at the summit, the bracelet with the hidden switch, the nanocapsule that dissolves in blood and causes and explosion, the diving glider, the egg-shaped escape pod... the cool use of all these neat gadgets adds to the enjoyment of this film. The reason why New York is the setting of MGS2, I have answered many times in my interviews. "After taking care of business in Alaska, where would Snake go?" When I asked myself this question, I very quickly reached the conclusion that he would be in a common location nearby instead of a remote corner of the world with a hostile climate. The candidate that I came up with no hesitation was New York. New York is the center of the world economy and culture - a melting pot and "mini Earth". It is in the United States of America, but not exactly American - more like an independent nation. That is why I chose New York. At the same time, it is an homage to the film. I said to myself, "If Snake escaped from New York in 1997, it was about time he returned to New York." John Carpenter was our hero in the 80s. He established the new genre of "Sci-fi horror." He did not "sell out" to blockbuster films. He pursued his own style of entertainment. He was never sucked into the current of the times. He ran the dark side. From the late 70s to the early 80s, he was a director completely different from Spielberg and Lucas. His popularity can be compared to that of James Cameron, who emerged later on (coincidentally, Cameron worked on the special effects of this movie). He has not created hits in the 90s, but he keeps on creating films constantly. Carpenter is Carpenter, and he will continue being Carpenter. No creator of our generation has been unaffected by Carpenter. I made sure to see every new film by him. This past summer, his film Ghosts of Mars has finally been shown in Japan. It was a B movie, but it revitalized me. It was the Carpenter film of all Carpenter films. His "rock spirit" was definitely there. Yes, it could be old-fashioned. It might not be a Hollywood mainstream movie. But still, I enjoyed it a lot. Like Escape from New York, it was indeed a Carpenter film. It was shown in a few selected theatres only, but die-hard fans like myself flocked to them and the film stayed in the theatres for a month. This was a sign of how popular and respected he is among men of my generation. In Japan, we released a Premium Package edition of MGS2. In the package was a pamphlet that included a comment from Carpenter himself. I have not met him in person, but he conscientiously played MGS2. I was really happy to hear that. He gave me his praising comment. The comment in the pamphlet is as follows: "Like Snake Plissken, MGS2 can't be stopped! This game rocks!" - John Carpenter -- Article by Hideo Kojima, Official Playstation 2 Magazine, 05.12.2002

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