I hate to nitpick the Atsushi hallucinating scene in the new episode cause it was SO well done otherwise, but I'm still really sad that they cut out Francis being there. Like... it's not entirely necessary, I guess, but it just adds so much to his character and to the scene itself?
The Francis in Atsushi's mind is this looming, intimidating presence, because Atsushi did of course fight against him, he was his enemy at one point, but I think it undeniably says a lot that he's even included here at all.
I'm pretty sure I saw this discussed back when this chapter first came out, but while everything Atsushi's hallucinations say to him are framed as negative, putting him down, they can also be read as letting him know that the burden of responsibility for making such a huge decision isn't on him (hence why he decides to let Fukuzawa decide instead, because he can't make THE choice, but he can still choose to act to let someone else decide, and not simply do nothing), and Francis is no exception in this regard. Since he's naturally haughty and arrogant in his personality, this fake version of him doesn't at all feel out of character, coldly saying that "nobody expects anything of you", but again, I think this line especially can also be read as "you are not expected to do anything". In that way, it feels more reassuring, and maybe even dare I say kind -- the fact that Atsushi even considers him important enough of a figure in his life to think of what he would say to him in this moment means that he counts Francis among his allies now. Yes, they didn't get along at first when Francis lied and told him that he only wanted to revive Margaret just so she could kill Hawthorne (because god forbid he actually admit out loud that he cares about people, smh), and obviously because of the whole almost burning Yokohama down and trying to kill him and Akutagawa thing lol, but I'm pretty sure Atsushi changed his mind about him after he saw the state Margaret was in, and recognized how much Francis cares about her and wanted her to be alright. He probably still remembers him talking about his desire to bring back his daughter and save her and his wife, too. The guy still probably isn't someone Atsushi would want to hang out with and be buddy-buddy with during his free time lmao, but the airheaded vain old sport still has a good heart, deep down, and I think Atsushi has seen this by now, because he's a kind person, and so I think it speaks volumes that he unconsciously looks to him for advice here. Francis is just a really good and underrated character, and this is such a small but meaningful moment that shows his development so well, the only moment with him we've gotten or any of the Guild really in such a long time, so it makes me sad to see this cut 馃挃
I also just feel like not including him kind of weakens the impact of Akutagawa's appearance here?? Like, there's a progression of the order of people Atsushi hears/sees in this scenes: first, people from the ADA sans Dazai, who are all portrayed as on the same level, because he cares about them all equally, aside from I guess Kyouka (again, sans Dazai, the most important person to him). Then, there is Francis, and not to say that Francis is more important to Atsushi than the ADA, obviously not, but he's one of the last to appear because he used to be his enemy, and so he commands much more of a presence, has more of an impact -- but at the same time, like I said, it's complicated: he's not really his enemy anymore, but something between a rival and a friend, and so for that reason his words carry more weight. He is someone Atsushi, logically, shouldn't trust, after what he did to him in the past, and yet he does, because things have changed since the Guild arc, and he knows he can count on him to be there for him and the ADA now.
And then, after him, there is Akutagawa. Who is basically exactly the same as everything I just described for Francis, but times one hundred. Of course Akutagawa would be last. Of course, if there's someone Atsushi would simultaneously and paradoxically be both intimidated by and yet comforted to hear their advice because of their tumultuous history together, far more than Francis, it would be Akutagawa. The progression of ADA members > Francis > Akutagawa in that order gives Akutagawa's appearance much more weight imo than just going straight to him from the ADA members, especially with the specific framing of him standing in line behind Francis to judge/advise Atsushi.... it's just much more powerful, and I wish they'd kept it like this, for both Francis and Aku's characters.
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I just watched White House Down, and as always, I am once again saying:
Donnie (the tour guide)/Melanie (Emily's mom) rights!!!!!!
Donnie telling Melanie that Emily is still inside, and Melanie immediately running towards the White House: perfect, normal, great
Donnie, a tour guide who has had a VERY long day, watching her run into an area about to be bombed, saying, "What is WITH this family?" and then immediately running after her, saying, "Wait for me!": ??????? Truly everything I want in a ship!!!!!
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we're really in it now...
appetizer course: mall being very cute. Her birthday, fortunately, isn't this round. It's tomorrow. She has time to recover from the shitshow that's about to go down.
He had a lot of trouble navigating his room. quit your whining boy (I did clear a path to his bed so he can at least sleep without throwing a tantrum)
Don immediately started venting to his four-year-old about how Cassandra caught him cheating. she didn't care. she's playing with her doll house. maybe if don stopped fuming and started making the dolls kiss each other he'd be a little more chill
sure dude. whatever. be gay do crimes worry endlessly about everyone around you secretly hating you. sooo real for that
After playing chess in wait for the cheating bastard to finish his shift at the whore factory, Cassandra dropped the ball on him. He immediately released a flood of fake tears. Don't pretend we can't see your platinum plumbbob. He was sent out onto the streets where he belongs. See you later, donwario lothario
FLOURISHING. UNBOTHERED. CASSANDRA GOTH IS SINGLE AND THRIVING ABOUT IT!
dude it's not even your divorce get over it you're making your friends vaguely uncomfortable with your lame sobbing. plus he keeps picking fights with everyone now. he is literally so mean and nasty
finally someone's doing something about his reign of terror. unfortunately, because he doesn't have parents to tell and the game just doesn't go to cassandra as the household adult, the officer... just wanders around before leaving without unhooking his handcuffs so he stood out in the rain for like an hour before the animations unlocked and now he just has perma handcuffs.
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ring on his ring finger for kate and a rainbow rolex on his wrist for his gf she is such a bicon
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bound for aster >:3
ohoho
bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?
yes! when he was about 20, Aster stole an idol from the Church of the Blood Sheep, got caught, and thrown in prison. I'm not sure how exactly he escaped, possibly he grabbed keys off of someone as they were arresting him or he had lock picks hidden on his person, but either way, he escaped. and then he restole the idol, fled Mythland, and didn't return for five years. there are still wanted posters up btw
oc asks: not-so-nice edition
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new heresy that makes the bible way funnier:
god genuinely had no idea that people would be able to disobey him, when he made them. angels couldn鈥檛! everything in the universe was just an extension or a reflection of god himself, operating in perfect mechanical order. then he put a spark of his own creative consciousness in an animal and it turned out it could disobey him.
like, that鈥檚 why he told adam and eve not to access a perfectly accessible tree. nothing else in the universe up until that point would have done something he told them not to.
that鈥檚 why he asks cain a perfectly ridiculous question, given that he would have watched the murder happen right in front of him: where is your brother? what did you do to him? he didn鈥檛 know cain could lie. even when adam and eve disobeyed him, surprising absolutely everyone involved, they hadn鈥檛 figured out lying yet. cain figured out lying.
that鈥檚 why god decides to destroy humans and start over only a few centuries later. he has no idea what to do. not only are people disobeying and lying to him, they鈥檝e started completely ignoring him, too. he can control the wind, the water, the plants, the animals, the angels, the heavens, the earth. but he cut a part of himself loose and gave it to this totally unique new critter and now he can鈥檛 get it back. he can鈥檛 make anyone do anything, and now they know it. he had to carve humanity back down to the one family that actually, for whatever reason, still listened to him, and he had to ride them pretty fucking hard from that point onward to make sure they didn鈥檛 just..... stop. because at any point basically any human, ever, even the ones who liked him, could just randomly decide to fuck off and do their own thing.
then like, according to christians, god thought maybe he could get a handle on whatever the fuck was going on with how bad humans were being by making another human who had even more god in him than all the other humans, and that didn鈥檛 work either. and also even jesus himself didn鈥檛 know what humans were going to do next, which was kill him young. like, god had to break the news to him based on an educated guess, and it was a big surprise to him! he was really upset! there鈥檚 a whole scene!
like, i think this is hands down the funniest fucking thing to conclude about god ever. he didn鈥檛 know it was going to turn out like this when he started and he didn鈥檛 know what to do when it did. he鈥檚 been basically scrambling to stay on top of the situation for six thousand years and he鈥檚 totally beefed it repeatedly.
god the omnipotent lord of creation knows everything, except what you鈥檙e going to do next. god the supreme ruler of the universe can do anything, except stop you. you have a little piece of god inside you and it lets you defy the most fundamental machinery of existence basically whenever you like.
if that鈥檚 not funny, i don鈥檛 know what is.
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