I don't know if she'll ever move past the 'have to go home' thing, but if she does then plan B will be to find a universe almost exactly the same except she died in some Tradeline battle. So she can show up all 'reports of my death were greatly exaggerated' and carry on.
No, not that how he's flipping back and forth, in the above thread he's like, yeah twisted version of my loving myself and talking with klaus he's like I already love myself, but I want to do it without violence, and he also told Valdis he thinks she's afraid of him loving her and he also told Klaus that he doesm'
Nobunaga loves his ego, but not his let's say tender self. He doesn't like his princess heart (from his father) and his generally protectiveness because he had gotten used to seeing how it could (would/was) used to hurt him.
So he does cherish Valdis, but in that dark side way => which led to problems. So he wants to learn to be kinder but. Like... he will never phrase it like that probably. See also: meditation.
In IkeSen he does get less murderous because of Mai abd learns to use it as a strength too, but yeah he's confusing himself even with the Klaus talk ATM. He was like
Also views "you are as emotionally competent as a head of cabbage" to be a compliment lmfao because emotions are exploits sooooo yes call him invincible he'll be thrilled
Loup D'etat
: I mean I think two things. 1) charisma (money even when it's all bluff) goes a long way. See also Trump and Logan Paul 2) Gaston specifically only did things he could still be popular doing. So he's very evil but good at subverting it with hunting trophies and approved toxic masculinity see again ^ Trump and LP
You "can" be as evil as Trump and still have eerie fucking cult supporters, but only if you are always sticking to it like the most idiotic of idiots (see also Logan Paul)
He can see the possibilities which means he loses sight of directly what is and double plus, he doesn't often tell people the possibilities because it's a lot. So he's still learning to try and overcompensation is my enemy with him
it's a lot and it doesn't make sense to most people because there's no context to bridge the gap between present and potential which is partly what speculative fiction is for but that's another conversation
I love when he goes on about Ari's lack of imagination and how thinking like him will hurt her. Because it's completely her fault for getting to deep into 'imagine if my greatest fear were true' because he wanted her to and telling him not to do that
Which kind of shows how deep that goes because she'd be fine with 'imagine you were attacked by pirates, what would you do?' or other similar things she's afraid of.
tbh it's one of the ways not being quite human helps Hiroe relate to him, she's used to seeing things from a very different perspective, and as a trickster entity, reframing things and undermining common wisdom is in her nature
She can try to teach him to be a little more reflective in the moment, even be kinder to himself and those around him. But she’s gonna set some pretty solid boundaries and be strict about them
Ari is probably doing pretty well with actual kata and such. Disappointed that her need to avoid breaking the timeline means she can't just throw around the people who said she'd be useless at fighting when she goes home!
lol she's probably smarter than that. Find some excuse to go planetside for a week and come back all oh I found an amazing teacher and turns out I'm a natural
Klaus trying to understand what is happening in this friend group like...."I am just barely sober and everyone is being very....difficult to read right now"
Nobunaga: /Seduces himself like a boss
'But we sent your body out into space!'
'Don't underestimate Cardalek genetics'
In IkeSen he does get less murderous because of Mai abd learns to use it as a strength too, but yeah he's confusing himself even with the Klaus talk ATM. He was like
And likes poetry. And philosophy * caveat: Still sides with bad guys/demons because he's a lunatic but
basically he's a tankie, but in an era of incessant warfare and famine, so it's at least justifiableand consider how many tankies are perfectly happy to support fascists as long as they're vaguely communism-flavoredNobunaga is an idiot like this, but he's smarter in other ways so....
Yeah but also a genius. He literally had to be told "Arthur and Erin are blind" and "Skulduggery cannot ear or drink"
But this also makes him insane because....
which is partly what speculative fiction is for but that's another conversationtbh it's one of the ways not being quite human helps Hiroe relate to him, she's used to seeing things from a very different perspective, and as a trickster entity, reframing things and undermining common wisdom is in her nature