Bit late, various reactions:
Chiro is cute when she's in "I am totally getting good grade in Being A Normal Girl, totally am right?" mode, and it's jarring how she can immediately swap between that and "Oh yeah, that teacher has repressed bed vibes, he's perfect for turning into a terrifying monster!". Speaking of monsters, someone (maybe Simon? I can't remember who) noted that while C was just "dreaming" of being a Beast, the Resinners (s)he created always had wacky side effects but were pretty ineffective and minimal threats overall. This being representative of 1)How C's density and lack of self-loathing makes it impossible for him to make progress on anything 2) C subconsciously not wanting to actually HURT the saints.
But now that C has openly embraced Invidia, this is
GONE. We don't see clearly what Beaker Breaker's chemicals do (whatever it is, it's bad enough subconscious-C really does not want them to hit any muggles), but they forgo prominent side effects in favor of plain
hitting like Truck-Kun. Just its emergence is enough to knock Ina out cold until the end of the fight, and while in the fight itself it mostly just throws the saints off-balance so Invidia or Avaritia can attack it still tanks a lot of direct hits without going down. Meanwhile Invidia herself is directly resorting to lethal brute force-
seemingly effectively on instinct (notice it's only
after she's started choking a downed Inessa that she has "wait, am I really doing this" thoughts). Across the fight Invidia alternates between having worries about hurting the saints too bad, and sprouting outright villain lines about how she'll be their doom. Said lines are not inspirational, and sound like a bad actor who absolutely cannot get into character of the improv role they're stuck in. Stuff like this:
"Right! To be clear, Castitas, it's because in the depths of my envy I have copied your pronouns as well as your face! Not, like, any other weird reason or anything!"
Is not the words of someone even
remotely confident in the evil evildoer who does evil persona act they're putting on. Yet she attacks with murderous force anyways.
Fully unlocking the sin seed has changed C drastically. Oh it has technically alleviated some of their issues- at the cost of implanting a pervading urge to go commit violence that their conscious mind is largely unfit to carry out but is unable to consciously resist. Hot damn, the Abyssal Forest is REALLY BAD BUSINESS.
That was a tough one. I obviously couldn't talk about my taste in media; it was mostly osmosed from Inessa, and Ida would absolutely push us closer together if she saw a chance. Besides, it was embarrassing! The weird fanfics and online fiction were even worse. No one would ever be allowed to know my browser history even if I had to die to protect it.
I'm sure they're talking about, like, fanfics of in-universe shows, they're normie enough. But with the recent talk in this thread about fanfics I'm now wondering what sort of madness is written about the Saints under TTL!AO3's "real person fic" fandom.
Ida hesitated for a moment, "I guess bats aren't so bad," she said in the tone of someone pretending to talk about bats while actually ruminating over a gross ex-friend who turned into an evil bat-girl and betrayed her kindness for no good reason besides that they had secretly always been a horrible jealous monster deep down.
"Not so bad" eh? You say that like there's reason to consider them bad at all sometimes. Ida. Talk to me. What do you have against chiropterans Ida?
Besides, Beaker Breaker might not forgive himself later if he really hurt a student and the Saints weren't around yet to save them because someone had gotten herself knocked out like an idiot.
This is interesting. Since the Resinners are nonsentient as we can tell, here Invidia is using "Beaker Breaker" to refer to Mr Brown after his likely untransformation. Is it just forest-brain causing her to only think in terms of Resinners for the moment and forgetting real names... or does she expect she'll be able to make Mr Brown "sprout" multiple times into the same Resinner so it's worth keeping the "Beaker Breaker" attached to them?
Wait Macroeconomics is something studied in highschool? I thought any sort of economics class with a prefix was university-level stuff.
Also dang creating an entire fictional class schedule for three separate people, fanfic writers really are built different.
There's also C's Dad. [Edit: I am assuming that some of how bad C's home life is has been shown by the anime as context for the times C stayed over with Inessa, and thus that C's Dad would actually, y'know, exist as a character in the show before the point where he'd have to show up as part of C's Breaking Point scene.]
....Actually, I can see Mr. Noir | Superbia Dragon/C's Father working as a ship. In a a deliberately cursed "match made in hell" type of affair. And I wouldn't put it past the fanfic writers to form an image of C's dad on inferences even if he's never shown on-screen.
