doesn't ask them any actual questions about this except in the most rudimentary and useless terms, and just seems to kind of assume that C's answer can be found in a more societal assumption toward violence and aggression.
Didn't notice until you pointed it out, but it's probably a good thing overall that Mr. Noir isn't more trans-accepting. Can you imagine how much more dangerous he'd be if he didn't make this very basic mistake?
... Great, now envisioning the Ao3 page for that AU fic of the show. That got dark fast.
Ah, don't read anything below this line until you're caught up through chapter 11, okay?
mafia connections. michael's an angel, which means she's got connections with the vatican, and the vatican's in central italy, which is a bit north of southern italy, which is directly adjacent to sicily, and that's where the mafia is from.
Now envisioning what this could look like as a one-off gag on the anime.
Ida: Wait, how
did you set Temperance up with an apartment?
Michael: Mafia connections.
Ida:
Mafia connections?!?
Michael: Admittedly I did need to call up the Pope.
You know, the thought occurs-
How's Inessa gonna explain C suddenly going missing to her parents???
Because like- They're obviously gonna immediately leap to terrible conclusions from C suddenly vanishing. Will Inessa have to finally come clean about the magical girl stuff? Or will she just guiltily suffer in silence, not able to say anything as her parents freak out with worry?
To be fair, "I saw C turn into a Beast right in front of me" is both true and gives them an explanation without needing to fill them in on anything else necessarily. Still worrisome, obviously, but it's possible Inessa might consider this half-truth better than the full truth or dead silence.
These are both true, but... how certain are we that Inessa didn't already tell her parents about being a magical girl?
Like. They were super chill with her being a lesbian. They're clearly supportive. Maybe they already know, and worked out that the most helpful thing they can do is offer a stable, supportive home base? It seems that Inessa usually doesn't need a car ride to get to the monster attacks, even leaving aside magical-girl-specific mobility options.
These aren't your normal mid-teens magical girls, after all. They're in their senior year in high school, the
youngest of them has been seventeen for months now.
...On the other hand, if Inessa's parents know already, then why did she call
C instead of her own parents in the chibi episode? And there is that secret identity barrier magic.
"I can't go to school like this!" This was terrible!
It is legitimately hilarious that you're concerned about this, C. Like, you've got like five things that should be more pressing issues and several good reasons to just skip school altogether, but this is what you pay attention to?
and I was… an object in her story, a nice little NPC to hand out advice every now and then with no real chance to participate,
The way that in any other magical girl show, this would be an accurate description on an out-of-universe level. Not here though, although I love how the anime plays with the trope to make it clear how Charlie
feels that way even though it's not true.
Her hair was tied back into a long ponytail that fell to the small of her back.
Of course a body formed of the manifestation of "envy of getting to be a girl" would have hair like that. Completely understandable, to be honest.
I looked into Avaritia's nervous eyes and feigned the confidence that had suddenly deserted me. "I guess we need to talk to him then?"
The self-sabotage in this bitch! C'mon, Invidia, no-one can try to help you with how you're really feeling if you never
admit it to anyone!
Oooh, as if we needed more reasons to hate Mr. Noir. The amount of direct and indirect damage he did to C's ability to open up to people....
"Ah," the robed figure said. "So the fourth has finally awoken. With your leave, I will allow you to attend to this, we can discuss the fruit later." Their voice had a lyrical tilt to it, and a strange ethereal quality that felt familiar in a strange way. Where Superbia made a constant show of authority, the cloaked person managed to sound like they were above everything while miming deference.
The mid-season foreshadowing of the greater scope villain/real final boss???
For all it threatened to give me a heart attack every moment and for all I'd probably need to go hide under my blankets for a day or two to recuperate, it had still been a daydream I wouldn't forget.
Chiro, sweetie, like half of that is happiness. Not all of it, sure, goodness knows I'm intimately familiar with that fact too, but still.
Interesting that you describe this trip as a daydream. You're not literally dreaming, after all; but at the same time, you're only familiar with a lot of these emotions from your pre-reveal dreams.
How can you just.. write these lies!?
I don't think there are any problems that can't be resolved with a strategic application of cool goth girls tbh
Oh, the cool goth girl thing definitely helped with all sorts of stuff. It's the "selling out your friends and morals" part that did her in -- and that part wasn't even necessary if she would just. take off her blinders long enough to realize that.
Oh right, trans. Less mood. Or...more specific mood? I think?
More specific. Can vouch to both parts, though.
Damnit. Want to link to a song, but DuckDuckGo isn't finding it anywhere on the Internet. Evidence that it
exists, yes, no problem; anything linkable, no.
(It's the MegaTokyo fan song "You Are Indeed Very Cute" by Kim Justice. No lyrics, just for the title connection making for a decent joke.)
I feel bad for Inessa but I ship Chiro and Lupin now.
Why would you feel bad about this? Her options just
expanded, once they get around to the inevitable magical girl thing with the redemption arc. Her best friend just jumped into her dating pool! Inessa has two hands! She's the goram Saint of Chastity! If anyone can figure out polyamory, it's her!
This relationship is up to its eyeballs in false pretenses and I genuinely do not know what to make of that.
Avaritia: --but having you infiltrate the school is actually just a pretext to get you to try on girlmode clothes and stuff.
Chiro: Wait, what?
Avaritia: If you're going to infiltrate the school, you need to practice passing as a girl. Which means we need to go shopping.
Chiro: Oh. Um, okay.
You're right, absolute clown shit. Or, wait, that might be insulting to actual literal clowns.
Also now I'm picturing Temperance immediately clocking Chiro, and instead of like. Telling the other Saints or anything. Her first real interaction with Chiro is like "so, you're joining the GSA with us now, right? Because you're the most blatantly trans person I've ever seen, and I own a mirror."
Right, and having hit the top of chapter 12, need to empty out the reply box. See you in ... nine pages?
