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sirtommygunn posted:Gotta say, I did not appreciate the bondage vore child.  Really the best end needs to bring her hunger down to just "must eat ALL the candy" so she can just have the munchies in peace.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:04
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Dzhay posted:I'm glad to see that not all the other witches were blameless good guys unfairly villainised by history. Grey-goo-bunny witch was probably more of a threat than whatever Satella did. Assume the witches are simply telling the truth. Echidna has already said (without specifics) that she's done things she regrets in her greedy pursuit for all the knowledge of the world. Daphne apparently created beasts to "save the world from starvation"; of both the White Whale and the Great Rabbit, she asks about whether they couldn't feed a lot of people. But also that it's selfish to eat without considering that you could be eaten as well. Still, she's not at all concerned about the possibility of their destruction, either. (I also note that the Black Serpent has yet to be defined.) It seems like dealing with them is always going to be skewed by their nature, and that any gift comes with a price, so I think it's entirely possible that they largely don't act out of malice, but if you think about how the avatar of limitless appetite is going to come up with solutions to world hunger, it's probably never going to go as well as you might hope. In the same vein, asking Echidna for the knowledge to bring the current troubles to an end (particularly when she knows about Return by Death) is probably going to have further consequences to satisfy her greed, but she can still be sincere when she states a desire to help and that it feels nice to be depended on. Speaking of witches, I'm fairly certain Envy's shown up because Subaru was talking about Return by Death so freely. There wasn't a hint of her stopping him while he was at the tea party, but that seems to be some kind of soul/mind dimension where she might not be ABLE to affect him, so... Flood of Shadows in the real world it is, then. Since we also haven't yet met the other two witches, and there's talk of a third tea party, I assume that's when Subaru will be meeting them. Chekhov's Witches. As for the post-credits, Roswaal having his own book was definitely set up. Given he specifically knew about Beatrice's copy and that it's apparently one of TWO copies of a "magical text that tells the true future" (bold emphasis mine) that're the closest to "Tome of Wisdom", it only makes sense that he'd have the other one if not the true Tome of Wisdom. That he calls the Gospels "defective versions" also implies that neither Roswaal or Beatrice are actually part of the Cult. So... Roswaal tells Subaru not to make mistakes next time and has a magical text that tells the future. Presumably he knows that Subaru can loop through time, if only because he knows when events DON'T match what's in the book (I bolded the true part because that says to me that it's not likely to have the details of every failed timeline). That certainly explains his faith in Subaru. I remember that Betelgeuse said that his Gospel didn't mention Subaru, so either what's written is excessively vague or it's just the limitations of being a defective copy. Beatrice pokes some holes in my theory though: she does some things in failed loops that she doesn't in the "Real" timeline, which wouldn't work if her book can't see what happens in failed timelines. Unless she's just lying about following what's written in the book, I dunno. I guess some questions then are: "Where's the Tome of Wisdom (and who owns it)", "What's written in Roswaal and Beatrice's books", "Why do any of them have these books," and "Why do the Archbishops have defective versions?"
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Sep 3, 2020 00:14
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Minerva is straight up a Shonen Magical Girl.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:30
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Minerva mains Healer and this is why she is the Witch of Wrath.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:39
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Hogama posted:I'm fairly certain Envy's shown up because Subaru was talking about Return by Death so freely. There wasn't a hint of her stopping him while he was at the tea party, but that seems to be some kind of soul/mind dimension where she might not be ABLE to affect him, so... Flood of Shadows in the real world it is, then. Nah, she's here because of the handkerchief and is going after Petra. It's bait, placed by Echidna, but I'm not sure why. Some kind of info probably, Satella's motivations? Somebody fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 00:45
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Maybe it turns out really bad things happen when Subaru isn't there to give Emilia a hug when she first fails the Trial.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:47
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There's some old adage about never saying "thank you" to one of the fey, as the words themselves indicate acceptance of an agreement so if you're not careful you've just made a contract without setting the terms. Regarding the episode (which felt about 5 minutes long) I interpreted the ending that while being stuck in Tea Time Subaru didn't rouse Emilia when she was in distress and/or somehow she hosed up the trial so badly that she went full speed into a host for Satella.
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Sep 3, 2020 00:51
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Man I sure do hate all these filler episodes where absolutely nothing happens.
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Sep 3, 2020 01:12
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My guess about what happened with Emilia is: Her seeing Subaru unconscious (and injured) set her off, which maybe because of some other circumstance we don't know about allowed her to become an imperfect vessel for Satella
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Sep 3, 2020 01:26
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Kingnothing posted:I have a feeling none of the witches are blameless good guys. Especially echidna. There’s so pretty clear red flags that show she’s not to be trusted at all. Especially her last words to baru and that face she made at the end.
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Sep 3, 2020 02:41
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Elephant Parade posted:sure, she's kind of shady, but what has she done that we've seen other than help Subaru overcome personal trauma and save his soul from getting broken? as it stands, she's very much a benevolent figure--that could change, and it's entirely possible that she did something awful in life (the general theme with the witches seems to be "good intentions gone terribly wrong", going by Typhon attempting to show Subaru is a good person by breaking him into a million pieces and Daphne trying to solve world hunger via horrible man-eating monsters), but she doesn't seem evil I mean by that logic, Satella is good because she gave Subaru return by death. This show has proven to us time and time again that just because someone is helping Subaru in the moment doesn’t mean they’re actually helping Subaru in the long run.
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Sep 3, 2020 02:46
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Satella just loves Subaru so much she gave him unlimited continues. It's his own fault he gets his rear end killed over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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Sep 3, 2020 02:51
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judging from that one shot of the black tendrils reaching into the tea party but dissipating, i think it's quite likely satella got really, really, really, really, REALLY loving mad about subaru casually blabbing about return by death. on another note, garf is suddenly extremely willing to risk his life to save a supposed witch cultist. i can't imagine subaru smells particularly good right now either. Elephant Parade posted:sure, she's kind of shady, but what has she done that we've seen other than help Subaru overcome personal trauma and save his soul from getting broken? as it stands, she's very much a benevolent figure--that could change, and it's entirely possible that she did something awful in life (the general theme with the witches seems to be "good intentions gone terribly wrong", going by Typhon attempting to show Subaru is a good person by breaking him into a million pieces and Daphne trying to solve world hunger via horrible man-eating monsters), but she doesn't seem evil along similar lines, theres literally zero chance that echidna didnt know that subaru blabbing about rbd would piss off satella to high heaven. A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 03:01
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A big flaming stink posted:
Garf did not think he was a Witch Cultist until he came back from the trial. (After his first return by death.) I imagine all of the other Witch Misasma like the Witch herself is covering Subaru's scent up. Elephant Parade posted:sure, she's kind of shady, but what has she done that we've seen other than help Subaru overcome personal trauma and save his soul from getting broken? as it stands, she's very much a benevolent figure--that could change, and it's entirely possible that she did something awful in life (the general theme with the witches seems to be "good intentions gone terribly wrong", going by Typhon attempting to show Subaru is a good person by breaking him into a million pieces and Daphne trying to solve world hunger via horrible man-eating monsters), but she doesn't seem evil For Typhon it seemed to be "You don't feel any pain so you must be a good person." and then "Your sins are breaking you apart so you feel guilty despite not being a bad person." So I guess if person is bad they will feel pain, and if they feel guilty about their sins then they break apart.
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Sep 3, 2020 03:26
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Yo where the heck is Puck?
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Sep 3, 2020 03:31
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Raxivace posted:Yo where the heck is Puck? Emilia has been wondering that and calling for him.
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Sep 3, 2020 03:36
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A big flaming stink posted:judging from that one shot of the black tendrils reaching into the tea party but dissipating, i think it's quite likely satella got really, really, really, really, REALLY loving mad about subaru casually blabbing about return by death. When was this again? But yeah that's an interesting note on Garfield.
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Sep 3, 2020 03:38
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suburu's real popular today and goddammit Roswell, acting all cool and poo poo as you sink into inky nothingness while spouting the most infuriating line that's come out of your smug mouth yet
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Sep 3, 2020 03:43
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Zetsubou-san posted:suburu's real popular today get good son!
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Sep 3, 2020 03:59
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Raenir Salazar posted:When was this again? on the 2:25 mark
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Sep 3, 2020 04:36
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Kingnothing posted:I mean by that logic, Satella is good because she gave Subaru return by death.
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A big flaming stink posted:judging from that one shot of the black tendrils reaching into the tea party but dissipating, i think it's quite likely satella got really, really, really, really, REALLY loving mad about subaru casually blabbing about return by death. also if subaru hadn't told echidna he probably would've fully broken down, so it's not like she had much choice
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Sep 3, 2020 04:43
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A big flaming stink posted:on the 2:25 mark Hrm, I had figured that was more Subaru remembering what it felt like.
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Sep 3, 2020 07:11
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Elephant Parade posted:idk, it's possible that without being woken up by subaru, emilia got so hosed up the witch was able to take her over, and subaru spilling the beans had little or nothing to do with it. this is our first time seeing what happens when subaru doesn't wake emilia up (and only the aftermath, at that) so it's hard to say. Alternatively: when he normally tries to talk about return by death he immediately gets halted and if he presses on the curse immediately begins to murder. Just how many times did he confess to Echidna without anyone being able to silence him? He may have supercharged the spell effect. 
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Sep 3, 2020 07:33
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Elephant Parade posted:no, because Return by Death is a very nasty "gift" that broke Subaru apart, whereas Echidna put him back together again. The self-destructive nature of Return by Death has left Satella a murky figure from the start; Echidna hasn't done anything similar. I mean, without it he’d just be dead, and I don’t think that Subaru is so suicidal that he’d prefer death to the current situation.
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Sep 3, 2020 08:10
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The return of the Rie Takahashi's ASMR Extravaganza? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPSh-2Qb30
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Sep 3, 2020 13:41
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You'd think at this point Subaru would have some sort of auto-suicide device on tap to expedite the process. Even when he does it voluntarily, he's using a knife which can't be too pleasant.
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Sep 3, 2020 15:13
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He does! Just tell anyone (who isn't a witch (or possibly Roswall???)) that he can Return by Death and Satella will lovingly crush his heart.
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Sep 3, 2020 15:36
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Wicked Them Beats posted:He does! Just tell anyone (who isn't a witch (or possibly Roswall???)) that he can Return by Death and Satella will lovingly crush his heart.
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Sep 3, 2020 15:44
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Elephant Parade posted:Nope, Satella crushes the heart of the person he tells. At least, that's what happened when he told Emilia. Oh really? I must be misremembering, been awhile since I watched season 1. Edit: I guess he could tell Emilia and then get immediately killed by whichever of her supporters/retainers witnesses him seemingly murdering Emilia via weird witch magic, but that's probably even more tramautic than just stabbing himself. Wicked Them Beats fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 15:52
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Yeah all of those seem way worse than a nice quick stabbing.
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Sep 3, 2020 16:16
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I wonder what effect it'd have on someone like Puck.
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Sep 3, 2020 16:36
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:I wonder what effect it'd have on someone like Puck. I think there was a Q&A thing where the author said if he tried to tell Reinhard or someone like that the witch would just kill Barusu instead. Of course if Reinhard or someone equivalent were around to listen, he probably wouldn't need to die anyway...
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The impression I get about the heart-crushing stuff is that the "can't tell anyone" rule essentially functions intelligently (Satella making the decision of what to do based on the circumstances) rather than using some sort of hard rules that could be exploited.dipwood posted:You'd think at this point Subaru would have some sort of auto-suicide device on tap to expedite the process. Even when he does it voluntarily, he's using a knife which can't be too pleasant. I like how the guy in the web serial Mother of Learning actually does this by putting some sort of explosive around his neck that causes instant death.
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Sep 3, 2020 18:04
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I'm not entirely convinced that the guiding intelligence of Subaru's power (and hence possibly whatever was going on at the end of the last episode) actually is Satella, rather than some semi-autonomous thing she created.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:10
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Dzhay posted:I'm not entirely convinced that the guiding intelligence of Subaru's power (and hence possibly whatever was going on at the end of the last episode) actually is Satella, rather than some semi-autonomous thing she created. Considering how we know almost nothing specific about what Satella is capable of, power-wise, other than granting Subaru the Return by Death power and telekenetically ganking anyone he tells about it (barring Echidna so far), I'm not sure this is supportable. Goddamn this franchise is so good. I love that it inspires these kinds of debates.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:35
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Remember that Subaru does not want to die. He thinks death is a super horrible thing to go through. He has only killed himself in situations he really wanted to fix, and even then with a good deal of hesitation.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:46
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MonsterEnvy posted:Remember that Subaru does not want to die. He thinks death is a super horrible thing to go through. He has only killed himself in situations he really wanted to fix, and even then with a good deal of hesitation. That's one of the brilliant things about the story. A less thoughtful author wouldn't include the detail that despite it not technically mattering because Subaru will apparently always respawn, death still loving sucks to experience and because he remembers everything that happens in the failed loops, Subaru is constantly on the verge of a well-earned complete emotional and physical breakdown.
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Okabe had it easy.
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