Archon Quest 5.6

I just I-

WHAT

E-SOUL WTF

Spiderverse: Previous hero dies tragically while saving your life and with his dying breath entrusts the mantle of his great responsibility to you, conveniently also a bearer of superpowers

To Be Hero X: Previous hero fingerguns at you as he walks off a building. Thwarted at the killing-yourself game, you are kidnapped by his PR team and forced to do the dead guy's job

Silly sound I make heheh

LH0's Q&A sesh on L0's arc (it's implied he'll do this type of Q&A after the conclusion of every arc)

EDIT: summary below the cut now 👍 please lmk if i got anything wrong etc

So first off, L0's arc is chronologically the last events that happen in this season, so OG Nice absolutely will show up in the later episodes as well. There's mention of OG Nice going berserk/黑化 (corrupted from light to darkness) and LH0 is looking forward to when the audience gets to see those scenes. (and uh the off-handed mention of "will L0 also succumb to those pressures/turn dark?" is sllllightly worrying lol)

LH0 also says Nice isn't just a facade/role, but has his own character and story, which reflects the cruelty of the world they're in. It's interesting that he talks about "未來奈斯的命運 the future fate of Nice (or the fate of a future Nice?)" can still be explored, which could mean either OG Nice isn't actually dead, some other schmuck becomes Nice, or just means his story ('fate') is yet to be revealed. I personally think it's 1 or 3 (leaning more towards 3) but who knows. He did kinda put emphasis on "it may be shown later on" so like. take it as you will.

As for L0, LH0 says his story starts off as a typical "wage slave/underappreciated office worker wins prestige and respect" fantasy, but with the end of ep 4 it shows that the world of TBHX can be very harsh and cruel. As for L0's future development, there's tons of possibility for exploration so I guess we gotta wait and see.

About the pacing, the first 4 eps are deliberately fast, but each hero's arc will have a different rhythm since they have different themes. The Top 10 will also have more of a presence in the others' stories.

LH0 clarified that, although Lu Guang from Link Click and Mo Sha/Ghostblade both have white hair, the two works are independent from one another. I'm pretty sure he just likes white hair character designs (tbhx alone has 4 heroes with white hair within the top 10). He thinks Ghostblade's story will probably take us all by surprise, and he's a little worried about whether people will like it/accept a story like that.

The next question is about whether Nice gets startled by his giant statue in the middle of the night. LH0 intended the statue to be kind of ironic, and confirmed that it's a reminder/symbol for Nice to believe in himself (or like, a reminder of the faith that is put on him as his persona as Nice). As to whether the heroes are more like employees clocking in (打公仔) than heroes, LH0 says each hero has their own ideals, but are also caged by those ideals—the essence of the story is to explore them as people who have faith placed upon them, and how they choose to live their life with those ideals.

Last question reveals that Hero Tower only houses the top 100 heroes, meaning Enlighter was not a resident at rank 249. The lowest floor can fit 2 rooms + 1 living room, so it's decently spacious even for the 100th hero. That said, I personally feel like this makes the competition (especially among the lower ranks) fierce, since they will lose housing if they don't maintain their place. And given how Firm Man was presumably kicked out of the Tower by the end of ep 3, a single shift in perception can cost you your accommodations. (I also kinda assumed family or significant others can move in, since Moon was supposedly living with Nice... we never knew her rankings but ep 2 did say she was not very well-known until her 'relationship' with Nice.)

(this also raises the question of what happens if multiple ranked heroes decide to bunk together/live on the same floor—with how it works I assume that means floors would be empty? for example if no. 25 and no. 46 decided to live together, does that mean one of their floors would stay empty until rankings change?

also nobody knows who X is, so idk if he even lives at the tower...)

how does this work what

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I just finished watching the 4 episode of tbhx and like... the way that your fans can make you literally do things that you don't want to do is so terrifying? Lin Ling was literally IMMOBILIZED while he was playing Nice, just because some of his hardcore fans didn't want him to go and save the person he loves.

I can't help but think - what if that's the one of the reasons why Nice killed himself? What if just one too many people, got fed up by his sickeningly sweet image and lashed out thinking "Fuck you, go kill yourself"? What if Lin Ling's "You're going to be replaced" was the thing that tipped the scales towards that?

And we've seen that heroes pretty much can't do things that people aren't expecting of them to do. So why was Nice able to simply fall and die? If people really believed in him and his perfection wouldn't he be physically unable to just fall to his death? That once again leads me to believe that maybe one of reasons why Nice did it, was because a lot of people WANTED him to do it.

LOOK AT HIM AAAA

got bored and made a silly lil wyvern

look at the lil baby

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