God Himself Could Not Have Prepared Me For This. I Hate My Friend So Much

alot of shipping drama is fixed with polyamory. so anyway hoa is a big polycule and when people try to explain it it sounds like a meme and not everyone's dating everyone but somehow their all linked. the teachers have a bet for who's dating who because some days they see Fabian and Nina walking through the halls with their hands linked, and the next they see Fabian and Mick hugging the hall way as Mick holds up a mirror behind Fabians back for Amber to use.  or like how Jerome is some days bugging Mara but clearly flirting with her, and the next he’s stealing Alfie's food and resting his feet in his lap.  oh and the whole no one ever being in their bed but whenever Victor can be asked to catch them he never finds the same 2 people sharing a bed

Monk gyatso? no no no more like Monk GYATTso.

thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night.

They don't really explore Fabian being the only member of the original 3 in S3 at all. In fact, his character is reduced to background role for most episodes save for ones where they explore his dynamic with KT (one of the only saving graces of S3). The problem with the season as a whole is the original cast as a whole is wasted either by being reduced to romance subplots (Joy and Jerome especially who no longer are in the mystery) or reduced to one trait (Jealous Patricia and nerdy Fabian).

you know what your so right for this, honestly wouldn't be surprised if the goal of adding new characters to season 3 ( who I assume are all either first years or something similar because adding a whole cast of new last years is wild to me) was to create a setting for a possible season 4. cuss like obviously its set in a school so the cast can't stay the same forever and also the main cast was mainly young actors who probably don't wanna be tied down to a teens show for their entire possible career and stuff so new characters who clearly have a connection to the wider working plot makes sense. but no yeah as you rightfully mention because of this ( possible and probably inaccurate) setup I mentioned it causes the cast who stayed to become less relevant. their main character arcs have already been told in some ways, and whilst there are obviously more ways to go with a character sometimes its best not to. and like this ends up with, as you said, them becoming revolved around relationship drama that at times can feel really out of character? and also touch off the plot. its actually really interesting to delve into how both fantastic and utter crap this season is, and how sometimes those reasons intersect. and like obviously all the seasons had MAJOR issues, I don't want anyone to think I'm just hating on season 3 for no reason or because it changed the flow I just mainly remember me disliking season 3 as a kid and therefore obviously tend to criticise it more publicly I guess

it’s always “your redemption is something you have to work towards for the rest of your life” and never “how was the unhinged spiral into evil? the unhinged spiral into evil looked fun”

Arisu: so yeah in ancient greece and Rome they’d read the entrails of thier blood sacrifice to predict the future

Usagi: facinating 

Chishiya: I wonder what my guts would predict Arisu: I would prefer not to see your guts? please and thank you<3 

Chishiya: just for that heart Kuina come chop me open your gonna read the future 

you know Jenga boom? the game made to entice kids back into Jenga by adding explosions? yeah well imagine if that was a game. but instead of the small thing its massive blocks that they have to push out and stuff and all take goes. however there's a twist: its a team game. “ohh but Jenga isnt-” shut up. This aint Jenga this is murder. anyway more explanation  they gotta use the blocks they remove to build a stair case out of the room ( idk imagine there's a door high up). If one player knocks it down, boom boom boom not more living. It the timer runs out? boom boom boom no more living. So they gotta go together to take turns to push out the blocks. its pretty easy to win the hard part would just be working together when Jenga is so ingrained as like a solo game

A tired, sleepy, SUPER ununique addition to this: You're absolutely right! At any moment you can point to either Romantic love, Familial love, or patriotic love. With women like Dido, Creusa, and Andromache you can really see romantic love at its fullest. Dido's love for her husband is SO important and then her forced love of Aeneas is heartbreaking. Creusa might have died uselessly but she doesn't blame Aeneas and she continued loving him even in death. Additionally you have Nisus and Euryalus with their homosexuality and desire to die with eachother (even if it's a rekless desire). With Aeneas his entire journey is driven by fate, yes, but also his love for his people and son. When he’s told to leave Dido Mercury uses Ulus as the reason for WHY he should go, if Aeneas doesn’t he’ll be robbing him of his future. Additionally Aeneas has the epithet of ‘father’, he tenderly cares for his people and does want what's best. We could even take Turnus and his sister Juntara who ends up despising her imortal status because she is forced to live without ever hoping to see her brother again, even in hell. She spends most of book 12 trying to keep him away from his fate because she loves him so much. It’s a story of love and war because neither come without the other.

The patriotic love comes from Virgil himself. yes he was paid to write propaganda for Augustus, but he wrote something beyond that. he wrote a love letter to Rome in all its gore and glory. It's impossible for a man with such strong passion to not write about love.

the aeneid is about love btw. if you even care.

dealing with akumas responsibly

You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!