who knew all took to save anime was autistic protagonists with weirdly specific hyperfixations (thank you laois dunmeshi, frieren, and maomao apothecary diaries)
Please consider, Bill going into Stan's dreams at some point and looping him into a giant game of Deal or No Deal with himself(Bill) as the banker. He spends the whole game offering Stan the most outrageous amount of money he can, the kind of money that would make Filbrick Pines raise his eyebrows. But Stan denies it all. He is so sure that his case is the big winner as the game goes on. It gets to the point where Bill is like, "I will literally give you anything, just make this deal with me." And Stan is like, "Now I REALLY don't want to. This case must be worth a fortune."
Finally the game ends and as the case is cracked open, Stan wakes up, never knowing what was inside. Leaving both him and Bill pissed.
Batman being aggressively secretive towards the Justice League is one of my favorite tropes, but it gets INFINITELY funnier when you take the younger generations of heroes into consideration.
Barry Allen? He doesn't know shit about Batman, still partially convinced he's not human, still a little bit scared to talk to him. But Wally West? That's Nightwing's best friend. He's been around Dick since both of them were kids. He's had sleepovers at the manor since he was thirteen.
I just think it would be hilarious if all of the younger generations 100% know that Batman is Bruce Wayne. They've slept at the manor, some of them have taken various Batkids to school dances, they've been offered Alfred's cooking. And all because they've gotten close to at least one Batkid and said Batkid wore Bruce down until he let them reveal their identity. But all of them manage to keep this information from their mentors. Either purposefully or completely on accident.
Then you end up with a situation where the younger generations grow up and join the League and the older members Very Quickly realize that they seem a lot more comfortable with Batman than they should be.
oh.... you are so old....
also, extras !! (as an apology for being gone for a month)
HUEHUEEH--
Will: It's funny, my boyfriend got turned into a plant twice
Clarisse: Hmm, like father like son
Will: *trying not to laugh*
Lester/Apollo: *standing by about to have another mental breakdown*
The letters (my internet browser) have informed me that my wife (ao3) has perished in the war (isnt responding)
Bok-su my girl she did NOTHING wrong
saiki sleepover!
It’s so important that tsp is a game that knows it’s a game and it asks you to keep playing it and it tells you that to keep playing it is to torment these two characters but it asks you to do it anyway.
I watched The Morality of The Shadow of the Colossus and it said “you’re involved in it but you’re not Complicit. These things would happen anyway. You’re just re-enacting it” and I feel like the Parable is SOME of that. It wants you to feel complicit but it never really blames you for what happens, except maybe in the potency of the Skip Button. And by that point you have next to no choice.
TSP asks you to play it, knowing the consequences, and says “you can save these two, but you won’t, but that’s okay, nobody blames you. This is how they’re designed. This is how we need them to be, for the game to work. Please, keep playing. Keep making them butt heads. We made them for you.
We made them for you.”