"I think the young hot king is nice, actually," I say
"You're insane," they say
"I think he's moe," I insist
"You're out of your mind," they tell me
"No, they're right," someone in the crowd says
Everyone turns to the speaker
It's Kamome Shirahama
everything about him screams "I will die to raise the stakes towards the end" especially him being a high ranking politician but No...... Not my beldybel.........
Realistically there's no way beldaruit the silly, well meaning, universally loves, probably dark secret-harboring mentor makes it out of this manga alive but dear god I want to believe
@tentacularity obviously bel's disability IS a factor - it's the thing that allows dean to have leverage in the first place! but dean is only temporarily tipping a scale in his favor, in a world where that scale is otherwise almost always stacked against him.
beldaruit being disabled is very interesting when paired with witch society's inaccessibility problem, esp since i believe the implication is that his disability has been there since birth
@tentacularity !!! IKR they're two politicians, bel is VERY aware of his place in society and the power he holds. id even say that a lot of beldaruit's annoyance with dean isn't due to their occasional doctor-patient dynamic, but because he knows dean won't let his lies to him go unchecked
@tentacularity i agree! it's easy to focus on the imbalance between a doctor and a disabled man, but he's basically the only known witch that dean can talk to on even ground. he wants to get tools to help his people, and trying to twist bel's arm into giving him access to said tools πββοΈ
@tentacularity LOL i spent forever trying to find it today, it's from chapter 56! it pops up while coco and tartah are talking about him after their confrontation with custas
it's nice that i have no hope for tartah to ever look cool in his life he's gonna be drawing forbidden magic looking like a little loser and ill clap. that's my son. he's got no aura and i love that for him
the genre of tweet that's "wow what if olruggio is severely incapacitated because of the memory wipes... what if he is experiencing long-term damage because of the memory wipes.. Qifrey must feel so bad about it" is so funny. like oh okay qifrey is the one i should feel bad for
i did think loroga was a girl for a good while but instead of framing this as me being illiterate i'm choosing to frame it as a glimpse into a beautiful world
what qifrey does to nolnoa has direct correlation to tartah's own spiral - his actions do harm that is long-lasting, and affirming that "it's okay for him to do XYZ because of his trauma" is a flattening of both morality and storytelling that i hope the story doesn't commit to
interesting to see qifrey's situation be both an accurate portrayal of trauma from the perspective of the person suffering from it, and also become a thought-terminating "it's okay for him to do XYZ because he has trauma" defense for the things he does +
because the way the silverwood takes away agency in some aspects of his life (in a literal sense, via magic, not in a psychological sense) gets applied where it does not fit