"Nothing else is something for you to apologize.”" :'D Ranpo you secret sweetheart, you "“That’s probably the only straight thing about me.”" OHHHHHH THERE HE GOES, BACKFLIPPING OUT OF THE CLOSET WITH THE ADA DOING A MARCHING BAND PREFORMANCE "“You’ll help, won’t you? You’ve been here before, you know what things I shouldn’t touch.”" !!! That's super considerate! Alot of the time when guests try to 'tidy up' my room before leaving, everything is where it shouldnt be and I usually need time to rehab my room-but Yosano aint takin no chances! "Karl hisses at her, but Yosano waves her hand." Karl Attacc, he Defenn, but most importantly, he's the most overprotective mom friend "“You’re actually not the first one to freak out over President giving unexpected head pats.”" ISTG Fukuzawa treats his entire staff like either his children or his cats-wait, nvm, there's no difference in those relations when we talk about Fukuzawa "Edgar blinks. Then repeats dumbly, “Welcoming… head pats.”" I mean, you're in an anime, my dude, you're gonna be treated like a catto at some point "“Ah, but look at him, Ranpo-san, he has the nerve to glare at you after we came all this way to visit him.”" Tanii uses that as a way of determining whether me and Moony are okay too-if we can chase her around the house because she has my pendant/moony's toys, we can Do Things xD "Edgar sends the raccoon an insulted look that Karl eagerly ignores in favor of demanding more pets." Forget everyone else, Karl is clearly the evil mastermind in this franchise "As he walks in, he stops just short a step outside, seeing it. Ranpo swinging his legs back and forth, with lollipop in his mouth and humming a song" EXCUSE ME THIS IS TOO MANY LAYERS OF CUTE, HOW COULD YOU- "closed this time, with a grin and a, “Poe-kun!”" *slams the table* CHIBI RANPO. CHIBI RANPO SITTING AT THE TABLE LIKE A FIVE YEAR OLD WITH A LOLLIPOP. PROBABLY HUMMING THE SHOW'S OPENING THEME. CMON. "Edgar opens his mouth to comment, before he decides against it and sighs, “Of course you did.”" Tired Writer Man is Tired in Layers and one of said layers is named Ranpo "“I didn’t!” Ranpo cries out, “And that was one time!”" Wait-did he, though?? *googles it* OH I always thought he was british! But then again, it makes sense since all of the Guild was based on American writers ^^' "Because Edgar is not a good person, he really isn’t." I feel like the whole idea of classifying people as good or bad people is a bit silly at this point-no one's a saint, and no one is just plain bad;there;s always a reason for things, and even if that always doesnt justify it-kindness o being good on the whole, is a choice. Being comforting or cheering someone up is a choice-no one's really good or bad, we're all rotten human beings on the inside. But the choice to be better than that is what makes the difference, but this could just be me being delerious with sleep loss, as I havent slept this late in the past entire week -w- (its uh. almost 3, oops. I'll sleep soon, I promise! Just a FEW more lines!) "“Oh yeah, he did.” Ranpo confirms, “But he’s silly.”" I associate the word 'silly' with Pinkie Pie from my little pony and thus its very difficult for me to not imagine Ranpo being 4 more layers of adorable than usual ksjsjhs "Tell me, would I come into someone’s house to bake cookies, if I didn’t think of them as friends?”//Yosano and Edgar in union, deadpan at him, “Yes.”" *applauds that characterisation* "“I’d rather watch you two bicker, it’s amusing.”" Yosano coming at em with that TRUTH xD "“It took me weeks for him to stop mentioning we’re rivals every single time someone asks about our relationship. Don’t ruin it for me!" OH this one hits close to home, because every time someone asked me how I knew Bunny, I'd always say 'we're in admath class together, that's all' until this lad just interrupted my spiel with 'we're friends' and that caught me so off gaurd-the other girl in class didnt let me live my "wait, we are?" expression down for days xD "Yosano and Ranpo look back at him, then both at the same time, “Please just eat the food.”" Even when mom forces collide, they ARE mom forces
"“Oi, Yosano-san, careful around the weird, antique black cat vase, it’s porcelain!”" So your war on porclain transcends reality I see
"Despite being lukewarm, the heat spreads all over Edgar’s body." *delicately yeets sadness away with food and genuine caring*
"told him to wait and sit on the balcony with a book and instructed Karl to not let him in." Karl, with a Gandalf beard: You!! shall!! not!!! PAAAAAASS
"“That’s true. Say, Poe-san, don’t you have any pictures?”" Uh-oh
"“You know, of your family? " UH OH
"and Karl. Well." Taking pictures of pets. Is the single most difficult thing on the planet. Unless you have some fruit TTvTT
"Ranpo’s hand holding the gummy bear pauses in front of his mouth and he slowly puts the snack down." Bruh you KNOW its gonna get real when Ranpo puts a snack down
"“Perhaps you could print out some pictures of Karl and frame them?”" A HOUSE FULL OF FRAMED PICTURES OF KARL, Y E S. Also including, Ranpo chasing Karl, Karl chasing Ranpo, Karl and Poe with snapchat filters that dont work on Poe because he covers his eyes, but they work on Karl for some reason and he has some KILLER selfie game-
"Ranpo snaps out of whatever daze he’s been" Oh nuu he wasnt having a sad flashback, was he? D:!!
"Knowing you, it probably looks like a castle.”" He can keep all the porclain giant cat vases he wants, too!
"He thinks of the way his voice echoes in hallways; he thinks of the way Karl looks sadly at the too big table in the dining room." D': Jaze you actual mcfreakin monster, you're using your Ability for evil! To spread sadness and tears! The world is lost!
"“Wait. Don’t tell me, Poe-san, that you’re living here, right here, when you have a huge mansion, just because the Agency is near here.”" Yosano-san, you're on ao3. Yes, he is, because he loves yall more than an empty husk of a house sis and thats the tea
" Poe-kun is a social creature at heart. You are, aren’t you, Poe-kun?”" All this lad wanted was the will to get up, now he's re-evaluating his entire existence xD
" “because I don’t like being alone. And because I think being around people is fun. Don’t you think it’s fun, Poe-kun?”" Poe is being rowned in words all of a sudden and is Doing His Best to keep up, Im proud of him TTvTT
"“Rude.” Yosano throws in helpfully." What i catch from this is Lucy sassing people at the agency which I will die for, bless her
"“No one deserves to be shunned for being creative.”" :'D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"“It would be nice! Living alone, however, could cause some problems. Who would carry my shopping bags?”" Honestly?? mood. Like, I'd LOVE to live alone-but who am I gonna call when I see a bug?? Who am I gonna hang on to like a koala when I watch buzzfeed unsolved at 2 in the morning?? Who am I gonna hug in general?? *realizes a doggo could solve legit all of these problems* nvm Im good thanks
" “I will think about printing the photos.”" Aka "Guys, my raccoon friend is more in tune with the conversation now than I am, and that scares me. Can we backtrack for a sec please and thank you"
"“You will just ignore all of my advice, won’t you?”//This time, Edgar doesn’t answer him." Edgar please do something or Yosano is gonna decorate your walls with chains of flowers and axes
"angriest frown Edgar has ever seen." AWW LUCY WAS WORRIED, MY DAUGHTER
"“But your boyfriend detective does.” Before Edgar can correct her, Lucy sits down and nearly slams her hands on the table." Edgar is Trying, proud of him V2 TTwTT
"“He’s not mine—“//“Detective friend,” Lucy corrects dryly," a)This entire scene is so well done, and super uper in character I love every bit of it b)bawhahaha, Lucy's on the ship, and this time it isnt named The Zelda :D
"“Why do you call them freaks?” Edgar ask, stalling.//“Because they put chocolate on popcorn.” Lucy answers seriously." JAZER YOU HJSJKSJKA-for all those who've had to scroll this far because I talk alot and left a long ass reveiw, here's the tea: CHOCOLATE AND POPCORN ARE MEANT TO BE! AS IS MILK AND PIZZA! CUCUMBER AND NUTELLA! ITS DELICIOUS I SWEAR! Jaze, you are one of the closest friends I have, but you also nearly gave me an anurysm with sheer laughter and if I were close enough I'd tickle you to the sun and back in return xD "Edgar nods. That’s fair." Kohai-san why must u expose me like this x') "Edgar feels oddly vulnerable under her knowing grin" Me @you currently "It shocks Edgar so much that he slowly nods and lets out a breath he didn’t know he was holding in" Me @my sisters when I say the word 'straight' and wait for them to pun at me for the next whole week xD "“The were-tiger has other ideas, I imagine.”"OHHHHH POE IS GETTING IN ON THE SASS BATTLE SCENE AYYY " he thinks that maybe, just maybe, she found something she was looking for right where she is now." *sobs in spanish about redemption arcs and people finding meaning in doing good things and changing for the better and recovering just a little ;w;* "In the end, it’s Karl who jumps on the knob and in his panic, Edgar automatically twists it." Karl is to Poe like Dante was to Miguel in Coco ajkskja "“Pardon my intrusion,” he calls out softly, “Lucy asked me to bring this to you.”" SOFT CHILD JKAJKASKJA "then there’s a drawled out “Poe-kunn!” in the back of the room where Ranpo sits sprawled on the desk, as if someone put him there as punishment." HE MISSES POE IM AKASJSJAHHHHHHH "It’s the President, who Edgar didn’t notice before," I swear whenever Fukuzawa is around things are either about to extend to cats, his fatherly instincts towards his employee, or death, and that is amazing "Edgar has always been weak for that look, something Ranpo liked to call him out on." Kyouka's REAL Ability: Eyes Of The Beholder "then leans to whisper to Karl, “You can go.”" I absolutely love how here AND inthe next paragraph and just throughout the whole thing, Karl's characterisation is treated as importantly as everyone else's and that's awesome and super adorable and MAN I gotta praise your ability to take small hints from shows about characters and analyse them /so well/ and apply them all so thoughtfully and perfectly jsjksajk-this is the best!! "He always shakes the thought away. Karl is a raccoon. He shouldn’t have that much conscience.//(In theory)." I will yell about these lines alone from the rooftops for years if I have to because GOD DANG IT do I love it when you do This. Like-you just Do Things that only you would do and its individual and I can imagine you grinning when you wrote this because you also knew that this line was a great touch and if you end up rereading this any time later, you'll remember that happy feeling again :D!!!!! (tldr; You can associate things around you with happy memories and good feelings too and I'm super glad you're heading that way :D!!!) "Not when he knows, he knows that his habits, his jumpiness and shyness are flaws and a liability." Baka theyre also what make you, YOU and everyone here loves you I just kjsjhsajkas I WANT TO HUG YOU SO BAD DUDE (Also this scene is killing me. As you may have noticed. My soul is weak UwU) " It’s then that Edgar recalls Yosano’s words, the ‘you’re not the only one who reacted this way’ echoing in his mind." Not gonna lie, I /did/ shed a tear here because "You are not alone anymore" is a message that only got through this thick skull a year ago, and it feels like Ive lived what the rest of my teenhood was meant to be all in one glorious, insane year ;w; "but there’s a hint of pride in those eyes. " :''''''''D " Edgar didn’t even realize he’s been smiling" JKSLKSK YAAAAAAAAY " “He’s the one looking after me.”"YOU STICK ENDINGS SO WELL AHHHHHHHH THIS IS SO SOFT
((Its is now 2:54, Im almost done spamming you I swear xD Still not over the popcorn+chocolate burn though, that was mcfreakin great yo >w<))
All in all, I need to exert ALOT of self-control to keep from starting the second chapter right now, because its 2:34am, whoops ^^' bUT THERE WAS SO MUCH IN THIS CHAPTER-along with your general individual touch of the short, self-explainitory sentences in self-reflections, and tHE THING WITH RACCOONS NOT HAVING THE COINCIENCE FOR THAT and then making (in theory) in brackets like that sjkskskl you queen-and a reference! To one of the first terrible snacks we discussed TTwTT (Even if I'm just being dumb and that wasnt intentional Im gonna pretend it is shhh) AND RANPO WAS SO ADORABLE with a mcfreaking lollipop in his mouth, sitting in Poe's kitchen like a three-year-old I LOVE THAT. And youalready mentioned that someone pointed out the characterisation and I know I said it before but I'll say it as many times as I need to: You did /so/ extremely well on that, this could have been an addition to the show, and was a wonder to read. Cant wait for tommorrow to read the next chapter :D!!!
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