All posts by Accounty the Sequel

No, it's working now - we talked it over with some admins, apparently the blog comments had accidentally been turned off, but we got it fixed.

I've been trying to give a yes, but for some reason, the comment section won't load for me and so I can't cast a vote.

The fact we see a ton of bodies in the lake plus all the body parts (primarily horns, but also stuff like Chaz's row of teeth) he has mounted on the walls from the people he killed is a pretty clean indication of how many people he murdered, I feel, at least for our purposes.

Crimson is a serial killing mob boss who had his wife murdered and forces his son to help toss bodies in the lake and tries to have him shoot a victim himself. He has a hefty kill count, he's definitely not a standard abuser.

Okay so I had a discussion about it on Discord and I think it might not be mitigating?

Essentially, given the scene indicates, while he may feel some kind of remorse given the weird trailing off thing he does, he's actively trying to bury it and assert himself as remorseless, and just goes on with killing people anyways, kinda like Bill Cipher. I might try a neutral proposal on PE first and see how that goes? It's a very weird case.

IIRC I think we're leaning more on straight than silly.

Slapstick moments aren't really DQingly comedic. Plenty of PEs have that.

No strong feelings on Custard, but I do have concerns with Burning Spice.

He's a total dick and no RQs in-story... but there's a weird bit of dialogue he can have in-kingdom with Nutmeg Tiger that has implications I'm unsure how to judge.

I don't think it actually really ever comes across that way in writing, nor am I entirely sure it was meant to be too sympathetic? It's played as incredibly petty outside of that single scene, and the entire Brighter sequence shows his general inability to work with literally anyone without backstabbing them even before Alastor rejected him. Hell, the fact we get an earlier flashback after getting the sympathetic flashback I think is enough to make the sympathy less prevalent, per se?

Eh

Not being able to laugh isn't harming Melvin's agency, it's a joke about him being a spoilsport and he doesn't have to do evil just because he can't laugh.

Zapp is actively concocting a revenge plan against her dead cat for dying, I wouldn't exact call that mourning lol, she wants to make it suffer more (somehow)

When Baljeet is told his plan "sounds suffocate-y", he notes that he will "disintegrate that bridge when he gets to it", indicating he had some plan to stop everyone from dying.

Yeah, him and Rosie I think are both the primary MB potentials at the moment, IMO.

^^ Ehhh, I'd say Alastor passes. He has a ton of a corpses in his house in the flashback we see to conduct the ritual to commune with Rosie, and Rosie notes she doesn't know how many times he'd have to have tried (by killing more people). All when he was just a human, too.

I figured he wouldn't hit given pet redeeming qualities are rarely subverted... boy was I wrong, he fires the laser near the shark repeatedly while trying to kill Alastor and then doesn't care he might blow the city up with the shark right there. I think he ultimately lands, yeah.

The video game is in a separate continuity with less comedic sociopathy.

He should be good.

I think Doombringer should keep just given how she's a straight-up serial killer lol, given most villains tend to go more "grand scale" in crimes rather than more grounded serial murder (like all the planet-busting people get up to).

Evil Unalaq is a shoe-in too, he's outright an eviler parody of an already PE villain lmao

Can't speak too much on the others given lack of familiarity, but those two are golden for Silly IMO.

Really, I'm only fine with them because outright attempted mass murder in such a light-hearted franchise is so jarring that it crosses past what would be "expected" of the baseline.

Is that a gag? That comes across to me more as just another particularly grim detail of the sequence - they're having the child read his last rites before horrifically murdering him.

I think he's fine for straight, the "death chamber" thing is a genuinely grim scene given the wacky time period.