thinking about how in episode four after angel yells at husk. husk realized two things and then did them.
he first realized that he went about looking at angel all wrong, and shared a piece of his own painful past to rectify that. he recognized someone going through what he's going through, and shared a piece of his past to get angel to realize that too.
and secondly, husk doesn't try to comfort angel about it. he knows that the last thing anyone in angels position wants to hear is empty comfort, and he realizes that. so what he says in response to that realization is this:
"You've lost your way, you think your life is wrecked, well let me just say you're correct."
he AFFIRMS angels feelings, because husk IS in angels position. the song isnt husk taking a jab at angel when hes down. its an acknowledgement of his pain, which is EXACTLY what angel needed.
sure a solution to the problem would be nice and probably preferred, but a solution is just NOT possible right now, so the next best thing husk can do is acknowledge that pain and tell him "yeah, its fucked up, and its okay to be fucked up about how fucked up it is."
"There was a time I thought that no one could relate, to the gruesome ways in which I'm damaged, but letting walls down it can sometimes set you straight..."
because they're both survivors, and husk knows that being able to have someone to lean on while you're going through something thats impossible to escape from is the best way of coping with it. and even then, he doesnt make fun of angels coping mechanisms. angel can drink and do drugs and have sex all he wants, husk doesnt care.
"It's okay to be a-" "coked-up dick-sucking hoe?" "Baby that's fine by me."
but husk wont let him self destruct with these coping mechanisms. he wont let angel actually hurt himself, because theres a difference between coping via it, and using it to hammer the hurt in more, and the only time husk stepped in with angel was when he knew angel was in danger of hurting himself with it.
fuck. theyre both losers man. FUCK!
Vaggie:
Husk:
Angel Dust:
Charlie:
Alastor:
Niffty:
The fight scene analysis
I LOVE this scene!
So lets do it~!
We start with a barrage of bullets from the shark gangsters/loan sharks (if ya know, ya know). Husk and Angel are taking shelter behind a car when we start.
Husk has his eyes on the sharks, hand up to protect Angel. Angel has his eyes on Husk.
"Stay down. I'll deal with this."
We also have one of Angel's posters in the background. This is the Angel we and Husk are familiar with.
Husk pulls some cool knife throwing via papercut cards and actual loaded dice.
I'd like to point out the poster of Valentino in the back. Husk against Valentino shows us how different he is in regard to Angel. Val beats, assaults and exploits Angel. Husk risks himself to protect Angel without a second thought. This was seen earlier in the bar when he stopped Angel from being roofied and helped him escape the sharks earlier on. Val would probably have just charged the sharks money by the hour and sold the footage.
But this is where that earlier shot comes into play. Angel is more than his porn star persona. And he shows us and Husk that via crackshot into a nostril.
After shooting the shark into an actual puddle, Angel helps Husk up, continuing the theme of both supporting each other from the "Loser, Baby" duet right before the fight.
Angel goes full old school mafia, placing himself between Husk and the sharks with excessive force, switching the protector role with Husk.
But Husk joins in with more loaded dice. Notice his wings again. Angel has an arsenal of guns and rains bullets on the sharks, but Husk's wings are spread wide to protect his back.
Both are taking pleasure in the very one sided battle now that they've joined forces, the tension lessened just by each other's presence. (Vaggie was right.)
If Angel was wearing makeup to cover his black eyes from Val, its gone from the gunpowder, explosions and blood splash zone. Husk doesn't relax until the sharks stop moving, still on alert.
"Heh...well...That wasn't something I expected to see." He says to Angel, taking a breath and smiling at him.
And Angel tries to smooth his blown about, blood covered hair and replies "Like I said, you don't know me. Sex aint the only thing I'm good at." Angel is showing us a glimpse not only of himself...but of Anthony. And it seems as if they're blending into the person he is now.
And Husk has gotten his point across. This mess of a man covered in blood, soot and dirt...black eye, messy hair and clothing...the man who just decimated a gang of men and had his back...smiling through the violence and standing tall...
"Good to know. Cause this guy..."
"Ain't half bad."
This is who Husk wanted to see.
Angel Dust.
A Very Human Moment (Part 1)
if yβall ever want to see a part 2 this better do numbers
would you still love me again?
They'll dance and fly and sing and kiss and-- ππππππ
A 3-page comic inspired by a post by @wazzi2ya. I would make an "Opps my hand slipped" joke but this is too much time and brain power to even pretend like I could make this on a whim.
Takeaways: Comics are a bitch to make, Angel looks good at every angle and Husk absolutely has a Vulnerability Kink.
ok but bsd chapter 114 revealing the flipside of the soukoku dynamic in all its glory like *chef's kiss*
turns out that when the mission's (almost) done and you put skk in a room with no witnesses they just become each other
dazai is the one unable to stay still, agitated and wearing his emotions openly and very much stressing about a plan he can't understand (how the tables do turn), literally YELLING and RUNNING of his own violation and doing actual labor of pulling out "fyodor" from beneath a whole ass helicopter while injured without asking for help because the brawns of the team is actually secretly a black cat character
insane how chuuya makes dazai look like the overactive dog archetype here like Mister Gravity Control and I Crack Walls & Chains With One Kick is just sitting full-on cheek on fist poker face watching his beanpole of a partner struggle. his health bar is like full too besides the brief drowning stint meanwhile he himself shot dazai like three times after he crawled out of a crashed elevator
(chuuya is actually such a little shit it's amazing like it was kinda shown in him just letting kunikida blow himself up without even trying to take on tecchou or as if he couldn't just fly the helicopter away with his ability? the pm's trump card, stronger half of soukoku? mans said "boss told me come get you" and by god that is the only job he will do, overtime means nothing to him because he can't read, what a king)
chuuya is literally only willing to do the BARE minimum it's hilarious like he's done his part, he's given the Oscar-winning vampire performance of a lifetime, now he's pulling a dazai-at-the-ADA and simply refusing to work like. chilling in the back while dazai monologues and fyodor dies. bouncing sigma like a tennis ball. chilling a corner while dazai brainstorms. leisurely following dazai's running. chilling in the back while dazai huffs and puffs to pull out the body.
the biggest bsd plot twist is that soukoku on and off the battle field just switch roles for who's lounging like a bored princess while the other toils and actually does the work. if they both ever actually work on something at the same time yokohama would probably explode.