Words cannot express how much I find radiosilence hilarious, but drawings can
First comic in like 2 years wow
Hoping ‘not talking’ devolves into the cattiest behavior early on in season 3
Crowley: Muriel, can you tell the *Supreme Archangel* that this is no longer his domain so I don’t have anything to say to him
Aziraphale, literally 5 feet away: Really? This is beyond childish.
Muriel, standing between them: Supreme Archangel, Sir, the demon Crowley has said that since this is-
Aziraphale: Yes, thank you dear, I can hear him.
Then literally a minute later:
Aziraphale: Muriel, you can tell Crowley that I was only doing my job-
Crowley: And you can tell *His Holiness* that his job is the reason that we’re doing this bloody ‘saving the world’ thing again
Muriel: Uh-
Aziraphale: Muriel, tell him that I’m using MY JOB to try and stop it
Crowley: OH WELL THATS ALRIGHT THEN
Bungou Stray Dogs is just anime Scooby Doo.
if there's one thing this last episode has affirmed for me about Alastor it's that he FUCKING HATES being reminded that he's not the most powerful creature in hell.
Like, he hates being ignored by Carmilla when she says she doesn't care why he was gone
He hates Lucifer ON SIGHT
He threatens to KILL Husk when he dares to mention that Alastor is working for someone more powerful than him
and now this.
Alastor freaking out because he almost died. Something almost killed him. He can fucking die. There is something more powerful than him out there. And it's not something he can ignore or brush off because it almost killed him.
Alastor hates the reminder that he's not as powerful as he tells people he is. He isn't indestructible, he isn't invincible. And he fucking hates that.
So we all know this scene, right?
And we know how Dazai tries to handle it by pretending to be a scared kid and Chuuya interrupts him to challenge the guy to a fight, because I have been thinking about these tactics recently.
Dazai is not really mafia at this point, this is his first mission. He's still somewhat naive to the world of gangs, even if he's witnessed it, he's not lived it like Chuuya has. This tactic of acting like a scared little kid, definitely feels like something Dazai pulled when trying to get away with things around regular adults. I mean, look how easily he turns on those tears, it's practiced, he's used to it working.
He's responding to what the guy is saying, he calls them "kids" and looks confused as to why kids are here. Dazai then selects the defenceless innocent act as a way to get out of being held at gun point and possibly get information.
He's used to this kind of thing working, but the fact is, if Chuuya hadn't interrupted him, it most likely wouldn't of. Because Dazai doesn't know the type of enemy he's up against, he doesn't know these people are willing to cross the line and harm kids yet.
Look at these panels closely. The panel before Dazai starts faking crying the gun is pointed directly at him,
whilst he starts his crying act in the panels previously mentioned, the gun is still squarely on him, and afterwards
In the top panel it is still pointing at him, until Chuuya speaks. His tactic isn't working. The enemy never wavers or lowers his gun, he either doesn't believe Dazai or doesn't care.
Chuuya sees that. He sees the gun still pointing at Dazai. He looks annoyed in the first panel above because this man, as far as he knows, is pointing a gun at an innocent kid.
And as soon as Chuuya speaks, the gun shifts to him. Chuuya, King of Sheep, protector and shield. A boy so used to defending those weaker than him, he smiles when he's able to get the attention of a man holding a gun. As far as Chuuya is concerned at this point, Dazai might as well be as defenceless as the rest of The Sheep. Sure, he has his ability No Longer Human, but what good is that against a grown man with a gun? So Chuuya defends him the same way he defends his friends.
And he makes sure to keep that attention on him whilst he tests this man. Yeah, we know he puts his head to the gun to transfer his ability, but I also think it's important that Chuuya waits in this moment. He doesn't just take this guy out because of a perceived threat, he waits until it's confirmed. Chuuya doesn't throw the first punch because Chuuya doesn't start fights, he fights back. Just like The Sheep said, he hits their enemies back a thousand times harder.
Dazai complains Chuuya interrupted him here, but Dazai was completely out of his depth in this moment. Chuuya didn't ruin his plan, he saved his life.
So bold of spn to say "Dean's happy ending is he gets to be in Heaven with his loved ones" when there's a literal episode in season 5 where Dean goes to Heaven, learns that they're perfect pockets catered specifically to the person's needs and want's AKA HEAVEN and then gets in a debate with Pamela about "dying not being so bad" where he rejects Heaven and tells her that getting to live and free will is still better than playacting your ideal moment on loop.
Dean wanted a chance at living so bad and never got it because he was too busy acting out the roles handed to him and by the time he finally has a chance to live and make of his life what he wills he's too miserable to try (and it's already been taken away from him anyway) and gets blasted up to heaven. Like, yes, Heaven isn't so lonely anymore now the walls have been torn down but he still never got a chance to LIVE and experience and grow because Heaven is still static.
SPN said "death is a cop-out not a happy ending" and then ten years later they killed the character that believed it the most.
Rest of the comic is under the cut, because LONG :0
Also! Content warnings for body horror, guns, blood(although in black and white) and just...horror in general tbh
Operation "Fall of the Hooded Hawk": For situations where one half of skk has to shoot without having clear vision, and relies on the direction of their partner. In this case, Chuuya was giving Dazai coordinates of where to fire by tapping against his ear. (It's kind of like a trust fall)
I scripted a whole followup conversation with more explanation of what exactly the mirror was, and just general context, but this comic has gotten so long that I'm gonna write that as a short scene in prose, because it's mostly dialogue and if I try to draw it all then I think my hands will secede from my body lol — I'll probably be able to get that done in the next couple of days. But in the meantime, thanks for reading! :D
(3/5/24 edit: Followup convo is done!)
The fact that technically the first angel sam and dean meet is gabriel of all people will never not be funny
Guys
They built him a whole new radio tower to come home to. They knew his dramatic ass was just off licking his wounds.
Charlie: We should have a nice room ready for Alastor when he gets back!
Lucifer: Ughh, fine. Just put it on the opposite end from me
The good omens fandom currently: