He's a special Megid. Doesn't really attack any folk besides one that actually poses a threat. And with Kyomu, he's basically immortal x2!

I think it'd be fun if he joins up with the swordsmen as some sort of wildcard auxiliary along with Ren. By having Kyomu, he is virtually a swordsman like them now.

I've been feeling the same! I'm still a few episodes behind, and I liked him well enough before, but ever since this Ren subplot has come up, I really started liking him, like second-favourite-character-in-the-show sort of liking him. I wasn't so hot on this special, but Desast was absolutely the stand out here and I kind of started to have this feeling when watching this that he was a real antihero.

If the special was by like anyone else, I'd just dismiss it as him being out of character, but because it's like by the main guy, I believe, I have to assume there's something more going on with Desast... plus, you know, he does have a red scarf.

Thank you for reading it! This late in the show I'm walking that fine line between not contradicting previous things I've made up on the spot and trying to incorporate themes from Saber's late game, so it's a delicate business. Still, I really just wanted to talk about Desast here, because, like you, I'm kind of fascinated with him and I'm hoping he pulls through and becomes something more than he is. I don't need him to be a good guy per se, but I've got my fingers crossed that he becomes an ally of sorts, even if that's only for his own agenda.

When this show first started, I could not have imagined that I would be rooting for him so bad, and yet here we are, lol.

Yeah, Desast is a fun guy.

Having seen where they’re taking him next, I’m looking forward to it.

XII.
"Kamen Rider Saber" flavoured
A weapon, a tool, an object; transformed into the war mazine's sword, Sawada Rio finds eirself unwillingly confronted with memories of the past.

https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonesmev...b7c42bd4b5.png

No ide aid this chapter was meant to be sad, but that’s the vibe I got.

Everything I write is meant to be sad, lol. Sad is literally my genre, hahaha. (but thank you for putting up with this!)

Yeah I can relate. My main genre is “put the protagonists through hell to get their happiness”. AVX has so far avoided it, but after my current three-parter (and the bonus chapter I intend to put up today/tomorrow), it’ll be there in full force for at least three episodes (not a multi-parter, but still interconnected).

I can't remember who put the idea in my head, although I suspect it was something to do with the magic realism movement or Clive Barker, but I've always tried to follow the advice that you should try and depict normal people having normal reactions to extraordinary situations in this kind of genre, that you should always strive to make your characters believable first and then that kind of detail makes all the nonsense you layer on top slightly more palatable.

Domain of Decay
Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, Kamen Rider Saber
Porcupine World, that’s what she had heard the shambling figure called. Her hand had been in her bag, reaching for the Lip Rod, ready to transform the moment she had caught sight of it. (Each week I challenge myself to come up with stupider and stupider ideas. Look, I just wrote this because I really like Kamen Rider Black #31. I'm sorry.)

https://i.imgur.com/fOTW5yg.png

I mean, the Tojitendo have done kashiwa mochi cravings, multiple suns, game of tag, snails and recycling as monster themes and we’ve got an 80s nostalgia monster coming up, so a porcupine is strangely plausible by that standard.

Though I like the idea that Yodonna has a trio of looney fangirls pulling their own vigilante act.