okay why is this the CUTEST thing i have ever seen though my heart has been melted afjlkdkslajfd
a tale of a princess and a dragon
Main cast are Goncharov himself, his wife Katya (née Michailov), and Andrey
One side character is named Mario Ambrosini. He is described as a “sad boi” and is involved in gambling.
Set in Naples and involving a drug ring/mafia. The plot seems to involve Russian organized crime attempting to get a foothold in Italy.
There is a Boat Scene. Katya survives via resourcefulness.
Andrey and Goncharov have a substantial amount of homoeroticism. Andrey also has an internet in Katya. This forms a true love triangle.
At some point, Katya threatens to shoot Goncharov. This is framed as a Girlboss Moment.
There is also a Beer Bottle Scene.
Katya fakes her death.
every time you see a headline like this
I want you to remember these ones
When you say "Greece" or "Greek", that's automatically referring to Modern Greece and Modern Greek. It's an existing country with a population of around 10 million people. The Modern Greek language is spoken natively by those 10 million along with 1 million people in Cyprus and around 2 more million in diaspora. If you want to refer to Ancient Greece or its history/culture, just add the word "ancient" to it.
The Greek name for the country is "Hellas". "Hellenic" is an adjective used for non-human nouns. Don't call yourself "hellenic" even if you have Greek roots, you're basically calling yourself "Greek thing".
There is no one correct way of pronouncing Ancient Greek as a whole. That language spanned over a thousand years and across places that didn't communicate easily or were outright hostile to each other. It's like claiming that Shakespeare's works should be pronounced with an Australian accent.
Along with the famous 300 Spartans, in the battle of Thermopylae there were also 700 Thespians (not actors, people from the town Thespiae) and according to some sources, also 900 helots (slaves) and 400 Thebans.
The town of Sparta exists in modern day. However, if you visit Greece, unless you actually are from Sparta, do NOT call yourself a Spartan, no matter what school/university you went to. "Spartans" is the name of a far-right, outright neo-nazi political party, so calling yourself that here equals to associating yourself with that.
Greek houses in American campuses sound weird. Do those letters (some of which are wildly mispronounced, btw) even mean anything
Democracy in Ancient Athens was not fair by today's standards. It was mostly a glorified, expanded aristocracy. The "demos" that had the authority to vote only consisted of land-owning Athenian men. If you were a woman, a slave, poor, an immigrant, or a child of immigrants, along with other descriptions I might be forgetting right now, you didn't have the right to participate in the ruling.
Oh yeah, the "birthplace of democracy" very much did have slaves. Some whom were prisoners of war.
Greece is on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula, located in South-Eastern Europe. However, many Greeks are wildly racist and will not admit we're part of the Balkans or Eastern Europe. There are cultural differences due to Greek not belonging in the Slavic languages (the most common language family in Eastern Europe) and for political reasons, but the main reason this distinction happens is very much racism. They prefer to be called a "Mediterranean country" (because then we're associated with countries like Italy and Spain, you know?)
Greece never recovered from the financial crisis of 2008, and has only been going downhill since then. However, the war reparations that Germany never paid Greece for the damages and the deaths it caused in WW2 is estimated to be over 200 billion euros. The German government considers this matter "to be in the past" (since they never paid them, I guess, we can forget about it!), yet is one of the countries that most strongly demands Greece to keep paying back the loans it took over the years from the EU. This is a very painful matter for all of us (especially considering there are people still alive who witnessed the destruction and death the nazis brought to the country, and now they along with their descendants are paying taxes that'll eventually reach German pockets), yet racism centers around hate for other Balkan countries and Turkey. Divide and conquer I guess.
WAIT I WANT AQUIA TO HAVE A ROUTE!!!
Like I played Guy's route purely for Aquia, and then Guy started being- Guy...
Also I'm gonna drag more assumptions onto this.
ALL Voleri characters are vaguely reminiscent of Genshin characters. I do not make the rules. Rio is mildly giving Childe and Thoma is giving, well, mildly Thoma TwT
DISCLAIMER: Everything here is a joke, so if you're offended, sorry 😅
Guy
You need therapy. Also, a part of you was hoping the writers remembered to make him likeable, kinda with a similar energy to Lucifer
Lynt
You like sleepy bois. You also wanna spoil him rotten like a grandma
Toa
You wish you were his therapist. Either that or you're the therapist friend in your squad
Roy
You want a gentleman straight out of a fairytale. You're also pretty basic
Fenn
We get it. You're horny af. There's also a 40% chance you're bisexual
Rio
You like himbos. You also probably had a crush on either Beelzebub or Ed Sheeran at one point in your life
Lance
You like bad bois with a heart of gold. You also want to adopt Christoph. You're also probably a dog person
Dia
You want to spend all day collecting mushrooms with him. You also daydream about living a cottagecore lifestyle with him
Lou
You have good taste
Tino
He reminds you of a grandma. Either that or you're into wholesome bois who are secretly freaky asf
Grayson
You're into the strong, silent, and gentlemanly type
Jasper
You never read his route yet, did you?
Knight
Your life's motto is "Short People Rule!" There's also a 30% chance you're feral asf. You also probably like cats
Thoma
You probably had a crush on Mammon at one point in your life
Aquia
Again, you have good taste. Also, after finding out he's getting a route, you celebrated very loudly. If you play on the English server, you still find the fact that he's getting a route at all is a victory nonetheless
Sherry
You're lesbian asf. You also wonder IF she's getting a route
Violet
Same as Sherry's. You also want her to either suffocate you or step on you. Either way, you'd thank her
I read on Twilight's wiki page that Endo always intended on him having a high paying job (like a doctor or a lawyer) and in the end he chose to make Loid a psychiatrist due to his affinity for psychology.
And can I say. Lawyer Loid was such a missed opportunity. So much comedic potential.
Like. you have Loid Forger, notorious in the firm for winning every case that comes across him, due to his clear and concise arguments and knowledge of the law. Then you look at his home life and see that this man can't win an argument against his four six year old daughter. The minute her eyes turn teary he folds so easily. Like. That's comedy gold.
And I feel like on first meeting Yuri would hate him even more. Like, I feel like Yuri's the type of guy who goes, "a defense attorney? AKA a professional liar?" (← is a cop lying to his sister about his job) and his internal monologue just goes, "what does yor see in him? sure, he's handsome, smart, popular in his firm--" [angrily munching on food Loid made him]
And there's news of a murder on several news channels while they're having dinner one day, and the news agency names the suspect and Loid offhandedly goes, "Oh, my firm handled that" (I have to mention my work life for the mission, so they dont suspect I'm anything but a lawyer), and Yor goes, "I don't think a man his height could have done that. Look at the blood splatter. Had to be someone taller" And Loid's looking at her like: 👁️👁️, and Yor fumbles with, "Oh, Yuri used to love those detective shows when we were kids" and Loid's like, "anything you say <3. do you want some more chicken?"
And, logically, if he's assigned to a popular/high-profile enough firm, there's a higher likelihood of him making contact with high-profile businesspeople (sure they have their own legal teams, but for a consultation or something?) rather than a psychiatrist. (Again, my own opinion)
But the only downside is whenever he pulls some medical shit he cant go, "Oh, I learned that in med school" but the natural excuse can be "oh, i was a sergeant, i learned some basic medical knowledge during the war"
Anyway. Lawyer Loid could have been peak comedy.
frostheim, vagastrom, and jabberwock version♡ see reblog for the other house!
Anyways just thinking about the scene they added in the anime where Loid tells Yor he drinks his coffee black, and then later in the anime we see her give him a black coffee without him mentioning he wanted it.
And how later in the manga we see Fiona criticize Yor giving Loid milk to put in his coffee.
Yet Loid adds the milk to his coffee anyways
This added scene in the anime shows that Yor already knows how Loid likes his coffee. She didn’t give him milk because she forgot how she likes it, but because she’s grown so close to him over the months of their fake marriage that she’s able to recognize his needs without him even needing to tell her
Loid’s stomach ulcers are played as a joke throughout the manga to emphasize how stressed he is about the mission, but this scene shows that Yor has been attentive to him and how his stress has been affecting him. The milk was Yor’s way of trying to help ease his pain, and the new scene they added to the anime really emphasizes how close the two have grown throughout their time living together
the daddy issues are strong in this one
I don't know what it says about Fiona's priorities that she believes fatherhood is beneath Twilight's skills.
(I mean, we know what it says about her.)