Mind boggling to me that most people don't actually recognize the true weight of what Inpax did to Matt and Juan.....
With Matt specifically you've got the age thing and the fact that he was certainly a child when he and Inpax, a whole adult woman, got together but it's not like Juan being 19 was much better. Technically he's legal when they're together. but he's a child star. and she must have known him before he was 18.
And then you get into the power dynamics of it all. Dating your manager??? "Dating"???? Being groomed to think you love the person that has a major hand in your public reputation, your appearances, your career trajectory...... Inpax didn't want boyfriends, she wanted boys—BOYS. NOT MEN.—that she could sculpt into something that benefited her. The manager of a star, that's what she wanted.
I just. I really don't think people talk about her enough. This woman was not the victim in her situation!!!!!! "Oh Matt was a bad boyfriend" . the child. the child who has spent his youth on screen. was immature and not the best romantic partner for a woman that's bound to be mid-twenties at least ? that is so shocking . i can not believe the kid is acting like how a kid would act . -_-
Anyway . Matt and Juan deserved better.
anyone else think about the fact that celeste inpax was older than matt engarde and also his manager, and maybe juan called off the wedding bc he found out his fiance had been like. grooming the last guy she worked for? cuz im fairly sure juan was an adult by the time they started dating (tho theres always the chance he was still a minor), and i just. i know how they meant it, but it always came across to me as “matt casually mentions how he and celeste got together when he was 16, and juan decides maybe he shouldnt marry her actually”
i think about this constantly
glasses
taking a behavioral pharmacology class for my psych degree? no. taking a behavioral pharmacology class to write a scientifically accurate matt engarde overdose.
will powers being in universe a big ugly hairy guy (funny to a western audience who without fail go ‘hugh jackman !!’ upon first seeing will powers) in a show about fighting and his trial unmasking him and making him unpalatable as a male lead and getting him fired by global studios and then him being replaced within the year by a significantly younger public-facing pop idol whose show is about a love triangle is incredibly interesting to be an almost totally unremarked upon background event. same for investigations indicating that global studios went full scorched earth on nickel samurai after the engarde scandal not only dropping the character completely and going back to the steel samurai but turning to kaiju movies instead. creator of four hour ‘the nickel samurai: the boom and bust of a franchise’ video essay about how the lead being a murderer was really the least of the show’s problems revealed to be edgeworth wearing a steel samurai mask and using a voice changer after gumshoe walks through the back of a shot
obsessed with engarde dropping his benign idiot persona to reveal that he’s evil and your immediate assumption being ‘oh he was pretending to be stupid as part of his persona he’s actually smart’ and then the game wasting no time at all in saying no he’s still incredibly stupid he’s just also evil
some of my favourite blue lock characters!!
kunigiri has had my heart since like the first few episodes of bllk and i still have faith in them especially after chigiri went to search out kunigami after the bm/mc match like. their story isn't over.
and although yeah this might be kind of unrealistic unless we get both of them playing on the u-20 team at the same time i still want to have hope or at least write a fanfic. because. just.
so we obviously know chigiri's nickname since the beginning has been "princess" and kunigami's goal for himself was always to be a hero which he has since given up/been forced to give up since entering the wildcard, and yes he gets referred to as "cyborg hero" & "cynic hero" etc. but never "hero" on its own anymore.
and because the chekov's gun that is chigiri's acl tear scares the shit out of me, what if chigiri has an outright reinjury or at least the heartstopping scare of one (if chigiri gets hurt for good i won't be able to handle myself) and it's this damsel in distress moment that prompts kunigami to return to his hero identity (because it's still there inside him, he's just buried it out of necessity).
i need this to happen. please. please let kunigami want to be a hero again and please have it be because he wants to protect chigiri please give this to me.
hobie motherfuckin' brown!!!!!!
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