The King In Yellow By Eclectixx

The King in Yellow by Eclectixx

Also Orga! I mean Orga is super awful and comes with brainwashing and all, but like, Yuuji got his own Rider Gear and it was badass! AND he didn't join Smart Brain of his own free will! Or torture Takumi! So pluses there?

y’know what? you’re absolutely right. we should just accept paradise lost as the one true faiz canon. it’s 10x better than the show, anyway.

we’ve got mari wielding a machine gun, kusaka dying within the first 5 minutes, keitaro as the kaixa we deserve, kaidou actually expressing care for yuka, and murakami’s weird head in a jar. what more could one need

you know where it came from very well madam

Ooo, you’re absolutely right, zryken. 8D Not to mention I seem to have a fondness for trenchcoats anyway. :x

Y’know, when I think about it, I can’t place where that fondness actually came from, but I’m okay with it. ♥︎

Ah~! Thank you for the comment! ^ o^ ♥︎

There is a simple solution to this! The Takumi from Paradise Lost is now canon, everyone else go home.

so yongou seemed to be presenting an AU where takumi was alone on the hill at the end - maybe a universe where mari & keitarou are gone, too? though that’s a little much even for faiz. so i’m guessing it’s one where he wasn’t somehow cured of the “all orphenochs will die” thing, and so went off on his own like a dying animal would. poor puppy 8(

but i suppose this and the canonical end of faiz could actually be one and the same, if we assume that the screencaps above are the actual memory, while this:

was just something he imagined in order to make dying a little less awful. imagining his friends are there, that his body is no longer falling apart, and talking about dreams one more time before closing his eyes with a smile

especially since the camera then pans back to show the same black material used in his fight with kiba (which had seemed to accentuate how something was “off” and wrong about the whole situation)

and which is later used, of course, in yongou, where takumi is the one causing time to repeat & distorting the world from how it “should be”

And then the Ninningers showed up

"We heard there was a huge stupid machine to trash!!! Point us at it!!!"