mfw I read the new episode and I have to wait another week

mfw I read the new episode and I have to wait another week

And wait two weeks before I can talk about it here

u/pepperemoji — 13 days ago

Slice of life?

Aside from the supernatural elements of hellhounds, demons, and the underworld, this has to be the least slice of life thing yet: Buying a condo in a VHCOL area like San Diego (or SoCal in general) all in cash without a mortgage because you don't want to lose a bidding war due to pride. Ema is the only sane person in this universe.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago

Leon's Upperworld age Pt. 2

As an addendum to my previous post, are the denizens of the underworld also demons as well? Ozzi is a demon, and he is drawn blacked out with a white outline. Ozzi explicitly states he is ageless and immortal. While Leon doesn't explicitly rejects himself as a demon, he does make the distinction that he is a hellhound as if there was a meaningful distinction between a demon and a hellhound. Leon is never observed drawn in the same artstyle as Ozzi, the bear butcher demon, and the meter maid demon. They appear like other upperworld denizens because they are undercover.

Now Anubis chastises his men about how mortality is not contagious, which would imply they are immortal too. If they are demons then why aren't they drawn in the same artstyle as Ozzi? There's also no reason to be undercover in the underworld so an upperworld disguise isn't needed. The implication of this is that all underworld denizens are in fact demons, are immortal, and thus ageless which would include Leon.

Sky's concerns about Leon's age isn't baseless. In fact Leon could be some eldritch Lovecraftian horror that existed since the beginning of creation who just so happens to manifest in the form of a hot hunky wolf to service our cute rabbit twink.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago

Speculation on the Dev-Jake Arc

I think Jake and Dev used to be former boyfriends, ex-lovers, but an unequal relationship. Jake could possibly be Dev's oneitis, or the one true love that young teenage Dev thought he was. How they met was explained in the Patreon content. Jake on the other hand may not be feeling so strong about Dev and possibly conflicted over his same sex attraction. He cheated on Dev with a woman, possibly the same one he ended up marrying. They fell out and went their separate ways. Dev might have developed a codependent relationship on Jake and taken this particularly hard which is why he tries to distance himself from intimacy into adulthood. He does not want to feel the same pain he felt when Jake broke up with him which could explain his detachment from pursuing relationships with other men beyond a casual hookup.

When visiting ultrasportsextreme.com and viewing the tabloid article about Jake, it mentions the scars on his shoulder are claw marks, and how he got into a fight with a snow leopard back in university. It also mentions how Jake isn't as faithful as he wants to publicly appear. The snow leopard mentioned in the article is undoubtedly Dev since they both acknowledged it. When Jake shows up on Dev's doorstep, he welcomes him in which is odd for an ex-boyfriend who might have taken a breakup particularly hard. It's also odd how Dev wears Jake's jersey in the Halloween episode if he was truly over him, as it was a reminder of him. Maybe he hopes to rekindle a past codependent relationship with Jake which is why he so easily bent into Jake's gluttony, or maybe

I could only see this as a possible explanation for Dev's sudden change in character from the ripped responsible big brother figure to Sky, Leon, Jax, Zeb, Red to a 2 month shut in chub who threw away his disciplined fitness lifestyle solely because he wants and is granted Jake's approval. I don't see how his character could be assassinated so quickly unless there was a good reason for it.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago

Leon's Upperworld age

Leon claims to be 26, but this is relative to time in the underworld. When Sky made a remark about old Dayton USA arcade machines, Leon quips back questioning why Sky called it "old". In the underworld, Daytona USA was a recent release in arcades. So to Leon, Daytona USA is actually new. Daytona USA came out in 1994. Leon's house number is 1968. 1968 plus 26 is equal to 1994, the same year Daytona USA was released.

Now that could be just entirely coincidence, but let's say it's not a coincidence, that the house number is actually the relative year that Leon would have been born in the Underworld. That would effectively make Leon's Upperworld age 58.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago

Summerville Aftermath

Not trying to leak the plot of the Summerville arc, but given what transpired during the arc it's kinda odd how Sky and Leon just never mentioned it again. The arc is canon and so should exist within the main slice of life narrative. Leon should also be more concerned or alarmed since it's his family, and distant relatives, who are guardians of the underworld. It also has broader implications between Sky and Leon’s relationship. It’s supposed to be a spinoff, but it seems like it exists in its own continuity.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago

Ezra

Will Ezra become more fleshed out as a character or is he destined to be a minor character like Ted? I'd like to see some of the hijinks he gets into interacting with 2026 technology, since he perpetually lived in the 1980s in the underworld, during his recon scouting mission for Leon's parents's visit to the upperworld. He also made a reference about his ex, and the rabbit helmet which could imply his ex is also rabbit, which seems like a loose narrative thread and odd detail to include that could be expanded on.

u/pepperemoji — 2 months ago