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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:24 am
The Cresolae(?) Panel
On The Two Assholes who are Always Dominating the Manga Discussion Oh. Them. The two assholes. One is rich; the other is poor. Those don't make them less of the kind-hearted assholes they are. Also, don't you think the manga discussion gets added several pages instantly when these two appear? These dude are really (in)famous. Great job, reaper-san.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:25 am
History and Involvement in the Plot
Origins and Early Appearances Funny as it may be, it's legitimate to call them sempai and kouhai (yes, I’m talking about the one incident where Cresento went “Sempai~ sempai~” while trying to 'imitate' minghi). Technically, they are: Nicolae was here before Cresento. Nicolae appeared in the Rejected Olympics manga Heir to Darkness as Natasha's contact and best chances at convincing Don Kuro. The amethyst that he gave Natasha apparently was owned by Mama Kuro previously, and we can only assume that, with Nicolae's dialogue in Cabin Fever, he stole got it when he was younger and worked for the Don. This manga is not shy in revealing he's interested in both genders, and he's very much fond of bodily intimacy and money. He later went to appear in the zOMG prequel manga strips, Stranger Danger 1 and 2, and the official zOMG intro manga. In the first titles, Nicolae is seen attempting to shoo off a fortuneteller, but when she says he'll be rich in the future, he lets her be. When the four races engage in chaos, the fortuneteller is also seen running away from everything. As Ian calls out to the woman to stop, Nicolae trips her down. Nicolae pretends to have just been in the way, and here we see that for some reason, he's not that fond of the idea that he's seen as a good guy. He's next seen in the middle of Barton, attempting to sell an obviously real rose he calls, "Alnulurua's Rose", which is supposedly similar to Alruna's Rose. When Blaze comes and shows up with her zOMG rings, Nicolae bends the poor branch into "Alnulurua's Ring". Some people still believe him though. Ian can't believe how people are easily fooled. He later becomes a prominent figure in zOMG, from whom users buy their power-ups from and exchange their loot with. Nicolae loads up his "goods" in his wagon, drawn by his horse Capella, a black and white pony (source: her SDPlus doll) who looks like a draft, smokes her own pipe, and wears a helmet for some reason. They seem to be close pals, though at times it seems that Capella is one cranky equine. This business is called, Back Alley Bargains. Nicolae also triggers the Gramster Goo quest, and this is where we first learn he's a scientist an alchemist. This is probably how he makes the zOMG items too. He also reveals that, though gramsters weren't Animated, but more closely related to the grunnies. G-Corp chemical wastes? I dunno, but Nicolae's pretty sharp. Dude has depth. Fast forward to April 2009. A huge, fancy, “magic” airship descends upon Barton Town in zOMG. Below it is a regally-dressed dark-skinned, white-haired guy in a captain's hat, Captain Cresento, who claims to be thirsted of knowledge of the world around him. He sends users to a quest, or privilege, to ride his airship, the Bifrost, to some fictional islet in the sky called Tlauixcalpantecuhtliopolis... or not. He seems to be the luckiest, most privileged guy in town, as he just acquired such wealth and such airship, and he’s showing it off. Ugh. Let's move later in the year. The Sentinel and the Overseer are stripped of their powers. Overseer becomes Hoboverseer, so Gino avoids him. As Josie helps him up, Overseer sees an airship above them... Cresento and the Bifrost. What's he there for? Showing off. He has an airship and we don't. b*****d. Airships become a thing during Frontier Skies in Summer 2010, though. Anyway, Nicolae has some participation here, too. He sells Santa's fuel cheer engine to Overseer for the ex-god's necklace. What he did with that necklace, we've no idea. Who knows, he might use it later in the plot... As Sen and Overseer build their air tubship, Gaians quickly help them fuel the engine to 75%... and vote for Cresento to crash on the poor excuse of an airship. He does so, and says that he hopes they have insurance, as his own was scratched by theirs... b*****d.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:30 am
History and Involvement in the Plot
Current Manga Saga Part 1 These two assholes are left out of the scene for a while... until the current "Gino becomes a man" saga. Cresento is hired by Don Kuro to kill Gino, just to piss off Zhivago. The captain then hires Nicolae to help him with the job, and here we see that these two can fight and fend off for themselves. We also see both of them having their own way of "playing" with words; Nicolae, humorous, and Cresento, quite formal. The thief doesn't really want to do the job, but... money. Yup. A liar, indeed. As the manga progresses, so do their relationship. Nicolae always does stuff to annoy Cresento, probably out of boredom. This thief is also a drunkard and a liar. The captain, meanwhile, tries to act tough and tries to ignore him. This can be seen as a personality shift for Cresento, who's a smug b*****d towards the commoners. Maybe he saw something in Nicolae...? What that something is, I don't know, though for the meantime, let's say it was that, this crook outwits the captain. I mean, his excuses actually kept Cresento from suspecting anything. Dude saved Gino and Meili, then pretended to have nothing to do with it, and Cresento knew nothing about that. Cresento's hat becomes ruined, perhaps during their stay at Dref Dur... though if you ask me, stuff are just all over the timeline place. He pays a visit to Brennivin, whom he commissioned for his clothes, to have it repaired. Unfortunately, Nicolae is with the cap and he "loses his mind" over the price tags. Cresento tries to negotiate. Take note Brenni calls the conman a "shifty fingers". Also, he calls the two of them, "troll friendboys". I think you and I have the same idea of what he means by that, but anyway. Brenni loses his mind too, when Nicolae gets free from his ropes and attempts to grab the clothes he had presumably grabbed off the racks, previously. The magician-tailor teleports them outside of Dernier*Cri, which makes them fall down to a forest, and crashes the Bifrost as well (though it can be argued Radio Jack did this, given from the vandalism on the deck). Cresento is not happy about the situation, though I'm surprised he didn't blow it off at Nicolae. Nicolae attempts to make up to him, though, through formally introducing alchemy. It's his second... third thing. Cresento seems amused by alchemy. When they get the Bifrost running, they fly to some city and Cresento gets some alchemy supplies. Nicolae loves it. He goes to draw a bigger circle (dude can draw circles better than mathematicians), and says that even Cresento has to take part in the "ritual" because it's bigger. Nicolae 'can't make the element connections' by himself... does that mean, to stabilize the magic science? They sorta fail at this one, though. The recipe explodes, and Nicolae explains this doesn't usually happen. Cresento is next seen brushing his hair, with Nicolae's thought bubble being 'not to ordinary people, at least'. Perhaps this is the first time Nicolae gets a glimpse of Cresento's ear?? Nicolae successfully convinces Cresento to run an alchemy shop in his ship, to get back at Brenni. They're still gonna be on the mission, though, and this is just a side-job... an additional one to Nicolae's wagon downstairs, that is. Whatever Nicolae is actually planning, I've no idea. I still can't connect his cross fingers at the end with anything, other than him grabbing his chance to get closer to the cap, or you know, him getting a chance to make more shady dealings by selling formulae to back alley alchemists. It's not really clear when Lex's takeover of the Backalley Bargains happened, either, but I'd assume it happened while they were still docked at Dref Dur. Nicolae chills at a bar there with the Dref Dur Devils' Boss Mikhail (yeah the bear guy over there), when he receives an e-mail(?!) from Lex: Gold Mountain at Isle of Gambino took his business (and his wagon and his horse) as compensation for his 40mil-debt. Nicolae's bugged because that's not even that much these days (or maybe it had interest?), and that's his house... then he gets an idea. He'll just stay at the Bifrost. Free rent. Free food. Money, money, money (look at those eyes closely). Cresento, until today, has no idea of this, though he has the premonition something bad is happening. (Is it all that bad, though?) While Nicolae is enjoying his stay in the Bifrost, he still does care for his pony, and tells us to go give a package to ‘the horse behind the supermarket.’ I don't know when Cabin Fever takes place, either, though I can say it took place before the two were captured by Edmund. This is their most intimate canon moment on Gaia so far. They're on drinking terms at this point, and as they drink, Nicolae proposes a game, truth or dare. Cresento doesn't want to play it because he finds it childish and stupid, but Nicolae picks truth without the captain asking anyway. Dude seems to want to share about his life and he doesn't know where to start. Out of annoyance, Cresento asks the thief about how someone like him becomes a (in)famous underground personality. It turns out other people made Nicolae's reputation. He does swindle and dupe people out of negotiations, but he only learned that out of the necessity of fighting for provisions with his many cousins. The poor guy's an orphan, and because of his situation at home, he got out ASAP. As a teen, he was joining gigs in operations, like with the Don, with Vladimir, etc., until he decided it was better on his own. He had some adventure of his own, doing jobs, staying out of sight... then he went back to central Gaia (which part of the Gaia map is this, Barton?), 10 years later. That's when he learned he had no reputation, with his name attached to all sorts of stuff, and he just went with it, though he hasn't been caught. Cresento's surprised, though a little doubtful of it, but if we take Nicolae's "nothing gets out of this room" statement, it could be the truth. Nicolae also implies that he's too drunk to lie... or is he? Now it's Cresento's turn, but he's not saying anything about his past. Nicolae isn't really that interested; he's more curious about the guy's ears, which he finds cute. Weirdo, creepy, but sharp. Nicolae goes on to explain that Cresento must be an elf related to the Kuros, though not that directly. Cresento brushes him off, so Nicolae makes him do a dare instead, which was to let the thief touch the elf ear. Cresento objected at first, but perhaps it's because he did ask a truth and got a response that he felt obligated to do the dare. Besides, he expected that it wouldn't be that creative since Nicolae was “drunk.” Still, it was an intimate gesture you don't see every day but with playful lovebirds (from my personal observations). He brushes his hair away, exposes his left ear, and turns that side of his head to Nicolae. Nicolae's amused. He draws near; reaches his hand to the ear and plays with it a little. Cresento turns, Nicolae draws even nearer, and they look like they're gonna share a special sparks moment... but the cap notices his companion is not that drunk, which the thief admits. A little too much in the moment made him slip, maybe? Cresento kicks him out of the room, because it's just manipulation. Nicolae seems happy though, and skips away. The captain is surprised, blushing and holding his ear as if he was just kissed. They seem to hold on to their agreement that nothing is supposed to get out of the room as we don't see them discussing it or thinking about it. Fans scream, a fan thread appears, and this duo becomes the most famous pairing in Gaia not only for their jerk with a heart of gold personality but also their hilarious relationship which Cresento denies and Nicolae confirms.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:34 am
History and Involvement in the Plot
Current Manga Saga Part 2 While they're being funny, on Gino's side, things get serious. Cresento tracks them down when Edmund sends a message to Logan through radio channels. The GOSH crew lands their airship for the night, as it received damage from the encounter with Hephaes, and Ladyhands wants to repair it so their trip will be smoother. Overseer stands watch as the mechanic does his job and Sen, Edmund, and Gino are asleep, but is also sent sleeping when Cresento shoots him with a tranquilizer blowgun. As they get closer to their goal, it becomes more evident that neither the captain nor the thief is fine with what they're doing. Gino wakes up, possibly to get to the bathroom, but he freezes upon seeing the two trespassing their ship, and even more, getting alarmed, when Cresento points the gun. Cresento orders Nicolae to finish the job, but he declines. Cresento tries to do it himself, but for some reason (probably personal morality issues) he can’t, and add to that, Nicolae tries to prevent the captain from pulling the trigger. Their hesitation buys Gino some time to clear his mind, get Ginobucketbroom (wait, what do you call this item), and knock Cresento down. Cresento accidentally fires a shot to the ceiling, which wakes Edmund up and alerts Ladyhands. Edmund handles Nicolae and says that he may be a bad guy but he's not a murderer, while Ladyhands works on how to prevent the two from doing anything funny. Edmund interviews the two of them. He gets nothing useful from Nicolae, and Cresento is prepared for the questions. Edmund finds use for Cresento - oji-san fakes Gino's death to "buy them some time", hopefully. He tells Cresento to give the "evidence" to the Kuros, alone. The captain reveals he was born mixed with them. Nicolae is left with the GOSH crew, as Edmund explains he might slip it up. When oji-san mentions how the thief will go to jail and Cresento get a worse punishment, Nicolae looks worried. He's still trying to get free, though. Fast forward to Cresento's presentation of evidence. He looks calm and composed. He's let in the Kuro compound and led around by Franco, who presents him to Cordell first, before Luca. Cresento is then led to the Don, who looks nastier and worse, and shows his "evidence". His speech seems flawless. Asked of Nicolae, Cresento seems to hesitate at first and gives an equally worried expression, but quickly lies about him. Cresento hurries to his ship, but he is not fast enough. Luca and Nyx merge, and appear to the half-elf, before the captain could get away. Luca, speaking through the merge corners him into obeying his orders, by revealing that he saw through the deception and that he's the reason why Cresento could live this life. He provided work for Cresento's grandfather, and he let them be, though he could've been as jealous and furious as hell because Cresento's line had not been seized by their clan's curse. Add to the fact that Cresento was half-elf, with a human mother who is still alive, so he really is spared from the curse. Threatened with his mother's life, Cresento succumbs to Knyx's orders to get them to Durem. Franco's still tagging along, because Luca. As they fly to Durem, the GOSH crew crashes their ship into the Bifrost to stop it. Gino could've felt Nyx in there, so Edmund ordered Ladyhands to do it. Cresento is the first to rush out, and sees everyone on the deck. Nicolae is just hanging on to the other side of the ship, watching. Nyx doesn't care much, though, and he's actually amused. As the Bifrost is already on track to Durem, he sees no need for companions anymore. He seizes up Cresento first, but throws Franco off first. Nyx holds the half elf above, and lets him fall. Nicolae is sorta fast to act, though. He grabs some rope, ties it around himself, and jumps to save his partner. They're both relieved... but not for long. Edmund reveals Nicolae didn't tie other end of the rope to anything. Oops. Nicolae gives a sheepish grin, while Cresento is astonished. Good thing Edmund grabbed onto the rope before the two went down fully. They're helped up by Edmund, Marius, and Gino, but Nyx shoots their ship down anyway. As the ship goes down, Ladyhands tells everyone to hold onto something. Nicolae holds onto the ship; Cresento holds onto Nicolae. It's a miracle the thief didn't choke being grabbed by the neck. Or maybe it was just one arm. They survive the fall. Cresento looks like he's shaken from that. Nicolae is looking for his cap, which he finds. He winks at Cresento upon doing so; the captain seems to not get it, or exasperated that that's the first thing he's worried about. Nicolae pokes around as the GOSH crew helps themselves up. He finds Gambino's letter to his son, which he gives because they helped him. The two become witness to Gino's transformation. Along with Sen, Nicolae finds that cool. The GOSH crew heads to Durem, while Cresento runs off the other direction. Nicolae follows.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:36 am
History and Involvement in the Plot
Current Manga Saga Part 3 Cresento admits to Nicolae that he's been scared of Kuro since his childhood. Nicolae calms him down, and attempts to get him to fight against Knyx, too, since, man, I know we run away when we know we can't handle s**t but this s**t is more serious than ever before! Cresento may have been convinced, but he says that it's possible that they'll die. Nicolae affirms the fact. Whatever happened between that page and the next page they're in, the half elf has been convinced. He does practice martial arts as seen in his Valentines 2k12 card, but his choice of sport doesn't really help him keep up with Nicolae, who's used to running away from the cops and his scammed displeased customers. They see a unicorn silhouette, but it turns out it's just Brenni and his magical unicorn broom. Brenni doesn't seem as angry as he had been before, calling them shady hands boyfriends and halfwits. Nicolae tells him to give them a ride to Durem, as they tell the story. They arrive, all three of them on the broomicorn, in Durem just as Louie doubts Cordell and her party. Cresento tries to convince the vamp to believe in them, and so does Edmund, who recalls how he tried to deceive Kuro by sending Cresento and Gino’s bloody shirt. Louie gives in to Edmund’s suggestion, making Cresento sigh in relief. Nicolae winks and does a thumbs-up at his partner. See, fancypants? Everything will be fine! This section will be updated as the manga gets updated. Stay tuned!
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:37 am
As Shopkeepers Nicolae, Capella, and Back Alley Bargains As previously mentioned, Nicolae was the shopkeeper for Back Alley Bargains, or BaB. Was. He stayed in Barton Town waiting for stuff to calm down as the Animated fiasco went and -- oops that's not in the same universe. My bad. Anyway. His official zOMG profile says that his wagon is a 'travelling tinker's wagon,' which is not so much a lie, either. It's supposed to look small, but it has a lot of room inside. Of course, because of unavoidable circumstances, it smells of horse... well, pony. Err… whatever. She looks like a big draft, ya know. While it is being pulled by his horse-pony, Capella, he can ride her bareback too. He does risk losing his hat that way, though, and we haven't seen him do that awesome elsewhere than the official wallpaper. Enough of what's outside. Let's take a look at the merchandise. The official zOMG profile says that Nicolae sells 'rare and unusual items,' and that means, zOMG power-ups. He seems to be researching stuff himself, for him to sell such things... or maybe not very much, like how he sends users to give him Gramster Goo. Leave the dirty work to him and the dirtier work to you. Right. The clearest thing here, he wants our money just as Gaia does. Well, it's a business, and Nicolae does business, and let's respect that. Nicolae also converted loot into items from a recipe, the same principle of alchemy. Did he alchemize all our zOMG items? Does Lex alchemize zOMG items too (the feature is still available)?! Nicolae will never tell us... unless we set a price. He also sold the zOMG buddies. He thought that he sold them for prices lower than their value (“deals so good they are literally illegal,” anyone?). Well, it's higher than their value today, now that zOMG's taken down... Speaking of which, when zOMG did shut down, he was used as the host for the best zOMG memory contest (lemme guess... "defib plz"). His merch was also changed to grab bags containing loot, recipes, and crafted items. Nicolae still ran BaB while he was working for/with Cresento. I've heard that it was in the cargo hold of the Bifrost during travel, and was "downstairs" when the airship was docked. Wonders is how Cresento never learned of all those, and more wonders is how Nicolae managed the shop from "upstairs." I bet Capella had emergency shopkeeping skillz, so when Lex took over as representative of Gold Mountain Casino, no doubt she was terribly upset and acted very rudely towards Lex. Cresento, Nicolae, and the Bifrost Alchemy Shop Still previously mentioned was the… grave misunderstanding between Cresento and Brennivin that made the former open up a shop to get back at the latter. Cresento, having taken an interest in alchemy, becomes the Bifrost Alchemy Shop’s main proprietor, with Nicolae most probably assisting him do more advanced alchemy stuff and entertain the customers that the captain refuses to speak with unless for official business. Then, someone asked that Cresento’s store front be decorated too. The marketplace store front, that is. Cresento agreed that there should be something there, and posted up rules that demands we behave ourselves. Cresento announces most of the updates, and if he does it, he’s always telling us about our incompetency in alchemy. You b*****d, we can’t afford some of the ingredients, some of them are so rare, and some of us have really shitty Internet connection that refreshing the page when opening caches takes ages. He also constantly reminds us to go bother Nicolae instead, and he thinks he’s doing an honest day’s work (yeah right, like your work for Kuro is). The good things are that the recipes he tells us of are legit, and that though he’s now a tsun (or more or less a huge hater of Valentine’s and couples especially happy ones), he’s still the same b*****d we met back in April 2009. When Nicolae gives updates, things are more or less illegal, since he still does many things behind everyone’s back, Cresento included. You’re supposed to be talking to him when you’re buying the recipes he… uh… endorses. I have to admit that he’s a master at picking locks and configuring safes. I also have to say that Cresento was wrong and shouldn’t be putting ‘Don’t Touch’ signs – just think of Nicolae as a super curious kid who’ll think it’s a challenge to touch what shouldn’t be touched. Through alchemy updates, we also see some facets of their lives, such as furniture and curtains being unfamiliar to Nicolae (Cresento, stop spending so much), Nicolae keeping Cresento up at night with his stories, and Cresento being aware of some of Nicolae’s sneaky habits and illogical actions.
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:39 am
Other Trivia Nicolae--⊱ His official nickname is Nicu (source: zOMG profile), said to be used by his friends (and the Barton Regulars too, I guess). Apparently, Nico, Nic, and (Baby) Niccy work too. --⊱ He calls his grandfather "grandpapa". Speaking of patriarchal lines, grandpapa and great grandpapa do alchemy too. How about papa? We've no clue about both of Nicu's parents; they've already died. --⊱ When he's pressured, Nicu smokes. If not, he has a weed reed straw hanging from his mouth. --⊱ He cooks. He seems more of a meat lover, since he votes veggies as the food to live without. And speaking of food, he likes beef stew and chocolate cake. --⊱ When he was a boy, having five gold meant living like a king for a week. On other money matters, Nicu tries to make an "occasionally honest living." --⊱ He receives alchemy glitch reports - he says Cresento's too stubborn to believe they exist. --⊱ He also decided that he's the better dancer between him and Cres. --⊱ He once tried to get Cres to get him a sandwich. And that didn't really end well. --⊱ Nicu's so popular that he has a lot of appearances in items and around the site. Cresento--⊱ His name is spelled as how it’s spelled here. C-R-E-S-E-N-T-O. Apparently it's from "crisanto" which means "gold flower." --⊱ He seems to like the dragon, using dragon wings on his ship and one on his cap, and having a carving behind his store counter. --⊱ Speaking of the literal ship, he held the Captain's Cap Design Contest. For him, to be a ship captain, you have to have the "strength, cunning, amazing ingeniuty, courage and--most importantly--a magnificent hat to inspire the loyalty of your crew." I guess it takes more than his hat to get Nicu to be loyal to him /bricked A-ahem, I mean, he gives so much value to the cap, he thinks it's the most important in commanding an airship (though I think he was alone in the Bifrost until Nicolae). And when the results of the contest was out, Cres told us he looks forward to "crushing a whole new generation of aspiring airship captains." b*****d. --⊱ He kept his ears hidden all the time that until development in the manga, no one suspected a thing - heck, even his un-updated zOMG wikia profile lists him as human. --⊱ And about zOMG, he was used to announce some zOMG updates. Some of them have hilarious notes, like him commenting on being too young to die from dealing with the saws (really?). --⊱ He was one of the eight NPCs to have their own category in Gaia's Cosplay Contest in the Cosplay forum. He thinks he's a handsome fellow, which is quite true since he IS tall, dark, and handsome, but then again, who isn't good-looking in Gaia except poor Timmy? --⊱ As stated, Cres hates Valentine's and happy couples. Well, he doesn't like the attention... unless people start praising him and his airship, I guess? But, he can greet people, in a tsunly manner, that is. --⊱ Cres likes buying fancy clothes. Apparently, he also likes bringing in new stuff to his store - not the formulae or the components, but the decors. Nicu noted that there were curtains and a drawer didn't look familiar to him, which meant they were newly-bought. --⊱ He thinks that Nicolae is his 'witless acquaintance' in the alchemy business, spouting boorishness in conversations, always selling formulae behind his back, and complaining and being loud. No wonder Cres always reminds us to go talk to Nicu instead - I guess he can't handle Nicu's noise! Both--⊱ In Nic's Valentine's 2012 card, their toothbrushes (green and red respectively) rest together in Cres' bathroom. Cres' card had him preparing for his martial arts practice. --⊱ I guess everyone knows about the set of four images featuring these two in Ships Happen, which got to be re-featured in CONspicuous' art - Rina's selling DJs and other art of them. Anyway, so about that set, in Dropplr, it was reapersun herself who posted it, with a caption of " my favorite criminals" and a "#imfired" tag, and it had 4592 notes. So damn popular. --⊱ Mingh's shop dialogues. Can those be canon, considering how they seemed to have been tweaked from how she first intended them to be, and considering that Gaia staff approve of these??? --⊱ They've 'glanced' at the Paparazzi thread mag. Cres says they're tabloid lies; Nicu won't confirm anything. --⊱ They seem to have been jokingly referred to as "Nickle-eye" and "Croissanto" among reaper and co, at one point in time. --⊱ Both of them have alternate costumes clothes wardrobe items costumes. But Nicolae's look expensive... did Cresento buy that for him? (Or... had a tailor fit that?)
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:44 am
Discussion gaia_spoons Do you ship them? If so, when did you start doing so? gaia_spoons Has Nicolae's presence in Cresento's life upgrade or downgrade our captain's character? How about the reverse; Cresento's presence with regards to this crook? Why or why not? gaia_spoons What happened between those the two separate pages of Nicolae and Cresento's upgrade appearances in Dark Moon? gaia_spoons Do you think they overshadow other ships? How about NPCs? Why or why not? gaia_spoons While they were going around, on the mission, where did Nicolae put his wagon and Capella, and how did he handle Back Alley Bargains? Did Capella really have her own shopkeeping skillz? gaia_spoons What martial arts does Cresento most likely practice? gaia_spoons Does Cresento maintain his airship alone, or does he get some professional help? gaia_spoons How on earth does Nicolae hide the fact he's already moved in the Bifrost? I mean, doesn't Cresento notice the scent of Nicolae's cigs clinging onto his ship?? Or has Cresento smelled the stench so many times that he just gave up and eventually got used to it??? gaia_spoons At the end of the manga, and if they reach the end, what do you think their roles would be, in all contexts of 'roles'? BONUS gaia_spoons How many puns and jokes were there? Can you name all the references I placed? Bonus Discussion by AnneLaurant
(a.k.a. stupid but still worth it to discuss theories). gaia_spoons Did the fortuneteller in Stranger Danger really see Nicolae's future (with Cresento, I assume), or did she just do that to shoo him off? gaia_spoons Nicolae's rings. Are they ZOMG rings, normal rings, or a mix of both? gaia_spoons Exactly how rich is Cresento and family? Are they richer than Gambino is?! I mean, he's already paying Nicolae, but Nicolae's still stealing from him, and still he doesn't appear financially worried! Add to that, the money is just the Kuros' payment to them... so... exactly how rich are the Kuros?!! gaia_spoons If alternate!Nicu is Father Nic, will alternate!Cres be a wannabe sky pirate his number one fan who is shy and humble and hates to be seen?? gaia_spoons Why does Nicolae appear to not be actively researching on the one... two... three true goals of alchemy? (a.k.a, gold, elixir of life, philosopher's stone) Wait; will both he and Cresento discover these together??? WAIT. Did Gambino use alchemy to get rich in just one day?!!!!
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:30 am
The Ultra Super Duper Productive Contests for This Panel
⊱ For Cres Let's make him laugh... either because it's really funny or horribly pathetic. Come at me, I mean, him with your best/worst pick-up lines ever. It'll be fun, I assure you. It can be punny. It can be totally sweet. How would he laugh at us, I wonder, hmmm... Mechanics: --⊱ It's okay if it's not original. --⊱ Multiple entries allowed. --⊱ Post your entries in this thread with the following info: [b]LAUGH DAMMIT[/b]
Pick up line/s:
Do you think it/they will work?: ------------------------------------------
⊱ For Nicu Let's make him cry... either because it's really heart-wrenching or hilariously stupid. Come hither and tell me how to make this man cry. Aside from sprinkling so much dust over his head. It can be a sad story, or just a series of actions. Mechanics: --⊱ This is not a fanfiction contest, just to clarify. You're just suggesting me on how to make Nicolae cry. /imsoevil --⊱ Multiple entries allowed. --⊱ Post your entries in this thread with the following info: [b]YOU WILL CRY[/b]
How to make him cry:
Do you think it'll work?: ------------------------------------------
⊱ And for the two of them... FIND ME THE BEST COUPLE HAT EVER. Then, tell me why they wouldn't own it. (HA.) (Note: These are two separate contests.) Mechanics for the couple hat: --⊱ It has to be your own drawing. --⊱ Digital/traditional is accepted. --⊱ Multiple entries allowed. --⊱ Post your entries in this thread with the following info: [b]BEST. HATS. EVER!![/b]
The Hats: [img][/img] [img][/img] If you put them in a single file, just make sure both designs are fully seen.
Which one is for whom to wear: Mechanics for the reason for not owning the couple hat: --⊱ The hats you refer to may or may not be your drawing. BUT, you must credit whoever owns the images and designs. --⊱ The reasons "Because", "Why not?", and all of those likes are not acceptable. --⊱ Multiple entries allowed. --⊱ Post your entries in this thread with the following info: [b]YO YOU CAN'T HAVE YO HATS[/b]
The Hats: [img][/img]
Image credits to: [url=]Here[/url] Even if it's yours. Go and advertise your tumblr/deviantArt/other pages! XD
The Reason: is youuuuu.... --------------
Winnar! Best Pick-up Line receives: ⊱ Best Tearjerker receives: ⊱ Best Couple Hat receives: ⊱ Best Reason for not Owning the Best Couple Hat receives: ⊱
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