One For All | Prime Defenders Season 2 Episode 39

was sitting in the waiting room for a terrifying Yale audition and put on this podcast to calm my nerves. HOLY FUCK WAS THAT A MISTAKE (fr tho, AMAZING FUCKING EPISODE - god im in love with this podcast and the boys’ storytelling abilities are just both hilarious and heart wrenching, thank you for just everything… never stop rolling <3)

weasel

( personal theories: a) purely just something that happened in meta before it got worldbuilt out to become a generational name and now there has to be retroactive justifications b) just something from a faint memory in the haze of his first death? just a lingering feeling, just a name that felt right? Something like fate, or the will of the Wisps, or... c) Purely Coincidental Oh Hey I Decided to Call Myself the Wisperer Because It's A Cool Play on Words, haha you guys in the spirit world also call what I am (and yknow I didn't know what I was) the Wisperer? That's funny I guess I don't have to change my name to reflect the weight of my perceived responsibilities now (if I ever wanted to do that at all) hahahaha d (this is where it goes off the rails and I am probably not seriously theorizing anymore) ) there's some kind of Spirit World Language Auto-translation shenanigan going on, and while everyone is *hearing* Mallard and Kemuri call William--and everyone before William--a "Wisperer," maybe there's some wild automatic translation system that's allowing everyone to understand spirit world speak that's approximating the meaning of their (Mallard and Kemuri's) words, and there's another word in the Spirit World's Language that refers to the Wisperer(s), but the auto-translation system is just grabbing the closest Prime/English word for it that would make sense to the (very living) cast's ears, and of course that has to be the word that William chose for himself, which is Wisperer, and-- [DEVOLVING INTO INSANITY] e) help )

yvmao

(wiping tears after finishing this episode again for the fourth or fifth time) (shoving the heartaching violently down into a box from whence it will explode more violently later) (putting on nerd glasses breathing copium) So, I finally had a (coherent and non-blubbery) thought after all of this, Did we ever really find out how William initially chose the Wisperer as his hero name? Like, hear me out-- It's somewhat implied, through Mallard Conway and Kemuri's dialogue, that this is a name passed down through generations. When William inherited those powers, he didn't automatically learn of the name as well, did he? Who would've told him? And, afraid of his powers and the wisps as he was, there's no way he would've taken the name if he knew the weight that it carried, right? This probably isn't a particularly important or interesting question, but it won't leave my mind now that it's come into it :'P thoughts?

yvmao

finally almost caught up and jesus this killed me in all the best ways i’ve never felt such intense terror and relief in one episode

Pine_Tree

sobbing again

liquidbronz

fuck ing hell

MadKiska

this was emotionally devastating i love it best episode

Me recognizing Nioh ambience music "what yokai are here fuck" "which legendary old man is gonna try and beat my ass right now?"

How can I ever be normal again after this

Zocramble

The moment when Dakota was screeching over Williams body, the only thing I could think of was the moment when Luffy was doing the same over Ace's. Somebody needs to draw that.

Crabelicious