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Continuing drawing hxh characters based solely on the descriptions of them from Media Club Plus by @friends-table. This is Phinks, member number 5 of The Phantom Troupe.
Jack: [...] Next to them is a fellow in a racing [unintelligible] outfit.Sylvi: [laughs]
Jack: Green racing driver's outfit, uh, uh, white shoulders on his jacket, red stripes, green sort of track jacket, almost. Now, next to this person, this is interesting. This is a character I have seen before. I, I don't know anything about —
Jack: We have Phinks! With a P-H. P-H-I-N-K-S.Keith: Yep. [Sylvia laughs]
Jack: Who is a grumpy racing driver. He’s a man in a sort of racing driver.
Sylvia: Oh, okay. That’s an interesting— I didn't get racing driver from him. I always got, uh, Chris Moltisanti.
Keith: But I get it from the jacket though. Sorry, you get who?
Dre: Yeah, I totally get it.
Sylvia: Chris Moltisanti from The Sopranos?
Keith: Oh, it is.
Jack: Oh, yeah. [Dre laughs]
Sylvia: The, like, tracksuit vibe?
Jack: Yeah, totally. It’s absolutely that tracksuit vibe. I also saw it as, like, a racing jacket or, like, racing colors.
Keith: Yeah. Yeah.
Sylvia: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think you are, like, totally right. I just, when I first watched this, it wasn't— I was just— yeah.
Keith: I don't remember when they reveal what his power is, but it’s very funny—
Sylvia: It’s great.
Keith: And it’s not to drive fast. [laughs]
Keith: I think he’s the most normal one. I actually think that Shalnark is the normalest guy.Jack: The Dragon Quest kid?
Dre: But I think that makes him less normal.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Keith: Okay.
Jack: This is what I'm saying.
Keith: Well, then, maybe it’s Phinks, then.
Jack: Feitan is very normal to me, because he’s— which one is Phinks?
Keith: Phinks is the racecar driver. [Sylvia laughs]
Jack: Oh, sure.
Sylvia: That’s a real—
Keith: He’s just, like, the angry guy.
Dre: Yeah, Phinks is pretty normal looking.
Sylvia: That’s a really funny answer, Keith.
Keith: [laughs] No, that’s from— that’s a callback to last recording.
Sylvia: Okay.
Jack: Yes.
Keith: Yeah.
Jack: We've called him the racing car driver, the racecar driver before.
Keith: Yeah, I can't remember who originally said racecar driver, but I thought that—
Sylvia: It was Jack.
Keith: Okay. I knew that Jack would remember.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Keith: When they walk into the room, Uvogin just goes, like, “You clean up nice,” and then, uh, Dolzene or whatever the fuck his name is.Sylvia: [laughs quietly] Dolezal.
Keith: Immediately goes like, “Oh, I'm fucking dead. I'm dead.”
Austin: Hand through his body from Phinks.
Keith: And then he’s dead.
Austin: Yeah. Yeah, he—
Sylvia: And Phinks puts his hat on.
Jack: Yes.
Austin: His big snake hat.
Jack: Yeah.
Austin: Like he’s a Mega Man villain.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Jack: I'm underestimating—
Keith: This is his first time wearing the hat, so it’s not like he takes off his suit and he puts on the hat we all know. [Austin laughs]
Sylvia: No.
Austin: It’s so funny! [Keith and Dre laugh]
Sylvia: It’s fantastic.
Jack: Underestimating—
Sylvia: Jack, what did you think?
Jack: Yeah. Underestimating Togashi.
Austin: Yeah.
Keith: Yeah.
Jack: Underestimating the way Togashi moves. I wrote down here—
Keith: It’s so easy to underestimate him.
Jack: And you would think that I would be— well, actually, I have a moment later where I just fully gave over to Togashi’s, [Sylvia laughs] you know, we'll figure that out later. But yeah, my note here says, “The Troupe take off their disguises and kill Dalzollene. Someone in a fancy helmet here is new, I think.” So, I was so overwhelmed by Togashi, I invented a 14th Phantom Troupe member. [Austin laughs]
Keith: Yeah. You could not mentally connect the snake hat man to [cross] Phinks who is the racecar driver.
Jack: [cross] With the racing driver. Yes.
Dre: Yeah.
Austin: Does this change what you might guess Phinks’s powers are?
Jack: No. I can't do this. I cannot do this. I can't make it work. [Austin laughs] To me, this is like trying to see the old lady or the young lady in that drawing that is, you know, both of them.
Keith: Oh, the duck or the rabbit? You gotta see…
Jack: Or the duck or the rabbit.
Keith: Yeah.
Austin: Yeah.
Jack: And when your brain sees one, you have to work really hard to see the other.
Dre: Mm.
Jack: Something about my brain is now broken with Phinks, [Austin laughs quietly] where because I see him as the racecar driver, [laughs] I have no idea why he is this—
Keith: What would you have said his power was when you just thought he was the racecar driver?
Jack: Fucking racecar driving, Keith! [Jack and Sylvia laugh]
Dre: He go fast.
Austin: You thought he was a racecar driver because he’s wearing, like, a racecar driver outfit?
Jack: Yes!
Keith: Yeah, he’s got like a tracksuit, yeah.
Austin: He has on, like, the—
Sylvia: Yeah.
Austin: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack: So now he’s a racecar driver from fucking Thebes in 800 b.c.? [Keith and Dre laugh]
Austin: Oh, that’s fun, like a chariot driver.
Dre: Yeah, he’s a chariot racecar driver.
Sylvia: Oh.
Jack: Oh, what is this— 'cause his hat is very much sort of, like, ancient Egypt, or rather, adventure story caricature of ancient Egypt.
Keith: Right.
Austin: Mm-hmm.
Jack: A man with a snake on his hat.
Keith: And what’s his name?
Jack: Phinks.
Sylvia: Interesting.
Keith: Interesting.
Austin: Hmm. Interesting.
Jack: Phinks.
Austin: Uh huh.
Jack: With a P-H, like pharaoh.
Keith: Mm? [Austin laughs] Okay.
Sylvia: Yeah? You're getting so close.
Dre: Yeah, that’s what we're getting at.
Austin: You got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack: Phinks. 'Cause he phinks really hard about what he’s gonna do.
Austin: Yep. [laughs]
Keith: He’s always phinking about Egypt.
Austin: He’s always phinking about…
Dre: Oh, so he’s British. Okay. [Keith laughs]
Jack: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [Dre laughs] God, Phantom Troupe but if they were British. No, terrible. Wouldn't work.
Sylvia: That’s a Guy Ritchie movie. [Austin chuckles]
Jack: It is a Guy Ritchie movie. Why do you say, “What’s his name? Phinks,” as though that’s supposed to give me anything?
Austin: Wait, have you not— I thought you were doing a bit!
Sylvia: Have you really not clicked it?
Keith: No, this is— I can tell that this wasn't a bit.
Dre: Oh.
Keith: It’s fine.
Austin: Jack. Jack. Jack. I want you to do a little trick here.
Jack: Yeah.
Austin: I want you to take the final letter of his name and put it at the beginning and then say his name.
Jack: [gasps] S-Phinks. [all laugh]
Keith: Now, that’s a bit.
Austin: That’s a bit. That’s…
Jack: Wait, why is he dressed like a racing driver?
Austin: Well, you can't always be in the uniform.
Sylvia: Yeah.
Keith: Yeah, he wasn't at work yet.
Austin: Sometimes Bruce Wayne’s just in a suit.
Keith: Yeah.
Austin: Yeah.
Keith: You clock in.
Sylvia: True.
Keith: Then you put your uniform on.
Austin: Yeah.
Dre: Mm-hmm.
Jack: But why is he— why here, Togashi? When Togashi wants to do a weirdo, he just, he can't stop himself. He just does the weirdo 110%. Have you seen Hisoka? So now he’s decided to get all coy about it with this racing driver who is also— [laugh quietly]
Keith: I think it’s less coy.
Dre: It’s the Phantom Troupe.
Keith: I think it’s just a new aspect on him being a weirdo.
Austin: Yeah.
Sylvia: Yeah, I think it makes him more of a weirdo—
Keith: He’s like a weird—
Sylvia: —that he picks and chooses when to do it, you know?
Dre: Mm.
Keith: Yeah. Sometimes I'm in my— I gotta— [accent] I'm home, I gotta take off my tracksuit and put on my fucking snake hat. [Sylvia laughs]
Austin: Maybe Phinks is from Jersey.
Sylvia: [accent] I gotta go fucking Tutankhamen mode. [laughter]
Jack: And now say something he’d say when he’s doing his racing.
Sylvia: [accent] Vroom!
Keith: [accent] Vroom vroom!
Austin: Yeah, that’s the one. That’s the quote.
Keith: [accent] Can't wait to get home, put on my snake hat. [Sylvia laughs]
Jack: Shizuku—
Dre: [accent] Ey, I'm racing here.
Jack: It’s great. Phinks manages to screw up using a phone in every way you could use a phone across three separate calls and two separate phones.Keith: There’s nothing, there’s nothing…there’s only one thing that’s even close to as funny as Phinks answering the phone and immediately having to give the phone to someone else and being so mad about it, and it’s another Phinks moment.
Shoutouts to the Friends at the Table Transcription team for their work, which made my job easier with this one: https://sites.google.com/view/fatttranscripts/more/media-club-plus