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I LOVE FAUME❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

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sometimes the tragedy is fun! sometimes the fact that there will be no happy ending is fun! sometimes it is really neat that one character is stuck in the past at the expense of the present and the other is going scorched earth towards the future and they’ll never be on the same page ever again! i like that.

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sometimes the tragedy is fun! sometimes the fact that there will be no happy ending is fun! sometimes it is really neat that one character is stuck in the past at the expense of the present and the other is going scorched earth towards the future and they’ll never be on the same page ever again! i like that.

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No, I haven’t been writing Enjoy My Life, but I did collect many memes which describe it

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A post to ruin your day

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God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

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Contrary to popular opinions, I don’t think Mephisto is just evil to be evil OR only hurts others for Faust and Talulah. His complete lack of guilt/remorse, Peterheim, and the “burn the world down” line in 6-6 make it very hard to believe he doesn’t enjoy hurting people. He has a lot of bitterness and anger and clearly developed a thing for revenge by the Chernobog incident. I think that combined with being raised abusively with no moral compass, Faust bottling everything up, and being influenced into violence by the only people who loved him is enough to say he has compelling reasons for his actions.

#yeah 😭😭 im ashamed bc this never quite occurred to me 😭😔 #i feel like i understand him more now #and this is more interesting than how i previously saw him #LOVE the dynamic of him having his own ideals and wants #but just hiding them behind the guise of not making his own choices #this is sm more compelling sjfnmdkdkf sorry im a fake faume fan 😔👊 #eno being a kind boy and growing bitter and violent through hatred rather than simply being a puppet #in the end despite all his avoidance he still made his own choices and chose to ignore how talu changed #sad that he never got to face that realization fully :/ #the idea of him growing to come to terms with his own self and his own agency #and taking responsibility for his actions #realizinf that they are HIS and not someone elses #hg give us the post chapt 8 mephi scene by god

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Contrary to popular opinions, I don’t think Mephisto is just evil to be evil OR only hurts others for Faust and Talulah. His complete lack of guilt/remorse, Peterheim, and the “burn the world down” line in 6-6 make it very hard to believe he doesn’t enjoy hurting people. He has a lot of bitterness and anger and clearly developed a thing for revenge by the Chernobog incident. I think that combined with being raised abusively with no moral compass, Faust bottling everything up, and being influenced into violence by the only people who loved him is enough to say he has compelling reasons for his actions.

#this is a really interesting take on his character #bc so much of his arc is around lack of responsibility and agency for his own choices #i really like this #mephisto in part using orders as an excuse to commit violence for his own sake #thats 👀👀 #personal responsibility #✨✨✨

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im being dragged back into faume;;; theyre still so good. so tragic

#forgot how painful it was to not have content #we still have no playable mephi smh

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What do you think with the reunion squad? Do you symphatize them?

I'm assuming you mean the Reunion leadership in Arknights.

I only have one complaint with the way they are handled and that is that the game does veer into "you killed them :( feel bad about it" now and then, which, I get it, Arknights is built on a foundation of Who Is Right And Who Is Wrong, and there's a lot of persons of admirable character among Reunion, this much is true, so I don't particularly let this be more than a small complaint, and I realize that it's mostly my own views coming into play: I can mourn and honor a powerful and noble rival who stood on the opposite end of the board by carrying on and achieving the lofty goals of a better tomorrow we both believed in, rather than wallow in sadness. We both have beliefs, and this is just the outcome.

That very minor complaint aside, I think you can already tell, from this paragraph alone, and my previous posting regarding said member, ere you to peruse it if you have not already, that I do quite like them. I like the Reunion cast because they all have something to offer to the table. Each character could merit a whole post by themselves, so I'll keep it brief, for dashboard's sake, mentioning a few highlights:

Talulah, the leader, a young and brash idealist with the power and skills to make a difference, sweet Talulah, untarnished and warm and loving and caring, thrust into a raw, cruel world of warfare that twisted her beyond recognition, into a cruel manipulator, desensitized to the pain brought by the burden of leadership. Does this sound familiar? Talulah is an excellent narrative foil to the Doctor, as someone who has grown tragically unrecognizable to even their closest associates, who used to be oh so loving and compassionate, sanded by the burdens of leadership into a numb chessmaster. Yes, the Black Deathless Snake's possession is indeed a factor to consider, but keep in mind that by both the admission of both Talulah and Kaschei, he can't make her do things she wouldn't do, merely push her and influence her heavily towards things one might rationally not do but still would do.

Mudrock and Big Bob both represent the honest Infected that were wise enough to realize that Reunion had rotted from within, and yet, they couldn't, wouldn't abandon their ideal of making the world a better place for the Infected. Big Bob took his "family" and successfully funded an Originium Slug farm in Columbia, where he harvests the slugs' fluids, a commonplace item in Infected treatment to undo their pain, and gives it practically for free to the Infected (usually, these fluids are sold at an incredibly high markup), whereas Mudrock took it upon herself to fight for those that can't possibly fight for themselves, and to lead them to lands they could call a new home, where they wouldn't be second class citizens, in the borderlands of Kazdel, and was one hundred percent willing to die fighting to protect the refugees she had just saved in her Reel. The two of them represent candidly how, even though there's definitely a lot of violent and bad people in Reunion, there's also true believers not necessarily in the banner of Reunion per se, but rather, the goal of making the world better for the Infected, and that they, as powerful, skilled individuals, can make a difference.

Mephisto and Faust represent the horrors of child soldiers, those who die too young, who master combat to become rippers of flesh since childhood, who become twisted monsters to lash back against a world that has only hurt them. Mephisto is the latter, having become utterly incapable of feeling anything remotely close to kinship to anyone that isn't Faust, Talulah, FrostNova, Skullshatterer and Patriot, and thus being despised even by others in Reunion. Faust, on the other hand, is a subtle horror story. An unremarkable, weak, meek child, who got so distressed at seeing those who would protect him get hurt, who was so terrified of losing FrostNova or Talulah or any of the others any time they went out to fight, that he decided to kill his weakness and embrace the path of the warrior fully, becoming a master crossbowman and squad leader. Seldom is Faust's battlefield success seen as something positive. Yes, he was strong enough to pin down Nearl with his attacks. No, at no point is this anything more than a tragedy of how such a young child had to grow this strong just to make it to the next day. Faust's death is one of the most solemn in the game, mourned by practically everyone, akin to FrostNova's own: These were clearly caring people that had been dealt the mother of a mulligans. Can you blame them for fighting tooth and nail for what they truly believed was a better tomorrow, just the way you do?

There's a lot more than can be said for every member, what they represent, and their contribution, but overall, it's a well-balanced cast with a purpose besides just being antagonists.

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arknights but it's memes i found on pinterest

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It always shocks me how monstrous Faust was, all things considered.

He’s an entirely self-taught Sniper who had so much raw power and skill behind his shots that even Nearl had to dedicate her full attention to defending against him. His Arts allow him to turn objects and living creatures, himself included, invisible, everything else about his crossbowmanship is entirely, fundamentally his own expertise, down to his charged Arts shot, which is him using Originium Arts not innate to him, thus that he likely had to learn and master as well.

I’ve always considered him a boss version of Schwarz in that both are Snipers with fundamentally similar roles in having very strong single target elimination capabilities with leadership utility on the side (Schwarz’ buff to other Snipers - Faust’s ballista ambushes, which are his crossbowmen made invisible).

Impressive, considering he’s just a random war orphan with no notable martial background. No wonder he was so well liked by the others, like FrostNova’s Yetis and Patriot’s Shieldguards (and you could technically include higher ups like FrostNova here as well, but that’d be a bit remiss since FrostNova, Talulah and Patriot basically raised him, so their affinity to one another is more familial than martial).

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turns out i can just just draw whatever i want so heres uhmmmm my arknights warrior cats au ft. the reunion gang

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I think Ebenholz and Talulah should meet. They could bond over their shared "condition" and trade notes on how to silence their inner demons by subjecting them to music they can't stand

Contrasting them is so funny because Talulah fought the Snake like a hero, resisting corruption by saying things like "In their core, the vast majority of the world are good people" and starting a movement for infected emancipation and struggling against evil whispers in her ear for years without letting anyone but the closest people know because it's her fight before slowly succumbing to despair.

Meanwhile Ebenholz went maximum millennial, grabbed the Witch King by the metaphorical head and said "Listen, I'm your only surviving host left. I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me" and began blasting Burn Me to the Ground in his ears at full volume and threatening to blow his own head off if the Bitch King makes a single step out of line. He has zero problem with dying and permanently taking out the most powerful caster in the world with him, it's the bastard's own fault for giving him depression.

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curious about what's in store for you for 2023? :D

let AO3 decide!

(this is a random generator that will give you four (4) ao3 tags, so you know, warnings for what that usually entails)

#oh god #i have nightmares sometimes where for some reason i get pregnant #its the worst #eugh #makes me shudder