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✦ cutscene highlights 5/∞ - farewell, kakavasha

#honkai: star rail #aventurine #kakavasha #gifs #hsr aventurine #hsr #hsr penacony #hsr 2.1 #aventurine hsr #honkai star rail

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Aventurine in Honkai: Star Rail

#aventurine #honkai: star rail #gif

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#honkai: star rail #gif #aventurine

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🎧 honkai: star rail music video - WHITE NIGHT

#honkai: star rail #aventurine #sunday #robin #gallagher #misha #sparkle #black swan #firefly #trailblazer #caelus #acheron #sampo #gifs

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#frieza #goku #manga #vegeta #dbs

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i see stills or gifs of this exchange floating around all the time but i’ve never seen anybody post the actual clip which is a shame because like. guys.

#frieza #goku #dragon ball super #dbs #son goku #freeza #video

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Gale's Analysis: Frieza: Evolution of Pure Evil

To those who don’t know, Frieza is one of the most iconic villains in all of anime.

To give some brief background to the few that never heard of him.

Frieza is the Galactic tyrant, basically the emperor of Universe 7, and said to be the evilest villain in all of Dragonball canon.

Frieza is a cut above the rest in terms of villains. Mainly for 3 key reasons.

1. Frieza is naturally powerful, he was born with the power and in the Namek saga, has never trained a day in his life.

2. Frieza is established as successful. His frieza force are feared throughout the universe, even the galactic patrol doesn’t mess with him.

3. He is fully aware he is evil and LOVES EVERY second of it.

Most anime villains have some sort of backstory that made them evil, Frieza doesn’t. He was born powerful and believes EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE is beneath him.

In the show, people would be mortified at the thought of getting on his bad side. With the introduction of power levels in Dragonball, Frieza’s final form was so powerful, the system was basically thrown out immediately after his second transformation.

Frieza was established less of a character and more of a Force of Pure Evil.

At his introduction. Frieza was the antithesis of Goku.

Goku, born with a power level of 2, trained tirelessly and scraped by just to rise up and meet every challenge he faced.

Frieza, born with an ungodly amount of natural power that the only two beings his father told him to watch out for were Majin buu, a magical cosmic threat that killed the Kai’s (basically creator deities) and Beerus, the god of destruction.

Frieza knew he was hot s*** but he was also cautious, killing the saiyans after hearing about their legend of the Super saiyan, and super saiyan god. Resulting in him GENOCIDING most of them by blowing up their planet.

Frieza was never meant to be redeemable, he was the dark opposite of Goku. Which also made him an excellent foil and villain.

Frieza was so powerful, Goku needed to achieve a legend in order to fight him EVENLY!

Not surpass him, MATCH

Many Dragonball Z fans will forget that Frieza was still not at full power when fighting super saiyan Goku. It’s only when reaching 100% that the fight really begins.

But this is where the beauty of Frieza’s defeat comes in. Frieza never trained to utilize his power, so he never mastered his full power and as a result, his stamina drained quickly, allowing Goku to get ahead and frieza to resort to cheap tricks, which backfired. Frieza may have been gifted but his talent meant nothing as he didn’t work hard.

The decline and Fall of Frieza in this

Frieza eventually finds himself cut in half by his own attack on a dying world, begging for energy from his opponent. Goku, despite EVERYTHING, gives it to him. And Frieza then does what you would expect, tries to kill him only to be blasted back and left for dead.

Funny enough Frieza does survive, gets turned into a cyborg and goes to earth to get revenge.

Only for another golden warrior to appear and

And so ends the reign of Frieza, killed by the super saiyan legend he tried to prevent, sliced, diced and killed by a warrior he never knew of. And used as a stepping stone to show how powerful the NEW villains will be.

And overtime, frieza was only mentioned as a measuring stick, maybe some filler episodes or movies. But for DBZ. That was it.

“But Gale,” I hear you call. “How does this relate to your title “Evolution of Pure Evil”?”

Well my astute and very attractive Reader.

That’s where the sequel series Dragon Ball Super comes in.

During this new series, Frieza’s empire is in shambles with him gone, so Sorbet (the current head of the empire) decides to revive him. To establish order.

And sure enough, thanks to the dragon balls, Frieza is revived

In which he then kills a few guards and realizes he is rusty for being dead for so long.

Frieza is caught up with the situation and found out Goku killed Majin Buu and fought Beerus.

This is where Frieza makes a shocking declaration. He will train for 4 months and fight him.

Now this sounds ridiculous at first glance. Especially to those familar with the series. We know how powerful Goku is now. Frieza was basically as strong as Goten or Trunks (who were kids). Goku would one hit KO him. How could he close the gap in four months?

And this is where we remember, Frieza STARTED out with his current power. He never trained to attain it. He was always this freakishly powerful. Gohan, Goku, Vegeta, everyone had to train and fight impossible odds to reach his power. So now, Frieza was going to train with his potential.

And 4 months pass, Frieza shows up, and his power is massive.

Even Gohan, who despite not training was still the strongest on earth, nearly died facing Frieza in his restricted first form. (He killed piccolo who sacrificed himself to save him)

And when Goku and Vegeta arrived. Goku fought him evenly, until Frieza revealed his Evolution

A form he attained through training, choosing the color as a means of Mocking the super saiyan transformation that killed him in the past, and a way of showing everyone he was back on top.

And sure enough he was stronger than Goku, but there was a flaw, Frieza failed to realize he didn’t master the form, his stamina drained too quickly, something that Vegeta and Goku picked up on.

And the result was Frieza’s death once again.

Frieza learned the benefits of training, but he didn’t learn from his failures, something that Goku always did.

Though this isn’t the last time we see Frieza, he is called back. For Goku recruited him for the tournament of power. Where we learn Frieza learned Mental training in hell and learned to master control of his golden form

Frieza had learned another means of improvement, now being on par with Goku once again.

And in the tournament, Frieza faced many foes, defeating his universe 6 counterpart, and fighting with Goku to defeat the monsterous Jiren.

Frieza learned that the multiverse was more than he even knew.

In The movie, Dragonball Super: Broly. Frieza is looking for recruits as he realizes that no matter how strong he gets, Goku and Vegeta together can beat him. He needs an ally. Which is where we meet Broly.

And it should be noted that Frieza fought Broly for nearly an hour before Gogeta (fusion of Goku and Vegeta) appeared and put an end to broly’s rampage.

It was here that Frieza learned that there was more he needed to tip the balance back in his favor, if they have a way to fuse and become more powerful.

Now we arrive at the current time. In the manga, Frieza has returned. And he casually killed the villains of the saga with minimal effort, One of which had wished to be the STRONGEST in the universe.

And despite the best efforts of Vegeta and Goku (both of which had new forms/ techniques) couldn’t seem to put down. But Frieza did it with one hit.

Frieza tells the group he found a place where time flows differently (that’s right, he found a room of spirit and time) and stated he trained in that room for the equivalent of 10 YEARS.

Now if you do the math, Frieza after 4 months was able to catch up to Goku and Vegeta who were training with Whis. Imagine what 10 full years did to him?

And then, Frieza revealed his newest transformation

Black Frieza.

And after he transforms he does this

One shots BOTH his enemies.

Frieza was back.

And he learned from his mistakes. Frieza had become like Goku in a way. Training and achieving new power. A prodigy that learned to enjoy fighting.

Frieza had learned to evolve because of Goku, Goku had showed Frieza how working hard and pushing limits allowed him to achieve great power. Frieza was changed by Goku. But unlike Vegeta and piccolo.

This change was for the worse. Frieza fell hard and kept failing only to come back and show everyone why HE is the emperor of the universe, becoming arguably the most powerful villain in all of Dragonball once again.

Pure Evil is back on top. No complex motivations, no desires of changing the world. Just a very evil man with a ton of power and LEARNED from its mistakes.

In another anime, one punch man, there is a villain that wanted to be Absolute Evil.

Frieza, is that pure Absolute evil, and loving every second of it

#Frieza #Dragon Ball

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Journey of a Thresher

" I suspect he did discover something. He was busy searching for forbidden artifacts and books, especially in areas that no one had visited for maybe even years. It's not like we had too much trust in each other. We left that luxury behind in our lives for decades. It was more like a bond of mutual interests and our long-neglected needs. We both gain something out of existing in each other's life.

I still remember that night when he discovered an artifact I stole from the vaults. I should have paid more attention to hiding it, but I was unaware of the approaching welcoming of a new superior. When he noticed the artifact, he smirked. He recognized the artifact and knew I had no permission to have it, but he did not speak. His expression was telling. At that moment, I was in his grip, which was loose and became looser as time passed.

Whether I trusted him or not, things would go the way he wanted. This place was his playground. It was his lair, and I was one of the prey animals stuck with him. But while others try to flee, I felt a strange draw to this beast.

Flattering. Compliments. Admiration. Both honest and exaggerated. Words I frequently delivered to him, and while he has been aware of the possibility of a clever manipulation I used to hold onto his weakest spot, which is his pride and ego, he embraced it. It almost felt like a tasty and intoxicating poison.

He was confident when speaking of his discoveries. I'm sure he kept many secrets, but he knew I was just as guilty as he was. Periodically, he used my room to hide forbidden books, living in constant fear of banishment. Genuinely speaking, it was a cruel game he played with me rather than an intent to cause me to get banished. He enjoyed seeing me anxious and full of suspicions.

But he changed since he started to explore a new section of the vaults he recently managed to get access to He is away for way longer than usual. At that time when we last saw each other, he seemed angry and restless, speaking of the truth and lies of the upper circles. What did he find? Where is he? "

― Lucretia, Warden of Thresholds

#Thresh #Erlok Grael #OC #Lucretia Saint #roleplay #writing #journal #league of legends #Ruination

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for @yuujispinkhair

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“Sauron was not a ‘sincere’ atheist, but he preached atheism, because it weakened resistance to himself (and he had ceased to fear God’s action in Arda). As was seen in the case of Ar-Pharazôn. But there was seen the effect of Melkor upon Sauron: he spoke of Melkor in Melkor’s own terms: as a god, or even as God. This may have been the residue of a state which was in a sense a shadow of good: the ability once in Sauron at least to admire or admit the superiority of a being other than himself. Melkor, and still more Sauron himself afterwards, both profited by this darkened shadow of good and the services of ‘worshippers’. But it may be doubted whether even such a shadow of good was still sincerely operative in Sauron by that time. His cunning motive is probably best expressed thus. To wean one of the God-fearing from their allegiance it is best to propound another unseen object of allegiance and another hope of benefits; propound to him a Lord who will sanction what he desires and not forbid it. Sauron, apparently a defeated rival for world-power, now a mere hostage, can hardly propound himself; but as the former servant and disciple of Melkor, the worship of Melkor will raise him from hostage to high priest. But though Sauron’s whole true motive was the destruction of the Númenóreans, this was a particular matter of revenge upon Ar-Pharazôn, for humiliation. Sauron (unlike Morgoth) would have been content for the Númenóreans to exist, as his own subjects, and indeed he used a great many of them that he corrupted to his allegiance.”

— JRR Tolkien, Morgoth’s Ring, Notes on Motives in the Silmarillion

#Sauron #Morgoth #Melkor #Mairon #JRR Tolkien #Morgoth's Ring

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The hilarious thing about Sauron is that according to most version of the legendarium, he was originally, like, a god of planning and logistics, and he initially supported Melkor’s plans for world domination because he regarded the world’s present state of affairs as inefficient and poorly organised. He’s literally what happens when you take the kid who’s fed up at everybody else fucking up their part of the group project and give him phenomenal cosmic power.

#truth has to be spoken #Sauron #Mairon #Melkor #Morgoth #The Silmarillion #Lord of the Rings

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GUYS

Letter 154

We’ve got it wrong the whole time. Celebrimbor flirted with Sauron, not the other way around! AND HE WASN’T THE ONLY ELF

#i can not blame them #lol #annatar #sauron #the silm

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I always like to play with fire.

Yes, I just... had to make this edit. I can't help but embrace this fierce fire. Actually, he is a great target for my future digital art pieces.

#AFK Arena #Framton #gif #Soar #Official #Music #Video #Lilith games #Talene

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That time Legolas and Gandalf had a sass battle on the slopes of Caradhras.

#legolas #gandalf #lord of the rings #lotr #frodo-with-glasses

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Tolkien characters as tumblr posts Part 2

#silmarillion #lotr #tolkien #silmarillion shitpost #sauron #galadriel #celeborn #frodo #morgoth #ar pharazon #manwe #bilbo #gandalf #caranthir #feanor #fingolfin

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Celebrimbor and Annatar forging the Rings of Power

#Sauron #Annatar #Celebrimbor #Shadow of Mordor #JRR Tolkien

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Normal person that I am, I read all references to Sauron in Morgoth’s Ring yesterday and now I’m having some Thoughts:

What really intrigues me about the character of Sauron, is the fact that so much of Tolkien’s writing on his motives and personality (such as it is) talk about how he was originally good, how his desire for control and order originally came from the desire to provide for everyone’s well-being, how his knowledge of what made people tick had come from his former love of the minds of others. It’s emphasised that his later actions come from a perversion of these earlier desires. That his wanting everything to be ordered turned into everything should be ordered his way and that everyone would be happy if they just accepted him as their Lord, eventually morphing into a desire to be worshiped as a God-King.

I suppose, this intrigues me so much because Sauron is a character that is already evil by the time the earliest stories of Arda are happening. We never see him doing anything but be evil. I don’t think we even see him doing anything even vaguely morally ambiguous. Yet Tolkien often seems to take the time to point out that Sauron wasn’t always like this. There was a time when he genuinely wanted what was best for the Children. There’s even a suggestion that during Morgoth’s imprisonment, he actually tried to not be evil but got pulled back into it. There’s also, I believe, the occasional hint that he may have believed that he was actually helping in some way?

And yet… there’s not much in the way of explanation of how this happened. How did Melkor manage to lure The Admirable to his side? What were the “bonds” that he had laid upon him that meant that he fell back into darkness? How did this all happen?? Not to mention, we see him enjoy tricking people, defeating them, dabbling in dark magics that definitely aren’t helping anyone (necromancy, his werewolves…).

He’s just… sir, what are you trying to do???

#Mairon #Sauron #JRR Tolkien #Morgoth!s Ring