ohh my goshh isn’t it so embarrassing when you and bestie come from different walks of life with differing personalities and beliefs and life styles and even hair but bestie actually just ends up reminding you of somebody from home (the “somebody from” part is silent) so you give him that guy’s name but that’s also your name so instead of remaining very different people with an invisible brick wall between you for the whole war you just ended up running straight through that fucking barrier and carving out a home in an unfamiliar place by the intimate act of calling somebody by your given name which kinda implies there was no boundary there in the first place ?? hate when that happens 😂😂
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i could VERY well be overthinking this especially because MtG is not necessarily BG canon, but learning zevlor is officially UBR / blue, black, red in MtG makes me look at all his lines of dialogue with a new light, hes very strategic yes but also rather scheming i think. i get as a hellrider he probably Had to be for the sake of survival at any cost, but definitely some of his phrasing sounds "make them think its their idea" style of manipulation.
For reference: Zevlor, Elturel Exile
very cool.
after the above dialogue he says implicating kagha is initially the problem you can suggest HE "get rid of her" which causes these:
they seem so carefully phrased to:
not get his own hands dirty
not put the tieflings in his command at risk
you are an outsider to BOTH groups and thus the potential neutral third party to be blamed rather than him or the tieflings, especially good if you fail and/or die.
also, if you ask him to pay you he doesnt bat an eye, he just shrugs and says he'll scrape together what he can.
His mtg artwork seems to imply being controlled by the absolute, but he also has this quote when you try to tell him it's not his fault he was enthralled by the Absolute:
I'm always a fan of black in mtg used as a 'good' color when its so often interpreted as evil and i think Zevlor here is a cool example of it.
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yknow I've been thinking about what dream looks for in friends and lovers and I've noticed that it's not necessarily people that are mean to him, but people that are direct. dream himself deals in metaphor and manipulation, it's simply what he is, so just about everything within his realm that he's encountering consistently will be such that as well. considering both his own tendencies, the environment it breeds, and his whole Thing about guilt and choice, it makes sense he would choose people who are clear and honest with him. he wants someone who will tell him how it is, but not what to do with that—even when it's not really what he wants, dream knows it's what he can need. I think that's why figures like lucienne, matthew, death, and yes, mervyn can be important! on some level, dream knows he's convoluted and shifty by nature, and he's tried to combat that with concise words and mind-melting beauracracy, but it can't fix everything. he likes people to keep him in check and I think that is the most self-awareness he has ever been capable of. so... clap? no? idk. nod acknowledgingly.
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What is even the point of Silver living in the future? It’s not his future anymore and he has no friends or family there. There’s nothing for him there. Now that he has precognition he should just live in Sonic’s time and get visions of disasters.
Seriously there’s no point in his future or time travel. We’ll never see it, Silver only cares about the state of it and he can only go to Sonic’s time anyway.
I find this an interesting question myself. The best answer I can give as to why Silver keeps returning to the future is that him being from the future is "his thing", just like how having PK is "his thing". It's just something very much intertwined with his character; basically every bio he has makes mention of it, for example. But I also agree with the notion that him being from the future opens up some issues. I've seen statements that it is difficult to make Silver relevant if he must travel to the past every time, for example, which I don't disagree with (but for me, the same could then be said about Blaze and the Sol Dimension or Knuckles and the Master Emerald). Adding to that, I do not believe we know for certain if its state is generally 'destroyed' or 'saved' and if Silver grew up in a destroyed world (said in multiple bios) or a good one (I'd argue that is implied in Rivals 1, with Eggman Nega almost certainly having stolen the camera from someone else and Onyx Island being both a paradise and having developed industry on it that I do not believe Angel Island currently has). Furthermore, the Rivals games are also not very consistent to me about if the future has actually gotten rewritten or not (but it tentatively seems to lean that way, since Silver says at the end of Rivals 2 he hopes the new future is a happy one), and we legit just do not know how its alleged destruction goes. Does Silver indeed intervene before something bad can happen, or does the future actively turn bad before his very eyes and he goes back in time to undo that again? I am truly not certain if there's ever been a clear-cut answer from a credible source, though I am pretty sure there's multiple conflicting explanations from non-credible ones... but that really doesn't help make things clear. And lastly, we also do not know what he has in his own era when it comes to friends and family, nor is it ever clearly shown or said how he time-travels in any game other than '06. With all that combined I can see why having him return again and again gets... well, confusing, haha!
In that regard, I also feel there is merit in the idea of him just staying for good in the past. His friends are there, it's consistently where the action happens anyway, and Team Sonic Racing indeed hints at him having a sense of precognition. The Japanese version actually dives into it more, with Silver asking himself at the very end when Eggman's battleship is going down if that is what was causing his bad/nagging feelings. Considering he was necessary there to help carry people and racecars off it to safety, it does imply to me that that scene might have intended to show it as a genuine skill of his. Shame the English version cuts that moment out entirely. So yeah, the point of Silver being in the future is, to the best of my explanations, legit just the fact that's how he has been conceptualised, making it "his thing". But it does cause confusions for me, because of how much there is not clearly explained and all the contradictory information out there from non-game sources. I think having Silver stay in the past for good could make for a nice move on Sega's part, assuming it is within his own decisions (so not forced by A ThingTM that is entirely unexplained to us and removes all his agency, for example). I think it'd be a nice resolution for Silver to see his heart lays in the past, and he can still protect his own world from there too!
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Keep thinking about Trans-coded Mayuri.
Mayuri is a woman's name, it means Peahen (a female peacock) but his design mimics that of a male peacocks plumage, blue, bold, flashy etc. It gives the impression of him being AFAB and switching to masculine presentation.
Mayuri is also quite short for a man (5'8") but that would be tall/average for someone assigned female at birth.
And he has the ability to self modify on a whim, if Mayuri was AFAB and wanted to adjust his form/voice/etc, he'd be able to with ease.
So in conclusion:
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"If you can't love/be devoted to yourself, then how can you expect anybody else to?" how do yall expect people to actually get better with self care when everyones so determined to not bother with anyone whos appears to be "difficult"? how do you expect people to love themselves when no one else seems to? like I'm not expecting people to adopt a "I can fix them" sort of mentality with every self deprecating, lonely person you meet, but I really think people severely undervalue how much help simply being present in someones life can bring. like are we not social creatures? do we not thrive in community? what makes people think that the fix to this is by doing it alone? Idk. Eyyyyyye really don't know.
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Literally on my 3rd or 4th rewatch of umbrella academy, and I’m just now realizing that girl on the bike in episode 7 when Klaus saw his dad at the weird barber shop/afterlife is god????? How did I not see that
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on my szpd estinien agenda again
he just does not want to talk to people or for them to ask him about anything or follow him but he still cares about some, at the very least for the reason that some people in the scions, like alphinaud, saved his life. so he just kinda does things to show his care to those specific people (going off solo to fuck up the empire etc) but never says a word about it. Hes perfectly happy to just be by himself in the wilderness for weeks otherwise.
id think estinien also only has one or two people he genuinely considers his friends in his life, but there would be a handful of people who call him a friend but in estinien's mind are just acquaintances he doesn't mind being around. he also just genuinely does not care what kind of effect his words will have on other people and says whatever he wants, and has sort of a flat effect where people assume he's really cold and emotionless but he only doesn't express his emotions outwardly
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