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kurczakmarty · 10 months

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I don't know if anyone remember her since I created her 10 years ago but! Alea Surana! My og warden :) I still love her lots

#alea surana #grey warden #dragon age #dragon age orignis #dao #my art

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juodojimirtis · 8 months

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Warrior Nun characters as latin quotes

Ava: Aut viam inveniam aut faciam (I shall either find a way, or make one)

Lilith: Veni, Vidi, Vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)

Adriel: Flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo (If I cannot bend Heaven, I will raise Hell)

Beatrice: Amor omnia vincit (love conquers all)

Mother Superion: Si vis pacem, para bellum (if you desire peace, prepare for war)

Camila: In omnia paratus (ready for everything)

Yasmine: Fores fortuna adiuvat (Fortune favors the brave)

Jillian: Sapere aude (dare to know)

Michael: Non est ad astra mollis e terris via (there is no easy way from the earth to the stars)

Mary: Familia ante omnia (family over all)

Areala: Non desistas non exieris (never give up, never surrender)

Vincent: Igne natura renovatur integra (through fire, nature is reborn whole)

Duretti: Et tu, Brute? (You also, Brutus?)

Reya: Fiat lux! (let there be light!)

Kristian: Tantum religio potuit saudere malorum (To such heights of evil has religion been able to drive men)

Shannon: Ubi amor, ibi dolor (where there is love, there is pain)

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smorgasbort · 3 months

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Armored Core 6 after the Alea Iacta Est ending be like

#armored core 6 #armored core vi #alea lacta est #my memes

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0bticeo · 3 months

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landa watches you, still, with the rapt attention of a hawk. soon enough, he’ll be upon you, talons digging in your flesh.

“we meet again, mademoiselle.”

“it’s getting awfully repetitive, don’t you think, standartenführer?”

there’s a smile on his face as he stands, as he inches closer towards you, circling you like precious prey. you feel his breath on your ear as he leans down, raising your hand to his lips. bastard.

“delightfully repetitive. although…” his fingers circle your wrist, gentle. dangerous. “it appears you've seen better days.”

you twist your wrist out of his grip, eyes digging holes in the closed file on his desk.

“you have effectively invaded my country, mon colonel.”

#obticeo writes #inglorious basterds #hans landa x reader #inglorious basterds x reader #hans landa #snippet #yes this is the ff i mentioned before #is it going to flop #i hope not but hey #alea jecta est #wip. howlin' shame

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grammarpedant · 5 months

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I close my eyes and I can see the boosters firing, full throttle against the dimness, blue light limning the shape of the mech, the metal still so human in all its machine glory.

All I can think about is skimming the ground so fast that the tips of my toes kick up sparks on steel, about whipping through missile fire with swerves so sharp the G's should kill any human pilot inside, about dancing through the firestorm so quick I don't have a word for the moves I'm making, the boosted sidesteps faster in the air than a human tongue, faster in the heat of battle than a human thought. I lock my targets in my sights and reach for the heavy guns, the movements practiced, programmed, precise. When I fire, I feel the hits scored like bright lights right in my dopamine centers. Enemy down, enemy down, one after the other.

I'm thinking about how I love my humanness even as I strive to transcend it. How my human being is writ large as this machine, my body. How when my plasma blades extend I know the flex and tension of arms as they ready to strike, the shift of bodyweight, the bracing of force against stance that lets me drive shaped fire through my enemy's core in eight successive strikes. I am a giant standing on humanity's shoulders; the sciences that built my body are not so different from the martial arts executed by it. The glory in my newfound speed and power is as old as war itself.

War. Human conflict. What else could those arts and sciences have achieved if not for war, I wonder. Does humanity ever change? Do we ever make things truly unlike ourselves, unburdened by our shortfalls? I push full-throttle into flight against the stars, like I'm hoping my speed alone will outstrip the gravity of the question.

And as I fall back to planetside with my generator burning out, I can't help but laugh. I'm not looking at the ground I'm hurtling back to. As I reach out, metal hand humanly inhuman, I'm looking at the stars.

#verso writes #mecha fiction #prosetry #prose poem #some unmitigated Wow Cool Robot tonight #armored core #but yeah also I can't not be War Is Bad #alea iacta est #microfiction

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bitternace · 4 months

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Any number? 23 and saïx :)

couldn't count all the ways that i've died for you

[ID: a digital drawing of saix from kingdom hearts. He is shown from the hip up, his body in 3/4's and his face in profile. He is shadowed in warm tones. He has a neutral expression, and he's standing straight.

The background is transparent except for a circle that lays from the middle of his shoulders and upwards, with three sections that have a slightly bigger circumference where one to three, seven to eight, and eight to nine would be on a clock. All scenes are blue tones with a noise overlay. these three are all from saix's perspective.

In the first, there is a cloaked figure shown from the waist down, the tip end of young xehanort's keyblade leans forward and some of it goes out of bound, tiled floor as a background. The second one is saix's hand reaching for kingdom hearts. The third is his hand reaching towards Lea, who lies on the floor of radiant garden's lab.

The rest of the circumference is a labyrinth wall in keyblade's graveyard, with a harsh diagonal line of light on the upper half. Most of the circumference is lined black, except from nine to one o'clock, lined white. /End ID.]

#here ya go! :]#typhra #hi dear!!! you're probably gonna see this a little later than when i'm posting but mwah mwah #i didn't know what to do at first!! the og idea was using 'you color me in from my skin to my bones' with berserker saix #then 'are you lost? Take my hand' (see: subject x) but couldnt figure it out and then this idea came to me and i went on a frenzy (jesting)#i'm also not great @mouths/teeth but i will eventually work on figuring teeth out. I'd love to do a more elaborate berserker saix one day #anyway this was so much fun ty for the ask :]#there's a lot of trivia for this one #i told typhra right away but when the ask came in i was currently listening to no.23 of the list #this song was a runner up for the lyric i would slap over that is/alea kissy pic i drew months ago #which is funny to me #There was another piece of trivia but i'm drawing a blank hold up #saix kh #nano does reqs #my doods #oH YEAH #when i originally said 'this is done!' The time stamp (....i work slow) was 8:07 and after i noticed some details #it became 8:09 which i think is hilarious since #8/7 as his new/old org number and 8/9 as eight and death number?? okay damn #hilarious universe tysm

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tlgtw · 7 months

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//Spoilers for Everything in AC6: Fires of Rubicon//

The Meaning of the Motif of "Borrowed Wings" and how G5 Iguazu Exists to Reinforce It

What seems to fly over everyone's heads about G5 Iguazu is that the point of his character is how 'deciding upon a goal and having the willpower to strive for it, no matter what' is literally as important as the line between life and death.

You need to find a purpose for yourself that you personally believe in. Cause no matter how grand or how petty that purpose is, if you don't have one... you die!

With whether or not you actually succeed at that goal being completely irrelevant... to your conviction for it.

(Something, something, it's the ambition that you're living for, not whether or not you get the accolades at the end.)

A moral proclaiming the importance of "deciding upon a purpose of your own free will, and then pursuing that goal no matter what setbacks you encounter" is all nice and easy when you're main character e621, who experiences no setbacks because, as the player, you're necessarily going to be strongest fighter in the galaxy.

But it's pretty obvious how trite that is on its own, where your only canonical character trait is that you always win no matter what.

And so, Iguazu's purpose narratively is to show how, beyond any ounce of doubt whatsoever, that 'winning' is not a relevant part in what makes "having a purpose" so important, or so necessary.

In essence: It's what makes Iguazu live.

Start of the Game: Volta and Iguazu both want to beat up Michigan.

- Volta gives up, and then he gets sent by Michigan to die at the Wall.

- Iguazu deserts. And he does not die at the Wall.

After Gallia Dam he send you hatemail to say that the Redguns will scale the wall, but Iguazu himself doesn't even approach the Wall after this. As G4 Volta's last words reveal, he deserts before the operation is attempted.

Iguazu *himself* watches from the sidelines, costing him no less than an almost certain death like Volta's.

And the reason Iguazu changes his mind about scaling the wall with the Redguns is because, after Gallia Dam, Iguazu decides upon his purpose. His personal conviction.

Iguazu personal goal becomes -> He wants to kill you.

We love pathetic boys.

But the reason Iguazu deserts for the sake of this new goal is specifically because he wants to become stronger than 621, and not want his obligations as part of the Redguns to get in the way of this goal of his, he goes independent.

--- Correction ---

Iguazu deserts the Redguns at Watchpoint Alpha, prior to the death of G1 Michigan. He doesn't desert the Redguns at the Wall, he only goes Away WithOut Leave. The reason for which he goes AWOL being to take independent work, as we see an example of at Grid 086. Outcomes of everything are still the same, I just mixed up the order.

Also;

Volta: "Iguazu, listen, like, Michigan really like cares about us...! It's like we're part of his family, man, just give him a chance."

Volta: *Gives Michigan a chance*

Volta: *Gets killed under the leadership of G1 Michigan*

It's really funny but sad.

It's also really funny and sad how effective at Yank-bait G1 Michigan was.

But it's illustrative of how effective it is to break down someone's expectations and feelings of self-worth to legit 0, such that empty platitudes like simply saying the right words, like the names of the expendables themselves or to bring in the medical teams after a battle (as if they wouldn't have come otherwise?), will leave such an impression that they think you really do care about them--even in despite of how worthless they obviously are~!

And all at the same time as your direct actions and orders lead them straight to their meaningless avoidable deaths.

What could be more cost-efficient for your employers than soldiers who're literally suicidal for you, right?

Ha!

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And not only does this decision directly lead to Iguazu not dying at the Wall, but, no longer squeezed under G1 Michigan's boots, G5 even directly improves as a fighter.

This is shown in how his AI differs between his fighting at the Gallia Dam--where he's overly defensive, constantly having his shield up, despite wielding two guns.

And then, later at the Grid--where he actually fights aggressively like his AC's loadout is built for.

The second major encounter with Iguazu is Watchpoint Alpha where he either fights you directly, and dies there. Or he hires Coldcall to kill you, and survives elsewhere. Again, this is an instance of Iguazu's legitimate determination towards his chosen goal directly separating him from life and death.

When he hires Coldcall, Iguazu focuses on his goal, and let's go of distractions like his personal pride and image.

Ridiculous, right? Iguazu letting go of his pride?

But consider how it's directly Iguazu's personal feelings that lead him to facing 621 personally. He doesn't *just* want to kill you in that instant, he wants the glory of killing you as well.

But the accolades at the end aren't what makes it worthy to pursue a chosen goal.

Iguazu wants 621 dead. And when he hires Coldcall, this is him coming to terms with pursuing his goal, regardless of his personal setbacks. Iguazu faces the fact that he personally wouldn't be able to kill you. And, because he comes to term with this setback, he finds an alternative method that would still lead towards fulfilling his chosen purpose.

To confirm, of course, Iguazu's purpose is really dumb and terrible. But it's not whether one's chosen purpose is 'a good goal' or not that the value of pursuing it comes from. The value comes from it being one you decided for yourself, as opposed to, for, for example, by a corporation's profits. (Not a coincidence narratively how Balam's forces, united most in their complete idolization of G1 Michigan, following *his* word no matter what even knowingly to their deaths, are the deadmost losers in the story.)

Unlike for example e621's chosen conviction, or Rusty's chosen conviction, (Also no coincidence narratively that G1 Michigan, who only exists as the weapon of his corporation and put out a bounty for his own assassination--expressing how he has no personal plans for the future and literally wants to die--is guaranteed to be taken out by either of these two, no matter what.)

It's not the loftiness of a goal that determines if it's of worth to decide upon one of your own free will and pursue it in the first place.

The 'value' of pursuing a goal is unrelated to what that goal itself is.

What makes pursuing a goal valuable, is the conviction.

You don't have to be smart. You don't have to be emotionally mature. You don't have to be a good fighter. You don't even have to be brave.

You just need to choose your purpose and follow it.

This is what the motif of 'wings' and 'borrowed wings' are all about in the story as well. It's about pursuing a goal that was chosen by someone else, versus pursuing a goal that was chosen by you yourself.

"They choose what to fight for, and take to the skies in flight."

"One cannot fly on borrowed wings" in this case literally meaning that if you pursue a goal not because you want it, but because someone else wants it, it will directly lead to your death.

Criticizing their "borrowed wings" is what Ayre and Rusty chastise the RLF for for solely repeating slogans and "not bothering to think [for themselves]."

And Iguazu, deciding he doesn't care about how he'd be seen by others, and only caring for the goal itself to be accomplished. Survives, where Coldcall dies in his place.

Coldcall, a far superior fighter to Iguazu. Dies, instead of Iguazu, because he was flying for Iguazu's purpose -> Fighting on borrowed wings.

Etc etc "this is hell, we're in hell!" and so on and in the Alea Iacta Est true ending of the game Iguazu, outta nowhere!, becomes the legit Final Boss of Armored Core 6.

How the hell did this 4th-gen AC pilot, otherwise a completely random nobody without a purpose not given to him by his employer, get to outer space and stuff, right?

Well, consider how the complete rando that was e621 does the same: Their personal conviction.

"But Iguazu only got to become the final boss out of dumb luck," right? ALLMIND chose him for little else but that he was the only old-gen Augmented Human that was still alive. If ALLMIND wasn't there, he couldn't have accomplished anything, so obviously it can't actually be meaningful.

But how would 621 have escaped Institute City without being rescued by Carla? How would we have escaped Arquebus re-education without the AC that Handler Walter secretly assembled left for us?

And, most relevantly here since this is the Alea Iacta Est route itself: How would 621 have known about V.II Snail planning to ambush you in Institute City without ALLMIND herself's very assistance?

C4-621 is, at a glance, just as much a recipient of dumb luck as Iguazu.

But thematically, it's not pure happenchance.

It's the results of the both of these characters continuing to fight for a cause they chose to believe in, no matter what.

So Iguazu survives. He survives the hijacking of Watchpoint Alpha by ALLMIND. And he even goes so far as to survive the hijacking of his own brain by ALLMIND, taking over the final boss even after being assimilated.

"What essential difference made ACs superior to unpiloted craft?"

The answer is simple -> One cannot fly on borrowed wings.

Unpiloted craft can never have a purpose that is actually their own. They exist only for the person who's wings they borrow--who's purpose they serve--who built them.

That's why piloted ACs are better. *Not* on borrowed wings, in this case, they can fly higher.

For C4-621, that chosen goal is to achieve Coral Release. (Since it's is still the mission you yourself choose that finally puts you on the Alea Iacta Est route or not, it fits within the theme of free will. Even though, as a videogame, there's an obvious limit to just *how* much free will the player is actually able to express. Within the story, however, when 621 chooses the mission to begin the path to an ending, that's them deciding for themselves 100% that's that the goal they want to achieve, no matter what.)

For Iguazu, that chosen goal is to kill you. (The goal he wants to achieve, no matter what.)

And so, because he was not flying on borrowed wings. Iguazu survives fucking everything. Stupid wings, yeah. But that just shows: What matters is only that they were his own.

Even against the most powerful super duper AI mastermind that ALLMIND was, the biggest loser on Earth, G5 Iguazu, survived.

Where even she is made to give way to Iguazu's conviction -> Killing e621.

Hammering this point home is why "I'm only here for what *I* want! I don't care about ALLMIND's goals, just my own!" is basically the only thing Iguazu says across like 2 entire 3rds of the final boss.

Iguazu's chosen goal is not ultimately successful.

But it wasn't whether or not Iguazu ultimately killed 621 in Rubicon's exosphere that lead to him not dying at the Wall like G4 Volta, or at Watchpoint Alpha like G1 Michigan and Coldcall, or upon the destruction of his physical body by ALLMIND.

It was his conviction that lead him past those things. His WINGS!

He chose what to fight for, and he fought for it.

On the wings of his free will, Iguazu flew above even the very clouds of Rubicon itself.

And that's why he was the Final Boss.

The only thing able to finally kill him being the person with a conviction even greater, C4-621.

(As a sidenote; Taking account of the main moral of Armored Core 6 really puts into perspective how many trillions of times it gets repeated explicitly across the game lol.

VS Rusty, VS Rusty when he calls you "power without a purpose," VS Cinder Carla, VS Handler Walter, Ayre's description of what the name "Raven" is literally supposed to mean, etc.

They all talk about how you've chosen your path and you'd made sacrifices to get this far and you finally have a conviction that is your own and how big a deal that is and so on.)

#tlgtw ooc #g5 iguazu #my boyfriend who hates me g5 iguazu #armored core 6 #armored core 6 spoilers #alea iacta est #armored core lore #g1 michigan #it is way late at night and I am stressed out about computer problems and the only way for me to feel better #is to get as many thoughts out of my brain as possible. I'm not even really sure if this is coherent or not #but that's okay #as far as I'm concerned anyway e621's conviction is just seeing G5 Iguazu again gehehehehhehehe

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kurczakmarty · 10 months

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eeeeee babie

#my art #dragon age #alea surana #dragon age origins

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annabtg · 1 month

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Iacta Alea Est

a @jilymicrofics production

He is popular. Charismatic. A true leader. His accomplishments are lauded all across the wizarding world; from his duelling prowess to his Transfiguration breakthroughs, he is a man of astuteness and innovation. He strategises politics as skillfully as he does Quidditch, he manoeuvres around public affairs as successfully as he did around Filch in the Hogwarts corridors. People flock to him – they always did at school, and they do even more so now. And he likes to flaunt his power – walk into the Wizengamot with his head held high and his shoulders thrown back, loud voice and sharp tongue on the ready, unfazed by the court’s norms and ethos. But most concerningly, he is a reformer. He wants equal rights for Muggleborns and preaches acceptance for Muggles and Squibs. His son is already following in his footsteps, a talented brat that struts around Hogwarts with the title of the Youngest Quidditch Player of the Century, an uncanny aptitude for duelling even men double his age, and an extremely vocal dislike of the Dark Arts.

Read the rest on AO3! Completed, 744 words.

#james potter #ides of march #james potter as julius caesar #crack treated seriously #crack and angst #my fics #iacta alea est

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why-i-love-comics · 11 months

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Spider-Man 2099: Dark Genesis #4 (2023)

written by Steve Orlando art by Justin Mason & Antonio Fabela

#venom 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #alea bell #marvel #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

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rebouks · 1 year

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Riona: I’ll give you ten seconds to convince me it wasn’t you. Alea: [scoffs] Like that’d be long enough. Riona: I didn’t think it would be.

Alea: Wherever he is, you oughta be rottin’ next t’him. Riona: It’s a pity I’m not. Alea: Fine.. have your revenge; just know that it’ll cost you your sons loyalty.

[x3 GUNSHOTS]

[CLICK – CLICK]

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Kian: Wha-.. how long have you been standing there?! Riona: It’s hard to say. Kian: What the fuck is wrong with you?!

Riona: How dare you ask me that? You know what she did! Kian: He’s gone, mom.. it was over. Riona: No thanks to you. A better man would have stepped up long ago; I can’t believe I raised-…

Kian: You didn’t raise me, you moulded me! Riona: Into what? A pathetic boy?! Do not blame me for your own incompetence. Kian: I’m not, I-…

Riona: Do it. Kian: You don’t control me! Riona: Come on.. if you’re going to point that thing at me, then fucking use it; have some conviction for once!

Kian: Shut up! Riona: Go on, shoot your own moth-… [GUNSHOT]

[Alea laughs weakly]

Kian: There’s still time, we-… Alea: [shakes her head] Kian: I’m sorry, love.. we should’ve left a long time ago.

Alea: [croaks] Worth it. Kian: Aha, I don’t know about that. Alea: Do-.. right-…

Kian: I know, I just wish it hadn’t-.. Leah? … Kian: [thickly] I’ll do the right thing.. I promise.