Dragon giving Luffy to Garp with the assumption that he's going to take care of him until he's ready to meet his son (because it's dangerous to have a child while he starts a fucking revolution, thank you very much) and then Garp just- Leaving Luffy on a village where he spends 24/7 alone waiting for the pirate he now considers his role model (because he doesn't have anybody else and Shanks is the only father figure around and he's just that nice) to come back from his adventures, and only being taken care of by Makino who has no responsibility over Luffy but still takes care of him because otherwise the kid would probably die from starvation, and lucky for him she's a sweetheart. And then he loses Uta, his only friend (with no explanation at all), to then carry the guilt of Shanks losing an arm for him and suddenly his legacy as a pirate. And then he's sent to another place with other people he doesn't know, because Garp thought "oh, yes, wonderful idea to leave my grandson with this depressed kid and some bandits" and Luffy luckily befriends Ace and Sabo because they're good people. Luckily. And luckily, Dadan is a good mom and loves them. But then Sabo fucking dies because nobody with authority was protecting these kids (I wonder who could've done that). And now Luffy has to carry both guilt, a legacy, and the biggest abandonment issues I've ever seen after losing his best friend and his brother when they were just children.
And I'm not saying Garp has made horrible decisions but he has made horrible decisions and Dragon should hit his own dad with Sabo's metal pipe.
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A gimmick which I think would be interesting in a visual novel: small variation in the visual designs of the sprites and backgrounds based on who's narrating a given scene. Not large variations, mostly—buildings are going to have generally the same architecture, people are going to have generally the same outfits, et cetera—but lots of details shifting around on the margins, showing the texture of the characters' thought-processes through the visual design of the world as they see it, rather than only through the text of their narration.
So, for example, one could have one viewpoint character be unusually faceblind, and portray this by having all the sprites have Same-Face Syndrome when viewed from their perspective, even as they hold onto more variation face-wise in everyone else's perspectives. One could have one viewpoint character who's unusually conscious of the fine details of their physical environment, and portray this by drawing the environment-art with much more fiddly detail when in their perspective, showing wood-grain and electrical wiring and other such things which are abstracted away in others' perspectives of the same areas. Et cetera.
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So a year ago when I was feral about Porter's song he made with his own Vocaloid, I thought about how cool it would be if Po-uta had different outfits like how Miku does with her trillion and one outfits. And at the time the Porter community wanted to make a zine for Po-uta, and I suggested that idea.
Unfortunately didn't pan out, so I'm just posting these now. Was really enraptured by the accidental sunflower theme I found in Po-uta that I took it and ran. Happy one year anniversary, Po-uta!
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Live Emotion Character Introduction - Starish ♬
Are you new to Utapri? Or just looking forward to the upcoming Live Emotion game? Either way, here are links to all of the official character introductions for our beloved Starish!
Otoya / Masato / Natsuki / Tokiya / Ren / Syo / Cecil
I am no translator, so take them with a grain of salt, and check out the official Japanese tweets as well. Keep up the excitement for Live Emotion, and hopefully Quartet Night introductions next!
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Hush now, mo stóirín
Close your eyes and sleep
Waltzing the waves
Diving in the deep.
Oh won't you come with me
Where the ocean meets the sky
And as the clouds roll by
We'll sing the song of the sea.
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film red becomes physical torture when you remember that right after losing uta, luffy loses sabo too. and when he thinks "well, at least i have ace left" the guy fucking dies in front of him. so idk. it hurts worse than getting stabbed.
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Mayoi doesn't sit in a tree but it's close enough to call this a mini-trend, which I very much like, all these cards are so gorgeous.
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